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Sir Francis Walsingham, 1590

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Wills from Doctors' Commons
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1863

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page 70 note a The only child of Sir Francis. Married to Sir Philip Sidney in 1584, and left his widow in 1586; remarried to Robert Earl of Essex, beheaded in 1600; and thirdly to Richard Earl of Clanricarde and St. Alban's. She had one daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1585, afterwards the wife of Roger Earl of Rutland: and who died without issue Sept. 1, 1612. See Collins's Memoirs of the Sidneys, Sidney Papers, vol. i. p. 113.

page 70 note b Daughter of Henry St. Barbe, esq. of Ashington, co. Somerset, by Eleanor, daughter of Edward Lewknor, of Trotton in Sussex. She was married first to Richard Worsley, Captain of the Isle of Wight, who died 1565; secondly to Sir Francis Walsingham. She died 1602, and was buried in St. Paul's cathedral with her second husband. See the pedigree of St. Barbe in Hoare's South Wiltshire, Hundred of Frustfield, p, 10; and a notice in The Herald and Genealogist, 1862, vol. i. p. 78, of a conjoint pedigree of Walsingham and St. Barbe, now in the possession of G. F. St. Barbe, Esq.

page 70 note c William Walsingham, father of Sir Francis, married Joice Denny; and she was remarried to Sir John Carey, K.B. His son, Sir Edward Carey, of Berkhampstead, co. Hertford, was father of the first Lord Falkland. After having been for many years a groom of the privy chamber, he was made master of the jewel-house, and knighted in 1596. He died July 16, 1618.

page 71 note a Robert Beale, one of the clerks of the council, died 1601. He married Edith St. Barbe, who died in 1628, æt. 75, and was buried at Eastington, co. Grlouc.

page 70 note b William Doddington married Christiana, sister to Sir Francis Walsingham, and widow of John Tamworth. The testator's three overseers were thus his “bretheren,” each in a different way.

page 70 note d The next day after his death.