allowed to fall into American hands,1 and it has not therefore been practicable for me to consult them. How much it has been possible to achieve appears in the following pages. And I purpose to continue the narrative, in two more volumes, to the death of Sir Francis Bernard's youngest child. For this second portion the materials are more ample, though occasionally defective. In the meantime my thanks are due to all those who have given me help; their names, in most cases, will be found recorded in the notes to these volumes. Some, at least, of these friends have passed away, but a tribute is due to their memory. NETHER WINCHENDON: November 1902. SOPHIA ELIZABETH HIGGINS. [The papers of Governor Bernard, thirteen volumes, are in the Sparks MSS., in Harvard College Library. Vols. i.-viii. are letter-books, 1758-72; ix.-xii., correspondence, 1758-79; xiii., orders and instructions, 1758-61. Sparks bought them in London in 1846.-Ed.'] This is a note to 'The Royal Governors,' by George Edward Ellis, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Winsor's Memorial History of Boston, vol. ii. ch. ii. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME THE BERNARDS OF WANFORD, ISELHAM, AND ABINGTON Godfrey Bernard-The Bernard Armorial Bearings-St. Bernard of Clair- vaux-Tomb of Godfrey Bernard-The Bernards of Iselham-Robert Bernard-Sir Nicholas Lillyng-Marriage of Robert Bernard-Thomas Bernard-Death of Sir Nicholas Lillyng-Tomb of Robert Bernard- His Children-Memorials of the Bernards in Iselham Church-Thomas Bernard-Thomas Bernard, Vicar of Patteshall-Sir John Bernard of Abington and his Wife, Margaret Scrope-The Battle of Northampton THE BERNARDS OF ABINGTON (continued) Marriage of John Bernard-The Daundelyns-New Quarterings-John Bernard's Tudor Mansion-Death of John Bernard-Marriage of his son John and Cicely Muscote-Christopher Beaufew-Daughters in the Bernard Pedigree-Eleanor, Prioress of Little Marlow and St. Mary de Pratis-Children of John and Cicely Bernard-Dorothy Bernard-John Mauntell of Heyford-Deaths of John and Cicely Bernard-Francis Bernard and his Wife, Alice Haslewood-The Manor of Brington Parva -Marriages of Francis Bernard's Daughters-The Family divided into THE LAST YEARS OF THE BERNARDS AT ABINGTON Baldwin Bernard and Alice Stafford-William Bernard-Death of Alice Bernard-Francis Bernard of Kingsthorpe Baldwin Bernard's Second Wife The Fullwood Family-The Ardens-Shakespeare-John, Son of Baldwin Bernard-Edmund Hampden-Foreign Travels of John . PAGE 1081884-190 PREFACE wan 540 N. 6-0 IN writing this book, my first wish has been to leave a record of a family which in its time played some little part Min the affairs of this country. As the last scion of the last known branch of those Bernards whose history is here traced, the task seemed to devolve on me. It has been laborious, owing to the extensive destruction of documents which has evidently taken place at different times. The co-heiresses of the eldest branch no doubt carried off many parchments and papers, which cannot now be recovered. Some others probably went to Huntingdonshire, where the second branch was located. Further havoc must have been occasioned by the frequent moves of the third branch, with which these volumes are chiefly concerned, and especially by the chequered career of Sir Francis Bernard, the early ages at which he lost both parents and left his first home, his subsequent departure for America, and even his return. Since that time additional losses appear to have been sustained through the zeal of executors in sorting, and, as they considered, weeding family papers. But the mischief is not only of this private nature. Documents illustrating the most critical period of the history of England in its relations with America have been allowed to fall into American hands,1 and it has not therefore been practicable for me to consult them. How much it has been possible to achieve appears in the following pages. And I purpose to continue the narrative, in two more volumes, to the death of Sir Francis Bernard's youngest child. For this second portion the materials are more ample, though occasionally defective. In the meantime my thanks are due to all those who have given me help; their names, in most cases, will be found recorded in the notes to these volumes. Some, at least, of these friends have passed away, but a tribute is due to their memory. NETHER WINCHENDON: November 1902. SOPHIA ELIZABETH HIGGINS. [The papers of Governor Bernard, thirteen volumes, are in the Sparks MSS., in Harvard College Library. Vols. i.-viii. are letter-books, 1758-72; ix.-xii., correspondence, 1758-79; xiii., orders and instructions, 1758-61. Sparks bought them in London in 1846.-Ed.'] This is a note to The Royal Governors,' by George Edward Ellis, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Winsor's Memorial History of Boston, vol. ii. ch. ii. · |