Immigrant Christopher Batt a close relation of Queens Mary a

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Immigrant Christopher Batt a close relation of Queens Mary a

Legg inn av John Brandon » 19 sep 2005 23:37:32

Maybe this is well-known, but ...

_Notes and Queries_ 220 (1975), p. 29:

CLARENDON'S GRANDPARENTS (clxxxix, 246-8). This is a belated reply to
a plea in an article by E. A. Greening Lamborn on "Clarendon's
Grandparents" concerning Mary, wife of Edward Langford, and a
great-grandmother of Anne Hyde, wife of King James II; that "it would
be an interesting historical discovery if Mary Langford's family name
could be provided by some reader. The checkers impaled for her suggest
that she was one of the local family of St. Barbe, but no marriage with
Langford has been found in their pedigree". In fact just such a
marriage is mentioned in the St. Barbe pedigree in W. G. Davis,
_Ancestry of Abel Lunt_ (1963), 189-98. Mary Langford must have been
the Mary St. Barbe who was the youngest child of Thomas St. Barbe, of
Homington, Wiltshire, by his wife Joan. Edward Langford mentions in
his will his brother-in-law Edward Hyde; and Mary's sister Alice St.
Barbe had married in 1582 an Edward Hyde. Also Edward Langford is
described as brother-in-law in the will of Thomas St. Barbe the
younger. Mary Langford's grandmother, Margery St. Barbe, was a
daughter of Humphrey Grey, of Enville, Staffordshire, a grandson of
Reynold Grey, the third Lord Grey of Ruthin. Thus Anne Hyde was
descended from the medieval baronage.

C.F.H. Evans

Is this the Charles Evans everybody makes a big to-do over?

As I noted recently, Christopher Batt's widow wrote to Clarendon:

F. J. Routledge, ed., _Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers Preserved
in the Bodleian Library_, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
18[_]-1872), 5:420, offers a little further proof for Mrs. Anne Baynton
Batt of New England:

Sept. 1 [1664], Boston. Anna Baynton to Clarendon. Loyal professions.
Asks favour for a poor widow. Her father had a wine licence confirmed
by Sir Lionel Cranfeelde, afterwards Lord Treasurer, for three lives.
Writer forfeited it through her trustee failing to pay some part of the
rent to the wine office. Hopes the King has not empowered the new
commissioners to annul this grant. Asks him [Clarendon] to consider her
desperate case and get this licence restored to her.

Note that the lady was writing from Boston, Massachusetts, and signed
her maiden name (perhaps to make it easier for Clarendon to determine
which wine licence was intended). Her father, Ferdinando Baynton of
Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, was an innkeeper, hence the wine
licence.

John Brandon

Re: Immigrant Christopher Batt a close relation of Queens Ma

Legg inn av John Brandon » 19 sep 2005 23:44:13

My bad. I see this is well-known ( http://tinyurl.com/8c7p2 ), except
perhaps for the part about Anne Baynton writing to Clarendon, a
not-too-distant cousin of her late husband.

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