MACKVVORTH : ITS CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS. 3 



advance their condition, do hereby give them part of our arms of 

 Audeley and Touchet, to have and bear with certain differences, 

 viz. : an escutcheon painted sable and ermine inderited per pale ; 

 thereon a chevron gules frelty, or — of the arms of Audeley, and 

 a crest, viz., a wing plumed, sable and ermine. To have and 

 bear the said arms with such differences as may seem good to 

 them. The said arms to be borne by them and their heirs with- 

 out let or hindrance from our heirs whomsoever they may be 

 for ever. In testimony of which we have hereunto afifixed our 

 seal. Given in our mansion of Markeaton, this first day of 

 August, 1404." 



The Baronetages have asserted that one of the Mackworths 

 was an esquire attendant on James Lord Audeley in the celebrated 

 battle of Poictiers, a statement not supported by any authority, 

 indeed the connection of the Mackworths does not appear to 

 have been with that lord, but with the family of Touchet, which 

 by intermarriage with the heir general of the Lord Audeley, 

 afterwards acquired that title. 



There is another interesting document of John Touchet Lord 

 Audeley, conveying some property in Mackworth to this same 

 John Mackworth, the priest-prebendary of Empingham : — 



" To all by whom these letters shall be seen or heard, John 

 Touchet Lord Audeley saluting. Know ye that we have con- 

 stituted and empowered our beloved Richard Touchet and 

 Edward de la Park to deliver seizin to our very dear and beloved 

 John Mackworth, clerk, of a tenement which we have given to 

 the said John Mackworth, which said tenement is a parcel of 

 The Moorhall in Mackworth, and which tenement William 

 Touchet formerly held, according to the effect and purport of our 

 charter indented, by which we have given to the aforesaid John 

 the aforenamed tenement. 



"We therefore confirm and establish all the aforesaid to 

 Richard and Edward, or one of them, to act in our name 

 touching the livery of the same. 



" In testimony whereof we have affixed our seal. Given this 



