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Ages.; yet methinks as the Noble '' mily of Stanley were feated at Stone- a Houfe of Stanley hath produced fo , ley, fituate in the Northern Parts of ( many Brave and Gallant Perfons both . that County, called the Moorlands, in Peace and War, the Original there- near the Head of the River Trent, and of demands a more narticular Ennui- about a Mile Weft of it, that the
ry and Defcriptioh than Mr.' Camb-den hath thought fit to bellow upon them, who appears to me to have .taken the Relation given us of this Moll (Worthy: Family more upon Trull, and the Credit of others, than any Labour or acquired Knowledge of his own.
Wherefore, for the Honour due to. fo- many Brave and Worthy Perfons, the Satisfaction of the Reader, and that all the Heroick and celebrated Actions performed by them may not be burred in Oblivion; I have procured and infpefted all the Hiftories, Records and Manufcripts, of Value or Efteem, I could pollibly obtain either the Sight or private Ufe of, with ref fpeCt to the Subject before us.
f Afid have as I. think, met with dome publick Prints, as we'll as Manufcripts, of equal Antiquity and Authority with Mr. Cambden,. from whence it will manifellly appear to the Reader, that, the Honourable Houfe we are here treating of, is of greater Antiquity and an earlier Original (at lean in England) than the Barons of Audley can boaft of; and that Mr. Cambden might upon full Enquiry and much more Reafon have faid, tliat the Barons' of Audley fprung from the fame q Stock	DERBY, for
they were engrafted into it, and fprung from it: as .hereafter is fhewn.
Mr. Cambden indeed tells us in his Survey of Sfaifordfhire, that the Fa-
Land was craggy and ftony, and thinks the Family might take their Name from thence, but does not acquaint us how long the Family might, have been feated there, nor even who re-fided there in his Time.	,
But my learned and Right Reverend Author, Biihop Rutter, in his Manu-fcript, now by me’, agrees with. Mr. Cambden in the Situation as before, and obferves further, that the Original of the' Stanleys was of Saxon ExtraCtion, as indeed I find by the belt and moft approved Antiquaries, were all the Families in England, whofe £ Sirnames end in Ley, Ton, and Comb; as Bolton,. Dalton, Walton, Sefton, and Singleton, &c. Alfo Stanley, Tyldef-ley, Townley, Mawdfley, Walmfley, &c. and alfo Duncomb, Tidcomb, Ja-comb, and Edgcomb, &c. and that the Family now before us, was feated. at Stoneley as aforefaid, and is of Opinion that the Stanley's might af-fume their Sirname from that Lord-blip, which is very probable with re-fpeCt to the Name, the Soil being as above, of a rough and ftony Nature ; and that nothing was more common and ufual in thofe early Times, than for Families to give their Sirnames. to ■their Seats, or to take, them fronrthat of the Seat, of which we have many Inftances in our own Memory, as well as Hiftory.
But how long this HonourableHoufe might have been feated here before - . the
Houfc of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.
the Conqueft, is not d uverablc from Hiftory or Record; but the * Rcve-rend and learned Author before af- of them built that Caftle, and who fures us,- that they were here long firft poffeffed it, Hiftory does not in-before the oming in of William form us. Duke of Nbfmandy, ,and that he was attended in his Expedition to Eng-
land by one Adam de Audley, or Audithley, as the French have it.
And that he was accompanied from Audithley in Normandy, by his two Sons/Eidulph and' Adam; and that bn the Duke's obtaining the Crown of England, he gave Adam the Father large Poffeffions, as indeed he did all his Followers, infomuch that f Mr. Cambden obferves in his Notes on this
The firft Lord of Stoneley I met with Family, that it is ftrange to read what in Hiftory-or Record, is ftiled Henry Lands King Henry III. confirmed to Stanley de Stoneley, who lived as near Henry de Audley, the Son of Mrs. ~* T —------------------‘- ~1-----
Stanley (as hereafter) and his Family, which were beftowed upon them by
the King, the Bounty of the Peers, and even of private Perfons.
And to heighten and increafe the Grandeur of this favourite Family, who had attended and greatly ferved her Hufband King William ; Queen Maud, his Wife, and Daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, commonly called Maud the Stranger, gave to Adam de Audithley, the Father, the Seat of Red-Caftle in the County of
Salop, with all the Lands and Tenements thereto belonging, and where ’tis.probable that Family refided to their building of Hcaley-Caftle, in the County Of Stafford, upon Lands given them by Hervey de Stafford as before; which brought them into that the Bon of his’Uncle Adam, of Thalk
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and from Ay hence they ; we re A I Barons of Healey, but which 1
Wherefore, haying by this fmall Digreffion (which I could not well avoid in this Place) given the Reader the Stofy of the Barons of" Audley's firft Appearance in England, and Settlement there; I, fhall, for a while, fufpend any further mention of them, and their Pofterity, and return back to the Houfe of Stanley, whofe Antiquity and Situation are in part before de- . fcribed.
as I can compute, about forty or fifty Years before tire Conqueft, and fome Time after; and having Ifiue an only Daughter and Child named Mabilla or Mabel, he gave her in Marriage to Adam, the Son of Lidulph de Audley, the elder Son of the aforefaid Adam, by whom fire had Iffue a Son, named
Henry, after her Father, on whofe deceafe, Adam her Hu (band, was in her Right Lord of Stoneley and Bal- t terley, as hereafter. (And the laid Henry the Son was the Perfon men-
tioned by Mr. Cambden to have had fuch large Poffeffions confirmed to him by King Henry III.)
And being fo penciled of thole Manors, he fome- time after exchanged the Manor of Stoneley and part 'of Balterley with his Coufin William
♦ Bp. Rutter's M. S. 10^6.	+ Camb, Brit.
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
/ 031 ncW as by the following Deed upon Record, viz,
I Adam, the Son of Lidulph de Au-dithley, give and grant unto William de Audithley, the Son of Adam my Uncle, the Town or Manor of Stone-ley, and half the Town or Manor of Bake rley, in exchange for die Town or Manor of Thalk on the Hill, &c. Teftibus, Henrico Freers, Roberto de Audithley, Adam de Capelh and Wiliam de Wolve, &c.
Upon which Deed in the Hands of Sir Rowland Stanley, of Hooton, Baronet, living in the \ ear 1610, is re-ferved the yearly Rent of Twelvepence, payable for ever, from the Town or Manor of Thalk, to the aforefaid William and his Heirs.
And here * Mr. Speed, in his Hif-tcry of Staffbrdfhire, very aptly confirms the above Account given by Bi ihop Rutter -of the Family of Stone-ley, by hi? Difovery of another Branch of the fa:d Houle being feat-ed at Stafford, which he calls Tlromas Stanley, Efq; and Remarks, that he was younger Brother, or Uncle to the aforefaid Henry of Stoneley, and that his Anceftors founded the Abbey of Sandewell, in the County of Bucks, and endowed it with 381. 8s. 4b. per Annum, which was efteemed a large Income in thofe Times, before the Reduction of the Roman Standard, when every Penny was of equal Value with Seven-pence now.
Wb:ch further fhewsthe Antiquity, , as well as Figure,, this Ancient and Worthy Family made in the World at that Time.,
And further obferves that the laid homas Stanley, of Stafford, Efq; had one only Daughter named Joan or Joanna, and that he gave her in Mar-ria ge to the aforefaid William de Audithley, the Son of Adair as aforefaid, and with her as a Marriage Portion, gave him the Manor of Thalk, whi :h being exchanged as by the above Deed; he in Honour of his Lady, and the Antiquity of her Family, made -hoice cf Stoneley for his Seat, and called himfelf Stanley : and from him are defcended all the Stanleys we ihall hereafter treat of in their Order: But fhall rcfpite them a while, and proceed by a fhort Digreflion, to give the Reader an Account of the I ne and Poflerity of Mrs. Mabilla Stanley, by Adam de Audithly aforefaid.	• ^
The firft of -which was a Son, named Henry, who was the Founder of Hilton Abbey, on which he fettled ■ large R.evenues. f He married to his Wife, Bertred, the Daughter of Ralph Manwaring, of Peover, in the County of Chefter, and by her hadlffue two Sons, viz. James and Adam; alfo two Daughters. Adam tire fecond Son died young, and James the elder Son was the firft I have met with inHiftory, Vied Lord Audley, of Healey-Caftle.
This Lord Audley, is recorded to have been a very brave and Gallant Man, and an eminent <yad experienced Soldier, being one of the chief Commanders at the famous Battle of Poletiers in France, ..under Edward the Black Prince, Son to King Edward IIL where he gained immortal Honour, as well by Iris Bounty as his Valour ;
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Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.
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for the Prince, being a witnefs of his ffttation .of the Country, he was uh- I undaunted Courage, fuperiour Con- "happily killed by a fall from his Horie t dudt and high Merit in the glorious — -----------J	- - -	1 ■ L
and ever memorable Victory obtained
that Day, September the 19th, 1357, gave him in reward of his eminen t and diftinguifhed Service, 500 L per Annum, in England, which he immediately bellowed upon his four Eiquires or Captains who ferved under him, (whereof Sir John Stanley hereafter to be fpoken of, is faid to be one) of which the Prince being informed, was greatly furprized, and alked him if he did not accept his Favour, to whom he replyed “ he did; but that thofe “ he had given it to, deferved it as “ as well as he, and wanted it more;” with which Anfwerthe Prince was fo well pleafed, that he gave him 5001. per Annum more. * A noble Example of Munificence in the Prince, and Merit and Geherofity in the Subject, and worthy the imitation of all brave and generous Spirits.
Shortly after this remarkable Battle, (in which more of the Enemy were flain and taken Prifoners than the Prince’s Army were in Number) a Truce enfued betwixt England and France, and foon after a Peace was concluded, upon which this brave Lord (now Lord Audley, being the fecond of his Name and fifth of his Family) was appointed Lord Juftice of. Ireland,; and, as I take it, Commander in chief of all his Majefty’s Forces in that Kingdom, as his Grandfather had been ; for on his Survey and Vi-
at Thomond in the Year 1372; which
put an end not only to the life of this brave and valuable Perfpn, but to the Male Iflue of his Family, with whom I fhall, with an Obfervation or two, forbear all further Hiftory of them, and proceed as above with the Iflue and Pofterity of William of Thalk now Lord of Stoneley, which we ihall from hence forward call Stanley.
Firft, Upon the Death of this honourable Peer, his Honour and Eftate defcended to his two Sifters above mentioned ; fome fay his two Daughters.
Secondly, That his eldeft Sifter or
Daughter named Margaret, married to Thomas Touchet of Nether-Whit-ley, in the County of Chefter; and in her Right became Lord Audley of Healey Caftle; who, by the favour of the Crown, was dignified with the Honour and Title of Earl of Caftle-haven in the Kingdom of Ireland, whofe Pofterity afterwards married the eldeft Female Iflue of the firft. Daughter of Ferdinand Earl of Derby, and thereby became entitled to, and poflefled of the Barony and Eftate of •J Lord Strange of Knocking.
What Arms or Bearing were ufed by the Houfe of Stanley to this Timet f I cannot fet forth, buf fu pofe, from their Inter-marriages witb^Jie Houfe of Audley, they migh,t gf^^ie fame Arms.	f	:
I could
* Hid. of the Wars in France. . f Journal of the Hqufe of Lords in England.
he Hiftory of the/Ancient and Honourable
I could bring dpwn the Iffue arid the pcrufal of this Work. Descendants of tint Nobie Family to | our own Time, but as if is foreign
to my purpole, would only /well the Work, and be of little ufe to the Reader, I have chofen to omit all further Notice of them, judging what has been faid fufficient to fhew the farther Alliance of the two Noble Families, and proceed as promifed above, to the new Family of Stanley, feated at Stoneley.
William de Audley, now Stanley, feated at Stoneley by the Exchange above mentioned, both of Name and Eftate, had, no doubt, other Seats and Lands to which his Pofterity might remove, as they increafed in Number by Marriage or on. other Occafions, which J and to be the Cafe, and has rendered their Lineal and Collateral fucc^ffion more obfcure and difficult
cou”fc, from the goings out of o niany feveral Branches'from this grow ing Family,’ as I have met'with in the long fpace of Time from the Conqueft to the Year, 1741.
However, I have, as I think, deduced and connected together as well the Collateral as the direft Line of this fpreading Houfe, from the afore-faid WiH’am Lord of Stanley, to Sir Rowland Stanley of Hooton in Wirral, in the County of Chefter; wherein I
.have ufed my beft Endeavours to be as correft as poffible, and flatter my-felf tile Reader will be fo candid as to excufe arid amend any’ Errors, Mif-t takes, or'Omiflions he may obfenre in
William de Stanley, the frft Lord of Stoneley in tire County of Stafford, in Virtue of the afofefaid Exchange, is * Recorded (for- Hiftory is filent therein) to have had a Son named William, by Joanna Stanley of
Stafford, who fucceeded his Father William in the Sea. and Manor of Stanley, and part of Balferley, with their Appurtenances.
William Stanley the fecond, and Son of the above William, is alfo recorded to have been Lord of Stanley, and to have had iffue a Son named William; but by whom, Hiftory and Record are both filent, being very obfcure and lefeftive in thofe early’ Times.
y illiam the Third' and Sori of the above William, is [filed fM lite or Knight, and isTecorded to have had Iffue two Sons, viz. John and Adam, buhby whom Hiftory as well as Record are ftill blent; neither, do I find that John the elder Son evei poffeffed the Eftate of Stanley, but died without Iffue, and that Adam the younger Son fucceeded bis Father Sir William, in
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*Heraidj OHick, Cheflei.^ f Ditto Office.
Houfe of STANLE
. in Honour and Eftate, is fully mani-fefted hejeafter.
* Adam, the Son of Sir William, and fourth Lord of Stanley, is ftiled Sir Adam de Stanley, Eilius William de Stanley ‘Milke, et Pater William de - Stanley, and is recorded to have had. a Son named William, but by whom Hiftory and Record are Rill nleht on that Head.	7
+ William, the Son of Adam, and fifth Lord of Stanley, is ftiled William de Stanley, in the County of Stafford, Dom. de Stanley et Dom. de Stourton, in tire County of Chcfter, et Foreftu-r® Forefta, or chief Ranger of the Fo-reft of Wirral, by the Grant of the tenth of King Edward II. 1316, who alfo gave him- three Bucks Heads for his Arms or Bearing.
He married Joanna or Jane,, the el-deft daughter and one of the Coheirs of Sir Thomas Bamvill^ by -Agnes hi^ Wife,, bn^ of thefDaughters .andTtof heirs of Sir Alexander Sylvefter
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* Heralds Office, Chefter.
Lord of Stourton (from whom Mr. Cambden fays, the Stanleys derive ihemfelves viz. Page 3'60, That Hoo-ton is'a Manor which in King Richard- the Second’s Time fell to the Stanleys, who derive them from Allen Sylvefter) but this is a grofs Mifta^e,* as well from die Account above given, as his own former Writing, wherein he fixes the Original of the ’Stanleys, atStoneley, in the County of Stafford.
Sir Alexander Sylvefter was the Son of $ Ranulph Sylvefter, and Ranulph was the Son of Allen Sylvefter, Steward to Ranulph the third, Earl of Chefter, who gave him for his Seat the Manor of Stourton, with the Bai- • liwick of Wirral, and the Government of the Foreft there, and inveft-ed him therein by the Delivery of ’a Hunting Horn, with certain Fees and Perquifites thereto annexed, to wit, among others, That he fhould blow, of caufe to be blown that Horn/.at Glover-ftone, near Chefter, jpn every Chefter-Fair-Day, in. token that the 'foils or Duties payable for all Goods bought or fold in th^t Place during the
Ditto Office. ± Ditto Office.	. t
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the, Time .of the Fair, belonged to him, as a Place of Privilege to him and all his Tenants there, exempt from the JuriicliAion of the City; which Horn is.now preferved at Hooton, by the. Family of Stanley, .the; Defcen-dants of the laid Jane Bamvill and Sir William Stanley, who by the faid Jane had Ifiue two Sons, viz.. John and Adam, and one Daughter named Sarah de Stanley, who married Roger the Son of Sir Roger de Haufket, and Adam the younger Brothciyappears to have died young and without Ifiue; for I meet with no farther Notice of him ; but John the elder fucceeded lus Father Sir William.
John, the Son of the aforefaid Sir William, was the lixth Lord of Stanley, and the fecond of Stourton, and is Riled Lord of Stanley and of Stour-* ton, and married to his Wife, Mabill, Daughter of Sir James Haufket, of Stourton parva, and by her had Ifiue one Son, named William.
Sir William the Son of John, and Xeyehth Heir Male of this fpreading Houfe, is Riled William de Sh^Rey
fenior, Lord of Stanley and Stourton; and the Twenty-fixth of King Edward III. 1375, he married Mary the Daughter of Hugh Maffey, of Timperley; in ’the County of Cheder/ and Sider to Sir Hamon Malley, ’ of Dunham MafTey, by whom he had Ifiue; two ‘ Sons, viz. William and John.
Of John the fecond Son, afterwards Sir John, Stanley, we haVe herein much to obferve, but ihall refpite for the prefent, and proceed, with the direft Line, and then return to every collateral Branch.
Sir William, the elder Brother of John, by. Mary. Malley, was tire eighth Heir of this Houfe, and fucceeded his Father Sir William, Tn Honour and Edate; ’ and the tenth of Richard IL he married Margery the only Daughter of William de Hooton/ of Hooton, in; the Hundred ofWirral, and County of Cheder ; and , by,.he^h^^
Son, named William^ w^ Ri|e<l Lord of Stanley, Stourton and Hopf toon, and Grand Range in chief of Wirral, in the County or Cheder.
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Sir William the Son of the aforefaid Sir William was the ninth Heir Male of this honourable Houfe, and fuc-ceeded his Father in Honour and Ef-tate ; and the -fourth of Henry VI. he married Margeiy the Daughter of Sir John.Ardern of Hardin, by whom he had Iffue two Sons, to wit, William and John.
John the younger Son married to the Heirefs of Grefwithen in the! County of Cumberland, from whom are defended the Stanleys of Dele-garth and Arnaby in that County, whom we fhall herein further defcribe in due place.
Sir'William the Father of the faid
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William and John, by Mrs. Arderri^ was the firft that removed from the old Seat of Stanley in the Comity of Stafford, to Hooton in the Hundred of Wirral and County of Cheiter, who, for the Enlargement and conveniency of his Houfe, and better accomodation of his Family, obtained Licence from King Henry VI. to build a Turret or Tower at' his Seat of Hooton, with embattled Walls.
Viz. Huie Gulielmo de Stanley Mi-lite, Rex Henricus fextus, dedit Li-centiam conitruendi et edificandi Turrum, apud Manerium fuum de Hooton in Wirral, per Literas fuas Patenus. Datus Anno Regni fuo fecundo.
Which Houfe and Tower are now-{landing, to which Sir William the elder Brother of John fucceeded, and was the tenth Heir Male of his Family ; and the feventeenth of Henry VI. he married to Alice the Daughter of Richard Houghton (as I conceive of ’Lancafliire) and by her had Iffue a Son named William.
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The Hiflory of the Ancient and Honourable
Sir William the Soil of the above William by Mrs. Houghton, fucceed-is father Sir \i'lam, and was the: eleventh Male Heir in a direft line : He man’red to one of the Daughters of John Savage of Clifton,
ETq^i^cl by her. had Ifhie two Sons; John and William. I cannot difcover that John -the elder Avas ever married, but rather that he di^ young and without Iffue: But, ’
Sir William the fecohd^on of the above Sir William by I rs. Savage, fucceeded his Father as twelfth Heir
Male of his Family.’ He was ftiled fenior, and- married to his firft Wife, Margaret the Daughter of John Bromley, Efq; by whom he had a Daughter, who married to Gerrard of Brinn, in the County of Lancafter, and Margaret his Wife dying, he married to his fecond Wife Agnes the Daughter of Robert Grofvenor of Huhne, Efq; by whom he had a Son naqied William.
Sir William his Son by Mrs. Grofvenor, fucceeded his Father as thirteenth Heir Male of his Family. He married- Ann, the Daughter of Sir James Harrington of the County of Lancafter, Knight; and by her had Iffue Catherine, William, Peter, John^ and Agnes.
Peter the fecond Son married E-lizabe.th, the. Daughter and Heir of James Scaclbrick of Moor-Hall inBick-erftalf,1 b^y Margaret huAWife, the only Daughtei1 hind Heir oTThomas Atherton of Bickerftaff/'wH^t fhall be further ipoken of hereafteH -
How
Houfe of S f A N L E Y, from- the Conqueft.
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How Catharine, John, and Agnes were difpofcd of, Hiftory does not inform us< farther than that; Sir Willfam, the Son of the above Sir William, by Anil Harrington, fucceeded his Father, and was the. fo uleenth Heit Male oh his- Family, and\j (tiled Sir William’ Stanley de Hobton. He married Graces the fourth Daughter of Sir William Griffith-, Chamberlain of North Wales,.
and by her had Iffite two Sons, William and Rowland. William died in his Father’s Life-time without litue, and in his Government of the Me of Man, 1545 ; and Sir Rowland, his Brother. fucceededhis Father Sir William, in Honour and Eilate, being the fifteenth Heir Male of this Noble Houfe, by the Stile of Sir Rowland Stanley, of Hooton. He married to his Wife, Margaret, the Daughter and Heir of 'Hugh Alderfey, of Cheftef, Efq; and by her had Iflue a Son; named William? but (he dying in' 1607, he mar2 ried to hisHecond Wife, Urfula, die - fecond Daughter and one of the Co-
heirs of Thomas Smith, of the City
of Chefteiy; Efq; but by her had no IfTue; this Sir Rowland was created a Baronet in the Year i ddW
And Sir William, the Son of Sir Rowland,- by Mrs-< Alderfey, was the fixteen Heir Male in Succeffion, and married to his Wife, one of the Daughters of John Egerton, of Egerton,- Efq;
and by her had iflue a Son, named William.
Sir William, the Son of the above Sir William, by Mrs. Egerton, was the feventeenth Heir Male that fucceeded his Father in Honour and Eftate, arfd married to his firit- Wifb, Alice, the Daughter ofRichardHugh{biTFughe^
12	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
Anne, Charlotte, William; Rowland, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Winefrid, Catherine, and Agnes. Catherihe married to Robert Blundell, of Ince-Blundell, in the County of Lancafter, Efq; How the reft were difpofed of, I am not further informed, but that William, his firft Son fucceeded him by the Title of Sir William Stanley, of Hoo-ton, Son of Sir Rowland Stanley, and the nineteenth Heir Male of his Family : He married Catharine, the
Efq; and Sifter and Heir to Henry Daughter of Rowland Ayres, of Haf-Hughes, and by her had IlTue a Son, ^P. or Arfop, in the County of Der-named Rowland, with feveral other Children; but how they were difpofed of I cannot difcover, further than that Sir Rowland, the Son of the aforefaid Sir William, by Mrs. Hughes, was the eighteenth Heir Male that fucceeded his Father, by the Title of Sir Rowland Stanley, of Hooton. He married to his Wife, Anne, the Daughter of Clement Pafton, of Barningnam, in
the County of Norfolk, Efq; by whom he had IHue Mary, who maiTied to Charles Harrington, of Huyton-Hey, in the Comity of Lancafter, Efq; Alfo
by, Efq; by whom he had Iflue, Rowland, now living, William and Eli-zabeth who.di^d young, John, Henry, Ann, Thomas, (who takes the Name of Malley) Charles, and James.
Sir Rowland, the eldeft Son of Sir William, by Mrs. Ayres, and twentieth Heir Male of this Ancient and Ho-nourable Houfe, is now poffeffed of the Honour and Eftate, of his Family, (which God grant he may long enjoy, and become an Honour to his King and Country) but being yet unmarried, we muft clofe all farther Hiftory of him.
Thus,
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Houfe of S T AN L E Y, from the Conqueft.
Thus, having as we conceive, brought down the Genealogical Defcent and Succeflion of this Ancient
and moil Worthy Houfe, in the direct Line (with fome mention of the collateral Branches) from Henry Stanley of Stoneley, who lived at rhe coming in of William Duke of Normandy to this Kingdom, in the Year 1066, being above fix hundred Years; and having, as we think, been very correct
John Stanley Efq; now to be treated of, was the fecond Son of Sir William Stanley, and Mary MafTey of Tim-perley, as in the Pedigree before noted. He was born about the twenty-fe-therein; we are of Opinion this honour- vepth or twenty-eighth Year of Ed-able Houfe may juftly challenge the'^M ward III. and had for his Patrimony, firft RAnk for Antiquity and Lineal Defcent from Father to Son, with molt
Houles in England.
Give us leave now to return to John Stanley, Efq; afterwards Sir John Stanley, who married Ifabel, the only Daughter andHeirefs of Sir Thomas Latham, of Latham, in the County of
Eminent, Valiaht, and Heroic Actions and Performances as moft, if not any Family in England can boaft of; fo that we may juftly obferve, that, for Antiquity, Loyalty and Bravery, few or none may compare therewith.
the old Seat of Newton, in the Hun-
dred of Macclesfield, in the County of Cheiter.
This brave and valiant Gentleman, was one of the Captains under the Command of his Relation James Lord Audley, at the famous Battle of Poic-tiers in France, which was fought on the hineteenth Day of September, 1337, by Edward the black Prince, Son to King Edward III. wherein John, King of France, was taken Prifoner, and brought Captive to England.
Soon after this memorable Victory, a Truce betwixt England and France was agreed upon for two Years, during which interval of publick Aftion; Mr. Stanley, being of a Martial Genius, and intent to improve himfelf in the Art of. War, vifited moil of the
LancaRer; and from him bring down ftantmople; wherein he made.fuel the Iflue and Defcendants of that cO- advances in the School of Mars, tha^ lateral Branch, as prQ#ifed, to the' his.Superior Skill in Arms was ger > Death of James late L^i of Derby; nerally, applauded in every Country which happened on the firft Day of he palled through; mfomuch that Februarv, 1735; wherein I Alter my- the fame thereof gave, him the Cha-— rafter of the molt noted Champion great variety of Hiftory, and. as many in fingle Combat of that Age 7 fothat ;
February,' 1735; wherein I fitter my-felf, the Reader will meet with as’.

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14	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
on his return back through France, the reputation of his Bravery did fo faife the Pride and Envy of'a haughty Frehcli Combatant, that he followed Mr. Stanley to England, and there challenged the whole Nation to produce a Perlon to engage him in Arms.
Which being made known to Me. Stanley, he accepted the < Challenge; and the Time and Place of ACtion by
the' King’s direction) was to be at Winchefter, under the Walls of which City he fought and killed him, in the prefence of his Maje'fty, and a numerous. Crowd of Spectators.
This Publick and Gallant ACtion gave King Edward Notice of- him, and,' as a reward of his Bravery, honoured him with Knighthood; both ■which raifedr^ik Reputation with all the Sons of Mats'; and no doubt gained him the fecret good wifhes of all the Fair-Sex prefent; amongit whom was the Heirefs of Latham, beautiful, young, and rich; which rendered her the envy of her own Sex, and the* de-fire and delight of all the Admirers of Beauty and Virtue.
Sir John (for we muR now honour him with that Title) declared himfelf her Champion and humble Servant, and after fome Time of Addrefs, gained an entire Conquell of her, and: all her favours, by an' Honourable Marriage, tho’ with the unwilling Con-fent of her Father; the Reafon whereof we fliall fet forth at large hereafter. In the interim let us leave Sir John ■for a while in purfuit of his' Honours
Kingdom; and, for the Peace, good Government, and better fecurity thereof, continued him there to the thirteenth Year of his Reign, 1389; at which Time his Majefty returned to Ireland, and Raid there all the: Winter; which gave his Cowin Henry Dulce of and Amours, and inform the Reader Lancafterand Hereford, (who had been of his Succefs- therein.	baniihedyby him for fix Years) an Op-
With regard to- his Honour, feme Time after his Encounter with, and Victory over the huffing French Champion, King Edward die third died, and King Richard the Second was advanced to the Throne; who, in die firft Year of his Reign,, honoured Sir John Stanley with a Commiffion to Ireland, to affifl in the total Reduction of that Kingdom.
Wherein, by his Prudence and good Conduct he had fuch Succefs. that on King Richard’s coming there in Per-fon, in the Year 137^, he brought the great O’Neal King of Ulfter, Ro-thcrick O’Connor, King of Connaught; O’Caral, King of TJhel J O'Rorick, King of Meath ; Arthur Mc’Mur, K. of Leinfter ; and O’Brian, K. of Tho-mond, to come to King Richard, and make their Submiffion, and do Hom-. age to him as their Sovereign Prince. And thus * Ireland was entirely fub-duedto the Crown of England; though many Rebellions have been fevcrcly felt there fince that Time.
Who, in Confideration and Reward of the great and eminent Serviced performed by Sir Jolin for his Ma-jefty’s Honour and Intereft, granted to him by Patent for Life, the Manor and- Lands of Black-Caftle, in that
* HiR. of the Wars in Ireland,
port unity
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.	15
portunity of returning ’ to England without his Licence, of the full Time of his Exile expired.
This return of the Dulce of Lancafter, who was an enterprizing Prince, of high Spirit, as well as Blood; and of great Power, infomuch that it is faid of him, when he afcended the
Throne of England^ he was the rich- ^ rounded with Enemies on every Side,, eft Subject in Europe; and that th& which Sir John bravely repelled, with* Crown was more beholding to him, Honour to K;° Ui-;™™ ™ri p^r^tn^A.r^ than lie -to the Crown-. All which, of ' to himfelf.
Confequence mutt give great Anxiety and U-neaEnefs to the Reigning King, and Tranquility of the Kingdom; even foreboding no lefs than a total Subversion, from fo powerful a Rival, as it -after fell out. Tie great Wealth of the Duke here Ipoken of, appears Vifibly in our Days, by the extenfive Dutchy of Lancafter, which he took care to feparate, and for ever diftin-guifh from-the Crown Lands, by erecting Lancashire into a County Palatine, by the Name of the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancafter, (ficut Ceftria) annexing to it a Court, with a Chancellor, Attorney-General, and Council, &c, for the Care and Pre-fervation of all it’s Rights and Privileges, with proper fubordinate Officers
for that Purpofe.	___ -_____rp	___-
Wherefore the King being informed Night fecretly, with, a few Friends of this difagreeable News,- and the left what Army remained, and retired-danger of his Majefty’s Perfon, re-folved to haften to England, and made Preparation*‘for that Purpofe, by appointing his trufty and faithful Subject and Servant, Sir John Stanley, Lord Juft ice of Ireland lor l^A Years; with a Grant to him. by Patent for
Life (for the Support of his Honour*
and Dignity) of One Hundred Marks' a Year, payable out of his Majeftys Exchequer there.
And in the nineteenth Year of this King’s Reign, 1395, he made Sir John Stanley Conftable of the Caftle of Rox-borrow, in Scotland, a Poft of great Hazard as well as Truft, being fur-
Honour to his Prince, and Reputatioi|^S
But the King his Mailer’s Affairs' being in a declining and doubtful State, and Henry of Lancafter having railed great Forces againft him, and being joined by many of the Nobility,, made great Progrefs every where, without Refiftance; which at laft prevailed upon King Richard to return to England, and he landed at Barklowly in Wales; where being informed that all the Cattles, from the Borders of Scotland, to Briftol, were delivered to the Duke of Lancafter, and that the Army provided for his Affiftance, by the Earl of Saliibury, (whom he had lent before him for that Purpofe) had..
by his long delay in coming over to them, moftly dilbanded themfelves ; he was fo much difcouraged, that he fell into a deep Defpair, and the next ' :h. a few Friends
to Conway Cadle, in Wales ;■. where, with his Friends, considering the def-jerate State he was- reduced to, arid-how, in fome Meafure: to^pport him--felf, and retrieve his Misfortunes, among other Expedients^ he' recalled Sir John Stanley from Scotland,. to ye^-turn to his Government; of Ireland-,
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to fecure t hat Kingdom in dis’Maj el-' round means to feize his ei ;5n, u ■ ty’s Intereft; who eing informed that vey him to J /eftminfter, arid th<£ , the King'was, then in Conway Caft.le, next Day to the Tower of London; ■
took that in his way,40 receive his , Soon a. ter this a Parliament was, Majefty’s Commands,’whom he found called by the Duke oh Lanca: er,- Lur .in a mifemble and defpairing conditi xm King Richard’s Namey in which on-; ferfaken by his Friends and Sol- many Articles of Mif^qyerr me nt were dicry, and the Duke of, Lancafter ' '	’ ‘ ’ ’	‘ “	“ —- -
near him with a powerful Army ■ all predicting no lefs than a hidden Be vclujjon ; which „ Sir; -John, Stanley wifely fprefeeing, paid a private Vif r Vto’thoDuke of Lancafter and recon-
ciled himfelfto him; and then, agreeable to his Dqty to the prefent King, proceeded to Ireland, to yreferve the Peace .of hllan Kingdom for hb Ma--jeftyk fervice., ’
• . The next ftep made by the King, was calling a * Parliament to meet at Weft mini ter, on the feventeem.i Day of September, from whom he .hoped ft for -klbflance and Relief in his prefent
diftrelfed Circumftances.
7 Reprefenting to them by Sir John Bufh.e, that tlie Occafion of their meeting was; to lay before them the many Grievances and ievere Ufage he bad met. with from the Lords; and alio their narfh - and unkind Treatment of be Queen Confort; and chat he hud ^called them together fer.redrefs thereof, * and the Reformation of miny Tranfgrefliqns againft-the Peace of the Land, that the Of-
laid to his Charge, and thirty-three Articles drawn up and exhibited a" gainft han, upon reading whereof, he was by th Parliament depoled
But was amuicd by thbfe about him, rather to refign’the Government in a Voluntary manner, than be fpre-, ed to it by Compu a i whert^with he thought fittocomi on the wen-tiethDayqf September, 13^, where, it may be" truly} bbiervedy.vt^ this King loft 'his ■ Cro^vn more by Hiis own, Treafpn or Indolence; than, by the Treafon of any of his. Subjedfk * After This- Resignation, and Sehtence of' Depofition, beiiig . openly;read’ in Parliament,- Henry Duke of Lancafte^h was elected' King ft and;ibnuthj^^ teenth Day of October rollowing, was Crowned King Lt Weftmmfter, by the AfchbiiKop/;of f C.anpefbu^^^ the ; Name, Stile and Title or King Henry
Dpor this King’s AcceTion to the Throne, Sir John Stanley being ftill Lord Juftice of- Ireland,, and linking the Government thereof in favour o
U1C xc^^ the depofed King Richard;-King Htn-fenders therein might be puniflied ry well knowing his very great pqw---according to their De_erts. er and Intereftm that Kingdom, and
Butyhis Declaration was io far from his tuperior ShU and Experience; as anfweriny "he king’s expectation, that weh in the Senate, as in the Field; t^e Duke of Lancafte; and his Friends thought it for his-Intereft and fafety}
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HouFe/pf STANL'E pa deceive lum. into his favour, and? encoprage hiih, in his Sendee; and, as. aiignal token thereof, gr$iire4 to him arid his J.Heirs for - ever, by-Jus Letters 'Patent, dated at Weftminfter the firft of? January-, 1339, the Manor of Byd- , ftraaiii Wirral, arid; County of Shelter; together, ■with ^Sangham, Sangham-maiTey,? Moreton,. Fourd, and Nefibn;. -alio feveral Mefiuages, Lands, Rents* and Services in Nedon,. Raby, Lead-fholm, LMollington,y Torret, Cheftef, .Claverton, N ether-Bebington, and Lea, hear Barrington ^ with the, Advowibn uf th^P.airih Ghumh of the Holy Tri-^t^g in * 1 he Cityhof i Ghefter; which-Ad^ow’bri is ftuL with his SuccefTor ' jh^ ^refent Noble Earl of. Derby : But ;glf ,^ wefe Sequeftered and Bbl 1 Jfave Upton) in‘•the Time .of the .■.$p^api^
And ih tire Ye^^oo, die King for *^Ss j^^eih^ 'Service s hr. the preservation of the Peace * of that Kin g-tdoih,q.tcdhi5huedbl^	and vby
ComnjiHionhppointedfhmif.ord Lieutenant of Ireland, for fix Years 5< But the.’■.-.Kings Enemies began now to ihew theihfelves openly' and •formed fevefal Ploth not only to dit :tufb his' peacqable^Poflpflionbpf -the Thfojie, but even-to cut him off: Par-ijiculafiy one contrived by the Abbot of Weftminfter, who was a kind of B.ook-Statefman '(better read in the Politicks of Ariftqtle, 'than thofe of So-i ojnon) and remembering fome Words fpokeri by King Henry when he was hup*Earl of .Derby;, (to wit,) “ That i( Princes had too little, arid he Reli-
NpMB, .
‘A gious too much;” and fearing now he was King , he might '-reduce Jus Words into Actions, thought, it better to ufe Preventing -Phyfick, than ftand -the hazard of an. After-Cure./’S
A Wherefore,, thnri; Xter to perpetrate ■and effedt his" ftudied Treafon' and -Rebellion, he invited.ro his Houfe the mo’ft fadtious arid , powerful: of his Tarty, .(to wit ) /* John । Holland, Duke *of Exeter ; Thomas Holland, Duke of .■Surrey; John Montague,.Ear!of Salif-Bury;. Hugh Spencer, EarLof Glocef-ter; John, Bifliop .of Carlifle; Sir Tho-’ mas Blunt, arid Maudlin, one* of King Richard’s Chapel ; j whO’ -after Tome Conference, refolved to take away the King’s life. But this. Pious'Blot was -happily difcovered in the nick of :Time, and the Confpirators moft of them flain or executed, when taken. Arid here it may not be improper to remark with a learned Author,?* That “ he never knew a Plot mjms Life, “ but either a Prieft, or a Wojnan, or “ both, had a Hand in itdLjJB
And no^v the hop En^rih - Blood was no fooner cooled by he above ■Executions, but the Welfh boiled up :to a high ferment, by the Inftigation of one Owen Glendour.an Efquire of Wales, brought up. at the Inns: ‘of ..Court in London ■ (a Man- of -a? fiery-arid afpiring Temper) endeavoured to drawhis Countrymen the Old Britons into^a general Rebellion agairift; King Henry rand to’, encourage them therein, irifinUated;/ That this was.tire Qth-tical TimE^to efieift his and their -Liberty, from*-the Englifh Yoke:? For D .	■' ■'•>, J J G that'
18 The Hiftory of the A
icient and Honourable
that a new Confpiracy was formed a-gainft King Henry by the Piercys, Earls of Northumberland and Worcef-ter, with Henry Hotfpur, and other Perfons of great Power, by whofe Af-fiftance they could hardly fail of becoming a Free People once more, under their own Princes;. by which they were fo affefted, that a triple League Offenfive and Defensive, was entered into by Glendour, the Piercys, and the Earl of March, unddAAheir Hands and Seals; whereby it was agreed, that all England and Wales ihould be divided into three Parts; die firft from Severn and Trent South and Eaftward, to be the Portion allotted to the Earl of March: Secondly, all Wales and the Lands beyond Severn, Weftward, to be the Lot of Owen Glendour’: And thirdly, all the remainder of the Land from Trent, Northward, to belong'to, or be the Lot of the Lord Piercy.
Upon this conclufion, the Piercys being joined by a large body of Scotch, and drawing to their Party the Earls of Stafford and Scroop, the Archbi-fhop of York, with many others of great Power, propofed to join the Welfh Captaip Owen Glendour, and his Welfh Forces.
This formidable Confpiracy and powerful Preparation, might well give the King great Uneafinefs, and engage him to procure all poflible Afliftance from’his Friends and Allies, amongft whom he called Sir John Stanley, from the. Government of Ireland, who on his leaving that Kingdom, appointed
* Hill, of Hen IV. f By the Rebellion of tins Earl,
his elder Brother Sir William Stanley, then Lord of Stanley, Stourton, and Hooton, his Deputy; and on his Ar-riyal at Court was immediately appointed Steward of the King’s Houfe-hould, and by his Advice and Aflift-ance, the * King raifed a formidable Army, which he headed himfelf, with . .his Son and Sir John under him, and with them marched againft the Re-oels; but took fpecial Care they might by no means be joined by the Welfh; and nearShrewibury met and engaged the Enemy: The Fight was very furi-. ous on both fides; and though the Scots, and the Earl of Northumberland behaved with the greateft Bravery, yet Victory refted on the King’s fide; wherein Sir John Stanley, by his known Courage and prudent Conduct, contributed not a little. ’
The Earl of J Northumberland was flain in tire Field, the Earl of Worcef-ter taken Prifoner and Beheaded; and of the other Officers and Soldiers 6000 were flain in the Field of Battle: Upon this fignal Victory, the King., caufed publick1 Thanks to be given to Almighty GOD.
And for the fuppreIlion of Owen Glendour and his Party, the King fent his Son Henry, Prince of Wales, into that Country with his whole Army but before their arrival there, upon Notice of the King's Victory over Northumberland, Owen Glendour was abandoned by all his Followers; and lurking in the Woods and Mountains, was there flarved, and famifhed to Death.
Thus
die Ifle of Maa was forfeited to King Henry, as hereafter.
Houfe of STANLEY from the ConquelL	19
Thus.the King was, by the Wifdom feized into the King‘d Hands by Sir and good Conduct of himfelf and Of-- William Stahley, Sir John in the fame fleers, and the Valour and Bravery of Year obtained a Grant thereof by Pa-his Troops, happily delivered from tent for Life; but in the Month of the Power and Malice of all his Re- October following that Year, the King and Sir John came to a new Agreement; whereby Sir John was to fur-render to his Majefty the faid Grant
bellious Subjects in this Quarter.
. But being informed that the City, Caftle, and PrecinCts of York, ftill 'held out for the late King Richard, then a Prifoner in Pomfret Caftle, he gave Commiffion to Sir John Stanley and Roger de Leke, to march with the Army thither, ..ahd^educe that Place to his Obedience, and feize it to his Ufe; which they accordingly effected.
And the We of Man being by Northumberland’s late Rebellion forfeited to the King, he called Sir William Stanley from the Government of Ireland, and gave him.CommWion, with a proper Force of Men and Ships to feize that Wand to his Majefty’s ufe, which he compleated; and Sir John Stanley’s prefence with the King being of the utmoft Confequence, his Ma-jefty appointed his younger Son Thomas Earl of Lancafter Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who landed at Carlingford in that Kingdom the fecond of Auguft, 1405; and for his Afhft-ance therein, appointed Sir John Stanley, Attorney-General to that Prince.
And the Year following, 1406, Sir John obtained Licence from liis Ma-jefty, to fortify a fpacious Houfe, he was then building at Liverpool with embattled Walls; which, when finiih-ed, he called the Tower, being ever fince well known by that Name, and is now ftanding in good Order.
And the We of Man, being as before
of the We of Man for Life, and alfo his two Patents for Life of the Manor of Black-caftle, in Ireland, and the Annual Annuity of One Hundred Marks, payable to him out of his Majeily’s Exchequer in Ireland.
And on the fixth of April, 1407, Sir John delivered up the laid Patents to be cancelled in the Chancery of England, in confideration whereof the King re-granted the We of Man to Sir John Stanley and his Heirs for ever, with all the Royalties and Franchifes
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thereto belonging, and the Patronage of tire Bifhoprick there; with the Sth and Title of King of. Man, in as full and ample manner as it had been
granted to any former Lord thereof.
To be held of the Crown of England (per homagium legium) and paying to the King, his Heirs and Suc-cenors a Cait of Falcons at their Coronation: After fuch Homage made, and carrying the Lancafler Sword on the Left Side of the King at every Coronation, in full of all Duties, Demands, and Services whatsoever.
In the tenth Year of this King’s Reign, he appointed Sir John Stanley Conftable of Windfor Caftle, and Knu of the moft noble’ Order of the Garter, and continued him in his Royal Efteem and Favour during the Remainder of his Life, which expired 2 in
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The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
in the Year of our Lord, 1413, and the thirteenth Year of his Reign,
He was fucceeded in the Throne, by his moll martial and heroic Son Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, by the Stile and Title of King Henry V. with whom-Sir John Stanley, was in fuch high Efteem, that in the firft Year of his Reign, he appointed him. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for fix Years, as his Father had done, and the feventh of October that Year he landed near Dublin; and on the fixth of January following died at Ardee, to the great Grief of his Family, and the Lois of the Nation, in id eminent and ufeful a Subject.
By this Gentleman’s Death, the King and Country were deprived of one o the mod valuable Members of Society, and public Spirit: Who through four Kings Reigns, had made as great a Figure, and acquired as much Honour, as any of his Contemporaries in the Britifh Nation,
Agreeable to the Charaider given him,, by the learned. Author of the Book of Dunmow, (to wit.) That his Youth and Martial Spirit gave him all thofe fine Qualities that compofe a compleat Gentleman, a brave and generous Hero, an accompliihed Courtier, and a juft lover of his Country.
And that his Age ripened him into, a profound Statefman, a wife and juft Patriot, and an honeft Politician; and in fine, that he was
Vir Illuftris in Concilio, Strenuus in omni PreliOj Princeps Militse in Anglia, Et in omni Regno Ornatifiimus.
His Arms or Bearing were thofe of his Family, three Stag’s Heads, togcT ther with thofe of the Latham Family, into which he married, viz.
He married Ifabcl .the only Daughter of Sir Thomas Latham, of Latham, in the County of. Lancafter; and, as near as I can collect, about the Time of his being appointed. Lord Juft ice of Ireland, by Richard II;, and by her he had Iffue two.Sons, Jolin and Thomas, and one Daughter named Alice: She married to her firft Hufband Sir Thomas Dutton, of Dutton, who died in the Year, 1431; and. to her feco ■ Hufband Sir John Wotton. Thomas-the younger Son married to the Daughter and Heirefs of Sir John Ardern, of Elford, in the County of Stafford: And Jolin the elder Son fucceeded his-Father, by the Title of John Stanley, Efq; the Son of Sir John, who may be juftly efteemed the common Father of the Earls of Derby; for from him they all fprung, as at large hereafter. . In the interim, before, we enter into. farther Hiftory of them, give me leave, by a fhort digreffion, to give the Reader the Antiquity and Genea-&gy
Houfe of STANCE
Y, from the Conqueft.	2 r
logy of the Houfe of Latham; as it •will not only afford us a clearer Hif-tory of the feyeral Worthy Families, the Houfe of Stanley intermarried with, but will clear up, and illuftrate, many Occurrences yet unknown to the World, and be of Ufe and Pleafure to the Reader. R
The firft of the Ancient Houfe of Latham I meet. with in Record, (for Hiftoiy is fileht in that Point) is ftil-ed Sip Henry de Latham, of Latham, in th^^Ouhty of Lancafter.
This Gentleman lived at, or rather fome Time: before the Conqueft; but who he married I cannot, difeover; but Record is clear that at his Death he left a Son and Heir, ftiled Sir Robert Latham, Knight, Son of Henry.
This Sir Robert Latham, was a very eminent Perlon, and recorded to be the Founder of Burfcough Abbey near Latham; and alfo tp have held of the Lord of Widnefs, in the County of Lancafter, under the Fee of * Halton, in the County of Chefter, the Manors of Knowfley, Huy ton, Roby, and Tor-buck, on payment of a certain Rent, and Knight’s Service, of which more fully hereafter. At his Death he was fucceeded by his.'Son and Heir, ftiled alfo Sir Robert Latham.
Of this fecond Sir Robert, I have little to remark, but that he fucccecl-ed his Father in Honour and Eflate, and that he died in the Year 1266, and left a Son and Heir ftiled Sir Robert Latham, Son.of Sir Robert.
Sir. Robert Latham, the Son, and the Third of that Name, fucceeded his Father Sir Robert; but of him little is recorded more than that he died in
the Year 1324, and left a Son and Heir named Thomas, but- by whom "is not faid.
This- Sir Thomas Latham, I find by Record, married, the fifteenth of Edward, III. the youngeft Daughter of Sir Hamon Malfey, of DUnham-maf-fey, in the County of-Chefter, and by hen had Ifiue in her full Time _ of Child-bearing, one- only Daughter, whom he named Ifabel; of whom1, and her Pofterity, we have much' to obferve ; but having defcribed and brought down the Male Line of her Family of Latham, we fhall next proceed to her and her Ifiue by Sir John Stanley.
Ifabel, now Lady Stanley, Widow, did, on the death of Sir John herHuf-band, return with her Children from Ireland to Liverpool, and lived in the Houfe erefted there by Sir John, called the Tower, the Scite whereof was given to him by her Father, and contains about 650 Square Yards, or 33230 Feet ; together with feveral other Burgage Houfes and Lands in that Town, fometime after her Marriage ; which at the Time of it was ■ not agreeable to her Father, who was in all refpefts Qualified to recommend her, by a Fortune equal to any Ad-drefies made her, of which fire had many fuperior in Worldly Fortune to Sir John..-
But Fortune Kerfelf largely ihared her Favours to him with a liberal Hand, in the gifts of Riches, Honour, and Dignities, which at this Tims had their proper Influence with her Father Sir Thomas ; who, by all the Accounts I have feen of this Affair, intended a plentiful Provifion for her, bur not the-
* Records of Halcon in Chcftiircr
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The Hifcory of the Ancient and Honourable
the Grots of his large rolfcikons; as will more fully appear in the following Narrative.
Sir Thomas Latham lived in the Reign of King Edward HL and he and his Lady being highjy advanced in Years, without any other Ifiiie than the abovefaid Lady Stanley; and he being defirous of JMalr Ifiue (when he was a Child) but defpa1 ting thereof by his own l ady, bad a Love Intrigue with a young Gentlewoman of his Acquaintance, whom he kept concealed in a Houfe of Retirement near 1 m, until fhe bote him a Son, on the news whereof he was gfeatly rejoiced; tut on due confideratibn, there ftill remained fome Articles of Cdnfequence to be adjufted. for the future . Peace' and Quiet c ■' Sir Thomas's Mind, and the full completion of all his Joys and Willies, on this grand Occafion.
The firfl whereof was,, how, and m what manner to publifh the Birth of his young Son, and he not fo much as fufpeXed to be the real Father of him.	.	~
And next, how to am.| e and fecure his Lady from the Pangs f a jealous Mind, and induce her Motherly Care of the young Infant, in fuch manner, that he might be nurfed tnd brought up in his own Houfe, free from all fufpicion or uneafinefs betwixt them.
And laftly, tha: he might with the greater Freedom and Pleafure overfee and extend his Paternal Beniricence to him, as aXs of Charity, and thereby ' fcreen himfelf from the ill-natured RefleXions of an inquifitive ana cen-forious World.
Wherefore the better to effeX thefe
nice-an ^ tender Points, he had re-courfe to a pious Cheat, by imparting the whole Secret to art old trolly Servant he could confide in; and, con-fulted with him, on the nioft likely and proper Means to compafs hts Willies and Defires.
After fcveral Schemes and Propo-fals on both Sides, they at laft hit upon the following Expedient, which they judged the nioft: probable to An-fwer all Sir Thomas’s EupeXations. 1
Wherein hey had confidered,? that; as an Eagle frequently formed her Neft in a large thick Wood, in the molt dcfolate part of his Park, where fel-dom any thing was feen Lut Guefts qualified for fuch a difmal Habitation; therefore if the Child was taken and laid there, as if brought by the Eagle, it might, on a pretended accidental Difcovery, compleat the whole ProjeX.
Sir Thomas approving hereof, made ufe of this Event, and gave DireXions to*the Mother to have the Infant well fed, and ricldy dreft, early the next Morning at an Hour the pendant was. to call or it; which being done, and given to him with InftruXions to lay it at the Foot of the Tree the Eagle ufually frequented, and fo fecretly to cover himfelf from all Observation*' that he might fee and guard it from, all outward Injury, by either Bird or Beaft of Prey, which he performed witl all imaginable Privacy.
And here permit me, before I pio-ceed further on this Head, to leave the Child at reft in his-new Apartment for a while, - and give the Reader , by a.fhort digrefiion, the old Story of a Child faid to be found in an Eagle’s
Nell
Houfe of STANLEY;,, from the Conqueft.
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Nett at Latham, as trarifmitted to us from Generation to Generation; which runs in the following Terms, viz.
That Sir Thomas Latham and his Lady taking their ufual walk in his Park, drew near to a Defert, and wild Situation, where it was commonly reported an Eagle ufually built her Neft.; and, upon their near approach thereof, heard the Cries of a young Child, which they ordered the Servants attending to look for; who on fearch, reported it was in tire Eagles Neft, which they directed to be taken down, and to their great Surprize and Wonder, was, on Examination, found to be a Male Infant, drefled in richSwad-ling Clothes: And they having no Male Iffue, looked upon this Child as a present fent from Heaven, and that it could be no lefs than the Will of G OD that they ihould take this defolate Infant under their Care and Protection,
which they accordingly did, and had it carefully Nurfed and Baptized, by the Name of Latham; and as the Story goes on, he became Pofleflbr of that large Eftate, and at his Death left an only Daughter named Ifabel, whom Sir John Stanley married; and in Memory of this Event, took the Eagle and Child for his Creft, as fince ufed by his noble Succeifors tire Earls of DERBY.
Thus far the Old Tradition, which on due Examination, and juft Information, will appear to be meer Fable and Fiction, and highly Improbable, when compared with the relation I ihall give of this uncommon Tranfac-tion, from real FaCt.
Whoever knows any thing of the
nature of Hawks in General, (of which the Eagle is principal,) mull of confcqucnce know with what Fury and Violence they Strike their Prey, killing all they Hoop to at one Stroke, or before they leave it; and knowing this, muft allow it morally impollible, that- a Bird of Prey of that Strength and rapacious Nature that an Eagle is known to be, ihould carry a live Child to her Airy unhurt, which ihe never attends but when Hatching or Rearing her Young, and then tears all to Pieces ihe intends for herfelf, or them, as Food; which they while Young are unable to do for themfelves.
Befides, would it not be flretching ourTmagination to a great length, to fuppofe, that a young Child, drefled as this (in the Tradition) is defcribed to be, ihould be left expofed in the open Fields as a Prey to all voracious Creatures, deftitute of Guard or Care;
which is not reafonable to drink, un-lefs in Time of Plague, Famine, or War, when fome thing like this might poflibly Occur, but none of thefe Articles being alledged in the Cafe before, us, nor any Infant known to be miffing, we may juftly conclude the old Story meer Tradition, without any juft Foundation.
Wherefore, let us return to the Babe we left ileeping under’the Tree, where we may fu ppofe his Father Sir Thomas took Care he fhould not lye long pj the - cold Ground/ by paying him ah ’ early Vifit; when he found him fully awake, and calling for ’ Afliftance, which he haftened to give him, by a fpeedy return Home, and b ringing put his Lady and Family co view die fur-p fazing
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prizing Difcovery he had by Accident made that Morning; on Hearing and Sight whereof, they were all filled with Wonder and Amazement, and unanimoully agreed, that the Infant’s Preservation in fo difmal and dangerous a Situation, could be no lefs than a Miracle;; and -upon finding it to be a Male Child (which was wanting in the Family) the good old Lady was enamoured-with it, and concluded it to be the will of Heaven, that they Should adopt him for their Son and Heir; which was readily agreed toby liis Father..
'.And this being a Time of the Day when Superftition and Bigotry prevailed more than Truth and Reafon, Sir Thomas had little more to do, than to gild over this pious Fraud in the moil plaufible Manner, and to raife and encourage his Lady’s Imagination and Credulity to the higheft Degree, as an effectual Means to accomplilh his Defigm
Which he further promoted, by ad-dreffing himfelf to the good old Lady in the following Terms, (to wit) That they having no Male Illue, and he pofleffed of an extenfive Patrimony,, was unwilling it fhould pafs into the Hands of Strangers to his Name and Blood, ’(tho' by the Marriage of his Daughter if fhe fhould fo long live,) that he looked upon this Child fo wonderfully preferved, as the Gift of GOD to him, and that it could be no lefs than the will of Heaven that he Ihpuld take this defolate Infant into-his Care and Protection: The good natur’d Lady, in Pity and Companion as well as Charity, * agreed to
her Hufbands Propofal; had the Infant carried Home, and nurfed, and brought up, with the fame Care and Tehdernefs as if fhe had been his natural Mother.
And Sir Thomas feconding and im-■proving the Occafion, had him baptized by the Name of Oikatell de La-, tham; a fecret then unknown to any but himfelf and the'Mother, whofe Name was Mary Olkatell: Abd thus far Sir Thomas had to his great Pleasure and Satisfaction compleated his Projedt
But, to give the greater Sanction to this fuppofed Miracle, and to remove all fufpicion of Fraud, Sir Thomas af-fumed for his Creft an Eagle upon Wing, turning her Head back, and
looking in a fprightly manner" as for fomething fhe had loll, or was taken from her. The Imprellion of this Creft was fent me on . this Occafion, by a defeendant of the yeiy Foundling we have been : describing; a P-Tate whereof is here given, with a full Hiftory of the faid Olka tel and his pofterity, as fent me by the fame kind Hand, vizi. Captain Samuel Finney, of
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.
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of; Fulfhaw in the County of Chefter, Efq; but of thefe Articles, more at. large hereafter.
In the Interim, give me leave to make feme remarks of Crefts in general, and of this here fpoken of, and that ufed by the Earls of Derby in
Prey of the Child, whereas Sit' Thomas Latham’s Creft implies a Miraculous Prefervation of it, as the Child is fuppofed to be brought there by that Bird of Prey, fo consequently its fafety would be attributed to an extraordinary Providential difpenfa-tibn.
Befides, I cannot find with aiiy-fhew of probability, that any of the Family of Stanley (of which I have given a particular Genealogy) ever aflumed the Eagle and Child for their Creft before the Union of the Families of
the allufion is to the Origin of the Family I am to fpeak of, and how a-greeably confiftent with the Hiftory of the Creft ufed by the Noble Family above mentioned, toncering the Origin and Occafion whereof fo many
Speculations, Difputes, and various Latham and Stanley; fo that of con-Opinions hav^been advanced by the fequence there muft be fome fpecial Curious in their Hiftories of Arms and peculiar view or occafion for the and Crefts.	aflumption of that Creft by the Stan-
aflumption of that Creft by the Stan-
Crefts to our Gentry’s Arms, (as I ley’s, rather than that taken by their have obferved from all Antiquity) common Anceftor, Sir Thomas La-have been aflumed by them at plea- tham, which I fhall endeavour to manifeft herein, altho’ there , remains no room with me to doubt the veracity of what I have delivered on that Head; but fliall refpite that for a while, and proceed to enquire how it fared with the Foundling Olkatel, whom we left under the Care of his
fure, and agreeable allufions appropriated .thereto, ^ and□ Ancient Medals, Signals, Statues, Infcriptibns and Paintings, are the fureft guides to a right knowledge of Antiquity, as thefe ferve to dole up the" many Chafms that are frequently met with, both in the Literal and Traditional Accounts of the Ancients.
kind Nurfing-Mother, the Lady of Latliam.
As he grew in Years, he was, as my * Author tells us, liberally Educated by his Father; and when grown a Man, made a compleat Gentleman, being refpedted and efteemed by all
So truly without thefe. helps, our Ideas and Conceptions mull be lame, confufed, and imperfect; this, in my opinion, has: occasioned the many con- • je&.ural Accounts that the World has received as Faits, for want of proper that knew him, as Heir to. the exKeys ‘ to unlock and expofe to light tenfive Inheritance x>f Latham, and the dark Cells of Antiquity.	was with his Sifter»l?abcl, at the fa-
The Eagle, as reprefented in tlie mous Tournament L{y Sir John Stan-Stanley’s Creft, has actually made a ley, and. the French^ Champion, at .Numb. 2,	-	E	Winchefter,
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Winchefter, aforefaid; where his Ma-jefty was pleafed to take fuch Notice of him as to honour him with Knighthood, by the Name and Title of Sir Oikatel de Latham, by which Title we fhall henceforth fpeak of him.
But in the mean Time acquaint the Reader, that this Gentleman’s Sunihine of Fortune, -like a March Day, foon changed it’s afpeCt; for, Sir Thomas Latham^ being now in the Evening of Life, and intending .to fet his Houle inorder, confidered that InsDaugkwx^ the Lady Stanley, and her moft hopeful IHite (being now near him) were his legitimate Offspring, and by the Laws of God and Nature juftly Entitled to his large Poffeffions, he therefore fettled the Grofs of them upon that Lady and her Heirs for ever ; and declared Sir Oikatel to be only his Natural Son.
. Thus Sir Oikatel, being Degraded and Supplanted in the hopes an prof-SeCt of an immenfe Fortune, was ighted anddefpifedby his unthought of Rivals, who, either to diftinguilh or aggrandize themfelves, or in Contempt and Derifion of their fpurious Brother, took upon them the Eagle
and Child for their Creft, in token
of their Conqueft over him, which to me plainly Manifefts the Variation of the two Crefts above-mentioned, and the reafon of it.
However, Sir Thomas not quite forgetting his Affection for, and kind intentions to his Son Oikatel, referved and fettled upon him and his Heirs for ever the Manors of Irlam and Urmiton, near Manchefter, in the County of Lancafter; with feveral o-ther large Tracts of Land and De-mefnes in that County, alfo the Manor of Hawthorn, and many other Lands and Tenements in the County of Chefter, and gave him the Signet of his Aims, with the Creff ailumed by him for his fake, which I have given the Impreffion of above.
By the above Referve and Settle^ ment, Sir Thomas, raifed a new Family of his own Name, and though not in the old Seat as he had once intended, yet gave them a large Patrimony, which enabled them to make a leading Figure in the World, to the Time of the Ufurpation; when taking Part with, and fharing in the Fate of their fuffering and Noble Relation the Earl of Derby, they, as well as he, were greatly reduced, as will appear hereafter.
Thus far we have attended Sir Thomas Latham, through the courfe of Iris Life, and near the exit of it; wherein many curious and remarkable Events have been related of him: Let us therefore now leave him to Die in Peace, and a good old Age, like a fhock of Corn ripe for gathering into the Store-houfe of Perfection, and proceed to the Iffue and Descendants of his Daughter the Lady Stanley.
Ifabel
Houle of STANLEY, from 'the Conqueft.	27
Ifabel de Latham, now Lady Stanley, had Iffue by Sir John Stanley the firft, two Sons, Thomas and John, and one Daughter named Alice, who married Sir Thomas Dutton, of Dutton, in the County of Chefter; and Thomas the fecond Son married to Maud, the only Daughter and Heir of Sir Jolin Ardern, of Elford, in the County of Stafford, of whom we fliall treat more fully in due Place.,
And as for oiir difconfolate Friend Sir Oikatel, we fliall only obferve at prefent, that tho’ degraded and fup-planted in a fair Inheritance, yet we have brought him to his Age, and placed him at the head of a large Patrimony and new Family of the fame Name of his Father, which his Rivals could not boaft of.
Wherefore we (hall for the prefent forbear all further Hiftory of him, or them, which might throw us into fome Confufion, and render our Hiftory lefs Intelligible ; fo that having gone throng the main or diredt Line, we fliall fully treat of every feperate or collateral Branch, as they occur in point of Time, as near as we can collect, or be informed of.
Beginning firft with John Stanley, Efq; eldeft Son of Sir John Stanley, by Ifabel de Latham, who was at his Father’s death (whom he fucceeded) of the Age of twenty-three or twenty-four Years. He was a Youth of great Genius and vivacity of Spirit, being early taken Notice of at Court,' and made. Steward of the Houfliold to King Henry VI. and was in the fifth Year of that King, by the Name of John Stanley, Efq; made Conftable of
Carnarvon-Caftle, in Wales; a Poft of great Truft as well as.Hazard in thofe remote Parts, and unfettled Times; but by his Prudence and good Conduct he kept the People in Peace, and preferved his Majefty’s Intereft, though with much Care- and Watchfulness..
For the Welih were at that Time (as it were) but young Subjects to England, uneafy in Temper, and on every change of Government frequently in Tumults and Infurredtions, occafioned by the late Rebellion of O-wen Glendour, aforefaid, many of whofe Party and factious Principles ft ill furviving, failed not to ftirupqew Commotions, as occafion offered.
Infomuch that King Henry, in the Seventeen th Year of his Reign, (Mr. Stanley, being then Groom of the Bed-chamber to that Prince) gave him, in reward of his Loyalty and faithfuj. Sendees, a Grant of all the Lands late Nichols’s, and Saxon’s, in the Counties of Carnarvon, and Flint; alfo by a new Commiflion appointed him Governor of Carnarvon, and Conftable of the Caftle there for Life, with the Fee of 401. per Annum; and alfo confti-tuted him Sheriff of Anglefea for Life, with the Fee of 201. per Annum, and honoured him with Knighthood, by which. Character we fliall treat of him hereafter,
And, in the mean Time, inform the Reader, that by his Vigilance and prudent Management inot only fup-prefLft all.lnfung^^ reduced the Country to full’ Obedience and Tranquility.
In which he was greatly aflifted by one John, Dam bill, a valiant Captain, who
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’“ who had ferved under his Father , when Governor of the Caftle of Roxburgh, in Scotland, and was for his 'good and faithful Service in Wales, ■ retained the King’s Servant, with a Penfionof jhpcr Annum, for his Life, payable out of the King’s Exchequer at Chefter. ..
’ This Dumbill was the Son of one ^umbill, of Oxton, in Wirral, in the County of Chefter, and the Original Anceftor of the Dumbills of Lime, in that * County; and, (as ar fas I can collect) was appointed by Sir John Stanley, his Lieutenant in that-Govern-ment during his abfence.
Thus Sir John, having made all ve-ly peaceable in Wales, refolved to vi-fit the Ifle of Man, where Affairs were ’in fome diforder; leaving the Confer-vation and care of the People under his Government, to his Trufty Friend, Capu Dumbill.
And on his arrival in the Ifle of Man, we find him ftiled in their ear-lieft Records (for before his Time there were none extant) Anno quarto Rega-litatis noftra, which was the Ancient ftile of their Court Rolls, and continued down to the Time of Thomas the. fecond Earl of Derby; who, for ^reat and wife Reafons, fhewn when we come to treat of him, declined the Title of King, and only ufed that of Lord of Man,, and the Ifles.
Sir John, now of mature Age, and great. Experience in Life, wifely con-derec fhap a juft regulation of the. aws were a lafting happinefs to the People, and the beft fecurity to the
Prince; in refult whereof he confulted the Judges, and others well Ikillcd in the Ancient Government, Laws, and Cuftoms of that Iflaifd.
And by their Advice convened the whole Body of the People to a certain place in the centre of the Country, (fince called the Tinwald) where their grand AnpuaL Court hath ever fince been held on the twenty-fourth of June, for the Promulgation'of the Laws a^d Statutes made, for their future Government and obfervance,fome of whichremain to ths'Time, which we fhall .treat more fully of when we come, to defcrij)e the Government of that hie, and the feveral Officers ne-ceflarily employed therein.
. -Sir John having adjufled and com-pleated his Syftem of Government there to his own and his Subjects fecurity and jatisfaction, put the fame in motion by proper Officers, over whom he appointed John Letherland, Efq; (a Neighbouring Gentleman of Lan-cafhire) his Lieutenant, a Gentleman well ufed to, and (as a Juftice of the Peace) well acquainted with the Dif-tribution of Juftice; and then returned to England.
On his Arrival at Court, he was by Commiffion appointed one of the Judges itinerant for the County of Chefter, but died foon after.
He married Ifabel, the only Daughter of Sir John, and Sifter to Sir William Harrington, who dying without Iflue, flip became Heirefs to her Bro -■ ther, ' and Miftrefs of the fine Seat of Hornby Caftle, near Laucafter, with it’s
* Sir Peter Leicefter in Cbefhire,
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Con quell.	29
it’s’ Appurtenances; and by her Sir John had Iflue two Children, a Son named Thomas, and a Daughter nam-
ed Alice, who ' married Sir Thomas Dutton,, of Dutton, in .Chefhire.
The Character given this Gentleman By the learned-of that Age, af-fures us that he was a Man truly Great, of a Mafterly Genius, beloved by his Prince, and an Honour to his Country; a kind Hufband, a tender Parent, and a true Friend.
Arid was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate, by his only Son Sir Thomas Stanley, (who had been Knighted fome Time before his Father’s Death) and was in the fame Year he died, made Lieutenant of Ireland for fix Years, as his Grandfather had been: He called; a Parliament in that Kingdom, for redrefs of many Grievances in the Year, 1432 ■, but being called to England by his Majcfty’s Command, left Sir Chriftopher Plunket', his Deputy', and on hisxoming to Court was made Comptroller of his Maj efly’sHoufhold, but by his Abfence, the King’s Minority, and the abfence of. the Mili-
tary Men in France, the Irifli were grown very infolent, infomuch that he was obliged to return to thatKing-tdom, which he did in the Year, 1435’; and with the power of Meath, and other AfTiflance, he took Moyle O’Neal, Prifoner, and flew great Numbers of the Irifh; and about Michaelmas after he came to England again, and left Richard Talbot, Archbifhop of Dublin, and Brother to the Earl of Shrewlbury, his Deputy; and the eleventh of Henry VI. he was upon an Inqui-fition poll Martem, his Father found to hold (as Heir to Sir Robert de La-.tham, of Latham) of the Lord of the Manor of Widnefs, in the County of Lancafter„ in the Time of Edward, II. in the following Words, viz.
Thomas Stanley Milite, Comptroller, Doniinus Robertus de Latham, Te-. net et Dom. de Widnefs, Maneria de Knowfley, Huyton, Roby, et , Torbuck, pro uno foeda Militis dat dereleivo, cum accederit five Pounds. This Fcedary is extracted out of the Records of Halton, tempe Edward, II. et Henry, VI.
And the eighteenth of Henry, VI. he was appointed by William de la Poole, Earl of Suffolk and foie Judge of Chefter for Life, to be his Deputy. Quam Diu fibi placuerit..
And the Year following, (the nineteenth of Henry, VI.) it appears by Record, That*; whereas- William de laj Poole, was made Judge of Chefter for Life, he now maketh Sir Thomas Stanley, and William Ruckley, of Eaton, his Lieutenant Juftices, and that they
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they fhall receive 401. per Annum, per manus Camerary, dated the Eve of the Annunciation of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, rhe nineteenth of Henty, VI.
And in the twenty-fixth of Henry, VI. being then Comptroller of the King’s Houfhold, he with others, obtained a Grant of all tire Goods and Chatties of Humphrey, Duke of Lan-cafter, with power to difpofe of them without Account.
And the next Year he with Jolin, Lord Vifcount Beaumont, and ochers, were Commiffioned to Treat with the Scots, fora Truce betwixt both Realms, and he was the Year after appointed .one of the Confervators of the fame for the King of England.
And in the twenty-eighth of Henry, VI. he was put in Commiflion, with the Earl of Wiltfhire, and others for the Cuftody and defence of the Town and Callie of Calais, and the Marches adjacent, with the Tower of Reilbank, for the Term of five Years.
And the next Year he was again made one of the Confervators, of the Truce with Scotland, which was to hold good from the fifteenth of Au-guil, 1451, for three Years, and of the continuance of the fame to the twen-ty-firft of May, 1457.
And in the fame Year, he was made foie Judge of Chefter, and continued therein to the thirtieth of that King’s Reign, and that Year was again Com-mimpned to treat with James Earl Douglas, of a new Truce with Scotland, which was to hold to the, fourteenth of July, 1458.
And in the thirty fourth of that
King’s Reign, he was created Baron Stamey, and made Lord Chamberlain of the King’s Houfhold.
And the thirty-fifth of Henry, VI. was by the King appointed one of the Council to Edward Prince of Wales.
And die thirty-feventh of Henry, VI. the King lent Orders tb Sir John Mainwaring to deliver certain. State- r Prifoners then in his Cuilpdy, and particularly named, to this Lord Stan-f» ley, for their greater fecurity, which was accordingly done.
And in the Year 446.0, he^wa^ t-gain appointed one of the Ambai.a-dors to treat with thofe of Scotland on Affairs of the greateft moment 4 but dying the latter end of the Year, the Nation was deprived of this.very Great •and Valuable Perfon, and, the King of one of his bell Subjects.
A Character of this Noble Lord feems needlcls, his brave and worthy Actions, and the high Tnj.it repofed in him through the whole courfe of his Life, . have fully manifefted his Perfections, beyond what we can pof-. fibly fay of him; yet; that we may not be wanting to his Merit, nor deficient in the Commendation, as given him by his Contemporaries, of fo eminent a Patriot to his Country, who inform us, that he inherited call the amiable Qualities of his Father, and Grandfather.; that he was brave in the Field, wife in the Senate, juft to his Prince, ap honour to his Country, and an Ornament to his. family; being the firft enobled by Royal Favour from their Original tp. his Time.
He
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He married Joan, the only Daughter and Heirefs of Sir Robert Goufhill,
by whom he had BTue three Sons, Thomas, William and- John; and three Daughters. Margaret the eldeft married to Sir- William Troutback of Chefhire; Elizabeth the fecond, to Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, in Lan-cafhire; and Catharine the youngeft, to Sir John Savage, of Clifton in Che-Ihire; all Sifters to Thomas firft Earl of Derby, who in the fecond of Edward IV. was made Judge of Chefter, and continued therein to the firft of Henry VIL when departing this Life he was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by Thonias his eldeft Son, who was firft fiimmoned to Parliament the twenty-fourth of May, the firft of Edward IV, by the Stile and Title of Baron Stanley of Latham, and was made Steward of the King’s Houfhold that Year. ;
And ihjhb fourteenth of that King’s Reign, being then Steward of his Ma-jefty’s Houfhold, he was retained by Indenture to- ferve his Majefty in his Wars with France for one Year with
Forty Men at Arms, and three Hundred Archers.
At which Time John Lord Scroop, whofe Anceftors had formerly been Lords of Man, made complaint to the King that this Lord Stanley bore the Arms of that Bland. No decuion could be made therein at that Time, for the Reafons hereafter recited by the King’s* Letter under his Sign Manual, dated tire firft of May 1475V
The King’s Letter.
“ TV D WARD by the Grace of God JlL King of England and France “ and Lord of Ireland, remembering “ the pretence and claim of John Lord “ Scroop, (hewed unto us, forthebear-“ ing of the Arms of the Ifleof Man,, “ which now our right Trufty and “ right Well-beloved Thomas Lord “ Stanley,. Steward of our Houfhold “ beareth, for briefnefs of Time, hav-“ ing no convenient Seafon to know “ the Determination of the fame, and “ providing fo no Variance therefore “ be had now in our Voyage, have “ willed and defired that for the Times “ and Seafons chat the faid Lords fhall “ continue in our Service in our Realm w of France, Dutchy of Normandy,. “ or elfewhere beyond the Sea, and “ alfo unto our and their returning “ next to this our Realm of England, “ or either of them,, .that the faid “ Lords dial] abftain and forbear the “ ufe and wearing of the faid Aims “ of the Ifle of Man; whereunto for “ thefaid defire, it is agreed, alwayfore-“ ieen,. that the faid will, defire,, ab-“ ftinence and forbearing, be not preju— “■ dicial
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*5 dicial -in that behalf unto the faith “ Scroop nor to his Heirs,, nor be of “ none-effect, ftrength, or virtue, but “ for the Time aboveexprefled.”
And in the Twcnty-fecond of Edward IV. Richard, Duke of Gloucefter, being1 fent with an Army againft the Scots, this Lord Stanley, commanded the Right -Wing, confifting of four Thoufahd-and took Berwick, by Af-fault, though with the Lofs of a great; many Men.
As he flood firm to Edward IV. fo after his Death he was no lefs faith-ful to his -Son-Edward V. which the’ Duke of. Glolicefter (then Protestor to the*.yoitng King) took fo ill, that he had a/Defign to murder him, .and the*’ young King his Nephew, as is clear by fiis taking the. Lord Haftings, from’ the CounciJ-board, jn the Tower of1 London, and caufing: his Head to be flruck ojf, • La	,	-
For at the fame Time, one of the i^ldiers-(truck at the. Lord Stanley,’ faith a Halbeft, and' had he not fud-' denly (looped under the.Table to. a-void the Blow, it had certainly cleft .his Head, and as it was.he loft much Blood C" -ill Which might have been prevented; Tit Cafe the Lord Haftings had given Heed to a prophetic Dream of this- Lord Stanley, the Night be—1 forej -winch was; that a Boar, with his Tuiks^had fo gored and raifed” them both, that the Blood ran about1? their Shoulders, of which Jie gave the-1 Lord Haftings fpeedy Notice, with an '1 Invitation to come away- and with 1 Jahn to ride as far as they could that11 Nighty but he was notfofortunate to”
regard the Warning given'himysafkT fp loft his Head---- Ln had. - &8&19J
And although the Lord Stanley’had the good Luck to fave his, yet was he committed to Prifon'T'but as foon as that barbarous Duke got Pofieilion of the Crown, by the Murder of Jhis two Nephews, in the- Tower (of London; the Lord Stahley- was releafed and fet at Liberty, King Richard fearing that his Son George, Lord- Strange,; (a valiant Captain) might caufe an Infur-redtion to fet him' at Liberty, and put in Danger his. Poifefiion of the Crown.
Therefore the King to in ratiate himfelf with this Lord, and i: poffi-hle to, bring him ^oyer'hcbxhisrlrnereft on the’ Sixteenth of December^oim' the firft Year of his Reign, ;madg hijnf Conftable of Ejigland, for Ejteyy^th -the Fee of tool, pef Annum, payable * out of the King’s Revenue,- in the County of Lancafter, with Power to make a Deputy, and alfo had him in-ftalled a Knight Companion of the moft noble Order of the? Garter.
But the Lord Stanley- haying married to his fecond Wife Margaret, the Countefs of Richmond, and Widow of Edmund, Earl of Richmond, by whom, he had one Son,, named Henry, Earl of Richmond, who in Right of his Mother claimed a Title to the thrown, of which Notice beip^takergby King Richard; and that he was then iny France, folliciting Afliftance (50m that King to recover his: Right* wjiich. toyg gether with what Afliftan^e he might rcafonably expert from the great Power of his Father-in-Law the Lord Stanley, might render his ^pfl^flion.of the
Home of STANLEY flam the ConcuciE
Cfown precarious, and greatly difturb his Peace.
, Therefore this noble Lord bega" to be frdpe&ed as a Well-wifher to the Intei-ell of Prince Henry, .and the. Countcfs his Mother was commanded To put away al) her old Servants, and forbidden tc lend .my MefTages to, or receive any from the Earl her Son.
' But the Lord Stanley* wifely concealed all his. Sentiments in this critical Conjuncture; and the better to cover and fecure himfelf from the Suf-piciops and Jealoulies of. that Tyrani-cal King, requefted Leave to retire into die Country on his private Affairs, and to raife Forces for his Majefty’s Service.
Bur the King knowing his great In-tereft; and fearing that under that pretence, he might give Aid .to b is Rival, the Earl .of Richmond, refilled his Content, until he gave ^ip George, Lord Strang , his Son and Heir, as a Hoftage for la’s Loyalty.
However, on the Ear □ f Richmond’s landing, he failed not to meet him on the. Dav cf Battle, with whab- Forces be fiad collected; b,ut he himfelf had a private Meetir g with ■ the Earl, the Dav before, at AtherRon, about fix Miles fhort of Bofworth, coming thl-thef with great Privacy, and the next Bay -approaching the Field of Battle, ae openly appeared with his Forces in Favour o ' the Earl; upon which the King lent him the following Meflage • That unlefs he did forthwith repair to his Prefence, he would put his Son the Lord Strange to Death, (and marched with him ih the Rearof all his For
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ces, guarded by one Troop of Horfe and feme Foot,) to which the Lord Stanley anfwered, That the King might do his Plealure, and if he did put him to Death, he had more Sons alive, and was determined not to come to the King at that Time; upon which he had rcfolved to put him to Death, but was told by Lis Lords and others about him, that his Majeft} had a greater Work in. Hand, and that it was not a Time now to think of. Executions, but of Defence, upon which tire Lord ’Strange was fpared.
The Battle fpeedily enfued, and remained doubtful for fome T.ue, until Sir William Stanley, of Holt-Caflle, and Brother to the Lord Stanley, came in with 3000 frefh Men. who turned the whole Action in Favour of the Earl of Richmond, and gave him a 20m-pleat Victory, wherein King Richard was Rain, with a great Numbey of his Followers.
Amougfc .the Spoils of the Field was found (wl.-at Lord Bacon calls) an ornamental Crown, which Richard ufed toweqfl; oh particular Occafions; and feme fay, Lord -Stanley, but this great Author, and others of great Authority fay, Sir William Stanley put it upon the Head of Henry. Earl o f Richmond, and proclaimed him King, by the Name of Henry VIL all crying) aloud, King Henry, King Henry.
This memorab T and glorious Battle, (if any may be allowed tha* Epithet) where fo many Lives wereloO, was attended with moR advantageous : Confequenccs to the Nation, for by it: they
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they' were delivered ■ from the moll wicked, arbitrary,'inhuman, and tyrannical Prince that ever fat on the. Throne of England; and, as an addi^ tional Bleffing, it laid the Foundation of Friendfhip, Regulation, and Union, between the. two ancient Houfes of York r and Lancafter, betwixt whom more Blood had been ihed than in al the Wars with France.
The fame * Year, on the Twenty-Seventh of October,King Henry created Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, and con-flituted him one of the Lords Commif-fibners for executing the Office of Lord High Steward of England, upon his own -Coronation, the Thirtieth Day of the fame Month..
On the Fifth of March following, he had a Grant of the high Office of Conftable of England, for Life, with die Fee of took' per Annum, payable out of the King’s Revenues .in Lan-, bailiirej as before.
- In tile Second of Henry VIL he was one of the Godfathers to Prince Arr thur, the King’s firft-born Son; and in the Third of Henry Vil. one of the Commiffioners for executing the Office of Lord High-Steward of England, on the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, Confort to that King.
In the Sixth of.Henry VIL he was commiffioned with George his' Son, to borrow Money in the ’ County, of Lancafter, for the King’s Expedition into France.
The Eleventh of Hehry VIL he was one of the Guarantees of that Peace made between that King, and the
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Arch-Duke of Auftria; and the fame Year was one of the Lords that af-fented to the Peace made with France, at the.Staples on. the Sea, near Bo-logne, “a492, but died in the Yean 1504, the Nineteenth of Henry VIL As by his Will of the Twenty-eighth of July that Year,, and the Probate thereof on tlie Ninth of November following, (fee the Will) to wit, July the Twenty-ninth, 1504.
Wherein he by the Title of Thomas, Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley, Lord of Man, and Great-Conftable of England, bequeatheth his Body to be buried .in die Midft of the Chapel, in the North Hie of the Church of Burfcough, near Latham, in the County of Lancafter, of his Anceftofs Foundation, where the Bodies of his Father and Mother, and others of his Anceftors, lay buried, having moulded a Tomb to be there placed, with the lurfonages of himfelf; and both his Wives, for a perpetual Remembrance to be prayed for.
And likewife appointing, that the Perfonages he had caufed to be made for his Father and Mother, his Grandfather and Grand-mother, and great Grand-fathers; ihould be fet upon the Arches of the Chancel, within that Priory, in the Places provided for the fame.
And though he had formerly given to the Prior and Convent of that Houfe, large Gifts, in Money, Jewels, and Ornaments, and. likewife made great Reparations there, ■ he further bequeaths unto them Twenty Pounds,
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to the lAtcnf that they fhould be obliged by their Deed, under, their Con-,vent-Seal, to caufe one of the Canons of that Houfe, daily to' fay Mafs, in the before-mentioned Chapel, for his Soul; alfo, for the Soul of his Lady, (then living) after her Deceafe; like? rwife,. for the Soul of Eleanp*, his former Wife.; and for the/Souls of his Father, Mother, Anceftors, Children, Brethren, and Sifters; alfo, for the Soul of William, late Marquis of Berkley,. and for the Souls of alb thofe who died in his, or his Father’s Services and eveiy Mafs before the Lavatory, audibly to be faid, for the faid Souh appointed by Name; and all others in .general De profundis Clamavi, and fuch other Orifons and. Collects as are ufed to be faid therewith.
: And furthermore.he willed, that his Son Sir Edward Stanley, fhould have and enjoy the Caflle of Hornby, fo long as he lived; he departed this Life the Ninth of November next enfuing.
This noble Earl married to his firft Wife Eleanor, the fourth Daughter of Richard Nevill, Earl of Salifbury, and
by her had Ifiue fix Sons,, and four Daughters, of all which in their Order.
Thomas;, and Richard,- his two firft -Sons, died young; and George, his [third Son, married Joan, the only Daughter and Heirefs of John,, Lord Strange of Knocking, near Slirewf-bury, and had aSummons to Parliament by the Title of Baron Strange, the Twenty-fecond of Edward IV. Place as in Strange, the Twenty-ninth of December, Twentyreighth of Edward I. and afterwards to the Twelfth of Henry VIL inclufivc.
And before bls. faid Marriage,, he •was one | of thofe noble Perlons who received the Honour of Knighthood, by Bathing with Prince Edward, the King’s eldeft Son the Eighth of April, and Fifteenth of Edward IV. and in the Firft of Henry ATI. he was made one of the Lords of-the Privy-Council; and in the Second of Henry VIL he was appointed one of the principal Commanders of the King’s Army, at the Battle of Stoke, near Newark, and iharyd greatly in the Honour of that Victory, then obtained againft the Earl of Lincoln, and his Adherents, Patrons, and Supporters of one Lambert Simnel, who pretended to be the eldeft Son of Edward IV. and thereby claimed a Right to the Crown, prior to, and exclufive of King Henry ATI. and his Queen, the eldeft Daughter of King Edward IV.
In the Seventh of Henry VII. he was retained by Indenture, to ferye the King in France, with ten Men at Arms, five Demy-Lances, Twenty-four Archers on Horfeback, and two Hundred and Forty-feven Archers on Foot, each Man of Arms, to have his Cuftrel
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rand Page, for one Year, from the Day of his firft Mufter, and fo long after as it ihall pleafe the King; and to Mufter the fame at Guildford, in'.Sur-ry, on the Firft of June, and after fuch Mufter, on his Arrival at Portfmouth, to receive of the Treafurerof War, rhe Conduft-Money, for bringing his faid Forces to Portfmouth, viz. Six-pence for every one of them, for as many .Twenty Miles as are: between the Houfes from whence any of them departed, and the faid Town of Portfmouth ; and alfo to receive for each of the faid Men at Arms, garnifhed with his Cuftrel and Page, Eighteen-JPence per Day ; and for every of the .laid Demy-Lances,' Nine-pence per .Day; and for every of the faidArchers on Horfeback, or on Foot, Six-pence, &C~'
; Soon after the above Action, he was made one of the Knights Companions of the moft noble Order of the Garter, and in the Ninth of Henry VII. upon the Siege of Norham Callie, by the Scots, he advanced with the Earl of Surry, and many others of the Nobility, againft thofe bold Invaders; but the Enemy being retreated before
they came up, nothing.' of Note was performed.
He was at the Staples, on the Sea, near Bologne, in France, the Third of November 1492. And on the Fifth of December, in the Thirteenth of Henry VII. he departed this Life, at Derby Houfe, now the College of Arms, on St. Bennet’s-Hill, London; (his Father then living,) and was buried in the Parifli Church of St.. James’s, Gaf-lick-Hythe, London, near' to Eleanor; the Countefs of Derby, his Mouther.
He left Iflue by Joan his Wife, two Sons, Thomas, and James, and two Daughters, Jane, and Elizabeth. Jane married Robert Sheffield, Efq; and Elizabeth died young, and of his two Sons, more hereafter. In the Interim I cannot well omit an Infcription I met with in the. Church of Hallingdon, in the County of Middlefex; as it relates to him, though I fuppofe. occafioned by fome Encomiums on his Father,-who had an Eftate there ; but is fo defaced with Time, that I could not fully take it off; however, as far as I could make it out with certainty, it is as follows.
“ He married his firft-Son George, to-no Farm nor Grange,,
“ But honourably to the Heir of the. Lord Strange;
“ Who lived in fuch Love, as no Man elfc had;
“ For at the Death of him, divers went almoft Mad *
* At an ungodly Banquet, alas he was poifoned,.
“ And at London, in St. James’s Garlick-Hythe lies buried.”’
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William his Brother; and fourth Son of Thomas, Earl of Derby, died young and unmarried.
Edward his fifth Son, ftiled Sir Edward Stanley, was a Gentleman of the Sword, by which he acquired both Honour and Fortune, as hereafter.
James the fixth Son of this Noble Lord, was Dean of St. Martins, in London, . and made Biihop of Ely, the twenty-fecond of Henry VIL alfo Warden of the Collegiate Church at Mancheflei, in the County of Lan-cafter; and Heth Buried in the Chapel of St. John Baptift, by him built, on the North Side of that Church, with the following Infcfiption on his Tomb, there, viz. “ Of your Charity, “ pray for the Soul of James Stanley; “ fometime Biihop of- Ely, and War-“ den of Mancheiler ; who deceafed “ out of this tranfitory World, the “ Twemy-Iecond of March, in the “ Year of our Lord God 1525. Upon “ whofe Soul, and all Ghriftian SoUls,
Jefus have Mercy.”
' His four Daughters before-mentioned; were Joan, Catherine, and Ann, who all died young, and un-
married; but Margaret, his fourth ■Daughter, married Sir John Ofbaldif-ton, of Lancafhire.	*
This Lord married to his fecond Wife, the riioft noble Margaret, Daughter and Heirefs to John, Duke of So-meffet; and Widow of Edmund, Earl of Richmond; and the happy Mother of King Henry VIL but by her had-no Ifiue.-
This great and noble Lord, died in the Year 1504, /the Nineteenth Of Henty VIE as above; and was fuc-ceeded by Thomas,' his Grandfon, eh deft Son of George, Lord Strange, and his next Heir; of whom before I proceed further. 1 have fome curious Remarks, and Events, to relate of the late very eminent Lord; which I doubt not of being acceptable to the Reader, but I conceive they will not fo properly fall in Order, .nor be fo well under--flood, as in this Place.
Therefore, as they have relation to his Brother, Sir William Stanley, I re-queft Leave, by a ihort Digreflion, to give you the Hiflory of that brave and gallant Gentleman ; who, to the great Surprize of the World, fufFered Death; by Henry VIL and then return to a further Defcription of the great Earl of DE R BY ’ s Tofterity, and.Succeflbrs; as before promifed.
The firft Notice I meet with in the Hiflory of Sir William Stanley, is that he was fecond Son of Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Broflier to the aforefaid Earl of DERBY; that his Seat was at the Caftle of Holt, in the County of Flint, and that the fourteenth Jof July, and the ninth of Henry V.' a Wrir was iflited .out. to - him. and. others, td call-
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call to an Account John Leigh, of Booths, for an Arrear of One Hundred and Forty Pounds, due from him, as late Sheriff of the County of Chef-ter, to the King, and then unfatisfied.
But the King dying that Year; a new Writ was iffued to the fame Pcr-fons, againft the faid John Leigh, dated the fixth of Henry VI. to bring him to Account for the very great Arrears then due from him to the King, and yet unfatisfied.
And as the World at this. Time, arc great Strangers to the Office of a She-.^riff in thofe Days, and as this Pro->ceeding againft that Gentleman, may appear Novel to many Readers, give me Leave to obferve, from the Information I have met with on that Subject, that the Sheriffs of this County, were at that time Receivers of tire King’s Rents, Forfeitures, and Amercements, &c. and were looked upon as Officers of high Truft.
The next Office of Note, I find Sir William for his good Services advanced to, was Chamberlain of the City and County of Chefter, by Patent, bearing Date the firft of Edward IV.- and continued therein, to the tenth of Henry VII; (though Sir Peter Leicefter, thinks this Sir William, was of Hooton, bitt fpeaks doubtfully of it) faying, as he conceives, but I take it for granted, that Sir William Stanley, here fpoken of, was Brother to Thomas Earl of DERBY; for I find upon Search, that Sir William Stanley, of Hooton, his Contemporary, and one of the King’s Carvers, was by Patent of the twenty-fixth of February, in the fifth of Edward IV.
made Sheriff of Chefhire, for Life; and this appears to me, to have con-fufed Sir Peter, by the Affinity of the Name, and long continuance in Office, not rightly diftinguifhing the Men, nor the Offices t[iey feverally executed.
From hence < e come next to meet Sir William Stan ey, at Bofworth Field, where he found King Richard, and the Earl of Richmond, hotly engaged in Battle,'for the Crown of England, and the Victory ^ doubtful, until he with frefli Forces, gave the Honour of the Day to the Earl, and proclaimed him King, as above.
Soon-a ter this Victory, King Henry .took his Journey to London, w tere he was met and welcomed by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and many other principal Citizens, by whom being attended, he went in great State to St. Paul’s Church, and there made an Offering of three Standards.
The Service of the Church being over, he went to the Biffiop’s Palace; from whence after fome time, he went by- Water to Weftminfter, and there with great Solemnity was anointed anddeclared King, by the Stile and Title of Henry VII. and remained in pro-foundPeace forfome time;butthefeHa-cyon Days were not of long duration.
For one Lambert Simnel, by the Perfuafion and Encouragement of his School-mafter, Richard Simon, aPrieft, fet up a Title to the Crown againft King Henry, .taking upon him and pretending to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, eldeft Son of King Edward IV. and lately efcaped out of the Tower of London, where he had been im-prifoned.
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He gained great Credit with many of the Nobility and Gently affected to the Houfe of York, who were ready to take his Part, and even fainted him King.
But efpecially the Earl of Lincoln, and the Lord Lovell, with many others, raifed an Army in his Favour, which in a little Time was defeated at Stoke, near Newark, by George, Lord Strange, and others, as before.
Young Lambert and his Tutor, Simon the Prieft, were taken Prifoners, but both their Lives {pared, Lambert, becaufe but a Child, and Simon, be-caufe a Prieft, but kept Prifoner for his , Life; Lambert was taken into the King’s Kitchen to turn the Spit, in his turn of ’Fortune, and at laft made one of the King’s Falconers. This Impofter, and his. Adherents, being thus defeated, King Henry remained in Peace to the Year 1493.
When the Dutchefs of Burgundy, Sifter, to King Edward IV. and an inveterate Enemy to King Henry, arid the Houfe of Lancafter, difturbed his Peace, by fetting up one Perkin War-beck, to perfonate and take upon him to be Richard, the younger Son of Edward IV.
This Perkin made a great Noife in the World, and flood longer, as being better fupported, and more powerful than Simnel, having been fent by the Dutchefs to Portugal, and from thence to Ireland, and thence to the Court of France, where he was entertained as a Prince, and had a Guard ailigned him. But at lad returning to the Dutchefs of Burgundy, his pretended Aunt, who received him as fuch, and profef-
fed openly that he was her true Nephew, and not only affigned him a Guard of thirty Perfons, but clothed them in murrey and blue, and called him the White Rofe of England, which" inSS time proved his overthrow, and ’tis probable gave that future Diftinc-tion ufed betwixt the white and red Rofe, the former being made life in Favour of a fpurious Pretender;, for upon report thereof, many in England reforted to him, and amongftthe reft Sir Robert Clifford (an old Acquaintance of Sir William Stanley’s) was- fent by the Party to acquaint - the Dutchefs ^^ with the great Refpedt the People of England had for Perkin; and upon Sight and Conference with him, Sir1 Robert wrote to his Friends in Eng* land, that he knew him to be the 1 true Son of King Edward IV,
Upon this, King Henry, agreeable to his ufual Prudence, fent Spies into Flanders, to difeover the Confpirators, and their whole Defign; and they having the ill Luck to be known by their Country men there, were all taken and put to Death, except Sir Robert Clifford, who made his Efcape ; and returning to England, fubmitted him-, felf to the King’s Mercy; hoping, from the Secrets he knew, and the Difcovery lie was able to make of the open and private Abettors of that Confpiracy, to merit the King’s Pardom and Favour.
And, the better to ingratiate him-feff, he accufed his-pold Friend Sir William Stanley; then tord Chamber-lain ; affirming, that in a Conference betwixt them, touching*.the pretended Son of Edward IV, Sir William Ihould
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fay, “’That if he certainly knew the *■ young Man called Perkin,- to be “ really -the Son of Edward IV. he “ would never draw his Sword, or “ '.bear Arms agaiuft him.”
Thefe Words being confidered of by tire Judges, fecmed to them to exprefs a very fickle Loyally to King Henry, (for who could tell how foon die might be perfuaded that he did know it) befides that, the uttering of fuch an Expreflion, was in itfclf, upon the Matter found to be difloyal to the. King j and withal (truck upon a String which always founded harfh in that King’s Ears, as preferring the Title of York to that of Lancafter; and this appears to .me to fit heavieu with the King: But be that as it will,
^j..- Sir William was hereupon arraigned, ■ 'brought to the Bar, and tried; and, W whether trufting to the greatnefs of his Service, the King’s Favour, or his. Own Innocency, or the lightnefs of his Crime, his pleading was very flerider, 'lenying little of what he was charged with, and thereby, as it were, confef-fing guilty, was adjudged to die.
And accordingly on the fixteenth Day of February 1495, he was brought-to Tower Hill, in London, and there beheaded ; and all his Eftate real and perfonal, (which was very great) was confifcated to the King: And there are not wanting.fome who think this was as flrong a Motive to his Death, as any thing he ever faid or did ; Avarice being on ■ many Occafions too vi-fible in this King’s Adminiftratiqn, and to have had a large ihare in the Pro-fecution of the aforefaid Gentleman. .. < For there were found in his Callie
of Holt, in .the.County of Flint; 3n Wales, forty thoufand Marks of Money. befides Plate, Jewels, Houfhold-Goods, and flock of Cattle of great Vallie; and alfo a Yearly Income of old Rents on Land of -3000!. per Annum. Ry Joyce, his Wife, Daughter of Edward Lord Powis9 he had Iflue one Son, named Willia ", of whom more hereafter; alfo O' 4 .Daughter, named Jane, who. married hit John Warburton, 'Of Arles, in the- County of Ghefter, one of the Knights of the Body to King Henry VIL 4 ■ c
This was that great Sir William Stanley; who of his own Power and Intereft, railed and brought three th 011-fand Horfe and Foot to the refeue of that Prince; when his Life, Honour, and hopes of a Throne were all in vi-fible Danger; gave him Victory, and crowned him King in the Field.
How could it then enter into his Head or Heart to put him to. Death, who had done for him all that Mortality could poflibly do, faved his Life, vanquiihed .his Enemies., and given him a Crown.; and all his Crime founded upon a doubtful and unguarded Expreflion, reported by a Treacherous Friend, a Rebel, and a Traitor to his King, by his own Confeflion, and to fave his own Life, and therefore ihould have been .the lefs regarded, where the Duty, Loyalty, and moft worthy Actions of -fo deferving a Subject were in Competition with it.:
From this unhappy Event, Mankind may learn how cautious, they ought to be in opening their Mind.too freely, even to the moft intimate Friend, where the Difcovery may either touch/
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or concern their Life, Reputation, Liberty, Intereft, or peace of Mind, when he fliall think fit to difclofe-and aggravate their moft innocent Words and Meanings; by a malicious and invidious Confirmation.
But it may be faid it was not* the Earl of Richmond that did this, but the King of England; and I think tis a Maxim, that the King in many Cafes is not at Liberty to mew Mercy as a private Perfon may.
But be that as it will, beheaded he was, and from the ninacle of Honour jefty’s Concern and Uneafmefs injhis on a hidden brought fo the Block: Point, to wit, as knowing the very great Power of his Brother the Earl of
A fhocking Thought! that nothing lefs than lofs of Life could attone for Words; without Addon, or even evil Meaning, without a forced Conftruc-tion. And I think on this Occafion I may obferve with a learned Poet, That our God anti Soldier are alike adored, juft at the brink' of Danger; and the Danger over, they are often both alike requited; our God is forgotten, and our Soldier flighted. Lofs of Favour, Exile from Court, and all public Employments might have been born with, but Death gave a fliort period to alibis Glory and moft renowned Performances for the public Good, and the Service of his King and Country.
And I think ’tis allowed by the beft Philofophers, that Death is the fame thing to a Coward as to the valiant Man, but with this remarkable difference in point, of Honour and ever-lafting Fame, .that the brave and gallant Man falls in Vindication of his Prince,: Religion, Laws, Liberties, and Country; and the Scoundrel abandons
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all in fear of lofing a Life that lie neither cleferves, nor can fave.
However, in deference to Royal Authority, give me Leave to obferve, what has been offered in Mitigation of his Majefty’s Proceedings in this extraordinary and critical Cafe, wherein it is faid he underwent many ftrug-gles and conflicts of Mind, forbearing fix Weeks after the Accufation. before Sir William was brought to Trial.
But it is probable other fubftantial
Reafons might be affigned for his Ma-
Derby, who had married his Mother, and had been eminently ferviceable to him, and who on this melancholy Occafion, had retired to his Country. Seat, and that the Grief and Affliction that, noble Perfon muft naturally lie under* for the untimely Lofs of fo worthy and near a Relation, (and fecmingly on fo flight , an Occafion) might produce a Refentment prejudicial to his own Safety and peaceable Pofleffion; and the King’s future Conduct feems to confirm the aforefaid Reafons.
For his Majefty appearing defirous to juftify himfelf to the World, and efpecially to this great Lord, his Brother, upon what Ground, and for what Reafons, he had taken off fo valuable and eminent a Perfon as Sir William Stanley, and-to keep well with the faid Earl, refolved the enfuing Summer to pay him and his Mother a Vifit, at then- Seat of Latham, in Lancafibire.
. Of which, Lord Derby being apprized, made fuitable Preparation for J the
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the Reception and better Accommodation of his Majefty and his Retinue, by enlarging his Houfe at Knowfley, by the Stone Building, and repairing and beautifying the other Part, and alfo that of Latham.
And confide ring that there was no certain or conftant PafTage over the River Mercey, to old Warrington, but by Latchford, or Orford, and thoie very precarious, as well as dangerous; his Lordfhip determined' to, build a Bridge over that River, that his_ Majefty might purfue his Progrefs without Stop or Hazard...; ’ J
To effect which, he purchafed a Road, from the crofs Ways .leading from Sankey and Winwick, (now called Market-Gate) to die River,, through the Field, now called Bridge-Street; and at the^Bottom thereof, ereited a fpacious Stone Bridge, and threw up a Cauie-way crofs theMarfhes, to the rifing Ground on the Chefhire Side, and kept the fame in Repair all his Life, and his Succeffors after him, to the Time of William, Earl of Derby, Brother and SucccfTor to Earl Ferdinand, who refufed to repair or amend the fame; of which more hereafter.
In the Interim the King arrived at Knowfley, on or about the Twentyfourth of June 1495, and from thence went to Latham, where having fpent about a Month with his Mother and Father-in-Lawy he returned to London, well fatisfied with his'Reception'.
Having now 'gone through what I had to obferve of this noble Lord,.and his Brother Sir William Stanley, with regard to the Time of the public TranfaZtion before related, I fhall
now, as promifed, return to Thomas, Lord' Strange, deleft Son of George, Grandfon and SucceiTor to the above
Earl.
This noble Lord fucceededhis Grandfather in the Earldom of Derby, and had his Livery of all. the Lands his Father died feized of, the Ninth of July; and Nineteenth of Henry VIL and alfo of the Ifle of Man.
In the Twenty-third of Henry VIL on a Treaty of Marriage between the Lady Mary, third Daughter to Henry VIL and the Prince of Spain, the King binds himfelf to Maxipiliah the ^m- . peror, for fhe, Performance thereof,, when they fhould comp to Age in 250,000 Crowns, and-that Heniy, Prince of Wales, fhould do the fame; alfo Thomas, Ear! of Derby, arid other Nobles were bound” in 50,000 Crowns for the like Performance.
In the 'Fifth of -Henry VIII. he attended that King in his Expedition to-France, in which they won Therwain, andTournay, and obtained a glorious Victory.	1
In the Twelfth’of Henry VIII. bn the Emperor’s coming to England,, and the King meeting him at Dover, this Earl of Derby rode betwixt that Monarch and the King, from thence to Canterbury, bearing by the King’s Command, the Sword of1 State.
The Year after he was one of the Peers that fat oh the Trial of the Duke of Buckingham, and. was in molt high Efteem in all the’Country,’ & well as at Court, where he_ was, not only beloved, but admired/."
‘ With regard to the’ Tile of Mahr which I promifed to take Notice of in this
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this Lord’s Life, he wifely confidefed, that it was given tc his Ancestors by King Henry IV, the Chief of the Houle of Lancaster, to whom,.and to whofe ^ofterity his Family h~d been fteady Friends and Adherents f but now that Edward IV. Chief of the Houfe of York, and hisyPnfferlty, were come to the Throne, .it could be no lefs than the higheft Prudence, as well as Policy, tq drop a Title Which might one Timetor other occafioij JeHoiny and Miffruft, between him And his'Prince, underwho^i he muft claim char Title;
tei? for her Marriage Pihrion ic661. 13 s. /d. and to his well-beloved Bro-the" James Stanley, Efq; an Annuity or annual Rent of Fifty Pounds by the Year, for his Life’, payable out of his Manor or Lordihip of Bydfton, in die County of Chefter. r ‘
And Whereas his Uncled Siy Edward Stanley,'Knight, Lord Monfeagle enjoyed of his Gift and Gram- he Caf-tle and Demefnes of Hornby, and others Manors,'’for the fpceial Love, Truft; andKindnefs he then found and fur pofed he had for him, and1 which Euates. he held bnceijtiin Conditions'; he now wills, that /Tor'the"great Uh-kindnefs he has finceifqund;. anddoes Hill find in his faiil Uncle, and for that he has not obierved or performed the faid1 Conditions, he ihould have none of tlje Rente and Profits thereof.
therefore to avoid;.all Difputes/ and even Fufpicioaofiin.clining to favour One Houfe there Ethan the other, be contented himfelr to make ufe of no Other Tide than, Lord of Man and the Ifles, wluchohrs Succefibrs have con tinhed ever finefe /	. j .	^^ ^ Li(» x,.^^ «.^« . - u^ ..x^^x
This noble Lord gave up his Life but that the? faid? Gifts’ Grants^ &:c the Twenty-fourth of May following, be null and void.
the Thirteenth of Henry VIII. at Col-ham, in the County of Middlefex, and was buried in thei Mdnafery of Sion, ;,n that County, accoicun / to his \Vill r by which he. ordered his~Bqdy to be juried in the Priory of Burfcough; in the County of Lancafter, if,ue rrn pened to die hi that County; > at If he died1 elfewhere, then to be buried in the laid. Monastery of Sion, or in tire College, of Ai hcrugg, ini the County of Bucks,, as hisTKerutois ihould think fir; and thathisBody ihculdbe buried according to his Honour, but without Tou pox Exccfc c , '
T Anci further, Lyithe faid Will it appears,. that he had four Thouiand Marks with his Lady on their Marriage, and lie bequeaths* to his Daugh-
And he further wills and appoints tha his Lieutenant of the Ele of Man, and other his Ouicers' and Servants
there, fliall be continued till his Heir comes of Age ; and chat they have tlie Wages they then had, for the Term of their Lives, and the fa id Wages to he doubled'to them ill ais faid Heir come of Age.
And he confitures for<h‘5 Executors,. his truily Friends SfeHugh Hef-keth, Biihop of Man, Sir Henry Hal-fal, Steward of his Ho all old, Sir Hen-, ry Chernik a, £lerkv Dean of his Cha? pel, Yhomas Hefketh,Efq;.^ir Edward MbiyiitUx,; Clerk,’ and Parfon. of Seph-tcn. Richard Heiketh Richard Snede, Gentlemen, and Richard Halfal^Cferk, and Parfdn of Halfah but none of Ga1	’	the nr
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The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
them fhall give any Releafe or Acquit-tante" without the Confent and Agree-nient of them all.
He appoints for Supervifors of his
Will Thomas, Lord Cardinal, Arch- ----------,--------, „
bifhop , of York, and Chancellor of to obferve of them. England, Hugh, Bifhop of Exeter, * OF Tamps Stan If Geoffrey, Bifhop of Chefter, John Vef-fey, Clerk, Dean of the molt Honourable Chapel, and Thomas Lark, Par fon of Winwick.
By Ann, his Wife, Daughter of Edward, Lord Haftings, Sifter to George,

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the firft Earl of Huntingdon of that Name, he had IfTue three Sons; to wit, George and Henry, who died young, and Edward, his Succeflbr, then in the fifteenth Year of his Age; alio one only Daughter, who after nis Death married Robert Ratcliffe, Earl of Saflex.
Englifh Army, and was attacked by the Earls of Lenox and Arg vie, both which were flain in the Field, with the King of Scots himfelf; for,, by his high Accomplifhments in the Art of War^ and. by the Valour of his Archers', heforced the Scots to defeend the As this noble Lord-hath in his Will Hill their ftrong Hold, which caufed taken Notice of Uis Brother, James them to open their Ranks, by which
Stanley, Efq; and of his Uncle, Sir Edward Stanley, Lord Monteagle, it may not be improper, in this Place, and during the Minority of the young Lord, his Son, to relate what we have
* Of James Stanley, his Brother, fecond Son of George, Lord Strange; I meet with little remarked of him, but that he had a Son ftiled Sir George Stanley, Marfhal of Ireland,; but by whom is.not faid; but I conceive him to be Anceftor to. the Stanleys of Ireland.-
And.with regard to Sir Edward Stanley, his Uncle, and fifth Son of Thomas, the firft Earl of Derby, this Gen7 tieman’s active Childhood and martial
Spirit, brought him early to King Henry VIII’s Notice and Company; and his active Manhood to his Service,
the Camp was his School, and his. Learning was a Pike and Sword. His Majefty’s Greeting to him wherever they met was, “ Ho! my Soldier.”
Honour floated in his Veins, and Valour danced in his Spirits ; but no where more vifibly, nor with greater Courage, Luftre, and Magnanimity, than at the Battle of Flodden Field, in Scotland, the fifth of Henry VIII. where he commanded the Rear of the
* Barlow';, Hilt.
Houfe of S T A N L E
Y, from the Conqueft.	q^
they ■were put into fuch Diforder as* gave the nrft hopes to that Day’s' Victory, which waS greatly owing to the Valour and good Conduct of the brave General, Sir Edward Stanley, as hereafter.
The King of Scotland flain in this Battle !was that King that married Margaret, the eldeft Sifter to King Henry VIII; from whom defcended King James I. of England. There were flain in the Battle, befides the King, three Biihops,' two Abbots, twelve "Earls; arid feventeen Lords; with a very great Number of Knights and Gentlemen, amounting to about eight) thoufand, and near as many taken Prifoiletsi
Upon -this fignal and moft complete* Victory, obtained by the fuperior Skill and Conduct of the Heroic Captain Stanley, he was highly advanced in the King’s Favour, and foon after, as high in the.'World, as by the following gratulatory Letter’from the King: to him upon the aforefaid Victory; to wit.
Right Trufty and Well-beloved,
■ -' 1' ■ ‘ ^ -	'	. ,' -	.	4 it! J t a	. .}
“	greet you well, arid un->
“ W derftand by the Report of “ our right trtifty Coufin and Coun-“ cellor the Duke of Norfolk, what' “ acceptable Service you amongft “ others did us by your valiant To- ? “ wardnefs in the Affiftance of our J “ faid Coufin, againft our Enemy' the ' “ King of Scots; and, how courage^: “ oufly you, as a very hearty loving r “ Servant, acquitted yourfel for the “ Overthrow of the faid late King,
“ arid diftrefling of his Malice and
Power, to our great Honour, and “ the advancing or your no little Fame “ and Praife, for which we have good “ Caufe to favour and thank you, and “ fo we full heartily ■ o; and allured “ you may be, that We fhall in fuch “ effectual wife remember your faid “ Service in any your reafonable Pur-“ fuits, as you mail have Caufe to-S “ think the fame right well employed, “ to our Comfort and Weal hereafter. “ Given: under our Signe t, at our Caf-’■ tie at Windfor, the feventeenth Day “ of November, and fifth Year of our “ Reign.”
Sir William Molyneux, of Sephton, had alfo the like gratulatory Letter,, on the fame agreeable Occaffon, for his eminent Services therein |
This moft Valiant and worthy Gentleman appeared like the North-Star in it’s Glory; he was a Man of great command in Lancashire,' the Image of whofe Mind was as peculiar as the beautiful Portrait of his Body, nobly forgiving his Enemies, if reconcilable ; and refufing ignobly to be revenged of them? if obftinate. This noble Nature, advanced by Iris Heroic Education,) made him acceptable at Court, as well as in the? Country, where his Hofpitality was renowned, his Equity and Prudence beldved, and his Intefeft large and commanding :; In. him was feen the Idea of the, true Englifh Gentleman; in Favour ate Court, in Repute, in,the CoXmtry.,;’at once loved and feared. His ufual faying was, “ That he never faw Fear* “ but in the Backs of his Enemies p”
mJ
q6	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
in a Word, he lived in all Capacities a public Good, and died a common Lofs.
And here Juftice as well as refpeCt to the Ancient and Worthy Houfe of Norris, of Speke, calls upon me to acquaint the Reader with the Bravery of Sir Edward Norris, Son of Sir Wil-liam Norris; who was flain at the Battle of Muflebarrow, in the Time of Henry VII. This Valiant and Heroic Gentleman, Sir Edward Norris, commanded £ Body, of. tile Army under General Stanley,'Kat; Flodden Field, where he behaved* With lb much Courage and good Conduct, .that he was honoured by the King hrs' Matter, with the. like congratulatory Letter Above-mentioned^ for his good Service in the Vifipryic^ token whereof lie brouglit from the deceaf- ■ ed King of Spot's, Palace, all or mott of his princely Library, many Books of which are now at Speke, particularly four large-Folios,. laid to contain the Records and Laws of Scotland at that Time, and worthy the Perufal of the learned and judicious Reader: And he alfo brought from the faid Palace, the Wainfcot of the King’s Hall, and and put it tip in his own Hall at Speke ; wherein are feenall the Orders of Architecture, as Tufcan, Dorick, lonick, Corinthian, andGompofite/and round the Top of it this Inscription, “ Sleep not till‘thou haft well confidered how thou haft fpent the Day patty if thou hall well done/thank Godfnr’t;- iff otherwife, repent you.
■’Thus*having Tn the fulleft Manner Lam able fet forth the eminent and renowned Behaviour- of the martial-S6ns of the two neighbouring and
worthy Houfes of Molyneux; and Norris, I cannot omft informing my Rear der that?they came. into England.to-/ gether with William, Duke of Normandy, dignified with the Honour of Knighthood, and have hitherto made ufeful and leading Members of the State, in. their feveral Stations of Life.
But am grieved now to tell him; that, " as .they came in together, «they are in Appearance likely to depart together, under the common Change and Mutability if all Earthly Beings, the Name of one Family, being extinct* and the other in vifible Danger: of becoming fo, in the fame Ages-, ikL o^ i And with regard to .thefe Gentlemen’s Leader and chief Commander, the brave Sir Edward Stanley the King keeping his Whitfuntide the Year ep-fuing, at Eltham tin Kentl and Sir Edward being there, his Majefty commanded, that for his valiant Adis .a-gainft the Scots,, where he won • the Hill, relieved the Englilh from theirs Diftrefs, and vanquished all that op-pofed him; alfo, for that his Anceftprs bore the Eagle in their Creft, he fhould be proclaimed Lord Monteagle, which was accordingly then and there done; upon which he gave to the Officers of Arms five:Marks, befides the Accuf-tomediFees; and likewise to Garter, principal King of Arms, his Fee.
■ Whereupon rhe had ifpetial Summons to Parliament,; the- Fifth;.of February rhe fame Year, by the Tide pf Baron Stanley, Lord Monteagle. ^ :
-Twice did he and Sir.John Wallop-land with; only eight Hundred Men, in theHeart of France; and four TimesJ did he and Sir-Thomas Lovell fave
Calais;
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Calais; the firft Time by Intelligence, the fecond by Stratagem, the third by Valour1 and Refohition, and the fourth by Hardfhip, Patience, and Induftry.i
In the dangerous InfurredHon by Allie, and Captain Cobler, his Zeal for his Prince’s Service, and the Welfare of the State, was above fcruple, and his Army was with him before his Commiflion, for which .dangerous Piece of .Loyalty, he allied Pardon, and
received-Thanks. .. Bt<
Two Things he did towards "defeat ing the Rebels, whofe Skill in Arms, exceeded his1 Followers, as much as his’ Policy did their Leaders; firft he cut off their Provifions, and next he ftiiTed up, Jcaloufy and Sedition a-mongft them, which gave, his Majefty Time, by pretended Treaties to drawoff" the moft eminent of the Faction, and to confound the refh “ ■;
This molt martial and heroic,’Captain, (Soldier like) lived for fome Time in this ftrange Opinion, that the Soul of Man was like the winding up of a Watch, that when the Spring was run down the Man died, and the Soul determined.
But of tlris Enthufiaftic^Hcathenilh, and Brutilh Notion he was convicted by being informed, that the Soul of Man was a Ray of Divinity, clothed with Flefh, and that what was Divine,, could never die; but, uporrtheDiffo-lutionof the Body, or unfitnefs for its; Continuance therein, the Soul of Man returned to the Almighty Being, who firft gave jt; according to the Doctrine of Mofes; Gen. c. 2, v. 7. “" And the 44 Lord God formed Man of the Dull " of the Earth, and breathed into his
“ Noftrils the Bfeath of Life, and Man “ became a living Soul.” . ;7; ■
Convinced of this Divine Truth, he afterwards lived and died in the. Fear and Love of God, and in the Belief and Precepts; of Iris Redeemer the holy Jefus.
This noble. Lord married to his Lady one of the Daughters of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.,, by his fe-
cofid Wife,, a Daughter of Sir Anthony Brown, Governor of Calais,, and by her had Iffue a Son, named,Thomas, who- was fome Time, Bifliop of Man, by the Title of Thomas Stanley, Son of Edward the firft Lord Monteagle; he fat as Bifliop of that Iffand to the Time of his Father’s Death, and then becoming Lord Monteagle, he refigned. that Bilhoprick. ‘
' This Thomas,-Lord Monteagle, married to his Lady Ann, the Daughter! of Sir John Spencer, of Ahhrop^in the County of Northampton, and by her had Iflue a Son,, named William.’
. William
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The Hiftofy of the Ancient and Honourable
7
William his Son, and Grandfon to Edward, was the laft Male j; 'ue of this noble Family. 1 He left ax his ■ Death an only Daughter and Chi d, named Elizabeth, but by whom, Hif-tory is iilent; but Record, informs us, that ilie married to Edward parker, Lord Morley, and by him had Iflue a Son, named William.
This William was by King James I. created Lord Monteagle, by the Title of Lord Morley and Monteagle; and muft be allowed by us, and all P f • xerity, to have been born for the good of the whole Kingdom: - For by an ob-fcure Letter Lent to him, and by him produced to .the King and Council, in the very Nick of Time, a Difcovery was made of the moft defeftable Trea-fon that Malice arid Wickednefs could poflibly contrive or project.
For it being known that the King was .to come to the Houfe of Peers, to paft fome Bills, this dark and ten?. matical Letter infinuated, that the King and the whole Houfe were to be deftroyed in a Moment.
For on clofe Search round the Houfe of Lords, there was difeovered an unknown Cellar under it, wherein was lodged a _ large Quantity of Gunpowder, with a Perfon ready (with a Candle in a dark Lanthorri) to fet Fire to the Train, upon a Signal given him. Thus, by the Laid Letter, the good Providence of God, and the Caution taken, was prevented the Deftruftion of the King, and the Flower of all the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom, when juft upon the very Brink of Ruin.
Haying here finifhed the Remarks
we propofed, let us return to Edward, the young Son of Thomas, the fc-cond Earl of. Derby, whom his Father fuppofed he had left under the Care and Ward of the moft hopeful and pfomifing Truftees, being ho lefs than nine Ecclefiaftics, and four Lay-Gentlemen, by Which he judged fufficient Security was provided for his Sori’s Right, and the Prefervation of the im-menfe Eftate he had left him.
But fuch is the Pride, Avarice, and Depravity of human Nature, that the greateft Caution Mankind can poflibly take, oftentimes prove, too’ Render to procure Juftice and Equity, when private Intereft and Advantage come in Competition with them: An Inftance o£ which, will appear in the.Cafe before us.
For no fooner was the faid noble Lord laid at reft, but the moft dignified of his Choice (whom the World might juftly have expected the moft confummate Juftice and Rectitude from) immediately made himfelf Friend of the Mammon of Unrighte-oufnefs; and inftead of fulfilling the Truft repofed in him, took Care to di- * veft his young Pupil of his juft Right, by fecuring to himfelf f^yera! large Manors in the County of Lincoln, and elfewhere, which the Earl his Father had held from the Crown, by Leafe for Life, which expiring, on his Death, the good and pious Cardinal wifely took the Opportunity of his Ward’s Minority to procure Grants thereof to himfelf; which brings to my Mind an old Maxim in the Oeconomy of Life, to wit, “ He that trufteth to a Lord for “ his Honour, and to a Prieft for his
“ Charity
Houfe of ST AN’LEY from the Conqueft.-	49
0 Charity, is in Danger of being de-0 ceivedby the firft, and ftarved by the “ latter” The Verity whereof the noble Lord before-mentioned had an .ample. Specimen of, in Loth the Cha-, .rasters, in the Perlon of Cardinal 'Woolley, ArchbiiKqp of- York.; and Lord Chancellor of England, and his moft worthy Truftee.
~ In the Nineteenth of Henry VIII. this young Lord being then of Age, Was one of the principal Perlons appointed to attend tire fame Cardinal Woolfey, in that remarkable Embafly to Francis, King of France, then at A-miens, touching the making a War in Italy,* to fet Pope Clement VIL at Liberty, at that Time aPrifoner to the Duke of Bourbon, upon his facking ■of Rome.
And in theTwenty-fecond of Henry VVL having then Livery of his Lands, was one of thole noble Peers that fub-fcribed that memorable Letter or De-^ claration to the fame Pope Clement VII. representing, That having for a • long Time expected his Anfwer concerning the King’s Marriage, they were obliged to repeat their Requeft, although the Juftice of the Caufe, and the Approbation of the learned.of the molt celebrated Universities in Europe, were fufficient, without any Intreaties ,to prevail on his Holinefs to confirm the Sentence, of the Divorce of Queen Catharine, which King Henry then defired.
And if he fliould refufe, his Supremacy in. England would Be in great Danger, and that they could make no other Conftrudtion of it but that they
Numb, 4.	.	' H
were left tp feek their Remedy elfe-where^
And in the Twenty-fourth of Henry VIII. he waited on that King at his Interview with the French King at Bo-logne; and in the fame Year, on the Coronation of Queen Ann Bullen, he in his own Barge attended her from Greenwich, on 'which Occafion be with the Marquis of Dorfet, were made Knights of the Bath, and after the Ceremony was over he was Cupbearer to that Queen.
In theTwenty-eighth of Henry VIII, on the Infurreclion of the Northern MenjCalled thePilgrimage of Grace, the King directed .his Letters to this Earl, to raife what Forces he could, pro-mifing therein to repay all his Charges; and, as Mr. Hollingfliead obferves., by the faithful Diligence of the Earl of Derby, with the Forces of Lanca-fhire and Chelhire, they were kept back and brought to Peace and Quiet, though they were a very great Num-out of Cumberland, Weftmoreland, and the North Parts of Lancashire.
The Thirty-third of that King he marched into Scotland with the Duke of Norfolk, with an Army of twenty Thoufand Men,’ where- meeting .with little or no Refinance, they burned, fe-veral Towns and Villages, and fo re-turned .to England.
And in the Thirty-eighth of that King, when the High Admiral of France, accompanied by the Bifhop of bureaux, the Earl of Nantville, tire Earl of Villarsj and others,- came on a fplendid Embafiy to England, the Earl of Derby, by Hid; King's Com-’ vM-1, mand,
co	1'he Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
mand, received them at ' $ ckwall, and conducted them to his jeib , at Greenwich. And on the Death of King Henry, and •he Accellion of Prince Edward his Son, tv the Title of King Edward VI. the Earl of De by, and the Marquis of Dorfet, (afterwards Duke of Suffolk j were on the Twenty -Second of May’ll 547, elected Knights of the molt hoblt Order of. the Garter. And in the Fourth of King Edward VI. the Earl ol Derby was one of the Peers Party to the Articles of Peace, made by K trig Edward, with the Scots and French, wherein the Emperor was alfo included. And,
In the Sixth of thia King, he made an Exchange with his Majefty of his Houfe called Dcrby-Houfe; on St. Bennet s-Hiil, near Doctors-Commons, London, built by Thomas, the firft Earl of Derby, for certain Lands adjoining to his Park, at Knowfley, in the Couni y of Lancafter, of which he was Lieutenant during this King’s Reign.	'
After the above Exchange, he pur-chafed a Piece of Land, 1 1 Channon-Row, near Weftminfter, and thereon ere fled a new Houfe, and called it Derby Houfe, which oemg fmce fold by William, Earl of Derby, elder Brother to the late Earl James, is built into a Court called Derby-Court, and upon the Death of King Edward, .and Careen Mary’s Accellion to the Throne, , he was n the firft Year of that Queen,
* appointed by her, Lord. High-Steward of England, for the Day of her Majefty s Coronation, which was per-
* Sept. 29, ijjj. |
formed on the Fifth of October that Year, with great Solemnity, And'up on Advice of her Majefty s Appointment, he fet out from his Seat of Ls- t tham, ;n the County of Lancafter, to attend her Majefty, on the Eighteenth of Auguft, moft nobly attended,; having upwards of Eighty Efquires, all clad in Velvet, and twolfundr d and Eighteen Servants in Liveries; with whom he arrived at his new Houfe,. in Channon-Row, Weftminfter, in die •greateft Pomp and Magnificence.
In the Year ij^^he received Orders from the Queen and Council, to muf-ter what Forces hq could c aife to march again ft the Scots, then aBifteo by the French King, -which he readily complied with; and was one of the Noclemen that attended Philip, Prince of Spain, on his landing in England, to be married to Queen Mary, who before her Marriage, gave rhe Houfe on St. Bennet’s-Hi 1, London, called Der-. by-Houfe, and now in the Crown, by Virtue of the above Exchange, to Gilbert Dethick, then Garter and Principal King of Arms: Thomas Hanley Clarencieux, King of Arms *of the South Parts; 'William Harvey, alias Norroy, King of Arms of the North Parts; and the other Heralds, and Pur-iuivants of Arms, and to their Suc-■ ceifors, all the capital Mefiuage or
Houfe, called Derby-Houfe f^ with the Appurtenances, fituate in the .Pa-riJi of St. Bennet and St. Peter, d en being in the Tehure of Air Richard Sackville, Knight, and Parcel of the Lands of Edward,, Eari of Derby;;to * the
Now the Cojlegt.of Arms.

Router cl ST A N L E Y from the Conqueft,
the nd-, mat the faid icings, Heralds, pel fhc 'f be there .erected and a. mid Purfuivants of Arms, and their Tomb orepared for that Purpofe? a-SuccelTors, might dwell together, and greeable to liis Honour and Dignity, meet, confer and agree among them- .............. felvcs, for the! good Govern lent of their Faculty, and that their Records
be there erected and a.
which: hath eyer fince been the com-
might be more-fafely kept, &c; Dated the Eighteenth Day of July, in the Third year of Philip and Mary, 1555R Upon the above QueenMaiy’s Death, and Queen Elizabeth’s Accellion to rhe Throne although ihe knew rhe Earl pf Derby to have been one of the late
mon Repofitory of his Family and Succeflbrs the ancient Monaftry of Burfcough, where his Anceftors were laid, being totally demolished in the Di. olution of Abbies, and Monaftries, and departing this Life at Latham, on Friday the Twenty-fourth of October next following, his Body lay in State to the Fourth of December next, during which Time were made all necef-fary Preparations for his noble Princelike Funeral, as hereafter.
Queen’s Privy Council, yet fh? was fo well apprized and fatisiicd of his Juftice, Prudence and Loyalty, that fhe	,	______
appointed him one of her Privy Coun- In which. Interval,.' give me .Leave cil; and in the fir ft Tear of Her Reign;	'	■
gave him, and others of that Body, Commiflio^ to take particular Care that all Perlons mjoy: ii ; any Office or Place of Truft under to’ Majefty, fhould take the Oaths of Supremacy..
Likewlfe in the faid Firft Year of . ..x.^, xxxxx, x^ ^.ixj , that gracious Queen he had granted Daughters of Thomas Howard, Duke to him by Patent, the high Office of of; Norfolk, by whom he had Ifiue Cham ulain of Chefter, for fix Years; three Sons and four Daughters; to and the next Year was made one of wit, ■ Henry, h±s firft Son; Thomas her Ma;’fly’s moft Honourable Privy his fecond Son, and Edward, his third Council. *	Son, of all which in their Order.
to relate his Marriages’and Iflue, with his fumptuous and hofpitable Manner of Living, exceeding moil, if not all the Noblemen in England of the Time he lived in, and even fince.
This noble Earl had married three
Wives: firft, Dorothy
one of the.
three Sons and four Daughters; to
Bur about this l ime being aged, Ann, his firft Daughter, married weak, and infirm, he retired to' his Charles, Lord Stour ton, and he.dyin Seat of Latham, and there gave up ano leaving her a Widow, fire marrie his Life to chc Almighty. Authoi of “ ” ' his Being; and with humble Refignation, lubmitted himfelf to his Divine Will.
. By!his Willpbearing Date the Twenty-fourth of Augufi 157 2, he bequ bathed bus Body to be buried in the Parilla Church of Ormfkirk, in the County of Lancafter, and ordered thami Cha-
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Sir John Arundel, of Lambom, in the County of Cornwall. Elizabeth, his ■fecordDaughter, manned Henry, Lord -Morley. Mary/hi; J third- Daughter Edward, Lora Stall'd; arid,Jane, lus f urth Daughter^'Toward, Lord Dud-
To his fecond; Wife lib married Margaret, the Daughter; of Ellis Barlow; "genealogical. department
CH ’PCd GF JESt1 - Ci IRISf OF LATTER-DA > -INTS
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
of Barlow, in the County of Lancaf-ter, Efq; and by her had Illite one Son and two Daughters, to wit. George, who died youw ; and unmarried; Margaret, his eld'eft Daughter, married John Jermin, of Ruthbrook, in the County of Suffolk, Efq; and after his Deceafe Sir Nicholas Ponitz; and Catherine; his youngeft Daughter,, married Sir John Knivet.
To h s third Wife he married Mary the Daughter of Sir George Cotton, of Cumb’rmere, m the County of. Chefter, by whom he had no Iffue; but after his Deceafe, Mary, Sis Widow, married Henry, Earl of Kent.
Henry, b s eld ft Son, fucceeded lu n-in Honour and Eftate, of whom more hereafter. Sir-Thomas Stanley, pl feSohd Son, married Margaret, one of the Daughters and Coheir? of Sir George Vernon, of Hadden, in the Count} of Derby, by whom ire had Iflue a Son, named Edward, on which Occafion he made the following Settlement by Deed, bearing Date the Fourth of Elizabeth, Wherein it is declared That the feveral Manors and Lands lying in the Counties i f Warwick, Devon, and Oxford' alfo Dunham-MaTey, Eowden, Rungey, Hale, Eton, and Darfield, in the Count) of Chefter, now the Eftate of him die faid Edward, Earlof Derby, fhall ap pertain and belong to Su The has Stanley, his faid fecond Son for Life.
Remaindei as a Moiety to Lad} Margaret his Wife for Life; Remainder vf all to the faid Edward Stanley their Sen for Life ; Remainder in Sale-Male to Henty, the ;firft Son of iTm the faid Earl; Remainder to the Heirs
Male of the faid Sir Thomas Stanley; Remainder to the Heirs Male of the faid Edward Stanley, Sen! of the faid Sit Thomas,and Dame Margaret, Uis Lady.
This* Edward Stanley, the Son, became (iffter the Death of ris Father) Sir Edward Stanley, of Enfliam, ’in the County of Oxford, and Pofleflbr of all the faid Manors and Lands* by Virtue of the faid Settlement; of whom more hereafter in due Place™
But Arft proceed to Edward Stanley,' the third Son of the faid Earl: He was a Gentleman of the At my in the Service of Queen Elizabeth, under the 'Command of the brave Eari of -<e cefter, in Holland; where, at the Siege of Zulphen, he acquired great Reputation by a moft uncommon Action of Valour and undaunted Courage: In tire Attack of a Fort of the faid Town, a Spaniard brandifliing his Lance at 'him, he caught hold of it, and held To fail, that he was drawn up by it into the Fort; at which the Garfifon was fo int’midated, ffuppof ng all the Enemy were following him) that they fled, and left the Fort to him; for which hardy and valiant Action the Earl of Leicefter Knighted him, and gave him Forty Pounds in Hand, and a Yearly Penfion ,of rme Hundred Marks, payable in England, during his Life.
But fo it is. (as obferved by the Learned) That
■“ The Fortunate have whole Years, * “ And thofe they choofe;
4 But the Unfortunate have only Days,
“ And thofe they loie/
For
Houfe of S T A N L E Y?J from the Conqueft,
For who could imagine that fo gal- fent, with the Efquires and Ge’ntle-lant a Man, and fo well rewarded as men his Attendants, and the three he was,acould forget his Duty ,tp: his chief Officers of his lioufe, to wit, Sovereign, and take up Arms againft his Steward, Treasurer, and Comptrol-her in Favour of Spain, whither he was obliged to fly, and die in Exile and
Difgrace, either, not knowing or>forgetting the Spanifh proverb, which they verified in him' by Slight and Contempt; to wit, ^‘ That they love “ the Treafon, but hate the Traytor.”
Having here given the Reader the Marriages and Ifiue of the noble Peer aforefaid, and the Marriages and Ifliie of his Sons and Daughters, or other Difpofal of them, by Death or others wife, as before'; let us now attend his Funeral Obfequies, which were ordered with the great-eft Magnificence, a particular Defcription whereof I met with, in the Hands of anobfcure Per-fpn near us, and may prove acceptable to all, as well as entertaining to the Curious, a Tranfcript whereof I fhall give verbatim,
Firft, After his Deceafe, his. Body was wrapped in Searcloth, then in Lead, and then Chefted; the Chapel and the Horiie, with the tivo Courts were hung with black Cloth, garnifhed with Efcutcheons of his Arms, and on Saturday before the Funeral, the Body was brought into the Chapel, where it was covered with a Pall of black Velvet, garnifhed with Efcutcheons of Arms, and thereon was fet his Coat of Arms, Helmet and Creft, Sword and Target, ?ih^ about him was placed the Standard, great Banner, and fix Bannerets.
On Thurfday in the Morning before the Sermon, Henry, then Earl of Derby, his Son and Succeflor, being pre-
ler, ftanding about the Body, with white Staves in their Hands, Claren-cieux, King of Arms; with his rich Coat on, publifhed this Thankfgiving and Stile of the Defunct, in Form following
All Honour, Laud, and Praife, to Almighty God, who tlu*ough his Divine Goodnefs, hath taken out of this tranfitory World, to; his eternal Joy and Blifs, the. Right Honourable.Ed-w4rd,B«Earl of Derby,. Lord Stanley and Strange, and Lord of Man and the Ifles, ’Chamberlain of Chefter,. one of the Lords of her Majefty’s moft Honourable Privy Council, and Knight Companion.1 of the moft noble Order of the Garter,
Next, Of the. Manner and Order of the Hearfe, wherein’ the Body lay during the. Service,
At Ormfkirk in Lancashire,'two Miles , from Latham, was erected a ftately Hearfe, of five Principals, thirty Feet in Height, twelve Feet in Length, and nine Feet in Breadth, double railed, and garnifhed in the Order and Manner following.
Firft, The tbp Parts and the Rails covered with black Cloth, the Valance and. Principals covered with Velvet, to the Valance a Fringe of Silk, the Majefty being of Taifety, lined with Buckram, had thereon.moft qifipuflyi, wrought .In Gold and. Silver, th<^ At-chievement of his Arms, with. Helmer, Breft, Supporters and Motto, and four Buckram Efcutcheons in MetaL 1:	the

The Hilldry 6f the Ancient .and Honourable
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the Top gafnifhed with Eftutchebns and Jewels in Metal, fix. great Burial Paile Efcutcheons at the four Corners^ and at the uppernloft Part, the Valance Let forthwith finall Efcutcheons of his Arms, on Bu'ckraih in Metal, with the Garter; the Rails and Pbfts alfo gar-hifhed with.Efcutcheons, wfohght in Gold and Silver, on Paper Royal. 7
The Hearfe was placed between the , Choir and the. body of the Church, which Church Was alfo hung throughout with black Cloth; Efcutcheons alfo being fet thefeon, not- only hte own Arms within tile Gai ter, but alfo impaled with the- three CouhtcHes his Wives; and this being finiflied by Wcdnefday at .Night before the Burial, the Order of proceed nig'bit Tluirltlay, (being the Day appointed) was ’in Manner following:
Two Yeomen Conductors’' With black
Staves in th eirHands, to lead the Way. Morgan ap Roberts. Tho. Botel.
n-
Then all the poor. Men in Gowns, Two and Two, to the Number of one Hundred,
III.
Theii the Choir and Singing-Men, to the Number of Forty, in their Sur-Plices- IV
An Efquire beanng the Standard, with his Hood on his Head, and Horfe trapped to the Ground, garniihed With aShafffohbf his. Arms within the Garter on his iFdfoheacl, and four Efcutcheons of Buckram Metal, on each - Side two.
Peter Stanley.
Then theDefun&’sGendeinen,mounted on comely Geldings, in their Gowns, and Hoods’ on their Shoulders, to the Number <of Eighty. *
'	VI.
Then the Defunft's two Secretaries riding together, as the other Gentle.-meh afore.	o ■
Gilbert Moretbn. Gabriel. Mafbn.
VII.
Then the Knights and Efquires in like Order, Two \and TWo,r in Number
■•■’Fifty;.'. > ■ ‘ “'^^- t;J..bn5
VIII.	:
Then the Defunct’s twoChaplains, with bloods on their Shoulders, according to'their Degrees.
Batchelor of Divinity. Mailer of Arts.” ^ly^iX.
The Preacher, being the Dean of Chefter, his Horii trapped, and a Doctor’s Hood on his Shoulders^
Doctor Longworth.
X.
Then the Defunfts three chief Officers of his Houihold, fo wit; the Steward, Treafurer, and Comptroller, with white Staves -in their Hands,, and Hoods on their Shoulders, and their Horfes trapped.
VVilliarfi Malley. Sir: Richard Sherborne. Henry Stanley.
Then an Efquirc, bearing the great Banner of his Arms, with his Hood on his Head, and his Korfe trapped and garniihedWith Efcutcheons, as before.
Edward Norris.
;7;'7 XII:
A Herald of Arms, with-his Hood on his
Houle of STANLEY, .from the Conqueft.
his Head, his Horfe trapped as a-forefaid, wearing theDefundbs Coat ^ of Arms of Damafk, and bearing
his Helmet of Steel, Panne! guilt, with Maiitles of? black Velvet, the Knots guilt, • and on a Wreath or Torce of his Colours, flood his Creft, cufioufly carved, painted, and wrought’ in Gold and Silver.
Lancaftef Herald;
XIII.
Then a King of Arms, with his Hood on Iris Head, wear ing his Goar of
• Arms, richly embroidered with the ri Arms of England, his Horfe trapped and garnifhed as aforefaid, bearing the Shield of Arms of the Defundi within thei Garter, and * thereon a Coronet,.
Norroy King of Arms.
'	. 'XIV. d o ■ '
Then another King of Arms, riding in hkfe "Order, bearing the Defunct’s Sword, with the Pummel upwards, the Hilt and- Chape guilt, with a Scabbard of Velvet.
Clarencieux.
XV.
After 'them another King of. Arms, ’ riding in like Order, bearinganother of the Defunct’s Coat of Arms, being, wrought as before-mentioned.
Garter, George Leigh, Efqr.
1	’	- XVI. -
Then on the left Side of him rode a Gentleman Ulher, with a white Rod in his Hand, his Horfe trapped, and his Hood on his Head.
Edwatd Sc afebrick. ‘ XVII.
Then the Chariot .wherein the Body P lay was covered.with black Velvet,
garnifhed with Efcutcheons, drawn . by four Horfes, trapped with black, and on each Horfe was placed four , Efcutcheons, and a Shgffron of his ; Arms, and qn gacJiHorfe fat a Page, ip a, black Coat, and a Hood on his Head; arid on the fore Seat of the Chariot fat a Gentleman Ufher, in his Gown, and his Hood on his Head, and a white Rod in his Hand; and next about the Body, it being in the faid Chariot, rode four Ef-quir.OQ, being A irritants to the Body,, their Hoods on their Heads, and.
. Horfes trapped to the Ground.
Robert Baxter, R. Bradfhaw Robert Dalton; John Prefton.
XVIII.
Andon the outride of them, about the , faid Chariot, fix other Efquires, their Hoods on their Heads, and their ' Horfes trapped, each of them bear-- ing a Banneret, not only of the De-
fundfs Arms, but alfo the Arms of fuch noble Houfes whereof he was > defeended, viz. the Arms of Tho-
.mas, the firft Earl of Derby of that Name, Lord Stanley and of Man, impaled with the: Arms of Eleanor his Wife, Daughter of Richard Nevill, Earl of Salilbury, and Sifter to Richard .Nevill, Eajl of Warwick and Salilbury.
XIX. -
The fecond Banneret was of George, Lord Stanley and Strange, the Son and Heir of the faid Thomas, im-pal'ed. with the Arms: of Jane his Wife, Daughter andHei’pefs of John,. Lord Strange, of Knockings - .
XX.
And the third Banneret was of the Arma
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
’W
Arms’of Thomas, the fecond Earl of Derby of that Nafne, Lord Stanley arid Strange, and of Man, impaled ■with the Arms of Anne his Wife, Daughter of Edward, Lord Haftings, and Sifter to George Haftings, the firft Earl of Huntingdon; of that Name.
XXI.
The fourth Banneret was the Arms of the Defund, impaled with the Arms of Dorothy his firft Wife, and Daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surry, and Earl Marshal of England, Lord Mowbray, Seagrave, and Bruce.	Y
XXII.
On the fifth Banneret the Defunds Arms, impaled with the. Arms of Margaret Lis fecond Wife, Daughter of Ellis Barlow, of Barlow, Efq;
XXIII.
And' on tire fixth Banneret, the Defund’s Ai ms impaled, with the Arms of Mary his third Wife, Daughter of Sir George Cotton, Knight, ViceChamberlain to King Edward VL
XXIV.
Next after tlie Chariot, proceeded the chief Mourner -in the Mouming-
* * “ Kobes of an Earl, and on each Side	XXXI.
of-him rode a Gentleman Ufher, Then all theGentlemen’sServants,Two * ■ with white . Rods in their Hands,
their Hoods on ^their Heads, and their Horfes trapped.
Richard Afliton, 7 Gmt; ^^
Marirfaduke Newton, 5 Henry,' Earfcof Derby, chie
ufcof Derby chief Mourner^
to receive their Horfes; then being difmounted, all the Gentlemen that preceded- before the Corps entered behind, rode the Gentleman of Horfe	into the Churchf and received their
-to the Defund, his Hood on Ms	Places according to their Degrees,
leaving
On the left Side of him,andfomewhat
-	Head, his Horfe trapped, and leading in his Hand the Horfe of Eftate, all covered and trapped with black Velvet.
John Ormfton.
i 70 xxvi;
Next after rode eight other Mourners, being Afiiftants to. the chief Mourner, their Hoods on fh^irShoulders and Heads, and their Horfes trapped with fine Cloth to the Ground.
Ratcliff, Efq;
John Ld. Stourton, ------;
Sir Rowl. Stanley, Alexander Rigby, ■Sir Pierce Leigh, i Alexander Barlow, -----Butler, Efq; I Wm. Stopford,Efq;
xxvii. ^ ;?: Then a Yeoman bare-headed; in a black Coat, on Foot.
XXVIII.
Then two Sons of the principal Mourners in Gowns; and Hoods on their Shoulders, each of them having a Gentleman to lead their Horfes.
Wm. Stanley, Efq; Franc. Stanley, Efq; XXIX.
Then two Yeomen Uihers, with white Rods, bn Foot.
XXX.
Then the Defunct’s Yeomen, Two and Two, to the Number of five Hundred.
and Two; and thus being.whhfled all the Way, by certain Yeomen in black Coats, with black Staves.-in their Hands, proceeded to the Church Door, where their Servants attended
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Cpnqueil.
57
■leading.the Hundred poor Men without the Church, on each Side of the
Then the Body yas taken out of the Chariot, by Eight Gentlemen in Gowns, with Hoods on their Heads, and aflifted by Four Yeomen in black Coats, and borne into the Hearfe, where it was orderly placed upon a Table three Feet high, covered with black Cloth, and upon him was not only laid a Pall of black. Velvet, blit alfo his Coat of Arms, Sword and Target, Helmet and Cred.
Taken out of the Chariot, by William Oriel, Jafper North, Francis Banes,
John Meare,	1 ~
Thomas Starkey,	{ ents.
John Byron,
-	Edmund Winftanley, James Bradfhaw.
And thus the- Body being placed, the principal Mourner entered the Hearfe, where was prepared for him at the Head of the Defunft, a St Sol, with a Carpet and Four Cuihions of black Velvet, to kneel and lean upon.
Then entered the other Eight Mourners, and took their Places within the uttermoft Part of the Flearfe, on each Side of the Body, Four on one Side, and Four on the other, each of them having a Cufhion of black Velvet, to lean upon, and their Stools covered with black Cloth, and. a Cufhion of the fame to kpeel upon. At the Feet of the Defun A, without the Rails flood the Two Efquire s, holding the Standard and great Barnier ; and on each Side of the Hearfe^the other Efquires, with
Numb.	'.I
the Bannerets: And behind the principal Mourner Rood Three Kin, ;s of Arms, and the Four Gentlemen Umers, and between the Standard, and at the great Banner flood Lancaiier Herald of Arms, wearing the DefuntRs Coat of Aims.
And thus the Body being placed-, and every other Eftate according co their Degree, Norroy, King of Arms, pronounced the Stile of- the Defunct as before-mentioned; which ended, theDean of Chefter began his'Sermon, and after the Sermon, the Vicar began the Commemoration, and after the Epiftle and Gofpel, the Offering was commenced in' Manner following:
Firft, Henry, now Earl of Derby, being principal Mourner, did offer at the Altar for the Defunct, a Piece of Gold, having before him Garter, Cla-rencieux, and Norroy, King of Arms ; and Lancaiier Herald of Arms; anff on each Side of Garter, a Gentleman U£her and Efquire, to bear the chief Mourner’s Train,
And after him did proceed the othcj Eight Mourners, Two and Two, according to their-Degrees; and in like Order he with the other Mourners re-. , paired to their Places, where he remaining a fmall Time, went to offer for himfelf, having Clarencieux, and Lancaiier Herald onlyt before him; and thus having offered, Raid between * the Vicar andLancafter Herald of Arms, to receive the Atchievemehts p£ his Father,, offered up by the othe^dhght Mourners, in Manner and Form following:	r
Firft, The Lord Stourton, and Sir Rowland. Stanley, offered up the Goat v of
The Hiftory of the Ancient'and Honourable
of Arms, having before them Clarencieux King of Arms.
Secondly, Sir Peter Leigh, Knt. and Thomas Butler, Efq; offered the Sword, bearing the Pommel forward, haying before them Norroy., King of Arms.
Thirdly, John Radcliffe and Alexander Barlow Efqfs. offered the Target of his Arms, and before them went Clarencieux.
Fourthly, Alexander Rigby and William Stopford, Efqfs. offered the Hel-met and Creft, having before them Norroy, King of Arms.
Which-ended, the principal Mourner repaired to his Seat, and on each Side of him a Gentleman Ufher, and his Train borne by an Enquire, and before him Clarencieux, King of Arms,where he remained until the Offering was ended.
Then offered the other Eight Mourners for themfelves, viz.
The Lord Stourton, and Sir Rowland Stanley, having before them Clarencieux, King of Arms.
Then Sir Peter Leigh, Knight, and Thomas Butler, Efq; and before them Norroy, King of Arms.
Then John Ratcliffe, and Alexander Barlow, Enquires, having before them Clarencieux, King of Arms.
Then Alexander Rigby, and William Stopford, Efquires, having before them blue Mantle Purfuivant of Arms..
Thus when the principal Mourner and the Eight Mourners Affiftants had offered and were placed ag^m as afore-faid; then offered the Four Efquires., Affiftants to the Defunct, having before them Lancafter Herald of Arms.
Then the Standard offered by the
Efquire that bore it, and before him blue Mantle Purfuivant of Arms.
Then the great Banner offered by the Efquire mat bore it, and before him blue Mantle Purfuivant of Arms.
Which Standard and Banners being offered by them that bare them as a-forefaid, they put off their Hoods, and took their Places amongft tire reft of the Mourners, being Gentleman.
Then offered the Steward,Treaffirer^. and Comptroller, with their white Staves in their Hands, and Lancafter Herald of Arms before them..
Then offered all the other Knights^ Efqrs. and Gentlemen wearing black, proceeding in Order Two and Two, according to their Degrees.
Then offered the Yeomen, Ufhers, and after them the Defunct’s Yeomen Two and Two.
And thus the Offering ended, the Hundred poor Men were placed to proceed Homeward on Foot, and after them the Knights, Efquires, and Gentlemen, on Horfeback; then Garter, principal King of Arins, the principal Mourner, with the other Eight Mourn-ers, Two and Two; then the Yeomen on Foot, Two and Two.
Th€ Burial.
.Afterwhofe Departure prefently the Body was by th'e Eight Gentlemen, and Four Yeomen aforefaid, carried to the Gravt, and, before it, Clarencieux and Norroy, King of Arms y and Lancafter Herald of Arms ; and above the Body, the Four Affiftants and the Six Efquires, bearing rhe Bannerets.
After the Body went^he Steward, Treafurer, and Comptroller with Two Gentlemeii Ufhgfs aunTwo Yeomen
Ufhers;
Houfe. of Sl'ANLE
X from the Conqueft. ^p
Ufliers, who when the Body was buried, kneeling on their; Knees, with Weeping and Tears, broke their white Staves and Rods over their Heads; and threw the. Shivers, into the Qrave.
That done, the Six Efquires delivered, tip the Six Bannerets-, which were presented with the reft of the Atchiev-ments;. orderly placed over, and about him; and fo the faid Officers departed to Latham Hall, where they received their Offices and Staves again of theiE new Earl, now their Lord and Mafter.
Having now brought this great and honourable Earl to his1 Taft Home, the Grave: Let us not -bury him there in total Oblivion; but with Sir William Dugdale, Mr, Cambden, Mrj Hollingf -head, &c, but efpecially Mr, Stow, lament his- Death1, and- not quite forget the Memory of fo eminent, and noble a Servant to his Prince' and Country, but endeavour to tranfmit to- Pofterity, for their Example and Imitation, his moft renowned, fteady, and faithful Behaviour and-Conduct,, under, two Kings and two Queens, as well in Peace, as in War,
It appears from all our Hiftorfans, that he lived in the greateft- Splendor and1 Magnificence, without any Dependance on the Court: His greatnefs fupported his goodnefs, and his good-' nets endeared his greatnefs: His Height was lookcd-upon with a double Afpedt, hyhimfelf; as an Advantage of Beneficence,-and by others-; or Reverence: His great’-Birth raided him above private R^fped!, but his great Spuhnever above public Service.
He was- kind to his Tenants; liberal to liis- Servants 5. generous, to his
Friends; and hofpitable to Strangers; he Was famous for Houfe-keepihg, and his extenfive Charity: Infomuch that Queen Elizabeth would jeftihgiy fa)d chat he and my Lord of Bedford made all Beggars by their Liberality.
His Houfe was' orderly and regular, a College of Difcipline, Infraction, and Accomplifhment, rather than* a* Palace for Entertainment, his and his’ Lady’s Servants being fo many Noting Gentlemen and Ladies, trained up to; govern thcmfelves by their Example1, who they knew underftood themfetvek perfectly.
His Provifions were1 natural, all Nc-cefiaries; Bred and provided of his own1 Stock,, rather Plentiful than Various, Solid than Dainty, that-coft hina-Tefs,. and contented' more: His Table wasconftant, and even, where all were-welcome, and' none invited:' HiyHaH was commonly full, hiE Gares always L the one. with the honeff Gently and Yoemen, who were' his retainers inLove and Ohfervance, bringing' gbodi Stomachs to his Table, an'd refblVecL Hearts for‘his Service' the other with . the Aged, Decrepid1, and indtrftrious Poor, whofe cravings Were prevented with Doles and Expectation; the firft being' provided with Meat, the fecond with Money, and the third’with Labour.
ih tlie?Ndrthern InfurrecTion again ft' her Majefty Queen Elizabeth, he offered' to- raife* Ten* Thbufand Men at his own Charge, for tile ftlppfeffing thereof p but his Appearance in the Field wasSufficient; the holding up of his Hand being as effedfuktas the dif-playmg of a Banner? in a Word' Mr.' 2 Cambden
6o	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honoufabfez
Camden obferves, thatHofpitality Heth buried in this Earl's Grave, (1572 the Tune Of his Death,) from whence may the Diving Power ra fe it and all Mankind to Everlahing Blifs, when there will be no Poor to be relieved,, nor Bounty wanted to.relieve. <
He had two Hundred and Twenty Servants In a: Cheque Roll feu? Forty? wo Years, and twice a Day fixty old Aged and decrepidPoor, were fed wirh Meat,, and on every Good Friday, for Thirty-five Years, 1 : fed two Thou-fand feven Bamdred. Perrons, with Meat, Dnnk, and Money; every Ger— tieman in Ms Scrv ce had a Man and Horie to. attend, him, and his A llow-ance for the Expence of his Houfe only, was four Thousand. Pounds a Year, betides the produce of iiis two large Parks and very great Demefiies, infomuch,. that his Houfe was ftiled the Northern C^urt: Neither was he Munificent upon other Mens charge,, for once a. Month he. looked into his Income,, and once a Week mto his Dilburfements, that none fhould wrong him, nor be wronged by him, rhe Earl of Derby he would fay, “ Ihall keep “ his own Houfe, and that Frugality,.
Juftice, and good Management^. “ might as, well confift with Greatnefs, . > as Length with. BreadthJ’
"Therefore ft was obferved of him, and rhe fecond Duke of Norfolk., that when they were Dead, not a Tradef-man could demand the Payment of a. Groat that they. owed, him; not a. Neighbour the Reftlmtionof a Penny that they had wronged im of..
It is a Maxim that^ffie. L afs grew-' pth not where tlie Gfaf&^g^ipr.’s
Horfe treads, nor do the People .thrim Where the Noblemen inhabit ; bat here every Ter-a nt was a Gentleman; and w^c,y Gentleman my Lord’s Compalion, fitch Ms Civility towards the one,, and bis kind Ufage of the other. ; Noblemen in thole Days eftcen ?d” the Love of their ^Neighbour more thar rneu Riches; and the Service and. Fealty'(of their-Tenants more than their Money, and he would commonly fay, Let the Underwood grow, rhe Tenants are the Support of a Family;, and the Commonality are the Strength of the Kingdom:. Improve Thriftily, but force not Violently, either your Bounds, or Rents-, above your Forefathers: Two Things he abominated, depopulatingTnclofures; and avaricious and unworthy Enhancement of Rents. ‘	*
But now the Landlord hatlag. the-Sweat of the Tenants Brow 111 his Coffers.-Then- lie had ‘lie be ft Blood in bis Veins at his. Coijimand^ the grand Word with this Noble Teer, was on my Honour 'whi^h was efteemed luffi. tent Security for- any Engagement whatfoever, anil, was the only Afleverat-ion he ufed; ?at was ,h is pH—? Glcge that he needed nor Sweat: for a, Tcllimotty and his/Renown that he would, not for-his Honour-
Great was. this,exalted Family's Ef-teem with the People and eminent their Favour with their Sovereign, which was ever emp'oyed in oblie ing their liege. People, improving t eim Intereft and fupporting-their . one-; . for, tho’ .they -had -a long- Time beena *
Khigs of Man, and with the Hearts of tli^eopl^ < up wen the y as long fai th -
Houle of S TA N L EY, ‘from the Conqueff.	61
ful Subjects to. England;- in a‘ word, he had no doth or negledt to be fur-prized, * no Vanity of Difcdurfe tolofe his Mailer; no Partiality t6 bb btailed, no Diicontent tofatisfy,- nor no Pailion to be mifguided; in fine die lived hi all Capacities a. public Good, and died a common I-ofs; leaving in his Family that beft (Legacy a goon Example, and. in his Country that 1 ailing Monument a good Name.
The late very great- and eminent Lord, whole Prudence, Conduct, and molt: remarkable Life-and Actions we have been juft defc’ribmg and treating of, was fucceeded in his Honours and immenfe Eftate by his.eld'eft Son Henry-; Lord Stanley aQd Strange of Knocking, ’ tyho after his Father’s Deceafe was Fourth- Earl of D^rby of this Family, and was fummoned to Parliament and took his Seat in the moil Honourable Houfebf Peers the Eighth of February after-his Fathi’s Deceafe
Andi being a/Nobieriian in fedate Years, great Learning, gnd exalted Geniu^Las Wel^s oft lading’ Quality and confummate Experience ip all r the Maxims’ and Policy of public^asy well as private Life, he mad^ an*early Figure at Court, when his'Royal-'.MyT-trefs- was. pleated to diftinguifhrand^ promote £iim by Marks of her priijee-^ ly Fayour< as knowing, him- to be a; Perfoni off the idmoft Probity, uh--; doubted Loyalty^ and fteady Adhe-rance to her Perfon. Ilit^rpft,' and Go-^; vernmenh ' ,
' In 'token whErepf fhe dignified Jrim ; with the? Honour of the Garter,‘hind-.; conftantly made choice of, and preferred him: in all mtSfientous. and cri-
tical Affairs of Stlte,as one whom'fhe could rely ofgas her trufty Friend and faithful Servant.
, The'next Appearance whereof was by fending him’at the Head of a Com-miffion (with foihe other Peers) to Flanders, to treat of a Peace with the Prince of Parma, then General to the King of Spain, with whom her Majefty had been Jong at Enmity;
Soon after his. return from' that Country,- the Queen was pleafed to honour him with carrying the Enfigns of, and invefting the King of France with the moft noble Order of the Garter; „	, Y .
The Twenty-ninth of her Reign, her Majefty was pleafed to appoint him by her royal Commifiion, to be (with fome other Peers) one of the Judges for the Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, then a.Prifoner in the Caftle of Fothefinghay, in the County of Northampton, where fhe was arraign’d, tried, and adjudged to Die, and was there, accordingly,, beheaded.
J Some Time after that Tranfaftioh, to wit, in the Year 15-64, her Majefty determined to honour' die ancient U-niverfity of Cambridge with her royal. Prefence-, in order to which fire was pleafed^to appoint this noble Earl and his Lady, to attend her Pfogrefs thi-therf where they arrived-on'Saturday the Fifth of Auguft,. the fame. Year, and on the Queen’s entrance into that- . College, the'Cduhtefs of' Derby was . preferred to beanvup- her. Majefty’s-. >. Train. ” ■ :	'
-Likewife, oh that Queen's’ Vifitation of her Univerfity of Oxford, this noble Earl was appointed to. attend her Ma— .’• *	\	jelly’s-
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jelly’s Perfon and Progrefs to that Place, where? on Friday, the Sixth of. September 1566, his Lordfhip was complimented by that learned Body, with the Degree of Mailer of-Arts.
And in theThirtydccond of the fame Queen, he was by fpccial Commiflion, conftituted Lord High-Steward of England, and foie Judge for the Trial of Philip, Earl of Arundel, for Treafon.
And in the Year 1588, the Queen was gracioufly pleafed to grant to him by Patent for five Years, the high Office of Lord-Chamberlain of Chefter.
Some Time after this, he determined to vifit his Ilie of Man, and in order thereto, came to Iris Houfe at Liverpool, called the Tower, where waiting a while for a Pafl'age, tire ^Corpora-, tiondidthemfelves theHonoiir to com-rl
ters and Coheirs of Charles Brandon Duke of’ Suffolk, by Mary, Queen Dowager of France, and younger Siller to k .King Henry VUIP'and^ by her had Iflue four Sons, to -wit, William, and Francis, who died young, and unmarried £ alfo Ferdinand1, and William,fuc-
pliment him, by erecting and adorning in a rich Manner, a fuipytuous Stallion Seat, for his Reception at Church, where he feveralTim.es ho- ceffively Earls of Derby after- him; noured them by his Prefence there. alfo One Daughter, who died young,
Upon his return from the Ifland; he - and unmarried.
retired to his Seat at Latham, and. J Upon his Demife, h^left, befides the do not find he appeared at Court any above Iflue by his own Lady, three more; for by his Will, bearing. Date natural Children, by one Jane-Halfal, the Twenty-firll of September 1594, °f Knowfley, to-wit, one Son named heordered.his Body to be buried in his Thomas, and two-Daughters} Dorothy’ Chapel, at Ormlkirk, and. departed this and Uriula, for whom he made a ll-Life at Latham, the. Twenty-fifth of berak Provifion. Dorothy, his- firft the fame Month, and; was deposited' in Daughter, married Sir Cuth; Haifa!, the faid Vault, according to. his De- of Halfalj in the County-of Lancafter; fire.	and Urfula, his fecond Daughter, mar-
This noble Lord^married to; his La- riedSir JohmSalilbury, of Sternev, in
of.Halia.lv in the County-of Lancafter,
ried Sir John. Salifbury,- of Sternev, in dy Margaret, the- only Daughter of the County of Derby.
Henry Clifford,'Earl of Cumberland; - Thomas his-Son,- by* Jane Halfal, by his Wife Eleanor, one ofhhe Daugh- was Ailed- Thomaj Stanley, of- Eccle- " ihall,
* Records of Liverpool.’

Houfe of STAMLEY from the Conqueft.
fhall, Efq; on Mioiil he alfo fettled the Manor of BrdughtMJ, and other Lands, nea r- Maneb Hidr, which his Succelbrs fold to Mr, Cheetham, of Smedley. -
He was fucceeded by Ferdinand, his eldeft Sen, in Honours and the Baronies of Stanley arid Strange, and fifth Earl of Derby, and *1-j to his veiy
ter bf Henry Vil. and younger Sifter to King Henry VIII. and at that Time Qtteen Dowager bf France, wbc^ Grandmother was-thio Earl’s Mother, as before, thtedtenuig, that unlefs he undertook this- pPdjeAed Enterprize, ana Withal .conceal him the Meflenger and InftigdtOr of it, he Ihould fhortly d e in a molt wretched Manner; but'
great and noble Eftate. : But fuch il he compFed therewith, he might is the Frailty of human Nature, the be afiuted of powerful Alliftance.
Malice and Wickednefs, of our Fellow- ^ But this dutifti1 and loyal Earl, hav-
Creatures, and the infinite Variety of -ing no Defign or Intention of Claim: Chances and Accidents attending hu- againft her Majefty, nor Inclination to* man Life, that all the Care and Can- difturb her peaceable . offeflion at the ■	~ " Hazard of his own Life; Honour, and
opulent Fortune; confdered the PrO-
Chance? and Accidents attending hu-
tibn Mankind is able 10 ufe,-.is no. efficient ’o guard againft them, no.ho" Riches nor Power,”neither of which pofition made to him as a Snare laid were wanting in the noble Perfon we for his Deft ruction, and therefore re-are treating of. \	.	' jested it fdith Scorn and Indignation.
Who went, off the Stage of this ^ However, ahefe villainous Menaces World Wythe Flower of his Age, to proved Tint alto gel het w n, for With-the great o& of his Prince, Family, in. four Months after, thh noble Earl an3 Country and ■ deed univeifahy died a very miiera. h and furprizing fomented?; ‘ befog o an exalted Genius, Death being feized dnd to: indued by as well as Pi hJanrWlo^ccKiy all to Vomiting Mattei of a dark fufly Co-be one of Jie moft hop*tfbl Peers of lour, ir omucl i, th Lt he was foppofed the Age; aii d that whicttldded greatly by the learned In the Practice M Phy to th/ mneral AfflidtionWWas the un- fie afid others; to be poifoned, or elfe .common and. furprizihg Mannerfof bewitched’. “ j/w	.
his Dealh, as hereafter.- /	$ * For there wh's found in his Cham
His royal Miitrc s the; Quee r had a little Image made of Wax, with at that Time mafry feditious and re- Haws of or Colum of his in the F dly behious RubieRs, who, to avoid the df it, Which occasioned many and VS Punifhmenf due to their Crimes, fled ripus Speculations, Conjectures, and to foreign Countries. Amongftwhotn ConftruRiuns com eiiiing the Future, was orc Rfohard Hackett, whdw/as' Meamng and Effectfthereof but I font by nhofe Fu mtiVesho pfo^	Ifovd met WMfoo Remarks ffoifo The:
1 to affumd - gMWofthto	feal.
a^d let unfa. Title j nd1. Claim tb the Being, Exifter.ee orPoiveEo. Witches Cmwn of* England, m Right of ? J and Vizards, then or ar any Time in Decent frbimMary, the fecund Da--gh- the World,, nor of any Observations
‘The Hiflory of rhe Ancient and Honourable
■made by them upon this extraordinary Event, therefore fubmit fo critical and obftrufe a Point to be difeuffed by the learned of our own Times.
And proceed to inform the Reader, that his Gentleman of Horfe was greatly fufpedted to have had a large Share in this wicked Scene for the Removal of his very npble and indulgent Mallei' out’of this World; for the fame Day the Earl took his Bed, he fled away ( with one of his heft Hoffes, and was bgard of no more.
His Vomit was fo violent and corroding, that it Rained, the Silver Andirons in the Chimney of his Room, .upon which he had vomited; .and when dead, though his Body was wrapped in Searcloth, and covered with Lead, yet did it fo corrupt and putrify, that for a long Time after, none could endure to come near the Place it .was Paid in, ’till liis Burial.
By his Will, bearing Date.theTwelfth of April, the Thirty-eighth of Elizabeth, he bequeathed his Body to be buried in his Chapel at Ormfldrk, which • .was accordingly done the Sixth of May following. His Death was univerfally lamented, and greatly increafed by the Manner of it. He was good to his Tenants, kind to his Friends, charitable to the Poor, a generous Mafler, a loving and indulgent Hufband, and attendee and affectionate Parent; and had been honoured by his royal Miflrefs. with the noble Order of the Garter.
He married Alice, one of the Daughters of Sir' John Spencer, of AJthrop, ... in tRe County of Northampton, by Vehorn he left Ifliie three Daughters, Ris Heirs general. The Lady Ann,
, Ai? v ;
Lils’firft Daughter^ being at his Death, Thirteen Years Eleven Months old, and afterwards married to Grey Bruges, Lord Chandois; the Lady Frances E-leven Years and four' Months, after married to Sir John Egerton, Son and Heir of Lord Elfmere, then Lord Chancellor of England: And Elizabeth, the youngeft, Seven Years Eight Months old, after married to Henry, Lord Haflings, Earl of Huntingdon, of all .whom in their Order.
This noble, but unfortunate Lord, (in the uncommon Manner of his Death) was fucceeded by his younger Brother, Sir William Stapley, in the Barony of Stahley, and Earldom of Derby, but neither in his Eftate, nor in the .Barony of Strange, of Knocking, the firft .being divided’ betwixt him and liis NiecCs, the Heirs general of. Kis late: Brother, as hereafter;. and the fecond devolving- upon yhe faid Heirs general, with all the Eftate appertaining, thereto, was feparated from, and invefted in them, exclufive of the
Houf
HoUfe of STANLEY, from th? Conqueft.
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Houf? of Stanley, to whom the Barony of gtraqg? of Knocking fubfidcd and became Extinct; as more fuljy will be ihewn in its proper Place.
q. Sir William aforefaid, was that Great Sir William Stanley , of whofe Travels, martial Exploits, and Bravery abroad, which thjs County (especially) gives us many large Accounts, as well in Story, as Song, and frequently make themfdve^ merry therewith: But being abroad at his Brother’s Deceafe, and not certainly fcnown whether he was living or no, the very great Eftate he was as Heir at haw entitled to, (being at this Time’ in its full extent) he found on his return all fettled upon his Brother’s Daughters aforefaid, under the Guardiam ip of four Bifhops, and four Temporal Lot ds, who pof-feffed every Branch of it to their Ward’s ufes, without any regard to him, i which, with . the Barony of Strange, and the Ifle of Man, was no lefs than a princely Patrimony, for extent, income, and power; but he, unhappy -Gentleman, was refufed Admittance by the faid Guardians to any (hare of it.
In this melancholy cafe, having but Tew Friends, lefs Money, and power-Tul Adverfaries, who had little or no Knowledge of him, (nor indeed few ^others, by realbn of his long Abfence) yet kind Providence, the Guardian of . all who are inDiftrefs, and overpowered by might, knew his juft Caufe, raifed him Friends and Afliftancqto enter his Claim in Law to his Birth-right.
In which fevcraX of the old Tenants in and about Latham, Dalton, New-burgh, &c. who .laiew.him from a
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Child to be their natural and rightful Lord, fupplied him with Money to re^ cover his juft Right, or fp much thereof as he was juftly entitled unto.
Upon which aDifpute andConteft in Law arofe betwixt the faid Earl and the Heirs general, touching the Claim and Title to all the late Earl’s Eftate in England, and alfo to the Ifle 'of Man, whereupon the Queen apprehending that under the prefent unfettled State thereof, not only many Renegadoes of the Englifh and Scotch, but ftie S laniards alfo, her declared Enemies^ might refort-m that Ifland, to the great Diftutrance. of her Peace, and the Tranquility of her Government.
For Security and Prevention whereof her Majefty thought proper to commit the Charge and Care of that 10 and co her trufty Friend arid SeiyanF§i^ mas ■ Gerrard-, (after . by her Treated Lord Gerrard, of Bromley, in the Count-ty of Stafford,) until the' Qontroverfy then depending betwixt the Parties claiming, fhould be determined by Law.
In the mean Time the true and real Titje to the faid1 Ifle of Man was called in Queftion, and being brought before her Majefty^ Attorney and other learned Council, they upon Examination thereof; declared, That the Rig t thereof did folely belong to her Majer fty, and that the Stanleys Earls of Derby bad no good Title to that Bland, b reafon that King Henry IV foon after he obtained the Crown, upon, the Outlawry of William Scroope then Lord thereof, beftowsd.it upon Henry Piercy, then Earl of b^orthumberland; and, upon his Rebellion about fty. C	'	Years
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Years after, granted the fame by Patent fo Sir John Stanley for Life, x But Northumberland not being attained by Parliament, nor his Poffef-fions adjudged to be confifcated, and for that fome ihort Time after, the King and Sir John agreed that thofe Letters' Patent to him for Life fhould be furrendered and cancelled, which was done as before recited,, and that he fhould have an Eftate thereof- in See; fo that confidering the Grant for Life was before fuch Time as the King was legally entitled thereto by Northumberland’s Attainder, they pronounced that the lying could not pafs any Eftate for- Life, and alfo that the other Grant which had ids Foundation from the Surrender of the Eftate fbr-Life, could not be of any Validity, £ Whereupon the Queen, agreeable to "her wonted Goodnefs, having ebnfi-dered the many eminent Services performed for her Majefty and her Royal PredecefTors, by the Honourable and Noble Houfeof Stanley, and their long JEnjoyment of that Majid, without any Interruption, was gr^gioufiy pleafed to drop-and withdraw all fuppofed Right fhe might have thereto, as •fuggeited by the faid Gentlemen of the Law, and to refer the Parties Claimant to the Decifion of the Courts ; and upon this Foot the Me of Manrefted under /her Majefty’s Care moft of the remaining Part of her Reign: .
But the Proceedings at Law in England touching the Right to the many and great Eftates there, and rhe,filial Portions and Advancemght af the faid three Ladies, were profecfttedfor fix or feven Years with the utmofbVigour,
and in all that Time ho definitive Sentence could be obtained in favour of either.of the Parties.
This tedious and dilatory Proceeding by the Courts of Law, added td the very great Efteem and high Value her Majefty entertained of the great Worth and Merit of rhe faid Earl William, as a faithful Subject, a wife Counfellor, and a brave Captain, With the heavy: Expence he laboured under for the Recovery of his paternal Right, together with her Majeftyls* Concern for- the Re-eftabliihment of the, ancient honourable, and moft worthy Houfe of Stanley, gave her Majefty great Perplexity and Anxiety of Mind,
Wherefore, for her Majefty’s Eafe, and the Removal of her Royal Concern, * and the; Accomplifhment of her kind Intention to fo many loyal and dutiful Subjects and Relations; fhe, like a nurfing Mother, meditated a Reconciliation of all Differences, Difputes, and Gontroverfies fubfiftihg betwixt them; and by the afliftance and advice of Cecil Lord Burleigh, Sir Robert Cecil, principal Secretary of State, and many other kind Friends and Relations to the Honourable and Noble Houfe of Derby, her Majefty effected her princely and benign Intention, by being gra-cioufly pleafed to propofe a Reference of all Matters, Pretentions, and clafh-ing Interefts of the federal Claimants, to which fire was fo happy as to obtain their Several and united Contents,
■And for this good Purpofe, the following noble Perfons were by her Majefty’s powerful Intereft^hominated and appointed Referees and Arbitrators thereof, to wit, the- Right Ho-
• 1 nourable
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L Y, from the Conqueft.	67
nourablc Cecil, Lord Burleigh; the RightHonourablel homas,LordBuck-hurfl, Lord High Treafurer of Fng-1: nd; the Right Hr nourabie the Lari of Dorie ; the Right Honourable Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury; the-Bight Honourable Clifton, Earl of Cunibe’-1 and ; ■ George, Lord Hunfdi>n, and the Right Honourable Cecil, principal Secretary' of State, and then Earl of Sa-lifbury; being the noble and well af fc/ted Friends as well of the Laid William, Earl’? of Derby, as of the1 fa 1 young Ladies,. Daughters to Ferdinand, Lite Earl of Derby, t- r ,.
Which faid honourablePerfonahav-iag heard the fa’d Parties themfelves, their learned Council, Officers, Agents, ' andServants, with other ufeful Fi ’ends .authorized to appear'therein, advifed-ly heard and confidered 'the federal Rights, Titles, and-Claims, of ail the Parties;’and did, by the Consent of the Parties and their Councb Officers itnd Friends for the appealing, ending and extinguishing of all Variances, Claims, Titles, and Controverfies then moved and grown; or which then after might arife and grow between the faid Parties, or any of them, touching - the laid Premixes m Queftion; agree,-order; and determine, im^ngU other Th mgs, that fuch, audio many of the faid ’Cadles, Manors, Lands. Tenements and* Hereditaments, late parcel of the ■ Poffeffions of . the faid Ferdinand, late.Earl of Derby, in the Towns, Hamlets, Villages, and Places hereafter mentioned f and in every of themTho Jd be allured, -conveyed and enjoyed, by andTinto inch Perfon or Perfons, and for and during Juch
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Eftatc and Eftates; and with and under fuch Limi^adons, Powers, Liberties, Declarations, and-Savings, and in inch Manner and Form as hereafter mentioned, limited and exprefled - Which faid Order and Agreement, fo made by the faid Honourable PcrT Tons, as .well the faid William, Earl of Derby, and jhe Counted Elizabeth, his Wife, and the red cf-the Like Male, defeended front the Honourable Houfe of Derby, and the faid Ladies Ahn/Frances, and Elizabeth. Daughters of the faid late Earl Ferdinand, before and - until; tluhiyfeyeralyM^ . riages, and Ence their-faid Marriages, ■ thew.faid Hufb^nds anebthey dids and yer do hole- themfelves well contented and Satisfied; all which Orders and Agreements were onfirmed by Ait of Parliament, paffe the Fourth of James I, as hereafter. z
By which A6t.and Agreement were appeared and yielded to the Right Honourable William, Earl 0/ Derby, the ancient Seats of Latham and Khowfley. with all. the Houfes, Lands, CafUes and Appurtenanees in Lanca-iliire, Cumberland,- York/hire, Che-ffiire, and many in Wales ^ abb the Manor of. Meriden, in the County of Warwick, with the old Seat Jin Chan-non Row, Weftminfter; (now DerbyCourt) a Ifo the Ad vow fon of- the Pa-riffi Church of rhe Holy Trinity in the City of Chefter, ,.	;	1V _
■ And, to the faid Heir^ Female,; the Dau j liters of the laid late Earl FerdG nand, the. Batomes of Strapge, »of Knocking, Mohun^ Barnwell,; Baffet, and Lacy,.with all the Houfes, Cadles, Manors, andLmds thereto belojagipg; 2	with
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with federal other Manors and large Eflates lying in moft Counties of England^ and many in Wales.
For the better and further Aflurance thereof to every Party, 2nd the Prevention of all future Disputes, there w^re Nineteen Recoveries fuffered in the Common Pleas, London, in one Term, and Seventeen at Lancafter, in brie Aflizes 5 and thus was compofed and brought to final Iflue, ail Difputes and Controverfies touching the Lands and numerous Eftates in England and Wales, exceeding"iri Extent and Value moft of the Subjects in the King’s Dominions ; by which the Reader will eafily ‘Judge what a terrible Breach was made therein by the faid Divi-fion. / ‘ J
And although Affairs at home were after much Labour, Struggle, and Expence accommodated and eftabliihed As before-, yet the moft princely Branch thereof, the Ifle of Man, remained un.-fettled ; the faid Ladies claiming the fame Right to that (as Heirs to their Father) as they- had done to thofe in England and Wales; and the Difputes and Contefts in Law, touching the Right and Title thereof, continued well nigh as long as thofe had done in England. .
But the Right thereto being brought upon the Carpet by Earl William, and his Title ftrongly affected by him, the Decifion thereof in fome time came before the learned Judges- of the federal-Benches; who upon a full hearing of the Council on both- Sides, de-clared the7Patent by-King Henry IV. granting the Ifle of Man. to. Sir John Stanley, and- his Heirs for ever, was
warranted by the Common Law, and that the Heirs General would take it before their Uncle.
Whereupon the faid Earl was con-ftrained to come to a Treaty and Ai greement with the faid Heirs General J as alfo with Thomas, Lord Elfemere, then Chancellor of England, and Alice, his Wife, Widow of the late Earl Ferdinand, who bad married the faid Chancellor, for the Purchafe of all their feveral Claims and Injtereft, in and to the faid Ifland, or any Part or Parts thereof; which he at length affected and got into PoiteiJion. of the fame.
Upon which he applied to his Ma-jefty Kipg James I. and from him obtained a new Patent or Grant, confirming to him and his Heirs for ever the faid Ifle of Man, with all the Honours, Powers,.. Privileges and Regalities thereto belonging, or any wife appertaining, in as full and ample a Manner as it had been granted to, or enjoyed by any former Lord thereof.
Which faid Letters Patent, together with the faid Agreement, made with all the Parties aforefaid, the faid Earl had confirmed by a fpecial A<ft of the Parliament began at Weftminfter the Nineteenth of March, the Firft of James I. and continued to the Ninth of February, the Seventh of James I. as by the faid Act, wherein he fettled the ifle of Man upon himfelf and tire Lady Elizabeth, his Wife for Life-, and to the Survivor of them, and after to’ James, Lord Stanley,,: his< eldeft Spn and Heir, and the Heirs Maje of his-Body; and in default of fuch Jfl’ue,. to Sir Robert Stanley^his Second Son, and
Houfe of S T A N L E Y, from the Conqueft.
And the Heirs Male of his Body; and imdefault of fuch Iflue, then to the right Heirs of the faid James, Lord Stanley, for ever, with a Provifo, that neither he,, hot any of his Succeflbrs, fhould either by Will, Deed, or any other Iijftttnrtent in Writing, give, bargain, contract, fell, afllgn-or transfer the;, faid Mind, ‘or any Branch thereof/ freon his or their own Iflue.
But in default of fuch' Heirs, then to the right Heirs of the faid Sir Robert Stanley, under the faine Limitations andReibraint as by Record thereof, returned into the Chancery of England, by Writ of Certiorari, bearing Date the Thirtieth of July, the Eighth of James I; appeareth that the Noble Lord, whofe Life and Actions we have here treated of, was the Sixth of his Family, and was by Queen Elizabeth, honoured' with the Noble Order Of the Garter, and the Firft of James. I. was, by Patent, made Chamberlain of Chefter, for Life; in which Office he appointed Henry Townfhend, Efq; his Vice Chamberlain,- and after him fucceeded’Sir Thomas Ireland, of Bewley, and after him Roger Downs, of Wardley, Efq; and after him Orlando Bridgeman, Efq; who continued to the Year 1640, When a new Patent palled, joining with his Father, James; Lord Stanley, for both their Lives, and the Survivor of them.
But fome Years before this lafl Pa-, tent, to wity 1-637; his Lady being dead,, and he grown old and infirm, and defirous to withdraw himfelf from the hurry and- fatigue of Life, in which he had' been very largely engaged, and greatly encuipbered Jas
hath been related) arid hi^bn James Lord Stanley, now advanced to the Honour of Strange alfo, as' hereafter, having married the mod noble Lady Charlotte, Daughter td Claud de Tre-mouille,Duke deTrembuille and Travertin France,aLady of highBifth and
agreeable Fortune, and his Son, the Lord Stanley and Strange, being a Per-fon of . exalted Genius, highly qualified with Learning, and all the Ac-c'omplilhments of a noble Mind and Spirit, his kind and indulgent Father was pleafed to honour and dignify him agreeable to his Qualify, by the Affignation and Surrender of all his Eftate to him, and put him in Pof-feffion thereof, reserving to himfelf only One Thoufand Pounds per Annum, during his Life, as by tile following Deed, to wit.
“ Know ye that P William, Earl of “'Derby, Lord* of Man and the Illes, “ &c. being lawfully feized of and in “ my Demefnes as of. Freehold of “ fundry'
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
“ fundrv Houfes, Caftles, Lands, Te-nements, and- Honours, as well in
“ England and Wales, as in the Me of “ Man; do by this my fufficientDeed, under my Hand and Seal, bearing “ Date this Eleventh Day ofAuguft “ 1637, Grant and Surrender to my “ Son James, Lord Stanley and Strange, “ and his Heirs, all my Term for “ Life, Intereft and Eftate whatfoever. “ of, in, and unto the fame Lands, Te-“ nements and Hereditaments, where-of I was fo feized, &c.
Whereupon the ,Earl purchafed a convenient Houfe on the Side of the River Dee, near Ghefter, whither he retired, and palled the Evening of his Life in Quiet, Peace, and pleahng enjoyment of Eafe, Reft, and freedom of Body as well as Mind, agreeable to the Practice and Sentiments of the wife Senators of Rome, who, on like Occafion, ufed to retire to their rural Seats, as given us by one of their pyn Poets/ to wit.
“ How bleft is he, who tired with his “ Affairs,
G Far from all Noife and vain Applaufe. “ prepares
? To go, and underneath fome blent “ lliade,
‘ Which neither Cares nor anxious [ “ Thoughts invade;
“ Does for a while, alone himfelf Pof-“ fefs,
“ Changing the Court for rural Hap-“ pinefs.
This Earl married the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to Edward, Earl of Oxford, by whom he hadlffue two Sons, Jame's
and Robert, (before mentioned) alfo three Daughters, firft Elizabeth, who died young; fecond Ann, who mar-
ried Sir Henry Portman, of Orchard; in the County of Someffet, and after his Death, Sir Robert Carr, Knight and Earl of Ancram, in Scotland:. The third Daughter another Elizabeth, who died young; and James his eldeft Son and Succeflbr we brail take Notice of in due Place, in the Interim, Robert his fecond Son married a Daughter of Lord Witheringtdn, by whom he had Iffuc, which are all long /ihee Extinct-, as hereafter appears,
This Noble Lord died in his Retire-
ment at his faid Houfe near Ghefter, on the Twenty-ninth of September, 1642; and from thence was conveyed to Ormfkirk, and there depohted with his^fToble Anceftors: But-1 before4 we proceed we have further to obferve, that during this Lord’s Life whofe Eyes we have clofed, in the midft of all
Houfe of S T ANLEY from the Conqueft
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all his Cornells and Struggles of Life for a Share of the great and immenfe ERate of his Anceftors, was applied to for the repair of Warrington Bridge, created by his Noble and Renowned Anceftor Thomas Earl 'of Derby (as before mentioned.) and By; them repaired and amended as Occafion required, together with the Canfeway leading from it to the riling Ground on the Chefhire Side, to his Time; as before.
But he being under the Calamitous State of continual Suits, Contefts, and Daily Expence in Law, for the Recovery of his' natural Right, and then not pofleft of any, or but a fmall Pittance thereof, refufed his Afliftance to the Amendment of that Bridge, then much out of 'order.
Upon which the Gentlemen of Chefhire confulted the Judges, at Chefter upon that Subject, who advifed, that Enquiry might be made by them a-gairift the next Allizes, if any Lands or Tenements-were, fettled and appropriated by any of, the Noble Family of Derby, for the Maintenance and Support thereof, and report the Cafe to them as it appeared upon the faid Enquiry, which being fully made, and nothing found fettled for the Purpofes aforelaid, they were advifed by the laid Judges to confult together with their Neighbours of Lancashire, of fome proper Means for the Security^ Support, and Reparation thereof.
■Upon which a Meeting was had by the Gentlemen of Chefhire and Lan-Cafhire, to consider of this public Af-
* Journal' of the
fair wherein-both the Counties were greatly concerned; the refult whereof was, That as it had been built and hitherto preferred by the good Plea-fure and Generofity of the Houfe of Stanley, without any Obligation upom ■ any of them for the Continuance thereof, that for the future, one Conn-ty ihould repair one half of the faid Bridge, and the other County-the other half, as I am informed it is- at this Time, for the original and remarkable Structure and Benefit whereof (which begot the prefent Town''of Warrington) they and all the ancient and prefent Landlords round it are greatly indebted to the Noble and II-luftrious Houfe of Derby for.
To whom fucceeded James Lord Stanley and Strange, his eldeft Son and Heir, who was called to * Parliament by writ from K. Charles I. in 1627, the Third Year of his Reign, by the Stile and Title of Sir James Stanley, Knight of the Bath, and Chevaliere de Strange, without any local Place, and- as fuch fat in the Houfe of Peers feveral Parliaments, when his Father fat there as Earl of Derby.
Of this Noble Peer we have very much to obferve, and fhall as near as we are'able from Manufcript, Hifto-ry and Record, give the Reader the Particulars of his moft remarkable Life, and every memorable Tranfac-tion thereof in ther proper order of Time, beginning firft with the Character given of him by Sir William-Dugdale, who tells us, that fetting afidethe great State he lived inland his
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his wonderful Hospitality and Bene-s ficence to his Neighbours, Friends and ^ Servants, he was a Perfon highly at complifhed with Learning, Prudence, Loyalty, and true Valour; ^nd was one, if not the firft of the Peers that repaired to King Charles L at York, when the feditious, infolent and rebellious Londoners had drove his Ma-jefty from Whitehall; and though he did not ufually follow the Court, or defign to advaq<;e Jus Honour or Fain il y by acomplime n t al and obfequ 1043 Attendance of that Kind; yet, when he faw his Majefty’s Affairs required his Afliftance, he thought himfelf obliged bp^ by his Religion and Al-legiance,to ferve him to the utmoft of his Power, with his Life and Fortune; and made him a tender of both.
And although he obferved the Mb nifters of State about his Majefty looked coldly and fhily upon him, as perhaps thinking him either top great or too popular, in their Opinion, to be much favoured or employed in that critical Juncture; yet his Lordfliip (Magna Submiffis robere Mentis) prudently concealed his Senfe thereof, and with the Plainnefs and Integrity of his loyal Mind, offered himfelf ready to obferve his Majefty’s Commands upon all Occafions.
And in his own Words tells us, that in the Beginning of that War in 1643, he thought himfelf happy to have the general Applaufe of his Neighbouring Gentlemen and Yeomen, as they would choofe to follow him as they had done his Anceftors; but whether , this was more to continue a Cuftom,
pr the love of his Name, or Perfon, was hard to fay.
But this he knew, that he had raif-ed Three Thoufand good Men, who went with him out of Lancafhire, to attend and ferve his Majefty, and that he was extremely grieved to fee the King in fo bad a Condition, which made him fpare neither Pains, Coft, nor Hazard, to affift him in fo juft a Quarrel; he lent the King all his Arms, and his Majefty gave him his Warrant to receive as many from New-caftle.
But fomebody was in the Fault, his Majefty’sWarrant not being obeyed,nor he fuppliedwitliArms and Ammunition as was expected; his Majefty alfo ah lowed and ordered him a fufficient Sum of Money for his Service; but fome of his Servants about him thought fit to keep it for other Ufes, “ I fhall “ not, fays he, enter into Particulars, “ but only fay, that this might fhew “ the King my good Intention in the “ Difcharge of a good Confcience, and “ the Prefervation of my Honour, in “ fpite of Envy and Malice."
The Firft confiderable Debate wherein he eminently and perhaps envi-oufly fhewed himfelf, was, concerning the moft convenient Place for fet-ting up the King’s Standard, York, Chefter, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, and Oxford being in Proportion, his Lord-ihip having heard the feveral Reafons and Opinions offered, and well weighed and confidered the Arguments, for their Support; at laft, with a quiet ‘fend calm Humility, interpofed to the following Effect: That with humble
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Submiffion to his Majefty and his Council, he conceived Lancafhire to .be a convenient Place to eredt his Majefty’s Standard in, and raife a confi-derable Army ; urging, that it lay as the Centre of the Northern Counties, to which the loyal Parties of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Weftmoreland, Chefhire, Shropihire, North-Wales, and Nottihg-hamfhire, might have ready and eafy Accefs; that he apprehended the Inhabitants of that County both Gentry and Commons (at leaft for the greateft Part) well inclined to his Majefty’s juft Caufe; that the People are ufually very hardy, and make good Soldiers, and that he himfelf, (though the un-worthieft of his Lieutenants) would to the utmoft of his Eftate, contribute to his Sendee; and that he durft promife three Thoufand Foot, and five Hundred Horfe, to be furnifhed out at his own Charge; that he made no doubt but in three Days to enlift feven Thoufand Men more under his Majefty’s Pay, and to make up an Army of ten ThoufandMen in Lancafhire, to which the Acceffes from other Counties might in a fhort Time arife to a con-fiderable Army; and that he hoped his Majefty would be able to march to London Walls, before the Rebels there could form an Army to oppofe him.
Thefe Things thus propofed, his Majefty and Council took Time to con-,, fider and refolve what to do on that momentous Affair; and a few Days after, it was concluded, with muc’ Diffatisfaction to the Party that favoured not his Lordfliip, that the Standard fhould be fet up at Warrington,', in Lancafhire, where his Majefty’s Ar-
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my might have the Convenience of both Chef hire and .Lancafhire, for the Quartering of both Horfe and Foot.
His Lordfhip upon this Refolve was difpatched to Lancafhire, to prepare for his Majefty’s Reception, and to dif-pofe the Country to be ready for his Service; immediately on his return to Lancafhire, he muftered the County in three Places, on the Heaths by Bury, by Ormfkirk, and by Prefton; where at the leaft twenty Thoufand Men appeared to him in each Field, moft whereof were well armed with Pike, Mufket, or other Weapons, his- Lordfhip intending to have done the fame in Chefhire, and North-Wales, where he was Lieutenant, but thefe Things which by his Lordfhip were really intended for his Majefty’s Service, were by the Envy, Jealoufy, or Prejudice of fome at Court, infinuated to ferve o-ther Purpofes, fuggefting that the Earl was a popular Man; that he was no Favourer of the Court, but rather a Male-content, that thofe noifed Muf-ters which he had made, were Preindications of his ambitious Defigns; that it was dangerous trufting him with great Power in his Hands, who too well knew his near Alliance to the Crown; that his Anceftor the Lord Stanley, though he appeared with Richard III. and gave his Son-George, Lord Strange, a Pledge of his Loyalty, yet turned the Battle againft him, and put the Crown upon the Head of Henry V1L That his Uncle Ferdinand;. had declared too boldly his Pretentions to the Crown, that his Lady was a Hugo-not, bred up in the Religion and Principles of the Dutch, and that for thefe * and

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and other good Reafons it was not fafe for his Majefty to put himfelf too far into his Hands, or truft him with too great a Power. Thefe invidious and injurious Insinuations, notwithftand-ing the King’s good Inclinations towards him, fo far prevailed and puzzled his Council, that they perfuaded the- eafy good-natured King.to change his Refolution, and to let up the Royal Standard at Nottingham, to diveft the Earl of Derby of the Lieutenancy of Cheshire and Wales, and to join the Lord Rivers, newly made an Earl, in Commiffion with him in Lancashire.
This hidden and unexpe&ed Turn in his Majefty’s Council being Signified to his Lordfhip from York, though at prefent it gave him fome trouble and anxiety of Mind, yet, agreeable to his great Temper, he quickly recovered himfelf, and with great Equanimity, fpoke to this Effect, “ Let my Mailer “ be Happy, though I be Miferable., “ and, it they confult well for him, I “ Shall not be much concerned what “ becomes of me.
“ My Wife, my Children, my Family “ and Country are very dear unto me, “ but if my Prince and my Religion “ be fafe, I Shall blefs even my Ene-“ mies who do well .for them though ‘‘ in my Ruin.” Then with the Advice of his Friends, whofe Council he always ufed in Gafes of Difficulty, he difpatched a Gentleman to York, with Letters to his Majefty, Signifying that he had read the Exprefs of his Ma-, jelly’s good Pleafure, as he ought to do with Submillion and due Obedience, that- though his Enemies would not give him Leave to ferve his Majefty,
they Should never fo far provoke him as to defert .him; that if he might not according to his Birth and Quality be permitted to Fight for him, he would never draw his Sword again ft him; that he. did fubmiflively refign the Lieutenancies of Cheshire and North-Wales to his Majefty’s Difpofal, but befought him to take away that of Lancashire alfo, rather than fubjedt him to the Reproach and Sufpicion of a Partner in that Government.
Thefe Letters being received and perufed by his Majefty and Council, had only this ESTedt, that the Lord Rivers was removed, and the Earl lefy in the fingle Command of LahcalhirQ But the unkind and impolitic Ufa^e of this noble Lord, (though by him fuffered with great Refolution) was by the Country, who had the greateft Veneration for his Family, highly re-, fented, and proved of the greateft Prejudice to his Majefty’s Afi airs., many Gentlemen in the North,, who were, formerly well inclined to his Majefty’s Caufe, feeing the Contempt and ill Ufage of the Earl of Derby, either fat ftill, or revolted to the Parliament with all their Dependencies, fulpedting, as indeed it fell out, that the Earl of Derby being laid afide, the Country would never follow any other Commander, and that the King’s Intereft would dwindle and be foon loft, and thefe Divifions and Difappointments his Lord^ip tells us,, made the ill affected in Lancashire grow Proud, and The meaner Sort thought it a fine Thing to fet up againlt the great Ones; and the Parliament being quickly adver-tifed of tire unhappy Circumftances and
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and Management of the King’s Affairs, immediately offered his Lordfhip what Power and Commandhe would accept in their Service; which his Lordfhip rejected with Scorn and Indignation.
Yet, the fame Bait took with m^ny others that formerly had no Inclination to the Puritanical Faction; as Afliton, of Middle ton; Holland, of Heaton; Holcroft, of Holcroft; Heywood, of Heywood; Birch, of Birch; and feveral others: Who fuppofing on this Slight of the Earl of Derby, that the whole Country would be at their Devotion; took Commiffions from the Parliament, and with all fpeed garri-foried and fortified themfelves in Manchefter, the Parliament encouraging and affifting them with Money ano Ammunition.
The royal Standard being about this Time fet up at Nottingham, and the Country not coming in as expected, -the King began now to reflect on the ill Ufage of the Earl of Derby, and by an Exprefs under his own Hand, defired him to raife what Forces he could in Lancafhire and come with them to him; to this his Lordfhip anfwered, that the Rebels had feized Manchefter; that many of the Country had joined them, and others had declared for a loofe and unduriful Neutrality; that the Face of Things was greatly altered by his Majefty’s march another,Way, and that he could not now flatter his Majefty with the Ac cels of fuch Aids as he might have done a few Months paft; however, notwithftanding all the Difcouragemehts he met with, 1 would ufe all his Diligence to raife what Forces he could for his Majefty's
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Affiftance, and for that Purpofe his Lordfhip ifiued out his Warrants for an Appearance of all his own Tenants and Dependents, but durft not venture to make a general Muftef of the County, for fear of waking the late Sufpicions as yet fcarce afleep; and of his own Tenants and Relations raifed three Regiments of Foot, and three Troops of Florfe, and clothed them at his own Charge, and armed them out of his own Magazine; and when they were in readinefs to march, his Lordfhip polled to the King, then at Shrewfbury, to receive his Commands for their Difpofal: His Majefty guefling the dangerous Confequence that might enfue by leaving a Nurfery of Rebellion behind him at Manchefter, ordered thofe Forces to attack that Place, and required the Earl, then with his Majefty, to give Direction to Colonel Gilbert Gerrard, an old Soldier, to draw before the Town: The Colonel obeyed his Order, but the Waters being then fo fwelled. he found it difficult to fix commodious Pofts for his HorfeandFoot, which occafionedfome Delay in the intended Attack of the Town; and therefore the Earl himfelf was by his Majefty’s fpecialCommand, Pent thither from Shrewfbury, - to give a fpeedy Onfet, and whether he carried the Town or not, to march up to the Camp.
The Earl had not been four Hours before the Town, ere he fummoncd them to fubmit to the King’s Clemency, and to give up the Place upon honourable Terms, but they with great Obftinacy refufed all Offers of Mercy; on which his Lordfhip gave 2 Orders
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Orders for a Storm upon the Town, the next Morning at Four o’clock, but that v^ry Night, about Twelve his Lordfhip received Letters from his -t Majefly, intimating that the Earl of Elfex was at the Head of the Rebels, and, now marching from London towards him with a formidable > Army; that he flood in need of thofe Forces under his Lordfhip, and that if the Town was not carried, he fliould not hazard any of them by an Aifault; that if he carried the Battle againft Elfex, thofe fmall Garrifons would fall of themfelves , and that his Lordfhip fhould on Receipt of thofe Letters forthwith advance to him with what Forces he had.
Upon this, though his Lordfhip made no doubt to nave gained the Place by an eafy Aifault, and thought it would highly reflect upon his Ho-nour to quit it Reinfe<fla, yet, thought fit without Difpute or Delay to obey the King’s Commands, well knowing how his Enemies at Court would interpret any crofs Accident that might occur in any Attempt contrary to the Orders he had received; he therefore to the-Wonder and Regret of all his Officers and Soldiers, gave Direction for a fpeedy March by Five o’clock in the Morning, and in two Days brought to his Majefty three Regiments of Foot,' and three Troops of Horfc; well hoping that he might have commanded the Troops raifed at his own Charge, as a Brigade in his Majefty’s Service.
However his Enemies, and probably no Friends to the King; fo far wrought upon his Majefty’s too eafy and. credulous Temper by fecret, unjufl and
malicious Whifpers; that he took the Command of thofe Troops from the Earl, and difpofed of them to other Officers; for which his Majefly only gave him for his Reafon ■ the cheap and fpecious Pretence.; that it was neceflary his Lordfhip fhould attend his Charge in Lancashire, and the Mo- » tion of the Rebels there; therefore de-fired him to haften back; and to do all in his Power to prevent the Growth and Increafe of their Forces in that County.
This noble Lord though a Perfon of great Temper, yet of as great a Spirit, was fo ruffled at this unkind U-fage, that he was fcarce able to contain himfelf; but in a little Time recovering from his great Surprize and Concern, replied to his Majefly, “ Sir “ if I have defervcd this Indignity, I “ deferve alfo to be hanged; if nor, “ my Honour and Quality command “ me to beg your Juflice againft thofe “ Perfons, who in this infolent Manner “ abufe both me and your Majefty, “ and if any Man living (your Majefty “ excepted) ihall dare to fix the leaft “ Accufation upon me that may tend “ to your Difiervice, I hope you will “ give me Leave to pick the Calumny “ from his Lips with the Point of my “ Sword.”
His Majefty with a fmooth Countenance, appeared to entertain no Dif-pleafure againft his Lordfhip, but faid, my Lord, m^Aftairs are troubled, the Rebels are marching againft me, and it is not now a Time to Quarrel amongft , ourfelves; have a little Patience and I will dp you R ght ; though his Lord-^P did with all Moderation contain himfelf
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himfelf, and ufed all Endeavours to had received at Court 7 whereupon he cover the Diffatisfadhon he was under vouchfafed them no other Anfwer on the manifeft Dilhonour done him than that he gave to the Colonel who oh this Occafipn; yet the Matter could, brought the Meffage, “Pray-fell the ’	“ Gentlemen at Manchefter, aijjd let
them tell the Gentlemen at London, when they hear I turn Traytor, I fhall hearken to their Propofitions, ’till then, if I receive any other Papers of this Nature, it fhall be at
not be fo privately car ried on, but it was foon fpread through the whole
Court and Army; his Lordfhip’s Friends . fpoke plainly out, and his Soldiers re-fufed to march or ferve under any o-ther Commander but his Lordfhip, who by his Wifdom andTemper, com-pofed the Minds of his' Friends, and prevailed upon bis oldiers to give O-bedience to their Officers.
The Rebels in Lancafhire were not ignorant how Things paifed at Court, and thought it now a proper Time to Re-attempt his Lordfhip with frefh Offers of Power and Command; and to this Purpofe procured a new Exprefs from the Parliament to his Lordfhip,
with frefh Offers, importing, “ That he “ could not but be very fenfible of the “ Indignity put u >on him at Court by “ the King’s evil Counfellors; that “ thofe his Enemies were the Enemies “ of the Nation; that they ft ruck at *i Religion, and all good Men, and would permit none but Papifts, or People PSpifhly affedted, to be near his Maje 1 ; that it was the whole Intent of the Parliament to remove
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The Rebels in Lancafhire, had by this Time garrifoned. Lancaiier and Prefton, and in a Manner commanded
all the County; and his Lord fir ip having divefted himfelf of his Arms and Magazines, was not in a Condition to make much Refiftance againft them; yet he ufed all Diligence to fortify his own Houfe at Latham, and fecretly got in Men,, Horfe, and Ammunition"; and had in a Month’s Time raifed ay good Troop of Horfe, and two Qom-. panics of Foot, and being advertifed that three Captains of Foot with their Companies were advanced toHoughton Common, within fix Miles of Latham, his Lordfhip with what Forces he had marched out againft them, and after half an Hours Fight, defeated and took all the three Captains Prifoners, (one whereof was Venables, who was afterwards employed by Oliver, againft Hifpaniola) By this Defeat fo unex-. pedtedly given to that Party, he made 1 imfelf Mailer of all their Anns, and
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About this time Lord Molyneux coming to Lancafhire to recruit his Regiment, much ihattered at Edge-
Hill and Brainford Fight, Lord Derby applied to him' for Afliftance with his Forces to take in the Garrifons which fo much annoyed the Country and impeded his Majefty’s Service, to which Lord Molyneux agreed, and with their joint Forces marched from Latham Houfe in the dark of the E-ve.ning to Lancafter, without halting, being about thirty Miles, and appeared before the Town at break of Day,
and fummoned the Garrifon to. fur-render, who refufing to comply, the Town was immediately flormed, and taken at the Second AfTault, which the Soldiers were a little backward to.
Hour’s Fight, was fubdued and'about ----------------------- —---------- Six Hundred of the Enemy killed, engage in, which the Earl perceiving;^ and the reft made Prifoners, except, took a Fla^ Pike in his Hand, and’ bme who efcaped by tiie way of the called out to them, “ Follow me;” on which \£ome Gentlemen Volunteers
joined him, and all the Soldiers chcar-fully followed and entered the Town, in which twenty Soldiers were wounded, and that gallant, loyal and worthy Gentleman, Mr, Blundell, of CroiLy,
had his Thigh fhattered by a Mufket Ball.
* Upon this his Lordfhip having demolifhed the Works, and refreshed bis Men three Days, began his march, the Third Evening to Prefton, where, arriving early next Morning, he fent a Summons to the Mayor to furrender the Town to his Majefty’s Ufe; who refufing to obey the Summons, the Earl gave Orders to AfTault the Works in three Places, by Captain Chifenhall, Captain Radcliff, and Captain Edward Rawfthome. Captain Chifenhall entered Firft, and being fupported by the Referve, the Town, after about an
River which was fordable.- f Then Ids Lordfhip having dembliihed the W orks
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Works of this Town alfo, and judging that an ufelefs Garrifon was not only a Lofs to his Majefty’s Service, but a plague to the Country by pillaging and oppreffing them; and having re-freflied his So diers four or five Days, called a Council of War, at which he propofed a March to Manchefter, then the chiefeft Garrifon the Rebels had in the Country, urging that now the Enemy were under greatConfternation, and the Works of the Town inconfi-derable: to refolved Men; that there were a great Party in the Place well affefted to bis Majefty’s Caufe, and that he was advertifed that on Appearance of the King’s Forces they would fhew themfelves.
Therefore if it pleafed the Lord Molyneux, and the other Commanders, (by whofe Affiftance the late happy Actions were atchieved) to march with him to Manchefter, he would either .reduce the Town, or lay his Bones before it.
This Propofal met with fome Oppo-fition, but after a foort Debate it was carried for a March, and the Army advanced that Night as far as Chorley, but before Two o’clock in the Morn-ing,' Lord Molyneux was by his Majefty’s Command, called up to Oxford,
with his Regiment, Lord Derby with much Importunity, intfeated his Stay but for four Days, that he might at-
Whilft his Lordfltip' was engaged in tempt fomething upon Manchefter, new Contrivances to^ advance his Ma-.which the Lord Molyneux, and thei^fjefty’s Service,, he.-received aw Exprcfs . other Officers with him flatly refufe^ from the King,r importing that his and befides produced their Commit Enemies had formed fome Projects to fions to make up their Regiment, and feize the Ifle of. Man ;- that th<^ had a .broken Companies out of the Forces Party in the Hand inCon fedef/cy with newly railed by the Earl of Derby. them; and without fpeedy Care, it Was '	iii
No doubt but this Ufage muft be veiy fhocking to that great Lord, who being not .only deferred by his Auxiliaries, but deprived of his own Forces, was left alone to fecure himfelf by a Retreat to his Houfe at Latham; at which his, and the King’s Enemies, taking new Courage, united all their fcattered Forces into one Body, and af-fembled at Wigan, a Town, newly gar-rifoned by his Lordlhip;, and'trufted to the Command of Major General Blaire, a Scotch Gentleman, recommended to him by the King ; which Town they took and plundered to the very Uten-fils and Plate of the Communion Table, which one of their Puritanical Teachers, one Tyldeiley, liung round him, as the Spoils and Plunder of a Popifh Idol.
All thofe Difcouragements, fuffici-ent to have funk the Spirits, and fhaken the Loyalty of the moil affec- ' tionate and dutiful. Subject in the World, ferved/dniy to excite his great and.loyal Mind and Thoughts, how to retrieve all pad Misfortunes; and when feme about him took, as bethought, an unbecoming Liberty in reflecting upon the Court, he was db-ferved to filence them with that Paf-fage of Tacitus r
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in Danger of being loft; then thanked him for his many good Services in England, and befought him to haften fpeedily thither, for the Security of that Place.
Upon.his Lordfhip’s perufal of thefe Difpatches, he fpoke to his Lady with more than ordinary - Quicknefs and Concern, faying, “ My Heart, my Ene-“ mies have now their Will', .having “ prevailed with his Maj efty to order “ me to. the Ifte of Man, as a fofter “ Banifhment from his Prefence, and “ their Malice.”
His Lordihip who always knew how to obey, but never to difpute his King’s Commands, was upon this Qccafion under inexprciiible Grief and Confu-fion of Mind, being as it were at a Lofs and Struggle of Thoughts, how, and in what Manner to conduct him-felf in fo critical a Juncture, with Te-gard to his Majefty’s Commands, and the Service he was capable of doing for him in England; reafoning with himfelf in the following Manner, and faying, “ I that have with the few that “ durft take my Part, hitherto kept *‘ the greateft Part of Lancaihire in “ Subjection to his Majefty, in Spite “ of his Enemies, muft now abandon “ my Family, Friends, and Country’s “ Safety,/to the Malice of a wicked ° Multitude, without either Mercy, or “ Qompaflion.”
But (as his Lordfhip’s Memoirs go on) it being now known.that the Queen • whs at York with great Forces, I was advifed, and requefted, by the loyal Gentlemen then with me, to go to her Majefty, and reprefent to her ourdif-trefled State, and theNeceflityof giving
us fpecdy Help and Relief, which I complied with, and leaving the few Forces I had in Lancashire, under Command of Lord Molyneux, of which I have a long Story of great Trouble I had with them, as well as the Enemy.
In my Abfence the Enemy pefieft themfelves of the whole Country, faying my Houfe, and Sir John Girling-ton’s,-and a Misfortune happening at Wakefield, prevented the Queen’s fending Part of the Forces with her to our Afliftance, and the Lancaihire Troops yet remaining, taking a March towards York, in hopes of meeting me there, were difappointed, which verified the old Proverb; that, “ Ill Fortune feldom “ comes alone.”
For at thatTime a Report was fpread that fome Scots intending to aflift the Parliament would land in the North, and in their Way endeavour to take • the Ifte of Man, which might prove of ill Confequence to his Majefty’s Affairs, to which I gave not much Heed, but continued my Defire to wait on the Queen to Oxford, (where the King then was) and during my ftay there I wrote the following Letter to my Son Charles, Lord Strange, and had enlarged, but was fuddenly called away, ,viz. “ That I had received Letters from “ the Ifte of Man, intimating the great
Danger of a Revolt there; for that “ many People,following the Example “ of England, began by murmuring
and complaining againft the Go-// vernment, and from fome feditious “ and wicked Spirits, had learned the “ fame LeiTon with the Londoners, to “ come-to Court in a tumultuous Man-“ ner, demanding new Laws, and a
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to prevent the impending Mifchief in Time, as well for his Majefty’s Service, as the Prefervation of my own Inheritance.”
Thus far I have digreffed. to /take off that Objection often aiked, that when every gallant Spirit had engaged himfelf for the King and Country why I left the Nation, deferred his Majefty’s Service and Caufe, and became a Neuter, with many fuch like invidious and malicious Suggeftions
to my Prejudice, but I blefs God I am fully fatisfied of my own Conduct and Integrity of Heart, well remembering all thofe Circumftances, as well as the wicked Infinuations of my implacable and reftlefs Enemies.
How others may be fatisfied herewith I know not, but think this ihort Relation, - for want of Time to fet Things in a fuller Light, may rather puzzle the Minds of the Readers, if any Ihpuld chance to fee it but yourfelf, but you my Son, are bound to believe well of your Father, and I to .	t	„
be thankful to Almighty- GOD, that advifing and dnftr Lifting him in the
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you fo well underftand yourfelf, and me; as for others, I am unconcerned whether they underftand me or not.
.Upon the above Advice by her Ma-jefty and Friends, I returned to La-tham, and having fecretly made what Provifions I poiiible could, of Men,
Provifions I poiiible coll
Money, and Ammunition, for the Defence and Protection of my Wife and Children, againft the Infolcnce and Affronts, of the Enemy, prepared for
rials as might anfwer thofe Ends I was
fent about.
Leaving my Houfe, and Children, and all my Concernsun England to the' Care of my Wife, a Perfon of Virtue and Honour; equal to her high Birth and Quality, who being now left alone,
a. Woman, a Stranger in the Country, (and as the Enemy thought)^'without Friends, Provifions, or Ammunition for Defence or Refiftance^oncluded. that Latham Houfe would fall an eafy Prey to them, to which Purpofe they' procured a Commiflion from the Parliament to reduce it by Treaty or Force.
But before I proceed to acquaint the World with the Conduct and Bravery of this moft heroic and noble Lady, in Defence of herfelf, Family, and Friends, give me Leave to attend her Hufband, the puiflant Earl of Derby* to his Principality of Man, and' relate from his own Memoirs', the State lie found; that -Place in, with his Conduct aiM fylanagtjcent thereof, and his Ob-feryStions "of that Hand and People, alfo his Inftruftions, by Letters from thence to his Son the Lord • Strange,.
8 a	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable*
Government of that Ifland when it fhould defcend to him, with the Conduct and Management of himfelf and Family, in the Courfe of his Life.
My coming to the Ifle of Man proved in good Time, for it was believed by moll, that a few Days longer Abfence would have ended the happy, Peace that Ifland had fo long enjoyed. When the People knew of my coming they were much affehted with it, as all new 'Things ufually do the common Sort, but this good I found, that my Lieutenant, Captain Greehalgh, had wifely managed theBufinefs by Patience, and good ConduA, and obferving the general Diforder, had confidered that the People were to be won as your tame wild Beafts, by fcratching and ftroak-ing, and not by violent Wreftling, left they fhould turn upon you and know their Strength; and who fo powerful a Prince, if a Multitude rife againft him, being alone, or with a few, can well be able to refift them? As it is not therefore good that the common People know their own Strength; fo is it fafeft to keep them ignorant of what they may do, but rather give them daily Occafion to admire the Power and Clemency of their Lord; and this lo be done as often as he exercifeth Juftice, and Mercy; the one without too much Rigour, (but ftill according to the Laws) and the other with Soft-nefs upon fit Objects, and thofe to make his own Aft; for every A£f of Grace, or whatever is good and plea-fl ng, muft come immediately from himfelf; and never let it be known that any particular Perfon hath Power or Occafion to perfuade you to do what
is good and juft; and if you be jealous that they would think fuch an one your Advifer, be fure fome Time to deny that Man fome Thing, that Notice may be taken of it; and fhew the World that Reafon and Juftice is the Rule you are governed by; but if in any Thing you are obliged to be harfh, of that let another bear a Share, and when you deny, or aflliift let another’s Mouth pronounce it.
The Captain before my coming had imprifoned fome faucy Fellow, in the Face of the Rabble, who cried aloud that they would all fare as that Man did; which he warily feemed not to fear, and only threatened to lay every Man by the Heels that continued to behave in that faucy Manner he had. done; well knowing that if he pu-nifhed him at that Time, the reft would have refeued him, which would have let them fee their own Power, and how little his Staff of Office could annoy or hurt them. He then adjourned the Court to anotherTimc, and wifhed them for the future to put their Complaints in Writing, and with good Words promifed to redrefs all their juft Grievances, and for that Purpofe would fend over to me, without whom he told them noLaw could be changed; with which they were well pleafed, and fo departed.
Here you may obferve the Benefit of a good Governor; and indeed of any Servant in any Office of Truft; for the firft Judgment we make of a great Man’s Underftanding is in the Choice of his Servants and Followers; .for if they be good and faithful, then he is reputed a wife Man, as having Kriow-
- ledge
Houfe of ST Ahl LEY, from the ConquelL
ledge to difcem, and for want of this Caution and Care, many great Families in England are ruined.
The Earl of DERBY’S Character of Captain Greek ajlg,h, and his Reafons for his Choice of him for GOVERNOR.
“ Firftr That he was a Gentleman “ well born, and fuch ufpally fcorn a “ bafe Action: Secondly, That he has
a good Eftate of his own, and there-- fore need not Borrow of another, “ which hath been a Fault in this “ Country; for when Governors have “ wanted, and been forced to be Be-“ holding to thpfe who may be the “ greateft Offenders againft the Lord “ and Country, in fuch Cafe the Bor-“ rower becomesServant to the Lender, “ to the Stoppage, if not the Perver-“ lion of Juftice; next he was a De-41 ppty Lieutenant and Juftice of Peace “ for his own Country; he governed “ his own Affairs well, and therefore “ was the more likely to do mine fo; “ he hath been approved Prudent and “ Valiant, and as fuch fitter to be “ trufted; in fine he is fuch that I “ thank GOD for him, and Charge “ you to Love him as a Friend.”
When the People are bent on Mif-chief it is folly rafhly to oppofc them without fufficient Power and Force, neither is it Difcretion to,yield to them too much; for Reafon will never per-fuade a fenfelefs Multitude ; but keeping your Gravity and State, comply with them feemingly, and rather defer the Matter to another Time, with Afiurance that you will forward their
own Defires, by which you may gain Time, as if convinced by their Reafons and not the fear of any Danger from them; and by the next Meeting you may have taken off fome of their leading Champions, and either by good Words or fair Promifes foftene them to your own Will; remembering that Tumults are eafier allayed by daring and undaunted Men, than by wifer ones; for commonly the People more efteem the Breaft, than the Brain, and are much fooner compelled than per-fuaded.
It is fit to have Charity for all Men, and think tfiem Honeft; but as it is certain that the greater Number of Men are bad, I may fear that few are good ; the fin e Way for a right Knowledge of this I took to be, by appointr* Ing a meeting in the Heart’ of the Country, which I did, and there wiih-cd every Man' to tell his Grievances freely, and I would hear all Complaints and give them the beft Remedy I could; by which I thought thofe who had entered into any evil Defigns a-gainft me or the Country, might have Time to find fome Excufes for themy felyes and lay the Blame and Charge^ upon others.
And thus I chofe rather to give them Hopes and prevent their falling intQ violent Courfes before I could be provided for them; and indeed J feared fo many were engaged by Oath and Covenant, after the new Way of Scotland, that it would not be eafy to make them fenfible of their Error; never-thelefs Matters were not fo ripe as I could have wifhed, and it was not a--mifs to addrefs myfelf even to the chief 2	’ Actors
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Adtors in the Bufmefs, telling them fomebody was to blame; that I apprehended the People were milled, and that it would be an acceptable Service in thofe who could bring them off it; and that if the common Sort could be perfuaded of their Miftake, it would hinder my further Enquiry into the Bulinefs; upon which fome did really confefs their Faults, and difcover to me the whole Defigri, by which I made one good Step, by dividing the Faction, remembering the old Proverb, Divide et Impcra,. upon this each Parilh gave me a Petition of their Grievances, and I gave them good Words, promifing to take the fame into Conndefation; upon which they appeared eafy, and departed: After this I appointed another Meeting at Caftle Peel, where I expected fome Wrangling, and met with it; but I had provided for my own Safety, and if OccaTion were, to curb 'the reft; for in fuch Cafes ’tis good to be allured, of which Notice being taken you will have much better dealing with them; otherwife the old faying is very true, “ That he that is not fure to Win is fure to Lofe.” Many Bufy Bodies fpoke Manx only; which fome officioufly faid, fhould be commanded to hold their Peace, which I was unwilling to; for I came prepared to give tliem Liberty of Speech, knowing by good Experience that thofe People were their Mother's Children, loving to fpeak much; and fhould be dealt with like prattling Women or a barking Cur at your Hories Heels'; give them Liberty to put themfelvcs .out of Breath, and they' 1 be the fooner Quiet, and will be .more Content if
you deny them after much fpeaking, than if you prevent it.
It is good in all Bufmefs where you muft appear in Public (where you are as all great Men are, like a Candle upon a Mountain) to appear in fuch a Manner as may gain you RefpeCt and Praife of the People; and fo fit that all may look upon you: I refolved to give them Liberty of Speaking in 'their own Way, (for to Realbn with them was in vain) provided they crofted not my Motions which I was careful might be juft and lawful.
And to bring my Defigns to pafs, I had Spies amongft, the Bufy Bodies, who after they had fufficiently fpoke ill of my Office, began to fpeak well of me, and of my good Intent to them to give them all Satisfaction in their juft Grievances; hat they were allured I did Love the People, 'and that if any were fo unreafonable to provoke me they would run a great Hazard; that I had Power to maintain my Actions, and there was no Appeal.
When I took Occafion above to commend the Worth of the prefent Governor, I did it as a Rule to you in the Choice of your Counfellors; and remember this Benefit by Council, that all good Succefs will be your Glory, and all Evil your Excufe, having followed the Advice of others, your Counfellors are not likely to be better than yourfelf, but if they were, know this, that to aik Council of one’s Betters tieth to Performance ^ otherwife to aik Council is to Honour him of whom it is required, and you at Liberty to do as you pleafe.
While I was here I became acquaint ed
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.	8^
with one Capt. Chriftian, who I obferved had Abilities fufficient to do me Service; and being recommended to me by a Friend,. I enquired more of him, and was told he was a Manx Man born, and had made himfelf a good Fortune in the Indies; and he offered himfelf on thefe Terms; that being refolved to retire into his own Country, whether he had the Place of Power ’or no, he would be Content, to hold the Staff of Government until I made Choice of another, and would then willingly Refign, and as for the Pay, he. valued that fo little, that he would do the Sendee without any,. or what plcafed me.
He was’ an excellent Companion, and as rude as a Sea Captain ftiould be, but Something more refined and civilized by ferving the Duke of. Buckingham about a Year at Court. Thus far I cannot much blame myfelf, but think if I had a Jewel of Value I prized it at too high a Rate, which he knew very well and made ufe thereof to his own Ends, therein abufing me and pre-fuming of my Support in all his' Actions, which from Time to Time he gilded over with fuch fair Pretences, that 1 believed and trufted him too much.
Alfo I gave too little Heed to Complaints,- againft him which was my Fault, for which I have been whipped, and will do fo no more: While he governed for fome Years, he pleafed me very well, and had the Quality of die belt -of Servants, for whatever I- bid him do he would perform, and if it fucceeded ill, would take it upon himfelf, but if well, would give me the
Glory of it: This he did while .1 continued my Favours to him, the Denial of which would have been as Ungrateful as Unwife in me, if I fhould not thereby have obliged him to me as the only Means to keep him good’
But fuch is the Nature and Condition of Man, that .moft have one Failing of other to fully their beft Actions, and his was that Condition which is ever found with Drunkenness viz. Avarice' • which is obferved to- grow in Men. with their Years.
He was ever forward in making many ’Requefts, which while they were fit for me to grant I did not deny ; but indeed a good Servant would rather be prevented by his Lord’s Ge-nerofity, than demand any Thing of himfelf, and chufe to be enriched, as if enforced, rather than pretend to it, and afcribe the Benefit to the Honour of his Office, and not to Merit.
But I obferved the more I gave, the . more he aiked, and fuch Things which . I could not grant without much Prejudice to myfelf and others; fo after a While I did fometime refufe him; on which it was fure to fall out, according to the old Obfervation, “ That “ when a Prince hath given all, and “ the Favourite, can well defire no “ more, then both grow weary of one “ anotherill Servants, like fome Difeafes are eafily cured when known, but are dangerous!if undifeovered.
Thus far having attended the noble Lord Derby to his.Principality of Man, and related his TfanfacTions there;. with the great Confufion^ Diforder, and. Sedition he found the People in.
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on his 'firft coming thither; and alfo obferved his great Prudence, Judgment, and Temper in calming their Pailions, healing their Seditions, and reconciling them in Duty to their King, in Obedience to himfelf, and in Friendfliip and Unity with one another: Let us therefore for a While leave him in Peace, and the good Ef-teem of his Sub]efts, and return to the great and noble Lady DERBY, and her Children, at Latham Houfe, and Enquire of their Welfare during his Abfence; whom he had left upon the very Brink of Dan er, and for ought he knew, utter DeftruCtion.
We have already informed the Reader, that before his Lordihip left England, he had been advertifed that the Rebels had got a Commiflion from the Parliament to reduce Latham Houfe, by Treaty or Force, . which induced him to make all pofiible Provision of Men, Money, and Ammunition, for the Support and Defence of his noble Family and their Friends, who had kindly offered their belt Affiftance; of which the great Lady DERBY being informed, and alfo of the malicious Defigns and evil Intentions of the Enemy againft her, ufed all Diligence to get into the Houfe more Men, Arms, and Provifions, and to keep it at leaf! lb long as to procure honourable Terms to quit it; but this was done by her with, all pofiible Speed, Privacy, and Caution, that the Enemy might not alledge her gathering of Forces as an ACt of public Hoftility, and therefore haften their Approach, before her Levies were got in Readjnefs.
A True and Genuine ACCOUNT of the Famous and ever Memorable SIEGE of
LATHAM-HOUSE, in the County of LANCASTER. Begun the Twenty-eighth of Febru-■ ary, 1644 ; and carried on by the
Parliament Army, under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, General; afiifted by the Colonels Egerton, Rigby, Afhton, Holcroft, and Major Morgan, Engineer, to the Twenty-feventh of May, 1644: When Colonel Rigby, then Commander in Chief, thought fit to withdraw the Forces, and march to BOLTON; During * which Time the Houfe was defended by the renowned and moll noble Lady CHARLOTTE, Countefs of DERBY, Governess, by the Af-fiftance of Major Farmer, and the Captains Farrington, Charnock, Chifenhall, Rofthern, Ogle, and Moli-neux Radcliffe; by whofe Valour and good Conduct fire made fo brave a Defence, as to occafion the raifing of the SIEGE.
“ . OLONELAffiton, of Middleton, 0 Colonel Egerton, of Shaw, Co-“ Ionel Holcroft, of Holcroft, and Co-“ Ionel Rigby, with their Regiments, “ and Sir Thomas Fairfax from York-“ ihire, with his Troops, was called to “ their Affiftance, to Befiege or take “ by Storm (for ought they knew) an “ unarmed Lady in her own Houfe: “ But that which the Heroic Lady moft feared was, that they intended.
“ a fudden Afiault, which fhe collected
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Houfe
“ edfrom thehfultitudeof their Forces “ then in View; and that her own Men “ being but raw and unexperienced, “ would be thereby terrified, and not “ make a worthy Refiftance.
“ She therefore caufed her Men to “ be lifted under fix Captains, whom “ for their Courage and Integrity, *‘ fhe chofe out or the Gentlemen “ that were in the Houfe to her ■“ Affiftance, viz. Captain Farrington, “ of Werden, Captain Charnock, of
Charnock, Captain Chifenhall, of “ Chifenhall, Captain Rofthern, of New “ Hall, Captain Ogle, of Prefcot, and “ Captain Molineux Radcliffe: Thefe “ fhe defired to Train, Inftrudt, and *“ Encourage her Men, being yet un-“ ikilful and unfit for Service.
“ Thefe Captains received all their “ Orders from Captain Farmer, whom “ her Ladylhip had made Major of “ the Houfe; and he received his Or-“ ders from her Ladylhip: He was by “ Nation a Scotchman, very fkilful in “ the Art of War, having been long “ in the School of Mars in the Low “ Countries; a Man of true Courage “ and approved Conduct. This wor-“ thy Gentleman had the Misfortune “ to be afterwards flain in the Battle “ of Marfton Moor, ferving there un-“ der Colonel Chifenhall.
“ This Martial and Heroic Lady “ commanded all the Affairs of the “ Houfe to be managed with the great-“ ed Privacy, and permitted none to “ go out of the Gates,, but thofe fhe “ could truft and rely upon, both for “ Prudence and Loyalty; thereft were " fo concealed, that when the Enemy “ drew near to Latham-Houfe, they
“ dreamed of no other Refiftance but “ from her own Servants.
“;In the Interim the Officers of the “ Enemy being advanced to Ormfkirk, G two Miles from Latham: Sir Thor “ mas Fairfax, asCommander in Chief, “ fent on the Twenty-eighth of Fe-“ bruary, 1644, a Trumpet and a Genr “ tieman of Quality with him, to der “ fire a friendly Conference with thp “ Lady Derby, to prevent if it might “ be, all the Mifchief that would enr “ fueby aMifunderftanding and Breach “ betwixt her Ladylhip and him, to •“ this her Ladylhip confented.
“ Whereupon Sir Thomas Fairfax, “ and fome Gentlemen with him, im-“ mediately came from Ormfkirk to “ Latham, and were admitted to her “ Ladyfliip; but in the mean Time by “ the Advice of Major Farmer, to prer “ vent a Surprize, or fudden AfTault, “ her Ladylhip caufed all her Soldiers “ to be placed in very good Order, un-“ der their refpedtive Officers, from “ the Main Guard in the firft Court, “ down to the great Hall, where her “ Ladylhip had ordered Sir Thomas “ Fairfax to be received; andhadplac-“ ed all the reft of her Men in open ” Sight, upon the Walls, and the Tops: “ of the Towers, in fuch Manner, “ that they might appear to be, both “ numerous, and well difciplinedr In “ Hopes that this unexpected Appear-
ance of fo much Strength within, “ might give fome Terror to the Ene-“ my without; as fhe feared their “ great Number without might fome-*‘ thingDifcourage her new railed Sol-“ diers within.
“ Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Gen-“ tlemcm
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“ tiemen with him being arrived at 44 the Houfe, .were admitted, and re-44 ceived by her Ladyfliip with the 44 greateft Civility; when after a fl tort “ Refpite, Sh’ Thomas acquainted her “ Ladyfliip,that they were commanded 44 'by the Parliament to reduce that 44 Houfe to their Obedience, and that 44 they were Commiffioned to offer to 44 her Ladyfliip an honourable and 44 fafe Remove with her Children, Ser-44 vants, and all her Goods, (Arms and 44 Cannon only excepted,) to her Lord’s “ Houfe at Knowfley;. and that flie 44 fhould enjoy one Moiety of her “ Lord’s Eftate in all Places of Eng-44 land, for the Support of herfelf and 44 Children.
44	To this her Ladyfliip anfwered, 44 that flie was there left under a double “ Truft; one of Loyalty and Faith to 44 her Hufband, .the other of Allegiance 44 and Duty to her Sovereign; that ’till 44 flie had obtained their Confent, flie “ could not give up that Houfe with-44 out manifeft Difloyalty and Breach 44 of Truft to them both, therefore de ■ 44 fired only one Months Time to know “ their Pleafure therein; and then if “ flie obtained their Confent, flie would 44 quietly yield up the Houfe; if not, 44 e hoped they would excufe her if “ flie endeavoured to preferve herHor 44 nour and Obedience, though in her 44 own Ruin.
“ To this Sir Thomas Fairfax re-“ plied, that it exceeded their Com-74 million to give to her Ladyfliip any “ further Refpite for Confideration “ than that one Day, and fo departed,
“ obferving in his‘ recefs from the “ Houfe, the Situation and Strength “ of it, and the Order and regular Dif-“ pofal of the Soldiers; as perhaps 44 either conceiving the Number of her “ Soldiers to be greater than they “ were, or fufpeefting the Refolution 44 and Courage of the common Sol 44 diers of his own Party, or elfe\ aS 44 being a Perfon of greater Honour 44 and Generolity than his Confede-44 rates, judged it ignoble and unmanly 44 to Aflault a Lady of her high Birth 44 and Quality in her own Houfe, with-44 out any other Provocation than 44 keeping her Lord’s Houfe by his 44 Command; a Lady that had left her 44 Country and Kindred for the Enjoy-44 ment of the Proteftant Religion.
44	And agreeably thereto, at the 44 firft Council of War after their return 44 from the faid Conference, he de-44 dared himfelf againft a prefent 44 Storm, (urged by lome) and advifed 44 a regular Siege, which Advice was 44 greatly advanced by a Circuniftance 44 that occured during the Time of the 44 Treaty with the Lady; a Captain of 44 the Parliament Party then before the 44 Houfe, obferving one of her Lady-44 fliip’s * Chaplains whom the Earl 44 had left with her as a Perfon well 44 able to afljft her with his Council, 44 and would be faithful to her in all 44 her Concerns ; and who had received 44 their Education together, and were 44 not only well acquainted, but inti-44 mate and familial’ with each other1, 44 attheClofe of the before-mentioned 44 Parly .with the Lady, the Captain
44 gening
* The Rer. Mr. Rutter, afterward Bifhop.
/ Ai ,
Houfe of S T A N L E
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“ getting an Opportunity of free Dif-“ courfe with the faid Chaplain, at-!* tempted by Direction from the Com-“ mander of that Party, to gain from “ him the Secrets of that Council, by “ which the Lady had refolved to keep “ the Houfe, and conjured him by Vir-“ tue of their ancient Frieridihip, to “ tell him truly upon what Confidence “ die proceeded to reject the Offers “ made her by the Parliament, and M think to defend her Houfe againft “ fo great a Strength as was then be-“ fore it encamped in the Park.
< “ To this the Chaplain deriving on “ the fame Defign with his Lady, to a-“ vert a fudden Affault anfwered, that “ upon a firm Promife of Secrecy, he “ would acquaint the Captain with “ the Truth and Myftery of that Coun-v cil, viz. “ That the Lady had but “ little Provifion of Victuals in the “ Houfe, that lire was oppreffed with 9 the Number of her Soldiers, that “ file would not be able to fubfift a-“ bove 14 Days for Want of Bread to “ fupply them, that flie hoped they “ would give a fudden Onfet to the “ Houfe, not from the Multitude and “ Courage of her Soldiers to give them “ aRepulfe,nor upon her own Strength “ to difcourage the Enemy to raife the “ Siege; but in Cafe they fhould con-“ tinue a Siege, flie muft inevitably K be forced to furrender the Place.”
“ The Captain, as -the Chaplain ima-“ gined he would, as foon as he came ‘- to the Council, imparted the Confe-“ rencewith the Chaplain, as the grand “ Secret o£ the Lady and her Captains; “ to which Sir Thomas Fairfax, and “ the Colonels with him giving Cre-
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“ dit, laid afide all Thoughts of a fud-“ den Force, and refolved on a clofe “ and formal Siege.
“ Fourteen Days being expired, Sir “ Thomas fent a Summons by aTrum-“ pet. to the Lady to furrender the “ Houfe immediately, fuppofing upon “ the infallible Advice of the Chap-“ lain that her Provifions were then “ all fpent; but by this Time her Sol-“ diets were well hardened, the Walls “ well lined, the. Cannon well fitted, “ and the Lady refolved to make a “ brave Defence, and fet the Enemy “ at Defiance.
“ And therefore by the Trumpet f< returned the following Anfwer, to “ wit, “ That as flie had not loft her “ Regard for the Church of England^ “ nor her Allegiance to her prince, nor “ her Faith to her Lord, flie could not “ therefore as yet give up that Houfe; “ that they muff never hope to gain “ it, ’till flie had either loft all thefe, “ or her Life in Defence of them.”
“ Whereupon Sir Thomas Fairfax “ feeing the Lady’s Refolution for a “ vigorous Refiftance, and that the “ Chaplain had only abufed the Cre-“ dulity of the confident Captain, left “ Colonel Egerton, Commander in “ Chiefs and with him Major. Morgan, “ as Engineer to manage the Siege ; “ himfelf with his own Troops being. “ commanded, by the Parliament to “ other Setwice
“ Latham-Houfe ftands upon a Flat, “ upon a moorifh, fpringy, and fpu-“ mous Ground,was encompaffedwith “ a ftfong Wall of two Yards thick; “ upon the Walls were nine Towers, “ flanking each other, and in every N	“ Tower
Honourabk
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“ Tower were fix Pieces of Ordnance, “ that played three one Way,and three “ the other: Without the Wall was a “ Mote eight Yards wide, and two “ Yards deep, upon the Back of the “ Mote between the Wall and theGraff “ was a ftrong Row of Palifadoes a-round; befides all thefe there was a “ high ftrong Tower, called the Eagle “ Tower, in the Midi! of the Houfe, “ furmounting all the reft, and the “ Gate Houfe was alfo two high, and “ ftrongBuildings,with a ftrongTower “ of each Side of it; and in the En-“ trance to the firft Court, upon the “ Tops of thefe Towers were placed “ thebeft and chqiceftMarkfmen, who “ ufually attended the Earl in his “ Hunting and other Sports, asHuntf-“ men, Keepers, Fowlers, and the “ like; who continually kept Watch “ with fcrued Guns and long Fowling £‘ Pieces upon thofe Towers, to the “ great Annoyance and Lofs of the “ Enemy, efpecially of their Com-“ manders, who were frequently killed “in their Trenches, or as they came “ or went to or from them: Befides all “ that is faid hitherto of the Walls, V Towers, and Mote, &c. there is fome-“ thing fo particular and romantic in “ the encral Situation -of this Houfe “ as if Nature herfelf had formed it “ for a ftrong Hold or Place of Secu-rity; for before the Houfe to the “ South and South-Weft, is a riling “ Ground fo near it as to overlook the “ Top of it, from which it falls fo “ quick, that nothing planted againft “ it on thofe Sides can touch it further-u than the front Wall; and on the ‘ North and Eaft Sides, there is ano-
“ ther riling Ground, even to the Edge “ of the Mote, and then falls away fo “ quick, that you can fcarce at the “ Diftance of a Carbine Shot fee the “ Houfe over that Height, fo that all “ Batteries placed there are fo far be-“ low it as to be of little Sendee a-“ gainft it; (of which more hereafter) “ only let us obferve by the Way, that “ the uncommon Situation of it may “ be compared to the Palm of a Man’s. “ Hand, Hat in the Middle, and co-“ vered with a Rifing round about it; “ and fo near to it, that the Enemy in “ two Years Siege were never able to “ raife a Battery againft it fo as to “ make a Breach in the Wall praftic-“■ able to enter the Houfe by Way of “ Storm: Now let us fee how the “ Enemy proceeded in their Attack of “ it; after the Departure of Sir Tho-“ mas Fairfax.
“ Colonel Egerton pulhed on by the “ inveterate Malice and Spite of Colo-“ nel Rigby, gave Orders for drawing “ a Line of Circumvallation round a-“ bout the Houfe; which being ob-“ ferved by tire Lady and her 0&cers> “ they refolved to give them fome “ Difturbance in their firft Approaches, “ and in a Council agreed to make a “ Sally upon them with two Hundred “ Men, under the. Command of Major* “ Farmer, which was carried on with “ fo much Bravery and Refolution; “ that they beat the Enemy from all “ their Trenches, and purlued them' “ to their main Guard, and even as “ far as Prudence and good Conduct would' permit, without Hazard of “ being intercepted in their Retreat “ by the Enemies Horfe,
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“ particularly on the Twelfth of April, “ a Cannon Ball came through the “ Lady’s Chamber Window, but did “ little Damage, upon this the Sally “ above refolved on, was put intoExe-“ cution: The Van was commanded ‘ by that brave and loyal Gentlemen “ Capt. Molineux Radcliffe: The main “ Body by Captain Chifenhall, and the “ Referve by Major Farmer? and in “ this Order they affaulted the Ene-“ mies Trenches, with fo much Bra* “ very, that after half an Hours fliarp “ Difpute, they made themfelves Maf-“ ters of all their Works, nailed up “ and overturned all their Cannon, “ and thofe they found upon Carriages “ theyrqlled into the Mote, and brought “ the Mortar Piece into the Houfe; “ and continued Mafters of the Ene-“ mies Works and Trenches all that ” Day, and with the utmoft Pains and “ Diligence endeavoured to deftroy “ and render ufelefs every one of “ them.
“ During all this fliarp and bloody “ Fight, the heroic and moft undaunt-“ ed LadyGovernefs, was without the “ Gates and fometimes near the Tren-“ dies, encouraging her brave Sol-“ diets with her Prefence; and as ihe “ conftantly begun all her Undertak-“ ings with Prayers ill her Chapel, fo “ fiie clofed them with Thankfgiving, “ and truly it'was hard to fay whether “ ihe was more eminent for Courage, “ Prudence, and ftcady Refolution; V. or Juftice, Piety, and Religion: And “ I think we may juftly infer; that the good Providence of Almighty GOD watchfully proteded her from the evil Defigns and wicked Machinal “ noiis
*' This Sally was made the Twelfth “ of March, 1644. Wherein were killed “ about Sixty of the Enemy, and near “ as many more made Prifoners, with theLofs only of two Men: After this “ fmart Attack by the Befieged, the “ Enemy doubled all their Guards, “ and drew newLines about theHoufe " at a greater Diftance, (as one Effed “ of the Situation above described/) “ called in all the Country, and made “ the poor Men work in the Trenches ; “ where great Numbers of them were “ Hain by the frequent Sallies from “ the Houfe.
“ In about five Weeks they finifhed ^‘ their new Line, and then run a deep “ Trench near to the Mote, and there “ raifed a very ftrong Battery; where-“ on they placed a large Mortar Piece, “ (fent them from London,) from “ which they call about fifty Stones “ of fifteen Inches Diameter into the “ Houfe; as alfo Grenadoes of the “ fame Size, alias Bomb Shells,"the “ firfl of which falling near the Place “ where the Lady and her Children “ with all the Commanders were fat “ at Dinner, fhivered all the Room, “ but hurt no Body.
“ The Lady and her Commanders “ obferving the Soldiers dome tiring “ terrified with the frequent ihooting “ of thofe unufual and deftrudive Fire “ Ballsj, refolved at a Council of. War, “ to make a ftrong Sally, and attempt “ the taking of that Mortar Piece.
“ Befides which, the Enemy had “ Twenty-nine fhort Cannon, and Five “ longer for Grenadoes; with feveral “ other Cannon, from which they fired “ upon the Houfe many Days, but
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“ tions of her incenfed and inveterate “ Enemies, who as the Prifoners in-“ formed us, had about the Time of “ our fuccefsful Sally, projected to "• fcale the Walls on every Side of the “ Houfe with their whole Army at one “ Time, and to deftroy the Countefs “ of Derby, and all drat belonged to “ her- '	. • .
“ The EnemyhavingralliedtheirSol-“ diers,f epoflefledthemfelvestheNight “ following of their Trenches, and for “ five or fix Days wrought with all “ their Forces to repair the Breaches “ that had been made; in which, not-“ withftanding, they were three Times “ diflodged and fcattered, by vigor-“ ous Sallies from the Houfe.
“ Colonel Rigby, in the mean Time, “. taking Occafion from the late De-“ feat, accufed Colonel Egerton of “ Negledt and Indolence in carry-“ ing on the Siege, and got Commif-V fion from the Parliament to be Com-“ mander in Chief, and to give him “ his due, though a Rebel, was nei-^ ther wanting in Care or Diligence “ to Diftrefs the Houfe: He denied a “ Pafs to three fick Gentlemen to go *‘ out of the Houfe, and would not *c fuffer a Midwife to go into the Houfe ^ to a Gentlewoman in Travail; nor “ a little Milk for the Support of young “ Infants, but was every way fevere “ and rude, beyond the Barbarity of “ a Turkifh General; for a Fortnight “ together he was permitted to carry “ on his Works without much Dif-“ turbance, the Houfe being in want ° of Powder to make frequentJSallies. ‘	“ But that Defeat being fupplied
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“ a Sally, the Lady propofed to the “ Council of War to make a frefh Af-“ fault upon all theirTrenches; which “ being agreed upon, Captain Edward “ Roftern had the Van, Captain Far -“' mer the main Body, and Capt. Chifen -“ hall the Referve; thefe Gentlemen be-“ haved with their ufual Courage and “ Refolution, beat the Enemy from “ all their Works, cleared theTrenches, “ and nailed up all their Canon, in “ which Service they flew one hun-“ dred and twenty of the Enemy, with “ the Lofs only of - three Soldiers, and “ five or fix wounded.
“ The Enemy having lain four “ Months before the Houfe, in which “ Time by the Confeflion of Prifoners “ taken in the feveral Sallies, they had “ loft above twoThoufandMen; Colo-“ nel Rigby fent the Lady a Summons “ of another Nature than thofe for-“ merly fent by Sir Thomas Fairfax “ or Colonel Egerton, to wit, “ That “ he required and expected the Lady “ would forthwith deliverup the Houfe “ to the Service of the Parliament; “ that there was no Hopes of any Re-“ lief from the King’s Forces, which “ were then in a low and defperate “ Condition, and that if fhe refufed to “ deliver it up, upon that Summons, “ fhe muft hereafter expert the ut-“ moft Severity of War.”
“ Her Ladylhip having communi-“ cated this'Summons to the Council “ of War, did with their unanimous “ Confents return by the Trumpet “ who brought it, (for fire refufed to “ give any Anfwer in Writing.) “Trum-“ pet faid fhe, tell that infolent Re-“ bel Rigby,, that if he prefumes to
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“ The Earl of Derby being at that Time in the Ilie of Man, and alarmed with theDiftrefs of his Lady and Children, well knowing her great and noble Mind, that fhe would ra-
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ther chufe to perifh than give mp herfelf and them to Rigby's Mercy and Difpofal, haftened from the Ifland with all poffible Quick-nefs, and with the utmoft Speed, impldred his’Maj city’s Favour for
“ the Relief of his Lady and diftreffed " Children: His- Highnefs Prince Ru-“ pert ■ having at1 that Time happily *‘ obtained a Victory againft the Rebels “ at Newark, his Majefty gave Way
“ fome Accefs from other Places, made “ up. an Army of .three Thoufand, to “wit, !two Thoufand five Hundred ‘b Foot, and five Hundred Horfe; with Lyhefe he refolved to give Defiance to A the Prince;, haying there the Advan-“ tage of high and ftrong Mud Walls, “ with whichj and a large Ditch un-“ der them, the Enemy had many “ Months before environed that Town;”
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'“‘befieged by the Enemy, and to “‘ quicken his Highnefs in his March, the Earl of Derby gave his Soldiers
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' HE Prince, being advertifed R that the Siege of Latham-. “’ Houfe was raifed, and that Rigsby the “ late Befieger thereof with his Army “; was fortified in Bolton, refolved to
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' “ His Highnefs the Prince entered “ Lancaihire atStockportBridge,where “ he defeated a Party of the Enemy “ commanded by Colonel Duckenfield, “ and fome fent from Manchefter to “ guard that Pafs: Rigby-now hear-“ irigrthat the' Prince; had entered-the " Country, ^and. fearing a-Vifit from? i“i Kim thought pro’p^	Twenty-
“ feventh of May, 1644^ to raife the “ Siege of Latham-Houfe, and march “ with all his -Strength, being about 11 two -Thoufand'’Men,: id: Bolton, a
“ do all that lay in his Power to a-venge the Affronts and Abufes put uponi and fuffered by the brave and “ moft noble Lady Derby; to whom “ he -knew liimfclf nearly allied by “ Confanguinity of Blood; therefore “ waving their Garrifon of Manchef-“ ter, he haftened to Bolton, which ^ being but of, a. fmall Circuit, and “: defended with three Thouf^dMen,' {<: his Highnefs, rightly judgedy w^uld “ make a vigorous Refiftance^^j^w—. “ ever, having called a Council of “ Wai, ordered his Poll,..and prepared
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“ for a Storm, he gave Direcflions for the Aflault, which was performed
“ with much Gallantry and Refolu-“ tion by his Men; but being greatly ■“ annoyed from the Wall by rhe Ene-“ lilies Cannon, and the Multitude of ^ the Defendants, they were obliged zc-to retreat, and quit the Aflault, with '“ the Lofs of two Hundred Men. .' *
“ His Highnefs being greatly irri-“ tated and milled by thia Repulfe, “ but efpecially by the barbarous “ Cruelty of the Enemy, who mur-“ dered his Soldiers taken in the Storm “ in cold Blood, upon the Walls be-“ fore his Eyes ; with which he was “ highly provoked, and called a fe-“ cond Council’ of War, wherein he “ propofed a fecond Onfet: The Earl “ of Derby confidering how much he “ was concerned for- his Lady and “ Children, who, unlefs the Town “ were taken, wouldupon the Prince’s “ Departure be again immediately be-“ fieged, requefted his Highnefs to “ allow him two Companies of his “ old Soldiers, then under the Com-“ mand of Colonel Tyldefley, and to “ give him the Honour to Command “ the Van, faying, he would either ‘ enter the Town, or leave his Body 4‘ in the Ditch; his Highnefsappeared “ unwilling to hazard a Perfon of his* “ Worth in fo defparate an Acflion, yet “ uporf his Importunity complied-with “ his Requeft-; and Tilings being pre-ft pared and ready, the Princp gave ft Orders for An Aflault on all Parts-of “ the Town where it was poflible to “ make any Approache s. r - tr ■1 '. A ’ The Eai4 of Derby With; his. two ' ft hundred Men marched diretflly to
“ the Walls, and after a Quarter- of ft an Hour’s hot Difpute, entered the “ firft Man himfelf, who being bravely “ feconded With frefli Supplies, the “ Town was inftantly attacked on “ every Quarter-; Rigby himfelf got •“ away, but left two thoufand of his ft Men behind him, moft of which ^ftwere-flain upon the Place, the Prince W forbidding to give Quarter to any A Perfon then in Arms, becaufe they ‘ft had fo inhumanly murdered his p Men in cold Blhod.j .	;	-
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“ the fuddeh and furprifing Cpnqueft x‘ of this. Town (juft .after lb fmart a ft Repulfe) was chiefly attributed to ■ft.’the. Courage and Refolution of the “ brave Earl of Derby,; animated by a “ juft Concern for the Sufferings of “ liis Noble Laxly and Children'; and ft to. the Bravery of the; two hundred *‘ LancafliireMen he had the Honour to “ Command on; that Ocpafion, who “ all fought with gqual Ardour for “ Mie Relief of their Noble Lady Mif-ft trefs, being all Tenants and Neigh-*‘ hours Sons, railed, clothed, armed; “ and trained by that Valiant,'Earl, “ .but ungeneroufly and difgracefully ft taken;, from him by the King at ft Worcefter; wlipfe weak and eafy ft Temper proved' afterwards the Ruin “ of himfelf and his. brave and- gal-ft laht Subje&MieEarl of Denby i who ft; once in. all Appearance had Intcreft “ and-Power fuff-ciem, ^f & right Ufe “ had been made thereof*.rib have de-’ “ livered his Majefty frbml the Power > ft’ and Malice of all liis Enemies.- _ ’
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“ From this Place after fonie Days reft, his Highnefs was' prevailed upon to march to- Liverpool, to reduce, that Town, where rhe Enemy had a; ftrong Garrifon* under the Copamand or Colonel Moor, a worthy, Member of that rebellious Jun--‘ to, who fat at Weftminfter, and took
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“ T TP ON the Prince’s Arrival, neaft “ Liverpool, he was informed1 “ rhatit was well fortified with a ftrong “ and tugh.Mud Wall, and a Ditch of “ twelve Yards wide, and near three5 “ Yajfis deep, inclofing theTown from “ the.Eaft End of the Street called ‘1 DalerStreet*uand> fo Northward td “ the Riverj; and from Dale-Street' “ End- Eaft, and South-Eaft, being a' “ low (Marlhy Ground,, was. covered

Stores of War, as Occafionrequired: In and upon this Caftle were planted many Cannon, as well to annoy the Befiegers at a Diftance, as to cover the Ships in the Harbour^ which was then where the Dock is now; and at the Entrance whereof was a Fort of eight Guns to guard, thati and to- prevent all Parages by the-River Side at low Water: BelideA alb'
“ thefe Advantages of Defence, there “ was one moft unhappy Circumftance ^ to many diftrefledFamilies, but. very “‘ lucky to the Befieged;; for in. thofe “ diftraefted,, confufed, and: rebellious
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thought themfelves able to give the Prince a hearty Welcome on his Vi-“ fitation of them.
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“ The Town was at that Time but fmall, either in Appearance or Reality to what it is now; however the Fortifications of it then included moft of all the Town, as it is at prefent: The River is about a Mile broad,
from Bank to Bank, and of Depth fufficient for Reception of the largeft Ships up to the Town: The Country1 near it is high Land, which renders it unfit to fuftam a long Siege.
“ This made the Prince upon his “ near Approach and View of 'the “ Town, being unacquainted with its ■“ Situation,*(one Side declining to the “ Country, and the other to the River, “ as before-mentioned, fo that he
change is now; and there they found a Regiment of Soldiers from the _________.____.	,	__________ W§ple, drawn up in Battle Array, “ became Mafter of it, he faid it might ; who beat a Parley and demanded f* have been an Eagle’s;Neft; or a-I|._“ Quarter; yvhich on Treaty they were
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“ Grounds under them: He relieved “{his Trenches and Batteries from his “ Camp twice; j every Twenty-four “‘Hours, and from them he battered “ the Town, and attacked theRefieged “ and their Works very frequently by “ Way of Storm, but was always re-Tpulfed with great Slaughter of his “ Soldiers- for the Space of a Month or “ near it, when fome fay the Befieged “■ ontheNorthSide deferted the Works “ and guard of them; but others fay, “ that Colonel Moor obferving they “ would.be taken, to ingratiate him-“ felf with the Prince, and to fave his “ Houfe and Effects at Bank Hall near
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His Highnefs having reduced Liverpool. was intreated by Lord Derby to rake Latham-Houle in his March to York, and there refrefh hin felf and his Men for a few Days, which he was p.eafed to Com >ly with; and on his coming to Latham, found that Houfe mon ftrahgely ihattered by the Enemies Cannon and Mortar Piece; h jwever he was with ail his Chief Commanders treated agreeably to the. Greatnefs of his Perfon and Merit, and with all the Expreflions of Thankful-nefs by, the Earl of Derby and his molt renowned Lady, for his feafonable Relief of them and their noble Family.
The Prince having viewed, and well confidered the Commodious Situation of Latham-Houfe, and the Strength of the Towers, with their regular Pofi-tion for the Defence of one another, and of all the Walls, &c. Gave direction for adding to them Baftions, Counterfcarps, &c. and all other out ‘Works neceifafy for the better Defence thereof upon another Siege when it , fhould Happen; and then, at the rc-qveft of the Lady-Derby, gave the Government andkeepingof the Houfe, tL the Care and Conduct of Captain Edward Rofthern, whom (the Prince, made Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, and gave him two Troops of Horfe for its Defence.
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of that Houfe, but on other remark-./ able Actions, was alfo by the Prince made Colonel of a Regiment if Foot, and Marched with his Highnefs to York.	'
The Prince having now Recruited his Army with Men, Arms, and Ammunition, and. 41 other nccell^ for his March, def ied the Earl of Derby to return to his Charge in the Ilie of Man ; as being probably better Ac-.quainted with thole undefer* ed Jea-loufies and Sufpicions fill Sul ;lfhng againft him, than rhe Prince himfelf was; and of the Apprehenlions Mme great Cues' about die King had of 1 Mifapplication of too much Power’En-trufted with him who had fo near an Alliance w the Crown, therefore urged the Earl to a Compliance with his Re-queft, and to take his Lady and'Chil-dren with him, as not knowing yet what night be the Ilfue or Succefs of the War in England ; adding that /e Children of fuch a Father and Meh- a Mother, might in thei^Gcneratioh be/’• come as ufefi.l and Serviceable to their Prince as their Parents had been. J"
Sometime after this, the Battle 0/ Marlton Moor being loft by the -Prince,' it was not long before the Enemy,, as Expected, fat down again Lafore Latham-Houle ; which -ho’ (Lengthened' ? with fuch Oat-Works as trie Prince had Directed, was much weakened, within by the Confumption of their / Proviftons by the Prince's Armyf and the want of Powde^ and Match, which his Mighhefs fhaM b^oWed \f<5r the Supply of his Army on their March from die nfe. to York.	. ■
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Colonel Rofthern, was neither wanting in Care or Diligence, nor in any good Offices for the Supply of the Garrifon with Provifions and all other necefiaries for fuftaining a Siege; and it was a great Advantage to him that the' Earl of Derby on his Return to the.hie of Man, had left him in the Houfe the Chaplain, whofe Fidelity and great Capacity his Lady had long and full Experience of; and alfo another- Gentleman of good Underftand-ing and Integrity £o attend all his Affairs ^n England, and both to be Affift-ing to him the Governor by their Counfel and'Services, and to raife what Money they Poffibly could out of his E Rate for the conftant Payment of the Soldiers: Thcfe two Gentlemen made the belt ufe of the Opportunity they had whilft the Houfe was Open, and railed a very confiderable Sum of Money, by which they, furnifhed the Garrifon-with Provifions, Ammunition, and all other necefiaries.
This being done, the Governor dif-pofed the Soldiers to their refpedtive Officers : Commanders of Horfe .were Major Munday and Captain Key; and thofe of Foot were Captain Charnock, Captain Farrington, Captain Molineux Radcliff, Captain Henry Noel, Captain Wofral, and Captain'Roby.
By this Time being July, 1645. The Enemy were again advanced with four thousand Men to their Head Quarters a.t Oririfkirk, under their old c General Egerton; for Rigby upon the lofs of hisMenat Bolton was laid afide; and upon the Governor Colonel Roft-hern’s Information of their Advance ahd Strength, he ordered Out a itrong
Party of Horfe and Foot; the firft was Commanded by Major Munday, the Foot by Captain Molineux Radcliff,, and the Rear was brought up by the G overnor himfelf; and in this Order they Attacked the Enemies Camp and Quarters with fo much Courage Re-folution and Bravery, that they took all the Guards of the Enemy both Horfe and Foot, Routed their whole Body, of which they killed and took, many, the General himfelf with Difficulty Efcaping by flying away in his Shirt and Slippers.	• ■	.
• But that which was of greateft Advantage to them, was the Enemies Magazine of Powder,, which was taken and brought to Latham,f and was. their great Increafe of Store for fup^ port of the Siege which afterwards; Enfued: In this exploit Colonel John. Tempeft who ferved only as a Volun-teer, did moft worthy and Excellent . ’ Service; the Governor animated the whole Adion, and indeed Expofed himfelf to more Hazard and Danger than he ought to have done* as chief Commander.
This Gallant attempt and Succefs* fo. amazed the Enemy, and Encouraged the Troops of Latham, that for three Weeks, in which Time the .Enemy were largely Recruited, they continued Mailers of the Field, and after Brayed the Enemy every Day in their: Head Quarters for twelve Months to-; ge th er; but notwithflanding their great Numbers and utmoft Endeavours; they were never able to Advance neagev
i than - Ormikirk, where they w^e in. la manner as much Belieged as the o-iher were in Latham-Houfe.
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But the Ammunition of theGarrifpn being now almoft Spent, and they out of Hopes of recruiting their Store from Manchester, &c. as formerly, and their Intelligence with fome Friends therp being Difcovered; they were obliged to fufpend all Aidion abroad, and buffer the Enemy to make nearer Approaches to the Houfe, and confine them clofer within their own-Bounds; < Major Morgan, befog the Enemies .Engineer, drew a Line a Flight-foot from the Houfe, as not Intfoding ei-■thorito Batter or Storm it, but only th hinder them from going Abroad, and to ftraiten and prevent foem from getting in Provifions, or any other -Supplies : The Trench of his Line was three Yards wide and two Yards -deep, and upon the Rampire of the 'Ditch he raifed eight ftrong Forts, wherein their Soldiers might lie with fome Security, and be able to Relieve one another upon Sallies from the Houfe.
Upon the North fide of the Houfe, which was the lowed: Ground, he run a deep Trench near the very Mote, hoping thereby to lay it Dry, and then to undermine the Houfej but there being within it fome ikilful Colliers, who had as much Experience in Mining and drawing of Water as he was Mailer of, and they being Employed by the.-Governor to Oppofe him always wrought Counter to hfo; and keeping full Chambers of Water above him, they at Pleafure opened them and drowned both his Works and Men, to their entire Difappoint-ment and Confufion.
And thus, ford by foe Diligence,
Skill, and Courage of the BefiCged, was this Houfe full two Years moil Gallantly, and Bravely Defended,, g-gainft all the Contrivance and Force of the Enemy; wherein by their own Confeflion they loft at laft Six Tlyuu-fandMen, and the Garrifon about Four Hundred.
The King liimfelf was at this Time upon his march for the Relief of his brave and loyal Subjects in Latham-Houfe, and with Intent to have Tranf-ferred the War to Lancafhire, but was unhappily defeated at Rowton Heath, near Chefter; upon which Misfortune' he gave Orders to the Earl’? Chaplain before-mentioned, (whomhe had fent for to give him a .State of the Houfe and Country abput it) to advert ife the ^Governor, that it. was his Majefty’s. Pleafure he ihould accept a Treaty with the Enemy, and .endeavour to procure from them as good Terms as they could poflibly obtain, face it was not in his Power to relieve them : Small Comfort from the Father of three Kingdoms, to tell his Children he was not able to fuccour them in their Dif-trefs ; which gives us a fatal InlUuce of Divifion in Council, and the want of Refolution, and fteady Adherence to our heft Friends, which appears through the Courie of this Hif-tory, (with many others to have been the true Cafe of the unhappy. Prince here fpoken of) who feems to have fallen under the Obfervation. of ;a. learned Poet, That,
The Fortunate have whole Years, And thofe they choofe;
But the Unfortunate haye only Days, ~ And thofe they, IqfoG r,.,
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'^ But however his Majefty’s Commif-flon by the Chaplain being got into die Houfe, the Governor like a wife and prudent Commander, refolvecl to accept the firft Opportunity of a Treaty _ which the Enemy might offer; either “induced thereto by their long Service and fevere Sufferings in that memorable Siege, or being ignorant of the rime State of the Place, which for "blight they knew, might be furnifhed with all Neceflaries for many Months Refiftance, and they defpairing of ’ Succefs, requefted that Commiffioners ”might be appointed on both Sides, fo treat of a Surrender.
Whereupon, ; Commiffioners were accordingly appointed, and a Place of Meeting agreed upon, wherein thofe on the Part of the Befiegers offered, That if the Governor, and Officers with him, would furrender the Houfe and all the Cannon, they fhould be permitted to march away with Bag and Baggage, Drums beating, Colours flying; and that the Lady Derby and her Children, fhould enjoy the third Part of the Earl’s Eftate, for their Support and Maintenance; and that all his _ Goods fhould be fafely conveyed to his other Houfe at Knowfley, and there ftcured, for his Lordfhip and Families Ufe; that all Gentlemen in the Houfe ■fhould compound, at one Years Value for their Eftates; and that every Clergyman in the Houfe, fhould enjoy * half the Revenue of his Living, and fhould live quietly, without any Oath impofed upon them.
Thefe Terms were judged reafona-* ole, by two of the Commiffioners appointed by.the Garrifon, but the third
would by no Means Confent, unlefs they might take away the Cannon alfo, whofe Indifcretion, and obftinate ‘perverfe Humour, broke off the Treaty, to the Ruin of the Befieged, for that very Night, after the return of the 'Commiffioners, an Irifh Soldier in the
Garrifon went down by the Wall, and fwimining over the Mote,, got to the Enemies Camp, and immediately informed t he Comm adding Offic ers the re, that the rejection of their Propofals, and the breaking of the Treaty, were highly difpleafing to the Garrifon,- that t there was not Bread in the Houfe for two Days, nor any other Provifions or Stores to hold out the Siege any longer.
Upon this Information, the Enem next Morning fummoned the Garrifon
-to an immediate Surrender of the Houfe and themfelves Prifoners, upon the bare Terms of Mercy, which the Soldiers, being all in Confufion re-folved to accept of, notwithftanding all Intrearies by the Governor to the contrary, who gallantly and bravely propofed to them, to join him and light their Way through the Enemy, Sword in Hand, and either by that Means to fave themfelves with Honour and Reputation, or bravely die in the Attempt: But the. Worthy and Valiant Governor, not being heal'd by them, the Houfe was yielded up toa mercileflf Enemy, and. all the rich Goods therein, became a Booty' to them: The rich Silk Hangings of the Beds,/ &c. were torii to Pieces, and made Sadies of;, the Towers and all the ftrong Works razed to the Ground and demoliihed, and all the Buildings^-within it^ leaving only handing two>'( or
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or three little Timber Buildings, as a Monument of their Fury and Mal-ce,
And thus was ruined and brought co Deftru&ijn (Partly by the Obftina-cy and Indifcretion cf one Man and the Treachery of another) Even to a Cottage or heap of ^Rubbilh, the. A violent Noble, and almoft Invincible Houfe of Latham, whofe-A^tiquity, famous Siege, and moft fletoic and gallant Defence, can never be 'forget whilft HiRory remains in the World/
No met s oLight to ‘be Buried in Oblivion, the' Heroic and’moil Cal-lam Behaviour of thofe brave and Martial Spirits, who were Inftrumental ■ and Aflifting in the ever Memorable Defence of that Place: And although none of them (except Captain Farmer, Major Munday, and Captain Key,) were bred in a Military way (unlefs as a County Militia,) yet I think it may with Modelly add Juftice be Af-\ferted : That no C deers of any Degree bred in the School of Mars or elfe-where, ever fhewed mi >re Conduct, .Courage, and Magnanimity than thofe Brave and worthy Gentlemen, (to their .Honour and Everlafting Fame kt it be Recorded,) that defended Latham-Houfe, againft the Powerful attacks .of a formidable Enemy, aflifted by a far fnperior Force, and an open Conn -try -for Supply.
The Prince having before this Time refreihed and recruited his Army- (by .the, aflliknce of Lord Derby,) with Men,-,.Arms, tad Ammunition, pro' -per for his March to York, urged that crave Lord to return to Jais Charge n^the Me of Man, as being (as, the ■Author of tire Manufcript I have ta-
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ken it from, tells us) better and more fully acquainted than the Earl himfelf was with thofe undeferved Jealuufies. and Sufpicions ft ill fubfifting againft him by the great ones eft Court, anti alfo of theii vile and Scurrilous Sug geftions and Infinuations to his Ma-jefty,<that it was not fafe to truft him .with t o, much Power, who had fo near an. Alliance to the Crown, and knew fo^y^ft how to ufe it to his own Advantage^ In the mean l ime his. Highnefs the Prince was prefling with him to haften to. the Ifland, and’ to take with him his Lady and Fan Jy, as not knowing what the Succefs or Event of the War in England might be, adding that the Children of inch a Father and fuch a Mother, might in their Generations become as ufeful and Serviceable to their Prince and Country, as their Parents or any if. taeir Anceflors had bee„.
Having how given the Reader the Particulars of the memorable Siege and Surrender of Latham-Houfe, dil-patched his Highnefs Prince Rupert to the Relief of York, and fent by his Advice th? Noble Earl of Derby and his moft worthy Family as-Exiles to the Ifle of Man: I cannot on thefe Oc-cafions omit a few Thoughts and Ann-madyerflens upon thefe Subject
As to the Prince’s Advice and Intention to the Noble Earl and his Family, I look upon that as Sincere ^qd without Guile, bur ^he F. salons offered us to Induce it, i/efteem. nbkiefs^than .mere Chimera and Court Cant, calculated with no other view or intent than to Afperfe, Degrade, and. Villify that Nob e. Lord, and to fix upoi\ anti
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ftigmatize him with Infamy and Dif-grace, as a Perlon carrying on private JDefigns and Views of his own Intereft, feparate from thofe of his Royal Matter.
And in this light I have infpected and confidered the Actions and Conduct of his whole Life, as well before as fince the Commencement of the unhappy War then fubfifting, and I cannot difeover in the Courfe of it thb leaft Inclination or Tendency in any, or all his Actions, to Aggrandize himfelf or Family at the E pence of his Prince’s Honour, Intereft. or Safety; but.1 on the Contrary, That he had, a-greeable to the Tender made by him to his Majefty at York at his firft Appearance there, afiifted him to the ut-mott of his Power, with his Perfon, Intereft and Fortune, to the entire Con-fumption of the latter, and in the End 'the total Deftruction of the firft.
But let us go yet a little farther, and confider that frightful Article of his near Alliance to the Crown, as one Reafon given us forhis Exclusion from all Favour, Power, or Truft under the King, and having duly weighed the Nature thereof, we fhall find it as light upon the Balance as the former, con-fitting more in Imagination than Reality; more in Pride, Envy, Malice, Calumny and Court Faction, than any -Evil Defigns or Intentions, of the great and Noble Lord here Afperfed, Villi-fied, and Contemned by the Court Pa-rafites ; who being in Favour, Power, or Truft with the Prince admit of no Rivals, and that Calumny, Defamation and Detraction, are with them efteemed Fafhionable and Courtly Ac-complilhments.
Laftly, let us confider that the Latent and Dormant Title to the Crown by the Earl of Derby, on which fo much ftrefs appears to be laid, was at that Time poftponed and removed to fo great a Diftance, that nothing lefs than downright Rebellion could have revived or fupported his Pretenfions, if any. Add thereto the Anceftors of the Royal Family now on the Throne ■being then in full Life, nay one of them then his Majefty’s General, the King himfelf having iTue both Male and Female, which rendered any‘Project or Attempt of this kind utterly Impracticable to Men of Thought, and well known Worth, Ability, and moft Loyal and Dutiful Endeavours of the great Lord Derby for his Majefty’s Service, Intereft and Safety, plainly contradict and give the lie to all thofe invidious, malicious, and fcandalous Suggcftions and infinuations, fp^-ead by the Enemies of that Noble Lord’s Integrity, Innocency and Juftice.
That like Caufes ufually Produce the fame or like Effects, is an Efta-bliihed Rule with refpect to Men as well as Things, from whence it is obferved, that thofe Favourites who have advanced themfelves at Court, by mere Dint of Addrefs, and by mean unmanly and unbecoming Arts of Flattery and fawning Sedulity, unknown to, and fcorned by Men of real Abilities, have been always fatal to the Nation, and that where the Actions and Refo-dutions of Men of Integrity, Loyalty and real Ability to Serve the Prince and Country, have been Difcouraged and Treated with Indignit and Contempt: The Peace, Unity, and Welfare
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fare of the whole hath generally fuf-fered Violent Convulfions and uncommon Changes, if not the Total ruin of the Prince, as in the Cafe before us.
And with refpeft to the great and noble Lord here Treated of, who may be efteemed of the Number of thofe, Difcouraged a*nd Treated with Contempt by his Prince, or the Sycophant Courtiers about him, or both: He afted Steadily and Zealoufly, on Principles of liberty, and -the common good of Mankind: He maintained mem in all Seafons, and was aihamed to be at Eafe while his King and Country fuffered, and the Vigour with which he Exerted himfelf againft thofe - to whom both owed their Sufferings, (unhappily to him and his noble Family) brought on his own, (much to be lamented), hard Fate well known to the World.
Having juft left the famous Houfe of Latham in Afhfes, I have only to Remark that many curious and notable Tran factions occurred during the Siege thereof; that could not properly be related in the common Courfe of that Story, but however, well defence fo be remembered, and I doubt not but the Knowledge of them will be as acceptable 40 the Reader as thofe of the Siege.
Give me leave to acquaint you that the Reverend and worthy Chaplain of the Houfe r Mr. Rutter, managed all Correfpondence^and Intelligence by Cyphers and Characters: Wherein he firft made ufe of a Woman, one Widow Read, of that Neighbourhood, to bring in and carry out Difpatches
of that Nature, by the Afliftance of Sallies appointed for that Purpofe, upon a Signal given by her to the Houfe when Ilie wanted to come in.
This fecret and moft hazardous Ser-vice ilie moft faithfully carried on for above a Year, but was at laft moft unhappily taken with Cyphers about her: Some for his Majefty King Charles, fome for the Lord Byron, at Chefter, and others to fome Correfpondence at Manchefter: Upon which ihe was required to tell to whom thofe Carafters at Manchefter particularly were di-refted, (for the Enemy could not dif-cover or interpret them) but fhe ftout-ly denied and refufed to Confefs any Thing relating to them, then fire was threatened with fevere Puniihment if ihe would not declare what ihe knew of them, but ihe ftill perfifting in her Integrity, ihe was then burnt .with Matches betwixt her Fingers, fo long,, that three Fingers of each Hand were burnt off, yet, the Woman, beyond the Refolution of her Sex, or of any Woman.upon Record ; fuffered all thofe Tortures with invincible Patience, and. would difepyer nothing.
* Amongft the Officers, the brave and gallant Captain Molineux Ratcliff, merits perpetual Remembrance for his moft valiant Seivices ; who commanded the Van in. twelve Sallies, and always brought off his Men with Suc-cefs,. but at laft this gallant Gentleman had the Misfortune to be da in in {forming a Fort q^the Enemies,.
Captain Charles Radcliff/ Captain-Henry Noel, Captain. Roby, and Captain Worral, all behaved themfelves with. the. utmoft Courage and Refolu-
, tlQDy,
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tion, and deferred better Recompence than the King’s Affairs would allow them to expert
Major .Munday and Captain Kay, who commanded theHorfe, were certainly no way inferior to any Ofliceis of Horfe in the-King’s Army: A Specimen of which immediately follows.
Major Munday, during the Siege-, being challenged to fight his Troop againft fo many of the Enemy, chear-fully accepted the Challenge; Both Troops were drawn out into the Park, in the fight of the Houfe, and the Enemies Army; in the Engagement the Major received a Shot in the Side of the Face, by which an Artery being cut, bled cxceflively, upon which he defired his Lieutenant to make good the Fight till he got the Artery fewed •up; the Fight was made good ’till the Major returned, and then upon the firft Charge the Enemy fled, and he took moft of' the Troop Prifoners: This brave and worthy Gentleman, who after the Siege of Latham,-had retired to his own Country, and returning into England again with his Majefty . King Charles II. when he marched from Scotland to Worcefter, had the Misfortune to be taken Prifoner by the mercilefs Rebels, and being known by them, was for his Bravery ihot to Death in cold Blood.
_ Captain Kay being alfo challenged by a Trumpet from the Enemy, to fight H and to Hand onHorfebackwith Captain. Afmall, a Captain of the ad-verfe Party, accepted the Challenge: both Troops met in the Park, and flood aloof, whilft the Captains fought fmgle. In .the Engagement, Captain
Afmall having difeharged both his-Piftols at Captain Kay, without much Effect, Kay immediately rode up to. him, and thruft him through.theNeck with his Javelin, on which he fell down dead from -his Horfe, Captain Kay alighting, took him, up in-thePgce of his Troop, and flung him uppmhis own Horfe, and broughphiih'iin^ Houfe, upon which <Qaptain Kay’s Lieutenant, offered ^Q./ft^ut AhnalE^, Lieutenant, Hand tp'-Hahd, orJG^o^s to Troop, but tlieyyefufed tl\G Qflhf, and fled to their main Body.
The worthy Chaplain whom I ac7 quainted you before.had managed all the Intelligence of |he Houfe, having loft his old Friend the Widow Read, who had moft faithfully ferved him in that way to her Death, after fome Time found another Expedient, by means of a Hound Dog which he ob-ferved frequently to come and go be-twixt his Mafter in Latham Houfe, and * his Miftrefs about three Miles off, got private Notice to the Gentlewoman, that as often as the Dog came Home fhe fhould look about his Neck, and fire would find a Thread with a little Paper wrapt about it, which he re-quefted fhe would fend to his Majefty; and when any Papers were fent to her to come into the Houfe, directed that fhe would tie them in like manner about the Dog’s Neck, and keep him a while hungered, then open the Door and beat him out.
And thus the poor Dpgcbeing beaten backward and forward, conveyed, all Intelligence into and from the Houfe, for nine Months together; till at laft, leaping over^ the Enemies
Works
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Works in his Way to the Houfe, an angry ill-natured Soldier ihot himi but he got to the Mote Side near the Gate with his Difpatches, and there died, by which Mr. Rutter loft his ufe-ful Servant the Dog.
However,' though he could not contrive to furnifh himfelf in the fame Way, yet he found out another Expedient to anfwer near pie fame Ends, but with greater Advantage to the Garrifon; for by a Corfefpondence he had formed withfome trufty and hearty Friends of the Neighbourhood, they had agreed to make Fires in the Night upon the riling Grounds at a Diftance from the Houfe as Signals, that Corn, Meal, and other Provifions, were there laid ready for the Befieged, and upon the Appearance of thofe Signals, the Governor fent out thirty or forty Soldiers by Way of Sally to fetch them into the Houfe, who being directed by thofe Fires, always found what they wanted, and the Night following brought them to the Garrifon.
Other Nights other Soldiers were fent in the fame Manner, and on the lame Errand; who-by their Inftruc-tions,Care, and Diligence, never failed of Succefs: And by this Means theGar-rifon were conftantly Supplied until they were fo • clofely confined by- the. Enemy, and their Numbers in the Houfe declining fo much, that they were not able to make their ufual Sallies* for Relief as before, which re-duced them to the Scarcity related at the Time of their Surrender.
? But what may be greatly admired (even with Wonder and Surprize) was, that not one of all thofe Soldiers fent
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out on thofe defperate Occafions, and venturing their Lives for a little Bread , with which they were to Fight their Way into tire Houfe, for the Relief of themfelves and Friends, .ever deferred the Sendee, or flaid out of Time; but conftantly returned with their Fellows at the Times expected, and were re-* ceived and treated, by their Commanders with Generofity; arid the Juftice due to their Courage, Merit, and. Fi-i. delity;
- The Allowance of Corn, Meal, &c. thus brought into the Houfe, was dif-tributed and divided in the moft equal Manner from the Governor to the meaneft Soldier: Three Quarters of a Pound was weighed out to every .Man alike, the Horfes that were killed in the Service, they broiled upon Coals, and frequently eat, without either Bread or Salt.
That which proved a great Relief to. them was.Plenty of Fuel, for the Colliers being fet to dig by. Way of Trial, found Coals and Water both in Abundance within the Houfe to their great Comfort, the Water in the Mote being, f oiled and rendered unfit for Ufe by t re Enemy.
There was amongft the Soldiers a-bout fifty.Pounds in Money, but of no Ufe at all to them but to play at Span-Counter with; they lent it to one ano- . > ther by .’Handfuls, never telling or counting any':, One. Day one Soldier had all,/and the ndi# another, "’till at. laft all their SpbWlWas fpoiled, the E—? nemy at the Gate- ftript them, of every POnny and turned them out to the ■ wide World, - ft ■
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were but two Hundred and nine Foot Soldiers in it, and of all their Horfe but five left alive, the reft being all eaten up: The common Soldiers were all difcharged as before, but their gallant and brave Commanders were all made clofe Prifoners, and fo continued a long Time after.
Having now as I promifed, given the Reader all the remarkable Tranf-actions, and Occurrences I have been able to collet or be informed of attending the famous Siege of Latham-Houfe, from the Beginning to the End, and alfo 'noted the eminent Conduct, Courage, and memorable Behaviour of thofe brave, and. worthy-Gentlemen who engaged themfelves in the Defence thereof ; I am now arrived at a period of Time, wherein I find the whole Kingdom involved in the greateft Diforder and DiftraCtion, portending nothing lefs than the Ruin or DeftruCtion of the whole Conftitu-tion in Church and State.
The very Face and Appearance of all public and even private Affairs being quite changed, the whole Nation was in a general and moft deplorable State of Confufion and Diffraction: Nothing being known or heard of but Imprifonments, Profecutions, Sequef-trations, and Executions of his Ma-jefty’s moll loyal and dutiful Friends, Subjects, and Servants.
Upon Information of thefe Things (as his Lordijiip’s Memoirs’ , continue) 1 enquired further how Affairs flood with the King, and was told that his Majcfty’s Army under the Command of his Nephew Prince Rupert was en-	________________________
tirely defeated and difperfed atMarfton Fear him; and although die is the Pror ■ hedtor
Moor, by the Earl of Mancheftery and that not long after the King himfelf was vanquifhed and totally routed at Nafeby, the Fourteenth of June, 1645 ; the Lots whereof reduced him to a moft unhappy Situation of Life, having not fo much as a common Guard left him for the Security of his Per-fon, being obliged to fly from Place to Place with the utmoft Privacy, to prevent his being taken Prifoner; and not knowing where to go for Safety and Protection from his furious and inveterate Enemies, at laft unhappily fell a Sacrifice into their Hands, being feized by a Party of Cromwell’s Soldiers, and carried by them Prifoner to Hurft Caftle; and from thence hurried from Prifon to Prifon, ’till at laft Tre was brought to a formal Trial before a Court eftablifhed by his own Subjects, who accufed him of having made War againft his Parliament, and had him condemned and beheaded, upon a Scaffold raifed under the Windows of his Palace of Whitehall, on Tuefday the Thirtieth of January, .1648-9.
A blocking Scene of Iniquity and Ufurpation, the very Thoughts whereof ftruck me with Horror; and methought was fufficient to have melted the Hearts of the moft hardened and abandoned Wretch concerned in fuch iniquitous and barbarous Proceedings/ as the DeftruCtion of their natural and
rightful Prince, and the Extirpation o£ his royal Family to the utmoft of itheir Power.
But the Goodnefs\of our gracious GOD is ever with them that Love and
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Coifquelt,
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te&or and Support of all under Op-preflion and Diftrefs, yet fometimes he poftpones the Punifhment for great an-1 wife Reafons unknown to us; yet to ihew the Power of his Wrath, and his Care of the Innocent and Diftrefled, fooner or later his avenging Hand will overtake all wicked and evil Doers, as obferved by a learned * Author in the Cafe before us; that not only thofe very Perfons immediately concerned in the Murder of that King, and in all the Confufions the Nation was involved in by their Means, were in a Ihort Time reduced to a State of Contempt, and their Pofterity branded with Ignominy and Difgrace, attended with their utter Extirpation from the Face of the Earth, fcarcely one of them being left or known in the World at this Time.
But what remains to be much lamented, is that the Mifchief, Mifcry, and Perfecution of thofe virulent Times ended not here: The Prince of Wales being then in Exile, thofe rebellious Sons of Perdition called the Parliament, publifhed a Prohibition againft proclaiming him King, with a Penalty of Puniihment as in Cafes of High Treafon, and afterwards pafl'ed an Adt for abolishing the regal Power as Ufelefs, Burthenfome, and Dangerous ; and foon after fet a Price upon the Head of Charles Stuart, the late King’s eldeft Son.
And under this melancholy, dejected, and uncomfortable State, the, Nation languished in Mifery, Perfecution, and deep Diftrefs, to the Year 1650;
that the Scots took up ArmsTin Favour of Charles II. whom they had recalled in Order- to fet him upon the Throne of his Father, and who was arrived there, and his Coronation, foon after folemnized at Scoon, the firft of Ja--nuary. ^65'0-1 ; and afterwards he put himfelf at the Head of an Army of fifteen Thoufand Foot .and three Thoufand Horfe, and wi^flxem entered England, and proceeded ^s. far as Worcefter, where, he.’was honours ably received.	- V
During the interval of Time betwixt Lord and Lady Derby and their Families retiring to the life of Man, and the King’s Execution; many Particulars occurred that cannot well be o-mitted, though fomething out of the regular Couffe of the enfuing Hiftory; yet will tend to a clearer and fulley Explication of it; to wit, That in the Space of Time above-mentioned, the Rebels had repoflefled themfelvesof all Places of Strength, and of the Caftle iff Liverpool in particular, whereof the worthy Colonel Birch was made Governor.
That in the Year 1646 the Parliament moved with the Tears,. Cries, and Prayers of the- diftrefied Wives, Widows, and Fatherlefs Children of their Fellow-SubjeCts, and even Relations, made an Ordinance for tH&rjy Relief, to wit:
Goldfmith’s Hall, LondpiA At a Committee for compounding^!th Delinquents, Nov, the. 29th, 164.6, i	WHEREAS
• Hiftory of Independency.
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable

. '< 1’ 7 HERE AS by an Order of the i “ W Honourable Houfe of Com-
“ mons in Parliament affe mb led of the “ twenty third of February, 1645, *‘ This Committee is Authorized and “ Enabled to fufpend the Sequeftrati-^ ons of fuch Delinquents, as ihall “ Compound with the laid Committee; “ they having Paid the Moiety of fuch $ Fine, and given Security for the o-“ ther Moiety, and to ftand to fuch -“ Compofition as ihall be allowed of “ or fet by the Houle of Commons: “ Thefe are to Certify all whom it “ may Concern, &c.
" Go. Lanr. Warrington, July 11, 1645.
•‘	;\. CCORD1NG to the Direction
“	°£ the Ordinance of Parlia-
‘1 ap^ent it is this Day ordered that Mrs. “ ja^^Ecclefton, late Wife and Re-“ li&j^Thomas'i&ccleft Ecclef-“ ton Efq, deceafed, ihall have al-“ Allowed unto her for the Maintain-E ance of herfelf and Children, one “ fifth Part of her Hufband’s Eftate, “ according to the Direction of the “ faid Ordinance, ,ihe paying herPro-“ portionable Part of all Days and “ Taxations that may be Impofed upon •‘ that Eftate ; and the Sequeftrators “ for the fame are hereby appointed “ to fee a .fifth Part fet forth accord-“ ingly with all convenient Speed.
T. Stanley. Peter Egerton.
r —	Edw, Butterfworth.
And in the Year, 1645. Encouraged by the above Ordinance and Order, the Children, of the Earl of Derby,
having procured a Pafs from Sir Tho. Fairfax for that Purpofe, came over from the Ifle of Man to England, to Procure a fifth Part of their Father’s Eftate for their Support and Education, according to the aforefaid Ordinance, and after a Years Sollicitation in manner followings obtained an Allowance of a fifth thereof, (to wit.)
; HUYTON PARISH. ..
To the Right Honourable the Committee of Lord: and Commons for Sequeftration.
“ /“ | HE Humble Petition of Charles “ J Lord Strange, Edward and “ William, and of the Ladies Henri-“ etta Maria, Catherine, and Amelia, “ fix Sons and Daughters of J a m e s “ Earl of DERBY. Sheweth, that the “ Petitioners by Reafon of the Sequef- • “ tration of their Father’s Eftate, are “ wholly deprived of all manner of “ Support for their Livelihood and “ Education, and fo have been for “ many Years paft: That by the Hon-“ ourable favour of both Houses of “ Parliament, an allowance is declared “ to be given his Wife and Children, of “ which that the Petitioners may have “ the Benefit, is the humble Suit of “ the Petitioners^ Y.
And they ihall ever Pray, Henrietta Maria Stahley.
A true Copy exhibited by me, R. Vaughan, Clerk of the Court. 1
Wednefday, Sept. 8, 1647 AT the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequeftration, “ upon
Hiufe of STANLE
Y, from the Conqueft; 109
f upon the Petition, of the Right Hon-“ Durable Charles Lord Strange; Ed-“ ward, William, Henrietta Maria, “ Catherine and Amelia; the Sons “ and Daughters of J a me s ' Earl* of “ DERBY, (a Copy whereof is here-“ unto Annexed and Attefted with the “ Clerk’s Hand of this Committee) It “ is thought fit and ordered that the “ faid Children be allowed a fifth “ Part for their Maintainance accord-“ ing to the faid Ordinance, from, the “ Timet of their Demand:. And* that “ the Manor of Knowfley, in the “ County of Lancafter, with the Houfe “ Lands and Appurtenances in Lan-“ cailiire thereto belonging, be Part “ of the faid fifth Part : And that no “ Timber be felled upon the faid ■“ Earl’s Lands, but that the fame be “ Preferved according to the Order of “ Sequeftration.
' Intra. R. Vaughan, Henry Pelham.
HU Y TO N P ARISH.
Manchefter in the County of Lancafter.
At a Committe Sept. 24; 1647.
“ ^ T 7 HEREAS we have received an “ > V Order of the Committee of “ Lords and Commons, for Sequeftra-“ tions, hearing Date the eighth of “ September laft, for allowance of a “ fifth Part of the Eftate of J axes “ Earl of DERBY, unto the Right “ Honourable Charles Lord Sfrange, “-Edward, William'’Henrietta Maria, “ Ca herine, and Amelia, the Sons “ and Daughters of the faid Earl;';* in “ Purluance w hereof it is ordered that
“ the Agents for Sequefti^bn where “ the Eftate of the faid EarEflieth, “ fhall from the^faid eighth Day of “ this Inftant September, fet forth and “ allow unto the faid Children a fifth “ Part of the faid Eftate, whereof the “ Manor of Knowfley, with the “ Houfe; Lands, and Appurtenances “ in the faid County are to be Part h thereof; and that the Agents take “ fpecial Care that ho Timber be Cut “ down and felled upon the faid ;EaiTa “ Lands, but Preferred? according to “ the Ordinance of Parliament, and “ the faid Agents are to - yield Obedience and Conformity hereunto, un-
“ til further Orders.
J. Bradihaw.
Peter Egerton.
Int. T. Whalley, Edw. Butterfwortli.
Wednefday, Sept. 8, 1647.
At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequeftration.
“ VT HEREAS this Committee have “ VV formerly appointed Colonel “ John Moor, Ranger of Knowfley “ Park in the County of Lancafter, by “ Order of the third of December, “ 1646. And whereas now in the ab-“ fence of the faid Colonel, who is “ now in the Service of Ireland, there “ is no Care taken fdr Preferring the “ Game, as alfo the Timber of the. “ faid Park' from Deftm^t'u } : It is-“ thought fit and ordere'^^' t Mr. “ Edward Stockly, be appointed Ran-* ger of the. faid Park of Knowfley, |‘ ifi the. Colonel’s abfence, forPrefer-“ ration of the faid Game and Tim-“ ber; unlefs the Committee of the
no The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
“ faid County of Lancafter, wherein “ the faid Park lieth, fhall Certify “ caufe to the contrary to this Com-“ mittee.
Intra. R. Vaughan, Henry Pelham.
HUYTON PARISH.
Manchefter, in the County of Lancafter,
At the Committee, Sept. .24, 1646.
“ A X THEREAS we have received an “	Order of the Committee of
“ Lords and Commons for Sequeftra-“ tion bearing Date the eighth of “ September laft ; for the appointing “ of Mr. Edw. Stockley, to be Ranger “ of Knowfley Park, in the abfence of “ Colonel John Moor, who was ap-“ ^pointed Ranger of the faid Park by /( the faid Committee, and is now in “ the Service of Ireland; in Purfuance “ whereof it is ordered that the faid “ Mr. Stockley, fhall from henceforth “ and until further Order, be Ranger “ of the faid Park, and fhall preferve “ the Game and Timber therein, from “ wafte and deftrudtion, according to * the faid Order; and the Agents for a Sequeftration, and all others whom “ it may Concern, are to yield Obedi-“ ence hereunto accordingly.
J. Bfadfhaw. Peter Egerton.
Intra. T. Whalley, E. Butterfworth,
-HUYTON PARISH.
“ rT~'HESE are to Require you upon “ A fight hereof, forthwith to re-< move yourfclf Wife, Family, and
“ Goods, out of the Right Honour-“ able the Earl of DERBY’S Houfe “ at Knowfley, without offering any “ hurt or violence to the faid Houfe “ and Goods in it, the Park or any “ thing thereunto belonging; of this “ you are not to fail as you will An-“ fwer the contrary at your Peril. “ Given under my Hand and Seal this “ laft Day of Auguft, 1647.
Tho. Fairfax.
To Major Jackfon at Knowfley Houfe, or at Liverpool.
“ ^ | 'HESE are to require you on “ 1 fight hereof forthwith to fee “ Major Jackfon, his Wife, Family, “ and Goods removed out of the Right “ Honourable the Earl of DERBY’S “ Houfe at Knowfley, according to my “ Order directed alfo to him; and to “ have a fpeciarCare that the faid Ma-u jor Jackfon doth no hurt to the faid “ Houfe and Goods left in it, Park or “ any Thing thereunto belonging, of “ this you are not to fail, but. return “ an Anfwer to it fpeedily, as you “ will Anfwer the contrary at your “ Peril. Given under my Hand and “ Seal this laft Day of Augufl, 1647.
T. Fairfax.
To Lieut. Col. John Aflihurft, Governor of Liverpool.
After all the formality and cookeiy .above related, . the Children of the Noble Earl of Derby, were at laft Permitted to their Father’s Houfe at Knowfley, wherein Sir Thomas Fairfax, had been very Civil and Generous,
Moule of STANLEY, from the Conquefl*
ous, as indeed he was upon all Occafi-fions, in a Gentleman-like manner; but Envy and Malice are Enemies that never Sleep; for they had not been there above twelve Months before Colonel Birch, complying with Brad-fhaw, the bloody Prefident, made them all Prifoners at Liverpool, where he was then Governor, and all their Servants with them, not allowing any of them one Mbrfel of Bread, which they were obliged to beg for, from I their Impoverifhed Friends and other |	kind and compaffionate Acquaintance;
and all the Pretence for this Cruel Upchriftian, and Barbarous Ufage, was, that the Earl their Father kept the Ilie of Man againft the Parliment, though it was his own Eftate.
Upon which General pairfax being addreffed and complained to, by the unhappy Sufferers, fent a Meffage in Writing to. the Earl their Father, Purporting ; “ That if his Lordfhip would “ deliver that Ifland to the Parliaments - Commands, his Children fhould not onlybefet at Liberty, but he fhould “ Peaceably return to England, and enjoy one Moiety of all his Eftate.” To which his Lordfhip returned this Anfwer. “ That he was greatly Af-“ flidted for the Sufferings of his “ Children: That itwasnotthe Courfe “ of Great and noble Minds to Punifh “ innocent Children for their Father’s
Offences: That it would be a Cle-“ mency in Sip Thomas Fairfax either to fend them back to him, or to “ Holland, or to France; but if he “ could do none of thefe, his Chil-“ dien muft fubmit to the-Mercy of “ GOD Almighty, but fhould never
‘‘ be redeemed by his Difloyalty: And •“ thus they continued Prifoners for “ eighteen Months together, without (t Compaffion, Mercy, or Relief from “ the Parliament, or any of their hard " Hearted and unrelenting Officers, “ until their Father was by his Ma-“ jefty’s Command called from, the “ Me of Man to attend him in Lan-“ cafhire, on his March from Scot-“ land, to Worcefter as aforefaid, “ whereof Birch being informed and “ fearing his Lordfhip would knock “ at his Gates for his Children, fent “ them and their Servants away Pri-“ foners. to Chefter.
Having here gotten over the fmall Digreffion given Notice of a little before, I am introduced into a new and regular Courfe of Hiftory: The great and noble Earl of Derby being called into England by King Charles IL to; meet him in Lancafhire, on his faid march to Worcefter; with full Aflu-rahce from his Majefty, that not only his own Party, but the Prefbytery alfo would join him, in Order to his Majefty’s Reftoration in England.
His Lordfhip who was always ready to attend his Duty to his Prince, and to ferve the Son with the fame Truth and Sincerity he had done his Father; haftened over to England, and brought with him above three Hundred gallant Gentlemen, who were at. that Time with his Lordfhip in the Ifle .of Man; and, though his Lordfhip made all poffible Speed to have Mf^he King in Lancafhire; yet itfo happened, that his Majefty was marched through that County tliree Days before he could get

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get over, but hadf^fr Major General Malley .to receive hi c^ ■ .
Upon Notice whereof, bis Lordihip halted to Warrington, whererhe met the Major General, who that every Night brought in many of the Prefby-terian Party to his. Lordihip; to whom his Lordihip addrefling himfelf, acquainted them that he was comefrom the Ilie of Man, to do his Maj efly all the Service in his Power;.that the King had given him his AlTurance under his own Hand, (of which he gave then! a Sight,) that all thofe Gentlemen of that Pcrfuaiion would be ready to join with him; that He was to that End" ready to receive whoever were pleafed to. corrie to him, and with them to march immediately to his Majefty.
To this one of their Ministers in Be-, .half of himfelf and the reft of his Brethren replied to his Lordihip p *‘ That “Tie hoped, and fo did all theGentle---men with him, that his .Lordfllip “ would put away all the Papifts he “ had brought from the Ilie of Man, ‘hand that he himfelf would take the “ Covenant, and then they would all “ join with him.”
To this his Lordihip replied, “ Sir, “ I hope this is. only your own Opi-“ nion, and therefore I defire that the V Gentlemen prefent will;be‘5pleafed “ to deliver their own Sentiments;” when, all made Anfwer, “ that their “ Minifter had fpoken their thoughts ; “ adding that his Majefty had taken “ the. Covenant, and thereby gave En-h couragement to all his Subjects to “ do the fame; and that if his Lord-. “ flrip would not put away all Papifts, “ and enter pub ckly into the fo-
“Henin League, they could not join “him.
To this his Lordihip replied, “ That “ upon thefe Terms’ he might long h firice have-been i'eftored to his whole “ Eftate, and that bleiiedMartyrCharles ‘■‘ I. to all his Kingdom: That he came “ not now to DifputeTut to-fight for “-his-Majefty’s Reiteration, and would “ upon the IlTue'of the firfl: Tattle, “ humbly fubmit himfelf to. liis Ma-“ jefty’s Dirediiori in that1 Point-; ‘that *5 he would refufe none,-of .any per-“ fuafion whatfoever, that came in “ clieaffully to ferve th editing; and “ hoped -’they would give " him the “ fame Freedem and Latitude, to en-“ gage whom he could for hii Majef-“ ty’s Prefervation, and that he was “ well allured, that all thofe Gentle-_“ men he had brought with him were “ fincere and honeft Friends tohisMa^ - jefty’s Perfon and Intcreft.’”
. To the fame Effect Major General' Malley feconded hisLordihip, wherein he made Ufe of the ftrongeft Arguments and Exhortations, to lay aiide . all Animofities, and depart' from their former Miftakes; and by his and o-ther Examples embrace this Opportunity, which GOD had put into their Hands; and to join heartily with the Earl of .Derby, inManifeftation of their own Duty and Loyalty, and the Vindication of themfelves from all Attempts or Intention oftUfurpation, that they were fufpedted of, and then lay upon theip; - hh^d c unT
But the whole Patty infilled peremptorily upon their Demands^ to have all the Papifts diibahded, and the Earl of Derby to-take the Covenant, without

Houfe of STANLEY, from the Coiiqueff
out which they would not join the Number, Colonel Lilbourn then in the Earl; who perceiving it was in vain County, with eighteen hundred Dra-to Prefs them any further upon that goons, and the Foot Militia of Lan-SubjcCt, the old Leaven having taken cafhire and Chefhire, was got to Man-, too much EffeCt, and foured them too chefter, and Marching direCHy againft far to be fweetened by any Arguments, Lord Derby; his Lordfhip was at that or Reafonings whatfoever; therefore Time about fix hundred Horfe, and his Lordfhip only added before Part- being informed tire Enemy were near ing; Gentlemen, if you will be Per-	-
fuaded to join with me, I make no
doubt but in a few Days to raife as. good an Army to follow the King as that he has now with him, and by GOD’s BlefTmg to fhake.off the Yoke of Bondage retting both upon you and us ; if not, continued he, I cannot hope to effeCt much, I may perhaps have Men enough at my Command, but all the Arms are in your Poflefli-on, without which I fhall only lead naked Men-to Slaughter; however I □an determined to do what I can with the Handful of Gentlemen now with me for his Majefty’s Service, and if I Perifh, I Perifh; but if my Matter fuf-fer, tire Blood of another Prince and all the enfuing Miferies of this Nation will lye at your Doors ; upon which his Lordfhip took Horfe; having with him only the worthy Gen-tlememthat came from the Itte of Man, and fome few of the royal Party - that were come in to him.
him, trufting to the goodhefs of his-Caufe and the Courage and Refolution of thofe with him, he refolyed with thefe to Engage that great Body of the Enemy; therefore gave Orders to March forthwith to Wigan, a molt faithful and Loyal Town.1' co his Majefty, and there to exped the.
But unhappily and unexpectedly to him, Lilbourn having made long Marches, had before his Lordfhip could reach the Town;.’dined the Hedges with his Foot, and engaged his Lord-fhip’s Troops in Wigan-Lane;. ho^ ever the Earl ftill held on his March in very good Order, and in continual expectation of an Engagement, when approaching near the Enemy, he caufed his Troops to Halt fo long as to give them his Orders, then divided his Horfe into two Bodies- about-three Hundred in each; The. Van manded himfelf and. gave dh^R^a^y: to Sir- Thomas Tyldefley' ’ and then
•* His/1 Lordfhip on retting a while fchpourhis Warrants, for all Perfons
Sounded a Charge.
__________ ________, .	Twice his Lordfhip and all his Par-willing to. Serve his Majefty under ty made their way .clear through the him, forthwith to repair to him ap whole Body of the Enemy/ but at-Prefton, the Place appointed for their tempting it a third Time and being Rendezvous: Thefe Warrants were fe- oppreft and environed by unequal cretly difperfed in all the chief Towns Numbers, the Lord Witherington, Sir of the County/and many came'to him Thomas Tyldefley, and many other from all Parts ; but before he could brave and worthy Gentlemen? wereWpJ Poffibly raife and Accoutre a fufheient flain; Sir Throgmorton, Kpiglu Mar-
Numb. 8..	^ ^l3-^ /
14 The Hiftory of the Afferent ^n4 Honourable
final, waS left among the dead, but taken-up by a Poor Womap, and relieved by that worthy Knight Sir Roger Bradfliaw.
His Lordfliip had two Horfes killed under him, and feconded and remounted both Times by a faithful Servant- a Frenchman who there loft his Life by his Maker’s fide; in the third Charge upon the fall of Lord Witherip gtoii, his Lordfliip/ mounted his Hoxie, and beipg feconded by. fix Gentlemen of his Party, he with-tjiem Fought his. way through a, great Body' of the Enemy into the Town; where his Lordfliip quitting his Horie leapt in at a Door, that flood open, and^ Suddenly fliutting it before the Enemy could reach it, the Woman of the Houfe kept it fliut fo long, ’till his Lordfliip was conveyed to a Place of Privacy, where he lay concealed for many Hours, notwithftanding the moft induftrious Search of the- Enemy.
Of the fix hundred Gentlemen with his Lordfliip, he loft at leaft the half, himfelf having received feven Shots upon his Breaft-Plate, and thirteen Cuts upon his Beaver which he wore over a Cap of Steel, which was taken up in the Lane after the Battle. He alfo received five or fix flight Wounds in his Arms - and Shoulders, but none very Dangerous: Perhaps this Age has not feen or known' an Action of greater Bravery, where fix hundred Horfe fought jhree thoufand Horfe. apd Foot iii a difadvantageous, Place for two-; Hours together, leaving feven hundred dead upon the Spot befides ’the wounded, with the lofs of three hundred only.
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His 'Lordfliip having got his wounds privately Drefled^ and’furniflied with a Difguife, that very Night about two-o’clock attended only with three Servants, began hiy Journey towards, Worcefter, whither he came before the Battle there ^ and though hip Wounds were green aiidbfoye^Ji^ attended his-Majefty through the whold Eighty behaving therein with’ h^ ufual apcL ac-cuftomed Gallantry, y A ■ 1 m dt iu ,
That Battle being unluckily Jolson the third of September, idyr;,'.’^ Lordfliip conducted, his Majefty with fafety to a Friend’s Houfe, yet famous-for the Royal OAI^i whei£_bis Lordfliip had been kinmy^rgated on his Journey to Worcefte^j^d there having happily difpofted f^Jiig Majefty in great Security^hhi ■ iSbr.clfliip prepared for his return, being accompanied by the Lord La^ffterdale and a-j bout forty more ; w^i^faking them March through bye ways; to get into Chefliire,. or Lancafliire; had the Mif-fortune to fall in the way of a Regiment of Foot and a Troop of Hprfe, of the Enemy, Commanded by Majors-Edge, who were Marching towards Worcefter: After fome filial! difpute With that Party, the Earl and his Companions making themfelves known^ had Quarter given for Life, and con-; dition for Honourable ufage upon giving up their Arms and* Submitting themfelves to be their Prisoners.
But, this great and valiapt^Perfbn being now in his; Enemies; Elands, £ Bijadihaw-, Rigby, and Birch^ defign. him to be a Vidtim to their inveterate^ Malice ; Bradfliaw, bccaufe he had, denied him the- Vice Chamberlain’s .	Place
Houle of STANLEY, from die Conqueft. 115
Place at Chefter, preferring Mr. Bridge-man now Lord Bridgeman before him; Eigby, becaufe of his ill Succefs before Latham-Houfe and Bolton; and Birch, becaufe his Lordihip hadtrailed him under a. Hay Cart at Manchefter; by which he got even among his own Party, the deferved Epithet of the Earl of Derby’s Carter : Thefe three affifted by Sir Richard Houghton, a rebellious Son of a very loyal Father Sir Gilbert Houghton, Carver to his Majeily, re-prefenting to Cromwell how unfafe it would be not only to that Country; but the whole Nation, to fuller that Man to live ; got a Coinmillion to tiy him by a pretended Court-Martial, that is by twelve Sequeftrators and Committee Men: During the Preparation for this unjuft and undeferved Trial, his Lordfhip wrote to his Lady, then in the Me of Man.
Lord DERBY’S Letter to his LADY after he was taken; and Prifoner at
. Chefter.
My dear Heart,
^ T T hath been my Misfortune fince “ X I left you, not to have one Line “ of Comfort from you, which hath “ been moft afftidive tome; and this. “ and what I now further, -write you, “ mull be a Mafs o£ many Things in
one.
“ I will not ftay long on Particulars, “ but in fhort inform you that the “ King is dead, or narrowly efcaped ‘CinDifguife, whether, notyet known: * All the Nobles of the Patty killed or “ taken, fave a few, and it Matters *‘ not much where they bet The com-
“ mon Soldiers are difperfed, fomc in “ Prifon, fome fent to other Nations, “ and none like to fervc any more on “ the fame Score -. I efcaped a great “ Danger at Wigan, but met with a “ worfe at Worcefter; being not fo “ fortunate to meet any that would “ kill me, and thereby have put me out of the Reach of Envy and Ma* “ lice: LordLautherdale and I having “ efcaped, hired, Horfes, and falling “ into the Enemies Hands, were not “ thought worth killing, but had “ Quarter given us by one Captain ^ Edge, a Lancafliire Man; and one “ that was fo civil to me, that I and “ all that Love me; are beholding to “ him. , -
“ I thought myfelf Happy in being ‘f fent Prifoner to Chefter, where I •“ might have the Comfort of feeing “ my two Daughters, and to find “ Means of fending to you ; but I fear “ my coming here may coft me dear,, “ unlefs Almighty GOD in whom I “ truft, will pleafe to help me fome o-“ ther Way; but whatfoever come of “ me I have Peace in my own Breaft, “ and no Difcomfort at all but the af-‘‘ flidtive Senfe I have of your Grief; “ and that of my poor Children.
“ Colonel Duckenfield, Governor of “ this Town, is go ing. Recording to “ his Orders from the Parliament; “ General to the Me of Man, where “ he will make known unto you his “ Bufinefs.
“ I have epnfidejed your Condition “ and my own, and thereupon^ give “ you this Advice.
“ Take it not as from a Priipner for if I am never fo clofe confined,
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“ my Heart is my own, free ftill as “ the beft, and I icorn to be compelled “ to your Prejudice,- though by the “ fevereft Tortures : I have procured “ baggarley, who was Prifoner in this tr Town, to come overdo you with “■ my Letter, I have told himmyRea-“ fons, and he will tell you them, “ which done, may fave the fpilling * of Blood in that Ifland, and it may “■ be of fome here, dear to you, but “ of that take no- Care;. neither treat “ at all, for I perceive it will do you “ more hurt than good.
“ Have’ a Care my dear Soul of “ yourfelf, and of my dear Moll, Ned, “ and Billy ; as for thofe- here I will !“ give them the beft Advice I can ? it “ is not with, us as heretofore: My Son “ with his Spoufe; and my Nephew “ Stanley, have come to fee me, of “ them all I will fay nothing at this “ Time, excepting that my Son fhcws “ great Affection, and is gone to Lon-■“ don, with exceeding Concern and w Paflion for my good; he is changed “ much for the better, I thank GOD; “ and would’ have been a greater 41 Comfort to me, if I could have left “ him more, or if he had provided; “ better for himfelf.
“ The Difcdurfe I have had here of “ the Ifle of Man-, has produced’ the “ inclofed, or at leaft-fuch Defires of “ mine as I hope Baggarley will de-“ liver to you upon Oath to be mine; “ and truly as Matters go,- it will be “ the belt for you to make-Condition “ for yourfelf, Children, and Friends, “ in the Manner as we have propofed' <M or as you can further agree with
“ Colonel Duckenfield, who being fo “ much a Gentleman born, will doubt-“ lefs for his own Honour deal fair-“ ly with you.
“ You know how much that Place “ is my Darling, but fince it is God’s “ will to difpole in the Manner it is,, “ of this Nation and Ireland too, “ there is nothing further to be faid “ of the Ifle of Man, but to refer all “ to the will of God; and to procure ‘" the beft Conditions you can for “ yourfelf, and our poor Family and “ Friends there, and thofe that came “ over with me; and fo-trailing in tile “ Affiftance and Goodnefs of God be- * “ gin the World again though near to “ Win ter,whofe cold andpiercingblafts “ are much more tolerable than the “ malicious Approaches of a poifoned r “ Serpent, or an inveterate- or malign J “ Enemy; from whofe Power the Lord ' “ of Heaven blefs you and preferve “ you; God Almighty Comfort you “ and my poor Children, and the Son “ of God, whofe Blood was fired for “ our Good, preferve your Lives ; that “ by the Good Will and Mercy of “ God we may meet once more upon “ Earthy and laft in the Kingdom of M Fleaven: where we fhall be for ever “ free from all Rapine, Plunder and “ Violence, and fo I reft Everlastingly,
“ Your moft Faithful,
“ derby.’*
By this Time the Judges were appointed’and the Court formed for the Trial of- the noble Earl’ of Derby, at Chefter, Mackworth, of Shrewfbury being Prefidenb
-	Major
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. I f.7
Major Mitton, Robert Duckenfield, Henry Bradfhaw, Thomas Croxton, George Twifleton, Henry Birkenhead, Simon Finch Alexander Newton,
James Stoford, Samuel Smith,
r Colonels
Lieut. Cols
John Downes, John Delves, John Griffith,

Thomas Portington, AWCaptsh
Edward Alcock,
Ralph Powell, Richard Grantham, Edward Stolfaxr Vinent Corbett,
The Defence of the.Right Honourable
On his Trial for Life at Chefter, before a Court Martial; compofed of Sequeftrators and Committee-men above-named; he being allowed neither Council nor Books in Court for his Affiftance: Addreffed by himfelf to the Prefident in manner following-
S I R,.
J Underhand myfel’f to be convened “ | before you, as well by a Com-“' miffion from your General, as by ^f an- Act of Parliament of the twelfth “ of Auguft lalt
- ‘‘To the. Articles exhibited againft “ me, I have given a full and ingenu-ous Anfwer.
“ What may prefent itfelf for my “ Advantage I have gained Liberty to “ offer and urge by Advice, and I “ doubt not but in a matter of Law,, “ tire Court will be to me. inftead of “ Coun&iMj^Gciurt.?
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“ IRSTI fhall obferve to you, the-“ X Nature and general Order of a “ Court Martial, and the Laws and “ Actions of it as‘far as concerns‘my “ Cafe, and then fhall apply my.Plea “ to fuch Orders.
“ And therefore I conceive (undeb “ favour) that the Laws of Court “ Martial, are as the Laws of Nature “ and Nations, equally binding all “ Perfons Military; and to be obferved “ inviolably.
“ And there it is, if a Judgment be “ given in one Court MartialvThere is “’ no Appeal to any other Court Mart ial.
“ Of which Law Martial, the Civil• “ Law gives a plentiful Account, far “ abpve what the Common Law doth. “ Grotius de jure belli, &c.
“ But- becaufe it is one only Point “ of Martial Law, which I am to infill “ upon for my Life,- I fhall Name it, “ and debate the juft right of.it, as-“ quarter for Life; given by Captain “ Edge; which I conceive to be a good “ Bar to a Trial for Life by a Council “ of War.-
“ That quarter 1$^ given me, if “ fcrupled, F am ready? to prove; and “■ that it is pleadablefy is above difpute. -
“ I flrall only 1 emo'zeone Objection, “ which is, that thok this^bc a:Court “ Martial, yet, the ipecial Nature of “ it is directed by EarliamC&4 rd
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“ For to appoint a Court Martial to “ proceed by any other Laws than a ^ Court Martial can, fs a repugnancy “ in Naturarei.
“ So as fuch a Court Martial retains “ its own proper Laws and Jurifdic-4* tion for the fupport of itfelf ; fo the “ Pleas and Liberties incidentfl to it, “ cannot be denied the Prifoner.
“ That quarter and futh quarter aS d* I had given me, is a good Plea for “ Life- to a Council of War; I fliall “ not endeavour fo much to evince by *‘ Authors, that being the proper work dfi of the learned in Civil Law; but by d‘ fuch way as we call jus gentium-, is -“ proved by common Practice and ^ ftrong Reafons.
‘ ~ “ For the firft I fliall not need to gf bring foreign Inftances, being be-fore, you, whofe Experience hath
”“ made this thing Familiar to.you.
“ And I believe you will agree with “ me, that I am not only the lirft Peer, *^ but the firft Man tried by a Court ** Martial after quarter given; unlefs “ f<5me Matter, Ex poft 'aclo; or fub-*£ fequent to fuch quarter,- brought ■“ them within the Examination of fuch Court Martial.
“ And (as I am informed,) upon the *‘ great Trial of the Earl of Cambridge, Lord Capell, Earl of Holland, &c. " The Plea of Quarter being ftrongly urged, i it was only avoided upon this Ground, that; It was. no good
“ Plea againft a Civil JurifdifHon ; “ there being no Colour of Difpute “ tacitely admitted, and concluded “ that it was a good Plea againft a Mi-“ litary Jurifdiction.
■“ And tho’ the. Lord Capell,. and “ Lord Gorings Quarter, feemed to ^ have fome Advantage, as being given “ by the General, and by way of Ar-“ tides; yet, the Quarter given to the “ Earl of Cambridge, was given him “ by a particular Captain, and that “ Quarter (as Quarter confidered) as. “ ftrong as the other; only bothavoid-“ ud by the Civil Jurifdiction, it being “ a rule in War, that Quarter hath as “ much force, being given in Adion, “as Ar tides in a Ceflation, both irre-“ verfable by any Military Power.
“ And tho’ it be a Maxim in Poli-“ tics, that no General or Soldiers Con-■“ ceflion fliall Prejudice the State In-“ tereft, yet they fliallhe Bars to their £ Power.
“ I confefs I love the Law of Peace, “ more than that of War; yet, in this “ Cafe, I mull adhere to thole of “ War.
“ And I would only know, whether “ Quarter was given me for a Benefit “ or for a Mifchief; if for a Benefit, I “ am now to have it made good; if “ for a Mifchief, it deftroys the Faith “ of all Men in Arms.
“ And I have read this for a Maxim “ in War, that Promifes made by 41 Kings andStateCommanders, ought to be obferved inviolably, or elfe “ there, never will be any yielding.
“ And I fliall lay this before you as “ a Rule, that Quarter given by the “ meaneft Soldier (if not forbidden)
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“ Touching levying of Forces in the Ifle of Man, and invading England^ I might myfelf (and that truly) be a Stranger to all the Adis for Treafon, and in particular to the Adts of the Twelfth of Auguft.
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ter for your Lives , then would it not be hard Meafure, that any Court-'“ Martial fhould try you afterwards.
“	‘‘ If this Quarter be foiled or nulled,,
“ all the Treaties, Articles, Terms, or “ Conclufions, fince the War began,. “ may be examinable by any fubfe-
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“ And efpecially, that I was not in “ the Ifle. of Man when the laft Aft “ was made; and the Law looks not,. “ backward,, and while Twas in Eng-“ land. I was under an unlikelihood,.
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“ I do as to your Military Power “ earneftly plead Quarter,. _as a Bar to “ your further Trial of me; and doubts “ not but you will deeply weigh a, “ Point fo<confidi^M>le both to ypur “ Consciences and Concernments "be-*- fore you pro^fd to Sentence,- and admit my Appeal to his Excellency Lord General Cromwell, in this
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“ But I ihall not multiply, prefuming you will not judge by Law-s of War, in which Capacity only you u fit ;■. and that your Religion and “ common Juft ice allow that Plea, “ which is univerfally even in all
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civil Nations; was yet over-ruled by that -Bench of Sequeftrators, who were altogether- aded and influenced by Bradihaw and his Confederates, fum-med up his Crimes in the following Articles, (to wit,J. “ That he had Trai-“ toroufly borne Arms for Charles “ Stuart againft the Parliament: That “ he was guilty of a Breach of an Adi Ci of Parliament of the Twelfth of “ Auguft, i6^x^J- Prohibiting all Coi-. “ refpondence with Charles Stuart, or fl any of his Party: That he had for-“ tified his Houfe of Latham againft “ .the, Parliament, and. that he now ■ AC held .the Ifle of Man againft them,
2 &c?’ And-therefore they gave Sentence of Death againft him, and appointed Iris Execution to be at Bolton, within four Days ;- that he,might not have Time to Appeal to Parliament.
However, his Son the Lord Strange, ■Having beforehand laid Horfes ready,, rid Poft to London in one Day and blight, got his Petition read in the junto, by Mr. Lenthel their Speaker, (which no Man elfe would read or-receive) but Cromwell and Bradihaw had fo ordered the Matter, that when they faw the Major part of the Houfe inclined to allow of the Earl’s Plea; as the Speaker was putting the Quef-tion, eight or nine of them quitted the Houle, and thofe left in it, being tinder the Number of forty, no Quef-tion could be put-. So the Lord Strange feeing all Attempts or Endeavours toy lave the I ife of His Father; fruiSefs and of no effect, for that the. Gran-dees had refolved upon, .'.nd determined his Death: WiOSihcredible fpyed returned to his Father before the:
Hour of Execution, fnd acquainted him with the cruel and bloody Refo-lution of his profeiled and implacable Enemies.
His Father embracing him with all the Tendernefs of natural Love and Affection, faid to him. Son, I thank you for your Duty, Diligence, and beft En-deavours to fave my Life, but fince it Cannot be obtained I muft fubmit; and kneeling down faid, “ Domine non J mea voluntas- fed tua.” Then calling for his Friends -whom he had defired to be Witneffes of his Death, prepared for the Scaffold; and died with more Courage and Chriftian Patience, than his Enemies Malice could Murder with,
A faithful Account of the Chriftian Behaviour and humble Deportment of James/ Earl of DERBY, from his Trial at Chefter, to his Exe-cution at Bolton; by his Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Humphrey Baggerley, who attended him on that mournful Oc-cafion.
fl Upon Monday the thirteenth of “ October 1651, my Lord procured fl me Liberty to wait upon him, “ having then been' clofe Pfifoner for fl fen Days: He told me the Night be-fl fore, Mr. Slater, Colonel Ducken-“ field’s Chaplain, had been with him
from the Governor, to perfuade his “ Lordihip, that they were confident “ his Life was in no'danger.; but his fl Lordihip told me, he patiently heard “ his Difcourfe, but did' riot believe “ him; for faid he, I was refolved not to be. deceived with the vain
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“ But of a fudden came in one “ Lieutenant Smith, a rude Fellow, “ and With his Hat on; told my Lord “ he came from Colonel Duckenfield, “ the Governor, to tell’liimhemuft.be “ ready for his Journey to Bolton, he “ replied, when would-you have me “ to go, To-moiTow Morning, by fix “ of the Clock, faid Smith $ well faid “ my Lord, I thank God I am readier 4‘ to die than for my Journey, how-“ ever, commend me to the Governor, “ and tell him by that Time I will be “ ready for both.
“ Then, that infolent Rebel Smith “ faid, Dotly your Lordfhip know any “ Friend of Servant chat would do “ that Thing that yourLordfhip knows “ of, it would do well if you had a ■^ Friend; my Lord replied, what do “ you mean, would you have me to “ find one to cut off my own Head; “ Smith faid, my Lord, if you could “ get a Friend, my I ord anfwered, “ nay Sir, if thofe Men that will have “ my Head will not find one to cut it ■“ off, det it ftand where- it is; I thank 4‘ my GOD my Life hath not beep fo “ bad that I fhould be inftrumental co “ deprive myfelf of it ; though hehath
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“ been fo merciful to nie as to be well “ refolved againft the worft Terrors “ Death can put upon me, and for “ me and my Servants, our Ways have “ been to profecute a juft War by ho-“ nourable and juft Means, and not “ thofe barbarous Ways of Blood, “ which to you is a Trade.
“ Then Smith went out and called “ me to him, and repeated his Dif-“ courfe and Defires to me; I only “ told him,- that my Lord had given “ him a final Anfwer on that Head.
“ Then upon my coming.in again, ft my Lord calling for Pen and Ink, “ writ his laft Letter to my Lady, and “ that to my Lady Mary and his Sons, “ in the Ifle of Man.
“ In the mean Time Mr. Paul Mo-“ reau,. a Servant to his Lordfhip; “ went and brought all the Rings he “ could get, and my Lord wrapt them “ up in feveral Papers, and writ with-“ in them, and made me fuperfcribe “ them to. his Children, Friends, and “ Servants.
“ The reft of that Day being Mon-“ day, he fpent with my Lord Strange, “ Lady Catherine, and my Lady Ame-“ lia; at Night about Six I came to “ him again, when the Ladies were “ gone away, and'as we were walk-“ ing and my Lord .telling me that he “ would receive tile Sacrament the “ next Morning, and on Wednefday “ Morning both, in came the afore-“ faid Smith, and faid, . my Lord, “ the Governor defires you would be f“ ready to go in the Morning about
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“ early, by Nine o’clock will ferve ‘ my Turn, anti by that Time I will “ be ready, if he has earhefter Occa-“ lion, lie may take his oWh Hour,
“ Tliay Night I ftaid Supper wirij — my Lord,- wild was exceeding chear-6 fill and well compofcd; and drahk “ to. Sir Timothy Fcathcrftone .(who 2 filtered ar Cliffter, a Week. afLu in “ tile fame Cauie,’) and faiS, Sir b'e of ^ goo<l Comfort,. Igo willingly before “ you; GODWhath fo- ftffehgtlieiied “ me that you fliall hear that by liis “ Affiitance T fhall; fo ftibmiLWth as “ a Clfnftiah'a^ & Soldier, as to be “ foth a- Comfort and an Example to “ you
“ Then he often remembered my “ Lady, Lady Mary, and tile little ho-nourable Mailers, and drank to me, “ and once to all . his Servants, efpe-“ cially tbAndfeyr Broorrie; and faid,. “ he hoped now chat they who loved “ him, would never forfakc his Wife' “ and Children, and he doubted not •^ but GOD wotild be a Mailer tex “ them, and provide for them after-“ his Death.
“ In the Morning hh Lordfhip de-“ live red me the Letters for the lilahd, “ and faid,' Baggarley, deliver thefe “ with my moft tender Affection to “ my Wife, and fweet Children; who “ fhall continue with my Prayers for /* them to the laft Minute of my Life, “ and I have inftructed you as to all “ Things for your Journey.
“ But as to that fad Part of it with “ refpeft to them I can fay nothing, “■ but muft remain in Silence, for your “■ own Looks will beft-tell your Mef-“ fage :■ The great G OD of Heaven di-
“ reift you, and p^diper and comfort ^ theifi, in this their Day of deep Afo “ flictioii and Diftrefsi
“ Hif Lofdiliip rook Leave, of Sib “ Timdthy Feathdrftone; much in the1 “ fame Manner as the Night before? “ Mr. Crolfen and three other Gentle-“ inch which Were' Condemhed came * out of the Dungeon, (at fny Lord’s “ Requeft to Ilie Mhfhal). and killed * liis Hand, and Wept at takihgLeave i ‘- my Lord faid, Gentlemen;, GOD “ blefs and keep you, I ’hope noW my “ Blood will faiisfy for' all that were <f with me; and now yotr will in a “ fhort Time be at Liberty;. but if the “ Grdelty 6f thefe Men will hot end “ there, be of gobd Comfort,. GOD * willftrengthen you to endure to the “’ laft as he hath dorfe me p for you “ fhall hear-1- die like a. Chriftiam a “ Man, a Soldier, and an obedient “ Subject, to the moft juft and vir-“ tuous of Princes.
“ After we were out of Town about “ half a Mile, my Lord meeting his fc two Daughters, Lady Catharine and “ Amelia, alighted from his Horie. “ and’with an humble Behaviour aiid “ noble Carriage, kneeled down by “ the Boot of the Coach and prayed “ for them, then, riling up, took hife “■ leave, and fo parted: This was the “ deepeft Scene of Sorrow my Eyeb “ ever beheld ; fornuch Grief,.and fo “ much Concern, and tender Affec-“ tion on both Sides, I never ^as Wit-“ nefs of before. - - i ; <
" That Night, Tuefday; the fouf-“ teen th of October idjuHWe came. G toL gh, nearWinwick, and in rh’c “ Way thither, his Lordihip called nib
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‘' Then he called to my Lord Strange to put on his Order once this' Day, ■ and I will fend it you again by Bag-garley, and pray return it to my gracious {sovereign, when you mall be lb happy as to fee him-, and fay, I fent jt in all Humility and Gratitude, as I received it Spptlefs and free from any Stain, according tP the honourable Example of my loyal Apceftprs. <
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“ But that he feared it would fome--/‘ what ftartle him, tamely to fubmit
to a blow upon a Scofield, but./aid he, tell the Arch-Deacon from me, that I do find in myfelf an absolute change as to that Opinion; for I blefs my God for it who hath put thefe Comforts and this Courage into my §oul; I can with Refigna-tion to his Almighty Will,, as wil- 7 Sir E. S. When w.e were ready to “ lingly lay down my Head upon a “ "^ K~ m^u ^ r,,^ ~c uQ„~ ----------------- 7 Block, as ever L did on 4 Pillow.
, {‘ My Lord at Supper made a com-4< potent Meal, .faying; he would imi-
tatO\his Sayiour; a Supper Ihould : “ me tp. remember him to them alL be hkv la^ Adt in this World, as it “ then wpuld have walked into the was his Saviour’s own Supper be- “ Church jo have feen Sir T.T’k Grave, fore he came^o his Crofs; which “ but was not. permitted, nor to rid?
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-“ a Ch^^L,; and To-morrow I ihall p je^UyTbe fo? As fqon as he rofe, and ^ after Prayer, he Ihifted himfejf, and ^ laid, this ihall be. my Winding Sheet.; 41 then faid to Mr. Paul, fee that it be “ not taken; from me, for I will be 4t buried m it.
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from one Point to another: You mult “ leave me, and go to my Wife and “ Children in the Ilie of Man, and are uncertain where you ihall be anQr therDay; but in the mean Time do
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^ ETWEEN Twelve and One of “ fj) the Clock on Wednefday the “ Fifteenth of .October, 1651. The “ Earl of Derby came to Bolton with “ two Troops of Horfe, and one Com-“ pany of Foot: The People everywhere “ Praying and Weeping as he went, “ even from the Callie of Cheder his “ Prifon, to his Scaffold at Bolton, “ whbre his Soul was freed from its “ Prifon the Body.
“ His Lordihip. being to go to a “ Houle in Bolton, near the Crofs, and “ palling by it, faid, this mull be my Crofs, then alighting and going intd “ a Chamber with fome of his Friends , “ and Servants, had, upon Requeft, “ Time allowed him ’till Three o'clock “ that Day, the Scaffold, being not “ quite ready, becaufe the People “ of the-Town refufed to llrike a Nail, “ or to give any ARiilance?to it; many
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of them faying, that fince the War began they had fuffered many and great Loffes; but never fo great- as this: This was the greateR that ever befel them; that tile Earl of Derby, their Lord and Patriot, fhould lofe his Life there, and in. that barbarous Manner.
“ His Lordihip as I told you having । ’till „ JThree o’clock'' allowed him, fpent all that^ Time with thofe Friends, that were with him in Praying with them,., and telling them how he had.lived, and how he had
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prepared for - Kis-’Death, and how the Lord had flrengthened him a-gainft the Terrors of it, and after fuch and the like Words, he defired them to Pray with him-again, anti then giving fome good InllruCfions. to his Soh, the Lord Strange, he de-, fired to be in private, where we left
“ liim with his GOD, where he con- / -“ tinned on his Knees in Prayer for p.
: good While; then called fo? us a-gain, telling us how willing he was
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At his going towards the Scaffold, the People cried and prayed, and prayed and cried: His Lordihip with a courteous Humility faid: ‘ Good Peo-‘ pie I thank you all, I befeech you ‘ Pray for me to the laft: The GOD ‘ of Heaven blefs your The Son of
and fo taking * hold myfelf obliged to obey, accord-bp pnilp^ r^v ^ ‘ ing to the Proteftation I took in Parliament in his Father’s Time.
/ ‘ Holy Ghoft fill you with Comfort: And coming near the Scaffold, he laid his Eknds upon the Ladder, faying:' F.am not afraid to go up here, thohghto my Death: Then walking a While upon the Scaffold, fettled hiinfelf at the Eaft End of it, and



■ ‘ I confefs I love Monarchy, and I ‘ love my Mafter Charles IL of that ‘ Name, who I myfelf proclaimed '* this Country to be King: The Lord blefs him and preferve him: I do ‘ believe and allure you that he is a
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‘ good People of this Nation after my ■ ‘ Death, that he may enjoy his Right, ‘ and then am well allured that they ‘ cannot want theirs under him;
’ I confefs here in the Prefence of ‘ GOD, I always fought for Peace, ‘ and I had no, other Reafon, for I ‘ wanted neither Eftate nor Honour, * nor did F feek to enlarge either at - the Expcnce of others Lives and For-tunes, or the Invafion of the King’s .	.	‘ Rights and Prerogatives ; My Prede-
promifed myfelf to-be Welcome; in ' ceffors were for their Duty, Loyalty, ‘ and good Services, raifed to a high ‘ Condition of Honour and Fortune as * is well4 known to this Country, and
‘ made his Addrefs to the People thus:
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T Am come and am content to die 1 in this.Town, where I endeavour-
J< ed to come the laft Time I was in ‘ Laiicaihire, as to a Place where I
* regard, the People have Reafon to * be fatisfied of niy Love and Affec-'^ tion to them, and that they now tf undcrHand fufficiently that I am not
a Man of Blood,-- as fome malic foully and fallly llandered me;, being ac-* quitted of that by many Gentlemen ‘ of great Worthy who- were? in the 5 Fight m this Town; and l am cony T fident there are Hill fome in this d Place who can Witnefs my Mercy ‘ and Cafe in faying the Lives of- ma-
ny Men- that'Day.	■
As for my Crime as -fome call it, to come into this Country,- with the ‘ King, I hope’ it deferves a- better ‘ Name, for I did it in Obedience to
‘ it is1 as-well known that L am con-‘ demned to die by his Majefty’s Ene— ‘ miefe, by new and -unknown Laws*:-‘ The Lord fend us ourdKihg again:-• And the Lord fend us our Religion 5 again / as for.-that which -is pfa^tifed';' -‘ now, it hath no Name, and methinks ‘ thefe is more Talk of Religion than. ‘ any realTrad!ice or goodEifeff thcre^ ‘ off-Truly, to me I Jie for GOD, the *’ King, and the Laws; and this makes, ‘ me not aihamed of my Life, nor a-- -
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The H$ory of the Ancient and Honourable
/ will rave no Lords-, when fome fud- - foi his Enemies, and -fo do I pra J den Fear or Mutiny fell among the -- m ne.	...	■	■
' Soldiersj and his Lordfhw was. in- ‘ As for my Fam and Religion.
* tempted, which fome of die Officers : 1 yere much troubled at, and .his ‘ Friends much grieved for: His Loro-‘ ihip having had Freedom of Speech
/ Yomifed: and he feeing their Troops ■ cattered in the Streets., cutting and 4 {Lathing' ’the People with their ‘ Swords, fair Gentlemen, what is
‘ thus much I have to fay at this Time;
God, ^nd in Jeyus- Cl iff his only £ Son, who died for me and all Man-£ kind, and from Xvhom 1 look for my ‘ Salvation;'that s in and through ois | only Merits and-Sufferings:- Ann 4 _	■ do die a dutiful-Sop of the Church
• SGtier. ^wGChr GuiL 1 fly ‘ of EngUnd, a? h v.:Ss. efta^ * not,an4 nereis none to pursue yon. my late Mafter - Rcign; a; J it is ' Then his Loydfhip perceiving mat yet prw cfk.i m e *- £ Man, ‘ he might not fpea freely, turned wtqch fis no firn^ ^mfo’ t to m^ 1 himielf to his Servant- and gavehim I thank my G<dior the^puctof my his Papers, and commanded him to * ConfciePce an us .^WG andioi
. r ,	, a. > ^ .„ Affuiauce of thofe Joys which he
* ^a^f promiled, and are prepared for 4 all thofe that Love, Adore, and Fear E damn Good People quay /or me-, 4 ‘ do for you: The God of Heaven 4 t Igfp you all, and fend you Peace ‘ and Profperity; that God who is 4 Tipth itfelf' blefe you w ith Peace ‘ and Truth Amen.
^ -let the World know what he had to > < aw bah he not been interrupted and ‘ di^grbed, -which is as followed^ As * it was^P his Lordfhip’s Papers, jm-‘ der his own Hand-
: Y Sentence upon which I am. ‘1*1 broughthithei, was byaCpun-* d| of War,'which Council; I bad *‘ Region to expect would have juftified
ing an ancient and an honourable Plea amopgflt Soldiers, and not violated that I know of ‘till this Time, that 1 am made the firft Precedent in tigs Cale, and I wifi- that northers iuffer in the like Cafes.? Now I muft
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Pa-efently after rhe Uproar was over, his-Lordfhip walking the Scaffold, -called for his Executioner to come to. him, and afkedAo f^ the Axe, faying; f Gome Frieqd, giye it inmqiiyHaj)ds, 4 Ilf neither hurt'thee .nor-it;. And it * cannot hurt me, for I am not. afraid ^ of it/ io killing it, ga^en to him again, then atked to fee the Block, ^hich ■ was not quite ready, and turning up his'Eyes, faidrVr ffow. long
■ die, and th^t I am ready to die I thank ■ my GOD? with a good and quiet
Gonfewnce;^without any Malice to .	,
‘any. Gpon any Grpuiiilg whatfoever*, ‘ good Lord, how long, Then gutting ' thong i others would not find Mercy his -Hand into his Pocket, gave ne ' for me upon juft and fair Grounds : - Headim.au two Pieces of Gojd, 4 ay in g, * but I 'forgive them, following the ‘ This is all 1 have, lake if, and . ■ j * Example of my Saviour, whop rayed 4 thy Wor^ welb-nn^ ’yhen( 1 ammp-
-xpui/o__ o . ANLEY, from the Conqueft.
vd the Block and lifting up my Hands, then do ^ur Bufinefs ; but I fear ‘ your greiV Coat will hinder or trou-
lift uprilyllands then da your Work
laid bo wife
laid i owifig: ’ The Lord be with you all/pray or me,’ and kneeling upon; his Knees, made, a ihort and private Prayer, ending with, the Lord’s Prayer, and fo bowing himfelf again, laid, ‘ The Lord blefs my Wife and Children,. and the Lord blefs us all:’. Aiid
‘ b’e you, and pray put it off? / Some (landing by, bld him a.k his Lordfliip's ForgWenefs, but being either tod fuller, or too flow, his J<ord-fliip forgave him e’.er he liked and ■ fo pafling.by to the ether Side where
his Goffin flood, and fpying ope of fo laying his Meek upon the Block". . is Chaplains on ^Horfeback amoagft and his Arms ftrerched out, he laid the Troopers, rod, ‘ Sir, remember theie Words aloud
' me to your Brother and FriendYou
* fee I am ready,, but the Block is not. But when I am got into my Chamber which I ihaL not be long out of,.
‘ (pointing'.to* h^ Goffin) I fhah then, be at reft,? and, no longer troubled’
‘ with fuch a Gua a and Nolle as B ‘ have been ’ and fin turning himfelf again he (aw the Block',, and aikedi all was ready? then- going to the -Place where he began nis Speech, He faid, £ good People; r thank you for.
1 your Praversand your Tears /1 have heart? the one and feen the other/?
Bleffed.be GO/D’s Holy Warne for ‘ ever and ever;. Amen..
Let th? whole Earth be filled with1 “ his Glory.’.
And then lifting up - his Hands the Executioner did his Work, a-id we hope and doubt not but GOD hath. done his faved his Soul, and taken it; intt everlafting Felicity • After which nothing was heard in the Town but . Sighs,.Sobs and Prayers;.
When his Body was taken up and1 ftriped as he had diredted, and laid in his Coffin, there was thrown into it
„ .	.	the following Line?, by an unknown
? he caufed the Block io be turned and Hand
• laid .than way, laying,.- ‘. L will.look. ;H;.; / n■ </ >&!
‘ towards thy Sanctuary; whilft 1 am Wi^Bounty^Courage, all three here1-
‘ here;-.andd hope to live in thy-Hea/? :ym^ne jie^dcad,’/^ h^?5;^
‘ v rflv SanFLUuyy for ever hereafter. A STANLEY^H^^ : y cues-Heart,.
Then taking his Doublet off, a^ and CepJTs Read, '	jj'??, ,
•howyhe .muff lie, faying,- ‘ I never -
' faw any one s Head cut oft, but I’ll The next Day,his Corps was carried? try how it fits / fo laying-him down from Bolton to -br^C^hk,. anp there aiidibetching/umfelf upon the Block,., depofited wi£h his^e^owqed Ancef he rofe again, and caufedit to be a little. tors^ xc mingle hg A^p$-with beirstr ■ removed; mid handing up aiyddbdhihg/ /An^althuughiY^.^	.
ar :he Executioner, fa;d. Be fore you this noble h i^ through^ the Cpurfe ' remember what I told.you. when I of many. Dangers tmd^Di^raetlons of
'	'	” Life,..
and bow ing, tur ned towards the Block,, and then, looking towards the Churchy
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128 The Hi ftory of the Ancient and Honourable -
Life, and brought to laftihg reft; yet Jet us not-quite bury him in Oblivion, but tranfmit to Pofterity the Memory of his Piety and virtuous Life, (as it
came to our Knowledge unce his De-ceafe) as we have done his moft brave and martial Atchievements
Wherein give me leave to prefent the Reader with his ufual Morning Prayer in his Glofet by himfelf: His two laft Letters1 to his Lady and Children in the Ifle of Man, after Sentence of Death palled upon him his religious Inftruftions to his Children, and an Elegy on his Death, by an ingenious Hand. . "	. , •
A Morning PR AYER,
By Lord DERBY;
H Almighty Lord GOD!, thou that heareft Prayer,. aflift me
* now in my Devotion, by the Help of * thy blefled Spirit, make me to have ‘ fo .right a Senfe of my Sins, that I may be humbled before thee, and ;< of thy Mercy, that I may be raifed ‘'■and comforted by thee: O Lord! ‘ make me tremble to confider thee-a ‘ moft mighty and terrible GOD; and 1 make me - again, rej oice .to know thee * a moft.loving and merciful Father: * Make me zealous of thy Glory, and ‘ thankful for thy Bounties: Make * me know my wants, and the frailties of my Nature; and be earrieft ‘ in my Prayer that thou wilt forgive * all my Mifdeeds; make me in my ‘ addrel&s to thee, to have a prefent * Mind A and nd Cares, wandering * Thoughts or defires elie where, or feparate from thee: Make me fo to
^ Pray that I may obtain of thee Mer-‘ cy, and the relief of all my Necef-‘ fities; for the fake of thy Blefled ‘ Son and my Redeemer the Holy Je-‘ fus,” Amen. :
' ' .' <	■'	’ Afi
A Copy of Lord D E R B Y7s 'laft Letter to his LADY, October the 12th,' 1651, from Cheftcr.
• ..M^Dear Heart, ' .£0	-
‘ T HzWE heretofore fent you com-‘ X fprtable Lines, but alas I have ■ now no Word of Comfort; having ‘ to bur laft and bell refuge which is1 ‘ Almighty G O D, to whole will we 4 muft fubmit: and when we confider ‘- how he' hath difpofed of thefe Nati-* diis5 and the Government thereof; * we have no more to do but to lay 1 our Hands upon our Mouths judg-5 ing ourfelVes, and acknowledging ‘ our Sins, joined with others, to-have ‘ been the Cauife of thefe Miferies, ‘ and to call on“ him with Tears for ‘ Mercy. / A 4 1 '
The Governor of this Place, Colo-* nel Duckenfield, is General of' the ■ Forces which are going now againft ‘ the Ifle of Man, and however you ‘ might do for the prefent ; in Time 4 it would be. a grievous and trouble-‘ fome Bufinefs to refill, efpecially ‘ thofe that at this Hour command ‘ three- Nations: Wherefore my Ad-‘ vice, notwitliilanding my great Af-‘ fedtion to that place is,f that you. - would make Conditions for yourfelf ‘ and Children, and Servants, and * People there, and fuch as came over ‘ witfi me, to the End you may go ‘ to fome Place of A reft where you
Houfe of S T A N^Ey, 9f|pmofhc Con^
129
* may not be ^concerned in War; and ‘ taking Thought of your poor Chil-‘ dren/ you may in fome port,provide hfor them; then prepare' yourfelf to ‘ come to yourrErienas above, in that * blelfed Mace where Blifs is, and no t*< mingling of Opinions,
; ex I conjure you piy deareft Heart, by alljthofe Gra$^j ^hicl^ $0.D'^ given' you, that you exercife your Patience in this great and grange Trial: If Harm come to you, then I am dead.indeed, and until then I fhall live in you, who are truly the belt Part of myfelf; When there is
c

Dear Mall, my Ned, and Billy
I Remember well how fad you were to part with me, but now I fear your-Sorrow will be greatly increased to be informed that you{ can never
‘ fee me more in this World; but I * charge you all to ftrive againft'too v
v great a Sorrow, you argali of you of
‘ that Temper that it; wpuld dpjjyou,;. much!Harm;- and my^D^fires and
Prayers to GOD.are, that you may ‘ have a happy Life ; let it be as holy a Life as you can,''and, as little fmful as you can avoid Qr prevent,. , -■ “ I can well now^jgiye ypu that A Counfelr,ohavmg in myfelf at this • take ComfoA^	!' Tim£/° P^AAC^ W;
‘ vou	"	ties-of my Life.;.;which fill my Soul
‘ I acknowledge the great Goodnefs ‘ ^ Sorrow itjy(y,I rejoice to re-. - -	- himember that; when I have bleffed
GOD with pious-Devotion, it has. A been broil delightful to my Souly and ? mull Le.my-eternal Happihefs.
.b ‘ Love the Arch-Deacon, he will ‘ give you good Precepts; Obey your f Mother with cheerfulhefs, and grieve ‘ her not, for ihe is your Example, your Nurfery, your Counfellor, your ‘ all under GOD; -there never was, ‘ nor never can be a more deferving ‘ Perfon: I am called away and this A is. tire laft I fliall write to. you; The L^Lord. my GOD blefs you and gjaard 61 you from all Evil:,So prays your Father at this •Time,Pwhofe Sorrow is
‘ Mall,-and Ned, and Billy Amen A^^ T’^A* ^^
no.fiich.{is I in being, then look upon yourfelf and my poor Children, then
of’GOD, to have given me fuch a 1 ^j . ‘ Wife as you: So great an ^onqur to ‘ my Family: So excellent ath/pa-* nion to me, To pi’ous, fo much of all be fain of good, I mull con-
that can ,,. o
fefs it impoffible to fay Enough thereof: I afk GOD Pardon with all
1 my Soul, that I have not been e-‘ nough thankful for fo great a^e-‘ hefit/and when I have done any
' Thing acany Time that might juftly ‘ offend you,' with joined Hands I alfo auc you Pardon. e,5i , r -thw 1
I have no more to fay to you at ‘ this Time- .than- my Prayers for the Almighty’s Bleffing to you, my dear
A Copy of Lord DERBY'S laft Letter L^rd DERBY’S firft Letter from the to Lady Mary, Mr. Edward, and Mr. Me of Man to his Son the Lofd William,	STRANGE, with his Obfervations
Numb. 9.	S	'	0 relating
13°	The Hiftory o? the 'Ancient and Honodiable
relating to that Ifland; for his In-ftrudtion and. Imitation, &c.
■ T^ H E Ifle of Man wasdbmetime
V- 1 governed "by Kingis Native^ * of its own, who were converted to * ChrlftiSnity by St. Patrick, thetAfjof-‘ t-lb)'&ft5rbldfid, and. Sire John Stanley - the3mi^^ <)f it, of that Fami-^Ty-was- by his Patentftiled King of T Mah;A!as<W^ Succeffors after „ 4 imp? ‘to the ddme of Thomas dim
• Tecbnd Earl 6f Derbygwliofor great. * 4nd wifedReafons, thought fit to fbr-
bfeariH^lhfl^ Ho ■- no 1
* And no. SubjeA' Tfchbw’^
* gr^ar a ROy&Tty^aS thiSg ahd'left • it 4 mould at any Time beuhoughttoo e gr^at, "keep this rule/tand you will 4 ‘more fecurely keep iff FeaioGod/gnd J HTopommh^ ^ing.un j- ri? hzz.'Q 1
4	When T go t<^‘fhe Tona>£ Mount ^Barouiephy turning myfelf -round I 4 can fee England, Scotland, Ireland, 1 and Wales-; and think it pity to fee 4 fo many Kingdoms id once, which '* is' azprpfpeA ho Place ias I conceive 4 in fifty Nation that we know under
Heaven can afford, and have fo little * profit from all; or aPy of them. -'
4	Biff having duly confideredthcre-4'offfhaV^h^s'T think, difeovered the 4 Reafofi of Tt, the Country is indeed . *4 bettef than I was informed of, fdr 4 which I 'blamed myfelf thap'L eii-G guired fo little of it -for indeed lie / who feeksuiot to know his own, is 4 unworthy of what he hath, and I ‘ apt of Opinion this Ifle will never * flourifh uiitil fome Trade or Ma.hu-“ fadhire be: eftablifhed -in it, and 4 .though you may invite Strangers, or
* Natives to become Merchants/ yef, "4 never any Thing will be.done to the 4 Purpofe, until you yOurfelf lead the 4 Way; and by yourTxample and Encouragement, feff-the ’People "a Pat-
4 By this or fuCh dike Means, no 4 doubt but you mTygroW Rich your-4 felf, and others under youffmprovh x the Land; andTet the People to Work, ^^to^that an Time you fhall shave Inb ' I 1 ^ggths, nof - 'fid -Loiterers1 f f -and " where you have one Soul now, yoti 4/fhall have many; eveiy Houfe will 4 technic a little Town, and -every b Town a little Gityf the ^Sea will a-‘ bound with Ships, andJthe Country 4 "with Peopley to the grearEnticli-4 ment of the whole.
.En>m:.oO PA; g 5m - ' Av aAr.vr " T*ord^DERBY'S’ Lettered Commiffary ^&ff^l Breton,dih AhfWer th Offers f/’^affelby lum Trom fhe-Parliament ofn his whole Eftate, if - hff? wbul’d furrender the Ifle of Man to them.
fkiflle-ToWn, July id^iA^
I Received your-Letter- withffhdig-r nation and Scbfn, and return J^du -4 this- Anftver. That' F cannot but wonder whence ybu fhould gather any Hopes. f?bm me, that I fhould, mike yohf proVe'.Tfeaklierou s to- my _‘ Sovereign, fince you cannot but be' 4 ferffible- oftmy former Actings- ifi^his 4 late Majefty s ■ Service; from-‘which ’ principles, of Loyalty, I am no whit 4 d^parted : f fcorn your Proffers. 11 if-dam your Favour, and abhor your Treafon, and am fo far from deli-
A ■ vermg
L x„ hpm the Conqueit.	13 i
Tvering-up this Ifta nd to your Advan^ 4 tags, that ^wW keep it to the ut-j moft of rhyTp^e^ fp; your Deiiruc-, • " tion: Takc diik fpr' your final An-, \f\yer, and .forbear any further Sob 4 licitation's j for if you trouble me. ‘ with any more Meflages on this Oc-4 cafiohs I will burn the’ Paper, and ‘bhang.the Bearer; this is the immu-;
4 ta le Refolutioru and fhall be the ‘ undoubted Practice of him, who . accounts it his chyefeft Glpry to be
717 '
<fr’ 1	z>	V
‘ Hip Majefty’s moft Loyal and
’1 Obedient Servant?^
)
4 Chop: for your Bifliop a reverend
4 and -holy Man, who may carefully
4 fee the.jvljiol.e Clergy’ do their Duty;
4 butnot any^erfon already beneficed.
4 in England j, r and oblige him you
4 chufe to Refidence: By the Law and
4 Cuftom here, the Bishop might Leafe
4 any Part, of the Bifhoprick. for 21
4 Years, or for.Liyes,, hr further Time,
1 as it is at this Time.;, .by which you
4 will fee few Bifhops have enjoyed
4 the full Benefice of the^ See, having-contented themfelves with being
4 called, Lords, without due1 egard to L the Revenue; or any Obligation .to
4 Refidence; but jin a few Years the
4 Leafes .will .be all expired, and then the Bifhppfick will be worth having; and (cohfideripg the Cheapnefs
1	?£ ^ ^.AG™ k^fM^in-Englahyl tpat.can hvq better tfian ne,
4	the whole being entire.;; aqdj your Prerogative herein very great, to'
4	which have a particular Regard;
‘ And I herein confider this, that if ^ the greateft Part of the Bifhoprick ‘ He leaded, you will find few worthy ^’Mdn will accept the Place; and if ‘ Men be benefited already, they wilt ? not? care to live in the Ilie, which all ‘ the Clergy ought to do.
‘ Have great Care the Bifhop be not ' of a factious Spirit, and let.him be ‘ of your own chafing, rather than by * Recommendation; fo will he have ‘ the greate$ Obligation to you, 'nor no Dependance on any other; hoi ‘ not even of York.
1	‘^AndJif ypukeven. as-1 defighed? ^flet U'p ^an (Univeffity, it may oblige . | rne^lNartf6ns7roun^
‘ Friends to the Country, and enrich 4 the Land; which in Time will bring 4 fomething to the Lord's Pufie; and 4 (as the Place is cheap,-yer well fur-4 nifhed with proper Subfiftenceh and * the Temptations to Idlenefs or Luxury 4 few, Education might be' had here 4 on the eafieft Teruis; but of-this I f Ihall tell you more when pleafe G OD 4 J can fee you,' and myfelf in Peace.
His. Lordflrip’s Reafons to his Son fop 2 dipt -affirming ‘f^Title of King (in Man, and exhorts him to befhidHy Loyal.
SOME might think it a Mark of Grandeur, that the Lords of this
4 Ifle have been called Kings - and I * might be of that Opinion if I knew 4 how'this Country cbuld maintain it-4 felf, independant of other Nations: 4 and chat I had noTntefeft in another 'Place; but herein fKgree with yourls * and my great and wife Anceftor, 2 '	” ’	1	‘ 4 (Thoma s?
13 2	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
(Thomas, the fecond Earl of Derby) ‘ and with him conceive, that to be a great Lord is more honourable than a petty King.
* Befides,' it is not for a King to be ‘ fubjeCt to any, but the King of ‘ Kings; nor doth it pleafe a King ‘ that any of his Subjects Mould af ‘ /eft that Title, were it but .to .aft it * in a Play; witnefs the Scruples raifed; ‘ and Objections made by my Enemies ‘ in his Majefty’s Council-, of my"be-‘ ing too near allied to the Royalty, to ‘ be^trufted with too great, Power, ■ whole Jealoufies and vile Suggeftions ‘ have-proved of very ill Qonfequence ‘ to This ^Majefty’s- Iniereft, .and;.my
Service of him:- There .never was a J wile Subject that would willingly of-‘ fend his King, but if Offence were b given from the Prince, would rather ‘ humble himfelf before him, as the ‘ only Means to- recover his favour, f without-which, no Subject can pro-£ pole to live with Honour and Safety^
T‘ To conclude this Council, take it ‘ for granted, that it is your Honour * to give ■ Honour. to your Sovereign; ‘ it is fafe and comfortable; therefore ’ in all your ACtions let it vifibly ap-*• pear in this Me; let him be prayed * for duly, let all Writings, and Oaths - of Officers and Soldiers, &c, have ‘ relation of Allegiance to him.’
Lord DERBY'S fecond Letter to his -Sou CHARGES, Loifi.^TE ANGE.,
■ ■ mho To Arch'd T ’ * V 7 OU know my former Inftruc-‘	| tions to you wefedn.the firfhto
* fear GOD, as the Beginning of Wifr ! dom; and that Honefty and Religion
f were the Grounds and Ends of all * Men’s Actions, that all Things arq ‘ written for our InftruCtion; and that
no Man can be accounted Happy in * this World that is not Wife,, for he ‘ that is Wife, fees moft his own Un-
happinefs.
‘ And I know you are taught thefe great .and good Lefions by your ex-* cellent Tutor Mr. Rutter: For whom .
may yojr and I both give Thanks tq , ‘ GOD; he is not only a good Teacher
* to you, but a good Friend and Com-c panion both to you and me; having * nothing at all of the Pedant in him; f you have profited well in your Stu-*’ dies, which is a Proof of his Labour ‘ and Care;and without Flattery to ; either, above wbaf I expeCted; to * which the virtuous Inclinations of £ your great and good Mothey, by * whole tender Care your Infancy hath ‘ been governed, hath greatly con-* tributed.
‘.You have already the Benefit pl ‘ her Language, and fo heed notTra-‘ vel as I ant fome others have clone, ‘ to fperid our Time for words, whil^ * we lofe fo much of our Life, to have ‘ ftudiecl Men and Manners; but your ‘ prefent Education under fo great and ‘ excellent a Tutor, gives me Aflur-‘ ance rather than Hope, that yotr will ‘ fp well underhand yourfelf, and the ‘ true Knowledge of your Creator and - Redeemer; (without which, all other things are vain and miferable) that your Ypiithheing guided hy fo able '1 .^a/ffeaclierf j will furniffi you with ‘ inch divine? and 'moral ITecepts, as
may make your Life comfortable1 } and'your Death happy: From whofe
*’ learned
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. i ; 3
learned InftruiHons, when it ihall pleafe GOD to blefs you with Children, you may yourfelf give Rules to their Teachers; but left you fhould forget any of thofe wife and virtuous Precepts, I may prevairwith Mr. Rutter, to give you ; Method of in (trusting Youth in Writing, to keep by you, and if others when we are Dead pretend to greater Knowledge and a new way of Teaching, you may compare his great Skill with our true Loves, of which thefe and the like Endeavours fhall be our •witnefs; as I may fay fomething more of 'my intents concerning your Breeding and Travel, &c. But in the mean Time, I will give you fome. Inftrudtions touching the manner of your Houfe, Servants, and Eftate, which l hope may prove of Service; I have already given you fome marks* of a good Servant; and thefe following are badges of a bad one.
‘ My Father upon the Death of my Mother growing infirmr and difcon-folate, and willing to repofe himfelf from the trouble of the World, pur-chafed a Houfe on the Side of the River Dee near Chefter, and retired thither; referving to himfelf a Thou-Pounds a Year for Life, and put the reft of his Eftate and Revenue into my Hands, which I fear I fhall not be fo foon able to do with you, nor with fucli Latitude of Power; however, by Obfervation of the following Rules, and Maxims, you may fo manage, improve, and’enlarge your Eftates, as to live with Repute, Honour, and Comfort.
* When you, fhall arrive at Man’s
' Eftate, ufe great caution in the choice * of a Wife, for as that is well or ill ‘ done, fo is the whole Life likely to ‘ be afterwards; it .is like a Project in * War, wherein a Man can probably ‘ Err but once: If your Eftate be good, ‘ match near Home and at leifure;. ‘ but if weak, or encumbered, mafFy. ‘ afar off and quickly: Enquire well ‘ into her Difpofition, and how her ‘ Parents have been in their Youth: c Let her not be Poor, how generous ‘ foever; for a Man can buy nothing ‘ in a Market, with Gentility, nor c chufe an uncomely Creature for ‘ Wealth, for it will caufe contempt in ‘ others, and loathing with you: Chufe 4 not a Dwarf or a Fool, the Children ‘ of one will be Pigmies, and the othef ’ ‘ your Difgrace by a continual Clack; ‘ and there is nothing more fulfome ‘ than a ihe Fool, h	.
‘ As to your HOufe-keeping, let if ‘ be moderate, rather plentiful than ‘ nigardly, for no Man ever grew Poor * by keeping an orderly Table: Banifh * Drunkennefs as a bane to Health,. * confuming much and making nd ‘ ihew: Beware not to ipend above the ‘ fourth of your Income, nor above ‘ one third of that in your Houfe; for ‘ your other two Parts will fcarce de-‘ fray your Extraordinaries, which al-4 ways furmount the Ordinary: And 4 remember the needy Man can never ‘ live happily.
‘ BringyourChildrcnup withLearn-‘ ing anti Obedience, yet, without And ‘ fterity. Praife them openly, and re— ‘ prebend them fecretly? Give them ‘ Maintenance agreeable to your Abi-‘ lity, otherwise your Life, will feem
134 The Riftory of the Ancient and Honourable
their Bondage, and at your Death ‘ they will thank it, and not you for ‘ what you leave them.
‘ I am perfuaded that the foolifli 4 indulgence of fome Parents, and the ‘ too fevere Carriage of others, occa-‘ lion more Men and Women to take * ill Courfes then their own Inclina-‘ tions: Marry yourDaughters in Time * as a great Work, and if your Sons 4 are. by Cufiofity and Cullom inclined ‘ to Travel; fuffer them not to pafs 4 the Aloes, for there is nothing to be 4 learned there, but Pride, Vice, Luxury, and Atheifm; with a few ufe -
4 lefs W.ords of no Profit,
* It is good to have Provifion before 4 hand for Houfe-keeping, for large 4 Demefnes are commodious for. that J purpofe; therefore do not Leafe any part, already in your hand: And live * not in the Country without Corn and ‘ Cattle; for he that pulleth to his Purfe * for every Penny, is like him that ‘ keepeth Water in a Sieve.
r ‘ Buy what you want at the beft J Hand, and be not.ferved with Kinf-4 men and Friends, for they expect 4 much, and do but little; and keep ■ rather too few, than one too many-4 Feed and pay them well; and then ‘ you may expert Service from their ~ Hands.
* Let your Kindred and Friends be ‘ welcome at your Houfe, and Table; ‘ and oblige them by your Counte-f nance, which will double the Bond f of Nature, and raife fo many Advo-f cates upon Occafion: Throw off and - difregard all loofe and flattering Pa-f rafites; • who are every Man’s Friend
‘ in Profperity, but of no more ufe in * Adverfity, than an Harbour in Win-4 ter: Avoid Suretifhip,. for your beft 4 Friends; but rather lend the Money ‘ yourfelf on good Bond, altho\ you 4 borrow it; for that will feeure your-* felf, and pleafure your Friend: NeN ‘ ther borrow Money of a Neighbour,. * or Friend, but rather of a Stranger, • which when paid, you will hear no ■ more of, otherwife you will leflen 4 your Credit, lofe your Friend, and * yet pay as dear for it.
* Undertake no Suit againft a Poor * Man, on receiving much Wrong, for 4 then you will make him your- equal* ‘ and it is but a bale Conqueft, where ’ there is no Refiftance; neither make 4 ufe of Law againft any Man, before ‘ you are fully fatisfied of your Right; ■ and then, fpare neither Money nor ‘ Pains, for a Caufe fo obtained,, may * free from Suits great Part of yojir 4 Life.
‘ Be fare to keep fome great Man 4 your Friend, but trouble him not for ' Trifles p compliment him often with * fmall Gifts of little Charge, but if 4 Occafion require greater, let it be 4 fomething that may be daily in Sight, 4 otherwife it may be like a.Hop with-* out Pole.
4	Towards your Superiors be hum* ‘ ble, yet generous ■ With your Equals ‘ familiar, yet refpectful to your' In-4 feriors; fhew much Humanity, and 4 fome Familiarity, as'ro bow the Bp-4 dy, ftretch forth your Hand, or un-‘ cover your Head, with fuch' like 4 popular Compliments, which will 4 prepare your Way to advancement, • 4 befpeak
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Houfe of STANLEY} from the ^onqpeft.	135
befpeak you a Man well bred, and' ‘/gain a good Report} which once &g°& is eafilykept.
a ' -For Civility and Humanity take
* deep Root ill the Minds of the Popu-
4 lace, .who are? eafier gained by fmall
4 Courtelles, than by churlifh Bene-
* fits; yet affeft not, nor negledt Po-4 pularity too much.
- ,’ Trull not any Man with any Se-J crets of your Mind, that may nearly •' concern your Life, Honour; Credit* 4 orEftate; for. it is the greatell Folly * fo far to difcover and enllave yourfelf 4 toyour Friend, as if Occafion fhould ‘ offer, you ihould not dare to become . Eis Enemy.
‘ Be not icurrilous in Con verfation, 4 nor fatirical in your Jells ; for when -- any of them favour too much of 4 Truth, they leave abitternefs in the 4 Minds of thofe that are touched by /- them, and fome are fo prone .to this 4 Kind of Behaviour, that they chufe 4 rather to lofe their Friend, than their 4 Jeff, but I advife you to avoid all ‘ fuch fatirical Jells, as may be difa-4 greeabie to the Company, engage 4 you in Dlfputes, and draw- on you 4 The Hatred of Friends, if not Quar-/ rels alfp.
4	It is very 'commendable to have h comely Men to ferve you, but have / none that is either a Puritan, or Je-“ luit, next them a Mufician is very 4 troublefome, and many Boys to wait t ‘ on your Servants are iluttiih, given - to pilfer and fteal, gnd difgrace your 4 Houfe . I would have all.thofe under 4 the Yeomen in Livery, whether yours, /- or any of your chief Retinue,
4 Have a good Steward of your
4 Houfe, and Clerk of the Kitchen, 4 who make themfelves awed by the 4 Servants, even as much as yourfelf, 4 and while they ferve you well, you 4 mull give them Countenance; lowill 4 your Houfe be orderly.
4 I would as much as I could, keep 4 my own Cafh myfelf, fo ihall I bet-4 ‘ter Huiband what I have, as know-4 ing on what Occafions I part with it; 4 and as it is a Cullom fometimetoRe-4 ward good Servants', confide? well 4 before you give; what it is,, and to 4 whom, and for what, for certainly 4 when you give to a good Man, bc-4 caufe he is good, it,is likely to keep 4 liim fo, and make others good from 4 his'ExampleH would-nOthave many 4 in my Houfe too near a Kin, for you 4 will be apt to encourage one too 4 much, for another’s Sake; nor would 4 I have many married in my .Houfe, 4 for fo you may come to. haye the 4 Children a Ifo. *
4 When a Servant minds himfelf 4 more titan your Bufinefs, then you 4 may be fare he is growing Rich, 4 gaining Reputation atyour CgH, and 4 then you may obferve Men making 4 their Addreffes to him, rather than ‘ you; his followers attend him bare 4 Headed, which puffs him up to Hight 4 your Service, and if you Refpeft 4 him, may be he will Honour you, 4 otherwife he can live of his own, 4 and may have die Vanity to give out, 4 it was his Father’s Legacy* though 4 he, came to you a Beggar.
4 If a Servant be prodigal, neglect-4 ing his own Affairs, aiffiredjy hie ‘ will neglc& yours.; and this you may ‘ fee if he be needy, a Gamefter, a
4 Company
13^ The Hiftory of the. Ancient and Honourable^
Company keeper, or otherwife vicious and the like, difmifs fuch a
* one your Houfe and Service.
* Another Sort delight to keep'you * in Suits and Troubles, that he may * never want Employment, and you * cannot want him, exclaiming againft ‘ all others as unlit for your Service; ‘ but in this Cafe the Rule of Machia-‘ veil is to be remembered, Fortiter ‘ Calumniari aliquid addet. More ‘ dangerous than, this is a flattering ‘ Servant, who endeareth himfelf to you, by applauding and approving * all you like, fay, or do, which may ‘ prevail with you to think you have ‘ one after your own Heart, but will ‘ in Time gnaw you to the. very Bone; ‘ yet, obferve this Rule, and there is ‘ lefs Danger of being deceived-: When ‘ any praifeth you, be jealous-you de-* ferve it not, or if you do, think he ‘ does not always love you belt, that ‘ praifeth you moft, and remember the ‘ Italian Proverb, That after eating * Salt with one feven Years, you may ’ then judge of his Sincerity, and how * far you may truft him; thofe you ‘ truft with your Money, or any Re-‘ ceipts or Dilburfements of it, bring ‘ often to Account, which will keep ‘ them juft, and make you eafy.
* Moft of thefe Misfortunes I have * met with in Servants, which have ‘ given me great Vexation; therefore ‘ pray then by my Experience avoid ‘ them as much as poflible: I thought ‘ to have enlarged myfelf on many * Paflages, and Observations, wherein ‘ ‘ I have been exercifed enough to have ‘ given you Examples,, both of Pride, ‘ and Corruption in thofe employed
' about you; but am loath to dwell ■‘- too long on one Subject, not know-‘ ing how little Time I may dwell here myfelf; fo fhall omit them for the ■A prefent; and only give you a few ‘ general Aphorifms and Maxims in * Life, for your Inftrudtion and Ob-‘ fervation in the Courfe of it, which ‘ I exhort you always to remember ‘ and pradtife as a fure Monitor and ‘ Guide of all your Actions, Conduct, / and Behaviour to GOD, your Prince ‘ and-your Neighbour.
Inftrudtions by JAMES, Earl of DERBY, to his Son the; Lord STRANGE, by Way of Aphorifm: For his Obfervation in Life.
(. hZ^\ F all Things feek ye to know the Word of GOD, and the
‘ Kingdom of GOD.
‘ II, Know that about GOD there ‘ is neither Greatnefs, Place, Quality, ‘ Figure, or Time, for he- is all, ‘ through all, and about all.
III.	This Word, O Son! Worihip ‘ and Adore, and the only Service of * GOD is not to be Evil.
‘ IV. Remember that Virtue, Ho-‘ nefty, and Religion, are the Grounds ‘ and Ends of all good Mens Actions.
‘ V, Build more upon an honeft * Man’s Word, than a 1ad Man’s Bond.
‘ VI. Truft. not an) Man that has ‘ not approved himfelf a Man of found ‘ Principles, and a good Conscience, ‘ for he who is falfe to GOD/can ‘ never be time to Man.
‘ VII. Remember that he is a happy ‘ King who loves his People, and is * beloved by them.
‘ VIII.

Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.
*37
* VlII. That the Strength of a King
1	is in the Love of his People.
4	IX. That Princes ought to be bet-‘ ter than other Men, becaufe they ‘ command and rule all.
4	X. That a good Prince ought firfl:
4 to preferve the Service of GOD and
4 his Church; and next the Common
4 Wealth, before his own Pleafure.,
4 XI. That he can never be a good 4 Statefman that regardeth not the 4 Public, more than his own Advan-4 tage.
4 XII. That Honour is the Reward 4 of Virtue, but gotten with Labour, 4 and held with Danger.
4 XIII. That Counfel without Refo-4 lutiort and Execution is but Wind.
4 XIV. That Division in Council is 4 molt dangerous.
4 XV. That Attempts are moft pro-4 bable when wifely formed, and fe-4 cretly and fpeedily executed.
4 XVI. That Union is the Strength, 4 and Divifion the Ruin of any Body 4 Politic.
4 XVII. That the taking or lofing 4 an Opportunity, was the gaining or 4 lofing a Project or Fortune.
4 XVIII. That War is foon kindled, 4 but Peace very hardly procured.
4 XIX. That War is the Curfe, and 4 Peace the Blefling of GOD upon a 4 Nation.
4 XX. That a Nation gaineth more 4 by one Years Peace, than ten Years 4 War.
4 XXL That a Nation can never be 4 Rich that hath not Trade and Com-4 merce with other Nations.
XX1I. That no Man can get Riches 4 of himfelf, but by Means and Af-4 Pittance of others.
4 XXIII. That Riches are GOD’s 4 Blefling to fuch that ufe them well, 4 and his Curfe to fuch that do not.
4 XXIV. That all Things in the 4 World are valuable asu we efteem 4 them, for a little to him that think-4 eth it enough, is great Riches.
4 XXV. That wild, lewd, and un-4 thrifty Youth,, is frequently the Pa-4 rents Fault in making them Men 4 feven Years too foon.
4 XXVI. That Youth are guilty of 4 much Folly and Extravagance, hav-4 ing but Childrens Judgments; there-4 fore fhould be inftrufted and go-4 verned with the greateft Prudence 4 and Tendernefs.
4 XXVII. That the better to prevent 4 the Follies of Youth, the ancient 4 Romans had a Law, by which their 4 Sons were not permitted-to poflefs 4 their Father’s Eftate until they ar-4 rived at the Age of Twenty-five 4 Years.’
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T O T H E
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THAT
B L E S S E D M A R T Y R,
J A M E S, Earl of D E R B Y.
' T AIL honour'd Vault, thou facred Dull, ‘	‘ Clean as the Stanley’s Name that mult
*	Eternize you, and give to Death
* Rank tho’ it be, a fweeter Breath, ‘ Than Spices fuck'd from Ealtern Air, ‘ Or any Place but where you are;
‘ For Balms that other Bodies keep,
‘ Are kept themfelves where you do Sleeps
‘ Marvel not Holy Urns if now
‘ By kind or cruel Fate, or how I know not, your brave Son appears, All fmeer’d with Blood, and bath’d with Tears;
‘ To take his Lodging up and lie,.
‘ In your untainted Company;
’For
.aw
Hoyfe of STANLEY* from the Conqueft. 139 ‘ For tho’ his Noble Blood was Spilt,
By Colour of black Treasons guilt $
‘ Yet know we call not bad or good,
‘ As in your Days was underftood;
‘ The filly Virtues of ypur Times,
‘ 'Our wife? Age, hath made our Crimes;
* We believ’d Hiftpriqs and there,
' We read how true the Stanley’s were*
* But fince, this Man was made we know,
*	A Rebel for not being fo;
‘ And by new Stile, of Language found,
‘ For having ne’er been falfe, unfound;
‘ Pardon us if we Swear that you, ‘ Bleft Souls have ah been Traitors,too.
‘ But flay your peaceful Shrines muft hear,
‘ No more of this, and you that wear
‘ The White to fhew your Innocence,
‘ So taken in the good old Senfe, ‘ Do not difdain if he that Bled
‘ Comohe.re to dye you all in RED;
‘ How well it muft you Saints become, ‘.To be dip’d with him' in MARTYRDOM.
‘ You lov’d your PRINCES, and the End,
‘ For which you lived was to defend
*	The Power that made you great to be, ‘ Worthy of this POSTERITY ;
I ^.o
” The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
‘ .But if your waking Spirits flew,
‘ That DAY aloft when with a few
‘ Great DERBY mounted on his Caufe,
‘ Fought for his COUNTRY, KING, and LAWS;
‘ Refolv’d our little Light grown dim,
‘ Shov’d ne'er be quhe extinguifh’d without HIM;
‘ You’ll fay that you did but begin,
‘ What he made perfect and have been
‘ ’Tis all that Reafon can afford,
‘ You Majefty’s Bucklers, he the Sword;
‘ Oh! Where’s the FORTUNE that was won’t,
‘ To wait on you and give ACCOUNT
‘ Of all your ACTIONS, bidding FAME r
‘ To write them fair upon your NAME;
‘AVhat muft his VALOUR be denied
‘ Succefs, to fatisfy the PRIDE
* Of angry Fates, who fet it down
* For Law, no Bays without a CROWN;
* Making his Lofs a public Harm,
* Three KINGDOMS leaning on his ARM.
‘ Poor deftinies to govern WARS,
‘ Yet fuffer him to top your STARS;,
‘ And change to TRIUMPH what you meant,,
‘ By fond Miflake his Punifhment;
‘ So did he ride, his CHARIOT drawn,
* By TYGERB tam’d, and taught to fawn
' Upon^_,
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. 141 ‘ Upon the greatnefs of his Soul, ‘ Brute Paffions all at his Controul;
‘ Rage turn’d to Pity, Scorns to Fears.
‘ Hard and cold Hearts diffolv’d to Tears,
‘ Ws Guard march’d like poor conquer’d Things,
* Who juft before cou’d Spit at KINGS;
' He put them on new Garbs, and none
‘ Of that Day’s Manners wear their own.
‘ A TRIUMPH fuch as one may fee, ‘ After fome INDIAN Vidtory;
‘ Where Savage Beafts firft learn to Kneel,
* And Slaves walk chained to Chariot Wheel
' A glorious Day, no Griefs might dare, ’ To darken what his Looks made fair;
* But as the Valiant ISRAELITE,
4	In VISION faw before the Fight,
*	His FLEECE by Wonder, dry, and round
*	About the Place a water’d Ground,-
*	So ftood unmov’d this GALLANT PEER;
4	Whilft Sorrow made all Deluge there >
* And yet as when with hotteft Rays,.
‘ A clear Sun it£ full Strength difplays ^
4	On fome thick Cloud that dares lefifL
1	There fhews. a kind of bloody Mill;
1
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable So did his clcarnefs then arife, And dart upor the Peoples Eyes;
: That none did ever fee, they .-ay,	5.
■ A bloodier and a fairer DAY;
1 Fix’d in the fweetnefs of a Mind,
‘ Free from all Guilt and Fear we find;	■
‘ His Boldnefs now bowing to none,
‘ But to his G O IT and him alone.
‘ And as triumphing Cohfuls Thought
‘ Their Glories greater when they brought
‘ Their CROWNS to th’ Temple as was meet;
‘ There laid them down at great PAN’S Feet.
‘ So after all this TRIUMPH He,
‘ A Servant ftill to MAJESTY, --
‘ Before his GOD fell on his Face;
‘ At which the Genius of this Place,
‘ This reverend Vault fetch’d him away,
‘ T’ enthrone him where the Stanley’s lay;
‘ Whofe Afbtes whifper their Defire,
‘ From his warm Blood to take new Fire;
‘ And light a blinded World' to fee,
‘ This Blefling of their LOYAL T f.’	- ■ ■ ' -
Houfe of S T A N L E
V, from the Conqucft.	143;
This great and noble Lord, whofe various Tranfaftions in Life, and tragical Death we have been defcribing, was the feventh Earl of DERBY of Ris Family: He married to his Lady, the moft noble Charlotte, Daughter to Claud de la Tremouille, Duke de Tre-mouille and Trovers, by Charlotte his .Wife, Daughter to the renowned Count William, of Naflau, Prince of Orange, by his Wife Charlotte de Bourbon, of the royalHoufe of France; by which Marriage he ftood allied to the Kings of France, and to the Houfes of Bourbon, Mompeilier, Bourbon,. Conde, Dukes of Anjou, Kings of Naples and Sicily, Arch Duke of Auftria, Kings of Spain, Earjs and Dukes of Savoy, Dukes of Millan, and to moft of the fovercign Princes in Europe.
By this noble Lady, he had Iflue three Sons; Charles, who fucceeded him and Edward and William, who both died young and unmarried; alfo three Daughters, the eldeft the Lady Henrietta Maria, married to William, the great Earl of Strafford, and died without Iflue; the Lady Catharine, ie-cond Daughter, married to Henry, Marquis of Dorchefter, and alfo died without Iflue; and the Lady Amelia, the youngeft, married to John, Earl of Athol, and was Grandmother to his Grace James, the prefent Duke of Athol.
The taking away the Blood of the: noble Peer aforefaid, might have been-efteemed by the World, a Sacrifice Sufficient to have attoned for any fup-pofed Offences given by his Lady and innocent Children, who were in the Ifle of Man, at the Time of his being.
taken out of the World, where it might have been concluded they wore in a Place of quiet and fecurity.
But even this Place of retirement was no fafeguard to them, for the wicked and relllefs Malice of their Perfecutors, Bradihaw, Rigby, and Birch,, found them out there, and flruck aq his furviving and afiliefted Lady and Children, endeavouring and ufing all their Power, to eradicate them and the whole noble Family,, from the Face of the Earth.
And to this Purpofe had corrupted: one Captain Chriflian, whom his Lord— fliip had brought up from a Child, and -on his coming over to attend his Ma-j.efty King Charles the IL entrufted' him with the Command of all the Foot: Soldiers in the Ifland, as a Guard and' Security of the Place, and his diftref-fed Lady and Children, whom he was; charged to take efpecial Care of.
But thcfaidChriftian proving a moft perfidious and treacherous. Villain, had corrupted the Soldiers of both1 the Caftles, as well as thofe under his Command, promifing to deliver up--the Ifland to the Parliament Ships and Forces, when they appeared againft it.
Upon which Colonel Duckenfield and Birch, having Commiffion from the Junto at London, with ten Ships* appeared before it, andiummoned the heroic Lady Derby to deliver Up the: Ifland to them for the Ufe of the Parliament.. Her Ladyfhp having Sir Thomas Armftrong with her in Caftle: Rufhen. whom her Lord had made Governor there, and his Brother Governor of Peele Caftle, anfljbeing like— wife confident of the Integrity of Chrif-tiauu.
144	*- The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
tian and the Iflanders under him, re-fufed to furrender, without Licence obtained from the King.
But Chriftian having prepared his Countrymen for the execution of his Treachery, that very Night fufFered the Forces to Land without Refift-ance, feized upon the Lady and her Children, with the Governors of both the Cadles, and the next Morning brought them Prifoners to Ducken-field and Birch, who told her Lady-fliip, that Chriftian had furrendered the Ifland upon Articles, which her Ladyfliip defired to be favoured with a Sight of, and on Perufal whereof ihe obferved, that the Ifle of Man was only yielded up, and that the Iflands about it were not included; upon which flic requefted of Colonel Duck-enfield and Birch, but efpecially of Chriftian, who had formed and acqui-efFedto thofe Articles, that ihe and her Children might have leave to retire to Peele Cattle, lituate in an Ifland feparated from the main Ifland by the Sea; from whence ihe propofed ihe ■might in fome little Time, get over to her Friends in France or Holland, or fome other Place of reft and refuge.
But ihe was utterly denied that Favour by her hard-hearted and inhuman Enemies, neither Regard to her Sex, Compaflion to her Children, Honour to her Quality, nor even common Civility, found any Place for her Relief. And thus this great and excellent Lady, whofe Religion, Virtue, and Prudence, were not inferior to any Woman upon Record, is become a Captive and Prifoner, to her moil barbarous, malignant, and unmerciful
Enemies; and ihe that brought Fifty Thioufand Pounds Portion to this Nation, has not now a Morfel of Bread, for herfelf and defolate Children, but what was the Charity of her impove-rifhed and ruined Friends.
After which fhe, and her Children with her, continued Prifoners in the Ifland, until his Majefty’s happy Re-ftoration, (enduring all thefe Sufferings with a generous’ Refolution. and. Chriftian Patience) and then expert-, ing Juftice againft her Lord’s Murderers, her Son reftored to the fequeftered Eftates of his Father, and fome Com-penfation for the immenfe Lofles and Devaftation of her Family; but failing of all, her great Heart (overwhelmed with Grief and endlefs Sorrow) burft in Pieces, and Ihe died at Knowfley-Houfe, with that Chriftian Temper and exemplary Piety, in which fhehad always lived.
The late very eminent,' but unhappy Lord Earl James, was fuceeeded in Honour, by his eldeft Son Charles Lord Strange, as the eighth Earl of Derby of his Name; who upon .his acceflion to the Eftate of his Family, found it in the utmoft Confufion and Diforder: The ancient Houfe of Latham demoliihed, and all the Eftate thereto belonging, under Sequeftration ; the Houfe of Knowfley in little better Condition; ruinous, out of Repair, and great Devaftations committed in the Houfe, Gardens, and Park; and which was yet more deplorable, near one half of the Eftate poflefled by his Father, fequeftered. and fold, and little, or a very fmall Part thereof, ever recovered, of which the Legi-flative
Houfe of S T A N L E Y; from the Conqueft.
H5
ftative Juftice of both Houfes of Parliament, had fo fenftble a Knowledge and fo deep and compaUionate a Concern for the Sufferings of the late brave Earl of Derby/his Lady and noble “Family5 that they unanimoufly palled a Bill by both Houfes to reftore Earl Charles to all his Father’s fequef-tered'Eftare, he repaying to the Poffef-fors thereof the inconftderable Value given by them for their feveral Purchafes ; and they accounting with him for the Profits received, during their Pofleffion of any Branch or Part of it.
But fo it was, that neither the Services of his Father and Mother, nor the immenfe Sums expended by them for his then Majefty. Charles II. and for his Father’s Ihtereft and the fup-hort of his Crown and Dignity, nor the Lofs of his own Father s Life, nor his faving and fecuring that of the reigning Prince King Charles II. as before, nor any other Intereft or Con-fideration could prevail upon that ungrateful King to give his royal Aflent to that Adi; fo that all thofe Eftates were loft and feparated from the Family for ever, which fo reduced the laid Earl Charles, that he had fcarce fufficient left to fupport the Honour and Dignity of his Charadter, as hereafter will appear.
Infomuch that his eldeft Son and Succeffor Earl William, whom I had the Honour to ferve feveral Years as Houfhold .Steward hath often told me, that he poffefled no Eftatc in Lan-cafnire, Cumberland, Weftmoreland, Yorkihire, Chefhire, Warwickfliire, and Wales; but whenever he viewed any of them he could fee another near
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or adjoining fo that he was in Poffef-fion of, equal, or greater of Value, loft by his Grandfather for his Loyalty and Service to the Crown and his Country.
Charles, the prefent Earl before us, lived in a Time of. Peace and Tran-, quility, fo that I have nothing to remark of his Atchievements in Military Life; He was a Perfon of great Afia-bility, courteous to all, a good Mailer, a kind Landlord, and a loving Friend and Neighbour: He married to his Lady, Dorothy Helena Rupa, a German Lady, of an honourable Family, but final! Fortune, which Ilic being fenftble of, ufed all her Endeavours to repair that Defedt by her ©Economy, prudent and frugal Management of her Family, and all Affairs under hen Care and Infpedtion: By this Lady his Lordflrip had Iffue, four Sons and two Daughters, (to wit,) William, Robert, James, and Charles; William, after his Father’s Death, fucceedeft him, Robert and Charles died unmarried, and James, his third Son, fucceeded his Brother William in rhe Earldom: Charlotte, his firft Daughter, married to Thomas, LordColchefter, eldeft Son and Heir of Thomas, Earl Rivers, and by him had Iflue only one Daughter, who died young and unmarried Arid. Mary, his fecond Daughter, diemun-married; and he himfelf died the Twenty-firft of December, 1672, and was honourably depoftted with his noble Anceftors, at. Qrmikirk, tucar Latham.
Having a little before taken Notice ■of the great Diforder the Jam Earl found his Eftatc in, on his coming to
The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
the Poffeffion thereof: Give me Leave before I proceed further, for the Satisfaction of the Reader therein, and for his Information of the Hiftory and Proceedings of thofe diftrafted Times, to lay before him a few Examples of thefe Oppreflions laid upon and fuf-fered by this noble Family, in Mani-fcftation of my AfTertion of their Sufferings.
ORMSKIRK PARISH.
Orders concerning LATHAM.
* ^¥7 HERE AS there is a great * VV Quantityof Meadow Ground s * belonging to the Earl of Derby, in ‘ Latham, and now the Time of the 4 Year importuneth a fpeedy Courfe to 4 be taken: This is therefore to re-4 quire you forthwith to take Notice 4 of it, and to fet fo much as you can, 4 and the reft to get mowed, and to fet 4 it in Places moft convenient, either 4 in Barns or Ricks, and if y ou cannot 4 fet Meadowing whereby to pay the 4 Mowers, or other Charges accuftomed 4 to be dilburfed formerly, you may 4 repair to me and I fliall appoint a 4 Way, or give you Money to pay all 4 fuch Difburfements, and in fo doing 4 this fliall be your Warrant: Given 4 under my Hand atOrmikirk, Auguft 4 the Third, 1645.
4 JOHN ASHHURST.
4	To Evan Swift, of ^ Skelmerfdale, this.
4	What you can fet I could defire 4 you would, but for the reft, I would
4 have the one Half given for getting 4 the other.
4 JOHN ASH HURST.'
ORMSKIRK PARISH.
By Indenture Trepartite, dated Auguft 11, in the Thirteenth Year of King Charles I. between William, Earl of Derby, and Sir James Stanley, Lord Strange, of the firft Part;. Elizabeth, Lady Stanley Widow, Ipiq Wife of Sii’ Robert Stanley, Charles; Stanley; and James Stanley, Efqrs. Sons of the faid Sir Robert Stanley; of the fecond Part j and Sir Henry Croft, and Sir Theobald Gorges, Knights, of the third Part.
RECITING therein an Award made by his Majefty for the 4 ending of Suits and Differences be-. 4 tween the faid Earl, the faid Elizabeth Stanley, Charles Stanley, and 4 James Stanley, the faid Earl, and James, Lord Strange, in Performance 4 and Obedience of the Award for Pro-4 vifion of Maintainance for the faid Lady, Charles, and James Stanley, 4 and the Heirs Male of their Bodies, 4 and in Confide ration of Love and Af-4 feCtion, covenant by one or more 4 Fines before the End of two Years 4 next following, to convey and affure to Sir Henry Croft, and Sir Theobald 4 Gorges, and their Heirs, the feveral 4 Manors of Latham,Burfcough,Child-wall, and Dalton, with the Appurte-4 nances and other Meffuagcs, Lands and Tenements, fituate in the Pre-4 cinefts of Latham, Burfcough, Child-4 wall, and Dalton, and alfo the’ capi-4 tai
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft.	147
* tai MefTuage or Manfion-houfe, called ‘ Upton, with its Appurtenances, in ‘ the Counties of Chefter and Lancaster, * to feveral Ufes.
* Upon the Earl of Derby’s Delin-' quency there is now due and in Ar-■ rears, (as the Lady Stanley affirms) 4 6981. and that her two Sons are not 1, yet at Age ; therefore it is defired by * the faid Lady Stanley, that the. Ar-‘ rears due and the growin Rents ‘ may be paid her, or that fhe may ‘ hive her Deed and Eftate allowed ‘ her, notwithstanding the Sequeftra-* tion: And this appears to be the ‘ Cafe. Dec. 1645.
‘ J. BRADSHAW.
* Ver. Cop. W. Garland.’
At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequeftrations.
Die Mer. Dec. 24, 1645.
‘ T N the Cafe of the Lady Stanley, ‘ 1 upon the Report of Mr. Bradfliaw, ‘ to whom it was referred, a Copy ‘ whereof is hereunto annexed, and on full Debate of the Matter, it is ordered that the faid Report be con-r firmed, and that it be referred to the 1 feveral Committees of the Counties ‘ of Chefhire and Lancashire, where * the Lands charged with the Yearly ‘ Rent demanded by the faid Lady ‘ lies, to allow her faid Yearly 1 growing Rent, and the Arrearages ‘ thereof, being depofed by the faid ‘ Lady to be 6981. according to die 1 rateable Proportion of the Lands in * each County, or elfe to permit her
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‘ to take the Benefit of her Order for ‘ Non-payment thereof.
‘ J. WYLDE.”
Ver. Cop. exam, per me R. Vaughan/
ORMSKIRK PARISH. J
At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequeftration.
Die Mer. April 15, 1646.
UPON the Petition of the Lady Elizabeth Stanley, and theCer-‘ tificate of the Committee of Chefhire, a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed * and attefted, it is thought fit and ordered, that the Committee of Lan-* cafhire, by whom the Sequeftration * was made, do eidier allow and pay ‘ unto die Petitioner her Rent and Arrearages due to her, or elfe to per-* mit and fuffer her to enter and Dif-* train upon the Lands, according to * her Deed by due Courfe of Law.
‘ H. PEL LAM. Ent. R. Vaughan?
Prefton in Com. Lane.
At the Committee, Au guff 28, 1647.
‘ T T is ordered, that Mr. Peter Am-‘ A brofe, fhall at the next Sitting of ‘ the Committee for Sequeftrations, ‘ certify the true Yearly Value of that ' Part of the Earl of Derby’s Eftate as ‘ ftands charged with an Annuity or * Rent Charge of 6001. per Annum ‘ payable to the late Lady Stanley, ‘ now Countcfs of Lincoln, and lier. 2	‘ Children j
The Hiftory - of the Ancient and Honourable
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‘ Children; and that Hie may be at ‘ Liberty to provide a Farmer for the ‘ faid Eftate, for the Year next com-4 ing; he the faid Mr. Peter Ambrofe, ‘ having had Notice thereof.
‘ Alex. Rigby, ‘ R. Cunliffe, ‘ J. Starkie,
‘ Int. E. Wall.’
At the Committee Feb. 23, 1645.
‘TXT HERE AS it is informed,that ‘ v V the Houfe of Knowfley is in ‘ decay, and want of Repairation, a ‘ Part of the Leads there being taken ‘ off for the public Ufe at the firft Lea-* guer againft Latham, it is ordered, ‘ that Mr. Peter Ambrofe fhall view * the-Defeats, and what Quantity of ‘ Lead fhall be thought to be wanting f for the Repair thereof, fhall be fup-‘ plied with the Lead taken off La-‘ tham, upon Certificate under his * Hand to the Committee; and it is * further ordered, that the Houfe of 4 Knowfley and the Orchard and Gar-4 dens there fhall be improved to the ‘ belt Benefit of the Common-wealth, ‘ by the Agents for Sequeftration of ‘ that Eflate, to the End the fame may 1 be the better repaired out of the * Profits thereof.
R. SHUTTLEWORTH.’
At a Committee June 4, 1646.
< TT is ordered that Mr. Peter Am-‘ J brofe, and other Agents for Se-' queftratiohs of Derby Hundred, fhall ^ permit and fuffer William Kyndfley
‘ and Richard Bradfhaw, quietly to ‘ bear and carry away all fuch Goods, ‘ Pipes of Lead, and other Materials ‘ formerly belonging to the Houfe of ‘ Latham, and as yet remaining there, ‘ and contracted and agreed for by ‘ the faid Mr. Kyndfley and Mr. Brad-‘ fhaw, with John Heywood and ‘ others, authorized for the Sale of ‘ fuch Goods.
‘ William Knipe,
‘ Nicholas Cunliffe,
‘ Robert Cunliffe,
‘ John Bradfhaw, ‘ John Starkie, ‘ Richard Afheton.’
ORMSKIRK PARISH.
To Mr. Ambrofe, an Agent for Se-queftrations in Derby Hundred.
Mr. Ambrofe,
4 E defire you to view Latham * W Houfe, and to certify us at ‘ your next coming hither, whether ‘ Capt. Peter Holt hath obferved his ‘ Orders in the demoliihing of the ‘ faid Houfe of Latham, and whether ‘ he hath done any thing but accord-‘ ing to his Order, which is all at pre-‘ fent from
‘ Your loving Friends,
4	E..Butterworth, ‘ Edward Rigby, Prefton Anr 20 ‘ jaiRes Afheton, 1 tenon, Apr. 29, ( j BradfhaWj Vic>
‘ Richard Houghton, ‘ Peter Egerton.’
PRESTON.
Houfe of STANLE'
7, from the Conqueft.	149
PRESTON.
At the Committee, April 23.
’ TT is ordered that Captain Peter ‘ Holt iliall deliver up the Houfe ‘ of Latham, together with all the ' Goods and Materials now remain-‘ ing and belonging to the fame, unto * Mr. Peter Ambrofe, on Monday next, * who is hereby required to receive ‘ the fame accordingly, and to take ‘ efpecial Norice in what Condition ‘ the fame fhall be at the Delivery ‘ thereof, and likewife to Inventory ‘ the Goods which fhall be there left, * and to certify the Committee there-‘ of; that fuch Gourfe may be taken ‘ for Difpofal of the Houfe and Goods, * its the Committee iliall think fit for ‘ the beft Benefit of the Common ‘ Wealth.
4	John Starkie,
‘ Edward Rigby, ‘ E. Butterworth, ‘ J. Fleetwood, * Richard Houghton, ‘ G. Ireland,
* Peter Egerton,
‘ James Aflieton,
‘ Intra. N. Afpinwall.’
At the Committee, May 13, 1646.
Forasmuch as Mr. Richard Bradfhaw, of Bolton, hath taken ‘ up certain Pipes of Lead belonging ‘ to Latham Houfe, pretended to be ‘ bought by him of one John Hey-‘ Wood: It is ordered that Mr. Peter ‘ Ambrofe fhall take a viev/ of the faid Pipes of Lead fo taken up as*
‘ aforefaid ; and fhall Appraife the ‘ fame, and certify the true Value ‘ thereof to the Committee of the firft ‘ of June next, that then fuch further ‘ Order may be made therein as fhall ‘ be thought fit.
‘ Nicholas Cunliffe,
‘ Robert Cunliffe, ‘ William Knipe, ‘ John Starkie, ‘ Richard Aiheton, * Richard Haworth,
‘ Intra. E.. Wall.’
ORMSKIRK PARISH.
At the Committee, May 13, 1646.
WHEREAS by an Order of the twenty-third of April laft, it * wa^ ordered, that Mr. Ambrofe ‘ fliould receive the Houfe of Latham, ‘ together with the Goods and. Mate-‘ rials, and to Inventory the' fame ‘ Goods, which is done accordingly: ‘ It is ordered that the faid Mr. Peter * Ambrofe iliall difpofe of the fame ‘ for the Common Wealth: And where-‘ as divers Goods and Materials men-* tioned in a Schedule hereunto affixed, ‘ amounting to the Sum of yil. 7s. ‘ 2d.;formerly fold to William Kynd-‘ fley, Richard Bradfhaw, Henry Mo-‘ lyncux, and Jofeph Moxon, are as ‘ yet remaining there; it is ordered ‘ that they fhall forthwith pay unto' ‘ Mr. Peter Ambrofe the faid Sum of ‘ 51I. 7s. 2d. according to their feveral ‘ Agreements formerly made, ".to be 4 difpofed of for the public Ufe, and ‘ the
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The Hiflory of the Ancient and Honourable
the faid Goods thereupon delivered, and not otheiwife,
4 J, Fleet wood,
* Robert Cunliffe,
4 Richard Haworth,
* Nicholas Cunliffe,
‘ EdWard Rigby,
‘ William Knipe,
‘ John Starkie,
4 Richard Afheton,
4 Intra. N. Afpinwall.'
An Account of what Floors and Wainfcot Were fold by the Officers put in by Colonel Booth, at Latham Houfe, viz.
4- S. IL
In the Eagle Tower, three Floors, inMeafure 74 Yards 1-half each,? 7 0 o the two higheft at iad per Yard	7 '
The third Floor 74 Yards, at is. 2d. per Yard -	-	-	470
The Tower of Madnefs 25 Yards, at iad per Yard	-	-	-	150
The Tower at the Kitchen-bridge 1 Floor 34 Yards,	at i2d per	Yard	114	o
The other Floor 32 Yards, at 4d per Yard --	-	-	-	o 10	8
The little Tower next it, two Floors, 15 Yards -	-	~ o 16 o
The next Tower to that in the Corner, two Floors,	36 Yards	-	1 16	o
The Chapel Tower, one Floor, 16 Yards -	- " 4	- r 16 o
In the private Tower, one Floor, 6 Yard's i-half -	-	-	066
The Floor in the loweft Room, Eagle Tower, 70 Yards £ -	-	418
Wainfcot of the fame Room, 159 Yards, at i8d per Yard -	16 o o
The Wainfcot in the-Room adjoining, 83 Yards, at i8d. per Yard 6 19 0 The Floor in the fame Room, 27 Yards, at I4d per Yard -	1 16 o
The.Floor in the Middle Ward, in Yards, at i2d per Yard	5 11 o
PRESTON.
At the Committe, June 11, 1646.
To Mr. Peter Ambrofe.
4 T is ordered that thofe Boards
4 . that have been lately employed
4 in tire Houfe at Latham, and now
4 taken down and laid together .by
4 Capt. Holt; ihall be forthwith oar-
4 ried to Liverpool, for the Ufe of the
4 faid Garrifon there, according as
4 Lieutenant Colonel John AffihurflW
Total 5'4 7 10
4 now Governor of the faid Garrifon, 4 flrall think fit.
4 J. Bradfhaw, V.
4 G. Ireland,
4 Peter Egerton,
4 Richard Afire ton,
4 j. Fleetwood, 4 Robert Cunliffe.
. O R M rS K I R K. ?
At the Committee, April'30, 1647.
L IT is ordered that Mr. Peter Am-
4	brofe flrall upon Sight hereof, de--	-	4 liver .
Houfe of STANLE
Y, from the Conqueft.	15 j
‘ liver Edward Chambers, Commiflary ‘ at Liverpool, one Pair of Gates, with the Stoops belonging thereunto, now ‘ at Latham-Houfe, for to be employed ‘ for the ufe of the faid Garrifon, as ‘ the Governor thereof Ihall think fit.
‘ Peter Egerton, * H. Fleetwood, ‘ Ralph Allie ton, * W. Alhurfl.’
The feveral Articles before-mentioned have been abft rafted from the Book of Sequeftrations for the County of Lancafter, and are intended as Specimens of the Proceedings of thofe feditious and rebellious Times, wherein Liberty and Property where Words without meaning; the Beggar upon a Level with a Lord, and they of the Houlhold dividing the Spoil; the two noble Seats of Latham and Knowfley (fpacious enough for Princely Palaces) demolifhed and deftroyed, and the Eftates thereto belonging, all under Sequeftration, and the heavy Load of 6ool. per Annum charged upon the. firft, and feveral other Manors before-mentioned; all which put together with many other Devaftations and De-ftrucftions by the Ufurpers, reduced the noble Lord entitled thereto to a narrow and fcanty way- of Living, until the Lady Stanley aforefaid had married to the Earl of Lincoln, and her younger Son James’s Death.
When the Earl of Derby obtained fin Acft of Parliament to enable him to ‘; fell feveral Manors, Lands, and Chief Rents, as Childwall, Little Woolton, part of Daltoiij and all Holland; with
the Chief Rents of many other Ma.-nors and Townfliips, whereby he raif-ed a Sum fufficient to purchafe the Countefs of Lincoln’s Annuity for Life, and her fecond Son James’s Annuity, from his furviving Brother Charles, who was then entitled -to rhe whole; and with the Payment of all Arrears, and fecuring to the faid Charles the future Payment of the whole 600I, per Annum upon the Manor of Latham, only he was admitted into the Pofleflion of all the aforefaid Manors and Townfliips, pledged for the Pay-; merit of the faid 600I. per Annum.
All which with fome Improvements made by him, defeended on his de-r ceafe to his eldeft Son William Lord Strange, who then commenced, the ninth Earl of Derby of this Family: Who was a Nobleman of polite Education, great Reading, and ftrong Capacity, and a kind Landlord to his Tenants, but much averfe to any Offices of Truft or Employments under the Government, from the Confidera-tion of his Family Sufferings, by their conftant Attachment to it, which induced him to prefer a Country Retirement, as he frequently declared upon many Occafions, before any Honour or Preferments at Court.
He married to his Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to Thomas, Earl of Oflory •. Grand-daughter to James, 'tlle-^old. Duke of Ormond, and- Sifter to the late pEpfcribod/puke-, arid Byyherhad; Iflue one Son, and 'tw&Datighte , to-wit. Janjes, Lord Strange, who died at Vcnicepn his Travels, in the Twentieth Year of his Age, and unmarried, but his Body w^ brought to England, .
and
F£2	The Hiflory of the Anpient and Honourable
and depofite"d with his noble and moft worthy Predeceflbrs-, and his elded Daughter the Lady Henrietta, married firft to John, Earl of Angle fey, and by him bad Iffue one Daughter, who died ■ver}’’ young, and lie himfelf not long al ter; and to her fecond Hufband ihe married John, Lord Alhburnham, and by him had Ifiiie only one Daughter, named Henrietta Bridget, who died about the Fourteenth Year of her Age -, and Elizabeth, his fecond Daughter^ who died in the -Eighteenth Year of her Age, unmarried.
This Lord intending to re-edify and adorn the old and famous Seat of Latham, eredted a fumptuous and lofty new Front, and covered it in, but did not live to finifli it, dying at Chefter, when Mayor thereof, in 1702, and al-fo Chamberlain of that City, as his Father and Anceftors had been before him, and was nobly, interred at Ormf-kirk, in the Repofitory of his Family, and was fucceeded by Janies, his Brother, then Brigadier Stanley, who had been bred up in martial Difcipliiie from a Youth, by the heroic Prince of Orange, after King William the Third of England, with whom he was in high Favour and Efteem; one of his Bed-Chamber, and almoft conftant Attendant in Waiting: Upon the Death of his Brother in 1702, he became Daron Strange, and the Tenth Earl of Derby of his Name, foon after which he. quitted the Army, and was honoured with the high Office of Chancellor of the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancafter, and Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of rhe fame and the Coafts thereof, with the high
Office of Chamberlain of the City anti. County Palatine of Chefter, and one of the Privy Council to King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. and Captain of the Yeomen' of the Guard to the laft, and Lord of Man and the Illes: He commanded a Regiment of Foot through all King William’s Wars in Flanders and Ireland, there being no Battle or Siege but he had a large Share therein-, his Body being almoft covered with Wounds, and twice carried off the Field as a dying Man, but by the Goodnefs of GOD he fur-mounted all thofe Evils, and all the Hazards and Dangers of a military’ Life; noPcrfon behaving with greater Courage and Refolution than Colonel Stanley, to the Time of his commencing Earl of Derby; and then he gc-neroufly bellowed his Regiment upon an old Friend and Brother Officer, and returned Home to pollefs the noble Eftate of his Family, at what Time he was honoured with the feveral Offices of Power and Trull before-mentioned.
But upon the Accellion of King George IL being grown aged and infirm, and unable to bear the Fatigues of public Employments, he retired to his Seat of Knowfley, the Place of his Birth, in the Year 1707 or-1708, and in regard the Building was old and much defaced under the Ufur-pation, he refolved to do the Honour to his Anceftors of rebuilding their ■old Seat after the modern Way, which he performed in a moft fumptuous and beautiful Manner, and in Memory of the -unkind and ungenerous Treatment of his Father and Grandfather, by King Charles'II. caufed the. following
Houfe of ST AN LI following Inscription to be cut inStone On the Front of it (to wit) ‘ James, -‘ Earl of DERBY, Lord of Man Sand the Illes, Grandfon of; James, 4 Earl t of DERBY, by Charlotte, ‘^Daughter of Claud, Duke of Tre-' mouille, who was beheaded at Bol-‘ ton, the fifteenth of October 1651, ‘afor ftrenuoufly.n adhering to King ‘ Charles II. who refufed a BilJ una-’ f nimouily patTed by both Houles, of 5 Parliament, for reftoring to the Fa-‘ mily the Eftate which lie had loft by 1 his, Loyalty to him. t fI =
x .This Lord .married Mary, the only Daughter and Heirefs of Sir William Morley,, of Halhacar, in the County of Suftex, by whom he- enjoyed a plentiful Eftate, and had Ilfue by her pne, only Son named James, who lived but about three Months, and thereby left him Chi.ldlefs at his De-ceafe; which happened at Knowfley on the firft of February 1735; and from thence conveyed to Ormikirk, and laid with his moft eminent and noble An-ceftors in the common Repofitory of his Family: His Lady being then alive: He was born the third of July 1664.
And here let it be obferved, that by the Death of this noble Lord without ■any IfTue, the Honour of the Earldom of Derby, became cxtinCl in the direCt Line, he being the tenth in Succeffion from Thomas Lord Stanley,, created Earl of Derby, by King Henry VIL in the firft Year of his Reign, for his fighal and faithful Services to him and Kis Country (as {before obferved) in the Year 1485, and on many other remarkable Occafions.
The late Noble Lord we have been < Numb, io.*	25
L Y, from the Conqueft. iy> here treating of, was by Patent made Chamberlain of Cheftey for Life, that High Office having been expired ih his Family by the Death of his elder Brother Earl William, (and is now in the Family of Cholmondley) however, when this Lord was in full Life and at the higheft Pinacle of Honour, he appears, to me to have poffeffed more Titles of Dignity, than any of his brave and renowned PredeCeflbrs; and as the knowledge of thefe maybe as ar greeable to the Readers; as the plealure of collecting them hath been to me: I have thought it not amifs to relate them in their Order, (to wit.)
James Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley and Strange, Baron of Weeton, Vif-count Kinton, Lord Mohun. Barnwell, Ballet and Lacy, Lord Chancellor, and Lord Lieutenant of the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancafter, and Vice Admiral of the fame; Lord Chamber-lain of the City and County Palatine of Chefter; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guards j one of his Majefty’s moft ' Honourable Privy Council; and Lord of Man and the Illes.
And here though I have according to promife, given., the Reader the Lineal Succeffion of the Earl of Derby for ten Generations, with their Marriages and Iffite; and the Marriages and I ue of their Sons and Daughters ; yet, permit me. before I proceed further in the Hiftory, to infert a few Articles come to my Knowledge during my Writing, what hath already, rpalted, Which will tend to make the whole fomething more Intelligible and Uniform, altho’ a little out of due place, which I flatter myfelf will be forgiven
. 1 me,'
15.4	The Hiftory 8f the Ancieht :afid Honourable11
me, as it is intended for the RcadersTn-formation.
And firft, the moft Noble Margaret, Countefs, of Richmond, and Widow to Edmund, Earl of Richmond, and afterwards Wife to. Thomas, the firft Earl of Derby, whom fhe out-lived: Died in the Year 1509, and was'interred in Weftminfter Abbey With her Royal Anceftors,
Secondly, William, Earl of Derby, great Grandfather to the laft Earl James; was by- Patent of, the firft oF James I. made Chamberlain bf Chefter for Life; And after this, in the Ydar 1640, another Patent "palled, joining James, Lord Strange, with his Father, for both their Lives, and rhe Survivor of them.
* Thirdly, William, Earl-of‘-Derbyj died in 1642, '^nd was fucceeded in the faid Office, by James, Lord'Strange, his Son, who continued therein ’till the Lords of Parliament removed him, and put in their Speaker, Edward, Earl, of Manchefter, who continued ■'to the Year 1647; when the Commons thought fit to remove him, and put in William Lenthel, their Speaker, and Humphrey Mackworth, of Shrewfbury, the Vice Chamberlain.
After him in the Year 1654, John Glinn, was made Chamberlain, and appointed Phillip Young, of Shrop-fnire, his Vice Chamberlain: This John Glinn, was afterwards' (as I take it) Sir John Glinn, whp'ha$ (U^on the Vote of both Houfes a^OTebmehti^ made an offer df furrendering the inheritance of Harden Caftle, purchafed by him from the Agents of Sequeft-rarion, to Charles. Eari'of, iDerby, for
a Teale of three Lives; which-not being immediately accepted by the faid Earl, and his Majcftyafterwards refu-fmg his affent to rhe Bill gaffed by both Houles in his-favour;: he was glad to compound with Sir John Glinn, f or the Property of the faid Caftle, and had the fame granted to him and his Heirs, Who now enjoy!the Inheritance rhefepft	p'W -J’.
Add here the Reader may with me obferve and lament the hard fate of the late loyal and brave Earl of Derby’s Sufferings and Perfecutions, in every'State tof Property, i wire rhe r in Office for Life or Inheritance, nay, even in his Perfon and Family, his and their Enemies being daily in Hand to fwallowthcm up; who being exalted and fet oh -Fire by unbounded Power, their Teeth became Spears1 arid Arrows. and their Tongues: as iharp Swords.
Sometime after this, Earl Charles obtained by Patent the Office of Chain-* bcrlain of Chefter, for the Life of himfelf, and William his Son; upon the Deceafe of whom it refted in the Crown, to the Time the late Earl James was favoured therewith for his Life.
Here followeth a Lift of the Deaths, and Time of fcveral of the Family hitherto omitted.
Charlotte, Countefs of Derby, died in the Year 1^64. A ■
Edward Stanley her Son,, and Brother to Charles, Earl of Derby, died: in 1664.
Charles, Earl of Derby, her efdeft Son,-died in 1672	•	< w
Mary,
Ho^fe. qf S T ANjLJEY, from the;Conqueft.
Mary, Daughter of Charles, Eayl of Derby, died in 1,674.
Catharine, Lady Savage, Daughter to Lord Colchefter, died in ; 687..
James, Lord Strange, Son of \V^t Ham, Earl of Dopby, died in 1-700.-"
William, Earl of Derby, his Father, diedin 1702. yir,
Dorothy Helena Rupa, Couptefs Dowager, died in 1702.
Charges Stanley, fourth Son of Chafes, Earl of. Derby, died in 1715. . ’Charlotte, Lady Colchefter, hpr Daughter, died in 1717.
James, Earl of Depby, third Sonj of Charles, Eayl of DoyLy, died in 173$.
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Having here brought down and gone thro’ the leading Line of the ancient Houfe of Stanley, and alfo the firft Collateral Branch from whence fprung the Earls of Derby, with what remarks and obferv^tions I had to make thereon: Give me leave to return to their natural Brother, SirOfkatel tie Latham, on whom I have before faid, Sir Thomas hisjjfather, had fettled a competent Eftate, and given him the Signet of his Family, with the Eagle in the Creft, in token of his Love and Favour for him, and in Memory of his fup-pofed Deliverance.
This Foundling being poflefted of the Lands and Manors above-mentioned, made choice of Earlham for his Seat, and became the Anceftor of the Latham^, of Earlham; whofe Pro-
Occurrences that happened in Cromwell’s Time when me was a young Woman, as I have mentioned before.. She was Daughter to that Latham geny continued in a direct Line from that was dp. feverely pyated in Oliver's fm, without any Interruption, unpl Days;; and Sifter to the laft Male Heir1 Cromwell’s Ufurpation.	of that Name, whofe Father dying be-
That Latham whofe turn it was to fore the Reftoraifon; ihe was left a be in Pofleftion of the paternal Eftate, Minor under the Guardianlhip of liis
X 2'	' Mother
followed the Fate of that noble Earl of Derby who fullered Martyrdom at Bolton; and though he efcaped the Hands of the Executioner, yet was o-bliged to fecret himfelf all the remaining Part.of his Life from the Firry of thofe Times, when ,a great Part of his Eftate within the,Power of the Sequef-trators, with m^ny anrient Deeds and Records that particularly fet forth the Origin, of the before-mentioned Creft, and the Hrftory of if, were all rifled away and eternally loft.
2., This ,unfortunate' G e hjlcyn an married a Daughter of Egerton, of' Ridd-ley, in Lapcalhife, (own Sifter to the then Baronet of BickerftafPs Lady, An-ceftor to the prefent Earl of Derby) by whom he had IfTue, one. Son and two Daughters; the eldeft of which Daughter was never married, and died at Fulihaw, about the Year 1730, after having lived in that Family near- 40 Years; ihe arrived to an extreme old Age, and furprifmgly retained a right Ufe of all herSenfe? 'till a few Months before her Death.
It was from this Gentlewoman (fays Mr. Finney) that I received the moft authentic Account of the Family lire Inning from, and indeed was even a living Oracle to me by a,remarkable Knowledge Ihe had of fundry notable
i r6 ' The. Hiftofy,-of? ther-Arfcient and-Honourable-~
Mother and two Uncles, of Bickerftai t and Riddley.
And although the Eft ate had fuf-fered fo much in his Father's Time, yet he ftill retained the Inheritance of a fair Patrimony, though incumbered, but by the: provident Care and prudent Management of his good' Mo--ther, before her Son came of Age fhe entirely difeharged his .Eftate,
He married, a Daughter of Aflihurft,. of Afhhurft, in Lancaihire^ ,by whom he had Iffue three Daughters ; (c nc of which fays the Captain) was my Mother, and the only furviving Child of that Gentlewoman the 1aft Latham, o. Earlham, and is ftill living.
As his Father was a fteady Royahft, and fuffered both in his Perfon and Eftate for the Caufe of his King and Country, fo this Gentleman mai e an early Embarkation into that graud Affair of the Revolution; whereby he expended fuch large Sums and fc far involved his Eftate through an ardent Profecution of the Common-good, th® he left me (being the next Male Heir by my Mother’s Side,) nothing more than the Coat of Arms which by Birth-right descended to me, and what the World could not alienate: This Gentleman dying without Iffue Male; both the Uame and Eftate of the Lathams, of Earlham, were extinguilhed together.
I have often heard my great Aunt fay, that Charles, Earl of .Derby, (Suc-cellbf to that noble Lord tha* was mm -dered at Bolton,) took particular Notice of her Brother when a youth and* under the Care of a Tutor; and would frequently come to fee him,, and at proper Times take him with him:
That fhe never heard that Lord when fpeaking to him, or of him,, call him =n^ any other Name but the Top of his Kun a: Ptirafe* he' conftantljh ufed ’on? ■ fuch dccaftons;'^^^
Tile Family well knew his Lordlhip’s Reafons for that Familiarity; and it was plain to them, not from their Al-lian'” with Bickerftaff; bur from his Lordlhip’s Knowledge that 'this Latham’s Anceftor was : ia( ar^K Brother to Ifabel, the Heireft of tbit Name to Sir Thomas Latham, and was.the only Motive for his Lordlhip’s Appellation;
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Si ^het that my Aunt uled to fay had been in the Family twoHundred Years c • more, and was sfteemed the Signet given by Sir Thomas Latham, to his. Sou Sir Olkatel, the Creft being an Eagle with his Wings extended, and looking back' as for fomething fhe had left, or was taken" from her. as before:
I have alfo heard my Aunt fay, that the paternal Coat of that Family fhe fprung from was. pain red upon Wood, and as fhe had been told about a Hundred Years ago, with the Bearings of the fundry Families they had married into, quartered therewith. Thus far Mr. Finney, of the Family of Latham’s, of r arlham, dci’cended from that famous Foundling Sir Oikatel de Latham, to which I have only to add and obferve, that if any Reader Ihould ftill remain in Diffidence of what I have delivered, with refpeft to the two-Branches hitherto treated of, Pdo af-1 fure him that I have with the utmoft. Care collected and examined what I have wrote on this Subject from the belt Authorities I could meet with, and
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am fully Satisfied of the Truth and fions of State, as almoft to wipe out Reality thereof; and if he will pleafe of Memory, and even HHtory, many to co'rifider with me how many Revo- notable and remarkable- Tranfaftions lauans this Illand has undergone in a of the' preceding Ages: Then I’ fay it few Centuries, then it will appear no will appear no Wonder-to him-if he Wonder to him that the Members of meet with fome Things obfeurely de-the national Community have been fo livered, which he is requefted to over-extremely diftorted by thofe Convul- “look or amend.
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Ancient and Honourable HOUSE of
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IN the firft Part hereof I have given the Reader the direct and lineal SucceiTion of this mod ancient Houfe from their Original, (as far as 1 am able to difeover it) to the Year 1741.
And have alfo taken Notice of and defcribed the leading collateral Branch, in the Perfon of Sir John Stanley, whole SucccfTors became Earls of Derby, and have lineally deduced them from him to the Demife of James, the late and laft Earl, in 1735, bywhofe Death without Iflue, the Honour and
Earldom of Derby became extinguifh-ed in that noble Branch.
I have likewife given the Pedigree andGenealogy of Sir Thomas Latham, Lord of Latham, and the Marriage of his only Daughter with the aforefaid Sir John Stanley, with their Iflue in the leading Line, to the Time beforementioned ; together with the Hiftory and Defendants of his natural Son Sir Oikatel, which hath fo far compleated the Hiftory propofed; and naturally leads me into a new Scene of proceeding by a lineal and fucceflive Defcrip-tion
Houfe of STANLEY, from ^he Conqueft.
tion of every other collateral Branch ifluing out of, Or from the original Stock, fome of whom weht out full as early as. the faid •Sir John, but his Branch being highly advanced in Honour and Dignity, claims the firft Notice, and I will, .as intended, give the Reader a true Light of our Proceeding, ic
a net prevent all Confusion in the Coherence of one Part with the other.
The firft and next Branch in due Courfe, is the honourable and worthy Houfe of Grefwithen, in the County of Cumberland,1 whole original and-Defcendants are defcribed by tire following printed Table..
Genealogia Praeclarse et Antique Families de
WILLIAM de—J O A N, eldeft Stanleigh, Daughter and one Lord of Stanleigh, of the Heirs of Sir in the County of Ph. Bamville, Kt.
Stafford, Efq;
Lord of Stourton.
John de Stanleigh, Lord of Stanleigh and Stourton, in. Wirral, in the C. of Chefter,Efq; Son and Heir of Wm.
WILLIAM, of—MARGERY, the Stanleigh, Knight, Daughter of John Lord of Stanleigh, Ardern, Knight.
WILLIAM, of—MARY,theDaugh-Stanleigh,Efquire, ter of Sir John Lord of Stanleigh, Savage, Knight, he lived in the 1 oth
of Henry VI.
WILLIAM of Stan—ALICE, Daughter high, 'Ld. of Stan- I of -Hugh Malley, leigh and Stour- I of Timperjey. ton, he lived in the j 26th of Edw. III.
WILLIAM of^MARGERY, the
JohnStanleigh,the—ISABEL, Daughter younger Som and Heir of Sir Thomas Latham, j Lord, of Latham.
John Stanleigh,—ELIZABETH, the1 Knight,Steward of Sifter of Sir Wil-the Houlhold, to liam Harrington^ King Henry IV. Knight-
Stanleigh, t junidr' Lord of Stanleigh-and Stourton, lie lived in the 40th
of Richard. II.
DaughterandHeir of William Hoo-ton, Lord of Hooten.
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Sir Thofrias 'Stanley, Ku ft. Comp-tfoler cf tlie Hou-fhold, to K. Henry VL. who created* him
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him the firft Baron Stanley. - Of this Thomas, are the Earls of Derby, the Lord . Monteagle, :it’ and the Stanleys of Lancaihire.
John Stanleigh, of Grefwithin, in the County of Cumb. the youngeft Son.
John Stanleigh, of Grefwithin, Son &, Heir of John; he lived in the lothof Edward III.
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Thomas
NicholasStanleigh—C ONSTANCE
Efq; Son and Heir, he had by his Wife, the Manor of Awf-thwaite, now called Dalegarth.
Thomas
Daughter and Heir of Thomas Awf-thwaite, of Awf-thwaite.
Stanley, Efq;ofAwfthwaite
in the County of Cumberland, Son and Heir, he lived in the 10th of Hen-
. - John Stanleigh, Gent. Tecond Son of Hall Thwaite, in the County of Cumberland.
William Stanley, Gentleman, third Son.
Nicholas Stanley, Son and Heir of Awfthwa he he lived; ini the 38 th of
Thomas Stanley, of Hall Thwaite.
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Stanley,—Ann, Daughter of of Dalegarth, Efq.
dleftdh, Knight.
Sir Richard Hud-
John Stanley, Son and Heir.
William Stanley,—Alice, Daughter of of Dalegarth, Efq; | Sir R. Ducket, Knt.
William Stanley, Son and Heir.
Thomas • Stanleyj—MARGARET, the
Fleming, of Ry dal, in the County of Weftmorel. Efq;
Roger Stanley,Son and Heir.
John Stanley, of—MARGARET, the Daughter of Tho.
Dalegarth; Efq;
Senhoufe, Efq;
Thomas Stanley,—Ifabel, Daughter of of Dalegarth, Efq; John Leak, of Ed-
Edward Stanley, eldeft Son.
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monton.
-Anne, one of the two Daughters, & Coheirs, of Tho. Briggs, of; Cow-mire, in the County of Weft more-land Efq;	_ 7
John
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John Stanley, Efq;-—Mercy, Daughter of Thomas Stanley, of Lee, in the County of Suffex, Efq;
Edward Efq;
Stanley,-—Ifabel,eldeftDaugh-ter. of T. Curwen, of Setto Park, Efq;
Chriftoph.Stanley, fecond Son.
Thomas
Stanley,—The Widow of Sir youngeftSon,Maf- James Wytford, ter of the Mint.
Mary Stanley, the Daughter and foie Heir, married to Sir Edw. Herbert, Knt. fecond Son of William, Earl of Pembroke.
John Stanley, of Arnaby, in Com. Cumb. Gent.
Chriftoph.Stanley, eldeft Son of John Stanley,pfArnaby.
William Stanley.
Tho. Stanley, of Lee, inCom .Suflex.
; ' Richard Stanley.
William Stanley.
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Thomas Stanley.
John Stanley.
John Stanley, Efq;—Dorothy, Daught. of Edward Holt^ of Wigan, in Corny Lane. Gent.
Thomas.. Stanley, died withoutlflue.
Edward Stanley, died young.
Richard Stanley. '
William Stanley; died young.
Ifab. Stanley, married to W. Copley, of Gosforth Hall, in C.r Cumb. Gent.
Barbara Stanley, died unmarried.
Dorothy Stanley, married to Robert MaudefleyofMau-defley, in C. Lane. Efq;
Edward- Stahley, unmarried.
John Stanley, died without lUuc.
MarmadukeS tan-ley, died without - ..
Iffuei
Edward
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Edward Efq;
Stanley,—Mildred,Daughter of the Right Rev. Sir Geo. Fleming, Bart. Ld. Bp. of Carl ifle.
Catherine Stanley.
Dorothy Stanley.
John Stanley, Rec-torofWorkington, married Clara, the Daughter of------ Philipfon, of Call-ger th, in C. Weft. Gent.
John Stanley, died young.
Edward Stanley.
Jane Stanley.
Clara Stanley.
Thomas Stanley, died unmarried.
William Stanley, died young.
Holt Stanley, Lt. in Brigadier Gen. Wentworth’s Regiment of Foot, unmarried.
Richard, died unmarried.
Dorothy Stanley, married Huddlef-tonPark,of Whitbeck, in C. Cum-' berland, Gent.
Ifabel Stanley, m. John Kilpatrick, of Whitehaven, in die C. of Cumberland, Gent.
Loveday Stanley, unmarried.
Elizabeth Stanley, married Richard Cook, of Camer-ton, in the County of Cumb. Efq;
%* 1 have to obferve farther of Thomas Stanley, Mafter of the Mint, that Sir Edward Herbert, younger Son to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, married Mary, the Daughter and foie Heir of Thomas.Stanley, of Standon, in the County of Hertford, Efq; in the Year 1570, youngeft Son of Thomas Stanley, of Dalegarth, in the County of Cumberland, Efq;
Houfe of STANLEY, from, the Conqueft.
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THE
PEDIGREE and POSTERITY
■	'OF
Sir Thomas Stanley,
Second Son to Sir John Stanley the Firft, By ISABEL de LATHAM.
THIS Gentleman married to his Lady, Maud, the only Daughter of and Heir to Sir John Ardern, of Elford, in the County of Stafford, by whom he became pofieffcd of a fine Seat and plentiful Fortune, and made that the Refidence of the Family whilft the Male Line continued, who made a moft eminent Figure in Military Life: By his Lady he had Iffue a Son, named John, who fucceeded him in Honour and Eft ate.
Sir John Stanley, fucccffor to his Father Sir Thomas, married three. Wives, but by the. two firft had no Iffue living, at the Time of Iris third Marriage, which was to Douce, the Daughter of Leigh of Baggaley, by whom he had one Son, named John.
Sir John, the Son of die above Sir John, had Iffue a Son named Hum-
phrey, but by whom Record, as well as Hiftory, are both filent, farther than that the faid Sir John died in the Year 1509, and was fucceeded by his faid Son.
Sir Humphrey Stanley being a martial Man of great Experience, was fent by King Henry VII. in the Year 1495", againft John Lord Audley, and other oppofers of that Prince, affembled on Black Heath, in Kent, where he en-r tirely defeated them, but died that Year, leaving a Son and Heir, called Sir John Stanley, of Pipe.
Sir John Stanley, of Pipe, married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Thomas Gerrard, and by her had Iffue ;xwo Daughters only, by which* the Male Line of this moft -worthy Houfe was extinguifhed. ' - -0	- -
But the elder Daughter marrying to One Roger Stanley, of Alderley,'in the a	f County
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County of Chefler, had blue by him a Son, named Roger, and filled Roger Stanley, of Alderley, in the County of Chefler.
Roger Stanley, Son of the firft Roger, married Jane, the Daughter of J. Clarke, of the County of York, and by her had a Son named John, and Riled John Stanley, of Alderley, in the County of Chefler..
John, the Son of the above Roger, afterwards Sir John Stanley, of Alderley in the County of 'Chefler, married Mary, the Daughter of Marberry, ^nd by her had blue two Sons, Thomas and Edward.
Sir Thomas the elder Brother, Riled Sir Thomas Stanley, of Nether Alderley in the County of Chefler, married Elizabeth, Daughter to Sir Peter Warburton, and by her had blue, a Son, named Thomas.
Sir Edward the younger Brother, was a martial Man, and received the Honour of Knighthood in the Low Countries, for his great Services performed there, but was afterwards Rain in Ireland, in the Year 1586,
Sir Thomas his elder Brother, by Mrs. Warburton, fucceeded his Father, and had IfTue, a Son named Thomas, but by whom I am not informed, further than that Sir Thomas, the Son of the above Sir Thomas, had alfo a Son named James, but by whom I cannot yet difeover.
James, the Son of the above Sir Thomas, I conceive to be the prefent Sir James Stanley, of Alderley, in full Life, 1741, but have not been favoured by the Family, with any Account thereof, although requeRed.
The Genealogy and Iffue of
Sir John Stanley IL
~ i I R Thomas Stanley, the- only ? Son of Sir John abovefaid, by Mrs. Harrington, was Comp-troller of the Houfhold to Kin Henry VI. who appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as his Grandfather had beem He married to his
Lady, one of tire Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Robert Goufhell, and by her had blue three Sons; Thomas, John, and James, of all which in their Order, after acquainting the Reader that he was by the fame King created Lord Stanley, and from him fprung the
Houfe of S T A N L E Y, from the Conquefy
the Earls of Derby, his Pofterity and SuccefTors.
Thomas his eldeft Son, fucceeded him in rhe Honopr and Lordfhip of Stanley, and was by King Henry VII. created Earl of Derby, the further Hiftory of whofe Life, and memorable Actions, we have fully related in the firft Part of this Book.
John Stanley, fecond Son of the faid Lord Stanley, married Elizabeth, the Daughter and Heir of Thomas We-ver, Efq; and had Iflue by her, a Son ftiled Thomas Stanley, of Wever, Efq; and James his third Son, was ArchDeacon of Chefter.
Thomas Stanley, of Wever, and Son of John Stanley aforefaid, married a Daughter of Thomas Leverfedge, of Wheelock, Efq; and by her had a Son named Thomas Stanley, of Wever.
Thomas Stanley, the Son of the a-bove Thomas, by Mrs. Leverfedge, married one of the Daughters of Thomas Davenport, Efq; and by her had three Sons, Thomas, John, and Ralph.
T omas the eldeftSon, in 1508 married Urfula, Sifter to Sir Hugh Chol-
mondeley, and by her had a Son named Ralph.
John, his Brother, married aDaugh-ter of —--Wai'd, Efq;
And Ralph, .the third Brother, married a Daughter of-----Holland, of Holland, in the County of Lancaf— ter, Efq;
Ralph Stanley, of Wever, by Mrs. Cholmondeley, married Margaret, the Daughter of John Mafterfon, of Nampt-wich, Efq; and by her had Iffue, two-Sons, Thomas, and Ralph, and- one Daughter named Mary.
Thomas Stanley,. eldeftSon of Ralph,s four Years old in 1580, and died in. 1605, aged Twenty-nine. Years.: He married Elizabeth, the Daughter of •—--Warburton, Efq; and by her had Iflue, one Son named Thomas.
Thomas, the Son of the laft Thomas,, and Grandfon of Ralph, ftiled Thomas Stanley, of Alderley, Efq; 1637, married Elizabeth, the Daughter of James. Pitts, of Kere, Efq; of the County of Wigorn, alias Worcefter, but what Iflue he had by her, I am not informed,, but take this to be the Pedigree and Genealogy of the Stanleys, of Park„ ip, or near Alderley.
r66	The Hiftory of the zA.mcnt and Honourable
GENEALOGY and POSTERITY
OF	.
-Peter Stanley, Efquire.
Second Son of Sir ’ IL LIA M STANLY, of HOOTON, by ANN, the Daughter of Sir JAMES HARRINGTON.
^ H '^HIS Gentleman was the next Collateral Branch to that of Dalegarth, in the County of Cumberland, of the honourable and fpreading Family of Hooton, m Wirral: He married to his Wife, Elizabeth, the Daughter and Heir of ames Scarfbrick, of Moor-Hall, Efq; in the Parifh of Aughton, by Margaret his Wife, the only Daughter and Heir of Thomas Atherton, or Bicker-ftaff, and by her had Ifiue four Sons and two Daughters; to wit, Thomas, James, Robert, Edward, and Bridget and Mary his Daughters, of all which in their Order.
But firft give me leave to acquaint my Readers, that the faid Peter Stanley, the Father, was an eminent Roy-alift, and joined his Intereft and Force vith that of his noble Relation, James,
Earl of Derby, and ihared with him greatly in the Fury and Violence of thofe unhappy Times, being impri-fonedv and his. Eftate fequeftered, to the great Impoverishment and Lofs of himfelf and Family; and although he efcaped with Life, was greatly rc-luced to the Time of the happy Reiteration • As by the following Addrefs of his lix Children, to thofe Difpofers of other Mens'Fortunes at theirPieafure, (to wit) Wigan,' in C. .of Lancafter. By the Coinmiflioners for Sequeftera- ■ tion, February 14, 1650.
PON the Petition of Thomas, James, Robert, Edward, Brid-
get, and Mary Stanleys, Sons and ‘ Daughters of Mr. Peter Stanley: De* firing a fifth Part of their Father’s . ‘ Eftate
Houfe of STANLEY,, from the Conqueft, 167
* Eftate towards their Maintenance, ‘ and that it may be fet forth in Specie c or Particulars: It is therefore ordered ‘ that the Agents for Sequeftration, ‘where the Petitioners Father’s Eftate ‘ lieth, fhall allow unto the Petitioners 1 one full fifth Part of their faid Fa-; 6 ther’s Eftate, together with the Ar-‘ rears thereof due, fince December ‘ 24, 1649, deducting a due Proportion
for all Lays and Taxations, and ob-1 ferving the Inftruftions concerning 1 fifth Parts ►
c P. HOLT, ‘ G. PIGOT.
Intra, Edward Wall?'
The fifth Part of the faid Peter’s Eftate being obtained by his Children as aforefaid, Peter their Father died, and was buried in Iris own Chapel, at Ormfkirk, July 24, .1652, and was fucceeded by Edward his Son, who iri his Father’s Life-time, married the only Daughter and Heir of-----Houghton, of Goufnarch, Efq, and by her had iflue feveral Sons and Daughters, the eldeft whereof was Peter Stanley.
The faid Peter Stahley, married a Daughter of ------ Wolfall, of Wolf all-, £fq; and by her had three Sons, Edward, Thomas, and William, but how Iris younger Sons were difpofed of in
the World I cannot difcover,. nor who; his Daughters married.
But find that Edward, his eldeft Son married the only Daughter and Heir of------Gerrard, Efq; of Augh-ton, by whom he had two Sons, William and James; William, his eldeft Son, died young, and was buried in his Father’s Chapel, at Ormfkirk.
And was fucceeded by James, his fecond Son , who had Iflue a Son, named- Edward’, but by’ whom-1 cannot difcover: Alfo two Daughters, Amu and Elizabeth, and the faid James the Father died in tire Year 165-3, and was buried in his own .Chapel the firft oft January that Year at Ormfkirk,
Ann, his eldeft Daughter, married; Richard Wolfall, Efq; but by him’ had no Iffue, and died in the Year/ 17 3°, aged Eighty Years and upwards; and Elizabeth, her younger Sifter died unmarried, and whether Edward their* Brother ever married, or to whom'; J* am not informed of, for fince the taking away the Court of Wards, in the Time of King Charles II.. all Hif--tory of Families and their Predeceffors. and lineal Succefibrs are laid afide in. tire Heralds Offices,, where they were wont.to be preferved, and nothing is-now more to be found, or met with; but what the Parifh. Regifters contaim of the Birth: or Death of fucha. Per— ion at fuch a. Time, &c..

168 The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
Barons of Strange,
Of KNOCKING, in SALOP.
^TT^ ^^ ^^orY and full Defcrip-I tion of this very antient and honourable Family, will, from “■ ■ its long Duration and many Inter-marriages with the leading Nobility, be attended with much Difficulty in giving the Reader a true and intelligible Idea thereof, infomuch that I find myfelf conftraincd to introduce it by that of the Earls Palatine of Chefter, without which, (as I conceive) he will never rightly apprehend how the Family of Derby became entitled to, and dignified with the feveral Honours I have annexed to it in the Hiftory of James, the laft Earl of that honourable Houfe.
The EARL^s Palatine of
’T’ H E firft whereof was Hugh Lu-A pus, Nephew to William the Conqueror, who gave to him the City and
County of Chefter, and conferred up on it the Honour and Dignity of a County Palatine, with Barons under him and a Chamberlain, or Chancellor of all his Courts, with all other proper Officers attendant thereon, as a Principality.
Richard the el deft Son of Hugh Lupus, was fecond Earl of Chefter, but being accidentally drowned, continued not long in that Honour.
The third Earl was John Bohun, who had married Margaret, Sifter to Hugh Lupus, ftiled Countefs of Cumberland, by whom he had a Son named Randulph, and was fucceeded by him.
Randulph Bohun, his Son by Margaret, Countefs of Cumberland, commenced the fourth Earl of Chefter, in the Twenty-firft Year of Henry 1,1120, and died in the Year 1130, and was fuccecded by his Son Randulph.
Randulph, the fecond of that Name, and Son of the former, was the fifth Earl of Chefter, and continued to the
Year
Houfe of STANLEY, from theConqueft. 169
Year 1152, and dying that Year, was fucceeded by Hugh, called Kavelock, his Son, as fixth Earl of Chefter, who had the Misfortune to be taken Pri-' foner, but ranfomed in the Year 1174, and died in the Year 1180, leaving Ifliie one Son and. four Daughters.
And was fucceeded by Randulph his Son, furnamed Blundeville, who was the feventh and laft Earl of Chefter, of the Lupus Line, but had conferred upon him the Earldom of Lincoln, and died in the Year 1232, and was buried with his Anccftors at Chefter.?.
When Maud, the eldeft Daughter of Hugh, called Kavelock, Earl of Chefter, had married David, Son to the King of Scots, who died in 1219, and left Ifliie a Son named John, fur-named Scott, who was alfo Earl of Chefter, in right of his Mother, but died in the Year 1237, by which the Earldom of Chefter expired with him.
By King Henry III, taking that Earldom into his own Hands, and annexing it to the Crown, (as being too popular in the Hands of a Subject) froth which Time the King’s eldeft Son has been ftiled Earl of Chefter, Duke of Cornwall, and Prince of Wales. Now if any Reader here has a Curiofity to know the further Particulars of the Earls of - Chefter, I muft refer him to their Hiftory, and proceed to fhew the Occafion I had to bring them in, by way of Introduction to the Hiftory of .the Barons of Stanley.
By informing the Reader that Ha-wifle, the fourth Daughter of Hugh Bohun, alias Kavelock, Earl of Chefter, married to Robert, Lord Quinfey, Earl of Lincoln, defeended Lineally from
NUMB; II. 2
Robert, Lord Quinfey, who came into England with William the Conqueror.
.This Robert, Lord Quinfey, Earl of Lincoln, had Ifliie by Hawifle his Wife two Daughters; Margaret the eldeft Daughter, married to John Lacy, Baron of Halton.
And the fecond Daughter, married to Hugh Audley, Baron of Healey Caftle, in the County of Stafford, a near Relation to the Houfe of Stanley.
John Lacy, Baron of Halton, had Ifliie by Margaret his Wife,'the eldeft Daughter, and one of the Coheirs of the faid Robert, Lord Quinfey, a Son named Edmund, who fucceeded his Father in Honour and Eftate.
This Edmund, was likewife- Baron of Halton, and married Ifabe.l, the Daughter of the Marquis of Saluce, by whom he had Ifliie a Daughter named Elinor, who married to Ebulo, Lord Strange, of Knocking, who had Ifliie by her in 1335, temp. Edward III. a Son named Robert, whofe Mother Elinor dying foon after, Ebulo, Lord Strange, his Father, married to his fecond Wife, Alice, the Daughter and Heir of Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and Widow of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancafter, who died in the Year 1322, as by Mr. Mills, page 945, and Mr. York, page 193.
Robert, Lord Strange, the Son of E-bulo aforefaid, fucceeded his Father in the Baronies of Strange, of Knocking, and of Halton, and married to his Wife, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Thomas, Lord Baflet, by whom he had Ifliie a Son named Roger.
Roger, Lord Strange, the.Son of the above Robert, married the only Daughter
ijo	rhe Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
ter and Heir of Hugh, Lord Barnwell, .by whom he had Iflue a Son named John.
John, Lord Strange, the Son of the above ROget, by Lady Barnwell, married Maud, the Daughter of J. Lord Mohun, by whom he had Iflue a Son hamed Richard. The faid Lord Mo-hun, had two Sifters, Phillippa, who -married Edward, Duke of York, and' ■Elizabeth, married William Montague, fcafl Of Salisbury.
Richard, Lord Strange, the Son of the above. John, married to his Lady the Daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, of Scarborough, in the County of York, by whom he had a Son called John, Lord Strange, the Son of Richard.
John, Lord Strange, the Son of Richard, married to Jaccline, one of the .Daughters and Coheirs of Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers, and Sifter-in-Law to King Edward IV. and by her had- Iflue one Daughter only, called Jane, and foie Heir to the Baronies o Strange and Mohun.
This Lady Jane, married Sir George Stanley, the eldeft furviving Son of Thomas, the firft Earl of Derby, who had Iflue by her three Sons and two Daughters, Elizabeth, and Eleanor; he died in his Father’s Life-Time.
When Thomas, his eldeft Son fuc-ceeded him in the Baronies of Strange, Mohun, Barnwell, Baflet, and Lacy, and upon his Grandfather’s Death fuc-ceeded him in the Earldom of Derby, as before-mentioned.
John, the fecond Son of George, Lord Strange, died without Iflue.
But James, his third Son had Iflue one Son named George, but by whopi Hiftory and Record are blent on that Head, but very full in the Chara<ftej-of his Merit, Valour, and Military Peformancds, being thereby advanced to the Honour and Dignity of Knight Marlhal of Ireland, and the common Anceftor of the Houfe of Grange Gorman, in the Kingdom .of Ireland. See Barlow’s Hiftory. But of this Gentleman more hereafter.
Sir George Stanley, called the black Stanley, (whom I have juft- before-mentioned) was the Son of James Stanley, Efq; fecond Son of George Lord Strange.
This Gentle than was a moft martial and variant Man in the Field, and a wifeCounfellor in theClofet; hisBold-nefs and Refolution in Action were not to be with flood; he was an utter Enemy to the Iriffi, infomuch that his Name was a Terror to them, and when he engaged them their Cry was “ Pagh Chrifh faave me cramochree,” And happy was he that could get a-wayfooneft. None came thither before him more hardy, nor expofed himfelf to more danger nor hazards of Life than he; until he had fully reduced the rebellious Sons of that Nation to the King his mafter’s obedience, for which he was greatly honoured and efteemed, and had for his Bravery and eminent a* Services conferred upon him the high Office of Knight Marfhal of Ireland;, which he long enjoyed, and executed with the greateft honour and commendation, and was a great Addition to his Worth and Memofy. He became the founder and common Anceftor of the
Stanley’s
Houfg of STANLEY, fropi the- Conqueft.	17$
Stanleys of Grange Gorman jn that Kingdom, whofe Pofterity are Kill fub^ filling in the perfon of Sir John Stanley, one of the honourable Conpniffi-oners of his Majeftyb Cuftoms, London ; and upon his deceafe in a good Old Age and lading Reputation, he was interred by his very great and honourable Relation Sir John Stanley, J. whofe Memory (fays my Author, tRe Right Rev, Thomas Stanley, Lord Bp. of Sodor and Man) ought never to be forgotten.
The next collateral Branch falling in Courfe, is the Iffue left by the great $ir William Stanley, who fuffered death in the Reign of King Henry, VIL whofe Perfonal Hiftory hath been fully related; but hath not yet re-aAed that of his Pofterity, of whom I am able to difcover no more than one Son, named William, who married Jane, the fple Daughter apd Heir of Sir Geoffrey- Malley, of Tatton, in the County of Cheder, but what Iffue he had by this Lady, or how long this Branch continued, I cannot difcover.
The next collateral Branch I meet with is ftiled Sir Edward Stanley, of Eufham, in the County of Oxford.
This Gentleman was the only Son ,qf Sir Thomas Stanley, fecond Son to Edward Earl of Derby, by Margaret, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of-Sir George Vernon, of Haddon, in the County of Derby, and had the above Eftate, with others fettled upon him in remainder, after his Father and Mother, by his faid Grandfather Edward,
Who this ^Gentleman married I am not informed, but find that he did
marry and had Blue three Daughters* Petronella, Frances, and Venetia ; but no Iffue Male, lay which this Branch became extinguifhed in the Stanley Family; and, as I am informed, the Eftate alfo, by Divifion amongft tlie faid Daughters and their Blue.
In the next Place I find that Henry Earl of Derby and Succeflbr to' .the aforefaid Earl Edward, had a natural Son called Francis Ferdinand, on whbm he fettled Whittle, in the Parifh of Bury, where he afterwards lived, and alfo Broughton, nearManchefter: WhQ he married I cannot be informed, but find at his Death he left Ifiue a Son namedHenry,who mortgaged Broughton, to James Cheetham, of Turton, Efquire; and that George Cheetham, of Smedley, Efq; paid oft' the faid Mortgage and Purchafedthe faidMan-nor of Broughton, with its Appurtenances from the faid Henry Stanley, ' who, ’tis commonly reported married a Daughter of the aforefaid Peter Stanley; or in other Words, that a Daughter of Peter Stanley, married one of the Stanleys of Latham, bqt which of them I cannot difcover.
The next collateral Branch I meet with of the whole Blood is Sir Robert Stanley, fecond Son to William, Earl of Derby, and younger Brother to James the Martyr. He married Elizabeth, one of the Daughters of the Lord Widrington, and by her had Iffue two Sons, Charles, and James; James, tjie fecond Son died without Iffue, bug Charles the elder Brother had Ifiue a Son napaed William, and that the faid. Charles is long finetgdead, and that William his Son likewjfe died with-2	out
172	The Hiftory of rhe Ancient and Honourable
out Iffue about the Year 1^91 of 1692, whereby this Branch became extinct.
The next and laft collateral Branch I have to treat of ifiuing out of this Ancient and Honourable Houfe, as far as I can collect or be informed, is the noble Lady Emelia Stanley, the third Daughter to James Earl of Derby, by his renowned and moft eminent Lady Charlotte de la Tremouille.
This Lady - married John, Earl of Athol, afterwards Marquis of Athol, by whom he had Iffue a Son born at Knowfley the 24th of February, 1659, and wasbaptized by the Name of John, the eighth of March following.
Alfo a Daughter born at Knowfley, the fecond Day of April, and baptized the fixth of the fame Month, by the Name of Charlotte.
Alfo another Son born at Knowfley, the eighth Day of May, and was baptized by [the Name of James, the twenty firft Day of May, 1663.
Thus far of this noble Branch from whom his Grace James the prefent Duke of Athol is defeehded, who being the laft and moft Noble remainder of the very Ancient and Honourable Houfe of Stanley, and alfo pofTefied of the moft Princely Branch of their extenfive Fortune. The Reader may Juftly expert I fhouldgive him the Genealogical Hiftory of this moft Noble Houfe, otherwife he may remain a Stranger to the Antiquity and Honour of it, and that by their Intermarriages therewith the Honour of the Houfe of Stanley was not diminifhed, which I
fhall endeavour to manifeft in the cleareft and fulleft Manner I am enabled from Manufcript, Hiftory, and Record.
* Murray, in Latin Moravia, is one of the Noith-eaftern Shires of the Kingdom of Scotland, of great extent from Eaft to Weft; on the North it has the German Ocean, and Murray Frith-;-on the Eaft Buchan; on the South Athol and Marr; and on the Weft Lo-quabar. It is in length ninety Scotch Miles, and in its greateft breadth thirty Miles; the principal Town is Elgin, an ancient Bifhop’s See, under the Arch Bilhop of St. Andrews, but is commonly ftiled Bilhop of Murray, and not of Elgin.
Murray is one of the ancienteft as well as moft numerous Houfe in Scotland: Some Hiftorians write that they derive their Original from Germany, and from that Part of it called Moravia; however that be, it is agreed that they firft Planted in that Part of Scotland called the Shire or County of Murray, to which they gave Name; but what follows can be inftrudted for Hiftories, Records, and Charters.
The Family of Tullibardine has been reputed chief of this Name, which is now inr the Perfon of John, Marquis of Athol, 1694, this Family being united with that of Athol, by his Grandfather William Earl of Tulli-bardine’s marriage with Dorothy eld-eft Daughter of-John Stuart the fifth Earl of Athol: The Mai [uis’s firft Pre-decefibr of the Family of Tullibardine, was Con gal, who got the Barony of
Tullibardine
From the great Hidorical Geographical and poetical Diflionary.
Houle o’ STANLEY, from the Conqueft.
Tullibardine, with his Wife Ada, from Robert Earl of Strathorn, which was confirmed to them by a Charter from King Alexander II. 1234, which Charter is ftill extant and is dated at Scoon April the tenth; the Witneffes, William Arch-Bilhop of Glafgow, Chan-cellarius; Alexander Abbot of Mel-rofs; Alexander Abbot of Couper.
The Grandaughter of Congal called alfo Ada, had i.re Barony of Tullibardine confirmed to her by another Charter, which relates her being married to Sir William Murray, Son to Sir Malcolm Murray, who was fecond Son to Murray of Bothwell. Sir William-had by this Wife, Sir Malcolm, who fucceeded him in the Barony of Tullibardine, which continues in the fame Name and Family, by a direct Line of Heirs Male, being ratified and confirmed by Charters from federal fucceeding Kings.
Murray of Bothwell’s eldeft Son called Thomas, had an only Daughter, married to Archibald Black, the Earl of Douglas, and his third Son called Andrew, was Father to that Andrew who married the Sifter of King Robert Bruce, and was Governor of Scotland, in the troublefome Times of King Dav 1 Bruce’s minority; and there is yet remaining on the Caftle of Bothwell the Murray’s Arms cut in Stone, as the F mily of Tullibardine ftill bears.
^ Buchanan and Spotfwoods Hiftories mention ^ir William Murray of Tullibardine offering himfelf to accept the Challenge of the Earl of Bothwell, after refufing of his Brother at the Ecad of Queen Mary’s. Arnly near'
Mufsleborrough, for deciding the Truth of that Earl’s being guilty of the Murther of King Henry, who was Hufband to the faid Queen. This Sir Wiliam married Jane, Daughter of the Lord Graham, by whom he had Sir John, afterwards Earl of Tulliba.i® dine, and five Daughters ; the Lady Arabella Countefs 6f Marr, Lady ClailL manan, Lady Aberearny, Lady Rofyth, and Lady Fodrell Henderfon.
Sir John Murray created Earl of Tullibardine, by King James VI. married Catharine Drummond, Dau ghtef to the Lord Drummond, and had by her afterwards William Earl of Tulli ■ bardine, Patrick, and Mungo, who was created Vifcount of Stormount, and five Daughters, Ann Countefs. of Kinghorn, now Strathmore; the Lady Grant, Lady Wanchton, Lady Gleneagles, and Lady Belnagowan.
h this Sir John's Time the Peace of the Country being difturbed by depredations, and there happening alfo fome differences amongft thofc of the Name of Murray, they had a general Meeting, wherein they agreed that Sir Jolin fliould be Arbitrator of all their differences, and determine all their Caufes. as well Civil as Criminal . and obliged themfelves to affift him when required, in freeing the Country from the Depredations, gainft whom he alfo obliged himfelf to protect them.
This Paper is fubferibed by Sir An drew Murray of Arngothe, Murray of Aberearney, and moft of the confider-able heads of the Family, dated a. Tullibardine, 1580
William the eldeft Son of the faid
Sir
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The Hiftory of the. Ancient and-Honourable
Sir John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine, being accidentally with feveral Gentlemen of his Name at a Wedding in Perth, when John Earl of Gowry was killed in 1600; did, with 'their affift-ance refeue King James VI. from the danger he was in by a Tumult of the Inhabitants after the death of the faid Earl, who had been their Provoft; for which Service his Majefty did by a Writing under his own Hand, confer the dignity of Sheriff of Perthfhire, upon the faid William and his Heirs, which has continued in the Family ever fince.
This William married Dorothy Stuart, Daughter to John Stuart the fifth Earl of Athol, whofe Son was John Earl of Athol, Father to this prefent Marquis, whole Predecefibr by the faid Dorothy, of the Houfe of Athol was James Stuart, commonly called the black Knight of Lorn, lineally defeended from Walter, the great Stuart of Scotland, who gave the Sirname of Stuart rohisPofteriry, and of whom Robert the firft of that Sirname King of Scotland defeended.
This James Stuart married Jane, Queen Dowager of King James I. who was Daughter to John, Duke of So-merfet, third Son to John of Gaunt, Son to King Edward III. of England, to which James Stuart, Hie bore John, created Earl of Athol, by King James II. his Brother by the Mother’s Side. Hauthorden’s Hiftory, Fifth of James, Page 47. Tfie Title havingTallon into the King’s Hands by the Forfeiture of the former Stuart, Earl of Athol, who had no Succeffion, the Cummings hav-ingborne the Title beforet heng which
is all the Hiftories make mention of f .
Therp is aUb a Charter dated in the .Year 1460, wherein the faid King James grants to John, Earl of Athob eldeft Son to the aforefaid James, the Lordfliip of Balveny, in Portion with Margaret Douglas, commonly called the fair Maid of Galloway, in which Charter the King calls this- Earl his Brother, the fame Hiftory Page 66', gives an Account of this Marriage, apdjcalls her the Lady Beatrix, inftead of Margaret.,,
In 1461 Donald/- of the Ifles, proclaimed himfelf King of the Ifles, in King James the Third's Minority, and poflefled himfelf of the Town and Caftle of Invernefs, put the Country under Contribution, .and furprifed the Caftle of Blare, with the Earl of Athol, and his Lady. Buchanan, and Hau-thorden.
In 1470, the fame Earl of Athol, being made Lord Lieutenant by King James III, did reduce Donald of the Ifles, and brought him to fubmit to the King’s Clemency, from which Action the Earl of Athol had the Motto, “ Furth Fortune, and fill the Fetters.” Hauthorden’s Hiftory, Page 87.
This John, Earl of Athol, after the Death of Margaret Douglas, by whom he had only one Daughter, who was married to the Lord Gray, took to his fecond Wife, Eleanor Sinclair, Daughter to the Earl of Orkney and Cathnefs, by whom he had John, who fucceeded, and four Daughters ; the Countefs of Sunderland, Countefs of Crawford, Lady Tullibardinp, ' and Lady Gknurghey,
John
Houfe of -S T A NHE Y, from the Conqueft.
>75;
John Stuart, Terom! Earl of Athol, inarried Jane Campbell, Daughter to <the Earl of Argyle, by whom- he had John Stuart, who fucceeded. This Earl was killed at the Battle of Flod-don-Field, aftifting Knag James IV, againft the Englifh. Hauthorden, Ja-huary 4.
Johh Stuart, third Earl of Athol, married the Heirefs of Ratray, by Whom he had John, who fucceeded, and jhree Daughters; the Countefs ■of Lenox,Grandmother to King Henry, and Mother to King James VI. the Countefs of Crawford, and Countefs of Errol.
John, the fourth Earl of Athol, and Chancellor of Scotland, married Gordon, Daughter to the Earl of Huntley, who dying without Children, he married Dorothy Fleming, and had by her John, who fucceeded, and four Daughters; Lady Lovet, Lady Salton, Lady Glenurghey, and Lady Weems.
This Earl adhered to Queen Mary’s Intereft, ’till after the Murder of King Henry, and then he was the Occafion of the Nobility’s entering into a Bond •for the Prefervation of the young Prince King James VI. and commanded Part of the Army againft her at Pinky; he died and was buried in rhe high Church at Edinburgh, in 1579. Sec Spotwood’s Hiftory.
John, the fifth Earl of Athol, married Mary Rathven, eldeft Daughter :to William, Earl of Gowry, by his Wife Dorothy Stuart, Daughter to Henry Stuart, Lord Methwin, and Margaret, Queen Dowager of King James IV. and Daughter to Henry VII. King of England. By this Mar-
riage John, Earl of Athol, had no Sons, but four Daughters: Dorothy, the eldeft, married to William,- Earl of Tullibardine before-mentioned, by whom he had John, who fucceeded, and Mary, married to Sir John Mon-crie, Chief of that Name; Mary, the fecond Daughter of John, married James, Lord Innermouth. This Lord Innermouth procured the Title of Earl of Athol, which afterwards he quil ted in Favour of Dorothy, his Wife’s elder •Sifter,and this James, died withoutlfiue.
John, Earl of Athol, eldeft. Son co William Murray,Earl of Tullibardine, and Dorothy Stuart: He married Jane Campbell, Daughter to Sir Duncan Campbell, of Glenurghey. He railed his Men in the Beginning of the Troubles of King Charles I. for that King’s Service, againft the Marquis of Ar-gyle, who took Part with the Parliament. His Children were John, who fucceeded, Mungo, who died unmarried, and Ann, married to James, Earl of Tullibardine, by whom ihe had no Children, arid, Jane, who died unmarried.
John, created Marquis of Athol, by King Charles II, bears alfo the Titles^ of Tullibardine, Lord Murray, Balva-ny, and Gaik; he appeared early for the Intereft of that King, and continued ■feveral Years in Arms againft Cromwell. He was made by the faid King Juftice General of Scotland, Lord Privy Seal, Captain of his Majefty’s Guards’, one of the Lords of the Treafuryp and one of the extraordinary Lords of the Seilion. He married Emelia Stanley5 Daughter to James, Earl of Derby, and Charlotte de la Tremouillc, Daugh-
ter
^7^	The Hiftory of the. Ancient and; Honhurable
ter to Claude de la Tremouille, by his Wife, Charlotte, of Nafiau, Daughter to William, the great Prince of O-range. Dugdale’s Ba. on Stanley, Earl of Derby.
And their eldeft Son John, Lord Murray, married Catherine Hamilton, eldeft Daughter, to William and Ann, Duke and Dutchefs of Hamilton, whofe eldeft Son John is the ninth of that Name of the. Houle of Athol, and ■the nineteenth , reprefen tative of the Houfe of Tullibardine; the other Children of theprefent Marquis are Charles Earl of Dunmore, Lord Janies Murray, William Lord Nairn, Mungo, and Edward, and Emilia married to Frazer .Lord Lovat.
„, There were feveral Cadets defeended of this Family of Tullibardine in England as well as in Scotland; William -Murray Grandfon of Murray of Wood-end-was created Earl of Dyfert, who .had ,three Daughters, the eldeft Elizabeth married Sir Lionel Taimoth of an ancient Family in Suffolk, and after his Death John . Duke of Lauderdale ; his eldeft Son by the firft Marriage is Lord Huntingtour, the, fecond Thomas, was Lieutenant General to King William in Flanders ; her eldeft Daughter Elizabeth, married the Earl of Argyle; the fecond Catharine married the Lord Doun, eldeft Son to Stuart Earl of Murray; the other Daughter by the Earl of Dyfert, was married to the Lord Maynard, by whom he had Henry and Elizabeth.
David Murray, now Vifcount of Stormont, is defeended of a fecond Brother of the Family of Tullibardine, who married the Heirefs.of Balvaird,
which failing in the eldeft Son, Murray of Latherbannoky, who came of a younger Brother, fucceeded, land was created firft Lord of Balvaird; and. then Vifcount of Stormont & Sir?? Ch dries Murray of Bleto, pis' defeended of a younger Soil of Tullibardine; Mr. Thomas Murray, one of the Sons of Murray, of Woodend, a Cadet of Tullibardine, was Tutor to King Charles I. whofe Son Henry was married to ■Vifcount Banning’s j? Daughter, by whom he had four Daughters; the eldeft Elizabeth, married Mr. George Egerton; the fecond married Mr. Robert Peirpoint, of Nottingham, Nephew to the Marquis of Dorchefter, by Whom fire had William, who married the Countefs Dowager of King-fton ; the • third Daughter ■ was married to Sir John Bowyer, and the fourth to Sir R. Bradihaw.
There were at one Time feven teen Brothers of the Family of Tullibardine, by one Father and Mother, of whom are defcended.Murray, of Stru-an; Murray, of Woodend; Sir Thomas Murray, of Glendogg ; Murray, of Tippermuir ; Murray, of Dollary ; and Sir Patrick Murray, of Auchter-tiers, a cohfiderable Family in Perth-ill ire, lineally defeended of the young-eft of thefe Brothers.
There are alfo of this Name the Lord Elibank, the Lairds of Aberear-ney, Potmais, Blackbaronry, Philip, Haugh, and Newton,- all pf ancient Families and confiderable Eftates.
Having thus with much Labour and Pains deduced and brought down, the ancient and honourableHoufe of Stanley, from their.priginal, through many
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. 177’.
ny Genealogies, to our own Time, as
welkin all the collateral Branches, as .vkh, cum x-
the dhedt Line, to his Grace James, I cannot recollect. Duke of Athol, the laft Branch of the old Stock- and given you their. Arms and honourable Titles, with their chief
Seats, and all the memorable and moft faid, I fhall by way of Conclufion fub-celebrated Actions performed by them join Part of an ancient. Poem in Ma- ' in their feveral Ages , I have confider- nufeript, wrote by a dignified Mem-ed it no lefs than a Duty incumbent ber of the Church, and a near Rela-upon me, and an adt of Juftice due to tion to the honourable Houfe of Stan-the noble, ancient and honourabble Houfes of Athol and Tullibardine., to
declare their Antiquity, Magnanimity and Renown, with the many and high Honours conferred upon the feveral Branches thereof, for the fteady and many eminent Services done by them to their Prince and Country, as well in England as in Scotland; which being done, I have only to add the Titles and Seats of his prefent Grace of Athol, who is ftiled The moft noble James, Duke of Athol, Lord of Man and the Ifle, Marquis of Tullibardine, Earl, of Strathtay and Strathardle, Vif-count of Ballquidder, Glen almond, and Glenlyon, Baron Strange, Lord Murray, Balvany and Gaik, heritable Steward of the Stewarties of Fife and Huntingtour, heritable Lord of the Regalites of Athol and Dunkeld, heritable Captain and Conftable of the Caftle and Conftabulary of Kincleaven, High Sheriff of Perthihire, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, one of the Lords of his Majefty’s moft honourable"Privy Council’ and Knight of.' the moft''noble and moft ancient Order of the Thiftle, whofe chief Seats ate Dunkeld, Blaire Caftle, in the
Numb? 12.
A a
Blaire of Athol, Huntingtour near Perth, and Falkland, with fome others
And thus having finifhed what has occurred to me moft remarkable of the
two noble and united Families afore-
ley, treating of the Family Hiftory for near two hundred Years, paft, wherein the Perfons, Lives and Actions 6f the Stanley's are reprefented to this Time in a moft livery Manner. This was
juft fent to me by a private Hand before my clofing of the prefent Hiftory now before me.
And although the Verfe be fome-’ thing of the doggrel Kind, and the Language uncouth and obfolete, yet, upon due Thought and Confide ration, I have refolved to give it to the Public in its own natural drefs, without: adding or diminifhing any thing from, it; as what, in mySehtiments, will be novel and entertaining to the curious Reader, as well as pleafing and agreeable to the lefs learned, as it is to my-felf; the whole being a Voucher or Confirmation of many Articles of Antiquity afl'erted by me in the Courfe of this .Hiftory, with fomething new and unknown to me before, which I ihall introduce by the Author’s own Preface, and'in his own Stile, to wit.
—This for the Merit of the Subject; No doubt the-Poet did his beft, fo don'tjkfleft?^
THOMAS, ’
T H O M A S, firft' Earl of DE R B Y,
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SET forth without any Fraud or addultring flatterage (as fome of our Chronicles do)' of the noble and noteable Ads of the Stanleys ungentlye be left oute of other Chronicles, and yett as worthie to be notified, marked and regiftered for an excellent Memoryall as others be, for adyvene.fs and martiaU Deeds, and ready, if- need . require, to be proved matter of- true Effed, both by Teftimonie of Writing and Record of honeft Men yett living, that have feen and known a good Part thereof, and
to much Pity and Shame it fhould now be forgotten or left out, as in other Chronicles they be, which doth dif-clofe an Affedion in the Writers, and may well be judged and called Flatterage, which is an evil Office, it declare th alfoe the Stanleys defcent, and how and by what means they came by that Name of Stanley, and the. Commencement thereof in good and ^ perfed; agragated and compiled-byThomas Stanley, by the Permiffion of God, Bifhop of Man alias Soder, in the Year of. our Lord God 1562.	,
Amonge
Houfe of S rANLE£, from the Conqudi^T^u 179 ’’;S .
Amonge all Delights .and- -worldly 4)ricc to Atchyve 4ndtheir Prince’s Ser-Comfort is to heare of our Aunceftors vice dare 1 ng f01 no toft, but adven-great Name, pleafeth and1 re death a: ture th though-Land and Life fliould good natural Harte, foe that Flattery be loft,, and of Land and Life maketh and Lyes be utterly abolished, and only no Cbmparifon to a valiant Act right the Truth fhal! herein’, be moved, as _ manfully dene* True Record of Wfit-by juft Record truely and well may he inge is neceffary as appearethby many proved, not as forne Chronicles un- a godly Story, without Writinge all juftly ufe flatterings, renowninge the, * Fame fhould be loft at once; the ftoute worthy with them. I would fuch unjuft hardy Men might be compared to the Writers for their untrue fmatterings- Stones;, the,.Genitors is thecheifcaufe would offer themfelves unto St. Tho- of their Hardines, which in fine, is mas Waternfon^ but Truth noes-Man • the cheife cauie of FbrWardnefs as can be offended at, not truth of Right Stanleys do fpecifie, what woneders ought not to be reprehended but in hardy Men have done for their Lady’s martial Way, hardy Harts for fuch Sake, Writinge of Crbnicles ’tis well Storyes be often wakeing: in Readings referved if Dame Fame follow well or to heare now and then the ftoute defarved. As for their Honefty and Prowes of fome valiant Man, and great Truth to praife the valiant Prowes of Pitty it'Ihould not be in Record, for the ftout Stanleys- heroicke Actions, firft it bringeth the Dead a noble Fame and how they- had the Name, I will and Word, and allfoe to the Heires, plainely. and truely unfold to you by thereof, giving them Harts like Enter- the following Poems:

YHEIR Names be-Audley, of verry right Difcent, I fhall fhew you. how, iff you give good Intent, As quickly^ as Lean, without- more delay. How the Name was changed and-called Stanley,
‘ In ancient Tyme. much more then Two Hundred Years Was our Lord Awdley, as by Storyes doth appear, ;
Hi
Awdley by Creation, alfo by Name Awdley, Then haveinge a Lordfhipp that is yet called Stanley
A a 2

‘ Which’?;.
^8o	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
, / Which. Lordfhipp he gave unto his fecond Son
* For valliant A&s that before he had done.
* Their this Man dwelled many a Daye,
* And many Yeares was called, Awdley of Stanley.
‘ Aftei'ward he marryed the Heire of Scurton,
* And when Scurton dyed, thither he went to wonn,
* And then he was called, Stanley of Scurton;
‘ The which Name Ricketh Rill to all his Succeflion.
‘ It chanced afterward a goodly Man to his Sonn,
‘ Efpoufed the Daughter and Heire of Hutton;
4 And afterwards at Hutton, as Chaunce him befawled
1	Hee dwelt, and Stanley of Hutton was he called.
* One doth continue at this prefent Daye,
‘ Prayinge God that forthwith Worihippe longe it may;
‘ Thus fare undoubted, their firR Name was Awdley,
‘ And thus forward by CuRome called Stanley.
* ‘ And after a fecond Sonn of Hutton chaunced,
‘ By valyant A6ts was highly advanced.
4	To the English Court came the Admiral of Henod,
‘ With Gentlemen of France, to prove their Manhoode;
4 One of them called the beR with Spearc and Shield,
- 1	' * The Kinge fent John Stanleyzto meet him in the Field.
‘ He was allfoe named the chiefe of all France,
‘ But this Rout Stanley had fuch Fortune and Chance’;
‘He
Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. 181
* He did not only put his Enemye to lack,
‘ But he allfoe flew him, and broke his Horfe’s Bach.
‘ More Gentlemen of England did there wortliilye,
•SmiT 1
‘ For each one over his Enemye gott Vidlory;
‘ Frenchmen for their Adventure may t-hemfelves blame,
‘ Tho’ they went not all Home, yet they went with fliamc.
‘ And for this Adt the King made John Stanley Knight,
‘ For that he perceaved him a Man of great might;
‘ And for his hardy Feate he gave him for his Heire,
‘ Wing, Tring and Jump in Buckirig.hainfh.ire;
-V.' ' btf; ■	z ,,T	- - ■ • • •	-.• *	. -
‘ Then of the,Kinge he defyred pioft earneftly,
* Lycence to pafs the Seas, Adventures to try;
• The King therewith all was verry, well content,
4 And laudablye allowed him for his manly Intent,
‘ Thus over the Sea Sir John Stanley is gone;
‘ Streight to French Court, but meddle with him would none;
‘ The Admiralls Journey was not yctt forgott, .in m	niLu r:„T. .	v 'J
‘ How he and Compeeres were right well beaten; ■	" I. C T'd
‘ For which they beare Sir John Stanley Malice and Spyte
‘ But to Reincounter with him none had Delight.
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‘ w?Mwwwws%sf ^F^^^ .» -j
‘ Was honorable and free in every, maner of Tiling, .
‘ And gave him Pleafure and Gifts right bountiful lye,
‘ With good Gold and Silver plcntifullye ;
To
182	The Hiftory of the Ancient and- honourable
c To Maintayne his Route and liberal! Expenses.
4’Thus jolly Stanley departed pienee is^ - Jr' r
i	4 And vifited all' Cduft in- Clu-iftendomr
4 And to the Turkes Court perfohally did come,. tJ Still gettinge great Honor -thereof- did not fayle;, cAgainft all thofe that in Armes-durfthim aflayka
4 To England apace himfelf doth Indevour.
‘ With Renown and (H^ipur to worthylye for ever,
* And did attempt- all the. Courts.in Chriftendome, 4 And won Honor in each Place where he did come, ‘ Not fitting in Houfe with'Pen, Inke and* Paper V , * But in Campe advanced thro’ great Adventure, 4 I do not fpeake any Man to defpife,
4 That enhanced by Pen or Marchandife;
‘ For both muft be had, and both verry necefiary,
4 And both worthy of Prayfe, tho’ the Feats do varye,
4 But to fay Truth, that Man rifinge ought to be prayfed,
6 That by hardy Adis unto Honour isr ray fed;
4 For of-them be made Books, both in Profe and Ryme,
4 Of others not foe, yet ferves for the tyme;
. - k& * Though of them have come' diVers fhllvalyant;
4 Yet they may.not their Original fo advaunt; 1
1	Nor foe largely fet forth their Renown foe farre, ‘ As thofe whole commencement have come by- Warre.
4 Thus
Houfe of S TA N L E Y, Ecm thp C< tiguefL Thus is returned Sir John Stanley Home aguyne, * Whereof the Kinge and Nobles, were glad and fayne.
Who heard of his valiant hits more and more
* All Sorts of People honored him higheiy therefore.
‘ Now agayne with the fifft Earle I make my End,
‘ To tell Truth of his Deede Ihould no Man offend, ‘ For there is noe doubt when lowe Said is the Head.
As we deferve Dame Fame, fuch Report will fpredd, ‘ Lett us trull no lefs in this World and the next
* God Rewards noe Man’s Perfon, as fayeth the Textej
* Syth I have declared heretofore plainlye,
‘ Of his worthy Adis and noble Chivallrye;
6 I will ibinewhat in other Matters prpeede,
‘ Of his Edyficat tons I will fp^k in verry D&T,
* Firft he builded fayre Lathom-Hall out of the Ground 4 Such a Houfe of that Age cannot now be found;
‘ I me^ne not for the Beauty* thereof all onely
‘ But every Office is. lett foe handfcnie and neceffiiry.
‘ Earltang Bridge that Bands on the River Wire,
‘ Rochdale made the fame, at the Earl’s coil and hyre;
‘ At Warrington was kept a common Ferryd, ‘ Which poled the King s People unrcafoiiaMy.

None

184 The Hiftory ’ of the' .Ancient and Honourable
"'l None might goe to and froe, a Horfeback and Foote,
4	But pay as they pad, there was no other boote.
4	The good Earle confidering the Peoples Coft,
* Being tedious., to pafs by Bote or by Barge;
‘ The Earle made a goodly Bridge on his own Coil and Charge,
4 With another goode and fubftantiall Purveyance,
4 That was, He. gave Lands thereto for the Mentenance;
4 This was a noble Heart liberal and kinde,
4 The People will pray for him Time out of Mynde;.
4 At Paul’s Chayne, in London, he made a Houfe fayre,
4 And his Houfe in Holborn, he did well repayre-,
4 At Collan Court and Gadefden, he made great Coit.,
4 Jefu fave his Soule, there was no Labour loft.
4 When Lathome Mannor was made not after long,
* A Gentleman fayd, my Lord, this Houfe is ftronge;
4 And if Enemyes come neare they will fall a quakeinge,
4 Quoth he, I have a ftronger Wall a makeinge;
4 That is, to gett my Neighbors good Wills all,
4 To Love mee timely is a more ftronger Wall;
4 He ufed them foe he did them thereunto bring,
4 Except a. few which thereby wan noe thinge,
4 Who foe loved him he did to him the fame;
4 And who did contrary got but Lofs and Shame, A '	4 But the cheifeft Thing that gott the Peoples Love;
4 Was, when Harry the VII. at his firft comeinge did move,
,	4 Lancashire
V	.	<	*	■
Houfe of oS T A N L E Y, from: the Conqueft. 185 4 Lancafhire and Chefhire/ a fifteenth to pay ;	IT
* The people grudged, and in. maner fay'd naye,',- on A
‘ The Kinge heareinge thereof; yas grieved in his Heart;
- up4 ‘And there thisdoveing/Earl played a frendly Part- 7/ *
‘ Well confidered the ftate of his Country; - ^ / 1
4 He went to Exchequere and laid downe the Money,
* And then fayd, Sir, your fifteenth in your Exchequere is paid,
‘ For Lancafhire and Chefhire it was not difmay’d:
4 I am glad, quoth the Kinge, it doth foe well, chaunce,
4 Thus the good Earle quieted all the King’s greevancp;
4 But for the Earle, happe thro’-the fame Exaction,
4 PofTible it had proved fome fond Comotion;
‘ Loe here he gottnothis Love with Highnes and Cruelltye,
4 But with gentlenes and noble Liberallitie,
‘ For all Controverfies he found Provifiom;
4 That but few for Suites travelled to London,
4 In fuch Matters (God wott) great payne took he,
4 He faved the Countrey much Travel! and Money;
4 And eafed the poor People that had little to fpend,
4 And thankes be to GOD of ech matter made a good End.
4 Now fithcnce muft Travell poore and rich all,
1 And for moft part the great Fifh devoureth the fmale;
4 Thus walks the World forward apafe doth goe?
4 Stedfaft in noe Poynt it.fhalle be well proved fee).
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1$6	The Hiftory of the Ancient and Honourable
‘ Thinkc it noTurer but as flipper as I fee,
* And who trufteth others in it furelye is unwife;;
‘ Noe Man can laft longer then the'Tyme;
* Which GOD hath appoynted, therefore fhake of all crynic
‘ Wee mult after this Earlie,, perhapps not all thithery ‘
‘ Where his- Soule is I fear fome be lither,
f-i- - Wee be prefifely lure each one to dye ;
‘ Noe Mandkinde- hath Charter to the contrary ^
‘ If Might or Money could- have faved this Man;
‘ Or-Love of his Neighbors, he had not,dyed then;
‘ But deCinge Death is to us foe verry naturall,
‘ Pray wee charifablye for each others fall;
‘ And efpecially for hiS'Boule lettus pray.
‘ Of this honorable Earle Thomas Stanley;
4 Who in Honor and Love hath ended his-Life,
‘ With Trueth ever in Wedlocke to GOD and his Wife;
‘ The Love which he wann with Liberallitye,
‘ GOD keepe foe ftill unto all his Pofteritye?
A M E
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Houfe of STANLEY, from the Conqueft. 187
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Yett have I left behinde me a not-table Poynt, which I had not prefent-ly in my remembrance, untill an aged Man that fometyme was Servant unto this old firft Earle Thomas, put it in my Memory, which is: That where this noble Earle was difpofed to ride for his Pleafure a Huntinge or other Progrefs, or to vifitt his Friend or Neighbors, whofe Houfe foever hee went unto, hee fent his Officers before
who made Provifion all at his Coft, as tho’ he had bin at his owne Houfe. And at his Departure the Surpleefage was left to the ufe of the Houfe where he had lodged: And thus was his ma-ner and order in all Places, where and when he travelled, unlefs by chaunce he came unto fome Lord’s Houfe: I report mee if this was not too Honorable to be put in Obly-vion.






















ISLE of MAN:
The Situation and Geographical De- | fcription thereof, alfo the Ecclefi- I aftical and Civil Hiftories with § the whole Order of the Govern- I ment, fiom the earliefl: Accounts I thereof, and the Lord’s Preroga- | tive and Regalities; and alfo the | feveral Officers neceflarily employ- I ed under him; The Nature of the ’
I
Soil, the Names -of the chief | Towns and Harbours: The Num- § her of the Parifhes, and-the Va- $
lue of the Livings; .with the Produce of the Country,- and the neighbouring Sea, for the fupply of the Inhabitants : With a Computation of their Number, and Defcription of their ufual Trade, and a particular Account of its Purchafe, from the prefent Duke of Athol, by the Govern-, ment, under the Reign of Jiis pre-fent Sacred Majefty GEORGE the Third.
~ j HIS bland appears but little, or but darkly known to the Ancients; and amongft all
being* a Perfon of polite Learnings employed his leifure Hours in colleft-

_ ing rhe Hiftory' and Antiquities of the our modem Hiftorians and , Ifle of Man; and by his Manufcripts, Geographers there is not one has gi- which I have feen, gave Pofterity the ven any tolerable Account of it before cleareft and moft correct Account Mr. James Challoner, Governor for thereof.
the Lord Fairfax, and the great and’ But as to the’ reft of our. En^Iifh learned Mr. Blupdell, of Crofty, who Hiftorians, few of then', especially prudently retired thither during the the Andients, fo much as isfention it, Time of the Ufiirpation, whereby be Mr'Cambden indeed is theftfirft that preferred his Perfon in Pea ~e and Se- gives us any light or inhgFwihtO it;. curity, and his Eft at; from ali man- after him the great Lord CeoU^'and per of Depredation: This Gentleman Doctor Heylin, but they all1 a^'- ndi with
192
The Hiftory of the ISLE of MAN.
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with fo many Errors and Miftakes' that ’mbrr, of-hither^	and,
it is very unfafe and uncertain ad-" Misfortunes of "this little Part of the hering to any of them.	Globe, If cannot but in Juftice fliew
Having faid this, give me Leave td the Blefiings and Advantages it enjoys
obferve what natural,Misfortunes this u, beyond a^lfthe-Nations, round aboud it.	* ' u^-
Country is Laid to labour under, which I am informed and apprehend from fome of its Natives; is frequent Penury and Want of many Necefiaries of Life, .^occafioned by a tain unfertile Soil, requiring more Experience, Labour, and Manure, than the Inhabitants in	_____
general are, qualified to bellow upon . and Goodnefs of their Laws, fo wife-it; for though there are few here that ly formed, and fo admirably adapted can be properly faid to 1 neither are there many canbeefteen^ed
The fir ft whereof is a. perfect Unanimity in Matters of Religion, ftri&ly conformable to the Doctrine and Dif-
ciphrte of ’the phurchyoi England-by ‘TJiw'eftab fhbd. -^'h L^ m^
The next to this is the Rectitude
nhferably Poor; and were they fo happy to have the Encouragement of fome Manufactures, and a more ex-tenfive-Trade of their own ProduCt;
be Rich, fo rto their.Conftitupon, that-the great .beefteemed Lord Cook faith, ^ That |he TAe of “ Man hath fuck L^.ws as are n t to “ be found in any other Place.”
the Country would not onl
be im-ible to
proved, but grow rich an, fupply themselves by their own Labour and produCl.
It is true they want many Necefia-ries for the common Service of Life,
as Timber, Salt, wrought Iron, and Coals, &c. But with all thefe they might be eafily fupplied by the Countries round them, had they equal Pro-
Every Man there pleads his own Caufe without Council or Attorney, or any Perlon who gains by inepu-raging Strife: All Chancery Bufmefs is ended in twelve or fourteen Weeks, to wit. Four Court Days, Matters of Common Law are fomething more dilatory by Reafon Court Days come but twice a Year, but the Eale of the Government and every Man’s Intereft draws all .Suits and Controverfies to as fpeedy a Conclufion as can pollib'ly be contrived.
There is in this little World, befides this Happinefs, an univerfal Plenty and Cheapnefs in all feafonahle Times ;
‘ duCh to give in Exchange, or indeed were there an Herring Fiihery as certain -and plentiful as formerly, it would fupply all thofe Wants, and to ipare ; but as Blefiings of this Nature very much depend upon. proper Sea-fons and the Bounty of Heaven, they piuftpray for the one, and patiently ’ equal goodnefs to any of its Neighwait for the other; and with thankful hours; their Importations by them-'Hrarts and virtuous Lives endeavour felves of Strangers, of Wine, Brandy, to merit thofe favours.	Rum, Sugar, Fruit, Lemohs, Silks,
And as I have given you the com- Velvets, Coffee, Tea, and China Ware,
which makes it the Refort of many People in Diftrefs and low Life: Their own Ale has been long efteemed of
are
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are very large: And .could they be once favoured with the Exportation of them to their neighbouring Nations, upon a juft Duty and proper and well regulated Conditions, England and its neighbouring Friends, would in the Opinions of experienced Perfons be better ftipplied and with lefs Hazard to our Manufactories, and more Ad-vantge to his Majefty's Revenue, u
But be that asdt will, as GOD Jias been pleafed to give thdmJPlenty, he hajh -alfo given them Hearts to enjoy it: J The People are naturally ofoa ghearful, fociable, and debonair Temper, much, inclined to Mufic and Freedom among themfelves, very loving, hut a little Cholerick: They were formerly reputed Courageous and eminent for many excellent Military Commanders, as will appear more fully from the Hiftory, as likewife what Refpeit their Kings had among foreign Princes, of which Macbn, (not to mention more) was a moft remarkable Inftance. -
But above all, they have been famous for their Hofpitality to Strangers, as great Numbers of Englifh in the late Civil Wars, and many Thoufand of Irifh Proteftants in thefe late De-vaftations of that Kingdom, in 1689, can Witnefsr-'
Nor were: they lefs famous in former Ages for flickering diftrefled Princes, ot which I will venture to give my Reader one Inftance.
Eugenius, when Prince of Scotland, took Sanituary in the Ifland for nine Years, and was afterwards recalled by the Nobility and People, and crowned
Numb. 13. C
King4 of Scotland: To omit Ederias andCorbred, firnamed Gald, from his Travelling and Learning, who were educated' in this Ifland, even before Chriftianity, for it is not improbable thefe Princes might choofe the Ifle o£ Man for their Retreat, becaufe it was then and many Ages after accounted the only Seat of Learning under the Druids, nor was. it lefs remarkable under their firft pious Bifliops.
Heitor Boetius fays, Man was the Fountain of all horieft Learning and Erudition; others of the Scotch Nation tell it-was the Manfion of the Mufes and the Royal Academy for ■educating the Heirs apparent to the Crown of Scotland, as Eugenius the Third himfelf, who likewife'fent three of his Sons, (to wit.) Ferguard, Fiacre; and Donald, into the Ifle of. Man, to be. educated under Couranus/ whom they write Bifliop of Sodor, two of which Sons, (to wit.) Ferguard and Donald, were- fucceflively Kings of Scotland, as both Heitor, Boetius, and Hollinihead can Witnefs; who likc-wife inform us, that even before this Couranus, (by Doctor Heylin, writ Goran,) ordered- that the three Sons of his Brother Congel, (to wit.) Eugenius the Second,Cougatus the Third, and Kinatellus the Firft, fliould be brought up in the Ifle of Man, fays Boetius,. under the Government of certain Inftruitors arid School-Mafters, to be trained up in Learning and virtuous Difcipline, according to -air an«u cient Ordinance thereof made ancpeh-aited: So celebrated was the Difcipline of ^hofe Ages, that ft teems to' c ~ have
io4	The Hiftory of the ISLE of M A N.
have palled into a Law, that the Princes of Scotland fhould be educated in this Ifland.
Having thus far fhewn wherein the ■ancient Honour of this Efland confuted,. J think it proper my,'Reader fhould know that it had formerly an Order of Nobility, for I find both Earls and Vifcounts mentioned^ but efpecially Barons; who I* conceive were the Governors of the ent lilew In thofeDay: the Comes were the firft Magiftrate in * rhe County, and tire Vice Comes his Subftitute, but of latter. Ages they have been appropriated, aS Marks vof Honour to. particular Families.
There were likewife formerly feve- . ral Ecclefiaftical Barons in this Ifle, as the. Abbot of Ruthen,, and the Abbot of Furnefs, and die Bifhop of Man, who ftill retains that honourable Title, and in Regard thereof, is to hold the Lord’s Stirrup, when he mounts his Steed, at the Tinwald
But becaufe thofe pious Foundations Ue buried in their own Ruins, I ihali crown my Work with what is efteemed the greateft Glory this World affords r That it was a Kingdom, if you wiU Jake the Words of my Lord Cookr The ancient and abfolute Kingdom of Man, in Calvin’s Cafe, Lib. 7. Chap. 21. Though fince it fell under the Homage of rhe Crown of England, it was never granted but by the Title of the Ifiand andLordihip of Man, except
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to Sir John Stanley, whois filled King and Lord of Man, in their Records as before-mentioned, fo that it pretended 1 o no fuch abfolute Dominion, for Allegiance to the Crown of England waste srved in all public Oaths.
Not but that it ftill retains- moft of the efiential Marks and Infignia of regal Power, as making Lawa for its, own Government, of pardoning Criminals, of holding Courts in die Lord’a Name, the Patronage of the E fliop-rck, the Admiral of thofe Seas,1 me Coinage of Money; and many other inferior Articles of Regality; which as they were derived from the favour of the Crown, to the Houfe of Derby „ fo the conftant and uninterrupted Loyalty of that noble Houfe, may be juft-ly efteemed to have deferved it, efpecially fince they have managed that great Truft and Power with fo much Tendernefs and Care of the People under them, by which they have food as lafting Examples, to ah in Power; and tranfmitted to the remembrance of all Pofterity; that by their Care, Vigilance, and Juftice, there is one little fpot of Earth in the World where Law, Juftice and Equity, true Religion, -and primitive Integrity, have long done, and ftill do flourifli in Contempt of Faction, Sedition, Contention, Want or Divifion, or whatever elfe the World calls Miferies and Misfortunes.
^"ir^HE Ifle of Mam hath beendl-ledbr known by divots Names!
r I	amongR ancient Writers, by
Ctefar,- it wag called Moha, (and is flail fo filled in theif own Records from- all Antiquity,} by Ptoloniy' and by Pliny, Monada, by Secunda Ninius, Eubonia, by the Britong, Me-naw, by the-Natives, Manning, and by the English,- the Ifle of' Man.
The length of the Ifle from North? to South is more than thirty Miles, and the breadth between eight and ten. It lies between 55 and 56 Degrees of Northern Latitude, and 15 Degrees* of Longitude, and Caflle Town, feems to be in the fame Parallel with York, and a certain Author fays, ’tis placed in the Naval of the Seaf and in truth it feems to be the-Center of the King of Great Britain’s- Dorhihions, almoft equally diftant in the North, from-Galloway, in Scotland J in the Weft, from Ulfter- in Ireland; in thoEaft, fcbm Cumberland ;- and rift-the South, from Anglefea
The Ifle of Man, lyiilg nearer*to the Counties- of’ Lancafier and Cumber-
C<
land, than to any other of England. The Inhabitants very much follow and partake of the Cuftoms and Ufage of thofe Comities, efpecially Lancafter, with whom they . have a conftant Trade, for their Cattle and other produce of the Iflahd, and in return up-ply themfelves with Salt, and all other NeceflSries wanting there; Befides they have a natural- Re pedt for the People of Lancafhire, whether it arife from their Lord’s ufual Refidence in that County, or their bein, moftly fupplied with their principal Officers from thence, as Governors, Bifhops, Archdeacons, and many others of lefs Note, I know not, but they have fuch an efteem for the People of that County, that 'tis a common Maxim with them, that a good Lancafhire Juftice of the Peace, generally makes the beft Governor of tile Ifle of Man.
This Ifland was many Ages governed by its own Kings, Natives of the Flade, but through a long Defcent and great Variety of Changes in the Government, it is rendered too difficult to be purfued in a lineal and regular 2 Manner
ij;6 The Hiftory of JtKe:'I S U E of MAN:
"Manner without many and long Di- Rufhen, to Evan, /. ^befs of Furnefs, greflions, and as Lcpnceive, it would to lerve as a Nurfery to the Church, appear more like an needlefs Curiofi- and from hence it is, that the Abbots ty than of any Service or ufeful In- of Furnefs, had the Approbation of formation to the Reader, therefore 1^ the. Abbot of Rufhen, and fome be-fhall neither give him nor myfelf lieve the right of Electing the Bifhop more trouble than is needful on that himfelf. and a.Sort of Chapter to his
Head, to introduce the Defcriptiom and Hiflory of that Ifland more clear and intelligible.
. Beginning firft with King Olave, tire third Son of Goddard Crownan, whofe Family had long reigned in the Ifland, which was fliled the Kingdom of the Ifles„ as will appear more fully ' in the-. Sequel hereof.;{■ TljiSff young Gentleman being greatly oppreffed and hafraffed by the more powerful Kings of Norway, Denmark, Scotland, and Ireland, applied himfelf to Henry I. King of England, and offered him the Kingdom of the Ifles: He was then a Prince in the flower of his Youth, peaceable, juft, and liberal, but efpecially to the Church, and therefore pious; he affirmed the Government, Anno 1102, and by his princely Ad-drefs and prudent Negociations, procured the King of England for his Patron, and by that King’s Interceffion, the Kings of Scotland and Ireland for. his Confederates, fo that having nothing to fear from abroad, he applied himfelf to public Works of Mercy and Piety at Home.
Firft, by reforming the Laws and the Manners of his Subjects; and wifely weighing that Religion,^ g,nd good Education, greatly foften’ the Temper and Actions of a brutifh and-vicious People, for that purpofe, in the Year 1134, he gave the Abpey of
Diocefs.
Olave having thus laid the Groundwork of.his Eftabliihment, greatly endowed the whole Church of the Ifles with large -Franchiies, Liberty, and Immunities; The Revenue of which was fet out after the moft ancient and Appftolick Manner, (to wit.) one Third pf all the Tythes to the Bifhop for his Maintenance, tire fecond to the Abbey for the Education of Youth, and Relief of the Poor, (for thofe good Monks were then the public Almoners, and by their.own Labours rather encreafed than diminifhed the public Charity,)' the third Portion of the Tythes was. given to the parochial Priefts for their Subfiftance.
Olave having fpent near four Years in all the calm Enjoyments of Peace and Plenty, at laft refolved to vifit the King of Norway, and in the Year 1142^ did Homage to Hengo, King of Norway, by whom he was honourably received, and before his Departure crowned King of the Ifles, and. left" his Son Goddard to be educated in the Norweigian Courts and then returned to Man.
Where he found the long Peaceable courfe of his Affair? quite altered: For the three Sons of his Brother Harold who had been Educated in Dublin, raifed great Forces and demanded one Moiety of the Kingdom of the Ifles,
Olave
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dfave defired .Time to confider of it, ^^iid^on the Day appointed to receive Ins Anfwer, the principal Perfons on hothLfides met at Ramfey, where both fides being drawn up in Lines oppofite to each other, Reginald, one of the Brothers, handing in the middle as talking to fome principal Perfons, being called by the King, turned himfelf of a hidden as if he defigned to Salute him. but at the fame Time •lifted up his “Battle Ax, and at one Blow cut off his Head: The Nobility depending upon Clave, being all dif-perfed or flain, Reginald divided the Country among his own followers.
Olave, left by his Wife Affrica, Daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway, w^ one Son who fucceeded him.
The Sons of Harrold fluflietl with this Succefs had thoughts of Conquering all ■ before them : Immediately therefore they Tranfported their Forces into Galloway, but the People there behaved with that Bravery and Refo-lution that they quickly forced them to return with Shame and Confufion into Man, where they exercifcd all the Cruelties upon the Men of Galloway, that ihame, difappointment, and revenge could Invent, but the Juftice of Heaven fuffered not fo many Vil-lanies to go long unpunifhed.
* For in the Year 1143, Goddard, the Son of good King Olave, returned from Norway, to whom the whole If-land immediately fubmitted: Upon yvhich he ordered two of the Sons, of Harold, to lofe their Eyes, and the' third who had murdered his Father he caufed to be Executed: And having by thefe Affs of Juftice cleared
his way to the Crown, by the unanimous and hearty confent of all the People, he affumed the Government.
Goddard, was then in.the flower of his Youth, brave, active, and Generous, with the mein and Stature of a Hero, and Polifhed by Education in a Foreign Court; all which joined to .the Merit, of an excellent Father-attracted the Hearts- not only of his own People but of Strangers alfo, and all the Neighbouring Provinces admired and envied the Happinefs of of the Manx Nation, and every one wilted for a King like theirs.
But as all human Affairs are Sub-jeff to frequent changes and unfore-feen Accidents in Life, and that the moft Moderate and Prudent Government in the World, is not fecure from Faff ion and Sedition at Home, as well as Enemies abroad, fo it fell out with this good King: For one Thorfihus, the Son of Otter, was at that" Time the Principal of all the Natives, who having been difpofeffed of fome Lands he had a Pretence to, and denied fome favours he expedited, grew a Male Content, and fetting up for a Patriot, gained to his Party feveral Faffious and Seditious Subjeffs, and by theirs, and fuch others he could bring into his way of thinking, defigned to Work his own private Revenge.
He therefore ■ goes into Argyle, to Summerled who had married a Daughter of good King Clave’s, and, perfuad-ed him to m^pihi^pff Dulgall King of the Ifles in’^gl#*£)fhis Mother; Summerled, being a Prince of a hot, Enterprizing and AmbitibMs Temper, embraced the Propofal, and^ghorfinus,
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by his own Influence and Perfuafion brought feveral of the WefteniJflands under his Obedience; however, the Majority of the People as yet adhered to their lawful King; among thefe was one Paul, a Perfon of great Loyalty, Intereft, and Virtue, who gave Goddard Notice of all Thorfinus’s Pro-jefls and Summerled’s Preparations.
Upon which the King equips 80 Ships, and in. the Year 1156, a bloody Battle was fought at Sea, where both Sides weaned with the Slaughter made, and the Victory ft ill doubtful, the two Generals agreed to divide the Kingdom of the Ifles, by which all the Northern fell to the Son of Sum-merled : But he, not contented with a Moiety, in the Year A 58; came into Man with 58 Ships, and the People either weary of the War, or the Mifconduft and unkind Ufage of their Prince, all fubmitted to him, fo that Goddard by letting a difcon-tented People flip from him, now found himfelf no more a King, but forfaken and flighted by all, efpecially by thofe who had been the Inftru-. ments of his Severity andMifcondudt, and found no fafer Way to make their Court to their new Mafter, than by expofing the old, agreeable to that ftated Maxim, that he that will do ill to pleafe his Prince, will certainly do the fame againft him, when it appears his Intereft and Advantage in fo doing: Whilft thefe Things were traniafting/ the dethroned King Goddard found Means to efcapc into- Norway, there to referve himfelf to his better Fortune.—-A lively Inftance of indolence and Negleft, which prefently degene-
rate into Violence and unwarrantable Meafures, by which the .gaining of a Crown may fometimes forfeit the Virtue which renders a Man worthy of it.
But Summerled, flufhed with 'thefe petty Vidlories, fet no Bounds to his Ambition: But in the Year 1164, railed a Fleet of 160 Sail, with a Refolution to mafter all Scotland, and attempting to land his Men at Rheinfern, was conquered by a few, himfelf and his-Son flain, with moft of Iris People: The People were glad to be thus de^ livered by dear bought Experience, and found a fenlible Difference ^betwixt. a paflionate and mifguided Prince, and a real Tyrant.
Every one. now began to think of Goddard their exiled King, whofe fix Years Abfence and his own generous Qualities had blotted out the Errors ' and Miftakes of his Youth and former Government, fo.that all the Hearts of the People inclined to his Reftoration.
At which Time Reginald, his baftard Brother had gathered and armed a Multitude of loofe Fellows of different Nations, refolving with them to carry the Kingdoms of the Ifles.
The Manx Men ftoutly defended their King’s Caufe: The Battle was fought at Ramfey, and the People loft the( Day by the Treachery of a certain Count, who probably dreaded Goddard’s Revenge upon him, but Goddard being truly informed of the IflandsJ good Intention towards! him, landed the fourth Day after the Battle with a powerful Afliftance from the King of Norway: The People received! him with Joy, all former Errors were.
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mutually forgot, and Reginald was feized, and his Eyes put out, and all thofe who might render the Succefiion difputable flripped of all Power, and froin this Time Goddard began to fet- ^JJAIVA-VL XXX XA&\^ AA^1.L«A A-1*,WX V^A AA-AAA^ JV/AAAJLj. tie his Affairs with Prudencg Gentl^’’ of England, had done his Homage for fiefs, Moderation, and Maclotien, Son the Ifle of Man, for which the King of Maccartack, King of Ireland, gave granted him a Knight Fee In Ireland,, him his Daughter Fingala, to Wife', and his Protcbzion, pro feod and fer-by whom he had a Son, named 01avev vitio fuo, fays the Record,
Tire- Year following the King took Reginald, being at this Time abfent a Progrefs through the Illes, to fettle in Ireland; with all his Forces, and all the confufed State of Affairs there, bis principal- Officers, by which die ’ •	’ * A' r---- T'’-----1 ----People of the Iflandtfrad been great.
Sufferers. Began to think of their, in-juftice to Olave their lawful' Prince, then in the Vigour of his Age,, and Mafter of all thofe refined' Qualities that render Princes agreeable to their People, or Meii to one another# Mild,
during his Abfence Emoreal, one of jhe Blood Royal, attempting Tome No-•velty, he brought a great Multitude to the Iffe of Man, who at firft difperfed
Craft, Diffimulation, and Revenge, which added to- the natural injuft ice to his Brother Olave; rendered his
Reign, though long, unhappy? Reginald in the firth Year of King John,.
fome few that guarded the Coafts„ but the fame Day the Mankfmen rallied their whole Force, and flew him and all his Followers sand thus the King Juft', Sedate, Pious and Liberal to continued composing and fett mg the which was added, an admirable S™° Affairs of his Government till the	- - -	. . .
Year 1187, in which he died on the Ninth of September, in a good old
Age.
This Prince had tried both extreams of Government, firft ruined by Suc-
cefs, and the ill Conduct of his Youth, but being made wifer by Afflictions and Experience, became. a fortunate and. happy Prince.
This Prince left three Sons, Regir
metry of Body, which rendered! him’ the darling of the Ladies, who by their Intereft at "Home fometimes make the ftrongeft abroad.
Reginald, returning into Man, and viewing the Defolation of his Country during his abfence; and at the lame Time perceiving the loft Affections of. his People, relblved’ to remove his
Brother Olave, the Idol of their Hearts m	j	1	out of his way;, but not finding itfafe
nald, Olave, and Ivar, and appointed, to. do- it by open Violence he caufed Olave his Succeilbi, becaufe born in him to be feized and fent to
lawful Wedlock; but Olave being.then King of Scotland, where he was kept but a Minor, the Mankfmen fem for in Chains feven Years’ at the end of the eddefl^on Reginald Qiit of thelfles,: which, King William dying wasfuc-and made lum King, Anno 1188.' deeded by his Son Alexander who an Reginald, was then of a ripe Ager his Coronation, ordered alfthe Pri-endowed wiffl great Qualities, as Wit, foners to be releafed, among whom Courage, and Refolution, mixed with was Olave, who fpcedily returned to'
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the IJle of Man,, well attended by the lability, and good Wifhes of the People, and prefented himfelf to his Brother Reginald, who received him yhth all apparent Affedtion, and married him to the Lord of Cantyre’s Daughter} named Lavon, and Sifter to his own Queen, but gave them np-tliing but the Iflands called the Lewis’s, which nccefiity compelled Olave to accept; of fince he could get no better kn but coming into the Lewes’s; lie found them barren, and altogether infuffigient to . fupport him and his Retinue, therefore urged^n by defpair, . necgfllty and Juft ice, but more than all by the Vifcount Skey, refolvcd to puib his good Fortune to the utmoft; ■and taking Hoftages of all the great Men of the Ifles, fet fail in the Year ,1215, with thirty Ships, and landed in the Me of Man; but the Nobility and People interpoling, the Brothers came to an Agreement, and divided the Kingdom of the Illes betwixt them, of which Reginald, beiides his Moiety had the Ilie of Man allotted him.
Olave having refreihed his Men, returned to his Part of tire Ifles•, But Reginald greatly regretting to be dif-pofefled of above a hundred Ifles, that he had been fo long Mailer of, fent to Allen, Lord of Galloway for aflift-ance; and the Year -following failed intef the out Illes, with a defign to dif-poflefs his, Brother Olave; but the People absolutely refilling to fight a-gainft their natural Prince, obliged hjm to return home without effecting any thing.. 7
Reginald, reftlefs and impatient with this iecond disappointment, pretends
a neceflity of a Journey to England.; the. People chearfully fupplicd him with a hundred Marks towards his Journey, but inftead of going to England, he carried his Daughter, into *
► Galloway, and married her to the Son of that Lord. But as nothing difeon-tents a People more than the mifap-plication of publick Generofity} efpe-cially when they fee themfelves im-pofed upon and betrayed to. a foreign Power; confidering with indignation the ingratitude of Reginald and their own injuftice to their lawful Prince, .they, by -univerfal SufFerage font for Olave and declared him King in the. Year 1218. Reginald, feeing his error, though too late, refolves in good earneft on a Voyage to the; Court of King John.
It is certain, as we have obferved, that King John in the fixth Year of his Reign, took Reginald-, King of Man, into his Protection, and granted him one Knight’s Fee in Ireland ; and alio granted him one hundred Quarters of Corn, to be delivered at Drogheda on the 26th of May, Anno Reg. ui 14. Anno Dom. 1212.
And King Henry, III. Anno Reg. fui 2do, Anno Dom. 1219, granted to Reginald, King of Man, Letters of fafe conduct to. come to England, and do him homage, &c.
And in the fifth Year of his Reign, 1221, the fame King writes to his Juftice in Ireland, the fourth of November, to deliver to Reginald, King of Man, his Knight’s Fee, Iwo- Tons of Wine, and one hundred and twenty Quarters, of Corn granted him every Year, by the Charter of King John his Father.	’ Now
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Now if it be allowable to coihpare fo fmall a Prince with an Englifh Monarch, there never was a nearer refem-blance than in the Fortunes of thefe two; both had obtained their Government by injuftice to the lawful Heirs, both loft it by their ill. Treatment of the People, both of mifchievous de-figning Tempers-, and both lived to feel the Effects thereof on their own
Heads, only in this .they differ,--John had offended the Clergy, and Reginald his People; John had fome Years .before.made the molt infamous fub-mifiion to the Pope that ever was heard of in Story; Reginald, to compleat the Similitude, muft do the like, either becaufe it was the Faihion, or that he could hope for no Affiftance without it-.
ACT of SURRENDER,
MADE BY
REGINALD, to the See of ROME.
Reginaldus Rex Inful® Man, conftituit fe vafallum fedis Roman®, & ex in-fulafua facit Feudumoblatum, Lon-dini io. Cal. October 1219.
SAndtifiimo Patri & Domino Hono-rio Dei gratia fummo Pontifici,-Reginaldus Rex, Infularum commen-dationem cum ofculo pedum. Nove-rit fandta Paternitas veflra quod Nos, ut participes fimus honorum quae hunt in Ecclefia. Rom. juxta admonitionem, et exortationem dilefti patris Domini P, Norwicen eledli^ Camerarij & Legati veftrg dedimus & obrulimus nomine Ecclefia Roman®, & veftro,.& Catho-
Numb. 13.
licorum veflrorum fuccellorum, Infu-lam noilrum de Man, qu® ad nos jure hereditario pertinet, & de quae nuilli tonemur aliquod fervitium facere, & deinceps nos, & h®redes noftri in per-petuum tenebimus, in feudum di am Infulam ab Ecclefia Roman®, & facie-mus ei per hoc homagium & fidelita-tem, & in recognitionem Dominij, ne-mine cenfus, nos & h®redes noftri in perpetuum annuatim fplvemus^Eccle-fia Rom. duodecim Marcas Ste^rlingc-rum in Anglia apud Abbajiam dBFur-nes Ciftertienfis Ordin is in fefto Purifi-cationis B. V. Mari®. Et ft non cflet ibi aliquis ex parte veflra yel fucceflo-
D d rum
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rum veftrorum, deponentur dicft® du-odecim March® per nos & haredes noftros penes Abbatem & Conventual, Ecclefia Roni, nomine. Hane donati-onem, & ablationem didtus Pominus Legatus recipit ad voluntatem & bene placitum ve rum, & poft receptionem fariam ab eo fic ipfe Pominus Legatus diftamlnfulam leditmihi & haeredi-bus meis in feudum perpetuo pofli-■dendam & tenendam nomine Ecclefia Rom. Et mein.de peraunulumaureum inveftivit, &c. Actum Lend. in domo .militiasTempi! io Kal. Gdtob. An. Dom. Millefimb, ducentefimo,, decimo nono. Et ne fuper his aliquando poffit dubi-tari has literas fieri fecimus & figillo noftro muniri.
Codex juris Gentium Piplomaticus per Godefridum Gulielmum Liebnit-■zium, impreflus Hanover® 1693 fol. prodromus, Page .5.
Reginald, King of the Ifie of Man, conftitutes himfelf a VaiTal of the See of Rome, and of his Ifland makes the offered Grant at London, 2ad of September 1219.
TO the moft Holy Father and Lord Honorius by the Grace of God fupreme Pontiff, Reginald, King of the Ifles kiffeth his Feet, and fendeth ■Greeting. Be it known"to your Holy Paternity that we, as bein^ partakers ( of the Benefits derived from thofe Things that are done in the Roman Church, "according to the Admonition and Exhortation of the behoved Father in G OP Peter, Lord Bifhop of Norwich, Eleft Chamberlain arid Apofto-
lick Legate, have given and offered in the Name of the Church of Rome, and your s, and of your Catholick Sue-ceffors, our Ifland of Man, which belongs to us by right of Inheritance, and for which we are not bound to do Service to any; and henceforwards we and our Heirs for ev^r will hold the faid Ifland as a grant from the Church of Rome, and will do Homage and Fealty to -it; and as a Recognition of Dominion,. in rhe Name of a Tribute, we and our Heirs for ever will pay Annually to the Church of Rome, twelve Marks Sterling in England, at the Abbey of Fumes, of the Ciftertian Cider, upon the Feaft of the ■Purification of the B. V. Mary. And if there fhould not be any Perfon there on the behalf of you or your Succef-fors, the faid twelve Marks fh a 11 be de-pofited by us and our Heirs, with the Abbot and Convent, in the Name of the Church of Rome. This Grant and ■Oblation the faid Lord Legate accepts .according to your Will and Pleafure; and after Acceptance fo made by him, he the faid Lord Legate gave to me •and my Heirs the faid Ifland to.be pof-feffed and held in Fee for ever, in the Name of the Church -of Rome; and thereupon invefted me therewith by *a Ring of Gold, &c. Pone at London, in the Houfe of the Knights Templars, the 2 2d of September, Anno 1219; and that no doubt may remain concerning the Premifes, We have ■caufed this Inftrument to be made and fealed with our Seal.
Vid. Codefe juris Gentium Diplomaticus per Godefridum Gulielmum Li-ebnitzimm
The Hiflory of the ebnitziuin,Iihpfeffus Hanoveriaf 1693, fpl. Prodromus, Page 5.
Whilft Reginald by this infamous Surrender was endeavouring to recover his loft Eftate, his Brother Olave, for above two Years, enjoyed an un-difturbed Poffeflioii in the Government of the Ifl.es, till at laft compelled by the Diforder of Affairs to vifit the remote Parts of his fcattered Kingdom, and being well affeCted by the Nobility and Soldiery, he left the Ifle of Man expofed to the fury of his Brother Reginald, who upon this oc-cafion embraced the opportunity, by returning from London; and, by the Affiftance of Allen, Lord of Galloway, and Thomas Earl of Athol, landed a great Army in the Ifle of Man, with which he laid the whole South Side wafte, murdering all the Men they met, burning even the very Churches, and committing all the Inhumanities a Tyrant heated by refentment and revenge could Invent.
Till at laft, glutted with fo much Barbarity, or perhaps apprehending his Brother Olave’s return he drew off his Forces, and Allen, Lord of Galloway, left his Bailiffs to colleCt the Revenue, but Olave fpeedily returning drove away thofe Collectors, and ufed all poffible means to recall fuch as had efcaped the fury of Reginald, fo that the Country began to be Repeopled, and die Natives to fetde them-felves in Peace and Security.
But the ambitious Spirit of Reginald relied not here, for the fame Year in themulft of Winter, and in •the dead of the Night, Reginald, ac-
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King Olave flies for Protection to the Men of the Northern divifion, with unanimoufly refolve to defend him and his Caufe; whereupon the two Brothers engage in Battle, at the Place called the Tinwald, (the publick Field of Council and of Arms) Reginald loft the Day, and was flain in the heat of the ACtion; and thus fell that reftlefs and ambitious Soul, who for above thirty Years had difquieted himfelf and his People: His Body was carried by the Monks of Ruthen to the Abby of Furnefs, and buried in a Place formerly chofen by himfelf.
Olave now hoping to enjoy all the fruits of his Labours, and the Rights juftly due to him, refolves on a Voyage to Norway, Anno 1220; where during the conteft betwixt the two Brothers, the accuftomed refpeCt had not been paid, which occafioned the King of Norway, to appoint a Nobleman, one Heufback, to be King of the Illes, and gave him his own Name, Haco, who on his arrival there was flain in ftorming a certain Caftle in the Ifle of Buter and never reached the Ifle of Man.
Upon this Olave returning into tite Ifle of Man, brought with him God -dard,the Son of his late Brother Regu 12 naldg
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nald; and by die confent of the People, the Ifles were divided betwixt them, (as a means to preferve a future Tranquility in both) Olave had Man allotted to him, and Goddard going to his fhare was Hain in the Lewis’s, by which the whole Kingdom of the Ifles devolved upon Olave, who for the better Security thereof refolv-ed to apply to the Court of England; and in the Year 1236, obtained from King Henry, III. Letters of fafe Con-duff for Olave, King of Man to come to him, to treat with him on Bufinefs of Moment; and being come to King Henry, he the fame Year gave him his Commiflion, with forty Marks; one- hundred Quarters of Corn, and five Tons of Wine, for his Homage and defence of the Sea Coafts, as long as he fhall faithfully perform that Service which he enjoyed to the Year 1237, the Time of his Death, which happened on the 18th, of June, that Year in Peel-Caftle, in a good old Age, greatly lamented by his People, as a Prince worthy of better Times, a better Kingdom, and better Subjeffs. He lies interred in the Abby of Ruihen, and was fucceeded by. his Son Harold.
Harold was then about fourteen Years of Age, a Youth of great hopes, and rare Endowments both of Body arid' Mind, but before he was well
fettled in his new-Govemment, (led either by rr^neceflity of his Affairs or a youth k’jJ^uriqfity) refolved on a Progref J^rbugh 'his whole Kingdom, which co.nfifted of near three hundred Ifland^, but, difperfed, and many degrees remote; and for the-
fecurity and good of the Ifland, he appointed one Logland his Coufin to be his Lieutenant, who probably did not execute that Truft with the Gare and Fidelity expeffed from him, of which the King being informed, fent the Autumn following three Sons of Noil, viz. Dufgall, Thorgall, and Male-more, with his trufty Friend one Jo-feph, to examine and confult about his Affairs tn the Ifland, and report the Conduct of Logland to him.
Upon this a general Meeting was appointed the twenty-fifth Day .following, at the Tinwald, their ufual Place of Affembing for public Affairs; but one fide -accufing, and the other defending, inftead of Council and compofing the Differences then fub-fifting, they fell to Arms, the fhort-eft way ending Controverfies in thofe Days; Dufgall, Malemore, and Jofeph, fell in the Quarrel, upon Information whereof, the King, greatly incenfed, returned into Man the Spring following, and Logland juftly apprehending his difpleafure, attempted to fly into Wales with Goddard, a younger Son of Olave, but fuffered Shipwreck in his paffage, with the young Prince and all his Retinue.
The power of the Kings of Norway, to this Time had been the Terror of the Northern Tarts of Europe ; but Harold had not paid that Perfonal .attendance ar that Court as was expected, therefore that King in the .Year 1238, fent Jofpatricky and Giles Chrift, the Son -of Mc’Kerthanck to feize the Revenue of the Ifland to his own ufe; but Harold the Year following took a. oyage into Norway, where ’he .con-■duffed
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dufted himfelf with that prudence and diferetiori, that after two Years flay, he was reftored to all the Illes . enjoyed by his Anceftors, to him and his Heirs, and Succeffors, under thd broad Seal of Norway.	1
’ Harold now fecure of the Inheritance of his Predeceffors, in the Year 1242, returned into Man, where he was receivedAvith the univerfal Ap-plaufe and good Wifhes of the People, whichhe endeavoured to improve by all thole public Diverfions which render youthful Princes agreeable to their Subjects'. But confide ring nothing fecures a lading happinefs like Peace abroad, he entered into a ftrift Alliance with the Neighbouring Princes of Scotland, and Ireland, and to fecure himfelf of th© good Affection of the Monarchy of England, he procured Letters Patent from Henny III. dated the thirty-jilft of his Reign, by which he was permitted to come’ into England, whereon his Arrival he was welcomed with all the public Compliments due to his Character.
The King honoured him with the Order of Knighthood (which in thofe Days was never conferred, but upon Perfons of high Birth and Merit,) and in all Places was entertained with a
Geherofity natural to the Englifh Nation; and at laft was nobly prefented by the King. In the fame Year he re-
the Kingdom of the Ides, and did Homage to opr King Edward I, in Perth, .	or St. John's Town. And though we
turned to his own Country, where, do not find Th all the Norwegian Line good Fortune wiis at once mowering any preteii^p tp. T Fen^c Succeflion,. down all th,e Sellings of this Life yet this gave ground for aT^ near Upon his Head.	j "	four hundred'*X^rs after, in which
He' received an Invitation into Nor- ..Sentence was pronounced in favour of way, whither he went, attended by the Heirs general of Ferdinand, Earl Lawrence, late Arcb-deaeon, now Bi- of Derby, againft -hi&yl^th^ t
{hop Eleft of Man, with a numerous Train of Nobility and Ladies, and there was married to the King’s Daughter-, and after a long and noble Entertainment,- with all the Feftivity ufual on fuch Occafiohs; he returned to Man, but was' unhappily driven upon the Coaft of Radland, in Wales, where he fuffered Shipwreck, and perifhed with his beautiful young Queen, his Bifhop, and almoft all his Nobility, and the Ladies her Companions; a fad Conviction, that the higheft Felicities this World affords, are too often but amore folemn Introduction to our Ruin, ■jyhich was’ unhappily verified, as in himfelf, fo in his Brother and Succeffor. .
Reginald, his Brother affumed the. Government, Anno 1249, on thf fixth of May, and the thirtieth of the fame-Morith, was ilain in the Meadows near the Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Kirk Chrift Rufhen, with all his Party, by a Knight, called Ivar; whether the caufe of their Quarrel was Love or Revenge, is not mentioned, or whether he had affumed the Government without the confent of the People, we are not informed of by Record, further than that Reginald left one Daughter very young named Mary, who in the Year 1292, claimed

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William, in the following Cafe, wherein *Queft ion was moved concerning the Title to the Me of'Man, which by Queen Elizabeth, was referred to the Lord Keeper Egerton, and divers Lords of the Council, and to three of the Judges of England* who in Trinity Term, fortieth of Elizabeth, 1598, upon hearing of Council on both Sides, and mature Deliberation thereon, refolved on five Points, viz. ;
. Firft, That the Me of Man was an ancient Kingdom of itfelf, and no part of the Kingdom of England. Secondly, They affirmed a C.afe reported by Kelwin, the fourteenth of Henry VIII. to be Law, to wit, Michl, fourteenth of Henry VIII. an Office was found, that Thomas, Earl of Derby, at his Death, was feized of the Me of Man in. Fee; whereupon the Countefs his Wife, by her Council, moved to have her Dowry in the Chancery, but it was refolved by Brudnel,Brook, and Fitzher-bert. Juftices, and all the King’s Council, that the Office was merely void, becaufe the Me of Man was no part of England, nor was governed by tire Laws of this Land, but was like to Tourney, in Normandy, or Gafcoine, in France, when they were in the King of England’s Hands, which were merely out of the Power of the Chancery, which was the place to endow the Widows of the King’s Subjects, &c. ., Thirdly, It was refolved by them fhat the Statute of William IL de jovis conditionalibus, nor the twenty-fe-venthof Henry VIII. of Ufes; nor the ’ Statutes of the thirty-fgeond and thirtyfourth of Henry VIII. of William, nor
. any other general Aft of Parliament, ' did extend to the Me of Man, for the
Caufes aforefaid; but by fpccial Name an Aft of Parliament may extend to it.
Fourthly, It was refolved, that feeing no Office could be found, to entitle the King to the Forfeiture of Trea-fon, that the King might grant by Commiffion under the great Seal, to feize the fame into the King’s Hands, &c. which being done and returned of Record, is fufficient,tO'bring it into the King’s Seizure and Poffeffion, and ihto Charge, &c.
Fifthly, That the King might grant the fame under the great Seal, becaufe he cannot grant it in any other Manner, arid herewith agreeth divers grants under the great Seal of this Me.
Sixthly, It was refolved that a Fee Simple in this Me, palling by the Letters Patents, to Sir John Stanley, and his Heirs, is defcendible to his Heirs according to the Common Law, for the Grant itfelf by Letters Patents is warranted by the Common Law in this Cafe, and therefore, if there be no other Impediment, the Me in this Cafe ihall defeend to the Heirs General, and not to the Heirs Male, upon which this Affair was afteiwards fettled by A6t of Parliament as aforefaid.
During the Race of Goddard Grow-man, three Qualifications fecmed re-quifite for the defeent of the Government, to wit. A Male Succeffion, the Confent of the People, and the Approbation of tire King of Norway, (who wls then acknowledged for the Sovereign) and where any of thefe were wanting, it generally proved fatal to the Prince and People.
Olave, had left a third Son, named Magnus, who probably was not in the Mand at his Brother’s Death, fo that
The Hiftory of the that Harold, the Son of Goddard Don, Grandfon of Reginald, for a Time ufurped the Name of King, and; dif-poffeffed all the Nobility, depending on the fucceflofs of Olave, of their Employments and Commands ; but •the King of Norway fent for him, .and made him Prifoner for his unjuft Intrufion; and in the Year 1252, ■fent Magnus, the lawful Hem to the file of Man, who .was chofen. King by the univerfal confent of the People ; but finding it unfafe to truft to that Title only, he the next Year went into Norway, where after two Years attendance Jie was declared King of the liies, and, the Title confirmed to him, his Heirs, and Succeffors, Anno 1254.
Thefe little Princes had a nice Game to Play, as they lay furrounded with fo many potent States; the- Kings of Norway began to decline, and the , Scottish Kings (from whom thefe; if-lands had been taken) to recover ftrength; fo that during the laft vacancy they defigned to have recovered them, had not their King died in die midft of the Preparation. The Monarchy of England, was now almost their only refuge, fo in the Year 1256, Magnus refolved. on. a Voyage to that Court, where he was honourably received by King Henry, III. as his Brother Harold had been fome Years before, and was Knighted by that King, as the greateft Compliment could be paid rp Strangers, by pup Monarchs in thofe Days of Chivahy^	/
In the Year 12.63, Aquinas King of Nonvay, refolved to revenge blip affront the Scottifh Nation, bad defigned againft him, and accordingly made a defcent .upon that Kingdom, but was
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fo warmly received by their new King Alexander, (a generous and active Prince) that he was forced to take flielter in the Orcades, where he died, at Kirkwall.
This was the laft feeble effort of that Nation, which had fpread it’s Arms [ over all Europe for five hundred Years paft ; it hath given Kings to England, and Sicily. ' Dukes to Normandy, and held the Sovereignty of thofe Illes for near two hundred Years paft, but the continual throwing off of fuch vaft Numbers of the Natives, had fo weakened itfelf, that fome Time after it became fubjcCltq the more potent and growing Kingdom of Denmark,
' Thus Nations have their Periods as well as Perfons and Families, and the moft enterprizing generally deftroy themfelvesTooneft, by their own ambition: The little Kingdom of Man, deprived of the protection of Norway, could not fupport itfelf much- longer, for Magnus dying Anno, 1265, in his. Callie of Rufhen, was buried in the Abby Church of St. Mary, which he finifhed. and caufed to be- Dedicated, and left no Cliild behind him.
He was the ninth and laft of the Race of Goddard Crowman, who for two hundred Years had enjoyed the Name of King, though in effect little bettej^fcaivl^ to the Crown of Nbrwa^and their Inheritance became an infemjble Addition to the Kingdom pf Scod^d^hi^h ratherxook away an Evi^than coi^cAed agood, for th o’ the Addition; of a neighbouring Country may encreafe a territory; yet different Laws, Intercft, and Religion rarely cement 'themfelv.es into a well compacted or united State,
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Soufe of STANLEY.
LEXANDER, King of Scotland, being informed of the Death of Magnus, began to feize of the Out Ifes, as lay moft convenient for him, while the
Affairs, of the little Kingdom of Man were wholly diftradterK but Magnus, King of Norway, Son of Aquinus, thinking to apply fome Remedy to them, ±ent his Chancellor into Scot-
land, with offers to Surrender the Ifle ct Man and; Bute, on condition he
offer, with a Proteftation he would win or lofe them all; and in purfuance thereof began to reduce them fingly with Succefs, but during his Engagement there, n, a new Commotion arofe in the Ifle of Man^ which gave him fome. concern and unealine is, as intending to Unite the whole Kingdom of the Ifles to that of Scotland, and. apprehending little Oppofition from that of Man,	'	* ' . "
.	.	But toe Manx Hiftqry informs us,
fhould peaceably enjoy rhe Remainder, that theAVidow cf .he late King Mag-
But Alexander bravely rejected’the nus, a Woman of a haughty and ir-•	-	triguing
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triguing Spirit, who by the Deatlvc^k dom, and at lead cefolves to deferve Reginaldlhad cleared her owil way to if no’ enjoy the Crown, but the Ilie the ..Kingdom, ami fecretly in Love of Maa could do j ttle hngly with-with 7a certain Knight who had ilahi the more Potent Kingdom of Scotland; Reginald; her late? Hulband’s. Brother foxtAlcxander Having now reduced all named Ivar; no tv thought him the theoutlfl.es, fends a numerous'Army Ufteft Perfo.i to fupply the vacancy*, under Alexander Pealley, and John there being no lawful Succeflbr, ex- Commin, who landed ar Rannefway;
. < ceptAthe Daughter of Reginald, and. now Derby Haven, tn the Zea'',Ti;o |F ’ fhpfbut'i a; ChildiL’Thed danger> from. Ivar,i though much jnf^y^brNs^
Scotland feeined t prefling, but what- her, (as being deprivedohdll Aahftanco will not Lava and thO.t mutations of from abroad) received/.the ins with a a CiQwn'pe^ode Men 'to. -n _r_i_.,.-^ .

.	„	,	Refolutionngfi^-al tq^ejMaux Nation,
.rlvar then inuhe vigour of his Age; mdfoughtthehi Stoutly, incfas brave-
Gay^ Generous, /and Popular ; rhe lyTKl with the, expiring Liberty of boideft, the braveft,vand the beft of his Country and with him five Hun-all'’the Natives ; one tha had Virtues-pd^ed and thirty’ feven of the Flower enough to Save, and Vices enough to of tile People *	■
furn a Nation : Readily embrace ^ the , Thus the tK^igdoni of the lfl.es was C offer'of hist kind friend the Wide " wholly re^tccdf: in which the King of his Miftrefs, who had entirely forgot Scotland had fpeiit* or Years, to wit, all Affection .as well as Duty and Al- from ra s^/fo iayc. The King of legiar.ee to her late Hufb^nd’s Niece ^Noiw^* ,how iscijig the Kingdom of and legal Succeffoi the Princefs Mary, ^the IfeS^lolK ’ft bis Chancellor a . >aber Pride, Ambition and Afpifing lewd fecond, Tung, ej .to redeem it or
4 Temper could think of nothing lets
But the-Child Mary, was fo happy as to he left under the Care and Guard of juft, fmcerc, and affedbonate Friends, who whilft the Widow and her Bully
abfdll&Lyyh^ but to End farther disputes,/a Peace was c included under foxet ahArucles ; ci which the
Pa mem of. four thoufand Marks rea < dy A.ohm. and qne hundred,Pou ,ds by way of Tribute were the Principal, z an- no Notice taken of Mary, the fecretly conveyed -into England, wi-h 0^d,2$&5r* ner Rght. though.'.aft of all the Public Deeds, and.Charters, e- ' tli£JFamily oft Goddard Crowman, w^hh had held the Government tyvo HuHh'fed Year's, and were* now ipc •
Ivar vere making their way,to the Government, took Care, to have Mary
qually fearing the d ,er fhe was m at home a> veil as rrom abroad, hut *—*- --—•<.,- —t-	-»-r-
being' got into fafety we w iL leave h^ ceeded by Alexander King of S^kuki. fora while to attend and wait her who mjoyed It bya mixr Title of.Arms good Fortune.	and Puithale, and Governed by his
'ihtlielnterim.id^ vigor.oufly.]h;ebr7?3fe^^	firftcef.
ipafeWof thdfe	of tes new King-V^WffiW^P^^ Mc’Mahus^Ctoo
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honeft a Man to make a good Governor in his Prince’s Senfe, who for re-fuling to be concerned in the Murder pf three Brethren defeended from the former Race, was removed after he had held this Station four Years.
To him fucceeded Allen, a Man that underRood his King’s Pleafure better than how to govern his People well. Imperious, cruel, hard-hearted, inexorable, too much of the Bully for the Governor, and too little for the Soldier; the,People till this Time had followed their Hereditary Kings with a chearful, active Obedience, & by which, they were enabled not only to fe<*ure themfelves, but often to make Con-quefts abroad ; but inftead of the generous Firmnefs of tlieir Anceftors, were now degenerated into a fullen and fupine Negligence, and their only Study was how they might legally dif-obey, this increased the Thames Severity for the more a People fufier/the more Men of brutiih and cruel Souls infult.
’Till at laft grown defperate by their Miferies, the Natives univeffally rofe againft the Scots Nation, with aRefo-lution either.to extirpate them, or fall to a Man themfelves; but by the In-terpofition of their good Bifhop, they agreed to end the Difpute by a Combat of thirty on a Side: The Thane, yvho had been the occafion of the Quarrel, as he flood Spectator of the Bight, was prefled to Death by rhe Multitude.
The Mankfmen loft the Day, and all their thirty Combatants fell; die Scots loft twenty-five. Thislaft ftrug-
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gle of the Manks Nation made the Scottilh King fenfible of his falfe Policy.
He therefore lent over Maurice O-kerfair, a wife and worthy Magiftrate, one whofe Prudence made him reverenced in Peace, as his Honour did in Arms, which rendered him terrible in War, dreadful to the Stubborn, tender to the Poor, and merciful to the afflicted: In whom the exaftnefs of the Soldier gave, an Air and Vigour to the Laws, and the finenefs of the Gentleman foftened their Rigour in Execution, by an excellent mixture of Moderation and Severity ; he made it his Bufinefs to allay the Animofities of the two Factions, and fo far fucceeded drat he caufed thirty Crofs-mar-riages to be celebrated in one Day : He held the Government three Years, and died in 1282 equally lamented by both Nations, and was fucceeded by one Brenus, who purfued the gentle and moderate Principles of his Predfe-cefldr: He taught the People the Art of Fifhing, but was himfelf unhappily flain in fome Rencounter with the Highlanders in the Year 1287, and was fucceeded by Donald, a Perlon of great Birth and Reputation, but how long he had the Government is uncertain, for in the Year 1289 King Edward I. gave the Ifle of Man,,&c. to Walter de Huntercomb; for upon the Surrender of the Ifland by Richard de Burgo, who probably had been en-trufled with it by one of the Competitors of the Crown of Scotland, King Edward, in the eighteenth Year of his Reign committed the Cufiody of this Ifland to the aforefaid Walter de
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Huntercomb, a very brave and honeft Man, who the Year following, by his Matter's Order, furrendered it to John Baliol, King of Scotland, with a Salvo, notwithftanding, to King Edward’s Right, andthat of all other Pretenders.
Whether he was ever poffeffed of it doth not appear, for. the Scottifh Nation was at that Time greatly embroiled by the Factions of Bruce and Baliol, Competitors for the Crown, and King Edward chofen as Arbitrator of their Differences, and being at Perth, or St. John’s Town, Mary, the laft of the old Family, and Wife of John de Waldeboef, made her claim, and offered .to do her Homage for the Ifle of Man, but was anfwered, ihe muft claim it of the King of Scotland who then held it.
It alfo appears by Petition to King Edward I. in Parliament, in the thirty-third Year of his Reign: That while this Ifle was in the Hands of John Baliol, King of Scots, Mary, the Wife of Jolin de Waldeboef, prefen ting her right t the Ifle of Man, was anfwered, Ihe muft profecute it before the King of Scotland, who then held it as above, but ihe, dying in the Profecu-tion, the right descended to William, her Son and Heir, and from him to John, his Son, and from him to Mary, his Daughter, who furvived her Brother, and then claimed the Ifle of Man, as true and lawful Heir, and was anfwered-; Let it be heard in die King’s, ,Bench, and Juftice done.
In the>^urty-fifth of the aforefaid Prince’s <6igm there is a memorable. Record extant, in Mr. Prinn, of our King’s Right, and Seizure of the Ifle
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of Man, for his own Ule, upon the difpoffeffmg of Henry Bello Monte, the Cuftody whereof was granted to Gilbert de Maka Ihall during pleafure, who had expended one Thoufand two Hundred and fifteen Pounds, three Shillings, and Four-pence, in Defence of'it againft the Scots, and likewife laid out three Hundred and eighty Pounds feventeen Shillings and Sixpence in . Victuals, which delivering to the Governor of the Caftle of Car-lifle, to Victual it againft the Scots, both the Sums were allowed him upon his Petition, and ordered to be paid.
King Edward I. foon after, dying, was fucceeded by his Son, the fecond of that Name: This fickle Prince made no lefs than three Grants in one Year, to fo many of his favourites, to wit. Percy de Gavefton, Gilbert de Me’ Gafcall, and Henricus de Bello Monte, the Grant to the laft is to be feen at large in Mr. C.halloner: Thefe uncommon Proceedings put the Ifland in great Diforder and Confufion, which gave King Robert Bruce, an Opportunity of .ending all Controverfies, by afferting the right of the Crown of Scotland, and in the Year 1313, fat down before the Caftle of Ruihen, whftzh for fix Months was obftinately defended by one Dinga.y Dowill, tho* in whofe Name we no not find; but not long after, it was granted, to Robert Randolph, Earl of Murray, during whofe Government in the Year 1.316, Richard Le’Mandeyille, wither numerous Train of Irifh, ■ landed at Rannefway (now Derby Haven,} de^ manding Victuals and Money,, which, being denied them, they divided theme-2 ' fclvcs
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2 12 The' Hiftory of the fe.lves into two Troops, and under the Hill Wai efield, now Barrowl, found the Natives drawn up, but their Spirits fo dejected by their Lofs of Liberty, Invafions, Depredations, and frequent change of Matters, that they made little or no Refiftance.
The Conquerors gricvoufly fpoiled the whole Ifland and Ahby of Rufhen, and after a Month’s ftay, returned into Ireland: After .this, the Scotch -Writers tell us of a Grant to the Duke of Albany, the Year uncertain; and laft-ly to Martholine, the King’s Ahnoner, wlio was fent over to take care of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners then wholly degenerate there.
He -wrote againtt Witchcraft (a Practice too frequent in that Place in thofe Days,) and for the better Circulation Qf Bufmefs, he is faid to have minted a certain Copper Coin with the King’s Effigies on the one Side, and a Crofs on the other Side, with this Infcrip-tion, Crux eft Chriftianorum Gloria, the Crofs of Chrift, is the Glory of Chriftians; to fay truth, -we have fo little certaintv of thofe Times, that we rather expofe their Ignorance than inform ourfelves, only this is certain on all Hands, that in the Year 1340^ and in the feventh of Edward II. this Ifland was retaken by the Scots, and John de Ergarda, at that Time ‘a potent and eminent Man in this Ifle, and his Family Were driven- from thence, after great Lottes fuftained, into Ireland. WherWon the King upon his Appli-cati ^wr-it to bis Juftice Chancellor and.’ Treafurer of Ireland, to allow hhxu^competent Maintenance for his brave Endeavours to ferve him, jwho
after having refreihed himfelf and collected his Friends together with what Forces he could pottibly raife, returned to the Ifland, expelled the Scots, and reflored the King’s Authority, upon which the King again writ to his Officers in Ireland, to allow him a competent Maintenance for himfelf, his Family, and Soldiers; Anno Octavo’Regni fui; Brave Actions merit agreeable Rewards, inftanced in the Loyalty, Duty, and Integrity of the above Gentleman, and the Juftice and Generofity of the Prince in return thereof.
We come next to Mary, the laft of the Family of Goddard Crowman, whom we left attending her Fortune at* London, where, ihe married John de Waldeboef, a Gentleman of eminent Note and Figure, by whom fire left a Son named William, who entered his claim in Parliament, in the thirty-third of Edward I. but died before any thing was determined therein; and. left a Daughter Mary, this Lady coming to England with her Grandmothers Deeds and Charters, caft herfelf at the Feet of King Edward III. imploring his Majefty’s Affittance: That generous Prince not only gave her his Protection, but married her to Sir William Montacute, whom Mr. Speed, ftiles the chief Statin the Firmament of England; for he was Magnanimous, Affable, Active, and Generous even to a Fault, his Merits had acquired him the- efteem of the greateft of our' Englifh Monarchs.
The King gave him both Soldiers and Shipping to profecute his. Lady’s
Right,
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Kight, which he did fo fuccefsfuHy; that in a fhort Time he recovered the I(land from the Scottifh Government; and the Manks Hiftory fays, that ex-1 bellent Prince caufed him to be crowned, land (tiled King of Man, Anno 1344, according to Daniel and Stow.
But as the- gaining a Man’s Right often coils him more than it is worth, he had contracted fo great a Debt, that he was obliged to Mortgage the liland, to Anthony Beck, Bifhop of Durham, for feven Years. This Bi-ihop was (tiled Patriarch of Jerufalem, a proud/bufy, crafty, covetous Prelate, of little good Nature' but abundance of GrScel and as Ufurpers generally gripe hard when they have got PofTeilion, fo he obtained a fecond Grant thereof, From Richard II. for ■vhis Life, after whofe Deceafe the I-dand devolved upon William Monta-cute, Earl of Salifbury, the Defcen-dant of the above William, who in the Year 1393, fold it to Sir William Scroop, Chamberlain to the King, as appears by Record, viz. Wilhelmus 1c Scroop emit de Domino. Willielmo Montauto infulam euboni® eft Mannite, eft nempe jus ipfus infulse utquif-quis illus fit Dominus Rex vocetur ni etiam fas, eft Corona aurea Coronari.
This Sir William Scroop, afterwards Earl of Wiltihire, is faid to have had all the Vices of a great Statefman, fubtle, fawning, falfe, deiigning, timorous and unjuft, covetous and am-
bitious; and toHupport his own Authority, milled a- weak? Prince into a feparate Intereft from his People, which in the end proved the ruin- of them both j for the Nobility, not1 able to
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b^ar his indolence and ill Ufage, rofe againft the King, though unfuccefs-fully, among whom the great Earl of WarWick^ a true maintainer of Eng-lifh Liberty, was banifhed to the Ilie of Mah, but foon after recalled.
For the Duke of Lancafter, (afterwards 'King Henry IV.) landing in England, was univerfally received by the Nobility gpd People; and Sir William Scroop, Earl of Wiltihire, had his Head ft^uck off without any formal Procefs, for mifgovernihg the King and Kingdom; and the Ifte of M&n was granted by King Henry IV, to Henry Piercy, Earl of Northumberland, upon Condition he (hould carry the Lancafter Sword, (with which the King was girt when he entered England) on his left Shoulder at his own Coronation,, and his SucceiTors the Kings of England for ever;.
This Earl was a hot, enterprizing,, haughty, and ambitious Man, a zealous ‘Terror of the Power of the No.-bility, for which he fell under an Attainder, but was not long after reftored to all his Lands and Honours, the Ifte of Man only excepted, which he was deprived of by Act of Parliament, and the Ifte of Man at firft was ordered to be feized by Sir John Stanley and Sir William Stanley,, for the King’s Ufe only.
Butin the fixth of Henry IV. the King made a Grant thereof to Sir John Stanley for Life, in the Month ofOiftobeW-ahd on the fixth of the enfuing' April?, Siri John Stanley delivered up the (aid Grant to be cancelled in Chancery; and the King in con-fideration of ahe faid furrender, and other
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other valuable Caufes and Conceflions by Sir John Stanley as before, re-granted the faid Ifland to him, his Heirs and Succeffors, with the Caftle and Peel of Man, and all Royalties Regalities, and Franchifes, &c. with
the Patronage of the Biihoprick, in as full and ample a Manner, as it had been granted to any former Lord, to be held of the Crown of England, per hom^gium. legium, paying unto the King a Caft of Falcons at their
Coronation, after fuch Homage made, in Lieu of all Demands, Cuftoms, &c. whatfoever. Anno 1406.
In the Reign of his late Majefty, George I. the Parliament, taking into donfideration the Injury that was done to the Revenue, by the peculiar Situation of the Me of Man, for running foreign Goods into this Kingdom, (which could no Way be avoided, as it was a private Property, and governed by particular Laws of its own) propofed to rhe Duke of Alhol, the Proprietor thereof by Right of Marriage into the Stanley Family, to deliver it into the Hands of the .Government, for a ftipulated Sum, fuppofed to be equivalent to its Value: But the Duke,-unwilling to alienate fo large a Property of his Family, and which had been enjoyed with id much Dignity by his Anceftors, ufed all his Endeavours to ftop fuch a Proposal, and
exerted all his Intereft to fupprefs the Profecution thereof; accordingly for io me Time the Affair was fufpended; but. the Abufes appearing more and more flagrant, and the Injury every Day increafing, in fpite of the Power of Aits of Parliament to fupprefs it, the Parliament paffed an Act, impow-ering certain Perfons to treat with the Duke for the Purchafe thereof, which, after feveral delays, was determined-, upon Condition of the Government’s paying, at a ftipulated Time, the Sum of 70,0001. for the Ufe of the then prelent Duke and Dutchefs of Athol, or their Heirs, or the Heirs of either of them. In. the Year 1765, the Time fixed, the Money being lodged in the Bank. - of England, .purfuant (to the Agreement, as above, the following Proclamation appeared in the Gazette, which finally determined this great and important Affair, .. u ■

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For continuing Officers in the ISLETS? MAN.
y HERE AS by an Adlnrade Hundred and Sixty-five, the Mand, in the laft Seffion of Par- Caftle, Peel, and Lordihip of the Me
liament, intituled, “ An “ Adi for carrying into “ Execution a Contract made, purfu-“ ant to the Adi of Parliament of the
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Twelfth of his late Majefty King George the Firft, between the Com-miffioners of his Majefty’s Treafury, and the Duke and Dutchefs of A-tholl, the Proprietors of tire Me of Man, and their Truftces, for the Pur chafe of the faid Mand and its Dependencies, under certain Exceptions therein particularly mentioned.” It is enacted-, That from and
of Man* and all the Mauds and Lord-fhips to the faid Mand of Man appertaining, together with the Royalties*. Regalities, Franchifes, Liberties, and Sea Ports to the fame belonging, and all other the Hereditaments, andPre-mifes, therein particularly defcribed’ and mentioned (except as therein is excepted) ihould be, and they were thereby unalienably vetted, in us, • our Heirs,, and SuccefTors* freed and dif-
immediately after the Payment into the Bank of England, by us, our Heirs, or Suceeftbrs, in the Names of John Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Dutchefs of Atholl his Wife, Baronefs Strange, S-ir Charles Frederick, Knight of the
empted, and indemnified, of,, from,, and againft, all Eftatesy Ufes, Trufts, Entails, Reverfions, Remainders, Limitations, Charges, Incumbrances, Titles,, Claims, and Demand's whatfo-ever: And whereas we have caufed to be paid into tire faid Bank of England,, in the Names of the faid Duke and
Dutchefs of Atholl,. Sir Charles Frede-, .	rick, and Edmund Holkins, the faid
Vivors or Survivor of them, -of the Sum. of Seventy Thoufand Pounds, on Sum of Seventy Thoufand Pounds^ on the Seventeenth Day of May Tait paft„ or before the Firft Day of June, in the whereby, and- by Virtue of the faid. Year of our Lord one Thoufand feven Ad of Parliament, the immediate Care
.moft- Honourable Qrder of, tire Bath, yandEdmund Hoikir^, Efq> or the Surf
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of our fllid Ifland, and of our loving Subjects therein, is nqwdevolved upony us: And whej&as oy our Corgi? dfhgig^
our Ifland aforefaid, and particularly

bur Clerk of the Roll*, Attorney-Gc-■	neral, ar f Two Deehifters, and all &?
bearing” cveh Date witlrtheff Prefe"t'~ ther Parlons wh$foe*f, who, at th^ We have conftituted and appointed Times aforefaid, arc or fhall be duly, our trufty and well-beloved Johp Wood,’ and lawfully poflefTcd -of, or invft cd life* to be our Governor in Chief, and - in,.any Civil Employment ^except on Captain General, in and over our faid the Officers appointed and employed Ifland Peel and Lordfhip of Man, bv the late Proprietors of our Ifland of. and all the Mauds,, For^ Caftle^and j Mai^ inc^i^”^ —1—tl^
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jpnecting- an£|rf$^iving the
; Revenues arifingwiff tn oui faidfi and, .^ :he and the Territories and Dependencies of the fame) fhall ,from henceforth hold their refpeftive Offices, Places
Lordfhips, thereunto appertaining We, being defirous to provide for the due and regular .'Adminiftration of Juftice within our faid Ifland of Man, and the Territories and Dependencies re the fame ■ appertaining,Aanf o ic-cure the Peace and good Order thereof, and to promote, to tire utmoft-c f our -Power, the Happinefs and Profperity	,	,	- ,	,
of all our lovinghubjeftsr eliding with- ment$,<as have miherto belonged to m the fame have thought fit, with the the fame refpeftively. until .our Royal advice of cur Phvy Council,-to iffiie Pleafare in this Behalf fl ah be fur-this our Royal Proclamation, hereby ftriftly commancing and requiring all Manner of Perfons w hatfoever, to pay
-def us, our Heirs, and SuccefibrsJ^nd flrall continue in the Exerci-c thereof, and fhall enjoy the fame, with fuch, Sa’aries, FeeSj Profits.’ and7 EmOlu-
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due Regard and Obedience to the faid Aft of Parliament, and our faid Ro; al Commidion, and chearfully and dutifully to fubmit themfelves to our faid Governor fo appointed by us,as afore-faid, and to be aiding and affifting to him, and all other our Magistrates and Officers, in the lawful Difcharg e of their Authorities, to them committed and intrufted, as they will
ther known: And we do ftriftly command and enjoin all and every the faid Perfons of whatfoever Rank, Condition, or Degree, to proceed in the Execution of their fai a refpeftive Offices, and to perform all the Duties thereunto belonging, upon Pain of our higheft Difpleafurc: And we do further charge and command all and every our faid Magiftrates, Officers, and Minifters, and all Perlons whatfoever, who fhall hold any Office, Place or Employment, Ecclefiaftical,

zuiiwcx	.....— J—.. C:vil, or Military, within our faid
^ 1 cur Will and PleafureHs, That all ifland of Man, and the Territories and Officers and Minifters who now are, -Dependencies of1 the fame , that with’ in the 8] ate of one Calendar Month from and after the Publication of this
Anfwer the contrary at .heir Perils.
Officers and Minifters who now are, or at the T ime of the Publication of this our Royal Proclamation within our .Hand of Man. ffiall be concerned in the Adminiftration of Judice within
our Proclamation within eur faid Ifland, they do take the Oaths appoint-
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cd to betaken by anAft of Pari ament paAed in the Firft Year of the Reign of his .late Majefty King George tne Firft, intituled,* “An Aft for the further ‘‘ Security of his Majefty’s Perfon and “ Government, and the Succeffion of “ the Crown in the Heirs of the late “ Princefe Sophia, being Proteftants; " and for extinguifhing the, Hopes of ‘^ the pretended Prince of Wales, and “ his open Abettors;” and alfo make, and Yubfcribe the Declaration mentioned in an Aft of Parliament made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, “ An Aft for preventing Dangers “ which may happen from Popifh Rc-“ cufants,” in the Prefence of our faid Governor, his Lieutenant, or Deputy, or in the fuperior Court or Courts of. Record in our faid Ifland, upon Pain of our higheft Difpleafure, and as they will anfwer the Contrary at their utmoft Perils: And our Will and Pleafure further is, that all Jurifdic-tibns and Authorities whatfoever,' which were heretofore carried on and exercifed in the Name of the Lord of our faid Ifland of Man for the Time being, or of any other Perfon or Per-fons whatfoever, and which are now veiled in us, our Heirs, and Succellbrs, by Virtue of the faid Aft of Parliament, fhall be henceforth carried on and exercifed in the Name of us, our. Heirs, and Succeffors only: And that all Writs, Precepts, Proceifes, Orders, Injunctions, and all other Forms of Law and Juftice, and all Afis of State and Policy, for the due Ordering and Government of our laid Ifland, and the Territories andpependenciesthcre-
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unto belonging, fhall be iffited and executed in the Name,, and by the Authority of us, our Heirs, or Succellbrs, or our Governor or Lieutenant-, or Deputy Governor, for the Time being, appointed or to be a jointed by us, our Heirs, and Succeffors, and in no other Name, and by no other Authority whatfoever: And we do hereby ' ftriflly command and enjoin our faid Governor, and all other our Magi-Rrates. and Officers, within our faid Ifland, and the Territories andPepen-cies to the fame belonging, to fee this our Royal Proclamation duly carried into Execution; and to caufe the fame to be publickly read in all the prin-cipalTowns of the faid Ifland,between the Hours of Eleven in the Morning, and Two in the Afternoon; and printed Copies thereof to be affixed in the moft p.ublick Places of the fame, and to be diftributed to all the Minifters of Churches, Chapels, and' other Places of religious Worfhip, within our faid Ifland, and the Territories and Dependencies thereunto belonging: And we do hereby laftly charge and command all Minifters of Churches, Chapels,^; and other Places of religious Worfhip aforefaid, publickly to read this our Royal Proclamation therein, on the next Lord’s Day after they fhall receive the fame, during the Time of Divine Service, immediately before the Homily or Service, upon Pain of our higheft Difpleafure.
Given at our Court at St. James’s, the Twenty-firft Day of June, 1765, in the Fifth Year of our Reign.
GOD fave the KING.
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418	The Hiftory of die IS L E' of MAN.,
TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION
^^ ,HE moll general Divifion of this Me is in North and South, each of which has its Cattle, Deemfter or Judge, and Vicar-General, and both are fiibdivided into feventeen Parts or Parilhes, dif-tinguilhedby the Name of Kirks; and the Saints to whom they were in old Time dedicated, viz.
Kirk-Chrift, of Rufhen.
Kuk-Harbery, dedicated to St. Columbus.
Kirk-Melue, dedicated to St. Lapus. Kirk-Santon.
Kirk-Bradon, which ftgnifies a Salmon in the Manks Language.
Kirk-Marcom.
Kirk-Concan, dedicated to St. Conca,
Mother to St. Patrick,
Kirk-Cannon.
Kirk-Maughald
Kirk-Chrift, of Ayre.
Kirk-Bride or Bridget, a Parfonage. Kirk-Andrew, the Archdeaconry. Jorby, or St. Patrick, of Jorby. Ballough, a Parfonage.
Kirk-Michal.
Kirk-German.
Kirk-Patrick, of Peel.
Their Parilhes are again divided in-
to Sheadings, as the People call them^ viz. the Sheading of Kirk-Chrift, Rufhen, the middle Sheading, the Sheadings of Garf, and Glanfaba, Michal Sheading, and Ayre Sheading, each of which has its Coroner, as the Pa-rifhes have every one a Captain and Minifter, and every Fort its Conftable,, having three Parifhes in every Sheading, but that of Glanfaba, which has but two Parifhes in it. The Mandwas formerly more populous than now it is. At prefent there are but four principal Towns, viz.
I.	Ruihen, the chief Town, lituate on the North-Side of the Me, and from a Cattle and Garrifon in it, commonly called by the Englilh, Cattle-town. It is the ufual Refidence of the Governor, and hath a Market and Fort, but is under no fpecial Officers, as a Mayor, Aidermen, &c. as Corporations are, but Offenders are apprehended and brought to Juft ice by the Officers of the Fort, or Conftable, as in all other Towns and Parifhes. The Cattle is a noble Piece of Antiquity, faid to be built by Gutred, the Second of their Orrys’s, Grandfon of the King of Denmark. At the Foot of the Cattle
The Hiftory of the ISLE of MAN.
is a Creek, where Ships fometimes venture in, not without Danger; but a Mile Diftant is a good Harbour, called Derby-Haven, fecured by a Fort, built by the late Earl of Derby. Pope Gregory IV. or rather Sf, Patrick, who came into the Ifle, eredted an Epifco-pal See here by the Name Fpifcopal Sedorenfis, and his Jutifdidhon was extended to all the Hebrides; but now it is limited to this Illand. -The Bifhop was formerly reckoned a Baron, but never fat in the Houfe of Peers, be-caufe he held of a Subject, the Earl of Derby, And not of the King, yet hath the higheft Seat in the lower Houfe of Convocation.
II.	Douglas, lituate on the Eaft Side of the Hie, the moft populous Town, and the moft fpacious and belt Haven in the tile, the Mouth of which is' fecured fo well by a Fort, that there is not any attempting either the Town or Harbour from the Seaward. In Times of Peace it is much frequented by French and other Foreigners, who come hither with Bay-Salt, Wine and Brandy, and buy up coarfe Wool, Leather, and fait Beef, to carry Home; by which Means this Town- is become the richeft in the Ifle, and has a good Market.
III.	Ramfey, hath alfo a good Haven, defended by a Block-houfe, built by the late Earl.
IV.	Peel or Pile, anciently called Holm-town, hath a Fort, ereAed in a fmall Ifle, and defended with a ftrong Garrifon, which fecures the Harbour. The Caftle has a Platform round it, well fecured with Cannon. In it ftands the ancient Cathedral, dedicated
219
to St. German, the firft Bifliop, and repaired by the Earls of Derby, as alfo a ruined Church dedicated to St. Patrick, their Apoftle. Within this Circuit is the Lord’s Houfe, fome ruinous Lodgings of the Bifhops, .and other noble Remains of Antiquity.
There are fome other Towns of lefler Note, but are remarkable for fome Particulars, as,
Balacufi, on the South Side of the Ifle, where the Bifhop generally re-fides.
Laxy, which has the largeft Haven of any Town in the Ifle.
This Ifle is compafled with huge Rocks round about.
Tire Air is fharp and cold in Winter, and on the South Weft Side it lies, open to the Chops of the Channel, and fo is liable to a fait Vapour, which fometimes has bad Effects, but generally is very wholefome to live in, having no Damps or venomous Vapours arifmg out of the Earth. They have fome Froft, but fhort and feldom.
The Soil in the North Parts is very healthy, fandy, and gravelly, and the North-Eaft has a large Trait of Meadow called Curragh, which was formerly under Water, but is now drained and well improved; but in the South there are good Meadows and Paftures.
All Parts of the Ifle produce ftore of-Wheat, Barley, Rye, and Oats, of late, fince they have learned the Art of Liming their Lands, and manuring them with Sea-Weeds ; . and fome. Places have Plenty of Honey, Flax and Hemp, and export yearly fome Fifh-Oil.
Towards the Middle it is Mountainous, .
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ISLE of MAN.
ous, duel the higheft Hill called Scea-fell, yields a Profpedt into England, Scotland, and Ireland, in a clear Day;
They have Cattle of all Sorts, but their Meat and Hories are fmall and poor, yet will endure a great deal of Labour.
Their-Sheep thrive well, are fat, and well tailed, and their Wool is very good, efpecially that which they call Laughton Wool, which when carefully drefled, makes a Cloth near an Hair-Colour, which is one of the greateft hatual Rarities of"the Country.
They have Plenty of Goats and Hogs of the ordinary Size, befides a fmall kind which live. Wild in the Mountains, called Purs, which are admirable Meat, and fome red Deer in the Mountains’; but they belonged, before the late Cellion to the Government, to the Lord of the Ifle, the Earl of Derby, who had lately flocked the Calf, a pleafant Ifle adjoining, with Fallow Deer, and made it a beautiful Park.
Their Hares are fatter here than in any other Country, and they want not Otters, Badgers, and Foxes.
Fowls alfoof feveral kinds are found here, as I lawks, which in King Henry the IV’s Time, were in fuch Efteem, that Sir John Stanley, the firft King of MAN, in his Patent, was obliged, in lieu of all other Services, to prelent that King and his Succeflbrs, upon the Day of their Coronation, with a Call; of Hawks, Gecfe, Hens, Ducks, Falcons1, and wild FowlaniPlentynv"
On the South Side of the Ifle is another Ifland, called, The Calf of Many which is ftored with a fort of Sca-' .wl, called Puffins, whofe Flefh is
unpleafant; but being pickled, may vie with Anchovies or Caveat. ' They breed in Holes like Rabbits, and are never to be feen but in the Months of June and July, which arc their Times of fitting.
There is alfo another kind, called Barnicles, which are a kind of Ducks and Drakes, faid to be bred out of rotten Wood, but found upon Search, to be produced of Eggs as other Fowl.
Partridges and Farkers will not live here, nor any venomous Creature propagate their Kind.
Here are many fmall Rills of frefh Water, and Springs of a pure pleafant Tafte.
Here is alfo a Pool in the Mountainous Parts near Kirk-Chrift, Rufheri, of fo vitriolick a Quality, that no Ducks or Geefe can live near it, which probably- proceeds from the frequent fpewings of Copper that are difeover-ed on all Sides of thofe Mountains.
They have Sea-Fifh in Abundance,, as Salmon, Ling, Cod, Haddock, Mac-karel, Ray, Thornback, Plaife, but efpecially Herrings, Crabs, Lobflers, and Cockles, but few or no Oyflers; but what they have are very large.
They have no Wood in the Ifle, nor is there a Tree to be feen, tho’ in former Times there was great Plenty, as appears from Goddard Crowman s hiding 300 Men in a Wood, and from the Church called Kirk-Arbory? which feems to be. lb called from Arbor, a. Tree, as alfo f^om the Timber found in their ’Bogs, and efpecially in the Meadows called Curragh, nor have they as yet difeovered any Sea -Coal for Fjfing in their Soil* only they have.
plenty
rhe Hiftory of the .ISLE of MAN.	221
plenty imported, and the poorer Sort make ufe of Gorze, Heath, Ling and Broom, and aeoarfe fort of Turf, or Peet in. digging, when they often find Oaks lying under Ground.
They have feme good Stone Quarries, especially Lime-ftone, on the Sea Shore,. and the Rocks called Mine-haugh, ’ give very. probable Signs of other Minerals. They have alfo lately found Iron, Lead, and Copper, and. there is great Probability of finding Coals.
’This liland feems to have been peopled from the Hebrides, or Weftern Ifles of Scotland, and their Language is a kind of Scotch-Irifh, mingled with Latin, Greek and Englifli.
We have a Specimen of the Manks Language given us in the Lord’s Pray-, er, printed in Bifhop Wilfon’s Enchi-lidion, and a Collection of tire Lord’s Prayer in above a hundred Languages, printed in the Year 1703,
The Peafants are tall in Stature, of a dull furly Temper, and live in poor Huts made up of Stones and Clay, and thatched with Broom.
Their Gentry are courteous and affable, and imitate the Englifh in their Carriage, Apparel, and Houfe-keeping.
The Families df Gentlemen named Chriftian and Caunel are of great Antiquity, and out of them their Deem-flers or udges are ufual chofen.
’Tis almoft certain, that this. liland was never in the Poilcflion of the Romans, and fo retained their original Simplicity longer than the reft of Britain.
* The original Government of this liland was a fort of Ariftocracy; I had
almoft faid Theocracy, under the Druids, admirably adopted to the good of Mankind, and fo mixed with the Prince and Prieft, that Religion and the State had but one united Interefl.
All Controverfies were ended by an amicable Compofition, and the Integrity of.their Rulers was fuch, that their Awards were inftead of Laws. . This was the true Patriarchal Government, to which Virtue, not Birthr was the beft Title, and is fuppofed to have continued' here till the End of the 4th Century, when, according to> Mr., Camden, out of Nenaius, this liland was conquered by one Bailey,; a Scot, who overturned the antient form of Government, and ruled all by his own Will, which Force, not Reafon, fwayed, till Neceflity obliged his SucceiTors to agree in ibme Rules and Laws, which were the Foundation of their prefent Conftitution.
The Laws and Statutes of this liland are fuch, as the Lord C. J. Coke, faith, that the like are not to be found any where elfe.
They were governed of old by a Jus Scriptum, which was committed to die Fidelity of their Deemilers, a certain fort of Judges chofen every Year to. decide all Controverfies, a Cuftom received probably from, the Druids..
All poiiible Care is taken for die fpeedy Execution of Juftice..
The Government of this Me hath, ever fine e its Conqueft by Bailey, been reputed Monarchial, and was governed by Kings of their.own, who claimed the whole Revenues of the Ifle j and all the Inhabitants were Tenants at Will to him, but growing weak in
Power,.
222	The Hiftory of the ISLE of M A bh
Power-, were made Tributaries to the Kings of England, Scotland, or Norway. There Names arc,
Monnan-Mac-Lear, Son of the King of Ulfter, and Brother of Fergus, King of Scotland.' Him the Manks believe their Founder and Legiflator, and have him in great Admiration for his Wif-hom.
Towards the end of his Reign, St. Patrick in his fecond Voyage to Ireland, landed here.
The Names of his immediate Suc-reffors are loft, till
Brenus reigned, A. D. 594, who was fucceeded by
Ferquard, Fiacres, Donald, Gutred, Reginald, Olave, Olain, Allen, Frigall,
Goddard, Macon, or Macutus, Syrric.
Goddard, the Son of Syrric, who reigned	A. D. 1065
Fingul, Son of Goddard, 1066 Goddard, Son of Harold, 1066 Lagman, Son of Goddard, 1082. Dopnal, Son of Tade,	1089
Magnus, King of Norway, 1098 Olave, third Son of Goddard, 1102 Goddard, Son of Olave, 1144 Reginald, natural Son of Godd. 1187 Olave, the lawful Son of Godd. 1226 Harold Son of Olave,	1237
Reginald II. his Brother,	1249
Magnus II. his Brother,	1252
Alexander, King of ScotSj	1260
William Montacute,	1305
Anthony Beck, Bifh. of Durham 1306 Pierce Gavefton, -■	1308
Henry Beaumont, Thomas Randolph,
Alexander, Duke of Albany, William Montacute, Earl of Salif-
Who fold it to Wm. Ld. Scroop, 1395.
Who forfeiting it byTreafon, it fell into King Henry the IVth’s Hands, who gave it to Henry, Earl of Northumberland.
But he was baniihed four Years after, and being deprived of this Ifle, it was given to Sir John Stanley, in whofc Family it has continued through many Defcents ever fince, by the Stile and Title of LORDS OF MAN.
The Duke of Athol, as Lord of Man, was Admiral of the Ifle, and had an abfolute jurisdiction over the People and Soil, fo that he was immediately Landlord of every Man’s Eftate, (fome few Barons only excepted) and referv-ing his Homage to the Crown of England, no Prince had a more full and ample Authority.
He was foie Patron of the Bifhop-rick, and all Parfonages and Vicarages except three, which are in the Patronage of the Biihop. u
He had Power to make and repeal Laws by the Advice of his Deemfters and twenty-four Keys, who mufthave had his Approbation, or he would reject them from the Aflembly.
He had Power of holding Courts in his own Name, might hang and draw, or pardon Malefactors, in his own JurifdiCtion.
All Wrecks, Royal Fiihing, &c. were by his Regality, with many other Prerogatives.
The Civil Policy of their Government was managed by the Lieutenant, who was the Duke’s immediate Representative, and had often been of his Family j with other inferior Officers,
The
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The Hiftbry of the 'ISLE of MAN. .
The Lieutenant or Governor has a Power to call a Tynwald or Parliament, or any other Court, which cannot fit without his Warrant. He {wears Inquefts, is- foie Chancellor, and hath the foie Military Power to place or difplace Officers in Garrifons, or otherwife; and whoever oppofes him in any Place or Thing wherein he reprefents the King, robs him of his Horfe or Arms, heats his Servants, or breaks his Houfe, is a Traitor. Sometimes there has been a Captain-General, but it was only in fome extraordinary Cafes. The other Officers for the. Duke’s Service are.
A Receiver-General, or Treafurer of the Ifland, he has the Charge of the Revenue, and pays all the Salaries of the Civil Lift, but is accountable to
The Comptroller, who always fits with him both on Receipts and Payments, and is the Auditor of the general Accompts.
He fits foie Judge in all Trials for Life in the Garrifon, keeps the Records, and enters the Pleas of the fe-veral Courts, wire re he is allowed Fees.
The Water-Bailiff, who is in the Nature of the Admiral of the Ifland, and fits Judge in all Maritime Affairs. He has the Care of the Cuftoms, Fiffi-ing, Wrecks, &c.
The Attorney-General, who fits in all Courts, to plead for the King’s Profit, as fuing for Felons, Goods, Forfeitures, Depdands, &c. and is to plead the Caufes of all Widows and Or-
phans, they giving him Two-pence
All the aforefaid Officers aft by Com-miffion from the King during Pleafure and upon his Deceafe their Power of acting all expires with him; in the Abfence whereof the Sword takes Place, and the chief Commanding Military Officer, who is generally ftiled Major, takes upon him the Preferva-tion of the Peace of the Ifland, by feizing the Caftle and Forts, preventing all Tumults and Diforder, and all. Perfons from going off the Ifland to the Prejudice of the Inhabitants, until the Civil Power is reft ore d and re eftablifhed by new Commiffions- from, the fucceeding King
All the faid Officers were efteemed of the Houfhold or Court, and formerly had their Dyet in the Family,, where a conftant Table was kept for them and their Attendants: Thefe Officers are all by their Places Juftices; of the Peace, and are in all Things fo aft for the King’s Profit:- The King may call them as a Council to his Affiftance when he thinks proper, or Occafion requires, either for the Service of himfelf, or the Country.
The Deemfters, or Judges, are the firft public Magiftratcs. of the State but were never part of the Houfhold or Family: They fit as Judges in all. Courts either for Life, or Property; they have always been two, one for each- Divifion- of the Iflc, they arc ftiled in the antient Court Rolls Jufti— ciaryDonnni-Rgis, whether they have their Names Im^u the old Word to Deem, Judge, eft Determine, or to Doom; Sentence, bi? Condemn, I am not informed, nor caioake upon me to afeertain,. but by tfie:jAtjvicc of the
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224	ThejHitey of- th^ of MAK’*'
twenty-four Keys theymay in all hew and uncommon Cafes, declare what the Law is, in fuch Cafes wherein the Jhaw is not fully expreft.
' ■ - By the ancient Law of the Ifle it is provided, that if any Perfon accufe the Deemfters of Injuftice, or male Admmiftration, he'forfeits Life and LimbrJ^he Summons or Procefs ufed by them is the fame with the Governor^ tq yvit. A Slate Stone with one jc T o 'Letters of their Name made upon it, and to counterfeit or mifap-ply this Procefs, is as highly Penal in themLaw as the counterfeiting the Lord bhiefi Juftices Warrant is with
AySgr the Deemfters the twenty-four 1^ eys are the Reprefentativ^s of the Country, and in fome Cafes ferve as the Grand Inqueft of the Ifle-: They are the laft Traverfe in all Cafes of Common Law, are prefenf at all Tri-& fils: fbiyLife, and in Conjunction with A rhe Governor and Officers of the Houf-fiold aforefaid, make the Legislative .Power of that little Nation,
The next Officers are the Coroners of each Sheading or Divifion, who act in the Nature of Sheriffs, and are fubordinate to .the twenty-four Keys. * Eyery Parilh hath likewife an Officer called a Moar, which i the Lord’s •Bailiff, and each of them have a fubordinate Officer not worth our Notice-	. r
\ The Courts of Judicature are ufually tyrice jn the Year, to wit-, about May and Michaelmas,_ the firft are called Sheading Cotuts, and m the nature of our Hundred Courts, or Courts Leet and Baron; thefe are held for the
King’s Profit, and relate to all Breaches of' the Peace, and all Prefentments are here made upon any Violation of then Laws-or public'Orders.	;
Immediately after . tl^efe* 'are r held, the Common Law Courts where, all Addons relating to Mens Properties are tried; thefe'Courts were formerly held' in every Sheading r.diftimftly, but; now have proper Places appointed for the holding'® them, with all due ib regard tofhe'Eafe anti Benefit o^Tthe People/'.	; wm :
Next after thefe follows, the. Grand Court'or General Goal Delivery , in which are managed all Trials for Life, and perhaps there is: no Place in jhe Univerfe where Meuf have a fairer Trial, nor where rhe- talcing away Life is more tenderly regarded, *
In this Court the Governor prefides* affifted by the King’s Officers,i with the Bifhop and his Clergy.r rf.
’ The Deemfters fit as Judges with the twenty-four Keys, to advife with in cafe'any new Matter arifes; theCri-minal muft be firft found Guilty of the Crime he ftands charged with by the Grand Inqueft, and if the Cafe be Treafon or Murder, the Witnefles have a very particular and folemn Oath adminiftered to them, to wit. The Clerk who adminifters the Oath opens the Book of the Gofpel, and the Wit-nefs or Evidence lays his Right Hand open upon it, then the Clerk fays to him. ,	.
- Byytti^jBook of- .Truth, by all-the Holy and Sacred Body of the Church, by all the wonderful Works and mighty Miracles GOD Almighty wrought in fix Days and feven Nighty in.


in Heaven above, and Earth beneath, you fhall fpcak the Truth, and,,fay nothing thauislfalfe for Love or Eear, f avour or Affection Confagiiinity or Affinity, or any other Confideration whatfoevery fo may you be helped by the’Son of GOD, and by the Contents of this Book whereon-your Hand noW Ires; then the witnefs Kiffes rhe Book
Aftercthis, a peculiar Jury of four cut of every Parifh in the’Ifland is im-panneled, and the Prifoner may make liis exception ayainft fifty-fix and no inure, and if his cafe be Felt ny only, and he fufpefts it will go hard w ith him; he may put himfelf tc. the King’s Mercy, and lb evade the Try al and Sentence by the Court, and the King* by their Law, as W^ll.as by his Prerogative, grants him his Grace In fetch manner as he drinks proper.
Bur if he ftand his Tryal for Life, when the Jury"come into Court, and before they deliver their Verdift, the Deemfters afk them, whether the Bald Pates, (to wit, the Clergy^, may fit. and if the Foreman anfwer no,
J. or > lylj/VJN?. '	2.2£
ly, wherein^ the‘Governor fits Cole Chancellor, and may call the King’s Council and the Deemfters to advifq with, as he fees proper. *
All Actions brought in Chancery are * entered in the Comptroller's Office, . of which tile Plaintiff prefents the Governor a Copy, who grants liis To r ke 1 upon it. to fummons the Defendant, who may refute appearance for three .Court Days, button the fotirtli he is brought in by a Soldier, and the. Matter heard, ’ and determined.; i? fo. fpeqdy is the Juftice of this little Government that/t may challenge the World. ’
The Religion profefTed In this [fie is exactly the fame with the Church of England; but they have not the Bible in .their own, Language: The Minifters turn the Englifh Tranflaticn into the Mauks Language ’in reading the Leffons.
The Mar rfmcn are very refpc-ftful to. their Clergy/ and. pay . their Tithes vithoutjhc leaft Grudging.
■ i<: Clergy are general./ Natives,, who have had their Education in the
■then the Bifhop and Clergy withdraw,	_ ___ ______________ . .	_
.las not proper /or the 1 tc fit or pals ( Ifle, They are fober and learned, and Sentence in cafes of Blood- anc then the Verdict is delivered; ’and rhe Criminal found guilty, and executed ps
are allowed a competent Maint rance of yc or 6oi. a Year
- . The People are lb fuiftly conformable that in Uniformity they outdo any other Branch cf the Reformed Church. r	-
.	, .	;	There werefanciently, .in this ifle
fines are fei, and there is .alfoan/Exf-, ^thpee Monafteries? viz. The ’ Mo-iChehfieTGpifre^hichr is held as^often- m^ i?fr££3Maia®^ as>?$he /Governor pleafes, or Occafion .Caftlcffo^^Yhicj^^
Requires'; and there is alfo a Court of tRe BRiyiiig-pUce of' the Icings of .Chancery, which anci'ently was-held-’.MAN;/	i
oxbit .was [&gQ$||^a^
the Court directs, or if acquitted, ,dif-
'There is likewife another Court cal-ed ;tht 'Debet Court, jn? which; all
as>
Weekly, but at prefentds kept Month-.
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226	The Hiftoty of the
by fhe Ruths, It coii lifted of an Ab-Bdl and twelve Monks; who had good Revenues. The Chapel was the large ft Place of GOD’s Worlhip in the Ifland except the Cathedral.
It Was a Daughter Of FufnefS Ab» bef, as Werb fom’d other Mo naileries ih this Ifle-. The Abbots of it were BLoiis htfld Courts for their Temporalities, And tryed thSif oWn Tenants*
2f Douglas, a Priory fbr Nuns. This Houfe is laid to be built by St; Bridget, and :the. Priorefs was a Barohefs of the Iflahcl, It is til'd moft pleafahtly fitu-atedflhThe Ifle/
3. At Brinnaken, an Houfe of the Liars Minors', a fmall Plantation of the Cifteftian Order.
The Abbots alfo of St. Bees, of Wbittern, ih Galloway, and Banchor, in Ireland, were Barons of Man, be-cauie they held Lands in this Iflaffd, pon Condition of attending upon the Kings and Lords of it when required. * Having now with fome pains and perplexity of thought, attended and brought my Reader through the ob-fcure and intricate Hiftory, Conftitu-tion, Civil Government, and Antiqui-ties of the little Kingdom of MONA, and corrected and amended what I "have judged Error-or Miftake in former Writers on that Subject.
What remains before I conclude,
firft Works to purge the Kingdom of Heathenifh Superftition, and expel the Druids, a fort of Priefts held in ihoft Lorn its'firft CbiWerfiOn co Chriftianity, -Days in great Rejiuation ■their manu. with the Growth^ State, and Gbv&fh^ met was, to celebrate fheiT Sacrifice iAentof tkd Church; ftsTftlhppS, Paf- 'and ocher Ritesiri Groves, with Leaves "tors and ■' Jveffeers, from the earlieft and Brances of Oak. And from date, a$f<!lghe moft approved Authori- hhente, faith Pliny, they Were ’called U<^I'hUycheCn able 'to dolledtfrb'm the Druids, winch doth lignify on Oakr
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but that I give the world the EcclefiaL hick Hiltm - Jof this little’Kingdom,
ISLE of MAN. various Writers and HiftorlefSof thofe Ages. • (
The firft mention I meet with of Chriftianity's appeararice in the Ifle of Man, is in Capgrave’scLife of Jofeph Of Arimathea, wherein he tells us of ohe Mordaius, a King of that Ifle, be-# Ing concerted to Chriftianity, about rhe Year of Salvation 63, who had hiS refideiice hi a City called Sodoray if this Story be true (which I much doubt on as hereafter) Chriftianity had an early Plantation in this? Ill anti, but it is matt er of wonder to me, that this Converfion of the King fhould hot have had a more general Influence over the People, for in all the Authors I have met with, I find no mention of Chriftianity in this part of the World of -near 400 Years after this Story, except in another fuch like Story; by Hedtor Boetius, who relates that one Amphibalus was Bifhop here about 'the Time aforefaid, but as this Story is rejected by moft Men of Learning, except Arch-bifhbp SpotfwOod, I fhall with deftetence con-icier him, fo far as to give you his Relation thereof from his own Words, Book ift. fol. 3d. and then make my remarks thereon.
In which Book he acquaints us, that one Cratilinth coming to the Crown in the Year 277, made it one of his
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The Hiftory of *the
Cafar in his Commentaries gives us this further Account of them, that befides the managing of Sacrifices, which were committed to them, they were entrufted with the Decifion. of Controverfies, Public and Private ; and that fuch as would not Hand to their judgment were Interdi&ed from being prefent at their Sacrifices and Holy Rites, which was taken for a grievous Punifhment in thofe Days.
It is likewife teftified of them, that they were well Learned in all natural Philofophy, Men of Moral Converfa-tion, and for Religion, not fo grofly ignorant and fuperftitious as other Heathen Priefts, for they thought there was one only God, and that it was not lawful to reprefent him by any Image: That the Souls of Men did not perilh with their Bodies, and that after Death Men were rewarded according to the Life they had led upon Earth: They lived likewife in great refpect with all People, and ruled their Affairs with great Prudence and Policy; for being governed by a Prefident, who kept his fefidence in the Ifle of Man, they did once every Yean meet in that Place to take Counfel together for the better ordering of their Affairs, and carried matters with fo much Difcretion, that the faid King Cratilinth, found it difficult to expel them, becaufe of the favour they had amongft the Peopfe.
But that which contributed greatly to the propagation of the Gofpel in this Ifle, was the Perfecution raifed by Dioclefian, which at that time prevailed very greatly in the South part of Britain, find brought many Chril-tians, both-Preachers and Profeffor^
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IS LT of MAN. ■ 127 into the Kingdom of Man, who were all kindly received by King Cratilipth, and had afligned them by him, Lands and Revenues fufficient for their Maintenance.
In this Ifle, King Cratilinth erected a (lately Church to' the honour of pur Saviour, which he adorned with all neceffary Ornaments, and called ft, Sodorenfe Fanum, that is, The Temple of our Saviour; hence it is f(fays the above Story) that the Biihop st of Man, are called Sodorenfes Epifcopy.
So long as this Ifle remained'^ the Ppfieffion of the Scots, the Biihops of the Illes -made that Church their Cathedral, but fince their Difpoflelfion the Ifle of Jona, hath been the Seat 01 the Biihops of the Ifles, and continued! fo to this Day. In this Ifle, Am-phibalus (above-mentioned) is faid to have fat firft Biihop, a Britain born, and a Man of excellent Piety: He lived long, preaching carefully the Doctrine of Chrift,. both among the Scots and Pifts, and after many labours taken in promoting the Chriilian Religion, died peaceably in the faid Ines'. Thus far the learned and good Biihop Spotfwood, who an my humble Opinion, with all reverence I think preferred his Zealfor Chriftianity, before liis Judgment in the Cafe abovdQ^
For tliere are fo many Improbabilities in this and the Story before it, that I cannot omit to obferve fome of them. Firft, Hedor Boetius fays, Am-phibalus -fled from the Perfecution of Dioclefian, inSouth Britain, in the Year 280^,	Dioclefian did not
obtain the.'-Empire till the Year 286, neither did^die tenth Perfecution arife g^E ' ■ J A	-	^1
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till the Year 302; and Gildas, and Polydore Virgil fay exprefty, that both St. Alban and Amphibalus fuflered Martyrdom .in the Year 305, and the general ftream of all Britith Writers concur id, this Martyrdom, neither do any of the Scotch Writers mention Amphibalus, in the Life of Cratilinth, before Heftor Boetius, and his. followers;
And it is in my Judgment almoft impoffible to conceive, that the Manks Ration fhould- preferve no memory, of-fo confiderabie a Bleffing as their firft Convention to Chriftianity; befides, all their Traditions are direftly againft iq and Matthew Paris affirms, that the Body of Amphibalus, was found at Radburn,' near St. Albans, in the Year 1178, and many other marks of his Martyrdom at Radburn, ftrongly conclude he died for Ins Religion in England, and never fled to the Iflp of Man to ereft a Bifhoprick, and Fanum So-dorenfe> befides, it muft appear Something wonderful and furprizing, that no memory of Chriftianity, nor ruin of any fuch Church fhould be found, or fo much as mention made of them at the time of St.. Patrick’s landing there, which is enough with me to ihew there is nothing of truth or certainty in the abovefaid Story.
Next to. the faid Accounts already taken Notice of, ,Mr. Camden, my Lord Cook, and Doctor Heylin,' all three affirm, that the Bifhoprick in the 1114 of Man, was eredted, by Pope G^egqry IV. Anno 840^ in, an Ifland ■near Caftletown, whereas the Bilhop-rick is fufiiciently proved, by the great Primate of Armagh, to be erected, by
St. Patrick, about the Year 447 as hereafter, and the Place itfelf (hews there is no fuch Ifland near Caftlctown..
And herewith all the Ecclefiaftical Writers of any Credit in thofe Ages * agree, that St. Patrick (alias Patricias,) was the firft that planted the Chriftian Religion in the Ifle of Man, and fince their ancient, authentic, and national Tradition concur therewith, I canrot but allow him to be truly the Apoftle of the Manx Nation, as well as-for the Reafons following. T	r j
Firft, If I remember my Reading rightly, I have met with it in the curious Eflays of the, great and; learned Lord Montaigne,, who lived about the Time of Pope Gregory IV; or not long after.. This Pope was faid to. be a Per-fon of great Learning, Piety, and Virtue, and a zealous promoter of the Chriftian Faith, by which he obtained the Epithet of Great;,who walking on a Time through the Market-place of Rome,: efpied a Number of beautiful Captive Children fitting there to be Sold, which induced his Companion as well as Curiofity to go up to them', and enquire of thofe that Sold them what Country they were of, and being told they were. Britains, he then aiked, if they were Chriftians, and was an-fwered, No? Upon which he faid, it was great pity that fuch angelical Faces fhould not be made Chriftians..
In confequence whereof he foon. after fent St. Patrick, with twenty more Affiftants, to preach’the Gofpek .and convcrtuoChriftianky the People of Scotland and Ireland; for it does nor appear he came into Ireland till the Year 441, and Auftiri the.' Monk had
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had been fent 'into England before gor, hi Wales-,1 'which SvaY the firft -him by the fame Pope. 1 nod h$M Bilhdprick' ’Wehlau of > among- the h St. Patrick with his CbmpanY, Hay- ^ritains/and 11'4 Years before Auftin ing landed in North Britain, ihetdyi'th J'the 1Monk:)intrdduced0the Lifurgyfbf great Succefs in .their-Million, hpon -thb Latetlh, and thereby fc absolutely which St-Patrick, leaving St. Andrew -q-- -q---
and other learned Preachers to pur-
file the great work of propagating Chriftiahity there, palled over to Ireland, where he found the Harvell great, but the Labourers too few; whereupon he returned to North Bri-
feitled the hufinfefs of Religion, that tile Illand never afterwards relapfedi
Germanus died before St, Patrick,
who fent two Bilhops to fupply his place, Conindrius and Romulus-, of whom we have little memorable, but
-that,one or both of them furvivedSt.. tain in the Year 444; and collecting Patrick, to the Year 494, being five together fome of his former Affiftants, - Years,/when, one'St. Maughold was-with fome new Converts of learned ‘jfereCtcdJBilhop by the univerfal Suf-and religious Perfbns, to the Number yfefafg^'of the Manks Nation; but by of thirty, he came with them throughly whom confederated is-very uncertain, the North of England, to take Ship- as ■ allo his 'Succeflors for fome Ages, ing at Liverpool, or the South of Irbh. which 1 ihall ftudioufly omit, and land, and on his approach near that only acquaint my Reader that one St. Town,, the People came out to receive Columbus is acknowledged by all him, and at the Place they met him, ’Writers to be the Founder of the Ab-eredted a Crofs in honour and memory . by of Hye, in the Illand of Jona,. thereof, and called it by his Name,, which Monaftry was the Cathedral of which it bears to this Day. _ ’ the Bilhops of the Tiles,.who were from
St. Patrick and his- Company having that Time filled (Epifcopus Sodorenfis) relied and reffeihedthemfelves awhile, from a^ Village called Sodor adjoining at Liverpool, took Shiping for Dublin, to the faid Monaftry.
but in his PaiTage put into the Me of Man, where he found the People, ef-pecially the Rulers, given to Magic f but being overcome and convinced by
But after the Ide of Man tv as made
his Preaching and Miracles, they were either converted or expelled the Illand.
St. Patrick and his Company going for Ireland, Anno 447,. left one Ger-manus„ a holy, and prudent Man, (ad regendum & erudiendum populum in fide Chriili,. fays Jocelinus) which for the honourof the Manks Nation, was fixty-nine. -Years ancienter, than Ban?
the Seat of the Norweigean Race, the Biihopricks were united, -with the "Title of Sodor and Man,, and fo continued, till conquered by the Engliih, fince. which the Bilhops of Man keeps liis claim, and the Scotch Bifhop ftiles himfelf Biihop of die Ides, anciently,. Epifcopus Inlularum Sodorenfium-
I could here enlarge pretty much on, the Succeflion of the Bimops of this Ilie, from the Time of Saint Maughold, yet as. it is. not certainly knowm
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HOW long St. Maughoid fat Bifliop we do not find, only Dr. Heylin fays, he was Bi-lliop Anno 578, .of which we have no other certainty, nor of a Succeffor till the Year 600.
Whofe Name was Coranus, Tutor to the three Sons of Eugenius, the* fourth King of Scotland, (as Bilhop Spotfwood informs us) after him the Succeflion appears wholly broken till the eleventh Century, yet during this long Vacancy many Errors arofe, and many Miftakes were advanced concerning it, which moft of our Englilh Writers have fallen into without any good ground in Hiftory, lave that’ the Bilhoprick of the Ifles, had irs Beginning about that Time, to wit, Tn the Year 840.
In a very ancient Manulcript by the
Reverend Mr. Henry Jones, Nephew to the Right Rev. Dr. Fell, Bilhop of Oxford; we meet with an exaCt Suc-cellion for above 200 Years, which in the Opinion of the learned, was extracted from the Roll of the antient Abby of Ruihen, in the Ifle of Man.
This Manufcript by way of Introduction informs us, that tho' they had a traditional Succeflion of Bifhops. from the Time of St. Maughold, yet they were not certainly known, therefore- it was thought proper to omit them, and begin from the Time of King Goddard Crowman,, as before pfopofed. 7-r
In whole Reigh .we myet1 with one Hamundus, byfomC wntten Vernxun-dus, BifhoV of Mah,, and probably was the firft Bilhop ftiled of Sodor and Man. He was die Son of Joie, a
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ISLE of MAN.
Mankfman. Matthew Paris fays he died in the Year i irji. It is not certain ’by whom, lie jvas confecrated, nor his Succeflor, wha-was one.
Gamaliel, an Englilhman, who lies buried at Peterborough, in Northamp-tonfhire; and was fucceeded by Reginald, a Norwegian; to him the Thirds? of all the Livings in the liland were granted by the Clergy, that from rence-forward they might be freed from all ^Epifcopal Exactions? It-'is probable that he was the firft Bifhop that was confecrated by the Archbi-^ ill op of Drontheim, in Norway. rHis-Succeflor was one Chriftian, a Native of the.Ifle, who lies buried in the. Mo • naftry’bf Banchor, in Ireland; to him fucceeded,
Michael, a Mankfman, a Perfon of great Merit and exemplary Life. He died in- a good old-Age, and -was honourably buried apud Fontanus. In the Year 1203, to him fucceeded,
Nicholas de Melfa, Abbot of Fur-nefs,. He lies buried in,the Abby of Bangor.
After him Reginald, a Perfon of royal Extraction, Sifter’s Son to good King Olave, was confecrated Bifhop in the Year 1216; who though he laboured under great Infirmities of Body, yet governed his Church with Prudence and ^efolution; .at laft,, with an exemplary Refignation, he yielded up his Soul into the Hands of his Creator. He lies buried in the Abby of Rufhen^ Apd ^sTuccec^ by^q i^orf^ nF _ Jolin, tl^e Son o^Hefar^j^ho. by thej Negligence; .dF/liis Servants w$.s burnt/ apud Je^as^p Angara;, After ^^l^efo	^vz pH .tuM
Simond, a Perfon of great Difcre-tion and learned Jn the. Holy Scriptures,* governed the Church with Prudence and Piety, He held a Synod in the Year 1239, ur which thirteen Ca-nons were excepted, moft of them relating to the Probate of Wills, the Clergy’s Dues, and other inferior Matters. He died at his Palace of Kirk-Mlchal in a,good old. Age, and lies b ried. in the Cathedral dedicated to St. German in. Peel Caftle. After him
Lawrence, the Arch-deacon.before-; mentioned, was elected Bifhop, and after great Difputes, confecrated by the Arch-bifhop of Drontheim, but was unfortunately drowned with Harold, King of Man, his Queen, and almoft all the Nobility of the Ifles; fo that the Bifhoprick continued vacant almoft fix Years,
When. Richard, an Englilhman was confecrated at: Rome by the Afch-bi-fhop of Drontheim. This Bifhop Confecrated-the Abby Church of St. Mary-, of Rufheh; Anno 1257, after he had governed the Church Twenty-three Years, and returning from a general Council, Anno 1274, he died. Apud Langallyner in Copelandia, and lie th buried in the Abby of Furnefs. In his Time the Scotch conquered the Ifland. He was fucceeded by
Marus Galvadienfis, commonly written Galloredinus, at -the Nomination of;Alexander, King of Scotland; for wbich Reafon’tis fpppofe d he was ;ba-nifliedby the Manlfmcn; during his abfencc, the Ifland lay. under an Interdict, but at laft being recalled, he laid a Smoke Penny upon every Houfe by; way of . Comniutation. Fie held a
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ISLE of MAN.	233
a Synod at Kirk-Braddan, in which, thirty-five Canons were enafted. He lived 'to a great Age, and was for many Years blind, and lies buried in St. German’s Church, in Peel Caftle, and was fucceeded by
Mauritius, who was fent Prifoner .to London by King Edward I. therefore fuppofed never to be confecrated nor put into the'Catalogue of Bifhpps. In his room was fubftituted
Allen, of Galloway, wild governed the Church with great Honour and Integrity. He died the 15 th of February Anno 1321, and lies at Rotherfay, in Scotland. To him fucceeded
Gilbert, of Galloway, who fat but two Years and a half, and lies buried near his Predecefior, in the Church of Rotherfay aforefaid. And after him
Bernard, a Scotchman, held the Bi-flioprick three Years, and lies buried in the Monaftry of Kilwining, in Scotland, and was fucceeded by
Thomas, a Scot, who fat Bifhop fourteen Years; he was the firft that exacted Twenty Shillings of his Clergy by way of Procuration, as likewife the Tenths of all Aliens. He died the 20th of September 1348 the fame Year.
William Ruflel, Abbot of Ruflien, was elected by the whole Cler of Man, in St. German’s Church, in Peel-Caftle. He was confecrated by Pope Clement VI. at Avignion, and was the firft that ihook oft’ the Yoke of the Archbiflibp of Drontheim by whom his Predeceflbrs had for many Ages been confecrated. He held a Synod Anno 1350, jn Kirk Michael, in which five Articles were added to the former
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Canons. He died the 21ft of April, 1374, and was buried in the Abby of Furnefs; he was Abbot of Ruihen eighteen Years,' and Bifliop twenty-fix Years: And after him
John Duncan, a Mankfman, was elected by the Clergy of Man, and going to Avignion was confirmed by Pope Gregory XI. and confecrated per Cardinalem Prefieftium, dudum Aj chipifcopum; in his return home he was made Prifoner at Bolonia, in Picardy,-and lay in Irons two Years, and at laft was forced to ranfom himfelf for 500 Marks; fo that he was not in-flailed till the Year 1376, in which Mr. Jones’s Account determines he was fucceeded (as Dr. Heylin in his help to Englifli Hiftory informs us) by
Robert Welby, Anno 1396, who ’tis believed fat twenty-two Years, and had for his Succeifor
John Sperton,i who is the firft Bifliop mentioned in the Manks Records ; after him we find no Bifliop named till the Year 1503, in which
Evan or Huan who was defied by Sir Thomas Stanley, then Governor, and afterward Lord, from whence may be obferved the Clerk’s Eleftion of their Bifliops ceafed, and became fixed in the Houfe of Stanley, where it remained till the Hand being pur-chafed by the Government, the King of England is become perpetual Nominator. This Evan was fucceeded by .
Hugh Hcfketh, as appears by the Roll of tiie Family of RufFord, viz. Hugh Hefketh, third Son to Robert, Efquire, a Rev. Father jn God, the Bifliop of the Hie of Man; and hicjacet h	Robertas
3'54 The Hifloiy of the
ISLE of MAN.
Robertas Hefketh, Armiger, qui obit primo Die Jan. A. D. 1490. He was fucceeded by
Robert Ferrier, who fat Bifhop Anno 1554, fays Sir Richard Baker.' He was afterwards removed to St. David’s (fays Grafton) and was fucceeded by
Henry Man, Anno 1555, who died 1556, fays Dr/Heylin, and was fucceeded by /
Bifhop Salifbury, the Year, uncertain ; whofe Succeflbr was
Thomas Stanley, Son to Sir Edward Stanley, firft Lord Monteagle, how long he fat is uncertain, but it appears by Record, John Merrick Was fworn Bi-fliop of the Hies? Anno 1577. It was , he who gave Mr. Cambden the Hifto-ry of the Ide of Man, publifhed in his Britannia. He was fucceeded by
George Lloyd, Anno 1600,- who was afterwards removed to Cheder. And had for his Succeflbr
Bifhop Fofter, as Dr. Heylin in his help to Englifh Hiftory informs us. And was fucceeded by
Dr. ohn Phillips Anno 1605, a Native pf North Wale§, who was fworn Bifhop the fame Year. He Tranflated the Common Prayer (at this Time to be feen,) into the' Language of the Natives; and Mr. Challone'r fays, the Bible, though not now extant, A Man famous in his. Generation for his great Pains in Preaching, his( Charity and Hofpitality, even to the meaneft of the People. He was fucceeded by
Dr. Richard Parr, Anno • 1635, a Lancashire Man, fometime Fellow of Brazen-Nofe College in Oxford; who whilft he continued in the Univeriity (fays Mr. Challoner of his own Know-
ledge) was an eminent Preacher. He Was the lail who fate Bifhop before our late unhappy Civil Wars. Next to him
. Samuel Rutter, was fworn Bifhop Anno 1661. Pie had been Arch Deacon feveral Years, and governed' the Church with great Prudence, during the then late Wars: He was a Man of exemplary Goodnefs and Moderation, and fat Bifliop till the Year 1663, to whofe Afliflance I- am greatly obliged for his Collections and Memoirs made ufe of in my prefent Hillary of the noble Houfe of Stanley, but especially in that ever memorable Siege of L A-THAM; the defence whereof he had a large fhare in. After him
Dr. Ifaac Barrow, was Confecrated Bifhop Anno 1663, and fent over Governor by Charles Earl of Derby. He was a Man of a Public Spirit, and great defigns for the good of rhe Church ; to whofe Induftry is'greatly owing all the Learning amongft the Clergy of Man, and to whofe Prudence and Charity many of the Poor Clergy owe the Bread they: eat. This good Man fo-the great lofs of the Ifland was removed to St. Afaph. And was fucceeded by
Dr. Henry Bridgeman Anno. 1671 And after him •
Dr. John .Lake, Anno , 1682, afterwards removed to Briftol. And next to him
Dr. Baptift Levinz, Anno 1684, who died 1693 : And was fucceeded by the
Reverend Dr. Thomas Wilfon, who ' dying in 1755', the Rev. Dr. Mark Hildefley, the prefent Bifhop, fucceeded.
The
The HiHory of the ISLE of MAN,
The Church of'Man is governed under a Bifhop, by an Arch Deacon, two Vicars General, and fixteen- Mi-hiHers.
The Militia under the Governors, by three Majors and eighteen Captains of Parifhes,’ the. Towns1 by the four ConHables. And the Civil ConHituti-on by two Deemflers, fix Coroners, feventeen Moars or Bailiffs, with fe-veral inferior Officers under them.
The Bifhops of Man, befides .their Spiritual Jurifdidtion, are Barons of this Me. In all Tryals for Life they may a RIH in the Temporal Court till the Sentence. Th^ hold Courts in their own Names for their Temporalities, if any of their Tenants are try-ed for tife they may demand them from the King’s Court, and try them by a Jury of their own Tenants, and, in Cafe of Conviction, the Lands they hold are forfeited to die Bifhop.
The Arms of the Bifhoprick are upon three Aflents, die Virgin MARY,
bot, who at firfl were meanly endowed, and lived modly by their Labour but in Proccfsof Time they had good Revenues.
The Buildings are very handfome, the Rooms convenient’, and the Chapel larger than any thing, (the Cathedral excepted) in the Ifland. It wds
Handing with her Arms extended be- called the Daughter of Furnefs, which? tween two Pillars, on the Dexter where- is Taid to be the Mother of this and of is a Church in bafe, the ancient rhany other Abbys in the Ifle of Mam Arms of MAN.	' In the Records thereof is found,
- A	H h 2	. ■ That
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The Arch-deacon is die fecond Spiritual Magidrate; he has in all inferior Cafes alternate jurifdi&ion with, the Bifhop ; and many-other privileges, as well in Temporals as Spirituals; He holds his Courts either in Perfon or by his Official, as the Bifhop does his by his Vicars general, which are always two, one for each Divifion of the Ifle, and arc in the nature of Chancellors to ths Bifhop •, thefe with the Regifters compofc the Confiflory Court, and have under their JurifdiCtion feven-tcen Parifhes.
There were formerly many Chapels in the Ifle, and there are now in each Town one Handing, as alfo one in the centre of the Land dedicated to St. John, near which, on a little Hill, they hold their Tynwald Court, or publick AfTembly, at which their Laws are promulged on every Midfummer Day, •as being railed with feveral Afcents for the different Orders of People, and is indeed a pretty Curiofity.
But above all, the Abbies feem to have .exceeded the Ability of the Country, among which the Abby of St. Mary of Rufhen was the chief, it confided of twelve Monks and an Ab-
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That one John Fargher, was Abbot -of Ruthen and Deputy Governor, and in a Piece of Timber, in Kirk Arbory, which feparates the Church frpm the Chancel, one Thomas Radcliffe, was Abbot of Rufhen.
Thefe Abbots were Barons of the Ifland; held Courts for their Temporalities in their own Names, might demand a Prifoner from the King’s Court, if their own-Tenant, and try him by a Jury of their own Tenants, as the Steward of the Abby Lands may do at this Day.
The Priorefs of Douglas, was a Ba-ronefs of the Ifland, and enjoyed the fame Privilege. The Priory was faid to be built by St. Bridget, when ihe came to receive the Veil of. Virginity from St. Maughold. The Situation of the Nunnery is much the pleafanteft in the Ifland.
There were likewife the Friars Minors of Beemaken, and a fmall Plantation of the Ciftertian Order, in Kirk-Chrift lez Ayre, but neither of thefe had Baronies annexed to them.
There were likewife feveral foreign Barons as before-mentioned; but few or none of them appear now, nor have any Lands or Tenants to repre-fent.
Thus I have given my Readers the Hiftory, Conftitution, and Settlement of this little State in all its Branches, Civil, Military7, and Ecclefiallic; with all the fubordinate Officers neceflarily employed therein, by which the People in Church and State are to be governed; with an Hiftorical Account of their Kings and Bifbcps
To conclude;TheIfle of Man is bleft with a fpeedy and impartial Diftribu-tion of Juftice: The Church is filled with learned and pious Divines; and the Doftrine, Practice, and Difcipline thereof are ftriftly conformable to that of the Church of England: And though it be as much ihort of its Learning, as it is of its Revenue, yet, without Vanity it may be truly faid, that in its Uniformity it out does any Branch of the reformed Churches.
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A Catalogue of the Governors of this Ifle, fmce Sir Jolin Stanley’s Time, till the Year, 1741. with the North and South Divifions.
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Governors Names.	The Year.
JOHN Letherland, Lieut. 1417
John Fafakerley, Lieut.	1418
John Walton, Lieut.	1422
. Henry Byron, Lieut.	1.428
Note. I find no Record from this Time, till the Year	1492
Peter Dutton Lieut.	1496
Henry Radcliff, Abbot of Rufhen Deputy	1497
Randolph Ruthton, Capt.	1505
Sir John Ireland, Knight, Lieut.	1508
John Ireland, Lieut.	1516
Randolph Rufliton, Capt.	1517
Thomas Danifport, Capt.	1519
Richard Holt, Lieut.	1526
John Fleming, Capt.	15-29
Thomas Sherburn, Lieut.-	1530
Henry Bradley, Deputy-Lieut..	1532
Henry Stanley, Capt.	1533
George Stanley, Capt.	1535
Thomas Stanley, Knt, Lieut.	1537
George Stanley, Capt.	1539
Thomas Tyldlley, Deputy	1540
William Stanley, Deputy	1544
Henry Stanley, Capt.	13-3-2
Thomas Stanley, Knt. Lieut.	1562
Richard Athton, Capt.	' 13-66
Thomas Stanley, Knt. Lieut.	13-67
Edward Tarbock, Capt.	1569
John Hanmer, Capt.	7575
Richard Sherburn, Capt.	15.80
Guth. Gerrard, Capt,	?
Thomas Martinier, Deputy	5
Note. 1591, Richard Aderton, was admitted and fworn.Lieutenant under the. Captain, by my Lord’s Directions fopali Martig	.a
Governors Names. Tlic Year.
The Hon. Wm. Stanley, Capt. afterwards Earl of Derby,	1593
Randolph-Stanley, Capt.	1594
Sir Tho. Gerrard, Knt. Capt. 7 z-
Cuth, Gerrard, Deputy	5
Thomas Gerrard, Knt. Capt. 7 Ro, Molyneux, Deputy	$	l^^
Cuth, Gerrard, Capt.	5
v Ro. Molyneux, Deputy	t	"599
Rob. Molyneux, Capt.	t6ou
John Ireland and John Birchal,^
Governors, jointly by Patent? 1609 from the King.	j
John Ireland, Lieut and Capt. 1610 R6. Molyneux, Capt.	1612
Edward Fletcher, Deputy 1621 Edward Fletcher, Governor 1622
Sir Ferd. Liege, Knt., and Capr. 1.625;
Edward Fletcher, Deputy 1625;
Edward Holmewood, Capt. 1.626.
Edward Fletcher, Deputy 1627
Edward Chriftian, Lieut; & Capt 1628 Evan Chriftian, Deputy	1634.
Sir Charles Gerrard,. Knt Capt, 1635-John Sharplefs, Deputy	1 636
Radcliff Gerrard, Capt.	1639
John Greenhalgh, Governor 1640.
Sir Phillip Mufgrave, Knt.. & Bart. 1651 Samuel Smith, Deputy Governor, 1652
Note. That my Lord Fairfax, made Commiflioners for the governing of the Ifle this Year, viz. James Chair loner, Robert Dinely, Efq; Jonathan. 'Witton, Clerk.
Matthew Cadwell, Governor -1653, William Chriftian, Governor 1656
Tames Challoner, Governor. \1658; '	' Aftext
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After the Reftoration of the KING. \
Governors Names. The Year.
Roger Nowell, Governor 7 ,^o Richard Stevenfon, his Deputy $
Henry Nowell, Deputy for one 5
Part of the Year, and Thomas > 1663
Stanley, for the other Part j
Bifhop Barrow, Governor	?	Z/
Henry Nowell, his Deputy	)
Hgnry Nowell, Governor	1669
A Henry Stanley, Governor	1677
Governors Names; The Year, Robert Heywood, Governor 1678 Roger Kenyon, Efq; Governor 1691 Colonel Sankey, Governor.
The Hon. Capt. Cranfton, Governor. Robert Maudefley, Efq; Governor.
Capt. Alexander Horn, Governor.
Major Floyd, Governor.
Thomas Horton, Efq; Governor.
The Hon. Jas. Murray, Efq; Gov. 1741
K Patrick, 7 Dedicated to e K. German, 5 thofe Saints. K. Michael.
St. Mary of Ballaugh, a Parfonage.
St. Patrick Jurby.
K. Andrew’s, the Arch-Deaconry.
K. Bride, dedicated to St. Bridget, a Parfonage.
K. Chrift Lqz-Ayre.
The SOUTH
K Maughold, dedicated to St. o Maughold the third Bifhop.
K. Lonan, dedicated to Lomanus, faid by the Tradition to fucceed St. Maughold in> the Bifhoprick, the Son of Tygrida, one of the three Holy Sifters of St. Patrick,; and thought to be the firfl Bifhop of Trym in Ireland.
K. Conchan, dedicated to Concha, Sif-
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ter to St. Martin, Bifhop of Tours, and Mother to St. Patrick.
K. Braddan, which fignifies a Salmon?, in the Manks Language.
K. Marown, dedicated to that Saint.
K. St. Anne.
K. Malew, dedicated to St. Lupus.
K. Arbqry, dedicated to St. Columbus, Kl Chrift Rufhen.
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