DANVERS OF CALTHORPE, ADDERBURY, BAYNTON AND TOCKENHAM

William Danvers

The Danvers of Ratley, Upton, and Adderbury derived their descent from William Danvers of Calthorpe, third son of Sir William Danvers of Chamberhouse and his wife, Ann Pury.

Eleanor Danvers

It is, however, doubtful whether William Danvers lived at Calthorpe, for the house seems to have remained during her life in the possession of Eleanor, widow of his elder brother, Thomas Danvers.  In the year 1524 we find Eleanor living at Calthorpe, and paying the highest subsidy in Nethrop and Calthorpe.17.1

Upton

William, no doubt, made Upton House his home.  Upton is a hamlet of the parish of Ratley, in Warwickshire, and is about six miles north-west of Banbury.  There Sir William Danvers of Chamberhouse bought the land which, Dugdale tells us, he depopulated and emparked, and the property remained in his family till the year 1640, when it was bought by the Archers of Tysoe.  It subsequently passed to the Jersey family, by whom it was recently (1894) sold to Lord Chesham.

Marries Cicely Don

William Danvers (see chart facing page 17–6) married Cicely, daughter of John Don,17.2 or Donne, of the old Cheshire family of that name.  The match does not appear in the Don pedigree as given in Ormerod’s Cheshire, but a Cicely, a daughter of John Don of the period married Hugh Davenport of Calverley, and it may have been this Cicely Don who as a widow married William Danvers.

GEORGE DANVERS OF CALTHORPE

William Danvers by his wife Cicely had four sons, of whom George, the eldest, succeeded his father, and we learn from the latter’s inquisition that George, his heir, was born in the year 1520.  George is mentioned, as is also his mother Cicely, in the will of his grandmother, Dame Anne Danvers,17.3 who leaves George 6s. 8d. to pray for her soul.  At the age of nineteen George Danvers was admitted at Gray’s Inn.

Marries Margaret Doyley

He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Doyley, of Eweden and Greenlands, of the ancient race of that name, descended from Robert Doyley, the favourite of the Conqueror, and the fellow-soldier at Senlac of the ancestor of George Danvers.  As we have already noticed, the families were in ancient times neighbours and friends in Oxfordshire, and doubtless George Danvers had this in mind when he embellished the oriel window at Calthorpe House with the shields of Danvers and Doyley.  Of these shields three remain.  One bears the arms of Danvers impaling Doyley, and beneath the words ‘Danuers mached with Doyley.’  Another shield bears the Danvers (Brancestre) arms with the words, ‘Danuers lounge time owner of Cothroppe’.  And a third probably bore the arms of Doyley, for beneath it are the words, ‘Robert Doyley cam oute of Normandie with the Conqueror, married Algitha, d. of Wigotee lord of Wallingford.’ 17.4

DOYLEY FAMILY OF EWEDEN AND GREENLANDS

It will not be amiss to introduce here a brief notice of the connection of the Doyley family with Eweden and Greenlands, especially as the present [1894] owner of this ancient estate of the Doyleys, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P., is lineally descended form Sir William Danvers of Chamberhouse, grandfather of George Danvers.

Purchase of Eweden

In the year 1384 Thomas Doyley purchased the manor of Eweden or Iveden, in the parish of Hambleden, and, dying shortly after, was followed in the estate by his son and heir William, who died in the year 1424, and was succeeded at Eweden by his second son Richard, who died in the year 1435.17.5  William’s granddaughter Isabel was the first wife of Thomas de Wicham, and to them and their issue, in the year 1410, Robert de Wicham gave the lordship of Swalecliffe.  They had issue, Thomas, progenitor of the present family of Wykeham.

Purchase of Greenlands

Richard Doyley was followed by his son William, died in 1449, and his grandson John.  This John Doyley was in his day a great warrior, ‘a famouse souldier’ celebrated for his exploits in France.  He bought Greenlands or Southland, and to it removed his residence from Eweden.  John died in the year 1492, and was buried in Hurley Church, not far from Greenlands, on the opposite side of the river, where his monument remains.

Thomas Doyley

John was followed by his eldest son, Thomas, who as his first wife married Alice Coulson, and by her had several children, amongst them John, his heir, and Margaret, who married George Danvers.  His second wife was Dame Alice Cottesmore, widow of Sir William Cottesmore, of Baldwyn-Brightwell.  Thomas was buried in St Peter’s aisle of Hambleden Church.  By his second wife he left a son, Robert Doyley of Merton, who became a progenitor of the Doyleys of Adderbury.

John Doyley

John Doyley, the son of Thomas, married Frances Edmunds, stepdaughter of Lord Williams of Thame, and daughter of Andrew Edmunds of Cressing-Temple, Essex, by his wife Elizabeth Bledlow, who afterwards married Lord Williams.  John Doyley was at the dissolution associated with Williams in the commission for the sale of Church lands, and amongst other lands those of St Frideswide, Oxford, and of Oseney Abbey, religious houses which his ancestors founded and endowed.  John Doyley obtained large grants of Church lands, and died in the year 1569; George Danvers and Robert Doyley of Merton were his executors; he was buried in Hambleden Church.

Frances Edmunds (Doyley)

His widow, Frances, married Richard Danvers, younger brother of George Danvers—a richly-endowed widow, for besides her jointure she was heiress to her brother Sir Christopher Edmunds.  She lived to a great age, and was much at Court during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  She died in the year 1601 and she is called widow of Richard Danvers. Her heir is her son John Doyley, aged fifty and more.17.6

Sir Robert Doyley

John Doyley was succeeded by his son, Sir Robert Doyley, a great courtier who died of the pestilence at the black assize of Oxford in the year 1577, and was buried in the Doyley dormitory in Hambleden Church.  His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon.  After her first husband’s death Elizabeth married once or twice, and as Lady Periam lived in ‘very bountiful style’ at Greenlands to an advanced age.

Sir Robert was succeeded by his brother John Doyley of Chibenhurst and of Chiselhampton.  He married Ursula, sister of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell, ‘a great friend of the Gospel,’ and was succeeded by his son Sir Cope Doyley, who, on Lady Periam’s death, removed to Greenlands about the year 1623.  He married Martha Quarles and died in August 1633, and with his wife, was buried in Hambleden Church, where his monument remains.

Civil War and Greenlands

Sir Cope was succeeded by his son Sir John Doyley, the Royalist, who defended Greenlands House a long time against the army of the Parliament.  The old hall of the Doyleys was almost destroyed by the fire of the besiegers, and Sir John, impoverished by is loyalty and unable to undertake the cost of its restoration, sold the ruins and retired to Chiselhampton, in which estate he was succeeded by his son Sir John Doyley of Chiselhampton.  Of the old home of the Doyleys at Greenlands nothing remains, but in the grounds of the present house may still be seen piles of cannon-balls which have been gathered from the site of the former mansion.

GEORGE DANVERS OF CALTHORPE, BANBURY

To return to George Danvers.  It is probable that portions of the present Calthorpe house were built by him, for it is not likely that the Copes17.7 who obtained possession of Calthorpe about the year 1592 or the Hawteyns17.8 who lived there and also matched Doyley, would place the Danvers shield in the window of their hall.  In the year 1566 George Danvers, Richard Fynes (Fiennes) of Broughton Castle, and Anthony Cave, sign the Lay Subsidy Rolls of Banbury17.9—a fine strong signature, George Danvers—and three years after Danvers and Fynes are appointed Commissioners of Musters of Oxfordshire.  In the year 157017.10 we find George Danvers corresponding with the minister, Cecil, regarding a subsidy which was to be levied in anticipation of war with Spain.  The association of Danvers with Fynes would show that the former had joined the Puritan party, of which the Fynes of Broughton were the local leaders.

Family

George Danvers died prior to the year 1575, for that year his son John takes his place in the Lay Subsidy Roll of the inhabitants of Calthorpe and Nethrop.  George left two sons, John, his heir, and Thomas.  Thomas married Margaret, or Magdeleine, daughter of Francis Barnard of Abindon, Northampton.  He had a son, George of Merton, who married Frances Woodford, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married . . . Dimmock of Lincoln.  George Danvers of Merton had a son, Harrington, who married Jane, daughter of Richard Clarke of Bicester, Oxon, and had by her a son, Henry, and two daughters, Margery and Maria Guy.  The Harrington family held the manor of Merton at the time.17.11  In 1694, Maria Guy Danvers administered to her father’s effects.  He is described in the administration as a widower, and of the parish of St Michael’s, Basinghall, London.

JOHN DANVERS

To return to John, eldest son of George of Calthorpe.  He is present in the Banbury Lay Subsidy Rolls of 1575 and 1580, but is absent in that of 1596.17.12

Marries Dorothy Verney

He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Verney of Compton, Warwick, and great-granddaughter of Anne Verney, daughter of Sir William Danvers of Chamberhouse.  John and Dorothy had two sons,17.13 George, the son and heir, and John, and four daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary, and Anne.  Dorothy died in 1590, and was buried at Banbury on October 2 of that year (church register).

At Stanton Wyvil, Leicestershire

In the pedigree given in Dugdale’s History of Warwick John is called of Banbury, Calthorpe, and Upton, while in the Visitation of Oxon,17.14 he is called John Danvers of Stanton in Leicestershire.  The family had no property in Leicestershire, and one can only account for his settling there by supposing that, because of his religious views, Banbury and Upton became distasteful to him, and that he found a more congenial home at Stanton Wyvil, where his aunt, Elizabeth Tyringham, was settled.

In Opposition to the Puritans of Banbury

That John Danvers and his family held views which conflicted with those of Puritan Banbury is disclosed by the Domestic State Papers of the period.17.15  They show that Banbury at the time was eminently puritan, and in token thereof, in the year 1571 elected as its member Anthony Cope of Hanwell, one of the leaders of the early Puritans.  Moreover, as its vicar Banbury had at the time the eminent Puritan divine, Dr. Thomas Brasbridge, while not many years after this the townsmen showed their zeal for Puritanism by destroying Banbury Cross and all other such crosses on which they could put their hands.

Dr. Brasbridge appears to have been specially disliked by the Danvers family, for we find that in 1589 articles were brought against Mary Green of Wickham and Jane Petherton, her servant, and also against John Danvers and his wife and others for recusancy.17.16  ‘Danvers and his household at Christmas time came not to church, but indulged in dancing or some other like pastime.  Also the Danvers family assaulted Thomas Brasbridge, their minister.  Anne Haile held the said minister by the gown, while Anne Danvers did buffet him very sore about the face and head.’

Who the Anne Danvers was who manifested her abhorrence of Puritanism in this fanatical way we cannot say, but John, who preferred pastimes to attendance on Dr. Brasbridge’s ministry, we identify with the John of our present history.  In 1589 he became High Sheriff of Oxon, and distinguished himself by his contests with Sir Anthony Cope and his Puritan allies.  On May 22 of that year,17.16 John Danvers, Sheriff of Oxon, writes to all Justices of the Peace and other officers in the county directing them ‘to repress all riots and tumults that may be raised under pretence of taking down Maypoles, which, being well used, and the time of Divine Service duly observed, were lawful to be kept.’  On the same day he writes from Cothropp (Calthorpe) to the Lord Chancellor that he has been obliged to acquaint the Archbishop of Canterbury with the bad proceedings of Anthony Cope and others of the town of Banbury, who under the plea of religion were practising to abolish most pastimes used in the country as, Maypoles, Morris-dancers, Whitsun ale and others, to the great discontent of her Majesty’s loving subjects.’  On the other hand, on June 6, Richard Wheatley, constable of the Hundred of Banbury, writes to the Council complaining of the resistance of John Danvers, High Sheriff of Oxford, to the precepts of the Deputy-Lieutenants for the taking down of Maypoles.  And in July, 1589,17.17 Sir Francis Knollys, writing to Lord Burleigh, contrasts the manner and behaviour of Anthony Cope and John Danvers, the latter ‘one of those persons who leaned passionately to the strict observance of the ceremonies of the Book of Common Prayer.’  He speaks of his contentious behaviour, and of the virtuous behaviour of Mr Cope.

However, the Puritans had their way, and waxed stronger in Banbury under the leadership of Mr Cope of Hanwell, the Fynes of Broughton, and Lord Brooke, so John Danvers seems to have quitted in disgust his ancestral mansion, retiring to a place where Maypoles and Morris-dancers and Whitsun ale were not prohibited, where church and church functions were not governed by a Puritan minister, and where in a green old age, hearty, cheerful, and at peace with his neighbours, he might rejoice in the old ways of his forefathers.

Death and Will of John Danvers

John Danvers died in the year 1591; his will, made on the first day of that year (OS), was proved in the following December.  As he had property at Boughton, in Lincoln, his will has been registered in the probate office of Lincoln.

He gives to George Danvers, his eldest son, his manor of Upton, Warwick, and his lands there, his household stuff, and a lease which he had granted to his brother Thomas.  To George also he leaves his mansion at Calthorpe, with its lawns, grounds and barns.  To his younger son, John, lands in Calthorpe and the timber thereon, which were late in the occupation of the Hospital of St John.  He mentions his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Anne and Margaret, and his brother Thomas, to whom he leaves a legacy.  He leaves legacies also to Mr John Bradshawe and to Anne Gale.  His executors are Richard Fynes, John Doily, Edmund and Thomas Danvers.

Family of John Danvers

John, the younger son of John Danvers and Dorothy Verney, settled at Fyfield in Berkshire, and . . . White of that village married his sister, Anne Danvers.  John married Mary, daughter of . . . White, and had a son, George. 18  His sister Mary married Abel Rowswell (or Russell) of Martle (March?), Somerset.

GEORGE DANVERS OF UPTON AND RATLEY

Marries Margaret Wake

George, the eldest son, married twice.  His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Richard Wake of Hartwell, a village near Blisworth, and he is therefore sometimes called Danvers of Blisworth.  He may have had property in Blisworth, but he was not lord of the manor, which was forfeited to the Crown by a Wake who followed the fortunes of Richard III.  By his first wife George Danvers had one son, who died, leaving no issue, in the year 1618.

Marries Maria Edolphe

About the year 1597 George Danvers married his second wife, Maria, daughter of Simon Edolphe of St Radegund’s, Kent, 19 and of Adderbury, Oxon, where, in the year 1580, Edolphe’s name stands first on the Lay Subsidy Roll.17.20  By his second wife George Danvers had sons, John, William, Richard, George,17.21 Henry, and daughters, Anne, Mary, Sybil, Frances,17.21 Dorothy.  One of the daughters, Mary, married John Washington of Radway.

Sells Calthorpe

George Danvers sold the old seat of the family,17.22 Calthorpe manor-house, to the Copes, who leased or sold it to the Hawteyn family, whose arms are on a shield over the present entrance.  In the year 1595 the Hawteyns appear in the Lay Subsidy Roll as of Calthorpe and Nethrop.

George Danvers removed to London, where he was in business.  Subsequently he lived at Stanwell, Middlesex, where he died, and where he expresses a wish that he may be buried.  His will17.23 was proved in 1630.  He mentions all his children and his sister, Mary Russell.  He leaves his mansion at Ratley, Warwick, to his eldest son.  His post-mortem inquisition17.24 calls him ‘of Upton and Ratley,’ and states that his heir, John,17.25 was thirty years of age and upwards.  Frances, executor of George Danvers, acknowledges payment of money due by her brother John to the estate.

JOHN DANVERS (THE ELDER) OF UPTON

Will of John Danvers of Upton

John Danvers, eldest son of George Danvers and Maria Edolphe, died in the year 1658.  In his will17.26 he bequeaths the manor of Upton and the rest of his Warwickshire property to his brother-in-law, Richard Swann, his brother George, and his nephew, Peter Yate, to hold in trust for his nephew John, son of his brother William, until of age.  Failing him, the property is to pass to another nephew, John, son of his brother George.

He mentions his brother Henry, his brother-in-law John Washington, and his godson John Washington of Kineton; Stephen Yate and his nephew Peter Yate, and Mary Yate, daughter of Peter; his nieces, Damaris and Susan Swann, daughters of his sister Dorothy, and he also mentions E. Yate, to whom he leaves his sword.  He also leaves legacies to Elizabeth, Hannah and Deborah, daughters of his brother George, to the children of his sister Sibell Edulph, and to Elizabeth, daughter of his late brother William when she is of age, failing her, the legacy is to go to her brother John; other legacies to relatives and friends and to the poor of Ratley, Radway and Kineton, are included in the will.

Dorothy Danvers and Richard Swan

In the Close Roll of the year 165917.27 a deed is recorded by which Richard Swann, citizen and merchant of London, and George Danvers, citizen and dyer of London, executors to the will of John Danvers the elder of Upton, provide regarding £100 left by him to the poor of Ratley.  This Richard Swann married Dorothy, daughter of George Danvers, and by her had two daughters, Damaris and Susan.17.28 In the church of Mickleton, Gloucester, is a monument to Captain Richard Swan, who made six voyages to the East Indies, and to his relict, Mrs Dorothy Swan.  He died in June, 1676, æt. 59, and his widow in January, 1688.  On their tomb are the Danvers (Brancestre) arms.  In the same church are monuments to the Graves family, one of whom, Samuel, married Damaris, daughter of Richard and Dorothy Swan.  He died in 1708, and she, aged 68, in 1719.17.29

Washington Family

The John Washington who is mentioned in the will of John Danvers married Mary, daughter of George Danvers.  He was the son of Walter Washington, of Radway, who died in the year 1597, by his wife Alice Morden.  Walter was the grandson of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave.17.30  John was therefore cousin to the Rev. Lawrence Washington, Fellow of Brasenose College, whose sons, John and Lawrence, emigrated to America.  The great-grandson of John, who emigrated, was George Washington, the first President of the United States of America.

Royalist

John Danvers and Walter and George Washington were companions in arms on the Royalist side, for we learn from the Domestic State Papers (September 17, 1650) that Danvers’ estates were seized and inventoried on the plea that in the year 1642 he had relieved and maintained King’s soldiers in his house at Upton, and had assisted Walter and George Washington, who were in arms against the Parliament.

John Danvers (the Younger) of Upton

John (the elder of Upton), left the Warwickshire property to William Danvers’ son, John (the younger). This latter John married Elizabeth Piert17.31 and died in the year 1675, leaving two sons and two daughters.  Roland, the elder son, married . . . Fermor, of Northampton, relict of Worcup17.32 and died of a wound received at Namur, leaving no issue.  His brother John died a minor and unmarried, and thus the male line, in Warwickshire, of William Danvers and Anne Pury, died out.

George Danvers of Aldgate

George, fourth son of George Danvers and Maria Edolphe, had, as appears from his brother John’s will, a son John, and daughters Elizabeth, Hannah, and Deborah.  Probably this is the George Danvers whom we find in the Close Roll of October 18, 21 Charles II (1680), buying of Simon Edolphe, of St Radigunde’s, Kent, the site of the dissolved monastery of St Radigunde, with the house, edifices, barns, orchards, pastures, etc., with land in various places in Kent, amounting in all to one thousand acres.  He it is who signs the Herald’s Visitation of London of the year 1634.  His wife was Jane, daughter of . . . Mericke, of Bristow.  His house is in the ward of Faringdon Without.  This is in all probability the George Danvers who died in the year 1670, and who in his will17.33 describes himself as citizen and linendraper, and as having several houses in Aldgate, as well as copyhold land in the parish of St Osith, Essex.  George desires that he may be buried in the grave of his son John.  (John died in 1665 and George administered his effects.)  George has a wife living, to whom he leaves his horses, cows, pigs, and poultry.  He has three daughters, Deborah, Lydia, Susan, and a cousin, Peter Yeat, the mention of whose name connects him with the Warwickshire family, and he has, too, a cousin, Montague Lane; these two he makes his executors.  He has sisters, Rebecca Powell and Penelly Harlow.  The will was proved in July, 1670.

The names of the daughters, excepting Deborah, do not agree with those mentioned in the will of John Danvers of Upton as daughters of his brother George; Elizabeth and Hannah may have died and Lydia and Susan were born after the will was made.

George Danvers was probably twice married for in the registers of St Botolph Without, Aldgate, Elizabeth is the name of the mother of his two sons and five daughters; John (baptised 11 June 1646), Elizabeth (baptised 28 July 1647), Hannah (baptised 18 February 1648), Theophilus (baptised October 1651) who probably died young, Deborah (baptised 5 October 1656), Lydia (baptised 17 November 1659), and Susanna (baptised 11 Feb 1662).17.34

DANVERS OF ROUGHAM

William Danvers of Calthorpe had, besides his children by his wife Ciceley, a ‘base sonne by Mary Tynwy,’ 17.35 who in the Herald’s Visitation of Oxford is called John of London.

John Wrythe

John had a son called John who married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Wryothesley, and had by her sons, Rowland and Mark.  Rowland Danvers is called ‘of County Suffolk,’ and had a son and heir, William (baptised 17 March 158517.36), who had four daughters, his co-heirs.  Mark, Rowland’s brother, married Joan, daughter of John Bell, and had a son, William, and sundry other children.  So much from the Visitation; but we gain further information regarding the family from other sources.  Thus Noble, in his History of the College of Arms, tells us that the proper name of the so-called Sir John Wriothesley was John Wrythe, and that he was Garter King of Arms in the time of Richard III and Henry VII, and was ‘the father of the college.’  Noble also tells us that Wrythe was three times married, and that by his third wife, Ann, daughter of . . . Mynne, he had two daughters, of whom one, Isabel, married, first, William Gough, and, second, John Danvers of Worminghall, Bucks.

John Danvers of Worminghall

Then Wotton, in his Baronetage of England,17.37 tells us that the Davers family of Rougham were supposed to descend from John Danvers of Worminghall, who married the daughter of . . . Popham, and had a son, John, who married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, and by her had a son Rowland, a son John, slain at Bullen, a son Luke, slain at Newhaven, and a son Mark, of Cleare Hall, Suffolk, who was twice married—first, to Jane, daughter of Richard Beale; and, secondly, to Joan, daughter of John de le Hoo, by whom he had a son, John Davers, Esq.

Robert Davers

A presumed descendant of this John was Robert Davers, who amassed a large fortune in Barbadoes in the West Indies, returned to England, purchased Rougham Hall, in Suffolk, and was made a baronet on May 12, 1682.17.38  He had descendants, the Davers, baronets of Rougham, the last of whom, Sir Charles Davers, was M.P. for Edmundsbury, and died about the year 1806, leaving no son, and the baronetcy then became extinct.

Mark Danvers of Cleare Hall

Harleian MS. 891, p. 14, tells us that the above-mentioned Mark Danvers married Joane Beale, and that their children’s names were William, Wriothesley, Joane,17.39 Bridget, Dorothy, Barbara.

Harleian MS. 1560, a copy of the Visitation of Suffolk, by Richard Mundy, makes the John Danvers who married Isabel Wriothesley the son of John Danvers of Worminghall and . . . Popham, and the latter John, son of a William Danvers of Worminghall and John Walcott, which William was the son of another William of Worminghall and Agnes, daughter of Robert Wallis, which last William was son of John Danvers by the daughter of Sir Lancelot Lisley.  From the above somewhat discordant statements we gather that John of London of the Oxford Visitation was also of Worminghall, and was, as that Visitation states, the base son of William Danvers, of Upton and Banbury.

DANVERS OF ADDERBURY

Manor of St Amands

Many seventeenth-century domestic occurrences of Danvers of Adderbury are recorded in the church register.  The manor of St Amands, in Adderbury, was bought from Sir Thomas Wickham by John Danvers, and was devised by him to his son, Thomas of Waterstock.  From Thomas it passed, on his death, to his brother William, and next to William’s third son, William.  This William and his wife Cicely had four sons, George, who we have seen married Margaret Doyley, Edmund, John and Richard; they had also two daughters, Elizabeth and Barbara.  Elizabeth married Edmund Tyringham,17.40 of Stanton Wyvil, Leicester.  Barbara died unmarried.  John died in 1603, when his estate was administered to his brother Edmund.

Edmund, the second son, inherited the Adderbury estate, which, as we learn from his father’s inquisition,17.41 consisted of thirty houses and homesteads, and seven hundred acres of land.

Village and Church of Adderbury

The village is about three miles to the south of Banbury, and includes East and West Adderbury, Milton, and Burford St John.  Adderbury is famous for its noble church, the chancel of which was built by William of Wykeham.17.42 Tradition asserts that this church and those of Bloxham and King’s Sutton were built by three masons, who were brothers, and that the devil, serving them as a labourer, fell one day with a hod of mortar which he was carrying, and so made Crouch Hill.  The relative merits of the spires of the churches are commemorated in the local lines:

‘Bloxham for length,

Adderbury for strength,

And King’s Sutton for beauty.’

Edmund Danvers

Edmund is mentioned in the Oxon Lay Subsidy Roll of 1596,17.43 and in the inquisition of his brother Richard.  He married Cycely Woodford,17.44 of Burnham, Bucks, and had by her three sons, George, Thomas and William, whose baptisms are registered at Adderbury 21 December 1579, 12 January 1581 and 2 April 1583,17.45 as is also the death of George the third day from his baptism, December 24, 1579.

Richard Danvers

Richard, Edmund’s brother, settled at Reading, and was twice married.  His first wife’s name we have not been able to discover, but he had by her one daughter, Cicely, married to Welbeck, who was fifty years of age at the time of her father’s death.  His second wife was Frances, widow of John Doyley, and therefore sister-in-law to Margaret Doyley, who married George Danvers, Richard’s eldest brother.  Frances was daughter of Andrew Edmunds, Esq., of Cressing-Temple, Essex, by Elizabeth Bledlow, who after her first husband’s death married Lord Williams of Thame.  Frances Danvers outlived her second husband, lived to a great age,17.46 and was much at Court during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  We find her, with her husband Danvers, in the Chancery reports of the period,17.47 and it is probable that it was through her stepfather Lord Williams’ interest that her husband became possessed of the house and lands of the Brothers Minor, Grey Friars, of Reading.

In his will17.48 Richard desires that he may be buried in Caversham Church; he leaves legacies to members of the Welbeck family, and to the John Doyleys, father and son.  To his nephew, William Danvers, he leaves his ‘Turkie carpett’ and his counterpoint.  He mentions his sister, Barbara Danvers.

His post-mortem inquisition which is attached is interesting, not only because it mentions many members of the Danvers family, but also because of the careful provision which Richard made in order that his property should remain with his family.  But, whether because the property had been sacrilegiously obtained, or because his successors did not value it so highly as did Richard, his carefully-made arrangements were all in vain, and the Grey Friars’ land shortly after his death became the property of the Corporation of Reading.

Chancery Inq. P.M., 9 James I, pt 2, No. 177 (Berks).

Inqn taken at Abingdon 16 April 8 James I [1610] before William Whetcombe Escheator, after the death of Richard Davers als Danvers Esq. by the oath of Thomas Steevens &c. &c. who say that Richard Danvers long before his death, to wit, on the 4th May, 24 Eliz. [1581] was seised in his demesne as of fee of 1 house or capital messuage and of the site of the House formerly of the Minor Brothers commonly called the Grey Friars of Reading lately dissolved; also of the cemetery and all houses, buildings, orchards, gardens, lands, tenement, &c. within the site, compass and precincts of the said House; all walls, ditches, waters and enclosures of the said site and precinct; also of the site and precincts of that House and enclosures containing altogether 6 acres.

So seised, the said Richard by indenture dated 20 January 1 Jas. I [1603] and made between him the said Richard by the name of Richard Danvers of Reading in co. Berks Esq. of the one part and Thomas Danvers by the name of Thomas Danvers of Adderbury in co. Oxon, gent of the other part, in consideration of the maintenance of the said Richard in food during his natural life, and also in consideration of the love which he bore towards ‘Cyscelie’ Welbeck his daughter and towards Thomas Danvers nephew of the said Richard, to wit, son of Edmund Danvers brother of the said Richard, and to William Danvers nephew (nepos) of the said Richard and brother of the said Thomas, and to George Danvers kinsman of the said Richard, to wit, son of Thomas Danvers deceased, son of George likewise deceased the brother of the said Richard, and to Richard Danvers of Cirencester in co. Gloucester,17.49 kinsman of the said Richard, and to the Most Noble Henry Lord Danvers of Dantesey also kinsman of the said Richard and to their heirs male: and for the establishment and continuation of the lands & tenements afterwards herein specified in the said persons being of the blood and kin of the said Richard in such manner and of such estate as is afterwards herein mentioned: and for the better advancement of the said ‘Cyscelie’ and of the others aforenamed and in consideration that the lands & tenements hereafter mentioned shall remain in the blood and kindred of the said Richard; for all these considerations the said Richard granted to and agreed with the said Thomas Danvers of Adderbury and his heirs that he the said Richard and his heirs and every other person who should be seised of the house and site of the Grey Friars aforesaid & of other the premises aforesaid should be seised thereof to the use of the said Richard Danvers during his life; after his decease to the use of the said ‘Cyscelie’ for life: and after her decease to the use of the said Thomas Danvers his nephew and his heirs male; and for default of such issue to the use of the said William Danvers and his heirs male; for default, to the use of the said George Danvers and his heirs male; and for default, to the use of the said Richard Danvers of Cirencester and his heirs male; for default, to the use of Henry Lord Danvers and his heirs male; and lastly for default then to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard Danvers for ever.

All the tenements aforesaid are held of the King in capite by the service of the 20th part of a knight’s fee, and are worth per ann. (clear) 20s.

Richard Danvers died at Reading 12 December 6 James I [1608]; the said Cecilia is his daughter and next heir and is now aged fifty years and more.

Thomas Danvers

Thomas, baptised January 12, 1581, the eldest son of Edmund, is mentioned in the Lay Subsidy Roll,17.50 and in that of 1627, and evidently succeeded his father at Adderbury.  He married Alice Knevet of Chester, and died in 1639, leaving no children.  His will17.51 was made in the year 1637, and shows him to have been a well-provided squire, enjoying a good deal of cash, as well as crops and cattle, and the tithes of Easington.  He mentions his wife Als (Alice) and his brother William’s eldest son, Edmond, and Edmond’s brothers, George, William, Thomas, John, Charles, and their sister Ann, and also Ann’s elder sister Mary who married Richard Powell.  Thomas’s wife Alice died in the year 1642.  Her will17.52 mentions her kin Richard, and his wife, Mary Powell or Rowell, and his kinswoman Anne, wife of Michael Chambers.

William Danvers

William, brother of Thomas, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir E. Clarke of Ardington, and by her had a large family: Thomas, the eldest, died young; Edward, or Edmund, the second son, is spoken of as the eldest in his Uncle Thomas’s will.  William died in 1659.  His will17.53 mentions his sons Thomas, Edward, Charles, and William, and also his daughters, Ann Chambers and Mary, married to . . . Peirce.  William retains the tithes of Easington.

George, son of William and Dorothy, made his will in April, 1643, proved in April, 1644.17.54 He mentions his brothers John, William, and Charles, his sister Chambers and her daughter Dorothy, daughter of Michael Chambers.  This sister’s name, as we learn from other wills, was Anne.  George had a sister, Rowell.

Edmund, eldest son of William and Dorothy, was baptized at Adderbury Church on June 28, 1609, and his brother William on November 8, 1612.  Edmund appears to have died unmarried.  His brothers William and George are mentioned in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1641.17.55

William Danvers of Gotham

William Danvers married (on 2 June 164117.56) Mary, daughter of John Skevington (or Skeffington) and Ann his wife, of a family which had been seated at Skevington in Leicester before the time of Henry III, and had thence taken their surname.  William Skevington is described as of Skevington and of Tunbridge.  He married Elizabeth St Andrew, one of the heiresses of John St Andrew of Gotham, Notts, and in right of his wife presented in 1673 his nephew William Danvers to the rectory of Gotham.  There is a monument to William Danvers’ memory in Gotham Church.

William and Mary Danvers had two sons, John (baptised 8 December 164717.57) and William.17.58  William, born in 1644 (baptised 13 September 164417.57), matriculated at Oriel College in the year 1661, took his M.A. degree in 1668, was presented to the rectory of Skeffington in 1667, and to that of Gotham in 1673.

John Danvers of London

John Danvers of London, the son of William Danvers, appears in the poll books of the City of London as a draper in the year 1700, 1701, and 1713.  He died at Liddington, Wilts, and buried there in 1730, Margaret Danvers, widow. Margaret had a daughter-in-law, Mary Danvers, who, 6 April 1729, married Ed. Hopkins, of St Stephen’s, Bristol.  Margaret’s will17.59 was proved 5 December 1730.17.60

Charles Danvers

Charles, son of William and Dorothy, was buried at Adderbury in 1704.  William Doiley of Adderbury, in his will made in 1696, mentions a son-in-law, Charles Danvers.  Charles had children—Edward, Charles, George, William, Dorothy—baptised at Adderbury between 1661 and 1674.

In the year 1676—in the Hearth Tax Roll17.61—an Ann Danvers has a house, uninhabited, in Adderbury, and she probably was the last of her race who lived there.

DANVERS OF BAYNTON

This branch of the family took their descent from Henry, second son of Sylvester Danvers and his first wife Elizabeth Mordaunt.17.62 Henry’s elder brother, John, was born in the year 1540, and Henry a few years later.  He was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in the year 1564, and is mentioned in his father’s will, which was made in the year 1549.

Henry Danvers married Joan, daughter and heiress of Anselm Lambe of Coulston by his wife Elena Buckland,17.63 and settled at Baynton Manor, which he received as a part of the dowry of his wife.  The manor is one of the parish of Edington; the manor-house remained till about 1796, when it was burnt down while in the occupation of the Long family—fragments of stone and brickwork still marked the site in 1895.

Descent of the Manor

The manor formerly belonged to the monastery of Edington and subsequently to Lord Seymour of Sudeley.  On his attainder it escheated to the Crown, and eight years after his execution was, in the year 1557, bought from the Crown by Anselm (or Auncell) Lambe.17.62  The Lambes claimed descent from, and took the arms of, the Kentish family of their name and some support is given to the claim by the fact that Henry Danvers of Baynton possessed land in Coulston as part of the manor of East Greenwich in Kent, land which he must have obtained, as he did that of Baynton, by his marriage with Joan Lambe.

HENRY DANVERS OF BAYNTON

Death

Henry Danvers died on October 20, 1579, and his post-mortem inquisition17.64 was taken at New Sarum on January 12 of the following year.  The inquisition states that he holds in capite half the manor of Baynton, formerly belonging to the monastery of Edington and afterwards to Lord Seymour of Sudeley, attainted of high treason; also he possessed half the manor of Coulston, formerly belonging to the monastery of Ambrosbury, and with these a mediety of seven messuages, seven cottages, seven gardens, forty acres land, one hundred acres meadow, three hundred acres pasture, twenty acres wood, one hundred acres gorse and heath, twenty shillings of rent, in Edington, Baynton, Tynhead, Coulston and Stoke.  Also he held the manor of East Greenwich in free socage of the Queen.

Family

His eldest son and heir, John, was four years and four months old at the time of his father’s death, and the boy’s mother, Johanna, was alive.  Henry Danvers had others sons, Charles and Joseph, and a daughter, Anne, who married Henry Bayliffe  of Monckton, Chippenham.  The Bayliffe family, descendants of Anne and Henry, were represented in 1894 by J. S. Bayliffe, Esq., of the Manor Farm, Seargry, Chippenham, who had issue.  Henry Danvers’ widow, Johanna, married Hugh Jones, and had a son, Francis Jones, who is mentioned in the inquisition of Charles Danvers, Johanna’s son.  Francis married Elizabeth, daughter of John Lambe of Coulston, and in the Visitation of Wilts of 162317.65 is called of Penrose, Cornwall.  His father, Hugh Jones, was the son of George Valence, alias Jones, who married one of the sisters of Sylvester Danvers.

Joseph, son of Henry Danvers, died in the year 1597.17.66  He was an idiot, but had property in Cornwall, and at Baynton and other places in Wilts.  His heir was his brother Charles, aged at the time seventeen years and more.

John, eldest son of Henry Danvers, born in the year 1575; 17.67 died s.p., 1626.  He left property in Baynton, Edington, Coulston, and other places, which went to his heir, his brother Charles, aged at the time forty-five and more.17.68

CHARLES DANVERS OF BAYNTON

Charles of Baynton, second son of Henry, was born about the year 1580, and was educated at one of the universities, for he mentions in his will his College Cup, but to which university and college he belonged is not known.  His wife’s name was Maria, or Mary; her surname in unknown, but the wording of the will and of the post-mortem inquisition of her husband indicates that she belonged to Steepleashton, Wilts.

Family

They had fourteen children, who were all alive at the date of their father’s death in the year 1627, and are mentioned in his will, which was made October 14, 1625.  In the will17.69 he speaks of his seven younger children, Edward, Charles, John, Silvester, Elinor, Lucy, Grace.  His eldest son was Henry, not at the time of age; there were eight unmarried daughters, Amy, Jane, Joan, Elizabeth, Mary, Elinor, Lucy, Grace, and one, Anne, married at the time the will was made to John Danvers.  The unmarried daughters are mentioned in order as above, and, after provision has been made for them, the sum of £300 is bequeathed to Anne and her husband John Danvers.  If the married daughter was the eldest, Amy was the second, and Jane, who subsequently married George Herbert, the third.  Besides their portions, Amy, received a silver tankard and Jane her father’s ‘College Cup.’

Death and Will

Charles Danvers died in the year 1627, and his post-mortem inquisition was taken at Marlborough on March 28 of that year.17.70  His son and heir is Henry Danvers, aged eighteen years and five months.  His will was made on October 14, 1625, and proved in June, 1627.  Charles Danvers, besides the half manors of Baynton and Coulston, which he held of the Crown, had other property, which he received with his wife or purchased; in three Wilts Fines17.71 he is the purchaser of lands in Edington and Coulston.  In Steepleashton his wife had a tenement and land, and Charles had the manor of Potterne and the parsonage of Marston.  Charles’s executor is his brother-in-law, Henry Bayliffe, with Anthony Hungerford and William Whitaker as overseers.

Jane Danvers and George Herbert

Jane, the third daughter of Charles Danvers, was married at Edington on March 5, 1628-29, to the Rev. George Herbert, the famous poet and divine.  With regard to this marriage, Walton, in his Life of George Herbert,17.72 writes: ‘These and other visible vertues begot him so much love from a gentleman of noble fortune and a near kinsman to his friend the Earl of Danby; namely from Mr Charles Danvers of Bainton Esquire; that Mr Danvers having known him long and familiarly, did so much affect him, that he often publickly declared a desire that Mr Herbert would marry any of his nine daughters, but rather his daughter Jane, than any other, because Jane was his beloved daughter.  And he had often said the same to Mr Herbert himself; and that if he could like her for a wife, and she him for a husband, Jane should have a double blessing.’  Eventually, though after her father’s death, Jane was married to George Herbert, and became his very devoted and affectionate wife.17.73  They had no children; and six years after her first husband’s death, Jane Herbert married Sir Robert Cook, of Highnam Court, Gloucester, and had by him three sons, who all died young, and a daughter Jane.  She survived her second husband about twenty years, and died and was buried at Highnam in 1663.

Will of George Herbert

Appended to the will17.74 of George Herbert is a list of his deceased niece, Dorothy Vaughan’s legacies, of which as many as seven are to members of the Danvers family, all of whom may be identified as follows: Mrs Jane Herbert (Jane Danvers), Mrs Danvers (Maria, widow of Charles Danvers, mother of Mrs Jane Herbert), Amy Danvers (one of the elder daughters of Charles and Maria Danvers), Mrs Anne Danvers (another daughter of Charles Danvers, married to John Danvers), Mrs Mary Danvers (another daughter), Mrs Michel (Joan, another daughter, married to Edward Mitchell), Mrs Elizabeth Danvers (Elizabeth Bower, wife of Henry, son and heir of Charles Danvers).

License for an Alehouse

Amongst Canon Jackson’s MSS. is the original license, signed by Charles Danvers and John Penruddock, for an alehouse, victualling, or tippling house, at Warminster, which is dated 1626.  The conditions of the license are: 

(1) That one quart of ale or best beere shall be sold for 1d., and two quarts of small beere for a penny; 

(2) no flesh to be dressed or eaten in the house in time of Lent, or upon any other prohibited days; 

(3) dycing and other unlawful games are not to be used in the house or garden;

(4) no pawn or pledge to be taken for tipple or drink; 

(5) none to be allowed to tipple in the house above one hour; 

(6) none to tipple on Sabbath or fasting days in time of Divine service or sermon, nor after nine at night; 

(7) immediate information to be given if any vagabond or suspicious person offers goods for sale in the house; 

(8) no disorder or drunkenness to be suffered.

Elinor Danvers and Sir John Osborne

Elinor, one of the younger daughters of Charles Danvers, married her second cousin, Sir John Osborne of Chicksand,17.75 son of Sir Peter Osborne and his wife Dorothy daughter of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey and Elizabeth Nevill.  They had one son and two daughters.  Elinor died in the year 1677, and her husband, Sir John Osborne, æt. eighty-three, in the year 1698.

Joan, another daughter of Charles Danvers, married (on 1 November 162717.76) Edward Mitchell, of Chiltern; she died in the year 1654.

Henry Danvers

Henry Danvers, eldest son and heir of Charles Danvers, was born in the year 1609; matriculated at Christchurch, Oxford, October, 1624; entered at the Middle Temple, 1623; M.P. for Devizes in 1640; and for the county of Leicester in the year 1653.  He married, on 29 March 1629,17.77 Elizabeth, daughter of William Bower, of West Lavington.  We have neither his will17.78 nor his post-mortem inquisition.  His effects were administered to in October 1646 by his relict, Elizabeth Yorke.  He had two sons, John, Charles, and daughter, Ann, who survived him, and several children who died young; Marie (baptised 11 February 1629), Elizabeth (baptised 5 February 1630), William (baptised 22 June 1637), and Henry (baptised 4 September 1638).17.79 His widow married William Yorke, of Bassett Down, Wilts, a bencher of the Inner Temple.

John Danvers

John of Baynton, son of Henry, matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, in October, 1652, and was admitted as a student at the Inner Temple in 1661.  He sold the Baynton manor and property to Mr John Long.

His sister, Anne (baptized at Edington, May, 1634), married Charles Yorke, brother of William, in the year 1653, and died in 1661.

Charles Danvers

Charles Danvers of Baynton, second son of Henry, matriculated at Christchurch, Oxford, July 1654; barrister-at-law, Inner Temple, 1664-65; recorder of Devizes in 1668 and 1684.17.80  Charles Danvers lived in Warwick Lane, and his children were baptized in Christ Church, Newgate Street; the eldest, Thomas, in May, 1672.  His (Charles’s) wife’s name was Mary.  In the freedom rolls of the City a Thomas Danvers, son of Charles Danvers, is in 1690 apprenticed to John Browne, citizen and barber-surgeon.  Another son, James, was born in May, 1676, and it is probably he who in September, 1710, was married at Christ Church to Sarah Howell, of Rochester; he is called of Westbury, Wilts.  Henry, another son, born November, 1683, matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, in December, 1701; he became Vicar of Marlborough in 1707, and subsequently of Hutton, Somerset, and of Camley, Somerset.  Charles Danvers, ‘late recorder of Devizes,’ is mentioned in the will of John Danvers of Prestcote (1720), and, as there stated, had a son Charles, a woollen-draper, and also a son John.  Charles, the woollen-draper, had two or more sons.

Further, in the register of deaths of St Peter’s, Cornhill, is found the burial, on May 8, 1700, in the middle aisle of the church, of Jane, daughter of Lewis Wilson, and wife of Charles Danvers, woollen-draper.

Charles Danvers of Kensington

In the year 1757 died Charles Danvers of Kensington, son of Charles the woollen-draper, leaving a widow named Margaret, a son, John, daughters, Ann Bogg and Rebecca Johnson.  The will17.81 was made in the year 1743.  Margaret, his widow, died in the year 1771; her will, made in 1765, mentions her daughter, Ann Bogg, and a granddaughter, Margaret Danvers, but makes no mention of her son John and these were probably the last of the name of the Danvers of Baynton.

DANVERS OF TOCKENHAM

This branch of the family traces its descent to John Danvers, fourth son of Sir John Danvers and Dame Anne of Dauntsey.  John and his wife Margaret are both mentioned in Dame Anne’s will.  To him she leaves her farm of Tocknam, which she had by convent seal of the house of Bradenstoke, and she directs that two hundred sheep from her stock at Culworth and Prestcote be brought to Tocknam for his use.  Tockenham, including East and West Tockenham and Tockenham Wyke, is a hamlet about four miles south-east of Dauntsey, and within the parish of Lyneham.  John Danvers married Margaret Blount,17.82 of the family of that name of Mangotsfield, or Mangerfield, Gloucester, and by her had two sons, Richard and John, and three daughters, Margaret, Dorothy, and Cecell.  They are all mentioned in their father’s will, which was made in the year 1556, and proved the same year.17.83  In the Lay Subsidy Roll of Wilts of 3 Edward VI (1549), John Danvers heads the list of those who pay the subsidy in the parish of Lyneham.  John Danvers in his will calls himself of Tockenham West.  He has an annuity from the manor of Dauntsey, which is to continue for thirty years after his death, out of which legacies to his younger children are to be paid.  His executors are Anthony and Robert Hungerford, allied to him by the marriages of two of his sisters.  His goods and chattels are to be equally divided between his wife and his eldest son, Richard; the latter is not to enjoy his full estate until twenty-three years of age, and when his father made his will was not yet thirteen.

RICHARD DANVERS OF TOCKENHAM

Family

Richard Danvers succeeded his father at Tockenham, and increased his estate by the purchase of land in East Tockenham.17.84  He married Maria . . ., with whom he received as dowry land in Gloucestershire.  We find him in the Domestic State Papers of 1595 acting as a justice of the peace in the investigation of robbery at Cirencester.17.85  By his wife Maria he had three sons, William, John, Thomas, and two daughters, Rachel and Margaret.

Will

His will17.86 made in November, 1602, was proved in December, 1604.  In it he calls himself of West Tockenham, mentions his wife Maria, and his children as above; also he mentions his brother, John, and his cousins, Giles Danvers and Sir Henry Danvers, and leaves to each of them a horse.  To his wife, Richard leaves the lands at Hill House, Gloucestershire, which belonged to her for her life, and, further, an interest for life to the extent of one-third in his other lands.  He was buried at Lyneham, August 16, 1604.

His post-mortem inquisition17.87, taken at Marlborough, March 22, 2 James I, 1604, states that Richard Danvers died July 27 last past, and that William Danvers, his son and heir, is aged twenty-six years and more.  Richard Danvers had lands in Hilmarton, Calne, West Tockenham, Tockenham Wycke, East Tockenham, and Wootton Basset, all in Wilts.

Dauntsey

Richard evidently maintained a close intimacy with the Dauntsey cousins, and, indeed, drew a part of his income from an annuity levied on Dauntsey manor.  From the Domestic State Papers of 1601 we learn that Sir Charles Danvers had a lease from his mother for fifty years of the Dauntsey estate, in virtue of which Giles and Richard Danvers acted as his agents in the management during his outlawry, and we find Richard Danvers holding a manor court at Dauntsey.

Maria Danvers

Maria Danvers, wife of Richard, died in the year 1622.  In her will17.88  she is described as a widow of Tockenham Wyke, Wilts.  She leaves legacies to the poor of Lynam and Tockenham, and to her sister, Barbara Bushopp, a widow; to her son Thomas, a gold ring; to her daughter Margaret, wife of Anthony Browne, of Broadchalk, Wilts, a silver bowl; to her daughter Rachel, wife of John Whitson, Alderman of Bristol, a gilt salt.  Alderman Whitson is executor and residuary legatee.  Will proved February 14, 1622-23.  One of the witnesses to the will is Richard Awbery.  This Richard was grandson to Maria Danvers, being the son of her daughter Rachel by her first husband, John Aubrey of Burwelton.

Aubrey Family

Richard Aubrey (Awbrey or Awbery) of Broadchalk was born in 1603, and died in 1652.17.89  He married Deborah, daughter and heiress of Isaac Lyte, of Easton-Pierse, Wilts, and had three sons, John, Thomas, and William.  John, the eldest son, born March 12, 1626, was the famous antiquary and the historian of Wilts.  He died in June 1697, and was buried in the church of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford.  He tells us in his letters that his grandfather’s widow, Rachel, married Alderman Whitson of Bristol.  At Burghill Church, Hereford, is a brass to the memory of John Awbry, son of William Awbry.

William Danvers

The heir of Richard Danvers was his eldest son, William, who, as we learn from his father’s post-mortem inquisition, was born in the year 1577-78.  He is in all probability the William Danvers who, when fourteen years of age, matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford.  William Danvers sold his share of the Tockenham property, for in the Close Roll17.90 of 5 James I (1607) is an entry to the effect that William Danvers of Tockenham sells his land at that place to Thomas Bonde, of the Middle Temple, the money to be ‘upon the fonte stone of the Temple Churche neare Fleetestreete, London, without fraude covine or further delaye.’

William Danvers17.91 was knighted at Hampton Court on November 17, 1607, and that it was this William who was thus honoured we learn from the inscription on his brother’s tomb at Churchdown, near Gloucester:

‘Here restyth the body of John Danvers, son of Richard Danvers, Esq., and brother to Sir William Danvers, who deceased January 16th, 1616.’

Further, in the year 1611,17.92 Sir William Danvers sold to John Scott land in Hilmarton and Calne, where his father, Richard Danvers, possessed land, which he left to him.

One cannot now say why William Danvers was knighted, or what were the services which gained him the honour, but not improbably the title was an acknowledgement of the help which his father rendered, during the time of their troubles, to Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers.  The latter had now become Baron Danvers of Dauntsey, and was high in favour with the King.  Of Sir William’s subsequent career nothing further has been traced.

Thomas Danvers

Richard Danvers’ third son, Thomas (baptized at Lineham, October 24, 1583), was living at Tockenham in the year 1620, when he is mentioned as of that place by Lady Lucy Baynton in her will.  He is the ‘Uncle Thomas’ who, as John Aubrey tells us, attended the funeral of George Herbert at Bemerton in the year 1633.  He is also mentioned in his mother’s will.  He married Katherine Chaldycott, daughter of Francis Chaldycott of East Whiteway by his wife Elizabeth Chaldycott, daughter and co-heiress of William Chaldycott.17.93

DANVERS OF CORSHAM

John Danvers of Corsham

The next member of the family for whom we have to account is John Danvers of Corsham.  What was his parentage?  Now, of John of Corsham we know, first, that he was one of the Wiltshire family, for at the time of his marriage with Susan Ayliffe he was living in the county, had property in it, and was related to Charles Danvers of Baynton, whom he calls ‘cousin,’ and who was by his will appointed guardian of his son; secondly, he was a Tockenham man, for while at the time of his death John of Corsham had property in many places, he had two furnished dwellings, one at Tockenham, one at Corsham, both of which, with their furniture, he in his will desires may be kept up for the use of his son when he comes of age; thirdly, we know the descendants of John Danvers of Dauntsey and his wife, Ann Stradling, and of them the only one who fulfils the above-mentioned requirements is John Danvers, brother to Richard, and son of John Danvers of Tockenham and his wife Margaret.  True, as John Danvers died in the year 1556, his son John must have been of mature age when, in the year 1611, he married Susan Ayliffe.  It is, however, clear from the Corsham Manor Court Roll that in the year 1600 John of Corsham had become a man of position and property, and as he died in the year 1626, he need not at the time have been a very old man, though born well within the lifetime of the first John of Tockenham, who died in the year 1556.  We know from his brother Richard’s will that this John Danvers was alive in the year 1602.  We have notes of the Corsham Manor Court Roll, which do not, however, go back farther than the year 1600.  The earliest of these, dated September 11, 42 Elizabeth I (1599), refers to John Danvers of Sherston Pinkney (ten miles from Corsham), and many subsequent notices in the roll refer to him.  From these notices, which include mention of several holdings which he enjoyed, it is certain that John Danvers of Sherston Pinkney is the individual who was also known as of Corsham, and who in the year 1611 married Susan Ayliffe, daughter of John Ayliffe.  Further, it is clear from the roll that this John Danvers died in the year 1626, leaving as his heir his son John Danvers, who was not of age at the time of his father’s death, and was placed by his father’s will under the guardianship of Charles Danvers of Baynton.  We also learn from the same source that John, the younger, died in the year 1636, leaving a widow, Anne Danvers, and a son and heir, a child, the third John Danvers of Corsham.

Ayliffe Family

John Ayliffe,17.94 the father of Susan, wife of John Danvers, was grandson to Sir John Ayliffe, a famous surgeon in his day.  Sir John was born about the year 1490 of humble origin; in the year 1538 he was master of the company of Barber-Surgeons, and surgeon to King Henry VIII.  Having cured the King of a fistula, he was rewarded by the gift of the manor of Gryttenham, which had belonged to the Abbey of Malmesbury.  On March 3, 1549, Ayliffe was knighted by Edward VI at Westminster, and relinquished his profession as surgeon to become a merchant.  In the year 1550 he was translated to the Grocers’ Company, of which, in the year 1556, he was Upper Warden.  He married Isabel Buckell, of Warwickshire, and by her had two sons and two daughters.  His son John and his grandson George were both knighted.  In Holbein’s great picture of Henry VIII presenting a charter to the Barber-Surgeons, which is now in the hall of the company, Ayliffe, in gold chain and ring, is the second person on the King’s left hand.  Ayliffe died in the year 1556, and was buried in the city church of St Michael Bassishaw, where a marble monument and a rhyming inscription mark his grave.

Sir John, son of the first John Ayliffe of Gryttenham and Brinkworth, married Susan, daughter of William Harris of Essex, and their son, another John Ayliffe, married Elizabeth Harrison of London.  They had five sons and four daughters, of whom Susan would appear to have been the youngest, and it is therefore unlikely that she brought any dower to John Danvers.  Gryttenham manor-house, for many generations the home of the Ayliffe family,17.95 is now a ruin.

FIRST JOHN DANVERS OF CORSHAM

John Danvers (the first of Corsham) was evidently a wealthy man, for amongst the names of persons such as are thought fit to lend money to the King in the year 1611,17.96 John Danvers of Corsham is noted for a payment of £25 one of the largest payments made in the county, and the Corsham Court Roll bears evidence to the extent of his landed property, Corsham, Monks, Crowne Park, Sherston Pinkney, Meare, Auldfield, Whitley Hill, Curle Croft, Woodlands, Thingley Bridge, Neston, Pepperwhites, Furshill, Moorleaye, Overmoorleaye, Herdswell, Brick Close, Sayes, Newcrofte, Byde Mill Close, Pound Meade, Nott apud Ladbrook, Rowlands, Dadshill, are all mentioned as places which were his property or within which he held land.

John, the only son of John Danvers and his wife Susan, was baptized in Corsham Church on June 14, 1612; and at a court held March 16, 16 James I, John Danvers senior bailiff of the manor, John his son was admitted.

Will

The will of John Danvers, the father, was made in April, 1625,17.97 and proved in April, 1627.  His wife was apparently dead, for he makes no mention of her, and he leaves a legacy to Mrs Hayward, of Melksham, for her care of him during illness.  He leaves legacies to his servants, and to the preacher that shall preach at his funeral; all the rest of his property he leaves to his son John, and makes him his sole executor.  But should he die before his son comes of age, then his well-beloved cousin, Charles Danvers of Baynton is to act as executor and guardian during his son’s minority.  All his goods in the houses in which he lives at Corsham and Tockenham are to remain for the use of his son.

SECOND JOHN DANVERS OF CORSHAM

Amongst the minutes of the Corsham Roll of October 20, 1625, is one to the effect that John Danvers had died since the last court, and that his son and heir was John Danvers, whose guardian was Charles Danvers.  Several entries follow in which John Danvers is mentioned; and at last, in the minutes of a court held October 19, 13 Charles I, is one to the effect that John Danvers was dead, and that John Danvers, his son, was his heir, and that Anne, his widow, ought to enjoy.  The minute names the many places in which the late John Danvers had property.  John Danvers left no will, and his estate was administered to by his wife, Anne, on May 13, 1637.  John Danvers was only twenty-five years of age when he died.

Family

In the Corsham register, October 23, 1636, Charles, son of John Danvers, is baptized, but we learn nothing further regarding him.  Mary, daughter of John Danvers, deceased, was buried in 1642.  The widow, Anne Danvers, married again to Colonel William Eyre, of Neston, who, with his father, William is mentioned in the Court Rolls in the year 1612.  By her second husband, Ann Eyre had a daughter, Anne, who was born in the year 1639.17.98

Anne Danvers

Did John Danvers (the second of Corsham) marry Anne, daughter of Charles Danvers of Baynton?  The evidence in the affirmative is strong, and is as follows.  The Visitation of Wilts, written and extended about the period of the marriage, states that Mrs Danvers was the daughter of Charles Danvers of Baynton, and that after his death she married William Eyre.  Further, we know that Anne was the Christian name of John Danvers’ wife, and we know that he was the ward of Charles Danvers, and that the latter in his will mentions his daughter, Anne, and her husband, John Danvers.  We may add that the late Canon Jackson, who is our best authority regarding the Danvers family of the period, had, as his MS. notes show, the question under special consideration, and his final view regarding it was in the affirmative.  We must, too, remember that Charles Danvers was a match-maker, as is evidenced by his conduct regarding the marriage of his daughter Jane with George Herbert; and that he had nine daughters, for whom he must have been anxious to provide husbands.  The only evidence against the match is based upon a consideration of the dates of the birth of John Danvers and that of the will of Charles Danvers.  Such early marriages were common at the time, and the youth of John Danvers cannot, therefore, be considered evidence against the marriage in question.  John Danvers was baptized at Corsham in June, 1612, and his parents were married in March of the previous year; while Charles Danvers made his will, in which he speaks of Anne and her husband, in October, 1626, when John Danvers was not fifteen years of age, a common age for marriage at the time.

THIRD JOHN DANVERS OF CORSHAM

John Danvers of Corsham, third in succession of the name, married, in the year 1662, Dorothy, daughter of William Stafford, Esq., of Marlewood, near Thornbury, Gloucester.  The license to marry was issued from the Archbishop’s Court on May 30, 1662: ‘John Danvers of Corsham to Dorothy Stafford, at St Mary’s, Savoy, or St Clement Danes.’  Dorothy’s mother’s name was Ursula Moore.  Her father was the son of another William Stafford and his wife Anne Grimes.  This William was the son of Sir William Stafford and his wife Dorothy Stafford, who was daughter to Henry Lord Stafford and Ursula Pole, daughter of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Plantagenet.17.99

Mrs Danvers (Dorothy Stafford)

Mrs Dorothy Danvers was a person of some note in her day—a pronounced Jacobite, yet a good deal about the Court, and was dresser to Queen Anne.

Will

John Danvers made his will, when infirm in body, in January, 1699 (NS), and it was proved in the following June.17.100  He bequeaths to his daughter, Anne Danvers, £200; to his daughter, Dorothy Danvers, £400; to his daughter, Lucy Danvers, £300; and to his daughters Margaret and Amy, both minors, £400 each.  He has surrendered his land in Corsham to his brother-in-law, John Stafford of Morlewood, and to William Hirton of Broughton, to be sold to pay these legacies.  His dear wife Dorothy is his executrix.  He mentions his son William.

Will of Dorothy Danvers (Stafford)

The will of Dorothy Danvers was made in October, 1717, and proved in February, 1719 (NS).17.101  She calls herself widow of John Danvers of Monks, Corsham, and desires that she may be buried within the rayles and in the grave of her dear husband in Corsham churchyard.  She leaves to her eldest daughter, Anne Whetenhall (wife of John Whetenhall, Archdeacon of Cork), four broad pieces of gold and her father’s picture.  To her daughter, Dorothy Price (wife of John Price of Bristol), her silver caudle pot and porringer.  To her daughter, Amy Sheppard17.102 (wife of Mr Richard Sheppard), a feather bed marked with a crown, with bolster and pair of pillows, green wrought curtains, valences, white quilt, bedstead and blankets, and a pair of best Holland sheets and pillow-cases.  To her daughter, Yeate (wife of the Rev. Cornelius Yeate, Vicar of Islington and Archdeacon of Wilts), the rest of her household goods.  To her son-in-law, Dr Tilly (Rector of Witham, Berks, of Albury and of Godington, Oxon, domestic chaplain to Earl of Abingdon, D.D., 1711), two pieces of gold.  To her son John Price the same.  To niece Katherine Stafford a mourning-ring.  Mr Cornelius Yeate is the executor.  ‘A crown apiece to four men that lays her in her grave.’  To her son, William, one piece of gold.

Margaret Tilly, fourth daughter of John and Dorothy, died July 1, 1717, aged thirty-six, and was buried in Rycote Church, near the grave of her distant cousin, Eleanor, Countess of Abingdon, to whose husband Dr Tilly was domestic chaplain (see Chapter Seven, Rycote).

Besides the children now mentioned, John Danvers, had a son John, who went abroad and was never heard of again and a son Charles, who was lost at sea.

WILLIAM DANVERS

William, the son and heir, married in 1701 Anne, only daughter of John Tanner of Swainswick, Bath, who died without issue.17.103  His second wife was Elizabeth Osborne, to whom he was married in Corsham Church on June 20, 1709.  William Danvers sold the Monks property in the year 1698.  By his second wife, William Danvers had four sons—Antworth, born 1710; William, born in 1711; Edward, born 1716—all died young; a second William, born 1722, died in the year 1740, and was buried at Islington; a tablet17.104 to his memory was placed upon the wall of the old parish church near to a monument erected to the memory of his uncle, the Rev. Cornelius Yeate.  William was the last male representative of the Danvers family of Tockenham.  In addition to the sons just mentioned, William Danvers had five daughters, Betty, Susan, Bridget, Jane and Decima.  Decima married Richard Pick (14 April 1748),17.105 and died without issue.  Bridget married Richard Ward of Wick and afterwards of Upper Hazel, Gloucester, and they had issue; the other daughters died unmarried.  On one of the pillars in Swainswick Church is a table to the memory of Jane Danvers, died July 5, 1801, aged eighty-two years, ‘seventy of which were passed in this parish in the exercise to benevolence of her poor neighbours and in social intercourse with the more affluent.’

Danvers and Ward

1 Bridget Danvers and Richard Ward had six sons

2 Francis Ward, who married Mary Brickdale and had issue;

3 Richard Ward married Jane Ridout and had four sons and two daughters:

3 Francis Ward, married Eliza Welsford, and had issue.

3 Charles, married Emily Welsford, and had issue.

3 Mary Jane Ward, married Robert Sidgwick, and had issue.

2 John Ward, married to Jane Dowell and had issue;

2 Danvers Ward, married to Florence Hill and had three sons and three daughters:

3 William Ward

3 Danvers Ward

3 Charles Ward 

3 Anne Florence Ward, who married Thomas Crossman, and had issue:17.106

4 Dr Edward Crossman married M. Marsh, and had issue.

5 Herbert Crossman, married and had issue.

5 Vera Crossman.

5 Danvers Crossman, married and had issue two sons.

5 Charles Stafford Crossman, died 1940, married Helen Elizabeth Howard, and had issue:

6 Bridget Crossman, married John Bardsley and had issue.

6 Geoffrey Crossman, married and had issue.

6 Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, born 1907 (died 1974), married (3), in 1953, Anne Patricia McDougall and had issue:

7 Patrick Danvers Crossman, born 1957 (died 1975).

7 Virginia Helen Crossman, born 1959.17.107

6 Elsa Crossman.

6 Mary Crossman, married Charles Woodhouse.

6 Thomas Crossman, killed 1940.

5 Dr Frank Crossman.

5 Isabel Crossman.

5 George Crossman.

5 Alice Crossman.

4 George Crossman.

3 Lucy Jane, who married James Bush, and left issue.

3 Isabella Christian, who married Henry Hartford and left no issue.

2 Richard Ward, married to Mary Adams, and had no issue.

2 William Ward died s.p.

2 Thomas Ward died s.p.

These and other members of the family are all descended from the union of Dorothy Stafford, fifth in descent from the marriage of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, with John Danvers, fifth in descent from John Stradling and his wife, Alice Langford,17.108 who was the first wife of Sir Richard Pole.

NOTES TO CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

17.1 Oxon Lay Subsidy Roll (161/178) of 1524.

17.2 Harleian MS. 808, copy of Visitation of Oxford, p. 46, makes Cicely the daughter of Sir Ralph Done of Cheshire.  See also Danvers in Visitation of Oxford, Harleian Society’s publications, vol. v; and in Dugdale’s Warwick, vol. ii, index; pedigree of Danvers of Upton.

17.3 Anne Pury.  See Chapter Six for a short mention of the Pury family.

17.4 In 1978 Calthorpe House came under threat of demolition. The remnants of the stained glass located in the oriel window were removed, restored and are now on display in Banbury Museum. -Ed.

17.5 W. D. Bayley’s History of the Doyley Family.

17.6 PM Inquis. Court of Wards, 44 Elizabeth I (1601), p. 173.

17.7 Proceedings in Chancery, Elizabeth I (C.C. 9, No. 36), June 29, 1601.

17.8 Lay Subsidy Roll, Oxon, 1596 (163/398), and Visitation of Oxon, Harleian Society’s vol. v, p. 226.

17.9 Lay Subsidy Roll, Oxon 162/331.

17.10 Domestic State Papers, vol. for 1547-80

17.11 Victoria History of the Counties of England, vol. v.

17.12 Lay Subsidy Rolls: 1575 (162/341), 1580 (162/345), and 1596 (163/398).

17.13 See Pedigree of Danvers in Dugdale’s Warwick, and pedigree of the family in Visitation of Northampton, Harleian Soc., vol. v.  See also proceedings in Chancery, Elizabeth, D.D. 9 and D.D. 10.

17.14 Visitation of Oxon,  Harleian MS. 5812.

17.15 Beesley’s History of Banbury, p. 238 et seq; and Domestic State Papers, vol. of 1581-90.

17.16 Calendar of Domestic State Papers, vol. of 1581-90.

17.17 Beesley’s History of Banbury, p. 615.

17.18 Harleian MS., 1094.

17.19 Visitation of London of 1634.

17.20 Oxon Lay Subsidy Roll (162/345).

17.21 1638, estate of Frances Danvers of Gloucester, spinster, administered to by her brother George, of St Andrew’s, Holborn, dyer.  He signed the Danvers pedigree in the Visitation of London of 1633-35.

17.22 Proceedings in Chancery, C.C. 9, No. 36 of June, 1601.

17.23 Will: Scroope, 70.

17.24 No. 145 of 10 Charles I (1634).

17.25 Close Roll, 6 Charles I (1630), part xxviii.

17.26 Will: Wootton, 449.

17.27 Close Roll of 1659, part xxix, M. 37.

17.28 Visitation of London, Harleian Society’s vol. xv.

17.29 Rudder’s Gloucester, p. 547.

17.30 Ancestry of Washington, by H.F. Waters, Esq., M.A. Boston, 1889.

17.31 Close Roll, 13 Charles II (1672), pt. 19, M. 21; also Oxon Fine, 1069, 20 Charles II (1679), Mich.

17.32 Dugdale’s Warwick, vol. ii, index.

17.33 Will: Penn, 90.

17.34 The information about the family of George Danvers of of Holborn is from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.35 Harleian Society’s Publications, vol. v, p. 188, Visitation of Oxford.

17.36 The date of William Danvers’s baptism is drawn from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.37 Wotton’s Bartonetage of England, vol. ii, p. 475.

17.38 Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, 1841.

17.39 This Joane Danvers was probably the one who, according to the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index, married Thomas Rogerson at St James Clerkenwell, London, on 10 Oct 1591. -Ed.

17.40 Metcalfe’s edition of Vincent’s Visitation of Northampton, p. 144; and Lipscomb’s Bucks, vol. iv, p. 374.

17.41 No. 140 of 1 Elizabeth 1 (1558), 2nd part.

17.42 Beesley’s History of Banbury, p. 109.

17.43 Oxon Lay Subsidy Roll of 1596, 163/398.

17.44 Visitation of Oxon.

17.45 Dates of baptism for Edmund Danvers’s sons are from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.46 W. D. Bayley’s History of the Doyley Family.

17.47 Chanc. Proceed., temp. Elizabeth 1 E.e. 5, and James I, D. 4, No. 5.

17.48 Will: Dorsett, 119, A.D. 1609

17.49 See page 17–12 and note 17.85.

17.50 Lay Subsidy Rolls Oxon (163/435), and in that (164/467) of 1627.

17.51 Will: Harvey, 36

17.52 Will: Campbell, 93

17.53 Will: Pell, 501

17.54 Oxford Wills, Somerset House, series ii, vol. ix, fol. 251.

17.55 Lay Subsidy Roll, Oxon 164/493, of 1641.

17.56 Marriage date of William Danvers and Mary Skevington is from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.57 Dates of baptism for William Danvers’s sons are from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.58 Chancery Proceedings, Whittington, vol. ii, No. 258, 1701.

17.59 Will: Auber 329.

17.60 This paragraph has been moved from Macnamara’s original placement (in this edition, page 17–11), as his correction made it clear that John was not the son of Charles Danvers of Baynton, but of William Danvers of Adderbury. -Ed.

17.61 Hearth Tax Roll 164/513 of 1676.

17.62 See also Marshall’s edition of Visitation of Wiltshire; Wilts Archaeological Society’s Journal, vol. iii, p. 108; Harleian MSS. 1165, fol. 37, and 1443, fol. 118; Foster’s Alumni Oxoniensis; Pedigree of Danvers of Dauntsey in Jackson’s Aubrey’s Wilts; Canon Jackson’s MSS.  in possession of Antiquarian Society of London.

17.63 Lambe’s widow, Elena, married Nicholas Pirey.  Charles, son of Henry Danvers, mentions his uncle Pirey in his will, Jackson MSS.

17.64 No. 49, 23 Elizabeth (1580), part i.

17.65 Visitation of Wilts of 1623 , Marshall’s edition.

17.66 PM Inquis., 40 Elizabeth, part ii, No. 94.

17.67 Macnamara’s original text stated that John Danvers was born 1582 and matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, in 1560; B.A. from Jesus College, 1605. Some of these dates may be incorrect as the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index gives the date for John’s birth as 1575. -Ed.

17.68 PM Inquis., 3 Charles I (1627), part iii, No. 36.

17.69 Will: Skinner, 74.

17.70 3 Charles I (1627), part iii, No. 73.

17.71 Pasch., 4 James I (1606); Hillary, 5 James I (1607); Hillary, 9 James I (1611). 

17.72 Life of George Herbert edition of 1670, p.37.

17.73 For an account of their manner of life, see Life of George Herbert S.P.C.K., London 1893.

17.74 Will: Russell, 25.

17.75 Betham’s Baronetage, vol. ii, p. 205; also Jackson’s Aubrey’s Wilts; pedigree of Danvers.

17.76 The marriage date for Joan Danvers and Edward Mitchell is from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.77 Date for the marriage of Henry Danvers and Elizabeth Bower drawn from the LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.78 Will: Twisse, 120.

17.79 Dates of baptism for Henry Danvers’s children are from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.80 History of Devizes, published by H. Bull at Devizes, 1859.

17.81 Will: Hering, 11.

17.82 This match cannot be found in the Blount pedigree, and satisfactory evidence to it is wanting,—Harleian Roll, p. 10, affirms it.

17.83 Will: Kitchen, 22.

17.84 Wilts Fine, Easter, 33 Elizabeth I (1589).

17.85 See page 17–7 and note 17.49.

17.86 Will: Harte, 95.

17.87 No. 81, 3 James I (1605), part ii, and Court of Wards, Bundle 6, No. 82.

17.88 Will: Swan, 19.

17.89 Briton’s Memoir of John Aubrey.  London 1845.  Deborah Lyte was daughter of Israel Browne and Isaac Lyte.  Israel was sister to Anthony Browne (Jackson MSS.).

17.90 Close Roll, part xlv, of 5 James I (1607).

17.91 Knighted at Hampton Court, November 17, 1607.—Metcalfe’s Book of Knights.

17.92 Wilts Fine, 9 James I (1611), Pasch.

17.93 From Charles Merewether Bayliffe’s Notes on the Bayliffe Family of Monkton and Seagry - Wiltshire, Note 3, Note on the Danvers of Dauntsey, Baynton and Tockenham.

17.94 For an interesting history of John Ayliffe, see Sydney Young’s Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London.  London 1890.

17.95 Ayliffes of Grittenham, by the Rev. Canon Jackson, Wilts Archaeological Journal, vol. xxi, p. 194.

17.96 Wilts Archaeological Journal, vol. ii, p.  186.

17.97 Will: Skinner, 53.

17.98 Marshall’s Wilts Visitation.

17.99 For Sir Richard Pole, his family and marriages, see p. NO TAG.

17.100 Will: Pett, 90.

17.101 Will: Browning, 26.

17.102 St Dionis Back church, March 20, 1711 (NS), Mr Richard Sheppard, widower, to Amy Danvers of St Mary’s, Islington, spinster.  At the same church, December 27, 1710, John Price of Bristol to Dorothy Danvers of the same city, spinster.  Amy seems to have married a second time, for in Thorpe’s Registrum Roffensis is recorded the death, in 1730, of Amy Stylman, daughter of John Danvers of Monks, aged forty-five.

17.103 There is a tablet to the memory of Anne Danvers (Tanner) on the wall of Swainswick Church.  See also R. E. M. Peach’s Annals of Swainswick; London, 1890.

17.104 Lewis’s Islington, p. 220; will of Rev. Cornelius Yeate (Shaller, 97).

17.105 The date of marriage for Decima Danvers and Richard Pick is from the 1992 LDS International Genealogical Index. -Ed.

17.106 The editors are indebted to Mrs Anne Crossman (McDougall) and Mrs Mary Woodhouse (Crossman) for providing the information used to update the Crossman genealogy. -Ed.

17.107 Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, 1966, vol ii, p. 19n. -Ed.

17.108 Refer Chapters Eight and Nine.

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