[637]. Ibid., 6 Elizabeth, Vol. 139.
[638]. Ibid., Series II. (49), Vol. 109.
[639]. Her second husband was Sir Thomas Chaloner.
[640]. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, he “spent the fortune of his family in the pursuit of alchemy.”
[641]. The “Lorde Mountjoye and the Lady Katherine” are mentioned in a mortgage by the former to John Mery, dated 1st February, 1556–7. (Close Roll, 4 and 5, Philip and Mary (547)).
[642]. Close Roll, 7 Eliz. (695).
[643]. Considerable doubt seems to have existed on this point. Side by side with assertions to the contrary, there are plain statements that the mortgage was redeemed (see e.g., Chancery Decree Roll, 54, concerning a complaint by Jas. Mascall against Thomas Harrys and others). Nevertheless it is quite certain that the statement in the text is true, for (1) the recognisance accompanying the mortgage is not cancelled; (2) Blount’s son Charles (afterwards Earl of Devonshire) definitely stated that the manor was not redeemed (Chancery Proceedings, Elizabeth B. 15–52), suit of Charles Blount; (3) the steps by which the manor descended from the Brownes are known.
[644]. Close Roll, 21 Eliz. (1059); Common Plea Roll, 25 Eliz., Hilary, 4010; Close Roll, 34 Eliz. (1425). Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 331) bridges over the gap between Blount and Cope by the supposition that the manor came into the hands of the last-named in consequence of a mortgage to one “Master Cope, citizen of London.” But (1) the mortgage is not of the manor of St. Giles, and (2) the proper reading is not “Cope” but “Rope.”
[645]. He was knighted on 20th April, 1603.
[646]. Close Roll, 14 Jas. I. (2308)—Indenture between Sir Henry Rich, Dame Isabella, and Dame Dorothy Cope and Gifford and Risley.