THE CATALOGVE OF THE CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND, THE LORD Keepers of the Great Seal: AND THE LORD TREASVrers of England.  
With a Collection of diverse that have been Masters of the Rolls.  
By J. P. Summerset Herald.  
Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Andrew Crook in Paul's Churchyard, 1636.   

CRESCAM UT PROSIM CONSTANTER ET PRUDENTER 
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LEt the Catalogue of the Chancellors of England, the Lord Keepers of the great Seal, and Lord high Treasurers of England, Collected by john Philipot Summerset, be printed.  
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The Preface.  
THE Catalogue or Series of the Chancellors of England hath been with much care and diligence laboured by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald of Arms, and after him by Francis Thin, Lancaster Herald; whose M. S Collections I have by me, and in them a thankful commemoration is made of Mr. Thomas Talbots kind assistance, he being Clerk of the Records in the Tower of London, where the Charters and their Dates that afford the exactest testimonies of them are to be found for many Ages past. So that I shall not need to cite the vouchers and proofs at large. Neither will I be so false to myself or my Reader, as to conceal that the worthy and reverend Antiquary Sr. Henry Spilman Knight, in his Glossary hath summarily mentioned them: The nature of the Office is most accurately described by him in that work, and also by Mr. William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, in his History of Great Britain, in the description and definition of the several Courts of Justice in this Kingdom, to which I refer those that desire to be particularly informed in that kind. Pollidor Virgil would persuade us the Office and name of Chancellor was not known in this Kingdom till after the Norman Conquest, and the Author of the Catalogue of Bishops, is positive in that opinion, speaking of Swithen Bishop of Winchester, (the opinion of whose piety procured him the title of a Saint.) But the contrary is most clear and evident as by the Authorities hereafter mentioned will appear, to which I refer my Reader.   

A CATALOGVE OF THE CHANCELLORS of England from the time of the SAXON Kings.  
TVrketill was Chancellor to King Ethelbald, who began his reign in the year 718. this Turketill gave six Manors to the Abbey of Croiland.  
St. Swithen, Bishop of Winchester, was Chancellor and chief of Council to the great Monarch King Egbert, who began his reign about the year 802.  
Wolfinus, was Chancellor to King Athelstone, who began his reign in the year 924. This King enriched the Monastary of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, with large and ample endowments, and bestowed great immunities upon the Town. And in the Charter and grant of those Liberties; this Wolfinus is a witness with the title of Chancellor.  
Turketill, was Chancellor to the said King Athelstone, and so continued under King Edmund, who began his reign in the year 940. and after the death of King Edmund, he was Chancellor to King Edred, the space of two years.  
Adulthus, Chancellor to King Edgar; who began his reign in Anno Dom. 959. Of this man speaketh Hugo Petro Burgensis, and Leland calleth this Adulph, Cancellarium & Archigrammatum, Chancellor or chief Secretary.  
Alsius or Aelsius, the second Abbot of Elie, Chancellor to King Ethelred, who began his reign in Anno Dom. 979. This man being by Ethelwold Bishop of Winchester, consecrated Abbot, by the appointment of the said King Ethelred, or Egelred, and being then Abbot of Elie, when Ethelred gave out his commandment, that the Abbot of Elie, should then, and for ever be Chancellor, I doubt not to place him here amongst the Chancellors, the proof of which matter I have here verbatim set down out of the second book of the history of Elie. Statuit (which was Ethelred) atque concessit quatenus ecclesiam de Elie, ex tunc & semper in regis curia cancellarij ageret dignitatem, quod etiam alijs, sancti videlicet, Augustini & Glasconiae ecclesijs constituit, ut Abbates istorum caenobiorum vicissim adsignatis succedendo, temporibus annum trifarie dividerent, cum sanctuarijs, & caeteris ornamentis ministrando, etc.  
Leofricus Bathonicus Chancellor to Edward the Confessor, in Anno Dom. 1045. and some years before, this man was Bishop of Cridington in Cornwall, which see was after translated to Excester.  
Wifinus, or Wolfinus, Chancellor to Edward the Confessor, in the latter end of the said year 1045, being the third year of his reign.  
Resenbaldus, or Rembaldus, (for I take them both by many and ancient authorities to be all one man,) was Chancellor to Edward the Confessor, and Seale-bearer, witness amongst others, to many Deeds, which I have seen of the Confessors, some dated in Anno dom. 1066 and some otherwise, he was buried at Cirencester or Cicester.  
Mauricius, Chancellor to William the Conqueror, in Anno dom. 1067. being the first, and part of the second year, of William the Conqueror.  
Osmundus, after Bishop of Sarum, Chancellor to William the Conqueror in Anno dom. 1067, and after in the year 1075, about Anno 9 of the King's reign.  
Arfastus' Bishop of Helmane, who translated his See from Helmane to Thetford, was Chancellor to William the Conqueror, in Anno dom. 1068, being in the second and third year of the Conqueror, and also in the year 1077, being about Anno 10. of William the Conqueror, Mauricius was again Chancellor.  
Hirmanus, that was first made Bishop of Suring or Wilton, and translated his See from Wilton to Shirborne, and from thence to Sarum; He is that Hirmanus, which (I suppose) was Chancellor to William the Conqueror, and called Hirmanus, and that wrote the life and miracles of St. Edmund King of the Eastangles.  
William Welson, or Wilson, borne of a Noble house, Chaplain and Chancellor to William the Conqueror, (as hath Robertus Montensis) succeeded Arfastus in the Bishopric of Thetford, to whom by the gift of William Rufus, succeeded in that See Herbertus Losinga Abbot of Ramsey, which translated the Bishops See to Norwich.  
William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, was Chancellor in the time of the Conqueror, and of William Rufus, & of Henry, who made him Bishop of Winchester, in Anno dom. 1100, and was consecrated in Anno dom. 1107, though it seemeth that Robert Bluet came in place of this William Gifford, removed about the fourth year of the same Rufus, from his Office of Chancellorship, (as I suppose will be well proved,) but after placed again in that Office. Of the death of this William is much contrariety; for Matthew Westminster, placed it three several years, viz in Annis 28 & 29, Henry 1, and again in the year of Christ, 1142, being the seaventh year of King Stephen.  
Robert Bluet, Bloit, or Bloscit, made Chancellor in Anno dom. 1090. being Anno 4. of William Rufus, he was made Bishop of Lincoln, in Anno dom 1092. but as it appeareth by some authority, that I have seen he did execute that Office, being Bishop of Lincoln, he died at Woodstock, in Anno dom. 1123. being about the 23. year of the reign of Henry the first, whose Epitaph Henry Huntingdon reciteth in this manner.  
Pontificum Robertus honour, quem sama superstes  
Perpetuare dabit, nec obiturus obit,  
Hic humilis, dives (res mira,) potens, pius ultor,  
Compatiens, mitis, quum pateretur erat,  
Noluit esse suis dominus, studuit pater esse,  
Semper in adversis, murus, & arma suis,  
In decima Jani mendacis somnia mundi  
Liquit, & evigilans vera perhennè vidit.  
Ranulphus in th● the time of William Rufus, which might be that man, which was after Chancellor, in the time of Henry the first.  
Waldricus Changed ncellor to Henry the first, in Anno dom. 1103. being Anno 3. of his reign.  
William Gifford, aforesaid was again Chancellor.  
Herbertus, Chancellor in Anno 4. Henry the first, in Anno dom. 1104. as appeareth by an Ann●nymall pamphlet in written hand, of whom I am not yet resolved, whether this were Herbertus Losinga, Bishop of Norwich or no.  
Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, whom Henry the first, called a meet Chaplain to serve soldiers, was Chancellor to King Henry the first, in Anno dom. 1101. being the first year of King Henry the first, in Anno dom. 1107. about the seaventh year of Henry the first, being chosen Bishop, in Anno dom. 1102. and consecrated in the year 1107.  
Galfridus Rufus, Bishop of Durham, witness to a Deed, wherein Henry the first confirmed to the priory of Christ church, a piece of ground without Aldgate, called Knighton gild, in the presence of Geofry Chancellor, Geofry Clinton, and William Clinton, he was Chancellor in Anno 22. Henry the first, and so until Anno 33. Henry the first, and then was made Bishop of Durham, which Geofry died about the year 1141.  
Robertus Ranulphus, called by Matthew Westminster, Ranulphus Chancellor to Henry the first, and Richard the Chaplain, keeper of the great Seal, being at one time. This Ranulph was Chancellor in Anno dom. 1116. being the sixteenth of King Henry the first, In which Office I suppose that he continued until Anno dom. 1123. being in Anno 23, of the said King, In which year this Chancellor, (for so is he then called) fell from his Horse, and broke his neck on an hill, not far from Dunstable, where the King kept his Christmas.  
Richardus Capellanus, was keeper of the Seal under this Ranulph.  
Reginald Chancellor to King Henry the first, (as Leland hath set him down,) writing in this sort, in his notes of Montacute Abbey, Reginaldus Cancellarius, so named (belike) of his Office, he was a man of great fame, about King Henry the first, he fell to Religion, and was Prior of Montacute, and enlarged it with great buildings, & possessions.  
Thomas, Chancellor after this Regnaild, witness to a Charter of the Church of Norwich.  
Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, again Chancellor, in the latter end of the reign of King Henry the first, and in the beginning of King Stephen, in Anno dom. 1136, which Henry the first, died in the year 1135, being in Anno 35, of his reign. This Roger died in Anno dom. 1139, being about the 4 year of King Stephen.  
Godfrey, Chancellor to Henry the first, (as I gather out of Matthew Parker, in the life of William Corbel, or Corbris) the 36 Archbishop of Canterbury, to which dignity this William was advanced in Anno 23, Henry the first, being in Anno dom. 1123, of which Godfrey, the said Matthew further writeth in this sort, speaking of the said William the Archbishop, returned from Rome with the Pall. Deinde Alexandrum Lincolniensem episcopum Cantuariae, Godfridum Regni Cancellarium, Bathoniensem episcopum Londini consecravit.  
Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln (as may be after a sort gathered out of Wilhelmus Paruus, lib: 1, cap. 6. being Cousin or Nephew to Roger Bishop of Salisbury) was Chancellor, the words of which Wilhelmus Paruus be these. Eodem (that was to King Stephen) quoque sublimato in regem, se (that was Roger Bishop of Salisbury) talem exhibuit, ut obsequiorum gratia praeclaram apud illum habere fiduciam videretur. Tantis ille beneficijs ingratus, & in ipsum episcopum, (cujus opera nunquam episcopalia fuere) ultor divinitus ordinatus, eundem tanquam exigui hominem momenti primo carcerati custodia, postmodum etiam sibi inopia, & nepoti ejus (qui Cacellarius fuerat regis) intentato supplicio ita coarctavit, ut duo illa praeclara castella (which were the castles of Vise, otherwise called the devises, and the castle of Shirborne) in quibus thesauri ejus erant repositi resignaret.  
Robert, Chancellor of England, in the time of King Stephen, but I find not in what year, because the Charter is without date, neither can I learn what he was, because I know not his surname.  
Philip, Chancellor to King Stephen, about the fourth year of his reign, being in Anno dom▪ 1139. witness to many Deeds, which King Stephen made to the Monks of Elie, and to Nigellus the Bishop of that See.  
Reinold Abbot of Walden, whom I have seen in one anonymall brief Chronicle, M, S▪ to be termed Chancellor, but in what time he lived, or what other name he had, I do not yet know, but by the course of the history, much about this time.  
John Chancellor of England, in the time of King Henry the second.  
Thomas Becket, made Chancellor, (as some writ) in the first year of the reign of King Henry the second, others say in the fourth year, but the best authors agree, that he gave over the Seal in Anno dom. 1162, being in the eight year of the victorious Prince, King Henry the second, against the will of the Prince, he died in Anno dom. 1170.  
Ralphe Warnevile Archdeacon of Roan, and Treasurer of the Church of York, was made Chancellor about the year 1173, being in Anno 8, Henry the second, Of this man speaketh Matthew Paris, and Matthew Westminster.  
Walterus de Constantijs, Archdeacon of Oxford, Bishop of Lincoln, in Anno dom, 1182, from whence he was advanced in Anno dom. 1184, being in Anno 31 Henry the second, unto the Archbishopricke of Rome.  
Geofry, the bastard son to King Henry the second, after he had surrendered the Bishopric of Lincoln, whereof he was never consecrate Bishop, but kept the place, and received the revenues, was made Chancellor much about Anno 26, Henry the second, in Anno dom 1181.  
William Longchampe, the proud Bishop of Elie, Legat of England, for the Bishop of Rome, chief justice of the South, and West, parts of England, Deputy of that part of the Realm, when Richard the first, went to the wars of the holy Land, was made Chancellor in Anno 1 Richard the first, being in Anno Dom. 1191, of the sumptuous feast, of whose inthronization, thus writeth Ferthulphus, or Ferculphus, by the way of comparison, 
Praevisis alijs, Eliensia festa videre,  
Est quasi praevisa noste videre diem.   
He died in the year of Christ, 1197, going to Rome, in the Abbey of Pimie; being of the Charterhouse order, about which time in Anno 6, Richard the first, there was a Vicechancellor called Malus Catulus.  
Eustachius, Deane of Salisbury, was Chancellor of England, being elected Bishop of Ely, in the third Ideses of August, in Anno dom. 11●6, being in Anno 9 Richard 1, Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker, in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, contrary to that which others affirm; writing that Eustachius succeeded William Longchampe in the Office of Chancellor, and in the Bishopric of Ely. The words of Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert be these. Hubertus deposito magistratu civili, ecclesiae curae totus vacabat, consecravitque postea Robertum de Solopesbi, episcopum Banchorensem, & Eustachium, qui in cancellarij munere ei successit Eliensem episcopum, Westmonasterij debita accepta ab utroquesubjectionis professione.  
Hubert Walter, or Walter Hubert, for such a transmutation of the name, is used by authors, being first Bishop of Salisbury, and then Archbishop of Canterbury, was made Chancellor shortly after the Coronation of King John; which was in Anno dom. 1199, at what time a certain Nobleman said unto him in scorn, I have often seen, of a Chancellor made a Bishop, but I never before saw an Archbishop made a Chancellor.  
Simon; or rather Hugh, of which is more hereafter,  of Wells, in the first year of King John, after (as I suppose that Hubert had left the Office, being so disgraced and abased, as he thought) was witness to a Deed, in which King John, granted to the Citizens of York, a guildhall, hanse, and other liberties, as I have seen noted in the Copy of the same Charter, for which cause, I have set it down as another man, although in truth I am fully resolved, that this Simon, and the Hugh following, were all one person, leaving it yet for every man's judgement.  
Hugh de Wells Archdeacon of Wells witness to the Deed, in which King John, in the sixth year of his reign confirmed to the Monastery of Westminster, Gistslep, or Islep in Oxfordshire, in which house Edward the Confessor was borne, he was made Bishop of Lincoln, about Anno 10, of the reign of King John, in Anno dom. 1209, and died in the year of our Lord 1235.  
Walter Grace, chosen Bishop of Chester, in anno dom 1210, was Bishop of Worcester, and after Bishop of York, a man of extreme age, was made Chancellor in the seaventh year of King john, as one anonymal Chronicle saith, to hold that Office during his life. Others say that he was made Chancellor in anno dom. 1209, being the tenth year of King John, after Hugh de Wels. But I suppose he surrendered that Patent; to hold it during his life, when he came to be Bishop of York.  
Richard de Marischo, whom Matthew Paris, termeth Tholenarius, as it were Tollgatherer, or Treasurer (if you list,) being Archdeacon of Northumberland, was Chancellor in the fourth year of King John, as appeareth by a Deed that I have seen, and further he was made Chancellor in Anno 15, of King John, in which Office he continued to the 17 year of the said King, and as some do write, during King John his life, and died about the kalends of May, in Anno dom, 1226, in Anno 10, of the long reign of King Henry the third, as some have; but the Book of Durham saith; that he was made Bishop of that See, by Gwado the Legate, and consecrated by Walter Grace, Bishop of York, in Anno dom. 1214. being about Anno 16, of King John, and died suddenly at Peterborough the first day of May, in Anno dom 1226, being the t nth year of King Henry the third, after that he had been Bishop of Durham, nine years.  
For whom this formal Epitaph was made, 
Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompasque sui tis  
Et sedata si 'tis si me pensare veli tis  
Qui populos regi tis memores super omnia si tis  
Quod mors immi tis non parcit honore poti tis  
Vobis praeposi tis similis fueram bene sci tis  
Quod sum vos eri tis ad me currendo veni tis   
Ralphe Nevil, was confirmed Chancellor, as it seemeth by the whole consent of the Nobility in Anno dom. 1226, being about Anno 10 Henry 3, after which he was made Bishop of Chichester, in Anno 11 Henry 3, being in Anno dom. 1227, or as hath Matthew Westminster, he was made Bishop of Chichester, in Anno dom 1223, being before Chancellor, after which the King in Anno 22 of his reign, offended with Nevil, took from him the great Seal, and delivered it to Geofry of the Temple, as hath Matthew Paris, and john de Lexington, although that the said Nevil remained still Chancellor, and received the profit thereof, to whom the King would have regiven the seal in Anno dom. 1229, being the three and twentieth year of his reign, but Nevil would not receive it This man died in the year of Christ 1243, being Anno 27 Henry 3, at his Palace at London, not fare from the new Temple.  
Geoffrey the Templar and John de Lexington, were made keepers of the great Seal, but shortly of ere this Geoffrey had the Seal taken from him, because he grew in dislike of the Nobility in continually provoking them to anger.  
Hugh Pateshall, Cannon of Paul's, is by Matthew Paris, Folly 656, called Chancellor in Anno 23 Henry 3, Which I much doubt to be true, of his man shall be more said in the Treasurers of England.  
Simon the Norman keeper of the great Seal, in Anno 23 Henry 3, being in Anno dom. 1229, he had the Seal shortly taken from him, and was banished the Court, because he would not seal the Patent, whereby Thomas Earl of Flanders might take four pence for every Sack of Wool, that came out of England into Flanders, This Simon died in the year of Christ 1249, being in Anno 33 Henry 3.  
Richard Grass or Grossus, Abbot of Evesham, (the said Simon expelled) had the keeping of the great Seal in Anno 23, Henry 3, he kept the Seal three years, and being chosen Bishop of Chester, he resigned the Seal in Anno dom 1242, being the 26, year of Henry the third, he died (being wise and learned in the Canon Law,) in the same year in Gascoigne, in a City called in Latin Riola or Rigula, where he was buried.  
John de Lexington, was again made keeper of the Great Seal in Anno 26 Henry 3, being in Anno dom. 1242, to execute that Office, Ralphe Nevil being in life, and still Chancellor, but in the King's disgrace, shortly after which, this Nevil died. This john Lexington died in Anno dom. 1252, being in Anno 41, Henry 3.  
Ranulfe Briton, as I read, is said to be Chancellor, and Treasurer of the Chamber, about the 37 year of Henry the third, being in Anno dom. 124●, I suppose that he only had the keeping of the great Seal, as the rest had before him, during the life of Ralph Nevil, and so I leave him to the judgement of others, sith Matthew Paris, continually nameth him Treasurer, and once Chancellor, who suddenly died after dinner, beholding players at Dice, in Anno dom. 1246, being in Anno 30 Henry 3, Of whom thus writeth the said Matthew Paris, in his greater history Fol. 934, Ranulphus Brito quondam Dominus familiarissimus Regi & Reginae multis posthabitis nobilibus & ejusdem Cancellarius specialis, quum post mensalem refectionem, aleatores certatim inspexisset colludentes, laethalis apoplexia, inexpectato vulnere corruit sugillatus.  
Silvester de Eversden, received the great Seal in Anno 29 Henry 3, being in Anno dom. 1246, he was Vicechancellor, and consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, (being a man most cunning in the custom of the Chancery) in Anno dom. 1247. being in Anno 31 Henry 3.  
john Mansell Treasurer of York, Parson of Maidstone in Kent, Parson of Wigan, Chancellor of Paul's, Master or Ruler of Beverley, Chief justice of England, one of the privy Counsel to Henry the third, his Chaplain, Ambassador into Spain, and a worthy soldier, crossed to go to jerusalem, who at one feast, had two Kings, two Queens, and I know not how many Noblemen, and whose spiritual live were about 4000 Marks, of yearly revennewes ●s I have gathered) he was at the will a●●●●stance of the King made keeper of the great Seal, as Vicechancellor, for Matthew Paris saith, Custodiam sigilli regij accepit Cancellarij vices acturus & officium, about Anno 31 Henry 3, in Anno dom. 1247, he built an house of regular Cannons at Rumney, one of the Cinque Ports in Kent; To this man King Henry the third, in Anno 30 of his reign, did grant that his Town of Wigan should be a Burrough.  
John de Lexington, being after chief I●stice of the Forest, from the River of Trent Southward, was again keeper of the great Seal, until some part of the 32, year of Henry the third, in Anno dom. 1248.  
John Mansell, again keeper of the great Seal, who at Woodstock, in the 32 year of Henry the third, did receive the great Seal of the said John Lexington, which he kept (as I suppose, and that with some good proof) until the 33 year of the said King, being in anno dom. 1248, Of which John Mansell, thus writeth, an old anonymall Chronicle, concerning the Baron's wars. Sed & Johannes Mansell multarum in Anglia ecclesiarum Rector, seu potius incubator, reddituum quoque quorum non erat numerus possessor magnificus, ita quod ditior eo clericus non videbatur in orbe episcopali, puta dignitate minime insignitus, metu Baronum aufugit, & latenter ultra mari de Turri London, in qua Rex Angliae, & Regina sua tunc temporis tenuerunt se. Quem quum Henricus filius regis Alemaniae fugientem insequeretur, & ipse capitur quum applicuisset Bononiae, a Magistro Ge●ardo, de fines procuratore ut putabatur reginae.  
Radulphus de Diceto, was Chancellor as I read and suppose, much about this time.  
William of Kilkenny, being a modest, wise, and faithful man, learned in the Canon and Civil Laws, was made keeper of the great seal in Anno dom. 1250. being in Anno 34 Henry 3, He was elected to the Bishopric of Elie, as saith the History of Elie, the 18 Calends of September, in Anno dom. 1255, being about anno 39 Henry 3. But others say, that he being then Vicechancellor, was elected Bishop of Elie, in anno dom. 1254, being anno 38 Henry 3, after that he had faithfully, and to his great commendation, used and borne the great seal, he was consecrated to that Bishopric in anno dom. 1255, and died in anno dom. 1256, being about anno 41 Henry 3, whose heart was buried at Elie.  
Henry de Wingham, was made Chancellor in anno 39 Henry 3, and continued in annis 41 & 42 Henry 3, in which year (as some have) and in the 43 of Henry the third, (as others have) he was chosen Bishop of Winchester, upon condition that he should give place to Athelmer, half brother to King Henry the third, and son to Hugh Brunne, Earl of Marsh, and of Eleanor, King Henry the third his Mother, being banished by the Barons, if that he should again come into England, and then leave the bishopric of Winchester unto him, which he did upon the coming again of the said Athelmer into England, and for that cause was after chosen Bishop of London, in Anno dom. 1259, being in Anno 33 Henry 3. and still Chancellor, and is buried in Paul's, on the South side of the Choir, (next to Eustachius Bishop of London,) in a Monument of Marble, with this inscription on the wall to tell who it was. Hic jacet Henricus de Wingham quondam episcopus hujus ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli.  
Walter Merton Chancellor in Anno 44 Henry 3, being in Anno dom 1260.  
Nicholas of Elie, made Chancellor by the Barons in Anno dom. 1260, and Walter Merton displaced. But King Henry the third disdaining to have Officers appointed him by his subjects, did in the month of October following in Anno dom. 1260. or rather 1261, deprive the said Nicholas, and replaced the said Walter Merton.  
Walter Merton, Bishop of Rochester, the second time made Chancellor, as before appeareth.  
John de chesil,  of London, and Treasurer of England, was made keeper of the great seal in Anno dom. 1264, in Anno 48 Henry 3. This man was consecrated Bishop of London in Anno dom 1274, the third Kalends of May, as hath Matthew Westminster, he died in Anno dom. 1279, the fourth Ideses of February, in Anno 7, of King Edward the first.  
Thomas de Cantelupe, borne of the noble house of the Lords Cantelupes, the son of William Cantelupe and Millecent, which (as saith Leland) drew her original from the Countesses of York, being  of Stafford, was Doctor, and afterward Bishop of Hereford, in Anno dom. 1276, and before that made Chancellor, after the feast of S. Peter's Chair, in Anno dom. 1265, being in anno 49, Henry 3, he died beyond the Seas, coming from the Court of Rome, in anno dom. 1278, being in anno 6 Edward 1, or more truly (as others have,) in anno 1283, being anno 11 Edward 1, whose bones were brought to Hereford.  
Walter Gifford Bishop of Bath and Wells, whom many do call William, did enjoy the state of the Chancellor, in anno dom 1266, being anno 50, Henry 3, he was translated from Bath to York in anno dom. 1259, being in anno 49 Henry 3, and died the 7, kalends of May, in the xii, year of his Bishopric in anno dom. 1277, being in anno 6, Edward 1, or as Nicholas Trivet in anno dom. 1279. being the 7, year of King Edward 1.  
Geofry Gifford, was Chancellor also in anno 51 Henry 3, being in anno dom. 1267, This man was Bishop of Worcester, about anno dom. 1299 where he sat 34, years, 4 months, 4 days, and died in the year 1304, being about the 32, year of King Edward the first.  
John de chesil, was the second time honoured with the place of the Chancellor in anno dom. 1268, being the 53 year, of King Henry the third.  
Richard de Middleton, so surnamed of the place where he was borne, was advanced to the Office of the Chancellorship in the said anno 53 Henry 3, in the month of July in anno dom. 1268, and was also, (as appeareth by a Charter which I have seen,) witness to the same Deed, in anno 54 Henry 3, who as fare as I can gather) died in August, in anno dom. 1271, being anno 56 of the long government of King Henry the third.  
John de Kirby, after the death of Richard Middleton, was made keeper of the great seal, in the said anno 56 Henry 3, It is very probable that this was the same John Kirby, which after was Bishop of Elie, and Treasurer of England.  
Walter Merton, the third time made Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1273, being the first year of the reign of that famous Prince King Edward, the first of that name, He was Bishop of Rochester, and founded Merton College in Oxford, and died the year of Christ, 1278, being the sixth year of the reign of King Edward the first.  
Robert Burnell, the eleaventh Bishop of Bath and Wells, (after the uniting of those two Sees, in one, by john de Toures, in Anno dom. 1272, was made Bishop of Bath, in the year of our Lord, (as saith Eversden) 1274, chosen Archbishop of Canterbury, in Anno dom. 1278, but rejected by the Pope. He was Chancellor in Anno 2 Edward 1, in which place it seemeth, that he long continued, of whom thus writeth an anonymall Chronicle.  
Dominus Edmundus Comes Cornubiae fundavit novum studium ordinis Cisterciensis apud Oxonias, & monachos de Thame primo ibidem introduxit, & dedit eis prima donatione Manerium de Erdington, & secit dedicare locum Abbatiae Tertij Jdus Decembris, per Dominum Robertum Burnell eposcopum Bathon & Wells, Cancellarium regis, & posuit fundamentum novae ecclesiae eodem die Northosneiae. This Bishop was required, with the son of Edward the first, and Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester, in the time of Edward the first, to be delivered for pledges for Lheweline, Prince of Wales, for his safe return, if he came to the parliament, whereunto he was summoned, by the said King Edward, In the time of this Chancellor, the Court of Chancery, was kept at Bristol. This man died in Anno dom. 1293, being Anno 21, Edward 1.  
John de Langton, was made Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1293, being the 21 year of the victorius King Edward the first, in which office he remained until the death of the said King, being in Anno dom. 1302, He was made Bishop of Chichester, about Annis 26 or 27, Edward 1. being in Anno dom. 1298, or rather 1299, And in the said year 1299, he was before chosen Bishop of Elye, but rejected by the Pope, who made him Archdeacon of Canterbury. From which Langton King Edward did take the great seal in the thirtieth year before said, and delivered it to John Drokenford.  
John Drokenford keeper of the Wardrobe was made keeper of the great Seal in the thirtieth year as before, in which office he continued from about the 15 day of August; until Michaelmas.  
William de Grinefeild Deane of Chichester and Canon of York, was advanced to the place of Chancellor in Anno Dom. 1302. being about Anno. 30. Edward 1. which Office was given unto him at Saint Radigunds (as saith Anonymus M.S. He was after chosen Bishop of York, in Anno dom. 1303. who in the year of our Lord 1308 buried the body of the said King Edward the first in Westminster, though the King died in Anno dom. 1307. This Bishop died in Anno dom. 1315 being about the sixth year of King Edward the second, at Cawood, after that he had been Bishop nine years, eleven months and two days, and was buried in S. Nicholus Porch at York, receiving his consecration at Rome, in Anno dom. 1305, (after that he had been there two years) of Pope Clement; This Greinfeild was a man very eloquent, and pithy, and Prudent in Counsel.  
William de Hamilton, Deane of York, was created Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1305, being the 33, year of that noble prince, King Edward the first; this William died in Anno dom▪ 1307, being about Anno 35, of the said King at the Abbey of Fontnesse in Yorkshire, being a man that well deserved of the Common wealth.  
Ralphe de Baldock, chosen Bishop of London in Anno dom. 1303, was confirmed at Titneshall, by Robert of Winchelsey Bishop of Canterbury, and consecrated at Lions by Peter of Spain, Bishop of Alba, the third Calends ●f February, in anno dom. 1305, He was made Lord Chancellor of England, after the death of the said William Hamilton, in the said 35, year of King Edward the first, and received the great Seal, in the Rogation week following, being some four or five weeks, after he was advanced to that Office, at the Exchequer, shortly after which died King Edward the first, for which cause the said Baldock sent the great Seal to King Edward the second then at Carliel, by reason of his father's death. This Baldock died, on S. James Eeve in anno dom. 1313, being anno 7, Edward 2.  
john Langton Bishop of Chichester, again made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1307. being the first year of King Edward of Carnaruàn in which office it seemeth that he continued until Anno dom. 1310 being in Anno 3 Edward 2.  
William Melton having two others joined with him had the great Seal delivered unto them for a certain time, to execute all such things as were to be done therewith, during the King's pleasure. This man was a Canon of York, Provost of Beverly, Treasurer of England, and Archbishop of York, as saith Anonymus M.S. He was consecrated Bishop of York at Rome, where he tarried two years for the same, he was a man never wearied with travel. He first of all the Bishops of York, after a long controversy betwixt the Dean and Cannons of York, visited the chapter by due order, he was wise, rich, severe in correction, gentle, familiar and humble, he finished the West part of the Church of S. Peter's in York, with 300 pound, he was Archbishop of York, 22 years, five, or six months, and two days, he died at Cawood, on S▪ Georges Eeve, in Anno dom. 1330, and was buried in the Minster of York near the Font.  
Walter Reinolds Bishop of Worcester▪ Treasurer of England, and Archbishop of Canterbury, was made keeper of the great Seal, and Chancellor of England, on the sixth of July▪ Anno dom. 1310, being anno 3 Edward 2.  
John de Sandall Clerk, Bishop of Winchester and Treasurer, was at York made Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1314. being anno 8 Edward 2, in which place, he continued two years and more, some part thereof being after that he was made Bishop of Winchester, (as I gather) and then delivered back the seal at Westminster, in anno dom. 1317, being in anno 11 Edward 2, Of this man is more spoken in the Treasurers of England.  
John Hotham Bishop of Elie, was created Lord Chancellor of England, in anno dom. 1317, being in anno 11 Edward 2, In which Office he continued until anno dom. 1319, being anno 13 Edward 2, During whose government of the See of Elie, in anno dom. 1341, the steeple fell down, which made such a terrible noise, and shaking of the ground, that it was supposed to be some earthquake. He died of the palsy in anno dom. 1336, being anno 10 Edward 3.  
John Salmon Bishop of Norwich, was advanced to be Chancellor in anno dom. 1319, being anno 13 Edward 2, against whom the Nobles rebelled, for the misdemenour of Piers Gaveston, (the Gascoigne) Earl of Cornwall, In this year 1319, (as saith one Anonymal Chronicler M.S.) was William Airemine, Keeper of the seal, Vicechancellor, taken prisoner by the Scots. The words of the which Author, for the more certainty thereof, we have here set down.  
Episcopus Eborum, episcopus Eliae thesaurarius, Abbas beatae Mariae Eborum, Abbas de Selby, Decanus Eborum, Dominus Willielmus Arymanee Vice-Cancellarius Angliae, ac dominus Johannes Dabeham, cum 8000 ferme hominum, tam equitum quam peditum & Civibus properanter, civitatem egredientes, quoddam flumen Swale nuncupatum sparsis cuneis transeuntes, & indispositis, seu potius confusis ordinibus, cum adversarijs congressi sunt. Scoti siquidem in Marte gnari amplitudinem eorum exercitus caute regentes, in nostris agminibus strictis audacter irruerunt, nostrorum denique in brevi laceratis cuneis atque dissipatis, corruerunt ex nostris, tam in ore gladij quam aquarum scopulis suffocati, plusquam 4000 & capti sunt domini Johannes de Pabeham, & dominus Willielmus de Arymenee, ut praefertur de Cancellaria etc. Which William Ayrmenee was also in the said 15 of Edward 2. one of the Keepers of the great Seal, as I have seen registered.  
Robert Baldock, Archdeacon of Middleton, a man evilly beloved, and whom the old English Chronicle remembers, with ill attributes, was made Chancellor of England in anno 17 Edward 2, at the Castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, he was after made Bishop of Norwich and did his fealty for restitution of his Temporalties in anno 19, of the said King Edward the second, at Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, he was apprehended in anno 20 Edward 2 being in anno dom 1326, or as others have in the year 1325, And first committed to the custody of Adam Tarleton, or de Orleton, bishop of Hereford, and after was put in the prison of the Newgate, of London, in which 20 year of King Edward the second, the great seal was again delivered to William Arymenee, who (as I suppose was then also made Bishop of Norwich and this Baldock deposed from that see. Of which Baldock thus writeth a Polythronicon of Durham. Robertus de Baldock Cancellarius anno 1325, captus cum Hugonibus de Despensers, quia clericus fuit & sacerdos in nova porta Londiniarum, poni fecit Edwardus Princeps & Isabel matter ejus, ubi pro nimia miseria mortuus fuit infra breve.  
John Hotham bishop of Elie, the second time was at Westminster, made Chancellor of England in anno dom. 1326, being the first year of the Reign of that King, that entitled himself King of England and France, but he continued not long in the same Office, for he was removed in the second year of the said King, being in anno dom. 1328, He was elected Bishop in anno dom. 1316, in which place he ruled twenty years, and died in anno dom. 1336, of the palsy, at Summersham, being buried in the Church of Elie, under a goodly monument of stone, with the Image of a bishop carved out of Alabast r upon his Tomb.  
Henry cliff, Master of the Rolls, had the charge and Keeping of the great Seal of England, in the said year of Christ, 1328, being the second year of King Edward the third, and was the King's Chancellor also.  
Henry de Burgh, Burghwash, or Burghurst, Nephew to Sr. Bartholomew Bladismere baron of Leedes in Kent, having been Treasurer of England, enjoyed the honour of the Chancellor, in the second year of King Edward the third, being in anno dom. 1328. and was made Chancellor at Northampton, which Office he did not long enjoy.  
John Stratford Bishop of Winchester, and after of Canterbury, and sometime Treasurer of England, was made Chancellor of the Realm, in anno dom 1330, being in anno 4 Edward 3, who being sent in the sixth year of his reign, in anno dom. 1332, Ambassador beyond the Seas, about the affairs of the King and Kingdom, did not like Cardinal Woolsey the Chancellor, (in the days of King Henry the 8,) presumptuously carry the great Seal with him beyond the seas, but left the same in his absence with others, who both could and would answer the well or evil using thereof whiles he was in France, This man continued in the Office, until the Eight year of Edward the third.  
Richard de Bury, otherwise called Richard de Angervile, being borne in a little village besides S Edmundsbury commonly called the Bury Abbey, was so surnamed Bury of that place, had to his Father Sr. Richard Angervile Knight, This man being first kept at school by his Uncle Sr. john Willobie Priest, was afterward Treasurer of England, Chancellor, and Bishop of Durham, to which place of Chancellor-ship, he was advanced in the year 1334 being in anno 8 Edward 3, which office he received by the King's gift at Westminster, in which year he was enthronized, being first consecrated Bishop in anno do. 1333, in the Bishopric of Durham, by William Cowton Prior of Durham, He kept the See 11 years, two months, and twelve days, and died in the year 1345, and was buried in the South angle of the Church at Durham.  
John Stratford, the second time Lord Chancellor, being now Archbishop of Canterbury, was installed therein at York, in anno dom. 1335, being the ninth year of the Reign of King Edward the third.  
Robert de Stratford or Strafford (as some have written) but as I think corruptly, being Archdeacon of Canterbury, (which Office was first ordained by Anselme, Archbishop of the said City) was made Chancellor of England, on the 24 day of March, anno dom. 1336, being in anno 11 Edward 3, He was after made Bishop of Chichester, desiring to be remooved from that office of Chancellorship, which was granted unto him, Whereupon he surrendered up the Seal unto the said King Edward 3, in the 12 year of his Reign, being in anno dom. 1338.  
Richard de Bintworth, chosen Bishop of London, and confirmed by John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury at Oxford, the tenth kalends of june 1338, was at Waltham advanced to the honour of Lord Chancellor, in the month of July, in the said year 1338, being the 12 year of King Edward the third.  
John Stratford the third time Lord Chancellor of England, in which Office he did not long continue.  
Robert Bishop of Chichester, being the foresaid Robert Stratford, was again made Lord Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1340, being anno 14 of the reign of Edward the third, who was put out of that Office, and should with the Treasurer of England have been sent into France for a pledge for the payment of certain sums of money.  
Robert de Bourchier, borne of the honourable house of the Lord Bourchiers, was in the Tower of London, made Lord Chancellor of England, in December in anno 14 Edward 3 being in anno dom. 1340, though some say, he was made Chancellor in anno 15 of the said King.  
Robert Perning, Pernicke, or Pernwicke, also Treasurer of England, was made Chancellor of England, in anno dom. 1341, b'ing in anno 15 Edward 3, he died in the year 1343, being in anno 17 of the said King, This man was a Sergeant in the third year of Edward the third when he began to plead as a Sergeant, in which he continued until anno 11 Edward 3, and was after that, justice, Treasurer, and Chancellor, and died in the common pleas being Chancellor, sitting and arguing amongst the justices, as appears in the Law books of those years, of Edward the third, of whom is last mention made in the 17 year of Edward the third, where he is named Chancellor.  
Robert de Saddington Knight, was invested with the dignity of Lord Chancellor, after the death of Perning in anno dom. 1343, and in anno 17 Edward 3, He was elected to be Bishop of Canterbury, and so was installed, but never received the Pall. There was also one Richard Saddington Knight, Treasurer of England, of whom I have spoken in my discourse of the Lord Treasurers.  
John Offord or Vfford, Deane of Lincoln, was made Chancellor of England, in anno dom. 1345. being anno 19 Edward 3, He died in the month of May, in anno dom 1349, being the 23, year of the Reign of that victorious King, Edward the third.  
John Thorsby Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of York, and Cardinal, was installed in the seat of the Lord Chancellor, in anno dom. 1349, being anno 23 Edward 3, who at his great suit was discharged of the Office of Chancellor, by delivery of the great Seal in November in anno 30 of the said King, being in anno dom 1356, after he had kept that place, almost by the space of 7 years, He in the 10 year of his Bishopric, on the third kalends of August, began the frame of the Choir in S Peter's Church in York, and laid the first stone thereof, to which he gave an Hundred pounds, He died at Thorpe, and was buried at York, in anno dom 1363, or as others have, 1373, after that he had been Archbishop, one and twenty years, and one and twenty days.  
William de Edington, Bishop of Winchester, Lord Treasurer of England, was made Chancellor of England in November, in anno dom. 1356, in anno 30 of King Edward, the third.  
Simon Langham, Abbot of Westminster, Bishop of Elie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Treasurer of England, was made Lord Chancellor in February in anno dom. 1363, being the seven and thirthieth year of the government of King Edward the third. Of this Simon were these verses, made when he was removed from Elie to the Bishopric of Canterbury.  
Exultent caeli quia Simon transit ab Eli  
Cujus in adventum flent in kent millia centum.  
Of whom also because he richly endowed the Abbey of Westminster, with great gifts, of singular cost and value, a certain Monk compiled these verses.  
Res es de Langham, tua Simon sunt data quondam  
Octingentena librarum millia dena.  
Of this man is more spoken in the following discourse, of the Lord Treasurers of England.  
William de Wickeham, so called of the place of his Birth, whom Leland maketh Treasurer of England, which by any possible means cannot be so, for any thing that I can yet learn, This man being Bishop of Winchester; and advanced to that place in anno dom. 1367, in anno 41 Edward 3, in which place he sat seven and thirty years, was sometime keeper of the privy seal, and made also Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1367, being the 41 year of Edward the third, in which Office he remained about four years, and in March▪ in the year 1371, being the 45 of King Edward the third, did deliver up the great Seal, to the King at Westminster. He was buried in the body of Winchester Church, which he new built, with the other places about it, of whom were these verses composed, for the building of his Colleges, the one at Oxford, and the other at Winchester.  
Hunc decet esse pium fundatis collegiorum  
Oxoniae primum stat Wintoniaeque secundum.  
Robert Thorpe Knight, being before justice of the Law in Anno dom. 1370, was after at Westminster advanced to the Chancellorship in March, in Anno 45, Edward 3, being in Anno dom. 1371, Who going home to his own house, left the great seal with four of the Guardians, or Masters of the Chancery, whereof the one was called Walter Power, to keep and use as need required.  
Sr. John Knivet or Knivell, (as some books have by the transcriber corrupted) was made Chancellor of England in July, in Anno dom. 1372, being the 46 year of King Edward the third, in which Office he continued (as I gather) until the 50 year of the said King Edward the third, in which year (as here at hand appeareth) came in place, the Bishop of S. David's.  
Adam de Houghton, Bishop of Menenia, or of S. David's in Wales, was advanced to the office of Lord Chancellor in Anno dom. 1376, being the 50 year of King Edward the third, who in the 51 year of the said King, was with the Earl of Salisbury, and the Bishop of Hereford, sent Ambassador beyond the seas. And here I think it not amiss to set down the original of the Rolls in Chancery Lane in this sort.  
Henry the third did build an house for the jews converted to the faith of Christ, which house is at this day, (and hath been long before this time) appointed for the keeping of the King's Rolls and records, being now called and known by the name of the Rolls in Chancery Lane, besides Lincoln's Inn. In which house the master of the Rolls (for the time being) hath his dwelling. In which also there is a fair Chapel, called the Chapel of the Rolls, being a place commonly appointed wherein men accostome to pay money upon contracts.  
The grant of Henry the third, for erecting of the house of Converts.  
Rex archi episcopis etc. Sciatis nos intuitu Dei, & pro salute animae nostrae & animarum antecessorum & haeredum meorum concessisse, & hac charta nostra confirmasse pro nobis & haeredibus nostris domum quam fundari fecimus in vico, qui vocatur Newest eet, inter vetus Templum & novum London, ad sustentationem fratrum conversorum, & convertendorum de Judaismo ad fidem catholicam, in auxilium sustentationis eorundem fratrum in eadem domo conversantium, domos & terraes quae fuere Johannis Harbeton in London, & sunt in manu nostra, tanquam eschaeta nostra, excepto Gardino, quod fuit eiusdem Iohannis in vico praedicto de New-street, & quod prius per Chartam nostram concessimus venerabili patri Radulpho Cicestrensi episcopo Cancellario nostro, & omnes alias eschaetas, quae tempore nostro per feloniam, vel quacunque ex causa nobis accident in civitate nostra, vel in suburbio infra libertatem civitatis nostrae London. Quare volumus & firmiter praecipimus pro nobis & haeredibus nostris quod praedicta domus habeat & teneat libere & quiet Bene & in pace, ad sustentationem fratrum conversorum & convertendorum de Judaismo; ad fidem catholicam, in auxillium sustentationis eorundem fratrum, in eadem domo conversantium, domos & terras, quae fuerunt Johannis Harbeton in London, & sunt in manu nostra, tanquam eschaeta nostra, excepto gardino quod fuit eiusdem Iohannis in vico praedicto de Newstreet, & quod prius per chartam nostram concessinus venerabili patri Radulpho Cicestrensi episcopo Cancellario nostro, & omnes alias eschaetas, quae tempore nostro per feloniam vel quacunque ex causa nobis accident in civitate nostra, vel in fuburbio infra libertatem civitatis nostrae London, sicut praedictum est, His testibus venerabilibus patribus W. Kaerl. & W. Exon, episcopis. H: de Burgo Comite Kantiae. Radulpho filio Nicholai, Godfrido de Crancombe johanne filio Philip. Amaurico de sancto Aumundo, Will: de Picheford, Galfrido de Cauz & alijs. Dat. per manum We: P: R: Cicestrend: episcop. Cancellar. nostri apud Westmin. 19 die Aprilis.  
The Grant of Edward the third whereby the said house was in the one and fiftieth and last year of the said Edward, converted to the custody of the Rolls and records of the Chancery.  
Rex omnibus ad quos, etc. salutem. Sciatis quod nos, considerantes qualiter domus conversorum in suburbio Civitatis nostrae London, de patronatu nostro existens, & capella, aedificia, & clausur: ejusdem, tempore quo delectus noster Will. Burstall custodiam ejusdem domus ex collatione nostra primo habuit, per negligentiam & incuriam aliorum qui ante praedictum Will. custodiam domus illius habuerunt, & ibidem, morari seu inhabitari non curaverunt, multipliciter & quasi totaliter in ruina exstiterunt, & quod praedictus Will. tempore suo de bonis suis proprijs, grandes costas & expensas super recuperatione & emendatione domus, capellae, aedificiorum, & clausur. praedict. ac etiam super factur: novar domorum ibidem. Nos ut domos conversorum, capella, aedificia, clausur. & novae domus supradict▪ competenter sustententur & custodientur in futurum, ad supplicatio. nem praedicti Willielmi, qui custos Rotulorum Cancellariae nostrae existit, in praesenti concessimus, de gratia nostra speciali, pro nobis & haeredibus nostris, quod post mortem ejusdem Willielmi, dicta domus conversorum, cum suis juribus & pertinentibus quibuscunque remaneat & moretur in perpetuum Clerico Custod, Rotulorum Cancellar nostrae & haeredum nostrorum pro tempore existente, & similiter annex. eidem officio in perpetuum, & quoth Cancellarius Angliae vel custos sive custodes magni sigilli nostri & haeredum nostrorum Angliae pro tempore existentium, post mortem ipsius Willielmi habeat, & habeant potestatem ad quamlibet vocationem dicti officij custodis Rotulorum, per mortem cessionem, vel mutationem personae, quocunque tempore futuro, institutum successiuè custodes Rotulorum praedictorum in dicta domo conversorum, & Custodes illos ponend. in possessionem ejusdem cum suis juribus et pertinentibus quibuscunque. In cujus, etc. T. R. apud Shene. 11. Aprilis, Anno 51. Edw. 3.  
But after the death of this King Edward, the said William Burstall Master of the Rolls, (belike not supposing this to be a sufficient grant) procured this house by act of Parliament in the first year of King Richard the second, to be more strongly established to the use of the Master of the Rolls for the time. After which John de Waltham, Master of the Rolls, after Bishop of Salisbury, and Treasurer of England, procured King Richard the second in the sixth year of his reign, by his Letters Patents to confirm the said house to the said William and his successors Masters of the Rolls. And whereas by the Patent of Edward the third, the Master of the Rolls was appointed and installed in that house by the Chancellor, it is to be noted, that the same manner of induction and instalment continued as long as the Master of the Rolls was of the Clergy, as I have seen set down by others, and as the Precedents of those instalments, and the Writts themselves extant of record do well prove.  
Sir Richard Scroop Knight Lord of Bolton, having been Lord Treasurer in the time of the deceased King Edward the third, was now in October about the latter end of the year, 1378 or the beginning of the year 1379. being the second year of the after deposed King Richard the second, made Lord Chancellor, and had the great Seal delivered unto him, who in the third year of the said King at a Parliament, did surrender up his office. Of this man is more set down in the discourse of the Treasurers.  
Simon Sudbury so surnamed of the place of his birth, but by descent called Tibold the son of Nicholas Tibold, descended of a gentleman like race dwelling at Sudbury in Suffolk. This Simon was Archbishop of Canterbury, and made Chancellor about the year of Christ, 1380. in the third year of Richard the second, and was by the Rebels beheaded in the Tower of London, in the fourth year of the disquieted government, of that unfortunate, but valiant King Richard the second. After whom in the fifth year of the said King, was R. Bishop of London, whereof I have seen and taken a note, which Bishop was (as I conjecture, and have some authority to prove) Robert Braybrooke which followeth, and was made Chancellor again after Sir Richard Scroop.  
R. Bishop of London Chancellor the fifth year of King Richard the second, at which time Robert Braybrooke was Bishop of London.  
Sir Richard Scroop Knight, Lord of Bolton, made Chancellor again about the latter end of November, by the Lords of the Parliament (as I take it) in the fifth year of the reign of King Richard last mentioned, and was the year following, being about Anno dom. 1383, again deposed from his office, and the King receiving the seal, kept it a certain time, and therewith sealed such grants and writings as pleased him, and in the end delivered the same to Robert Braybrooke. Of this man see more in the Treasurers.  
Robert Braybrooke Bishop of London, made Lord Chancellor in September following the month of July when Sir Richard Scroop was deposed, was advanced to that dignity on S. Matthews Eeve, in the sixth year of the reign of the said King Richard the second, in which he continued not longer than the March following, (as hath Anonymus, M.S.) he was consecrated Bishop of London the fifth of January, Anno dom. 1381, he died the 17. of August in Anno dom. 1404, being the fifth year of King Henry the fourth.  
Michael de la Poole, or at Poole, as hath Thomas Walsingham, was made Chancellor in the month of March▪ in Anno 6. of the said King Richard the second, and was made Earl of Suffolk in the ninth year of the said King, being after deposed from his office of Chancellorship at his own and earnest request, in the tenth year of the said King. This man having fled the Realm, for that he was pursued by the Nobility, died at Paris in Ann. 13. of Richard the second, being in Anno dom. 1389, of whom that worthy Poet Sir John Gower, living at that time, in his Book entitled Vox Clamantis, composed these verses.  
Est comes elatus, fallax, cupidus, sceleratus,  
Frauds per mille stat Cancellarius ille  
Hic proceres odit, & eorum nomina rodit  
Morsibus a tergo, fit tandem profugus ergo;  
Sic Deus in caelis mala de puteo Michaelis  
Acriter expurgat ne plus comes ille resurgat.  
Thomas Arundel, of the noble house of the Earls of Arundel, was first Bishop of Elie, and then of York, and lastly of Canterbury, he was made Lord Chancellor of England, in Anno 10, of the reign of the unfortunate King Richard 2, which was about Anno dom. 1386, in which office he remained about two years.  
William Wickham, was again made Lord Chancellor of England, in Anno 12 Richard 2, but was in the end remooved from thence in September, in the 15 year of the troublesome government of the said King Richard.  
Thomas Arundel aforesaid, was the second time created Lord Chancellor of England, in the said 15 year of Richard 2, in place of William Wickham, in which office he remained about five years, and was deposed and banished the Realm in the 20 year of the said King Richard.  
John Scarle, Scirlee, or Serle, Master of the Rolls of the Chancery, and Keeper of the great Seal, he was Chancellor or in the place of Chancellor in the first year of the reign of King Henry the fourth, being in Anno dom. 1399.  
Edmund Stafford, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Bishop of Excester, and sometime Bishop of Rochester, and lastly Bishop of York, and borne of the noble house of the Staffords, was made Lord Chancellor of England, about the month of March in Anno dom. 1400, being about the second year of the usurping King Henry the fourth, in which Office he continued until Anno dom. 1403, being in Anno 4 of the said King Henry the fourth, he being Keeper of the Privy Seal, was made Bishop of Excester, the 20 of June, in Anno dom. 1395, being the 21 year of Richard 2. He was consecrated at Lambeth, and kept the See of Excester, three and twenty years. He increased two fellowship in Stapletons' Inn, in Oxford, reform the Statutes of the house, and called it Excester College. He died the fourth of September, in the seaventh year of King Henry the fift, being in Anno dom. 1419.  
Henry Beuford, the son of John of Gaunt, by Katherine Swineford, made Bishop of Lincoln in Anno dom 1398, as hath Ypodigma, was advanced to the dignity of Chancellor in Anno dom. 1403, being the fourth year of King Henry the fourth his elder Brother, by the daughter of the Earl of Hereford, in which office, he was in the fift year of King Henry the fourth, and sixth of the same King, (as our Chonicles do remember) he was made Bishop of Winchester, in Anno dom. 1404, being the fift year of King Henry the fourth.  
Thomas Langley Priest and Bishop of Durham, was at Westminster made Chancellor in Anno dom 1405, being in Anno 6. of Henry the fourth, in which office he continued (as far as I know) until he was made Bishop of Durham, which was on the 7. of May in Anno 7. of King Henry the fourth, being in Anno dom. 1406, he was Bishop one and thirty years, and died in Anno dom. 1437, being the 16. year of King Henry the sixth. See more following.  
Thomas Fitzalen, brother to Richard Earl of Arundel, being returned out of exile, with Henry of Bullingbruke, Duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and after King of England, by the name of Henry the fourth, was again Chancellor, and continued therein about two years being removed from that place about September, in Anno 11 of Henry the fourth, being in Anno dom. 1410.  
Thomas Beauford Knight, the son of John of Gaunt, son to King Edward the third, and brother to King Henry the fourth, was made Lord Chancellor in Anno 11 of the said King, being in Anno dom 1410, in which office he remained not full three years, but left the same office, and was created Earl of Dorcet, and lastly, Duke of Exeter.  
John Wakering Clerk, Master of the Rolls was made keeper of the great Seal, when Thomas Beauford left the office of Chancellor, which Seal he kept about the space of a Month, for in January after that he had received the Seal, there was a Chancellor created.  
Thomas Fitzallen, or Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the fourth time invested with the Chancellorship in Anno dom. 1412. being in Anno 13. of Henry the fourth, in which office he continued during the life of the said King, who died in the fourteenth year of his Reign, and in Anno dom. 1413.  
Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester, and after Cardinal in the time of Henry the sixth, being Uncle to King Henry the fift then reigning, was the second time made Chancellor in Anno dom. 1413. being in Anno 5, of Henry the fift, in which place he remained until the fift year of the reign of the said King, being in the year of our Lord 1417.  
Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham, was the second time made Lord Chancellor of England in the said year of our Lord 1417, being the 5, year of that worthy Conqueror King Henry the 5, Which office he received at Southwicke, and continued in that honour (as fare as I can learn) by the space of six years or more, whereof five years were fully ended in the life and death of the said Henry the 5, and the sixth year ended in the last of the first, or beginning of the second year of King Henry the 6.  
Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester before named, was the third time made Lord Chancellor of England, in the second year of the reign of King Henry the sixth, being about Anno dom. 1423, or 1424, for the second year of that King fell partly in the one and partly in the other of the said years of our Lord. In which office he continued about the space of four years, until he was made Cardinal in Anno dom. 1426.  
John Kemp Bishop of London, was made Lord Chancellor of England in the fourth year of that King Henry, who in his youngest years was crowned first King of England, and then King of France in Paris, in which office he remained (as I suppose) about six years.  
John Stafford Deane of Saint Martin and of Wells, Prebend of Milton in Lincoln Church, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of England, and Bishop of Canterbury,) was made Lord Treasurer of England, in the month of February, in Anno dom. 1431, falling in the tenth year of King Henry the sixth, he remained in that office, until John Kempe, was again made Lord Chancellor, which was about Anno 6 of Henry the sixth, And here I think it not unmeet to remember, that some have noted William Wanfleet, that was Bishop of Winchester, and Chancellor of Oxford, to be Chancellor of England, when he built Magdalen College in Oxford, in Anno 25 Henry the sixth, which possibly cannot be, sith this john Stafford, held that office from the tenth of Henry the sixth, until the eight and twentieth of the same King, which was eighteen years, during which time they place this Wanfleet to be Chancellor of England, which error I suppose they have committed, in that they finding him Chancellor, at the time of the building of his College in the said 25 year of King Henry the sixth, have taken him to be Chancellor of England, when he was then but Chancellor of Oxford, although indeed afterward he was Chancellor of England, in Anno 35, of the said King, as after shall appear.  
John Kempe, Bishop of York, and Cardinal was the second time made Lord Chancellor in the 28 year of King Henry the sixth, being in Anno dom. 1450, in which office he died, being Bishop of Canterbury, in Anno do (as saith Matthew Parker) 1453, being the 32 year of the reign of King Henry the sixth. This man was first Bishop of Rochester, next of Chichester, thirdly of London, then of York, where he sat sat 28 years, and lastly he was Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cardinal by the title of Saint Rufind, which preferments are briefly expressed in this verse.  Bis primas, ter praeses & bis Cardine Functus. 
Richard Nevil, Earl of Salisbury, the son to Ralph Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland, and father to the valiant Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick, was after the death of john Kempe, by Parliament made Lord Chancellor in the 32 year of King Henry the sixth, though others make it to be in the 33 year of the same King, In which place he continued not long, for in the year following, another was substituted and he remooved.  
Thomas Bourchier, brother to Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, Bishop of Elie, and Bishop of Canterbury, was made Chancellor in Anno 33 Henry 6, in which he remained much about 2 years in whose time (as saith Matthew Parker) about Anno dom. 1461, was the Art of Printing invented at the City of Argentorat in Germany. About which matter, and especially for the exact and certain time thereof, many writers, although their count about one time do disagree: yet at the inventing of that worthy thing, were these verses composed, in commendation of the same most excellent Art.  
O faelix nostris memoranda impressio tectis  
Inventore nitet utraque lingua tuo  
Desierat quasi totum quod fundis in orbe  
Nunc parvo doctus quilibet esse potest  
Omnes Nunc homines igitur te laudibus ornent  
Te duce quando ars haec mira reperta fuit.  
William Patan or Paten, borne of a Gentlemanly Family, being commonly called William Wanfleet, of the place of his birth, and being provost of Eton, and Bishop of Winchester, was Lord Chancellor in Annis 35, & 36, & 37, of the unfortunate King Henry the sixth, as have the Records, of the Exchequer. By which appeareth the error of those, as I have before noted, that mistaking the 25. of King Henry the sixth, in which time he was but Chancellor of Oxford, for the 35. of the said King, in which he was Chancellor of England.  
George Nevil (the son of Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury and brother to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick) being made Bishop of Excester, came to that See, in Anno dom. 1455. in which See he continued ten years, and was removed to York in Anno dom▪ 1465, he was made Lord Chancellor in the 38. year of the reign of the deposed King Henry the sixth, in which office he remained about 8. years, and then was remooved in the seventh year of King Edward the fourth, being in Anno dom. 1467, He was a great friend to S. Albon, and procured Edward the fourth, in the fourth year of his reign, to give and confirm to John Whethamstead Abbot of Saint Albon, the Priory of Pembroke. This Bishop Nevil did after in the 13 year of King Edward the fourth, grow in such disgrace with the King, that he was spoilt at one time of twenty thousand Pounds.  
Robert Kirkham, Master of the Rolls, was made Lord Keeper of the great Seal, upon the removing of George Nevil, in the month of July, in the year of Christ, 1467, being the seventh year of King Edward the fourth.  
Robert Stillington, Doctor of the Laws, Keeper of the privy Seal in Anno 3 Edward the fourth, Bishop of Bath and Wells; being made Chancellor in the seaventh year of King Edward the fourth, did still so continue until Anno 13, of the said King.  
Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, and first advanced to that title of honour by King Edward the fourth, came in place of the last Chancellor, about the 13 year of Edward the 4, in which place he remained not much more than one Trinity term, for in the said 13 year, about the Month of August, was Bishop Booth, Lord Chancellor of England.  
Lawrence Booth, sometime Master of Pembroke Hall, Bishop of Durham, and after of York, was made Lord Chancellor about August, or rather before, between that and Trinity term, (after Henry Bourchier) in the said 13 year of King Edward the 4, after his redemption of the Kingdom of England. This Bishop being brother to William Booth, sometime Bishop of York, did build the Bishop of York his house at Battersey, which Manor he before bought of Nicholas Stanley, whom Leland the minser and refiner of all English names, doth most curiously in Latin call, Nicholaum Stenelegium. He continued in the See of York, three years and nine months, and died at Sowthwell, in Anno dom. 1480 being in Anno 20 Edward 4.  
Thomas Scot, surnamed Rotheram, because of the Town of Rotheram, in Yorkshire, where he was borne and bred up, was Bishop of Rochester, and then of Lincoln, where he sat nine years, and after that was Bishop of York, whereunto he was installed first at York, then at Ripon, being Provost of Beverley, he was made Chancellor of England, in Anno dom. 1474, being in Anno 14, Edward 4. This Bishop in Anno 15 of the said King, went over the Sea, with the said Edward 4, when he went to have an interveiw with the French King, of which meeting Monsieve de Argentine, (by name Philip Comineus) besides our English Chronicles, doth make mention, as a person that bore a part in that Solemnity.  
John Alcot Bishop of Rochester, was made Chancellor during the absence of King Edward.  
Thomas Rotheram, being before Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, was after his return out of France, the second time made Lord Chancellor, about the time, in which the said King had gotten Berwicke from the Scots, about Anno 20 Edward 4, For the free gaining of the Town was not so much before his death. In which Office this Rotheram, continued all the life of King Edward the 4, and in the time of the Reign of the guiltless murdered young Prince King Edward the 5, until it was ascribed to him for over much lightness, that he had delivered in the beginning of the rebellious government of the protectorship of the bloody and unnatural Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the Seal to the Queen, to whom it did not appertain, and from whom he received it not. He founded a College at Rotheram, dedicated it to the name of jesus, and endowed it with great possessions, and ornaments, and annexed thereto the Churches of Langhton and Almanbury.  
John Russell Bishop of Lincoln, a grave and learned man, had the Seal delivered to him by the said Protector of England, during the time of the short Reign of the young King Edward, when the same Seal was taken from Rotheram, and so this Russell was made Chancellor in the month of June in Anno dom. 1483, being the first year of King Richard the third. This Russell is buried in the Church of Lincoln, in a Chapel cast out of the upper wall of the South part of the Church.  
Thomas Barow Master of the Rolls, was made Keeper of the great Seal, which I suppose, was in the third and last year of the said King Richard the third, for in that year he was Master of the Rolls▪  
Thomas Rotheram, made again Lord Chancellor in the first entrance of King Henry the seaventh, into the government, but very shortly after he was displaced, and the Bishop of Worcester, placed in that room, he was Archbishop of York, 19 years and ten months, he was very beneficial to all his kindred, and advanced some with marriages, some with possessions, and some with spiritual live. He died the 29 day of December, in Anno dom. 1500, being the 16 year of King Henry the eight, at Cawood in Yorkshire, the morrow after the Ascension, being of the age of threescore and sixteen years, or more. He was buried in York Minster, on the North side, in our Lady Chapel, in a tomb of Marble, which he caused to be made whilst he was living.  
John Alcot, Bishop of Worcester, made in Anno dom. 1476, was Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 1 Henry 7, being in Anno dom. 1485 shortly after the entrance of the said Henry into the government of England, for though Rotheram were Chancellor, when he got the victory, for that he had been so before, and for that the King was neither provided, nor minded suddenly to have a man, not meet for that place to execute the same, yet this Bishop Rotheram kept not that room many months, but that Bishop Alcot came in place, because the King found Bishop Alcot a meeter person to execute the same office, answerable to the disposition of the King's humour. All which notwithstanding, whether for malice of others, or for his own deserts, or both, or for the more special trust, that the King put in Doctor Morton, Bishop of Elie, who had been the means to bring him to the Crown, this Bishop Alcot, fell shortly in the King's disgrace, was displaced of his Office, and Doctor Morton came in his room. So that in this first year of King Henry the seaventh, there seemed to be three Chancellors in succession, one after another, All which before Morton, in this first year of King Henry the seaventh, may perhaps more properly be termed, Keepers of the great Seal, than Chancellors.  
john Morton Doctor of the Civil Law, an Advocate in the Civil Courts, and of the Counsel of Henry the sixth, and to Edward the fourth, to whom also he was Master of the Rolls, was made Bishop of Elie, in Anno Dom. 1478, and Lord Chancellor, of England, at his return from beyond the Seas, in the first year of King Henry the seventh, being in Anno Dom. 1485, after which he was advanced to the Archbishopricke of Canterbury, he died in Anno Dom. 1499, in Anno 15 of Henry the seaventh, as hath Matthew Parker.  
William Warham, Advocate in the Arches, Master of the Rolls, Bishop of London, and then Archbishop of Canterbury, was before his advancement to the See of Canterbury, made Chancellor of England, in the time of Henry the seaventh, in which office he continued, until about the latter end of the seaventh year of King Henry the Eight. At what time surrendering the Seal, by reason of his age and weakness, the same was delivered to Thomas Woolsey.  
Thomas Woolsey, sometimes Chaplain to Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury, after the King's Almoner, and Abbot of S. Augustine's, who possessing many other Abbeys, and Bishoprickes, was advanced to the government of the great Seal, about the beginning of the 8, year of King Henry the eight, being in Anno Dom. 1516, to hold the same during his life, (as I gather) in which office yet he continued not above thirteen years, until Anno 21 of King Henry the 8, being in Anno Dom. 1529. During which time of his Chancellorship in Anno 19 of King Henry the eight, being Anno Dom. 1527. he went into France, representing the King of England's Person, to set order for the delivery of Pope Clement the seaventh, and Francis the French King, at what time he carried the great Seal over the Seas, to Calis, Which Seal he left with Doctor Taylor, Master of the Rolls, to keep the same at Calis until the Cardinals return out of the French Dominions. He died in Leicester Abbey, not without suspicion of poison, as was thought, which he had prepared for himself, and given to his Apothecary to deliver when he called for it, the two and twentieth of King Henry the eight in Anno Dom. 1530.  
Thomas More Knight, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was advanced to the honour of Chancellorship of England in Anno Dom. 1529, being in Anno 21 of King Henry the eight, In which office this rare witted Knight (to use Erasmus his epitheton) and learned Chancellor continued not full three years, but in Anno 24 of the said King, with much labour and earnest suit, he left his office. Touching which it will not be impertinent to set down the words of Matthew Parker, in the lives of the Bishops of Canterbury, in the life of Thomas Cranmer, writing after this manner. Interearex dum Papae meditabatur excidium, singulorum de papali authoritate sensus iudiciis haud obscuris collegit. Inter quos Thomas Morus quia regis conatus pontificiis valde suspectus fuit, Cancellarii munere, venia regis aegre impetrata, sese abdicavit.  
Thomas Audeley, Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sergeant at the law, (as most affirm) and speaker of the Parliament, was made Knight, and Keeper of the great Seal, the fourth of June, in Anno 24, of the reign of King Henry the eight, in Anno dom. 1●32, not long after which he was made Lord Chancellor of England, This man in the tenth year of his Chancellorship, being in Anno dom. 1542, and Anno 35, Henry 8, changing the name of Buckingham College in Cambridge, did name it the College of S. Mary Magdalen, and endowed it with some possessions. He died on May Eeve, in Anno dom. 1544 being in Anno 35 Henry 8.  
Thomas Wriothesly, Knight of the Garter, Son to William Wriothesly, York Herald, and Grandchild to John Wriothesly, Garter King of Arms, being created Baron at Hampton Court, on the first day of january, in the 35 year of the Reign of King Henry the eight, in Anno dom. 1543. was after advanced to the honour of the great seal, and Chancellorship of England, about the beginning of May in Anno 36 Henry 8, being in Anno dom. 1544, in which office he did continue until the death of the said King Henry the eight, And in the beginning of the reign of King Edward the sixth, he was the sixth of March remooved, and the seal was delivered to William Paulet, Lord S. John of Basin. This Thomas Lord Wriothesly, being created Earl of Southampton, by King Edward the sixth, died at his house of Lincoln place in Holborn, the 30 of july in the 4 year of the said King Edward, in the year 1550, and was buried at S. Andrew's in Holborn.  
William Paulet Knight, being first Steward of the lands of the Bishopric of Winchester, than Treasurer of the household, Lord Sent-John of Basin, Lord great Master of the King's house, afterwards Earl of Wiltshire, marquis of Winchester, and Treasurer of England, being of the Privy Council to King Henry the eight, King Edward the sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, had the keeping of the great seal committed unto him the seaventh day of March, in the year of our Lord 1547, being the first year of the reign of the young King Edward the sixth, which seal he had in Custody, about seven months, until the 23, or 24, of October following, at what time Sr. Richard Rich, was made Lord Chancellor.  
Sir Richard Rich, Knight, A Gentleman well descended and allied in Hampshire, created Lord Rich, was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor of England, about the 23, of October, in Anno dom. 1547, being the first year of the reign of the noble King Edward the sixth, in which place he remained about five years.  
Thomas Goodericke, or Godericke, being Bishop of Elie, had the great Seal delivered unto him, and was made Lord Chancellor of England, the 20 of December, (as John Stow hath noted in his Chronicle) in Anno dom. 1551 being Anno 5 Edward 6, in which office he continued all the life of the said King Edward, who died in july, Anno dom. 1553, being the seaventh year of his reign, and about one month after, until the 13, or 14, day of August, in which Queen Mary made Stephen Gardiner, her Chancellor.  
Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, had at the coming of Queen Mary to the Crown the great Seal, after the death of King Edward, as Lord Keeper by the space of a fortnight, and shortly after was Stephen Gardiner made Chancellor.  
Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, was in August in Anno dom 1553, being the first year of the reign of Queen Mary, made Chancellor of England. This man going in ambassage unto Calis, left the great seal in the custody of William Paulet, marquis of Winchester, which Bishop after his return into England, continued in that office all the time of his life, which he ended the 19, of November in Anno dom. 1555, being the third year of Queen Mary. After which the great seal, lying in her Majesty's custody, she on the New-year's day following, made a new Chancellor.  
Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Rochester, Almoner to the King, Ambassador into Germany, Bishop of Worcester, Precedent of Wales, and Archbishop of York, was upon New-year's day, in Anno dom. 1555, being the third year of the reign of Queen Mary, advanced to the honourable dignity of Chancellorship; But Queen Mary deceasing on the 17 day of November, in Anno dom. 1558, and the sixth year of her government, this Heath, upon the placing of Queen Elizabeth, upon the throne of the English government, was remooved from his Office, and Master Bacon advanced.  
Nicholas Bacon Esquire, Attorney of the Court of Wards, was made Knight, and Lord Keeper of the great seal, the 22 of December in Anno dom. 1558, being the first year of Queen Elizabeth. Which name of Lord Keeper, he still kept during his life, and the time of his Office. In whose time there was an Act of Parliament established, to make the power of the Keeper of the great seal equal with the authority of the Chancellor. This man continued in this office, and worthily executed the same, being a man of rare wit, and deep experience during the time of his life, which continued until the 20 of February in Anno dom. 1578. after the Account of England, being the one and twentith year of Queen Elizabeth, which place this man kept eighteen years.  
Thomas Bromlie, the general Solicitor of Queen Elizabeth, a Councillor of the Law, and one of the Inner Temple, was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor, on the 25 day of April in Anno dom. 1579, being in Anno 21 Elizabeth.  
Sir Christopher Hatton, being Vice-chamberlaine, to Queen Elizabeth, was constituted Lord Chancellor of England, and Keeper of the graat seal, upon Sunday the 29. day of April, in the 29 year of the said Queen's reign. Anno dom. 1587.  
John Puckring, Sergeant at law, was made Knight, and sworn of the privy Council, at Greenwich, upon Sunday the 28. day of May, in the 34. year of Queen Elizabeth, and at the same time was made Lord Keeper of the great seal of England.  
Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, being Master of the Rolls, had the great seal of England delivered unto him, at Greenwich, and sworn of the Privy Council, upon the 6 of May 1596, being in the 38. of Queen Elizabeth, and so continued in both those places till the first year of King James, who created him Baron of Elsmere at Hampton Court 21 july 1603, and made him Lord Chancellor, and lastly created him into the dignity of Viscount Brackley, the 7. day of November▪ 1616, but severed the place of Master of the Rolls, which was given to Edward Bruce, Lord Kinlosse.  
Sr. Francis Bacon, Knight, Attorney general to King james, and at the same time of the Privy Council; second son of Sr. Nicholas Bacon, sometime Lord Keeper of the great seal, upon the 7 of March 1616 in the 14 year of King James, a few days before the death of the former Lord Chancellor, had the great seal committed to him, and being created a Baron by the title of Lord Verulam at Wansted the 12 of July 1617., was made Lord Chancellor the 4 of January following and made Viscount of St. Alban the 20 of january 1620.  
Upon the removal of the Lord Chancellor Bacon who was displaced by the Parliament, in Lent the 18 year of King james. The keeping of the great Seal, was committed to Henry, viscount Mandevile, Lord Precedent of the Council, Lodowicke Duke of Richmond, and Lenox, Lord Steward of the King's house, William Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain of the King's house, and Sir julius Caesar Knight, Master of the Rolls, who continued the custody thereof till July following.  
John Williams, Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Westminster, and one of the Privy Counsel, and after that consecrated Bishop of Lincoln, was made Lord keeper of the great seal of England, the 10 day of july, in the 19 year of King James.  
Sir Thomas Coventry Knight, eldest son to Sr. Thomas Coventry Knight, one of the justices of the Common pleas, being the King's Attorney General, was made Lord keeper of the great seal of England, the first day of November, in the first year of King Charles, and Created Baron Coventry of Allesborough in the County of Worcester, the 10 of April, in the 4 year of King Charles; whose exempler virtues in the execution of this great office, to the honour of his Majesty, and the general good of the Kingdom, I cannot mention without due Attributes, and fearing as I justly may, that I shall rather show mine own defects, than be able to set them forth in due characters; I shall with much security discharge myself in this kind, by reciting the preamble of his Majesty's Letters Patents, for Creating his Lordship into the dignity of a Baron and Peer of this Realm.  
Rex etc. Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, etc. ad quos praesentes literae provenerint Salutem Officio & curae Regali nihil magis arbitramur convenire, quam virtutum praemia viris illustribus ●itè disponere, ac illos Honoribus attollere qui de Rege & Republicâ optimè meruerunt: Perspicimus enim Coronam nostram Regiam quam plurimum honorari, & locupletari, cum viros cordatos Consilio, prudentiâ, virtutibus, illustres, ac praesertim in administrandâ Justicia strenuos & insignes ad Honoris & dignitatis gradus vocamus & erigimus. Nos igitur in personâ praedilecti, & per quam fidelis Consiliarij nostri Thomae Coventry, Militis, Custodis Magni Sigilli nostri Angliae, gratissima & dignissima servitia quae idem Consiliarius noster tam praecharissimo Patri nostro Jacobo Regi beatae memoriae per multos annos, quam nobis ab ipsis Regni nostri primis auspicijs fidelissimè & prudentissimè praestitit & impendit, indiesque; impendere non desistit. Nec non circumspèctionem, prudentiam, strenuitatem, dexteritatem, integritatem, industriam, constantiam, & fidelitatem ipsius Thomae Coventry Militis, erga nos & Coronam nostram Animo benigno & Regali intimè r●colentes pro gratiae nostrae, erga praefatum Consiliarium pignore. Nec non virtutum & benemeritorum ejusdem encomio posteris suis relinquendum, ipsum, in Procerum hujus Regni nostri Angliae numerum ascribendum decrevimus, Sciatis itaque; quod nos de gratia nostrâ speciali, ac ex certâ scientia & mero motu nostris praefatum Thomam Coventry Militem, ad statum, gradum, dignitatem & Honorem Baronis Coventry de Alesborough, in Comitatu nostro Wigorniensi ereximus, perficimus, & creavimus. Jpsumque; Thomam Coventry Militem, Baronem Coventry de Alesborough praedicta tenore praesentium erigimus, perficimus, & creamus. In cujus rei etc. T. R. apud Westm. decimo die Aprilis, Anno Regni Regis Caroli quarto, per ipsum Regem.  
FINIS.   

Custodes Rotulorum.  

23. Ed. 1.  ADAM de Osgodby Clerk,  

10. Ed. 2.  William Ayremyne after Keeper of the great Seal.  

17. Ed. 2.  Richard de Ayremyne.  

20. Ed. 2.  Henry de Clyffe Clerk, after keeper of the great Seal died the 7 of King Edward the third.  

7. Ed. 3.  Michael de Worth january 20.  

11. Ed. 3.  john de Saint Paul April 28.  

14. Ed. 3.  Thomas de Evesham, Tuesday after the feast of Circumcision.  

36. Ed. 3.  David de Wollere  

45. Ed. 3.  William Burstall, july 22.  

●. Rich. 2.  john de Waltham Clerk, after Bishop of Salisbury.  

8. Ri. 2.  johannes de Burton, Clerk Octo. 24  

1. Ri. 2.  Thomas Stanley Clerk.  

3. Ri. 2.  john Scarle or Serle, after keeper of the great Seal.  

●. Hen. 4.  Nicholas Bubwith Septem 24.  

6. Hen. 4.  johannes Wakering Clerk, after keeper of the great Seal.  

3. Hen. 5  Simon Garnastead Clerk june 3.  

2. Hen. 6  johannes Frank Clerk October 18  

17. Hen. 6  johannes Stopinden Clerk Nou. 13  

25. Hen. 6  Thomas Kirkby, had the Reversion March 29, he was in 28 and 33 H. 6.  

1. Ed. 4.  Robert de Kirkham Clerk December 23 after Lord Chancellor.  

49. Hen. 6  William Morland Clerk Februa. 22.  

1. Ed. 14  john Alcocke Deane of the free Chapel at S. Stevens in Westminster, April 29, after Lord Chancellor.  

12. Ed. 4.  john Morton, Clerke, Doctor of Law, March 16, made Bishop of Ely 18 of Edward 4, january 4, after Lord Chancellor, and Archbishop of Canterbury.  

18. Ed. 4  Robert Morton Clerk,  

7. Hen. 7  William Kliot.  
john Blithe Clerk.  
Thomas Barow, Doctor of Law after keeper of the great Seal as some have it.  

9 Hen. 7  William Warham Clerk, after Lord Chancellor, and Archbishop of Canterbury.  

17 Hen. 7  William Barow Doctor of Law, mentioned in the Glass window, in the Chapel of the Rolls 1503.  

20 Hen. 7  Christopher Beinbrig Clerk, No▪ 15  

1 Hen. 8.  john young Clerk, january 12.  

8 Hen. 8.  Cuthbert Tunstall Clerk, after Bishop of Duresme, March 12,  

14 Hen. 8  john Clerk Clerk, October 20,  

15 Hen. 8  Thomas Hannibal Clerk, Octo. 19  

19 Hen. 8  john Taylor Clerk, October 19  

26 Hen. 8  Thomas Cromwell Esquire after created Earl of Essex, etc. October 6  

28 Hen. 8  Christopher Hales Esquire, after Knighted, june 10,  

33 Hen. 8  Robert Suthwell Esquire, july 1,  

4 Edw. 6  john Beaumond Esquire, Decem. 13.  

6. Edw. 6  Robert Bowes Knight, june 16.  

1 M. Q.  Nicholas Hare Knight, September 18, keeper of the great Seal.  

4 & 5 Phi. & M. 23 Eli. Q.  William Cordell Knight, Novem. 5,  
Gilbert Gerard Knight.  
Thomas Egerton Knight, after keeper of the great Seal, and Lord Chancellor.  
Edward Bruce, Lord Kinlosse.  
Thomas Phillip's Knight, Sergeant at Law.  
julius Caesar Knight, Chancellor of the King's Exchequer, which place he left when he was Master of the Rolls.  
Dudley Digges, of Chilham Castle, in the County of Kent, Knight. 1636.  
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A CATALOGVE OF THE LORD TREASURERS OF ENGLAND.  
DVnstane, Archbishop of Canterbury was Treasurer to Eadred or Eldred King of England, who began his reign in the year nine hundred forty and six, of whom thus writeth Matt. Parker, in his book of the Archbishops of Canterbury, in the life of Odo Severus the two and twentieth Bishop of that see. Edmundo (the King of England) defuncto. Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus, & rem publicam administrans, Dunstanum (ut in ejus vita patebit) tam singulari amore prosecutus est, ut omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret. This man was canonised a Saint, and the Goldsmiths of London are incorporated into the Society and fellwoship of Saint Dunstan.  
Hugolme, was Treasurer and Chamberlain to Edward the Confessor, he gave Deane and South-bright to Westminster, which Edward the Confessor did afterward confirm to that house.  
Odo, half brother to William the Conqueror Earl of Kent, Bishop of Baieux and chief justice of England was Treasurer in the time of the Conqueror, who had at his death; as saith Anonymus. M. S. Sixty Thousand Pounds. Excepto auro & gemmis, & vasis, & Palijs.  
Geofry Clinton, Treasurer and Chamberline to Henry the first: He about the thirteenth year of Henry the first, in the year of our Lord One Thousand one Hundred and Twelve, did found the Priory of Kenelworth, and was after accused of treason, in the one and thirtieth year of the reign of the said Henry the first; but (as it seemed) restored (in short time after) to the King's favour.  
Ranulph, Bishop of Durham, was Treasurer to the King, whom Florensius Wygorniensis calleth Praecipuum Regis placitatorem, & Regni exactorem, whose last word, Exactor, some men do english Treasurer. Of this man is more said in the Chancellors of England.  
Roger, Bishop of Sarisbury, Treasurer and chancellor of England, as appeareth by Leland, writing in this sort, Roger Bishop of Sarum Treasurer and chancellor to Henry the first, made the Castle of vieth such a costly, and so strong a fort as was never before nor since set up by any Bishop of England. The Keep or Dungeon of it set upon a hill cast by hand, is a piece of work of incredible cost. Besides which to prove the same Roger Treasurer at the later end of the Reign of Henry the first, together with William de Pontlearch at the entering of King Stephen into England: Thus writeth one, Anonymall chronicle. M. S. Stephanus cum intravit Angliam, Rogerum Sarisburiensem & Willielmum de Pontlearijs Custodes Thesaurorum ad se traduxit. Which William de Pontlearch was a witness with William Stigill to a certain Charter which Ranulph Bishop of Durham made to the Monks of Durham commonly called S. Cuthberts' Monks, wherein he confirmed to them Blakestone, Standropp, and Sandropshire, with the wood of Henworth, on the East part of Mareburne, as fare as it goeth to the Sea. This Roger Bishop of Salisbury died in the year of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirty and Nine, being about the fourth year of King Stephen, of whom, mention is made in the Chancellers of England.  
Nigellus, the second Bishop of Elye, Nephew to Roger Bishop of Sarum, and Treasurer to Henry the first, was advanced unto that Bishopric of Elie, in the year of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirty and Three, the first Calends of june, being the Three and Thirtieth year of the reign of Henry the first, at whose going down to be installed in the said Bishopric, he was received with such joy, that all the whole street of Ely, through which he should pass, was hanged with curtains and carpets, with seats set on each side, and the Monks Cannons, and Clerks meeting him with procession with diverse other Priests standing round about them. After his installation he returned to the dispatch of the affairs of the Kingdom, committing the charge of his Bishopric to one Ralph, sometime a monk of Glastenbury, and now become an Apostata. Great contention was between this man and King Stephen. He bought the Treasurership for the Sum of Four Hundred Marks of Henry the second for his son Richard, filius Nigelli, or Fitz Neale, otherwise called Richard of Elie. He governed the Bishopric Six and Thirty years, as some say, and builded Saint john's College in Cambridge. Trivet affirmeth that he died in the year of Christ One Thousand One Hundred Sixty and Nine, and the Fifteenth of King Henry the second, after that he had governed Six and Thirty years, he was honourably buried in the Church of Saint Ethelred of Elie, before the Altar dedicated to the Holy Cross.  
Richard of Elie, or Fitz Neale son of the said Nigellus Bishop of Elie, was made Treasurer to King Henry the second, by the purchase of his father Nigellus when the King went to the wars of Tolous. Of whom the History of Elie writeth: That after the burial of Nigellus his Father, this Richard being also an enemy of the Church of Elie, as his father had been before, made haste to pass over the Seas to King Henry the second, fearing that some evil would be prepared against him, if the Church should have sent any other thither before him. At whose coming to the King, he accused the Monks of many things, and did therewith so edge the King against them, that the King sending into England, charged by Wunndrus, one of his Chaplains, that the Prior of Elie should be deposed, and the Moonkes with all their goods to be proscribed & banished. This man being Treasurer to King Henry the second, the Treasure of the said Henry the second at his death came unto One Hundred Thousand Marks, notwithstanding the excessive charges of the King many ways. Which Richard being Bishop of London, by the name of Richard the Third, and the King's Treasurer was chosen to that See, in the year of our redemption, One Thousand Eighty and Nine, being the first year of King Richard the first, and was consecrated Bishop at Lambeth, by Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury in the year of Christ 1190. He died the fourth Ideses of September, in the year of grace 1198. being the Ninth year of King Richard the first.  
William of Elie, being of kin to the last Richard Bishop of London, was Treasurer to King Richard the first, and to King john. To which William then Treasurer, Richard his kinsman, the Bishop of London An. Do. 1196. being the seventh year of the reign of Richard the first, and the said number of years of the government of the said Richard in the Bishopric of London, did give all his houses in Westminster, which the said William did long after give to the Abbot, and Moonkes of Westminster, as by the Charter thereof appears, in this sort abridged.  
Vniversis Christi fidelibus, ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit. Gulielmus de Elie quondam Regum Angliae Thesaurarius salutem. Noverit universitas vestra me dedisse, etc. Deo & Monachis Westminster, etc. pro animabus Richardi & johannis Regum Angliae & pro amima Richardi London Episcopi, etc. Domos meas & curiam cum pertinentibus in villa Westminster, etc. quas habui ex dono Richardi Episcopi London, & quae sunt de feodo Westminster, etc. Testis Eustachius Fauconbridge Domini Regis Thesauraius, etc. He died in the year of Christ One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty Two, being the sixth year of the long reign of King Henry the Third: As noteth Matthew Paris and Westminster, who writ that then. Objit Gulielmus Eliensis Angliae Thesaurarius.  
A Deane of Paul's was Treasurer to the King as appears by Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, writing after this manner. Eodem tempore (which was a time between the creating of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, in the year of Christ 1194. being the sixth year of Richard the first, and the death of the said Richard the first, which fell in the year of Christ 1199. Ecclesiae Paulina Decanus aerarij regi custos fuit, sive (ut vocant) Thesaurarius, and so goeth on with a discourse of his miserable death.  
Walter Grace, Bishop of Worcester whom some call Treasurer in the Eleventh of King john.  
Geoffrey, Archdeacon of Norwich Treasurer to King john, who forsook his Master the King being excommunicated by the Pope, as writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury, in these following words. Inter quos (meaning the Bishops, which durst not openly publish the excommunication of the King, but secretly cast libels about the high ways, which gave notice thereof) quam ad fiscum Regium Gaufridus Norvicensis Archidia conus negotijs regijs intendens sedisset, coepit assidentibus exponere excommunicationis sententiam in Regemjam latam, affirmavitque non esse tutum, Capellanis & Ecclesiasticis dignitatibus, beneficijsque affectis servire Regi amplius. Ideoque aulam deserens, ad Ecclesiastica beneficia (quae Regis servitio acquisierat) secessit. Rex hunc tam proditory a se deficientem, per Willielmum Talbot, Militem prehendi, & ad se reduci fecit, cumque in publica custodia servatum, (donec sive paenae sive conscientiae taedio pertaesus vitae fuit & expiravit) detinuit, whose manner of death is in this sort set down by Mat. Paris, Pag. 305. that he was committed to prison, Vbi post dies paucos Rege praefato (which was King john) jubente capa indutus plumbea, tam victualium penuria, quam ipsius capae ponderositate compressus, migravit ad dominum. Much about this time (as I suppose) which was An. Do. 1209. being about the Eleventh year of King john, the Chequer was by the King removed from London to Northampton, (in hatred of the Londoners) until Christmas.  
john Ruthall, Custos Officij Thesaurarij, as is proved out of the Records of the Exchequer, had that office the third year of Henry the third, in the year 1219.  
Eustachius de Fauconbridge, a justice to receive fines, chancellor of the Exchequer, and Treasurer to Henry the Third, was by the Bishop of Rochester consecrated Bishop of London in An. Do. 1221. being the fifth year of King Henry the Third: which Eustachius in the year 1222. with the Dean and Chapter of London had great suits against William Abbot of Westminster, he was Treasurer in the third year of King Henry the third, being about An. Do. 1219. he died the day before the Kalends of November in An. Dom. 1228. being the 13. of King Henry the third, and is buried on the south side of the Queer of Paul's (besides Henry Wengham) under a fair Monument of Marble, over whom on the wall is this inscription. Hicjacet Eustachius de Fauconbridge quondam Episcopus hujus Ecclesiae, qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sanccti Pauli.  
johannes de Fontibus, or john defontnes was Bishop of Elie, and Treasurer in the Ninth and Eleventh years of King Henry the Third, and before (as I take it) this man being Abbot of Fontnes, and (as authors say) Vir simplex & justus, ac recedens a malo, was at Westminster made Bishop of Elie, in An. Dom. 1220 he died after that he had been Bishop five years and odd months in An. Do. 1225. being the Ninth year of Henry the Third, and was buried in the Church of Elie, toward the Altar of Saint Andrew.  
Walter Malclarke, or Lack latin; Treasurer of England, was made Bishop of Carlisle in An. Dom. 1223. being about the seventh year of Henry the third, who in An. Dom. 1233. being the seventeenth of the said King, was by the counsel of Peter de Laroches Bishop of Winchester not only removed from his office of Treasurership, but also put to the fine of 100 marks, which he paid with the loss of certain holds, given him by Charter during his life: After which he would have fled beyond the Seas, but entering the Ship at Dover, he and all his were stayed, and evilly entreated by the King's servants. This man in An. Do. 1246. being the 30. year of Henry the Third, did on the day of Peter and Paul at Oxenford, enter into the habit of the Friar preachers: After which in An. Dom. 1248. being about the 32. of Henry the Third, he surrendered his soul to God.  
Ranulph Briton, by some is made Treasurer of England, but untruly (as I suppose) for in truth, he was but Treasurer of the chamber, for any thing I can learn, and removed from that place in the sixteenth year of King Henry the third, in An. Do. 1232. in whose place came, Peter de Rival. Of this Ranulph is mention had in the Chancellers. Besides which, about this time I read, that Hubert de Burgo was Treasurer, for thus writeth johannes Londoniensis. Rex (about An. Dom. 1232.) fecit ipsum (which was Hubert de Burgo) suum Institiarium principalem totius Angliae, & postea Thesaurarium.  
Peter de Oriall, in Latin called Petrus de Rivallis was Treasurer of the Chamber, and Treasurer of the King, Chamberline of England and Ireland, Guardian of all the Forests of England, of all the Escheats, of all the Ports of the sea, and of all the Prizes of England and Ireland, being so dear to the King, (as saith Matthew Westminster) that Expulsis castrorum custodibus per totam ferè Angliam, Rex omnia sub ipsius Petri custodia commendarat. This man was made Treasurer after Walter Malclarke in An. Do. 1233. being about the 17. year of King Henry the third, and in the 18. year of King Henry the third, who as I gather was together with Peter Bishop of Westminster, Stephen de Segrave, and Robert Parslew, called to accounts in An. Dom. 1234. for the King's treasure and seal evilly employed and kept, whereupon Peter de Revallis hid himself in the Cathedral Church of Winchester, which Peter Bishop of Winchester and Peter de Rivallis, the King removed by the persuasion of Edmund of Abindon Bishop of Canterbury, as they before had removed Walter Malclarke. After which it seemeth, that growing in o favour again, this Petrus de Rivalis, was in An. Dom. 1257. being the 41. of King Henry the third, made Treasurer of the Chamber; For thus writeth Matthew Paris. Circa festum sancti Michaelis, which in An. Dom. 1257. Mortuo Hurtaldo Domini Regis consiliario & clerico speciali, ac Thesaurario de camera Regis, subrogatur Petrus de Rivallis; Under this Peter de Rivallis did Robert Passelew keep the King's Treasure; Touching which Robert Passelew writeth Matthew Parker. Quo etiam tempore, (which was in An. Dom. 1244. being about the 18. year of King Henry the third) Robertus de Passelew qui in thesauris regiis custodiendis & augendis totus versat●s est, coque nomine Regi charus, ab Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cicestrensis canonicis, qui Regi placere studuerant, Cicestrensis Episcopus electus est. Quod Bonifacius Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus indigne tulit, & Episcopis provinciae suae convocatis, in difficillimis quibusdam & nodosis quaestionibus per Lincolniensem Episcopum compositis serio examinavit, deinde electione rescissa hunc Robertum repulit, & Richardum quendam de Wiz loco suo, (inconsulto Rege) substituit. Next writeth Matthew Westminster, that in An. Dom. 1233. being the 17. of Henry the third, the Nobility accused many of the King's Counsellors, amongst whom they placed, Robertum Passelew Thesaurarium. Again, a little after he saith, Et sic absondit se iterum Robertus Passelew, qui post Walterum Carleolensem officium thesaurarij administraverat. Of whose death Matthew Paris writeth thus; Eodem quoque anno, which was 1252. being the 35. year of Henry the third, Octavo Idus junij, obijt apud Waltham Robertus Passelew, archidiaconus Lewis.  
Hugh Pateshall, Treasurer of the Exchequer, which was Treasurer of the green wax, or of the Seal, was also treasurer to the King in the 18. and 19 years of his reign, and after made justice of all England, as Matthew Paris hath set down in these words. Rex autem fretus consilio saniori (in An. Dom. 1234. being the 18. year of Henry the third) Hugonem de Pateshall clericum filium videlicet Simonis de Pateshall, qui quandoque habenas moderabatur totius regni justitiarij, virum fidelem & honestum, loco praedictorum, which were Stephen Segrave, chief justice of England, and Peter de Rivallis Treasurer) subrogavit Administraverat enim idem Hugo officium Scaccarij antea laudabiliter, secundum quod appellatur secretum sigillum custodiendo, & definitam pecuniam a vicecomitibus recipiendo, quare plenior fides est ei adhibita, paterna fidelitate testimonium fidei perhibente. He was confirmed Bishop of Coventry in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. year of Henry the third, (who having been the King's Treasurer before did now with great solemnity take his leave of the Barons of the Exchequer with tears, and they all rose up and kissed him. Of whose election (in An. Dom. 1230.) to that Bishopric, thus further writeth the said Matthew touching the Moonkes of Coventry. Eligerunt secundum praedictam formam dominum Hugonem de Pateshall. etc. canonicum sancti Pauli London, & domini Regis Cancellarium in Episcopum, & custodem animarum suarum. Concerning whom I collected this note out of the Register of Westminster, that Philip Coleville Knight the son of William Coleville, the son of Agnes Foliot gave to Richard Abbot of Westminster, all his part of the inheritance which was Robert Foliots, brother to the said Agnes, in London, Mortan, and Chalneie, witnesss Ralph Bishop of Chichester, chancellor, and Hugh Pateshall Treasurer in the 19 of the reign of Henry the third, which Pateshall Matthew Westminster in the year of grace 1234. calleth Summum thesaurarium  
Galfridus Templarius, whom some will have Treasurer, but this man is more spoken of amongst the Chancellors.  
William Haverhull, a Cannon of Paul's Church in London was made Treasurer to King Henry the third, in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. year of the reign of the said King Henry, in which place he continued in the 28. year of the reign of King Henry the third, being in An. Do. 1244 he died at London in An. 1252. being the 36. year of the reign of King Henry the third, as saith the addition to Matthew Paris, fol. 1128. After which the said Author, fol. 1226. laid his death in the year 1256. being the 39 year of King Henry the third, such error is crept into Histories by the negligence of the transcriber, but I suppose the first note of his death to be the truer, because the same is confirmed by Matthew West. speaking in the said year 1252. of the death of this man, for whose Epitaph, these following verses were made.  
Hic jacet Haverhulle jaces protothesaurarie Regis,  
Hinc Haverhulle gemis non Paritura talem  
Fercula culta dabas, empyrea vina pluebas  
A modo sit Christus, cibus & esca tibi.  
I have also read a note of one William Haverhull, (which might be this man) which saith that William Haverhull, the son of Brithmarus de Haverhull, gave houses in Cheapside to the Abbey of Westminster, and that one Thomas de Haverhull, was the son and heir of William Haverhull.  
Richard de Barking, Abbot of Westminster, as witnesseth the lives of the Abbats, was one special Counsellor to Henry the third, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Treasurer of England who I suppose did follow William Haverhull, for his death which happened on the 23. day of November in the 30. year of King Henry the third, in An. Dom. 1246. after that he had been Abbot 24. years, must needs prove him to be Treasurer before Philip Lovel, yea and peradventure, (which is most likely) before Hugh Pateshall, yet Matthew Paris speaking of the death of Haverhulla, will needs have Philip Lovel to succeed William Haverhul, as after shall appear. This Richard de Barking was buried in Westminster Church, before the middle of the Altar, in our Lady's Chapel in a tomb of Marble, which after in the time of William Colechester Abbot of that place, was pulled down by Friar Combe, a sacrist of that house of Westminster, who laid a fair plain Marble stone over him, with this present Epitaph thus inscribed.  
Richardus Barking prior & postinclitus Abbas  
Henrici Regis, prudens fuit ille minister  
Hujus erat prima laus, insula rebus opima  
Altera laus eque Thorp, census, Ocham decimaeque  
Tertia Mortone castrum, simili ratione  
Et regis quarta de multis commoda charta  
Clementis festo mundo migravit ab isto  
M. Domini C. bis xl. sextoque sub anno  
Cui detur venia parte pia vergo Maria.  
Philip Luvell or Lovel was in this order advanced to the office of Treasurer, as appeareth by the words of Matthew Paris upon the death of William Haverhull. Et cum crederetur quod Dominus Rex johannem Franciscum officio Wilhelmi, (which was Haverhull) subrogaret, fabricatis rumoribus, quod idem Iohannes in partibus remotis Angliae Borealibus, (ut contra quosdam religiosos plantaverat) obiisset, constituit Dominus Rex Philippum Lovell clericum virum prudentem, foecundum, & generosum in loco memorati Wilielmi, suum thesaurarium, quod factum est apud sanctum Albanum, procurante (ut dicitur) johanne Mansell amico Philippi speciali. This man was Treasurer in the 35. and so until the 42. year of Henry the third, and was in the same year deposed by the Barons, He died at Hamesley in An. Dom. 1259. whose executors were Philip Lovel, and Robert de Mercenton. But his goods after his death, the King commanded to be confiscate. Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster, mention who were the Queen's Treasurers about that time, thus obijt & Walterus de Brudellejusdem Reginae thesaurarius, which he placeth in An. Dom. 1255. being the 39 year of King Henry the third. Of the second person Chacepore thus writeth Matthew West. in An. Dom. 1254. Veniens autem Rex ad mare, nec ventum habens prosperum apud Boloniam moratus est invitus, ubi obijt Petrus Chaceporc, natione Pictavensis, Reginae thesaurarius & Regis clericus & consiliarius specialis. These two Treasurers of the Queens, are supposed by some, (but not rightly) to have been the King's Treasurers.  
john Crackhall, Archdeacon of Bedford was Treasurer in 42, 43, 44. years of Henry the third, to whom the King in the 44. of his reign, being in An. Dom. 1260. gave a Prebendary, wherein being invested, he was from thence removed by a former collation thereof made to one john Le Gras. The same Crackhall after died the same year at London.  
john Abbot of Peterborough was by the Barons in the 44. year of Henry the third made Treasurer as the other Officers of the King also were. Nicholas of Ely was then made chancellor, and Hugh de Spencer chief justice, which Office of Treasurership this john continued in the 46. year of Henry the third, 1262.  
Nicholas de Elic so called, because he was Archdeacon of Elie, was Treasurer to the King in the 47. of Henry the third, being the year of our Lord 1263. whereof I have seen this note of Record. Memorandum quod in Crastino Paschae. Anno 47. Hen. Regis 3. in praesentia Rogeri le Bigot Comite Norfolk & Mareschalli Angliae. Hugo le Bigot, Arnoldi de Berkeley Baronis de scaccario magistri, johannis de Chisull Cancellar. regis, etc. recepit Magister Nicholaus archidiaconus Eliensis Thesaurarius, subscripta in Thesauraria domini regis, etc. This man as before appeareth, had been chancellor, of whom is mention made in the catalogue of the Chancellers.  
Thomas Wimundham: This man being chief Chanter of Lichfield, was by the Barons in An. Dom. 1258. in the 41. year of King Henry the third, made Treasurer (at the Exchequer) at the Seal or place where the Writts be sealed with green wax, after which he was Treasurer to the King in the 50, 51, and 52. years of King Henry the third.  
john Chisull sometime chancellor, was Treasurer in the 54. year of Henry the third, being about An. Dom. 1269. He was Deane of Paul's, chosen Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1273. and consecrate to that place in the year of Christ, 1274. in which place he continued about five years, and died in An. Dom. 1279. being in the seventh year of the reign of the victorious Prince, King Edward the first of that name. See more of this Chisull in the Chancellors.  
Philip de Elie was treasurer as appeareth by the Records of the Exchequer, in the 56. year of King Henry the third; and in the first year of King Edward the first, partly falling in the year 1272. and 1273.  
joseph de Chancy, whom on anomynall author calleth john Chancy, but not rightly, as I suppose, was Treasurer in the second year of King Edward the first, being in An. Dom. 1274.  
William Gifford, Bishop of  and Welles, was Treasurer to Edward the first, he was removed to York, in An. Dom. 1275. This man is by many Chronicles and that perhaps most truly called Walter Gifford; He died in the 7. year of King Edward the first, being An. Dom. 1279. as hath Nicholas Trivet Of this man see more in the Chancellers of England.  
Robert Burnell, Bishop of  and Welles, chancellor of England, and Treasurer to King Edward the first, is by the Welsh-history, pag. 328. called chief justice of England. Leland reporteth that an Abbot told him, how that a Bishop Burnell built the Castle of Acton Burnell: Of this man more is spoken in the Chancellors of England.  
joseph de Chancy, the second time Treasurer to King Edward the first, in the sixth year of the said King in An. Dom. 1278. was also Prior of Saint john's of jerusalem in Anglia as I take it, and by another name called the Lord of Saint john's, or of the Knights of the Rhodes in England.  
Thomas Becke, Archdeacon of Dorcester was Treasurer in the seventh year of Edward the first, in An. Dom. 1278. as some have, but 1279. as other have, by the witness of Leland, out of a monk of Glastenbury in his book De assertione Arthuri, reciting the words of the said monk in this sort. An. Dom. 1267. Edvardus Rex Henrici Tertij filius venit cum Regina sua Glasconiam. Die vero Martis proxima sequenti, fuit Rex & tota Curia accepta sumptibus Monasterij. Quo die in crepusculo fecit apperiri sepulcrum inclyti Arthuri, ubi in duabus cïstis imaginibus & armis eorum depictis, ossa dicti Regis mirae grossitudinis separata invenit. Imago quidem Reginae coronata, imaginis regiae corona fuit prostrata, cum abscissione sinistrae auriculae, & vestigijs plagae unde moriebatur. Inventa est scriptura superhis singulis manifesta. In crastino, viz. Die Mercurij Rex ossa regis, Regina ossa reginae, pallijs pretio●is revoluta, in suis cistis recludentes, & sigilla sua apponentes, praeceperunt idem sepulchrum ante majus altare celeriter collocari, retentis externis capitibus, propter populi devotionem, apposita hujusmodi scriptura. Haec sunt ossa nobilissimi Regis Arthuri quae Anno Dominicae incarnationis 1278. decimo tertio Calendas Maij per Dominum Edvardum Regem Angliae illustrem hic fuerunt sic collocatae, praesentibus Leonora serenissima ejuseum Regis consort, & filia Domini Ferandi Regis Hispaniae, Magistro William de Middleton nunc Norwicensi electo, Magistro Thoma de Becke Archidiacono Dorsitensi, & predicti regis Thesaurario, Domino Henrico & Lasciae Comite Lincolniae, Domino Amideo comite Subaudiae, & multis magnatibus Angliae. Thus fare the monk of Glastenbury.  
Richard Warren or the Ware, Abbot of Westminster was made Abbot about An. Do. 1260. being about the 44. year of Henry the third, who was made Treasurer as hath john de Eversden, An. Dom. 1280. being the 8. year of Edward the first, which year 1280. some do falsely make to fall in 10. some in 11. of Edward the first, which contrariety hath only risen by the default of the transcriber. But most certain it is, that he was Treasurer in the 9 11. and part of 12. of the said Edward the first. This man going to Rome for his consecration brought from thence certain workmen and rich purphury stones whereof and by whom he made that rare pavement containing a discourse of the whole world, which is at this day most beautiful, and to be seen at Westminster before the communion table, a thing of that singularity, curiousness, and rareness, that England hath not the like again, in which pavement are circularly written in letters of brass, these Ten verses following.  
Si lector posita prudenter cuncta revolvat  
Hinc finem primi, mobilis inveniet  
Sepes trina canes & equos, homines super addas  
Cervos & corvos, aquilas immania cete  
Mundum quodque sequens praeeuntis triplicat annos  
Sphericus archetypum globum hic monstrat microcosmum  
Christi milleno, bis centeno duodeno  
Cum sexageno subductis quatuor anno  
Tertius Henricus, Rex, urbs Odoricus & abbess  
Hos compegere purphyreos lapides.  
Which Abbot with those workmen, and those stones did also frame the shrine of Edward the Confessor, with these verses carved out of stone and also guilded set about the same Shrine or Monument.  
Anno milleno Domini cum Septuageno  
Et bis centeno, cum completo quasi deno  
Hoc opus est factum, quod Petrus duxit in actum  
Romanus civis, Homo, causam noscere si vis  
Rex fuit Henricus, sancti praesentis amicus.  
This Abbot died the second day of December in An. Dom. 1283. being the 12. of Edward the first, after that he had governed the Monastery 23. years and more, and was buried there at Westminster in the aforesaid plain pavement of Purphury on the North side near unto the Tomb (as is yet well to be seen) of Odomer or Aimer de Valence Earl of Pembroke, on which grave is engraven this brief Epitaph here ensuing.  
Abbas Richardus de Wara qui requiescit  
Hic portat lapides, quos hic portavit ab urbe.  
Walter Wenlocke Abbot of Westm. whom Matthew Westm calleth William de Wenlock, was made Abbath of Westminster after the death of Richard de Ware, and was Treasurer to King Edward the first, as hath the Register of the lives of the Abbot of Westminster and other records that I have seen. Which office it seemeth he had mean time between the 12. and 14. years of Edward the first, as I suppose. This man after that he had been Abbot 26. years lacking six days, died the 25. day of December on the Christmas day at night in his manor of Piriford in Gloucestershire in the first year of Edward, the son of Edward (which was Edward the second in An. Do. 1307. and was buried in the Church of Westminster besides the high Altar then standing without the South door of Saint Edward's Shrine before the Presbytery there under a plain pavement, & a Marble stone decently adorned with this Epitaph to his high commendation.  
Abbas Walterus jacet hic sub marmore tectus  
Non fuit Austerus, sed mitis, famine rectus.  
A Bishop of Coventrie and Lichfield was Treasurer of England in the 14. year of Edward the first, being An. Dom. 1286. in whose place the same year came john Kerkbie.  
john Kerkbie Deane of Winburne and Archdeacon of Coventrie and Treasurer to King Edward the first, was on the seventh Kalends of August in An. Do. 1286. being the 14. year of the said Edward; (then at Paris) made Bishop of Elye, whom Leland the Refiner of all names doth in his Comment upon his song of the Swan, in the word Winchelsega, thus term johannes Chirchebius Episcopus Anguillarinus Regi a thesauris. This man was Treasurer in the 16, 17, and part of 18, of Edward the first, in which year (as it seemeth) being part of An. Do. 1290. This Bishop died the 7. Kalends of April, after that he had been Bishop three years some months and some days, and was buried by Walpoole Bishop of Norwich in the Church of Elie, on the north part of the choir, before the Altar of Saint john Baptist.  
William de Marchia or Gulielmus Martius, was Treasurer in Easter term in the 18. of Edw. the first, in which office he continued about 5. years, & was removed from that place in the 23. of Edward the first, & Peter of Leicester, Baron of the Exchequer, with the two Chamberlains executed all functions of that office until a new Treasurer was made this William de Marchia was made Bishop of  and Welles in An. Do. 1293. being the 22. of Edward the first, in which See he remained almost 10. years; and died in An. Do. 1302. being about the 32. of Edward the first, & was buried in the Church of Wells' in the wall, between the door of the Cloister, and the Altar of Saint Martin, at whose Tomb in times past (as the nature of that credulous age did hastily believe) were many miracles done, as some have left in memory to the following posterity.  
Walter Langhstane Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry was made Treasurer after William de Marchia in 23. Edward the first, in which office he continued (as I gather) during the life of Edward the first, which fell in the 35. of his reign being An. Do. 1307. and was then removed and imprisoned in the Tower with two men only by Edward the second then coming to the Crown, because the said Walter Langstone had caused Edward the first to imprison, and as some have to banish this new King, for breaking down the Parks of the said Bishop. During the time that this Peter de Willeby was under-Treasurer or Lieutenant of the Treasury, for the words be Locum tenens thesaurarij in 30. 31, and 32. Edward the first, this Walter was made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in An. Do. 1295. being 23. year of Edward the first, and the same year that he was made Treasurer: he died about An. Do. 1321. being about the 14. year of Edward the second to which Bishop the Barons of Cobham were heirs, being descended from Margaret the Sister and heir of john Peverell, the Cousin and heir of this Walter Langhstane, which Margaret was married to Sir William de La Poole of Ashby Knight, from whom the Lord Cobham issue. In this man's time of being Treasurer died King Edward the first, for whom were these verses.  
Dum viguit (Rex) & valuit tua magna potestas  
Fraus latuit, pax magna fuit, regnavit honestas  
Scotos Edvardus dum vixit suppeditavit  
Tenuit, afflixit, depressit, dilaniavit.  
Walter Reynolds, Schoolmaster to Edward the second, Bishop of Worcester & after of Canterbury and chancellor of England was advanced to the place of Lord Treasurer of England in the first year of Edward the second, being in An. Dom. 1307. after which in the year 1308. he was made Bishop of Worcester, he continued in the office of Treasurer until some part of the 4. year of Edward the second, at what time came in his place john Sandall, who was Livetennant unto the said Walter in place of the Treasurer, as appeareth by many writs directed unto him by the name of john Sandall Locum tenenti Willimi Episcopi Wigorniae. Of him is more spoken in the Chancellors of England.  
john de Sandall being Clerk Scutifer Regis, chancellor of the Exchequer, and chancellor of England having been before under Treasurer, or Deputy for the high Treasurer, came now in the fourth year of Edward the second, to be made chief Treasurer, and entered into that office in Easter term about the beginning of the 4. year of Edward the 2. But in the year following, which was in the fifth year of Edward the second, he gave place to another. He was chosen Bishop of Winchester, in the ninth year of King Edward the second, being in An Do. 1316. Of whom thus writeth Anonymus, M.S. Obierunt Episcopus Winton & Elie viri sacra professione insigniti, quorum primo successit johannes de Sandall Cancellarius Angliae vir cunctis affabilis & necessarius communitati; Secundo successit Iohannes Hothum scaccar. regis, vir si quidem scientiae penitus ignarus, qui statim episcopatus ascenso culmine ad honorum pariter & officij thesaurarij Rex in sui favorem sublimavit.  
Walter Norwich Knight Treasurer in the 5. year of Edward the 2. and afterward in Easter term in the 8. year of Edward the 2. did on the third of October receive the office of Treasurership, and took his oath before the Barons & Chamberleynes of the Exchequer, to behave himself well and faithfully in the same office which he had received by Letters Patents dated at york the 26. of September in the eight year of King Edward the second, which he kept not long at that time.  
john Sandall, was the second time Lord Treasurer in sixth and seventh year of King Edw. the second: This man being Bishop of Winchester was Treasurer. Of him see more in the Chancellers of England.  
Walter de Norwich being Treasurer as before in the eight year of Edward the second did not long enjoy the same, but as I suppose grave place to john Drokensford.  
john Drokensford the 14. Bishop of Bath and Wells had as I have read the great seal delivered unto him, and was also Treasurer of England, but because I find not as yet in what year, although it were in the time of Edward the second, I cannot set down the certainty. Of whom thus writeth the Register of the Bishops of Bath. johannes Drokensford Thesaurarius, 14. Bathon Episcopus post Walterum Haselshawes, successit in Episcopatum Bathon, annis. 19 iste episcopatum pluribus aedificijs insignivit, franchesias per regis episcopatus concessas, non solum litterarie renovavit, sed etiam ampliavit, & quo additationem & exaltationem parentelae suae fere fuit aequalis praedicessori suo Roberto Bornell, & Welliae sepelitur ante altare sancti Iohannis Baptistae.  
john Hothum Bishop of Elie, as is before noted out of one anonymall Chronicle, obtained the place and honour of Treasurership in the 11. year of Edward the second, which he did not long enjoy, for in the Michaelmas Term in the the 12. year of Edward the second, came William Walwaine. Of this john Hotham is mention made in the discourse of the Chancellers.  
William Walwaine, Treasurer of England in the 12. year of Edward the second, about An. Dom. 1318. was (as it should seem) for his negligence and unworthiness removed at the Parliament at york, in such sort as he possessed not that place (as I conceive) above half a year: for in the same twelfth year came the Bishop of Winchester.  
john Stratford, Bishop of Winchester, upon the removing of Walwaine was in the 12. year of Edward the second, admitted into the office of Treasurership, until the King should otherwise determine. Which Bishop found out in the Treasury above Twenty nine Pound Seventeen shillings eight pence, which might be the cause of displacing of Walwaine, who had over prodigally dispersed the King's Treasure.  
Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter was Treasurer in the 13. year of Edward the second, An. Dom. 1319. In which I suppose he continued until the 15. year of Edward the second, An. Dom. 1321.  
Walter Norwich Knight, was the Third time made Treasurer, which place he enjoyed in 15. Edward the second, An. Do. 1321. or thereabouts, Walsingham saith, that in the second year of Edward the third. Obijt William de Norwich.  
Roger Northborrow Scutifer or keeper of the seal being taken by the Scots at the battle of Banocsbourne about the seventh year of Edward the second, in An. Do. 1313. was also Clerk of the Wardrobe, and Treasurer in the sixteenth year of Edward the 2. being in An. Dom. 1322. Of whom thus writeth one Anonimall Chronicle. M.S. An. Do. 1321. Obijt Walterus de Langtone Episcopus Cestren cui successit in episcopatus honore per viam impressionis & ambitionis Rogerus Northburgh Clericus de regis garderobia, sibi regis in cunctis faventibus auxilio & voluntate. I have read of one Godfrey of Northburgh Bishop of Chester that died in thirty three year of Edward the third, being in An. Do. 1359, which perhaps should be this Roger Northborow. Godfrey being by the transcriber placed in stead of Roger, but I will not at this time define any certainty thereof, although I find another note of one Roger Northburgh consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in An. Dom. 1321. who sat in that See 38. years, which 38. years added to the other in which this Roger was made Bishop do make up the number of 1359. in which it is said that Godfrey Northborow died.  
Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter the second time Treasurer in the 18. year of Edward the second, and before was removed in Easter Term in the same year. In which Easter Term was William Bishop of York also made Treasurer, as is proved by the Pell of Exitus, that Term being thus entitled. De Termino Paschae An. 18. Edw. 2. tam tempore W. episcopi Exon, quam W. archi-Episcopi Eborum. This Walter being elected to the Bishopric of Exeter in An. Dom. 1307. did sit in that place twenty years, and was beheaded at the coming into England of Queen Isabella to depose Edward the second in the year 1326. The cause of whose beheading was, for that he had procured the banishment of the said Queen Isabella and of her son Prince Edward.  
William Melton Archbishop of York made Lord Treasurer in Easter Term in the 18. year of Edward the second kept the same office until the deposition of himself from that place, and of his Master from his Kingdom in the twentieth year of the said Edward the second, and then gave place to john Stratford.  
john Stratford, Bishop of Winchester was the second time made Treasurer of England in the 20. year of the deposed King Edward, after the death of Walter Stapleton, This john the 14. day of November in the twentieth year of Edward the second, coming into the Exchequer brought thither the King's patent or open Writ, or commandment, under the seal of Edward the King's eldest son, to witness his election & creation to that place of Treasurer, the tenor of which writ, I have thought good to set down, because it was done by the son, in the father's name, and under the Teste of the son, the father yet being King in show, but the son indeed as governor of the Realm, which title he enjoyed, until that he most unnaturally, by the malice of his mother, the ambition of himself, and the flattery of his followers, had deposed his father. The tenor of which writ, was in these words as followeth.  
Edwardus Rex Angliae, & dominus Hiberniae, baronibus & camerarijs suis de scaccario suo salutem. Quum pro eo quod venerabilis pater. W. archiepiscopus Eborum nuper thesaurarius scaccarij praedicti, circa diversa negotia in partibus borealibus est occupatus, quo minus intendere possit ad ea quae ad officium illud in dicto scaccario pertinent exercenda. Constituerimus venerabilem patrem johannem Wintoniensem episcopum, tenentem locum thesaurarij scaccarij praedicti, quousque de officio illo aliter duximus ordinandum. Percipendo in eodem officio (dum illud sic tenuerit) feodum consuetum prout in literis nostris patentibus episcopo praefato inde confectis plenius continetur. Vobis mandamus quod ipsum episcopum ad officium admittatis, & ei in his quae ad officium praedictum pertineant intendatis in forma praedicta. Teste Edwardo filio nostro primogenito custode regni nostri, apud Hereford Sexto die Novembris, anno regni nostri vicessimo.  
Adam Tarleton, or de Orleton, borne in Hereford-shire, being Decretorum Doctor, was made Bishop of Hereford by the Pope at Avinion in An. Dom. 1317. about the 10. or 11. year of Edward the second, being he that made the Sermon for the deposition of King Edward the second, and wrote the amphibologicall Epistle for the death of the King, containing these words; (Regem occidere nolite timere bonum est) which hath by a comma or point made at Timere, one sense, and by a comma made at Nolite, another sense. Which Adam was made Lord Treasurer in the first year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1326. in which office he continued not long, for in the Easter term of the said King, came Henry Bishop of Lincoln. This man was made Bishop of Winchester in An. Dom. 1335. being the ninth of Edward the third, in which seat he sat 12. years The death of which Adam, (who gave Hemingfield parsonage to the Church of Hereford) Sir Thomas De la More, doth most plentifully set forth.  
Henry Burwash, Bishop of Lincoln, descended of the Lord Burghurst his Family called Lord Burwash, was Lord Treasurer in Easter term in the first year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1327. in which office he continued until 2. year of Edward the third, and was afterwards removed.  
Thomas, Bishop of Hereford enjoyed the honourable office of Lord Treasurer in the third year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1329. but in the year following another came in place.  
Robert Woodhouse possessed the room of the high Treasurer of England in the fourth year of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1330. And was also Treasurer some part of Michaelmas term in the fift year of Edward the third, who in the year following did give place to another.  
William Archbishop of York was again Treasurer of England in the fift year of Edward the third, being An. Do. 1331. and enjoyed that place some part of Michaelmas Term in the said year, after whom came the Bishop of Norwich.  
William Bishop of Norwich, was made Treasurer in Michaelmas Term in the fift year of Edward the third, in which term there had been three Lord Treasurers successively, (a thing seldom or never heard, which office this Bishop kept all Michaelmas Term in the sixth year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1332. and somewhat more in the end, yet yielding that honour to another.  
Robert le Ailstone, being Lord Treasurer in the seventh year of Edward the third being An. Do. 1333. continued in the same office until the tenth year of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1336. which was about three years, the same being a longer time than any other had possessed that place, since the beginning of the reign of the said King.  
Henry Burwash, Bishop of Lincoln, was again Treasurer the tenth year of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1336. in which year (as hath Scala cronicorum) the King holding his Parliament at London, was advised by his Counsel to prosecute his title to the Crown of France. Whereupon King Edward sent Ambassadors, to the Duke of Bavier Emperor, which had married the other sister to the Earl of Hannalt, (as King Edward the third had married one) for surety of alliance, and to retain noble men about him with no small charge, which ambassadors were Henry Burgwash Bishop of Lincoln, and the Earls William Montacute of Sarum, and William Clinton of Huntingdon, who returned to the Parliament at London with their answer well liked. Of this man see more in the Chancellers, being yet after his ambassage Treasurer for some part of the 11. year of King Edward the third.  
Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham did enjoy the honour of Lord Treasurer in the 11. year of Edward the third, he was a man of great gravity and much esteemed of the nobility and gentlemen of the North. Of this man is more soaken of in the Chancellers of England.  
William de la Zouch, borne of the noble house of the Lord Zouch was Treasurer of England, in the 12. year of Edward the third in An. Dom. 1338. he being Bishop of York, was vicegerent to the King in the North parts in the 20. year of Edward the third, and in An. Dom. 1346. at what time he took David Bruce King of the Scots. This man went to Rome, and after a long contention between him, and William Kelslye, Kelsbie, or Kelsey (for all these different names, are found in Authors) touching the Archbishopprick of York, he was after two years thus spent consecrated Bishop of York by Pope Clement the sixth, after which this William in the 11. year of his Bishopric being long troubled with a grievous disease, began the work of a Chapel on the South side adjoining to the Church of Saint Peter in York, where he purposed to be buried, but died before it was finished, and lieth interred in the said Church before the Altar of Edward the confessor.  
Sir Richard Sadington Knight, was Treasurer in the fourteenth year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1340. There was one Robert Sadington living about this time, of whom is more mention in the Chancellors of England, but as yet I well know not whether they were both one man or Noah, sith Authors may misplace Robert for Richard, as they have often done.  
Robert Northborow, being at that time (as I judge) Bishop of Coventry, was Treasurer of England in the 14. year of Edward the third, and in An. Dom. 1340. in which year he was removed, whom with the Chancellor the King meant afterward (as after shall appear) to have sent into Flanders as Pledges for money that the King ought there. After whom as I suppose, that Sadington came in place  
A Bishop of Chester was Lord Treasure of England in the fifteenth year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1341. in which office he did not long continue.  
Robert Perning or Pernicke was Lord Treasurer in the Easter term in An. Dom. 1341. being the fifteenth year of King Edward the third, in which year also he was made chancellor, and so continued both offices a while until the sixteenth year of Edward the third, as I gather by all circumstances of times, records, and histories, who in the seventeenth year of Edward the third, being An. Dom. 1343. (as appeareth by the books of the Law) being Chancellor, delivered a record with his hands into the Court of the King's Bench; Of this man more is set down in the Chancellers.  
Roger Northborow (as I take it) being then Bishop of Coventry, did honourably possess the place of Lord Treasurer of England in the sixteenth year of Edward the third, being in An. Do. 1342. Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of john Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury. Ibi (meaning at the Tower) concilium initum est, tandemque definitum, ut Archiepiscopus & episcopus Cicestrescis regni Cancellarius & Coventrensis Thesaurarius una cum alijs satellitibus & lictoribus deprehensi, ad publicam custodiam rerum a se, absent rege, gestarum rationem reddituri ducerentur. Mane accedunt satellites Lametham, sed archiepiscopus ei pridie decesserat, tum Londinum reversi, Coventrensem & Cicestrensem episcopos cum alijs designatis capiunt, captos ad turrim deducunt, etc.  
William de Cusans being Lord Treasurer in the seventeenth year of Edward the third in An. Dom. 1343. continued in the same office all Michaelmas term in the eighteenth year of Edward the third and An. Dom. 1344. Between whom and Thomas Henly Abbot of Westminster was great contention about the jurisdiction of the hospital of Saint james in the parish of Saint Margaret in Westminster, which Hospital is now a stately house belonging to the King, and built by King Henry the eight, called the manner of Saint james with a Park walled about.  
William de Edington, Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of England, Bishop of Winchester, was Lord Treasurer in Easter Term in the nineteenth year of Edward the third, being in An. Dom. 1345. in which office he continued until the 32. year o the said King, An. Dom. 1358. being 14. years He was so surnamed of the place where he uva borne, being the Town of Edington in Wiltshire, he was made Bishop of Winchester (as some have) about An. Dom. 1347. being about the 21. year of Edward the third: This man chosen Bishop of Canterbury (but yet never Bishop) died (as hath Walsingham in the fortieth year of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1366.  
john Bishop of Rochester, was Lord Treasurer in the 32. year of Edward the third in An. Do. 1358. in which office he continued in the 33. and 34. of the same King.  
Simon Langham, being of the Priory of Westminster made Abbot of that house, was shortly after made Lord Treasurer of England, which office he held in the 35. year of Edward the third, and 36. who being Bishop of London (as hath Matthew Parker) was in An. Dom. 1361. being the thirty fifth year of Edward the third, by the Pope made Bishop of Ely, where he sat five years, and was after in An. Dom. 1366, being in the 40. year of Edward the third, chosen Bishop of Canterbury, and consecrated in An. Dom. 1367. as saith the same Matthew Parker: On which day of his consecration, he demanded homage of the Earl Stafford of Thomas Rosse, john Tirhill, Robert Brockhill, and Ralph Sentleger Knights, for their Lands which they held of the Sea of Canterbury. Shortly after which in An. Dom. 1368. being the 42. year of Edward the third, he was made Cardinal, and died at Avimere the 22 day of july, about An. Dom. 1376. being in the 50. year of King Edward the third, and was buried besides Avinion, in a place which he had raised from the foundation. Three years after which, his bones were brought to Westminster, where at this day he hath a worthy Tomb on the south side of the Shrine amongst the Kings, on whose Tomb the Moonkes of Westminster did sometime place this Epitaphe in the remembrance of him.  
Simon de Langham sub petris his tumulatus  
Istius Ecclesiae monachus fuerat, prior, abbess  
Sede vacant fuit, electus Londoniensis  
Praesul & insignis eligi, sed postea primas  
Totius regni, magnus regis que minister  
Nam Thesaurarius & Cancellarius ejus  
Ac Cardinalis in Roma Presbiter iste  
Postque Praenestinus est factus episcopus atque  
Nuntius ex parte Papae, transmittitur istuc  
Orb dolente pater, quem nunc revocare nequimus  
Magdalanae festo milleno septuageno.  
Et ter centeno sexto Christi ruit anno  
Hunc Deus absolvat, de cunctis quae male gessit  
Et meritis matris sibi caelica gaudia donet.  
Of this man I have treated in the collection of all the Chancellers of England.  
john Barret made Bishop of Worcester in An. Do. 1362. being the 36. year of Edward the third was Treasurer of England in the 37. year of Edward the third, in which office he continued, being Treasurer in Michaelmas Term in the 38. year of Edward the third, which fell in An. Dom. 1364. and so he continued till the 43. year of Edward the third, still Treasurer. He was made Bishop of Bath in An. Dom. 1363. in which Bishopric he remained three years, and was by Vrbane the 6. then Bishop of Rome, translated from Bath to Elie in An. Dom. 1366. being the 40. year of Edward the 3. in which place he sat six years, and being a very old man, and having been Treasurer about six years, he died at Hatfield the seventh Ideses of june in An. Dom. 1373. in the 47. year of Edward the third, he was buried in the Church of Elie, besides the high Altar on the south part.  
Thomas de Brantington being Treasurer for the King in the parts of Guisnes marches, and Calis in An. Dom. 1367. being in the 41. year of Edward the third, was made Bishop of Exeter by special Letters of the King in An. Dom. 1358. being the 43. year of Edward the third, and was Lord Treasurer of England, in the 44. and 45. years of Edward the third, which 45. being in An. Dom. 1371. he was in a Parliament at the Petition of the Lords removed, at which time also there passed a Law, that the Chancellor Treasurer and Clerk of the Privy seal should no more be spiritual men, but that secular men should have those offices.  
Sir Richard Scroop, Lord of Bolton and Chancellor of England, was Treasurer of England in the 46. year of Edward the third, and then gave place to Sir Robert Aston Knight. This Richard made out of the ground the Castle of Bolton consisting of four great strong towers, & of other stately lodgings, which Castle was erecting 18. years, the charges whereof came yearly unto a Thousand Marks, which was 18. thousand Marks, or 12000. pound; which Castle he finished before Richard the second died. He bought the heir general of S. Quintine that was owner of Horneby Castle in Richmondshire, which heir he was content one Conyers a servant of his should marry, and have the preferment of that ward, & so Horneby Castle came to the Coniers, of which the first Lord was William Coniers, grandfather to him that died in the time of Queen Mary without heir male, whereby his inheritance came to his three daughters, which William the first Lord Coniers of that name did much cost upon Horneby Castle being before but a mean thing. I have read of this Lord Scroop that he had a son called William, whereof we will speak more hereafter, that was Earl of Wiltsshire, who being beheaded in his father's life, left no issue behind him. After which the father surviving was made Treasurer to the King, and died in honour; although he was not restored to his dignity of Chancellership, but at what time he should be the second time Treasurer (after the death of his son William) in the time of Henry the fourth. I cannot as yet certainly learn, But it may be that he was again Treasurer in the ninth year of Henry the fourth, for that I find not by any former search who then possessed that place. It seemeth that he had two wives, the one the daughter of the Lord Spenser, the other the daughter of Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk called Blanch. He had three sons, for whom he bought of the King the three daughters and heirs of Robert Lord Tiptoft, whereof the eldest daughter Margaret was married to Roger his second son, the second daughter was married to William his eldest son, the third daughter called Millescent was married to Stephen the third son of the said Richard.  
Sir Robert Ashton Knight, Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord warden of the Cinque Ports, was Lord Treasurer in the 50. and 51. year of King Edward the third in Michaelmas term, which was the last Michaelmas term wherein the King reigned, being in An. Dom. 1376. of which name there was also one that was chief Baron in the time of Edward the second, as I have read.  
Henry Wake or Wakefield being made Bishop of Worcester in An. Do. 1375. being in the 49. year of Edw. the 3. was made Lord Treasurer of England in An. Dom. 1376. in the 51. year of Edward the third, in which office he continued part of Easter term in the first year of Richard the second, being in An. Dom. 1378. he died in An. Dom. 1395. as saith Walsingham.  
Thomas Brantington Bishop of Excester was made Lord Treasurer in first year of Richard the second towards the latter end of Easter term, being in An. Dom. 1378. as I compute it, from which place he was shortly removed in the second year of Richard the second.  
Richard Earl of Arundel and Surry made Lord Treasurer of England in the second year of Richard the second, whereof part fell in Anno Dom. 1378. and part in 1379. continued about One year in the same, and then gave place to him, which possessed the same place last before him, he married Elizabeth daughter of William de Bohune Earl of Northampton and Hereford, by whom he had issue Thomas Earl of Arundel, joane married to William Beuchampe Lord Aburgavennie, Elizabeth married to Thomas Lord Mowbray, Margaret married to Sir Rowland Lenthall, and Alice married to john Charleton Lord Powes. He died in the 21. year of Richard the second.  
Thomas Brantington, Bishop of Excester was the third time made Lord Treasurer of England in the third year of the after deposed King Richard the second, and was removed from his office in the 4. year of Richard the second in An. Dom. 1380. after the account of such, as begin the year on the 25. of March.  
Robert Hales, chief Prior of the Knights of the Rhodes entitled by the name of the Knights of St. john's jerusalem in England, was Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth year of Richard the 2. in which office he continued during his life, for shortly after he came into that place, which I suppose he held in Easter term, and some months after, in the said year of Richard the second in An. Do. 1381. the Rebels having spoilt the hospital or famous college of those Knights of Saint john's by Smithfield near unto London, amongst other did fetch this Robert Hales out of the Tower of London (where the King then lay) and beheaded him on the Tower hill.  
Hugh Segrave Knight, whom Walsingham calleth Regis seneschallum, the King's Steward, was made Lord Treasurer of England in the fifth year of Richard the second, who continued in the said office, the 6, 7, 8. and some part of Michaelmas term in the 9 year of Richard the second, being in An. Do. 1385.  
john Fortham Canon, being Secretary to the King, was made Bishop of Durham the 29. day of May in An. Dom. 1381. being in the fourth year of Richard the second, and was enthronized in September in An. Dom 1382. being in the sixth year of Richard the second. This man was made Lord Treasurer in Michaelmas term in the ninth year of Richard the second, being in An. Dom. 1385. and so continued part of the 10. year of Richard the second, until he was by parliament discharged. He was translated from the Bishopric of Durham to Elie, by Boniface the Pope the first Calends of October, as hath the book of Durham 1389. being in the 12. year of Richard the second; but as saith the book of Elie, 1388. being in the 13 year of Richard the second, which both may be true, because the one may have relation to the year of his translation, and the other to the year of his inthronization, both which many times happened in several years of many other Bishops. He was Bishop of Elie 37. years three months, and four days, and died a very old man the 13. of December in his Manor of Durham in An. Dom. 1425. falling in the fourth year of Henry the sixth.  
john Gilbert, Bishop of Hereford was by Parliament made Lord Treasurer in the 10. year of Richard the second, being in An. Dom. 1386. in which office he continued the eleventh and all Michaelmas Term in the 12. year of Richard the second, and the 21. day of March following; after which he was again removed, and then he with twelve more were appointed by commission to the government of the whole Realm under the King, of whom thus writeth on Anonymall Chronicle. M. S. Is fuit in ordine praedicatorum vir qui plus lingua quam fide regebat. Which Bishop (as I suppose) was removed to Saint david's, after that he had been thirteen year's Bishop of Hereford.  
Thomas Brantington, Bishop of Excester. I have read that the Bishop of Excester was made Treasurer in the twelfth year of Richard the second, upon the removing of john Gilbert, which Bishop of Excester could not be Edmond Gifford, as some falsely name him, for there is no such man, as I can find in the catalogue of all the Bishops of Excester, neither was it Edmund Stafford for he was not made Bishop of Excester until the 20. of june 1395. being the day before King Richard began the twenty one year of his reign, which is eight years after the time whereof we now entreat. Wherefore it must needs be Thomas Brantington, for he being consecrated Bishop of Excester the tenth day of March in An. Dom. 1370. being in the 44. year of Edward the third, & governing that See 24. years, till An. Dom. 1395. in which came Edmund Stafford Keeper of the Privy Seal, it must be that the Bishop of Excester being Treasurer in the twelfth year of Richard the second falling in An. Dom. 1388. it was this man Brantington, and that he was the fourth time made Lord Treasurer of England, about the 18. year after that he was made Bishop of Excester, who died in the year 1395. as hath Ypodigma.  
john Gilbert, Bishop of Saint david's in Wales was Lord Treasurer in the 13. and 14. year of Richard the second: Of whom there is somewhat spoken before.  
john Waltham, of whom there is large mention in the discourse of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the life of Will. Courtney, was Bishop of Salisbury, Master of the Rolls in the sixth year of Richard the second, and keeper of the Privy seal, after which he was Treasurer of England in the 15, 16, 17, and part of the 18. year of Richard the second, for he died in Michaelmas Term in the 18. year of Richard the second, in An. Dom. 1395. others say, 1394. Of whom thus writeth Walsingham. Hoc Anno (which was 1395) obijt johannes de Waltham Episcopus Sarum, & regni thesaurarius, qui tantum Regi complacuerit, ut etiam multis licet murmurantibus apud monasterium inter reges meruit sepulturam.  
Roger Walden, sometimes Secretary to the King, and Treasurer of the Town of Calis in the twelfth year of Richard the second, was made Lord Treasurer in the eighteenth year of the said King, about An. Dom. 1365. in which office he continued in the 22. year of Richard the second. He was elected and made Bishop of Canterbury, but after rejected and deposed, and thereupon was by Pope Innocent the seventh made Bishop of London in the tenth year of December in An. Dom. 1404. being in the sixth year of Henry the fourth, in the which Bishopric he continued one year, and died in An. Dom. 1406. being buried at S. Bartholomewes' Priory in Smithfield, who of a poor man (as saith Walsingham) was made Lord Treasurer of England.  
G. Bishop of Saint david's in Wales was Lord Treasurer of England in the twenty two year of Richard the second, which Bishop I suppose to be Guy de Moon, whom the book Ypodigma & Thomas Walsingham call Bishop of Saint david's, and say, that he died in An. Dom. 1407. writing in this sort. Eodem anno Guido de Moon Menevensis episcopus praesentis lucis sensit eclipsim, qui dum vixit magnorum malorum causa fuit.  
William Scroop Knight, Vicechamberleine to Rchard the second was Lord Treasurer, he bought of William Montacute Earl of Salisbury the I'll of Man with the Crown thereof. He was one of those to whom King Richard the second, let the Kingdom to farm, he was Lord Treasurer of England in the 22. year of Richard the second, and was after created Earl of Wiltshire in the said 21. year of Richard the second, in An. Dom 1397. He was after beheaded at Bristol in the twenty three year of Richard the second: Of which William Scroop and others, thus writeth that worthy Poet john Gower in his history of Richard the second, commonly taken as part of his book entitled Vox Clamantis.  
Dux probus audaci vultu cum plebe sequaci  
Regnum scrutatur, si proditor inveniator  
Sic tres exosos, magis omnibus ambitiosoes  
Regni tortores, invenerat ipse priores.  
Ense repercussi pereunt, Gren, Scrop, quoque Bussi  
High qui regales fuerant cum rege sodales.  
Scrop. comes & miles, cujus Bristolia viles  
Actus declarat, quo mors sua fata pararat  
Gren quoque sorte pari, statuit dux decapitari  
Bussi convictus similes quoque sustinet ictus  
Vnanimes ment, pariter mors una repent  
Hos tres prostravit gladius, quos fine voravit  
Sicut & egerunt alijs, sic hi ceciderunt  
Quo dux laudatur, regnumque per omne jocatur.  
Sir john Northbury made Lord Treasurer in the first year of Henry the fourth, being in An. Dom. 1399. and continued in the same in the third year of Henry the fourth in which year he was keeper of the Privy gardrobe in the Tower also.  
Henry Bowet made Bishop of Bath about An. Do. 1401. being in the second year of Henry the fourth, in which bishopric he continued 8. years, and was after at the King's instance in An. Dom. 1407. about the eight of Henry the fourth removed to York, This man was Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth year of Henry the fourth in An. Do. 1403. in which place he continued not above a year.  
William Lord Rosse the son of Thomas Lord Rosse did possess the honourable place of Lord Treasurer of England in the fifth year of Henry the fourth about An. Dom. 1404. and shortly after gave place to the Lord Furnivall. He married Margaret daughter of Fitzallen, Lord Matravers, he had issue Thomas Lord Rosse slain in France in An. Dom. 1421. about the ninth year of Henry the sixth, and many other Children.  
Thomas Lord Furnivall kept the place and office of Lord Treasurer of England in the 6, 7. and some part of the 8. year of Henry the fourth, as in Michaelmas term of the said 8. year falling in An. Dom. 1406. after which this Lord Furnivall, who had the custody of the Castle and honour of Wigmore being in the King's hands by reason of the wardship and minority of Edmond Mortimer Earl of March, was (as it seemeth) removed from the Treasurership, in whose room succeeded the Bishop of London. To these Lord Furnivalls did Furnivalls Inn in Holborn sometime appertain as their mansion house, being now an Inn of Chancery for young Students of the Law, and Atturneiss, and belonging to Lincoln's Inn in Chancery-lane.  
Nicholas Bubwith, made Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1406. being in the eight year of Henry the fourth, must be that Bishop of London (as fare as I can yet conceive) who was Lord Treasurer of England in Michaelmas term in the 8. year, the office of the Treasurer remained in the King's hands, and the Accounts of the said term go under the same title of being in the King's hands.  
Sir Richard Scroop Lord of Bolton (whereof is so much spoken before) was as I suppose the second time made Treasurer of England in the ninth year of Henry the fourth; whereunto I am induced by this reason. That first the King would not keep that office so long in his hands as almost amounted to Two years, but that he would bestow the same upon some other: Secondly, for that I read that this Richard Scroop father to William Scroop Earl of Wiltshire, beheaded by this Henry the fourth, before he came to the Crown at Bristol, in the last year of Richard the second, and in the first of this King's reign, was after the death of the said William made Treasurer of England and so died in honour. Thirdly for that I cannot see how he might be Treasurer in any year since the death of the said William until the ninth year of Henry the fourth. And lastly, for that I cannot in any record or other author find any other man mentioned to supply that place in this year, for which causes I have attempted to bestow him here, and that rightly for any thing that I can yet learn.  
Sir john Tiptoft, or Tiptote Knight did possess the place and office of Lord Treasurer of England in Michaelmas term in the tenth year of Henry the fourth, being in An. Do. 1408.  
Henry Lord Scroop of Masham and of Flaxfleet was made Lord Treasurer of England in 11. year of Henry the fourth, being in An. Dom. 1410. as hath Walsingham, in which office he continued until the death of Henry the fourth, which happened in the fourteenth year of the said King, and in Anno Domino 1412. after the account of England, but 1413. after the account of such as do begin the year in january. He rebelled against King Henry the fift, and was beheaded at Southampton in the third year of Henry the fifth being in An. Dom. 1415. the last of july. Of which Henry so conspiring against Henry the fifth. I find these verses in a written book of parchment, entitled Extractum breve de cronica Thomae Helmham Prioris Lenton de tempore regis Henrici Quinti. In which verses by the capital letters, are set down the names of the principal conspirators, and the year of our Lord, wherein the same was done, being 1413. The greater Roman capital letters in the third verse serving for the yerae of Christ, and for the name Zore, derived of this word Cor in the 4. verse, and the English capital letters only serving for the names of the persons in this sort couched together for common capacity.  
Mox rex navigium parat ut mare transeat armis  
Scrop furit Henricus proditione fremens.  
SCrVtans Conspirat RIMatVr OlenCla Plebi  
Rump jugo COR Avens Res Dabit Vltra Sonum  
EIA Ruit Gens Avita Malis Opus Host Triumphant  
Vota voluntatis sic sacre Christ tuae  
Versibus his quinque praetactis Traditionem  
Lector scire potes, hinc repetendo stude  
High tres Richardus Zorc, Henry Scrupque Thomas Grace  
In regem surgunt proditione pares  
Munere Francorum corrupti terga dedere  
justo munus habet, vindice quisque suum.  
Thomas Fitzallen Earl of Arundel and Surrey, was advanced to the office of the Lord Treasurership of England in An. Do. 1413. being the 1. year of the reign of the most victorious Prince King Henry the fifth, in which office it seemeth that he continued the 1, 2, and 3. of Henry the fifth. He in the year 140●. being the seventh year of Henry the fourth, on the next day of the feast of Saint Katherine, married Beatrice the natural daughter of the King of Portugal, by whom he had no Issue, but left his sisters his heirs and died in An. Dom. 1416. being in the third year of Henry the fift, and was buried in the College at Arundel.  
Sir Roger Leche, whom some call but not rightly as I suppose; Sir Philip Lech, being brother unto the said Sir Roger, was Treasurer of England in Michaelmas and Easter term in the fourth year of Henry the fift, being An. Dom. 1416. He was at the siege of Rone with this King Henry, in the sixth year of his reign, being also Treasurer for the wars in that voyage.  
Henry Lord Fitzhugh, was advanced to the office of the Lord Treasurership of England in the fift year of Henry the fift, being in An. Dom. 1417. in which office he continued as I gather until the death of the said King Henry the fift which happened in August in An. Dom. 1422  
john Stafford Clerk was made Lord Treasurer of England in the first year of King Henry the sixth being in An. Dom. 1422. in which office he continued in Michaelmas term in the fourth year of Henry the sixth falling in An. Dom. 1425. he was chosen Bishop of Bath in the third year of Henry the sixth in An. Dom. 1424. he was chancellor of England, and removed to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, of whom is mention made in my discourse of the Chancellers of England, and touching whom I will for this time only set down here, what Matthew Paris writeth of him, in the life of Henry Chichely an Archbishop of Canterbury, Archiepiscopus (saith he) in An. Dom. 1424. Cantuariensis 12. Octob. clerum in ecclesia Paulina convocavit, in ea Henricus Beauford Winton episcopus regni Cancellarius, & johannes Stafford Bathoniensis electus episcopus regni thesaurarius, ad bellum Gallicum opem a clero petivit, & interposita paucorum dierum deliberatione. Wilhelmus Linwood officialis curiae Cantuariensis de arcubus hoc responsum ab inferiori clero Synodo acceptum episcopis declaravit, non posse penes cleri procuratores potestatem subsidium concedendi. Nam cum in dicta Synodo in singulis diocaesibus constituti essent, clerus de solutionibus consentiendi licentiam expresse ademit, quia tantis tributis diu pendendis ad magnam inopiam & egestatem devenit. Itaque Cancellarius a superiori Synodo ad inferiorem transiens, longa & diserta oratione, ac regis jam minoris necessitate, ac de instanti in Gallia bello egit, ac ne quicquam suasit.  
Walter Lord Hungerford Knight of the garter the son of Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight was made Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1425. in which office he continued about six years, until some part of Michaelmas term in the tenth of Henry the sixth, falling in An. Dom. 1431. He was also one of the Counsel to the said King, of whom is Mention made by Matthew Parker in the life of Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury, in these words. Proximo anno (which was about An. Dom. 1425) synodus sub eodem archiepiscopo 15. Aprilis inchoata est, Qua johanne Kempo Eboracensi archiepiscopo & Waltero Hungerfordo Milite Regijs consiliarijs (ille cancellario hoc thesaurario regni) regis nomine postulantibus regi decimam concessit. Ac eisdem his petentibus triennio post in recenti Synodo media decima regi a clero data est. This Lord Treasurer married Katherine the daughter and heir of Thomas Peverell Knight, by whom he had issue Walter Lord Hungerford of Hatchberry Knight of the garter, that died without issue; Sir Robert Lord Hungerford of Hatchberry, Edmund Hungerford Knight, that died without issue, Margaret married to Sir Walter Rodney Knight, and Elizabeth married to Philip Courtney Knight, which Robert Lord Hungerford and Margaret his wife, john Cheiney of Pim Esquire, john Mervin Esquire, and others did (by the King's licence granted unto them in the 11. year of King Edward the fourth) build the hospital of Hatchberry in Wiltshire.  
john Lord Scroop of Vpsall and Masham made Lord Treasurer in the tenth year of Henry the sixth being in An. Dom. 1431. in which office he continued until some part of the 12. year of the said King, as I for this time do gather. Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury, touching a Synod holden in An. Dom. 1430. at what time of the Clergy he saith, that johannes Stafford episcopus Bathoniensis Cancellarius, etc. D. Scroop Thesaurarius regni nec non Wilhelmus Lindwood custos privati sigilli, pro rege subsidium postularunt, & mediam decimam tandem aegre impetrarunt.  
Ralph Lord Cromwell the son of Ralph Cromwell Lord of Tatershall, possessed the place of Lord Treasurer of England in Easter term of the 12. year of the after deposed King Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1434. and so continued in that office about ten years following as I suppose in An. Do. 1444. This man being knight was created Lord Cromwell, by the said Henry the sixth, and was lineally descended of one of the heirs of Robert Lord Tatershall that married one of the daughters and heirs of William Dalbeny Earl of Arundel. This Ralph Lord Treasurer died without issue, and made his Testament in An. Dom. 1454. being in the 33. year of Henry the sixth, after whose decease the Inheritance came to the Three Aunts, being his heirs, whereof the first was married to the Lord Bardoffe stain at Branch ammore in Northumberland, the second was married to Sir William Fitz-Williams Knight of the Sepulchre: the third Elizabeth to Sir john Cliston Knight, and after his death to Sir Edmund Benested Knight, of one Lord Cromwell I find this note set down by Leland. Dominus Radulphus▪ Cromwell & Matilda uxor ejus fundatores Collegij sanctae Trinitatis de Tatershall, quumque Roberti ordine domini erant de Tatershall, hos secutus est Radulphus Comwell.  
Sir Ralphe Butler Knight of the garter, Lord Sudley descended from john Lord Sudley, and William Butler Baron of Wem, which married joane daughter and heir to john Sudley Baron Sudley, did possess the honourable place of the Lord Treasurership of England, the seventh of july in the 22. year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1444. which office he kept about three years, for in 25. of the said King, was the Bishop of Carlisle Lord Treasurer. This Ralph Lord Sudley builded the Castle of Sudley, in the time of King Henry the sixth, and of Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the King, first sending for him to come to his presence. Whereupon he going to the King, and resting on an hill, from whence he did behold Sudley Castle said. It is thou, it is thou, Sudley Castle, and not I which am the traitor: After which coming to the King, he resigned the said Sudley Castle into his hands. Which Castle came after to jasper Duke of Bedford, & is now 1635. in the possession of Giles Bridges Lord Shandois. This Ralph being made Baron in the 20. year of Henry the sixth married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir john Northberry by whom he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leaving his Two Sisters to be his heirs, whereof the Eldest daughter was married to Sir john Northberry, whose heir general was married to John Halwell of Devonshire, who had issue joane his daughter and heir married to Edmund Lord Bray, of whose heirs general are descended, the Lord Cobham, Lord Chandos, Sir Edmund Verney, Knight Martial, Sir percival Hart of Kent, The other Sister married to Sir Hamond Bellknap, of whom is descended the Lord Wootton of Bocton Maleherbe in Kent. The which Ralph Lord Butler of Sudley was vexilifer, and high butler of England, and steward in house to Henry the sixth.  
Marmaduke Bishop of Carlisle, was made Lord Treasurer of England in the 25. year of Henry the sixth, in which office he continued, about two years in the 27. year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1448. (or as some have) 1449.  
james Fynes created at Bury Baron and of Say, of Seal, on the 3. of March, in the 25. year of King Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1446. was Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord Treasurer of England in the 28. year of Henry the sixth, and was from thence removed, (as some have) in An. 29. of the said King: And was by the Rebels of Kent jacke Cade and his fellows, taken of out the Tower to the Guildhall, where he was arraigned before the Major and other the King's justices, who desiring to be tried by his Peers, was by the Rebels forceably taken from the Officers, and beheaded at the standard in Cheap. Which his beheading some do attribute to the 28. year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1450. He had issue Sir William Fines Knight, and one daughter married to Sir William Cromer Knight, Sheriff of Kent, beheaded at that time also with his father in law. Of which Cromer, Sir james Cromer of Kent, Knight descended.  
john Lord Beuchamp a person of great worthiness possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 29. and 30. year of Henry the sixth.  
john Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 31. and 32 year of Henry the sixth: Of whom is more mention made hereafter.  
james Butler the son of james Earl of Ormond being Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, possessed the office of the Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. of Henry the sixth, falling in An. Dom. 1455.  
Henry Viscount Bourchier, borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the son of William Bourchier Earl of Ewe in Normandy, was Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. year of Henry the sixth, in which office he did not long remain.  
john Talbot Earl of Sherwsbury the son of john Talbot the first Earl of Shrewesbury of that name, possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 35. and 36. year of Henry the sixth, and then gave place to the Earl of Wiltshire. This Earl was slain at the battle of Northampton, in the 38. year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1460. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of james Butler Earl of Ormond, and had issue john Earl of Shrewesbury, james Gilbert, Christopher, and George, Anne married to Sir Henry Vernon, and Margaret, This man was buried in the Priory of Worksop.  
james Butler, son to james the fourth of that name, Earl of Ormond, was the second time made Lord Treasurer of England, about the 37. year of Henry the sixth, in which office he continued (as I suppose) in the 38. year of the said King, In which year he conveyed himself out of England into Duchland, (for fear of the Nobility, as the Duke of York and others, that rebelled against the King) sending back his soldiers into England, which he had before assembled upon the Sea, but after he returned into England, and was again put to flight at Mortimer's Cross, by Edward Earl of March, after King, by the name of King Edward the fourth. He was made Earl of Ormond in the 39 of Henry the sixth, being his last year. He married Elinor, the daughter of Edmund Duke of Somerset, & diep without issue, being beheaded at Newcastle in An. Do. 1461. in the first year of Edward the fourth.  
Henry Viscount Bourchier, was Lord Treasurer of England the second time, in the 39 year of Henry the sixth, being in An. Dom. 1460. who upon the deposition of the said King, by Edward the fourth, was also removed from the said office.  
Thrmas Bourchier, made Lord Treasurer of England in the first year of Edward the fourth, in An-Dom. 1461. continued not long in that office, but gave place to john Earl of Worcester.  
john Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, the second time possessed the place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the second and third year of Edward the fourth.  
Edmund Lord Grey of Ruthine, the son of john Lord Grey of Ruthine, did enjoy the office of Lord Treasurership of England, in the fourth year of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1464. This man secretly in heart forsaking the part of King Henry the sixth, for injuries received at his hands aided the said Edward the fourth, and was the chief means whereby he attained the Crown, in Michaelmas Term in the said fourth year of this King, there was a Sergeants feast held in Holborn in the Bishop of Ely his House, to which the Mayor and Aldermen repaired being bidden thither. But when the Major looked to have kept the state in the Hall, forgetting that he was out of his own liberties (for the Bishop's place was an exempt place) as it had been used (saith john Stow) in all places of the City, and liberties of the same, out of the King's presence, the Lord Grey of Ruthine then Treasurer of England, unknown to the Sergeants, and against their wills (as they said) was placed in the highest room, whereupon the Major Aldermen and Commons departed. This Edmund doth Matthew Parker, in the life of Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury, make to be Treasurer in the Third year of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1463. which may well enough stand with the former, being Treasurer to john Earl of Worcester in the 3. year of the King. For upon removing of the said Earl in the 3. year of Edward the 4. came this Lord Grey in place. The words of which said Matthew Parker (with a note of An. Do. 1463. in the margin) are in this order: Edwardus Rex duobus jam annis faeliciter gesto regno, parliamentum. West monasterij tenuit, quo etiam tempore, Archiepiscopus (which was Thomas Bourchier, the brother of Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex) & Clerus in synodo convenerunt. In hac synodo Iohannes Comes Wigorniae, Henricus Comes Essexiae, & D. Edmundus Grey Thesaurarius Angliae, D. Humfridus Cromwell, D. Wenlocke, D. johannes Prior sancti johannis & Robertus Stillington Legum doctor, custos privati sigilli regis consiliarij, allatis literis regijs petierunt a clero decerni regi ad Scotos repellendos subsidium. Quod quidem gratissimis omnium animis tam munifico regi concessum est, qui superiori anno ecclesiae immunitates atque jura iniquis judiciorum calumnijs (uti in johanne Stafford antea diximus) convulsa & labefactata diplomate regio restauravit. Besides which thus writeth john Whethamstead, that learned Abbot of Saint Albon of this Lord Grey, declaring in what authority he was at first, in the days of Henry the sixth, and then in the reign of Edward the fourth, His words be these. In the 36. year of Henry the sixth, Venerunt tres viri monachi de caenobio Cluniacensi, quibus ad audiendum eorum nuntium, missi sunt episcopus Dunelmensis, custos privati sigilli, Dominus Edmondus Grey de Ruthine, & Secretarius regis, quibus isti viri dixerunt, eorum adventum esse ob tria. Primo ad aperiendum quomodo reges Angliae, & praecipue Henricus secundus fuerunt tam magni benefactores ad eorum ecclesiam ut potius pro nunc dicatur earum patronus & praecipuus fundator. Secundo venerunt ad petendum possessionem & confirmationem bonorum illorum quae dicti progenitores eis contulerant, & per tempus non paucum jamdudum a manibus eorum detenta & distracta erant. Tertio ad impetrandum liberam licentiam ad ingrediendum singula loca religiosa ob eorum caenobio dependentia, & quae per nobiles progenitores reges posita fuerunt sub eorum regimime. Sed nihil hic eis gratum fuit actum, itu at tristes discederunt. Out of which words of Whethamsted, may other things be gathered, besides the doings of the Lord Grey, as that the Kings of England, and specially Henry the second, have been great benefactors and founders of the Charterhouse Monks, with many more matters contained in the same, which I refer to the wise & learned reader, which made me the willinger to set down his words so largely; Moreover the same Whethamsted, continuing the History of Henry the sixth, writeth of the battle of Northampton, wherein was this Lord Grace, in this sort. In praelio Northamptonensi Edmundus Grey, dominus Ruthine, corpore licet praesens (even as the Lord Stanley was in the battle fought betwixt Richard the third, and Henry Earl of Richmond, after King, by the name of Henry the seventh) in campi domini regis Henrici Sexti steterat, cor tamen ejus non erat rectum in eo, neque omnino fidelis habitus aut inventus fuit. Nam venientibus turmis dictis ad fossam circumvallationis & ipsam non multum prompte propter elevationem ver ticis in parte ulteriore ascendere valentibus, occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obvians, porrigendoque ipsis dextran, traxit eos per manus in campum Martium, juxta votum suum. Thus much Whethamsted of Edmond Grey Lord Ruthine, who was made Earl of Kent, in the fifth year of Edward the fourth, in An. Dom. 1464.  
This Edmond Grey being Lord Hastings, Weisford, and Ruthine, (before he had the honour of this Earldom) did by his Deed of Indenture dated the eighteenth of November in the 25. year of Henry the sixth in An. Do. 1446. give to john Pinchbecke Prior of Duffefield in Northamptonshire in Alms, during the life of the said Prior, his Field called Challocke, to keep the obits of Sir john Grey, father to the said Sir Edmond, and of Dame Constance the widow of the Earl Martial, and daughter of john Holland Duke of Excester and Earl of Huntingdon, mother to the said Sir Edmund with mass, etc. as such other Collects, as the said Edmond should deliver unto the said Prior.  
Sir Walter Blunt Knight, who was the first Lord Montjoy, possessed the place of Lord Treasurership of England, in the fifth year of Edward the fourth, which fell in Anno Dom. 1465. Of this man is mention made in the Book of the Law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth; He married the daughter of Sir john Byron, and had issue William, john, and james.  
Sir Richard Woodvile Knight Chamberlain to the King, and Constable of England, was made Baron on the ninth of May in the second year of Henry the sixth, in An. Dom. 1424. and was after created Earl of Rivers in the fift year of Edward the fourth, in An. Dom. 1465. who thus advanced, was after Lord Treasurer in the 6. 7. and 8. of Edward the fourth. In which 8. year of Edward the fourth, Thomas Cook, late Major of London was accused of Treason, and arraigned for the same, who after he had been many times purged theref, was yet at last found guilty, and by this Lord Rivers, than Lord Treasurer so handled, as that he could not be delivered, until he had paid 8000. pound to the king, and 800. pound to the Queen. This Lord Treasurer married jaquet, the widow of john Duke of Bedford, daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh Earl of Saint Paul, by whom he had issue, Richard Earl Rivers, Anthony Lord Scales in the right of his wife, Edward Woodvile Knight slain at the battle of Saint Albine in Britain in ●he third year of Henry the seventh, Lionel Bishop of Salisbury, Margaret married to Thomas Earl of Arundale, Margaret married to William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, Anna first married to William Bourchier Earl of Essex, and after to George Grace Earl of Kent, jaquet married to john Lord Strange, Elizabeth married to Sir john Greie younger son to the Lord Greie of Ruthine, and after the death of the said Sir john Greie, to King Edward the fourth, and Katherine married to Henry Duke of Buckingham; Besides all which I have read of one john, which was son to this Earl Rivers, which john married the old Duchess of Norfolk, and was beheaded with his father, the truth whereof I leave to further trial. This Richard Earl Rivers Lord Treasurer in the ninth year of Edward the fourth, in An. Dom. 1469. was by Robert Hiltard, who named himself Robert of Kidesdale, taken in the forest of Deane, (as some have) others say at Grafton, and from thence brought to Northhampton and there was beheaded.  
john Longstrother Prior of Saint john's jerusalem in England, possessed the place of Lord Treasurer of the Realm in the ninth year of Edward the fourth, in Anno Dom. 1469. for in the same year he gave place to the Bishop of Elie.  
William Grey, Bishop of Elie was after the translation of Thomas Bourchier from Elie to Canterbury advanced to that See, by Nicholas the fifth, then Bishop of Rome, who gave it to the said Bishop, being then procurator too for King Henry the 6. at Rome in the year of our redemption, 1454. This man was Lord Treasurer in the ninth year of Edward the fourth, in An. Dom. 1469. in which office he continued until the 11. year of Edward the fourth, or thereabouts. This Greie was borne of the noble house of the Lord Greyes of Codnor, as saith Bale, and traveled into Italy to attain great learning, where he heard the noble Clerk Guarinus Veronensis read in Ferraria. He continued Bishop of Elie 24. years 11. Months and two days, departing this life at Durham the fourth of August in An. Dom. 1478. as I have read, and was buried at Elie, between two Marble pillars, having bestowed great sums of money upon the reparations of that famous Belfry of the Church of Elie, and upon other ornaments of the same Church.  
Henry Bourchier Earl of Essxe, did the third time possess the honourable place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the 11. year of Edward the fourth, in which office he continued (as I gather) 12. years, being all the residue of the life of Edward the fourth, who departed this world, about the ninth day of April in An. Dom. 1483. which Bourchier being made Earl of Essex in the first year of Edward the fourth, in An. Dom. 1461. married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard de Conisburge Earl of Cambridge, the sister of Richard Duke of York, by whom he had issue William Lord Bourchier, Thomas, john, Henry, and Humphrey, Knights.  
Sir Richard Wood Knight, whom some call Sir john Wood, being before under Treasurer in the 23. year of Edward the fourth, was in the same year made Knight about a Month before the death of the said King Edward the fourth. This man did possess the place of the Lord Treasurer of England, (as I gather out of the record of Pellis exitus, of that year) in the second year of the Reign of King Richard the third, being the year of our redemption 1484. which office I suppose, that he kept until the said Richard the third was slain, by Henry Earl of Richmond, afterward King of England, by the name of Henry the Seventh.  
Sir Reignold Brey Knight, the son of Richard Brey Physician (as some have noted to King Henry the sixth) being servant to Margaret Countess of Richmond mother to Henry the seventh, was for the fidelity of his Lady, and good service in furthering King Henry the 7. to the Crown received into great favour with the said King, and made Lord Treasurer of England, as appeareth by the record of Pellis exitus, made under his name in the first year of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1485. besides which Office, he had many other offices and honours, part whereof were that he was Treasurer of the King's wars, that he was one of the executors to King Henry the seventh, that he was made Knight of the Bath, at the Coronation of the King, and created a Banneret at Black-heath field. He died in the 18. year of the prudent Prince. King Henry the seventh, being in An. Dom. 1503. and was honourably buried at Windsor.  
Sir john Dinham Knight, the son of Sir Dinham Knight, a faithful servant to the house of York, aswell in aiding the Duke of York, to whom Edward the fourth, son to the said Duke of York, in the second year of his reign, had given one Annuity of 30. pound per Annum; did after the death of the said Edward the fourth in the second year of Henry the seventh possess the place of Lord Treasurer of England in An. Dom. 1486. and so continued until in An. 16. Henry the seventh, and then gave place to Thomas Earl of Surrey. Of which Lord Dinham thus writeth, Leland. Dominus Dinham primus fuit fundator sancti Nicholas alias Hortland, He was created Lord Dinham in the first year of Edward the 4. shortly after the Coronation of the said King in An. Dom. 1461. He died in Anno 16. of the same King Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. and the 30. day of january was brought to the Grey Friars in London, and there buried. He married Elizabeth daughter of the Lord Fitzwater, by whom he had issue George and Philip, and Sir Thomas Dinham his base son that married one of the daughters and heirs of Sir john Ormond: Which Thomas was buried at Ashring, Three miles from Berkhamsted, besides which children, this Lord Dinham or Denham (for so I find both written in Chronicles) had by his legitimate wife diverse daughters, which were Margaret married to Nicholas Baron of Carew joane married to the Lord Zouch, Elizabeth married to the Lord Fitz Warren, and Katherine married to Sir Thomas Arundel of Cornwall Knight.  
Here I think it not amiss to say somewhat of a note which I have seen, that maketh john Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England, which note is this. john Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England died the 26. day of December in An. Do. 1490. falling in the sixth year of Henry the seventh, and had issue james Lord Audley, beheaded the 28. of june in An. Dom. 1497. being the 12. year of Henry the seventh.  
Thomas Howard the son of john Lord Howard created the first Duke of Norfolk of that name (in the time of Richard the Third) was at the same time also created Earl of Surrey. This man after the slaughter of his father at Bosworth field, when the Tyrant Richard the third was slain by Henry the seventh, was after received into such favour with the said King Henry the seventh, that he was advanced to be Lord Treasurer of England in the 16. year of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. Which place he continued all the life of the said King Henry the seventh, who died in the 24. year of his reign, being in An. Do. 1509. After which for the good service he used in the time of King Henry the seventh, King Henry the 8. permitted him to keep that Office, which he possessed until the 15. year of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. This man was created Duke of Norfolk on Candlemas day in the fift year of Henry the 8. being in An. Dom. 1513. at what time also his son Thomas Howard was made Earl of Surrey. This Duke was advanced to that honour, in recompense of the death of the King of Scots, and for the good service that he did against that Nation in the said 5. year of Henry the 8. with an augmentation of his arms: the Arms of Scotland, in medio benda Armorum proprij Nominis of Howard. Touching which victory of the death of the King of Scots. Buchanan, Lib. 13. writeth to this effect. That the said Thomas Howard (as a note of the conquest) gave to his servants (to wear on their left arm) being a white Lion (the beast which he bear before as the proper Ensign of that house) standing over a Red Lion, the peculiar note of the Kingdom of Scotland) and tearing the same Red Lion with his paws. This Tho. Duke of Norfolk married two wives, his first wife was Elizabeth the daughter of Frederick Tilney Knight, by whom he had issue Thomas Earl of Surrey, after Duke of Norfolk, Edward slain at Breast Admiral of England and Edmond Howard, with Elizabeth married to Thomas Bulline Earl of Wiltshire, and Muriell married to john Grey Lord Lisle: His second wife was Agnes daughter of Philip Tilney Knight, by whom he had issue William Lord Howard of Effingham with many others. This Thomas Duke of Norfolk died in the 16. year of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1544. and was buried at Thetford in Norfolk.  
Thomas Howard, son to the said Thomas Duke of Norfolk, being Earl of Surrey possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 15. year of Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. the which office he continued in the 38. year of the said King, in An. Dom. 1546. in the which year on the 28. of january, the said King Henry died, so that this Duke and his father were Lord Treasurers of England almost 48. years: But about some few days more than a Month before the death of the said King, that is to say, on the 12. day of December, this Duke with his son Henry Earl of Surrey were committed to the Tower, the one by water, the other by land. Shortly after which, the said Henry was beheaded at Tower-hill the 19 day of january, about 9 days before the death of the King. And the Duke remained as condemned to perpetual prison, till the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary, who then set him at liberty: He married for his first wife Anne the daughter of King Edward the fourth, but had Thomas that died young after, he married Elizabeth daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham, by whom he had issue Henry Earl of Surrey beheaded as before, Thomas Viscount Bindon and Mary married to Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond, He died about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary.  
Edward Seymer Earl of Hartford was after the death of King Henry the 8. made Lord Treasurer of England, in the first year of King Edward the sixth, in An. Dom. 1546. in which year he was also made protector of England and Duke of Somerset, of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker, calling him Regni Camerarium, in the life of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury in these words, pag. 397. In testamento (meaning King Henry the 8.) Edwardo Principi minori novem annis nato haeredi suo Sexdecem tutores, ex Episcopis solos Thomam Cranmerum Cantuariensem archiepiscopum & Cuthbertum Tonstallum Dunelmensem Episcopum dedit. And a little after, pag. 398. followeth, Verum pluribus (ut diximus (ei minori) (that was King Edward) a patre constitutis curatoribus, ne numero suo, atque multitudine ad dissentiones faciles essent & proclives, unus electus est, qui ex consilijs reliquorum impuberis regis tutelam solus administraret: Is futit Edwardus Seimerus Comes Herefordiensis totius regni Camerarius regisque Auunculus. Qui suscepta tutela regis, totius regni atque dominiorum suorum proctteor & Somerseti Dux nuncupatus atque creatus est. This Duke of Somerset being Treasurer of England continued in the same office (until his death which was) more than 4. years, and was beheaded in the fift year of Edward the sixth, in An. Dom. 1551.  
Sir William Paulet Knight marquis of Winchester, was made Lord Treasurer, upon the death of the Duke of Somerset, in the fift year of Edward the sixth in An. Dom. 1551. Which office he kept by the space of Twenty years and more, a longer time than ever any other Treasurer had done before, except the two last Dukes of Norfolk. This man being a man of extreme age, (as attaining to the years Ninety Seven) died Lord Treasurer of England, the tenth of March, in An. Dom. 1571. (being the 14. year of the Reign of the famous Queen Elizabeth) at his Manor of Basin. He in his life time did see the Children of his children's Children grown to the number of One Hundred and Three; a rare blessing of God to men of his calling. He married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Capell Knight, by whom he had issue, john marquis of Winchester, Thomas, Chidiocke, and Giles, Alice married to Richard Stowell, Margaret married to Sir William Berkeley, Margery married to Richard Waller, and Eleanor married to Sir Richard Perckshall.  
Sir William Cecil Knight, principal Secretary of State, created Lord Burghley, upon the death of the marquis of Winchester was made Lord Treasurer of England the 13. july 1572. being in the 14. year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and continued in that office during his life, being also (elected unto that most noble Order of the Garter. Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and a Commissioner for the Office of Earl Martial of of England.  
Thomas Sackvill Barron Buckhurst, heir Male of that ancient Family that have flourished in a continued series from the Conquest, and coming over out of Normandy, deserved Nobly in that action was made Lord Treasurer the 15. of May in the 41. year of Queen Elizabeth, and continued in that office during his life: He was after by King james Created Earl of Dorcet the 13. of March 1603. being Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford.  
Sir Robert Cecil second son to William Lord Burghley, being Principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and after to King james, was by the said king created Baron Cecil of Essendon the 13. of May 1603. viscount Cranborne the 20. of August 1604. and Earl of Salisbury the 4. of May in the sixth year of King james, and upon the death of the Earl of Dorcet he was made Lord Treasurer of England, and continued in the place till his death.  
Thomas Lord Howard of Walden (second son to Thomos Howard Duke of Norfolk) created Earl of Suffolk by King james, being then Lord Chamberlain and Knight of the Garter, was made Lord Treasurer of England the 12. of july in the 12. year of the reign of King james.  
Sir Henry Montague Knight, Lord chief justice of the King's Bench, was made Lord Treasurer of England the 14. of December in the 18. year of King james, and the 19 day of the same month and year he was Created Baron of Kimolten Castle in , and Viscount Mandevile, and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles he was created Earl of Manchester.  
Lionel Lord Cranfield of Cranfield in the County of Bedford, so created by Letters Patents, bearing date the 9 of july 1621. was made Lord Treasurer the 19 of October following, and created Earl of Middlesex the 19 of October. 1622.  
Sir james Ley Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief justice of the King's Bench, was made Lord Treasurer of England the 22. of December in the 22. year of the reign of King james, and upon the 31. day of the same Month he was created Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire, and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles, he was created Earl of Marleburgh in Wiltsshire.  
Richard Lord Weston Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon the remove of the Earl of Marleburgh was made Lord Treasurer of England upon the 15. day of july in the 4. year of King Charles, and was after that created Earl of Portland in Dorcetshire, by Letters Patents, bearing date the 17. day of February in the eighth year of the reign of King Charles.  
Upon the death of the said Earl of Portland, his Majesty appointed Commissioners for the said office, viz. William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace; Henry Earl of Manchester, Lord Privy Seal; Francis Lord Cottington Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir john Cook, and Sir Francis Windebank Knights, Principal Secretaries of State.  
The right reverend Father in God William juxon, first Lord Bishop of Hereford, then translated to London and made deane of the King's Chapel, and called to be of the Privy Council, and was made Lord Treasurer of England, the Ninth day of March, 1635.  
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