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THE HISTORY
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OF THE
FANSHAWE FAMILY
BY
H.
C. FANSHAWE, C.S.L
“ Post Ter.ebras Lux”
ANDREW REID AND COMPANY, LIMITED Printers and Publishers
AKENSIDE HILL, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
1927
PREFACE. .
This volume, printed privately as a family memoir, is a continuation, in a double sense, of my edition of Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs published some years ago. In the first place it supplements that volume with information collected since its compilation ; and in the second place it provides a connected account of the various branches of the family down to our own time. The new informa- tion has’ been derived largely from the Journals kept by the Earl of Sandwich during his Embassy to Spain in the years 1666-68, which the present .Earl has courteously permitted me to use : from papers in the State Record Offices at Paris, Simancas, Rome, Yenice, and Vienna; from our own Public Records, and from the original Heathcote MSS. published by the Historical MSS. Commission in 1899. The last passed into the hands of Mr. Evelyn Eanshawe of Parsloes, and were subsequently sold by him. They had, however, all been carefully re-examined meanwhile, and the most interesting papers, from the family point of view, were acquired at the sale by Mr. Basil Eanshawe, of Holywell, Bratton Fleming.
At the instance of the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Arthur B. Fan sh awe, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., the family pedigree was registered up to date in the College of' Arms in 1912; and in preparing that record much genealogical information
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relating to it was brought to light and is preserved in this volume. It may be of interest to note here the principal Fanshawe Pedigrees of earlier date now existing : —
1633-63 Heralds Visitations of London (1633-34), Derby (1634), and Kent (1663), at the College of Arms;
1671 Pedigree on vellum drawn up and illuminated at the College of Arms for Lady Faushawe, widow of the 1st Baronet. In the possession of Mr. Evelyn Fanshawe.
1716-17 Pedigree of the Viscounts Fanshawe at the College of Arms, dating to 1716-17.
1719 Illuminated Pedigree on vellum, dated 1719. In possession of the Head of the family.
1832 Pedigree dating to 1832. In the possession of B. M. Ridout.
1868 Illuminated Pedigree on vellum, drawn up for John
Gaspard Fanshawe of Parsloes in 1868. In the possession of his eldest son.
1907 Pedigree, printed in several parts, included in my edition
of Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs.
1908 Extensive Pedigree drawn up by Beaujolois Mabel Ridout
during the years 1906-08 and carefully verified.
The collection and preparation of the present material has been a task of great interest and pleasure to me, and has occupied most of my leisure time for nine years — the seven years preceding the Great War, and two years succeeding its close. Certain variations in names may be noticed in this volume. I have considered it expedient to adhere to the old spelling when quoting from ancient documents and in all cases where children’s baptisms have been located, their names are given as they
appear in the church registers.
It is my intention to republish Sir Richard Fanshawe’s poems, and to have a Brass put up in Ware Church to the memory of the Ware Park Fanshawes buried there.
'Ptig record of the family is one of which we aie all fairly entitled to be proud I think, and I venture to hope
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that its remembrance, using1 the vora in its old sense, w ill be of encouragement and benefit to future generations. The record of the family includes the Viscountcy con¬ ferred upon Sir Thomas Fansliawe by King Charles II. in 1661 which expired with the 5th Viscount, and the Baronetcy created by the same King in 1650 which died out in the succeeding generation. Many have received the Honour of Knighthood, the first from King James I seven weeks after his accession, the lirst and Second Viscounts being created Knights of the Bath b\ King Charles I. and King Charles II. at their Coronations. The latter creation was the last that occurred until after the Order was placed on a new foundation bj King Geoige I. in 1725 (Nicholas' Order of the Bath). Two Grand Crosses of that Order and a Grand Cross of the A ictorian
Order are included in the list of principal Honours con¬ ferred since that date. Between forty and fifty Orders have been bestowed by Foreign Powers since 1787— that of Alexander-Newsky (First Class) by the late Czar of Russia, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure (First Class) by the Emperor of Japan, being among the more recent. There were eleven Members of Parliament between the years 1571 and 1784 and the family Arms carry the distinction of an honourable Augmentation con¬ sisting of the red cross of St. George on a field of white and blue chequer (indicating the Exchequer Office with which the family was connected for 170 years), granted
* “ I cannot but condemn the carelessness, not to say the ingratitude of those (I am safe while containing myself in general terms) who can give no better account of the place where their fathers or grandfathers were born than the child unborn , so ia Kometimes we have been more beholden to strangers than to their
nearest kindred . However this I must gratefully confess
I have met with many who could not, never with any that would not furnish me with information herein.
Thos. Fuller, Worthies.
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in February, 1649-50, in recognition of services to King Charles during the unhappy Civil War as is set forth in the Grant at the Herald’s College, a small portion of which runs as follows : — whereas during that wicked rebellion that gentle family of Fanshawe unanimously shone forth with courage and fidelity towards our afore¬ said most gracious father and us . . . We will that the remembrance of their loyalty and losses be preserved.
Those of the family who have been actively engaged during the Great TV ar 1914-1918 are, in order of Rank :
Lieut. -General Sir Edward Fanshawe, K.C.B.
Lieut. -General Sir Hew Fanshawe, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Major-General Sir Robert Fanshawe, K.C.B., D.S.O
Lieut. -Colonel Reginald Fanshawe, C.M.G., A.P.D.
Major Lionel Fanshawe, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.A.
Captain Richard Fanshawe, late Scots Guards.
Captain Evelyn Fanshawe, the Queen’s Bays.
Lieut. George Fanshawe, the Queen’s Bays.
Temporary 2nd Lieut. Arthur Hew Fanshawe, King’s
(Liverpool Regt.).
Rear-Admiral Basil Fanshawe, C.B.E., R.N.
Captain Arthur Hope Fanshawe, R.N.
Commander Guy Fanshawe, R.N.
Lieut. Aubrey Fanshawe, R.N.
Commander Lionel Fanshawe, D.S.O., Imperial Russian Navy.
Those who have made the Supreme Sacrifice : —
Temporary Lirtit. Leighton Dalrymple Fanshawe, Machine Gun Corps. Killed in Action on the Ypres Front on 3 August, 1917, aged 21.
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Temporary 2nd Lieut. Harvey Vernon Fanshawe, Irish Guards. Fatally wounded on the Ypres Front on 9 October, 1917; died on the 11th, aged 26.
Captain Archibald Campbell Denison, 2nd Bn. the Black TV atch. Hilled in Action at the battle of Loos on 25 September, 1915, aged 25— only grandson of Mrs. Denison, sister of John Gaspard Fanshawe of Parsloes.
Second-Lieut. Gaspard A. E. Bidout, ILF .A. Fell in Action near Hesbecourt on 21 March, 191S, aged 19 son of Arthur George Bidout and his wife Beaujolois Mabel
Fanshawe.
Second-Lieut. Frederick Athelstan Fanskave Baines, 4th Bing’s Boyal Bifle Corps. Billed in Action on 25 May 1915; aged 19 — only son of Athelstan Arthur Baines and his wife, Batherine Mary Fanshave.
“ Avis atavisqve potens
H. C. Fanshawe.
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Mr. Herbert Fanshawe deeply regretted the loss of Fanshawe Gate which, except for a comparatively short period in recent years, has been held by the family from time immemorial. No one would have rejoiced more than he to know that Mr. Basil Fanshawe of Bratton Fleming, has lately regained possession of the Old Home.
At the moment when Mr. Herbert Fanshawe was struck down by serious illness which made further exertion on his part, impossible, the Family History was still un¬ finished and one of the parly chapters not yet commenced. In the circumstances it was his wish that 1 should complete
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his work for him. To the best of my ability I have endeavoured to carry out his wishes, should, however, errors have crept in, Mr. Fanshawe’s scholarly attainments preclude the possibility of their being- attributed to him. The line beneath his name, on the Title Page, is taken from his Memorial Brass in Ware Church.
I should like to add a few words of appreciation of his fine character. The singleness of purpose that marked his career and the openhanded generosity that was a part of his nature were well known outside the family — his unfailing kindness at all times, especially to those who bore his name, no matter how distant or frail the link that bound them to him, leaves a feeling of sorrow and regret in the hearts of many for the cruel fate that so suddenly overtook him, end for the two years of suffering that ended in his death on 26 March, 1923.
Beaujolois Mabel Ridout.
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Chapter I. traces the early History of the family at Fanshawe Gate, Derbyshire, dovn to Thomas Fanshawe, Remembrancer of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth, and includes all his children except three sons to whom separate chapters are devoted .
Chapter II. contains the Dronfield Branch
Chapter III. relates to Sir Henry Fanshawe and all his younger children with the exception of
Sir Richard .
Chapter IV. gives an account of the S my the and Judde families and the Chichele descent. There is also a table detailing the Srnythe relationship .
Chaptkr VIII. carries down the Parsloes Branch to 1689 when it divided into the Senior and Junior Lines .
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Chapter V. includes Thomas 1st Viscount
Fanshawe and all his descendants . .110
Chapter VI. records the life of Sir Richard
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Chapter VII. deals with the Jenkins Branch of
the family until its extinction in 1705 . • 232
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Chapters IX., X., XI. and XII. comprise all the descendants of the original Parsloes Line. These appear under the following headings: — The Dengie Branch, The Parsloes Branch, The Admiral’s Branch, and The Beeorder’s Branch, pp. 264, 320, 351, 400.
Part II. is allotted to the members of the family who are now living*.
PEDIGREES.
The Pedigree of the Fanshawe family is 'divided
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into XVII. parts, these face 7 rp. 16, 18, 32, 48, 76, 112, 224, 232, 256, 288, 304, 320, 344, 368, 384, 400, 416.
A Sketch Pedigree, showing the connection between the Fanshawe family, Oliver Cromwell, and John Hampden, will be found at 7?. 107.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
HERBERT CHARLES FANSHAWE, C.S.I. . With Signature. Frontispiece.
Facing page
WILLIAM FANSHAWE OF PARSLOES, OB. 1634 ... 1
By Cornelius Janssens.
ANNE, WIFE OF SIR THOMAS FANSHAWE (1ST VISCOUNT) . * 64
Daughter of Sir Giles Allington of Horselieatb. Kt.
ELIZABETH, VISCOUNTESS FANSHAWE . . . .80
Painted by Cornelius Janssens in 1S39.
The property of Major Fanshaire of Dengie Manor.
SIR SIMON FANSHAWE, KNIGHT, OB. 1679-80 . . .96
KATHERINE, WIFE OF THOMAS FANSHAWE (2ND VISCOUNT) . 128
Daughter or Knighton Ferrers of Bayfordbury. OB. 1660.
SARAH, VISCOUNTESS FANSHAWE, AFTERWARDS VISCOUNTESS
CASTLETON, OB. I717 . . . . . 144
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SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, 1ST BARONET, OB. 1666 . . 160
Ambassador to Spain and Portugal.
ANN, DAUGHTER OF SIR RTCHAP.D FANSHAWE, 1ST BT., OB. 1654 . 176
CHARLES, 4TH VISCOUNT FANSHAWE .... 192
Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal, 1630-1684.
SIMON 5TH VISCOUNT FANSHAWE, OB. 1716 . . . 208
SUSANNA, WIFE OF THOMAS FANSHAWE OF JENKINS . . 240
Daughter of Matthias Otten of Walthamstow, ob. 1668
SIMON FANSHAWE OF DENGIE, M.P., OB. 1777 . . . 272
By Hoare. The property of Major Fanshaue of Dengie Manor.
BOOK PLATE OF JOHN PARKINSON, ESQR. . . . 336
BEAR ADMIRAL CHARLES FANSHAWE, OB. 1 757 . . 353
CHARLES FANSHAWE OF FRANKLY N .... 408
Recorder of Exeter. OB. 1814.
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MARY, WIFE OF JOHN FANSIIAWE OF PARSLOES, OB. I7I3 Pajnt-e<l by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
JOHN FANSHAWE OF SHABDEN, I73S-1816
The property of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir A. D. Fanshaice.
ELIZABETH, WIFE OF REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES FANSHAWE Daughter of Sir John Rogers, Bart., ob. 1797.
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jll th<e Portraits, except those otherwise noted, are in the possession of Mr. Basil Fanshaice of Fanshaice Gate and Holywell.
WOODCUTS.
HERALDIC SHIELDS ....•• See pedigrees t.. iii. to xvij., and pp. 16. 21, 37, SS. 91, 24S.
SIGNATURES ...♦••• See pedigrees t.. tr. to xij., and pp. 8, 14, 26, 34, 36, 89, 225. 244. 277. 322. 331. 333.
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THE HISTORY
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CHAPTER I.
Fanshawe Gate.
The Fanshawe family draws its origin from Fanshawe Gate, situated in the Parish of Holmesfield mi the borders of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, 3 miles NAY. of Dronfleld and 6 miles SAY. of Sheffield, and distant 2h miles from Beauchief Abbey and 4 miles from Xorton. The name was probably derived from the family but no explanation can be offered of its primitive form of Faunchall Gate. In the parlance of the country side. Gate means a point in the hills at which a road or path crosses a crest, and Fanshawe Gate stands between two roads running* from the Sheaf Valley to the Holmesfield Ridge. A description of its situation, TOO feet above the level of sea and under the shadow of Hallamshire moors, and of the old Fanshawe home still standing on it, is given at pp. 269-70 of the notes to the 1907 edition of the Memoirs of Fady Fanshawe.* It seems possible that the house was once of larger dimen¬ sions, and that it was contracted in height at least, when extensive repairs to it were made early in the XIX. century. It was inferior both to Cartlege Hall, the home of the Wolstenholmes, some of whom continued there to a later date, and to Woodliouse Ilall to the east of it. It much resembles, however, the original home of the lleathcotes, in Brampton by Chesterfield, given in Evelyn Heathcote’s Families of T1 eatlicote.
Tli is edition is referred to as the Memoirs of Ladif Fnnshaire throughout this work. The following corrections to the Memoirs
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Of the early history of the family prior to that time, nothing fresh has come to light since 1907. Monumental and testimentary records are not to he expected much previous to 1550 except in the case of personages of high rank and the owners of large properties, it is therefore a bit of singular good fortune that the Manor Rolls of Holmesfield* in the possession of the Duke of Hutland, and the Wolley Charters in the British Museum, contain many interesting details of this familvt as far back as 1417 when Joan, daughter of John ffavncher,^ Senior, took up land of the manor (which her brother John afterwards inherited as her right heir), carrying back
are noted here: j). 6, line 6, after chastity, read his charity; p. 18, line 8, for about , read above; p. 60, line 2, for But notwith¬ standing, delete full stop and read but understanding ; p. 62, line 14, for rage, read case; p. S6, line 12, omit the comma between sack and posset; p. 105, line 21, for coachmen, read footmen ; p. 123, line 22, before house, insert half of the; p. 138, line 13, remove semicolon after same and insert it after bed.
* The full feudal history of Dronfield and Ilolmesfleld will be found in Yol. III. of Yeatman’s Feudal History of Derbyshire, p. 6t> et seq.; and a full account of Norton is given by Mr. S. O. Addy in the Derbyshire Arcliceol. Soc.’s Journal, Yol. II., and in Mr. Armitage’s Chantry Land, which contains a most interesting detailed picture of a small country village and its development through the ages.
' f Of the yeoman families of England Thomas Fuller wrote 100 years later “ The good yeoman is a gentleman in ore whom the next age may see refined .... and is the wax capable of gentle impression when the prince shall stamp it . . . Wise Solon .... would surely have pronounced the English yeomanry (to be> ‘ a fortunate condition ’ living in the temperate zone between greatness and want.”
J The family name was spelt in many different ways up to the end of the XVI. century, among which the following are some of the forms it has taken : ffaunchalle, ffawncliall, ffoneliall, ffanchall, ffanchoe, fanclie, ffawncher, Fauncher, Fawnscha, ffaunslia, ffawnsha, ffaunshaw, ffanchavve, ffaunesshawe, ffanshew, ffanshaw, lfanshawe, Fansliaw, and Fanshawe. It was invariably spelt with a “ c ” in the middle, from 1417 to 1523 whatever other variation there might be in the spelling of the word ; the first time we meet with the “ s ” in it, occurs in the Lay Subsidy Polls of ITolmesfeld in the 14-15 year of Henry VIII. (1523-24), when we come across tlic name in the form of ffawnsha, thence forward the “ s ” gradually .supersedes the c though this letter does not entirely disappear for some 70 more years ; it is not until 1543 that we find the name — in the Court Polls of Holmesfield — in its more modern setting, John ffanshawe being then Bailiff of the Manor. From the middle of the XYI. century this rendering of the family name, sometimes with and sometimes without the final “ e,” became more general, though the final
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the birth of the father to at least as early as 1375, and tiie family may well haye been settled in this place another 100 or even 200 years before that, for Lady Fanshawe tells us that she had seen several very ancient gravestones, with the names of the ancestors upon them, in Dronfield Church, from which it appeared (she says) that they had been seated at Fanshawe Gate for some hundreds of years before her day; but the earliest monument now remaining is of 1578. The earliest entries in church registers (established only in 1538) are the marriages of .John Fansliawe’s three daughters in 15G1-1564.
The house at Fanshawe Gate (as distinct from the laud) is referred to in the Wolley Charters (Till., 29a) in 1450 as <£ le ffaunchall gat hede ” — “ liede ” or “ lied ” being the Anglo-Saxon for “ house.” In 1491 iinuin toftum iuxta fowncliallgatehed ” is spoken of in the Holmesfield Court Lolls and as late as 1571 the name seems not to have entirely lost its old form, a well at ffanehawegathecl being then mentioned in the same Court Lolls, but by that time the house and property are usually described collectively as Fanshawe Gate-. A detailed notice of the Manor Loll and an inter¬ esting breviate of the rights of the tenants of the manor will be found in the Journals of the Derbyshire Archcr- olof/ieal and Xatural History Society of 1898 and 1908.
“ 11s ” instead of the w ” still persisted from time to time ; even as late as February, 1647-8, we find an entry in the parish Hooks of Church Oakley in. which the name of John Fanshall (of Parsloes) appears, spelt in this way.
As regards the final cc e ” Henry Fanshawe (d. 1568), and his nephews Thomas, 2nd Queen’s Remembrancer, and Godfrey, added the “ e.” Thomas’ three sons also did so when attesting their father’s will (38 Eliz.) but in a deed of 1610 all three omitted the “ e.” Sir Henry and William Fanshawe signed their wills “_ffanshawe,” while William’s son John, omitted the final e ” in hi- 1 loyalist Composition Papers. The first Viscount signed his name (M*th "ays as did also li is son the second Viscount. His brother Sir >inu>n used the “ e,” and so did his’ brother Sir Richard in his ‘ arlier days, though he often omitted it towards the end of his life. C appears on the monument in Ware Church, erected by Lady ‘ aiishawe, who always spelt her name thus as may be seen on the ti t page of the " Memoirs . During the XVIII. century the *nortened form of the name was generally used and since then the ndicr form of Fanshawe.
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Reference is made to tlie early members of tlie family in the Memoirs, p. 270. Four generations of ffaunchalls teach hearing the name of John) appear in the Court Rolls (some of these documents being preserved among, the TT olley Charters') as holding land in Holmesfield. To the last of these John’s succeeded his eldest son Henry (by some authorities called Robert); another John (of Holmesfield), and Thomas (of Ransethe in Dronfield parish), being younger sons. In the Lay Subsidy Rolls of 1523-4, John ffawnsha is taxed on his land; and the executors of Henr. ffawnsha, on his goods. The will of Thomas ffanshal of Ransethe, dated 1540 and proved 1544, is the earliest now on record. Numbers of wills mentioned in the index at the Lichfield Probate Office, as existing even a few years ago, have since been lost. It is interesting to note that Thomas had a son, Sir William ffawnehall, a Priest,* who was living in 1540-50.
Hen rv (or Robert) ffanshawe of ffanshawe Gate, above noted, who died 1523-4, left three sons; John his heir (b. 1504), Henry (h. e. 1506) and Colyn.
The conjecture at p. 264 of the Memoirs , that Henry ffanshawe the younger, the first of the nine of his family to hold the post of Queen’s or King’s Remem¬ brancer of the Exchequer, found his way to London from a remote Derbyshire village, through the good services of Sir Christopher More (King’s Remembrancer, 1543-1549), is confirmed by various slight indications. In W otton s fiaronetarje, though that is not a very reliable authority, it is stated that John Wolstenholme (h. e. 1520) was nephew of Henry Fansliawe and great- nephew of Sir — More, which statement is however corroborated by Glover, the Derbyshire Historian. In addition to this link between the Fansliawe and More families there must have been somj closer relationship as well. Henry Fansliawe, the Remembrancer, in his draft
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will of 15G1, refers to William More, Esq.,* and to John More (undoubtedly the sons of Sir Christopher) as cousins; while Sir Christopher's daughter Margaret “ Evnes,’’ widow of Thomas Fiennes (the brother of Lord Dane) mentions a Fansliawe cousin; and Sir William More s daughter Alice, widow of Rickard Polstead, calls both the younger Henry Fanshawe’s daughter Anne, and John Fansliawe's son Thomas, “ cousin.” If, as appears from this, Sir Christopher’s children and grandchildren were cousins of the children and grandchildren of Henry Funskawe the elder there must have been some More- Fa nsha we relationship above the generation of Henry Fansliawe the Remembrancer, and his brother John; and their father (d. 1523) must, it seems, have married a More unless Sir Christopher’s mother were a Fansliawe. t
* Sir William More was afterwards Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and was succeeded in that post by his son Sir George More in June, 1601.
t The More family was of Norton, and Sir Christopher’s grand- lather, Thomas More of Greenhill, is recorded as having married Elizabeth Parker of the Parker family of that place, from which the Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, 1720-25, was descended. A More (de Mora), of Norton, is mentioned as far back as 13S4, and John More of Greenhill left to the Abbot of Beauehief, in 1533, two silver spoons, though, as the Abbey was surrendered the year before the will was proved in 1537, the poor Abbot got none. It is probable that the family was the same as that of Mower oi winch many branches existed round Dronfield in the I.-XA II. centuries. There can be little doubt that Sir Christopher was called to London by one of the Blytli Bishops of Salisbury, and Lichfield,1 sons of William Blytli of Norton and his wite Saffery Austen, half sister of Archbishop Rotherham of 1 ork (d. 1500), and daughter of John Austen of Birley, in Bcighton (see family of by Edward L. Z. Blytli, 1901). The Blytli family acquired a looting in Norton from William Chaworth in 1376 : the arms granted to it in 14S5 were : Ermine, three roes trippant, gu., armed or; the motto adopted by it being “ Yeritate \ ictoria.” John Blytli, Master of the Rolls ' 1492-94, and Bishop of Salisbury 1491, was the third son of William and Saffery; he was also Chancellor of Cambridge University in 14S5, and died on 23 August, 5 199. IT is chantry tomb with his effigy sadly mutilated, now •‘lands at the s. end of the South transept of Salisbury Cathedral. 5 he 4th son, Geoffrey, became Bishop of Lichfield in 1503, was Lord president of Wales 1512-24, and died in 1530. He gave to King s Hall, now Trinity College, Cambridge, the cup presented to lorn by King Ladislaus of Hungary on the occasion ot the King s
1 Th is was the common practice for securing reliable assist ants in the XV. and X VI. centuries. TIlus we find Robert Maryat “ now °\tending with Mr. Fans ha we his majesty’s Remembrancer in the Exc hequer ” was son of Richard Maryat, of Chesterfield, in which ]>lacc Henry Fansliawe, and his brother Colyn, both owned lands.
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THE HISTORY OF THE FAN'SHAVVE FAMILY
It is impossible ilmt tlie relationship could have come
about through Sir Christopher’s own marriage since- it is
marriage in September, 150S. His tomb lias entirely disappeared from Lichfield Cathedral; but the chantry tomb which he erected to his father and mother ' in Norton Church still exists, and is said to have been the original cause of inspiration of Sir Ihomas Chantrey. It is worthy of note that the small village or Norton crave to* England two Bishops, a Master of the Polls, and a Lord Chancellor, “a Remembrancer of the Exchequer (an office in the XV ’ XVI centurv almost equal to that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer), and one of the greatest of English Sculptors, who lies buried under a massive slab of granite in the pretty graveyard of the parish in which he was born. It may be noted furthei, regarding the Blytli family, that Richard the youngest son of William and Saffery, married Catherine Birchett, of Bi relict t Hal , half wav between Norton and Dronlield, and became Lord ot t le Manor of the latter place, and their descendant Charles, sou , ot Anthcnv Blytli, sold the manor of Norton to John Bullock, m m.-, the husband of Katherine Fansliawe; and that Geoffrey Bljt , grandson of William and Saffery, succeeded his uncle as Master of Kind’s Hall, in 1524, dying in 1542 several ot the Abbots of Beau chief had the name of Norton, being no doubt of Norton origin. John Sheffield, Abbot from lo26, surrendered the Abbev to the" Crown on 4 February, 1536— his predecessor from lol6 John
Greenwood, would have been the Abbot luulfcr1JrllI?b ^ts Fansliawe was educated. On the surrender of the Abbey, its income from property was valued at Llo7, of which about one-htth las derived Iron, four farms in Dronfield. which ultimately came into the endowment fund of Dronfield Grammar school, tliiougi
the o'ift of Henrv lanshawe. . , ■« i , ,,
5ir Christopher More, like most ot his immediate descendants,
is buried in the Loseley Chapel of the Churchy of St. Nicholas, Guildford His a^e at las death, on 16 August, lo49, is not stated, ?ut al his son William was born ca. 1518-9, and he himself had acmUred half of the Loseley estate in the parish of Compton in ?5?5 ,t can liardlv have been later than U80, in wlucli case lie was nearly 70 wl.'l he died. In 1552 he acquired the remainder of the Loseley property and received permission to impark it . m the same year lie was Sheriff of Surrey, and again, six years later. HA was knighted in 1537, and became King’s Remembrancer m lo43. A s^er of his was 3rd wife of Sir John More, the Judge father +i,o T nrfl Chancellor Sir Thomas More. Sir Clmstopher vas of th 1 Margaret Mud^e, who was mother of his son
SrWT liam and secoX to Constknee, daughter of Richard Sack- *QF. i ’rf William Ilenea^e Sir William More (who rebuilt
ville widow as succeeded in turn bv his son Sir George
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• Henrv and Chamberlain of the Exehequer-also father of that \ nne* More whose wooing and wedding was so nearly fatal to Joh iV L Sir William's eldest daughter, Elizabeth or Alice married Bonne. - Richard PoMed, of Alburv, Thomas Fansliawe con-
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Helen (sister of Henry and Jolm Fansliawe) married Christopher Xing of Milnthorpe. Their burials are lot i recorded in the Dronfield Register; hers on 2b November, 1571, and his on 19 December, 157S, three days alter ie
date of his will. Another sister married -John Molsten-
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The identity of Joan “the daughter of one Mr. Fanshawe of the Exchequer Office ” has not been deter¬ mined. She married c. 1542, Richard Roper or Hooper (son of Hugh Roper of Turnditch, eo. Derby, by a
daughter of - Gell of Hoptoii). The date of Joans
marriage would make it seem probable that she «as the sister of Henry Fanshawe, the Remembrancer, otherwise her father must have been some earlier Fansliawe m e Exchequer, of whom no record has come down to us.
In a letter written by her son George m 16-6 at t e age of SO he says of his father “ Hee was a servant o King Henry VIIth and to King Henry VIII & ™ a Pensioner & much in their favor as I have heard my Mother & many others say ; and soe it slid secme for King Henry VIII gave him the keeping at Enfield Chase, Hue Park and Maribone, and the King gave him good gn s ever and anon and my father put keepeis in an ou . his pleasure, but bee lived beyond it and bee left us a
unprovided for.” . . , ,
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death and hound 1113* Mother weeping-, & took her by the hand & lifted her up — for sliee kneeled — and- bid her bee of good clieere for her children should be well pro- veded for. Afterward my brother ltd and 1 being- the two Eldest were sent to Harrow to school and were there till wee were almost men. Sir It alp h Sadler took order for all things for us there by Queen Mary’s appointment as long as she lived, and after Queen Elizabeth for a time — she gave order to bind my brothers William, Ralph, Henry, Hugh Apprentice, and sent for us to the Court and said she wd give us good places, but wee were put to be of her Guard which I think kill’d my mother’s hart, for she would always say that my ffather was of a greet stock and little look’t for such place for his sonnes. I’ve often heard her say slice thought we fared the worss that Queen Mary was so kind to us. Queen Elizth had not raigued long but my Mother died.”*
Sir Thomas Roper, Viscount Baltinglass, was of this family.
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Henry Fansliawe was the younger brother of John, who died at Dronfield, in February, 157S-9, at the age of 74; and was no doubt born about 1G0G. Ko doubt also he
was educated at the school of Beauchief Abbey, and probably he proceeded to London about the age of 1G-17, in 1522-3. I11 the Grant to him of the reyersion of the
office of .Remembrancer of the Exchequer — Patent Roll , 4 Eliz., part 5 — he being then one of the clerks, “ his good true and faithful service ” in the business of the office, to the late Kings Henry VIII., Edward VI., and
* Mr. M. G. "Hooper lias most kindly given li is permission for the above interesting particulars to be embodied in this book.
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Queen Mary, and to Queen Elizabeth, is recorded; but the earliest mention of him in official records pertaining to the office, is when it is noted that he was one of the clerks of Mr. Sanders.*
Some 25 years after he entered the Remembrancer’s Office, he was able to purchase, in 1549, some of the confiscated lands of Beauchief Abbey, which he left in trust by his will, for the foundation of the Dronfield Grammar School; and in January, 1561-2, he obtained from the Hospital of the Savoy the manor of Dengie,t Essex. In the same year he was specially admitted to the Inner Temple, being wrongly described as the son of John Fansliawe, and was granted the reversion of the post of Queen’s Remembrancer, to which he succeeded about Michaelmas, 1566.
* This was Sir lliomas Sanders, of Charlwood, Surrey, Ivina’s and Queen’s Remembrancer, 1549-GG, knighted by t lie Protector Somerset in 1547. He was married to Alice, daughter of Sir Edmund Walsingliam, Lieutenant of the Tower, see the History of Chislehurst, and left several sous and daughters; but liis descend¬ ants in the male line died out in the second generation, and the estate was sold. One of its temporary owners being Sir Andrew King, the friend of Sir Richard Kanshawe. Nicholas Sanders, the unhappy Legate in Ireland. 1581-83, whose wretched death is so dramatically rendered in 11 estu'ard Ho, belonged t^> this family In the will of Sir Thomas the surname is spelt Saunders, but he was not any relation to Sir Edward Saunders, the Roman Catholic chief Baron of the Exchequer under Queens Alary and Elizabeth. In the Charlwood Church may still be seen the memorial brass erected to his father fd. 1544) by Sir Thomas, a curious parallel to that erected in Dronfield church by lliomas Fansliawe in 1578-80.
t The sale of the manor of Dengie, Essex, to Henry Fansliawe “ generosus, unus cliebr (clericorum) de Sceio (Saccario) dine Reginai apud Westm.”, was executed on 23 January, 3rd Elizabeth, 1560-61, by the Master of Savoy, Thomas Tliurland, and his four chaplains, and was one of many similar sales of monastic an ecclesiastical and charitable property in the XVI. century; when it was challeimcd some years later, before the Bishop of London and the Lord Treasurer "Cecil, it was allowed to stand, therefore it probably did not differ in its circumstances from the generality of such transactions. Thurland had been deeply engaged in mining speculations in Cumberland and had sold other Hospital l ropei } too, in this connection. He was suspended from office m lo/0, )u was reinstated, on conditions, 4 years later. The Hospital itsci had but a short existence, having been opened only m lol7 tinder the provisions of the will of Henry VII. It was surrendered in 1553, but had two more years of life under Queen Mary, or some 38 years in all. Bishop Sheldon was master of the Hospital after 1000, and hence the church conference of 1GG1 was known as the Savoy Conference.
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The following year he was granted a lease of lands amounting to some 250 acres, formerly belonging to St. Botolph’s Priory, Colchester, at the annual rental of £17 14s. Sd. This lease is signed by the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, and Sir Walter Mildmay, and is attested by William Fuller, Auditor.
Other purchases by him were, the manor of Jenkins* in 1567, bought in the name of his second wife Dorothy as well as of himself (Jenkins was the old manorial residence of Barking Abbey) ; Aew Barns, in West Ham, bought in the same Year, in his name and that of his daughter Ann (see note on p. 13); Fulkes, Westbury, Yallance, and Gallanee in Barking, bought earlier, and
* The descent of the manor of Jenkins is a very interesting one — see Walter’s Chesters of Chicheley . It was held of the Abbess of Barking, by Sir Hugh Bryce, who died in 1496, having served as Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor in 14S5, and was buried in St. Mary Woolnoth church, of which he was a great patron, before Sir Martin Bowes. By his will, Sir Hugh Bryce left Jenkins to his daughter in law, Elizabeth [the child of William Chester, Skinner of London, founder of the family of Chesters of Chicheley (d. 1476) and of his wife, Agnes Hill (d. 14S4)] who had married ( ca . 1476) his only son James Bryce, who died about 1490, and was buried at St. Martins, Dover, leaving a son Hugh and a daughter Elizabeth. The former died young: the latter married
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first, Robert Amadas, who died 1531, and secondly. Sir Thomas Neville, younger brother of Lord Abergavenuev. Her daughter Elizabeth, married Richard Scrope, of Castle Combe, and their daughter married Martin Bowes, second son of Sir Martin (Lord Mayor of London in 1545, and five times M.P. of that city in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth), and took the manor of Barking to him. She was buried at Barking, on 29 December, 1556, and eleven years later, Martin Bowes sold Jenkins to Henrv Fanshawe and his wife. Thomas Fanslmw succeeded to the estate on his uncle’s death in 1568, and his soil (Sir) Thomas Fanshawe, held it till 1631, after whom it descended to his son Thomas (d. 1651-2) and his grandson the second Sir Thomas Fanshawe (d. 1704-5). It then passed to his daughter Susanna, wife of
Baptist Noel, and on her death in 1714, to her daughter, who sold it in 1717 to Sir William Humphreys, Lord Mayor of London. It is surprising how many Lord Mayors were connected with this area. Sir Rowland Hayward, Sir Edward Osborne, Sir William Hewett, Sir James Cambell, Sir William Humpheys and Sir Crisp Gascoyne (who lived at Bifrons, which was improved by his father in law Dr. Bamber, and sold by his son Bamber Gascoyne); the reason for this preference for this district, is perhaps that the South of Essex was more accessible to London in the XVI. XVII. centuries, than Middlesex or Hertfordshire or even Kent and Surrey for the most part were. Sir Ralph Warren (1536) and Sir Thomas White (1553) were connected with Claybury, Sir Richard Gresham (1537) with Newbury, and Thomas Vyner and Sir Robert Vyner, 1C54 and 1675, with Eastbury.
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Two or three years before his death, he obtained, from the chapter of St. Paul’s, a long lease of a property in Warwick Lane, and removed there from his residence in Bread Street, which he had rented from the widow of Sir John Fogg* of Ashford, Kent, between the years 1559 and 1564, perhaps longer. The Warwick Lane property was situated at the south end of the Lane on the west side, where Amen Court now stands, and neai vheie the well-known hostelry of the Oxford Arms once stood: this information has been kindly given to me by the authority of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Besides resulting in the endowment of the JJronfield School, the acquisition of the Beauckief Abbey properties in 1561, no doubt led to the issue, in that year, of a commission to report upon the ruinous condition of JJronfield Chuich, which was held by the Abbey; the restoration of the massive (too massive) perpendicular east w indow , then described as, “ fallen down and in great ruin,” followed upon this. A sketch of the Church and the east window was made by J. JL Turner in l<9i, and mat be seen in Yol. I., p. 69, of the Finbcrg Collection at the Tate
Gallery.
In Henry Fanshawe’s marriage licence, dated 5 July, 1554, he is described as of the City of London. This first wife was Thomasine, daughter of William Hopkins, and widow of Robert Stevyns, of Barking. By her will, dated 4 October, 1561, she left a piece of meadow ground called Butchers ’Acre, in Hippie marsh, to her husband, and also a life interest in the rest of her lands situated at liipple Side, among which was “ Cottesmead, to which Paul Steven was to succeed; 26 years later (29 Eliz.) “ PawTl Stephen ” was still holding this parcel of marsh ground, see L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls.
Thomasine died on or about 30 Tanuai \ , 1561 -*'> and
*Thc son of Sir John Fcgge, married the daughter of Sir William Kcmpe, who was a first cousin of Sir Andrew Judde. Stemmata Chicheleana.
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was buried on the 31st in St. Olive’s, Bread Street, London, the site of which is still marked bv a tablet, on Bread Street Hill. Henry Fanshawe made bequests to his father in law, AVilliam Hopkins, in his draft will of September, 15G1, and in the Ilarleian Charters , 17c, 47, is an interesting record of a grant to Sir Walter Mildmay by Edward Hopkins, in 1584, of land in Band’s marsh, and a messuage at Bipple side, formerly belonging to Robert Stephen and his wife Thomasine, afterwards wife of Henry Fanshawe, late Queen’s Remembrancer (which lands Thomasine had left to Edward Hopkins in reversion).
Henry Fanshawe’s second wife (whom he must have married immediately after the death of the first), was Dorothy Stonard. She was the daughter of George Stonard, of Loughton,* descended from a family which, for some generations at least, held the office of Forester with the great Abbey of Waltham, and bore as arms, Per f'esse, sa. and or, a pale engrailed, counterehanged, between two eagles displayed in chief, and one in base, of the second, which are impaled with those of Fanshawe on the Funeral Certificate of 7 November, 15G8. George Stonard died on 25 November, 1558, and was buried in the north aisle of Lough ton Church, with his wife Mary at his feet and effigies of several sons and six daughters.
* 'J lie- manor of Loughton was originally held by the Stonards, of Waltham Abbey. John Stoner or Stonard left his best ambling nag — perhaps as heriot — to the Abbot in 1532. For a time the family held the site of Barking Abbey, but sold it in 1565 — X eve - court's Itepertoriurn. Sir William Hewett left a gold ring to John Stonard, brother of Dorothy, in 1-567, another brother, Francis (whose Epitaph is in Stapleford Abbot Church), married the daughter of Sir Clement Higham, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Queen Elizabeth visited Francis Stonard at Lougliton, on her way Irorn lladharu Hall (Master Capel’s) to Wanstead : Lord Chancellor Hatton was in attendance on the Queen, he writes to Cord Burghley while there, dating his letter From the Court at Mr. Stoner’s the 21st September, 1578.” In 1568 Mary Wythy, daughter of linger Wythy, acknowledges payment to her of money, by her uncle Henry Fanshawe, as executor of her father, to which receipt the names of tin* above John and Francis Stonard are appended. Richard Stonard was another of Dorothy’s brothers; one ot her sisters married Thomas Barfote who is mentioned in Henry I a ns h awe’s draft will of 1566, and the brother in law Nicholas Hunt, to whom he bequeathed a ring at the same time, was no doubt married to another of her sisters.
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Henry Fansliawe’s wife Dorothy bore him three children, Anne, Darraty, and Susanna, in 1 5 G'A . 1505-0 and 1567. The eldest and youngest only, survived their father, Darraty being buried at Christchurch, Newgate Street, a few months after her birth. Susanna was said to be 18 months old at the time of her father s death on 28 October, 1508, she is not mentioned of course in the draft will of 1560.
Henry Fanshawe died at about the age of 02 on 28 October, 1568, after having held the office of Queen’s "Remembrancer for only two years. The reversion of the post, he secured to his nephew Thomas, a little more than three months before his death. Between the date of his last will in September, 15GT, and his draft wills of 1501 and 1560, he had apparently transferred certain of his properties to his nephew, including the manor of Jenkins, as no mention of that, or Dengie, or Ilford Hospital, occurs in the will.*
* By various draft wills and liis last will, Henry Fanshawe made very varied dispositions of his property. By the draft will of 1501 he grave to Thomas Fanshawe, his brother’s son, all his lands as well free as copvhold (except Clayhall, loft to his wife, Carsewell, left to William Wolstenliolme ; Brimington Hall, left to his brother Colyn ; and Grenovell lands, Barking', lof. to William Bassett) within the counties of Essex, Middlesex, and Derby ; and also all his goods not specifically bequeathed, subject to debts being paid and his legacies duly discharged : the nephew was to be sole executor. He also left legacies to each of his sisters, living, and to all their children. By the draft will of 20 lebruary, 15GG (besides his nephew*), his wife, her brother John Stonard, and Sir Walter Mildmav, were to be executors. 1 he wife was to ha\o lands in Tendring and Barking, Essex, the manor of Fulks, in Barking, and the. manor of Soranks, Stanstead, Kent. The executors were to hold for purposes of the will, the^ lands in Derbyshire, the hospital of Ilford, “ which cost me £G0, and the manor of Dengie, and Thomas Fanshawe was to hold tor 21 years the manor of Valence, and farm of Clay nail, which were then to go to his daughter Anne. If she died before then, these properties were to belong to his nephew absolutely.
By his actual will of September, 15G7, Thomas Fanshawe was again made “sole” executor and was to receive the rents arid profits of all lands and leases (except Clay Hall) to pax off do its and perform the behests of the will. I hat done, balance, Gallance, East nail, and other lands in Essex were to be devoted to the making up a fortune for his daughter Susanna; and New Barns '*■ ith the same object for his daughter Anne.
In June 15G7. Richard Sport, son of Sir Thomas Spert, had *ohl to Henrv Fanshawe and his daughter Anne (born 15G2), Xew Barns in \Ve“st Ham. The latter died at the age of 22, but no mention of New Barns occurs in her will of 1584. By a deed of
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He was buried in the church of St. Margaret. Barking, on 8 November, 1568, being the first male of the family to find a last resting-place there, as the last was Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes, in 1797.
It was in St. Margaret's Church that Captain James Cook, the great explorer, was married to Miss Batts on 2 December, 1762. She died 73 years later.
As stated in pp. 265-6 of the Memoirs , Henry Fanshawe’s widow married William Fuller Surveyor of the Exchequer (Auditor com. for the counties of Norfolk. Suffolk, Cambs., Huntingdon, Hertford, London and Middlesex, a post which was in the Queen's Gift and was in the Exchequer Office). Mrs. Fanshawe wms his third wife, she died in 1583 ; her youngest daughter Susanna Fanshawe having just previously married Timothy Lucy, brother of Elizabeth Lucy, a former wife of Fuller who had been still living in 1563. Timothy
Lucy was the fourth son of William Lucy of Charlecote and brother of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, “ Justice
15 August, 1595, the crown granted to Joan (Smythe), wife of Thomas Fanshawe of Ware Park, and her sons" Thomas and William, for their joint lives, the capital messuage of New Barns, formerly belonging to the monastery of Stratford Langtliorne, at an annual rent of £34 7s. 6d., and in July, 1607, on payment of a
year’s rent as a fine, the grant was extended to a term of 21
years from that date, an additional charge of 6 cart loads of good and sweet hay, to be delivered at the Boy a l Stables in the mews near Charing- Cross, being added to the rent.
A later deed of April, 1639, recites a grant of New Barns to Sir Francis Bacon and others in January 1617 for 99 years, and the grant of the property of the survivors of these to Sir Simon Fanshawe, and the confirmation of this grant to the last; and
further records that on payment of a sum of £T00 by Sir Thomas
Fanshawe, Surveyor General (d. 1631), the property was transferred, for the remainder of the lease of 09 years, to John Bullock and John Cholinley, at a rent of £40 p.a.
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Shallow.*’ Timothy Lucy' was 13. A. of Oxford in 156T and M.P. for Warwick 1571 and 15S4-. There were three sons and four daughters of this marriage. Susanna Lucy died in 1610, her husband on 21 January, 1616. lie is buried in Bitterley church near Ludlow, Salop, under a fine monument with an effigy of himself in armour, kneeling on a cushion with hands uplifted. Above the tomb rests the coat of arms with eight quarterings ; there are also shields upon the tomb bearing li is own arms, one of them impaled with those of Susanna, and the other with those of her successor, who was Joan, daughter of Thomas Burghill of Thingell. This lady survived her husband and erected the tomb “ in memorye and love of him."
The elder daughter Anne died in 15S4. It transpires in the Record (still preserved at the P.R.O.) of the family dispute over a marriage settlement for Susanna, that William Fuller, who had been instrumental in bringing this marriage about, also sought to procure a marriage between “ Xathanyell his sonne and Anne ffanshawe, she “ having a great porcon of her father’s will and lands by descent, and his son but a child ■without anv living assurance, or sage either in land or othei substance.” The continual seeking of him and his son to secure this marriage “ turned to the great and con¬ tinual grief and liinderment of the sd Anne during her life.” Anne, however, died unmarried, and was buried
at Barking on 7 April, 1584.
Sir Drue Drury, who assisted in the adjustment of the disagreement, was connected with the Stonaid family.
Among those remembered by Anne Fanshawe m hei will were*, Mr. Paule Stonerd, Mistris Polstede, Mris ffy nes and Mris Crome (cousins on the More side) and M res Elizabeth Fuller— probably the daughter of • William Fuller by a former wife.
Xo further elucidation of the difficulty noted on pp. 266-7 of the Memoir*, connected with the arms used by the College of Heralds at the funeral of Henry Fanshawe
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in November, 1568; the similar coat confirmed to his brother John (father of Thomas Fanshawe) on 4 January. 4 Eliz. (or 1571 ?); and t lie simpler coat adopted by the family almost immediately afterwards — has been possible.
The first of these, in Henry’s Funeral Certificate, being* Argent, two chevronels ermines between three fleurs de lys, sa. (see Fed. I.) which naturally appears also on the tomb at Bitterley alongside of the Juicy arms, gu. semee of cross-crosslets, three lucies liaurient, argent.
The Arms and Crest confirmed to John ffanshaw of ffanshaw Gate, 4 Jan. 4 Elizabeth (sic.) see Dethick's Gifts at the Herald's College.
The second, confirmed to John Fanshawe in 1571, being the same blazon but on a field or. Ibis was used by Thomas (son of John) when his arms were placed ca. 1571-2— in the Hall of the Middle Temple, of which he became a member on 23 January, 1571-2, where the\ still stand at the end of the top row of arms in the second window from the west, on the north wall. Tluy were also used by him on t lie seal impressed on the lea.^e of lands in St, John’s Wood, on 20 June, lo~2.
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John ffaunchall, b. c. 1370-75, living 1417.
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Joan ffaunchall, nf Holmcsfield, living 1417, d. c. 1431.
Join ffaunchalle, of ffaunchall — Joan, living 1454. gat hede, holding by free ser¬ vice; b. before 1414, living 1436-56.
JoLn ffaunchall, b. c. 1437, d. = Johanna, living 1507, before 1509.
Henry or Robert ffaunchall, re¬ ceived half his father’s lands in ffanshawe -gate in 1496, d. c. 1523.
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ffanshawe, of ffan- Thomazine, dau. of Wil- = Henry, of Dengie, 1st Re- = Dorothy, dau. of George CoWn, of Bri- Helen, d. 1571. shawe Gate, b. 1504, liara Hopkyns, widow 1554 membcancer; b. c. 1506, Stonard, of Loughton. raington, liv-
Thomas, of Ran- = Marget, sethe, d. 1544. living 1540.
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She m. 2ndly, William Fuller, and d. c. 1583.
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Christopher King, d. 1578
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Sir William, Clerk in Holy Orders ; living 1540-50.
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Anne, b. 1562, d. unm. 1584.
Susanna, b. 1567, d. 1610. = 1583.
Timothy Lucy of Bitter - ley; d. 1616.
* The Pennon of Henry Panshawe, 1st Remembrancer; and his Arms impaling Stonard, both from his Funeral Certificate. f Signature of John ffanshawe, d. 1578-9, taken from his will.
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J he third coat, or, a chevron between three tieurs de lys, appears on the brass of John Fanshawe, 1578 in Dronfield church (see Fed. III.); on the seal of Dronfield Grammar School, 1578 ( though one would have expected to see the earlier coat on this) ; the impression of the seal on a bond of Godfrey Fanshawe’s (anions the Fanshawe Papers Exchequer, P.R.O.) signed by him; on the tablet to his memory (d. 1587), which once stood in Ilford Hospital chapel; and on the standard figured by the College of Arms on the Funeral Certificate of
Thomas Fanshawe in 1G00-1.
The only explanation seems to be, that a coat was originally granted or confirmed to Henry Fanshawe between the death of his first wife — “ buried without arms in 1562 (unless this expression referred to her having none of her own), and his own death in 1568, and that the record of this has been lost in the College;
and that subsequent to the confirmation of Arms to John Fanshawe in 1571 the latter obtained a separate grant in the form of a variant of the Arms which took the place of the coat recorded in 1571.
1 his idea is strengthened by the fact that the descendants of Kobert Fanshawe of Dronfield (a brother of Thomas and Godfrey) also bore the later coat, which could only have been inherited from a direct ancestor.
Colyn ffonchall, another younger brother of John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate was assessed in goods iii ju : viijd in the Chesterfield Lay Subsidy for the 35tb Henry Till. (1543). lie lived at Brimington in that parish, possibly holding under his brother Henry, for in the latter’s draft will of 1561 he leaves him his lease of Brimington Hall. If this was identical with the quaint old house engraved in Old Halls of Derbyshire, it was a place of some size and importance. By his will of 1567 Henrv Fanshawe leaves his lease of Brimington to /Mice Fanshawe,* but without denoting in what relationship
* Alice Fanshawe was living in his house in 1561, and in his will of that date lie left her £40. She was no doubt the same Alice
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she stood to his brother. If that brother were still living it seems strange that he should alter his will in this respect. Apparently Colyn, or more probably a son of the same name, afterwards held the lease direct from the owner, Godfrey Foljambe, as mention is made in the latter’s will in 1594 of a messuage in Brimington with the appurtenances “ sometimes in the houlding and occupacoii of one Collyn ffanshawe or of his assignes, which suggests that one or other of the Colyns continued to rent the place, till near the close of the century, even if lie had ceased to live there.
There are no entries respecting them in the Chester¬ field parish register later than 1570 in which year Colen was one of the Guardians : soon after that date they must have migrated to Dronfield, and there the rest of the children of Colyn Fanshawe were baptized. The only other personal note that has come down to us legaiding any of the Colyns is to be found at the end of the will of John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, where one of them (probably the younger) is among the appraisers on 23 February, 1578-9, after John’s death.
The will of Collen ffanshawe of Dronfield was proved at Lichfield on 8 June, 1596, but whether he was identical with the Collen whose burial took place at Dronfield on 10 August, 1593 (called there neither senior nor junior), or if they were father and son, it is impos¬ sible to determine; probably the burial is that of ihe son, as lie is not mentioned among the executors to the abo^ e will. This will most unfortunately has been lost, the entry in the Act Book alone remaining, which merely gives the date and the names of the four executors (presumably the four surviving children) Henry, Arthur, Margaret and Elizabeth.' * Two of these, Henry and Arthur, were baptized at Chesterfield, on 20 January,
who was married at Christchurch, Newgate Street, from Thomas Fanshawe’s on 1C August. 1575, to his friend Edward Llyott, "ho served under him in the Remembrancer’s office.
* The Chesterfield Register also contains the burial entry of Elizabeth Fanshawe on 30 October, 1592 (who m? >«n *Iu
above daughter of Colyn), and the marriage of Henij Ronsha^
Ellen Calton on 11 July, 1597.
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Elen, b. 1563.
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Helen, bapt. 14th June, 1590, at Drontield.
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of his of the same name), scendants from the small
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Colyn Fanshawe, of Brimington, = Agnes (wife or daughter), bur. living 1561. I 24th Sept., 1563.
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Henry, 6. 1559- 60; living 1506.
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Godfrey, bapt. 24th June, bur. 2nd Oct., 1575, at Chesterfield.
Peter, bapt. 24th Nov., 1576, at Chester¬ field.
Thomas, b. and d. 1563 ; bur. 24th Sept.
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Katherine,
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John Stubbinge, of Calow.
Margaret, living 1596.
Hercules, bapt. Nov., 1583, Dronfield.
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Thomas, bur. 19th Aug., 1587, at Dron¬ field.
Edward, bapt. 8th Feb., 15SS; bur. 5th March, 1589, at Dronfield.
Elizabeth, Elen,
living 1596. b. 1563.
Helen, bapt. 14th June, 1590, at Dronfield.
* These mav have been the children of the original Colyn Fanshawe (as given here), or his grandcdiildren (children of a son of his of the same name). The dates of their births make tho latter the more probable. It is only possible to give a tentative pedigree of Colyn ’s descendants from the small
amount of information available.
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The rest of the children baptized and buried at Chesterfield, are stated to be the sons of Colen ffanshawe, Junior. It is puzzling to find the suffix “ younger ” in the Dronfield Register against this name at the baptism and burial of children in 1587 and 1590 and not in 1583, 1588, and 1589. Registers were often carelessly kept in those days, so though it proves there were two Colyns living between 15S7 and 1590, one cannot be certain whether some of these entries refer to the family of the father by a second wife, and some to that of the son, or to the son’s only. The name Colyn has never been used by any member of the family, other than by this branch.
John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (the eldest brother
of Henry and Colyn Fanshawe) was born in 1504-5,
succeeded his father in 1523, and died on 22 February-,
1578-9, his wife Margaret was the first of the family to
be buried in the chancel of Dronfield church by right
of ownership of the church lands, once held by the
Abbey of Beauchief, and afterwards purchased by his
brother: the brass erected there to the memory of him
and this wdfe in 1580 is . described in the Memoirs. The
inscription states that she died on 15 June, 1573. The
only member of the family recorded in the burial
register of that year is TCiddowe ffanshawe on June 17 — -
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widow only of a former husband. In Hunter’s Famihcr «
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Hugh Wadd of Aston and the daughter of Godfrey Eyre of Hassop by Emma, daughter of Ellis Furnis, of Hucklow (in Tideswell), and as her youngest son was named Godfrey, this would seem a probable account. Hunter says that the name Godfrey was borne f by Margaret’s father and by her brother but by no other known member of the numerous branches of the Eyre family, so that the Godfrey Eyre who appears, in the Lay subsidies of Derbyshire, under “ Calton Brampton and Calowe ” in 1546, was no doubt one of these. She was descended from Robert Eyre of Padley, in Hathersage (d. 1459), whose fine brass in that church is so well known.*
John Fanshawe’s daughters by the first of his three marriages tEllen and Agnes) were both married to Holmesfield husbands — the names Alvev and Qwtram occurring constantly in the manor roll. Robert Alyey was a younger son of Richard Alvev of Arnold and Blythe worth, T^otts, and of Holmesfield; John Owtram was the son of Robert Owtram. Margaret, the daughter of the second marriage, married Richard Castle of Cart- worth, M est Riding, 5 orkshire, who vas the son of *1 ohn Castle of Holme, in the manor of Wakefield. John Eanshawe’s grandson Godfrey Castle, was baptized at Dronfield on 1 December, 1566. By his third wife John Fanshawe appears to haye had a son E d y a i d , baptized at Dronfield on 19 April, 15T5, who, however, was buried there on 23 September in the same year. Of himself nothing further has come to light since 190 1.
Thomas Fanshawe the eldest son of John, born in 1533, went to London about the age of 16-18 no doubt, and entered the Office of Queen’s Remembrancer under
* Other early monumental records, in families with which the Fanshawes became connected, are those of Archbishop Chichele (d 1443) in Canterbury Cathedral, and of his relations in the church of Higham Ferrers; that of Sir Andrew Judde ' (d‘
in Great St. Helen’s, Bishopgate, and of his daughter Al^
wife of Customer Smvth (d. 1598), in Ashford church, Kent, that of George St“nard of Loughton. in Lougliton church (meni honed above), died 1553; and that of Clement Kewce in Hadham churc
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his uncle; he was nominated to succeed the latter as Remembrancer in July, 1568, and did actually succeed him in October of the same year. A full account of his
life and work is given in the Memoirs and only the more salient facts need be noted here.
Some details regarding the lives of his younger brothers, Robert, who lived at the old home Fanshawe Gate, and Godfrey, who was in the Exchequer Office, will be found at pp. 34, 38 below.
Thomas Fanshawe lived with his uncle up to the time
of the death of the latter, and was evidently treated by him as liis own son. The statement in the Dictionary
of National Biograjihy, that he was at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, is due to confusion between him and his son Henry who was at that College before he went to Jesus College.
His first marriage, to Mary Bour- f chier, took place probably in 1568, their eldest son Henry being born in
* Thomas Fanshawe’s Helmet and Crest from his Funeral Certificate.
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1569 (baptized 13 August that year) . She died on 9 June, 15TS and was buried at Christchurch, Xewgate; and on 22 December in the same year (6V months, and not 2 years after her death as Lady Fanshawe records) he married at All Hallows, Lombard Street, his second wife Joan Smythe, daughter of the well-known Customer, she being then IS years of age. A full account of the Smythe family is given in Chapter I A .
Mary Bourchier was the daughter of Anthony Bourchier, of Barnsley, Gloucestershire, and Thomasine Mildmay, elder sister of Sir Walter Mildmay, she being the third and he the fifth child of Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, and his wife Agnes Beed — see T isitations of London, Essex, Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire, Harleian Society. Maiy Bourchier’ s father died in 1552, and she was living with her uncle Sir Walter Mildmay in St. Bartholomew’s Close, at the time of her marriage. It will be remembered that the cousinship of Sir Richard Fanshawe and John Evelyn, was through the Bourchier family — Memoirs, pp. 2 <4 and o96 ; and there vas a further connection between them, in that Thomas Mildmay of Mo u 1 sham (elder brother of Sir Walter Mildmay and Thomasine), married Avice Gonson, whose sister was the wife of Sir Richard Bi ■owne, the grandfather of Sir Richard, of Saves Court, the father of Mrs. John Evelyn. The record of a dinner provided for Sir TV alter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer and his fellow officials, viz., Lord Windsor, the Attorney General, Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, Clerk of the Pipe, etc., eleven in all, states the total cost at 32s. 6d. Of the later descendants of the family a full pedigree will be found in Cass’ East Barnet , in which Lady Fanshawe resided at the close of her life, and died in January, 1680.
On 23 January, 1570-71, 2J years after he became Remembrancer, Thomas Fanshawe joined the Middle Temple,, being specially freed of all Christmas offerings except annual pensions, as was his second son TV alter on his admission some 20 years later. An account of Thomas Fanshawe’s arms, in the second window in the north uall
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from the west encl of the great flail of the Inn, lias been given on p. 16.* On 21 June, 1576, during the life-time of his first wife, Thomas Fanshawe purchased Ware Park from the dowager Countess of Huntingdon and her son, Memoirs, p. 281. An abstract of the deed. of sale is still among the old papers of the family: t A number of extracts from the Ware manor roll have also recently come
* His sons Sir Henry, Sir Thomas, and William, and his grand¬ sons, Thomas of Jenkins, and Sir Richard Fanshawe, all entered the Inner Temple (in 1587, 1595, 1600, 1621, and 1626), while his grandson Sir Simon joined Lincoln’s Inn in October, 1623, as did the Second Viscount on 24 June, 1657.
t A collection of papers in the British Museum MSS. 27, 979) contains an interesting record of the title of the Manor of Ware from the middle of the XVI. to the middle of the XVII. century. The original grant by Queen Mary to Francis Earl of Huntingdon and his wife Katherine was dated 21 June, 1554, and this was confirmed to the latter — then widow of the Earl — on 3 June, 1570; and two years later reversion was granted to her son Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, and his wife. On the 7 April, 1575, the Earl sold the estate to Thomas Fanshawe, and on the 21st June, 1576, the sale was confirmed by the dowager Countess, with the reservation of a rent of £80 p.a. The deed of seizin of the property is dated 23 idem. On 23 May, 1578, the Earl released the annual rent to the purchaser, and in November , 1580, Sir George Hastings, younger brother of the Earl, granted a release on his part. In October, 1583, the Exchequer proceedings, noted at p. 281 of the Memoirs, resulting in the judicial confirmation of the title of the manor, took place. On 2 August, 1616, a proceeding was recorded that Sir Henry Fanshawe had estate tayle in the manor and that Thomas Fanshawe was his heir. Jlie latter settled the estate, by way of jointure, upon Anne Allington, on 24 September, 1628, and on his second wife, by agreement with Dame Mary Cokayne, on 23 June, 1629. In 1634 the estate was mortgaged * for £3000, and again in July, 1642, this time to Sir William Boteler. In other deeds of 1649, Sir Philip V arwick and his wife, and the elder and younger William Newce were concerned. In November, 1651, there was a conditional sale of the estate for £2500 : in a number of deeds which follow, from 1652-58, the name of Ellis Young appears. On 27 March, 166S, the second \ iscount transferred the estate in trust to his cousin "W illiam Newce, and Arthur Sparke of Hertford; and on 7 April, 1669, was recorded in the High Court of Chancery, an indenture between the Second Viscount and the above trustees and Sir Thomas Byde, whereby the whole estate was conveyed to the last, a deed of release' by the first parties being recorded on the same date, i he price paid for the estate is not mentioned in these deeds . Lady Fanshawe states it was £26,000.
1 There are on record some chartning letters from Cardinal Pole to his niece the Countess, between 15o-l and lo57 , one of the first gear, referring to the Queen’s goodness in restoring pm t of the Salisbury lands to her. Another relates to her proposed visit 1» St. Anne’s Well at Koxton and advises caution regarding the adoption of this treatment. The Karl and his wife both lie under a beautiful sculptured tomb in the church of Ashby dc la Zouche.
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to light ; blit the only fact of special interest recorded in them is that a certain John Kettle was Steward of the manor court for a number of years, and it would seem probable that the Fanshawe Kettle (to whom Dr. Rupert Kettle, Master of Trinity College, Oxford, left his estate, and Kettle Hall), was his son. One of the principal tenants of the manor was a John Thorowgood, who was presumably of the family of the wife of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon of Hoddesdon.
From a MSS. volume now in the possession of Mr. Basil Fanshawe of Bratton Fleming it has been ascer¬ tained that the little work on The Practice of the Exchequer, written by Thomas Fanshawe, was originally composed in October, 15T2, and was dedicated to Lord Burleigh who became Lord High Treasurer in July of that year, and that it was re-dedicated to Lord Buckkurst in 1599 (the year that the latter was appointed to that office). According to the printed volume of 1G58, it is wrongly ascribed to “ Sir T. F. ” (afterwards Viscount
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Fanshawe) by whom the book was published in that year.
In 1572 Thomas Fanshawe obtained a valuable lease of 51 acres of land in St. John’s Wood on payment of an annual rent of £3 7s. 3d. The lease still exists ( Harleian Charters , 77 f'. 59), but unluckily no map of the wood is forthcoming to enable the exact site of the area of it to be identified. In the same year also he secured a re-grant of the Hospital of Ilford. A full account of this Institu¬ tion will be found in Yol. II. of the Victorian II i story of Essex. In 1574 he and his wife Mary acquired the manor of Westbury, Barking, from Arthur Breame a nd four years previously he had been granted leases of Shackman’s grove and Leyson’s grove of 134 and Sf acres in the Waltham (lipping) Forest, formerly belonging to the Abbey of Barking, which he transferred later to his brother Godfrey, the lease of the latter being signed by William Fuller, Auditor.
Though he lived to be OS, various letters in the Public Records, and a quaint prescription of 1590, go to show that, as he stated to Lord Burghley in 1597, Thomas
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Fanshawe had suffered in health for a number of years before his death, from his devotion to his official duties.* It seems probable that his end was brought on by the mad rising of the Earl of Essex on 8 February, 1601, a principal episode of which took place at Ludgate, only a few hundred yards from the Fanshawe house in W arwick Lane, and in connection with which his two brothers in law, Sir Thomas Sniythe, Sheriff, and Sir John Scott, were nearly touched by suspicion as will be seen by the account in Chapter IV. Thomas Fanshawe died in that house on 19 February, 1600-1 having retained bis senses to the last, and having made certain alterations in his will (of 10 July, 1596). the day before his death. These comprised the payment of £1500 to his daughter Alice, who was no doubt then engaged to Christopher Hatton, and the provision of an annual allowance of £20 to his youngest son, William, then 18 Years of age, in lieu of a previous charge on the manor of West bury, made in his favour.
He was buried in Ware Church on 19 March, exactly a month after his death. His Funeral Certificate, with the arms of Fanshawe, Bourchier and Smythe, remains at the College of Arms. Xo monument was ever erected over the vault in which he and his descendants, down to the last Viscount (died 1716) lie.t
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* Among duties placed on liirn by tlie Privy Council about this period was an enquiry into tlie complaints made by the miller of “ the fower water milnes of Bromley bigli Stratford et Bow,” and, with Sir Thomas Egerton, Attorney General, the taking of fresh bonds from Sir Richard Marten master of the my lit regarding the profits of the mint and the bullion delivered to him for minting. In June, 1597, he was engaged in taking security for the supplies of stockfish and bacon and beef and biscuit to the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh for “ a voyage present lv intended.” In 1594 Sir John Hawkins had demanded a personal interview with him on the ground of the trouble given to the Admiral by the audit of his accounts. If the interview took place it was probably a stormy one !
t At p. 279 of the Memoirs it has been noted that Thomas Fanshawe sat in the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth, summoned in 1571, and in the five Parliaments from 1572 to 1592-3; in those of 1592 and 1597, his son Henry also sat with him. For some reason this son did not serve in any of the Parliaments of James I., but his (Henry’s) vounger brothers Thomas and William sat together in those of 1614, 1620, 1623 and 1625, and Thomas sat in 1623 with
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By liis will be left Jenkins to bis wife Joan (Smytbe) with all tbe household stuff and furniture for so long* as she remained a widow, be also bequeathed to her a quantity of farm stock, his coach and twelve coacli-horses
of various sorts as well as 500 marks, a number of jewels, and “one hun¬ dredth poundes worth of my plate to be chosen by her out of all the plate that I have.” She and his son Henry were jointly to have the occupation
of Ware Park during her widowhood, they were also to have the house in Warwick Lane with the contents of both these houses — Warwick Lane only until the youngest daughter attained the age of 21 or married — and his wife and Henry were to have the right to cut
timber in St. John's Wood for their own use. He also left his term in the Parsonage of Dronfield to them jointly, until all his children should be provided for; and to his wife he left his lands in West Ham in lieu of dower, expressing his desire that she and his son Henry should live together in one house and have with them all the daughters until they should be married, and the younger sons when not employed or otherwise occupied. She seems, however, to have lived principally at Fulks in Barking parish, and with her son Thomas at Jenkins, and died without making a will, being of unsound mind at the time of her decease. The parish register of All Hallows, Lombard Street, gives the date
his nephews Sir Thomas (afterwards first Viscount Fanshawe) and Sir Arthur Harris. In the Long Parliament Sir Thomas sat with his cousin Thomas of Jenkins, with Sir William Boteler and Sir Philip Warwick — successively husbands of his sister Joan Fanshawe
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In the Cavalier Parliament Sir Thomas Fanshawe sat with his son (later second Viscount) and with his brother Sir Richard Fanshawe.
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of her baptism as 15 October, 1560, and that of Ware, records her burial on 30 May, 1622.
Thomas Fanshawe left three sons, Henry Thomas and William, whose record will be found in Chapters III., VII. and VIII. Walter, his young*er son by his first (Bourehier) marriage, baptized at Christchurch, Newgate Street, on 6 March, 1674-5, was at Emmanuel College, Cambridge — the College founded by his uncle Sir Walter Mildmay in 15S4-5 — he entered as a Fellow- commoner from 7 March, 1587, the Armada year; was admitted to the Middle Temple on 25 November, 1590, and died sometime in 1593, his rooms in the Temple being disposed of in November of that year to another, in place of Mr. Walter Fanshawe, deceased. His admission to the College was apparently in contravention to the object of the founder who desired that all members of it should devote themselves to the study of dheology. Among the original endowments of the College was a property in Grace Church Street given by Customer Smytlie.
On 7 November, in the year of Walter Fanshawe’s death, his youngest brother Phillippe, who died young, was baptized at Ware.
Two of Thomas Fanshawe s daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, born in 1584-5 and 1586-7, lived only a few months; there were also three others, Alice, Katherine, and Margaret.
Alice, the eldest of these, baptized on 24 December, 1581, married at Barking on 13 March, 1601-2, Sir Christopher Hatton,* whose father was the first cousin
* John Hatton of Holdenby liad two sons, William and John. T ho former was father of the Lord Chancellor and of a daughter Dorothea who married John Newport, and was mother of sir William Newport who succeeded his uncle and took the name ot Ilatton and died in 1597; his wife Elizabeth Cecil, daughter ot tin* Earl of Exeter, marrying secondly Sir Edward Coke, whereby hangs a tale. John Hatton had a son, named after himself, ot Stanton, Cambs. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Robert dilute, and their sons were Sir Christopher Hatton (ultimate heir of the bord Chancellor), who married Alice Fanshawe, and Sir Thomas Hatton, Bart., who married Mary, a daughter of Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath. The Hatton family was originally of Cheshire and acquired Holdenby by marriage.
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of the Lord Chancellor (b. 1540, d. 1591). This second Sir Christopher, godson and namesake of Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of James I. on 25 July, 1G03. He was born at Abingdon in Northamptonshire, probably about the year 1570-5, and succeeded to the estates: dyinu* while still under 50 years of age, on 10 September, 1619, he was buried on the lltli.
Their first ‘child was taken early from them. Sir Christopher, writing to his brother in law, Henry Eanshawe in June, 1603, says, “ It hath pleased Aim ightv God to call unto His service our little one, whom both my wife and myself would entreat you might be laid in your vault at Ware. We intend it shall be
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buried there to-morrow at evening prayer.” A number of other children were subsequently born to them and were baptized at Barking, Sir Christopher and his wife residing at Clay Hall, in Barkingside ; and at his death the record of those surviving, embodied in the Funeral Certificate at the College of Arms, were Christopher aged about 14, John 10, Francis 6, William only a month old, Elizabeth aged 15 and Jane 11. Sir Christopher was M.P. for Buckingham in 1601, and for Bedford in 1604. In 1605 he obtained an Act of Parliament to enable him to sell part of his estate and in 1608 he joined Lady Coke in a sale of Holdenby to King James for £10,000, a royal acquisition destined to be fatal to his son 39 years later. The Hatton personal coat of arms was : azure, a chevron between 3 garbs (sheaves of com) or; 14 quarterings are blazoned on his tomb in the Abbot Islip’s chapel in Westminster Abbey, and are explained in Baker’s History of N orthamptonshire.
Little or nothing is known about Sir Christopher’s life from 1602-1619. Chamberlain the letter writer, while lamenting the loss of so good a friend in a letter of 2 October, 1619, added that his death was more patiently borne by all “ as in all likelihood if he had lived long he would have much weakened, if not ruined, his whole estate, being of so easy and kind nature that
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he could deny nothing’ to his friends or kindred, who wrought upon him extraordinarily”; but against this may be set the testimony of the votive tablet erected by liis wife and still hanging in the Islip chapel, which records :
. “ Nam fuerat illi Vis Amicorum traliax, tenax amorum, comitas cxpors doli, simplex, sine liamo prominens bonignitas.”
Chamberlain records that Lady Elizabeth Hatton or Coke, had promised to assist to provide for the younger children, and this should be remembered in favour of that lady.
His widow continued to live at Clay Hall for a time, and ultimatelv sold it to Sir John TVolstenholme. the date of her death is not known, but was much later than 1022, once believed to be the year of her decease.
A letter from her brother Thomas Fanshawe to his nephew, her son, in 1625 refers to her, and Papers in the possession of the Earl of T\ inchilsea which Lady Winchilsea most kindly went through for the writer, show she was alive and interested in deeds executed in 10- >4 and 1636, and administration of her estate was granted to her son in March, 1639-40. There is no record of her burial in the registers of TV estminster Abbey and the inscription on the tomb there was never completed with an epitaph of her. Curiously enough an Alice Hatton was buried in St. Margaret’s, TV estminster, on 9 December, 1638, and it would seem probable that this is the widow of Sir Christopher : their first daughter of the name of Joan was buried in that church on 1 March, 1615. 1 lie date of the Lady Hatton’s death, given in Smith s ( tlntuary and Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa , viz., 3 January, 104o-6, is that of Lady (Elizabeth) Hatton, which is so recorded in the Diary of Sir TV illiam Dugdale.
Alice Hatton’s son, the 3rd Sir Christopher, made K.lb at the Coronation of Charles I. and created Lord Hatton on 29 July, 1643, was appointed Comptroller of Hie King’s household at Oxford on the death of Sir Deter Wyclie, knb, and was afterwards with the exiled Queen in Paris. His royal master wrote to him from
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Newport in October, 1648, assuring* him that his not beings called for attendance at that time “ was no ways caused by the least disestimation ” . . . “ but merely bv the conjuncture of affairs, the Ivmg* being* ” m no wav lessened in being* ct his most assured real and constant friend.’ Lord ITatton had to pay £4156 as composition for his estate in 1646, and that was sequestered again in 1650 on account of his then being still with the Queen. He was a patron of Sir William Dugdale who specially acknowledge his obligations to him in the 3rd dedication of his If arwickshire for “ procuring for me both accesse to most of the publique records in this nation, and affording me the chief support I then had whilst I laboured therein”; and in his autobiography the Garter King at Arms states that Lord Hatton brought me acquainted with Sir Thomas Fanshawe Knight of the Bath this neer kinsman) at that time the King s Remembrancer in the Exchequer, by reason of which great office he had the custody of divers Leiger books and other choice MSS., especially that notable record called the Red Book, as also Testa de Neville , nomina villarum , and others, to all of which bv his favour I had free accesse.” He was also patron of the famous organist Orlando Gibbons, whose son was named Christopher after him. Thomas Fuller speaks of him as learned and religious, and Jeremv Taylor dedicated to him his Liberty of Prophesying . He must therefore have been a person of much higher character and calibre than he is made to appear in the pages of Clarendon.
He married 1st, at Hackney, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, of Cranbrook, adjoining Clay Hall; the tomb of her father may still be seen in Barking Church. Lord Hatton was made Governor of Guernsey in 1662 and died in 1670. He began the building of Hatton Gardens. His widow was killed with her daughter in law (nee Lady Cecilia Tufton) in the terrible explosion which took place at Castle Comet in 1672 — Memoirs, p. 278 — and both were buried in Westminster Abbey. Lord Hatton’s son, the 2nd Lord Hatton, was
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created Viscount on IT January, 1682: liis three sons by his third wife (the daughter of Sir William - Ilaslewood) all died childless, the last (W llliam, 2nd Viscount) in 1762. The Hatton name and property finally passed to the Winchilsea family, Anne, daughter of the first Viscount, who was found unhurt under her dead nurse after the tragedy of 1672, having married in 1683, Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham, by whom she was the mother of 30 children. Henry (next brother to the 2nd Viscount Fansliawe), on his death in 1685 left all his property to his cousin the Hon. Alice Hatton. The Hattons, like the two senior branches of Fanshawes, were examples of Thomas 1 uller’s quaint observation that families from the north of England settled in the south died out more rapidly than families from the south settled in the north.
Katherine, the second surviving daughter of Thomas Fansliawe and Joan Smytlie, born in 1590, married at Harking on 30 June, 1608, John Bullock,’' of Darley
* The Bullock family was originally of I nston (formerly Ouustoue), adjoining Dronfield on the south, where the old manor Hall, of a rather more pretentious appearance than Fansliawe Gate, still carries its coat of arms. Ermine, on a chief gules, a label of five points or, the crest being seven arrows, six in saltire and one in base gules, feathered and headed argent, enfiled with a mural crown of the last. A cadet of the family settled in Norton, and tin’s branch, ultimately became Lord of Norton manor.
The grandfather of John Bullock was Bailiff of Beauchief Ablxy. His son John came to London somewhat later than Thomas Fansliawe and entered the Inner Temple in 1554. No doubt he had relations with the Fanshawes from the first for be v as witness to the sale of Dengie to Henry Fansliawe in 1561, and there had certainly already been some connection between the two families before this, Henry Fansliawe speaking of John Bullock as his cousin in his wills of 1566 and 156/, and Thomas t anshawe doing the same in his will dated 1596, long before hi.-* daughter Katherine was married. John Bullock, the father of Katherine’s husband, was member for Tamwortli in 1571, purchased half the Manor of Norton in 1572 and the lands of Darley Abbey—
miles north of Derby on the Derwent — in 1574, and dying in
*7 was buried in St. Alkmund’s Church, Derby, where his < :?jgv in alabaster still rests on a large altar tomb. His wife, 'ho was buried with him, was Elizabeth, daughter of William 1 ' ii >on of London, by Ann his wife, daughter of V illiam Carkcrk , this Ann married secondly Sir Thomas Chamberlain.
Mr. Armitage gives a very interesting account of the manor ' * Norton in his Chantreij Land. It was hold, for seven generations *rom the Conquest, by the de Alf reton family and then for nine meliorations by the Chaworths. A sister of these took it to John
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Abbey, and Norton, Derbyshire. He entered the Inner Temple in 1590, following the footsteps of his father (whom he succeeded in 1607), and was followed there by his sons John and Thomas in 1G2G and 1631, the former being entered with Sir It i chard Fanshawe, and the latter with Francis, afterwards Lord Cottington and Ch ristopher Milton, brother of the Poet.
Four years after his admission to the Inner Temple, John Bullock became a Bencher, and in 1616 he was Sheriff of Derbyshire.
The Norton- Registers recently published by Mr. Lloyd Simpson, show that Katherine Bullock had 5 children bom to her between 1 G 1 0 and 1619, and four more between April, 1624, when her daughter Isabella was baptized, and 20 May, 162S, when she herself was buried at Norton, her baby, baptized on 1 June, soon following her — on 29 September. In the burial register of St. Alkmund's, Derby, the Vicar recorded of her: “ the wife of ... a most renowned gentleman, and compleat with all virtues divine and humavne.” Her husband survived her for 13 years and was buried on 24 May, 1641, at the commencement of the troubles of the civil war. His tomb in Norton Church, which was noted by Bassano, has disappeared.
The eldest son of John and Katherine Bullock, also named John, stood for the King in the war, and was obliged to compound for his estate by a fine of £1300. He died in 1647, and his next brother, Thomas in 1650. The third son Will iam, bom in January, 1617, then succeeded and died in March, 1666, leaving an only boy. another John, 16 months old in that year. William had been compelled by his losses to mortgage his property before his death and 2 years later the mortgage was foreclosed and the property lost. John Bullock was the last male of his family, “ domus spes ultima " as his
Ormond, who died in 1503, and his two daughters took it to Thomas Denham of Kgthorpe, and afterwards of Borstall. Bucks. — see Memoirs, p. 425 — and to .Sir Anthony Babin^ton of Dethick. John Bullock the elder re-sold his half share of the Manor in 1567, and his son purchased the whole manor in 1C25 as above recorded.
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He Ion, Agnes, L __ Qrace> dau. 0f Robert Paget, Margaret,
= lobl, — ° J 1660-3 step dau. of Sir John Yorke, = 1561,
Robert ^ l*1 . Knight; widow, 1st of Robert Richard Castle,
Alvey. Owtran Bull, and 2ndly, of Robert of Cartworth,
Robotham. Yorks.
Sir Henry, Kt., 3rd Katherine, b. c. 1590, Margaret, b. 1591-6, d. membrancer, o. c. 1. ^ 162S. •
= 1608,
John Bullock, of Dar- ? ley ; b. c. 1578, d. 1641.
d. 1615-6. See Ped. V.
1658.
= 1616,
Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, of Braxted, 2nd Bt., b. 1592, d. 1662.
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= John ffanshawe, of fan- = Margaret, dau. of Godfrey — Ellen, living shawe Gate, 6. 1504, d. Eyre, widow of Hugh 1574 1578.
1578-9. i Wadd; d. 1573.
Helon,
= 1561, Robert Alvey.
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A ernes, Mary, dau. of An- = Thomas, of Ware _ Joan, dau. of Cus- Robert,
1564,. thony Bourchier, 1566-9 Park, 2nd Re- 1578 tomer Smythe,
John Owtram.
of Barnsley ; d. 1578.
membrancer; b. c. 1533, d. 1600-1.
of the
of Ostenhanger; See Ped. b. 1560, d. 1621. IV.
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Waldegrave. of Ilford Hospital, 1660-3 step dau. of Sir John Yorke, = 156-1,
6. c. 1542, d. Knight; widow, 1st of Robert Richard Castle,
1587-8. Bull, and 2ndly, of Robert of Cartworth,
Robotham. Yorks.
Sir Henry, Kt., 3rd Re- — Elizabeth, dau. of Walter
membrancer, b. c. 1569,1s95 Customer Smythe; Middle Temple, b.
d 1615-6. b. 1572, d. 1631. 1574-5, d. 1593.
d. 1615-6. See Ped. V.
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Sir Thomas, of Jen- William, of Pars- Alse, b. 1581 , d. 1636-40. Katherine, b. c. 1590, Margaret, b. 1591-6, d. kins; b. 1580, d. loes; b. 1583, d. = 1601-2, d. 1628. ' 1658.
1631 1634-5. Sir Christopher Hat- = 1608, = 1616,
ton, of Kirby, co. John Bullock, of Dar- Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, of
SeePed VIII See Ped. IX. Northampton, K.B., ley ; b. c. 1578, d. 1641. Braxted, 2nd Bt., b.
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epitaph runs, and died of smallpox in the year 1G82 at the age of 19, while still at St. John's College, Cam¬ bridge, of which his father had been a pensioner and fellow, and from which he had been driven out in 1644. bile widowed mother “ utrisque orba et ipsa assiduo dolore pcene confecta ’’ raised a monument to the memorv of both, which may still be seen on the north wall of the chancel of Xorton Church.
Margaret, the youngest daughter of Thomas Fanshawe and Joan Smvtlie, born between 1591-6, was married at Barking on 9 May, 1616 (two months after the death of her half brother, Sir Henry Fanshawe), to Sir Benjamin Aylofte,* of Braxted, Essex, as his second wife; Braxted being charged for her jointure. Though little or nothing is known about her life, she was esteemed by her husband as highly as her two sisters were by theirs, Sir Benjamin recording in his will of the date of February, 1659, his wish to be buried close to her “ of whom while God was pleased to let us live together I accounted my greatest worldly happiness, who cheerfully and religiously did always bear a great share with me in all my afflictions and troubles.’7 She died on 21 May, 1658, having outlived all her brothers and sisters by 20 years and more : her husband married a third time, but Margaret was the mother of all his children.
Sir Benjamin, like his father, was at Christ’s College,
* The pedigree of the Ayloffe family will be found in the Visitations of Essex, Earleian Soc. A very ancient family of Saxon origin, possessing long before the Conquest, the town of Bocton Aloph in Kent “ which owned the jurisdiction of one Alulphus a Saxon ” who was the ancester of Aliff, an important personage in the time of Edward the Confessor. His descendant, 1 hornas Ayloff, who held large landed estates in Essex and Suffolk Edward IV. and died in 1482, was great-grandfather of William Aylofte, Judge of the Queen’s Bench 20th Elizabeth and high Sheriff for the county of Essex the 36th of the same reign. 1 lie latter was the father of Sir William (created a Baronet in Bfl2) and grandfather of Sir Benjamin the second William, third Baronet, the son of Sir Benjamin Margaret Fanshawe, was a commander of cavalry in unci one of the Defenders of Colchester in 1648, with A . Capel. He had been one of the reversioners King's Remembrancer with Sir Richard Fanshawe 1647, sought to prefer his claim to this office.
Baronet. Sir and his wife the civil war, Lords Holland for the post of in 1641, and in
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Cambridge. He was appointed by Charles I., high Sheriff of Essex at the beginning of the civil war, “ as a person in whom he could confide ” — J lorant's Essex, Yol. I., p. 71 — and served the King* with fidelity throughout those troublous times, suffering greatly in his estate for his loyalty. Sir Benjamin pathetically added, in his will, that he left what he could to his four surviving “ good and dutiful children . . . having been disabled and impoverished by the cruelty of those whom I shall not here name, by imprisoning me in the Tower of London near five years, and taking from me my personal estate and all my real estate for the space of six years. M “ He was afterwards sent to Yarmouth with many others
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to be banished to the Plantations in the West Indies, but that inhuman order being reversed, he returned to Braxted ” — Morant's Essex. The fine to which he was subjected was £2000, ultimately reduced to £1168 — Memoirs , pp. 279, 581. He signed the Essex Petition to General Monck for peace and amnesty in the spring of 1660, and served as Knight of the Shire for Essex in the first Parliament after the Restoration.
He died in 1662 and was buried at Braxted, being succeeded bv his son William as 3rd Baronet and after- wards by his second son Benjamin the 4th Baronet.
Godfrev, the youngest son of John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, mav conveniently* be mentioned here before proceeding to his brother Robert who founded the Dronfield Branch.
Godfrey was born about 1544. His figure is depicted
on the Brass in Dronfield Church, as rather less in
stature than those of his brothers, Thomas and Robert,
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Beneath were his arms : a chevron between three fleurs de lis, a mullet for difference, impaling those of his first wife . . . Walgrave — per pale a crescent. [Hail. MS., 1541, f. 52.)
When this marriage took place and when this wife died has not been ascertained, nor has her parentage transpired, but as William Waklegrave was Steward of t lie Manor of Barking at this date, and lived at Little Ilford, it is probable that she was some near relation of his.
Godfrey Fanshawe’s father left him all his land at Hundall, co. Derby which he had bought of Roger Eyre, and several transactions are recorded with regard to purchase bv himself later, of various lands and leases in the counties of Derby, Nottingham, York, Chester, and Essex. He also acquired in 1576, a house in Pie Corner m the parish of St. Bartholomew the less, next Smith- field, where he eventually died, being buried from there, hi the chancel of Christchurch, Newgate Street, on 15 February, 1587-8 : the tailor’s bill for a mourning gown on this occasion made for his brother the Remembrancer, remains among a number of papers, relating to Godfrey, ‘d the P.R.O.
It appears that during the latter years of his life he had become deeply involved financially. In his will, dated 25 October, 1584, he alludes pathetically to the difficulties which beset him, calling himself “ a lost sheepe ” : probably he had come to some arrangement
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with liis brother Thomas, for he leaves all the residue of his estate to be dealt with at his discretion and does not bequeath a single legacy, nor does he even mention the name of his second wife, Grace, who survived him. Among the Fanshawe Papers at the P.E.O., are many receipts for money paid after Godfrey’s death for debts of his, at the hand of Thomas Fanshawe, and two or three applications for the small pension his widow received from the Remembrancer ; the last of these bears the date 23 June, 1589, but when she died is not known.
This second wife of Godfrey’s was the daughter of Robert Paget, of London, by his wife Anne, widow of Sir John Yorke of Gowthwaite, co. York, Knight, who was Master of the Mint in 1547, and Sheriff of London two years later. Grace seems to have had an unfortunate life, filled with anxiety. Her first husband, Robert Bull, to whom she was administratrix, died previous to 1553, at which date she was the wife of Robert Robotham of Raskell, co. York, and of Warwick Inn, London. The latter became entangled in perilous trouble on the death of Edward YI., as is set forth in Chancery Proceedings temp. Queen Elizabeth when Robert Robotham brought an action against John Wotton, in the course of which proceedings the following details emerge : “ After our late sovereign Ladie quene Marye was come to 1 lie Throne the sayd Robert Robotham on of yr sayd orators, not alonlye being vehemently suspected amongest that clergye for matters of reliygion and also he then being newly delyvered out of the preson of the fflette where he had remaynd in close preson by the cohiandinet of the sayd late Quene’s prvy councell.” John Stevens and John Whotton . . . found the meanes so to incense the Lorde Chancellor then being
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After the death of her third and last husband, Grace Fanshawe lived with her son, John Robotham, at St. Albans. Besides this son, she had by her husband R obeli Robotham, three daughters: Elizabeth, married to Robert Bainbrigge, of Calke, co. Derby, Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Spencer, of Kent, and Mary, wife of AVilliam Leveson, of Kent. The “ Mris Eliz. Robotton,” to whom Godfrey’s niece, Anne Fanshawe left a ring in 15S4, was no doubt one of his step-daughters.
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The Dronfiet.d Branch.*
Robert Fansliawe (third son of John Fanshawe of Fansbawe Gate), was born about 1542. When liis two brothers went up to London and entered the Remembrancer’s Office, be remained with bis father in the old home and spent bis life in bis native place, cultivating the land and looking after the farms. His father, towards the end of bis life, removed to the little town of Dronfield near by, giving up Fansbawe Gate entirely to this son Robert to whom be bequeathed the residue of bis goods and chattels and household stuff, and appealed to bis eldest son Thomas (to whom be left the property) to be good to Robert and let him have it at bis band at the yearly rent of four marks.
After bis father’s death, Robert became Bailiff to the Lord of the Manor, having acted as Deputy before. The Star Chamber Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth give a dramatic picture of bis methods of dealing with the Holmesfield copyholders. In the course of these proceedings Robert affirms that having appointed some of the tenants to meet him at Holmesfield church on business of the Manor, they “ being weaponed with long staves, swords and other weapons,” did unlawfully assemble themselves in the yard of the church, and after long and secret conference, entered the church where he was peaceably sitting in a stall, and laid violent hands upon him.” Robert draws the attention of the Court to the Statute of 5th Edward YI. by which, as he points out, it is enacted that whoso is guilty of such conduct “ shall be deemed excomunicate and shall have
* More dales and details are given in this chapter than in others, as this branch of the family is but briefly alluded to in the ^fcrnoirs, and very little connected record of it is to be found in any printed publication.
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one of his ears cut off, and if such person shall have no ears, then he shall be burned on the cheek with- a hot iron having the letter F, whereby he may be known as a fraymaker or fighter.” The delinquents reply, that not onlv did nothing but a friendlv conference take place, but that the only person who was weaponed ” was Robert Fanshawe himself, whom they found walking up and down the church with a pyked staff in his hand, and that though thrust roughly out of his seat by Robert Fanshawe, John King, one of the accused, nevertheless peaceably departed about his own business ! The verdict on these conflicting statements is not recorded.
About three vears before his death, Robert surrendered Fansliawegate to his son and seems then to have lived at Hundall : he was buried at Dronfield on 24 June, 1613, having married there on 7 July, 1567, llionis, daughter of Edward Barber or Barker of Row(s)ley, co. Derby. Lady Fanshawe in her Memoirs says his wife (the mother of fourteen children) was the daughter of Rowland Eyrs (Eyre) of Bradway, but she must, it seems, have confused this marriage with that of Robert's father, for when she had the pedigree drawn up at the Herald’s College in 1671, Robert’s wife was entered bv the name of Barber, and the Dronfield Register shows that she was not buried until 1 March, 159T-8. Their two married daughters and two eldest sons are given in the Pedigree of 1671, and also (without any particulars against their names) seven younger sons, Godfrey, Philip, James, "W illiam, AValter, Rowland and Charles. The two above eldest sons and a number of children who are omitted by Imdy Fanshawe, are recorded in the Dronfield Register, and (with the exception of one or two who died very young) are entered also in the beautiful illuminated pedigree of 1719 in possession of the head of the family. There is some mystery about Robert’s daughter Margarett, baptized at Dronfield on 29 November, 1584, whom one would naturally suppose to be the daughter, born at
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Fansliawe Gate, who married Sir John Harrison in 1616, but unless her age is wrong'ly stated in her marriage license she cannot be the same, but must have been born seven years later and named Margaret after her sister. On 27 November, 1574, a daughter Alice, who died in childhood, was buried at Hronfield, and eight sons were christened there — John on 11 April, 1568, Thomas on 14 August, 1569, Henry on 29 February, 1570, Halphe on 24 October, 1575, Edward on 14 March, 1579, Robert on 16 June, 1581, Richard on 5 September, 1583, and Anthony on 27 March 1590.
John went up to London and became a clerk in the Remembrancer’s Office; some account of him and of his brother Thomas will be given later.
Of the third son Henry, churchwarden of Hronfield in 1596, to whom his grandfather, John Fansliawe, left the reversion of some land at Hundall, and of his descendants who continued to live in the neighbourhood for another three generations, very little is known beyond what can be gathered from the family pedigree of 173 9, corroborated by the Hronfield parish register, both of which record his burial on 30 July, 1610, and that of Margaret his widow on 24 July, fourteen vears later. She was apparently the daughter of William Waterhouse of Onesacre (MS. 331, Families Minorum Gentium ) and had married Henry Fansliawe, at Sheffield (Cathedral) on 2 June, 1594, the eldest child, William, being baptized at Hronfield in February, 1595, and buried there two or three years later. The pedigree of 1719 gives also three other children, all baptized at Hronfield: Thomas on 4 July, 1598, Robert* in March, 1600, and Alice in June, 1602. The burial of Thomas — the only one of these who is known to have been
* Certain freehold messuages, lands, tenements and heredita¬ ments in Aperknowle and Unston, were settled by Robert Fansliawe (d. 1613) upon his grandson Robert Fansliawe, in. the hands of Trustees, on 5 September 2 James I. Robert, the grandson, brought an action against Richard Alvey, the surviving trustee, on 21 June, 1634, for wrongfully withholding the deeds from him. Robert was then (1634) of Woodtkorpe in North Wingfield. The parentage of the grandson is not given.
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married* — is among* the entries in the Register in November, 1661, as well as the baptisms of his children; Lyonell in July, 1627-28, Ellen on 11 September, 1631, Marie on 21 June, 1635, and Henry on 17 November, 1639. The above Lyonell’s name appears on the Hearth tax It oil of 1G63. He was of Fanshawe Bank near the old Grammar School, on which farm there is a spring called Fanshawe Well. His children having all died during his lifetime, he left everything to his wife Mary — daughter of ... . Quieksall of Whittington. t Thomas his only son died about a year before him ; Mary (baptized on 6 March, 16G9) was buried on 17 December, 1677. Ellen was buried on 29 March, 1672, and Ann (baptized on 3 January, 1673) was buried on S September. 1675. LyoneH’s will was dated 16 April, 168S, and ten davs afterwards he was buried at Dronfield.
Of the five youngest sons of Bobert Fanshawe there is still less to relate. Balplie was left a life interest in some land at Elmeton by his grandfather, and we find bv the Court Bolls of Holmesfield, that he was a tenant of the Manor as his father had been; he was buried at Dronfield on 21 January, 1613-4, leaving a daughter Maria, who had been baptized there on 25 August, 1611. Nothing is known about Edward or Bobert, they were born too late to be mentioned in their grandfather s will; Anthony was buried at Dronfield in February, 1617. Bichard seems to have lived for a time at Fanshawe Gate and was buried at Dronfield on 20 June, 1636 ; by his wife Magdalen, who was buried there four year later, he had four children, all recorded in the Dronfield Begister. Henry baptized in January, 1609, and Lionell on 8 August, 1619, Dionis or Dinah buried in May, 1633, and Catherine baptized on 5 December, 1624, and buried on 15 July following. Henry, the
* His wife is believed to have been Marjorie Butcher, whose marriage at Dronfield in May, 1C25, to Thomas Fanshawe, is to be found in that register.
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elder of the sons, lived at Dore; he married at Dronfield on 19 April, 1652, Constance Ward, and liad- four children ; the eldest of these, who bore his own name, was born at Dore on 4 March, 1653, and was baptized on the 13th, of the same month at Hathersage, which was perhaps his mother’s home; he, and Thomas, the younger son, both died unmarried; the two daughters were Ann, married at Dronfield in October, 16S6, to Joshua Gill, of Unston, and Mary, who, according to the pedigree of 1719, married .... Young of the City of London.
llobert Fanshawe’s younger daughter Diana, whose baptism is not recorded at Dronfield, married George Glascott or Glascock (born 1568) of Derbyshire and of Hedingham, co. Essex, whose arms were: az., two eagles’ legs, barways, erased a la cuisse arg., armed or.
The eldest daughter Margaret spent five years of her girlhood in the household of her kinsman John Wolstenholme (afterwards Sir John), who appears to have been greatly attached to her. In his will he calls her his “ verie loving’e Kinswoman ” and leaves her £100 “ to buy her a diamond ringe ” and £50 to her husband for the same purpose, appointing him one of the overseers of his will. Margaret is of particular interest in the family History as being the “ ever honoured and most dear mother ” of Lady Fanshawe, who speaks of her in her Memoirs as being “ of excellent beauty and good understanding, a Loving wife and most tender mother very pious and charitable to v4 degree y4 she relieved (besides y° offall8 of ye table which she constantly gave ye poore) many with her own hand dayly out of her purse and drest many wound9 of miserable people when she had health and when y4 fail’d as it did often she caused her servant to supply y4 place.” Doth Margaret Fanshawe and John Harrison are described as of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, in the allegation for their marriage licence; they were married at Hackney on 6 September, 1616, and it was at St. Olave’s that their two daughters and two of their sons were baptized.
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Her portrait by Vandyke, on the background of which the inscription “ Lady Harrison of Balls ” is painted, was sold for a hundred guineas when the Townshend heirlooms were dispersed in 1904. The picture is that of a pretty woman in a white gown, the sleeves of which are attached to the shoulders by jewels and the combs in her hair set with pearls. Pictures of her husband and of their son and grandson, John Harrison of Balls and Governor Edward Harrison, were sold at the same time for TO guineas, 60 guineas, and 90 guineas, respectively. There is another picture of Sir John at Stoke Ptochford. That of his son "William is reproduced in the Memoirs.
Lady Harrison died on 30 July, 1640, to the great grief of her husband, and was buried in the chancel of All Saints Church, Hertford; her funeral, as Lady Fanshawe tells us, costing him above a thousand pounds. On 4 October, 29 years later, he was laid in the same vault.
According to Lady Fanshawe, Sir John married a second time in his old age. Our ideas must have changed since those days for one would hardly describe a man of •57 as so very aged — perhaps the disparity of years between himself and his bride, who was 23 years his junior, may have led Lady Fanshawe to use this expression. The marriage took place at Madron, in January, 1646. Mary, the second Lady Harrison, vas the eldest daug liter of Philip Shotbolt, alias Battalion, of Yardley, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Marsh, of Middlesex, and survived her husband many years. The pedigree of the family in Chauncey s Herts , dating from Balph Shotbolt, alias Battalion, 19 Hem v 111 ofves thirteen descents from him, recording the wives in each generation, down to Battalion Shotbolt, nephew of Lady Harrison.
Sir John Harrison (Knighted 1640) was born in 1589 and was the twelfth son of William Harrison, of Adel iff •>r Aueli ft, in Lancashire, by his wife Margaret, daughter <J Christopher Gardner, of Keswick. Lady Fanshave
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tells us that 20 marks was all lie ever had for a portion; with this he left home early to seek his fortune. His father’s relations interested themselves in his behalf and brought him to London, where, under the patronage of Lord Treasurer Salisbury, Secretary of State, he was placed under the care of Sir John, Wolstenholme in whose house he met his future wife. His patron, the Secretary of State, died in 1612, but “ being1 of good parts and capacity ” he was already on the road to success. He must undoubtedly have possessed a remarkably astute financial brain considering the immense fortune he amassed in a comparatively short time. The State Papers Domestic record that he and Abr. Hawes were collectors of preter-meted customs in the out ports, from 25 February, 1622 (1621-2), and that later he was appointed a commissioner. It is not necessary, however, to say more here about his official work, which his devotion to the Royalist- cause naturally brought to an abrupt termination during the Revolution, a full account of it having been given on pp. '325-30 of the Memoirs.
Soon after King Charles had set up his standard at Nottingham Sir John joined the Royalist side, following his master’s fortunes (or misfortunes) with unflinching loyalty throughout those troublous times, helping the King unstintingly with vast sums of money and enduring' many and great hardships. Sir John’s participation in the events of this period is also recorded at greater length in the Memoirs , and some particulars are there given respecting his estates in Essex, Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Hertfordshire, but no details are forthcoming regarding the lands he held at Enfield in Middlesex, and in N orfolk. Stoke Rochford, which he gave to his daughter Margaret as part of her dowry on her marriage to Sir Edmond Turnor, remains with her descendants to this dav.
Two or three years after Sir John had acquired Balls Park he rebuilt the house, erecting “ a fair stately Fabrick of Brick in the middle of a Warren consisting of a square pile with a Court in the middle thereof, ever}'
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Side equally fronted, and exactly Uniform; the Ceilings within the House wrought with several distinct Patterns of Fretwork, the steps in the great Staircase Wainscoted in Panes, the Hall paved with Black and White Marble, the inward court with Free-Stone ” (Chauncey s Herts). Some excellent pictures of the interior as it now is and several good views of the house and gardens appeared in Country Life (20 April, 1912). Drapentier’s engraving, an old world production, published in CJuiuncey' s Herts , shows Balls, much, as it was when Sir John inhabited it, nearly three centuries ago. A wall encloses the house and grounds, a formal garden occupies a good portion of the enclosure, stiff trees are planted in clumps and avenues, and numbers of people are busily engaged round about the house and park — a quantity of outhouses are included in the picture. Chauncey, in the quaint language of his time, tells us that the house “ stands towering upon an Hill from whence is seen a most pleasant and delicious Prospect.”
Sir John endowed All Saints, Hertford, with the impropriate tithes of the parish of St. John (excepting only those arising out of his own lands) ; the two parishes were united and the King, who was the patron of All Saints, gave him the alternative presentation.
A photograph of the interior of All Saints, taken immediately after the fire of 1892 before the ruins were pulled down, shows Sir John’s monument on the wall, apparently intact — no one knows what became of the Harrison memorials, it is supposed that they were split to pieces by cold water being thrown over them before they were quite cool. The registers were burnt utterly.
Some newly-found papers connected with Sir Richard Fanshawe, prior to the events of the Restoration, relate to the monetary affairs of his wife’s father Sir John Harrison (see p. 159). Some of these papers are at Stoke Poehford, and some in the British Museum among the Stowe MSS. ; the former consist largely of a broken personal narrative by Sir John. It appears from this that he was very anxious to avoid being declared bankrupt,
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and was under the belief that his eldest son -John and his relation Phineas Andrews (married to his own wife’s niece Mildred Fanshawe, and at one time at least during* this period residing at Parsloes) were inimical to his interests in this connection ; but the extant letters of the son, written in November, 1646, and another, five years later, express dutiful feelings towards his parent, and as Sir Richard Fanshawe was clearly of opinion that his father-in-la w was not well advised in the matter, and his partners in the farm of the customs had to implore him in July, 1653, to attend their meetings (observing that “ the work to be done is heavy enough altho’ we use all our strength and draw one wav ; but if any one draws back, we may irrevocably stick in the myre; and besides what is to be done therein, it must be done with expedition,” Stoic e MSS., 185, f. 17) — we may doubt the absolute correctness of these views.
Sir John, it appears, returned to England from France in September, 1646, and his son by his new wife was born in lodgings near Temple Bar in October, as stated by Lady Fanshawe ( Memoirs , p. 45). He notes that his subsequent proposals for freeing them all, were not taken up heartily by his fellow debtors, Sir John Wolstenholme and Sir Paul Pindar, to whom they were sent by his “ son in law Ric. Fanshaw Esq.,” and in July of the following year he executed a deed in favour of Phineas Andrews, acknowledging a debt due to him of £8350, and mortgaging apparently all his property to him for 40 years, including the manors of Balls and Mincingbury, in Herts., of Bemond and Bolton, in Lancashire, and the closes in Theydon Gernon “ lately held by John Legat.”*
In January, 1649, Phineas Andrews, writing to him, adds in a postscript, “ Your daughter ffanshaw has sent to her husband ” (then iri Ireland) “ for sanction to deliver those writings which they challenge, and likewise, both for himself and his friends here to salve their interest before they deliver them, and to that purpose
* Presumably the John Locate of Hampton, Notts., who had married another niece, Marie Fanshawe, some 30 years before.
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they desire you will deal personally with them, or appoint some friends as they do ” (Stowe MSS., 184 f. 163). On 5 September, 1651, he procured a Warrant from the Council of State and Admiralty Committee to pass tor himself and two servants beyond seas (State Papers Domestic Addenda).
In Way, 1655, he was declared bankrupt on the claim of the agent and executor of Sir Paul Pindar, and the East India Company (to which he had become responsible for the value of pepper taken and sold by the King to obtain cash), and in the same year he left Balls for a second time on being advised to withdraw himself foi fear of being outlawed, and Lady Harrison was then, he alleges, dishonestly deprived of possession of the house, which he was pressed to sell to Lord TV liitelock. Subsequent to this occurred the correspondence w ith Sii Richard Fanshawe ( Memoirs , p. 328); and the Stowe MSS. record Mr. Andrews forcing himself on his creditor about 25 March, 1656, when the latter and his wife had been invited to dinner to Mr. Pic. I anshaw at his lodging in Little Queen St. Further efforts to induce Sir John Harrison to part with his property were made through Mr. Philip Shotbolt, brother of Lady Harrison presumably ; and in October, 165 i, Sir John appointed a commission of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Sir Edmund Turnor, and his own brother-in-law Mr. Crumpe (who was an executor of his will in 1669), to examine Mi . Andrews’ accounts. In the August following, Sir Richard took the opinion of Sir Geoffrey Palmer as to whether Sir John was not protected against the bankruptcy proceedings by the general Act of Oblivion. The lawyer’s conclusion was that he was so protected, Sir John never having made appearance in the proceedings, but he raised doubts as to the possibility of moving to get these cancelled as the debtor had mortgaged the whole of his property. Probably matteis continued to stand so till the Restoration, vhen Mr. Andrews saw good reason to agree quickly with his ad versarv.
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The total losses suffered by Sir John Harrison are put at £141,000 in these papers, the chief items v being £30,000 and £24,000 on account of the Farms of the Customs and Alum, £3-3.000 on account of his estates in Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, £11,000 as his share of the sum of £150,000 paid by the Customs to Parliament in the Autumn of 1641, and a similar sum for interest on this for 15 Years, besides losses of £4000 and £2000 for plundered house property, stock, and farm produce, £2000 for waste of woods, and £3600 cost of compounding. The £150.000 was in reality a fine levied from the Customers for the alleged taking of illegal customs : they appealed to ihe King to bear them out in their action, but he could reply to Sir Paul Pindar only, “ I will do for you what I can, but you see at this time how I am put to it.” In the previous year the King had appealed to Sir Paul and the other Customers saying ‘‘ For God’s sake help me, my crowne l}’eth at the stake ” ; and they had advanced £253,000 to him. This was the sum for which tliev afterwards received the security of the royal forests, and which (exceptional event) was repaid after the Restoration ( Memoirs , p. 32S). The Alum farm, it may be noted, had been originally granted to Lord Strafford, and was taken up from his agent* by Sir Paul Pindar and Sir John Harrison ; the latter and Sir John TColstenholme lent the Earl £10,000 for the purchase of lands in 1639.
The following interesting account is given in the Stole Radford papers, of the knighting of Sir John Harrison. Relieving that his action in providing Parliament with £50,000i had been misrepresented at Court, he waited on Lord Cottington at his house in II road Street, and wa* told by him to wait on the Lord
* Sir John took up the farm of sugar from Lord Goring in 1626, agreeing to pay £12,000 down and £2000 p.a. for 9 years. It was ho who first recommended the Customs to be managed by coimnission.
f It had been intended to suspend all the delinquent Customers who were members of Parliament from the service of the House, but Sir John was exempted on account of his forwardness in the matter of this loan (Commons Proc., 1 June, 1611).
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John Harrison, Knight, of jJaHs Park. Farmer of the histoms, b. c. 1589, d. 1669, i. 2ndlv, 1046, Mary, dau. >Iiilip Shotbolt, of Yardlev, i. c. 1612, d. 1705-6.
Diana,
George Glaseott, of Hedingham, b. 1568.
Dinah
or
Dionis, d. unm. 1633.
Catherine, b. 1624, d. 1625.
Ma
6
Ann,
= 16S6, Joshua Gill, of Unston.
Mary,
. . . Young, of the City of London.
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PEDIGREE IV.
from pt.d. iii.
Robert Fakshanve, lived at Fanshawe Gate, b. r. 1542, d. 1613. = Dion is, dau. of Edward Barber, of Rowslcy, co. Derby ; d: 1597
1567 (some authorities say she was the dau. of Rowland Eyre of I Bradway).
oLn
John of Rivenhall. Mary, dau. of Sir Clerk in the Remem -m Pr,1ph Wiseman.
brancer’s Office; b\ 1508 9, d. 1615-0.
Thomas of Hayes. = Katherine, dau. Ashford, and r 1M) of Ambrose London, d. Bord, of Ash -
1656-7. | ford, co. Midd.,
! living 1657.
of Rivenhall, Knight ; b. c. 1578- 9, d. 1641.
1 I 2
Jennett, dau. of = Thomas, of Dronfield = Cicily, widow of Nicholas Jenkin- 1591 and of Upper Denbv, 1603 Robert Selliok ;
son, of Denbv. co. b. 1569, d. 1623. d. 1638.
York ; d. 1620.
Henry, = Margaret. 6. 1570, d. 1600- 10.
Ralph, d. 8. p. c. 1638-9.
Jolm, of
Balmes, d. 1647-8.
George,^ Anne, dau. of
of- Strat¬ ford Bow, d. 1643.
Coles. She »«. 2ndlv Henry Polstei, of Stoneliam, Merchant of London, who d. 1675. She survived him.
Richard, Steward to Phineas Andrews ; living 1657.
elm <
Jen: Thomas. 6. posthu¬ mous 1615-16, living 1643.
Mildred, living 1661.
= 1624,
Phineas And¬ rew's of Denton Court, M.P., 6. c. 1600, d. 1661.
Mary, d. 1684.
=* c. 1619. Thomas Hard¬ wick, of Staple - ford Tawmey, d. 1648-50.
Isabel, d. 1630-39.
= 1628, Edward Kip- pax, 6. c. 1590- l; d. 1639-40.
John,
d. v. p.
8. p.
Joan. dau. and — Lyonell. of Up- = Anna. dau. of — Jane, dau. of Ed - ie,° per Denbv, 1626-7 Philip Gill, of 1635 ward Disney, of
heir of Wil¬ liam Arniit- age, of Don¬ caster;!/. 1626.
and of Dron¬ field, J.P., d. 1653-4.
Marie,
living
1656.
Katherine,
living
1656.
Anna, d. unm. c. 1660.
Thomas,* =-- Frances, dau. of William,
of Hartlip. ' 1W5 Edward Osborne, 5.1621-2,
b. 1620, of Hartlip; 6. d. unm.
d. 1667-8. t 1621, d. 1689.
JoLn. in the Mer- -- Elizabeth, dau. of
ebant Taylor’s 1650 Rev. John Co., 6. 1624-5. Bankes, Minister
■ cf Lidde, Kent.
Lightwood ; 6. 1599, d. 1631.
Car let on in Moreland, wid¬ ow of George Jessop. She b. c. 15S7-90, d. 1649.
Francis,
living
1038.
Marie. h. 1592.
= 1617-8. John Le¬ gate, of Rampton.
Dyonis, d. 1648. = 1617. Edward Barker, of Dore; he m. 2ndly, 1652, Dorothy Wade, widow. He b. c. 1598, d. 1660.
William,
6. 1595, d. 1597-8.
Thomas, = Margaret 6. 1598,
d. 1661.
Maria, b. 1622-3,
</. unm.
i
Marjorie.
I
Robert, of Wood- thorpe, b. 1600; living 1634.
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Ralphe, = b. 1575, d. 1613. |
Eiward, Robert b. 1579. 6. 158 |
Richard b. 1583, d. 1636. |
Magdalen, ,1 1M0. |
' F TTTTiTj , ‘| i Anthony, Godfrey, Alice, Margaret t, Margaret. — Sir 6.1590, Philip, d. 1574. 6. 1584, 6. <-.1591, 1616 p. d. 1617. James, d. young. d. 1640. C William, m Walter. p Rowland. 5 Charles. |
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Alice, b. 1602. |
i Maria, b. 161 |
. |
Henry, = Constance Lionell, of Dore, 1652-4 Ward. 6. 1619. |
>*ls Park. Farmer of the -• ms, b 1589 l 2ndly, 1646, Mary, dau.
Diana,
George Glascott, of Hedingham. 6. 1568.
b 1909, d. 1636.
Dionis, d. unm. 1633.
Catherine. b. 1624. d. 1625.
Lyonell, of Cow- — Frances, dau. and co- ley, Secretary to 1675 heir of Anthony
Sir Richard Fan- I Senior, of Cowley
shawe, b. 1627, ! Hull, step dau. of
d. 1686-7. I William Bache ; b.
1647 d. 1680 .
Henry, in Merchant Taylor's Co. b. 1628-9. living 1646.
Phillip, b. 1629-30, d. 1702.
Ann, d. ui
Margarott, b. 1631, d. 1643-4.
Lyonell, of = Mary, dau. of
Fanshawe Bank, b. 1627-8. d. 1688.
Quicksall, of Whittington; living 1688.
Henrv, b. 1639.
Ellen, b. 1631.
Marie,
6. 1635.
Henrv, b. 1653, d. unm.
Thomas, d. unm.
Ann.
= 16S6, Joshua Gill, of Unston.
Mary,
. . . Young, of the City of London.
Lyonell, of Bred- gar, and of Lon - don, 6. 1647, d. unm. 1701.
Henry, living 1665, slain in the Dutch wars.
Tliomas. liv¬ ing 1677, d. at sea.
Edward of Dron- — Man.-, dau. of field and London, "®3 Thomas Dove, of
b. 1717.
Upton, co. North- amp. ; b. c. 1670. d. 1*736.
Coppin, living 1677, d. in the West Indies, unm.
Marie, living 1653.
Frances, b. 1664.
William Alder - eey, of Bredgar.
Lyonell, of All Hollows, London Wall, d. 1677.
Richard, 6. and d. 1677.
Henry of Cowley and Dronfield, b. 1679, d. unm. 1722.
Anna, b. and d. 1676.
ThomAs, d. c. 1687.
Mary, b. 1659, d. 1677.
Ellen, d. 1672.
Anne, b. 1673, d. 1675.
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Thomas, of Dronfield,^- Grace, |
1 Ann. |
|
Procurator General liviig |
living |
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of the Court of | 1758. |
1713. |
|
Arches, 6. 1099- 1 |
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1700, d. 1758. |
Mary, b. 1703, - 1725. Ellis Needham, of CaBtleton.
Frances, living 1721.
Martha, b. 1708. = 1633, Edmund Bat- tersby, b. c. 1703.
Jane, d. 1711.
Richard,
6. 1730, d. 1731.
Frances, .
b. 1734 = . . . Tennant.
• Arms of John ffanshawc of Rivenhall, impaling W iseinan , from the family Pedigree of 1671. His signature, from Fannhawe Paper t P.R.O. t Seal and signature of Thomas Fanshaw of Hart lip (d. 1667-8), from Add. MS. 28,006, fo. 238 (Brit* Mu*.).
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-Chamberlain (the Earl of Pembroke) at Whitehall the next day. Ihe Earl “ called Sir John to follow him. into the Privy Gallery, and bade him stay there till he came again. Shortly after, the King* came that way walking* between the Earl of Arundel and the Lord Chamberlain, and was pleased there to give Sir John Harrison the honour of knighthood, and so passed on; which being thus unexpectedly done, the Lord Chamberlain came unto him uttering these words, Bv what is now done you may understand whether the King be angry with you or no, and so went after the King.”* From the same papers it also appears that Sir John was recommended by the Lord Treasurer Salisbury to the Farmers of the Customs when he was 22 years old, j.c., in 1611, that a bond of his for £800, given to the Earl of Pembroke, included a sum to satisfy the Lady Montague for her house in Bishops-gate Sfc ” (Memoir* p. 24), that he had originally settled the Grange or manor of Beamond in Lancashire on his son William (killed at Oxford), and that his eldest son J olm was dead before 1GG0. The last had been d isinherited by his father for his unsatisfactory conduct, but political pressure had been brought on Sir John to induce him to change this disposition of his property. Of Mr. Phineas Andrews it may finally be noted that he was M.P. for Hvthe on the Pestoration, and died — says his epitaph in Denton Church by Canterbury, couched in inconceivably barbarous J^atint — from his exertions in carrying the canopy over the King at his Coronation, in accordance with the privilege of the Barons of the Cinque Poits. Hi s son John Andrews, who was a member of tbe Inner Temple, died from fatigue in connection 'cith the service of the trained bands, gathered to repel the Dutch invaders’ attack on Chatham in August,
* I ho date of this is given as 4 Dec., 1640. The official record of the Knighthood is dated 4 Jan., 1641.
+ i his positively records that “ tunc temporis membrum fuit arliamcnti ” and that when “ vires extendrct omnes Aegrotat l|!o> nobilis occidit heros.” The father purchased the
] *< t uronquc manor house of Denton Court, still standing alongside c t'K“ church. His son Thomas sold the place in 1679.
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1667 (“ quain Belgic-a bella Sevirent fluviis
Chathamensibus ” !) and his daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Sir Thomas Wolstenholme, 2nd Bt., who died in 1691.
An abstract of Sir -John Harrison's will, dated 21 September, 1669 (a week before his death) and proved by his son Hicliard Harrison on 5 February, 1671-2, was published in The Genealogist by Haiwood.
The year followi ng- Sir •John's death, the Calendai of Treasury Books shows that the Petition of his widow, with regard to moneys claimed against her late husband respecting the Farming of the Customs, was about to be considered by Lord Ashley. Towards the end of her life Lady Harrison built and endowed four Alms houses in Butchery green, Hertford, and gave £50 per annum to purchase clothes for the poor of the town. She also presented two pieces of plate in 16S0 — with inscriptions upon them — for the Communion Service in All Saints’ Church .
Marc Harrison died on 14 Februarv, 1705, and was buried on the ISth, in a vault near her husband.
It is time now to revert to Robert Fanshawe’s eldest son and heir, John Fanshawe of Rivenhall, the godson and namesake of his paternal grandfather, who made special provision for him in his will ; leaving the reversion of his moiety of the Rectory of Elmton with the glebe lands and emoluments, a house and lands in the same parish, and some land at Hundall, to him and his heirs. Robert Fanshawe’s will is not forthcoming, but by a settlement made by him in 1605 upon one of his grandsons, it appears that in case of failure of the grandson’s heirs male, the reversion of the landed property in Apperknowle and Unston was secured to John Fanshawe and his heirs. The latter, however, was not destined to remain in Derbyshire : his uncle, the Remembrancer, sent for him, and in his office he was trained under himself and his son.
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London, in the Allegation for his marriage licence dated 20 February, 159T-8 (the marriage to take place in that church), and he was no doubt then living with his uncle in Warwick Lane, with whom, as well as with Sir Henry, he was a great favourite. Thomas Fanshawe selected him as one of his trustees for the settlement executed by him in 1596 in favour of his own wife and children, and on the Petition of Sir Henry, the reversion of the office of Remembrancer was, on 14 July, 1605, granted by the King to John Fanshawe and Nathaniel Duckett* jointly for life. John Fanshawe died, however, two or three months before Sir Henry, who was succeeded in the office by his son Thomas : apparently their names were put into the patent to enable them to hold the Post in trust for Sir Henry’s eldest son, who was at the time of' the grant only nine years of age (see p. 76).
Shortly before his death, John Fanshawe bought the Manor of Haves and other lands in Essex from Sir Thomas Gardiner. He had married in 1697-8, Mary (erroneously called Elizabeth in the Fanshawe pedigree at the College of Arms), daughter of Sir Ralph Wise¬ man, t of Rivenhall (knighted 11 May, 1608), a land- owner of considerable extent in Essex, by has first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Barley, of Kempton, in ’ Hertfordshire. Sir Ralph’s second wife, the daughter of ... . Riche of Horndon, had no children.
J ohn Fanshawe \s will was dated *31 October, 1615, and was proved by his widow and executrix on 16 January following. His wish that he should be buried at Rivenhall was probably carried out, but the registers of that parish do not commence until 1634. He left about £1800 among his younger children and his landed property to his eldest son, charged with an annuity of £100 to his widow, his brother-in-law Sir Thomas
* Another cousin.
t The family of Wiseman had long been settled in Essex and bore fur arms — Sa., a chevron ermine, between three coronels arg. <in the Fanshawe pedigree in the College of Arms, this chevron is argent*. The grandson of Mrs. Fanshawe’s brother Thomas, was created a Baronet in 1GC0, and two other members of the Wiseman family have had Baronetcies conferred upon them.
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w iseman to receive t lie rents and manage his estate. Unfortunately Jolin Fansliawe died when his children were young, one, indeed, being born after his death. Considering the life-long friendship that had existed between him and the Remembrancer’s family, the important position of his wife’s relations, and the good marriages his daughters made, it is strange how little is known about the descendants of his sons, who all seem to have been lost sight of after Mrs. Fanshawe's death. It was hoped that the will of Sir Ralph * "Wiseman (dated 29 March and proved 15 November, 1608) might throw some light on the next generation, but there is no mention in it of any Fanshawe grandchildren; the sole reference Sir Ralph makes even to his daughter, is in a single paragraph by which he bequeathes to her a <c Cuppe of silver worth Tenn poundes ” upon which he directs that his arms are to be engraved. The will of Mrs. Fanshawe’s brother, Sir Thomas Wiseman of Rivenliall, Knight (1653-4), has also been examined. He refers to his father, his son Sir Thomas, and his grandson William (afterwards the Baronet), but makes no allusion to his sister or her children.
After her husband’s death, Mary Fanshawe made her home with her son George. The house they lived in at Stratford Bow and its contents she left to him, as well as another dwelling called the George, situated in the same parish ; he continued to live at Bow until his death. Her money she distributed among her children and grandchildren, and gave a portion to her son-in-law Thomas Hardwick (one of her executors), whose wife was already dead ; the only other legacies mentioned are sundry pieces of plate to some of her children. The poor lady must have been (as she says), in a very weak state of health when she signed her will and the codicil to it, on 29 and 30 April, 1641, for only eight days later she was buried in the chancel of Bow Church, where on 29 September, 1643, her son George was laid beside her.
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Tlie eldest son Thomas — to whom his father left his Manor of Hayes and other fee simple lands in Essex — was living* in London in 1G40, about which date he married Katherine, daughter of Ambrose Boord or Bord, of Ashford, Middlesex. Five years later, in the Allegation for the marriage licence of his niece Elizabeth Andrews, Thomas Fanshawe described himself as of that place — and in 1656 he was of Hoxton. The only property, however, mentioned in his will, dated 9 March in that year, is lands held by lease of John Earl Rivers* situated in co. Chester, one-third of which he leaves to his wife for life, with remainder to his daughters Marie and Katherine, to whom he bequeaths the other two parts equally; the residue between them and his wife. Ambrose Boord was one of the witnesses to the will,t which was proved by the widow and sole executrix on 5 May, 165T.
It seems probable that Katherine Fanshawe, who was married on 13 October, 1661, at St. Leonard’s Shoreditch (in which parish Hoxton was then included), to James Knighton of St. Edmund the King, son of George Knighton, of St. Mary Aldermary, was the daughter of Thomas and Katherine Fanshawe. Her parents were both then dead and she was aged 26, her husband 29.
Included among John Fanshawe’s sons on p. 44 of A otes Genealogical and Historical of the Fanshawe Fa wilg, is one called Henry, which appears to be undoubtedly an error, for his name does not occur in any pedigree nor is he mentioned by any other authority.
Ralph, another son, died at Stratford Bow in 1638-9. lie was of unsound mind; consequently his portion had remained in his mother’s hands and upon her death it became necessary to take- out Letters of administration. These were granted to his brother Thomas on 5 May, 1641 when her will was proyed.
John was living' in 1643, and is believed to have been the John Fanshawe monier (banker), who died on 1<
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January, 1647-8, at Baulmes, a well-known house at Hackney (formerly in Shoreditch parish), belonging to Sir George "Whitmore, who died there himself not long afterwards; a note to Pepys’ Diary describes it as “an old square mansion with two stories in the roof.” Letters of administration were granted, four days yJter John Fanshawe’s death, to his brother Thomas.*
George was a citizen and draper of London; beyond that, little has transpired concerning his life. In his will he makes provision for his wife and daughter, both of whom are called Anne ; and leaves sundry legacies to his wife’s sisters and brothers, appointing two of them — Laurence and Samuel Coles — supervisors, and his wife sole executrix. He also bequeathes small sums of money, in equal amounts, to all his own surviving brothers and sisters, and a double portion to each of his nephews, John, Edward and Egbert Xippax, whose father had confided their care and education to him and Sir John Harrison, upon his deathbed, when the boys were already motherless, and still of tender years. George Fanshawe died in 1643 at St. Olave’s, Hart Street (probably in his uncle Sir John Harrison’s house). Ilis daughter died unmarried. A commission to administer her goods (in which she is described as late of Bow), was issued to her mother, and her step-father Henry Foisted, on 28 November 1660. Mary Hatton in her love letters speaks of meeting with the Fanshawes at Stratford-le- bow during that year. She was a cousin of theirs and her brother Viscount Hatton manned the widow of Henrv Polsted’s brother Francis. The Fanshawe and Polsted families had also been connected through the Mores at a much earlier date. Henry Polsted of Stoneham, Suffolk, and of Bishopsgate Street was a merchant of London. Ilis wife must have died before bim — there is no mention of her in his will, which is dated 8 June, 1675, and was proved on 16 of the
* It seems possible that John Fansliawo of London, who matri¬ culated Fellow Commoner from Queen’s at Easter, 1618, and took his B.A. d ogree in 1(320-1, may have been the son of John Fanshawe of Kiveuhall, and not as has been supposed, the son of Sir Henry Fanshawe.
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following month. Their eldest- son Henry died v.p. at Smyrna, having no doubt gone out there upon his father’s business; the younger son Samuel succeeded to Stoneham; the four daughters were unmarried when their father died, two of them still under age.
Richard Fanshawe became bailiff or steward to his brother-in-law, Phmeas Andrews at Denton, about Jul\ , 1647, and managed his estates there for three jeais. He was still living in 1657 but the date of his death is
not recorded.
The youngest son, called John Posthumous in his mother's will and Thomas Posthumous in that of his brother George, was born in 1615 or 1616. In Septem¬ ber, 1634, he was apprenticed for 7 years to Jon^. Andrews ’of Fenchurch Street, Merchant Taylor’s Company who was an elder brother of Phineas Andrews. Lionell Fanshawe* (a descendant of Thomas, the biothei of John Fanshawe of Rivenliall) left a legacy in 1677 to his cousin John Fanshawe, dyer, who can only have come from John Posthumous or his brother Richard— probably the son or grandson of one of them. In the Registers of St. James’, Clerlienwall, there is the entry of the burial on 21 December, 1662, of Margarett daughter of John fanshawe a dyer; the same Register contains the baptisms of John, on 3 November, l6oi, Thomas, on 17 December, 1659, Fraunces on 16 March, 1661 and Richard on 31 July, 1664, all children of John and Fraunces Fanshawe. Richaid son of ’ 0 111 fanshawe was buried on 25 August, 1664, and Ritichard fanshawe with 25 others, no doubt of plague, ^on August, 1665. “John fanshawe an inhabitant was buried there on 23 January, 1678. John lanshave o Rivenhall had three daughters, Mildred, Mary, an
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Mildred married at St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, on 6 October, 1C24, Phineas Andrews, a merchant o London and an immensely rich man whom she survive .
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He was the fourth son of William Andrews of Evesham by Mary his wife, the daughter of William Fineux or Phineas, of Coventry. Pliineas Andrews acquired the manors of Little Perkliampstead and Eoxford in Hertfordshire, and died at his home, Denton Court, in 1661 aged 61. His Arms were Gules, a saltire or, surmounted of another vert; in chief a trefoil arg\ for difference.
Marv married Thomas Hardwick, of Newton in the parish of Leeds, in TTukshire, and of Stapleford Tawney in Essex, who bore for anus, arg. a saltire engrailed azure, on a chief of the second three cinquefoils of the first. The family motto being “ Cavendo tutus.” By his will which was dated 2 February, 1648, and proved on 10 January, 1649-50, he left to their son George the reversion of £350, in which his wife had a life interest, and £1400 in legacies among six of their other children, and the residue to his wife. She was buried at Staple- ford Tawnev on 3 May, 1684.
Isabel married at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 29 April. 1628, Edward Ivippax : they are both described in their marriage licence as of St. Olave’s, Hart Street. Sir John Wilstenholme calls him his servant in his will and leaves him £50, probably he was a clerk in Sir John’s office. The legacies bequeathed by Edward Kippax in his will amounted to nearly £2000. It was dated 18 February, 1639, and was proved nine days later.
Thomas, brother of John Fanshawe of Rivenhall, the only remaining son — not yet accounted for — of Robert Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, appears to have lived, for a time at least, at the old home; he had also a life interest in a house and land at Elmton, and his name occurs in the Court Rolls of Holmesfield, as owner of copyhold lands of the manor. lie was assessed at £4 ‘in land in the Subsidy Rolls for Dronfield in the 18 and 19 James I. fas was his son Lyonell immediately after his death in 21 James I. and again l6t Charles I. and the two following years). Thomas Fanshawe’s death
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at Dronfield on 7 November, 1C23, and his burial in the chancel of that church on the following day, are recorded in his Funeral Certificate (The Genealogist by Selby, New Series, II. SG), which also gives particulars of his two marriages and of his five children who were all by his first wife Tenet, the daughter of Nicholas Jenkinson, of Denbv in Yorkshire. In the marriage register of Dronfield on 16 August, 1591, she is entered as “ Joan als. Jennett ” — such a double rendering of a Christian name is unusual, if not unique in a parish register.
The manor of Over Denbv, with other lands there and in Nether Denbv and Penyston, seem to have passed to Thomas Fansliawe and his wife and to have been settled by them in the hands of trustees in 1595. The second wife, Cecilv, was the widow of Robert SellioIA~ of Dronfield. Both the wives of Thomas Fansliawe were buried at Dronfield, the one in April, 1G20, and the other, as his widow, on 28 March, 1638. His eldest child, Marie, was baptised at Dronfield on 17 August, 1592, and married there, in February, 1617, John Legate of Rampton, in Nottinghamshire. The whole history of the younger daughter — as far as it is known — is comprised in the short inscription upon the brass, fixed to the flat stone at the entrance to the chancel in Dronfield church, where she now lies; a spot over which she must have passed with her youthful bridegroom (aged only 19 years) upon their wedding day in 1617.
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“ Here lyetli ye Body of Dinis Barker Wife to Edward Barker of Doore Esqvier who departed this life ye 8th of October in y9 yeare of or Lord 1G48 ”
The arms of Barker of Dore, were, Per chevron, engrailed or and sa., a lion rampant, counter changed: on a canton azure a fleur de lis of the first. Edward Barker’s arms are impaled with those of his wife Dinis or Dyonis on the brass, but at that time no method of depicting the tinctures by lines and dots had been discovered. There are other memorials to the Barker
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family in Dronfield churcli. Edward Barker was assessed in land, under Totlev and Dore, in 1 lie 21st year of James I. and ag*ain in tlie 1st and 3rd of Charles I. He married a second time on 14 September, 1C52, at Hathersage, to Dorothy Wade a widow, and died on 29 March, 1600.* Thomas Fanshawe’s eldest son John, died s.p. during* his lifetime; the third, Francis, was living* in 1023, after which date nothing* is known about him.
Lyonell Fanshawe of Upper Denby in Yorkshire, the second son, carried on the line. His Pedigree is given in the Derby Visitation of 1034. In 1633 his name appears on a list of Freeholders of Dronfiekl and also on the Hearth tax roll for that year. He possessed the Grange or Rectory of Dronfield with all the lands and tithes belonging, and in 1640 was living there as his great¬ grandfather had done before him; certain other lands and houses in this parish were purchased by him during the Revolution, being part of the estate of the Earl of Yew- castle “ forfeited to the commonwealth by treason ” — as is set forth in the composition papers of gentlemen who fell under the displeasure of the Parliament.
In 1641, before all hope of conciliation was at an end, an effort had been made by the gentlemen of Derbyshire to induce the king to return and meet his parliament. After the failure of this appeal there came the parting of the ways, and Lyonell, who had been one of the signatories, joined the Parliamentary party. The follow¬ ing year he was returned as a Deputy Lieutenant and Commissioner of Peace for the county. In the assessment for Old nance for raising money for the maintenance of the troops under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax in 1647-8 and subsequent years, he was one of the Commis-
* Francis Barker of Dore and of Lees Hall in Derbyshire, son of Edward and Dyonis Barker, was one of the trustees and executors to the will of his uncle Lionell Fanshawe, dated 25 July, 1653; and Lionell Fanshawe, grandson of the latter, left a legacy to his cousin Elizabeth Barker. Lyson’s Derbyshire mentions that the chantry in Dronfield church was amply endowed by Ralph Barker and others in 1302 ; Ralph the Barker was living at Dore nearly half a century earlier.
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sioners for Derbyshire and was one of those before whom an Inquisition was taken at Chesterfield in 1650 respecting the possessions of the Dishops, Deans, and Chapters of all the benefices in the county. In an official list of such per sons as were in commission for Justices of the Peace in that year, Lyonell Fanshawe is described as of Fan- shawe Gate. Possibly his presence in the old family home in the midst of the civil war, may have come about through a desire on his part to save it from confiscation or to protect it from destruction by the Parliamentary forces ranged against the opposing army, in which were numbered his Eoyalist cousins. It is perhaps significant that in the Eoyalist composition papers, wherein all the Hertfordshire, Essex, and London property of Sir Thomas Fanshawe (afterwards Viscount Fanshawe) is minutely described, and for which a fine was exacted, there is no mention of the Derbyshire estate. Certain it is that when the tide turned and fortune smiled once more, Sir Eichard took LyonelPs son, Lyonell the younger with him as his Chief Secretary, on his Embassies, and that he remained with him to the end. Undoubtedly the great trust Sir Eichard placed in his kinsman was shared by Lady Fanshawe, and after the untimely death of her husband, Lyonell accompanied her, and the body of his master, back to England.
Lyonell Fanshawe the elder was buried in Dronfield church on IT March, 1653, and left 20s. in gold to the minister of that parish, for preaching his funeral sermon.* He married thrice, surviving all his wives, and had four children by the first and five by the second, but none by the third.
The first marriage, which was to Joan, daughter and co-heir of Anthony (or TVilliam) Armitage,f of Doncaster
He was witness to John Bullock’s declaration of Trust in 1C2S. lhe grave-stone of one of the Lyonell Fanshawes was near to that of John Fanshawe in the chancel of Dronfield church, it is said to have been boarded up when the church was repaired some
years a^o.
t Tn the Funeral Certificate of Thomas Fanshawe (1638), Lyonell is stated to have married the daughter of William Armvtage and the statement is signed by Lyonell ; this contemporary docu¬ ment is more likely to be correct than the rather confused pedigree
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took place at Dronfield in September, 1619, and there she was buried on 8 April, 1626. Her children. were all baptized at Dronfield. Thomas, the eldest son and heir (baptized in August, 1620), will be noticed presently; William, baptized in January, 1621-2, died in his father s lifetime; Maria, baptized in February, 1622-3, died unmarried; and John, baptized in March, 1624-5, was bound apprentice to Nicholas Widmer of St. Nicholas Shambles, Merchant Taylor’s Company, in October, 164 L, for 8 years, as his half-brother Henry also was in October, 1645, for T years. John married at St. James', Clerken- well, on 12 December, 1650, Elizabeth, daughter of the I*ev. John Bankes, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford, who had been appointed Yicar of St. John the Baptist s. Margate, in 1636, and, on 18 July, 1637, transferred to the Vicarage of Lydd in the same county. In 1 64 * he became Hector of Ivychurcli. Legacies were left to John Fanshawe and his wife, by his father, in 1653, after that they are lost sight of. Their son Lionell Fanshawe of All Hallows on the Wall (born 1651-3), does not allude to either of his parents in his will, dated 22 August, 1677, which was proved the following month, nor are their deaths entered in the family pedigree of
1719.*
Lvonell Fanshawe’s wife CToan Armitage) having died in 1626, he immediately married again, this time choosing the daughter of his neighbour, Philip Gill of Lightwood.
of tlx? Armitage family — compiled from various MSS. — given in Familcr ^Hnorum Gentium, wliere Joan's father is called Anthony. Willi am Armitage of the Inner Temple, trustee to the marriage settlement of Joan’s son Thomas in 164G, was probably her brother.
* The allegation for the marriage licence of John Fanshawe of St. Botolph’s, Aldgate, London, Gent, widr., aged 40, and Anne Hubbard of St. Leonard's, Foster lane, London, widow, aged 2^. was issued from tlie Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 30 May, 1GGG. It seems possible that this may have been the above John. If so it is unlikely that there were any children of the marriage ns his son Lionell does not speak of any nearer relations than uncles, aunt and cousins, in his will. It would appear that this lady survived her husband and married yet again in 1073, which would fit in with the supposition that both Lionell’s parents were dead before 1G77. The allegation for the marriage licence is between Anne Fanshawe of St. Botolpli, Bisliops- gate, Wid ow, aged about 38, and John Newton of the same, Bachr , aged about 51. It is dated 22 July, 1673.
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The entry of her baptism on 25 -June, 1599, in the parish register of Norton, records also that William Lee, gent., Gertrude Urton als. Steven,* and Anna Gill, were sponsors ; from the last of these she took her name. Her mother was Dorothy, the daughter of Robert Allott, of Bentley, in Elmley, Yorkshire, which lady was buried at Norton on IT May, 1646.
Philip Gill’s name appears on the Lay Subsidy Polls as holding land in Norton in the IS and 21 years of James T. and in the 1st Charles I. By his will, dated 10 August, 1630, and proved two months later, he bequeathed to his “ children Lionell ffanshawe, Grace Gill and Mary Gill every of them a peice of gould called a portugall ” and left in the hands of his daughter and her husband two ninths of the residue of his estate for t lie use and behoof of his grandchildren, Lyonell, Henry and Phillip ffanshawe ; another bequest was “ to my daughter Anne ffanshawe my silver salt.” Philip Gill was baptized at Sheffield on 4 September, 157 7, and was buried at Norton on 18 October, 1630. His arms were: Party per bend, or and azure, three mullets of six points, pierced, counterchanged. The married life of his daughter Anna Fanshawe was very short, her death following his own within a few months; the entry of her burial in the Dronfield register is dated September, 1631.
Before giving an account of her children it may be as well to speak here of her husband’s third and last marriage, which, after an interval of four years, was celebrated at Sheffield (Cathedral), between him and the widow of George Jessop, late of that place and of Brantcliffe, For this last venture Lyonell the elder selected a ladv who had already been the third wife of a neighbouring gentleman. To make matters even nmie
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before she married him ; surely a unique case of mixed relations, especially if most of them had children !*'
Jane, this third wife, whom Lyonell married on 26 November, 1635, was the second daughter of Edward Disney of Carleton in Moreland, Lincolnshire, and of Somerton Castle, t by Jane his wife, the daughter of William Thorold of Harmston. The arms of the Disney family are — Arg., on a fesse gu., three fleurs-de-lis or. Jane Fanshawe, who was born c. 1586-90, was buried at Dronfleld on 4 February, 1649.
The children of LyonelTs former marriage with Anna Gill were: —
Lyonell, baptized at Dronfleld on 8 July, 1627, who became Sir Diehard’s Chief Secretary.
Henry baptized at Dronfleld on 6 January, 1628-9, who apparently died when quite a young man. He was put into the entail when the property was settled by his father in 1646, but there is no mention of him in the father’s will seven years later.
Phillip, baptized at Dronfleld in January, 1629-30. What his life was or where most of it was spent is shrowded in mystery. The only human detail connected with him that has survived the centuries, is a rough note among the Heathcote MSS., jotted down in his brother
* George Jessop (called William in Lincolnshire pedigrees, Harleian Soc.), had married first Martha, daughter of Edward Goodrick of East Kirkby (or of Thomas Goodreckl, and Secondly Anne daughter of Lyon Goodrick of Kirkby, the widow of Benjamin Bolles of Osberton.
f Leland in his Itinerary , p. 29, giving au account of the Lincolnshire gentlemen of the Kestevan Division, among whom was Disney alias De Tseney, continues “ he dwellcth at Diseney and his name* and line be genti linen of Fraunce. Ailesham Priory, by Thorney Courtoise was of Disneys’ foundation, and there were divers of them buryed, and likewise at Diseney.” Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1SSG, speaks of them as “ a knightly race of high station and influence ” deducing the family from Lambert De Isney of Norton DTsney from whom Edgar Norton Disney (b. 1862). now of the Hyde, Essex, is 29th in direct descent. John Disney of Norton Disnev, slain at Towton Field on Palm Sunday, 1461 (one of this line) was the grandfather of John Disney of Carlton-le-Moorland whose grandson was the above Edward Disney who bought Somerton Castle. The latter was born c. 1550 and died on 7 September, 1595; his marriage took place at Harmston on 1 July, 1578. In 1619 his widow was churchwarden ” of Carlton-le-Moorland. She was buried on 1 June, 1657, at Newark-on-Trent, and he at Carlton-le-Moreland.
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Lyonell’s handwriting, on the back of a pass (for Capt. Farrell, an Irishman) dated 9 November, 1665, n.s.
Mr. Philij) Fanshaw may be enquired for at the 3 Cocks in St. George’s lane in Dublin.” W h\’ he went there or what he was doing in Ireland has not transpired. A small legacy was left him by his nephew Lyonell in 1595; no other allusion to him whatever in the latter part of his life has been found. That he was living* at Dronfield at the time of his death, and that he died unmarried and was buried there on 19 May, 1702, is all that is known.
A daughter Ann recorded in the Derby Visitation in 1634, does not appear in the Dronfield register though her sister Margarott, born about six weeks before her mother’s death, was both baptized and buried there (August, 1631, and December, 1643-4).
Lyonell Fanshawe of Dronfield (5. 1627) the eldest of the second family, was taxed as a landowner of Denby in the subsidy roll of the V apentake of Staincross in 1663, at which date, according to an original memor¬ andum of Sir Richard Fanshawe touching a Secretary to the Embassy in Portugal, “ He hath of his own 8 or 9 score pounds a 3*ear land of inheritance in England.”
Some account of Lyonell’s life has been given at p. 533 of the Memoirs , but since 1907 several interesting papers among the Heathcote MSS. have come to light. Much of the correspondence of Sir Richard, sold as “ Fanshawe Papers ” in 1912, was in the Chief Secretary’s hand¬ writing and many of his holograph letters to Sir Richard were bought by Basil Thomas Fanshawe at the sale. Among the MSS. bearing upon Lyonell Fanshawe, may be noted: (Further) Instructions to Sir Richard going to Portugal as Envoy in 1661, which direct that when Sir Richard shall return to England in the Service of the Queen he shall leave his secretary behind “ wth such directions & assistance as u shall judge requisite for him to proceed in so much of our A ftayrs in that Court (not then finished by vrself) as you shall conceive meet for his trust and management more especially in reference
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to Trade & Intelligence, vntill . . . we shall either send you back, or send some Other, in qualitie of our Ambas¬ sador.” Sir Richard again left his Secretary in charge of affairs when he returned to England two years later. In the letter he presented to King Charles on this occa¬ sion dated Whitehall, September, 1663, he refers to his kinsman in these words: “ I have left behind mee in my house at Lisbone my Secretary a very discreet man, carefully instructed and exercised in ye style and way of negociating in y1 Court, with directions to keep up a cour & perform some ordinary things there.” A couple of months later when recommending him as Secretary at Lisbon and to be Resident at Madrid when he proposed to return to England himself in 1664, Sir Richard endeavoured to get an allowance of 40s per diem for him ; “ my Secne now is Lvonell Fansliaw ” he says in his memorandum of 22 November, 1663, “ I carried him with me in that quality (as then capable thereof) when I went first to that court which is now 2 years and a half since; from wh time I have continued him there con¬ stantly, tho more than half the time I have myself been out of pay, yet kept him there upon my own charge that he might lose no opportunity towards the better improving himself for his Masters service in those kingdoms — while I was myself in Lisbon I trusted him (finding every day more & more cause for it) with copying my negotiations in whatsoever language.” On a paper attached to the proposed draft appointment it is stated that he is well known by Sir Richard as “ discreet secret faythfull & diligent & writing a very fayre legible hand and com¬ pletely lettered.” On one occasion when Sir Richard was absent in 1664, the R ev. Thomas Marsden writes to him in the language of that day, somewhat unfamiliar to our ears now, “ Mr. ffanshaw’s society is sweet to me, I could wish my sullen temper was capable of requiting him.”
As has been stated above, Lvonell was at the Embassy when Sir Richard was overtaken by the illness that proved fatal. Three or four days before leaving Madrid he desired Francis Parry “ to procure ye Jesuits
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