Historical sketches of old Charing.: The hospital and chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the monuments erected in her memory. — John Shaqi
Historical sketches of old Charing.: The hospital and chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the monuments erected in her memory.Galloway, James, Sir
History
Historical sketches of old Charing.: The hospital and chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the monuments erected in her memory.
Galloway, James, Sir
Eleanor, Queen, consort of Edward I, King of England, -1290 -- Monuments; Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval
The subsequent fate of the Chapel and Hospital and the land on which
they stood may be shortly stated. The site was granted, no doubt with
the buildings on it, in the year 1550 to Sir Thomas Cawarden.[14]
Cawarden had been master of the revels to Henry VIII and had established
claims to reward or remuneration from the King which had not been
satisfied on his death. He was able to establish and enforce these
claims in the early years of Edward VI. With some difficulty he obtained
in discharge of his claims on the Crown the estate and property of
Roncevall and also the church and property of the Blackfriars within the
City of London. He seems also to have secured at this time the
stewardship of Nonsuch Palace and its lands in the County of Surrey.
Footnote 14:
“A Survey of London,” by John Stow, 1603. The edition by Charles L.
Kingsford, Clarendon Press, 1908, i, p. 341; ii, p. 350.
The properties of Roncevall and of the Blackfriars soon passed from the
hands of Cawarden, probably during the period of wild speculation in
land and real estate which followed the dissolution of the religious
houses, but the stewardship of Nonsuch he continued to hold with much
tenacity in spite of the efforts to dislodge him from this favourite
position by Cardinal Pole during the reign of Queen Mary.
Cawarden died in the year 1559. In the meantime the Roncevall property
had passed to Sir Robert Brett. It was purchased early in the
seventeenth century by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, who built
himself a town house, described as a “sumptuous palace,” on the site,
using for the purpose the material of the ancient Convent. This house
was completed in the year 1605 and was known for some years as
Northampton House. It consisted of buildings arranged on three sides of
a quadrangle, and open towards the garden and river. From him the
property passed by inheritance to his nephew, Thomas Howard, first Earl
of Suffolk, the second son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, who
completed the quadrangle, the house being then known as Suffolk House.
From the Howard family the property passed by an heiress to Algernon
Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in 1642; another heiress of the Percy
family brought the property to Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset. While
in the possession of the Somerset family and their immediate successors,
the Strand front was much improved and acquired the architectural
features so long associated with Northumberland House at Charing Cross.
By another heiress, Lady Elizabeth Seymour, the property passed into the
possession of the present Duke of Northumberland’s family.
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