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The FOX family, StradbrokeThe reason for my interest in this family stems from the fact that the first wife of Thomas GRENLING of Stradbroke was Johanna FOX – marriage 21 Sep 1550. My ancestor was actually Thomas’s second wife Margery GODBOLD of Dennington – marriage 28 Nov 1555. However, when I found the FOX family tomb at Stradbroke I wondered what link there might be with Johanna. The following information does not yet give me that link, but a very interesting story is emerging about this Stradbroke family.

The FOX family tomb, Stradbroke Churchyard

In the transcription from the tomb (see below) reference is made to Gresham’s School (Holt, Norfolk) which still exists. Part of the history from their web site is:

“Gresham’s was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham, who converted Holt’s Manor House into a Free Grammar School as a result of Henry VIII’s suppression of the Monasteries.  This regime had abolished the only local school at St Mary’s Priory in Beeston Regis, leaving local children without access to education. Sir John went on to become Lord Mayor of London and forged close ties with the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, leaving the School in their care upon his death; strong links with the City of London remain to this day.The School remained in the heart of Holt for 350 years, surviving the Great Fire of 1708 which destroyed most of medieval Holt.  The building was extensively enlarged and refurbished in Victorian times, and still exists today renamed ‘Old School House’ and currently serving as home to our Pre-Prep School.” Extract from “The Blackfriars Retable” See: http://blackfriarscambridge.chez.com/icons.html“The Thornham panel, by contrast, certainly remained near its original East Anglian home. The Howard stewards and bailiffs in the region were the Fox family, based at Stradbroke, a few miles east of Thornham. The Foxes too were Catholics, and shared with their patrons an interest in the artistic and religious history of the region.So it was at the Fox farm that the Thornham Parva panel came to rest, perhaps as part of the furniture of the family's chapel, reputedly located in the spacious attic. Continued religious use of this sort would account for the "modernising" coat of grey paint, and the fact that at some point the panel was sawn into three sections, perhaps to make its central section a better fit for the smaller dimensions of a baroque domestic altar.At any rate, it was from Stradbroke that it made its way at last to the Henniker woodpile. Still pasted to the carved pillar to the left of the figure of St Dominic is a tiny paper tag, labelled "Second day, Lot 171", a relic of the auction which dispersed the contents of the house when the Fox family died out in 1778. The unfashionably "gothick" panel, however, found no buyers. The Thornham Parva Retable was lying unregarded among the unsold lots when Lord Henniker's ancestor, who had bought the farm, cleared the stables.”

It is stated above that the FOX family were Catholics, but the tomb that we are interested in is within a C of E burial ground at Stradbroke – but I suppose that pre-Reformation it would have been Catholic.One difficulty with the inscriptions is that there are no dates given** (very strange) and we only have clues to follow such as in the inscriptions below. If you search Google Maps for Stradbroke Church and go to Street View you can see the Fox Tomb with a flat copper roof in the NW corner of the churchyard.

** See “FOX TOMB – 168 Notes & Queries” which I shall attach to the email.This gives a number of dates for the family and it can be seen that the family did not “die out in 1778” as averred above. I suspect they fell on hard times due to persecution as Catholics; note the conversions to C of E in 1778.

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Also note that the Churchwardens of Stradbroke in 1761 were Thomas Card and John Girling.

INSCRIPTIONSSouth SideIn Perpetuam Rei MemoriamHere together with his father Simon and his ancestors are placed (see note) Simon Fox a man of most upright life to whose excellence of character while he was alive even the very charm of his face bore witness, the latter as a young man travelled in very many parts of the earth, advanced in age, he was famous for his ability in languages, and on that account was much sought-after by people from outside with whom he frequently had talks (see note) in Gresham’s School. (see note) The father with the son were so long-lived that with their joint ages they made up the whole space of 194 years.

Notes:The verb of which Simon Fox is the subject seems to have been attracted into the plural by “together with his father ....”The word “saepius” can mean “too often”; the reader may be meant to understand a double meaning at Mr Fox’s expense.I have assumed a full-stop after Greshamensi.

R.E.G.

North Side“Here is hourly expected Simon the next Descendant with his Son Simon who dyed young tho’ still preserved to be interred with his Father At the earnest Request of his pious Mother the Lady Hart.And also Major John Fox with his Issue who during the late Rebellion loyally behaved himself undergoing with great courage not only the Danger of the Field but many severe Imprisonments”.(So which rebellion is referred to here?)

West Side“To this Repository has been lately committed the Body of Mr Nathaniel Fox who left wealth and a good name behind himThis Tomb (as by Deed of Settlement appears) is to be kept in full Repair with an annual Rent of Lands in Fee Simple, formerly the Estate of Mr Christopher Fox, the overplus to be yearly laid out and distributed in bread at this Tomb to such poor of Stradbroke and at such Times as they shall desire it”

Round the Margin of the Top SlabHic jacet cinis, umbra, nihill

Various Feoffment Deeds concerning properties left in Trust by William Grenling, the elder, late of Stradbroke for the benefit of the poor of the Parish (Will dated 28 Mar 1599). The subscribers are all members of the families that I am researching, but they include:

01 Nov 1625 Simon FOX (of Stradbroke)29 Nov 1681 Symon FOX of St Clement without Temple Barr (MX)

Nevison FOX son of Symon FOX20 Dec 1681 Symon FOX of St Clement without Temple Barr (MX)

John FOX (of Stradbroke)

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Nevison FOX son of Symon FOXCharles & John FOX sons of the said John FOX

19 Nov 1719 John FOX, the elder of Hoxne, gent.Joseph FOX (of Stradbroke)Joseph, Simon & Thomas, sons of the said Joseph FOX (all of Stradbroke)John FOX the younger, son of John FOX the elder of Hoxne

06 Jan 1772 Joseph FOX, late of Stradbroke, but now of WorlinghamHenry Smallpiece FOXJoseph Sanford FOXSimon Roger FOX andStephen FOX (four sons of said Joseph FOX)

And, concerning the lease of a piece of land called Crampits in Syleham:11 Jan 1779 Henry Smallpeece FOX

Joseph Sanford FOXSimon Roger FOXStephen FOXAll of Worlingham

WILLS ONLINE AT TNA

Description Date Catalogue ref

Details

Will of Nathaniel Fox, Victualler of Saint Clement Danes , Middlesex

24 September 1760

PROB 11/859

Will of Nathaniel Fox, Gentleman of Precinct of Saint Katherine by the Tower, Middlesex

28 March 1693

PROB 11/414

Sentence of Nathaniel Fox, Gentleman of West Thorpe, Lincolnshire

26 June 1679

PROB 11/360

Will of Nathaniel Fox, Gentleman of Westhorpe, Suffolk

12 May 1679

PROB 11/361

Sentence of Simon Fox of Stradbrooke, Suffolk

22 June 1697 PROB 11/442

Will of Symon Fox of Stradbrooke, Suffolk 22 June 1697 PROB 11/438

Will of Simon Fox of Stradbrooke, Suffolk 22 June 1697 PROB 11/436

Will of William Fox, Gentleman of Hollesley, Suffolk

05 November 1679

PROB 11/361

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Will of Nathaniel Fox, Gentleman of Westhorpe, Suffolk

12 May 1679 PROB 11/361

Will of Elizabeth Fox, Wife of Worlingworth, Suffolk

27 June 1659 PROB 11/293

Will of Edmond Fox of Mendham, Suffolk 12 February 1657

PROB 11/262

Will of John Fox, Merchant of Aldeburgh, Suffolk

22 June 1586 PROB 11/69

Online Document PROB 11/500

Will of Nevinson Fox Saint Clement Danes, Middlesex . Will of Nevinson Fox Saint Clement Danes, Middlesex Date: 1708 Source: DocumentsOnline (images of documents from The National Archives)

__________________________________________________________________________________'Worlingham', The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: volume 1 (1846), pp. 103-111. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75120&strquery= FOX Date accessed: 26 April 2010

The family of Smallpeece was of considerable standing, and of good estate in this parish. They are said to have been originally of Metfield, in Suffolk, but Blomefield records the monument of Humphrey Smallpeice, who was buried at Hockering, in Norfolk, in 1539, and their name occurs yet earlier among the 'Worthies' of Norwich. They were residing in Worlingham soon after the year 1600. Thomas Smallpeece, son of Thomas Smallpeece, Gent., and Frances, was baptized on the 28th of February, 1682. The family merged into that of Fox, of Stradbrook, in the middle of the last century, when Joseph Fox, Esq., of Stradbrook, and Mrs. Elizabeth Smallpeece, were married in 1756. Mr. Fox was the representative of an old Roman Catholic family, and related to the celebrated Minister of that name. Their eight children were baptized at Stradbrook by a Romish priest from the house of Mr. Havers, and received into the church at Worlingham, 16th November, 1778.

From: 'Worlingham', The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: volume 1 (1846), pp. 103-111. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75120&strquery=FOX Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

There are also memorials to Alice, wife of Thomas Smallpeece, and daughter of Francis Jermy, Esq., of Gunton, who died in 1762; with the arms of Smallpeece impaling Jermy, arg. a lion ramp. guard. gules.—To Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Fox, and daughter of Philip Smallpeece, who died in 1811, aged 81.—

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From: 'Worlingham', The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: volume 1 (1846), pp. 103-111. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75120&strquery=FOX Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

John’s eldest sister Elizabeth had already married - quite soon after her father’s death - to a knight, Sir Standish Hartstonge - in 1648. And his younger brother Francis Jermy (born c1634 at Gunton) also entered Cambridge (St John’s) quite soon - in 1650 - from where he at least did go on to study the law - in London - since he was unlikely to have received much property from his father. (He did in fact get the small estate at Tivetshall which his grandfather John had bought around 1625). He became a Barrister and, once in a position to attract a wife of some means, married - in 1666 - to Anne Wilsford, of a minor landed Essex family. He also bought some land at Gunton from his sister-in-law Anne (c1665) which, confusingly, went to his wife of same forename. His two other sisters, Alice and Eleanor, had themselves also married by this date - Alice in about 1658 to Thomas Smallpiece of Worlingham, Suffolk who, on his mother (Ann nee Duke)’s death, would inherit the former Jermy estate at Metfield, Suffolk - and Eleanor in 1664 to Lemuel Schuldham, a Norfolk squire. However, Francis the Barrister, then of the Middle Temple, soon died and was buried there - in Nov 1668 - within two years of his marriage, leaving no issue. In his Will, he left modest sums of £16 each to his sisters Alice Smallpiece and Eleanor Schuldham and their husbands, and £8 each to his two brothers Anthony and Edward. To his wife Ann, he left his land at Tivetshall for her life and then equally to his two brothers, and the same re his land in Gunton. In Codicils, he left a further £20 to Edward and some trees at Tivetshall to be sold to cover his recent debts. His elder brother John of Gunton had already died

The next son of Francis Snr Anthony Jermy (born c1638) also went to Cambridge - in 1656 - by which means he qualified as a clergyman in about 1661 and soon obtained the living at his own parish church at Gunton (and at neighbouring Hanworth). This was about the same time that Rev Thomas Jermy of the Suffolk branch began at Hethersett. It was possibly Anthony (but may have been his older brothers or his mother) who helped arrange the marriage of his sister Alice to Thomas Smallpiece of Metfield - possibly at nearby Worlingham, Suffolk. Certainly Anthony, once a Reverend, became the trustee for Alice’s children - on her early death in 1673. Anthony had himself married in 1667 - to Bridget Lowde (nee Mann), widow of a fellow churchman - Rev Roger Lowde - by whom she had several children. [Note: On 13 Jan 1667/8, Bridget Jermy witnessed a Codicil to the Will of Thomas Tite of Worlingham, Gent (for which her new husband Anthony was also a witness). They may have been visting Elizabeth Howard (nee Jermy) in that Suffolk town. Thomas Tite held a mortgage for money lent to Thomas Smallpiece against the latter’s land at Metfield. (The latter Thomas was a gt grandson of Alice nee Jermy and gt gt grandson of Ann nee Duke who had married Thomas Jermy of Metfield after losing her first husband, an earlier Thomas Smallpiece.) In his own Will of 1764, this later Thomas Smallpiece - also ‘of Worlingham, Gent’ would direct his executor Joseph Fox (his brother-in-law) to sell his estates at Metfield (and elswhere) - the excess of funds so raised to go to Fox for his own benefit. This severed all Jermy-related connection with Metfield - after 400 plus years.]__________________________________________________________________________________

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The family of Smallpeece was of considerable standing, and of good estate in this parish. They are said to have been originally of Metfield, in Suffolk, but Blomefield records the monument of Humphrey Smallpeice, who was buried at Hockering, in Norfolk, in 1539, and their name occurs yet earlier among the 'Worthies' of Norwich. They were residing in Worlingham soon after the year 1600. Thomas Smallpeece, son of Thomas Smallpeece, Gent., and Frances, was baptized on the 28th of February, 1682. The family merged into that of Fox, of Stradbrook, in the middle of the last century, when Joseph Fox, Esq., of Stradbrook, and Mrs. Elizabeth Smallpeece, were married in 1756. Mr. Fox was the representative of an old Roman Catholic family, and related to the celebrated Minister of that name. Their eight children were baptized at Stradbrook by a Romish priest from the house of Mr. Havers, and received into the church at Worlingham, 16th November, 1778.

From: 'Worlingham', The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: volume 1 (1846), pp. 103-111. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75120 Date accessed: 03 May 2010.__________________________________________________________________________________

26 April 1528R. O. St. P. VII. 66.4207. SIR ROB. JERNINGHAM to HENRY VIII.Since the capture of Melf, Lautrec has advanced, and on Thursday last encamped within 1½ miles of Naples, where they have remained till now. Tomorrow they intend coming nearer the town, wherein is the whole army of the enemy. Last Friday the enemy made a sortie with their main power, but were met by 4,000 foot and 500 horse of our men, who forced them to retire, and chased them to the gates of Naples. Took two pieces of their artillery, and killed two of their chief captains. Signor Egmond, a kinsman of the Emperor, was taken prisoner. Yesterday the enemy assembled; and Lautrec, being warned, sent the marquis of Saluce with 500 men-of-arms and 200 hackbushes to lie in wait for their return, took from them 800 horse and slew 200 of their foot. They are worse discomfited than when they fled at the town of Troye; so that we hope soon to see an end of the enterprise. Lautrec requests that the King will not attempt war elsewhere until affairs are settled here. From the camp of Naples, Sunday, 26 April. Signed.

From: 'Henry VIII: April 1528, 21-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530 (1875), pp. 1848-1866. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91320&strquery=GYRLING Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

28 April 1528R. O. St. P. VII. 67.4215. JOHN CAROWE to KING HENRY VIII.Since Jernigam's last letter on Sunday, the 26th of April, he is dead, after a sickness of eight days. Asks to have the offices held in Suffolk by Jernigam of the late duke of Buckingham's lands. Naples, 28 April. Signed.

From: 'Henry VIII: April 1528, 21-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530 (1875), pp. 1848-1866. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91320&strquery=GYRLING Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

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28 April 1528R. O. St. P. I. 288.4217. WOLSEY to HENRY VIII.Since war has been proclaimed by him and Francis against the Emperor, and the success of the peace is still uncertain, ships should be prepared for the war, for various reasons, grounded on the treaty of offence. Apart from that, it is necessary to have some ships at sea to conduct those bringing corn and other goods to London, and to guard the passage for couriers and letters, and for Mr. Fox and the Legate. Advises that orders should be given for the victualling for two months more of those already at sea, by which time it will be seen whether they should be reinforced or revoked. Hampton Court, 28 April. Signed.

From: 'Henry VIII: April 1528, 21-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530 (1875), pp. 1848-1866. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91320&strquery=GYRLING Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

28 April 1528Strype's Mem. I., Pt. II. p. 50.4218. TYBALL'S CONFESSION.Confession of John Tyball of Bumstede ad Turrim, before Cuthbert bishop of London, in his chapel at London House, 28 April 1528; which he afterwards signed; viz., that seven or eight years ago he had of one Holy John, certain books of the Four Evangelists, in English, which he burned the day Sir Ric. Fox was attached. From a chapter of the Corinthians, which he does not now remember, he was led to think the Sacrament of the Altar nothing but bread and wine. He had asserted, on Paul's authority, that every priest and bishop ought to have a wife; that it was as good to confess to God alone, or to a layman, as to a priest (which error he taught to Rob. Faire of Bumstede); that a layman might minister the Sacraments; that pilgrimages were unnecessary; that men should not kneel to images, or set candles before them. He had sometimes doubted the Pope's power to pardon, and thought mitres and crosses, &c. might better be given to the poor. He thinks the souls of good men (except saints like Peter and Paul) do not go to Heaven till the general resurrection, but remain in some place of joy and pleasure unless helped to Heaven by good prayer; while the souls of sinners remain in purgatory unless delivered by prayer. He had, however, held for a while, and disputed with Sir Richard Fox, that there was no purgatory. He had held that fasting was unprofitable; that sea water was as good as holy water (because when Christ first made the world and the water, &c., he blessed them, which was enough). He had conversed on these matters with Old Father Hacker alias Ebb, with Sir William Stryngar and Sir Arthur, parish priests of Bumstede, John Smyth of Bumstede, and Sir Ric. Fox, curate there; with Mother Beckwythe and Wm. Beckwythe at Colchester, old Christmas of Bockyng, and Wm. Pykas. Sir Ric. Fox had read to him from a book called The Wicket, in Johnson's house at Boxstede. Thinks Johnson and his wife are of the same sect; also John and Wm. Pykas, John Gyrling, and John Bradeley. Cannot tell about Thos. Mathwe's wife. He had refused to go on pilgrimage to Ipswich with his godmother Alice Gardiner, telling her it would be better to give her spare money to the poor. Had talked with Thos. Parker of the Gospels in English. Thos. Hilles, tailor, John Chapman, John Wyggan of Wytham, Rob. Fayre, and John Smythe of Bumstede are of the same sect.About Michaelmas last was twelvemonth this respondent and Thos. Hilles came to London to buy a New Testament of Friar Barons at the Freers Augustines; found Barons in his chamber, with a merchant and two or three others; and, after a conversation about Sir Ric. Fox, curate of Bumstede, to whom Barons promised to write, the latter delivered to them an English Testament, for which

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they paid 3s. 2d., and he desired them to keep it close. Barons likened the Latin Testament to "a cymbal tinkling and brass sounding." Half a year ago he delivered the New Testament to Frear Gardyner, and never got it back.Elene Tyball, his mother, and Alice, his wife, are guilty in all the foresaid articles, except his wife about the Sacrament of the Altar.Five years ago he assisted one Friar Meadow, a Grey Friar of Colchester, to whom he had confessed, to abandon his religion; who has since gone to Amersham, and married a maiden of Colchester. He has also conversed often with Edmund Tyball. Signed by John Tyball with a mark.ii. Tyball's abjuration follows in the next leaf of the MS.

From: 'Henry VIII: April 1528, 21-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530 (1875), pp. 1848-1866. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91320&strquery=GYRLING Date accessed: 26 April 2010.

THE LETTERS OF ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Edited by Jack Kolb Hallam is best remembered as the subject of what is, certainly, the most personal, and one of the most moving, elegies in English literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam—a poem that commemorates and celebrates the estimable qualities of a gifted young man who died prematurely in 1833, at age twenty-two, while traveling with his father in Europe, and whose personality and character, ironically enough, were to be persistently and increasingly obscured and distorted in the century following his death by the peculiar circumstances in which his literary "remains" were first published, and by the injudicious expurgations made by Hallam Tennyson in the account of the Hallam-Tennyson relationship in the memoir he wrote of his father.

Addressed to H. Hallam Esq. / 67 Wimpole S. / London. P/M 9 May 1825

1. Henry Hallam (1777-1859) was the only son of John Hallam (1750?-1812), canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, and Eleanor Roberts. He attended Eton from 1790 to 1794, where he composed verse, some of which was published in Musae Etonenses (1795), and matriculated at Christ Church in 1795 (B.A. 1799; M.A. 1832). Called to the bar in 1802, he practiced for several years on the Oxford Circuit. In 1807 he married Julia Maria (1783-1840), daughter of Sir Abraham Elton (17551842), fifth bart., of Clevedon Court, and Elizabeth Durbin (d. 1822). Upon the death of his father, Henry Hallam received estates in Lincolnshire; for twenty years, he was a commissioner of stamps, a post with substantial remuneration and light duties. His financial independence enabled him to abandon his legal practice and devote himself to history. He contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review from 1805 to 1809, and occasionally thereafter. His

Addressed to [W. Gladsto]ne Esq. / Seaforth / near Liverpool.

1. Thursday was traditionally a half-holiday: see Maxwell Lyte, p. 308.

2. Gladstone had left Eton on 18 July 1826 (before the summer break) because of his sister Anne's illness; on 22 July he wrote to AHH, and to his French tutor Berthomier "to discontinue [his] pupilage" (D, 1:62).

3. See the conclusion of the 1 December 1783 speech by Edmund Burke (172997), on the East India Bill of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), in which Burke quotes Silius Italicus Punica 8. 406-10: "How noble was his youthful promise . . ." (alluding to Cicero). The 22 July 1826 debate on whether any nation had a right to interfere in the internal contentions of another found all members neutral. According to custom, Farr became an honorary member, with the right to attend and participate, though not to vote, in any subsequent debates.

4· Gladstone later noted that "under the influence of Milnes Gaskell, a few of us contracted the habit, besides our activity in the Eton Debating Society, oí conducting private informal debates on the Pitt and Fox period, which was prohibited as too recent for our susceptible minds by the school authorities" (Autob., p. 31). But private debates were not limited to topics excluded from Society meetings: on 13 July 1826, Gladstone, AHH, Gaskell, and Pickering held private debates on

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dueling and Elizabeth I's internal policy (D, 1:61). William Pitt (1759-1806) renewed the 1793 suspension of Habeas Corpus and passed other coercive measures upon the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion in 1798.

5. Burke's break with Fox over the French Revolution had splintered the Whig opposition to Pitt's administration. AHH quotes lines 16 and 30 from Samuel Roger's elegy on Fox, "Written in Westminster Abbey, October 10, 1806."

5. Fox's 14 June 1793 letter to his nephew, Henry Richard Vassall Fox (Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, ed. Lord John Russell [1854], 3:40

4· Sir Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (1780-1863), third marquis of Lansdowne, liberal politician, brought about the coalition of Whigs and followers of Canning; he entered the cabinet without office in 1827 (resigned in 1828), and served as president of the council intermittently from 1830 to 1852. A close friend of the Hallams, Lansdowne was godfather of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam. He married Louise Emma Fox-Strangways, daughter of the earl of Ilchester, in 1808.

What affecting accounts the newspapers gave of poor Canning's death! I have heard from Dr. Holland that the story of his fearful shrieking was exaggerated: but in all cases of internal inflammation, the pain is of the most horrible nature. The dying man was conscious of his danger, sometime before: he said to Dr. Holland, "Í have struggled with this for a long time; but it has got the better of me, at Last." I was at Westminster Abbey yesterday, and saw the preparations for laying him

in his grave, by the side of Pitt, and Fox.3 A worthy third! I suppose you are aware of the curious striking coincidence of his fate, with that of Fox: both dying in the same house (though not, as the papers said, in the same room); and both after but a few months' possession of supreme power. But

you are probably not aware, that Lady Holland,4 at a dinner given to the Premier some weeks before, said, "Mr. Canning, are you superstitious?" Upon a negative answer being given, she said, "If you were, you would not go to Chiswick." Whether Canning remembered this enough to alarm his nerves, after his illness had begun, I do not know: but he certainly remembered it enough to

mention it to the King, a little before he went to the Duke of Devonshire's.5 But there is another melancholy coincidence, which has not, that I know of, been noticed. He died, the same day of the

year, and nearly the same hour of that day, on which the late queen expired.6 Are these things chance? or are they not rather to be considered, as proofs of an overruling moral government; as warnings to awaken the thought of futurity within us, and to make us more tremblingly alive to events of sorrow? I take it the loss of Canning is entirely irreparable. Since Lord Chatham, there has never been such a name on the continent. We are lowered in the scale of nations by his death

3. Gladstone visited Canning's grave on 22 September 1827 (D, 1:138).

4. Elizabeth Vassall Fox (1770-1845), wife of Henry Richard Vassall Fox (17731840), third baron Holland, presided over the Whig circle at Holland House.

5. William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), sixth duke of Devonshire, was lord chamberlain from 1827 to 1828 and from 1830 to 1834.

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6. Caroline Amelia Elizabeth (1768-1821), queen of George IV, apparently died on 7 August; Canning died shortly before 4:00 A.M.

9. Unsigned, highly laudatory review of AT's 1830 volume by William Johnson Fox (1786-1864), dissenting divine, politician, author, editor of the Monthly Repository 1831-37, in the Westminster Review 14 (January 1831): 210-24. The notice in The Sheffield Courant (7 January 1831, p. 4) quoted the Westminster's discussion of "Mariana" (Shannon, p. 184 n. 19).

Fox, Charles James, 61, 94, 107; AHH writing about (to Farr, 92-93; to Gladstone, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78, 104-5, 114, 117); Canning buried near grave of, 165 Fox, Elizabeth Vassall (Lady Holland), 165, 168, 657 Fox, Henry Richard Vassall, 117, 168 Fox, William Johnson: Alfred Tennyson's work reviewed by, 393, 395, 443, 444-45, 718, 719 (and comments of AHH on, 718, 719); biographical information about, 395; Mill writing to, 720 Fox-Strangways, Louise Emma, 132

Fox, Charles James, 61, 94, 107; AHH writing about (to Farr, 92-93; to Gladstone, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78, 104-5, 114, 117); Canning buried near grave of, 165 Fox, Elizabeth Vassall (Lady Holland), 165, 168, 657 Fox, Henry Richard Vassall, 117, 168 Fox, William Johnson: Alfred Tennyson's work reviewed by, 393, 395, 443, 444-45, 718, 719 (and comments of AHH on, 718, 719); biographical information about, 395; Mill writing to, 720 Fox-Strangways, Louise Emma, 132

Whitehall, May 24, 1831.-The King has been pleased to grant to Frederick Fitzclarence, Eeq., a Colonel in the Army ; to Adolphus Fiticlarence, Esq., a Captain in the Navy ; and the Rev. Augustus Fitzclarence, respec- tively, the title and precedence of the younger son of a Marquess of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- tain and Ireland ; and also has been pleased to grant to Sophia, wife of Sir Philip Sidney ; to Mary, wife of Charles Richard Fox, Esq. a Lieutenant-Colonel m the Army ; and to Augusta, widow of the Honourable John Kennedy Erskine, respectively, the | title and precedence of a daughter of a Marquess of said United Kingdom.

The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such ...

 By William Betham (rev.)Page 22715. Sir John Jernegan of Somerley, Knt. He married Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Halsted, Knt. of a very ancient family, who took their name from a village in Normandy, from whence their ancestor came over with the Conqueror. By her he had three sons, George, Robert, and John; and two daughters; Anne, the wife of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Knt.

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ancestor of the present Marquis of that name; and Elizabeth, the wife of John Sulyard of Wetherden, in Suffolk, Esq. ancestor to the late Edward Sulyard, Esq. of Haughley, in the same county: she died Jan. 19, 1518, and was buried in the church of Wetherden. (H'eever's Mon. fo. 779) Sir John was succeeded by his eldest son,

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Scope12th-20th cent: charters and papal bulls, statutes, deeds, administrative, manorial and estate papers

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Attested copy of indenture sexpartite, 17 December 1751, between

Charles, Viscount Townshend, of the first part, the Hon. George

Townshend, esq., his oldest son and heir apparent, of the second

part, James, Earl of Northampton, of the third part, Charlotte,

Baroness Ferrers, of the fourth part, Thomas Holles, Duke of

Newcastle, Lionel Cranfield, Duke of Dorset, Henry Pelham, esq.,

Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury, of the

fifth part, and Charles, Lord Cornwallis, Baron of Eye, co. Suff.,

and Henry Fox, Secretary at War, of the sixth part, being a

settlement made previously to the marriage of the Hon. George

Townshend with Lady Charlotte Ferrers. Shipdham and other lands in

Herts., Suffolk, Cambs., and Norfolk.

Examined by the same, 14 September 1815. 48 numbered folios and a cover.

Bundle labelled No. 6. The Rev. Mr. Martin Baylie 1755.  MEA1/24, 675 x 8  1590 - 1772

These documents are held at Norfolk Record Office

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1 box

Contents: Inclosure called Redinges containing 30½a, 8a and 28a woodland with other pieces. Copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Robert and Ralph Wulmer on the surrender of John Jaye, 1590. 13a copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Ralph Wulmer on the surrender of Andrew Spalding and Alice Bety Whitock, 1595. 10a Hall pightle, copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Ralph Wulmer on surrender of Edmund King, 1628. 5a woodland, copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Ralph Wulmer, 1633. Tenement and appurtenances, copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Andrew Jaye on surrender of Ralph Wulmer, 1633.1 fileFile of copies of court roll of the manor of Dubbells. 5a part of parcel of 10a called Bradland. Admissions of Nicholas Thacker on surrender of John Jaye, 1591. Robert Thacker, 1601. John Jaye, 1606, with quitclaim of Richard Thacker. John Sawer, n.d.; Surrender of John Sawer, 1606. John Sawer junior, 1647. Quitclaim of William Sawer, 1647. 1r called Tybnam's Holme. Admission of Robert Abbs during minority of John Singler on death of Thomas Singler, 1640. 5 pieces of land. Admission of John Sawer on death of John Sawer, 1647. Robert Wulmer, 1657. File of copies of court roll of the manor of Earsham. 10a called Hall pightle. ½a called Russholme. 2a Molland and other pieces. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Ralph Wulmer, 1642. 1½a at Shellens Dole. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Thomas Sinckler, 1643. 1½a called Frameyard. Admission of Robert Jaye on surrender of Thomas Sinckler, 1646. 2a Molland, messuage and 4½a. Admission of Thomas Sinckler on surrender of Simon Fox, 1646. Inclosure of 5a called Stonyland. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of John Sawer, 1647. 2a in Laxled. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Hugh Harrison, 1648. 1a 1r. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Robert and William Wulmer, 1648. Close of 9a called Hall close. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Richard Fayrehead, 1648. 1r and 2a in tenement called Burganey. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of John Sawer, 1648.2a in West Meadow. Admission of Robert Wulmer on surrender of Samuel Denn, 1650. 1a called Sandpit, 2r molland, 2a, 2 pieces cont. 1a in Laxled. Admission of Robert Walmer on surrender of John Sawer, 1650. Quitclaim of John Sawer, 1656.

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1 file1a, 6a 1r, in close caled Halgate Crosse, 1r and 1r in Somefield, copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Philip Jaye on death of Philip Jaye, 1643. 2 pieces in West Meadow cont. 2½a. Admission of Robert Wolmer on surrender of Miles Stanton, 1649. Bargain and sale. John Jay to William Jaye of all his copyhold lands in Earsham, 1653. 1r of meadow, copyhold of the manor of Dubells. Admission of Robert Woolmer on surrender of John Singler, 1661. 13a called Southland, ½a in North Meadow and other pieces, copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admissions of Robert Woolmer on death of Robert Woolmer, 1663; of Woolmer, 1666. 2 houses and 1a. Bargain and sale. Gregory Clarke to Richard Gower, 1685. 1r called Tibenham Holmes, 1r, 5a and 3a meadow. copyhold of the manor of Dubbells.Admission of Gregory Clark until Robert Woolmer is 24, 1685. Messuage and many pieces of property copyhold of the manor of Earsham. Admission of Gregory Clarke, 1685; of Robert Woolmer, 1699. Bargain and sale with articles of agreement between Woolmer and Christopher Bayly, 1702. copies of court roll of the manors of Earsham and Dubbells. Admission of Christopher Bayly, 1702. Lease and release as marriage settlement, Bayley to Elizabeth Jubs, 1704. Martin Bayley's marriage settlement, 1740. Lease for a year. Rev. Martin Bayley to William Windham, 1752. Deed to lead the uses of a Fine. William Kett to William Windham with Final Concord, 1772. Admission of Windham, 1772, with copy of Hannah Woolmer's will and lawyer's opinion, 1684 and Christopher Bayley's abstract of title.______________________________________________________________

Exemplification of Recovery  ACM/WD/743, 899  28 May 1655

These documents are held at Sheffield Archives

Contents: Easter term, 1655, with memorandum of enrolment. Fabian Phillips v. Simon Fox the younger. The Manor of Worksop, the Park, and property in Gateford, Kilton, Shireoaks, etc., the Rectories of Worksop and Harworth and tithes of same. Henry Howard, vouchee.

Deeds  How 169 343 x 3  1661

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1 bundle

Contents: Conveyance to uses from the Hon. Henry Howard, Henry, Lord Herbert, Sir William Playters knight and Sir Henry Goring bart., Sir John Abdy bart., Sir Richard Onslow, Sir William Doiley, and Sir John Pettus, knight, Arthur Onslow, John Fowell, John Dix alias Ramsey and Fabian Phillips, Esquires, and Simon Fox, Thomas West, Richard Mariot and Emanuel Halton of estates (particularised) in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire; the castle, manor and chase of Rising, the dissolved priory of the cell or rectory of North Wootton, North Wootton Farm, Salters Lands and other property in North and South Wootton, the honour of Forncett and the manors of Forncett, Earsham, Kenninghall, Lopham, Marshalls, Grayes, and Beckhall in Banham, Framingham Earl, Boyland Lancaster, Shelfanger Hall, Hoes or Lewes in Shelfanger, Shelfanger Friers, Fairefield Bressingham, Sibton in Croxton, Halwick in Thetford, Ditchingham, South Walsham, Halvergate, Hanworth, Sheringham, Wells, and Roydon, monastery site in Thetford, hundreds of Giltcross, Freebridge, Gallow, Brothercross, moiety of hundred of Earsham, foldcourses in Thetford, marshes (named) in Acle (Co. Norfolk); the castle, manor, borough and soke of Bungay, Bungay Priory manors, site of priory of Bungay, lands &c. called Barwickes, rectories of St. Mary Bungay and St. Margaret and St. Andrew Ilketshall, manor of Westwick, site of Thetford Priory, farm called the Cannons in Thetford, site called Meason de dieu and of chapel of St. Mary and hospital of St. John in Thetford, Castlehill Yard and Aldercar and land adjoining in Thetford (Co. Norfolk and Co. Suffolk); the Duke's Palace in Norwich; manor of Great Ashtead and park with capital messuage in Ashtead and Leatherhead, advowson of Ashtead, marsh converted into gardens in Lambeth, manor of 'Aldbury', corn mills and mill house in same, lands there and in Shire (Co. Surrey)

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HOWARD (CASTLE RISING) COLLECTION

Deeds  How 177 343 x 3  1680

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1 bundle

Contents: Conveyance to uses by Henry, Duke of Norfolk and Henry, Earl of Arundel, to Simon Fox Esq., Nevinson Fox gent. and Cuthbert Browne clerk of the castle, manor and chase of Rising, lands &c. in Rising, North and South Wootton, Congham, Gaywood, the manor of Roydon and the priory, cell and rectory of North Wootton, marshes in Acle (Co. Norfolk); the castle and park of Greystoke within the barony of Greystoke, the parks of Gowbry and Array in same barony (Co. Cumberland); Neoman Lands in the Rape of Bramber, the manors and boroughs of Horsham, Steyning and Shoreham, with the clerkship of the market in the boroughs of Bramber and Lewes, lands in Bognor, 'Bonfuer', and Bersted, manors of Littlehampton and 'Tottington' (Co. Sussex); and cutlers' wheels at Sheffield (Co. York) computed at £92 p.a. With schedule of Sheffield cutlers

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CHARLES JAMES FOX - REFERENCES

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___________________________________________________________________________________ Errata: Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Apr., 1894), pp. 453-476

(article consists of 24 pages) Published by: Virginia Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241784

Notes and Queries page 453

Colonel Henry Norwood served as an officer in the Royal army during the Civil Wars, and being a refugee in Holland in 1649, determined, with two friends, Major Francis Madison and Major Richard Fox, also cavalier officers, to come to Virginia. On September 23d of the year named they embarked in the “Virginia Merchant”, and arrived in the colony in November. After various adventures on the Eastern Shore, Norwood and his friends crossed the bay, and at Captain Ralph Wormeley’s house found several of his friends being most hospitably entertained. They were Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel (afterwards Sir) Philip Honeywood, and Colonel Mainwaring Hammond, all cavalier officers, recently arrived from England.

Source: http://www.jstor.org/pss/4241784

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Westminster Diocesan Archives

[Stafford list, Packet 1, retyped by HMC, 2001, from faded originals]

William Howard (1614-80), 1st Viscount Stafford Deposited by Sir Henry Stafford Jernyngham, 1922 B.29 STAFFORD MSS

Packet 1. List of papers before 1679. Papers relating to a suit between William Howard, Lord Stafford, and his nephew, decided in favour of the former.

33 Note re Mr Simon [?Fox] May 31, 1658 scrap

Letters relating to fatal illness of Georgiana Anne Fox, daughter of 3rd baron Holland  MS-FOXH/3013/11-26  1819

Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis PC (28 December 1655 – 29 April 1698) was a British politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty. He succeeded his father  as Baron Cornwallis  in 1673. That same year on 27 December on Westminster Abbey

 he married Elizabeth Fox (circa 1655 – 28 February 1681 in Tunbridge Wells), daughter of Sir Stephen Fox  and his first wife Elizabeth Whittle; their son Charles later succeeded as 4th Baron Cornwallis. After his first wife's death, Lord Cornwallis married Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch , widow of the Duke of Monmouth

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WIKIPEDIA

Sir Stephen Fox (27 March 1627 – 28 October 1716) was an English politician.

[edit] Life

Stephen Fox was the son of William Fox, of Farley, in Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer. At the age of fifteen he first obtained a post in the household of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland; then he entered the service of Lord Percy, the earl's brother, and was present with the royalist army at the Battle of Worcester as Lord Percy's deputy at the ordnance board. Accompanying Charles II in his flight to the continent, he was appointed manager of the royal household, on the recommendation of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. Clarendon described him as "a young man bred under the severe discipline of

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Lord Percy ... very well qualified with languages, and all other parts of clerkship, honesty and discretion".

___________________________________________________________THEENGLISH CATHOLIC NONJURORSOF 1715.

ESSEX.[MS.P.53]P. 62JOSEPH FOX, of Stradbrook, co, Suffolk, Esq.- Estate atGreat Clackton,- "in right of my wife who is a Protestant."£155 15s.

MONTGOMERY.[MS.P.71.]P. 188HENRY FOX, Esq., son of George Fox.- Life estate in p. ofGillesfield, the mansion of Rhydteskin being in his own possession.-£35.

P. 223HENRY FOX, of Shrewsbury, Esq. Estate there in fee,Henry and Edward F, both dec., named as lessors. £151 1s.

STAFFORD.[MS.P.101.]P. 242WILLIAM FOX, of Salt, gent.- Life estate there.-£39.

SUFFOLK.[MS.P.103.]P. 253JOSEPH FOX, of Stradbrook, gent.- Life estate there, chargedwith £6 annually, to repair the tomb of Simon Fox, Esq.-£138 10s.

His wife was Anne, da. of Thomas, only son of Thomas Sandford, by hiswife, Mary, da. of Richard Moss, of Chich St. Osyth, co. Essex. [Close Roll,7 Geo. I., Pt. 18-2.]

WARWICK.[MS.P.106 & P.125.]P. 271PRISCILLA MARIA FOX, widow of George Fox, of Arley,gent.- Estate at Over-Whitacre, and Fillongley, &c.- £43 7s.

P. 314ANNE FOX, of Sheffield, widow. Life interest in part of afarm, at Ecclesall-Varley, and a fourth of the tithes of thechapelry of Bradfield, in fee. £19 10s.

P. 318JOHN FOX, of Towton, in p. of Attenboro', co. Notts, framework-knitter. Part of a house at Ecclesall Varley, in p. ofSheffield, in fee. £9 10s.

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Fox, Anne, 314Henry, 188, 223John, 318Joseph, 62, 253Priscilla Maria, 271William, 242

LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY;OR,BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARYOF THEENGLISH CATHOLICS.FROM THE BREACH WITH ROME, in 1534, TO THE PRESENT TIME.BYJOSEPH GILLOW.

Release (chirograph)  HD 1538/230/15  8 May 1403

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

1 seal, 2nd seal and tag missingLanguage:  Latin

Contents: 1. John Pryk, parson of church of St John in Ilketelishale [Ilketshall]John Tolle of Southelmham2. Thomas Sharp' of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield] and wife Katherine(1) to (2), all messuages, lands and tenements which they lately had jointly with Stephen Baret, deceased, by feoffment of Richard Pryk in Fresyngfeld, Mendham, Weyebrede [Weybread] and Wederysdale [Withersdale], except lands called Pycotyslondys; to hold of chief lords of fees for accustomed services; provided that (2) pay 10 marks at each of next 3 feasts of Invention of Holy Cross and 6 marks at said feast in 4th year. Witnesses: Thomas Kynge, John Malueys, John Fox, William Seman, Richard Neue, John Shep, John Swyft and others. Given at Fresyngfeld, Tuesday after feast of Invention of Holy Cross, 4 Hen.IV.

Feoffment  HD 1538/230/22  13 Dec 1418

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

1 sealLanguage:  Latin

Contents: 1. Katherine Bell, formerly widow of Thomas Scharpe of Wytyngham [Whittingham in Fressingfield]2. John Levald, parish chaplain of FresyngfeldJohn Malues of WytynghamJohn Schep of the same(1) to (2), all messuages, lands, tenements, meadows and pastures which she lately had by feoffment of John Schepe and John Fox of Fresyngfeld in Wytyngham hamlet of Fresyngfeld, Mendham, Weybred [Weybread] and Wyderysdale [Withersdale]; to hold of chief lords of fees for accustomed services. Warranty clause. Witnesses: John Waryn, Richard Neve, William Girle, Thomas Kenche, John Fox and others. Given at Wytyngham, Tuesday [[feria] tertia] after Conception of B.V.M., 6 Hen.V.

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Feoffment  HD 1538/230/23  8 Jan 1420

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

1 sealLanguage:  Latin

Contents: 1. John Levald, clerk2. Robert Goode of Wylbey [Wilby](1) to (2), all messuages, lands, tenements, meadows and pastures which he lately had jointly with John Malvice, John Fox and John Schepe, deceased by feoffment of Katherine Belle of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield] in Fresyngfeld, Mendham, Weybrede [Weybread] and Wetheresdale [Withersdale], except lands called Pycotyslondys and Lyntounslondys and piece of meadow which John Malvice formerly held; to hold of chief lords of fees for accusomed services. Warranty clause. Witnesses: William Gyle, William Dalanghoo, Thomas Keynche, Nicholas Hunt, Alexander Godbald and others. Given at Fresyngfeld, Monday after Epiphany, 7 Hen.V.

Feoffment  HD 1538/230/26  13 Dec 1431

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

1 sealLanguage:  Latin

Contents: 1. Thomas Keenge of Wetyngham [Whittingham in Fressingfield]2. John Boughue of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield]John Russheye of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield]John Fox of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield](1) to (2), piece of land (3a.) lying in Fresyngfeld between Wynnesgrene on S. and close of J.B. on N., abutting E. on tenement of J.B. and W. on tenement called Wynnes; which (1) lately had by feoffment of John Haneworth of Pulham [Nf.]; to hold of chief lord of fee for accustomed services. Warranty clause. Witnesses: Thomas Breuse, esq., William Dalengeo, Henry Palmere, Richard Scheep, John Barbour and others. Given at Fresyngfeld, Thursday the feast of St Lucy, 10 Hen.VI.

Feoffment  HD 1538/230/35  2 Sept 1458

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

1 sealLanguage:  Latin

Contents: 1. John Fox of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield]2. John Date, son of John Date alias Russheye, deceasedRobert Fox of Fresyngfeld, (1)'s sonHugh Fen, 1 of auditors of King's ExchequerWilliam Shelton of Fresyngfeld(1) to (2), all lands and tenements which he lately had together with John Bowen and John Date alias Russheye

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both now deceased, as well by gift and feoffment of Robert Gode of Wylbey [Wilby] as by that of John Bale, son of John Bale of Fresyngfeld and Thomas Keenge of Wytyngham [Whittingham in Fressingfield], as well as of John Barbour, son of Roger Barbour of Fresyngfeld, William Cook of Lynstede magna [Linstead Magna] and Richard Schep of Fresyngfeld, and also of Richard Schep, Robert Banyard of Fresyngfeld, John Sherwynd, clerk, John Swan, clerk and Henry Bateman of Mendham, husbandman, in Fresyngfeld, Mendham, Weybrede [Weybread] and Wetheresdale [Withersdale], by 6 separate charters dated at Fresyngfeld on feast of St Maurus 6 Hen.VI, Sunday before Nativity of St John the Baptist 7 Hen.VI, feast of St Lucy 10 Hen.VI, at Mendham on Thursday after Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 12 Hen.VI, at Fresyngfeld on Sunday after St Barnabas, 15 Hen.VI, and at Mendham on 5 Mar.17 Hen.VI; to hold of chief lords of fees for accustomed services. Warranty clause. Witnesses: John Calwere, Robert Godbald, Thomas Godbald, Richard Bohun, John Barbour, John Wolnawe, Robert Skynnere, Thomas Date, John Sandecroft and others. Given at Fressyngfeld, 2 Sept. 37 Hen.VI.

Grant  FC 91/L1/26  2nd October, 1489

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Contents: John Hevenyngham, knight, John Tymperley sen., knight, William Brewes, sen., knight, and Nicholas Parker at the requst of John Jermy, knight, to John Doget of Mendham, sen., Thomas Medylton, John Nyche sen. and John Fox; one messuage built upon called Whytes with land adjoining and appurtenances containing by estimation 12 acres in Mendham; and one pasture once built upon called Godys, in same place containing 11 acres; and one parcel of land called Payoks containing 2 acres in the same place; and one pasture called Greneley in Withersdale containing by estimation 18 acres

FC 91/L1/28  23rd February, 1490/91

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Conditions of access: Joined to FC 91/L1/29

Contents: Robert Benocle of Metfield and Robert Teysard of same place to John Fox of Withersdale and Nicholas Fox of Fressingfield; one piece of pasture land in Metfield

Feoffment  HD 1538/230/36  20 Nov 1501

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Seal and tag missing.Language:  Latin

Contents: 1. William Shelton of Chesteyn [Chediston]2. John Bohun of Fresyngfeld [Fressingfield]Nicholas Bohun of FresyngfeldNicholas Fox of FresyngfeldThomas Grenlyng of FresyngfeldJohn Aldehowse of FresyngfeldJohn Cook of Eye

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(1) to (2), all messuages, lands and tenements called Godys, Taggys, Huttys and Lyntonys in Fresyngfeld, Mendham, Weybrede [Weybread] and Wyderisdale [Withersdale], which he lately had jointly with John Dade alias Russhey, Robert Fox and Hugh Fenne, all now deceased, by feoffment of John Fox late of Fresyngfeld dated 2 Sept. 37 Hen.VI (1458); to hold of chief lords of fees for accustomed services, according to form and effect of last will of Richard Bohun now deceased. Also (1) appoint John Goldwyn and John Feke attorneys to deliver seisin. Given at Fresyngfeld, 20 Nov. 17 Hen.VII.

Grant  FC 91/L1/29  20th January, 1502/3

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Conditions of access: Joined to FC 91/L1/28

Contents: Nicholas Foxe of Fressingfield, according to the intent of the will of John Foxe of Withersdale to William Warner of Fressingfield, William Godbald of the same place, and John Stoure of Mendham, one piece of pasture land

Grant  FC 91/L1/30  25th December, 1503

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Conditions of access: Joined to FC 91/L1/31

Contents: William Warner of Fressingfield, William Storer of same place and John Glowyr of Mendham, in fulfilment of last will of John Foxe recently of Withersdale, to John Harrys of Metfield, Thomas Skarlett, Thomas Grene, William Fale, Thomas Gybson and Thomas Norton of same place; one piece of land containing by estimation one rood in Metfield

Grant  FC 91/L1/35  1st October 1556

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Contents: William Warner, grandson and heir of William Warner, recently of Fressingfield, deceased, in fulfilment of last will and testament of John Foxe, once of Withersdale, to Christopher Aldred gent., John Hybberd sen.m Anthony Duke, John Goodwyn, John Hybberd jun., and Henry Moore of Metfield; one piece of land or pasture in Metfield

Feoffment  FC 91/L1/44  2nd March, 1645

These documents are held at Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Contents: Richard Norton the Elder of Metfield, yeoman and James Stiles of same town, yeoman to Anthony Freston the Elder of Metfield, gent., Anthony Freston the Younger, gent., his son, Henry Freston and Felton Freston, gents. his sons, Richard Freston gent., son of Richard Freston late of Mendham, Norfolk, esq., deceased, Thomas Freston gent., son of Thomas Freston late of Mendham gent., deceased, William Godbold, gent, son of Thomas Godbold late of Mendham, gent. deceased, William Godbold of Easton, gent., Thomas Godbold son and heir of said William, John Franklin of Metfield, gent., Anthony Shardelowe, gent., son of Edmund Shardelow late of

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Thelveton, Norfolk, gent., deceased, Anthony Barry Syleham, gent., Christopher Barry, gent., son and heir of said Anthony Barry, Anthony Fox of Sileham, gent., Richard Norton, Francis Norton and Thomas Norton, sons of Richard Norton the Elder, Stephen Lilly of Metfield, yeoman, Thomas Lilly son of said Stephen, John Welton of Linstead, yeoman, Edward Wattson of Metfield, yeoman, Richard Wattson the Younger of Metfield, yeoman, Mathew Whittlam of Wangford, yeoman, William Whittlam son of said Mathew, William Welton of Metfield, yeoman, Richard Welton son of said William, Philip and William sons of said James Stiles; parcel of land called Heynons and six acres adjoining with appurtenances in Metfield; one close in Metfield containing by estimation three acres; one close called Harps close (then or lately divided into four parcels) with one pightel adjoining at north end of close; one piece of land containing by estimation one acre with path adjoining; one piece of land containing by estimation one rood with half a house in Metfield; one piece of land called Church Pightell with a house; to be held in trust for the repairing of the church in Metfield and other good uses for the benefit of the inhabitants of the town.

NATIONAL BURIAL INDEX

First name(s): Nathaniel

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 2 Dec 1680

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial: Stradbroke

Dedication: All Saints

County: Suffolk

Notes:

First name(s): Nathaniel

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 2 Jul 1699

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial: Stradbroke

Dedication: All Saints

County: Suffolk

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First name(s): Nathaniell

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 1 Apr 1679

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial: Westhorpe

Dedication: St Margaret

County: Suffolk

First name(s): Nathaniell

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 11 Feb 1698

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial: Hollesley

Dedication: All Saints

County: Suffolk

First name(s): Nathaniel

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 12 Jun 1720

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial: Hollesley

Dedication: All Saints

County: Suffolk

First name(s): Nathaniel

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 6 Dec 1724

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

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Place of burial: Hollesley

Dedication: All Saints

County: Suffolk

First name(s): Nathan

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 15 Jun 1811

Age at death: 19

Calculated year of birth: 1792

Place of burial: Mendlesham

Dedication: St Mary

County: Suffolk

First name(s): Nathan

Last name: FOX  

Date of burial: 28 Oct 1873

Age at death: 63

Calculated year of birth: 1810

Place of burial: Mendlesham

Dedication: St Mary

County: Suffolk

Last name First name(s) Year ofburial

Year ofbirth County Record source  

FOX Simon 1589 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1662 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1697 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1702 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1710 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1732 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1738 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1752 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1819 1744 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon 1859 1782 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Simon Roger 1838 1769 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOXE Simon 1676 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

FOX John 1552 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1584 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

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FOX John 1598 Suffolk Suffolk Early Burials Index VIEW FOX John 08 Jul 1603 Fressingfield, SS P&P, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 14 May 1607 Hoxne, SS P&P,Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1626 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1626 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1630 Suffolk Suffolk Early Burials Index VIEW FOX John 1631 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1633 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1634 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1634 Suffolk Suffolk Early Burials Index VIEW FOX John 1642 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1650 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 17 Jun 1681 Withersdale, St Mary Magdalene, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 17 Jun 1682 Withersdale, St Mary Magdalene, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1687 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1689 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1692 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1694 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1698 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1698 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX John 1702 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

FOX Joseph 1734 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Joseph 1748 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Joseph 1758 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Joseph 1778 1715 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Joseph 1820 1818 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Joseph 1851 1796 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

FOX Charles 24 Jul 1683 Stradbroke, All Saints, Suffolk, National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1695 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1696 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 29 Oct 1715 Stradbroke, All Saints, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1729 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 18 Jan 1731 Stradbroke, All Saints, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1733 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1742 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1760 1760 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1762 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Charles 1762 Suffolk Suffolk Early Burials Index VIEW FOX Charles 1782 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

FOX Robert 07 Mar 1559 Stradbroke, All Saints, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 20 May 1576 S Elmham, St James, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1599 Suffolk Suffolk Early Burials Index VIEW FOX Robert 30 Jul 1626 Fressingfield, SS P&P, Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1662 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1668 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1681 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1681 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW FOX Robert 1714 Suffolk National Burial Index VIEW

The Scots Magazine, Volume 35, June 1773P 336War-office, June 25. 1773.King’s Reg. of dragoon-guards: Corn. Henry Fox is appointed to be Lieutenant, vice David Kinloch; by purchase.

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