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and Ruston, etc., and all my other landes, which discended to me from my father, to Edward,' my grandchild, and to his heires for ever. And I do constitute my cozen, Stephen Thompson, of Humbleton, esquire, and Robert Thompson, of London, confectioner, trustees for receivinge the rents thereof for my grandchild, till he come at the age of twenty and one yeares. Concerninge my landes, and tenementes, and watermills, which I purchased of my brothers, Edward Hutchinson and Charles Hutchinson, in Snaynton, Brompton, and elsewhere, with the moyety of the manor of Brompton, I give and bequeath them to the said Stephen Thompson and Robert Thompson, as feoffees in trust for ye vses followinge. First, to receive the rents thereof for the vse of my grandchild, Ellen Hutchinson, first for ye first three yeares next after my decease; and, after ye said three yeares expired, then to receive the rents thereof for the ioynt vse of my grandchildren, Ellen Hutchinson, Katherine Hutchinson, and Dorothy Hutchinson, vntill my said grandchild, Edward Hutchinson, shall attaine vnto the age of twenty and one yeares, and then my feoffees shall stand seized thereof from thenceforth to the vse of my said grandchild, Edward Hutchinson, and his heirs for ever. My wife, Katherine Hutchinson, executrix. My will is that 5oli., due to Mr. Legard Banbury, with the vse which is arreare; roli., due to Mr. Noell, with the vse which is arreare; and Iooli., with the vse arreare, due to Mrs. Boyes, of Whitby, widdowe, be first satisfyed out of my personell estate. Whereas I stand bound with my sonne, Edward, for 200li. to ye Masters of ye Trinity House att Hulle, my will is yt the said money, with the vse arreare, be payed out of the rentes or profittes of my said landes in Wyckham and Ruston, which shall arise out of ye said landes the next yeare after my death. I give 5li. to be distributed by my wife amonge my servants, as she pleaseth. To ye poore of ye parish of Wyckham and Ruston, 2li., to be distributed according to his discrecion.

by my sonne, Edward, Edward Hutchinson.2

Witnesses, John Smith, Hugh Ridley, Wm Readhead (sworn), Richard Carlill, Robert Crake (mark, sworn).

[Proved November 30, 1648, before Mr. Smith, M.A.]

To all and singular, as well nobles and gentles as others, to whome these presentes shall come, be seene, heard, read, or vnderstoode, Will'm Flower, esquire, alias Norroy Kinge of Armes of the East, West, and North partes of this realme of England, sendeth greetinge in our Lord God euerlastinge. Wheras Edward Hochinson, of Wyckham, in the countie of Yorke, esquire, sonne and heire of

1 He did not attain his majority till 1665 (Dugdale's Visitation of York hire, p. 83), so he was only four at this time.

2 Sealed with the Hutchinson arms and crest.

3 From the original in the possession of Lord Downe.

Richard Hochinson, of Wyckham aforesaid, is well borne and descended of worthie auncestres, that haue of longe tyme vsed and boren armes as tokens and demonstrations of their race and gentry, which lykewise to him by iust descent and prerogative of birth ar duely deryued; He, yet not knowenge of any creast or cognoysance properly belonginge vnto his auncient armes (as in very deede to meny auncient cotes of armes ther be none), hath required me, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, to assigne vnto his said auncient armes a creast or cognoysance, meete and lawful to be boren without preiudice or offence to any other person. In consideration wherof, for a further declaration of the [wort]hinesse of the said Edward Hochinson, and at his instant request, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, by power [and au1]thoritie to me committed by Letters Patentes vnder the Greate Seale of England, have assigned, giuen, and graunted [vnto'] the said Edward Hochinson to his auncient armes, being Partie per pale gueules and asure a lyon rampant argent, the feild replenished with crosse crosselets gold, for his creast or cognoysance, vpon the heaulme, a cockatrice asure, membred gueules, seiant in a coronett gold, and hauinge the winges eleuated, with mantelles gueules, doubled argent; as more plainly togither with the said auncient armes appereth depicted in the margine hereof. Which armes and creast, or cognoysance, and euery part and parcell therof, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, do by these presentes ratifie, confirme, giue, and graunt vnto the said Edward Hochinson, and to all the offspringe and posteritie of the beforenamed Richard Hochinson, the father, for euer. He and they the same to haue, hold, vse, beare, enioy, and shew foorth, to their estimation and worshippe, at all tymes, and for euer hereafter, at his and their libertie and pleasure, accordinge to the lawe of armes, without the impediment, lett, or interruption of any person or persons. In witnesse wherof I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, haue hereunto subscribed my name, and sette the seale of myne office, the fourth day of June, in the yere of our Lord God a thousand fiue hundred foure score and one, and in the xxiijth yere of the reigne of our moste gracious souuereigne lady, Queene Elizabeth.

p' moy Wyllam Flower, alias
Norrey Roy darmes

Circular seal, yellow wax, 1 inches in diameter, a cross, and on a chief a lion passant between a fleur-de-lys and a key. SIGILL... REGIS ARMORVM PA..... BORIALIS.

Dorso-Norroy King of Arms to Hutchinson, esquire. Grant of a crest to his antient family arms. (Seventeenth century hand.)

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MOUNT GRACE PRIORY.

THE FOUNDING OF THE CARTHUSIAN ORDER.

BY THE REV. H. V. LE BAS., M.A.,

Preacher of the Charterhouse, London.

Stat Crur dum volvitur orbis.

THE Order of Carthusians was established at La Chartreuse, in the mountains of Savoy, in the year 1084. Bruno, a native of Cologne, was the founder. It is recorded of him that after a course of theological study at Paris he returned to his native town, where he became a canon of the Church of St. Cuthbert. This position he quitted on his appointment to a canonry in the Cathedral of Rheims, of which church he was shortly made chancellor. In 1084 he determined to withdraw entirely from the world, and devote himself to a life of asceticism. It has been said that one of the causes of this determination was the disgust which he felt at the shameful administration of the diocese of Rheims. Finding himself powerless to abate the irregularities which so greatly distressed him, he made up his mind to abandon his ecclesiastical position and prospects, and to seek for peace in a life of seclusion, asceticism, and prayer. Six friends were persuaded to accompany him, and after some deliberation on the choice of a locality, they settled at a lonely spot in the mountains of Dauphiné, which the Bishop of Grenoble granted to them for the purpose. The place was called La Chartreuse, and from this name of their first home the Order takes its title. The word has survived in a modified form in the vernacular of all the countries in which the Carthusians have settled. In England we speak of the Charterhouse and the Carthusians; in Italy the words become Certosa and Certosini; in Spain Kartuja and Kartujanos; in Germany Karthaus and Karthäuser, etc.

The legendary form of the history of the foundation of the Carthusian Order has been recorded on the authority of the Carthusians themselves. It is given in the Statutes of Prior Guigo, which were first printed in 1510. The translation of the Latin original is as follows:

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Richard Hochinson, of Wyckham aforesaid, is well borne and descended of worthie auncestres, that haue of longe tyme vsed and boren armes as tokens and demonstrations of their race and gentry, which lykewise to him by iust descent and prerogative of birth ar duely deryued; He, yet not knowenge of any creast or cognoysance properly belonginge vnto his auncient armes (as in very deede to meny auncient cotes of armes ther be none), hath required me, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, to assigne vnto his said auncient armes a creast or cognoysance, meete and lawful to be boren without preiudice or offence to any other person. In consideration wherof, for a further declaration of the [wort]hinesse of the said Edward Hochinson, and at his instant request, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, by power [and au1]thoritie to me committed by Letters Patentes vnder the Greate Seale of England, have assigned, giuen, and graunted [vnto'] the said Edward Hochinson to his auncient armes, being Partie per pale gueules and asure a lyon rampant argent, the feild replenished with crosse crosselets gold, for his creast or cognoysance, vpon the heaulme, a cockatrice asure, membred gueules, seiant in a coronett gold, and hauinge the winges eleuated, with mantelles gueules, doubled argent; as more plainly togither with the said auncient armes appereth depicted in the margine hereof. Which armes and creast, or cognoysance, and euery part and parcell therof, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, do by these presentes ratifie, confirme, giue, and graunt vnto the said Edward Hochinson, and to all the offspringe and posteritie of the beforenamed Richard Hochinson, the father, for euer. He and they the same to haue, hold, vse, beare, enioy, and shew foorth, to their estimation and worshippe, at all tymes, and for euer hereafter, at his and their libertie and pleasure, accordinge to the lawe of armes, without the impediment, lett, or interruption of any person or persons. In witnesse wherof I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, haue hereunto subscribed my name, and sette the seale of myne office, the fourth day of June, in the yere of our Lord God a thousand fiue hundred foure score and one, and in the xxiijth yere of the reigne of our moste gracious souuereigne lady, Queene Elizabeth.

p' moy Wyllam Flower, alias
Norrey Roy darmes

Circular seal, yellow wax, 1 inches in diameter, a cross, and on a chief a lion passant between a fleur-de-lys and a key. SIGILL... REGIS ARMORVM PA..... BORIALIS.

Dorso:-Norroy King of Arms to Hutchinson, esquire. Grant of a crest to his antient family arms. (Seventeenth century hand.)

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