Dr. Thomas Reade

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• Alternate birth: 1606, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England

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"A noted Royalist. [...] He was admitted scholar of New College, December 10th, 1624; Fellow, January 15th, 1626; LL.D., 1638; Advocate of Arches Court; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1643; resigned his Fellowship, September 21st, 1645, and Edward Farmer, of the parish of St. Helen's, Abingdon, was admitted in his place. He had a king's letter in his favour, dated March 31st, 1624; and in 1642 trailed a pike for King Charles in the university, and served his Majesty in the army, but on the decline of the king's cause changed his religion and became a secular priest; esteemed a good scholar and civilian." [John Meredith Read, citation details below]

According to John Bennett Bodie (citation details below), the Linkenholt parish register says he was baptized 18 Oct 1604, earlier than the 1606 birth year given by other sources.

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• Alternate birth: of Linkenholt Hall, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 10 Dec 1626

Robert married Mildred Windebank on 31 Jul 1600 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Mildred (daughter of Thomas Windebank and Frances Dymoke) was born in 1584; died before 26 Jan 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 6 Aug 1630 and 31 Dec 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Aug 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 15 Aug 1630

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• Alternate death: Jul 1623, Faccombe, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 24 Oct 1623

Andrew married Alice Cooke. Alice was born in of Kent, England; died before 6 Mar 1606; was buried on 6 Mar 1606 in Faccombe, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Mar 1605
• Buried: 6 Mar 1605, Faccombe, Hampshire, England

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• Alternate birth: of Haines Hill, Hurst, Berkshire, England

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Clerk of the Signet. Clerk of the Privy Seal.

"In 1560 he was in Germany serving as traveling tutor and governor to Sir William Cecil's son, Thomas (afterwards 1st Earl of Exeter). In 1562-3 he served as secretary to Henry Knolles, Special Ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor and various Protestant princes in Germany. In 1568 he was appointed Clerk of the Signet, and continued in that post until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. [...] On his retirement as Clerk of the Signet, he was knighted by King James I 23 July 1603." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

The Wikipedia article on his son Francis, secretary of state under Charles I (accesed 8 Nov 2021), calls this Thomas "Sir Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincolnshire, who owed his advancement to the Cecil family." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on Francis provides more detail about this Thomas, calling him "a long-standing client of William Cecil, Lord Burghley" and saying that Thomas "served as clerk of the signet from 1567 until his death in 1607, frequently meeting the queen and by the 1590s acting as her confidential secretary."

"Sir Thomas owed his fortunes largely to his Lincolnshire neighbour, Sir William Cecil, who secured his appointment to the fourth stall in Worcester Cathedral in 1559, and sent him as travelling companion to his son Thomas (afterwards Marquis of Exeter). Many of Windebank's letters, describing his vain efforts to keep his charge straight and teach him French, and their travels in France and Germany during 1561 and 1562, are extant in the Record Office. He also took every opportunity of sending his patron lemon trees, myrtle trees, and tracts on canon and and civil law." [Albert Frederick Pollard, Dictionary of National Biography volume 62, 1900, page 162.]

Thomas married Frances Dymoke on 19 Aug 1566 in Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Edward Dymoke and Anne Tailboys) died between 11 Feb 1612 and 24 Apr 1613. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1607

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"Even though Frances Dymoke survived her husband Thomas Windebanck, and died testate around 1612, they must have been divorced or separated 'in some manner' as we have instances of Mary, widow of Edward Hunte, called, or calling herself, the 'wife' of Thomas Windebank, clerk of the Signet, at least between the years 1591-1600. The will of Thomas Windebank, around 1607/8, does not name a wife, and only mentions the known children by Frances." [John C. Brandon, citation details below]

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• Alternate birth: of Place House, Redbourne, Hertfordshire, England

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BCL, Oxford, 1537; DCL, Oxford, 1540. Knighted by Henry VIII in 1544. Chancellor of Ireland.

From Wikipedia (accessed 7 Nov 2021):

He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1528. He took the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1537 and Doctor of Civil Law at the same university in 1540. He quickly acquired a reputation as "a man of learning and experience". He was made a Master of Chancery and undertook a crucial trade mission to Flanders. He was knighted in 1544.

In 1546 Sir John Alan, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was removed from office on a charge of corruption, and Reade was sent to Ireland to replace him. He was granted a house in the precincts of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the manor of Moyglare near Maynooth, County Kildare. In 1548 Alan was reinstated as chancellor. Reade returned to England, where he became Master of Requests. He later purchased the manors of Redbourn near St. Albans and Tangley near Andover.

Richard married Anne Tregonwell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Warfare and Witchcraft at Milton Abbey" (citation details below) says that John Tregonwell's daughter Anne was "wife of Sir Richard Rede". The History of Parliament entry on John Tregonwell does not name Anne but calls Sir Richard Rede/Reade Tregonwell's "son-in-law."

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• Alternate death: Aft 1559
• Alternate death: 1560

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Deputy of Guînes. Knighted in 1544. In 1547 he was one of the council at Boulogne.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on his grandson Francis Windebank, Secretary of State under Charles I, calls him "a soldier, [...] still active as deputy of Guînes in 1553 after twenty years service to the English crown in France, sometimes with Dymock." This last referring to Edward Dymoke (1508-1567), father-in-law of Richard's son Thomas.

Richard married Margaret ferch Griffith. Margaret (daughter of Griffith ap Henry) died before 10 Dec 1558; was buried on 10 Dec 1558 in St. Edmund's, Lombard Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1566

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Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1535-36, 1547-48, 1555-56. Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1547, Apr 1554, 1558. Treasurer of Boulogne 1546-47.

Hereditary Champion of England at the coronations of Edward VI in 1547, Mary in 1553, and Elizabeth in 1559. Knighted March or September (records vary) 1546.

From the History of Parliament:

The first Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Sir John, established his right to act as champion of England at the coronation of Richard II on the ground that the office was attached to the manor of Scrivelsby. Sir Edward Dymoke carried out his hereditary duty at the coronations of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. He sued out a pardon in October 1553 as Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby alias the King's champion.

Dymoke's status had earlier been put to a more than symbolic test. It was during his first shrievalty of Lincolnshire that there took place the rising of 1536. The rebels came to Scrivelsby on 3 Oct. and forced the sheriff to assume the leadership of their host; moreover, until the banner of the Five Wounds was prepared one belonging to the Dymoke family was used. It was while Dymoke was nominally at the head of the insurgents that the chancellor of Lincoln was murdered at Horncastle, but a week later he and three of his kinsmen joined the royal forces under the Duke of Suffolk at Stamford. Many of those examined after the rising claimed that the gentry, and in particular the sheriff, might have (as one of them put it) 'stayed the rebels with a white rod', but whatever was thought of his conduct he suffered no punishment or disgrace.

Dymoke's brief tenure of the treasurership of Boulogne lasted from the autumn of 1546 until the following spring. His appointment was mentioned by Sir Philip Draycott in a letter of 4 Sept. 1546, on 30 Sept. his precursor (Sir) Hugh Paulet spoke of expecting him by 1 Nov., and the Privy Council began sending him instructions in October; his successor, Sir Richard Cotton, was appointed on 17 Mar. 1547. It is not clear why Dymoke was appointed to the office, the only one of its kind which he was to hold, or why he relinquished it so speedily. If he went to Boulogne he must have returned before the coronation on 20 Feb. Both the lustre of this occasion and his recent knighthood may help to account for his election in the following autumn as senior knight of the shire in the first Parliament of the reign. He was, in any case, well qualified by birth, fortune and experience, while his marriage linked him with the governing group in the county which was headed by Edward Fiennes, 9th Lord Clinton, who married his sister-in-law, and included his fellow-knight Sir William Skipwith.

Dymoke was to be re-elected to two Marian Parliaments when he sat with another kinsman-by-marriage, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt II, but there is no indication of the part which he played in the House or of his attitude towards the religious changes in which he became involved there. He was to remain in favour and employment under Elizabeth, and his appointment to a commission to impose the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity shows that he must have conformed to this further settlement. In 1564, however, he was described as 'indifferent' and his eldest son, Robert, as a 'hinderer': Robert became an open recusant and died in prison for his religion in 1580.

Edward married Anne Tailboys between 1523 and 1 Apr 1529. Anne (daughter of George Tailboys and Elizabeth Gascoigne) died after 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Margaret. Margaret died after 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1498
• Alternate death: 13 Jan 1564

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Knight of the shire for Scarborough, Oct 1553.

From the History of Parliament:

John Tregonwell's parentage has not been established and may have been humble. Between 1512, when he appears as a student of civil law at Oxford, and 1530, when he was succeeded as principal of Peckwater Inn by William Petre, his progress at the university was scarcely affected by demands from outside it, but his entry into practice at the court of Admiralty was quickly followed by his employment by the crown in the matter of the divorce and other, chiefly diplomatic, tasks. In April 1533 he supervised the proceedings of convocation and a year later his expectation of the mastership of the rolls was dashed by Cromwell's appropriation of the office, but by 1535 he was principal judge in the Admiralty as well as a master in Chancery. He played a part in the proceedings against Sir Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and the rebels of 1536.

Tregonwell is chiefly remembered for his part in the dissolution of the monasteries. In April 1533 he had been instrumental in the election of an abbot of Tewkesbury, and he was one of the three men, Cromwell being another, to whom a draft commission to visit monasteries and churches was addressed before the close of 1534. After his visitation of Oxford university in September 1535 Tregonwell's work lay mainly in the south-west, including his own county. He has been called perhaps the most reliable and the most independent of the visitors, one who was prepared to plead for a house which he judged deserving, but he was also among the first to compete for the spoils.

From Wikipedia (accessed 18 July 2022):

He was introduced to the Privy Council as early as October 1532; and with the appointment of Thomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury in March 1533, Tregonwell rapidly became a useful figure in affairs of state. With Thomas Bedyll, John Cockes and Richard Gwent, he was one of the four witnesses summoned by Cranmer in March 1533 to hear his private protestation on the eve of his Consecration. At the Convocation of April 1533, Dr Tregonwell appeared as proctor for the King in the matter of the royal divorce, to require that their decisions concerning two questions should be brought into written form and published. On 8 May Cranmer held court in the Lady Chapel of Dunstable Priory, with the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester and with several doctors of law, Dr Tregonwell among them, as counsellors in the law for the King's part. Lady Katherine was called but did not appear, and was held to be contumacious: examination of the evidence and witnesses proceeded. On 23 May at Dunstable, Cranmer declared the marriage dissolved, and Tregonwell's short message went at once to Cromwell at Westminster. He was soon afterwards granted an annuity of £40 for life.

With Chancellor Audeley, Secretary Cromwell, Almoner Fox and Richard Gwent, he signed the two treaties of peace of 1534 with Scotland on behalf of King Henry. He also took part in the proceedings against the London Carthusians, against Sir Thomas More, and against Anne Boleyn. He became a Master in Chancery by 1536, and was appointed to receive petitions in the Lords in parliaments commencing in 1536, and in that year held a commission to receive and examine rolls.

Tregonwell's great business was, however, his agency in the dissolution of the monasteries. His main part lay in taking surrenders. His correspondence, of which there is less than of some of the other visitors, gives a more favourable impression of him than of Legh or Layton, and he adopts a firmer tone in writing to Cromwell. He visited Oxford University in 1535; otherwise his work lay mainly in the south and west of England. With Dr Layton, Dr Legh and Dr Petre he was active in the interrogations of prisoners taken in the Pilgrimage of Grace, including George Lumley and Nicholas Tempest, and he was important enough for Cromwell to talk about him as a possible Master of the Rolls. He became a master in chancery in 1539, was chancellor of Wells Cathedral from 1541 to January 1543, a commissioner in chancery in 1544, and a commissioner of the great seal in 1550.

In Queen Mary's accession, in 1553, she appointed judges led by Tregonwell, with William Roper, David Pole, Anthony Draycot and others, to examine the claim of Edmund Bonner that his deprivation (under Edward VI) as Bishop of London had been invalid. In the reversal of religious policy, the reinstatement of the deprived Catholic bishops was for Mary an important component in her reform. Dr Tregonwell himself pronounced the definitive sentence in Bonner's favour, resulting in his restitution, on 5 September 1553, thereby overturning the former sentence of Cranmer, and laying the fault of the injustice upon the distinguished judges who had approved it. Tregonwell was knighted on 2 October 1553.

He was Member of Parliament for Scarborough in the parliament of October 1553, and, though he held a prebend, there was no objection to his return, doubtless because he was a layman. Alexander Nowell was ejected from parliament, and Tregonwell was one of the committee which sat to consider his case. In 1555 he was a commissioner on imprisoned preachers.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

During Edward VI's reign, Tregonwell was still active in legal affairs and as a justice of the peace in Dorset. His name appears on a shortlist of three from which the sheriff of Dorset and Somerset was pricked. His career appears to have been revitalized in Mary's reign: on her accession he was one of the first to be knighted (on 2 October 1553), he was MP for Scarborough in her first parliament, a member of the commission examining Bishop Bonner's appeal against deprivation in Edward's reign, sheriff of Dorset and Somerset in 1554, and a House of Lords receiver of petitions in four parliaments. In February 1554 he was sworn one of the king and queen's council. Tregonwell's social position is exemplified by the licence he received to retain thirty gentlemen or yeomen in his household.

It is probably Tregonwell's conservative religious sympathies that account for his absence from important office after Elizabeth's accession, although he continued as a justice of the peace in Dorset. He made his will in December 1563, with an invocation for the prayers of the 'most glorious and blessed Virgin Mary', and, after apparently a lengthy illness, died at Milton Abbas on 13 January 1565, where he was buried in the old abbey church.

John married (Unknown) Newce. (Unknown) died before 15 Jun 1549. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Warfare and Witchcraft at Milton Abbey" (citation details below) correctly states that Tregonwell married twice and that his first wife, not his second wife Elizabeth Kellaway (widow of Robert Martin), was the mother of his children. It calls this first wife "Elizabeth Bruce". No evidence exists that her name was Elizabeth. Between J.B. Wainewright, "Sir John Tregonwell's Second Wife" in Notes and Queries Series 11, vol. 6 (1912), pp. 347-48, and A. R. Bayley's reply on page 454 of the same volume, it seems clear that the first wife's surname was Newce, not Bruce, and that she was of the Newce family of Oxfordshire. On John Tregonwell's tomb at Milton Abbas, the arms to his right are those of Newce of Oxford.

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He was at Calais in 1514.

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• Alternate death: 1544

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Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1483-84, 1502-03, 1509-10, 1515-16. Merchant of the Staple of Calais. Treasurer of Tournai. Commander at the siege of Tournai in 1513.

He was King's Champion at the coronations of kings Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, "by entering the hall during dinner on horseback to challenge in single combat any who disputed the king's right to reign." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

Robert married Anne Sparrow. Anne (daughter of John Sparrow) died before 6 Mar 1543. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anne Sparrow (d. 1543) = Angel Don (d. 1506)
Elizabeth Don (d. 1561) = Thomas Murfyn (d. 1523)
Frances Murfyn = Richard Cromwell (d. 1544)
Henry Cromwell (d. 1604) = Joan Warren (d. 1584)
Robert Cromwell (d. 1617) = Elizabeth Stewart (d. 1654)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

Making Oliver Cromwell and LMH fourth cousins eleven times removed.

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De jure Lord Kyme, styled Earl of Angus. Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1526. He was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497. He was judged a lunatic 2 Mar 1517, and his person and lands were taken into custody.

George married Elizabeth Gascoigne before Apr 1493. Elizabeth (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died in 1559; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was beheaded by the Yorkists before the battle of Stamford.

Thomas Dymoke = Margaret Welles
Robert Dymoke = Ann Sparrow
Edward Dymoke = Anne Talboys
Frances Dymoke = Thomas Windebank
Mildred Windebank = Robert Reade
Col. George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

Thomas married Margaret Welles. Margaret (daughter of Lionel Welles and Joan Waterton) died on 13 Jul 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a grocer of London.

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• Alternate birth: 1451
• Alternate death: 30 Jan 1495

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MP for Lincolnshire 1472-75, 1478; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1480-1.

The attainder of his father was reversed in 1472. He was admitted a member of Corpus Christi Guild at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1488.

Ancestor of George Washington:

Sir Robert Talboys = Elizabeth Heron
Sir George Talboys = Elizabeth Gascoigne
Anne Talboys = Sir Edward Dymoke
Frances Dymoke = Sir Thomas Windebank
Mildred Windebank = Robert Reade
Col. George Reade of VA = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Augustine Warner Jr.
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington = Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis

Robert married Elizabeth Heron before 1467. Elizabeth (daughter of John Heron and Elizabeth Heron) died before 30 Jan 1495; was buried in Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Knighted by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (afterwards King Richard III) on campaign near Berwick in 1481. He was at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Margaret Gascoigne = Ralph Ogle (d. 1513)
Anne Ogle (b. 1509) = John Delaval (1512-1572)
Robert Delaval (1542-1607) = Dorothy Grey (1554-1591)
John Delaval (1590-1652) = Elizabeth Selby
George Delaval (1613-1694) = Margaret Grey (d. 1709)
Edward Delaval (1664-1744) = Mary Blake (1664-1711)
Anne Delaval (1692-1765) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1745)
Sir Ralph Milbanke (1725-1793) = Elizabeth Hedworth (1726-1767)
Ralph Milbanke (1748-1825) = Judith Noel (1751-1822)
Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Agnes Gascoigne = Thomas Fairfax
Nicholas Fairfax = Jane Palmes
Mary Fairfax = Henry Curwen
Agnes Curwen = James Bellingham
Mary Bellingham = Christopher Crackenthorpe
Richard Crackenthorpe = Mary Dalston
Thomas Crackenthorpe = Mary Threlkeld
Richard Crackenthorpe = Dorothy Crew
Dorothy Crackenthorpe = William Cookson
Anne Cookson = John Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William married Margaret Percy before 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]