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It is natural that in the period of nearly six hundred years that has elapsed since the foundation of her college some of those who have had part in the Countess of Pembroke's beneficence should have attempted to put together materials for her life. The most definite effort was made on the occasion of the college's quincentenary in 1847 by the then Master, Dr. Gilbert Ainslie. Dr. Ainslie, who was responsible for the excellent arrangement and catalogue by which the Pembroke deeds are still referred to, wrote out his results in a manuscript book which is now in the possession of the college. His critical acumen, as seen in this work, is wholly admirable: he realized and corrected numerous errors, some of which have continued in printed books down to the present time. He also covered, in his search for information, a very wide ground. This last, however, did not include original documents except (the exception is a large one, it is true) the college muniments and possibly some British Museum and other library manuscripts: the Public Records he knew, as a rule, only from Rymer, the Record Commission publications, and the like; and there are, of course, many printed authorities now in existence which he would gladly have consulted.
page 401 note 1 Upon the subject of the work of one of his predecessors (Bishop Wren) in this connexion see Ainslie's MS., p. 73.
page 401 note 2 Memoirs of Marie de Saint Paul Countess of Pembroke.
page 401 note 3 I have been very much indebted, in the compilation, to the kindness of many connected with the college: in particular I should mention the present and late Masters (Mr. W. S. Hadley and the Rev. Canon A. J. Mason), the Treasurer (Mr. H. G. Comber), who has allowed me access to the muniments, and the Librarian (Mr. E. H. Minns), who has supplied me with much information. I have also to thank many of my colleagues at the Record Office and other friends who have at various times given me references.
page 403 note 1 I have taken this information and the materials of the annexed pedigree mainly from André Duchesne's Histoire de la Maison de Chatillon and Anselme's Généalogie des Rois de France. Note that upon several points Duchesne corrects what he had to say in his text in the latter part of his volume (the preuves: see particularly p. 116 of these). I am much indebted to Mr. G. W. Watson, who was good enough to read through the proofs of the pedigree. It is, I am afraid, only a rough one; and it necessarily omits a great deal—for instance the children of the Countess's sister Maud, one of whom married the Emperor Charles IV and one Piers Duke of Bourbon. Also it cannot show many interesting cross-marriages: thus the Countess's sister Beatrice married John of Inlanders, who was nephew of Aymer de Valence's first wife; her sister Isabel's grandson married Edward III's daughter, while Isabel's daughters married Chatillon cousins.
page 403 note 2 Her will, according to Duchesne (p. 281), was dated 1348.
page 404 note 1 The match had been arranged, before that of John was thought of, to heal an old family quarrel: for the curious story of this, see Miss Norgate's John Lackland.
page 404 note 2 See Complete Peerage under ‘Pembroke’ (p. 203, note 1).Google Scholar
page 404 note 3 He had special letters on one occasion to the Count of St. Pol.
page 405 note 1 See Archaeologia, xxvi, 338Google Scholar. According to the average age assigned to him in the Inquisitions post mortem on his father he would be over fifty in 1321.
page 405 note 2 Rymer, under date March 29, 1321, quoting Roman Roll.
page 405 note 3 It is incorrect to say that he was married three times. He had no children by either wife, but the Papal Register in 1324 (Calendar, p. 240) speaks of a natural son Henry, a knight.
page 405 note 4 Duchesne, , Preuves, p. 168: the Countess's father had been dead some three or four years.Google Scholar
page 405 note 5 On this day, according to one chronicler, Queen Isabel made purification for the birth of her daughter Joan; ‘and on the same day, as it was said, the Lord Aymer married the daughter of the Count of St. Pol at Paris’.
page 405 note 6 Annales Paulini (Chronicles of Edward I and Edward II), i, p. 292Google Scholar.
page 405 note 7 He seems only just to have extricated himself over the Lancaster affair: we are told that he had to make oath upon the Gospels of his fidelity.
page 406 note 1 It is worth while emphasizing this date, which is given us by some of the Inquisitions post mortem, the poem of James de Dacia (App. IV), and other documents; because most authorities, following Dugdale, have miscalculated the regnal years of Edward II and made it 1323. The suggestion of apoplexy is taken from such common factors as may be obtained in the various descriptions of his death.
page 406 note 2 The author of the account in Flores Historiarum (p. 223) says, punning, that he died apud dimidiam villam (Miville) ubi Christus non voluit virum sanguineuni et dolosum dintidiare dies suos. Walsingham, who speaks of him much more kindly, also sees a judgement in his death (Chronicle, p. 193). See also, for his death, Ypodigma Neustriae, p. 259.
page 406 note 3 To Roger de Mortimer in 1327 (Cal. Pat., 166).
page 406 note 4 Annales Paulini, vol. i, p. 307Google Scholar.
page 406 note 5 Two at least of the late Earl's near kinsmen were closely involved in these—Atholl and Talbot.
page 408 note 1 I have been much indebted to my wife's help in making this compilation. My quotations from the Record Office Calendars of Patent and Close Rolls, etc., except where it is otherwise stated, refer in each case to the volume covering the year mentioned in the text.
page 408 note 2 For instance, it is almost impossible that a certain number of stray references should not be found on the Pipe Rolls: and a considerable quantity might probably be recovered from the Plea Rolls. These are, so far as I know, the only two serious gaps in the Calendar referred to.
page 408 note 3 Exchequer Accounts, Clare Household (Boxes 91 to 95).
page 409 note 1 I have not thought it worth while to consider the obvious cases where the Exchequer in its records merely repeats or notes the effect of Chancery activities. The point is the absence of any movement upon the Exchequer side of administration in her behalf.
page 409 note 2 Cal. Papal Letters, 12.
page 409 note 3 Cal. Patent Rolls, 200.
page 409 note 4 Cal. Pat., 105, 123, 210, 268, 281, 308, 376, 426, 467, 543.
page 409 note 5 She was in England in July 1334: see Cal. Pat., 567.
page 409 note 6 Cal. Close Rolls, 81: cp. Cal. Pat. (year 1332), 309.
page 409 note 7 Cal. Pat., 222.
page 410 note 1 Cal. Pat., 77, 126; Cal. Close, 100.
page 410 note 2 Cal. Pat., 363, 506.
page 410 note 3 Cal. Pat, 51, 170, 203, 409, 460.
page 410 note 4 e.g. in 1324: see Cal. Pat., 18, 57, 313.
page 410 note 5 Cal. Close, 94, 169; Cal. Pat., 57: cp. Cal. Pat. (1328), 313, and (1339), 312; Cal. Close (1334), 230: see also Rec. Off., Ministers' Accounts, 1187/19.
page 410 note 6 See Duchesne, op. cit., ‘Preuves’.
page 410 note 7 Cal. Papal Letters, 25. Other matter with regard to the lands in France will be found in the Registres du Parlement.
page 410 note 8 She was one of three ladies summoned to send a deputy to a special Council in view of a threatened French invasion in 1335; but probably her position as a landowner, rather than as a Frenchwoman, was responsible for this (Cal. Close, 517): cp. her summons (below, p. 413, note 3) to attend Councils on Irish matters.
page 410 note 9 Cal. Pat., 105. For another slight indication of her employment by the king, see App. III, 9.
page 410 note 10 Archaeologia, vol. xxxv.
page 411 note 1 May 15 and 16: see Appendix I.
page 412 note 2 Among the Exchequer Accounts, K. R. It is true that there are not very many, but what remain are very important: No. 393/4, for example, is a long list made after Queen Isabel's death of all her goods, showing the disposal of them; a number being given to persons specified. The only connexion noticed anywhere is the fact that the Countess twice visited the queen in France in September 1325 (Exch. Accts., 380/9).
page 411 note 3 Cal. Pat., 409.
page 411 note 4 Rymer (Rec. Comm. Ed.) quoting French Roll, under date August 1.
page 411 note 5 It is perhaps not beside the point to add that at the moment when this paper was read (November 1914) nearly 200 of the scholars who should have been in residence at her college were fighting or preparing to fight in France for the French.
page 412 note 1 In 1321. See Cal. Pat. 575, 576, 596 and (next vol.) 12.
page 412 note 2 In 1324. See Cal. Close, 244; and cp. Rec. Off., Chancery Parl. Proc. 45/24.
page 412 note 3 Her French lands were in Tours-en-Vimeu (near Abbeville), Thièvre (near Doullens), Fréacan (perhaps near Arras), and Orville (near Acheux).
page 412 note 4 Cp. Cal. Pat. (year 1322), 87, 113.
page 412 note 5 Cal. Pat. (1346), 86: Saxthorpe passed to the college in 1349.
page 412 note 6 Cp. Cal. Fine Rolls (1324), 298; Cal. Close (1325), 412: see also Cal. Pat. (1327), 41.
page 412 note 7 See App. III, 8; and cp. Cal. Pat. (1325), 165.
page 412 note 8 Cal. Close (1325), 412, 505; and (1333) 104, the two last mentioned being enrolments of releases by her to the king.
page 413 note 1 Cal. Pat. (1327), 37; Cal. Close (1327), 109: the last is again a release; see Rymer under date March 13. Edward II's grant was exemplified at the Countess's request in the same year (Cal. Pat., 109). She seems to have gone about to secure redress of this grievance immediately after the accession of Edward III: see App. Ill, 5. Cp. also Cal. Pat. (1366), 276.
page 413 note 2 Rymer, ed. cit., under date July 25.
page 413 note 3 There are numerous references to these in the Patent and Close Rolls, but generally touching only her appointment of attorneys. For the question of their defence, see (e. g.) Rymer (ed. cit.) under date October 15, 1331, and January 28, 1332. She was summoned at least twice to attend Councils concerning Irish affairs (Rymer, ed. cit., under date March 15, 1361, and February 10, 1362). There are references to her at intervals on Irish Chancery Rolls from 18 Edw. II (Rot. Pat. et Claus. Canc. Hib., 30 B.) onwards.
page 413 note 4 Cal. Pat. (1336). 250.
page 413 note 5 The Inquisitions postmortem (Rec. Off., Inq.p.m., Edw. III, 262) give valuable information in this respect, though they are incomplete. Inquisitions at this time were becoming very much a matter to be arranged by the family lawyer, and that fact is particularly well illustrated in the case of the present file by the accidental inclusion of three fragments (App. III, nos. 2, 3, and 14) from the Countess's muniment chest which have nothing to do with the documents they are preserved with. Other indications suggest that some of the material was put together for a previous occasion (perhaps the death of John de Hastings in 1375).
page 413 note 6 For instance: Anstey, La Mote, the manse in London, and Fotheringay—four of her principal residences—do not appear in the assignment of dower; which has also no mention of lands in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
page 414 note 1 Cal. Pat., 110, 124, 150, 241, 404, 484, 491: two of the original deeds are in Pembroke College Deeds (Wissenden, A. 2 and 4): see also Rymer, under date January 5, 1334.
page 414 note 2 The conveyances are dated the 7th and 18th of November: see Cal. Pat. (1333), 484, 491; cp. Rec. Off., Chancery Warrants, I, 7361, A to D.
page 414 note 3 See, for example, the references under the year 1337 on the Close, Patent, and Fine Rolls; many others might be cited.
page 414 note 4 Cal. Close (1347), 417: cp. (1329) 581, 582, 586; (1334) 495; (1343) 243; (1348) 487; (1354) 72; (1358) 500; (1360) 131; (1362) 433; (1363) 555; (1369) 82; (1371) 295.
page 414 note 5 Referred to in various places below: see also p. 410, note 5 above.
page 414 note 6 John de Castro Martini is her attorney in Ireland in 1327 (Cal. Pat., 136); similarly we have John de Redeswell in 1331 and 1332 (Cal. Pat., 210, 277, etc.): John de Anstey, a messenger, has been already mentioned; and in one court roll we have a default excused on the ground that the defaulter is away in servicio domine (Rec. Off., Court Rolls, 178. 1).
page 415 note 1 Cal. Close (1344), 332: she had a family interest here, the lands being those of William de Coucy; but see also ibid. 643.
page 415 note 2 For the licence for the Countess to receive and alienate, see Cal. Pat. (1345), 568; the original being among Pemb. Coll. Docs. (Tilney, B. 2): other deeds relating to the same are Tilney, B. i, 3, 4, 5, and 6; the last two being the indentures of a fine which will be found among the Rec. Off. Feet of Fines. For the licence to alienate to Westminster see Cal. Pat. (1346), 62. The Repton property was also intended for Westminster originally (Cal. Pat., 61).
page 415 note 3 Cp. below, p. 418, the remarks concerning Westmill.
page 415 note 4 Cal. Pat. (1349) 313.
page 415 note 5 Rec. Off., Anc. Pet., 7897.
page 415 note 6 The arrangement of these deeds is according to the properties involved, all those acquired during the founder's lifetime being represented by very complete collections: cp. those referred to in note 2, above. For another case of complicated transactions see the note on Strood below, p. 418, note 8.
page 415 note 7 Cp. App. III, 6; Rec. Comm., Placita de quo Warranto, 640; and various Commissions of oyer and terminer, such as appear in Cal. Pat. (1342), 554, 556, 582.
page 416 note 1 Cp. App. I.
page 416 note 2 In the Westmill accounts (Rec. Off., Ministers' Accounts, 873/4 and 5) there is reference to repairs at La Mote and to the expenses of carriage of victuals, wine, wardrobe, etc., to and from Anstey, Braxted, Denny, Fotheringay, La Mote, London, and Westmill: cp. similar entries in the Anstey Accounts (Min. Acc, 862/2).
page 416 note 3 See m. 2 of the Inquisitions post mortem on the Countess; and Stow's London (ed. Kingsford), i, 339, ii, 350, 388: cp. Munimenta Gildhallae (Rolls ed.), II, ii, 455Google Scholar. I am indebted to Mr. Kingsford for a note on this subject.
page 416 note 4 Cal. Close (1333), 104. For Itinerary see App. I. For the St. Germains house see Archives Nationales, Titres de Bourbon, 1917.
page 417 note 1 App. II.
page 417 note 2 The Countess had licence to impropriate the church of Milton in 1326 (Cal. Pat., 275).
page 417 note 3 Presumably the one referred to in an early inventory (Archaeologia, 1, 512)Google Scholar.
page 417 note 4 Chronicon Anglie (Rolls ed.), 137, says she gave images to many monasteries where she had the benefit of prayers: see below, p. 418, note 1, and p. 430, note 1.
page 417 note 5 Aymer of Atholl, one of her knights and a frequent witness to her charters. He was indebted to her in 1362 (Cal. Close, 433) and again in 1371 (Cal. Close, 295), when he owed the sum here mentioned.
page 418 note 1 ‘Quandam imaginem de Sancto Vincencio argenteam deauratam que tenet in manibus quoddam scrinium in quo unum os eiusdem preciosi martyris continetur’, Chron. Angl., 137: cp. Trokelowe (Rolls ed.), 436.
page 418 note 2 Brit. Mus., Cott. MSS., Vit. F. 12.
page 418 note 3 Rec. Off., L. R. Misc. Books, 61, f. 12.
page 418 note 4 Archaeologia, lii, 254, 261Google Scholar.
page 418 note 5 Archaeologia Cantiana, xi, p. xlviiGoogle Scholar.
page 418 note 6 Cal. Pat. (1346), 141.
page 418 note 7 Rec. Off., Inq. ad quod damnum, 365/18: cp. V. C. H., Herts., III. 399.
page 418 note 8 The history of her possession of this manor is another example of complicated processes. It was granted to her first in connexion with property given up after the Earl's death, then in fee as a reward for her guardianship of the king's daughter Joan in 1338 (Cal. Pat., 53), this grant appearing again on the Patent Roll under the same date (ibid., 60). She then leased it to the Hospitallers for the term of her life (ibid., 571). Then by error the manor was granted to Reginald de Cobham; which grant was revoked in 1342 (Cal. Pat., 461) and a fresh grant made to her (ibid., 462). In the same year she had licence to assign it in mortmain (ibid., 529) and had again licence to alienate in 1344 (Cal. Pat., 340), to Denny.
page 419 note 1 Cal. Pat., 133: notices of presentations by the abbot appear in the Letter Books of the City of London: cp. B. M., Harl. 540, f. 24.
page 419 note 2 e. g. Cal. Papal Petitions (1349), 155.
page 419 note 3 Cal. Papal Letters (1332), 381; (1342), 89; and (1347), 261.
page 419 note 4 Cal. Papal Letters (1332), 381.
page 419 note 5 Ibid., 502.
page 419 note 6 Ainslie, Memoirs, 68, quotes from Baker's MSS. an arrangement made with the abbot of Battle in 1346; cp. above, p. 417, note 4.
page 419 note 7 She obtained a number as early as 1331 (Cal. Papal Letters, 367). A good example of a group of petitions from her is registered under date May 2, 1349.
page 420 note 1 Cal. Papal Letters (1352), 458.
page 420 note 2 Cal. Pat., 18.
page 420 note 3 I suggest that this breviary came from the Sisters Minoresses of Lourcine-lez-Saint-Marcel near Paris, and that the Countess might well have been associated with them intimately during one of her stays in France—possibly had passed a noviciate in their house. See below, p. 426.
page 420 note 4 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, Coll. A. 12.
page 421 note 1 Cal. Pat,, 37.
page 421 note 2 Dugdale, , Monasticon, vi, 1554Google Scholar.
page 421 note 3 Cal. Pat., 248.
page 421 note 4 Cal. Pat., 242: cp. App. III, 10.
page 421 note 5 Cal. Pat., 289.
page 421 note 6 Cal. Pat., 381.
page 421 note 7 Cal. Pat. (1342), 417, 436; Cal. Close (1342), 540; Cal. Pat. (1346), 119; Cal. Close (1346), 89; Cal. Pat. (1347), 369 (cp. App. III, 11); Cal. Pat. (1348), 201.
page 421 note 8 French Rolls, 1346 (Carte, , Catalogue, ii, 37Google Scholar),; Cal. Papal Letters (1348), 266, 285.
page 421 note 9 Cal. Papal Letters (1349), 160; Cal. Close (1350), 237.
page 421 note 10 Cal. Papal Petitions, 209; Papal Letters, 433.
page 421 note 11 Cal. Pat., 72.
page 422 note 1 See Cal. Pat. (1365), 48; (1366), 221; (1373), 246.
page 422 note 2 Rec. Off., T. R. Misc. Bks., 204, f. 169.
page 422 note 3 Cal. Close, 404.
page 422 note 4 Cal. Papal Petitions, 488. It is perhaps worth noting that in 1350 we find the Countess Elizabeth entertaining both Lionel and the Countess of Pembroke at the same time (Exch. Ace, 93/4).
page 422 note 5 B. M., Add. MSS. 5820, 5837.
page 422 note 6 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, B. 1 to 5: it was made over to the college in June 1348 (College, B. 6 and 7).
page 422 note 7 December 1346 to April 1347: see Pemb. Coll. Deeds, Tilney and Burwell sections: cp. Cal. Pat. 61, 65.
page 422 note 8 Cal. Pat., 444. The original patent is among the College Deeds (College, A. 1): the original Privy Seal for this (Rec. Off., Chancery Warrants, I, 326/19088) states that it encloses the Countess's petition, but this has unfortunately disappeared.
page 422 note 9 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, B. 7.
page 423 note 1 See the College Deeds, Saxthorpe, Tilney, Wissenden, and Waresley sections.
page 423 note 2 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, C. 4 and 5.
page 423 note 3 Cal. Papal Petitions, 533; Papal Letters, 58. A similar privilege had been secured by bull in 1355 (College, A. 3), but this does not seem to have been registered. The grant was confirmed by the Bishop of Ely in 1365 and 1366.
page 423 note 4 cp. Cal. Papal Petitions, 155; Papal Letters (1349), 306.
page 423 note 5 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, D. 5 and 6: she had obtained the messuage in 1363 (College, D. 4).
page 423 note 6 Ibid., A. 11.
page 423 note 7 Vol. 85, E. 5.
page 423 note 8 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, A. 12. Ainslie points out that Roger d'Aubeny, who is mentioned as dead, was living in 1359; while the chapel, which is mentioned, was licensed in 1366.
page 424 note 1 The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, ii, 564–6Google Scholar. The author wrongly assigns the date 1347 to College A. 12.
page 424 note 2 Ainslie, quoting Wood and Leland: I have not been able to verify this.
page 424 note 3 Pemb. Coll. Deeds, College, C. 2 and 3.
page 424 note 4 Willis, , Architectural History of the University of Cambridge (ed. Clark, ), i, 132Google Scholar.
page 424 note 5 Ibid., 135.
page 425 note 1 App. III, 1: quoted also by Hubert Hall, Formula Book of Diplomatic Documents, 100.
page 425 note 2 App. III, 10.
page 425 note 3 e.g. a Westmill deed in Rec. Off., Ancient Deeds, C. 6034.
page 425 note 4 The fact of the filing of these documents along with the Inquisitions post mortem should not be neglected in connexion with an administrative point of some importance—the intrusion of the family solicitor (to use an anachronism) into these, nominally, public transactions.
page 425 note 5 B.M., Add. MSS. 5820, f. 125 b.
page 425 note 6 The short account of these in Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, i, App. p. 69, is only a collection of facts taken from Ainslie's Catalogue.
page 426 note 1 Romania, xv, 350Google Scholar: see also Cambridge University Library, Catalogue of MSS., v, 585Google Scholar.
page 426 note 2 They are not figured here as the chief beauty of the original (the colour and gold) is lost in reproduction.
page 426 note 3 Pembroke College, Registrum Magnum, vol. i.
page 426 note 4 See Jones, , Old Plate of Cambridge Colleges: Ainslie disproved the identification in his Memoirs: see also Archaeologia, I, 153.Google Scholar
page 426 note 5 This was given to St. Albans: see above, p. 418, note I.
page 426 note 6 See App. III, note.
page 427 note 1 App. IV.
page 427 note 2 Cal. Papal Petitions, 533.
page 427 note 3 Cal. Pat., 338.
page 427 note 4 At the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist she is one of the ladies of the queen's chamber who have liberaciones from the king (Exch. Acc., 383/10).
page 427 note 5 Cal. Pat. (1338), 53; and other references quoted above, p. 418, note 8: cp. Cal. Close (1337), 94; and Exch. Acc., 389/9. This princess was afterwards sent abroad to marry the King of Spain's son (Pedro the Cruel), but died on the way.
page 427 note 6 App. III, 9.
page 428 note 1 For instance, in connexion with her numerous transactions in land: cp. the various occasions when Commissions issued upon her complaint of broken parks and so forth: also the action of the king in the case of the nuns of Waterbeach.
page 428 note 2 Exch. Acc., 396/2, m. 67.
page 428 note 3 There are continual references to readjustment, in the matter of her dower, with her husband's coheirs, Atholl, Talbot, and Hastings.
page 428 note 4 Cal. Pat., 200. We find him occasionally acting in the king's service: cp. the payments to him on Issue Rolls 270 and 271.
page 428 note 5 See G. E. C., Complete Peerage (ed. Gibbs).
page 428 note 6 Exch. Acc., 91/16 and 25: ibid., 93/4.
page 428 note 7 In September and October 1348 (Exch. Acc, 93/2).
page 428 note 8 We once (October 1327) find the Countess Elizabeth on her way to Anstey (Exch. Acc., 91/16).
page 428 note 9 There are a number of examples of this; e.g. robes for Christmas (Exch. Acc., 91/24). Various mentions of gifts and of messengers sent to Fotheringay occur in Exch. Acc., 92/7, 9, and 27, and 94/1.
page 428 note 10 Nicolas, , Testamenta Vetusta, 59.Google Scholar
page 429 note 1 She is thus spoken of in the College Statutes: she was with the Countess in 1324 (Cal. Pat., 57)
page 429 note 2 She presumably belonged to the family of this name to whom reference is found in connexion with the Palatinate of Pembroke, and many of whose muniments are scattered amongst the Public Records (cp., for example, Ancient Deeds, D. 2329, the copy of a fine levied in the Palatinate Court in 1297). In 1344 she was granted maintenance in Bergavenny Priory as an act of favour to the Countess.
page 429 note 3 Cal. Pat., 106: there are numerous other references to him. See above, p. 416.
page 429 note 4 He witnessed her charter to Denny, dated June 15, 1342 (Cal. Close, 540), and is appointed her attorney in 1356 (Cal. Pat., 461).
page 429 note 5 He appears continually as witness and attorney; acted with her in the transfer to Denny of the manor of Eyhall in 1356; and was a Commissioner of oyer and terminer upon her complaint in 1349.
page 429 note 6 Mabel du Bois and two members of the college who died while on a mission to the Court of Rome.
page 430 note 1 De morte cornitisse Penbrokie et actibus eiuspits:
Septimo decimo die Aprilis obiit domina Maria de Sancto Paulo, comitissa Penbrochie, exempli singularis femina. Nam adhuc vivens ita ad honorem Dei et ad decorem domus eius, ita in necessitatibus pauperum expendit bona sua ut ipsis ducibus exempla bonorum operum premonstraret. Moriens vero omnem substanciam suam vel servientibus qui ei famulati sunt vel diversis ecclesiis sive pauperibus erogavit … Dedit et alias [imagines] quam plures aliis monasteriis ubi oracionum beneficium obtinuerat que singule singulorum martyrum sive confessorum reliquias continebant (Chronicon Anglie, Rolls ed., p. 137).
The Inquisitions give three different dates of death.
page 432 note 1 The text is taken from the Roll of the Hustings Court, where it was proved by the executors, William de Berghm and William de la Chambre, on Monday next after the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, 51 Edw. III (Guildhall, Hustings Roll, 105). The other copies are in the Registers, Sudbury, 96 (at Lambeth) and Bokyngham, 150 (at Lincoln).
page 432 note 2 Inserted above line.
page 433 note 1 Inserted above line.
page 434 note 1 and 2 marked for transference in MS.
page 435 note 1 Used for purposes of dating in App. I.
page 435 note 2 One of these (Rec. Off., Ancient Petitions, 7897) is fragmentary and has not been quoted. See p.415.
page 436 note 1 This fragment is of interest as being the only one of its kind preserved; for its early date (if, as appears, it belongs to the autumn of 1324, two months after the Earl's funeral); and for the place of its preservation. What the Countess was doing in Surrey and Sussex is not clear.
page 437 note 1 As to this and the following two documents (Nos. 1 and 14 in this Appendix) see note on the Inquisitions, p. 425. This one, as appears by the writing, belongs to the early part of Edward III' reign. For the date see Cal. Pat., 153.
page 437 note 2 Sic MS.
page 437 note 3 Written over erasure.
page 437 note 4 Later in life the Countess seems to have dropped entirely the Wexford and Montignac titles from her address.
page 438 note 1 For this petition see Close Roll of 1366 (Calendar, p. 275). With it are here filed copies from the Patent and Charter Rolls.
page 438 note 2 Cp. Cal. Close, 582: and next number in this Appendix.
page 439 note 1 See Cat. Close, 581, 582.
page 439 note 2 Inserted above line.
page 439 note 3 The grant to the Countess by the Earl of Richmond seems to have been connected with compensation in this matter: see p. 413.
page 440 note 1 * to * written over an erasure.
page 440 note 2 Written over erasure.
page 440 note 3 This letter suggests that it had been taken down from dictation by a not very intelligent scribe.
page 440 note 4 Presumably Maria, daughter of Fernando de España (or de la Cerda), Señor de Lara, a grandson of Alfonso X, King of Castile. She was contracted to be married, by contract confirmed 28 Sept., 1334 (Cat. Pat., 33), to the king's brother John, Earl of Cornwall; but it fell through apparently, for she was contracted in April 1335, and afterwards married, to Charles d'Evreux, Comte d'Etampes. Previous matrimonial schemes for the Earl would have allied him directly with the Countess of Pembroke's own family (see Rymer). I am indebted to Mr. G. W. Watson for this note.
page 440 note 5 * to * inserted above the line.
page 441 note 1 The writ describes the enclosure as a petition of the Countess: it might be better described as a memorandum; whether submitted by the Countess or drafted at the Chancery or Privy Seal Office from her petition is not clear.
page 441 note 2 Inserted above line.
page 441 note 3 Inserted above line.
page 441 note 4 This petition is written on paper. For the date see Cal. Pat.
page 441 note 5 Written on paper. For date see p. 414.
page 442 note 1 Inserted above line.
page 442 note 2 See p. 410.
page 442 note 3 Written in a formal, almost a book, hand on a piece of parchment shaped and ruled like a page: possibly taken from some kind of cartulary. The corrections seem to be in a later hand. For the date cp. above, No. 3.
page 443 note 1 Written above les quelx struck through.
page 444 note 2 Written above point struck through.
page 444 note 3 Sic MS.: written over erasure.
page 444 note 4 Written over erasure.
page 444 note 5 Written over erasure.
page 444 note 6 She never retained this reversion.
page 444 note 7 British Museum, Cott. MSS., Claudius, A. 14.