NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. second marriage with Joce or Juliana, daughter of Sir John Burleigh or Burley, two sons, John-Bryan. John and Bryan, and a daughter, Joan. Bryan (3) was killed in Brampton Bryan, on Sir John. Palm Sunday, by Radnorshire felons; and John, engaged in the cause of the House of York, was knighted on the field at Gaston, near Tewkesbury: he married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Hackluit, of Yetton, by whom he left Richard, and Alice, married first to Richard. Richard Monington, and secondly to William Tomkins, of Monington. Richard Harley married Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas Vaughan, of Tretower Castle, in the county of Brecknock (whose descent is traced from the ancient British princes of Hereford, Breck- nock, and Radnor, previous to the Norman Conquest, and from the noble families of Glares John, b. 1491, ob. and Mortimers, as also from all the Princes of Wales), and had issue John, William, and 1542. Thomas, and a daughter, Catharine, married to Robert Hopwood. This John Harley signalized himself as a Commander at Flodden Field (1513), and married, 11 Henry VIII. (1519-20), Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Croft, of Croft Castle, John-Thomas- knight, by whom he had issue: John, Thomas, Rector of Brampton Bryan, William, Ed- Edward, and Margaret married to Thomas Adams, also Joyce and Elizabeth, who died unmarried; and by his second marriage, with Anne, daughter of Sir Ed. Rouse, of có. Worcester, a daughter Alice, who married Simon Macklew. On the 30 March, 1541, John Harley covenanted for the marriage of his son John, then a minor, with Maud, daughter of Richard Warncomb, of Hereford, esquire, and afterwards co- heiress (with her sister Alice who had married, first, William Wigmore of Shobdon, Notice of Sir and secondly, Sir James Croft,. of Croft Castle, by whom she had three sons, Edward, James Croft in John, and George; and three daughters, Eleanor, married to Sir John Scudamore, of Retrospective Re- g view and Histo- Holm Lacy, Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth; Margaret, married to William Rud- vical Magazine, hall of Rudhall, esquire, and Jane, who died unmarried,) of James Warncomb, who vol. i. p. 491. Loud. 1827. died possessed of the manor of Lugdwardine, and divers other manors and lands in the co. of Hereford. She had for her share the manors of Aylton, Picksley, and lands at Boden- ham, Webton, Gothermet, Leyntall Starkes, Elton, and several houses in Leominster and John, sl.Thomas Hereford. Of this marriage came John, slain in the French wars, Thomas, William, -William-Ri- chard-Catherine. and Richard; and three daughters, Catharine, married first to John Cresset, of Upton Elizabeth. Cresset, and secondly to John Cornwall the Baron of Burford; Elizabeth, married to Jane. Giles Nanfan, of Birch (now Birts) Morton, co. Worcester; and Jane, married to Roger Minors, of Treago, in the county of Hereford. ThisThomas was the father of Sir Robert. The following circumstance gave occasion to Sir Robert being born at Wigmore Castle: " Thomas Harley, when married, resided with bis father at Brampton Bryan, who, being a zealous Romanist, prevailed with his son to attend a secret mass in the castle, of which his good wife having intimation, came to the chapel door and ask't to have her MS. in his grand - husband away, with threats, if it were denyed, to acquaint Queen Elizabeth. There - father's study, copied by the upon the doors were opened and he let go to his wife, who prevailed upon him to remove Auditor, 1722. to Wigmore Castle, where Robert was soon afterwards born." Sir Robert. Sir Robert had expressed a wish (1321) to go and see the army in the Netherlands; which his father refused in the following letter:-
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