Biography of William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton 1509-1562
Paternal Family Tree: Grey
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Tattershall 1439-1499
Around 1491 [his father] Edmund Grey 9th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 22) and [his mother] Florence Hastings Baroness Grey Wilton (age 18) were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 03 Apr 1498 [his grandfather] John Grey 8th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 50) died. On 03 Apr 1498 His son [his father] Edmund Grey 9th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 29) succeeded 9th Baron Grey of Wilton. [his mother] Florence Hastings Baroness Grey Wilton (age 25) by marriage Baroness Grey of Wilton.
In 1509 William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton was born to Edmund Grey 9th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 40) and Florence Hastings Baroness Grey Wilton (age 36).
On 05 May 1511 [his father] Edmund Grey 9th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 42) died at Wilton, Herefordshire. His son [his brother] George Grey 10th Baron Grey of Wilton succeeded 10th Baron Grey of Wilton.
On 28 Oct 1521 [his brother] Richard Grey 12th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 14) died. His brother William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 12) succeeded 13th Baron Grey of Wilton.
In 1535 William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 26) and Mary Somerset Baroness Grey Wilton (age 38) were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Wilton. She the daughter of Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth West. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 1536 [his mother] Florence Hastings Baroness Grey Wilton (age 63) died.
In 1536 [his son] Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton was born to William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 27) and [his wife] Mary Somerset Baroness Grey Wilton (age 39).
In 1540 [his daughter] Honora Grey was born to William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 31) and [his wife] Mary Somerset Baroness Grey Wilton (age 43).
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. Satuday the 27th of August [1547]. My Lord Protector's Grace, (whom neither the length nor weariness of the way did any whit let [kinder], speedily to further that he had deliberately taken in hand) riding all the way from London, his own person, in post, accompanied by [Lord Grey (age 38)] my Lord Marshal, and Sir Francis Bryan (age 57), was met a six mile on this side of Newcastle by my Lord Lieutenant [the Earl of Warwick], and Master Treasurer [Sir Ralph Sadler (age 40)] (who for the more speedy despatch of things were come to town there, three or four days before), and all the nobles, knights, and captains of the army, on horseback, attending upon them.
And coming thus to town, my Lord's Grace was honourably, for the dignity of the place, with gun shot and the presence of the Mayor, Aldermen, and commoners there, about three o'clock in the afternoon, received and welcomed: and lay at the house of one Peter Ryddell.
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. [10 Sep 1547]. Their device was thus. That my Lord Grey (age 38), with his band of Boulogners, with my Lord Protector's band, and my Lord Leiutenant's; all to the number of an eighteen hundred men, on the East half: and Sir Ralph Vane, with Sir Thomas Darcy (age 40) Captain of the Pensioners, and my Lord Fitzwalter with his band of Demi-lances; all to the number of a sixteen hundred, to be ready and even with my Lord Marshal, on the West half: and thus, all these together, afore [before], to encounter the enemy a front: whereby either to break their array, and that way weaken their power by disorder; or, at the least, to stop them of their gate [march], and force them to stay, while our Foreward might wholly have the hill's side, and our Battle and Rereward be placed in grounds next that in order, and best for advantage.
And after this, then that the same our horsemen should retire up the hill's side; to come down, in order, afresh, and infest them on both their sides; while our Battles should occupy them in fight a front.
The policy of this device, for the state of the case, as it was, to all that knew of it, generally allowed to be the best that could be: even so, also, taken to be of no small danger for my Lord Marshal, Sir Ralph Vane, and others the assailers; the which, nevertheless, I know not whether more nobly and wisely devised of the council, or more valiantly and willingly executed of them.
For even there, with good courage taking their leaves of the council, my Lord Marshal requiring only that if it went not well with him, my Lord's Grace would be good to his wife and children; he said, "he would meet these Scots!" And so, with their bands, these captains took their way towards the enemy.
By this, were our Foreward and theirs with a two flight shot asunder. The Scots hasted with so fast a pace, that it was thought of the most part of us, they were rather horsemen than footmen. Our men, again, were led the more with speed.
Diary of Edward VI. Jun 1548. The Scottis besieged the towne of Hadington [Map]1 wher the captaine mr. Wilford2 every day mad(e) issues upon them, and slew divers of them. The thing was very weake but for the men, who did very manfully. Oftentimes mr. Holcroft and mr. Paulmer3 did vitail it by force, passing through the enemies. And at the last the ringrave4 unawares set upon mr. Paulmer5, wich was ther with ner a thousand and 500 horsmen, and discomfited him, taking him, mr. Bowes (age 56) warden of the Westmarches, and divers other to the nomber of 400, and slew a few.
Note 1. "The History of the Winning of Hadington [Map] in Scotland, An. 2 Reg. Edwardi VI." forms the last portion of the historico-poetical book entitled "The Flower of Fame," compyled by Ulpian Fulwell, printed in London 1575, 4to., and reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, edit. 1812, vol. ix. His information was received from "capitayne Dethick," one of the officers employed; and the accounts given by Holinshed and the other chroniclers are derived from this source.
Note 2. Sir James Wilford. He had been knighted by the earl of Hertford after the taking of Leith, September 28, 1547. In the defence of Hadington [Map] he acquired great reputation, as will be found in Fulwell's narrative. He was afterwards taken prisoner (see p. 224); and further particulars respecting him may be seen in the notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 314.
Note 3. Sir Thomas Holcroft and sir Thomas Palmer.
Note 4. The Rhinegrave is mentioned by Holinshed as "coronall" of 3,000 or 4,000 lansknechts in the French service at Boulogne in 1546. I have not discovered his name, but may notice a misapprehension of Mr. Park, the editor of the Harleian Miscellany, who (vol. ix. p. 370, misreading Ulpian Fulwell) identifies this commander with d'Esse, and imagines "the Ringrave of Fraunce" to be "a term applied in pantomimic contempt." The force sent by France to aid the Scots in 1548 consisted of "5,000 olde beattin shouldiers, — Frenche, Italians, and Germans. De Dessay was generall; Dandelot commandit the Frenche footte; Strozzi commandit the Italians; the Eeingrave commandit the Germans; Dunow was generall of the ordinance." (Balfour, i. 290.) Pietro Strozzi, general of the galleys of France, appears to have arrived first, with sixteen galleys, and won the castle of St. Andrew's. (Ibid. p. 287.) He was cousin-german to the queen, Catharine de Medicis, and was afterwards, in 1554, raised to the rank of a marshal of France; see Anselme, Histoire Geneal. vii. 206.
Note 5. My lord (the earl of Shrewsbury (age 48)) sent in hys stead sir Thomas Palmer and sir Robart Bowes: marrye, of all the launcies sir Thomas had the rule, whose selfwyll and glorie in that joorney did cast awaye the whoale power, for they were all over-throwen." Commentarie of the Services of William lord Grey of Wilton (age 39), p. 16. Sir W. Paget, in a letter to the Protector on this occasion, (MS. Cotton. Titus F. ni.) speaks very highly of sir Thomas Palmer.
Diary of Edward VI. 01 Jul 1549. To Oxfordshier the lord Gray of Wilton (age 40) was sent with 1500 horsmen and footmen; whose coming, with th'assembling of the gentlemen of the countrie, did so abash the rebels, that more then hauf of them rann ther wayes, and other that tarried were some slain, some taken, and some hanged.5
Note 5. These disturbances commenced towards the end of June. A circular letter of summons to attend the King at Windsor with as many horsemen and foot as could be raised, accompanied by a long list of persons to whom such letters were sent, is preserved in the State Paper office, indorsed "pimo Julij 1549." The suppression of the tumults in the counties of Berks, Buckingham, Northampton, and Oxford, was confided to the lord Grey of Wilton. It was in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire that they most prevailed, but, as Holinshed states, were "speedily appeased," and the lord Grey was then sent into the West. In the State Paper office is a very remarkable document, dated the 19th July, containing the orders he left behind with the sheriff and gentlemen of Oxfordshire, for the completion of the terrible commission which he left unfinished. Executions were ordered in all the principal towns, and several of the parish priests were to be hung on their own steeples.
Holinshed's Chronicle 1548. Aug 1549. For the pacifieng of these rebels, were appointed by the king and his councell, sir Iohn Russell (age 64) knight lord priuie seale, the lord Greie of Wilton (age 40), sir William Herbert (age 48) after earle of Penbroke, sir Iohn Paulet, sir Hugh Paulet, sir Thomas Speake, and others, with a conuenient power of men of warre both on horssebacke and foot. Amongst others, there were certeine strangers that came with my lord Greie, as capteine Germane an Hennower, with a band of horssemen, most part Albanoises and Italians. Also capteine Paule Baptist Spinola an Italian borne of a noble house in Genoa, with a band of Italian footmen. But now the lord priuie seale that was ordeined by the king and his councell, generall of that armie, vpon his first approching towards them, sent vnto them the kings maiesties proclamation: the effect whereof was, that all such persons as were vnlawfullie assembled, and did not within thrée daies next after the proclaming thereof, yéeld and submit themselues to the lord priuie seale (the kings lieutenant) they should from thenceforth be deemed, accepted, and taken for rebels against his roiall person, and his imperiall crowne and dignitie.
Diary of Edward VI. Aug 1549. To Devonshier the lord Previ-seal (age 64)1 was sent, who with his band, being but smal, lay at Honington whils the rebels besieged Exciter [Map], who did rise divers preaty feates of warre. For after divers skirmishes, when the gatis were burnt, thei in the cite did continew the fir(e), til thei had mad a ramper within. Also afterward, when they were underminded and pouder was laid in the mind, thei within drouned the pouder and the mind with water they cast in; wich the lord Previ-seal hearing, thought to a gone to renforce them a bie way; of wich the rebels having spial, cut al the trees betwixt St. Mary-Outrie and Exciter. For wich cause the lord Previ-seal burnt that toun, and thought to returne home. The rebels kept a brig behind his bake, and so compelled him with his smal band to set upon them, wich he did and overcam them, killing 600 of them, and returning hom without any loss of men. Then the lord Gray (age 40) and Spinula2 with their bandis came to him, and afterward Gray (sic) with 200 of Reding, with wich bands he being renforcid came to raise the sieg at Exciter, for bicaus thei had scarcety of vitel; and as he passed from Hunniagton, he cam to a little towne of his owne, whether cam but only tow waies, wich thei had ranforced with tow bulwarkes mad of earth, and had put to the defence of the same about 2000 men, and the rest the(y) had layed, some at a brige called Honnington brige, partly at a certein hedg in a hie way, and the most part at the sieg of Exciter. The rierward of the horsmen, of which Travers was captain, set upon the on(e) bulwark, the vauard and battail on the tother. Spiaula's band kept them occupied at their wale. At lenght Travers drove them into the towne, wich the lord Previ-seal burnt. Then thei rane to a bridg thereby; from whence being driven their were in a plain about 900 of them slain. The next day ther wer mete about other 2000 of them at the entrie of a hie way, who first desired to talk, and in the meane season fortified them selves, wich being perceived they ranne ther wayes, and that same night the cite of Exitter was delivered of the siege.1a
Note 1. John lord Russell, shortly after made earl of Bedford. Some of his despatches to the council on this occasion will be found in Strype's Memorials, vol. ii. Records, DD.; also in Wiffen's Memorials of the House of Eussell, i. 369.
Note 2. "Captaine Paule Baptist Spinola, an Italian, borne of a noble house in Genoa, with a band of Italian footmen" Holinshed, p. 1651.
Note 1a. A very full narrative of the Devonshire rebellion, written by John Vowell, alias Hooker, chamberlain of Exeter, accompanied by a "description of the citie," was first published in the edition of 1586 of Holinshed's Chronicle, and it occupies in the edition of 1808 pp. 926-963 of vol. iii. It was also printed distinctly in 4to. 1775. Great pains were taken to refute the religious doctrines advanced in their "supplication" or manifesto: and several drafts of "the King's answer" thereto are preserved in the State Paper office, which Mr. Tytler has partly printed, i. 178 — 182; but a much more elaborate reply was compiled by Cranmer, which will be found at length in his works (Parker Soc, edition), ii. 163—187.
On 17 Oct 1549 [his brother-in-law] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester (age 53) died. His son William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester (age 23) succeeded 3rd Earl Worcester, 4th Baron Herbert of Raglan.
Diary of Edward VI. 16 Apr 1550. The thre hostiages aforsaid cam to London, being met at Detford with the lord Graye of Wilton (age 41), lord Bray, with divers other gentihnen to the nomber of twenty, and serving men an hundred, and so brought into the cite, and lodged there, and kept houses every man by themself.
Diary of Edward VI. 27 Apr 1550. The marquis du Means (age 31), conte d' Anguien, and the constable's son wer received at Blakheth by my lord of Rutland (age 23), my lord Gray of Wilton (age 41), my lord Bray, my lord Lisle (age 23), and divers gentlemen, with al the pensionaries to the nombre of 100, besid a great nomber of serving men.
It was grauntid that my lord of Somerset shnld have al his movebal goodes and lesses (leases), except thos that be alredie given.2
Note 2. "April xxvii. It was agreed by the whole counsaill that the Kinges majestie shulde be moved for the restitucion of the duke of Somersett unto all his goods, his debts, and his leases yet ungiven." (Council Book.) By "yet ungiven" was meant not granted out to other parties.
Diary of Edward VI. 23 May 1550. Mon. Chastil(lon) (age 31) and Mortier, and Bouchetel, accompanied with the Ringrave (age 46)1, Dandelot2, the constable's secound sone3, and Chenault the ligier4, cam to Durasme place, where in their journei thei wer met by mr. tresoror (Oheyne) and threscore gentlemen5 at Whulwhich [Map], and also saluted with great peales both at Whulwich, Dettford [Map], and the Towre [Map].1a
Note 1. The Rhinegrave John Frederick was deprived of his electorate by the emperor after the battle of Muhlberg in 1547, and remained a prisoner at Innspruck until 1552. His nephew Otho-Henry, called the Magnanimous, whose proper title was only count of Neuburg until after his uncle's death in 1556, was at this time in the service of France, and was made a knight of St. Michael in Oct. 1550 (see Tytler, i. 325).
Note 2. The seigneur d'Andelot was François de Coligny (age 29), younger brother of the seigneur de Chastillon, already noticed in p. 250, and like him a zealous Calvinist and intrepid soldier. He became comte of Laval and Montfort in Britany; and in 1555 he was appointed colonel-general of the French infantry in place of his brother. He died in 1569. (Anselme, vii. 155; viii. 215.)
Note 3. The second son of the constable of France was Henry (age 15) afterwards duc de Montmorency, who now, during his father's (age 57) lifetime, bore the title of seigneur de Damville. (Anselme, Histoire Genealogique, vi. 229.) If the King writes with accuracy, he must have been one of the train; but if he meant one and the same person by "Dandelot, the constable's second sone," this may have arisen from d'Andelot being (by his mother's side) "the constable's nephew, and one of the (French) king's minions." (Tytler, i. 160.)
Note 4. Of Chenault no particulars have occurred. Among the illustrious visitors on this "occasion, or immediately after, appears to have been Claude de Lorraine, due d'Aumale, third son of the late due de Guise. On the 6th Oct. following sir John Mason (age 47) writes from Rouen to the council: "The due d'Aumale is much desirous to have a portrait of the King's person, which he says the King himself promised him at his departing out of England. He hath been in hand with me twice or thrice herein, praying me in my next despatch to desire your lordships to put his Majesty in remembrance hereof. If any shall be sent unto him, this is a very good time therefor, while yet he remaineth in Roan. He speaketh very much honour of the King and of the realm, and hideth not the courtesy he found the time of his being there. He is, as your lordships knoweth, of right good estimation, and therefore the remembring of him in this his request cannot be but well bestowed." (Tytler, i. 330.)
Note 5. In order that the court might make a good show of nobility when the Frenchmen arrived, the council had despatched, on the 17th of April, "Lettres severall to the earles of Rutland (age 23), Bathe (age 51), and Worcester (age 24), to the viscount Hereford (age 62), and the lord Fitzwalter, to repayre to the court out of hand, bringing with them their best apparell and furniture, for the receiving and entertaining of the ambassadors and noble men that came out of France."
On the 4th May, "For the receaving of mounsr Chastillion, and the rest of the Frenche ambassadors, the lord warden of the Cinque portes, thresorer of the King's Majesties household, was appointed to be the chief, and a nombre of lords and gentlemen apoincted to accompanie him by water with the King's barges, bicause th'ambassadors are determined to come from Bulloigne in their owne galleys up alongest the Teames [River Thames]."
"May xviij. A warrant to the master of the jewelhouse to deliver unto Benjamin Gonstone, threasorer of the King's shippes, one peir of potts, one peir of flagons, iij. nest of bolles, ij. basons and ewers, a garnish and a half of vessell, ij. dozen of plates, and ij. saltes of silver, for the furniture of the galley appointed for the lord wardeigne to mete the French ambassadors coming up by the Temes [Thames], to be restored again upon retorne of the same galley. A warrant to sir John Williams to delyver to the said John Gonstone xlli. in prest towards the furniture of the said galey." (Council Book.)
Note 1a. "On Friday was seven-night [May 23] the galley Subtle, with two other of the King's pinnaces, under the charge of sir William Woodhouse, mr. Brook, and others, were sent to the Thames mouth to meet with the French galleys, and to conduct them upwards, and at their first meeting received them with an honest banquet; so accompanied them along the Thames, where, passing by sundry of the King's ships, they were saluted by honest peals of ordnance; and, a little above Greenwich, I, the lord warden of the Cinque Ports (Cheyne), being accompanied with the earl of Worcester, the lord Grey of Wilton (age 41), the lord William Howard, with divers other young lords and gentlemen, to the number of sixty, in sundry barges, met with them upon the water, bade them welcome on the King's maties behalf, with other good words to the purpose, and so received them into those barges. They were conveyed by water through the bridge to their lodging, being appointed at Durham-place, which was furnished with hangings of the King's for the nonce: where, against their coming, was ready laid in a very large present of beer, wine, beeves, muttons, wild fowls, poultry, fish, and wax. By the way the King's ships at Deptford shot off; and at the Tower, as they passed, a great peal of ordnance was discharged to welcome them. As soon as they were landed, and in their lodgings, a gentleman was sent from the King's matie, willing me the lord warden, in the King's highness' behalf, to bid them welcome, and tell them that if they would aught, being signified, it should be provided; and so for that night left them." (Narrative of the council addressed to sir John Mason, the ambassador lieger in France, printed from Mason's letter-book in the State Paper office, by Tytler, i. 284.;
Henry Machyn's Diary. 15 Oct 1551. The xv day of October was had to the Towre the duke of Somersett (age 51) and the lord Gray (age 42).
Note. The duke of Somerset, &c. sent to the Tower. On the particulars of these state trials it is only necessary to refer to several passages in the King's diary, and to Strype and our general historians.
Annales of England by John Stow. 16 Oct 1551. The 16, of October, Edward Seimer Duke of Somerset (age 51), the Lord Gray of Wilton (age 42), Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Thomas Palmer, Sir Myles Partridge, Sir Michael Stanhope (age 44), Sir Thomas Arundell (age 49) knightes, and divers other Gentlemen, were brought to the Tower of London [Map]. The next morrowe, the Dutchesse of Somerset (age 54) was also brought to the Tower [Map].
The liberties of the Stilpard [Map] were ceased into the kings hands for divers causes forfeited, contrarie to the enter-course.
Around 1553 [his son] Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 17) and [his daughter-in-law] Dorothy Zouche (age 21) were married. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 23 Jul 1553. A lettere written in London mentiones that the lord admirall, and the lords Greye (age 44),b Garret, Wormon,c and the lord Fitzwarren, sir Henry Sidney (age 24), and sir James Croffts (age 35), with divers others, have already their pardon graunted them.
The duke of Northumberland is in custody of the garde as a prisoner in Cambridge, and my ladie his wyfe, the lord Guilford (age 18), and the lady Jane (age 17), are in the Towere as prisoneres. My lord marques of Northampton, the earle of Huntingdon, sir Henry Gates, and divers other, cannot as yet gett their pardones."
Note b. William lord Grey of Wilton was the commander upon whose military talents the duke of Northumberland seems to have mainly relied: but lord Grey, who had been an adherent of the duke of Somerset, probably did not serve on this occasion very cordially. He seems to have left Northumberland when at Cambridge, and made his submission to Mary; who on her arrival at her manor of Newhall in Essex, on the 31st of July, dismissed him to his former charge of the castle of Guisnes, with a reinforcement of 350 footmen and 50 horsemen demi-lances: see her letters patent, printed in the Appendix to the Life of Lord Grey of Wilton, No. VI.
Note c. The earl of Ormond.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 23 Apr 1557. The xxiij day of Aprell was sant Gorge('s) day [the King's (age 29)] grace whent a pressessyon in ys robes of the garter; lord Talbott (age 29) bare the sword a-for the Kyng, and master (blank) bare the rod; and doctur (blank) bare the boke of the record; and the bysshope of Wynchaster (age 47) ware ys myter, and song masse that day; and x knyghtes of the Garter be-syd the Kyng; and secretere Peter ware a robe of cremesun velvett with the Garter; and after the Kyng and odur lordes and knyghtes of the garter whent to evyngsong; and ther was the duke of Muskovea was in chapell at evyngsong, and after he whent and toke ys barge and whent to London, and after wher iij knyghtes of the garter chossen, furst my lord F(itz)uater (age 32), my lord Gray of Wylton (age 48), and ser Robart Rochaster (age 63); thes iij wher mad of the order.
On 23 Apr 1557 Queen Mary I of England and Ireland (age 41) appointed three new Garter Knights:
337th Thomas Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Sussex (age 32).
338th William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 48).
339th Robert Rochester (age 63).
Henry Machyn's Diary. 23 May 1557. The sam after-non was chossen iij knyghtes of the garter, my lord Fuwwater depute of Yrland (age 32), my lord Gray (age 48) depute of Gynes, and ser Robart Rochaster (age 63) comtroller of the quen('s) howsse the iij. And after cam the duwcke of Muskovea cam thrugh the halle, and the gard stod in a-ray in ther ryche cottes with halbardes, and so up to the quen('s) chambur, and dyvers althermen and marchandes; and after cam downe a-gayne to the chapell to evyngsong, and contenent cam the Kyng (age 30) and the knyghtes of the garter to evyngsong; and when that evyngsong was down cam the Kyng and the knyghtes up to the chambur of presens; and after cam the duke of Muskovea, and toke ys barge to London, and that tyme my lord Strange bare the sword to evyngsong.
In 1560 [his son-in-law] Henry Denny (age 20) and [his daughter] Honora Grey (age 20) were married. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18 Feb 1561. The iij yere of quen Elezabeth (age 27) the xviij day of [February] was sant Gorge fest; how all the knyghtes of the garter stod that day in order, the furst
On the Quen['s side.]
The kyng Phelype (age 33).
The constabulle of France (age 67).
The yerle of Arundell (age 48).
The yerle of Darbe (age 51).
The duke of Northfoke (age 24).
The lord Pagett (age 55).
The yerle of Westmerland (age 36).
The lord chamburlayn, Haward (age 51).
The yerle of Shrowsbere (age 33)
The lord Montyguw-Browne (age 32).
The lord Gray of Wyltun (age 52).
On the Emperowre('s) syd.
The emperowre Ferna[ndo.] (age 57)
The prynse of Pyamont (age 32).
The duke Vanholtt (age 35).
The markes of Wynchester, tresorer (age 78).
The yerle of Penbroke (age 60).
The lord admerall Clynton (age 49).
The maques of Northamtun-Pare (age 49).
The yerle of Rutland-Rosse (age 34).
The yerle of Sussex (age 36).
The lord of Lugborow (age 40).
The lord Robart Dudley (age 28).
The lord of Hunsdon-Care (age 34).
On 12 Dec 1562 William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 53) died. His son [his son] Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 26) succeeded 14th Baron Grey of Wilton.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 20 Dec 1562. The xx day of Desember was bered my lord Gr[ey of Wilton] (deceased) knyght of the Garter, sum-tyme capten of Gynes, and bered [at] (blank) with a herse garnyssed with velvett and blake and armes, [with four] haroldes of armes, master Garter (age 52) prensepalle, and master Norrey kyng at armes (age 64), [Chest] ur harold (age 27) and Ruge-dragon, and ther was a xx clark [es syng]yng all the way, furst ij porters in blake with blake sta[ffs and] in gownes, and then the standard borne, and then mo .... the grett baner of ys armes, and then the harold [bearing the] helmett and crest, and a-nodur the targett and the sword, and a-nodur [the coat armour;] then master Garter, and then the corse, with a ryche palle; and .... of ys men bayryng ytt; and iiij grett banar-rolles of m[arriages;] after the cheyffe mornars and after mony mornars, and th[ere did prea]che master (blank); and ther was iij dosen of bokeram skochyons of armes, and viij dosen of penselles to garnys the herse, and ... grett skochyons of pastyd paper, and the chyrche hangyd with blake and armes, and a viij dosen of skochyons of armes; and after a[ll done at] the berehyng all they when(t) bake agayne unto master de[an's] plase to dener, for ther was a nobull dener as [has] bene sene for venesun and wyld fulle.
Note. P. 297. Funeral of William lord Grey of Wilton, K.G. The circumstancial account of this ceremonial, drawn up by one of the attendant heralds, is appended to the "Commentarie of the Services" of this nobleman, in the volume edited for the Camden Society by Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart. The church (left blank in p. 298,) was Cheshunt, co. Hertford; the preacher was Michael Reniger; and in line 17, for "master de[an's] plase," read "master De[nny's] plase."
Before 24 Jun 1606 Robert Carr (age 70) and [his wife] Mary Somerset Baroness Grey Wilton were married. There is some uncertainty around thi smarriage. The age cames seems somewhat surprising although it wouldn't be the first time a younger man married and older woman to aquire her wealth. The difference in their ages was 39 years; she, unusually, being older than him. She the daughter of Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth West. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Diary of Edward VI. Ther was great preparation mad to goe into Scoteland2 and the lord Protectour3, th'erl of Warwic4, the lord Dacres5, the lord Gray,1a and mr. Brian,2a went with a great nomber of nobles and gentlemen to Berwic, wbere, the first day after his conaming, he mustered al his company, wich wer to the nomber of 13,000 footmen and 5000 horsmen.3a The next day he marched on into Scoteland, and so passed the Pease.4 Then he burnt tow castels1b in Scoteland, and so passed a straight of a brig2b wher 300 Scottis light horsmen set upon him behind him, who wer discomfited. So he passed to Musselburough, where the first day after he come he went up to the hill, and saw the Scottis, thinking them, as thei were indeed, at lest 36,0003b men, and my lord of Warwic was almost taken, chasing th'erl of Huntley, by an ambush. But he was rescued by on(e) Bertivell,4b with twelve hagbusiers on horsbake, and the ambush ran away. The 7 day of September, the lord Protectour thought to get the hil; wich the Scottis seeing, passed the brig over the river of Muselburough, and strove for the hier ground, and almost gott it. But our horsmen set upon them, who although the(y) staled them, yet wer put to flight, and gathered together again by the due of Somerset lord Protectour, and th'erl of Warwic, and wer redie to give a new onset. The Scottis being amasid with this, fledde ther wayes, some to Edenburough, som to the see, and some to Dalkeith, and ther wer slain 10,000 of them.1c But of Englishe men 51 horsmen, wich were almost al gentilmen, and but one foteman.2c Prisoners were taken the lord Huntley3c chauncellour of Scoteland, and divers other gentlemen, and slain of lardes a 1000.1d And mr. Brian,2d Sadleir,3d and Vane4d were mad(e) Barnels5d [bannerets].
Note 2. The history of this campaign was related in "The Expedicion into Scotlande of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward Duke of Somerset, uncle to our most noble sovereign lord the Kinges Majestie Edward the VI., Goovernour of hys Hyghnes persone, and Protectour of hys Grace's realmes, dominions, and subjectes; made in the first yere of his Majesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of Diarie, By W. Patten, Londoner. Printed at London, 1548;" 12mo. and reprinted in Dalzell's Fragments of Scotish History, 1798. Patten was one of the judges of the marshalsea in the army, the other being William Cecill, afterwards the great Burghley. His narrative is largely quoted in Holinshed, and followed in Sir John Hay ward's Life and Reign of Edward VI. The Sieur Berteville has also left a memoir of the campaign: see note hereafter in p. 217.
Note 3. The duke of Somerset was experienced in the warfare of the Scotish border. He had been lord warden of the marches in 1542, when James the Fifth lost his life at Solway moss. The next year, accompanied by the lord Lisle, he visited the towns of Leith and Edinburgh with fire and devastation. And in 1544 as lord-lieutenant he commanded the expedition sent into Scotland, in which the towns of Leith and Edinburgh were again burnt, with those of Preston, Haddington, and Dunbar, and various castles, of which expedition a narrative, printed in the same year, is reprinted in Dalzell's Fragments of Scotish History, 1798, 4to. See the duke's military atchievements further particularised in the preface to the work of Patten, mentioned in the preceding note. On the present occasion he went as "general of the armie, and capitayn of the battalle, having in it iiii. m. fotemen." (Patten.) Letters patent constituting him "Lieutenant and Captain-generall of the warres both by sea and land," passed the great seal on the 11th of August (Burnet erroneously says the 21st); and they are printed in Rymer's Fœdera under the wrong year, 1548 instead of 1547, an error which misled Rapin (vol. ii. p. 12), who applied them to a time when (as he supposed) the Protector required authority to send the earl of Shrewsbury as Lieutenant-general, on the second year's campaign in Scotland.
Note 4. The earl of Warwick was Lieutenant of the army, and captain of the foreward of iii. M. footmen. (Patten.)
Note 5. William lord Dacre had the command of the rearward of iii. m. footmen.
Note 1a. The lord Grey of Wilton was high marshal of the army, and captain-generall of all the horsemen. See the account given of his conduct in the "Commentarie of the Services of William Lord Grey de Wilton," edited by Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart, for the Camden Society, 1847, p. 10. After the close of the campaign, lord Grey was left in Scotland in the chief command of the English forces.
Note 2a. Sir Francis Bryan was the captain of the light horsemen, being in number ii. m. (Patten.) He shortly after became marshal of Ireland (having married the countess dowager of Ormonde), and on the 27th December, 1549, was constituted lord justice of that kingdom; but during an expedition into Tipperary he died at Clonmell on the 2nd February following.
Note 3a. The King wrote 12,000 and 2000, and the figures are altered as above. The Sieur Berteville estimated the English army as about 12,000 (he at first wrote 14,000) footmen, 1300 men of arms, i.e. cavalry (he at first wrote "viii. centz." and so it is misprinted in the Bannatyne Club book hereafter noticed), and 2,500 light horsemen. These numbers may be compared with Patten's accoimt, p. xxv. of the several forces.
Note 4a. The lord protector, having left Berwick on Sunday the 4th of September, "marched that dale a six miles, and camped by a village called Rostan, in the baronrie of Boukendall." ..."The fift of September they marched an eight miles, untill they came to the Peaths, a clough or vallie running for a six miles west streight eastward, and toward the sea a twentie score brode from banke to banke above, and a five score in the bottome, wherein runs a little river. Steepe is this vallie on either side, and deep in the bottome." (Holinshed, following Patten.) The pass is called "the Pethes" in a letter of sir Ralph Sadler to the earl of Shrewsbury, printed in Lodge's Illustrations of British History, vol. i. pp. 120, 122. It is now called Cockburn's Path, anciently it is said Colbrand's Path; and the bridge which was built there in 1786 crosses a chasm in some parts more than 160 feet deep. It was this pass which the lord admiral told the King that his brother was not likely to surmount, "without losse of a great nombre of men, or of hymself" (see before, p. 58): it was, however, accomplished without difficulty, as Matthew Home, the captain of Dunglas castle, which commanded the pass, surrendered without a struggle.
Note 1b. Dunglas castle was defaced, and the next day the piles of Thornton and Anderwick.
Note 2b. Linton brig, on the 7th of September.
Note 3b. The King first wrote 23,000. Patten states that he heard some of the Scots confess that their army consisted of "above xxvi. ii. fighting footmen, beside ii. M. horsemen prickers (as they cal them), and hereto iii. thousande Irish archers brought by th'erle of Argile." Preface, p. xii.
Note 4b. This occurred (as Patten tells us) on the 7th of September, in a skirmish at the passage of the river Lin, near Hailes castle, when the earl of Warwick was accompanied by scant sixteen horses, whereof Berteville and John de Ribaud, Frenchmen, were two, seven or eight light horsemen more, and the rest his own servants. Berteville was "hurt in the buttok." And it is added that "As Bartevil that day had righte honestly served, so did the lordes righte honorably quite yt, for straight upon the overtakynge of my lordes Grace (i.e. Somerset) my lorde Lieutenant (i e. Warwick) did get him a surgion, and drest he was, straight after layde and conveyed in my lordes Grace's owne chariot, that was both right sumptuous for cost and easy for caryage." This gentleman has himself left a memoir of the campaign, but his modesty has not permitted him to insert this adventure. The memoir was contributed by David Constable, esq. to the Bannatyne Club, entitled "Recit de l'Expedition en Escosse, I'an MDXLVI. et de la Batayle de Muscleburgh, par le Sieur Berteville," and printed in 1825, accompanied by a fac-simile of a large contemporary engraving of the battle of Musklebroghe (or Pinkey, as it has been more frequently termed). The original of this memoir is preserved in the Cottonian Library, Cleopatra A. xi. It commences with an epistle from the author to the King, above which is written "Liber Georgii fferrers ex dono Regis Edouardi:" which shows that it was given by the King to George Ferrers, well known as the Christmas Lord of Misrule (whose magnificence is amply commemorated in the Loseley Manuscripts), as a contributor to the Chronicles of Hollnshed, and as the principal poet of The Mirroiir for Magistrates. He was himself in this campaign; and Patten, describing him as "George Ferrers a gentleman of my lord Protector's, and one of the commissioners of the carriages in this army," tells a story of his smothering some Soots hid in a cavern near Leith (p. 44). To return to Berteville: he was one of those knighted by the earl of Warwick at Berwick in September, when Patten calls him sir John Bartevile. He is noticed in a letter of dr. Wotton printed by Tytler, p. 91. His name occurs again in the King's Journal in connection with the charges made against the Protector by Warwick.
Note 1c. Sir James Balfour says "the Scotts lost 8000 men of all sortes, and weire 1000 prisoners taken." Aunales of Scotland, printed in 1825, 8vo. vol. i. p. 285.
Note 2c. Patten commemorates particularly the deaths of Edward Shelley, the lord Grey's lieutenant of the men of arms of Boulogne, upon whom he gives a long eulogium (p. 72); and another Bullener "little Preston," who was "found with both his handes cut of by the wreastes, and knowen to be he, for that it was knowen he had of each arme a bracelet of golde, for the which they so chopt him."
Note 3c. George Gordon, fourth earl of Huntly, constituted lord chancellor of Scotland in 1546. He was distinguished as a soldier, particularly by his victory over sir Robert Bowes at Haddenrig in 1542. On the 9th Sept. 1547 (the day before the battle of Pinkey or Musselburgh), the earl of Huntly challenged the duke of Somerset, to "fight for the whole quarrel, xx. to xx., x. to x., or els hymselfe alone with your Grace man to man." The Protector refused, "beynge of such estate by the sufferaunce of God as (to) have so weighty a charge of so precious a jewel, the governaunce of a Kynges person, and the protection of all his reames." See the incident related at considerable length by Patten, p. 49. The earl escaped from prison at Morpeth in 1548, and was killed in battle with the regent Moray at Corrichie in 1562.
Note 1d. At first -written 2000.
Note 2d. Sir Francis Bryan, already noticed.
Note 3d. Sir Ralph Sadleyr was treasurer of the army. Berteville bears this testimony to his valour: "En cest bataille monseigneur Sadeler le tresseurier monstra que son sens et proesse ne gist tant en office du finances qu'en experience de guerre." (p. 17.) Attached to sir Ralph Sadleyr's monument at Standon in Hertfordshire was a banner-staff of extraordinary height, said to have been a trophy of the field of Mussleburgh.
Note 4d. Sir Ralph Vane is described by Patten as "Lieutenaunt of all the men of armes and dimilaunces, beyng in number iiij. M." in which number there is perhaps un error. Berteville speaks of "la maison du roy, duquoy estoit chef Monsr de Vannez, ung aussi vaillant et saige capitaine." (p. 26.) But sir Thomas Darcy, according to Patten, was the "capitayn of all the Kynges majesties pencioners and men of armes."
Note 5d. Besides these three bannerets — "a dignitie (as Patten remarks) above a Knight, and next to a Baron," the duke of Somerset also made the following Knights in the camp at Roxburgh on the 28th of September: —
The lord Grey of Wilton, high marshal.
The lord Edward Seimour, my lordes grace's [eldest] son [by his first wife].
The lord Thomas Howard.
The lord Walldyke, a Clevelander.
Sir Thomas Dacre.
Sir Edward Hastings.
Sir Edmund Brydges.
Sir John Thynne, my lord's grace's steward of household.
Sir Miles Partridge.
Sir John Conway.
Sir Giles Poole.
Sir Ralph Bagnall.
Sir Oliver Lawrence.
Sir Henry Gates.
Sir Thomas Chaloner, one of the clerks of the council, and in this army chief secretary.
Sir Francis Flemmyng, master of the ordnance.
Sir Eichard Towneley.
Sir Marmaduke Constable.
Sir George Awdeley.
Sir John Holcroft (joint commissioner of the musters. Patten, p. xxvi )
Sir John Southworth
Sir Thomas Danby.
Sir John Talbot.
Sir Rowland Clerk.
Sir John Gresham.
Sir William Skipwith.
Sir John Buttes.
Sir George Blaag (joint commissioner of the musters. Patten, p. xxvi.)
Sir William Frauncis.
Sir Francis Knolles.
Sir William Thornborow.
Sir George Howard, who did bear the King's standard in the battail.
Sir James Wylforde (provost marshal of the army. Patten, p. xxv.)
Sir Ralph Coppinger (a pensioner.)
Sir Thomas Wentworth.
Sir John Mervyn.
Sir Nicholas Lestrange.
Sir Charles Stourton.
Sir Hugh Ascough.
Sir Francis Salvayn.
Sir John Horsle.y (captain of Bamborough castle. Patten, p. 28.)
Sir John Forster.
Sir Christopher Dies, Spaniards.
Sir Peter Negroo, Spaniards.
Sir Alonzo de Vile, Spaniards.
Sir Henry Hussey
Sir James Granado
Brabander
Sir Walter Bonham.
And at Newcastle, on the duke's return, he knighted the mayor, sir Robert Brandling.
Subsequently, the earl of Warwick, when lieutenant-general, made five knights at Berwick, — sir Thomas Neville (the lord Neville's brother), sir Andrew Corbet, sir Anthony Strelley, sir Arthur Mainwaring, sir Richard Verney, and sir John Berteville the Frenchman. (Patten, corrected by Holinshed.)
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. Certain Noble men and othersm being special Officers in this Expedition.
The Duke of Somerset, my Lord Protector's Grace, General of the Army: and Captain of the Battle [the main body], having in it 4,000 footmen.
The Earl of Warwick, Lord Lieutenant of the Army; and having the Foreward, of 3,000 footmen.
The Lord Dacres, the Rereward, of 3,000 footmen.
The Lord Grey of Wilton, Lord Lieutenant of Boulogne, High Marshal of the Army, and Captain General of all the Horsemen there.
Sir Ralph Sadler Knight, Treasurer of the Army.
Sir Francis Bryan Knight, Captain of the Light Horsemen, being in number, 2,000.
Sir Ralph Vane Knight, Lieutenant of all the Men of arms and Demi-lances, being in number, 4,000.
Sir Thomas Darcy Knight, Captain of all the King's Majesty's Pensioners and Men of arms.
Sir Richard Lee Knight, Devisor [i.e., Engineer] of the fortifications to be made.
Sir Peter Mewtys Knight, Captain of all the Hackbutters a foot, being in number, 600.
Sir Peter Gamboa Knight, a Spaniard, Captain of 200 Hackbutters on horseback.
Sir Francis Fleming Knight, Master of the Ordnance.
Sir James Wilford Knight, Provost Marshal.
Sir George Blague and Sir Thomas Holcroft, Commissioners of the Musters.
Edward Sheley, my Lord Grey; Lieutenant of the Men of arms of Boulogne.
John Bren, Captain of the Pioneers, being 1,400.
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. The Scots kept always pace with us, upon their hill; and showed themselves, upon sundry brunts, very crank and brag. At whom, as our captains did look to the ordering and arraying again of the Battles; my Lord Protector's Grace appointed two field pieces to be turned. Each piece shot off twice, whereof one Gold, the Master Gunner there, 'discharged one, and did so well direct it, that, at his former shot, he struck off the leg of a black horse, right fair, and as it was thought the best in the company; and, at his next shot, he killed a man.
Hereby, rather somewhat calmed than fully content, they went their ways; and we saw no more of them, till the time of our camping.
Then showed they themselves very lordly aloft upon this hill again, over against us, as though they stood there to take a view of our camping and muster of our men. My Lord Marshal [Lord Grey] minding to know their commission, did make towards them with a band of horsemen: but they went wisely their way, and would never abide the reasoning of the matter.
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