Edmundus de la Pole constituitur custos castri Caleis pro uno anno. Teste rege apud Westm. 23 Jan. (Franc. m. 10.) HENRICUS IV. Anno 11. Johannes comes Somerset. (Claus. m. 29.) Anno 12. Henricus princeps Walliæ capitaneus villæ Caleis. (Pat. m. 45.) Thomas Beaufort frater regis, castri. (Pat. m. 25.) Anno 13. Henricus princeps, capitaneus villæ Caleis. (2 pars Pat. m. 18.) Anno 14. Henricus princeps Walliæ, capitaneus villæ Caleis. (Pat. m. 2.) HENRICUS V. Anno 1. Willelmus dominus la Zouch miles, locum tenens villæ, 1 Maii. (m. 36, 37.) Ricardus comes Warwic. villæ (Franc. m. 4.) constitutus 3 Februarii in triennium (m. 12.) Thomas comes Dorset, avunculus regis, castri, constitutus 1 die Aprilis, in triennium. (Franc. m. 1.) Anno 2. Ricardus comes Warwic. (Franc. m. 23.) Anno 3. Ricardus comes Warwic.* (Claus. in dorso.) Anno 4. Ricardus Beauchamp, comes Warwic. (Claus. in dorso, m. 16.) Constitutus a 3 die Februarii in duos annos. (Franc. m. 5.) Anno 6. Ricardus Beauchamp, comes Warwic. dominus de Insula. (2 pars Norm. m. 2.) Anno 8. Willelmus Bardolf, locum tenens. (2 pars Norm. in dorso.) Ricardus de Beauchamp comes Warwic. capitaneus villæ Caleis, 26 die Februarii. (Franc. m. 1.) * Dugdale (Baronage, i. 244) has quoted an indenture, dated 19th June, 1415, by which the earl of Warwick was retained to serve as captain of Calais until the 3d Feb. following. An account of the garrisons kept at this period at Calais, Risebanke, Guysnes, and Hammes, is printed in Excerpta Historica, 8vo. 1831, p. 25. HENRICUS VI. Anno 2. Ricardus Beauchamp comes Warwic. (1 pars Pat. m. 22.) Anno 11. Johannes dux Bedford. (1 pars Pat. m. 9.) Anno 14. Humfredus dux Gloucestrie. (Claus. in dorso, m. 4.) Anno 15. Humfredus dux Gloucestrie. (Pat. m. 33.) Anno 16. Humfredus dux Gloucestrie capitaneus castri et villæ ac marchiarum ibidem, 12 Octobris. (1 pars Pat. m. 32.) Thomas Rempston, locum tenens regis villæ Caleis, 2 Martii. (Ibidem, m. 5.) Anno 18. Thomas Kiriel miles, locum tenens villæ. (3 pars Pat. m. 16.) Anno 21. Humfredus comes Stafford, constitutus capitaneus villæ Caleis, a data presentium usque ad finem 10 annorum proxime sequentium. Teste rege apud Westm. 3 die Septembris anno 21 Henry VI. (Franc. m. 31.) Anno 23. Humphredus comes Stafford et dux Buckingham, castri et villæ. (1 pars Pat. m. 29.) Annis 24-28. Humphredus dux Buckingham. (Franc. m. 9.) Anno 29. Jacobus comes Wilteshire, Henricus vicecomes de Bourghchier, Radulfus dominus de Sudeley, Johannes de Stourton, Thomas Stanleye, milites, et Thomas Rempston miles, habent custodiam villæ et castri a 2 die Aprilis in quinquennium. (Franc. m. 8.) Anno 37. Ricardus Nevill comes Warwic. (1 pars Pat. m. 16.) EDWARDUS IV. Annis 1-10. Ricardus comes Warwic. villæ et castri. (Franc. m. 24, and other records.) Annis 11-23. Willelmus dominus Hastinges, miles, locum tenens generalis villæ, castri et marchiarum Caleis. Constitutus 17 July, 11 Edw. IV. (Various Letters Patent, and Pardon, 23 Edw. IV. m. 2.) HENRICUS VII. Anno 4. Egidius dominus Dawbeney.* HENRICUS VIII. Anno 1. Gilbertus Talbot, miles, constitutus 26 die Septembris. Anno 5. Gilbertus Talbot et Ricardus Wingfield, milites, constituti 6 die Augusti. Anno [Sir Richard Wingfield. Sir John Peche. Sir Robert Wingfield.+] Anno 12. Johannes Bourchier dominus Berners, constitutus 28 die Novembris. Anno 24. Arthurus Plantagenet, vicecomes Insulæ, constitutus 24 Martii.‡ [Anno 32. Henry Arundel lord Maltravers. Anno . George Lord Cobham.§] * Giles lord Daubeney was fined in the Starchamber 2001. for his pardon for receipts of money at Calais. Archæologia, vol. xxv. p. 392. + These three deputies are named, with John Lord Berners, in the patent constituting lord Lisle. The patent for the appointment of lord Lisle is printed in Rymer, vol. xiv. p. 452. It describes the office conferred as "deputatiam nostram sive officium deputatiæ nostræ villæ nostræ Calisiæ et marchiarum ibidem." He was to receive in support of his office an annual rent of 1007. sterling, payable from the royal lordships or manors of Marc and Oye; also an annual sum of 1047. sterling for "spyall money," to be received from the same manors; he was allowed a retinue of thirty-one "souldiours," namely, one horseman called "a spere," two horsemen called "archers," and twenty-eight others called "souldeours;" also, because no other lieutenant of the town and marches was appointed, a further retinue of ten "souldeours." By the two next clauses the election and removal of the said souldeours was granted to him; and by the following the power of granting safe conducts to aliens, and certain other privileges necessary to the due administration of his government. § Lord Cobham was deputy of Calais for a period extending from 1544 to 1550, (as appears from his papers,) but I have not found the date of his appointment. EDWARDUS VI. Anno 4. Willelmus dominus Willoughby, miles, constitutus 13 Augt. Anno 6. Willelmus dominus Howard, constitutus 31 Octobris. MARIA REGINA. Anno 1. Thomas dominus Wentworth,* constitutus 13 die Decembris. In 1511, (May 1,) the officers of the town of Calais were as follow:† Sir Gilbert Talbot, deputy of the town. Sir Richard Carew, lieutenant of the castle. Sir William Meryng, marshall. Sir Hugh Conway, treasurer.‡ Sir John Wiltshire, controller. Walter Culpeper esquire, vice-marshall.§ John Brettowlte, secretary of the king there. In 1523, sir Maurice Berkeley was lieutenant of the castle (see p. 32); in 1533 sir John Wallop (see p. 138). In 1489 sir Humphrey Talbot was marshal (see note in p. 2); sir Edward Guilford at the time of the Field of Cloth of Gold, and still in 1523 (Holinshed, p. 1526); sir Richard Grenville in 1533 (see p. 138); and subsequently, sir John Wallop. As one of the treasurers of Calais, a few words may be said respecting * Lord Wentworth was the deputy at the time of the loss of Calais in 1558. Sir John Hayward (Hist. of Edward VI. p. 162,) states that lord Grey of Wilton was made deputy of Calais, and that statement is adopted by Dugdale (Baronage, i. 715). But lord Grey was only captain of Guisnes when Calais was taken, and his subsequent defence of the former fortress is described by his son, in a paper which was used by Holinshed, and which is about to be printed by the Camden Society, from the original in the possession of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart. + Rymer, xiii. 298. In MS. Cotton. Vesp. F. XIII. p. 78, is a royal warrant, dated Greenwich, March 12, 1511, to sir Hugh Conway, treasurer of Calais, to pay 2001. to Thomas Deacon, to be expended in the repairs of Rysebank. § He held this office of "under marshall" in 1508 (see p. 6). sir Richard Nanfant, who held that office under king Henry VII. and whose name occurs in the present volume, p. 50. He is best known to history as the early patron of Wolsey, but under another christian name, the cardinal's biographer having incorrectly called him sir John. "He fell," says Cavendish, "in acquaintance with one sir John Nanphant, a very grave and ancient knight, who had a great room in Calais under king Henry the Seventh. This knight he served, and behaved him so discreatly and justly, that he obtained the especial favour of his said master; insomuch that for his wit, gravity, and just behaviour, he committed all the charge of his office unto his chaplain. And, as I understand, the office was the treasurership of Calais. * Who was, in consideration of his great age, discharged of his chargeable room, and returned again into England, intending to live more at quiet. And through his instant labour and especial favour his chaplain was promoted to the king's service, and made his chaplain." (Cavendish's Life of Wolsey.) Of subsequent treasurers of Calais, we find the names of sir John Turbrevyle (mentioned in the letter of bishop Fox printed in Ellis's Original Letters, Second series, ii. 7); of sir Hugh Conway (already named,) in 1511; of William lord Sandes, in July, 1523 (Holinshed, p. 1526); of sir Richard Weston (see p. 209 of this volume); and sir Thomas Cornwaleys was the last treasurer, as appears by the document printed in the preface, p. xix. Richard Whetehill esquire and Adrian his son were comptrollers of Calais in the time of Edward IV. The former had an annuity of 401. from the custom of wools at Calais; and both together had a grant, by letters patent under the great seal, "of two wynde milles, with the appurtenauncez, upon the castell-hill, within the said towne of Calis, and soile called Mille-hill, besides the said milles toward the south;" also of two warrens of conies, one in the lordship of Marke, and the other in the lordship of Oye; both which grants were exempted in the act of resumption, * In Nash's History of Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 85, where a pedigree of the family of Nanfant or Nanfan will be found, sir Rich. Nanfan is styled "captain of Calais" (i. 85), and in the next page "treasurer of Calais, and deputy lieutenant of the castle," in 18 Hen. VII. 1503; but this is only Dr. Nash's want of precision; and Cavendish was probably right in the office, though not in the christian name. |