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The Englefields and their Contribution to the Survival of the Faith in Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Leicestershire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2016
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The original home of the family was at Englefield House (1) in the parish of Englefield, five and a half miles South-West of Reading. It had been in the family’s possession from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century. When Elizabeth came to the throne it was the property of Sir Francis Englefield (2) who left the country, never to return, in April 1559, having settled Englefield on his brother John. John died in 1567 and was succeeded by his son Sir Francis Englefield, 1st Baronet, who survived to 1631, though his ownership of Englefield ceased in 1586 on its forfeiture to the Crown. This was the culminating act in a long dispute with the Crown which had begun with its sequestration in 1563.
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1) The original house was largely added to by the 5th Marquess of Winchester and it was further added to in about 1875. It was pulled down before 1892.
2) He died 13 Sept. 1598 at Valladolid, having spent the thirty-seven years of his exile in furthering the plans of Allen and Persons for the invasion of England and the deposition of Elizabeth at the hands of the Papacy and the Court of Spain. He was attainted in his absence of High Treason.
3) C.R.S. vi. 83.
4) Transactions Newbury District Field Club, ii. 96–104, 120–122.
5) Probably at Woolhampton, the Wollascott home between Reading and Newbury.
6) Ufton Court, Berks.
7) The secular priest Henry Turbeville was chaplain to the Marquess during the civil war and about the year 1667 appears to have been living in the Marquess’s London House. He may well have spent some of his time at Englefield, especially when the Marquess was in residence. He died in London in 1678. (C.R.S. xi. 547; MS. necrology Bodl. Rawlinson D. 173; Palatine Note Book. iii. 175; Catholic Encyclopaedia, under “Doctrine”.)
8) Archbishop Sheldon's Visitation, in MS. at the William Salt Library, Stafford.
9) She was buried at Kingston St. Michael.
10) She remarried Sir Robert Howard, 6th son of the 1st Earl of Suffolk, who made some reputation as a wit and minor poet.
11) Whether it lasted till 1676 depends on the religious convictions of Lady Honora Englefield, the widow, of which I am ignorant.
12) Davey; Notable Catholics of Bath. 32.
13) Esteourt and Paynes: English Catholic Non–jurors. 284, 285.
14) Foley, v. 599; vii. 872.
15) But not before 1680. Anthony Englefield of Shoby appears in a list dated 1680 of prominent Leicestershire Papists. (House of Lords MSS.)
16) It was he, I think, who at some date before 1819 restored the mediaeval chapel in White Knights park.
17) C.R.S. xxix. 263.
18) The place of his death is not the only uncertainty attaching to the friar. His name appears to be otherwise unknown; it does not occur, for example, in Thaddeus's Franciscans in England.
19) Thaddeus; Franciscans in England. 176; Burton; Life and Times of Bishop Challoner. i. 176.
20) He left England for Douai probably in 1711, but he came back to England, for on 2 June 1716 he had lived for about three years at Tichborne in Hampshire. He died at Douai in 1729.
21) Thaddeus. 95, 139, 176, 244, 245, 330; Parkinson's Status Provinciae of 1716 among the O.F.M. archives at East Bergholt; the flyleaf of the book given to Eyston which is still preserved at Hendred House.
22) The same flyleaf; a MS. transcript at Hendred House of The First Part of the Prevarication of the Holy Church's Libertys, concerning which see Kirk. 75.
23) Thaddeus. 187, 188, 213.
24) Thaddeus. I87, 243.
25) M3S. Arch, Westmon. vol. 40.
26) Thaddeus. 218.
27) Thaddeus. 188, 249.
28) Mapledurham register.
29) C.R.S. xxxii. 136.
30) Thaddeus. 199.
31) C.R.S. xxxii. 137.
32) It had a brief reincarnation between 1866 and 1889.
33) Foley, v.789.
34) Foley, iv. 410–411; v. 797; vii. 62.
35) C.R.S. ix. 108.
36) C.R.S. xiii. 176.
37) The farm may be identical with the house which stood in Englefield near Craymer's pond, was occupied at intervals by the 7th Bt., and has since been pulled down.
38) Sir Thomas Englefield 4th Bt. married lstly Mary da. & coh. of Sir Henry Winchcombe 1st Bt., of Bucklebury, Berks., 2ndly Mary da. of George Huntley of co. Glos. Sir Charles was b. of the 2nd marriage. Sir Thomas was living at Bucklebury in 1666; in the proving of his will in 1678 he is described as of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
39) The 1st Baronet's eldest son Thomas, who married Mary da. of William Wollascott of Shinfield, Berks, died in his father's lifetime and without issue, so that Vasterne passed to the second son.