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  Thomas Coventry, 1st baron Coventry - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
THOMAS COVENTRY COVENTRY, 1ST Baron (1578-1640), lord keeper of England, eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, lord mayor of London in the reign of Henry VI.), and of Margaret Jeffreys of Earls Croome, or Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire, was born in 1578.
Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; to which the lord keeper replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." 1 After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement.
He passed sentence of death on Lord Audley in 1631, drafted and enforced the proclamation of the 10th of June 1632 ordering the country gentlemen to leave London, and in 1634 joined in Laud's attack on the earl of Portland for peculation.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thomas_Coventry,_1st_baron_Coventry   (473 words)

  
  Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578 - January 14, 1640), was a prominent English lawyer, politician, judge during the early 17th century.
In the Star Chamber Coventry was one of Lilburne's judges in 1637, but he generally showed conspicuous moderation, inclining to leniency in the cases of Richard Chambers in 1629 for seditious speeches, and of Henry Sherfield in 1632 for breaking painted glass in a church.
Lord Coventry was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of London in the reign of Henry VI), and of Margaret Jeffreys of Earls Croome, or Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire.
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 Coventry England
Coventry is the eighth largest city in England with a population of 305,000 (2005 estimate).
Diocese of Coventry - The Dioecese of Coventry is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury.
Coventry Cathedral - Coventry Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England.
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 Thomas Coventry, Mayor of Oxford
Coventry is known to have presented Michael Norton with the gift of a cellar in St Martin's called Swindlestock (on the north-west corner of Carfax) and a property in All Saints called Redcocks (on site of 117–119 High Street) in the early fifteenth century.
Coventry was appointed a Bailiff on the Council in 1402, and was elected one of the four Aldermen in 1407, 1418, 1421, 1423, 1424, 1432, 1435, 1436, and 1437.
Coventry was elected Member of Parliament for Oxford in 1403, 1407, 1414, 1419, 1420, 1421, 1422, 1427, 1429, 1431, and 1435.
www.headington.org.uk /oxon/mayors/1348_1485/coventry_thomas_1419_1429.htm   (303 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Thomas Coventry
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron (1578 - January 14, 1640), lord keeper of England, eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, lord mayor of London[?] in the reign of Henry VI), and of Margaret Jeffreys of Earls Croome, or Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire, was born in 1578.
Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; to which the lord keeper replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement.
He passed sentence of death on Lord Audley in 1631, drafted and enforced the proclamation of June 20, 1632 ordering the country gentlemen to leave London, and in 1634 joined in Laud's attack on the earl of Portland for peculation.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thomas_Coventry?title=Lord_mayor_of_London   (526 words)

  
 Coventry Cleveland
Coventry Village, Ohio - Coventry Village is a commercial district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry - Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry (1733–September 30, 1760) was a famous London beauty and society hostess during the reign of King George II.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578 - January 14, 1640), was a prominent English lawyer, politician, judge during the early 17th century.
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 SIR WILLIAM COVENTRY (... - Online Information article about SIR WILLIAM COVENTRY (...
Coventry resented this repression and thought ill of the conduct of the administration.
Coventry several times refused the highest court appointments, and he was not included in Sir W.
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/COVENTRY_SIR_WILLIAM_c_1628_168.html   (3493 words)

  
 Family Tree of Thomas Howes
Thomas' occupation was as an Agricultural Labourer, and Hannah's to be a weaver
This Thomas is thought to be the father of Thomas b.1801., and the grandfather of Thomas b.
Thomas, aged 70 in the 1841 census was not born in Warwickshire.
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 Sir John Coventry - LoveToKnow 1911
1682), son of John Coventry, the second son of Thomas, Lord Keeper Coventry, was returned to the Long Parliament in 1640 as member for Evesham.
The outrage created an extraordinary sensation, and in consequence a measure known as the "Coventry Act" was passed, declaring assaults accompanied by personal mutilation a felony without benefit of clergy.
Sir William Coventry, his uncle, speaks slightingly of him, ridicules his vanity and wishes him out of the House of Commons to be "out of harm's way."
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_John_Coventry   (129 words)

  
 tree03 - pafg04 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Thomas William Loach [Parents] was born 12 Dec 1899 in Bulkington..
Elizabeth was baptized 09 Mar 1878 in St.John the Baptist, Coventry.
Thomas Payne was born 14TH JAN 1886 and died CIRCA 1950.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /Loach/trees/tree03/pafg04.htm   (810 words)

  
 Thomas BOLSTRIDGE MAY 1745 - (Unknown)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thomas and his wife Ann had several children, three of whom, William, Thomas and John David, were baptised at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in London, in 1768, 1770 and 1771.
Why Thomas went to live in London at that time is a matter of speculation but, after a few years, he and his family returned to Coventry and in 1772, the year in which Thomas was admitted as a Freeman of the City, they were living in the East Street Ward of the City.
In 1785, Thomas was recorded as Thomas Boulstridge of Stoke, engine weaver and, in 1796, as Thomas Bouldstridge, formerly of Gosford Street and East Street Wards, Coventry, the Bouldstridge spelling being that which members of the family acquired in London.
www.mdlp.co.uk /family/tree/i2008.htm   (465 words)

  
 Caludon Castle
Thomas Mowbray was exiled his eldest son was executed by Henry IV for treason in 1405 and the castle passed to John 7th Lord Mowbray who died 1475 leaving a young heiress Anne who was given in marriage (age only 6) to Richard one of the young princes killed in the tower in 1483.
Lady Katherine died in 1596 and was buried in the Drapers chapel of St. Michaels church in Coventry, she was described as tall and good looking, fond of shooting with the Long bow and keen on hawks.
Sir Thomas was a member of the party that travelled to Scotland to ask James VI of Scotland to become James I of England after the Queens death.
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 Coventry - Genealogy, Family History, Surnames and Local History.
Joseph BEASLEY was apprenticed to DAVID Thomas, Jobbing Smith on 22/02/1828 by his parent Susannah, (Widow) Joseph married Anne LACY (born and christened in Coventry on 27 Apr 1821, daughter of William and Sarah) on 05 Jun 1837 in Foleshill.
Thomas married Ann SHAW in Saint Michael's, Kenilworth, in 1836.
Thomas Ascough LOWER was CityCrier for the city of Coventry between the years of 1861 and 1881, according to the census reports of those years.
www.curiousfox.com /history/warwickshire_17.html   (2151 words)

  
 Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Coventry was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the Inner Temple, where he fell under the influence of the jurist Sir Edward Coke.
Despite Francis Bacon's opposition, Coventry became recorder of London in 1616 and solicitor general in 1617.
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 Coventry - Surnames, Family History, Genealogy and Local History.
Tina married Gary Slevin in 1977 in Coventry and subsequently married Scott Robertson in Loughborough in 1997.
Alfred Thomas Ward left stoke on trent and came to coventry some time after 1863 I have found him on the 1871 census living at 21 Union st Cov age 21 he was a Litho printer.
Thomas was born in London but came to Coventry and he is on the 1851 census.married to..
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The son of the 10th Earl of Coventry, George William Coventry was born on January 25, 1934, at the family's 18th-century seat, Croome Court in Worcestershire, and was given the courtesy title of Viscount Deerhurst.
The Earls of Coventry are descended from Sir John Coventry, a mercer of the City of London and one of the executors of the celebrated Lord Mayor Sir Richard Whittington.
The Earl of Coventry is survived by his fourth wife and is succeeded in the earldom by Lieutenant Commander Francis Henry Coventry, a first cousin once removed, who was born in 1912.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/07/19/1026898919041.html   (1022 words)

  
 Coventry
Coventry Record Office Accession 11/2 is the base text of the Weavers' pageant, prepared for the guild in 1534 by Robert Croo at a cost of five shillings.
Coventry Record Office Accession 11/1 is two leaves from an earlier version of the Presentation in the Temple, written in a fifteenth-century secretary hand in brown ink, on two leaves of handmade paper.
Thomas Sharp, Coventry’s early nineteenth-century antiquarian, an assiduous transcriber (and hero of the Directors of the Project) is solely responsible for the survival of all the other materials we have relating to the Coventry cycle.
www.lancs.ac.uk /users/yorkdoom/coventry.htm   (651 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 103   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thomas of Kerry and Lixnaw, Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw17 fitzMaurice, b.
Thomas of Moray, Earl of Moray, Regent Randolph
Thomas of Sudeley, Baron Seymour of Sudeley Seymour, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedFx103.html   (602 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Thomas Coventry, 3rd Earl of Coventry and others
     Thomas Coventry, 3rd Earl of Coventry was born on 7 April 1702.
He was the son of Thomas Coventry, 2nd Earl of Coventry and Anne Beaufort.
     Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry was the son of Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry and Winifred Edgecumbe.
www.thepeerage.com /p2911.htm   (443 words)

  
 BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Stage - Mark Thomas review
On 28 January in Coventry, Mark Thomas was enlightening and amusing in his discussions on the possible war against Iraq.
When Mark Thomas, scheduled to talk about his Export Guarantee Licenses campaign, came to Warwick Arts Centre on 28 January, he reminded - or enlightened - the audience about the broader picture on the possible war with Iraq.
If Mark Thomas gets you in the mood to tackle the media's involvement with war reporting, then join in the Warwick Arts Centre event debate on 19 February.
www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/stage/stories/2003/01/mark-thomas-review.shtml   (454 words)

  
 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
Coventry - A. On Saturday last; I saw her at Tottenham, in Middlesex.
I produce the register books of our parish; 24th of November, 1812; Thomas Coventry of this parish, and Hannah Martin of the same, were married in this church by banns.
Look at the signature of Thomas Coventry - A. I believe it to be his writing; it appears to be the same letters; I saw him write his name in the first book.
www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_units/1810s/t18130714-115.html   (484 words)

  
 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
Thomas Coventry, and Elizabeth Bird, of St. Brides, were indicted for stealing 9 s.
The Family in the House Coventry pointed to were Customers to the Prosecutor, which gave the less Suspicion, and the Boy was sent again with Change, but with a Caution, however, not to deliver the Change, or Pies, till he had the half Guinea.
He was unwilling to part with 'em, but she got 'em from him, and presently up comes Coventry, and ask'd him for the Change.
www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_units/1730s/t17311208-25.html   (455 words)

  
 CWN - The Bicycle Industry in Coventry
Introduced the modern type of bicycle with a triangulated frame, wheels of the same diameter and chain drives.
opened a factory in Coventry, and by 1871, 70% of the cycle industry was concentrated in the Midlands.
Birmingham took over as the centre of the industry, and the number of Coventry firms dwindled to a few well-established ones, such as
www.coventry.org.uk /heritage2/industry/bicycle/index.html   (324 words)

  
 Fretton, William George Papers, 1634-1883
Reprinted (with additions) from the Coventry Standard and the Coventry Herald and Free Press, of July 29, 1864.
History and antiquities of the city of Coventry, by Thomas Sharp.
Letters written by John Tipper of Coventry to Wanley, 1696-1711; Thomas Wakelin of Coventry to Humphrey Wanley, 1695-1696; George Browne to Humphrey Wanley, 1722.
www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg82.htm   (338 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Coventry, George William Reginald, Earl of Coventry 10th, b.
Coventry, George William, Earl of Coventry 11th, b.
Coventry, George William, Earl of Coventry 6th, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedx19.html   (331 words)

  
 HLS Library: English Deeds Collection 201-300   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SUMMARY: Demise by Stephen Radulfus, rector of the church of Codenne, to Thomas de Esshere, of three pieces of land with their appurtenances in the parish of Chidingstone, neare a lane called "Bolteslane," for the term of Thomas' life and one year beyond; rent 12d.; with distraint clause in case the rent is in arrears.
SUMMARY: Grant by Thomas Tyrel the younger, son of James Tyrel, to Nicholas and Walter Tyrel his brothers of an annuity of 20 marks payable out of his lands and tenements in the vill of Great Burghstede; distraint clause if the annuity be in arrears.
SUMMARY: Letter of Thomas Pytlesden "armiger," Thomas Carpynter, and Thomas Jan the Younger of Tenterden appointing John Pyers, clerk, of the same their attorney to deliver to Stephen Couper, of the same, seisin of 4 pieces of land lying in the parish of Tenterden on the denne of Ellardynden.
www.law.harvard.edu /library/collections/special/manuscripts/deeds/deeds4.php   (8548 words)

  
 Profiles list 2
In 1851 he was at Coventry Road, Bedworth and in 1861 and 1871 he was at King Street, Bedworth.
Thomas CLIFT on 28 Apr 1890 when she was only 22 and described as a widow.
General: Joseph was born in Coventry but apparently moved away from his family as young man to the Chester area.
www.denspages.co.uk /roots/names-ca2.htm   (3017 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Andrew Thrush on A Calendar of the Docquets of Lord Keeper Coventry 1625-1640   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Covering the years in which Sir Thomas Coventry served as lord keeper, they describe the contents of 18,900 docquets of grants.
In 1938 most were transferred from Croome Court, the Coventry family's Worcestershire seat, to the Birmingham Reference Library (now Birmingham City Archives), but few early modern scholars, with the notable exception of Conrad Russell, who produced a rough and ready handlist, knew of their existence.
In the introduction the editors, after providing a brief biographical sketch of Sir Thomas Coventry, describe the process by which docquets were created and outline the duties and types of grant handled by particular Chancery clerks.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38001143765690   (976 words)

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