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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Mr West communicated to the Society a fine printed copy of John Harding's Chronicle, formerly belonging to John Dee, the famous mathematician. On one of the covers is pasted an original writ of Privy Seal, dated anno 36 H. VI. directed to William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, then Chancellor, for making out Letters Patent under the Great Seal, granting to the said John Harding a yearly pension of 20 l. for life, in cosideration of his having recovered, at the great expence and hazard of his person, certain Letters Patent, and other Muniments, declarative of the right of Sovereignty in the crown of England over that of Scotland.
page 88 note [a] This circumstance which has hitherto escaped our historians, is exprest by Hardyng himself in the last chapter of his Chronicle, fol. 233, b. where he desires E. IV.
“For to considre my losse and my maime in fere,
“For England's right as well as I couth spere.”
page 88 note [b] English Histor. Lib. p. 68. fol. Ed. Bishop Tanner also [Biol. Brit. art. Hardyng, p. 377] calls him septentrionali patria natus: But the memorandum he cites from the Yellow Book of the Exchequer styles him “J. Hardynge de Kyme —N. and S. Kyme are two contiguous villages in Kesteven division on the edge of the Fens in Lincolnshire. Hence probably came his connection with Robert Lord Umsravill, under whom he served and who was Lord of Kyme, in right of his Grandfather's marriage with the sister and heiress of William de Kyme. This Robert Lord Umsraville died 15 H. VI. Dugd. Bar. I. 507, 508.
page 89 note [c] See his invectives against them in chap. 240 of his Chronicle.
page 89 note [d] Ubi sup.
page 89 note [e] Pat. 18 Henry VI. p. 3. m. 15.
page 89 note [f] The Empress Maud gave this Church, or a moiety of it, to the Abbey of St. Nicholas by Angiers, which had a pension out of it. A manor in Wyloughton, lately belonging to that Abbey, was granted by Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge. Pat. 19 Henry VI. p. 3. m. Tanner Not. Mon. p. 269.—This Manor appears to have been granted away to different uses, three times in a year: first, to the College; then, September 12, to the Commissioners for receiving the rents and profits of dissolved Alien Prioriés; and, December 22 the same year, to John Hardyng. In the 16th of Henry VI. it had been vested in John Midleton for seven years, at a yearly rent of 10 l. which rent was afterwards assigned over for the like term, by, Pat. 19 Henry VI. to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Bath and Wells, Asaph, and Sarum; William Earl of Suffolk, John Somerseth, Thomas Bekyngton, Richard Andrews, and Adam Molyns, Clerks; John Hampton and James Fenys, Esquires, and William Trestham; who were Commissioners for receiving the revenues of all the dissolved Alien Priories. From these it was afterwards in the same year assigned to Hardyng.—The greatest part of the town being given by Stephen to the Knights Templars, they had founded a Preceptory here, valued, at the dissolution, at 174 l. 11 s. 1 d. clear. Tanner, Not. Mon. ubi sup.
page 90 note [g] Pat. 19 Henry VI. p. 1. m. 19.
page 90 note [h] Chapters 240 and 241.
page 90 note [i] Hall's Chron. Ed. 4, f. vi. w.