291 Sir Gervase Clifton (1587/81666) was born the year his father died of consumption. HMC Middleton, 157; Mi, C 17. William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke, bought the Abbey from the Crown after it was seized in 1552 owing to Thomas Arundell's attainder. Mi, A 32, fo. 411 Percival began a Common Law suit in the wake of Sir Francis's death, suing for recovery of Wollaton, Cossall, Trowell, Kingsbury and Middleton. 204205). In 1586 the Privy Council granted permission to Payne to continue his operation. When James VI came to England, Markham was soon involved in the Bye Plot [Watson's Conspiracy] to raise Arabella Stuart to the throne. 59 William, Lord Paget (d.1563), was keeper of the seal and a close adviser to Queen Mary. On Wyatt's Rebellion, see below, Text n. 39. Mi, A 32, fo. See Nottinghamshire History, http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/briscoe1905/thurlandhall1.htm (accessed 31 Mar. 430 Leasing, e.g. 132 The lord keeper was the custodian of the Great Seal and after his status was fixed by the Lord Keeper Act of 1562, he also functioned as lord chancellor. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. (ed. See Pedigree of Willoughby, in Frederick Arthur Crisp (ed. Also, an increased population resulted in a decline in real national income and per capita income, which plummeted. Henry Hasting's mother was Dorothy Port. As the ensuing letters attest, Margaret accompanied Frances to court to attend Queen Mary; there were great expectations of Margaret's preferment at court. See Friedman, Alice, Portrait of a marriage: The Willoughby letters of 15851586, Signs 11 (1986), 549555CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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The first half of the year 1556 coincides with the time when Henry Dudley was trying to organize a French-supported invasion of soldiers, English exiles, and malcontents with the aim of placing Elizabeth on the throne. Henry Grey alienated the property to his younger brothers Thomas and John Grey and his half-brother George Medley. 20 Henry Medley, son of George Medley, was born in 1533; Thomas Willoughby, heir to Henry Willoughby, was born c.1541. Fr. On the death of the marchioness in 1541, the lease went to her son, George Medley. See Orme, Nicholas, English Schools in the Middle Ages (London, 1973), 308Google Scholar. Story from Kath George, AKA Madame Parboiled Ink:https://madameparboiledink.weebly.com, Alex Bell, a third year Chemistry Student and member of Nottingham New Theatre:https://newtheatre.org.uk. It is likely that he spent part of his youth in the Willoughby household. In this letter Hatton expresses his gratitude and readiness to requite the favour. Another countess of Warwick was Anne Dudley (ne Russell), countess of Warwick (1548/99 Feb. 1604), lady-in-waiting and close friend of Queen Elizabeth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wollaton_Hall#/media/File: Back_of_Wollaton_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334270.jpg The exterior of the house was surrounded by a vast deer park, containing some 1200 deer. 317 Robert Spencer (15701627) of Northamptonshire was the son of Sir John Spencer and Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Catlin. Stevenson describes two inventories of the goods of Henry Willoughby, one in 1549 and the other in 1550. 47 Mary Wotton Guildford (c.15001558), second wife of Sir Henry Guildford (d.1532), comptroller of the royal household of Henry VIII. Stevenson has copied down the following extract from George Medley's account book Mi, A 31, fo. 489 With regard to Montague Wood, see Introduction, pp. Through the ages. p. 65. In the meantime he offers any Land to free himself, nor would he be unwilling to undergoe any course in some sort to ease his mind and heavie burthened estate, which he doubts will cost too dear before it be secured. STB 2 (2), Uncatalogued paper in Cassandra's writing dated Novemr 1596, fo. 15951597, p. 14, no. 40, pp. 1255269. 44 Mi, A 32, fo. 31, p. 59; HMC Middleton, 412. 454 There is a copy of a marriage settlement between Sir Francis and Thomas Markham from 15851586. Find Out More, Copyright 1998-2023 Project Weird. For many Middleton documents regarding woad cultivation and Robert Payne, see Mi, 5/165/95128. English: Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England.The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum, with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the out-buildings. 9v. Mi, 7/181/8 is a note of writings delivered by Francis Wyllughby to George Wyllughby relating to le Castell in 1568. Sir John Mitchell petitioned for a writ against Sir George Peckham for refusing to fulfil an award made by arbitrators appointed by the court of chancery as to payment for the manors of Shipley and the sale of Bilborough and Strelley. See Text n. 4 above. Mi, A57 fos 21v86v, cited in Cobbing and Priestland, Sir Thomas Stanhope, 74. 155 Cooke, W.G., Queen Elizabeth never slept here: Cassandra, Duchess of Chandos as an authority for royal progresses, REED [Records of Early English Drama] Newsletter, 14:1 (1989), 1820Google Scholar. 146 Although Cassandra generally follows a chronological progression in the Account and The Continuation of the History, in this section she reaches back to 1572 for some of her materials. For the will of Anthony Strelley, see a copy at Borthwick Institute, York, Prob. The first mention of Hall (Haull) is as servant to Edward Willoughby c.1528, see Mary A. Welch (ed. 26 Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey and Margaret Wotton, married Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley (Saffron Walden, Essex) in 1538. Various online genealogies give her death date as 1591, but given the circumstances, it is likely that she died prior to Elizabeth Willoughby's return to her husband in 1588. I would like to thank Amanda Herbert, at the Folger Library, for these references. HMC Middleton, 474485 and Mi, I 1/2 and Mi, I 5. See Mi, F 12/98 for a 19th-century annotation that she was buried 4 June 1595. Mi, 1/7/1 and Mi, 6/179/46; HMC Middleton, 150. 211 Cancell is an abbreviation for Cancellarius. 469 There is a slightly condensed version of this in Cassandra's earlier notes: There are a great many letters which shew, that this Lady must have been an extream severe Mother to all her Children, but especially to her fourth Daughter Winifrid, who I believe used to justifie her Sister Brigitt and Sr Percivall as much as she could, all the time Sr Francis and his Lady was so very angry w[i]th them, and this I believe might provoke Lady ^Willoughby^ to use her the worse in the time of this quarrel between Sr Francis and Sr Percivall (which you will find a relation of, in the account of Sr Percivall). "useRatesEcommerce": true Pollard in DNB, LIII, 367368. The child, however, was a daughter, Frances, born on 3 May 1597 and dying in infancy. Chester's 'My Haunted Hotel' Opens Its Doors To Hardcore Skeptics, Sian Eleri's New Docu-Series Finally Breaks The Stale Format Of Paranormal Shows, 'Celebrity Help! Account books for 15871588 show that two or three large gatherings of local gentry took place at the New Hall, including a lavish dinner for 120 people on 11 Nov. 1587. CPR 15531554, 1 Philip & Mary, vii, 194, licence to Hastings to alienate Prestwood to John Lyttleton of Frankley, with remainder to Gilbert Lyttleton, his son and heir. 26. Mi, 2/75/2/8/34. See below fo. In a 1597 appeal that Sir Percival sent to Lord Burghley, he wrote, For she, which was so unkynde a wyfe to so over loving a husbande, as having absolutely contryved and gotten to herself and her heires the greatest parte of his landes, coulde not afford his dead corps the leaste part of those rightes and obsequies which weare due to suche a man. Mi, F 10/32; HMC Middleton, 620. See Thoresby, Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, II, 215217. Or Percivall's uncle Henry Willoughby (15401606)? 251 Cassandra finished this thought following liked: but tis only to be guessed at, for none of the letters shew the cause of that uneasieness which Sir Percival Willoughbys letters make appear there was between them, his letters shew that he passionatley loved her, and that discontent from her carriage to him had made his resolve to travell. 163, p. 205 below. 41 Frances Grey, ne Brandon (15171559) see Text n. 22 above married Henry Grey in the spring of 1533. Therefore, George Medley was the half-brother of Anne Grey and uncle to Thomas, Margaret, and Francis. 322 William Willoughby of Normanton and Nuneaton, who, however, wrote his will only a few months later on 3 Oct. 1587 and died that year. Molyns served in Parliament, representing Wallingford in 1589; he was also a warden of the Fleet prison. One of the earliest mentions of a visit to St Anne's Chapel (and presumably the waters) at Buxton is in HMC Middleton, 367, for Sept. 1524. Again, her copying of the sum is accurate. 123 Aspley Hall in the city of Nottingham. 428 The wedding should have taken place between Apr. At one point he held the wardship of Sir Francis Willoughby (see Introduction, p. 32). Wollaton Hall - Wikiwand HMC Middleton, 152155, 542, 560. (d.1553) and his wife Dorothy Spencer. For Bacon, who was lord keeper from 15581579, see Tittler, Robert, Nicholas Bacon: The Making of a Tudor Statesman (Athens, OH, 1976)Google Scholar. Feature Flags: { Lord Dudley seized the property in 1590 with a force of 120 men and a lengthy lawsuit ensued that was decided, ultimately, in favour of the Lyttletons. Later in volume 2, Cassandra summarizes Percival Willoughby's problems: He was himself cumbered with a great deal of business occasion'd by the very great debt which Sir Francis Willoughby left the Estate charged with, and the troublesome law sutes which he was engaged in by Sir Francises Widow [] By the account books which remain in the Family one may believe that Sir Percivall and his Lady were both very good managers, and that the losses which they sustaind were more owing to their being oppressed, with too much business then to their want of care. Chandos, The Continuation of the History, 6566; Mi, LM 27, fo. 259 This Francis Conrados had great expectations from his masters kindness for him; and when Sir Percivall had turned him away, without doing any thing for him, this villain was so base, as to resolve he would be revenged of his Master. Additional materials relating to this suit are in Mi, 2/75/3/49. Stevenson, W.H. 15491562). 64 Mi, A 31, fos 29v; HMC Middleton, 397398. Levin, , The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (Philadelphia, PA, 1994), 141142Google Scholar, 205 n. 45. 282 It is perhaps relevant that, in a 1585 inventory of the old hall at Wollaton, one of the rooms is allocated to Lady Arundell. See Cross, The Puritan Earl, 54. He surrendered his aldermanic position in 1596. See a general overview by Sim, Alison, Masters and Servants in Tudor England (Stroud, 2006)Google Scholar. 1579 after the death of Nicholas Bacon. See Introduction n. 118. 280 This letter was copied by Cassandra into this Account, in part, from BL, Lansdowne MS 46 no. 230 Thomas Arundell married Mary Wriothesley, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Southampton, in 1585. 27 November 2018. 288 Mi, A 69/12, fos 10v12v, dating from 15 July to 29 July 1587. 252 See Curry, Patrick, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England (Princeton, NJ, 1989)Google Scholar. 149, p. 189). Apparently Wollaton went without a rector for some years in the 1590s. Blagg, T.M. Late Latin buttis or barrel. If Paine failed to show up, their Lordships doe promise to graunt to Sir Frauncis Willughbie their warrant for the apprehencion of the said Paine, where soever he maie be remaininge within any parte of her Majesty's dominions. History - Wollaton Hall 420 On this Henry Willoughby, see Text n. 177 above. Kinney and Lawson list Francis Willoughby as having being made knight at Middleton on 27 July 1575. 344 Wolvey Grange, Warks., where Nuneaton House was located. 328 Reaney, P.H. The Willoughbys were the descendants of one Ralph Bugge, a wealthy merchant in Nottingham 1 who, having made a fortune, retired . His landed estates in Wiltshire and Wales made him one of the most powerful men in England. 187 The Lyttleton manor farm of Prestwood had been purchased 12 Feb. 1554 from Sir Edward Hastings, master of the queen's horse; it had originally been part of the duke of Northumberland's (or Dudley) estates but was not included in the restoration of those estates to the 4th Lord Dudley. 2. He succeeded his father in 1643, but never lived at Wollaton Hall, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1642. Francis was Cassandra's grandfather. The court of requests documents are catalogued by bundles in the National Archives. C.J. 141, p. 181), but she appears to be the step-granddaughter of George Willoughby and the daughter of Richard Repington. 86 George Medley died in 1562/3; his will was proved 3 Feb. 1563. 472 Richard was the oldest son of George Pudsey and his first wife, Maud Cotton, living in Langley, Warks. 281 The irony of this rumour is that, among Cassandra Willoughby's papers, written by Cassandra and now archived at STB 2 (2) with a date of 1584/5, is the following uncatalogued copy of a baptismal certificate: William Deverell alias Willoughby Son of Katharine Deverell, & as she hath confess'd him, ye Son of Sr Francis Willoughby Knt of Nottinghamshire Baptized ye 4th day of March 1584.This is a true Copy taken out of ye Register of Laughton in le morthing [Laughton-en-le-Morthen] in ye County of York, & Attested by Robt Barnard Vicar. See also O'Day, Rosemary, Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies (Harlow, 2007), 143144Google Scholar, for a reference to this. 125 The wife of George Willoughby was Maud Cotton, widow of Francis Repington. It includes an attached list of all the lands and manors inherited by Francis Willoughby on his brother's death. 274 Drolling means to act facetiously, in jest, or as a buffoon, OED, derivative of droll. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp229-248 (accessed 13 Sept. 2016). Hasted, Edward, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 8 (Canterbury, 1799), 313314Google Scholar http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp303-314 (accessed 10 May 2016). They are printed with the kind permission of Lord Middelton. 350 White fortified wine from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands. 86 and n. 83, 136 and 176, where a Henry Trussell is mentioned. 223 Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (c. 15241596), rumoured to be Henry VIII's bastard son by Mary Carey, ne Boleyn, Anne's sister. 1, Amongst Sr Fr. Dudley died in 1554 after being imprisoned, and Anne remarried. See Plan of London (circa 1560 to 1570), in Agas Map of London 1561 (n.p., 1633), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-map-agas/1561/map (accessed 23 Aug. 2016). 4, p. 7. There are no known Robert Willughbys (as Cassandra spells the last name of the Willoughbys of Wollaton) near that generation. The individuals buried at St Giles seem to come, for the most part, from the trades, crafts, and labouring classes. For Chancery, see Wylloughby v. Paramoure TNA, C21/W19/8. Apparently Conrados, who was unpopular in Francis Willughby's house, attempted to smooth tensions with Francis's other servants, who then put him up to fabricating a letter accusing Percivall Willoughby of some malfeasance and blackmailing him with it. He says tho he has used all means and attendance, yet God knows when he shall see an end. An Elizabethan mansion built in 1588 that had the honour of doubling as the home of Bruce Wayne in the 2012 Batman movie, 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Elizabeth was then 22 years of age. He bought as much lande as he sould, he spent as much in buildinge, yet in givinge to many confidence he was deceaved of more land than he soulde and more then would have payd his debts and his buildings. Mi, 2/76/316, quoted in Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England, Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (Chicago, 1989), 37 and in Richard S. Smith, The Willoughbys of Wollaton 15001643 with special reference to early mining in Nottinghamshire, 15001643, PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, 1964, 69.

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