Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” 372; Drummond’s “Noble British Families”; “Guy of Warwick,” ed. Zupitza, Early English Text Society, etc.; Harl. MS., 1167, f. 57; “Dictionary of National Biography.” ↩

“Warwickshire,” p. 374; Drummond’s “Noble British Families”; Leland’s “Itin.,” iv. 63; Heylin’s “History of St. George,” p. 63. ↩

Nichols’s “Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica,” iv. 29. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” 372–374; Drummond’s “Noble British Families”; Cox and Jones’ “Popular Romances of the Middle Ages,” pp. 63, 64, 297–319; Ward’s “Catalogue of Romances in British Museum,” i. 470. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” p. 373. ↩

Drummond’s “Noble British Families,” ii. ↩

Harleian MS., 853, ff. 113, 114. ↩

“Guthmund, Ailwin’s second son, held Pakington under Turchil; his son was Sir Harald de Arden, Lord of Upton” (French, “Shakespeareana Genealogica,” p. 432). ↩

According to Dugdale and Drummond; Harleian MS., 853, differs. ↩

Ralph and William are witnesses to a charter from Henry de Clinton to Kenilworth Priory, Henry I. (“Monasticon,” vi. 3). ↩

Hugh de Arden and Adela; William de Arden and Agnes were witness to Henry’s gifts (“Monasticon,” v. 210–212). ↩

Philip, Osbert’s second son, who took the name of Compton (Drummond; Dugdale’s, ‘Warwickshire,’ 549). ↩

Novoborgo: or and az., er. Thomas Arden de Rotley: or and az., gu. A fesse betwixt 6 cross-crosslets or—Beauchamp. The Warwickshire Visitation gives the coat of Sir Herald de Arden as three cross-crosslets fitchée and a chief or. See Drummond, p. 5. ↩

Whalley’s “Northampton,” p. 464; Baker’s “Northampton”; “Parliamentary Roll of Arms,” 862. “Sire … Ilm de Arderne … de ermyne a une fesse chekere dor e de aszure” (Genealogist, New Series, xiii.). I do not know which William this refers to. ↩

He married Isabella, daughter of Sir Roger Mortimer of Chirk. She afterwards married John Fitzalan (Berry’s “Essex Genealogies”). ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” p. 927. ↩

“This lady seems to have married for a third time. Robert de Wyckham sued Thomas Wake and Nicholaa, his wife, and Giles de Arderne for the next presentation to the church of Swalclyve. Robert, father of plaintiff, had given the advowson to John de Arderne, and John had enfeoffed Robert de Wyckham and Elizabeth his wife. Nicholaa had been married to Robert de Arderne” (Genealogist, New Series, ix.). ↩

See Visitation, 1619. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” p. 928; Harleian MS., 1992, f. 121, “The Ancient Family of Arderne.” Ralph died 8 Henry V. ↩

17 Blamyr. ↩

Walter Arden’s son-in-law. ↩

The decision of the residence of this Thomas would solve a knotty question. ↩

Leland’s “Itinerary,” vi. 20. See also admin. of goods, granted to his sister Alice Buklond and his nephew John, son of Sir John. ↩

Patent 17 Henry VII., February 22, second part, mem. 30. ↩

Same series, September 9, mem. 35. ↩

Patents 23 Henry VIII., September 24, first part, mem. 12. ↩

Pat. Henry VIII., p. 1, m. 16. ↩

Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., Gairdner. ↩

Bedfordshire Visitation, 1566. (See Glover.) There was in Edward VI.’s reign a William Arderne, Clerk of the Market of Struton Oskellyswade, Bedford (Est. of Office, Edward VI. to Elizabeth). And in the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber there are mentioned among the “Extraordinary Yeomen of the Guard, 1570,” “William Arden and his son Robert Arden.” ↩

Somerset House, 8 Porch. ↩

The name Collins appears in connection with the Ardens in Wiltshire also. ↩

See Visitation of Worcester, 1569: “Richard Muklowe of Hodon, Worcestershire, married Katherine, daughter of John Arden.” The Gloucester Visitation records that Richard Cotton of Sedenton, married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Arden of Park Hall, sister of Thomas. ↩

Commissary Wills, Somerset House, 31^a Clyffe. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire.” ↩

“Stratford-on-Avon Miscell. Papers,” see p. 410, Genealogical Magazine, 1897. He was also trustee in a settlement made by Sir John Arden of Park Hall, in association with Sir Richard Empson and others. See Petition of Simon Arden, p. 184. ↩

It is curious that in a will of Sir William Trussel of Cublesdon, 1379, there is a bequest mentioned as having been made to him by his “cousin Sir Thomas d’Ardene” (Sir N. H. Nicolas, “Testamenta Vetusta,” i. 107). ↩

Glover’s “Heraldry,” vol. ii., ed. 1780. ↩

Fuller’s “Worthies.” ↩

7 Alen. Inquis. P.M. at Warwick, June 27, 37 Henry VIII., Edward, son and heir, aged twelve. ↩

See Close Roll, 32 Henry VI., m. 11. Saltley came into the family with Elizabeth Clodshalle (who married Robert Arden in the time of Henry VI.), and remained in it till the death of Robert Arden, 1643, when it fell to the share of his sister Anne. ↩

By some family arrangement, the old family seat of Pedmore seems to have been settled on him, as he was always styled Francis Arden of Pedmore. ↩

Anne married John Barnesley of Barnesley (see Visitation of Worcester, 1569); Bridget, Hugh Massey; Barbara, Richard Neville, son of the last Lord Latimer, and claimant of that title and the earldom of Westmorland; Joyce, John Ladbrooke. Was this Jane Arden the lady of this name who married into the Brownlow family about 1553? See Pedigree of Brownlow. ↩

“Originalia et Memoranda.” Lord Treasurer’s side of the Exchequer, Hilarii Recorda, 7 Elizabeth, Rot. 82. ↩

Ibid., Hilarii Recorda, 15 Elizabeth, Rot. 55. ↩

Coke’s “Entries,” f. 39b. ↩

In an account of the Grevilles, when the eldest son still resided at Drayton, it is noted: “Though a great part of the Lands of Sir Giles Arden came to Lewis Greville through his wife, yet there is one Arden at this time in Warwickshire that is a man of three hundred marks land by the yeare.” Addit. MS., 5937, f. 88, British Museum. ↩

See “Liber Pacis,” Eg. MS., 2345. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” 884, 927. ↩

See Athenæum, Feb., 1896, p. 190, and my little volume on “Shakespeare’s Warwickshire Contemporaries” (Stratford-on-Avon Press), p. 48. ↩

State Papers, Dom. Series, Elizabeth, clxiii., 21 et seq. ↩

Accounts of Treasurer of the Chamber, 1583–84. ↩

Burke makes an extraordinary error in stating that Shakespeare’s mother was a daughter of Sir Edward Arden, of Park Hall (“Hist. Landed Gentry,” edition 1882, vol. i., p. 34). Now, Edward was never knighted, and must have been born about the same year as Mary, daughter of Robert Arden, who married John Shakespeare. ↩

The Accounts of the Wardens of the Tower mention Francis Arden’s board, up to June 24, 1585, and he sued shortly after for Pedmore, on the death of Sir George Digby, to whom it had been granted (State Papers, Dom. Series, Elizabeth, ccii., 40). ↩

State Papers, Dom. Series, Elizabeth, clxxi. 35; also Patents, Elizabeth, 28, c. 10. ↩

Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” 927. I find also several pensions allowed by the Crown to a Robert Arden, early in James I. These may refer to Robert of Park Hall (Book of Patents, xi. 212). ↩

Inventory of his property is at Lichfield, where also is that of his wife, Lady Dorothy Arden, 1635–36, and will of his son, Robert Arden. ↩

Ashmolean MSS., 36, f. 125: “Robert Arden, Colonel and Sheriff of Warwickshire.” An elegy upon his death in Oxford of small-pox, August 22, 1643: “Seeing these tapers and this solemn night,” etc. Signed, “Peter Halstead.” ↩

She was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to the Queen-mother, and survived her husband. See the burial of her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Maria Stanhope, October 23, 1674. ↩