Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish ArmadaHolt, Emily Sarah
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Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada
Holt, Emily Sarah
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Fiction; Historical fiction
1. A son, whose only memorial is on the sepulchral brass of his parents
at Atherington probably died young.
2. Anne, married Sir James Courtenay of Powderham. (Issue,--James, and
John.)
3. Margery, (Harl. Ms. 1149, folio 13, b.) married Edward Marrays of
Marrays, Cornwall. (Issue,--Margaret, married George Rolle, Lady
Lisle's solicitor.)
4. Jane, born about 1505; apparently died unmarried.
5. Thomasine, born about 1512, died unmarried, March 19, 1535--(Lisle
Papers, Three 1.)
(B) By Honor Grenville:--
6. Philippa, born about 1516; probably died unmarried.
7. Katherine, born about 1518; married, after 1542, Sir Henry Ashley of
Ashley and Wimborne Saint Giles (Shaftesbury family); date of death not
known. (Issue,--Henry, and Edward, who probably died young.--Harl. Ms.
888, folio 40, b.)
8. John, born October 26, 1519 (Inq. 20 Henry Eight 20); died Apr. 3,
1545 (Inq. 2 Philip and Mary, 10). Married Frances, eldest daughter of
Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, by his first wife Elizabeth Grey;
married at Calais, February 17 to 22, 1538 (Lisle Papers, Eleven 40,
41); died about 1560. She married, secondly, Thomas Monke of
Potheridge, county Devon.
9. Anne, born about 1520; Maid of Honour from 1537 (Lisle Papers,
Eleven 110) to 1554 (Tallies Roll, 2-3 Philip and Mary); married,
probably between July 7 and October 27, 1555, Sir Walter Hungerford of
Farleigh Castle, son of the last Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury; died
childless, probably in 1558-9. (Hungerford family papers).
10. George, born about 1522, died in London, 1579. (Harl. Mss., 757,
folio 214; 760, folio 322.) Married Jaquit, daughter and heir of John
Coffyn of Portledge, county Devon. She married, secondly, Henry Jones.
11. Mary, born about 1525, married at Atherington, June 9, 1557
(Register), John Wollacombe of Combe, county Devon. (Issue,--John,
Thomas, and Honor.--Harl. Ms. 3288, folio 49.)
12. James, born 1527 (Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Pratt's Townsend's
ed., Six 231), proctor of Bishop Gardiner, 1543 to 1555; Gentleman of
Chamber to Queen Mary, about 1556-8; died November 1558; buried Black
Friars' Church, London. ("Machyn's Diary," page 179.) Married Mary,
daughter of William Roper and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas
More.
Issue of John Basset and Frances Plantagenet:--
1. Honor, born at Calais, about May 10, 1539 (Lisle Papers, One 72;
Eleven 97; Twelve 85), probably died young.
2. Sir Arthur, born 1540 (Inq. 1 March--2 Philip and Mary, 10),
probably at Calais; died of gaol fever, caught at the Black Assize,
Exeter (Stow's "Chronicle," page 719), April 2, 1586 (Epitaph); buried
at Atherington, April 7 (Register). Married Eleanor, daughter of John
Chichester of Raleigh, county Devon, and Gertrude Courtenay of
Powderham; buried at Atherington, July 8, 1585 (Register).
Issue of Sir Arthur Basset and Eleanor Chichester:--
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