Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . but Eurofe her felfe is obliged, forhis induftry, coft, and care in coUedion of fo many rareManufcripts and other Monuments of venerable Anti-quity, being of the fame moft free and communicatiue,to all men of learning and quality. He beareth Sable,a Cheueronbetweene three CinquefoilesErmine^ a Canton dexter ofVlfter, as hee is Baronet,by thename oiWoodhoufe. This Coatthus borne, did belong to SirFhillif Woodhoufe, Knight andBaronet, of Kimherly in theCounty of Norfolke: thisfamily is very ancient, forthey were Gentlemen of goodranke in the time of King lohn
Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . but Eurofe her felfe is obliged, forhis induftry, coft, and care in coUedion of fo many rareManufcripts and other Monuments of venerable Anti-quity, being of the fame moft free and communicatiue,to all men of learning and quality. He beareth Sable,a Cheueronbetweene three CinquefoilesErmine^ a Canton dexter ofVlfter, as hee is Baronet,by thename oiWoodhoufe. This Coatthus borne, did belong to SirFhillif Woodhoufe, Knight andBaronet, of Kimherly in theCounty of Norfolke: thisfamily is very ancient, forthey were Gentlemen of goodranke in the time of King lohn, as it appeareth by manyancient Grants and Evidences of theirs, which I havefeene. Moreover, I find out of a faire parchment Manu-fcript in French, or colledtion of the parliaments all thetime of Ed-w. the third (which my honoured and worthyfriend Sir Robert Cotton hath) and in the fourth yeere ofhis raigne, at a Parliament to be holden at Weflmlnfter,a writ thus direfted to one Robert de Woodhoufe, hisChaplaine and Treafurer. Rex. 198 The PraSiice of Blazonry. Rex dileElo clerlco fuo Roberto de Wodhoufe, Archtdiaconode Richmund Thefaurario fuo falutem. Negotia nos & fiatumre^i contingentia^ &c. vobis mandamut firmlter mjungentesquod omnibus alijs pratermijjis, &c. Befide I have feenethe Will of King Henry the fourth, and Henry the fifth,where one was a Gentleman of Henry the fourthsChamber, and by his Will made one of his Executors, asalfo hee was to Henry the fifth, who wrote his Letter tothe Prior, and Chapter of the Church of the Trinitie inNorwkii, to give him leave to build himfelfe a Chappellin their Church. So that from time to time, they haveheld anHonourableplace, and at this day are worthyftayesand pillars of luftice in their Countries, Nor muft I herelet fall the worth of two fonnes of this Gentleman, SirThomas Woodhoufe Knight (and Baronet after the deceafeof Sir Vhlllf his father who married Blanch Sifter to theRight Honourable Henry now Vifcount Rochfort) andMaf
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