ADDITIONS. 217 



In short, this family of the Aylmers of Ireland is related 

 to the noblest and best houses in the counties of Meath, 

 Dublin, and Kildare; as the Lutterels, the Fitz-Geralds, 

 the Fitz-Moris, Cusacks, Dillons, Fitz-Simons, Piphos, Chi- 

 vers, Plunkets, Flemmings, Husseys, and others. And 

 Camden, reckoning up the best families of English extrac- In his Bri- 

 tion in Meath, specifies the Fitz-Geralds, the Ougans, tai 

 De la Hides, Walshes, Boisels, Whites, Suttons, and 

 among the rest the Aylmers. 



Numb. VIII. Pag. 130. 



THAT unequal marriage, for the solemnizing whereof a The stolen 

 licence was obtained out of the Bishop s Faculty Office, was t }, e Lady 

 mentioned to have been complained of at Court, and occa- Dorothy 

 sioned blame to the Bishop. The particulars of it, omitted with sir 

 in the history, were as follow. The parties were 

 Thomas Parrot and the Lady Dorothy Devereux, daughter 

 to the Earl of Essex, of right noble and ancient blood : 

 which lady at that time lived with Sir Henry Cock, Kt. 

 in the parish of Broxburn in Hertfordshire : where, getting 

 into the parish church, they were married by a strange 

 Minister, whom they had procured, two men guarding the 

 church door with their swords and daggers under their 

 cloaks, as the rest of the company had, to the number of 

 five or six. One Green was then Vicar of the parish, to 

 whom that morning repaired two persons. One of them 

 told him that he was a Minister, and a Bachelor of Divi 

 nity, and had been a Preacher of long time ; and asked him 

 for the key of the church door, which must be opened to 

 him, for he had a commission, whereupon he was to examine 

 certain men, and to swear them : and therefore asked him also 

 for the Communion Book. The Vicar told him it was locked 

 up in the vestry, and he could not come by it : but instead 

 thereof he offered him a Latin Testament. But the other 

 said, that would not serve his turn. Coming to the church 

 he found it open, and Sir Thomas and the lady ready to 



