General Bertie married about 1795, the widow of .... Scrope, Esq. but I believe has no issue. b

Creations. Earl of Lindsey in com. Linc. by letters patent dated November 22d, 1626, 2 Car. I.

Arms, &c. Same as Duke of Ancaster, with exception of the coronet.

The occurrence of the Duke's death at the moment this sheet is passing the press, is the cause of this imperfect article.

IT appears from the records of this family, collected in the reign of King Charles II. and printed at the charge of Henry Earl of Peterborough, that OSBERT le Mordaunt, a Norman Knight, was possessed of Radwell in Bedfordshire, by the gift of his brother, which he had of William the Conqueror, for his services, and the service of his father, in the conquest of this kingdom, as is evident from the following charter.

"Eustachius de Sancto Egidio omnibus hominibus & amicis suis tam Francigenis, quam Anglicis, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, & hac præsenti charta confirmasse, Osberto dicto le Mordaunt, fratri meo, pro homagio & servitio suo, terram meam de Radwell, cum omnibus pertinentiis, & libertatibus suis, sibi & hæredibus ejus, tenendum de me & hæredibus meis, liberè & quietè, honorificè & hæreditariè, sicut illum ego inter alia recepi ac tenui de donatione & munificentia Willielmi illustrissimi Regis Angliæ, pro servitiis quæ pater meus in conquestu, & ego sibi fecimus, per servitium dimidiæ partis feodi unius militis, pro omni

This work, of which only twenty-four copies were printed, goes under the title of HALSTEAD'S GENEALOGIES, viz. "Succinct Genealogies of the noble and ancient Houses of Alno, or De Alneto; Broc, of Shephale; Latimer, of Duntish; Drayton, of Drayton; Mauduit, of Westminster; Greene, of Drayton; Vere, of Addington; Fitzlewis, of West Horndon; Howard of Effingham; Mordaunt, of Turvey, justified by public records, ancient and extant charters, &c by Robert Halstead" London, 1685, fol Halstead is a fictitious name. It was drawn up by Lord Peterborough him. self, with the aid of his chaplain, Mr. Rans, rector of Turvey, com. Bedf See Cens. Lit. vol. ii. p. 373.

servitio seculari. Ego vero prædictus Eustachius de Sancto Ægidio, & hæredes mei prædictam terram prædicto Osberto, & hæredibus ejus, contra omnes homines ac fœminas, warrantizabimus. His testibus, Ranulpho filio Thomæ Hervei, &c."

This Sir Osbert le Mordaunt, for (as appears by other authorities) he was a knight, had issue two sons.

First, Osinund, and

Second, Baldwin, as I find by charters of the said Osbert, and his son Osmund; the former giving land in Radwell to his younger son Baldwin; which his brother confirmed to him.

This OSMUND had issue

EUSTACH le Mordaunt, who by marriage with Alice, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir William de Alneto (or Alno) modernly called Dauney, became possest of the lordship of Turvey in Bedfordshire; a moiety of which he had in the lifetime of her father, as appears by his charter without date; wherein he gave to the said Eustach, and his heirs, a moiety of all his lands in the ville of Turvey, by the service of half a knight's fee; Robert le Mordaunt his brother being a witness (among others) to the charter.

Several deeds of this Eustach are extant, by the name of Eustachius Mordaunt de Wahall. He gave in free alms to the canons of St. John the Evangelist of Caudewell, for the health of his own soul, his wife's, and the souls of his ancestors and successors, the church of John Baptist, of Batonenci, and ten acres of land in Turvey; and a tine was levied in 9 Richard I. between the said Eustach, and Gilbert son of William, concerning one virgate of land, with the appurtenances in Radwell, which Osmund, father of the said Eustach, held,

WILLIAM Mordaunt, his son and heir, was lord of Turvey, Radwell, Asthull, and other lands, and was succeeded therein by a son of his own name.

Which WILLIAM was likewise possessed of Chicheley, and had licence from King Edward I. in the twenty-fifth of his reign, to enclose his pasture of Wolesey, his field called Turvey Lees, his pasture of Manselgrove, and other his lands in Turvey, to form a park. He had issue by Rose his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph Wake,

First, ROBERT, his son and heir and was also the father of Second, William Mordaunt, of Turvey, junior, and of Third, Edward Mordaunt, of Bucks, both mentioned in an old roll of fines, 27 Edw. III. and said to be married, the first to Maud, and the latter to Eleanor,

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ROBERT, his son and heir (mentioned in charters in 16 Edw. II. and 7 and 29 Edw. III.) was knight of the shire for the county of Bedford, in the parliament held at Westminster in 15 Edw. III. and married Joan, daughter of Thomas Frowick, and had issue

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EDMUND le Mordaunt, who added to the possessions of his ancestors Clifton and Shephaell, and lived in the reign of King Edward III. as appears by his charters. Edmund married Helen, daughter and coheir of Ralph Broc, from whose daughter and coheir, Agnes, the Dukes of Montague were descended. And the said Ralph Eroc was the son of Laurence Broc, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Ralph Perrot, and of Cassandra his wife, daughter and heir of Gyles de Argenton. From which match proceeded

ROBERT le Mordaunt, son and heir, who is mentioned in deeds in 49 Edward III. and 14 Richard II. and having married Agnes, daughter and heir of John le Strange, of Hampton Tudworth in Sussex, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of William Butler, of Waldern in the same county, had issue a son of his own name, who succeeded him, and a daughter Cassandra, a nun.

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Which ROBERT, in 9 Henry V. was one of the knights for the county of Bedford, in the parliament which met at Westminster; and by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Holdenby, of Holdenby in com. Northampton, was father of William Mordaunt, Esq. Maud and Elizabeth.

WILLIAM was living in 11 Edw. IV. and married Margaret, daughter of John Peeke, of Cople in Bedfordshire, by whom he had, among other children,

First, Sir John, and

Second, William.

As also two daughters; Joan, wife of Giles Strangeways, of Melbury in the county of Dorset ; and Elizabeth, to Sir Whiston Browne, Knight.

William, the second son, covenanted February 14th, 1494-5, to marry Anne, second daughter and coheir of Thomas Huntingdon, of Hempsted in Essex, Esq. which was consummated on June 5th following, his brother Sir John Mordaunt, settling on her as a jointure the manor of Woodend, with the appurtenances, and several lands and tenements in Roxton, Burford, Chalnestre,

Prynn's Brevia Parl p. 9. • Some pedigrees call her Joan de Bray.
Ex Collect B. Willis Arm.

Colmouth, and Collesden in Bedfordshire; and all his land in Tychmersh, and Clopton in Northamptonshire; and the said Thomas Huntingdon, her father, settled on them, after his death, and on John Paris, of Linton in Cambridgeshire, Esq. (who had married his other daughter) all his manors and lands in Cambridgeshire and Essex. This William Mordaunt, writing himself of Hempsted in Essex, makes his will December 22d, 1517, (the probate whereof bears date June 22d, 1518,) and orders his body to be buried by his wife in the church of Hempsted, if he died at London, or as near to Hempsted as London. He bequeaths to the church of Hempsted a suit of vestments, and a cope of black velvet of the price of 20 l. with the arms of him and his wife on the cope and vestments. And that a stone of marble be provided by his executors, to be laid upon him and his wife, with their images, and this inscription graven on the same stone: "Hic jacet Willielmus Mordaunt de Hempsted, nuper capitalis Prothonotarius Cur. Domini Regis de com. Banco, filius Willielmi Mordaunt de Turvey in com. Bedford Armiger; et Anna Uxor ejusdem Willielmi fili, qnæ Anna obiit die Sabbati 12 aie Decembris, Anno Domini Millessimo, Quingentesimo XVII." And that his executors cause the day and year of his decease to be put on the same stone, with Quorum Animabus propitietur Deus, Amen. He moreover wills, that his bible and all his other books, as well of the law, as of entries, English books and Latin books, remain to the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, from one to the other, without selling or putting away any of them He bequeaths to Christopher Mordaunt his son, his manor of Weldberne, and lands in Depden. To Edmund Mordaunt his son, (who married Agnes, second daughter of Richard the first Lord Rich) his manor of Burghall, and lands and tenements in Swafham Bulbeck, Swafham Prior, and Roche, and elsewhere in the county of Cambridge. To George Mordaunt his son, his manor of Dales in Thundersley, and all his lands in Wymbish. He died January 16th, 1518, and was buried in the body of the church at Hempsted. But Robert Mordaunt was his eldest son, who was seated at Hempsted in Essex, and by marriage with Barbara, daughter and heir of John L'Estrange of Massingham in Norfolk, by Anne his wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas L'Estrange, of Walton in Warwickshire, became possessed of both those estates, and had a son Henry, who was of Grimston in Norfolk, and father of

• Salmon's Hist. of Essex, p. 176.