The History of the Fanshawe Family by H C Fanshawe 1927 Chapter 1 Fanshawe Gate
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The Fanshawe family draws its origin from Fanshawe Gate, situated in the Parish of Holmesfield on the borders of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, 3 miles N.W. of Dronfleld and 6 miles S.W. of Sheffield, and distant 2½ miles from Beauchief Abbey [Map] and 4 miles from Norton. The name was probably derived from the family but no explanation can be offered of its primitive form of Faunchall Gate. In the parlance of the country side. Gate means a point in the hills at which a road or path crosses a crest, and Fanshawe Gate stands between two roads running from the Sheaf Valley to the Holmesfield Ridge. A description of its situation, 700 feet above the level of sea and under the shadow of Hallamshire moors, and of the old Fanshawe home still standing on it, is given at pp. 269-70 of the notes to the 1907 edition of the Memoirs of Fady Fanshawe.* It seems possible that the house was once of larger dimensions, and that it was contracted in height at least, when extensive repairs to it were made early in the XIX. century. It was inferior both to Cartlege Hall, the home of the Wolstenholmes, some of whom continued there to a later date, and to Woodliouse Hall to the east of it. It much resembles, however, the original home of the Heathcotes, in Brampton by Chesterfield, given in Evelyn Heathcote's Families of Heathcote.
This edition is referred to as the Memoirs of Lady Fnnshaire throughout this work. The following corrections to the Memoirs are noted here: p. 6, line 6, after chastity, read his charity; p. 18, line 8, for about, read above; p. 60, line 2, for But notwithstanding, delete full stop and read but understanding; p. 62, line 14, for rage, read case; p. S6, line 12, omit the comma between sack and posset; p. 105, line 21, for coachmen, read footmen; p. 123, line 22, before house, insert half of the; p. 138, line 13, remove semicolon after same and insert it after bed.
Of the early history of the family prior to that time, nothing fresh has come to light since 1907. Monumental and testimentary records are not to he expected much previous to 1550 except in the case of personages of high rank and the owners of large properties, it is therefore a bit of singular good fortune that the Manor Rolls of Holmesfield1 in the possession of the Duke of Rutland, and the Wolley Charters in the British Museum, contain many interesting details of this family2 as far back as 1417 when Joan, daughter of John ffavncher3, Senior, took up land of the manor (which her brother John afterwards inherited as her right heir), carrying back the birth of the father to at least as early as 1375, and the family may well haye been settled in this place another 100 or even 200 years before that, for Lady Fanshawe tells us that she had seen several very ancient gravestones, with the names of the ancestors upon them, in Dronfield Church, from which it appeared (she says) that they had been seated at Fanshawe Gate for some hundreds of years before her day; but the earliest monument now remaining is of 1578. The earliest entries in church registers (established only in 1538) are the marriages of John Fanshawe's three daughters in 1561-1564.
Note 1. The full feudal history of Dronfield and Holmesfleld will be found in Vol. III. of Yeatman's Feudal History of Derbyshire, p. 69 et seq.; and a full account of Norton is given by Mr. S. O. Addy in the Derbyshire Arcliceol. Soc.'s Journal, Yol. II., and in Mr. Armitage's Chantry Land, which contains a most interesting detailed picture of a small country village and its development through the ages.
Note 2. Of the yeoman families of England Thomas Fuller wrote 100 years later "The good yeoman is a gentleman in ore whom the next age may see refined .... and is the wax capable of gentle impression when the prince shall stamp it . . Wise Solon .... would surely have pronounced the English yeomanry (to be> 'a fortunate condition' living in the temperate zone between greatness and want."
Note 3. The family name was spelt in many different ways up to the end of the XVI. century, among which the following are some of the forms it has taken: ffaunchalle, ffawncliall, ffoneliall, ffanchall, ffanchoe, fanclie, ffawncher, Fauncher, Fawnscha, ffaunslia, ffawnsha, ffaunshaw, ffanchavve, ffaunesshawe, ffanshew, ffanshaw, lfanshawe, Fansliaw, and Fanshawe. It was invariably spelt with a "c" in the middle, from 1417 to 1523 whatever other variation there might be in the spelling of the word; the first time we meet with the "s" in it, occurs in the Lay Subsidy Polls of Holmesfeld in the 14-15 year of Henry VIII. (1523-24), when we come across the name in the form of ffawnsha, thence forward the "s" gradually .supersedes the c though this letter does not entirely disappear for some 70 more years; it is not until 1543 that we find the name-in the Court Polls of Holmesfield-in its more modern setting, John ffanshawe being then Bailiff of the Manor. From the middle of the XYI. century this rendering of the family name, sometimes with and sometimes without the final "e," became more general, though the final "ws" instead of the "w" still persisted from time to time; even as late as February, 1647-8, we find an entry in the parish Hooks of Church Oakley in. which the name of John Fanshall (of Parsloes) appears, spelt in this way.
As regards the final "e" Henry Fanshawe (d. 1568), and his nephews Thomas, 2nd Queen's Remembrancer, and Godfrey, added the "e." Thomas' three sons also did so when attesting their father's will (38 Eliz.) but in a deed of 1610 all three omitted the "e." Sir Henry and William Fanshawe signed their wills "ffanshawe," while William's son John, omitted the final "e" in his Royalist Composition Papers. The first Viscount signed his name both ways as did also his son the second Viscount. His brother Sir Simon used the "e," and so did his brother Sir Richard in his earlier days, though he often omitted it towards the end of his life. It appears on the monument in Ware Church, erected by Lady Fanshawe, who always spelt her name thus as may be seen on the the page of the Memoirs. During the XVIII. century the shortened form of the name was generally used and since then the fuller form of Fanshawe.
The house at Fanshawe Gate (as distinct from the land) is referred to in the Wolley Charters (VIII., 29a) in 1450 as "le ffaunchall gat hede"-"hede" or "hed" being the Anglo-Saxon for "house." In 1491 "unum toftum iuxta fownchallgatehed" is spoken of in the Holmesfield Court Rolls and as late as 1571 the name seems not to have entirely lost its old form, a well at ffanehawegathed being then mentioned in the same Court Rolls, but by that time the house and property are usually described collectively as Fanshawe Gate. A detailed notice of the Manor Loll and an interesting breviate of the rights of the tenants of the manor will be found in the Journals of the Derbyshire Archchaeological and Natural History Society of 1898 and 1908.
Reference is made to the early members of the family in the Memoirs, p. 270. Four generations of ffaunchalls (each hearing the name of John) appear in the Court Rolls (some of these documents being preserved among, the Wolley Charters) as holding land in Holmesfield. To the last of these John's succeeded his eldest son Henry (by some authorities called Robert); another John (of Holmesfield), and Thomas (of Ransethe in Dronfield parish), being younger sons. In the Lay Subsidy Rolls of 1523-4, John ffawnsha is taxed on his land; and the executors of Henr. ffawnsha, on his goods. The will of Thomas ffanshal of Ransethe, dated 1540 and proved 1544, is the earliest now on record. Numbers of wills mentioned in the index at the Lichfield Probate Office, as existing even a few years ago, have since been lost. It is interesting to note that Thomas had a son, Sir William ffawnehall, a Priest1, who was living in 1540-50.
Note 1. The courtesy title of Sir, given to priests, was confined to Oxford and Cambridge Graduates.
Henrv (or Robert) ffanshawe of ffanshawe Gate, above noted, who died 1523-4, left three sons; John his heir (b. 1504), Henry (b. c. 1506) and Colyn.
The conjecture at p. 264 of the Memoirs, that Henry ffanshawe the younger, the first of the nine of his family to hold the post of Queen's or King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, found his way to London from a remote Derbyshire village, through the good services of Sir Christopher More (King's Remembrancer, 1543-1549), is confirmed by various slight indications. In Wotton's Baronetage, though that is not a very reliable authority, it is stated that John Wolstenholme (b. c. 1520) was nephew of Henry Fanshawe and great-nephew of Sir - More1, which statement is however corroborated by Glover, the Derbyshire Historian. In addition to this link between the Fanshawe and More families there must have been some closer relationship as well. Henry Fanshawe, the Remembrancer, in his draft will of 1561, refers to William More, Esq.,* and to John More (undoubtedly the sons of Sir Christopher) as cousins; while Sir Christopher's daughter Margaret "Fynes,"' widow of Thomas Fiennes (the brother of Lord Dane) mentions a Fanshawe cousin; and Sir William More s daughter Alice, widow of Rickard Polstead, calls both the younger Henry Fanshawe's daughter Anne, and John Fanshawe's son Thomas, "cousin." If, as appears from this, Sir Christopher's children and grandchildren were cousins of the children and grandchildren of Henry Fanshawe the elder there must have been some More-Fanshawe relationship above the generation of Henry Fanshawe the Remembrancer, and his brother John; and their father (d. 1523) must, it seems, have married a More unless Sir Christopher's mother were a Fanshawe2.
Note 1. Sir William More was afterwards Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and was succeeded in that post by his son Sir George More in June, 1601.
Note 2. The More family was of Norton, and Sir Christopher's grand-father, Thomas More of Greenhill, is recorded as having married Elizabeth Parker of the Parker family of that place, from which the Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, 1720-25, was descended. A More (de Mora), of Norton, is mentioned as far back as 1384, and John More of Greenhill left to the Abbot of Beauehief, in 1533, two silver spoons, though, as the Abbey was surrendered the year before the will was proved in 1537, the poor Abbot got none. It is probable that the family was the same as that of Mower of which many branches existed round Dronfield in the XVI.XVII. centuries. There can be little doubt that Sir Christopher was called to London by one of the Blyth Bishops of Salisbury, and Lichfield3, sons of William Blyth of Norton and his wife Saffery Austen, half sister of Archbishop Rotherham of York (d. 1500), and daughter of John Austen of Birley, in Beighton (see family of Blyth by Edward L. Z. Blyth, 1901). The Blytli family acquired a footing in Norton from William Chaworth in 1376: the arms granted to it in 1485 were: Ermine, three roes trippant, gu., armed or; the motto adopted by it being "Veritate Victoria." John Blyth, Master of the Rolls' 1492-94, and Bishop of Salisbury 1491, was the third son of William and Saffery; he was also Chancellor of Cambridge University in 14S5, and died on 23 August, 1499. His chantry tomb with his effigy sadly mutilated, now stands at the s. end of the South transept of Salisbury Cathedral. The 4th son, Geoffrey, became Bishop of Lichfield in 1503, was Lord president of Wales 1512-24, and died in 1530. He gave to King s Hall, now Trinity College, Cambridge, the cup presented to him by King Ladislaus of Hungary on the occasion ot the King's marriage in September, 150S. His tomb lias entirely disappeared from Lichfield Cathedral; but the chantry tomb which he erected to his father and mother 'in Norton Church still exists, and is said to have been the original cause of inspiration of Sir Thomas Chantrey. It is worthy of note that the small village or Norton gave to England two Bishops, a Master of the Polls, and a Lord Chancellor, "a Remembrancer of the Exchequer (an office in the XV / XVI centurv almost equal to that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer), and one of the greatest of English Sculptors, who lies buried under a massive slab of granite in the pretty graveyard of the parish in which he was born. It may be noted further, regarding the Blyth family, that Richard the youngest son of William and Saffery, married Catherine Birchett, of Birchett Hall, half way between Norton and Dronlield, and became Lord of the Manor of the latter place, and their descendant Charles, son, of Anthony Blyth, sold the manor of Norton to John Bullock, in 1622, the husband of Katherine Fanshawe; and that Geoffrey Blyth, grandson of William and Saffery, succeeded his uncle as Master of Kind's Hall, in 1524, dying in 1542 several of the Abbots of Beauchief [Map] had the name of Norton, being no doubt of Norton origin. John Sheffield, Abbot from lo26, surrendered the Abbey to the" Crown on 4 February, 1536-his predecessor from 1516 John Greenwood, would have been the Abbot under whom Henry Fanshawe was educated. On the surrender of the Abbey, its income from property was valued at £157, of which about one-fifth was derived from four farms in Dronfield, which ultimately came into the endowment fund of Dronfield Grammar school, throuhg the gift of Henrv Fanshawe.
Sir Christopher More, like most of his immediate descendants, is buried in the Loseley Chapel of the Churchy of St. Nicholas, Guildford. His age at his death, on 16 August, 1549, is not stated, but as his son William was born ca. 1518-9, and he himself had aquired half of the Loseley estate in the parish of Compton in 1515, it can hardly have been later than 1480, in which case he was nearly 70 when he died. In 1532 he acquired the remainder of the Loseley property and received permission to impark it: in the same year lie was Sheriff of Surrey, and again, six years later. He was knighted in 1537, and became King's Remembrancer m 1543. A sister of his was 3rd wife of Sir John More, the Judge, father of the Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More. Sir Christopher was married first to Margaret Mudge, who was mother of his son Sir William and secoX to Constance, daughter of Richard Sackville, widow of William Heneage. Sir William More (who rebuilt Losely and died in 1600) was succeeded in turn by his son Sir George More (d. 1632), Lieutenant of the Tower, Treasurer of Prince Henry, and Chamberlain of the Exchequer - also father of that Anne More whose wooing and wedding was so nearly fatal to John Donne. Sir William's eldest daughter, Elizabeth or Alice married first, in 1567, Richard Polsted, of Albury, Thomas Fanshawe contributing some hogsheads of wine and some fat, doose (does), to the wedding festivities: this lady is mentioned in the will of Anne (daughter of Henry) Fanshawe in 1584: Mrs Polsted married, as her second husband Sir John Wooley, Latin Secrtary to the Queen Elizabeth; and as her third, Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, whose last wife was the Dowager Countess of Derby, Milton's "Cynosure of neighbouring eyes" while she resided at Harefield, near Denham.
Note 3. This was the common practice for securing reliable assistants in the XV. and XVI. centuries. Thus we find Robert Maryat "now attending with Mr. Fanshawe his majesty's Remembrancer in the Exchequer" was son of Richard Maryat, of Chesterfield, in which place Henry Fanshawe, and his brother Colyn, both owned lands.
It is impossible that the relationship could have come about through Sir Christopher's own marriage since-it is distinctly stated that all his children were by his wife Margaret Madge, and that his second wife (recorded with the first on his tomb) died without issue. The inference is that he had these two wives only, and manv case there were no other children so that no marriage of his could have made his children cousins of the Fanshawes.
Helen (sister of Henry and John Fanshawe) married Christopher King of Milnthorpe. Their burials are both recorded in the Dronfield Register; hers on 28 November, 1571, and his on 19 December, 1578, three days after the date of his will. Another sister married John Molstenholme (referred to on p. 249) who died in 1539 - the grandfather of Sir John Wolstenholme who died a hundred years later.
The identity of Joan "the daughter of one Mr. Fanshawe of the Exchequer Office" has not been determined. She married c. 1542, Richard Roper or Hooper (son of Hugh Roper of Turnditch, eo. Derby, by a daughter of - Gell of Hopton). The date of Joan's marriage would make it seem probable that she was the sister of Henry Fanshawe, the Remembrancer, otherwise her father must have been some earlier Fanshawe in the Exchequer, of whom no record has come down to us.
In a letter written by her son George in 1626 at the age of 80 he says of his father "Hee was a servant to King Henry VIIth and to King Henry VIII & a Pentioner & much in their favor as I have heard my Mother & many others say; and soe it sld seeme for King Henry VIII gave him the keeping at Enfield Chase, Hide Park and Maribone, and the King gave him good gifts ever and anon and my father put keepeis in an out at his pleasure, but hee lived beyond it and hee left us a unprovided for."
The three bucks heads he bore upon his shield, proably refer to his calling.
George Roper goes on to say, "I remember Queen Mary came into our house within a little of my father's death and ffound my Mother weeping, & took her by the hand & lifted her up-for shee kneeled-and bid her bee of good cheere for her children should be well proveded for. Afterward my brother Rd and I being the two Eldest were sent to Harrow to school and were there till wee were almost men. Sir Ralph Sadler took order for all things for us there by Queen Mary's appointment as long as she lived, and after Queen Elizabeth for a time - she gave order to bind my brothers William, Ralph, Henry, Hugh Apprentice, and sent for us to the Court and said she wd give us good places, but wee were put to be of her Guard which I think kill'd my mother's hart, for she would always say that my ffather was of a greet stock and little look't for such place for his sonnes. I've often heard her say she thought we fared the worss that Queen Mary was so kind to us. Queen Elizth had not raigued long but my Mother died."1
Note 1. Mr. M. G. Rooper has most kindly given his permission for the above interesting particulars to be embodied in this book.
Henry Fanshawe was the younger brother of John, who died at Dronfield, in February, 157S-9, at the age of 74; and was no doubt born about 1506. No doubt also he was educated at the school of Beauchief Abbey [Map], and probably he proceeded to London about the age of 16-17, in 1522-3. In the Grant to him of the reversion of the office of Remembrancer of the Exchequer-Patent Roll, 4 Eliz., part 5-he being then one of the clerks, "his good true and faithful service" in the business of the office, to the late Kings Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Queen Mary, and to Queen Elizabeth, is recorded; but the earliest mention of him in official records pertaining to the office, is when it is noted that he was one of the clerks of Mr. Sanders1.
Note 1. This was Sir Thomas Sanders, of Charlwood, Surrey, King's and Queen's Remembrancer, 1549-66, knighted by the Protector Somerset in 1547. He was married to Alice, daughter of Sir Edmund Walsingliam, Lieutenant of the Tower, see the History of Chislehurst, and left several sous and daughters; but his descendants in the male line died out in the second generation, and the estate was sold. One of its temporary owners being Sir Andrew King, the friend of Sir Richard Kanshawe. Nicholas Sanders, the unhappy Legate in Ireland. 1581-83, whose wretched death is so dramatically rendered in Westward Ho, belonged to this family. In the will of Sir Thomas the surname is spelt Saunders, but he was not any relation to Sir Edward Saunders, the Roman Catholic chief Baron of the Exchequer under Queens Mary and Elizabeth. In the Charlwood Church may still be seen the memorial brass erected to his father (d. 1544) by Sir Thomas, a curious parallel to that erected in Dronfield church by Thomas Fanshawe in 1578-80.
Some 25 years after he entered the Remembrancer's Office, he was able to purchase, in 1549, some of the confiscated lands of Beauchief Abbey [Map], which he left in trust by his will, for the foundation of the Dronfield Grammar School; and in January, 1561-2, he obtained from the Hospital of the Savoy the manor of Dengie1, Essex. In the same year he was specially admitted to the Inner Temple, being wrongly described as the son of John Fanshawe, and was granted the reversion of the post of Queen's Remembrancer, to which he succeeded about Michaelmas, 1566.
Note 1. The sale of the manor of Dengie, Essex, to Henry Fanshawe "generosus, unus clieor (clericorum) de Secio (Saccario) dnæ Reginai apud Westm.", was executed on 23 January, 3rd Elizabeth, 1560-61, by the Master of Savoy, Thomas Thurland, and his four chaplains, and was one of many similar sales of monastic an ecclesiastical and charitable property in the XVI. century; when it was challenged some years later, before the Bishop of London and the Lord Treasurer "Cecil, it was allowed to stand, therefore it probably did not differ in its circumstances from the generality of such transactions. Thurland had been deeply engaged in mining speculations in Cumberland and had sold other Hospital Property too, in this connection. He was suspended from office in 1570, but was reinstated, on conditions, 4 years later. The Hospital itself had but a short existence, having been opened only in 15617 under the provisions of the will of Henry VII. It was surrendered in 1553, but had two more years of life under Queen Mary, or some 38 years in all. Bishop Sheldon was master of the Hospital after 1660, and hence the church conference of 1661 was known as the Savoy Conference.
The following year he was granted a lease of lands amounting to some 250 acres, formerly belonging to St. Botolph's Priory, Colchester, at the annual rental of £17 14s. Sd. This lease is signed by the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, and Sir Walter Mildmay, and is attested by William Fuller, Auditor.
Other purchases by him were, the manor of Jenkins1 in 1567, bought in the name of his second wife Dorothy as well as of himself (Jenkins was the old manorial residence of Barking Abbey); New Barns, in West Ham, bought in the same Year, in his name and that of his daughter Ann (see note on p. 13); Fulkes, Westbury, Yallance, and Gallance in Barking, bought earlier, and a number of small properties in many various places which, he no doubt parted with at advantage.
Note 1. The descent of the manor of Jenkins is a very interesting one-see Walter's Chesters of Chicheley. It was held of the Abbess of Barking, by Sir Hugh Bryce, who died in 1496, having served as Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor in 14S5, and was buried in St. Mary Woolnoth church, of which he was a great patron, before Sir Martin Bowes. By his will, Sir Hugh Bryce left Jenkins to his daughter in law, Elizabeth [the child of William Chester, Skinner of London, founder of the family of Chesters of Chicheley (d. 1476) and of his wife, Agnes Hill (d. 1484)] who had married (ca. 1476) his only son James Bryce, who died about 1490, and was buried at St. Martins, Dover, leaving a son Hugh and a daughter Elizabeth. The former died young: the latter married first, Robert Amadas, who died 1531, and secondly, Sir Thomas Neville, younger brother of Lord Abergavenuev. Her daughter Elizabeth, married Richard Scrope, of Castle Combe, and their daughter married Martin Bowes, second son of Sir Martin (Lord Mayor of London in 1545, and five times M.P. of that city in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth), and took the manor of Barking to him. She was buried at Barking, on 29 December, 1556, and eleven years later, Martin Bowes sold Jenkins to Henry Fanshawe and his wife. Thomas Fanshawe succeeded to the estate on his uncle's death in 1568, and his son (Sir) Thomas Fanshawe, held it till 1631, after whom it descended to his son Thomas (d. 1651-2) and his grandson the second Sir Thomas Fanshawe (d. 1704-5). It then passed to his daughter Susanna, wife of Baptist Noel, and on her death in 1714, to her daughter, who sold it in 1717 to Sir William Humphreys, Lord Mayor of London. It is surprising how many Lord Mayors were connected with this area. Sir Rowland Hayward, Sir Edward Osborne, Sir William Hewett, Sir James Cambell, Sir William Humpheys and Sir Crisp Gascoyne (who lived at Bifrons, which was improved by his father in law Dr. Bamber, and sold by his son Bamber Gascoyne); the reason for this preference for this district, is perhaps that the South of Essex was more accessible to London in the XVI. XVII. centuries, than Middlesex or Hertfordshire or even Kent and Surrey for the most part were. Sir Ralph Warren (1536) and Sir Thomas White (1553) were connected with Claybury, Sir Richard Gresham (1537) with Newbury, and Thomas Vyner and Sir Robert Vyner, 1654 and 1675, with Eastbury.
Two or three years before his death, he obtained, from the chapter of St. Paul's, a long lease of a property in Warwick Lane, and removed there from his residence in Bread Street, which he had rented from the widow of Sir John Fogg1 of Ashford, Kent, between the years 1559 and 1564, perhaps longer. The Warwick Lane property was situated at the south end of the Lane on the west side, where Amen Court now stands, and neai vheie the well-known hostelry of the Oxford Arms once stood: this information has been kindly given to me by the authority of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Besides resulting in the endowment of the Dronfield School, the acquisition of the Beauckief Abbey properties in 1561, no doubt led to the issue, in that year, of a commission to report upon the ruinous condition of Dronfield Chuich, which was held by the Abbey; the restoration of the massive (too massive) perpendicular east window , then described as, "fallen down and in great ruin," followed upon this. A sketch of the Church and the east window was made by J. M. Turner in 1797, and may be seen in Vol. I., p. 69, of the Finbury Collection at the Tate Gallery.
Note 1. The son of Sir John Fogge, married the daughter of Sir William Kempe, who was a first cousin of Sir Andrew Judde. Stemmata Chicheleana.
In Henry Fanshawe's marriage licence, dated 5 July, 1554, he is described as of the City of London. This first wife was Thomasine, daughter of William Hopkins, and widow of Robert Stevyns, of Barking. By her will, dated 4 October, 1561, she left a piece of meadow ground called Butchers Acre, in Ripple marsh, to her husband, and also a life interest in the rest of her lands situated at Ripple Side, among which was "Cottesmead, to which Paul Steven was to succeed; 26 years later (29 Eliz.) "Pawll Stephen" was still holding this parcel of marsh ground, see L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls.
Thomasine died on or about 30 January, 1561-2, and was buried on the 31st in St. Olive's, Bread Street, London, the site of which is still marked by a tablet, on Bread Street Hill. Henry Fanshawe made bequests to his father in law, William Hopkins, in his draft will of September, 1561, and in the Harleian Charters, 17c, 47, is an interesting record of a grant to Sir Walter Mildmay by Edward Hopkins, in 1584, of land in Rand's marsh, and a messuage at Ripple side, formerly belonging to Robert Stephen and his wife Thomasine, afterwards wife of Henry Fanshawe, late Queen's Remembrancer (which lands Thomasine had left to Edward Hopkins in reversion).
Henry Fanshawe's second wife (whom he must have married immediately after the death of the first), was Dorothy Stonard. She was the daughter of George Stonard, of Loughton1, descended from a family which, for some generations at least, held the office of Forester with the great Abbey of Waltham, and bore as arms, Per fesse, sa. and or, a pale engrailed, counterehanged, between two eagles displayed in chief, and one in base, of the second, which are impaled with those of Fanshawe on the Funeral Certificate of 7 November, 1568. George Stonard died on 25 November, 1558, and was buried in the north aisle of Loughton Church, with his wife Mary at his feet and effigies of several sons and six daughters.
Note 1. The manor of Loughton was originally held by the Stonards, of Waltham Abbey. John Stoner or Stonard left his best ambling nag-perhaps as heriot-to the Abbot in 1532. For a time the family held the site of Barking Abbey, but sold it in 1565-Newecourt's Repertoriurn. Sir William Hewett left a gold ring to John Stonard, brother of Dorothy, in 1-567, another brother, Francis (whose Epitaph is in Stapleford Abbot Church), married the daughter of Sir Clement Higham, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Queen Elizabeth visited Francis Stonard at Loughton, on her way from Hadham Hall (Master Capel's) to Wanstead: Lord Chancellor Hatton was in attendance on the Queen, he writes to Lord Burghley while there, dating his letter From the Court at Mr. Stoner's the 21st September, 1578." In 1568 Mary Wythy, daughter of Roger Wythy, acknowledges payment to her of money, by her uncle Henry Fanshawe, as executor of her father, to which receipt the names of the above John and Francis Stonard are appended. Richard Stonard was another of Dorothy's brothers; one of her sisters married Thomas Barfote who is mentioned in Henry Fanshawe's draft will of 1566, and the brother in law Nicholas Hunt, to whom he bequeathed a ring at the same time, was no doubt married to another of her sisters.
Henry Fansliawe's wife Dorothy bore him three children, Anne, Darraty, and Susanna, in 1562. 1565-6 and 1567. The eldest and youngest only, survived their father, Darraty being buried at Christchurch, Newgate Street, a few months after her birth. Susanna was said to be 18 months old at the time of her father s death on 28 October, 1508, she is not mentioned of course in the draft will of 1560.
Henry Fanshawe died at about the age of 62 on 28 October, 1568, after having held the office of Queen's Remembrancer for only two years. The reversion of the post, he secured to his nephew Thomas, a little more than three months before his death. Between the date of his last will in September, 1567, and his draft wills of 1561 and 1566, he had apparently transferred certain of his properties to his nephew, including the manor of Jenkins, as no mention of that, or Dengie, or Ilford Hospital, occurs in the will1.
Note 1. By various draft wills and liis last will, Henry Fanshawe made very varied dispositions of his property. By the draft will of 1561 he grave to Thomas Fanshawe, his brother's son, all his lands as well free as copyhold (except Clayhall, left to his wife, Carsewell, left to William Wolstenholme; Brimington Hall, left to his brother Colyn; and Grenewell lands, Barking, left to William Bassett) within the counties of Essex, Middlesex, and Derby; and also all his goods not specifically bequeathed, subject to debts being paid and his legacies duly discharged: the nephew was to be sole executor. He also left legacies to each of his sisters, living, and to all their children. By the draft will of 20 lebruary, 1566 (besides his nephew), his wife, her brother John Stonard, and Sir Walter Mildmay, were to be executors. The wife was to have lands in Tendring and Barking, Essex, the manor of Fulks, in Barking, and the manor of Soranks, Stanstead, Kent. The executors were to hold for purposes of the will, the lands in Derbyshire, the hospital of Ilford, "which cost me £60, and the manor of Dengie, and Thomas Fanshawe was to hold tor 21 years the manor of Valence, and farm of Clay Hail, which were then to go to his daughter Anne. If she died before then, these properties were to belong to his nephew absolutely.
By his actual will of September, 1567, Thomas Fanshawe was again made "sole" executor and was to receive the rents and profits of all lands and leases (except Clay Hall) to pax off do its and perform the behests of the will. That done, Valance, Gallance, Easthall, and other lands in Essex were to be devoted to the making up a fortune for his daughter Susanna; and New Barns with the same object for his daughter Anne.
In June 1567. Richard Spert, son of Sir Thomas Spert, had sold to Henrv Fanshawe and his daughter Anne (born 1562), New Barns in West Ham. The latter died at the age of 22, but no mention of New Barns occurs in her will of 1584. By a deed of 15 August, 1595, the crown granted to Joan (Smythe), wife of Thomas Fanshawe of Ware Park, and her sons Thomas and William, for their joint lives, the capital messuage of New Barns, formerly belonging to the monastery of Stratford Langtliorne, at an annual rent of £34 7s. 6d., and in July, 1607, on payment of a year's rent as a fine, the grant was extended to a term of 21 years from that date, an additional charge of 6 cart loads of good and sweet hay, to be delivered at the Royal Stables in the mews near Charing-Cross, being added to the rent.
A later deed of April, 1639, recites a grant of New Barns to Sir Francis Bacon and others in January 1617 for 99 years, and the grant of the property of the survivors of these to Sir Simon Fanshawe, and the confirmation of this grant to the last; and further records that on payment of a sum of £100 by Sir Thomas Fanshawe, Surveyor General (d. 1631), the property was transferred, for the remainder of the lease of 09 years, to John Bullock and John Cholmley, at a rent of £40 p.a.
He was buried in the church of St. Margaret. Barking, on 8 November, 1568, being the first male of the family to find a last resting-place there, as the last was Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes, in 1797.
It was in St. Margaret's Church that Captain James Cook, the great explorer, was married to Miss Batts on 2 December, 1762. She died 73 years later.
As stated in pp. 265-6 of the Memoirs, Henry Fanshawe's widow married William Fuller Surveyor of the Exchequer (Auditor com. for the counties of Norfolk. Suffolk, Cambs., Huntingdon, Hertford, London and Middlesex, a post which was in the Queen's Gift and was in the Exchequer Office). Mrs. Fanshawe was his third wife, she died in 1583; her youngest daughter Susanna Fanshawe having just previously married Timothy Lucy, brother of Elizabeth Lucy, a former wife of Fuller who had been still living in 1563. Timothy Lucy was the fourth son of William Lucy of Charlecote and brother of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, "Justice Shallow." Timothy Lucy' was B. A. of Oxford in 1567 and M.P. for Warwick 1571 and 1584. There were three sons and four daughters of this marriage. Susanna Lucy died in 1610, her husband on 21 January, 1616. He is buried in Bitterley church near Ludlow, Salop, under a fine monument with an effigy of himself in armour, kneeling on a cushion with hands uplifted. Above the tomb rests the coat of arms with eight quarterings; there are also shields upon the tomb bearing liis own arms, one of them impaled with those of Susanna, and the other with those of her successor, who was Joan, daughter of Thomas Burghill of Thingell. This lady survived her husband and erected the tomb "in memorye and love of him."
The elder daughter Anne died in 1584. It transpires in the Record (still preserved at the P.R.O.) of the family dispute over a marriage settlement for Susanna, that William Fuller, who had been instrumental in bringing this marriage about, also sought to procure a marriage between "Nathanyell his sonne and Anne ffanshawe, she "having a great porcon of her father's will and lands by descent, and his son but a child without anv living assurance, or sage either in land or other substance." The continual seeking of him and his son to secure this marriage "turned to the great and continual grief and hinderment of the sd Anne during her life." Anne, however, died unmarried, and was buried at Barking on 7 April, 1584.
Sir Drue Drury, who assisted in the adjustment of the disagreement, was connected with the Stonard family.