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901 Baptized at age 13y 10m. DE SOIZA, Leah Catherine (I7362)
 
902 baptized by Ponsford Cann Curate of Broadwoodwiger HILL, William (I325)
 
903 Baptized privately.
Aged 3 months at time of burial. 		RICHARDS, Leonard ^ (I18148)
 
904 Barbara received land called Hunts Dane from her father, Hamon Rucke as is mentioned in his Will of 1672. RUCK, Barbara (I5314)
 
905 Bargeman GRILLS, Sampson (I16492)
 
906 Bargeman in 1841 residing at Yalding


1890
Charles Hutson. Personal Estate GB1,946 1s. 5d. Resworn May 1891 GB3,397 8s 8d. 30 Apr 1890. The Will of Charles Hutson late of the "Kent Arms" Inn in the Parish of Nettlestead in the County of Kent, Barge Owner, who died 6 March 1890 at Nettlestead was proved at the Principal Registry by Albert Hutson of Maidstone in the said County Licensed Victualler the son, Jane Hutson of Nettleshead spinster the daughter, and George Henry Trott of Mereworth in the said County, Certified Teacher, the Executors.


1917 Hutson Jane of Fernleigh, Wateringbury, Kent, spinster, died 4 June 1917 Probate London 22 August 1917 to Albert Afred Hutson barge owner. Effects GB735 8s. 		HUTSON, Henry (I11425)
 
907 Bargeman residing at home with his parents and sister Alice at Yalding during 1841 census working as a bargeman.
Waterman and bargeman 1851 residing at Nettlestead
Bargeman 1861 residing at Yalding, Station Road 		HUTSON, Thomas (I11426)
 
908 Baronet SADLEIR, Sir Edwin (I10736)
 
909 Barrister at Law of the Middle Temple CARTER, George William Lee Plumptree (I7290)
 
910 Barrister-at-law and died unmarried. CARTER, Thomas (I7245)
 
911 Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (18 August 1275 – 14 April 1322) was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere (died ca. 1301) and Joan FitzBernard. He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England[2] and the earlier part of the reign of Edward II of England. He was executed after participating in an unsuccessful rebellion led by Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster.


Contents
1 Career
2 Rebellion
3 Death
4 Property
5 Family
6 References
Career
The earliest records of Bartholomew's life relate to his service in royal armies, which included campaigns in Gascony (1294), Flanders (about 1297) and Scotland (1298, 1300, 1301–04, 1306–08, 1310–11, 1314–19).[3] However, even at a relatively young age his activities were not limited to soldiering. In October 1300, was one of the household of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln who were permitted by the King to accompany the Earl when he set out for Rome during the following month in order to complain to Pope Boniface VIII of injury done by the Scots.[4][5]

A writ issued on 13 April 1301, presumably soon after the death of Jocelin, Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere, initiated inquests into the identity of the next heir of lands that he held direct from the King. This led to a hearing on 30 April of that year in relation to property in Kent at Badlesmere and Donewelleshethe, where it was confirmed that the heir was his son Bartholomew, then aged 26.[6]

Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Fulk Payfrer were the knights who represented the county of Kent at the Parliament that sat at Carlisle from January 1306/7 until 27 March 1307.[7] Also in 1307 Bartholomew was appointed governor of Bristol Castle.[2] In that role he took charge of the subjugation of the city when it defied royal authority in 1316.[8]

In 1310, Bartholomew acted as deputy Constable of England on behalf of the Earl of Hereford.[9] Bartholomew served as his lieutenant when Hereford refused to perform his duties in the Scottish campaign of 1310-11.[10] He was one of the retinue of the Earl of Gloucester at the Battle of Bannockburn on 24 June 1314, Bartholomew's own sub-retinue consisting of at least 50 men.[10] He was criticised for not coming to his aid when Gloucester lost his life in an impetuous attack on the Scottish sheltron on that occasion.[11]

In the following January, Bartholomew was one of the many notables who attended the funeral of Piers Gaveston.[12]

On 28 April 1316, Bartholomew was one of four men who were authorised to grant safe conducts in the King's name to Robert Bruce and other Scots so that they could come to England to negotiate a truce. In December of that year, he was commissioned, along with the Bishop of Ely and the Bishop of Norwich to go on an embassy to Pope John XXII at Avignon to seek his help against the Scots and request a Bull to release the King from his oath to the Ordinances.[13] In June of the same year, Bartholomew's daughter Elizabeth married Edward, the son and heir of Roger Mortimer. Elizabeth's father was sufficiently wealthy to pay £2,000 for the marriage, in exchange for which extensive property was settled on the bride.[14]

On 1 November 1317, the King appointed Bartholomew as custodian of Leeds Castle in Kent [15] This was followed by a transaction on 20 March 1317/18 by which the King granted the castle and manor of Leeds along with the advowson of the priory of Leeds to Bartholomew and his heirs in exchange for the manor and advowson of Adderley, Shropshire, which Bartholomew surrendered to the King [16]

By late November 1317, Bartholomew made a compact with a number of noblemen and prelates, including the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Hereford and the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of reducing the influence on the King of advisors of whom they disapproved.[17] Bartholomew and his associates formed a loose grouping which has been referred to by modern historians as the "Middle Party", who detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster. However, although he was very hostile to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, Bartholomew helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318.[2]

On 1 October 1318, Bartholomew was with the King at York, setting out to repel an invasion by the Scots.[18] Nineteen days later, he was appointed as the King's household steward in place of William Montagu. This position was of major importance, as it provided continual access to the King's presence and considerable influence over who else could obtain access to him.[19] Bartholomew was still holding this appointment in June 1321. Financial grants that he received during this period included £500 on appointment as steward and over £1,300 in October 1319.[20]

In 1319, Bartholomew obtained the king's licence to found a priory on his manor of Badlesmere, but the proposed priory was never established.[21] In June of the following year, he hosted a splendid reception at Chilham Castle for Edward II and his entourage when they were travelling to Dover en route for France.[22] Also in 1320, he was granted control of Dover Castle and Wardenship of the Cinque Ports and in 1321 was appointed governor of Tunbridge Castle.[citation needed]

During the earlier part of 1321, Bartholomew, along with the Bishop of Worcester and the Bishop of Carlisle and others represented the King in unsuccessful negotiations with the Scots for either a permanent peace or an extended truce.[23]

Rebellion
By the summer of 1321, Bartholomew defied the King by associating with their mutual enemy the Earl of Lancaster and his allies in their active opposition to Edward's "evil councillors" such as the Despensers. The Lancastrian forces moved from the North to London, reaching the capital by the end of July.

In the autumn, the King started to apply pressure targeted on Bartholomew, probably partly because many of his manors were closer to London than those of magnates such as Lancaster and partly because of anger at the disloyalty of his own household steward. Edward took control of Dover Castle and forbade Bartholomew entrance to the county of Kent, an injunction that he promptly breached. Bartholomew then returned to Witney, Oxfordshire, where a tournament attended by many of his new allies was being held. When returning to London from a pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Queen did not take the most direct route but detoured to Leeds Castle, where she and her armed retinue demanded access, precipitating the siege and its aftermath that is described in detail in the article about Bartholomew's wife. Although Bartholomew assembled an armed force and marched from Witney towards Kent, by the time he reached Kingston upon Thames it was clear that he would not receive help from Lancaster and his followers and so he was not able to take effective action to relieve the siege.[24] During the following months, civil war broke out.

On 26 December 1321, the King ordered the Sheriff of Gloucester to arrest Bartholomew.[25] Shortly afterwards, the King offered safe conducts to the rebels who would come over to him, with the specific exception of Bartholomew de Badlesmere.[26]

Details contained in arrest warrants signpost the progress of Bartholomew and his companions across England. By 15 January 1321/2, they had occupied and burned the town of Bridgnorth and sacked the castles at Elmley and Hanley.[27] By 23 February, the rebels had been sighted in Northamptonshire.[28] On 1 March, Bartholomew was reported as one of a number of prominent rebels who had reached Pontefract.[29] On 11 March the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby was ordered to arrest the same group, who had taken Burton upon Trent but they departed from that town when the royal army approached.[30]

On 16 March 1321/2, the Earl of Lancaster and his allies were defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge.

Death
Bartholomew fled south from Boroughbridge and, according to the "Livere de Reis", was captured in a small wood near Brickden and taken by the Earl of Mar to Canterbury.[31] Alternative details appear in John Leland's "Collectanea", which states that "Syr Barptolemew Badelesmere was taken at Stow Parke yn the Manoyr of the Bishop of Lincoln that was his nephew."[32] Stow Park is about 10 miles north-west of the centre of Lincoln, where the bishop was Henry Burghersh. Stow Park was one of the principal residences of the Bishop in that era but none of the medieval buildings still survive above ground. The identity of "Brickden" is uncertain but may well refer to Buckden, Huntingdonshire, another place where the Bishop of Lincoln had a manor house (Buckden Towers). If so, that may be the reason for the differing accounts of the place that Bartholomew had reached when he was arrested, as they both featured residences of his nephew.

Bartholomew was tried at Canterbury on 14 April 1322 and sentenced to death. On the same day he was drawn for three miles behind a horse to Blean, where he held property.[33] There he was hanged and beheaded. His head was displayed on the Burgh Gate at Canterbury and the rest of his body left hanging at Blean. There it probably remained for quite some time, as it was not until the Lent Parliament of 1324 that the prelates successfully petitioned for the bodies of the nobles still hanging on the gallows to be given ecclesiastical burial.[34] In a book that was first published in 1631, the antiquary John Weever stated that Bartholomew was buried at White Friars, Canterbury;[35] this was a community of the Order of St Augustine.[36]

Property
By the latter part of his life, Bartholomew possessed a vast portfolio of properties, either in his own right or jointly with his wife Margaret. These assets were forfeited because of Bartholomew's rebellion. During the first four years of reign of Edward III, a series of inquisitions post mortem established the properties to which Margaret was entitled and also those of which her son Giles would be the right heir. Much of the property was restored to Bartholomew's widow or assigned to Giles, who at that juncture was still a minor in the King's wardship.[37]

Some of the properties that Bartholomew held are listed below; the list is not exhaustive and he did not necessarily hold all of them at the same time.

Bedfordshire: The manor of Sondyington (i.e. Sundon).
Buckinghamshire: The manor of Hambleden. Also the manors of Cowley and Preston, both of which were in the parish of Preston Bissett.
Essex: The manors of Chingford, Latchley (i.e. Dagworth Manor at Pebmarsh), Little Stambridge and Thaxted.
Gloucestershire: The manor of Oxenton.
Herefordshire: The manor of Lenhales and Lenhales Castle at Lyonshall.
Hertfordshire: The manors of Buckland, Mardleybury (at Welwyn) and Plashes (at Standon).
Kent: The manors of Badlesmere, Bockingfold (north of Goudhurst), Chilham, Hothfield, Kingsdown, Lesnes, Rydelyngwelde (i.e. Ringwould), Tonge and Whitstable. Bartholomew's possessions in this county included Chilham Castle and Leeds Castle.
Oxfordshire: The manor of Finmere.
Shropshire: The manors of Adderley and Ideshale (at Shifnal).
Suffolk: The manors of Barrow and Brendebradefeld (i.e. Bradfield Combust).
Sussex: The manors of Eastbourne and Laughton. Also reversions of the manors of Drayton, Etchingham and West Dean.
Wiltshire: The manors of Castle Combe, Knook, Orcheston and West Heytesbury
The relevant inquisitions post mortem also contain details of numerous advowsons and other property rights that Bartholomew owned.

Family
Bartholomew married Margaret, the widow of Gilbert de Umfreville. The marriage had taken place by 30 June 1308, when the couple were jointly granted the manor of Bourne, Sussex.[38] Margaret was a daughter of Thomas de Clare and his wife Juliana FitzGerald.[39] A comprehensive overview of their children can be seen in the records of numerous inquisitions post mortem that were held after the death of their son Giles on 7 June 1338.[40] The evidence given at each hearing rested on local knowledge and there were some inconsistencies about the names of Giles' sisters and their precise ages. However, taken as a whole, it is clear from the inquisition records that the names of Bartholomew's children were as follows, listed in descending order of age:

Margery de Badlesmere, married William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros of Helmsley (Hamlake)
Maud de Badlesmere, married Robert FitzPayn, then John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford
Elizabeth de Badlesmere, married Sir Edmund Mortimer, then William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere, married Elizabeth Montagu, and died without issue[41]
Margaret de Badlesmere, married John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot. Her tomb was at the Ipswich Greyfriars.[42]
References
The Heralds' Roll, Part 5 Archived 2014-01-15 at archive.today
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Badlesmere, Bartholomew, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 189.
Simpkin, David (2008). The English Aristocracy at War: From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn. Woodbridge. pp. 54 and 122.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1296-1302, p. 370.
J. S. Hamilton, ‘Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln (1249–1311)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 13 May 2013
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 4, No. 38.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1302-1307, pp. 524-25.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 99.
Davies, James Conway (1918). The Baronial Opposition to Edward II; Its Character and Policy; A Study in Administrative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 428.
Simpkin, David (2008). The English Aristocracy at War: From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn. Woodbridge. p. 54.
Cornell, David (2009). Bannockburn: The Triumph of Robert the Bruce. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 206.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 94.
Davies, James Conway (1918). The Baronial Opposition to Edward II; Its Character and Policy; A Study in Administrative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 417 and 425.
Holmes, GA (1957). The Estates of the Higher Nobility in Fourteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 43–44.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, Vol. 3 (1317–1321), p. 46.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, Vol. 3 (1317–1321), p. 128.
Warner, Kathryn (2014). Edward II: The Unconventional King. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. p. 119.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, p. 14.
Warner, Kathryn (2014). Edward II: The Unconventional King. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. p. 124.
Davies, James Conway (1918). The Baronial Opposition to Edward II; Its Character and Policy; A Study in Administrative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 209–210.
Hasted, Edward (1798). The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6. Canterbury. pp. 467–481.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 120.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 268–9.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 127–35.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, p. 413.
Warner, Kathryn (2014). Edward II: The Unconventional King. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. p. 152.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, pp. 511-12.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, p. 519.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, p. 526.
Calendar of Close Rolls, 1318-1323, p. 522.
Glover, John (1865). Le Livere de Reis de Britannie E Le Livere de Reis de Engletere (edited). London. pp. 342–43.
Leland, John (1770). Collectanea, Vol. 1, Part 2. London. p. 465.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 7, No. 109, page 90.
Haines, Roy Martin (2003). King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 145 and 428, note 13.
Weever, John (1767). Ancient Funeral Monuments. London: W.Tooke. p. 39.
More about the Austin Friars at Canterbury appears in the List of monastic houses in Kent
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 7, Nos. 104, 308, and 399.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, 1307-1313, page 83.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 6, No. 275, page 159.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 8, No. 185.
Chisholm 1911.
J. Weever, Ancient Fvnerall Monvments Within The Vnited Monarchie Of Great Britain (Thomas Harper for Laurence Sadler, London 1631), p. 751 (as p. 750) (Google). 		DE BADLESMERE, Bartholomew 1st Baron Badlesmere (I19767)
 
912 Base son of Nathaniel Milsted and Abigail Grandwell. GRANDWELL, Richard (I4921)
 
913 baseborn daughter of Mary Prebble. PREBBLE, Frances Elizabeth (I12243)
 
914 Baseborn daughter. HILL, Mary (I20001)
 
915 Bass William Reakes Elizabeth m 25 Mar 1722 at Oare both of Luddenham. Family (F5619)
 
916 Batchelor, residing Trinity Parish, age not stated, witness for him John Penny
Spinster, residing Trinity Parish, aged not state, witness for her John Wells 		Family (F204)
 
917 Batchelor, Spinster, both of this place. Wit: Moses Spurell,John Spurell.
[It should be noted that for the longest time I had found the bride's surname to have been recorded as KETCH. Never having seen the original record, this new surname seems suspect. Again, I have not seen the original record.] 		Family (F137)
 
918 Bathwick, St. Mary, 22 Jun 1783 buried John the husband of Amelia Eliot [sic] of St. Peter and Paul, Bath, aged forty years.

Possible Parents:
Surname:
Elliott
Forenames:
Mary
Buried:
7-Oct-1800
Cemetery:
St Swithin's
Monumental Inscription:
No
Burial:
Yes

Surname:
Elliott
Forenames:
William
Buried:
12-Apr-1802
Cemetery:
St Swithin's
Monumental Inscription:
No
Burial:
Yes

OR

William Elliot Burial 27 Apr 1780 Walcot St Swithin aged 40 years


Ellot Rachel c 28 Feb 1741/2 James/Sarah Walcot St. Swithins

Walcot St. Swithins
Elliot Mary c 23 Nov 1740 Joseph/Anne 		ELLIOTT, John (I11880)
 
919 Bathwick, St. Mary, 8 Feb 1784 buried Elizabeth the daughter of Amelia Elliot, widow of St. Michael's Bath aged two years ELLIOTT, Elizabeth ^ (I14321)
 
920 BEATRIX de Savoie ([1205]-Dec 1266 or 4 Jan 1267). Matthew of Paris names her as daughter of "comitis Sabaldiæ Thomæ iam mortui, sororem comitis Sabaldiæ adhuc viventis Amidei", when he records the marriage of her daughter to Henry III King of England. It is improbable that she was born much later than 1205 as she gave birth to her first child in 1221. The contract of marriage between "Thomas…comes Sabaldie et marchio in Ytalia…filia sua" and "Raimundi Berengarii…comitis Provinciæ et Forcalquerii" is dated 5 Jun 1219, and names "A. et V. filii Thomæ comitis et A. cometissa uxor eius" as guarantors. She transformed the court at Aix into one of the most celebrated in Europe. After quarrelling with her son-in-law Charles Comte d'Anjou over the usufruct of the county of Provence she retired to Echelles in Savoy. The marriage of her daughter Eléonore with Henry III King of England in 1236 signalled the establishment of close ties between the English court and the house of Savoy, the foreign immigrants becoming increasingly unpopular in England and contributing to the difficulties experienced by the king with his barons. The testament of "Beatricis relictæ Raimundi Berengarii comitis Provinciæ", dated 14 Jan 1264, confirms her previous testaments appointing "Reginarum filiarum suarum Margarethæ Franciæ et Alienoræ Angliæ, fratrum suorum Bonifacii archiepiscopi Cantuar. et Petri comitis Sabaudiæ" as her heirs, chooses burial "in hospitali Scalarum", and adds bequests to "Philippo electo Lugdun. fratri suo altero…Agneti comitissæ Sabaudiæ dominiæ Fuciniaci, Cæciliæ relictæ Amedei Sabaudiæ comitis, Beatrici relictæ Thomæ de Sabaudia comitis...Contissoni…Eleonoræ aliæ filiæ Thomæ comitis…Contissoni dominæ Medullionis nepti suæ…Margarithæ matri marchionis Montisferrati nepti suæ, Rodulpho archiepiscopo Tarantas, A. episcopo de Dyone consanguineo testatricis, Petro episcopo Hereford…filiabus Rodolphi et Henrici de Gebennis, et filiæ domini de Camera" as well as numerous bequests to religious institutions, orders "Contissona filia Amedei comitis…Eleonoræ filiæ Thomæ fratris sui" to fulfil religious bequests, and appoints "Johannem archiepiscopum Viennensem et Rodulphum Tarantasiensem, Philippum electum Lugdun. fratrem suum, episcopum Gratianopolitanum, Humbertum abbatem Altacumbæ et Stephanum archidiaconum Cantaruensium" as her executors. A second testament of "Beatrix relicta…Dom. Reymundi Berengarii comitis provinciæ", dated 22 Feb 1264, chooses burial "in ecclesia Hospitalis S. Joannis Hierosolymitani", adds bequests to "Thomam Amedeum et Ludovicum filios quondam Dom. Thome fratris mei…Alienore filie predicti comitis Thome…filie Contissone de Medullione…filie domini de Camera…Beringarie filie Dom. Benedicti de Castellione…Beatrice Andegavie comitisse". The testament of "Bonifacius archiepiscopus Cantuarensis", dated 11 Oct 1264, made bequests to "sorori suæ comitissæ Provinciæ…sorori suæ alteræ comitissæ de Quiborc…". A second necrology of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne records the death "II Non Jan" of "vidua dna comitssa Provincie". m (Betrothed 5 Jun 1219, Dec 1220) RAIMOND BERENGER IV Comte de Provence, son of ALPHONSE II Comte de Provence [Aragon-Barcelona] & his wife Gersende de Sabran Ctss de Forcalquier ([1198]-19 Aug 1245, bur Aix-en-Provence, église de Saint Jean de Jérusalem). SAVOIA, Beatrice di (I2039)
 
921 Became an actress. Nancy made her debut in Liverpool and was discovered and brought to London by Charles Hawtrey and A. A. Milne. ATKIN, Hon. Nancy (I3550)
 
922 Beheaded BROWNE, Sir George (I9352)
 
923 Beheaded on false charges of plotting to overthrow the king, Henry VIII. As a result, the Dukedom of Buckingham and estates were forfeited, and her children lost their inheritance.


Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham KG (3 February 1478 – 17 May 1521) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine Woodville, whose sister, Queen Elizabeth Woodville, was the wife of King Edward IV. He was convicted of treason, and executed on 17 May 1521.

Contents [hide]
1 Family
2 Career
3 Betrayal and execution
4 Marriage and issue
5 Ancestry
6 In fiction
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
Family[edit]
Edward Stafford, born 3 February 1478 at Brecon Castle in Wales, was the eldest son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Catherine Woodville (the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, by Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol) and was thus a nephew of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of King Edward IV.[1]

By his father's marriage to Catherine Woodville, Stafford had a younger brother, Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire,[2] and two sisters, Elizabeth, who married Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, and Anne, who married firstly Sir Walter Herbert (d. 16 September 1507), an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke,[3] and secondly George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon.[4]

After the execution of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, his widow, Catherine Woodville, married Jasper Tudor, second son of Owen Tudor and King Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois. After Jasper Tudor's death on 21 December 1495, Catherine Woodville married Sir Richard Wingfield (d. 22 July 1525). Catherine Woodville died 18 May 1497. After her death, Sir Richard Wingfield married Bridget Wiltshire, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone, Kent.[5]

Career[edit]
In October 1483 Stafford's father participated in a rebellion against King Richard III. He was beheaded without trial on 2 November 1483, whereby all his honours were forfeited. Stafford is said to have been hidden in various houses in Herefordshire at the time of the rebellion, and perhaps for the remainder of Richard III's reign. However, after Richard III's defeat at Bosworth on 22 August 1485, and King Henry VII's accession to the crown, Stafford was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath on 29 October 1485 as Duke of Buckingham, and attended Henry VII's coronation the following day, although his father's attainder was not formally reversed by Parliament until November. The young Duke's wardship and lands were granted, on 3 August 1486, along with the wardship of his younger brother, Henry Stafford, to the King's mother, Margaret Beaufort, and according to Davies it is likely Buckingham was educated in her various households.[6]

Buckingham was in attendance at court at the creation of Henry VII's second son, the future King Henry VIII, as Duke of York, on 9 November 1494, and was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1495. In September 1497 he was a captain in the forces sent to quell a rebellion in Cornwall.

According to Davies, as a young man Buckingham played a conspicuous part in royal weddings and the reception of ambassadors and foreign princes, 'dazzling observers by his sartorial splendour'. At the wedding of Henry VII's then eldest son and heir Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Catherine of Aragon in 1501, he is said to have worn a gown worth £1500. He was the chief challenger at the tournament held the following day.[7]

At the accession of King Henry VIII, Buckingham was appointed on 23 June 1509, for the day of the coronation only, Lord High Constable, an office which he claimed by hereditary right. He also served as Lord High Steward at the coronation, and bearer of the crown. In 1509 he was made a member of the King's Privy Council. On 9 July 1510 he had licence to crenellate his manor of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and according to Davies rebuilt the manor house as 'an impressively towered castle' with 'huge oriel windows in the living-quarters in the inner court'.[8]

In 1510 Buckingham was involved in a scandal concerning Anne, his sister and the wife of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon.[9] After hearing rumours concerning her and Sir William Compton, Buckingham found Compton in Anne's room. Compton was forced to take the sacrament to prove that he and Anne had not committed adultery, and Anne's husband sent her away to a convent 60 miles (97 km) from the court. There is no extant evidence establishing that Anne and Sir William Compton were guilty of adultery. However, in 1523 Compton took the unusual step of bequeathing land to Anne in his will, and directing his executors to include her in the prayers for his kin for which he had made provision in his will.[10] There are some suggestions that the affair continued until 1513. However, he returned to the King's graces, being present at the marriage of Henry's sister, served in Parliament and was present at negotiations with Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

From June to October 1513 Buckingham served as a captain during Henry VIII's invasion of France, commanding 500 men in the 'middle ward'.[11] About 1517 he was one of twelve challengers chosen to tilt against the King and his companions, but excused himself on the ground that he feared to run against the King's person. He and his wife, Eleanor, attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.[12]

Although Buckingham was appointed to commissions of the peace in 1514 and charged, together with other marcher lords, with responsibility for keeping order in south Wales, he was rebuked by the King in 1518 for failing to achieve the desired results. According to Davies, in general Buckingham exercised little direct political influence, and was never a member of the King's inner circle.[13]

Betrayal and execution[edit]
Buckingham was one of few peers with substantial Plantagenet blood and maintained numerous connections, often among his extended family, with the rest of the upper aristocracy, which activities attracted Henry's suspicion. During 1520, Buckingham became suspected of potentially treasonous actions and Henry VIII authorised an investigation. The King personally examined witnesses against him, gathering enough evidence for a trial. The Duke was finally summoned to Court in April 1521 and arrested and placed in the Tower. He was tried before a panel of 17 peers, being accused of listening to prophecies of the King's death and intending to kill the King. He was executed on Tower Hill on 17 May. Buckingham was posthumously attainted by Act of Parliament on 31 July 1523, disinheriting most of his wealth from his children.[14]

John Guy (1988) concludes this was one of the few executions of high personages under Henry VIII in which the accused was "almost certainly guilty". However Sir Thomas More complained that the key evidence from servants was hearsay.[15]

Buckingham's literary patronage included two translations, a printed translation of Helyas, Knyghte of the Swanne, which he commissioned in 1512, and A Lytell Cronicle, a translation of an account of the Middle East which he may have commissioned in 1520 in connection with his proposed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.[16]

Marriage and issue[edit]
In 1488 Henry VII had suggested a marriage between Buckingham and Anne of Brittany, but in December 1489 the executors of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, paid the King £4000 for Buckingham's marriage to Percy's eldest daughter Eleanor (d. 1530). They had a son and three daughters:[17]

Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (18 September 1501 – 30 April 1563), who married Ursula Pole, daughter of Sir Richard Pole by his second wife, Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence.[18]
Lady Elizabeth Stafford (c. 1497 – 30 November 1558), the second wife Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.[19]
Lady Katherine Stafford (c. 1499 – 14 May 1555), who married Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland.[20]
Lady Mary Stafford, the youngest daughter, who married, about June 1519, as his third wife, George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny.[21]
Buckingham is also said to have had three[22] illegitimate children:[23]

George Stafford.
Henry Stafford.
Margaret Stafford (c. 1511 – 25 May 1537), whom Buckingham married to his ward, Thomas Fitzgerald of Leixlip, half-brother to the Earl of Kildare.[24]
Ancestry[edit]

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In fiction[edit]
Buckingham is played by Charles Dance in the 2003 two-part drama Henry VIII starring Ray Winstone and Helena Bonham Carter. His character was a minor one, killed off in the first 15 minutes.
Buckingham is a character in the first two episodes of the first season of the drama series The Tudors. Portrayed by Steven Waddington, Buckingham's intrigues are fictionalized, with several key facts omitted.
The accusation and condemnation of Buckingham is depicted in the Shakespeare play Henry VIII.
Buckingham's son is a character in the novel The Blanket of the Dark, by John Buchan (1931). He has grown up as Peter Pentecost in the forests near Oxford and is told of his true heritage in the year 1536. Later he has a fateful encounter with the King and decides that he does not wish to pursue a life of power.
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 82.
Jump up ^ According to Davies he may have had another brother, Humphrey Stafford, who died young.
Jump up ^ Harris 2002, p. 145.
Jump up ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 374; Richardson IV 2011, p. 82; Davies 2008; Dockray 2004.
Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, pp. 82–3; Davies 2008.
Jump up ^ Cokayne 1912, p. 390; Cokayne 1959, p. 738;Richardson IV 2011, p. 85; Pollard 1898, p. 446; Davies 2004; Davies 2008.
Jump up ^ Pollard 1898, p. 446; Davies 2004; Davies 2008.
Jump up ^ Cokayne 1912, p. 390; Pollard 1898, p. 446; Davies 2008; Richardson IV 2011, p. 85.
Jump up ^ Hart, Kelly (June 1, 2009). The Mistresses of Henry VIII (First ed.). The History Press. ISBN 0-7524-4835-8.
Jump up ^ Harris 2002, p. 83.
Jump up ^ Pollard 1898, p. 446; According to Cokayne, p. 390, Buckingham commanded the right wing at the siege of Therouanne.
Jump up ^ Davies 2008; Richardson IV 2011, p. 85.
Jump up ^ Davies 2008.
Jump up ^ Pollard 1898, p. 447.
Jump up ^ John Guy, Tudor England (1988) p. 97.
Jump up ^ Davies 2008.
Jump up ^ Davies 2008; Richardson IV 2011, pp. 85–7.
Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 86.
Jump up ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 415–16.
Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 85.
Jump up ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 170.
Jump up ^ Davies names only two illegitimate children, Henry and Margaret.
Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 85.
Jump up ^ Davies 2008; Harris 2002, p. 161.
References[edit]
Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 490.
Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete Peerage edited by Vicary Gibbs. II. London: St Catherine Press.
Cokayne, George Edward (1959). The Complete Peerage edited by Geoffrey H. White. XII (Part II). London: St Catherine Press.
Davies, C. S. L. (2008). "Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham (1478–1521)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26202. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Davies, C. S. L. (2004). "Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham (1455–1483)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26204. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Dockray, Keith (2004). "Stafford, Henry, earl of Wiltshire (c.1479–1523)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70804. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Harris, Barbara J. (2002). English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pollard, Albert Frederick (1898). "Edward Stafford (1478-1521)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 446–7.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966381.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1460992709.
External links[edit]
Thornbury Castle
Stafford family, Tudorplace website[unreliable source?]
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, at thepeerage.com[unreliable source?] 		STAFFORD, Edward 3rd Duke of Buckingham (I15189)
 
924 Beheaded. LE DE SPENCER, Earl of Gloucester, 6th Lord le DeSpencer Thomas (I1749)
 
925 Believed to be a lineal descendant of Robertus de Den, ‘pencerna’, or butler to Edward the Confessor - see Denne of Denne Hill.

Buried as "Wife the Richard Austen the elder."


Denne references in KAS journals

arms 4, 258; 10, 330;
Alice 9, 289; 20, 26;
Amfrid de (1200) 2, 252
Sir Anered de (1252) 2, 311
Nicholas de (1254) 3, 243
Ralph de (1198) 1, 268; 22, 255; 21, 221
Robert 21, 320, 321; 25, 269, 271
Thomas de (1196) 1, 233-4;
10th May 1196, 7 Ric. I. Thomas de Dene and Harlewin his brother (in a plea under a writ of right) quitclaim to Thomas de Godwinestone [i.e. Goodnestone, or Gunston[ one soling and a half of land in East Ratling, for which he gives them six marks, and eighteen acres and a quarter in a field called Uikham *(to be hald of said Thomas de Godwinestone by fourpence per annum) and six marks sterling.
Cordia facta, in Curia domini Regis apud Westmonasterium

1 Solinga, a Solin, a measure of land peculiar to Kent. In Doomsday we have, "In communi terra Sancti Martini sunt cccc acre et dim., quae fiunt duos solinos et dimid." Agard considers that dim. refers to "hundred," and not to "acre," which makes the passage tantamount to "450 acres being equal to two and a-half Solins;" thus the Solin would be 180 acres, but he considers it to be, "after English account," 216 acres, and "after Norman tale," 180 acres.
2 Uikham? We have represented the three minims with which the word commences, by Ui.

die Jovis proxima post Inventionem Sancte Crucis, anno regni Regis Ricardi vij°.
Coram H. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, . . . . et G. Roffensi, Episcopis, H. Cantuariensi, et R. Herefordensi, et E. Elyensi Archidiaconis, Comite Rogero Bigot, G. filio Petri, Osberto filio Hervei, Willelmo . . . . . . Heriet, Simoiie de Patishull, Thoma de Huseboume, et aliis Baronibus et fidelibus domini Regis ibidem tune presentibus.
Inter THOMAM DE DENE et HARLEWINUM . . . . petentes, et THOMAM DE GODWINESTONE, tenentem.
De una sollinga1 terre et dimidia, cum pertinenciis, m ESTRETLING.
Unde placitum fait inter eos . . . . domini Regis., per breve de recto, quod predicti THOMAS et HERLEWINUS quietum clamaverunt in perpetuum, de se et heredibus suis, totum jus, et clamium suum quod clamaverunt, in predicta terra, cum pertinentiis, in ESTRETLING, predicto Thome et heredibus suis.
Et pro hac quieta clamancia, fine, et concordia, dedit predictus THOMAS DE GODWINESTONE predictis . . . . fratri ejns, xviij acras terre, et unam virgatam, cum pertinenciis, in campo qui appellatur UIKHAM,2 tenendas in perpetuum ipsis et
heredibus suis de . . . . THOMA DE GODWINESTON, et heredibus suis, solvendo per annum iiijd, pro . . . . servicio, in festo Sancti Michaelis. Et preterea, idem THOMAS DE GODWINESTONE . . . . predictis THOME et HAELEWINO fratri ejus, vi marcas sterlingorum.


20, 18; 25, 207, 263, 264, 272, 275, 278, 281, 282, 287
Sir Thomas 30, 68
(1220) 2, 227
(1252) 2, 310;
Thomas de 10, 137, 142, 159; 15, 29
Walter de 12, 230;
@m de 2, 307; 3, 100; 4, 208
Michael (1465) 10, 255
Thomas (1465) 10, 255 received pay by john Boteller for Michael and Thomas in part of payment the 13 day of Feb the 5th year of King Edward 37 li, 6s 8d
Item of Michell and Thomas Denne be a Bocher of London 4s 4d

Thomas 12, 415; 14, 177; 18, 417 		A’DENNE, Agnes (I12093)
 
926 Believed to have been the only child and had been born mentally challenged. JACK, James Spiers (I11018)
 
927 Below is a transcription of the broadsheet ballad published many years ago. Only one word was not clear. The ballad was presumably sung to a popular tune of the day.


In 1827 Sarah and Edward Glass were murdered by Thomas Friend, a
long-time servant of the family.

Sarah's mother, a widow, had gone out visiting and her daughter and
Edward had agreed to meet up with her on her way home. On her return,
the young people were not at the arranged spot and neither were they at
home. The long-time servant, Thomas Friend, had also disappeared. Mrs.
Glass spent an anxious night but they did not come home and in the
morning their bodies were discovered on the moor. The rest was as in
the ballad. Thomas had some significant savings put by, so it sounds as
if it really was a crime of thwarted passion.

The burials of Sarah and Edward Glass are published in the DFSH
Northlew burials 1813-1837. They were held on the 22nd March 1827 and
the note says 'BEAWORTHY MURDERED ASHBURY '.

THE Ashbury Tragedy,
By THOMAS HOOPER of JACOBSTOWE
[Printer, Simmons of Okehampton.]

My name is FRIEND of ASHBURY,
And wretched is my lot;
For loving of Miss SARAH GLASS,
Has brought me to the drop.

I often did entreat this Maid,
To join our hearts and hands,
Her answer was, I'll never wed
My Mother's servant man.

In Eighteen hundred and twenty-seven,
On March the nineteenth day;
A wicked thought came in my head,
To take her life away.

Her Mother being gone fom home,
Upon that awful day;
Miss Sarah and her Nephew went,
To meet her on the way.

It being very dark that night,
The Lantern they took down;
I took the night and laid in wait,
It was on Wadham Down.

And when they came into the place
Where I in ambush lay;
My butcher's knife was in my hand,
To take their life away.

I quickly hasten'd from the spot,
And caught this lovely maid,
Because you will not be my wife,
I'll murder you I said.

She fell upon her bending knees,
For mercy she did cry,
My God! O spare my life she said,
I'm not prepar'd to die.

Unto her cries, I would not list,
And then I cut her throat,
And laid her bleeding on the ground,
'Twill never be forgot.

Her Nephew, the young Edward Glass,
He felt some great alarm,
When Satan whisper'd, murder him,
Tho' he had done no harm.

The boy ran from the bloody scene,
I followed with my knife,
And then I likewise cut his throat,
And took his tender life.

All night they lay upon the ground,
Still in their bloody gore,
And I, back to a furze brake went,
Not far from Wadland Moor.

Ealy next morning they were found,
Most shocking for to see,
As they lay murder'd on the ground,
By such a wretch as me.

I lay conceal'd three days and nights,
And bitterly did cry,
For murdering her, I lov'd so well,
And wishing I could die.

I thought upon their burying day,
I'd give my body up,
At the Assizes to be tried,
And drink death's bitter cup.

The next day, they committed me
To Gaol with irons bound
The news of this my dreadful crime,
Soon spread the country round.

On Thursday after was the day,
I to the Judge was brought,
To hear his awful solemn sound,
I shudder'd at the thought.

Sentence of death on me was pass'd
I nothing had to say,
My body for dissection too,
Upon that awful day.

So now my time it is so short,
With sorrow I deplore,
Where will my guilty spirit dwell,
When time shall be no more.

The fatal morning now is come,
The last that I shall greet,
For I must leave this earthly stage,
The eternal Judge to meet.

O may he pardon all my sins,
Forgive one what is past;
For my repentance now is o'er,
And this day is my last.

So then they led me from my cell,
My hands behind me bound,
The Chaplain for me did pray,
And thousands standing round.

The Lord have mercy on my soul,
I have nothing more to say;
And instantly the drop did fall,
And I was launch'd away.

This Thomas Friend, their servant man,
Of temper not severe,
And in their service, he had liv'd
For nearly eleven years.

Some money too, I find he sav'd,
'Twas hundreds, two or three,
For loving of this charming maid,
Has prov'd his misery.

Miss Sarah Glass, I understand
Was aged twenty-eight;
Her brother's son was thirteen years,
Both fell by Satan's bait.

Now view this man throughout his life,
Here on this earthly stage,
And see the awful sudden change,
That fourteen days have made.

So to conclude, let no man boast,
Nor on this man d[eride]
For Satan soon will spread his net,
If God's not on our side.

[Reproduced with kind permission of Devon Record Office: Document Ref. 3858Z-0/Z/1] 		GLASS, Thomas (I584)
 
928 Benjamin came to Canada during 1844 with his wife and five children. The family first settled in what is now known as Smith Township on Lot 16, Concession 6, located just east of the present town of Bridgenorth. During the mid- to late 1850s the family lived near Bowmanville. The last sighting for this family was in the 1851/52 census at which time they had only one child at home - Mary - and were living on Lot 16, Conc. 6.

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There is another Benjamin Bickle chr at Broadwoodwidger to John and Frances in 1785. These census may relate to him:
1841 Werrington, Devon, England, HO107/259/11, ED 5, fol. 8, p. 19
Jays
Benjamin Bickle, head, mar, 50, farmer, born in county
Ann Bickle, wife, mar, 40, born in county
John Bickle, son, unm, 20, farmers son, born in county
Benjamin Bickle, son, unm, 15, born in county
Mary Bickle, daughter, unm, 15, farmer's daughter, born in county
James Bickle, son, unm, 14, born in county
Betsy Bickle, 12, born in county
Jane Bickle, daughter, mar, 10, born in county
George Bickle, son, unm, 8, born in county
Fanny Bickle, daughter, unm, 5, born in county
Marianna Bickle daughter unm,13, born in county


1851 Werrington, Devon, England, HO107/1899, ED 2a, fol. 232, p. 3
Household Sch. #13, Jays
Benjamin Bickle, head, mar, 66, farmer of 300 acres employing 2 men, born Broadwoodwidger, Devon
Ann Bickle, wife, mar, 56, born St. Giles on the Heath, Devon
John Bickle, son, unm, 27, farmers son, born Werrington, Devon
Benjamin Bickle, son, unm, 25, born Werrington, Devon
Mary Ann Bickle, daughter, unm, 23, farmer's daughter, born Werrington, Devon
James Bickle, son, unm, 21, born Werrington, Devon
Jane Bickle, daughter, mar, 19, born Werrington, Devon
George Bickle, son, unm, 16, born Werrington, Devon
Fanny Bickle, daughter, unm, 14, born Werrington, Devon
Marianna Bickle daughter unm, 13, born Werrington, Devon
Henry Bate, servant, unm, 18, farm labourer, born Werriongton, Devon
George Northy, servant, unm, 14, farm labourer, born Launceton, Cornwall
Jane Horril, servant, unm, 14, house maid, born St. Giles in the Heath, Devon


1861 Werrington, Devon, England, RG9/1519, ED 2, fol. 14, p. 4
Household Sch. #14, Jays
Benjamin Bickle, head, mar, 75, farmer of 250 acres employing 2 labourers and 3 sons, born Broadwoodwidger, Devon
Ann Bickle, wife, mar, 65, born St. Giles on the Heath, Devon
Benjamin Bickle, son, unm, 40, born Werrington, Devon
James Bickle, son, un, 33, born Werrington, Devon
Jane Bickle, daughter, mar, 29, born Werrington, Devon
George Birckle, son, unm, 26, born Werrington, Devon
Fanny Bickle, daughter, unm, 24, born Werrington, Devon
Marianna Bickle daughter unm, 20, born Werrington, Devon
James Baler, servant, unm, 19, carter, born Burrington, Devon
Stephen Ball, servant, unm, 15, ag servant, born Tavistock, Devon
Mary J. Sleeman, servant, unm, 12, house servant, born Devonport, Devon 		BICKLE, Benjamin (I924)
 
929 Benjamin had a relatively short life. He worked as a mariner and married Louisa Coulter on 29 December 1831. His first child born was John Toker Nutt who was christened 4 November 1832 at St. Mary's church in Faversham. Sadly, though, Benjamin died almost five months prior to the birth of his only daughter, Louisa maria. She was born 21 December 1834 and christened at the Partridge Lane Independent Church at Faversham.

The last mention of member of this family are Louisa, Ben's wife, who was working as a house servant for John Perkins, a merchant on Abbey Street. John Toker Nutt was living with his grandparents during 1841.

Louisa Marie Nutt, Benjamin's daughter, surfaced in Strood during 1866 for her marriage to Thomas Horace Stacey. The 1881 census revealed that she and her husband had evidently returned to his native parish, Castle Cary in Somerset and that is where there children were born. 		NUTT, Benjamin Roots or Ruck (I2983)
 
930 Benjamin was a bricklayer working at Maidstone by 1776 having purchased his freeman's status in that town during 1771.

Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury Vol.67 folio 124, Probate 15 Aug 1799 Benjamin Ruck the elder of Maidstone, bricklayer, will dated 25 Jan 1799 to be buried at Leeds near my late wife John Boys of Teston?, carpenter, executor nephew John Ruck of Maidstone, bricklayer, executor occupier Robert Woollett, Stone Street, Maidstone occupier Steed, St Faiths Green occupiers Collens, Anthony Lockey, Falconer, Pearce, Miles and Thomas Henderson, Stone Street occupiers William Mercer, George Smith, George Highland, Widow Johnson, Tilbe, Joshua Lanes, Broomfield at Stone Street children Benjamin, Daniel and Elizabeth wife of Thomas Sloman of Maidstone, wheelwright Witnessed by Charles Topping - Robert Bewley - John Hill - E.H. Steed 2 Codicils dated 25 Jan 1799 with same witnesses. 		RUCK, Benjamin (I6620)
 
931 Bernard (797 – 17 April 818) was the King of the Lombards from 810 to 818. He plotted against his uncle, Emperor Louis the Pious, when the latter's Ordinatio Imperii made Bernard a vassal of his cousin Lothair. When his plot was discovered, Louis had him blinded, a procedure which killed him.


Contents
1 Life
2 Legacy
3 References
4 Sources
Life
Bernard was born in 797, the illegitimate son of King Pepin of Italy, himself the son of the Emperor Charlemagne. In 810, Pepin died from an illness contracted at the siege of Venice. Despite being illegitimate, his grandfather allowed Bernard to inherit Italy.[2] Bernard married a woman named Cunigunde, but the year of their marriage, and her origins, are obscure. Some sources refer to her as "of Laon". They had one son, Pepin, Count of Vermandois, who was born in 817.

In 817, Louis the Pious drew the Ordinatio Imperii, detailing the future of the Frankish Empire. Under this, the bulk of the Frankish territory went to Louis' eldest son, Lothair; Bernard received no further territory, and although his Kingship of Italy was confirmed, he would be a vassal of Lothair, as he had been to Louis and to Charles.[1] Certain of his counselors, including Count Eggideo, and his chamberlain Reginhard, persuaded Bernard that arrangement threatened his position. Other names were Reginhar, the last being the grandson of a Thuringian rebel against Charlemagne, and Hardrad. Anshelm, Bishop of Milan and Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans, were also accused of being involved: there is no evidence either to support or contradict this in the case of Theodulf, whilst the case for Anshelm is murkier.[3][4]

Prior to this, Bernard's relationship with his uncle appears to have been cooperative.[1] Bernard's main complaint was the notion of his being a vassal of Lothair. In practical terms, his actual position had not been altered at all by the terms of the decree, and he could safely have continued to rule under such a system. Nonetheless, "partly true" reports came to Louis the Pious that his nephew was planning to set up an 'unlawful' – i.e. independent – regime in Italy.[3]

Louis the Pious reacted swiftly to the plot, marching south to Chalon. Bernard and his associates were taken by surprise; Bernard travelled to Chalon in an attempt to negotiate terms, but he and the ringleaders were forced to surrender to Louis, who had them taken to Aix-la-Chapelle where they were tried and condemned to death. Louis 'mercifully' commuted their sentences to blinding, which would neutralize Bernard as a threat without actually killing him; however, the process of blinding (carried out by means of pressing a red-hot stiletto to the eyeballs) proved so traumatic that Bernard died in agony two days after the procedure was carried out. At the same time, Louis also had his half-brothers Drogo, Hugh and Theoderic tonsured and confined to monasteries, to prevent other Carolingian offshoots challenging the main line. He also treated those guilty or suspected of conspiring with Bernard harshly: Theodulf of Orleans was imprisoned, and died soon afterwards; the lay conspirators were blinded, the clerics deposed and imprisoned; all lost lands and honours.[3][4][5]

A text called The Vision of the Poor woman of Laon criticizes Louis for Bernard's death.[6]

Legacy

17th century commemorative fresco from Bernard's grave in Milan, Italy
His Kingdom of Italy was reabsorbed into the Frankish empire, and soon after bestowed upon Louis' eldest son Lothair. In 822, Louis made a display of public penance at Attigny, where he confessed before all the court to having sinfully slain his nephew; he also welcomed his half-brothers back into his favour. These actions possibly stemmed from guilt over his part in Bernard's death. It has been argued by some historians that his behaviour left him open to clerical domination, and reduced his prestige and respect amongst the Frankish nobility.[3] Others, however, point out that Bernard's plot had been a serious threat to the stability of the kingdom, and the reaction no less a threat; Louis' display of penance, then, "was a well-judged gesture to restore harmony and re-establish his authority."[5]

References
"Revolt of Bernard of Italy", The Cambridge Medieval History Series volumes 1-5, Plantagenet Publishing
Noble, Thomas F. X., Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, Penn State Press, 2009, ISBN 9780271035734, p. 10
McKitterick, Rosamond, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians
Riché, Pierre, The Carolingians, p. 148
McKitterick, Rosamond, The New Cambridge History, 700–900
Knechtges, David R. and Vance, Eugene. Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture, University of Washington Press, 2012, ISBN 9780295802367
Sources
McKitterick, Rosamond, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians
Riché, Pierre, The Carolingians
McKitterick, Rosamond, The New Cambridge History, 700–900 		Bernard of Italy, King of the Lombards (I19131)
 
932 Bernard (797, Vermandois, Picardy – 17 April 818, Milan, Lombardy) was the King of the Lombards from 810 to 818. He plotted against his uncle, Emperor Louis the Pious, when the latter's Ordinatio Imperii made Bernard a vassal of his cousin Lothair. When his plot was discovered, Louis had him blinded, a procedure which killed him.

Bernard was the illegitimate son of King Pepin of Italy, the second legitimate son of the Emperor Charlemagne. In 810, Pepin died from an illness contracted at a siege of Venice; although Bernard was illegitimate, Charlemagne allowed him to inherit Italy. Bernard married Cunigunda of Laon in 813. They had one son, Pepin, Count of Vermandois.

Prior to 817, Bernard was a trusted agent of his grandfather, and of his uncle. His rights in Italy were respected, and he was used as an intermediary to manage events in his sphere of influence - for example, when in 815 Louis the Pious received reports that some Roman nobles had conspired to murder Pope Leo III, and that he had responded by butchering the ringleaders, Bernard was sent to investigate the matter.

A change came in 817, when Louis the Pious drew up an Ordinatio Imperii, detailing the future of the Frankish Empire. Under this, the bulk of the Frankish territory went to Louis' eldest son, Lothair; Bernard received no further territory, and although his Kingship of Italy was confirmed, he would be a vassal of Lothair. This was, it was later alleged, the work of the Empress, Ermengarde, who wished Bernard to be displaced in favour of her own sons. Resenting Louis' actions, Bernard began plotting with a group of magnates: Eggideo, Reginhard, and Reginhar, the last being the grandson of a Thuringian rebel against Charlemagne, Hardrad. Anshelm, Bishop of Milan and Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans, were also accused of being involved: there is no evidence either to support or contradict this in the case of Theodulf, whilst the case for Anshelm is murkier.[1][2]

Bernard's main complaint was the notion of his being a vassal of Lothair. In practical terms, his actual position had not been altered at all by the terms of the decree, and he could safely have continued to rule under such a system. Nonetheless, "partly true" reports came to Louis the Pious that his nephew was planning to set up an 'unlawful' - i.e. independent - regime in Italy.[1]

Louis the Pious reacted swiftly to the plot, marching south to Chalon. Bernard and his associates were taken by surprise; Bernard travelled to Chalon in an attempt to negotiate terms, but he and the ringleaders were forced to surrender to him. Louis had them taken to Aix-la-Chapelle, where they were tried and condemned to death. Louis 'mercifully' commuted their sentences to blinding, which would neutralize Bernard as a threat without actually killing him; however, the process of blinding (carried out by means of pressing a red-hot stiletto to the eyeballs) proved so traumatic that Bernard died in agony two days after the procedure was carried out. At the same time, Louis also had his half-brothers Drogo, Hugh and Theoderic tonsured and confined to monasteries, to prevent other Carolingian off-shoots challenging the main line. He also treated those guilty or suspected of conspiring with Bernard treated harshly: Theodulf of Orleans was imprisoned, and died soon afterwards; the lay conspirators were blinded, the clerics deposed and imprisoned; all lost lands and honours.[1][2][3]

His Kingdom of Italy was reabsorbed into the Frankish empire, and soon after bestowed upon Louis' eldest son Lothair. In 822, Louis made a display of public penance at Attigny, where he confessed before all the court to having sinfully slain his nephew; he also welcomed his half-brothers back into his favour. These actions possibly stemmed from guilt over his part in Bernard's death. It has been argued by some historians that his behaviour left him open to clerical domination, and reduced his prestige and respect amongst the Frankish nobility.[1] Others, however, point out that Bernard's plot had been a serious threat to the stability of the kingdom, and the reaction no less a threat; Louis' display of penance, then, "was a well-judged gesture to restore harmony and re-establish his authority."[3]

References:
1. a b c d McKitterick, Rosamond, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians
2. a b Riche, Pierre, The Carolingians, p. 148
3. a b McKitterick, Rosamond, The New Cambridge History, 700-900
Sources:
McKitterick, Rosamond, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians
Riche, Pierre, The Carolingians
McKitterick, Rosamond, The New Cambridge History, 700-900 		Bernard King of Italy (I11735)
 
933 Bernard I (c. 950 – 9 February 1011) was the Duke of Saxony between 973 and 1011, the second of the Billung dynasty, a son of Duke Herman and Oda. He extended his father's power considerably.

He fought the Danes in 974, 983, and 994 during their invasions. He supported the succession of Otto III over Henry the Wrangler. In 986, he was made marshal and in 991 and 995 he joined the young Otto on campaign against the Slavs. He increased his power vis-à-vis the crown, where his father had been the representative of the king to the tribe, Bernard was the representative of the tribe to the king.[1] Bernard died in 1011 and was buried in the Church of Saint Michael in Lüneburg.[2]

Family
In 990, Bernard married Hildegard (died 1011), daughter of Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade (died 976). They had the following issue:

Herman, died young
Bernard II, his successor
Thietmar, a count, died in a duel on 1 April 1048 in Pöhlde
Gedesdiu (or Gedesti) (died 30 June c. 1040), abbess of Metelen (from 993) and Herford (from 1002)
and probably:

Matilda, nun
Othelindis (died 9 March 1044), married Dirk III of Holland
References
we.archive.org Bernhard I. (Benno), Herzog von Sachsen aus der Familie der BILLUNGER
Freytag, Hans-Joachim. "Bernhard I. (Benno) In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)". Deutsche Biographie. Duncker & Humblot. Retrieved 26 October 2017. 		Bernard I, Duke of Saxony (I19112)
 
934 Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony between 1011 and 1059, the third of the Billung dynasty as a son of Bernard I and Hildegard. Besides his position in Saxony, he had the rights of a count in Frisia.

Bernard expanded the powers of the duke in Saxony and is regarded as the greatest of the Billungers. He was originally a supporter of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, and he accompanied him into Poland to negotiate the Peace of Bautzen of 1018. In 1019–1020, however, he revolted against Henry[1] and gained the recognition of the tribal laws of Saxony, something his father had failed to do. He then returned to war with the Obodrites and Lutici (two Slavic tribes) and drew them into his sphere of influence through their leader Gottschalk.

He supported Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II in 1024 and his son Henry III, though he began to fear the latter for his closeness to the Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, whom he considered a spy and inveterate enemy of the dukes of Saxony.[1] Although he was a critical ally of the Danes, who provided fundamental support for Henry's wars in the Low Countries, Bernard was on the brink of rebellion until the death of Adalbert. The remainder of his reign, however, was quiet.

In 1045, he erected the Alsterburg in Hamburg. He died in 1059 and was succeeded without incident by his son Ordulf. He is buried in the Church of Saint Michael in Lüneburg.

Marriage and issue
Bernard II, Duke of Saxony married to Eilika of Schweinfurt, daughter of Henry of Schweinfurt. They had these children together:

Gertrude of Saxony (c. 1030 – August 4, 1113), married firstly to Floris I, Count of Holland, secondly to Robert I, Count of Flanders
Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (c. 1020 – March 28, 1072), who married Ulfhilde or Wulfhilde of Norway (c. 1023 – May 24, 1070), daughter of King Olaf II (St.Olaf) of Norway and his wife Queen Astrid
Hermann
Ida of Saxony, who married Albert III, Count of Namur
References
Timothy Reuter, Germany in the Early Middle Ages C. 800-1056, (Routledge, 1998), 200. 		Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (I19110)
 
935 BERRY, ALICE CLARA BERRY LONG Order
GRO Reference: 1876 S Quarter in ORSETT Volume 04A Page 211 		BERRY, Alice Clara (I6857)
 
936 BERRY, ROSE LILIAN LONG Order
GRO Reference: 1878 D Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 285 		BERRY, Rose Lillian (I6858)
 
937 Bertha (8) with aunt, Mrs Allen. Maud (5) with aunt Mrs. Rodgers c1906 WELLER, Bertha Isabel (I2812)
 
938 Bertha (8) with aunt, Mrs Allen. Maud (5) with aunt Mrs. Rodgers c1906 WELLER, Maud Beatrice (I2813)
 
939 Bertha of Holland (c. 1055 – 15 October 1094), also known as Berthe or Bertha of Frisia and erroneously as Berta or Bertrada, was queen of France from 1072 until 1092, as the first wife of King Philip I of France. Bertha's marriage to the king in 1072 was a result of peace negotiations between him and her stepfather, Count Robert I of Flanders. After nine years of childlessness, the royal couple had three children, including Philip's successor, Louis VI. Philip, however, grew tired of his wife by 1090, and repudiated her in 1092 in order to marry the already married Bertrade of Montfort. That marriage was a scandal since both Philip and Bertrade were already married to other people, at least until Queen Bertha died the next year.

Early life

Bertha of Holland marrying King Philip I
Bertha was the daughter of Count Floris I of Holland and Gertrude of Saxony.[1] Bertha had six siblings and both of her parents came from large families. Her father ruled a territory vaguely described as "Friesland west of the Vlie", which is where Bertha spent her childhood.[2] Count Floris I was assassinated in 1061,[2] and two years later her mother remarried to Robert of Flanders.[3] Robert, now known as Robert the Frisian, became guardian of Bertha and her six siblings.[2] In 1070, Robert the Frisian became involved in a war with King Philip I of France over succession to the County of Flanders.[2][4] Within two years, Robert and Philip concluded a peace treaty which was to be sealed by a marriage; Robert's own daughters were too young, but their half-sister Bertha was just the right age.[2] Robert thus agreed to the marriage of his stepdaughter to King Philip. Bertha married Philip, thus becoming queen of the Franks, probably in 1072.[2][3]

Queenship

Queen Bertha and King Philip with their children
Bertha was, at the time, the lowest ranking woman to marry a French king; no suitable princess could be found, since they were all too closely related to Philip for the marriage to any of them to be seen as perfectly valid by the Church. Bertha had no kings among her traceable ancestors and lacked even tenuous links with the Carolingian that her predecessors could claim. Consequently, contemporary chroniclers did not even try to present her lineage as more exalted than that of a count's daughter. Nevertheless, the shortage of royal candidates made Bertha a suitable choice.[5] The regal title she gained by this marriage was prestigious, but had little meaning, as she was confined to her husband's small royal domain that covered little more than areas around Paris and Orléans.[2]

Little is known about Bertha's queenship. She co-signed only three donation charters. However, she plays a prominent role in the hagiography titled Vita Arnulfi. The hagiography describes how she used her regal power (vi regia) to expel Abbot Gerard of Saint-Médard and reinstate the former abbot, Pontius, who had been removed due to his mismanagement of the abbey. Saint Arnulf of Soissons warned her that doing so would incur the wrath of God and lead to her being driven out of the kingdom into exile, where she would die despised and miserable. The queen furiously refused to listen to him. Although all the extant versions of Vita Arnulfi refer to the queen as Bertrada, it is clear that the queen mentioned in the hagiography is Bertha of Holland, given that the events mentioned in it took place while Bertha was queen and more than a decade before she was replaced as such by Bertrade. The hagiography, however, was written after Bertha died and during Bertrade's queenship, which might explain the name confusion.[2]

Childlessness
For six years, King Philip and Queen Bertha were troubled by their childlessness and especially by the lack of male children,[4] which was not unusual among the early male members of the House of Capet.[3] Things suddenly took a different course, however, when the Queen had three children in quick succession: a daughter named Constance in 1078 and two sons, the long-hoped heir named Louis in 1081 and Henry, born in 1083 and who died in infancy.[3][4] The birth of the long-awaited heir apparent had such a great impact that a story of a miracle developed around it. Reportedly, the couple's fertility was only restored thanks to the prayers of a hermit, Saint Arnulf of Soissons. Arnulf informed Queen Bertha that she was expecting a son and that it would be appropriate to give him the Carolingian name of Louis. A daughter named Constance soon followed. Bertha gave birth to one more son, named Henry, but he appears to have died in infancy or childhood.[2][4]

Repudiation

King Philip marries Countess Bertrada, with Count Fulk protesting and Queen Bertha imprisoned in a castle
After the birth of three children, the marriage began breaking apart. The King became tired of his wife but the reasons are unclear. Contemporary chroniclers give different explanations. According to the English historian William of Malmesbury, Philip complained that Bertha was "too fat", though he was himself becoming too obese to ride a horse.[3][4] In 1092, Philip announced his decision to divorce "the noble and virtuous daughter of Florent count of Holland and stepdaughter of Robert the Frisian" and marry the already married Bertrada of Montfort, the wife of Count Fulk IV of Anjou. The repudiated queen withdrew to the fortress of Montreuil-sur-Mer, which was part of her dower land.[3] By doing so, Philip infuriated his stepfather-in-law. Bertha died soon thereafter, on 15 October 1094[6] This simplified matters for Philip who was now free to remarry – though not the Countess of Anjou, whose husband Fulk was still living.[4]

In 1108, Philip died. The son of the queen who had been repudiated ostensibly for her obesity ascended the French throne as Louis VI. Both he and her fraternal nephew, Count Floris II of Holland, were nicknamed "the Fat".[2]

Issue
Together, Philip and Bertha had three children:

Constance (1078 – 14 September 1126), married Hugh I of Champagne before 1097 and then, after her divorce, to Bohemund I of Antioch in 1106.
Louis VI of France (1 December 1081 – 1 August 1137).
Henry (1083 – died young).
References
William (of Malmesbury), Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings: General introduction and commentary, Volume 2, Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, Rodney M. Thomson and Michael Winterbottom, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 244.
van Bussel, Marion (2012). "Bertha van Holland (ca. 1055–1094)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826435149.
Luscombe, David; Riley-Smith, Jonathan (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, c.1024-c.1198. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521414113.
Bouchard, Constance Brittain (2001). Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812235908.
Nieuwenhuijsen, Kees (2016). Strijd om West-Frisia. De ontstaansgeschiedenis van het graafschap Holland: 900-1100. Omniboek, Utrecht, p. 221. ISBN 9789401907569. 		Bertha of Holland (I19103)
 
940 Bessie Lena Mary RUCK and Albert Richard RUCK are 1st cousins. Their common ancestors are William RUCK and Elizabeth HILLS. Family (F5159)
 
941 Bethersden, Thos Waterman & Thos Milsted chws [churchwardens], Death of John Thrift vic[ar], 29 Apr 1630 , Relaxed 05 May 1630.
Source: Canterbury Licences (Teaching and Medical) 1568-1646, vol. 12 		MILSTED, Thomas (I4869)
 
942 Betty Doreen Farrall
Birthdate: circa 1922 (90)
Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon
Death: July 02, 2012 (86-94)
Revelstoke Lodge Care Centre, Plymouth, Devon
Place of Burial: Weston Mill Crematorium, Plymouth, Devon
Immediate Family:
Wife of Lionel John Westlake
Managed by: Jeremy Clive Furneaux
Last Updated: December 1, 2016 		FARRALL, Betty Doreen (I13359)
 
943 Between 1148 and 1155 Hugh married Maud le Meschin (also known as Maud/Matile du Bessin), daughter of William Meschin, Lord of Skipton, Yorkshire, and Cecily de Rumilly. Maud (Matilda) was the widow of Philip Belmeis of Tong. Hugh and Maud's son Roger Mortimer of Wigmore succeeded his father as Lord of Wigmore. Hugh and Maud had three other sons, Hugh (killed in a tournament), Ralph, and William. Hugh may have died 26 Feb 1180/81 in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England, and was buried at Wigmore.[2] LE MESCHIN, Maud (I15169)
 
944 BEVIS Ann Deceased 62 Maidstone Death 1850 16-Nov, page 8, column 4.
[Source: Dover Telegraph newspaper] 		Ann (I13922)
 
945 Bibliografia Italiana
656. Risposta alle allegazioni pubblicate dal conte Andrea Del Medico nella causa ora pendente davanti il supremo consiglio di Modena tra esso e le dame Sarteschi, Borghini e DeNobili. Parma, stamperia Carmignani, 1845 In-4, di pag. 204

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Memorie storiche dei Reggiani più illustri nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e ... By Enrico Manzini, Girolamo Tiraboschi, p596
Opere edite del Comm. G.C. Vedriani
2nd. - Decisione dell' Ill.mo Supremo Consiglio di Giustizia residente in Modena proferita a sezioni riunite nel giorno 4 Febbrajo 1850, nella causa vertita fra le nobili donne Contessa Carlotta Del-Medico in Sarteschim, Elena Monzoni in Borghini ed Anna Monzoni in De-Nobili col Sig. Conte Andrea Del-Medico di Carrara, in punto di nullita d'istituzione fiduciaria. Modena, Tip. Cappelli, 1850 		Count del Medico Staffetti Andrea St. John Anthony Francis Peter (I10913)
 
946 Biddingfield's burial entry indicates that he was 75 years of age at the time of his death. LEESE, Biddingfield Henry (I5415)
 
947 BIGONS, alias DIGONS, was once a seat of some note in this parish, and was the residence of a family of the name of Mapelysden; one of which, Edward Mapelysden, of Digons, is mentioned in a deed of the 25th year of king Edward III's reign, and in his descendants it continued down to George Maplesden; and in the Visitation of Kent, anno 1619, is a pedigree of this family, which about this time separated into two branches, one of which settled at Rochester, and the other, being the younger, continued at Maidstone. A descendant of one of them remained at Shorne, near Rochester, within these few years, possessed of a good fortune, and was a justice of the peace for this county. They bore for their arms, Sable, a cross formee fitchee argent. But George Maplesden above-mentioned having engaged in the troubles stirred up by Sir Thomas Wyatt, in the 1st year of queen Mary, forfeited this seat to the crown, whence it was soon afterwards granted to Nicholas Barham, esq. afterwards serjeant-atlaw, the son of Richard Barham, of Wadhurst, in Sussex, descended of a branch of those of Berham-court, in Teston. He bore for his arms, Argent, three bears sable, muzzled or; on a fess gules, a fleur de lis, between two martlets of the second. (fn. 45) He much improved it with additional buildings. His son and heir, Arthur Barham, passed it away by sale to Henry Haule, descended from Thomas de Aula or Haule, of Wye, and bore for his arms, Or, on a saltier sable, five mullets, or. (fn. 46) He resided here, and married Jane, the second daughter of Richard Dering, esq. of Pluckley, by whom he had two sons, Henry and George; the former of whom possessed this seat on his father's death, and soon afterwards alienated it to Sir Francis Barnham, of Hollingbourne, (fn. 47) who improved it much. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sampson Lennard, esq. by whom he had several children; of whom Dacre, the eldest son, dying unmarried, Robert, his second son, became his heir, and alienated this house, soon after the death of king Charles I. to Walter Franklyn, who sold it to Mr. Beale, of London, as he did afterwards to Griffith Hatley, M. D. the fifth son of John Hatley, citizen of London, who was descended of a good family at Goldington, in Bedfordshire. His epitaph is remaining in the chancel of Maidstone church, and his arms, Azure, a sword in bend between two mullets pierced or. He died possessed of this house in 1710, since which it has continued in the same name and family to the present time, being now the property of James Hatley, esq. of Ipswich, in Suffolk.
The antient scite of Digons is in Knight-riders-street, it was lately a boarding school for young ladies.

From: 'The town and parish of Maidstone: Town and manors', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 260-307. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53808&strquery=haule Date accessed: 06 December 2009.

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CHILLINGSTON is a manor in this parish, the mansion of which was situated near St. Faith's-green, in this town. It was antiently part of the possessions of the eminent family of Cobham, of Cobham, in this county; one of which, John de Cobham, procured a charter of free-warren for this manor, among the rest of his lands in this county, in the 17th year of king Edward III. Soon after which it passed to the Maplesdens, of Digons, in this town, as appears by the court-rolls and deeds of this manor; in which name it continued till George Maplesden, having engaged in the rebellion stirred up by Sir Thomas Wyatt, in the 1st year of queen Mary, forfeited it, to the crown, whence it was soon afterwards granted to Sir Walter Hendley, who not long after alienated his interest in it to Nicholas Barham, esq. afterwards serjeant-at-law, whose son and heir, Arthur Barham, passed it away by sale to Henry Haule, of Digons above-mentioned, whose youngest grandson, George Haule, died about 1650, without issue, leaving his sister, Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Taylor, bart. his heir.

From: 'The town and parish of Maidstone: Town and manors', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 260-307. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53808&strquery=haule Date accessed: 06 December 2009. 		HAULE, George (I7045)
 
948 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living (I113)
 
949 Biography of Mary Ann Browning, by Jim DeVore

Mary Ann Browning was born on April 3rd in the Year of Our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Seven. Her birthplace was at Hernhill, Kent, England. She was born during the reign of king George III.
When she was 16 years old and was married to Nicholas Mears and later they became the parents of eight children. Her husband Nicholas was a Constable and when he was just 33 years old he was killed in a riot called the Battle of Bosenden Wood.
Later She married again. Her new husband's name was William Lewington Jemmett. At the time of their marriage he was 23 years old and she was 37 years old. She was 14 years older than William. He became the step-father of her 8 children and later they had five children of their own. Their names were William George, Henry George, Edward, Julia Jane, and Rosina Kathleen.
Mary Ann was baptized into the LDS Churches when she was 52 years old. For a time the LDS Mission Home was at her home. Her husband was a pious man and a strict observer of the Sabbath Day.
In 1857 her son William Henry became the first of her family to immigrate to America. He settled in St. Louis Mo. Julia Jane left for America in 1852. When she came to leave her father hugged her and said: “Julia, if it were not for the gospel’s sake, and I didn't know we would meet again somewhere I could never stand this parting." This was the last time they were to ever see each other in this world. William Lewington died two years later when his boat was blown up on the Thames River. William had been the master of a sailing barge named the "Good Design” His occupation was mainly that of an oyster dredger. His boat also hauled freight and on his last trip it was hauling gun powder.
That night when he did not come home Mary Ann thought she heard his little dog scratching at the door she went to check, but there was no dog there. She had a feeling something had happened, and soon the terrible news was brought to her that her husband was killed when his boat was exploded by the gun powder on board. His little dog who would have been with him, also never came home again.
One year after William died Mary Ann decided to journey to America. By this time her son Henry George was also there. In the year 1865 when Mary Ann was 68 years old she and
her daughter , Rosina Kathleen, set sail for America. They sailed on the ship “Bell Wood” out of Liverpool.
They came to America the year the Civil War ended. Rosina and Mary Ann traveled across the planes with the Miner Grant Atwood Co., and had many adventures with Indians who stampeded cattle and Army soldiers who played tricks. They traveled approximately 5-15 miles in one day.
Rosina married Charles Johnson who operated the Sand Hole Stage Station in Kamas Idaho. For a time Mary Ann lived with them. All in all she lived to be 86 years old and died on April 28th of 1883 at Woodland, Utah.
If you visit the Heber City Cemetery in Utah you can see her tombstone.
A grandson was later to write of Mary Ann: "she was kindness itself." 		BROWNING, Mary Ann (I7551)
 
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ISABELLA TURNER
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Newington


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ISABELLA TURNER
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TURNER
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