St. John, Viscount Oliver

Notes:

Lord Deputy, then Lord High Treasurer of Ireland under Charles 1 and James 1.
About 1620/23 he was created Viscount Grandison.


Will of Oliver St John.
PRO 159 Folio 1 1630:

Sir Oliver St. John, Knight, Viscount Grandison and Lord Tregoze to be buried at Battrichsey under monumental inscription for me and my wife there Dame Joane, Viscountess Grandison my wife manor house at Battrichsey nephew Sir John St. John, knight and baronet Henry, Lord Docura shall be seised of my lands in Ireland godsons John St. John, 2nd son of my nephew Sir John St. John, Henry St. John son-in-law Sir Henry Holecroft, Knt Sir William Slingsby, Knt, Sir Ffrancis Leigh Sir Henry St. George and John Awsrey overseers.


Battersea...After the dissolution of monasteries, the manor was reserved in the hands of the crown; a lease of it was granted to Henry Roydon (fn. 8) , Esq. by queen Elizabeth, for twenty-one years, .... it was afterwards granted for the same term to his daughter, then Joan Holcroft (fn. 9)... An. 1610 (fn. 10) . In the year 1627, it was granted in reversion to Oliver St. John, Viscount Grandison (fn. 11).

Lord Grandison died in 1630, and was succeeded in that title, and in the Battersea estate, by William Villiers, his great-nephew, who died of a wound received at the siege of Bristol, An. 1644. Sir John St. John, Bart. nephew of the first lord Grandison, inherited Battersea; from him it passed in a regular descent to Sir Walter St. John, Bart. his nephew; to Sir Walter's son, Henry Viscount St. John; and to his grandson Henry Viscount Bolingbrooke, who, by an act of parliament passed before his father's death, was enabled to inherit his estate, notwith standing his attainder: the estate and manor continued in the St. John family till 1763, ...From: 'Battersea', The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey (1792), pp. 26-48. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45371. Date accessed: 20 July 2007.


St. John family.
Battersea was long the residence, as well as the property, of the St. Johns; and many of the births, deaths, and marriages of that family are recorded in the parish register;
"The Lord Oliver St. John, buried Jan. 12. 1630-1."
"The Ladie Grandison, her name Jone, buried Mar. 10. 1630-1."

Oliver St. John, Viscount Grandison.
Oliver St. John was the first of the family who settled at Battersea; he married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Roydon Esq. of that place, and widow of Sir William Holcroft. He was general of the forces in Ireland, and was lord high treasurer, and lord deputy of that realm; was created Viscount Grandison, of Ireland, by James I.; and in 1626, was made an English peer, by the title of Baron St. John: he died without issue. A monument to his memory, is fixed in the north wall of the church, ornamented with busts of himself and his lady, in white marble; over which are the arms and quarterings of St. John (fn. 32) impaling Roydon (fn. 33) , underneath is the following inscription:

"Deo trino and uno facrum
Olivero Nicholai Sct. John de Lydeard filio secundo eq. aurato antiquissimis et illustribus de Bellocampo, de Bletsoe, Grandisonis et Tregoziæ familiis oriundo. Terra marique, domi, forisque, belli pacisque artibus egregio, divæ Elizabethæ, e nobilissima pensionariorum cohorte, suis inde meritis et singulari divi Jacobi gratia, in Hibernia instrumentis bellicis præfecto, Conaciæ Pro-præside et Quæstori summo et Regis vicario, Procomiti de Grandisonis et Tregoziæ, de Hyworth, in Anglia, Baroni, eidem divo Jacobo et filio ejus piissimo a secretioribus et sanctioribus conciliis. Postquam is annos honoribus æquaverat et tranquillissime senuerat somnienti similiter extincto, Johannes de Sanct. John Eques et Baronettus ac fratre nepos et hæres avunculo mærentissimo mæstissimus p. in ecclesia de Battersey.
"Vixit annos 70. Mor. 29 Decembris 1630."

Funeral of Sir John St. John.
In 1648, Sir John St. John (the nephew as I imagine of Lord Grandison (fn. 34) ) was buried at Battersea with such unusual pomp, that it excited the attention of the heralds, who commenced a prosecution against Mr. Walter St. John the executor, for acting so contrary to the usage of arms and the laws of heraldry.

In the British Museum (fn. 35) is a MS. deposition of William Riley, one of the heralds, who declares, that the funeral of the deceased was conducted in a manner so much above his degree, that the escutcheons were more than were used at the funeral of a duke; and that he never saw so many pennons but at the funeral of one of the blood royal; and that he considered such a precedent to be destructive of all distinction, order, and degree of honour and nobility. The burial of Sir John St. John is omitted in the Register.

"Sir Walter St. John, Bart. æt. 87, buried July 9, 1708."

Sir Walter St. John.
Sir Walter St. John, the third baronet of the family, succeeded his nephew Sir John, who died before he came of age. Sir Walter married one of the daughters of lord chief justice St. John: he was eminent for piety and moral virtues. The parish of Battersea is indebted to him for the foundation of a free-school, which he endowed in the year 1700 for twenty poor boys, and to which both he and his lady left farther sums towards apprenticing some of them. A portrait of Sir Walter is preserved in the school-room.

"Henry, the son of Mr. Walter St. John, baptized Oct. 17, 1652."
"The Right Honorable Henry Lord Viscount St. John, buried April 16, 1742."

Henry Viscount St. John.
This was the father of Lord Bolingbroke. In 1684, being then Mr. Henry St. John, he was tried for the murder of Sir William Estcourt, Bart. and was convicted. ..accordingly: but to his cost found, that his pardon was to be purchased at the high rate of 16,000 l.; one half of which the king converted to his own use; and bestowed the remainder upon two ladies who were in great favor. .... the king granted him only a reprieve; in confirmation of this, no pardon appears to have been enrolled (fn. 38): the reprieve was for a long term of years, which the extreme old age which he attained rendered it probable that he would survive. In 1716 he was created Baron St. John of Battersea, and Viscount St. John, and died in 1742, as mentioned above, on the verge of ninety.

"Henry, son of Henry St. John, Esq. baptized Oct. 10, 1678."
"Henry St. John, late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, buried December 18, 1751."
Lord Bolingbroke.

These dates will serve to correct an inaccuracy in the Life of Lord Bolingbroke, in which it is asserted, that he died at the age of seventy-nine (fn. 39); this has led the editors of the Biographia (fn. 40) into an error, and has induced them to fix the date of his birth in 1672. They are inaccurate likewise in saying that his lady died many years before him, as will appear both by her epitaph, and the entry of her burial, in the register. Upon the death of his father, lord Bolingbroke became possessed of the paternal estate at Battersea, ... He died December 12th, 1751 (fn. 42) . His second wife was widow of the Marquis de Villette, and niece of the celebrated Mad. de Maintenon. She died a short time before her husband, and lies buried in the same vault with him in Battersea church; where, on the north wall, is a monument to their memory by Roubiliac, of grey and black marble: the upper part is ornamented with lord Bolingbroke's arms (fn. 43) . The inscription is on a black tablet, on each side of which are medallions with profiles in basso-relievo of lord and lady Bolingbroke, well executed, in white marble. The inscription is as follows:

"Here lies
Henry St. John,
In the reign of Queen Anne,
Secretary of War Secretary of State,
And Viscount Bolingbroke:
In the days of King George the first and King George the second,
Something more and better.
His attachment to Queen Anne,
Exposed him to a long and severe persecution;
He bore it with firmness of mind,
The enemy of no national party,
The friend of no faction;
Distinguished (under the cloud of a proscription,
which had not been entirely taken off)
By zeal to maintain the liberty,
And to restore the ancient prosperity,
of Great Britain.
He died the 12th of December,
1751, aged 73."

"In the same vault
are interred, the remains of
Mary Clara des Champs de Marcelly,
Marchioness of Villette, and Viscountess
Bolingbroke, of a noble family,
bred in the court of Lewis 14th.
She reflected a lustre on the former,
by the superior accomplishments of her mind;
She was an ornament to the latter,
by the amiable dignity and grace of her behaviour.
She lived, the honour of her own sex,
the delight and admiration of ours
: She dyed, an object of imitation to both:
With all the firmness that reason,
With all the resignation that religion,
Can inspire.
Aged 74 the 18th of March,
1750."

The last of the St. John family that was buried at Battersea, was an infant daughter of Lord Bolingbroke in 1762.

Bolingbroke House.
In 1763 the estate was alienated; and about fifteen years ago, the greater part of Bolingbroke-house was pulled down: ...: From: 'Battersea', The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey (1792), pp. 26-48. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45371. Date accessed: 20 July 2007.

See DNB Article:

St. John, Oliver, Viscount Grandison and Baron Tregoz 1559-1630, lord deputy of Ireland, born in 1559, was the second son of Nicholas St. John (d. 1589) of Lydiard-Tregoz (or Liddiard Tregoze, as it is now spelt), Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth (d. 1587), daughter of Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire. His mother was distantly related to Charles Blount, earl of Devonshire [q.v.], and on the father's side he was descended through a female line from the Grandisons (see G.E.C.'s Complete Peerage), and was related to the St. Johns, barons of Bletsho [see St. John, Oliver, first Earl of Bolingbroke]. The future lord deputy was educated at Oxford, matriculating from Trinity College on 20 Dec. 1577 as a commoner, and graduating B.A. on 26 June 1578. He adopted the legal profession, and in 1580 was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn. ....

Oliver married Roydon, Joan about 1600 in England. Joan was born about 1575 in Battersea, Surrey, England; was buried on 10 Mar 1631 in Battersea, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will of Nicholas St John:
mentions son John St John, Oliver St John, Walter son of my son John, Anne St George daughter of my daughter Elizabeth, son Richard, daughter Katherine Webb, daughter Cave, daughter Nicholas, daughter St George, daughter Dorothy,
Executors Michal Blount of Mapledurham, William St. John of Norton, Southampton, John St John of Hatfield, Essex.

Monument of Nicholas St John, 1589: (See Victorian Histories-Kingsbridge Hundred)


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Iacent hie (optime lector) sub spe beatae resurrectionis reposita corpora Nicholai St.John armigeri et Ebzabethae coniugis suae regi Edouardo, Reginae Mariae, et Reginae Elizabethae e selectorum stipatorum numero (quos vulgo pentionarios vocant) fuit eumque apud principem locum obtinens mortem obiit: Elizabetha ipsius uxor filia fuit Richardi Blunt militis, ex eaque genuit tres filios et quinque filias: Iohanem, Oliverum, Richardum, Elizabetham, Catherinam, Helinoram, Dorotheam, atque Ianam. Iohannes films natu maximus in uxorem duxit filiam Gualteri Hungerford militis, Oliverus et Richardus vivunt adhuc caelibes, Elizabetha filia natu maxima nupsit St.George comitatus Cantabrigiensis, Catherina Webb, Helinora Cave, comitatus Northamptoniensis, Dorothea Egiocke Warwickensis, Iana vero Nicholas comitatus Wiltonensis. Ipse Nicholas St.John ex hac vita discessit octavo die Novembris anno domini 1589 Elizabetha vero ipsius coniux ex hac vita discessit undecimo die Augusti anno domini 1587 insigne relinquens trophaem posteris suis et famae purae et vitae integrae Iohannes St.John illorum filius hoc illis de se optime meritis et piis parentibus pietatis ergo monumentum posuit: anno domini 1592

Nobis est Christus Tempora qui longae speras faelicia vitae
et in vita et in morte lucum spes tua te fallit testis utrique sumus



Here lie (good reader) buried in the hope of the blessed resurrection the bodies of Nicholas St.John, armigerA, and of his wife, Elizabeth: he was for the reigns of King Edward, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth of the number of the chosen retinue® (commonly called pensioners) and died while holding that rank with the sovereign . Elizabeth his wife was the daughter of Richard Blunt, Knight, and by her had three sons0 and five daughters: John, Oliver,Richard, Elizabeth, Catherine, Eleanor, Dorothea, and Jane. John his eldest son took to wife the daughter of Walter Hungerford, Knight. Oliver and Richard are still alive, unmarried. Elizabeth his eldest daughter married St.George of the County of Cambridge, Catherine [(married)] Webb, Eleanor [(married)] Cave of the County of Northampton, Dorothea [(married)] Egiocke of [(the County of] Warwick, Jane [(married)] Nicholas of the County of Wiltshire. Nicholas St.John himself departed this life on the eighth day of November, 1589, and Elizabeth his wife departed this life on the eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord 1587, leaving a noteworthy trophy to those who followed her of unsullied repute and wholesome life. John St.John their son set up this monument out of affection to those good parents who had served him so well. In the year of our Lord, 1592.

In life and in death Christ is our riches. Thou who dost hope for the happy span of a long life, Thy hope deceives thee, we both bear witness
(Rev. J.T. Wharton, Friends of Lydiard Report No. 3, 20th June 1970)


Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index:
Month: Nov Year: 1589 Age: Forenames: Nicholas Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105650 Notes: husb of Elizabeth

In 1592 Walter?s father John had erected a monument at Lydiard Tregoze to his own father, Nicholas St John, who died in 1589, and his mother, Elizabeth Blunt, who died in 1587. He says that his father was prominent in the courts of Edward, Mary and Elizabeth; that he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Blunt; and that they had three sons, John, Oliver, and Richard, the latter two unmarried, and five daughters, who married well.
In 1630 Walter?s brother John St John inherited the estates in Battersea of his intrepid uncle Oliver, Lord Grandison. At his decease (1633) he was succeeded by his grandson John, who dying childless before he came of age, his uncle Walter obtained the title and the estates. He resided at Battersea, where he died in 1708, leaving an only son Henry his rank and property. The inscriptions and biographies can be found in John Britton's The Beauties of England And Wales : Wiltshire, pp. 645-59: Verner & Hood, 1814 (first publ. 1801).

Nicholas married Blount, Elizabeth about 1550 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Blount, Sir Richard and Lister, Elizabeth) was born about 1531 in Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England; was buried on 11 Aug 1587 in Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.purley.eu/H320P/TS0002.pdf
John St John (1505-1576) of Lydiard Tregose inherited Purley Magna in 1512 although still a minor. Presumably the manor was administered by his mother Joan who re-married to Nicholas Saunder.
He would have beome Lord at his majority in 1526. Very little is known of happenings during his lordship and he died in 1576 the manor passing to Nicholas St John, who had been named on a settlement of the manor by Joan together with his intended bride Elizabeth Blount of Mapledurham House.
The latter couple came to live in Purley, at the old Manor House, often referred to as the Great Farm House adjacent to the church. Elizabeth & Nicholas had eight children: John, Oliver, Richard, Elizabeth, Catherine, Eleanor, Dorothy and Jane and one may suppose that most, if not all were born in Purley, or at least were brought up there. (ref 590)
Nicholas St John of Purley, along with George Phetyplace of the Middle Temple was granted the manors of Shrevenham, Salop, Compton Beauchamp and Stamford in the Vale, Berks and other lands in 1566.
Nicholas St John died in 1589 and left a will. He was succeded by his son John. Elizabeth, nee Blount had died in 1587 and both were buried at Lydiard Tregose in Wiltshire. (refs 589-148, 590)


Wiltshire memorial Transcription index:
Month: Aug Year: 1587 Age: Forenames: Elizabeth Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105650 Notes: wife of Nicholas dau of Richard BLOUNT

Notes:

Apparently a ward to Sir Richard Carew, then married his daughter.
Born: 1504/5
Died: 5 Apr 1576
Father: John St. JOHN (Sir)
Mother: Joan INWARDBY
Married 1: Margaret CAREW
Children:
1. Nicholas St. JOHN of Lydiard Tregoze
Married 2: Elizabeth WHETHILL Nov 1535
Children:
2. William St. JOHN of Farley Chamberlayne
3. John St. JOHN of Bincknoll

(See History of Parliament Online)
Born ABT 1505, first son of John St. John of Lydiard Tregoz by Joan, dau. and heiress of Sir John Iwardby of Farley Chamberlayne. Married first, by 1526, Margaret, dau. of Sir Richard Carew of Beddington, Surr.; and secondly, by Nov 1535, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard Whethill of Calais. Suc. family 1 Sep 1512. Esquire of the body extraordinary by 1533; J.P. Wilts. 1554-d.; sheriff 1555-6, 1572-3; commr. sewers, Berks., Hants, Wilts. 1564, 1568, oyer and terminer, western circuit 1564.

When John St. John was about seven years old his father died while serving at Fuenterrabia, Spain. He inheritated his fathers lands and later inherited, from his mother, who was still alive in 1549, manors in Hampshire and Surrey. Sir Richard Carew acquired the wardship of the young St. John, who by 1526 was married to one of Carew's daughters.

He was elected to Parliament in 1529. In 1533 St. John acted as a servitor at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
In 1535 St. John married, as his second wife, a daughter of Sir Richard Whethill. In in a grant of Jul 1545 St John is described as of Farley Chamberlayne, a property of his mother's whereas in a settlement which he had made of his property in the previous month he is described as of Ewell, where his mother held the manor of Fitznells. His inclusion on the Wiltshire commission of the peace in 1554 seems to imply that he had finally settled at Lydiard Tregoz.

In 1545 St. John purchased the manor of Littleton for his son Nicholas. The tenants of Littleton quarrelled with the two St. Johns over the rents and dues of the manor, and in Edward VI's reign they brought suits in the courts of Star Chamber and requests. They alleged that the St. Johns had forcibly entered the property and done at least £500 worth of damage, a charge denied by the elder St. John who claimed that he and his son had distrained legally for rent on 6 Dec 1550 or 1551, Nicholas St. John for his part explained how his father had acquired two of the lessees shares in the manor. In 1548 Nicholas obtained a writ of partition from Chancery which was unsuccessfully challenged by the tenants in common pleas. The outcome of these suits is not known, but John St. John was able to bequeath the property to his son William.

St John made his will on 24 Apr 1574. Besides Littleton, William was to have the manor and advowson of Farley Chamberlayne, some household furnishings and 400 wether sheep. The youngest son, John, received the manor of Bincknoll, Wiltshire, and all the cattle, crops, and household stuff at Littleton unless his brothers paid him a stipulated amount for them. By a codicil of 2 Dec 1575 William and John also received gifts of plate, bedding, a chain of gold and four horses. Nicholas, the heir, was appointed sole executor and had the residue of all the goods. St. John died on 5 Apr 1576 and probate was granted the 9th Nov following.

Will of John Seynt John or Seyntiohn otherwise Saint John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire 09 November 1576 PROB 11/58


Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index:
Day: 5 Month: Apr Year: 1576 Age: Forenames: John Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105649 Notes: Esq Lord of Lydiard Tregoze husb of 1) Margaret 2) Elizabeth

John married Carew, Lady Margaret about 1525 in England. Margaret (daughter of Carew, Richard and Oxenbridge, Maylin) was born about 1508 in Of Beddington, Surrey, England; died about 1534 in Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Forenames: Margaret Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105649 Notes: 1st wife of John dau of Richard CAREW

Notes:

Will of Sir Richard Blounte of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire Date 26 August 1564 Catalogue reference PROB 11/47

His son Sir Richard (d.1564) who married Elizabeth Lister, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice, succeeded him; in 1558 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London, a post also held by his son Sir Michael (d.1610) (pictured left). Father and son lie beneath a splendid tomb in the Chapel Royal in the Tower.
http://www.mapledurham.co.uk/history/manorhouse/

Sir Richard Blount, of Maple Durham Gurney, was one of the gentlemen of the chamber to King Henry VIII. of the Privy chamber to Edward VI. and held various offices of trust under Elizabeth, amongst others that of lieutenant of the Tower. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Lister, chief-justice of England, and sister of Sir Michael Lister,* knight of the Bath, by which lady he had issue, Michael (Sir), his successor. Richard (Sir), who resided at Dodsham or Dysliam, in Sussex. He m. the Hon. Elizabeth West, second daughter of William, first Lord De la Warre, by whom (who d. in 1595) he had a son, William. Elizabeth, m. to Nicholas St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke. Barbara, m. to Francis Shirley, of East Grinstead, in Sussex. Sir Richard d. 11th August, 1564, was buried under a splendid monument in the church of St. Peter in Vinculis, in the Tower, erected ^by his widow (whose will was proved 26th June, 1582), and t. by his elder son,
Tv! Elizabeth, i both died voun8v. Frances, b. 23rd February, 1569. vi. Elizabeth, b. 28th July, 1574. The date of the decease of Sir Michael Blount is not upon record. He was buried under a sumptuous monument near his father, in St. Peter's Church, in the Tower, and *. by his eldest son,

Mapledurham is fine, red-brick late-16th century manor house set at the edge of the village and close to the River Thames. In the late Middle Ages the Mapledurham estate passed from the Bardolf family to the Lyndes. A large part of Lyndes' timber-framed house was retained when Sir Michael Blount built the present, far larger, house in 1588.
Sir Michael was Lieutenant of the Tower of London whose grandfather, Richard Blount, had purchased the estate in 1490. The Blount family were Catholic recusants and in the 17th and early 18th centuries the estate suffered a decline. However, the family fortunes had recovered by the 19th century and in 1828 - 31 Michael Henry Blount restored the exterior in Elizabethan style and created new interiors.
In the 20th century the direct line of the Blount family died out and in 1943 the Mapledurham estate passed by descent to the current owner, a member of one of the county's oldest Catholic families. Today the house is run by the Mapledurham Trust.
The Elizabethan house, set on sweeping lawns, is H-shaped with attractive brickwork and tall chimneys. The picturesque remains of the Lynde family's medieval house provide a great contrast to the rather severe 16th century building that replaced it.
Although at first glance Mapledurham appears to be an unaltered example of late-16th century domestic architecture there have been several alterations. In the 18th century the chimneys were rearranged and the original gables removed.
The neo-Tudor porch was added in the 1820s and at the same time the brickwork of the entrance front was restored and the windows returned to their original mullioned and transomed appearance.

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In a Court Roll of 1545 (5M53/932) the Court Minutes the Manor of Husseys is listed with many others in a marriage settlement between Mary Wriothesley and Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Baron of the King’s Exchequer who held this manor for a further ten years when on the 21st. day of December in the second and third years of the reigns of the late King and Queen (Philip and Mary, 1555), he sold Husseys to John Gifford of Northall (Northolt) in the County of Middlesex.

The Earl of Southampton seems to have had his full pardon by that time. His mother had long been failing and was now very ill; she lived over six months after.
P.C.C., Martyn 43
Her will was drawn up on 1st July, I574* and she died not long afterwards; the will was proved on 26th July. She left certain leases to her son, Henry, Earl of Southampton, failing whom to his son, Lord Harry Wriothesley, failing whom to the Lady Mary Wriothesley, failing whom to her own daughters. Her household stuff was to go in the same way. She left liberal shares of her cattle and sheep to her son-in-law, Cornwallys, and his wife Katharine, the rest to her son. Certain leases were left directly to her grandson, failing whom to his sister Mary. Her own daughter, Mabel, was to have for life Longlands and Gravelpits, lately parcel of the possessions of the monastery of Clerkenwell, after her to Robert Cornwallys, her daughter's son. One hundred pounds' worth of plate was left to each of her daughters, 100 marks' worth to Lord Harry Wriothesley, and the same to Lady Mary. To my son the Earl all my stuff in Southampton Place, Holborn, my best crosse of gold set with diamonds on one side and enamelled with green and red on the other, with a faire pearl hanging at it. A faire tablet of golde wherein is the picture of my Lord his father's face, weighing about ^\ ounces, also my great flaggon chayne that I was wont to weare about my middle for a girdle, weighing 12 ounces.... To my Lady Southampton, my son's wife, a Browche with an Agate and 7 little rubyes, with the picture of a face upon the Agatt; also a girdle of gold, with roses black and white enamelled, and wheatsheaves enamelled. . . .To my daughter Katharine my best booke of gold, set with 4 diamonds and a ruby in the midst on one side, and 4 rubyes with a diamond in the midst on the other side, and the Queen's writing in the same book; also my wrethed long girdle of gold with black enamel ; and a short girdle of perles with little perles of gold enamelled in black, a brooch of gold with a saphire in it, and a Storye, also a cheyne of fine golde. To my daughter Mabel my best brooche which hath 10 diamonds in it and a ruby at the foot of the Storye; also a gold booke with a black knot inamelled and two scallop shells; a chain of gold inamelled black and white; a long girdle of gold, another with pillars inamelled red and white and black, the links playne and wrethed, and a cross of gold, with a crucifix sett with 2 diamonds and a perle pendent, with another chayne. To my son's daughter, the Lady Mary, my best flower of gold set with 2 rubyes, 2 emeralds, and 3 perles pendent, a tablet of gold with an old storey in it, a pair of beads without Amell, and a tablet hanging at them, inamelled ; a browche of gold with 2 little rubyes in it. These jewels to her at her marriage. If she dye, to her brother the Lord Harry, if he die too, to my daughters. All my perles to my daughters. . . . To my daughter Cornwallys a pair of Tennes, with red currall richly dressed with lyly pottes enamelled with words graven on them. To my daughter Mabel another payre of tennes in gold and jewels and one of my diamond rings to each . All the rest of my rings to my son .... To Robert Cornwallys my daughter's son 40, to , weight to Michael Lyster my daughter Mary Lyster's son, a gilt bowl 32 ounce weight. To her daughter Mabel she left 500 if she marries within three years, or 300 if she marries later, the 200 to go to her son's daughter. She prayed her son to be good to his sisters, to her servants, farmers, and tenants. She left to Andrew Mundaye, her servant, 10, and a year's wages to all her servants. To the poor of Titchfield and Holborn near London she left 60. 13-r. 4^. Her son Henry to be sole executor; overseers, Mr Justice Manwood and Mr Baver of Lincoln's Inn, who are to have .10 a year for their trouble.

Her son buried her at Titchfield, but I have found no account of the proceedings. Beyond his legacies, the Earl would step into her jointures and dwelling-houses, and his position in the county would be strengthened.

Montague's son in law, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, died 4 Oct 1581 and was buried at Titchfield, Hants, on 30 Nov

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Text: 1575 Blunt, Richard, esquier, St. Stephen's in Colmeyne strete in the cytie of London; Stafford; Williton, Somerset 47 Pyckering Book: 1558 to 1583. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1583 (A-Z)
Text: 1587 Blounte, Blunt, Richarde, gent., Barnards Inne, St. Andrewe in Holborne, Middx. Will with Sentence 41 Spencer Book: 1584 to 1604. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1584-1604

Richard married Lister, Elizabeth about 1529 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Lyster, Chief Justice Richard and Unknown) was born about 1510 in England; died in 1582 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will of Dame Elizabeth Blounte or Blount, Widow of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire 26 June 1582 PROB 11/64
-Mentions husband Sir Richard Blount, deceased, mentions daughter Elizabeth St John wife of Nicholas St John, their daughters Dorothy, Jane and Eleanor, her son Michael Blount and his wife Mary and their Son Richard, Catherine Blount daughter of Michael and Mary, Elizabeth Wyborne daughter of Barbara Sherley, John St John, son and heir of Nicholas St John, Oliver St John and Richard St John sons of Nicholas, and Richard Sherley, son of Francis, deceased, Thomas Sherley son and heir of Francis, nephew Charles Lyster the bowl that was his fathers, son Richard Blount executor.

Notes:

Chamberlain to Margaret, Countess of Richmond and an executor of her will.
Supposedly knighted by his cousin, Henry V11.(His mother Margaret, daughter of Margaret Beauchamp and John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, had married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond)

Died while serving in Spain.
...Edward, apprehensive of danger to that province, sent John St. John, an experienced soldier, to Bordeaux, and gave him directions to put Guienne in a posture of defence....

John married Iwardby, LADY Jane about 1498 in England. Jane (daughter of Iwardby, Sir John and Carew, Sainche) was born about 1485 in Of Great Purley, Berkshire, England; died on 5 Sep 1553 in Of Purley, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

History of St Mary's Church, Purley Section 33 / JL1
The Attached Memorials
401 IWARDBY
Inscription
Iana filia et haeres Iohannes IWARDBY Equis Aurati Domini hujis Mannery de Purley castissima Iohannis SAINT IOHN Coniux Pientissima demum vidua vesata Eiusq duo ex Nicholao SAINT IOHN nepote pronepotes Michael et Ricardus sub beatae resurrectionis spe hic requiescunt Sacrum hoc memoriae pie posuit Iohannis SAINT IOHN Miles et Baronettus dictae
Ianne quartiis Haeres

Translation
Jane, daughter and heir of Sir John IWARDBY knight, Lord of this manor of Purley, the most chaste and pious wife and at length the veiled widow of John ST. JOHN Also two of her first cousins, Michael and Richard, sons of Nicholas ST. JOHN rest here in hope of a blessed resurrection. To her sacred memory Sir John ST. JOHN, knight and baronet, fourth heir of the said Jane, has piously placed this.
Location
An incised slate tablet on south wall of tower. originally on a monument on the south wall of the chancel (Ashmole 1664) The present tablet appears to be only part of the original memorial.
Notes
By the time of her death she had remarried Nicholas SAUNDERS of Farley, Hants and Ewell, Surrey


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Part of an indenture of agreement between Sir John Iwardby, Nicholas and Jane [missing] and Sir Richard Carew, relating to a grant to Merton Priory and referring to the manor of Hatfield Peverell and 'Termynys', and a bond in £200 of John Iwardby to Carew. The edges are all missing and the endorsement refers also to 'Lethyard Tregoos' [Lydeard Tregoze, Somerset] Garsington [Oxfordshire] and the custody, wardship and marriage of [missing].... The deed is to be 'sene and viewed by.... Richard Broke and other of the counseile of the said Sir Richard And mmediately after the sig ...rton in the said Countie of Surrey there to be put into a cheste to be lokked with iii keyes' 2163/7/17 [n.d.]

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Will of Sir Richard Carewe of Beddington, Surrey February 1522 PROB 11/21

Knight. Sheriff of Surrey.
Monuments at Beddington church, Surrey.

Richard, who succeeded to the family estates in 1492, was created a baronet in 1497. He was sheriff of Surrey in 1501. His son, Sir Nicholas, also held this office and sat as knight of the shire for Surrey in parliament. He rose to favour at the court of Henry VIII, who in 1531 visited Beddington, and hunted in his grounds. He had a place of honour at the christening of Edward VI in 1537, but in 1539 was attainted for his complicity in the Marquis of Exeter's treason.
During the lives of Sir Richard and Sir Nicholas, the family lands has been greatly increased. Walton on the Hill and Banstead manors, the property of Catherine of Aragon, were leased, and afterwards granted in reversion, to Sir Richard and Sir Nicholas in 1513 and 1532 respectively. Bletchingley passed into the king's hands on the attainder of the Duke of Buckingham in1521, and was immediately granted to Sir Nicholas. Epsom, Horley, Sutton and Coulsdon, part of the possessions of Chertsey Abbey, were the subject of a further grant after the dissolution. The manors of Plumpton, Plumpton Boscage and Barcombe in Sussex were granted in reversion to Nicholas, before he succeeded his father, on the attainder of Francis Lord Lovell, the heir tail to the estates.
Only these last were allowed to Elizabeth Carew after the attainder of her husband, though she pleaded to be allowed Bletchingley also. The attainder was reversed in 1549, but the return of the lands to Sir Nicholas' son, Sir Francis, followed more slowly, piecemeal. Bletchingley, Horley and Wartling were never returned. In 1596 Sir Francis added to his possessions the manor of Wallington, the capital messuage of which had been in the possession of the Carew family since at least 1539.
Sir Francis died, unmarried, on 16 May 1611, leaving the bulk of his estates to his nephew, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who took the name of Carew. The manor of Walton on the Hill was left to another nephew, Sir Francis Darcy, who alienated it to Sir Nicholas four years later. Coulsdon and Epsom passed to Sir Edward Darcy, an elder brother of Sir Francis, to whom the reversions had been granted by Elizabeth I in 1589. Sutton had also been granted in reversion to Sir Edward, but in 1609 was conveyed by Sir Francis Carew and Sir Edward Darcy to Sir Robert, Edward's son, in trust for Sir Francis Darcy for life, with reversion to Sir Robert.

Richard married Oxenbridge, Maylin about 1490 in England. Maylin (daughter of Oxenbridge, Robert and Lyvelode, Anne) was born about 1475 in Of Forde Place, Sussex, England; was buried on 3 Oct 1544 in Beddington, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Monuments at Beddington Church, Surrey, England

Mill Stevenson in his "List of Monumental Brasses in Surrey" states, pp. 36-7, that the current brass for Richard Carew and Malyn is a restoration but that the surviving text included:
"... whyche Sr Richard decessed the xxiii day of May Anno dni mn bc xxo ct the said dame Malyn dyed ye ... day of Ano mo bc ...".

Mariana was also called Malyn. She married Richard Carew of Bedington who died 23 May 1520. He was son of James Carew and Elianor Hoo, daughter of Lord Hoo and Hastings and Eleanor, daughter of Leonard Lord de Welles, and grandson of Nicholas Carew and Margaret de Fiennes (Genealogies).They had a daughter. - (Margaret and Mariana married to the same man?)

Who Who of Tudor Women
MALYN OXENBRIDGE (1475-October 1544)
Malyn Oxenbridge was the daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Brede Place, Sussex and his wife Anne. She married Sir Richard Carew of Beddington (d. May 18, 1520). Their children were Margaret (b.c.1510), Elizabeth (d. February 4, 1532), Ann, Sir Nicholas (x. March 3, 1539), and Mary. Malyn's inheritance from her husband included lands he had recently purchased in the county of Guisnes. After her son's execution for treason, Lady Carew continued to live in Beddington, possibly in the building later called the Old Post Office. Later in 1539, her grandson, Charles Carew (x.1540), rector of Beddington and the illegitimate son of Sir Nicholas, conspired to rob Malyn of her money, plate, and jewelry. A letter exists from Malyn to Lord Cromwell, thanking him for his kindness and asking for mercy for the offenders. In it she writes "if I had my sight I would have waited on you to thank you," from which I conclude she was blind. Some records give her name as Maude. Some records also say she had another husband before Richard Carew. Two names are suggested but both are unlikely. William Cheyney was actually married to Malyn's niece, Malyn Fincham. Arthur Darcy of Huntingdon will also be found in some records, but a marriage to him is based on Malyn's reference to a "son" by that name. In fact, she is referring to her granddaughter's husband.

Notes:

Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedford.


Richard Blount of Maple Durham, Oxon c1464-1506 m Elizabeth de la Forde dau and heir of William de la Forde of Iver, Bucks d 30 Nov 1506; i Iver; M.I. [dated 1508]; Will (PCC) 14 Sep 1506/11 Feb 1507 [abstract PARL] (by right of his wife, of Iver, Bucks); (by purchase of Maple Durham) (a lawyer); (M.P,, Newcastle) 1491-2; (Sheriff, Bucks & Beds) chn: Barnabas Blount 1506 fw Richard Blount b c1500 below .[son]. Blount Elizabeth Blount 1506 fw Ann Blount 1506 fw Elizabeth Blount 1506 fw


...Towards the end of the century the name of appears,(fn. 149) and on his death in 1494 he was succeeded by his daughter and heir Elizabeth and her husband Richard Blunt.(fn.150) In his will dated 14 September 1506, and proved the following February, Richard Blunt mentions his sons Barnaby and Richard and daughters Elizabeth, Anne and Elizabeth. (fn.151) The family was represented in 1590 by Michael Blunt, who, with Mary his wife and Richard Blunt, conveyed lands in Iver to Thomas Laurence, goldsmith and citizen of London.(fn.152) He was succeeded in 1593 by his son John, (fn. 153) who was created a baronet in 1628 (fn.154) and died in 1638 seised of Delaford Manor in Iver,(fn. 155) which is doubtless identical with the estate purchased by his father in 1590.
From: 'Parishes: Iver', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 286-294. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42561 Date accessed: 16 March 2012.

Richardus Blount de Evre (Iver) com. Bucks, vult sepeliri in cancella ejusdem ecclesiae, 14 Sep. 22 Hen. VII. 1506.

Will of Richard Blount of Iver, Buckinghamshire 12 February 1507 PROB 11/15


In a slab on the north side of the chancel are brass figures of Richard Blunt, who died in 1507, represented in armour, Elizabeth his wife, daughter of William Ford, in gabled head-dress, and their three sons and three daughters; there are also four prayer scrolls,four shields of arms, and an imperfect marginal inscription. The Purbeck marble slab was formerly the cover slab of a tomb.
From: 'Parishes: Iver', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 286-294. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42561 Date accessed: 16 March 2012.

Richard married Forde, Elizabeth about 1494 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Forde, William) was born about 1480 in Of Iver, Buckinghamshire, England; died in 1554 in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will of Richard Blount of Iver, Buckinghamshire 12 February 1507 PROB 11/15

The wife of Richard Blount of Mapledurham Gournay was Elizabeth de la Ford or Delaford of Iver, Bucks. Children of this marriage were:
1. Sir Richard Blount
(This Sir Richard d.1564 was husband of Elizabeth Lyster d. bet 14 Feb 1581 and 2 Jun 1582. This couple also had a son Richard and his wife was Elizabeth West, daughter of 10th Lord Del Le Warr. The middle Richard and his wife Elizabeth Lyster were buried at Mapledurham Gournay.)
2. Barnabas Blount
3. Elizabeth
4. Elizabeth
5. Anne.

See Cooke's "The Early History of Mapledurham." A H Cooke, D.Sc, Fellow and later dean of King's College Cambridge.


St Peters Church, Iver Buckinghamshire:
...In the middle of the chancel stood the large altar tomb of Richard Blount of Delaford, who was Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1502 and died in 1508. This remained until the close of the eighteenth century, when it was taken down and the covering slab laid in the floor on the North side of the chancel. Inlaid in this piece of Purbeck marble are brasses of Richard, his wife Elizabeth (nee Ford), their three sons and three daughters.
There may have been a second tomb, possibly to Barnaby Blount and his wife, a drawing of which is held by the College of Arms.


Brun or Rathbones Manor...
In 1501 the manor was settled for their lives on John Horne and his wife Elizabeth...In 1508 the manor was among properties settled on trustees for the use of John and his new wife Elizabeth, widow of Richard Blount of Iver Bucks. and of Mapledurham. John died in 1526 (fn.100) and Elizabeth retained use of the manor until 1542 when she, her son Edmund, and his wife Elizabeth sold it to Henry Rathbone of Bletchingdon. (fn. 101)
From: 'Brize Norton: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 15: Bampton Hundred (Part Three) (2006), pp. 218-227. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117030 Date accessed: 12 February 2011.


Elizabeth may have died 1554 and be buried at Addabury Oxfordshire.

Coat if Arms, v, 37(1959), 126-7, Elizabeth Horne's Cartouche, Adderbury Church, Oxon.

Notes:

Will of Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Justice at Pleas 16 April 1554 PROB 11/36

I, Rycharde Lyster, knighte, Chief Justice at Plees before the King to be holden, being hole of mynde this tenth day of Octobre, in the sixte yere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Edwarde the sixth, having no trouble withe sicknes of body, lawde be to God Almightie, remembring my greate age and uncerteyntie of this mortall liffe, preparing my selfe with the helpe of God to be in redynes when God will call for me fourthe of this present liffe, make my will . And furste, I bequeth my soule to Almightie God my maker and redemer, trusting in his mercye, and thereby and by the merittes of his passion to come to everlasting liffe and glory . And I will and desier that my deade body when God shall call it from this transitorye liffe shalbe buryed yn hallowed grounde ordeyned for Christian buriall where myne executours and freends thincke convenyent, and that to be don fourthwithe aftre my soule be departed out of my mortall bodye without prolonging of tyme for enny greate solempnytie thereaboute. And aftre that to have suche divyne service as is ordeyned for the buriall of Christian men, withe almes to be given to the pore and other dedes of charitie as shalbe thought convenable by the discretion of myne executors and freendes aftre the pleasure of Almightie God ......


Did Richard Lyster have three wives ??
a) mother of 3 children Elizabeth, Michael and Richard
b) Isabell Dawtrey, nee Shirely wife of John Dawtrey
c) Elizabeth Stroke

Sir Frederick Madden in his "Remarks on the Monument of Sir Richard Lyster in St. Michael's Church Southampton," describes both the judge's grandfather, Thomas, and his father, John, as of Wakefield in Yorkshire . His mother was a daughter of Beaumont of Whitley in the same county. He had his legal training in the Middle Temple , where he arrived at the dignity of reader in Lent, 1516, and of double-reader in Lent, 1522, and he was appointed treasurer of the society in the following year.....After presiding in the Exchequer above sixteen years, he was advanced to the office of chief justice of the King's Bench on 9 November 1545; and in this character he attested the submission and confession of Thomas Duke of Norfolk on 12 January 1547, a fortnight before the king's death. On the accession of Edward VI he was reappointed, and his first duty on the Thursday after was to address a batch of new serjeants on their inauguration at Lincoln's Inn . This he did, as the reporter significantly says, in "a godly thowghe sumwhate prolix and long declaration of their duties and exhortation to their full following and execution of the same." He resigned at the end of the first five years of the reign on 21 March 1552, when he was succeeded by Sir Roger Cholmeley .The remainder of his life he spent at his mansion in Southampton , which John Leland describes as being "very fair"; and dying on 14 March 1554, where he was buried in St. Michael's Church. 1]
By the inquisition after his death taken at Andover, he was found to be possessed of eleven manors in the counties of Hampshire and Surrey, together with various other lands and tenements. His monument represents him in scarlet robes (the colour of which has now disappeared), with a collar of S. S. round his breast, a judge's cap on his head, and a book in his hand. A part of the inscription remains which records its erection by his widow Elizabeth. This lady, who was a daughter of - Stoke, was his second wife; and by her he had a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Blount, and a son Michael, knight of the Bath , who died in his father's life time, leaving a son Richard, who married Mary the second daughter of Lord Chancellor Wriothesley,1st Earl ofSouthampton and widow of William Shelley of Michelgrove. His first wife was Jane, daughter of Sir Ralph Shirley of Wistneston, Sussex, and widow of Sir John Dawtrey of Petworth. Her portrait by Holbein is in the Royal Collection.


GEN_Medieval Archives. Henry Sutliff wrote:

.. Sir Richard Lister/Lyster (d. 14 Mar 1553/4 Southampton) was Chief Justice of the court of the King's Bench. He was from a family from Wakefield, Yorks. His father was John and his mother was Elizabeth Beaumont of the Beaumont family of Whitley, Yorks.
Sir Richard was married twice (1) Jane Shirley, daughter of Sir Ralph Shirley of Westmeston/Witneston/Wiston, Sussex, widow of Sir John Dawtrey of Petworth, Sussex. (2) Elizabeth Stoke who survived her husband and died after 1567.
The DNB shows that Elizabeth Lister who married Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Oxon. was daughter of Sir Richard and Elizabeth Stoke.
Paget in his ancestry of Prince Charles (thanks to Leo van de Pas!) apparently shows Elizabeth's mother as Jane Shirley. The sources for DNB are mostly 19th century publications, but I am not aware of why Paget made a different choice if I have this information correctly. Without certain dates of marriage for Sir Richard or date of birth for Elizabeth Lister, it is difficult to resolve the conflict. Can anyone help?

Ordinarily I would accept DNB, but a guesstimate of Elizabeth Lister's birth date would put her birth before 1515 which would seem to indicate her birth was when her father was still young. However, not knowing more about the length of the marriage to Jane Shirley makes any guesses unreliable.
Thanks for any help.
Henry Sutlif

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Record Summary
Scope and content Will, with probate in P.C.C. Parties: Sir Richard Lister, kt., Chief Justice of King's Bench Covering dates made 1552 proved 1554
Availability Open Document, Open Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Note copy, 8 fos., see PROB 11/36 fo.30
Held by The National Archives, Kew

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St Mary's Chapel upon Wakefield Bridge. The following is a list of the chaplains appointed to the two chantries in this chapel ; April 3 1526 Richard Lister, L.B., son of Richard Lister of Wakefield, who died in 1525 Presented by Henry VIII Died 1534-5

Historic Sketch of the Parish Church of Wakefield Joseph Lawson Sisson.
...1630. In the Register of this year there are two licences signed by Mr. Lister, the vicar, authorising the persons therein named, to eat meat in Lent and on all other fasting and fish days. The following is a copy of one:-
TO all people to whom these presents shall come, James Lister, Vicar of Wakefeld and preacher of God's word, Sendeth greeting, Whereas Alice Lister wife of Richard Lister, Clerke, who now sojourneth with her sonne William Faulden of Wakefeld, by reason of her olde age and many yeares and stubborne and long continued sicknesse, is become so weake and her stomache so colde, not able to digeste colde meates and fish, who by the counsel of phisicians is advised to abslaine from and toforbeare the eating of all manner of fruites, fish and milke meates, knowe ye therefore for the causes aforesaide and for the better strengthening and recovering of her health, I the saide James Lister do hereby give and grante libertie and licence to htr, the said Alice Lister att her will and pleasure att all tymes, as well during the tyme of Lent as upon all other fasting daies and fish dates, exhibiting by the lawes, to eate flesh and to dress and eate such kinde of flesh as shall be beste agreeing to her stomacke and weake appetite. In witness hereof I the saide James Lister have hereunto sett my hand the eight daie of februarie in y sixt yeare of the reigne of oure Sovereigne Lord Charles by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faithe, Sfc. and in the Year of our Lord God, 1630. JAMES LISTER, Vicar.
....Of your charity pray for the soul of Richard Lister, which deceased in the year of our Lord God, 1595. On whose soul Jesus have mercy.

The tithing of WEST STRATTON
...again in 1530 John Wayte conveyed the same lands to Viscount Lisle, Sir Richard Lister, chief baron of the Exchequer, and many others, and the heirs of Sir Richard Lister; (fn. 55) hence it appears that Viscount Lisle's rights in West Stratton were transferred to Sir Richard Lister, (fn. 56) to whom a certain Robert Fawkenor and his wife Joan quitclaimed their rights in the manor eight years later. (fn. 57) Sir Richard evidently parted with West Stratton before his death, which occurred in March, 1553-4, (fn. 58) to his father-in-law, Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, who died seised of it in 1550. (fn. 59) Both West and East Stratton were among those of the earl's lands which were seized by the crown for payment of a debt; they were regranted to his widow in 1554, in consideration of £400 to be paid to the queen yearly until the debt should be satisfied. (fn. 60) The subsequent history of the manor is identical with that of Micheldever.(From: 'The parish of Micheldever', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 390-394. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42009 Date accessed: 14 January 2011.)

Painshill.....and was granted after the Dissolution to Sir Thomas Wriothesley, afterwards Earl of Southampton. (fn. 70) Wriothesley seems to have sold it to Sir Richard Lister, who died seised of it in 1558, leaving as his heir his grandson and namesake. (fn. 71) After this date the history of the property becomes obscure. It is represented now by Painshill Farm. (From: 'Parishes: Lockerley', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 500-502. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56867 Date accessed: 14 January 2011.)

A calendar to the feet of fines for London & Middlesex ..
Sir George Puttenham, knight. Sir Peter Vavasor, knight, Richard Lyster, esquire, attorney of the lord the King, Andrew Sulyard, esquire, and Anthony Windesore, esquire, awr^ Robert Markham, gentleman, and Ellen, his wife, daughter and heir of John Saperton. The manor or lordship of Lyiylton, otherwise Lyttellynton, with appurtenances. Warranty against John, abbot of Westminster. Mich, Anno 20.
Sir Richard Lyster, knight, chief baron of the Exchequer, and Sir John Spelman, km'ght, one of the justices of tho Common Pleas, and Sir Antony Fitzherbert, knight, one of the justices of the King's Bench, and Matilda, his wife. Premises in Hakeney. Warranty against William, abbot of Westminster. Mich. Anno 28.

Wakefield Worthies, THE REV. J. H. LUPTON, M.A.,
.....But Sir Richard Lyster appears to have had the art of keeping aloof from troubled waters. He was of an old Wakefield family; his grandfather, Thomas Lyster, being settled there in Henry the Sixth's reign. His father, John Lyster, married one of the Beaumonts of Whitley in Yorkshire. Their son Richard, with whom we are now concerned, being destined for the legal profession, was entered at the (i) Lives of the Chief Justices of England (1849.) Pref. p. vi. Middle Temple; where he was made Reader in 1516, Double Reader in 1522, and Treasurer the following year. After filling in succession the offices of Solicitor General, and (as there is every reason to believe) Attorney General, he was raised to the Bench, May 1 2th, 1529, as Chief Baron of the Exchequer. On his elevation he was knighted, and afterwards appointed one of the commissioners for trying Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas More. After continuing as head of the Exchequer for sixteen years, he was promoted to the rank of Chief Justice of King's Bench, Nov. Qth, 1546. His predecessor in that office, Sir Edward Montagu, had apparently found his task too irksome, and so resigned it for the post of Chief Justice of Common Pleas, "which," says Campbell, ."though lower in rank, was quieter." "He might feel some mortification," the same writer adds, "when he saw Richard Lyster, whom he had lately snubbed at the bar, take precedence of him in judicial processions, as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.".....On the accession of Edward vi., Sir Richard was re-appointed; and we find him addressing abody of new Serjeants, on their inauguration at Lincoln's Inn, " in a godly, thowghe sumwhate prolix and long declaration of their duties," as Dugdale calls it. He held office till 1552, when he resigned; and spent the remainder of his life at Southampton. Leland, who visited the town, has left a short notice of his residence : " The house that Master Lighster, chiefe Barne of the King's Escheker, dwellyth yn, is very fair." He died there, March 14th, 1553, and was buried in the Church of St. Michael. If he shunned notoriety in his lifetime, it has certainly not pursued him after his death.- For many years his very monument in St. Michael's was believed to indicate the resting-place of another person, Lord Chancellor Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton....The writer, speaking of St. Michael's, says, "In the aforesaid dormitory, against the south part, lyes on a handsome stone tomb the figure of a Judge on his back, dress'd in scarlet ; a collar of S.S. 3 round his breast, a Judge's cap on his head, and a book in his right hand. On a sort of cornice, supported by three pillars, this remnant of an inscription :
ET. DICTO. ELIZABETH. HOC. IN. VIDVETATE. SVA. CVZAVIT (SIC). l8 DIE. MARGIE. 1567."
The Elizabeth mentioned in the inscription was his second wife. Her maiden name was Stoke. For his first wife he married Jane, daughter of Sir Ralph Shirley of Wistneston, Sussex, and widow of Sir John Dawtrey of Petworth. Her portrait, by Holbein, is in her Majesty's collection. 4

His will is dated at Southampton, Oct. 10, 6 Edw. VI., [1552,] in which he describes himself as Richard Lyster, Knt. Chief Justice at Pleas. He gives inter alia to his niece, Elizabeth Methley, twenty-one years in the manor of Halyborne Estbroke, co. Southton. His son, Sir Michael Lyster, was then dead, leaving Richard Lyster his son and heir. Charles Lyster, younger son of Sir Michael, was under age. His daughter Elizabeth is mentioned, and her husband Sir Richard Blount. The will was proved the 16th of April, 1554, by the executors, Sir Richard Blount and Richard Lyster.

By the inquisition taken after his death at Andover, the 17th of March, 1554, it appears that he held at his decease the manors of Halyborne, Estbrook and Westbrook, Colrithe, Bishops Sutton, Medested, Lokerley, Romsey, Paynshill, Mount la Hyde, and Morestede, in the counties of Southampton and Surrey, together with various other lands and messuages, including one capital messuage in the town of Southampton, valued at £7., held of the mayor and his brethren by suit of court.
By the same inquisition it is declared that Sir Michael Lyster, knight, died in the lifetime of his father, and Richard Lyster, son of Sir Michael, was heir to his grandfather, and of the age of twenty-one years. This Richard Lyster afterwards married Lady Mary, second daughter of Lord Chancellor Wriothesley, and perhaps this may have helped to occasion the error respecting his grandfather's monument.
In regard to the arms of Sir Richard Lyster, as they appear on the monument, they correspond closely to the coat granted him, when Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Sir Christopher Barker, Garter, viz., azure, on a cross argent, between four wrens or, five torteaux, each charged with a star of six points orm; and the same arms are engraved by Dugdale (only changing the stars to mullets, as on the tomb) in his Origines, p. 329, as they appeared in 1599, in the windows of Sergeant's

Andrew Wyndesore, kt., Richard Lyster, esq., the Kings Attorney, Brian Palmes, esq., Edmund Wyndesore, esq., Walter Bradford, gent., Thos. Beverley, gent., and George Tatersall, chaplain

Edward Bulleyn, kt., and Ann his wife

10 messuages with lands in Medley, Stanley, Wakefeld, Hasselt, Acworth, Potterton, Barwycke, and Rothewell..

From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1526-30', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 45-58. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49625 Date accessed: 14 February 2012.

Andrew Wyndesore, kt., Edward Grevile, kt., Michael Lyster, William Thorpe, John Marchant, William Fermour, Richard Weynnam, Thomas Weynnam, Thomas Gryce, Walter Bradford, and Henry Brome

John Layton, esq.

Manor of Sproxton and 20 messuages and a mill with lands in Sproxton and Helmesley als. Holmesley..

From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1526-30', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 45-58. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49625 Date accessed: 14 February 2012.

Richard Lyster, Nicholas Thorp, Walter Bradford, Thomas Beverley, and George Stokys

William Levett

7 messuages with lands, &c., in Normanton, Dormor and Anston.

From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1516-20', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 30-37. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49623 Date accessed: 14 February 2012.

Richard Lyster

William Wodde and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of John Lyster
Messuage with lands in Wrenthorpe and Stanley.

From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1516-20', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 30-37. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49623 Date accessed: 14 February 2012.

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Will of William Thorpe or Thorp of Southampton, Hampshire 22 May 1550 PROB 11/33
Will of William Thorpe of Southampton, Hampshire 01 December 1549 PROB 11/32

refce: Coates 1989
HOLYBOURNE, parish, suburb of Alton
Hypothetical Old English 'Haligburna'='sacred stream'. The stream rises by the church. In medieval times it divided the two manors from each other, and they were known as 1333 'Halebourne Estebrouk' and 1396 'Halibourne Westbrouk' (cf ALTON).

Richard married Unknown about 1505 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]