10l. per annum, and as a perpetual augmentation of honour, affigned him the Creft of a Hand, iffuing from the clouds, holding a Club, and this Motto (a), Frappè forte, strike strong, or rather, beat down the fort, and the Savage, or wild man, holding a Club, which was the ancient creft of the family, was now omitted, and two of them placed as fupporters to the arms, which had a further augmentation of honour added in the shield, viz. on the Chevron, Guttè de fang, as they are born to this day. The ancient Coat, before this addition, being only, Sable, a Chevron Or, between three Cinquefoils Ermine; and the year following, as a further reward for his eminent valour (b), he gave him, by the name of his beloved efquire, the priory of Welles, in Norfolk, which was diffolved, being an alien belonging to Caen, in Normandy, with all the revenues, manors, fervices, advowfons, &c. (except the rectories of Wells, and Geytun) that belonged to it (c), any where in England, to be held by him and his heirs, in capite, by the rent of a rofe (d), payable on midfummer-day, in lieu of all fervices whatever. It appears, that immediately after this honourable addition to his arms, he got his feal made accordingly; for in 1415, being feoffee for the manors of Kelling and Salthoufe, he fealed with his new feal, Guttè de fang, being on the Chevron, &c. (e) In 1418, he, the bishop of Norwich, and Sir Thomas Erpingham, were the three commiffioners, whom the lords of the council fent to perfuade the gentlemen of the county to go into France, to ferve the king with arms and equipage, agreeable to their quality, who return'd answer, they had no fuccefs, because the stoutest men were already in the army; and those that remain'd, excufed themselves by their poverty, or bodily infirmities (f). He ferved no lefs than four times in parliament for the county of Norfolk (g), viz. in 1409, 11 Henry IV. with John Winter, Efq; in 2 Henry V. with John Inglefthorp, Efq; in 1414, with Sir Edmund Oldhall, with whom he ferved again in 1416: he continued in favour with the princes (a) The Motto, Frappè fort, may allude to this fort that he conquered, it being given him on that account, and 'tis probable, were the words he used to encourage his men to aflail it, fignifying, ftrike down the for, as well as, ftrike ftrong. Blomefield, p. 736. (b) Mon. Ang. vol I. f. 575. (c) Wells manor in Geyton, which, with Wells priory, was given to this John Wodehouse, and was, on that priory's being restored by Edward IV. granted to his chapel at Westminster, and the abhot reaffumed it from Wodehoufe, and carried it against him by the intereft of the duke of Lancaster. See Dugd. Mon: vol. I. fo. 576. (d) The Alien-priory of Panfield, in Effex, being vested in the crown, King Henry V. in the third year of his rei. n, granted it in fee to John Woodhoufe, of Northfolk, Efq; to hold it by the fervice of a red rofe; he had likewife, the priory of Wells, in Norfolk, given him. Humphry, duke of Gloucester, being guardian of the king and kingdom, ordered feizin of this eftate to be given to Henry, fon of John Woodhoufe. Hiftory of Eflex, in 4to, published by the reverend Mr. Tindal, p. 46. who quotes for his authority, Lett. Pat. 3 Hen. V. Teft. 20 June, ex Coll. Ch. Pet. Le Neve, Am Norroy. (e) Gedw. Hift. Hen. V. p. 214, 15. MSS. Bib. Cot, Caligula, (g) Ex Coll, Brown Willis, Arm, D. 5. (f) Rot, Parl. princes he served, during his whole life: Peacham fays, he was one of Henry IV's executors, and certain I am that he was also executor to Henry V. who left him by his will, a gold cup (a); of whom he obtained licence to found a chantry-priest, to fing for the fouls of that prince and his queen, and of his beloved efquire, John Wodehouse, and his wife, their ancestors and pofterity, either in the cathedral church, at Norwich, or in the charnel-chapel thereto belonging: I (b) have seen a pair of beads, which were given by Queen Catherine, wife of Henry V. to the wife of this John; they are now in the hands of Armine Wodehoufe, Efq; and are very large, all of coral, except each tenth bead, which are wrought gold, there being seventy in all; there is alfo a cross of gold hanging to them, and in those days, were used at their devotion. I (c) alfo faw the hilt of a large old fword, adorn'd with filver, and a long knife, or poignard, of the fame workmanship, which are ftill preferved in the family, and are, without doubt, those used by this John, in the Agincourtbattle, the form and make of them agreeing exactly to the time. He died at Rydon, in 1430; his will is dated there, Jan. 15 (d), by which, he ordered his body to be buried in the lower chapel of the charnel, by the cathedral, at Norwich, and ordered that after mafs faid over his body in the cathedral, they should carry his bier into the charnel, and there perform such services for him, as he enjoin'd, for which, he gave the principal, mafter, or cuftos, of the upper charnel-chapel, 6s. 8d. and two fmall filver dishes gilt, and two filver candlesticks; and to each of the priests of the charnel, 3s. 4d. to the chaplain of the lower charnel-chapel, in which (a) * Item legamus Johanni Wodehouse, Armigero, unum cyphum auri.' Blomefield, P. 757. King Hen.V. made Henry, lord Fitz-hugh, Walter Hungerford, Walter Beauchampe, Lewis Robfart, William Porter, Robert Babthorpe, John Woodhowse, and John Leventhorpe, Efqs. the executors of his will and testament; the king granteth to them 40000 marks for the performance of the fame will. Cotton's Abridg. of Records, p. 563. (6) Blomefield, p. 757. (c) Ibid. (d) In Dei nomine, Amen, Deo gratias, ego Johannes Wodehouse, Armiger, compos mentis condo teftamentum meum in hunc modum. Item lego corpus meum, ubicunque infra regnum Anglie me contigerit viam universe carnis ingredi, ad fepelliendum in capella inferiori vocata le Charnel, infra precinctum prioratus fanéte Trinitatis Norwici, & quod funeralia & exequie mee teneantur & obferventur modo qui fequitur. Et poft miffam finitam, volo quod feretrum meum deferatur in le Charnel, & ibidem exequie mortuorum de nocte cum mifla in craftino teneantur per principalem capelle fuperioris, & confratres fuos ; & per capellanum capelle in'ferioris, modo debito, die feptimo, quo die deminus ab omni opere quod patravit requievit, & habeat prediétus principalis vis. viiid. & capellanus capelle inferioris vis. viiid. & quilibet facerdotum predictorum confratrum diéti principalis iii s. ivd. Item lego principali & fociis fuis confratribus capelle fuperioris vocate le Charnel, infra precinctum prioratus predicti, duas parvas pelves argenteas & deauratas, cum duobus candelabris argenteis, habendis fibi & fuis principalibus & confratribus dicte capelle fuperioris in perpetuum, abfque ulla alienatione earundem futuris temporibus inde facienda." 4 In cujus rei teftimonium huic prefenti teftamento meo figillum meum appofui. Datum apud Ridon, quinto decimo die menfis Januarii, anno regni regis Henrici fexti poft conqueftum nono. Sir Tho. Browne's Poft. Works, de Schola Regia Norwicenfi, which he was buried, 6s. 8 d. and afterwards, this chaplain became his chantry-prieft, and fung for him till the diffolution. 14. Henry de Wodehoufe, Efq; was twenty-four years old at his father's death (a), as appears from the writ iffued to the efcheator of Norfolk, requiring him to take fealty and relief for the manor of Welles, &c. and to give him poffeffion. King Henry V. was his godfather, by whom he was recommended to Hen. VI. At his father's death, he lived at Bocking-Afh, in Suffolk, and in 1449, was lord of Well-manor, in Geyton, and this year had a charter of free-warren in all his lands, woods, and demeans, in Norfolk, and dying the next year without iffue, his eftate went to his brother, John. 15. John Wodehouse, Efq; his brother, fucceeded him, who, when the commiffioners were appointed, 12 Hen. VI. to fummon all perfons of beft note, and tender them an oath for the keeping the peace, and obferving the king's laws, for themfelves and retainers, was returned (b) as one of the principal gentlemen of Norfolk; and because he would not take the honour of knighthood, was fined accordingly; he married (c) Constance, eldest daughter and coheir of Thomas Geddynge, of Icklingham, in Suffolk, Efq; relict, firft, of Henry Pooley, Efq; and after that, of John Aleyne, Efq; one of the barons of the exchequer, by whom he had one fon, Sir Edward, and a daughter, Alice, married to William Clippefby, of Clippefby, in Fleg, in Norfolk, Efq; I find him fometimes called, John Wodehoufe, of London, Efq; where he alfo had a house; he died at Kimberley, in 1465, as the writ of Diem claufit extremum fhews us (d). He, and his wife, lie buried in the altar-rails, in Kimberley-chancel, clofe by the north wall; on the ftone is his effigies in armour, with this in a label from his mouth; Credo quod redemptor meus vivit. She, ftands in a praying posture, with this from her mouth; Et in carne mea videbo Deum falvatorem meum. The arms are loft, but this infcription on a brafs plate remains (e); Hic jacet Johannes Wodehous, & Conftancia, Uxor 16. Sir Edward Wodehoufe, his fon and heir, was knighted at Grafton-field, near Tewksbury. The pedigree fays, that in 1461, by order of Edw. IV. under his privy feal, he levied in Norfolk, of his followers, tenants, and gentlemen of quality, no lefs than two hundred, and armed them at his own charge, and attended the king in his journey into Scotland, being accompanied in his own retinue, with two dukes, feven earls, thirty-one barons, (a) Rot. Fin. 9 Hen. VI. (b) Fuller's Worthies in Norfolk. (c) See Ged dyng's Pedigree in Rice's Defcript. of Suff. p. 270 (c) Ibid. (d) Blomefield, p. 758. barons, and fifty-nine knights: I find him alive in 1473 (a), but can't say exactly when he died, tho' he and his fecond wife are buried in Kimberley-church, and had this over them, on a brass plate, which is lately loft; Here lyeth Syr Edward Wodehouse, Knyght, and He married two wives, first, the daughter of Sir John Tirrel, by whom he had no iffue; fecondly, Jane, daughter and heir of Edmund Swathyng, of Letton, Efq; by whom he had iffue, three fons; 1. Sir Thomas. 2. John. 3. Bertram Wodehouse, a priest, who built a large ftone house, at Trunch, in Norfolk, for a fchool, and alms-houses, and endow'd the fame with a perpetual living alfo one daughter, Eleanor, married firft to Edmund Haftings; fecondly, to John Bozun, of Wiffingfet, and thirdly, to Creffiner, Efqrs. fhe died in 1487, and was buried in the Black-Fryers, at Norwich, with her first husband. 17. Sir Thomas Wodehoufe, Knt. his fon and heir, was created knight of the Bath, at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest fon to King Henry VII. with the Infanta of Spain, and was fent ambassador into France, where he married a lady of Piccardy, for his first wife, but by her had no iffue. He was deeply engaged for John de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, in great fums, which the duke left unpaid, and being fued in 1486, upon that account, he had the king's pardon, with reftitution to his lands and goods: for his fecond wife, he had Thomazine, daughter of Sir Roger Townefend, of Raynham, in Norfolk, Knt. by whom he had iffue, three fons, and two daughters; 1. Sir Roger. 2. John, of Breecles, Efq; who married Anne, daughter of William Spelman, Efq; who furvived him, and afterwards married-Defny, and died 1559. 3. Edward Wodehouse (b), who embraced a religious life. The daughters were, Catherine, married to Sir Thomas Lovell, of Berton-Bendish, in Norfolk, Knt. and Elizabeth, to Thomas Wingfield, of Eafton, in Suffolk, Efq; Sir Thomas, died in 1487, and was fuccecded by his eldeft fon, 18. Sir Roger Wodehoufe, Knt. who, by reafon of his small ftature, was called Little Sir Roger, he was knighted by Edw. VI. in 1548, and is (c) often called (d) knight of the carpet; he, at the beginning of Ket's rebellion (e), taking his houfhold-fervants with him, and three carts, two laden with beer, and a third (a) Blomfield's Norfolk, p. 759. (b) Le Neve's MSS. vol. I. p. 40. Gart. MSS. E. 9. fo. 82. (d) Knights of the carpet, were fo called, kneel upon a carpet at their creation. (e) Hol, vol. I. fo. 1029, Nevil de Furor. Norff. p. 29. with provifion, followed the rebels, defigning to have endeavoured to perfuade them to defift from their wicked enterprize, imagining, that they being his near neighbours, and knowing his former good ufage to them, would have had refpect to his kindness, and have minded his perfuafions, but on the contrary, they feized him, ftripped him of his apparel, took his horses, and all he had from him, cruelly tugged and caft him into a ditch of one Morrice's, of Nether-Earlham, by Helfdon-bridge, and had there flain him, had not his fervant couragiously defended him from their infults (a); however, he could not free him from their hands, but they carried him with them, and imprisoned him in Surrey-houfe, on Mousehold-hill, by Norwich. He had two wives; firft, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Ratcliff, Knt. and fecondly, Elizabeth, daughter of John Drury, of Besthorpe, in Norfolk, Efq; by the first, he had four fons, and four daughters; 1. Thomas. 2. Sir William, who was viceadmiral (b) of the English fleet, being knighted for his valiant acts, done in the aforefaid battle of Mufelburgh, and after his return, became a man of much repute in his country (c); in 1, 2, Phil. and Mary, he was elected knight of the fhire, with Nicholas Leftrange, and 4, 5,P. M. with Sir Henry Bedingfield, he served alfo for the county, anno 1 Eliz. with Nicholas Leftrange, aforefaid, and again, in the fifth of that queen, with Sir Edward Warner, Knt. 3. George; and 4. John Wodehouse, buried at Kimberley, March 18, 1579. The daughters were, 1. Amy (d), married to Ralph Shelton, Efq; fecond fon of Sir John. 2. Ánne, (e) who first married Sir Thomas Ragland, Knt. and secondly, Chriftopher Coningsby, Efq; who was killed at Muffelburghfield (f), only fon of Sir William Coningsby, of Walington, in Norfolk, Knt. and grandfon to Sir Humphry Coningsby, Knt. Lord chief-juftice. 3. Jane, married first, to Levens, and secondly, to W. Mafon; and 4. Elizabeth, married to William Moor, and was buried at Kimberley, 1563. By his fecond lady, (who furvived him) he had only one daughter, Urfula, married to the eldeft fon of Sir Thomas Cotton, of in Kent, Knt. Roger, was buried in (g) Kimberley-church, Feb. 10, 1560. Sir 19. Thomas Wodehoufe, Efq; eldeft fon of Sir Roger, in 1. P. and M. was (b) high-fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, which office he ferved again, in 5 Eliz. and in 4 and 5 P. and M._and 1 Eliz. (a) This fervant's name was Edgerly, and Sir Roger fettled on him and his heirs, forty pounds per ann. which his defcendants enjoy'd till lately, when the laft of them died: the estate lay in Runhall. Mr. Blomefield's Norfolk, p. 760. (b) Sir John Heyward, in viti Ed. VI. p. 15. (c) From the lift of parliament men for Norf. collected from the Parl. Roils, and communicated by Browne Willis, Efq; (d) Le Neve's MSS, vol. I. p. 40. (f) Chauncy's Hertford p. 463. (b) From a roll of the sheriffs, &c. (e) Ibid. (g) Regr. Byrcham int. 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