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THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES AND DAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST.
by
W. H. HAMILTON ROGERS, F.S.A.,
Author of "Memorials of the West," &c.
Illustrated by Roscoe Gibbs.
"WHAT FAME IS LEFT FOR HUMAN DEEDS IN ENDLESS AGE?"
Exeter: James G. Commin, 230 High Street. London: W. W. Gibbings, 18 Bury Street. M.DCCC.XC.
Torquay: Printed by Shinner & Dodd. M.DCCC.XC.
PREFACE
The subjects described in the following pages, have been chosen from among the almost unlimited number that present themselves to notice, during the stirring periods in which they are included, as they appeared to lend interest and variety of incident, illustrative of the days wherein they occurred. The concluding paper--not originally written for this series--extends into the era of the early Stuart, and has claimed admission from the comparatively unique features of its history.
W. H. H. R.
"THE MIDDLE AGES HAD THEIR WARS AND AGONIES, BUT ALSO INTENSE DELIGHTS. THEIR GOLD WAS DASHED WITH BLOOD; BUT OURS IS SPRINKLED WITH DUST. THEIR LIFE WAS INWOVE WITH WHITE AND PURPLE, OURS IS ONE SEAMLESS STUFF OF BROWN."
_John Ruskin._
CONTENTS.
PAGE
1. "OUR STEWARD OF HOUSEHOLD." ROBERT, LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, K.G. 1
2. EXTINCT FOR THE WHITE ROSE. WILLIAM, LORD BONVILLE, K.G. 37
3. UNDER THE HOOF OF THE WHITE BOAR. HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, K.G. 87
4. UNHORSED AT BOSWORTH. JOHN, LORD CHENEY, K.G. 118
5. "WITH THE SILVER HAND." STAFFORD OF SUTHWYKE, ARCHBISHOP, AND EARL 137
6. "THEY DID CAST HIM." SIR THOMAS ARUNDELL, K.B. 155
7. OF THE IMPERIAL LINE. THEODORO PALEOLOGUS 183
POEMS.
PAGE
THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS 24
TAMAR'S FLOW 36
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in
- 2: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in
- 3: Lies the quiet little town of Westbury
- 4: Brooke Hall you mean said he
- 5: And almost all its antient features obliterated
- 6: Daughter of Sir John Stretch of Pinhoe
- 7: 1 The manor of Tremoderet or Tremedart in Duloe
- 8: We trace the four fusils in fess of Cheney
- 9: Each charged with an escallop CHENEY
- 10: Summoned to Parliament as Baron Beke of Eresby 1295 6
- 11: As borne by Lord Willoughby de Eresby
- 12: Identifying the presence of Sir Robert at Bosworth
- 13: Secretly wedded by proxy to Maximilian
- 14: And Maximilian was left to shift for himself
- 15: Daughter and coheiress of Martyn Ferrers
- 16: He had by another wife sunnes and doughters
- 17: Made search for him in his own beautiful home of Cotehele
- 18: Edgcumbe was Comptroller of the Household
- 19: Kneels his wife Matilda Carminow
- 20: And nere Tamar yn the easte part
- 21: At the Manor house of Callington
- 22: Within a bordure engrailed sable STAFFORD
- 23: The manor of Alcester belonged to the Beauchamps
- 24: First created Lord Latimer of Danby
- 25: This ancient gent residing at Milcote
- 26: But she preferred in affection Fulke his younger son
- 27: Near the chancel in Alcester church
- 28: An eagle displayed or BIGBURY
- 29: And was buried at Compton Verney
- 30: There are no charges on the escutcheons
- 31: Accompanied by the golden fret of Matravers
- 32: And advowson of Toners Piddle to Robert Lewen
- 33: Through which the Coly sparkles along with sinuous course
- 34: Hastening to join the Coly a few fields' distance below
- 35: After awhile came a change of ownership
- 36: And thirdly John Faringdon of Faringdon
- 37: Sir Ralph Carminow of Menheniot
- 38: To Thomas son of John Bonville L20 in money
- 39: Married secondly Sir Richard Stuckley of Trent
- 40: And the land of one William Walrond
- 41: The costly christening vessels and flaming torches
- 42: In 1428 we get an interesting incident recorded
- 43: Fourth baron harington of aldingham
- 44: Shute was antiently part of Colyton
- 45: Fifth and last Lord Harington of Aldingham
- 46: Baron Montacute and Monthermer
- 47: By his wife Katharine Neville Bonville
- 48: Specially the magnificent castle he erected at Ashby
- 49: And that they had been sent northwards toward Pontefract
- 50: Gloucester sent Catesby to him a second time
- 51: After a short pause the Protector
- 52: I woll that if the same Erle should die
- 53: Were the three generations of the Bonvilles
- 54: It would be supposed that the aged Lord Bonville
- 55: One was the brave Sir Thomas Kyriel
- 56: Which gave it unto John Bonvill
- 57: As we linger on this delightful acclivity
- 58: Impaling the mullets of Bonville
- 59: Thomas the eldest succeeded his father to the title
- 60: Third daughter of Sir John Dinham
- 61: Of the three remaining daughters of Cicely Bonville
- 62: And aftar was the second Marquese of Dorset
- 63: And found the Marquis of Dorset
- 64: The Lady Katharine Bonville was her aunt
- 65: And on the next day proceeded to Newenham Abbey
- 66: Tufted proper this from Widville
- 67: As the second Marquis of Dorset
- 68: The Collegiate church of Astley
- 69: Married secondly Adrian Stokes
- 70: The memorials of Cicely Bonville
- 71: Of the representatives of the De Gyvernay family
- 72: On our way back from Limington
- 73: By his wife Joan daughter of Richard Fowell
- 74: He was also Lord of the Manor of Esher
- 75: Although disparked by the Petres
- 76: And so grand daughter to Cicely Bonville
- 77: If not large city of New Sarum or Salisbury
- 78: Eldest daughter and coheir of Humphrey de Bohun
- 79: Who fell at the battle of Northampton in 1460
- 80: Speedily despatched one Pershall
- 81: The young King himself was re conducted back to Northampton
- 82: Rotherham repaired immediately to the Queen Mother
- 83: Bourchier brought the young prince to Gloucester
- 84: And kill Gloucester and Buckingham
- 85: And gross adulation of Gloucester
- 86: Repaired to have audience of Gloucester
- 87: Gloucester was proclaimed King on 22 June
- 88: The Duke of Buckingham bearing up his train
- 89: Buckingham adjournied on from Gloucester
- 90: Buckingham pulled off his hat
- 91: And himself the rightful heir to the throne
- 92: With great rapidity he crossed from Brecknock to Ely
- 93: Yee saufly do the same our grete Sele to be sent unto us
- 94: And conveyed him to Shrewsbury
- 95: As that on which Buckingham suffered
- 96: We have given unto the said Rauf
- 97: And another in Britford church
- 98: The Bishop was the third son of Sir Richard Widville
- 99: More of him will be found under the notice of Bonville
- 100: In allowance of other Mannours
- 101: Buckingham would be little more than a child
- 102: Buckingham accomplished his object
- 103: Enveloped in the dark shadows of this crypt
- 104: The glorious spire of its Cathedral
- 105: Yet with apex cleaving the sky
- 106: Taken from his beautiful Chantry
- 107: Sir William Cheney of Shurland
- 108: And for the souls of William Cheyney
- 109: Fourth on the list occurs Sir John Cheney
- 110: And Sir John Cheney was not forgotten
- 111: Whereof the first three wer made before the batell
- 112: He devised his estates to his nephew Sir Thomas Cheney
- 113: Lord of the manor of Toddington
- 114: And three daughters at length his coheirs
- 115: He erected a magnificent seat at Toddington
- 116: Holding the manor of Toddington
- 117: Who married Anne Broughton of Toddington
- 118: Created Baron Cheney of Toddington
- 119: Cheyne of todington and eldest davghter of s r
- 120: Whose passing glories change eternally
- 121: But without special incident to interest the wayfarer
- 122: With honours further increased
- 123: Now modernized to Southwick Court
- 124: And secondly to Sir John Dinham
- 125: Ac unam magnam peciam de Aras vocatam doser
- 126: The squares between ornamented with quatrefoils
- 127: Lineally with the figure of a lady in a Gothique niche
- 128: Sir Humphrey with the Silver Hand
- 129: Within a bordure engrailed sable STAFFORD OF SUTHWYKE
- 130: Stafford Antistes fuerat dictusque Johannes
- 131: Lord Bottreaux married first Elizabeth
- 132: By him she had one daughter Alianore
- 133: Radford thou must come to my Lord my Fadir
- 134: But at last the Welchmen fled
- 135: And after his death she remarried with Sir Thomas Bourchier
- 136: And first home of Stafford in these parts
- 137: The two successive Sir Humphreys
- 138: Picturesquely gabled and chimnied
- 139: 37 and no antient memorial catches the eye
- 140: Fourth and last Baron Arundell of Trerice
- 141: In happy alliance with the swallows of Arundell
- 142: The subtle and ambitious Wolsey
- 143: He filled the office of Sheriff of Dorset
- 144: Afterward created Viscount Rochford
- 145: This fresh marriage of the king with Jane Seymour
- 146: The manor and advowson of Dorrington in Wilts
- 147: A dolphin embowed or FITZJAMES OF LEWSTON
- 148: At or over the entrance to chantry or chancel
- 149: Lord Daubeney married Elizabeth
- 150: And dissolved Priory or College of Slapton
- 151: They then retreated to Clyst Heath
- 152: Bishop Ponet in his ' Treatise on Politic Power
- 153: That Sir Thomas Arundell had assured the Tower
- 154: And cast of felony to be hangyd
- 155: Sir Rafe Vane was condemned of felony in treason
- 156: And so the qwest cold nott fynd ym tyll the morow after
- 157: And Sir Rauf Vane that they should against Friday next
- 158: Matters wore a very different aspect toward the Arundells
- 159: Where the succeeding generations of the Arundells of Wardour
- 160: Annoque reparatae salutis 1643
- 161: The most noble heiress of the family of Lanherne in Cornwall
- 162: And almost land locked harbour of Plymouth
- 163: And forms the basis of true seamanship
- 164: The fleet of huge discarded hulks
- 165: The gifted Apostle of Cornish revival
- 166: We enter on a glorious stretch of the uncontaminated Tamar
- 167: The effigies of Sir John Dauney
- 168: And their half brethren the Dartmoor peasantry
- 169: Second brother to constantine paleologvs
- 170: Whereby Justinianus was entered
- 171: And thus perished Constantinus
- 172: Governed a great part of Peloponesus
- 173: To Prince Demetrius Rhodocanakis
- 174: And it is supposed John Paleologus fell by his side
- 175: Davghter vnto sr henry killigrewe of london
- 176: Within a bordure bezantee KILLIGREW
- 177: The coffin of Paleologus was seen
- 178: The Penningtons were successively of Exeter
- 179: Here Lyeth Bvried the Body of Richard Trevill
- 180: In memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges
- 181: Budeaux EX HOC MOMENTO PENDET AETERNITAS
- 182: Arundell inscription at Tisbury
- 183: Broke Chantry in Westbury Church
- 184: Courtenay estates forfeited and restored
- 185: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in
- 186: Buckingham's conspiracy against
- 187: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in
- 188: His brass in Shaftesbury Church
- 189: His mother's monument and epitaph
- 190: Stafford chantry in Abbotsbury Church
- 191: His monument in Callington Church