Bruslon, and of Loches. } | { count of Anjou, and lord of Loches.
|
+-----------------------+---------------------+
| |
Lisois the elder, lord of Craon: he Artus de Craon, chambrier de
lived in the time of Nerra, earl l’abbay de St. Aubin d’Angers.
of Anjou.
|
+-------------+
|
Suhard de Craon the elder, lord of Craon.
|
+---------+--------------+----------------------------+
| | |
Lisois de Craon the Guerin de Craon, lord of Suhard de Craon the younger.
younger, author of the Craon. He doing homage for
elder or English house his baronage to Conan II. duke of Britany, instead of
of Craon: he was lord Geffrey Martel, earl of Anjou, who claimed that service,
of Mordelles. V. it was confiscated; whereupon he waged war, but was
Histoire de Sablé, p. wounded therein, and died.
109, 110. |
| +--------+
| |
| Robté de Craon, heiress = Robert de Vitré, lord of Vitré.
+----------------+ |
| | +----------------+
| | | Robert de Nevers, sirnamed the = Avis de Sablé.
Hildeberg married | | Burgundian, or Allobrog. |
to Herbert | | |
Marquis of | Inogen de Vitré. = Reynold the Burgundian, lord
| | | of Craon.
| | |
| | Authors of the second house of Craon, of special note in
| | France. He founded the abbey of Roé, in the neighbourhood
| of Craon, 1096. His Cri d’Arms was +Cleriau+.
+-------------+ |
| | |
Geffry, first prior | Guy de Croun, baron Croun of Frieston, near Boston,
to the abbey of St. | Lincolnshire, given him by William the Conqueror, with whom
Evron in Normandy, | he came into England. He had another seat at Burton Crown,
after abbot of | near (Sleaford) so called from him, as now Pedwardyn from
Croyland, ob. 1124. | his descendants: he had much land in Ashby, Ravendale, Wade,
+----------------+ and Bliton, com. Linc. 20 W. I. as appears in Domesday. He
| possessed no less than sixty lordships. He gave to the
Robert, monk of priory of Spalding, refounded about this time by his
St. Evron, was countryman, Ivo Talbois, one carucat of land in that town,
afterwards abbot anno 1081. Histoir. de Sablé, p, 138. thus says the charter
of Thorney. of donation. Guy de Croun, in obedience to the divine
inspiration, out of his ability, gave a certain parcel of
his estate to GOD and St. Nicholas, for the soul of William
the king, and Maud the queen, and for the soul of William
the First, that the Lord would grant him success in his
reign, and bring him to a good end; one carucat of land in
Spaldingue, with the appurtenances; his wife, all his sons
and daughters, and brothers, consenting thereto, for the
good of his soul.----He likewise gave ten carucats of land
in Pynchbeck to the abbey of Croyland, and two carucats in
Spalding to the same.
|
+---------------------------------------+-----+------------+
| | | |
Godfrey de Croun, first prior | Emme. Roger de Croun.
of Frieston. | |
+--------------------------------------+ William de Crown.
|
Alan de Croun = Muriel.
Baron Croun.
He was in highest favour with king Hen. I. to whom he was great steward of the
houshold. Petrus Blesensis says he was dear to the king above all other barons of the
court, and whose counsel he valued most. He so far excelled in industry, honesty,
wisdom, and sanctity, that he was called the King’s God, by the soldiery. In his
country at Frieston, he was called _Alan Open-doors_, because he kept so great a
house, says Leland in his Itinerary, Vol. VII. p. 126. He owned Southwarnburn, com.
Southampt. He founded the priory of Frieston for Benedictin monks, subject to the
abbot of Croyland, anno 1142: he was buried at Croyland abbey, on the south side of
the high altar. See the _Monasticon_, and History of Ingulfus and Continuation, and
Dugdale’s Baronage. |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+
| |
1150. | Matilde.
Maurice de Craon, baron Croun. He was } {
made keeper of the castle of Ancennis by } { Clarice, sister to Henry III. vid.
Hen. II. and governor of the provinces } { liberat. 35 Hen. III. m. 3. and Claus.
of Anjou and Main: he was one of the } = { 45 Hen. III. m. 13. she was after
plenipotentiaries on the part of the } | { married again to the duke of Burgundy,
king, in the treaties between him and } | { 33 Hen. III. 39 Hen. III. p. 2. m. 2.
Philip the August, king of France. } | {
+---------------------------+-+
| |
Maurice de Croun, nepos regis & nepos | Guy de la Val, qui habuit in liberio
Almerici de Croun, cui manerium de Burn | maritagio quasdam terras in Walttun com.
restituitur post mortem Almerici de | Surr. sed forisfecit illas adherendo
Croun.--Pat. 55. Hen. III. p. 1. m. 28. | baronibus contra Ric. I. v. Lib. Feod.
| Milit. f. 16. b.
+-----------------------------+---------------+
| | |
Ralf de Croun. | Peter de Croun habet Hamma, Waletun &
| Ewell, cum. Surr. Pat. 17 Hen. I. m. 24.
+--------------------------------+
1180. |
Guy de Crown, } = Isabel.
baron Crown }
He accompanied Richard I. in his voyage to the Holy Land, 1192; was present at
the treaty between him and Tancred, king of Sicily, recited by Hoveden, annal. He
confirmed, to the nuns of Haverholm, pasture for ninescore sheep in Bloxam fields,
even to the bounds between them and the abbot of Grelle.--V. lib. R. Dodsworth,
vocat. petigrees, tom. i. f. 94. b.
|
| Walter to Langtot = Matildis.
| |
| +----+
| |
| Ranulf de Langtot =
| |
| Robert de Vallibus came into } { |
There were lands in | England with William the } = { Agnes.
Sutton held of the | Conqueror. } { |
honour of Croun,--Inquis. | +----------------------------+
Wap. Elhou. 1 Ed. III. | |
feod. milit. 42. | William de Vaux =
offic. armor, p. 32. | |
| +--------+
| |
| Robert de Vaux =
+---+ |
1. William Longchamp = } | +--------------+
2. Henry de Mara. = } = Petronilla. | ³
Gules, a fesse between three } | = { Oliver de Vaux. Chequy
water-budgets ermine. } | | { argent and gules.
+-------------------+ |
| +--------------------------+
Sir Henry de Longchamp: he died March } |
1274, and was buried at Swynshed } { Sibilla, daughter of John de Vaux =
abbey; his heart at Burton Pedwardin, } { Sir Thomas Heringande, owned the manor
as called from his son in-law, before } = { Sir Thomas Heringande, of Frieston,
the altar in the chapel of the Virgin } | { com. Suff. Az. and certain lands
Mary. Or, three crescents gules, } | { six herrings argent. in Boston by gift
charged each with a mullet argent. } | { of his mother,
| _in feodo talliata,
There is a great Fe gatery’d about Bostone parts | ob._ 1288. |
by the name of _Petronille de la Corone_ dowghter | |
by _Lykelehode de la Corone_ foundar of Frieston | |
priorye, and buried at Croyland. This fe is | |
now paid to the lord Rosse, but the Richmount | |
fe is greater there. There is also anoder fee +---------------------------+ |
cauld _Pepardyne_; and that the lord Linsey had: and the owners of these fees | |
be lords of the town of Boston.--Leland’s Itin. Vol. VIII. p. 124.--Petronil | |
had lands in Holbech and Quaplode.--Inquis. Elho, 1 Ed. III. feod. milit. 42. | |
offic. arm. p. 32. and in Weston, p. 33, 20, 21, &c. _Juratores dicunt quod | |
Petronilla de vallibus tenet de domino rege in capite manerium de Warnburn | |
com. Southampton & in com. Lincoln 22. feod. mil. & dimid. per Baronium & | |
quod Henricus de Longo Campo est ejus propinquior heres & ætat. 50. & | |
amplius._--Escaet. 46 Hen. III. N. 5. | |
| |
+----------------------------------------------------+ |
| |
Roger Penwardyn. } { Alice: she died 15 May, 1330, was buried in the north |
} = { Pedwardin, side of the chapel of the Virgin Mary, |
Gules, two lions } | { in Burton where I saw her tomb-stone, with this |
regardant argent. } | { inscription, 1714. |
| |
+-----------------+ |
|*DAME ALIS. DE. PETTEWARDIN. GYT. ITY.* |
| *DEU. DE. SA. ALME GYT. MERCI.* |
| +------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |
| Petronil = Sir William de Nereford. |
| | +----------------+
| | William de Roos, lord of Hamlake, } |
| +---+ Gules, three water-budgets argent. } = Maud, heiress.
| | |
|Matilda, ob. S. P. +-----------------------------+
| | { Margery, one of the coheiresses of Giles de
| William de Ros. = { Badlismere, lord of Chillham. Their descendants
| { were barons Ros; and the Manors’s,
| { earls of Rutland, married an heiress.
+------------------------------+
|
Thangharat, sister to } ¹ { Wallter Pedwardin, alias Lloyd, } ² { Maud, daughter
Thelwell Llewellin, } = { lived in the castle of Brampton, } = { of Sir John
prince of Wales. } { in Wigmorland, in the marches of } | { Lyngain.
{ Wales, called Waugher Thleud by } |
{ reason of his white hairs. } |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| =anno 1340.=
Roger Pedwardin II. he built entirely new the church of }
Burton Pedwardin and St. Mary’s chapel there, being on the } = { Alice, daughter of
north side; but the south aile, together with the chapel of } | { Henry Longchamp.
St. Nicholas, was rebuilt at the same time by the } |
parishioners. } |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|
Sir Roger Pedwardin: he died 10 Feb. } { Agnes, daughter of Philip Darcy, sister
1368, buried at Burton: he obtained a } { and coheiress of Norman D’arcy, lord
bull for 530 days pardon to all } = { Darcy of Nocton, Azure, semée de cross
benefactors towards the church and } | { croslets or, three cinquefoils ar.
chapels there. } | {
+-------------+
| |
John de Markham, } { daughter | Brian de Pedwarin, esc. 11 E.
J. C. Az. on a chief } = { of Nicholas | III. N. 4. Lincoln.
ar. a demi-lion. } | { Bottomsell. |
| +----+
| | |
+--------------+ | Alice = John de Warbelton.
| |
Robert de Markham } = { daughter |
} | { of Caunton. +-------+
| |
| Sir Walter } { Isabel, daughter
| Pedwardin, ob. } { and coheiress of
| 11 June, 1405. } = { Sir Rob. Hilton,
² | ¹ } | { and Margaret,
Milicent } { Sir John } { Eliz. daughter } | { daughter and
daughter of } = { Markham, justic. } = { and coheiress } | { coheir of Marmaduke
Beckerin. } | { de Banco. } { of Hugh } | { Tweng, knt.
| de Cressy. |
| +--+------------+
| | |
Sir John Markham, of Nottingham: } | Walter de Pedwardin.
he was lord chief justice, } |
10 Hen. IV. buried in Sidbrook } +------+
church, near Grantham. That } = { Margaret, coheiress | |
manor continued in his family } | { of Simon Leek. | Catharine = David, son
till Sir George Markham lately } | | of Sir Daniel Fletwick.
sold it to Sir John Thorold. } | |
| +----------------+
| | 1430.
| Sir Robert Pedwarin, } { Elizabeth, daughter
| ob. 26. April, 1432. } = { to Sir Edmund
| _fines prim. mich._ } | { Pierpoint, knight.
| 8 Hen. IV. Linc. } | {
| |
| +---------------+
| |
+--------+ ² = Walter Pedwardin, } { Katharine daughter
¹ } | esq. ob. 4. Aug. } ² { of Ingilby
Matthew Leak. } | 1429, 9 Hen. VI. } = { of Ripley, near
² } | Ecc. N. 7. } = { Knaresburgh.
John de Fleet of } = Katharine. |
Framton, esq. a } | |
lawyer. Ar. two +------------+ +----------------+------+
bars sable, each | | | | |
charged with | Beatrice = Roger Pedwardin. | Thomas Pedwardin.
three scallops | Leak. | |
of the first. | | +------+
| Christopher Pedwardin, of Brompton, | |
| Salop, son and heir, released all | Katharine.
| his right to the manor of Burton |
| Pedwardin, Claus. 7. Ed. IV. m. 8 Linc. |
| +------+
| | |
| | Joanna.
+------------+ +----------------+
| | |
Alexander Leak = Margaret |
|
|
John Quickerell, of Boston = Ann.
The site of Roushall, where the barons Ros lived, is in the parish of
Fishtoft.
[Sidenote: +Vainona.+]
In Wainfleet church, the bishop of Winchester, whose name was Patten,
founder of Magdalen college, Oxford, erected a marble monument for
his father, where are his coats of arms in the windows. In the town
he built a handsome chapel of brick, and endowed it with a pretty
good revenue, to pray for his and his ancestors souls. Now it is
made a free-school house. This place still retains its ancient name;
for I am certain it is the Vainona mentioned by the famous author of
_Ravenna_, who has happily preserved so many of our old British cities.
The learned Mr. Baxter, in his Glossary of British Antiquities, with
a sagacity peculiar to himself, has corrected this from Navione. The
sea has added much ground to this place since the Roman times, and
then their city stood higher up by the churches, which is a mile off
the present town. The haven was near St. Thomas church, now called
North-holm: it is still very deep thereabouts, and appears to have been
broad, being a pretty good river, whilst the waters of the east fen
ran through it, and kept it open: it was thirty foot wide a mile above
the churches, as appears by the old cloughs there; for they had wisely
contrived by that means to keep out the salt water and heighten the
fresh, which no doubt would have preserved the haven to this day, had
they not foolishly suffered the east-fen water to be carried to Boston.
It is apparent the natural course of water here (as we before observed
of other parts of the level) is eastward: the east fen is lower than
the west fen. At Nordike bridge anciently were four arches: the edge of
the piers which cut the water was westward; which shows that the water
originally run eastward, and the whole level was drained that way,
though now most currents run to Boston. The inhabitants have a constant
tradition, that this was a great town; but when the haven was filled
up, Boston became the sea-port: likewise they say there is a road
across the east fen, called Salter’s road, which probably was the Roman
road; and there are people now alive who knew such as had remembered
it. Doubtless this was a place where the Romans made their salt of the
sea water, to supply all this province; and it is not improbable that
this road led to Banovallum, Lindum, &c. Many salt hills are visible
from Wainfleet to Friskney. The king is still lord of the soil of this
old Roman city.
[Sidenote: +Burgh+, _a_ Ro. _fort_.]
Three miles north, and as much from Skegness and the sea, is Burgh, a
market-town, whose name drew my attention. I found it to be a Roman
_castrum_ to guard the sea-coasts, probably against the Saxon rovers:
it is a piece of very high ground, partly natural, partly raised by
Roman labour, overlooking the wide extended marshes, perhaps in those
times covered with salt water, at least in spring tides. There are two
artificial _tumuli_, one very high, called Cock-hill. In St. Mary’s
church-yard, now demolished, Roman coins have been found. I saw a very
fair and large Antoninus Pius in brass, cos. +iiii+. in possession of
Tho. Linny. In the yards and gardens about the town they frequently
dig up bodies. St. Peter’s church is large and good. There appear no
Roman ways, _vallum_, or ditch, to inclose the town, which is a sort of
knoll, or rising ground.
I was told of a Roman aqueduct of earth, found at Spilsby. In Halton
church hard by is this inscription on a flat stone. + *SIRE WATER BER
GIST ICY DE SA ALME DEUS EIT MERCI*. Another, a cross-legged knight:
on his shield a lion rampant. At Hagnaby, a religious house founded
by Agnes de Orreby. Well, by Ralf de Hauvile. Near Well, on a chalky
heath, are three curious Celtic barrows contiguous and joined one
into another, composed of chalk: the chalk in Lincolnshire by Alford
answers to that in Norfolk. Tateshall collegiate church founded by Ralf
Cromwell. Many _tumuli_ hereabouts, as at Hagnaby and other places,
but none so remarkable a curiosity as those by the broad road upon
the descent of the high country, overlooking the vast level towards
Boston. At Revesby, by the seat of Joseph Banks, esq; there is an oval
inclosed with a broad ditch: the longest diameter, which is somewhat
above 300 foot, is precisely east and west; the other a little above
100: the entrance to it is on the middle of the south side: within,
at each end of the length, is a large _tumulus_ 100 foot in diameter:
they are equal in shape and similar positure, a large vacuum of 100
foot lying between: it is very regularly formed: the length of the oval
ditch that incloses the two _tumuli_ is equal to thrice the breadth:
the _tumuli_ are large and high: that rising on the north side, without
the ditch, is of an odd figure, but similar. It seems to have been a
place of sepulture; perhaps two British kings were there buried; and
the height on the north side was the place whereon they sacrificed
horses, or the like, to the _manes_ of the deceased. Or is it a place
of religious worship among the old Britons? and the two hills may
possibly be the temples of the Sun and Moon. I am inclined to think it
ancient, because of the measure: the breadth is equal to 100 Celtic
feet, as I call them; the length to 300.
[Sidenote: +Banovallum.+]
[Sidenote: TAB. LXXXIX.]
Horncastle was undoubtedly the Banovallum in _Ravennas_: the latter
part of the word is Latin, so that it signifies the fortification
upon the river Bane. It is of a low situation, placed in the angle of
the two brooks meeting here, the Bane and Waring; whence the modern
name Horncastle, which signifies an angle, all this country over, as
you know in your neighbouring Cow-hurn, Holbech-hurn, Guy-hurn, &c. I
will not venture to conceit it came from the ancient way of painting
rivers horned, from their windings and turnings; of which we may find
a hint in Burton’s Comment. on Antoninus’s Itinerary, pag. 56. and
they that please may consult Bochart’s _Phaleg_, II. 22. where are
many proofs of the ancients expressing an angle by the term _horn_.
Skinner in his _Etymologicon_ rightly affirms it comes from the Saxon
word _hyrn_; and Ælfricus expounds it by the word _cornu_. It is
probable the Romans were induced to make a station here at first from
its convenient situation, easily rendered defensible by a _vallum_
drawn across the aperture from one river to the other; and thence came
the Roman name. Afterwards they built the indissoluble stone wall,
whole _vestigia_ are manifest the whole compass round, and in some
places pretty high, as three or four yards, and four yards thick.
It serves for sides of gardens, cellars, out-houses, &c. as chance
offers, inclosing the market-place, church, and good part of the town.
It is a perfect parallelogram, composed of two squares: at the angles
have been square towers, as they report: the gates were in the middle
of three sides, and I suppose a postern into the meadows called the
Holmes at the union of the two rivulets. I suspect originally the river
Bane ran nearer to the wall in that part, and behind the manor-house:
the garden there has been heightened, and the river pushed farther
off, and turned with a larger bow to favour the people who live in
Far-street, and especially the tanners, who are very numerous there:
both rivers probably were wider and deeper than now, as the Celtic name
of _Bane altus_ intimates, which at present is conformable to reality
lower down. Some do not scruple to affirm it was a sea-port, that is,
navigable. The Waring arises but a mile or two off. The field across it
south of the town is called the Thowng and Cagthorp, and probably was
its _pomæria_, from the Saxon word _pang_, _campus_, _ager_. Here they
find a great number of Roman coins. I saw a brass coin of Vespasian;
reverse, an eagle, +CONSECRATIO+; dug up from under the walls of
Banovallum: Mr. Hograve of the place has it now: but Horncastle was
not built in the time of Vespasian. I saw, in possession of Mr. Terry
of Lincoln, a silver Vespasian found here; reverse, a sitting Genius
with a sympulum in her hand, and +DN. MA+. In 1734, a girl digging
sand by the road side going from Les Yates to Horncastle, and near
Horncastle, dug up an earthen urn full of Roman coins, rings, &c. Mr.
Terry collector gave me some of them. Near the walls upon digging
cellars they sometimes find bodies buried. A rivulet called Temsford
runs into the Bane. The school lands were given by private persons,
and it was incorporated by queen Elizabeth: their seal is a castle and
hunting-horn: and a horn is the brand for the town cattle upon the
common. It is dubious whether Bowbridge has its name from the arch of
the bridge, or from its being the entrance into the town from Lindum
through the gate called formerly a Bow. This way is the maypole-hill,
where probably stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually keep
up the festival of the _Floralia_ on May day, making a procession to
this hill with _May gads_ (as they call them) in their hands: this is
a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a
_thyrsus_ of the Bacchanals: at night they have a bonfire and other
merriment; which is really a sacrifice, or religious festival. The
king formerly had this whole town in his possession, until it was
bestowed on the bishop of Carlisle. Near the conflux of the two brooks
was lately a pleasant garden, and a place called Julian’s Bower, much
talked of.
[Illustration: 89 +Banovallum.+ _Sept. 1. 1722._
Josepho Banks _de Revesby Ar._ Romanorum hæc Vestigia d.d. W.
Stukeley.
_Stukeley. Del._]
[Illustration: 19
_Amicissimo Henrico Pacey Ar.
Prospectum Bostoniæ Suæ d.d. W. Stukeley
Aug. 29. 1722._]
[Sidenote: +Boston.+]
[Sidenote: +TAB. XIX.+]
_Leak_ signifies a watery marshy place. _Wrangle_ an _ab_ A. S. _Wear
lacus_, and _hangel arundo_, _lacus arundinibus obsita_? Return we
to Boston, _Fanum Sti. Botulphi_, the saint of sea-faring men. St.
Botulf (the bishop) his body lay in St. Edmund’s monastery at Bury.
Wm. Malmsb. p. 137. This seems to have been the last bounds northward
of the _Iceni_ in most antient times; therefore its old name was
_Icanhoe_, or _Icenorum munimentum_, as Mr. Baxter interprets it in
his Glossary. I guess the first monastery founded here was on the
south of the present church; for I saw vast stone walls dug up there,
and a plain leaden cross taken up; in my possession. Many were the
religious houses here in superstitious times, whose lands were given
to the corporation by Hen. VIII. as likewise the estate of the lord
Hussey, beheaded then at Lincoln for rebellion: he lived in one of
the houses where is a great square tower of brick, called now Hussey
tower. There are many such in this country, as that now called Rochford
and sometimes Richmond tower, which is very high. Queen Mary was a
great benefactress to this corporation, and gave them lands called
Erection-lands, to pay a vicar, a lecturer, and two school-masters:
they have now a revenue of a thousand pounds per annum. In the
parsonage-house is a scutcheon with a pastoral staff behind it thus: a
fess charged with a fish and two annulets between three plates, each
charged with a cross fitché. The church, I think, is the largest parish
church (without cross ailes) in the world: it is a hundred foot wide
and three hundred foot long within the walls: the roof is handsomely
cieled with Irish oak supported by four and twenty tall and slender
pillars: many remains of fine brasses in the church, none so perfect
as this in the south aile. Under the figures of the man and woman this
inscription,
*Ecce sub hoc lapide henricus Mete sistit humatus
vi mortis rapida generosus semper vocitatus
hic quisquis veneris ipsum precibus memoraris.
sponsam defunctam simul aliciam sibi junctam
anno mil C quater quadragenoque deno
marcia quarto dies, extat ei Requies.*
[Sidenote: TAB. III. 2d vol.]
The tower is the highest (100 yards) and noblest in Europe, flattering
a weary traveller with its astonishing aspect even at ten miles
distance. It is easily seen forty mile round this level country, and
farther by sea: the lantern at top is very beautiful, and the thinness
of the stone-work is admirable. There was a prodigious clock-bell,
which could be heard six or seven miles round, with many old verses
round it: about the year 1710 they knocked it in pieces, without taking
the inscription. Twenty yards from the foundation of this tower runs
the rapid Witham, through a bridge of wood. On the south side of the
church-yard was, some few years ago, a curious monument[25] (as they
say) of one of the builders of the church, in stone, of arched work,
but now intirely demolished; and in the market place in my memory was
an old and large cross, with a vault underneath, steps all around
it, and at top a stone pyramid of thirty foot high, but at this time
quite destroyed. I found here an old brass seal of William Chetwynd,
with his coat of arms, A fesse lozengé between three mullets, which I
gave to the honourable gentleman of that name. Several frieries here,
black, white and grey; of which little remains. Oliver Cromwell, then a
colonel, lay in Boston the night before he fought the battle of Winceby
near Horncastle, Oct. 5. 1643. In North Holland they have a custom of
pulling geese twice a year; which has not escaped Pliny’s notice, X.
22. There is nothing left of the adjacent Swineshed abbey, founded by
Rob. Greisly, but a yew-tree and a knightly tomb fixed in the wall
of the new house. Here king John sickened in his journey to Sleeford
castle and Newark castle, where he died.
East of Boston was a chapel called Hiptoft, and in the town a church
dedicated to St. John, but demolished. Here was a staple for wool and
several other commodities, and a vast foreign trade: the hall was
pulled down in my time. The great hall of St. Mary’s Guild is now
the place of meeting for the corporation and sessions, &c. Here was
born the learned John Fox the martyrologist. Queen Elizabeth gave the
corporation a court of admiralty all over the sea-coast hereabouts.