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Records of the Chicheley Plowdens A.D. 1590-1913; with Four DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY J ^e \°0 * \ RECORDS OF THE CHICHELEY PLOWDENS, a.d. 1590-1913 /{/w v » Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from hb Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/recordsofchichel01plow RECORDS it OF THE Chicheley Plowdens A.D. I59O-I9I3 With Four Alphabetical Indices, Four Pedigree Sheets, and a Portrait of Edmund, the great Elizabethan lawyer BY WALTER F. C. CHICHELEY PLOWDEN (Late Indian Army) PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION HEATH, CRANTON & OUSELEY LTD. FLEET LANE, LONDON, E. C. 1914 ?7 3AV CONTENTS PAGB Introduction ....... i PART I FIRST SERIES The Plowdens of Plowden ..... 6 SECOND SERIES The Chicheley Plowdens . .18 THIRD SERIES The Welsh Plowdens . .41 FOURTH SERIES The American Plowdens ..... 43 PART II CHAPTER I. Sir Edmund Plowden of Wanstead, Kt. (1590-1659) 51 II. Francis the Disinherited and his Descendants, the Plowdens of Bushwood, Maryland, U.S.A. 99 III. Thomas Plowden of Lasham .... 107 IV. Francis of New Albion and his Descendants in Wales . - .112 V. The first two James Plowdens, with some Account OF THE CHICHELEYS AND THE STRANGE WlLL OF Richard Norton of Southwick . .116 VI. The Rev. James Chicheley Plowden, and his Descendants by his Eldest Son, James (4), with an Account of some of his Younger Children . 136 v Contents CHAPTER PAGE VII. Richard and Henry, the Pioneers of the Family in India, and their Children . 151 VIII. The Grandchildren of Richard Chicheley, the H.E.I.C. Director . , . .176 IX. The Grandchildren of Trevor, by his Sons, Trevor (2) and George ..... 186 Conclusion . .191 VI EXPLANATION OF THE SHIELD ON COVER The various arms, twelve in number, in the Chicheley Plowden shield, reading from left to right, are : 1. Plowden. 2. Marriner. 3. Chatterton. 4. Chatterton of Wathurst. 5. Ayliff. 6. Chicheley. 7. Kemp. 8. Chiche. 9. Chicheley of Wimple. 10. Apulderford. 11. Browne. 12. Fitz Allan. ALPHABETICAL INDEX Series i. Plowdens of Plowden. „ 2. The Chicheley Plowdens. „ 3. The Welsh Plowdens. „ 4. The American Plowdens. EXPLANATION 1. The serial number. 2. The Christian names (“ C ” stands for Chicheley). 3. The Generation in Roman figures—Roger the Crusader commencing with I. 4. The serial number of the Father. 5. Dates of birth and death where known. 6. Marriage, if any, and a short account where necessary. 7. Serial numbers of all children (if any). U dd * in . • ' o o * . H > * A w oo CO Cuo H -M 1) S D s o 00 OD p H O Id - « Ss « ® u -5 g« o.s Pi TJ ig Pd O m £ a. O >■ P* - oo u W^d < H Ofn, I i« £ s 2 co m [/} o 2 " 8* H w b 3 fa 00•-H rC^3 O d””ss AC -M * -2 J2 AC 3 OX) ^ a 2 3 c« • «U 12 *T%&~ < -a fa A <js a t* .t; oo o £'5rSw* w •«>.'« "Sc -c ^ n o 2 « 0 o o c Ooal<'-, ,y a U. »3 - W rt aJ -« Q § § £ > o f- faw PQ § S > Q " Pi c« O hQO O S -1 X M m -PL, Q O z -£ O C C o CO 3 W H <3 is~ £ < <j >• William. W fa’0_ o - s «8lK oo~ ^ £ <yi ^ x 5 c £=s oo Q o £ aE“ Robert -oc < u £ H O « rt _ Ai O' ^ ^ co Ah' In CO K ^ aJ^ o . o OS Tf^ O < _ fa ££ J M £ z£ >3? = £ < «dd % 215 W CO -< ii Pn aJ ^ CJ Q aJ A? £ X O o 2 . W oo Phyli.is. J HH C Ah O H-< ON s v fa g hh< 2Tr “‘’O-ito •J 00 ° s sM§ ^ rt U-S z; fa 11 o >U § •r^fa o c w o fd“ t> +j o H O oo II as w ON _ Q £ « a _, y 33 O 'g «(g'nd <D ■ ^ £ Muriei.. O H vo <gm -r 0 2 a! .2 . o rt -I WC/) <5 oo^ « 8S< Ah D o o rn 2 < £ .- > m £ < - « ° PQ > OS - ■*> B 'g - O . -.JiOQ o Oh 5 3 z o c S?^ P-i o ■ P O M Oh 00 . co a H < - < M z W TO rr? 4-* °r M -<< £Ma: -SAiCcq co T3 hU Z Pi S n - a u* •H N 2 ^ 'p 0 D W lilX.'H ° o Seymour. -< PA W0 f) rO § o O .O John W Pi Jh H fa O W . Ch O « O < < w o 00 CO H M H 4 ON^- VOo 5'o6 ov ^ s v- O' £ 3 M M -w < >< Tt D 00 co ^ Ah 00 O M < M < < Q Q oH^2; Z “M S5 >r a w Ah ^ -z E “ w u X S CO S§ w Q RECORDS OF THE CHICHELEY PLOWDENS INTRODUCTION The family of Plowden has been settled at Plowden in the parish of Lydbury North, Salop, beyond record, but the pedigree goes no farther back than to Roger de Plowden the Crusader, who was at the siege of Acre in 1191, and who on his return added the Plowden Chapel to his parish church, which shows that he was a man of substance. His coat armour—viz. az., a fesse dancettee, or, in chief two fleurs-de- lis, az., or, is borne by all his descendants. The fleurs-de-lis may have been granted bv Philip of France, under whose command he served at Acre, but possibly they were derived from the arms of the Bishop of Hereford, who was his suzerain, as well as of the families of Walcot of Walcot and Oakley of Oakley, the immediate neighbours of the Plowdens, whose coats contained similar fleurs-de-lis. (Roger’s son, Philip, was probably named after the French King.) The derivation of the name of Plowden has been attributed to many sources. There have been many variants, such as Ploudon, Ployden, Ploeden, Pleweden, Plovisden, Pladen and Playden. Some of these may be due to personal idiosyn¬ crasies in the matter of spelling, as even every-day words were in former times spelt in many different ways, and uniformity was not reached till dictionaries became common. Beau¬ champ Plantagenet in his pamphlet on New Albion (1648) gives the derivation as Pleaudain, “ Kill the Dane,” but this seems very far-fetched. Beauchamp Plantagenet had undoubtedly a considerable knowledge of Sir Edmund Plowden’s family history, for he was his constant companion, probably as secretary, for six years. In his interesting pamphlet he writes : “ Now for the pedigree and ancient family of our Earl Palatine of 200 years descent, being in England and borders of Wales; I find only a letter in the name changed in each Age, and Conquest and change of Nation ; for in Henry of Huntingdon and William A I Records of the Chicheley Plowdens of Malmesbury his Chronicles of all the Saxon Princes that have arrived and seated and conquered the Britains this family descend¬ ing of a daughter came with those Princes into Brittany ; and I find that in lower Saxony near Hamboro’ and Holstein a member of the Empire, and in all Maps there is still in that harsh language Ployen a wall’d city by a Lake, and Plowen a wall’d Castle of Count Plowen, a Count of the Sacred Empire, in Grimstone and other Histories mentioned; now the Welch make and turn the vowel ‘ u ’ into ‘ i ’ or ‘ y,’ as from Brutus to Britons, so Plowden to Ployden, as all maps write it. In Deeds and the Bishop of Hereford’s Records I find Anno Domini 904, an Exchange pro decern Manlis vocat Ploydanes place super quas Episcopus aedificaturus est Castrium, called Bishop’s Castle, in which town the Ploydens have much lands and Tenements, having Ployden Manor, Ployden Hall, Longvill Castle and thirteen Townes about it to this day, and at the coming of Henry the Seventh were commanders of that Country and Constables or Chastellains of that Fort of Bishop’s Castle; now Plovdan and Ployden is all one, Forest of Danes for Dene, the Norman pronunciation, which name of Ployden signifieth kill Dane or wound Dane, and Pleyden by Ry in Sussex was of this house and signifieth in French, hurt Dane and this Pleyden sent his sons and conquered in Normandy, where are five families yet, and the heir of Pleyden wanting issue, made it an Hospitall now held by the Earl of Thanet, Lord Toston, so Plowen, Ployen, Ploydane, Ployden, Plowden, and Playden is all one, for the change in time and severall Nation's pronunciation, Saxons, Danes, English, Welch and Normans. And note, to this day an Esquire in France of 300 years standing of Coat Armor shall take place and precedence of any Earle, Vicount, or Baron, which is not so ancient of Coat Armor, they not allowing the King by new creations to bar their inheritance and precedency.” Plowden is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but Long¬ vill Castle (Cheney Longville) is, and this property was in possession of the Plowdens from 904; according to Colonel James Chicheley Plowden, who spent so much time and money making research into the family history. Cheney Longville is situated about three miles from Plowden Hall, and was sold by Elizabeth, relict of Edmund Plowden of Plowden (ob. 1666) in 1682 for ^£71375 to the Honourable Thomas Talbot of Longford, Salop. I would here suggest a possible derivation of the family name. The estate is situated close to the borders of Wales (Montgomeryshire) and was in Wales at the time when the name was first given. There are several villages in Shrop¬ shire in its vicinity^ beginning with “ Llan ”—an open space or clearing.
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