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page xi note a The following is a copy of his Funeral Certificate, as recorded in the College of Arms. I. 22, p. 90:—
William Camden, Esquier, al's Clarenceux King of Armes of the east, west, and south parts of the kingdome of England, on this side the riuer of Trent southward, being a batcheler, departed this mortall life at Chiselhurst, in Kent, the ixth daye of November, 1623, being Sundaye, in the mornning about 4 or 5 of the clock, and was from thence conveyed to Westminster; his funerall was worshipfully solempnized according to his degree on Wensdaye the xixth of the same moneth, in manner following, that is:— first proceeded 26 poore men in gownes, then gentlemen in cloaks, then esquiers, then knights; Sir Henry Bourchier, Knight; Sir Francis Lee, Knight of the Bath; and Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronett; then Mr. Docter Heather, being his executor, and Mr. Docter Sutton, preacher at this ffunerall; next, after the Penon, Phillip Holland, Portcullis, and Augustyn Vincent, Rouge Croix, with their coats on their armes; the Penon borne by Mr. Wyat, his kinseman; his healme and creast by John Phillipot, Rouge Dragon; his coate of armes by Samuell Thompson, Windsor Herauld. On his corps, on the pall of black veluet, was placed the King's rich coate of armes, with his coronett with which he was crowned at his creac'on, the pall beinge supported by Sampson Lennard, Blewmantle; Henry Chitting, Chester; Henry St. George, Richmond; and William Penson, Lancaster, Heraulds: next the body followed Sir William Segar, Garter, Knight, principall Kinge of Armes; his two assistants, Sir Richard St. Georg, Knight, Norroy Kinge of Armes, and Robert Treswell, Somersett Herauld. After them he was accompanyed with dyuers noblemen—as the right honourable the Lord Keeper, then Byshop of Lincolne; the Earle of Leic'; the Viscounte Graundison; the Bishop of London; the Bishopp of Winchester; the Bishop of Durham, with other Byshops; the Lord Paget; the Lord Gary; and many more barons, knights, esquiers, and gentlemen. This certificate was taken by William Penson, Lancaster, and the truth thereof testified by Doctor Heather, executor to the defunct, by subscripc' on of his name.
William Heather.
page xii note b Anstis.
page xii note c The Cottonian MS. Jul. C. III. fol. 102 b. preserves the following Letter from him to Sir Robert Cotton:
“Sr.
Not knowing how I may deserve that love and courtesie you have allwayes affoorded me, yet still presuming upon your favour, I have made bould to aequaynt you with such newes as our City is filled with. And first the Lord Bruse is certeynly slayne by Mr Sackvile, in the feilds without Andwerpe in Brabant, and Sackvile himself sore wounded. Also my Lo. Harington died within twoo dayes journey of Hidelberg, and a gentleman of his, a brother to Sr Edward Bushell, very treacherously killed by the meanes of Sr Andrew Keth, master of the horse to the lady Elizabeth. But Keyth is in honld to be sent over into England. There is also a quarrell betweene my Lo: of Essex and Mr Harry Howard, and one of them is gotten over. But there are Letters sent to the Archduke and the French King to prevent theyre desperate proceedings. There is also a talke of a quarrell betweene my Lo. of Rutland and my Lord Danvers, as also of other Noble and gentlemen of good quality, but I thinke the truth of some few have given occasion to some idle brayne to coyne others, and fill the world with rumors of Duello.
My Lo. of Bedford they say is very sick. But my Lo. Petre is not yet dead, but in great danger; and amongest the rest to fill up the mouth of mortality Sr James Pemberton, our late Mayor of London, on Thursday morning last gave up the ghost. Thus desiring your pardon for my boldnesse, remembring my thanks to Mr Thos Cotton, and Mistris Cotton, and Mr. Bevill, I take my leave; from my howse in Colman Streete, London, this 10 day of September, A°. Dom. 1613.
Yours ever bound to your Love
& courtesy,
Nich. Charles,
Lancaster.
I have not yet seene Mr Clarenceux, and the returne of the Carier was so short that I heard not of him above an houre before he was to go away, or else I would have written you some particulars concerning these dueilles.”
page xiii note d Hist. Coll. Arms, p. 233.
page xiii note e There is in the Library of the College of Arms a quarto Volume of Pedigrees in his own hand, interspersed with Drawings of Arms and Seals, in which some few descents have been introduced in another hand, and probably that of William Booth, judging from an autograph at the beginning of the MS. “Wm. Booth, of Wetton, his book, 1660.”
The Lansdowne MS. 874, in the British Museum, contains a large and curious Collection of Epitaphs and Arms in many of the Churches in London, and other parts of England, begun by Nich. Charles in 1610, and continued by Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux; with some later additions. This volume contains many Drawings of Monuments, Copies of Arms, &c. from painted windows, of some of which few or no vestiges are elsewhere to be found.
A Volume of Charles's Collections, in part illustrated by Drawings of Seals and Arms, is also preserved in the Cottonian MS. Julius C. VII.
The Harl. MS. 1349 contains various other matters illustrative of the City and Citizens of London, in the handwriting and tricking of Nicholas Charles, 4to. See also the Harleian MSS. 1353, 1367, 1447, 1453, 1463, and 5880; the last containing a Catalogue by him of Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants of Arms. Two other copies of Charles's Visitation of the County of Huntingdon may be found among the Harleian MSS. Nos, 1075 and 1179.
Gough, Brit. Top. vol. ii. p. 230, says, “Le Neve had a Visitation of Staffordshire by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster.” He adds, ibid. p. 243, that Sir John Cullum had Nicholas Charles's copy of Harvey's Visitation of Suffolk; but no such MS. as this is, at present, in the Library at Hardwick.