Memorials of the Bagot Family

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W. Hodgetts, 1824 - 172 pages
 

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Page 66 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Page 39 - When she is abroad, nobody near her but my Lord of Essex and, at night, my Lord is at cards, or one game or another with her, that he cometh not to his own lodging till birds sing in the morning.
Page xxv - ... you upon honourable conditions, to quit and surrender the castle of Denbigh, entrusted to you by us, and to disband all the forces under your commands ; for which your soe doeing this shall bee your warrant. Given at Newcastle, the 14th of Sept., 1646.
Page 42 - KNOT remeynetb. still in your parlour ; as a hundred of my poor tenants have in sundry shires of England, and have ever held your land of my hows, untill thateynder of the Duke my grandfather. Surely I will not exchange my name of Stafford for the name of a " BAGGE OF GATES," for that is your name, BAG-OTE.
Page 42 - Bagot married an ancestor's coief of mine (as peradventure she married her servant), yet will I prove that neither she nor no wydow of my hows did take a second husband before they were grandmothers by the children of their first husband ; and therefore the lady of my hows was too old to have issue by your's.
Page 43 - ... discontented with some my speeches used to Mr. Stanford in pretending your honor's surname to be Bagot: I do confess I spake them ; and not offending your lordship (as I hope you will not) with trothe, I do avowe it. Not upon any ' ' Dronken Herehaught's report, by me corrupted to soothe my lieing," but by good records and evidence under ancient seales, the four hundred years past.
Page 42 - Stafford, which untrew speeches you have said unto dyvers others, although som dronken ignorant Herawld by you corrupted therein, has soothed your lying, I do therefor answer you that I do better know the descents and matches of my own lyneage than any creature can informe me ; for in all my records, pedigrees and armes, from the first Lord Stafford that was possessed of this castle afore the Conquest, bearing the very same coate I now do...
Page 89 - A Discourse on the Evangelical History, from the Interment to the Ascension of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; to which is prefixed, a truly interesting and pleasing account of the authour, by the Reverend Mr.
Page 43 - ... but by good records and evidence under ancient scales, the four hundred years past. And if it may please you to send any sufficient man, as Mr. Sheriff, or Mr. Samson Eardswick, Gentillmen of good knowledge and experience in these ac'cons, I will shewe them sufficient matter to confirme that I have spoken ; being very sorry to heare your Lordship to contemne and deface the name of Bagot with so bad tirmes and hastie speeches as you do : more dishonourable to yourself than any...
Page 41 - ... are from the Shirleys. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, Richard Bagot appears to have felt a pardonable pride in mentioning the circumstance. The wrath of his neighbour Edward Lord Stafford was excited thereby, and he wrote him (in 1589) this curious and angry epistle : — " Like as the High Shereef of this Shyre lately told me that you pretend my name to be Bagot and not Stafford, which untrew speeches you have said unto dyvers others, although som dronken ignorant Herawld by you corrupted therein...

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