in the 41 Ed. III., 1367, and dying in the 46 Ed. III., 1372, left issue by Margaret his wife, daughter of William Deincourt, three daughters, his coheirs; viz. Margaret, then aged six, Milicent, aged four, and Elizabeth, aged two years. 1. Margaret made proof of her age in the 4th R. II., and was then wife of Roger Le Scrope of Bolton. Her present representative is Charles Jones, Esq., sometime a captain in the 1st Dragoon Guards. His descent will be found under the title of SCROPE of BOLTON, which dignity is now absolutely vested in that gentleman. 2. Milicent made proof of her age A° 8 R. II., and was then the wife of Stephen Le Scrope of Castlecombe in Wiltshire, and her present representative is William Scrope of Castlecombe, Esq., whose only child, Emma-Phipps, married in 1821 George-Julius-BuncombePowlett Thomson, Esq., who thereupon assumed the surname of Scrope. 3. Elizabeth made proof of her age in the 8th R. II., and was then wife of Philip Le Despencer, by whom she had issue an only daughter and heir, Margaret, who married Sir Roger Wentworth of Nettlested, Knight. The present representatives and coheirs of this lady are, the Honourable Nathaniel Curson, eldest son of Lord Scarsdale; and Anne-Isabella Lady Byron. For their descents see the title WENTWORTH. The Barony of Badlesmere is treated, in the above statement, as being now in abeyance between the representatives of the four sisters and coheirs of Giles Lord Badlesmere, though the title of Baron Badlesmere was long assumed by the Veres Earls of Oxford; and there is even a decision of the House of Lords which may, at first sight, appear to have recognised their right to it. Upon full consideration, however, it is presumed that there has never been any sufficient authority for that assumption by the Earls of Oxford; and this opinion has been recently expressed in the "Third Report of the Lords' Committee on Matters touching the dignity of a Peer of the Realm." After stating that on the claims to the Earldom of Oxford, and Baronies of Bolbeck, Sandford, and Badlesmere, referred to the House in 1625, the House, taking the opinion of the Judges, resolved, on the 5th of April, 1626, that the said Baronies were in abeyance between the heirs general of John Earl of Oxford, without inquiring into the origin or nature of those Baronies, or even their existence in the person of the said John Earl of Oxford, the Report proceeds: "Indeed the Committee apprehend, that if that inquiry had been made, it would have appeared that the Barony of Badlesmere, supposing it could have been claimed by descent from Bartholomew or Giles de Badlesmere, had been in abeyance between four coheirs, one of whom had married John, then Earl of Oxford; and unless the Crown had done some act calling the dignity out of abeyance in favour of some Earl of Oxford, of which the Committee have not found any trace, that dignity, if an hereditary dignity, was never vested in any Earl of Oxford, and must have remained in abeyance between the four coheirs of Giles de Badlesmere, and not between the coheirs of John Earl of Oxford." VOL. II.-PART I. L That the Barony of Badlesmere was an hereditary dignity, and could be claimed by descent, is proved by the writs of summons and consequent sitting. How it happened that the Earls of Oxford assumed the title rather than any of the other coheirs, is not easily accounted for, unless it be supposed that possession of the Manor of Badlesmere, quasi caput Baronia, which was assigned to the Countess of Oxford in the partition of the lands, was deemed, at that time, to carry with it the Baronial title. There is no trace of any exercise of the Royal Prerogative determining the abeyance in favour of the Veres ; and primogeniture, if it was held at any time to confer an exclusive right, was not in their favour, for the Countess of Oxford was the second sister. BALIOL. Alexander de Baliol, brother of John, King of Scotland, was summoned to Parliament from the 26th September, 28 Edw. I., 1300, to the 3d November, 35th Edw. I., 1306. He was for some time Chamberlain of Scotland ; and was twice married, but is considered to have died about 1309, without leaving issue, though it is certain that he had children living in 12962; and Dugdale, apparently on the authority of the Clause Rolls, says, "that, about 1309, his son Alexander was imprisoned in the Tower of London," but, upon security, given by this Alexander, his father, and two of the Lindeseys for his future fidelity to the King, he was enlarged. If he died without issue his Barony became extinct. No evidence exists of his having ever sat in Parliament. Edward de Baliol, King of Scotland, was summoned to Parliament on the 1st January, 22 Edw. III., 1348, and 10th March, 23 Edw. III., 1349, but it does not appear that he ever obeyed the writs. BANYARD. Robert de Banyard +, or Baygnard, was summoned to Parliament on the 23d May, 6 Edw. II. and 26 July, 7 Edw. II., 1313, among the Barons of the Realm; but of whom Dugdale takes no notice in his Baronage. The best account of this individual which has been compiled is in Banks' "Stemmata Anglicana," where he is considered to have been the person who in the 5 and 6 of Edw. II. was intrusted with the charge of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and of the Castle of Norwich. It was apparently this Robert Baynard who in the 6 Edw. II. received permission to embattle his mansion of Hautboys, in Norfolk; and the writer just cited conjectures that he was the same man who was appointed one of the Justices of the King's Bench, on the 9th March, 1328, and who was summoned to Parliament in that 1 Ancient Charters in the British Museum, 43 B. 10, and Fœdera, N. E., vol. i. p. 757, et seq. Rot. Scot., vol. i. p. 41. 3 3 Edw. II. m. 8. 4 Appendix to the first Peerage Reports, p. 227. 6 Rot. Orig. 5 Edw. II. vol. i. p. 186. 7 Calend. Rot. Patent. p. 74.b Ibid. p. 230. capacity in the 2 and 3 Edw. III. Whether Robert Baynard was ever a Peer of the Realm or not is unimportant, since no proof occurs of his having sat in Parliament: he probably died in the 4 Edw. III. seised, with Maud his wife, of the manors of Hautboys, Whatacre, Chattegrave, &c. in Norfolk, and left two sons, Thomas, then aged twenty-six, and Robert, who was then married to Lucia, the daughter of Roger Atte Ashe, which Lucia was at that time thirty years of age1. The arms of Sir Robert Baynard of Norfolk, in the reign of Edward the Second, were Sable, a fess between two chevronels, Or2. BARDOLF. I. Hugh Bardolph, Lord of Wirmegay, in the county of Norfolk, was summoned to Parliament on the 8th June, 22d Edw. I., 1294, and from the 6th Feb. 27th Edw. I., 1299, to the 2d June, 35th Edw.I., 1302., and was one of the Peers who subscribed the letter from the Barons to the Pope, in the Parliament at Lincoln, in the 29th year of that reign. He died in the 32d Edw. I.3, and left issue by Isabella, daughter and heir of Robert de Aguyllon his wife, II. Thomas Bardolfe, his son and heir, then twenty-two years of age, who was also found heir to his mother at her death, in the 17th Edw. II. He was summoned to Parliament from the 26th August, 1st Edw. II., 1307, to the 23d Oct. 4th Edw. III., though he died in the 3d Edw. III., leaving, by Agnes his wife, III. John Bardolf, his son and heir, a minor of the age of seventeen, but then married. He made proof of his age in the 9th of Edw. III. in January, in which year he was summoned to Parliament, and continued to be so summoned until June, in the 37th Edw. III. In the 13th Edw. III., 1339, he was one of the Peers present in Parliament when an aid was granted to the King. He married in the 10th Edw. III. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Damory, and dying 3d August A° 45th Edw. III. was succeeded by his son and heir, In IV. William de Bardolf, then a minor of the age of fourteen years and upwards. He was summoned to Parliament from the 49th Edw. III. until his death, which happened A° 9th Ric. II., 1385-6. the 50th Edw. III. he was one of the Triers of Petitions for Gascony, and the parts beyond sea 10, and in the same year was one of the mainpernors of the Lord Latimer ". He married Agnes, the daughter of Esch. 4 Edw. III. No. 28. "Contemporary Roll of Arms in the Cottonian MS., Caligula, A. XVIII. 3 Esch. 32 Edw. I. No. 64. The statements, not authenticated by references, have been copied from Dugdale. 4 Esch. 17 Edw. II. No. 39. 5 Esch. 3 Edw. III. No. 66. Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 103. 7 Sic in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 682; but a MS. note of the Esch. 45 Edw. III. No. 7, states that he died in the 37 Edw. III., and which agrees with the date of the last writ addressed to him. 8 Esch. 45 Edw. III. No. 7. 9 Esch. 9 Ric. II. No. 11. 10 Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 322. Ibid. p. 326. Michael Poynings, and by her, who survived him, and remarried Sir Thomas Mortimer, Knight', he left issue, V. Thomas de Bardolf, his son and heir, who at the time of his father's death was eighteen years of age. He made proof of his age in the 13th of R. II., and the next year received Summons to Parliament, and continued to be so summoned till the 5th Hen. IV. In the following year, he joined the insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and Nottingham (Earl Marshal) against King Henry the Fourth. Upon the dispersion of the rebel army, by John Duke of Lancaster, when the Earl of Nottingham, and Scrope, Archbishop of York, were taken prisoners and beheaded, the Earl of Northumberland and Lord Bardolf succeeded in escaping into Scotland, and subsequently into Wales, from whence they returned, and continuing in rebellion, engaged the royal forces at Bramham near Thusk, when the Earl was killed, and Lord Bardolf so wounded that he died shortly afterwards. He was attainted in Parliament, and his estates were forfeited to the Crown. He married Amicia, daughter of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, by whom he had issue two daughters his coheirs. 1. Anne, nineteen years old at her father's death, and then the wife of Sir William Clifford, Knight, brother of the Lord Clifford of Cumberland, as she was also, at the death of her mother, which happened in the 9th of Hen. V.; and when she was thirty years of age, she married to her second husband, Sir Reginald Cobham, whom she also survived, and died without issue by either, in the 32d Hen. VI. 2. Joan, eighteen years old at her father's death, and then wife of William Philip3, who was afterwards treasurer of the household of King Henry V., K. G. and chamberlain to Henry VI., and by whom, who died A 19th Hen VI., and was buried at Donyngton, she had issue an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who was married before the 19th Hen. VI. to John Viscount Beaumont, and her descendants will be found under that title. This Joan died Ao 25 Hen. VI.-. Some of the lands forfeited by the attainder of the last Lord Bardolf, were at various times restored to his heirs. King Henry IV., in the year subsequent to the attainder itself, restored to Sir William Clifford and William Philip, the lordships of Shelford and StokesBardolf in Nottinghamshire, and the manor of Byrling in Sussex; and in the 18th of Henry VI., all the lands which he held in fee-tail were restored by act of parliament; but it does not anywhere appear that the attainder itself was recorded. It is remarkable that Sir William Philip is repeatedly styled in grants from the crown, and in the acts of Parliament, William Philip, late Lord Bardolf, although his wife's elder sister survived him. This has given rise to an idea he was so created by patent; but that opinion seems to be completely contradicted by his name not once appearing among the Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 326b. Calend. Rot. Patent. p. 247. 3 Esch. 9 Hen. IV. No. 31. 4 Esch. 10 Hen. V. 5 See Calendar of the Patent Rolls, p. 295, 296, 304. list of barons summoned to Parliament. It is not, however, a point of any importance; for if he was so created, the honour extinguished at his death without issue male; and his having been created Lord Bardolf, with limitations to heirs male, would not prevent the claim of his wife's heirs general to the old barony, if the attainder were reversed. An Account of the Expenses of the two Brothers, Mr. Henry and Mr. William Cavendish, Sons of Sir William Cavendish, of Chatsworth, Knight, at Eton College, beginning October 21st, 2nd Elizabeth, 1560. [From a Contemporary Manuscript.] THIS document presents us with a complete view of the expenses incurred for schoolboys at Eton early in the reign of Elizabeth. Although some entries are curious, as illustrative of the manners of the time, there are others from which no conclusions of importance can be drawn; but it has been thought better to give the whole, as it is believed no similar account of schoolboy expenses has ever been submitted to the public. The two youths entered the college on the 21st of October, 1560. It appears by a paper printed in Collins's" Noble Families," that Henry, the elder of them, was born on December 17th, 4th Edward VI., 1550; and William, the younger, on December 27th, 5th Edward VI., 1551. The Princess, afterwards Queen Elizabeth, was a sponsor at the baptism of Henry, with the Marquis of Dorset and the Earl of Warwick. Their father, Sir William Cavendish, died October 25, 1557, and their mother, who was afterwards Countess of Shrewsbury, was married to Sir William Saint Loe, captain of the guard to the Queen, who, in a letter to his wife written about the time when the young Cavendishes were placed at Eton, says, "The Amnar (Almoner) saluteth the, and sayeth no jenttlemen's chyldren in Ingland schalbe bettar welcum, nor bettar loked unto then owre boyes." One lytull chekyn iiiid. It. for fyre mornyng and evening in ther chamber ther iiiid. Apud cenam duo filii Fraunc. Knolles milit. ibi fuerunt. It. for Thomas Folow dynner at the inne the same day.. iiiid. |