Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.

IV. The base Issue of Hugh Cyveliok.

PAganus, Dominus de Milton, whom I have seen Witness to a Deed, Subscribed thus,—Filius Bastardus Hugonis Comitis Cestriae.

Roger, Witness to a Deed of his Brother Randles, to the Abbey of St. Werburge, whom I conceive was a Bastard.

Amicia, the Wife of Raufe Manwaring, sometime Judge of Chester; to whom Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester, her Father, gave in libero maritagio servitium Willielmi Filii Rogeri: scilicèt servitium trium militum; faciendo sibi servitium duorum militum, as the words of the original Deed do run, now in the possession of Sir Thomas Manwaring of Over Pever, Baronet.

Also another base Daughter, as I conceive, Married one Bacun, and had Issue Richard Bacun, Founder of the Priory of Roucester in Staffordshire, about the Reign of King John, for the safety of his Soul, and the Soul of his Uncle, Randle Earl of Chester. Monasticon, Part 2. pag. 267.

And here I cannot but mislike the boldness and ignorance of that Herald, who gave to Manwaring of Pever the Quartering of the Earl of Chester's Coat of Arms: which Device was never done before the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the time of Sir Randle Manwaring, late of Pever, the elder, my Grandfather by the Mother: for if he ought of right to Quarter that Coat, then must he be Descended from a Coheir to the Earl of Chester; but that he was not: for the Coheirs of Earl Hugh, as you see before, were Married to four of the greatest Peers of the Kingdom, the Earl of Huntington, the Earl of Arundel, the Earl of Derby, and the Earl of Winchester's Son and Heir, who lived not to be Earl: Neither was Manwaring then an equal Competitor, to have Married a Co∣heir to the Earl of Chester. And it is plain, ex placitis 18 Hen. 3. Rot. 14. in the Tower of London, where the Coheirs Implead John the Scot, Earl of Chester, for their part, there is no mention of Amice claiming any part, or any from or under her, in the Re∣cord. Besides, all ancient Authors of those Times, as Polychronicon, Matthew Paris, Knighton, Stowe, and others, would not have omitted her among the rest which they have set down, had she been a Coheir; which also she must needs have been, had she been legitimate: for Hugh Cyvelioc never had any other Wife but Bertred, and she sur∣vived him.

And though Amice in the Deed before mentioned is stiled—Filia Hugonis Comitis, without the addition or note of Bastard, it was very usual in those elder Ages so to do. The like we find of Geva, base Daughter of Hugh Lupus, and several others.

V. Concerning this Bertred, the Wife of Hugh Cyveliok, I cannot omit the Falsi∣ties and Absurdities of some Authors, as Powel on the Welsh History, pag. 295. and Ferne in his Lacy's Nobility, pag. 53. both of them calling this Bertred by the Name of Beatrix, and saying she was the Daughter of Richard Lucy, Chief Justice of England; a most gross Falsity. I am very certain that Hugh Cyvelioc's Wife was not Daughter of Lucy, nor ever called Beatrix in any old Deed or Record; though I find by good Au∣thority that there was a Woman called Beatrix Lucy, but never Wife of Earl Hugh.