ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 19 



After our partie comendacons according to the contents 

 of your tres r the gent therein authorized by you have 

 concluded with us for sutch sorts of provision for her 

 Mamies housholde, and for sutch pportion therof as by 

 our indifferent care with the addition of these instruc- 

 tions wee have thought meete your shire to be 

 apportioned wherupon it remaineth that by your 

 Lordships aforesaid and the reste, the Queenes high- 

 ness shalbe well satissfied, and your country in- 

 differently dealt withall, suche shall cause the paynes 

 on all pts to be thought well bestowed. And so we 

 comitt you to the tuition of thalmighte from the 

 Courte the xxijth of Marche, 1574. 



Yo Lo: to Comande, 



ffra: knollys: Ja: Crofte: Richarde Warde:*, 



Anthony Crane. 



* Richard Warde. "Cofferer" or Sub- treasurer to the Court. M.P. 

 for Windsor in the Parliaments of 1547-53-53-54-54, and for the county of 

 Berks, in the Parliament of 1571. He was high-sheriff of Berkshire, 

 33 Elizabeth, 1590. The Wards, a Yorkshire family, were of Hurst in this 

 county, the manor of which was granted in 1539 to Richard Ward and his 

 wife Ann. In the church of Hurst there is a monument in Pnrbeck marble 

 with enriched canopy, and panels bearing shields of arms, to Richard Ward, 

 " the Cofferer," and on the upper brass a group representing Warde himself, and 

 his eight sons behind him, all kneeling ; and underneath the epitaph in latin 

 verses, which has thus been rendered : 



" Life flies, and Ward is dead ; but mourn him not, 

 One who so well has lived, true life has got, 

 Of honoured race he wan, a Christian true, 

 And God to please, his study all life through ; 

 So his Lord loved him, and His blessings poured 

 On all he had, his home with blessings stored. 

 To Henry, Edward, Mary, Great Elizabeth, 

 Sub-Treasurer he was, faithful in love till death ; 

 Yes, faithful to them all, and so by each beloved, 

 Ne'er by base thought of gain for self, or kindred, moved. 

 Godly he was in life ; in death the same ; 

 Through death, true life to him, eternal, came ; 

 And with Colubra joined him, ne'er to part ; 

 Their grave, their rest, was one, as ever was their heart." 



On the left of the monument there is a similar group of females, with 

 evidently the wife of the singular Christian name of Colnbra, kneeling also 

 with her eight daughters. Above is a slip of brass with the words, "Colubra 

 Ward dyed the 14tn day of April, 1574. Alse, eldest daughter of Richard 

 Ward and Colnbra his wife, became the wife of Thomas Harrison, and was the 

 mother of Sir Richard Harrison, the father of Sir Richard Harrison, knight, 

 the ever loyal and faithful supporter of Charles I. She died in childbed of her 

 first son, and over the inscription on her gravestone is a small brass with the 

 figure of the poor lady in her bed, curious as giving the fonn and decoration 

 of a bed of that date, with posts and curtains. Thomas Howard, third earl of 

 Berkshire, married Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Harrison, of Hurst, and 

 their eldest daughter Frances, became the wife of Sir Henry Winchcombe, 



