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JUNIOR BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF SUTTON, ALIAS DUDLEY, BY H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK. JUNIOR BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY OF SUTTON, ALIAS DUDLEY. DUDLEY OF YANWATH, WESTMORELAND. THOMAS DUDLEY, son of Sir Edmund Sutton, alias Dudley, by his second wife, Maud Clifford (see "The Barons of Dudley," "Staffordshire Collections," IX., part ii., p. 84), acquired the estate of Yanwith, or, as it is now written, Yanwath, in Westmoreland, in marriage with Grace,1 one of the daughters and co-heirs of Lancelot Thirkeld of that place. He had issue- 1. Richard Dudley, who succeeded. 2. John Dudley, of Stoke Newington, in Middlesex, of whom next. 3. Thomas Dudley, steward to the Earl of Leicester. He died s.p., seised of lands in Bishop's Itchington, co. Warwick. His will, in which he is described as "of London, Esq.," is elated 16th September, 1593, and was proved the penultimate of October in the same year in the P.C.C. (68 Nevell). He gives to his nephew, Anthony Blencowe, Doctor of Laws, all his lands in Warwickshire, " or in any other place in England," and also all his personal estate, in trust to sell the same in order to discharge his debts (which, he says, "are great"), and he appoints the said .Anthony Blencowe his sole executor. In the " Black Book of Warwick," a MS. belonging to the corporation of that town, and printed in the "Warwickshire Antiquarian Magazine," Thomas Dudley is referred to as " comptroller to my lord " 1 Her sisters were Elizabeth, wife of James Pickering, and Winifred, wife of William Pickering, both sons .of Sir James, and brothers of Sir Christopher Pickering. (0/. Foster's" Visitations of Yorkshire in 1584 and 1612," p. 120.) Ct 2 4 DUDLEY OF YANWATH. (Leicester), and in Ap1il, 16 Eliz., 1574, as a candidate for the representation of. Warwick in Parliament.1 i; Elizabeth Dudley, married to John Allen, of Thaxted, Essex. ii. Lucy Dudley, married to Albany Fetherstonhaugh, of Fetherstonhaugh, and secondly '(it is said)2 to Gerard Lowther. m. Winifred Dudley, married to Anthony Blenco, or Blencowe, of Blencowe, by whom she was mother of a second son, the aforesaid Dr. Anthony Blenco, for forty-five years provost of Oriel College, Oxford. John Dudley, Esq., of Stoke Newington, the second son; was secretary to the Earl of Leicester. He acquired a lease for years in 1571 of the manor of Stoke Newington, which he left to his wife and only daughter equally. He died 29th December, 1580, and was buried at Stoke Newington, "where his toinb yet remaneth."8 His will is dated 25th March, 1578, and was proved in the P.C.C., 27th April, 1581. He desires to be buried in the chancel of Stoke Newington church, "without any glorious vain pompe or shew to the worlde." Give·s his lands in Kent . and in the · city of Canterbury to Elizabeth, his wife. ·· " To the R\ Ron. and my singular good lord and master therle of Leicester," £100, "to be converted into some convenient piece of plate, upon which my arms are to be engraved." Mentions his brothers, Thomas Dudley and Richard Dudley; his nephew and godson, John Fetherstone ; Anthony Blencowe, Edmund Dudley, and John Fishborne. Residue to Elizabeth, his wife, and to· " Anne, my onely daughter," equally, and· appoints them his executrixes. Signs, "John Duddeley." Following the will (in register "Darcy,'' fo. 15) is a note respecting its validity, etc., in which are named 1 Dugdale (Dr. Thomas's edition), gives Thomas Dudley, Esq., as M.P. for the Borough of Warwick, 14, 17, 28, & 31 Eliz. From the ofilcial return of Members of Parliament it appears that he was first returned 21st April, 1572, 14 Eliz., to the Parliament summoned to meet on the 8th of May, 1572, and dissolved 9th April, 1583. Next on 9th November, 1584, to the Parliament which met 2Srd November, 1584, and was dissolved 14th September, 1585 ; next on 14th October, 1586; and lastly on·Srd October, 1588. 2 Mr. Norcliff'e's notes to Dudley pedigree in the Vie. of Yorkshire, 1563-4, published by the Harleian Society, p. 105. Mrs. Lowther was buried at Penrith, 30th December, 1596. a Harl. Soc, Vis .. Cumberland, 1615, p. 36. This monument still .exists, but has been restored. His effigy ~in armour) and that of hil! wife a.re represented ill the attitude of prayer DUDLEY OF YANWATH. 5 Thomas Dudley, of the city of London, Esq., and Edmund Dudley, "son of Richard Dudley." Notwithstanding his desire to the contrary, as expressed in bis will, he appears to have been buried with great pomp, if one may judge from the roll of his funeral expenses as printed in Brown's History of Stoke Newington.1 John Dudley married Elizabeth, daughter of John Gardiner, Esq., of Grove House, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, and by her (who re-married by license, dated 17th September, 1582, Thomas Sutton, Esq., of Littlebury, Essex, the celebrated founder of the Charter house,2 and was buried at Stoke Newington, 17th June, 1602) had issue an only daughter and heiress, Anne, born 12th February, 1574-5, who was married in 1590 to Sir Francis Popham, Knt., of Littlecote, son of Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Lysons (" Environs of London," 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 573) thinks it probable that, previous to her second marriage, Mrs. Dudley let the Manor House, at Newington, to Robert Dudley, Earl of · Leicester, for, he says, the arms of Dudley, with an Earl's coronet and the order of the Garter, were taken some .years ago from a house on the site of the manorial residence. Brown notes• a tradition current in the parish that the Princess Elizabeth was secreted in the Mansion House_ during the reign of her sister Mary ; and the house is also said to have been, in after years, a not unfrequent place of meeting between Elizabeth and Leicester. Mrs. Dudley was high in favour with the queen, and it is related that _in one of her visits Her Majesty, taking a jewel of great value from her hair, bestowed it upon Anne Dudley, the daughter.8 It would seem from the following letter, ·dated "Neuenton, 12th March, 1581," addressed to Leicester by ,..Elizabeth Duddeley," II 1 Nichole's Bibliotheca Topograpbica Britannica," No. XIV. The schedule of his funeral expenses given by Mr. Brown states that he II died at London, the 29th daie of December, 1580, and was buried at Newington, the 17th daie of· J o.nuarie following." Among those present at his fune_ral were "my lord Dud.lei's two sonnes," "Mr. Thomas Dudlei," "Mr. Humfrie Bowl1md," "Dudlei Bowland," "George Blincoe,"" Dudlei Lilgro.ve," "Mr. Fetherston," &c. 2 Among the Rutland MSS. (Hist. MSS., Com. Rep., 12, App. Pt. IV., i., 429) is a letter dated 10th Me.roh; 1611, from • • • Bray to the Earl of Rutland in which the writer so.ya, "My Lord of Suffolk bathe soulde Cho.rterhowse to riohe Sotton for fortene thowsande pownes. They saye tho.t he wile buylde "1l hospitall for pore solgiares to dweaJe therein." 3 Brown in "Bib. Top. Brit.," XIV., and Adle.rd, "Sutton-Dudleys," ·P· 15. 6 DUDLEY OF Y-ANW ATH. that John Dudley had in some way given offence to that all powerful noble. The loss of her dear husband, she writes, and Leicester's late conceived displeasure against him, have grievously touched her. · Her only earthly comfort now is his protection. _:Beseeches him to pity a poor widow's tears and to extend his favolll' to herself and her poor girl.1 Richard Dudley, of Yanwath, the eldest son, married Dorothy, daughter of Edmund Sandford, of Askham,in Westmoreland. In 1570 he was appointed (on the recommendation of Lionel Ducket) superintendent of the Royal copper mines in the north of England, and on 26th October in that year he writes to Secretary Cecil from " Yenwith" that he has received the Queen's orders, and twenty four stamps for marking the copper at the mines (State Papers Dom. Eliz.). _ It appears from Cole's Escheats (Harl. MS. 410) 'that he died 1st January, 35 Eliz., 1593, having_ had issue (with four daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, Jane, and Grace), two sons, viz.:- 1. Edmund Dudley, aged 50 at his father's death, of whom next. 2. Robert Dudley who had issue a son, Robert.8 1 _State Pf!.per• (Domestic), Eliz., Vol. OXLVIII., 23. 1 ·HarL MB., 1636, but the Visitation o:f Yorkshire, 1663-4, edited for the He.i-leie.n Society by Mr. Norclifl'e, gives Elizabeth, Anne, Jone, Eleanor, Jane, and Grace. 3 Cole's Escheate. A Robert Dudley was knighted at Newcastle-on-Tyne by King J ameB I., 9th April, 1603. Thomas Button,· founder of the Charter House, in his will, November, 1611, bequeathed £30 to Robert Dudley, alderman, of New• castle-upon-Tyne; "which £30 he oweth me .. " Ali Button married John Dudley's widow it has been supposed ·that this legatee was Robert, son of Richard Dudley, of Yanwath, but I think it more probable that the alderman we.B Robert, son of John Dudley, of Newcastle and Chopwell, which Robert was one of the customers of the port of N ewce.atle. It should be mentioned that Sutton had a lease of the manors of . Gateshead and Wickham in Durham, and resided for some time in the neighbourh~cl of- N ewce.stle, and he probably liad business tr!l,Dllactions with the elderme.n. _fo wh~ way (if any) the Dudleys of Chopwell were related to the baronial house has-not been discovered.