Annuities and pensions The Queen's Majesty's offerings by the yere Lyverye Clothe for her Majesty's Servants The chardge of the Knights of the Garter upon St. George's day The writing and finishing of the accompt Summa, £6127 3 3 A Rate of the Charges of all manner of Incidents within all Offices of her Majesty's Houshold, and not comprised in her Highness Booke of Diet; viz. New-yere's Gifts charged upon LADY HOWARDE, 1576-7. First, a coller of golde contayning 13 peeces, whearin are 13 greate emeraldes and 13 peeces of golde, with 13 troches of perles, 5 perles in every troche, and in every peece 4 smale rubyes. Geven by therle of Lecetor. Item, six dosen of buttons of golde, whearof 3 dosen being men, and 3 dosen fyshes. Geven by therle of Warwicke. Item, a juell of golde, being a dove, whearin is three emeralds, the biggest of them pendaunte without foyle, two table rubyes, two table dyamondes, the rest garnished with 4 smale rubyes. Geven by therle of Bedforde. Item, a payre of braceletts of golde, being 20 peeces, whearof 16 sett with blacke stones and 4 smale perles in a troche. Geven by therle of Hartforde. Item, a fayre juell of golde, with three personages in it standing under a tree. The same juell garnished with smale dyamondes, in the midell a large rubye, and beneathe it a lesse rocke rubye, with a ragged perle pendaunte. Geven by therle of Ormonde. Item, a juell of golde, being an oyster garnished with 4 smale rubyes, one dyamonde, and an ophall. Geven by therle of Surrey. Item, a cheyne of golde garnished with smale perle, 11 oz. dim. qa. Geven by Vycount Gormanstone. Item, a juell, being an agathe hedd, garnished with golde and a lorell garlande garnished abowte with sparcks of rubyes, and a pendaunte of golde garnished with 8 sparcks of rubyes, with an ophall in the midest. Geven by the Countyes of Oxforde. Item, three dosen of buttons of golde, being acornes. of Warwicke. Geven by the Countyes Item, a carkenet and a payre of braceletts of golde sett with amatastes and carnewe hedds. The carkenet contained 18 peeces, and the bracelet 16 peeces. Geven by the Counties of Lyncolne. Item, a juell of golde, being a payre of braceletts, contayning 20 peeces of golde, goldsmithe's worke enamuled; whearof 10 peeces, in every peece a rubye; and 10 peeces, in every peece 2 perles. Geven by therle of Kyldare. Item a juell of golde, being an agathe of Neptune sett with 6 very smale rubyes, 2 very smale dyamondes, and 3 cowrse perles, whearof one bigger than the rest. Geven by the Ladye Burgheley. Item, a payre of braceletts, which may serve for a carkenett, fully garnished with ophales and rubyes very fayre, enamulated with an ophall pendaunte. Geven by Mr. Hatton, Capitaine of the Garde. Item, a tothe and eare-picke of golde, being a dolphin enamuled with a perle pendaunte, 16 small rubyes being but sparcks, and 5 sparcks of dyamonds. Geven by the Ladye Cheake. Item, a juell of golde, whearin is sett a white agathe, and sett with 4 smale sparcks of rubyes and a smale perle pendaunte. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. Item, a juell of golde, being a pomaunder, on eche side a smale poynted dyamonde; and a smale perle pendaunte. Geven by Mrs. Catherine Paston. Item, a juell of golde, being a table, thearin is a salamaunder of ophalles garnished with 18 smale dyamondes, and a pendaunte with ophales and rubyes. Geven by Mr. Thomas Heneage, Threasorour of the Chamber. Item, a ring of golde with 6 ophalles and very smale rubyes. Geven by Mrs. Heneage. Item, a juell of golde, being a litle bell enamuled, and garnished with small sparcks of rubyes, the clapper being a corse perle. Geven by Mrs. Townesende. Item, a cheine of pomander slightly garnished with golde. Geven by Captaine Laightoune. Item, six smale tothe-picks of golde. Geven by Mrs. Snowe. [New-yere's Gifts continued.] First, a jugge of christall garnished with silver guilt, with a phenix in the toppe within a crown. Geven by the Lord Henry Semer. 23 oz. qa. Item, oone standishe of silver guilt, with boxses for ink, dust, and counters, all of silver guilt. Geven by Mrs. Dale, the Master of the Requests Wife. 37 oz. qa. 1577. On the promotion of Dr. Whitgift, (in April 1577) from the Mastership of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Bishoprick of Worcester, Dr. Richard Howland, then Master of Magdalen College, was removed to St. John's; and Mr. Henry Copinger, Fellow of St. John's, was nominated by the Queen to the Mastership of Magdalen. But the Patron (afterwards Earl of Suffolk), or those under whose Wardship he was, contesting the title, Mr. Copinger, after holding the Mastership a very short time, resigned it the same year-a very hard fate for so deserving a man.-In the same year, however, he was presented by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, to the Rectory of Lavenham 1 in Suffolk, which he held ' Dr. Fuller relates the following story of Mr. Copinger: "Dr. Reynolds, who had been Minister of Lavenham Church, revolting to Rome, the Earl of Oxford, who was Patron of it, presented one Mr. Copinger, but upon this condition, that he should pay no tythes for his park, being almost half the land of the parish. Mr. Copinger told his Lordship," that he would rather return the presentation, than by such sinful gratitude, betray the rights of the Church," which answer so affected the Earl, for 45 years. Dying Dec. 21, 1602, was buried at Lavenham1; and bequeathed £10. a-year to the poor of that parish. Mr. Copinger had been presented in 1591 to the Prebend of Absthorpe, in the Cathedral Church of York; which in 1609 he resigned to his second son Ambrose, who was afterwards Rector of Lavenham, and of Buxhall (of which he was also the Patron), both in the County of Suffolk. that he replied, "I scorn that my estate should swell with Church goods." But, notwithstanding these words, the Earl's Successor contested the right, and it cost Mr. Copinger 1600l. to recover it, and leave it to the quiet possession of his successors." On a very curious monument on the left hand side of the altar in Lavenham Church, are the figures of Mr. Copinger, his wife kneeling before a small table, twelve children below, also kneeling, and on each side an angel, each having a scroll in his hand; on one of which is inscribed, " Dilecti, accipite coronam vitæ :" on the other, "Mortui, venite ad judicium." Over one angel (on the corona of the cornice), "Novissimus lectus sepulchrum ;" and over the other, "Viventes sequentur mortuos." On a large pannel on the left side is this inscription: "Sacrum Memoriæ Henrici Copingeri, antiquissimâ Copingeroru Familia, in agro hoc Suffolciensi, oriundi, hujus Eclesiæ per quadraginta et quinque annos Pastoris, pacifici, fidelissimi, et vigilantissimi, Monumentum hoc, amoris et pietatis ergo, dilectissima uxor Anna, marito optimè merenti, heu invita superstes morens posuit. Amans Maritus, prole fœcundus Pater, Sancti pius Pastor gregis. Qui sensa dextrè codicis docuit sacri, Qui larga abundè pavit indigos manu Hic plenus annis, plenior Deo, jacet, Mutus jacet: sed lingua, quæ vivo decus, Vitam paravit mortuo." On the corresponding tablet on the right is the following: "This monument was erected at the sole cost of Mrs. Ann Copinger, in memory of her deare Husband, the rev'd and godly divine Mr. Henry Copinger (fourth son of Henry Copinger, of Buxhall in this county, esq. by Agnes his wife, daughter to Sir Tho's Jermine, of Rushbrooke Hall, knt.), the painful and vigilant Rector of this Church, by the space of 45 years, Prebendarie of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter in Yorke, Lord of the Towne, and Patron of the Church of Buxhall, aforesaide, who marryed Ann, daughter to Henry Fisher, of Linne, in Norfolk, gent. and by her had 8 sonnes and 4 daughters; and after he had lived godly 72 years, died peaceably the 21st of December, anno 1622." In a circle at the foot of the monument: "Justorum memoria benedicetur." On a tablet underneath: "This monument of Dr. Henry Copinger was new beautified Anno Domini 1721, by Mrs. Judith Brinkley, daughter of Thomas Burly, gent, and Margaret his wife, 3d daughter and coheir of Ambrose Copinger, D. D. by Judith his wife, only daughter of Roger Keddington, gent. which Ambrose was second son of the said Henry, and also Rector of this parish, and of Buxhall, where he was buried." From Mr. Henry Copinger was also descended the wife of Henry Moore, of Kentwall Hall, in Long |