Now to returne (where I left) to the last wife of this Iohn Hastings called Anne, she (after the death of hir husband) did at [...]he coronation of Richard the second, in the yeare of Christ 1382, being about the fift yeare of the reigne of the said Richard, sue by petition to execute by hir deputie the office of the EEBO page image 471 panteler by reason of the manor of Ashley, which she had for hir iointure, whervnto she was admitted, & by hir deputie sir Thomas Blunt knight did performe the same: as this record dooth testifie, in which is set both hir petitions, and the iudgement thereof in this forme.

12.1. The record whereby dame Anne Hastings clameth the office of the pantrie.

The record whereby dame Anne Hastings clameth the office of the pantrie.

_ITem Anna quae fuitvxor Iohannis Ha|stings nuper comes Penbrochiae porrex|it in curia quandam petitionem suam in haec verba. A treshonore seigneur le duc de Lancast. & senescall d' Angliter supplie Anne que fuit le femme Iohn de Hastinges nad|gares countie de Penbroke, qui come le mannor de Asheley in le com. de Northfolke soit tenens de nostre seigneur le roy par le seruice de faire le office de napperie al coronement le roy, quel mannor soel tient en dower del dowement son dit baron. Ore plest luy accepter del faire son office person deputie, a cestie coronement nostre seigneur le roye, per|nant les fees du dit office ceastascauoir les nappes quant il sont sustreytz. Et quia post ostensionem verisimilium euidentiarum & rationum ipsius Annae, ac proclamationem in curia praedicta debitè factam, in hac parte nullus huiusmodi clamor ipsius Annae contradixit: consideratum fuit quòd ipsa ad officium praedictum per sufficientem deputatum su|um faciendum admitteretur, & sic officium illud per Thomam Blunt militem, quem ad hoc deputa|uit, dicto die coronationis in omnibus perfecit, & peracto prandio mappas de mensis subtractis pro feodo suo recepit.

Iohn hastings (the sonne of Iohn Hastings last re|cited) was earle of Penbroke lord Hastings Abur|gauennie & Weisford, who being verie yoong at the time of his fathers death, was ward first to Edward the third, and then to Richard the second, but neuer saw his full age of one and twentie yeares, nor euer possessed the lands wherevnto he was borne: for not long after that he had married Philip the second daughter of Edmund Mortimer (earle of March Ul|ster and lord of Wigmore) he was [about the nine|tenth yeare of his age, the fiftéenth yeare of king Ri|chard the second, and the yeare of our redemption 1391, being a youthfull and lustie yoong gentleman (but tender and slender) in the Christmasse time, when the K. held that feast at Woodstoke in Oxfordshire] willing to learne to iust, whervpon in the parke then incountring with a knight called Iohn saint Iohn (a valiant and stout person) he was slaine when they ran togither, as the said knight did cast his speare from him, and so the said earle receiuing this manner of death, no man knew whether it happened by mis|hap or of purpose. To which Iohn Hastings now slaine, Margaret Segraue duchesse of Northfolke his grandmother (by his mother the daughter of sir Walter Mannie) was executrix and disposer of all his substance. After his death, his widow the ladie Philip was married to Richard earle of Arundell, & after that to Iohn lord saint Iohn, being the same man (as I suppose) which slue hir first husband this Iohn Hastings. But here before the death of this Iohn I must not forget, that though he were within age at the coronation of Richard the second, as not being past nine or ten yeares old; he sued to execute at the said coronation, the offices which his ancestors had afore performed. But bicause his mother had the mannor of Ashley in dower (as is before expressed) he did not sue to serue in the pantrie, but leauing that, demandeth the carieng of the second sword and the golden spurs before the king. The records of both which I haue here set downe.