In or before 1607 [his father] Thomas Bendish 1st Baronet [aged 38] and [his mother] Dorothy Cotts were married.
Around 1607 Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet was born to Thomas Bendish 1st Baronet [aged 39] and Dorothy Cotts.
Around 1627 Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet [aged 20] and Anne Baker Lady Bendish were married.
Around 1630 [his son] John Bendish 3rd Baronet was born to Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet [aged 23] and [his wife] Anne Baker Lady Bendish. He married 1664 Martha Betteson Lady Bendish and had issue.
In 1636 [his father] Thomas Bendish 1st Baronet [aged 68] died at Bower Hall, Steeple Bumstead. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Steeple Bumstead. His son Thomas [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Baronet Bendish of Steeple Bumstead in Essex. [his wife] Anne Baker Lady Bendish by marriage Lady Bendish of Steeple Bumstead in Essex.
In August 1644 the estates of Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet [aged 37] were sequestrated, and he was fined £1,500, for being a Royalist and sending £3,000 to the King at Newcastle.
In 1647 Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet [aged 40] was appointed Ambassador to Constantinople, continuing there for about fourteen years1.
Note 1. There is an elaborate account of his career in that post in Collins' Baronetage (1720), reproduced in Burke's Extinct Baronetage and elsewhere.
Before 1661 [his wife] Anne Baker Lady Bendish died at Constantinople. She wwas buried at St Mary's Church, Steeple Bumstead.
Around 1664 [his son] John Bendish 3rd Baronet [aged 34] and [his daughter-in-law] Martha Betteson Lady Bendish were married.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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In 1674 Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet [aged 67] died at Bower Hall, Steeple Bumstead. His son John [aged 44] succeeded 3rd Baronet Bendish of Steeple Bumstead in Essex. Martha Betteson Lady Bendish by marriage Lady Bendish of Steeple Bumstead in Essex.
[his daughter] Anne Bendish was born to Thomas Bendish 2nd Baronet and Anne Baker Lady Bendish.
Grandfather: Thomas Bendish of
father: Thomas Bendish 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Foord of Frating and Great Horkesley
Grandmother: Eleanor Foord
Grandfather: Richard Cotts of Arkesden and Debden in Essex
mother: Dorothy Cotts