Andrew Luttrell

Notes:

"In 1340 he was at the siege of Tournay. He served in the French campaign in 1347 in the retinues of Sir Michael de Poynings; and of Henry, Earl of Lancaster. In 1354 and later he was on commissions of the peace in co. Lincoln, and, from 1364 on commissions of oyer and terminer and of array. In December 1355 he was summoned for the defence of the country against the Scots. In 1358 he gave land to the Austin Friars of Stamford, and in 1362 granted the manors of Bescaby and Saltby, co. Leicester, to the Abbot and convent of Croxton. In 1359 he took part in the King's great expedition into France. He gave evidence in the Scrope and Grosvenor trial in 1387, being then 70 years of age." [Complete Peerage]

Buried "before the rood screen at St. Andrew's, Irnham, Lincolnshire." [Royal Ancestry]

Andrew married Hawise le Despenser after 7 Sep 1363. Hawise (daughter of Philip le Despenser and Joan de Cobham) was born about 1344 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 10 Apr 1414. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1389 and 1390

Andrew married Joan Tailboys before 1380. Joan (daughter of Henry Tailboys and Eleanor de Boroughdon) was born in of Hepple, Rothbury, Northumberland, England; died before 1397. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Mar 1420

Family/Spouse: Thomas Belesby. Thomas (son of Thomas Belesby) was born in of Beelsby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married Godfrey Hilton before May 1416. Godfrey (son of Robert de Hilton and Isabel) was born in of Swine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England; died on 5 Aug 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Godfrey married Margery Willoughby in 1453. Margery (daughter of Hugh Willoughby and Margaret Freville) was born in of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England; died on 14 Nov 1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1455
• Alternate death: Aft 1495
• Alternate death: Aft 1509

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of Richard Thimbleby) was born in of Holton in le More, Lincolnshire, England; died on 24 Apr 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Booth. John (son of William Booth and Elizabeth Ayscough) was born about 1488 in of Middle Soyle in Killingholme, Lincolnshire, England; died before 22 May 1537. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was one of the knights and gentlemen who were servitors at the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1533.

From a post to soc.genealogy.medieval by Don Stone, 8 Oct 1997:

Sir Richard's THIMBLEBY's father was Sir John Thimbleby, 1482-1550, lord of the manor of Irnham. He was a recusant (i.e., one of those who remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church after the establishment of the Church of England), and in 1536 he led a group of Lincolnshire men in the ill-fated Pilgrimage of Grace, the only substantial resistance to Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. At the Roman Catholic Church of Corby, Lincolnshire, there is a typed manuscript by Brigadier Trappes Lomax entitled "The Owners of Irnham Hall" (this from the bibliography of David I. A. Steel's A Lincolnshire Village: the Parish of Corby Glen in its Historical Context). This manuscript is on my list of things to see when I visit England next summer.

From Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521 by Barbara Jean Harris (Stanford University Press, 1986), page 141:

Whatever the early Tudors' feelings about being dependent on private retinues of this sort, they had little choice, given the limited financial resources of their government. As late as 1536, Sir John Thimbleby "assembled all his tenaunts, frendes and servantes together under the colour to do the kinges service," and then employed them in the Pilgrimage of Grace.

From The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, With Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle, 1845, chapter III, "Of the Cromwell Kindred":

Richard or Sir Richard Cromwell, great-grandfather of Oliver [the] Protector, was a man well known in his day; had been very active in the work of suppressing monasteries; a righthand man to Thomas the Mauler [Thomas Cromwell, called Malleus Monachoroum, Mauler of Monasteries]: and indeed it was on Monastic Property, chiefly or wholly, that he had made for himself a sumptuous estate in those Fen regions. Now, of this Richard Cromwell there are two Letters to Thomas Cromwell, 'Vicar-General,' Earl of Essex, which remain yet visible among the Manuscripts of the British Museum; in both of which he signs himself with his own hand, 'your most bounden Nephew,' -- an evidence sufficient to set the point at rest. Copies of the Letters are in my possession; but I grudge to inflict them on the reader. One of them, the longer of the two, stands printed, with all or more than all its original misspelling and confused obscurity, in Noble: it is dated 'Stamford,' without day or year; but the context farther dates it as contemporary with the Lincolnshire Rebellion, or Anti-Reformation riot, which was directly followed by the more formidable 'Pilgrimage of Grace' in Yorkshire to the like effect, in the autumn of 1536. Richard, in company with other higher official persons, represents himself as straining every nerve to beat down and extinguish this traitorous fanatic flame, kindled against the King's Majesty and his Reform of the Church; has an eye in particular to a certain Sir John Thymbleby in Lincolnshire, whom he would fain capture as a ringleader; suggests that the use of arms should be prohibited to these treasonous populations, except under conditions; -- and seems hastening on, with almost furious speed; towards Yorkshire and the Pilgrimage of Grace, we may conjecture.

[Carlyle's footnote to the above:] This first letter is in the Harley MSS. (vol. 283, f. 156). It is clearly written in a clerk's hand, and the only "obscurity" about it is that a good many contractions are employed, but they are used quite regularly. From its connexion with other letters of the same period, it must have been written on October 14, 1536. Sir John Thimbleby did not need capturing, as he had "come in" a day or two before.

About the Pilgrimage of Grace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace

From Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, Vol. V, by Henry Foley, S.J. (London: Buyrns and Oates, 1879), footnote, page 600:

Mr. Peacock in his Yorkshire Catholics, pp. 12, 13, mentions several of this family as recusants (1604). He says of Mr John Thimbleby [Thimelby] of Normanton parish: "This was a member of an old Lincolnshire family. They were originally of Poolham manor, near Horncastle; but subsequently, by the marriage of Richard Thimbleby with Elizabeth, sister and co-heiress of Sir Godfrey Hilton of Irnham, that estate came into the family. They were always Roman Catholics. At the restoration of the old faith under Mary, Mrs. Elizabeth Thimbleby, a nun, lent a cope and a chasuble to the church of Irnham, which were reclaimed by Mr. John Thimbleby on the accession of Elizabeth. The John Thimbleby mentioned in the text was probably the grandson of the above. The male line of the Lincolnshire Thimblebys ended in 1712, on the death of another John Thimbleby of Irnham. His heiress, Mary, had married Thomas Clifford [Gifford] of Chillington, county Stafford. The estate passed out of her descendants' hands by sale a few years ago."

John married Margaret Boys before 1507. Margaret (daughter of John Boys) was born in of Conesby, West Halton, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Eleanor in various visitation pedigrees.

Elizabeth married Edward Hamby between 1531 and 1532. Edward (son of George Hamby and Margaret Cutleer) was born about 1513 in of Great Limber, Lincolnshire, England; died on 29 Jun 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Sep 1590, Irnham, Lincolnshire, England

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1559. Knighted before Nov 1551.

From the History of Parliament:

The pardon roll of 1553 described Thymbleby as 'of Irnham ... late of Lynn Regis, Norfolk,' but he still had a house at Lynn in July of that year, when (presumably as one of Northumberland's adherents) he was first committed to the custody of the knight marshal, and then licensed to return to Lynn, on condition that he kept away from court until Queen Mary's pleasure was known. A convinced protestant, he was classified as 'earnest in religion.' There are few references to him during the last 20 years of his long life, during which he lived as a country gentleman and sheep-farmer.

Family/Spouse: Katherine Tyrwhit. Katherine (daughter of Robert Tyrwhit and Maud Tailboys) was born in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

B.A., St. John's, Cambridge, 1564/5. He received his M.A. in 1658, then became rector of Brocklesby, Lincolnshire and chaplain to Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, First Earl of Dorset.

He was vicar of Dalinghoo, Suffolk from 1569 to 1613, and, according to Wilcox (citation details below), rector of Glemham Parva, Suffolk from 1594 to 1610. But Wilcox also notes that on 11 Nov 1597 a deanery court presented and dismissed "William Handby, rector" from Glemham Parva because "He weareth not the surples but at the Comunion. He doeth not Catachise the yowth." Presumably he subsequently regained the parish.

William married Margaret Blewett about 1572. Margaret (daughter of Edmond Blewett) died after Jan 1613. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Welby on 20 Jul 1560 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Welby and Katherine Bray) was born in of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1570 in Bath, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Feb 1571 in St. Peter's, Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]