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 2. 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 Philip, who was afterwards treasurer of the household of King Henry V., K. G. and chamberlain to Henry VI., and by whom, who died Ao 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, 296,304b. 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 iis. vd. 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. Note that M'. Henry and Mr. W. Cavendysh his brother, wh ther man, dyd begonne ther bord at one Ryc. Hilles the xxiii' day of October, and must pay for them twayne xs. and iiis. iiiid. for ther man wekely, over and besydes the woode burned in ther chamber. It. the Frydaie the xxv' of the same p" for eight yardes black fryse at xxd. the yarde.... gownes. It. for the makyng of the same ii It. rec. from M. Fletwod ii yardes fryseado at viiis. the It. pd for iiii yardes black cotton at viiid. the yard xiiis. xvid. viiid. iis. viiid. .... xxd. It. for iiii duss. buttons to ye coates xvid. iiis. viiid. It. for iii yardes cotten to lyne the same dubletts.... It. for sylk to styche the same dubletts and makyng lowpes for the holes iis. xiid. It. for iiii duss. black sylk buttons for ther dublets. xvid. iiiid. It. for makyng the same dubletts. xxd. It. for ii yardes fyne carse [Kersey] at xld. the yard vis. viiid. It. for one yarde carse to lyne ther hose xiiiid. It. for ii yardes cotten to lyne the sloppes xvid. It. for one lynen clothe to lyne the same hose.. xiid. It. for one oz. di. [1 ounce] sylk to styche the same hose iis. vid. iiis. iiiid. It. p' for ii combes to my masters.. iid. It. for a breykfast for the cumpanye of formes in the scole according to the use of the scole vid. It. the xxix' for ii payr showes for M'. Henry and M'. It. geven to a man to see bayre bayting and a camell in the colledge, as other schollers dyd iiid. It. pd for ii duss. threde poynts. vid. It. p for ii payr furred gloves w' strynges at them.... vd. It. for the Kynges Grammar It. Marcus Tullius Offic. It. Fabulæ Æsopi sent by Mr. Fletwod. ii bokes of wax light It. the xvi' day of November pd for carryage of the cham ber stuff from the warff.. iiiid. It. pd for whyte and black threde.... id. It. to an old woman for swepyng and makyng cleane the chamber.. iid. It. pd for makyng a key. vid. It. pd for xl tenter hokes to hang the chamber.... It. pd for mendying M'. Henry's showe.... It. the xxiiii' day of November pd for iii pound cotten candell... It. for iii loode wodde. ii bylletts iiiis. viiid. and the iii Md that Mr. Henry and Mr. W. Cavendyshe his bro- It. p for eyght claspes and holders of ireon for my m' It. the xv' day of December for ii pond candell. It. pd for ii payr showes for M. Henry and Mr. WTM. It. pd the xxi' of December for a cople say gyrdells It. pd to my oste Hyll for iiii wekes bord of Mr. Henry It. for quarterydge in penne and ynke, brome and byrche ... It. pd the xxvii' day of Januarie for ii payr showes for M'. It. p the same day for one qwere whyte paper It. for di. elne course Holland to be lyning for their collers It. pd for ii payr knytte hose for M. Henry and M'. WTM. iiiid. id. ixd. xiid. vid. viiid. xviiid. iiiid. iiiid. liiis. iiiid. vid. vid. xvid. iiiid. iiid. xiid. ixd. xiid. vd. vid. ob. xxd. It. pd for ii payr of showes agaynst Ester for M'. Henry and M. W. Cavendysh.. xviid. It. for ii duss. threde poynts for them vid. It. p" the last day of M'che for quarterydge, viz. byrche, brome, and ynke.. vid. It. p for towe duss. black sylk bottens for mending the doubletts.... vid. It. p the xx' day of Apryll for mendyng both ther showes iiid. id. xviid. It. p the vi' day of June for sawlyng of one of M'. Henrys showes.... iiid. It. pd for one qwere whyte papur the xii' of June iiid. It. pd the xxiii' of June for Mr. Henry and M'. Wm. ther quartorrydge, viz. byrch, brome, and potaticio, also lyght It. pd to my oste Hyll, for one quarter comens endyng the xxiit of May It. pd for my lytul masters washeng for the same quarter It. p to the bursers of Eyton College for one quarter bord dew at the anunciation of our Lady last xd. xiiis. iiiid. iis. iiiid. iiili. xiis. It. p for one gyrdell to M'. W. Cavendyshe the iiii' of It. for mendying of both their showes.. It. pd for ii payr of showes for Mr. Henry and M'. W". his brother the xxvi' of Julye. .... It. p for a Tullies Attycum for Mr. W". It. pd for one quere whyte papur. It. pd the xxviii' of September for one lb. candell. It. pd for ii payr of showes for M'. Henry and Mr. W". his brother at Mychalmas... ... It. for ther quarterydge in penne, ynke, byrche, and brome It. pd the xx' day of October for ii bunches of wax lyghts Summa totalis.... iiid. iid. xvid. iiid. iiiid. iid. ob. xvid. vid. xiid. id. xxiiiis. iiiid. vis. £. S. d. xii. xii. vii. By your ladyship at Eaton. iii. xviii. X. Li. S. d. Summa totalis of all the whol payments... xxv. The reader may now be disposed to follow into life the two youths for whom so much was expended in "birch and broom." When little more than seventeen years of age, February 9, 1567-8, Henry, the elder, married the Lady Grace Talbot, a daughter of George, the 6th Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Lady Gertrude Manners, his wife. In 1572, he was elected to be a Knight of the Shire for the county of Derby, and was one of its representatives in five succeeding parliaments. His mother was then the wife of the Earl of Shrewsbury, in whose castle of Tutbury, Henry Cavendish resided. We find him giving an account of a duel fought by two of his servants there, in which one of them was killed, in a letter to his mother1 and not long after he writes to her from Cold Harbour, in London, in reference 1 Hunter's Hallamshire, p. 82. |