Sil:t CO:\lPTO~ RI<:AllE, Kni;;ht of the Royal Octk. First Baronet, Thir<l Crt>ation. (1G2G-79). (From the orighal portrait by l\Irs. Beale, in the possession of the late Sir John Chan Jo, Reade, Bart.) A RECORD OF THE REDES OF BARTON COURT, BERKS; WITH A SHORT PRECIS OF OTHER LINES OF THE NAME. BY COMPTON READE. (To WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE READES OF ROSSENARRA BY R. READE MACMULLEN, ESQ.) Domus exiUs.-HoRACE. The Hist01·y of England is the history of the famiiies.-GENERAL J. MEREDITH READ. HEREFORD: JAKEMAN AND CARVER, HIGH TOWN. 1899. TO SIR GEORGE COMPTON READE, NINTH BARONET OB' THE THIRD CREATION·; HERBERT VINCENT READE OF lPSDEN, ESQUIRE ; AND TO SIR GEORGE EGERTON DASHWOOD, BART., REPRESENTATIVE OF THE READES OF BROCKET HALL. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Preface 1 Introduction ... 3 The Main Line 7 5ir Thomas Reade, Knight 18 Issue of Sir Thomas Reade by Mary Brocket 26 Issue of Thomas Reade by Mary C,,rnewall 40 The Shipton Line 50 The Ipsden Line 'to 1775 61 The Ipsden Line from 1775 72 The Brocket Line 92 The American Line 104 The W1ilsh Reades 119 The Boarstal Redes 120 The Line of the Chief Justice 121 The Redes of Shipden, Norfolk 121 Reade of Wrangle 122 Reade of Faccombe 122 Reade of Blackwood 123 Reade of Eaton, Cheshire 125 Reade of The New Foresb 125 Read of Wanborough and Crowood, Wilts ... 126 Reade of Alderholt Park 126 Rede of Nether Walloppe, Rants 126 Reade or Rede of Sutton Manfield (alias Mandeville}, Wilts 126 Reade of Yate 127 Reade of Folkestone 127 Read of The Ulose, Morpeth 127 Reed of East Cherton ... 127 Reede of Fenham 127 Reed of The Cragg and Elsdon 128 Reed of The Old Town (Alderton) 128 Reed of Heathpool and Hoppen 128 Rede of Ringstead, Norfolk 129 Read of Wickford, Essex 129 Reade of Marcham, Berks 129 Read of Union Park 130 Reade of Wood Park, Galway 130 The two Bishops of Chichester 130 The Reades of Rossenarra 132 TABLE OF ROYAL DESCENTS. (]) From Alexander King of Scotland, with cousinship to Queen Anne Boleyn. page 10 (2) From John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III. :J-1. (3) From King John (with the bar sinister (?) ).... 28 (4) From John of Gaunt. 29 (5) From Edward I. 44 (6) From "The Fair Maid of Kent," gmnddaughter of Edward I .... 74 (7) From Edward I. 75 (8) ]'rom Edward I. by Margaret of France. 76 (9) From Edward I. by Eleanor of Castile. pages 76-77 (10) From Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland. 77-78 page 78 (11) From Joan De Valence, niece of Edward I. ... } (footnote) (12) From Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of all Wales. pages 79-80 (13) From King John and Prince Llewellyn. 80-81 (14) From Edward I. 81-82 (15) From Luuis, second son of King John of Jerusalem and Sicily. µage 82 (16) From John of Gaunt. 83 {l ) Quadruple descent from Henry III. 91 :~~i9 l (20} (21) From Isabel, daughter of William The Lion.* ... pages 107-108 (22) From Robert Bruce.* ... page 108 (23) From Rhodri-Mawr, King of all Wales (896, A.D.).* ... pages 110-113 (24) From Charlemagne. ... pages 139-140 *Amt:rican line only. PREFACE. HE origin of this volume is as follows :-On his retirement from the Civil Service T of India in r86o, the late Edward Anderdon Reade, C.B., being then resident at Ipsden, devoted his leisure hours to local topography and family genealogy, eventually presenting the results of these researches in MS. to the Bodleian Library. Some years later General John Meredith Read, successively Consul General for U.S.A. at Paris, Consul for Germany, and Ambassador at the Court of Athens, instituted further and more extensive researches, which embraced the pedigrees alike of the line known as of Barton Court with their alliances, and of all other lines of the name however spelt. I had inserted in 1887 certain genealogical details, supplied by my father, the late Mr. Compton Reade of Orsett Hall, in a memoir of Charles Reade, D.C.L., and although as regards some particulars these proved to be erroneous, in others they threw light on the family story. The result was a prolonged correspondence with General Meredith Read, which terminated in 1893 by a handsome proposal on his part that I would join him in compiling a Record of the Redes. We set to work, and he placed his researches at my disposal. It was evident at a glance that he had expended a vast amount of money, labour, and time. The wills he had collected alone numbered several hundreds. He had ransacked the Kirtlington Muniments, a mine of information respecting the family in the 16th and 17th centuries. He had carefully analysed our own Ipsden Muniments. He had consulted the late Sir Bernard Burke and the Herald's College. There remained, with other details, the part we played in the Civil War; and by the advice of Professor S. R. Gardiner, my uncle Captain Allen F. Gardiner's nephew, Mr. Firth of Balliol was requested to search on our behalf the Civil War Tracts and other authorities of the period. In consequence we discovered the capture of Sir Thomas Reade, the three occasions on which he entertained King Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria at Barton Court, and the fact of this home of the family having witnessed the last farewell of the Royal husband and wife. We further learnt that Barton Court served as ambush for the Royal troops on the occasion of the last attempt to capture Abingdon in 1646, but we have failed to ascertain the date of its siege and demolition-albeit, it would seem almost certain that this followed immediately upon the abortive attack organised by Prince Rupert. Other details of interest were collected by our joint exertions from various sources, more particularly a number of Royal Descents, supplied mainly by my cousin H. F. J. Vaughan of Humphreston, Esq., to whom my cordial acknowledgments are here gratefully rendered. Unfortunately in the autumn of 1894, General J. Meredith Read's attention being diverted in another direction, the work was temporarily postponed. At the close of r 896, this great soldier and diplomatist passed away suddenly in the prime of life, to our deep sorrow, for he was one of the most amiable and magnanimous of men, and withal both a scholar and a genealogist. My feeling was that the labour already expended should not be wasted, and hence with the sanction of Mrs. Meredith Read I resumed the task which had been so unhappily interrupted, having been accorded the aid of Mr. T. Turner, the General's Secretary, who has been most obliging, and indeed indefatigable in searching the voluminous MSS. stored at Paris. Here however I was met by a crux in limine. So far as our collaboration had gone I had been able to master most details of the English 2 A RECORD OF THE REDES. branches, but of the American line, including the link between Sir Charles, son of Richard, the younger brother of Sir Thomas Reade, and Colonel John Read who emigrated to Maryland, I had only a skeleton outline. This, therefore, is all that I have been able to present in the following pages ; but I must add that the late estimable General went exhaustively into the whole subject with my uncle Charles, who was not only an author of eminence, but a barrister also of Lincoln's Inn, and on a memorable occasion won a case before the House of Lords. He was so thoroughly satisfied as to the tie which binds the American and English branches together as to have written in The Graphic a memorial notice at considerable length of General Meredith Read's father, Chief Justice Read, thereby both claiming and acknowledging a relationship, of which he felt justly proud, the more so perhaps because he was so warm an admirer of the American character-its generosity and its true manhood. To proceed-shortly after I commenced single handed, Leadam's Domesday of Inclosures was published, and I learnt to my surprise that the reiterated statement of the Redes having been settled at Beedon in 1438 was false. At once with the active co-operation of Herbert V. Reade, Esq., the present Squire of Ipsden, the MS. and published pedigrees were thoroughly overhauled, with the result that I am able to boast the elimination of various fictions, whereof some originated nearly two centuries ago ; and furthe~ that the volume represents a verified, if a curtailed, record. To the Barton line I have added a precis of the principal other lines bearing the name, however spelt, and Mr. R. Reade Macmullen has contributed by way of appendix a pedigree of the Reades of Rossenarra. I must express my further indebtedness to Dr. Marshall of Sarnesfield Park-Rouge Croix Herald; to Rev. W. D. Macray, Fellow of Magdalen and of the Bodleian and to Mr. Parker also of the Bodleian ; to R. Reed Lewis, Esq., of Bedford_; Thomas Reade, Esq., of Tettenhall ; T. Mellard Reade, Esq., of Blundellsands ; the late Dr. Hussey, of Oxford; T. L. Reed, Esq., of Crow Hall; Miss Reed, of Old Town, Otterburn ; H. L. Reade, Esq., of Congleton ; Mrs. Moutray Read ; Lord Cobham ; W. Baildon, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; Rev. Dr. F. G. Lee; Mrs. Baldwyn Childe, of Kyre Park; Mrs. Reed, of Dringthorpe, H. Baskerville, Esq., of Crowsley Park; T. M. Davenport, Esq., of Headington, Mr.