THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS ATTACKED BY JASON BALLENSKI AT 2AM on JUNE 8th 2016. ALEX MONTAGU WAS HIT BY JASON BALLENSKYS CAR, FROM BEHIND ON A PUBLIC STREET. BLOOD WAS ON BALLENSKIS SIDE WINDOW. JASON BALLENSKI GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AND PROCEEDED TO KICK ALEXANDER MONTAGU IN HIS HEAD, FACE AND BACK BEATING HIM UNCONSCIOUS, SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID BALENSKI WOULD NOT STOP. JASON BALENSKI FINALLY STOPPED WHEN SEVERAL WITNESSES TOLD HIM THE POLICE WERE CALLED. JASON BALLENSKI OF LAS VEGAS UNION APARTMENTS FLED FROM THE LOCATION LEAVING ALEXANDER MONTAGU UNCONSCIOUS THE GROUND. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS TAKEN IN AMBULANCE TO HOSPITOL. THE POLICE WENT TO JASON BALLENSKYS HOME TO ARREST HIM SEVERAL TIMES HE WAS NOT THERE. VIDEO OF CAR AND ATTACK WAS RECORDED BY SEVERAL WITNESSES THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER HAS SEVERE HEAD INJURY. ON 6/8/2016 THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY JASON BALLENSKI OF LAS VEGAS UNION APARTMENTS. JASON BALLENSKI FLED THE SCENE AFTER WITNESSES CAME OUT TO STOP BALLENSKIFROM KICKING MR MANCHESTER AFTER HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS IN THE STREET. VIDEO AND PHOTOS FROM SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID JASON BALENSKI WOULD NOT STOP. BALLENSKI LIVES AT UNION APARTMENTS THEY ARE HARBORING HIM AND GAVE HIM A SECLUDED APARTMENT. CORA LYNN TOLD HER OFFICE LIES TO PROTECT BALKENSKI. THEY WORK TOGETHER IN CUTTING YOUR GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILLS. A Very Odd group.

MARCH 6, 2016 JASON BALLENSKI BUSTED MANCHESTER'S DOOR DESTROYING DOOR AS POLICE WERE ON 911 WITH BALLENSKI AS HE TOLD POLICE HE WAS BEATING MANCHESTER'S DOOR DOWN. 

NOISE FROM UPSAIRS UNIT WAS THE REASON JASON BALLENSKI TOLD THE MANAGER SEVERAL TIMES WHO SOUNDS OBVIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL. JASON BALLENSKI IS TO BE ARRESTED FOR SEVERAL SERIOUS COUNTS.  

THE MANAGEMENT STRICT VIOLENCE RULES WERE BROKEN A LAW SUIT OF NOT PROTECTIONG OTHER RESIDENCE IS VERY SERIOUS.

A LAW SUIT BY MANY RESIDENCE IS PUT IN PLACE.  

CORALYNN PLANA DID NOT PROTECT THE RESIDENCE OR THE MANCHESTERS.  THEY LET THE SITUATION ESCALATE AFTER JASON BALLENSKI BROKE IN THE MANCHESTER'S DOOR.   

THE MANAGEMENT TODAY HAS JASON BALLENSKI IN HIS UNIT ON THE PROPERTY KNOWING POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR HIM NOW.  

BALLENSKI IS STILL LIVING ON THE PROPERTY AND HIDEING HIS TOYOTA. PHOTO OF CAR BELOW.   

JASON BALLENSKI BROKE INTO THE MANCHESTERS PART TIME HOME IN LAS VEGAS AS JASON WAS HAVING  A FIGHT PARTY AND DECIDED TO DESTROY THE MANCHESTERS  DOOR. WITNESS ALSO SAW JASON BALLENSKI KICK

THE DOOR IN WITH HIS FISTS AND Boots. 

The Door came off its hinges and LOCK was broke off. The door was destroyed.

A chair was placed at the door as to keep door from opening any further.  JASON BALLENSKI WAS ON THE PHONE WITH METRO POLICE 911 ADMITTING TELLING on himself TO POLICE THAT HE HIMSELF,

JASON Balinski WAS AT MANCHESTERS  DOOR BEATING IT IN.

This case was Attempted Home invasion and breaking and entering. Very serious. Lots of photos of door it was destroyed. 

JASON BALLENSKYS TOYOTA WITH BLOOD ON MIRROR AND DENTS FROM HITTING ALEXANDER MANCHESTER FROM BEHIND ON THE STREET. VIDEO OF THIS AND BALLENSKYS TOYOTA CAR TIRE MARKS VIDEO HAS BEEN TAKEN.

THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS ATTACKED BY JASON BALLENSKI AT 2AM on JUNE 8th 2016. ALEX MONTAGU WAS HIT BY JASON BALLENSKYS CAR, FROM BEHIND ON A PUBLIC STREET. BLOOD WAS ON BALLENSKIS SIDE WINDOW. JASON BALLENSKI GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AND PROCEEDED TO KICK ALEXANDER MONTAGU IN HIS HEAD, FACE AND BACK BEATING HIM UNCONSCIOUS, SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID BALENSKI WOULD NOT STOP. JASON BALENSKI FINALLY STOPPED WHEN SEVERAL WITNESSES TOLD HIM THE POLICE WERE CALLED. JASON BALLENSKI OF LAS VEGAS UNION APARTMENTS FLED FROM THE LOCATION LEAVING ALEXANDER MONTAGU UNCONSCIOUS THE GROUND. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS TAKEN IN AMBULANCE TO HOSPITOL. THE POLICE WENT TO JASON BALLENSKYS HOME TO ARREST HIM SEVERAL TIMES HE WAS NOT THERE. VIDEO OF CAR AND ATTACK WAS RECORDED BY SEVERAL WITNESSES THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER HAS SEVERE HEAD INJURY. ON 6/8/2016 THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER WAS VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY JASON BALLENSKI OF LAS VEGAS UNION APARTMENTS. JASON BALLENSKI FLED THE SCENE AFTER WITNESSES CAME OUT TO STOP BALLENSKIFROM KICKING MR MANCHESTER AFTER HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS IN THE STREET. VIDEO AND PHOTOS FROM SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID JASON BALENSKI WOULD NOT STOP. BALLENSKI LIVES AT UNION APARTMENTS THEY ARE HARBORING HIM AND GAVE HIM A SECLUDED APARTMENT. CORA LYNN TOLD HER OFFICE LIES TO PROTECT BALKENSKI. THEY WORK TOGETHER IN CUTTING YOUR GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILLS. A Very Odd group.

MARCH 6, 2016 JASON BALLENSKI BUSTED MANCHESTER'S DOOR DESTROYING DOOR AS POLICE WERE ON 911 WITH BALLENSKI AS HE TOLD POLICE HE WAS BEATING MANCHESTER'S DOOR DOWN. 

NOISE FROM UPSAIRS UNIT WAS THE REASON JASON BALLENSKI TOLD THE MANAGER SEVERAL TIMES WHO SOUNDS OBVIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL. JASON BALLENSKI IS TO BE ARRESTED FOR SEVERAL SERIOUS COUNTS.  

THE MANAGEMENT STRICT VIOLENCE RULES WERE BROKEN A LAW SUIT OF NOT PROTECTIONG OTHER RESIDENCE IS VERY SERIOUS.

A LAW SUIT BY MANY RESIDENCE IS PUT IN PLACE.  

CORALYNN PLANA DID NOT PROTECT THE RESIDENCE OR THE MANCHESTERS.  THEY LET THE SITUATION ESCALATE AFTER JASON BALLENSKI BROKE IN THE MANCHESTER'S DOOR.   

THE MANAGEMENT TODAY HAS JASON BALLENSKI IN HIS UNIT ON THE PROPERTY KNOWING POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR HIM NOW.  

BALLENSKI IS STILL LIVING ON THE PROPERTY AND HIDEING HIS TOYOTA. PHOTO OF CAR BELOW.   

JASON BALLENSKI BROKE INTO THE MANCHESTERS PART TIME HOME IN LAS VEGAS AS JASON WAS HAVING  A FIGHT PARTY AND DECIDED TO DESTROY THE MANCHESTERS  DOOR. WITNESS ALSO SAW JASON BALLENSKI KICK

THE DOOR IN WITH HIS FISTS AND Boots. 

The Door came off its hinges and LOCK was broke off. The door was destroyed.

A chair was placed at the door as to keep door from opening any further.  JASON BALLENSKI WAS ON THE PHONE WITH METRO POLICE 911 ADMITTING TELLING on himself TO POLICE THAT HE HIMSELF,

JASON Balinski WAS AT MANCHESTERS  DOOR BEATING IT IN.

This case was Attempted Home invasion and breaking and entering. Very serious. Lots of photos of door it was destroyed. 

JASON BALLENSKYS TOYOTA WITH BLOOD ON MIRROR AND DENTS FROM HITTING ALEXANDER MANCHESTER FROM BEHIND ON THE STREET. VIDEO OF THIS AND BALLENSKYS TOYOTA CAR TIRE MARKS VIDEO HAS BEEN TAKEN.

When your Trustee Bankers refuse you Accounting and quit answering there phones a it's time for a Cocktail, When your Trustees And Bankers give your Family's Money, Estates, Art and more Away to Joss Kent, ( NO FAMILY RELATION) and to his ENTIRE FAMILY it's time for a Cocktail, After the banks and trustees change your Centuries old family trust to suit there family's FININCIAL needs and get rid of your family's name entirely except for there's, you'll need a Cocktail! When your trust has YOUR bank in there law offices name it's time for a Cocktail. WHEN your trust can't account for ANYTHING and they steal 160,000 TAX refund with NO. EXPLINATION, it's time for a Cocktail! When the BANKS are embezzling from your family trust, Liquidating Estates, ART, and anything else they can get there greedy fingers on, ITS time for a Cocktail. When your TRUST IS PAYING MARION STONER a street person who filed a FAKE marriage in the courts to embezzle funds. THEN finding out your trustees have been paying MARION Stoners bills for many YEARS. It's time for a Cocktail!!

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EDWARD MONTAGU, second Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), born in 1602, was the eldest son of Sir Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester, by Catherine, second daughter of Sir William Spencer of Yarnton in Oxfordshire, who was the third son of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, Lincolnshire. After a desultory education, he entered Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, on 27 Jan. 1618.¹ He represented the county of Huntingdon in the parliaments of 1623-4, 1625, and 1625-6. In 1623 he attended Prince Charles in Spain, and was by him created a knight of the Bath at his coronation on 1 Feb. 1625-6. On 22 May 1626, through the influence of the Duke of Buckingham, he was raised to the Upper House with the title of Baron Montagu of Kimbolton. In the same year he became known by the courtesy title of Viscount Mandeville, on his father being created Earl of Manchester. Being allowed but a small income from his father, Mandeville resided little in London, and mixed much with the relations of his second wife, the daughter of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick. By them he was led to lean towards the puritan party, and to detach himself from the court.

On 24 April 1640, during the sitting of the Short Parliament, he voted with the minority against the king on the question of the precedency of supply.²In June 1640 he signed the hesitating reply sent by some of the peers to Lord Warriston's curious appeal to them to aid the Scots in an invasion of England.³ Mandeville signed the petition of the twelve peers (28 Aug. 1640) urging the king to call a parliament, and with Lord Howard of Escrick presented it to Charles on 5 Sept. In the same month he obeyed the king's summons to the grand council of peers at York, and was one of those chosen to treat with the Scottish commissioners at Ripon on 1 Oct. In the negotiations he took an active part, passing frequently to and fro between Ripon and York, urging an accommodation,⁴ and drawing up the articles.⁵

Mandeville was during the early sittings of the Long Parliament an acknowledged leader of the popular and puritan party in the Lords. He was in complete accord with Pym, Hampden, Fiennes, and St. John, and he held constant meetings with them in his house at Chelsea.⁶ On the discovery of the 'first army plot,' in May 1641, he was despatched by the Lords to Portsmouth with a warrant to examine the governor [see Goring, George, Lord Goring], and to send him up to London to appear before parliament.⁷ He was one of the sixteen peers chosen as a committee to transact business during the adjournment from 9 Sept. to 20 Oct. 1641. On 24 Dec. he protested against the adjournment of the debate on the removal of Sir Thomas Lunsford from the command of the Tower.

His position was very clearly denned when his name was joined with those of the five members who were impeached by the king of high treason on 3 Jan. 1642, although his inclusion appears to have been an afterthought.⁸When the articles of impeachment were read, Mandeville at once offered, 'with a great deal of cheerfulness,' to obey the commands of the house, and demanded that, 'as he had a public charge, so he might have a public clearing.'⁹ This demand he reiterated in the House on 11 Jan., and again on 13 Jan., notwithstanding the message from the king waiving the proceedings

The Tenth Duke and Duchess of Manchester very involved in Kenya and the future and protection of Animals. Kenya Wild Animal protection ordnance 1951. No (18 of 1951) Appointments. In Exercise of Powers conferred by section 52 of The Wild Animals Protection Ordinance 1951 I hereby Appoint. 1). Chridta Johannes cloete esq. 2). Ian Mcray Watson esq. 3).W CAMBELL Haughty Warner esq. 4). Ronald William Ryan Esq. 5). Major Peter Drummond carmachel 6). Andrew J Cross esq. 7). Hector S Douglas Esq. 8). Stephen Ifold elks esq. 9). Sr Vincent Glenday esq. K C M G 10). His Grace The Duke of Manchester 11). Sberlh Salm Mohamed Muhasmy 12). Harold Mearns Anthony Sutton esq. To Be The Honary Game Wardens from the Date Hereof, May 15, 1958 Nairobi Kenya WH HALE Chief Game Warden

In 1553 `required' by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland to alter the King's will to favor the succession of Lady Jane Grey, decided that the effort was treasonable, but was promised parliamentary pardon, drafted the will and appended his signature as one of the guarantors. Sir John Baker said that he and Montague were "called to the court and ordered by the King himself to draw up the legal instrument necessary to devise the crown away from his half-sisters". His involvement in the power struggle over the succession landed him in the Tower when Queen Mary came to the throne; released on paying a large fine and forfeiting land

Montagu, Sir Edward (1480s–1557), judge, the second son of Thomas Montagu (d. 1517), of Hemington, Northamptonshire, and Agnes, daughter of William Dudley of Clopton, near Oundle, was born in the royal manor house of Brigstock. His father, an attorney representing Northamptonshire clients in the common pleas from the 1470s until at least 1505, had prospered sufficiently to acquire the manors of Hemington and Hanging Houghton. Edward is said to have spent some time at Cambridge before 1506, when he was admitted to the Middle Temple, an inn with a strong Northamptonshire presence perhaps attributable to the benchership of Richard Empson. Little is known of his early career, save that he is mentioned as an attorney in the court of requests from 1519 and was a justice of the peace for his native county from 1523. A tradition that he was speaker of the Commons in 1523 has not been corroborated by any contemporary source, though it is possible that he was a member of parliament that year.

In 1524 Montagu became a bencher of the Middle Temple and delivered his first reading in the autumn. He was the second most junior serjeant at the call of November 1531, and as the junior serjeant-elect from his inn gave a second reading in that capacity. One of his principal arguments at the bar as a serjeant was made on behalf of Lord Dacre in the great case of 1535 which led to the Statute of Uses. In the same year he was counsel for Sir John Melton in another case of high importance, concerning the earl of Northumberland and the Lucy inheritance, a case that incidentally helped to establish the validity of contingent remainders. On the eve of the dissolution of the monasteries Montagu was steward for several houses, including the abbey of Peterborough, which had retained his father. He profited largely by the dissolution, receiving among other properties the numerous estates held in Northamptonshire by the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. On the outbreak of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 Montagu acted as commissioner to the royal forces in Northamptonshire, and the following year Audley recommended him to the king as an honest and learned man fit to become king's serjeant, an office that he was granted on 16 October1537 with a knighthood two days afterwards. He was assigned as an assize commissioner to the Oxford circuit, transferring to the Norfolk in 1540.

On 22 January 1539 Montagu received his writ of appointment as chief justice of the king's bench, and presided over the court at a time when its fortunes revived markedly and its commercial jurisdiction began to flourish. The speech that he made to the call of serjeants in 1540, on the text Diligite justiciam qui judicatis terram, is an eloquent argument that law without justice is inadequate. Just as good conscience without knowledge of the law did not equip a lawyer for practice, so much learning without good conscience could easily lead him astray. Montagu drew from the Bible and the classics to demonstrate that ‘great encreace had chaunced to empires and realmes for embracinge of justice’, and utter destruction to those that had disregarded it, such as Sodom and Gomorrah or more recent examples: ‘Who so listethe to marke contreis adjacent unto us, where is more povertie and miserye then where misrule is? An example of the wilde Yrishe and such other which livethe more like beastes then men, and all for lacke of good rule and justice’ (BL, Harley MS 361, fol. 80). On 6 November 1545 Montagu was transferred to the less onerous but more lucrative post of chief justice of the common pleas. He is credited with having tried to bring some of the king's bench innovations with him, and the court certainly enjoyed a similar boom during his presidency. Although he did not stay long enough to convert the common pleas from its conservative mood, it seems in his time to have accepted some innovations, such as the wider use of special verdicts and the awakening of the dormant action of ejectment, both of which bore fruit in later periods.

Montagu was a member of the council of regency appointed by Henry VIII's will to carry on the government during the minority of Edward VI. In the council he acted with the party adverse to Somerset, whose patent as protector he refused to attest, and in October 1549 he concurred in his deposition. On 12 June1553, in the council at Greenwich, he was apprised of the duke of Northumberland's scheme for altering the succession in favour of Lady Jane Grey and asked to draft the necessary clauses for insertion in the king's will. He objected that they would be void, as contravening the act of parliament settling the succession, and obtained leave to consult his colleagues. The judges met at Ely House, and after a day in conference resolved that the project was treasonable. This resolution Montagu communicated to the council on 14 June, but was answered that the sanction of parliament would be obtained and peremptorily ordered to draft the clauses. He still hesitated, but his scruples were removed by a commission under the great seal and the promise of a general pardon. He not only drafted the clauses, but appended his signature to the will as one of its guarantors. On the accession of Mary he was committed to the Tower, on 26 July, but was discharged on 6 September with a fine of £1000 and the forfeiture of some of his estates. Although he apologized for his conduct and declared in favour of Mary, she declined to reappoint him as chief justice and he retired to the manor of Boughton, Northamptonshire, which he had bought in 1528. A supporter of the queen branded him avarus judex (‘a covetous judge’) , but conceded that he possessed a powerful reputation among commoners and nobility alike (MacCulloch, 200).

Montagu married three times: first Cicely (or Elizabeth), daughter of William Lane of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire; second, following Cicely's death, Agnes, daughter of George Kirkham (d. 1527) of Warmington in the same county, a chancery clerk and member of parliament for Stamford in 1515; and third, after the death of Agnes, Eleanor (or Helen), daughter of John Roper (d. 1524), chief clerk of the king's bench and attorney-general to Henry VIII, who was the widow of John Moreton. With his third wife he had at least five sons and six daughters; in his petition to Mary I of 1553, in which he disassociated himself from the attempt to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, he said he was the father of seventeen children, six sons and eleven daughters. The eldest, Sir Edward Montagu (d. 1602), was father of Edward Montagu, first Baron Montagu (1562/3–1644), of James Montagu (1568–1618), bishop of Winchester, of Henry Montagu, first earl of Manchester (c.1564–1642), chief justice of the king's bench, and of Sidney Montagu (d. 1644), bencher of the Middle Temple and master of requests.

Montagu died at Boughton on 10 February 1557 and was buried on 5 March with much pomp (including a ‘hearse of wax’) in the neighbouring church of St Mary, Weekley, where there is an altar tomb with his full-length effigy in robes and collar of SS and the motto ‘Pour unge pleasoir mille dolours’ (‘For every pleasure, a thousand sorrows’) . There exists also a portrait in private dress by a follower of Eworth, formerly attributed to Holbein. His widow married Sir John Digby as her third husband and died in May 1563.

J. H. Baker

Sources TNA: PRO, CP 40/1133, m. ix · Baker, Serjeants, 168, 294–304, 527 · C. H. Hopwood, ed., Middle Temple records, 1: 1501–1603 (1904) · J. H. Baker and S. F. C. Milsom, eds., Sources of English legal history: private law to 1750 (1986), 82–3, 108–10, 244, 450 · introduction, The reports of Sir John Spelman, ed. J. H. Baker, 2, SeldS, 94 (1978) · The diary of Henry Machyn, citizen and merchant-taylor of London, from AD 1550 to AD 1563, ed. J. G. Nichols, CS, 42 (1848), 35, 128 · Report on the manuscripts of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, HMC, 53 (1900), 4–5 · L. Abbott, ‘Public office and private profit: the legal establishment in the reign of Mary Tudor’, The mid-Tudor polity, c.1540–1560, ed. J. Loach and R. Tittler (1980), 137–58, esp. 137–40 · W. K. Jordan, Edward VI, 2: The threshold of power (1970), 516–20, 527 · J. Caley and J. Hunter, eds., Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Henrici VIII, 6 vols., RC (1810–34), vol. 4, pp. 274, 282, 283, 288, 295; vol. 5, p.13 · D. MacCulloch, ‘The Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham’, Camden miscellany, XXVIII, CS, 4th ser., 29 (1984), 181–301, esp. 200 · TNA: PRO, REQ 1/4, fol. 156 · N. H. Nicolas, ed., Testamenta vetusta: being illustrations from wills, 2 (1826), 743 · will, TNA: PRO, PROB 11/39, fols. 40v–43 · LP Henry VIII, 12/2, no. 805 · Sainty, Judges, 9, 48 · C. Wise, The Montagus of Boughton (1888) · HoP, Commons, 1558–1603, 3.68–71

Likenesses oils, 1539, Middle Temple, London · effigy on monument, c.1557, Weekley church, Northamptonshire · J. Van der Eyden, oils, 17th cent., Boughton House, Northamptonshire; [Buccleuch estates, Selkirk, Scotland] · oils, 17th cent., Boughton House, Northamptonshire · oils, 17th cent., Peterborough City Museum · oils, Boughton House, Northamptonshire

In the mid-1600's, Montagu history gets quite entangled with Cromwell, the Long Parliament, and the English Civil War. To make some sense of this, I have found it helpful to quote at some length from the historian and biographer Hilaire Belloc. Belloc puts it like this in Cromwell, his character study of Oliver Cromwell (published in 1934): `Who were the Montagus? In the last days of an entirely Catholic England there had lived in Northamptonshire a certain Thomas; a gentleman, but on no great scale. He was the lord of only two manors. He was called indifferently Mountagu or Montagu, and claimed some connection with that great family of the Mons Acutus, feudal Earls of Salisbury of whom the ancestor was that Drogo the Norman who had come over with William the Conqueror. He founded the Montagus and had taken his reward in dues upon lands in Somerset. There, after centuries, many generations from the original invader, the house of Montacute still recalls his name. It is like enough (though not certain) that the claim to Drogo descent was justified; ... this Thomas Montagu with his two manors in Northamptonshire was of quite the smaller fry ... and died in the very year when the flood of the Reformation was first let loose... (1517). It was not he but his son, and his second son at that, who made the fortunes of the family. This second son was called Edward, and since at first he had not the prospects of his elder brother he must make his way in the law. To that profession he owed some part of the great wealth that was coming to him, but much more did he owe it to the religious revolution by which he was to profit hugely - as were ... many more. His first piece of good fortune was the death of his elder brother without an heir, and Edward Montagu in the first few years after his father died, began to push his way into the King's service. He snatched money at every chance that came his way; accumulating and adding to his original rents, serving on many commissions, and in particular doing the King's business in assessing the great fortune of Wolsey, when the King decided to sweep that wealth into his net. His were the pickings, therefore, and into his purse dropped those percentages and fees ... which went with work of this kind. Edward Montagu was already (by the time the great Cardinal died disgraced and ruined) a rich man - ... he could even entertain Henry himself, and Catherine, the imperiled Queen, with splendor. But though he spent thus grandly for his master and benefactor the King, he never wasted money: and all was spent with a purpose. Four years later came the rising of the people against the first destruction of the monasteries, and it gave Edward Montagu another opportunity. He became Commissioner to the Commissariat for the army which suppressed the rebellion and butchered men up and down the north country. This post brought him every sort of profit. Then, immediatley after, in the general flood of loot, when the monastic lands began pouring into the coffers of the spoilers, he was among the first of them. ... he got hold of the Abbey lands right and left, and was already set up to do the King's work in this crisis as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He continued actively the work which earned him such enormous payments; he was principal agent in the killing of Catherine Howard in 1541. Right up to Henry's death he was still labouring in the good cause, for he was one of those commissioned by the dying King to bully a confession out of the Duke of Norfolk and procure his death. It was as Lord Chief Justice (no longer of the King's Bench but of the Common Pleas) that he supported Dudley's plan for the usurpation of the throne by Dudley's son in the person of that son's child-wife, Lady Jane Grey; Edward Montagu did so with hesitation, terrified of the consequences - and might under Mary have lost that huge accumulation of gold which the Reformation had brought him. ... he lay in peril; but he and his vast fortune outlived the danger; he did not die until William Cecil had been in power and Elizabeth upon the throne seven years, and by that time the Montagus were thoroughly secure. He lived to see, five years before his death, his eldest-born grandson Edward - who should be heir to all this and in due time given the first peerage of the family - put into the House of Lords as a buttress of Cecil's new religious establishment, the Reformed Church of England. This eldest grandson of the old millionaire had sundry brothers, of whom note two in particular: Henry, who was also born in his grandfather's lifetime, and Sidney. ... the great fortune built upon the ruins of the old religion could provide amply for its younger sons. Henry Montagu, taking to the law like his grandfather, rose rapidly, was Lord Chief Justice in his turn, distinguished himself by the condemnation of Raleigh, turned Lord High Treasurer, a post which he sought at a high price, but one which procured him a revenue many times that price. He bought Kimbolton Castle on the southern edge of Huntingdonshire, within an hour's ride of Hinchinbrooke, and because long ago Kimbolton had belonged to the great family of Mandeville he desired to adopt that name, so he entered the peerage under that title, "Kimbolton," and was later made Earl - Earl of Manchester, the first of that name. He served his King, Charles I, faithfully enough, as he had served his father James, though he was strongly on the Puritan side and of the stuff of which later the Rebellion was made; but when he came to die (in November, 1642) that Rebellion had only begun. Brother Sidney, the youngest of the three, was a member of Parliament as all the members of the family had been as a matter of course, and member (also as a matter of course) for the Shire of Huntingdon. He also prospered in the law, adding by it to the large portion of the family estate which he had inherited; he was a Master of Requests at the moment when the too generous or too lavish Sir Oliver Cromwell had found himself compelled to turn Hinchinbrooke quickly into cash. So here we have the three Montagus, grandsons of the old Reformation millionaire, contemporaries of Sir Oliver Cromwell, ...; and Sidney Montagu, descended from a line more avaricious and more determined to accumulate, had bought out the Williams-Cromwells from Hinchinbrooke.' (Belloc) At this point, Belloc provides a diagram that contains the following information: Edward Montagu - (father), "of the Reformation loot." Edward - (grandson), "1st Lord Montagu." Henry - (grandson), "1st Earl of Manchester (The Manchester of the Civil War)." Sidney - (grandson), "who bought Hinchinbrooke." Belloc now turns to Cromwell's emotional relations and competition with the Montagus. Cromwell apparently maintained a deep hatred of the Montagu's his entire life: `We must bear all these in mind, for Sir Oliver's nephew who was to be the Protector never forgot that first blow delivered in his youth, the loss of the ancestral home. He put all three brothers into one basket as despoilers of his family. Of these rich men, one, Sir Sidney Montagu, the Master of the Requests, a lawyer in the traditions of his family, was now master of the roof and acres which Oliver had known and revered all his youth. Oliver himself was still the chief citizen in Huntingdon, ... but its solid basis in the place had gone. Henceforward there was feud between Oliver in his reserved, violent mind, and the Montagu blood. We shall see the earlier and later action of this: the earlier in Oliver's passionate attacks upon the Montagu's influence in the Fen Country, where the Cromwells used to be supreme; the later upon a larger scale in the hounding out of Manchester from the command of the Parliamentary army. We see Cromwell, then, capable of a strong personal quarrel and a long retention of the animosity it had aroused. He became the permanent enemy of Manchester, because Manchester was a Montagu. And the greater joy he must have had when Manchester's nephew, the son of the very man who had purchased Hinchinbrooke, fell into a youthful hero-worship of himself, Cromwell, as a soldier. That indeed was a fine revenge for the loss of the great house! ... In his bitterness at the unsuccessful result of Newbury and under the impulse of the long-treasured Montagu quarrel he gave what was almost certainly false testimony: for he pretended that Manchester had not attacked at Shaw House until after darkness had set in, and is there at issue with every other contemporary witness. But when he said that Montagu was fighting slackly because he did not at heart wish to destroy the King, he was telling if not the truth, at any rate what he believed to be the truth. That is exactly what Cromwell did believe about Montagu. Later when he was met by Montagu's vigorous reply and the publication of so many of his sayings which shook his position, then he backed out and said that he could not accuse Manchester of half-heartedness in attacking the King, but only of incompetence. Such a retraction was false; Oliver continued to think Montagu half-hearted, and when he said he did not, he lied for the sake of taking refuge from the storm which Montagu's accusations against him had aroused.' (Belloc) Let us follow Belloc to the year 1630: `Meanwhile the strain of seeing the Montagus displaying their increasing wealth under the roof which had covered him in childhood was more than Oliver could bear. He sold some part of his lands... He thus got rid as well as he could of the Huntingdon connection with its Montagu memories.' (Belloc) And to the Long Parliament of 1640: `... As for Huntingdon, it was now wholly in the pocket of the Montagus; two of that family came up side by side to that same Parliament, and what a bitterness for Oliver to find them there! As for the Shire, yet another Montagu was to speak for it in the same Assembly, and with him was Oliver's own brother-in-law, Walton. ... Therefore from the moment Cromwell enters the Long Parliament ..., 1640, you find him a marked sort indeed and ... not consonant to the air of an assembly, ... Indeed, one of the first things we get from him now is a piece of violence in committee. It was provoked by his now ancient and deep-rooted quarrel with the name of Montagu.The family of Montagu had had assigned to them in the person of Manchester, their head, certain lands granted out of the Queen's property in the Fens. They proceeded to enclose, and therefore to get to loggerheads with the small free-holders. Cromwell in the committee appointed (With Hyde in the Chair) to inquire into the affair, launched out against Manchester as though he were engaged in a personal fight. His conduct was shocking to a man of Hyde's legal descent and ... sense of decorum; assemblies could not carry on if shouting and brawling of this kind were allowed.' (Belloc) Sources: Cromwell, Hilaire B