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HOUGH time is daily carrying away many memorials of the paft, much is ftill preferved from oblivion by records, regifters, county hiftories, and traditions. Every town, every village, is able to furnifh fome account of its own ; and in tracing this out, links are found connecting one age with another : and whilft we follow the progrefs of that thought which led to the future advancement of knowledge, we feel a deeper rever- ence for the olden days. The hidden treafure fo frequently brought to light by the turning up of a fod is regarded as a valuable objedl of paft antiquity. The pride and ornament of our land are thefe facred edifices which the fkill L vi. ] and piety of man have endeavoured to decorate worthily for their holy purpofe. Our ftrong fortrefies, and pa- laces of other centuries, which have been raifed under toil and difficulties, ftill hold their own. Manfions and houfes of lefs pretention now fpring up, numerous -hurches are built, and reforms and reftorations of all kinds are going on ; but we cannot flatter ourfelves that every change is an improvement : we may even recede when trying to eftablifh new ideas. However this may be, the paft will always teach its own leflbn, and the labours of thofe who are turned to duft will ever be venerated. It is impoftible to bring together a work of the pre- fent defcription without re-treading the path of paft hif- tory, and ufing fome fafts that are already known ; but thefe, when united in an entire volume, form an indi- vidual record. Holdenby has much to tell us of the paft ; and al- though many interefting details of its antiquity, its rife and fall, have been brought to light, very much remains hidden. Future ages may reveal more, but up to the prefent time all that has been learnt about it has been compiled in the following pages. For the earlier account of the parifh much informa- mation has been derived from the county hiftoriss of [ vrii. ] Bridges and Baker ; the particulars of the Hatton family from " The Life and Times of Sir Chriftopher Hatton," by Sir Harris Nicholas ; and much that is connected with the periods of James and Charles from numerous other authors. The Documents relating to Holdenby, with the Re- prints of curious old Tradfcs, and the Extracts from State Papers, form in themfelves a valuable collection of materials. It is to be regretted that there are not more of thefe, and that the laft entry from the Record Office referring to the place is not later than towards the dole of the year 1666. Amongft the moll; interefting of the illuftrations.may be mentioned the reduction from the original plan of Holdenby Houfe, as drawn by its architect John Thorpe, and now p refer ved in the Soane Mufeum. The plan of the Gate-Houfe or Porter's Lodge, is on the back of the original large plan which is in fepia. The extreme length of the Palace from eaft to weft was three hundred and fifty four feet, having twenty-three large windows on the ground floor, looking to the fouth ; and the breadth of the houfe was two hundred and twenty five feet. The fcreen, now in the Church, appears on the plan between the Chapel and the Hall, and the pyramidal pillars mentioned by Sir Juftinian Ifham in his journal, and fliewn in Buck's view, appear alfo in the middle of the Hall. The external walls of that portion of the Palace which remains at the prefent day are indicated in the reduced plan ; they comprifed the greater part of the north fide of the fecond quadrangle. John Thorpe, the " Devifer of His Majefty's Build- ings " in 1544, died at the noble mansion of Longleat, in Wiltfhire, in 1607. The medallion portraits of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria are from silver gilt heads in the pofleffion of the Lady Charlotte Granville, The armorial bearings are interefting, as very few of them now remain ; thefe are from the original trickings by Belcher, whofe draw- ings are preferved in the Bodleian. . There are only three incifed flabs with figures upon them in North- amptonfhire, of which the memorial to William Holdenby is one. The autographs are facfi miles from thofe of fome of the eminent perfons who have from time to time vifited this royal place, or been connected with it. The ruins [ ] of the Palace at Holdenby were a favourite fubjed for back grounds of pictures by Wootton, as may be feen in thofe at Althorp, Blenheim, and Devonshire Houfe, which were painted by him. A view of the fame building, by Sir JamesThornhill, was in the pofleflion of King James II., but it is not known in whofe collec- tion it is now preferved. EMILY SOPHIA HARTS HORNE. Pinner, December, 1867. JSPlujmationg DRAWN BY ALBERT HARTSHORNE. ORDER and Infcription in Holdenby Church ji Frontispiece. Antiquities found at Holdenby . . Page 6 Antiquities found at Holdenby Plan of Holdenby Houfe .... General Plan of House and Grounds at Holdenby Medallion Portrait of Charles I. . Medallion Portrait of Henrietta Maria Arches at Holdenby Holdenby Houfe .... Holdenby Reflory Holdenby Church, within a border Screen in Holdenby Church Arms from Belchier's Colleffion Banners from Belcher's Colleftion Incifed Slab in Holdenby Church Facsimile of Plan of Gatehoufe Facsimiles of Autographs . 12 l l 2 4 26 42 44 54 59 60 66 v. . ix. cxxii. lOCtiefOl in the county of North- ampton, fubfequently fpelt Hald- enby, Haudenby, Holdenby, and more commonly pronounced Holm- by, is bounded on the north by Spratton, and feparated from that parifh by a branch of the river Nene, on the eaft by Church Brampton, on the fouth by Harlefton and Althorp Park, and on the weft by Eaft Haddon. In the eleventh century, at the time of Edward the Confeftbr, Aldnefbi was held freely by Si ward, with nine foc- men, when it was rated at twenty fhil- lings yearly. At the time of the Conqueror's Sur- vey, one Radulf held under the Earl of Mortain two hides and one virgate of land in Aldenfbi, the foe lying in Edone [ 2 ] (Eaft Hadden). There was land for eight ploughs and four ferfs and one villein, and nine focmen with two ploughs. There were three acres of meadow and three acres of wood. Then it was worth forty fhillings yearly In the reign of Henry II. there were certified to be three hides in Haldenby of the fee of the Earl of Liecefter. In 1296 Margery de Cowle held here and in Raflivensorpe one knight's fee of Roger St. Andrew, who held it of the Earl of Leicefter ; Ralph Neville a fourth part of one knight's fee, held of Elen de Zouche as of the honour of Winchefter ; Richard de Holdenby a fourth part of a knight's fee of Thomas de Arderne, who held it of Robert de Pinkeney of the faid honour of Winchefter ; and Peter de Wells four virgates of the heir of Robert de Keyne, who held them under the Earl of Leicefter. In the reign of Edward II. Wil- liam de Neville and William de Haldenby held one knight's fee here, and, two years after, William de Neville was lord of Holdenby. In 151 1, Joyce, the widow of John Holdenby, died feized of this manor, when Elizabeth Giles, fifter of William, father of the faid John Holdenby, was found to be the next heir.* She was fucceeded in her inheritance by John Hatton, her eldeft fon by her former hufband, Henry Hatton, Esq. William Hatton, fon of John, died pofleffed of the ma- nor in 1546, and was fucceeded by Francis, his fon, a minor, on whose decease it devolved on his brother, Sir Chriftopher Hatton. * The county hiftories by Bridges and Baker give full par- ticulars of the manorial hillory of the parifh. r 3 ] From the Hattons, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Holdenby pafled into the pofleflion of the Crown ; from thence by fale to Lewis Duras, Marquis of Blanquefort, in France, who was created Baron Duras of Holdenby in 1673, and on the death of his father-in-law in 1677, became Earl of Faverfham. He died in 1709, and was buried in the Savoy Church, London. Leaving no iflue, his reprefentatives fold Holdenby to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, from whom it de- fcended to his eldeft daughter, Henrietta, who married Francis Earl of Godolphin. The eftate palled in 1733 to her nephew, Charles Spencer, fifth Earl of Sunder- land, afterwards Duke of Marlborough, whose fon, George the third Duke, fold it to Henry Welbore Agar Ellis, Vifcount Clifden, Baron Dover, and Baron Men- dip, from whom the whole eftate defcends to Henrv George, the fourth and prefent Vifcount. By a furvey of the eftate made in 1587, it contained feventeen hundred and eighty-nine acres ; of which fix hundred and fix were laid out in the park, fcite of the marior-houfe, gardens, orchards, and paftures about it. In 1607-8 there were feventeen hundred and fixty-eight acres one rood and twenty-one poles, of which four hun- dred and ninety-nine acres twenty poles were included in the park, exclufive of the lawn meadow of a hundred and thirty-five acres; but by the modern meafurement the whole comprifes about one thoufand eight hundred and twenty acres. r 4 ] The following is a lift of the fields at Holdenby un- der the names they go by at the prefent time : — Coneybury Hill xiewitt s v^ioie Great Park Meadow flrp^t T awn v 1 1 U 1 V. 1 1 VV uuu jjunn s Lawn jDaics i^oun Lawn lvieaciow Lair Ram \jrreai .tsriTien s neiG Spinney yy i op lvieaciow Long „ jDOiiom PtnfrilH Plnfp jriinuiu. v^iuie vluVVo OUlllllCy TTif-fr o n rl Q^rrvrirl T.ot/c J/ 1T1L allU. OCLU11U. iitlVvN T.ittlp TTnmf- TTi^lrl TiOno* Clofpr Great Romp Field A/Ta r-Rr^rt'c A/T p» q rl OT.*.r 1V1 a. 1 11 o lVlC tl l j Jv IV 1 C4UU W TR c\ cfct\7 ■ DO Kgy » vvl LJ1 1 XJ 11 11 IV Two RnOi Dofp T-Tailpv W^nnrl AJ.0.11C V VV VjvJLi T-Tnm r»c J. J.U111 V_0 yy Barn Clofe Two Homes Meadow Great Green Pen Clofe Bobourn Hill Ram „ Thiftley Clofe Hobbs' Meadow Neather Ground Tarry's Clofe Great Meadow Jee's Clofe Humphrey's Clofe Mill Field Oliver Ground Home Clofe „ Meadow Hovel Meadow Ox Pafture Mud Home Ewe Ground Three Mill Meadows Hill „ Parfon's Meadows [ 5 ] rirlt, oecona, l nird, Eighteen Acres and Fourth Park Lay dole lop Oolu rit Aines ivitcnen Clole .Bottom Top Hadground lop M anions dole Bottom x>ottom vjarger riui Corn CJole Long Clole Parker „ Britten's Field Horfe „ Five Break Hills Little Thiflley Fox Covert Great „ Red Hill Sand Pit Hill Mount Clofe Ten Acres Middle „ Fourteen Acres Mill Hill Black Thorn Spinney Mud Home Spinney Plantation Pinfold Clofe Croft Spinney Haddon The foil is principally a dark loam, but towards the north is a tract of lighter colour and quality. More than three-fourths of the parifh is pafture and grazing land. The following plants grow at Holdenby : — River Horfetail, Wayfaring Tree, Stalked Speedwell, Upright Water Parfnip, Water Parfnip, Wood Fefcue, Hairy St. John's - wort, Downy - stalked Dog - rofe, Bushy Groundfel, Friar's Crown, Single-headed Thiftle, Rasp- berry, and a great many other wild plants which are lefs fcarce. t 6 1 The hiftory of the parifh is carried back a great many years, by the difcovery of late Roman or early Saxon re- mains in February, 1864. O n the 22nd of this month, fome men, who were employed in digging for ftone on the fide of a hill in Coneybury Hill field, came upon fome fragments of pottery, bones, a horfe-fhoe, and two bronze fibulas. Obtaining poffeffion of the articles, I put the pottery together as far as it was poffible, and fo far fuc- ceeded as to be able to form an idea of the ftiape and size of two or three of the veflels. Thefe urns are of very common clay and rude workmanfhip. The reft of the fragments were too fmall and too few to be put to- gether. The patterns on thefe differ {lightly from thofe on the more perfect fpecimens. On the 1 6th of March following, having permiffion to make a further examination of the hill, feveral cuts were made higher up than where the previous examination had been. In the courfe of nine or a dozen of thefe trenches fix diftindl fkeletons were found ; of thefe only one was in a perfect ftate. It appeared to be that of a warrior. He lay as if he had been doubled up, his knees nearly touching his chin. Upon his head was the umbo of a fhield much decayed ; this was probably once bright fteel. On removing the fkull, it appeared that the upper part had grown into the iron plate, as this was fomewhat difficult to remove from the head. It was curious to remark that thefe bodies thus difco- vered did not lie in the ufual direction of eaft and weft ; they fee m to have been buried regard lefs of pofition. [ 7 ] In all cafes the bones were not more than a foot below the furface, being very little deeper than the actual turf. There muft have been feveral perfons buried in this hill fide, if we may judge from the fact that bones have have been found in fo many fragments and in all direc- tions ; all thefe were carefully reburied. " Gather him to his grave again, And folemnly and foftly lay Beneath the verdure of the plain The warrior's fcattered bones away. The foul hath quickened every part- That remnant of a martial brow, Thofe ribs that held the mighty heart, That ftrong arm — ftrong no longer now." In this field, it is faid, human bones have been previoufly difcovered. As a proof of this ftatement, a thin piece of rufty iron, fuppofed to be a portion of a fpear, was given to me by a man who faid he had found it fome two or three years before by the fide of a fkeleton in an oppofite bank facing the fouth. " Then after length of time, the labouring fwains "Who turn the turfs of thofe unhappy plains, Shall rufty piles from the ploughed furrows take, And over empty helmets pafs the rake — Amazed at antique titles on the ftones, And mighty reliques of gigantic bones/' — Dryden. Coneybury Hill field ftands in an elevated pofition ; and not far from the foot of it, in another large field, [ 8 1 (Hill Ground), rifes a confiderable mound, with trees on the top of it. It appears to be artificial work. I never heard of anything having been found in this field beyond an old (heep bell, which was turned up in making a drain. A fword and battle-axe, ploughed up fome years ago, are preferved in the Old Palace. A piece of cryftal has alfo been found. A farthing of King Charles I. was difcovered in digging the foundations of the Rectory in 1854 ; and in forming the gardens a fpur of the period of the Civil Wars was turned up. A filver coin of Charles II. was found in the root of a tree, which was blown down near the Old Palace. The coin was proba- bly inferted at the time the tree was planted. Near the vicinity of the Palace a plated button, having the profile of Charles II. was dug up. Brass tokens, and tobacco pipes of various sizes, have been dug up in different parts of the parifti, but noneof the latter bear dates or letters. Two ftone hand mills for grinding ° j juft value thereof." His fubfequent higher Offices in the Queen's fervice, Camden fays, he owed to "the modeft fweetnefs of his manners/' In April, 1568, Hatton exchanged his hereditary ma- nors at Holdenby with the Queen for the abbey and lands at Sulby ; but on the fame day fhe granted him a leafe of the manor of Holdenby for forty years. The following July he was appointed Keeper of Eltham Park. In 1569 a farm in Pembrokefhire was granted to him, and he was one of the juftices of the Peace. The year following he obtained the reverfion of the office of Queen's Remembrancer in the Exchequer; and in 1 57 1 the Ship Inn, near Temple Bar, as well as lands in Yorkfhire and Dorfetfhire, were granted to him. Hatton was returned to Parliament for Higham Fer- rers in April, 1 57 1 . On New-year's day of 1572 he prefented to his royal miftrefs a jewel of gold adorned with rubies, pearls, and diamonds. From time to time he made fimilar offer- ings, and received in return gifts of filver gilt plate.* In the early part of the year grants were made to him of woods in Herefordfhire, a manor in Dorfetfhire, re- verfion of the houfe of the Monaftery of de Pratis in Leicefterfhire, and the Stewardfhip of the Manor of Wellingborough in Northamptonfhire. Although the * Though the largeft quantity of plate given even to the higheft perfonage never exceeded two hundred, and was feldom more than fifty ounces, Hatton always received four hundred ounces on thofe occaffions. [ II ] royal bounty flowed upon him fo continuoufly, Hatton was not knighted until 1577, when he received this ho- nour at Windfor Caftle. In May, 1572, Hatton was elefted a knight of the fhire for Northampton, and continued to reprefent that county until he became Lord Chancellor. In 1 575 the manor of Chapel Brampton was conferred upon him, and a fettlement of four hundred pounds a year for his life. The next year he received the gift of Corfe Caftle, and lands in various parts of England. Hatton was ap- pointed Vice-chamberlain of the Queen's Houfehold in November, 1577, and fworn a member of the Privy Council. He was alfo put in poffeffion of Ely Houfe, and obtained a formal grant from the Crown for it. In 1587 the Great Seal was delivered to Sir Chrifto- pher Hatton, when the Queen made and conftituted him Lord Chancellor of England. The following year the royal favour was again extended to him, and on the 23rd of May he was invefted with the infignia of the Order of the Garter at Greenwich. Though there was in all probability a houfe on a dif- ferent scite belonging to the early pofieflbrs of Holdenby, Sir Chriftopher Hatton built the Palace, a remnant of which now remains, He employed for his architect John Thorpe, alfo known as John of Pauda, one of the moft celebrated architects of his age, the builder of nearly all the grand English houfes of that period ; amongft which may be mentioned thofe of Burghley, Burley-on-the-Hill, Kirby, r " ] Rufhton, Lyveden, Audley End, Longleate, and feveral others. The original plans and elevations of the greater part of his works ftill exift, and are preferved in the Soane Muieum. The annexed drawings are reduced from them. The ftone gateways, which bear the date of 1583,* contain within a circle over the arch the achievement of Sir Chriftopher, with fourteen quarterings : — 1. Hatton ; 2. Barry of four (Ar. and G.) 5 three loz- enges in chief, and three in bafe (countercharged). Crif- pin ; 3. ( ) on a fefs, two ( ) between four fleurs-de-lis ( ) ; 4. Ar. a crofs flory between four martlets (G.) Golborne; 5. Ar. an eagle difplayed (S.) Brune or Bryn; 6. ( ) three piles ( ) ; 7. (Ar.) on a bend (S.) three covered cups (of the field). Rixton ; 8. (S.) a crofs engrailed (Erm.) Hallom ; 9. (O.) a saltire (S.) Hellelby; 10. (S.) a fefs humette (Ar.) a crefcent for difference. Bostock ; 11. Holdenby ; 1 2. (Ar.) three bendlets (S.) on a canton (of the 2nd) a tower triple towered (of the 1 st.) De la Carville ; 13. (Ar.) on a chief (G.) three fleurs-de-lis (O.) Wafhingley ; 14. (Erm.) on a fefs (Az.) three crofs crofflets (O.), (Mortimer of Grendon.f The Chancellor efteemed Holdenby Houfe "the laft and greateft monument of his youth." Camden fays, it is * The houfe was inhabited five years before this date, f Baker's Hiftory of Northamptonfhire. [ *3 ] Cf A faire patterne of ftately and magnificent building, maketh a faire glorious fhow." The magnificence of Hatton's Palace may in a meafure be imagined, fince it has become a proverb when fpeak- ing of anything very beautiful to fay, that it is " As bright as Holdenby." At the clofe of the fummer of 1579, Lord Burghley writes from Althorp to Secretary Walfingham as follows : " I pray you, Sir, with my hearty com- mendations, tell Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that Mr. Chan- cellor and I, in our way to Northampton, mean to furvey his houfe at Holdenby, and when we have done, to fill our bellies with his meat, and fleep alfo, as the proverb is, our bellies-full all Monday at night, and on Tuefday in the morning we will be at Northampton,*" Sir Chriftopher being abfent at this time, wrote a letter of welcome to his gueft at Holdenby. cc To Lord Burghley. My Singular Good Lord, I yield you as friendly and thankful a welcome as may be given you by any man or in any place in this world. I fear me that as your Lord- fhip fhall find my houfe unbuilt and very far from good order, fo through the newnefs you fhall find it dampifh and full of evil air ; whereof I pray God your health be not impeached. Before God, Sir, I take great comfort of your moft honourable courtefy to vifit your poor friend * Additional MSS. 1 5891, fo. iii. The Life and Times of Sir C. Hatton. — Nicholas. [ H ] in fo kind manner. I pray God I may deferve it by my true fervice towards you. I humbly befeech you, my honourable Lord, for your opinion to the Surveyor of fuch lacks and faults as ftiall appear to you in this rude building, for as the fame is done hitherto in dire 6i ob- fervation of your houfe and plot at TybalPs fo I ear- neftly pray your Lordfhip that by your good corredlions at this time it may prove as like to the fame as it hath ever been meant to be. I befeech you, Sir, ufe patience in your too rude entertainment, and think how much he doth honour and love you that would have wifhed it to have been much better and fit for fo honourable a per- fonage. Your Lordfhip will pardon my lack of prefence to attend on you, becaufe you know my leave cannot be gotten. God blefs you for ever, my good Lord, and a thoufand and ten thoufand times I humbly bid you fare- well. Mr. Secretary telleth me that he hath written the news unto you, and therefore I will no further trouble your good Lordfhip. Her moft excellent Majefty hath good health, God be praifed for it, and hath commanded me to write her moft gracious and loving commenda- tions unto you. Order is in part given to prepare againft Monfieur's coming. And thus, my honourable good Lord, I humbly bid you my dutiful farewell. — Greenwich, this 9th of Auguft, 1579. Your Lordfhip's moft bound, Chr. Hatton."* * Lanfdowne MS. 28. [ «5 1 Before leaving Holdenby Lord Burghley wrote to Hat- ton — "Sir, I may not pafs out of this good houfe with- out thanks on your behalf to God, and on mine to you, nor without memory of her Majefty, to whom it appear- eth this goodly perfect, though not perfected work is confecrated ; and all this I do in mind largely conceive, and in writing do mean but to touch, becaufe I am has- tened to Northampton, and I will referve matter to en- large at my return, to yourfelf. I came yesterday in the afternoon to your houfe with Sir Walter Mildmay, who came with very good will to vifit this houfe. I was met on the way with Mr. Colshill, and your good uncle Mr. Saunders, your coufin Mr. Tate, and others, and then with a great multitude of your gentlemen and fervants, all fhowing themfelves, as by your direction, glad of my coming. But approaching to the houfe, being led by a large, long, ftraight fair way, I found a great magnificence in the front or front pieces of the houfe, and fo every part anfwerable to other, to allure liking. I found no one thing of greater grace than your ftately afcent from your hall to your great chamber ; and your cham- bers anfwerable with largeness and lightfomenefs, that truly a Momus could find no fault. I vifited all your rooms, high and low, and only the contentation of mine eyes made me forget the infirmity of my legs. And where you were wont to fay it was a young Theobolds, truly Theobalds I like as my own ; but I confefs it is not fo good as a model to a work, lefs than a pattern, and no otherwife worthy in any comparifon than a foil. God C >6 ] fend us both long to enjoy Her, for whom we both meant to exceed our purfes in thefe. And fo I end with my prayer for her health, and thanks humbly for her Majef- ty's remembrance of me, her Weak Spirit.* From a monument of her Majefty's bountifulnefs to a thankful fervant, that is, from Holdenby, Queen Elizabeth's me- mory, by Sir Chriftopher Hatton, her iaithful fervant and counfellor. — ioth Auguft, 1579. — Yours most afluredly, W. BlXRGHLEY. Pojiscript. The abundant memorials of your houfe had almoft made me forget to thank you for your kind letter, which came to me in the midft of a fumptuous fupper."f In 1580 Hatton writes to Sir Thomas Heneage, . . " Since my coming to this town, two other of my poor fervants are fallen fick ; what their difeafe will prove is not yet difcerned, but the phyfician feareth the fmall pox. By this occafion I am determined to difperfe my little company, and to take my way to Sir Ed. BricknelPs to view my houfe of Kirby, which I yet never furveyed ; leaving my other fhrine, I mean Holdenby, ftill unfeen until that holy faintj may fit in it to whom is is dedi- cated. "|| Sir Thomas Heneage writes this difcription of Holden- by to Sir Chriftopher Hatton, which does not fall ftiort * Elizabeth's peculiar name for Burghley. t Additional MS. 15891, fo. 32. J The Queen. || Harleian MSS. [ >7 ] of the praife given by Lord Burghley fome five years before. "Sir, Being neither Momus nor Ariftippus, but a poor true friend of yours, having feen your fair houfe with great defire, I fend you word hereby with beft content- ment. For my own opinion Holdenby is altogether even the beft houfe that hath been built in this age ; and it more fhoweth the good judgment and honour of the builder than all the charge that hath been beftowed upon ftones by the greateft perfons and the beft purfes that hith been in my time. Shortly, if the praife of a houfe confists in the feat, beauty, and ufe, both within and without (howfoever it may be cavilled with), Holdenby ftiall hold the pre-eminence of all the modern houfes I have known or heard of in England. This is all I will fay of it, faving your outhoufes make me remember my noble old mafter the Earl of Arundel, that made his gar- ments moft beautiful and rich when the common fort leaft looked for it. There is nothing better pleafeth me than your park, which you difpraifed ; your green and bafe court, that you devifed ; and your garden, which is moft rare : but all the fteps of defcent muft be of ftone, which it lacketh. The honourable entertainment it hath pleafed you I ftiould receive here, with excefTive cheer (fit for the beft man of England), together with the dili- gent attendance of your good fervants, deferveth more than my thanks, but can receive no more but my love, and that have you as great an intereft in as any man alive, and withal my prayers to the Lord of all, that with God's [ '3 ] beft bleffings, her Majefty's beft favour, your friends' moft joy, and your own moft honour and comfort, you may be longeft owner of this earthly noble houfe, and after pof- fefs perpetually the moft happy habitation in heaven. — From your Holdenby, very late this 5th July, 1583.— Your own more and more bound unto you, T. Heneage."* He writes again of Holdenby on the 23rd of the month " As for your beft built houfe of Holdenby, which I par- ticularly affect, both for the partial love I bear the owner, whom I will ever honour and hold dear, but for the many juft caufes I find to like it, I will fay, as I think, that for a gentleman's dwelling of moft honour and eftimation, it is the beft and moft confiderate built houfe that yet mine eyes have ever feen, The Lord Jefus, whofe the earth is, and the fullnefs thereof, make you long to enjoy it with moft honour and comfort. f" The affection which Elizabeth evinced for Hatton is too well known to need comment. The appellation of u Lyddes" is fuppofed to be in allufion to his eyes : that of "Sheep" and "Mutton" is not fo eafily interpreted. In April, 1584, he appears to have taken offence at fomething at Court, and to have withdrawn himfelf to his houfe at Holdenby, where he remained in great forrow and perplexity many days, until at length the Queen was * Addional M.S. f Ibid. I '9 1 pleafed to take fome pity of his grief, and to fend for him.* In 1586 Hatton was ferioufly ill. He writes from Holdenby, where he had retired, to Lord Burghley in very bad fpirits " I am come to my poor houfe, full of a fever, with flitches, fpitting of blood, and other bad accidents. I muft commit myfelf to God and the phyfician for awhile ; and though your accefs hither be further off than before, yet, Sir, by reafon of my ficknefs, I cannot return ; whereof (becaufe fuch it feemed was her plea- fure) I moft humbly befeech you to excufe me, for in truth I am very evil. God blefs your good Lordfhip for ever. Hafte, from my poor houfe at Holdenby, the 2nd of September, 1586. — Your good Lordfhip's moft bound poor friend, Chr. Hatton.'* In June, 1589, the Chancellor was at Holdenby, at the wedding of his nephewj- and heir, Sir William New- port, alias Hatton, who married Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Judge Gawdy. He had purpofed remaining for ten or twelve days after the ceremony, when news of the murder of Francis II. recalled him to London. £ Hatton, who never loft his fkill in dancing, and not- withftanding the high and important pofition which he occupied, left his gown in a chair, saying, " Lie thou * Life and Times of Sir. C. Hatton. f Son of Dorothy, the Chancellor's filler, who married John Newport. % Hunter's Hift. of Hallamfhire. L *° J there, Chancellor," and danced the meafures at the fo- lemnity.* "Full oft within the fpacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper led the brawls, The Seals and Maces danced before him." The love of dancing ftill exifts at Holdenby, though the €i Brawls" are now unknown there ; but at then- yearly feafts the villagers dance the tc Cufhion Dance, 5 ' which is of fome antiquity, and was danced at the Court of Elizabeth, James, and Charles. The Chancellor's end was approaching. His illnefs was brought on, it is faid, by the Queen infifting upon a fum of money which he owed the Crown being paid. " It brake his heart,'' fays Fuller, " and caft him into a mortal defeafe." Having once caft him down with a word, fhe could not raife him up again. Elizabeth brought him cordial broths with her own hands, and, with foothing expreflions, bid him live for her fake. But he faid, " All will not do: no pulleys will draw up a heart once caft down, though a Queen herfelf fhould fet her hand thereto." The Chancellor died at Ely Houfe, Hatton Gardens, on the 20th of November, 1591, in the fifty-first year of his age. Sir Chriftopher Hatton was buried with much pomp in St. Paul's Cathedral ; his body being preceded by a * Additional MS. [ ai ] hundred poor people, who had caps and gowns given to them, three hundred gentlemen and yeomen, the Lords of the Council, and eighty of the Queen's guard.* A handfome monument was eredted to his memory by his nephew, Sir William Hatton. The Chancellor appears to have been sincerely lamented. Mr. Fortefcue, in fpeaking of the death of his good friend, alludes to his " broken eftate and great debts. "f INSCRIPTION ON THE TOMB OF SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, AND LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND. Sacrum memorise D. CHR. HATTONI, Guil. fil Joh. nepotis Antiquifs. Hattonorum gente oriundi; Regiae Majeflatis D. Elizabethae ex nobilibus flipatoribus L. vici; Sacratioris Camera? Generoforum unius Praetoriano- rum Militum Ducis ; Regii procamerarii ; Sanctioris Con- filii Senatoris; fummi Anglise ac Oxon. Acad. Cancelcarii: Ordinis nobilifs. San. Georgiani de Perifcelide Equitis Max- imo Principis omniumq : bonorum moerore (cum LI annos coelebs vixiffet) 20 Novembris anno 1591, in aedibus fuis Holburnce pie fato functi. Guil. Hattonus Eques auratus, ejus ex fororc nepos, adoptione filius, ac hseres moeftiffimus, pietatis ergo, Pofuit. * Stow. f Cotton MSS, C " ] Sir Chriftopher Hatton did not leave a will. He had fettled his eftates upon his nephew Sir William Newport, alias Hatton, and the heirs-male of his body, failing which on his godson and collateral heir-male, Sir Chriftopher Hatton,* who was the grandfon and heir of John Hatton of Gravefend in Kent, younger brother of William Hatton of Holdenby, father of the Lord Chancellor, f Sir William fucceeded to Kirby, Holdenby, and all the Chancellor's other property. By his firft wife, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Francis Gawdy, he had a daughter who, in 1605, became the wife of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick. By his fecond wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cecil, firft Earl of Exeter, he had one child, who died an infant. Sir William Hatton died on 12th March, 1597. His widow became the fecond wife of Sir Edward Coke, by whom ftie had two daughters, Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and Frances, who was married to John Villiers, Vifcount Purbeck. The quarrels of Lord Chief Juftice Coke and his wife have rendered the name of Lady Hatton famous in the hiftory of her time. On the death of Sir William Hatton without male iftue, the Benefield and Newport eftates defcended to his daughter ; but Holdenby and the other Hatton eftates pafied under the Chancellor's fettlement to Sir Chriftopher Hatton, his godfon. He obtained an Act of Parliament in 1605, to enable him to fell part of thofe lands; and in February, 1608, he conveyed * Baker. f Life and Times of Sir C. Hatton. [ 23 ] Holdenby to Truftees, for the life of the King for life, with remainder to Charles Duke of York, in tail male. One of the conditions of the file was, that the King fhould grant to Sir William Hatton, all his Majefty's intereft and reverfion in any of the lands of the late Lord Chancellor, by virtue of any extent iflued for the debts due by him to the late Queen, provided that the relidue of the faid debt fhould be paid off by £ 1 500. yearly on the days appointed in an inftrument made by the late Queen for fecuring payment of the debt. The King further agreed to grant the cuftody of Holdenby Houfe and Park, with a fee of forty marks to Lady Eliza- beth, widow of Sir William Hatton, and then the wife of Lord Chief Juftice Coke, for her life, with the building called the Dairy Houfe, belonging to the Manfion Houfe, for her lodging. The prefent reprefentatives of Lord Chancellor Hatton are the heirs of the three daughters and co-heirs of Robert Rich, third Earl of Warwick, fon and heir of Frances Countefs of Warwick, the only child of his nephew, Sir William Newport, alias Hatton. Holdenby was frequently vifited by Royalty — Its noble manfion was a favourite place of the Stuarts during the early part of the feventeenth century. In June, 1603, Anne of Denmark, accompanied by Prince Henry, on their way from Dingley to Althorp, refted during the heat of the day at Holdenby. On Auguft 5th, 1608, Bifhop Andrews preached be- fore the King on the anniverfary of the Gowery Confpi- r *4 ] racy from i Samuel chapter xxv. verfe 8. The follow- ing day James knighted here Sir Richard Harpur of Derbyfhire. Two years after, the King and Queen were again at Holdenby, when a thanfgiving fermon was preached from i Chronicles chapter xvi. verfe 22. James was at lloldenby in 1614, and again in 1618, when he knighted, on the 1 8 th of Auguft that year, Sir James Ware of Somerfetfhire. Charles I. and his Confort, to whom by dower the Palace of Holdenby belonged, were conftantly here. It was probably during one of the vifits they paid in 1634, that William Lord Spencer entertained their Majefties at Althorp with a magnificent banquet,* on their way from lloldenby. PafTing through Northampton, the Mayor and Corporation prefented to Charles and Henrietta, as a mark of their loyalty, two coftly pieces of plate. j" Of Henrietta Maria's vifit to Holdenby, two years later, very little is known. A flight account of it is preferved in fome letters^ written by two priefts to Rome, at the latter end of year 1636. The fads com- municated by the papal agents George Coneo and his companion Gregory Panzani are of much intereft. It appears from thefe letters that the Queen was here for fome time, as the correfpondent writes thus : — * The Wafhingtons, by Rev. J, N. Simpkinfon, gives a full and interefting account of this noble entertainment. f Hiftorical Memorials of Northamampton. — Rev. C. H. Hartfhorne. J Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria. — Mrs. Green. Charles 1. 1645). Henriltta-Maria. [ *S ] cc After my laft letter, written from Tarn worth, the Queen removed to Holmby Palace, diftant four miles from Northampton, and there I found Signor Gregory in excellent health. We attired fome fervants, and yes- terday morning being Sunday, we went to Court, where having finifhed our devotions in her Majefty's chapel, we waited on her at table, and were then entertained at din- ner by the Lord Abbot of Jafconi, with whom we went down from the Queen ; and I, at the requeft of. Signor Gregorio, thanked her Majefty for all the favours done to him, fhowing the grateful fenfe entertained of them by our mafter and your Eminence. The anfwer was, that all thofe who belonged to his Holinefs or your Eminence would be always moft acceptable to her Majefty. This compliment ended, I prefented the fhrine for relics, which was extremely liked, and another which had been fent was at once recalled to mind, and mentioned with terms of the higheft efteem and gratitude. I carried with me the Saint Catherine, not intending to leave it at that time, but merely to fatiffy the Queen's curiofity, faying that I had orders to prefent it afterwards in a frame ; but her Majefty would not have patience, declaring that fhe would take that trouble upon herfelf She took away from me the tin cafe and packthread with which it was tied, and gave orders that the picture fhould be faftened to the curtains of her bed. This businefs ended, her Majefty went down to the chapel to the litanies, which were fung with moft beautiful mufic, and we returned to North- ampton, where we fhall remain all the time her Majefty [ *6 ] ftays at Holmby, and every two or three days I fhall go and fee her.* The other day I prefented to her Majefty your Eminence's rofary of aloes wood, with another of agate, and one of buffalo horn, curioufly worked with cameo medallions. I alfo took others to the Catholic ladies and maidens, which were diftributed by Father Philip in her Majefty's prefence; and the Queen's dwarf, who is lefs and better made than that of Criqui, being prefent, when all was nearly finifhed, began to call out, c Madam, fhow the Father that I alfo am a Catholic,' with a manner and gefture that made all laugh. To the Marchionefs of Hamilton, the Countefs of Den- bigh, her mother, and the Countefs of Holland, fome trifle was alfo given. I fhall fupply the reft when the pictures arrive, which they write are already embarked at Leghorn, and fo the effect of your Eminence's good- nefs will reach thofe Englifh perfons who have never had the fortune to fee your prefence. f cc Truly, it would make ftones weep to fee and hear thefe poor citizens when they fee the chapel at Holdenby ; they look at it again and again, and after they have well con- fidered it, one fays to another, c What evil thing is done in this chapel ? J Where are the great fcandals that we have heard fay are given by the Catholics with thefe altars ?' * Vatican Papers, vol. xxxix. fol. 173. f Panzani's Dispatch, Aug. 25, 1636. J Some few years ago foundations were difcovered, and fuppofed to be thofe of the chapel, as fome bones were found in the wall as if a burial had taken place there ; pieces of marble were alfo found. [ ^7 ] Others, after heaving a profound figh, say, c Once we had thefe beautiful things in our churches/ Some ftay to hear the mafs and the litanies, and I have feen there the minifter of the Palace himfelf.' The a&ions of her Majefty are full of incredible inno- cence, and fuch that flie bluflies like a young girl in the prefence of ftrangers. ..... She fuffers fome- times from melancholy, and then flie likes filence ; when fhe is afflicted fhe has recourfe earneftly to God. She thinks little of the future, trufting entirely in the King." How little could Henrietta have imagined in the days of her profperity, with all her Court about her, at Hoi- denby, that her Palace was deftined to be the prifon of her royal hufband ! — once the fcene of fo much gaiety and fplendour, and fubfequently the place of confinement for England's moft chivalrous and devout of kings. Here unhappy Charles poured forth, in his folitudes and fufferings, not only fome of thofe penitential meditations and vows that afforded his Sacred Majefty earthly confo- tion when he was deprived of his fpiritual advifers, but fuch prayers as would teach us all humility. They fhow touching proofs of his deep refignation and devotion. The decifive battle of Nafeby led to the irretrievable ruin of the royal caufe ; and the King, defpairing of a reconciliation with his enemies, and finding his perfonal fafety infecure, voluntarily gave himfelf up to the Scotch army, then at Newark-on-Trent. On the 8th of December, 1645, a ^ agreement was L J made with the Scots' Commiflioners, that when £ i oo,ooo came to Topcliff in Yorkflhire, the Scots fhould give hof- tages to quit all their quarters, pofleffions, and garrifons on the fouth fide of the Tyne, within ten days, when the hoftages were to be re-delivered ; and upon the deli- very of the other ^100,000, on the north fide of t\ew- caftle, the Scots fhould give hoftages to march out of England, and quit the garrifons of Berwick and Carlifie within ten days. On the difpofal of the King's perfon, there was a dis- agreement between the Lords and Commoners, and the like difapproval happened too often when they had no- body to quarrel with but themfelves. The Lords voted that the King fhould come to Newmarket ; the Com- mons that he fhould come to Holmby Houfe, North- amptonfhire, and the Lords at laft agreed to it. The Englifh and Scotch being agreed as to the dif- pofal of his Majefty's perfon, the Parliament of Eng- land appointed Commiflioners on the 6th of January, 1647, to g° to Newcaftle to receive the King, and to attend him to Holdenby.* On the 1 2th of January, the Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh; LordMontague of Boughton; Sir James Har- rington, Sir John Holland, Sir John Coke, baronets ; Sir Walter Earle ; John Crew, Esquire ; Major-General Browne; Sir Fulk Greville ; Mr. James Harrington, Mr. Thomas Herbert. Mr. Anthony Mildmaye, Mr. Anfty, Mr. Babbington, Mr. Mufchamp, Mr. Clement Kinerfly, * Oldmixon's Hifl. of England. ( "9 ] Mr. Reading ; Mr. Stephen Marftial and Mr. Jofeph Car- ril, two minifters of the Aflembly of Divines, as Chap- lains to the Members of the Commiflion of Parliament, left London (refting the fecond night at Northampton), and completed their journey to Newcaftle on the ninth day. His Majefty exprefled pleafure at seeing the Com- miffioners ; he received them with affability, and gave them his hand to kifs. To Lord Pembroke the king said, Cf he was glad to see he could fo well in his old age perform fo long a winterly journey with the reft of the Commiffioners who were fo youthful." On the 5th of February, 1646-7, the Committee of Lords and Commons proposed that the Communion plate, which was formerly fet on the altar in his Majefty's Chapel at White-Hall, confifting of "one gilte fhyppe, two gilte vafes, two gilte euyres (ewers), a fquare bafonn and fountaine, and a filver rod," fhould be melted down to make plate for the King's ufe at Holdenby, there being none remaining in the Jewel Office fit for fervice ; and at the fame time they fubmit- ted the following eftimate of the expenfes of his Majefty and his retinue at Holdenby for twenty days, com- mencing the 13th of February, and ending the 4th of March, inclufive, 1646-7 : — His Majefty's diet, of twenty-eight difties, P er l^- 0Q diem . ........ I . The King s voydy 32 The Lords 5 diet, twenty days 510 [ 30 ] For the Gierke of the green cloth, kitchen, and fpicery, \ a mefse of feven difhes ......) Diets for the Houfehold and Chamber Officers and the ) Guard I Board wages for common Houfehold Servants, Pott- \ fcowrers, and turn-broaches ... ( Badges of Court and riding wages .... For linen for his Majefty's table, the Lords' and other diets For wheat, wood, and coal . . . For all forts of fpicery ftores, wax lights, torches, and i tallow lights , . f For pewter, braffe, and other neceflaries incident to all ) offices, and for carriage ( 412 36 140 2 73 240 160 447 £ 2 >99° Paid unto John Powell for glafTes and knives fent to Holdenby by warrant 9 Feb. 1646,^2. 9, and to Chriftopher White, pewterer, for > /'41 pewter fent thither by warrant 18 March, 1646, £39. 10 Paid unto Mr. John Eaton for holland for twelve whole shirts, and twelve pair of boot hofe & making the hofe, and for twenty-two \ yards and a half of lace for the boot hofe, by warrant 1 9 Aug. 1647 .... One black mourning fuit, one black brockade " fuit, tw° cloth coloured fuits of the moll fine Segovia Spanifh cloth, trimmed with gold ^ 333 15 and filver lace, with/ 50 impreft unto Da- niel Murray, tailor, for making thefe four suits [ 3i j One black tabby fuit and cloak laced with bone ^ lace, and cloak lined with plufh ; one plain cloth fuit and cloak lined with plufh ; one fcarlet riding coat trimmed with gold and filver lace & lined with plufh ; one plain cloth coat lined with plush, with oiled taf- fety between the cloth and the plush ; a night bag laced with gold & filver lace; a y 236 9 bearing cloth of crimfon velvet, laced and fringed ; two hats and bands, three pair of black filk ftockings, two pair of coloured filk flockings, two dozen of gloves, a vel- vet cafTock lined with tafFetie, and half a pound of filk for the robes (with £15 im- preft for the Tailor.J . . . . J To Wm. Wheeler, goldfmith, for filver hook ) and clafp* J But cc the national finances becoming daily more de- ranged, the whole charge of the eftablifhment, by a vote of the Commons, March 17th, was reduced to £50 a day — only one-third of the original eftimate.'' The Par- liament voted ^3000 for the charge of his Majefty's journey to Holdenby from the North. The King reached the princely manor of Holdenby on the 15th of February, having been fomething re- tarded by white weather. " Very many country gen- tlemen, gentlewomen, and others of ordinary rank, ftood ready there to welcome the King with joyful counten- ances and prayers/' fays Sir Thomas Herbert. * Exchequer Rolls [ 32 ] The following day three of the Lords' Commiflioners announced to the Speaker of the Houfe of Lords, the EarKof Manchefter, their fafe arrival at Holdenby, as follows : — e <&uarti. It is conceived that there be a number of the Guard propofed to carry upp the King's meat. 2 Yeomen Ulhers. 20 of the Guard. 2 Yeomen Hangers. €fyaxrihzv. Bedchamber Pages, Backftairs qu. IO 2 * Acatery, a fort of cheque between the clerks of the King's kitchen and the purveyor. — Dictionary of 1782 (N. Bailey). L 35 ] Gent. Ufher, Privy Chamber ... I Gent. Privy Chamber 6 (Cup-bearer, Carver, Sewer, and Efquire of the Body, to be chofen out of thefe fix — to wit, by turns, if there be none of thofe officers that have remained here, and adhered to the Par- liament.) Grooms, Privy Chamber 2 Barber I Roabes I Gent. Ufhers, Daily Wayters. ... 2 Quarter Wayters I Pages of the Prefence 2 The removing Wardrobe .... I Chaplaines ,2 Grooms of the Chamber . . . . 2 MefTengers of the Chamber .... 2 Phyfitian I Apothecary I Chirurgeon I Laundrefle I The Royal State was kept up at Holdenby, and the Court provided with all things needful, juft as they ufed to be when his Majefty was in a peaceful and flourifh- ing ftate. When he dined and fupped the King always faid grace himfelf, ftanding under the State, his voice fometimes audible. Every Sunday Charles fequeftered himfelf to his private devotions, and every day in the week fpent two or three hours in reading and pious ex- ercifes ; at other times, for recreation after his meals, he ufed to play a game of chefs. He frequently walked in [ 36 ] the garden at Holdenby with one or other of the Corn- mi flioners ; and as the bowling-green was not then well kept, the King would fometimes ride to Harrow- den, a houfe belonging to Lord Vaux, where there was a good bowling green, with gardens, groves, and walks, which afforded him much pleafure. At other times he would go to Althorp, where was a green well kept. On the 9th of April, as the King was riding to Bough- ton to bowl, he alighted at Brampton Bridge on the way, at the further end of which ftood Major Bofville difguifed as a countryman, with an angle in his hand, as if he had been fifhing. He was deteded in privately conveying Into the King's hand letters from the Queen and Prince Charles. Upon his examination before the Commiffion- ers, he depofed that he had been with the King at Newcaf- tle, who, on the morning that he was delivered up to the Scots, entrufted him with a letter to the Queen, which he conveyed to her in France ; and being charged with a packet in return, had lodged two nights in a furze bufh and three nights at a countryman's, who furnifhed him with his difguife, in which he watched an opportunity to deliver it into the King's hand. The Houfe of Com- mons ordered him to be fent for from Northampton by the Serjeant-at-Arms, and he was fent to Newgate.* About a month afterwards another attempt was made to convey fecret information to the King, which was how- ever detected. Mrs. Mary Cave, daughter of Mr. Wil- liam Cave, of Stamford, in Liecefterfhire, undertook to * Oldmixon's Hill, of England. r 37 j deliver to the King a letter in ciphers, which fhe received from one Browne, who had brought it from Mr. Afh- burnham, at the Hague. To attain her object, fhe en- gaged a female friend who refided in the neighbourhood of Holdenby to vifit the landlady of Captain Abbot, one of the King's giurd, an 1 through the landlady's influ- ence, to perfuade the captain to procure her the honour of kitting the King's hand, which having accompli fhed fhe apprifed Mrs, Cave of her fuccefs, and contracted with the lan llady to receive her as a vifitor, and en- deavour, through the captain, to obtain for her alfo the honour of an introduction t o his Majefty, by which means fhe hoped to put the letter into his hands. Mrs. Cave came, and the captain had good-naturedly, but unfuspicioufly, acceded to the requeft, when the land- lady imparted the plot to her hufhand, who, though a royalift, and favourable to the defign, dared not run the risk of detection, and devulged the fecret to the captain. On the appointed day, i ith of May, the captain, who had apprifed the CommifTioners of the circumftance, ac- companied Mrs. Cave, who had no fufpicion of being betrayed, to Holdenby ; and on her arrival, she was car- ried into a room, but notwithftanding the moft diligent fearch, nothing was found upon her. The letter was accidently difcovered a few days after behind the hang- ings of the room, where it feems fhe had contrived to flip it while fhe ftood with her back to the hangings converfmg with the ladies who fearched her.* * Hid. of Northamptonfhire. L 38 j The Dutch AmbafTador had audience of the King at Holdenby, to notify the death of the Prince of Orange ; and people flocked to him to be cured of the King's evil.f During all the time of his Majefty's reftraint and folitude, he was never ill, or had need of his phyfician, which is attributed to his quiet difpofition and patience ; to his exercife, when at home walking in the gallery and privy-garden ; to his abftemiousnefs at meat, eating of but few difhes (and as he ufed to fay), agreeable to his exercife ; drinking but twice every dinner and fupper, once of beer and once of wine and water mixed — only after fish a glafs of French wine, the beverage which he himfelf mixed at the cupboard fo he would have it. He very feldom eat or drank before dinner or between meals. J The Earl of Pembroke, by catching cold, was con- fined to his chamber for three weeks, his illnefs ending in a fever. Mr. Bathurft, his phyfician, had fmall hopes of his life for a few days, owing to his age. His fon, Lord Herbert, came to Holdenby to comfort his father, and the King fent to enquire after him every day, and was gracioufiy pleafed to vifit him twice, which kindnefs (as the do6tor faid) helped much to his recovery. His Majefty being one afternoon (2nd of June) in the the green at Athorp, it was whifpered amongft the Commiflioners, who were then at bowls with the King, f Oldmixon's Hift. of England. J Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoir. [ 39 ] that a party of 700 Horfe were at Kingfthorp obfcurely headed, and for no good, it was prefumed, as it was reported that they intended feizing the King. At night the party rendezvoufed on Harlefton Heath, intelligence of which being brought to the Commiflioners by one of their fcouts, the gates were clofed, the King's guards doubled, and preparation made for a defence. About midnight the party drew up before Holdenby Houfe, and at all the avenues placed guards ; which done, the officer that commanded the party alighted, and demanded entrance. Colonel Graves and Major- General Browne afked him his name and bufiness. He replied, f ' his name was Joyce, a cornet in Colonel Whaley's regiment, and his bufinefs was to fpeak with the King." u From whom," they faid* " From myfelf," faid he. At which they laughed. " It's no laughing matter," faid Joyce. They advifed him to draw off his men, and in the morning he fhould fpeak with the Commiflioners. " I came not thither to be advifed by you," he faid, cc nor have I any bufinefs with the Commiflioners ; my errand is to the King, and fpeak with him I mull and will prefently." They then bid the foldiers within ftand to their arms, and be ready to fire when ordered ; but during this fhort treaty 'twixt the Cornet and the Colonel, the foldiers had conference together, and as foon as they underftood they were fellow-foldiers of one and the fame Army, they quickly forgot the promife they had made to ftand by him, and not fuffer any attempt upon the King's perfon, I 40 ] They opened the gates and doors, fhook one another by the hand, and bade welcome to them. Entrance being given, ftrict fearch was made for the Colonel, who happily got out of their reach. Cen- tinels were ordered by Joyce to be fet at the Com- miffioners' chamber-doors, that he might with lefs noife carry on his defign, and find way to the back-ftairs, where the Grooms of his Majefty's Bedchamber attended. The Cornet having come to the door, rudely knocked. Thofe within afking who it was that in fuch an uncivil manner and fo unfeafonable a time came to difquiet the King's reft, Joyce faid he was forry to difquiet the King ; but he could not help it : he was an officer of the Army, and fpeak with him he muft. This ftrange confidence, and having a cocked piftol in his hand, amazed Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Maw], Mr. Harrington, and Mr, Herbert, whofe duty it was to preferve the King's perfon, who alked Joyce if he had the Commiffioners' approbation for his intrufion. He anfwered, " No ; for he had ordered a guard to be fet at their chamber-doors, and that he had received his orders from thofe that feared them not." He ftill prefted for entrance and engaged his word he would do his Majefty no harm ; they on the other fide perfuaded him to lay afide his arms. He refufed to do this, infifting upon having the chamber-door open. The gentlemen kept firm to their refolution that he ftiould not enter. The noife in this conteft was fo loud, that it feemed to awaken the King ; for he rung his filver bell, at which [ 4* ] Mr. Maxwell went into the bedchamber to know his Majefty's pleafure; the other three gentlemen meantime fecuring the door. The King being told the Cornet's bufinefs, fent word he would not rife or fpeak with him until the morning — fo there was filence for a few hours. His Majefty rofe a little fooner than ufual, and having performed his morning exercife, he fent for Joyce, who, with no lefs confidence than if he had been a fupreme officer, approached the King, and acquainted him with the commands he had concerning his removal. The King defired the Commiffioners might be fent for, and his orders communicated to them, The Cornet replied, "They were to return back to Parliament." " By whofe appointment/' replied the King. To this Joyce had no anfwer. The King then faid, "By your favour, Sir, let them have their liberty, and give me a fight of your inftru6tions." " That/' said Joyce " you fhall fee prefently," and drawing up his troop into the Inner Court, as near as he could unto the King, " There Sir,'' faid he, " are my inftru6lions. ,> The King took a good view of them, and finding them proper men, well mounted and armed, smilingly told the Cornet, "His inftrudtions were in fair characters, legible without fpelling." The Cornet then prefled the King to go with him, but he faid he would not ftir unlefs the Commiffioners went with him. This audacious attempt to remove his Majefty from Holdenby greatly troubled the Commiffioners, the more C 4* ] fo becaufe they knew not how to help it. Major Tom- lins, who had fucceeded Colonel Graves, regretted his inability to oppofe Joyce's party, the guards having pofitively refufed to obey his orders. So ended the King's fojourn at Holdenby 0 Charles, being in his coach, called the Earls of Pern* broke and Denbigh, as alfo the Lord Mountague, into it. The other Commiffioners, being well mounted, followed him. His officers who waited on him were continued, and Sir Robert Pye, a colonel in the Army, fupplying the place of equery, rode before him. General Fairfax knew nothing at all of this unwarrant- able proceeding, and as foon as he did know it, he fent Colonel Whalley with a party of Horfe to ufe all means but conftraint to caufe his Majesty to return to Holdenby. The King was come to Sir John Cutt's, at Childerly, near Cambridge, before Whalley could get up with him, and when he would have perfuaded the King to return to Holdenby, he abfolutely refufed it, flattering himfelf that he fhould find better ufage from the Army than he found from the Parliament. So Whalley was only added to the convoy ; and Joyce frankly owned that Lieutenant General Cromwell had given him orders at London to do all he had done. # And what remains of Holdenby now, where formerly arofe in royal grandeur one of the mod favourite palaces of the Stuarts ? How changed is the fcene at the prefent day ! Yet it is impoffible to walk along the verdant * Oldmixon's Hift. of England., Arches «i H oldenby. t 43 ] terraces, ftill vifible under their luxuriant herbage, or trace the foundations of fo lofty a pile, or pafs under- neath its noble arches that have yet efcaped the havoc of the defpoiler, without lamenting that fo auguft a building fhould have been deftroyed. Yet Charles had once happy hours at Holdenby ; and he has now furmounted the forrows of his fad end. The long terrace, where the King ufed to walk with the old Lord Pembroke, is vifible, with many others, not now covered with gravel as formerly, but with the fineft pafture in the kingdom. The ftone baluftrades* once ornamenting them are gone ; fragments of mouldings and carved afhlars are fcattered about in the walls of the modern buildings around. The two arches with a fmall portion of the Palace itfelf ftill exift. A row of lofty chimnies has alfo furvived the blaft of many angry tempefts. Forlorn, denuded of its trees, this remnant of the royal manfion rifes up, and may be feen from afar, a memorial of paft grandeur, and a lafting monument of the Chancellor by whom it was built with fo much tafte and beauty. It recalls to the mind the viciflitudes of life and the fatal confequences of Civil Wan In July, 1675, when Evelyn was flaying with Lord Sunderland at Al thorp, he writes in his diary, cc . . . from it, a profpect to Holmby Houfe, which being demolifhed in the late Civil Warrs shows like a Roman * An old man, who lived in the prefent century, defcribed the baluftrading as it was in his youth, as being ornamented with balls, as the arches ufed to tie. C 44 ] mine, ftiaded by the trees about it, a ftately, folemn, and pleafing view." The pyramid, and other fragments in Buck's view of 1729, have now difappeared.* The houfe, inhabited by a farmer, has been reduced from a double to a fingle roof. Nearly all the fifh-ponds are dry, the orchards gone ; part of the priory garden remains, and around the houfe fhapelefs maffes of foundation and artificial mounds. Thomas Lord Grey, of Groby, in Leicefterihire, one of the moft active Parliamentarians, is faid by Collins to have received a grant from his brethren of the Queen's manor- houfe, park, and lands, at Holdenby, where he made great devaftation in the woods : but no authority is given for the affertion, and his intereft could not have extended beyond the temporary cuftody of the houfe ; for the truftees for the fale of the Crown lands, by deed dated 5th of May, 1650, fold to Adam Baynes, of Knowfthorp, Yorkfhire, Esq., in fee, for ^22,299. I0 ^*> ^ e capital mefluage or royal manfion-houfe of Holdenby, with its appur- tenances, gardens, orchards, and walks, containing in the whole by eftimation 38 acres 1 rood, of the prefent va- lue of £16. 2s. 6d. ; and the materials of which manfion are ftated in the particulars of fale to be worth ^6000. over and above the expenfe of taking them down, * The late Rev. C. H. Hartfhorne poffefTed a curious ivory cafket, at leaft a century old, of Indian or Chinese workman- fhip ; on the top of which is drawn in Indian ink a copy of Buck's view of Holdenby, line for line as the original engraving. L 45 J Sir Chriftopher Hatton's Palace didnotexift a century. Avarice makes no facrifice to tafte : the Yorkfhireman referred only a portion of the attached offices (probably for his own habitation), and levelled the reft to the ground. Part of the materials were removed to North- ampton, where three houfes which fprung from them may be recognized.* The Park contains 500 acres, and was bounded on the north by the road from Chapel Brampton to Hoi- denby ; on the eaft by the Church-field of Church and Chapel Brampton ; on the fouth by the Delf and Twiz- den's Meadow ; and on the weft by the Manfion Houfe : of the eftimated yearly value of ^345. 19^. %d. ; flocked with upwards of 200 deer, of different kinds, worth £200. ; 1 1 cows and calves of wild cattle, worth ^42. ; and the timber in the Park and lordlhip, worth £2766. 19s. iod.; and divers other meffuages and lands with the faid lord (hip. The alienated lands being refumed at the Reftoration, Baynes retired to his paternal eftate in Yorkfhire, where he died in Dec. 1670. In the 1 8th year of Charles II.'s reign he gave Holdenby to the Duke of York, his bro- ther, who fold it to Duras Baron Holdenby and Earl of Feverfham. It next pafTed, by purchafe, to John Church- ill, Duke of Marlborough, and from this family, by fale, to Vifcount Clifden. * Mr. Markham's, in Gold Street, which was advertized in the Northampton Mercury by the name of "Little Holmby ; " one in Gold Street ; and another in the Drapery. [ 45 ] Though Holdenby is robbed of its (lately grandeur, it mult ever retain a name which will make it familiar in the annals of Englifh hiftory, and place it firfl: amongft the Royal refidences in Northamptonshire. The fame of the Chancellor — the fate of the Stuarts — - are alike bound up with it. Though years have rolled away fince the fplendour of a Royal court was known here, the circumftance of a vifit from the Prince of Wales on -the 23rd of February, 1863, has added another name to its already diftinguifhed lift of vifitors. Not fince the time when Joyce with 900 Horfe rode over the Green, and arranged themfelves in front of the Palace, could Holdenby have prefented fuch a scene as it did on this eventful day, when his Royal Highnefs came to meet the Pytchley Hunt. Upwards of 2,000 horfe- men waited with the hounds on the platform below the houfe ; vehicles and perfons on foot poured in from all directions, until the afiembly muft have numbered nearly ten thoufand. It was 12 o'clock, when in the meadows below, riding up from A thorp, came the Prince and his fuite, accompanied by his noble hoft and hoftess, the Earl and Countefs Spencer. Coming through the Hunting- gate, which leads to the Church path, the Prince rode to the front of the houfe, where he was received with loud and repeated hurrahs by the multitude. During the fhort time that his Royal Highnefs re- mained upon the platform a peafant played upon a bugle Cf the National Anthem" As his music died r 47 i away, the huntsman and hounds came to the front, and led the way to Kank cover, returning by way of Brampton Lane to Eaft Haddon, they patted the Rec- tory ; here flags waved from every window, the Re6lor having done all in his power to fhow his loyalty. This was a gala day for Holdenby ; every one wore his beft clothes, and every face wore a fmile. A few days later came the Prince's wedding day, when the loyal people of the place were not behind their neighbours in doing honour to the event. The following accounts written for the county papers enter fully into the par- ticulars of the entertainment of the nth of March: — HIT was naturally to be expe&ed that Holdenby, BE/MM r ftamped with the preftige of loyalty for the aft SsobSSU three centuries, with a Reftory in the free gift of the Queen, would give a full and earneft utterance to the feeling of its inhabitants on the aufpicious event. It had recently been felected as the favoured fpot where his Royal Highnefs joined the hunting field with the Pytchley. His animated and frank expreffion was ftill frefh in the recolleftion of the quiet villagers. They were then fcarce- ly vifible amid the affembled thoufands; but on Tuefday they held their own, and right heartily they hailed the wedding day. The very liberal fubfcriptions of Vifcount and Vifcountefs Clifden, followed by that of the Rector and his parifhioners, amounting in the whole to ^40., L 43 ] enabled the committee to carry out extenfive plans for a worthy celebration of the occafion. Preparations were commenced a few days previoufly, by fitting up a long and fpacious building. Being open on one fide, ready accefs was afforded to a large tent ad- joining it. The entire area was fitted up with tables, the roof and walls dreffed with evergreens, which were tafte- fully intermingled with banners, bearing mottoes allufive of England's univerfal desire for the happinefs of the il- luftrious pair. Early in the morning a fine fheep was put down to roaft whole. By eleven o'clock all, the pa- rifhioners, whether refiding at Holdenby, or scattered through the neighbouring parifhes of Eaft Haddon, Creaton, and Spratton, affembled on the village green. With two new flags, bearing the enfign of England and the arms of Denmark, a proceflion was formed to the Rectory, where it was joined by a third flag of ftill larger proportions. By the time the moving train reached the tents, a moft fubftantial repaft of roaft and boiled beef, with plum pudding, had been placed on the tables. It was a right pleafant fight to behold gathered under the fwelling canvas the entire inhabitants of the parifh, from the youngeft to the oldeft, nearly 300, all knit together to do honour to the union of the Princefs Alexandra and the beloved Albert Edward of Wales. The toafts were few, but fignificant. Her Moft Gracious Majefty, emphatically called by the Chairman the higheft monarch of the univerfe, and beft and wifeft of rulers. Loud and repeated huzzas greeted the announce- C 49 ] ment of the Prince and the Peerlefs Pearl of Denmark. Vifcount and Vifcountefs Clifden, thanks for their gener- ofity, and for her ladyfhip's fo highly valued and elegant wedding favours; the Rev. C. H. Hartfhorne, Mr. Gulli- ver, the churchwarden. The veil that fcreened one end of the tent was now drawn afide, and the affembled group adjourned to an adjoining field. Here, under the Ikilful arrangements of Meflrs. Saml. and Henry King, a long lift of prizes was competed for. Hurdle races for forks and fpades; foot races, for gown-pieces, neckties, hats, and table-cloths. The competition in running, whilft it fliowed the utility of thofe truly national fports, proved beyond a doubt, that the ftrength and fpeed of the young fellows of Holdenby placed them formidable rivals againft all comers. With the declining light, the happy people refought the tents. But how changed was the interior ! It was now cc the cup that cheered/' and the wives and fweet- hearts that welcomed, the returning victors from the athletic fports. The tables had fuftained provifion enough, the feftive boards were fwept away, the interior — already hung with coloured lamps — was illuminated with magic effect, and the founds of mufic announced the approaching dance. And if the people were Ikilful in contending for prizes at the ruftic games, they certainly fhowed no lefs agilky in threading the mazes woven by Terpfichore. Until the fmall or larger hours arrived the fame harmony pre- vailed ; and a fpirit was infufed into the movements that [ 50 ] would have delighted the noble Chancellor Hatton him - felf, who was born at Holdenby. When he led the brawls "Full oft within the fpacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him/' how little he deemed his genius would defcend to the fimple villagers who refided on the earlieft pride of his youth! As James the Firft and Anne of Denmark formerly selected " this great work/' as he termed it, for the abode of their Court, so the flags of England and Denmark will once more wave together over the screen defigned by John of Padua, one of the ancient ornaments of the parifh church. They will thus pro- claim to all who fee them that the loyal inhabitants of Holdenby regard them as perpetual and facred memorials of the Prince's vifit to the place, as well as of their devout wifh that his Royal Highnefs and his auguft bride may be blefled with happinefs and divine favour.* UESDAY is a day long to be remembered by the inhabitants of Holdenby, adding as it does another page to the hiftory of a place already fo well known, not only from the vifit of his Royal * Northampton Herald, Saturday, 1 8th March, 1863. L 51 ] Highnefs the Prince of Wales, fcarcely three weeks fince, but from the frequent vifits paid here by monarchs centuries ago. Liberal fuhfcriptions from the Vifcount and Vifcountefs Clifden, together with others from the Rev. C. H. Hartfhorne and his principal parifhioners, caufed the entertainment to be one of no ordinary kind ; every- thing that could be devifed for the happinefs of the people was the chief aim of Mr. Gulliver and thofe who undertook the care of the arrangements. Before entering into the proceedings of the day, we muft not omit to mention the indefatigable labour of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and their daughters, whofe untiring exertions contributed fo materially to every one's comfort. At an early hour a fheep was fet down to roaft, which was fubfequently profufely decorated with garlands and ribbons. This was carried in proceffion with three beautiful flags, provided for the aufpicious day, A building, taftefully adorned with evergreens, flags, and appropriate mottos, with a large tent opening into it, formed a fpacious room for the dinner and tea, which was prepared for all the parifhioners; upwards of three hundred people partook of the well -cooked meat, both boiled and roaft, and of the' excellent plum pudding. The chair was taken by the efteemed Redor of the parifh, fupported on either fide by Mrs. King and Mrs. Gulliver; the three other tables being headed by Vifcount Clifden's principal tenants, having on each fide of them ladies of the parifh; below them were ranged the villagers in families alphabetically. [ 5* J It is needlefs to fay with what enthufiafm the healths of her Majefty the Queen, and the Prince and Princefs of Wales were welcomed, or the cordial way in which the toasts for Lord and Lady Clifden and the Reftor were received. After they rofe from table the people adjourned to a neighbouring field, where, under the able management of Mefirs. S. and H. King, rural fports were carried on with great activity. We may here note the extra- ordinary Ikill evinced by Mr. John Cave in a running match. The prizes were so numerous that they could not be competed for in one afternoon. A graceful compliment was paid to Mifs Hartfliorne by Lady Clifden requefting her to diftribute a large box of favours. " The fhades of night were falling faft " ere the athletic fports could be clofed. Coloured lamps, fuf- pended from the circlets of evergreens, now lighted the ball-room, where, on the light fantaftic toe, dancing was kept up with great fpirit until a late hour. Holdenby, lying four hundred feet above the level of the sea, witneffed a radius of bonfires and illuminations for a confiderable number of miles, commencing with the south-east at Northampton, and including Brixworth, Lamport, Cottefbrook, Hazelbeech, and ftretching ftill farther to the north-weft. The fireworks alfo at feveral of thefe places were diftindtly vifible. It was moft gratifying to witnefs the loyal feelings of the people of Holdenby; they muft, doubtlefs, inherit [ 53 ] the warm fympathies of their forefathers, who on many previous occafions were accuftomed to honour the royal houfe of Denmark when James the Firft refided here. The order, harmony, and happinefs exifting amongft this fimple peafantry was a delightful reward to thofe who had been inftrumental in exerting themfelves for their humbler neighbours.* As a ftill further proof of the loyalty of the people of Holdenby, there was a wifh exprefled amongft them, that to commemorate the Prince's vifit to the parifh, a tree fhould be planted on the platform where his Royal Highnefs met the Pytchley Hunt. On the 30th of March, 1863, I was requefted to plant a Wellingtonia gigantea, which I did in the prefence of a large number of the inhabitants. The tree is fubftantially fenced round, and is in a very flouriftiing ftate. The Village, which confifts of twenty-four cottages, of ftone, thatched with ftraw, is in the vicinity of the Green, at one end of which, leading through the Square to the Allotment Gardens, ftands a houfe of more preten- fions than the reft, which is fuppofed to have been at one time the Rectory. * Northampton Mercury, Saturday, 1 8th March, 1863, L 54 J The open well in the village is of ftone, the top of it being capped with what appears to have been an old coping. The leaden pipes* conveying the water runs through the old houfe, coming from beyond Eaft Haddon Spinney, where the fource of the spring is found. At the time of Bridges there were feventeen houfes, and three others in the grounds. There are two farm- houfes in the village, one having been the old Brewhoufe and the other the Inn. A carpenter's fhop ftands in the woodyard, and a blackfmith's fhop below the green. There are three lodges in the fields, which are occupied as farmhoufes, and a fubftantially built mill on the brook feparating the parifh from Spratton. Holdenby Brickyard fupplied the bricks for the pre- fent Redtory, which houfe was built by the Rev, Charles Henry Hartfhorne in 1854. The foundation ftone was laid on the 21st of March, and the building inhabited the December following. This excellent and well arranged dwellingf ftands at a level of three hundred and eighty-one feet above the fea, and commands an extenfive view to the north, eaft, and fouth. It 13 fliut in from the weft by a wood, which is a great protection from the March winds, as^they are very fevere in this quarter. The Rectory, which is in the Deanery of Weft Had- don, is in the gift of the crown. By a fuit in Chan- * Thefe are the fame mentioned by Norden. f Holdenby Reftory was defigned by Anthony Salvin, Esq., the architeft of Alnwick, Peckforton, and Windfor Caftles, &c. [ 55 j eery the Rev. John Lloyd Crawley recovered the great and fmall tithes of the whole parifh, by which means he raifed the value of the living from £So. to nearly £700. a year. At the laft cenfus the population of Holdenby was under 200. The yearly Wake was formerly kept on the Sunday following All Saints' day, but fcarcely any note is now taken of it ; the alleged reafon being, that many years ago a child came to an untimely end during the Feaft. At the time of Boughton Green Fair (from which period all dates are reckoned by the furrounding villa- gers), Holdenby Feaft is held. A few ftalls are ereded on the green, and dancing and feftivities are kept up for three or four days ; but this is not fo much done now as formerly. % %i$t of tfje £cctor£ of l^oltan&p* From the 13th century to the prefent time. IR SOLOMON, late Archdeacon of Leicester, refigned 1263. Simon de Daventre, fubdeacon, by Euftachia de Ardern, 20 Jan. 1263-4. Radulf de Arderne. Peter de Lubenham, prieft, by Thomas, fon of Thomas de Ardern of Honewell, co. Oxford, 24 Oct. 1 290. Geoffrey de Holdenby, prieft, by Sir Thomas de Ar- dern, Lord of Spratton, 22 July, 1334. r 56 ] Amand Fiitling> prieft, by Sir Reginald Cobham, 9 Aug. 1349. William Hyde, prieft, by Sir Thomas Arderne, 27 Sep. 1354- Thomas de Wifcehawe, prieft, 3 Aug. 1361. John Sutton, clerk, by Roger del Chambre, 18 Nov. John Maundevilk) prieft, 17 Nov. 1396. Sir Lawrence Hewett y prieft, by William Mountford, and Elizabeth his wife, 22 Feb. 1407-8. Henry Ro/e, clerk, 10 Feb. 1411-2. Sir John Lowe/by, prieft, by Thomas Chambre, Esq., 29 Mar. 1419. John Powle, clerk, 9 Dec. 1421. Edmund Alderford> clerk, 21 Sept. 1423. Henry Dyfett y prieft by Thomas Chambre, 5 June, 143 2. John Wary n, prieft, by the laft patron, 8 Aug. 1438. Thomas Paynter y prieft, 8 Oct. 1445. John Pant wall y prieft, by William Chaumbyr, Efq., 2 Nov. 1485. Mafl. John Chaumbre, prieft by Richard Ingwarfby, 7 Dec. 14C7. He was Lord of Arden's Manor in Spratton, and dying 26th Dec. 1508, Sir Richard Empfon, and others, feoffees of lands, prefented Majl. Thomas Cowley, prieft, 1 Feb. 1505-6. He re- figned for the vicarage of Pightesley the follow- ing year. L 57 ] Maft. Thomas Love, L.L.B., by Sir Richard Empfon and others, 28 Jan. 1506-7. On his deceafe, Sir Thomas York, alias Skit, Prior of St. Andrews, near Northampton, was prefented by Henry Maxe, gent., and inft. 24 June, 1 5 1 2 Maft. John Hams, prieft, by Thomas Ingwardfby, 4 Oft. 1419. " Sir Thomas Alen^ paryftie prefte of Holdenby," by will 6 Nov. 1526, directed his body to be buried in the church of All Saints at Holdenby, before the rood there : and bequeathed to the high altar, iiij of Trinity College, Cambridge, who, on the prefentation of the Queen, was inftituted 30 May, 1865, an ^ is the prefent re&or of the parifh. T is very much to be regretted that the early re- gisters have been deftroyed. Doutblefs there were many interefting and curious facts in them relating to the place, which could have been obtained from no other fource. The marriage register begins in 1754, but the baptisms and burials not until 1796. There is not anything of any age or curiofity in the parifh books. The Church, which is dedicated to All Saints, ftands in a small churchyard enclofed with a ftone wall, which r 60 i was put up at the expenfe of Mr. Amiand. It ftands to the fouth of the Palace, at the foot of a hill in the fame field. It confifts of a low embattled tower, nave, north and fouth aifles, and chancel. The date of the church is about 1330, but the tower is much later. Amongft the items valued to King James when he purchafed Hol- denby, were fix bells in the fteeple, ct made by the Lord Chancellor Hatton, weighing feaven thoufand weight, worth £166. 13^. 4^.," which have been removed as pri- vate property, and two fmall ones fubftituted.* In the eaft window of the fouth aifle was formerly in- fribed in Gothic characters — JOHANNES HALDYNBY ALIS DE HALDYNBY. t No trace of thefe now remain. The chancel was built about twenty years ago, on the fcite of the old founda- tions, by Mr. Crawley, under the direction of Sir Henry Dryden. It is of an earlier ftyle of archidture than the reft of the church. The following infcription, painted on zinc, is faftened againft the wall : — John Lloyd Crawley redtor of this parifh built this chancel and dedicated it to All Saints in the year of our Lord God MDCCCXLV • Raker. f Bridges. [ 6i ] On each fide are foui wooden ftalls, with ornamented turn-up feats. Thefe are fuppofed to have been in the Chauntry Chapel, which was founded by Robert de Hol- denby in 139 1 to the honour of the Blefled Virgin, within his manfion houfe here, and endowed with three mefliiages, one toft, one bovate, and five acres of arable land in Holdenby and Eaftoft. The carved wooden fcreen which divides the chancel from the nave was originally at one end of the hall in the Palace. This was the gift of Mr. Amiand. An old pew, belonging to the Palace, is of the fame character, and the materials muft have come from the manfion at the fame 'time the fcreen was removed from thence. The pulpit and reading delk, which are of oak, were the gift of Mr. Hartfhorne in February, 1863. The font is of an odtagon fhape, attached to the pillar under the weftern arch of the fouth arcade. On each of the upper faces is a ftiield, containing — 1 . Holdenby, impaling, G., a chevron O between 1 o befants, Zouch. 2. Holdenby, impaling, S., a lion rampant arg., Verdon. 3. Holdenby, impaling De la Carvile. 4. Holdenby, impaling, S., a raven within a border ar., Raven of co. Beds. 5. Hol- denby, impaling Mortimer of Grendon. 6 Holdenby, impaling, G. femee of crofs crofflets (O), three lucies or pikes hauriant ar., Lucy. 7 Hatton impaling Holdenby. The whole of the font was repainted in 1861, by Mr. Albert Hartfhorne. In the autumn of 1862, the walls of the church were cleaned, when, underneath fucceflive coats of whitewash, [ 62 J fome black letter infcriptions, within borders of the ftyle and date of the Italian Renaifsance were difcovered. Thefe chafte outlines were painted with a brusfh in water-colours, in a bold and artiftic manner, upon a pale yellow ground. They were evidently the work of an accomplished artift, probably of an Italian. After much labour and perfeverance, fix of thefe infcriptions were deciphered and repainted by Mr. Albert Hartfhorne. They are as follows : — Vbhz nages of man arc as graffe a0 a flotpcr of f fetlD fo Oori&etl) fce ♦ for tfje tmntie goctf) oner tt $ it i& gone $ y< place thereof (ball fenotoe it noe more ♦ tmt t&e lotiinge feintmefa of tfje Home in* Duretf) for euer upon tfcem tfmt feare Mm* Pfal. 103. © feare t&e iorne p tfjat tie tns faintest for t&ep p at feare Urn lacfce noting ♦ emone not t&e ancient lano bounty ana goe not into b 1 fcilocs of t&e father* leffe for be t&at teoeemetb tbem i0 migbtier be toiil oe* fenne t&eir caufe againfl tt)ce. Iprot), 23. [ 6 3 J §£et pour communication be ape ape nape nape : foe tobat fouet 10 mote tban tbi0 is finne* a^att* t>. 37. eare Ipetbe William l£>atton fonne of 3!obn J£>atton, fonne of aEU^abetbe patron naugbtec ano Scire of fcQiUtam i^oiocnbie: on tobofc foule 3lefu0 baue mercte. On another flab of dark grey marble, two fliields gone, is this infcription — Corpus eras pulcbrum feo non fine pectore corpus, %ic tibi re, C&oma laus ao utraque futt, Ce 3lut)enem terris raptumDeus tntulit aflris en. N the name of God Amen I William Haldenby of Haldenby in the Countie of North' Esqwyer being in gude mynd &c the xviij th day of July in the yeare of oure Lord God m'cccclxxxxvij or- deyne and make my teftament and laft will in forme here folowing . Firfte I bequeth my foule to God Al- myghty 8rc and my body to be buryed in the chapell of our Lady in the paryffh chyrche of Haldenby before- fayde . Item I bequeth for my mortuary that thing that right and cuftom fhall require to be due . Also I bequeath to the «p chyrche of Haldenby aforefayde xx s and to th'ygh auter in the fame chyrche iij" iiij and to the chyrche of Eft-hadden iij s iiij d and to the chyrche of Brampton iij s iiij fl and to the chyrche of Spratton iij s iiij d and to the chyrche of Ravenfthorp iij d iiij d and [ ni J- ] to the chyrche of Harlefton iij s iiij d and to ev'ry houie of the freres of Northampton to ev'ry houfe of them iij s iiij d and to the chapell of Mary Mawdelen in Teton xx d and to the chapell of Saynt Mychaell in Eft-haddon atorefayd xx d . And I wyll and ordayne that myne executors hyre a convenient p'fte to fyng and pray for my fowle the fowle of M'get my wyfe of my fathyr and my mothyr and for all my aunceftors fowles in the fayde chyrch of Haldenby by the fpace of vj yerys after my decefe next followyng and for all Chriften fowles the fayd prefte takyng yerely of myne executors for hys falary v 11 vj s viij d . Alfo I wyll and ordayne that my feffees which ben enfeffed to myne ufe fuffyr myn execu- tors to have and receive of and in my faid landes c li of lawfull money to the ufe and behofe of the marriage of Joys my doghter of my whyche doghter I wyll myn executors have the keepyng and governance till fhee by thyr advyfe be maryed . Alfo I wyll that my sayde doghter Joyes have yearly for hyr fyndyng and fuften- ance till flie be maryed iiij H . Alfo I bequeth to Alys Haldenby vj H xiij* iiij d — xx ti ftiepe all my pewter veflels and the refydue of my olde brafie for hyr gude and dili- gent attendans to me in myn infirmayte . Alfo I be- quethe to my syster Elsabeth c s . Alfo I bequeth to ech of my God chyldern by me cryftened i fheepe . Alfo to Richard Hutton I bequeth c s and iiij 1 by the fpace of iij yeres next after my decefe yerely for his exhibicon to the scole and then to bynd him aprentice to fuch convenient crafte as myn executors {hall thynke gude . [ * ] Alfo I wyll and ordeyne that John Haldenby the eldyr have the ov r sight and gethryng and recevying of my rentes landes and ten'tes and of the repacon of the fame takynge yerely for his labor in that behalfe xiij R iiij' 1 as long as he so occupyth and onys in t9y yere during his fayde occupance to accompte for and of the pmyfles to his co-executors . Alfo I vvyl and ordayne that my fayde feofres to my ufe suffre myn executors pefabully to have and injoye al the iffues rentes pfets and revenues comyng and ryfing of and upon my fayde landes and ten'tes w h theyr ap(?ten- ances to thentent to pay my detts and to pforme and fulf)ll this my teflament and laft wyll . Alfo X wyll and ordevn that myn executors and ev ,y of them (hall have and perceyve of my rentes iffues and pfites comying of my fayde landes nowe in my fayd feffes handes for all fyche codes and expenfes and chearges as fhal happyn them to have for and in perform- yng of my wyll to the ful contentyng and recom- penfe of the fame . Alfo I wyll and bequethe to my s'vant Thos Efe ij ewes and ij lambes and to ev'ry of myn othyr Svauntes j ewe and j lambe . Alfo I wyll and ordeign that ev r> of myn executors have for theyr labor xl* . Alfo I wyll and ordeign that my grete braffe pott conteynyng xxx tj galons the braffe pott conteynyng viij galons the braffe pott conteynyng vj galons fylv r goblet vj fi!v r fponys with all othyr (land- ings and heyr lomes groundefaft and nailefafte be kept [ vj. ] faved and leffte in my hede place and mane? of Hal- denby aforefayde to the ufe and behofe of John HaU denby the younger my fon and heire and of his heires ♦ Alfo I gyff and bequeth to my fayde doghter Joyes my beft fether bed iij payre of my beft ftiets j payer of the beft blanketts my best cov'lett w h my befte curtens iij gyrdells hernefed w h sylv r and gylte and iij payre of awmbre beds . The refidue of my godes and catelles in this my prefent teftament not geven nor bequathed I wyll y* myn executors fafely kepe them or the price and value of them to the ufe and pfett of my faide son John Haldenhy if he lefe to his full age of xxj yeres and ellys to difpofe them aft r theyr discrecon in payment of my dettes and performyng of my will and legacys for the helthe of my foule . Alfo I will and ordeign that all and ev ry covanants made and agreed betwen me and John Cateftjy of Olthorp efquyer be truly kept and pformed in ev ry poynt and article accordyng to the true effect and extent as ys more playnly specifyed in certan Indentures made betwen me and hym baring date on the xxij th day of the moneth of May in the xiij th yere of the regn of Kyng Henry the vij th this prefent teftament and laft wyll or any othyr thyng in any other wyse notwithftandyng . Alfo I ordeygn and make Sir Robart Guarejburgh clerk Robert Haldenby Richard Haldenby and the fayde John Haldenby the elder myne executors to execute and pforme this my laft wyll and ordy nance truly for my foule as they [ vij. ] ftial anfwer tog T at th'ygh day of judgment . Yeven the day befor fayd thefe witnefs William Halam clerke John Leche theld r Symon Eve John Reye Harry Forthe and others. From the MSS. Collection of Mr. Cattel, Peterborough. pc HotWfnp ana cannot of M&eniJj?* f tn tfje Count? of iQort&tom LL that capitall Meffuage, or noble Manfion Houfe, with the appurtenances, commonly called Holdenby Houfe, fcituate, lying and 'being in the towne or parifh of Holdenby, in the County of North tn , a great part of which houfe is built with freeftone and the ffront thereof a beautiful Gate- Houfe, or Porters Lodge, with two large fquare greene Courtes leading up with three afcents into the chief Manfion Houfe, the inward Court whereof being laid with ftone on every fide, and incompaffed about with a ffair Gallery on the eaft, on the fouth with the ftately Lodgings commonly called the King's LodgingSy on the north with the Lodgings called the Queenes Lodgings^ on the weft with the Hall and Kitchens, there being likewife at every corner of the faid inward fquare ffoure magnificient Towers or [ «. ] Turretts, and in the faid Houfe many coftly and rare Chimney Pieces, many other fpacious Chambers, and With-drawing Roomes to them belonging, itt being a Houfe of very great Receipt alfoe ; upon the fouth eaft of the aforefaid Manfion Houfe is a goodly ffabrick built of hewn ftone, comonly called the Dairy Houfe, confifting of many ffaire large roomes ; on the north eaft of the aforefaid Manor House is a fpacious large Stable, well built with ftone, containing over itt many ffaire Lodging Chambers, with chimneys in them, a great part of which have Cellars under them ; on the eaft end of the faide Stable, called the Brew-houfe, with all utenfills thereunto belonging ; on the fouth fyde of the faide Manfion Houfe is a pleafant, fpacious, and ffaire Garden, adorned with feverall long Walkes, Mounts, Arbors, and feates, with curious delightfull Knotts, and in which Garden are many ffruite trees of divers kinds ; on the fouth of the faid Garden is a large Orchard, well planted, commonly called the Lower Orchard, fett artificially in Walkes with feveral Afcents, and in the faid Orchard are Six ffifti-ponds, well ftored ; on the weft of the aforefaid Garden, lyeth another Orchard, comonly called the Upper Orchard, planted with feveral ffrute trees, and in itt a long fiiady Walke; on the north fyde of the faid Orchard, is a large Bowling Alley, and on the north and weft of the faid Bowling Alley, are two Walks artificially fet with well grown trees, and in the north weft corner of the faid Walks there is a pleafant Mountt ; on the [ * ] weft fyde of the aforefaid Garden and Upper Orchard, are two Spinneys, well fett and growne with A flies, and in them variety of delightful Walkes, and on the eaft fide of the faid Spynneys, is a ffaire Water Houfe, with a very large Cifterne, into which water is conveied by feveral leaden Pipis, from Sundry Heades, which serves the wholl Houfe, with all the Offices thereunto belonging ; the aforefaid Manfion Houfe and Pre- mifles are bounded eaft with a parcell of Ground, called the Green, being part of Holdenby Parke, and the faid Manfion Houfe and Premifies are fcituate eaft on the Groundes bordering uppon Eaft Haddon : and all wayes, paflages, lights, eafements, waters, water- courfes, commodities, advantages, and appurtenances, whatfoever to the aforefaid Manfion or Court Houfe, and fcite thereof, or any part or parcell thereof, in any wife belong' or appertaining, conteining by admeafure- ment 38 acres 01 roods, which are value per annum. 38 : 01. — ciij/. xs. in]d. Memorandum^ We have valued the aforefaid Houfe and Premifes at one hundred and three pounds per annum, in confideration that the fame may be fett forth and divided into feveral comodious habitations, with fufficient accommodation to each of them. The faide Houfe is fomething out of repaire, in refpect there are some defedls in the Lead and Tyling. [ xj. ] Wee have taken a view of the feverall materialls thereof, and doe eftimate the fame, togeather with the materialls of the feveral Out-houfes and Offices there- unto belonging, to be worth in tymber, lead, tyle, brick, ftone, glafle, and yron uppon the place, befide the charge of taking down, alfoe confidered, att six thoufand pound. vi.m./. The fcite thereof, if itt fhall be thought fitt to be demoliftied, when the faide materialls are cleared off, will be worth p • . annum. 02 : oo. — xxj. Barber Hill. All that clofe of Pafture, called Barber Hill, bounded eaft with the aforefaide Parke, and on the weft with a parcell of ground, called Church Wood, cont. by admeafurement. 14: 00. — xiiij/ ooi". oo*/. Church Wood. All that piece or parcell of ground, commonly called Church Wood, bounded on the eaft with Barber Hill, and on the weft with the demefne grounds, cont. by admeafurement. 25 : 00. — xviij/. xvs. ood. Eajl Haddon Spiney. All that piece of ground comonly called Eaft C 4- 1 Haddon Spynney, bounded north on the Highway that leads from Holdenby to Eaft Haddon, cont. by admeafurement fix acres. 06 : 00. — oil. 00s. ood. Rame Clqfe Spinney. All thofe three Spinnys of ground being in Ramme Clofe, cont. by admeafurement feven acres and two roodes. 07 : 00. — oil. ovs. ood. T wo Spinneys on the South fyde of the Parke. All thofe two Spinneys, fcituate on the fouth fyde of the faid Parke, without the pale thereof, the one bounded eaft with Church Brompton jffield, and north with Delfe Meadow ; the other bounded north with the Parke Pale, and weft with Twigdens Mea- dow, both conteining by admeafurement two acres. 02 : 00. — 00/. vij\ viijV. Sowry Holmes. All that parcell of Meadow ground commonly called Sowry Holmes, bounded north with Tetton River, and west on Eaft Haddon ffield, cont. by admeafurement feventeen acres and one rood. 17 : 01. — x/. y\)s. ood. Holdenby Parke. All that parcell of impaled ground commonly called Holdenby Parke, fcituate, lying, and being [ xii j- ] in the Parifh of Holdenby, bounded with the Towne fFeilds of Church Brampton and Chapel Brampton eaft, and on the fouth with Delfe and Twigden Meadows, on the weft with the Manfion Houfe of Holdenby, and north on the Highway that leads from Holdenby to Church Brampton, and conteines in the wholl by admeafurement five hundred acres and two roodes. 500 : 02. — ccc/. ovs. ood. There are within the faid Parke at prefent two hundred or upward of Deere of feverall fortis, which wee value to be worth cc/. Wyld CattelL There are alfoe within the faid Parke eleven Cowes and three Calves of Wyld Catell, which we value xlijV. Tymber Trees. The Tymber Trees and other Trees now {landing and growing within the faid Parke, being in number two thoufand eight hundred and feventeen, for the moft part good Tymber Trees, and are worth in groffe upon the place, the tyme of converting them into money alfoe confidered, one thoufand and ten pounds ffive shillings. mx/, vs. [ xiv - 3 Brew Houfe Spinney. There is in the north weft corner of the aforefaid Parke a certaine Spynney of Afhe, comonly called the Brewhoufe Spinney, the foile whereof, with number of acres, are valued and comprehended in the value and meafure of acres in the aforefaid Parke, and is worth in grofle uppon the place, the time of con- verting it into money alfoe confidered, one hundred feventy two pounds and tenne {hillings. clxxij/. xs. Althrop Spinney. There is alfoe one other little Spinney on the fouth weft corner of the faid Parke, commonly called the Althropp Spynney, the foile whereof, with number of acres, are valued and comprehended in the value and meafure of acres in the faid Parke, and is worth in grofle upon the place, the time of converting it into money all confidered, three pounds. iij/. Under Wood. There is in the aforefaid Parke, on the eaft fide thereof, for the mod part certain Vefture or Under- wood, which is well growne, and lyeth open to the faid Parke, the foile whereof, with number of acres, are valued and comprehended in the value and mea- fure of acres in the faid Parke, which Underwood or [ xv. ] Vefture is worth in grofle upon the place, the time of converting it into money alfoe confidered, v c lxxvi/. xs. Tymber Trees and other Woods belonging to the Man/ton Houfe The Tymber Trees and other Trees, with the Spynneys, now ftanding within the Orchards, Bowl- ing Alley, Walkes, and faid Spynnys, belonging to the aforefaid Manfion Houfe, being in number three hundred feventy fix, befides the wood contained in the faid Spynneys, are worth upon the place, the time of converting them into money allfoe confidered, ffoure hundred fixty three poundes and twelve ftiillings. iiij c lxiij/. xi]s. ood. Under Wood. There is likewife in the Lower Orchard, in the fouth eaft corner of the faid Orchard fouth from the Man- fion Houfe, one parcell of Underwood ftanding and growing there, which we value to be worth in grofle upon the place, the time of converting itt into money alfoe confidered, three poundes. iij/. Church Wood Spinney. The Tymber Trees and other Trees, with the Spin- ny now ftanding and growing in a parcel of ground comonly called the Church Wood, being in number [ xvi. ] 404 trees, befides the Spinney, which wee value to be worth in groffe upon the place, the time of converting the fame into money allfoe confidered, two hundred fixty three pounds twelve {hillings. ij c lxiij/. xijj. Weft Haddon Spinney. The Timber Trees and other Trees now ftanding and growing in that parcell of ground called Eaft Haddon Spinney, itt confifting moft of Aftie, we va- lue to be worth in groffe upon the place, the time of converting it into money alfoe confidered, one hun- dred thirty fix pounds. i c xxxvi/. Ramme Clofe Spinney. The Timber Trees and other Trees now ftanding and growing in the three parcells of ground com- monly called Ramme Clofe Spinneys, wee value to be worth in groffe upon the place, the time of convert- ing them into money allfoe confidered, one hundred fixteen pounds eighteen {hillings and twopence. i c xvi/. xviij.c. \}d. Two Spinneys without the Pale of the Parke South. The Timber Trees and other Trees now ftanding and growing in the two little Spinneys on the fouth fide of the faid Park without the Pale, wee value to be worth in groffe upon the place, the time of [ xvij. ] converting them into money allfoe confidered, twenty one pounds twelve /hillings and eightpence. xxi/. xijs. viijd. Ffranchise. There is belonging to the faid Parke a certaine Ffraunchise or Liberty, extending one pole without the Parke from the Stable Lane to the High Style on the eaft fyde of the faid Parke, and from the High Style to Delfe Meadow remaines in difpute betweene the Lord and the adjacent inhabitants. Reprifes. Thomas Lord Grey of Groby, by graunte from the Right Honb. the Committee for Publique Revenues, hath a pattent as Chiefe Rainger and Keeper of the Manfion Houfe of Holdenby, with the apurtenances thereto belonging, and alfoe of the aforefaid Parke, with all priveledges, profitts, and emoluments whatfo- ever, which the late Earle of Northampton, by graunte from the King, formerly had or ought to have en- joyed, which wee humbly leave to your former con- fideration. There are lately two hedge rows cut, which Major Bingley is ready to be accomptable to the State for, and were done for the prefervation of them, they having been cut and fpoiled by the adjacent poore : yett the faid Major claimeth them as his proper fees belonging [ xvii j- ] to his office. There hath been waftes lately made by Major Bingley cutting down of certain timber trees in his part at East Haddon Spinney, on the north fide of the Parke, which we value at v/. There hath been killed fince the 17 th of July laft paft, of deere, by the oath of Henry Smith, Under Keeper of the aforefaid Parke, four brace and the half of deere, by order from the Lord Grey. Memorandum. All the Rents, Royaltys, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, with Two Pondes not fformerly in- ferted, the Parke on the eaft of the faid Manfion Houfe, the other, north in the Holme Clofe, all which, with the before mentioned premifes, are in prefent pof- feflion, and doe amount unto, in the total, upon the improvement according to the former valuations, per annum, 612: 02. — iiij c xlix/. xs. and the groffe values of the faide Manfion Houfe, Deere, and Wilde Cattell, with the Wood on the pre- mifes, in prefent pofleffion, in all ix m viij/. xixs. xd. [ xix. ] fereafter foilntoetfc tfee particular 0 of ail fuel) fi,anoe0, Cencmenw, anu fymnit* ament0 $ belonging to t&e ^anor of ipolDenf)? aforcfatn, a0 are unner aemife anu graunte for Hcafe or Cerme of pttm. LL that Mefluage or Tenement, with the Appurtenances, now in the prefent occupa- tion of Ffrancis Ffurnace, fcituate, lying, and being in the Parifh of Holdenby, parcel of the aforefaid Manor, confifting of one Hall, Parlour, Kitchen, with ffive chambers above |p flairs, and loftes over them, with a little ffould yard. o/. xx^. ood. One fmall Clofe or Pafture, called the Shearing Clofe, bounded fouth with the Stable yard, and part of the Parke eaft, in all containing by eftimacion. 02 : 00. — i/. xs. ood. One Clofe of Pafture ground, called the Kitchen Clofe, bounded on the eaft with the Stable Spynneys, and weft [ xx. ] with part of the Oxe Pafture, and butting north on the lane leading from Holdenby to Eaft Haddon, contein- ing by eftimacion ffour acres. 04: 00. — iijV. One Clofe of Pafture ground, comonly called the Oxe Pafture, bounded on the weft with Eaft Haddon Ffield, and fouth with the Water Houfe Spinney and Church Wood, and butting north on Holdenby Lane, conteining by eftimacion one hundred forty eight acres. 148 : 00. — i c xi/. One Clofe of ground, called the Stable Clofe, bounded fouth with the great Stable, and weft on the Stable Spin- ney, conteining by eftimacion ffive acres. 05 : 00. — iij/. xvs. ood. One parcel of Meadow ground, part of the Lawne Meadow, bounded north on the Church Wood, and weft with part of the Oxe Pafture, conteining by eftimacion eleven acres. 1 1 : 00. — viij/. ovs. ood. All that Meffuage or Tenement, with the Appurten- ances, fcituate, lying, and being on the fouth weft fyde of the Lordfhip of Holdenby, confifting of three Bayes ftanding in Ballards Ffield, now in the occupacyon of Mr. Oliffe. 102: 00. — cli/. xs. ood. [ xxi. ] One ffield, called Ballards Ffield, now fett out into three divifions, bounded on the weft with Haddon Ffield, and eaft with the great Lawne Meadows, but- ting north on the Oxe Pafture, in all conteining by eftimacion. 102: 00. — cli/. xj. 00^. One Clofe of Pafture land, called Ramme Clofe, bounded on the weft with Haddon Ffield, and eaft on Althorpe Ffield, conteining by eftimacion. 19: co. — xiiij/. vs. ood. One Parcell of Meadow, part of the Lawne Meadow, bounded on the weft with Ballards Clofe, and eaft with the Parke, and butting fouth with Twigden's Meadow, conteining by eftimacion. 27 : 00. — xxvij/. 00s. ood. All that Meftuage or Tenement, called the Inn, in Holdenby, now in the prefent occupation of Widow Hayton, conteining one Hall, a Parlour, Kitchen, and fome other neceffary roomes below ftaires, and a Cel- lar under them, with tenn chambers over them, and Garretts over them. One Stable, containing ffour Bayes, with two Barnes, containing fix Bay, with a large ffould yard, and one Clofe of Pafture ground, called the Hynde Clofe, bounded on the weft with the Stable Lane, and fouth with the Stable yard, con- teining by eftimacion. 03 : 00. — ij/. vj. ood. [ xxi J- ] One Clofe of Pafture, called the Holme Clofe, divided into ffoure parts, butting on Holdenby Mill weft, and bounded north with Spratton Ffields, and eaft on Brampton Ffields, conteining by eftimacion 28 : 00. — xiiij/. ooj-. One Parcell of Meadow ground, called Harper's Holmes, bounded north with Spratton Ffields, and eaft with the Holdenby Mill, and bounded fouth with the River, conteining by eftimacion. 1 1 : 00. — viL xiy. ood. All that Tenement, called the Mill, fcituate and being in the Lordftiip of Holdenby, bounded north with Spratton Ffields, eaft with the Mill Clofe, and with a Small Parcel of Meadow, called the Holme, conteining by eftimacion, 00 : 03. with the Ffifhings, and all other profitts appertaining to the faid Mill. vijV. ij^. \\\)d. All that Mefluage or Tenement, with the Appur- tenances, fcituate, lying, and being in Parifti of Hol- denby, now in the prefent occupation of Mr. Manby, confifting of a Hall, Parlour, and Kitchen, with two Lofts over them, bounded on the weft end of the Mill Ffield. i/. 00s. ood. One Clofe of Pafture, called the Windmill Clofe or Ffield, now divided into two divifions, bounded on the weft with the North Ffields, and eaft with Brampton Ffields, butting north on that part of Cradocks Mea- dow which is bounded north with Tetton Ffield, and weft on Tetton Mills, and eaft on Holdenby Mill, containing in all by eftimacion, 217 : co. — cxlx/. ixj. viiji. One Clofe of Pafture ground, called Holme Ffield, bounded north with the aforefaid Windmill Ffield, and fouth with Holdenby Parke, butting eaft on Brampton Ffield, and weft on the North Ffield One other Clofe of Pafture ground, called the Ramme Clofe, bounded on the fouth with the aforefaid Holme Ffield, and north with the Windmill Ffield, and butting weft on the North Ffield, both conteining by eftimacion. 179 : 00. — cxxxiiij/. ovs. ood. One Parcell of Meadow ground, being part of the Lawne Meadow, bounded on the eaft with Holdenby Parke, and butting north on Barber Hill, conteining by eftimacion. 42 : 00. — xlij/. 00s. ood. All that Tenement, fcituate and being in the Mill Ffield, adjoyning to the Houfe of Mr. Lawrance Man- by, confirming of two Bays of building. One Pafture orround, called the Neither North Ffield, and eaft with [ xxiv. ] the Windmill Ffield, butting north on Sowry Holmes, and in all conteining by eftimacion. 124: 00. — lxviij/. iiijj. ood. Alfoe one Parcell of Meadow, in the Lawne Mea- dow, called Halfe the Meadow, late in the tenure of Elizabeth Bretton and Ffrancis Mewte. 13 : 00. — x/. viiji. ood. One Parcell of Pafture ground, called the Upper North Ffield, bounded fouth with the Oxe Pafture, and north with the Neither North Ffield, and weft upon Haddon Ffield, and eaft upon Ramme Clofe, and Holme Clofe, conteining by eftimacion. 114: 00. — lxxiiij/. i]s. ood. One other part of the Lawne Meadow, called Halfe the Meadow, late in the tenure of Elizabeth Bretton and Ffrancis Mewte, bounded fouth weft with Ballardes Ffield, conteining by eftimacion. 15 : 00. — x/. viiji. ood. All thofe Meadows, called Delfe Meadow and Twig- dens Meadow, bounded north with Holdenby Parke Pale, and fouth with Althorpe Ffield and Brampton Ffield, butting weft on Ballards Ffield, and eaft on Brampton Ffield, in all conteining by eftimacion. 27 : 00. — xxiL xiys. ood. [ XXV. ] Memorandum. The MefTuages, Landes, and Premiffes before mentioned, that are under demife, were by the late King Charles, by his Letters Pattents, bearing date the third of July, in the tenth year of his rayne, demifed to the Earl of Elgin and Sir Tho s Ffanshaw, kt., in truft and for the ufe of Sir Tho s Hatton, kt., for 17 yeares, to commence from the determination of a fformer leafe of the premiffes, made on the xxvij th of July, in the fecond of King Charles, for xxi yeeres, which laft men- tioned leafe was to commence and take place att the Lady daye before the date thereof, which was in con- federation of a fine of five hundred pounds, and paying and allowing yeerely clxxx/. xxs. vd. att Michaelmas and Lady day, by equall portions. But they are worth, uppon improvement, as by the particulars before ap- peareth, over and above the faid, rent per annum, vi c lxxxij7. xvijs. id. The LefTee is to keepe the premiffes in good repaire, and at the end of the terme foe to leave them. Hee is allowed all necefTary Bootes, to be fpent on the premiffes and not elfwhere. All Woodes and Underwoods (except for necefTary Bootes), with Mynes and Quarries, are referved to the LefTor. There is by Covenant made by King James ifluing out of the demefnes lands, a certain ftipend to the Minifter yerely. 44 : 00. [ xxvi. ] There was xiiij yeeres to come and unexpired in the aforementioned graunte on the five and twentieth day of March laft paft. There are ftanding and growing uppon the demifed premiffes in the Stable yard, fforty tymber trees, which wee value to be worth in all, xx/. There is a certaine wafte of Wood on the ground, now in the tenure of Mr. Mewte, to the value of vij/. There is a Windmill lately delapidated. April the 6th, 1650. William Prior, Thomas Baynard, Joseph Barbor, Richard Sadler. Ex d by William Webb, Surveyor General, 1650. 5T 0 Mr. Colburne, Regifter to the Hon hl Truftees, fitting at Worcefter Houfe, thefe prefent. Honoured Sur, HERAS we have in our Survey of the fcite of the Manor Houfe, of Holdenby, together with the Gardens, Orchards, Fruit Trees, Fifli Ponds, &c, returned the valuation thereof to an hundred and three pounds ten /hillings and fourpence per annum : in xxvij . ] regard the houfe with its materialls is valued in grofTe and to be demolifhed : therefore we value the Gardens, Orchards, and reft of the grounds thereto adjoining, being thirty eight acres one road : with the profitts of the fame, to be worth per ann., twenty fix pounds two (hillings and fixpence. Auguft the Sixth, 1650. William Prior, Thomas Baynard, Richard Sadler. In the Calendars of the Land's Revenue Office , from which depofitory this Survey was copied, there are Leajes of Hoi den by : — One from Queen Henrietta to her Truftees for 4 years, to Thos. Lord Bruce, 14th Mar., 8 Charles I. A grant to Spencer, Earl of Northampton, of the Park, for 60 years or his life, 8 Charles I. Fees out of the Revenues of Holdenby. Keeper of Manfion, 40 marks. Parfon of Holdenby, 44 pounds. Keeper of Park, 10 pounds, and Grafs for fix Kine and two Naggs, and twenty loads of Wood. Two men at \iL a day : one at 6d. Pantlefs, the Parfon's Meadow, and Warner's Holme, are mentioned in one of thefe leafes. No. No. No. No. No. No. 74- 75- 76. 77- 78 79- n 3lnoentor£ of $008* belonging to t&e late l&irig at &olmog ^oufe. lu s. d HREE Brafs Pots - -300 No. 73. Efculapius's Head on a Round Pedeftal 13 o o Sold to Mr. Deerith for do. A Man's Head with a Naked Bust - 20 o o Sold to do. A Man's Head on a Round Pedeftal 20 o Sold to do. A Head of Francis on a Pedeftal -15 o Sold to do. An Old Woman's Head on a Round Pedeftal - - - - 10 o Zeno's Head on a Pedeftal - 100 Sold to do. A Man's Head and Buft - -150 Sold to do* o o o o [ xxix. ] lu s. d. No. 80. A Woman's Head - - - 1500 No. 81. A Soldier's Head and Neck - - 10 o o No. 82. A Nero - - - - 15 00 No. 83. A Head and Buft -600 No. 84. A Boy's Head - - - 1000 No. 85. A Woman's Head - - - 10 o o n 3fn«entot]P of tbe ^ootiai of tfre late King at $>oimfcg tyoufe* lu s. d. WO great Fifli Pans - - 2 10 o Two fmall do. - - 07 o Nineteen Broaches - - -150 Three large Grid-irons - 100 A Spit Rack - - - - -0 60 In the Brew Houfe. A large Copper - - - - -20 00 Three Fatts and three Coolers - - 150 0 A large Ciftern of Lead - - - 30 o o One Billiard Board - - - - 200 One White Wild Bull and eight Cows - 38 o o [ XXX. ] In the Lords Grey's Cujlody, viz. g s ^ Three large Brafs Potts - - - -500 Two great Pans to Boil Fifli - - 200 Two Broaches - - - - - 300 A large Grid- iron - - - - 060 In the Cujlody of Mr. F. Crejfett. A Brafs Pot - - - - - - 0150 A Brafs Pan - - - - - 050 Six Broaches - - - - - 060 A Dripping Pan - - - - 040 [ xxxi. ] jrtract from tbe eburcbtoatoen*0 TPoofc, of TBrington. xvj d in 1608 Auguft 5. ^AID at yee Kenges comeing m to Hombe, to the ringgares ale, ii6io. Auguft 10. Pd. to them [the Ringers] at the Queenes removeing from Hombey ij 8 vj 4 1 627. Item, Spent of the Ringers when the Queene was at Holdenby xij 4 1634. (N.B. Between July 12 and Michaelmas.) Item, Pd. Ringers when the Kinge came to Holmeby - - - - - 00 02 08 1636. Spent of the Ringers when the Queene came to Holmeby - - - 00 01 02 Spent of the Ringers when the Queene went from Holmeby - - - - 00 03 00 (N.B. Follows entry 24th of June.) [ xxxij. ] ptract from 11 g>peculi iBtitanniae i^ars altera i or a Delineation of J!3ert&* Urire* 'Bp t&e Craoaple of 3|ofm Jl3or* Den in tfje gear mfccr. ILonBon* printeu in tf>e pear mticcn; " OLDENBY is a little mile from Eaft Had- don, or, rather as may be thought Eaft Hatton, wheare your Honors Progenitors weare very aunciently feated. And wheare ^r^^^^ffifi nowe your good Lord (hip hath erected a 1 moft ftately monument, a very beautiful buildinge, erected with fuch uniformitie, and fo anfwerablye contrived as for the quantitie and qualitie, is not to be matched in this lande. In the Hall of the fame houfe, theare are raifed three Peramides, very high, ftandinge, infteade of a Shryne, the midft whearof afcendeth unto the Roofe of the Hawll ; the other two equall with the fyde Walls of the fame Hawll ; and on them are depainted the Armes of all the Gentle- men of the fame Shire, and of all the Noblemen of this lande. The fcituation of the fame Howfe is very plea- fantlie contrived, mountinge on an hill, environed with moft ample and lardge Fields and goodly Paftures, [ xxxii > ] manie yonge Groves newly planted, both pleafant and profitable, Fifhe Ponds well replenished, a Parke ad- joyninge of Fallowe Deare, with a large Warren of Conyes, not far from the houfe, lyinge between Eaft Haddon and Long Bugbye. Aboute the houfe are greate ftore of Hares. And above the reft is efpecially to be noated with what industrye and toyle of man, the Garden hath bene raifed, levelled, and formed out of a moft craggye and unfitable grounde now framed a moft pleaiante, fweete, and princely place, with divers Walks, manie afcendings and defcendings, replenifhed alfo with manie delightful Trees of Fruite, artificially compofed Arbors, and a Deftilling Houfe on the weft end of the fame Garden, over which is a Ponde of Water, broughte by conduite pypes, out of the feyld adjoyninge on the weft quarter of a myle from the fame houfe. To con- clude, the ftate of the fame Houfe is fuch, and fo beautifull, that it may well delight a prince. [ xxxiv. tract from $it 3luftintan 310mm** 3lournaU w 17 16. Sept. 2nd. KNT to Holdenby, where the remains fhew its former magnificence. A Gateway has Arms quartered on the top. Near a hog-ftye are two pyram- idal pillars, on which are feveral Coats of Arms, painted in colours, Compten, Brudenell, Mordaunt, Knightly, Flattan, 1583. In the Church an ancient Font, with the Arms of Holdenbie impaling others, and a Monument of a perfon in wood, faid to be an Holdenbie ; a Helmet and Sword lies upon it. Some painted Glass in the Windows. Near the houfe are Lime Walks, in which Charles the First, as Prifoner, ufed to delight to walk. GALLANT NEWS FOR LONDON FROM His Majefties Royall Court at Holmby; VIZ. The 1. Concerningthe Kingdome of Ireland 2. Concerning General Fairfax. 3. Concerning the Kingdome of England. Printed and publiftied, and to be prefented to the view of all His Majefties loyall Subjects, 1647. JOYFULL NEWES FROM HOLMBY. HE Clouds of England are now dif- folved, and her bright Star begins to appear in its full luftre, having fleered its Coaft towards the Southern Climate ; !fo that this poor difconfolated Kingdom, doth now begin to difcern a glimpfe of that glorious light which formerly fhe enjoyed, who for thefe four or five yeares, laft paft, hath been over fhadowed and eclipfed, by many poyfoning Fogs, and unfavory Vapours. And had it not pleafed God (out of his abundant of mercies) to enlighten this poor Kingdom with many pure and bright Stars (by calling a blefled Parliament), this languifhing Nation had been in a mofl fad condition. But by the great wifdome and care of [ xxxviij. ] thefe renowned Patriots, the great Pillars of obfcurity are quite broken and caft down, and a moft pure and cleer Lanthorn fet up within this Kingdome, that 10 the light of the Gofpel may fhine forth in abundance thorow out all the dark corners thereof. But for the more full and firme eftablifhing of this Gofpel -light, the Eftates of both Kingdomes doth humbly befeech his Majefty to give the Royal aflent, for the enacting of the Government of the Church of England, now fet up and eftablifhed by the great Coun- cel thereof. But as yet his Majefty cannot approve of the Directory ; and faith, he cannot joyn in faying Amen to fuch praying as is againft his Confcience, his Majefty, wil not as yet condefcend to hear the Englifti Divines preach, but faith, he doth (in part) approve of their prayer, if they would but infert the word (Queen). There were great tryumph at Northampton upon Tuefday laft, when the tydings were brought, that his Majefty were neere Holmby, the Bells rang, and the greet Guns went of, infomuch, that a gallant echo made its appeal at Holmby, and the found thereof did much reioyce his Maiefties heart ; who little thought, that the joy of his fubiects would have beene so great at the arrivall of his Royal perfon. Multitudes of people reforted to welcome his Maiefty, the Road from Harborow to Holmby being adorned with thoufands and thoufands of fpedlators, crying with a loud voice (God blefle your Maiefty) the King fmil- ing upon them, pafled along cheerfully, faying, he hoped [ xxxix. ] this Journey would prove a profperous voyage, both to him and his Pofterity. Many hundreds of the Gentry of Northamptonfhire, met his Maiefty two miles on this fide Harborow, and accompanied his Maiefty to Holmby. The bells rang in every town that his Mai. pafied through which annexed a double ioy to his Royal heart, caufing many a fmile from his Princely countenance. At his arrival at Holmby, there was a gallant guard appointed for his Maiefty to pafte by, who entred in at the great Court Gate, being accompanied by the Com- miffioners of both Kingdoms, who deport themfelves with much gallantry, performing the truft repofed in them faithfully and their obedience to their Liege- Soveraign moft loyall. He entred the houfe in great tryumph, and in a moft fumptuous maner, taking fome delight in conferring with the Commiftioners about fome points concerning the Directory ; they leave no meanes unaflayed, that may any wayes prove effe&ual, for the perfwading and gayning of his Maiefties Royal aflent, to figne the Propofitions, and take the Covenant ; which we hope, will ere long prove effectual, defiring to hear that the tryumphant found, and comfortable eccho, of the uniting both of Prince and Subject, that fo peace and truth may flourifh within his Maiefties Dominions. Provifions is very deare at all the adiacent townes near the Court, efpecially at Northampton, where Butter is fold for fixpence a pound, a loafe for two- C *i. ] pence, that wants above three Ounces of the ordinary weight, Corn at an extraordinary rate. One thing I fhall here infert, which is very requifite for publike view, concerning feverall remarkable pafiages and Propofitions which paffed between the King and his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, which I will intimate as followeth. Propofitions between the Kings tnoft excellent Maiefty^ and his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. [PON his Maiefties advance to Holmby his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax had fome conference with him, and after fome difpute together, his Majefty enquired much after the Lord Lille, and concern- the bufinefle of Ireland, and the Forces defired for Service, and other things in relation to preparations and profecutions of that War, His Maiefty alfo declared his will and pleafure to the Englifh Commiffioners, inti- mating his good affe&ion towards his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, faying, that he was a Souldier and a Gentleman of honour, his fidelity and renowned adlions being apparent to the world, further intimating, that he had proved faithfull to the truft repofed in him, and like a noble Generall, had performed all Articles, according to the conditions agreed upon, for the furrender of his [ xlij. ] Maiefties townes and caftles to the Parliament, and that he had kept his word faithfully with him ; for his per- formance herein, the greateft Monarchs will approve his fame. FINIS King CHAR LES his Royall welcome at bis happy and gracious return towards his Parliament; Who came on Munday, Feb. 15, to Holmby, in North- hamptonftiire in Peace. To the great joy and comfort of all true hearted fubjects. London Printed for G. R. 1647* King Charles his Welcome AT His happy returne to his Parliament, ORROW may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning (faith the Mufkall King and Prophet). England hath had a long night of forrow, the fun of her glory which was wont to ejaculate the fplendent rays of opulent magnificency (through all known Lands) hath of late years been fo eclipfed, that all her former luftre hath been involved in Cymerian darkneffe, the glittering of her own unnaturall fword did fo dazell her (par blind) eyes, that fhe could not fee hir own miferable ftate, and precipitation unto utter ruine ; nor move her hand to retex that unnaturall cord which tye her faft to deftrudtion. To reiterate the ftory of England 's late condition, would not be futable to" my prefent difcourfe, for my theame is joy, and~as I am a joy full fubject myfelfe (by [ xlvi. ] the nourishing of my hopes) I defire to excite others (by this fubject of Joy) to be joy full Subjects too : Give way thou fable night of Sorrow unto this illuftrious morning of Joy : Aurora is rifen in the Eaft, and the Northern Star is become our Hyperion ; the tenebrous clouds which did invelop our happinefle, are diflipated by the approaching fplendor of the Sun. Briefly, he whom we have (for a long time) fought and for whorrTwe have figh'd, fob'd, wept, pray'd, fafted (I, and fought too) to gain (that is our moft gracious and truly dread Soveraigne Gods annointed King Charles ) is now (by divination) with Peace and Joy, with ferenity and affedtion (after fo long abfence) coming to capitulate with his great Councell (the Parliament) concerning our malady and cure; to expreffe this generall exfaltation in its true dimenfions, let us forme in our fancafie the Idea of the Tribes of Ifrael when they came to Hebron, 2 Sam. 5 . 1., to choofe David for their King after the death of Saul and TJJibofheth his fon. We are, faid they, thy bones and thy flefli, ah ! sweet expreflion : So neer a connexion is there between all good Kings and their Loyall Subjedts. Such congratulations, or the like, doth Royall Charles meet with in his Princely Journall ; yet there are in England too many Jubufits that will fay to King Charles as thofe did to K. David, v. 6, unlejfe thou take away the lame and the blind thou /halt not come in hither, thefe lame judgments and blind affections, caufe them as they do fo mifconftrue his Royall adtions, making a Mountain of every Mole- hill of his imperfections ; but a religious David muft [ xlvii. ] expedt a gracelefle fliemei to curfe him and to call him bloody man, and man of Beliall, 2 Sam. 7, but on the contrary, all true hearted Subjedts will raife up a loyall ftrife, and ftir up a zealous contention among themfelves, who fhall have the moft or firft place or part, in bringing the King home to his houfe, and I doubt not but many good and gratefull men, remembering old grace, and favours, will like Mephibofheth and Barzilai, 2 Sam. 1 9, 22, 23., meet their long abfent Soveraign with con- gratulary entertainments and expreffions of extraordinary Joy, for his return. Come then beloved King unto thy beloved people, make glad the places of thy Royall prefence, and while thou abideft in one place, maift thou be with longing defire wifh'd for all places of thy Kingdome : may thy Subjedls flow to the fea of thy vertues as fmall rivers to the maine Ocean, and like faithfull Bees, let them bring fweet hony of obedience unto the juft hive of thy Pro- tection. Let them in the fofteft hearts hatch thy promifes, and let their tongues fing of thine honor. Let thy Adamantine goodnefle draw the iron hearts of thofe that are refractory unto their duty. Let them be turned back and put to confufion that feek thy hurt, Pfal. 70, 2. Let thefe be the reward of thine adverfaries from the Lord, and of them that fpeak evill againft thy Soule, Pfal. 109, 20. Let thine heart be found in the Statutes of the Lord, and enter thou with thy people into the Covenant of the Lord, Deut. 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1 Rev. 2, 3. Let thy Princely Jons be as plants grown up in their youth , [ xlviii. ] Pfal. 143, 12. Let thy "Daughters be as ft ones polifhed after the fimilitude of a Palace. Let all thine enemies be cloathed with Jhame, but upon thy Royall head let thy Crowne flourijh, Pfal. 132, 18. Let Peace be in all thy Lands, and plenty in all thy borders, let ( Englands Gods ) Ifrael rejoyce in their maker and let the children of Zion rejoyce in their King, Pfal. 89, 36. Let thy feed endure for ever, and thy throne as the Sun before God. Let not the foot of Pride come againfl thee, and let not the hand of the wicked remove thee, Pfal. 86, 11. Let not them that are thine enemies rejoyce over thee, neither let them wink with the eye that hate thee without a caufe. Let them fliout for joy and be glad that favour thy righteous caufe. Tea, let them fay continually, let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleajure in the profperity of his fervant. Let thy truft (0 my King) be in the Lord, and through the mercy of the moft high, thou /halt not be moved, Pfal. 21,7. Let thy days be as the dayes of heaven, and let thy feed be as the flars. Let all miftakingsjealoujies, and mifconftrufiions between thee and thy People be moved as far as the Raft is from the Weft, or the North from the South. Let thine eares be attentive to heare the found advice of thy People and let thine heart incline to the wholfome admonitions of thy great and grave Counfell the two Houfes of Parliament. Let the Counfell of honeft Hufliais prevaile with thy pious thoughts, 2 Samuel, 17, 1 5, 23, and let all falfe [ xlix. ] and trait erous Achitophels go hang them/elves, or the hang- man do it for them. Let all faction and partakings be laid ajide, and let charity and unity bind thee and thy People firmely together. Let thy exemplary conversation convert or confound all thine enemies. Let them all be afhamed who have fpoken evill againjl thy f acred mdjejly, when the univerfall eye /hall fee ( and acknowledge ) all thy actions to be grounded upon the foundation of grace and goodneJJe y and thy innocency purge thee from all infamous and treacherous calumnies. Let thy Piety and zeale towards God and his Church make all Hereticks, Schifmaticks and blinded Sectaries recant their damnable opinions, and return to their obedience of God, and his true Church, and of thee their lawfull King and the annointed of God. Thefe humble admonitions (and hearty wifhes moft gracious and dread Soveraign) our Loyall Subject prefent unto your Royall Majefty: not that they deem your Grace to want divine endocuments (having been alwaies taught and led by the Spirit of truth) but to fhow their inward zeale to your Highnefles liappineffe, honour and fafety : For out of the aboundance of the heart the tongue fpeaketh (faith the author of truth) and now gentle Readers (and Chriftian Countrymen) having fpoken (as is meake) to the King's Majefty himfelfe, Pie turn my ftile and fpeak to the fubject (off and) con- cerning the King's Majefty (doubtlefte not without evill [ i. 3 councel) from Oxford fcaping fecretly into the North, went in the Scottifh army (I wifh he had rather taken his journey to Westminfier ) where he had remained ever fince (and chiefly at Newcajlle) till now of late the Scots upon receit of foure hundred thoufand pounds (a goodly sum indeed as they repay for their fervice to the Parlia- ment) rendering up that and all other Garrifons and holes in England, raifed their Army to depart over Tweed, the honourable Houfes of Parliament taking into mature and ferious confederation, the deploreable condition of England, being (as it were) in the ftate of viduity without a hufband (or head) did out of their ferene judgments (and grave wifdomes) appoint certain honourable and defcreet Per- fonages from either Houfe to go as Commiffioners from the reft of them, the Parliament of England and to receive his Majefty from the hands of the Scottifh Commiffioners, into their cuftody, and to bring his Royall Grace with all due refpect honour and fafety to Majefties Princely Manor of Holmby in Northampton/hire, where (by divine Pro- vidence) he came after a little progrefle, being something retarded by reafon of white weather, on Munday the 1 5 of January inftant, where, for a while he keeps his Royall Court, I truft to God that very fhortly we fhall fend newes in the Country from London or Weftminifter of his gracious prefence there, in the interim, let us joy in our hopes of a faire correfpondency, and pray that this vifible (and orall) treaty (now in hand may produce a happy and honour- able union between his Sacred Majefty, the honourable Houfes of Parliament and all his Peace -wiftiing People. Great preparations were made at (and for) Holmby againft this Princely Gheft fhould come, 2 carts were laden with wine from the City of London, and divers other carts and carriages went both from City and Country for the tranfportation of Beer and other neceflaries for the Royall houfehold. Many of his Majefties old Servants are come to re- adminifter their duty and fervice unto him their Soveraign mafter, and 'tis too probably conjectured that all our for- mer clouds of forrow and difcontent fhall foon be exhaled by the beams of benignity on both fides, either party inclining to St. Paul's counfell, are willing to bear one anothers burden, and the Sea of hove which covers a multitude of fins fhall drown all State grudges. The King fhall comply with his Parliament, the Parliament agree with the King, the People in general fhall yeeld to Caesar his due, and Caesar (as he hath been) fhall con- tinue a gracious Soveraign to them. Briefly, The Kingdome fhall have Peace and Truth, the Churches uniformity and concord almoft quite loft, Ireland hopes of a fpeedy reduction, Sectaries and Blaf- phemers fhall be bridled (if not extirpated), and Church Government with true Religion eftablifhed. God grant it may, Amen. But now I think on't, I fhould do evill in omiflion of one thing very well worthy of recitall, which is this: Since his Sacred Majefty was firft delivered by the Scottifh Commiffioners to our Englifh Lords, a various rumour hath been whifpered by vox populi as [ lii. ] what they mean to do with the King, and though life, words (and thoughts) of fome being nourifhed by Loyall fear, and of others by fantafie, but my conclufion fhall be with the confidence that I have in the reality [and integrity] of the Parliament, whofe ferious Protec- tions (both Vocall and Literall) have fo often promis'd to the world, that not an haire of his Royall head fhall perifh, nor any hurt betyde his Sacred Perfon which lies in their power to anticipate, but on the contrary that they will rather adde to, then fubftradt from him any of (either) his juft Prerogatives or Revenues, making him a greater Monarch then before, either he or any of his anceftors or predeceflbrs, were this if it be certain (as queftionleffe it is) we fhall (by God's gracious permiflion) fee very fud- denly that the K. fhall rejoyce in God, Pfal. 63, it., who fweare by him lhall have glory, for the mouths (of evill fpeakers or) them that fpeake lyes shall be ftopped. Amen. Most Sacred Sovereign even with my foul, I wijh thee re-inthrond (without controlej, I am a Citizen that very fain Would view thy Royall Perfon here again ; Oh how both I and many thoujands more Think long to fee thee as thou wert before. Thy Princely ojf-fpring, and thy mournfull fpouse f To whom this age no Joy but Grief e allowesJ y 0 might I fee you altogether come 21 o make St. James'es or White-hall your home ; That day Pie count a day of Jubilation ; A day that bringeth Joy to all our Nation. Ttti interim, Tie rejoyce (and think me bleftj, Jo the three frjl to ufber in the reft; And on that bleffed day f ir night when 'tis J That fbown to London comes with joy and blifje, He who fpares Wood or Ropes to burn and ring, 1 wifh him hang'd or burrid, God fave the King, The Parliament likewise, And curbe their Enemies. Amen. FINIS. A LETTER From the R I G II T H ONOURABLE Ed. Lord Montagu, one of the Commiffioners attending His Majesty. With a perfect Narration of all the paffages betwixt his Majesty and thofe Forces that brought him from Holdenby, being Refident now at New-market. Both read in the House of Peeres on the tenth of June, 1647. Die Jovis 10 Junii, 1647. Ordered by the Lords ajfembled in Parliament y That this Letter y with the Narration be forwith printed and pub- lished. Joh. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum. London printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley. 1647. To (he Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester > Speaker of the Houfe of Peeres pro tempore, thefe. My Lord, PON Saterday as we were upon the way betweene Huntingdon and Cambridge, in our journey, as we suppofed towards Newmarket, we were met by Colonell Whaley, who acquainted us with the firft Orders he had received from the Generall to at- tend the King with his Regiment at Holdenby, in the roomeof Col. Graves, and alfo with fuch other Orders as he received from his Excellency after it was knowne unto him that his Majefty was upon his march towards Newmarket, whereby he was dir£ted at his meeting of the King upon the way/ to entreat his Majefty to take up his Quarters at the next convenient houfe, which he had affigned to be at Childerfly, the late dwelling houfe [ lviii. ] of Sir John Cutts, wherewith his Majefty was contented. At the fame time we alfo received two Letters from the Generally wherein he acquainted us that the changing of the Guards at Holdenby, and the removall of the King had been without his privity ; and that he had fent Colonell Whaley with his Regiment to attend his Ma- jefty backe to Holdenby : But thofe Orders which Colonell Whaley laft received for waiting upon the King to fuch convenient Quarters as fliould be next to the place where he met him in the way (were given as it feemes after the date of thofe Letters he directed to us) and upon his knowledge of the Kings being advanced as farre as Huntingdon : Upon Satterday in the after- r.oone the King came accordingly to this place, and we returned anfwer to his Excellencies two Letters, wherein we acquainted him with our condition, and that we had fent to the Parliament for directions which we fpeedily expected : Upon Satterday late in the night,[Sir Hardres Waller , and Colonell Lambert came unto us from the Generall, and defired our advice what was the fittest to be done upon this accident which had befallen by the diforder of the Souldiers without his Excellencies know- ledge, and with all propounded unto us the Kings returne to Holdenby : wherein his Majefty had declared his utter averfneffe to Colonell Whaley infifting that he would not be pofted from place to place, but fince they had removed him againft his will from Holdenby, he would now goe to Newmarket. To this we durft not, in the condition we were, prefume to give ar>y advice at all before we received new directions from you, and that was all the anfwer we returned. Upon Munday the General! himfel-fe, the Lievtenant Generall, and other chiefe Officers of the Army came hither, and were much prefled by the King, that for conveniency he might re- move to his oivne Houfe at Newmarket, profefling that he would not returne to Holdenby. Herein though much defire.d we could not take upon us to advife, or aft any thing conceiving that no new Guards could be put into the capacity of the former, who by Ordinance of Parliament were immediately to receive and obferve our Orders, and could not be counter- manded by any other authority then of both Houfes. His Excellency after much difcourfe returned back to his Quarters at Cambridge, having promifed the King that he fhould have their refolution before morning, and accordingly Colonell Whaley hath now received Or- ders to attend the King to . Newmarket, whether we alfo wait upon him expecting houreley to receive your directions, which are hereby earneftly intreated, and will be extreamly welcome unto Your Lordfhips hum- Childerfly the 8th of ble Servant : June 1647. Edw. Montague. In regard I was ftraightened in time when my laft Letter was written, I have here enclofedjent you a perfect Relation of what pajfed upon the <\th of this infant June, when the King spake publiquely with the Souldiers at Holdenby. The Narration betwixt his Majefty and Cornet George Joyce, &c« HE Party being drawne up in the firft Court before the Houfe, His Majefty came downe, and ftanding upon the top of the fteps, di- rected his fpeech to Cornet Joyce> who re- prefenting the Commander of the Party stood before the Horse at the foot of the Stairs, The King faid that Cornet Joyce having though at an unfeafonable houre in the night acquainted him that he was come to convey his Majefty to the Army ; His Majefty, according to his promife, was there to give his anfwer in prefence of them all. But firft he de- fired to know by whom he was authorifed to propound this to his Majefty. Mafter Joyce anfwered that he was fent by authority from the Army. The King replied, That he knew no lawfull authority in England but his [ 1*. ] owne, and next under him the Parliament. But withall afked, whether he had any authority from Sir Thomas Fairfax, and whether in writing : It being replied that Sir Thomas Fairfax was a member of the Army. The King infisted that he was not anfwered ; Sir Thomas Fairfax being their Generall, was not properly a member, but head of the Army. Joyce faid, That at least he was included in the Army; and that the Souldiers prefent were his Commiffion, being a commanded Party out of every Regiment. The King replyed, That they might be good witnefles ; but he had not feene fuch a Commis- fion before : And if they were his Commiffiion, it was an authority very well written, all handfome young men ; The King proceeded to fay, That he came to Holdenby not by conftraint (though not fo willingly as he might have done) to the intent that he might fend Meflengers to his two Houfes of Parliament, and receive anfwers from them : That accordingly he had fent feveral Mef- fages to them, and thought himfelfe in a fort obliged to ftay for their anfwers which were not come ; yet if they gave him fuch reafons as might convince his judg- ment he would goe with them ; nay the CommifTioners fhould not flop him. He defired therefore to know the reafons they could give him for this journey. Joyce re- plied, That a plot for this foure yeares laft contrived by fome Members of both Houfes, to overthrow the Lawes of the Kingdome : That a defigne to convey his Perfon to an Army newly to be raifed for that purpofe, were the caufes of their undertaking this imployment, [ Ixii. ] and hoped would prevaile with his Majefty to go willingly with them, thereby to defeat the purpofes of thofe that would otherwife by the countenance of his Perfon, perturbe the peace of the Kingdome : And that his being with the Army was the readieft expedient he could thinke upon to procure him a fpeedy and fatisfac- tory Anfwer to his former Meflages. The King returned that he knew no tillable of fuch defigne or intended Army : And that to feek an anfwer with so many gal- lant men at his back were to extort it, which were very unhandfome ; befides that, their prbpofall looked like an oppoflion to the Parliament which he defired not, or would ever infringe their juft Priviledges of the Lawes of the Land : That thefe Reafons induced him not to go willingly and therefore deiired to know what they in- tended if he would not go with them. It was anfwered, That they hoped his Majefty would not put them to ufe thofe means which otherwife they fhould be necessi- tated to if he refufed. For the Commiffioners, or any one elfe that refufed, they knew well what courfe to take with them. The King protefted, That unlefie they gave him fatisfaftion to the reafonable and juft demands he (hould make, he would not go , with them, unlelTe they carried him by abfolute force ; and he thought they would well thinke upon it before they would lay violent hands upon their King : That the Commiffioners had never put any conftraint upon him ; they were more civill. Then he propounded ; that he might be ufed with honour and refpect, That they would not [ lxiii. ] force him in any thing contrary to his Confcience or his Honour ; though he hoped he had long ago fixed his refolutions that no force could caufe him to do a bafe thing. Though they were Matters of his Body, yet his Minde was above their reach. But to thofe Propofitions they confented with a generall Acclamation ; Master Joyce adding, That their Principles were not to force any man's confcience, much lefle the King. Then His Ma- jefty defired that those which attended him, and fome other of his Servants, againft whom they have no juft Exceptions might be permitted to wait upon him. This being agreed the King alked whether they would have him go : Oxford was first nominated, then Cambridge : The King named Newmarket which accepted, he defired care might be taken to carry his Stuffe ; wherein Mafter Joyce said fomething was done already. The other expreffions of their refpect to the King of the Armies defire to fee him with them, and of their fidelity towards him, were intermixed in the difcourfe to- gether with complaints of the proceedings of the Parlia- ment towards them ; which the King faid ; He would not adjudge unlefle he heard both fides. The King having ended, at the defire of the Commis- fioners, he gave them leave to fpeak to the Troops ; who having repeated the summe of their Instructions from both Houles, whereby they were appointed to at- tend his Majeftty at Holdenby till further Orders ; did publikely proteft againft his removal, and againft this act of the Souldiers, as unlawfull in itfelf, and dangerous to [ lxiv. ] them; requiring fo many of them as would ftand by the Commiflioners in oppofkion thereof, to declare themselves accordingly. But it being with a generall voyce anfwered, That not a man of them would do fo. The Commiffion- ers added, That as honeft men they held themfelves obliged to difcharge the truft repofed in them, to the ut- moft of their power : And agreeable thereunto, if they had force for the Service they would withftand them to the lofle of their lives. But fince they were not in a capacity at prefent they must acquiefle. As the King turned back to go into the Houfe, Ma- jor T omlins declared to his Majesty in the prefence of the Commiflioners, That according to the Orders they gave him, he had endeavoured what he could do to induce the Troops afligned for the ordinary Guards, which he com- manded in the abfence of Colonell Greaves f to draw up and make refistance, but without effect, they all refuting to obey him therein. FINIS. AN ANSWER TO A LETTER Concerning the KINGS Going from HOLDENBY to the .KRMY. Printed in the Yeere 1647. AN ANSWER The TO A LETTER CONCERNING KINGS going from Holdenby tor the ARMIE. Sir, jOU defire my opinion concerning this late great bufinefle, the King's going into the Army : My judgment is fhortly and clearly thus, That His Majefty went thither neither againft His own will, nor the defire of the I believe His Majefty had no reafon to be very fond of the place where he was before, or for the greater refpefts he received there, being (with- out doubt) at the top of his preferment, and in all like- lihood not to have continued fo well fo long, had not [ lxviii. ] fome ftronger bridle, then that of allegiance to him, or religion to God, made them forbare any further attempt. For that which you pleafed, or rather your fears, to fuggeft, viz. That His Majefty is leapt out of the fry- ing-pan into the fire, left ill company to adhere to worfe, becaufe you are pleafed to fay (and you do but fay it) that this Army confists of Independents, who are worfe principled for Magiftracy, then thofe of the other party. I anfwer ; that indeed it cannot be denied, that out of divers of their Books we may gather fuch Conclufions, which for my part I cannot allow of, But that the Fears and Jealoufies of both Houfes may not forfake their old Mafters, in fuch a bufie time as this, and wholly take up and pofTeffe your breft, I pray Sir reafonably weigh all circumftances, and you fhall finde, that His Majefty hath fallen into much better company) than either his Countrey-men were to him or commended him to, (not to say, sold and betrayed him). Of thefe men (call them Independents, or what you will) I have had a great deale of experience. I finde them in their way very devout, very juft in their deal- ings, and of all the Armies imployed by the Parliament in this unnatural warre, I will be bold to fay, none behaved themfelves more civilly, more chriftianly againft the ad- verfe party then they : and confidering their different; judgments and opinions, none were more in charity, and more at unity among themfelves. In all my difcourfe I had with them (and I talktwith many of them) I finde a great deale of humility and lowlinefie amongft them : [lxix.] But as they defire to exercife no fevere jurifdi&ion over other men's confeiences, fo they feeme to defire in like manner that none may over theirs. I doe not truly perceive that they have a minde to give Law to any other, but only to procure their owne liberty and quiet : this liberty they cannot have under the Prefbytery, who have under both Pulpit and Prefte declared fo bitterly, I had almoft faid fo unchriftianly) againft them. How then, or by whom can they hope to enjoy this privi- ledge more freely, more fully, than by receiving it from Him, who hath the sole power in thefe Dominions, under Christ Jefus, to grant it ? And therefore make no doubt, but that there will bee a very right underftanding begotten betvveene the King and the Army : And that as they are rayfed by GOD at this time to re-inveft him with his juft, lawfull Rights and Preiogatives : to the eternall fhame of his owne Nation, (the first Nation that ever I read of who fold their King) fo I doubt not but His Majefty will fo well refent this feafonable kind- neffe of theirs, that as they preferve his Per/on, Honour, and Conscience, fo he will be as tender of theirs. And truly I think him fit to be brought to condigne punifhment as an evill Counfellour, that fhall ever go about to alien- ate the Kings heart from them, or make him to forget this handfome loyalty of theirs, that hath fo gallantly fhewed it felfe in the middeft of fo much cruelty, neg- lect, and contempt, and when his Majefties other friends had fo little power or opportunity to do him good, And this I deliver the more clearly, becaufe you know I am [ lxx. ] no party at all in this businefle ; but (according to your defire) I have given my fenfe : And what you have more to fay, I pray communicate as freely to Sir, your affectionate Friend, to ferve you. [There is a TraSl in titled] OLIVE BRANCH Found after a Storme in the Northern Seas Prefented to his MAJESTY in a Sermon at the Court in Newcajlle By SAMUEL KEM, a little before his Majefties going to HOLMBEY [which contains the following letter : ] To the Right Honourable PHILIP Earle of Pembroke^ BAZILL Earle of Denbeigh and the reft of the Honourable Commiffioners with His Majefly at Holmbey. Right Honourable^ |H^^^^ |MAY not (without your leaves obtained) ap will Kll P roac k ^ s Majefty in perfon or paper; It I ' $Enl * s m y ^ nt Y to k e gg e May it pleafe JMj25bSI^1 Y om Lord/hips to grant it ; I call God to ^%PPPW*H!^p record and my confcience is clear, I neither have nor will fpeake one word but for his glory and the furthering, (if poffible) the Kingdoms peace and his Majefties good. I ingenuoufly confeffe, if you [ lxxii. ] fearch, you may finde about me one Epiftle fuperfcribed to his Majefty, but it is unfealed, and on purpofe for your perufall ; For my felfe I am unworthy to come under that roofe, being the meaneft servant in my Mafters Family ; yet this Teftimony I have in Heaven ; I have ever defired to doe the beft fervice I could in thefe fad times, to pro- mote the Peace of Church and State ; and although I have obferved many men to have beene thought rare at an eafie rate yet it hath beene a peece of my infelicity to multiply enemies by acting and fpeaking to my power to fettle Peace and Truth. Therefore for your licence, fo I humbly petition your pardon for my boldnefle ; and prefent all your conditions daily to the Throne of Grace : that as 3^ou have beene Pilfars of Gods Truth ; so you may be prevailing Councillors with His Majejly, and be honoured in your generations, which is the hearty and conftant prayer my Noble Lords and Gentlemen Of Tour obliged and Immutable Servant 3 Samuel Kem. [Extracts from the] Eikon Basilike- THE PORTRAICTURE OF HIS SACRED M A J E S T I E IN HIS SOLITUDES AND SUFFERINGS: Together with his Private Prayers ufed in the time of his reftraint, and delivered to Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death. Rom. 8. More then Conquer our, £sV. Bona agere, & mala pati, Regium eft. MDCXLIX. Upon the Scots delivering the King to the Engliili and His Captivity at Holmbey. ET may I juftifie thofe 6V<2/j* to all the world in this 5 that they have not deceived Me, for U I never trufted to them further then to mem ^ Luu j 3 if I am fold by them, I am onely forrie thfey fhould do it ; and that my price fhould be fo much above my Saviours. Thefe are but further EfTays, which God will have Me make of mans uncertainties the more to fix Me on himfelf, who never faileth them that truft in him : Though the Reeds of Egypt break under the hand of him that leans on them, yet the Rock of IJrael will be an everlafting ftay and defence. Gods providence commands Me to retire from all to [Ixxvi.] himfelfe, that in him I may enjoy my felf, which I lofe, while I let out my hopes to others. The folitude and captivitie, to which I am now re- duced gives Me leifure enough to ftudie the worlds vani- tie and inconftancie. God fees it fit to deprive Me of Wife, Children, Army, Friends, and Freedom, that I may be wholly his, who alone is all. I care not much to be reckoned among the Unfortu- nate, if I be not in the black Lift of irreligious, and facrilegious Princes. No reftraint fhall enfnare my Soul in finne ; nor gain that of Me, which may make my Enemies more infolent, my Friends afhamed, or my Name accurfed. They have no great caufe to triumph, that they have got my Perfon into their power, fince my Soul is ftill my owne ; nor fhall they ever gain my Confent againft my Confcience. What they call obftinacie, I know God accounts honeft conftancie, from which Reafon and Religion, as well as Honour forbid me to recede. 'Tis evident^ now, that it was not evil Counfellours with Me, but a good . Confcience in Me, which hath been fought againft, nor did they ever intend to bring Me to my Parliament, till they had brought my mind to their obedience. Should I grant what fome men defire, I fhould be fuch as they wifli Me ; not more a King, and farre leffe both Man and Chriftian. [Ixxvii.] What Tumults and Armies could not obtain, neither fhall Reftraint; whichthough.it have as little of fafetie to a Prince, yet it hath not more of danger. The fear of men fhall never be my fnare ; nor (hall the love of any libertie entangle my Soul : Better others betray Me, then my Self: and that the price of my libertie fhould be my Confcience; the grealeft injuries my Enemies seek to inflict upon me, cannot be without my own confent. While I can denie with Reafon, I fhall defeat the greateft imprefions of their malice, who neither know how to ufe worthily, what I have alreadie granted , nor what to require more of Me but this, That I would feem willing to help them to deftroy My Selfe and Mine. Although they fhould deftroy Me, yet they fhall have no caufe to difpife Me. Neither libertie nor life are fo dear to Me, as the peace of my Confcience, the Honour of my Crowns, and the welfare of my people which my Word may injure more then any Warre can do^whiie I gratifie a few to opprefle all. The Laws will, by Gods bleffing revive, with the love and Loyaltie of my Subjects ; if I burie them not by my confent, and cover them in that grave of difhonour, and injuftice, which fome mens violence hath digged for them. If my captivitie or death muft be the price of their re- demption, I grudge not to pay it. [Ixxviii,] No condition can make a King miferable, which car- ries not with it, his Souls, his Peoples and Pofterities thraldom. After-times may fee, what the blindnefle of this age will not, and God may at length shew my Subje&s, that I chose rather to fuffer for them, then with them : Happily I might redeem myfelf to fome fhew of libertie if I would confent to enflave them : I had rather ha- zard the ruine of one King, then to confirm many Ty- rants over them ; from whom I pray God deliver them, whatever becomes of Me, whofe folitude hath not left Me alone. FoR Thou, O God, infinitely good, and great y art with Me, whofe prefence is better than life, and whofe fervice is perfect free dome. Own Me for thy Servant, and I /hall never have caufe to complain for want of that liberty which becomes a Man, a Chriftian, and a King. Bleffe Me ftill with Re of on, as a Man ; with Religion, as a Chriftian ; and with Conftancy in Juftice as a King. Though Thou fuffer eft Me to be ftript of all outward ornaments, yet preferve me ever in thofe enjoyments where- in I may enjoy thy/elf; and which cannot be taken from Me againft My will. Let no fire of affliction boy I over My paftion to any im- patience or fordid fears. There be many fay of Me, There is no help for Mc : do thou lift up the light of thy Countenance upon Me, and I /hall want neither fafety, liberty, nor Majefty. [lxxix.] Give Me that meafure of patience and conftancy, which my condition now requires. My Jlrength is Jcattered, My expectation from Men de- feated^ My perfon refrained : O be c fhou not far re from Me, left My enemies prevail too much againft Me. I am become a wonder, and a /corn to many : O be thou my Helper and Defender. Show Jome token upon Me for good, that they that hate Me may be afliamed, becaufe thou Lord, haft holpen and comforted Me : eftablijh Me with thy free Spirit that I may do and fuffer thy Will, as thou wouldft have Me. Be merciful to Me, O Lord, for my foul trufteth in Thee ; yea, and in the fbadow of thy wings will I make my refuge untill theje calamities be overpafl. Arife to deliver Me, make no long tarrying O my God. Though thou killeft Me, yet will I truft in thy mercy, and my Saviours merits. I know that my Redeemer liveth ; though thou leadeft Me through the vale and jhadow of death, yet /hall I fear none ill. Then follow Meditations " Upon their denying His Majefty the attendance of his Chaplains," and his Prayers upon the occafion. The abfence of fpi- ritual advifers feems to have been a very great grief to [ lxxx. ] the unhappy King, He fays — " To deny me the ghoftly comfort of my chaplains feems a greater rigour and barbarity than is ever ufed by Chriftians to the meaneft Prifoners, and greateft ma]efactours. ,, Penitentiall Meditations and Vows in the KINGS Solitude at Holmbey. Give eare to my words, O Lord, conftder my meditation, and hearken to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for unto thee will I pray. I /aid in my hafte, I am cafte out of the fight of thine eyes ; neverthelejfe thou hearejl the voice of my fupplica- tion, when I cry unto thee. If thou Lord Jhouldft be extreme to mark what is done amiffe, who can abide it ? But there is mercy with thee that thou may eft be feared ; therefore Jball finners fly unto thee. I acknowledge my fins before thee, which have the ag- gravation of my condition ; the eminency of my place adding weight to my offences \ Forgive, I bejeech thee, my Perfonall and my Peoples fins, which are fo farre mine, as I have not improved the power thou gaveft me, to thy glory and my Subjects good. 'Thou has now brought me from the glory and freedome of a King, to be a Prifoner to my own Subjects : Juftly [lxxxi.] 0 Lord, as to that overruling hand, becaufe in many things 1 have rebelled againft thee. though thou haft restrained my Per/on ; yet enlarge my heart to thee, and thy grace towards me. I come farre Jhort of Davids piety ; yet fince I may equall Davids afflictions, give me alfo the comforts and the fure mercies of David. Let the penitent fenfe I have of my fins, be an evidence to me that thou hast pardoned them. Let not the evils which I and my Kingdomes have fuf- fered, feem little unto thee ; though thou haft not punijlied us according to our fins. Turn thee ( O LordJ unto me, have mercy npon me, for I am deflate and afflicted. The forrows of my heart are enlarged, 0 bring me out of my troubles. Haft thou forgotten to be gracious, and fhut up thy lov- ing kindneffe in difpleafure. 0 remember thy compaffions of old, and thy loving kind- nejfes, which have been for many generations. 1 had utterly fainted, if I had not believed to fee thy goodneffe in the land of the living. Let not the fins of our profperity deprive us of the benefit of thy affliflions. Let this fiery triall consume the drojfe, which in long peace and plenty we had contracted. Though thou continueft miferies, yet withdraw not thy grace ; what is wanting of profperity , make up in patience and repentance. [lxxxii.] And if thy anger be not yet to be turned away, but thy hand of juftice muft be firetched out (Till ; let it I bejeech thee, be againft me and -my Fathers houje : As for thefe fheep, what have they done ? Let my bufferings fatiate the malice of mine, and thy Churches enemies. But let their cruelty never exceed the meafure of my charity. Banifli from me all thoughts of Revenge ; that I may not loft the reward, nor thou the glory of my patience. As thou giveft me a heart to forgive them, fo I befeech thee, do thou forgive what they have done againft thee and me. And now, O Lord, as thou haft given me an heart to pray unto thee,fo heare and accept this Vow, which I make before thee: If thou wilt in mercy remember Me, and My King- doms, In continuing the light of thy Gofpel, and fettling thy true Religion among us : In rejtoring us to the benefit of the Laws f and the execu- tion of Juftice : In furprefftng the many Schifms in Church and Factions in State: If thou wilt reftore me and mine to the Ancient Rights and glory of my Predeceffours : If thou wilt turn the hearts of my people to thyfelf in Piety, to me in Loyalty, and to one another in Charitie : If thou wilt quench the flames, and withdraw the fewel of thefe Civil Warres : [ lxxxiii. ] If thou wilt blejfe us with the freedome of -public Coun- Jels, and deliver the Honour of Parliament from the info- lencie of the vulgar : If thou wilt keep me from the great offence of enabling anything againft my Confcience ; and efpecially from con- senting to facreligious rapines , aud fpoi lings of thy Church : If thou wilt reftore me to a capacity to glorify thee in doing goody both to the Church and State : Then fliall my foul praije thee, and magnifie thy name before my people : T'hen fliall thy glory be dearer to me then my Crowns : and the advancement of true Religion both in purity and power, be my chief eft care : Then will I rule my People with Juftice and my King- doms with Equity : To thy more immediate hand fhall I ever own, as the rightful fucceffion,fo the mercifull reftauration of my King- doms, aud the glory of them. If thou wilt bring Me again with peace, Safety, and honour, to My chief eft City and My Parliament : If thou wilt again put the Sword of Juftice into my hand, to punifh and protett : Then will I make all the world to fee, and my very ene- mies to enjoy the benefit of this Vow and refolution of Chriftian charity which I now make into thee, 0 Lord. As I do freely pardon for Chrifts fake thofe that have offended me in any kind,fo my hand fhall never be againft any man to revenge what is paft, in regard of any par- ticular injury done to me. [Ixxxiv.] We have been mutually punijhed in our unnatural divi* /tons : for thy fake, O Lord, and for the love of my Re- deemer, have I purpofed this in my heart, That I will ufe all means in the wa//S of amnefty, and indempnititie, which may moft fully remove all fears and bury all jealoufies in forgetfulnejfe. Let thy mercies be towards Me and Mine, as my reso- lutions of 'Truth and Peace are towards my People. • Heare my prayers, O Lord, which goeth not out of feigned lips. Blefjed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer nor taken bis mercy from me O my Soul, commit thy way to the Lord ; trufl in him, and he fhall bring it to pajfe. But if thou wilt not re/lore Me and Mine, what am I that I Should charge thee fooliflily ? ^hou O Lord, haft given, and thou haft taken, BleJJed be thy name. May thy People and thy Church be happy ) if not by me y yet without me. [Ixxxv.] Upon the Armies Surprisall of the KING at Holmeby the ensu- ing diftraction in the two Houfes, the Army, and the City, What part God will have Me now to aft or fuffer, in this new and ftrange fcene of affairs, I am not much folicitous : fome little praftife will ferve that man, who onely feeks to reprefent a part of honefty and honour. This furprife of Me tells the world, that a KING can- not be fo low, but he is confiderable adding weight to that Partie where he appears. This motion, like others of the Times, seems excen- trique and irregular, yet not well to be refifted or qui- eted : Better fwim down fuch a ftream then in vain to ftrive againft it. Thefe are but the ftruglings of thofe twins, which lately one womb enclofed, the younger ftriving to prevail againft the elder ; what the Prefbyterians have hunted after, the Independents now feek to catch for themfelves. So impoffible is it for lines to be drawn from the cen- tre, and not to divide from each other, fo much the wider, by how much they go farther from the point of union. That the builders of Babel fhould from divifion fall [lxxxvi.] to confufion, is no wonder, but for thofe that pretend to build Jerusalem,^ to divide their tongues and hands, is but an ill omen, and founds too like the fury of thofe Zealots, whofe inteftine bitterneffe and divifions, were the greateft occafion of the laft fatal deftruction of that city. Well may I change my Keepers and Prifon, but not my captive condition onely with this hope of bettering, that thofe who are fo much profeffed Patrons for the Peoples Liberties, cannot be utterly againft the Libertie of their KING : What they demand for their own Con- fciences, they cannot in Reafon denie to mine. In this they feem more ingenuous, then the Prefbyte- rian rigour, who fometimes complaining of exa&ing their conformitie to Laws, are become the greateft Exactours of other mens submiffion to their novel injunctions, be- fore they are ftamped with the authority of Laws, which they cannot well have without my confent. 'Tis a great argument, that the Independents think themfelves manumitted from their Rivals fervice, in that they carry on a bufinelTe of fuch confequence, as the af- fuming my Perfon into the Armies cuftody, without any Commiffion, but that of their own will and power. Such as will thus adventure on a KING, muft not be thought over modeft. or timerous to carry on any de- fig ne they have a mind to. Their next motion, menaces and fcares both the two Houfes and the City : which foon acting over again that former part of tumultuary motions (never queftioned, punifhed, or repented) muft now fuffer for both and fee [lxxxvii. ] their former fin in the glafte of the prefent terrours and diftra&ions. No man is fo blind as not to fee herein the hand of Divine Juftice ; they that by tumults firft occaffioned the raifing of Armies, muft now be chaften by their own Army for new Tumults. So hardly can men be content with one Sin, but adde sin to sin, till the latter punifh the for- mer : fuch as were content to fee Me and many Mem- bers of both Houfes driven away by the firlt unfurprefled Tumults, are now forced to flie to an Armie, or defend themfelves againft them. But who can unfold the riddle of fome mens juftice ? Members of both Houfes who at firft withdrew (as my Self was forced to do) from the rudenefle of the tumults were counted deferters, and outed of their places in Par- liament. Such as ftayed then and enjoyed the benefit of the tumults, were afierted for the onely Parliament men : now the fliers from, and forfaken of their Places, carry the Parliamentary power along with them, complain highly againft the tumults, and vindicate themfelves by an Army : fuch as remained and kept their ftations, are looked upon as Abettours of tumultuary infolencies and betrayers of the Freedome and honour of Parliament. Thus is Power above all Rule, Order, and Law, where men look more to prefent advantages then their Confciences, and the unchangeable rules of Juftice : while they are judges of others, they are forced to con- demn themfelves. [lxxxviii.] Now the plea againft Tumults holds good, the Au- thours and Abettours of them are guilty of prodigious infolencies, when, as before, they were counted as Friends, and neceflarie Affistants. I fee Vengeance purfues and overtakes (as the Mice and Rats are faid to have done a Bifliop in Germany) them that thought to have efcaped and fortified themfelves mod impregnably againft it, both by their multitude and com- pliance. Whom the Laws cannot, God will punifh, by their own crimes and hands. I cannot but obferve this Divine Juftice, yet with for- row and pity : for I alwayes wifhed fo well to Parlia- ment and Citie, that I was forrie to fee them do, or fuf- fer any thing unworthy fuch great and confiderable bodies in this Kingdome. I was glad to fee them onley scared and humbled, not broken by the fhaking : I never had fo ill a thought of those Cities, as to despair of their Loyaltie to Me which miftakes might eclipfe, but never believed malice had quite put out. I pray God the ftorm be yet wholly pafled over them, upon whom I look, as Chrift did fome time over Jeru- salem, as objects of my prayers and tears, with compas- fionate grief forefeeing thofe feverer fcatterings which will certainly befall fuch as wantonly refufe to be gathered to their duty : fatall blindneffe frequently attending and punifliing wilfulnefle, fo that men fhall not be able at laft, to prevent their forrows, who would not timely re- [ lxxxix. ] pent of their fins, nor fhall they be fuffered to enjoy the comforts, who fecurely neglect the counfells belonging to their peace. They will find that brethren in iniquitie are not far from becoming infolent enemies, there being nothing harder, then to keep ill men long in one mind. Nor is it poflible to gain a fair period for thofe notions which go rather in a round and circle of fansie then in a right line of Reafon tending to the Law, the onely centre of publicke confistency whither I pray God at laft to bring all fides. Which will eafily be done, when we fhall fully fee how much more happy we are, to be fubjedt to the known Laws, then to the various wills of any men, feem they never fo plaufible at firft. Vulgar compliance with any illegall and extravagant wayes, like violent motions in nature, foon grows weary of itfelf, and ends in a refradtorie fullennefs : Peoples rebounds are oft in their faces who firft put them upon thofe violent ftrokes. For the Army (which is fo farre excufable, as they aft according to the Souldiers principles and interefts, demanding Pay and Indemnitie) I think it necefiary, in order to the public Peace that they fhould be fatif- fied, as far as is juft ; no man being more prone to con- fider them then My Self: though they have fought againft Me, yet I cannot but fo farre efteem that valour and gallantry they have fometimes fhowed, as to wifh I may never want mch men to maintain My Self, My Laws, and my Kingdoms, in fuch a peace, as wherein they may enjoy their fhare and proportion as much as any men. [ *c. ] UT Thou, O Lord, who art perfect Unity in a /acred Trinity, in mercy behold thofe, whom thy Juftice hath divided. Deliver Me from the firivings of my People, and make Me to fee how much they need my prayers and pitie, who agreed to fight againft Me, and yet are now ready to fight againft one another, to the continuance of my Kingdoms difiraffiions. Dif cover to all fides the wayes of Peace, from which they have fwarved; which confifls not in the divided wils of parties, but in the joint and due obfervation of the Laws. Make Me willing to go whither thou wilt lead Me by thy Providence, and be Thou ever with Me, that I may fee thy conftancie in the worlds varietie and changes. Make Me even Juch as Thou wouldft have Me, that I may at laft enjoy that fafety and tranquility, which Thou atone canft give Me. Divert, I pray thee, O Lord, thy heavy wrath juftly hanging over thofe populous Cities, whcfe plenty is prone to adde fewel to their luxury, their wealth to make them wanton, their multitudes tempting them to fecurity, and their fecurity expofing them to unexpected miferies. Give them eyes to fee, hearts to conftder, wils to embrace^ and courage to aft thofe things which belong to Thy Glory and the Publick Peace > leaf their calamity come upon them as an armed man. leach them, that they cannot want ememies, who abound in finne, nor /hall they be long undifarmed and undiftroyed } [ xci. ] who with a high hand perfisting to fight againft Thee, and the clear convictions of their own confidences , fight more again/i themf elves, then ever they did againft me. Their finnes expojing them to thy Juftice, their riches to others injuries, their member to tumults, and their tu- mults to confufion. Though they have with much forwardneffe helped to de- ft roy Me, yet let not my fall be their ruine. Let Me not fib much confider, either what they have done, or I have fuffered, ( chiefly at first by them ) as to forget to imitate my crucified Redeemer, to plead their ignorance for their pardon ; and in my dying extremities to pray to Thee, O Father, to forgive them, for they knew not what they did. The tears they have denied Me in my faddeft condition give them grace to beftow upon themf elves, who the lej) they were for Me, the more caufe they have to weep for them/elves. O let not my bloud be upon them and their Children, whom the fraud and faction of fiome, not the malice of all, have excited to crucifie Me. But Thou, O Lord, canft, and wilt ( as thou didft my Redeemer J both 'exalt and perfect Me by my fufferings which have more in them of thy mercy, then of man's cru- elty, or thy own juftice. A True and Punctuall RELATION OF THE Severall Skirmifties performed be- tweene the Northamptonshire Forces and a party of the Kings Horfe and Foot under the command of Prince Rupert & Colonell Urry> as they parted through thofe parts into Bedford- fhire and the Counties adjacent. With the number of men kii'd and taken Prifoners by the Northamptonfhire Souldiers, fome of the Prifoners being Irifh Rebels by their owne Confeflion. And how fome of the King's Troops are fince fortifying Newport-pannell in Buckinghamjhire \ As it was fent in a Letter from Northampton to a friend in London; and published for the better fatisfaftion of all fuch as defire Truth without partiality. LONDON Printed for John Wright, at the Old-baily, Octob. 28. 1643. SIR, 'HOUGH I feare my laft Letter is not yet come to your hand, wherein I have an- fwered your laft, yet having fomething new that concernes this place, I know it will not be unwelcome. Upon Friday laft was a Rendezvous at Banbury and the adjacent Towns of four Regiments of the King's Horfe, the Lord of North- amp tons six Troopes, Colonell Bellavis six troops, the Lord Cravens 4 Troops, and Colonell foure Troopes and two other Troops not regimented, in all 22 Troopes, but few of them, if any full ; to whom was joyned 700 Foote, choice men, ten or more out of every Company in and about Oxford, they were 300 Red Coats, and 200 Blue, and 200 Mixed Coloured Coats, but no Colours or Enfignes amongft them, being a com- manded Party; thefe marched from Banbury on Satur- day Octob. 1 4, to Daventry, and on the Lords day they came to Longbuckby where they ftood all in one body, [ xcv *- ] and about noone that day came Prince Rupert and the turne-coate Urry y with about 24 horfe-men, having lyen that night before at the Crowne in Banbury; as foon as they came they marched to Holdenby with the whole body, and having refreshed themfelves awhile about mid-night they marched towards Northampton. We had firffc fent out a commanded party of 24 horfe to give them an Alarum, who met their Scouts at Bramp- /0/7-bridge about two miles and a half off the towne, kil'd one of their men, and had one of ours wounded in the arme, who all retreated to Kingjlhorpe to our body of Horfe within a mile of the towne ; but fuddenly their whole body of Horfe or a great part of them came up to ours, who fkirmishing retreated, and we clofely followed to the Walls of the town, and calling to be let in at the North-gate could not be admitted, untill firft a volley of fhot from the walls had removed the enemy back to Wal- backe about twice mufket-shot from the walls, where their Horfe made a ftand about an houre, their Foot in the in- terim being drawne up neere St. Andrews Mill, about mufket-fhot from our great mount, whence our Canoneer let flie a piece at their Horfe, and prefently another from the North mount and killed two of them, which foone removed their body, the Foote marching under the fa- vour of the hill without any hurt, and fo marched away by Moulton-parke to i?i////7£- bridge, all this by the light of the Moone, which fhone clearly. As foone as it was day, our horfe marched out againe, and tooke many of their ftraglers, about 40 in all mod horfe-men, and fome very [ xcvii. ] good lare horfes they marched to Caftle-AJhby that day betimes, and the next day to Oulny ; I need not tell you their accuftomed practice of pillaging all the way they went efpecially horfes both from friends and foes ; but efpecially at Oulny, where they left but 4 houfes of any worth unplundered, and took carts to carry away their plunder with them and fo marched to Newport \ where they intend a Garrifon, though not of this, yet of an- other party fhortly, as we are informed from Oxford ; that so they may ftop up the North-weft paffage to Lon- don, which I hope you will not be unmindfull of. This party it is faid is to go into the alTociated Counties of Cambridge, Norfolke, and Suffolke, and are yefterday at Bedford, we kil'd 4 of their horfemen, as their prifon- ers fay befides 2 foot-men Irifh-men, who with a third man, an able bodied and ftout Irifh rebell, as he con- fefleth himfelfe to be, did afiault with their mufkets six of our horfe-men, who riding upon them drove them into a River where they fwom with their Armes, our men followed through a Ford, they tooke the river again, but as I heare two of them were flaine, I am fure the third is prifonev. There was another body of the enemies horfe and foot came by Towcejler, but Prince Rupert fent them word the fervice was already done, which made them returne to Banbury and report the Town was taken ; but I hope if ever they attempt it, if it be not by treachery, (as wee have fome reafon to thinke was now intended) they fhall finde it another bufinefle then their confidence and brags makes of it ; [ xcviii. ] for I never faw men more jocund to goe to a fport, then the Souldiers were to goe take up their quarters about the Town for the defence of it, The refult of all is, that you will help us to give thanks for the good hand of our God toward us, who together with the temptation, hath hitherto given us a gracious iffue, been our fort and fence when we were without, and I hope will ftill be, now he hath afforded us both, in a competent mea- fure. I have been the more particular becaufe you know the places. The Troops of the Kings doe fince fortifie in Newport daily, if helpe be not fent it will be a great mifchiefe. This is Liccnfcd) amd entered in the Ball booh according to order. EXTRACTS FROM THE State Papers and Calendars RELATING TO HOLDENBY From the year 1581 to the year 1666. Extra&s from the State Papers & Calendars relating to Holdenby. VOL. CXLIX. 1 58 1. July 27. Holdenby. tanct0 jHotoer antJ OEMtu Dotige to Sir Wm, Catesbye. Have fent to Thomas Trefham to know his plea- fiife for the taking of the fine from ljauy Catefby. Defires a day may be fixed for that purpofe. [ciL] VOL. CLXXV. 1584. Dec. 19. 37- fgOnO atlO iReCO0ni?anCe between Anthony t * Andrews de Bifbrooke, alias Pifbrook, in the county of Rutland, to deliver a ftipulated quantity of oats, beans, &c, to Henry Knowles of Holdenby on 1st of May, 1588. VOL. CXCIII. 1589. Sept. 2. Holdenby. 4. tf It Cfct. $attQn to Lord Burghley. Hopes it is poflible that with the eye of Her Majesty's wisdom " thefe moft horrible and dangerous practices " (Babbington's Confpiracy) may be thoroughly looked into. Is now lying at home sick of a fever, with flitches, fpitting of blood, and other bad accidents. [ ciii - ] 3fames !• VOL. XXXI. 1608. March ? 76. A NOTE OF THE RENTS OF HOLDENBIE. it OEMUam Cate • £ 2 3° The two Ellintones . £260 Morris Miles . .£180 Cradocke • I 24 Collis . .£ 16 Knight • £ 3 Humfrie ■£ 4 The Mills with Homes . • £ 20 Summa . • £737 S r William Tate \ Had the Meadowe The 2 Ellintons & > betwine them into Morris Miles ; the rents abovefaide. S3 1608. March 22. T* ttttt tO Lady Eliz. Hatton, to appoint Rich- ard Lazomby, Mafter of King's Croffbows, to be Keeper of the Park of Holdenby at her hands. [doc que ti] [ civ. ] VOL. XXXIII. 1608. April 18. fctf Cdattailt to the Excheq r to pay to Jeffrey Duppa his Ma ties Servant the fome of £270. To be by him ymploied for certen brewing Veffells and other neceflaries for a Brewhoufe at his Ma ties Houfe of Holdenby in the County of Northton. 1608. April 18. C&lfttt&nt to Chancellor of the Excheq: To give order to his Ma ties Woodward in the County of Northamp. for a proporcion of Wood and Charcoale to be felled and provided for his Ma ties Service at Holdenby. VOL. XXXV. 1608. Aug. 10. Lambeth. I' ZttZt fr° m ^e Archbifhop of Canterbury to % Lord Salifbury I received yo r L ps L re this 10 th of Augufl: about 9 of the clock in the morning dated from Holmeby, a better houfe I fuppofe then any man in England but y r felf could have built his Ma tie for eight thoufand pounds. 1608. Aug. 12. Holdenby. 5 2 - utftt. 3D ... to $alt*i>ut?« " For an example of my own knowledge within lefs L cv. ] then a quarter of a mile of Holdenby Houfe one great enclofure made fince the late Stir, by one Mr. Saunders with Mr. Dyves and Mr. St. John in the Parifli of East Haddon. A Note of Remembrance. In demifing of Holdenby Lands a refervation to be had of all fuel that fhall grow thereupon of what nature foever, as willowes furres and bufhes, &c. Likewife before Holdenby Mills with the lands about it be demifed, the confideration be had that the Mill muft be removed fome 26 foot higher then heretofore, that it may be hereafter ferviceable both for brewing and baking. 1608. Aug. 28. Windfor Cqftle. ^Tnfftttfllltto pay Sir Chas Hatton £826. 6s. \\\d. half yearly for rent of the c x * BBOT, Captain, page 37 Albert Edward, 48 Aldenesbi. 1 Alexandra, 48 Alnwick, 54 Althorp, 1, 13, 23, 24, 36, 38, 43, 46 Amiand, Mr. 60, 61, Andrews, Bishop, 23 Anne of Denmark, 23, 50 Ansty, Mr. 28 Arderne, Thomas de, 2 Arundel, Earl of, 17 Ashburnhani, Mr. 37 Audley End, 12 Babbington, Mr. 28, 33 Bathurst, 38 Bayley, 33 Baynes, Adam, 44 Beale, Dr. 33 Benefield, 22 Berwick, 28 Blanquefort, Marquis of, 3 Bonner, Bishop, 66 Bostock, 12 Bosville, Major, 36 Boughton, 28, 36 Bricknells, Edward, Sir, 16 Brix worth, 52 Browne, 37 Brune or Bryne, 1 2 Buck, 44 Burghley, Lord, 13, 15, 16, 17, Id Burghley, 11 Burley-on-HiU, 11 Cambridge, 42 Camden, 10, 12 Campbell, Lord, 9 Carvil, Joseph, Mr. 29 Carville, De la, 12, 61 Casket, 44 Catherine, S. 25 Cave, John, 52 „ Mary, 36, 37 „ William, 36 Chamber, 34 Charles I. 8, 20, 24, 29 „ II. 8, 45, 70 Childerly, 42 Clifden, Viscount, 3, 45, 49 ,, Viscountess, 47, 49 Coke, Edward, Sir, 22 „ John, Sir, 28 [ cxxvi, ] Collins, 44 Colshill, Mr. 15 Coneo, George, 24 Coneybury Hill, 7 Confessor, Edward the, 1 Conqueror, The, 1 Corfe Castle, 11 Cottesbrook, 52 Cowle, Margery, 2 Crawley, J. 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