The Golden Falcon

The Golden Falcon

Chapter XIII/1 - Neptune

NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER

"Here's a health unto His Majesty

Confusion to his enemies

And he that will not drink his health,

I wish him neither wit nor wealth

Nor yet a rope to hang himself"

Dyrham or Deorham (meaning the deer enclosure) is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:

A.D. 577 "This year Cuthwin and Ceawlin fought with the Britons and slew three kings, Commail and Condida and Farinmail on the spot that is called Derham and took from them three cities, Gloucester, Circencester and Bath." ("Anglo-Saxon Chronicle")

Dyrham was given to Bernard Newmarch, conqueror of Brecon and inherited by his descendant James Newmarch (d. 1216) whose 2 daughters were put into the guardianship of John Russell of Berkshire. Russell married the elder to his son Ralph who received Dyrham which went to Ralph's daughter Maude, wife of Robert Walerand, castellan of St. Briavels. Walerand died in 1272 and the manor came back to the Russells who held till 1401 when 2 co-heiresses inherited, the wives of Sir Gilbert Dennis and Sir John Drayton. In 1422 Sir John Drayton sold his part to Sir Gilbert Dennis whose family held it for 150 years.

In early 1571 Sir Walter Dennys and his son Richard conveyed the manor of Dyrham by sale or mortgage to George Winter, brother of William Winter of Lydney.

Fig. 127 - Winter of Dyrham.

John Winter of Lydney = Alice Tirry > George Winter (bur. 12.12.1581) said to have been notwithout "a personal and pecuniary interest" in the alleged piracies of his son and stated that he "adventured with Mr. Frauncis Drake the somme of £400 of money" for which Drake had his note of hand = Anne (bur. 1.4.1594), d. of Henry Brayne, sister & co-heiress of Robert Brayne of Bristol >:

(a) Thomisin Winter (bur. 31.5.1586?, admon 1584 of Thomazine Winter of Dyrham).

(b) Robert Winter killed by the Patagonians in Straits of Magellan but he was called

Robert Winterhey (of a different family) in one account.

(d) Mary Winter = Anselm Huntley.

(e) William Winter of Clapton-in-Gordano, Somerset = Mary Arthur, heiress of Arthur

> Edward Winter bur. Clapton Court chapel.

(f) Elizabeth Winter = on 6.10.1572 Ferdinando Joyce (Joce).

(g) Bridget Winter = George Wirrall mentioned in her grandfather Henry Brayne's Will.

(h) Margaret Winter = Thomas Weekes or Wyks.

(i) Anne Wkinter = George Price.

(j) Elinor Winter mentioned in the Will of her grandfather Henry Brayne.

(k) John Winter (d.1581), vice admiral to Drake, mentioned in his grandfather Henry

Brayne's Will He brought back "Winter's Bark" [Cortex Winteranus] from the Magellan

Straits, commanded "Elizabeth" which turned back instead of circumnavigating the

world. He was accused of piracy and embarassed his family by his freebooting

exploits. The lands he inherited were left in trust "till he should have cleared himself

of the charge of piracy" = Mary, d. of William Brounker, Brunker or Brunkard, knight

of Wiltshire >:

A. Cirill Winter (b. 30.8.1604, bapt. 8.9.1604).

B. Elizabeth Winter (b. 11.1.1605, bapt. 26.1.1605).

C. Susan Winter (bur. 22.7.1606).

D. Benedict Winter (b. 31.10.1597, bapt. 6.11.1597).

E. Henry Winter (b. 24.1.1660. bapt. 2.6.2.1660).

F. Grace Winter (bur. 2.1.7.1611).

G. Mary Winter (bapt. 6.8.1594) = Robert Hodges.

H. William Winter (b. 27.10.1599, bapt. 28.10.1599).

I. O'Bryan Winter (b.6.12.1601, bur. 26.1.1665).

J. Anne Winter = Sir John Egerton of Farthinghoe in 1670 (Visit. Northants).

K. George Winter (b. 7.4.1594 at Stoke), succeeded father in 1581, buried

15.2.1639 aged 45 = (1) Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Nowell of Dorset = (2) Mary, d.

of Edward Rogers of Cannington, Somerset, widow of Sir John Harrington of

Kelston (d. 1613). She brought the Porlock estate in her dowry.

By (1) >: Elizabeth Winter (b. 15.11.1610, bapt. 11.11.1619).

By (2) >:

(1) George Winter (b. 22.1.1626).

(2) Mary Winter (b. 11.5.1629, bapt .19.8.1629).

(3) Edward Winter (b. 6.7.1635, bapt 12.7.1635).

(4) Catherine Winter (b. 1.5.1624, bapt 10.5.1624).

(5) John Winter (b. 22.12.1622 at Cannington, d. 5.11.1688 bur.

12.11.1688) = Frances, d. of Thomas Gerard of Trent, Somerset (d.

27.11.1691). Her sister was wife of Colonel Francis Wyndham, Cavalier

governor of Dunster Castle during the Civil War. John Winter put up

Colonel Wilmot when he was helping Charles II to escape >:

1. John Winter (b. 27.8.1654, d. 6.2.1685 aged 31).

2. George Winter (b. 16.12.1652, d. 17.11.1671 aged 20).

3. Edward Winter (b. 21..4.1663, d. 1.4.1667 aged 4 years).

4. Anne Winter (d. 1.2.1684).

5. Mary Winter (b. 20.3.1650, d. 2.12.1691), sole heiress = on 23.12.1685 at

Lydney, William Blathwayt (d. 1717) of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London.

Dyrham Wills:

George Winter of Dyrham, dated 1581 [22 TIRWHITE]

John Winter of Dyrham, dated 1619 [109 PARKER]

John Winter of Dyrham, dated 1621 with sentence [12 DALE]

Anne Winter, spinster, of Dyrham [51] (also mentioned in Will of Elizabeth Griffin of St. Sepulchres, London [132 HENE 1668] 1680 [61])

Manor of Oare, Wilcot, Swanborough Hundred, Wiltshire was held by Thomas Rogers (d. circa 1479) when it passed to his son William Rogers, then to his son Sir Edward Rogers whose son George Rogers married Jane Winter. (Victoria County History of Wiltshire).

Henry Rogers of Porlock directed that all moneys found in the house at his death should be used for rebuilding a church in London and founding a charity for the poor of Withall, Stert and Saltry in Cannington. Mr John Winter took £1,600 and other various sums. A Chancery suit followed and it was ordered that the money should be returned to Henry Roger’s niece to be used as directed in the Will. St. Mary’s Aldemary was rebuilt in this way. John Winter was Henry Roger’s nephew as Henry’s sister married Sir George Winter of Dyrham as his second wife. This John Winter it was who lived at Dyrham and it was here that Lord Wilmot who accompanied Charles II in his flight after the battle of Worcester stayed while the king was at Abbots Leigh. Mr Winter’s servant Rogers, acted as guide. Mr Winter was brother-in-law to Colonel Wyndham of Trent whither the King repaired from Abbots Leigh (Major J. Ryland’s information).

John Wynter (c.1577), admiral to Francis Drake on the voyage of circumnavigation of the world, captain of the ship “Aid” when the West Indies was raided, was known to be a pirates so was Christopher Winter (c.1716) who was in New Providence, Bahamas when Woodes Rogers became governor and accepted the king's pardon with many other pirates.

There were other Winter pirates. According to Captain Charles Johnson in his “History of the Robberies of the Most Notorious Pirates” John Gow, aka Smith alias Goffe (born in Thurso, Scotland) when aged 35 boarded the galley “George” (Captain Ferneau) intending to capture it later and subsequently shipped himself from Rotterdam in it. The crew were foully murdered by Gow’s confederates which included James, Robert & John Winter and a Read.

Capt Furneau got away but was gashed in his throat by James Winter's bloody knife but it missed his windpipe and he tried again to escape while they tried to throw him in the sea. Then Gow came up and shot him through the body. James Winter cut the throat of the ship’s surgeon Thomas Guy. Those whose throats were cut did not die immediately but crawled on the decks and were finished off with pistols by a Weshman named James Williams and all the bodies were thrown overboard.

Gow’s confederates were all put in the Marshalsea prison after the captured ship was recovered and on 26^th May, 1725 Gow, Robert Winter, Robert Read etc were sentenced to death but Winter was acquitted.

John Gow was hanged at Wapping in June 1725, along with William Melvin of Scotland and Robert Teague. Two attempts had to made to hang Gow. (Family Tree Magazine, March 1999 page 54: The West Indies: Unsettled settlers: Pirate and Bucaneers - John Titford).

The Thames was so plagued by pirates at the end of the 1300s that protective chains and barriers were had to be placed across inlets at Wapping, near Stepney. According to John Stow in his “Survey of London” pirates were hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping (where Tunnel Pier now stands). The gallows was on the riverbank and after hanging, bodies were attached by chains to a stake at low water mark and left there until three high tides covered them. They were then covered in pitch, hanged on gibbets on the Isle of Dogs and left to rot. Some were transferred from Wapping to Bugsby's Reach and hanged there instead.

Stow wrote:

p.375. From this precinct of St. Katherine (by the Tower) toi Wapping in the west, the usual place of execution or hanging of pirates and sea rovers, at the low-water mark, and there to remain till 3 tides had over flowed them, was never a house standing within these forty years; but since the gallows being after removed farther off, a continual street or filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors’ victuallers, along by the river of Thamnes, almost to Ratcliff, a good mile from the Tower.”

In 1557 "the vi day of Aprell was hangyd at the low-water marke at Wapyng beyond St Katheryn's vii men for robbing on the see".

Execution Dock was used for the last time in 1816 [Old Stepney Home Page].

The Wirrall, Wyrall or Worrall family (a member of whom Jenkyn Wyrall was a Forester of the Fee in the Forest of Dean) held Bicknor Court known as Brooces from William Braiose (1330-40). In 1552 it was awarded to William Wirrall or Wyrall who had a life interest. He claimed to have bought it from his brother-in-law Thomas Ashurst (fl. 1508) whose brother Philip Ashurst sold it to John Copinger who took possession after Wyrall's death (1534) but his grandson William Wyrall retained the estate in 1549. He was succeeded by his son William whose son George Wyrall or Wirrall married Bridget Winter (bur. 1.4.1635).

Fig. 128 - Egerton of Farthinghoe (Visitation of Northamptonshire 1681).

Sir John Egerton of Farthinghoe, Co. Northants, Baronet, apud Wrinehill, Co. Staffs = Anne, d. of George Winter of Derham, Glos. Esq. >:

(a) Sir John Egerton of Wrinehill, Baronet of Farthinghoe umarried 1681 aetat 23 ann.

chris. 2.10.1657

(b) Anne Egerton = John Gardner, son of John Gardner of Croughton.

(d) Margaret Egerton = Windsor Finch of Rustock, Wigan.

Sir John Egerton (d. 1686), 2nd earl of Bridgewater was a member of Charles II's Committee of the Council.

George Winter (whose tomb is in the south isle of Dyrham church) married Anne, daughter of Henry Brayne, sister and co-heiress of Robert Brayne of Bristol. Richard Brayne of St. James, Bristol, merchant of London, granted the Priory of St. James by Henry VIII after the Dissolution. Henry Brayne of St. James, Bristol in his Will dated 23.8.1558 proved 28.4.1567 mentioned "my daughter Anne, wife of George Winter, gent and their children John, Elinor and Bridget."

After the Dissolution of the Priory of St. James (1554), the Court of Piepowder attached to St. James's fair was vested in Sir George Winter and two aldermen. It was held alternatively for the Corporation and for the successors of Henry Brayne (Bristol Archives p.50). Actions for the Court of St. James Fair or Whitsun Court as it was called were took place from 1627-1695. The Court of Piepowder ("pie poudre" or dusty feet) was an ancient court held at fair and markets to administer justice in a rough-and-ready way for all wayfarers and itinerants.

On 4.7.1620 James I granted George Winter the right to impark and stock Dyrham, Hinton-St. James and Barton Regis.

On George's death, his brother Sir William Winter of Lydney, was left trustee for the heirs John, William and Benedict. John inherited Dyrham and married Mary Brunker, Brounker or Bruen, daughter of Sir William Brounker of Athelhampton, Dorset. Benedict was killed in the Orkneys during the Armada battle.

The following inquisition post mortem refers to the family of Winter of Dyrham::

Inquisition taken at Sodbury, Co. Gloucester, 9th August 24th Elizabeth (1582) after the death of George Winter.

The jurors say that the said George was seised in his demesne in right of his wife Anne, sister and one of the heirs of Robert Brayne, Esq., deceased, of a moiety of the manor of Staunton, Co. Gloucester, dependent upon the death of Goodwith Seymour, wife of John Seymour Esq., deceased and also of the moiety of the reversion of the advowson of the church of Staunton and of other lands and manor and that the said George levied a fine whereby the said manors and lands were settled upon the said George and Anne and the heirs male of their bodies and the jurors further say that the said George being thus seised of the said manors &c in fee tail by his charter dated 1st October 21st Elizabeth (1579) granted the said manors &c to William Winter, knight and others in trust, stating that in consideration of the love and affection which he, the said George, bears to William Winter and Benedict Winter his son &c, he grants the said lands &c to the said trustees to the use of his said sons. The Will of the said George Winter is set out, in which he names his second son William Winter, John Winter his eldest son and Benedict Winter his third son. And the jurors say the said George Winter died 29th November 24th Elizabeth (1581) and that John Winter is the son and nearest heir of the said George and was aged 26 years on the 1st May last past.

George was buried on 12.1.2 1581 and Anne on 1.4.1594. They had many children who are all shown on his tomb in the chapel of Dyrham Park.

The Will of Benedict Winter, City of Bristol, gent dated 14.2.1592 mentioned "my brother William (of Clapton-in-Gordano, Somerset), my sister Mary, wife of Anselm Huntley, my sister Anne, wife of George Price and my servant Robert More". (Notes on Bristol Wills, p.276 in Council House, Bristol - Wardley 1886).

Inquisition postmortem 24th Elizabeth Part 2, No. 79 - Inquisitions taken at Thornbury Co. Gloucester 5th January 18th James (1621) after the death of John Winter.

The jurors say that on the October 15th James (1618-9), the said John was seised in his demesne as of fee tail of the moiety of the manor of Staunton &c as described in the last abstracted Inquistion and being so seised, by his Will dated the said 24th day of October 1617 gave to his second son John Winter the Lodge and Park of Derham, names also his daughter Mary, wife of Robert Hodges, his sons Henry, Benedict and Cirill Winter, his daughter Elizabeth Winter and his eldest son George Winter whom he makes executor. And the jurors say the said John Winter is son and heir of the said John and is aged 27 years and more.

Inquisition post-mortem taken at Thornbury 5.8.1639 of Sir George Winter II of Dyrham (1594-1638), knight, who died 21.2.1639 lists many holdings in land and rent. John Winter Esq., was his son and next heir, then aged 16 years, 1 month and 24 days. Lady Mary (née Rogers) survived him (Gloucester Inquisitions post mortem 1625-1636 p. 109).

Henry Rogers of Porlock directed in his Will that all moneys found in his house when he died be used for rebuilding a church London and founding a charity for the poor of Withall, Stert and Saltry in Cannington. Henry Rogers's sister married Sir George Winter of Dyrham as his second wife and his nephew John Winter took £1,800 and other sums. A Chancery suit followed during which it was decreed the money be refunded to Henry Rogers's niece to be used as directed in the Will and St. Mary's Aldermary was rebuilt with it. John Winter inherited Dyrham where Lord Wilmot (who accompanied Charles II in his flight after the battle of Worcester) stayed while the king was at Abbots Leigh, John Winter's servant Rogers, acting as his guide. John was brother-in-law of Colonel Frank Wyndham of Trent where the King went from Abbots Leigh.

The family of Rogers of Cannington may have had some connection with Thomas Rogiers or Rogers, Clerk of the Kings Ships appointed about 1482, who held this post during the reigns of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III. Samuel Pepys (Miscellaneous MS, p.87) mentions an order dated 18.5.1482 (22nd Edward IV) to the Treasurer and Chamberlain of the Exchequer to examine and clear the accounts of "our well-beloved Thomas Roger Esq., Clerk of our Ships". The Harleian MS 433 (which belonged to Lord Burghley) is a register of grants etc passing the Privy Seal etc. during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III. No. 1690 is the appointment of "Thomas Rogiers to be Clerc of all maner shippes to the king belonging."

This family was descended from the Winters of Cornwall.

Fig. 129 - Rogers of Cannington & Winter of Somerset

Edward Winter of Trebarwith & Redruth (d. 2.2.1549-50 Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary 4th and 5th Phliip & Mary), Cornwall (Inq. p.m.part I No.91, 1557/8 proved 8.9.1619 109 PARKER) > Jane Winter = George Rogers of Porlock, Somerset > Edward Rogers of Porlock and Cannington, Somerset (d. 1627) = Katherine (d. c. 1637), d. of Sir John Popham (1533-1607), Lord Chief Justice of England (tomb in Wellington parish church) by his wife Amy Games, d. of Robert Games of Castleton, Co. Glamorgan > Mary Rogers = (1) Sir John Harrington (1561-1622) as his 2nd wife. She = (2) Sir George Winter of Dyrham, Glos. (1593-1638) whose 1^st wife was Elizabeth Knowell (1612).

Sir John Harrington (b. 1561, d. 20.11.1612) of Kelveston, knight, High Sheriff (1591) = Mary, d. of George Rogers of Cannington (descended from Edmund Winter of Trebarwith, Cornwall = (2) George Winter of Dyrham) by (1) >:

(a) James Harrington obsp.

(b) George Harrington = Mary, d. of Thomas Coombe of London > Edward Harrington

= Dionis Ley > John Harrington (bur.16.4.1700), MP Somerset = Alice Coward >:

1. John Harrington aged 3 in 1672.

2. Amy Harrington.

3. Phoebe Harrington.

4. Alice Harrington

George Rogers of Cannington's Will dated 18.1.1637/38, proved 5.5.1638 mentioned "my sister Lady Jane Hele, Mrs Anne Hyde and Lady Mary Winter" (2nd wife of Sir George Winter of Dyrham).

Sir John Hele of Wembury, Devon, knight in his Will dated 16.10.1643, proved 17.12.1648 mentions "my aunts Lady Mary Winter and Mrs Anne Hyde."

Sir John Popham, Chief Justice and Recorder of Bristol, Bacon and John Langton backed a project to colonise Newfoundland in 1610 and the Merchant Venturers of Bristol received a patent for this purpose. Stowe said of the Pophams in his "Survey of London":

"Ward of Faringdon Extra or Without - Now to return through Giltspur Street by Newgate there standeth the fair parish church called St. Sepulchers in the Bayly or by Chamberlain Gate, in a fair churchyard, although not so large as of old time, for the same is letten out for buildings and a garden-plot.

This church was newly re-edified or built about the reign of Henry VI or of Edward IV. One of the Pophames was a great builder there, namely, of one fair chapel on the south side of the choir, as appeareth by his arms and other monuments in the glass windows thereof, and also the fair porch of the same church towards the south; his image, fair graven in stone, was fixed over the said porch, but defaced and beaten down; his title by offices was this Chancellor of Normandy, Captain of Vernoyle (Verneuil), Pearch, (Perche), Susan (Soissons) and Bayon (Bayonne) and Treasurer of the King's Household; he died rich, leaving great treasure of strange coins, and was buried in the Charterhouse Church by West Smithfield. The first nobilitating of these Pophames was by Matilda the Empress, daughter of Henry I and by Henry her son; one Pophame, gentleman, of very fair lands in Southamptonshire, died without issue male, about Henry VI and leaving four daughters, they were married to Fostar, Barentine, Wodham and Hamden. Popham Deane (distant three miles from Clarendon and three miles from Mortisham) was sometime the chief lordship or manor-house of these Pophames.

White Friars church - In the old choir were buried Sir Stephem Popham, knight, Alice Fostar one of the heirs of Sir Stephen Popham."

George Winter's son William married Mary Arthur of Clapton Court, Clapton-in-Gordano, Somerset. Her father Edward Arthur married Mary, daughter of Erasmus Pymm of Brymore, Somerset and had several children but only Mary survived to become sole heiress and inherited the manor of Clapton-in-Gordano ("History of Somerset -Clapton-in-Gordano", Vol. III, p.178 - Rev. John Collinson).

Fig. 130 - Arthur & Winter of Clapton-in-Gordano

Sir Roger Perceval (1287) > John Perceval = Millicent de Seymour (1329) > Walter Perceval, knighted at Crecy aged 19 .> Ralph de Perceval given manor of Clapton by earl of Gloucester, also held land in West Somerset of de Mohuns of Dunster Castle = Elizabeth de Wyke > son = Agnes, d. of Sir Richard Arthur > Arthur de Clapton (24 Henry I) > Nigel fitzArthur temp King Stephen took name of Arthur "gules a chevron argent between clarions or" > Sir William Arthur temp Edward II, Constable of Bristol > Sir Richard Arthur temp Henry VI > Edward Arthur of Clapton (1595) = Mary, d. of Erasmus Pym of Brymore > Mary Pym Arthur (d. 17.2.1632), d. & heiress = William Winter I (d. 21.4.1632) of Dyrham (brother of John and 2^nd son of George Winter d. 29.1.1581 by his wife Anne, d. and co-heiress of Richard Brayne of St. James, Bristol, merchant of London, granted the Priory of St. James by Henry VIII after the Dissolution) >:

(a) Bridget Winter.

(b) Arthur Winter.

(c Jane Winter (bapt. 2.4.1604, bur. 20.5.1604, Clapton Register).

(d) Jane Winter = Edward Knowell or Knoyle

(e) Henry Winter = Mary Knoyles (bapt.1627) of Sandford Orcas on 28.9.1634 >:

1. Henry Winter.

2. George Winter.

(f) Charles Winter (b. 21.1.1598, bapt. 1.2.1595).

(g) Anne Winter (bapt. 23.12.1599, Clapton Register).

(h) Elizabeth Winter * (bapt. 17.9.1605, Clapton Register) = George Ivy >:

1. Eleanor Ivy.

2. William Ivy.

(i) Arthur Winter of Tiverton (bur. 4.11.1641) Will dated 28.10.1641 proved 17.2.1641/2

(j) Mary Winter = (1) Derek Popley? = (2) Johnson (Will 1644)

(k) William II Winter bapt.23.8.1607 (Clapton Register) = Bridget Halswell >:

1. Grace Winter = Edward, son of Samuel Gorges.

2. Henry Winter (bapt. 1636 Clapton Register) d. 1685 Will dated 10.7.1685)

= Katherine Southcott, d. of Sir Popham Southcott. Henry sold his estate to

pay his debts. >:

A. Edmund Winter (d. 25.11.1672,Healey's "History of Somerset" &

inscription in church).

B: William III Winter (bapt. 5.5.1663, bur. 12.6.1663, Clapton Register).

C. Arthur Winter.

D. Catherine Winter (bapt. 22.2.1660, Clapton Register)

E. Katherine Winter (bapt. 20.6.1661,Clapton Register).

F. Henry Winter (d. 3/4.7.166-, Clapton Register & G. John Healey's "History of

Somerset").

Anthony Prater (b. c. 1545, Latton Manor, Wilts., d. August 1593. Stanton, Wilts) = (1) c. 1566 Judith Ivye (d. 5.2.1578 or 1579, bur. West Kington Church, Wilts. near grandparents), d. of Thomas Ivye and his 2^nd wife, Elizabeth Mallett of West Kington, Wilts). Anthony = (2) * Elizabeth Winter, d. of George Wynter and widow of Ferdinando Ivye.

Clapton Wills: William Winter II dated 1654, Clapton, Somerset [492]

A descendant of this family John Winter of Bishops Lydeard (1706) > Thomas Winter (d. before 1719) = Agnes > John Winter of Bishop's Lydeard Esq (1693-1762) PCC WIll proved = Joan Galhampton of Ash Prior (12 children) >:

A. Mary = James Winter Hanne.

B. Charles Winter, eldest son (1724-1736) = 1755 at Bishop's Lydeard = Dorothy

Yea (bur. 1813) at Wiveliscombe, sister of Sir William Yea (1727-1806), High

Sheriff of Somerset (4 sons, none with issue).

C. Robert Winter (1802) = Sarah Glisson > Major John Arundell Winter (1857-1914)

Will proved = Rosa Norman (1934 Will proved) > Mary Winter = Mr Lennard

-Payne > Mr. Patrick C. Lennard-Payne, ARICS, High House, Stoney Stratton,

Creech, Somerset.

Mr Lennard-Payne's mother Mary Winter's family spread in Argentina, California, Malaya and South Africa. One brother was torpedoed and died in the last morning of the 1914 War, a sister was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1916, one was a nurse in Johannesburg, a son married a Boer lady and had 3 children, one of whom was Llywelyan Winter who married another Boer lady. Mr Payne's father, a planter in Borneo died after being imprisoned by the Japanese. Gerald Winter of Capetown and Llywelyan Winter in South Africa probably Johannesburg were members of this family.

Gorges of Wraxall: Samuel Gorges = Jane Cotterell > Edward Gorges (aet. 1672 bur. 1708) = Grace Winter of Clapton >:

(a) Samuel Gorges (d. 2.1699)

(b) Dorothea Gorges (d. 1693).

Edward Gorges of Wraxall (1630-1708), MP Somerset (1688) = Grace, d. of William Winter of Clapton-in-Gordano > Samuel Gorges of Wraxall, Nailsea and Bourton (1657-1693), student IT (1677) educated Trinity College, Oxford > Elizabeth Gorges (1686-1741) heiress of father and grandfather = Colonel John Codrington, MP for Bath > Jane Codrington, heiresss = Sir RIchard Warwick Bampfylde, 4th baronet (1742) who sold manors of Wraxall, Nailsea, Tikenham, Wraxall Court and others in 1792. The male line devolved on Ferdinando Gorges of Ashley (1663-1738) whose two sons Richard and Ferdinando died young when it devolved on Richard Gorges MP (b.c. 1708) of Kilbrew and Ballygawley, Co.Tyrone, Ireland.

Winter of Sherborne, Dorset and Watts House, Bishop's Lydeard Somerset (1865) were of the same origin. ("Grantees of Arms 1687-1892" - Joseph Foster)

In 1616 the Bristol Corporation purchased for £200 the chief and capital messuage and mansion house in Portishead with the adjoining cottage and about 100 acres of land from William and Mary Winter (née Arthur) and in 1637 the manor of North Weston for £1,409.

Mary Winter (née Arthur) was buried on 20.2.1623 and William Winter I on 23.4.1632. On the north wall of Clapton church is a small monument with the inscription "Here lyeth the body of William Winter Esq., who departed this life the 21st day of Aprill AD 1632. Also Mary his wife, daughter and heire unto Edward Arthur Esq., who departed this life the 17th day of Februarie Anno Domini 1632, whose issue were three sons and four daughters." The arms are Winter impaled with "gules, a chevron argent between 3 clarions or" (Arthur).

In his Will dated 26.2.1631 proved 22.6.1632 (69 Audely) William Winter I requested "to be buried at Clapton" and mentions "my late mother-in-law Mary Weekes (Mary Pym must have married a second time), William Winter, my son and heir, Mary Winter my wife, my youngest son Arthur Winter, my daughter Bridget, my daughter Jane."

William Winter I's eldest son William II was recorded as living in 1636, his sister Jane Winter married Edward Knoyle (Knowell) on 28.9.1634.

In his Will dated 28.10.1641 proved 17.2.1641/2, William II's brother Arthur Winter of Tiverton (buried 4.11.1641) asked "to be buried at Clapton near my father" and bequeathed to "my sister Knowell £50; my sister Ivy's two children William and Elianor, my aunt Frances; my cousin Dorothy Cheeke; my brother William Winter of Clapton (executor); my cousin Henry Cheeke of West Monkton near Taunton (overseer)".

Fig. 131 - Ivy of West Kingston, Wiltshire, Hyde of Westhatch, Wiltshire, Arthur & Winter of Clapton in Gordano, Somerset (Brass memorial in Bath Abbey).

Sir George Ivy of West Kingston, Wiltshire, knight (d. 1639) = Susanna, youngest d. of Lawrence Hyde of Westhatch, Wiltshire & sister of Sir Nicholas Hyde, knight, Chief Justice of the King's Bench (uncle of Edward Hyde, father of Queen Anne) > George Ivy, a clerk = Elizabeth, d. of William Winter of Clapton-in-Gordano, Somerset by his wife Mary Arthur .

Bridget (née Halswell), widow of William Winter II, was buried on 7.2.1640. In his Will dated 1644 William Winter II (d. 1649 in prison) mentioned "My sister Jane Knowell, my mother-in-law Mrs Grace Halswell, my uncle Hugh Halswell, clerk, my daughter Grace and my son and heir Henry; my sister Mrs Mary Johnson, my nephew William Ivie amd my niece Eleanor Ivie. Samuel Gorges of Wraxall shall be my overseer".

In 1645 William Winter II, a Cavalier was taken prisoner by the Roundhead Parliament and died in prison in 1649, leaving 2 children Henry and Grace, later wife of Edward (d. 1671 aged 40, wall memorial Wraxall Church, Somerset), son of Samuel Gorges of Charlton in 1653. Henry and Grace were placed under the guardianship of his brother-in-law Hugh Halswell of Cheriton, Hampshire, clerk (1672) and Samuel Gorges of Charlton. Halswell mentioned his nephew Henry Winter in his Will.

£160 was paid to Parliament in 1649 and a further £189 in 1652 to release the Clapton estate from sequestration. William Winter II contended he had never taken up arms during the Civil War but he was suspected of having Royalist sympathies due presumably to his relationship to the Royalist Sir John Winter of Lydney and Henry Winter, another Royalist and the marriage of his sister to George Ivy. Ivy's mother Susanna was the youngest daughter of Sir Lawrence Hyde, uncle of Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon whose daughter Anne married James II as his first wife - they were parents of Queens Mary and Anne.

There is a brass memorial at Bath Abbey, Somerset to Sir George Ivy of West Kington, Wiltshire, knight of 1639 in armour and his wife Susanna, youngest daughter of Sir Lawrence Hyde of Westhatch, Wiltshire Esq., and sister of Sir Nicholas Hyde, knight, late Chief Justice of the King's Bench with 4 sons. Thomas married Lettes, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Martin Colpepper of Oxon, knight, Palmer in armour "slain in ye Venetian warrs in ye Ile of Corffue", George, clerk married, Elizabeth, daughter of William Winter of Somerset Esq., Robert in armour "died in ye Netherlands at ye siege of Bredah" (fort in Brabant on Holland/Belgian border involved in the wars 1665-16676 with the Dutch and their French allies during the reign of Charles II) and daughter, Elizabeth, deceased married Richard Eastcourt of Somerford, Wiltshire gent, Avice married Foulke Hungerford of the Leah, Wiltshire, gent, Barbara married Thomas Wail of Gerimboye, Limerick, gent, all kneeling with a rectangular plaque with inscription and shields on the wall.

Sir Lawrence Hyde (1562-1642), admitted to the Temple in 1580, became Recorder of Bristol (1604-15), was knighted in 1614, becoming Attorney to Queen Anne. He was succeeded by his brother Nicholas, Lord Chief Justice as Recorder of Bristol. Lawrence Hyde opened the case against Weston in the Overbury trial. His nephew Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, was father of Anne Hyde (mistress and then wife of James Stuart, Duke of York later James II) and grandfather of the Queens Mary and Anne. Edward Hyde, a Roundhead who defected to the Royalists, created earl of Clarendon by Charles II, was twice impeached of high treason (10.7.1663 by Lord Digby & 11.11.1667), divested of his office and went into exile in France (3.12.1667).

Fig. 132 - Hyde of Westhatch

Lawrence Hyde of Westhatch, Wiltshire >:

(a) Sir Lawrence Hyde

(b) Susanna Hyde = Sir George Ivie > George Ivie = Elizabeth Winter

(1) Lawrence Hyde, earl of Rochester

(2) Anne Hyde Lady in Waiting to Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange = James Stuart,

Duke of York (James II) as his 1^st wife>:

A. Queen Anne (obsp) = Prince George of Denmark

B. Queen Mary (obsp) = her cousin William II of Orange

Henry (bapt. 27.9.1636, d. 1685), son of William Winter III and his wife Bridget succeeded his father. He married Catherine, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Popham Southcott, knight of Mohun's Ottery, Devon by his wife Margaret Berkeley, sister of the old Lord Fitzharding.

The Land Register for Moulton, Devonshire mentions Henry Winter of Clapton in 1670. He paid hearth tax in 1674.

Catherine Southcott's memorial at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster reads "Catherine, wife of Henry Winter Esq., of Clapton, Somerset, eldest daughter and one of the co-heirs of Sir Popham Southcote of Mohuns Ottery, Co. Devon, knight; by Margaret Berkeley., sister of the old Lord Fitzhardinge who died --- in dutiful memory of this beloved mother, one of her sons has caused this stone to be erected" ("The Genealogist" Vol. 6. P.382).

In the north aisle of the church of St. Michael, Clapton-in-Gordano, there is a stone monument with effigies of a man in armour and a lady in black close-bodied vest, both kneeling and between them a child seated in a chair and holding a small skull in his lap with his right hands. On the base there is an inscription "Here lyeth the body of Edmund, sonne of Henry Winter Esq., who departed this life November 25th, Anno Domini 1672."

The Will of William Southcote of Monkton, Devon mentioned Katherine Southcott, wife of Henry Winter of Clapton. (Arthur Healey's "History of Somerset").

In his Will dated 10.7.1685 Henry Winter, eldest son, assigned the manors of Clapton-in-Gordano and Weston-super-Mare to Sir John Smyth, baronet and others to be sold to pay his debts.

Naish House, a farm and part of the estate (including Dunhills in Cunnygree and Quarres) was sold in 1687 for £2,450 to Mistresses Anne and Mary Kemeys, daughters of Sir Charles Kemeys (d. 1658) baronet of Cefn Mablys, Glamorgan. They both died in 1708 and Mary left her share to her sister Anne who, left £100 pounds to the Rev. Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells in her Will. Their brother Sir Charles Kemeys died in 1702 and his son Sir Charles, 4th baronet, having died unmarried in 1735, left the property to his sister Anne who married Sir John Tynte, baronet in Clapton church in 1704 so the property passed to the Tynte family.

There is a connection between Tyntes and the Halswells as Edward Tynte of Chelvey near Wraxall, Somerset married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Gorges and their son John Tynte, a Royalist General, married Jane, fourth daughter of Hugh Halswell of Cheriton as his second wife. Their son, Sir Hugh Halswell of the Tynte, inherited the Halswell estate at Goathurst near Bridgwater, where the local inn is called the Tynte Arms.

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