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which belonged to the good king Edward, with Ood's blessing and 

 ours ; and we will, that after the decease of our said son, the afore- 

 said cup, sword, and a large horn of gold, remain to his next heir, 

 and after him to his heirs for ever. Also, our large bed of black 

 satin, embroidered with white lions and gold roses, with escutcheons 

 of the arms of Mortimer and Ulster ; also, a silver salt-cellar, in 

 the shape of a dog, and our best gold horn, with the belt ; and if 

 our said son die before he is of full age, and without heirs of his 

 body, then we will, that the said things remain to our son Edraond, 

 with the like conditions. To our said son Edmond, three hundred 

 marks of land. To our daughter Elizabeth, a salt-cellar, in the 

 shape of a dog, a gold cup, and two hundred pearls. To our 

 daughter Philippa, a coronet of gold, with stones, and two hundred 

 pearls,'' &c. 



The issue of Edmond was, Roger, fifth Earl of March and 

 second Earl of Ulster ; Sir Edmond de IMortiraer ; Elizabeth, wife 

 of Henry, eldest son and heir of Henry de Percy, Earl of Nor- 

 thumberland; and Philippa, married first to John de Hastings, 

 Earl of Pembroke ; next, to Richard, Earl of Arundel ; and thirdly, 

 to the Lord John de St. John ; all of whom are spoken of in his 

 will. 



Of this Roger, an historian attached to the family has furnished 

 some particulars in a MS. entitled Prioratus de Wygmore funda- 

 tionis et fundatorum historia.* He was born at Usk, in Mon- 

 mouthshire, 11th of April, 1374, and baptised, on the following 

 Sunday, by William Courtney, Bishop of Hereford ; his sponsors 

 being Roger Cradock, Bishop of LlandafF, Thomas Horton, Abbot 

 of Gloucester, and the Prioress of Usk. His father dying at Cork, 

 during his government of Ireland, in 1381, left him a minor, under 

 the legal guardianship of Richard II. The minions of the court 

 immediately applied to be admitted into the profits of his estates 

 during his minority, and the king too readily consented to the 

 request, and angrily dismissed his honest chancellor. Sir Richard 

 Scroope, who had opposed them.t The trust was afterwards, for a 

 pecuniary consideration, vested in more responsible persons ; J and 

 those into whose hands it fell do not appear to have abused 

 it. When Roger Mortimer came of age, he found that his 

 rights had been duly respected, according to the provisions of the 



• Quoted by Dugdale in his Monasticon, voL i., p. 228. 

 -|- Walsingham. 



X The joint farmers who held his estates were, the Earls of Arundel, 

 Warwick, and Northumberland — Cot. Lib., MS. Titus, B. xi., f. 7. 



