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Chapter XI/1 - Cavalier |
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THE PLAGUE OF THE FOREST "Let
rogues and cheats prognosticate Concerning
the King's or kingdom's fate I
think myself to be as wise As
he that gazeth on the skies. My
sight goes beyond The
depth of a pond Or
river in the greatest rain Where
I can tell That
all will be well When
the king enjoys his own again. Full
forty years this royal crown Hath
been his father's and his own And
is there anyone but he That
in the same should sharer be? For
who better may The
sceptre sway Than
he that hath such right to reign Then
let's hope for a peace For
the wars will not cease Till
the King enjoys his own again." The
Winters were Roman Catholics since at least the lifetime of Sir John
Winter [Cal.
SP. Dom. 1637-8, 74, 1639, 427, Glos RO. Q/50 4, p.515]
if not before and held 5 manors and other estates in the Bledisloe Hundred
of Gloucestershire. The
manor house was described as: "The
manor house is sufficiently well builded with two cross chambers of stone,
brick of timber with all manor houses of office within forth, two barns
and an ox house, a hay house, a stable, a garden and an orchard" (Fitzherbert's
"Book
of Husbandry"
1522). Sir
William Winter bought the two manors of Lydney (Warwick & Shrewsbury)
from William Herbert by indenture dated 12.5.1561 (3rd
Elizabeth) as well as the manors of Wyck, Pirton, Newent (the last from
Sir Nicholas Arnold) and Kingsweston from Sir William Berkeley. In
1559 he bought Nass, also in the Bledisloe Hundred [NLW
Dunraven MSS 325, Cal. Pat. 158-60, 359]
where farms were owned in 1607 by his son Edward Winter. Allastone
in the same Hundred was bought in 1568 by Sir William and leased in 1623
by his grandson Sir John who bought the freehold in 1659. In
1595 Awre in the Bledisloe Hundred, was sold by Katherine Neville, wife of
Henry Percy (d. 1595) and Francis Fitton to Sir Edward Winter [PRO C.
142/248 No. 22, C. 3/295/10]
and passed to Sir John Winter and his sons William & Charles. John and his son sold the manor in 1668 to the Gloucester
Corporation. John
Winter of Bristol had a house called the White Cross in Lydney town. Before the purchase of the manor of Lydney, the Winters held
other property in the neighbourhood - Le Sterts and Coldgrove in Aylburton,
woods there and Alvington which formerly belonged to the Priory of
Llanthony were granted at the Dissolution of the Monasteries to William
Winter in the 32nd year of Henry VIII [Major Ryland’s
information]. Aylburton
in the same Hundred was originally held by Hugh de Lacy (d. 1180) and
passed to his son Walter who succeeded him [Pipe Roll 1167 PRS xi 1186,
PRS xxxvi 1189, 1227, PRS xxx.viii, 1188].
It became the property of Llanthony Priory until the Dissolution
after which the Crown sold the manor to William Winter in 1559 with 2
freehold estates. It was
added to Lydney in 1599 by Edward Winter [Glos. RO D. 421.T.31].
In 1718 Lady Frances Winter sold the bulk of tenant land of the
Lydney estate in Aylburton [Glos. RO P.209 A/IN/3/1, ff.37.43]. Priors
Mesne Lodge, Bream or Priors Lodge, north of Aylburton in the Bream
Tilting of Newland and St. Briavels, was built by William Compton of
Alvington in 1581 and demolished by a mob allegedly instigated by William
Winter. In 1584 the crown
claimed it and sold it to 2 speculators from whom Winter bought it and
held it in severalty. Priors
Mesne was sold by Winter in 1656. A
¾ share of a passage across the Severn from Purton hamlet (called
Lydney's Purton) was sold in 1474 by Thomas Morgan to Sir William Winter
[Berkeley Cast. Mun. Gen. Ser. Chart. 1571, 2445].
Winter acquired the other ¼ share and leased the passage and
Purton manor. The
Crown sold the endowment of Robert Greyndour's Chantry lands at Newland in
1559 to William Winter [Cal.
Pat. 1558-60, 359]
which his son Edward sold to Thomas Baynehame of Clearwell in 1596 [NLW
Dunraven MSS 271]. Sir
William had a grant for life in reversion of St. Briavel's Castle in 1577
but died before the previous constable, the earl of Pembroke.
His son Edward was the next constable of St. Briavels. His
wife Mary (daughter of Thomas and Catherine Langton) died on 4.11.1573 at
Seething Lane; her funeral was held at Barking Parish Church and the death
certificate stated that they had 4 sons, Edward, Nicholas, James and
William and 4 daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Jane. Nicholas
was supposed to have died in 1585 during Drake's attack on Cartagena de
las Indias, Colombia, east of the Gulf of Darien in New Granada, the
biggest treasure port on the Spanish Main but Hakluyt does not mention
him. His brother Edward
fought beside Christopher Carleill in the same campaign. James
must have predeceased his father as he is not mentioned in his Will,
perhaps dying sometime after 1590 when his eldest brother Edward (captured
by the French and sold to Mendoza the Spanish ambassador) mentioned in a
letter to Sir Francis Walsingham that
"one
of his young brothers still needed supervision" implying
he had more than one brother alive at the time. Sir
William may have had another son Benedict or he may have been his nephew [Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I, Vol. 9, No.1325]. A
family of Brixton Devon named Wood of Hareston (8 Edw II till 1868-9)
claimed descent from Sir William Winter.
John Wood, 19th in descent, had a daughter who married
John Winter, descendant of Sir William Winter and took the surname of
Wood. [Letters Patent 12.11.1850]. Sir
William died on 21.2.1589 as the result of a wound received by a gun
recoiling during the Battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. His
Will (323 Leicester) reads: "The Will of
Admiral Sir William Winter, 2nd son of John Winter
of Whitecross House, Lydney dated 1st February 1589. I desire to be buried in the chapel which I lately made in
Lidney church. To my
son William
I bequeath half the goods in my house in London and 150 oz. of silver
plate, also oxen, clothes and Milan corselet, 6 bows, 12 sheaves of arrows
and crossbows. To my
daughter
Elizabeth
Winter
£1,100, to my
daughter Jane
£1,000; my
son-in-law Thomas Bayneham
and my servant Roger Monosee putting it forth upon good assurance to be
paid on marriage by consent of the said Thomas Bayneham,
son Edward Winter, my son-in-law George Huntley, my nephew John Winter, my
kinsmen George Wirral and John Morgan and my friend
Charles Jones To my
niece
(grand
daughter?)
Cecily
Bayneham
£50 and to the rest of my
daughters, Mary and Eleanor
£30 each. To my friend
Christopher Baker, a gown. To
my
son Edward my
manor of Wyche, Co. Glos. To
my
daughter Bayneham,
a chain of pearls with a jewel of emeralds in the manor of a mermaid;
other jewellery to daughters before-named. To my servant
Thomas Merson, a copyhold tenement in my manor of Pirton, late in the
tenure of Edward Johnson, deceased. Executor my eldest
son Edward." His
wife Mary (née) Langton died at Seething Lane and her funeral was held at
Barking parish church. Her’s
burial certificate mentions 4 sons and 4 daughters - Edward, William,
Nicholas, James and Mary, Elizabeth, Anne and Jane.
Nicholas died fighting the Spaniards and James appears to have died
young as he is not mentioned in the Visitation.
Edward mentions in a letter that he has 2 younger brothers in his
care. One of them may have been James.
William was old enough to have fought in the battle of the Spanish
Armada. Nothing
more is known of Jane. Elizabeth
married Thomas Morgan of Machen, Monmouthshire and Eleanor married Sir
George Huntley of Woodchester, Gloucestershire, 2nd Marquis. Her cousin Mary Winter of Dyrham married Anselm Huntley. ("Notes
on Bristol Wills"
in Council House at Bristol - Wardley 1886 p. 276). Fig.
105
- Morgan Morgan
of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire > Sir John Morgan, Constable of Newport
(d.c.1492) had 10 children > Thomas Morgan of Machen > Thomas Morgan
(d. 1603) of Machen and Tredegar, sheriff (1581) MP (1588-9) > Sir
William Morgan (1569-1653), knight (1663), a Protestant, Sheriff (1612),
MP (1624-5) = (1) Elizabeth (b.
c.1567), d. of William Winter of Lydney >: a.
William Morgan 3rd son, MP (1628-9). b.
Thomas Morgan of Machen > Brecon branch. Morgan
of Llantarnam, Monmouthshire: William (d.1582), a Catholic, MP (1555,
1557) > Edward (d.1633), a Catholic, MP (1584, 1586) > Thomas =
Frances Somerset, d. of 4th earl of Worcester, sister-in-law
of Sir Edward Winter of Lydney. The
title lapsed prior to 1727. The
following Winter family is not identified.
They may descend from Edward, son of Robert and Katherine
Throckmorton of Huddington and/or the Leicestershire family. Flander's
Manor, Hemlingford Hundred, Warwickshire: was divided between the
daughters of John Hardwick and Anne Langham his 2nd wife (his
first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Botler or Butler of Coventry).
One daughter Anne Hardwick married George Winter, her sister Joyce
married Michael Purefoy [Feet of Fees War. Trinity 20, Henry 8 Mich. 29
8th - 2 fines].
George Winter and Anne
conveyed their half to their son Edward Winter in 1581 and his wife
Katherine [Feet
of Fees Warks. Michael 5 Edw VI].
It was still held by them in 1560 [Add.
Chart., 49410, Add. MSS 36907 fol. 126v].
Edward Wynter made a settlement in 1581 when the manor was called
Winter's Flanders on the marriage of Mary Winter, one of his daughters to Edward
Baskervyle of Shulton, Co. Leics. [Chanc. Proctor Ser I. Jas I, B.27/b]. There
was also Winters in Dymock and Coleford who were related to the Lydney
family. In
about 1290 the manor of Dymock, Gloucestershire consisted of 106 acres and
23 virgates of freeholders and villeins who later became tenants of the
lord of the manor. At the
Domesday Survey (1086) it was a royal manor of 10,000 acres.
It included two sub-manors, Dymock Parva or Gamage Hall (1199) and
the manor of Rye (1349), later split into four, probably comprised what is
now the Ryeland Division and included the Ketford estate which came to
Thomas Bridges on marriage. There
was woodland and uncultivated land in addition to the acreage of 1,270. The
manor house in 1601 was "The
Boyce". Humphrey
Forster (b. 1554) and his wife Martha possessed the manor of Boyce, Dymock
by descent and he became lord of the manor after Robert Devereaux, 2nd
earl of Essex (who had held it since about 1582) was executed in 1601.
It was then held by Giles Forster (b. 1588) described as a
schoolmaster, who with one or more of his children, headed the military
list of 1608 Dymock men. The
manor was sold in 1611 (possibly after his father's death) to Sir George
Huntley (husband of Sir William's daughter Eleanor Winter).
Sir George Huntley's son, William Huntley, was lord of the manor
from about 1622-1631 onwards. It
passed to Eleanor's nephew, the Royalist Sir John Winter in her Will.
During the Civil War Sir John (son of Sir Edward of Lydney and
grandson of Sir William Winter) maintained a troop of horse at the White
House, Dymock and lived there after he deliberately burned White Cross
House, Lydney in 1646 to prevent it falling to the Roundheads.
He was proscribed on 14.5.1648, condemned to death and the estates
were confiscated. The manor
was granted to certain creditors of Sir John on 15.11.1654. The
advowson of the church of Dymock, rented in 1548 for 40s., which passed to
the Winters and then to the Humphreys, consisted of the White House
estate, rectory and vicarage. After
the Dissolution of the Abbeys in 1539 the advowson passed to Sir Richard
Lee at a yearly rent of 40s, then to Edward Wilmot who leased it to
William Winter of Lydney. Owing
to the attainder of Sir Richard Lee (who also held Newent), the legality
of Winter's tenure was doubtful so the title was confirmed in a grant by
Letters Patent in 1615 to Sir Edward Winter of Lydney and his
brother William Winter of Coleford.
In 1616 Sir Edward released all his rights in Dymock to William
Winter of Coleford who made the presentation of the new vicars in 1626,
1654 and 1664 as patron; John Kyrle acted as patron in 1678 "for
this turn". In
1608 William Winter Esq., Anthony Stanton, Roger Barton and John Hopkin
were named as servants of Sir Edward Winter in Coleford "where the
King's M(ajes)tie is lord". - ("Men
and Armour from Gloucestershire"). In 1704 the rectory and vicarage of Dymock and the White House estate were leased in trust for Robert Winter, of the New Inn, Middlesex, gentleman and William Humphreys, ironmonger and mayor of London (1714-5). In 1710 William Winter of Dymock's daughters Margaret and Hester, wife of John Darvall, packer of London, conveyed their interests to Robert Winter and William Humphreys, knight and alderman of London. Robert Winter was joint patron in 1714 and died in 1719. He left his share of the advowson and estate to Orlando, son of Sir William Humphreys but charged him and his heirs with an annuity of £30 per annum for the poor of the Parish. Winter's Charity disbursed each year since. In 1736 Sir Orlando died, leaving his daughter Ellen Winter Humphreys heiress to the Dymock estates which soon split up. Fig.
106 -
Huntley, Winter & Read. John
Huntley of the Rye (in Dymock) near Frocester (son of Elizabeth, d. of
John ap Adam, son of John, descendant of Lord ap Adam) = Margaret Andrews
> John Huntley of Standish = (1) Alice, daughter of Edmund Langley of
Siddington, widow of Thomas Endon = (2) ..? > George Huntley of
Frocester (d.1580) = Catherine, d. of John Walsh (probably of Little
Sodbury Manor and Olveston) > John Huntley of Frocester = Jane, d. of
Sir Edward Karne, knight of Glamorgan >: (1)
Sir George Huntley (d. 23.9.1622), knight of Frocester = Eleanor,
d. of Sir William
Winter, knight of Lindley (Lydney)
>:
1. Jane = John Reed of
Mitton, Glos.
2. William Huntley =
Elizabeth, d. and heiress of Edward Read of Yate >:
a. George Huntley (obsp).
b. Edward Huntley (obsp).
c. Jane Huntley = Giles
Foster of Dronock (Dymock).
d. Elizabeth Huntley =
John Abrahall of Juxon, Hereford.
e. Eleanor Huntley died
unmarried in 1634. The estate
was purchased by the
ancestor of Lord Ducie.
3. Anne Huntley = Henry
Baskerville.
4. Henry Huntley of
Boxwell (Will dated 1556) = (1) Elizabeth, d. of William
Throckmorton
of Tortworth
by whom he had 2 daughters >:
a. Frances Huntley =
John Bowser of Tortworth.
b. Elinor Huntley
c. Henry Huntley = (2)
Eleanor, d. of John Rufford >:
d. Margaret Huntley
e. Edward Huntley, a
military officer = Bridget, widow of John Nanfan of Barnsley,
d. & h. of John Kemey.
f. George Huntley =
Constance, d. of Edward Ferrars of Wood Bevington,
Warwickshire, son of Sir Edward Ferrars of Baddesley Clinton.
James I granted
him free warren of Boxwell, Gloucestershire granted by Walter
Raleigh, grantee
from crown. >:
(1) John Huntley = (1) Frances, d. of Sir John Conway knight >
John Huntley, a
military officer obsp = (2) Elizabeth Vaughan (obsp).
(2) George Huntley buried Boxwell 14.4.1576.
(3) William Huntley of Nailsworth = 25.7.1600 Elizabeth,
d. of Thomas Morgan
and widow of Richard Read > Constance Huntley.
(4) Constance Huntley baptised Boxwell 13.1.1583 = (1) in 1599 Capt.
Nicholas
Baskerville > Mary
Baskerville = her first cousin Hannibal Baskerville of
Sunningwell.
(5) Constance Huntley = (2) Sir John Sidney > Elizabeth Sidney =
Thomas Guy.
(6) Matthew Huntley of Boxwell, younger son and eventual heir (d.
1653, bur.
3.10.1653) = (1) Jane Algini > Matthew (heir obsp) = (2)
Frances, d. of Sir
George Snigge, knight, baron of the Exchequer >:
(A) George Huntley, successor of his brother.
(B) several other sons obsp.
(C) Alice Huntley = 4.11.1649 John Wynyard of Westminster.
(D) Frances Huntley (obsp unmarried).
(E) Anne Huntley = Thomas Smith.
(F) Margaret Huntley = George Lyte of Leighterton. Part
of the manor of Boxwell, Gloucestershire belonged to the Huntley family
and the other to St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester.
When Elizabeth I granted the abbot's half to Sir Walter Raleigh, he
sold it to John Huntley. A
descendant, Martin Huntley, was a captain in Prince Rupert's Horse and the
Prince often visited him. In
September 1651 after the battle of Worcester, Charles II escorted by
Colonel Lake, was taken to Boxwell and a part of the garden is known as
the King's Walk. Frocester,
Gloucester also belonged to St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester and was
subsequently in the possession of Sir George Huntley who rebuilt the court
house in 1554 and received Elizabeth I there in 1574. According
to the Gloucestershire historian Nash, the family of Reade or Rede of
Mitton, Bredon were of considerable note in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire
and Worcestershire, claiming descent from William Rede of Gloucester. They acquired property in Gloucestershire through marriage
with one of the heiresses of the Lords Beauchamp of Powick.
However according to Harleian MSS 1545 the Reads of Mitton
descended from this William's second marriage with the daughter of Brydges.
The quartered arms of Reed impaling Brydges were in Mitton chapel
and they did not inherit Beauchamp blood except through Greville. The
mother of Catherine (wife of Giles Reed of Mitton) was daughter and
co-heiress of Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke by Elizabeth, daughter and
co-heiress of Richard, Lord Beauchamp. Giles
Reed of Mitton, son of William Reed and grandson of the aforesaid William
by his second wife, was High Sheriff of the county in 29th Elizabeth
(1587). He married Catherine,
daughter of Sir Fulke Greville and his son John Reed of Mitton who married
Jane, daughter and coheiress of Sir George Huntley of Frocester, knight. She died in 1630 and her daughter Eleanor afterwards married
Richard Reed of Lugwardine, Hereford. [Grazebrook p.459]. The
Reeds and the Winters were connected in other ways. George
Winter, Clerk of the Ships inquisition post mortem (1582) at
Gloucestershire - William Reade present [Calendar
of Patent Rolls Elizabeth I, Vol. 9 Nos. 1407, 1822]. Sir
Richard Reade terminated Elizabeth Winter's lease of the manor of
Redbourne, Hertfordshire in 1568 [Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I, Vol 4 No. 1821].
She had held it for 21 years since 5.5.1559 at a rent of £15.6s.8d
from 5.5.1559. [Calendar of Patent Rolls Elizabeth I, Vol. I No. 108}].
This manor was later sold to Nicholas Bacon, whose son Frances was
friend of Thomas Winter of Huddington, the Gunpowder Plotter.
Elizabeth Winter was probably sister of Sir William Winter’s
daughter Eleanor who married Sir George Huntley (d. 23.9.1622), knight of
Frocester. Cardiff
in the Tewkesbury Hundred of Walton, Gloucestershire was granted in 1553
to William Read, then to Giles (1608) and subsequently to John, Edward and
Fulke Read (1611). Edward
Read sold it to Sir Baptist Hicks in 1614.
The manor of Beverston, 2-3 miles from Tetbury, was sold by the
Poyntz to the Hicks family. Sir
Baptist Hicks built Market House in Chipping Campden in 1624. The
church of St. Mary, Cheltenham, the rectory and the chapel of Charlton
Kings were leased by Elizabeth I to Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, to
support two priests and two deacons to celebrate religious services there.
The property came to Sir Baptist Hicks, who granted the
presentation to Jesus College, Oxford on the condition that a Fellow of
the College should always be nominated and remain unmarried. The
families of Read, Fortescue and Huddlestone had connections with
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. The
church of Bredon, Worcestershire has the monument to Giles Reid (1611) and
his wife. Fig.
107
- Fortescue & Winter Fortescue
of Salden, Essex: Sir John Fortescue living 1671 = (1) Margaret, 5th
daughter of Thomas, Lord Arundel >: A.
Sir John Fortescue B.
Frances Fortescue = Henry Benedict Hall of High Meadows, Glos. Benedict
Hall =
(2) Anne, d. of Sir John
Winter of Lydney >:
a. Lucy Hall (obsp).
b. Dorothy Hall (obsp).
c. Elizabeth Hall (obsp.
aged 5 years).
d. Anne Hall.
e. Mary Hall
f. Edward, son of
Benedict Hall, bapt. 9.12.1638, bur. 16.8.1663 aged 25.
g. Maria, d. of Benedict
Hall, born 1.4.4.1624 at Newland
h. Cecilia, d. of
Benedict Hall, born 22.5.1625
i. Eleanor, d. of
Benedict Hall, bapt. 1637 at Newland. There
is a monument in Lord Gage's chancel, Newland to Benedict Hall who died at
Cambrai, Artois and Anne Winter (d. 10.3.1675). ("Monuments
of Gloucestershire"
- Bigland). Anne
Winter's arms were "sable,
a fesse ermine, on a canton of the 2nd,
a lion rampant of the first, a crescent ermine for
difference." Sir
Adrian Fortescue, who held the manor of Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire
married first Anne, daughter of Sir William Stonor (into whose family
Richard Wintershill of Oxford married) and secondly Anne, daughter of Sir
William Reade of Buckstall, Buckinghamshire. The
Stonors and Wintershills were intermarried.
The manor of Iffley in the Bullingdon Hundred of Oxfordshire was
sold in 1622 to Sir Francis Stonor who passed the farm and mill to Walter
Kennington or Barnard and Richard Wintershill.
Richard Wintershill of Little Stoke, Oxfordshire married Elizabeth
Stonor of Stonor (her brother died in 1574). A
cordwainer named Winter held the house and manor of Littlemore,
Oxfordshire in 1702. John
Winter, Littleton, Worcestershire (described in his Will as Hittlemore,
possibly Littlemore, Iffley and St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford) requested
that he be buried in the churchyard of Effley.
195 Bowyer, proved 28th July 1652 by F.__ alias Lawrence (Index
Library, Administrations, Vol. III PCC). Sir
John Fortescue during the reign of Henry VI bought one of the three manors
of Ebrington, Gloucestershire from the Corbets.
It was alienated after his attainder to the Bridges but came back
to the Fortescues. The second
manor was held by the Grevilles of Campden, one of whom married Joyce
Cooksey from whom the Winters of Huddington and the Russells of Strensham
inherited many manors in Worcestershire as descendants of her sister
Elizabeth or Cecily Cooksey. The
church of St. Eadburgha, Ebrington, Gloucestershire has the 15th century
tomb with the effigy of Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice (born about
1394 in Somerset), second son of Sir John Fortescue who fought at
Agincourt. He was educated at
Exeter College, Oxford, called to the Bar, becoming Sergeant-at-Law and
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
He was a Lancastrian attainted during the reign of Edward IV and
exiled to Holland where he wrote "De
Laudibus Legum Angliae". After
the Battle of Tewkesbury he was back in the king's favour but retired to
Ebrington until died about 1476. He
also wrote "Governance of England". Stow
mentioned another Sir John Fortescue: "Castle
Baynard Ward: Then is the King's Great Wardrobe.
In this house of late years is lodged Sir John Fortescue, knight,
Master of the Wardrobe, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer
and one of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Councillors." Sir
Adrian Fortescue of Great Washbourne, was granted the manor of Tredington,
Gloucestershire by Mary Tudor but never lived there. He took part in the Battle of the Spurs and attended Anne
Boleyn's marriage to Henry VIII (his mother was her great-aunt).
He became a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, was attainted on
28.4.1539 with Sir Thomas Dingley for opposing King Henry as Supreme Head
of the Church and was beheaded on Tower Hill on 8.7.1540.
His family was Catholic and many of them entered the church; he was
beatified by Pope Leo XIII and is known as the Blessed Adrian Fortescue. These
families were linked through the Nevilles: Fig.
108
- Neville, Stonor, Fortescue & Browne John
Neville, 1st Marquess of Montague slain at the battle of Barnet
= Isabel, d. of Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe, knight = (2) Sir William Norris
>: a.
Anne Neville = Sir William Stonor,
son of Sir Thomas Stonor of
Stonor,
Oxfordshire who held the manor of Horton and a water mill at Horton
Kirby, Kent >
Sir William Stonor > Anne Stonor granted her father's
estates by a special act = Sir
Adrian Fortescue b.
Lucy Neville = (1) Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Aldwarke, Yorkshire > Sir
William
fitzWilliam = (2) Sir Anthony Browne > Anne Browne = Charles
Brandon, Duke of
Suffolk. c.
Isabel Neville = Sir William
Huddleston, knight of Salston, Cambridgeshire. The
Cumberland family of Huddlestone built the manor house of Bishop's Cleeve,
Gloucestershire in 1631. A
recipe for a medicine named "My
Lady Wintour's Receipt" mentions Francis Fortescue of Saffron
Walden, cousin of Mrs Compton Hansford, to whom her cousin Lady Mary
Winter (nee Kemp) bequeathed the vestments embroidered by her husband's
aunt Helen Winter of Huddington. "Jenuare
20 1710/1711. Honoured
Sir
I receved yrs with
the Bill for forty pounds for which I give you many thanks.
I was in hopes Mr Topper would have taken more care and prest the
tenant to pay me more money, being there is so much in arears to me.
I should take it for a graet favour Good Cosen if yo plese to writ
to him and if yo think it proper. I
should writ my selfe to him, pray let me know, for I have graet ocasion
for it. I have sent acording
to yr desire ye recept of my Lady
Wintour's Oyl
and all the vertues of it. She
always mixt it her selfe and then sent to the Apothicary Hall in ye kitty
to be drawn off. Of ye white
oyle yo may expect near a pient. The
Parson that gave it to my Lady gave two hondered pound for the recept. I desire it may not go out of the fameley yo ar in.
I am sorry to hear yo have still troublesome people to deal with.
Pray take care of yr selfe. I
am sorry yo should be obliged to go to London this cold season.
Pray let me hear from yo as soon as yo can and yo will oblige. Honoured
Sir Yr
most obliged kinswoman and omble sarvent, I. Hanford. Mr
Hanford iones with me in his sarvis to yo and my Cosen yr Lady, as does my
niece Baptist and my Cosen Wakeman. Addressed: These
for Frances Fortescue Esq at Mr Huddleston's House at Sorieston Hall by
Saffron Walden in Cambridgeshire - bag. Take
Venice Turpentine four pound, Olibanum, Mastic, of each two ounces,
Benjamin, Labdemum, Castorem, Aloes, Hepatica, Date-stones, Dasy roots,
Bettany roots, Cumfry roots of each one ounces.
Powder all these, mingle them and distill them in a glass body and
head in the sand. First a
white oyl will come over, then yellow, then red, which keep apart, as also
keep the waters apart as they come over. It
cures Impostumes, Ulcers, Fistules, Cold Swelling, Bruises, Aches,
Hemroydes, Appoplexi, Palsy pains, Contractures, Asthmas or Stiffling of
ye lungs in vemon humors. It
preserveth youth and recovereth most disease.
When the bell tolls for the dying patient, anonyt with it outwardly
or give twenty drops in a spoonful of Canary.
And farther, it provokes sweat, expells poyson, it stayeth
immoderate Courses, healeth pissing of blood, cleanseth ye kidneys and the
wombe, advanceth Conception, takes away Crudities in ye stomach and cures
obstructed spleens. Outwardly it heals cutts, wounds, bruises, old ulcers,
fistules with corrupt bones which make it to scale, it dissolveth hard
swelling and tumors left incurable. The application outwardly. Bathe ye parts with ye waters and anonyt with any of the Oyls and wear a Cloth wet with them on ye parts and renew ye cloth once a day; chaff ye breast and the chest well with a course cloth morning and evening and rub in five or six drops of ye red Oyl or Balsam being warm for a week altogether. All ye Oyls may be taken outwardly except the black". |
