Identity of St Anne Lyne, +1600

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Identity of St Anne Lyne, +1600

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 mai 2007 20:11:06

Much has been written about St Anne Lyne [sometimes Line], one of the
40 Roman Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales.

According to standard biographies (e.g. ODNB) she was born into a
Protestant Heigham family of Essex, and converted with her brother
William, being disinherited as a result. She married Roger Lyne, also
a disinherited convert, and was left widowed after he fled to the
continent and died there. She was convicted of harbouring priests and
executed on 27 February 1600/1.

Further investigation reveals that her original Christian name was
Alice, a fact that I don't believe has appeared before in print.
Perhaps she adopted the name Anne when she converted to Roman
Catholicism.

The Visitation of Essex, 1612, contains an entry for "William Heigham
of Dunmow", who is shown with three children: William, son & heir;
Alice, and Ann. ('English Catholic Biography' states that her mother
was Anne, daughter of John Allen of Essex, but I do not know the
grounds for this statement).

However, according to the IGI, Alice Heigham married at St Clement
Danes, London, 3 February 1582 to Roger Lyne [I have not checked the
original Register entry].

Roger was the son of John Lyne of Ringwood and his wife Agnes nee
Phettiplace. Their wills provide further details, confirming that she
was Alice and not Anne as far as her husband's family was concerned:

John Lyne's will, proved PCC 27 January 1596 (Prob 11/87): 'if my son
Roger come into the country within fifteen years after my death or
before then my will and meaning is that he shall have the use of John
his son's lands and annuity until (John) come to the age of 21'; to
son Roger, 100 marks 'if he come into the country within fifteen years
after my death but if he come not or be departed out of this world
then I will that the aforesaid 100 marks be paid unto Roger's wife,
his son John [and other relatives] equally; a gold ring to daughter-in-
law Alice Lyne.

Agnes Lyne's will, proved PCC 27 January 1603 (Prob 11/101) but dated
October 1600: 'item, I give to Alice Lyne the wife of my said son
Roger Line my best cloth gown, a red moradoc petticoat and a kirtle of
silk grograine'

Roger and Alice/Anne's son John remained in Hampshire after his
father's disgrace, and their grandson Shadrach Lyne, of Winchester,
registered a pedigree in the Visitation of that county in 1686, in
which he refers to his paternal grandmother as "Anne". I have traced
descendants for another century after this, and perhaps her line
continues to the present, presumably unaware of their famous Elizabeth
forebear.

MA-R

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