[23] More.
[24] "Continuation," from Hall and Hollinshead's Chronicles.
[25] "Continuation," from Hall and Hollinshead's Chronicles.
[27] Sir William Cheney, Chief Justice of England, had summons to Parliament among the barons of the realm,—4, 5 and 6 Henry VI., 1426-8. (Hasted.) Query if the Sir William who died 1443. His name does not appear among the extinct peerages. In the church of "Saint Michaels Pater-noster in the old Royall," Weever notes the following inscription:—"Prey of yowr cherete for the souls of Agnes Cheyney, wydow, late wyff vnto William Cheney, somtym Esquyr for the Body vnto King Harry the seuenth. Whyche Agnes dyed the fyfteenth day of July in the yere of our Lord God on thowsand four hundred eyghty and seven. And for the souls of William Cheyney, Robert Molyneux, and Robert Sheryngton her husbands, and all Cristen souls."
[28] Among the "Knightes made at the landinge of Kinge Henry the Seventh at Mylforde Haven," fourth on the list occurs Sir John Cheney. His arms are thus given,—Quarterly 1 and 4, Azure, six lioncels rampant argent, a canton ermine; 2 and 3, Ermine, a chief per pale indented or and gules, in the dexter side a rose of the last (Shotisbrooke). Crest, Two bull's horns argent, separated from the scalp, roots or, "fixed to the mantels without torce." (Metcalfe's Book of Knights.) recapitulated here. Our hero has special traditional fame connected with the fray, if not of the most fortunate kind, as will be seen.
[29] "Sr Henry Cheyny, now Lorde Cheyny, called by wrytte to the Parlement holden at Westmr. anno ... (knighted by the Queen's own hand 1563.) Arms, quarterly of seventeen:—1. Azure, six lioncels rampant, three and three, argent, a canton ermine (Cheney).—2. Ermine, on the dexter side of a chief, per pale indented or and gules, a rose of the last.—3. Argent, a chevron between three mullets gules.—4. Argent, three blackamoors' faces sable.—5. Sable, a chevron ermine, between three bird-bolts argent.—6. Argent, on a chevron gules, three fleurs-de-lys or (Peyvre).—7. Quarterly argent and gules, a bend of the second.—8. Quarterly per fess indented or and azure.—9. Gules, a bend vaire, between six escallops or.—10. Sable, a saltire engrailed argent.—11. Argent, on a cross azure, five escallops or.—12. Barry of six argent and sable.—13. Argent, a horse-barnacle sable.—14. Gules, a fess dancetté between six cross-crosslets or.—15. Or, a cross engrailed vert.-16. Azure, two lions passant guardant in pale or.—17. Argent, on a chevron sable, a fleur-de-lys of the field. Crest:—An heraldic tiger statant vert bezanté, ducally gorged and lined or." (Metcalfe's Book of Knights.)
[30] "Here (Tunbridge, Kent,) sometime lay entombed the bodies of Hugh de Audley, second son of Nicholas, Lord Audley of Heleigh Castle, in the county of Stafford, who was created Earle of Gloucester by King Edward the third. This Hugh died 10 November 1347. His wife Margaret (first married to Pierce Gaveston Earle of Cornwall) dyed before him in the yeare of our Lord 1342, the 13 day of Aprill. They were both together sumptuously entombed by Margaret their daughter, the onely heire of her parents, wife to Ralph de Stafford, Earle of Stafford. The said Ralph de Stafford and Margaret his wife, were here likewise entombed at the feet of their father and mother, this Ralph by the marriage of his wife Margaret, writ himself in his charters and deeds, Baron of Tunbridge. Hee died 31 August, 1372, Margaret his wife dyed 7 September, 1349." (Weever.)
[31] Query, if the fine effigies of a knight and lady in Kings-Carswell church in south Devon do not represent this Sir John Dinham and his first wife, Maud Maltravers. The Knight has the arms of Dinham on his surcoat, and the shields on the tomb below display Dinham impaling a fret or fretté. There is another interesting effigy of a lady in the same church, that may possibly be intended for the second wife of Sir John Dinham who was a daughter of John, Lord Lovel.