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  enforcers_ii
Thomas PAGRAVE was born 1505/1510 in of Thruxton.
Thomas HULSE was born 1545 in Of Moxbury, Kent, England.
Thomas CLARKE was born 1 Nov 1570 in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England and was christened 3 Nov 1570 in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England.
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 Francis ENGLEFIELD
Englefield alone was summoned to the Council by a letter of 21 Feb 1553, after a meeting at which Northumberland himself presided; it is not clear whether the choice of Englefield was a coincidence or whether he enjoyed a hidden connexion with the Duke.
Whether or not this was a sign of the Queen's peculiar confidence in Englefield, the decision was justified when the revenues, after an initial setback, rose to a record figure of £20,000 in the fourth year of her reign.
Englefield can have met no difficulty in being returned as a knight of the shire for Berkshire under Mary, although the Dictionary of National Biography is wrong in seating him in all five of her Parliaments, since (for no evident reason) he was not a Member in Apr 1554.
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 Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg135 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thomas Dyke was born on 10 Jul 1618.
Thomas Walsh was born in 1548 in Waldron, Sussex.
Thomas Dike was christened on 02 Oct 1552 in Stoke By Clare, Suffolk.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sir Henry Charles Englefield
His father, who was the son of Henry Englefield, of White Knights near Reading, had in 1728 succeeded to the title and the Engelfield estates at Wooton Basset, Wilts; so that Henry Charles inherited both White Knights and Wooton Basset on the death of his father, 25 May, 1780.
In Catholic affairs Englefield took a prominent part, being elected in 1782 a member of the Catholic Committee, formed by the laity for the promotion of Catholic interests, a body which subsequently found itself in conflict with the vicars Apostolic.
Throughout the dispute Englefield took an independent line, and at times went rather far in his opposition to the vicars Apostolic, as in 1792, when he was prepared to move a strong resolution at the general meeting of English Catholics.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05472a.htm   (537 words)

  
 SIR FRANCIS ENGLEFIELD - LoveToKnow Article on SIR FRANCIS ENGLEFIELD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Their numbers swelled the privy council and sadly impaired its efficiency; but Mary resisted the various attempts to get rid of them because she liked staunch friends, and regarded them as a salutary check upon the abler but less scrupulous members who had served Edward VI.
Englefield sat as M.P. for Berkshire in all Marys parliaments except that of April 1554, but received no higher political office than the lucrative mastership of the court of wards.
The long arguments on the point are given in Cokes Reports, and a further act was passed in 1592 confirming the forfeiture to the crown.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EN/ENGLEFIELD_SIR_FRANCIS.htm   (548 words)

  
 Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Francis Englefield (d.1605)
Francis was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield House (Berkshire), Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, by Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court (Warwickshire).
Englefield had, however, by an indenture dated 1576, settled his manor and estate at Englefield upon his nephew, Francis Englefield Junior, with power notwithstanding to revoke the grant if he should deliver or tender a gold ring to the latter.
On 7th May 1598 Thomas Honyman, one of Cecil's spies, wrote that “postmasters in Spain weigh out the letters to their servants, and are easily corrupted for 28 ducats a month; the one at Madrid, Pedro Martinez, let me have all Cressold's and Englefield's letters, returning such as I did not dare to keep”.
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 Englefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Englefield, a village in the county of Berkshire, England.
Thomas Englefield, a former Speaker of the United Kingdom's House of Commons
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Englefield   (88 words)

  
 Manors | British History Online
In 1557 Thomas Marrow received a grant of the lordship or foreign manor and borough of Birmingham and the reversion of various parcels of land which had been granted out on lease, including one lot leased in 1541 to Elizabeth Ludford, (Footnote 65) the widow of Edward Birmingham, who had married William Ludford.
Thomas de Erdington died in 1218 (Footnote 86) when his widow Rose (previously wife of Adam) (Footnote 87) de Cokefield was given seisin of the manors of Erdington and Aston until dower was assigned to her.
(Footnote 94) Thomas de Erdington, who died in the reign of Henry III and was said to hold Smethwick and Harborne by a charter granted to him by Fawkes, (Footnote 95) was apparently he to whom the manor was granted in 1216, and the father of Giles.
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 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Young Peacock was educated at a private school at Englefield Green, and after a brief experience of business determined to devote himself to literature, while living with his mother (daughter of Thomas Love, a naval man) on their private means.
His critical and miscellaneous writings are always interesting, especially the restorations of lost classical plays in the Horae dramaticae, but the only one of great mark is the witty and crushing exposure in the Westminste7 Rev-few of Thomas Moores ignorance of the manners and belief he has ventured to portray in his Epicurean.
Peacock resented the misrepresentation of his favorite sect, the good and ill of whose tenets were fairly represented in his own person.
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 Thomas ENGLEFIELD (Sir)
Sir Thomas Englefield was one of the experienced men upon whom Henry VIII relied in the early years of his reign.
Neither on this occasion nor in 1497 is his constituency known but both times it is likely to have been Berkshire, for which several of his ancestors had sat and in which he was an active administrator.
When the King went to France in the summer of 1513, leaving Queen Catalina as regent, he was one of the four Councillors left in England to assist her.
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 The Mission Becomes Established
Thomas Vachell was just the sort of person the new procedures were aimed at.
Thomas Vachell had inherited Coley Park, the family seat a mile from the centre of Reading.
Thomas Vachell was a noted builder of dovecotes, which in those days were useful food sources.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Thomas Englefield (d.1514)
Thomas Englefield was the only son of John Englefield Esq.
With the accession of King Henry VIII, Sir Thomas Englefield became one of the key men of experience upon whom the young monarch relied in the early years of his reign.
Margery having died, Sir Thomas, not long afterwards, married Mary, daughter of Sir John Fortescue of Ponsbourne in Hertfordshire and widow of both John Stonor (d.1499) of Stonor Park (Oxfordshire) and Anthony Fettiplace (d.1510) of Swinbrook (Oxfordshire) and Childrey (Berkshire).
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 mcompeerpart2of3
“Meliboeus Thomae Watsoni siuè, Ecloga in obitum honoratissimi viri, Domini Francisci VValsinghami, equitis aurati, diuae Elizabethae a secretis, and sanctioribus consilijs”, by Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592.
Thomas Digges’ son was named Leonard Digges after his grandfather and was the same L. Digges who wrote the verse “TO THE MEMORIE of the deceafed Authour Maifter W. Shakespeare” at the beginning of the First Folio edition of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623.
London : Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Iohnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne, 1602 --- AA "The chronicle history of Henry the fifth", by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Peacock, Thomas Love
Thomas Love Peacock was born on 18 October 1785 at Weymouth in Dorset, the only child of Samuel and Sarah Peacock (née Love).
Thenceforth, the dominant male influence in the child’s life was his grandfather, Thomas Love, a former Master in the Royal Navy who was retired on half-pay after being wounded in a naval action.
He was a precocious student, as his few surviving writings from this time indicate, but his formal education was to be brief, for he left Englefield before he was thirteen years of age to take up employment as a clerk in London where he and his mother lived for some five or six years.
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 Britannia Biographies: John Paulet, 5th Marquis of Winchester
A bill for confirming an award for settling differences between him and his eldest son, Charles, in regard to the estates, was passed in 1663.
Winchester retired to his estate at Englefield, Berkshire, which he had acquired by his second marriage, and passed the re­mainder of his life in privacy, dividing his time between agriculture and literature.
Winchester died at Englefield on 5th March 1675, as Premier Marquis of England, and was buried in the church there.
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 Shenley Brook End Links
Thomas acquired the interest of John in 1478 and also gained the lands held by the heirs of Alice.
Thomas died in 1684 to be succeeded by his grandson, the spendthrift Charles.
Thomas Stafford, lord of the manor, had it re-consecrated in 1636, as the rector of Shenley, Dr. Dillon, was claiming Tattenhoe's tithes.
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 Berkshire History: Englefield
The Englefields supposedly owned the manor from the time of King Edgar the Peacemaker until it was confiscated from Sir Francis, the infamous 16th century Catholic who would not bow to the power of the English Church.
The Englefields later bought Whiteknights Park in Earley and continued to be buried in the Englefield Chapel in Englefield Church until 1822.
He supposedly inherited Englefield through his third wife, the grandaughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, although it was almost certainly purchased, perhaps because of a family connection.
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 E Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Englefield Cricket Club - A village cricket club in Berkshire, England.
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 The Restoration
Thomas Stonor seems to have marked the Restoration by presenting a bell to Watlington parish church.
She married Thomas Wollascott of the Sutton Courtenay branch of the family.
Their son Thomas was a priest educated at St Omer, Valladolid, Douai and Paris.
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 Hatfield Homepage
Thomas Hatfield held the estates at Willoughby in county Nottingham during the reign of William VIII.
They were Thomas Hatfield of Charles River County in 1637, Thomas Hatfield or Hatfeild of Glouscester County in 1653, and Grace Hatfield or Hatfeild of New Kent County in 1655.
The first identifiable ancestor of the American branch was Thomas Hatfield, born 4 MAR 1620 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England.
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Baker, Thomas, of Uxbridge 1804 December 3, 1804.
Baynham, Thomas, of the Inner Temple 1783 December 10, 1783.
Dampier, Thomas, Bishop of Ely 1812 December 16, 1812.
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 Encyclopedia: Speaker of the British House of Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peter de Montfort (died 1265) is said to have presided over a meeting of the British House of Commons at a Parliament held in Oxford in 1258 (dubbed by the supporters of Henry III as the Mad Parliament).
For example, Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas (Speakers during the 1970s and early 1980s) had both previously served as high-ranking Cabinet members, whilst Bernard Weatherill (Speaker from 1983 to 1992) was previously a party whip.
The last Speaker to receive a viscountcy was George Thomas, who became Viscount Tonypandy upon his retirement in 1983.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Speaker-of-the-British-House-of-Commons   (7752 words)

  
 A Little Relief
In the year Joseph Blount leased Britwell House, the daughter of Thomas and Theresia Smith was baptised at Mapledurham, having been 'brought over the water from Tilehurst Common'.
In 1776 Sir Henry Englefield's son Francis went to Vienna as a member of an English regiment serving the Holy Roman Emperor.
Sir Henry Charles Englefield settled in Hanover Square, Middlesex (now London) which was conveniently situated for someone with his scientific and historical interests.
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 Egham.co.uk
On the outskirts of Egham towards the village of Englefield Green is the huge and ornate Royal Holloway Founders Building, modelled on the French Chateau de Chambord.
Built for the Victorian philanthropist, Thomas Holloway, as a college for women it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1886 and contains an excellent small art gallery, which can be viewed by prior appointment.
The great architectural feature of Englefield Green is Royal Holloway, part of the University of London, which stands among trees, gardens and playing fields between the village and the railway.
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 The CD-Rom of Hurst
It shows that Sir Thomas Windebank died on the 24th of October, 1607, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, Charing Cross.
They recorded that Thomas Hide of Hurst was the second son of William Hide of Dechworth.
Thomas married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Barker of Wokingham.
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 Culpepper Connections' Family Tree - Person Page 8951
Marriage*: 1686, Groom=Sir Charles Englefield of Englefield, co. Berks, Bart.
Of the family of Englefield, believed to be of Saxon origin, there is a full notice in the Barowetages of Wooton (1771, i, 123) and Betham (1802, i, 147).
From these authorities, supplemented by G. (all of whom duly record the m.) it appears that Susan Culpeper's son, Thomas, and dau., Charlotte, both died young; that her will was pr.
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 Morgan Ancestry - aqwg12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir married MARY DOROTHY ENGLEFIELD on WFT Est 1575-1612.
Thomas married Elizabeth WINDHAM about 1615 in Tredgar, Monmouth, Wales.
Thomas JARMAN was born 27 Sep 1568 in Nantmel, Rodnor, Wales.
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 University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections - MS 47 Correspondence and geological papers of Thomas Webster, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MS 47 Correspondence and geological papers of Thomas Webster, 1811-15
Thomas Webster (1773-1844), geologist, was born in the Orkneys, educated at Aberdeen, and studied architecture and agriculture in London.
In 1826 Webster was appointed house secretary to the Geological Society and curator of the museum, and in 1841-2 he was professor of geology at University College, London.
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 Churches of Berkshire: Englefield
It is a public place of worship though and even the gardens of the house are open to the public on weekdays in the Summer.
Despite the Victorian rebuilding there are still many medieval fittings in the church and the Englefield family and their successors at Englefield House are, of course, widely in evidence.
The tiny Englefield chapel is crammed full of their monuments and even the Easter Sepulchre reused as such.
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 Britannia Biographies: William Paulet, 1st Marquis of Winchester
William was eldest son of Sir John Paulet of Basing, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, the head of a younger branch of an ancient Somerset family seated in the fourteenth century at Pawlet or Paulet and Road, close to Bridgwater.
Hinton St. George, near Crewkerne, became, from the middle of the fifteenth century, the chief residence of the elder branch, to which belong Sir Amias Paulet and the present Earl Poulett.
Knighted before the end of 1525, he was appointed Master of the King’s Wards in November of the next year, with Thomas Englefield.
www.britannia.com /bios/lords/winchester1wp.html   (1923 words)

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