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    Godolphin, James

    Male Abt 1520 -


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    • Name Godolphin, James 
      Born Abt 1520  Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Person ID I08484  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 May 2015 

      Family Ryhs, Mary,   b. Abt 1520, Of Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 31 Mar 1588, Quanstockhead, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
      Married Aft 1551 
      Family ID F02572  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Ibid. Sir John Luttrell, of Dunster castle, co. Somerset, knighted at the taking ofLeith in 1547, and made a knight banneret soon after, at the taking of Yester.Just before his death he had been divorced from his wife, for Strype notices "A Commission to sir William Petre, secretary, sir Richard Read, &c. upon due proof of themanifest adultery of the lady Mary Luttrel, to separate and divorce her from sir JohnLuttrel her husband. Dated in June, 1551." (Memorials, Book ii. chap. 29.) Shewas the daughter of sir John Griffith, K.B. and was remarried to James Godolphin, ofCornwall.

        From: 'Notes to the diary: 1550-51', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 313-323. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45532 Date accessed: 13 January 2012.