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Note: Sir Anthony Cooke served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII and Edward VI teaching the latter, "good letters and manners," and, although he was never formally appointed his tutor, his monumental inscription reads, "Sir Anthony Cooke, knight, named tutor to King Edward VI because of his exceptional learning, prudence and piety."

He represented Lewes in the Parliament of 1547 and Essex as a Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1559 and 1563. But, a deeply committed Protestant, he lived in exile during the reign of Mary I.

Being one of the wealthiest Essex landowners (his annual income was calculated at Ł2500), he served on numerous commissions and was recommended by Sir Nicholas Throckmorton to serve as Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Seal but he was not appointed. According to his biographer, writing in the 17th century, "Sir Anthony took more pleasure to breed up statesmen than to be one. Comptemplation was his soul, privacy his life, and discourse his element. Business was his purgatory, and publicness his torment."

He added a wing and a gallery to Gidea Hall, where his family had lived since the 1460's, and entertained Queen Elizabeth I there in 1568.

Unlike many men of his time, he lavished much care and expense on the education of his five daughters, all of whom married men deeply involved in the establishment of Protestantism in England.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: van de Pas
Title: Private communication with Leo van de Pas
Page: May 12 2000

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hasler
Title: P. W. Hasler, Editor, The House of Commons, 1558-1603 (LOndon: HMSO, 19
81)
81.
Page: pp. 644-645.

Given Name: Anthony

Death: 11 JUN 1576

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Somerset, Edward (b. ABT 1550, d. 3 MAR 1627/28)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Edward

Death: 3 MAR 1627/28 Worcester House, London

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Hastings, Elizabeth (b. , d. 24 AUG 1621)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Elizabeth

Death: 24 AUG 1621 Worcester House, London

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Hastings, Francis (b. ABT 1514, d. 23 JUN 1560)

Note: Francis Hastings was summoned to Parliament as Lord Hastings on Nov. 3, 1529, the same day his father was created Earl of Huntingdon. The following year he was appointed steward of two abbeys. He was made a Knight of the Bath in 1533 and succeeded his father to the earldom on March 24, 1545.

At the coronation of King Edward VI, he carried St. Edward's staff and played a prominent part in the jousting which followed. He backed Northumberland against the Lord Protector Somerset in the government of the boy king and conducted Somerset to the Tower on Oct. 13 1549, the same day he was created a Knight of the Garter.

He served as lieutenant general and chief captain in the army and fleet that was engaged in the struggle for Boulogne, in which service he complained bitterly about the lack of equipment and money. In 1550, Northumberland now in full control, he was made a member of the Privy Council. In 1552 he accompanied Edward VI on his progress and the following year attended Northumberland as he visited the north, when the latter urged the king to give Huntingdon the estates in Leicestershire forfeited by John Beaumont. The king did so and Huntingdon gave the manor of Grace Dieu to Beaumont's widow.

On May 21, 1553, Huntingdon's son and heir, Henry, married Northumberland's daughter Katherine, the same day as Northumberland's son, Lord Guildford Dudley, married Lady Jane Grey.

Huntingdon signed the document naming Lady Jane Grey as heir to the throne and accompanied Northumberland to Cambridge where she was proclaimed (see number XXX). He was seized by forces loyal to Queen Mary and taken to the Tower. He was released the following January and sent in pursuit of Lady Jane Grey's father, the Duke of Suffolk, who had risen in revolt. He accompanied Suffolk to the Tower and was present at the execution of Sir Thomas Wyatt there.

Having married the niece of Reginald, Cardinal Pole, whom Queen Mary had made Archbishop of Canterbury, he did not suffer under the Queens attempts to restore Catholicism, but was undoubtedly Protestant at heart.

Queen Elizabeth appointed him master of the hart-hounds after her succession.

In 1583, his youngest daughter, Mary, received a formal proposal of marriage from Ivan IV "the Terrible," Czar of Russia, presented at Court by his ambassador. She declined the offer.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Francis

Death: 23 JUN 1560 Ashby, Leicestershire

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Pole, Katherine (b. , d. 23 SEP 1576)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Katherine

Death: 23 SEP 1576

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Pole, Henry (b. ABT 1492, d. 9 JAN 1539)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Henry

Death: 9 JAN 1539 Tower of London, when beheaded

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Neville, Jane (b. , d. BEF 26 OCT 1538)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Jane

Death: BEF 26 OCT 1538

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Pole, Richard (b. , d. BEF 18 DEC 1505)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DNB

Given Name: Richard

Death: BEF 18 DEC 1505

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Plantagenet, Margaret (b. 14 AUG 1473, d. 28 MAY 1541)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Margaret

Death: 28 MAY 1541 the Tower of London, when beheaded

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Neville, George (b. 1435, d. 20 SEP 1492)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: George

Death: 20 SEP 1492

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Fenne, Margaret (b. , d. BEF 26 OCT 1538)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: Faris

Given Name: Margaret

Death: BEF 26 OCT 1538

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Somerset, William (b. ABT 1527, d. 21 FEB 1588/89)

Note: William Somerset was made a gentleman of the Privy Chamber and principal esquire to Henry VIII on Jul 25 1544. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI and was summoned to Parliament as the third Earl of Worcester on Jan 3 1550, following the death of his father.

He had an extensive career as a diplomat, accompanying Northampton to Paris in 1551 and in 1571 was ambassador extraordinary to France to represent Elizabeth I at the baptism of the daughter of Charles IX. On his crossing the Channel, his ship was attacked by pirates and he was robbed while several of his men were slain.

He took part in the trial of the Lord Protector, the Duke of Somerset, and as the youngest of the peers present, was the first to vote for his condemnation. He reluctantly signed the devise, giving the succession to the crown to Lady Jane Grey, but did nothing to promote her cause and was present at the proclamation of Queen Mary I at St. Paul's on Jul 19 1553. A Roman Catholic in his heart, he conformed outwardly to the established church after the accession of Elizabeth and was among the peers who attended upon the Queen at her entrance into London. He was deputy chief butler at her coronation.

There were rumors questioning his loyalty, but he surmounted them. He was made a Knight of the Garter on Apr 2 1571 and deputy earl marshall a year later. He was present at the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in Jan 1572. In 1579 he was made lieutenant of the order of the Garter.

On Oct 26 1586 he was named one of the commissioners to try Mary, Queen of Scots, and in 1588, he raised a force of men for the defense of the realm in the Armada crisis.

Interested in the theater, he maintained his own company of actors.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DNB

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris II
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, 2nd E
d. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.)
d.
d. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.
Page: pp. 332-36.

Given Name: William

Death: 21 FEB 1588/89 London

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North, Christian (b. , d. AFT 20 MAR 1563/64)

Given Name: Christian

Death: AFT 20 MAR 1563/64

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North, Edward (b. ABT 1496, d. 31 DEC 1564)

Note: The career of Edward North closely parallels that of Sir Richard Rich (No. 453038), although without the unsavory self-serving and willing betrayal of friends and patrons.

Like Rich, North was born into the commercial establishment of London. He studied at St. Paul's School under William Lily where his schoolmates included Anthony Denny, William Paget, Thomas Wriothesley and John Leland. The last wrote a thirty-eight line Latin poem addressed to North which recalled their schooldays. North presumably attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge, which received several benefactions from him, but did not take a degree. Like Rich he entered the law as a means of advancement, attending Lincoln's Inn, and was very successful in that profession. He served as counsel to the city of London. After his marriage to the widow of two merchants, he was able to afford to buy Kirtling, near Newmarket in Cambridgeshire, where the North family has been seated ever since, in the house that he reconstructed beginning in 1536. He would become in time a major landholder in East Anglia.

In 1531 he was appointed clerk of the Parliament and was raised to the rank of serjeant-at-law. By 1536 he was named one of the king's serjeants. In 1541 he resigned as clerk of the Parliament on his appointment of treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, created to handle the dissolution of the monasteries, a court on which Rich also served. In 1541 he was knighted and elected as a knight of the shire of Cambridge to Parliament. In 1545 he was made co-chancellor, with Rich, of the Court of Augmentations, and became sole chancellor on Rich's resignation. The following year he became a member of the Privy Council and received large grants of estates from the crown.

He was named one of the executors of the will of Henry VIII (as was Rich) and received a legacy of 300 pounds from the king.

He was forced out as chancellor of the Court of Augmentations by the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector, in 1548. But the Duke's action made North his enemy and North played a considerable role in the ousting of Somerset the following year. North remained on the Privy Council and attested King Edward's will but avoided signing the deed of settlement that disinherited the king's two half sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, although he supported Lady Jane Grey's becoming queen. He was quickly pardoned by Mary on her accession, although not returned to the Privy Council, and the following year he was raised to the peerage as Lord North of Kirtling. He was among the lords who attended Prince Philip on his arrival at Southampton to marry Queen Mary and was present at the wedding.

On the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558, she stayed at North's mansion at the Charterhouse, a former Benedictine Abbey, for six days (November 23-29, 1558) and appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. He entertained the queen a second time at Charterhouse in 1561 and shortly afterwards retired from public affairs.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DNB

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Bindoff
Title: Bindoff, S. T., The House of Commons, 1509-1558 (London: Secker and War
burg, 1982.)
urg, 1982.
Page: Vol. II, pp. 21-23.

Given Name: Edward

Death: 31 DEC 1564 Charterhouse, London

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Squire, Alice (b. )

Given Name: Alice

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Squire, Oliver (b. )

Given Name: Oliver

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