CCCLXXVIII.

RICHARD NEVILL, EARL OF WARWICK, CHARTER

TO HOWELL CARNE.

[CARNE MSS.]

8 JULY. 2 ED: IV. 1462.

RICARDUS NEVIL comes WAR' et dominus GLAMORGANC' et MORGANC' omnibus ad quos presentes litere nostre patentes pervenerint salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et per has literas nostras patentes confirmasse HOWELLO CARNE sex acras prati jacentes in le BRODEMEDE quas nuper PETRUS JOHANNES tenuit et post decessum PETRI JOHANNIS quidam HENRICUS BASSET tenuit et post decessum dicti HENRICI quidam JACK BASSET filius dicti HENRICI tenuit sine titulo ea quod de causa devenerit in manus domini RICARDI de BELLOCAMPO nuper comitis WAR' et nuper domini le DESPENCER GLAMORGANC' et MORGANC' et de jure ISABELLE consortis sue et postea predicti dominus comes et comitissa ex unanimi consensu et assensu dederunt et concesserunt predictas sex acras prati predicto HOWELLO CARNE habendum sibi heredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum. Reddendo inde prefatis comiti et comitisse ac eorum heredibus et assignatis quinque solidos redditus per annum ad terminos de Hockeday et Sancti MICHAELIS sectas curie et omnia alia fines inde prius debitos et consuetos per literas predictarum comitis et comitisse prefato HOWELLO CARNE confectas quarum datum est in cancellaria de KAERDIFF die Dominica proxima post festum S'ti MICHAELIS anno Regis HENRICI sexti quarto prout similiter plenius apparet in compoto ballivi de DYNASPOWIS de anno ejusdem regis xxxvij. Habendum et tenendum predictas sex acras prati cum pertinentiis prefato HOWELLO CARNE heredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum de nobis et heredibus nostris. Reddendo inde annuatim nobis et

heredibus nostris redditus et servicia supra nominata ad terminos predictos. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes.

Datum in cancellaria nostra de KAERDIFF sub sigillo cancellarie nostre de KAERDIFF predicte octavo die Julii anno regni Regis EDWARDI quarti post conquestum ANGLIE secundo. Ac eciam concessimus eidem HOWELLO heredibus et assignatis suis duas acras iiii.... prati in LAMBURSTE et unam acram prati . . . . . . ibidem vocatam EVERARD cum pertinenciis jacentes infra dominium nostrum predictum tenendum eidem HOWELLO et assignatis suis imperpetuum. Reddendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris annuatim iiijs. vjd. ad terminos predictos.

Appended to the parchment is the seal of the Cardiff Chancery, in white wax, three inches and a quarter diameter, of excellent design and execution, though much rubbed and broken.

Obverse: a mounted knight in plate armour, sword uplifted, and shield displayed; thereon the Nevill saltire, with a label. The helmet carries a swan's head and neck out of a ducal coronet; the spurs are long and rowelled. The caparisons are much rubbed, but on the horse's shoulder is seen Montagu and Monthermer quarterly, and on the counter, quarterly of

four grand quarters. 1. and Iv., Clare quartering Le Despenser. II. and III. (1 and 4) Newburgh Earl of Warwick, the chevron charged with five leopards' heads jessant fl-de-lys, for Cantilupe. (2 and 3) Beauchamp. It must be remembered that these arms are represented as if seen in a mirror, or reversed. The ground of the seal is covered with conventional herbage.

Reverse: A large, full-bottomed shield, charged with, quarterly, four grand quarters:-I. and IV., De Clare, three chevrons; quartering Le Despenser, quarterly, 2 and 3, a fret; and over all a bendlet; II. and III., Montacute, three fusils conjoined in fess, quartering Monthermer, an eagle displayed.

Two crests on open helmets, regardant: dexter, Beauchamp, out of a ducal coronet a swan's head and neck; sinister, Montacute, out of a ducal coronet a griffin statant.

Supporters: dexter, a bear rampant, chained; sinister gone. In base, below the shield, two ragged staves, the Nevill badge. The mantlings and lambrequins are exceedingly bold and free. The legend is broken, but was the same upon both faces.

A perfect impression of the obverse of this seal is preserved in the British Museum. The legend is": SIGILLUM : RICARDI: NEVIL: COMITIS: WARWICI: DOMINI GLAMORGANCIE ET MORGANCIE." The matrix also

is preserved.

Richard Nevill, the "King-maker," Earl of Salisbury and Warwick, and Lord of Glamorgan in right of his wife, was eldest son of Richard Earl of Salisbury, by Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury. He married Anne, daughter and heiress of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, by Isabel Le Despenser, heir of her niece, Anne Beauchamp, who died 3rd of January, 27 Henry VI. (1449), being the daughter and heiress of Henry Duke of Warwick. Richard Beauchamp was son of William Lord of Abergavenny, which Lordship was settled upon him by Hastings Earl of Pembroke, to whose ancestor it came with the heiress of Cantilupe.

Richard Nevill was created Earl of Warwick 23rd July, 1444, and became Earl of Salisbury in 1462, two years after the beheading of his father. He fell at Barnet, 1471 (2 Ed. IV.), leaving his wife, who survived until after the 5 Henry VII.

They had two daughters, coheirs, (I.) Isabel Nevill, born at Warwick Castle, 5th Sept., 1451, 30 Henry VII.; married at Calais, 11th July, 1469, 9 Edward IV., to George Duke of Clarence; and (II.) Ann Nevill, who married (1) Edward Prince of Wales, son to Henry VL, and (2) Richard Duke of Gloucester. Ann Nevill died 1484, just after Richard became King.

Richard Nevill bore gules, a saltire argent, a label of three points gobonè argent and azure. The Charter, dated 2 Edward IV. (1462), was granted when the great Earl was in the height of his power. By the victory of Towton, in the preceding year, he had seated the house of York upon the throne; and two years later, in 1464, he undertook the brilliant embassy to France, to woo Bona of Savoy for the King, all unconscious of the evils to which this proposal was to give rise. It is curious that the Countess, in whose right he acted, should not be a party to the grant, although her quarterings preponderate upon the seal. Her mother, Isabel, the Despenser heiress, is mentioned with her husband, Richard Beauchamp, in the body of the deed.

Howell Carne, in whose favour the Charter is granted, seems to have been the first of his name who settled at Nash, which he acquired with his wife, Tybote, the daughter and heiress of John Giles of Nash, a cadet of Giles of Gileston. He was a very active and a very acquisitive person, and added largely to his wife's estate. His son, John, was the father of a second Howell, who flourished in the reign of Henry VIII.

CCCLXXIX.

QUIT-CLAIM BY RICHARD CAUSE TO SIR HUGH JOHN.

[G. G. F.]

30 APRIL. 3 ED: IV. 1463.

Noverint universi per presentes me RICARDUM CAUSE nuper de SWAYNESEY remississe relaxasse et omnino pro me et heredibus meis quietumclamasse HUGONI JOHN militi et MATILDE Uxori sue heredibus et assignatis ipsius HUGONIS imperpetuum totum jus meum titulum et clameum que habeo habui seu quovismodo in futuro habere potero de et in uno burgagio cum pertinenciis quod nuper fuit MATILDE DIER jacente in vico vocato Fischer Strete infra villam de SWAYNESEY inter tenementum rectoris de SWAYNESEY ex parte boriali et tenementum JOHANNIS SADLER ex parte australi et Regalem viam ex parte orientali et gardinum THOME REED