Generation 14
ASHTON (ASSHETON), Elizabeth KENNEDY, Gilbert
ASTON (ASHTON), Margaret LAWRENCE,
Thomas
BELLINGHAM, Sir Henry LAWSON,
William
BELLINGHAM, Margaret LEGARD,
Susan (Susanna, Susannah)
BEWLEY, Judith LIDDELL
(LYDDALL), Thomas
BLAIR, Alexander LINDSAY,
Margaret
BOYNTON, Dorothy LOWTHER,
Sir John
CARNEGIE, David LYON,
Jean
CARR, Barbarie (Barbara) MACDOWALL,
Margaret (or Katherine)
CHAYTOR, Eleanor MITFORD,
Henry
CHOLMLEY (CHOMELY,
CHOLMONDELEY), MUSGRAVE, Sir Edward
Sir Richard
NEVILL, Catherine (Katherine)
COCHRANE, Elizabeth NEWMAN,
Alice
CROSBIE, Unknown PENNE,
Susan
CURWEN, Sir Christopher PENRUDDOCK,
Catherine
DOCWRA, Francis PRESTON, George
DOUGLAS, Robert RUTHVEN,
Margaret
FAIRCHILD, William SANDERSON,
Henry
FLETCHER, Mary SCOTT, Sir William
FOULIS, Margaret SKENE,
Jean (Jane)
FULTON, Unknown STRANGWAYS
(STRANGEWAYS), Barbara
GRAHAM, John
(or Margaret)
HAMILTON, Sir Thomas STRICKLAND,
Sir Walter
HOGHTON, Sir Gilbert STRICKLAND,
Walter
HOME, Margaret WENTWORTH,
Frances
KEITH, George
BELLINGHAM, Elizabeth
F14: BELLINGHAM, Sir Henry B:
c 1590
M: c1622 (before 8-9-1623), Dorothy Boynton
D: 1650
Sir
Henry Bellinhgham
Sir Henry Bellingham, of Levens (Westmorland) was one of
the representatives of the County in Parliament which met November 3, 1640.
There is a coat of arms in stained glass at Levens Hall, of Sir Henry and his
wife, Dorothy.
Sir Henry’s sister, Dorothy, married Sir Ralph Assheton,
whose sister Elizabeth Asheton (Assheton) is recorded in Generation 14 as wife
of George Preston.
(from Kirkby in
Kendale: 1572-1650, Records relating
to the Barony of Kendale: volume 1 (1923), pp. 92-119. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=49277):
“Sir Henry
Bellingham of Helsington and Levens, bart., in 1646 compounds for delinquency.
Being a member of the House of Commons he went to Oxford and sat in the Assembly. His fine was
fixed 23 Feb., 1647, at £3228, being one third value of his estates; to be
abated if he prove that he has only a life-interest in £300 a year. There is a
long account of the compositions made by Sir James Bellingham, Allan
Bellingham, £1,172; Lady Katherine Bellingham, widow of Sir James, £721; Agnes
Wentworth, daughter of Sir Henry, £175; John and Elizabeth Lowther; ib.,
1136–38” (Agnes Wentworth, mentioned is Henry’s eldest daughter (died 1668),
elder sister of Elizabeth Bellingham (Generation 13) and wife of Sir Thomas
Wentworth of North Elmsall).
“1643 August 9. Henry Bellingham of Levens, knt. and
baronet, agrees with Richard Washington of Kirkby Kendall, mercer, to pass to
him the tenant right of the burgage-house in Market street in Kendal commonly
called ‘The Bull’, according to the custom of tenant right used in Kendal,
excepting only 3 shops, parcel of the said house, which anciently have been
rented severally and are now in the possession of William Kendall, Robert
Burton and John Harrison of Patterdall, subject to the rent of 51s. 4d. Richard
Washington is to repair the houses and to be excused two years’ rent. The
bailiff of Skelsmerge shall be directed to deliver to him four trees at the
sight and setting out of George Lickbarrow.”
(This same source further reports that, on 28-12-1650,
there were “offers made for the following estates of delinquents and Papists
for one year’s tenancy from 2 February next, and for six years thereafter: George
Archer of Kendal for Sir Henry Bellingham’s estate, £900”).
M14: BOYNTON, Dorothy B:
1594
M: c1622 (before 8-9-1623), Sir Henry Bellingham
D: 23-1-1626.
Dorothy
Boynton
Mother of eight children, Dorothy Boynton died in childbed
(January 23, 1626) in her 32nd year, and was buried in the Church of Eversham,
near Kendal (Westmorland), where, in the north aisle adjoining the Chancel,
there is a monument to her memory.
CARNEGIE, Magdalen
F14: CARNEGIE, David B: 1575
M:
Contract signed 8-10-1595, Margaret Lindsay
D:
1658
David Carnegie
The First Earl of Southesk (created 22-6-1633) and the
First Lord Carnegie, David Carnegie has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary
of National Biography.
Direct quotes in the following biography are taken from William Fraser, History of
the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of their kindred (Volume 1), cited at
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-fraser/history-of-the-carnegies-earls-of-southesk-and-of-their-kindred-volume-1-sar/1-history-of-the-carnegies-earls-of-southesk-and-of-their-kindred-volume-1-sar.shtml:
During a long and distinguished career, Sir David Carnegie
of Kinnaird “spent a life adorned by virtue through a long course of years, in
unwearied toils and watchings in attending the affairs of the King and the
realm …(he) hath unobtrusively exhibited singular prudence, soimd judgment, and
zeal towards the King, not only in all congresses and assemblies, public
conventions and parliaments of the Three Estates of Scotland, but also, by
his laudable endeavours, upright counsel, and faithful suffrage, hath zealously striven to promote the Union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England” (from the citation written on the occasion of his investiture as Lord Kinnaird, 14-4-1616).
his laudable endeavours, upright counsel, and faithful suffrage, hath zealously striven to promote the Union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England” (from the citation written on the occasion of his investiture as Lord Kinnaird, 14-4-1616).
Three years before his succession to his father’s estates
of Kinnaird (in 1598), David married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of his
neighbour, Sir David Lindsay of Edzel and his wife, Lady Helen Lindsay (only
daughter of David, tenth Earl of Crawford). “On the occasion of this marriage,
his father became bound to provide the lands of Colluthie and Balmedyside, and
the barony of Leuchars, all in the county of Fife, and the barony of Panbride,
in the county of Forfar, in favour of his son David Carnegie and his wife, in
conjunct fee, and the heirs-male of the marriage. Sir David Lindsay also
thereby provides his daughter to a tocher of ten thousand merks. The contract
for this marriage bears date at Brechin 8th October 1595”. Margaret bore him
four sons (at least one of whom – his heir, David Carnegie – predeceased him,
dying 25-10-1633) and six daughters; she died (1614) two years before his
investiture as Lord Carnegie.
Friend and adviser to two kings (and saluted as ‘our richt
traist friend’, and ‘trusty and wellbeloved’ in still-extant letters written by
James VI), David Carnegie “inherited the talents of his father and grandfather
for public business, and, like them, spent a long and active life in the
service of his country”, gaining, in the process, two peearges and a slew of
titles: Commissioner to consult upon a Perfect Union of the realms of Scotland
and England (1604), Commissioner for suppressing the crime of rape (1609),
Commissioner for reforming abuses in the University of St Andrews (1609),
Commissioner for the Province of St Andrews (1610 ansd 1615), Commissioner for
considering Penal Laws and Taxation (both 1612), Commissioner for the Shire of
Fife (1612), Extraordinary Lord of Sessions (1616-1625), Assistant to the Royal
Commissioner to the Assembly (1616), Privy Councillor (1617), Sheriff of the
County of Forfar, Commissioner for the Plantation of Kirks (1621); “one of
those for regulating the taxt roll within the sheriffdome of Kincardiae; and
likewise one of those for modifying bench duties and ministers’ stipends in the
erected prelacies” (1621); Commissioner on the Laws (1630 and 1633), and a
member of the Committee of Estates (1645, 1648, and 1651).
Skilled in negotiation, he “was induced to take part in
the ecclesiastical questions which agitated Scotland”during the turbulent reign
of James VI (who, noting his distinguished participation at the first General
Assembly (Lilithgow, December 10, 1606) aimed at “composing the differences
which still continued in the Church, and for taking order by reason of the
great increase of Papists”, urged his presence at a second (also at Linlithgow,
in July, 1608), writing to his “trusty and welbeloved Sir Dauid Carnegy of
Kinnaird, Knight” that “your presence there may doe much good, We are to desire
you earnestly noe way to be absent from that Assembly, and by your counsell and
advice to further the pacifieing of all question that is in the Church, and to
asist any such course that shall be propounded for suppressing of contrarie
professors: wherein, noe way doubting but your owne zeale and affection to the
trewth professed shall be motives sufficient, ye shall also therewith gayne our
speciall thanks”) and, later, of James’s successor, King Charles I, who
referred to him as “the King’s very dear cousin and counsellour”.
Problems between the Royal Family and the church leaders
did not end with the second General Assembly; David Carnegie’s loyalty to his
Kings and his sense of public duty “led him to take the part of mediator
between the contending factions”, a task which he carried out with such
distinction that, at the coronation of Charles I (June 18, 1633, in the Abbey
Church of Holyrood), David was created Earl
of Southesk. The Patent (dated at Holyrood House, June 22, 1633) refers first
to his grandfather, Robert, and his father, David of Colluthie: “the King
considering that the late Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird, Knight, had with the
most laudable zeal performed many good and excellent services to his
grandmother, Queen Mary, and his great-grandmother, of lasting memory, partly
by transacting the highest and most important affairs of the ancient kingdom of
Scotland, and partly by proceeding, at their command, on embassies to England and France; and that the
late David Carnegie of Colluthie, son of the said late Sir Robert, diligently
imitating the praiseworthy example of his father, had spent many years with
much zeal and energy in the affairs of King James VI. and in those of Scotland;
and lastly, that the King’s very dear cousin and counsellour David Lord
Carnegie of Kinnaird, following the footsteps of his father, has for many years
with the greatest zeal not only rendered distinguished services to the King,
and to his father, King James VI, in the Privy Council, Session, and Exchequer,
but also in all councils and public conventions and meetings of the Estates and
Parliaments, and has shown his singular prudence and diligent zeal and
affection towards them; therefore his Majesty makes and creates David Lord
Carnegie of Kinnaird, Earl of Southesk, Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars,
to be held by him and his heirs-male for ever”.
The devotion which had endeared him to two Scottish kings
also made him powerful enemies; although, by the time of the emergence of
Oliver Cromwell, David Carnegie had, on account of his advanced age, all-but
retired from public life, “his privacy did not secure him against the greedy
grasp of the victorious Cromwell, who fined him in the large sum of £3000 for
no other reason, we are told by Crawford, than his wishing well to the King and
the monarchy”.
David Carnegie has gone down in Scottish history as “a
wise, sagacious, prudent and honest statesman, as well as an upright judge…his
calmness and moderation were conspicuous, and disposed him…. though not always
with success, to act the part of a mediator between the King and the people…. whether
acting as a Civil or as an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, showed himself worthy
of the credit and trust reposed in him in these employments, as appears from
the following letter addressed to him by King James, dated the 13th October
1611: ‘Trustie and welbeloved, we greete yow well: Being advertised by our
Secreatarie of your carefull diligence in the execution of your place and
charge, as one of our Justices of our peace within that Sherifdome, and in
speciall of your frequent meeting and keeping of Quarter Sessions, concurring
alwayes with your fellow Justices at there conveyninges; whereby yow haue gevon
good proofe of your affection to cure service, and haue shewed your self
worthie of the creditt and trust reposed in yow, we could not but take speciall
notice thereof, and returne vnto yow our hartie thankes: Not doubting of the
continewance of your forwardnes in our said service (as a good example to stirr
vp others to the lyke), whereof we will not be vnmyndfull’.”
M14: LINDSAY, Margaret B:
M: Contract
signed 8-10-1595, David Carnegie, 1st earl of Southesk
D:
9-7-1614
Comments:
Died 2 years before her husband was created Lord Southesk
CHOLMLEY, Margaret
F14: CHOLMLEY (CHOMELY, CHOLMONDELEY),
Sir Richard
B: 1580
M:
(i) 1596, Susan (Susanna, Susannah) Legard
(ii) 1613, Margaret Cobb, sister of Sir
WIlliam Cobb of Adderbury
D:
23-9-1631
Sir
Richard Cholmley (Chomely, Cholmondeley)
Knighted (1603) at Gratton (Nothamptonshire), Sir Richard
Cholmley (Chomely, Cholmondeley) resided (from 1608) at Whitby,
in Yorkshire, where he became a J.P. and
Deputy-Lieutenant and, in 1624, High Sheriff. In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament
for Scarborough.
Dying in 1631, Sir Richard was buried in the chancel of
the Church of Saint
Mary, Whitby,
where his widow (second wife Margaret Cobb) erected, in his memory, a marble
and alabaster monument.
M14: LEGARD, Susan (Susanna, Susannah)
B: 1578
M:
1596, Sir Richard Cholmley (Chomely, Cholmondeley)
D:
1611
Susan
(Susanna, Susannah) Legard
According to Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘English Fiction’ book, Some Passage From The History Of The Chomely
Family (at http://www.logoslibrary.eu/index.php?phrase=mdash&code_language=EN&newsearch=1),
“Susanna Legard …. died in 1611 of a fever she had caught in going to see her
son Hugh, who was ill at Scarborough”.
Susan (Susanna, Susannah) Legard was buried at
Scorborough, Yorkshire.
COCHRANE, Sir William
of Ardoss
F14: BLAIR, Alexander B:
M: Elizabeth Cochrane
D:
Alexander Blair
Alexander Blair, “a younger son of John Blair of that ilk
(an ancient and honorable family in the shire of Renfrew) by Grizel his wife,
daughter of Robert lord Semple” (Cochrane
Earl of Dundonald, http://www.clancochrane.org/DundonaldLineage.htm),
immediately, upon his marriage to his cousin, Elizabeth, assumed “the name and
arms of Cochrane….all which appears from a charter under the great seal of king
James VI, of the lands and barony of Cochrane, to and in favours of Alexander
Cochrane, alias Blair, third lawful son of John Blair of that ilk, and
Elizabeth Cochrane his spouse, third lawful daughter of William Cochrane of
that ilk, dated 7th February 1601. He got also a charter under the
great seal of several other lands, Alexandre Cochrane de evderst (sp), dated
anno 1618. He was a man of singular virtue and probity, and greatly improved
the estate of the family. By the said Elizabeth Cochrane, he left issue of seven
sons and two daughters” (op. cit).
The eldest of these sons, John Cochrane, was, of course,
intended to inherit these estates; however, he died (supporting his king,
Charles II, in his exile) without issue, opening the way for the second son,
William of Ardoss (Generation 13) to inherit.
M14: COCHRANE, Elizabeth B: c 1580
M: Alexander Blair
D:
Elizabeth Cochrane
Elizabeth Cochrane is generally regarded by genealogists
as the third daughter (although John Burke, A
Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, Vol 4
considers her the only child; certainly, her father had no male issue) of
William Cochrane (Generation 15); for reasons unknown, she became the inheritor
of all his estate. Burke (citing “Crawford under the title of ‘Dundonald’”)
records (1838, op. cit.) that “her father wisely considering the proper way of
supporting his family, and declining to marry her into a richer family than his
own, was to settle his daughter in his own time, he made a prudent and discreet
match for her with Alexander Blair, a younger son of an ancient and genteel
family, in Ayrshire, whose ancestors had been seated in the county foresaid for
many ages before….(Alexander) yielded to change his name to Cochrane, which was
almost the only condition the old gentleman required. This Alexander, so taking
upon him the surname of Cochrane, was a virtuous and frugal man, and studied as
much the good of the family as if he had been born the heir thereof” (Alexander
was, in fact, her cousin; and the terms of the union obliged all future male
issue to assume the name ‘Cochrane’).
CROSBIE, Unknown (Rev.)
F14: CROSBIE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M14: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Crosbie
D:
CURWEN, Sir Thomas
F14: CURWEN, Sir Christopher B: c 1477
M:
3-8-1492. Margaret Bellingham of Bellingham,
Burnshead,
Westmorland (by dispensation) at
Workington, Cumberland.
D:
Comments:
Sheriff of Cumberland 1525 and1534. Styled a knight in the
Visitation
Pedigree of 1615 (the heralds’ visitations were enquiries
carried
out
during the 1500s and 1600s under the authority of the Royal
Commissions
by Kings of Arms or their deputies, their purpose being to
verify
the validity of claims to arms and gentility; evidence was received
and
pedigrees, of varying detail, were prepared).
Sir Christopher’s
sister, Lucy Curwen (born c 1490), is recorded in
Generation
19 as wife of Sir John Lowther.
F14: BELLINGHAM, Margaret B: c 1478
M: 3-8-1492. Sir Christopher
Curwen.
D:
Comments:
Margaret Bellingham’s grandfather, Henry Bellingham
(Generation
16) was the brother of Alan Bellingham (Generation 17),
whose
great-grandson, James Bellingham, is recorded in Generation 15 as
husband
of Agnes Curwen (Margaret’s great-granddaughter).
DOCWRA (DOCKERILL), Jasper
F14:
DOCWRA, Francis B:
before 14-12-1558 (date of baptism), Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire.
M:
c 1587, Susan Penne
D: before 26-9-1626 (date of
burial), Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.
Comments: above data compiled
by Philip Hunt, http://www.philiphunt.com/Hunt%20Tree-o/p61.htm#i5776. In
addition,
Odd
Ottesen (26-10-2001,
10/1004093521)
provides the following biographical information: “died
about
1626 (will proved 1626). Married Susan
Penne, daughter of Thomas
Penne
of Codicate, Hertforshire (GT) and Margery
Saunders…. Francis
Docwra
may ….have lived in Codicate, Hertfordshire.”
M14:
PENNE, Susan B:
c 1560, Hertfordshire
M: c 1587, Francis Docwra
D:
Susan
Penne
Odd Ottesen (26-10-2001,
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DOCWRA/2001-10/1004093521)
provides the following biographical information: “daughter
of Thomas Penne of Codicate, Hertfordshire (GT) and Margery
Saunders, daughter of Thomas Saunders of Agmondisham (Amersham), Buckinghamshire. Thomas Penne was son
of John Penne of Codicote (grome of the Privy
Chamber and barber to Henry VIII) and Lucy (daughter and heir of Edmond
Chevall of Codicote). (VH, p.
82 and 116 - here Susan is mentioned without
the name of her husband.)”
On 3-11-2001, at
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DOCWRA/2001-11/1004762144,
Ottesen noted that “a brother of Susan was John Penne of Codicote, who
matriculated at the
University of Cambridge 1577 and died before 1602, married
Margaret Charge and whose son was Thomas Penne of Codicote.”
DOUGLAS, William
F14:
DOUGLAS, Robert B:
c 1562, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland.
M: 19-3-1582, Jean Lyon
D:
after 20-1-1601.
Robert Douglas, Master of Morton
The one thing seemingly agreed on by researchers into the life
of Robert Douglas ‘the younger of Lochleven’ is that it ended in either 1584 or
1585, when he was killed by pirates (some researchers identify the location as
‘Atlantic Ocean, off New Jersey, USA’). However, it would seem likely that this
refers, not to his date of death, but to the date of his capture. The website
devoted to the History of the Barony of
Mordington to 1636
(www.peerage.org/genealogy/barony_of_mordington.htm) records that Robert “disappeared while
travelling abroad some time after 24th December 1584 with his brother-in-law,
the Master of Oliphant, and in 1600 a petition was presented to Elizabeth I for
an expedition for the relief of the Master of Morton and the Master of
Oliphant, reported to have been made slaves by the Turks, and to be then
detained in captivity in the town of Algiers, on the Barbary coast (SP, VI,
375)”.
The response to this petition was a letter from Queen Elizabeth I (written 20-1-1601) , addressed to the Ottoman sultan, Mahomet Chan, and cited in Elizabeth I: collected works By Elizabeth I (Queen of England), by Leah Sinanoglou Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2001); it says, in part:
“We are pressed at this time by
the earnest suit of the friends of certain distressed gentlemen to entreat your
princely favour and relief of their extremities; whose names are Lawrence
Oliphant, Master of Oliphant, and Robert Douglas, Master of Morton, two sons
and heirs of two noblemen, subjects of our neighbour and good brother the King
of Scotland, who having been many years since taken prisoners casually at sea
by pirates, and by them sold in Barbary for bondmen, have ever since remained
in that state of captivity, and so much the more miserable because none of
their friends knew of their being, until that of late it hath been understood
(though not of certainty) that they are prisoners in Argier, under the viceroy
there, your tributary.
Upon knowledge whereof, their
friends and kinsfolk have sent and authorised this bearer, Robert Oliphant, one
of their kinred (sic), to seek and enquire of their estate and to procure their
redemption from that servitude; who knowing no other way of address to you,
because they are of a nation that have little trade in those quarters of the
world, have humbly besought our letters and furtherance to you; which we as
willingly have yielded, for that the said persons were not taken in action of
war by sea or land against you or your people, whereby you might have cause of
just indignation against them, but only by mere casualty of fortune, deserving
the compassion of all princes. Whereof our earnest desire is that you interpose
your authority toward the said viceroy of Argier, that he will set the said
Lawrence Oliphant and Robert Douglas at liberty; if they be found under him or
any other of your dominions, to return home to their native country, whereby
you shall increase in us the kind remembrance we have of your former
friendships, and oblige us to requite it in any like manner you may require at
our hands….”
While Robert Douglas may, in
fact, have died between the time his condition was reported to Queen Elizabeth
and the writing of her petition, the letter suggests that it is highly unlikely
that his death occurred in December,1584, or, indeed, within some 15 years of
that date. This research will tentatively record his death as ‘after
20-1-1601’. There is no evidence that he ever returned to his homeland, and, on
the death of his father, William Douglas, 5th (or 6th)
Earl of Morton, in 1606, the title of Lord of Morton passed directly to
Robert’s son, William (Generation 13).
M14: LYON, Jean B:
M:
(i) 19-3-1581, Robert Douglas, Master of Morton
(ii)
29-7-1587, by contract, Archibald Douglas, 8th earl Angus
(iii)
31-5-1590, Alexander Lindsay (Lord Spynie), brother of Lady
Helen
Lindsay (Generation 15)
D:
between 7-8-1607 and 23-2-1611.
Comments:
all three marriages produced children.
FAIRCHILD, Ann
F14:
FAIRCHILD, William B:
19-2-1574
M:
26-4-1593, Wendy-cum-Shingay, Alice Newman
D:
M14:
NEWMAN, Alice B: c
1573
M:
26-4-1593, Wendy-cum-Shingay, William Fairchild
D:
27-10-1632
FULTON, Rev Dr
F14: FULTON, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M14: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Fulton
D:
GRAHAM, James
F14: GRAHAM, John B: 1573
M: Contract 12-12-1593, Margaret Ruthven
D:
14-11-1626
John
Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose “being a
person of great parts and abilities, was (as Loyd writes in his Memoirs of Loyalists, p. 638),
Ambassador to several Princes, and after the accession of Charles I to the
Crown, named President of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy-Council, which he
enjoyed even till his death….. by Margaret his wife, daughter of William
Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie, he had James, his son and heir, first Marquis of
Montrose. Also four daughters: Lady Lilias, married to Sir John Colquhoun of
Luss,, Bart; Lucy Margaret, to Archibald, First Lord of Napier; Lady Dorothea
to James, first Lord Rollo; and Lady Beatrix, to David Drummond, Lord Maderty”
(Collins, Arthur, and Brydges, Egerton: Collins’s
Peerage of England: Genealogical, Biographical and Historical, 1812).
In fact, there is evidence of a sixth child: “..an
undoubted Lady Catherine Graham, the fifth daughter of the fourth Earl of
Montrose, who in 1631 was abducted by her sister’s husband, Sir John Colquhoun
of Luss, for which crime he was outlawed” (Stevenson, H.J. (ed): The Scottish Antiquary or Northern Notes and
Queries, 1886).
John Graham, whose titles included Privy Councillor (1604), High Commissioner in the
General Assembly (1616), and President of the Council in Scotland
(1626), married his second cousin, Margaret Ruthven, daughter of the 1st
earl of Gowrie.
M14: RUTHVEN, Margaret B:
M:
Contract 12-12-1593, John Graham, 4th earl of Montrose.
D:
before 15-4-1618 (date of burial)
Comments:
Eldest daughter of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie. She
was
her husband’s second cousin. Not to be confused with Margaret
Ruthven
(born c 1400), wife of Sir Walter Drummond (Generation 21),
whose
father was also named William Ruthven.
HAMILTON, Jean
F14: HAMILTON, Sir Thomas B: 1563
M:
(i) c 1588, Margaret Borthwick (died December, 1596)
(ii) before August, 1597, Margaret Foulis
(died May, 1609) (iii)
16-9-1613, Julian Ker (died March, 1637)
D:
29-5-1637
Sir
Thomas Hamilton
Educated, first, at Edinburgh
High School and, later, at the Paris University,
Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington
(designated before his peerage as ‘of Drumcarny, Monkland, and Binning’), was a
Scottish administrator and judge. Referred to familiarly by his friends as ‘Tam
o’ the Cowgate’ (his Edinburgh residence being in that street), he was, in
turn, Lord Advocate (admitted in 1587), Lord of Session (1592-1626), King’s
Advocate (January, 1595/6), Lord Clerk of the Register to the Privy Council
(1612, succeeding Lord Curriehill), Lord President of the Court of Session
(1616-1626), and Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire.
One of eight men (called ‘the Octavians’) appointed to
manage the finances of Scotland, Thomas’s legal talents were of considerable
use to the King; he was, consequently, on friendly terms with James VI, and,
esteemed as an able administrator, was entrusted with a large share in the government
of Scotland when James removed to London in 1603 (the same year that Thomas was
invested as a Knight). He held the office of Secretary of State for Scotland
between 1612 and 1626. He was created (19-11-1613) a Lord of Parliament as 1st
Lord Binning, and, later, 1st Earl of Melrose (20-3-1619); he
After the death of James VI (1625), Sir Thomas served his successor, Charles I, accepting (18-10-1627) the office of Lord Privy Seal, with
precedence immediately next to the Lord Treasurer. He then resigned his office of Secretary which he had held for so long a time, but
continued to take a large share in the public business of his time. He was present at the coronation (18-6-1633), at Holyrood, of King
Charles I as King of Scotland (Charles had previously been crowned king of England and Ireland).
Subsequently, Sir Thomas “made himself a very useful member of a commission which was appointed in 1627 to receive surrenders of
superiorities of church lands and tithes, and to treat as to the valuation and sale of teinds, stipends of ministers, etc. Such good service
did he do to the King in this and other respects that on 17 August 1627 he received a patent from the King narrating that in recognition
of his continued and faithful services, as well as to excite others to emulate the same, he had, with the consent of the Earl, promoted him
and his heirs-male to the honour, style, and title of Earl of Haddington, with the precedence of his creation as Earl of Melrose” (James
Balfour Paul, The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and
genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, at
http://www.archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft_djvu.txt). The original – and only – Viscount
of Haddington, John Ramsay, had died on 28-2-1626; James Balfour Paul (op.cit.) categorises this exchange of titles as “a curious instance
of a title having been altered in this way, and the reason has never been satisfactorily explained” (it was intended as a reward, but the two
titles were, it seems, virtually identical in status).
Sir Thomas married three times, surviving all three wives. His first marriage (c 1588) was to Margaret, only child of James Borthwick of
Newbyres, who gave him two daughters. After her death (December 1596), he married (before August 1597) Margaret, daughter of James
Foulis of Oolinton, who gave him three sons and four daughters before her death on 31-5-1609. His third wife (married September, 1613)
was the widow of Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth, Dame Julian Ker (daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of Ferniehirst). “It would rather appear from
some interesting letters of his which have been preserved, that she occasionally somewhat tried her husband by her extravagance.
Indeed, before she died she was actually put to the horn, but her effects, assumed to be forfeited to the Crown, were bestowed upon her
husband, and by him assigned after her death to her stepson, the successor to the Peerage. Lady Haddington died in March 1637, and was
buried on the 30th of that month at Holyrood.” (James Balfour Paul, op. cit.). Sir Thomas died less than two months later.
“An able and patriotic statesman, Haddington was none the less an industrious as well as a brilliant lawyer. The consequence was that he
amassed a large fortune, most of which he invested in the purchase of land. At a date not long before his death the rental accruing from
his estates is estimated to have been upwards of 68,000 Scots, an income of which few, if any, Scottish peers in the seventeenth century
could boast…. On 14 December 1596 he had, on his father's resignation, a charter of the kirklands of Dalmeny; on 14 April 1597 a charter
was granted to his father in liferent and himself in fee of the lands of Priestfield; on 30 May 1597 a similar charter, but including his wife
Margaret Foulis, was granted of the lands of Balbyn and Drumcairn; on 27 March 1601 he had a grant in feu of the lands of Humble, co.
Linlithgow; had also charters of Wester Binning and the church lands of Easter, Wester, and Middle Binning, lands which were created into
a barony 25 August 1603. On 3 August 1603 he had a charter of the lands and barony of Monkland, but sold them shortly afterwards. On
29 January 1607 he had a grant of the right of working minerals within the barony of Ballincreiff and other lands in the county of
Linlithgow, and was made Master of the Metals on 25 March following; he had a charter on 2 June 1607 of the lands of Drumcross,
county Linlithgow. On 6 June 1609 he had a charter of the barony of Byres, which he had purchased from John, eighth Lord Lindsay, for
33,333, 6s. 8d. Scots. On 15 January 1610 he had a grant in feu-farm of the lands of Oastlemilk and others in Annandale possessed by
John, Lord Maxwell. In 1614 he got a large accession of property, having purchased the temple lands of Drem and others in various
counties in Scotland, which were united into one barony of Drem. In 1618 he purchased from Sir John Ramsay the whole of the lordship
of Melrose, from which he originally took his title as Earl. In 1628 Lord Haddington, as he had by that time become, purchased the lands
and barony of Tynninghame from the Earl of Annandale for 200,000 merks, and had a charter of the same under the Great Seal 7
February 1628. This became the principal country residence of the family, and has continued to be so up to the present time. Subsequent
acquisitions of Lord Haddington were Luffness, co. Haddington, in 1633, and Coldstream and Oowdenknows, co. Berwick, in 1634.”
(James Balfour Paul, op. cit.)
M14: FOULIS, Margaret B: c 1567
M: c 1596, Sir Thomas Hamilton
D:
31-5-1609
Comments: sister of
Sir David Foulis (full biography in Dictionary
of
National Biography, volume 20, djvu/79), cofferer to both Prince Henry
and Prince Charles,
and “held high in the favour of James I”; he was the
recipient (1614) of a
famous letter of advice to the king sent from Italy by
Sir Robert Dudley
(duke of Northumberland) and the author of
A
Declaration of the Diet and Particular Fare of King
Charles I when Duke of
York, printed in 1802 by Mr. Edmund
Turnor in Archseologia, xv. 1-12.
HOGHTON, Katherine
F14: HOGHTON, Sir Gilbert B:
1590
M: Margaret Aston (Ashton)
D:
1647
Sir Gilbert Hoghton
Succeeding
to the baronetage on the death (1630) of his father, Sir Gilbert Hoghton was
honoured (7-4-1637) by Charles I with a grant, to himself and his eldest son,
of the right to wear special livery, the Hunting Stewart tartan.
Sir
Gilbert Hoghton was an important Royalist in the county, serving as one of the
several Deputy-Lieutenants and Commissioners of Array for, and Sheriff of,
Lancashire, with responsibility for the Fylde; he also served on the council of
Lord Strange (Earl of Derby), the Royalist Commander in Lancashire (these posts
meant that Sir Gilbert was responsible for the raising and equipping of troops
on behalf of the King and keeping them in readiness for combat; furthermore,
his position on the Council meant that he was involved in policy-making and the
conduct of the civil war in Lancashire).
Hostilities
in Lancashire began (on 10-1-1642, by which
time Sir Gilbert was already aged 51) with the Commission of Array issued to
Lord Strange (later Earl of Derby) by the King. When it was proclaimed at
Manchester (July 15) -- resulting in a skirmish and the death of Richard
Percivall, a Parliamentarian linen-weaver – it precipitated, within two months,
the siege of Manchester, led by Lord Strange (at the head of 4300 Royalist
troops) and, as one of his senior officers, Sir Gilbert Hoghton (the siege,
which lasted a week, ended when orders were received to join the King at
Shrewsbury to prepare to fight the army of the Earl of Essex). At this time, Sir Gilbert was famous
for not only marching with the troops assigned to him, but with clubman,
trained bands, and his own tenants; their uniform, therefore, was never
confirmed: they were reputed to have been arrayed in all black, red coats,
regular clothes, or white and yellow, which were the Hoghton colors.
Loyalties
in Lancashire early in the Civil War were divided, with the people of Blackburn
siding mostly with Parliament; in October 1642, circa 300 men of the Royalist
Lancashire Trayned Bandes and clubmen, summoned from the Fylde by Sir Gilbert
Hoghton by a signal beacon at Hoghton Tower, marched against Whalley (home of
the Assheton family), where there was a large store of arms as a result of the
disarming of Roman Catholics in 1641. Whalley fell without a struggle, whereupon
Sir Gilbert moved his forces onwards to Blackburn.
Hearing
of Hoghton’s activities, Colonel Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall and Colonel
Starkie, having heard of Sir Gilbert’s acyivities, raised a force of 8,000 men,
attacked his army by night, and forced them to flee, leaving behind all their
arms. Sir Gilbert was resolved to retake Blackburn and avenge this defeat,
especially as it was so close to Hoghton Tower; he therefore brought his force
on Christmas Eve to the outskirts of Blackburn, but, probably feeling uncertain
of his men after their last defeat, failed to close on the Blackburn garrison,
and the one small cannon that they possessed did no damage (in fact, the only
damage that Blackburn sustained was when a bullet entered a house and shot out
the bottom of a frying pan). At nightfall they retreated so that “they myght
eet theyr Chrystmas pyes at home”.
On
7-2-1643, Parliamentarian forces from Manchester,
Bolton and East Lancashire, under the command of Sir John Seaton, assembled at
Blackburn in preparation for an assault on Preston,
10 miles away. The Royalist force at Preston was “Sir Gilbert Hoghton’s
Dragoons, two or three companies of foot, Sir Thomas Tyldesley’s Dragoons which
were in the process of being raised under Captain William Blundell and two
troops of horse, under Major Anderton of Tyldesley’s and Captain Radcliffe
Hoghton”. Next evening (February 8), the Parliamentarians, having crossed the
River Ribble at Walton (which the Royalists had left unguarded), moved against
Preston and formed up near the town walls under the cover of darkness; shortly
before daybreak they attacked with about 2500 men, breaching the defences.
Resistance began to collapse; Sir Gilbert managed to make his getaway to Wigan, but his wife was captured, along with several
hundred prisoners, including Sir Gilbert’s nephew, Captain Hoghton. Some six
weeks later the Earl of Derby recaptured the town.
On
February 23, King Charles wrote a letter to Sir Gilbert Hoghton saying, “Now
that the Rebels seeme to ayme at a more forcible disturbance thereof, repaire
unto and continue at your proper Mansion with your family and usuall retinue
that others being encouraged and counterbalanced by your good example, you and
they may be the better at hand to assist each other for the preservation and
defence of the county.” Shortly after the taking of Preston by Seaton, Hoghton Tower -- at the time held a garrison of
only about thrty musketeers -- was besieged by Parliamentary troops under
Captain Nicholas Starkie of Huntroyd. The defenders quickly capitulated
(February 14), but when the Roundheads entered the house, the powder magazine
in the old pele tower between the two courtyards exploded, killing over 100
Parliamentary men. This central tower was never rebuilt.
The
last act of Sir Gilbert in the Civil War was at Chester
in October, 1643, where he had been sent to await the arrival of the King’s
Irish army, with whom he and Lord Byron (with whom Sir Gilbert was not on good
terms) made a surprise attack on Colonel Assheton’s Lancashire
regiment. A quarrel with Byron ensued, after which Sir Gilbert declined to take
part in further actions, either at Chester
or elsewhere. His unwillingness to continue the fight was probably also
compounded by the loss (1643) of his son, Roger, a Captain of Horse under
Molyneux and Tyldesley, as well as by the fact that his eldest son and heir,
Richard, was, in contrast to his father, fighting on the side of Parliament
(Richard Hoghton was appointed by Parliament (1644) to the Office of Steward and
Bailiff of Crown lands in Yorkshire and Lancashire; by 1647, at which time he
inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father, he held a colonel’s
commission in Assheton’s Regiment, the regiment Cromwell referred to after the
battle of Preston as “the best pikemen he had seen”. Sir Richard later became
famous during the trial and imprisonment of the Earl of Derby, when he, having
“represented to Cromwell the impolicy and danger of suffering the Earl of Derby
to be at large, now that he had fallen into their hands…..moved for and
obtained a commission to have him tried by a military court of inquiry, or
pretended court-martial, consisting of twelve sequestrators and committee-men,
packed together by their own appointment”).
In
the late 1960s, about twenty shoe boxes of documents -- muster rolls, color
details, regimental order books, etc. – from Sir Gilbert’s regiment were
deposited in the County
Records, from Downham
Hall, making this possibly the best-recorded of all regiments. The documents
were seen and then sent to London,
but soon after were lost.
M14: ASTON (ASHTON), Margaret B:
M: Sir Gilbert Hoghton
D:
23-12-1657
KEITH, Anne
F14: KEITH, George B: 1553, Dunnotar, Kincardi, Scotland.
M:
(i) Marriage contract 4-2-1580/1, Margaret
Home
(ii)
Margaret Ogilvy (born c 1570)
D:
2-4-1623, Dunnotar
Castle.
George Keith
George Keith, usually identified as 5th Earl of Marischal
(although several researchers refer to him as 4th Earl) was the
founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen
(1593). A still-extant armorial tablet at the college shows the Keith arms
impaling those of his wife, Margaret
Home (sister of the first
Earl of Home); the shield has been photographed by the Heraldry Society of
Scotland (http://heraldry-scotland.com/copgal/displayimage.php?album=6&pos=80),
which describes the Home arms as ‘Vert
a lion rampant Argent’.
M14: HOME, Margaret B: c 15-12-1565
M:
Marriage contract 4-2-1580/1, George Keith
D:
May, 1598
Comments:
Sister of Alexander
Home, 6th Lord
Home and 1st Earl of Home
KENNEDY, John
F14: KENNEDY, Gilbert B:
M: Margaret (or Katherine) Macdowall
D:
before 1615
Gilbert
Kennedy
The most detailed information currently available on the
Earls of Cassilis and their families (back to Generation 28) is contained on
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/cassillis.htm; this site lists Gilbert Kennedy and Margaret
Macdowall as the parents of John Kennedy, the 6th earl of Cassilis,
and records that Gilbert never became 5th Earl because he was the
third son (the elder two being the heir, John – Treasurer of Scotland on
22-3-1598/9, and husband of Jean Fleming – and Hew, termed ‘Master of
Cassilis’). Both of the elder brothers died without issue, and, although
Gilbert (also termed ‘Master of Cassilis’) actually predeceased his elder
brothers (the eldest son, John, who succeeded his father, died in 1615), his
son (John, Generation 13) became the natural heir of his grandfather, Gilbert
(the 4th earl), who had died in 1576, and, thus, became 6th
Earl.
This current research accepts these findings, although
several other readings of the data also bear mentioning. The comprehensive
website ‘The Peerage’ (http://thepeerage.com/p2426.htm#i24255) records Gilbert Kennedy as the brother, not
the father, of the 6th Earl; Hew is recorded as the father of John,
and Hew’s wife is, not Margaret Macdowall (daughter of Uchtred Macdowall, 13th
of Garthland), but Katherine Macdowall (also daughter of Uchtred Macdowall, 13th
of Garthland, and, later, wife of James Stewart, 1st Lord Ochiltree;
no daughter ‘Margaret’ is recorded for Uchtred Macdowall in this interpretation
of the data; however, an earlier Uchtred Macdowall – 10th of
Garthland – had a daughter, Margaret, who became the wife of Sir John Vans).
There remains, therefore, some doubt about the accuracy of
the entries for Generation 14 in the Kennedy family; however, the two theories
converge in Generation 15, as both accept Gilbert Kennedy (4th earl
of Cassilis) and Uchtred Macdowall (13th of Garthland) as the
grandfathers of John Kennedy, 6th earl of Cassilis.
M14: MACDOWALL, Margaret (or Katherine)
B:
M: Gilbert Kennedy
D:
Comments:
first name often recorded as ‘Katherine’; she could also be
the
wife of Hew Kennedy, not Gilbert (see above entry).
LAWRENCE, Mary
F14: LAWRENCE, Thomas B:
M: Unknown
D:
M14: UNKNOWN B:
M: Thomas Lawrence
D:
LAWSON, Wilfrid
F14: LAWSON, William B: before 1589, Usworth, Durham.
M:
c 1630, Judith Bewley
D:
1654, Isel (Isell), Cumberland
Comments:
purchased Hesket Hall in 1630, after his marriage.
M14: BEWLEY, Judith B: c 1593
M:
c 1630, William Lawson
D:
Judith
Bewley
Judith Bewley is the only daughter of William Bewley of
Hesketh. She had two elder brothers (Richard, John) and a younger brother
(Thomas). She may be the same Judith Bewley who married (as her second husband)
John Brisco(e), who died in 1676, but this is not established.
Judith Bewley’s appearance is described in a 1903 review of her descendant’s genealogy book: “Sir Edmund Bewley….has now completed a volume of the history of his own family. The book is a good example of modern genealogical work. With its 158 pages of text, its six chart pedigrees, and its efficient indices …..Sir Edmund's book is adorned with a most interesting photogravure of the picture now at Brayton, of Judith Bewley, wife of William Lawson of Isell, whose husband bought Hesket of the last Bewley of the direct line. In high crowned hat, great ruff and wide sleeved bodice, this thin-lipped, thin-faced woman makes a portrait of an ancestress which calls up at once the long and low rooms and panelled walls of a northern hall” (The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, Vol 4, 1903, at http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl04londuoft/ancestorquarterl04londuoft_djvu.txt)
LIDDELL, Thomas
F14: LIDDELL (LYDDALL), Thomas B:
M: Barbara (or Margaret) Strangways
(Strangeways)
D:
9-5-1577
Thomas
Liddell (Lyddall)
Thomas
Liddell was Sheriff of Newcastle (1563) and Mayor of Newcastle (1572). His
wife’s Christian name is a matter of some doubt; “one
source says ‘Margaret, his widow, v. 1577, bur. 31 Oct 1604… Said in the
Baronetage to marry Barbara, d. Richard Strangways’; another Baronetage account
says Barbara, d. Richard Strangways, but in printed pedigree has Margaret
Strangways” (http://www.thewebweavers.net/generations/pafn42.htm).
M14: STRANGWAYS (STRANGEWAYS), Barbara (or Margaret)
B: Ravensworth Castle, Durham
M: Thomas Liddell (Lyddall)
D:
Comments: there is some doubt over
the first name of the wife of
Thomas Liddell (Lyddall): “Said in
the Baronetage to marry Barbara, d.
Richard
Strangways’; another Baronetage account says Barbara, d.
Richard
Strangways, but in printed pedigree has Margaret Strangways”
(http://www.thewebweavers.net/generations/pafn42.htm). While most researchers record ‘Barbara’, this
present research will allow for both possibilities.
LOWTHER, John
F14: LOWTHER, Sir John B: 20-2-1605, Lowther Hall, Lowther,
Westmorland
M:
(i) Mary Fletcher
(ii)
Elizabeth Hare, daughter of Sir John Hare.
D:
30-11-1675
Sir
John Lowther
Sir John Lowther -- lawyer, landowner, and politician --
attended the Inner
Temple in 1621 and was
called to the bar in 1630. He was elected (1628) Member of Parliament for
Westmorland, together with his father (also John Lowther), and sat for just one
year, as King Charles decided (1629) to rule without parliament for eleven
years (he stood for election to both Parliaments on their resumption in1640,
but was defeated on each occasion by Sir Philip Musgrave; however, he was
eventually – in 1550 – re-elected as member for Westmorland in the Convention
Parliament, having defeated Thomas Burton).
In
1636, Sir John became recorder of Kendal. He was created a baronet in the
Baronetage of Nova Scotia in around 1638.
Sir
John “was a commissioner of array for Cumberland
and Westmorland in 1642. He was commissioned a colonel by the Royalists during
the Civil War and was Governor of Brougham Castle until 1644. However, he
claimed not to have borne arms against the Parliamentarians, and took the
Covenant when their forces approached. He was recommended to continue as a
justice of the peace for Westmorland (having sat on the bench since 1641) and
was fined on relatively favorable terms. He did not continue as a justice or in
the recordership of Kendal after 1648, during the Interregnum. After the
Restoration, he held several county offices in the North, appearing in the
commissions of the peace for Cumberland,
Westmorland, and the North Riding of Yorkshire and receiving a deputy
lieutenancy in Cumberland.
From 1661 to 1662 he was Sheriff of Cumberland…..
Moderately active during the Parliament, his one recorded speech was to oppose
Charles Howard's bill for curbing the moss troopers, preferring older methods of
keeping peace on the border. He did not again stand for Parliament, but
returned to his activities in the North, where he actively expanded his estates
(often at the expense of his neighbors) and prosecuted Quakers who sat in the
House of Commons for Westmorland in 1628 and in 1660.” (Wikipedia)
Sir
John married twice, having ten children by his first marriage (to Mary Fletcher)
and another four by his second (to Elizabeth Hare). As his eldest son (John,
recorded in Generation 13 as husband of Elizabeth Bellingham) predeceased him,
he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson (leaving an estate worth
about £80,000).
M14: FLETCHER, Mary B: c 1604
M: Sir John Lowther
D:
Comments:
daughter of Sir Richard Fletcher of Hutton
MITFORD, Jane
F14: MITFORD, Henry B: 1543, Newcastle, Northumberland.
M: Barbarie (Barbara) Carr
D:
Comments:
The Oxford Journals record Henry Mitford as Sheriff of
Newcastle (1582-3) and
Mayor (1584-5). Several mentions in the will of
his
father, Christopher (Generation 15)
M14: CARR, Barbarie (Barbara) B:
M: Henry Mitford
D:
Comments:
recorded as ‘Barbara’ in the Oxford
Journals, in which she is
referred
to as Henry Mitford’s widow.
MUSGRAVE, Jane
F14: MUSGRAVE, Sir Edward B: c 1551
M:
c 1580, Aspatria, Eskdale (Cumberland), Catherine Penruddock
D:
1597
Sir
Edward Musgrave
“Sir Edward Musgrave…..
married Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Penruddock of Exeter,
in the county of Devon…. (he) was lord-lieutenant of the county of Cumberland, and custos rotulorum, and
justice of oyer and terminer, and sat as judge, at Carlile.” (Arthur Collins,
1741, The English
baronetage: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the
English baronets, now existing, Vol. 4)
Sir Edward resided at Hayton Castle, Cumberland.
M14: PENRUDDOCK, Catherine B: c 1559
M:
c 1580, Aspatria, Eskdale (Cumberland), Sir Edward Musgrave
D:
PRESTON, Thomas
F14: PRESTON,
George B:
M:
(i) Elizabeth Ashton
(Assheton)
(ii) Margaret Strickland
D:
4-1640.
George
Preston
Heir to Holker Park Estates, and
a great benefactor to the stately church of Cartmel, Lancashire (where the
remains of his grandfather and father lay buried, and where he himself would be
interred in 1640), George Preston is recorded as having “made an appointment
for the apprenticing the poor people in Cartmel, and a foundation for filling
several scholars for St. John’s College, Oxford” (Prestons of Great Britain, http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/fpreston/holker1.htm).
M14: ASHTON (ASSHETON), Elizabeth B: 1575
M: George Preston
D:
Comments:
one source records her name as ‘Eliza’. Her brother, Sir Ralph
Assheton
(1579 – 18-10-1644), married Dorothy Bellingham, daughter of
James
Bellingham and Agnes Curwen (Generation 15).
SANDERSON, Henry
F14: SANDERSON, Henry B:
c 1495, Newcastle
M:
c1540, Eleanor Chaytor
D:
23-1-1549
Henry Sanderson
The will of Henry Sanderson is still extant, and is
referred to in Durham Probate
Records: pre-1858 original wills and inventories (16th century) at http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/dpr/dpr1-1_16th.xml:
“DPRI/1/1549/S2, Henry
Sanderson, merchant, of the Syde, towne of Newcastell upone Tynne [Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland] probably a member of
the family of Sanderson of Brancepeth and Hedleyhope”.
M14: CHAYTOR, Eleanor B:
M: Henry Sanderson
D:
SCOTT, Eupheme
(Euphanie)
F14: SCOTT, Sir William B: 1584/5, Bergen-op-zoom, Holland
M: Jean (Jane) Skene of Curriehill
D:
9-9-1622, Bergen-op-zoom.
Comments: director of Chancery
M14: SKENE, Jean (Jane) B: 1588, Fife, Scotland
M: Sir William Scott
D:
STRICKLAND, Agnes
F14: STRICKLAND, Sir Walter B: 1485
M: (i) 1512, Agnes Redman
(ii) c 1515, Catherine (Katherine) Nevill
D: 9-1-1527
Sir
Walter Strickland of Sizergh
“Thornton-Bridge, in the parish
of Brafferton, wapentake of Halikeld, and liberty of Richmondshire; 4 miles NE.
of Boroughbridge…..came to the Stricklands, by the marriage of Sir Walter
Strickland, Knight, with Catharine, daughter of Sir Ralph Nevile, descended
from a Sir Ralph, a son of Ralph Lord Raby……The Stricklands forfeited
Thornton-Bridge by being concerned in the rebellion of 1715.”
(Transcribed. by Colin Hinson,
www.genuki.org.uk:8080/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Brafferton/, from documents published
early 1820s).
Sir Walter Strickland of
Sizergh should not be confused with Walter Strickland of Boynton (also recorded
in this generation), who is actually his grandson: the son of his daughter,
Elizabeth (who occurs in Generation 15 as part of a different line). Sir Walter
Strickland of Sizergh and Catherine (Katherine) Nevill are, therefore, also
recorded in Generation 16.
The champion Australian runner,
Shirley Strickland, is a direct descendant of Sir Walter.
M14: NEVILL, Catherine
(Katherine) B: c 1501
M: (i) c 1515, Sir Walter Strickland
(ii) Henry Burgham
D: after 1536
Comments:
a descendant of Edward III. One researcher cites a total of
four
marriages: following Sir Walter Strickland, Henry Borough (after
September.
1526); Son Darcy (after 1529); and William Knyvett (before 3-
3-1534/5).
STRICKLAND, William
F14: STRICKLAND, Walter B: c 1554
M: Frances Wentworth
D:
1635/6
Walter Strickland
of Boynton
The father of Walter Strickland, William Strickland (‘the
Navigator’) accompanied Sebastian Cabot in his voyages to the New World; the
fortune he amassed was, in the 1540s, invested in property: Hildenley, Newton, Wintringham and Boynton (where he rebuilt the
house originally built by the Newport
family). He “lived until 1598, when the property passed to his son, Walter
(d.1636) (Foster, Pedigrees; Johnson, 'Boynton Hall I', pp.35-6)”
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=050-ddcv265&cid=0#0).
Walter Strickland is not to be confused with
Sir Walter Strickland of Sizergh in this generation, who is actually his
grandfather (mother’s father, since his parents were both Stricklands: his
mother, Elizabeth Strickland, is the sister of Agnes Strickland, who occurs in
Generation 13 as wife of Sir Thomas Curwen), after whom he is named, since he
was born shortly before Sir Walter’s death (Sir Walter Strickland of Sizergh,
therefore, is also recorded in Generation 16 as part of this line).
M14: WENTWORTH, Frances B: 1561, Lillingstone, Lovell,
Buckinghamshire.
M: Walter Strickland of Boynton
D:
c 1636
Generation 15
ABERNETHY, Elizabeth
ANDERSON, Jane
ASSHETON, Ralph
ASTON, Sir Roger
BABTHORPE, Margaret
BELLINGHAM, James
BELLINGHAM, Sir
Roger
BENSON, Mabel
BEWLEY, William
BLAIR, John
BOYNTON, Sir Francis
CARNEGIE, David
CHAYTOR, Piers
CHOLMLEY, Henry
COCHRANE, William
CRAKANTHORP (CRAKENTHORP,
CRACKANTHORP, CRACKENTHORPE),
Barbara
CURWEN, Agnes
CURWEN, Sir Thomas
DOCWRA, Humphrey
DOUGLAS, Sir William
DRUMMOND, Jean
DUNBAR, Eupheme (Euphemia)
FAIRCHYLD (FAIRCHILD), Richard
FLEMING, Eleanor
FLETCHER, Sir Richard
FOULIS, James
FRANKE, Margaret (Margery)
GERARD, Catherine (Katherine)
GRAHAM, John
HAMILTON, Sir Thomas
HAY, Elizabeth
HERIOT, Agnes
HERIOT, Elizabeth
HICKES (HICKS), Margery
HOGHTON, Sir Richard
HOME, Alexander
HUDDLESTON, Anne
JACKSON, Unknown
KEITH, William
KENNEDY, Glibert
KER, Margaret
LAWRENCE, Unknown
LAWSON, Gilfrid (Gylford)
LAYBURNE (de), Margaret
LEGARD, John
LESLIE, Agnes
LIDDELL (LYDDALE), Thomas
LINDSAY, Sir David
LINDSAY, Helen
LOWTHER, Sir John
LYON, Margaret
LYON, John
MACDOWALL, Uchtred
MARTINDALE (MARTENDALE), Isabel
MIDDLETON, Mabel Margaret
MITFORD, Christopher
MONTGOMERY, Margaret
MUSGRAVE, William
NEVILL, Ralph
NEWMAN, Thomas
PENNE, Thomas
PENNINGTON, Elizabeth
PENRUDDOCK (PENRUDDEL), Thomas
PLACE, Dorothy
PRESTON, John
RADCLYFFE (RADCLIFFE), Johanne (Joan)
RUTHVEN, William
SANDERSON, John
SAUNDERS, Margery
SCOTT, James
SEAMER, Unknown
SEMPILL (SEMPLE), Grizel (Grisel, Grace)
SKENE, Sir John
SOMERVILLE, Helen
STEWART, Mary (Marjory)
STEWART, Dorothea
STRANGWAYS (STRANGEWAYS), Richard
STRICKLAND, Sir Walter
STRICKLAND, William
STRICKLAND, Elizabeth
UPCHURCH, Annis (Ann, Agnes)
WALSINGHAM, Elizabeth
WARD(E), Anne
WARDLAW, Elizabeth
WEMYSS, Eupheme
WENTWORTH, Sir Peter
ASHTON (ASSHETON), Elizabeth
(Eliza)
F15:
ASSHETON, Ralph B:
c 1550
M:
(i) Anne Talbot, daughter
of John Talbot
(ii) Johanna (Joan) Radclyffe
(Radcliffe)
D:
8-5-1616
Ralph
Assheton of Great Lever
Having served as High Sheriff
of the County of Lancashire (1593-4) under Queen Elizabeth I, Ralph Assheton IV
died (May 8, 1616) “holding the manor of Great Lever, with messuages, water-mill,
lands, and tithes in the place; other lands in Farnworth and neighbouring
townships; the manor of Ladyhalgh in Anderton; the manor of Whalley, and lands
there and in Yorkshire…..he had acquired further lands in Great Lever and the
neighbourhood….he served as sheriff in 1593–4….a pedigree was recorded in 1613;
Visit. (Chet. Soc), 45 (Townships: Great Lever, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911), pp.
182-87. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53026).
This same source records his
wife, Johanna, as “daughter and coheir of Edward Radcliffe of Todmorden and
granddaughter and co-heir of Thomas Radcliffe of Winmarleigh” (which is the
interpretation followed in this research); however, Burke’s Peerage (1844)
records her as widow of Edward and daughter of Thomas.
M15:
RADCLYFFE (RADCLIFFE), Johanna (Joan)
B: c
1554
M: Ralph Assheton
D:
Johanna (Joan) Radclyffe (Radcliffe)
Johanna Radclyffe is usually
recorded as the daughter of Edward Radclyffe of Todmorden and granddaughter
(and co-heiress) of Thomas Radclyffe of Winmarleigh; however, Burke’s Peerage
(1844) claims her as the widow of Edward Radclyffe of Todmorden, and the
daughter (and co-heiress) of Thomas Radclyffe of Wymberseley. She is also recorded as being “co-heiress
through her mother of her kinsman, William Radclyffe of Wymbersley”.
A portrait of Johanna on a panel at Townley shows her as being “of a
fair complexion and handsome”.
ASTON (ASHTON), Margaret
F15:
ASTON, Sir Roger B:
c 1528
M:
(i) Mary (Marjory) Stewart
(ii)
Cordelia Stanhope
D:
Comments:
‘Gentleman of
bedchamber’ to James VI of Scotland
(who
ruled
England
as James I)
M15:
STEWART, Mary (Marjory) B:
c 1558 (though recorded as early as 1530)
M: Sir Roger Aston
D:
Comments: http://www.mcadamshistory.com/baron.htmlallows only the
first
name ‘Marjory’, recording Mary Stewart as her sister, and wife of Sir
George
Crawford of Lifnorris.
BELLINGHAM, Henry
F15: BELLINGHAM, James B: 1560
M: Agnes Curwen
D:
James Bellingham
James Bellingham was the second son
of Alan Bellingham (Generation 16), and inherited his father’s estate only
because the eldest son, Thomas, died (1580) without a legitimate male heir; Kirkby in Kendale: 1572-1650: Records relating to the Barony of
Kendale: volume 1 (1923), pp. 92-119. (URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=49277) records an inquest,
“taken at Appulbie 8 Oct., 22 Elizth (1580)”, which refers to Thomas, who, “by
virtue of the last will of Alan Bellingham, esq. decd his late father, was
seised in his demesne as of fee tail, viz. to himself and the heirs male of his
body, inter alia of the manors of Kendall, Crostwhayte and Lythe and divers
messuages, cottages, lands & tenemts in them….Thomas died 5 August last
(1580) without any heir male of his body lawfully begotten and James Bellingham
is brother and heir of the said Thomas and is aged 20 years, 15 weeks, 3 days
now”.
The same source reports that,
between 1590 and 1600, “Mr. James Bellingham, in his answer to a bill of
complaint brought against him for not suffering the mayor of Kendal to go
before him with his mace through Kirkland, defended his action because Kirkland
was no part of the Queen’s Majesty’s town of Kirkby Kendal, but an estate of
the late dissolved monastery of St. Mary of York and that he, Bellingham, was
‘Quarter Baron of Kendal, &c.’ The answer was made by James Bellingham,
esq., Martin Gilpin, William Collinson and William Ellerbie”.
M15: CURWEN, Agnes B: c 1554
M: James Bellingham
D:
Comments:
Daughter of Sir Henry Curwen (who, as father of Thomas Curwen -- Agnes’s
half-sister -- is included in Generation 12) and first wife, Mary Fairfax,
whose genealogical line continues from Generation 16.
BELLINGHAM, Margaret
F15: BELLINGHAM, Sir Roger B:
c 1450
M: c 1476, Mabel Margaret
Middleton, Burnsheade.
D: 18-7-1533 in Bellingham, Northumberland.
Sir Roger
Bellingham
There exists in the records considerable confusion
regarding the dates of birth and death of Sir Roger Bellingham, and his own
uncle (younger brother of Sir Henry Bellingham), who is recorded as either Sir
Robert or Sir Roger. Their dates of birth must have been very close (both c
1450), and each is recorded as having the same date of death (18-07-1533).
Further, the wife of each is recorded as ‘Margaret’: Margaret Aske (daughter of
Robert Aske) in the case of Sir Roger/Robert (third son of Sir Robert
Bellingham and Elizabeth Tunstall), and Mabel Margaret Middleton (daughter of
Thomas Middleton) in that of Sir Roger, son of Henry (first son of Sir Robert
Bellingham and Elizabeth Tunstall, and, therefore, Sir Roger/Robert’s elser
brother).
The best research would appear to place the death of Sir
Roger in 1540, which would mean that the graves and inscription in the
Bellingham Chapel at the Kendal Parish Church (Northumberland) – built by a Sir
Roger Bellingham, and presently the Memorial Chapel of the Border regiment –
belong not to him, but to his uncle (although some researchers attribute the
inscription to the nephew). The restored (during the seventeenth century, the
original brasses having been stolen, it is reported, by Cromwell’s soldiers)
epitaph, quoted here for interest only, reads: “Hereunder lyeth Sir Roger
Bellingham, Knt (which of his own proper costs and charges builded the chapel
of our Lady within this church
of Kendall) and of
Margaret, his wife, daur. of Sir Robert Aske, Knight, and of Elizabeth, his
wife, daur. to the Lord John Clifford, now created Earl of Cumberland, which
Sir Roger dyed the 18th day of July, A.D. 1533, and the sd Margaret
dyed the –th day of --, A.D. 15--, whose souls Jhesu pardon.”
M15: MIDDLETON, Mabel
Margaret B: c 1456, Middleton Hall, Westmorland.
M: c 1476, Sir Roger Bellingham
D: Buried in Bellingham Chapel, Kendal.
BEWLEY, Judith
F15: BEWLEY, William B:
M: Joan Unknown
D:
William
Bewley
The first official reference to William Bewley
is found in a document drafted in 1572: in that year, Thomas Bewley (William’s
father) sold a portion of the lands of Brayton to James Cowdell, and he and his
wife Marion, as well as his son and heir apparent, William Bewley, and his wife
Joan, joined in a fine that was then levied to carry out the sale. Thomas Bewley was also
the owner of some customary freeholds, also at Brayton, in the manor of
Aspatria, and, either in 1572 or some short time afterwards, he transferred his
interest in the small manor of Brayton to his son William, retaining, however,
the lands of customary tenure above mentioned. He seems also to have had a
house at Brayton held in fee under the Crown.
In a survey of the Percy estates, dated May 2, 20
Elizabeth (1578), taken by a Court of Survey under a Commission from Henry, 8th
Earl of Northumberland, the following entries (quoted from
http://www.thomasbewley.com/Bewleys-of-Cumberland/PDF/bewleys_complete_text.pdf)
appear in the portion dealing with the manor of Aspatria: “Freeholders in the
Manor of Aspatria: ‘William Bewley holdeth Brayton by fealty only,
sometime the lands of the Bishop of Carliol’, and rendereth by the year Nil.
Tenants at will in the Manor of Aspatria: ‘No. 86.Thomas Bewley, gent., holdeth at Brayton eight cottages and
houses and 14 acres of the Lord’s waste improved there and rendereth by the
year vj8’.”
On the death of Thomas, sometime after 1578, William
entered into possesion of all his lands within the manors of Caldbeck and
Aspatria. He did not long survive his father, dying on 7-4-1589; on February 3,
32 Elizabeth (1590), an inquisition post mortem was taken at Penrith, which
found as follows:“That William Bewley,
gentleman, had lands and tenements in Hesket held of Philip Lord Wharton as of
his manor of Caldbeck-Under-Fell by knight-service and suit of Court at his
said manor from three weeks to three weeks, and free rent of 3S 4d yearly, paid
at the feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin in winter by equal portions, and they
are worth by the year clear 14. 8. The lands and tenements in Braiton are held
of Henry Earl of Northumberland, as of his manor of Aspatrick (by what services
the jurors know not), and are worth by the year clear j6 13. 4. William Bewley
was seised in fee of a capital messuage and tenement in Hesket, and in divers
acres of land, meadow and pasture to the same messuage belonging, one water
mill, one other messuage, and one cottage in Hesket: also a capital messuage in
Braiton. William Bewley
died 7th April last, and Richard Bewley
his son and heir is under age, viz: sixteen years and a quarter.”
At the time of his death, William Bewley was
residing at Hesket
(Hesketh) Hall; he had three sons (Richard – his heir, who sold (1597) all his interest in the Brayton estate to Thomas
Salkeld, a member of a well-known family resident at that time in the parish of
Aspatria John, and Thomas) and one daughter (Judith, Generation 14).
M15: UNKNOWN, Joan B:
M: William Bewley
D:
BLAIR, Alexander
F15: BLAIR, John B: c 1547, Kilbirnie
M: c 11-5-1565, Grizel (Grisel, Grace) Sempill
(Semple)
D:
1609, KIlbirnie
Comments: Researcher Jared Olar
06/0835036921, 17-6-1996) records
that the eldest son (also named John
Blair) of John Blair and Grisel
Semple, died in the same year as his father.
John Burke (A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of
Great Britain, Vol 4, 1838) states that son John predeceased his father.
M15: SEMPILL (SEMPLE), Grizel (Grisel, Grace)
B: 1551, Blair, Ayrshire, Scotland
M: c 11-5-1565, John Blair
D:
8-2-1572, Blair, Ayrshire.
Comments:
sister of Dorothy (Mary) Sempill, recorded in Generation 16
as
wife of Sir Robert Montgomery, 6th of Skelmorly.
BOYNTON, Dorothy
F15: BOYNTON, Sir Francis B: c 1565
M: Dorothy Place
D:
before 9-4-1617. Buried 9-4-1617,
Barmston, Yorkshire.
Sir Francis Boynton
Sir Francis Boynton was High Sheriff of Yorkshire
in the 38th year of Elizabeth I (1596), and was mentioned the
following year as leasing the ‘twenty-foot bank’ at Barmston, where he
subsequently built (1598) the middle part of the late mansion, in the hall of
which were his arms impaling those of Place, and another shield supported by
two goats.
Sir Francis
was one of the King’s Council in the North in 1602, and was knighted (17-4-1603)
at York, when King James passed through that city on his way from Scotland to
the throne (there is a tradition that King James spent a night at the seat of
Sir Francis, Burton Agnes Hall, and that the arms on the gateway commemorate
this event).
Sir Francis married Dorothy Place (daughter of
Christopher Place and Alice Tempest, who, on the death of her first husband,
married Walter Strickland -- brother of Elizabeth Strickland (Generation 15)
and Agnes Strickland (Generation 13) --, and, on his death, Sir Francis’s father – that is, her daughter’s
father-in-law); while the date of this marriage is unknown, it is likely to
have coincided with the signing of a bond by Sir Francis to perform covenants
with Dame Alice Boynton (April 9, 1582); in a subsequent document (September 6,
1589), Sir Francis releases ‘his’ brother-in-law, Thomas Strickland, which
proves that he was already the husband of Dorothy Place (Thomas Strickland’s
step-sister following Alice’s second marriage). Sir Francis and Dorothy had
four children, two of whom died in infancy (the only son to survive to
adulthood was Matthew, born 1591).
Sir Francis gained possession (1591) of the ‘Rectory and Church of Byrlington, with all its rights. Afterwards (c 1601), Sir Francis purchased, from Anthony Foster (‘proctor’ to the incumbent of Roxby) property which formed part of the glebe in Roxby belonging to the parish of Hinderwell. By the time of his death (1617) the family had accumulated the manors of Barmston, Roxby, Acklam, Rudston, as well as lands in Boynton.
In his
will (made 27th April, 1614, and proved 29th May, 1617), Sir Francis expressed
the desire to be buried at Barmston, whenever it pleased God to call him, and
also that “there might not be too sumptuous cost made at his funeral”. He left
money to the poor of Barmston, Rudstone, Bridlington, Croft (where he appears to
have sometimes resided), Lisset, Ulrome, Fraisthorpe, Roxby, Acklam and
Middleton Tyas. To his wife he left her (own) chamber as it should be furnished
at the time of his death, and all his apparel and jewels, besides legacies to
his son and daughter Dorothy (Generation 14), wife of James Bellingham.
Three original documents (cited on
http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-01/1105295168) refer to
Francis Boynton. The first, HSP
16:84, pedigree of Boynton [3], states: “record of a Lease for 21 years at
£6.10s. rent, dated 14 Apr. 1597: ‘Francis Boynton of Barmstone esq. to William
Wattson “of the Watter Mylne
in the sayd countye” yeoman property house, water mill and Water Mylne Close in Barmstone’ - A2A, East
Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records
Service: Chichester-Constable Family [DDCC/1 - DDCC/50], DDCC/3/26[1]”. The second,
an ‘assignment dated
23 Jan. 1589/90’ states: “Roger
Rante and Peter Whetcombe of London
gents. to Francis Boynton
of Barmeston esq. property messuage and 2 bovates late in tenure of Margaret Boynton widow and
parcel of Nunkeeling Priory Recites
a grant to them by Letters Patent (22 Jan. 1589/90) - A2A, East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and
Records Service: Chichester-Constable
Family [DDCC/1 - DDCC/50], DDCC/3/27[1]”. The final, brief entry states: “Sir F
Boynton Knt instituted Martin Briggs M.A. as
rector of Barmston,
1612 [HSP 16:84, pedigree of Boynton 5]”
M15: PLACE, Dorothy B:
M15: PLACE, Dorothy B:
M: Sir Francis Boynton
D:
before 12-1632. Buried 12-2-1632, Barmston,
Yorkshire.
Dorothy Place
The youngest of five daughters (and co-heirs) of Christopher Place
and his wife, Alice Tempest (who would, for her third husband, marry her
daughter’s father-in-law, Sir Thomas Boynton), Dorothy Place was still a minor when her
father died. Her mother’s second marriage was to Walter Strickland, and, by
articles of agreement (October 5, in 1566, the 8th year of Queen
Elizabeth I) between Walter and William Wicklife, of York (who had purchased the wardships and marriages
of the girls), arrangements were made for Dorothy to receive the profits of
certain lead mines in Skelton. Walter Strickland subsequently bought from
William Wicklife, first, the wardship of Dorothy, and, second (on May 20,
1568), the wardship of the fourth daughter and co-heir, Isabel.
CARNEGIE, David
F15: CARNEGIE, David B:
M:
(i) Elizabeth Ramsay
(ii) 4-10-1568, Eupheme
Wemyss
(iii) 1594, Janet Henrison
D:
19-4-1598
David Carnegie of Colluthie and Kinnaird
“…a wise,
peaceable, and sober man, in good credit and estimation with the king, and
taken into his Privy Council for his skill and knowledge in civil affairs,” is
how the Right
Honorable David Carnegie of Colluthie and Kinnaird was described by Archbishop
Spottiswood in his History of the Church (quoted
in William Fraser’s History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk,
and of their Kindred, Vol 1, at http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-fraser/history-of-the-carnegies-earls-of-southesk-and-of-their-kindred-volume-1-sar/page-17-history-of-the-carnegies-earls-of-southesk-and-of-their-kindred-volume-1-sar.shtml).
William
Fraser (op. cit.) provides the following (edited) biography of David Carnegie:“On the death of Sir John Carnegie of Kinnaird without male issue, in the year 1595, his next brother, Mr. David Carnegie of Colluthie, succeeded to Kinnaird.
Having previously been provided by his father to the
estate of Panbride in the county
of Forfar, he was for
some time designated Mr. David Carnegie of Panbride. After his marriage with
Elizabeth Ramsay, he was designated of Colluthie; and under this designation he
appears in most of the public transactions in which he was engaged. As he only
enjoyed the estate of Kinnaird for about three years, the designation of
Colluthie adhered to him until his death…..Mr. David Carnegie was bred to the
law, took a prominent part in the civic business of Scotland, and was appointed
on many commissions by King James VI. In the year 1578, along with several
noblemen…. Mr. David Carnegie was appointed one of the commissioners on the
laws. In the year 1587 he was appointed a commissioner for establishing a
universal met, measure, and weight, and also for setting of the order of the
taxation on all estates. In the year 1592 he was appointed one of the
commissioners to make and conclude the assignations of the minister's
stipends….In the following year he was appointed one of the commissioners …. to
hear the petition of the Earls of Angus, Huntlie, and Errol, to be put on trial
for their alleged conspiracy; and for the taxation of one hundred thousand
pounds granted to the King in anticipation of the Queen's confinement, and the
great expense of the birth and baptism. From that year onwards to within a
short tune of his death, he was a commissioner under various Acts of Convention
and Parliament.
He was made a Privy Councillor in the year 1592, under an Act of Parliament; and in the following year another Act was passed….. committing the daily remembrance, care, and direction, furtherance of the execution and administration of the weekly affairs concerning his Highness' estate and realm, to the Duke of Lennox and other Councillors, of whom Mr. David Carnegie of Colluthie was one….Mr. David Carnegie was also much employed in the affairs of the Church from the year 1580 and onwards….. (he) was one of the King's Commissioners to the
General
Assembly held at Edinburgh
on 24th April 1583.
For the encouragement of learning in the county with which he was so closely connected, Mr. David Carnegie founded a bursary in the College of St. Leonard's in St. Andrews; and on 28th July 1592 he obtained a Crown charter of the patronage of the bursary, and of the lands of Middle Drummies and Greenden, in the county of Forfar, for the bursar's support.
In the beginning of the year 1596, the Laird of Kinnaird was appointed one of the extraordinary commissioners of the Exchequer, better known as Octavians….In September of the same year, he attended a Convention at Linlithgow, held by the desire of James VI, as appears from a letter from his brother Robert. David Carnegie only survived the Convention at Linlithgow about two years, having died on the 19th of April 1598.”
M15: WEMYSS, Eupheme B:
M: 4-10-1568, David Carnegie
D:
16-11-1593
CARR, Barbarie
(Barbara)
F15: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown
D:
M15: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown
D:
CHAYTOR, Eleanor
F15: CHAYTOR, Piers B: c 1480
M: Unknown
D:
Comments:
sheriff of Newcastle
M15: UNKNOWN B:
M: Piers Chaytor
D:
CHOLMLEY (CHOMELY, CHOLMONDELEY),
Sir Richard
F15: CHOLMLEY, Henry B:
M: Margaret Babthorpe
D:
1616
Henry
Cholmley
Henry was the half-brother of his father’s heir, Francis
Cholmley, who built the Abbey House at Whitby; when Francis died without
children (his wife, the daughter of Ranulph Bulmer, was described as a woman of
haughty spirit who had placed her own initial in front of that of her husband
on the porch of the new Abbey Hall), Henry, by entail of his father’s will,
inherited all his estates.
Henry married Margaret Babthorpe, a Catholic who was
rumoured to have harboured priests at Abbey Hall; however, the pair became
“zealous Protestants”, and Henry was knighted when James I succeeded to the
English throne in 1603.
M15: BABTHORPE, Margaret B:
M: Henry Cholmley
D:
1628
Comments:
originally a Catholic who had been rumoured to have
harboured priests, Margaret
Babthorpe became a zealous Protestant who saw her husband knighted by James I.
COCHRANE, Elizabeth
F15: COCHRANE, William B: c 1540
M: Margaret Montgomery
D:
c 1593
William
Cochrane
“A man of great sagacity, economy, and prudence
(who)greatly adorned and beautified the ancient feat of the family of Cochrane
with large plantations and buildings” (‘Cochrane Earl of Dundonald’,
http://www.clancochrane.org/DundonaldLineage.htm), William Cochrane obtained charters
“under the great seal from Mary, of the lands and barony of Cochrane, and
several others, inter 1558 et 1560……He married Margaret, daughter of the Sir
Robert Montgomery of Skelmorly, in the shire of Ayr, by Mary his wife, daughter
of the lord Robert Semple, by whom he had three daughters” (op. cit).
No information exists regarding the two eldest daughters;
nor, it seems, did the marriage of William and Margaret produce a male heir.
For reasons unknown, the youngest daughter, Elizabeth (Generation 14), was
William’s sole heiress, he having “made a resignation and entail of his whole
estate, in favors of his daughter, Elizabeth, and the heirs-male of her body,
whom failing, to several others particularly specified in the deed of entail,
which is dated, anno 1593, any person to succeeding being obligated to carry
the name and arms of Cochrane” (op. cit)
M15: MONTGOMERY, Margaret B:
M: William Cochrane
D:
Comments: her date of death given
as 15-8-1594 at
http://www.axlines.org/family/submit/individual.php?pid=I1675&ged=axl
ine.ged (but name recorded as ‘Elizabeth’)
CURWEN, Sir Christopher
F15: CURWEN, Sir Thomas B:
c 1450
M:
(i) Isabel Percy
(ii)
Anne Huddleston
D:
1522
Comments:
Made a Knight of the Bath
on the marriage of Prince Arthur,
17-11-1501.
Also recorded in Generation 20 as father of Lucy Curwen,
sister
of Sir Christopher Curwen and wife of Sir John Lowther.
M15:
HUDDLESTON, Anne
B:
M: Sir Thomas Curwen
D:
Comments:
Also recorded in Generation 20 as mother of Lucy Curwen,
sister of Sir Christopher and wife
of Sir John Lowther. In addition, Anne is
sister
of Sir Richard Huddleston (died 1485), recorded in Generation 19 as
husband
of Margaret Neville.
DOCWRA, Francis
F15: DOCWRA, Humphrey B: 1525, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
M:
c 1560, Johan (Ann) Unknown
D:
before 27-6-1564 (date of burial), Fen Ditton.
Humphrey Docwra
The following information on the life of Humphrey Docwra
is provided by Odd Ottesen (26-10-2110, at
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DOCWRA/2001-10/1004093521): “He seems to have lived in Fulbourn,
shortly south-east of Fen Ditton, because
here - at St Vigor in Fulbourn - Humphrey Docwra had two children baptized in the 1550s,
according to the IGI (Thomas and Elizabeth).
And as ‘Humphrey Docwra’ is a very seldom name, I suppose it is the same man. Perhaps he later
moved to Fen Ditton. Humphrey
Dockwraye, gentleman, was involved concerning a lease of the manor of Ditton Hall, by Thomas Lord
Vaux of Harrowden. (procat) The
GT says that Humphrey Docwra had a son Francis and two sons and two
daughters. The VH has no
informations about Humphrey, except stating he was son of John Docwra. The VC calls
him Humphrey Docwra of Fen Ditton and
mentions his wife Ann and their son Thomas.”
Humphrey Docwra was the grand-nephew of Sir Thomas Docwra,
Grand Prior of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.
M15: UNKNOWN, Johan (Ann) B: c 1530
M:
c 1560, Humphrey Docwra
D:
before 27-6-1565, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
DOUGLAS, Robert
F15: DOUGLAS, Sir William B:
M:
26-11-1554, Agnes Leslie (contract signed 19-9-1554)
D:
1606
Sir William Douglas, Earl of Morton.
Designated by researchers as either the 5th or the 6th Earl of Morton, Sir William Douglas received the charter for the earldom on July 20,
1589, following the death, in 1588, of his cousin, Archibald Douglas, the 5th Earl (the earldom of Morton had been forfeited in 1581
following the execution and attainder of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, for being one of the murderers of Henry Stuart (Lord
Darnley); it was then granted to a grandson of the 3rd Earl, John Maxwell (7th Lord Maxwell), before being eventually returned to the
Douglas family in 1586).
Sir William had close relations with Scottish royalty: his mother was Margaret Erskine, a former mistress of King James V of Scotland; his
half-brother from his mother’s liaison with the king was James Stewart, Earl of Moray (Regent of Scotland from 1567 until his
assassination in January 1570); and his cousin, James Douglas (see above) was yet another Regent of Scotland.
Sir William and his wife, Agnes Leslie, married 26-11-1554 (the contract having been made 19-8-1554), after which they resided (with his
widowed mother) at Lochleven Castle, a fortress situated on an island in the middle of the loch. As Laird of Lochleven, Sir William was the
custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her captivity (from June, 1567, until her escape on May 2, 1568). Lady Agnes was Queen Mary’s
chief female companion throughout her imprisonment, and it was while Agnes was recovering from childbirth (during which time Mary
found herself less-closely guarded) that the queen successfully escaped from Lochleven, with the aid of Sir William’s brother, George, and
an orphaned cousin (also William Douglas) who also lived at the castle (when Sir William learned of his royal captive’s escape, he was,
reportedly, so distressed that he attempted to stab himself with his own dagger).
Sir William and Agnes had eleven children, including seven daughters, who were known, on account of their great beauty, as ‘the Pearls
of Lochleven’. Their first daughter, Christian, married Lawrence Oliphant, Master of Oliphant, who accompanied their son, Robert
(Generation 14), on his 1584 voyage when both were captured by pirates (resulting in a letter (20-1-1601) being sent from Queen
Elizabeth I to the of Ottoman sultan, Mahomet Chan, requesting their release).
M15: LESLIE, Agnes B: after 1541
M:
26-11-1554, William Douglas (contract 19-8-1554)
D:
c 1606
Agnes Leslie
A direct descendant of King James II in her maternal line
(her mother being Margaret Crichton, whom her father, George Leslie, 4th Earl
of Rothes and Ambassador to Denmark, married twice), Agnes Leslie was the chief
female companion of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment at Locheleven
Castle from June, 1567, to May 2, 1568; it was while Agnes was recovering from
the birth of and, therefore, for this short time, allowed Mary a greater degree
of privacy, that the Queen made her escape from the castle (Agnes’s husband,
William Douglas, Mary’s official custodian, was so distressed by this outcome
that he attempted suicide).
Agnes had three sisters, and two elder brothers (William
Rothes and Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes) whose rights of inheritance were
forfeited as a result of both having been implicated in the murder (1546) of
Cardinal Beaton (her father was also tried for the same crime, but acquitted).
She also had several half-siblings, including Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes
(her father’s son by his marriage to Agnes Somerville).
In 1586, the earldom of Morton, which had previously
(1581) been forfeited following the execution and attainder of the 4th Earl of
Morton (for being one of the murderers of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley) returned
to the Douglas family. Two years later, upon
the death of Archibald Douglas (5th Earl of Morton), Sir William became 6th
Earl of Morton, receiving the charter for the earldom on 20-7-1589; from that date, Agnes Leslie was styled ‘Countess of Morton’.
FAIRCHILD, William
F15: FAIRCHYLD (FAIRCHILD), Richard B: c 1544
M:
(i) 21-11-1563, Orwell, Cambridgeshire,
Amy Woodward.
(ii) 16-7-1572, Orwell, Cambridgeshire, Margery
Hickes (Hicks)
D:
8-1-1611
Comments:
in addition to William (Generation 14), Richard Fairchyld
(Fairchild)
and Margery Hickes (Hicks) were parents of Alexander (married
Agnes
Holder); Alice (married Richard
Baylie); Frances
(married Edward
Mott).
M15: HICKES (HICKS), Margery B:
M:
16-7-1572, Richard Fairchyld (Fairchild)
D:
FLETCHER, Mary
F15: FLETCHER, Sir Richard B: c 1569
M:
(i) Unknown Richmond
(ii) 17-2-1599, Barbara
Crakanthorp (Crackenthorpe)
D:
23-3-1637
Sir Richard Fletcher
Termed, first, ‘of Cockermouth’, Sir Richard Fletcher
(knighted by James I) acquired Hutton-in-the-Forest (Penrith, Cumbria)
from the de Hoton family in 1605 (after which he was also ‘of Hutton’; soon
afterwards, he began the conversion of
the fortified building into a country house. A merchant who had ‘acquired
considerable wealth by commerce’, he also purchased ‘divers other great
estates’.
Sir Richard wasSheriff of Cumberland in 1617. His only son (and heir)
was Henry Fletcher; however, he had three children by his first marriage (all
of whom died unmarried), and five daughters (Bridget; Isabel; Mary, Generation
14; Catherine; and Winifred) by his second marriage, to Barbara Crakanthorpe (Crackenthorpe).
M15: CRAKANTHORP (CRAKENTHORP,
CRACKANTHORP, CRACKENTHORPE), Barbara
B:
3-2-1581
M: Sir Richard Fletcher
D:
Comments:
‘of New Biggen’.
FOULIS, Margaret
F15: FOULIS, James B: living in Edinburghshire in 1594.
M: Agnes Heriot
D:
Comments:
‘of Colinton’. Referred to by Joseph Foster (Members of
Parliament
of Scotland) as ‘a
minor baron’. John Burke gives the
derivation
of ‘Foulis’ as being the armorial bearing of three leaves, which
is
‘feuilles’ in French. James Foulis and Agnes Heriot had four sons, the
eldest
of which (Sir James Foulis) succeeded his father.
M15: HERIOT, Agnes B:
M: James Foulis of Colinton
D:
5-8-1593
Comments:
heiress of Lumphoy. Has been recorded as daughter of James
Heriot,
Laird of Trabroun; this has been found to be incorrect (however,
Elizabeth Heriot, wife of Thomas
Hamilton -- recorded in this generation –
is James’s daughter).
GRAHAM, John
F15: GRAHAM, John B: 1548
M: 24-8-1563, Jean Drummond
D:
9-11-1608
John
Graham
On the subject of John Graham -- 3rd Earl of
Montrose and great-grandson of James IV of Scotland -- George Wishart, author
of The Memoirs of James, Marquis of
Montrose, 1639-1650, recalls that “almost in our own memory was advanced to
the highest offices, and discharged them with the greatest success. He was Lord
Chancellor of Scotland when King James VI., of blessed memory, succeeded to the
crown of England, and was
made his Lord High Commissioner in Scotland, and enjoyed that highest
honour bestowed on a subject, with the love and affection of both king and
people, till his death.” John Graham also held the position of Chancellor of
the University of
St Andrews from 1599 (the
year he was made Lord Chancellor) to 1604.
John Graham (whose wife, Jean Drummond, was his second cousin:
her grandmother was Elizabeth Graham, daughter of the 1st Earl of
Montrose) succeded his grandfather, William Graham (Generation 17), the Second
Earl of Montrose. John’s father, Robert Graham, did not succeed as he
predeceased his father, William, by some twenty-four years (indeed, it would
appear from the records that Robert died as early as 1547, the year before his
son, John, was born).
M15: DRUMMOND, Jean B:
M:
24-8-1563, John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose.
D:
Comments:
Second cousin of her husband; her date of death is often
recorded
as March, 1567/8; this, however, does not accord with the
accepted
date of birth of her son, John Graham (1573), and John’s sister,
Lilias,
who was born 1570.
HAMILTON, Sir Thomas
F15: HAMILTON, Sir Thomas B:
M:
(i) 1558, at Edinburgh (Midlothian), Elizabeth
Heriot
(ii) Elizabeth Murray
D:
before 1612
Sir
Thomas Hamilton, 3rd of Preistfield
Referred to as ‘Sir Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield’ (a title he resigned, in 1608, in favour of his son), Sir Thomas was a minor at the death
of his father in the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, but -- as was customary when the head of a family fell in battle -- was at once retoured heir to
his father. While his date of birth is not known, he must have reached his majority by 1561, as in that year he was made a burgess of
Edinburgh in right of his father.
In 1568, Sir Thomas was in Paris, probably studying law; by 1571 he was in Scotland, and “had ranged himself on the Queen's side in the
political divisions of the day. Although he does not appear to have taken a very prominent part in public affairs, he was outlawed in 1572
along with the Earl of Arran and others …. he was included in the pacification of the following year. He was also included in the Act of
Restoration following on the return of the Hamiltons and the 'banished lords' in 1585. It was not till 1603 that he had any actual
appointment in the public service; in that year he was appointed one of the commissioners for managing the Queen's property in
Scotland, and on 29 May 1607 he was raised to the Bench of the Court of Session, under the title of Lord Priestfield. On 12 January 1608
he was admitted a member of the Privy Council, and held that position till the reconstruction of the body in 1610. His judgeship did not
last long, as he resigned in 1608…..He married, first, in 1558, Elizabeth, daughter of James Heriot of Trabroun, who apparently did not
survive long; and, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Murray of Blackbarony, and widow of James Borthwick of Newbyres.”
(James Balfour Paul, The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and
genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, at
http://www.archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft_djvu.txt).
M15: HERIOT, Elizabeth B:
c 1540
M:
1558, Sir Thomas Hamilton, 3rd of Priestfield
D:
Comments:
It is reported that she did not live long after her marriage.
HOGHTON, Sir Gilbert
F15: HOGHTON, Sir Richard B: 26-8-1570, Hoghton
Tower, Preston, Lancashire.
M: Catherine (Katherine) Gerard
D:
12-11-1630
Sir
Richard Hoghton
Hoghton
Tower, the home of Sir Richard Hoghton (and the ancestral home of the de
Hoghton family since the Norman Conquest), and the base for the infamous
‘gunpowder plot’, is “one of the most dramatic-looking houses in the North of
England”: a large fortified house, on a hilltop six miles east of Preston on
the road to Blackburn, built around a medieval pele tower, which originally
stood between the inner and outer courtyards of the present house. Construction
was completed by Sir Richard’s uncle (his father Thomas’s half-brother, also
Thomas) in 1565 (it still contains the King’s Bedchamber, Audience Chamber,
Ballroom and other staterooms used by the King, the Duke of Buckingham and
other nobles, and underground passages with dungeons, wine cellar and stone
cells), who lived in it only four years before being forced to flee (since he
was a recusant: one of the Roman Catholics in England who incurred legal and
social penalties in the 16th century and afterward for refusing to attend
services of the Church of England) to the Low Countries, where he died, leaving
his nephew, Sir Richard (who held more politically-correct views) to take up
residence at Hoghton Tower.
Sir
Richard earned the favour of James I, who made him a baronet (1611). The
following year, in August, the notorious trial of the Pendle and Samlesbury
Witches (eight women and two men from the Pendle district and seven women and
two men from Samlesbury and Windle, ranging in age from nine to eighty) was
held at Lancaster Castle (James being
such a strong believer in witchcraft that an Act was passed which imposed the death
penalty “for making a covenant with an evil spirit, using a corpse for magic,
hurting life or limb, procuring love, or injuring cattle by means of charms”);
Sir Richard Hoghton, along with Lord Gerard (probably his brother-in-law) was
selected to assist the judges, Judge Bromley (presiding) and Judge Altham (the
Prosecutor was the High Sheriff of Lancashire, Roger Nowell of Read Hall, and
the Clerk of the Court was Thomas Potts of London. At the end of the three-day
assize, ten of the defendants – allowed neither defence counsel nor witnesses
to testify on their behalf – were found guilty of witchcraft, sentenced to
death, and hanged on the moor above the town, and one -- Margaret Pearson, the
Padiham Witch -- was sentenced to be pilloried on four consecutive market days
in Padiham, Clitheroe, Whalley and Lancaster, and then to serve one year in
prison).
The most notable event in the life of Sir Richard Hoghton
occurred in August 1617, when King James paid a three-day visit to Hoghton Tower (where, previously, William Shakespeare had started
his working life as a tutor; Shakespeare stayed with the Hoghtons and their
neighbours until May 15, 1581, when he was 17). While some nobles, fearful of
the expense a royal visit entailed, were known to burn down part of their manor
in order to forestall the visit (reasoning that the cost of repairs was less
than the cost of entertaining royalty), Sir Richard laid out the red carpet for
the entire length of the half-mile avenue leading to the house.
The
Banqueting Hall, with its Minstrel’s Gallery, is where James, impressed with
the loin of beef served (and equally affected by the wine) dubbed the beef ‘Sir
Loin’; to commemorate the event the local pub was renamed ‘The Sirloin’, and
still goes by that name today. On the Sunday of the King’s stay at Hoghton
Tower he received a petition (signed principally by the Lancashire peasants,
tradespeople and servants, lamenting that they were debarred from lawful
recreations upon Sunday, after evening prayers, and upon holy days), which was
answered by proclamation which formed the basis of The Book of Sports issued (1618) to all bishops, to be read and
published in all parish churches (the subsequent re-issue of The Book of Sports by Charles I early in
his reign -- antagonising clergy and Parliament -- was one of the root causes
of the subsequent Civil Wars).
Perhaps
Sir Richard should have burnt down part of Hoghton Tower
after all; as a result of his great expenditure on entertainment for James –
further aggravated by an overdue mortgage on his alum mines at Hoghton -- Sir
Richard became bankrupt, and was imprisoned in Fleet Prison.
Sir
Richard died in 1630, and was succeeded to the baronetcy by his son, Gilbert
(Generation 14).
M15: GERARD, Catherine (Katherine) B: c 1569, Gerards Bromley, Staffordshire.
M: Sir Richard Hoghton
D:
17-11-1617
HOME, Margaret
F15: HOME, Alexander B:
M:
(i) Margaret Ker
(ii) Agnes Grey (Gray), widow of Sir
Robert Logan
D:
c 1575
Alexander
Home
Alexander Home,
the 5th Lord Home, was contracted to marry a daughter of James V of Scotland
and Elizabeth Beaton. However, he married, first, Margaret Ker of Cessford
(mother of their daughter, Margaret Home), and, later, Agnes Grey (Gray), daughter of
Patrick lord Grey (Gray), and widow of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig (Alexander Home, 6th Lord Home, was a
product of this marriage).
Alexander was captured (9-9-1547, the day before the
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh) at the skirmish at Fauside (Falside Bray) and taken
hostage to England, but
subsequently released on his mother surrendering Home
Castle (which he later recovered, with
the help of his brother, Andrew, ‘in dramatic style’, along with Fast Castle).
He was appointed Warden of the East Marches
(1550) and of the East and Middle Marches (1557); he was also a Privy
Councillor (1561).
A
supporter of the Reformation in 1560, Alexander Home sided, at first, with
Mary, Queen of Scots, to whom he sent a
letter (June, 1562) advising her that Elizabeth I of England was preparing a
large fleet to send to aid the Protestants in France. She showed this to the
English resident at her court, Thomas Randolph who laughed at it and recorded
her cynical reply: "Well, you knowe that my lord Hume hathe a castle to
keape - I wyll not be verie hastie to beleeve, nor I dowbt no suche daynger as
he meanethe, and I trust that for the matters of France that there wilbe accordethe,
so that your mestres shall not neade to be at anye suche charge.” In spite of
her suspicions regarding his motive, he apparently retained a position in the
Queen’s favour, as he subsequently (1566) received her at Home Castle.
His
loyalty to Mary did not, however, endure: in the Scottish Civil War he began by
supporting her opposition, and took arms
against her at Carberry Hill and Langside (1568), now fighting on the side of
her son, King James VI (as a reward for which the Regent Moray gave him the
Commendatorship of Arbroath). But, then, he abruptly returned to Mary, and --
from 1569 to 1573 -- became one of her most stalwart supporters, defending
Morton Castle on her behalf against the Regent Morton (1573).
As
a result of the surrender of the castle, Alexander was taken prisoner,
convicted of treason, and had his lands and titles forfeited; he most likely
died in captivity that same year. His widow, Agnes Grey (Gray) then married the
Master of Glamis.
M15: KER, Margaret B:
M:
(i) Alexander Home
(ii) Master of Glamis
D: ‘before 5-12-1565’
Margaret Ker
The husband of Margaret Ker, Alexander Home,
is mentioned in several charters and letters of the era; one document (quoted,
with the others, at http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/great-britain-royal-commission-on-historical-manu/the-manuscripts-of-the-duke-of-athole-k-t-and-of-the-earl-of-home-aer/page-21-the-manuscripts-of-the-duke-of-athole-k-t-and-of-the-earl-of-home-aer.shtml)
attests to Margaret as his wife: “Letters of Procuratory by Alexander Lord
Home, appointing procurators to resign in the hands of George Earl of Huntly as
superior, the whole lands of Middlethird, as occupied by John Acheson senior and
John Acheson junior, in the lordship of East Gordon and sheriffdom of Berwick,
for new infeftment to Lord Home and Margaret Ker his
spouse. Dated at Home 20 September 1552. [This is followed, in the Home Charter chest, by a Precept of Sasine by George Earl of Huntly. Edinburgh 17 December 1552, and Instrument of sasine 7th September 1553.]
spouse. Dated at Home 20 September 1552. [This is followed, in the Home Charter chest, by a Precept of Sasine by George Earl of Huntly. Edinburgh 17 December 1552, and Instrument of sasine 7th September 1553.]
Margaret Ker is the daughter of Sir Walter Ker of
Cessford. Her maternal grandmother was Janet Home,
implying that she and her husband were related.
KEITH, George
F15: KEITH, William B:
M:
by contract, 13-1-1543/4, Elizabeth Hay
D:
10-8-1580, Dunottar, Kincardineshire
William
Keith
Although his father – also William Keith -- was 3rd
Earl of Marischal, William Keith never inherited the title of Earl, as he was
killed, in a riot, in Geneva,
a year before his father’s death. He was, therefore, known as ‘Lord Keith,
Master of Marischal’
William was captured by the Percys (1558), and held
prisoner for 10 years. In 1569 he was invested as a Privy Counsellor.
M15: HAY, Elizabeth B: c 1530
M:
by contract, 13-1-1543/4, William Keith
D:
Comments:
daughter of George Hay, 7th earl of Errol.
KENNEDY, Gilbert (or
Hew)
F15: KENNEDY, Gilbert B: c 1541
M:
30-9-1566 (by contract), Margaret Lyon
D:
14-12-1576
Gilbert Kennedy, 4th
Earl of Cassilis
The 4th Earl of Cassilis (also, 6th
Lord Kennedy; he succeeded to both titles on 28-11-1558) is notorious as the
man who roasted alive the Commendator of Crossraguel Abbey in order to acquire
lands under his protection; this, however, is merely one of a series of
intrigues which caused him to be popularly described as ‘the king of Carrick’
(because of his feudal influence in that area) and as ‘the treacherous Gilbert
Kennedy’. The following (edited) information on the life and career of the man
who played host (at Dunure
Castle, on August 4, 5,
and 6, 1563) to Mary, Queen of Scots, is taken from
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/cassillis.htm:
“…..In
1562 he was sworn a privy councillor to Queen Mary, and in 1565 was appointed
justiciary of Carrick. On the night of Darnley’s murder in February 1567, he
and the earls of Argyle and Huntly accompanied the queen, when she took her
last farewell of her ill-fated husband at Kirk of Field. His name occurs the
fifth of the noblemen who subscribed the bond in favour of Bothwell’s marriage
to the queen, at the famous supper given to the nobility by that reckless
adventurer, and he fought on the side of Mary at the battle of Langside, 13th
May 1568.
In the
parliament of 19th August following, he was declared guilty of
treason, but judgment was suspended. At the convention held 14th
April 1569, he acknowledged, by oath and subscription, the king’s authority,
and on 17th November following, the regent declared that his
lordship had made due obedience to the king. He was afterwards appointed one of
the privy council. Nevertheless, we find, in March 1570, his name attached to a
letter signed by a number of the lords of the queen’s faction, and sent to
Queen Elizabeth in Mary’s behalf, and in the spring of the following year the
regent Lennox was obliged to go to Kyle and Carrick, to pursue the earl of
Cassillis for persecuting and oppressing those who acknowledged the king’s
authority. On this occasion, to prevent the wasting of his lands, he gave his
brother in pledge that he would enter the 15th day of May at Stirling, to confirm the conditions craved and agreed
upon.
On
the death of Quentin Kennedy, the last abbot of Crossraguel, in 1564, a pension
had been conferred on George Buchanan, of five hundred pounds a-year out of the
abbey revenues, payment of which he appears to have found great difficulty in
obtaining, owing to the seizure of the lands by the earl of Cassillis. That
rich and celebrated abbey lay in the vicinity of the earl’s castle, and after
he had, by forgery and murder, possessed himself of the abbacy of Glenluce, he
cast his eye on Crossraguel; and the criminal records of the period exhibit an
act of horrible cruelty perpetrated by him in 1570, for the purpose of adding
the abbey lands to his estates”.
(The acts
of “forgery and murder” referred to above regarding Gilbert’s acquisition of
Glenluce involve his inducement of one of the abbey’s monks to forge the
signatures on a land charter, following which he organised the assassination of
this monk, further covering his tracks by having the assassin arrested and
hanged.)
“Allan
Stewart, the commendator of the (Crossraguel) abbey, who had succeeded Quentin
Kennedy, and who lived under the protection of the laird of Bargany, was
enticed, under hospitable pretences, to leave his safeguard and pass some days
in Maybole with Sir Thomas Kennedy, brother of the earl. On the 29th
August….he was apprehended by the earl, and conveyed to the castle of Dunure,
the original seat of the family…..on the western boundary of Maybole parish.
The barbarous treatment to which he was subjected, to compel him to sign a feu
charter of the abbey lands, forms a striking part of the ‘Historie of the
Kennedyis,’ published in 1830, by Mr. Pitcairn, from an original manuscript in
the Advocates’ Library.
The most
graphic account, however, …is given by Richard Bannatyne, in his ‘Journal,’ and
every part of his narrative is distinctly confirmed by the commendator’s own
statements in his ‘Bill of Supplication to the Lords of Privy-Council.’ It
appears that, unable to succeed in his purpose by any other means, the earl, on
the 1st September, caused his baker, his cook, his pantryman, and
some others, to convey the commendator to the ‘black vault of Dunure,’ where a
large fire was glazing, under ‘a grit iron chimblay,’ “My lord abbot,” said the
earl, “it will please you to confess here that with your own consent you remain
in my company, because you dare not commit you to the hands of others.” The
commendator answered, “Would you, my lord, that I should tell a manifest lie
for your pleasure? The truth is, my lord, it is against my will that I am here,
neither yet have I any pleasure in your company.” “But,” rejoined the earl,
“you shall remain with me at this time….you must then obey me.”…. He then
presented to him certain documents to sign, and, on his refusal, he commanded
‘his cooks,’ says the annalist, ‘to prepare the banquet.’ and …. bound him to
the chimney, ‘his legs to the one end and his arms to the other,’ basting him
well with oil, that ‘the roast should not burn.’ When nearly half roasted he
consented to subscribe the documents, without reading or knowing what was
contained in them. Then the earl swore those who assisted him…..on the Bible,
never to reveal it to any one.
Not
content with this, on the 7th September, on the commendator’s
refusal to ratify and approve the documents he had signed, before a notary and
witnesses, the torment was renewed, till Stewart besought them to put an end to
his sufferings by killing him at once, nor was he released till eleven o’clock
at night, when they saw his life in danger and his flesh consumed and burnt to
the bone. And thus the earl obtained…. ‘a fyve yeare tack and a 19 yeare tack,
and a charter of feu of all the landis of Croceraguall, with the clausses
necessaire for the erle to haist him to hell….” [Bannatyne’s Journal,
edn. 1806, p. 57.]
Having
thus attained his purpose, the earl left the commendator in the hands of his
servants at Dunure, and the laird of Bargany, who knew nothing of the treatment
to which he had been subjected, raised letters of deliverance of his person,
which not being attended to by the earl, he was for contempt thereof denounced
rebel and put to the horn. On the 27th April following, a complaint
was given in to the regent and lords of secret council, by Allan Stewart, the
‘half-roasted’ commendator; on which the earl was summoned before them. On his
appearance he pleaded that the points alleged in the said complaint were either
civil or criminal, and that he ought not to answer thereto except before
competent judges. Without prejudice of the ordinary jurisdiction, the regent,
with the advice of the council, ordered the earl to find security in two
thousand pounds, not to molest the person or property of the commendator. He
was also, at the request of his father’s old preceptor, George Buchanan,
‘pensioner of Crossraguel,’ ordered to find the like security with regard to
him and his pension. And he was sent to Dumbarton castle until he implemented
(obeyed) these orders.
In August
of the same year, by the persuasion of the earl of Morton, the earl, with other
lords of the queen’s faction, finally joined the king’s party, and attended the
parliament held at Stirling in September, at which his escheats were remitted,
in consequence of his owning the king’s authority. He obtained charters of
several lands belonging to the abbacies of Crossraguel and Glenluce in 1572 and
two following years, and had a charter of the lands and castle of Turnberry to
himself and Margaret Lyon his wife (daughter of the ninth Lord Glammis) 8th
March 1575. According to Knox, by the persuasion of his countess he
became a protestant and caused his kirks in Carrick to be reformed [Knox’s
History, p. 398.] He died in September 1576” (other sources record his date
of death as 14-12-1576, and note that death was due to critical injuries
sustained when he was thrown by his horse).
M15: LYON, Margaret B: 30-12-1547
M:
(i) 30-9-1566 (by contract), Gilbert Kennedy
(ii) after 30-12-1577, John Hamilton, 2nd
Marquess of Hamilton.
D:
December, 1625.
Comments:
her second husband was her second cousin. She is the sister
of
John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis, recorded in this generation as husband
of
Elizabeth
Abernethy.
LAWRENCE, Thomas
F15: LAWRENCE, Unknown B:
M: Unknown
D:
M15: UNKNOWN B:
M: Unknown Lawrence
D:
LAWSON, William
F15: LAWSON, Gilfrid (Gylford) B:
M: Unknown Seamer
D:
Comments:
This is the first known occurrence of the name ‘Gilfrid’ in this
family.
It was used twice more (1675 and 1710); both of these bearers of
the
name became baronets.
M15: SEAMER, Unknown B:
M: Gilfrid (Gylford) Lawson
D:
LEGARD, Susan (Susanna,
Susannah)
F15: LEGARD, John B: 1533, Anlaby, East Riding, Yorkshire
M:
1575, Margaret (Margery) Franke
D:
21-4-1587
Comments:
third son of Ralph Legard, seated himself at Ganton, in the
east
riding of Yorkshire.
M15: FRANKE, Margaret (Margery) B: 1554, St. John the Baptist upon
Walbrook, London.
M:
1575, John Legard
D:
Comments:
daughter of Robert Frank(e)
LIDDELL (LYDDALL),
Thomas
F15: LIDDELL (LYDDALE), Thomas B: 1537, Newcastle,
Northumberland
M: Margaret (de) Layburne
D:
8-5-1577
M15: (de) LAYBURNE, Margaret B: 1540
M: Thomas Liddell (Lyddale)
D:
31-10-1604
Comments:
daughter of John (de) Layburne
LINDSAY, Margaret
F15: LINDSAY, Sir David B: c 1551
M:
(i) March, 1570, Lady Helen Lindsay
(ii) 1-12-1585, Isobel Forbes
D:
18-12-1610
Sir
David Lindsay
As son of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford,
it might have been expected that Sir David Lindsay would succeed to the title
of 10th Earl; however, that title was conferred, not on the son of
the 9th earl, but on a quite-distant cousin (also, confusingly,
named David Lindsay), who became the father of Sir David Lindsay’s first wife,
Lady Helen Lindsay (Sir David and Lady Helen were distant relations: his great-great-grandfather
-- Walter Lindsay, Generation 19 -- and her great-great-great-grandfather -- Alexander
Lindsay, Generation 20 -- were brothers). To confuse the matter further, the 8th
Earl of Lindsay was yet another David Lindsay, and he had deliberately
by-passed his son (Alexander Lindsay, who became known as ‘the Wicked Master’)
as 9th Earl because he and Alexander were estranged (they had
quarrelled so violently that the son had attempted to murder the father); he
transferred the earldom, therefore, to his cousin’s line, excluding from
succession all of his own son’s descendants (the 9th Earl, however,
decided to restore the earldom to the original line of the family, so that,
while Alexander never became 9th earl, his son – Lady Helen’s father
– did, after all, become 10th earl).
Thus, on the death (1558) of his father (the 9th
Earl of Crawford) David Lindsay became Lord Edzell, having succeeded only to
the barony and other estates of Edzell. With his brother, John Lindsay (Lord Menmuir),
he was educated on the continent under the care of John Lawson, afterwards
colleague of John Knox. “The sword, the pen, and pruning-hook,” says Lord
Lindsay in his Lives of the Lindsays,
“were equally familiar to him; he even anticipated the geologist’s hammer, and
had at least a taste for architecture and design.” He devoted much attention to
the utilisation of the minerals on his estate, and to agricultural
improvements.”
David Lindsay, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lindsay,_David_%281551%3F-1610%29_%28DNB00%29) “was one of those who on 3 May 1578 signed a
band in favour of the Earl of Maras guardian of the young king, James VI (Reg.
P. C. Scotl. ii. 691). On 14 June of the same year he appeared as
procurator for the sureties of David, eleventh earl of Crawford ….. He was
knighted at the creation of Esme Stuart as Duke of Lennox in October 1581. …on
2 May 1593 he was, under the title of lord Edzell, admitted a lord of session.
His name first appears as a member of the privy council on 16 Nov. 1598 (Reg.
P. C. Scotl. v. 495).”
His life was scarcely less-tumultuous than that of his wife’s
grandfather, ‘the Wicked Master’: Alastair Campbell, in A History of Clan Campbell, Vol 2: from Flodden to the Restoration
(Edinbugh University Press, 2002), writes (p.88): ‘In October, 1581, a further
quarrel broke into bloodhsed – this time in Angus, where David Lindsay of
Edzell killed John Campbell of Lundy, the young grandson of the King’s
Treasurer. Shortly after the killing, Edzell’s brother, Lord Menmuir, warned
him that Ardkinglas’s account of the murder had so incensed Argyll that a plan
was at hand to descend on Glenesk with several hundred armed MacGregors and
utterly destroy it. In the event, the despoiling of Glenesk never happened –
Argyll had his mind on other things and, in 1583, David Lindsay of Edzell and
other members of his family were granted remission for the killing of Lundy and
the wounding of John Lyon of Cossins, a member of a clan with whom the Lindsays
had long been at feud. The incident was symptomatic of the growing antagonism
that was felt towards the ever-increasing Campbell
grasp on the area.”
This antagonism continued, for David Lindsay, into the next
century. “For conniving at a fray between his son and the young laird of
Pitarrow in the High Street of Edinburgh, 17
June 1605, he was for a short time warded in Dumbarton Castle.
In 1607, while seeking to revenge the murder of his relative, Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgarie,
he had the misfortune, at least indirectly, to occasion the death of Lord
Spynie. On 10 Aug. 1609 the privy council fixed 19 Sept. for the trial of him
and his son Alexander for the murder, but his prosecutor, David
Lindsay, twelfth earl of Crawford, having failed to appear, no trial
took place (Pitcairn, Criminal
Trials, iii. 61).” (Wikipedia, op. cit.)
Sir David Lindsay married twice; his first marriage (which
reunited the two lines of the family, as it was to the daughter of the man
(David Lindsay) who had supplanted him as 10th Earl) was to Lady
Helen Lindsay, whom he married without ‘tocher or fortune’, and who gave him
three sons (Sir David of Edzell, John, and Alexander of Canterlaud) and a
daughter (Margaret, who married the first earl of Southesk). By his second
wife, Isobel Forbes, Sir David left no issue.
M15: LINDSAY, Lady Helen B:
M:
March, 1570, Sir David Lindsay
D:
December, 1579.
Helen Lindsay
A Lindsay both before and after her marriage -- her
great-great-great-grandfather (Alexander Lindsay, Generation 20) was the
brother of her husband’s great-great-grandfather (Walter Lindsay, Generation
19) – Lady Helen Lindsay was both the daughter of the 10th Earl of
Crawford and the wife of the man who, under normal rules of succession, ought
to have been the 10th Earl of Crawford (both of these men were named
‘David Lindsay’, and she had a brother, also David Lindsay, who became the 11th
earl of Crawford; care is needed when studying the genealogy of the Lindsay
family in this era).
In addition to David, she had another (younger) brother,
Alexander, who (according to David
MacGregor Peter (1856): The baronage of
Angus and Mearns: comprising the genealogy of three hundred and sixty families
-- being a guide to the tourist and heraldic artist) “was
much esteemed by King James VI, who chose him his Vice-Chamberlain. He advanced
10,000 gold crowns to King James, and was chosen to accompany him to Denmark
on his Majesty’s nuptial expedition. So soon as his Majesty landed with his
bride Princess Ann of Denmark, at his Palace of Holyrood House, 1590, he
granted the temporalities of the see of Moray to the Vice-Chamberlain, in lieu
of the 10,000 crowns, and raised him to the peerage by the style and title of
Lord Spynie of Spynie, to him and his heirs for ever. In 1605, however, the
King re-purchased these lands, and restored them to the church, with the
exception of the patronage of fifty livings, in the shires of Moray, Banff, Nairn, and Inverness.”
LOWTHER, John
F15: LOWTHER, Sir John B: c 1582
M: Eleanor Fleming
D:
15-9-1637
Sir
John Lowther
Sir John Lowther and his son (also Sir John, Generation
14) sat together in the Parliament of 1628, but were removed in 1629, when King
Charles decided to rule without Parliament.
Sir John was aged 15 on death of his mother, Eleanor
Musgrave (who died in childbirth with her 11th - or 15th
-child, Frances); later
wrote, “In all my mother’s life, I was greatly beloved
by her”.
M15: FLEMING, Eleanor B:
M: Sir John Lowther
D:
LYON, Jean
F15:
LYON, John B:
c 1544
M:
11-4-1561, Elizabeth Abernethy (his first cousin), widow of William
Meldrum
D:
27-3-1577/8
John
Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis
An account of the life and career of John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis, is published on-line (at
www.archive.org/stream/lyonmemorial00lyon/lyonmemorial00lyon_djvu.txt) in Lyon, Sidney (ed.): ‘Some Old World Lyons, 21’ in
A Lyon Memorial, 1907; all quoted material below is extracted from this site.
Prior to the death of his father, 7th Lord Glamis (also John Lyon), “the Reformation had been gradually spreading in Scotland….. the power
of the State was in the hands of the party of the Reformation…. the sons of John Lyon, seventh Lord Glamis, John Lyon, eighth Lord
Glamis, and Thomas Lyon, Master of Glamis, must have stood in line with the times through an evolution of opinion, and accepted the
new order of things in active approbation…… Queen Mary had come home from France to a career of capers and intrigues, of
conspiracies and crimes, and the thunderbolts of John Knox could not frighten her back from destruction……(her) mad marriage with the
Black Earl, the rebellion of her outraged subjects, the surrender at Carbary Hill, and the escape from Lochleven Castle were the
extraordinary happenings of seven years of Scottish history. The Lyons drew near together while their giddy sovereign achieved her own
ruin, distrustful of the spinster daughter of Henry VIII and remembering the few that came home from Flodden Field, put their own house
in order.
“In a charter dated April 23rd, 1567, John Lyon, eighth Lord Glamis, made an entail of his estates of Glamis, Towndyce and Baky in
Forfarshire, Cullan, Buttergask, Langforyard and Irchture in Perthshire, Bethelvic, Ardendracht, Collistown, Coustertown and Drumgowan
in Aberdeenshire, on himself and the male heirs of his body, Thomas Lyon, his brother, John Lyon of Haltown of Esse, James Lyon of
Easter Ogill, John Lyon of Culwalogy, and the heirs of their bodies, respectively, which failing, to his own nearest heirs male whatsoever
bearing the name and Arms of Lyon. This charter gives the headship of five prominent branches of the Lyon family of Scotland in 1567,
John Lyon, eighth Lord Glamis; Thomas Lyon, Master of Glamis; John Lyon of Haltown of Esse; James Lyon of Easter Ogill, and John Lyon of
Culwalogy, all lineal descendants of the Feudal Baron John de Lyon of Fortevoit.
“The eighth Lord Glamis had a charter of the Barony of Balky to himself and his wife, Elizabeth Abernathy, daughter of Lord Salton, dated
2nd July, 1569, the sixth month of Moray’s Regency. During the Regencies of Lenox, Mar, and Morton, he rose to prominence. He was
sworn a Privy Councillor and constituted an Extraordinary Lord of the session, 30tli September, 1570, held it till 24th October, 1573, and in
1575 was promoted to the office of High Chancellor of Scotland.
“In March, 1578, John Lyon, Lord of Glamis, was deputed to signify to the Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland, that the King had now
resolved to take the administration of the national affairs in his own hands. The 27th day of the same month the eighth Lord Glamis was
killed at Sterling in an accidental encounter between his own followers and those of the Earl of Crawford. He was counted one of the
ablest men of his own party, and Douglas took pride in mentioning that John Lyon had a correspondence with Beza, the French reformer
and Calvanistic theologian, on the subject of church polity and the doctrines of the Prophet of Geneva.”
John Lyon, 8th Earl of Glamis, is the brother of Margaret Lyon, recorded in this generation as wife of Gilbert Kennedy (both John and
Margaret married cousins).
M15:
ABERNETHY, Elizabeth B:
M:
(i) William Meldrum
(ii) 11-4-1561, John Lyon, 8th Lord
Glamis.
D:
before May, 1581.
Comments:
Elizabeth was 1st
cousin of her 2nd husband. She is recorded as
a
descendant of both Robert I and James I of Scotland.
MACDOWALL, Margaret (or Katherine)
F15:
MACDOWALL, Uchtred B:
c 1560, Garthland, Scotland
M: Eupheme (Euphemia) Dunbar
D:
11-6-1600 (executed)
Comments:
13th Laird of Garthland. Direct descendant of King Fergus of
Galloway
and Princess Elizabeth of England.
Had daughters Katherine and
Margaret;
researchers disagree on which of these two belongs in
Generation
14 as wife of the Master of Cassilis (who died young, before
1615),
but most record Katherine.
M15:
DUNBAR, Eupheme (Euphemia) B:
M: Uchtred Macdowall, 13th
Laird of Garthland
D:
Eupheme
(Euphemia) Dunbar
Eupheme (Euphemia) Dunbar is affirmed as a child of John Dunbar and
Elizabeth Mure by John P. Ravilious (2-10-2005, at http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2005-10/msg00107.html,
citing Genealogics
I00396847).
MITFORD, Henry
F15:
MITFORD, Christopher B:
1521, Newcastle-upon-Thyne,
Northumberland
M:
c 1546, Jane Anderson
D:
May 1581 (buried May 31)
Alderman Christopher Mitford
The will of Christopher Mitford
(Sheriff of Newcastle 1551, Mayor of Newcastle 1556 and 1559) is still extant,
and is reproduced in Surtees Publications of Wills and Inventories
(reprinted at http://englandresearch.com/HenDOrde/d70.htm#P70, which cites History of Newcastle and Gateshead 17th Century by R. Wlford 942.8
H2we V3):
“May 31,
1581. Buried this day, Alderman Christopher Mitford, sheriff of Newcastle in 1551, and
mayor in 1556 and 1569. He was the son of an alderman and merchant of the same
name, and married Jane, daughter of Henry Anderson, four times mayor of the
town.
His will directs
that his body be buried under his father’s stone in the church of St. Nicholas.
To his son Henry he gives 40 shillings., besides 10 shillings that his
grandfather Anderson left him; all his lands at Heaton, Tynemouth and Denam,
and in Newcastle (with remainder to his son Robert, and his daughter Alice Craster;)
also his lease of coal mines at Kenton, held of Robert Fenwick. To his son
Robert, 100 shillings; besides 10 shillings that his grandfather Anderson left
him, and the lease of the coal mines at Elswick.
To his wife Jane, his lease of his cousin Robert Mitford’s
lands in Heaton for life, with remainder to his son Henry; also his part of the
lease of the salt pans he bought of Michael Mylborne, with remainder to his son
Robert.
To Edmund and Alice Craster, 20 shillings; to Jane
Craster, daughter of Edmund, 10 shillings. To Jane daughter of his son Henry,
10 shillings; and to Christopher and Henry, Henry’s sons, an angel a-piece.
To each of his daughter Craster’s children, 10 shillings.
To Jane, daughter of his son Robert, 10 shillings., and to Christopher, her
brother, an angel. To Agnes, daughter of his son Henry, his sister Brandling’s
three children, and his sister Orde’s two children, an angel each.
To his cousin, Henry Anderson, and his good wife, for a
token of his good-will, two old angels. To his sister, Marian Chapman, an old
angel noble. To Barbara, his son Henry’s wife, and Ellinor, his son Robert’s
wife, an angel noble a-piece.
To his brother-in-law, Henry Anderson, and his godson
Abraham Anderson, each an angel. Residue to his son Robert, executor. (Various
tokens to servants and friends). Supervisors-Henry Anderson, Alderman; Edmund
Craster; Henry Mitford; George Stell. Proved July 5th, the same year.”
M15:
ANDERSON, Jane B:
M:
c 1546, Ald. Christopher Mitford
D:
Jane
Anderson
Jane Anderson’s will is still
in existence, and is reproduced in History of Newcastle
and Gateshead, (1887), Richard Welford
(ed.), printed at http://www.archive.org/details/historynewcastl01welfgoog:
“Date of the will of Jane, widow of Christopher Mitford, mayor of Newcastle in 1569. She was a daughter of Henry Anderson, four times mayor of Newcastle, sister of Bertram Anderson, mayor and M.P., and aunt of Henry Anderson, mayor and M.P., who died the year before. Her age is not recorded, but it must have been great, for she was the eldest of nine children, and her brother Bertram, the third child, was sheriff of Newcastle in 1545. She desires to be buried in St. Nicholas' church, in the grave of her husband; gives to the repairs of that church, 3/. 6s. 8d, and to the poor of Newcastle. 10/. 6s. 8d. Leaves to Robert Mitford, son of her son Henry, deceased, 50/., and to his brothers Roger, Henry, Edmund, and Thomas, 30/. a-piece; to Henry's daughters- — Agnes Barker, Alice Sharpe, Barbara Mylborne, and Elizabeth and Mary Mitford — 50/. each; to Christopher son of her son Robert, deceased, 120/., and half her moiety of the tithe com of the rectory of Newcastle, he paying yearly to his brother, Anderson Mitford, 20/., and testatrix's niece, Alice Dent, 20s.; to Henry, son of Robert, 200/., and the other half of the tithe, he also paying Alice Dent 20s, a-year; to said Christopher and Henry, the lease of coal-mines at Elswick; to Anderson Mitford aforesaid, 240/.; to Jane Clarkson, daughter of her son Robert, 40/.; to John Craister, son of her daughter Alice, deceased, and his brothers Edmond and Thomas, 20/. each ; to the children of Jane Anderson, deceased, daughter of Alice Craster, 16/.; to Margaret, wife of Henry Collingwood, and Isabel, wife of Luke Ogle, Barbara, wife of Cuthbert Bewick, Grace, wife of William Armorer, and Eleanor Craster, 20/. each. To her cousin, Mr. Henry Chapman, 3/. 6s. 8d.; and to her cousin, William Jackson, town clerk, an old angel; to George Still, 10/,, and to her niece, Emmet, his sister, an old angel; to her cousin Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Miller, 6s. Executors: John Craster and Christopher Mitford, her son Robert's son. Supervisors: her cousins, Henry Chapman, alderman, and George Still. Her goods amounted to 1839/. 7s. 3d.”
MUSGRAVE, Sir Edward
F15: MUSGRAVE, William B: 1518
M:
Before 1546, Isabel Martindale (Martendale)
D:
18-8-1597
William
Musgrave
William Musgrave was one of the deputies of Sir Thomas
Wharton, holding the barony of Gillesland (north east of Carlisle);
as such, he commanded a company of Border Horse, probably holding overall
command of all Wharton’s Border Horse Companies. Letters written by both
Wharton and William Musgrave have survived; although Musgrave’s letter appears
to have been dashed off from his memory of a conversation with Wharton, coupled
with his own remembrance of the Battle of Sollom Moss (or Solway Moss) fought
on 24-11-1542 against an invading Scottish army, it is written with consistent
spelling and grammar, indicating that Musgrave was quite well educated. Even
though his version dramatically shortens the story between the burning of the
Grames and the stand at Hopesykehill, it is still virtually a minute by minute
recounting of the Hopesikehill events (which
resulted
in a resounding victory for the English defenders):
“A greate armie of Scotland ......to the nombre of
xviijten thowsand men and moo, entred this West Marches and brint the Graimes,
that is to say aswell theire houses of the river of Eske, as also theire houses
standing upon the Debatable Land, to the wich Master warden my selfe, and all
other gentlemen of these West Marches, with thinhabitauntes of the same to the
nombre of thre thowsand at the most, with all spede made repaire to serve the
kinges majestie”.
He continues (but with less detail) with a description of
events after Hopesykehill, writing that Robert Maxwell “fought valiantly”, and
describing the capture of prisoners and spoil.
William Musgrave is also recorded in Generation 17 as father
of Eleanor Musgrave.
Johnby Hall (in the village of Johnby,
six miles north-west of Penrith) bears, above the door, the following
inscription: “Nicholas Musgrave maret Margaret Tellel, Heyre. Thomas his sone
maret Elizabet Dacre. Willm. his sone here now dwell, maret Isabel, Heyre to
Martindale. To God I pray be vith hus allvaie.William Musgrave, Isabel
Martindale, 1583”. In the centre of the inscription is a shield encircled by a
garter, surmounted by the Musgrave crest, inscribed, “O God give me wisdome to
know thee”.
.
M15:
MARTINDALE (MARTENDALE), Isabel
B:
M:
Before 1546, William Musgrave
D:
Comments:
Also listed in Generation 17 as mother of Eleanor Musgrave.
NEVILL, Catherine (Katherine)
F15:
NEVILL, Ralph B:
c 1475, Thornton Briggs, Yorkshire
M: before 1501, Anne Ward(e)
D:
24-7-1522
Comments:
‘of Thornton
Briggs’.
M15:
WARD(E), Anne B:
c 1480, Thornton Briggs, Yorkshire
M:
before 1501, Ralph Nevill
D:
Comments:
one source refers to her as ‘Beatrix Anne’.
NEWMAN, Alice
F15:
NEWMAN, Thomas B:
c 1545, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
M:
29-11-1570, Annis (Ann, Agnes) Upchurch
D:
buried 30-10-1580m Wendy-cum-Shingay
M15:
UPCHURCH, Annis (Ann, Agnes) B: c 1549, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
M:
29-11-1570,Thomas Newman
D:
PENNE, Susan
F15:
PENNE, Thomas B:
c 1532
M: Margery Saunders
D:
15-7-1603 (Celia Sheppard’s research gives this date as 1602)
Thomas
Penne
Thomas Penne succeeded his
father, John Penne, in 1558. He “appears to have joined with his mother Lucy in selling part of the
demesne lands and the site of the manor to his brother Robert …who died in
February 1592-3, having previously settled the site of the manor, Codicote
Bury, with certain other lands on his daughter Anne, the wife of Walter Grey…… Thomas
Penne died in 1603 seised of the manor of Codicote with the exception of the
eighteen messuages and lands which he had sold to his brother, leaving Thomas
son of John, his grandson and heir, under age” (British History On-line, at
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43291&strquery=Penne).
M15:
SAUNDERS, Margery B:
c 1524
M: Thomas Penne
D:
1-9-1595
Comments:
daughter of Thomas Saunders of Agmondisham (Amersham),
Buckinghamshire
PENRUDDOCK, Catherine
F15:
PENRUDDOCK (PENRUDDEL), Thomas
B:
M: Unknown
D:
Comments:
of Exeter
M15:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Thomas Penruddock (Penruddel) of Exeter
D:
PRESTON, George
F15: PRESTON, John B:
M: Mabel Benson
D:
11-9-1597
M15:
BENSON, Mabel B:
M: John Preston
D:
Mabel
Benson
Daughter of William Benson of
Hewgill, Mabel brought to her husband, at the time of her marriage, a part of
the Preston Richard estate which had passed from the de Preston to the de
Penington family as a result of the marriage of Katherine de Preston
(Generation 18) to Alan de Penington (the Benson family remained connected to
Preston Richard until the 19th Century; the Westmorland Church Notes
for Heversham show a tombstone dedicated to the memory “of John Benson of Preston Richard who died
Augt. 26th, 1820”).
RUTHVEN, Margaret
F15:
RUTHVEN, William B:
c 1541
M:
17-8-1561, Dorothea Stewart
D:
4-5-1584 (executed).
William
Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
William
Ruthven was known as ‘Lord Ruthven’ from the time of hisd succession (1566); from
1581, he was also known as ‘Earl of Gowrie’ (which title he was given as a
reward for the role he played in the downfall of the Earl of Morton, who had,
earlier, been an advocate).
Like
his father, Patrick Ruthven (3rd Lord Ruthven), William was
‘prominent in the political intrigues of the period’. He was part of the gang
(led by his father) which murdered David Rizzio, and fled, with his father,
into exile in England (unlike Patrick, who died there, William managed to gain
a pardon for this offence, thanks to efforts on his behalf by the Earl of
Morton; this, however, did not change his attitude towards Mary Queen of Scots,
as he later took a prominent role in the decision to force her abdication,
eventually campaigning against (1558) her at the battle of Langside).
William “was the last-known custodian of the famous silver
casket containing the letters alleged to have been written by Mary, Queen of
Scots, to her third husband James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell” (Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ruthven,_1st_Earl_of_Gowrie).
William Ruthven married Dorothea Stewart, a daughter of
Henry Stewart (1st Lord Methven) and his second wife, Janet Stewart (both of
whom are recorded in Generation 18 as parents of Henry II Stewart of Methven (Methuen). William and
Dorothea had ten daughters and four sons.
William devised (1582) the ultimately-unsuccessful plot –
known as the Raid of Ruthven -- to seize James VI of Scotland
(while he was visiting his home at Huntingtower
Castle) and take control of the government, for which
offence he was, eventually, attainted and executed as a traitor (4-5-1584). All
his honours were forfeited as part of that process (they were, ultimately,
restored to his eldest son, James, just two years before his own death, in
1588).
William Ruthven is the sister of
Jean (Janet) Ruthven, who is recorded in Generation 17 as the wife of Lord
Henry II Stewart Methven (Methuen),
the brother of his wife, Dorothea.
M15: STEWART, Dorothea B:
M:
17-8-1561, William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
D:
Comments:
sister of Henry II Stewart of Methven (Generation 17), who
married
William Ruthven’s sister, Jean (Janet) Ruthven (also Gen 17).
SANDERSON, Henry
F15:
SANDERSON, John B:
c 1458, Newcastle
M: Unknown Jackson
D:
M15:
JACKSON, Unknown B:
M: John Sanderson
D:
SCOTT, Sir William
F15:
SCOTT, James B:
c 1558, Bergen-op-zoom, Holland.
M:
23-6-1583 (contract), Elizabeth Wardlaw
D:
1606, Bergen-op-zoom, Holland
M15:
WARDLAW, Elizabeth B:
c 1562, Bergen-op-zoom, Holland
M:
23-6-1583 (contract), James Scott
D:
SKENE, Jean (Jane)
F15:
SKENE, Sir John B:
1543
M:
1577, Helen Somerville
D:
1617
Sir
John Skene of Curriehill
Sixth of
the seven sons of James Skene of Watercorse and Rainnie (Aberdeenshire)
by his wife, Janet Lumsden (daughter of Lumsden of Cushnie), Sir John Skene of Curriehill, a
celebrated Scottish lawyer and judge, was incorporated in St. Mary's
College, St. Andrews, as early as 1556, and was regent there in 1564 and 1565, following which he spent
several years in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. After
‘prosecuting the study of law’ in Paris, he returned
to Scotland
and passed advocate (19-3-1575).
“His rapid rise at the bar is attested by the
frequent occurrence of his name in connection with cases before the privy
council, and his legal attainments are evidenced by his selection, along with
Sir James Balfour, by the regent Morton to prepare a digest of the laws. Morton
did not live to see the task completed, but before his retirement from the
regency he, in June 1577, granted to Skene for his services an annual pension
of ten chalders of meal out of the revenues of the abbey of Arbroath (Acta
Parl. Scot. iii. 89)….. unlike many other Scottish statesmen of his time, (Sir
John) enjoyed the confidence of the kirk, and in 1581 the general assembly
suggested to the king that he should be appointed procurator for certain
ministers who had received injuries in the execution of their offices, and for
the trial of whose case a special judge was appointed (Calderwood, History, iii. 522). In 1589 also, when
the kirk was in great dread of the schemes of the ‘jesuits, seminary priests,
and other seducers of the people,’ he was appointed one of ten commissioners
who were to meet weekly to consult as to measures for ‘the weal of the kirk in
so dangerous a time’ (ib. v. 4). His friendship with the kirk may
account for the remark of the king to Sir James Melville (when Melville
proposed that Skene should accompany him to Denmark to conclude a treaty for
the king's marriage with the Princess Anne) that there ‘were many better
lawyers.’ But when Sir James replied that Skene ‘was best acquainted with the
conditions of the Germans, and could make them long harangues in Latin, and was
a good true stout man like a Dutchman,’ the king agreed that he should go (Melville, Memoirs, p. 366).” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Skene,_John_%28DNB00%29).
Sir John was also chosen to accompany King James
when he himself set sail for Denmark on October 22 that year, and was, subsequently,
named joint king's advocate (with David Macgill), in which office he “specially
commended himself to the king by his zeal in witch prosecution; the horror of
his proceedings is perhaps unsurpassed in the annals of superstition.” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Skene,_
John_%28DNB00%29). Soon afterwards he received the honour of knighthood, and was
appointed (1591) ambassador to the States-General. Sir John served as ambassador to
Holland from 1591 (his daughter’s husband’s parents – James Scott and Elizabeth
Wardlaw, Generation 15 -- were both born in Bergen-op-zoom).
In 1592 Sir John “was named one of a commission to
examine the laws and acts of parliament, and to consider which of them should
be printed, and he was finally entrusted with the preparation of the work. It
was published by Robert Waldegrave on 15 May 1597, under the title The Lawes and Actes of Parliament maid be
King James the First and his successors kings of Scotland, visied, coffected,
and extracted forth of the Register, and on 3 June the privy council
remitted to the lords of session to enforce the purchase of it by all subjects
of sufficient ‘substance and habilitie’ (Reg. P. C. Scotl. v. 463).” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Skene,_John_%28DNB00%29).
Wikisource continues: “In September 1594 Skene was
appointed clerk-register, and on 30 October he was admitted an ordinary lord of
session with the title Lord Curriehill. On 9 Jan. 1595–6 he was named one of
the eight commissioners of the exchequer known as the Octavians….who demitted
their offices on 7 January of the following year. He subsequently served on
various important commissions, including that for the union of Scotland with England in 1604. On 26 July of this
year he is mentioned as having resigned his office of clerk-register in favour
of his son James (Reg. P. C. Scotl. vii. 6); but the resignation, for
whatever reason, did not then take effect. In 1607 he completed his work on the
laws of Scotland
previous to James I, and on 23 February, 1608, an act was passed for printing
it at the public expense (Acta Parl. Scotl. iv. 378). It appeared in
1609 under the title Regiam Majestatem.
Scotiæ Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, ex Archivis Publicis, et antiquis
Libris manuscriptis collectæ, recognitæ, et notis Juris Civilis, Canonici,
Normannici auctoritate confirmatis, illustratæ. …..In 1597 was also published
De Verborum Significatione—the Exposition
of the Termes and Difficill Words conteined in the four Buiks of Regiam
Majestatem and uthers, in the Acts of Parliament, Infeftments, and used in
practicque in this Realme … collected and exponed by Master John Skene
(Edinburgh, by Robert Waldegrave; new edition London, 1641, 4to).”
Sir John and his wife, Helen Somerville, had four
sons and six daughters; in 1611, he resigned from his office of clerk-register
in favour of the eldest son, Sir James (who would eventually – in 1626 – become
a baronet in Nova Scotia), and sent him to court with the express instruction
that he should not proceed with the serving of the resignation unless he found
the king willing to grant him the office. James, however, “agreed to make the
resignation on receiving an ordinary judgeship, and the office was bestowed on
Sir Thomas Hamilton ….According to Spotiswood, so deeply did Sir John Skene
take the disappointment to heart that, although the king did his best to
satisfy him, and succeeded in reconciling him and his son, ‘so exceeding was
the old man's discontent, as within a few days he deceased’ (History in
the Spottiswood Society, iii. 215). The latter statement is, however, quite
incorrect, for Skene survived the disappointment for several years. He did not
retire from the privy council until 18 June 1616, when his son was admitted in
his room (Reg. P. C. Scotl. x. 540).”
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Skene,_John_%28DNB00%29).
An important collection of so-called Scottish tunes, preserved in the
Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, bears, on the first leaf, the signature
‘Magister Johannes Skeine’; while this has long been attributed to Sir John, it
is now believed that it must have been written either by his second son, or
even a later member of the family (it was published, in 1838, under the title Ancient Scottish Melodies, from a manuscript
of the reign of King James VI. With an Introductory Enquiry, illustrative of
the History of Music in Scotland,
by William Dauney, esq., F.S.A. Scot.)
M15:
SOMERVILLE, Helen B:
1554, Cambusnethan,
Lanarkshire
M:
1577, Sir John Skene of Curriehill
D:
STRANGWAYS (STRANGEWAYS), Barbara
(or Margaret)
F15:
STRANGWAYS (STRANGEWAYS), Richard
B:
M: Unknown
D:
Richard
Strangways (Strangeways)
The unreliability of the dating
for Barbara (or Margaret) Strangways (Strangeways) makes it difficult to
identify the ‘Richard Strangways’ who is, traditionally, recorded as her
father.
Http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/n/Samantha-J-Singleton-/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1173.html
records him as Richard Strangways, 1485-1550, husband of Unknown, but then
records the birth date for Barbara as 1616, more than sixty-five years after
his death. Kyle Tutwiler Spicer, at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=spicer&id=I999,
also has Richard Strangways, father of Barbara, dying in 1550; but he proceeds
to record Barbara (whose date of birth is not given) as the wife of George (not
Thomas) Liddell (Lyddall), who was born, according to this site, in 1619, by
which time his ‘bride’ would have been at least seventy.
In both cases, the genealogical
line from Richard (died 1550) is clear: he is recorded as the son of Alice (le)
Scrope and James Strangways (1455 - 4-11-1521), who was, in turn, the son of Richard
Strangways (1433-1488), who married Elizabeth Neville and died before his
father (James Strangways, speaker
of the House of Commons, who, with first wife, Elizabeth Darcy, had eleven sons
and four daughters; he then has several more children with his second wife,
Elizabeth Eure).
However, most sites do not list a ‘Barbara’ or ‘Margaret’
among this Richard’s children, and at several sites(for example, at ingilbyhistory.ripleycastle.co.uk/.../STRANGEWAYS%20of%20Harl., which provides a comprehensive gamily
tree for the Strangways family) Richard is recorded as being the son (of three)
who never married. Yet, contrary to this, http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps24/ps24_155.html
records all three sons as marrying: the first (Thomas) to Anne Dacre (as on the
family tree mentioned above); the second (James) to ‘as her 2nd husband,
Elizabeth Pigot’ (the family tree lists her as Elizabeth Ratcliff); and the
third (not identified by a Christian name), to “the daughter and co-heir of
James of Ripon”, citing, as proof, an entry for all three sons “on the Pigot
Roll”. The only mention of ‘James of Ripon’ found in the traditional
genealogies is ‘James Fyssher of Ripon’ -- at www.girders.net/.../Fyssher,%20James,%20of%20Ripon,%20(fl.1466) -- who, in 1466, “was fined 2d
for selling fish against the form of the statute”.
There seems little hard evidence on which to continue the
genealogical line of Richard Strangways (Strangeways) and Unknown, parents of
Barbara (or Margaret) Strangways (Strangeways).
M15:
UNKNOWN B:
M: Richard Strangways (Strangeways)
D:
Comments:
possibly daughter of ‘James of Ripon’ (see commenst above).
STRICKLAND, Sir Walter (of
Sizergh)
F15: STRICKLAND,
Sir
Walter B: 1464
M: 1491, Elizabeth
Pennington
D: 26-9-1506
M15: PENNINGTON,
Elizabeth B: c 1466
M: (i) Unknown Salkeld (died before 1491)
(ii) 1491, Walter Strickland (died 26-9-1506)
(iii) c 1508, Sir Richard Cholmeley
(died December, 1521)
(iv) Sir William Gascoigne of Cardington
D: 12-10-1546
STRICKLAND, Walter
(of Boynton)
F15: STRICKLAND, William B:
c 1515
M: Elizabeth Strickland
D:
8-12-1598
William
Strickland of Boynton
Referred to as ‘William the Navigator’ in his youth and
‘Strickland the Stinger’ in his later political career, William Strickland sailed (c 1530) to the New World with Sebastian Cabot (son of John Cabot) on one of his voyages of exploration,
bringing back from Mexico
several large cages of turkeys (“Most strange and marvellous birds”). He
started breeding them at Boynton (near Bridlington) as a hobby, and presented
one to Elizabeth Tudor, who so
much enjoyed this novel food that she granted him (1550) a crest featuring “a turkey-cock in his pride proper” (the official
record of his crest in the archives of the College of Arms is said to be the
oldest surviving European drawing of a turkey). Later, When James I came to England,
he expressed a dislike for the traditional English Christmas dish (boar’s
head), and turkey was substituted; it has remained popular ever since.
In 1542, William
Strickland returned to Yorkshire from the New World, buying, with the proceeds of his voyages,
estates at Wintringham and Boynton, both in the East Riding. He seems to have
lived the remainder of his life at Place Newton, his house at Wintringham
(where he is buried), but he had the Norman manor house at Boynton rebuilt as
Boynton Hall, and this became the seat of his descendants (the present church
at Boynton is liberally decorated with the family’s turkey crest, most notably
in the form of a probably-unique lectern carved in the form of a turkey rather
than the conventional eagle, the bible supported by its outspread tail
feathers).
William Strickland was elected to Parliament (1558) as the Member of
Parliament for Scarborough. He proved an able
and eloquent advocate of the Puritan cause, eventually earning, from his
opponents, the nickname ‘Strickland the Stinger’ (the anonymous author of the
Simonds d’Ewes diaries described him as “a grave and ancient man of great zeal,
and perhaps (as he himself thought) not unlearned”).
While, apparently, not particularly prominent in his first two parliaments,
William Strickland came to the forefront in the 1571 parliament, in which the
Puritan faction was stronger than previously; finding himself at the centre of
a constitutional crisis (one of Parliament’s earliest assertions of its
privilege to conduct its proceedings without royal interference with its
members). He spoke on both the first two days of the session April 6 and 7,
1571), putting forward, on the latter, a motion (defeated in the previous
parliament) to reintroduce six bills to reform the Book of Common Prayer;
although the Speaker allowed the bills to be read, the Queen had previously
directed that Parliament should not debate such matters, and William’s motion
earned the House a royal reprimand.
Further, on the last day before the Easter recess (April 14, 1571), William
Strickland introduced his own bill to reform the prayer book; it proposed
(among other measures) to abolish confirmation, prevent priests from wearing
vestments, and end the practice of kneeling at the Communion. Against the
vigorous opposition of the privy counsellors present, the bill was given a
first reading; however, after some argument, the House voted to petition the
Queen for permission to continue discussing the bill before any further action
was taken, and, on that note, the house adjourned. William was subsequently
summoned before the Privy Council; while sources differ on whether he was
imprisoned or otherwise menaced, it seems certain he was, at least, forbidden
to retake his seat in the Commons (when the House reassembled, one member
reported that the Catholics believed that William was on trial for his life on
heresy charges, whereupon Sir Francis
Knollys assured members that he had been “neither detained or abused”;
nevertheless, the members found it unacceptable that an MP should be prevented
from attending except by order of the House itself, and most of the day’s
proceedings were occupied by a hostile debate, moderate members -- as well as
William’s puritan allies -- demanding he
be sent for and heard at the bar of the house). When, the following day, William
triumphantly re-appeared, the other members (as the D’Ewes journal records)
“did, in witness of their joy for the restoration of one of their … members …
nominate him [to a] committee”.
While he was not re-elected immediately following the subsequent
dissolution of the parliament in 1572, William Strickland was returned as MP
for Scarborough once more, in 1584.
There is some disagreement between historians of the period as to whether
William Strickland should be considered the prime mover in the controversy he
caused, or merely a spokesman of the Puritan faction following a course of
action directed by its ringleaders. Strickland was one of 46 MPs who were
lampooned by an opponent for speaking together on a motion in 1566, and who J E
Neale referred to as ‘Norton's Choir’ (after Thomas Norton, whom he considered
the moving spirit of the group). Neale admits that William was “the hero of
this new Parliament” (of 1571), but says of his most important speeches that
“to assume that [they] sprung from Strickland’s mind alone would be childish”
(Geoffrey Elton and Conrad Russell – more recent historians -- have since
rejected the ‘Norton's Choir’ theory).
The marriage of
William Strickland of Boynton to Elizabeth Strickland of Sizergh reunited two
branches of the Boynton family, as the Boynton line is reupted to be descended
from the Stricklands of Sizergh. However, the line from William’s father (Roger
Strickland of Marske, Generation 16) is unclear, so the family relationship
between William and Elizabeth cannot be measured.
M15: STRICKLAND, Elizabeth B:
M: William Strickland of Boynton
D:
Elizabeth Strickland
Elizabeth
Strickland is the link which joins two branches of the Boynton family;
originally ‘of Sizergh’ (the daughter of Sir Walter Strickland and sister of
Agnes Strickland (Generation 13), she married the son of Roger Strickland of
Marske (a distant relative), and became the first Strickland ‘of Boynton’.
Elizabeth
had five children, the first of whom was born shortly before his grandfather’s
death, and was named ‘Walter’ after him.
WENTWORTH, Frances
F15: WENTWORTH, Sir Peter B: 1524, Lillingstone, Dayrell,
Buckinghamshire
M:
(i) Laetitia (Lettice) Lane
(ii) c 1555, Elizabeth Walsingham
D:
10-11-1596 (in Tower
of London)
Sir Peter Wentworth
Educated
at Lincoln Inn (1542), and reared in a radical religious atmosphere (his younger brother, Paul, was an ardent puritan who sat in
Parliament from 1559 to 1581 and played a notable part as a radical in the
proceedings), Sir Peter Wentworth was an outspoken and irresolute
member of the House of Commons in the time of Elizabeth I, eventually spending
much of his life in prison (in the Tower of London) over his refusal to bow to
the Queen’s wishes to limit the freedom of Parliament.
Sir Peter first became a member of the House of Commons
relatively late in life, in 1571, as the member for Barnstaple (in 1593 he told how, 31 years before,
he had been stirred to interest himself in politics ‘by God’s good motion’, and by ‘lamentable messages’ sent by ‘sundry grave and wise men unknown unto me’),
but there were earlier indications of his interest in the affairs of his
country (his name appears on the commission of the peace for Oxfordshire in
1559, but was unaccountably removed before 1562).
He came to a Parliament bent on reform of the Church of
England (the Puritans had a majority in the House at that time), and,
therefore, on a collision course with the head of the Church, the reigning
monarch (Queen Elizabeth). In
his first Parliament, Sir Peter served
on the committee of the bill to confirm the Articles of Religion, and was one
of a delegation of six whom Archbishop
Parker questioned in April, 1571, about their exclusion of the
non-doctrinal articles from the bill (asked why they had omitted these, Sir Peter answered that the members
had “had no time to examine ... how
they agreed with the word of God …. we will pass nothing before we understand what it is, for that were but
to make you Popes … we will make you none”).
This troublesome session saw the temporary
sequestration from the House of the puritan leader, William Strickland, and an official reprimand for another radical,
Robert Bell, who had dared to
attack the exercise of the royal prerogative. On the eve of the Easter recess, Sir Humphrey Gilbert made a gratuitous
attack on Bell’s speech, which
provoked Sir Peter Wentworth to
make (April 20) the first of many speeches (in which the Scriptures were widely
quoted) in defence of the liberties of the House, denouncing Gilbert’s speech as intended only to
instil fear into those who should be free, and requesting care for the credit
of the House and for the maintenance of free speech.
The following
Parliament (1572), summoned after the Ridolfi plot, was concerned mainly with
the problem of Mary Queen of Scots
and the Duke of Norfolk (who
stood condemned for treason). Sir Peter was placed (12-5-1572) on the committee
which discussed the great cause with a committee of the Lords, in which
position he was very active, making several speeches in the House of Commons,
calling time and again for the execution of Norfolk and passionately demanding the death of Mary, ‘the most notorious whore in all the world’. When
a soothing message from the Queen
prompted two Members to move that a delegation should convey their thanks to
her, Sir Peter opposed the
motion, saying that he could offer no thanks, and urging the House to refuse to
do anything more until the Duke of
Norfolk was executed (his boldness he defended in a speech on June 9,
holding that he “had rather commit
some folly in speech than do injury by silence”).
The
Queen eventually prohibited Parliament’s further interference in the affairs of
the Church of England, which she headed, and, when her command was disregarded
(three bills urging reform of the Church had been presented, one – introduced
by Sir Peter in 1572 -- seeking reform by following the Presbyterian model)
took the serious step of dissolving Parliament. When, three years later
(8-2-1575), she recalled Parliament (having, shrewdly, first packed the House
of Commons with representatives of newly-restored old boroughs that were
controlled by the Crown, so that the Puritans were no longer in the majority),
Sir Peter, seeing her actions as a threat to its continued existence, rose at
the first session, demanding that freedom of speech for a Parliament immune from control
by the Crown be entrenched in the Constitution (“a
novel and revolutionary conception, without historical justification”) in a speech that is “deservedly famous among English
parliamentary orations”:
“Mr. Speaker, I find written in a little
volume these words in effect: ‘Sweet is the name of liberty, but the thing
itself a value beyond all inestimable treasure’ In this House which
is termed a place of free speech there is nothing so necessary for the
preservation of the prince and state as free speech, and without it it is a
scorn and mockery to call it a Parliament house, for in truth it is none, but a
very school of flattery and dissimulation and so a fit place to serve the Devil
and his angels in and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.
Two
things did ‘very great hurt’. One is a rumour that runneth about the House, and
this it is: take heed what you do, the Queen's majesty liketh not of such a
matter. Whosoever preferreth it, she will be much offended with him. Or, the
contrary, her Majesty liketh of such a matter, whosoever speaketh against it
she will be much offended with him. The other is sometimes a message… brought
into the House ….very injurious unto the freedom of speech and consultation. I
would to God, Mr. Speaker, that these two were buried in Hell, I mean rumours
and messages...
Her
Majesty hath committed great faults, yea dangerous faults to herself and the
state ... It is a dangerous thing in a prince unkindly to entreat and abuse his
or her nobility and people as her Majesty did the last Parliament, and it is a
dangerous thing in a prince to oppose or bend herself against her nobility and
people ... and how could any prince more unkindly entreat, abuse and oppose
herself against her nobility and people than her Majesty did the last
Parliament?
Did
she not call it of purpose to prevent traitorous perils to her person and for
no other cause? Did not her Majesty send unto us two bills, willing us to make
a choice of that we liked best for her safety and thereof to make a law,
promising her Majesty’s royal consent thereto? And did we not first choose the
one and her Majesty refused it, yielding no reason, nay, yielding great reasons
why she ought to have yielded to it? Yet did not we nevertheless receive the
other and agreeing to make a law thereof did not her Majesty in the end refuse
all our travails? And did not we her Majesty’s faithful nobility and subjects
plainly and openly decipher ourselves unto her Majesty and our hateful enemy?
And hath not her Majesty left us all to her open revenge? Is this a just
recompense in our Christian Queen for our faithful dealings? The heathen do
requite good for good; then how much more is it dutiful in a Christian prince?
And will not this her Majesty’s handling, think you, Mr. Speaker, make cold
dealing in many of her Majesty’s subjects toward her? Again I fear it will. And
hath it not caused many already, think you, Mr. Speaker, to seek a salve for the
head that they have broken? I fear it hath. And many more will do the like if
it be not prevented in time. And hath it not marvellously rejoiced and
encouraged the hollow hearts of her Majesty’s hateful enemies and traitorous
subjects? No doubt but it hath.
......It
is a great and special part of our duty and office, Mr. Speaker, to maintain
the freedom of consultation and speech, for by this are good laws that do set
forth God’s glory and are for the preservation of the prince and state made.….
I have holden you long with my rude speech, the which since it tendeth
wholly with pure consciences to seek the advancement of God’s glory, our
honourable sovereign’s safety and to the sure defence of this noble isle of
England, and all by maintaining the liberties of this honourable council, the
fountain from whence all these do spring, my humble and hearty suit unto you
all is to accept my goodwill and that this that I have here spoken of
conscience and great zeal unto my prince and state may not be buried in the pit
of oblivion and so no good come thereof....” (The complete speech can be
found at www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/cambridge/wentworth.html)
Sir Peter’s speech
-- the first full statement of the doctrine of freedom of speech in the House
-- was widely reported in England and abroad (copies have survived for
posterity), and his suit was, indeed, granted; however, the immediate consequence of
his defiance of the power of the Crown was that he was committed to the serjeant’s custody and, that afternoon,
examined by a committee of the House. (his own account of this examination has
survived).The committee was forced to conclude that “Mr. Wentworth will never acknowledge himself to make a fault, nor say
that he is sorry for anything that he doth speak”.
The following day
the committee reported back to the House; in spite of the fact that his wife’s
father had been a sergeant in London, and her brother (Francis Walsingham) was,
at the time, Elizabeth I’s trusted secretary and adviser, Sir Peter was sent to the Tower
of London, where he remained for just over a month, until, two days before the
end of the Parliamentary session, the Queen
intervened and returned him to the House, accompanying her action with “a
gracious and magnanimous message” (Elizabeth was, much later, to refer to this
act of leniency: when, in January, 1581, Sir Peter’s brother, Paul Wentworth, moved
and carried a motion for a public fast, in clear breach of the Queen’s ecclesiastical rights, his
name recalled, to Elizabeth, Sir
Peter’s rash action in 1576; in
her withering rebuke to the House she imputed their offence partly to her
“lenity towards a brother of that man which now made this motion”) .
This was just the first of several periods (of increasing
length) of imprisonment for Sir Peter’s outspoken criticism of the Crown’s
policies. In 1587, he was sent to the Tower for a second time after moving to
restrict the Crown’s ability to control the agenda of Parliament (if passed, his motion would have
stripped the Crown of its prescriptive right of control and discipline and
would have left it defenceless except for the royal veto or support in the
House of Lords). This time there was no last-minute royal reprieve, and he
remained imprisoned until after the end of the Parliamentary session.
Also,
in 1587, after the death of Mary Stuart, Sir Peter had drafted A Pithie Exhortation to her Majestie for
establishing her successor to the crowne, a tract eventually published
after his death; its language was forthright, his admonitions to the Queen at times ‘shockingly frank’ (in
a letter to William Cecil he
later defended the sharpness of his language by quoting ‘the spirit of God in Solomon’). He
attempted to present this tract to Parliament in 1589 and again in 1590,
seeking support from the Earl of Essex; however, copies of the tract were leaked to the Privy Council, and in
August, 1591, they committed him close prisoner, this time to the Gatehouse.
Sir Peter
remained intractable: instead of seeking pardon, he tried, once more, to get
William Cecil (the Baron of Burghley
and a Knight of the Garter) to approach the Queen, convinced that this statesman believed as he did (which
may, indeed, have been true). Sir Peter
was released from the Gatehouse in November, confined for a time in a
private house, and finally set at liberty in February, 1592.
He refused to
abandon this cause, and when, in 1592, a new
Parliament was summoned, he was returned again for Northampton
and came to Westminster
with a bill, speeches and other papers that might be needed to press his case.
A small group of seven Members of Parliament met at chambers in Lincoln’s Inn (21-2-1593)
to listen to his plans, and were to have met again the following day; however,
news of his intentions had
reached the Privy Council. The group was detained and examined by the Council
(Sir Peter all the while remaining unrepentant and insisting on his rights as a
Member of Parliament), and he was once again imprisoned in the Tower (to keep Peter Wentworth where he could
do no harm to the state was the main concern of Queen and Council; as he himself put it: “The causes of my long imprisonment ... a truth plainly delivered”).
On this occasion, his second wife (“my
chiefest comfort in this life, even the best wife that ever poor gentleman
enjoyed”) was permitted to live in the Tower with him (she died there,
in July, 1596; Sir Peter died four months later (10-11-1596), after having been
imprisoned for fourand-a-half years).
It is clear from several
surviving petitions and letters that he could have secured his freedom within a
reasonable time, if he had been prepared to acknowledge his fault and give
pledge of future silence; instead of repentance, however, in every petition he
reiterated the argument of his Pithie
Exhortation: to do otherwise, he declared, would be to “give her Highness a most detestable
Judas-kiss”. There was a proposal (July, 1596) to release him on the
pledges of sureties, but he asked not to be sent home to Lillingstone Lovell,
where memories of his wife would be too much for him.
Sir Peter was buried (with his
wife) in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.
An inquisition post mortem (1599), taken at Oxford, was concerned with his manor of
Lillingstone Lovell and houses, woods, etc. in the parish and in Lillingstone Dayrell.
Sir
Peter’s children (four sons and five daughters)
married into puritan families; one son, Thomas,
emulated his father in Parliament during the reign of James I.
M15: WALSINGHAM, Elizabeth B: 1533, Horton, Northamptonshire.
M:
(i) Geoffrey Gates
(ii) c 1555, Sir Peter Wentworth
D: July, 1596, Tower of London
(had joined her husband).
Comment: Sister of Francis
Walsingham (1532-1590), secretary to Queen
Elizabeth and Ambassador to France,
who strove for an alliance between
England and France,
attempting to persuade Elizabeth I to marry Anjou.
Elizabeth Walsingham’s son of her
first marriage married a step-daughter
of puritan Thomas Wilson, another
secretary to Queen Elizabeth.
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