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Notes on the History of the Family of Rumbold in the Seventeenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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In the course of extensive researches in which I have been engaged for some years on the subject of the history of the Rumbold family during the seventeenth century, and more especially at the period immediately preceding the Restoration, I came across a paper in the British Museum which has never, as far as I know, been made public, and is, perhaps, not unworthy to find a place among the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. The curious document in question is headed A Particular of the Services performed by me Henry Rumbold for His Majesty.
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page 145 note 1 Add. MSS. 17,018, ff. 149151. The volume containing the memorial forms part of the Hyde papers.
page 145 note 2 To the late Mr. Charles Bridger, a genealogist of remarkable erudition and unflagging industry, I am indebted for the discovery of this interesting paper.
page 146 note 1 The baptismal register of San Lucar de Barrameda has an entry showing that he and Isabel de Avila, afterwards his wife, were godfather and godmother to the child of Juan Parez in 1646.
page 146 note 2 The eccentric punctuation and spelling of the writer are left unchanged.
page 147 note 1 At, or near, Burbage, where the family, an offshoot of the Essex or Hertfordshire Rumbolds, had been settled for three generations.
page 147 note 2 Plata, silver.
page 148 note 1 Don Antonio Juan Luis de la Cerda, seventh duke, died in 1671.
page 148 note 2 In a much shorter Memorial in the Preston collection, among the papers of Sir Richard Graham, Bart., of Netherby, Henry Rumbold states that he was serveing upon those Coasts, and carryd the Guion (guidon, or ensign) to the Cap Gen the then Dukede Medina Celis Lifeguard.
page 150 note 1 The fleet, or galleons, from New Spain (Mexico).
page 150 note 2 Real (Spanish coin).
page 152 note 1 Sir Francis Bedingfield and the writer's younger brother, Thomas Rumbold.
page 153 note 1 Fanega, Spanish measure, equal to a bushel.
page 154 note 1 Monk.
page 155 note 1 The person thus charged is Sir Richard Willis, as would appear from a passage later on.
page 156 note 1 Sir Martin Westcombe continued for many years Consul at Cadii. The (as yet uncalendared) Foreign State Papers for Spain at the Public Record Office contain a full account of his arrest and imprisonment. He was created a baronet in 1699.
page 157 note 1 British Museum, Add. MSS. 17,018, ff. 149151, Hyde Papers.
page 159 note 1 Public Record Office, Foreign, Various, No. 216.
page 161 note 1 Pepys, under the date of July 25, 1663. mentions this engagement.
page 162 note 1 Chamberlayne's Angliat Notitia(Consuls in Spain).
page 162 note 2 Since the above was written I have been obligingly furnished with a copy of a Memorial by Henry Rumbold from the MSS. at Ntlherby which, although un-dated, is addressed to James II., and must, therefore, be posterior to February 1685. One passage from it is perhaps worth transcribing, as showing considerable sense, though less discretion: And indeed at that Time before the Marriage to the Queen, Yr Petior did his Duty, writeing to England, how inconvenient & chargeable the Garison of Tanger would be to his Matie for which Advice Yr Petior did after much suffer by the Displeasure incurr'd from the Earle of Clarendon Ld Chancellor however when Mr Shears, now Sr Henry Shears, write a Book intitled The Grandure of Eniland by Tanger, the Sd booke yr Petior did answer, and make out, what a great Fallacy He therein asserted, and that in Truih it was by it, takeing a Burden from Portugal to lay upon England's Shoulders, as by the Sd answer fully appears, wch was delivered to Ministers of State, before that Garison was blown up, to be perused by them, who never permitted to print it.
page 163 note 1 He had entered the office of the Great Wardrobe in 1629, when about sixteen.
page 163 note 2 Pepys's, Diary, 12 8, 1661Google Scholar.
page 163 note 3 He was imprisoned for upwards of two years, first at the Gatehouse and then at the Tower.
page 163 note 4 That curious book, the Diaryof Elizabeth, Viscountess Mordaunt, discovered at Tuliymore by the late Lord Roden, and published by him, contains an interesting proof of the regard felt for William Rumbold by the Mordaunts. On June 1st, 1664, Lady Mordaunt, in her daily prayers, includes a special thanksgiving for the recovery of Mr. Rumball now restored to perfitt helthe bylhy mercy, which bringes me now upon my knees to returne thanks to thee my God, &c.
page 164 note 1 Hist. MSS. Com. 6th Rep. p. 369 b.
page 165 note 1 Notes and Queries, 7th S., II. 07 17, 1886Google Scholar. A Letter to Monmouth.