Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B.

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page 1 note * The officer's name is said to have been John Valdasso. The passage quoted is as follows: “ Auditus est per eos dies cum illam crebro vocem iteraret Centurionis sui, (cujus mihi virtus notior est quam nomen,) qui vetus multorum stipendiorum eques rebus humanis renuntiaturus, cum missionem a Carolo peteret, isque novi consilii causam exquireret, respondisse fertur ‘inter vitœ negotia et mortis diem oportere spatium intercedere.’”—Strada de Bello Gallico, liber primus.

page 3 note * Christopher, second Duke of Albemarle, seated at New Hall in Essex, then Lord Lieutenant of the county. He died in Jamaica, of which he was Governor, in 1688, s.p.

page 5 note * Gonville.

page 7 note * Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Gaudy. Blomfield mentions a third wife, Abigail, daughter of Sir Thomas Knevet. Hist. of Norfolk.

page 8 note * Fleetwood's 2nd wife was daughter of Oliver Cromwell.

page 8 note † Sir William Locke was sheriff of London in 1548, but his name does not occur in the printed lists of the Lord Mayors. Morant, who falls into the same error, probably adopted it from the Skreens MS. “Sir William Locke, alderman, bur. Aug. 27. 1550.” “Lady Locke, Decr. 5, 1551.” Register of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cordwainers' Street. Malcolm's History of London, vol. ii. p. 156. She was his second wife, and daughter of William Cook. A writer in The Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1792, p. 798, asserts, that John Locke the philosopher, whose father, a captain in the parliamentary army, was slain at Bristol in 1645, was descended from Michael Locke, a younger brother of Sir William ; but the circumstance is not noticed by Lord King in his Life of Locke.

page 8 note ‡ Rose Hickman, the only daughter of Sir William Locke's second marriage, lived till 1613, and was probably one of the last survivors of the Protestants persecuted by Queen Mary.

page 9 note * This story has been printed in the Peerages and elsewhere.

page 9 note † This only means that he was a gentleman of the King's privy chamber.

page 9 note ‡ Nicholas Bullingham, translated from Lincoln to Worcester 1570, ob. 1576.

page 10 note * Michael Renniger, commonly called Rhanger, a learned divine who, embracing the reformed religion, was obliged to leave the kingdom on Queen Mary's accession. He afterwards became one of Queen Elizabeth's chaplains, and obtained the archdeaconry of Winchester, and other preferment. He died in 1609, aged 89, and had sepulture in his church at Crawley.

page 10 note † Probably Chilswell farm, in the parish of Cumnor, Berks, within a very short distance of Oxford. It then belonged to the Norris family, and is still the property of their representative, the Earl of Abingdon.

page 13 note * Probably Thomas Gewen, of Bradridge, in the parish of Boyton, Cornwall. He served as burgess for Launceston in 1640, 1656, and 1658, and in 1654 was returned for the county. His name occurs frequently in the debates, and on February 3, 1657, he made a motion, inviting Cromwell to assume the Kingship.

page 13 note † Harwood, in his “Alumni Etonenses,” mentions Osbert Moundeford, Scholar of King's College in 1601, son of the King's physician ; a man of great hopes, unfortunately drowned when on his travels. Richard's name not occurring in the work he was probably fellow of some other college.

page 14 note * Thomas Case, a Puritan divine, whose life is printed. He was ejected from his living for nonconformity, and died in 1682.

page 14 note † The following sentence occurs here, but had been struck out with a pen : “I myselfe had not a payre of gloves of him, tho' I saved him 100l. ; nay, this ungratefull man sett up his sonn-in-law Honiwood as burgess of Malden against me.”

page 17 note * Sir James Hay, ennobled by James I. whose successor advanced him to the earldom of Carlisle in 1622, and made him K.G. ; he died in 1636.

page 18 note * Lord Francis Villiers was slain in an encounter with the Parliament forces at Kingston-on-Thames. Lord Clarendon speaks of his rare beauty and comeliness of person.

page 18 note † The grandson of Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London 1568 ; seated at Higham Bensted in Walthamstow. He died in 1667.

page 18 note ‡ Anthony Brown, afterwards knighted, sold the family estate of Weald Hall to pay his father's debts in 1662.

page 22 note * Major-General Thomas Harrison, excepted out of the general pardon, and executed at Whitehall, October 13, 1660.

page 22 note † Query, Culpeper ?

page 23 note * The family of Wiseman, so frequently alluded to in these pages, were descended from John Wiseman, who had settled at Bullocks, in Great Waltham, early in the reign of Henry VI. They afterwards attained some eminence, and are said to have possessed 7,000l. rental in the county of Essex during the 17th century ; and three of them were created Baronets, William Wiseman, of Canfield Hall, and Richard Wiseman, of Thundersley, in 1728, and Sir William Wiseman, knt. of Revenhall, the person here mentioned, in 1660. All these honours have long been extinct, and Morant speaks of the name as almost unknown in the county in 1768.

page 23 note † In 1662. He held both livings, with the Rectory of Snoreham, also in Essex, till his death in 1670.

page 23 note ‡ Springfield Richards ; he died in 1662.

page 24 note * William Palmer, son of Robert Palmer, a London merchant, who had purchased lands at Hill, in Bedfordshire. He was probably knighted by Charles I., and in 1634 was a justice of the peace, and obtained a grant of arms. Lysons states that in 1773 the estates were alienated by Charles Palmer. This Sir William Palmer liued to be 77, and died the first day of March, 1682.

page 24 note † A.M. per regias litteras 1669, and made M.D. in 1683 at Cambridge.

page 25 note * He published an Elegy on the death of James Bristow, fellow of All Souls' College. —Wood's A thenœ.

page 25 note † Ob. 1701 ; his widow in 1719.

page 26 note * According to the Baronetages, the lady married William Quatermaine, of Pembroke College, Oxford, created M.D. in 1657.

page 26 note † She died in 1695 ; her husband in 1669. M. I.

page 29 note * He became in 1702 master of Trinity Hall, and held the appointment eight years.

page 29 note † Of Winchester.

page 29 note ‡ Edward Martin, master of Queen's College, Cambridge, 1631, ejected 1644, restored 1660.

page 31 note * None of these Judges seem again to have been placed on the Bench.

page 31 note † Francis Bramston.

page 32 note * Query Hodges ?

page 32 note † John Barton ; made a Serjeant in 1662.

page 33 note * Christopher Goodfellow, made a Serjeant in 1669.

page 34 note * Hodie Kilruddery.

page 35 note * Munden Hall had been purchased by John Aylmer, Bishop of London, whose eldest son, Samuel, married Anne, eldest daughter of Edward 1st Lord Brabazon, by whom he had three sons and five daughters.

page 35 note † Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit, Tempore crevit amor. Ovid.

page 37 note * This reminds us of Pepys, who remarked, when he kissed the Duchess of York's hand, that “it was a most fine white and fat hand.” Diary, July 27,1668.

page 38 note * The descent of the Bulkeley family given in all the Peerages seems incorrect and confused; but it would appear from more authentic sources that Sir Richard Bulkeley, the eldest brother of the 1st Viscount of the name, married Anne daughter of Sir Thomas Wilsford, of Idlington, in Kent, who, after his decease, became the wife of Sir Thomas Cheadle, and is the lady here mentioned. Colonel Richard Bulkeley, eldest son of the 1st Viscount, was killed in a duel with Thomas Cheadle in 1649, who had previously been Deputy Constable of Beaumaris castle, and was probably related to the widow's second husband.

page 41 note * The second parliament began 6th February, 1625. Before the day of the meetinge the Kinge was crowned. In this parliament were the speeches of Mr. Cooke and Dr. Turner, and other refling [ ruffling ? ] speeches ; in this Bristol and the Duke article one against another, and the Commons against the Duke ; but the King dissolved it and called another, which is the 17th March, 1627.—Note by the Author.

page 42 note * “ Carrie no coals,” an English phrase occurring at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, and in some of our early plays, but perhaps nowhere is its meaning more evident than it is here.

page 44 note * Afterwards Earl of Stafford.

page 47 note * Samuel Vassall. John Rolls, a London merchant, then burgess for Callington.

page 49 note * Sir Robert Heath.

page 49 note † Humphrey Davenport, knighted in 1624, and made King's Serjeant the following year, and in 1630 Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

page 50 note * Sic. in orig.

page 52 note * Sic. in orig.

page 55 note * Treasurer of the Household, and one of the representatives of Oxford University.

page 55 note † William Coryton, then serving for Cornwall.

page 56 note * Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, then sitting for Leicester.

page 56 note † Knight of the shire for Cornwall.

page 56 note ‡ Second son of the 1st Earl of Clare, chosen for Dorchester.

page 56 note § Burgess for St. Germans.

page 57 note * Now written Hobart ; the ancestor of the Earls of Buckinghamshire, then burgess for Marlow. In 1646 the Parliament voted 5000l. to his children, as a recompense for their deceased father's sufferings by imprisonment, and for opposing the illegalities of that time.

page 59 note * Sir John Finch, Recorder of London.

page 61 note * Charles Prince of Wales.

page 61 note † Alexander Leighton, born in 1568. After suffering the barbarous punishment to which he had been sentenced, he was set at liberty, in 1640, by the Parliament, and made Keeper of Lambeth Palace, then used as a State Prison. He died in 1644, the hardships he had undergone having affected his mind. His son Robert became the celebrated Archbishop of Glasgow.

page 64 note * This expression is unknown at the Treasury, nor can any explanation of it be found ; ad interim has been suggested, but the word adferit is clearly written in the MS., nor is it likely that Sir John Bramston would have mistaken a legal term.

page 67 note * Printed in Bushworth, vol. ii. p. 355.

page 69 note * John Bastwick, born at Writtle, in Essex, M.D., soon relapsed into obscurity, and died before 1656.

page 69 note † William Prinn.

page 69 note ‡ Henry Burton was restored to his rectory of St. Mathew's, Friday Street, by the Parliament, and died in 1648, having become more moderate, seeing to what lengths the Roundheads were proceeding.

page 70 note * Afterwards Archbishop of York.

page 70 note † Lamb Osbaldeston was deprived of his stall for writing this letter ; and, though the Parliament restored him, he afterwards favoured the Royal cause, and died in retirement in 1659.

page 76 note * Sir William Hicks, of Beverston, created a Baronet in 1619, ob. 1680.

page 76 note † Of Barrington Hall, Essex, created a Baronet in 1611. Sir John Barrington mentioned in the next sentence was his eldest son and successor.

page 76 note ‡ Sir William Massham, of Otes, created a Baronet in 1611, and one of the representatives for Essex in the Long Parliament.

page 76 note § William, 1st Baron Maynard, ob. 1639.

page 76 note ∥ Sir Benjamin Ayloff, of Braxted Magna, in Essex, the 2nd Baronet of his family, ob. circiter l663.

page 77 note * The remark made here about the history of the Rebellion, and repeated in a later part of the memoir, justifies the idea that Sir John Bramston was not aware of the existence of Clarendon's great work.

page 84 note * Sir John Wolstenholme lived at Nostell Priory, near Ferrybridge.

page 91 note * Dr. James Usher.

page 91 note † Peter Gunning ; after the Restoration Bishop of Ely.

page 92 note * The connexion is shown by the following table:—

page 92 note † Anthony Parringdon, Vicar of Bray, Berks, 1634 ; ejected during the civil commotions. He died in 1658.

page 93 note * Perhaps these ladies inherited the property of their mother, Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Caryll ; because their father left a son, from whom the Earl of Sefton is descended.

page 94 note * Near Epping.

page 94 note † This lady was Judith second wife to Sir Thomas Barrington, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Herts, and relict of Sir George Smith of Annables, in the same county. She died in 1657.

page 95 note * John Michelson, S.T.P., had been ejected from the rectory of Chelmsford and vicarage of Asseldham, and barbarously used by the sectaries and soldiers, in 1642. He lived to be reinstated in 1660, and, resigning Asseldham to his son, obtained the rectory of Orsett, which he held with his other preferment till his death in 1674.

page 99 note * Thomas Farnaby, the learned grammarian, who in 1646 opened a school in Goldsmiths' Rents, near Cripplegate, where his scholars soon exceeded 300. He died in 1647.

page 102 note * Dr. Moundeford.

page 102 note † “ Tom Weston, the Lord Treasurer's son, hath sold his father's antient inheritance in Essex to Chief Justice Bramston for 8000l.”—Strafford Correspondence, 1635.

page 105 note * She was daughter of Sir Thomas Campbell, Alderman of London.

page 107 note * The words here omitted were probably [of Sir John Gayer, Alderman of London,] viz. Catharine, Sir Robert Abdy's wife.

page 108 note * Lord Grey of Warke.

page 110 note * Hugh Chamberlayne, an eminent accoucheur.

page 110 note † Sir Francis Prujean, in 1665 President of the College of Physicians.

page 114 note * An intermarriage took place subsequently between the Bramstons and the Turners. Vide Pedigree.

page 118 note * This remark upon the effect (constitutionally) of establishing the order of Baronets seems at once original and just.

page 119 note * Son and successor to Sir William Ayloff, mentioned before.

page 119 note † The Earl of Manchester had five wives:

1.
1. Susannah, daughter of John Hill, of Honiley, co. Warwick.
2.
2. Anne, daughter of Robert Earl of Warwick.
3.
3. Essex, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheek, by Essex, sister to Robert Earl of Warwick, and widow of Sir Robert Bevil.
4.
4. Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Worsley, widow of Sir Henry Lee.
5.
5. Margaret, daughter of Francis Earl of Bedford, widow of James Earl of Carlisle and Robert Earl of Warwick.

There was a fourth marriage between Rich and Montagu at this time; Robert second Earl of Holand, brother to the Earl of Warwick, with Anne, daughter of the Earl of Manchester, by his second wife.

page 120 note * Robert Creighton, of Trinity College, Oxford, Chaplain to Charles I. and II., and after the Restoration Bishop of Bath and Wells. He had suffered much in the royal cause.

page 120 note † See the note to page 1.

page 122 note * The four sons of Thomas Mildmay, one of the Auditors of the Exchequer at the time of the suppression of the monasteries, who purchased the manor of Moulsham from Henry VIII., all became heads of considerable families in Essex, and early in the 17th century nine of his descendants were seated in different parts of the county. Amongst these, Sir Thomas Mildmay was created a Baronet on the institution of that order, and five others attained the distinction of knighthood. Upon the death of Carey Mildmay, of Shawford, Hants, the last male representative of the family, the Essex estates passed to his eldest daughter, Jane, who still survives, and whose husband, Sir Henry Paulet, Bart., of Dogmersfield, Hants, in 1790 assumed the name and arms of Mildmay, and died in 1808.

Henry Mildmay, of Graces, in Baddow, Sir John Bramston's implacable political enemy, of whom so much is said in the Memoir, was the great-grandson of the Auditor's second son, William, and married Mary, sister of his kinsman Benjamin Mildmay, summoned to Parliament, in 1669, as Baron Fitzwalter, by whom he left issue four daughters, and died in 1692. The Descendants of these ladies are now [1844] claiming the Barony.

page 123 note * Ought for owed.

page 123 note † According to Bishop Kennett this was not true, John Gurdon never having been present at the High Court of Justice (English Chronicle, p. 151) ; and throughout these details indeed much allowance must be made for Sir John Bramston's inveterate dislike to the Mildmay family, and his strong party prejudices.

page 124 note * Martin Holbeach, who was entrusted with the care of three of the sons of Oliver Cromwell. Barrow and Wallace were also educated at Felstead School.

page 125 note * Of Braxted Magna, created a Baronet in 1612.

page 128 note * Eldest son of the Bishop of Ely of both his names, previously burgess for St. Michael's in 1661. He died in 1672.

page 129 note * Sir George Carteret, Comptroller of the Navy and Governor of Jersey under Charles I., after the Restoration was made Treasurer of the Navy, and Vice-Chamberlain to the King. He represented Portsmouth in Parliament, and died in 1679, aged 80.

page 133 note * Query proceeds?

page 139 note * This certainly was one of the most daring impostures ever attempted, and it is not to be wondered at that Sir John Bramston should so deeply resent Henry Mildmay's base conduct, in employing such a villain as Ferdinand de Macedo to traduce his character, and accuse him of having changed his religion. The only reference as yet discovered to Macedo occurs in Kennett's Chronicle, p. 385, where the author is quoting Bishop Morley's account of the zeal in making converts to the Protestant religion displayed by Anne Duchess of York, up to the time of her fathers's banishment, “as appears by what she did for that counterfeit, pretended convert, Macedo, who proved himself to be an arrant imposter, and profligate wretch.”

We have here a description of Sir John Bramston's calumniator ; nor is it improbable that he was related to the Portuguese Jesuit of the same name, mentioned in Chalmers's “Biographical Dictionary.”

page 142 note * A celebrated place of resort for thieves and gamesters. Du Val, the highwayman, executed at Tyburn in January 1669, was buried in the church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, after lying in state in the Tangier Tavern.

page 145 note * Ellis Crispe, Sheriff for Surrey 1672.

page 147 note * Plaintiffs.

page 149 note * I suppose “ Maranatha ” observes Sir Robert Southwell.

page 154 note * Sir William Jones, made Attorney-General in 1673

page 155 note * Sir Edmund Alleyn, of Hatfield Peverell, Essex, the second Baronet of his name, married Frances, daughter and heir of Thomas Gent, of Moynes, in the same county, and left one daughter only, Arabella, or, as she is called in some pedigrees, Isabella, who inherited the estates of both families. She married first, Francis Thompson, esquire, of Hambleton in Yorkshire, so that the Thompsons seem eventually to have retained the guardianship of the young lady. Her second husband was Lord George Howard, eldest son of Henry Puke of Norfolk, by Jane Bickerton, his second duchess.

page 158 note * Sir Henry Appleton, of South Bemfleet, Essex ; second baronet of his name and family.

page 159 note * This would have been the wisest course, but Sir John Bramston had become extremely sensitive on the subject of his religion after Macedo's plot.

page 171 note * Pepys remarks how overjoyed this King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money at the Hague in 1660, “so joyful that he called the Princess Royal and the Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau.”—Diary, vol i. p. 46 4to ed.

page 172 note * Of Heydonbury in Essex.

page 177 note * Joseph Smart, of Theydon Bois.

page 178 note * The spot where the corpse was discovered is said to have been long afterwards called Green Berry Hill, after his supposed murderers.

page 180 note * The late Mr. John Gage Rokewode possessed a painting on copper of these four persons, which he prized highly. It was given to him by a Jesuit priest.

page 180 note † November 30, 1680.

page 181 note * William Marshall and James Corker, Popish priests; both reprieved.

page 184 note * It has been asserted that Monmouth signed this paper, of which Ferguson was the author, without even reading the contents. At all events, nothing could justify the charge of fratricide set forth in the Declaration, against the King ; and it sealed the fate of the unhappy Duke. Few monarchs probably would have pardoned so grievous an offence, and least of all such a merciless tyrant as James II.

page 188 note * There is a rare pamphlet published at London, in 1685, for Robert Horne, called “An Account of what passed at the Execution of the Duke of Monmouth,” from which these details were probably copied. The pamphlet was reprinted in Somers's Tracts, vol. i. p. 216, 1st edition.

The conduct of these divines was at the time much called in question, and several pamphlets were written, in which they were alternately attacked and defended. It is difficult to deny that they shewed a want of feeling towards the unhappy sufferer, of whom, with all his faults, we may remark, that

“Nothing in his life Became him like his leaving of it.”

page 193 note * Disney

page 198 note * The Speech, being printed, is omitted.

page 198 note † Thomas Strangeways, returned for Dorsetshire.

page 198 note ‡ Serving for Nottinghamshire.

page 198 note § Knight of the shire for Sussex.

page 202 note * The speech is omitted, having been printed elsewhere.

page 203 note * Monmouth.

page 204 note * Sir Francis North, created Lord Guilford in 1683.

page 205 note * Wroxton.

page 205 note † The Earl of Arlington.

page 207 note * Sir Cresswell Levintz, who had been Attorney-General in 1679.

page 207 note † This is important, as shewing that the King fully approved of Jefferies's Bloody Assize, which has been denied by some of our historians, though the fact of that Judge being made Lord Chancellor seemed decisive.

page 210 note * Richard Rumbold suffered at Edinburgh, June 26, 1685.

page 210 note † Omitted, as printed elsewhere.

page 213 note * This undoubtedly has occurred occasionally on motions for adjournment, but it is difficult to conceive that upon important questions any Members should have divided against their own party merely for the sake of retaining their seats till the end of the debate, and avoiding the trouble of going into the lobby. At the same time, the impression continued till within these few years, that those who staid in the House had the advantage. According to the present system, both sides go forth on a division.

page 214 note * Omitted, as printed elsewhere.

page 217 note * Henry Compton.

page 227 note * There is an engraved view of the old house, which has long since been pulled down, in Fuller's History of Waltham Abbey.

page 227 note † Charles Lord Buckhurst, created Earl of Middlesex vitâ patris, in 1674, succeeded to the earldom of Dorset in 1677. Having taken an active part in the measures that led to the Revolution, he was, in 1697, made Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and died in January 1705–6. The Earl had inherited Copped Hall from his uncle Lionel, Earl of Middlesex, the Lord Treasurer ; and he sold the estate in 1700 to Sir Thomas Webster, afterwards one of the burgesses for Colchester, by whom it was alienated to Mr. Edward Conyers, of Walthamstow, the ancestor of Henry John Conyers, Esq., the present possessor. The Countess was Lady Mary Compton, daughter of James Earl of Northampton, a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary. She was the Earl's second wife, and died in 1691, leaving issue one son, who became the seventh Earl and first Duke of Dorset.

page 227 note ‡ Mary, eldest daughter of Baptist, Viscount Camden.

page 227 note § At Rockholts, mentioned afterwards.

page 228 note * This remark might have been spared, as it is obvious that the King in this proceeding lost sight of the honour and dignity due to himself.

page 229 note * The spot on which Sir E.B. Godfrey's corpse was found, near Primrose Hill, is still called Green-Berry Hill, and it has been asserted that it had the same appellation before the catastrophe. Credat Judœus !

page 230 note * Omitted, as printed before.

page 233 note * Sic orig.

page 251 note * Sarah, daughter of Edward Sebright, of Blacksol, Worcestershire, mother of John, the fourth baron, who succeeded his brother George in 1680, and died in 1687, s. p.

page 251 note † Collins describes this lady as daughter of John Aldersey, of Spurston, in Cheshire, and widow of William Pitchford.—Peerage, 1774.

page 253 note * Ancestor of the Marquesses of Bath.

page 253 note † i. e. the first Lord Coventry.

page 253 note ‡ No doubt the statue still remaining. The name should be Tobias Rustat, a public spirited man, and grateful servant of the later Stuarts.

page 254 note * He was the third son, hut his elder brothers died young ; their mother was Mary, daughter of Edward Langford, of Trowbridge.

page 255 note * Thomas Carew and Charles Cotton, the poets of the name. Lord Clarendon, in his Life, gives good biographical notices of these friends of his youth.

page 256 note * Subjoined is a copy of the original order for the apprehension of the Earl of Clarendon, preserved amongst the archives at Skreena, bearing the signature of the Duke of York, and directed to Sir John Bramston, his Vice-Admiral. It is remarkable that this document was addressed by the ex-Chancellor's son-in-law to his intimate friend and former chamber-fellow ; and perhaps on this account the King's pleasure is so pointedly declared in the instrument that the blame might be laid to him, instead of his brother.The paper is also of importance as refuting the assertion of one of our recent historians, that Lord Clarendon received a Royal Order to withdraw.

page 258 note * The Gloucester man-of-war, of which Edward Hyde was Lieutenant.

page 259 note * Robert Spencer, brother of Henry 1st Earl of Sunderland, created Viscount Teviot in Scotland 1685 ; ob. s. p.

page 259 note † i. e. Francis Bramston.

page 261 note * This is an amusing account of the manner in which official characters too often get rid of pressing applications.

page 265 note * Under all the circumstances, surely Sir John Bramston might have been satisfied with what he had obtained, and especially as he was not prepared to give a favourable answer to the King's questions.

page 267 note * i. e. has laid down.

page 268 note * William Peck, of Little Sampford.

page 270 note * Charlotte Jemima Maria Boyle, a natural daughter of Charles II. by the Viscountess Shannon, who was a daughter of Sir William Killigrew, became the first wife of William second Earl of Yarmouth.

page 271 note * Omitted, as printed elsewhere.

page 276 note * Sir Edward Lutwyche, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas.

page 277 note * He was master of Magdalene College.

page 284 note * The President.

page 284 note † It nowhere appears that Farmer was in holy orders.

page 284 note ‡ Atterbury.

page 285 note * Robert Charnock was executed for high treason, March 18, 1696, having been convicted of conspiring to assassinate William III.

page 286 note * Vide Cartwright's Journal, printed for the Camden Society.

page 289 note * It was delivered to the Vice-President on the 11th of April by Robert Charnock.

page 290 note * Dated May 28, summoning the Fellows to appear at Whitehall June 6th.

page 290 note * August 14th.

page 291 note * Sic orig.

page 297 note * Doole, or dowl, signified a low post of stone or wood used as a landmark. In this instance it seems to have been applied to a balk, or strip of grass left unploughed, as a boundary between two contiguous occupations in an arable common-field. Vide Way's Promplorium and Forby's Vocabulary. At Newmarket, the posts connecting chains set across the race-course are still called dolls. A large inclosure at Wembish, in Essex, is described in an old survey as “Doole Field.”

page 299 note * Bygods, near Dunmow, the seat of the Jenour family.

page 300 note * Probably this alludes to the mail robbery mentioned in page 297, and perhaps it took place in the parish of Holland, near Colchester.

page 305 note * There is an engraving of this wretched woman, whose name was Mary Hobry, in which she is represented in the act of cutting off the limbs of her husband, Dennis Hobry. She pleaded guilty to the charge of murder, and was sentenced to be burnt, February 22, 1687–8.

page 306 note * These documents are omitted, as printed elsewhere.

page 310 note * Blank in the MS.

page 311 note * Blank in the MS.

page 313 note * Sarah, youngest daughter and one of the two coheirs of James Mayne, of Bovingdon, Herts, was second wife to Sir William Glascock.

page 315 note * He was buried in the chaneel of King's Langley church.

page 316 note * Omitted, as printed elsewhere.

page 317 note * Sir William Maynard's name occurs as Knight of the Shire in the lists of James II.'s Parliament; but the candidate here mentioned was probably William Maynard, second son of the second baron, and not the ancestor of the present viscount, whom Bramston would hardly have styled Mr., he having succeeded to his father's baronetage.

page 317 note * Pique.

page 329 note * Bourne Hall in Herts, his wife's inheritance.

page 349 note * This word may be farmed.

page 351 note * He was afterwards Rector of Ladbrooke, in Warwickshire, a living belonging to the Palmer family, and died in 1746

page 352 note * i. e. According to.

page 354 note * The Oaths, which follow in the MS., are omitted.

page 366 note * Margate.

page 375 note * The second Baronet of his family, and father of Samuel, created Lord Masham of Oates, in 1711.

page 377 note * Sir William Wiseman, of Rivenhall, created a Baronet in 1660, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Lewis Mansell, of Margarn, in Glamorganshire, Baronet, left an only child, the lady liere mentioned, who was named after her mother, and married Isaac La Motte Honywood, Esq., of Mark's Hall, Essex. After her death without issue, Rivenhall was sold to the ancestor of the late Lord Western by the widow of Sir W. Wiseman and his surviving brother.—Morant's Essex, vol. 2, p. 147.

page 379 note * Margate.

page 379 note † Sir Edward Green was created a Baronet in 1660. He had large estates in Essex, which he wasted by gaming.

page 383 note * Vide page 108, where an account of the same illnets is given ; but it was not worth while to omit either passage.

page 385 note * The celebrated William Harvey who discovered the circulation of the blood ; pox. buried at Hempstead, in Essex.

page 385 note † Cornhill.

page 387 note * Her first husband was slain at the battle of Newbury.

page 402 note * These waters, mentioned before, came from a mineral spring in the parish of Northall, hodie Northaw, near Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, which was much resorted to about the middle of the seventeenth century, and ordered by Charles II. to be called The King's Well.—Clutterbuck's Hist, of Herts., vol.ii. , p. 411.

page 405 note * Margate.

page 408 note * Probably at Skreens.

page 409 note * Stortford.

page 410 note * In November 1699 Edward Carteret, Esq. married Bridget Lady Sudbury, daughter of Sir Thomas Exton, and relict successively of Sir John Sudbury and Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq. of Ingatestone, in Essex. If this was the lady, she lived till 1758.—Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. vii. p. 172.

page 411 note * Arthur Heron, instituted in 1698 to the rectory of Moreton, in the deanery of Ongar. He died in 1733.

page 413 note * It was impossible to resist inserting in this place the entry with which the wellknown Diary of John Evelyn concludes ; so striking is its resemblance to the last passage of our Autobiographer's memoir.

Both these patriarchs had long outlived the space allowed to man by the Psalmist, and both had been permitted to enjoy a green old age, whilst they never seem to have forgotten the mercies vouchsafed to them by Providence, and were happily engaged to the last in preparing for the great change that was so soon to await them. “January 6, 1705–6,” records Evelyn, (who had recently entered into his 85th year,) “though much indisposed, and in so advanced a stage, I went to our chapel (in London) to give God public thanks, beseeching Almighty God to assist me and my family the ensuing year, if He should yet continue my pilgrimage here, and bring me at last to a better life with Him in his heavenly kingdom.”—Diary, vol. ii. p. 85.

page 413 note † He survived till 1707.

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