HAMLET OF 
 
 BADDESLEY CLINTON, 
 
 In the Parish of Polesworth, Warwickshire. 
 
 (JFtom ffiotton JW». iuliug, VI, •art, 158, jp. 296.) 
 
 NOW FIRST PRINTED. 
 
 THIS seate and soyele from Saxon Bade, a man of honest 
 fame, 
 
 Who held it in the Saxons tyme, of Badesley tooke the 
 name. 
 
 When king Edward, the Confessor, did weare the Eng- 
 lish crowne, 
 
 The same was then possest by Wrox, a man of some re- 
 nowne; 
 
 And England being conquered, in lot it did alighte 
 
 To Geffrey Wiete, of noble birth, an Andegavian knighte. 
 
 A member Hamlet all this whyele of Hampton here at 
 hand, 
 
 With Hampton, so to Moulbroy went, as all the Wietes 
 land. 
 
 Nowe Moulbroy, lord of all, doth parte these twoe, and 
 gives this one 
 
 To Bisege, in that name it was awhyle, and then is gon 
 
 To Clinton, as his heyre, who leaves it to a younger son; 
 
 And in this lyne the name of Baddesley Clinton was be- 
 gon. 
 
 From them agayne, by wanting of theyr heyre, at first it 
 came 
 
 To Conisby, and after him to Fowkes, who weds the same. 
 
 From Fowkes to Dudley, by a sale, and so toBurdetpast 
 
 To Metley next, by Metleys Will, it came to Brome at last. 
 
 Brome honours much the place, and after some descentes 
 of Bromes, 
 
 To Femes, for a daughters parte of theirs, in match it 
 comes, 
 
 Yn this last name it lasteth yet, and so long longer shall. 
 
 As God shall please, who is the king, and lord, and gever 
 of all. 
 
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