E Competit.Isabella filia Willi' soror et cohær. Aymeri de Valence Comitis Penbroke. Rogerus d'ns Grey de Ruthin fil. Joh'is d'ns Grey Elizabetha. de Wilton mor. 26 Ed. 3. Reginaldus d'ns Grey de Ruthin mor. 12 R. 2. Elianora fil. Joh'is d'ns Strange de Blackmere. Joh'is fil. Alani Comes Arundell. Matilda fil. Rob'ti Lovell et hær. matris. Joh'es Palmer de Tottington. Elizabetha. Ed'us Poynings mil. Garterij Contrarot. Hospitij Rs. H. 7, Deput. Hiberniæ, &c. Joh'es Roe de Boxley. Katherina Palmer. Thomas Palmer* mil. Beatrix. Eleanora Poynings nupta Hen. Percy,T 3 com. Northumb. Henricus 4 Comes Northumb. D'ns Poynings, Fitzpaine et Bryan, &c. Joh'es Palmer.T. fil..... Scott. Henricus Palmer de Honlet mil. Admirall Mariu' Angust. Jana fil. et coh. Ed'ri Isaack. & contrarot. Classis Regiæ. Maria fil. primogenita-Thomas Roe mil. Joh'is Gresham, mil. (See page 151.) Henr. Palmer, mil. contrarotul. Reg. Class. * Sr Thomas Palmer of Leigh neere Tunbridge in Kent grandfather to the elder Sr Henry, Admirall of the Narrow Seas & Controller of the Navy was owner of the Man's of Tottington & Eccles in Aylesford & Boxley adjoyning to Snodland which came unto this family by a match with a da' of the Lord Poynings. And Katharine Palmer this S Tho. Palmer's sister was maried to John Roe of Boxley gent. father of Reginald Roe of Leigh, ancestor of Sir Tho. Roe (Guillim, p. 297). This St Thomas Roe here mentioned was Grandchild of St Thomas Roe (who maried Mary da' of St John Gresham) by Robert Roe son of the sayd St Thomas. DESCENT OF FRANCES, DAUGHTER OF SIR HENRY THWAYTES, KT., AND WIFE OF JOHN GRESHAM. Henricus de Novo Burgo com. Warw. Margareta soror et hær. Rotroci com. Perch. Rogers de Bellomont 2 com. Warwicien. Gundreda fil. Gul. com. Warren. Walleran 4 Comes Warw. Alicia fil. Joh'is Harecourt. Will'us Manduit Baro' de Hanslape. Alicia fil. Wall. 4t soror et hær. Wallerini xmi com. Warw. Thomas de Bellocampo xiv com. Warw. Katherina filia Rogeri Mortimer com. Merch. Tho. de Bellocampo xv com. Warw. Margareta filia Will'i D'ni Ferrers de Groby. Joh'es Beaufort fil. Joh'is Ducis Lanc. R. Castill &c. Margareta fil. Tho. sor. & cohær. Edmondi creatus Comes Somerset et Marchio Dorset. Holland, com. Kantij. Warren D'ns Lisle et Tyes.: Thomas D'ns Berkley. Margeria fil. et heres. Rich'us de Bellocampo xvi comes Warw. Elizabetha fil. Tho. D'ni Edmondus Beaufort Dux Somerset. Elianora filia Rich'i com. War. et cohæres matris. Thomas D'ns Rosse de Hamlake mar. 1°. Will'us Paston mil. Anna filia 3a et cohæres. Anna, filia et coh. nupt. Gilb'to Will'us Paston, mil. s.p. Joh'es Savill de Elizabetha, filia et cohæres. Margareta nupta 1 Ric'o Corbet 2° Thome Wortley. Elizabetha nupta Thomæ Henricus Thwaytes de Lounde Anna Savill fil. John Savell mil. in com. Ebor miles. Francisca, fil, et hær, mor, 1579, Joh'es Gresham mil. (See page 152.) PEDIGREE OF Gresham of Gresham and Holt, co. Norfolk, AND OF Titsey and Limpsfield, co. Surrey. A true and exact Pedigree of the right worshipfull, ancient, pious, loyal, and charitable family of Gresham of Gresham in the county of Norfolk, sometimes residing at Holte, Intwood, Myleham, Walsingham Parva, and Thorpe Market in the said county; at Founteyness in the county of York; at Titsey and Limesfield in Surry; at Osterley and Fulham in the county of Middlesex; wherein are inserted the severall marriages and alliances to severall other worshipfull and some honourable familys. Which family was at once seiz'd in Norfolk of thirty-five mannors,1 in Suffolk of five, in Cambridgeshire of one,3 in Kent of three, in Sussex of two,5 in Surry of nine, in Middlesex of two,7 in Somerset of two,8 in Derbyshire of three,9 in Yorkshire of nine,10 and of twelve granges, and several other villatæ and considerable possessions in the same county, and of three mannors in the bishoprick of Durham; 12 as appears by severall letters patents, fines, deeds enrolled, inquisitions post mortem, wills, and private evidences, now in the hands of some of that family. And out of which family, within the compass of an hundred and fifty years last past, there has been one baronet,13 nine knights batchelers, 14 whereof one knighted in the field ;15 one baronet's wife,16 and nine knights' wives of the name and East Beckham, Holt, Thorpemarket, Hardwike, Swaynestrop, Keswick, Intwood, Swardeston, Mulbarton, Westacre, Eastwalton, Narford, Lakenham, Tasburghe, Great Walsingham, Little Walsingham, Wells, Ousthorpe, Massingham Magna, Debtford, Hardingham, Myleham, Burrowghall in Holkham, Hardingham, Myleham, Beston, Lympnow, Castleacre Arundell, Castleacre Priory, Heringshall, Dyckwood, Egmer, Hemesby, Luddon, Bacon, Therlyng. 2 Rokells, Battisford, Bavent Combes, Ashmorehall, Erlestonham. 3 Thirling. 4 Westerham, Edenbridge, Henden. 5 Mayfield, Wadhurst. 6 Titsey, Limpsfield, Broadham in Oxted, Warlingham, Sanderstead, Woldingham, Rowholts in Chelsham, Felcourt in Lingfield, Langhurst in Limpsfield. 7 Heston, Osterley. 8 Wedmore. 9 Greatover, Littleover, Fynderne. 10 Bremben, Benley, Malham, Lytton, Kylnesey, Markington, Lound on the Wold, Sutton, Bordeley. "Morker, Haddockstone, Swanley, Cayton, Sutton, Bramley, Nutwith Cote, Aldeburgh, Northcote, Potte, Sykes, Burthwaite, Calfall House, Sixefurth, Hashaye, Baker, Warshall, Drypole, Wolburghe, Launthorpe (i.e. twenty). 12 Stranton, Newborne Crewe, Seaton Crewe. 13 Sir Marmaduke Gresham, created a baronet July 31, 1660. 14 Sir Richard, knighted 1531; Sir John, 1537; Sir John, 1547; Sir Thomas, 1559; Sir William, 1603; Sir Thomas, 1603; Sir John, 1616; Sir Edward, 1617; Sir Richard, before 1627. 15 Sir John Gresham, son of Sir Richard, knighted by Protector Somerset, on the field of Musselburgh, 28 September, 1547. 16 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward Gresham, Kt., married Sir Anthony Oldfield of Spalding, Bart. 2 family of Gresham;1 and have issued from them in that time two viscounts, seven baronets, twenty-four knights, two countesses, five baronets' wives, and twenty-two knights' wives." This introduction is given by Ward in Appendix V. to his 'Lives of the Gresham Professors,' 1740, with the following note: "This introduction is prefix'd to a genealogy now in the family at Titsey, with which I was favour'd by the present Sir Marmaduke Gresham, baronet." It is not now among the muniments at Titsey. The date of it may be fixed approximately by the following evidence. First the mention of only one baronet places it between the year 1660, in which Sir Marmaduke Gresham was created a baronet, and 1696, the date of his death. Elizabeth, Countess of Carlisle, being doubtless one of the two Countesses mentioned, would make it later than February 24, 1684, on which day her husband, Edward, second Earl of Carlisle, succeeded to the title; and if Frances, Countess of Huntingdon, be the other, it will be later than the 2 May 1690, the date of her marriage. The Viscountcies of Townshend and Weymouth were neither of them created till 1682, which is a further proof that it cannot be earlier than that. 1 Christian, wife of Sir John Thynne of Longleat; Elizabeth, of Sir Henry Nevill of Billingbere; Anne, of Sir Nathaniel Bacon; Mary, of Sir Thomas Rowe; Cecily, of Sir Henry Woodhouse; Millicent, of Sir John Stafford; Mary, of Sir Anthony Hinton; Beatrice, of Sir Thomas Holmden; Elizabeth, of Sir Richard Cowper. 2 Weymouth and Townshend. 3 Sir Henry Thynne, Sir William Leveson Gower, Sir John Oldfield, Sir Roger Townshend, Sir Uvedale Corbet, Sir Richard Tracy [? the seventh]. 4 Sir John, Sir Thomas, Sir James, Sir Thomas, and Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Henry Nevill his son, Sir Henry, Sir Thomas, Sir John, and Sir William Rowe, Sir William, Sir William, and Sir Richard Uvedale, Sir John, Sir John, and Sir Richard Leveson, Sir John and Sir Richard Wingfield, Sir Walter Long, Sir Nevill Catelyn, Sir William Woodhouse. 5 (1.) Frances, Countess of Huntingdon, daughter and sole heir of Francis Leveson Fowler of Harnage Grange. She was fifth in descent from Thomas Leveson, who married Ursula, 4th dau. of Sir John Gresham, Kt. She married for her 2nd husband, 2 May 1690, Theophilus, 7th Earl of Huntingdon. (2.) Elizabeth Uvedale, Countess of Carlisle. She was great-granddaughter of William Uvedale, Esq., by Ellyn, his wife, 3rd daughter of Sir John Gresham, Kt. Frances Leveson, wife of Sir Thomas Gower, Bart.; Victoria Corbet, wife of Sir Charles Lloyd, Bart.; Mary Thynne, wife of Sir Richard Howe, Bart.; Katherine Thynne, wife of Sir John Lowther, Bart.; Elizabeth Leigh, wife of Sir Humphrey Tracy, Bart. 7 Elizabeth Thynne, wife of Sir John Chamberlain, Catherine, of Sir Walter Long, Stuart, of Sir Edward Baynton, and Christian, of Sir Francis Leigh; Elizabeth Rowe, of Sir William Garrard; Elizabeth Bacon, of Sir Thomas Knyvett, Anne, of Sir John Townshend, and Winifrede, of Sir Robert Gawdy; Catherine Uvedale, of Sir Edward Underhill, Frances, of Sir Edward Griffin, and Elizabeth, of Sir William Berkeley; Christian Leveson, of Sir Peter Temple; Anna Margareta Long, of Sir Richard Mason, and Dorothy, of Sir Henry Heron, K.B.; Elizabeth Nevill, of Sir Henry Berkeley, Catherine, of Sir Richard Brooke, and Mary, of Sir Edward Lewknor, Dorothy, of Sir Richard Catlyn, aud Catherine, of Sir Thomas Lunsford. Pedigree of Gresham. "GRESHAM NOMEN FACIENS DITISSIMÆ EXINDE PROSAPIE."-(Spelman, Ed. 1723, p. 152.) ARMS.-Argent, a chevron Ermines between three mullets pierced of the field Sable. CRESTS.-On a wreath, Or and Azure, a grasshopper proper. On a mount Vert, a grasshopper Or, as borne by Sir Richard Gresham 1537. Augmentation granted to Sir Richard Gresham, Kt., by Xtopher Barker, Garter, 30 Nov. 1537:-A chief Gules, on the chief a pelican close between two lions' jambs, erased Or, armed Azure. Id. granted to John Gresham, Sheriff of London (afterwards Sir John Gresham, Kt.), 20 Sept. 1537:-A chief Or, on the chief a cinquefoil Azure between two hinds' heads erased Sable. Roger de Gresham has custody of the lands of Thomas de Bosco, son of Simon de Bosco of Bodham, co. Norf. He is the last of eleven witnesses to a Deed of Grant of a Watermill in Hemsted by Holt, Norf., from William de Cailly to Sir Robert de Hengham, Kt. John de Gresham instituted Vicar of Bodenham, co. Norf. John de Gresham of Bodham held lands in the town of Berningham of Roger Talour's Manor there. (Fines, Norf., 48 Ed. III., L. 7, No. 53.) John de Gresham, one of the Executors of Sir John de Mauteby of Mawtby, co. Norf. Will proved 18 Dec. 1403. (Betham's 'Baronets,' iii., 324.) John Gresham, Vicar of Hornyng. Will dated 4, proved at Norwich 18 Nov. 1420. John Gresham of Gresham. Living 1397. (Fine between John Aylmer and Helewise his wife, John son of Edward Gresham, John Gresham,? Margaret. and others, of lands in Aylmerton, Gresham, and other towns, whereby they were settled on Helewise for life, remainder to John son of (Fine 39 Ed. Edward Gresham in tail.-Fines of Land, Norf., Hil., 39 Ed. III, f. 3b.) III.) John Gresham of Holt, co. Norf. Living 1432. Died 1460. (Vis. Norf., 1563.') 1. Margaret, dau. of William Billingford of Blackford (alias Blackworth) Hall, Stoke, co. Norf. (He was living, Lord of the Manor of Welborne, Norf., 1425. Died about 1449. -Blomefield's Norf.,' ii., 454.) ARMS.-Sable, two bells in saltire Argent. James Gresham of Holt. Lord of Manor of East Beckham, co. 2. Margery, dau. of William Rookwood of Norf., 1442. Witness to a Deed of the Manor of Kelling, 1459. Clerk to Sir William Paston, and cousin to him. Eleven letters of his among the Paston Letters, sealed with his seal the Grasshopper, 1443-1481. Living 1497. Warham, co. Norf., living 1443 (by Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Thomas Hales, and sister of Sir Stephen Hales), and sister and coheir of William Rookwood, Esq., whose will, dated 21 Oct., was proved 8 Nov. 1474. (Reg. Gelour, Norwich, fo. 105.) ARMS.-Argent, six chess-rooks Sable, 3, B 2, and 1. |