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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The baronial family of Cobham took its name from the pretty village in Kent, four miles from Gravesend on the one side, and about the same distance from Rochester on the other. As early as the twelfth century it was of importance, but from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century it was one of the most powerful in the south of England. There were several off-shoots from the main stem, distinguished by the following manorial titles, viz. Roundal, Beluncle, Blackburgh, Chafford, Gatewyke, and Sterborough. There were four baronies by writ, viz. Cobham of Cobham, Roundal, Chafford, and Sterborough. The most important offices in the county of Kent were constantly in their hands, including the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports and that of Constable of Rochester Castle. The first Baron de Cobham, named Henry, was summoned to Parliament in 1313: no other of the name appears in the main stem until he whose fate I am about to consider. Of the off-shoots the most considerable was that of Sterborough in Surrey: Sir Reginald, the first baron, being the most eminent of the Cobham family. A hero of Crecy and Poitiers, one of the few brilliant warriors enrolled among the early Knights of the Garter, we must refer to the pages of Froissart if we would acquaint ourselves with the details of his career in the field, and in the councils of Edward III.
page 250 note a Possibly Bobert was called after Robert Braybrook, Bishop of London.
page 251 note a The date of his death is usually given as 1457, but it is proved by an inquisition to have taken place 8 May, 1438.
page 251 note b On one occasion a mistake was made, as in the summons of 12 Nov. 7 Hen. VIII. 1515.
page 252 note a I have given fuller accounts of the earlier barons and their tombs in memoirs printed in the Archæologia Cantiana, xi. 49; xii. 113.
page 254 note a In the possession of F. C. Brooke, Esq.
page 255 note a Letters written by John Chamberlain. Camden Society, 1861, p. 18.
page 255 note b Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil. Edinb. 1766, p. 89.
page 255 note c Letters written by John Chamberlain, p. 40.
page 255 note d Ibid. p. 65.
page 255 note e Ibid. p. 109.
page 257 note a Archæologia, XXI. 170Google Scholar.
page 257 note b See Proc. Soc. Ant. 2d S. i. 62.
page 257 note c Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xiii. f. 285.
page 258 note a Lansdowne MSS. 89, No. 46.
page 258 note b See a letter from Sir William Waade, August 17, 1605, Addit. MSS. C178, f. 449.
page 258 note c Excerpts from Burghley papers, Addit. MSS. 6178, f. 453.
page 259 note a There may be earlier letters than those preserved in this collection. I speak only of those I have seen.
page 261 note a Letters from Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe, Camden Society, 1860, p. 111.
page 261 note b Ibid. p. 122.
page 261 note c Calendar of State Papers (Domestic Series), 1618, p. 501.
page 261 note d Devon, Issues of the Exchequer, p. 224. Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of the oth Lord Borough or Burgh, was widow of George Brooke. The writ of Jan. 25, 1608-9, sanctioned the allowance being paid to Lord Cobham's assignee for the time being.
page 262 note a See also Devon, Issues of the Exchequer, p. 34, for payments in 1606.
page 262 note b Calendar of State Papers, Nov. 2, 1618, p. 590.
page 262 note c State Papers, Dorn. Jas. I. vol. 105, Letter from Sir Thomas Wynne to Sir D. Carleton, dated 28 Jan. 1618-19. “My Lord Cobham is dead and lyeth unburied as yeat for want of money; he died a papist.”
page 262 note d Harl. Chart. 57. H. 7; perhaps a superseded will, for Dugdale (Baronage, ii. 282) gives the date of the will as Jan. 13, 1557-8.
page 263 note a Statute 7 Jac. I. iv. pt. 2, p. 1155.