(See my thread from two days ago: http://tinyurl.com/pgp75 .)
I've located evidence that Margaret Griffin was Alexander Temple's
second--rather than first--wife, so the Serle-Griffin marriage record
from 1590 could not apply to this couple.
Before setting out the ample evidence for Margaret Griffin as the
second wife, I would direct attention to Nichols' _Leicestershire_,
4:960, a pedigree chart that shows that Sir Alexander Temple, "of
Longhouse, Chandwell [sic], Essex," married (1) "Mary, d. and coheir of
John Somers, esq. widow of Thos. Peniston, esq." A footnote on this
page discusses another wife: "His second [sic] wife was Mary, daughter
of John Reve, of the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, Suffolk, and relict of
Robert Bankworth, of London. After Sir Alexander Temple's death she
was married to John Busbridge, descended from Busbridge in Kent; and
was living a widow in 1634." That John Busbridge was Mary Reeve's
first husband is quite clear from the following Chancery pleading,
which refers to "John Busbridge of London, linen draper, her first
husband":
_Samples of Chancery Pleadings and Suits: 1627, 1685, 1735 and 1785_
(List and Index Society, vol. 257), p. 38:
Houghton v. Temple
P[laintiffs]: John Houghton, clerk, Little Chesterford, Essex, cousin
(&, he claims, next heir) of the late John Houghton of Liverpool,
Lancashire, gent. (JH); Thomas Houghton, doctor in phisick, Newark,
Notts, JH's administrator. D[efendants]: Sir Alexander Temple, kt,
d[efendant]2's 3rd husband; Dame Mary Temple, relict & administratrix
of John Busbridge of London, linen draper (JB), her first husband ...
[date of answer: 6 May 1628].
Also, as I noted previously, there is an extracted marriage in the IGI
for John Busbridge and Mary Reeve, 9 July 1604 at St. Dunstan's,
Stepney. The most we can say about Alexander Temple's marriage to Mrs.
Reeve-Busbridge-Bankworth is that it had occurred "by 6 May 1628" (date
of the response in the Chancery suit above).
The evidence about Margaret Griffin's marriage to Alexander Temple is
found in a rather odd place, a book about scriveners in early modern
England, Peter Beal's _In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their
Makers in Seventeenth-Century England_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
Beal became fascinated by the work of an anonymous writer he dubbed the
Feathery Scribe, for his "very light, fine-nibbed ornamentation of the
lettering: the wispy, trailing strokes to which he is prone" (p. 58).
(The writing _is_ very beautiful in the samples Beal provides). One of
the indentures written by Feathery that Beal examined was Dame Margaret
Temple's bequest to the poor of the city of Stafford:
p. 70: "We can also establish that, at least sometime in his life,
Feathery was a law clerk. Quite apart from the considerable amount of
material copied by him devoted to legal matters, we find clear evidence
of his legal role in the form of an indenture, now in the William Salt
Library in Stafford (Plates 36-8). Feathery is responsible for all the
main-body text, down to 'In wyttnes whereof', and another hand, perhaps
that of a senior scrivener or lawyer, has then completed the details in
the last line or so, before the relevant parties and witnesses step
forward to sign. The indenture is dated 30 June 1635, and the only
reason it has attracted any attention hitherto is the identity of the
first witness: none other than Izaak Walton. Although the document
relates to property in Stafford, it was clearly drawn up in
London-and indeed the deceased party, Dame Margaret Temple, as well
as her two executors, Walton's brother-in-law Thomas Grinsell and
Robert Tichborne, are all described as citizens of London. One
wonders, indeed, whether the office in which this deed was drawn up was
not in Walton's own neighbourhood-on the north side of the Inns of
Court, on or near Fleet Street, where Walton's church of St Dunstan in
the West stands, or else on Chancery Lane just around the corner, where
Walton is known to have lived and to have owned property. This is the
only actual legal instrument which I have come across in Feathery's
hand, though, for all we know to the contrary, legal scrivening may
even have been his main livelihood."
On p. 260 Beal describes in greater detail the indenture at the William
Salt Library, Stafford:
104. M 527
[Indenture, witnessed by Izaak Walton, 1635]
[Indenture, on a single membrane of vellum (c.442 x 524 mm), whereby
Robert Tichborne and Thomas Grinsell of London, executors of the late
Dame Margaret Temple, by virtue of her Will dated 12 May 1617, grant
the Mayor and Burgesses of Stafford the right to dispose as they see
fit of Dame Margaret's bequest (£30 with interest at the rate of 6
[percent] or more if possible) to the poor of Stafford; the text
written almost entirely in Feathery's hand; signed as witnesses by
Izaak Walton, Stephen Noell, Gabriel Reve, William Mille, and Thomas
Steward, 30 June 1635: cf. _Index_, ii/2. 622 (No. iii). See Plates
36-8 above.]
Thus we can see that Dame Margaret Temple made her will in 1617 (hence
was alive past the date of Alexander Temple's marriage to Mary
Peniston). That this is the Margaret Griffin who was wife of Alexander
Temple is evident from her bequest to the poor of her native place--the
city of Stafford. Her will must not be in the PCC, as I don't find it
online (perhaps it is in one of the London-area ecclesiastical
courts?).
Therefore the true order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages was:
1) 4 Dec. 1602, St. Bride Fleet Street, to Mary Peniston, widow of
Thomas Peniston. (She was the Mary Sommer who married Thomas Penyston
14 July 1590 at St. Bride, a daughter of Rev. John Sommer by his wife
Martina Ridge [see 1619 Kent Visitation, p.19
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html ].)
2) by 12 May 1617 (date of her will), to Margaret Griffin, daughter of
Peter and Anne (Leigh) Griffin of the city of Stafford.
3) by 6 May 1628, to Mary Reeve, widow of John Busbridge and Robert
Bankworth.
Incidentally, this mass of evidence also clarifies the identity of the
mother of the writer Izaak Walton ('The Compleat Angler,' etc.). The
entry for Walton in the new ODNB calls him the son of Gervase Walton of
the city of Stafford, by his wife Anne (no maiden name given). The
bio. also states that Walton's sister Anne married Thomas Grinsell of
London (which agrees with Beal's account above). As Margaret (Griffin)
Temple was born in Stafford, had a brother called Isaac, and a sister
Anne married to ___ Walton of Stafford, it is apparent that Izaak
Walton's mother must have been Anne Griffin, another daughter of Peter
and Anne (Leigh) Griffin.
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Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus, the
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Douglas Richardson
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
Great detective work, John. Very impressive post.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www. royalancestry. net
John Brandon wrote:
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www. royalancestry. net
John Brandon wrote:
(See my thread from two days ago: http://tinyurl.com/pgp75 .)
I've located evidence that Margaret Griffin was Alexander Temple's
second--rather than first--wife, so the Serle-Griffin marriage record
from 1590 could not apply to this couple.
Before setting out the ample evidence for Margaret Griffin as the
second wife, I would direct attention to Nichols' _Leicestershire_,
4:960, a pedigree chart that shows that Sir Alexander Temple, "of
Longhouse, Chandwell [sic], Essex," married (1) "Mary, d. and coheir of
John Somers, esq. widow of Thos. Peniston, esq." A footnote on this
page discusses another wife: "His second [sic] wife was Mary, daughter
of John Reve, of the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, Suffolk, and relict of
Robert Bankworth, of London. After Sir Alexander Temple's death she
was married to John Busbridge, descended from Busbridge in Kent; and
was living a widow in 1634." That John Busbridge was Mary Reeve's
first husband is quite clear from the following Chancery pleading,
which refers to "John Busbridge of London, linen draper, her first
husband":
_Samples of Chancery Pleadings and Suits: 1627, 1685, 1735 and 1785_
(List and Index Society, vol. 257), p. 38:
Houghton v. Temple
P[laintiffs]: John Houghton, clerk, Little Chesterford, Essex, cousin
(&, he claims, next heir) of the late John Houghton of Liverpool,
Lancashire, gent. (JH); Thomas Houghton, doctor in phisick, Newark,
Notts, JH's administrator. D[efendants]: Sir Alexander Temple, kt,
d[efendant]2's 3rd husband; Dame Mary Temple, relict & administratrix
of John Busbridge of London, linen draper (JB), her first husband ...
[date of answer: 6 May 1628].
Also, as I noted previously, there is an extracted marriage in the IGI
for John Busbridge and Mary Reeve, 9 July 1604 at St. Dunstan's,
Stepney. The most we can say about Alexander Temple's marriage to Mrs.
Reeve-Busbridge-Bankworth is that it had occurred "by 6 May 1628" (date
of the response in the Chancery suit above).
The evidence about Margaret Griffin's marriage to Alexander Temple is
found in a rather odd place, a book about scriveners in early modern
England, Peter Beal's _In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their
Makers in Seventeenth-Century England_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
Beal became fascinated by the work of an anonymous writer he dubbed the
Feathery Scribe, for his "very light, fine-nibbed ornamentation of the
lettering: the wispy, trailing strokes to which he is prone" (p. 58).
(The writing _is_ very beautiful in the samples Beal provides). One of
the indentures written by Feathery that Beal examined was Dame Margaret
Temple's bequest to the poor of the city of Stafford:
p. 70: "We can also establish that, at least sometime in his life,
Feathery was a law clerk. Quite apart from the considerable amount of
material copied by him devoted to legal matters, we find clear evidence
of his legal role in the form of an indenture, now in the William Salt
Library in Stafford (Plates 36-8). Feathery is responsible for all the
main-body text, down to 'In wyttnes whereof', and another hand, perhaps
that of a senior scrivener or lawyer, has then completed the details in
the last line or so, before the relevant parties and witnesses step
forward to sign. The indenture is dated 30 June 1635, and the only
reason it has attracted any attention hitherto is the identity of the
first witness: none other than Izaak Walton. Although the document
relates to property in Stafford, it was clearly drawn up in
London-and indeed the deceased party, Dame Margaret Temple, as well
as her two executors, Walton's brother-in-law Thomas Grinsell and
Robert Tichborne, are all described as citizens of London. One
wonders, indeed, whether the office in which this deed was drawn up was
not in Walton's own neighbourhood-on the north side of the Inns of
Court, on or near Fleet Street, where Walton's church of St Dunstan in
the West stands, or else on Chancery Lane just around the corner, where
Walton is known to have lived and to have owned property. This is the
only actual legal instrument which I have come across in Feathery's
hand, though, for all we know to the contrary, legal scrivening may
even have been his main livelihood."
On p. 260 Beal describes in greater detail the indenture at the William
Salt Library, Stafford:
104. M 527
[Indenture, witnessed by Izaak Walton, 1635]
[Indenture, on a single membrane of vellum (c.442 x 524 mm), whereby
Robert Tichborne and Thomas Grinsell of London, executors of the late
Dame Margaret Temple, by virtue of her Will dated 12 May 1617, grant
the Mayor and Burgesses of Stafford the right to dispose as they see
fit of Dame Margaret's bequest (£30 with interest at the rate of 6
[percent] or more if possible) to the poor of Stafford; the text
written almost entirely in Feathery's hand; signed as witnesses by
Izaak Walton, Stephen Noell, Gabriel Reve, William Mille, and Thomas
Steward, 30 June 1635: cf. _Index_, ii/2. 622 (No. iii). See Plates
36-8 above.]
Thus we can see that Dame Margaret Temple made her will in 1617 (hence
was alive past the date of Alexander Temple's marriage to Mary
Peniston). That this is the Margaret Griffin who was wife of Alexander
Temple is evident from her bequest to the poor of her native place--the
city of Stafford. Her will must not be in the PCC, as I don't find it
online (perhaps it is in one of the London-area ecclesiastical
courts?).
Therefore the true order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages was:
1) 4 Dec. 1602, St. Bride Fleet Street, to Mary Peniston, widow of
Thomas Peniston. (She was the Mary Sommer who married Thomas Penyston
14 July 1590 at St. Bride, a daughter of Rev. John Sommer by his wife
Martina Ridge [see 1619 Kent Visitation, p.19
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html ].)
2) by 12 May 1617 (date of her will), to Margaret Griffin, daughter of
Peter and Anne (Leigh) Griffin of the city of Stafford.
3) by 6 May 1628, to Mary Reeve, widow of John Busbridge and Robert
Bankworth.
Incidentally, this mass of evidence also clarifies the identity of the
mother of the writer Izaak Walton ('The Compleat Angler,' etc.). The
entry for Walton in the new ODNB calls him the son of Gervase Walton of
the city of Stafford, by his wife Anne (no maiden name given). The
bio. also states that Walton's sister Anne married Thomas Grinsell of
London (which agrees with Beal's account above). As Margaret (Griffin)
Temple was born in Stafford, had a brother called Isaac, and a sister
Anne married to ___ Walton of Stafford, it is apparent that Izaak
Walton's mother must have been Anne Griffin, another daughter of Peter
and Anne (Leigh) Griffin.
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http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC2 ... on+hawkins
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John Brandon
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
Thanks, Doug. I had fun with this one.
One small error in my posting: The Sumer pedigree in the Kent
Visitation is on p. 21, not p. 19.
One small error in my posting: The Sumer pedigree in the Kent
Visitation is on p. 21, not p. 19.
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John Brandon
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
Therefore the true order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages was:
1) 4 Dec. 1602, St. Bride Fleet Street, to Mary Peniston, widow of
Thomas Peniston. (She was the Mary Sommer who married Thomas Penyston
14 July 1590 at St. Bride, a daughter of Rev. John Sommer by his wife
Martina Ridge [see 1619 Kent Visitation, p.19
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html ].)
2) by 12 May 1617 (date of her will), to Margaret Griffin, daughter of
Peter and Anne (Leigh) Griffin of the city of Stafford.
3) by 6 May 1628, to Mary Reeve, widow of John Busbridge and Robert
Bankworth.
Actually, I guess we could state that Temple married Mary Reeve "by
1623," as this fact is in the 1623 Surrey Visitation.
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Gjest
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
Douglas Richardson schrieb:
Indeed, many thanks for sharing these details, John.
MA-R
Great detective work, John. Very impressive post.
Indeed, many thanks for sharing these details, John.
MA-R
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RJM
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
It is possible to date Sir Alexander temple's third marriage a little
more precisely. Essex Record Office has a deed (ERO D/DRu/T1/219) in
which the parties include Sir Alexander Temple and his wife Mary. This
is dated 16th January 1621/2. This appears to be part of the marriage
settlement, which suggests that the marriage probably took place a few
days earlier. Certainly by July 1622, Sir Alexander was living in his
new wife's home in Etchingham, Sussex since he attended the East
grinstead assizes as a JP on 22nd July 1622. (Calendar of Assize
Records, Sussex Indictments, James I; HMSO)
John Matthews
John Brandon wrote:
more precisely. Essex Record Office has a deed (ERO D/DRu/T1/219) in
which the parties include Sir Alexander Temple and his wife Mary. This
is dated 16th January 1621/2. This appears to be part of the marriage
settlement, which suggests that the marriage probably took place a few
days earlier. Certainly by July 1622, Sir Alexander was living in his
new wife's home in Etchingham, Sussex since he attended the East
grinstead assizes as a JP on 22nd July 1622. (Calendar of Assize
Records, Sussex Indictments, James I; HMSO)
John Matthews
John Brandon wrote:
(See my thread from two days ago: http://tinyurl.com/pgp75 .)
I've located evidence that Margaret Griffin was Alexander Temple's
second--rather than first--wife, so the Serle-Griffin marriage record
from 1590 could not apply to this couple.
Before setting out the ample evidence for Margaret Griffin as the
second wife, I would direct attention to Nichols' _Leicestershire_,
4:960, a pedigree chart that shows that Sir Alexander Temple, "of
Longhouse, Chandwell [sic], Essex," married (1) "Mary, d. and coheir of
John Somers, esq. widow of Thos. Peniston, esq." A footnote on this
page discusses another wife: "His second [sic] wife was Mary, daughter
of John Reve, of the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, Suffolk, and relict of
Robert Bankworth, of London. After Sir Alexander Temple's death she
was married to John Busbridge, descended from Busbridge in Kent; and
was living a widow in 1634." That John Busbridge was Mary Reeve's
first husband is quite clear from the following Chancery pleading,
which refers to "John Busbridge of London, linen draper, her first
husband":
_Samples of Chancery Pleadings and Suits: 1627, 1685, 1735 and 1785_
(List and Index Society, vol. 257), p. 38:
Houghton v. Temple
P[laintiffs]: John Houghton, clerk, Little Chesterford, Essex, cousin
(&, he claims, next heir) of the late John Houghton of Liverpool,
Lancashire, gent. (JH); Thomas Houghton, doctor in phisick, Newark,
Notts, JH's administrator. D[efendants]: Sir Alexander Temple, kt,
d[efendant]2's 3rd husband; Dame Mary Temple, relict & administratrix
of John Busbridge of London, linen draper (JB), her first husband ...
[date of answer: 6 May 1628].
Also, as I noted previously, there is an extracted marriage in the IGI
for John Busbridge and Mary Reeve, 9 July 1604 at St. Dunstan's,
Stepney. The most we can say about Alexander Temple's marriage to Mrs.
Reeve-Busbridge-Bankworth is that it had occurred "by 6 May 1628" (date
of the response in the Chancery suit above).
The evidence about Margaret Griffin's marriage to Alexander Temple is
found in a rather odd place, a book about scriveners in early modern
England, Peter Beal's _In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their
Makers in Seventeenth-Century England_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
Beal became fascinated by the work of an anonymous writer he dubbed the
Feathery Scribe, for his "very light, fine-nibbed ornamentation of the
lettering: the wispy, trailing strokes to which he is prone" (p. 58).
(The writing _is_ very beautiful in the samples Beal provides). One of
the indentures written by Feathery that Beal examined was Dame Margaret
Temple's bequest to the poor of the city of Stafford:
p. 70: "We can also establish that, at least sometime in his life,
Feathery was a law clerk. Quite apart from the considerable amount of
material copied by him devoted to legal matters, we find clear evidence
of his legal role in the form of an indenture, now in the William Salt
Library in Stafford (Plates 36-8). Feathery is responsible for all the
main-body text, down to 'In wyttnes whereof', and another hand, perhaps
that of a senior scrivener or lawyer, has then completed the details in
the last line or so, before the relevant parties and witnesses step
forward to sign. The indenture is dated 30 June 1635, and the only
reason it has attracted any attention hitherto is the identity of the
first witness: none other than Izaak Walton. Although the document
relates to property in Stafford, it was clearly drawn up in
London-and indeed the deceased party, Dame Margaret Temple, as well
as her two executors, Walton's brother-in-law Thomas Grinsell and
Robert Tichborne, are all described as citizens of London. One
wonders, indeed, whether the office in which this deed was drawn up was
not in Walton's own neighbourhood-on the north side of the Inns of
Court, on or near Fleet Street, where Walton's church of St Dunstan in
the West stands, or else on Chancery Lane just around the corner, where
Walton is known to have lived and to have owned property. This is the
only actual legal instrument which I have come across in Feathery's
hand, though, for all we know to the contrary, legal scrivening may
even have been his main livelihood."
On p. 260 Beal describes in greater detail the indenture at the William
Salt Library, Stafford:
104. M 527
[Indenture, witnessed by Izaak Walton, 1635]
[Indenture, on a single membrane of vellum (c.442 x 524 mm), whereby
Robert Tichborne and Thomas Grinsell of London, executors of the late
Dame Margaret Temple, by virtue of her Will dated 12 May 1617, grant
the Mayor and Burgesses of Stafford the right to dispose as they see
fit of Dame Margaret's bequest (£30 with interest at the rate of 6
[percent] or more if possible) to the poor of Stafford; the text
written almost entirely in Feathery's hand; signed as witnesses by
Izaak Walton, Stephen Noell, Gabriel Reve, William Mille, and Thomas
Steward, 30 June 1635: cf. _Index_, ii/2. 622 (No. iii). See Plates
36-8 above.]
Thus we can see that Dame Margaret Temple made her will in 1617 (hence
was alive past the date of Alexander Temple's marriage to Mary
Peniston). That this is the Margaret Griffin who was wife of Alexander
Temple is evident from her bequest to the poor of her native place--the
city of Stafford. Her will must not be in the PCC, as I don't find it
online (perhaps it is in one of the London-area ecclesiastical
courts?).
Therefore the true order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages was:
1) 4 Dec. 1602, St. Bride Fleet Street, to Mary Peniston, widow of
Thomas Peniston. (She was the Mary Sommer who married Thomas Penyston
14 July 1590 at St. Bride, a daughter of Rev. John Sommer by his wife
Martina Ridge [see 1619 Kent Visitation, p.19
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html ].)
2) by 12 May 1617 (date of her will), to Margaret Griffin, daughter of
Peter and Anne (Leigh) Griffin of the city of Stafford.
3) by 6 May 1628, to Mary Reeve, widow of John Busbridge and Robert
Bankworth.
Incidentally, this mass of evidence also clarifies the identity of the
mother of the writer Izaak Walton ('The Compleat Angler,' etc.). The
entry for Walton in the new ODNB calls him the son of Gervase Walton of
the city of Stafford, by his wife Anne (no maiden name given). The
bio. also states that Walton's sister Anne married Thomas Grinsell of
London (which agrees with Beal's account above). As Margaret (Griffin)
Temple was born in Stafford, had a brother called Isaac, and a sister
Anne married to ___ Walton of Stafford, it is apparent that Izaak
Walton's mother must have been Anne Griffin, another daughter of Peter
and Anne (Leigh) Griffin.
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http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0 ... cpV5uPKvoY
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC2 ... on+hawkins
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John Brandon
Re: Correct order of Sir Alexander Temple's marriages; plus,
Ah yes, Etchingham -- that was Busbridge territory.
Thank you for posting those details.
Thank you for posting those details.