Lord John Fines and the Lord Nathaniel Fines, one of his Highnesse Honourable Counsell, and Commissioner of the Great Seal 1658.

William Fiennes, created by James I. Lord Viscount Say and Seele, thought of coming to America, but was deterred by observing the strength and temper of the Long Parliament. Cromwell appointed him one of his Upper House, but he retired to the Isle of Lundy, and lived there during the Protectorate.

Charles II. made him a Privy Councillor and Lord Privy Seal. He died April 14, 1662, aged eighty. His brother Charles Fines signed the letter aboard the "Arbella " April 7, 1630, but never came to this country. Sir Richard Saltonstall1 was h's kinsman.

His son Nathaniel Fiennes was one of Oliver's lords, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, inclined to the Independents. Being governor for Parliament of Bristol in 1642, he surrendered it to the royalists after only a day's siege, for which he was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death, but was pardoned. He was Lord Keeper to both Oliver and Richard. Died at Newton-Toney, near Salisbury, Dec. 16, 1669, much neglected and in great obscurity.2

"Nathaniel Fiennes, alias Fines, alias Fenys, as he was once called when condemned to be shot for surrendering Bristol; second son of 'Old Subtlety' Say & Seele; and now" again (11 April 1657)" a busy man and Lord Keeper, opens his broad jaw and short snub-face full of hard sagacity."

His third son, John Fiennes, was also one of Oliver's lords.3

p. 192. Mildmay. He beareth, Argent, three Lyons Rampant, Azure, which is the coat of Mildmay of Essex, a flourishing and very worthy family.

William Mildmay, who graduated at Harvard in 1647, was a son of Sir Henry Mildmay of Graces, in Essex, who was own cousin to our Governor John Winthrop, being the second son

1 Young's Chronicles of Mass. p. 298; Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 377; Nugent's Memorials of Hampden, vol. ii. p. 26.

2 Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 371; Harleian Mis. vol. vi. p. 489; Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden, vol. ii. p. 29 (with portrait); Carlyle's Cromwell, vol. ii. p. 287.

3 Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 402; Harleian Mis. vol. vi. p. 503.

of Sir Thomas Mildmay, Knt., of Springfield Barnes, and of Agnes (according to Burke) or Alice (according to Whitmore) Winthrop, daughter of Adam (2d) Winthrop. The father of Sir Thomas was William, of Springfield Barnes, who married Agnes (Sharpe) Winthrop, widow of Adam 2d.

Sir Henry Mildmay the Regicide was second cousin to Sir Henry of Graces, being the son (according to Burke) of Humphrey of Danbury, and grandson of Walter of Apethorpe,1 brother of William of Springfield Barnes aforesaid. (Noble says he was son of Sir Thomas by Frances, daughter of Henry Ratcliff, Earl of Sussex.) Though he sat in the High Court seven days, he was not executed, but condemned to stand under the gallows with a rope about his neck. Pepys saw the sled waiting to take him there one Monday morning. Savage says that William (H. C., 1647) "ranked lowest in his class, yet had his A.M. in regular course," as if he supposed that rank was then according to scholarship, not social position, as Sibley says.2 If Sibley is right, it gives an exalted idea of the social position of the members of the class of 1647 to find the son of an English country gentleman of ancient family and knightly rank lowest on the list.3

p. 192. Hon. John Lisle. He beareth, Topaz, on a Chief Saphire, three Lyons Rampant of the first. This is the coat of the right honourable John Lisle, Commissioner of the great Seale of England 1658.

Of the family of John de Insula Vecta (of the Isle of Wight); summoned by that name to the House of Lords in the reign of King Edward II.; son of Sir William Lisle, of the Isle of Wight, Knt., bred to the law; sat for Winchester 15th and 16th Charles I.; became a colonel in the army, and sat in the High Court of Justice at the trial of the king. Noble says he signed the death-warrant, but I do not find his name in Rushworth's list. He was president of Cromwell's High Court of Justice and one of his lords; retired to the

1 Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and of the Exchequer, founder in 1584 of Emmanuel College; died May 31, 1589 (Burke says wrongly 1576). Wilson's Memorabilia Cantabrigiæ, p. 286; Tercentenary Festival of Emmanuel, p. 57.

2 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. vol. viii. p. 32.

69;

Burke's

8 Savage's Gen Dict. "Mildmay;" Noble's Regicides, vol. ii. p. Peerage and Baronage (ed. 1881), "Mildmay;" Drake's Boston, p. 72; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. vol. xviii. p. 182; Pepys, vol. ii. p. 187.

Continent, was proscribed, and his estates confiscated. Three Irish ruffians shot him dead as he was going to church at Lausanne.

His widow, the Lady Alicia Lisle, was tried by Jeffries in 1685 for concealing persons concerned in Monmouth's Rebellion, and sentenced to be hung, but "in respect of her gentility" was only beheaded.

His daughter Bridget married the Rev. Leonard Hoar, President of Harvard College.1

p. 193. Sprignall. He beareth, Gules, two Bars Gemelles, in Chief a Lyon Passant, Or, which was the Coat of Sir Richard Sprignall of Highgate in the County of Middlesex, Baronet, late deceased, Father of Sir Robert Sprignall, Baronet, living 1659.

This coat was "exploded" probably because Sir Richard Sprignall married Ann, daughter of Sir Michael Livesey the Regicide, as stated in Noble's "Lives of the Regicides," vol. ii. p. 5, where Sir Richard Sprignall is said to be of Coppenthorpe in Yorkshire, and to have been created baronet by Charles I. in 1641.

This coat reappears in the sixth edition of Guillim, p. 171, and is said there to have been granted in 1639.

p. 193. Steele. He beareth, Or, a Bend, Compony, Ermine & Sable, between two Lyons heads erased, Sable, on a Chief of the last three Billets, Argent, and is the bearing of the Right Honorable William Steele late Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and now Lord Chancellor of the Kingdome of Ireland.

One of Oliver's lords.2

p. 199. Disborow. He beareth, Argent, a Fesse between three Bears heads couped, Sable, mufled, Or, which is the Coat of the Honourable Lord John Disborow, one of his Highnesse Privy Counsell, and Generall at Sea, and Major Generall of the West.

Cromwell's well-known brother-in-law and one of his lords.3

1 Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 373; Harleian Mis. vol. vi. p. 494; Noble's Lives of the Regicides, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. vol. viii. 4th series, p. 571, note; vol. v. 5th series, p. 104; vol. vi. 5th series, p. 8*.

p. 224. Whitlock. He beareth, Azure, a Cheuron engrailed, between three Falcons or Sparhawks, Or. This is the Coat Armour of the Right Honorable Bulstrode Whitlock, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, And now of the Treasureship of his Highnesse, 1658.

This is Carlyle's "learned" Bulstrode, "dull" Bulstrode, "whose qualities are always fat and good." One of Oliver's lords; author of "Memorials of English Affairs," "Journal of the Swedish Embassy," etc.1

p. 225. Sleigh. He beareth, Gules, a Cheuron embattiled, between three Owles, Argent, by the name of Sleigh of London, and was the Coat of Edmund Sleigh, Sheriff of London, 1654, whose Widow is now wife of the Honourable John Ireton Lord Mayor.

This connection accounts for the "explosion" of the

coat.

p. 228. Christmas. He beareth, Gules, on a Fesse counter battilee, Or, three Choughs, Proper, by the name of Christmas, and is the Coatarmour of William and Robert Christmas of London Merchant Adventurers.

Possibly one of these was Pepys's old schoolfellow :

"Here dined with us two or three more country gentlemen; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old schoolfellow, with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be The memory of the wicked shall rot'); but I found afterwards that he did go away from school before that time." " 2

p. 256. Wheeler. He beareth, Or, a Cheuron between three Leopards heads, Sable, by the name of Wheeler, and is the coat of Sir William Wheeler, knighted by Oliver, late Lord Protector 25 Aug.

1657.

Member in the Long Parliament for Westbury; created a baronet Aug. 11, 1660, being then member for Queenborough. He occurs several times in Pepys, - Lord Sandwich trying

1 Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 385; Harleian Mis. vol. vi. p. 494.

2 Pepys (Bright's ed.), vol. i. p. 267.

to borrow money of him, dining with him, etc. This coat reappears in the sixth edition of Guillim, p. 260.1

p. 293. Clepole. He beareth, Topaz, a Cheuron, Saphire, between three Heurts. This is the Coat of Sir John Clepole, Knight and Baronet, Clerk of the Haniper, Father of John Clepole, Esquire, Master of the Horse, who marryed Elizabeth, Second Daughter of Oliver, late Lord Protector.

Husband of Oliver's favorite daughter; an inoffensive man; was not disturbed after the Restoration, and lived until 1688.

This coat was granted in 1588 to James Claypole, then a yeoman; reappears in the sixth edition of Guillim, p. 357, and is borne now by the Clepoles of Norborough.3

None of the exploded coats are in the third edition of Guillim; three reappear in the sixth edition; and all, except Thurloe, are in Burke's "General Armory" (edition of 1843) as borne by families of their respective names, — Sherman, Steele, and Christmas, with slight differences.

To the eighteen should, I think, be added the following, although in the Society's copy it appears; but on a second page 115, uncolored, and evidently inserted by accident, the name being also omitted from the Index.

p. 115. Haynes. He beareth, Argent, three Crescents parted paly wavy Gules, Azure, by the name of Haynes which Family is not a little splendid by the actions of two persons of it, Father and Son, whose conduct and management of their commands at Jamaica where the noble Colonel unfortunately though honorably fell, and lately at Dunkirke, by the Son, may not sleep in oblivion.

Major-General Haynes was second in command at Jamaica. He was killed in action April 26, 1655. "During the action. he was at one time engaged with no less than eight of the enemy, one of whom he slew, and desperately wounded the rest. A little before his death he cried out that if only six brave follows would stand by him, he would soon force the enemy to retreat. But not a man came to his assistance, and, having

1 Noble's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 444; Pepys (Bright's ed.), vol. iii. pp. 107, 118, 121, 180, 181, 228.

"Heurt" in "Whortleberry." (Guillim.)

@ Noble's Cromwell, vol. ii. p. 370; Pepys (Bright's ed.), vol. i. p. 224.