Le S'r de Cobham P. Le S'r de Beauchamp. Le S'r Fitzwater Le S'r de Dudley. Anno 1485.-Vol. VI. p. 288. Art. 15. 1 Hen. VII. Among the Peers who took an oath in Parliament against abetting treason, felonies, &c. were the following Barons, viz. Grey Grey de Wylton D. Beauchamp, & Anno 1487.-Vol. VI. p. 386. 3 Hen. VII. TRIERS OF PE TITIONS: Le S'r de Audely † Le S'r de Bergevenny Le Sire Fitzwater Le Sire Straunge. Anno 1488.-Vol. VI. p. 410. 4 H. VII. TITIONS: Le Sire de Bergevenny Le Sire d' Ormond §.. TRIERS OF PE *In the List of Summonses to this Parliament, the names of Richard de Welles and of Edward Hastings de Hungerford are included; the latter was likewise Baron Hastings of Ashby de la Zouche. Hence it is difficult to determine which of these individuals was the Baron then present in Parliament. + Apparently John Touchet VI.-13th Baron Audley, who is recorded to have been summoned to Parliament from 1 Edw. IV. to 1 Ric. III. and to have died in 1491, but although his name does not occur in the Lists of Summons published by Dugdale, of the 3 & 4 Hen. VII. it is evident he was present in Parliament in those years. Vide the preceding note. § The earliest notice of an English Baron of this title is the 14 October, 11 Hen. VII. 1495, when Thomas Butler, 7th Le S'r Dynham Le Sy'r de la Warre Le Sire Dudley. Anno 1491.-Vol. VI. p. 441. Art. 1.7 Hen. VII. TRIERS OF PETITIONS: D'nus Dynham, Miles D'nus Scrop de Bolton Anno 1495.-Vol. VI. p. 458 b. 11 H. VII. Anno 1496.-Vol. VI. p. 509. 12 H. VII. TITIONS: Le Sn'r Beauchamp TRIERS OF PE TRIERS OP PE P. Le Sn'r Daubeney Le Sn'r Broke. Ibid. p. 510. Le Sn'r Dynham Le Sn'r Hastynges. Earl of Ormond in Ireland was summoned to Parliament by the style of "Thomæ Ormond de Rochford, Chev'." From the above record it is evident, however, that he sat in Parliament about seven years before he was summoned, unless, as it is not improbable, the Lists published by Dugdale are imperfect; those printed by order of the House of Lords terminate with the end of Edward IV. James Touchet Lord Audley, son and heir of John Lord Audley noticed in the note to the last page; he was summoned from 12 August in this year to 12 Hen. VII. Anno 1503.-Vol. VI. p. 521. 19 H. VII. TRIERS of Pe TITIONS: Le S'r Daubeney Le S'r Herberd Le S'r Burgavenney Le S'r Dacre de Dacre The preceding proofs of Barons' Sittings in Parliament have been extracted solely from the Rolls of Parliament; but the following copy of the celebrated Letter from the Barons assembled in the Parliament held at Lincoln in February, 29 Edw. I. anno 1301, to Pope Boniface VIII. on behalf of themselves and the whole community of England, would have been inserted in its proper place according to chronological order, as an unquestionable proof that those Peers whose names occur therein sat in Parliament on that occasion, had not the Editor been aware that some doubt exists in the minds of many individuals who are highly competent to judge of the subject, as to the authenticity of the document itself *. Under these circumstances, he has thought it advisable to place the letter after the extracts from the Rolls of Parliament, and also to enter, at some length, into the consideration of the question. With this object, first, notes are added to the name of each person who was not included in the Writ to the Parliament ordered to be held at Lincoln, containing such facts as are recorded of him, in order that some judgment may be formed of the cause of his then acting as a Baron of Parliament; 2dly, correct lists are inserted of the Barons who were summoned to the said Parliament, but whose names do not occur in the letter; of such Barons whose names are inserted in the letter, but who were not summoned to that Parliament, distinguishing those who had been summoned to previous Parliaments (and particularly marking such as received Writs to the Parliament immediately preceding, and * Cruise's Treatise on Dignities, 2d edit. and I. and II. Report of the Lords' Committee on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, p. 240, et seq. cited hereafter. such as were only summoned on the doubtful occasions of the 22d and 25th Edw. I.) from those who were either not summoned for several years afterwards, and the latter, from those to whom no Writs of Summons to Parliament are recorded ever to have been issued; and, lastly, such observations in support of the authenticity of the letter are submitted, as an attentive examination of the subject has produced. The importance of the document, not merely in an historical point of view, for as such its discussion would not belong to this work, but as evidence of many Barons having sat in Parliament under the Writs directed to them at a period when such proofs of the fact cannot, from the lamentable deficiency of parliamentary records, otherwise be found, and consequently establishing the existence of many Baronies in their descendants, which, if this evidence be rejected, must be deemed extinct, will, it is hoped, apologize for the space appropriated to its consideration. It is, the Editor trusts, needless for him to assert that his remarks are offered with unfeigned diffidence; and as the question, in itself one of great difficulty, is rendered extremely embarrassing, from his having to contend against an opinion, the reasons for which have never, he believes, been publicly expressed, he is confident he may rely on that indulgence, which the consideration, for the first time of a subject no less obscure than important, so obviously requires. S'c'issimo in Xp'o p'ri D'no B. divina p'videncia S'c'e Romane ac univ'sis eccl'ie sum'o pontifici sui devoti filii. ¶Joh'es, Com' Warenn'* Thom' Com' Lancastrie ¶ Rad'us de Monte H'meri, Com' Glouc' & Herf' † Those persons to whose names this mark is prefixed, were duly summoned to the Parliament in which this letter was sealed. *Earl of Surrey, by which title he was summoned to this Parliament. + Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, jure uxoris, from 27 Edw. I. 1299, to her death in 1307, after which he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron only. ¶ Humfr' de Bohun, Com' Hereford et Essex, & Contab Angl* Rog's Bigod, Com' Norf' & Maresch' Angl. Ric', Com' Arundell' ¶ Adomar' de Valenc', D'n's de Montiniaco + Joh'es de S'c'o Joh'e, D'n'us de Hannak || * It is a fact worth stating, in this place, though not immediately connected with the object of the insertion of this letter, that on each side of the arms of Bohun, on the seal of this Earl, is a shield, suspended from what would appear to be a trefoil, charged with the arms of Fitz-Piers, Earls of Essex, which Earldom was acquired by the Bohuns in consequence of the marriage of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, (the grandfather of the Earl whose seal is affixed to this document,) with Maud, sister and heir of William Fitz-Piers, the last Earl of Essex of that family. This is perhaps the earliest instance of any approach to the system of quartering arms, which was not regularly adopted in this country, though examples somewhat earlier are to be found on the continent, until the reign of Edw. III. +He succeeded his father as Earl of Pembroke in 1296, though he never used that title until 1 Edw. II. 1308, when he was summoned to Parliament by that appellation. The arms of the family of Hastings, of Bergavenny, afterwards Earls of Pembroke, are always described as, Or, a maunch Gules; but those on the seal of this Baron differ materially therefrom, as, on the one side is a cross between four fleurs de lis, charged with five fleurs de lis, and on the other side a cross charged with five fleur de lis, between, in the first and fourth quarters, a lion passant gardant, and in the 2d and 3d quarters a lion rampant. § Henry Percy, sealed with the arms of Brabant solely. Possibly the same person who was summoned to this Parliament as John de St. John de Lageham;" but his designation, as Lord of Hannak, would rather admit the inference that it was John de St. John (son and heir apparent of John de St. John of Basing), who was not summoned to the Parliament at Lincoln, but was summoned to the previous Parliament by Writ |