Ibid., ch. 2018). See HMC Middleton, 455, 456, 457, 458, 566, 568, 571, 608; CSP Dom. In 1569, however, Gabriel Berwyke wrote to Francis Willoughby reproving him for marrying without the consent of Mr Medley, Mr Haule and me (Mi, C 14). Ibid. Apparently Conrados, who was unpopular in Francis Willughby's house, attempted to smooth tensions with Francis's other servants, who then put him up to fabricating a letter accusing Percivall Willoughby of some malfeasance and blackmailing him with it. In 1558 Queen Mary granted it to the new priory of Sheen, refounded in 15561557. 89 Robert Dudley, 1st earl of Leicester (15321588), Elizabeth's favourite. He was created 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton in 1603. If this is the same Henry Willughby who was trying to marry Bridget at one time (fo. See also a 1602 covenant between Percival Willoughby and Richard Paramour, Mi, 6/178/26. Thomas Skinner (d.1596) was sheriff in 1588 conjointly with John Catcher and succeeded Catcher in the Aldermanry of Cripplegate when Catcher was discharged due to financial difficulties. 357 Unidentified, although he may be related to George Willoughby aka Fox, illegitimate half brother of Henry Willoughby, father of Francis, who is mentioned throughout. See Smith, R.S., Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton Hall (Nottingham, 1988), 36Google Scholar, for the relevant text of the letter which includes the following: Your father did use many times to deliver to me many speeches touching you [] and told me that if Percival and I do not agree before that I died [] he is like to be hardly handled, which I would prevent, and I know not well how to do it.. The son and heir of George and Margaret was Stephen Lyttleton, who, being one of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, lost his life and his estate. Mi, A 32, fo. "corePageComponentGetUserInfoFromSharedSession": true, Three of these letters (nos 30, 32 and 33) are not included in Cassandra's Account, and she may never have seen them. Cooke counsels caution when using Cassandra to trace the movements of Elizabeth I. Cole lists a visit from Queen Elizabeth to Middleton but not Wollaton on 2829 July 1575. See Text n. 177 above and fos 146149, pp. Haddam's wife is Lady Stanhope's daughter, Juliana, who married John Hotham of Scarborough, Yorks. Henry Willoughby left him an inn called the Castle in Holborne. Gordon, Eleanora C., The fate of Sir Hugh Willoughby and his companions: A new conjecture, The Geographical Journal, 152 (July 1986), 243247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Smith, The Willoughbys, 179184, 196. The History of Parliament places Topcliffe in a house in Westminster in 1571 and states that at some point (no dates given), his personal life was clouded by his alleged failure to pay his wife adequate maintenance. This might be the house of the comptroller of the household. Lord Paget held the wardship of Thomas Willoughby who then married Lord Paget's daughter, Dorothy. 41, 47, 54. 72 Mi, A 31, fo. Dudley died in 1554 after being imprisoned, and Anne remarried. and Fry, G.S. 393 STB 2 (1), book 2, fo. Henry Hasting's mother was Dorothy Port. 381 See Text n. 207 for an account of a 1578 case with Paramour. Married to Jane Grey on 21 May 1553, he and Jane moved into royal apartments in the Tower on 10 June 1553. 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According to evidence from the several Libri pacis in the National Archives, Francis Willoughby served as a justice of the peace for Warwickshire from 1573 to 1584. Although the date of Edward Willoughby's incarceration is unclear from Cassandra's account, it must have been after 1590 and seems to have lasted until 1605. His wife was Jane Bradburne (15591621), from whom he separated after at least four children who survived him. Sewell and his wife Ann (ne Wagstaff) kept a public house named The Thistle in Coventry. 414 [B]ecause from that time I could find no appearance of any profit to our Family from that Estate, and by tradition I [illeg.] Percival is accusing Dorothy of trying to replace Sir Francis's family and friends with her circle in an attempt to take all of his property. See Jones, Norman, The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Oxford, 1993), 206207Google Scholar, and 281 n. 58, for references to treatises printed in 1562 and 1572 describing the baths. It sits on a hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham. Built in the 1580s, Wollaton Hall has been home to industrialists, barons and Batman: a classic prodigy house dubbed "the architectural sensation of its age". 429 There are additional papers in the Middleton collection relating to the negotiations between Francis Willoughby and his son-in-law Henry Hastings over settling the estate of Woodland on them. Russian sailors found the ship and the crew's bodies in the summer of 1554. See Brown, Carleton, Poems by Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester (Bryn Mawr, 1913), xlxliiiGoogle Scholar. Feature Flags: { 230 Thomas Arundell married Mary Wriothesley, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Southampton, in 1585. On 6 June 1568 Robert Penruddoke of Hale signed an indenture turning over documents relating to the lands, accounts, rentals, drafts of wills, surveys, bills of complaint, leases, lists of feofees, depositions, etc. Munk, William (ed. Lady Elizabeth Lyttelton (Lyttleton) (c.1548 - 1594) - Genealogy - Geni.com Acts of the Privy Council of England, New Series, Vol. He was named high steward of the royal household in 1568. (HMC Middleton, 363, 369, 383, 385), and his son followed suit. Cassandra's notes say guilty of many abominable very ill actions. 275,395 were here. See also accounts for 1565 and later, Mi, A 47, 53, 56, 57 for repairs and renovations to the Old Hall. List Entry Name: WOLLATON HALL. English. 26, p. 49; HMC Middleton, 409. 477 The terms goal and gaol (jail) seem to have been used interchangeably in the late 16th century. STB 2 (1), book 2, fo. The other, Richard Smith, MD (d. c.1599), is the most probable candidate. 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All Rights Reserved. 238 Holborn (Holbourn) in the mid 16th century was a small village adjacent to London, bounded on the east by Chancery Lane and Gray's Inn Lane, on the west by fields, and on the south by Lincoln's Inn Fields. See Percival Boyd, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/life-events-bmds/boyds-marriage-index-1538-1840. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Cassandra's use of filchen suggests she copied the letters verbatim. 3v, p. 6; HMC Middleton, 402. His will is dated 1591 (Borthwick Institute, York, Prob. It appears that Francis first went to Saffron Walden in 1554. See Text n. 385. 276 Hogsden is most likely Hoxton in London's East End in Shoreditch, just north of the City of London. She's been seen roaming the mansion and in the former of an unexplained glowing light . Another countess of Warwick was Anne Dudley (ne Russell), countess of Warwick (1548/99 Feb. 1604), lady-in-waiting and close friend of Queen Elizabeth. Margaret was at the Minories in London by 13 Nov. 1556, having been returned from Elizabeth's household because of the death, from smallpox, of one of her gentlewomen (Mi, A 32, fo. 3 of this document. 2v of this document. Account of An Elizabethan Family: the Willoughbys of Wollaton by 37. Frances Brandon Grey Stokes was also the godmother of Francis Willoughby. 307 Entry for musk, OED: They lefte a very sweete sauour behynde them sweeter then muske. HMC Middleton, 456; Mi, A 69/12, fo. If the accusations of Thomas Stanhope's wife, Margaret Port, are to be believed, he used her cruelly; she calls him a tyrant and accuses him of blasphemy, misdemeanor, whore hunting, drunkiness, mischief and all naughtiness. In addition, Percival Willoughby had responsibility for the debts of his own father, demands from his wife's sisters and also from his many brothers and sisters and the children of Thomas Willoughby's second wife. They had four sons and two daughters. There are several other letters from Sir Percivall to Lord Burghley in 1597. 1819, 57. 3536, 4546, 5455, and 86. Henry supported Edward's selection of Lady Jane Grey as his heir, for which he spent time in the Tower under Mary. See the hash symbol at fo.105v, below, where she includes the additional information. Mi, A 31, fo. Although long presumed to have died from cold or some vitamin deficiency such as scurvy, the most up-to-date theory is that the crew perished from carbon monoxide poisoning resulting from over-zealous cold-proofing and burning sea coal. 141, p. 181), but she appears to be the step-granddaughter of George Willoughby and the daughter of Richard Repington. Cassandra's excerpts from this household account book for 1587, copied down by Stevenson, are again quite accurate. Today Canon Row is located off Bridge Street across from Parliament. Mi, 5/167/184. 164 The process of becoming furred or incrusted, OED. This may be William Willoughby whose birth is listed in Boyd's Marriage Indexes for 1584. TNA, STAC 5/L27/10, 5/L6/3; Tonks, Lyttletons, 5459. 458 Both Kirby Bellars and Bestwood Park were estates held by Thomas Markham. Joan Greenbaum Goldsmith, All the queen's women: The changing place and perception of aristocratic women in Elizabethan England, 15581620, PhD thesis, Northwestern University, 1987, 4647, 225 n. 54. 24, et seq. William Atkinson, an apostate priest and a spy for Robert Cecil, had offered to poison the earl of Tyrone in 1595. Francis Willoughby was working coal pits at Coleorton in the 1570s that were owned by Nicholas Beaumont. He married Bridget Marmion, daughter of Henry Marmion. In both this note and a subsequent letter of 7 Jan. 1585/6, Henry Huntingdon requested a meeting with Sir Francis particularly urgently as he reminds Sir Francis that he (Francis) had promised Henry Hastings that the marriage would take place before Shrovetide 1585/6. See also Chandos, The Continuation of the History, 43; Mi, LM 27, fo. Warwick Gaol was located in Warwick Castle, which was owned by the Crown until 1604 when Fulke Greville was granted the Castle by James I. See Text n. 177 above for a description of many Henry Willughbys/Willoughbys. The court could entertain petitions for justice between spouses in clear defiance of the common law prohibition against litigation between spouses. There exist four different draft wills by Francis Willoughby. It may be, however, that Smith had received 420 from John Lyttleton to allow the reversion to the Lyttletons rather than to any heir he might have. Anthony Strelley was a frequent visitor at the Willoughbys. of Nottingham, c.15481620, Ratcliff-upon-Soar (Notts.) Chandos, The Continuation of the History, 33; Mi, LM 27, fo. This letter tells us that Elizabeth was pregnant (possibly with a son) and seems to suggest that she miscarried. Mi, 5/168/80. See below fo. This website uses cookies to improve website functionality and performance, to analyze website traffic, and to provide you with a more personalized experience. For a 1585 letter from Robert Payne to Sir Francis, see Mi, 5/165/96 and Mi, 5/165/95. For Margaret and her account book, see Snook, Edith, Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History (London, 2011), 11CrossRefGoogle Scholar. STB 2 (1), book 1, fo. Many of these expenses are for the costs of horses, boat hire, and food when travelling between London, Wollaton, Middleton, and Tilty. 297 John Manners, 4th earl of Rutland, died the February following this dinner. Hastings Manuscripts, Herts. 139 Ithell is a Welsh surname. 222 Francis, duke of Alenon, later duke of Anjou (Hercule Franois 15551584), the youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici. Also, an increased population resulted in a decline in real national income and per capita income, which plummeted. (ed. 433 In an undated draft memo (most likely dated 1587 or 1588), it was agreed, with Henry Hastings, that Sir Francis shall have freedom to sell Cane manor, after which he would pay Henry 100 and his heirs would pay Henry 1,500 more in the years after the death of Sir Francis in the case of a lack of male heirs of his body, lawfully begotten. How many guests can attend a wedding at Wollaton Hall? Guy, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years, pp. 98 For information on the wardship of Francis Willoughby, which had belonged to Sir Francis Knollys in 1560 but was bought out by the executors of the will of Francis's father in 1564, see Introduction, p. 32. he had paid Margaret Willoughby 10 owed her from the legacy that Sir John Willoughby gave her. Tonks calls it a massive sum for an upper gentry family and not surprising that Lyttelton was slow in making payment. Matthew's father Thomas, favourite of Anne Boleyn, purchased Wardour Castle in 1547 during the monastic dissolutions. 410 2 June 1597 letter from Percival Willoughby to William Cecil, Lord Burghley. 375 Cassandra indicates, with the hash mark, that fo. For the difficult marriage of Thomas Stanhope and Margaret Port, see Text n. 185 above. 1572 (Newbold). Sir Percival was the eldest son of Thomas and his first wife, Katherine Hart, daughter of Sir Percival Hart of Lullingstone Court in Kent. He confessed and was condemned to death, receiving an expected reprieve only on the scaffold. 282 It is perhaps relevant that, in a 1585 inventory of the old hall at Wollaton, one of the rooms is allocated to Lady Arundell. 18 1550. 174 See above, Text n. 135 and below, Text n. 266. 462 According to the OED, a buckler was a small, round shield intended to catch a blow. The individuals buried at St Giles seem to come, for the most part, from the trades, crafts, and labouring classes. 411 Percival began a Common Law suit in the wake of Sir Francis's death, suing for recovery of Wollaton, Cossall, Trowell, Kingsbury and Middleton. Since John Trussell, a servant to the Willoughbys since the 1540s married Bridget Marmion, it is likely that this Trussell is the son of John Trussell and is referring to a brother of Bridget Marmion who might well be William Marmion (see fo. See Cross, Claire, The Puritan Earl: The Life of Henry Hastings, Third Earl of Huntingdon (London, 1966)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. On 6 Oct. 1535, the abbot and convent granted the marchioness of Dorset a lease for sixty years of the grange, demesne lands, and manor of Tilty, including the house standing against the west end of the church of the monastery of old time called the founder's house, otherwise the Gestes Hall. As is clear from what Lord Huntingdon says, after the marriage Henry and Dorothy lived at York with the earl of Huntingdon until after the birth of their first child. This volume, and Volume II of Cassandra's Account, seem to have passed to the Kearney family sometime in the 2nd half of the 18th century and to a Miss Kearney, daughter of John Kearney, Esq. 362 Possibly relating to the Green family who were long-term tenants in the region of Halesowen, especially on the Manor Abbey Farm purchased by Sir John Lyttelton, Halesowen Abbey, Romsley and Hunnington History Society, http://www.rhhs.org.uk/local-history/halesowen-abbey.html?start=9 (accessed 5 Oct. 2016). It is probably the son who appears later in this MS (fos 8990, pp. See Text n. 100 above. It's said that she was paralysed in an accident and confined to her room where she eventually died. II of the Manuscript, ed. 482 Diaper was a patterned linen or cotton fabric; damask was a twilled linen fabric used mainly for table linen, OED. Mi, A 57, fos 16, 31. A marriage between him and Elizabeth Catesbye was recorded at Newbold on 27 or 28 Oct. 1593. His contemporaries treated his legacy gently, considering him more a victim of his father's and father-in-law's machinations than a true accomplice. Tonks, The Lyttletons of Frankley, MLitt thesis, University of Oxford, 1978. Smith notes that this amount refers only to the profits from the coal mines at Bedworth, which were mortgaged to pay down the debts of Nicholas Beaumont. 315 Francis had a house at the Chantry at Wollaton, which was purchased by Henry Medley from Rawfe Pynder, grocer of London, in 1562 for 34 15s: Mi, A 42, fo. Francis was buried at St Giles Cripplegate 16 Nov. 1596. 415 In Cassandra's earlier notes she writes: Jan the 2d 1602 Henry Willughby writes to advise Sr Percivall to sell land & clear all he owed, he tells him Sr F Willughbys first debt was but 500 Markes, wch he continued upon usery till it grew to be very near 20000li. John inherited the earldom from his brother Edward (b.1549) a few months before dining at Wollaton. 13) are followed by weekly expenses from Margaret Willughby. If she was pregnant in Feb. 1596/7, she must have lost this child. There is a brief abstract in HMC Middleton, 170. 382 Perhaps a daughter from her mother's marriage with Michael Moleyn. Located at the eastern edge of London, just beyond Aldgate and close by the Tower of London, it was taken by the Crown in 1538 and demised by Edward VI to the Grey family.
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