HEN. VIII. He made his will, in which he desired to be buried in the church of St. Provincial John's, Clerkenwell; but this request was not complied with. He was Kings. Clarenceux. interred in the church of St. Mary Overy, Southwark: a tomb was erected over his remains, near which was a mural tablet, with this barbarous inscription, in large Roman characters: "Hick jaecet Thomas Tong, Clarencieux Rex Armorum, mortus fill. "Ann. Dom. 1531." His death happened August 2, 1534; the date in the above inscription being wrong. His arms were Gules, a Bend Argent, cottised Or, between six Martlets of the third. Clarenceux married Susanna, daughter of Richard White, of Hutton, in Essex, by Maud, his wife, daughter of Sir William Tirrell, of Heron, knight. This lady became a most conspicuous character. Edward VI. Edward VI. gave her the manor of Thundersley, in Essex, in the seventh year of his reign. She attended " the Lady Mary," afterward Queen, and was highly respected for her services. She wrote to her secretary:— Touching the nomination of such women as I would have about me, "surely, Mr. Secretary, what men or women soever the King's Highness "shall appoint to wait on me, without exception, that be unto me right "heartily, and without respect welcome; albeit, to express my mind to 'you, whom I think worthy to be accepted for the faithful service done to "the King's Majestie, and to me, sythens they came into my company, "I promise you on my faith, Margery Baynton, and Susan Clarenseous, "have, in every condition, used themselves as faithfully, painfully, and diligently, as ever did women in such a case." She was so well esteemed by Henry VIII., that on New Year's day, 1546, the last he ever saw, hẹ gave her a gilt cruse, with a cover. At Mary's accession she was ap-. pointed first lady of her bed-chamber. She was one of the ten ladies and gentlewomen who followed the chariots, when the Queen went from the Tower, on Saturday, September 30, 1553, to Westminster, the day previous to her coronation. They were dressed in crimson velvet, and their horses "trapped" caparisoned in the same. The names of the ten were, the ladies Fortescue, Petre, Waldegrave, Bruges, Mansel, Kemp, Clarenceux, Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Jerningham, and Mrs. Sturley. The Queen made her Lady-almoness. In her first year she gave her the manor of Berkingfield, in Yalding in Kent, to hold in capite, which she sold two years afterwards to Thomas Colepeper, of Bedgbury in that county, Esq.; also a grant Provincial Clarenceux. grant of the manor and advowson of Chingford, in Essex; the latter by HEN. VIII. the description of Susan Tonge, alias Clarenceux, first lady of her bedchamber. Mary, in her first year, gave the manor of Bokenfield in Kent, with Ranwell and Raven-hill in Essex. In the schedule of New Year's gifts presented to her Majesty in 1556, is seen, "by Maistres Clarentius, "a litele cherry bagge of crymson satten, 21 French crownes, 6 13 0." In the following year from her "a part of a guilt cup, Raynes, per oz. "32 oz. thereof 22 oz." She was the only person who had any connexion with the College, who was rich enough to make presents to the Sovereign. She had great influence at court; she conducted "the lady', Elizabeth, the Queen's sister, to the royal presence, being then in her bedchamber. The once puissant Duchess of Northumberland, knowing her influence with her royal mistress, and hoping she would use it in behalf of her unhappy family, by her will gave " Mystres Clarensious her tawny velvet jewell-coffer." She is supposed to have sometimes softened the stern inflexibility of Mary's temper. She greatly contributed to save the life of Lord Bray. Surviving the Queen, she attended her funeral, going in the third chariot, "with Mrs. Penn, Mrs. Tymes, and Mrs. Southwell, "in mourning apparel, according to their degree;" but their gowns had no train they had " barbes under their chins." Elizabeth respected her, granting, in the first year of her reign, to Susanna Tonge, alias Clarenceux, the custody of the lands, wardship, and marriage, of Henry Morgan, alias Wulf, brother and heir of William Morgan, alias Wulf, deceased: the grant is dated October 4, 1559. Disliking the protestant tenets, she imprudently retired to the dominions of Spain, without licence from Elizabeth; which subjecting her to the forfeiture of goods and chattels, Philip II. was prevailed upon by Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Conte of Feria, in Spain, to intercede by his ambassador, for permission for her, Jane Dormer, the mother of his countess *, Richard Shelley, afterwards prior of the order of St. John in England, to remain in the Netherlands and *Jane Dormer, daughter of John Newdigate, Esq. of Harfield in Middlesex, serjeant at law, was second wife, and became the widow of Sir Robert Dormer, knight. She was, like all her family, a strenuous Roman catholic. John, her eldest brother, became his father's heir, and is ancestor to the late Sir Roger Newdigate, L. L. D., of Arbury in Warwickshire, Bart. Silvester and Dunstan were knights hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. Sebastian, who losing his wife, becoming a Carthusian mouk, was put to death, HEN. VIII. and Spain, as they had gone, thither only for the sake of their religion. Provincial This, however, the Queen would not allow; writing back, that " it was Kings. Clarenceux. "without example, that such a license should be granted to women, of "perpetual absence from their country: and though the thing itself, in it"self, seemed a matter of no moment, yet seeing they should not receive "so much good thereby, for their own private benefit and commodity, "as others might take courage by the example, to the hurt of the common"wealth, she thought it a thing not to be granted." The King highly resented the refusal, and the Duke of Feria, thinking himself peculiarly injured, forcibly seized a servant of Chamberlain's, the English ambassador in ordinary at that court, and threw him into the Inquisition, as an heretic, though the Duchess his wife earnestly requested him not: he even strove to get Pope Pius IV. to excommunicate the Queen. She, no doubt, returned, in consequence of this failure of the royal application in her favor: had she not, her property would have been forfeited to the Crown; on the contrary it came to her heir. Camden describes her as "Clarentia, a little old woman, which had been very inward with Queen Mary, "and the distributrix of her private alms to poor women." I have not seen the exact time of her death; but it must have been in, or before 1566, as in that year, her nephew and heir, Humphry White, Esq. who had great estates in Kent, sold the manor of Chingford St. Paul's to William Jeffreyson. It appears that in her widowhood she retained a chaplain, whose name was Haverde, who was imprisoned in Elizabeth's reign, for professing the faith of Rome. Clarenceux's sister was also greatly beloved by Mary, who gave her some place about her person. She died in December 1556, and was buried in the church at the Savoy: at whose funeral was a hearse, made with two stories, which had one hundred white candle death, June 18, 15-, for opposing the King's supremacy. Of the daughters, Mary became a nun, at Sion, in Middlesex; and Sibel, took the veil at Haliwell, in the same county. The Earls of Caernarvon, and the Barons Dormer of Wenge, descend from the above Sir Robert and Jane Dormer. Jane, their daughter, maid of honor to Queen Mary, married Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa y Cordova, condè de Feria, who came over with Philip II., created by him Duke of Feria: their heir was Don Lorenzo de Figueroa, Duke of Feria, father of Don Gomez, third Duke of Feria, governor of Milan, and general of the Spanish armies in Alsace, in the year 1633. It seemed a particular hardship to Lady Dormer not to remain with her daughter, the Duchess of Feria. candlesticks; in each of them was a great quern, of half a pound of wax together. Upon the hearse were her arms; and the ceremonial was accompanied with other appendages of magnificence. THOMAS HAWLEY, Esq.-See next reign. Created at Guildford. Patent, 19th May, 1536. - NORRO, Y: Hen. VII. CHRISTOPHER CARHILL, Esq. Son of Sir William Carhill, grandson of John, and great grandson of Robert Carhill. He had a great uncle, Thomas Carhill, a pursuivant, who died at Rome. I have been the more particular, because Lant, Weaver, and others, call his surname Carlisle, mistaking it for the office he held in the College. He bore, Argent, on a Chevron Sable, three Estoils Or, between as many Ravens proper, beaked and membered Gules. Norroy had been an old servant of the Crown, having been created Falcon pursuivant extraordinary by Edward IV., afterwards Rouge-croix in ordinary. Whilst a pursuivant he was sent to Bruges, in Flanders; afterward to France and to Scotland, having obtained a passport, to negotiate for the Scotch prisoners to have horses sent them, to return home upon, as Garter Anstis mentions. Dying, he was buried at Brentford, in which church. was this epitaph: "Here lyeth the body of Christopher Carhill, alias Norroy king at arms, He left no issue by his wife Eleanor, daughter of pedigrees make this person his mother, instead of his wife. THOMAS BENOLTE, Esq.-See Clarenceur. THOMAS WALL, Esq. Patent dated May 27, 1516. Malory. Some He was father, or as Anstis more accurately says, grandfather of Wall, Garter. His arms were Azure, a Chevron Ermine; on a Chief embattled, three Pellets. Whilst Norroy, he attended Henry VIII. at his interview with Francis I. of France. HEN. VIII. Provincial Norrgy. JOHN HEN. VIII. Provincial JOHN JOYNER, Esq. In his will, dated July 28, 1522, he mentions his daughter. He bore, Argent, upon a Cross Azure, four Fleur-de-lis of the first, within a Border of the second. Whilst Richmond, in 1507, he entertained the French ambassador with a splendid feast, and in 1520 joined the cavalcade to France, to meet Francis I. THOMAS TONGE, Esq.-See Clarenceux. Created at Hereford-castle, on Allhallows-day, 1522. CHRISTOPHER BARKER, Esq. Created at Guildford, in 1534. He remained here only one month.-See Garter. WILLIAM FELLOWS, Esq. Created July 9, 1536. On the day of his creation as Norroy, Clarenceux administered the oaths to Barker, who had been promoted to Garter, and to Milner, who had become Lancaster. On the following day, the Duke of Norfolk created Ap-Howel, Rouge-dragon, and Flower, Guisnes pursuivants, being the same day that Lord Fitzwarren was created Earl of Bath. He was much trusted and valued by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who employed him a considerable time at Bourdeaux, attending the French court, to solicit the payment of the dowry of Mary, widow of Louis XII., whom grace had married. The Duke of Suffolk, in the twenty-sixth year of this reign, gave a warrant to deliver to his "well-beloved William, Lancaster "herald," a buck of season out of his park of Cossey, in Norfolk. His visitation of Wales is written in his own hand. He bore, Argent, a FesseNebule ermined, three Griffin's Heads erased, Or. Probably he was the Lancaster herald, who went with Henry to meet Francis I. his 1545-6.-38 Hen. VIII. GILBERT DETHICK. Esq.-See next reign. |