The Stanhope Family

Agnes (Stanhope, Trafford) Strelley

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Languillere) Stanhope

Married (1st): Henry Trafford

Married (2nd): Robert Strelley about 1409

The covenants of this marriage were signed by their fathers in 10 Henry IV (30 September 1408 - 29 September 1409).

Robert was born about 1390, the son of Sir Nicholas Strelley. He married, secondly, Joan Fraunceys, the widow of Sir Thomas Harcourt by 1424. Robert was a Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire in 1407 (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (J.S. Roskell, 1993) entry for STRELLEY, Sir Robert (d.1438), of Strelley, Notts. and Shipley, Derbys). Robert died on 26 November 1438.

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Robert Strelley, Knight 1438-9
ROBERT STRELLEY, KNIGHT
231 Writ. 2 December 1438. [Bate].
YORKSHIRE. Inquisition. Ferrybridge. 28 March 1439. [Fitzwilliam].
[Inquisition: ms galled and faded.]
Jurors: William Whotley ; Henry Croft ; John Ledys ; William Bramwith ; William Wodekerke ; John Philipson ; Thomas Hend ; John ... ; William ... ; William Wynke ; Roger Bu...ges ; Robert Forster ; and Richard Pigburn .
Nicholas Strelley, knight , was lately seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Ferrybridge and Ferry Fryston, 7 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 9 bovates, each worth 4s. yearly; 2 crofts, each worth 4d. yearly; and 20d. assize rent taken by the hand of various tenants at Martinmas and Pentecost equally, held of the king as of the honour of Pontefract as of his duchy of Lancaster, service unknown.
He granted them to Thomas Meres of Auburn, Thomas Hunt , and Richard Metham , esquires, and their heirs and assigns. The grant was made by charter shown to the jurors, and the lands and tenements were described as all lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services of free tenants and neifs, meadows, woods, parks, fisheries, and pasture in Ferrybridge and Ferry Fryston. Thomas, Thomas, and Richard were thus seised in demesne as of fee. Richard Metham afterwards quitclaimed for him and his heirs to Thomas Meres and Thomas Hunt all right and claim that he had in the lands etc., and the quitclaim was made by indented deed, shown to the jurors. Thomas and Thomas then demised the lands at farm to Nicholas Strelley for life, rendering £3 6s. 8d. yearly to Thomas and Thomas and their heirs and assigns at Pentecost and Martinmas equally. The demise was made by charter, shown to the jurors. The lands were described as all the lands and tenements that Thomas Meres and Thomas Hunt , together with Richard Metham , had by enfeoffment of Nicholas Strelley, knight , in Ferrybridge and Ferry Fryston. Nicholas was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement. Thomas Hunt died. Thomas Meres survived and held reversion of the lands and tenements. Nicholas Strelley afterwards died, and Thomas Meres entered all the lands and tenements. Robert Strelley , named in the writ, occupied them at the will of Thomas Meres , and died possessed of this estate and no other. Thomas Meres is still living and holds the lands and tenements.
He died on 26 November last. Robert Strelley, esquire , is son and next heir of Robert, and aged 26 years and more.
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Memorandum that this inquisition was delivered to Chancery on 16 April 1439.
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232 Writ. 2 December 1438. [...].
Addressed to the escheator in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Newark. 16 January 1439. [Heton].
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Jurors: Robert Yong of Norwell; Thomas Crengere ; William Kellum of Kelham; John Dauett of Newark; Robert Morwod ; Robert Broun ; Richard Rothwell ; Robert Garnon of North Muskham or South Muskham (Muskham); William Parker of Weston; John Clerk of Dunham; William Ripper ; Robert Baxter of North Collingham or South Collingham (Colyngham); John Clerk ; and John Stokum .
Nicholas Strelley, knight , was lately seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Strelley, the manor and advowson of the church there. The manor is held of the king as of the honour of Nottingham, formerly of William Peuerell , as 1/2 knight’s fee. There is the manorial site, a dovecot, and 12 messuages, worth nothing yearly; a park, worth 10s. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 12 virgates of land, each worth 6s. yearly; 12 cottages, worth nothing yearly; and a court held every 3 weeks, worth nothing yearly above the steward’s fee.
Bilborough, the manor and advowson of the church there. The manor is held of the king as of the said honour as 1/20 knight’s fee. There is the manorial site, a small park, 8 messuages, and 3 cottages, worth nothing yearly; 40 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 16 bovates, each worth 5s. yearly; 4s. assize rent taken by the hand of free tenants at Martinmas and Pentecost equally; and a court held every 3 weeks, worth nothing yearly above the steward’s fee.
Trowell, Cossall, Nuthall, Chilwell, Attenborough, Hempshill, Basford, Nottingham, Watnall, Costock, Cotgrave, and North Muskham or South Muskham (Muskham), 16 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 45 bovates, worth £10 yearly; 2 a. meadow, worth 8d. yearly; and 6s. 8d. rent. They are not held of the king , but of whom and by what service, unknown.
Nicholas granted them to John Dabrigecourt , Robert Cokefeld , knights, Thomas de Annesley of Kinoulton, Thomas Hunt of Linby, Nicholas Parker, late parson of Strelley , all now deceased, and Peter del Pole , still living. The grant was made by charter, shown to the jurors. John, Robert, Thomas, Thomas, Nicholas, and Peter were thus seised in demesne as of fee. They afterwards demised the manors, lands, tenements, and advowsons to Nicholas Strelley , to hold at the will of John, Robert etc. [as above], and Nicholas died possessed of this estate. After the death of Nicholas, Robert Strelley entered the manor of Strelley and was seised of it. A fine was afterwards levied at Westminster on 20 January 1435 [the octave of Hilary] before William Babyngton and his associates, then justices of the Bench, between John Lemyng and William Bland, querents , and Robert and Joan his wife, deforciants, regarding the manor of Strelley. Robert recognised the manor to be the right of John as held by John and William by grant of Robert and, for that recognition, John and William granted it to Robert Strelley and Joan his wife, and the heirs male of the body of Robert. Robert and Joan were thus seised, viz., Robert in demesne as of fee tail and Joan in demesne as of free tenement, and Robert died seised of this estate. Joan continued her possession by virtue of the fine. After the death of Nicholas, Robert occupied, for life at the will of John, Robert, Thomas, Thomas, Nicholas, and Peter, the manor of Bilborough and the lands and tenements in Trowell, Cossall, Nuthall, Chilwell, Attenborough, Hempshill, Basford, Nottingham, Watnall, Costock, Cotgrave, and North Muskham or South Muskham (Muskham). He died possessed of this estate and no other. Nicholas Strelley occupied the manor of Oxton at the will of John, Robert, Thomas, Thomas, Nicholas, and Peter. He died possessed of this estate and no other and, after his death, Robert occupied the manor all his life at the will of John, Robert, Thomas, Thomas, Nicholas, and Peter.
Oxton, the manor, held of Henry, archbishop of Canterbury , Henry, bishop of Winchester , and Walter Hungerford , service unknown.n155 There is the manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a park, worth 10s. yearly; 160 a. arable, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 8 messuages and 3 cottages, worth nothing yearly; 14 bovates, each worth 3s. yearly; 3s. assize rent taken by the hand of free tenants at Martinmas and Pentecost equally; and a court held every 3 weeks, [no value given].
Robert Strelley was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Strelley, 2 bovates, each worth 2s. yearly; and 2 a. meadow, each acre worth 2d. yearly, held of Margaret de Rempston as of her manor of Arnold, service unknown.
Harby, 4s. assize rent taken by the hand of free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas equally. He held the lands and tenements from which the rent issued of Robert Cecelyn , service unknown.
Date of death as 231 Robert Strelley, esquire , is his son and next heir, and aged 25 years and more.
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DERBYSHIRE. Inquisition. Chesterfield. 24 January 1439. [Heton].
[Inquisition: ms galled and faded.]
Jurors: Thomas Cawse of Brampton; Ralph de Glapwell of Glapwell; William de Hardwik of Hardwick; John Holyngworth of Staveley; John de Bo...h of Elmton; William Irlond of Yeldersley ; John ?Leueson of Compton; John Spynkill of Spinkhill; William Atereme of Holmesfield; John Hare of Harlesthorpe; Thomas Mar...day of Bolsover Woodhouse (Wodhows); and John Wodhows of Palterton.
Nicholas Strelley, knight , was lately seised in demesne as of fee of the following manor.
Shipley, the manor, held of William, Lord Zouche , as of his manor of Ilkeston, service unknown.n158 There is the manorial site, 7 messuages, and 6 cottages, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 14 bovates, each worth 3s. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 10s. assize rent, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost equally by the hand of the tenants; a certain park, worth 20s. yearly above sustaining the beasts; and a court held every three weeks, worth nothing yearly above the steward’s fee.
Continues as 232. Robert Strelley, named in the writ, afterwards occupied the manor and took the profits all his life at the will of John, Robert, Thomas, Thomas, Nicholas, and Peter, and he too died so possessed.
Date of death and heir as 232
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Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire vol 10 p17 (1906)
  Sir Nicholas Strelley, son of Sir Sampson, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir E. Pierpont, Knt. ... He was succeeded by his son Robert: his tomb is probably the incised alabaster slab at the north-west corner of the altar tomb; he died 1438. The slab has had the figures of a knight in armour and a lady with long flowing robe, with children kneeling at her feet. The inscription is now illegible; some years ago could be read: “MCCCCXXXVIII. quõr ãibū p’piciet’ deus Amen.” He married twice: 1st Jane Harcourt, 2nd Agnes Stanhope. He was among the lancers at Agincourt in the retinue of Lord Grey of Codnor.

Children: Notes:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p230 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
Robertus de Strelley, mil. ob. 16 H. 6. - Joana fil. Ric. Stanhope, mil.
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Robertus de Strelley, mil. ob. 3 H. 7. Mar. 12. - Isabella fil. ... Kempe soror Cardinalis
p393
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.
  There were Covenants of Marriage, 10 H. 4. between Sir Richard Stanhope, and Sir Nicolas Strelley, for the marriages of Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard, to Robert Strelley, son of Sir Nicolas.

The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 p20 (William Flower, 1871) names the wife of Robert Strelley as "Joanne d. of Richard Stanhop" and Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire vol 2 p175 (Joseph Foster, 1874) names her as "Anne, or Joan, Stanhope, wife of Sir Robert Strelley, of Strelley, co. Notts."

Death: before 23 April 1424, by which date Robert Strelley is known to have remarried Joan (_____) Harcourt.

Sources:

Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate

Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate
Anne Stanhope, aged 16
This oil painting by Thomas Youngerman Gooderson from between 1846 and 1868 is "in the manner of Bernaert van Orley". The inscription reads "THE DVTCHES OF SOMERSET HER GRACE ÆTATIS SVE 16". The painting is the Egremont Collection in Petworth House, West Sussex
photo posted at National Trust Collections
Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate
Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate
stipple engraving by Bernard Gagnon in 1792 posted at wikipedia (Anne_Seymour,_Duchess_of_Somerset)
Birth: about 1497
The inscription on Anne's tomb in Westminster Abbey states that she was aged 90 at her death on 16 April 1587, from which we infer her birth in 1496 or 1497.

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Bourchier) Stanhope

Edward Seymour
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, by unknown artist held in the Collection of Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Wiltshire. The Latin inscription either side of his head is: "E(dwardus) SE(mour) C(omes) HER(tfordiensis)" ("Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford"). He wears the chain of the Order of the Garter from which hangs the Great George.
photo posted at wikipedia (Edward_Seymour,_1st_Duke_of_Somerset)
Married (1st): Edward Seymour

Edward Seymour was the son of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth. He was the eldest brother of Jane Seymour, who became the third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Henry's only son, Edward. Upon the death of Henry VIII (28 January 1547), Seymour's nine year old nephew became king as Edward VI. Henry VIII's will named sixteen executors, who were to act as Edward's Council until he reached the age of 18. The will did not provide for the appointment of a Protector - it entrusted the government during his son's minority to a Regency Council that would rule collectively, by majority decision, with "like and equal charge". Nevertheless, a few days after Henry's death, on 4 February, the executors chose to invest almost regal power in Edward Seymour. Thirteen out of the sixteen (the others being absent) agreed to his appointment as Protector, which they justified as their joint decision "by virtue of the authority" of Henry's will. In March 1547, he secured letters patent from King Edward granting him the almost monarchical right to appoint members to the Privy Council himself and to consult them only when he wished. Social unrest in England in 1548 undermined Edward Seymour's popularity, especially within the Council, and by 1 October 1549, Seymour had been alerted that his rule faced a serious threat. He issued a proclamation calling for assistance, took possession of the king's person, and withdrew for safety to the fortified Windsor Castle, where Edward said, "Methinks I am in prison". Meanwhile, a united Council published details of Seymour's government mismanagement. They made clear that the Protector's power came only from them, and on 11 October, the council had Seymour arrested. Seymour was pardoned by the king on 15 February 1549(50), released from the Tower and restored to the council on 10 April 1550, with diminished prestige. On 16 October 1551 he was again sent to the Tower, on an exaggerated charge of treason. Edward was executed on 22 January 1552 for felony (that of seeking a change of government), after scheming to overthrow the regime of John Dudley, his effective successor as leader of the Council. King Edward noted his uncle's death in his Chronicle: "the duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o'clock in the morning". Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset was interred at St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London.

Edward was knighted by the Duke of Suffolk at Roye on 1 November 1523. On 5 June 1536, a week after his sister's marriage to the King Henry VIII, Seymour was created Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, Somerset. He was created the 1st Earl of Hertford on 18 October 1537, and elected a knight of the Garter on 9 January 1540(1). On 16 February 1547, shortly after becoming Protector, he was created the 1st Duke of Somerset. Edward was married firstly to Catherine Fillol, the daughter of Sir William Filliol, with whom he had two sons, John, who was sent to the Tower on 16 October 1551 with his father and died there on 19 December 1552 and Edward (1529–1593).

Dictionary of National Biography vol 51 pp299-310 (1897)
  SEYMOUR, EDWARD, first EARL OF HERTFORD and DUKE OF SOMERSET (1506?–1552), the Protector, was the eldest surviving son of Sir John Seymour (1476?–1536) of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire. The Seymours claimed descent from a companion of William the Conqueror, who took his name from St. Maur-sur-Loire in Touraine, and was ancestor of William de St. Maur, who in 1240 held the manors of Penhow and Woundy in Monmouthshire (cf. J. R. Planché in Journ. Archæol. Assoc. xiii. 327–8). William’s great-grandson, Sir Roger de St. Maur, had two sons: John, whose granddaughter conveyed these manors by marriage into the family of Bowlay of Penhow, who bore the Seymour arms; and Sir Roger (fl. 1360), who married Cicely, eldest sister and heir of John de Beauchamp, baron Beauchamp de Somerset (d. 1361); she brought to the Seymours the manor of Hache, Somerset, and her grandson, Roger Seymour, by his marriage with Maud, daughter and heir of Sir William Esturmi or Sturmy, acquired Wolf Hall in Wiltshire. The Protector’s father, Sir John, was great-great-grandson of this last Roger. Born about 1476, he succeeded his father in 1492, was knighted by Henry VII for his services against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath in 1497, and was sheriff of Wiltshire in 1508. He was present at the sieges of Tournay and Therouenne in 1513, at the two interviews between Henry VIII and Francis in 1520 and 1532, and died on 21 Dec. 1536. He married Margaret (d. 1550), eldest daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlested, Suffolk; her grandfather, Sir Philip Wentworth, had married Mary, daughter of John, seventh lord Clifford, whose mother Elizabeth was daughter of Henry Percy (‘Hotspur’) and great-great-granddaughter of Edward III (Notes and Queries, 1st ser. viii. 51–2; Harl. MS. 6177). Sir John Seymour had ten children, of whom, John, the eldest, died unmarried on 15 July 1520, as did two other sons, John and Anthony, and a daughter Margery; Edward the Protector; Henry, who took no part in politics, was executor to his mother in 1550, and died in 1578, leaving three sons from whom there is no issue remaining, and seven daughters, from one of whom, Jane, are descended the barons Rodney; Thomas, baron Seymour of Sudeley [q. v.]; Jane Seymour [see JANE]; Elizabeth, who married, first, Sir Anthony Ughtred, secondly, in August 1537, Cromwell’s son Gregory, and thirdly William Paulet, first marquis of Winchester [q. v.]; and Dorothy who married Sir Clement Smith (inscription in Bedwyn Magna Church printed in AUBREY, pp. 375–6).
  From the inscription on an anonymous portrait at Sudeley (Cat. Tudor Exhib. No. 196), Edward appears to have been born about 1506, and is said to have been educated first at Oxford, and then at Cambridge (WOOD, Athenæ Oxon. i. 210; COOPER, Athenæ Cant. i. 107). In 1514 he was retained as ‘enfant d’honneur’ to Mary Tudor on her marriage with Louis XII of France. On 15 July 1517 he was associated with his father in a grant of the constableship of Bristol. He was probably with his father in attendance upon Charles V on his visit to England in 1522, as Chapuys afterwards mentioned Seymour as having been ‘in Charles's service’ (Letters and Papers, x. 1069). He joined the expedition of the Duke of Suffolk which landed at Calais on 24 Aug. 1523, and was present at the capture of Bray, Roye, and Montdidier, being knighted by Suffolk at Roye on 1 Nov. In the following year he became an esquire of the king’s household. On 12 Jan. 1524–5 he was placed on the commission for the peace in Wiltshire, and in the same year became master of the horse to the Duke of Richmond. In July 1527 he accompanied Wolsey on his embassy to the French king (Chron. of Calais, p. 37), and in 1528 was granted some lands of the monasteries dissolved in consequence of Wolsey’s visitation. On 25 March 1529 he was made steward of the manors of Henstridge, Somerset, and Charlton, Wiltshire, and in 1530 he received with his brother-in-law, Sir Anthony Ughtred, Wolsey’s manors of Kexby, Leppington, and Barthorpe, all in Yorkshire. On 12 Sept. following he was appointed esquire of the body to Henry VIII, who showed him much favour, borrowing from, and occasionally lending, him money (see Letters and Papers, vols. iv. v. and vi. passim). In 1532, Seymour and his father accompanied Henry to Boulogne to meet Francis I. In the following year he became involved in a dispute with Arthur Plantagenet, viscount Lisle [q. v.], and his stepson, John Dudley, afterwards duke of Northumberland [q. v.], about some lands in Somerset, which lasted many years, and is the subject of innumerable letters in the Record Office (cf. WOOD, Letters of Illustrious Ladies, iii. 41; GAIRDNER, Letters and Papers, vols. vii–xii.). In March 1534–5 he was granted various lands in Hampshire belonging to the convent of the Holy Trinity, Christchurch, London, and in the following October Henry VIII visited him at his manor of Elvetham in the same county. In March 1535–6 he was made a gentleman of the privy chamber, and a few days later, with his wife Anne and his sister Jane, was installed in the palace at Greenwich in apartments which the king could reach through a private passage (Letters and Papers, X. 601). On 5 June, a week after his sister’s marriage to the king, Seymour was created Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, Somerset. Two days later he received a grant of numerous manors in Wiltshire, including Ambresbury, Easton Priory, Chippenham, and Maiden Bradley (one of the seats of the present Duke of Somerset). On 7 July he was made governor and captain of Jersey, and in August chancellor of North Wales. He had livery of his father’s lands in the following year, was on 30 Jan. granted the manor of Muchelney, Somerset, and on 22 May sworn of the privy council. In the same month he was on the commission appointed to try Lords Darcy and Hussey for their share in the ‘pilgrimage of grace.’ On 15 Oct. he carried the Princess Elizabeth at Edward VI's christening (WRIOTHESLEY, Chron. i. 68), and three days later was created Earl of Hertford.
  The death of Queen Jane was naturally a blow to Hertford’s influence, and in the following year he was described as ‘young and wise,’ but ‘of small power’ (Letters and Papers, XIII. ii. 732). In December he was put on commissions for the trial of the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Montagu, Sir Geoffrey Pole, and others; and in March 1539 he was sent to provide for the defence and fortification of Calais and Guisnes. He returned in April, and on the 16th was granted Chester Place, outside Temple Bar, London. In August Henry VIII and Cromwell spent four days (9–12) with him at Wolf Hall (Wilts Archæol. Mag. xv. App. No. iv). In the same month he received a grant of the Charterhouse at Sheen (WRIOTHESLEY, Chron. i. 105). In December he met Anne of Cleves at Calais, and returned with her to London; he wrote to Cromwell that nothing had pleased him so much as this marriage since the birth of Prince Edward (Letters and Papers, XIV. i. 1275).
  Cromwell’s fall—which, according to the Spanish ‘Chronicle of Henry VIII,’ Hertford instigated—in the following year did not check Hertford’s continuous rise in Henry’s favour; and Norfolk, now the most powerful member of the council, sought to purchase his friendship by a marriage between his daughter, the Duchess of Richmond, and Hertford’s brother Thomas. Throughout 1540 Hertford took an active part in the proceedings of the council, and on 9 Jan. 1540–1 he was elected a knight of the Garter. A few days later he was sent on a fruitless mission to arrange the boundaries of the English Pale in France with the French commissioners (Corr. de Marillac, pp. 257, 266–8; State Papers, viii. 510, 523–30). He then proceeded in February to inspect and report on the defences at Calais (Proc. Privy Council, ed. Nicolas, vii. 130). During Henry’s progress in the north from July to November, Hertford, Cranmer, and Audley had the principal management of affairs in London (State Papers, i. 660–90), and in November the earl and the archbishop were the recipients of the charges against Catherine Howard (cf. Chronicle of Henry VIII, ed. Hume, 1889, pp. 82–4). In September 1542 Hertford was appointed warden of the Scottish marches. He served there for a few weeks (21 Oct. to 7 Dec.) under Norfolk, but in November he requested to be recalled on the ground that ‘the country knew not him, nor he them’ (State Papers, v. 222), and Rutland took his place. In December Hertford resumed attendance on the king (ib. ix. 257). On 28 Dec. he appears as lord high admiral, a post which he almost immediately relinquished in favour of John Dudley, viscount Lisle, and in January 1542–3 he was lord great chamberlain. On 1 April he took an active part in procuring the conviction and imprisonment of Norfolk’s son, the Earl of Surrey, for eating flesh in Lent and riotous proceedings (BAPST, Deux Gentilhommes Poètes, p. 269). During that year Henry again visited Hertford at Wolf Hall.
  Meanwhile in December 1543 the Scots formed a new alliance with France, and declared the treaty with England null and void. On 5 March 1543–4 Hertford was appointed lieutenant-general in the north. He was ordered to proclaim Henry guardian of the infant Scots queen and protector of the realm, and to accuse Cardinal Beaton of causing the war between the two nations (proclamations in Addit. MS. 32654, ff. 49, 58). In the middle of April a deputation of Scottish protestants waited on Hertford with a proposal to raise a force to aid in the invasion and assassinate the cardinal; but Hertford declined to assent on his own authority, and sent the deputation on to Henry. At the end of the month his army embarked at Berwick, and on 3 May the fleet arrived in the Firth of Forth. Next day ten thousand men landed at Leith, and Blackness Castle was taken. On the 5th Lord Evers, with four thousand English horse, arrived from Berwick. The provost offered Hertford the keys of Edinburgh if he would allow all who desired to depart with their effects; but the earl demanded unconditional surrender, proclaiming that he had come to punish the Scots ‘for their detestable falsehood, to declare and show the force of his highness’s sword to all such as would resist him.’ The Scots replied defiantly. On the following day Sir Christopher Morris [q. v.] blew in Canongate, and for two days the capital was pillaged without resistance. The English then returned to Leith, seizing the ships in the harbour and lading them with spoil. By the 18th they were back at Berwick, having accomplished no permanent result except further exasperating the Scots and strengthening the French alliance (Hertford’s correspondence dealing with this expedition is in Addit. MS. 32654).
  A month later Hertford returned to London, and on 9 July he was appointed lieutenant of the kingdom under the queen-regent during Henry’s absence in France (State Papers, i. 765; RYMER, xv. 39–40). On 13 Aug., however, he joined Henry at Hardelot Castle, near Boulogne, and was present at the capture of that town on 14 Sept. Hertford, indeed, is said to have bribed the French commander De Vervins to surrender the town for a large sum of money (Mémoires du Maréchal de Vieilleville, ed. 1822, i. 152–3; NOTT, Surrey’s Works, p. lxix). Five days later Charles V secretly concluded the peace of Crêpy with the French, leaving his English allies still at war, and on 18 Oct. a conference was opened at Calais by the three powers to arrange terms. Hertford was the principal English representative, but no results followed, and on the 26th he and Gardiner were despatched to Brussels to endeavour to extract a definite declaration of policy from the emperor (State Papers, X. 63–6, 119–36, 147–50; Addit. MS. 25114, ff. 312, 315). After much procrastination, Charles granted them three interviews, the last on 17 Nov.; but their efforts to keep him to the terms of his alliance with England were unavailing, and on the 21st they were recalled (State Papers, 202–7 et sqq.). England now made preparations to carry on the war single-handed. On 14 Jan. 1544–5 Hertford was sent to survey the fortifications of Guisnes, and a few days later he took command at Boulogne, which the French made a desperate effort to recapture. On 26 Jan. Marshal De Biez encamped before it with fourteen thousand men, while those at Hertford’s command were but half that number. Nevertheless, before dawn on 6 Feb. the English sallied out with four thousand foot and seven hundred horse, and took the French by surprise. A panic seized them, and they fled, leaving their stores, ammunition, and artillery in the hands of the English (HERBERT, Life and Reign of Henry VIII, ed. 1719, p. 250).
  This brilliant exploit rendered Boulogne safe for the time, but the defeat at Ancrum Muir, on 17 Feb., decided Henry to send Hertford once more to the Scottish border. On 2 May he was appointed lieutenant-general in the north in succession to Shrewsbury (RYMER, XV. 72), but, owing to the smallness of his force and lack of supplies, Hertford suggested a postponement of the projected invasion until August. Throughout the summer he remained at or near Newcastle, providing against the contingency of a Scots or French invasion. At length, on 6 Sept., he crossed the border; on the 13th he was at Kelso, and a few days later at Jedburgh. A list, which he sent to the government, of monasteries and castles burnt marks his course. He met with no opposition; but his invasion was only a border foray on a large scale, and on the 27th he was back at Newcastle (State Papers, v. 448–52; Hamilton Papers, vol. ii.). On 10 Oct. he received a summons to parliament, which met in November, and on the following day he set out for London. From the 24th until the following March he was in attendance at the council. On 21 March he was appointed lieutenant and captain-general of Boulogne and the Boulonnois in succession to Surrey, who had failed to hold his own against the French. He reached Calais on the 23rd (State Papers, xi. 60), and on 4 April was commissioned lieutenant-general of the army in France. In the same month he was appointed to treat for peace, which was concluded on 7 June. On the 31st he was again in London. On 19 Sept. he was once more sent to Boulogne to carry out the terms of the destruction of the fortifications (DE SELVE, Corr. Politique, 1888, pp. 31, 34; State Papers, i. 877, 879); but in October he was back at Windsor (Acts P. C., ed. Dasent, i. 535). From that time to the end of Henry’s reign Hertford was constant in his attendance at court and council.
  These few months witnessed the momentous struggle for the succession to power during the coming minority of Edward VI. The numerous attainders of Henry’s reign had left Norfolk and Hertford face to face as the most powerful nobles in the kingdom. The former, with his son Surrey, headed the conservative party, while Hertford, though he was far too cautious to give open expression to his views, was known to favour further steps in the direction of ecclesiastical reform. This divergence of view was accentuated by personal jealousy between Surrey and Hertford, who had recently been called in to retrieve his rival’s military blunders. Surrey vowed vengeance, and, hating Hertford as an upstart, he rejected his father’s proposals for matrimonial alliances between his children and Hertford’s two daughters, as well as between the Duchess of Richmond and Hertford’s brother Thomas. The hope of conciliation thus failed, but the struggle between the rivals, which might have led to civil war, was averted by the dramatic fall of the Howards in January 1546–7 [see HOWARD, HENRY, EARL OF SURREY, (1517?–1547), and HOWARD, THOMAS II, EARL OF SURREY, (1473–1554)]. Hertford took an active part in Surrey’s trial (WRIOTHESLEY, Chron. i. 177; BAPST, p. 358); he was commissioned to convey Henry’s assent to the bill of attainder against Norfolk, and he acquired a share of the Howards’ property; but there is not sufficient evidence to show that their fall was due to his machinations, and he did nothing to molest Norfolk after Henry’s death.
  That event took place at 2 A.M. on Friday, 28 Jan. 1546–7; Hertford and Paget had spent the previous day in conversation with the king, they were present at his death, received his last commands, and had possession of his will. But Hertford must have already determined to set aside its provisions, and in an interview with Paget in the gallery immediately before Henry’s death, and another an hour afterwards, he persuaded him to abet his bold coup d'état, promising to be guided by Paget’s advice. They decided to keep the king’s death a secret for the present, and to publish only so much of his will as seemed convenient; and then the earl hurried down to Hertford to get possession of the young king. On the way back, at Enfield on the 30th, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1548) [q. v.], though ‘inclined to the old religion, gave his frank consent to Hertford being Protector, thinking it to be the surest kind of government’ (Lit. Remains of Edward VI, p. ccxlvii). On the same day, in a letter to the council, Hertford adopted the style ‘we,’ and on Monday the 31st he arrived with Edward at the Tower. Henry’s death was then made known, and on the same day Paget proposed in the council that Hertford should have the protectorate. The council was divided: the reformers were represented by Cranmer, Hertford, and Lisle; the conservatives by Tunstall, Wriothesley, and Browne. Gardiner was excluded according to the terms of Henry’s suspicious will; Browne had already given in his adherence to Hertford, but the chancellor Wriothesley strongly opposed the scheme. Paget’s influence, however, prevailed, and the council gave Hertford ‘the chief place among them,’ with ‘the name and title of Protector of all the realms and domains of the king’s majesty, and governor of his most royal person,’ adding the express condition that he was to act only ‘with the advice and consent of the rest of the executors’ (Acts of the Privy Council, ii. 4–7). On 2 Feb. he was appointed high steward of England for the coronation of Edward; on the 10th he was granted the office of treasurer of the exchequer, and that of earl marshal, which had been forfeited by Norfolk. Five days later he was created Baron Seymour of Hache, and on the 16th Duke of Somerset. On 6 March Wriothesley was removed from the chancellorship on the ground that he had used the great seal without a warrant (ib. ii. 48–59). Six days later Somerset rendered his position independent of the council by obtaining a patent as governor and protector, in which he was empowered to act with or without their advice, and ‘to do anything which a governor of the king’s person or protector of the realm ought to do’ (ib. ii. 63–4, 67–74). He had now attained to almost royal authority; in a form of prayer which he used, he spoke of himself as ‘caused by Providence to rule,’ and he went so far as to address the king of France as ‘brother.’
  As the first protestant ruler of England, Somerset at once set about introducing radical religious reforms. His numerous letters, preserved in the British Museum, throw little light on what convictions he had reached during Henry’s reign, or how he had been induced to adopt them, but by Henry’s death he had become a ‘rank Calvinist’ (Nicholas Pocock in Engl. Hist. Rev. July 1895, p. 418), and he soon entered into correspondence with the Genevan reformer. ‘From the moment of Henry’s death there was a systematic attempt made by the men of the new learning, headed at first by Somerset … gradually to get rid of catholic doctrine’ (ib. p. 438). ‘There is really no other account to be given of the gradual changes that culminated in the second prayer-book of 1552 … than that Somerset was supreme, and exercised for a few years the same arbitrary sway that the late king had brought to bear upon the parliament when the Act of Six Articles was passed’ (Church Quarterly Rev. October 1892, p. 38). Cranmer, whose leanings were then Lutheran, was a ‘mere tool in his hands’ (ib. pp. 41, 42, 56). The Protector secretly encouraged books of extreme protestant views (cf. The V Abominable Blasphemies conteined in the Masse, 1548, anon. printed by H. Powell); and in the preface to the new communion office (March 1547–8), which Somerset almost certainly wrote himself, he hinted plainly at further sweeping reforms. But in his public procedure he was compelled to observe more caution. The first of his ecclesiastical acts was to compel all bishops to exercise their office durante beneplacito (6 Feb. 1546–7), and their position as mere state officials was emphasised by an act in the following November, ordering that their appointment should be made by letters patent. An ecclesiastical visitation followed for the removal of images, assertion of the royal supremacy, and the enforcement of the use of English in the church services; for their opposition to this measure Gardiner and Bonner were imprisoned in June. In July appeared the book of homilies, and in November parliament authorised the administration of the communion in both kinds, and granted all colleges, chantries, and free chapels to the king. Early in 1548 a proclamation was issued against ceremonies, and at Easter a new communion office was published; in July an English version of the Psalms and litany followed, and in November began the visitation of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, of the latter of which Somerset had been elected chancellor in 1547. In January 1549 was passed the Act of Uniformity; tithes were also regulated by parliament, and the marriage of priests allowed.
  Meanwhile Somerset turned his attention towards the completion of the marriage between Edward and Mary of Scotland. He had been identified more prominently than any other statesman with this policy during the late reign, and Henry had enforced it upon him during his last moments. Religious even more than political considerations urged Somerset in the same direction. He dreamt of the union of England and Scotland into one state, which under his guidance would become distinctively protestant and act as the protagonist of the Reformation in Europe. {At first he avoided all reference to the feudal claim which Henry VIII had revived in 1542, and sought to win over the Scots to the projected union with England by promising free trade between the two kingdoms, autonomy for Scotland, and the substitution of Great Britain for the words England and Scotland. France encouraged the Scots to resist, and during the summer the Protector collected a large army}* at Berwick. In August the French captured the castle of St. Andrews, where a body of Scots protestants had held out in the English cause, and Somerset’s pretensions united all Scotland in opposition. In the last week of August he reached Berwick; a fleet commanded by Clinton accompanied the army, which marched along the coast. On Sunday, 4 Sept., Somerset crossed the Tweed; passing {Dunbar}* without waiting to attack it, he came in sight of Musselburgh on the evening of the 8th. There the Scots were encamped in numbers greatly superior to the English; on their left was the sea commanded by the English fleet, on their right was a marsh, and in front was the river Esk. The position was almost impregnable, but the Scots did not wait to be attacked. Before dawn on the 10th they crossed the Esk. Four thousand Irish who charged the English right were scattered by the fire from the fleet, but the Scottish right almost succeeded in occupying the heights on the English left. Grey’s horse broke against the Scottish infantry and fled, but in their pursuit the Scots came upon the English men-at-arms and Italian musketeers, while the English cavalry formed once more and charged. A panic seized the Scots, they broke and fled, and the rout soon became a massacre; many thousand Scots were killed, the English loss being, it is said, only two hundred (cf. DE SELVE, p. 203). Decisive as was this battle of Musselburgh or Pinkie Cleugh—the last fought between England and Scotland as independent kingdoms—and greatly though it strengthened Somerset’s personal position, it postponed further than ever the attainment of his objects. Leith was burnt on the 11th, but Mary was removed to Stirling; while the English army, provisioned only for a month, was compelled to retreat (TEULET, Papiers d'Etat relatifs à l'Histoire d'Ecosse, Bannatyne Club, vol. i.; KNOX, Works, Bannatyne Club, i. 209, 213; The Complaynt of Scotland, Early Engl. Text Soc.; PATTEN, Expedicion into Scotland, 1548).
  Somerset reached London on 8 Oct. (WRIOTHESLEY, Chron. i. 186), and was received with fresh marks of honour. He declined the proposal of the city of London to welcome him with a triumphal procession, but his designation became ‘Edward, by the grace of God, duke of Somerset,’ &c., and he was allowed a special seat in the House of Lords above the other peers. Parliament met on 4 Nov., and, besides ecclesiastical reforms and other measures for the regeneration of morals, proceeded to embody in statutes Somerset’s wishes for a relaxation of Henry’s repressive system. All treasons created since 1352 were abolished; the six articles, the acts against lollards, and the severer clauses of the Act of Supremacy were repealed; and the Protector made an ineffectual attempt to repress vagrancy by enabling justices to condemn incurable offenders to two years’ slavery, and in the last resort to slavery for life. It was probably in order to find occupation for the unemployed, as well as to afford an asylum for protestant refugees, that he established a colony of foreign weavers on his estates at Glastonbury (cf. Acts P.C. iii. 415, 490; KNOX, Works, iv. 42, 564; STRYPE, Eccl. Mem. ii. i. 378). The last act of parliament dealt with the status of the Protector, but seems never to have passed the great seal. The fact that it made his tenure depend upon the king’s pleasure instead of the duration of his minority seems to indicate that it was a machination of Somerset’s enemies (see Archæologia, XXX. 363–89).
  But foreign affairs claimed a large share of the Protector’s attention, and he retained their management almost exclusively in his own hands, aided by Paget and the two secretaries of state, Sir Thomas Smith and Sir William Petre. At the beginning of Edward’s reign the pope had urged Charles V to support Mary’s claims by invasion, and, as a counterpoise, the council opened communications for a league with France and the German princes in March (Acts P. C. ii. 47, 60); but the proposal did not prosper (cf. DE SELVE, Corr. Politique, 1546–9, ed. 1888, passim). Somerset’s designs on Scotland inevitably offended France, while the irritation was constantly growing through the bickerings about the fortifications of Boulogne. Though war did not formally break out, acts of hostility frequently occurred. The Protector was still sanguine of accomplishing the marriage between Edward and Mary. On 5 Feb. 1547–8 he issued ‘An Epistle or Exhortacion to Unitie and Peace, sent from the Lorde Protector … to the Nobilitie … of Scotlande’ (printed by R. Wolfe, 1548, 8vo), pointing out the advantages of the English proposals and attributing the cause of the war to Arran and his advisers. The Scots protestants were naturally on Somerset’s side, and by means of bribery he maintained a party among the nobles; but he failed to prevent the conclusion of a marriage treaty between Mary and the dauphin of France, and in June a French force sailed for Scotland from Brest. In order to anticipate it, Somerset had directed William, thirteenth baron Grey de Wilton [q. v.], and Sir Thomas Palmer (d. 1553) [q. v.] to cross the border on 18 April. They took and fortified Haddington, where they left a garrison of two thousand five hundred men, and, after wasting the country round Edinburgh, returned to Berwick. In June Somerset sent Sir Thomas Smith to the emperor, and to raise two thousand German mercenaries; but Charles contented himself with fair words, while the French fleet carried off Mary to France, and the Scots recovered Home Castle and closely besieged Haddington in August.
  The marriage of Mary with the dauphin completed the failure of Somerset’s Scottish policy, and in the following autumn his position was menaced by the intrigues of his brother the admiral [see SEYMOUR, THOMAS, BARON SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY]. The Protector had naturally resented his brother’s marriage with Catherine Parr, but he wrote him an affectionate letter on the occasion of his daughter’s birth (31 Aug.), and endeavoured to divert him by persuasion from his reckless courses. Failing in this, he sent for him early in January 1548–9, but Thomas was contumacious, and the Protector then left him to his fate. According to the privy council register, he ‘desired for natural pitycontumaciouss sake licence at the passing of the bill [of attainder] to be away’ (ii. 260), and assented to that measure with the greatest reluctance; while Queen Elizabeth subsequently stated that the admiral’s life would have been saved had not the council dissuaded the Protector from granting him an interview. He was present, however, at each reading of the bill of attainder in the House of Lords (see Lords’ Journals, i. 345 et seq.; cf. TYTLER, i. 150–1). In any case, his brother’s fall was a fatal blow to Somerset’s authority, and involved him in much popular odium (cf. HAYWARD, Edward the Sext).
  Troubles now began to gather thickly round the Protector; the Scots took Haddington {(Sept. 1549)}* and other castles held by the English except Lauder. Somerset projected another invasion, but the German mercenaries refused to serve without an advance of pay, and the exchequer was not only empty, but deep in debt. The French were pressing hard on Boulogne; the outworks of Blackness, {Boulogneberg}*, and Newhaven {(Ambleteuse)}* fell one after another, and on 8 Aug. war with France was declared (DE SELVE, p. 410; WRIOTHESLEY, ii. 20). The religious innovations created a widespread discontent, which was intensified by the economic condition of the country. The depreciation of the currency was growing steadily worse in spite of the Protector’s feeble efforts to reform it, and the increase of enclosures and conversion of arable into pasture lands caused widespread distress which Somerset’s efforts failed to abate (see A Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England, ed. Lamond, 1893). He appointed a commission to inquire into abuses arising out of the decay of tillage and frequency of enclosures {(June 1548)}*, but three bills introduced to remedy the evil were all rejected in the following session of parliament [see HALES, JOHN, (d. 1571)]. Somerset thereupon issued a proclamation in May {1549}*, by which all who had enclosed lands were commanded to restore them. This produced no effect except to exasperate the landowners against him, while the commons, getting no redress, rose in revolt in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The rising was soon put down by Lord Grey, but in June a rebellion broke out in Devon and Cornwall, followed by another under Robert Kett [q. v.] in Norfolk. The former was actuated by religious motives, and was suppressed by John Russell, first earl of Bedford [q. v.] The Norfolk rebels laid more stress on social and economic grievances, and their revolt was more serious. Somerset thought of taking the command against them himself, but it was finally given to Warwick, who crushed the rebellion in August.
  This success encouraged Warwick to begin intriguing against the Protector, and he found ready listeners among many of the council. Wriothesley (now Earl of Southampton) had never forgiven Somerset his ejection from the chancellorship, and, like other adherents of the old religion, he thought that nothing but good could come of Somerset’s fall. On the other hand many of the reforming party had grievances against the Protector; even his stout adherent, Paget, warned him against his arrogance and ambition, and the folly of ‘having so many irons in the fire.’ At the same time the rapacity with which he seized on church lands and the fortune he acquired for himself deprived him of popular sympathy, and added to the irritation the council felt at such arbitrary acts as making a stamp of the king’s signature and erecting a court of requests in his own house. They knew, moreover, that the authority he enjoyed was usurped contrary to Henry’s will. Failure at home and abroad gave Warwick his opportunity. In September he waited on Somerset with two hundred captains who had served in suppressing the late rebellions, and demanded extra pay for their services. Somerset refused, and Warwick then enlisted their support in his attempt to overthrow him (Chron. of Henry VIII, pp. 185–6). Secret meetings were held at the houses of the disaffected councillors. Somerset heard of these gatherings while at Hampton Court with Cranmer, Paget, Cecil, Petre, Sir Thomas Smith, and Sir John Thynne, all his devoted adherents. In the first few days of October he issued leaflets urging the people to rise in his defence and that of the king. His enemies, he asserted, wished to depose him because ‘we the poore comens being injuried by the extorciouse gentylmen had our pardon this yere by the … goodness of the lorde Protector, for whom let us fyght, for he lovith all just and true gentilmen which do no extorcion, and also us the poore commynaltie of Englande’ (Acts P. C. ii. 330–6). Ten thousand men are said to have responded to this call (Chron. Henry VIII, p. 186), and Somerset sent his son, Sir Edward Seymour, to Russell and Herbert, who were then returning from the west with the army that had suppressed the rebellion, entreating them to come to the rescue of the king. On the 6th he despatched Petre to London to inquire the meaning of the council’s proceedings. There Warwick’s adherents were in session at his residence, Ely House, Holborn. They had drawn up an indictment of Somerset’s rule, and were on the point of setting out to lay it before the Protector. On the receipt of Petre’s message threatening to arrest them if they proceeded to Hampton Court, they determined to remain in London. On the same day they requested the support of the mayor and aldermen, to whom Rich described the Protector’s evil deeds, and sent out letters to various nobles summoning them, with their adherents, to London. Petre remained with the council, and Somerset started that night for Windsor with the king. Next day the council wrote to Cranmer and Paget requiring their adherence. On the 8th the city gave the council its support, the Tower was secured, Russell and Herbert inclined to the same side, and fifteen thousand men gathered in London to support the council (Chron. Henry VIII, p. 189). Somerset saw that his cause was lost, and promised submission. On the 10th the council wrote ordering the detention of Sir Thomas Smith, Sir Michael Stanhope (the Protector’s brother-in-law), Sir John Thynne (the manager of his estates), and others. On the 12th they went down to Windsor, and on the 14th Somerset was sent to the Tower.
  Early in January 1549–50 an account of the proceedings taken against him was presented to parliament, and the charges were embodied in {thirty-one}* articles. Somerset made a full confession and threw himself on the mercy of the council; on the 14th he was deposed from the protectorate by act of parliament, deprived of all his offices and of lands to the value of 2,000l. While in the Tower he solaced himself by reading devotional works, such as Wermueller’s ‘Spyrytuall and most precyouse Pearle,’ translated by Coverdale, which was lent to him in manuscript, and for which he wrote a preface; it was published in the same year (London, 8vo), and subsequently passed through many editions (see Brit. Mus. Cat. and HAZLITT, Collections). He is also said to have translated out of French a letter written to him by Calvin, and printed in the same year, but no copy is known to be extant. On 6 Feb. he was set at liberty (Acts P. C. ii. 383; WRIOTHESLEY, ii. 33–4), and on the 18th received a free pardon. On 10 April he was again admitted of the privy council, and on 14 May was made a gentleman of the king’s chamber. He resumed his attendances at the council on 24 April, taking precedence of all the other members, and rarely missed a meeting for the next eighteen months. Three days later his property, except what had already been disposed of, was restored to him; and on 3 June his eldest daughter, Anne, was married to Warwick’s eldest son, Viscount Lisle.
  Although an opportunity of recovering his position seemed to be thus offered Somerset, the ambition of his rival Warwick rendered his ultimate ruin inevitable. A public slight was put on him when, on the death of his mother on 18 Oct. 1550, the council refused to go into mourning. On 10 May 1551, however, he was made lord-lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, in August he put down an insurrection in Sussex, and in face of the ill success of the new administration the influence of Somerset’s party seemed for a moment to revive. As early as February 1550–1 some members of parliament had started the idea of again making him Protector, but a dissolution brought the scheme to nothing. Somerset endeavoured to procure Gardiner’s release from the Tower, and to prevent the withdrawal of the Princess Mary’s license to practise her own religion. Paget and Arundel gave him their support, and popular feeling was strongly in his favour. With this encouragement, Somerset seems to have meditated seizing his three chief enemies, Warwick, Northampton, and Pembroke, who, on their side, determined to destroy him. During the whole of September 1551 Somerset was prevented from attending the council by sickness in his household, and probably during this period the designs against him were matured. On 4 Oct. he appeared once more by their order at the council; on the same day Warwick became Duke of Northumberland, and his adherents were likewise advanced a step in the peerage. Three days later Sir Thomas Palmer (d. 1553) [q. v.] revealed to Warwick and the king a plot, which he described as having been formed in April by Somerset, Arundel, Paget, and himself, with the object of raising the country and murdering Warwick. On the 11th, Northumberland and Palmer again discussed the matter, and on the same day the council ordered an inquiry into the amount of Somerset’s debts to the king. This roused Somerset’s suspicions, but he attended the council as usual on the 16th. A few hours later he was arrested and sent to the Tower. The duchess, Lord Grey, and others of his adherents, followed him thither next day; and finally, Palmer, who had been left at liberty for ten days after giving his information, was arrested. On the 19th the council communicated to the corporation the baseless story that Somerset had plotted to destroy the city of London, seize the Tower and the Isle of Wight (WRIOTHESLEY, ii. 56–7). He was also accused of endeavouring to secure for himself and his heirs the succession to the crown (cf. ‘A Tract agaynst Edward, Duke of Somerset,’ extant among the Loseley MSS., Hist MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. App. p. 607). For six weeks Somerset remained in the Tower while evidence was being collected against him. There can be no doubt that he had meditated supplanting Northumberland, but the plot against the duke’s life rests on no satisfactory evidence. Apart from the improbabilities of Palmer’s story (see TYTLER, ii. 1–70), there is the direct statement of Renard that both Northumberland and Palmer confessed before their death that they had concocted the evidence (FROUDE, v. 36 n.) On Tuesday, 1 Dec., at 5 A.M. Somerset was conveyed by water from the Tower to Westminster Hall, to stand trial by his peers. The charge of treason broke down, but he was condemned for felony, and sentenced to be hanged; the people ‘supposing he had been clerely quitt, when they see the axe of the Tower put downe, made such a shryke and castinge up of caps, that it was heard into the Long Acre beyonde Charinge Crosse,’ and on his way back to the Tower they ‘cried God save him all the way’ (WRIOTHESLEY, ii. 63; cf. STOW, p. 607). He was beheaded on Tower Hill on Friday, 22 Jan. 1551–2, between 8 and 9 A.M.; to prevent a tumult, orders were given that the people should remain indoors till ten o’clock, but an hour before the execution Tower Hill was crowded. Somerset addressed the people in a few dignified words, rejoicing in the work that he had been able to do in the cause of religion and urging them to follow in the same course. While he was yet speaking a panic seized the crowd, and in the midst of it Sir Anthony Browne rode up. A cry of ‘pardon’ was raised, but Somerset was not deceived, and, protesting his loyalty to the king, he laid his head on the block, while those nearest the scaffold pressed forward to dip their handkerchiefs in his blood (ELLIS, Orig. Letters, 2nd ser. ii. 216). He was buried in St. Peter’s Chapel in the Tower, on the north side of the aisle, between Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. In the Stowe collection (No. 1066) in the British Museum is a manuscript calendar used by Somerset in the Tower, inside one cover of which he wrote some pious reflections the day before his execution; on the other cover is the signature of his daughter-in-law, Catherine Seymour [q. v.], who also used it while in the Tower. As he was attainted for felony and not for treason, his lands and dignities were not thereby affected, but an act of parliament was passed on 12 April following declaring them forfeited and confirming his attainder (Lords’ Journals, i. 425).
  Somerset occupies an important place in English history. Strength of conviction and purity of morals admirably fitted him to lead a religious movement. He did more than any other man to give practical effect to the protestant revolution, and his immediate successors could only follow on the lines he laid down. Alike in his conception of a union between England and Scotland, in his feeling for the poorer classes of his community, and in his sincere adoption of protestant principles, he gave evidence of lofty aims. As a general he was successful in every military operation he undertook. But he was too little of an opportunist to be a successful ruler, and he failed to carry out his objects because he lacked patience, hated compromise, and consistently underrated the strength of the forces opposed to him. Ambition entered largely into his motives, and his successful usurpation showed him to be capable of prompt and resolute audacity. He had as high a conception of the royal prerogative as any Tudor, but he used it to mitigate the severity of Henry VIII’s government. The mildness of his rule earned him a deeply felt popularity, and under his sway there was less persecution than there was again for a century. Naturally warm-hearted and affable, the possession of power rendered him peevish and overbearing; but, like his brother Thomas, he possessed handsome features and many personal graces. A portrait, by Holbein, belongs to the Duke of Northumberland; two anonymous portraits are at Sudeley Castle; another belongs to Mrs. Cunliffe; and two more, also anonymous, belonged in 1867 to William Digby Seymour [q. v.] and Mr. Reginald Cholmondeley respectively (see Cat. First Loan Exhib. Nos. 168, 174). The portrait by Holbein has been engraved by Houbraken, R. White, and others (see BROMLEY, p. 10).
  The chief blot on Somerset’s career is his rapacity in profiting by the dissolution of monasteries, the abolition of chantries, and sale of church lands. The estates he inherited brought him 2,400l. a year, those he acquired between 1540 and 1547 added 2,000l. to his income, and between 1547 and 1552 it increased by another 3,000l.; the total 7,400l. would be worth at least ten times as much in modern currency (Wilts Archæol. Mag. xv. 189). The number and extent of his manors can be gathered from a list of the ‘Grants of the Forfeited Lands of Edward, Duke of Somerset,’ and ‘Cartæ Edwardi, Ducis Somerset,’ both printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, London, 1866, fol. His most famous possession was Somerset House in the Strand, which he commenced building very soon after Henry’s death; two inns belonging to the sees of Worcester and Lichfield were pulled down to make room for it, and, to furnish materials, the north aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral, containing the ‘Dance of Death,’ and the priory of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, were demolished. Somerset took great interest in its construction, and, as Knox lamented (Works, iii. 176), preferred watching the masons to listening to sermons. Somerset House was occupied by Henrietta Maria, who added to it her famous Roman catholic chapel; by Catherine of Braganza, and by Queen Charlotte until 1775, when it was pulled down; the present building was finished in 1786 (WHEATLEY and CUNNINGHAM, London Past and Present, iii. 268–73).
  Somerset was twice married, first, about 1527, to Catherine (d. before 1540), daughter and coheiress of Sir William Fillol of Woodlands in Horton, Dorset, and Fillol’s Hall in Langton Wash, Essex. She {is erroneously said to have been divorced} in consequence of her misconduct with Somerset’s father (cf. manuscript note in ‘Vincent's Baronage’ in the College of Arms, quoted by COURTHOPE, Peerage, p. 249). By her Seymour had two sons: John, who was sent to the Tower on 16 Oct. 1551 with his father, died there on 19 Dec. 1552, and was buried in Savoy hospital (MACHYN, Diary, pp. 10, 27, 326); and Edward (1529–1593), who was knighted at the battle of Pinkie on 10 Sept. 1547, was restored in blood by act of parliament, passed on 29 March 1553, before his half-brothers (Lords’ Journals, i. 441, 442, 445), settled at Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, and was ancestor of Sir Edward Seymour [q. v.], the speaker, and of the present dukes of Somerset. Somerset’s second wife was Anne (1497–1587), daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Sudbury, Suffolk, by his wife Elizabeth, great-granddaughter of William Bourchier, earl of Eu, by Anne, sole heiress of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III. She was a woman of great pride, and her disputes as to precedence with Catherine Parr are said to have originally caused the estrangement between the two Seymours and most of the duke’s misfortunes and errors (LODGE, Portraits). Surrey, in spite of his antipathy to her husband, paid her attention, which she scornfully rejected, and addressed to her his ode ‘On a lady who refused to dance with him’ (BAPST, pp. 370–1; Gent. Mag. 1845, i. 371–81). She was imprisoned with her husband, subsequently married his steward Francis Newdigate, died on 16 April 1587, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Two anonymous portraits of her belong respectively to the Duke of Northumberland and Earl Stanhope. By her Somerset had four sons: (1) Edward, born on 12 Oct. 1537, died before May 1539; (2) Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford [q. v.]; (3) Henry, born in 1540, who was appointed in 1588 admiral of the squadron of the narrow seas, and kept close watch on the Duke of Parma off the coast of the Netherlands; on 27 July he took an important share in the battle off Gravelines, and subsequently kept guard in the narrow seas; he married Joan, daughter of Thomas Percy, seventh earl of Northumberland [q. v.], but died without issue (Papers relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, ed. Laughton, passim); (4) Edward (1548–1574), so named probably because Edward VI stood godfather (Lit. Rem. p. 61), died 1574 (COLLINS; cf. Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1547–1581, p. 238). By his second wife, Somerset also had six daughters: (1) Anne, who married first, on 3 June 1551, John Dudley, commonly called Earl of Warwick, eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland, and, secondly, Sir Edward Unton, and died in February 1587–8 (cf. A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the Seventeene Daye of Februarie 1587 at the buriall of Anne, Countess of Warwicke, widow of Sir Edward Vmpton, London, 1591, 8vo); (2) Margaret, died unmarried; (3) Jane (1541–1561), whom Somerset was accused of plotting to marry to Edward VI, became maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, died unmarried, and was buried on 26 March 1561 (MACHYN, pp. 254, 384; ELLIS, Orig. Letters, 2nd ser. ii. 272). These three ladies won some literary repute by composing, on the death of Margaret of Valois, some verses published as ‘Annæ, Margaritæ, Janæ, Sororum Virginum, heroidum Anglarum in mortem Margaritæ Valesiæ Navarrorum Reginæ Hecadistichon,’ Paris, 1550, 8vo; a French translation appeared in the following year; (4) Mary, married first Andrew Rogers of Bryanstone, Dorset, and secondly, Sir Henry Peyton; (5) Catherine, died unmarried; (6) Elizabeth, who married Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley, Northamptonshire.
  {By an act of parliament passed in 1540, Somerset’s estates were entailed upon his issue by his second wife in preference to his issue by his first, and similar clauses were introduced into the patents for his subsequent dignities and grants of land.}* By act of parliament 5 Edw. VI the duke’s dignities were declared forfeited, but his son was created Earl of Hertford in 1559, and his great-grandson William [q. v.] was ‘restored’ to the dukedom of Somerset in 1660 by the repeal of the said act. The younger line died out with Algernon, the seventh duke [see under SEYMOUR, CHARLES, sixth DUKE OF SOMERSET], in 1750, and the dukedom then reverted, according to the original patent, to the Seymours of Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, the elder line, in which it still remains. According to the curious document ‘Third Report of the Lords’ Committee on the Dignity of a Peer’ (p. 49), the representative of the elder line would have become Duke of Somerset on the failure of the younger, without the ‘restoration’ of the second duke in 1660, on the ground that the attainder could not touch the right vested in the elder line by the patent (cf. NICOLAS, Peerage, ed. Courthope, pref. p. lxvii).
  [There is no biography of Somerset except a worthless brochure published in 1713 comparing him with the Duke of Marlborough, but the materials for his biography are extensive. Of manuscript sources, most of Somerset’s public correspondence is in the Record Office, but a portion on Scottish affairs is among the Addit. MSS. in the British Museum, especially Nos. 5758, 6237, 25114, 32091, 32647, 32648, 32654, 32657 (these papers, originally deposited among the archives of the council of the north, were subsequently moved to Hamilton Palace, Scotland; in 1883 they were acquired by the German government, but repurchased by the British Museum six years later; they have been calendared as the Hamilton Papers, 2 vols. 1890–1892). Many papers, relating principally to his genealogy and family history, are among the Harleian and Cottonian MSS. in the same library. Much information respecting his private affairs is to be found among the Lisle Papers in the Record Office, and the manuscripts preserved at Longleat, their presence there being due to the fact that Sir John Thynne, ancestor of the marquises of Bath, managed Somerset’s estates during his protectorate. Many of his letters have been printed at length in the State Papers of Henry VIII (11 vols. 1830–52), and these, with others down to 1540, have been calendared in Brewer and Gairdner's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII (15 vols.); the manuscripts at Longleat were used by Canon Jackson in his paper on the Seymours of Wolf Hall in Wiltshire Archæol. Mag. vol. xv. Other scattered letters have been printed in Ellis’s Original Letters. See also Sadleir’s State Papers, Haynes’s Burghley Papers, and the Calendars of Domestic, Foreign, Venetian, and Spanish State Papers (in the index to the last of which he is consistently confused with his brother the admiral); Hist. MSS. Comm. 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Rep. passim. Other contemporary authorities are the Lords’ Journals; Acts of the Privy Council (ed. Nicolas vol. vii. and ed. Dasent vols. i.–iv.); Rymer’s Fœdera; Wriothesley’s Chron., Machyn’s Diary, Greyfriars Chron., Narratives of the Reformation, Troubles connected with the Prayer Book, Chron. of Calais, Services of Lord Grey de Wilton (all these published by Camden Soc.); Lit. Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club); Teulet’s Papiers d’Etat and John Knox’s Works (Bannatyne Club); The Complaynt of Scotland (Early Engl. Text Soc.); The Late Expedicion into Scotlande, 1544, 8vo; Patten’s Expedicion into Scotlande, 1548, 4to; Letters of Cardinal Pole; Zürich Letters (Parker Soc.); Mémoires of Du Bellay (Panthéon Littéraire); Mémoires de Vieilleville, ed. 1822; Correspondance de Marillac, ed. Kaulek; Corresp. Politique de Odet de Selve, ed. 1818; Spanish Chron. of Henry VIII, ed. M.A.S. Hume, 1888; Wood’s Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies; Somerset’s Works in Brit. Mus. Libr. See also Hall’s, Grafton’s, Fabyan’s, Baker’s, and Holinshed’s Chronicles; Stow’s and Camden’s Annals; Speed’s Historie; Hayward’s Life and Raigne of Edward the Sext; Herbert’s Life and Reign of Henry VIII; Leland’s Commentaries; Strype’s Works, passim; Wood’s Athenæ Oxon.; Lloyd’s State Worthies; Foxe’s Actes and Mon. and Book of Martyrs; Burnet’s Hist. of the Reformation, ed. Pocock; Fuller’s Church Hist. ed. Brewer, and Worthies of England; Myles Davies’s Athenæ Brit. vol. ii.; Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors; Nott’s Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Cobbett’s State Trials; Lodge’s Illustrations; Maitland’s Essays on the Reformation; Tytler’s, Lingard’s, and Froude’s Histories; Spelman’s Hist. of Sacrilege; Cooper’s Athenæ Cantabr.; Dixon’s Hist. of the Church of England; Gasquet and Bishop’s Edward VI and the Common Prayer; Friedmann’s Anne Boleyn; Bapst’s Deux Gentilshommes Poètes; Hoare’s Modern Wiltshire; Collinson’s Somersetshire; Lipscomb’s Buckinghamshire; Collins’s, Courthope’s, and G. E. C.’s Peerages; Gent. Mag. 1845, i. 371, 487; Archæologia, i. 10–12, v. 233, xviii. 170, xxx. 463–89; Genealogist, new ser. vol. xii.; Church Quarterly Rev. Oct. 1892; English Hist. Rev. Oct. 1886, and July 1895.]

* this wording was substituted for the original in the Dictionary of National Biography: Errata (1904)

Children: Married (2nd): Francis Newdigate in 1558
Francis was born on 25 October 1519, the son of John Newdigate, of Moor Hall, Harefield, Middlesex and Arbury, Warwickshire, and Anne Hilton. Following his marriage to the Duchess of Somerset, Francis sat in Parliament three times, representing Great Bedwyn in 1559, Chippenham in 1563 and Middlesex in 1571 (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for NEWDIGATE, Francis (1519-82), of Hanworth, Mdx.) Francis died on 26 January 1581(2).

The Gentleman's Magazine vol 177 pp374 (Sylvanus Urban, 1845)
  On recovering her freedom, the Duchess of Somerset adopted the course which was almost universal in former days with the most illustrious widows: she chose a protector not so much of her person as her property, and, in order to give him all the authority which the law could bestow, she made him her husband. The gentleman so distinguished in the present instance was Francis Newdegate, esquire. He had been Gentleman Usher to the Duke of Somerset, and suffered imprisonment with him in the Tower at the time of his disgrace. He was a younger son of John Newdegate, esquire, of Harefield, in Middlesex.
...   Mr. Newdegate died before the Duchess, in the year 1581. By his will he left everything to her; “according as I have received all my preferment by the Duchess’s, marriage so do I, in few words, will and bequeath her all that I am able any way to give her.” He afterwards specifies mansion in Canon Row, Westminster, bought of Lord Hunsdon, the manor of Littleton in Middlesex, and that of Little Ashfield in Surrey.

Notes:
Anne was titled the Duchess of Somerset when her husband was created 1st Duke of Somerset in 1547. When her husband was sent to the Tower for the second time on 16 October 1551, Anne was also arrested and imprisoned there the following day, remaining there after her husband's execution and throughout the reign of Edward VI, probably being released by Queen Mary in July 1553.

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ANNE DUCHESS OF SOMERSET.
  THE lady here named was the second wife of the Protector Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. Mr. Lodge has remarked, in his memoirs accompanying the “Illustrious Portraits,” that “The Protector was twice married. By his first lady, Katharine, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Fillol, of Woodlands, in Dorsetshire, whom he repudiated, he had an only son, Edward. He married, secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton, in the county of Nottingham, to whose pride, insolence, intriguing spirit, and controul over his conduct, some writers have ascribed most of his misfortunes and errors.”
  The character given to the Duchess of Somerset in this passage is but the echo of what previous writers have said respecting her; but we must confess that our researches have hitherto failed to discover the evidence upon which it is founded, except in these two circumstances, that her children were preferred in the Duke’s inheritance to those of his former wife, and she had some dispute for precedency with the Queen Dowager (Katharine Parr).
  With the former matter, an arrangement which a superficial inquirer attributes to her influence, she had probably nothing to do. It was a sequence of the feelings under which Seymour had divorced his former wife, for a reason too sad to dwell upon;* and the same preference might have been given to the children of any lady that became his second wife.
  Born in 1497, and the mother of nine children, the marriage of Anne Stanhope to Sir Edward Seymour must have taken place at a date some years anterior to the time when Sir Edward’s sister Jane attracted the amorous regard of King Henry the Eighth.
  Sixteen days after the event which had so material an influence on his fortunes, the marriage of the King with Jane Seymour, Sir Edward was raised to the peerage by the title of Viscount Beauchamp, by patent dated June 5, 1536. On the 18th Oct. 1537 he was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Hertford, with remainder to the heirs male of his body thereafter to be begotten. As yet he had no son by his present wife, for Edward, afterwards Earl of Hertford, as he was eighty-three years of age when he died in 1621, was not born until 1538; though, as already suggested, some of the many daughters of the Duke, and perhaps the son Edward, supposed to have died young, were probably already born. In 1540, by Act of Parliament, 32 Hen. VIII., lands were settled upon the issue of his wife Anne.
  The descent of the Duchess of Somerset was not unworthy of her exalted fortunes. It is thus set forth upon her monument in Westminster Abbey:
  “A Princesse descended of noble lignage beinge daughter of the worthie knight Sir Edward Stanhope, by Elizabeth his wyfe, that was daughter of Sir Foulke Burgchier Lord Fitzwarin, from whome our moderne Erles of Bathe are spronge. Sonne was he unto William Lord Fitzwarin, that was brother to Henry Erle of Essex and Jhon lord Berners; whome William theire sire, sometyme Erle of Eu in Normandy, begat on Anne the sole heire of Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Gloucester, younger sonne to the mighty prince Kinge Edward the Third, and of his wyfe Aleanoure coheire unto the tenth Humfrey de Bohun that was Erle of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, High Constable of England.”
  It was shortly after the Earl of Hertford had assumed the office of Governor of King Edward VI. and Protector of the realm, that he was advanced to the of a Duke, and at no great interval of time his brother the Lord Admiral married the Queen dowager. Then (if ever) it was that the contention or rivalry took place between the wives of the King’s two uncles, which has formed the ground of the very severe character given to the Duchess of Somerset by Sir John Hayward, and by the numerous historical writers that have followed in his train. It appears to have been a question of precedency between the dowager of a deceased King and the wife of an existing Regent. All, however, that is known about it is that Sanders calls it “a very great contest:” and that Hayward, following Sanders, amplified and enlarged on it in more than one of those florid passages so frequent in his work. Sanders, indeed, had attributed a powerful and continued influence to the Duchess, which, if correctly stated, might have justified Sir John Hayward’s expressions: “Then arose,” he says, “a very great contest between Queen Katharine Parr and the Protector’s wife who should have the precedence; and the contest rested not in the women, but passed to the men; and, when the emulation continually increased, the Protector’s wife would not let her husband alone, till at last it came to pass that the Protector, who although he ruled the King yet was ruled by his wife, must cut off his brother, that nothing might be an hindrance to her will.”
  It is only necessary, however, to refer the reader to Mr. Lodge’s memoir of Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudeley, to prove how inaccurate a picture this gives of the progress of the discord between the two brothers Seymour; and, if Sanders has been deservedly characterised by Mr. Lodge as “a writer equally remarkable for vehemence of prejudice, and carelessness of truth,” it is but fair to ascribe to the same qualities those portions of the story which relate to the Duchess of Somerset. Yet Mr. Lodge has continued to designate her as “a woman of intolerable pride and malice,” at the same time that he condemns Sanders, and allows that Hayward neither sought for a corroboration of Sanders’s account, nor, if he had so done, would have succeeded. No one, certainly, was ever more grossly slandered than was Anne Duchess of Somerset by Hayward, supposing that he proceeded on no better authority than the statements of Sanders: such, however, was apparently the case, and the acrimonious ingredients with which he embittered the potion must be ascribed to his ambition of fine writing, and a certain lurking prejudice against any wife that was assumed to be “a controler and director” of her husband. But the reader must judge of the passage for himself.
  “— the first cause proceeded from the pride, the haughty hate, the unquiet vanity of a mannish, or rather of a develish, woman. For the lord Sudley had taken to wife Katharine Parre, Queen dowager to King Henry the Eighth, a woman adorned with many excellent virtues, especially humility, the beauty of all others. The Duke had taken to wife Anne Stanhope, a woman for many imperfections might intolerable, but for pride monstrous. She was exceeding both subtile and violent in accomplishing her ends, for which she spurned over all respects both of conscience and shame. This woman did bear such invincible hate, first against the Queen dowager, for light causes, and women’s quarrels, especially for that she had precedency of place before her, being wife to the greatest peer of the land; next to lord Sudley for her sake; that, albeit the Queen dowager died by childbirth, yet would not her malice either die or decrease, but continually she rubbed into the Duke’s dull capacity, That the lord Sudley, dissenting from him in opinion of religion, sought nothing more than to take away his life, as well in regard of the common cause of religion, as thereby haply to attain his place. Many other things she boldly feigned, being assured of easie belief in her heedless hearer, always fearful and suspicious (as of feeble spirit), but then more than ever by reason of some late opposition against him. Her perswasions she cunningly intermixed with teares, affirming that she would depart from him; as willinger to hear, both of his disgraces and dangers, than either to see the one, or participate of the other. The Duke, therefore, imbracing this woman’s counsel,” &c.
  Such is too often the “romance” of history.
  On the Duke of Somerset’s second and fatal disgrace the Duchess was sent to the Tower, on the day after her husband, the 16th Oct. 1551. The Duke was beheaded on the 22d Jan. 1551-2. The Duchess remained in the Tower during the remainder of the reign of Edward the Sixth, and was probably released after the accession of Queen Mary in July 1553. The following curious records of her imprisonment have been preserved:
    “The Daily Dietts of the Duches of Somerset, being in the Towre.
      (MS. Lansdowne 118, art. 32.)
By the Day.                                                         }   xjs
  Dyner                                                   }  vs ixd
    Mutton stewed with potage     viijd
    beef boilde                               viijd
    boilde mutton 1 legg                vd
    veale rost                                  xd
    Capon rost                                ijs iiijd
    Connys ij                                  xd
  Supper  }  iijs id
    Mutton and potage                   vjd
    slysed beef                               vijd
    Mutton rost                              viijd
    Connys ij                                  xd
    Larkes 1 doz. or other              vjd
  Dyner and Supper  }                           }   ijs ijd
    Bred                                         xd
    bere                                          viijd
    Wyne                                        viijd
Sum of theis Dietts as appere                         }  iiijlbs xvijs 
    By the weke                            lxxvijs
    Wood, coalls and candells by the weke xxs
  “Memorandum, that the leutenant dothe fynde the said Duches all nappry, plate, pewter vessaille, spice, and rosting of her meat, butter to baist the same, with divers other charges incedents, as venigre, musterd, verjous, onyens, salletes, and other.
  “Also the lady Page, being for the most part with the said Duches, withe ij gentilwomen and one man attending on her, for whome is none allowance to the leutenant,”
  In an account rendered by Sir Arthur Darcy, Lieutenant of the Tower, 5–6 Edw. VI, (MS. Harl. 28,) also occurs this passage:
  “The Lady of Somerset for her Dietts from the last of October unto the first of Maye, beinge xxvj wekes at cs the weeke, cxxxli; and for ij gentilwomen attending on her the same tyme at xxs the weke, xxvjli; for thre of the kynges majesties servaunts attending on her xv wekes, ending the xiijth of February, at xs a man the weke, xxijli xs; for her cooke for the said xxvj wekes at vis vijd the weke, viijli xiijs iiijd; for ij of the leutenant’s men attending on her from the said xiijth of February, after the discharge of the kings servaunts, to the forsaid first of Maye, being vj wekes, at xvjs viijd the weke, ixli iijs iiijd. And for fewell and candell for the said xxvj wekes, at xxs the weke, xxvjli, Total, ccxxijli xjs viijd.”
  In the beginning of 1553, 100l. was assigned to the Duchess out of the profits of the late Duke’s lands, by a letter of order to the Chancellor of the Augmentations, to be paid to the Lieutenant of the Tower for her use: and, it being the time of Easter, leave was given to Bishop Hooper, formerly the Duke’s chaplain, to visit her.
  On recovering her freedom, the Duchess of Somerset adopted the course which was almost universal in former days with the most illustrious widows: she chose a protector not so much of her person as her property, and, in order to give him all the authority which the law could bestow, she made him her husband. The gentleman so distinguished in the present instance was Francis Newdegate, esquire. He had been Gentleman Usher to the Duke of Somerset, and suffered imprisonment with him in the Tower at the time of his disgrace. He was a younger son of John Newdegate, esquire, of Harefield, in Middlesex.
  A letter of Mr. Newdegate to Lord Burghley, in which the Duchess inserts a part, is indicative of amiable feelings.
  [MS. Lansdowne, No. 13, art. 30.]
“To the right honrable my L. Burley, principall Secretary to the Q. Maty, and one of her hygh[n]es’ prvy cownsell at Courte.
  “Pleaseth your Lordship (accordyng to th’effect of your letter, dated 3o Sep. and delyvered 11o) I have moved my La. grace for her interest in Combe Nevell, who hath not only referryd the matter over unto me, but also wisht me any way therin to pleasure your Lordship. Wherfor this only respect I have, that my Ladys grace’ yerly rent be not dimynished by me whiles I live, and therafter may it please you to commande any such conveyance to be made as wherby my Ladys grace may be assured of her rent without sute, and yt shalbe most willingly assented unto at both our hands. And so with my La. grace wishing you and yours all good, and the offre of my redy duety in all servise, I humbly take my leave.
  “From Hanworth, 13o Sep. 1571.
  Then follows, in the Duchess’s own hand,—
  “Good my lord, because you shall knowe the uttermost payne for your ferme, the fyne shalbe that you and my Lady contynew to let me have some of your renysh wyne when you chaunse upon good. And so, notwithstanding master Newdegates takyng leve for me in his leter, with myne owne hande I wret thys my herty well-wyshyng to you and all yowrs, and therwith comyt you to God.
  “Your lovyng frynd in what I may,
        “ANNE SOMERSET.
“Your Lordship’s most redy to command,
        “F NEWDEGATE.”
  And another letter of the Duchess, in which she undertakes the defence of Mr. Newdegate from an attack of the Lord Chamberlain (Hunsdon) is no unfavourable specimen either of her or her affection:
    [MS. Lansdowne, No. 18 art. 89.]
”To the Ryght Honorable my Lorde Tresorer of England.
  ”My good Lorde, stylle as I am perplexed I cannot but unfold my cares unto you. By redyng my L. Chamberlaynes leter and my answer you may knowe my grefe. The lyke was never offered to any, nor the lyke threats of contempt, withowt offendyng any law, have ben gyven owt as to Mr. Newdegat. Yf your Lordship canne do any good to stay thys defacement to the world, I wolld be glad of yt; yf not, I pray you thynke yt hath eased my stomacke to make you partener of my troubles. My fre offryng and yeldyng deserveth not such extremytes. And so wyshyng God to mend all malycyous procurers therof, I pray for the Queen’s Majesty, and wysh you good helth and long life.
  “From Hanworth, the xx of Apryll [1574].
      “Yor L. most assured frynd,
        “ANNE SOMERSET.”
  Hanworth in Middlesex, from whence letters were written, had been a royal residence; and it was within its walls that the youthful Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) had been subjected to those importunities of the Lord Seymour of Sudeley to which ambition rather than any softer passion had prompted him. It was granted to Anne Duchess of Somerset for life in the year 1558.
  Mr. Newdegate died before the Duchess, in the year 1581. By his will he left everything to her; “according as I have received all my preferment by the Duchess’s, marriage so do I, in few words, will and bequeath her all that I am able any way to give her.” He afterwards specifies mansion in Canon Row, Westminster, bought of Lord Hunsdon, the manor of Littleton in Middlesex, and that of Little Ashfield in Surrey.
  After this, the Duchess of Somerset lived on, to a very advanced age, accumulating great stores of wealth, that it became a matter of interest, not only to her children and immediate connections, but even to the Queen herself how it should be bestowed. The Duchess had been dissatisfied with the conduct of her younger son, Lord Henry Seymour, and was inclined to favour the elder, Lord Hertford. He had suffered much from the displeasure of the Crown, in consequence of his alliance with the sister of Lady Jane Grey, whilst Lord Henry had acquired the favour of the Queen as one of her courtiers and servants. With these few preliminary observations, the following very curious documents will tell their own story.
A Copy of the Duchess of Somerset’s Will, July 14, 1586.
[Burghley Papers, MS. Lansd. 50, art. 90.]
  In the name of God. Amen. The xiiij day of Julie, in the yeare of our Lord God 1586. I ANNE by the goodness of God DUCHESSE OF SOMERSET, considering the many yeres wherwith God hath blessed me, and the sicknes wherwith I am visited, doe in perfect mynde and remembrance make this my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First, I thank God in Christ Jesus that he hath long agoe called me to the knowledge and love of the Gospell, and ever since kept me therein to an assured hope of life everlasting, thorough faith in the righteousnes of Jesus Christ alone. In which faith I recomend my bodie to the dust whence it was taken, and my soule into the most mercifull handes of him that redemed it, to be kept of him till it shalbe reunited to the bodie in that glorious daye of the resurrection of all flesh. Secondly, I geve thanks to God allso for the temporall blessings of my landes, goodes, and chatells, which I dispose to my childeren, servaunts, the poore, and others, as followeth.
  First, I geve to my sonne the Earle of Hertford, and his heyres for ever, all my mansion howse situate in Chanon rowe, within Westminster, in the Countie of Middlesex, with the howsholde and furniture therof. Item, I geve him a glasse of cristall dressed with gould, a basen and ewer all gilt plaine, a payr of gilt pottes, a payer of flagons newe bought, iij gilt trenchers, a spone of gould not foulded, iiij other spones gilt antique fashion. Item, I geve him ij of the fayrest gilt bowles with covers, a salt of cristall, and my beast cheane of greate pearle with long beades of goulde betwene, a fayer juel of diamondes, and a greate pearle worth by estimation about xxxl.
  Item, I geve to his wife my daughter of Hertford a fayer tablet to weare with antique work of one syde and a row of diamondes on the other syde. Item, I geve her a clock of gould work worth about xxxl.
  Item, I geve to my sonne the Lord Henry Seymour xiij hundred powndes of lawfull English monie, over and above the vij hundred I have allreadie geven him towards the payment of his debts. Item, I geve him a fayer jewel of an egret with divers stones. Item, I geve him ij bowles silver and gilt, with ewers, and a basen and ewer of sylver.
  Item, I geve to my daughter the Ladie Marie Rogers all my lease and tearme of yeres in the manner and ferme of Ashford, in the countie of Middlesex, which I have fermed of (blank). Item, I geve her a harkenet of pearle, in number about c.c.c. two ropes of perle, in number about ij thousand, a lace with small pearle, a jewel of jacinth rownd with small pearle, a cople of bowles with covers, a spice box of sylver with the furniture of it, a ladle sylver and gilt, and my saddel embroydered with black velvet.
  Item, I geve to my daughter the Ladie Elizabeth Knightley a greate cheane of pearle with true-loves, a jewel of a balist, ij great standing cuppes sylver and gilte, a jugge of stone fayer dressed with sylver and gilt, and a skellet of sylver.
  Item I geve to my sonne Beuchamp* ij hundred powndes of lawfull English monie and a cheane of pearle and gould with friers’ knottes, the gould by estimation worth about LXXXl.
  Item, I geve to my sonne Thomas Seymour† a hundred powndes of lawful English monie and a cheane worth about LXl,
  Item, I geve to my sonne Beuchampes wife a booke of gould kept in a grene purse and a payer of bracelets without stones.
  Item, I geve to my daughter Maries husband a cheane of gould black.
  Item, I geve to my daughter Elizabethes husband one of my ringes that hath the best diamonds.
  Item, I geve to my goddaughter Anne Knightley five hundred powndes of lawful English monie and a rope of small pearle, in number about a thousand.
  Item, I geve to my Lord Treasurer a jugge of cristall with a cover dressed with sylver and gilt, and a ring with an emerald.
  Item, I geve to my nephew John Stanhope the fortie powndes he oweth me.
  Item, I geve to my nephew Michael Stanhope a piller of gould with viii diamondes.
  Item, all the reast of my plate not geven before I geve to my fower childeren equally to be devided betwene them.
  Item, I geve a cofer of sheetes and pillowberes and a case standard with fine white naperie to my two daughters, equally to be devided. Item, I geve to the same my ij daughters my apparell, equally allso to be devided.
  Item, I geve to my servant Wm. Dickinson tenne powndes of lawfull English money, to be paide him for an annuitie or pension by myne executor during his life. Item, I geve to Richard Saunders, my servant, five powndes of lyke lawfull English monie, to be paide him by myne executor for a yearly pension during his life. Item, I geve to Richard Lanckeshire, John Trodde, and mother Gardener, to every one of them a yerely pension of 40s. to be payde them by myne executor during there lives. Item, I geve to all the rest of my gentilmen, yeomen, and gromes, and others in ordinarie, a yeres wages.
  Item, I geve to Margaret Ashhurst all my wearing linnen, which is in her keeping, and a new black satten gowne. Item, I geve to Anne Jones 40s. Item, I geve to Mrs. Ansley a gowne of wrought velvet furred thorough with cunnie. Item, I geve to Jane Seymour 1001 of lawfull English mony.
  Item, I geve to godly and poor students in the ij Universites xxl, xl to the one and xl to the other.
  Item, I geve to the poor prisoners in London xx markes, willing that these ij legacies be distributed by ij godly preachers.
  The rest of all my landes, tenements, rentes, plate, jewells, with other goodes, leases, chattles, horses, mares, geldinges, oxen, shepe, and all other stock and store, together with all mony, debts, now or hereafter dew, by bonde, covenant, or otherwise, my debts and legacies being payd, I geve to my sonne the Earle of Hertford, whom I make and appoint my sole executor, to see my debts payd and my legacies faithfully performed, and my funeralls discharged according to this my last will and testament. In witness whereof, to this my last will and testament, I have subscribed my name with myne own hande, and putte my seale this daye and yere abovesayd.
    Signed,     ANNE SOMERSET.
  Postscriptum. Memorandum, that there is no materiall enterlyning, but the gown geven to Mrs. Ashhurst, these wordes, “lawfull English monie,” and abowt the recitall of the goodes, tenements, leases, &c.
    Witnesses. THO. PENNEY. THO. MUFFET. W. CHARKE.
  Endorsed. This was acknowledged and avowed by her Grace the Duchess of Somerset to be her last will and testament, we witnesses whose names are under written.
  Tho. Penney. Tho. Muffet. W. Charke.
  The will is followed in the MS. by
  An Inventorie of the jewells, plate, money, and other goodes of the late Duchesse of Somerset, taken at Hanworthe the xxjth of Aprell 1587, by John Wolley, one of her Majesties pryvie councill, and John Fortescue, master of her saide Majesities greate wardrobe, by order from her Majestie, in presence of the right honble Earle of Harforde, Henry Lorde Seymour, Ser Recharde Knightley knight, Andrew Rogers esquier, Willm. Dyckenson, and Richarde Sawnders.
    In a copher of crimson vellette.
  Imprimis, a chaine of pearle, and golde, black inamiled with knottes.
  Item, a carkenette of golde and pearle with knottes, with a pendant saphire, with a fayer pearle annexed.
  Item, a carkenette of pearle and padlockes of golde.
  Item, a chayne of fayer pearle, furnished with pipes of golde, inamyled with blacke.
  Item, a playne chayne of golde with small linkes.
  Item, a pomaunder chayne, with small beades of pomaunder and trew-loves of pearle, and many small pearles, to furnishe the same, with a pendant of mother of pearle, and a little acorde appendant.
  Item, a salte of golde fashioned like a bell.
  Item, a fawcon of mother of pearle, furnished with diamondes and rubyes, standing upon a ragged staffe of fayer diamondes and rubyes.
  Item, a greate jacincte, garnished with flowers of golde and pearle, with a lesse jacincte on the backe side, with a fayer pearle appendante.
  Item, a tablette of golde of a storie furnished with diamondes and rubies, with a pearle appendante.
  Item, a tablette of golde made like an artichoke, blacke and blew ennamyled.
  Item, an aggatte sette in golde, garnished with small pearle, with a pearle appendante.
  Item, a booke of golde with artichokes, of daye worke, upon blacke vellett.
  Item, a payer of flaggen braceletts of golde playne, in each bracelette a jacincte.
      Jewells.
  Item, a payer of braceletts of golde, wrought like scallope shelles with hollowe worke.
  Item, a dowble rope of pearle of one ell longe.
  Item, a fayer pendant of mother of pearle, flourished with gold, like an S.
  Item, twentie-eight small rubies unsett.
  Item, three pearles, whearof two pendants.
  Item, a dowble rope of pearle of one yarde iij quarters longe.
  Item, a chayne of pearle of a bigger sorte, of fower dowble.
  Item, a lyllie potte of golde with a sea water stone in the myddle, with two pearles pendant.
  Item, two fayer emerauldes set in collettes of ledde.
  Item, a little tablette of golde, enamelled with golde, with a pearle appendante.
  Item, a piller of golde garnished with eight dyamondes.
  Item, ninetene amythystes, wheareof one greate one.
  Item, a fayer jewell of golde sette with diamondes on both sides, bordered with small pearles.
  Item, a greate tablette of golde enamyled blacke and white, garnished on the one side with an aggatte and sixe rubies, and on the other side with twelve diamonds.
  Item, a tablett of golde curiouslie wrought, sette with sixe fayer diamonds, and three fayer pearles, wheareof one pendante.
  Item, a tablette of golde garnished rownde with small pearles, with a greate ballaste in the middeste, and a pearle pendante.
  Item, a fayer square tablette of golde like an H, with fower diamondes, and a rocke rubie or ballast in the middeste, garnished with pearles, and a pearle pendante.
  Item, a spectakle* case of golde.
  Item, a chayne of golde, innamyled blacke.
  Item, a booke of golde innamyled blacke.
  Item, a spone of golde inamyled blacke.
  Item, a bodkynne of golde, with clawes in the ende, inamyled blacke.
  Item, two peeces of unicorn’s horne in a redde taffeta purse.
  Item, a foldinge spone of golde.
  Item, a little signette of golde, with her Graces owne crestte.†
    In the same copher of crimson vellette.
  1. Item, a blewe knytte silke purse, with an hundred pounds in angells and crowns.
  Then follows the description of twenty-one other purses, each containing one hundred pounds or rather more.
    In a blacke vellett jewell copher—Jewells.
  Item, a confecte boxe of golde like a scallope shell.
  Item, a payer [of] bracelettes of fayer pearle with bugle, the pearles in number fower score and eight.
  Item, a payer of bracelettes of currall cutte like acorns, laced with small pearles.
  Item, in a little blacke boxe sixe ringes sette with diamondes, some les and some bigger.
  Item, in an other little blacke boxe two ringes of golde, one with a fayer emeralde, and the other with a rubye.
  Item, in an other boxe two ringes, the one a topis, the other a small rubye.
  Item, in an other little boxe one little ringe with a diamond.
  Item, in a little white boxe divers sortes of course pearles.
  Then follows an enumeration of thirty more bags and purses of gold, each containing one hundred pounds, half of which were “In a square green copher of vallence;” and half “In a compasse green copher of vallence.” Her treasures in gold amounted therefore to 50001.
A brefe note of the Depositions of the Witnesses concerninge the Testament of the late Duches of Somerset.
    [MS. Lansdowne 50, art. 91.]
  The said Duches upon the xiiij of July, 1586, upon good advice and deliberacon, caused her testament to be written by Mr. Charke, preacher, and therein bequeathed divers particular legacies to her children, servants, and frends, and the residue of her goods (her debts, legacies, and charges deducted) her Grace gave to her sonne the Earl of Hertford, and him made her onely executor; which will she did subscribe and seale up before Mr. Charke, and caused her twoo phisitions, viz. Doctor Penney, and Doctor Muffitt, to be called in unto her; and before them and the said Mr. Charke did acknowledge the same to be her last will and testament, and desired them to bare wittness thereof, and to subscribe their names to the same, which they did accordinglye. (Thomas Penny, fol. lmo. Tho. Muffitt, fol. 18mo. ex parte d’ni Henr. ad primum interr. Willmus. Charke, fol. 12, ad 5tum artic. ex parte Comitis.)
  The said will, after the death of the said Duches, was found in her closett shutt up in her chefe jewell chest, laid up among her chefe jewells. (Willmus. Dickinson, fol. 9mo. ex parte Comitis. Richus. Saunders, fol. 11, ad 8 ar.)
  Upon the vijth of Aprill, 1587, Sir Thomas Gorge, knight, came to her Grace to Hanworth, from the Quenes Majestie, about xi of the clocke before dynner, and delivered his message unto her, and used such reasons and perswasions unto her Grace as is contayned in a schedull here unto annexed.” Sir [Thomas Gorges.]
  After dynner her Grace sent for Sir Thomas Gorge, and made answare unto his message as followeth: ‘My good cozen, I have thought upon your last motion, touching puttinge Harrye in truste, and am fullye resolved thereen to follow her Majesties deuise (undertakinge so gratiouslye for his faithfulnes), and my last will is her Majesties will; and so I praye you saye, cosen, from me,’ &c. Upon which speches her Grace sent a ring to her Majestie and desired them to bare wittnes, and that it should be kept secret from both her sonnes. (Sir Thomas Gorge. Dr. Muffitt, as in the schedule annexed. The Lady Marye Rogers, “I have thought upon your last motion before dynner, and am determined to yeald to putt Harrye in trust, for my will is the Quenes will.” Fol. 5to. ex parte d’ni Henrici, ad 3 artic.)
  Upon the next daye, beinge the viijth of Febru. in the morninge, the Earle of Hertford came to her bedside, and said to her Grace as followeth: ‘I understand that Sir Thomas Gorge hath bin with your Grace from the Queen’s Majestie, and I cannot learne what the matter is, and I praye God that both her Majestie, your Grace, and myself, are not abused by him; but if it be to take away any trust reposed upon me, and to laye it upon my brother Harrye, I beseche you Grace to lett me understand it, and I shalbe very well contented withall.’ Whereunto she answeringe said, ‘No, no, sonne, their is no such matter.’ (Thomazina Harrington, ex parte Comitis, fol. 6, ad 10 artic. Margareta Ashehurst, fol. 7, ad 10 ar. Jana Seymer, fol. 10, ad 4 interr. ex parte d’ni Henric. D. Maria Rogers, fol. 8, ad 5 interr. deposeth of the question, but doth not remember the answare.)
  Upon Good Fridaye followinge, being the xiiijth of April, Doctor Muffitt, seinge her Grace to be verye weake, and more like to dye then to live, did not onelye advetise her Grace of her weaknes, but also earnestlye moved her to sett all things in order; and whereas he was made a witness of her Grace’s message sent to the Quenes Majestie by Sir Thomas Gorge, he requested her that she woulde suffer him to explaine the same to them that were present, to the ende that all controversie betwene her children might be cutt awaye after her decease, to the which she answaringe said, ‘No, no, what nedes it?’ Whereupon the said Dr. Muffitt answaringe said, ‘Is it then your Grace’s pleasure to doo for my Lord Harrye accordinge to your Grace’s message sent unto her Majestie by Sir Thomas Gorge?’ To the which her Grace answared, ‘Yea, yea.’ (Thomas Muffitt, fol. 17, ad 10 artic. ex parte d’ni Henric. D. Maria Rogers, fol. 7, ad 10 artic. ex parte d’ni Henric. Jane Seymer, fol. 9, ad 10 artic. Elizabeth Peckham, fol. 12, ad eund. articul. Tho. Penny, fol. 2, ex parte Comitis.) “Your G. will is accordinge to her Majesties message sent unto you by Sir Tho. Gorge, and her G. answaringe said, ‘Yea, yea,’”)
  The next document has two indorsements.
  (1) The breaviat, with the note of the deposition of Sir Tho. Gorge and D. Muffitt annexed.
  (2) The message done by Sir Thomas Gorge, and his owne perswations to the Duchesse.
  Upon Fridaye, beinge the seaventh of Aprill, 1587, abowte eleven of the cloke in the forenoone, Sir Thomas Gorges, knight, entered into her Graces chamber whilst I and the howsehold weare at prayers in the chapple; from thence I was called into her Graces chamber, and requested by her Grace and Sir Thomas Gorges to beare record of a messuadge which he had brought from her Majestie to my ladies Grace, which was this:
  That her Majestie, understandinge by Doctor Baylie of her Graces weaknes, thought it good to advertise her of one thinge, the performance whereof should be right acceptable to her Majestie, and also moste honorable for her Grace, namelie, she would especiallie be good to my Lord Henrye; and that, as his eldest brother was made the father’s sonne by descente of so noble and great a birthright, so likewise my Lord Henrye might be made a sonne by the mother’s side beinge especiallie enriched by her goodnes. This request he also said in her Majesties name to be moste wise and reasonable.
  “First, because he was poore and had moste need of healpe; contrariwise, my lord of Hertford was riche, and neded not the like healpe.
  “Secondlie, that whatsoever her Grace hearetofore obteyned for the betteringe and mainteyninge of her estate, hit was uppon her erneste complainte that otherwise she knewe not howe to provide for her younger children; for, albeit the elder was well provided for, yeat without further maintenance the youngest (beinge all a Duke’s children) should have nothinge to further themselves withall in the world; whearfore, yf your Grace (said Mr. Gorges) shall leave that to your eldest sonne which was given for the relieff of yourselfe and your younger poore children, hit may be thought that the prince was deluded by you, and turne to your great dishonor.
  “Thirdlie, that it weare a thinge agreable to her Grace’s singular wisdome, to make as many heads of her howse as possible she might; contrariwise to advance only one sonne (and hym moste honorablye provided for) and to prese downe the other, was a thinge nether politique in itselfe, nether of comone example amongste the wiseste.
  “Lastelie, he added that her Majestie hade also especiall cawse to tender my Lord Henrye so muche the more, becawse he hade benne these many yeres her faithfull servant, and moste prudentlie and sincerelie discharged many matters of truste; and also that She had purposed againe to have imployed him by sea or by lande, wear it not that she comaunded him to tender his mother’s healthe, and hade rather looke out other to supploye his place, then her Grace should want the benifite of his attendance, whearfore she expecteth (saied Mr. Gorges) that your Grace should espetiallie do for hym; and yf you laye any charge of truste uppon him (be it executorship or what soever), her Majestie will (I dare say) promise for his faithfulnes, and undertake he shall trewlie discharge it, otherwise she would prove his moste heavie mistris, and denaye him her service and favour.”
    Her Grace’s Answeare.
  “I moste humblie thanke her Majestie that she vouchsafeth not only to tender my health, but also myne honour, and trewlie Harrie shall fare never a whitt the worse for her good oppinion of him, but much the better. As for makinge him mine executor I cane not do it, for I have alredie made another.”
  “Whye, madame (saied Mr. Gorges), so longe as you leve you may make ether the Lord Henrye your executore, or whom you will; and yf you mislike the demeanour of my Lord Henrie, you may prefere my lord of Hertford againe; yet, madame, I will urge you to nothinge; I only shew what her Majestie wisheth and counseleth, as your deare freind and soveraigne, namlie, that your espetiall favour in all thinges should be bestowed uppon him, and that yf you truste him with any thinge I deare saye her Majestie will undertake for his uprighte dealinges.”
      Her Grace’s Answeare.
  “I praye you, cozine Gorges, goo to dinner, and in the meane season I will advise of this pointe.” So we departed.
  After dinner her Grace called for us againe, and of her selfe, without any farther speache or motion used by any, uttered these words:
  “My good cozine, I have thought uppon your laste motion, touchinge puttinge Harrie in truste, and am fullie resolved therein to followe her Majesties devise (undertakinge so gratiouslie for his faithfulnes); and my laste will is her Majesties will, and so I pray you saye, cozine, from me; and I praye you returne my moste hartie and humble thankes unto her Majestie for thinkinge so well of my sonne, and so carefullie tenderinge his estate, as also for her love shewed alwaies to my nephewes John and Michael, desiringe her to continewe the same.”
    Mr. Gorges.
  “Will it please your G. to comaund me any farther service, or to send some ringe or token in witnes that you will it thus towards my Lord Henrie.”
    Her Grace.
  “Yes;” and kissinge a ringe delivered it unto him, and willed me and my Lady Marie† to beare record thereof, prayinge moste godlie and hartilie (even with teares) for the preservation of her Majesties liffe many yeres.
    Mr. Gorges.
  “Her Majestie wilbe very glade of your Graces answeare touchinge my Lord Henrie; neverthelesse, she would not that all love should be so conveyed to him, but that you should also carrie a natural and lovinge affection towards my Lord of Hartford, your righte honorable sonne, and sometimes my old master, desiringe you to love him stille, and to make muche of hime, who (as he himselfe hath often protested) wilbe glade of his brothers prosperitie, and often hath he wished that my Lord Henrie might be pute in truste with your goodes, and not hymselfe; whearfore, beinge a thinge that he himselfe hath desired, and this beinge donne not for any evell opinions conceaved of him, but for betteringe of his brothers estate, I doubt not but he wilbe contented.”
    Her Grace.
  “Yet I beseeche you all to let nether him nor Harrye knowe of it as yet;” which havinge promised, we departed.
  It is remarkable that much of the Duchess of Somerset’s plate may be traced as late as 1618 in the will of Sir Valentine Knightley (124 Meade) whose father had married for his second wife one of the Duchess’s daughters.
  The Duchess died on Easter Day, April 16, 1587, at ninety years of age: when, according to her epitaph, “with firme faith in Christ, in most mylde manner rendred she her life.” Her body was interred in Westminster abbey, where her monument still remains. It is one of those gigantic erections which contribute to block up the various chapels, and occupies, to the height of twenty-four feet, the very spot where anciently stood the altar in the chapel of St. Nicholas. An effigy of the Duchess, in her robes as a peeress, is placed on a sarcophagus in its front. Engravings of this will be found in Dart’s Westminster Abbey, plate 23, and in Akermann’s Westminster Abbey, plate 31: where also, and in Neale and Brayley’s History, the epitaph, both in Latin and English, will be found.
  A portrait at Strawberry Hill, said to be painted by Sir Anthonio More, was attributed to Anne Duchess of Somerset; and an engraving of it, by T. Nugent, was published in Harding’s Biographical Mirrour, 1792. It represents a young woman, in the costume of Queen Mary’s reign, holding in her right hand her gloves and in her left a miniature. It is not, therefore, the Duchess, who was then more than fifty years of age, but possibly represented another “Anne Stanhope.”
  Eight letters of the Duchess of Somerset to Lord Burghley occur among his papers, and may be found as follows:
  1565, Jan. 9. Soliciting the release of her son, the Earl of Hertford, and his bride. MS. Lansd. 8, art. 43. Printed by Strype, Annals, II, 445.
  1566, Apr. 18. On the same subject. MS. Lansd. 9, art. 32.
  1571, Sept. 13. Now printed.
  1574, April 20. Also now printed.
  1576, Dec. 12. Recommending Mr. Druse for preferment. MS. Lansd. 22, art. 87.
  1581, May 7. Recommending Edward Stanhope, her nephew, to be a Master of Requests. MS. Lansd. 33, art. 3.
  1582, July 17. On the conveyance of the manor of Asted to her son Henry. MS. Lansd. 36, art. 5.
  —July 22. This letter mentions “some unnaturall and unjust dealing used by Henry towardes me.” Ibid. art. 6.
  There is another document in the British Museum, which though it has been erroneously connected with the Duchess of Somerset, yet requires notice here from having been made the occasion for Strype’s adoption of those very severe views of her character which he had found in the pages of Hayward. This occurs in his Life of Sir Thomas Smith, as follows:
  “Yet he had his share of trouble and sorrow; as, the anger of his haughty mistress, the Duchess of Somerset, and many unjust imputations that were raised against him, whereto she gave too much credit; which was the cause of a large letter, which he addressed unto her; wherein he vindicated himself against many slanders which were told the Duchess; whereof she had twitted him in the teeth.” *  *  “Indeed, she was an imperious and ill-natured woman, and had taken some occasion to fall out with him; and in her passion, it seems, had cast out these reports before him.”
  Now this document, which Strype ought to have printed at length in a Life of Sir Thomas Smith, particularly if he had really apprehended the person to whom it was addressed,) but to which he does not even give a reference, is still existing in the MS. Harl. 6989, art. 84, and is described in the printed Catalogue with the same error as that committed by Strype—
  “Sr. Thomas Smith to the Dutchess of Somerset, in vindication of himself against certain Reflections about his acquisition of Wealth.”
But the document was evidently addressed to the Duke of Somerset, not the Duchess. The blunder arose from the indorse, in which the word Duke was first written “Duch,” and then by a second hand, (Strype’s own, it is believed,) altered from misapprehension to “Duches.”
  There is, then, no evidence to show that the Duchess interfered with the affairs of Sir Thomas Smith, and Strype’s abuse of her on this occasion is consequently gratuitous.
  In his Life of Cheke, Strype again speaks of her as “a very imperious woman,” and “this lofty lady,” founding those epithets on a letter written by Cheke to the Duchess in Jan. 1549, to excuse some offence which his wife had given to her Grace. The original of this letter is in the Burghley Papers, MS. Lansd. 2, art. 34.
  The children of the Duchess of Somerset are thus enumerated in her epitaph.
  “Edward Earl of Hertford.”
  “Henry.” He married Lady Jane Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland.
  “Another Edward,” probably one who died in infancy before the birth of the Earl of Hertford, as he is not otherwise mentioned.
  “Anne Countess of Warwick:” whose memorable marriage took place when the feud between her father and the Duke of Northumberland was temporarily patched up. She was subsequently the wife of Sir Edward Unton, K.B. and at length died insane.
  “Margaret,” who during the period of her father’s elevation was destined for the heir of the earldom of Derby, but subsequently died unmarried.
  “Jane.” This daughter her father is said to have endeavoured to contract to her cousin, King Edward. She died “in her virginitie” at the age of nineteen, the 19th March, 1550, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to her memory by her brother Viscount Beauchamp. See it engraved, with its epitaph, in Dart, pl. 12.
  “Mary;” married first to Andrew Rogers, esquire, and secondly to Sir Henry Peyton.
  “Katherine.” She died unmarried.
  “Elizabeth,” who became the second wife of Sir Richard Knightley.
          J. G. N.
 * To the name of Catharine Fillol in Vincent’s Baronage at the Herald’s College is this note: “repudiata, quia pater ejus post nuptias eam cognovit.” 
  * Her grandson, and probably also “son” by baptism.
  † His brother.
  * The old lady had recourse to the optician. This word was misprinted “sopertakle” by Strype. GENT. MAG. VOL. XXIII.
  † An impression of this appears to some of her letters, viz. the crest still used by the Stanhope family, a castle, therefrom issuant a demi-lyon, crowned, and holding in his paws a fireball.
  † Lady Mary Rogers

The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for NEWDIGATE, Francis (1519-82), of Hanworth, Mdx.)
Shortly before the marriage, and perhaps in preparation for it, the Duchess obtained from the Crown a grant of the manor of Hanworth, Middlesex, and it was as ‘of Hanworth’ that a few months later Newdigate sued out his general pardon. The manor, a royal property, had formerly been held and occupied by Catherine Parr, and it was in the manor house that the Princess Elizabeth had passed some of her early years. Of that house, which was to remain the couple’s principal residence for the remainder of their lives, parts of the walls and two large fireplaces alone survived a fire in 1797; but it must have been an imposing one and have reflected Newdigate’s dignity as a leading gentleman of the shire.

More information on Anne's life can be found in the 2013 thesis "A woman for many imperfections intolerable": Anne Stanhope, the Seymour family, and the Tudor court by Caroline Armbruster of Louisiana State University.

Death: 16 April 1587, at Hanworth Palace, Middlesex, England
Tomb of Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate
Tomb of Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate in Westminster Abbey. The ermine lining of her peerage robe is exposed as a play on her paternal arms of Stanhope: Quarterly ermine and gules, shown on escutcheons behind impaled by Seymour and impaling Bourchier. On the base are shown 4 Bourchier knots
photo by Bernard Gagnon in 2008  posted at wikipedia (Anne_Seymour,_Duchess_of_Somerset)
Effigy of Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate on her tomb
Effigy of Anne (Stanhope, Seymour) Newdigate on her tomb in Westminster Abbey
photo from An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 1, Westminster Abbey Plate 191 (1924)
Burial: St Nicholas chapel in Westminster Abbey
Her tomb is described in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 1, Westminster Abbey (1924)
The Chapel of St. Nicholas ...
Monuments and Floor-slab. Monuments: In N.E. bay—(1) of Anne (Stanhope), wife of Edward, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, 1587, large monument of various marbles, consisting of sarcophagus with effigy in recess with lofty superstructure. The shaped sarcophagus stands on a panelled plinth and is enriched with lions' heads and feet; the effigy (Plate 191) is in ermine-lined robes with French cap and coronet; at the feet is the Stanhope crest; the round-arched recess has a coffered soffit and an enriched inscription-tablet at the back with small shields-of-arms; flanking the recess are coupled Corinthian columns on pedestals, an entablature, two obelisks and a centre-piece; the centre-piece has a large achievement-of-arms flanked by columns and having entablature and obelisks all similar to those in the stage below; between the obelisks is a large three-towered castle with a lion on the top holding a fireball (the Stanhope crest); the bases of the lower obelisks have three shields and three lozenges-of-arms.

The inscription on Anne's tomb, transcribed at westminster-abbey.org reads:
  Heare lieth entombed the noble duchesse of Somerset, Anne, deere spouse unto the renowned prince Edward Duke of Somerset, Earle of Hertford, Viscount Beauchampe and Baron Seymour, Compaignon [Companion] of the most famous knightly Order of the Garter: uncle to King Edward the Sixt, Gouvernor of His Roial Person and most worthie Protector of all his realmes, dominions, and subiectes: Leiutenant Generall of all his armies: threasoror and Erle Marschall of England, Gouvernor and capitayne of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey: under whose prosperous conduct, glorious victory hath ben so often and so fortunatly obteyned over the Scottes, vanquished at Edinburgh, Leth [Leith], and Musselborough Field.
  A princesse discended of noble lignage, beinge daughter of the worthie knight Sr Edward Stanhope, by Elizabeth his wyfe that was daughter of Sr Foulke Bourghchier Lord Fitzwarin, from whome our moderne earles of Bathe ar spronge, sonne was he unto Willm. Lord Fitzwarin, that was brother to Henry, Earle of Essex and Ihon [John] Lord Berners: whome Willm. their sire sometyme Earle of Ev in Normandy, begat Anne the sole heire of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, yonger sonne to the mighty Prince, Kinge Edward the Third, and of his wyfe Aleanore, coheire unto the tenth Humphrey De Bohun that was Erle of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, High Constable of England.
  Many children bare this lady unto her Lord, of either sort: to witte Edward, Erle of Hertford, Henry, and a younger Edward: Anne, Countesse of Warwike, Margaret, Jane, Mary, Katherine, and Elizabeth. And with firme faith in Christ in most mylde maner renred she this life at XC yeres of age on Easter day, the sixtenth of Aprill Anno.M.CCCCC.LXXXVII.
  The Erle of Hertford, Edward her eldest sonne, in this dolefull dutie carefull and diligent, doth consecrate this monument to his deere parent: not for her honor wherewith lyvinge she did abounde and nowe departed flourisheth: but for the dutifull love he beareth her, and for his laste testification therof.

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Anne (Stanhope) Witham

Baptism: 2 January 1576(7) in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England
The Registers of St Helen's Bishopsgate p1 (ed. W. Bruce Bannerman, 1904)
    BAPTISMS.
1576. Jan. 2 Anne d. of Edward Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Married: _____ Witham

Notes:
Anne received a bequest in the will of her grandfather, Thomas Colshill of Chigwell, Essex, dated 23 April 1593, held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/85/243).
... Item I give and bequeathe to Ann Stanhope the daughter of Edward Stanhope one hundered markes

Anne received a bequest in the will of her uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased;

Anne is stated to be the eldest daughter in the will of her father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellor in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... to Anne Stanhope my eldest daughter in liew of her porcion or childes parte, the somme of one thouzand poundes to be paide her in three yeres viz: two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide One thowzand poundes at or vppon the feast daie of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One thowzand six hundred and fower, And two hundred and fiftie poundes in further payment of the saide one thowsande poundes at or vppon the saide feast day of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One thowzand six hundred and fiue, And Five hundred poundes residue of the said one thowzande poundes at or vppon the saide feast day of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and six in full payment of the saide One thowsand poundes, And nevertheles in respect that it will be soe longe before her saide porcion doe come into her handes, my will is that she shall haue for the saide first two yeares vntill she haue receuied fiue hundred poundes parte of her saide porcion of One thowsand poundes an allowance of fourtie poundes per Annum to be paied her quarterly for her private mainetenance, whereof the first payment to begynne at the Feast of sainte Michaell th'archangell next and soe quarterly for and during the saide terme of two yeres vntill she haue receiued the saide somme of fiue hundreth poundes

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Edward Stanhope

Birth: 1469 or 1470
Edward is stated to be 24 years old at the Inquisition Post Mortem of his grandfather, John Stanhope, held on 22 April 1494, and 30 years old at the Inquisition virtute officii of the same John Stanhope, held on 28 April 1500.

Father: Thomas Stanhope

Mother: Mary (Jerningham) Stanhope

Married (1st): Adelina Clifton

Children: Married (2nd): Elizabeth (Bourchier, Beaumont) Verney
Elizabeth was the daughter of Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin and Elizabeth Dynham. She married firstly Henry Beaumont, and secondly a husband surnamed Verney, by whom she had a daughter, Katherine Verney. Edward Stanhope was her third husband and after Edward death in 1511, Elizabeth married her fourth husband, Sir Richard Page, by whom she had a daughter, Elizabeth Page. Elizabeth died on 8 August 1557, and was buried on 11 August at Clerkenwell. A mini biography is on wikipedia (Elizabeth Bourchier (died 1557))

Elizabeth is mentioned in the IPM of her stepson, Richard Stanhope taken on 6 June 1528, in which she is described as "Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, late wife of Sir Edward Stanhope".
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp162-70 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Richard Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 18 June, 20 Henry viij [1528].
Inquisition taken at Retfford, 6 June, 20 Hen. viij [1528]
... The manor of Houghton is charged to the Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, late wife of Sir Edward Stanhope, knight in a yearly rent of 20 marks payable to the said lady for term of her life; and it is also charged to Edward Thurland, esquire, his heirs or assigns in 7 marks and a buck yearly or in default of such buck 3s. 4d.
... And the said manor, land and tenements in Houghton are held of the heir of Monbocher by one rose for all, and are worth yearly besides the said 20 marks of yearly rent payable to the Lady Elizabeth Stanhope and 7 marks payable yearly to Edward Thurland, 5 marks.

The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society p147 (1848)
  The xj day of August was bered at Clrakenwell my lade Page, with (unfinished).

Children: Notes:
Edward was a Royalist commander at the Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487. This is considered the last of the battles of the War of the Roses, confirming the earlier victory of Henry VII. Edward was knighted by Henry VII on 17 June 1497, at the Battle of Blackheath, against Cornish rebels. In 1508 and 1509, Edward was appointed Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests. His arms are described as "Sable a bend between six cross crosslets Argent" (The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer vol 2 p170 (Edward Walford, 1882)).

Edward is mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Sir Gervase Clifton, on 27 April 1491.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp64-70 (1869)
  April 27, 1491. I Gervas Clifton, knyght. ... To my son Edward Stanop oon of my best stagges in Hodessok park.

Edward's age is given in two inquisitions into the land held by his grandfather, John Stanhope. Edward is named as John's "kinsman and heir, to wit, son of Thomas his son" - presumably Edward's father, Thomas, predeceased John.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp10-2 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         John Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 10 May, 9 Henry vij [1494].
Inquisition taken at Notyngham, 22 April, 9 Henry vij [1494]; before Thomas Hunt, escheator, after the death of John Stanhope esquire, by the oath of Thomas Parsons, gentilman, Gervase Bampton, gentilman, Thomas Samon, gentilman, Thomas Burton, gentilman, Edward Hartop, yoman, Robert Buck, yoman, Robert Wryght, yoman, Robert Bales, yoman, Thomas Edrysche, yoman, Robert Blod, yoman, William Gresley, yoman, John Wright, yoman, Robert Grene, smyth, John Chapell and Ralph Whitchurche, yoman, who say that
  John Stanhope was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Rampton, Tuxford, Egmanton, Laxton and Skegby, 2 messuages, 40 acres of land, 51 acres of meadow, and 2 acres of wood in West Markam and Milneton.
  So seized, by his charter, long before his death, he enfeoffed Robert Markam, knight, Gervase Clyfton, Thomas Fitzwilliam, Thomas Molyneux, Robert Molyneux, John Leek and Ralph Stanhop, clerk, of the same property, to have and to hold to them their heirs and assigns for ever, to the intent that after his death the feoffees should make a sufficient estate in law of the said property to Edward Stanhop, kinsman and then heir apparent of the said John Stanhop and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten. By virtue whereof they were seized of the property in their demesne as of fee to the intent aforesaid.
  The manor of Rampton is held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by the eighth part of a knight’s fee and is worth yearly
besides reprises £20.
  The manor of Egmanton is held of the Duke of Norfolk by the tenth part of a knight’s fee, and is worth yearly besides reprises £18 6s. Sd.
  The manors of Laxton and Skegby are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by the tenth part of a knight’s fee and are
worth yearly besides reprises £10.
  The messuages, land and tenements in West Markham and Milneton are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by fealty, and are worth besides reprises 8s.
  The manor of Tuxford is held of the King in burgage and is worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  They say also that one Walter, Vicar of the Church of Laxton, was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Hoghton, 2 messuages, 2 oxgangs of land in Elkesley, 2 messuages, 2 oxgangs of land and a moiety of a watermill in Allerton.
  So seized, by his charter he gave that property to Thomas Languillers for term of life, and after Thomas’ death to remain to John son of Thomas and the heirs of his body for ever. In default of such issue to the right heirs of Thomas for ever. By virtue of
which gift Thomas was thereof seized as of his free tenement and died so seized. After whose death the property remained to the
said John Languillere and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and he became seized thereof in his demesne as of fee tail, and had issue Elizabeth and so seized he died. After whose death the property descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir of the said John Languillere, which same Elizabeth took to husband Richard Stanhop and had issue Richard Stanhop, esquire. After the death of Elizabeth all the said manors, lands, tenements and other the premises descended to the said Richard Stanhop, esquire, as son and heir of the said Elizabeth, and after Richard’s death they descended to the said John Stanhop son and heir of Richard, son and heir of Elizabeth as kinswoman and heir of the said John Languillere.
  By virtue whereof John Stanhop entered into the manor, land, tenements and other the premises and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee tail and so died seized. After whose death they descended to Edward Stanhope as kinsman and heir of the said
John Stanhope, namely son and heir of Thomas son and heir of the said John Stanhop.
  John Stanhop was also seized in his demesne as of fee of 1 messuage, 6 acres of land, 1 acre of meadow in Willoughby, 14d. of rent of assize in Kyrton and Walesby and 3 oxgangs of land and the fourth part of 1 oxgang of land in Grymston, and 3 cottages in Whellay, 54 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadow, 5s. of rent in Tuxford. And so seized he died. After whose death that property descended to the said Edward Stanhop as kinsman and heir of the said John Stanhope.
  The manor of Hoghton is held of the heir of Lord Mountbourghchier by the service of one rose yearly and is worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The land and tenements in Kyrton, Walesby, Grymston, and Welley are held of the heir of Hugh Hastyngs by the service of one
rose yearly, and are worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The land and tenements in Tuxford are held of the King in chief by the third part of a knight’s fee and are worth yearly besides reprises 23s. 6d.
  John Stanhope held no other or more lands of the King in chief nor of any other, either in demesne or service, on the day he died.
  He died 12 December, 9 Henry vij [1493], and Edward Stanhope, esquire, is his kinsman and next heir, namely son and heir of Thomas son and heir of the said John Stanhop, and is aged 24 years and upwards.
      Inq. p. m., 9 Henry vij., No. 92.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII vol 1 pp410-1 (1898)
962.  JOHN STANHOPE, esq.
Writ 20 Dec., inq. 22 April, 9 Hen. VII.
   He enfeoffed Robert Markham, knt., Gervase Clyfton, Thomas Fitzwilliam, Thomas Molyneux, Robert Molyneux, John Leek, and Ralph Stanhope, clk., of the under-mentioned manors of Rampton, &c., to the intent that after his death they should make a sufficient estate thereof in law to Edward Stanhope, his cousin and heir apparent, in tail.
   One Walter, vicar of the church of Laxton, gave the under-mentioned manor of Hoghton, and lands in Elkesley and Allerton, to one Thomas Languillers for the term of his life, with remainder to John his son in tail, with remainder in default to Thomas’ right heirs. On the death of Thomas the premises remained to the said John Languillers, and descended on his death to Elizabeth his daughter and heir. She took to husband one Richard Stanhope and had issue Richard Stanhope, esq., to whom on her death the premises descended, as her son and heir. After the death of the said Richard the son the said manor and lands descended to the said John Stanhope as his son and heir, and cousin and heir of the said John Languillers, viz. son of Richard, son of Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the said John. At the death of the said John Stanhope the said premises descended to Edward Stanhope his cousin and heir.
   He died 12 Dec., 9 Hen. VII, seised of the other under-mentioned lands in Willoughby, Kyrton, &c., in fee. The said Edward Stanhope, aged 24 and more, is his cousin and heir, viz. son of Thomas his son and heir.
NOTTS. Manor of Rampton, worth 20l., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by knight-service, viz. by ⅛ of a knight’s fee.
  Manor of Egmanton, worth 17l. 6s. 8d., held of the Duke of Norfolk, by 1/10 of a knight’s fee.
  Manors of Laxton and Skegby, worth 10l., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by ⅒ of a knight’s fee.
  Two messuages, 40a. land, 51a. meadow, and 2a. wood in West Markham and Milneton, worth 8s., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by fealty only.
  Manor of Tuxford, worth 40s., held of the King in burgage.
  Manor of Hoghton, worth 40s., held of the heirs of the lord Mountbourghechier, by service of a rose, for all service.
  Two messuages and two bovates of land in Elkesley.
  Two messuages, two bovates of land, and the moiety of a water-mill in Allerton.
  A messuage, 6a. land, and an acre of meadow in Willoughby.
  Fourteen pence rent of assise in Kyrton and Walesby, three bovates land and the fourth part of a bovate in Grymston, and three cottages in Whellay, or Welley, worth 60s., held of the heirs of Hugh Hastyngis, by service of a rose yearly, for all service.
  Fifty-four acres of arable, 6a. meadow, and 5s. rent in Tuxford, worth 23s. 6d., held of the King in chief, by knight-service, viz. by ⅓ of a knight’s fee.
C. Series II. Vol. 9. (92.)

The Knights of England vol 2 p29 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
[1497, June 17.]
Knights made at the same battle of Blackheath.
... EDWARD STANHOPE

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII pp501-521 (1955)
1015.     JOHN STANHOPE.
Inquisition, virtute officii, 28 April, 15 Henry VII.
By an inquisition taken before Thomas Hunte, late escheator, on a writ of Diem clausit extremum after the death of the said John, it was found that he was seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors of Rampton, Tuxford, Egmanton, Laxton and Skegby, and 2 messuages, 40a. land and 51a. meadow with 2a. wood in Westmerkham and Milneton, and that their value and tenure were as stated below in brackets. The present jurors, however, swear that the value and tenure of the said manors and messuages was as stated below outside brackets.
They also swear that the said John died seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors of Southmarnham and Southcottom, which are not specified in the aforesaid inquisition.
He died 3 April, 9 Henry VII. Edward Stanhop, knight, aged 30 years and more, is his kinsman and heir, to wit, son of Thomas his son; and immediately after his death the said Edward entered into the two last-mentioned manors and has taken the issues and profits thereof ever since without obtaining due livery thereof, thereby defrauding the king of the said issues and profits.
NOTTINGHAM.
Manor of Rampton, worth 37l., held of the king by one knight’s fee (worth 20l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by an eighth part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Egmanton, revised value and tenure not given (worth 18l. 6s. 8d., held of the duchy of Norfolk by a tenth part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Skegby, worth 20l., held of the king by service of one knight’s fee.
Manor of Laxton, worth 15l., held of the king by service of one knight’s fee.
(Manors of Skegby and Laxton, worth 10l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by a tenth part of a knight’s fee).
2 messuages, 40a. land and 51a. meadow in Westmerkham and Milneton, worth 4l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by a tenth part of a knight’s fee (worth 8s., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by fealty only).
Manor of Tuxford, worth 20l., held of the king in chief by service of a third part of a knight’s fee (worth 23s. 6d., held of the king in chief by a third part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Southmarnham, worth 6l., held of the king by a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Manor of Southcottom, worth 16l., held of the king in chief by a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Endorsed:—Execucio fit sicut continetur in Memorandis de anno xv. regis Henrici vij., videlicet, inter Recorda de termino Pasche, rotulo —, ex parte rememoratoris thesaurarii.
E. Series II. File 729. (5.)

Edward received a bequest in the will of his "cousin" William Mering, whose will was dated 13 August 1500.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 p180 (1869)
  August 13, 1500. Thomas Meryng of Newerk, esquier. ... To my cosyn, Sir Edward Stanhopp, j doss, sylver spounes wt gilt knoppes: I lent thame unto James Lece dwellyng in Loncashire.

On 24 January 1503, Edward was a participant in the laying of the cornerstone of the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
The Annales of England p810 (John Stow, 1600)
  1503 King Henry the seuenths chapell at Westminster
  This yéere the chappell of our Ladie, aboue the east end of the high altar of Westminster church, with also a tauern néere adioyning called the white rose, were taken downe: in the which place or plot of ground, on the 24. of January the first stone of our Lady chappell was laid by the hands of Ioh. Islip abbot of the same monastery, sir Reginald Bray bnight of the Garter, Doctor Barons matter of the Roles, doctor Wall chaplaine to the king, master Hugh Oldham chaplaine to the countesse of Derby and Richmond the kings mother, sir Ed. Stanhope knight, and diuers other. Upon the which stone was ingraven the day and yeere, &c.

The following curious incident has Edward avoiding arrest in London, dated by later historians to 16 March 1507.
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer vol 2 p170 (Edward Walford, 1882)
  Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 65, membrane 240. “To the most Reuerend ffather in God William Archibusshop of Canterbury and Chaunceller of Englond—Shewith to your good and gracious Lordship, your daily Oratours James Jenken and John A More seruauntes to Sir Edward Stannop, Knyght, that where as the same Sir Edward, vppon Tuesday last past, that is to say the xvjth day of this present moneth of Marche, after he had herd his seruyse and masse in the Austen ffryers of London, entended frome thens to haue goone to his dyner to the Kinges Hede in ffisshe strete within the said Citie; and in the way theder wardes, as he went, theire came tow[arde]s hym dyuers of the Shereffes seruauntes of the same Citie, to the nomber of x or xij persones, or theraboutis, entendyng to haue arrested hym, as he supposed whan he sawe theym; and by cause he wolde auoyde the daunger of theire arrest he enloigned hym selfe and gaffe bakke, and so avoyded the secret wayes that he cowde, for fere of the same arrest, with such his seruauntes as he then had; and in so auoydyng, the seruauntes of the same Shireffes arested and had your said Oratours to pryson, without any maner of cause of right that they or any other personne had or hath ageynst theym or either of theym” etc. The above transaction took place on Tue., 16 March, 1507 (Ao 22 Hen. VII.) because the Bill is addressed to Archbishop Warham, who was Chancellor from 2. Jan., 1504, to 22 Dec. 1515, and the 16 March fell upon Tuesday only twice in that interval, viz., on the above date and, again, in 1512 (Ao 3 Hen VIII.); but Sir Edward Stanhope died on 6 June, Ao 3 Henry VIII., 1511, as is gathered from the Inquisition taken after his death in respect of his property in co. Nottingham (Chancery Inquisitions post mortem, Ao 3 Hen. VIII., No 23).

The attention of the Sheriff was likely to do with debt - the re-examination in 1500 of the property inherited by Edward from his grandfather John in 1494 found that Edward had seriously underestimated his financial obligations to the Crown, and Edwards's own inquisition post mortem in 1511(2) seems to show almost all of that property mortgaged to a debt of £600 to the King.

Edward was named an executor of the will of his brother-in-law, Gervase Clifton, dated 3 June 1508 (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp276-7)

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p394 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    Rampton.
This John's eldest son was Thomas Stanhope, Esquire, who by his wife Mary, the daughter of Edward Jerningham of Sommer Laytun in Suff. was father of Sir Edward Stanhope
... Sir Edward Stanhope had to his first wife Adelina, daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton, by whom he had Richard Stanhope, Esquire, his eldest son; and Sir Michael Stanhope, who seconded by his son Sir Thomas, raised a greater Family, as in Shelford may be observed. Sir Edwards second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Fulk Bourchier Lord Fitz Warin, by whom he had Anne, the wife of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector in the time of Edward the sixth, by whose means her brother Sir Michael Stanhope (a great Courtier before) might receive some assistance for advancing his fortune, though he lost his head, as in Shelford is said. Sir Edward Stanhope’s Lady was after his death married to Sir Richard Page.

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp259-60 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Thomas Stanhope, Esq. ... married Mary, daughter of John, and sister to Edward Jerningham, of Somer-Layton, in com’ Suffolk, Esq. and left issue Edward his son and heir.
  Which Edward Stanhope, bringing forces to the aid of King Henry VII. was one of the principal commanders of the army that vanquished John Earl of Lincoln (son of John de la Pole Duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth, daughter to King Edw. IV.) at the battle of Stoke, near Newark upon Trent, June 16, in 2 Henry VII. (1487) wherein the Earl and 4000 of his followers were slain, who had set up Lambert Simnel to counterfeit Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, and had caused him to be proclaimed King of England. In 1497, 12 Henry VII. this Edward was one of the principal persons commanding those forces that defeated the Lord Audley, and the Cornish rebels, at Black-Heath in Kent, June 22, and for his valour in that engagement was knighted by the King in the field of battle. He was afterwards Knight for the body to that Prince, and was constituted Steward of Wakefield, and Constable of Sandale-castle in the county of York, 17 Nov. 18 Henry VII. likewise Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 23 and 24 Henry VII. and departed this life on June 6, 1511, the third of Henry VIII. having been twice married: fi st to Avelina, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton in com’ Nottingham, Knt. of the Bath; and secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Foulk Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warren, grandson of William Earl of Ewe in Normandy, by Anne his wife, sole heir of Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, younger son to King Edward III. The said Elizabeth, after his decease, married Sir Richard Page of Beechwood, in Hertfordshire, Knight. Sir Edward Stanhope had by his first wife only two sons, Richard and Michael, that lived to maturity; and by his second wife an only daughter, Anne, second wife to Edward Seymour, the great Duke of Somerset, Protector of his nephew King Edward VI. and the realm; from which Anne, the late Dukes of Somerset lineally descended.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights pp8-9 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  His son, SIR EDWARD STANHOPE, was one of the principal commanders of the Royal army at the battle of Stoke, against the partisans of Lambert Simnel. In 1497 he was knighted by King Henry VII. on the field of battle of Blackheath, for the valour he had shown in that engagement. He was afterwards Knight for the Body to the same prince, and was constituted Steward of Wakefield and Constable of Sandale Castle, in the county of York. He was also, like his predecessors, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and died in June 1511.
  The name of his first wife appears in Collins as Avelina. Hence it has been thought that Avelina, or Evelyn, is an old family name of the Stanhopes. But, on referring to the earlier authorities (as in the original edition of Thoroton, p. 147., and again p. 392., ed. 1677) it appears that the true name was Adelina, nearly equivalent to the German Adelheid, or the French Adele; so that the Avelina of Collins is simply a misprint.
  This ADELINA, then, was the daughter of Sir Gervase CLIFTON, of Clifton, in Nottinghamshire. By her Sir Edward had two sons, Richard and Michael. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Foulk Bourchier, Lord Fitzwarren, and grand-daughter of William “Earl of Ewe” (Comte d’Eu) in Normandy. She left him an only daughter, Anne, who became the second wife of the Protector, Duke of Somerset.

Death: 6 June 1511

Edward was possibly buried in the parish church at Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, where a picture of him was placed in a stained glass window described in the early 17th century:
Lincolnshire Church Notes Made by Gervase Holles, A. D. 1634 to A. D. 1642 p97 (R. E. G. Cole, 1911)
Tuxford, Notts.
  In ye uppermost window of ye North Isle :—
  The picture of a man in a red roabe wth longe yellow hayre, underwritten Eduardus Stanhope

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp67-9 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Sir Edward Stanhope, knight.
     Delivered into Court, 12 February, 3 Henry viij [1511-12].
Inquisition taken at Stapulford, 22 January, 3 Henry viij [1511-12]; before Henry Cokayn, escheator, after the death of Sir Edward Stanhop knight, by the oath of Robert Kyrkby, gentleman, John Farrys, Richard Marten, Thomas Fedurson, John Caleys, Richard Borowe, David Wryght, Nicholas Clemenson, Richard Chamburlen, John Skott, William Wryght, Richard Wilson and Thomas Samon, esquires, who say that
  Sir Edward Stanhop, knight, was seized in his demesne as of fee on the day he died of 3 messuages, 3 gardens in Est Retford, 3 acres of meadow in Eyton, 1 messuage, 30 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture in Truswell, 2 messuages, 30 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, 14s. of rent in South Leverton and Northe Coton. And he held no other or more lands of the King or others in demesne, reversion or service
  Long before his death, Sir Giles Dawbeney, Lord Dawbeney, Sir James Hubert, knight, Sir Richard Empson, knight, Thomas Lucas, esquire, Sir Henry Willoughby, knight, Sir Gervase Clyfton, knight, Sir William Perpoynt, knight, Richard Cawston, esquire, and Avaricius Thorney esquire, by a writ of entry super disseisin in le post in the term of [   ] * in the [   ]* year of Henry vij recovered against Sir Edward the manors of Rampton, Marnham, Skegby, Tuxford and Houghton and 37 messuages, 400 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 400 acres of pasture and 40s. of rent in the said places, by pretext of which recovery they became seized of those and of other premises in their demesne as of fee. The recovery being to the use specified in certain indentures between the said Dawbeney, Hubert, Empson and Lucas, of the one part, and the said Edward Stanhope of the other part, dated 18 November, 20 Henry vij [1504]. Afterwards, so seized of the premises, they by their charter, dated 30 November, 20 Henry vij [1504] demised the said premises, together with all other the messuages and lands in Rampton, Marnham, Skegby, Tuxford, Houghton, Wylloughby, Wollesby, Boughton, Kyrton, Grymston and Welle which lately they recovered against the said Edward Stanhop. To have and to hold the same to the said Edward and his assigns for 15 years commencing at the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula last part before the date of the said demise. Yielding therefor yearly by equal portions at two terms, to the lessors, their heirs and assigns £40 to the use of the King his heirs and assigns until the sum of £600 shall be fully paid to the said King. Provided always that should a certain Katherine Ratclif, grandmother of the said Edward, die before the said sum was fully paid, that then after her decease, Edward should pay to the lessors their heirs and assigns to the use of the said King £70 yearly until the residue of the sum of £600 be paid. Should the rent of £40 during Katherine’s life, or £70 after her decease, be in arrear 3 months after either of the two terms, then the lessors their heirs and assigns may re-enter upon the premises, notwithstanding this lease and take the profits thereof to the use of the said King until full payment of the money so in arrear of the aforesaid sum of £600. By virtue of which lease the said Edward was possessed of the manors lands and other the premises.
  They further say that the manor of Tuxford and other premises there are held of the King in chief, but by what services they know not, and are worth yearly besides reprises 20 marcs.
  The manors of Rampton, Houghton and other the premises there are held of the King as of his honor of Tykhyll parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, by what services they know not, the manor of Rampton and other premises there being worth £30, and the manor of Houghton and other premises there being worth yearly besides reprises 20 marcs.
  The manors of Marnham and Skegby and other the premises there are held of the King as of his honor of Donyngton parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, but by what services they know not, and they are worth yearly besides reprises £12 10s.
  The premises in Truswell are held of the King as of his honor of Tykhyll parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, by what services they know not, and are worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The premises in Southleverton and Northcoton are held of the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peters, Westminster, as of his soke of Oswalbeke [“ut de Sulco suo vocat̃ oswalbeke sulcoñ”], by fealty for all service, and are worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The premisses in Est Retford are held of the King in burgage as of his borough of Est Retford and are worth yearly besides reprises 20s.
  The three acres [in Eyton] are held of the King as of his honor of Tykhyll and are worth yearly 6s.
  They further say that Edward Stanhop died 6 June, 3 Henry viij [1511] and Richard Stanhop is his son and next heir, and was aged 19 years on the feast of St. Wilfran the Bishop last past [i.e. 15 October].
          Inq. p. m., 3 Henry viij, No. 23.
    * Left blank in original.

Sources:

Edward Stanhope

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Education: Cambridge University, where Edward graduated M.A. in 1563. He is possibly the Edward Stanhope who matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1554.
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p146 (John Venn, 1927)
STANHOPE, EDWARD.  Matric. pens. from ST JOHN'S, Easter, 1554. Perhaps Edward (1563).
...
STANHOPE, EDWARD.  M.A. 1563 (fil. nob.). Doubtless 2nd s. of Sir Michael, of Shelford, Notts., Knt. Recorder of Doncaster; member of the Council of the North. Adm. at Gray's Inn, 1579; Treasurer. M.P. for Notts., 1572; for Yorks., 1601. Knighted. Of Edlington, and of Grimston, Yorks., Esq., J.P. Married Susan, dau. of Thomas Coleshull, of Chigwell, Essex, Esq. Buried 24 Apr., 1603, at Kirkby Wharfe. Confused by authorities with his brother Edward (above). Doubtless brother of Edward (above) and of Michael (1561), father of George (1602) and Michael (c. 1597). (Genealogist, N.S., XIII. 107; F.M.G., 986; Vis. of Notts., 1569.)

The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p54 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1579. EDWARD STANHOPE.

Married: Susan Coleshill

Children: Occupation: Lawyer and Member of Parliament
Edward was Recorder of Doncaster and a member of the Council of the North. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1579 and on 7 May 1581, his aunt, Anne, the Duchess of Somerset wrote to Lord Burghley, chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth, recommending him to be a Master of Requests (The Gentleman's Magazine vol 177 p380). Edward was M.P. for Nottinghamshire in 1572 and for Yorkshire in 1601. He was one of five of his brothers who sat in Parliament during Elizabeth’s reign, along with John, Michael, Sir Thomas and Edward Stanhope II. Details of Edward's parliamentary career can be found at The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Edward I. Edward resided at Grimston and Edlington Hall, which he built.

Notes:
Portraits of Edward, his wife Susan, and his father-in-law Thomas Coleshill, were noted to be in the house at Panmure, Scotland, north of Dundee, on 30 August 1772 on a tour of Scotland made by Thomas Pennant.
A Tour in Scotland part 2 pp129-31 (Thomas Pennant, 1776)
Panmure, a large and excellent house, surrounded by vast plantations.
... In the house are some excellent portraits of distinguished personages: among them, ...
  Mr. Coleshill of Chigwell, Yorkshire, a half length, in a black cap, furred gown, with a gold chain.
  His daughter, grotesquely dressed in black; her arms perfectly herisseès with points. She was the lady of Sir Edward Stanhope, president of the north, whose picture, in small, is by her.

Edward purchased Edlington around 1574, and made many improvements to the Hall.
South Yorkshire: the history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and county of York vol 1 pp92-3 (Joseph Hunter, 1828)
    Parish of Edlington.
  In 1572 Henry, the ninth lord Scrope, sold Edlington and Stainton to Thomas Jennison, esq. who in the next year sold them to sir Ambrose Jermyn of Rushbrook in the county of Suffolk; and he, in 1574, to John Cletham of Great Livermore in the same county. His assigns present once to the living; but the manor and advowson were soon passed to sir Edward Stanhope, knt. and LL.D., in whose family they remained for a somewhat longer period.
  This sir Edward Stanhope has been supposed to be the knight of that name who is mentioned in the Fasti Oxon. as being chancellor to the bishop of London, who died in 1608. In Collins’s Peerage he is so represented. But it is undoubtedly a mistake; for the sir Edward Stanhope of Edlington, father to the sir Edward who married a daughter of sir Henry Constable, died in 1603, and was buried in the church of Kirby Wharff, in which parish he had a house called Grimston. This sir Edward was one of the queen’s council in the north, a justice of the peace, and recorder of Doncaster. He had four sons: 1. sir Edward, of Grimston, knight, who presented to the rectory of Edlington in 1614; 2. Michael Stanhope, M.D, who had two children buried at Edlington in 1620; 3. sir John Stanhope of Stotfold and of Melwood Park in the isle of Axholme; and 4. George Stanhope, D.D. a prebendary of York.
  Sir Edward Stanhope the elder appears to have built much at Edlington. When I saw the old house in 1802, in the ceiling of one of the principal apartments were several memorials of him; the letters E. S. and S. S. (the latter for Susan his wife, a daughter of Thomas Coleshull of Essex), the arms, crest, and quarterings of the Stanhope family, and a large shield of the arms and quarterings of Cromwell of Tattershall, from whom the Stanhopes inherited a large portion of their Nottinghamshire possessions.
  This house stood on the west of the church-yard. It was the residence of the successors of the Stanhopes at Edlington, the Bosviles, Whartons, and Molesworths. In the time of the Bosviles it was visited by king Charles I. at a dark period of his disastrous life. Much of it was taken down by lord Molesworth in 1775, and then probably perished other armorial ensigns of the Stanhopes and their connections, as well as the following inscriptions which were once to be seen on part of a chimney-piece:
    Quo Rosa signiferis ornatur punica scutis,
    Lancastriæ hseredi Dux dedit alma suis:
    Elizabetha hæres niveum donum addidit Ebor:
    Neutra manet sola, ast utraque mixta manet.
          ——
    Splendida nobilium videas expressa nepotum
    Stemmatis egregii symbola nexa simul,
    Quorum connubiis hinc atque hinc finibus olim 
    Propagata fuit, crevit et ampla Domus.
  These inscriptions evidently refer to some heraldic ornaments of the room in which they were placed; the first to a view of the descent of the houses of York and Lancaster till the union in the person of Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York, with the issue to queen Elizabeth, in whose reign these inscriptions were probably placed here, and who appears to be alluded to in the last line, utraque mixta manet. She inherited the blood of the two houses.
  The second alludes to a pedigree with heraldic ensigns of the family of Stanhope. You see, it says, addressing the spectator, the splendid symbols united together of an illustrious race, by whose marriages this house (family) has widely extended itself and become enriched.
  What remained a few years ago shewed the taste of sir Edward Stanhope for such decorations; and in the old seat of the Kayes at Woodsorne there is still remaining a work of the same kind and the same age.

A letter written by Edward on 4 January 1592 to the justices of the peace of Doncaster relays concerns about the navigability of the Don.
South Yorkshire: the history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and county of York vol 1 pp208-9 (Joseph Hunter, 1828)
  Concerning this ford there is the following letter in the Hopkinson collections, addressed to the justices of the peace assembled at the quarter sessions at Doncaster. The writer is sir Edward Stanhope, of Edlington.
  After my harty commendations: itt may please yow to understand that I have heard of late yeres at divers tymes when 1 have bene at Edlington, that the country towards Barnesley and further west, wch were used to be releved wth corne transported out of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire up the river of Donne to Doncaster, and soe to have come unto them, both by their own fetching and by badgers, better cheape, by reason it came soe farre by water, then hat wch came by horse carriage out of Nottinghamshire and those parts, have greatly complayned that now of late years itt hath not come up in any such quantitye by water as heretofore, or at least wayes not soe farr by reason they have beene enforced many tymes to fetche the same at Stainforth much more to their troble and chardges, wherupon I have enquired the reason of itt, and am informed that itt groweth by mearies of a foard wch the townesmen of Barnbye Dunne have forced of late yeares in the river, stopping up the same on both sides the river where the channell had wont to be of reasonable depth to carrye vessells, and soe straiteninge the river; and in the midst where a greate shelfe or shallowe is, they have layed stones called stepping stones, wherby not onely themselves goe ovr the river most part of the yeare, but drive their sheepe alsoe to and from their commons that waye drye for the most part: and this devise for a little ease of their owne soe much to the prejudice of all the west parts of the country used but of late yeares: wherupon I wished that the mayor of Doncaster and those that dwell nerest unto the premises might inform you her maties justices of peace in those parts, not doubting but upon proof made by oath hereof, the jurie will find this common nuisance made upon the queen’s stream: and yow therupon sett some good paine to have itt reformed by a day to be prefixed, as it is usual in like cases. And therefore I thought good for your better information herein to lett yow know what I have heard, and how farr I have enquired, to learne the truth thereof: referring the further consideration thereof to your wisedomes and good considerations: and soe even bidd yow right hartilye farewell.  York 4 January 1592.
    Your very loveing freind to his power
        E. STANHOPE.       

Edward is named as "my sonne in lawe" in the will of Susan's father Thomas Colshill, dated 23 April 1593, which is held at the National Archives (PROB 11/85/243):
Item I give and bequeath to my sonne in lawe Edward Stanhope one neest of Drinking boules of silver and guilte, with a cover conteyninge by estimaticion sixtie five ounces or there aboutes requiring my sonne Stanhope for rememberance of the giver he would cause the colshill arms to be sett uppon the cover to be delivered within one halfe yeare after my decease. ... Item I doe give and bequeathe unto my sonn Stanhope and to his wife and to either of them a mourning gowne to be worne at my funerall Item I give and bequeath to two of his men that shall wayte upon him at my funerall to either of them a black coate

Edward is also named as "my sonne" and "my sonne in lawe" in, as well as appointed an executor of, the will of Susan's mother Mary (Crayford) Colshill, dated 2 June 1599 and proved on 29 June 1599, held at the The National Archives (PROB 11/93/439).
... Item I doe give to my sonne Stanhope and my daughter Susan his wyfe, to my sonne Leeke, and my daughter Mary his wyfe, to my brother Arthur, and his wyfe, to my cosen Manwood and his wyfe, to my Grand childe Elizabeth Dacres each of them mourning gownes and of such stuff as shalbe thought meete by my Executors. The gentlemen to have cloth of Eighteene shillings the yarde
...  Item whereas my Sonnes in Lawe Edward Stanhope and Jasper Leeke did kindly and frendly compound with Alderman Lee for a debt which he challenged of and as Executor to my late husband and recovered by verdite against me for the same ??? action of ???. Three hundred and ??? poundes And nevertheless they did not only compound and agree with him for it, for Eight score poundes to be payd in ff??? years but ??? their bondes unto him for payment of the same whereof they have allreddy payd him fforty poundes and there is Thirty poundes thereof payd by my annuity out of Goodnoy for Three quarters rente which I doe well allowed of and doe acquitt him of soomuch And for that it was allways my meaning to give them security by that my Annuitie duringe my lyfe, and by somuch of my goods as should make up the sayd some of Eight score poundes as was ??payed at my death. Therefore my will is that yf there be not other order taken by my deede in my lyfe time of speciall goods set out for the purpose, That then my Executors shall (before any division made of my goods) make choyse of the best of such goodes as shall remayne (my funeralls discharged and my legacies therein particularly named excepted) And the same shall sell towardes the paymente of the ??? of the said debte owing to Allderman Lee which at this presente is Six score and Ten poundes, and Mr Lee to be taken order withall for the ??? of the said debte for such ??? as the said Edward and Jasper can agree with him to be payd out of the ??? of those goods So as all their bondes for that debt may be discharged betwixt this and michellmas next, and what they can save by that ??? or by the payd goods to be devided equally betwixt them.
... Item my will is that my sonne Stanhope may take away at his pleasure a suite of hangings being of ffive ??? which he bought of my the last yeare and payed me Twenty poundes for them.
... Item I give to my sonne Stanhope my husbands seale ringe of gold.
... All the rest of my goodes and chattells unbequeathed (my funerall and debts discharged) I doe aswell in support of the paymts before mentioned by them to be made, and for the trust in me reposed by most deare and lovinge husband give unto Edward Stanhope, and Jasper Leeke esquires my sonnes in lawe for the good and betteringe of the estate of them and their wyves my motherloved and kinde daughters whom I pray God to bless and all their children and posteritie, And doe ordayne and make the sayd Edward Stanhope and Jasper Leeke my sole Executors of this my last will and Testamt

 Familiae minorum gentium vol 3 p987 (Joseph Hunter, 1895)
Sir Edward Stanhope of Edlington, Knt, built the Hall there. One of the Council of the North. Also of Grimston in the psh. of Kirby Wharff, where he was bur. 24 April 1603. In Commission of Oyer & Terminer, and Surveyor of the Dutchy lands. Will dated 8 Aug 1603; proved at Dr Com. 16 Feb 1603.

Lower Wharfedale p195 (Harry Speight, 1902)
  In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the manor of Grimston passed by purchase to the Stanhopes. A fine was concluded in 1589 between Edward Stanhope, Esq., plaintiff; on the one part, and Christopher Nelson, gent., and Mary, his wife, deforciants, on the other part, with reference thereto, and the sale included the manor, with 10 messuages, 10 cottages, a windmill, and lands in Grimston, Kirkby, Tadcaster, and Stutton; also free fishing in the Cock and Wharfe. This Edward Stanhope was one of the counsel at York for the Northern Parts. He was also Recorder of Doncaster. He died in 1603, and was buried at Kirkby Wharfe, leaving issue six sons, the eldest of whom, Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimston, was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1615.

Edward was involved in the attempt by Thomas Hoby to become the third husband of Margaret Dakins.
The Fortescue Papers vol 1 pp xi-xiv (George Matthew Fortescue, 1871)
  It soon appeared, however, that Hoby had no chance. Sidney's marriage to Walter Devereux' widow took place some time before the 31st of May, 1592, as appears from a letter of Huntingdon's to him of that date. On the 23rd of July, 1592, Arthur Dakins died, leaving the young couple to take possession of Hackness. But this second marriage, like the first, was not of long duration. Thomas Sidney died in the summer of 1595, probably about the end of July or the beginning of August, and her old suitor lost no time in making another stroke for the prize. A fresh application was made to the Earl of Huntingdon, who, knowing that the lady had not listened to Hoby on the last occasion, contented himself with giving him the following letter to Mr. Edward Stanhope, a member of the Council of the North, of which Huntingdon was President. Stanhope was in some way or other related both to Mrs. Sydney and to Hoby, who, as will be seen, had been knighted since we last heard of him :—

  Mr Stanhope. This gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobby, taketh a longe jorney into the North for a good cause, as himself will shewe you. My Lady his mother did first write unto me to give him my best freindly meanes in the matter. And since my Lo. Trea. hath also required the same of me, both by his letters and speaches to me, which I am willinge to performe; but, as I have said to the Knight himself, I take it to be verry sone for me to deale therein, yet; and, to speake the trewthe, though I be verry willinge to do any good office towards him that may lye in me, yet so bad hath bin my successe that yf I might be spared I would never deale that way agayne for any such matter. And for this tyme I am spared to write, but he requireth that I would assigne some man to accompany him to the place that he may the redilyar have a sight of the gentlewoman. And because you are his kinseman, I hope shortely to see you in Yorkesheire, and for this tyme, with my harty commendacions, I do comitt you to our Lord.
        Your loving freind,
            H. HUNTINGDON.
  At Highgate the xiith of Septemb., 1595.
 
The result of Hoby's diplomacy appears in the next letter, which is Stanhope's reply to the Earl :—

  My humble duetie to your good Lp. premysed. It may please you to be advertised that of Saterday last the xxth of this moneth, I receyved your Lps. lettres by my cosen Sir Thomas Hobby, and understandinge that night at Yorke that the gentlewoman was newely removed to Hull, wee spent the Sabbath at Yorke. The next daye, good Mr Cotrell's funerall beinge to be solemnized, in respecte he put me in trust as a supervisor, wee staid ther till that afternoone, and then went towarde Hull, accompanyed also with Mr. Peres Stanley, whither we came upon Tuesday by one of the clocke, and went to the manor, where my cosen Sydney after a while admitted mee to her chamber. I founde her layde complayninge of payne in her eyes and heade, which I founde to proceede of greate lamentacion for the losse of the worthy gentleman her late hnsbande, for she coulde not then speake of him without teares.
  After some speches of curtesey and entertaynment, I recomended your Lps. favor unto her, apperenge by your lettres which I shewed her, whereby finding the occasion of my cominge, she shedd teares againe, sayinge that thoughe she helde her selfe bonnde to your Lp. to whom she was wholly devoted, yet the tender love she bare to him that was dead, made yt grevous to her to hear of any newe ; and much more to be thought of the gentleman that she were to be delt with in any snche matter soe soone, which I excused, as I had receyved from himselfe before, that he had that reverend regard of her, as that in his owne opinione he might be thought to blame ; but that two respectes ledd him.
  One, in desier his eyes to witnes that which publicke reporte had delivered him that the guyftes of nature had in some sorte equalled her vertues.
  Thother, havinge bene longe drawne to affect her for thes guyftes, he was desirous to be made knowne to her, as the first that shoulde seeke her, though he after forbore for some tyme to entertayne or prosecute his suyte.
  In thend, unwillingly, bnt in duetifull regard of your Lps. recomendacion, and to avoyd to offer that discurtesey, not to be sene to a gentleman of his worth that came soe farr for that purpose, in very modest sort she yelded that after some tyme of my withdrawinge from her, she woulde admytt him to doe your Lps. comendacions to her.
  In which meane while my cosen Alred's wief cominge thither, after some half hower, my self was required to bringe Sir Thomas and Mr. Peres Stanley into her chamber, where curteousley and modestly intertayning him with fewe speeches, she retired to the gentlewomen, and after smal tyme spent in the chamber, wee left her, I sayinge to her that if your Lps. cominge downe were not very shortely, this gentleman woulde be boulde in his cominge up, to knowe if she woulde comannde him any thinge to your Lp. and my good Lady.
  That eveninge I acquainted my cosen Aldred and his wief both with your Lps. favor to recomende the gent. to this match, and with the licklyhoode how well, by the naturall affeccion borne him of his honorable mother, his owne industry, his edncacion in soe good a schoole of experience as my L. Threasorer's chamber, and his alyence and kindered, he might prove a very good match to the gentlewoeman.
  They both cheifely respectinge that it was mocioned with your Lps. speciall liking, which they doubted not bnt woulde be seconded by my Lady, when tyme had overworne the great grefe she takes for the losse of a kinsman of soe greate good parts and expectacion, did not onely yeelde to geve there best furderance to the match, as occasione might be offered them, but my cosen Alred entred into consultacion with us, what course might be helde in prosecuting of yt, best beseminge the reputacions of them boeth.
  Whereupon, although Sir Thomas at the first was desirous to have procured some place in or nere the towne of Hull, to the which, within a weeke or thereabouts, he might have repaired the better to take oportunitye to intertayne the gentlewoman ; yet, upon better advisement, be yeelded to this counsell, that he woulde retyre himselfe for v or vi dayes, and if in that tyme he harde not of your Lps. presente cominge into the cuntry, he woulde take his journey by Hull to your Lp. and there salutinge the gentlewoeman, woulde let her knowe that he was so fully satisficed by sight of her, that all things was answerable to the goode reporte he had receyved of her before, as he ment to settle himselfe upon her favor. Nevertheles, tenderly regardinge her reputacion, he woulde for a tyme retyre himselfe into the southe, and there eyther awayte your Lps. cominge downe, or if it were not soe soone as he wished, hoped to receyve your Lps. recomendacion to her as well of himselfe, as by his freendes, for his state and haviour.
  And this course he meaninge to observe, and apperinge to as desirous to be onely behonldinge to your Lp. and my Lady for this matche, which, chefelie in regard of the gentlewoeman's vertues, whereof he heareth by all that speake of her, he will accompt a greate preferment to him, we came of Wedensday from Hull soe farr together towardes Doncaster as I comytted him to Mr. Stanley nere his house at Womersley, and I repaired to Doncaster, where I was in respect of my place ther to attende the next day the eleccion of the [mayor], where by foresight and good meanes, without contradiction or shewe of faccion (not usuall heretofore), William Hansley, one in duetie and service towards your Lp. was chosen there maior.
  I humbly cease to trouble your Lp.  27 7br 1595.
          Your Lps humbly to command,
                E. S.

  This intervention of Mr Edward Stanhope, which in the present day would have been enough to ruin any one's suit, was well received by the man who was chiefly interested in its success. The great Lord Treasurer wrote at once to Stanhope, and to his “cozen Alred,” to thank them for their assistance.
...
  The next month a new phase of the affair presented itself. The new Earl of Huntingdon, looking over his brother's accounts, found, as he asserted, that he was himself the real owner of the Hackness estate. A long letter, written on the 28th of May to Mrs. Sidney, by Edward Stanhope, whom we have heard of before as Hoby's supporter, informed her that she had a Chancery suit before her. The story of Mrs Sidney's business difficulties need not detain us here, all that is necessary to be known being given in a note at the end of the Preface. But the conclusion of the letter is in every way too noticeable to allow of its omission :—

  Now, my good cosen, what course for yon to take in the meane while to make yt [i.e. the chancery suit] sure, I cannot so well advise you, as if I were voyd of suspicion that my advise tended not to serve some other's turne, which I protest I am free from intencion, and therfore will let you simply know what I thinke for your good ; which is that having thes great folks to stand against you, (and you having none greater, that you may make account as sure to you, that may sway with my L. Keeper to cast the ballance being indifferent of your syde,) if you would so farr use your faithfull servant Sir Thomas as dyrect him by your appointment to trye his credytt with my L. Threr. for you, I know his Lp. may sway the matter wholly, and I am assured he so much affecteth his kinsman, as if he fynde that the mocion proceedeth from your self, and that Sir Thomas shall have kynde thanks of you for yt, he will stryke it sure for you.
  Herein use your ownc discrecion, for if I were not assured that the speciall favour I wish you to afford Sir Thomas for his long service and entyer affeccion should not fall out as much to your good and comfort hereafter, as his, and that I know his estate shall be so well supplyed by his honorable mother as that he shall be able (without that which you bring) to maintaine you according to his degree, I protest to you, by the faith of an honest man, I would not use thes speeches unto you, or seeke any way to draw you to your hinderance, and knowing the trust you repose in me, which I will never deceyve ; and therfore what I have ingaged my creditt unto you for, I doubt not but be able always to maintaine, and even so referring you to your owne good wisdome and honorable government, which hitherto you have caryed of yourself to your great creditt, I leave the report of the rest of the buysines to Mr. Mease, and so betake you to God.

  It is not necessary to believe that Lord Burghley and Sir Thomas Egerton would have lent themselves to such a scheme as this. But that their names should have been mentioned in connection with it is certainly startling. But returning to a less important subject, it looks very much as if it was this letter that effected the marriage, and that the widow granted, to the fear of losing a suit in Chancery, what she had denied to her wooer's importunity. At all events Stanhope's letter is dated May 28, and the 26th of June we have the following letter from Hoby to Lady Huntingdon, couched in terms which show that he considered himself in a fair way to obtain the object of his desires.

Doncaster from the Roman Occupation to the Present Time p282 (John Tomlinson, 1887)
  1599. “It was agreed and concluded by Mr maior, the Aldermen and Comon Counsell assembled yt Edward Stanhop Esquier, Recorder of the Town and Borough of Doncaster, shall and may take by his servants, Deputyes or workmen Tenn Tymber Trees of Oke in Rossington parke, and the same to convert to his vse, Provyded that the said Trees shall be sett forth by the maior and the Chamberlaynes for the tyme beinge, and that the Toppes of the sayd trees shalbe imployed and converted to such vses as Mr Maior and the Chamberlaines shall think good.”

King James VI of Scotland also became King James I of England on the death of Queen Elizabeth on 24 March 1603. On James's journey from Edingburgh to his coronation in London, King James stopped a night at Sir Edward Stanhope's home at Grimston.
Two thousand miles in Wharfedale pp49-50 (Edmund Bogg, 1904)
  King James, in his triumphal progress from Edinburgh to London for kingdom and crown, was met “uppon Saturday the 16th April, by John Robinson and George Buck, Sheriffs of Yorke, with their white roddes, being aecompanyed with an hundreth cittizens, and threescore other esquiers, gentlemen, and others, the most substantial persons being all well mounted. They received the King at the east end of Skip Bridge, which was the utmost boundes of the Libertyes of the Cittie of Yorke, and there kneeling, the sheriffes delivered their white roddes unto the King with acknowledgment of their love and allegiance unto his majesty, for which the King, with cheerfull countenance thanked them and gave them their roddes agayne, the which they carried all the way upright in their handes, ryding all the way next before the Sergeant-at-Armes until they came to the citie.” On the Saturday evening, Sunday, and until the afternoon of Monday, Jamie of Scotland was entertained by the nobility and mayoralty right sumptuously, but the records of these doings belong rather to the History of York.
  The chronicler of the event informs us “at Tenne of the Clock the King, with his Royal Traine, went to the Lord Major's House and there dined; after dinner the King walked to the Deane's House, and was there entertained with a Banquette. At the Deanerie the King took horse and passed through the Cittie forth at Micklegate towards Grimstone, the house of Sir Edward Stanhope, the Earl of Cumberlande and the Lord Major beareing the Sword and Mace before the King untill they came unto the house of St Kathren, at which place the Earl said: ‘Is it your Majestie's Pleasure that I deliver the Sword agayne unto my Lord Major, for he is now at the utmost Partes of the Liberties of this Cittie?’ Then the King willed the Earl to deliver the Major his sword again. Then the Major alighted from his horse and kneeling took his leave of the King, and the King, pulling off his glove tooke the Major by the hande and gave him thankes, and so rode towards Grimstone, being attended by the Shrieffes to the Midell of Tadcaster Bridge, being the utmost Boundes of their Liberties. The next day the Lord Major, according as he was commanded by a nobleman, came the next morning unto the Court at Grimstone accompanyed with the Recorder and foure of his Brethren, viz., W. Robinson, James Birkbie, William Greenburie, and Robert Askwith, and certain chief officers of the Cittie; and when his Majestie understood of their coming, he willed that the Major, with Master Robinson and Master Birkbie should be brought up into his Bed-Chamber, and the King said, ‘My Lord Major, our meaning was to have bestowed a Knighthood upon you in your own House, but the companie being so great, we rather thought it good to have you here’; and there his Majestie knighted the Lord Major, for which honour, the Lord Major gave his Majestie most humble and heartie Thankes and returned.”
  In the following June, the Queen Consort, during her journey from Edinboro’ to London, was most royally entertained by the people of York; and was later a guest of Sir Edward Stanhope in his house at Grimston, Tadcaster.

Edward was one of two brothers both named Edward, and both of whom attended Cambridge University and were knighted. That the two were separate men is clear from the will of the younger Sir Edward which repeated refers to "my loving brother, Sir Edward Stanhope"
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/111/228 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the last will and testament, dated 28 February 1603 and proved 25 March 1608, of Sir Edward Stanhope (d. 10 March 1608), modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
Item, I give unto my loving brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council at York, to remain to him during his life and to the heirs of his house after his decease, and so from heir to heir of that house, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the same weight, fashion, engraved arms and crest with the words as it is set down to my nephew, John Stanhope, before for his basin and ewer;
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Item, I do make executors to this my last will and testament my most dear and loving brothers, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council established for the North, my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, and my brother, Michael Stanhope, esquire, one of the Grooms of her Majesty’s Privy Chamber, and so many of them as shall be living at my death, praying them that as our loves have never been severed whilst we lived, and as I cannot divide the same from them until our heavenly Father do change this our earthly habitation, so they would be pleased after my departure to continue the band of brotherly love unto me in performing this my last will and testament according to my trust committed unto them so far as they shall find and in their consciences know that I do leave sufficient estate to perform it;
All the rest of my goods, lands copyhold or free, leases, chattels, household stuff, moneys or whatsoever not by this my last will and testament given, disposed and bequeathed, my debts being paid, which I hope will not be great for that I have always had care to avoid them, I do wholly give them equally to be divided amongst my said executors, amongst whom there be some of them who do owe me good sums of money for lands purchased in my name and their own, and some other lands mortgaged unto me alone for which I have scarce anything to show for that I only paid the moneys and they wholly dealt with buying, selling and disposing of those lands; other do owe me moneys upon specialties of statute which in this distempered age God knows into whose hands those specialties may come; I therefore desire them, as they will answer it unto God, that they will disclose one to another, as they are brethren and so should be but one, what several debts is owing by any of them unto me, I mean only money disbursed out of my purse and paid in pecunijs numeratis for them without any further allowance, and then casting that up unto the rest of my whole estate, I freely and absolutely give the whole remainder as is above set down to be equally divided betwixt my said three brothers who shall take upon them the execution of this my last will and testament;
  Overseers I need not make others than the three consciences of my foresaid three executors, my brothers, whom I ascite before the tribunal-seat of God, that as my love hath always been unto each of them one brotherly love, so they will justly and truly perform that which I have herein trusted them with

Death: 12 August 1603

Three late 19th and early 20th century published sources (Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p219 (William Dugdale, 1894), Familiae minorum gentium vol 3 p987 (Joseph Hunter, 1895) and Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p146 (John Venn, 1927)) show Edward buried on 24 April 1603 in Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire. Presumably the latter sources here are simply copying the earliest, but this date is debunked in Historical Notices of Doncaster vol 2 p7 (Charles William Hatfield, 1868) as a misreading of the Kirky Wharfe parish register. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Edward I as well as many online sources put Edward's death as 12 August 1603, but I cannot find an original source for this. Since Edward's will was dated 8 August 1603, I think the 12 August 1603 death date is probably correct, and certainly 24 April 1603 cannot be correct.

There is also a letter, held at the Lambeth Palace Library from Robert Somerscales, dated 9 August 1603, that mentions that Edward Stanhope is dying
Talbot Papers
Folio 106
Robert Somerscales to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from York, 9 August 1603. Sir Edward Stanhope is dying and refuses to make his will; if he dies 'which God grant', Somerscales recommends the Earl to request the appointment to the Recordership of Doncaster.

Another data point comes from Two thousand miles in Wharfedale pp49-50 (Edmund Bogg, 1904) describing the journey of King James from Edinburgh to his coronation in London in which he stays at "Grimstone, the house of Sir Edward Stanhope". This would have occurred on 18 April 1603 and Bogg's account continues that the Queen Consort, on her journey to London that June, was "a guest of Sir Edward Stanhope in his house at Grimston". Assuming that this all refers to this Sir Edward Stanhope in this confusing family, and I believe it does, then it seems unlikely for Edward to have been buried in Kirkby Wharfe (the parish in which Grimstone is located) on 24 April 1603.

Will: The will of Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellor in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
In the name of god amen the eight day of August in the yeare of our Lorde god 1603 I Sir Edward Stanhope knight one of his majesties councell in the North weake in body but stronge in minde and of good and perfect remembrance, doe willinglie and with a free harte render and giue againe into the handes of my Lorde god and creator my spirite which he of his fatherly goodnes gaue unto me when he first fashioned me in my mothers womb, making me a living creature; nothing doubting but that for his infinite mercies set forth in the precious bloud of his dearest beloved sonne Jesus Christe our onely saviour and redeemer he will receive my soule into his glorie and place it in the companie of the heavenly Angells and blessed saints, And as concerning my bodie even with a goodwill and free harte I giue it over commending it to the earth from whence it came, nothing doubting but according to the article of my faith at the great daie of the generall resurrecion when we shall appear before the iudgmente seate of Christe I shall receiue the same againe by the mighty power of god wherewith he is able to subdue all thinges to himself, nott a corruptible vile and weake bodie, as it now is but an uncorruptible imortall stronge and perfect bodie, in all pointes like unto the glorious bodie of my Lorde and saviour Jesus christe, first as touching my wife with whom I haue lived these manie yeres in the blessed estate of honorable wedlock in the feare of god and true and perfect loue; by whom by the blessing of god I haue had manie children and by her good helpe and furtherannce hetherto I hope well educated and brought vp in the feare of god whom I must confess before Jesus christe hath alwaies bin a moste kinde and loving wife vnto me, And therefore in parte of recompence thereof I hope I haue to her good liking assined her for her Jointure certaine of my landes and tennementes wherewith I doubt nott but she is well placed yet neuertheles am content to giue her my Lease and terme of yeres in Hedlay Grange with the sheepe walke And Conny warrant there, And my Leases of the woodes of Osmondthirk Blackson and Whitwell Ca???, for the better prouision of her howse at Grimston, And also a rent chanrge of xxli per Annum out of my mannor of [blank] during her naturall life, And as towching my children albeit I am full perswaded that god will be a father vnto them, and if they live in his feare will nott see them lack: yet since the lawe of god and nature requires that I should haue a reasonable care of them, Therefore I have left to descend to my eldest sonne the chief parte of my inheritance; And I haue alreadie estated for the payment of my younger daughters porcions, to Sir Thomas Hesketh knighte Charles Hales and John Horne esquires and their heires all that my mannor of Goxhill in the Countie of Lincolne which I lately purchased of th'erle of Rutland, and two hundred and thirtie acres of meadowe lieng in Dailes in th'east and west marshes of Goxhill aforesaid with certaine other landes purchased by me in Goxhill aforesaid, And also of and in diverse closes in Thorneton neare vnto the saide mannor of Goxhill called Southclose, martin closes and sheepecote closes, togeather withall my landes yennements and hereditaments in Thorneton, Hallon and Goxhill, which my will and pleasure is shall be sould for the payment of such porcions as shall be hereafter expressed unlesse my saide eldest sonne Sir Edward Stanhope knight doe within one whole yeare from the feast of saint Michaell th'archangell next ensuinge giue sufficient securitie to the saide Sir Thomas Hesketh knight Charles Hales and John Ferne esquires for the paymente of those porcions and sommes of money hereafter expressed which are as followeth to Anne Stanhope my eldest daughter in liew of her porcion or childes parte, the somme of one thouzand poundes to be paide her in three yeres viz: two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide One thowzand poundes at or vppon the feast daie of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One thowzand six hundred and fower, And two hundred and fiftie poundes in further payment of the saide one thowsande poundes at or vppon the saide feast day of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One thowzand six hundred and fiue, And Five hundred poundes residue of the said one thowzande poundes at or vppon the saide feast day of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and six in full payment of the saide One thowsand poundes, And nevertheles in respect that it will be soe longe before her saide porcion doe come into her handes, my will is that she shall haue for the saide first two yeares vntill she haue receuied fiue hundred poundes parte of her saide porcion of One thowsand poundes an allowance of fourtie poundes per Annum to be paied her quarterly for her private mainetenance, whereof the first payment to begynne at the Feast of sainte Michaell th'archangell next and soe quarterly for and during the saide terme of two yeres vntill she haue receiued the saide somme of fiue hundreth poundes Item to Marye Stanhope my daughter for her porcion or childes parte the somme of fiue hundred poundes, whereof two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide Fyve hundred poundes be paid to the saide Marie or her assignes at or vppon the feast daie of saint michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and seauen, And soe consequently the somme of two hundtreth and Fiftie poundes residue of the saide somme of fiue hundred poundes at the saide that time twelve moneth which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and eight, And my will and pleasure is, that she shall haue allowed vnto her yerely vntill she haue receiued two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide fiue hundred poundes, the somme of twentie pounds per Annum for her private maintenance, which saide somme of twentie poundes to be paide vnto the Ladie Stanhope my wief to her use quarterly, whereof the first payment to begin at the feast of saint Martin the Bishop in winter next ensuing the date hereof, Item to Fraunces Stanhope my daughter for her porcion or childs parte the somme of fiue hundred poundes, whereof two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the said fiue hundred poundes to be paied to her the saide Fraunces or her assignes at or vppon the Feast of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundred and nine, And soe consequently the somme of two hundred and fiftie poundes residue of the saide somme of fiue hundred poundes at the like feast And my further will and pleasure is that she shall haue allowed vnto her yerely vntill she haue reciued two hundred and fifty poundes parte of the said somme of Fiue hundred poundes the somme of twentie poundes  per Annum for her private maintenance, which saide somme of twentie poundes to be paide vnto my said wief for my said daughters use quarterly whereof the first payment to begin at the Feast of saint Martin the Bishop in winter next ensuing the date hereof, And my Will and further desire is that my saide two daughters Marie and Fraunces maye contynue in howse with my said wife their mother to th'end she may bringe them up and educate them in the fearfe of god, as hitherto she has doen, vntill they come vnto the age of eightene yeres or be married, whether shall first happen, of whose approued and virtuous educacion of them, I make no doubte, having had soe good experience thereof, And if it shall fortune either of my saide daughters Marie and Fraunces to die before they accomplish the age of eightene yeres unmarried then I will that her porcion soe dyeng shall remaine to my younger daughter surviving Item I giue and bequeath vnto Michaell Stanhope my second sonne All that my Lease of Martindale within the Barony of Barton in the Countie of Westmorland which I tooke of the late Queene Elizabeth deceased for the terme of my life, And after my decease surrender or forfeiture to Michaell Stanhope my saide second sonne for the terme of his naturall life, And after his decease surrender or forfeiture to John Stanhope my third sonne for the terme of his naturall life, And also a rente charge of twentie poundes per Annum out of my landes during the life of the said Michaell to be giuen when he shall by proceading in his study of the lawe attaine to be vtter Barrister, Item I giue vnto John Stanhope, my third sonne, all that the hall house or mannor called Smith hall with the landes as well freehold, as coppiholde there, which I purchased with it, or had in other purchases in exchainge to me and mine heires lieng in Snaith Cowick Pollington Hensall Gowle and Balne, willing that he make his wife a Jointure of it for the terme of her naturall life, And also I giue vnto my saide sonne John, all that my lease of the Tithes of Swinfleet in the said Countie of yorke Item I give unto George Stanhope my fourth sonne all that the copyhould lande lieng within the mannor of Goddenhay in the County of Somerset wherin I haue already procured him to be tennannt admitted in revercon after the death of the nowe tennannte or tennanntes havinge estate in the same And in the meane time twentie poundes yerely to be assinge out of my landes Item I giue vnto Thomas Stanhope my youngest sonne oute of my landes fourtie poundes by yeare during his naturall life, That he may distreyne for the same in and vppon my landes for non payment of the rente for the same, to be paide at two vsuall Feastes in the yeare, that is to saie, at the feast of sainte Michaell th'archangell nexte ensuing the date hereof, And I further giue and bequeath vnto the poore within the parishes of [blank] to be distributed according to the minde of my Executor the somme of ten poundes, And further my will and meaning is That the Ladie my wief shall haue the cubbard of plate commonlie called the chamber plate And all the furniture for the same chamber to her owne propper vse and vses, And for the residue of my plate housholdstuf and movable goodes wheresoever, my will and purpose is, that the same shall be equaly devided betwene the Lady my wife, and the saide Sir Edward Stanhope my sonne; my meaning likewise is that each of my children shall haue a peece of plate for a remembrannce of me. And if it shall fortune hereafter anie ambiguitie doubte or question to growe or aerise by reason of the imperfection or defecte of or in anie the words and clauses or sentences for the assurannce of my childrens porcions or anie estates conveyed vnto them by this my will and which may be supplied by anie act assent or assurannce of my sonne and heire, to whom the chief parte of my inheritannce doth discende Then my will purpose and meaning is, that he will doe and performe all and and every reasonable act and assurannce for the better assuring and confirming vnto them and every of them of their seauerall porcions, as by the Overseers of this my said will and trustie frendes or the more parte of them shall be thoughte fit and convenient, And further for the better accomplishment of this my will I doe ordaine Sir Edwarde Stanhope my sonne my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, And appoint Supervisors of this my will my deare and lovinge brethren Sir John Stanhope knight vice chamberlaine and one of his maiesties moste honorable priuie councell Sir Edwarde Stanhope Doctor Sr Michaell Stanhope and Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe. Published in ??? Ch: Hales of Bevercotes Thomas Morton Jo: Sleightholn Francis Williams.

In his will, Edward "expressed his belief in ‘the company of the heavenly angels and blessed saints’. His property was to be divided among his wife and children. His eldest daughter was to receive a dowry of £1,000 and the two younger ones £500 each. Property in Westmorland was left to his second son as well as a rent charge of £20 a year as soon as he became an utter barrister, and property in Yorkshire and Somerset was secured to the third and fourth sons, while the youngest, Thomas, was to have an annuity of £40. Some of the Yorkshire lands were to go to his widow as an addition to her jointure, but most of it descended to his eldest son Sir Edward, aged about 24, the executor of the will. Stanhope’s brothers, Sir John, Sir Edward and Sir Michael, were appointed supervisors, with Sir Percival Hart, his son-in-law." (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Edward I).

Sources:

Edward Stanhope

Birth: in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Education: Cambridge University, where Edward graduated B.A. in 1562(3), M.A. in 1566 and LL.D in 1575.
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p146 (John Venn, 1927)
STANHOPE, EDWARD.  Scholar of Trinity, 1560. Doubtless 4th s. of Sir Michael, of Shelford, Notts., Knt. B. c. 1546. B.A. 1562-3; M.A. 1566; LL.D. 1575. Fellow, 1564. Incorp. at Oxford, 1566 (apparently re-incorp. LL.D. 1578; as of Grimston Park, Yorks., but Foster is here confusing him with his brother). Preb. of York, 1572. Adm. advocate, Jan. 15, 1575-6. Master in Chancery, 1577. Vicar-General of Canterbury, c. 1583. M.P. for Marlborough, 1584, 1586. R. of Terrington, Norfolk, 1589. Preb. of St Paul’s, 1591. Chancellor of London diocese, 1591-1608. Knighted, July 25, 1603. Received a grant from the Crown (together with his brother Michael) of the Manor of Hucknall Torkard, Notts., 1600. Died Mar. 16, 1607-8. Buried in St Paul’s Cathedral. M.I. in Old St Paul’s. Benefactor of Trinity College. (There is considerable confusion among authorities concerning the two Edwards, both sons of Sir Michael.) Doubtless brother of the next, of Michael (1561) and perhaps of John (1556). (Cooper, II. 470; Coote; D.N.B.)

Occupation: Clergyman, Advocate and Member of Parliament
Edward was M.P. for Marlborough in 1584 and 1586. He was one of five of his brothers who sat in Parliament during Elizabeth’s reign, along with John, Michael, Sir Thomas and Edward Stanhope I. Details of Edward's parliamentary career can be found at The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Edward II (c.1547-1608), of London.

Notes:
Edward was one of two brothers both named Edward, and both of whom attended Cambridge University and were knighted. That the two were separate men is clear from the will of the younger Sir Edward which repeated refers to "my loving brother, Sir Edward Stanhope". This Edward was knighted at Whitehall on 23 July 1603.

Edward was mentioned in the will of his brother-in-law, Sir Roger Townshend, dated 4 December 1587, held at the National Archives PROB 11/77/149
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
First, whereas I did of late purchase of Edmund Bell, esquire, the manor of Wellingham with the appurtenances and all lands, tenements and hereditaments accepted, reputed or taken as part, parcel or member of the said manor or with the said manor usually occupied, demised or letten in the county of Norfolk, and yet nevertheless did cause the said Edmund Bell and Henry Osborne and Christopher Osborne, gentlemen, to convey and assure the said manor with th’ appurtenances to my brother-in-law, Mr Edward Stanhope, Doctor of Law, and to his heirs to the use of him and his heirs upon confidence and trust notwithstanding to the benefit and behoof of me and my heirs forever, my will and mind is that my executors of this my last will and testament from and after my decease shall perceive, take and enjoy the rents, issues and profits of the said manor with th’ appurtenances for and until such time as they, the same my executors, shall or may with the money coming and growing of the same rents, issues and profits and of the revenues and profits of other my lands, tenements and fold-courses hereafter in this my will mentioned, and with such of my goods, chattels and leases as are herein also specified, well and truly satisfy and pay all and singular the debts which I owe to any person and all other the legacies by me herein bequeathed to any person, and if my said executors or the survivors or the survivor of them shall think it necessary to make sale of the said manor of Wellingham with th’ appurtenances and all lands, tenements and hereditaments accepted, reputed and taken as part, parcel or member of the said manor or usually occupied, demised or letten with the said manor or any part thereof, that then I will and devise that my executors or the survivors of them shall make sale of the same or of any part thereof at and by their discretion or at and by the discretion of the survivor of them, and I heartily pray and desire my said brother-in-law and good friend that he will execute and perform all such acts and devises in law as shall be in that behalf from time to time required by my said executors or the survivor of them, and after my debts and legacies paid, if my said executors or the survivors of them or survivor of them shall notm make sale as is aforesaid, then I will and devise my said manor of Wellingham and other the premises thereunto belonging as is aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall not be sold as is aforesaid, to my son John and his heirs forever;
...  Item, I give and bequeath to my brother [=brother-in-law], Doctor Stanhope, one piece of plate of the value of ten pound;

The Knights of England vol 2 p114 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1603. July 23.  EDWARD STANHOP, of Co. York (Northampton), LL.D (ibid) [in  the  Royal  garden  at Whitehall  before  the  King’s  Coronation.]

Edward was named as a supervisor of the will of his older brother, also named Edward, one of His Majesty's Councillors in the North, dated 8 August 1603, which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... And further for the better accomplishment of this my will I doe ordaine Sir Edwarde Stanhope my sonne my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, And appoint Supervisors of this my will my deare and lovinge brethren Sir John Stanhope knight vice chamberlaine and one of his maiesties moste honorable priuie councell Sir Edwarde Stanhope Doctor Sr Michaell Stanhope and Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe.

Athenae Cantabrigienses vol 2 pp470-3 (Charles Henry Cooper, 1861)
  EDWARD STANHOPE, fourth or fourth surviving son of sir Michael Stanhope, governor of Kingston-upon-Hull and high-steward of Holderness under Henry VIII., and chief gentleman the privy chamber to Edward VI., by his wife Anne, daughter of Nicholas Rawson, esq., of Aveley in Essex, was born at Hull. On 26 Feb. 1551-2 his father was beheaded as an accomplice of his brother-in-law Edward duke Somerset, sometime lord protector. His mother, an excellent and pious woman, survived till 20 Feb. 1587-8. Her epitaph records that she brought up all her younger children in virtue and learning.
  This Edward, for he had an elder brother of the same name, was educated at Trinity college in this university. His matriculation does not appear to have been recorded, but in 1560 he was elected a scholar of the house, going out B.A. 1562-3. On 23 Sept. 1564 he was admitted a minor fellow, becoming a major fellow 30 April 1566. In the same he commenced M.A., and was incorporated in that degree at Oxford during the queen’s visit to that university in September following his creation here. On 25 Nov. 1572 he became prebendary of Botevant in the church of York, in 1575 was created LL.D., and on 15 Jan 1575-6 was admitted an advocate. On 7 June 1577 he was sworn a master in chancery, and in or before 1578 was appointed chancellor of the diocese of London. On 1 September in that year he supplicated the university of Oxford in a convention called simile primum, that he might be incorporated doctor of the civil law, which though granted simpliciter, yet it appears not that he was incorporated. In or before 1583 he vicar-general of the province of Canterbury, and he represented Marlborough in the parliament of 29 Oct. 1586. In or perhaps before 1587 he was in the high commission for causes ecclesiastical. We find him on 10 Dec. 1588 writing to lord Burghley, (to whose wife he was related) soliciting to be appointed a master or commissioner of the fine office, and the application was successful.
  In 1589 he was instituted to the rectory of Terrington in Norfolk, on the presentation of William Cooper, esq., patron for that turn, (and son of sister Eleanor, who married Thomas Cooper, esq., of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire). Dr. Stanhope, it is said, also held the rectory of Brockley in Suffolk, but when or how he obtained it does not appear. In 1591 he resigned the prebend of Botevant, and on 31 May in that year was collated to the prebend of Cantlers, alias Kentishtown, in the church of S. Paul.
  His name occurs in the special commission touching jesuits and other disguised persons issued 26 March 1593; the special commission of oyer and terminer for London dated 25 Feb. 1593-4, under which Rodrigo Lopez, M.D., Emanuel Louis Tynoco, and Stephen Ferrara de Gama were tried and convicted of high treason; and the commission issued by archbishop Whitgift 19 Nov. 1594 for survey of all the ecclesiastical courts within the diocese of London. It is said that soon after this period he became chancellor of the church of S. Paul.
  On 27 June 1600 queen Elizabeth granted to him and his brother Michael the manor of Hucknall Torkard in the county of Nottingham, at the yearly rent of £13 9s. 0d., and he was in a special commission touching piracies, issued 2 April 1601.
  He was knighted at Whitehall 23 July 1603, and his name occurs in the special commission of oyer and terminer, issued for the county of Middlesex 15 November following. Under this commission Henry lord Cobham, Thomas lord Grey de Wilton, sir Walter Ralegh, George Brooke and others were indicted for treason. In the same year sir Edward Stanhope was one of the four learned civilians whose names were inserted in a commission for perusing all books printed within the realm without public authority, and suppressing the same or determining in what sort they should be permitted to be dispersed.
  His death occurred 16 March 1607-8, and he was interred in S. Paul’s cathedral, where he was commemorated by the following inscription on the eastern wall near the great north door:
    Memoriæ Sacrum.
  Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopi, ex ordine equestri filio, Equiti aurato, Legum Doctori, Episcopi Londinensis Cancellario, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Vicario generali, in publicis Ecclesiæ & Reipublicæ negotiis versatissimo, Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placidèque animam Deo reddidit 16 die Martii 1608.
  Johannes Baro Stanhopus de Harington, & Michael Stanhopus eques auratus, fratres mæstissimi officiose, pietatis ergo, P. P.
  This inscription was, it appears, drawn up by William Camden, who stated sir Edward Stanhope’s death to have occurred in 1607, agreeably to the computation of time then in general use. The inscription was however slightly altered, and the date of 1608 was substituted for 1607. This circumstance has occasioned some errors.
  During his lifetime he gave £100 for the construction and fitting up of the library of Trinity college.
  In his will, which is dated 28 Feb. 1602-3, and was proved in the prerogative court 25 March 1608, he confessed that from Trinity college, next unto God and his good parents, whom he had long since taken to his mercy, he had received the foundation of all which he had been enabled unto; he therefore gave £700 to that college to buy lands to be bestowed on the maintenance of the library keeper, and of his man, a poor scholar in the said college, for ever. The will contains minute directions as to the library keeper, the poor scholar and under-library keeper, the preservation of the library and the visitation thereof annually. He gave to the college his great polyglot bible in 7 vols. fo., commonly called king Philip’s bible, also all his books of divinity, civil, common, canon, or statute law, history, and other humanity books in greek or latin, which the college had not, and which were not specifically bequeathed by his will or any codicil. He also gave the college permission to change books which they had for any of his which were of a later impression or more fitly bound. He bequeathed to the college £40 to be distributed amongst the subsizars, and £20 to provide one very great book of large vellum, wherein should be fairly written and limned the names, titles, arms, and dignities of all the founders of the college set out in proper colours; after them the arms of the college; after that the names of all the benefactors and the names and preferments of the masters. This book to be kept for the public register book of all the particular books, maps, globes, or other ornaments belonging or to belong to the college library. This book, furnished with leaves sufficient to add what should thereafter by good men be supplied, he desired might with such good speed be prepared that it should be one of the first books which should be perfected, bound, chained, and affixed to the library.
  His will also contains bequests of £20 as a stock for employing the poor dwelling in the manor of Cantelows alias Kentish town; £40 to the poor of Terrington; £200 to the town of Hull; and £200 to archbishop Whitgift (under whose government he had lived thirty years before he became his grace’s chancellor to be laid out in land towards the foundation of his college at Croydon. He entailed his estate called Wellwood park in the isle of Axholme, which he had bought of lord Sheffield, on the sons of his brother sir Edward, viz., Edward, Michael, George, John, and Thomas successively, and devised his estate at Caldecott to his nephew Charles son of his brother sir John (afterwards lord Stanhope of Harington). He gave handsome remembrances in money, plate, and rings to all his brothers and their wives, his sisters, and all his nephews and nieces by name, and also to many friends, the whole tenor of the will shewing a strong feeling of affection towards his family. He desired that £4000 should be reserved to purchase land of £200 per annum to be settled on the son or sons of his brother Michael, if he should have any. He alludes to certain scandal relative to his gallantry towards a fair lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, wife of the registrar of the court of arches, and daughter of Mr. Thomas Wilford chamberlain of London, with whom he admits he had been so familiar as to have occasioned misconstruction, but he solemnly exculpates both the lady and himself from any criminality, and bequeaths her his large gold chain weighing thirty-seven ounces which he was accustomed to wear, and all his plate not bequeathed to his relatives.
  He appointed his brothers sir John, sir Michael, and sir Edward his executors, saying that he had no need to appoint overseers other than and except their own consciences. Some of his brothers being indebted to him in divers sums advanced for the purchase of estates in their names, they having bought and sold and he found the money, for which he had little or no acknowledgment or security, he therefore exhorted them truly and conscientiously to disclose those transactions to each other, and to come to a fair and just reckoning with each other as his residuary legatees.
Trinity college library received under sir Edward Stanhope’s bequest 15 MSS. and 321 printed volumes.
  His works are:
  1. Memoriale Collegio Sanctæ et Indiuiduæ Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi dicatum 1614 cura et industria Ed. Stanhope Militis Legum Doctoris Collegii huiusce quondam Socii compositum et ordinatum. Eivsdemq. sumptibus delineatum et exornatum in piam gratiam et perpetuum honorem munificentiæ et olim, et nunc, et in posterum, huic Collegio Deuotororum. MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. R. 17. 2. Only the earlier portions of this book were drawn up by sir Edward Stanhope. His account of the ancient foundations of King’s hall and Michaelhouse is especially curious and interesting. This magnificent volume, which is richly illuminated with armorial and other embellishments, was put into its present shape in compliance with his testamentary directions, under which it was continued from time to time till about 1700. It was for many years and until recently kept in the master’s lodge, from which circumstance it has been occasionally referred to as the Lodge Book.
  2. Letters. The number is probably not very large. There were some in the collection of the late Mr. Dawson Turner, and Richard Almack, esq., F.S.A., of Long Melford, has others.
  It is not surprising that this sir Edward Stanhope has often been confounded with his elder brother of the same name. He, who was the second son of sir Michael, was a knight, represented the counties of Nottingham and York in parliament, was one of the surveyors of the duchy of Lancaster, treasurer of Gray’s inn, recorder of Doncaster, and for many years one of the council of the north. He was seated at Edlington and Grimston in Yorkshire, and dying in 1603 was buried at Kirby Wharffe in that county, leaving issue sir Edward, K.B.; Michael, M.D.; sir John of Mellwood in the isle of Axholme, who died 1627; George, D.D., fellow of Trinity college, chaplain to Charles I., and rector of Wheldrake, whom we shall hereafter notice; and Thomas. We have taken no little pains to distinguish the two brothers, but it may be that we have not entirely succeeded in so doing, It must be observed that besides these two sir Michael Stanhope had a son Edward who died in infancy.
  Arms: Quarterly, 1. (Stanhope) Quarterly Erm. & G. a martlet for difference. 2. (Maulovel) V. 3 wolves courant O. 3. (Longvilers) S. a bend between 6 cross crosslets A. 4. (Lexinton) A. 3 saltires S. a crescent for difference. Crest: a tower Az. charged with a martlet, issuing from the battlements a demi-lion rampant O. ducally crowned G. holding in the jamb an ogress. Motto: Ut Deo sic Regi.
  MS. Addit. 5852. p. 171. Baga de Secretis, pouches 52, 58. MS. Baker, xi. 334; xxvi. 353. Blomefield’s Norfolk, ix. 96. Charity Reports, xiv. 203. MS. Cole, xxxii. 83, 84. Coote’s Civilians, 52. Information from George R. Corner,  esq., F.S.A. Ducarel’s Croydon, App. 37. Dugdale’s S. Paul’s, 56. Foss’s Judges of England, v. 401; vi. 8. Gorham’s Gleanings, 494. MS. Harl 6996. art. 2. Leon. Howard’s Letters, 621. Hunter’s South Yorkshire, i. 92. MS. Kennett, xlix. 117, 119. MS. Lansd. Lemon’s Cal. State Papers, 381. Le Neve’s Fasti, ii. 361, 405; iii. 177. Lysons’ Environs, iii. 376. Marprelate’s Epistle, 13, 25, 29. Mem. Scacc. Mic. 8 Eliz. r. 15; Trin. 9 Eliz. r. 21. Monk’s Bentley, ii. 275. Monro’s Acta Cancellariæ, 8, 27, 28, 532, 620, 639, 733. Newcourt’s Repert. i. 171, 279. Nichols’s Prog. James I. i. 81, 83, 208, 225; iii. 1055. Originalia, 33 Eliz. p. 3, r. 45; 36 Eliz. p. 2. r. 248, p. 4, r. 57; 43 Eliz p. 5, r. 8; 44 Eliz. p. 5, r. 107; 3 Ja. I., p. 1, r. 7. Parkeri Scel. Cantab. Restituta, iv. 404. Rymer, xvi. 201, 412. J. R. Smith’s Old Book Circular, 9890. Stanhopii Memoriale Coll. Trin. MS. 62, 63, 94, 95. Earl Stanhope’s Notices of the Stanhopes, 10. Stonehouse’s Axholme, 259. Strype’s Annals, iii. 592; iv. 152, 183, 184, 218, 255, 284, 396. Strype’s Whitgift, 248, 340, 418, 577; App. 137. Strype’s Aylmer, 29, 85, 91, 112, 130. Strype’s Stow, iii. 166. Thoroton’s Nottinghamsh. 148, 257. Sale Cat. of Dawson Turner’s MSS. 192. Willis’s Not. Parl. iii. (2) 116. Willis’s Cathedrals, i.124. Wood’s Annals, ii. 273-275. Wood's Fasti, ed. Bliss, i. 174, 211, 212. 

Dictionary of National Biography vol 54 pp7-8 (Sidney Lee, 1898)
  STANHOPE, SIR EDWARD (1546?-1608), chancellor of the diocese of London, born at Hull about 1546, was the fourth son of Sir Michael Stanhope [q. v.], by Anne, daughter of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley, Essex. John Stanhope, first baron Stanhope [q. v.] was his elder brother.
  An elder brother, also named Edward, represented in parliament Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire successively, was a surveyor of the duchy of Lancaster, treasurer of Gray’s Inn recorder of Doncaster and a member of the council of the north. He died in 1603, and was buried at Kirby Wharffe, Yorkshire.
  Sir Edward the younger was scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1560 to 1563, minor fellow in 1564, and major fellow in 1569. He graduated B.A. in 1563, M.A. in 1566, and LL.D. in 1575. He was incorporated M.A. at Oxford in September 1566, ‘when Queen Elizabeth was entertained by the Oxonian Muses’ (WOOD, Fasti Oxon. i. 174). On 1 Sept. 1578 he supplicated to be incorporated D.C.L., but, though it was granted simpliciter, ‘it appears not that he was incorporated’ (ib. p. 211). On 25 Nov. 1572 he was appointed to the prebend of Botevant in York Cathedral. He was admitted as advocate at Doctors’ Commons in 1576, and on 7 June 1577 was sworn as a master in chancery. About 1583 he was named vicar-general of the province of Canterbury, and, having meanwhile (Nov. 1584–Sept. 1585 and Oct. 1586–March 1587) served in parliament as member for Marlborough, was appointed a member of the ecclesiastical commission in 1587. Two years later he obtained, through the influence of Lord Burghley, to whose second wife he was related, the place of commissioner of the fines office. In 1589 he was also presented to the rectory of Terrington in Norfolk by his nephew William Cooper. In 1591 he resigned his stall at York on his appointment as canon and chancellor of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Stanhope’s name appears in the commission of March 1593 ‘touching jesuits and other disguised persons,’ and also in that of oyer and terminer for London in February 1594. In the same year he was also a member of Whitgift’s commission for the survey of ecclesiastical courts in the London diocese; and in April 1601 was a commissioner in the inquiry concerning piracies. Together with his brother Michael he received a grant from the crown in June 1600 of the manor of Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, and was knighted at Whitehall on 25 July 1603. In that year Stanhope served on the commission under which Raleigh and his associates were tried for high treason, and was appointed one of the four learned civilians who were to examine and adjudicate upon all books printed in the realm without authority.
  Stanhope died on 16 March 1607–8, and was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral ‘near to the great north door.’ His epitaph on the monument on the eastern wall, printed in ‘Monumenta Sepulchraria Sancti Pauli,’ 1614 by H. H[olland], was drawn up by William Camden [q. v.] During his lifetime he had given 100l. for the construction and fitting up of a library at Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he bequeathed 700l. to buy lands for the maintenance of a library-keeper and his man. He also left to the college fifteen manuscripts and over three hundred books, among which was his polyglot bible known as King Philip’s bible. A small benefaction was set apart for the provision of a large vellum book ‘wherein should be fairly written and limned the names, titles, arms, and dignities of all the founders of the college,’ and of the benefactors and masters, with a list of preferments. Benefactions were also left by Stanhope to the town of Hull and the poor of Kentish Town and Terrington, as well as 200l. towards the foundation of Whitgift’s college at Croydon. Having no children, he entailed his estates in the Isle of Axholme and at Caldecott on his nephews.
  Stanhope wrote the earlier portion of ‘Memoriale Collegio [sic] Sanctæ et Individuæ Trinitatis in Academiâ Cantabrigiensi,’ a manuscript inscribed with his name and left to Trinity College. It was continued, in accordance with his wishes, up to 1700, and was known as the Lodge Book from being kept in the master’s lodge. Several of his letters were in the collections of Dawson Turner and Richard Almack.
  [Cooper’s Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 470-3, where is an exhaustive list of authorities.]  G. LE G. N.

Death: 16 March 1607(8)

Burial: St Paul's Cathedral, London, England

Edward's memorial did not survive the destruction of St Paul's in the Great Fire of 1666, although descriptions of it still exist.
Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666 pp99-101 (Payne Fisher, 1684)
      THE TOMBES OF ST PAUL’S.
... Near to the North Middle Door stood a Fair Mural Monument, with this Inscription.
    Memoria Sacrum
  Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopi ex ordine equestri,
  Filio; Equiti aurato;
  Legum Doctori; Episcopi Londinensis Cancellario;
  Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis
  Vicario Generali;
  In Publicis Ecclesiæ & Reipublicæ
  negotiis versatissimo:
  Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi,
  Piè placidéque animam DEO reddidit,
  Decimo sexto die Martii, MDCVIII.
  Johannes Baro Stanhopus de Harington,
  Et Michael Stanhopus eques auratus,
  Fratres mæstissimi
  Officiosè, Pietatis ergò P.P.

     Englisht thus.
  Sacred to Posterity
  And to the Memory
  Of Sir Edward Stanhop Knight, and a Knight’s Son;
  Doctor of the Civil Laws,
  And Chancellor to the Bishop of London,
  And Vicar General to the Archbishop
  Of Canterbury.
  He was a Person Industriously Active
  In the Concernes
  Of both Church and State.
  And in an Assurance of a Blessed Resurrection in Christ;
  Most Christianly, Piously, and Peaceably
  Resigned his Soul into the Hands of his Redeemer
  On the 16th of March 1608.
  In Remembrance of whom
  His two sorrowful Brethren
  John Lord Stanhop Baron of Harrington,
  And Sir Michael Stanhop Knight
  Have erected this Monument in Testimony of their Pious affection
  to their deceased Brother.  

Athenae Cantabrigienses vol 2 p471 (Charles Henry Cooper, 1861)
  His death occurred 16 March 1607-8, and he was interred in S. Paul’s cathedral, where he was commemorated by the following inscription on the eastern wall near the great north door:
    Memoriæ Sacrum.
  Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopi, ex ordine equestri filio, Equiti aurato, Legum Doctori, Episcopi Londinensis Cancellario, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Vicario generali, in publicis Ecclesiæ & Reipublicæ negotiis versatissimo, Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placidèque animam Deo reddidit 16 die Martii 1608.
  Johannes Baro Stanhopus de Harington, & Michael Stanhopus eques auratus, fratres mæstissimi officiose, pietatis ergo, P. P.
  This inscription was, it appears, drawn up by William Camden, who stated sir Edward Stanhope’s death to have occurred in 1607, agreeably to the computation of time then in general use. The inscription was however slightly altered, and the date of 1608 was substituted for 1607. This circumstance has occasioned some errors.

Will:
The will of Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3) and proved 25 March 1608, is held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228 (modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green), some parts of which are excerpted below:
... I, Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, the fourth son of Sir Michael Stanhope, knight, and the Lady Anne, his wife, deceased, being in good health and of perfect memory at the writing hereof
... For the place where my body shall be interred, if I die in London or suburbs thereof, and serve the church and commonwealth in those places which I do now attend, my desire is to be buried in the body of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, London, in the north aisle, somewhat towards the stairs going up to the choir;
  If I depart this life forth of London and the suburbs thereof, then I will my body to be buried in such place of the chancel of the parish church where I shall exchange my life at the appointment of my executor or executors hereafter to be named unless I do before my death, either by writing or by word before witness, dispose of my body to be buried in some other place by me to be named;
  For the charge and place of a tomb to be made for me, if I be buried in the north aisle of the body of the Cathedral Church of St Paul, London, my desire is to have the like vault to be made in the wall upon the left hand going to the choir as is in the same wall made for Mr Linacre betwixt his tomb and the going to the choir stairs, with such proportion of my body as my executors shall best like to make for me, and some inscription easy to be read so high setting down my parentage, my degree of school, my place in that church, and the time which I spent both in the church and commonwealth since I served in them;
  If it please God I be buried elsewhere, I leave it to the love, kindness and discretion of my executor or executors what moderate  charge they will be at for my tomb in the parish church where they shall lay my body;
... Item, I give to the township of the town commonly called Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, being the town wherein I was born, the sum of two hundred pounds current money, to be paid unto them within one year after my death by my executor or executors, which two hundred pounds I will shall be employed upon a stock to set the poor on work, with the benefit of the said work to be to the relief of the poor born and dwelling in the said town
... First, for that I was from my infancy brought up in that worthy College of the Blessed and Undivided Trinity in Cambridge of the foundation of King Henry the Eight, and there lived of the College’ charge many years as scholar and fellow there, and therefore next unto God and my good parents whom he hath long since taken to his mercy I do confess to have received of that good College the foundation of all which I have since been enabled unto, I give unto the College of the Blessed and Undivided Trinity in Cambridge the full sum of seven hundred pounds of current English money
... Item, I do give unto Mr William Blackwell, now principal Register to my Lord Bishop of London, besides a mourning gown to him by me before bequeathed, one gold ring of the weight of four angels to be made in a seal with his notary’s knot graven in it, and in the inside of it graven these words: Edwardus Stanhope Legum doctor;
  Item, unto his virtuous and good wife, Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell, daughter to Mr Thomas Wilford, Chamberlain of London, not in regard of any dissolute life which at any time hath been betwixt us, wherein whatsoever my sins and offences have been otherwise, yet for the clearing of her from those imputations which by my familiarity with her hath been undeservedly brought upon her, I do in discharge of my own conscience, who now prepare myself to stand at the chief seat of justice where all flesh is to give account, protest and profess before him who knoweth all secrets, how sinful or offensive soever myself have been in seeking over-much familiarity with her, which God for his mercy’s sake forgive me, yet is not she, neither of God nor in the true censure of man, to be condemned at any time to have yielded her body to filthy whoredom with me, but in the deepest familiarity that ever was betwixt us she hath been so religiously careful of her duty towards God and of her own good name as that she hath preferred them many degrees before any consent of yielding to filthiness of life, and hath rather always desired to lose her life than to yield her body to any filthy fleshy lust, and this I protest before God, that knowing so much as I have long known and understood of the carriage of her life these many years, I should condemn myself for the filthiest wretch in the world if I should seek that filthiness at her hands which she hath ever since my first acquaintance with her so religiously, honestly and virtuously abhorred and detested; I do give unto the said Mistress Elizabeth Blackwell my gold flagon-chain which I have used to wear, being of the weight of about thirty-seven ounces, all my plate, both silver or silver and gilt whatsoever which I shall be possessed of at my death, and all my rings and other jewels which I shall then likewise be possessed of, to her own proper use to dispose of during life to her benefit and use, and so much or so many of them as shall remain with her at the time of her death to be equally divided for the value & property of them to the three children of her sister, Mistress Anne Clerke, and of her late brother, Mr Geoffrey Clerke, and to such other children as her sister, Mistress Anne Clerke, now widow, shall have of her body born at the time of [+the death of?] her sister Blackwell, and amongst such children as Mrs Blackwell’s brethren, Mr James Wilford and Mr William Wilford, shall have of their bodies lawfully begotten by either of them at the time of Mrs Blackwell’s death, but if the said Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell have any children of her own body born at the time of her death, then is she freely to dispose of the said chain, plate and jewels to her own child or children as she shall best like of;
... Item, I do make executors to this my last will and testament my most dear and loving brothers, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council established for the North, my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, and my brother, Michael Stanhope, esquire, one of the Grooms of her Majesty’s Privy Chamber, and so many of them as shall be living at my death
... I have affixed my seal in testimony that this is my true last will and testament. Vltimo Februarij 1602. Computo Angliae. Edward Stanhope.

Bequests to:
- my my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my late loving brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, decease
- my nephew, Edward Stanhope, the Lady Anne Holles, and my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, being the sons and daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased
- my nephew, William Cooper, the heir of my late sister, Eleanor Cooper of Thurgarton in the county of Nottingham, deceased
- my nephew [=great-nephew], Thomas Coote, son to my niece Anne Coote
- my loving brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council at York
- my loving sister, Susan Stanhope, wife to my said brother, Edward Stanhope
- every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife
- my nephew, Michael Stanhope, son to my brother, Edward Stanhope
- my nephew, George Stanhope, son to my said brother, Edward Stanhope
- my nephew, John Stanhope, my godson, the third son of my brother, Edward Stanhope\
- my godson, Percival Harte, the son of my nephew, Percival Harte, and of my niece, Jane Stanhope, his wife
- my very loving brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Treasurer of her Majesty’s Chamber
- my nephew, Charles Stanhope, son to my loving brother, Sir John Stanhope
- my said niece, Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter unto my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope
- my niece, Katherine Stanhope, daughter to my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope
- my honourable sister [=sister-in-law], the Lady Margaret Stanhope, wife to Sir John Stanhope
- every of the sons and daughters of my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope
- the wife of my nephew, John Stanhope, son to Sir Edward Stanhope, and my godson
- my niece [=great-niece], Eleanor Coote, daughter unto my niece, Anne Coote
- my niece, Mary Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope
- my niece, Frances Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope
- my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, son to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope
- my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my late loving brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope
- my very honourable lady and sister, the Lady Jane Berkeley, late wife to Sir Roger Townshend
- my nephew, Sir John Townshend, knight, and to my nephew, Robert Townshend, his brother
- my kind and loving nephew, Sir John Holles
- my good nephew, Sir Percival Harte
- my very loving brother, Michael Stanhope
- my loving sister, Mrs Anne Stanhope, his wife
- my niece, Jane Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Michael Stanhope
- my cousin, Samuel Bevercote

Sources:

Edward Stanhope

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Notes:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

Death: in infancy

Sources:

Edward Stanhope

Baptism: 27 July 1579 in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England
The Registers of St Helen's Bishopsgate p2 (ed. W. Bruce Bannerman, 1904)
    BAPTISMS.
1579. July 27 Edward s. of Edward Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Education: Gray's Inn, where Edward was admitted in 1593.
The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p82 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1592-3.
Jan. 29. EDWARD STANHOPE, son and heir of Edward Stanhope, Esq., of this Society.

Married: Margaret Constable on 11 June 1604 or 1605, in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England
England Marriages M04403-1 is a transcription that has the marriage date as 11 June 1604, in Waddesdon. The description of the marriage settlement, however, is shown dated 2 June 1605.
East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service
Marriage Settlement
Reference:     DDCC/133/11
Title:     Marriage Settlement
Description:     Sir Edward Stanhope K.B. and Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable: on marriage of Sir E.H. and Margaret daughter of Sir H.C., property: manors of and all property of Sir E.S. in Edlington, Stainton and Maltbye, rectories of Swinefleet and Readnesse Trustees, Sir Michael Stanhope of Ousterley co. Middlesex, Sir Thomas Fairefax of Wallton, Sir Edward Stanhope D.L., and Sir Rawffe Lawson of Browgh. Witn. Tho. Fairfax, Bry. Metcalfe, Willfr. Kettlewell, Tho. Kelde, John Sidgwicke, Wm. Marshall.
Date:     2 June 1605

Margaret was the daughter of Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable, Yorkshire, and Margaret Dormer. She was remembered in the will of her brother-in-law, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my eldest brother Sr Edward his wife one little hoope ringe to the value of ten shillings

Margaret was buried at Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire, on 27 February 1662.

Children: Occupation:
Edward was a Member of Parliament for Scarborough in 1601 (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Edward III (c.1579-1646), of Grimston; later of Edlington, Yorks.). He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James I on 25 July 1603. Edward was also High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1615.

Notes:
Edward is mentioned in the will of his uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give unto my nephew, John Stanhope, my godson, the third son of my brother, Edward Stanhope, all those my lands commonly known by the name of Mellwood Park, lying in the Isle of Axholme, with all the lands thereunto belonging lying within the said Isle or elsewhere within the county of Lincoln which I lately bought of the right honourable the Lord Edmond Sheffield of the most noble Order of the Garter, knight, and since repurchased of the Queen’s Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, by what name or names soever they be called, as if particular mention had been made of the particular parishes wherein the said lands do lie, together with all deeds, writings, escripts, fines, leases, indentures, statutes or whatsoever to the said lands belonging, to have and to hold the said lands called by the name of Mellwood Park and other the premises unto my foresaid nephew and godson, John Stanhope, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten forever, and for default of heirs males of his body lawfully to be begotten, then to the heirs males of the body of my nephew, Edward Stanhope, the eldest son of my brother, Edward Stanhope, lawfully to be begotten

The Knights of England vol 1 p155 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
Knights of the Bath made at the Coronation of king James I., 1603, July 25.
... 1603. July 25.  EDWARD STANHOPE, of Yorkshire.

Edward was the sole executor and primary beneficiary of the will of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellor in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... And as towching my children albeit I am full perswaded that god will be a father vnto them, and if they live in his feare will nott see them lack: yet since the lawe of god and nature requires that I should haue a reasonable care of them, Therefore I have left to descend to my eldest sonne the chief parte of my inheritance; And I haue alreadie estated for the payment of my younger daughters porcions, to Sir Thomas Hesketh knighte Charles Hales and John Horne esquires and their heires all that my mannor of Goxhill in the Countie of Lincolne which I lately purchased of th'erle of Rutland, and two hundred and thirtie acres of meadowe lieng in Dailes in th'east and west marshes of Goxhill aforesaid with certaine other landes purchased by me in Goxhill aforesaid, And also of and in diverse closes in Thorneton neare vnto the saide mannor of Goxhill called Southclose, martin closes and sheepecote closes, togeather withall my landes yennements and hereditaments in Thorneton, Hallon and Goxhill, which my will and pleasure is shall be sould for the payment of such porcions as shall be hereafter expressed unlesse my saide eldest sonne Sir Edward Stanhope knight doe within one whole yeare from the feast of saint Michaell th'archangell next ensuinge giue sufficient securitie to the saide Sir Thomas Hesketh knight Charles Hales and John Ferne esquires for the paymente of those porcions and sommes of money ... And further my will and meaning is That the Ladie my wief shall haue the cubbard of plate commonlie called the chamber plate And all the furniture for the same chamber to her owne propper vse and vses, And for the residue of my plate housholdstuf and movable goodes wheresoever, my will and purpose is, that the same shall be equaly devided betwene the Lady my wife, and the saide Sir Edward Stanhope my sonne; my meaning likewise is that each of my children shall haue a peece of plate for a remembrannce of me. ...
And further for the better accomplishment of this my will I doe ordaine Sir Edwarde Stanhope my sonne my sole Executor of this my last will and testament

Edward is mentioned, but left no bequest, in the will of his mother, Susan Marburie alias Dame Susan Stanhope, dated 12 February 1618(9) and held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/133/312).
Item whereas the saied Sr Edward Stanhope by his laste will and testament did give and bequeathe unto me the moitie of one halfe of all his goodes and ymplementes of houshould stuffe a greate parte whereof is nowe remayning in the handes, custodie or possession of Sr Edward Stanhope knight my eldest sonne as, in and by a certaine booke conteyning an Inuentarie of the same goodes and by some other writinges in my custodie appeareth And whereas allso I am nowe possessed of divers goodes and chattells jewells lynnen and ymplements of houshoulde and houshoulde stuffe All which I have onto a purpose to have given to some of my best deserving children But fynding my estate to be muche ympayreil by many chardgable and troublesome suites in lawe betwene my selfe and some of Those that were neerest and ought to haue ben deerest in love and affection towards me I haue nowe altered my mynde and purpose in yt poynte and do leave the same to the disposition of my Executores herein after named for the payment of my debtes and suche Legacys as are herein after expressed

Edward was mentioned in, and was a witness to, the will of his brother, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my beloved brother Sr Edward Stanhope Knight of the holie order of the Bayth a ringe wth a dyamond in it of the value of five pounds ... 
Witnesses hereunto Edward Stanhope Michaell Stanhope Edward Cripling and Henry ???

Historical Notices of Doncaster vol 2 p7 (Charles William Hatfield, 1868)
at the end of the baptisms in the old register is the following interesting entry, in the vicar’s handwriting:—
      “March 20, Ann. Dom. 1632.
  “Whereas, Sir Edward Stanhope, of the honourable order of the Baythe Knight, dwellinge and now beinge in Grimston, in this parish of Kirkbie upon Wharfe, is there sick of the goute, and of other sicknesses and infirmities, wherewith he is, and long time hath beene, vexed and by rason hereof is enforced, for the recoverye of his health, to eate flesh in the time of his sayd sicknesse; be it known to all men that I, Thomas Clarke, clerke, master of arts, and vicar of this parish of Kirkbie-upon-Wharfe, by virtue of the statute and statutes in that behalfe made, have licenced, and by this presents doe licence, the sayd Sir Edward Stanhope to eat flesh for the time of his sayd sicknesse. In witness whereof I, the sayd Thomas Clarke, have signed the licence with my hand, in the presence of
    “THO: CLARKE, Vic:   “THO: DENIS.    “W : THOMPSON.”

Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, &c., 1643-1660: Cases, 1643-1646 p982 (1890)
  SIR EDWARD STANHOPE, Grimston, Co. York, and EDWARD, his Son.
22 Nov. 1645. Sir Edward submits to composition, his estate being sequestered though he never took up arms, nor was in any service for the King against the Parliament. His son has no present estate.
1 May 1649. His son compounds for delinquency in adhering to and assisting the late King against Parliament, in the beginning of the troubles.
31 July. Fine 258l. 3s. 4d.

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p221 (William Dugdale, 1894)
II. Sr EDWARD STANHOPE of Grymston, in com. Ebor., Knt, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1615, (?) bur at Kirkby Wharfe 3 Oct. 1646, mar. Margt, daughter of Sr Henry Constable of Burton Constable, in co. Ebor, Kt, sister to Henry, first Visct Dunbar, bur. at Kirkby Wharfe 27 Feb. 1662.

Burial: 3 October 1646, at Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire.

Sources:

Elenor (Stanhope) Cooper

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Married: Thomas Cooper

Thomas was the son of William Cowper, of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, and Cecilia Toll. Wiliam was buried on 13 January 1551, and his custody and marriage was given to Arthur Darcy. Thomas is noted to be sick, possibly dying, in a letter from his mother to Sir William Cecil on 30 March 1570, and he probably died in 1571, when his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Stanhope, applied for wardship of his eldest child.

Thomas is named as the eldest son, and is not yet married, in his father's will dated 1 January 1549(50). The will is dated 1 January 3 Edward VI, which was the year 1549/50 (Old Style/New Style) despite the notation in the transcription below. This then lines up with the will being proved on 15 June 1550 (not 5 June 1550, as below).
North Country Wills 1383-1558 p211 (1908)
  1 Jan., 3 Edw. VI (1550-1). William Cowper. ... To my eldest sonne Thomas all my landes in Thurgarton after the death of Cicele my wyf, and for lacke of issue male to William my sonne, and for lacke of issue male to Richard Couper, and for lacke heyres to Olyve Cowper my doughter, provided that if it fortune either William, Richarde, or Thomas to have issue female, so that the landes do dyssend to Olyfe, then I will my doughter shall give to every of the said daughters one hundreth markes. Also I will that where my wyfe Cycile ys joyned purchaser with me of all my landes in Thurgarton, that she shall have the same duringe her lyfe yf soole and unmarried, she to give unto Thomas fyftene poundes by yere until he be maried, and then fourtie markes, and to fynde his wyfe and chyldren, and he to kepe his lernynge, where my wife hath promysid fathfully never to take husbande after my decease, and for the great paynes she hath susteyned with me I will that she have the custodye of all my household stuff at Thurgarton, and if my wyfe do fortune to marrye, then I will my goodes shalbe devyded in three partes, and that my sonne Thomas shall have two partes and my wyfe the thirde parte. And I will that my wyfe shall have the keping of all my plate of silver and two chaynes of gold, and if she fortune to marrye the plate shalbe devyded, my wyfe to have one parte, my sonne Thomas the second, and the thirde to be devyded betwixt my sonnes Richard and William and my doughter Olyfe. (Further bequests to children and to servants.) I make myne executours Mr Thomas Alen, parson, John Langley of London, goldsmyth, and Sr Richard Sackevile and Sr Arthur Darcye, knightes, my supervisours.
      [Proved 5 June, 1550]

Thomas's wardship was given to Arthur Darcy after his father's death.
Calendar of State Papers: Edward VI 1550-1553 p229 (1926)
1552. 28 Nov. [m. 21.]
  The like to Arthur Darcy, knight, of an annuity of 5 marks from the rent of 100 ac. wood in Thurgarton, Notts, and the custody and marriage of Thomas Cowper, son and heir of William Cowper, gentleman, deceased.     By p.s. [II. 954. Westm., 23 Nov.]

Original Letters, Illustrative of English History 2nd series vol 2 p328 (Henry Ellis, 1827)
I am further to geve you humble thankes that upon a motion made from me by word by Edward Stanhope afore Christmas, that I mought have the graunt of my sonne Coopers sonnes wardship, if he being yet sicklie should dye, yow promised it to me; I am the glader therof for that I knowe some would seke it rather for gaine sake then meaning good education to the child. I trust the father shall live and do well, and if he do not, I hope my daughter and I shall I so deale in his education as you shall like well of the disposing of him. And yet I rest most bound unto you for the same. And so I humblie leve you to the Almightie. Thurgarton this last of Marche, 1570.
      Your honors most humble bounde kinswoman,
        ANNE STANHOPE.
  To the right honorable Sir William Cicill knight, chiefe Secretary to the Quenes most excellent Majestie, & one of her Highnes most honorable Privy Councell. 

Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reigns of Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth 1547-1580 p367 (1856)
1570. March 20.
Shelford.
  27. Thomas Stanhope to Sir Wm. Cecill. Is an humble suitor for the wardship of his sister’s child, eldest son of Thomas Cooper, of Thurgarton, Notts.

Children: Notes:
Elenor is noted to be deceased in the will of her brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228. That will also mentions their son, William Cooper.
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to my nephew, William Cooper, the heir of my late sister, Eleanor Cooper of Thurgarton in the county of Nottingham, deceased, to remain to himself during his life and to the heirs of his house after his decease, and so from heir to heir of that house, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the same weight, fashion, engraved arms and crest, with words as is set down to my nephew, John Stanhope, for his basin and ewer before.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.
pp305-6
Thurgarton
  The Priory of Thurgarton was granted to William Cowper the Kings Servant, and Cecily his wife, and their heirs, 30 H. 8.
  Cecilia was daughter and heir of John Toll of London: she had three sons, Thomas Cooper, Esquire, who married Elianor, one of the daughters of Sir Michael Stanhop; William, who married An, daughter of James Mering of Holleston; and Richard Cooper, and a daughter called Oliva, wife of Ed. Sutton of Averham, but she died without issue; her eldest brother the said Thomas Cooper, had Thomas Cooper his eldest son, who was slain without issue; and William Cooper his second son, who was heir to his brother, and married . . . . the daughter of Judge Hutton, by whom he had Sir Roger Cooper a worthy honest Gentleman, whose fidelity and constancy to the Royal interest weakened his fortunes, so that Cecill Cooper, Esquire, his son, will have too hard a task to make this House and Demesnes intirely his own, the Woods being also extremely wasted. His brother John Cooper, second son of Sir Roger, was Carver to his Majesty that now is, King Charles the second, and a very industrious person, but died 1672, in his Majesties debt, having been receiver general of the Royal Aid, and Additional supply, and Collector of the Harth-money, &c. in this County.  

The will of Thomas Cooper, the eldest son of Thomas and Eleanor, was dated 24 August 1584, and proved on 1 September 1584. In the will, transcribed at North Country Wills: 1558 to 1604 p111 (1912), he mentions a number of his Stanhope uncles - Eleanor's brothers - and Sir Thomas Stanhope is named as an executor. There is no mention of his mother or father.

Death: before 28 February 1603, when Elenor is described as deceased in the will of her brother, Edward.

Sources:

Elizabeth Stanhope

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Joan (Staveley) Stanhope

Notes:
Elizabeth is left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5). The will documents that she is the sister of Thomas and Jacob Stanhope.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

Elizabeth is bequeathed a grey gelding in the will of her brother, Thomas, in May 1462
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5 (1855)
CXCVII. TESTAMENTUM THOMÆ STANHOP DEFUNCTI.
   Die Veneris proxime post festum Philippi et Jacobi Apostoli 1462. Ego Thomas Stanhop de Hoghton, armiger—sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce. Et nomine principalis lego vicario de Walesby optimum equum meum et omnia averia eidem pertinencia, prout equitare solebam. Willelmo Wilbram unam togam penulatam. Johanni Tunstall unum equum coloris le blak gray. Katerinæ sorori meæ unam equam cum pullo. Elizabethæ sorori meæ unum equum vocatum gray geldyng. Johanni filio meo unum yrne bonden wayn, et xxx bull stirkus. Johanni Stanhop armigero unum cornu garnest. Executores meos facio Elizabetham et Katerinam sorores meas, Johannem Tunstall armigerum et Johannem filium meum, Johannemque Stanhop de Rampton armigerum supervisorem. Johanni filio meo sex cocliaria argenti. Johannæ Stanhop filiæ Johannis Stanhop armigeri duas togas penulatas cum martis et menyver. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]
which roughly translates as:
197. TESTAMENT OF THOMAS STANHOP DECEASED.
Friday after the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. I Thomas Stanhope of Hoghton, esq. to be buried in the parish church of All Saints of Rampton before the cross. And by the name of the principal I bequeath to the vicar of Walesby my best horse and all the beasts that belong to him, as I am accustomed to ride. William Wilbram one lined toga. John Tunstall one horse of the color black gray. To my sister Katherine, one mare with a colt. To my sister Elizabeth one horse called gray geldyng. To my son John one yrne bonden wayn (???), and 30 bullocks. To John Stanhope, esquire, one garnest (???) horn. I make my executors my sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, John Tunstall, esquire, and John my son, and John Stanhope of Rampton, esquire, supervisor. To my son John six silver spoons. To Joan Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, esquire, two gowns lined with marten and squirrel fur. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p257 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
Sir Richard Stanhope ... had two wives, first, Elizabeth (or, as others say, Joan) daughter of Robert, and sister of Ralph de Stavely, who bore him Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Joan, wife of Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley, in com’ Nott. Knt. and Catherine, wedded to William Basset, of Fledburgh in Nottinghamshire, Esq. and secondly to ——— Tonstall.

Sources:

Elizabeth Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Adelina (Clifton) Stanhope

Notes:
Elizabeth is mentioned, and is still unmarried, in the IPM of her brother, Richard Stanhope, taken on 6 June 1528, in which she is left a bequest towards her marriage.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp162-70 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Richard Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 18 June, 20 Henry viij [1528].
Inquisition taken at Retfford, 6 June, 20 Hen. viij [1528];
... The said Richard Stanhope by his last will among other things willed that Elizabeth Stanhope, his sister, should have the issues and profits of all his lands and tenements in Estretford and South Leverton, until she had taken £40 for her marriage.

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Frances (Stanhope) Maule

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Patrick Maule 1st Earl of Panmure
Patrick Maule - the 1st Earl of Panmure
This portrait is likely the one described as "A half-length of the first Earl of Panmure, in his robes" in a visit made to Panmure House by Thomas Pennant in 1772 (A Tour in Scotland part 2 p130)
image from Registrum de Panmure vol 1 page xxxix (ed. J. Stuart, 1874)
Married: Patrick Maule in 1616

Patrick was born in 15956/, the son of Patrick Maule and Margaret Erskine. He was introduced early in life as a page in the court of King James VI of Scotland, and accompanied the king on his progress through England to London, to be crowned King James I of England in 1603. Interestingly, one of the stops on that progress was at the house of Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimstone, the father of the woman Patrick would marry 13 years later. Patrick was a groom of the bedchamber to King James, and then to King Charles I, fighting with the Royalists in the Civil War. Charles raised Patrick to the peerage on 2 August 1646, with the title of Baron Maule of Brechin and Navar and Earl of Panmure, and Patirck remained by the king's side during his imprisonment, and was his last attendant before the king's execution. Patrick was then heavily fined by Cromwell's government. Patrick married twice more after Frances's death in 1624 - his second wife was Mary Waldrone, one of the Queen’s maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria, by whom he had four children, who seem all to have died in infancy, Mary Waldrone herself died in March 1636. His third wife was Lady Mary Erskine, daughter of John Earl of Mar, and relict of William, sixth Earl Marischal, by whom he had no issue.  Patrick died on 22 December 1661, and was buried in the family vault at Panbride, Forfarshire.

The Peerage of Scotland pp 297-8 (Robert Douglas, 1767)
  Which Patrick was a gentleman of the bedchamber to king James VI. and king Charles I. keeper of the king’s house and park at Eltham; high sheriff and vice admiral of the county of Forfar; and created lord Brechin and Navarre, and earl of Panmure, and to the heirs male of his body for ever. This earl was with king Charles in all the battles in which his royal person was engaged, and attended his majesty in all his removes after he was delivered up by the Scots army to the English commissioners; and staid with him till he was made prisoner in Carisbroke castle, that all his old servants were forbid, upon their peril, to come near him; and after the king’s murder, Oliver Cromwell imposed a fine of ten thousand pounds sterling on him, for his loyalty. This noble earl married first, Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, lord president of the North, and elder brother of the lord Stanhope, by whom he had George lord Brechin, his successor. His second wife was Mary Waldrum, maid of honour to queen Henrietta, and a near cousin to the great duke of Buckingham: and his third wife was Mary, daughter of John earl of Mar, lord high treasurer of Scotland, and widow of William earl Marshal.

A portrait of Patrick is noted to be in the house at Panmure, Scotland, north of Dundee, on 30 August 1772 on a tour of Scotland made by Thomas Pennant. It is likely the image depicted in Registrum de Panmure vol 1 page xxxix shown on this page.
A Tour in Scotland part 2 pp129-31 (Thomas Pennant, 1776)
Panmure, a large and excellent house, surrounded by vast plantations. It was built about a hundred years ago, on the site of the feat of the antient family of the Maules, in the barony of Panmure, conveyed into that house by the marriage of the heiress of the place, daughter of Sir William de Valoniis, lord chamberlain of Scotland in the reign of Alexander II. ...
  In the house are some excellent portraits of distinguished personages: among them, ...
  A half-length of the first Earl of Panmure, in his robes. He was lord of the bed-chamber to Charles I. and a faithful servant to his Majesty in all fortunes. After the King’s death he retired into Scotland; where, in 1654, he was fined, by an ordinance of the Protector’s council, in the sum of ten thousand pounds, for no other reason than that his sons were engaged in the royal cause. 

Registrum de Panmure vol 1 pages xxxviii-xliii (ed. J. Stuart, 1874)
  Patrick Maule was succeeded by his only son, Patrick, of whom Commissary Maule thus writes:—
  “Patrick succeedit him, being 19 years of age when his father died, and was in Ingland with King James the Sixth. Except he had gotten favour in Court, his house had ended, for his lands held ward, so he got that in gift frae the King. Thereafter he obtained, by the King’s intercession frae the Marquess of Hamilton, his haill teinds for three shillings and fourpence the boll, three liferents, and three nineteen years’ tacks. Thereafter he obtained a new infeftment frae the King; whereas his lands held ward. he got it taxt for ward and marriage. Also he made a tailzie to the nearest of the name. His infeftment and letter of tack of his tiends he got confirmed in Parliament. Thereafter he began to quit and relieve piece and piece parts of his estate, till at length it pleased God to bless him with great lands and honour, and a long life, He was a faithful servant to King James the Sixth, and one of his Bedchamber, and had that same place of King Charles the First, and stayed constantly with him all the time of his imprisonment, till a little before the rebels did execute their lawful king, Charles.” “In King James the Sixth time, when he was one of his Bedchamber, he married, in anno 1616, Frances Stanhope, daughter to Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimstone, within six miles of York. His younger brother was Lord Stanhope, Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth and King James. Sir Michael, his other younger brother, was Groom of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth.”
  In 1625 he got a charter from Charles the First of the Lordship of Colleweston, in Northamptonshire, which narrates his good and faithful service to the King’s father, and in the year 1629 he received from the same monarch a gift of the Keepership of the Great Park of Eltham. The letter to “Good Mr. Maule” from the Queen of Bohemia is an additional testimony of the Royal estimation, where she says that those whom the King her father held worthy of his service, she always esteemed as most deserving of her love.
  In 1635 Patrick Maule was constituted Sheriff-principal of the county of Forfar, and in the same year he received from the Duke of Lennox, Great Admiral of Scotland, a deputation of the admiralty of the bounds between the South Water and the Water of Bruchtie.
  In 1634 he purchased from the Earl of Mar the Lordship of Brechin and Navar; and in 1642 he bought from the Earl of Dysart the Abbacy of Aberbrothock.
  During the civil wars of this period Patrick Maule took the King’s part, and was engaged in the battles fought for the royal cause. By a patent dated at Newcastle, 3d August 1646, Charles the First, on the narrative of the long and faithful service of Patrick Maule, both to his father and himself, created him a peer by the title of Earl of Panmure, Lord Brechin and Navar, with a destination to the heirs-male of his body.
  His Lordship was in company with the King while he was a prisoner at Holmby and Carisbrook; and he has left us an account of the royal movements, which is printed in the Appendix to the Preface.
  In the manuscript of Commissary Maule there is recorded a very striking incident which took place at the parting between the King and his devoted follower:—
    He was the last servant that stayed with him, and stayed ever untill that unlawful parliament did put him from him. The King himself told Panmure that the order for his departure was come. Panmure asked his Majestie what he should do in it. His Majestie told him there is no help, but you must obey; but deal with him that has the warrand for a continuation for two or three days quhilke he got granted to him. Panmure’s servant that was there with him, told me, when Panmure took his leave of his Majestie, he did that quhilke he never saw him do, nor heard of any that ever saw him do the like, quhilke was, he burst out in tears; and the King was standing, and his back at ane open window; and when the tears came in the Kings eyes, he turned him about to the window a while till he settled, and prayed God to bless him, for he knew him to be a faithful servant; and called for his man, and gave him a kiss of his hand, and said, ‘John, thou hast a faithful master.’ This John Duncan, who was Panmure’s man all the time, and had been long with him before, told me this.
  While in attendance on the King he presented his Majesty with a little token of affection, in the shape of a gold signet ring, for the price of which (£12) we have the receipt of “Thos Rawlins, grauer to his Majestie,” dated July the 20th, 1647. Of the same period is an account of other outlays for the King, viz., “for ane mell for his Majestie to play with, with lace and plush in the hand thereof, 15s. Item, for ane scoop conforme thereto, 10s. Item, for tuo other mellis, being plain, £1. Item, for ten beaten ballis at 5s. a peece, £2 10s.”
  A fine of £10,000 was imposed on the Earl by the Government of the Commonwealth, but it was finally restricted to £4000.
  He was three times married. His first wife, as we have seen, was Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimstone, in Yorkshire, by whom he had Jane, born in 1617; Anna, born in 1618, who died in 1623; George, born in 1619, by whom he was succeeded; Henry, born in 1620, who came to be Henry Maule of Balmakellie; Elizabeth, born in 1622, died 1650; Catherine, born in 1623, died 1625. His wife died in January 1624.
  His second wife was Mary Waldrone, one of the Queen’s Maids of Honour, by whom he had four children, who seem all to have died in infancy, Mary Waldrone herself died in March 1636. His third wife was Lady Mary Erskine, daughter of John Earl of Mar, and relict of William, sixth Earl Marischal, by whom he had no issue.
  The contract of marriage between them is dated 19th October 1638, and was written by the Countess. It is stipulated that the marriage should take place before 1st September 1639, “or sooner if they can with convenience;” and that as their “resolution of marriage is without worldly ends, and meerlie from a religious affection, whereby that they may together to enjoy the company and conversation of each other, and to witnes the same, seeing that either of them has sufficient estate and meines of their owne without being burthensome to one another, therefore it is appointed, agreed, and condescended unto by both the saids parties, that neither of them shall intromit with one anothers estates, meins, or any part thereof, further than it shall be by the free allowance of the partie whom it concerns, nor shall not dispose thereupon, directly nor indirectly, but be the consent and free voluntarie allowance of the party concerned. And seeing that both the saids parties is blessed with children and grandchildren, whose necessities will require their assistance of the naturall affections and kindness of their parents; and seeing that when we, the said parties, lives together, it will be fitting the said parties live in some sort according to their degree and qualitie, and to prevent the prejudice that may arise to either, it is agreed and condescended to by both the saids parties, that the charge of the house shall be so equally layd, that they may have content therein; and for that effect we oblidge ourselves, the one to the other, that so soon as we can resolve what servants is necessar for us to keep as household servants, that their wages shall goe in with the charges of the house, and what servants the said parties shall have appropriated to others, if the difference be considerable, then and in that case the party whose servants they are shall contribute to the charge of the house proportionally, without any consideration of their yearly fee or wages, the which is to be payed by the said partie to whom they are appropriate to, and the ordering and directing of the house and family shall be done by the said      , with the assistance and advice of the foresaid      , upon all occasions”.
  After the Earl’s dismissal from the King at Carisbrook, he retired to his house of Panmure, where he lived quietly until the arrival of Charles the Second in Scotland, when he was implored again to assist the Royal cause. The King’s letter to the Earl from Stirling is dated 28th July 1651.
  The Earl was now an old man, and it does not appear that he that he personally took any public part in the actions which ensued; but his eldest son, Lord Brechin, fought in the Royal army both at Dunbar and at Inverkeithing, while he himself showed his unabated loyalty by sending a large sum to the Royal coffers, for which the King’s acknowledgment is preserved. It is in the following terms:—“CHARLES R. My Lord Panmur has sent to myselfe two thousand pound. Given at our Court of Dumfermling the seventeine of June 1651.”
  The aged peer survived to see the Restoration of the King, and died in December 1661. As an evidence of his historical tastes he has left in manuscript a history of the patriot Wallace, whose deeds of unselfish devotion and lofty daring he himself aspired to emulate throughout his whole course. The history, of which the first forty three folios have been preserved, is in the handwriting of the Earl.
  His will is dated 12th January 1651. In it he ordered that his burial should be decently done, but without pomp or solemnity, “which is properer for the living than the dead.” He directed his son to build a house and repair the burial-place of his family, as he himself meant to have done, but had been hindered through the confusions and hardness of the times from doing.

Dictionary of National Biography vol 37 pp 87-8 (Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, 1894)
  MAULE, PATRICK, first EARL OF PANMURE (d. 1661) was the son of Patrick Maule of Panmure, Forfarshire, and Margaret, daughter of John Erskine of Dun, the reformer. He succeeded to the estate on the death of his father in 1605, but before that time had made his appearance at court, and accompanied James I to London in 1603, being then appointed a gentleman of the bedchamber. He had charters of the barony and teinds of Panmure in 1610 and 1619. After the death of James I, in 1625, he was continued in his office as gentleman of the bedchamber, and was made keeper of the palace and park of Eltham, and sheriff of Forfarshire. He gained the confidence of Charles I during his long term of service at the court, and became one of that monarch’s special favourites. There is ample evidence afforded by his letters to his nephew, Alexander Erskine of Dun, that Maule did his best to bring about a reconciliation between the king and the covenanters. Throughout the troubles in which Charles I was involved Maule adhered to him with unshaken fidelity, and he espoused the cause of Charles II, fighting bravely in his defence. His faithfulness was recognised by his being raised to the peerage on 2 Aug. 1646, with the title of Baron Maule of Brechin and Navar and Earl of Panmure. His loyalty provoked the resentment of Cromwell and by the Act of Grace and Pardon he was fined in the exorbitant sum of 10,000l. sterling (afterwards reduced to 4,000l.) while his son, Henry Maule, was mulcted in the penalty of 2,500l. These fines were paid in 1655. Maule died on 22 Dec. 1661, and was buried in the family vault at Panbride, Forfarshire. He was thrice married, his first wife being Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimston, Yorkshire, who was the mother of his two sons, George, second earl of Panmure, and Henry Maule of Balmakelly, Kincardineshire. His two daughters by this wife were Jean, married to the second Earl of Northesk, and Elizabeth, married to the second Earl of Kinghorne, and ancestress of the Earls of Strathmore. His second wife was Mary Waldrum, maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria; and his third wife was Lady Mary Erskine, daughter of John, earl of Mar, and widow of William, sixth earl Marischal, but by neither of these had he issue.
  [Millar’s Roll of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee, p. 144; Registrum de Panmure; Taylor’s Historic Families of Scotland, ii. 300; Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Rep. p. 637; Nichols’s Progresses of James I, i. 597, 600, ii. 440, 610.]
      A. H. M.


Children: Notes:
Frances received a bequest in the will of her uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give to my niece, Frances Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, forty pounds to be paid her by my executor or executors at the day of her marriage;

Frances is mentioned in the will of her father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellor in the North, dated 8 August 1603, which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253). She is under the age of eighteen at the time the will was written.
Item to Fraunces Stanhope my daughter for her porcion or childs parte the somme of fiue hundred poundes, whereof two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the said fiue hundred poundes to be paied to her the saide Fraunces or her assignes at or vppon the Feast of saint Michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundred and nine, And soe consequently the somme of two hundred and fiftie poundes residue of the saide somme of fiue hundred poundes at the like feast And my further will and pleasure is that she shall haue allowed vnto her yerely vntill she haue reciued two hundred and fifty poundes parte of the said somme of Fiue hundred poundes the somme of twentie poundes  per Annum for her private maintenance, which saide somme of twentie poundes to be paide vnto my said wief for my said daughters use quarterly whereof the first payment to begin at the Feast of saint Martin the Bishop in winter next ensuing the date hereof, And my Will and further desire is that my saide two daughters Marie and Fraunces maye contynue in howse with my said wife their mother to th'end she may bringe them up and educate them in the fearfe of god, as hitherto she has doen, vntill they come vnto the age of eightene yeres or be married, whether shall first happen, of whose approued and virtuous educacion of them, I make no doubte, having had soe good experience thereof, And if it shall fortune either of my saide daughters Marie and Fraunces to die before they accomplish the age of eightene yeres unmarried then I will that her porcion soe dyeng shall remaine to my younger daughter surviving

Frances is also mentioned in the will of her aunt, Jane (Stanhope, Townshend) Berkeley, dated 20 July 1617
The National Archives PROB 11/131/287 modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
  Item, I give unto my well-beloved sister-in-law, the Lady Susanna Stanhope, my jewel thick-set with small diamonds, only with a round pearl at each end thereof, and to her daughter Frances, my niece, one jewel with diamonds therein and a ruby in the middest of the same and a pearl hanging thereat;

Frances was named, in her married name of Frances Maule, an executor of the will of her mother, Susan Marburie alias Dame Susan Stanhope, dated 12 February 1618(9) and held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/133/312).
Nowe for my daughter Frances Maule whome I must confess hath ben always a deerlie beloved child unto me And for my vncle Mr Thomas Marburie whom I have allways found to be my faithfull friend in my greatest necessities and whoe doth nowe stand mgages for me, I do make the said Francis Maule and my said vncle Mr Thomas Marburie my sole and onlie executors of this my last will and Testament

Frances, her husband Patrick and her daughter Jane are left bequests in the will of their uncle, Michaell Stanhope dated 6 November 1621 and proved 6 February 1621(2), which is held at the National Archives PROB 11/139/119
Item I give and bequeath unto Paterick Male Esq and to my Niece Frances his wife two guilt spoons and one bason ... Item I give and bequeath unto Jane Male their daughter one hundreth pounds of good money

Death: January 1624

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George Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn, where George seems to have been admitted on 14 August 1599, prior to attending Cambridge, and again, on 17 February 1610(1), after becoming a fellow at Trinity College.
The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p97 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1599.
Aug. 14. GEORGE STANHOPE, one of the sons of Edward Stanhope, Esq.
p125
1610-11.
Feb. 17. GEORGE STANHOPE,  of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p146 (John Venn, 1927)
STANHOPE, GEORGE.  Scholar of TRINITY, 1602. 4th s. of Sir Edward (1563), of Grimston, Yorks. B.A. 1603-4; M.A. 1607; B.D. 1614; D.D. 1620. Fellow, 1606. Incorp. at Oxford, 1611. Adm. at Gray’s Inn, Feb. 17, 1610-1. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Feb. 27; priest, Feb. 28, 1613-4. Presented to Trumpington, Cambs., 1616-7. V. of Flintham, Notts., 1617-20. V. of Burton Agnes, Yorks., 1619. R. of Wheldrake, 1628. Canon and precentor of York, 1631-44. R. of Bolton Percy, 1641. Buried in York Minster, July 26, 1644. Probably brother of Michael (1597). Father of Thomas (1653) and Arthur (1648-9). (Vis. of Yorks., 1666; F.M.G., 987; Genealogist, N.S., XIII. 107.)

Alumni Oxoniensis Early Series vol 4 p1408 (Joseph Foster, 1892)
Stanhope, George, 4s. Sir Edward of Grimston, Yorks; B.A. from TRINITY COLL., Cambridge, 1603-4, M.A. 1607 (incorporated 9 July 1611),, B.D. 1614, D.D. 1620, and re-incorporated 10 July, 1627; student of Gray’s Inn 1611, as of Trinity college, Cambridge; vicar of Flintham, Notts, 1617, and of Burton Agnes, Yorks, 1619, canon 1631, and precentor of York 1632, and rector of Bolton Percy, Yorks, 1641; brother of Thomas 1616, perhaps grandfather of George 1681. See Lansdowne MS. 985. f. 72; & Foster’s Graduati Cantab.

Married: Susan Mole on 16 September 1619 in St Michael le Belfrey (Minster Yard), York, Yorkshire, England

Susan was the daughter of John Molle, and Elizabeth Cheke, the sister of Sir Thomas Cheke. John Molle was a tutor to Lord Ross, grandson of the Earl of Exeter, in which capacity he took Lord Ross on a continental tour, but in Rome John was arrested by the Inquisition on the grounds of having translated Du Plessis's book "The Visibility of the Church" from French into English. John remained imprisoned in Rome for thirty years until his death there in 1638, never seeing his wife or children again. Details of John's life are recorded in The Church History of Britain vol 3 p258-9 (Thomas Fuller, 1868) and accounts of the long running efforts to free him in The Gentleman's Magazine vol 300 pp183-5 (February - June 1906)

Susan and her mother, Elizabethm were remembered in the will of Susan's brother-in-law, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my loveing friend Mrs Elizabeth Mole one gould Ringe of the value of ten shillings Itm I give to my brother Jiors wife and to my nephew Edward Stanhope Sonne to my brother Sr Edward Stanhope and to my said nephews wife each of them a little hoope Ringe to the value of ten shillings as a remembrance of my love to them

Children:
Occupation: Clergyman
George was ordained deacon on 27 February 1613(4) and priest a day later. He was presented to Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, in 1616 to 1617 and was instituted vicar of Flintham, Nottinghamshire, on 9 July 1617, resigning that post in 1620.  On 27 May 1619 he was instituted vicar of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, and he was admitted rector of Wheldrake on 5 July 1628. George was collated to the precentorship of York on 4 November 1631 holding that office until 1644 and in 1641 he succeeded to the rectory of Bolton Percy. George was one of the chaplains in ordinary to the kings James I and Charles I, and was Justice of the Peace for the liberties of St Peter.

An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England
Part II p83 (John Walker, 1714)
    YORK
  GEORGE STANHOPE, D.D. Chauntership, Canonry Resid. And Prebend of Drifield, annexed to the Chauntry.
  He was Admitted to this Dignity in the Year 1631, had been Chaplain to their Majesties King James I. and King Charles I. Rector of Wheldrake in Yorkshire (but whether he lost that Living or not, I cannot say) and was Grandfather to the present Learned and Excellent Dean of Canterbury; who hath further told me that he was * Driven to Doors with Eleven Children, and died in Year 1644.
* Which seems to make it probable, that he lost the Living of Wheldrake also. If he had not, by the time of his Death, suffered in the Revenues of his Chauntry and Canonry; and when he was Turned to Doors, was dispossessed of his Living only, then he must be removed to the Parochial List; Nor could there be any Suffering Chaunter in this Church; unless some other Person was nominated to that Dignity before the Restoration.

Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer p30n (John Nichols, 1782)
† His grandfather George Stanhope, D.D. was Chaplain to James I. and Charles I. had the chauntership of York, where he was also a canon-residentiary, held a prebend, and was rector of Wheldrake in that county. He was for his loyalty, “driven to doors with eleven children,” and died in 1644. See Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. p. 83.

Dictionary of National Biography vol 54 p10 (Sidney Lee, 1898)
  STANHOPE, GEORGE (1600-1728), dean of Canterbury ... His grandfather, George Stanhope (d. 1644), was canon and precentor of York from 1631, and was rector of Wheldrake, Yorkshire, and chaplain to James I and Charles I; he was dispossessed during the Commonwealth

Notes:
George is mentioned in the will of his uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give unto my nephew, George Stanhope, son to my said brother, Edward Stanhope, to be paid unto him after he shall have continued a student in either of the universities of Cambridge or Oxford, and shall have performed all his exercises by the statutes of the university required for Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, the sum of one hundred pounds of lawful English money to be paid unto him within one year after he shall so have commenced Master of Arts by my executor or executors, which if he shall not attain unto, then that legacy to determine;

George is named as the fourth son, and bequeathed the manor of Goddenhay in Somerset, in the will of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellors in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
Item I give unto George Stanhope my fourth sonne all that the copyhould lande lieng within the mannor of Goddenhay in the County of Somerset wherin I haue already procured him to be tennannt admitted in revercon after the death of the nowe tennannte or tennanntes havinge estate in the same And in the meane time twentie poundes yerely to be assinge out of my landes

George was left a bequest in the will of his aunt Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  Item, I give unto my nephews, Michael Stanhope, John Stanhope, George Stanhope and Thomas Stanhope, sons of my deceased brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, to each of them forty shillings apiece, and to the said George Stanhope more, a Jacobine piece of gold to make him a ring of;

George was remembered in the will of his brother, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my wellbeloved brother Jior Stanhope one gould Ringe of the value of thirty shillings and he to choose his poesy and soe the rest of my Brothers to choose theire poesies.

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions pp220-1 (William Dugdale, 1894)
4. George Stanhope, Dr in Divinity, Chaplain to the King, Vicar of Flintham, co. Notts., of Burton Agnes, Rector of Wheldrake and Bolton Percy, Succentor of York, d. intest., bur. in York Minster 26 July 1644. Adm. 21 Dec. 1644, mar. Susan, dau. of John Mole at St. Mich-le-Belfrey, York, 16 Sept. 1619. (C.B.N.) They had issue—
  Edward, bp. at Belfreys 28 Jan. 1620/1, bur. at Kirkby Wharfe 15 Mar. 1633 (puer optimæ spei).
  Matthew, bp. at St. Dennis, York, 6 Mar 1622/3, bur. there 8 Nov. 1623. (C.B.N.)
  Elizabeth, bur. 24 Mar 1623/4 at St Martin’s, Coney St. (C.B.N.)
  Arthur.
  Frances.
  Arabella, bp. at Belfreys 1 May 1633.
  George, bp. at Belfreys 11 Dec. 1634, bur. at Kirkby Wharfe Apr. 1635.
  Ann, bp. at Belfreys 2 July, bur. at York Minster 27 Oct. 1639.
  Thomas, Rector of Hertishorn, co. Derb., Vicar of St. Mary’s, Leicester, bp. at Belfreys 23 Apr. 1638. (C.B.N.) Adm. at St. John’s Coll., Camb. 25 June 1653, mar. . . . Allestry, of co. Derb. They had issue—
    George Stanhope of King’s Coll., Camb., D.D., thirty-six years Vicar of Lewisham and Deptford, Dean of Canterbury, b. at Hertishorne 5 Mar. 1689/90, d. 18 Mar. 1728, mar. first Olivia, dau. of Charles Cotton of Beresford, co. Derb., d. 1 June 1707. They had issue—
      George, only son, Captain in General Egerton’s Regiment of Foot, d. v.p. 1 June 1725.
      Catherine.
      Mary.
      Jane.
      Elizabeth.
      Charlotte.
    He mar. secondly . . . sister of Admiral Sir Ch. Wager, d. 1 Oct. 1730.

Death: 1644

Burial: 26 July 1644 in York Minster, formally known as the Cathedral Church of St Peter in York, Yorkshire, England
The Yorkshire Archælogical and Topographical Journal vol 1 pp236-7 (1870)
THE REGISTER OF BURIALS IN YORK MINSTER, ACCOMPANIED BY MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
    By ROBERT H. SKAIFE, The Mount, York.
(49). Dr. George Stanhope, bur. ye twenty-sixth of July, 1644.
  George Stanhope, D.D., fourth son of Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimston, near Tadcaster, one of the Council of the North. He was one of the chaplains in ordinary to the king. On 9 July, 1617, he was instituted to the vicarage of Flintham, co. Notts, which he resigned in 1620. On 27 May, 1619, he was instituted vicar of Burton Agnes; on 5 July, 1628, he was admitted rector of Wheldrake; on 4 Nov., 1631, he was collated to the precentorship of York; and in 1641 he succeeded Hen. Wickham (see No. 12) in the rectory of Bolton Percy. As “Mr. George Stanhope” he was married, at St. Michael’s-le-Belfrey, 16 Sept., 1619, to Susan Mole, by whom he had issue Edward, Elizabeth, Arthur, Frances, Arabella, Thomas, and Ann. Of these children, Thomas (bap. at St Michael’s, 23 April, 1638) became rector of Hertishorn, co. Derby, vicar of St Mary’s Leicester, and chaplain to the earls of Chesterfield and Clare, and was father of George Stanhope, dean of Canterbury from 1704 to 1728.
  Dr. George Stanhope died intestate, and on 21 Dec, 1644, administration of his effects, with tuition of five of his children, was granted to Susan Stanhope, his widow, who was joined by Tho. Baduley, esq., of Durham, and Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimston.

Probate:
George died intestate and, on 21 December 1644, administration of his effects with tuition of five of his children was granted to Susan Stanhope, his widow, who was joined by Tho. Baduley esq. of Durham and Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimston. An image of these letters, written in Latin, can be found in the York's Archbishops Registers database.

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Henry Stanhope

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Maud (Cromwell) Stanhope

Notes:
Henry was left a bequest of travelling chests in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p283 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Raph Lord Crumwell, who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt, had no issue, so that his sister Matildis, whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir, she was his second wife, and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope, who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters, Joane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier, who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell, but had no issue that I have found; and Maud, first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby; secondly to Thomas Nevile; and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton; the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6.

  The Covenants of Marriage between Sir Richard Stanhope, and Sir Raufe Cromwell, for Maud, sister of the said Sir Raufe, to the said Sir Richard, were dated 12 H. 4. By her he had Henry Stanhope, who died without issue, 12 Aug. 31 H. 6. and was buried at Lamley; and Matilda, first married to Robert Lord Willoughby; secondly, to Thomas Nevile, and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton : and Joane married to Humfrey Bourchier, as in Lamley is noted.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p257 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
Richard Stanhope, the second son, became heir
... He married, secondly, in 12 Henry IV. Maud, daughter to Ralph Cromwell, and sister and heir to Ralph Lord Cromwell of Tattershall-castle in Lincolnshire, Treasurer of England, and by her had a son and two daughters, who by their mother were great fortunes. His son Henry Stanhope (by he) died without issue, Aug 12, in 31 Henry VI. and was buried at Lamley;

Death: 12 August 1453

Burial: Lambley, Nottinghamshire, England

Sources:

Henry Stanhope

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Talbot) Stanhope

Married: Joane Rochford
Joane was the daughter of Henry Rochford, of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire.

Children: Notes:
The Peerage of England vol 3 pp258-9 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John Stanhope, Esq. (son and heir to the said Richard) about 5 Henry VI. took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashal in the county of York, Knt. ... departed this life; leaving Thomas his son and heir; and Henry Stanhope of Stoke Rochford, in com’ Lincoln, Esq. in right of Joan his wife, daughter of Henry Rochford of the said place, Esq. by which Joan he had Edmund Stanhope, Esq. who by Alice his wife, left two daughters, 1. Margaret, his heir, who was married to Thomas Skeffington, of Skeffington, in Leicestershire, Esq. and dying Jan. 1, 1539 40, 31 Henry VIII. left him a son, William Skeffington, Esq. then of full age, and heir to his father, 35 Hen. VIII. 2. Joan, the wife of Humphrey Hesey of Grove, in Nottinghamshire, Esq.

Sources:

Henry Stanhope

Baptism: 30 July 1593, at Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire, England
Historical Notices of Doncaster vol 2 p7 (Charles William Hatfield, 1868)
1593—Itm. Henrye, sonne of Edward Stanhope, Esquire, was haptyzed July 30.

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Notes:
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p221 (William Dugdale, 1894)
6 Henry, (?) bp. at Kirkby Wharfe 30 July 1592, bur. at Belfreys 3 Oct. 1594.

Burial: 3 October 1594 in St. Michael le Belfrey, Yorkshire, England
Henrye is recorded as the "sonne to mr Stanhoope one of her maiesties councell". He was buried in the side choir.

Sources:

Jacob Stanhope

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Joan (Staveley) Stanhope

Notes:
Jacob is left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5). The will documents that Jacob (the name could also be translated from the Latin as James) is a brother of Thomas Stanhope.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.

Jacob/James is documented as "still living" in the IPM of his brother, Richard, on 24 May 1436 (Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Stanhop Nottinghamshire 24 May 1436) but he is not mentioned in the will of his brother, Thomas, in May 1462  - a will which does leave bequests to two sisters of Thomas - and likely Jacob had died by this latter date (Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5).

Sources:

Jane (Stanhope, Townshend) Berkeley

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Roger Townshend
Sir Roger Townshend
This image is from a 1739 engraving, by John Pine, of Tapestry 2 of the Armada Tapestries, based on the drawings of Clement Lemprière who in turn used the original maps by Adams. The Armada Tapestries were a series of ten tapestries made to commemorate the English victory over the Spanish Armada that hung in the House of Lords until being destroyed by fire in 1834.
image from wikipedia
Married (1st): Roger Townshend

Roger was the son of Richard Townshend and Catherine Browne. He was of Raynham, Norfolk, and represented Norfolk in the second session of parliament of 1563. Roger entered the service of Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk, as his man of business, for the most part in London, and after the Duke's execution in 1572 he took charge of the affairs of the heir, the Earl of Arundel, who was still a minor. He married, firstly, Ursula Heydon, with whom he did not have children. In 1588 he served with the English fleet against the Spanish Armada, fitting out ships at his own expense and sailing with them. He was knighted at sea on 26 July 1588 by the Lord Admiral. Roger died in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, and was buried on 30 June 1590 in St Giles without Cripplegate, London. See wikipedia (Roger Townshend (courtier, died 1590)) and The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 entry for TOWNSHEND, Roger (c.1544-90), of Raynham, Norf. and Brampton, Suff. (P.W. Hasler, 1981).

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p259 (John Venn, 1927)
TOWNSHEND, ROGER. Matric. pens, from TRINITY, Easter, 1553. S. of Richard, of Brampton, Norfolk (and Catherine, dau. of Sir Humphrey Browne, Judge of C.P.). Officer in the Queen’s household. Commanded in the fleet against the Armada, 1588. Knighted, 1588, for his services against the Armada. Married Jane, dau. of Sir Michael Stanhope, of Shelford, Notts. Buried June 30, 1590, at St Giles’, Cripplegate, London. Father of John (Trinity). (Cooper. II. 93; Collins, II. 460; D.N.B.)

The Spanish Armada, 1588 vol 3 p262 (Charles Hervey Townshend, 1878)
On Friday, July 26, the Lord High-Admiral sent for the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Sheffield, Roger Townshend, Captain Martin Forbisher, Captain John Hawkins, on board his own Ship the Ark; and there confer’d on them the Honour of Knighthood, as well for a Reward of their good Services in the late Engagement, as for an Encouragement to the rest of the Officers.
...
      SIR ROGER TOWNSHEND.
  Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham, Knight, was descended, according to Collins and other learned antiquaries, through a long line of ancestry from Lodovic or Lewis, a Norman nobleman, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Hauteville or Havile, Lord of Raynham, through which match the Raynham estate came into the family and is now the chief seat of the Marquis Townshend.
  This Sir Roger was born about 1550, and was heir to his great grandfather, Sir Roger Townshend, Kt., whose will was proved at Norwich, Co. Norfolk, May 10, 1552. He was a gentleman of high rank and great worth in his native county Norfolk, and while Spain was preparing the Invincible Armada of 1588 to invade England, he manifested the greatest spirit and energy in fitting out and manning ships at his own expense to repel the invaders, going in person in the cause of his country, and on account of his undaunted spirit and bravery in the several engagements previous to the 26th of July, he was knighted that day on board the Ark Royal, by the Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham, who had power from Queen Elizabeth so to do. This Sir Roger was in the thickest of the fight and suffered the loss of many of his men, and we have evidence from a letter dated at Margate, Kent, August 10, 1588, in which Lord Howard writes Burghley “that of all the men brought by Sir Roger Townshend he has but one left alive.”
  He lived but two years afterwards, dying in the flower of his age at a seat he had purchased of Thomas Sutton, Esq., at Newington, Co. Middlesex, and was buried June 30, 1590, in the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London.

Athenae Cantabrigienses vol 2 p93 (Charles Henry Cooper, 1861)
  ROGER TOWNSHEND, son and heir of Richard Townshend, esq., of Brampton in Norfolk, by Catharine, third daughter and one of the coheiresses of sir Humphrey Browne, justice of the common pleas, was born about 1543, and lost his father 9 May 1552. He was educated at Trinity college, but took no degree. It would appear that he and his wife held offices in the household of queen Elizabeth. At the new year 1575-6 Mrs. Townshend presented the queen with a small ring of gold, with a phoenix of opal and a rose of eight small rubies; and at the new year 1577-8 she gave her majesty a round kirtle of tawney velvet, edged with a broad bone lace of silver and gold, set with spangles. In return she received 29 ounces of gilt plate. At the new year 1579-80 Mr. Townshend’s present was an armring of gold and wood enamelled green, being a snake with a cream-white sapphire on the head. At the new year 1580-1 he gave her majesty a bodkin of gold enamelled green, with a pendant of two white birds of mother-of-pearl and small sparks of rubies and diamonds, “with a pendant stone being a jasent hartwyse.” Mrs. Townshend at the new year 1583-4 presented to the queen a bodkin of gold, with a pendant of opal, representing a cony sitting on a rock, garnished with very small sparks of rubies and one small pearl pendant. In 1588 he had a command in the fleet which defeated the spanish armada, and was for his valiant conduct knighted at sea by the lord admiral on 26th July. Lady Townshend at the new year 1588-9 presented the queen with a large ruff of lawn cutwork, unwrought, receiving from her majesty in return 16¾ ounces of gilt plate. Sir Roger Townshend died in June 1590, at Stoke Newington Middlesex, being buried on the 30th of that month at S. Giles’ Cripplegate, London. He resided occasionally at Stoke Newington, where he purchased an estate of Thomas Sutton, esq., but more frequently at Raynham in Norfolk. He married about 1564 Jane, youngest daughter of sir Michael Stanhope, by whom he had issue sir John, of whom mention will hereafter be made, and sir Robert. His widow, 10 March 1597, remarried Henry lord Berkeley.
  The portrait of sir Roger Townshend was depicted in the margin of the tapestry representing the defeat of the spanish armada, executed by Francis Spiering from the design of Henry Cornelius Vroom. This tapestry, which was in the old house of lords, was destroyed by the fire of 1834, but there is an engraving of it by John Pine.
  Arms: Az. a cheveron Erm. between 3 escallops A.
  Blomefield’s Norfolk, vii. 134. Collins’s Peerage. Proc. Soc. Antiq. iv. 110. Aske’s Elizabetha Triumphans. Collect. Topog. & Geneal. vi. 112, 117. Lemon’s Cal. State Papers, 469. Mem. Scacc. Pasch. 22 Eliz. r. 33. Nichols’s Prog. Eliz. ed. 1823, ii. 1, 76, 87, 290, 301, 420, 579; iii. 9. MS. Lansd. 59. art. 16. Lysons’ Environs, ii. 519; iv. 253. Cal. Chanc. Proc. temp. Eliz. ii. 78, 180; iii. 53, 134, 147, 149, 160. Ducatus Lancastriæ, iii. 234. Walpole’s Painters, ed. Wornum, i. 166.

Dictionary of National Biography vol 57 pp130-1 (Sidney Lee, 1899)
TOWNSHEND, SIR ROGER (1543?-1590), courtier, of East Rainham, Norfolk, born about 1543, was son and heir of Richard Townshend, of Brampton, Norfolk, by Catherine, daughter and coheiress of Sir Humphrey Browne, justice of the common pleas [see under TOWNSHEND, SIR ROGER, d. 1493]. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not graduate. Both he and his wife held court offices under Elizabeth, and they and the queen exchanged presents on New Year’s day of various years between 1576 and 1581. In the latter year Philip, earl of Arundel, made a deed of gift to Townshend and William Dyx of all his goods, jewels, and other property, in consideration of the payment of certain sums of money (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1547-80 p. 469, 1581-90, p. 117). Besides his Norfolk property Townshend purchased from Thomas Sutton (1532-1611) [q. v.] an estate at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, and also acquired property in Essex. He served with the fleet against the Spanish armada, and on 26 July 1588 was knighted at sea by Lord Howard of Effingham. His portrait was to be seen on the margin of the tapestry in the House of Lords (destroyed by fire in 1834) depicting the defeat of the Armada (see PINE, JOHN]. He died two years later, in June 1590, at Stoke Newington, and was buried on the 30th in the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate. He married, about 1564, Jane, youngest daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope [q. v.] of Shelford, Nottinghamshire, who in 1597 was remarried to Henry, lord Berkeley.
  His eldest son SIR JOHN TOWNSHEND (1564-1603), sat in parliament from 1593 to 1601, served in the Low Countries under Sir Francis Vere in 1592, and four years later accompanied Essex in his expedition against Cadiz, and was knighted for his services. He was mortally wounded in 1603 in a duel on Hounslow Heath with Sir Matthew Browne, who was killed on the spot. Townshend died of his wounds on 2 Aug. His son, Sir Roger (1588-1637), who was created a baronet on 16 April 1617, was father of Horatio, first viscount Townshend [q. v.]
  [Cooper’s Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 93, 355, where are full lists of authorities, Foster’s Alumni Oxon; Carthew’s Hundred of Launditch, vols. ii. iii. passim; Playfair’s Brit. Families of Antiquity, i. 181-2; Fuller’s Worthies of England, ii. 152-3; Kennet’s Register and Chronicle, p. 409n.; Richards’s Hist of King’s Lynn, i. 168.]
G. LEG. N.  
The Townshends of Raynham part 1 pp30-2 (James Durham, 1922)
  THE first half of the 16th century history of the family, to sum up, was the long life of the second Sir Roger. It is curious that both his son and grandson should have died before him, so that when he himself came to die in 1551 he was succeeded in the family estates by his great-grandson, Roger, eldest son of his grandson Richard. Roger Townshend was a minor when his great-grandfather died—and was a ward of Queen Mary and King Philip. We know little of him beyond what is to be read in the Dictionary of National Biography: and can only conjecture that he returned to the faith of his fathers as he certainly married into a Catholic family. That his old great-grandfather was a time-server there can be no doubt from the foregoing evidence in these pages. He had been, no doubt, useful to King Henry, in securing evidence against the monastic orders, and for that he obtained that advancement in the things of this life that he coveted so greatly. The house by the Wensum stream had now seen some 150 years of life in the Townshend possession, and before long it was to be dismantled, and soon on the hill above it the new house was to rise—but of that in its place. With the new chapter the long life and large family of the second Sir Roger closes—and the head of the family is his great-grandson, young Sir Roger.
  Young Roger was Richard Townshend’s son, and his mother, Katherine, daughter and heir of Sir Humphrey Brown of Ridley Hall in Terling, Co. Essex—a Judge of the Common Pleas: after Richard Townshend’s death she married Peter Sentyell, who held his first Court, jure uxoris, for the Manor of Ingoldesthorpe, in Wimbotsham in 1552. After his death Mrs. Townshend married Sir William Roper, Knight, and was buried 20th February, 1616, at St. Dunstan’s, Canterbury.
  Roger was seven years old at his great-grandfather’s death. Had his mother lived one year longer she would have seen her great-grandson created a baronet.
  He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not graduate. Both he and his wife, who was Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford, Co. Nottingham, held Court offices under Elizabeth, and they and the Queen exchanged presents on New Year’s day of various kinds between 1576 and 1581. In the latter year, Philip, Earl of Arundel, made a deed of gift to Townshend and William Dix of all his goods, jewels and other property in consideration of the payment of certain sums of money. Besides his Norfolk property, Townshend purchased from Thomas Sutton an estate at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, and also acquired property in Essex. He served with the Fleet against the Spanish Armada, and on the 26th of July was knighted at sea by Lord Howard of Effingham. His portrait was to be seen in the House of Lords (destroyed by fire in 1834) in a tapestry depicting the Defeat of the Armada.
  There were also two pictures of him at Raynham which were sold, alas, in 1904.
  The question of Sir Roger’s religion is a difficult one. He is mentioned in the Catalogue, drawn up by a Catholic, of “the Catholics of England,” date about 1574 (published by the Catholic Record Society, vol XIII. p. 94, note). Both he and Mrs. Townshend were then at Court and in the Queen’s favour. About 1583 or 4, however he was in difficulties, which one may suppose fell on him in consequence of the Earl of Arundel’s conversion to Catholicism. Roger was very likely one of the Earl’s “men,” for Arundel was by right Duke of Norfolk. Arundel had arranged for Roger to take over some of his property: to which transaction I have alluded before. Roger was now confined for a short time in the Tower and then in the house of an Alderman in the City.
  Sir Roger had married first of all, Ursula, daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon, his cousin. His grandmother, Eleanor Townshend, having been a daughter of Sir John Heydon of Baconsthorpe, but by her he had no issue.
  The Townshends were owners and patrons of Heydon for nearly 146 years from 1497 to about 1643 when it was sold. They last presented the living in 1642.
  After Sir Roger’s death his widow married at St. Giles’, Cripplegate, as I have said before, Henry Lord Berkeley. She had no issue by him and seems to have interested herself chiefly in her first husband’s family, and there are to this day Lady Berkeley’s charities distributed at Raynham.
  I append their wills.
  She died at her house in the Barbican which means fortification) in London in 1617.
  He died in 1590 and was buried on the 30th day of June in the church of St. Giles, without Cripplegate, in the City of London. Lady Townshend survived him and in 1597 married Henry Lord Berkeley.

Roger's will was dated 4 December 1587 and proved on 12 February 1590(1), held at the National Archives PROB 11/77/149
The Townshends of Raynham part 1 pp32-3 (James Durham, 1922)
      Prerogative Court of Canterbury—Register Sainberbe 16
  Abstract of the Will of Roger Townshend, late of Easte Raineham, Co. Norfolk, esquire, made 4th December 30th Elizabeth (1587).
  I bequeath to my executors, for the performance of my Will, the manor of Wellingham, which I did of late purchase of Edmond Bell, esquire, and which was by him conveyed to my brother-in-law Master Edward Stanhopp, Doctor of Law, with power to sell such part as they shall find necessary. Such part as remains unsold I bequeath to my son, John.
  I direct that my cousin, Robert Whitney, gent: and Robert Herwood (later on called Harwell) my trustees of one moiety of the manor of Chastleton alias Castleton, Co. Oxford, shall make sale thereof, and the money thereof coming shall likewise be employed by my executors for payment of my debts etc. They shall have also the lease of my farm and capital messuage called Ludgraves in Hadley, Co. Middlesex, and of the manors of Hytcham, Byrcham, Newton and Sydisterne alias Systerne, Co. Norfolk.
  I bequeath to my wife Jane, the lease of my Capital messuage in Newington, Co. Middlesex, which I hold of Thomas Sutton, esquire, and all my stock and sheep in East, West and South Raineham, Hillington, Shereford, Coxford and East and West Rudham, or on any lands late belonging to the dissolved priory of Coxford, heretofore assured to the said Jane as her jointure. My executors shall have my sheep pastured in the marsh of Alborowe, Co. Suffolk, and my term of years in a moiety of the said marsh, which my cousin Robert Whitneye holds in trust for me, and one half of the sheep going in certain sheep pastures in Westwick, and other towns nigh thereabouts, in the occupation of my said cousin, which he has of the demise of Philip, Earl of Arundel: also all my sheep stocks in the County of Norfolk, not above bequeathed to my wife, until my son John be 22, when he shall enjoy the same on condition he suffer my wife and my son Robert to enjoy such lands etc. as I have conveyed to them.
  I bequeath to my wife the rectory of South Raynham, for her life with remainder to my son John.
  To my niece, Ann Godsalve, £200 at 21.
  To my sister Godsalve, wife of Thomas Godsalve, esquire £40.
  To my brothers John Stanhopp, esquire, and Dr Stanhopp, each a piece of plate, worth £10.
  I Will that my men that have served me shall be considered according to their service, which is best known to my wife.
  I ordain my cousin, Frauncis Windam, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas at Westminster, and my brother-in-law and cousins Michaell Stanhopp, Esquire—Edward Coke and Miles Corvett, Esquires, my executors.
  I desire them to demise to my friend Mr John Huggen all the grounds now in his occupation belonging to my manor of Skerning, for term of his life.
        By me  ROGER TOWNESEND.
  WILLIAM DIX—THOMAS SMITH—THOMAS MYNORS—RICHARD DYES—JOHN OWLES. Witnesses.
  Proved 12th February, 1590(-1) by the Proctor of Michael Stanhopp and Miles Corbett, with power reserved, etc. etc.

 A modern spelling transcript of the complete will is at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green)
  In the name of God, Amen. This is the last will and testament of me, Roger Townshend, late of East Raynham in the county of Norfolk, esquire, by me made and declared the fourth day of December in the thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth
... Also I give and bequeath to Jane, my wife, all my estate, lease, interest and term of years of and in all that capital messuage in Newington in the county of Middlesex and of and in all the lands, pastures and grounds thereunto belonging which I had of the demise and grant of Thomas Sutton, esquire;
  Also, I give and bequeath to the said Jane, my wife, all my sheeps stock and flocks of sheep wheresoever going, being, pastured or kept upon any of the fold-courses, lands or grounds whatsoever in East Raynham, West Raynham, Hillington, South Raynham, Shereford, East Rudham, West Rudham, Coxford or elsewhere upon any lands or grounds late belonging to the late-dissolved priory of Coxford in the said county of Norfolk heretofore by me assured or conveyed to or to the use of the said Jane, my wife, for her jointure, to have and enjoy the same as her own proper goods forever;
  And my will and meaning likewise is that the said Jane, my wife, shall have all my plate, jewels, apparel, linen and household stuff and utensils of household whatsoever and wheresoever within this realm of England to her own only use;
... Item, I give and bequeath unto the said Jane, my wife, all that rectory and parsonage of South Raynham in the county of Norfolk with all and singular the appurtenances, to have and to hold the same unto the said Jane, my wife, and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life, and after her decease I will that the same shall remain unto the said John, my son, and to his heirs forever;
... And in witness that this is my last will, I, the said Roger Townshend, have set my hand and seal to every leaf thereof the day and year above-written. By me, Roger Townshend. Witnesses: William Dix, Thomas Smith, Thomas Mynors, Richard Dyes, John Owles.

Children:
Henry Berkeley
Henry Berkeley
image (credit: Berkeley Castle) posted at bbc.co.uk
Married (2nd): Henry Berkeley on 9 March 1597(8) in St Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex, England.

The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys vol 2 pp392-3 (John Smyth, ed. John Maclean, 1883)
  His second wife was Jane daughter of Sr Michaell Stanhope and widow of Sir Roger Townfend, whom before hee had two years continued widower hee maryed at St Giles Church without Creplegate in London, the Ninth of March in the fortieth of Elizabeth A° 1597, then aged about 64, who survived him, And after dyed at her houfe in Barbican on Satterday the third of January in the 15th of king James, 1617, in as ripe an age, loaden with many honorable and well reported daies.
  Howbeit, such was not alwaies the accord, but for this lords not performance of such Covenants as hee had entred into the day before his marriage, to the lord Thomas Howard, (after Earle of Suffolke,) and to her brother Sir Michaell Stanhope and others, which hee was charged in many ƚres and rescripts to have broken; They at her request and pressure, extended his lands in Gloucestershire upon a Statute of ten thousand pounds given by this lord for performance of those covenants, As by the Inquisition thereof taken at Berkeley the 15th of January in the 42th of Elizabeth appeareth; Whereupon shortly after followed such an agreement, as occationed the sale of all the manors and lands which this lord had in the County of Huntington, to Sir John Spencer an Alderman of London, as before is written.
  Many learned men have longe since censured this amorous humour or dotage in old men. And Ovid in this disticke,
    Militat in teneris annis amor, hospes amaenus,
    Est in canitie ridiculosa venus.
    In young men love is pleasant to behold,
    But t’is rediculous, in one that’s old.
And divers Canonists doe hold, That an old man cannot lawfully bee marryed, for say they., The end of marriage is only twofold, for procreation of Children, avoidance of fornication; And that if but one of these two ends bee only aymed at, the marriage is not good.
  And St Ambrose in his comentary upon St Luke, And St Augustine, say That such a mariage without hope of Children, non matrimonium sed concubium dici debet, is not to bee called an holy wedlock, or mariage, but a copulation or coming togeather; But I write the words of others, my self being farre from censuring this honorable couple: Howbeit, neither of those two ends could bee in this marriage, nor the third. Of mutuall society help and comfort; ffor as they never bedded togeather that any of their attendants could observe, whereby they might have become one flesh; soe were themselves and their families for most part as farre asunder as Barbican in London, and Callowdon by Coventry: neither medled hee more with her lands or goods, or ought else that was hers, then with her.

Henry was the 10th Lord Berkeley and claimed the title of 7th Baron Berkeley. He was born on 26 November 1534, the son of Thomas (10th Lord Berkeley) and his second wife, Anne Savage, nine weeks after the death of his father, which led to him sometimes being known as "Posthumous Henry". Henry inherited vast estates, including Berkeley castle, on the death of King Edward VI in 1553, as over sixty years before, his great-great uncle, William Marquess of Berkeley, in order to disinherit his brother, had settled his estates on King Henry VII and his heirs male, with remainder to his own right heirs. As Edward VI was the last male descendent of Henry VII, the estates reverted to William's heir, who was the young Henry Berkeley. The estates came with a lifetime of lawsuits and litigation (detailed in The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys vol 2 pp265-421) which, along with Henry lavish lifestyle, led to the sale of many of his lands. Henry was made a Knight of the Bath on 28 September 1553 at the coronation of Mary I, and was Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire from 1603 until his death. He married, firstly, Katherine Howard, who died in 1596, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. Henry died of food poisoning at Caludon, Gloucestershire, on 26 November 1613,
Tomb of Henry Berkeley and Katherine Howard
Tomb of Henry Berkeley and his 1st wife, Katherine Howard in St Mary, Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
John Smyth writes of the effigies in The Berkeley Manuscripts vol 2 p407  "Of which monument it may rightly bee faid—Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat: The resemblances of both Henry and Katharine are to life"
photo taken in 2011 by Rex Harris posted on flickr.com
and was buried in the chancel at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, leaving his will, dated 20 December 1612, which was proved on 7 February 1614 (TNA PROB 11/123/109).

A great deal of detail on Henry's life can be found in The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys vol 2 pp265-421 (John Smyth, ed. John Maclean, 1883). I have excerpted a few passages below:
The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys vol 2 pp265-6 (John Smyth, ed. John Maclean, 1883)
      The Life of Henry the First
  The life of Henry lord Berkeley the first of that name, stiled in writings Sir Henry Berkeley knight, Lord Berkeley, Mowbray, Segrave, and Breouse; never otherwise written from his cradle to his grave; ... And may bee called Henry the harmless, or posthumus Henry.
...
And the lady Anne great with child, delivered of this lord Henry nyne weekes and fower days after his death. To whom king Henry the eighth that gave his name was godfather;
p281
  the 26th day of January in the first of her raigne, Mary the Queen ...
  Not longe after, (like a young lord left to much to the oversight of his own education,) hee came to London, setled at Tower hill, frequented the Court, and spent all his time at tenys, bowles, cards, dice, and in the company of his huntsmen and faulkeners, delights that drew on greater totalls in his Accompts at the years end then his revenue would support, espetially two Joyntures of his fathers and grandfathers widows draining a third part thereout.
p284
  In September in the second of Queen Mary this lord maryed the lady Katharine Howard, at the Duke her grandfathers house in Norfolke, (of the life, death, and funerall of which lady Katharine I have much to write,) whom fhortly after hee brought to his house at Tower Hill;
... And thus up and down all the time of Queen Mary removed this lord and his wife, with seldom lesse (often more) then one hundred and fifty servants in livery, between Yate, Mangottesfeild, London, Callowdon, and other places; And used to hauke as hee travelled those waies, making his removes from those places to London eight days at least, and as many back againe.
p285-7
  And thus lived this lord and his wife betweene London, the Dukes houses in Norfolke, Callowdon, and Berkeley, never longe at one place, the first thirteene yeares of Queene Elizabeth : In which their travells, (if both togeather,) they were seldom or never attended with fewer then one hundred and fifty servants in their tawny cloth coats in summer, with the badge of the white Lyon rampant imbroidered on the left sleeve; And in coats of white frize lined with crimsen taffety he winter, This lord allowing only cloth, buttons, and badge; amongst whom many were gentlemen and Esquiers of remarkeable families and discent, and of alliance to this house;
... His Christmas, (as most part of this second year of Queen Elizabeth,) hee kept at Yate with great port and solemmty, as the extraordinary guilded dishes, the vanities of Cookes arts, (having none other guests but the gentlemen and ruralty of the Country,) served to the table on Twelvth day, well declare; whereof one was a whole bore inclosed in a pale workmanly guilt by a Cooke hired from Bristoll, as the Clarke of the Kitchens booke declareth: In perusall whereof, I could not observe how that dish was brought unto the table.
  ln which yeare having in March extreamly heated himself by chasing on foot a tame Deere in Yate Parke, with the violence thereof fell into an imoderate bleeding at the nose, for the stay whereof by the ill counsell of some about him, hee clapt his whole face into a bason of cold water, whereby that flush and fulnes of his nose which forthwith arose, could never bee remedied;
p363
  The hours may seeme too many which this lord spent in his best ages at bowles tenis Cockpit Shufgrote cards and dice, especially when hee liked the company; And I will, without blemish to his honor, tell his posterity, That his longe and slender lady-like-hand knew a dye as well and how to handle it as any of his ranke and time: ... But his cheife delights wherein hee spent near three parts of the yeare, were, to his great charges, in hunting the hare fox and deere, red and fallow, not wanting choice of as good hunting horses as yearly hee could buy at faires in the North; And in hawking both at river and at land; And as his hounds were held inferior to no mans, (through the great choice of whelps which with much care hee yearly bred of his choicest braches, and his continuall huntings,) soe were his hawks of severall sorts; which if hee sent not a man to fetch from beyond seas, as three or fower times I remember hee did, yet had hee the choice as soone as they were brought over into England, keeping a man lodging in London, in some years a month or more, to bee sure of his choice at their first landing; espetially for his haggard falcons for the river, wherein hee had two that fell in one after the other, and lasted twelve or more years, the one called stella, and the other kate, that were famous with all great faulconers in many counties, and prized at excessive rates, esteemed for high and round flying, free stooping, and all other good conditions, inferior to none in Christendome.
p378
  Queen Elizabeth in her progresse time in the fifteenth of her raign came to Berkeley Castle, what time this lord Henry had a stately game of red deere in the park adjoyning called the Worthy, whereof Henry Ligon was keeper; during which time of her being there, such slaughter was made, as—27. stagges were slaine in the Toiles in one day, and many others in that and the next stollen and havoked; whereof when this lord Henry, then at Callowdon, was advertised, having much set his delight upon that game, hee sodainly and passionatly in discontent disparked that ground: But in fewe monthes after, hee had a secret freindly advertizem’ from the Court, That the Queen was informed how the same was soe disparked by him in repyning at her coming to his house, (for indeed it was not in her Jests,) and at the good sport shee had in that parke; Advising this lord to carry a wary watch over his words and actions, least that, that Earle (meaning Leicesler) that had contrary to her set Jests drawn her to this Castle, and purposely had caused that slaughter of his deere, might have a further plott againft his head and that Castle, whereto hee had taken noe small liking, and affirmed to have good title thereto.
p380
  This Lord Henry had three great deliverances from iminent death, as in his middle age hee would often comfortably remember; The first whereof was in Kingswood chace neare Bristoll, (where himself under Queen Elizabeth was ranger,) as hee was gallopping upon a full speed through the fearne and brakes there to have rated the forehead of his hounds then in chase after a wronge bucke. The second was not farre from his manor of Callowdon in Warrwicksh’ then also in a swift gallop after his hounds hunting the hare. At both which times, the gelding hee rode on, called Brimsley, (than which, I never knew a better,) being within less then his length first of an old Colepit unfilled up, hid from sight by those brakes, sudainly (in an instant as it were) upon the glimpse thereof threw himfelf flat upon his side: As likewise the second time the same gelding did, upon the like glimpse of a deepe pit of water like a well, kept also from sight by like fearne and weeds; no other way in mans reason (as himself would say,) being for his preservation then the geldings soe casting down himself, without hurt at either time to his rider; neither of those pits being by this lord discerned till hee was tumbling on the ground: The third was neare Holborne bridge in the parish of St Andrewes in London, what time his Coach horses in a furious course down Holborne hill, having cast off the Coachman, had run the coach and themselves besides that bridge into a desparate downfall, (as the passage at that time was,) if Laughan his Irish footman, (a man of extraordinary strength and footmanship,) had not by as swift a course and strength overborne the foremost horses against the coine end of a wall, which at that time stood neare the said bridge:
pp406-7
  Howbeit death prevented whatsoever was intended, for this lord having at dinner on fryday the 12th of November, taken liking to the tast of small custards then ferved to his table, hee willed that some of them should bee reserved for his supper: whereupon feeding, surfeited, so that the same not well digesting, hee grew distempered in the night following, sicknes by degrees increasing upon him till that day fortnight after the 26th of that month: In the evening before in his private prayers hee cryed, come, come, lord Jhesus, which hee often doubled till the morning; And when his weak breath caused the words (lord Jhesus) to bee unsounded. Then only was heard, come, come. And after when the letter (C) became somwhat too harsh, hee was heard to say. Tome, tome, the letter (T) being more soft and easy of sound; And soe without any plunge motion or stirre of body, at five of the clock in the morning the faid 26th of November 1613, in the 11th year of king James, rendred back his spirit to him that gave it, his chaplin Henry Briggs (a learned divine) then on his knees in prayer by him: And thus having the comfortable memory of a well led life, hee beheld death without dread, and the grave without fear, And imbraced both as necessary guides to endles glory: And in this sort did this pious peere, in this navigation of his life, lett fall his fatall anchor that never can bee wayed up againe.
... The Executors Sr William Coke and Sr Thomas Estcourt having after their coming informed themselves of the personall estate of this lord, entred into the execution of the will, and sattisfyed all debts and demands in those parts ere they departed thence: And having in fitting manner provided a Coach and all things necessary for conduction of the Corps to Berkeley Castle according to his will, the 21th of December set forward with it, attended with a fair troope of his and their own servants, to Warwicke; thence the next day to Campden, thence the next day to Tetbury, thence on Christmas even to Berkeley Castle; in the Chappell whereof it remained till a [f]air Tombe (after some months) was set up in his own Chapple and place of buriall, adjoyning to the Chancell of the said Church, (his wholl body and bowells laid thereunder,) with this inscription.
  Here lieth the body of Sir Henry Berkeley knight lord Berkeley, Mowbray, Segrave, and Breouse, lord Leivtenant of the County of Glouc, who departed this life the 26th day of November in the year of our lord God, 1613. being the day that hee accomplished the age of ffowerscore years: Hee first maryed Katharine, sister to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolke, by whom hee had issue, Thomas, Mary, and ffrances; Thomas being a knight of the Bath maryed Elizabeth only daughter and heir of Sir George Carey knight lord Hunsdon, Mary the eldest daughter was maryed to Sr John Zouch knight, And ffrances the second daughter was maryed to Sir George Shirley Baronet: Hee seconly maryed Jane the widowe of Sir Roger Townsend knight, yet living, by whom hee had noe iffue.—Thus the Tombe.
  Of which monument it may rightly bee faid—Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat: The resemblances of both Henry and Katharine are to life: And hee whose coming was to find the lost sheep, to bind up the broken hearted, to call sinners to repentance and by it unto salvation, save and have mercy upon them, mercifull in their lives to many.
  Hee fate lord from the first to the last of his life just 79 years, not 80 as his Epitaph hath. A misinformation of those that waited in his sicknes. Telling his Executors how hee oft told them, That if hee lived till fryday the 26th of that November hee should bee just 80 years old.

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp460-1 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Thomas aforesaid, the eldest son (10th Lord Berkeley, in virtue of the aforesaid summons) ... by Anne, his second wife, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Frodsham in Cheshire, Knt. he had Henry his son and heir, born nine weeks and four days after his death; also a daughter Elizabeth, scarce three quarters of a year old at his death, married to Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, without issue. He departed this life at Stone, in his journey from his house at Yate in Gloucestershire towards London, on September 19, 1534, 26 Hen. VIII. and was there buried.
  Which Henry, his son and heir, at the death of King Edward VI. the last male heir of King Henry VII. had thereby possession of Berkeley-castle, and all those lordships settled on that King by William Marquis of Berkeley, before-mentioned. He obtained livery of them in 1 & 2 Philip and Mary, before he arrived at full age. The said castle and lordships had rested in the crown full sixty-one years, four months and twenty-two days; and were then of the value of 687l. 5s. per annum, old rent, not accounting the parks and chases thereto belonging. The inquisition taken of the estate on the decease of King Edward VI. recites the remainder made by the said William Marquis of Berkeley to King Henry VII. and the heirs male of his body, and for default of such issue to his own right heirs. The several manors, &c. so entailed, are as follows: The castle and manor of Berkeley; the manors of Hame, Apulridge, Slymbridge, Hurst, Cowley, Alkington, Came, Hynton, Wotton-under-Edge, with the advowson thereof, Symondshall, and Erlingham, in Gloucestershire, the manors of Portbury, and Potshed, in Somersetshire; one fourth of the manor of Tiborne, alias Marybone, in the county of Middlesex; and the manor of Shington, in Warwickshire. These manors, with the appurtenances, coming to the Lord Henry Berkeley, within age, as heir, in remainder; and the doubt being whether he was to be in ward to the Queen, and to sue livery at full age; Queen Mary, by her warrant, under her signet, dated Sept. 8, 1554, the 1st and 2d of Philip and Mary, to the Master and Council of the Court of Wards, gave them special warrants to pass his livery of the said lands at the old rent, during the minority, as if he had been of full age. Also in the said inquisition it is recited, that he was son of Thomas Lord Berkeley, son of Thomas Lord Berkeley, and brother and heir of Maurice Lord Berkeley, the eldest son of Maurice Lord Berkeley, brother and heir of the said William Marquis of Berkeley. His Lordship thereupon, repossessing the old barony of his ancestors, was summoned by writ to parliament in 4 & 5 Phil. and Mar. and there placed on Jan. 25, according to the ancient precedence.
  He took to his first wife Catherine, third daughter to Henry Howard Earl of Surry, by Frances his wife, daughter to John Vere, Earl of Oxford; and she, dying at Calaudon, on April 7, 1596 (38 Eliz.) was buried in the North-isle of St. Michael’s church in Coventry. He married, secondly, on March 10, 1597, Jane, youngest daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford in Notttinghamshire, Knt. widow of Sir Roger Townshend, of Raynham, in Norfolk, Knt. but by her, who survived him, and died on January 3, 1617-18, (15 Jac. I.) he had no issue.
  By the said Catherine, his first wife, he had two sons, viz. Thomas, born at Calaudon, on July 11, 1575, 17 Eliz. and Ferdinand, who, dying at Yate in Gloucestershire, was there buried. He had also four daughters; of whom Mary was the wife of John Zouch, son and heir to Sir John Zouch, of Codnore in com’ Derb. Knt. and Frances was married to George Shirley, of Astwell in com’ Northampt. Esq; afterwards created a Baronet, and ancestor to the present Earl Ferrers.
  This Henry, 11th Lord Berkeley, died aged 79 years and 4 days, at Calaudon before-mentioned, on Nov. 26, 1613, and was honourably conveyed to Berkeley, and buried in the chancel, there where a fair tomb is erected to his memory.

Notes:
 Jane - "my awnte Townesend" - was left a bequest in the will of her nephew, Thomas Cooper, dated 24 August 1584.
North Country Wills: 1558 to 1604 p111 (1912)
To my awnte Townesend one ringe in Poyser keeping, whiche is called a snake’s head.

Jane is mentioned in the will of her brother, Edward, dated 28 February 1603. That will also left bequests to her sons John and Robert. It is held at the National Archives (PROB 11/11/228).
Modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
  I do give to my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my late loving brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, deceased, to remain to the heirs of his house after his decease, and so from heir to heir of that house, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the weight of six score ounces with the Stanhope arms in the bottom of the basin and the Stanhope crest upon some part of the ewer with the difference of the fourth brother, with this inscription about the arms: Memoria Edwardi Stanhope Legum Doctoris;
  Item, I do give to my nephew, Edward Stanhope, the Lady Anne Holles, and my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, being the sons and daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, to each of them one signet ring of gold of the weight of three angels apiece, the crest belonging to our own arms being engraven on them, and on the inside of each of them to be engraven these words: Edwardus Stanhope Legum Doctor;
...
  Item, I do give to my very honourable lady and sister, the Lady Jane Berkeley, late wife to Sir Roger Townshend, knight, deceased, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the weight of six score ounces, to be marked with the arms, crests and inscription as those above set down to my other brothers, she to have the use of it during her life, and after her decease the same to remain to my good nephew, Sir John Townshend, knight, her son and heir, and to the heirs of that house as a memorial of my love to them;
  Item, I give to my nephew, Sir John Townshend, knight, and to my nephew, Robert Townshend, his brother, each of them one gold ring of three angels apiece, with their crest engraven on it and inscription as to my other brothers’ children;
  If my sister Berkeley do die before me, then my will is that my nephew, Sir John Townshend, shall have a basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the same weight and fashion which my Lady Berkeley’s should have been;

Jane was also remembered in the will of her nephew, John Stanhope, the son of her brother Thomas, dated 19 July 1610, at The National Archives PROB 11/117/473 (modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
To my honourable loving aunt, the Lady Bertley [=Berkeley], and to my two most dear uncles, the Lord Stanhope and Sir Michael Stanhope, though a small, yet a token of my true love, and as my present estate will admit, to each of them I give a twenty shillings’ piece of gold to make a ring of to wear for my sake, who did ever truly love and honour them;

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p262 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
Jane, who was married to Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham, in Norfolk, ancestor by her to the present Viscount Townshend, and on March 10, 1597, after his death, to Henry Lord Berkeley, but without issue by him

Longman's Magazine vol 27 pp353-6 (1896)
      Some Seventeenth Century Matrons and their Housekeeping.
... Such a stately and gracious figure is the Lady of Berkeley, Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, and wife of Henry, Baron Berkeley of Berkeley, Mobray, Segrave, and Breuse of Gower, and lord of many fair castles and manors in the West.
... Lord Berkeley’s first wife, Lady Katherine Howard, not so notable a housewife, was inclined to ‘betake herself to the delights of youth and greatness.’ She was an adept with her crossbow, and was ‘soe good an Archer at butts with the Longbow, as her side by her was never the weaker.’ She accompanied her lord on his hunting journeys, and ‘kept commonly a cast or two of merlins mewed in her own chamber,’ to the great detriment, as her maidens lamented, of ‘her gownes and kirtles.’ Lady Katherine died in 1596, and two years later Lord Berkeley married Jane Stanhope. She did not share in her predecessor’s sporting tastes, and at once, in gracious and womanly ways, set to work to put her house and household in order. That this was no slight task may be seen by the size of the household she ruled over. When the Lord of Berkeley moved from one of his castles to another, accompanied by his lady, ‘he was seldom or never attended with fewer than one hundred and fifty servants in their tawny cloth coats in summer, with the badge of the white Lyon rampant embroidered on the left sleeve, and in coats of white frieze lined with crimson taffety in the winter . . . amongst whom many were Gentlemen and Esquires, of remarkable families and descent, and of alliance to the house of Berkeley.’ For the conduct of these esquires and pages, who are under the control of the ‘Gentleman Usher in waiting,’ the Lady of Berkeley draws up full and minute directions. The laws for the whole household she has fully entered in the ‘Yeoman’s book,’ which she expects her gentlemen to observe ‘without any breach or contempt of them;’ but she thinks good to give them some special rules, that by their ‘obedience, well-behaviour and tractableness,’ they may ‘procure the meaner sort of my servants in calling to amend their faults by their good examples.’
  When the yeomen of the chambers have done their work, the gentleman usher is to go round, at eight o’clock in winter and seven o’clock in summer, or ‘if strangers be there, then at more early hours,’ and see that all things in the dining and withdrawing chambers are in fair order and ‘well set up, according to his lady’s former directions set down.’ The rooms are to ‘be always ready for the entertainment of strangers; he is to see that the great fires of oak logs are burning brightly in winter and in summer; that ‘the chimneys are trimmed with green boughs and the windows with herbs and sweet flowers, and the chamber strowed with green rushes.’ There are minute rules for the attendance of ‘the gentleman usher and the rest of my gentlemen when I shall walk any way out of the park, as into the fields or any of my outward grounds. Further, when I do walk in the park then I do license the gentlemen either to walke, bowl, shoote, or use any other pastime, where I walk in this order. If I do walk in the high walk, then they may be in the lower walk; if I do walk in the lower walk, then they may be in the upper.’ When my lady walks in ‘the greate garden,’ she gives gracious license to the gentlemen to be in another part of it, whether she has strangers with her or not.
  Lady Jane is minutely solicitous about the comfort of guests in their own chambers, and her anxiety that breakfast should be served punctually to the moment they have asked for it is worthy of railroad days. A ‘gentleman of calling’ must be attended from his bed-chamber to the dining-room when meals are served, and there is much ceremonious etiquette of leave-taking when the guests’ riding-horses are brought round to the hall-door.
  Some of Lady Jane’s decrees, as regards attendance upon her walks and suchlike, are not, she says, ‘express commandments,’ but rather the intimation of her wishes; but the really serious duties of the day culminate in the dining-hall. No trifling or negligence can be allowed during the august ceremonial of dinner and supper—the ‘commandment’ here is absolute: ‘My pleasure is that the gentleman usher and the rest of my gentlemen shall, with due reverence and great diligence, wholly give their attendance to wait upon us, and none for those times to go to rest themselves in other places . . . and not to go to any bye places to eat meat in corners, nor to take nor give away any meat . . . but to give good attendance till they go all together to take their diversion. And therein all to behave themselves civilly like gentlemen . . . to use no playing fence nor disorderly pastimes in the hall which causeth great disorder and gives cause of offence by the great noise that comes by that means.’ ...
MARGARET. M VERNEY.

A complete list of Jane's household orders can found in The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys vol 2 pp418-21 (John Smyth, ed. John Maclean, 1883)

Death: 3 January 1617(8), at her house in the Barbican, London, England

The Court and Times of James the First vol 1 p456 (ed. Robert Folkestone Williams, 1848)
  John Chamberlain, Esq., to Sir Dudley Carleton.
     London, January 10, 1617.  
...  Besides Mrs. Middlemore, one of the queen’s maids, who died lately of a consumption, we have lost three or four old ladies these holidays—as the Lady Barclay, sister to the Lord Stanhope; the Lady Allet, our oldest London lady; and the Lady North, the Lord North’s mother.

Burial: In her will, Jane requested "to be wholly buried in the chancel or parish church of St Giles without Cripplegate, London, where the body of my first husband, Sir Roger Townshend, doth also lie interred"

Will: dated 20 July 1617 and proved 10 March 1617(8) by her son, Roger Townshend, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287)
The Townshends of Raynham part 1 pp34-6 (James Durham, 1922)
Will of Jane, Lady Townshend, afterwards Lady Berkeley, widow of Henry, Lord Berkeley, decd. Dated 20th July, 1617.
  I bequeath to my brother John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, a piece of plate and a key of gold set with diamonds.
  To his wife a piece of jewellery.
  To his son, Sir Charles Stanhope, Knt: a piece of plate.
  To my brother, Sir Michael Stanhope, Knt: a piece of plate.
  To my brother-in-law, Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Knt: a piece of plate.
  To my daughter-in-law, Lady Elizabeth Berkley, my little clock of gold and £20 which her late husband, Sir Thomas Berkley, owed me.
  To her son, Lord Berkley, my godson, a ring with diamonds, which was his grandfather’s.
  To my niece, Lady Haughton, a jewel set with diamonds.
  To my nephew, Lord Haughton, her husband, a ring.
  To my sister-in-law, Lady Susanna Stanhope, a jewel.
  To her daughter, Frances, a jewel.
  To my niece, Lady Harte, a jewel and to her husband, Sir Percival Harte a ring, and to their daughter Elizabeth Harte a “portague” of gold.
  To my niece, Lady Katherine Stanhope, widow of my nephew Sir John Stanhope, deceased, a jewel, and to her three daughters a Jacobin piece of gold each.
  To my daughter in law, Lady Anne Townesend, a basin and ewer of silver.
  To my nephews, Michael, John, George and Thomas Stanhope, sons of my deceased brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, Knt: 40s. each.
  To my nephews, Thomas and William Coote, two Jacobins each.
  To Mr Giles Fletcher, of Trinity College, Cambridge, late tutor to my grandchild, Sir Roger Townesend, a Jacobin piece of gold.
  To the said Sir Roger Townesend, Knt, and Bart: son of my late son, Sir John Townesend, Kt. my best basin and ewer, parcel gilt, and a jewel of diamonds called a “harrow,” to be left by him as heirlooms: also I give to him a large carpet, a cupboard, chair and so forth: the suit of hangings being the story of David and Solomon in my house in Barbican and the rest in my house at Kensington and other hangings in iny said houses.
  I give him also my manor of Beusoes (? Beaufoes) in Southcreake, Co. Norfolk and my liberty of foldcourse, foldage and shacke for sheep there and the close called Caldwell Close in Tittleshall, Co. Norfolk, and lands called Normansborough in South Raynham and my capital messuage late Bolter’s in South Creake and lands etc. there and in North Creake, Co. Norfolk, to him in tail male, with contingent remainders in default of male issue, to my grandchild Stanhope Townesend, younger brother of Sir Roger, in tail male to the issue of the said Sir Roger, the issue of said Stanhope, the issue of my late son, Sir John Townesend, to my brothers John, Lord Stanhope and Sir Michael Stanhope, Knt. and their heirs for ever—the rent of £150 a year to Richard Mason, gent: my servant for 21 years after my death, to be paid out of the same.
  To the said Sir Roger, my manor or lordship of West Rudham, Co. Norfolk and all the lands etc. in West and East Rudham, Barwicke and Barmere, and the moiety of Whynbarghill, in tail male, with remainders as before.
  To Sir Roger and his male issue my sheep pasture in West Rudham called the Great Ground which I hold by grant dated 5th January, 11 James I., of Sir Michael Stanhope, Knt. and Richard Mason, gent: and a messuage and lands in East Raynham and Tofts, Co. Norfolk which I hold by grant dated 16 March 5 James I., of William Pearne and others, with remainders, as before.
To the poor and needy people dwelling in East Raynham £5 a year, to those of West and South Raynham and Helloughton £3. 6. 8. a year, and to the poor and needy of East Rudham £5 a year, out of the sheep pastures etc. in West and East Rudham and Tofts before devised to Sir Roger Townesend, in tail, with remainder and over and ultimate remainder to Sir Roger Townesend and his heirs, to be paid to the parson, vicar, churchwardens and overseers of parishes named for distribution among the aged and impotent poor, on the feast of S. Thomas, for ever.
  To the said Sir Roger, my dwelling house in Kensington, Co. Middlesex, lately bought of Sir George Coppyn in Sir Walter Cope, Knts: in the name of Sir Michael Stanhope, my brother (as appears by Fine) and which my said brother has since conveyed to me.
  To the poor of Kensington £10 a year for ever.
  To said Sir Roger, a tenement in the Barbican, in the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate, next my now dwelling house there, after the death of my servant, John Harbert, now dwelling there.
  To my grandson, the said Sir Roger, all my sheep, except 800 mother ewes given to Richard Mason.
  To my said grandchild, Stanhope Townesend, £1000, which I gave his father to preserve the Manor of Stinton Hall from sale and which а manor was conveyed to said Stanhope to be paid him at his age of 24.
  To Anne Townesend, daughter of my son, Sir John, deceased, £2,000 at her age of 24.
  (Legacies to servants, godchildren, apothecary etc. etc.)
  I desire to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of St Giles, Cripplegate, London, near my first husband, Sir Roger Townesend, and a monument to be erected in East Raynham Church.
  To 74 poor women in St Giles and Kensington, a black dress and 12 pence each.
  To the poor of St Giles £100.
  Residuary legatee—the said Sir Roger Townesend.
  My executors I appoint as my brothers John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudborne, Co. Suff. Knt: my grandchild Sir Roger Townesend and my servant Richard Mason.
      (signed) JANE BERKLEY.
  (There are no witnesses’ names.)
  On 10th March, 1617/18 Commission issued to Sir Roger Townesend of East Rainham, Co. Norfolk, Bart: to administer the goods and chattels of deceased, according to the tenor of the will, because that John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington and the other executors have expressly for certain causes renounced executorship of the same.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
  Register “Meade” fo. 24.

A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) of the complete will is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  In the name of God, Amen. This twentieth day of July anno Domini one thousand six hundred and seventeen, and in the years of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith etc., that is to say, of England, France and Ireland the fourteenth, and of Scotland the fiftieth, I, Jane, Lady Berkeley, widow, late wife of the right honourable Henry, Lord Berkeley, deceased
...
  Item, my will is, and I do straitly charge and require my executors hereafter named, that they suffer not my body after my decease to be cut or opened, but that as soon as conveniently may be after my life shall be departed, they cause the same to be wholly buried in the chancel or parish church of St Giles without Cripplegate, London, where the body of my first husband, Sir Roger Townshend, doth also lie interred, and this I also charge and require my executors to see performed and done in private manner and sort without set or solemn funeral or any other vain pomp or worldly ostentation;
  Item, my will and desire also is that my executors hereafter named shall within two years next after my decease cause a handsome and decent monument or tomb in memory of my first husband, Sir Roger Townshend, and of myself and our children to be made and erected in or near unto the chancel of the parish church of St Mary in East Raynham in the county of Norfolk with such inscriptions therein as to my executors shall seem fit;
...
I, the aforesaid Jane, Lady Berkeley, do ordain, constitute, nominate, appoint and make my well-beloved brothers, John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, and Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury in the county of Suffolk, knight, Sir Roger Townshend, my grandchild, and Richard Mason, my servant, to be my executors of this my last will and testament      

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Jane (Stanhope) Harte

Baptism: 25 June 1578 in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England
The Registers of St Helen's Bishopsgate p2 (ed. W. Bruce Bannerman, 1904)
    BAPTISMS.
1578. June 25 Jane d. of Edward Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Married: Percival Harte

This marriage occurred between October 1595, when Percival's first wife was buried and 1595, when their first son, Percival was born.

Percival was born in 1567-8, the son of Sir George Harte and Elizabeth Bowes, and was educated at New College, Oxford. He married, firstly, Anne Manwood on 10 January 1587, in Hackington, Kent, with whom he had a son, William born in 1593. Anne was buried in Lullingstone, Kent, on 11 October 1595. Percival married, thirdly, Mary Harrison in 1628. Percival was a Member of Parliament for Kent on 1597 and Lewes in 1601 (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for HART, Percival (c.1568-1642), of Lullingstone, Kent.) and was knighted in June 1601 (The Knights of England vol 2 p99 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)). Percival died on 8 March 1641(2) and was buried on 11 March 1641(2) in St Botolph, Lullingstone, Kent.

Alumni Oxoniensis Early Series vol 2 p664 (Joseph Foster, 1891)
Hart, (Sir) Percyvall, of Kent, equitis fil. NEW COLL., matric. 18 Dec., 1584, aged 16; of Lullingston castle, Kent (son of Sir George, who died 16 July 1587); knighted 1 June 1601, M.P. Bossiney 1597 (by double return) till void, Lewes circa Nov. and Dec., 1601. See Burrows, 536; & Foster’s Parliamentary Dictionary.

Irish Pedigrees p255 (John O'Hart, 1881)
  10. Sir Percival Harte, of Lullington, Knight: son of the aforesaid Sir George. Sir Percival was twice married: 1st, to Anne, daughter of Sir Roger Manwood, Knight; by whom he had a son named William, who was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Weldon, of Swanscombe, Kent: this William died without issue in 1671, and was buried at Lullington. Sir Percival’s second wife was Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimstone, knight: the issue of this marriage were—1. Percival Harte, who died without issue; 2. Jerome Harte, obiit, s.p.; 3. Sir Harry Harte, of Lullington, knight, K.B., died (before his father) in 1636; 4. Edward; 5. George. This Sir Percival had three brothers—1. Robert Harte, ob. s.p.; 2. George Harte, 3. Sir Peter Manwode Harte.

Percival's will, dated 11 February 1640(1) and proved on 31 March 1642, is held at The National Archives (PROB 11/188/395)
In the name of God Amen: This eleventh day of ffebruarie in the yeare of our lord god 1640. And in the sixteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles ... I Sir Percivall Hart of Lullingston in the County of Kent knight ... ffor my body I will the same to be buried in the parrish church of Lullingston in the sepulchor of my ffather and Anncestors in as private manner as may be ...
my said sonne William Hart ...
my daughter in lawe Elizabeth wife of my said sonne William ...
my loving daughter the Lady fferby ...
my daughter in lawe the Lady Hart ...
my daughter in lawe the wife of my sonne George Hart ...
my coson John Hart of the parish of St Martins wthin Ludgate London gentleman ...
my sonne George Hart ...
ffrances Hart my grandchilde the daughter of my sonne Sir Henry Hart knight deceased ...
my sonne in lawe Sir Leonard fferby ...
Item I doo nominate and appoint mu sonne George Hart to be the executor of this my last will and testament ...
my grandchilde Percivall Hart and my then Grandchilde George Hart wch is since deceased

Children: Notes:
Jane received a bequest in the will of her grandfather, Thomas Colshill of Chigwell, Essex, dated 23 April 1593, held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/85/243).
... Item I give and bequeathe to Ann Stanhope the daughter of Edward Stanhope one hundered markes Item I give and bequeathe to Jane Stanhope her sister one hundered markes

Jane, her husband Percival Harte and their son, also Percival, received bequests in the will of Jane's uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ... Item, I do give unto my godson, Percival Harte, the son of my nephew, Percival Harte, and of my niece, Jane Stanhope, his wife, if he be living at the time of my death, one piece of plate of silver and gilt of the weight of one hundred ounces, praying Almighty God to increase his blessings upon him; ... Item, I give to my good nephew, Sir Percival Harte, one piece of plate of silver and gilt of thirty ounces;

Jane was not mentioned in the will of her father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellor in the North, dated 8 August 1603, presumably because she was already married and her sisters are bequeathed marriage portions, but her husband, described as "Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe", was appointed a supervisor of the will which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... And appoint Supervisors of this my will my deare and lovinge brethren Sir John Stanhope knight vice chamberlaine and one of his maiesties moste honorable priuie councell Sir Edwarde Stanhope Doctor Sr Michaell Stanhope and Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe. Published in ??? Ch: Hales of Bevercotes Thomas Morton Jo: Sleightholn Francis Williams.

Jane is mentioned with kind words, but no bequest, and her daughter Elizabeth is left a petticoat, in the will of her mother, Susan Marburie alias Dame Susan Stanhope, dated 12 February 1618(9) and held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/133/312).
Item whereas the saied Sr Edward Stanhope by his laste will and testament did give and bequeathe unto me the moitie of one halfe of all his goodes and ymplementes of houshould stuffe a greate parte whereof is nowe remayning in the handes, custodie or possession of Sr Edward Stanhope knight my eldest sonne as, in and by a certaine booke conteyning an Inuentarie of the same goodes and by some other writinges in my custodie appeareth And whereas allso I am nowe possessed of divers goodes and chattells jewells lynnen and ymplements of houshoulde and houshoulde stuffe All which I have onto a purpose to have given to some of my best deserving children But fynding my estate to be muche ympayreil by many chardgable and troublesome suites in lawe betwene my selfe and some of Those that were neerest and ought to haue ben deerest in love and affection towards me I haue nowe altered my mynde and purpose in yt poynte and do leave the same to the disposition of my Executores herein after named for the payment of my debtes and suche Legacys as are herein after expressed ... And touching my daughtr Harte I do acknowledge her to have ben a good and loving childe and according to my power I have done well by her And yf my abilitie were awnswerable to my mynde I would remember her better. ... Item I give and bequeathe unto my twoo kynneswomen Mrs Mary Manwood widowe and to her sister ??ley [blank] widowe and to my servannte Katherine Burknell all the residue of my wearing apparrell whatsoever to be equallie devided amongst them three (saving onlie and except my newe scarlett petticoate layers with gould lace) which I do hereby give unto Elizabeth Harte my grandaughter

Percival Harte married for the third time in 1628, so presumably Jane had died before that date, but after 1618, when she is named in her mother's will.

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Joan (Stanhope, Bourchier) Radcliffe

Birth: about 1426
Joan is stated to be aged 28 in the IPM of her mother in December 1454

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Maud (Cromwell) Stanhope

Married (1st): Humphrey Bourchier before 14 February 1456
Humphrey is documented as the husband of Joan in a document dated 14 February 1456 concerning the death of Joan's uncle, Ralph Cromwell.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1452-1461 p275 (1910)
1456. Feb. 14.
Westminster.
  Licence for Thomas Nevyll, knight, and Maud, lady of Willughby, his wife, one of the kinswomen and heirs of Ralph, late lord of Cromwell, deceased, and for Humphrey Burghchier, esquire, and Joan his wife, sister of Maud

Humphrey was the third son of Henry Bourchier the first Earl of Essex, and Isabel Plantagenet, daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, aunt of Edward IV. He was constable of Nottingham castle and steward of Sherwood Forest. Humphrey was created 1st Lord Bourchier of Cromwell on 25 July 1461 and summoned to parliament by the title of Lord Cromwell, in 1, 2, 6, and 9 Edward IV (1461-1470). Humphrey died on 14 April 1471, fighting for the Yorkists, in the Battle of Barnet, and was buried in St Edmund's chapel in Westminster Abbey, near the grave of Robert de Waldeby, but has no monument. Coincidentally, Humphrey's cousin, Sir Humphrey Bouchier, the son of Sir John Bourchier and Margery Berners and who married Elizabeth Tilney, also died in the Battle of Barnet and is buried in Westminster Abbey, where the latter Humphrey's tomb survives.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls 1461-1471 pp26-7 (1949)
1461. July 15.
  Commitment to Humphrey Bourgchier of Cromwell, knight,—by mainprise of Richard Denton of Denton, co. Lincoln, esquire, and Simon Hareby of the same county, esquire,—of the keeping of the manor or lordship of Eltham with its members, to wit, Brandon, Mordyngton or Mordyngham, and Henley, with the rents, lands, meadows, feedings, pastures, pannages, hays, agistments and other profits and commodities pertaining to the said manor, lordship or members, both within and without the park, saving sufficient pasture for the king’s deer there and excepting the capital manor with the whole precinct there and the garden of the manor; to hold from Easter last for 20 years at a yearly farm of the extent or as much as may be agreed upon between him and the treasurer by Michaelmas next; with proviso that he have due allowance yearly in the payment of the said farm of any charges, annuities or fees granted or made to any persons from the manor or lordship with the members aforesaid; and that he be discharged of the maintenance and repairing of the said manor or lordship; and that if any other person shall be willing without fraud to give more by way of increment for the said keeping, then the said Humphrey shall be bound to pay so much if he will have the keeping. By bill of the treasurer. Dated etc.
  Vacated on surrender, since the king on 7 September 5 Edward IV, moved by certain considerations, ordered George archbishop of York the chancellor (by writ of privy seal, filed in the Chancery) to receive and cancel the said letters together with the enrolment of the same. And so these letters are cancelled.
July 15.
  Commitment to Humphrey Bourgchier of Cromwell, knight,—by mainprise as above (last entry),—of the keeping of the manor or lordship of Willeford and the castle or lordship of Somerton, co. Lincoln; to hold from 4 March last for 20 years at a yearly farm of as much as may be agreed upon between him and the treasurer by Michaelmas next; with clause touching maintenance of houses, enclosures and buildings and support of charges; and with proviso for the increase of the farm.
     By bill of the treasurer. Dated etc.
July 15.
Commitment (with like clause and proviso) to Humphrey Bourgchier of Cromwell, knight,—by mainprise as above (last entry but one),—of the keeping of the manor of Burwell and Mukton, co. Lincoln; to hold from 4 March last for 20 years at a yearly farm of as much as may be agreed upon between him and the treasurer by Michaelmas next.
     By bill of the treasurer. Dated etc.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1461-1467 p460 (1897)
1465. July 17.
Westminster.
  Grant to Humphrey Bourchier, knight, lord Cromwell, and the heirs male of his body from 4 March, I Edward IV. from which date he has held the same, of the offices of constable of the king’s castle of Notyngham, porter or keeper of the gate of the castle, steward and keeper of the forest of Shirwode, and keeper of the king’s parks of Beskewode and Clypston and woods of Billowe, Birkeland, Rumwode, Ouseland and Fulwode, co. Nottingham, all herbage, agistment and pannage of the said parks and the said woods of Bilwode, Birkeland, Bumwode, Ouseland and Fulwode, the king’s mills of Notyngham called ‘the Castellmylnes,’ the king’s rivers of Trent and Lene in the town of Notyngham and free fishery in the same, all the king’s meadows below or by the castle between it and the Trent, called ‘the Castelmedowes’ and ‘Constable Holme,’ all the king’s pasture there called ‘the Conygarth’ alias ‘the Castell Apilton’ and ‘Mildam,’ three parcels of meadow lying on the bank of the river Lene and in ‘le Castell Hilles’ and all other meadows and pastures that any constable of the castle had by reason of his office, all chattels waived and strays and all profits and emoluments of cheminage within the said forest, parks and woods belonging to the king in any way by reason of the said forest and castle, all fines, issues and amercements of tenants and residents within the forest and forfeitures of non-residents for non-expeditation of dogs called ‘dogsilver’ according to the custom of the forest, and the office of one of the chamberlains of the receipt of the Exchequer or the office of one of the chamberlains of the Exchequer with the appointment of one of the ushers of the said receipt and all other officers and ministers belonging to the office, to hold the above by fealty only, receiving the accustomed fees for the said offices and custodies.     By K.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1467-1477 p47 (1900)
1467. Aug. 6.
Westminster.
  Grant to the king’s kinsman Humphrey Bourgchier, knight, lord Cromwell, and the heirs male of his body of the manor or lordship of Hesell with ‘le ferry’ and the passages there with courts, rents and services of free tenants and bondmen in the county of the town of Kyngeston on Hull, the manor or hamlet of Paddokthorpe and Hornyngton with all woods and lands belonging to it in the county of York, or the county of the city of York, and all lands, rents, services, reversions and possessions in Hesell, Paddokthorpe and Hornyngton, with rents, services, knights’ fees, advowsons, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, chaces, parks, warrens, forests, woods, franchises, liberties, forfeitures, chattels of felons, fugitives and outlaws, moors, marshes, meadows, pastures, wreck of sea, deodands, reversions and all other profits, late of William Tailboys, knight, and in the king’s hands by reason of an act of forfeiture in Parliament at Westminster, 4 November, 1 Edward IV. and the manor of Penley or Penle in the counties of Buckingham and Hertford, and all lands, rents, services, reversions and possessions in Penley with knights’ fees, advowsons, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, parks, warrens, woods, franchises, liberties, forfeitures, chattels of felons, fugitives and outlaws, moors, marshes, meadows, pastures and other profits, late of Robert Whytyngham, knight, and in the king’s hands by reason of the act aforesaid, to hold from Easter last by the services of as many knights’ fees and as many other rents and services as they were held by before 4 March, 1 Edward IV.; and the reversion of the manor and lordship of Wragby, co. Lincoln, and the manor of Orston with the soke of the same, co. Nottingham, and all lands, rents, services, reversions and possessions in Wragby and Orston of Thomas, late lord of Roos, and in the king’s hands by reason of the act aforesaid, which the king’s kinsman John, earl of Worcester, and Philippa Roos, his sister, late the wife of the said Thomas, hold for her life, to hold from the death of the said Philippa with knights’ fees, advowsons, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, courts leet, views of frank pledge, parks, warrens, chaces, fairs, markets, waters, fisheries, liberties, franchises and all profits by the rents and services aforesaid.     By p.s.

Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 p221 (Richard Gough 1786)
  Another Humphry Bourchier, who was lord Cromwell, by marriage with Joan neice and coheiress of Robert lord Cromwell of Tateshale, see p. 172, and son of Henry earl of Essex by Isabel daughter of Richard earl of Cambridge and sister to Richard duke of York, was slain at the same battle, and buried in this chapel by the monument of William de Valence, without any further remembrance of him.

Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey pp99-100 (Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Henry Avray Tipping, 1929)
With such ancestry and connections Humphrey Bourchier, although a cadet, could look to wealth and honour, and so he not only wedded one of the Stanhope heiresses, but obtained her uncle’s barony which had fallen into abeyance between her sister and herself. Cokayne tells us that Humphrey Bourchier was summoned to Parliament in 1461 and again in 1470, the writ being addressed to “Humfrido Dmo Cromwell,” and it is as Lady Cromwell that his wife is mentioned on her sepulchral brass in Tattershall church and in a document sealed by her sister Lady Willoughby in 14871. At that time both the “Dominus” and his lady were dead. The former had ended his days in April 1471 at Barnet. Describing the battle—which Edward IV won against Warwick the Kingmaker, who then lost his life—Sir John Paston mentions “the Lord Cromwell” as having been killed “on the Kynge Edwardes partye2.”
  1 Penshurst MSS. p. 176.
  2 Gairdner’s ‘Paston Letters,’ vol. III, p. 4. 

Children: Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey p103 (Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Henry Avray Tipping, 1929)
By her first husband she must have had a son who grew to manhood, for in a list of important people who were of the fraternity of the Guild of Corpus Christi in Boston we find under date 1466 the names of “Humphrey Bourchier Lord de Cromwell, Joan Lady Cromwell, Ralph Bourchier her son3.” But we hear nothing more of him and he certainly did not outlive his mother, whose heiress will have been her sister, Lady Willoughby.
  3 Prof. Thompson, ‘History of Boston,’ p. 121.

Married (2nd): Robert Radcliffe in 1472
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey p101-3 (Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Henry Avray Tipping, 1929)
But in the 1471-2 accounts of Richard Parker, bailiff of Tattershall, we find a payment made “to the lord Robert Ratclif, squire,” while in the following year the same Richard Parker is termed “steward of the household to Robert Ratclyff, squire, and Joan, his wife3.”
... From the already quoted letter that John Leynton wrote to John Gigur we gather that Robert Ratcliff, when he wedded the widow, found that her affairs and property had been much neglected and the income greatly lessened. He had applied to her uncle’s executors as if it was their fault, but as Leynton points out, their duties ended on the delivery of the entailed estates “to his right heirs.” That they had duly done, and therefore Leynton refuses all responsibility for the mismanagement that had since occurred and he thinks it “straunge that y shuld laboure for every mannes mater, seth the heires sey their lyvelode is so lytell it must nedys so be when they gif out suche fees,” but insists that:
“where my Mayster Radcliff seith his lyvelode is not worth iiiijc marc by yere, it was when it was delyvered to my lady his wife and hir husband lytell wers then vjc marc by yere. And though they have letten it go in dekaye we been not to blame therfore, we been not bounden to be theire bayllifs ne theire husbandes, they gete no more of us1.” 
3 Penshurst MSS. p.227.
1 Penshurst MSS. p.187.

Robert (wikipedia) had estates at Hunstanton in Norfolk. He was steward of the Lincolnshire estates of the Duke of York. Robert married secondly Katherine (Drury) Le Strange, a daughter of Roger Drury and widow of Henry Le Strange. Robert died in 1498.

In his will, dated 24 November 1496, Robert mentions his late wife, "Lady Cromwell".
Testamenta Vetusta vols 1-2 pp433-4 (Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1826)
      SIR ROBERT RADCLYFFE, KNT.
  Robert Radclyffe, Knight. On the eve of St. Katherine the Virgin, 1496. My body to be buried on the South side of the Chapel of Hunstanton. To the Parish Churches of Hedersel and Wymondham, each a black vestment of velvet, with my arms and the arms of the Lady Cromwell, late my wife; to the Church of Tattershall a vestment. I will that a tomb be made of free stone, with the images of myself and two wives on the top. To Ann Radclyffe, my daughter, a bed of gold; and I make the said Ann and Elizabeth, my daughters, my executors, and will that they have DCCC marks betwixt them to their marriage, when they come to sixteen years old; to be levied out of my lands in Dokkinge, Stanhow, Trynge, Snetesham, Sherneborne, Secheforth, Brycham, Darsingham, Inglethorpe, Hecham, Hunstanton, Ryngested, and Holme. And I constitute Robert Drury, Esq. Robert Lestrange, Esq. and John Lestrange, Esq. my executors. Proved 19th May, 1498.

Notes:
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1452-1461 p275 (1910)
1456. Feb. 14.
Westminster.
  Licence for Thomas Nevyll, knight, and Maud, lady of Willughby, his wife, one of the kinswomen and heirs of Ralph, late lord of Cromwell, deceased, and for Humphrey Burghchier, esquire, and Joan his wife, sister of Maud and the other of the kinswomen and heirs of Ralph, to wit, daughters of Maud, sister of Ralph, tenant in chief on the day of his death, to enter all possessions and hereditaments in the counties of York, Lincoln, Norfolk, Northampton, Leicester, Rutland, Stafford, Huntingdon, Nottingham, Derby, Middlesex, Kent, Gloucester, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham, and elsewhere in England, whereof Ralph was seised in his demesne as of fee and in fee tail on the day of his death, in the king’s hands after his death, and to hold the same to them and the heirs of Maud and Joan, without inquisitions to be taken thereon by pretext of writs de diem clausit extremum or other mandates and without suing any livery thereof out of the king’s hands according to the course of Chancery.     By p.s. etc.
March 2.
Westminster.
  Grant in survivorship to the same Thomas and Humphrey of the offices of constable of Notyngham castle and steward and keeper of Shirewode forest, the parks of Beskewode and Clypston and the woods of Billowe, Birkelande, Rumwode, Ouselande and Fulwode, co. Nottingham, and of chamberlain of the Receipt of the Exchequer, to hold themselves or by deputies, taking the usual fees, wages, rewards and profits.     By K.

On 19 June 1463 Joan and her sister Maud and their respective husbands at the time, Humphrey Bourchier and Gervase Clifton, sold a large number of manors and other property inherited from their uncle, Ralph Cromwell, for a total of over £2000, some of the sales being made by command of the king.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #15
CP 25/1/294/74, number 15.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Lincolnshire. Northamptonshire. Rutland.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  John Gygur, master or warden of the college and almshouse of the Holy Trinity of Tateshale, and the chaplains of the same place, querents, and Humphrey Burgchier, knight, and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  The manors of Dryby, Brynkhill', Foletby, Thorp' by Wayneflete, Saltfletby, Baston', Askby Puero[rum], Wynthorp', Kynthorp', Wythcall' Souche, Wythcall', otherwise called Wyth'call' Skypwyth', Bynbroke called Northall' Maner, Clathorp', Menyngysby, Wodenderby, Moreby, Wylkesby, Conyngesby, Holtham, Crofte, Stykeney, Merton' by Tymberland', Careby, Estbytham, Castelbytham, Edenham, Byrton', Holbeche, Swynhope, Wyllughton', Bylyngay, Walcote, Helpryngham, Wrote, Screyfeld', Wodthorp', Maltby, Thuresthorp', Cherywyllyngham, Toft, Lound', Manthorp' by Wytham, Wytham, Tydde, otherwise called Tretonhall' in Tydde of the Blessed Mary, Southall' in Colby, Langton' by Hornecastre, Whythall', Deynecourt Maner in Kyrketon' in Holand', otherwise called Deynecourthall', and Burwell' and 63 messuages, 11 tofts, 2 mills, 6 dove-cots, 724 acres of land, 202 acres of meadow, 1000 acres of pasture, 360 acres of wood, 38 pounds and 13 shillings and 4 pence of rent in Dryby, Brynkhill', Foletby, Thorp' by Wayneflete, Saltfletby, Baston', Askby Puero[rum], Wynthorpe, Kynthorp', Wythcall' Souche, Wythcall', otherwise called Wythcall' Skypwyth', Bynbroke called North'all' Maner, Clathorp', Menyngisby, Wodenderby, Moreby, Wylkesby, Conyngisby, Holtham, Croft, Stykeney, Benyngton' by Boston', Merton' by Tymberland', Careby, Estbytham, Castelbytham, Edenham, Byrton', Holbeche, Swynhope, Willughton', Bylyngay, Walcote, Helpryngham, Wrote, Screyfeld', Wodthorp', Maltby, Thuresthorp', Cherywyllyngham, Toft, Lound', Manthorp' by Wytham, Wytham, Tydde of the Blessed Mary, Colby, Langton' by Hornecastre, Whythall', Kyrketon' in Holand', Burwell', Merton' by Hornecastre, Grenewyk, Sutton' in le Merssh', Thursthorp', Asfordby, Byllesby, Myntyng', Skegneys, Tateshale, Haydore and Whasshyngburgh' and also the advowsons of the churches of Tateshale, Dryby, Careby, Swynhope and Skegneys and of a chantry of 2 chaplains in the church of Dryby and of the chantry at the altar of St Giles in the church of Careby in the county of Lincoln and the manors of Eston' in Eston' by Colyweston' called Knyvetesmaner and Eston' by Stamford' and 160 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 160 acres of wood and 40 shillings of rent in Eston' by Stamford' in the county of Northampton and the manors of Tyxouer, Manton' and Kelethorp' and 2 messuages, 4 tofts, 3 dove-cots, 100 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow and 80 acres of pasture in Tyxouer, Manton' and Kelethorp' in the county of Rutland.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged the manors, tenements and advowsons to be the right of the master or warden of the college and the chaplains, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to them and their successors for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  The master or warden has given them 1000 pounds sterling.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #16
CP 25/1/294/74, number 16.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  Thomas Tyrell', knight, Thomas Billyng', one of the serjeants-at-law of the lord king, and Richard Illyngworth', querents, and Humphrey Burghchier, knight, lord Cromwell', and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  The manors of Boney and Staneford' sup[er] Sore and 7 messuages, 4 tofts, 1 dove-cot, 12 bovates of land, 50 acres of meadow and 30 shillings of rent in Stanton', otherwise called Staunton', sup[er] le Wolde, Hyklyng', Magna Leek', Parua Leek', Sutton' Bonyngton' and Bradmare, otherwise called Bradmere, and the advowson of the church of Stanton', otherwise called Staunton', sup[er] le Wolde in the county of Nottingham and the manor of Breydeshale called le Netherhall' and 16 messuages, 400 acres of land, 58 acres of meadow, 220 acres of pasture, 2 acres of wood and 16 shillings of rent in Breydeshale in the county of Derby.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged, to wit, the manor of Boney to be the right of Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the manors of Staneford' sup[er] Sore and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson to be the right of Richard, of which Richard, Thomas and Thomas have the manors of Boney and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Richard for ever. And besides Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud granted for themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud that the manor of Staneford' sup[er] Sore - which Joan Bertram holds for life of the inheritance of Joan, the wife of Humphrey, and Maud on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Joan Bertram ought to revert to Humphrey and Joan, his wife, and Gervase and Maud and the heirs of Joan and Maud - after the decease of Joan Bertram shall remain to Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Richard, to hold to wit, the manor of Boney of the lord king and his heirs and the manors of Staneford' sup[er] Sore and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  Thomas, Thomas and Richard have given them 1000 marks of silver.
Note:  This agreement was made by the command of the lord king.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #17
CP 25/1/294/74, number 17.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Hertfordshire. Nottinghamshire. Norfolk. Northamptonshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  William, bishop of Winchester, William, bishop of Ely, Thomas Tyrell', knight, Thomas Billyng', one of the serjeants-at-law of the lord king, and Richard Illyngworth', querents, and Humphrey Burgchier, knight, lord Cromwell', and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  4 tofts, 1 carucate of land, 4 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood and 30 shillings of rent in Whathamstede in the county of Hertford and 14 messuages, 3 dove-cots, 6 tofts, 20 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow in Newerk' in the county of Nottingham and the manor of Gunviles in the county of Norfolk and the manor of Parua Burley and 129 acres of land and 8 and a half acres of meadow in Burley and Pillesyate in the county of Northampton.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged the manors and tenements to be the right of Thomas Tyrell', as those which the same Thomas, the bishop, the bishop, Thomas Billyng' and Richard have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to the bishop, the bishop, Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Thomas Tyrell' for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  The bishop, the bishop, Thomas, Thomas and Richard have given them 400 pounds sterling.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1476-1485 p48 (1901)
1477. July 1.
Westminster.
  Licence for the alienation in mortmain by William, bishop of Winchester, Robert Radclyff, esquire, and Joan his wife, John Fortescu, knight, Thomas Byllyng, knight, Walter Moyle, knight, and John Say, knight, to William Tyberd, the president, and the scholars of the college of St. Mary Magdalen in the University of Oxford of the manor of Candlesby and thirty messuages, twenty tofts, three mills, 500 acres of land, 800 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 100 acres of heath, 100 acres of moor, 200 acres of marsh, 19l. 14s. 5¾d. of rent and a rent of 10 quarters of salt in Candelesby, Gunby, Botheby, Halbertofte, Tateshale, Orby, Ingoldesmelles, Wynthorpe, Burgh, Sutton, Trusthorpe, Tethelthorpe, Aggesthorpe, Thorpe, Leke, Haneby, Frysceney and Waynflete, co. Lincoln, extended at 40l. yearly and held in chief, as appears by an inquisition taken before Robert Haryngto, esquire, escheator in the county, to hold to the value of 46l. yearly in part satisfaction of a licence by letters patent dated 10 October, 7 Edward IV.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p283 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Raph Lord Crumwell, who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt, had no issue, so that his sister Matildis, whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir, she was his second wife, and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope, who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters, Joane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier, who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell, but had no issue that I have found; and Maud, first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby; secondly to Thomas Nevile; and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton; the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p257 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
 Richard Stanhope, the second son, became heir
... He married, secondly, in 12 Henry IV. Maud, daughter to Ralph Cromwell, and sister and heir to Ralph Lord Cromwell of Tattershall-castle in Lincolnshire, Treasurer of England, and by her had a son and two daughters, who by their mother were great fortunes. His son Henry Stanhope (by he) died without issue, Aug 12, in 31 Henry VI. and was buried at Lamley; so that his sisters Joan and Maud were his heirs; the first whereof was married to Humphrey Bourchier (third son to Henry the first Earl of Essex) who thereupon had summons to parliament by the title of Lord Cromwell, in 1, 2, 6, and 9 Edw. IV. but left no issue;

Tattershall Castle: Building a History pp176-7(James Wright 2021)
At the time of his death Ralph Cromwell cut a rather isolated figure. ... What little family he had remaining ... were doubly incensed upon finding out the details contained within his most recent will of 1454. Cromwell had secretly switched the terms so that they only received his entailed lands – less than 40 percent of his estates which were worth just 500 marks per annum (see Chapters 6.2 and 8.3).
... The husbands of Cromwell’s heirs Maud and Joan Stanhope, Thomas Neville and Humphrey Bourchier were present at Cromwell’s funeral at Tattershall; perhaps not entirely in a state of reverential mourning as they used the opportunity to loot £2,130 19s 4 1/2 d worth of goods from the castle. Furthermore, at the end of 1457, Bourchier advanced on Wingfield Manor with an armed retinue and forcibly seized it from the earl of Shrewsbury who had recently purchased the house (see Chapter 8.4). Nearly three years later Cromwell’s executors estimated that the two Yorkists had seized a further £15,974 2s 5d in profits from 35 manors to which they were not entitled. Neville died at Towton in 1460, but it was not until 1462 that Bourchier was legally compelled to accept the terms of the will - although he continued to quibble over minor details and never returned the goods looted from the castle (Friedrichs 1990, 111-12).
  Despite the intense and lengthy wrangles over Cromwell’s property, ownership of Tattershall Castle itself passed to Joan Stanhope who retained ownership in her own right according to the terms of Cromwell’s will - which specified that it should be entailed with his own heirs. When her husband, Humphrey Bourchier, died fighting for the Yorkists at Barnet in 1471, Stanhope swiftly married Robert Ratcliffe - possibly a relative of one of Cromwell’s former feoffees John Ratcliffe (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 99-102, 114). ... By this period Tattershall was probably much reduced – a point confirmed by a letter from the lawyer John Leynton to the Master of Tattershall College, John Gygour, in which he candidly noted that the estate had been allowed to fall into decay due to a result of a lack of funds (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 102-03).
  Joan Stanhope died in 1481 and was buried under a fine brass memorial at the collegiate church (Figure 238). At this point the ownership of the castle becomes clouded. Ratcliffe outlived Joan but, as he was not a specified heir of Cromwell, he would not have been eligible to retain custodianship. Neither does the castle seem to have been inherited outright by Joan’s thrice-widowed sister Maud, whose last husband - Gervase Clifton - had died fighting for the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury. The allegiance with the Yorkist’s enemies probably precluded her from consideration and, instead, the castle seems to have become a possession of the crown by the last years of Edward IV’s reign. Richard III was definitively lord of the manor in 1484 and upon his death, at Bosworth the following year, the estate was seized by Henry VII (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 103-05, 114).

Death: 10 or 12 March 1481
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey p103 (Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Henry Avray Tipping, 1929)
Richard Parker, bailiff of Tattershall,
... In 1481 Parker renders an account for Tattershall from March 12th to Michaelmas, adding, after the earlier date, “on which day Joan, Lady Cromwell, lately lady there, died2.”
2 Penshurst MSS. p.227: “quo die Johanna, domina Cromwell, nuper domina ibidem diem clausit extremum.”

Closeup of brass showing Joan's year of death
Closeup of year of Joan's death from her memorial brass, perhaps "cccc° lxxjx" (1479)
photo from Tattershall Castle: Building a History figure 238 p357 (James Wright 2021)
The date of 10 March is given in Joan's memorial brass which seems to be clear about the day (decimo Marcii), but seems to indicate that the year was "cccc lxxjx" (1479). This date is given in the transcriptions in both Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 p267 (Richard Gough 1786)) and Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society vol 5 part 9 pp333-7. A photograph of the year in question is to the right, and appears to me as well to read "cccc lxxjx". Curzon notes the discrepancy to Richard Parker's accounts, and suggests that the brass has a transposition of the last two characters:
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey p106 (Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Henry Avray Tipping, 1929)
There is a curious point about the date of the lady’s decease. We have seen that bailiff Parker specially marks it in his accounts as having occurred on March 12th, 1481. But the brass gives the date as MCCCCLXXIX, so that the engraver must have transposed the I and the last X.

18thC illustration of Memorial brass of Joan Stanhope
18th century illustration of the memorial brass of Joan (Stanhope, Bourchier) Radcliffe in Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire
Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 p267 (Richard Gough 1786)
Memorial brass of Joan Stanhope
2012 photograph of the memorial brass of Joan (Stanhope, Bourchier) Radcliffe in Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire
photo by J.Hannan-Briggs posted on wikipedia (Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton)
Burial: Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England
Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 p267 (Richard Gough 1786)
  JANE neice and coheir of Ralph lord Cromwell, before-mentioned, p. 174, was buried in the chancel at Tateshale, on the right hand of her uncle. She married first Sir Humphrey Bourchier, knight, third son of Henry earl of Essex, who in her right, and in consequence of the great fortune he had with her, was, 1 Edward IV. summoned to parliament as lord Cromwell, but was as we have already seen, p. 221, slain at Barnet-field, 1471, leaving no issue. His widow remarried Sir Robert Ratcliffe, knight, but by him also had no issue. She died March 10, 1479. On her slab is a brass figure of a lady in long hair, neat fillet of roses with collar of pendants, a mantle, a surcot Ermine, the apron of her kirtle hemmed with large ermine, the wristbands studded, a ring on each little finger; under a canopy adorned with figures of saints; S’ca Maria (the Virgin with the lily and child), St. Christopher, one with a flower and bowl, perhaps St. John the Evangelist, S’ca Anna (a woman and girl), St. George with his banner, St. Edmund (a king with a dart); and below this epitaph :
Orate p’ a’i’a Johanne d’ne Cromwell que obiit decimo Marcii
anno d’ni mill’mo CCCC LXXJX cuj’aic p’piciet’ deus. amen.
  Four shields gone, had a bend and chief, Cromwell, quartering cheque O. and Az. a chief Erm. Tateshale, impaled with a bend engrailed, Ratcliffe.
  1. Quarterly, 1.4. A cross engrailed between four waterbougets. Bourchier.
                     2. In a bordure France and England under a label of 3. Thomas of Woodstock duke of Gloucester.
                        3. A fess between 10 billets. Lovain.
  Over all a label of three points, impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  This coat is for Joan Stanhope and her first husband Sir Humphrey Bourchier; and it is worthy of remark, that she here from being heir to her mother assumes her arms, without noticing her paternal coat of Stanhope.
  2. A bend engrailed, Ratcliffe, impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  3. A bend between six cross crosslets; the antient coat of Stanhope quartering Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  4. Stanhope impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  Upon the death of this Joan lady Cromwell without issue her younger sister Maud was her heir, of whom hereafter.

Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society vol 5 part 9 pp333-7 (April 1908)
IV. Joan, Lady Cromwell, dec. 1479, hut brass engr. c. 1470.
  Now on floor of north transept, formerly on the choir floor on the north side of the brass to her uncle, the Lord High Treasurer. The composition originally consisted of a full-length figure of Lady Cromwell under a single canopy with side shafts filled with figures of saints, a small foot inscription, and four shields of arms. The upper part of the canopy is now much mutilated and the shields of arms have long been lost. The slab measures 9 feet 1 inch x 4 feet. The figure is 60 inches in height. The extreme length of the canopy from the top of the centre finial to the bottom of the lower cresting is 7 feet 6 inches, its extreme breadth 2 feet 6 inches. The inscription plate measures 20½ x 2¾ inches and the shield indents 6 x 4¾ inches.
  Lady Cromwell is represented with long flowing hair encircled by a richly-jewelled fillet. Her hands are clasped in prayer and rings appear on her two little fingers. She stands on a chequered ground composed of blank squares and quatrefoils alternately, and wears a close-fitting kirtle with tight sleeves edged with ornamental braidwork at the wrists. Over the kirtle is worn the sideless cote-hardie, trimmed and edged with ermine, and over all a long plain fur-lined mantle with a top edging of rich embroidery. The mantle is fastened across the breasts by a short cord attached to two large oval brooches or ouches. Round her neck is a rich carcanet of jewels.
  The canopy is of an unusual and curious design, it consists of a main centre pediment groined underneath and having a large crocketted finial flanked by two pinnacles which act as supports to the two flying buttresses attaching the centre pediment to the main shafts. This portion of the canopy is now much damaged but is shown nearly perfect in Gough’s engraving. The main shafts contain the figures of six saints, three on either side; all stand on small circular pedestals inscribed with their names and are surmounted by long finials with large crockets. The main shafts also terminate in short finials with similar crockets. The saints on the dexter side are (1) St. Mary, crowned, with long hair, holding the Infant in her left hand and a lily in her right, the pedestal is inscribed St̃a Maria; (2) St. Christopher, a bearded figure with long staff, carrying the Infant Christ over the water, inscribed St̃s Cristofor'; (3) St. Dorothy, with long hair and a curious round cap or turban, holding in her left hand a basket of flowers and a rose branch in her right, inscribed St̃a Dorathea;. On the sinister side (1) St. Anne instructing the Virgin, the saint is, as usual, represented as a widow, before her stands the Virgin with long flowing hair, holding in her right hand a book towards which the saint is pointing with her right hand. The Virgin wears a low-necked dress open at the side and fastened with a bow. The pedestal is inscribed St̃a Anna; (2) St. George, in armour with tabard charged with his cross, he is represented spearing the dragon, inscribed St̃s Georgi'; (3) St. Edmund, a bearded figure, crowned, wearing an ermine hood and holding an arrow in his left hand, inscribed St̃s Edmond; an ornamental cresting, with a shield at each corner, closes the bottom of the canopy. Below this cresting and between the shields is the following inscription:
Orate p aĩa dne Cromwell que obiit decimo die marcii.
Anno dñi millm̃o cccc° lxxix cui’ aĩe p̰piciet’ deus amen.
   This inscription1 is much inferior in workmanship to the rest of the brass and is very small for such a large composition. It is also extremely meagre in detail considering the importance of the lady represented. Although the brass differs in style from that to the Lord Treasurer and that to her sister Maud, both of which undoubtedly came from one workshop at one time, it seems probable that it belongs to the series and was laid down during the Lady Joan’s lifetime, the inscription being added at her death, possibly by some local engraver.
   Harleian MS. 6829, fol. 185, said to be Gervase Holles’ Lincolnshire Church Notes, contains a trick of the arms on the four shields :
  (1). The upper dexter. Quarterly I. blank.  II. France and England quarterly with a label of five.  III. a fess.  IV. Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  (2.) The upper sinister. A bend engrailed impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  (3). The lower dexter. Quarterly I. and IV. Stanhope.  II. and III. Tateshale.
  (4). The lower sinister. Quarterly I. and IV. Stanhope.  II. and III. Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
   Gough2 notes “four shields gone, had a bend and a chief, Cromwell, quartering cheque O and Az. a chief Erm. Tateshale, impaled with a bend engrailed, Ratcliffe." He then, without quoting his authority, gives the four shields thus: ‘‘Quarterly 1 and 4. A cross engrailed between four waterbougets. Bourchier. 2. In a bordure France and England under a label of 3. Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester. 3. a fess between 10 billets. Louvain. Over all a label of three points, impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale. This coat is for Joan Stanhope and her first husband Sir Humphrey Bourchier; and it is worthy of remark, that she here from being heir to her mother assumes her arms, without noticing her paternal coat of Stanhope.  2. A bend engrailed, Ratcliffe, impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.  3. A bend between six crosslets; the antient coat of Stanhope quartering Cromwell quartering Tateshale.  4. Stanhope impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.’'
   A manuscript in the College of Arms entitled Lincolnshire Church Notes, 1634, attached to the Visitation for that year, gives a trick of the arms thus :
   (1) The upper dexter. Quarterly I. France and England within a bordure.  II. Bourchier.  III. Louvain.  IV. Cromwell quartering Tateshale. Over all a label of five points.
   (2) The upper sinister. Ratcliffe impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
   (3) The lower dexter. Stanhope quartering Tateshale.
   (4) The lower sinister. Quarterly I. and IV. Stanhope.  II. and III. Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  Except in the case of the upper sinister shield, none of these three accounts quite agree, but there is no doubt that the upper dexter shield commemorates the lady’s alliance with her first husband, Sir Humphrey Bourchier. The Harleian MS. and the College of Arms MS. agree in making this a quartered shield only, but the Harleian MS. places the coat of England in the second quarter, whilst the College of Arms MS. has it in the first. Gough, who mentions the coat of England as in the second quarter, speaks of the whole as an impaled shield, shortly as Bourchier impaling Cromwell, which might well be expected as a record of the alliance. The upper sinister shield, upon which all the authorities are in agreement, represents the lady’s second marriage with Sir Robert Ratcliffe. Gough and the Harleian MS. give the lower dexter shield as Stanhope quartering Cromwell and Tateshale quarterly, but the College of Arms MS. gives Stanhope quartering Tateshale only. As to the lower sinister the Harleian MS. and College of Arms MS. agree upon Stanhope quartering Cromwell and Tateshale quarterly, whilst Gough speaks of it as Stanhope impaling Cromwell and Tateshale quarterly.
  Joan, elder daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope, of Rampton, by his second wife Maud, only sister of Lord Treasurer Cromwell, married Sir Humphrey Bourchier, third son of Henry Bourchier, first Earl of Essex, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge. Sir Humphrey, who in and after 1461, was summoned to Parliament as Lord Cromwell or as Lord Bourchier de Cromwell, was killed at the battle of Barnet in 1471. Lady Joan subsequently married Sir Robert Ratcliffe, of Hunstanton, Norfolk, and died in 1479 without leaving issue by either husband, her sister Maud (No. V.) being her heir.
  Lady Joan’s brass is illustrated in Gough, vol. II., part 3, pl. xcviii., p. 267, and in the Society’s Portfolio, vol. III., pl. 17.

  1 The inscription plate and the lower half of the canopy shaft containing St. Edmund are loose. The rest of the brass is only fastened by rusty nails.
   2 Sep. Mon., vol. ii., part 3, p. 267.

Sources:

Joan Stanhope

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Talbot) Stanhope

Notes:
John Stanhope was appointed a supervisor of the will of his uncle, Thomas Stanhope, in May 1462. This will also names his daughter, Joan.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5 (1855)
CXCVII. TESTAMENTUM THOMÆ STANHOP DEFUNCTI.
   Die Veneris proxime post festum Philippi et Jacobi Apostoli 1462. Ego Thomas Stanhop de Hoghton, armiger—sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce. Et nomine principalis lego vicario de Walesby optimum equum meum et omnia averia eidem pertinencia, prout equitare solebam. Willelmo Wilbram unam togam penulatam. Johanni Tunstall unum equum coloris le blak gray. Katerinæ sorori meæ unam equam cum pullo. Elizabethæ sorori meæ unum equum vocatum gray geldyng. Johanni filio meo unum yrne bonden wayn, et xxx bull stirkus. Johanni Stanhop armigero unum cornu garnest. Executores meos facio Elizabetham et Katerinam sorores meas, Johannem Tunstall armigerum et Johannem filium meum, Johannemque Stanhop de Rampton armigerum supervisorem. Johanni filio meo sex cocliaria argenti. Johannæ Stanhop filiæ Johannis Stanhop armigeri duas togas penulatas cum martis et menyver. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]
which roughly translates as:
 197. TESTAMENT OF THOMAS STANHOP DECEASED.
Friday after the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. I Thomas Stanhope of Hoghton, esq. to be buried in the parish church of All Saints of Rampton before the cross. And by the name of the principal I bequeath to the vicar of Walesby my best horse and all the beasts that belong to him, as I am accustomed to ride. William Wilbram one lined toga. John Tunstall one horse of the color black gray. To my sister Katherine, one mare with a colt. To my sister Elizabeth one horse called gray geldyng. To my son John one yrne bonden wayn (???), and 30 bullocks. To John Stanhope, esquire, one garnest (???) horn. I make my executors my sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, John Tunstall, esquire, and John my son, and John Stanhope of Rampton, esquire, supervisor. To my son John six silver spoons. To Joan Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, esquire, two gowns lined with marten and squirrel fur. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]

Sources:

John Stanhope

Father: Richard de Stanhope

Mother: Alice (Houghton) Stanhope

Married: Elizabeth Maulovel
This marriage occurred before 27 January 1364(5) when the manor of Rampton was settled on "John de Stannop, and Elizabeth his wife" (Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/185/33 #396)

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
Stephen Malovel, the Father of Elizabeth, who had to her first husband John Stanhope, the son of Richard Stanhope, a Burgess of Newcastle

Children: Occupation: Member of Parliament, bailiff and escheator of Nottingham and Derbyshire
John was a burgess representing Newcastle upon Tyne in the Parliaments of 1359 and 1360. He was mayor of Newcastle in 1367 (Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 7 1356-1368 p371), and an escheator of Nottingham and Derbyshire in 1374 (Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 8 1368-1377 p269).

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1367-1370 pp66-7 (1913)
1367. Nov. 20.
Westminster.
  Commission to John Moubray, William de Fyncheden, John de Stanop and Richard Poutrell, on information that John de Ongham and John de Navenby, whom the king lately appointed to collect pavage at Dunham-on-Trent for a certain time, have converted the moneys arising from the said pavage to their own use, to summon the said collectors before them, to audit their account of sums collected and expended, to allow what they have done reasonably and justly, and for the rest, to do as the nature of such account requires. 
p140
1368. May 12.
Westminster.
  Commission to Adam de Everyngham, ‘chivaler,’ John Moubray, John de Stanope, William de Cressye, and John de Wheteleye,—an information that John de Navenby of Donham, William de Navenby and Roger de Navenby, whom the king lately deputed to collect a pavage at Dunham-upon-Trent, have converted the sums so collected to their own use, applying little or nothing to paving the said town,—to call the said collectors before them, audit their accounts, survey the paving done by them, allow them what has justly and reasonably been done, and do all else that the nature of such account requires. 

Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 8 1368-1377 p269 (1924)
1374. Dec. 12.
Westminster.
  Commitment during pleasure to John Stanhop of Rampton of the Westminster, office of the escheatry in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, so that he answer at the Exchequer for the issues.    By K. and C.
  Order to all persons of the said counties to be intendant to him.

John represented Newcastle upon Tyne in parliament in 1360 and 1361, and was a bailiff of Newcastle at various times between 1361 and 1375.
The History and Antiquities of the Town and Country of the Town of Newcastle vol 2 p203 (John Brand, 1789)
  In the parliament held at London in the year 1301, Newcastle upon Tyne was represented by Nicholas Carliol and Thomas de Frisina. ...
  In that held at Westminster A. D. 1335, by John Emeldon and Richard Heite. ...
  In that held ibid. A. D. 1360, by William Strother and John Stanhopef.
  In that held ibid. A. D. 1361, by John Chambersg and John Stanhopeh.
f Prynne ut supra [4th part of a Brief Register].
g “35 Ed. III. Johannes o’ the Chaumbre, Johannes de Stanhop burg’ ville Novi Castri super Tynam de octo libr’ et octo solid’ pro quadraginta et duobus diebus..”—Prynne ut supra, p. 253
h Prynne ut supra.  
pp415-6
  In the year 1361, John Chambre was mayor, and John Emeldon, John Stanhope, John de Ruffen, and Elias de Airwhitt, were bailiffs.
  In the year 1362, John Chambers was mayor, and John de Emeldon, John de Stanhope, Elias de Airwhitt, and Robert de Duxfield, were bailiffs.
...
  In the year 1363, Robert Angreton was mayor, and John Emeldon, William Acton, John Stanhope, and John Byker, were bailiffs.
  In the year 1364, the same mayor was continued, and William de Acton, John de Stanhope, John Ruffan, and ———, were bailiffs.
  In the year 1365, Richard de Stanhope was mayor, and William de Acton, John Stanhope, John de Emeldon, and John de Ruffan, were bailiffs.
The year following, William de Acton was mayor, and John de Stanhope, John de Ruffan, Thomas Draper, and John de Byker, were bailiffs.
...
  A. D. 1375, William Scot was mayor, and John Stanhope, John de Ruffan, Thomas Draper, and John de Byker, were bailiffs.

History of Newcastle and Gateshead vol 1 p157 (Richard Welford, 1884)
      1360.
PARLIAMENT was ordered to assemble at Westminster on the 15th May.
  William Strother and John Stanhope were appointed to represent the burgesses of Newcastle.
p160
      1361.
PARLIAMENT was summoned to meet at Westminster on the 24th January.
  John Chambers and John Stanhope represented Newcastle, receiving 8l. 8s. for forty-two days’ attendance

Notes:
In 1350, John was granted permission to travel to Rome with a horse and a groom. The letter below from the king instructs the constable of Dover to allow the men listed to travel freely.
Fœdera, conventiones, literœæ et cujuscunque generis acta publica, inter reges Angliæ vol 5 pp681-3 (Thomas Rymer, 1708)
  Pro Peregrinantibus, ad Urbem Romanam, Licentia Regis.
A.D. 1350
REX, Dilecto & Fideli suo, Bartholomæo de Burgherssh Constabulario Castri sui Dovorriæ & Custodi Quinque Portuum, vel ejus Locum tenenti, in Portu Dovorriæ, Salutem.
  Quia concessimus, Dilecto & Fideli nostro, Willielmo Fitz Waryn, quòd ipse, cum Sex Valettis, & Septem Equis, ad Urbem Romanam peregrè valeat proficisci,
  Vobis mandamus quòd ipsum Willielmum, cum Valettis & Equis suis prædictis, cum rationabilibus Expensis suis in Auro, absque aliquo alio Apporto, ultra dictas Expensas, faciendo, ad Urbem prædictam, in dicto Portu Dovorriæ, liberè & absque impedimento aliquo transire permittatis, quibuscúmque Mandatis, Proclamationibus, seu Inhibitionibus, in contrarium factis, non obstantibus.
  Teste Rege apud Retherhithe octavo die Septembris.
    Per ipsum Regem.
Consimilia Brevia habent subscripti, cum Hominibus & Equis subscriptis, ad Urbem prædictam proficiscen. videlicet,
...
Johannes de Stanhope, cum Uno Garcione & Uno Equo. 

On 27 January 1364(5), the manor of Rampton in Nottinghamshire was settled on John and Elizabeth, his wife. The manor was part of Elizabeth's inheritance, and had been held by Queen Philippa during Elizabeth's minority.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/185/33 #396
CP 25/1/185/33, number 396.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Nottinghamshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  One week from St John the Baptist, 38 Edward III [1 July 1364]. And afterwards two weeks from St Hilary, 39 Edward III [27 January 1365].
Parties:  William de Eton', the vicar of the church of Rampton', and John, son of Robert de Lanum, querents, and John de Stanop' and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants.
Property:  The manor of Rampton'.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  John and Elizabeth have acknowledged the manor to be the right of William, as that which William and John, son of Robert, have of their gift.
For this:  William and John, son of Robert, have granted to John de Stanop' and Elizabeth the manor and have rendered it to them in the court, to hold to John de Stanop' and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, the manor shall remain to the heirs of the body of Elizabeth, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs the manor shall remain to Richard de Stanop', to hold of the chief lords for the life of Richard. And after the decease of Richard the manor shall remain to the right heirs of Elizabeth, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

 The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  The Mannor of Rampton, with the Appurtenances, was by Fine, 38 and 39 E. 3. between Will. de Eton, Vicar of the Church of Rampton, and John, son of Robert de Lanum, Plaintiffs, and John de Stannop, and Elizabeth his wife, Deforc. settled on the said John and Elizabeth, and the heirs of their bodies; remainder to the heirs of the body of Elizabeth, remainder to Richard Stannop for life, remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth.

John was granted permission to hold masses at his oratory at Rampton about 1375
York's Archbishops Registers Revealed Register 12 fol 108 entry 51
Summary:  Licence for John Stonhope [Stanhope] to have masses celebrated at his oratory at Rampton', on his own consideration.
Note:  Undated, but document perhaps created between 1375 and 1376; no place of dating given

On 16 January 1376, John was removed from his position of  justice of the peace for Nottinghamshire by order of the king.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III vol 14 pp186-7 (1913)
1376 Jan. 16.
To John Stanhope. Order not to meddle further in the office of justice of oyer and terminer and guardian of the peace in Notynghamshire, although the king lately appointed him and certain other lieges to that office and to do certain other things in their commission contained; as for particular causes laid before the council the king has removed him. By C.
The like to Thomas de Staunton.

On 27 January 1377, John and his wife, Elizabeth, bought the manors of Oxton, Nottinghamshire, and Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, from John and Joan Waltiers, the second being an interesting deal, in which the Waltiers were paid an annuity for life rather than an upfront payment for the manor.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/185/34 #475
CP 25/1/185/34, number 475.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Nottinghamshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from St Hilary, 51 Edward III [27 January 1377].
Parties:  John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth, his wife, querents, and John Waltiers and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property:  The manor of Oxton'.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  John Waltiers and Joan have acknowledged the manor to be the right of Elizabeth, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves and the heirs of Joan to John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth for ever.
For this:  John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth have given them 100 marks of silver.

Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/125/67 #324
CP 25/1/125/67, number 324.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Leicestershire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from St Hilary, 51 Edward III [27 January 1377].
Parties:  John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth, his wife, querents, and John Waltiers and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property:  The manor of Radclyf' Culy.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  John Waltiers and Joan have acknowledged the manor to be the right of Elizabeth, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves and the heirs of Joan to John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth for ever.
For this:  John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth have granted for themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth that they will render each year to John Waltiers and Joan for the life of Joan 100 shillings of silver, to wit, a moiety at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist and the other moiety at Christmas. John Waltiers and Joan shall have the right to distrain. And after the decease of Joan, John de Stanhop' and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth shall be quit of the payment for ever.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1377-1381 p389 (1895)
Pardons of outlawry to the following:—
1379. Nov. 29.
Westminster.
... John de Stanhope, alias Stanape of Rampton alias Stanhape of the county of Nottingham, for not appearing to render a horse, value 10l. to Adam de Bekwych and Elizabeth his wife, executrix of the will of John Heryng, and to answer Robert de Ekyngton of London, ‘taillour’ touching a debt of 65s., Walter Lodeney, citizen and clothier of London, touching a debt of 100s., and John Walsshe, citizen and goldsmith of London, touching a debt of 60l.
    co. York, and London.

The History of the Manor of Rampton, in Nottinghamshire printed in Transactions of the Thoroton Society vol 24 (Rev. H. Chadwick, 1920)
  In the Patent Rolls, November 29th, 1379, there is an entry "John de Stanhope alias Stanhope de Rampton alias Stanope co Notts for not appearing to tender a horse value £10."
  The explanation of this is "that John de Stanhope held land direct from the King on Grand or Petty Sergeantry, connected with which was furnishing a horse to the King on some special occasion, the alternative of not furnishing stood assessed at £10, by which it was assumed that the King could buy the horse with the money, and the odds were the King, always in need, would put the money in his pocket. John de Stanhope, on his side, would look which was his best step—to deliver the horse, possibly in Scotland, at, say a cost of £12, or let it go by default and pay the £10, or it might be the King hinted it would suit him best to handle the coin." (W. Stevenson).

This Chancery certificate, dated 1 May 1384, documents John as the son of Richard, who is deceased, probably by the 1360 date mentioned in the document. Although it is unclear from the National Archive description, the 1384 date is likely when the document was re-examined as part of the legal wrangling by John's executors, as John, from other evidence, died in 1383 or perhaps slightly earlier.
The National Archives C 241/172/1 Debtor: John, the son of Richard de Stanhope
Description:    
Debtor: John, the son of Richard de Stanhope.
Creditor: Richard de Stanhope, his father [deceased].
Amount: 1000m.
Before whom: Peter de Belasise, Mayor of Lincoln; John de Wigford, Clerk.
When taken: 25/08/1360
First term: 08/09/1360
Last term: 08/09/1360
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: Robert de Saltby, Mayor of Lincoln; Nicholas de Work, Clerk
Endorsement: Notyngh' Coram Justic' de Banco in xv s'ti mich'is.
Date: 1384 May 1

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp254-5 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John de Stanhope (eldest son of Sir Richard) was also a Knight. In 24 Edw. III. (1349) he, with other persons of quality, had the King's licence to travel to the city of Rome. In 34 Edw. III. 1359, I find him and Will. de Strethre elected burgesses in parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne; and the next year he served (with John de Chambers) for the same place, in the parliament then held, their expences for 44 days attendance being allowed them. In 41 Edw. III. 1366, he was mayor of that town; and in 48 Edw. III. 1373. constituted escheator for the counties of Nottingham and Derby, an office not inferior to that of sheriff, which was then of great trust and authority. At which time he was denominated of Rampton, having added to his patrimony a good estate in Nottinghamshire, by marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Stephen Maulovel (of Rampton aforesaid) who was son and heir of Robert Maulovel, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter to Thomas, Lord Longvilers, and sister to Sir John de Longvilers, of Tuxford in Nottinghamshire, Knt. grandson and heir to Thomas Longvilers, one of the Barons of the realm in the reign of King Edward III. by his wife Berta, daughter and coheir of Robert Markham, son and heir of Richard Markham, by Isabel his wife, sister and heir of Richard de Lexinton, Lord of Tuxford in com’ Nottingh. And surviving the said Elizabeth his wife, was likewise possessed of several manors in Warwickshire, by a second marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and (at length) heir of Thomas de Cuily, who died in 8 Rich. II. tho’ I don’t find he left any issue by her, who after his decease married Roger de Axley, to whom she had a son Ralph: but by his first wife he had five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph, and a daughter Margaret, wife of Giles St Lowe; also the third wife of Henry Statham, of Morley in com’ Derb. Esq. who died April 30, 1381, as appears by an inscription on a monument in the church of that place.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p5-7 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  John de Stanhope, eldest son of Sir Richard, was also a Knight. In 1350 he is mentioned as follows, in a list of persons who had the King’s licence to travel to Rome:
    “Johannes de Stanhope, cum uno garcione et uno equo.”
  This entry is in Rymer’s Fœdera, vol. v. p 683. In 1359 he was elected Burgess in Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in 1366 Mayor of that town. In 1373 he was constituted “Escheator” for the counties of Nottingham and Derby; an office at that time of some trust and authority. On this last occasion we find him designated as “of Rampton,” thus indicating (as indeed does the appointment itself), that he had already changed his residence, and raised his fortunes, by his marriage with a great Nottinghamshire heiress.  
... Sir JOHN DE STANHOPE, Knight, Lord of the Manor of Rampton, and of several more, through his marriage with ELIZABETH MAULOVEL, heiress of Maulovel, Longvillers, and Lexington. By her he had one daughter, Margaret, and five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph.
  John, his eldest son, was twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas de Cuily, of Oxton; and secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont; but had no issue by either. It appears an error of the old Pedigrees, plainly arising from reduplication, and too easily admitted by Collins and the later collectors, to ascribe to the father, also, a second marriage with another Elizabeth de Cuily.

The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (J.S. Roskell, 1993) entry for STANHOPE, Sir Richard (c.1374-1436)
The Stanhopes were particularly fortunate to secure, through marriage, the two manors of Rampton and Haughton, which constituted the inheritance of Elizabeth Malovell. Thanks to the territorial influence which she brought him, her husband, John Stanhope, was able to play a leading part in the Nottinghamshire community, serving as escheator there and in Derbyshire, and also sitting for some time on the local bench. That he continued to pursue a variety of mercantile interests is evident from the substantial debts which he owed at the time of his death. His widow and her second husband, Roger Ardern, were, indeed, outlawed for their refusal to appear in court when being sued by the aggrieved creditors, and although they obtained royal letters of pardon in 1383, Stanhope’s son, Richard, the subject of this biography, was still being called to account for part of the money 16 years later.

Death: about 1382-3
John's executrix, his wife Elizabeth, is involved in legal issues regarding his debts, in October 1373, but Elizabeth had already re-married by this date so John's death was likely about a year or so earlier.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1381-1385 p295 (1897)
1383. Oct. 23.
Westminster.
  Roger Arderne and Elizabeth his wife, executrix of the will of John de Stanape of the county of Nottingham, for not appearing to render 701. 6s. to Robert Boxford, citizen and clothier of London.     London.

Sources:

John Stanhope

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Married: Elizabeth Cuily in 3 Richard II [22 June 1379 - 21 June 1380]

Elizabeth Cuily was the daughter of Thomas Cuily, of Oxton, Nottinghamshire, and the sister and heir of John Cuily.

In the same year that John married Elizabeth Cuily, a covenant of marriage was made for him to marry Elizabeth Pierpont. It is unclear if that marriage covenant simply never took effect, or if he married Elizabeth Pierpont, her dying soon after the marriage and John then married Elizabeth Cuily that same year. (The former assumption seems to me to be the more likely). We know that Elizabeth Cuily survived John Stanhope from an inquisition of Margery Deyncourt on 20 January 1384(5) that records that "Elizabeth sometime the wife of John de Stanop of Rampton, kinswoman and heir of the aforesaid Roger [de Cuyly], in her widowhood released by deed all her right and claim in the manor" (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Richard II vol 16 pp33-472).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Richard II vol 16 pp33-472 (1974)
109.  Margery late the wife of John Deyncourt
  Writ of precipimus, 10 December, 8 Richard II
WARWICK.  Inq. taken at Coventre, Monday, 30 January, 8 Richard II.
Roger de Cuyly, knight, formerly held the under-mentioned manor and by his charter he gave it to John de [Conyn]gesby, parson of a mediety of the church of Schepeye, Sir Nicholas, his brother, chaplain, and Sir William de Ansty, chaplain, their heirs and assigns; and they by their charter gave the same to Roger and the aforesaid Margery, then his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with successive remainders to Roger and the heirs of his body, to Thomas de Cuyly, Roger’s uncle, and the heirs male of his body, and to the right heirs of Roger. The said Roger died in Margery’s lifetime without heir of his body by Margery or otherwise; and the said Thomas died without heir male of his body. Afterwards the said Margery, being in seisin of the manor in form aforesaid, took as her husband John Deyncourt of Blaunkeneye; and during their possession Elizabeth sometime the wife of John de Stanop of Rampton, kinswoman and heir of the aforesaid Roger, in her widowhood released by deed all her right and claim in the manor to the said John Deyncourt, his heirs and assigns.
Ansty by Combe. The manor, held of the king, as of the king’s manor of Cheylesmore, by homage and fealty and suit to the court of Cheylesmore every three weeks.
She died on Thursday before Michaelmas, 4 Richard II. Thomas de Ardeswyk, her brother, aged 30 years and more, is her heir.
John de Catesby had possession of the manor for a year after her death. Since then William de Allesley and John Bray have had possession and received the issues, by what title the jurors know not.
C. Ric. II File 35 (11) 
(See also Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II 1381-1385 p524, dated 10 March 1385)
Twenty-one years later, in 1406, Roger Deyncourt, son of John Deyncourt, quitclaimed the manor of Ansty to John Stanhope's brother, Richard (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1405-1409 p231).

Notes:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p298 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
By another Fine so E. 3. John Waltiers, and Joane his wife, remised and quit-claimed Mannor of Oxton from the said John and Joane, and the heirs of Joane, to John de Stanhop, and Eliz. his wife, and the heirs of Eliz. This Eliz. was the Sister and heir of John, and Daughter of Thomas de Culy; her Husband was certainly John the eldest Son of Elizabeth, the Daughter and heir of Stephen Malonel of Rampton, as in that place will appear, but had not issue. John de Stanhop of Rampton, and Elizabeth his wife, by a Fine 3 R. 2. passed the Mannors of Oxton and Rampton in this County, three Acres of medow in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, the Mannor of Bresigcotes in Darbyshire, of Radcliff [Cuylly] in Leycestershire, and of Ansly in Warwickshire, to Raph Aderley and his heirs. 
p393
Stephen Malovel, the Father of Elizabeth, who had to her first husband John Stanhope, the son of Richard Stanhope, a Burgess of Newcastle; and to her second Roger Arden, by whom she had Raph Arden; but her eldest son and heir was John Stanhope of Rampton, who married the heir Cuily, as in Oxton is noted, but had no issue
... There were Covenants of Marriage, 3 R. 2. made between Sir Edmund Pierpont, Knight, and John, his brother on the one part, and John Stanhope on the other, for the Marriage of John Stanhope his son and heir with Elizabeth, sister of the said Sir Edmund, but whether it took effect or no is uncertain, but that he had no issue is certain, and that he had to wife the heir of Cuily that year, as by the Fine noted in Oxton, and what is said before out of Mr. Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire appeareth, though his wife might die that year and a new match be treated on.  

The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John Stanhope, the eldest son, was of Oxton, Nottinghamshire, in right of his wife Elizabeth, (whom he married 3 Rich. II.) daughter of Thomas Cuily, and sister and heir of John Cuily of Oxton aforesaid, and of Radclyffe Cuily, in Leicestershire, who was cousin and heir to Sir Roger Cuily, Knight. Their marriage was of short duration, for in the same 3d of Richard II, he wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont, in Nottinghamshire, but had no issue by either.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p5-7 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  Sir JOHN DE STANHOPE, Knight, Lord of the Manor of Rampton, and of several more, through his marriage with ELIZABETH MAULOVEL, heiress of Maulovel, Longvillers, and Lexington. By her he had one daughter, Margaret, and five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph.
  John, his eldest son, was twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas de Cuily, of Oxton; and secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont; but had no issue by either.

Death: between June 1379, the earliest possible date of his marriage, and 20 January 1384(5), when the IPM of Margery Deyncourt records that "Elizabeth sometime the wife of John de Stanop of Rampton" is "in her widowhood" (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Richard II vol 16 pp33-472).

Sources:

John Stanhope

Birth: 1354 or 1355
John is stated to be 24 years old at the IPM of his father, Richard Stanhope, taken on 10 October 1379.

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Alice (de Parva Useworth, del Bothe) Stanhope

Notes:
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham vol 2 p46 (Robert Surtees, 1820)
Alice, co-heir of her brother, and of her sister, Dionesia, aged 24, 17 Hatf.; liv. and made feoffment of the manor 1391.
m1. Walter del Bothe.
m2. Richard Stanhop, Burgess of Newc. on Tyne, had license to settle his lands in the two Usworths on trust for himself and wife, and his own right heirs, 12 Dec. 33 Hatf, Inq. p. m. 35 Hatfield.
    (child) John de Stanhope, son and heir, aged 24, 35 Hatf. 1380
m.3 Thomas de Moderby & Alice his wife settled Little Usworth, & a third part of Great Usworth, on themselves & their own right heirs 20 Feb. 3 Skirlawe.
...
  Alice, the wife of three husbands, notwithstanding she had a son John Stanhop, seems to have transferred her moiety of Little Usworth and of the Shelemore, to a family unconnected by any discoverable trace of blood or affinity to her father's house.
  By charter 14 R. II. 1391, Alice, then perhaps a widow for the third time, granted her lands to Adam Fenrother, Clerk, Robert de Whitton and Peter Hedlam, her trustees, who enfeoffed Elizabeth, wife of Gerard Heron and Joan de Ridell, (daughters of Cecily Taillor)

 Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p5 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  Sir Richard married Alice, daughter and heiress of the Houghtons (called Hough by a misprint in Collins). His second son, also Richard by name, served in Parliament for Newcastle-on-Tyne in the first of Richard II. He married Alice de Moderby, heiress, through her brother and sister, of lands in Great and Little Usworth. It has been shown from ancient records, that “Richard Stanhop, Burgess of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had licence to settle his lands in the two Usworths on trust for himself, and wife, and his own right heirs, 12 Dec. 33 Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1378.).” It may also be deduced from the Inquis. post mortem that he died in the thirty-fifth of Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1380). He had a son, named John de Stanhope, aged twenty-four in 1380; but finally his lands appear to have passed away to a son of his wife by another marriage. See on all these points the History of Durham by Robert Surtees, vol. ii. p. 46.

Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records vol 45 p262 (1884)
35. Stanhop, Richard.
Inq. p.m. taken 10 October [1379] at Durham. John, aged 24 is his son and next heir. Jointly with Alice his wife he had held his lands of the enfeoffment of John de Levyngthorp, chaplain, and John de Yeland.
Useworth Parva, manor of.
Useworth Magna, a fourth part of the vill of.
    Reg. Vol. II, fo. 101. 

Sources:

John Stanhope

Birth: 1412 - 13
John is stated to be 23 years old at the IPM of his grandfather, Richard Stanhope, taken on 22 May 1436, and 24 years old at the death of his mother, Elizabeth (Markham) Stanhope, on 22 June 1437.

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Markham) Stanhope

Married (1st): Elizabeth Talbot
The marriage covenants were agreed in 5 Henry VI (1426-7)
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Sir Richard Stanhope, 5 H. 6. covenanted with Sir John Assheton, and Elizabeth his wife, sometime wife of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall in Lanc. for the marriage of John Stanhope his (Grandson) Nephew, to Elizabeth, daughter of the said Sir Thomas Talbot.

Children: Married (2nd): Katherine (Molyneux) Ratcliffe

Katherine was the daughter of Sir Richard Molyneaux of Sefton and Joan Haydock, and the widow of Sir Robert Radcliffe of Smithills, Lancashire, with whom she had a daughter, Catherine who married Ralph Barton.

A window in the nave of the parish church of Tuxford, described by Gervase Holles in the early 17th century, described John Stanhope as married to Catherine, and her Molyneux arms.
Lincolnshire Church Notes Made by Gervase Holles, A. D. 1634 to A. D. 1642 p96 (R. E. G. Cole, 1911)
Tuxford, Notts.
  In proxima fenestra :—
  Orate pro animabus Johannis Stanhop et Catharinæ uxoris.
  In ye same window, he & his wife kneeling, over hir gowne :—
  B. a crosse sarcely Or . . . . . [Molyneux]

and Thoroton adds:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p383 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Upon a Surcoat of John Stanhop,
Azure, a Crosse Moline Or, in the next Window.
p282 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  In the next Pane of the same Window, Arg, ten Torteauxes, and a file of three Labels Azure . . . Babinton, Militis, Barry of six Arg. and Az. Henrici Grey. Sable, a Bend between six Crosse Croslets Arg. Arme Johannis Stanhope Armig.

The Stained Glass of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire 1400-1550 p559 (Allan Barton, 2004)
  Principal among those commemorated in the glazing was John Stanhope, who succeeded to the manor of Rampton and the Lungvillers portion of the manor of Tuxford in 1436. He founded a chantry in the church shortly before his death in 1493. In the window he was commemorated alongside his second wife Catherine Molyneaux the widow of Sir Robert Radcliffe of Smithills, Lancashire and daughter of Sir Richard Molyneaux of Sefton. Catherine's daughter was married to Ralph, the heir of John Barton of Holme-by-Newark (q.v.) and no doubt through this connection, John Stanhope came to be a close associate of Barton and supervisor of his will. John Stanhope's arms and name were also formerly in the windows of the priors lodging at Newstead (q.v), where, as the descendant of Lungvillers, he was accorded the dignity of 'founder' of the house.

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds vol 2 p272 Deed B.2165 (1894)
[Notts.] B.2165.  Grant by Nicholas the prior, and the convent of Beauvale, binding themselves and their successors, to pray for John Stanhope of Houghton, and lady Katherine his wife. 12 December, 1486, and 2 Henry VII.  Fragment of seal.

Katherine appears to still be living in February 1511(12), when she is mentioned in the IPM of her step-grandson, Edward Stanhope.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp67-9 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Sir Edward Stanhope, knight.
     Delivered into Court, 12 February, 3 Henry viij [1511-12].
... Provided always that should a certain Katherine Ratclif, grandmother of the said Edward, die before the said sum was fully paid, that then after her decease, Edward should pay to the lessors their heirs and assigns to the use of the said King £70 yearly until the residue of the sum of £600 be paid. Should the rent of £40 during Katherine’s life, or £70 after her decease, be in arrear 3 months after either of the two terms, then the lessors their heirs and assigns may re-enter upon the premises, notwithstanding this lease and take the profits thereof to the use of the said King until full payment of the money so in arrear of the aforesaid sum of £600. By virtue of which lease the said Edward was possessed of the manors lands and other the premises.

Occupation: Member of Parliament, and Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests
John was appointed Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests on 4 November 1454 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 19 1452-1461 p101) and served in this role in the years 1455, 1462 and 1463. He was elected to represent Nottinghamshire in Parliaments in 1449, 1452(3), 1459, 1470 and 1472.

In 1453, John was appointed a distributor of an allowance on a tax in Nottinghamshire (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 19 1452-1461 p43).

In the summer of 1455, while John was Sheriff, James II. of Scotland attacked Berwick. Forces were gathered from the Midlands, including Nottinghamshire, and John Stanhope gathered together 300 men in accordance with the king’s mandate, and marched towards Berwick. On reaching Doncaster, however, he heard that the Scots, finding the garrison prepared, had abandoned the attempt. He later petitioned the king for the expenses he had incurred in defence of the kingdom.

Notes:
On John being a knight: John was a Member of Parliament representing the shire of Nottingham and in the terminology of the time, was called a Knight of the Shire for Nottingham. The term "knight of the shire" originally implied that the representative had to be a knight, by the 14th century men who were not knights were commonly elected. John's own IPM refers to him as "John Stanhope, esquire" indicating he was not knighted. The confusion is ancient - in his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1677, Robert Thoroton corrects his source:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p385 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  John Stanhope, Knight, 9 H. 6. in a recovery claimed against William Lassells, Esquire, the Mannor of Little Barkham, with the Appurtenances. This surely is miswritten, John for Richard, or Knight for Esquire.

The only other historical reference I find that refers to him as "Sir John" is The History of the County of Derby vol 1 pp258-9 (Stephen Glover, 1829), listing the Sheriffs of Derby, which names "John Stanhope" as Sheriff in 1455 and "Sir John Stanhope" as Sheriff in 1462 and 1463 but all other early sources I have seen (e.g. The Peerage of England vol 3 pp258-9 (Arthur Collins, 1768) and the aforementioned Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp10-2) refer to him as "John Stanhope, esquire", along with Thoroton's correction, make me believe that John was not knighted.

John inherited substantial lands in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire from his grandfather, Richard Stanhope, knight, in 1436, providing dower to his stepmother, Maud.
Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Stanhop Warwickshire 22 May 1436
RICHARD STANHOP, KNIGHT
465 Writ. ‡ 20 April 1436. [Wymbyssh].
WARWICKSHIRE. Inquisition. Warwick. 22 May 1436. [Bateman].
Jurors: John Edward ; Thomas Yardeley ; William Prentoste ; John Starly of Berkswell (Derkeswell); John Overton of Warwick; William Roggere ; William Pinner ; John Boteler ; Thomas Bynesham ; Roger Asplon ; Henry Hert ; Thomas Smyth of Weddington (Wowynton).
William Wylbram , John Holynworth , John Thouresby , William Walton and Ralph de Lyndeley were formerly seised in demesne as of fee of the following manor, which, by their indented deed, shown to the jurors, they demised to Richard Stanhop, knight and the heirs of his body, describing it as their manor of Ansty in Warwickshire. By virtue of this agreement he was seised in demesne as of fee tail, and he died thus seised.
Ansty, the manor, held of John Starke by service of 4d. yearly, payable at Christmas . There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 30s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
He died on 9 April 1436. John Stanhop is his kin and next heir, viz., son of Richard, son of the Richard named in the writ, and is aged 23 years and more.
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Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Stanhop Nottinghamshire 24 May 1436
466 Writ. ‡ 20 April 1436. [Wymbyssh].
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Retford. 24 May 1436. [Curson].
Jurors: John Power of Tilne; William Lorde of Retford; John Porter and Robert de Fenton of East Markham; John Rasyn and John Bokyngham of Rampton; William Robertson of Hayton; John Lancastr of Gringley on the Hill; John Wylkynson of Bole; Ellis Ekkylles of Chaworth; Robert Haddon of Sturton le Steeple; and Robert You of Rampton.
He died seised of the following manor in demesne as of fee tail by a fine levied on the octave of St John the Baptist 1364, and afterwards, on the quindene of Hilary 1365 [CP 25/1/185/33, no. 396], between William de Eton, vicar of Rampton , and John, son of Robert de Lamun, querents , and John Stanhop and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, by which John and Elizabeth recognised that it belonged by right to William as that held by grant of John Stanhop and Elizabeth to William and John, son of Robert. By this recognition William and John, son of Robert, granted the manor to John Stanhop and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies, the other part of the fine being shown to the jurors. John and Elizabeth were thus seised in demesne as of fee tail and afterwards they had issue, Richard Stanhop, and after their deaths the manor descended to him by form of the fine, as their son and heir, and he was seised in demesne as of fee tail and died thus seised.
Rampton, the manor, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster, as 1/8 knight’s fee. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 6s. yearly; 410 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 60 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally; pleas and perquisites of the court held every 3 weeks, worth 20s. yearly, after the steward’s fee, wage and customary payment; and 5 ruinous cottages, each worth 20d. yearly.
William Wylbram, John Holynworth, John Thouresby, William Walton and Ralph de Lyndelay were formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee. They demised it, among other things, by a deed of theirs to Richard Stanhop, knight , and the heirs of his body. One part of this deed, with their seals, was shown to the jurors. By virtue of this Richard was seised in demesne as of fee tail and died thus seised.
Egmanton, 1/2 manor, held of John, duke of Norfolk , by knight service, viz., as 1/10 knight’s fee. There is the site of the 1/2 manor, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 16 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 32s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
William Wilbram, John Holynworth, John Thouresby, William Walton and Ralph de Lyndeley were seised of the manors of Skegby and South Cotham in demesne as of fee. The former they demised to Thomas Stanhop for life, reversion to themselves and their heirs, and the latter to James Stanhop for life, reversion to themselves and their heirs. By virtue of this, Thomas and James were separately seised of these two manors in demesne as of free tenement. Afterwards, by an indented deed of theirs, the grantors granted, among other things, that both manors, which should separately revert to them, remain wholly to Richard Stanhop and the heirs of his body, by virtue of which Thomas and James, still living, attorned to Richard for these manors.
Skegby and South Cotham, the manors, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster as 1/10 knight’s fee.
Richard Stanhop, knight, was formerly seised of the following 1/3 manor in demesne as of fee. Two parts of this he granted to Richard Stanhop his son and Elizabeth his wife for Elizabeth’s life, and by this grant they were seised in demesne as of free tenement. Afterwards, Richard Stanhop, knight, granted the third part of it by an indented charter of his, one part of which, with his seal, was shown to the jurors, to William Wylbram, esquire, John Holynworth, esquire, and Stephen Stanhop and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this, the grantees were seised of this third part in demesne as of fee. By the same charter, Richard Stanhop, knight, conceded that the said two parts held by Richard the son and Elizabeth for Elizabeth’s life, which after her death should revert to Richard Stanhop, knight, wholly remain to William, John and Stephen and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this Richard the son and Elizabeth attorned to William, John and Stephen for these two parts. William, John and Stephen, by an indented charter of theirs, the part of which with William, John and Stephen’s seals being shown to the jurors, granted to Richard Stanhop, knight, the third part to have and to hold to him and the heirs of his body. By the same charter they conceded that the two parts held by Richard the son and Elizabeth should wholly remain to Richard Stanhop, knight, and the heirs of his body. By virtue of this Richard Stanhop, knight, was seised of the third part in demesne as of fee tail and he died thus seised, Richard Stanhop the son and Elizabeth attorning to him for the other two parts. Richard the son is dead, but Elizabeth is still living.
Tuxford, 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief by knight service, viz., as 1/3 knight’s fee. In the third part of this 1/3 manor is 54 a. of arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; and 5s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
Date of death and heir as 465.
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Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 16 1430-1437 p296 (1936)
1436. June 12.
Westminster.
  Order to the escheator in the county of Notyngham to cause John Stanap, son of Richard the son of Richard Stanap knight and kinsman and heir of the said Richard Stanap, to have full seisin of all the lands in the bailiwick which the said Richard Stanap held of the king in chief or was seised of in his demesne as of fee and in fee tail on the day of his death, as the king has taken his fealty and for 13s. 4d. paid in the hanaper has respited his homage until Martinmas next; saving to Maud late the wife of the said Richard Stanap her reasonable dower thereof.
  Order in like terms to the escheator in the county of Warwick.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1429-1436 p589 (1907)
1436. June 12.
Westminster.
  It was found by inquisition, taken before John Curson, escheator in the county of Nottingham, that Richard Stanap, knight, being seised in his demesne as of fee of a third of the manor of Tuxford, granted one third of the said third to William Wylbram, esquire, John Holyngworth, esquire, and Stephen Stanhop, their heirs and assigns, and they regranted the same to the said Richard and the heirs of his body, without the king’s licence: also that the said third part is held in chief by knight service and that John Stanap son of Richard son of the first named Richard is his kinsman and next heir, and of full age. The said third of the third part was taken into the king’s hand, but for 4 marks paid in the hanaper he has pardoned the trespass and granted licence for the said John Stanap to have the third part again and to hold it entailed as aforesaid.

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI 1435-1441 p24 (1937)
1436. June 13.
Westminster.
  To the escheator in Notynghamshire. Order to take of Maud, who was wife of Richard Stanap knight an oath etc., and in presence of John Stanap son of Richard son of the said Richard, being cousin and heir of his grandfather, or of his attorneys, to assign her dower.
  To the escheator in Warwickshire. Order to assign dower to the said Maud, of whom the king has commanded the escheator in Notynghamshire to take an oath etc.

When his mother died in 1437, John inherited two thirds of the manor of Tuxford, that had been in the possession of his mother for her life.
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 17 1437-1445 p23 (1937)
1437. Nov. 30.
Westminster.
   Order to the escheator in the county of Nottingham;—pursuant to an inquisition made by him showing that Elizabeth late the wife of Richard Stanop esquire, on the day of her death held two-thirds of the manor of Tokesford, called ‘Longvilers manoir,’ for life of the gift and grant of Richard Stanhope knight, with reversion to the said Richard Stanhope knight, and his heirs; and that the said two-thirds are held of the king in chief by service of two-thirds of a third part of a knight’s fee; and that John Stanhope is the kinsman and next heir of the said Richard Stanhope knight, to wit, the son of the said Richard Stanhop esquire, the son of the said Richard Stanhope knight;—to cause the said John to have full seisin of the said two-thirds, if they are in the king’s hand by the death of the said Elizabeth and for no other cause, as the king has taken his fealty, and for 6s. 8d. paid in the hanaper has respited his homage until the quinzaine of Easter next.

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI 1447-1454 p332 (1941)
1452
  Robert Takell, cousin and heir of sir Thomas Haksey, clerk, to John Stanhop esquire. Release of all lands, rents and services wherein sir Richard Stanhop knight enfeoffed Thomas with others. Written at Westminster, 6 March 30 Henry VI.  English.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 6 March.

Maud (Cromwell) Stanhope, the surviving third wife of John's grandfather, died in 1454(5) and the lands she held in dower then fell into John's possession.
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 19 1452-1461 pp124-5 (1939)
1455. May 14.
  Order to the escheator in the county of Nottingham;—pursuant to an inquisition taken before him showing that Maud late the wife of Richard Stanhop knight at the time of her death was not seised of any lands in her demesne as of fee but died seised, by way of dower, of a third part of the manor of Rampton, a third part of a third part of the manor of Toxford, and a third part of the manor of Egmanton, after the death of the said Richard, with reversion to John Stanhop esquire, who is of full age, the kinsman and heir of the said Richard, to wit, son of Richard Stanhop esquire the son and heir of Richard Stanhop knight; and that the said manor of Rampton together with the said third part of the same is held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster as of the honour of Tykhyll by service of a knight’s fee, the said third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxford of the king in chief by service of a third part of a knight’s fee, and the said third part of the manor of Egmanton of another than the king;—to cause the said John Stanhop to have full seisin of the said third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxford, which is held of the king in chief, as the king in 12 June 14 Henry VI took the fealty due from the said John for all the lands which the said Richard Stanhop knight held of the king on chief on the day of his death and for a certain fine paid in the hanaper respited his homage to a certain day now past [Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1430-1437, p. 296]; removing the king’s hand from the said third part of the manor of Rampton, which is held of the king as of the duchy of Lancaster, and from the said third part of the manor of Egmanton, which is held of another than the king, if the said third parts are in the king’s hand by the death of the said Maud and for no other cause, and delivering to John any issues taken therefrom since the time of the death of Maud.

John was appointed a supervisor of the will of his uncle, Thomas Stanhope, in May 1462. This will also names his daughter, Joan.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5 (1855)
CXCVII. TESTAMENTUM THOMÆ STANHOP DEFUNCTI.
   Die Veneris proxime post festum Philippi et Jacobi Apostoli 1462. Ego Thomas Stanhop de Hoghton, armiger—sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce. Et nomine principalis lego vicario de Walesby optimum equum meum et omnia averia eidem pertinencia, prout equitare solebam. Willelmo Wilbram unam togam penulatam. Johanni Tunstall unum equum coloris le blak gray. Katerinæ sorori meæ unam equam cum pullo. Elizabethæ sorori meæ unum equum vocatum gray geldyng. Johanni filio meo unum yrne bonden wayn, et xxx bull stirkus. Johanni Stanhop armigero unum cornu garnest. Executores meos facio Elizabetham et Katerinam sorores meas, Johannem Tunstall armigerum et Johannem filium meum, Johannemque Stanhop de Rampton armigerum supervisorem. Johanni filio meo sex cocliaria argenti. Johannæ Stanhop filiæ Johannis Stanhop armigeri duas togas penulatas cum martis et menyver. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]
which roughly translates as:
197. TESTAMENT OF THOMAS STANHOP DECEASED.
Friday after the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. I Thomas Stanhope of Hoghton, esq. to be buried in the parish church of All Saints of Rampton before the cross. And by the name of the principal I bequeath to the vicar of Walesby my best horse and all the beasts that belong to him, as I am accustomed to ride. William Wilbram one lined toga. John Tunstall one horse of the color black gray. To my sister Katherine, one mare with a colt. To my sister Elizabeth one horse called gray geldyng. To my son John one yrne bonden wayn (???), and 30 bullocks. To John Stanhope, esquire, one garnest (???) horn. I make my executors my sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, John Tunstall, esquire, and John my son, and John Stanhope of Rampton, esquire, supervisor. To my son John six silver spoons. To Joan Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, esquire, two gowns lined with marten and squirrel fur. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp258-9 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John Stanhope, Esq. (son and heir to the said Richard) about 5 Henry VI. took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashal in the county of York, Knt. the marriage covenants agreed to by his grandfather Sir Richard Stanhope bearing that date. He was upwards of 23 years of age in 14 Henry VI. when he succeeded to the estate of his grandfather; and in 16 Henry VI. was found son and heir of Elizabeth, relict of Richard Stanhope, Esq. son and heir of Sir Richard Stanhope, Knt. In 28 Henry VI. he was elected one of the Knights for Nottinghamshire, in the parliament summoned to meet at Westminster; and in 31 Henry VI. to that parliament summoned to Reading. In 33 Henry VI. he paid relief for lands in Rampton, Tuxford, and Egmanton, which fell to him that year, by the death of Maud the second wife of his grandfather. He took part with the house of Lancaster; for in 36 Henry VI. he was in the commission for the array of men in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, with Humphry Stafford Duke of Bucks, who lost his life on that part: and having been thrice Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, viz. in 33 Henry VI. as also in 2d and 3d Edw. IV. and again Knight of the Shire for the county of Nottingham in the parliament held at Coventry in 38 Henry VI. likewise in the 9th and 12th of Edw. IV. at Westminster, departed this life; leaving Thomas his son and heir; and Henry Stanhope of Stoke Rochford, in com’ Lincoln, Esq. in right of Joan his wife, daughter of Henry Rochford of the said place, Esq. by which Joan he had Edmund Stanhope, Esq. who by Alice his wife, left two daughters, 1. Margaret, his heir, who was married to Thomas Skeffington, of Skeffington, in Leicestershire, Esq. and dying Jan. 1, 1539 40, 31 Henry VIII. left him a son, William Skeffington, Esq. then of full age, and heir to his father, 35 Hen. VIII. 2. Joan, the wife of Humphrey Hesey of Grove, in Nottinghamshire, Esq.

Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies and of Celebrated and Remarkable Men of the Country pp60-2 (Cornelius Brown, 1882)
To the same family belonged another John Stanhope, who on the 14th May, 33 Henry 6th, paid relief for lands in Rampton, Tuxford, and Egmanton. This gentleman filled the office of sheriff at a time when great difficulty was experienced in obtaining persons to undertake the duties. The counties were in a disturbed state, and the expenses of the sheriff were heavy. In 1455 tumultuous assemblies existed in Derbyshire, the leaders of which were Sir John Gresley, Nicholas Gresley, and Roger Vernon, all of whom were ordered to appear before the Court to answer for their conduct. About midsummer of the same year James II. of Scotland attacked Berwick. Forces were speedily hurried up from the Midlands, the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln contributing a powerful quota. Stanhope gathered together 300 men in accordance with the king’s mandate, and marched towards Berwick. On reaching Doncaster, however, he heard that the Scots, finding the garrison prepared, had abandoned the attempt. A petition which Stanhope presented some months after his return, viz. in December 1455, is worth quoting as illustrating the disturbed state of the counties at this period, the onerous duties and expenses of sheriffs, and the ill-requited public services which the petitioner rendered:—
  It is directed “to the Kyng, our soverayne lorde, and to his discrete Lordes of his Counsell,” and runs thus: “Shewez unto youre highnesse, your humble servante, John Stanhope, squyer, late sheriff of the countes of Nottingham and Derby, howe that divers personez the whiche have been sheriffez before him have ben charget in youre exchequier with grete and notable somez of certayn revenewez and profitez commyng of and in the saide countez; the whiche of mony yerez agoon were not levable ne paieable, the which was to the grete hurt and undoyng to such persones as have occupiet before youre saide servaunt, hade not youre gode grace ben showet to them by youre gracious letters of pardone, that is to wite, to Thomas Staunton iiijxx ꝉi., Nicoỻ Fitzherberd iiijxx ꝉi., and Robert Strelley iiijxx ꝉi., and to suche personnes that have accomptet sithen, to eche persone iiijxx. ꝉi. Please it youre highnesse by the avise of youre Counsaill to considre the premissez, and over that to considre that youre saide servaunt in the saide office has had grete charge and expenses as in gaderyng and taking with hym grete people opon his own costez to come to youre sessions of Oyer and Terminer holden at Chestrefelde and at Derby in supporting of youre justices and youre officers there, and divers tymez commying with muche people to holde youre shires to resist suche people as was not wele disposed, and in riding with much people on his owne costez in executing of his office because the people is wilde, also in assembling c.c.c. personez by virtue of letters of privee seal to him directe for the recoverez of your towne of Berwik, the wheche c.c.c. personez youre said servaunte broght to the towne of Doncastre to him right grete costez and chargez where youre said servant had word of withdraght of youre adversariez fro youre towne of Berwik, of youre . . . by the advise of your Counsaill to pardone, relesse, and quitclame unto ye said John Stanhope cꝉi. of the sūmez of money, fermez, issuez, or dettez whereof he is or shall be chargiet agayne you in his accompt at exchequier, and theropon to adresse you gracious letters of prive seal unto youre Tresorer and Barons of youre saide exchequier, commandyng thaym to discharge youre saide suppliaunt of the seide cꝉi., and him and his heyrez and executours make quiete and discharget agenst you and your heyrez for evermore, most gracious soverayne lorde, for the love of God and by way charitie.” In response to this appeal the King “de avisamento Consilii sui mandavit custodi privati sigilli fieri facere litteras Thes. et Baronibus scaccarii sui de exonerando infra scriptum supplicantem sūme iiijxx ꝉi. in compoto suo coram vice com̃ratione officii sui reddendo secundum tenorem infra specificatum.”

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p8 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  His son, and the heir to Sir Richard, JOHN STANHOPE, was upwards of twenty-three years of age in 1436, when he succeeded his grandfather. In the civil wars of his time he took part with the House of Lancaster, and he was Knight for his county in several Parliaments. Thrice, also, was he Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby. He married, first, Catherine, daughter of Richard Molineux, and widow of Sir Robert Ratcliffe, by whom he had no issue. He married, secondly, ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Thomas TALBOT, of Bashall, in the county of York. By her he had two sons, Thomas and Henry. This last married Joan, daughter of Henry Rochford, Esq., of Stoke Rochford, in the county of Lincoln; she left an only son Edmund, and was buried in the chapel at Houghton.

Death: 12 December 1493

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp10-2 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         John Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 10 May, 9 Henry vij [1494].
Inquisition taken at Notyngham, 22 April, 9 Henry vij [1494]; before Thomas Hunt, escheator, after the death of John Stanhope esquire, by the oath of Thomas Parsons, gentilman, Gervase Bampton, gentilman, Thomas Samon, gentilman, Thomas Burton, gentilman, Edward Hartop, yoman, Robert Buck, yoman, Robert Wryght, yoman, Robert Bales, yoman, Thomas Edrysche, yoman, Robert Blod, yoman, William Gresley, yoman, John Wright, yoman, Robert Grene, smyth, John Chapell and Ralph Whitchurche, yoman, who say that
  John Stanhope was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Rampton, Tuxford, Egmanton, Laxton and Skegby, 2 messuages, 40 acres of land, 51 acres of meadow, and 2 acres of wood in West Markam and Milneton.
  So seized, by his charter, long before his death, he enfeoffed Robert Markam, knight, Gervase Clyfton, Thomas Fitzwilliam, Thomas Molyneux, Robert Molyneux, John Leek and Ralph Stanhop, clerk, of the same property, to have and to hold to them their heirs and assigns for ever, to the intent that after his death the feoffees should make a sufficient estate in law of the said property to Edward Stanhop, kinsman and then heir apparent of the said John Stanhop and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten. By virtue whereof they were seized of the property in their demesne as of fee to the intent aforesaid.
  The manor of Rampton is held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by the eighth part of a knight’s fee and is worth yearly
besides reprises £20.
  The manor of Egmanton is held of the Duke of Norfolk by the tenth part of a knight’s fee, and is worth yearly besides reprises £18 6s. Sd.
  The manors of Laxton and Skegby are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by the tenth part of a knight’s fee and are
worth yearly besides reprises £10.
  The messuages, land and tenements in West Markham and Milneton are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by fealty, and are worth besides reprises 8s.
  The manor of Tuxford is held of the King in burgage and is worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  They say also that one Walter, Vicar of the Church of Laxton, was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Hoghton, 2 messuages, 2 oxgangs of land in Elkesley, 2 messuages, 2 oxgangs of land and a moiety of a watermill in Allerton.
  So seized, by his charter he gave that property to Thomas Languillers for term of life, and after Thomas’ death to remain to John son of Thomas and the heirs of his body for ever. In default of such issue to the right heirs of Thomas for ever. By virtue of which gift Thomas was thereof seized as of his free tenement and died so seized. After whose death the property remained to the said John Languillere and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and he became seized thereof in his demesne as of fee tail, and had issue Elizabeth and so seized he died. After whose death the property descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir of the said John Languillere, which same Elizabeth took to husband Richard Stanhop and had issue Richard Stanhop, esquire. After the death of Elizabeth all the said manors, lands, tenements and other the premises descended to the said Richard Stanhop, esquire, as son and heir of the said Elizabeth, and after Richard’s death they descended to the said John Stanhop son and heir of Richard, son and heir of Elizabeth as kinswoman and heir of the said John Languillere.
  By virtue whereof John Stanhop entered into the manor, land, tenements and other the premises and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee tail and so died seized. After whose death they descended to Edward Stanhope as kinsman and heir of the said
John Stanhope, namely son and heir of Thomas son and heir of the said John Stanhop.
  John Stanhop was also seized in his demesne as of fee of 1 messuage, 6 acres of land, 1 acre of meadow in Willoughby, 14d. of rent of assize in Kyrton and Walesby and 3 oxgangs of land and the fourth part of 1 oxgang of land in Grymston, and 3 cottages in Whellay, 54 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadow, 5s. of rent in Tuxford. And so seized he died. After whose death that property descended to the said Edward Stanhop as kinsman and heir of the said John Stanhope.
  The manor of Hoghton is held of the heir of Lord Mountbourghchier by the service of one rose yearly and is worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The land and tenements in Kyrton, Walesby, Grymston, and Welley are held of the heir of Hugh Hastyngs by the service of one
rose yearly, and are worth yearly besides reprises 40s.
  The land and tenements in Tuxford are held of the King in chief by the third part of a knight’s fee and are worth yearly besides reprises 23s. 6d.
  John Stanhope held no other or more lands of the King in chief nor of any other, either in demesne or service, on the day he died.
  He died 12 December, 9 Henry vij [1493], and Edward Stanhope, esquire, is his kinsman and next heir, namely son and heir of Thomas son and heir of the said John Stanhop, and is aged 24 years and upwards.
      Inq. p. m., 9 Henry vij., No. 92.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 1, Henry VII pp407-430 (1898)
962     JOHN STANHOPE, esq.
Writ 20 Dec., inq. 22 April, 9 Hen. VII.
He enfeoffed Robert Markham, knt., Gervase Clyfton, Thomas Fitzwilliam, Thomas Molyneux, Robert Molyneux, John Leek, and Ralph Stanhope, clk., of the under-mentioned manors of Rampton, &c., to the intent that after his death they should make a sufficient estate thereof in law to Edward Stanhope, his cousin and heir apparent, in tail.
One Walter, vicar of the church of Laxton, gave the under-mentioned manor of Hoghton, and lands in Elkesley and Allerton, to one Thomas Languillers for the term of his life, with remainder to John his son in tail, with remainder in default to Thomas’ right heirs. On the death of Thomas the premises remained to the said John Languillers, and descended on his death to Elizabeth his daughter and heir. She took to husband one Richard Stanhope and had issue Richard Stanhope, esq., to whom on her death the premises descended, as her son and heir. After the death of the said Richard the son the said manor and lands descended to the said John Stanhope as his son and heir, and cousin and heir of the said John Languillers, viz. son of Richard, son of Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the said John. At the death of the said John Stanhope the said premises descended to Edward Stanhope his cousin and heir.
He died 12 Dec., 9 Hen. VII, seised of the other under-mentioned lands in Willoughby, Kyrton, &c., in fee. The said Edward Stanhope, aged 24 and more, is his cousin and heir, viz. son of Thomas his son and heir.
NOTTS.
Manor of Rampton, worth 20l., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by knight-service, viz. by 1/8 of a knight’s fee.
Manor of Egmanton, worth 17l. 6s. 8d., held of the Duke of Norfolk, by 1/10 of a knight’s fee.
Manors of Laxton and Skegby, worth 10l., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by 1/10 of a knight’s fee.
Two messuages, 40a. land, 51a. meadow, and 2a. wood in West Markham and Milneton, worth 8s., held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by fealty only.
Manor of Tuxford, worth 40s., held of the King in burgage.
Manor of Hoghton, worth 40s., held of the heirs of the lord Mountbourghechier, by service of a rose, for all service.
Two messuages and two bovates of land in Elkesley.
Two messuages, two bovates of land, and the moiety of a water-mill in Allerton.
A messuage, 6a. land, and an acre of meadow in Willoughby.
Fourteen pence rent of assise in Kyrton and Walesby, three bovates land and the fourth part of a bovate in Grymston, and three cottages in Whellay, or Welley, worth 60s., held of the heirs of Hugh Hastyngis, by service of a rose yearly, for all service.
Fifty-four acres of arable, 6a. meadow, and 5s. rent in Tuxford, worth 23s. 6d., held of the King in chief, by knight-service, viz. by 1/3 of a knight’s fee.
C. Series II. Vol. 9. (92.)

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII pp501-521 (1955)
1015.     JOHN STANHOPE.
Inquisition, virtute officii, 28 April, 15 Henry VII.
By an inquisition taken before Thomas Hunte, late escheator, on a writ of Diem clausit extremum after the death of the said John, it was found that he was seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors of Rampton, Tuxford, Egmanton, Laxton and Skegby, and 2 messuages, 40a. land and 51a. meadow with 2a. wood in Westmerkham and Milneton, and that their value and tenure were as stated below in brackets. The present jurors, however, swear that the value and tenure of the said manors and messuages was as stated below outside brackets.
They also swear that the said John died seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors of Southmarnham and Southcottom, which are not specified in the aforesaid inquisition.
He died 3 April, 9 Henry VII. Edward Stanhop, knight, aged 30 years and more, is his kinsman and heir, to wit, son of Thomas his son; and immediately after his death the said Edward entered into the two last-mentioned manors and has taken the issues and profits thereof ever since without obtaining due livery thereof, thereby defrauding the king of the said issues and profits.
NOTTINGHAM.
Manor of Rampton, worth 37l., held of the king by one knight’s fee (worth 20l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by an eighth part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Egmanton, revised value and tenure not given (worth 18l. 6s. 8d., held of the duchy of Norfolk by a tenth part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Skegby, worth 20l., held of the king by service of one knight’s fee.
Manor of Laxton, worth 15l., held of the king by service of one knight’s fee.
(Manors of Skegby and Laxton, worth 10l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by a tenth part of a knight’s fee).
2 messuages, 40a. land and 51a. meadow in Westmerkham and Milneton, worth 4l., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by a tenth part of a knight’s fee (worth 8s., held of the king, as of his duchy of Lancaster, by fealty only).
Manor of Tuxford, worth 20l., held of the king in chief by service of a third part of a knight’s fee (worth 23s. 6d., held of the king in chief by a third part of a knight’s fee).
Manor of Southmarnham, worth 6l., held of the king by a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Manor of Southcottom, worth 16l., held of the king in chief by a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Endorsed:—Execucio fit sicut continetur in Memorandis de anno xv. regis Henrici vij., videlicet, inter Recorda de termino Pasche, rotulo —, ex parte rememoratoris thesaurarii.
E. Series II. File 729. (5.)

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John Stanhope

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1556 and admitted the same year to Gray's Inn.
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p146 (John Venn, 1927)
SPANHOPE, JOHN.  Matric. pens, from TRINITY, Mich. 1556. Possibly 3rd s. of Sir Michael, of Shelford, Notts. B. c. 1545. If so, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth. Probably adm. at Gray’s Inn, 1556. M.P. for Marlborough, 1572; for Truro, 1586; and for Rochester, 1588. Knighted, c. 1601. Created Baron Stanhope of Harrington, May 4, 1605. Died Mar. 9, 1620. Perhaps brother of Edward (1560), etc. and father of Charles (1608). (Collins, III. 417.)

The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p27 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1556. JOHN STANHOPE.

Married (1st): Joan Knowles

Joan was the daughter of Sir William Knowles of Bilton in Holderness, Yorkshire. The marriage has been disputed by some authorities, most notably by George Corner in Archaeologia vol 38 p392 (1860) who notes that "In Collins’s Peerage, 1741, iii. p. 308, Sir John Stanhope is stated to have first married Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir William Knowles of Bilton in Holderness: but as this marriage is omitted in the 3rd edition of Collins, 1756, ii. 335, the editor had probably ascertained that it belonged to another John Stanhope."
George Poulson, in his History of Holderness, notes that the will of Sir William Knowles contains a bequest to John Stanhope "if he shall live and cohabit with Mary Knowles, or any other daughter, lawfully" and also that Sir Michael Stanhope, the father of the John Stanhope of this entry, had been appointed the king's steward of Holderness, making it likely that Sir William's will refers to this John Stanhope.
The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness vol 2 p250 (George Poulson, 1842)
  Sir Wm. Knowles, of Bilton, knt by w. d. 1 Sep. 1557, gives his soul &c., and his body to be buried in the church of Bilton, or where God shall dispose; leaves to John Stanhope, Esq., if he shall live and cohabit with Mary Knowles, or any other daughter, lawfully, all the glass and sealing within the manor house of Bilton, and all the furniture. Michael Stanhope, second son of Sir Edward, 35 H. VIII. was constituted the king’s steward of the great lordship of Holderness. Sir John Stanhope, first Lord Stanhope, third son of Sir Michael Stanhope, gent. of the privy chamber to Queen Elizabeth, married first, Joan, daur. and heiress of Wm. Knowles, of Bilton, she died s. p. he married secondly, Margaret, eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry Mac Williams, of Stanborne, in com. Essex, Esq.

Married (2nd): Margaret Macwilliams on 6 May 1589, in St Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Parish registers for St. Luke's Church, Chelsea
Johes Stanhope Armiger et Margarita Mackwilliams allias Cheeke traxerunt matrimonium 6o die May Anno dni 1589 et Regni Elizabeth 31 P Ward Rect.

Margaret was the daughter of Henry Macwilliams of Stamborne Hall, Essex, one of the Gentlemen-pensioners to Queen Elizabeth, and Mary (Hall) Cheke. She died in 1640, and buried next to her husband in St Martin in the Fields.

She was remembered in the will of her brother-in-law, Michael Stanhope, of Sudborne, Suffolk, dated 6 November 1621, held at the National Archives PROB 11/139/119
Item I give and bequeath unto my Sister the Lady Stanhope widdowe late wife to my brother John Lord Stanhope of Harrington deceased one peece of goulde called a ???

Children: Occupation:
John was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth. He served in eight Parliaments, representing eight different constituencies, between 1571 and 1604, despite being defeated in a upset in an election in Yorkshire in 1597. John was appointed Postmaster of England for life on 20 June 1590, with a fee of over 66 pounds a year. He was knighted in 1596, and was Treasurer of the Chamber from 1596 until 1618, appointed keeper of the Colchester castle, for life, in 1599 and vice-chamberlain from January 1601 until April 1616 and was a member of the Privy Council from 1601. John was raised to the peerage on 2 May 1605 as Baron Stanhope of Harrington. He was also a commissioner for the union with Scotland in 1604 and a councillor for the colony of Virgina in 1609. Further details of his parliamentary career and government offices held can be found in Archaeologia vol 38 pp389-404 and  The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, John (c.1545-1621), of Harrington, Northants. and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

Notes:
John was forgiven a debt to his aunt, Anne, the Duchess of Somerset, in Anne's will dated 14 July 1586
The Gentleman's Magazine vol 177 p376 (Sylvanus Urban, 1845)
A Copy of the Duchess of Somerset’s Will, July 14, 1586.
...
  Item, I geve to my nephew John Stanhope the fortie powndes he oweth me.
  Item, I geve to my nephew Michael Stanhope a piller of gould with viii diamondes.

John was knighted in 1596.
The Knights of England vol 2 p94 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1596.  JOHN STANHOP.

John was remembered in the will of his brother-in-law, Sir Roger Townshend, dated 4 December 1587, held at the National Archives PROB 11/77/149
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
  Item, I give and bequeath to my brother [=brother-in-law], John Stanhope, esquire, one piece of plate of the value of ten pounds;

John was left a bequest in, and is appointed an executor of, the will of his younger brother, Edward, dated 28 February 1603. That will also leaves substantial property to John's son, Charles, as well as bequests for his wife and two daughters. It is held at the National Archives (PROB 11/11/228)
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
  I do give to my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my late loving brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, deceased, to remain to the heirs of his house after his decease, and so from heir to heir of that house, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the weight of six score ounces with the Stanhope arms in the bottom of the basin and the Stanhope crest upon some part of the ewer with the difference of the fourth brother, with this inscription about the arms: Memoria Edwardi Stanhope Legum Doctoris;
  Item, I do give to my nephew, Edward Stanhope, the Lady Anne Holles, and my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, being the sons and daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, to each of them one signet ring of gold of the weight of three angels apiece, the crest belonging to our own arms being engraven on them, and on the inside of each of them to be engraven these words: Edwardus Stanhope Legum Doctor;
...
  Item, I do give to my very loving brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Treasurer of her Majesty’s Chamber, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the same fashion, weight, graving of arms and inscription as is above set down for my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, to be and remain to my said loving brother during his life, and after his decease to be and remain to the heir of his house, and so to be and continue from heir to heir of that house;
  Item, I give to my nephew, Charles Stanhope, son to my loving brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, all those my lands commonly called or known by the name of the manor and farm of Calcott alias Caldecott with th’ appurtenances in the county of
Warwick, together with all the lands to the same belonging, set, lying and being within the lordships, parishes, towns, hamlets, villages and fields of Calcott alias Caldecott, Granborough alias Grenborowe and Napton in the said county of Warwick or any of them which I lately purchased and bought of Thomas Stapleton the eldest of Upton in the county of Chester, gentleman, or by what other name soever they be called as if true mention had here been made of them, to have and to hold all the said lands with th’appurtenances in Caldecott alias Calcott aforesaid to my said nephew, Charles Stanhope, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten forever, and for default of such issue, to be and remain to any the son or sons hereafter lawfully to be begotten of the body of my said brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, successively, and to any the heirs male of his body lawfully to be begotten, and for default of such issue male, then to the heirs male of the body of my brother, Michael Stanhope, lawfully to be begotten, and for default of such issue male, then to the heirs male of the body of my nephew and godson, John Stanhope, third son of my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, begotten or to be begotten, and for default of such issue male, then to the heirs male of my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my dear eldest brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, provided always that if the said lands in Caldecott by me bequeathed as above to Charles Stanhope, son and heir to my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Vice-chamberlain to her Majesty, or after Charles Stanhope’s death without issue male of his body, then to any other the sons of the said Sir John Stanhope, knight, so as it doth go from the said Sir John Stanhope’s sons to any other of the substitutes above set down, then my will is that before he to whom my said lands in Caldecott shall so come shall first enter into one statute of two thousand pounds to my executor or executors to pay to my loving nieces, Elizabeth Stanhope and Katherine Stanhope, daughters to my said honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, five hundred pounds of lawful English money to each of them within one year after he or they shall have entered upon the said lands, and if either of the two sisters, Elizabeth or Katherine, be dead before that day, not having any child lawfully begotten of her body, then the surviving sister to have the whole of one thousand pounds so given betwixt them, but if either of them shall have any child or children living at that time, then that part of five hundred pounds to be divided amongst the said child or children;
  Item, I do give unto my said niece, Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter unto my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, forty pounds to be bestowed by my executor or executors at the day of her marriage upon some good jewel of that value or else forty pounds in
money at my executors’ choice;
  Item, I do give unto my niece, Katherine Stanhope, daughter to my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, £40 to be bestowed by my executor or executors at the day of her marriage upon some good jewel of that value or else £40 in money at my executors’ choice.
  Item, I give unto my honourable sister [=sister-in-law], the Lady Margaret Stanhope, wife to Sir John Stanhope, knight, one piece of plate silver and gilt of thirty ounces. to remain after her death to her youngest daughter;
  Item, I do give to every of the sons and daughters of my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, to each of them one gold ring of three angels with such crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughters of my eldest brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased;
... Item, I do make executors to this my last will and testament my most dear and loving brothers, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council established for the North, my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, and my brother, Michael Stanhope, esquire, one of the Grooms of her Majesty’s Privy Chamber, and so many of them as shall be living at my death, praying them that as our loves have never been severed whilst we lived, and as I cannot divide the same from them until our heavenly Father do change this our earthly habitation, so they would be pleased after my departure to continue the band of brotherly love unto me in performing this my last will and testament according to my trust committed unto them so far as they shall find and in their consciences know that I do leave sufficient estate to perform it;
All the rest of my goods, lands copyhold or free, leases, chattels, household stuff, moneys or whatsoever not by this my last will and testament given, disposed and bequeathed, my debts being paid, which I hope will not be great for that I have always had care to avoid them, I do wholly give them equally to be divided amongst my said executors, amongst whom there be some of them who do owe me good sums of money for lands purchased in my name and their own, and some other lands mortgaged unto me alone for which I have scarce anything to show for that I only paid the moneys and they wholly dealt with buying, selling and disposing of those lands; other do owe me moneys upon specialties of statute which in this distempered age God knows into whose hands those specialties may come; I therefore desire them, as they will answer it unto God, that they will disclose one to another, as they are brethren and so should be but one, what several debts is owing by any of them unto me, I mean only money disbursed out of my purse and paid in pecunijs numeratis for them without any further allowance, and then casting that up unto the rest of my whole estate, I freely and absolutely give the whole remainder as is above set down to be equally divided betwixt my said three brothers who shall take upon them the execution of this my last will and testament;
  Overseers I need not make others than the three consciences of my foresaid three executors, my brothers, whom I ascite before the tribunal-seat of God, that as my love hath always been unto each of them one brotherly love, so they will justly and truly perform that which I have herein trusted them with

John was named as a supervisor of the will of his older brother, also named Edward, one of His Majesty's Councillors in the North, dated 8 August 1603, which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... And further for the better accomplishment of this my will I doe ordaine Sir Edwarde Stanhope my sonne my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, And appoint Supervisors of this my will my deare and lovinge brethren Sir John Stanhope knight vice chamberlaine and one of his maiesties moste honorable priuie councell Sir Edwarde Stanhope Doctor Sr Michaell Stanhope and Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe.

John was remembered in the will of his nephew, John Stanhope, the son of his brother Thomas, dated 19 July 1610,  at The National Archives PROB 11/117/473 (modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
To my honourable loving aunt, the Lady Bertley [=Berkeley], and to my two most dear uncles, the Lord Stanhope and Sir Michael Stanhope, though a small, yet a token of my true love, and as my present estate will admit, to each of them I give a twenty shillings’ piece of gold to make a ring of to wear for my sake, who did ever truly love and honour them;

John, his wife and his son are left bequests in, and John was appointed an executor of, the will of John's sister, Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved brother, John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, one piece of plate of the value of twenty pounds, and one key of gold set with diamonds, and to my honourable sister, his lady, one jewel thick-set with small diamonds, only with a round pearl at each end thereof, for remembrances of my love unto them;
  Item, I give unto my nephew, Sir Charles Stanhope, knight, son of my foresaid brother, the Lord Stanhope, one piece of plate of the value of twenty pounds
...
I, the aforesaid Jane, Lady Berkeley, do ordain, constitute, nominate, appoint and make my well-beloved brothers, John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, and Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury in the county of Suffolk, knight, Sir Roger Townshend, my grandchild, and Richard Mason, my servant, to be my executors of this my last will and testament, whom I charge and heartily desire to see the same well and truly executed, performed and accomplished in every part thereof according to my true intent and meaning set down and declared in and by the same so far-forth as by any lawful way or means they may or can, and for the better execution, performance and doing thereof I do hereby give unto my said executors full power and authority to be my only true and lawful executors of this my last will and testament in as large and ample manner as by any means I may or can do;

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p263 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Sir John Stanhope (third son of Sir Michael) Gentleman of the Privy-chamber to Queen Elizabeth (as above specified) was seated at Harrington in com’ Northampt. for which county he was elected one of the Knights of the shire in parliament, anno 43 Eliz. being at that time a Knight, and Vice-chamberlain of the houshold to the Queen. Before which, viz. in 38 Eliz. he was constituted Treasurer of the Chamber for life; and in 42 Eliz. Constable of the castle of Colchester in com’ Essex for life. In 44 Eliz. he was with the Lords of the Privy-council in a special commission, whereby any six of them were impowered to stay from execution all felons (except for wilful murder, rape and burglary) and to commit them to serve in the gallies. On the accession of King James I he was continued Vice-chamberlain sworn of his Privy-council, and appointed by act of parliament, in the first year of his reign, one of the Commissioners to treat of an union with Scotland; and afterwards by letters patent, bearing date May 4, 1605, 3 Jac. I. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this realm, by the title of Lord Stanhope Harrington; continuing in his office of Vice-chamberlain till 14 Jac. I. when he resigned it to Sir John Digby. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry Mac-Williams of Stanborne in com’ Essex, Esq. one of the Gentlemen-pensioners to Queen Elizabeth; and departed this life March 9, 1620, leaving issue two daughters, Elizabeth, married to Sir Lionel Talmash of Helmingham in com’ Suffolk, Knt. and Bart. ancestor to the Earl of Dyfart; and Catharine to Robert Viscount Cholmley of Kellis in Ireland, afterwards created Earl of Leinster in that realm; as likewife an only son,
  Charles Lord Stanhope, who, in the year 1610, was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales, son and heir-apparent to James I. He retired beyond the seas all the time of the rebellion against Charles I. and having married Dorothy, daughter of Charles Barret, of Aveley-Belhouse in Essex, and sister to Edward Barret, Lord Newburgh, died without issue, A. D. 1675, aged 82, as appears by an inscription on his tomb-stone in Nocton church in Lincolnshire; and the barony in him became extinct. 

Archaeologia vol 38 pp389-404 (1860)
XXVI. Notices of John Lord Stanhope of Harrington, with reference to certain Letters to him, communicated to the Society by the EARL STANHOPE, PRESIDENT, and by RICHARD ALMACK, Esq. F.S.A.; together with some Account of Sir Thomas Holcroft and Sir John Wotton, the writers of two of those Letters. By GEORGE R. CORNER, Esq., F.S.A.
    Read January 26th, 1860.
      John Lord Stanhope of Harrington.
  Sir John Stanhope, afterwards Lord Stanhope of Harrington, was the third son of Sir Michael Stanhope, the King’s Steward of Holderness and Cottingham, Lieutenant Governor of Hull in the reign of King Henry VIII. and Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Edward VI.
...
 In November, 1556, John Stanhope matriculated as a Pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in the same year he was admitted a member of Gray’s Inn (of which society as many as eighteen members of the Stanhope family were admitted between 1556 and 1654); and on the 26th January, 1568, he became an Ancient of that society.
  In 1572 he was returned as M.P. for Marlborough to the Parliament which met 8th May.
  In 1578 he occurs as a Gentleman of the Queen’s Privy Chamber.
  In 1585 he was elected M.P. for Beverley in the Parliament which met 23rd November; and in 1586 he was elected M.P. for Truro in the Parliament which met 29th October.
  In 1588-9 he was returned to the Parliament which met on the 4th February as Member for Rochester.
  June 20, 1590, he was constituted by patent Postmaster of England for life, with a fee of 66l. 13s. 4d. per annum
  Sept. 27, 1592, he was elected M.A. at Oxford, the Queen then being there.
  He marriedc on the 6th May, 1589, at Chelsea, Margaret Macwilliams, otherwise Cheke, daughter and heir of Henry Macwilliams, Esq. of Stambourne, Essex, one of the Queen’s Gentlemen Pensioners, and Governor of Colchester Castle, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard Hill, serjeant of the winecellar to King Henry VIII. and widow of the learned Sir John Cheke, schoolmaster and secretary of state to King Edward VI.
  In the previous year (March, 1588) he had obtained a grant from the Queen of the manor of Chelsea for his life, at the rent of twenty marks: he had however surrendered it in 1592, when it was granted by the Queen to Catherine Lady Howard, wife of the Lord Admiral, upon the like terms. The Lord Admiral dated letters from Chelsea in 1589, 1591, and 1597. It would seem, however, that Mr. Stanhope was resident at Chelsea until 1595, for his daughter Elizabeth was baptized there in 1593, and his son Charles in 1595.
In Lodge’s Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, from the MSS. of the Howards, Talbots, and Cecils, at the College of Arms, (published in 1791,) there are some letters of John Stanhope; the first of which is from him to Lord Talbot, dated at Richmond, 22nd December, 1589, conveying thanks for a Sherwood hind, praises of Lady Talbot, and foreign news. He adds the following postscript: “The Queen is so well as I assure you six or seven gallyards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise”
  Another letter in Lodge’s Illustrations is from John Stanhope to the Earl of Shrewsbury, dated Richmond 9th Dec. 1590, as to the Queen’s letter of condolence to the earl on the death of his father, and disposal of the lieutenancy of Derby, Notts, Stafford, and Warwickshire, &c. in which he says, “God be thanked, she is better in health this winter than I have seen her before; her favour holdeth in reasonable good terms to the Earl of Essex. I hope you shall hear that my cousin Robert Cecil shall be sworn secretary before Christmas; whether Mr. Woutton, or who else, is yet uncertain.”
  There is also a long and interesting letter from him to Lord Talbot, written in 1590, containing a jocular excuse for not having written before, and giving an account of the Queen’s entertainment of Viscount de Turenne at Windsor, in which we read, “This night, God willing, she will go to Richmond, and on Saturday next to Somerset House; and, if she could overcome her passion against my Lord of Essex for his marriage, no doubt she would be much the quieter; yet doth she use it more temperately than was thought for, and, God be thanked, doth not strike all she threats.” . . . . . “The favours of the Court be disposed as you left them; and I assure you never a man that I know hath cause to brag of any. My Lord Treasurer hath been ill of his gout of long, and so continues; our new maid, Mrs. Vavasour, flourisheth like the lily and the rose.” He then notices the foreign news, return of Sir John Hawkins, prizes taken at sea, and concludes with professions of attachment, &c.
  Mr. Lodge gives also another letter from John Stanhope to the Earl of Shrewsbury, dated 10th March, 1590.
  July 5, 1596, he was sworn Treasurer of the Chamber, and he was knighted in the same year.
  In 1597 he was elected M.P. for Preston, in the Parliament which met 24th October.
  On the 3rd November, 1598, Sir John Stanhope writes to Sir Robert Cecil: “I have been reading Mr. Edmonds’s letter and yours to Her Majesty, which came not to my hands till six o’clock; for I was all the afternoon with Her Majesty at my book; and then, thinking to rest me, went in again with your letter. She was pleased with the philosopher’s stone, and hath been all this day reasonably quiet, and hath heard at large the discourse of the calamities in Kerry—French news and visitors to the Queen.”
  In 1601 he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Queen’s Household, which office he retained in the following reign; and in June or July of the same year he was sworn of the Privy Council.
  In 1601 he was elected M.P. for the county of Northampton, in the Parliament which met 7th October.
  June 17th, 1602, he was named in a Commission to reprieve felons, and to commit them to serve in the galleys.
  29th January, 1602-3, he was named in a Commission touching Jesuits and Seminary Priests.
  In 1603-4 he was Member for Newton in the Isle of Wight, in the Parliament which met 19th March.
  The style of his letters is very easy, and free from the affectation and extravagant phrases common at that period. They seem to me to approach more to the lively character of Horace Walpole’s epistolary writings than any I have ever seen of the time of Elizabeth.
  There are numerous letters and documents of and referring to Lord Stanhope of Harrington in the State Paper Office, as we learn from Mrs Green’s admirable calendar.
  On his accession King James granted, June 21, 1603, to Sir John Stanhope and Charles his son the office of Keeper of Colchester Castle for life. Sir John also retained the offices of Vice-Chamberlain and Master of the Posts under King James.
  In the State Paper Office is a letter, dated 19th October, 1603, from Mercury Patten to Sir John Stanhope, Vice-Chamberlain, concerning Raleigh’s conference, soon after he got into trouble, with Parks, of the Stannary, about Lord Cecil, where he desires Parks may be questioned about it.
  1604. February 5. A Commission was issued to the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cecil, Sir John Stanhope, and Sir George Hume, to make an inventory of all robes or apparel left by the King’s progenitors.
  1604. October 14. A warrant was issued to Sir John Stanhope, Vice-Chamberlain, to preserve the game in the hundreds of Rowell, Orlingbury, Gilsborough, Hookeslow, and Fawsley, in Northamptonshire.
  As steward of the manor of Eltham he had a residence at that royal palace; and in the State Paper Office there is a letter dated 22nd October, 1604, to the Lord Treasurer and Sir John Stanhope, steward of the manor of Eltham, to compound with owners of land to be added to the Middle Park there.
  1605, March. Sir John Stanhope writes to Viscount Cranbourne, inclosing him two letters out of France from Furtado the Spanish friar, and a note from Lady Adeline Nevill, sister of the late Earl of Westmoreland.
  1605, April 19. There is a letter from Sir John Stanhope, Sir John Fortescue, and Lord Chief Justice Popham, to Sir Julius Cæsar, from which it appears that the aldermen of London were “so obstinate and tied to their own will,” that they would neither attend to the petition of Thomas Stanley and others about the House of Correction, nor reimburse their expenses. There would be no way to deal with them, unless the King were to write to the mayor and aldermen; they inclose the draft of a letter which they think suitable.
  In the same year (1605), 4th May, Sir John Stanhope was created by King James I. Baron Stanhope, of Harrington, in the county of Northampton, being the first of his family who was raised to the peerage.
  1605, May 21. A warrant to pay to Lord Stanhope 2,000l. for the expenses of his office as Treasurer of the Chamber.
  On the 3rd June, 1605, a Commission had issued from the Court of Exchequer, directed to Lord Stanhope as High Steward, Sir Edward Cooke (Attorney-General), Sir Thomas Walsingham (of Mottingham), Sir Percival Hart of (Lullingstone), Sir Oliff Leigh, John Doddridge (Solicitor-General), Sir Francis Bacon, one of the King’s Council, and others to make a perfect survey of the royal manor house and demesne of Eltham, which was commenced on the 11th July in the same year, and resulted in a very full and particular description of the palace, manor, and the crown lands and woods. The Survey is still preserved among the Records of the Court of Exchequer.
  During his lordship’s residence at Eltham he is frequently mentioned in the parish books particularly as a communicant.
  “1605. Paid for the communyon, the syext of October, when my Lord Stannope received, for bread and wyne . . . xx d.
  “Item, paid for a communion, the ix of September, 1606, for wyne and breade, when my Lorde Stanhop and others receyved . . . ij s. jd.
  “1610. Payd for brede and wyne for ij communions for my Lor Stanup’s i s. ix d.”
  King James visited again Lord Stanhope at Eltham in the year 1611, as appears from the following entry in the churchwardens’ accounts:—
  “Paied for ryngers, when the Kinges Mas came to lye at Ealtham .  xij d.”
  The last notice of Lord Stanhope at Eltham that I find in the parish books is in 1614—
  “Recefed of the honorabell Lord Stanhope, at a communione, the 4th of September, for wine . . .  i s.”
  Oct. 10, 1605. Warrant for increase of payment to Lord Stanhope, Treasurer of the Chamber, because of his being ordered to discharge the salaries of the Prince’s chamber servants. Annexed is a list of the Prince’s servants and their salaries.
  In 1607, April 7th, the King granted to John Lord Stanhope and Charles his son the custody of Colchester Castle, as theretofore held by Thomas Lord D’Arcy, John Earl of Oxford, Henry Macwilliams (Lord Stanhope’s father-in-law), and Sir John, then Lord, Stanhope.
  In the same year, July 26, the King, on the surrender of the former patent, granted to John Lord Stanhope and Charles his son the office of Postmaster in England for their lives.
  1608, June 5th. A letter from Lord Stanhope to the Earl of Salisbury; in which he states that he purposes to go to Northamptonshire for the benefit of his health, and prays the earl’s favour if any prejudice should arise against him for his absence.
  In August 1608, the King wrote to Lord Stanhope reproving him for negligence in allowing spoil of game near the house at Eltham, of which he had the charge, and exhorting him to greater vigilance, and to proclaim the execution of the laws with all severity against the offenders.
  August 30, 1608. Lord Stanhope wrote to the Earl of Salisbury from Eltham, with thanks for the view of occurrences in the Low Countries, and states that he is ready for service when commanded.
  August 31. Another letter from Eltham soliciting licence for his nephew, son of Sir Edward Stanhope of York, to travel.
  In this year he appears to have had some transactions with Sir Thomas Holcroft respecting, most probably, a mortgage on the lands of the latter, to which refer the two letters in Mr. Almack’s collection, printed at the end of this communication (Nos. III. and IV.).
  In 1609, June 14, he was named in a Commission to raise an aid on Prince Henry being made a knight.
  In 1610, June 14, he was in a Commission for banishment of Jesuits and Seminary Priests.
  In 1616, May 31, he was named in a Commission for the rendition to the States General of Flushing, Ramakins, and Brill.
  In 1617, April 5, he was in a Commission to enlarge certain prisoners from the Gatehouse.
  In 1618, June 23, he was in a Commission for banishment of Jesuits and Seminaries.
  In 1620, April 29, he was nominated a Commissioner for Causes Ecclesiastical.
  And November 17, in the same year, he was named in the Commission for repair of St Paul’s Cathedral.
  Lord Stanhope resigned his office of Vice-Chamberlain in the 14th James I. (1617), but he retained the office of Postmaster until his death, as appears by his will, in which he styles himself Master and Comptroller-General of all his Majesty’s Posts, and one of the Lords of the Privy Council. It is dated 5th October, 1620, and he therein expressed his desire to be buried in the chancel of St. Martin’s in the Fields, because he had lived in that parish thirty years and more. He desired his wife not to display any pomp at his funeral, but only to remember the poor. He gave to the poor of St Martin’s five pounds, to the poor of Harrington five pounds, and to the poor of Eltham forty shillings. He gave to his son Sir Charles Stanhope all his furniture and household stuff in his house at Harrington, and all his armour, pistols, calivers, and instruments of war in a little chamber in his house at St Martin’s called the Armoury Chamber; and he also gave him all the plate which he brought with him from court when he was a courtier (specifying the articles); he gave to his daughter the Lady Tollemache a piece of plate, value ten pounds; and to his daughter the Lady Cholmondeley a piece of plate of like value. He gave to his wife, Margaret Lady Stanhope, his house in St Martin’s, with all the furniture therein, and all his furniture remaining in the steward’s house at Eltham, and in the house there occupied by Mr. Dyer. He also gave her, with many expressions of affection, all his plate, some of which had been called her plate, or her cupboard plate, and all his jewels, chains, and carcanets, and his best diamond ring, which he wore daily on his finger, and which had been given to him by her, and all the residue of his personal estate. And he constituted her sole executrix of his will; which she proved on the 14th April, 1621.
His lordship died March 9, 1620-1, leaving by his first wife one son, Charles, second Lord Stanhope of Harrington (who died in 1675, without issue, when this title became extinct); and by his second marriage, two daughters, Elizabeth, who married Sir Lionel Tollemache, Bart. of Helmingham, ancestor of the Earls of Dysart; and Catherine, who married Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bart. afterwards created Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells, in Ireland, and Earl of Leinster.
  By an inquisition taken after the death of John late Lord Stanhope, 29 March, 3 Charles I., it was found that he died seized of Harrington Park, Northamptonshire, the site of the late College of Stoke, in Suffolk; the manors of Rothwell and Ardingworth; the parsonage, rectory, and advowson of Rothwell, in Northamptonshire; lands in Wittlesea, Cambridgeshire; a mansion house at Charing Cross, in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex; and other lands in Harrington and elsewhere in Northamptonshire; and that he died 9th March, 1620.
  Harrington Park and manor had been acquired in the 41st Elizabeth. On the front of the house are the arms of Stanhope with three other quarterings (probably Maulovel, Longvilliers, and Lexington) as borne by Sir Michael Stanhope, his father. After the death of Charles Lord Stanhope, the Harrington estate descended to his sister, Elizabeth Lady Tollemache.
  Lord Stanhope’s house in St. Martin’s was probably where Stanhope Court formerly was, i.e. on the west side of the highway at Charing Cross, to the north of Buckingham Court, and between that and Spring Gardens.
  Lord Stanhope was buried at St Martin’s (where his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mr. Macwilliams and his wife, were buried), but I do not find mention of any monument in Strype’s Stowe, although he describes a memorial there for Mr. and Mrs. Macwilliams, with an inscription recording the alliances of their daughters.
  His widow, Margaret Lady Stanhope, died on the 7th April, 1640, at Stanhope House, Charing Cross, and was also buried in the chancel of St Martin’s church, as appears by her funeral certificate in the College of Arms.
  c In Collins’s Peerage, 1741, iii. p. 308, Sir John Stanhope is stated to have first married Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir William Knowles of Bilton in Holderness: but as this marriage is omitted in the 3rd edition of Collins, 1756, ii. 335, the editor had probably ascertained that it belonged to another John Stanhope. See Poulson’s History of Holderness, 4to. 1841, ii. 250.
  d Lysons’s Environs of London, vol. ii. p. 118. 
 
Dictionary of National Biography vol 54 pp19-20 (Sidney Lee, 1898)
  STANHOPE, JOHN, first BARON STANHOPE OF HARRINGTON (1545?-1621), born probably about 1545, was third son of Sir Michael Stanhope [q. v.] by his wife Anne, daughter of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley-Bellhouse, Essex. His father’s attainder in 1552 did not affect his estates, and John was brought up at Shelford, Nottinghamshire, where his mother’s household was noted for hospitality and piety. He is probably the John Stanhope who was returned to parliament for Marlborough on 22 April 1572, for Truro in October 1586, and for Rochester on 14 Oct. 1588; but he is confused in Foster’s ‘Alumni Oxonienses’ (1500-1714, iv. 1408) with his nephew John (1560-1611), father of Philip, first earl of Chesterfield [q. v.] On 20 June 1590 he was appointed master of the posts in succession to Thomas Randolph [q. v.] He was also a member of the council of the north and master of the posts (see Border Papers, 1595-1603, passim), and in 1596 he was appointed treasurer of the chamber and knighted. He appears to have had some influence at court, which Bacon sought to enlist in his favour (SPEDDING, Letters and Life of Bacon, ii. 50). On 16 Oct. 1597 he was elected member of parliament for Preston, and in 1600 was granted the constableship of Colchester. In the following year he was placed on a commission to ‘stay from execution all felons (except for wilful murder, rape, and burglary) and to commit them to serve in the gallies.’ On 24 Sept. he was elected knight of the shire of Nottingham. His offices were regranted him on the accession of James I, and he was one of the commissioners appointed to treat of a union between England and Scotland. On 10 March 1603-4 he was returned to parliament for Newtown, Isle of Wight, and by letters patent dated 4 May 1605 he was created Baron Stanhope of Harrington. He was made member of the council of the Virginia Company on 23 May 1609, and in 1615 was one of the privy councillors who signed the warrant for the application of torture to Edmond Peacham [q.v.] He resigned the treasurership of the chamber in 1616, and died on 9 March 1620-1.
  Stanhope was twice married: first to Joan, daughter of William Knollys, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, on 6 May 1589, to Margaret, daughter of Henry MacWilliams, one of the queen’s gentlemen pensioners. By her he had issue one son, Charles, born in 1593, who succeeded as second baron, but died without issue in 1675, when the title became extinct, and two daughters: Elizabeth, who married Sir Lionel Talmash or Tollemache, ancestor of the earls of Dysart: and Catherine, who married Robert, viscount Cholmondeley (afterwards created Earl of Leinster). The later peers of the Stanhope family descend from the first baron’s brother, Thomas.
  [Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1581-1620; Hatfield MSS. pts. iv-vi.; Winwood’s Memorials, ii. 57, 59; Collins’s Letters and Mem. of State, vols. i. and ii. passim; Off. Ret. of Members of Parl.; Lords’ and Commons’ Journals; D’Ewes’s Journals; Strype’s Works; Spedding’s Letters and Life of Bacon, vols. ii. iv. v. and vi.; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; Alexander Brown’s Genesis U.S.A.; Cornelius Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies; Peerages by Collins iii. 308-9 and G. E. C[okayne].]      A. F. P.

Death: 9 March 1620(1)

Burial: 14 March 1620(1) in St. Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, England
The burial record notes "The Right Honourable And Respected Man. Bur In Chancel At Night."

Will: dated 5 October 1620, proved by his widow on 14 April 1621, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/137/292)
In the name of God the Father God the Sonne and God the holie Ghost three persons and one God infinite equall and incomprehensible to which undivided trinity in unity be all honor and glory for ever and ever. The Fivth daye of October in the yeares of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the Grace of God of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland kinge defender of the faith That is to say of England Fraunce and Ireland the eighteen and of Scotland te fouer and Fiftie And in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand sixe hundred and Twenty I John Stanhope Baron of Harrington Master and Comptroller generall of all his Mates Post, and one of the Lords of his Mate most honorable privie Counsell beinge at this present of sounde and perfect memoroe (thanks be given to God) calling to minde the instability of this present life the certainty of the change thereof and the uncertainty of the tyme and place of the endinge thearof and remembering that ??? tyme may prevent the fitt reasonable and considerate disposing of the transitorie blessings of this world Wch God hath ??? to be left to posteritie, doe, with deliberate Consideracion nowe in the time of perfect memorie ordaine and make this my lastwill and testament renouncing and revoking hereby all former wills, and pronouncing and declaring hereby that this is it and so shall remain for ever, my true irrevocable last will and testament First therefore to God the father sonne and holie ghost I humbly willingly and faithfully yield and render upp my soule assuredly trusting that by the meritts and mercies of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I shall have life everlasting to my unspeakable joy and I appoint and desire that my bodie my be interred in the Chauncell of the parrish Church of St Martins in the Fields in the County of Midx becasue I have lived there the space of thirty years and above and as I desire no Pompe ??? with my wife to be ???, nor extraordinary Cost of my buriall but onely to remember the poore And concerning the disposition of my Wordly goods I will and bequeath as followeth first I give unto the poore people of the parrishe of St Martins aforesaid the somme of Five pounds Item I give unto the poore people of the towne of Harrington in the County of Northampton the like som of Five pounds Item I give and bequeath unto the poore people of the town of Eltham in the Countie of Kent the somme of Fortie shillings all of good and lawfull money of England to be paid severally by my Executrix and distributed by the overseers for the poore in the severally parrishes aforesaid the day after my funerall or so soone as conveniently may be Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Sr Charles Stanhope all my furniture and houshold stuff which is nowe remaining in my house at Harington in the Countie of Northampton aforesaid Item I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Sr Charles all the armour, pistolls, callivers and all other instruments for Warr which now are and remaine in my nowe dwelling house in St Martins aforesaid in one litle Chamber there called the Armoury Chamber Item I likewise give and bequeath unto my said sonne Sr Charles Stanhope all such of my plate as I did ordinarily use when I was a Courtier and brought homewith me into my Chamner in my nowe dwelling house which I think good to express by ???wise One silver Bason and Ewer plain two silver standing potts, two other silver potts, two other Ewers, two silver Candlesticks, two black ??? covered and bound wt silver three silver Bowels One silver parfuming pann, One silver salt Item I give unto my welbeloved daughter my Lady Tollemarch one piece of plate of the value of Tenn pounds or thereabouts Item I give unto my welbeloved daughter my Lady Cholmonley one piece of plate like wise of the value of Tenn pounds or thereabouts And as for my servants I desire that they may be paid their board wages which may be due unto them at my death and a month longer (if there be sufficient to discharge it) And also that litle apparrell which I shall leave behinde me may be bestowed uppon such my servants as daylie waight uppon me in my Chamber, or also the money that the apparrell shalbe prised at to be distributed among them at my wives discretion Item I give unto my servant Browne beinge a groome of my stable two of my horses which shalbe by my wife thought fittest to bestow uppon him Item as I am thrisely bound I give unto my welbeloved wife my Lady Margarett Stanhope my house wherein I nowe dwell situate in the parrishe of St Martins aforesaid And all the furniture and houshold stuffe of mine which is nowe remaining in the Stewarde house at Eltham, and also all the houshold stuff of mine which remains in the house wherein Mr Dyer dwelleth in Eltham aforesaid and in respect of the constant love and fond affection which I have ever found in my said wife I give unto her also all that little plate which I am possessed of both guilt plate or plaine silver whereof some hathe usually been called by the name of her plate, as her Cupbord plate except such plate and other thinges as are by me before in and by this my last will and Testament given and bequeathed Moreover I give and bequeath unto my welbeloved wife my best Diamond Ring which I daily weare uppon my finger which she gave unto me, And likewise I give unto my said wife all the rest of my Jewells whatsoever whether they be Chaines or Carcanette or pearles or of what kind soever they be as most due unto her selfe and also all the rest of my goods cattles, and chattles whatsoever I doe give and bequeath unto my said welbeloved wife my Ladt Margarett Stanhope whom I doe constitute nominate and appopint sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament prayinge my said wife to take uppon her the execution thereof And to the end this may appeare to be my last will and testament I have to everie sheete of paper beinge sixe in number sette my hand and seale the daye and yeare above written John Stanhope In the presence of Edm: Scarburgh John Pittman

Sources:

John Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Education: John was admitted to Gray's Inn on 23 October 1598
The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p95 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1598 Oct. 23. JOHN STANHOPE, third son of Edward Stanhope, of Gray’s (sic), Esq.

Married: Mary Hawley on 27 May 1593, in Chigwell, Essex, England
The marriage license is dated 25 May 1593.
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop of London vol 1 p207 (Joseph Lemuel Chester, 1887)
1593 May 25  John Stanhope, son of Edward Stanhope, of Gray's Inn, Esqr, & Mary Hawle, Spr, of Chigwell, co. Essex, dau. of [blank] Haule, of the City of York, Esq., decd; at Chigwell afsd.

Children: Notes:
Sir John Stanhope was of Melwood Park, Owston parish, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, inherited from his uncle, Edward Stanhope, and of Stotfold, Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, property which his wife inherited from her father.
 
John is named a third son, and inherits Smith Hall, in the will of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
Item I giue vnto John Stanhope, my third sonne, all that the hall house or mannor called Smith hall with the landes as well freehold, as coppiholde there, which I purchased with it, or had in other purchases in exchainge to me and mine heires lieng in Snaith Cowick Pollington Hensall Gowle and Balne, willing that he make his wife a Jointure of it for the terme of her naturall life, And also I giue vnto my saide sonne John, all that my lease of the Tithes of Swinfleet in the said Countie of yorke

In 1608, John inherited Melwood Park in Owston parish of the Isle of Axholme,. Lincolnshire, from his uncle and godfather Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws. Edward's will is dated 28 February 1602(3) and proved 25 March 1608 and is held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228.
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased;
...
Item, I do give unto my nephew, John Stanhope, my godson, the third son of my brother, Edward Stanhope, all those my lands commonly known by the name of Mellwood Park, lying in the Isle of Axholme, with all the lands thereunto belonging lying within the said Isle or elsewhere within the county of Lincoln which I lately bought of the right honourable the Lord Edmond Sheffield of the most noble Order of the Garter, knight, and since repurchased of the Queen’s Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, by what name or names soever they be called, as if particular mention had been made of the particular parishes wherein the said lands do lie, together with all deeds, writings, escripts, fines, leases, indentures, statutes or whatsoever to the said lands belonging, to have and to hold the said lands called by the name of Mellwood Park and other the premises unto my foresaid nephew and godson, John Stanhope, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten forever
...
Item, I give to the wife of my nephew, John Stanhope, son to Sir Edward Stanhope, and my godson, one piece of plate silver and gilt of twenty ounces;

John was knighted on 18 April 1617.
The Knights of England p162 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1617, Apr. 18. JOHN STANHOPE, of Co. Yorks. (by the King at Bishop Auckland, in Durham).

The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the First pp275-6 (John Nichols, 1828)
  On the 17th of April, the King was received by Bishop James, at his Palace of Bishop Auckland, whence on the 18th, the Earl of Buckingham wrote to the Lord Keeper Bacon, that “his Majesty, though he were a little troubled with a little pain in his back which hindered his hunting, is now, God be thanked, very well, and as merry as he ever was, and we have all held out well.”
  On the 18th, the King knighted, at Bishop’s Auckland, Sir John Stanhope, of Yorkshire3; and Sir Thomas Merry, Chief Controller; and on the 19th, before his departure, Sir Arthur Grey, of Northumberland; and Sir Marmaduke Wyvell, of Yorkshire.
  3 Also of Melwood Park in the Isle of Axholme.

John was left a bequest in the will of his aunt Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  Item, I give unto my nephews, Michael Stanhope, John Stanhope, George Stanhope and Thomas Stanhope, sons of my deceased brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, to each of them forty shillings apiece

John is also mentioned in the will of his uncle, Sir Michaell Stanhope of Sudborne, Suffolk, dated 6 November 1621, held at the National Archives PROB 11/139/119
Item I give and bequeath unto my Nephew Sr John Stanhope knight Sonne of my brother Sr Edward Stanhope late of York knight And to my Godsonne his child the Summe of twenty pounds of good money

John was a Justice of the Peace, and seems to have paid special attention to drinking on Sundays.
The Communities of the Manor of Epworth in the Seventeenth Centurye p191 (Joy Lloyd, 1998)
Alehouse tippling on the Sabbath was also a matter of considerable concern to Sir John Stanhope of Melwood Park in Owston parish, whose will of 1627 shows clear evidence of his godly outlook. He served as justice of the peace, and the Lindsey quarter session records of 1625 contain nine cases of men of the manor indicted for keeping alehouses open on the Sabbath, all tried before Sir John. One of these, that of Robert Fish of Kinnall Ferry in Owston parish, was noted by the justice of the peace as 'upon my owne veiw and sight'. Two alehouse keepers of Haxey were indicted for allowing two labourers of Melwood Park to drink on the Sabbath. These two labourers on Sir John's estate had travelled to the far end of the manor for their Sunday tippling, but not far enough to escape the notice of the magistrate. Men from Owston, Haxey and Epworth parishes were brought before the court for both keeping and frequenting alehouses. Those named as drinking in the alehouses included labourers, a number of yeomen and Richard Thornhill, a gentleman from Owston. John Whittaker of Epworth, whose wife was presented in 1623 for keeping an alehouse on Sunday and who was himself presented for taking part in the drum-beating incident, was indicted as an alehouse keeper. John Starkey, another of the drumming crowd, was one of the tipplers named at the quarter sessions. He was the son of the yeoman of the same name who was one of the past churchwardens accused in 1609 of tippling in alehouses. Another of the Sunday drinkers was Matthew Winder, presented to the church courts for teaching without a licence. It seems clear that at this time a godly discipline was attempted by some of those in authority and that it was strongly resisted by others.

South Yorkshire: the history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and county of York vol 2 p153 (Joseph Hunter, 1831)
    Stotfold.
William Hawley is named in the Œconomia Rokebeiorum, as having had by Catherine his wife, a daughter and coheir of Henry Rokeby, Mary, his only daughter and heir, whom sir John Stanhope took to wife.
  Sir John Stanhope was brother to sir Edward Stanhope, of Edlington, both influential men in these parts of the county in the reign of king James I. He had another seat at Melwood Park, in the isle of Axholme, but he probably died here, as he lies buried in the church of Hooton Paynel, where is an inscription to his memory, which has already been given. In her widowhood of thirty­-three years the wife of sir John resided here, and was buried at Hooton Jan. 24, 1660-1.
By his will, dated 11 April 1627, sir John Stan­hope appointed his feoffees in trust to receive the profits of his lands called Stotfold and Shippenes, in the parish of Hooton Paynel, and in Frickley and Clayton, to raise fortunes for his younger children, to each of whom he leaves a ring with the posy “Feare God.” 

The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme p258-60 (William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, 1839)
      HIGH MELWOOD.
  WITHIN a short distance of the Priory in the Wood was the park and residence of Darcy Stanhope, Esq. which being situated on a rising ground has obtained the appellation of High Melwood. Standing in a field above the house called Maw Hill, the spectator may see at one view the whole level of Hatfields Chase, the Yorkshire Wolds beyond the Humber, and the valley through which the Trent winds its course from Gainsbrough to that magnificent estuary.
  It appears from the Patent Rolls in the time of Edward the First, that this Park was the property of John Clifford, who was attainted, and that it was then conferred on Nicholas Ganesford. Into whose hands it passed next I have not been able to trace; but in the reign of James the First it had become the property of Sir John Stanhope, of Stotfold, in the county of York. Sir John Stanhope was the son of Sir Edward Stanhope of Edlington, near Doncaster, in the county of York. Sir Edward was one of the Queen’s Counsel in the north, a Justice of Peace, and Recorder of Doncaster. He had four sons Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimstone, Knight, Michael Stanhope, M.D. Sir John Stanhope, of Stotfold, and of Melwood Park, in the Isle of Axholme, and George Stanhope, Prebendary of York, D.D.
... The house was a large stone building, surrounded by a moat, pleasantly situated on the side of the hill, with a south-west aspect. Not a vestige of it remains. When the property came into the family of Acklom, it was disparked, and converted into an arable farm.

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p222 (William Dugdale, 1894)
SIR JOHN STANHOPE of Mellwood, in the Isle of Axholm, died in ao 1627, and of Stotfold, in the par. of Hooton Paynel, bur. at Hooton 28 Aug. 1627. M.I. Will 30 Apr., pr. 30 Sept. 1627, mar. Mary, daughter and heire of Will’m Hawley of Stotfold in co. Ebor., mar. lic. 25 May 1593, bur. at Hooton Paynel 24 Jan. 1660.

Death: 1627

Buried: 28 August 1627, in the north, or Stotfold, choir, in All Saints, Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, England
The history and antiquities of Doncaster and its vicinity pp283-4 (Edward Miller, 1804)
    HOOTON, OR HOOTON PAGNELL, PAYNELL, OR PANNELL.
  Here is only one monument, which is in the north, or Stotfold choir, with the following inscription:
    Memoriæ Sacrum Dni. Joh. Stanhop
      et Dnæ. Mariæ uxoris ejus.
Hic mortales deposuit exuvias Dni. Joh. Stanhop de Melwood Park, in insula Axholm Eques auriat. filius Dni. Edwardi ex antiqua familia Stanhoppi de Grimston, in agro Eboracensi oriundus, et cum eo jacet Dna. Maria filia et hæres Gulielmi Hawley de Stotfold, armigeri, uxor ejus charissima cui peperit 19 optime indolis liberos, ambo vixerunt fœliciter, moriebantur pie, et nunc placide quiescunt in certa spe resurrectionis sub monumento, quod Jasper Blithman de Newlathes armiger, nepos corum in gratam memoriam ultroq. consecravit Anno Dni. 1674. Morituri sequimur mortuos.
      Which may be thus rendered,
    Sacred to the memory of Lord John Stanhop,
      and Lady Mary, his wife.
Here lie deposited the mortal remains of Lord John Stanhop, of Melwood Park, in the Isle of Axholme, Knight and Bart. son of Lord Edward, of the ancient family of the Stanhopes, of Grimstone, in the county of York, and with him lies Lady Mary, daughter and heiress of Wm. Hawley, of Stotfield, Esq. his dearly beloved wife, to whom she bore nineteen children of the most amiable dispositions; they both of them lived happily, died piously, and now rest in peace, in certain hope of a resurrection, beneath this monuments which Jasper Blithman, of Newlathes, Esq. their grandson, has consecrated to them in grateful remembrance, A. D. 1674. We who are to die, must follow those who are dead.
The arms of this monument have been so often white-washed over, that they cannot be exactly made out, but the armorial ensigns of the Stanhopes are visible.

South Yorkshire: the history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and county of York vol 2 p147 (Joseph Hunter, 1831)
    Parish of Hooton Paynel.
  In the north or Stotfold quire:
... There are also the following inscriptions.
    Memoriae sacrum Dni JOHnis STANHOP
      et Dnae MARIÆ uxors ejus.
Hic mortales deposuit exuvias Dns Joes Stanhop de Melwood-park in insulâ Axholm, eques auratus, filius Dni Edwardi, ex antiquâ familiâ Stanhoppi de Grimston in agro Eboracensi oriundus. Et cum eo jacet Dona Maria, filia et haeres Gulielmi Hawley de Stotfold, Armigeri, uxor ejus charissima, cui peperit 19, optimae indolis, liberos. Ambo vixerunt fœliciter, moriebantur piè; et nunc placidè quiescunt (in certa spe beatae resurrectionis) sub hoc monumento, quod Jasper Blithman de New Lathes, armigr nepos eorum maternus, in gratam ergo eos memoriam utriusque consecravit Ano Dni l674.
   Morituri sequimur mortuos.

The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme p259 (William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, 1839)
Sir John Stanhope and his wife were buried in that part of the Church of Hooton Pagnel which is called the Stotfold Choir. Stotfold is a single house in the parish of Hooton, similar to High Melwood in the parish of Owston, a distinct lordship to itself, and one of the old gentlehommeries of England. The following inscription covers their remains.
   MEMORIÆ SACRUM DNI. JOHNES. STANHOP,
          ET DNÆ. MARIÆ UXORS. EJUS.
HIC MORTALES DEPOSUIT EXUVIAS DNS. JOES. STANHOPE, DE MELWOOD PARK, IN INSULA AXHOLME, EQUES. AURATUS, FILIUS DNI. EDWARDI EX ANTIQUA FAMILIA STANHOPI DE GRIMSTON, IN AGRO EBORACENSI ORIUNDUS. ET CUM EO JACET DONA. MARIA, FILIA ET HÆRES GULIELMI HAWBY DE STOTFOLD, ARMIGERI, UXOR EJUS CHARISSIMA, CUI PEPERIT 19 OPTIMÆ INDOLIS, LIBEROS AMBO VIXERUNT FELICITER, MORIEBANTUR PIE, ET NUNC PLACIDE QUIESCUNT IN CERTA SPE BEATÆ RESURRECTIONIS SUB HOC MONUMENTO, QUOD JASPER BLITHMAN DE NEW LATHES, ARMIGR. NEPOS EORUM MATERNUS, IN GRATAM ERGO EOS MEMORIAM UTRI USQUÆ CONSECRAVIT, ANO DMi. 1674.
    MORITURI SEQUIMUR MORITUROS.

A pair of shields carved in All Saints, Hooton Pagnell combines the arms of the Stanhope and Hawley as well as those of Blithman and Mounteney.
The Heraldry in the Churches of the West Riding of Yorkshire vol 2 p89 (James Harvey Bloom, 1892)
  1. On a tablet (two shields carved)—
  Quarterly erm. and gu. (Stanhope) imp. a fess betw. three talbots’ heads (Hawley).
  2. On a fess betw. three bears ramp. as many fleur-de-lis (Blithman) imp. a bend betw. six martlets (Mounteney).
  In M. Dni Johnis Stanhop, et Dua Mariæ uxoris ejus, filia et heres Gulielmi Hawley, de Stotfold.
  This tablet was erected by Jaspar Blithman, of New Lathes Armig. 1674.  H.D.D. II, p. 147.
  Stanhope, quarterly erm. and gu.  Hawley, gu. a fess betw. three talbots heads’ arg.  B.
  Blithman, vert. on a fess betw. three bears ramp. arg. as many fleur-de-lis of the last.  Mounteney, arg. a bend betw. six martlets gu.  B. 

Will:
The will of Sir John Stanhope of Melwood Park, Lincolnshire, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, is held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
In the Name of God Amen The thirtith daie of April in the third yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by rge grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland defender of the faith etc I Sr John Stanhope of Melwood Parke
in the Countie of Lincoln knight being sicke in body but in good and perfect memory I thanke my gratious god doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in writing in manner and forme following revoaking all fomer wills by mee made that is to saie First in all humilitie with the bended knees of my soule I commend my soule into the hands of the allmightie lord god the father of Spiritts constantly beleving and being fully persuaded that he is the god allmightie that made heaven and earth and all things therein and that he is not only the father of all his elect people in generall but that he is in particular my Father and that I am his Child by adoption and grace in Jesus Christ wch Jesus Christ I doe verilie beleeve to bee the only Sonne of that allmightie god begotten before all worlds and that of his infenite love to mankinde he gave that eternall some of love out of his bosome to take upon him the true nature of man with all his naturall properties (sinns onely excepted) and that for the ransominge of mankinde from the power of Sathan sinns, hell, and eternall death to bee partakens of the glorious inheritance of the kingdome of heaven for ever of wch number I doe verilie and constantly beleeve my selfe to bee one in particular And I doe beleeve that this Jesus Christ was that true annoynted of god both king Pontiff and Prophet, a king to Rule and Raigne over them that have hould of him by a true and saintly faith, a Prophet to teach and instruct his people, his will and ho trulie to please god and how to serve him, a Pontiff to offer upp unto his most heavenly Father upon the alter of his Crosse his body as that onely sweete smelling sacrifice above all and onely acceptable unto God his Father And I doe verilie beleeve and am fully persuaded that by his last sacrifice wherein his precious bloud was shed & was paid unto his Father a full and sufficient prize as for all his ??? soe for mee in particular and that by his obedience he fully satisfied that lawe of god for mee and all mankinde & haveing further undergone the punnishmt due to mankinde I am freely discharged from the curse of the lawe from the guilt of sinne and from the eternall punnishmt due to me for the same: and that thereby god is become my mercifull and loveing father, in that his deare sonne and my Saviour Jesus Christ and in him fully reconciled with mee And therefore I doe renounce all other waies and meanes as merritts of Saints and my owne seeming righteousnes and wholy and solye relye and depend upon that blessed powerfull and all ??? sacrifice of his death and bloudy passion as the true sole and onely meanes of my salvation for ever And this faith and assurance I verilie beleeve to be wrought in my hart by the spirit of truth wth ??? from the father who with the father and the sonne is one and onely to bee worshiped and glorified Item I comitt my body to the earth to bee buried in the parish Church where I shall departe this life being fully persuaded and stedfastly beleeving that though by body be for a tyme ??? in the bowells of the earth as the bedd of my body I meene my grave, and soe seperate for a tyme from my soule, wch soule of mine soe separated I beleeve upon the Separation shalbe rascuyed by the Angells of god into the society of gods blessed saints and Angells where all teares shalbe wyped from my eyes And that when the eternall sonne of god Jesus Christ shall come in glory to iudge both the quicke and the dead that by his allmightie power he will raise up this my vile and fraile body & change it into a glorious and immortall habitt and that my soule and body being againe ioyned togeather by his allmightie power whereby he is able to doe all things they shall neaver bee separated againe and that wth theise eyes to my endless and everlasting comforts I shall see him ??? was my Saviour to bee my Judge and that having heard that most endless and comfortable sentence pronounced unto mee amongst and togeather wth the rest of his elect children and Saints, come yee blessed Children of Father inherite the kingdom prepared for you before the beginning of the world I saie I doe verily beleive that then I amongst the rest of the blessed Saints and Children of god our Father shall attend Christ Jesus the glorious bridegrome of my soule my blessed Saviour and mercifull Judge into those blessed habitacions wch he purchased for mee by his pretious bloud and went to prepare for mee after his glorious resurrection, and where I doe beleeve my soule and body joyntly shall partake and participate and for ever enjoy such ioyes as eyes hath not seene, ears hath not heard of neither the hart of man is able to conceive thereof wch the lord god allmightie hath prepared of his infenite love and mercy in Jesus Christ for mee And the rest of his elect people: And that there I doe verelie beleeve I shall ever reaine in singing praises to the glorious Trinitie Father Sonne and holy Ghost Amen soe bee it Amen Item I give to my Eldest sonne's wife a peece of plate to the value of five pounds Item I give to Margaret Stanhope my eldest daughter in full satisfaccion of her Child's part and porcion the entyer some of fower hundred pounds when she shall accomplish her age of twentie fower yeares or bee married by the consent of her mother wheather of them shall first happen, and if it please god to call my wife from this mortal life before the said prefixed tyme, then my will is that it shalbe paid within fower moneths after my wives death to my said daughtr and that till such tyme as the said porcion shalbe paid to my said daughter my will is that my wife shall paie unto her twentie pounds yearely for her maintenance And further my will is that if my said daughter shall departe this life before shee accomplish the age of twentie fower yeares or bee married that then the said sume of fower hundred pounds allotted to her for her porcion shalbe equallie devided amongst the residue of my younger daughters then living Provided likewise that if my said daughter Margaret shall marry or contract herselfe in marriage without the consent and likeing of her mother then my will is that she shall have one hundred pounds onely for her porcion and that the other three hundred pounds allotted to her as before shalbe equallie devided amongst the residue of my youngest daughters then liveing for the increase of theire porcions Itm whereas I have a surrender of certeyne lands called Marren hall from William Copley of Sprodbrouigh in the Countie of Yorke Esquire for the paymt of three score pounds yearely for eight yeares yet to come my will is and I doe accordingly bequeath the same rents as they shall growe due during the said tearme to my well and dearely beloved wife: And my intent and meaning is that if the said rents or any of them shall not be paid according to the said surrender that then my heires or assignes shall surrender the said Copyehould lands to the use of my wife and her heires Itm whereas there hath lately by ye mutall consent of my selfe and my wife an estate beene made by Feofment to Godfrey Copley of Sprodbrough in the Countie of Yorke Esqr Godfrey Copley of Skedbrooke in ye said Countie Esqr Godfrey Bosvile of Guythwaite in the said Countie Esquire & Anthony Hamond as feoffes in trust for my younger children aswell Sonnes and Daughters for the sale of certeyne lands called Stodfould and Sheppend in the parish of Horton pannell in the countie of Yorke and the parish of Firkley and Clayton in the said Countie wch said landes are to be sould and to bee disposed for the sevall porcions of my said Sonnes & Daughters as in and by the said deeds of Feoffment maie more at lrge appear. I having an assured confidence that my dearly beloved wife wilbe a loving Mother to them, if they serve god and demeane themselves dutifully towards her, am not willing to charge her with any payment of further porcions for increase of theirs formerly allotted unto them by the said feofant in trust but leave them to her use, and as they shall deserve of her onely I give to each of them a ring of the value of twentie shillings wth this poesie Feare God Itm I give to my beloved brother Sr Edward Stanhope Knight of the holie order of the Bayth a ringe wth a dyamond in it of the value of five pounds Itm I give to my welbeloved Brother Michaell Stanhope my best blacke cloake lyned wth velvet and inbrodered about the skirt with blacke silke and purle. Itm I give to my wellbeloved brother Jior Stanhope one gould Ringe of the value of thirty shillings and he to choose his poesy and soe the rest of my Brothers to choose theire poesies. Itm I give to my welbeloved brother Thomas Stanhope one gould Ringe of the value of twentie shillings Itm I give to my eldest brother Sr Edward his wife one little hoope ringe to the value of ten shillings Itm I give to my loveing friend Mrs Elizabeth Mole one gould Ringe of the value of ten shillings Itm I give to my brother Jiors wife and to my nephew Edward Stanhope Sonne to my brother Sr Edward Stanhope and to my said nephews wife each of them a little hoope Ringe to the value of ten shillings as a remembrance of my love to them Itm I give to my Eldest Sonne a Ringe to the value of twentie shillings Itm I give to my brother in lawe Anthony Hamond a gould Ringe of the value of thirtie shillings with this poesie engraven Judge charitably Itm I give to my Sister in lawe Ursula Hamond the same of ten pounds Itm  I give to Mr Askough Preatcher of the Citty of Yorke fortie shillings Itm I give to Mr Garthwaite preatcher of Bellfrey Church in Yorke fourtie shillings Itm I give to Mr Langley Preatcher of Trewell in the Countie of Nottingham fortie shillings Itm I give to Mr Ellis Preacher of Owston in the Ile of Axholme fortie shillings Itm I give to my faithful friend Mr Charles Broxholme Preacher of Denton Chappell in Lancashire the some of five pounds Itm I give to the poore of the severall parishes of Epworth Owston and Haxey in the said Ile of Axholme the sevall somes of fortie shillings Itm I give to the poore of the parish where I shall departe this life the some of three pounds The rest of all my goods and chattells leases moneys Bonds plate houshold goods and the residue of my personall estate unbequeathed my legacies discharges I give unto my dearely beloved and faithfull wife whom I doe freely acknowledge hath beene a speciall instrument next under god to enlarge my wordlie estate and doe make her my sole and onely Executrix of this my last will and testament the success whereof I humbly comend to gods blessing Amen
Witnesses hereunto Edward Stanhope Michaell Stanhope Edward Cripling and Henry ???
 
Mrs Elizabeth Mole, mentioned in John's will above, was presumable the mother-in-law of his brother George, Elizabeth (Cheke) Molle, wife of John Molle imprisoned by the Inquisition in Rome.
 
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John Stanhope

Baptism: 17 October 1602, in Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire, England
Historical Notices of Doncaster vol 2 p7 (Charles William Hatfield, 1868)
1602—Itm. John, the sonne of Mr. John Stanhope, Esquire, was haptized Oct. 16.

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Mary (Hawley) Stanhope

Married (1st): Margaret Piers on 8 June 1626, in St Michael le Belfrey, York, Yorkshire, England

Margaret was the daughter of John Piers.

Children: Married (2nd): Ann Carville on 12 April 1638, in Holy Trinity Micklegate, York, Yorkshire, England
Paver's Marriage Licences vol 40 p118 (1909)
John Stanhope, Esq., Trinity, Micklegate, and Ann Carville, spinster, Milforth—at Trinity.8
... 8 At Trinity, 12 Apr., 1638.

Ann died before 30 April 1651, when her brothers, Francis and Robert, petitioned the Committee for Compounding on behalf of William, Michael, and Ann Stanhope, infants, for a continuation of an annuity that Ann had for life, as otherwise the children had no support (Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, &c., 1643-1660: Cases, 1643-1646 pp1034-5). In The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn vol 1 p259 Francis Carvile is listed as being of North Milford, Yorkshire. Ann was presumable related to the Mary Carvile who was one of the executors of John's mother's will dated 4 September 1658, with a codicil dated 7 September 1660 and which Mary proved on 23 November 1661.

Children: Notes:
John is the eldest son in the will of his father, Sir John Stanhope of Melwood Park, Lincolnshire, dated 30 April 1627, which is held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40. The will also leaves a bequest to John's wife, Margaret.
Item I give to my Eldest sonne's wife a peece of plate to the value of five pounds ...
Itm I give to my Eldest Sonne a Ringe to the value of twentie shillings

Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, &c., 1643-1660: Cases, 1643-1646 pp1034-5 (1890)
  JOHN STANHOPE, Womersley, Co. York, and Melwood Park, Co. Lincoln.
29 Nov. 1645. Begs to compound. The Earl of Newcastle put upon him a commission to raise a troop of horse, which he was enforced to accept, though he never put it into execution. Begs direction to the County Committee of Lincoln to certify his estate.
16 Jan. 1647. Begs dispatch of his composition
27 May. Fine at ⅒, 400l.
30 April 1651. FRANCIS and ROBERT CARVEIL, of Lincoln’s Inn, petition the Committee for Compounding on behalf of William, Michael, and Ann Stanhope, infants. John Stanhope, who married petitioners’ sister, had an annuity of 100l. out of lands in Melwood Park, payable by Dame Mary Stanhope, widow, which became sequestered for his delinquency in 1644, and for which he was unable to compound.
  By the death of their mother, Ann Stanhope, who during her life had ⅕ of the said annuity, William, Michael, and Ann Stanhope have nothing for their support. Petitioners being brothers of Ann Stanhope, deceased, beg that the fifth of the annuity may be continued, and they authorized to receive it.
30 April 1651. County Committee of Lincoln, if the contents of the petition are true, to allow a fifth.
2 July 1653. John Stanhope petitions the Council of State. Has been unable to pay his fine, which was first set at 400l., and in 1649, at 300l. Begs that as the profits of his estate have been received for 9 years, and he has had only ⅕ to support a wife and six children, he may be admitted to compound at 300l. without interest.
2 July. Referred by the Council of State to the Committee at Haberdashers’ Hall to admit him accordingly.
26 July. Fined 300l., without interest.
27 Sept. 1655. Petitions the Committee for Compounding. Was disappointed by a friend of receiving the said 300l. till Aug. 1655, and begs that it may now be received, and his sequestration discharged.

John was named as the eldest son in the will of his mother Dame Mary Stanhope, Widow of Owston, Lincolnshire, dated 4 September 1658, with a codicil dated 7 September 1660, that was proved on 23 November 1661, and is held at the National Archives PROB 11/306/329. The complicated bequest to John is conditional on him being "capable to receive the same to his owne use in respect of his delinquency" and if not, most Mary's estate flows directly to John's children and grandchildren. In addition, there is vergiage around John's legavy being dependent on his allowing access to Melwood Park to the will's excutors to retrieve items bequeathed elsewhere, perhaps indicating poor sibling relationships. The will also names two daughters of John, Elizabeth the eldest, and Anne, as well as a grandson, John.
... Inprimus I give and bequeath unto my eldest sonne John Stanhope Esquire the sume of Three score poundes to bee payd unto him within one yeare after my decease in case hee shall then be capable to receive the same to his owne use in respect of his delinquency But in case hee shall not then be capable to receive the same for his owne benefit for the reason aforesaid Then I give unto him instead thereof of a Legacy Diamond Ring of ffive pounds price in full satisfacion of his filliall parte and porcion And in that case my will and mynde is the said Three score pounds shalbe equally amongst  his Children and Childrens Children my Grandchildren and great Grandchildren Item I give unto Elizabeth Stanhope my Grandchilde the the eldest daughter of my said sonne John Stanhope the summe of Tenn pounds to be payd to her within twelve months next after my decease And to Anne Stanhope another of his daughters forty shillings And I give to my Godsonne John Stanhope Grandchile of my said sonne John Stanhope Tenn pounds to bee paid at the end of five yeares next after my decease  ... And all the rest of my wearing apparrell not yet hereby bequeathed I give and bequeath unto the Children of my Grandchilde John Stanhope my great Grandchildren and to their now mother
... In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my seale and subscribed my hand the day and yeare above written Mary Stanhope Signed sealed and subscribed in the presence of us John Pindar Antho: Allan William Thornhill Dan. Woddell Robert Jeffreson.
...
Whereas I Dame Mary Stanhope of Mellwood Parke in the parish of Owston in the Countye of Lincolne widdowe have made my last Will and Testament in writeing under my hand and seale beareing date the ffourth day of September in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred ffifty and eight And therein and thereby made Thomas Stanhope Margaret Dindley Elizabeth Blythman Godfrey Walker and Marye Carvile Executors of my said last Will and Testament And also therein and thereby have bequeathed and given many Legacyes to divers persons therein named And amongst the rest I have given unto John Stanhope Esquire my eldest sonne the sume of Three score pounds to bee payd unto him within one yeare next after my decease in case hee shalbe capable to receive the same to his owne use in respect of his delinquencye But if hee shall not then bee capable thereof to his owne benefitt for the reason aforesaid Then I did give unto him instead thereof a Legacie Diamond Ring of ffive pound price in full satisfacion of his fillial part and porcion And in that case I did give the said Three score pounds to bee equally devided amongst his Children and Childrens Children my Grandchildren and great Grandchildren Since the makeing of which my said last Will and Testament I doo now and hereby declare And it is my mynde and will that the said Legacye of Three score pounds given by my said last will unto my said sonne John Stanhope shalbe utterly voyd and of none effect And I doo hereby revoke and make voyde the same as if the same had never beene by mee given unto him his Children or Grandchildren And I doo hereby declare And my will and mynde is that if the said John Stanhope my sonne shall immediately after my decease permitt and suffer the Executors in my said last Will and Testament named To have hould occupye and enjoy the benefitt use and occupacion of the house at Mellwood wherein I now live and of the grounds ffoulds and houses there for the tyme and space of Two monethis next after my decease for removall of those goods and Chattles without the interrupcion hinderance molestation and disturbance of him the said John Stanhope or any other person or persons by from or with his consent appoyntement or Command permission or sufferance Then I doo give and bequeath unto the said John Stanhope the just and entire summe of Threescore pounds to bee pays unto him by my Executors within one yeare next after my decease But in case hee the said John Stanhope shall refuse and not permitt and suffer my said Executors to have and enjoy the said house at Mellwood the outhouses fould Feeds and grounds there Two moneths next after my decease for the removall of the said goods within doores and without and keepinge and disposall of the same without loss and damage but shall hinder and disturbe them in the peaceable enjoyment of the said houses and grounds aforesaid to their losse and damage Then I doe hereby revoke and make voyde the said gifte and legacye of Threescore pounds which I have hereby given unto him as if the same had never beene by mee given unto him And then I doe give and bequeath unto the said John Stanhope one diamond Ring of ffive pounds price and ffive shillings in money in full satisfaccion of his Childs part and porcion

The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme p259-60 (William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, 1839)
      HIGH MELWOOD.
... John Stanhope, the son of Sir John, and Darcy the grandson, seem to have resided principally at High Melwood, as they are both buried in Owston Church. John Stanhope, the son of Darcy, also resided here, and was buried in Owston Church in the twenty-ninth year of his age. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Robert Farmery of High Burnham, by whom he acquired that property; and and he left issue two daughters, Elizabeth and Isabella. Elizabeth married Mr. Richard Acklom, by which marriage High Melwood came into that family, and then into the family of Earl Spencer, who married the great-grandaughter of Mr. Acklom, and by him it was sold to the present owner, the Rev. Thomas Skipworth, of Belton. The house was a large stone building, surrounded by a moat, pleasantly situated on the side of the hill, with a south-west aspect. Not a vestige of it remains. When the property came into the family of Acklom, it was disparked, and converted into an arable farm.

Burial: 14 October 1664, in St Martin, Owston, Lincolnshire, England
John Stanhop, Esquire, is recorded as living at Mellwoodyke

Sources:

Julian (Stanhope) Hotham

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Married: John Hotham

John was the eldest son of Sir Francis Hotham, of Scorborough, Yorkshire, and Mary Hercy. He was sheriff of Yorkshire from 1584 to 1585, and a Member of Parliament, representing Scarborough in 1584 and Hedon in 1586 (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (P.W. Hasler, 1981) entry for HOTHAM, John (d.c.1609), of Scorborough, Yorks.). He married, secondly, Mary Goring and thirdly Jane Legard. John died in 1609.

The Baronetage of England vol 1 p245 (William Betham, 1801)
  19. Sir Francis Hotham of Scorbrough, Knt. who married Mary, daughter of Humphrey Hercy of Grove, in Nottinghamshire, Esq. (and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir John Digby of Kettilby, Knt. and — — his wife, daughter of Sir John Griffin, Knt.) and sister and co-heir to Sir John Hercy, Knt. her brother, by whom he had
  20. Sir John Hotham, Knt. who had three wives; 1. Julian, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford, in Nottinghamshire, Knt. by whom he had several children, who all died S. P. 2. Mary, daughter of Sir George Goring of Burton, in Sussex, Knt. by whom he had no issue; 3. Jane, daughter of Richard Lydyard (quere Legard_ of Rysome, in Holderness, Esq. by whom he had Mary, the wife of Richard Remington of Lund, in Yorkshire, Esq. Elizabeth, and Faith, who both died unmarried;    

The Hothams pp23-4 (A.M.W. Stirling, 1918)
  In 1540 there came into existence a John Hotham who was distinguished in the annals of his family for four things. First, he was the son of Sir Francis Hotham who afforded the sohtary instance for ten generations of a head of the fanuly who did not bear the name of John; secondly, he was one of the three members of his family who inherited his estate before he was seven years old; thirdly, he was the first head of his race for three hundred years on whom was not conferred the honour of knighthood; finally he attained to what in the records of that race was the unusually advanced age of sixty-nine.
  By this date, it may be remarked, knighthood had long ceased to be an obligation of military service; it had become, as now, a personal honour granted for some service to the country or to the Sovereign. A subject of Queen Elizabeth, John Hotham of the sixteenth century was not called upon to take his part in any battle on behalf of his country, for the reign of this Queen, compared with that of many of her predecessors, was a time of peace. Thus, no doubt, it happens that his portrait, with its fine, intellectual face, represents him clad in civilian attire, and bears the appearance of a scholar rather than a soldier. And thus, too, it probably befell that his sheltered life was prolonged to an age so rarely attained by his forefathers.
  Nevertheless John Hotham of Elizabethan days was a man of considerable local importance and influence—Justice of the Peace, Member of Parliament, and High Sheriff of the County. He married three times, in which he set an example followed and surpassed by his successors; and by his third wife, Jane Legard, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Legard of Rysome in Holderness, he had an heir born in 1589.
(The portrait referred to appears on page 8 of this book, and is labelled "John Hotham (1540—1609) / Father of the Governor of Hull / Portrait by Abraham Janssens" but on the portrait itself are painted the words "SR JOHN HOTHAM BT." and also inscribed "Sr John Hotham Gov of Hull", so I assess the portrait to be of Sir JOhn Hotham, the son of this John Hotham, by his third wife, Jane Legard.

Children: Notes:
The wardship of John Hotham had been purchased by Anne (Rawson) Stanhope, who then married him to her daughter, Julian. The marriage was unhappy, as illustrated in these letters from Anne and John to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, into whose service John Hotham had been placed by Lady Stanhope in his minority, and John sued for divorce from Julian.
Original Letters, Illustrative of English History 2nd series vol 2 pp321-8 (Henry Ellis, 1827)
      LETTER CLXXXIV.
The Lady Stanhope to Sir William Cecil, for his counsel to Mr. Hotham who had married her daughter, and through jealousy wished to divorce her.
      [MS. LANSDOWNE 12. art. 1. Orig.]
  RIGHT honorable, my humble dewtie premised, it may please yow to be advertised that I am at this present driven to write unto yow, as to one at whose handes, if I have not frindlie helpe, I am like in short time to bring my old dayes with sorow unto my grave; for alas how unhappie a woman am I, that having ever sins the death of Mr. Stanhope imployed my hole tyme, and that litle that God left me for the setting forwardes and advauncement of my children, should now in my elder yeres have any of them turned home to me with misery and shame. Woe be to that unluckye hower that I first delt, at the ernest desir of himselfe, to buy the wardship of that unkind gentleman my sonne (if he were worthy of the name of a sonne) Hotham. I sought his good by all meanes possible, I preferred him to your service, for the which he was so long the better, as while he remembred the vertuous education, in honest liffe and good religion, he received with yow; but sens, for theis foure yeres, he is so geven over to his owne will, as he forgetteth God, abuseth his owne body with evill company, and which is the frutes therof, hathe, of long tyme, upon a hatred conceived of my daughter his wiffe, evill intreated & in sundry sort slaundred her; and now lastlie confederat with a naughty pack which he kepeth in his house, who served her as her woman, hathe made a traine to have colour to sclaunder his saide wiffe, sent her away, and caused his servauntes to leve her at my sister Bevercotsis, as it were to the wide world; and sins seweth to be divorced from her, to the end to mary the said wicked woman. O Lord! Sir, I pray yowe, thinke what discomfort it was to me to receive her in that sort, but how muche more grief it is to my hart to heare the sundry sclaunders he hath most untrulie bruted & blasted of her, and how can I live to se him worke his tirannous will against her by the way of divorce, especiallie in Yorkshire, where he may suborne men & women to say what he listeth to serve his develishe purpose, I beseach yow Sir even for the frindship I I have ever reposed in yow, stretch forth now your helping hand to me & my daughter in this our misery, & not ours onlie, but a blott & rebuke to my hole kinred & frindes. The case how it standeth, this bearer my sonne, Edward Stanhope, shall report unto yow, as we receive it of her, & otherwise aswell by the report of servauntes as his owne; & other her bretherins knowledge of his usages hertofore, as also by good & evident presumptions, which if it be trew, Justice requireth she should not be oppressed, and thoughe I know yow are not in this case a Judge, yet how hardely the unbrideled rage of a husband that is disposed to spoile his house, & undone himselfe may be stayed by the wiffe that is left penyles to defend her cause, onles she hath the ayde of some good frindes, I trust yow will for alliaunce & frindship sake judge. For alas Sir I am not able (onles I should undoe myselfe and my children, that be yet unprovided for) to wade in defence of her cause by lawe; and besides the world is geven to condempne the woman where any sute of divorce is made; I therfore humblie beseache yow lett the auctorytie that you have had over him whilest he served yow extend thus farr, as it will please yow to call him before yow, and by your frindlie wisdome so govern his unstayednes, as if it may be, they may live together in the feare of God which with all my hart I do wishe. But if the rage of his jelous hed be such as he cannot yet content himselfe so to do, then it may please yow to order it so, that she may, having some allowaunce, live with her frindes, and I will do the part of a mother to frame her to devise by all good and godlie meanes possible to recover him to that contentacion which should be their greatest comfort. All which referring to your good government, with my most hartie comendacions to my good Lady, I humblie leve yow, being somewhat stayed with the assured hope we have of your frindlie dealinge in this behalfe. And so with my dew comendacions to my good Lady, I humblie leve you to the Almightie. Shelford this vij th of Aprill 1569.
    Your honors most humblie bound,
        ANNE STANHOPE.
  To the right honorable Sir William Cycill knight, chief Secretarie to the Quenes most excellent Majestie, & one of her Highnes most honorable Privye Councell.
      LETTER CLXXXV.
John Hotham to Sir William Cecil, requesting to be excused from appearing before him.
      [MS. LANSD. 12. art. 93. Orig.]
  MAY it pleas your Honor that wheras I have resavid your Lettre wherin your Honor willethe me to repare unto yow to be orderyd towchinge th’occasions of my wyffe. Thes may be most humblie to dessire your Honore that waye to hold me excusede. For as much as in thes affayres (your Honor not offendid) I am fullie resolvid never to order that abuse but as the Lawe will therin determyne, as ryghtlie moved therunto by the truthe of my cause, as also thorrowe the Stanhope’s eville delinge many wayes with me. At this instant I am boythe unfurnyshed of horse and mony for such a suddeyne Jorney, havinge so lyttle warnynge as Edward Stanhope haithe geven me to provid my wants; the which consideryd, I trust your Honor will taike myne absence in good part. Further it meight not all to gethere be without danger, by meane of a bound that the Stanhope’s have agenst me, in whos curtesie I nethar have nor will none affiance. I beseche your Honor in resspeckt of my bounden dewtie unto yow, nethar urge me to th’inconvenience that myne Adversaries requier, nor forget what shame by the bringinge my wyfe and me together your Honor meight heape to me your sarvante, the which I hope your Honor will not, altho the perswacions of the contrarie be never so importunate. Trewe it is I rest holye at your Honor’s comandement duringe my lyfe; but in this case onlie I humbly trust your Honor will pardone my boldnes in delinge playnly lyke myne intencion. Humbly my service remembred I wyshe yow th’increace of honor that your hart desyrethe. From Skorbrowghe the 15 of Apriļl Ao. 1570.
      Your Honor’s humble Servant at comaundement,
        JOHN HOTHAM.
  To the right honorable Sr William Cecylle knyght, Mr. of the Wards and Lyveries, Secretorie to the Quenes Majestie, and of her Heyghnes most honorable Counsell at the Court, geve thes.
      LETTER CLXXXVI.
Lady Stanhope to Sir William Cecil, to bring the business between Hotham and her daughter to a good end.
      [MS. LANSDOWNE 12. art. 76. Orig.]
  SIR, It is my very hard fortune to live to this day to have one of my daughters with reproche turned home unto me, & muche harder had it ben for her if I had not now lived, being as she was turned to the wide worlde to seke relieffe. And thoughe I thoughte yow could not be voide of many troubles, yet had I divers occasions to move me to trouble you also; to take some order betwixt her husband and her. I perceive hitherto he hathe not onlie litle regarded your favourable dealing with him in this matter, but turnes the delay alltogether to my daughters sclaunder, what with reporting sundry untruthes of her in all places where he comes, & causing the meanest that is towardes him to do the like. I trust it is all untrew that he hathe charged her with to yow, & to others, but it is manifest that many of his reportes be utterlie against trouthe. In the meane while I am greatlie burdened to kepe his wiffe who seketh the defacing of me and mine. And were it not that God dothe reveale his and his womans evill intentes against my daughter, in that he hathe had a child by her begotten as it should seme about that very time, he hathe already layed that blott of my daughter which she should hardlie ever wype of. At my sonne Edward Stanhopes deliverye to him of your honors last letters, he saide he would not come onles he might be assured not to be arrested for debt which he oweth me, which advauntage I was content to refuse, thoughe the debt hathe ben long dew, because I would not be a hinderer of your good motion, wherupon he promised to come. I pray yow therfore Sir, either make some good end therof, or if the default be in him as the delaye hathe ben hitherto to my great charge, howsoever we deale with him, yet suffer him not so muche to abuse your gentlenes. What els resteth to be done, I referr it to your wise consideracion. I am further to geve you humble thankes that upon a motion made from me by word by Edward Stanhope afore Christmas, that I mought have the graunt of my sonne Coopers sonnes wardship, if he being yet sicklie should dye, yow promised it to me; I am the glader therof for that I knowe some would seke it rather for gaine sake then meaning good education to the child. I trust the father shall live and do well, and if he do not, I hope my daughter and I shall I so deale in his education as you shall like well of the disposing of him. And yet I rest most bound unto you for the same. And so I humblie leve you to the Almightie. Thurgarton this last of Marche, 1570.
      Your honors most humble bounde kinswoman,
        ANNE STANHOPE.
  To the right honorable Sir William Cicill knight, chiefe Secretary to the Quenes most excellent Majestie, & one of her Highnes most honorable Privy Councell. 

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

Sources:

Katherine (Stanhope, Basset) Tunstall

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Joan (Staveley) Stanhope

Married (1st): William Basset about 1431

Property transactions between William Basset and Katherine's father, Richard in 1431 were likely to be related to the marriage of William and Katherine.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI 1429-1435 p163 (1933)
1431.
  Richard Stanhop knight to William Basset esquire, son and heir of Thomas Basset, and to his assigns during his life. Gift with warranty of a yearly rent of 12l., with power to distrain for arrears in the grantor’s manor of Fledburgh and all his lands in Starnthrop, Normanton, Wodecotes, ‘Estdrayton,’ Dunham and Stokun co. Notyngham late of Thomas Basset, and bond to pay 40s. in name of a pain if the same shall be forty days in arrear after any term of payment, with like power to distrain for the pain. Proviso that the said William shall deliver letters of acquittance for every payment. Dated 24 November 10 Henry VI.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 27 November. 
p164
1431.
  William Basset, son of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh, to Richard Stanhope knight, his heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of the manor and advowson of Fledburgh and of all the lands, rents and services in Fledburgh, Starnthorp, Normanton, Wodecotes, ‘Estdrayton,’ Dunham, Stokum and elsewhere in Notynghamshire and in Bernangle, Sutton and Wilmyncote co. Warrewyk, and all reversions of tenants for life or years thereto belonging which were of William Basset grandfather of the said William, or of the said Thomas his father. Witnesses: Robert Warsop parson of Fledburgh, John Wastneys, William Wilbram of Laun’, William Neville of ‘Southleverton’, John Croftes of Ragenhill. Dated Rampton, 16 December 7 Henry VI.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 27 November this year.

William was the son of Thomas Basset, of Fledborough. Nottinghamshire.

Children: Married (2nd): John Tunstall

Notes:
Katherine is left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5). The will documents that she is the sister of Thomas and Jacob Stanhope.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

Katherine is bequeathed a mare with a colt in the will of her brother, Thomas, in May 1462. John Tunstall is also bequeathed a horse.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5 (1855)
CXCVII. TESTAMENTUM THOMÆ STANHOP DEFUNCTI.
   Die Veneris proxime post festum Philippi et Jacobi Apostoli 1462. Ego Thomas Stanhop de Hoghton, armiger—sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce. Et nomine principalis lego vicario de Walesby optimum equum meum et omnia averia eidem pertinencia, prout equitare solebam. Willelmo Wilbram unam togam penulatam. Johanni Tunstall unum equum coloris le blak gray. Katerinæ sorori meæ unam equam cum pullo. Elizabethæ sorori meæ unum equum vocatum gray geldyng. Johanni filio meo unum yrne bonden wayn, et xxx bull stirkus. Johanni Stanhop armigero unum cornu garnest. Executores meos facio Elizabetham et Katerinam sorores meas, Johannem Tunstall armigerum et Johannem filium meum, Johannemque Stanhop de Rampton armigerum supervisorem. Johanni filio meo sex cocliaria argenti. Johannæ Stanhop filiæ Johannis Stanhop armigeri duas togas penulatas cum martis et menyver. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]
which roughly translates as:
197. TESTAMENT OF THOMAS STANHOP DECEASED.
Friday after the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. I Thomas Stanhope of Hoghton, esq. to be buried in the parish church of All Saints of Rampton before the cross. And by the name of the principal I bequeath to the vicar of Walesby my best horse and all the beasts that belong to him, as I am accustomed to ride. William Wilbram one lined toga. John Tunstall one horse of the color black gray. To my sister Katherine, one mare with a colt. To my sister Elizabeth one horse called gray geldyng. To my son John one yrne bonden wayn (???), and 30 bullocks. To John Stanhope, esquire, one garnest (???) horn. I make my executors my sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, John Tunstall, esquire, and John my son, and John Stanhope of Rampton, esquire, supervisor. To my son John six silver spoons. To Joan Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, esquire, two gowns lined with marten and squirrel fur. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p365 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Richard Stanhope, Knight, 10 H. 6. granted to William Basset, Esquire, son and heir of Thomas Basset, a certain yearly Rent of 12l. to be perceived out of the Mannor of Fledburgh, and his Lands in Starnethorpe, Normanton, Wꝏdcotes, Est Drayton, Dunham, and Stokhum, which lately were the said Tho. Bassets. Will. Basset, son of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh, 10 H. 6. released to Sir Richard Stanhope, Knight, and his heirs, all his right in his Mannor of Fledburgh, and Advowson of that Church, and all his Lands, Tenements, Rents, &c. in Fledburgh, Starnethorpe, Normanton, Wꝏdcotes, Est Drayton, Dunham, and Stokhum in this County, Bernangle, Sutton, and Wilmincote in Warwickshire. Katherin, the relict of William Basset of Fledburgh, demised Newhall, a member of Sutton in Warwickshire, 10 H. 6. for twenty one years. Katherin Tunstall (the sister of Richard Stanhope) who had interest here, and was dead, 17 E. 4. I suppose was that relict of William Basset the younger; and Thomas Basset, who by the Inquisition, is found to be then thirty four years old, viz. 17 E. 4. I take to be son of William the younger.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p257 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
Sir Richard Stanhope ... had two wives, first, Elizabeth (or, as others say, Joan) daughter of Robert, and sister of Ralph de Stavely, who bore him Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Joan, wife of Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley, in com’ Nott. Knt. and Catherine, wedded to William Basset, of Fledburgh in Nottinghamshire, Esq. and secondly to ——— Tonstall.

Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project: Fledborough St Gregory
William Basset, Esq. is noted as the son and heir of Thomas Basset in 1431, and he married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope. However he must have died shortly after because she is recorded as a widow in 1432 and the following year Sir Richard executed a deed declaring that after his death the manor of Fledborough and lands in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire which he had recently been given by Thomas Basset should go to his daughter for life. It is questionable whether he was entitled to make such an arrangement, but its effect was to leave Katherine in charge of the estates, which eventually descended to her son Thomas Basset in 1477-8, when he was 34.

Sources:

Margaret (Stanhope, St Lowe) Statham

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Married (1st): Giles St Lowe

Married (2nd): Henry Statham

Henry was of Morley, Derbyshire. Margaret was Henry's third wife.

Notes:
The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John de Stanhope ... by his first wife he had five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph, and a daughter Margaret, wife of Giles St Lowe; also the third wife of Henry Statham, of Morley in com’ Derb. Esq. who died April 30, 1381, as appears by an inscription on a monument in the church of that place.

Death: 30 April 1381

Burial: Morley, Derbyshire, England

Sources:

Margaret Stanhope

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Notes:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

Death: in infancy

Sources:

Mary Stanhope

Baptism: 22 April 1595, in St. Michael le Belfrey, Yorkshire, England
Mary is recorded as the "Daughter of the Right Worshipful Mr Stanhoope "one of hir Maiesties counsel hear in the northe p'tes"." Her father's occupation is recorded as Queen's Counsel in the North.

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Notes:
Mary is mentioned in the will of her uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give to my niece, Mary Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, forty pounds to be given and paid her by my executor or executors at the day of her marriage;

Mary is named in the will of her father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellors in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
Item to Marye Stanhope my daughter for her porcion or childes parte the somme of fiue hundred poundes, whereof two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide Fyve hundred poundes be paid to the saide Marie or her assignes at or vppon the feast daie of saint michaell th'archangell which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and seauen, And soe consequently the somme of two hundtreth and Fiftie poundes residue of the saide somme of fiue hundred poundes at the saide that time twelve moneth which shall be in the yeare of our Lorde god One Thowsand six hundreth and eight, And my will and pleasure is, that she shall haue allowed vnto her yerely vntill she haue receiued two hundred and fiftie poundes parcell of the saide fiue hundred poundes, the somme of twentie pounds per Annum for her private maintenance, which saide somme of twentie poundes to be paide vnto the Ladie Stanhope my wief to her use quarterly, whereof the first payment to begin at the feast of saint Martin the Bishop in winter next ensuing the date hereof ... And my Will and further desire is that my saide two daughters Marie and Fraunces maye contynue in howse with my said wife their mother to th'end she may bringe them up and educate them in the fearfe of god, as hitherto she has doen, vntill they come vnto the age of eightene yeres or be married, whether shall first happen, of whose approued and virtuous educacion of them, I make no doubte, having had soe good experience thereof, And if it shall fortune either of my saide daughters Marie and Fraunces to die before they accomplish the age of eightene yeres unmarried then I will that her porcion soe dyeng shall remaine to my younger daughter surviving

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p221 (William Dugdale, 1894)
Mary, (?) bp. at Belfreys 22 Apr. 1594

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Maud (Stanhope) Willoughby (Neville, Clifton)

Although Maud married twice more after the death of her first husband, Robert Willoughby, to Thomas Neville and Gervase Clifton, she seems to have retained the Willoughby name (as Maud Willoughby or Lady Willoughby), and she is so named in her IPM and the memorial brass under which she was buried.

Birth: about 1424
Maud is stated to be aged 30 in the IPM of her mother in December 1454

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Maud (Cromwell) Stanhope

Married (1st): Robert Willoughby before 8 January 1449

Robert (wikipedia entry) was born about 1385 (he was aged 24 at his father's IPM on 27 January 1410), the son of William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and his first wife, Lucy le Strange. He became the 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby upon his father's death on 4 December 1409. Robert married firstly, before 21 February 1421, Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, by whom he had an only daughter, Joan Willoughby, who married Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles. Joan was only a year or so younger than Robert's second wife, Maud.
Robert was a career army officer, serving England mostly in the French Wars starting in 1412. He participated in the battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415. He was made a Knight of the Garter in December 1417. Robert served almost continously in many military campaigns (detailed in the wikipedia entry) until the end of 1438. On 17 July 1439 he had licence to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and according to Harriss, may well have done so as his name does not reappear in English records until May 1443. Robert died on 25 July 1452, aged about 67, and was buried in the chantry college at Mettingham, Suffolk. Robert's will was dated 6 June 1452, but it was not proved until over 16 years after his death, on 2 November 1468.
Testamenta Vetusta vols 1-2 p275 (Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1826)
     ROBERT LORD WILLOUGHBY OF ERESBY.
  Robert Willoughby, Knight, Lord of Eresby, June 6th, 1452. My body to be buried in the Chapel of my College or Chauntry of the Blessed Virgin at Mittingham; to Eleanor Fitz-Hugh my cousin, towards her marriage . . . . . . And I appoint John Viscount Beaumont and Ralph Lord Cromwell, my executors. Proved 2d November 1468.

Married (2nd): Thomas Neville in August 1453, at Tattershall Castle, Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England

The license for this marriage was granted on 1 May 1453
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1452-1461 p64 (1910)
1453. May 1.
Westminster.
  Licence for Thomas Neville, knight, one of the sons of Richard, earl of Salisbury, and for Maud, late the wife of Robert, lord of Willughby, tenant in chief, to intermarry.     By K. etc.

Tattershall Castle: Building a History p118 (James Wright 2021)
Cromwell’s position was now parlous. He sought to create new allies with the powerful Neville family. He did this by making a substantial loan of £1800 to Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, alongside arranging the marriage of his niece and co-heiress, Maud Stanhope, to Sir Thomas Neville. The wedding took place at Tattershall Castle in August 1453, but the event was marred by the actions of Thomas Percy, Lord Egremont, who subsequently ambushed the Neville party at Heworth Moor near York. This was staged as part of a long running feud between the two families newly inflamed by the Neville’s connection to Cromwell. They were incensed that Cromwell was in possession of the manors of Burwell and Wressle - which the rebellious Percies had forfeited in 1403.

Thomas (wikipedia entry) was born about 1429, the second son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and his wife Alice Montagu. He was knighted by King Henry VI in the Tower of London on 5 January 1453. Thomas fought alongside his father and the duke of York at the battle of Blore Heath in 1459, a battle that the Yorkists won, but Thomas and his brother John were captured the next day near Tarporley, Cheshire. The brothers were attainted and imprisoned in Chester Castle, from which they were released after the battle of Northampton in June 1460 in which their brother, Richard aka Warwick the Kingmaker, was victorious. Thomas was heavily involved in the Earl of Salisbury's push back against the Duke of York's attempt to claim the throne, but when the Lacastrians, regrouping in Yorkshire, attacked Yorkist estates, Thomas joined the march out of London on 2 December 1460, arriving at Sandal Castle on 20 December. Nine days later they engaged a Lancastrian army gathered near the castle falling to a disastrous defeatat the battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460. Thomas died in combat, and his father was executed in the aftermath, and their heads were displayed above the gates of York. Thomas's remains were removed from the Micklegate Bar after the Yorkists' decisive victory at the battle of Towton three months later, and buried at the Dominican Priory in York. Along with his father, he was subsequently reinterred with his mother on her death in February 1463 in Bisham Priory.

Married (3rd): Gervase Clifton
This marriage occurred before 19 June 1463 when Maud is named as the wife of Gervase Clifton in Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #15

Gervase (wikipedia entry) was the son of Sir Gervase Clifton of Hodsock and Clifton, Nottinghamshire, and Isabel Fraunceys. He married, firstly, Isabel Herbert, the widow of William Scott of Brabourne, Kent, and daughter of Vincent Herbert (alias Finche) of Netherfield, Sussex and his wife Isabel Cralle. Gervase and Isabel had two daughters, Isabel and Joan. Isabel died circa November 1457. Gervase was a supporter of Margaret of Anjou, and the Lancastrian cause, and he took part in and was captured at the battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, and was beheaded in Tewkesbury market place along with other Lancastrian leaders on 6 May 1471.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p54 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Here was a notable Sir Gervase Clifton, of this Family, who sometimes hath been thought to be son of this Sir John Clifton; but whether he was Brother or Cousin, I cannot yet discover; he married Isabel, daughter of . . . Harbard alias Finch of Brabourn in Kent, the widow of William Scot, and was several times in the Raign H. 6. Sheriff of Kent. He was, 23 H. 6. Lieutenant of Dover Castle, under Humfry, Duke of Gloucester. The King, 29 H. 6. upon resignation of Sir Richard Vernon, made him for his good Service, Treasurer of Cales, and the Marches of the same; and the next year following, viz. 30 H. 6. committed the Temporalties of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury into his hands, upon the death of John the Archbishop. He was a Commander at several places in France; Pontois he was Captain of. After Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby, and Thomas Nevil, he was third husband to Maud, Niece and co-heir of Raph Lord Crumvel by Maud his Sister, second wife of Sir Richard Stanhope. In a pardon he had the 9 E. 4. he was stiled Gervas Clifton, Knight, late of Brabourn in the County of Kent, alias late of Clifton in the County of Nott, alias of London, alias of Eresby in County of Lincoln, but continuing his zeal to his old Masters interest, he was 10 E. 4. dispatched at Tewkesbury, and 11 E. 4. amongst the rest proclaimed Rebell and Traytor. He left issue by his first wife two daughters, Joan married to John Digges, and Isabell to John Gerningham. He bore the same Arms with this Family, as appears by his Seal.

Notes:
Two modern researchers have published and blogged excellent articles about, or including, Maud Stanhope that are well worth the read. They add great colour to Maud's life with her three husbands who all died before she was forty, followed by a long widowhood. I have excerpted some short parts, but highly recommend reading the complete articles, which contain so much more information than I have repeated here. "Rich Old Ladies Made Poor" goes into extensive detail of how Maud's wealth was made off with over the years by various claimants, but I loved this personal detail:
Rich Old Ladies Made Poor pp214-27 (Rhoda Friedrichs) published in Medieval Prosopography vol 21 (2000)
... there can be little doubt that it was her uncle Lord Cromwell who got her a place at court. Maud moved in cultivated circles; her name appears in the anagrams and acrostics of the poetry of Sir Richard Roos, who liked to hide allusions to his friends in appropriate poems. Maud’s was evidently a forceful and outspoken personality, for Roos tells us that Mercury endowed her with eloquence at birth, and that no man could withstand the arrows of her tongue.

The Remarriage of Elite Widows in the Later Middle Ages p79 (Rhoda L. Friedrichs, 2006)
A Case Study — Maud Stanhope, Lady Willoughby
... Ten months after Lord Willoughby’s death, Cromwell arranged a second marriage for his widowed niece, this time to gain allies against his political enemies. In August of 1453, Maud was married to Thomas Neville, the second son of the earl of Salisbury. This marriage lasted seven years, until Neville was killed at the Battle of Wakefield.
  It was only after this second widowhood, with her powerful uncle dead as well, that Lady Willoughby, as she still called herself, was able to make her own marriage. It flew in the face of all prudence and common sense, and was in all probability a love match.

Marriage & the Nevills: Robert, Thomas, Gervase & Maud – the director’s cut (Karen Clark, 2012)
Maud Stanhope’s life was turbulent and tumultuous to say the least. It didn’t begin that way, though. The oldest of three children born to Richard Stanhope and Maud Cromwell, she was probably destined to marry into comfortable and safe Nottingham gentry. Her father had children from a previous marriage, and her full brother Henry was set to inherit both their mother’s property and that of their uncle, Ralph Lord Cromwell. (Cromwell was a large figure in Maud’s life, both during his lifetime and after his death.) Apart from her brother, Maud had a sister Jane, who was two years younger than her. At the time of Maud’s first marriage, neither she nor Jane had much to recommend them as brides of noblemen – they preferred wives who could bring them wealth or, particularly for younger sons, titles. Maud had neither.
... Around 1448, Uncle Cromwell found Maud a husband. He was a widower of mature years with a grown up daughter of his own. On her marriage to him, Maud would gain herself a title – Lady Willougbby – but little by way of wealth. Robert Willoughby was not a rich man. He owed Cromwell money and wasn’t in a position to pay up. So the two men struck up a deal. Cromwell’s niece, Maud, would marry Lord Willoughby, with the debt written off against her dowry.
... By this time, Henry Stanhope had died, leaving Maud and Joan as Cromwell’s joint heirs. As the expected practice was for a rich man to leave one third of his property to his wife, one third to his heirs and one third for the salvation of his soul, and as Cromwell was a very rich man indeed, suddenly Maud became a much more attractive marriage prospect. ... Cromwell had troubles of his own and was in need of powerful support. Allying himself to the Nevills, and giving Maud into the hands of an energetic young man like Thomas, the earl of Salisbury’s second son, might just be the answer to both their problems. In May 1453, the marriage contract was sealed. In August, the wedding took place at Tattershall castle.
... Maud had a husband fighting on one side at Wakefield and at least an old friend on the other. Whatever grief she suffered at the news of Thomas’s death, it was shortlived. Some four months after the battle of Towton, she and Gervase were married.
  Maud didn’t attend Thomas’s funeral at Bisham in 1462. Perhaps she was neither welcome nor invited.
  She also, by her marriage to a man committed to the Lancastrian clause, forfeited her chance of gaining the Cromwell title. In 1461, it was Jane’s husband, Humphrey Bourchier, the new king’s cousin, who was summoned to parliament as Lord Cromwell.

(see also Marriage and the Nevills – Thomas Nevill and Maud Stanhope (Karen Clark, 2010), Two poems possibly written for Maud Stanhope (Karen Clark, 2012), Things you find when you’re looking for something else (Karen Clark, 2012) and Richard Welles, Lord Willoughby (Karen Clark, 2012)

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1452-1461 p275 (1910)
1456. Feb. 14.
Westminster.
  Licence for Thomas Nevyll, knight, and Maud, lady of Willughby, his wife, one of the kinswomen and heirs of Ralph, late lord of Cromwell, deceased, and for Humphrey Burghchier, esquire, and Joan his wife, sister of Maud and the other of the kinswomen and heirs of Ralph, to wit, daughters of Maud, sister of Ralph, tenant in chief on the day of his death, to enter all possessions and hereditaments in the counties of York, Lincoln, Norfolk, Northampton, Leicester, Rutland, Stafford, Huntingdon, Nottingham, Derby, Middlesex, Kent, Gloucester, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham, and elsewhere in England, whereof Ralph was seised in his demesne as of fee and in fee tail on the day of his death, in the king’s hands after his death, and to hold the same to them and the heirs of Maud and Joan, without inquisitions to be taken thereon by pretext of writs de diem clausit extremum or other mandates and without suing any livery thereof out of the king’s hands according to the course of Chancery.     By p.s. etc.
March 2.
Westminster.
  Grant in survivorship to the same Thomas and Humphrey of the offices of constable of Notyngham castle and steward and keeper of Shirewode forest, the parks of Beskewode and Clypston and the woods of Billowe, Birkelande, Rumwode, Ouselande and Fulwode, co. Nottingham, and of chamberlain of the Receipt of the Exchequer, to hold themselves or by deputies, taking the usual fees, wages, rewards and profits.     By K.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1452-1461 p572 (1910)
1460. Feb. 20.
Westminster.
  Grant to John, viscount Beaumont, of 200l. yearly from the rents of the lordships, manors and lands whereof Maud, lady Willoughby, wife of Thomas Nevill, knight, now in prison waiting the king’s grace, is dowered by the feoffment of Robert, lord Willoughby, sometime her husband, to hold to the use of Maud until she have redelivery of the said possessions, now in the king’s hands; grant also to her of all clothing and goods seised of late in the king’s name.     By p.s. etc. .

On 19 June 1463 Joan and her sister Maud and their respective husbands at the time, Humphrey Bourchier and Gervase Clifton, sold a large number of manors and other property inherited from their uncle, Ralph Cromwell, for a total of over £2000, some of the sales being made by command of the king.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #15
CP 25/1/294/74, number 15.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Lincolnshire. Northamptonshire. Rutland.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  John Gygur, master or warden of the college and almshouse of the Holy Trinity of Tateshale, and the chaplains of the same place, querents, and Humphrey Burgchier, knight, and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  The manors of Dryby, Brynkhill', Foletby, Thorp' by Wayneflete, Saltfletby, Baston', Askby Puero[rum], Wynthorp', Kynthorp', Wythcall' Souche, Wythcall', otherwise called Wyth'call' Skypwyth', Bynbroke called Northall' Maner, Clathorp', Menyngysby, Wodenderby, Moreby, Wylkesby, Conyngesby, Holtham, Crofte, Stykeney, Merton' by Tymberland', Careby, Estbytham, Castelbytham, Edenham, Byrton', Holbeche, Swynhope, Wyllughton', Bylyngay, Walcote, Helpryngham, Wrote, Screyfeld', Wodthorp', Maltby, Thuresthorp', Cherywyllyngham, Toft, Lound', Manthorp' by Wytham, Wytham, Tydde, otherwise called Tretonhall' in Tydde of the Blessed Mary, Southall' in Colby, Langton' by Hornecastre, Whythall', Deynecourt Maner in Kyrketon' in Holand', otherwise called Deynecourthall', and Burwell' and 63 messuages, 11 tofts, 2 mills, 6 dove-cots, 724 acres of land, 202 acres of meadow, 1000 acres of pasture, 360 acres of wood, 38 pounds and 13 shillings and 4 pence of rent in Dryby, Brynkhill', Foletby, Thorp' by Wayneflete, Saltfletby, Baston', Askby Puero[rum], Wynthorpe, Kynthorp', Wythcall' Souche, Wythcall', otherwise called Wythcall' Skypwyth', Bynbroke called North'all' Maner, Clathorp', Menyngisby, Wodenderby, Moreby, Wylkesby, Conyngisby, Holtham, Croft, Stykeney, Benyngton' by Boston', Merton' by Tymberland', Careby, Estbytham, Castelbytham, Edenham, Byrton', Holbeche, Swynhope, Willughton', Bylyngay, Walcote, Helpryngham, Wrote, Screyfeld', Wodthorp', Maltby, Thuresthorp', Cherywyllyngham, Toft, Lound', Manthorp' by Wytham, Wytham, Tydde of the Blessed Mary, Colby, Langton' by Hornecastre, Whythall', Kyrketon' in Holand', Burwell', Merton' by Hornecastre, Grenewyk, Sutton' in le Merssh', Thursthorp', Asfordby, Byllesby, Myntyng', Skegneys, Tateshale, Haydore and Whasshyngburgh' and also the advowsons of the churches of Tateshale, Dryby, Careby, Swynhope and Skegneys and of a chantry of 2 chaplains in the church of Dryby and of the chantry at the altar of St Giles in the church of Careby in the county of Lincoln and the manors of Eston' in Eston' by Colyweston' called Knyvetesmaner and Eston' by Stamford' and 160 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 160 acres of wood and 40 shillings of rent in Eston' by Stamford' in the county of Northampton and the manors of Tyxouer, Manton' and Kelethorp' and 2 messuages, 4 tofts, 3 dove-cots, 100 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow and 80 acres of pasture in Tyxouer, Manton' and Kelethorp' in the county of Rutland.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged the manors, tenements and advowsons to be the right of the master or warden of the college and the chaplains, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to them and their successors for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  The master or warden has given them 1000 pounds sterling.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #16
CP 25/1/294/74, number 16.
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County:  Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  Thomas Tyrell', knight, Thomas Billyng', one of the serjeants-at-law of the lord king, and Richard Illyngworth', querents, and Humphrey Burghchier, knight, lord Cromwell', and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  The manors of Boney and Staneford' sup[er] Sore and 7 messuages, 4 tofts, 1 dove-cot, 12 bovates of land, 50 acres of meadow and 30 shillings of rent in Stanton', otherwise called Staunton', sup[er] le Wolde, Hyklyng', Magna Leek', Parua Leek', Sutton' Bonyngton' and Bradmare, otherwise called Bradmere, and the advowson of the church of Stanton', otherwise called Staunton', sup[er] le Wolde in the county of Nottingham and the manor of Breydeshale called le Netherhall' and 16 messuages, 400 acres of land, 58 acres of meadow, 220 acres of pasture, 2 acres of wood and 16 shillings of rent in Breydeshale in the county of Derby.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged, to wit, the manor of Boney to be the right of Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the manors of Staneford' sup[er] Sore and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson to be the right of Richard, of which Richard, Thomas and Thomas have the manors of Boney and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Richard for ever. And besides Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud granted for themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud that the manor of Staneford' sup[er] Sore - which Joan Bertram holds for life of the inheritance of Joan, the wife of Humphrey, and Maud on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Joan Bertram ought to revert to Humphrey and Joan, his wife, and Gervase and Maud and the heirs of Joan and Maud - after the decease of Joan Bertram shall remain to Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Richard, to hold to wit, the manor of Boney of the lord king and his heirs and the manors of Staneford' sup[er] Sore and Breydeshale, the tenements and the advowson of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  Thomas, Thomas and Richard have given them 1000 marks of silver.
Note:  This agreement was made by the command of the lord king.
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/294/74 #17
CP 25/1/294/74, number 17.
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County:  Hertfordshire. Nottinghamshire. Norfolk. Northamptonshire.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 3 Edward IV [19 June 1463].
Parties:  William, bishop of Winchester, William, bishop of Ely, Thomas Tyrell', knight, Thomas Billyng', one of the serjeants-at-law of the lord king, and Richard Illyngworth', querents, and Humphrey Burgchier, knight, lord Cromwell', and Joan, his wife, one of the heirs of Ralph Cromwell', knight, late lord Cromwell', and Gervase Clyfton', knight, and Maud, his wife, the other of the heirs of the said Ralph, lord Cromwell', deforciants.
Property:  4 tofts, 1 carucate of land, 4 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood and 30 shillings of rent in Whathamstede in the county of Hertford and 14 messuages, 3 dove-cots, 6 tofts, 20 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow in Newerk' in the county of Nottingham and the manor of Gunviles in the county of Norfolk and the manor of Parua Burley and 129 acres of land and 8 and a half acres of meadow in Burley and Pillesyate in the county of Northampton.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Humphrey and Joan and Gervase and Maud have acknowledged the manors and tenements to be the right of Thomas Tyrell', as those which the same Thomas, the bishop, the bishop, Thomas Billyng' and Richard have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan and Maud to the bishop, the bishop, Thomas, Thomas and Richard and the heirs of Thomas Tyrell' for ever.
Warranty:  Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this:  The bishop, the bishop, Thomas, Thomas and Richard have given them 400 pounds sterling.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p283 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Raph Lord Crumwell, who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt, had no issue, so that his sister Matildis, whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir, she was his second wife, and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope, who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters, Joane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier, who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell, but had no issue that I have found; and Maud, first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby; secondly to Thomas Nevile; and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton; the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6.
  Gervase Clifton, Knight and Maud his wife, late wife of Robert de Willughby, 5 E. 4. granted to Anthony Wydevile Lord of Scales and of Newfells, the Mannors of Candlesby, Halem, Lamley, Snowdon, Boston, Bleseby, Gippesmere, Gourton, Dranfeild, Baleford, Nuynton, Rasyn, Lurton, Belcheford, and Tuxford, with the Rent of Deyncourt there, in the Counties of Linc. Nott. Derb. and Warw. also the Mannor of Tumby, except the great Wood called Tumby Woods, or Tumby Chase in the said County of Linc. which late were Raph Lord Crumwells, together with the Advowsons of the Churches, Chapells, and Chantrys thereto belonging.
  By an Inquisition, taken 20 January, 19 H. 6. concerning the Mannor of Hetherset in Norfolk it appears, That this Lady Willughby Maud died 30 Aug. 13 H. 7. and that Sir William Knyvet at the time of the said Inquisition aged sixty years, who was son of John, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Constantine Clifton, son of John and Elizabeth, daughter of Raph Crumwell, Knight, (great Grandfather of the said Lady Willughby) and William Fitz-William, Esquire, then aged thirteen years and above, who was son of John, son of William, son of William, son of John, son of John, son of Maud, another daughter of the said Raph Crumwell, were found Cousins and heirs of the said Maud Lady Willughby.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p257 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
 Richard Stanhope, the second son, became heir
... He married, secondly, in 12 Henry IV. Maud, daughter to Ralph Cromwell, and sister and heir to Ralph Lord Cromwell of Tattershall-castle in Lincolnshire, Treasurer of England, and by her had a son and two daughters, who by their mother were great fortunes. His son Henry Stanhope (by he) died without issue, Aug 12, in 31 Henry VI. and was buried at Lamley; so that his sisters Joan and Maud were his heirs; the first whereof was married to Humphrey Bourchier (third son to Henry the first Earl of Essex) who thereupon had summons to parliament by the title of Lord Cromwell, in 1, 2, 6, and 9 Edw. IV. but left no issue; and Maud, the other, was the wife of Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby (a great soldier and valiant commander under King Henry V. and VI. who bore the title of Earl of Vendosme in France) whom she survived, having by him a daughter Joan, married to Richard Lord Welles, who in her right was also Lord Willoughby. In 31 Hen. VI she had the King’s precept to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire for assignation of her dower. She was afterwards married to Sir Thomas Nevile, Knight (a younger son to Richard Earl of Salisbury) who lost his life in the battle of Wakefield, Dec. 31, 1460, 39 Henry VI. and had his lands and goods seized for his rebellion; yet she found so much favour, that 200l. per annum was assigned her, out of those lands that were of her own inheritance. She was, thirdly, wife of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Scots-hall, in Braxbourne, in Kent, Knt. who being taken prisoner at the battle of Tewkesbury, May 9, 1471, 11 Edw. IV. was beheaded: but she had no issue by her two last husbands.
  By her testament, bearing date July 18, 1497, 12 Hen. VII. she bequeathed her body to be buried in the church of the college of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, before the high altar, on the right hand of her uncle Ralph Lord Cromwell, under a stone beforehand provided by her, appointing, that if she should die in the parish of Tattershall, her solemn obsequies (except burial) should be done in that church. And deceasing there the same year, was buried according to her desire, with this epitaph on her tomb:
  Hic jacet nobilis Domina Matilda, nuper Domina Willughby, quondam Uxor Roberti Domini de Willughby Militis, ac Consanguinea & Hæres illustris Domini Radulphi, nuper Domini Cromwell, Militis, Fundatoris hujus Collegii; quæ obiit 30 Die Augusti Anno Dom. MCCCCXCVII, cujus Animæ propitietur Deus. Amen.

Tattershall Castle: Building a History pp176-7 (James Wright 2021)
At the time of his death Ralph Cromwell cut a rather isolated figure. ... What little family he had remaining ... were doubly incensed upon finding out the details contained within his most recent will of 1454. Cromwell had secretly switched the terms so that they only received his entailed lands – less than 40 percent of his estates which were worth just 500 marks per annum (see Chapters 6.2 and 8.3).
... The husbands of Cromwell’s heirs Maud and Joan Stanhope, Thomas Neville and Humphrey Bourchier were present at Cromwell’s funeral at Tattershall; perhaps not entirely in a state of reverential mourning as they used the opportunity to loot £2,130 19s 4 1/2 d worth of goods from the castle. Furthermore, at the end of 1457, Bourchier advanced on Wingfield Manor with an armed retinue and forcibly seized it from the earl of Shrewsbury who had recently purchased the house (see Chapter 8.4). Nearly three years later Cromwell’s executors estimated that the two Yorkists had seized a further £15,974 2s 5d in profits from 35 manors to which they were not entitled. Neville died at Towton in 1460, but it was not until 1462 that Bourchier was legally compelled to accept the terms of the will - although he continued to quibble over minor details and never returned the goods looted from the castle (Friedrichs 1990, 111-12).
  Despite the intense and lengthy wrangles over Cromwell’s property, ownership of Tattershall Castle itself passed to Joan Stanhope who retained ownership in her own right according to the terms of Cromwell’s will - which specified that it should be entailed with his own heirs. When her husband, Humphrey Bourchier, died fighting for the Yorkists at Barnet in 1471, Stanhope swiftly married Robert Ratcliffe - possibly a relative of one of Cromwell’s former feoffees John Ratcliffe (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 99-102, 114). ... By this period Tattershall was probably much reduced – a point confirmed by a letter from the lawyer John Leynton to the Master of Tattershall College, John Gygour, in which he candidly noted that the estate had been allowed to fall into decay due to a result of a lack of funds (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 102-03).
  Joan Stanhope died in 1481 and was buried under a fine brass memorial at the collegiate church (Figure 238). At this point the ownership of the castle becomes clouded. Ratcliffe outlived Joan but, as he was not a specified heir of Cromwell, he would not have been eligible to retain custodianship. Neither does the castle seem to have been inherited outright by Joan’s thrice-widowed sister Maud, whose last husband - Gervase Clifton - had died fighting for the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury. The allegiance with the Yorkist’s enemies probably precluded her from consideration and, instead, the castle seems to have become a possession of the crown by the last years of Edward IV’s reign. Richard III was definitively lord of the manor in 1484 and upon his death, at Bosworth the following year, the estate was seized by Henry VII (Curzon & Tipping 1929, 103-05, 114).

Death: 30 August 1497

18thC illustration of Memorial brass of Maud Stanhope
18th century illustration of the memorial brass of Maud (Stanhope, Willoughby, Neville) Clifton in Tattersall college, Tattershall, Lincolnshire
Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 p329 (Richard Gough 1786)
Memorial brass of Maud Stanhope
2012 photograph of the memorial brass of Maud (Stanhope, Willoighby, Neville) Clifton in Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire
photo by Jenny posted on flickr.com
Burial: Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England
Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain vol 2 part 3 pp329-30 (Richard Gough 1786)
 In the chancel at Tateshale is another slab, with a brass figure of a lady, under a triple canopy within a rich arch, and under her this inscription,
  Hic jacet Nobilis d’na Matilda nuper d’na Willughby quondam uxor Rob’ti d’ni de Willughby militis, ac consanguinea et heres illustris d’ni Radulphi nup’ d’ni Cromwell militis fundatoris hujus collegii ac Specialis benfactrix ejusd’m collegii que obiit 30 die Aug. Anno Domini millimo CCCCLXXXXUJJ. Cujus anime p’picietur om’ps deus. Amen
On the pillars of the arch eight figures of saints, with inscriptions:
  Ste. Thoma Cantuar.
  Ste. Christopher
  Ste. J’hes Evang, with cup and snake.
  Ste. M.chael, weighing the devil against a naked penitent or soul.
  Sancta Anna, with her daughter.
  Sancta Helena, with the cross.
  Sancta Sytha, with bible and keys.
  Sancta Elizabet, with St. John and the Lamb.
  On the top of the centre pediment the Virgin sitting crowned holding the child in her right hand and a sceptre in her left,
  Arms at the upper corners: A bend and chief. Cromwell, quartering Tateshal.
    Quarterly, 1. 4.   2. 3. a spread eagle, quartering a lion rampant, impaling the lion rampant; quartering Tateshal.
    Quarterly, 1. a bend between six cross crosslets; the antient coat of Stanhope.
          2. Cromwell.
          3. Tateshal.
          4. blank.
  A cross ingrailed quartering a cross moline impaling Stanhope.
  Cromwell quartering Tateshale impaling Stanhope.
  A lion rampant impaling Cromwell quartering Tateshale.
  Of these remained, when I first visited Tateshale, 1762, the first and the baron side of the second.
  This lady was daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, and younger sister of Jane before mentioned, p. 267. cousin and coheir to Ralph lord Cromwell, and married to Robert lord Willoughby, who was a distinguished commander in the wars of Henry V. and VI. in France, and of Cardinal Beaufort in Bohemia; and having been summoned to Parliament from 12 Henry IV. to 29 Henry VI. died 30 Henrv VI. leaving one daughter Joan, married to Sir Richard Willis, knt. His wife Maud remarried to Sir Thomas Neville, younger son of Richard earl of Salisbury, and on his imprisonment and the seizure of his estate for rebellion 38 Henry VI. had an affignment of £. 200. out of those which were her own dowry. By her will, dated July 18, 1497, 12 Henry VII. she bequeathed her body to be buried in the church of the college of Tateshale, before the high altar, on the right hand of her uncle Ralph lord Cromwell, under a stone there ready provided by her for the same, appointing, that if she should die in the parish of Tateshale her solemn obsequies, except burial, should be done in that church.

Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society vol 17 part 5 pp443-5 (2007)
Patterns of Patronage: Brasses to the Cromwell-Bourchier Kinship Group
  by SALLY BADHAM
... Brass to Maud, Lady Stanhope
With the last brass commissioned from the London D workshop by this kinship group, we move back to Tattershall, for the brass in question commemorates Maud Stanhope, the elder niece of Ralph, Baron Cromwell and, together with her sister Joan, his co-heiress (Fig. 15). She was a woman of immense wealth and high position, but her life was marred by tragedy. She was thrice widowed, twice as a result of the troubled times in which she lived. Her second husband, Sir Thomas Neville, died at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and her last husband, Sir Gervase Clifton, was a casualty of the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. This last blow was followed closely by the attainting and beheading of Lord Welles, the husband of her only child Joan. Maud evidently spent much of her widowhood supporting the completion of her uncle’s collegiate foundation at Tattershall. Her testamentary bequest to the College of three lucrative manors in return for her obit and daily Masses for herself, her husbands, parents, sister and uncle led to her being named as a co-founder of the College.
  An examination of the inscription on Maud’s brass shows that her date of death in 1497 was filled in, so the brass was evidently made in her own lifetime. This is confirmed by her will, made in 1487, in which she requested burial in Tattershall church before the high altar on the right hand of her uncle, Ralph, Lord Cromwell ‘under a stone ready provided by her’. She thus ensured she was buried in a position of honour and was commemorated by a brass designed to her own specification, which gives a clear indication of how she wanted to be remembered. She is shown garbed as a widow and was surrounded by shields which proclaimed her distinguished descent and the three eminent families into which she married. The inscription gives more evidence of her self-image and shows that she valued most highly her first marriage alliance. It names her as ‘the noble lady Matilda, the late Lady Willoughby, being the wife of Robert, Lord Willoughby, knight, and a relation and heiress of the famous Ralph, late Lord Cromwell, knight, founder of this College; she was a particular benefactor of the College’.41
  41 The full inscription reads: Hic iacet Nobilis domina Matilda nuper domina Willughby quondam uxor Roberti domini de Willughby militis ac consanguinea et heres illustris domini Radulphi nuper domini Cromwell militis fundatoris huius collogij [sic] ac Specialis benefactrix eiusdem collegij que obijt xxx° die augusti Anno Domini Millesimo CCCC° Lxxxxvij° Cuius Anime propicietur omnipotens Deus Amen. (Here lies the noble lady Matilda, the late Lady Willoughby, being the wife of Robert, Lord Willoughby, knight, and a relation and heiress of the famous Ralph, late Lord Cromwell, knight, founder of this College; she was a particular benefactor of the college, and died on the 30th of August A.D. 1497; on whose soul may God Almighty have mercy Amen.)

There was also a window created for Maud in the church at Tuxfrd.
Lincolnshire Church Notes Made by Gervase Holles, A. D. 1634 to A. D. 1642 p96 (R. E. G. Cole, 1911)
Tuxford, Notts.
  In Fenestra opposita:—
Crumwell Quarterly G. a crosse sarcely Arg . . .  Sa. a crosse engrayled Or . Willughby
          Arg. a cheife G. over all a Bend B. . . .  Crumwell
  Neare to this Escocheon in the same window the picture of a Lady, hir goune adorned with the ensignements of Beke, Ufford & Crumwell; over hir head this inscription— Orate pro anima Dñæ Matildæ uxoris Dñi Robt̃i Willughby quæ illam fenestram fieri fecit.

Will: dated 18 July 1497, proved 31 November 1497
Testamenta Vetusta vols 1-2 p433 (Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1826)
     MAUD LADY WILLOUGHBY.
Maud Lady Willoughby, July 18, 1497. My body to be buried in the Church of the College of Tattershall, in Lincolnshire, before the high altar, on the right hand of my uncle, Ralph Lord Cromwell, under a stone provided by me; and I desire that if I die in the parish of Tattershall, my solemn exequies, excepting burial, shall be done in that Church. Proved 31st November, 1497.

Probate:
The writ for the inquisition post mortem in to Maud's estate was issued on 3 November 1497, but the inquisition was only held on 20 June 1498. Another writ was issued on 11 September 1498, with that inquisition held on 3 November 1498. In addition a writ of Quœ plura (indicating that the King is informed that the tenant held other lands besides those mentioned in a previous inquisition) was issued on 27 May 1497 and that inquisition held on 11 June 1497.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII vol 2 pp18-22 (1915)
12. MAUD WILLOUGHBY, widow.
Writ 3 November, inquisition 20 June, 13 Henry VII.
  She died seised in her demesne as of fee tail, to herself and the heirs of her body issuing, of the under-mentioned manor and advowson of Crumwell, &c. by virtue of a certain gift thereof made by one Ralph Crumwell to one Ralph Crumwell, knight, and the heirs of his body issuing, by virtue of which gift the same Ralph Crumwell, knight, was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue Ralph, Elizabeth and Maud, and died, whereupon the said manor, &c. descended to the said Ralph, the son, as son and heir of the said Ralph Crumwell, knight, of his body begotten, who entered and was seised thereof in fee tail by the form of the gift aforesaid.
  She was also seised in her demesne as of fee tail, to herself and the heirs of her body issuing, of the under-mentioned land, &c. in Baseford, with the homage and service of the late Stephen Brokilstowe and his heirs, for the land &c. which they formerly held of one Ralph Crumwell, and Avice his wife, by virtue of a fine levied in the octave of Hilary, 25 Edward III, between the said Ralph Crumwell, knight, and Maud his wife, querents, and one Ralph Crumwell, and Avice his wife, deforciants, of the said land, &c. with the homage and service of the said Stephen, whereby the said Ralph and Avice granted the same inter alia to the said Ralph and Maud, and the heirs of their bodies issuing. The said land descended to Ralph the son, as above, who entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine aforesaid.
  And the same Ralph the son being thus seised of the said land, &c., and also of the said manor, &c., in fee tail, to him and the heirs of his body issuing by virtue of the gift aforesaid, had issue Ralph and Maud, and died, whereupon the said manor, &c. and land, &c. descended to the said Ralph his son, as son and heir of the said Ralph, son of Ralph and Maud, who entered and was seised thereof in fee tail by virtue of the fine and gift aforesaid. And the said Maud, daughter of Ralph, had issue Maud, named in the writ, and Joan, late the wife of Humphrey Boucher. And the said Ralph, son of Ralph, son of Ralph and Maud, died without heir of his body begotten, whereupon the said manor, &c. and land, &c. descended to the said Maud, named in the writ, and the said Joan her sister, as his cousins and heirs, viz. daughters of Maud his sister; they entered and were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine and the gift aforesaid. And afterwards the said Joan died so seised without issue of her body issuing, whereupon her purparty descended to the said Maud, named in the writ, as her sister and heir, whereby the said Maud was solely seised thereof in her demesne as of fee tail by virtue of the fine and gift aforesaid, and died so seised without issue of her body issuing.
  She died the last day but one of August last. William Knyvet, knight, and William FitzwilHam, esquire, are her next heirs, viz. the same William Knyvet, son of John, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Constantine, son of Elizabeth late the wife of John Clifton, knight, one of the daughters of the said Ralph Crumwell, knight, father of Ralph, father of Maud, her mother, and the aforesaid William Fitzwilliam, son of John, son of William, son of William, son of John, son of John, son of the said Maud, the other of the
daughters of the said Ralph Crumwell, knight, father, &c.; they are also cousins and next heirs of the said Ralph Crumwell, knight, of his body begotten, viz., the same William Knyvet, son of John, &c., as above. The said William Knyvet, knight, is aged 56 and more, and the said William Fitzwilliam 7 and more and in the king’s ward. See Nos. 13, 14, 33.
NOTTINGHAM. Manor of Crumwell with its appurtenances in Carlton next Crumwell, worth 10l., the advowson of the church of the town of Crumwell, the church being worth 10l., and a wood called ‘Suthwode’ in Wodeborough, worth 2s.; the said manor and wood are held of the bishop of Lincoln, as of the castle of Newark, in right of the bishopric, service unknown.
  Six messuages, six tofts, two carucates of land and 15s. 4d. rent, in Baseford, worth 60s.. with the homage and service of the heirs of Stephen Brokilstowe for tenements there, held of the archbishop of York, in right of his archbishopric, service unknown.
C. Series II. Vol. 12. (13.)
13. MAUD WILLUGHBY, widow.
Writ 11 September, inquisition 3 November, 13 Henry VII.
  She died seised in her demesne as of fee tail, to her and the heirs of her body issuing, of the under-mentioned land, &c. in New Bokenham, &c. parts of the manors of Wymondham and Bokenham, by virtue of a fine levied, 19 Edward II, between Joan late the wife of Robert Dryby, querent, and Gilbert de Barnak, parson of the church of Tateshall, and Johb de Geslyngham, parson of the church of Wolverton, deforciants, whereby they gave the tenements aforesaid to the said Joan for the term of her hfe, with remainder after her decease to William de Barnak and Alice his wife, and the heirs of the body of the said William and Alice issuing; by virtue of which fine the said Joan was seised thereof in her demesne as of free tenement by the form of the fine, and died, whereupon the said William and Alice entered and were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine, and had issue between them John [de] Barnak.
  She was also seised, the day she died, in her demesne as of fee tail, to her and the heirs of her body issuing, of the under-mentioned manor of Plasset, &c. by virtue of a charter of gift thereof made by Robert Tateshall to the said William de Barnak, and the heirs of his body; by virtue of which gift the said William was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue the aforesaid John de Barnak.
  And the said William de Barnak and Alice afterwards died, whereupon the said John as son and heir both of the said William and Alice and of the said William entered upon the said manor, &c. and the other premises above entailed and was seised thereof in fee tail by the form of the fine and the gift aforesaid, and had issue Maud late the wife of Ralph Cromwell, knight, and died, whereupon the said manor, &c. and the other premises descended to the same Maud as his daughter and heir. She was seised thereof accordingly in her demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine and gift, and had issue Ralph Cromwell, Elizabeth and Maud, and died, whereupon the said manor, &c. and the other premises descended to the said Ralph, as son and heir of the said Maud daughter of John. Ralph as such son and heir entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by virtue of the fine and gift aforesaid. The remainder of the descent as in No. 12, ‘Humphrey Boucher’ being described as ‘Humphrey Burghchier knight.’
  She died the last day but one of August last seised of the under-mentioned advowsons, knights’ fees, Tolboth and manor of Stowe Bedon in fee. William Knyvet, knight, aged 56 and more, and William Fitzwilliam, esquire, aged 6 and more, are her cousins and next heirs, and cousins and next heirs both of the bodies of the aforesaid William de Barnak and Alice and of the body of the same William begotten, viz. William Knyvett son of John, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Constantine, son of Elizabeth, wife of John Clyfton, one of the daughters, and William Fitzwilliam son of John, son of William, son of William, son of John, son of John, son of Maud the other of the daughters of Maud, wife of Ralph Cromwell, knight, daughter of John, son of the aforesaid William and Alice, and mother of Ralph, father of Maud, mother of the said Maud named in the writ. See Nos. 12, 14, 33.
NORFOLK. Nine messuages, 146a. ¼r. land, 5½a. meadow, 3a. pasture, 7s. ½d. rent, and a rent of two sparrow-hawks, in New Bokenham, Old Bokenham, Attilburgh and Elyngham.
  A third part of the manor of Wymondham.
  An eighth part of the manor of Bokenham.
  The above messuages, &c. and parts of manors, comprised in the fine aforesaid, are worth, together with the knights’ fees below, 30l., and are held of the king in chief by service of being the king’s butler on the day of his coronation.
  Manor of Plasset (de Plasseto) in Attilbugh and Besthorp, except the wood of Shrewode and except Robert Anketyll, bondman, and his suit and tenement, worth 6l., held of Wilham Knyvet, knight, as of the manor of Plassynghall, by service of one knight’s fee and a pair of gilt spurs at Midsummer, and by William of the king in chief by service of 1/20 of a knight’s fee.
  The advowson of the church of Congham St. Mary.
  The advowson of the churches of Stanhowe and Denton, to present in turn.
  The moiety of a knight’s fee in Darsyngham, which the prior of Bynham and Edmund Pakenham lately held.
  The moiety of ¼ of a knight’s fee in Freton which Margaret Hardegrey held.
  A knight’s fee in Besthorp, which Thomas Payne held.
  The sixth part of a knight’s fee in Shelfanger, which Edmund None, knight, and Isabel, his wife held, in her right.
  Two parts of a knight’s fee in Bricham and Bricham Toftes, which Roger Davy held.
  The moiety of a knight’s fee in Illyngton, which John Brusard and Robert Flemmyng held.
  The fourth part of a knight’s fee in Denton, which Margaret Marchall, countess of Norfolk, held.
  The fourth part of a knight’s fee in Denton, which Geoffrey Pesenhale held.
  The moiety of a knight’s fee in Darsyngham, which Maud Straunge held.
  Two parts of a fourth part into three divided of the profits of the Tolboth of Bishops Lynn (Lenn’ Episcopi), worth 3s. 4d., held of the king in chief by paying blaunch farm of the castle of Norwich (per albam firmam castri Norwic’ solvend’).
Manor of Stowe Bedon, worth 10 marks, held of the king as of the earldom of Warwick, by suit to the hundred of Weylond.
C. Series II. Vol. 12. (14.)
14. MAUD WILLUGHBY, widow.
Writ of Quœ plura, 27 May, inquisition 11 June, 13 Henry VII.
  William, bishop of Winchester, William, bishop of Ely, John Fortescue, knight, John Say, knight, Thomas Byllyng, knight, C.J.K.B., and Walter Moylle, knight, were seised of the under-mentioned manor in fee, and being so seised demised it to Robert Ratclyff, then esquire, for the term of his life, whereby the said Robert was seised of it in his demesne as of free tenement, and being so seised, the said bishop of Ely and the others died and the said William, bishop of Winchester, survived them, and was seised of the reversion aforesaid in fee, and died so seised, whereupon the reversion descended to the next heir of the said bishop, but who is such heir the jurors know not. And afterwards the said Robert Ratclyff died seised of his estate aforesaid.
  Long before the said bishops and the others had anything in the said manor, a fine was levied in the quinzaine of Michaelmas, 34 Edward I, between Wlliam de Bernak and Alice his wife, querents, and Joan late the wife of Robert de Tateshall, the elder, deforciant, of the said manor, whereby the said Joan gave it to the said William and Alice, his wife, and his issue by the said Alice, to hold of her and her heirs. The said William and Alice were seised thereof accordingly in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and died, whereupon the said manor descended to John Bernak, as their son and heir. He entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and took to wife one Joan and had issue John, William and Maud. And the said Joan died, and the said John, the father, took to wife Juliana, and they had issue between them William. And the said John Bernak, the father, died seised of the estate tail aforesaid, whereupon the said manor descended to the said John, as son and heir of the said John Bernak, the father. He entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and died without issue, whereupon the said manor descended to William son of the said John, the father, as brother and heir of the said John the son. He entered, &c., and died without issue. After whose death, Maud, daughter of the said John and Joan, both by colour that she was sister and heir of the said William, and by colour of a certain unjust inquisition after the death of the said William, brother of John, whereby it was found that the said William was seised in his demesne as of fee of the said manor, and died so seised, and that the said Maud was his sister and next heir, entered into that manor, the said William, son of John Bernak and Juhana being at that time under the age of six years. And afterwards the said William, son of John Bernak and Juliana, died, whereupon the right of the said manor descended to Robert Broughton, knight, as cousin and heir both of the said William, son of John and Juhana, and of the said John, as well as of the said William and Ahce, viz. son of John, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Mary, daughter of John, son of the said William, son of John and Juliana, son of the said William and Alice;
which Robert at the time of the death of the bishop of Winchester aforesaid was under the age of twenty-one years.
  After the death of the said Robert Ratclyff the said Maud named in the writ, by colour that she was cousin and heir of the said Maud, sister of the said William, entered into the said manor by permission of the bishop of Winchester’s next heir, and was possessed thereof and died; after whose death the said Robert Broughton, knight, as such heir as abovesaid, entered thereon, and was and is seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail, by the form of the gift, and took the issues thereof from the time of her death to the day of the taking of the inquisition.
NORFOLK. Manor of Hedersett, worth 6l. 8s., held of the king, as of the manor of Swaffham, by fealty and 38s. rent to the ward (de warda) of Rychmond, and of the hundred of Humbyard by 5½d. rent, other services unknown.
C. Series II. Vol. 12. (15.) E. Series II. File 610. (12.)
pp34-5
33. MAUD WILLOUGHBY, widow.
Writ 20 November, inquisition 28 May, 13 Henry VII.
  She died seised in fee tail to herself and the heirs of her body issuing of the under-mentioned manor of Tumby, by virtue of a gift thereof made by one Simon Dryby to Robert Dryby and Joan his wife, to them and the heirs of their bodies issuing, by virtue of which gift the said Robert and Joan were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue between them Alice, which Alice took to husband William Bernak; and the said Robert and Joan afterwards died, after whose death the manor aforesaid descended to the said Alice as their daughter and heir of their bodies begotten, whereby the said William Bernak and Alice, in her right, entered upon the said manor and were thereof seised in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue John and died; after the death of the which Alice the said manor descended to the same John, son of the said William and Alice as her heir, whereby the same John entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue Maud, which Maud took to husband Ralph Cromwell, knight; and afterwards the same John died, after whose death the manor aforesaid descended to the same Maud as his daughter and heir, whereby the said Ralph and Maud, in her right, entered and were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift, and had issue Ralph Cromwell, Elizabeth and Maud, and died, after the death of which Maud, wife of Ralph, the manor aforesaid descended to the said Ralph, son of Ralph and Maud, as her son and heir, whereby he entered and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the gift aforesaid.
  She was seised the day she died in her demesne as of fee tail, to herself and the heirs of her body issuing, of the under-mentioned manor of Kirkeby upon Bayne, with lands, &c. in Roughton, &c., by virtue of a fine levied in the quinzaine of Michaelmas, 41 Edward III, between Ralph Cromwell, knight, and Maud his wife, querents, and Ralph, parson of the church of Cromwell, Roger Mors, William Wakebrygge and John, parson of the church of Halum, deforciants, of inter alia the said manor and lands, by which fine the said Ralph and the others granted the same inter alia to the said Ralph Cromwell, knight, and Maud his wife, and the heirs of their bodies issuing, by virtue of which fine the same Ralph and Maud were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine, and had issue between them the aforesaid Ralph, Elizabeth and Maud, and died, after whose death the same descended to the said Ralph as their son and heir, whereby the said Ralph, as son and heir of the said Ralph Cromwell, knight, and Maud, entered and was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee tail by the form of the fine.
  The subsequent descent of both manors as in No. 12.
  She died the last day but one of August last, seised of the under-mentioned advowsons, knights’ fees and rent in fee. William Knyvet and William Fitzwilliam are her cousins and heirs, as in No. 12; they are also cousins and heirs of the aforesaid Robert Dryby and Joan his wife of their bodies begotten, viz. the same William Knyvet, son of John, son of Ehzabeth, daughter of Constantine, son of Elizabeth, late the wife of John Clifton, knight, one of the daughters of Maud, late the wife of Ralph Cromwell, knight, daughter of John, son of Alice, late the wife of William Bernak, knight, daughter of the aforesaid Robert Dryby and Joan; and the aforesaid William Fitzwilliam, son of John, son of William, son of William, son of John, son of John, son of Maud the other of the daughters of the said Maud, late the wife of Ralph Cromwell, knight, &c. See Nos. 12, 13, 14.
LINCOLN. Manor of Tumby, worth 4l., held of Henry de Clifford, by 1/20 of a knight’s fee, and by suit of his court at Folkingham at Michaelmas.
  Manor of Kirkeby upon Bayne, worth 5l., held of John de Willoughby, by 1/16 of a knight’s fee.
  Eight messuages, a carucate and six bovates of land, 5a. meadow, worth 20s., and 10l. rent, in Roughton, Wodehall, Wynthorp, Langeton next Thornton, Sutton next Markeby, and Maltby next Strubby, the tenure of the land, &c. unknown; the rent, worth nothing beyond the same rent, is neither held of the king nor of any other.
  The advowson of the abbey of Kirkested, and the advowson of the church of Maltby, worth nothing beyond outgoings.
  A fourth part of a knight’s fee in Marton, which John son of Alfred (Alveredi) lately held.
  A sixth part of a knight’s fee in Witham, which William de Breton lately held.
  A twelfth part of a knight’s fee in the hamlet of Oldebethorp, which John de Oreby lately held.
  A knight’s fee in Straton and Wadingworth, which William de Breton lately held.
  A fourth part of a knight’s fee in Wyspygton, which Robert de Willoughby lately held.
  Half a knight’s fee in Tumby, which Joan de Tumby lately held.
  The above fees are worth yearly in all issues 20s., but of whom the said fees and advowsons are held the jurors are wholly ignorant.
  A certain yearly rent of 20s. to be received yearly from certain tenants in Marum, worth nothing yearly beyond the said rent, neither is it held of the king nor of another.
C. Series II. Vol. 12. (34.)

A similar transcription of Maud's Nottinghamshire inquisition, with a few more details, can be found at Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp18-20 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)

Sources:

Michael Stanhope

Sir Michael Stanhope
Sir Michael Stanhope
This portrait was shown on an episode of "Who do you think you are" aired on BBC tv on 24 September 2015 and the image published on the Twitter feed of Frank Gardner 25 Sep 2015
The present location of painting is unknown/not disclosed but is likely the "anonymous three quarter length portrait of him in the possession of Mr. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley" noted in Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire vol 7 p56 (1904) described further in Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights pp26-7
photo from wikipedia
Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Adelina (Clifton) Stanhope

Married: Anne Rawson

Children: Occupation: Michael a was member of the court of Henry VIII and Edward VI, largely due to his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and uncle to Edward VI. Michael was elected a Member of Parliament, representing Nottinghamshire, in 1545 and 1547 and further details are found in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982, entry for STANHOPE, Michael (by 1508-52), of Shelford, Notts.

The wikipedia page for Michael Stanhope contains this biography:
  By 1532 he was in the service of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. By 1535 Stanhope's half sister, Anne Stanhope, had married Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the eldest brother of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII, and thus Stanhope entered the King's service.
  In October 1536 he helped to prevent the spread of the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion and was rewarded with an appointment as a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire, and the opportunity to acquire from the Crown lands in Nottinghamshire which became available following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. He purchased Shelford Priory in November 1537, leased Lenton Priory in 1539, and in 1540 purchased the manor of Shelford and other properties.
  By 1538 Stanhope held a position as an officer in the royal stables, and by 1540 was one of Henry VIII's Esquires of the Body.
  In the early 1540s Stanhope held several offices in Yorkshire, and by September 1544 had been appointed lieutenant of the garrison at Kingston upon Hull, an appointment which he likely owed to the influence of his brother-in-law, Seymour, then Earl of Hertford. His responsibilities as lieutenant, and later as governor, included the supply of provisions, men and ships for Berwick and for English campaigns on the Scottish border and into Scotland itself. In 1546 he was in conflict with the townsmen of Hull, who complained to the Privy Council of his high-handedness, while he in turn complained of their "lewd behaviour".
  Stanhope was knighted in about 1545 and was twice elected as a Member of Parliament for the prestigious county seat of Nottinghamshire, in 1545 and 1547.
  In 1547 King Edward VI acceded to the throne, and the young King's uncle and Stanhope's brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, was created Duke of Somerset and was appointed Lord Protector. Stanhope's own career reached its apex at this point. He was appointed Groom of the Stool to the new king, an appointment which effectively placed him in control of the King's privy purse, and 'was recognised as the leading figure in the royal entourage'. He was Master of the King's Harriers in July 1548, and by 1549 was Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. At about this time he purchased further former chantry lands, chiefly in Yorkshire.
  In 1549 Somerset fell from power, and on 12 October 1549 Stanhope lost his own appointments and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Notes:
Michael is mentioned in the IPM of his elder brother, Richard, held on 6 June 1528
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp162-70 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Richard Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 18 June, 20 Henry viij [1528].
Inquisition taken at Retfford, 6 June, 20 Hen. viij [1528];
... by indenture made between the said Richard Stanhope of the one part, and Humphrey Hersye of the other part, dated 16 October, 6 Henry viij [1514] it was agreed that Thomas Elton, clerk, Rector of the church of Grove, Robert Nevill, clerk, Rector of the church of Ordesall, Richard Lasseliz, gentleman, John Berege, William Roucell and Alexander Nevyle should recover to them and their heirs against the said Richard Stanhope, one close, parcel of the manor of Sowthcotom called “Sowthcotom Closse” in the parish of Donham and the said park of Egmanton before excepted, and a certain wood in Egmanton, parcel of the jointure of the said Richard and Anne his wife called “Burgrave,” to the use of the said Humphrey Hersye and his executors for a term of 7 years then next to follow in full satisfaction of £120 before paid by the said Humphrey to Richard; and after the term of 7 years to the use of the said Richard and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue to the use of Michael Stanhope, brother of the said Richard, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard, in fulfilment of which covenant the said Thomas Elton, clerk, and the others in Michaelmas Term, 6 Henry vij [1490] [“dicto anno sexto dicti nuper Regis”] by the King’s writ of entry super disseisin in le post recovered against Richard the said close, and wood by the name of 400 acres of pasture in Egmanton, Bargrave and Sowthcotom, by virtue of which recovery they entered and were seized of the premises to the use aforesaid. And afterwards Richard Stanhope died without heir male of his body lawfully begotten, and also Richard Lasselz, John Berige and William Roucell died, and Thomas Elton, Robert Nevyle and Alexander Nevyle remained seized to the use of the said Michael Stanhope and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten and in default of such issue to the use of Sanchia daughter and heir of the said Richard and her heirs for ever. Further they say that
  Michael Stanhope claims to hold for term of his life by lease of the said Richard his brother, all the lands and tenements of the said Richard in Wylloughby, Wallesbye, Boughton, Allerton and Tryswell, except one messuage in Wallesbye in the tenure of Peter Burley, and the wood in Walesby called Nycolles Grove, and 2 closes in Tryswell of which one is called Woode Close, afterwards sold to a certain Anthony Babyngton, who is now seized of it, and another called Myklholme, afterwards sold to Humphrey Nevyll, who now is seized of it.

Michael is also mentioned in the IPM of Ralph Sacheverell, held on 3 November 1539
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 p252 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Ralph Sacheverell, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 3 November, 31 Henry viij [1539].
Inquisition taken at Nottingham,18 October, 31 Henry viij [1539];
... of which said manor of Stokebardolfe the King now and then was seized in his demesne as of fee in right of his crown of England, and the same King so seized by his letters patent at Westminster 27 April, 29 Henry viij [1537], gave and granted to Michael Stanhoppe, esquire, the said manor of Stokebardolf amongst other manors, lands and tenements. To have, hold and occupy the said manor of Stokebardolf together with the advowsons, nominations and presentations, etc., etc., to the said Michael Stanhoppe and his assigns from the date of the letters patent until the end of a term of 60 years. By virtue whereof the said Michael Stanhoppe entered into the said manor and was and still is possessed thereof, with reversion to the King and his heirs.

The Loseley Manuscripts pp55-6 (Alfred J. Kempe, 1835)
         Disguisings, Masks, Interludes, Plays, &c.
Michael Stanhope to Sir Thomas Cawarden. The Lord Protector, the Duke of Somerset, desires him to cause garments to be made for six Masks, of whom the King himself will be one: they are to be for persons of the King’s stature. The jest appears to have been to keep the spectators ignorant which of the maskers was the King. Thus, in a scene of Shakspeare’s Henry VIII. the King is described as entering with twelve maskers habited like shepherds; and Wolsey says:
“There should be one among them by his person
More worthy this place than myself—to whom,
If I but knew him, with my love and duty
I would surrender it.
  Chamberlain. Such a one they all confess
There is indeed, which they would have your Grace
Find out, and he will take it.
  Wolsey. Let me see, then.
By all your good leaves, gentlemen here I’ll make
My royal choice.
  King. You have found him, Cardinal.
                           [The King unmasks.”
  See also Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey, which appears to have been known to Shakspeare, and closely followed by him in many incidents of the play.
    Gentle Mr. Cawerden,
  My Lorde Protecto’s pleaso’ is that you shall cause garments to be made for vi maskes, wherof the King’s Matie shal be be woon, and the residue of his statiore, end vi other garments of like bignes for torch bearers, wt convenient diligence, so as the same be in arredynes against Sondaye next at the uttermost, for whiche purpose his grace have comaunded me to write these my l’res to yo’ accordingly. ffrom Westm’r the vth daye of februarie.
          Your loving frende,
            MYCHAELL STANHOPE.
To my verai loving frende Sr
  Thomas Cawerden, knight.

John Stow describes the journey of the Duke of Somerset, accompanied by Michael Stanhope, from Windsor Castle where he was arrested, to the Tower of London on 14 October 1551
The Annales of England p1011 (John Stow, 1600)
  The 14. of October in the afternꝏne, the duke of Somerset was brought from Windsor, riding betwixt the earles of Southampton, and of Huntington, through Oldborne in at Newgate, and so to the tower of London, accompanied with diuers lords and gentlemen, with 300 horse: the lord maior, sir Ralph Warren, sir Iohn Gresham, master Recorder, sir William Lock, and both the sherifs, and other knights sitting on their horses against Soper lane, and all the officers with halbards, and from Holborne bridge to the tower, certaine aldermen or their deputies on horse-backe in euery streete, with a number of housholders standing with bils as he passed. There was with him committed to the tower, sir Michaell Stanhope, sir Thomas Smith, sir Iohn Thin knights, Wolfe of the priuie chamber, and Grey of Reading.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire pp147-8 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    Shelford.
  But King Henry the eighth, 24 Novemb, in the twenty ninth year of his Reign, by his Letters Patents, granted the House and Site of the Priory and Almeshouses, &c. within it, and one hundred sixty four Acres of Land, thirty of Medow, and sixty of Pasture, with the Appurtenances, to Michael Stanhope, Esquire, and Anne his wife, and the heirs Males of Michael; as he did also, 5 Febr. 31 H.8. (amongst other things) the Manor of Shelford, and the Rectoryes of the Parish Churches of Shelford, Saxendale, Gedling, Burton Joys, and North-Muskham, and all Mannors, Mess. Lands, and Tenements, &c. in Shelford, Saxendale, Newton, Brigford, Gunthorp, Lowdham, Cathorpe, Horingham, Bulcote, Gedling, Carleton, Stoke, Lemcote, Flintham, Long Collingham, Cawnton, the Town of Nott. Newarke, Burton Joys, and North-Muskham. in this County, late belonging to this Monastery of Shelford, paying 119l. per annum.
  This Michael was second son of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton, by his first wife Adelina, the daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton; his second was Elizabeth, daughter of Fulc. Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin, by whom he had a daughter named Anne, married to Edward Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of Edward the sixth, in whose cause this Sir Michael Stanhope lost his Head, but left the beginning of a fair Estate, which his son Sir Thomas, and the rest of his posterity have well increased.
... In Shelford Church upon the Tomb is for Sir Michael Stanhope, Quarterly Ermine, and Gules, quartering Mallovel, Longvillers, &c. impaling Sable a Castle Argent.
p282
    Gedling.
  The King, Feb. 5. 31 H. 8. granted to Michael Stanhope, Esquire, and Anne his wife, amongst other things, the Mannor of Shelford, with its members and Appurtenances, late belonging to the Monastery of Shelford, and likewise all the Woods called the Priors Park and Eshawe, containing one hundred and forty Acres in Gedling. And the Rectories of the Parish Churches of Shelford, Sarendale, Gedling, Burton Joys, and North Buskam. Also all Mannors, Mess. Lands, Tenements, &c. in Shelford, Sarendale, Newton, Brigford, Gunthorp, Loudham, Cathorp, Horingham, Bulcote, Gedling, Carleton, Stoke, Lamcote, Flintham, Long Colingham, Caunton, the Town of Nott. Newark, Burton Joys, and North Buskam, to the said Monastery belonging.
p428
    Walkeringham.
  King E. 6. granted to Sir Michael Stanhope, Knight, and John Bellowe, 18 August, 2 E. 6. amongst other things, certain Mess. in East Retford, and also Messuages, Lands, and Tenements, late in the Tenure of Giles Horbury, Robert Keightey, Thomas Stocom, &c. in Walkeringham, late belonging to a Chantry in the Chapel of Padham in the County of Lancaster.

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp260-3 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  I now return to Michael Stanhope (second son of Sir Edward who, by the death of his brother Richard, was the chief of the family; and having served King Henry VIII, from his tender years, obtained from him by letters patent, bearing date Jan. 28, in the 29th year of his reign, a grant of Eveshall forest in com’ Nott. Also by other letters patent in the same year, a grant of the house and scite of the monastery of Shelford in the same county, the alms-houses, &c. within it, and other lands thereto belonging, to the use of himself, Anne his wife, and their heirs-male. He had likewise, in 31 Henry VIII. a grant of the manor of Shelford, with its members, parcel of the possessions of the dissolved monastery there, with the rectories of Shelford, Gedlyng, Burton-Jorze, and North-Muskham, all in the county of Nottingham; Rouceby, and Westburgh, in com’ Lincoln; Elvaston, and Okbrook in com’ Derby. In 35 Henry VIII. he was constituted the King’s Steward of the great lordship of Holderness, and of Cottingham in com’ Ebor. by letters patent, bearing date the 25th of February. And two years after, viz. 37 Henry VIII. he was, on Trinity-Sunday at Hampton Court, knighted by the King immediately after his return from Bulloign, who also constituted him Governor of Hull. Under King Edward VI. he was chief Gentleman of the Privy-chamber; and in the first year of his reign was elected one of the Knights of Nottinghamshire to the parliament then held. In the third of Edward VI. he was appointed a Commissioner with Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Leonard Beckwith, and others, to examine the state of the guildable lands in the kingdom; but the next year, when the ruin of the Duke of Somerset was both projected and perfected (as our historians agree) by the subtle artifices of that haughty man, John Dudley Viscount Lisle (afterwards Duke of Northumberland) to make way for his own ambitious and aspiring designs, Sir Michael Stanhope was, without any reason alledged, committed prisoner to the Tower, with the Duke of Somerset, October 14, 1549, his relation to him by his wife being thought sufficient grounds of guilt; and when the Duke was released, Sir Michael was likewise set at liberty, without accusation; yet two years afterwards was again imprisoned with the Duke and his Dutchess, October 16, 1551, and nothing appeared against him, besides the testimony of one Crane; who, as Sir John Hayward, in his life of King Edward VI. relates, was a man, who, having consumed his own estate, had armed himself to any mischief; And what he did say of him, was only, that he had acquainted the Earl of Arundel (who was likewise confined) with a design of assassinating the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Northampton, and the Earl of Pembroke, at a banquet, to which they were to be invited, at the Lord Paget’s house.
  Yet on this evidence he was found guilty of conspiring the death of a Privy-counsellor, and sentenced to die (as were also three other Knights on the same account) and a warrant being signed February 25, for severing his head from his body, he was accordingly beheaded the next day, with Sir Tho. Arundel on Tower-hill, about a month after the Duke of Somerset had suffered; For, as this conspiracy is said by our historians to be a forgery, and that Somerset could not be thought to offend alone, ’twas therefore judged necessary (to prevent suspicion) to take off Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Ralph Vane, and Sir Miles Partridge; who all ended their lives with the most solemn protestations of their innocence; and Vane added, That his blood would make Northumberland’s pillow uneasy.
  This Sir Michael has a monument erected to his memory in Shelford church, by Anne his wife, daughter of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley-Belhouse in Essex, Esq. by whom she had (as the inscription imports) Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the county of Nottingham, Knt. Eleanor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in the county aforesaid, Esq. Sir Edward Stanhope, LL. D. who was one of her Majesty’s learned council in the Northern court at York; Julian married to John Hotham of Scorborough in com’ Ebor. Knt. without surviving issue; John Stanhope, Esq. one of the Gentlemen of the Privy-chamber to Q. Elizabeth; Jane, who was married to Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham, in Norfolk, ancestor by her to the present Viscount Townshend, and on March 10, 1597, after his death, to Henry Lord Berkeley, but without issue by him: besides Margaret, William and Edward, who died in their infancies. The said Lady, Anne Stanhope, lived (as is there expressed) a widow thirty-five years, in which time she brought up all her younger children in virtue and learning, whereby they were preferred to the marriages and callings before recited. In her life-time she kept continually a worshipful house, relieved the poor daily, gave good countenance and comfort to the preachers of God’s word, spent the most of the time of her latter days in prayer, and using the church where God’s word was preached. She died February 20, anno 1587 (30 Eliz.) in the faith of Christ, with hope of a joyful resurrection. Sir Michael Stanhope had another son, also Sir Michael, of Sudbury, in Suffolk, who was knighted 1 James I. and left several coheirs; of whom Bridget was married to George Fielding, Earl of Desmond, and was mother, by him, of William, Earl of Denbigh and Desmond; Elizabeth, second daughter, wedded to George Lord Berkeley, father, by her, of George Earl of Berkeley; and Jane, who was wife of Henry Lord Fitzwalter, son and heir of Robert Radclyffe Earl of Sussex, but had no issue.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights pp9-10 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  The second son of Sir Edward, SIR MICHAEL STANHOPE, having served King Henry VIII. from his tender years, obtained from him a grant of lands in 1538; and by another grant more fully in 1540 the manor of Shelford with its appendages the possessions of the dissolved monastery at that place, together with the rectories of Shelford, Gedlyng, Burton Jorze, and North Muskham, in the county of Nottingham; Rouceby and Westburgh, in the county of Lincoln; Elvaston and Okbrook in the county of Derby. In 1543, he was constituted the King’s Steward of the great lordship of Holderness and of Cottingham, in Yorkshire, he being also named Governor of Hull. Two years after he received the honour of knighthood at Hampton Court from the King, immediately after his return from Boulogne. Under King Edward VI. he was also Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and served in Parliament as one of the Knights for the county of Nottingham. But, in 1551, he was involved in the ruin of his brother-in-law, the Protector Somerset. After a mock trial (as trials were in that age) he was sentenced to die, with three other Knights, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Miles Partridge, and Sir Ralph Vane. There may be seen in Rymer’s Collection (vol. xv. p. 296) the warrant for their execution, addressed to the Bishop of Ely as Chancellor, and dated February 25. 1552. Next day, accordingly, Sir Michael Stanhope, in company with Sir Thomas Arundel, was beheaded on Tower Hill.
pp26-7
  A contemporary painting of Sir Michael Stanhope the elder (No. x. in the Line of Descent) was obtained on the Bretby dispersion by Mr. Arthur Stanhope, and from him descended to his son-in-law Mr. Evelyn J. Shirley. In 1845 I saw it at Mr. Shirley’s house in Belgrave Square, and by his kind permission employed an artist, Mr. Gooderson, to make two exact copies of it in oil-colours, the one for my father, the other for myself. This portrait is painted upon panel, and, as usual in portraits of that period, the Coat of Arms appears on one side. In this the quarterings are as follows:
  1. Coat of Stanhope (ermine and gules).
  2. Coat of Maulovel (three wolves passant).
  3. Coat of Longvillers (sable, a bend between six cross-crosslets, argent).
  4. Coat of Lexington (argent, three saltyres, sable). Above these arms appears the Stanhope crest of the Lion and Castle; ...
  In my reply to Mr. Nichols I thanked him for his explanation respecting the Motto, “which,” I added, “I think not only very ingenious but also very probable.
  It is much confirmed by the fact that, as an artist (Mr. Gooderson), who has now the portrait in his charge for the purpose of copying it, informs me, several letters, as they stood in the original painting, appear on close examination to have been more lately restored, and altered in restoring.
  Sir Michael Stanhope was a Gentleman of the King'’s Bedchamber, and as such is represented in this portrait bearing a kind of medal or badge, suspended by a blue riband. He also holds in his hand one of the newly discovered watches. I do not know that for either of these objects there would be any proper motto, but any one of a religious character seems natural and probable at the period of the Reformation.”
  I might have added to this letter that, in the portrait, the other hand of Sir Michael rests on a closed book—perhaps the Bible.

Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies and of Celebrated and Remarkable Men of the Country pp108-9 (Cornelius Brown, 1882)
  SIR MICHAEL STANHOPE was the second son of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton, constable of Sandal Castle, temp. Henry VII. He was appointed governor of Hull by Henry VIII. and was enriched by that monarch, who in the twenty-ninth year of his reign granted to him and his heirs the manor of Shelford, and very considerable property in the county which had belonged to the monastery there. Stanhope’s half sister, Anna, was married to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, who became Lord Protector, temp. Edward VI., so that Stanhope had a powerful friend at court. Having received the honour of knighthood, he was made chief gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward VI., and continued to be held in high esteem until Somerset’s troubles began. Into the details of these troubles we need not enter; they are matters of general history. Suffice it to say, that when he was constrained to resign the Protectorate through the influential conspiracy which had been formed to effect his removal, Sir Michael did not desert his relative, but remained faithful to his cause. When the Duke of Northumberland found that “Somerset, though expelled from his dignity, and even lessened in the public opinion by his spiritless conduct, still enjoyed a considerable share of popularity, he determined to ruin the man whom he regarded as the chief obstacle to the attainment of his hopes.” On the 16th October 1551, Somerset was arrested; and the next day, the Duchess and her favourites, including Sir Michael Stanhope and Sir Miles Partridge, were thrown into prison. Somerset was executed on January 22, 1552, to the great grief of the populace, many of whom rushed to the scaffold to dip their handkerchiefs in his blood. Sir Michael Stanhope, and several other of Somerset’s friends shared the same fate, great injustice having, according to Hume, been used in their prosecution.

Dictionary of National Biography vol 54 pp21-2 (Sidney Lee, 1898)
  STANHOPE, SIR MICHAEL (d. 1552), partisan of the Protector Somerset, second son of Sir Edward Stanhope (d. 1511) by his first wife, Avelina, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, was descended from an ancient Nottinghamshire family, several members of which had been knighted and had frequently represented the shire in parliament in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His father was one of the leaders of the army that vanquished Simnel’s adherents at Stoke in 1487; he also fought against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath in 1497, and by his second wife was father of Anne, duchess of Somerset [see SEYMOUR, EDWARD, first DUKE OF SOMERSET]. On the death of the elder son, Richard, without male issue, on 21 Jan. 1528-9, Michael succeeded to the family estates. Soon afterwards he entered the service of Henry VIII, and early in 1537 he was placed on the commission of the peace for Nottinghamshire. He benefited largely by the dissolution of the monasteries, his principal grants being Shelford priory, rectory, and manor and the priory of Lenton, both in Nottinghamshire (Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vols. xii. xiii. passim). On 17 Feb 1541-2 he was appointed lieutenant of Kingston-upon-Hull (TICKELL, pp. 186 sqq.), and from that date till the end of the reign he was actively employed in making arrangements for the wars on the border and various expeditions into Scotland (Hamilton Papers, vol. i. passim; Acts P. C. 1542-1517 passim). On 5 Jan. 1544-5 he was returned to parliament as knight of the shire of Nottingham. Soon after Edward VI’s accession Stanhope was knighted and appointed chief gentleman of the privy chamber and deputy to his brother-in-law, the Protector, in the governorship of the young king. On 10 Oct. 1547 he was again elected to parliament for Nottinghamshire, and he also received a grant of the keepership of Windsor park and governorship of Hull. Two years later he lost all his appointments on the Protector’s fall. and was sent to the Tower (12 Oct. 1549). On 17 Feb. 1549-50, at a thin meeting of the council with Warwick absent, his release was ordered, but it was countermanded on the following day, and he was not set at liberty until he acknowledged a debt of 3000l. to the king (22 Feb.) Early in the following year he was reappointed governor of Hull, in which capacity he came into frequent collision with the mayor and townsmen (TICKELL. pp. 214 et sqq.) On 18 May 1551 he was released from his recognisances, but on 17 Oct. following he was again sent to the Tower on a charge of conspiring against Northumberland’s life. He remained in prison until after Somerset’s execution, and on 27 Jan. 1551-2 he was tried on a charge of felony, apparently under the act passed by Northumberland’s influence in the parliament of 1549-50 (Statutes of the Realm, IV. i. 104). Stanhope was no doubt implicated in Somerset’s endeavours to supplant Northumberland, but there is no evidence that he aimed at taking the duke’s life (Baga de Secretis, pouch xx; cf. Deputy-Keeper of the Records, 4th Rep. App. ii. 230-2). He was condemned and sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was commuted, and he was beheaded on Tower Hill, 26 Feb., stoutly maintaining his innocence. An act confirming his attainder was passed on 12 April following (Lord’s Journals, i. 425). An anonymous three-quarter-length portrait of Stanhope belongs to Mr. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley.
  Stanhope’s widow, Anne, daughter of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley, Essex, was allowed to retain the priory of Shelford during life. She died on 20 Feb. 1587-8 (see Archæologica, xxxi. 212-4) and was buried Shelford church where there are monuments to her and her husband. She left, among other issue: (1) Sir Thomas Stanhope (d. 1596), father of Sir John Stanhope (1560-1611), who was father of Philip Stanhope, first earl of Chesterfield [q. v.]; (2) John, first baron Stanhope [q. v.], and two sons named Edward who are confused by Strype [see STANHOPE, SIR EDWARD, d. 1608]. From a daughter, Jane, who married Roger Townshend, were descended the viscounts Townshend.
  [Authorities quoted; Cal. State Papers, Dom.; Lit. Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club); Machyn’s Diary (Camden Soc.); Acts of the Privy Council, 1542-53; Cal. Hatfield MSS. vol. i. Strype’s Works; Holinshed’s Chron. ed. Hooker, iii. 1081; Stow’s Annals, p. 607; State Papers, Henry VIII, vols. i. v.; Off. Ret. Members of Parl.; Tytler’s Edward VI and Mary, ii. 13, 19, 44, 46-7, 50, 74; Collins’s Peerage, iii. 300 et sqq.; Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies, pp. 108-9; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. v. 516, vi. 38.]           A. F. P.

Death: 26 February 1551(2), at Tower Hill, London, England, by execution.
Michael was condemned and sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was changed, and he was instead beheaded on Tower Hill.
The New Chronicles of England and France p711 (Robert Fabyan, reprinted in 1811 from Pynton's edition of 1516)
Anno Domini. M.D.li
... In this yere, the twentie and twoo daie of Ianuary, the duke of Somerset was beheaded at Toure Hille, for felonie. And on the twentie and fiue daie of February folowyng, was hanged sir Kaufe Auane, and sir Miles Partriche; and there were beheaded sir Thomas Arundell, and sir Mighell Stanhope, for the like offence.

The warrant for Michael's execution is found in Rymer's Fœdera, vol 15.
Fœdera, conventiones, literœæ et cujuscunque generis acta publica, inter reges Angliæ vol 15 pp296-7 (Thomas Rymer, 1713)
    Simile Warrantum pro Executione contra alios.
A.D. 1552. Claus. 6. E.6. p.8. n. 28. 
EDwarde the Sixte &c. To the Reverend Father in God, our right Trusty and right Welbelovid Counseillour, Thomas Busshop of Elie our Chauncellour of England, Greting.
  We let you to understande, that Rafe Vane Miles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp Knyghts, have bene before this tyme Endighted of Felony for moving stirring and procuering of dyvers Persons for the Felonyous Taking Imprisoning and Killing of dyvers of our Privey Counseill, against the fourm of our Statutes and Laws of our Realm, and uppon the same Indightments have been at Westminster, before Sir Richard Lister Knyght Chief Justice of our Plees to be holden before Us, and other our Commissioners by our Commission in that behalf appointed, severally arrained, and therupon the said Rafe Vane Myles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp have severally pleaded Not Giltie and put themselfes to the Trial of the Country, who then and there them by several Trials Giltie of the said Felonyes, whereupon they and every of them were so arrayned, and therupon the said Sir Richard Lyster and other the said Commissioners gave Judgment that the said Rafe Vane Myles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp shuld be hanged until they dead, as by the Record and Records thereof more at large it doth and may appere, and the said Rafe Vane Miles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Mighell Stanhopp nowe remaining in our Towre of London their Bodies are at our Will and Pleasuer, and by the Actoririty of our Power Royall to be Executid in such order and fourm as We think moost convenient,
  And We mynding th’Execution of Justice and to have the manner of Execution of some of them altered and chaungid for certayne Considerations and Causes Us speciallie moving.
  We Woll and Commande you our Chauncellour, forthwith upon the sight hereof, to make out due Processe Writt and Writts, to be directid aswell to our Counstable of our said Towre of London or to his Lieutenant or Deputy there, commaunding Hym or Theym our Name that the said Counstable Lieutenante or Deputy forthwith doo bring the said Rafe Vane Myles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Michell Stanhopp to the accustomed Place without the Towre Gate, and there to delivere them to the Sheriffs of our Cittie of London, as also Prossess Writt or Writts to the said Sheriffs of our said Citrie, commaunding them by the same to receyve the Bodies of the said Rafe Vane Myles Partriche Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp of the said Constable or Lieutenante, and forthwith to cause Execution of Them and every of Them to be doon and executid in manner and forme following; That is to say, forthwith to bring the said Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp to the Scaffold uppon the Towre Hill, and the Heads of the said Thomas Arundell and Michaell Stanhopp and of either of theym then and there forthwith, uppon the said Scaffold at the Towre Hill aforesaid, to be cut and striken of and clerely severed from their Bodies, and this Execution to be uppon Friday next, any Judgement Law or Commaundyment before tyme hadde or made ordeyned or geven to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
  And also to bring the said Rafe Vane and Myles Partrich to the said Tower Hill, then and there fourthwith to be Hangid upon the Gallowes till they and either of theym be Dead according to the said Judgmentl and fail ye not hereof as you will aunswer at your Parill, and thies our Letters of Warraunte Signed with our Hand shall be your sufficient Warraunte and Discharge in that behalf.
  Yeven at our Palleis of Westminster the xxv. of February

Buried: Tower of London, London, England.
Henry Machyn states that his body and head were buried separately.
The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society p15 (1848)
  The xxvjth day of Feybruarii, the wyche was [the morrow aft]er saynt Mathuwe day, was heddyd on the Tower [hill sir] Myghell Stanhope knyght, and ser Thomas Arundell; [and in]-contenent was hangyd the seylff sam tyme sir Raff [a Vane] knyght, and ser Mylles Parterege knyght, of the galowse besyd the . . . . and after ther bodys wher putt in to dyvers nuw coffens [to be be-]red and heds in to the Towre in cases and ther bered . . cent.

Memorial to Sir Michael Stanhope in Shelford
Memorial to Sir Michael Stanhope
This slab is on the wall below the east window of the south aisle of St Peter and St Paul, Shelford, Nottinghamshire
photo by Ben Pope posted at findagrave.com
A memorial to Michael is in St Peter and St Paul, Shelford, Nottinghamshire, where his widow Anne is buried.
Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire vol 7 pp45-6 (1904)
  A black slab on the wall below the east window of the south aisle, has the following inscription in quaint letters and curious spelling:—
  “The Epitaphe of Sir Michaell Stanhope knight whilest he lyved governor of Hull under the la/te kinge of Famous memorie Henre theighte and cheife gentleman of pryvie chamber to the la/te noble and good kinge Edward the sixt. by Sir Michaell she had theis Children Sr Thom/as Stanhope of Shellford in the Countie of nottingham knight Elenor maried to thomas/ Cowper of thurgorton in the countie of nott esquier Edward Stanhope esquier one of her / magesties Counsell in the northe partes of England Iulyon maried to Iohn Hotham of / Scorborowe in the Coūtie of yorke esquier Ioh Stanhope esquier one of the gentlemen / of the pryvie chamber to our most deare Sovarigne ladie queene Elizabeth Iane ma/ryed to Sr roger towneshende of rayham in the Countie of norfolke knight Edwarde / Stanhop doctor of the civell lawe one of the masters of her magesties heigh courte of / Chancerie Michaell Stanhope esquier one of the pryvie Chamber to Queene El/yzabeth Besides margaret wyllm and edwarde who dyed in their infancie the / said ladie ann Stanhope lyvede widowe xxxv yeares in wch tyme she broug/ht up all her yonger children in vertue and learninge whereby they weare / preferred to the maridge and callinge before recyted in her lyfe tyme she kept / Contynewallie a worshipfull house releved the poore dealy gave good Coūtena/nce and conforte to the preachers of gods word spent the most tyme of her / latter dayes in prayer and usinge the church where gods word was preached / she beīge . . . . yeares old dyed the xxth of februarie 1587 the xxxth yeare of the Queenes Raigne aforsayd in the faith of Christ wth hope of a loyfull Resurrecciō.”

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Michaell Stanhope

Michael Stanhope
Effigy of Michaell Stanhope on his tomb in Sudbourne, Suffolk
photo taken in 2008 by Simon Knott posted on flickr.com
Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Education: Cambridge University where Michaell matriculated in 1561, then Gray's Inn, where he was admitted in 1568, and Oxford University, where Michaell graduated M.A. on 27 September 1592.

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p147 (John Venn, 1927)
STANHOPE, MICHAEL. Matric. pens, from TRINITY, Michs. 1561. Probably s. of Sir Michael, of Shelford, Notts. Created M.A. (Oxford) Sept. 27, 1592. Adm. at Gray’s Inn, 1568. M.P. for Castle Rising, 1584-5; for Ipswich, 1597, 1601; for Orford, 1604-11. Knighted, May 7, 1603. Of Sudbury, Suffolk. Married Elizabeth, dau. of William Reade. Brother of Edward (1560) and Edward (1563) and perhaps of John (1556). (Al. Oxon.; Collins, iii. 416.)

The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p38 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1568. MICHAEL STANHOPE.

Alumni Oxoniensis Early Series vol 4 p1409 (Joseph Foster, 1891)
Stanhope, (Sir) Michael; created M.A. 27 Sept., 1592, brother to John, lord S., of Harrington (y.s. Sir Michael, beheaded 26 Feb., 1551,) of Sudbury, a member of Gray’s Inn 1568, M.P. Castle Rising 1584-5, Ipswich 1597-8 and 1601, Orford 1604-11, knighted 7 May, 1603. See Foster’s Parliamentary Dictionary.

Anne (Reade) Stanhope
Effigy of Anne (Reade) Stanhope on her tomb in Sudbourne, Suffolk
photo taken in 2008 by Simon Knott posted on flickr.com
Married: Anne Reade on 10 January 1596(7), in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England
The Registers of St Helen's Bishopsgate p119 (ed. W. Bruce Bannerman, 1904)
    MARRIAGES.
1596. Jan. 10 Michaell Stanhope and Anne Reade

Anne was the daughter of Sir William Reade of Osterley, Middlesex, and Gertrude Paston. She died on 28 April 1616.

The Court and Times of James the First vol 1 p402 (ed. Robert Folkestone Williams, 1848)
  John Chamberlain, Esq., to Sir Dudley Carleton.
     London, April 30, 1616.  
... Sir Michael Stanhope’s lady died on Sunday, which is no ill turn for her, after her late disgrace of having a daughter, as is said, by Sir Eustace Hart, but the world talks somewhat suspiciously of her end.

Children: Occupation: Member of Parliament
Michaell was M.P. for Castle Rising in 1584-5, Ipswich in 1597 and 1601, and for Orford in 1604. He was one of five of his brothers who sat in Parliament during Elizabeth’s reign, along with John, Sir Thomas, Edward Stanhope I and Edward Stanhope II. Details of Edward's parliamentary career can be found at The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for STANHOPE, Michael (c.1549-c.1621), of Sudbourne, Suff. and The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010, entry for STANHOPE, Sir Michael (c.1545-1621), of the Barbican, London and Sudbourne, nr. Orford, Suff.; later of St. John's, Clerkenwell, Mdx.  

Notes:
Michaell was left a bequest in the will of his nephew, Thomas Cooper, was dated 24 August 1584.
North Country Wills: 1558 to 1604 p111 (1912)
To my uncle, Michaell Stanhope, my baye gueldinge and twentye poundes. ... To every of my uncles by my mother’s syde, to eche one peece of goulde of twentie shillinges, called a double sufferand.

Michaell was remembered in the will of his aunt, Anne, the Duchess of Somerset, dated 14 July 1586
The Gentleman's Magazine vol 177 p376 (Sylvanus Urban, 1845)
A Copy of the Duchess of Somerset’s Will, July 14, 1586.
...
  Item, I geve to my nephew John Stanhope the fortie powndes he oweth me.
  Item, I geve to my nephew Michael Stanhope a piller of gould with viii diamondes.

Michaell was an executor of the will of his brother-in-law, Sir Roger Townshend, dated 4 December 1587, held at the National Archives PROB 11/77/149
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
  Item, my will and desire is my men that have served me be considered according to their service, wherein I desire my wife’s discretion to be used therein because their service is best known unto her, and I desire my executors to perform it accordingly, whom I ordain and make my loving cousin, Francis Wyndham, one of her Majesty’s Justices of the Common Pleas at Westminster, and my loving brother-in-law and loving cousins, Michael Stanhope, esquire, and Edward Coke and Miles Corbet, esquires;
  Item, I give and bequeath to either of my executors twenty pounds of good and lawful money of England;
... The same testament was proved at London before the worshipful Master William Lewin, Doctor of the Laws, lawfully deputed to exercise the office of Master, Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the twelfth day of the month of February in the year of the Lord according to the reckoning of the English church the thousand five hundred ninetieth by the oath of Geoffrey Clerke, notary public, proctor of Michael Stanhope and Miles Corbet, executors named in the same testament, to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods, rights and creditors of the said deceased

The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010, entry for STANHOPE, Sir Michael (c.1545-1621), of the Barbican, London and Sudbourne, nr. Orford, Suff.; later of St. John's, Clerkenwell, Mdx.
  Stanhope was obliged, as a younger son, to follow his brother Sir John Stanhope I into the Elizabethan Court, where he became a groom of the privy chamber. In 1594 he received a 20-year monopoly of the import of merino wool from Spain for the hat industry, which he subsequently described as ‘the best reward of my service’. He had already begun to build up a considerable estate in Middlesex and east Suffolk, including Orford Castle, by grant and purchase. Stanhope improved the value of the Sudbourne estate by £200 p.a. by building a sea wall ‘near a mile in length’, at a cost of £1,500, and draining the salt marshes, which rendered the air in and around his residence ‘very corrupt and contagious’.

In November 1597 Michaell wrote to Sir Robert Cecil asking advice about a gift he had been asked by Thomas Egerton to convey to the queen.
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Salisbury vol 7 p100 (1899)
    MICHAEL STANHOPE to SIR ROBERT CECIL.
  1597, Nov.—I entreat your help in that which I cannot now perform according to my duty. These pearls my Lord Keeper presented by me unto her Majesty she liked marvellously well of the present, saying that he was hardly imposed by the arbitrators, and no reason he should be at so great a further charge, and after many kind speeches, willed me to thank his Lordship but to signify that her mind was as great to refuse as his was to give, so she willed me to carry them back. When I came unto his Lordship and he saw the pearls, he looked upon me with a heavy eye, if I had either carelessly or doltishly performed my trust. In regard of her greatness, he said, the gift was nothing, but he did hope her Majesty would have accepted his dutiful and thankful mind. For the pearls, he would not lay hand of them, but bade me do with them what I would. I attend not her Majesty again, as I meant to do, because my wife’s gentlewoman, after four or five day’s sickness, is now full of the small-pox, and my mother-in-law’s gentlewoman in like sort. My wife and I are at my sister Bartelaes house, where we mind to stay and cleanse ourselves. I beseech you perform the first part of my letter, and make my case known to her Majesty.
  Endorsed with date.
      Holograph. 1 p. Closely written.  (57. 60.)

Athenae Cantabrigienses vol 2 pp470-3 (Charles Henry Cooper, 1861)
  EDWARD STANHOPE, fourth or fourth surviving son of sir Michael Stanhope ... On 27 June 1600 queen Elizabeth granted to him and his brother Michael the manor of Hucknall Torkard in the county of Nottingham, at the yearly rent of £13 9s. 0d.

The Manors of Suffolk: The hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford, Plomesgate, and Risbridge vol 5 p150 (Walter Arthur Copinger, 1909)
    MANOR OF ORFORD.
A Survey was made of the manor with the other manors of Sir Michael in 1600 by J. Norden, the well-known cartographer. His lands included the manors and parishes of Staverton Eyke, Bromeswell, Wantisden, Chillesford, Sudbourne, Orford, and Dunningworth.
  In 1603 we find on the Memoranda Rolls an order for removal of process on annual rent of £420 out of Orford Castle and Honor and discharge of Michael Stanhope.

Michaell and his wife and daughter are left bequests in, and Michaell is named an executor of, the will of his brother, the younger Edward Stanhope, dated 28 February 1602(3) and proved 25 March 1608, which is held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228 (modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green).
  Item, I give to my very loving brother, Michael Stanhope, esquire, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the weight of six score ounces, to be marked with the arms, crest and inscription as those above set down to my other brothers and sisters are, he to have the
use of it during his life, and after his decease to remain to the heir of his house as a memorial of my love to them;
  Item, I give unto my loving sister, Mrs Anne Stanhope, his wife, one piece of plate of silver and gilt of thirty ounces;
  Item, if my said brother, Michael Stanhope, shall hereafter have any son of his body lawfully begotten unto whom I shall not have given two hundred pounds’ lands after my decease my will is that there shall be reserved unto my said brother Michael four thousand pounds out of my estate wherewith shall be purchased two hundred pounds by the year to be assured to the eldest son of my said brother and to his heirs males forever, and for default of such heirs male, then to go to the second son of my said brother and to his heirs males;
  If my said brother Michael shall have any son of his body lawfully begotten who shall not have any heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, if the said two hundred pounds’ lands by year shall have been purchased by my said brother Michael when he shall have a son born, then I will that, for default of the said land to descend on the heirs males of my said brother Michael’s body, it shall descend unto my nephew, Michael Stanhope, second son to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, and to the heirs males of his body lawfully to be begotten;
  And for default of such issue male of the body of my said nephew, Michael Stanhope, to be begotten, then to remain to my nephew, Philip Stanhope, eldest son of my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, and to the heirs males of his body;
  And for default of such issue male, then to the heirs male of any of the sons of my last-recited nephew, John Stanhope, provided always that if my brother, Michael Stanhope, have no son at all, or that after the land is bought and so may descend upon any of the
sons of my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, as above is named, or upon any the heirs males of my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, my eldest brother, in manner as above, than if my brother, Michael, have no son whereby any such land should be purchased, then I give to my niece, Jane Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Michael Stanhope, one thousand pounds to be paid her at the day of her marriage, or if after such land bought and that it happen to descend in manner as above upon any of my other brothers’ children for want of issue male of my brother, Michael Stanhope, or any his sons, then I will that before they enter upon it they shall enter into a statute of two thousand pounds to my brother, Michael Stanhope, his executors or heirs, to pay unto my brother Michael’s daughter, Jane, if she be then living, or to such her child or children of her body lawfully to be begotten as shall be then living, the sum of one thousand pounds equally to be divided amongst them;
  Item, I do give to my niece, Jane Stanhope, daughter to my brother, Michael Stanhope, one jewel of forty pounds’ price or forty pounds in money to give her at the day of her marriage;
... Item, I do make executors to this my last will and testament my most dear and loving brothers, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, one of her Majesty’s Council established for the North, my honourable brother, Sir John Stanhope, knight, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, and my brother, Michael Stanhope, esquire, one of the Grooms of her Majesty’s Privy Chamber, and so many of them as shall be living at my death, praying them that as our loves have never been severed whilst we lived, and as I cannot divide the same from them until our heavenly Father do change this our earthly habitation, so they would be pleased after my departure to continue the band of brotherly love unto me in performing this my last will and testament according to my trust committed unto them so far as they shall find and in their consciences know that I do leave sufficient estate to perform it;
All the rest of my goods, lands copyhold or free, leases, chattels, household stuff, moneys or whatsoever not by this my last will and testament given, disposed and bequeathed, my debts being paid, which I hope will not be great for that I have always had care to avoid them, I do wholly give them equally to be divided amongst my said executors, amongst whom there be some of them who do owe me good sums of money for lands purchased in my name and their own, and some other lands mortgaged unto me alone for which I have scarce anything to show for that I only paid the moneys and they wholly dealt with buying, selling and disposing of those lands; other do owe me moneys upon specialties of statute which in this distempered age God knows into whose hands those specialties may come; I therefore desire them, as they will answer it unto God, that they will disclose one to another, as they are brethren and so should be but one, what several debts is owing by any of them unto me, I mean only money disbursed out of my purse and paid in pecunijs numeratis for them without any further allowance, and then casting that up unto the rest of my whole estate, I freely and absolutely give the whole remainder as is above set down to be equally divided betwixt my said three brothers who shall take upon them the execution of this my last will and testament;
  Overseers I need not make others than the three consciences of my foresaid three executors, my brothers, whom I ascite before the tribunal-seat of God, that as my love hath always been unto each of them one brotherly love, so they will justly and truly perform that which I have herein trusted them with

The Knights of England vol 2 p104 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1603. May 7.  MICHAEL (NICHOLAS) STANHOPE, of Suffolk (ibid) [By the King at Worksop].

Michaell was named as a supervisor of the will of his brother, the elder Edward, one of His Majesty's Councillors in the North, dated 8 August 1603, which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... And further for the better accomplishment of this my will I doe ordaine Sir Edwarde Stanhope my sonne my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, And appoint Supervisors of this my will my deare and lovinge brethren Sir John Stanhope knight vice chamberlaine and one of his maiesties moste honorable priuie councell Sir Edwarde Stanhope Doctor Sr Michaell Stanhope and Sir Percivall Harte knight my sonne in lawe.

Michaell was also remembered in the will of his nephew, John Stanhope, the son of his brother Thomas, dated 19 July 1610, at The National Archives PROB 11/117/473 (modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
To my honourable loving aunt, the Lady Bertley [=Berkeley], and to my two most dear uncles, the Lord Stanhope and Sir Michael Stanhope, though a small, yet a token of my true love, and as my present estate will admit, to each of them I give a twenty shillings’ piece of gold to make a ring of to wear for my sake, who did ever truly love and honour them;

Michaell was left a bequest in, and appointed an executor of, the will of his sister, Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  Item, I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved brother, Sir Michael Stanhope, knight, one piece of plate of the value of twenty pounds, and one ring with a table diamond therein;
...
I, the aforesaid Jane, Lady Berkeley, do ordain, constitute, nominate, appoint and make my well-beloved brothers, John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, and Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury in the county of Suffolk, knight, Sir Roger Townshend, my grandchild, and Richard Mason, my servant, to be my executors of this my last will and testament, whom I charge and heartily desire to see the same well and truly executed, performed and accomplished in every part thereof according to my true intent and meaning set down and declared in and by the same so far-forth as by any lawful way or means they may or can, and for the better execution, performance and doing thereof I do hereby give unto my said executors full power and authority to be my only true and lawful executors of this my last will and testament in as large and ample manner as by any means I may or can do;

Michaell was mentioned in, and was a witness to, the will of his brother, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my welbeloved Brother Michaell Stanhope my best blacke cloake lyned wth velvet and inbrodered about the skirt with blacke silke and purle. ...
Witnesses hereunto Edward Stanhope Michaell Stanhope Edward Cripling and Henry ???

Death: 20 December 1621

Tomb of Michael Stanhope and Anne (Reade) Stanhope
Monument to Michael Stanhope, his wife Anne (Reade) Stanhope and two fo their daughters in All Saints, Sudbourne, Suffolk
photo taken in 2017 by Paul Farmer posted on geograph.org.uk
Buried: Sudbourne, Suffolk, England, in a tomb that Michael erected in his own lifetime.
Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p21-2 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
Inscription on the Monument of Sir Michael Stanhope, younger of the name, in the Church of Sudbourne, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
      “Memoria Justorum in Manu Dei est.
  Sir Michael Stanhope, Knight, of the county of Notingham, left 5 sons; Thomas Stanhope, Knight, of the said county; Edward Stanhope, Knight, of the county of York and of the councell there established; John Stanhope, Knight, Lord Stanhope of Harrington, of the privy councell to Queen Elizabeth and King James, vice-chamberlain to them both, and treasurer of the chamber; Edward Stanhope, Knight, doctor of the civill law; Michael Stanhope, Knight, lord of this manor, who, mindfull of mortality, while he lived erected this monument.
  Here resteth, in assured hope to rise in Christ, Sir Michael Stanhope, Knight, who served at the feet of Queen Elizabeth of most happy and famous memory, in her privy chamber xx years, and of our sovereign King James, in the same place, the rest of his days, who married Anne, daughter to Sir William Read, of Osterly in the county of Middlesex, Knight, by whom he had 2 daughters, Jane, married to Henry Viscount F. Fitzwater, sonn and heire-apparent to the Earle of Sussex; and Elizabeth, married to Lord George Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkeley Castle, in the county of Gloucester, this George being the XXI Baron by descent. All honor, glorie, praise, and thanks be unto thee, O glorious Trinitie. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief, 1 Tim. i. 15. Thou has redeemed me, O Lord God of Truth. Psalm xxxi. 5. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil. i. 23. Death is to me advantage. Phil. i. 21. I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. Psalm cxvi. 13. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1 Cor. i. 31.
      RESTAURAVIT
  PHILIPPUS HENRICUS COMES STANROPE.
    A. D. MDCCCXXVIII.

Will:
The will of Sir Michaell Stanhope of Sudborne, Suffolk, dated 6 November 1621 and proved 6 February 1621(2), is held at the National Archives PROB 11/139/119
... The Sixt day of November in the yeare of the raigne of Sovereign Lord James ... of England Fraunce & Ireland the Nynteenth ... And in the yeare of or Lord God One thousand six hundreth and one and twentith. I Sr Michaell Stanhope of Sudburne in the County of Suff knight ... And I appoint & desire that my body be interred in the parish Church of Sudburne aforesaid where I have now in my life time erected my Tomb ... Item I give and bequeath unto the Society & fellowship of Trinity College in Cambridge (in which College I was once a Schollor the Sum of one hundred pounds of good money to be employed to the encrease and maintenance of the Library there The same to be payed by my Executors within ??? moneth after my decease And I desire the Said society and fellowship in their elections to Schollorshipps and fellowshipps to be favourable to my name and kinred
Item I give and bequeath to my oldest daughter Jane Lady Fitzwater and Sr William Wittypoll her husband ...
Item I give and bequeath unto my younger daughter Elizabeth Lady Berkley and to the Lord Berkley her husband ...
Item I give and bequeath unto my Sister the Lady Stanhope widdowe late wife to my brother John Lord Stanhope of Harrington deceased one peece of goulde called a ??? ... 
Item I give and bequeath unto my Nephew Sr Lionell Talmatche knight and Barronet ...
Item I give and bequeath unto my Niece the Lady Talmatche ...
Item I do give unto my Niece the Lady Katherine Chomley wife of Sr Robt Cholmey knight & Barronett ...
Item I have given unto my Goddaughter Elizabeth Talmatche ...
Item I give and bequeath unto my Nephew Sr John Stanhope knight Sonne of my brother Sr Edward Stanhope late of York knight And to my Godsonne his child the Summe of twenty pounds of good money...
Item I give and bequeath unto my Nephew Michaell Stanhope knight Sonne to my brother Sr Edward Stanhope knight the Sume of one hundreth pounde of good mony to be patd to him his Executors of Assigns within one yeare after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto the Lady Reade widow of Sr William Reade knight deceased fifty pounds of good money to buy her a Diamond ring for the fidelity and kindnes I have ever found in her and wch I hope she will performe unto mee living and dead and in remembrance of her faithfull love towards my daughters the Lady Fitzwalters and the Lady Berkley
Item I  have given and conveyed unto my Cosen William Cooper of Thurgaton in the County of Nottingham Esq and William Stanhope Esq Sonne to Sr John Stanhope knight who was eldest Sonne to my brother Sr Thomas Stanhope knight ...
Item I give and bequeath unto Paterick Male Esq and to my Niece Frances his wife two guilt spoons and one bason ...
Item I give and bequeath unto Jane Male their daughter one hundreth pounds of good money ...
Item I give and bequeath unto      Spillman Esquire who married Sr John Townshend his daughter ...
And I doo specially and affectionately ??? ordaine nominate and appoint my everloving kindsmen and ffriends Sr Lionell Talmatche knight and Barronett and Thomas Cornwallis Esquire to be my Executours of this my last will and Testament ... And I ordaine nominate & appointe my faithfull servantes Samson Wolferston and John Tegood to be Supervisors of this my last will and testament ...
Memorandum that the above named Sr Michaell Stanhope knight was so payned in his right hand and disabled by the goute that he could not write his name as is above intended and therefore with his lefte hand did only putt his marke to this leafe and did publish and declare all this present writings being a will and a Codicill containing five and twenty sheafes of leafes of paper to be his only last will and testament this present fouer and twentith Day of November 1621 in the presence of us whose names are under written ...
by this present Codicill ...  
I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Henry Hart Esquire eldest Sonne to Sr Persevall Hart knight by my Niece his second wife ... subscribed and sealed This fower and twentith Day of November  ... 1621 ...
Whereas by and after the death of Sr William Reade knight my wife's ffather certaine Mannors lande tenements and heriditaments by right of inheritance descended and came vnto my three daughters his Grand children and Coheires my youngest daughter Bridgett Stanhope being in monoritie that is to say about the age of six yeares whose Inheritance ... This fiveteenth Day of December ... 1621 ...
Probatum ... Saxto dia mensis ffebruarij Anno Domini   
 
Sources:

Michael Stanhope

Baptism: 22 November 1581 in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England
The Registers of St Helen's Bishopsgate p3 (ed. W. Bruce Bannerman, 1904)
    BAPTISMS.
1581. Nov. 22 Michaell s. of Edward Stanhope, gent.

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Education: Gray's Inn, where Michael was admitted in 1594 and Christ's College, Cambridge.
The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 p83 (Joseph Foster, 1889)
1593-4.
Jan. 28. MICHAEL STANHOPE, second son of Edward Stanhope, Esq., one of the readers.

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p147 (John Venn, 1927)
STANHOPE, MICHAEL.  Matric. pens. from CHRIST’S, c. 1597. Probably 2nd s. of Sir Edward (1563), of Grimston, Yorks. Adm. at Gray's Inn, Jan. 28, 1593-4. Of York, M.D.; of Edlington, in 1620. Married and had issue. Living, 1639. Probably brother of George (1602). (Vis. of Yorks., 1666; Genealogist, N.S., xiii. 107.)

Married: Katherine

Katherine was buried on 30 November 1628 at St Crux, York, Yorkshire.

Children: Notes:
Michael is mentioned in the will of his uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give to my nephew, Michael Stanhope, son to my brother, Edward Stanhope, to be paid unto him within one year after he shall be called to the bar at Gray’s Inn, being as we commonly term it a barrister there, having continued his full study without any whole year’s discontinuance before that in the laws of the realm, unless it be by extremity of his sickness, and he having performed in his own person all moots and other exercises of learning by the orders of Gray’s Inn to be performed before he be called to the bar, the sun of one hundred pounds of lawful English money, to be paid unto him by my executor or executors at the time above set down, which if he do not attain unto, then the legacy to determine; ...
If my said brother Michael shall have any son of his body lawfully begotten who shall not have any heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, if the said two hundred pounds’ lands by year shall have been purchased by my said brother Michael when he shall have a son born, then I will that, for default of the said land to descend on the heirs males of my said brother Michael’s body, it shall descend unto my nephew, Michael Stanhope, second son to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, and to the heirs males of his body lawfully to be begotten;
And for default of such issue male of the body of my said nephew, Michael Stanhope, to be begotten, then to remain to my nephew, Philip Stanhope, eldest son of my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, and to the heirs males of his body;

Michael was bequeathed property in Westmorland as well as a rent charge of £20 a year as soon as he became an utter barrister in the will of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellors in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... Item I giue and bequeath vnto Michaell Stanhope my second sonne All that my Lease of Martindale within the Barony of Barton in the Countie of Westmorland which I tooke of the late Queene Elizabeth deceased for the terme of my life, And after my decease surrender or forfeiture to Michaell Stanhope my saide second sonne for the terme of his naturall life, And after his decease surrender or forfeiture to John Stanhope my third sonne for the terme of his naturall life, And also a rente charge of twentie poundes per Annum out of my landes during the life of the said Michaell to be giuen when he shall by proceading in his study of the lawe attaine to be vtter Barrister

Michael was left a bequest in the will of his aunt Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  Item, I give unto my nephews, Michael Stanhope, John Stanhope, George Stanhope and Thomas Stanhope, sons of my deceased brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, to each of them forty shillings apiece

Michael is mentioned in the will of his uncle, Sir Michaell Stanhope of Sudborne, Suffolk, dated 6 November 1621, held at the National Archives PROB 11/139/119
Item I give and bequeath unto my Nephew Michaell Stanhope knight Sonne to my brother Sr Edward Stanhope knight the Sume of one hundreth pounde of good mony to be patd to him his Executors of Assigns within one yeare after my decease

Michael was a strong advocate for the healing powers of a spa near Knaresborough in Yorkshire. He has a section in a publication about the spa, Spadacrene Anglica by Dr. Edmund Deane first published in 1626, and then wrote about it himself in Newes out of York-shire first published in 1627, and later listed some of the cures effected there in Cures without a Care first published in 1635. In Newes out of York-shire we learn that Michael had visited Germany.

Spadacrene Anglica: Or, the English Spaw. (Edmund Deane, 1736)
BEING An Account of the Situation, Nature, Physical Use, and Admirable Cures, performed by the Waters of Harrogate, and Parts adjacent.
  By the late learned and eminent Physician, Dr. Dean. of York.
    AND ALSO
  The Observations of the ingenious Dr. Stanhope.
  Wherein it is proved by Reason and Experience, that the Vitrioline Fountain is equal to the German Spaw.
pp27-26
  A Relation of certain particular Cures, done by virtue of Mineral Waters, neare Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of the County of York.
    By Mr. Michael Stanhope.
THAT Spaw Springs though they usually challenge (as doth the Spaw in Germany, which is the reason we give them the same name) a singularity in easing and curing (such as are curable) of the Stone and Gravel, as also in opening the Obstructions of the Spleen, and allaying all melancholly effects and passions, yet it will appear by the subsequent Discourse and Relations, that this kinde of water hath other rare and secret influences and operations, which hath procured no small wonder in those who have observed the Effects; the particular instances whereof (without any longer suspending the Readers expectation) I now intend to enter upon, beginning first with the cure and alleviation of the stone and other Distempers incident to the Kidneys and Reins
  Mrs. Rolf, of Hadley, in the County of Suffolk, having occasion to give a visit to some of her neare friends in Yorkeshire, within a few weeks of her stay there, the found herself suddenly surprized with extraordinary sharp fits, which by their symptoms did manifestly appear to be the stone. Hereupon she applied herself to the Physitians for advice, but finding little or no ease by their Prescriptions (though probable ones) she was perswaded to try the Water at Knaresborow, where she had not continued above a fortnight, but she voided many stones, to the Number of an Hundred bigger and lesse, whereby she was quit of all her pain. 
... [many other cases are then described]
  And now having finished what I think fit to inftance concerning this our Spaw water, I will adde a few experiments of the Sulphur Spring
... [more cases are then described]
  Lo here two Springs of admirable operations! And if an exact Sumetritian by the proportion of Hercules his foot, be able to collect the whole fabrick of his body, why may not the learned (whose serious thoughts are bent upon the Theory of Natures secrets) from these examples deduce excellent conclusions of a large and ample use.
  I had thought to shut up this Discourse, but that I am loath to smother any thing that may tend to the publike good.
  Those who have observed the wonders of this our happy Isle, have taken notice of a Spring seated underneath the Castle of Knaresborow, commonly called The Droping Well, famous for the turning of whatsoever is cast into it, or casually falls in (as mosse, leaves, sticks, and the like) into stone: whereupon it is that this Spring is visited of many by way of admiration. But time hath of late discovered a Physicall use of this water, namely that is an infallable cure for a flix ...

In his own account of the re-discovery, with Dr. Deane, of the spa, Michael also mentions the information that he had previously visited the spa in Germany. Michael dedicated the book to the wife of the son of his cousin, the "vertuous, and religious Lady, the Lady Katherine Stanhope, wife to the Lord Philip Stanhope, Baron of Shelford."
Newes out of York-shire (Michael Stanhope, 1627)
Nevves out of York-shire: or, an account of a iovrney, in the true discovery of a soueraigne minerall, medicinall water, in the West-Riding of Yorke-shire, neere an ancient towne called Knaresbrough, not inferiour to the spa in Germany Also a taste of other minerall waters of seuerall natures adioyning. By M.S.
... It is (as I am credibly enformed) about 50 yeres since first notice was taken of a Spring (in the West-riding of Yorke-shire, neere a Towne called Knaresbrough) called at this day by the countrey people, Tuit-well, it seemes for no other cause, but that those birdes (being our greene Plouer) doe vsually haunt the place. ... this, Tuit-well (I feare the poorenesse of the name, hath not a little disaduantag'd it) hath beene most grosly negle∣cted, as if it were a place onely worth the notice of that silly bird.
  It is about two yeares since I first heard of it, at what time not meeting with any that could punctually enforme me of it, I let it passe as vncertaintie, yet so as I found in my selfe a kinde of itching desire of visiting the place.
  In the latter end of the Summer 1625. being casually with Doctor Deane (a Phisitian of good repute at his house at Yorke, one who is far from the straine of many of his profession, who are so chained in their opinions to their Apothecary shops, that they renounce the taking notice of any vertue not confined within that circuit) hee tooke occasion to make a motion to me (the rather for that he remembred I had been at the Spa in Germany) of taking the aire, and to make our rendez-vous at Knaresbrough, to the end wee might be the better opportuned, to take a view of the Tuit-well, (whereof he had sparingly heard) for that it was by some compared to the so much fam'd Spa in Germany.
  I was not nice to giue way to the summons of his desire; the match was soone made, and the next day, accompanied with a worthy Knight a iudicious admirer, and curious speculator of rarities, & three other Phisitians of allowable knowledge) we set forwards for Knaresbrough, being about fourteene miles from Yorke. Wee made no stay at the towne, but so soone as we could be prouided of a guide, wee made towards the Well, which we found almost two miles from the Towne. It is scituate vpon a rude barren Moore, the way to it in a manner a continuall ascent. Vpon our first approach to the Spring, we were satisfied that former times had taken notice of it, by reason it was encloased with stone, and paued at the bottome, but withall we plainly perceiued that it had beene long forgotten, which the filth wherewith it was choaked did witnesse, besides that through neglect the currents of other waters were suffered to steale into it. Before any peremptory triall was made of it, it was thought fit first to clense the Well, and to stop the passage of any other waters intermixture, which within the compasse of an houre we effected. The bottome now cleared, we plainely descried where the water did spring vp, and then the Physitians began to try their experiments. But first I dranke of it, and finding it to haue a perfect Spa relish, (I confesse) I could not containe, but in a tone lowder than ordinary, I bade them welcome to the Spa. ...
  Vpon our reuisit of the Spring, vvee found it (being by our former daies care discharged of all incombrance) very cleare, and about three quarter of a yard deepe of vvater. The taste of the water was growne more liuely and briske than it was the day before, and much more perceptible in its acidenesse. Once more we mixed the powder of Galls with the water, which made such haste to satisfie vs by a rubicund colour, that now we were ready to colour too for shame, that we had not trusted nature vpon her first word. There remained now no scruple of the waters quality, so that we began freely to take our mornings draughts, which wee doubled and redoubled, for there were of vs who drunke 15. glasses, and who tooke least had eight or nine.
  After a compasse taken in visiting a Spring in Bilton Parke, as also another called Pigeon Spring, wee came at a seasonable houre to our dinner, which wee found attending vs in a plaine, but plentifull forme. I may not forget to tell how that about an houre after that we had drunke of the water, it came so freely from vs, that (me thought) we were like so many walking Conduits, so that for the space of two houres, scarce a minute past, but some of vs were ready to vie it, which was presently seene, and reuied by a third. But to returne to our dinner (which for my part I had such a desire to be grapling withall, that I thought the very sitting downe too long a parenthesis) it will not be denied but the sight of our meat was a very pleasing prospect to vs all, so that in a few words (for we were not able to hold out a long Grace) we thank't God for a great deale of good meat. ...
  According to our entendment wee returned that night to Yorke, whither wee came in good time, not any of vs repenting, but rather resulting in our bestowed labour. The nouelty of this discouery (for though it had beene formerly known, yet the memory thereof was in a manner lost) was so pleasing to vs, that we were not meal-mouth'd to trumpet in most places where wee came this our aduenture, as if it had beene an other America.

Five years later Michael wrote again about the spa, in a book that details a large number of cases in which ailments were cured or alleviated by drinking the waters.
Cures Without Cares (Michael Stanhope, 1632)
CVRES WITHOVT CARE,
    OR
A SVMMONS TO ALL SVCH WHO FINDE LITTLE OR
no hlpe by the use of ordinary physick to repaire to the Northerne Spaw.
    WHEREIN
By many presidents of a few late yeares, it is evidenced to the world, that infirmities in their owne nature desperate and of long continuance have received perfect recovery.
By vertue of Minerall waters neare Knaresborow, in the West-riding of Yorkeshire.
Also a description of the said water, and of other rare and usefull springs adjoyning, the nature and efficacie of the Minerals contained in them, with other not impertinent notes.
Faithfully collected for the pitblique good by M. St.

Two children of Michael's, Susan and George, are mentioned as friends of Marmaduke Rawdon in
The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York pp2-3 (Robert Davies, 1863)
1621.  Beinge about 12 yeares of age, before he knew what love was, he fell in love with a yonge gentlewoman, the daughter of one Mr. Michael Stanhop,a who was much about his owne yeares; he courted hir highly after his childish way, and did much delight in her company and she in his. Hir brother, Mr. George Stanhop, beinge his schoolfellow, he had the opertunitie to see hir often, and to play with hir brother in the gardens and orchards, and she would come and be amongst them; and uppon a time he had a minde to show Mrs. Susan, for soe the yonge gentlewoman was called, what fine crackinge squibs he could make; so he and 3 and 4 boyes more of his consorts had gott some quantitie of powder, and putt itt in one of the boyes hatts; Mr. Rawdon goinge to give fire to the crackinge squib, itt would not att first goe of; soe Mr. Rawdon fell a blowinge of itt, and the boy with the hatt of powder came nere Mr. Rawdon to see what was the matter that itt would not goe of, when of a sudden itt went of, and some sparks flew into the hatt of powder and blew up the fore part of Mr. Rawdon’s clooths, burnt his band, and his face, and his clooths still burninge about him, which one Marabel, a maid of the howse, seeinge, took a kittle full of water, which she had new hunge on the fire, and was yett cold, and soe quencht the fire of his clooths, which other wayes would have gone nere to have spoyld him; some of the other boyes had some little hurt, and some cornes of powder in thir faces, and all of them left Mr. Rawdon and run away, publishinge in severall parts of the cittie this accidentall mischance, which quickly arived att his father’s howse, soe a servant was sent away presently to Mr. Stanhop’s to see what the matter was, who finding him in that sad condition took him in his armes, wrapt his clooke over him, and carried him home;
  a A physician then living at York. He was a brother of Sir Edward Stanhope, Knight, of Grimstone near Tadcaster, and of Dr. George Stanhope, a prebendary of York, rector of Wheldrake near York, and one of the chaplains of King Charles I.

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p220 (William Dugdale, 1894)
2. Michaell Stanhope, Dr of Phisick, of York, living 1639, mar. Katherine . . .  bur. 30 Nov. 1628 at St. Crux, York. (C.B.N.) They had issue—
  Michael, bur at Edlington 1620, æt 4. M.I.
  Philip, bur at Edlington 1620 æt 2. M.I.
  Catherine, bp. at Kirkby Wharfe 28 Nov. 1606, bur. there 15 Sept. 1617.
  Jane, bp. at All Saints Pavement, 6 Oct. 1621, (C.B.N.)
  Philadelphia, bp. at Belfreys 4 Oct. 1624 (C.B.N.) 

Sources:

Richard de Stanhope

Children: Notes:
The Peerage of England vol 3 p254 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Sir Richard Stanhope (living in the reigns of King Henry III. and Edward I.) had large possessions in the North, and received the honour of knighthood.

The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 p5 (William Flower, 1871)
Ric’dus de Stanhop qui habuit amplissima possessiones in partibus boraialibus Regni Angliæ

Sources:

Richard de Stanhope

Father: Richard de Stanhope

Married: Alice Houghton

Children:
Joseph Foster, in Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire vol 2 p175 (Joseph Foster, 1874), claims that Richard and Alice had another son, Thomas, who died before his father (o.v.p.), though I have not found other evidence of this. Occupation: Merchant; mayor of Berwick upon Tweed

Notes:
Arthur Collins noted that in 1351, Richard "had, in 24 Edw. III. in consideration of his services against the Scots, a grant of the third part of the village and fishery of Paxton, with the appurtenances, in Scotland". The following document appears to show Richard buying more of Paxton, and also describes him as a "burgess of Berwick upon Tweed"
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward III vol 9 p386 (1906)
1351 Oct. 12.
Westminster
Enrolment of release by Margery, sister and heir of Robert de Holm, to Richard de Stanhope, burgess of the town of Berwick upon Tweed, of all her right and claim in all the lands and fisheries in the town of Paxton in the county of Berwick, which belonged to the said Robert. Dated, 5 September, 1351. Witnesses: Sir William de Emeldon, chamberlain of Berwick, John Jettour, John Gauger, Robert de Stanhop.
  Memorandum that Margery came into chancery at London on 5 September and acknowledged the preceding deed.

Berwick-upon-Tweed: The History of the Town and Guild (John Scott, 1888)
p62n
The very much lighter tax on Scotch wool offered a great temptation to the Northumbrian woolowners to smuggle wool into Berwick in order to obtain better terms from the merchants. A saving of 27s. a sack, which might be shared between seller and exporter, was a great inducement to force this illegal traffic. The officials of the Custom House in Berwick soon discovered this wrong-doing, for not only was the quantity that was being customed excessive, but the quality of the Northumbrian wool was finer. The only remedy the King could devise was to close the port and lock up the seal, which was done for the first time on October 12, 1336. The immediate consequence of the prohibition of all exportation was a cry of poverty from the town, and a petition to the King to this effect, that because of crippled foreign commerce, and because of the wars with Scotland, Berwick was so poor that its citizens, merchants,† and others had no choice but to leave the town.
†The names of Berwick merchants mentioned at this time are: Robert Wake, Richard Stanhope, Simon Stow, Simon Chandy, Alexander Lang, of Belford, William de Goseworth, Thomas de Beverley, John de London, Thomas de Dalton, John de Lowyk, Laurentius Bailliff, John Saurley, John Hunter, John Stanhope.
pp69-70
In the same year [1347] the life of the mayor, Richard de Stanhope, seems to have been threatened, for the King ordered inquisition to be made concerning some malefactors who had conspired against the life of the mayor and the peace of Berwick:
  ‘There are many malefactors and disturbers of our peace, as well Scotch as English, confederated in large numbers in divers conventicles and congregations within the town as without, against the mayor of the town, as against others in our allegiance.’
It does not appear why this order should have been necessary. It was the time of Wycliff, and if the conventicles had been gatherings of heretics we might have been disposed to have referred the whole matter to the religious animosities of the times. But nothing in the record points to this supposition, and nothing in the history of the period sheds any light upon it.
p478
      THE MAYORS OF BERWICK.  ...
1338 Richard de Stanhope
...
1347 Richard de Stanhope
1350 Richard de Stanhope

Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/181/13 #114
CP 25/1/181/13, number 114.
Link:  Image of document at AALT
County:  Northumberland.
Place:  Westminster.
Date:  The day after St John the Baptist, 32 Edward III [25 June 1358].
Parties:  Richard de Stanhop', querent, and Peter Rake and Maud, his wife, deforciants.
Property:  3 messuages, 1 dove-cot and 16 acres of land in the vill of Nouo Castro sup[er] Tynam.
Action:  Plea of covenant.
Agreement:  Peter and Maud have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Richard, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Maud to him and his heirs for ever.
For this:  Richard has given them 20 marks of silver.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p254 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  His son and heir Sir Richard de Stanhope, Knt. Lord of Elstwyke in com’ Northumberland, and of Usworth in com’ Pal. Durham, and mayor of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne; had, in 24 Edw. III. in consideration of his services against the Scots, a grant of the third part of the village and fishery of Paxton, with the appurtenances, in Scotland. He married Alice, daughter and heir of — Hought of Hought, and left issue John de Stanhope, and Richard, who had the lands in Northumberland, and served in parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne in 1 Richard II.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p4-5 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
SIR Richard de Stanhope, Knight, son of Richard, and grandson of Walter, appears to have fixed his residence at Newcastle-on-Tyne; at least we find him chosen Mayor of that town. Further, besides the honour of knighthood, he obtained, in the twenty fourth year of Edward III. (that is in 1350), a grant of the third part of the village and fishery of Paxton on the Tweed, in consideration of his services against the Scots. It is a pity that the record of his services should have been less lasting than that of his rewards.
  Collins also describes Sir Richard as Lord of Elstwyke in the county of Northumberland, and of Usworth, in the county of Durham. Elstwyke is now Elswick, a suburb it may be said of Newcastle. The two Usworths (Great and Little) lie about half-way between Newcastle and Sunderland. But certainly as to this latter possession, and perhaps as to the former also, Sir Richard, as will presently appear, has been confounded with his second son.
  Sir Richard married Alice, daughter and heiress of the Houghtons (called Hough by a misprint in Collins). His second son, also Richard by name, served in Parliament for Newcastle-on-Tyne in the first of Richard II. He married Alice de Moderby, heiress, through her brother and sister, of lands in Great and Little Usworth. It has been shown from ancient records, that “Richard Stanhop, Burgess of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had licence to settle his lands in the two Usworths on trust for himself, and wife, and his own right heirs, 12 Dec. 33 Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1378.).” It may also be deduced from the Inquis. post mortem that he died in the thirty-fifth of Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1380). He had a son, named John de Stanhope, aged twenty-four in 1380; but finally his lands appear to have passed away to a son of his wife by another marriage. See on all these points the History of Durham by Robert Surtees, vol. ii. p. 46.

The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 p5 (William Flower, 1871)
Ric’dus.Stanhop de Novo Castro equ. d’ns de Estwick in Com. Northumberland

Joseph Foster claims that Richard had a second wife, Isabella, and that his son Richard was by this second wife, though I have not found other evidence to support this.
Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire vol 2 p175 (Joseph Foster, 1874)
Sir RICHARD STANHOPE, lord of Elstwyke, Northumberland, and Usworth, co. Durham, mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 Edward 3. In 24 Edward 3 he was rewarded for his services (presumably against the Scots) with one-third part of the village and fishery of Paxton, with the appurtenances in Scotland.

Death: Richard died before 1 May 1384, and likely before 25 August 1360, when a Chancery certificate of debt of his son, John, names the creditor as "Richard de Stanhope, his father [deceased]" This Chancery certificate, dated 1 May 1384, documents John as the son of Richard, who is deceased, probably by the 1360 date mentioned in the document. Although it is unclear from the National Archive description, the 1384 date is likely when the document was re-examined as part of the legal wrangling by John's executors, as John, from other evidence, died in 1383 or perhaps slightly earlier, and so the "deceased" note next to Richard is probably from the 1360 date. I have found no other documentary evidence of Richard after a fine (Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/181/13 #114) in which Richard bought land in Newcastle on 25 June 1358.
The National Archives C 241/172/1 Debtor: John, the son of Richard de Stanhope
Description:    
Debtor: John, the son of Richard de Stanhope.
Creditor: Richard de Stanhope, his father [deceased].
Amount: 1000m.
Before whom: Peter de Belasise, Mayor of Lincoln; John de Wigford, Clerk.
When taken: 25/08/1360
First term: 08/09/1360
Last term: 08/09/1360
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: Robert de Saltby, Mayor of Lincoln; Nicholas de Work, Clerk
Endorsement: Notyngh' Coram Justic' de Banco in xv s'ti mich'is.
Date: 1384 May 1

Sources:

Richard Stanhope

Father: Richard de Stanhope

Mother: Alice (Houghton) Stanhope

Married: Alice (de Parva Useworth) del Bothe
Alice was born in 1338, the daughter of James de Parva Useworth. She married, firstly, Walter del Bothe, a merchant of Scotland (Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1370-1374 p467), and was married to him in 1363 when Walter and Alice granted land in Great Useworth, Little Useworth and Gatisheved to Richard de Stanhop (Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1370-1374 p149).
Alice married, secondly, Richard Stanhop, burgess of Newcastle on Tyne, and thirdly Thomas de Moderby. She was still living in 1391, when she sold the manor of Little Usworth.

Alice was Richard's executrix.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1381-1385 p430 (1897)
  Pardons of outlawry to the following persons:—
1384. June 26.
Westminster.
Alice, late the wife of Richard Stanhope and his executrix, for not appearing to render 35l. to Thomas de Saltmersshe.     London.

The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham vol 2 p46 (Robert Surtees, 1820)
Alice, co-heir of her brother, and of her sister, Dionesia, aged 24, 17 Hatf.; liv. and made feoffment of the manor 1391.
m1. Walter del Bothe.
m2. Richard Stanhop, Burgess of Newc. on Tyne, had license to settle his lands in the two Usworths on trust for himself and wife, and his own right heirs, 12 Dec. 33 Hatf, Inq. p. m. 35 Hatfieldp.
m.3 Thomas de Moderby & Alice his wife settled Little Usworth, & a third part of Great Usworth, on themselves & their own right heirs 20 Feb. 3 Skirlawe.
...
  Alice, the wife of three husbands, notwithstanding she had a son John Stanhop, seems to have transferred her moiety of Little Usworth and of the Shelemore, to a family unconnected by any discoverable trace of blood or affinity to her father's house.
  By charter 14 R. II. 1391, Alice, then perhaps a widow for the third time, granted her lands to Adam Fenrother, Clerk, Robert de Whitton and Peter Hedlam, her trustees, who enfeoffed Elizabeth, wife of Gerard Heron and Joan de Ridell, (daughters of Cecily Taillor)
p Thomas, &c. Sciatis quod nos licene. dedimus dilecto et fideli nostro Ricard de Stanhop Nurgensi de Novo Castro sup. Tynam quod ipse de omnibus terris et ten. suis quæ habet in Magna et Parva Useworth feoffare possit Joh. de Leventhorp et Joh. de Eland capellanos, &c. 12 Dec. 33 Hatf.

Children: Occupation: Member of Parliament, mayor and escheator of Newcastle, and collector of customs.

Richard was appointed as a collector of customs for the port of Newcastle, as well as all places from Berwick-upon-Tweed south to Scarborough, both in 1364, 1369 and 1370. Richard represented Newcastle upon Tyne in parliament in 1377 and 1378, and was mayor  and escheator of Newcastle in 1365 (Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 7 1356-1368 p302) and 1379.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 7 1356-1368 p289 (1913)
1364. July 2.
Westminster.
  Commission during pleasure to John de la Chambre and John de Preston to collect in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in all places thence along the sea-coast as far as Berwick-upon-Tweed towards the north, and towards the south as far as Scardeburgh, and there, (1) the new customs granted by foreign and alien merchants to Edward I in return for certain liberties, (2) the ancient customs of wools, hides and woolfells, (3) the subsidy of 20s. on each sack of wool, 20s. on every 300 woolfells and 40s. on each last of hides lately granted to the king by the commonalty of the realm, and (4) the custom on cloths of wool and worsted made in England for export; and to keep the ‘coket’ seal for the king’s great custom in the said port and places, answering at the Exchequer for the moneys forthcoming; and to appoint fit substitutes to act for them in places where they cannot attend in person.     By C.
The like to the following, in the ports and places named:—
Oct. 2.
Westminster.
... Richard de Stanhop and William de Acton; in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and all places northward as far as Berwick-upon-Tweed and southward as far as Scardeburgh, and there.

King Edward III became involved in a disputed election of Richard to be mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and we learn that the king found Richard to be "prudent, discreet and faithful".
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1364-1367 p23 (1912)
1364. Oct. 8.
Westminster.
  To Richard de Stanhop, burgess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whereas, as the king has learned, some of the commonalty of the said town have elected him and some have elected Robert Dangerton, to be mayor for the coming year, and the latter is odious to some of the town; and out of the dissension over the election great perils and losses may result to the town; the king for the harmony and quiet of his people, accepts his election and it is his will that Robert be entirely removed from the office, which he now occupies, as is said.
  Vacated because surrendered and otherwise below.    By K.
  Mandate to Robert, to meddle no more in the office.
  Vacated.
  Mandate to the bailiffs and good men and the commonalty of the town to be intendant to the said Richard as mayor for the coming year. 
p44
1364. Oct. 8.
Westminster.
  To Richard de Stanhop, burgess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whereas some of the commonalty of the said town elected him, and others of the commonalty elected Robert de Angerton, to be mayor for the coming year and thereupon the said Robert appearing before the council renounced his election and consented to the election of the said Richard, the king accepting the election of him, whom he has hitherto found prudent, discreet and faithful, by these presents commands the bailiffs and good men and the whole commonalty of the town to be intendant to him in all that relates to the office of mayor; and therefore he enjoins him, on pain of forfeiture of all that he can forfeit, to take upon him the office.     By K.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1367-1370 p201 (1913)
1368. Nov. 26.
Westminster.
  Commission to Gilbert de Umframvill, earl of Angos, Roger de Westminster. Wyderyngton, Roger de Fulthorp and Richard de Stanap to enforce the statute [13 Edward I. stat. Wesm. sec., cap. 47] of the taking of salmon out of season, and the statute of 25 Edward III. [stat. 3, cap. 4] touching new weirs in rivers, in the water of Tyne.     By C.

See also Calendar of the Fine Rolls vol 8 1368-1377 p2 and p28 for 1369 commissions and p91 for 1370 commission as collector of customs, and p229 and p268 for 1373 and p268  commissions as a tax collector in 1373 and 1374.

The History and Antiquities of the Town and Country of the Town of Newcastle vol 2 p204 (John Brand, 1789)
  In the parliament held at London in the year 1301, Newcastle upon Tyne was represented by Nicholas Carliol and Thomas de Frisina. ...
  In that held at Westminster A. D. 1335, by John Emeldon and Richard Heite. ...
  In that held ibid. 1 Ric. II. by John de Bulkhamu and Richard de Stanhope, A.D. 1377w.
  u “1 Ric. II. Rex majori & ballivis ville Novi Castri super Tynam salutem. Precipimus vobis quod de communitate ville predict tam infra libertates quam extra habere faciatis Johanni de Bulkham & Ricardo de Stanhop, &c. 14 libras pro 70 diebus 2 solid’ per diem. Teste Rege apud Westm’ 5 die Decembris.”—Prynne ut supra, [4th part of a Brief Register] p. 326.
  w Ibid. 
pp415-6
  In the year 1365, Richard de Stanhope was mayor, and William de Acton, John Stanhope, John de Emeldon, and John de Ruffan, were bailiffs.
...
  A.D. 1379, Richard Stanhope was mayor, and Adam de York, William Bishopdale, Thomas de Morden, and Robert Oliver, were bailiffs.
  The two following years the same mayor and bailiffs continued. 

History of Newcastle and Gateshead vol 1 p168-173 (Richard Welford, 1884)
      1365.
  Mayor and Bailiffs elected at Michaelmas:—
    Mayor—Richard Stanhope.
    Bailiffs, William Acton, John Emeldon, John Stanhope, John Ruffan. ...
       1366.
  Mayor and Bailiffs of Newcastle till Michaelmas:—
    Richard Stanhope—Mayor.
  William Acton, John Emeldon, John Stanhope, John Ruffanl, Bailiffs.  ...
      1367.
  Mayor and Bailiffs elected at Michaelmas:—
    Mayor—Richard Stanhope.
    Bailiffs, John Emeldon, John Byker, John Preston, John Houghall.
  Bourne's List makes it appear that William Acton was re-elected at the annual mayor-choosing; but the exchequer rolls for this year contain a precept addressed to “Richard Stanhope, mayor of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,” which is more positive evidence than Bourne's the same
...
        December 8.
  Writ from the king to the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle, the bailiff of Tynemouth, and the authorities of other towns, ordering that no money of the coinage of Scotland, or any other country, nor any kind of money except gold and silver of the king’s own coinage, should have currency in the realm, under pain of forfeiture of life and members.
       1368.
  Mayor and Bailiffs of Newcastle till Michaelmas:—
    Richard Stanhope—Mayor.
  John Emeldon, John Byker, John Preston, John Houghall, Bailiffs.
  Mayor and Bailiffs elected at Michaelmas—Uncertain. Bourne has another of his “The same’s,” so far as relates to William Acton, mayor.
...
By this present public instrument, may it evidently appear, that in the year of our Lord 1368, on the 30th day of the month of August, in the churchyard of the church of St. Nicholas, of the town of Newcastle-on-Tyne, at the south end of that church, “Sir” Thomas de Salkeld, a discreet man, rector of the church of Clifton, in the diocese of Carlisle, procurator of Thomas, bishop of Carlisle, and the prior and convent of the cathedral church of the Blessed Mary of Carlisle, sent specially for the undermentioned purposes, in presence of me, a notary public, and of the subscribing witnesses, found a certain “Sir” Robert Merlay, chaplain, sitting near to a certain new work adjoining the choir of the church of St. Nicholas aforesaid, which appeared in part lately built, and chipping and working upon a certain stone; ... These things were done this day, month, and place aforesaid in presence of Robert Merlay aforesaid, and Richard of Stanhope, of the diocese of Durham, witnesses called and summoned for these presents.

Richard is named above as being of the diocese of Durham, which at that time, extended to the south side of the Tyne river, while Newcastle was on the north bank of the Tyne, in the diocese of Carlisle. The diocese of Durham also inclues the towns of Great Usworth and Little Usworth, where Richard held land due to his marriage. Although he is stated above to be "Richard of Stanhope, of the diocese of Durham", I don't think this definitively ties him to the village of Stanhope in Durham, but shoud rather be read as Richard Stanhope (or Richard de Stanhope) of the diocese of Durham.

pp188-9
      1377.
Richard's first parliament met at Westminster on the 13th October, when Newcastle was represented by
    John Bulkham, the mayor, and Richard Stanhope,
who were paid for seventy days, at 2s. per day, 14l. At this last-named parliament a petition was presented from the lieges of the counties of Cumberland, Northumberland, and Westmorland, stating that theirs are the nearest counties adjoining the march of Scotland, and their great surety and refuge lie in the safe keeping of the city and castle of Carlisle, of Newcastle, Roxburgh, and Berwick, which towns and castles are so ruinous and feeble, that they will not be able to afford succour or defence in resisting their enemies if they are not repaired. “For which may it please your royal Majesty, as well in the repairing of the said towns and castles, as in providing sufficient constables to dwell therein, graciously to ordain a remedy.” 
pp190-3
      1378.
PARLIAMENT assembled at Gloucester in October. Newcastle sent thither
    Richard Stanhope and William Bishopdale.
...
        December 12.
  License from the bishop of Durham to Richard Stanhope, burgess of Newcastle, to settle his lands in Great and Little Usworth, on trust for himself and wife and his own right heirs. Stanhope, mayor and M.P., was the second husband of Alice, heiress of Usworth, by whom she had at least one son, named John. After his death she married for her third husband Thomas Moderby.

Notes:
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1370-1374 p149 (1914)
1371. Nov. 7.
Westminster.
  Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent of Thomas, bishop of Durham, dated at Durham by the hand of Richard de Castrobernardi, his clerk, 18 August in the twenty-seventh year of his pontificate, exemplifying fines levied in his court at Durham before his justices of assize;—to wit (1) a fine levied on Wednesday in Easter week, 37 Edward III, before John Moubray, Thomas de Ingelby and Alan de Shotelyngton, between Richard de Stanhop, plaintiff, and Walter del Bothe and Alice, his wife, deforciants, of 40 acres of land in Great Useworth and 30d. of rent in Gatisheved, a moiety of the manor of Little Useworth and a moiety of a third part of the manor of Great Useworth, whereby Richard recognised the premises to be the right of Alice, and Walter and Alice surrendered the same to him and his heirs, and (2) a fine levied on Thursday in Easter week, 40 Edward III, before Thomas Gray, John Moubray, Thomas de Ingelby, William de Westle and Alan de Shotelyngton, between the said Richard, plaintiff, and Thomas de Wessyngton and Isabel, his wife, deforciants, of 12 messuages, 295 acres of land, 24 acres and 3 roods of meadow, 35 acres of pasture, 30d. of rent and a moiety of a water-mill in Great Useworth, Little Useworth and Gatisheved, whereby the deforciants recognised the premises to be the right of Richard and quitclaimed them to him and his heirs, and Richard in return granted them a sore (sorus) sparrow-hawk.     For 1 mark paid in the hanaper.

The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham vol 2 p492 (William Hutchinson, 1787)
By bishop Hatfield’s Survey, it appears Will. de Hilton held two parts of the vill of Great Usworth, and Alicia de Moderby the other part. The services were then changed into money payments, 20s. for a castleman, for work at Martinmas 10s. for cornage at the feast of St Cuthbert in September xxxs. for a milch cow 6s. ten quarters and a half of oats, five quarters and two bushels of oat meal, and the like quantity of malt. It appears by an inquisition in the thirty-fifth year of the same prelate, that Alicia intermarried with Rich. Stanhop. This manor continued for many ages in the family of Hilton, and attended the general dispersion of their great estates.
  The manor of LITTLE USWORTH in the Boldon Book rendered xs. yearly, and William who possessed it, carried the bishop’s wine with eight oxen, and attended the great chace with two greyhounds. In Hatfield’s Survey it appears to be the possession of the before-named Alicia Moderby, who afterwards married Richard Stanhop, and the manor was settled on their issue.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p254 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Sir Richard de Stanhope, Knt. Lord of Elstwyke in com’ Northumberland, and of Usworth in com’ Pal. Durham, and mayor of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne; had, in 24 Edw. III. in consideration of his services against the Scots, a grant of the third part of the village and fishery of Paxton, with the appurtenances, in Scotland. He married Alice, daughter and heir of — Hought of Hought, and left issue John de Stanhope, and Richard, who had the lands in Northumberland, and served in parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne in 1 Richard II.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p5 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  Collins also describes Sir Richard as Lord of Elstwyke in the county of Northumberland, and of Usworth, in the county of Durham. Elstwyke is now Elswick, a suburb it may be said of Newcastle. The two Usworths (Great and Little) lie about half-way between Newcastle and Sunderland. But certainly as to this latter possession, and perhaps as to the former also, Sir Richard, as will presently appear, has been confounded with his second son.
  Sir Richard married Alice, daughter and heiress of the Houghtons (called Hough by a misprint in Collins). His second son, also Richard by name, served in Parliament for Newcastle-on-Tyne in the first of Richard II. He married Alice de Moderby, heiress, through her brother and sister, of lands in Great and Little Usworth. It has been shown from ancient records, that “Richard Stanhop, Burgess of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had licence to settle his lands in the two Usworths on trust for himself, and wife, and his own right heirs, 12 Dec. 33 Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1378.).” It may also be deduced from the Inquis. post mortem that he died in the thirty-fifth of Bishop Hatfield (A. D. 1380). He had a son, named John de Stanhope, aged twenty-four in 1380; but finally his lands appear to have passed away to a son of his wife by another marriage. See on all these points the History of Durham by Robert Surtees, vol. ii. p. 46.

Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire vol 2 p175 (Joseph Foster, 1874)
RICHARD STANHOPE, Esq., 3rd son, and by the second wife, had all his father’s lands in Northumberland, was M.P. for Newcastle in 1377.

Death: 1379

Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records vol 45 p262 (1884)
35. Stanhop, Richard.
Inq. p.m. taken 10 October [1379] at Durham. John, aged 24 is his son and next heir. Jointly with Alice his wife he had held his lands of the enfeoffment of John de Levyngthorp, chaplain, and John de Yeland.
Useworth Parva, manor of.
Useworth Magna, a fourth part of the vill of.
    Reg. Vol. II, fo. 101. 

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1405-1408 p262 (1907)
1406. Oct. 21.
Westminster.
  Licence, for 20l. paid by Adam Fenrother, clerk, and Alan Hilton, clerk, in the hanaper, for them to found a chantry of one chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel of the Apostles Peter and Paul within the church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne, for the good estate of the king and his consort Joan, queen of England, and for their souls after death and the souls of Robert de Duxfeld, Richard de Stanhope, Thomas de Moderby, Thomas de Reydell the elder, Margaret de Reydell, Thomas de Reydell the younger and Alice his sister and their benefactors and for the good estate of all who in future times shall maintain the chantry, and to grant in mortmain to him four messuages in Newcastle on Tyne, held of the king in burgage, in aid of his maintenance.     By K.

Sources:

Richard Stanhope

Birth: 1373/4
Richard is documented to be aged 24 at the IPM of Reginald Everingham in August 1398 (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429)

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Married (1st): Elizabeth Languillere

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 p11 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
  ... the property descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir of the said John Languillere, which same Elizabeth took to husband Richard Stanhop and had issue Richard Stanhop, esquire. After the death of Elizabeth all the said manors, lands, tenements and other the premises descended to the said Richard Stanhop, esquire, as son and heir of the said Elizabeth, and after Richard’s death they descended to the said John Stanhop son and heir of Richard, son and heir of Elizabeth as kinswoman and heir of the said John Languillere.

This marriage is not found in many early pedigrees and histories of Sir Richard Stanhope, most of which ascribe him a first wife named Elizabeth or Joan Stavely, and then place Maud Cromwell as a second wife. For example, The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677) has "This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert, and sister of Raph Staley" and The Peerage of England vol 3 pp255-8 (Arthur Collins, 1768) has "He had two wives, first, Elizabeth (or, as others say, Joan) daughter of Robert, and sister of Ralph de Stavely". The Staveley wife was definitely Joan, as seen on her gravestone in Rampton (see Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p14) and the simplest explanation of the Elizabeth/Joan confusion is that it represents two marriages. The IPM above states explicitly that Elizabeth Languillere "took to husband Richard Stanhop" and provides a better reason that their son (also Richard) took the Languillere arms. Sir Richard also appears to have inherited Languillere estates by being named the heir of a distant Languillere cousin, via the Malovells, (see Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV vol 1 pp22-6) but this does not preclude him from having married Elizabeth Languillere. The exact relationship between Elizabeth Languillere and Agnes Languillere from whom Richard inherited the Languillere estates has not been established.

Children: Married (2nd): Joan Stavely

Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne Stavely
Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne (Stavely) Stanhope in All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire
photo from Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project: Rampton All Saints
Joan was the daughter of Robert Stavely. She died on 4 September 1410 and is buried in All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire. Initially placed in the south aisle, her gravestone was moved to the chancel in 1852.

Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project: Rampton All Saints
Medieval Cross Slabs
A pair of cross slab floor stones are set in the chancel floor, (1) one against the north wall and (2) against the south, both having one edge hidden by heating pipes.
...
(2) Better-preserved stone; broad straight-armed cross with double-line outline, rising from stepped base with three crude fleur-de-lys type terminals and a moulded ring at the head of the shaft, with Sacred Monogram at heads centre. Black-letter inscription in marginal label:
Hic iacet ricardus stanhop miles et iohanna uxor eius que fuit filia roberti stali qui obiit primo die aprilis anno domini mocccc trecesimo vio et predicta iohanna obiit iiiio die septembris anno domini mcccco xo quorum [animabus propicietur deus]
Here lies Sir Richard Stanhope and Joan his wife who was the daughter of Robert Stali who died on the first day of April in the year of Our Lord 1436 and the aforesaid Joan died on the 4th day September in the year of Our Lord 1410 on whose souls may God have mercy.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.

Children: (some of these may be children of Elizabeth) Married (3rd): Maud Cromwell in 12 Henry IV [30 September 1410 - 29 September 1411]
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  The Covenants of Marriage between Sir Richard Stanhope, and Sir Raufe Cromwell, for Maud, sister of the said Sir Raufe, to the said Sir Richard, were dated 12 H. 4.

Maud was the daughter of Ralph Cromwell and Johanna. She is named as "Maud, the wife of Richard Stanhope, knight, sister of the aforesaid Ralph" Cromwell in a fine dated 29 November 1429 (Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/192/66 #93).

Maud is left a bequest of received a mantle lined with ermine and her best gown, in the will of her mother, Johanna Cromwell, dated 26 July 1434 and proved 10 August 1434.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 pp39-41 (1855)
         XXXII. TESTAMENTUM DOMINÆ DE CROMWELL.
  In Dei nomine, Amen. Die Lunæ, in Festo Sanctæ Annæ Matris Mariæ Virginis, anno Domini Millesimo CCCCmo tricesimo quarto, Ego domina Johanna domina de Cromwell,†
 ... Item lego dominæ Matildæ, filiæ meæ, uxori dicti Ricardi, optimum meum mantellum penulatum cum ermyn et optimam meam togam penulatam.
  † This lady, whose maiden name has not been ascertained, was the widow of Ralph Lord Cromwell, of Tatteshall, who died before the year 1420. By him she left two children, a son and a daughter. Ralph Lord Cromwell was found to be heir to his grandmother, at her death in 1420. He was then 16 years of age. He married Margaret, the daughter and coheiress of William, son of John Lord Deincourt, but he had no surviving issue by her. He died in 1455, and a full account of this great nobleman, and his pious and charitable works will be found appended to his will, which occurs hereafter. As he died without issue the representation and the vast estates of his lordly house passed away to his only sister Maud, the second wife of Sir Richard Stanhope, of Rampton, to whom she was married in the 12th of Henry IV. 

After the death of her husband in 1436, Maud was dowered of lands in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI 1435-1441 p24 (1937)
1436. June 13.
Westminster.
  To the escheator in Notynghamshire. Order to take of Maud who was wife of Richard Stanap knight an oath etc., and in presence of John Stanap son of Richard son of the said Richard, being cousin and heir of his grandfather, or of his attorneys, to assign her dower.
  To the escheator in Warwickshire. Order to assign dower to the said Maud, of whom the king has commanded the escheator in Notynghamshire to take an oath etc.

Maud died in December 1454, at Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. The writ of diem clausit extremum following her death was issued on 19 February 1454(5) (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 19 1452-1461 p99). Maud's brother, Ralph Cromwell, who was Lord High Treasurer of England, died without issue on 4 January 1454(5), leaving a substantial inheritance to Maud's two surviving daughters, Joan and Maud.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p283 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
  Raph Lord Crumwell, who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt, had no issue, so that his sister Matildis, whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir, she was his second wife, and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope, who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters, Joane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier, who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell, but had no issue that I have found; and Maud, first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby; secondly to Thomas Nevile; and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton; the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6.

Children: Occupation: Member of Parliament, Sheriff of Nottingham, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests

Richard represented Nottinghamshire in the Parliaments of 1402, January 1404, October 1404, 1406, December 1421, 1422, 1429, 1431 and 1433. He was also Sheriff of Nottingham, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests from 22 October 1404 (appointment in Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 12 1399-1405 p271) to 22 November 1405, and a Justice of the Peace for Nottingham at various periods between 1404 and 1435. Details of Richard's parliamentary career and official can be found at The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (J.S. Roskell, 1993) entry for STANHOPE, Sir Richard (c.1374-1436) and in The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 pp218-9 (John Smith Roskell, 1954). Richard was also appointed as a tax collector in Nottinghamshire on 5 July 1413 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 14 1413-1422 p27) and a commissioner to raise loans to the king in 1420 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 14 1413-1422 p316). He was verderer of Sherwood Forest until 3 December 1421 when Henry V issued an "order to the sheriff of Notyngham for election of a verderer of Shirwode forest instead of Richard Stanhope knight, who is too much occupied with divers business of the king in that forest to have leisure to exercise the office of verderer." (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V 1419-1422 p179). Richard was appointed a distributor of an allowance on a tax in Nottinghamshire in 1433 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 16 1430-1437 p187) and again in 1434 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 16 1430-1437 p192).

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1416-1422 p143 (1911)
1417. Oct. 14.
Westminster.
  Commission of array to Thomas Chaworth, ‘chivaler,’ Richard Stanope, ‘chivaler,’ John Zouche, ‘chivaler,’ William Rygmayden and Simon Leke in the county of Nottingham, for defence of the realm during the king’s absence in foreign parts.     By K.

similarly on 1 April 1418 (p197)

Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 14 1413-1422 p316 (1934)
1420. Jan 27.
Westminster.
  Commission to Thomas Chaworth, ‘chivaler,’ John Zouche, ‘chivaler,’ Richard Stanhop, ‘chivaler,’ Nicholas Streuley, ‘chivaler,’ William Babyngton, Simon Leko and Ralph Makerell, jointly and severally to levy and collect with all possible speed all sums of money borrowed by them, by virtue of certain letters patent, from divers the king’s lieges of the county of Nottingham for the better and more speedy resistance to the malice of the king’s enemies and for the preservation of his rights and the safekeeping of his realm; so that they answer for the said sums at the Receipt of the Exchequer at the octave of the Purification next, or earlier. And the king will cause writs, tallies and other sufficient and necessary warrants for his said lieges, for the prompt repayment to them of such sums from the third part of the lay tenth and fifteenth leviable at Martinmas next, to be made and delivered to the commissioners by the said octave or earlier.     By C.

Notes:
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1396-1399 p392 (1909)
The like pardons to the following:—
1398. Oct. 18.
Westminster.
Richard Stanhope, for not appearing to render 22l. to Thomas Somerton of London, draper, and Clemence, his wife, co-executrix of the will of Robert Boxford, citizen and draper of London.      London.

Richard inherited substantial estates - parts of the manors of Tuxford, Egmanton and Laxton - from a fairly distant relative on the death of Edmund Everingham in 1398. The complex inheritance is detailed in:
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 11 1391-1399 pp286-7 (1929)
1398. Nov. 12.
Westminster.
  Order to the escheator in the county of Nottingham,—pursuant to inquisitions made by him shewing that Reynold de Everyngham, ‘chivaler,’ held a third part of the manor of Tuxford ‘in the Clay’ of the king in chief by the service of a third part of a knight’s fee, and 60 messuages, 6 carucates of land, 80 acres of meadow, 40s. of rent, and 2 fisheries in the river Trent, in Hoghton on Idell, Allerton in Shirewode, Little Drayton, Eton, Carleton, Elkesley, Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford, Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, South Leverton, Northcotum, Marneham and Southcotum, a moiety of the manor of Egmanton, and a fourth part of the manor of Laxton, co. Nottingham, of others than the king, of the gift and grant of Adam de Everyngham, ‘chivaler,’ and others, made by fines levied in the king’s court (and with the king’s licence so far as the third part of the manor of Tuxford is concerned), to him and Agnes, his late wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder (1) of the messuages, land, meadow, fisheries and rent to the right heirs of Agnes, and (2) of the third part, moiety and fourth part to the heirs male of the body of Reynold, with remainder over to the right heirs of Agnes, and that by virtue of the said fines Reynold and Agnes were seised of the premises and continued that estate therein during the lifetime of Agnes, which Agnes died without issue by Reynold, whereupon Reynold took to wife a certain Joan, by whom he had a son named Edmund, and afterwards died, on whose death the said third part, moiety and fourth part descended to Edmund as his son and heir male, who continued his possession thereof during his lifetime and died seised thereof without heir male of his body, and that of the premises (1) the said messuages, land, meadow, fisheries and rent in Hoghton, Allerton, Drayton, Eton, Carlton, Elkesley, Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford, Northcotum, Marneham and Southcotum ought after the death of Reynold and Agnes to remain to Richard Stanhop, son of Elizabeth the daughter of Stephen the son of Elizabeth the sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, as kinsman and next heir of Agnes, because Reynold and Agnes died without issue, (2), the said third part, moiety and fourth part ought after the death of Edmund to remain to the same Richard because Edmund died without heir male of his body, and (3) the said lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton, and Northcotum are divisible between the said Richard, who is of full age, Stephen, his brother, also of full age, and Robert and Ralph, his brothers, who are minors, according to the custom of the soke of the manor of Oswerbek, and ought to remain to the said Richard, Stephen, Robert and Ralph by virtue of one of the said fines,—to make a partition of the lands in Wellum etc. into four equal parts, and cause Richard to have full seisin of his pourparty thereof, as well as the whole of the remaining premises, saving to the aforesaid Joan her reasonable dower of the aforesaid third part, moiety and fourth part, as the king has taken the homage and fealty of Richard for the third part of the manor of Tuxford; and to remove the king’s hand from the remaining three pourparties of the lands in Wellum etc., if they are in the king’s hand by the death of Reynold and for no other cause, delivering any issues thereof taken since the death of Reynold to those to whom they belong.         By p.s. [12465.]

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV vol 1 pp25-6 (1927)
1399 Sept. 30.
To the escheator in Notynghamshire. Order to take of Joan who was wife of Reynold de Everyngham knight an oath etc., and in presence of Richard Stanhope or his attorney to assign her dower of a third part of the manor of 'Tuxforde in the Clay,' a moiety of the manor of Egmanton, and a fourth part of the manor of Laxton; as it is found by inquisition, taken by the late king's escheator, that by fine levied in the late king's court with his licence the said Reynold at his death held (among other things) the said third part in chief by the service of the third part of one knight's fee, the said moiety and fourth part of others than the king, by gift of Adam de Everyngham knight and others to the said Reynold and Agnes late his wife and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the heirs male of the body of the said Reynold, remainder to the right heirs of the said Agnes, that Agnes died without issue by him, that he took to wife the said Joan, and by her begat a son named Edmund, and died, that the premises descended to Edmund as his son and heir male, and that the said Edmund died without an heir male of his body, wherefore the same ought by virtue of the said fine to remain to Richard Stanhope, being son of Elizabeth daughter of Stephen son of Elizabeth sister of John Lungvilers father of the said Agnes, and cousin and heir of the said Agnes, and being of full age.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429
1160
NOTTINGHAM .  Inq. taken at Retteford, Saturday, All Souls’ Day, 22 Richard II.
By a fine levied in the king’s court between Reynold de Everyngham, knight, and Agnes his wife, querents, and Adam de Everyngham, knight, Ralph de Crumwell, knight, Nicholas Everyngham and Gregory de Dunham deforciants, the under-mentioned messuages, lands etc. were granted to the said Reynold and Agnes and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the right heirs of Agnes and the under-mentioned fractions of manors were granted to the said Reynold and Agnes with successive remainders to the heirs male of the body of Reynold and to the right heirs of Agnes. The said Agnes died without heir procreated between her and the said Reynold, who afterwards married one Joan and had a son Edmund. Reynold died at Laxton on 2 August last and the said fractions of manors descended to the said Edmund as his son and heir male, and the said messuages, lands etc. ought to remain to Richard Stanop, aged 28 years and more, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, son of Elizabeth, sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, except those held of the soke of Oswerbek, which are partible among heirs male according to the custom of the soke and ought to descend to the said Richard and to his brothers, Stephen, aged 21 years and more, Robert, aged 18 years and more, and Ralph, aged 12 years and more.
Wellum Morehos. 4 cottages.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. land and meadow.
Fenton. A cottage.
Littilburgh. 3 cottages, a common oven, a bovate of land and a twentieth part of a ferry over the Trent.
South Leverton and Northcotum. A messuage, 6 cottages, 240a. land and 20a. meadow.
All the above are held in socage of the heirs of the earl of Pembroke as of the soke of Oswerbek.
Hoghton upon Idell. A messuage, 3 cottages, a carucate of land and 10a. meadow, held of George de Mountburghcher by service of a rose.
Allerton in Schirewode. 2 messuages and 2 bovates of land, held of the heirs of John FitzWilliam by homage.
Little Drayton, 1a. 1 1/3r. meadow, tenure unknown.
Eton. 6a. meadow, held of the heirs of Robert de Wirlyngton by homage.
Carleton. 2 1/2a. meadow, tenure unknown.
Elkesley. 2 messuages and 2 bovates of land, tenure unknown.
Grymeston. 10 1/4 bovates of land, held of the heirs of Hugh Hastyng by service of a rose yearly.
Welhagh. 7 1/4 cottages, held of the heirs of the said Hugh by fealty, suit of court every three weeks and a rent of 2s. 4 1/2d. yearly.
Kyrketon and Walesby. 13d. rent of assize.
Retteford. 8 1/2 cottages, held of the king in burgage.
Southleverton. 28s. rent called ‘mustererent’.
Southcotum. 8 messuages, 10 bovates of land, 24a. meadow and two fisheries in the Trent, held of the fee of Allerton by homage.
Marneham. 8 messuages, 8 bovates of land and 6a. meadow, held of the heir of William FitzWilliam by homage.
Egmanton. A moiety of the manor (extent given), held of lord de Moubray by homage and fealty. The extent includes a ruined dovecot, a ruined windmill and a park.
Laxton. A fourth part of the manor (extent given), held of the heirs of Roger de Everyngham by service of 1/2d. yearly and paying to the master of Ossyngton 18d., to the lord of Egmanton 1/2 lb. cummin, price 1 1/2d., to the lord of Knesale 12d. yearly and to a chaplain to celebrate perpetually in the church of Laxton a quarter of wheat yearly, price 5s. Six free tenants and two tenants at will hold in Laxton Morehous of the heirs of the said Reynold de Everyngham by service of a moiety of a fourth part of a knight’s fee.
The said Edmund died at Radclyfe upon Sore on Tuesday after Michaelmas last without heir male of his body. The said Richard Stanop is heir to the said fractions of manors as heir to the said Agnes.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1396-1399 p392 (1909)
1399. March 6.
Westminster.
  Grant to Richard Davy, Thomas Davy, Richard de Heley, and Hugh Smyth of the principality of Chester, of the 50 marks which Richard Stanhope of the county of Nottingham, esquire, tenant in chief, ought to pay to the king for the farm of certain lands which he holds by knight service for the term of St. Martin last, because he did not do homage before that term; provided that the said sum have not been previously assigned.     By p.s.

Richard happened, by virtue of his second marriage, into the winning side in the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by his cousin, then Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, in 1399. Stanhope, at the time a wealthy landowner in Nottinghamshire, was the brother-in-law of Sir Ralph Stavely who was Steward of the Household to Henry Bolingbroke. Richard raised an armed band and met Henry Bolingbroke when he returned from exile, landing at Ravenspur, Yorkshire, in July 1399, and his men also provided a royal bodyguard at the Westminster Parliament two months later. Richard was created a Knight of the Bath on 12 October 1399, at the coronation of Henry IV. He is named by Hollinshed as "Richard Sanape".
Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland vol 3 p3 (Raphael Holinshed, 1808)
On the sundaie following, being the euen of saint Edward, the new king lodged in the Tower, and there made fortie & six knights of the Bath, to wit; thrée of his sonnes, the earle of Arundell, the earle of Warwike his sonne, the earle of Stafford, two of the earle of Deuonshires sonnes, the lord Beaumont, the lord Willoughbies brother, the earle of Staffords brother, the lord Camois his sonne, the lord of Maule, Thomas Beauchampe, Thomas Pelham, Iohn Luttrell, Iohn Lisleie, William Haukeford iustice, William Brinchleie iustice, Bartholomew Rathford, Giles Daubenie, William Butler, Iohn Ashton, Richard Sanape, Iohn Tiptost, Richard Francis, Henrie Persie, Iohn Arundell, William Strall, Iohn Turpington, Ailmer Saint, Edward Hastings, Iohn Greisleie, Gerald Satill, Iohn Arden, Robert Chalons, Thomas Dimocke, Hungerford, Gibethorpe, Newport, and diuerse other, to the number of fortie and six.
  On the morow being saint Edwards daie, and the thirteenth of October, the lord maior of London road towards the Tower to attend the king, with diuerse worshipfull citizens clothed all in red, and from the Tower the king rode through the citie to Westminster, where he was consecrated, anointed, and crowned king by the archbishop of Canturburie with all ceremonies and roiall solemnitie as was due and requisit.

The ceremony on the eve of Henry IV's coronation in which the knights were created is described by Froissart in
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath p26 (Jocelyn Perkins, 1920)
  “The King went from Westminster to the Tower of London, with many followers; and all the Esquires who were to be made Knights on the next day, to the number of forty-six, watched all that night, each of whom had his chamber, and his Bath, in which he bathed; and the next day the Duke of Lancaster made them Knights at the celebration of Mass, and gave them long green coats with straight sleeves, furred with miniver, after the fashion of Prelates; and the said Knights had on the left shoulder a double cordon of white silk, with tassels hanging down.” 

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1399-1401 p240 (1903)
1400. March 18.
Westminster.
  Grant for life to Richard de Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ of 40 marks yearly from the issues of the county of Nottingham.     By p.s.
  Vacated by surrender and cancelled, because the king with his assent on 2 December in the eighth year granted the same for life to Roger Deyncourt son and heir of John Deyncourt, ‘chivaler,’ deceased.

In September 1401, escheators in a number of counties were ordered to conduct an inquisition post mortem into Richard's land holdings. The order was later vacated "because he still survives". This must be the medieval equivalent of reading one's own obituary in the newspaper!
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 12 1399-1405 p84 (1931)
  Order to the escheator in the counties of Somerset and Dorset Westminster, to take into the king’s hand and keep safely until further order all the lands in his bailiwick whereof Idonia late the wife of John Paulet, who (que) held of the king in chief, was seised in her demesne as of fee on the day of her death; and to make inquisition touching her lands and heir.
  The like orders touching the lands of the following persons directed to the escheators in the counties named:—
...
1401. Sept. 8.
Westminster.
  Richard Stanhop, ‘chivaler’; Nottingham; Derby; Warwick; Leicester; Lincoln.
  Vacated because he still survives.

The patronage of Henry IV helped Richard Stanhope to become the representative of Nottinghamshire in Parliament from 1402 until 1406, as well as being appointed Sheriff of Nottingham in 1404-5. Richard received a payment of £26 for 65 days expenses in the Parliament that sat from September to November 1402 (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1402-1405 p125), £30 for 75 days expenses in the Parliament that sat from January until March 1404 (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1402-1405 p366), £16 for 40 days expenses in the "Parliament of Dunces", so called because lawyers were not allowed to be members, that sat from October to November 1404 (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1402-1405 p520) and £73 4s. for 183 days expenses in the "Long Parliament" that sat from March to November 1406 (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1405-1409 p520).

The biography in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 continues "He fought under Henry IV’s banner at the battle of Shrewsbury in July 1403, and was duly rewarded ‘in recompense for the great losses sustained by him’, with the wardship of the person and estates of Sir Nicholas Goushill’s son, Nicholas, together with the latter’s marriage, which alone was valued at over £66. His part in the struggle against the Welsh and the northern rebels which marked the early years of Henry IV’s reign was sufficiently distinguished for him to be accorded another gift (of £40) in December 1405, partly in consideration of his ‘great labours’ while in office as sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire."

The "northern rebels" in 1405 included Sir William Plumpton who was executed for his involvement in the rebellion of Archbishop Scropes.
History of England Under Henry the Fourth vol 2 p228 (James Hamilton Wylie, 1894)
  We have seen that the King had already decided that no glory was to be gained by hanging about the bleak borders of Wales. He had scented the battle in the North, his old spirit was awake, and he moved straight from Worcester by forced marches from day to day (de jour en autre). By May 28th, 1405, he had reached Derby, whence he posted orders to the members of the council in London to come instantly north to Pontefract, each with his best array according to his station, for advice and help. From May 30th to June 1st he halted at Nottingham. It was found that in consequence of the failure of the rebellion at York, a general scramble was going forward to secure a share of confiscated property in Yorkshire, Lincoln, and Nottinghamshire. Measures were therefore taken to prevent looting, and orders were sent (May 31st) to the Sheriff at York to seize all the property of the Archbishop and the other rebels into his hands, in the King’s name. Sir Ralph Rocheford, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and Sir Richard Stanhope, Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, had accompanied the King from Hereford and Worcester, and did good service now in their respective counties.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1401-1405 p92 (1905)
1402. May 11.
Westminster.
  Grant to Richard Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ by mainprise of John Staveley of Stirop by Blithe, co. Nottingham, and Richard Clapeham of the same county, of the custody of all lands in Pakynton Pygot, co. Warwick, late of Thomas Boyvylle, ‘chivaler,’ deceased, tenant in chief of Henry de Bello Monte, a minor in the king’s custody, during the minority of John his son and heir, with the marriage of the latter without disparagement, and so from heir to heir, paying 40l. to the king, viz. 20 marks at Martinmas in each of the next three years, and finding a competent maintenance for the heir, so that he answer for any surplus beyond the value of 20s. yearly at which the lands are extended.
          By bill of the treasurer.
pp499-500
1405. March 12.
Westminster.
  Revocation of letters patent granting to Richard Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ the custody of the third part of the manor of Pakynton Pygot called ‘Boyvylesparc’ by the name of all lands late of Thomas Boyvyle, ‘chivaler,’ in the town of Pakynton Pygot, co. Warwick. By an inquisition taken before John Boteler of Sproxton, escheator in the county, by virtue of his office and returned before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer it was found that the said Thomas died seised in his demesne as of fee of the said third part, held of the lord Beaumont, a minor in the king’s custody, by knight-service as of the honour of Winchester, and that he died on Sunday before the Conception of St. Mary then last past and John his son was his heir and of the age of ten years and more; and afterwards on complaint by John Neville, knight, Henry Neville, knight, Thomas de Gresley and John Bouland, parson of the church of Onlep, that the said Thomas by the name of Thomas Boyville, lord of Stokefaston, by charter dated at Stokefaston, 8 June, 17 Richard II, granted to them and Thomas Walch, knight, now deceased, the said third part by the name of all lands, rents and services with woods, reversions, wards, reliefs, marriages, escheats and appurtenances which he had in Pakyngton in Ardern, and they were accordingly in full possession and continued their possession until they were removed by colour of the said inquisition and letters patent, the king directed the sheriff to summon the said Richard to appear before him in Chancery at a certain day now past to show cause why the letters should not be revoked; and the sheriff returned that he ordered full return of the writ to John Pernell, bailiff of the honour of Winchester, who has the return of writs within the same liberty, and he has answered that he summoned him by Richard Hogges, William Phip, Richard Milward and John Walron, but he did not appear, and judgement was given against him.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1405-1408 p53 (1907)
1405. Aug. 17.
Leicester.
  Commission by mainprise of Thomas Bailly of Leycestre and James Strangways of the county of Lancaster, to Richard Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ in recompense of the great loss sustained by him in the battle at Shrewsbury, of the keeping, during minority, of the land and heir of Nicholas de Gouxhill, ‘chivaler,’ deceased, with the marriage of the latter without disparagement, and so from heir to heir, to the value of 100 marks, rendering any surplus at the Exchequer, maintaining the houses and buildings and supporting all charges.     By K.
p84
1405. Oct. 4.
Worcester.
  Grant to the king’s knight Richard de Stanhope, in consideration of his good service and expenses in the king’s company in the north and in Wales without wages, reward or fee, of 40l. from the issues of the counties of Nottingham and Derby.     By p.s.
  Vacated because otherwise below.
p102
1405. Dec. 2.
Westminster.
  Grant to the king’s knight Richard de Stanhope, late sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, in consideration of his labours in the king’s company in the north and in Wales at great expense, of 40l. from the issues of the said counties.     By p.s.
p229
1406. March 17.
Westminster.
  Commission to the king’s son John de Lancastre, constable of England, the king’s brother Ralph, earl of Westmorland, marshal of England, Henry Filz Hugh, Ralph de Euer and the sheriffs of York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland to enquire into the report that many of the king’s people of the north pretending to wish to go to the king’s son Henry, prince of Wales, to Wales to make war upon the rebels there have lately assembled in the north and gone from thence arrayed in arms to Wales to aid the rebels and lest they should be hindered rest at towns and places on their journey by day and ride and labour by night, and to arrest the offenders and to certify thereon to the king and council.     By K.
  The like to the following:—
... Thomas de Rempston, Thomas Chaworth, John de Leek, Richard Stanhope, Hugh Husy, Thomas Bekeryng, Hugh Cressy, William de Leek, the sheriff of Nottyngham and the mayor and bailiffs of the town of Notyngham.
p277
1406. Dec. 2.
Westminster.
  Grant for life, with the assent of the council, to Roger Deyncourt, son and heir of John Deyncourt, ‘chivaler,’ deceased, of 40 marks yearly from Michaelmas last from the issues of the county of Nottingham; in lieu of a like grant to Richard de Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ by letters patent dated 18 March, 1 Henry IV, surrendered.     By K. & C.

In 1406, Roger Deyncourt, son of John Deyncourt, quitclaimed the manor of Ansty to Richard, probably as part of a deal in which Roger started to receive the 40 marks a year for life from the king that Richard had been receiving, as above.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1405-1409 p231
1406 Nov. 16.
 Westminster.
  Roger Deyncourt, son and heir of John Deyncourt knight, to Richard Stanhope knight, his heirs and assigns. Quitclaim of the manor of Ansty co. Warrewyk. Dated London, 30 November 8 Henry IV.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 4 December. 

Richard fell out of favour in 1411, and in October of that year was imprisoned for a month in the Tower of London while a complaint against him for abuse of power was investigated.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1409-1413 p243 (1932)
1411 Oct. 24.
Westminster.
  To the constable of the Tower of London or his lieutenant. Order to receive Richard Stanape, Thomas Chaworth, John Zouche, John de Leeke, Roger Leche and John Cokayn knights from one who shall deliver them on behalf of the king, and to keep them in custody in the Tower until further order.    By C.
p244
1411 Nov. 6.
Westminster.
  To the constable of the Tower of London or his lieutenant. Order to have in chancery this instant Friday Richard Stanape, Thomas Chaworth, John Zouche, John de Leeke, Roger Leche, John Cokayn knights and John Fynderne, who are in custody in the Tower by command of the king.    By K.
p261
1411 Nov. 30.
Westminster.
  To the constable of the Tower of London or his lieutenant. Order to set free Richard Stanape, Thomas Chaworth, John Zouche, John de Leeke, Robert Leche, John Cokayne knights and John Fynderne, all imprisoned in the Tower by command of the king.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1408-1413 p398 (1909)
1412. May 7.
Westminster.
  Pardon to the king’s knight Richard Stanhope for all insurrections, Westminster, conventicles, riots, rebellions, felonies and misprisions committed by him before 15 December last.     By p.s.

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V 1413-1419 pp62-3 (1929)
1413.
  Richard de Stanehop knight, cousin and heir of Richard de Stanehop, to William Johanson the elder, burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Laundels chaplain and John de Cowegate, their heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of the whole messuage in Newcastle wherein the said William now dwells, with houses, appurtenances etc. thereto belonging and adjacent, of a piece of void ground adjacent called the ‘Coleyardes,’ and of all other the messuages lying together there in a street called the ‘Keyside,’ with the houses thereupon built etc. as they lie by right metes and bounds, sometime of the said Richard now deceased and now a long while in the possession of the said William, Thomas and John, under condition that this warranty clause shall not bind the said Richard or his heirs in a plea of warranty of charter, or to make up the value of the premises, or in case of a writ de medio, or a plea of covenant. Witnesses: William Redinshille then sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Hesilrik, William de Esyngton, Henry de Byngfelde of Strother, Roger del Bothe, Robert Browell. Dated Wednesday after St. Cuthbert in March 1412.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 27 March this year.

The king's succession by his son, Henry V, did nothing to improve Richard's standing and the Parliament of 1414 was presented with a complaint by Margaret Basset dating back to 1406 alleging Richard had improperly confiscated her lands while he was Sheriff, and "because Richard was one of the most powerful and contentious people in the county and Margaret was a poor widow, and it seemed to the King and lords that the truth could not well be found while Richard was at large, the King, with the assent of the lords, decided that Richard should be kept in Kenilworth castle while the truth was inquired into". Richard spent three weeks imprisoned in Kenilworth Castle before the suit was decided in his favour, and at the following Parliament in November 1414, Richard sought a remedy against Margaret for the accusations.
The National Archives SC 8/97/4801 Petitioners: Margaret Basset.
Margaret Basset complains of certain trespasses and extortions committed against her by Richard Stanop:
1) He attacked her house in Normanton on 7 August 7 Henry IV [1406], and carried off her goods and chattels.
2) On 3 May in the same year he assaulted her violently at Fledborough, and in fleeing from this assault she fell, hurting herself badly.
3) On the same occasion he threatened her servants, so that they did not dare to go about her business.
4) On 3 July in the same year, being Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, he had his officers and ministers threaten Margaret and take money from her by colour of his office.
5) On 12 January 8 Henry IV [1407] he forcibly took one John Paton of Scotland, prisoner, from Margaret, and let him escape, to her great damage.
6) He extorted money from one Elizabeth Shepard at Fledborough, wrongly claiming she was his vilein.
7) When she distrained one William Dey, who held land of her in Stokeham, for arrears of his rent, he claimed those distraints as his, by colour of a gift made to him by William.
8) He threatened her and her servants so that they have left her and she has fled Nottinghamshire and does not dare to return.She requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: Touching this petition which Margaret Basset delivered to the King in his parliament held at Leicester on the last day of April in the second year of his reign, and in which she complains about Richard Stanop, knight, and various wrongs committed by the same Richard and contained in the petition; Richard, then being present before the King and lords, with regard to the first article, read to him then, made protestation that the goods are not worth as much as she claims in the petition, answering that he was the Sheriff of King Henry, father of the present lord King, in Nottinghamshire seven years ago, and that then by virtue of this office he seized the goods and chattels contained in the article at Fledborough as chattels of a felon of the late King, for the use of the King, and that he has answered to the King fully for them in the Exchequer. And Margaret said that on the contrary she had title to these goods and chattels by virtue of a certain franchise belonging to the manor of Fledborough, and that Richard took them out of her possession [illegible] And several people asked that a search might be made for evidence both for the said account (?) and for the franchise that Margaret claims to have; which the King granted. And with regard to all the other articles contained in the petition, Richard said by way of response that he was not guilty, and Margaret said that he was and that all her complaints were true. Therefore, because the matter could not be tried in this court, Richard was examined on these articles and it was eventually decided that he was guilty rather than not. Therefore, because Richard was one of the most powerful and contentious people in the county and Margaret was a poor widow, and it seemed to the King and lords that the truth could not well be found while Richard was at large, the King, with the assent of the lords, decided that Richard should be kept in Kenilworth castle while the truth was inquired into, as had been done in similar cases previously. The King ordered the Chancellor to send a writ to the warden of the said castle to receive the said Richard and have him well guarded. And the King further told Margaret that if her complaints were found to be false, then she would have such a punishment as would deter others from making such untrue suggestions to the King.
The National Archives SC 8/23/1140 Petitioners: Richard Stanhop (Stanhope), knight.
Richard Stanhop complains that at the last parliament at Leicester he was arrested and held in custody as a result of accusations made against him by Margaret Basset, but that various inquests held because of these and other things later found no evidence for them. He asks the commons to ask the king to ordain a due remedy for him for what he has suffered as a result of these false accusations.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] Soit prie au Roy (A request is to be made to the king).Leg'r coram dominis (It is read or it is to be read before the lords).[On dorse] What was found by the inquests on Richard Stanhop's behalf is to be shown, and then the king will do justice.

In the light of this animosity, it is curious that Margaret Basset's grandson, William Bassett (son of Margaret's son Thomas Basset) married Richard Stanhope's daughter, Katherine! (Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale p104 (Paul A. Fox, 2020))

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1409-1413 p125 (1932)
1410. Sept. 11.
Beverley.
  To the sheriff of Notyngham. Writ of supersedeas, by mainprise of John Wylton, John Tikhill, William Grene and Thomas Arkilby of Yorkshire, in favour of Adam Fenrother clerk at suit of Richard Stanop knight for trespass.
p310
1411. Dec. 2.
Westminster.
  Richard Stanhop knight, Robert Strelley and John Tuxforde Westminster. to Robert de Morton esquire. Recognisance for 200l., to be levied etc. in Notynghamshire.
  Condition, that the said Richard shall on his part keep all the covenants in certain indentures made between him and Robert de Morton.
  The said Robert (sic) to the said Richard, Robert Strelley and John. Like recognisance, mutatis mutandis.
p397
1412. Oct. 22.
Westminster.
  Bartholomew Brokesby, of Leycestershire, Thomas Gower of Yorkshire and William Merynge of Notynghamshire to Richard Stanhope knight and John Tuxforde. Recognisance for 500 marks, to be levied etc. in the said counties.
  Condition, that Alexander de Merynge shall abide and perform the award of William lord Roos, William Gascoigne chief justice and Robert Tirwhit one of the king’s justices touching the title and possession of a third part of the manor of Little Markham, whereof a plea is pending before the said Robert and his fellows, justices appointed to take an assize of novel disseisin between the said Alexander and the said John and Katherine his wife, so that the same be made before the octaves of St. Hilary next.
  The said Richard Stanhope and John Tuxforde to the said Alexander. Like recognisance, mutatis mutandis, to be levied etc. in Notynghamshire.
  Like condition, mutatis mutandis. 

There were other complaints about Richard's abuse of power. In 1414, the tenants of Darlton and Ragnall appealed to the king that Richard had enclosed their land, and that the did not dare to sue at law "for fear of Richard Stanop", and in the same year Oliver and Agnes Billyng complained that Richard had improperly influenced an executor and "they cannot have remedy for this within Nottinghamshire, as Richard Stanop is so feared by the common people"
The National Archives SC 8/23/1128 Petitioners: Tenants of Darlton and Ragnal.
The tenants of Darlton and Ragnall complain that Richard Stanop, knight, has enclosed their common pastures, and that they are so ruined as a result that they cannot pay their rents and services to the king; nor do they dare to sue at law, for fear of Richard Stanop: so they request a remedy of the king.
The National Archives SC 8/23/1129 Petitioners: Oliver Billyng of Whimpton; Agnes Billyng, wife of Oliver Billing.
Oliver Billyng of Whimpton, and Agnes [Billyng] his wife complain that when John Sewale of Whimpton, Agnes' former husband, died, he left her and his brother, John Sewale of Coventry, an old, sick man, his executors, and that Richard Stanop suborned this John Sewale, and used him to get possession of all his brother's, and Agnes', goods and possessions, and all the debts due to his brother. They cannot have remedy for this within Nottinghamshire, as Richard Stanop is so feared by the common people, and so request a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: To this petition, read to the aforementioned Richard Stanop in the presence of the king and of the lords spiritual and temporal, he said by way of response that he was not guilty of any of the matters contained in this petition.

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V 1413-1419 p527 (1929)
1419. March 11.
Westminster.
  Richard Stanhop of Hoghton co. Notyngham knight, Nicholas Goushill of Barleburgh co. Derby esquire and Thomas son of the said Richard to Joan who was wife of William Thyrnyng knight. Recognisance for 200 marks to be levied etc. in the counties aforesaid.
  Memorandum that this recognisance was taken by John Cokayn by a writ.
  Cancelled on payment.
  Thomas Chaworth of Wyverton co. Notyngham, Ralph de Shirley knights and Joan who was wife of William Thirnyng knight to Richard Stanhope knight. Recognisance for 200 marks, to be levied etc. in Notynghamshire.
  (Like) memorandum.
  Cancelled on payment. 

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI 1429-1435 pp108-9 (1933)
1431.
  Richard Stanhope knight to Robert Falle clerk, William Warde of Stretton, William Nevile and Joan his wife, their heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of a messuage called ‘Longvilers place’ with croft adjacent, a toft called ‘Dufooteyerde’ (sic) with a croft and the moiety of a dovecote thereupon, a toft called ‘Wateryerdepreest,’ 50 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow in ‘Southleverton’ and Cotom which they had by his gift in exchange for divers lands etc. in Rampton. Witnesses: William Wilbram, Stephen de Stanhope esquires, John Fulsham. Dated Hoghton, 9 November 6 Henry V.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment in chancery at Westminster, 13 February this year.  
p163
1431.
  Richard Stanhop knight to William Basset esquire, son and heir of Thomas Basset, and to his assigns during his life. Gift with warranty of a yearly rent of 12l., with power to distrain for arrears in the grantor’s manor of Fledburgh and all his lands in Starnthrop, Normanton, Wodecotes, ‘Estdrayton,’ Dunham and Stokun co. Notyngham late of Thomas Basset, and bond to pay 40s. in name of a pain if the same shall be forty days in arrear after any term of payment, with like power to distrain for the pain. Proviso that the said William shall deliver letters of acquittance for every payment. Dated 24 November 10 Henry VI.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 27 November. 
p164
1431.
  William Basset, son of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh, to Richard Stanhope knight, his heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of the manor and advowson of Fledburgh and of all the lands, rents and services in Fledburgh, Starnthorp, Normanton, Wodecotes, ‘Estdrayton,’ Dunham, Stokum and elsewhere in Notynghamshire and in Bernangle, Sutton and Wilmyncote co. Warrewyk, and all reversions of tenants for life or years thereto belonging which were of William Basset grandfather of the said William, or of the said Thomas his father. Witnesses: Robert Warsop parson of Fledburgh, John Wastneys, William Wilbram of Laun’, William Neville of ‘Southleverton’, John Croftes of Ragenhill. Dated Rampton, 16 December 7 Henry VI.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 27 November this year.

Richard and his wife Maud are left bequests in, and Richard is an executor of, the will of his mother-in-law, Johanna Cromwell, dated 26 July 1434 and proved 10 August 1434.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 pp39-41 (1855)
         XXXII. TESTAMENTUM DOMINÆ DE CROMWELL.
  In Dei nomine, Amen. Die Lunæ, in Festo Sanctæ Annæ Matris Mariæ Virginis, anno Domini Millesimo CCCCmo tricesimo quarto, Ego domina Johanna domina de Cromwell
 ... Item lego domino Ricardo Stanop militi unam pelvim cum uno lavacro, et duos crateres de argento et deauratos cum suis coopertoriis, et unum maser deauratum cum coopertorio, et unum par de bedys de corall optimum. Item lego dominæ Matildæ, filiæ meæ, uxori dicti Ricardi, optimum meum mantellum penulatum cum ermyn et optimam meam togam penulatam.
... Residuum executoribus meis—quos constituo Dominum Richardum Stanop militem et Thomam Hurrebat, et supervisorem Dominum Radulphum filium meum, dominum de Cromwell.  [Prob. 10 Aug. 1434.]  

Richard received a washing basin, two cups with silver gilt, a mazer with a cover and a pair of coral beads. Maud, her daughter, Richard's wife, received a mantle lined with ermine and her best gown.

Richard was also left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.
  There were Covenants of Marriage, 10 H. 4. between Sir Richard Stanhope, and Sir Nicolas Strelley, for the marriages of Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard, to Robert Strelley, son of Sir Nicolas.
  The Covenants of Marriage between Sir Richard Stanhope, and Sir Raufe Cromwell, for Maud, sister of the said Sir Raufe, to the said Sir Richard, were dated 12 H. 4. By her he had Henry Stanhope, who died without issue, 12 Aug. 31 H. 6. and was buried at Lamley; and Matilda, first married to Robert Lord Willoughby; secondly, to Thomas Nevile, and thirdly, to Sir Gervas Clifton : and Joane married to Humfrey Bourchier, as in Lamley is noted.
  Sir Richard Stanhope, 5 H. 6. covenanted with Sir John Assheton, and Elizabeth his wife, sometime wife of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall in Lanc. for the marriage of John Stanhope his (Grandson) Nephew, to Elizabeth, daughter of the said Sir Thomas Talbot.
  Sir Richard Stanap, about 14 H. 6. died seised of this Mannor of Rampton, half Egmanton, and the third part of Tuxford, the Mannors of Skegby, and South Cotum, &c. leaving the said John Stanap his heir, viz. son of his son Richard Stanap, Esquire, whose death was on the second of March, 10 H. 6.

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp255-8 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Then Richard Stanhope, the second son, became heir, and was eminent, as well for his large possessions, as the trust and power reposed in him. In 22 Richard II. he was found cousin and heir to Agnes the wife of Sir Reginald de Everingham, Knt. who was daughter and heir to Sir John Longvilers, whose sister Elizabeth was mother of Stephen Maulovel, father of Elizabeth, mother of the said Richard Stanhope, then of full age, whereby he inherited the estate of Longvilers, who were Barons of parliament. This Richard was created a Knight of the honourable order of the Bath at the coronation of King Henry IV. and served for the county of Nottingham in the parliament held in the 4th of that reign, and had his expences allowed for 65 days attendance, Sir John Clifton being chose with him. He likewise served the next year with John Leek, Esq. and the year after with Simon Leek, in which year he was also sheriff of that county and Derbyshire. In the 8th of Henry IV. when another parliament was called to meet at Westminster, he, with Sir Thomas Chaworth, Knt. was returned for the said county of Nottingham, and 73l. 4s. was levied for their expences for 171 days. In 4 Henry V. having the wardship of Richard de Sutton, son and heir of Henry de Sutton, he granted to Margaret, wife of the said Henry, the manors of Averham and Kellum, which he held by reason of the minority of the said Richard; whereunto his seal appendant is, a bend between six cross croslets, the arms of Longvilers, and the crest, on a chapeau turn’d up, a wolf passant (belonging to Maulovel) circumscribed SIGILLUM RICI STANHOP. From which I shall observe, that in ancient times it was usual to bear the arms of heiresses, whereof innumerable instances might be produced; and Sir Richard Stanhope enjoying large possessions both of the families of Longvilers and Maulovel, bore the arms of the one, and the crest of the other: But it is certain, the ancient arms were Ermin and Gules, as appears by an old MS. of Knights and Esquires that were living in the reign of King Edw. III. in which John de Stanhope is mentioned to bear those arms; and in all probability Sir Michael Stanhope reassumed them, by reason that the estates of Maulovel and Longvilers were conveyed out of the family in the reign of King Henry VIII. Richard his elder brother dying 21 January in 18 Henry VIII. without issue male, leaving only a daughter Saunchia, aged 14 years, who brought a great inheritance to her husband John Babington, Esq.
  But to return: in 8 Henry V. this Sir Richard Stanhope was the first in commission for the county of Nottingham, specially assigned to put in execution the statutes made at Winchester and Northampton; and the year after served again in parliament for Nottinghamshire; likewise in four several parliaments in the reign of King Henry VI. viz. in 1, 8, 9, and 12 Henry VI. in which last year, he with John archbishop of York, and Humphrey Earl of Stafford, were constituted commissioners to summon all persons of the best note, in the county of Nottingham, and tender them an oath, for the observation of the articles concluded on in the parliament then held. He had two wives, first, Elizabeth (or, as others say, Joan) daughter of Robert, and sister of Ralph de Stavely, who bore him Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Joan, wife of Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley, in com’ Nott. Knt. and Catherine, wedded to William Basset, of Fledburgh in Nottinghamshire, Esq. and secondly to ——— Tonstall.
  He married, secondly, in 12 Henry IV. Maud, daughter to Ralph Cromwell, and sister and heir to Ralph Lord Cromwell of Tattershall-castle in Lincolnshire, Treasurer of England, and by her had a son and two daughters, who by their mother were great fortunes. His son Henry Stanhope (by he) died without issue, Aug 12, in 31 Henry VI. and was buried at Lamley; so that his sisters Joan and Maud were his heirs; the first whereof was married to Humphrey Bourchier (third son to Henry the first Earl of Essex) who thereupon had summons to parliament by the title of Lord Cromwell, in 1, 2, 6, and 9 Edw. IV. but left no issue; and Maud, the other, was the wife of Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby (a great soldier and valiant commander under King Henry V. and VI. who bore the title of Earl of Vendosme in France) whom she survived, having by him a daughter Joan, married to Richard Lord Welles, who in her right was also Lord Willoughby. In 31 Hen. VI she had the King’s precept to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire for assignation of her dower. She was afterwards married to Sir Thomas Nevile, Knight, (a younger son to Richard Earl of Salisbury) who lost his life in the battle of Wakefield, Dec. 31, 1460, 39 Henry VI. and had his lands and goods seized for his rebellion: yet she found so much favour that 200l. per annum was assigned her, out of those lands that were of her own inheritance: She was, thirdly, wife of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Scots-hall, in Braxbourne, in Kent, Knt. who being taken prisoner at the battle of Tewkesbury, May 9, 1471, 11 Edw. IV. was beheaded: but she had no issue by her two last husbands.
  By her testament, bearing date July 18, 1497, 12 Hen. VII. she bequeathed her body to be buried in the church of the college of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, before the high altar, on the right hand of her uncle Ralph Lord Cromwell, under a stone beforehand provided by her, appointing, that if she should die in the parish of Tattershall, her solemn obsequies (except burial) should be done in that church. And deceasing there the same year, was buried according to her desire, with this epitaph on her tomb:
  Hic jacet nobilis Domina Matilda, nuper Domina Willughby, quondam Uxor Roberti Domini de Willughby Militis, ac Confanguinea & Hares illustris Domini Radulphi, nuper Domini Cromwell, Militis, Fundatoris hujus Collegii; quæ obiit 30 Die Augusti Anno Dom. MCCCCXCVII, cujus Anima propitietur Deus. Amen.
The aforesaid Sir Richard Stanhope died on Easter Monday, in 1436, 14 Hen. VI. seized of the manors of Rampton, Egmanton, Skegby, South-Cotham, and the third part of the manor of Tuxford in com’ Nottingham, and of the manor of Ansty, &c. in com’ Warwick, leaving John his grandson, his next heir, son of Richard Stanhope, eldest son and heir of the said Sir Richard Stanhope.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p7 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  The second son of Sir John and his heir, on the decease of the elder brother, Sir RICHARD STANHOPE is named in Hollinshed’s Chronicles as one of the persons created Knights of the Bath at the coronation of King Henry IV. in 1399. He served in several Parliaments, as one of the Knights for the county of Nottingham, and was also Sheriff of that county and of Derbyshire. He died on Easter Monday in 1436.
  Sir Richard had two wives, first, JOAN, daughter of Robert de Staley or STAVELEY, by whom he had three sons, Richard, Thomas, and James, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Agnes. He married, secondly, Maud, sister and heir to Ralph, Lord Cromwell, of Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire, and Treasurer of England. By her he had one son, Henry, who died young, and two daughters, who, in right of their mother, were great fortunes. The elder married Henry Bourchier, third son to the Earl of Essex, and created Lord Cromwell. The younger, Maud, married Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and after him two other husbands. She died in 1497, and was buried in Tattershall Church, where the inscription on her tomb is recorded. Neither she nor her sister left issue. 

Death: 9 April 1436
The inscription on Richard's gravestone appears to state that he died on 1 April 1436, but I have preferred the date given in his Inquisition Post Mortem.

Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne Stavely
Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne (Stavely) Stanhope in All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire
photo from Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project: Rampton All Saints
Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne Stavely
Gravestone of Richard Stanhope and Joanne (Stavely) Stanhope in All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire
drawing from Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire vol 3 p247 (John Throsby, 1797)
Burial: All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire, England
Initially placed in the south aisle, the gravestone was moved to the chancel in 1852.
Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project: Rampton All Saints
Medieval Cross Slabs
A pair of cross slab floor stones are set in the chancel floor, (1) one against the north wall and (2) against the south, both having one edge hidden by heating pipes.
...
(2) Better-preserved stone; broad straight-armed cross with double-line outline, rising from stepped base with three crude fleur-de-lys type terminals and a moulded ring at the head of the shaft, with Sacred Monogram at heads centre. Black-letter inscription in marginal label:
Hic iacet ricardus stanhop miles et iohanna uxor eius que fuit filia roberti stali qui obiit primo die aprilis anno domini mocccc trecesimo vio et predicta iohanna obiit iiiio die septembris anno domini mcccco xo quorum [animabus propicietur deus]

Here lies Sir Richard Stanhope and Joan his wife who was the daughter of Robert Stali who died on the first day of April in the year of Our Lord 1436 and the aforesaid Joan died on the 4th day September in the year of Our Lord 1410 on whose souls may God have mercy.

Descriptions and drawings of the cross slabs courtesy of Peter Ryder. Inscriptions transcribed and translated by Nicholas Rogers with Michael Jones.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p14 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  Of the church at Rampton, Throsby says:
  “In the south aisle at the east end are two monumental stones almost concealed by the floor of the pew where they lie. They are to the memory of Sir Richard Stanhope, mentioned by Thoroton, and his wife Joan; and his grandson’s wife, the daughter of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall.” (See No. V. and No. VII. in the Line of Descent.)
  A drawing of these two monumental stones is annexed in Throsby’s work (vol. iii. p. 248.) Each has a large cross in the centre, and several coats of arms quartered.
  On the first stone mentioned by Throsby of Sir Richard Stanhope and his wife Joan the coats of arms are —
  Longvillers for Stanhope (a bend between six cross crosslets.)
  Longvillers impaling a chevron (for Staley or Staveley.)
  Longvillers impaling a lion rampant (for Markham.)
  Longvillers impaling three lions rampant (for Talbot of Bashall.)
  The inscriptions on these two monumental stones are in Gothic letters, partly defaced, and consequently very hard to decipher. With the assistance of Sir Henry Ellis I make out the plates in Throsby as follows:
          Inscription on the first stone.
  Hic jacet Ric. Stanop Miles et Johanna uxor ejus quæ fuit filia Rob. de Staly qui obiit primo die Aprilis Anno Domini MCCCC . . . . . . . et prædicta Johanna obiit . . . . . . mo die Septemb. Anno Domini MCCCCX. quo . . . . . .
  Staly or Staley appears to be the old or contracted form of Stavely or Staveley, as is mentioned by Throsby in another place (vol. iii. p. 245.) The name of the family is given as Staley or Stalley in the Heralds’ Visitation of Nottinghamshire, A. D. 1614 MS. Brit. Mus.
...
  At present (1854) the lord of the manor and owner of the lands is the Rev. Charles W. Eyre, and the incumbent of the parish is the Rev. T. G. Wintour. The latter gentleman has done me the favour to state in a letter, dated August 30. 1854, that the two Stanhope monuments at Rampton continue in good preservation. He adds: “They were rightly described by Throsby, as lying in the south aisle, partly concealed by a pew; but the present possessor of this property, the Rev. C. W. Eyre, thinking it a pity they should occupy such an obscure position, had them carefully removed about two years ago, to the floor of the chancel, where they now are. 

Probate:
The writ of diem clausit extremum to inquire into Richard's estate was issued on 20 April 1436 (Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 16 1430-1437 p245) and the Post Mortem Inquisitions were held in Warwick on 22 May 1436 and Retford, Nottinghamshire, on 24 May 1436.
Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Stanhop Warwickshire 22 May 1436
RICHARD STANHOP, KNIGHT
465 Writ. ‡ 20 April 1436. [Wymbyssh].
WARWICKSHIRE. Inquisition. Warwick. 22 May 1436. [Bateman].
Jurors: John Edward ; Thomas Yardeley ; William Prentoste ; John Starly of Berkswell (Derkeswell); John Overton of Warwick; William Roggere ; William Pinner ; John Boteler ; Thomas Bynesham ; Roger Asplon ; Henry Hert ; Thomas Smyth of Weddington (Wowynton).
William Wylbram , John Holynworth , John Thouresby , William Walton and Ralph de Lyndeley were formerly seised in demesne as of fee of the following manor, which, by their indented deed, shown to the jurors, they demised to Richard Stanhop, knight and the heirs of his body, describing it as their manor of Ansty in Warwickshire. By virtue of this agreement he was seised in demesne as of fee tail, and he died thus seised.
Ansty, the manor, held of John Starke by service of 4d. yearly, payable at Christmas . There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 30s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
He died on 9 April 1436. John Stanhop is his kin and next heir, viz., son of Richard, son of the Richard named in the writ, and is aged 23 years and more.
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Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Stanhop Nottinghamshire 24 May 1436
466 Writ. ‡ 20 April 1436. [Wymbyssh].
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Retford. 24 May 1436. [Curson].
Jurors: John Power of Tilne; William Lorde of Retford; John Porter and Robert de Fenton of East Markham; John Rasyn and John Bokyngham of Rampton; William Robertson of Hayton; John Lancastr of Gringley on the Hill; John Wylkynson of Bole; Ellis Ekkylles of Chaworth; Robert Haddon of Sturton le Steeple; and Robert You of Rampton.
He died seised of the following manor in demesne as of fee tail by a fine levied on the octave of St John the Baptist 1364, and afterwards, on the quindene of Hilary 1365 [CP 25/1/185/33, no. 396], between William de Eton, vicar of Rampton , and John, son of Robert de Lamun, querents , and John Stanhop and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, by which John and Elizabeth recognised that it belonged by right to William as that held by grant of John Stanhop and Elizabeth to William and John, son of Robert. By this recognition William and John, son of Robert, granted the manor to John Stanhop and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies, the other part of the fine being shown to the jurors. John and Elizabeth were thus seised in demesne as of fee tail and afterwards they had issue, Richard Stanhop, and after their deaths the manor descended to him by form of the fine, as their son and heir, and he was seised in demesne as of fee tail and died thus seised.
Rampton, the manor, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster, as 1/8 knight’s fee. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 6s. yearly; 410 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 60 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally; pleas and perquisites of the court held every 3 weeks, worth 20s. yearly, after the steward’s fee, wage and customary payment; and 5 ruinous cottages, each worth 20d. yearly.
William Wylbram, John Holynworth, John Thouresby, William Walton and Ralph de Lyndelay were formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee. They demised it, among other things, by a deed of theirs to Richard Stanhop, knight , and the heirs of his body. One part of this deed, with their seals, was shown to the jurors. By virtue of this Richard was seised in demesne as of fee tail and died thus seised.
Egmanton, 1/2 manor, held of John, duke of Norfolk , by knight service, viz., as 1/10 knight’s fee. There is the site of the 1/2 manor, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 16 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 32s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
William Wilbram, John Holynworth, John Thouresby, William Walton and Ralph de Lyndeley were seised of the manors of Skegby and South Cotham in demesne as of fee. The former they demised to Thomas Stanhop for life, reversion to themselves and their heirs, and the latter to James Stanhop for life, reversion to themselves and their heirs. By virtue of this, Thomas and James were separately seised of these two manors in demesne as of free tenement. Afterwards, by an indented deed of theirs, the grantors granted, among other things, that both manors, which should separately revert to them, remain wholly to Richard Stanhop and the heirs of his body, by virtue of which Thomas and James, still living, attorned to Richard for these manors.
Skegby and South Cotham, the manors, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster as 1/10 knight’s fee.
Richard Stanhop, knight, was formerly seised of the following 1/3 manor in demesne as of fee. Two parts of this he granted to Richard Stanhop his son and Elizabeth his wife for Elizabeth’s life, and by this grant they were seised in demesne as of free tenement. Afterwards, Richard Stanhop, knight , granted the third part of it by an indented charter of his, one part of which, with his seal, was shown to the jurors, to William Wylbram, esquire, John Holynworth, esquire, and Stephen Stanhop and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this, the grantees were seised of this third part in demesne as of fee. By the same charter, Richard Stanhop, knight, conceded that the said two parts held by Richard the son and Elizabeth for Elizabeth’s life, which after her death should revert to Richard Stanhop, knight, wholly remain to William, John and Stephen and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this Richard the son and Elizabeth attorned to William, John and Stephen for these two parts. William, John and Stephen, by an indented charter of theirs, the part of which with William, John and Stephen’s seals being shown to the jurors, granted to Richard Stanhop, knight, the third part to have and to hold to him and the heirs of his body. By the same charter they conceded that the two parts held by Richard the son and Elizabeth should wholly remain to Richard Stanhop, knight, and the heirs of his body. By virtue of this Richard Stanhop, knight, was seised of the third part in demesne as of fee tail and he died thus seised, Richard Stanhop the son and Elizabeth attorning to him for the other two parts. Richard the son is dead, but Elizabeth is still living.
Tuxford, 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief by knight service, viz., as 1/3 knight’s fee. In the third part of this 1/3 manor is 54 a. of arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; and 5s. assize rent, payable at Midsummer and Martinmas equally.
Date of death and heir as 465.
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Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1429-1436 p589 (1907)
1436. June 12.
Westminster.
  It was found by inquisition, taken before John Curson, escheator in the county of Nottingham, that Richard Stanap, knight, being seised in his demesne as of fee of a third of the manor of Tuxford, granted one third of the said third to William Wylbram, esquire, John Holyngworth, esquire, and Stephen Stanhop, their heirs and assigns, and they regranted the same to the said Richard and the heirs of his body, without the king’s licence: also that the said third part is held in chief by knight service and that John Stanap son of Richard son of the first named Richard is his kinsman and next heir, and of full age. The said third of the third part was taken into the king’s hand, but for 4 marks paid in the hanaper he has pardoned the trespass and granted licence for the said John Stanap to have the third part again and to hold it entailed as aforesaid.

Sources:

Richard Stanhope

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Languillere) Stanhope

Married: Elizabeth Markham

Children: Notes:
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1401-1405 p360 (1905)
1404. Oct. 20.
Westminster.
  Pardon, for 10 marks paid by them in the hanaper, to Richard son of Richard Stanhope, ‘chivaler,’ and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Markham, of their trespass in acquiring for her life two parts of the manor of Tokesford called ‘Longvilers Manoir,’ co. Nottingham, from the said Richard Stanhope, tenant in chief, and entering therein without licence. 

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 p11 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
  ... the property descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir of the said John Languillere, which same Elizabeth took to husband Richard Stanhop and had issue Richard Stanhop, esquire. After the death of Elizabeth all the said manors, lands, tenements and other the premises descended to the said Richard Stanhop, esquire, as son and heir of the said Elizabeth, and after Richard’s death they descended to the said John Stanhop son and heir of Richard, son and heir of Elizabeth as kinswoman and heir of the said John Languillere.

Death: 2 March 1431(2)

Buried: Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England, "in the church of Tuxford, under a flat stone at the east-end of the north-isle".
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p383 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    Upon a flat Stone in the North Ile at the East end,
  Obitus Ricardi Stanhope, fil. & hær. Ricardi Stanhope de Rampton, Militis, qui obiit secunde die mensis Martii, Anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti decimo. Cujus animæ, &c.
  Upon it is drawn his Picture, with the Arms Lungvillers only.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p258 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Which Richard married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Markham, of East-Markham in Nottinghamshire, Knight, Chief-Justice of the King’s Bench; and dying in 10. Hen. VI. lies buried in the church of Tuxford, under a flat stone at the east-end of the north-isle, his portraiture and the arms of Longvillers, viz. a bend between six cross croslets, being inlaid thereon in brass, with this inscription:
  Obitus Ricardi Stanhope, Fil. & Hær. Ricardi Stanhope de Rampton Militis, qui obiit secundo Die Menfis Martii, Anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti decimo, cujus Animæ propitietur Deus. Amen.

Sources:

Richard Stanhope

Birth: 15 October 1492
Richard is stated to have been "aged 19 years on the feast of St. Wilfran the Bishop last past [i.e. 15 October]" in the IPM of his father held on 22 January 1511(2) transcribed at Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp67-9 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Adelina (Clifton) Stanhope

Married: Anne Strelley
An indenture between Richard and Anne's fathers regarding this marriage, were dated 12 August 1497, followed by a charter by Sir Edward Stanhope in fulfilment of the agreement dated 28 August 1497.

Anne was the youngest of four daughters of John Strelley and Sanchia Willoughby. John was the grandson of Robert Strelley and Agnes Stanhope. She later married Sir John Markham, and was still living at the date of Richard's IPM on 6 June 1528.

Children: Notes:
Richard is named as son and heir in the IPM of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope, held on 22 January 1511(2)
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp67-9 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Sir Edward Stanhope, knight.
... Inquisition taken at Stapulford, 22 January, 3 Henry viij [1511-12];
... They further say that Edward Stanhop died 6 June, 3 Henry viij [1511] and Richard Stanhop is his son and next heir, and was aged 19 years on the feast of St. Wilfran the Bishop last past [i.e. 15 October].

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p394 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    Rampton.
Sir Edward Stanhope had to his first wife Adelina, daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton, by whom he had Richard Stanhope, Esquire, his eldest son;
... Richard Stanhope, Esquire, eldest son of Sir Edward married Anne, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of John Strelley, Esquire, afterwards married to Sir John Markham: by her the said Richard had one only daughter and heir Saunchia, wife of John, son of Anthony Babington, which John was Father of Original Babington, who had to wife . . . . the daughter of . . . . Galley

The Peerage of England vol 3 p260 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Richard Stanhope, Esq. (eldest son and heir of Sir Edward) was ten years of age at his father’s decease, and having married Anne, the youngest of the four daughters and coheirs of John Strelley of Strelley, Esq. (grandson of Sir Robert and Joan Stanhope afore-mentioned) died without issue male, Jan. 21, 1528-9, 18 Hen. VIII. leaving an only daughter Saunchia, aged 14 years, who was married in his life-time, 12 Henry VIII to John Babington, Esq. (a younger son of Sir Anthony Babington of Dernicke in Derbyshire, Knt.) to whom she brought the inheritance of Rampton, and large possessions in Nottinghamshire;

Death: 21 January 1526(7)

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp162-70 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         Richard Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 18 June, 20 Henry viij [1528].
Inquisition taken at Retfford, 6 June, 20 Hen. viij [1528]; before Thomas Meryng, esquire, escheator, after the death of Richard Stanhope, esquie, by the oath of John Meryng, esquire, Nicholas Deynman, esquire, William Meryng, esquire, John Marshall, esquire, Edward Whyte, gentleman, William Nyghtyngale, George Legal, Alexander Whyte, Richard Dunston, Alexander Boyton, William Blacknall, William Henryson, Thomas Yonge, Thomas Godley who say that
  Richard Stanhope did not die seized of any lands or tenements in the county, but that by certain indentures between Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, father of the said Richard, and John Draper, of the one part, and John Strylley, esquire, of the other part, dated 12 August, 12 Hen. vij [1497], in respect of a marriage to be had between the said Richard and Anne daughter of the said John Strylley, it was agreed that Sir Edw. Stanhope should make a sufficient estate in law of lands and tenements to the yearly value of 40 marks to Sir Gervase Clyfton, Sir Walter Griffieth, knights, Humphrey Hersie, esquire, named by Sir Edward Stanhope, and Sir Henry Willoughby, Sir John Dygby, knights, and Thomas Thurland, esquire, named by John Strylley. To have and to hold to them, their heirs and assigns to the use of the said Richard Stanhope and Anne and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten, with remainder in default of such heirs to the right heirs of Sir Edward. In fulfilment of which said agreement the said Sir Edward, by his charter dated 28 August, 13 Henry vij [1497] gave to the said Henry Willoughby, John Dygby, Gervase Clyfton and Walter Griffith and the others, his manor of Egmanton and all his lands and tenements there except his park and wood called “Serleghag” and £3 of rent of assize parcel of the manor aforesaid; and also all his lands and tenements in Laxton, 2 messuages in Marneham, one in the tenure of John Chamber, the other in the tenure of Christopher Boynes. To have and to hold to Henry, John, Gervase, Walter, Humphrey and Thomas, their heirs and assigns to the use and profit of the said Richard, son and heir apparent of the said Sir Edward, and Anne one of the daughters of the said John Strylley, esquire, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten. Should Richard die without heir of his body lawfully begotten, then the manor aforesaid and other the premises, except before excepted will remain to the right heirs of Sir Edward Stanhope for ever. By virtue whereof Sir Henry Willoughby and the others were seized in their demesne as of fee to the use aforesaid. And afterwards Sir Henry Willoughby, Gervase Clyfton, Humphry Hersye and Thomas Thurland died and John Dygbye and Walter Greffith survived and were seized to the use of the said Anne, late the wife of Richard Stanhope and now the wife of Sir John Markham, knight, for term of Anne’s life which same Anne still lives, and after her death to the use of Sanchia daughter and heir of the body of the said Richard, now wife of John Babyngton, esquire. Further they say that a certain
  Richard Laxton, together with others, being seized of and in the manors of Rampton, Houghton, Sowthcotom, Tuxfford and Marneham and also in all the other lands of the said Sir Edward Stanhope in those places and in Southleverton, Northcotom, Estretford, Tryswell, Willoughby, Walesby, Boughton and Allerton and the residue of the manor of Egmanton above excepted in their demesne as of fee to the use of the said Richard Stanhope and his heirs, and the said Richard Stanhope being seized in his demesne as of fee of a third part of the manor of Parva Markham and a third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxfford called “Cromwell landes” and of a yearly rent of 10 marks in Tuxfford called “Deyncourte rent” by reason that a certain Humphrey Hersye, esquire, and Thomas Molyneux were seized together with Gervase Clifton, esquire, John Browne, clerk, and John Stanhope, esquire, to the use of the said John Stanhope and his heirs of the reversion of the said third part of the manor of Parva Markham and third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxfford and also of the reversion of the said yearly rent of 10 marks which Matilda, Lady de Willoughby till then held for term of her life, by reason of a certain grant of the said reversion to the aforesaid Humphrey, Thomas, Gervase, John and John made by a certain William at one time Bishop of Winchester, and Sir Thomas Byllyngham, knight, late Chief Justice of the Lord Edward late King of England, by their charter dated 11 May, 20 Edw. iv [1480], which same John Stanhope, afterwards by his charter dated 27 March, 1 Henry vij [i486] released to the said Gervase, Humphrey, Thomas and John Browne all his right in the said third part of the manor of Parva Markham and third part of third part of the manor of Tuxfford and the yearly rent of 10 marks. And afterwards Gervase and John Browne died, after whose death Humphrey Hersye and Thomas Molyneux by their charter dated . . . January, 8 Hen. vij [1491-2] granted that the reversion of third part of manor of Parva Markham and third part of third part of the manor of Tuxfford should after the death of Matilda, Lady Willoughby wholly remain to the said John Stanhope and his assigns. To have and to hold during his life. And after the death of Matilda, Lady Willoughby and the said John Stanhope, they granted that the reversion of the said third part and third of a third part wholly should remain to a certain Henry Stanhope, esquire, to hold to him and his heirs male, lawfully begotten; with reversion should he die without such heir male to the right heirs of the said John Stanhope for ever. Further they say that
  Humphrey Hersye and Thomas Molyneux by another charter dated . . . January, 8 Hen. vij [1491-2] granted the said yearly rent of 10 marks to John Stanhope, esquire, to have and take to him and his assigns for term of his life immediately after the death of Matilda, Lady Willoughby; and after her decease and the decease of the said John, they granted that the said yearly rent should remain to a ceriain Edmund Stanhope son and heir apparent of the said Henry Stanhope, to have and take to him and his assigns for term of his life; and after the decease of Matilda, Lady Willoughby, of John Stanhope and of Edmund Stanhope they granted that the said yearly rent do wholly remain to Henry Stanhope, esquire, to have and take to him and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. Should Henry die without such heir then they granted that the yearly rent do wholly remain to the right heirs of the said John Stanhope for ever.
  By virtue of which same grants Matilda, Lady Willoughby attourned to the said John Stanhope, by virtue whereof the said John was seized of the reversions aforesaid in his demesne as of free tenement. Further they say that
  Afterwards the said John Stanhope died, and afterwards the said Matilda, Lady Willoughby died after whose death the said Henry entered into the said third part of the manor of Parva Markham and third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxfford and was seized in his demesne as of fee tail by virtue of the remainder aforesaid.
  And the said Edmund took the yearly rent and was thereof seized in his demesne as of free tenement. And afterwards the said Henry and Edmund his son died without heir male of the body of the said Henry lawfully begotten, after whose deaths the said Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, as kinsman and heir of the said John Stanhope to wit: son of Thomas son of the said John Stanhope, entered into the said third part and third part of a third part and took the rent aforesaid and was seized of the premises in his demesne as of fee, and of such estate died seized. After whose death the said third part, and third part of a third part, and rent descended to Richard Stanhope, named in the writ, as son and heir of the said Sir Edward, by virtue whereof he (Richard) entered and was seized thereof in his demesne as of fee, and being so seized and of the said other lands and tenements having the use as is aforesaid, by indenture made between the said Richard Stanhope of the one part, and Humphrey Hersye of the other part, dated 16 October, 6 Henry viij [1514] it was agreed that Thomas Elton, clerk, Rector of the church of Grove, Robert Nevill, clerk, Rector of the church of Ordesall, Richard Lasseliz, gentleman, John Berege, William Roucell and Alexander Nevyle should recover to them and their heirs against the said Richard Stanhope, one close, parcel of the manor of Sowthcotom called “Sowthcotom Closse” in the parish of Donham and the said park of Egmanton before excepted, and a certain wood in Egmanton, parcel of the jointure of the said Richard and Anne his wife called “Burgrave,” to the use of the said Humphrey Hersye and his executors for a term of 7 years then next to follow in full satisfaction of £120 before paid by the said Humphrey to Richard; and after the term of 7 years to the use of the said Richard and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue to the use of Michael Stanhope, brother of the said Richard, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard, in fulfilment of which covenant the said Thomas Elton, clerk, and the others in Michaelmas Term, 6 Henry vij [1490] [“dicto anno sexto dicti nuper Regis”] by the King’s writ of entry super disseisin in le post recovered against Richard the said close, and wood by the name of 400 acres of pasture in Egmanton, Bargrave and Sowthcotom, by virtue of which recovery they entered and were seized of the premises to the use aforesaid. And afterwards Richard Stanhope died without heir male of his body lawfully begotten, and also Richard Lasselz, John Berige and William Roucell died, and Thomas Elton, Robert Nevyle and Alexander Nevyle remained seized to the use of the said Michael Stanhope and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten and in default of such issue to the use of Sanchia daughter and heir of the said Richard and her heirs for ever. Further they say that
  Michael Stanhope claims to hold for term of his life by lease of the said Richard his brother, all the lands and tenements of the said Richard in Wylloughby, Wallesbye, Boughton, Allerton and Tryswell, except one messuage in Wallesbye in the tenure of Peter Burley, and the wood in Walesby called Nycolles Grove, and 2 closes in Tryswell of which one is called Woode Close, afterwards sold to a certain Anthony Babyngton, who is now seized of it, and another called Myklholme, afterwards sold to Humphrey Nevyll, who now is seized of it. Further they say that
  The said Richard Stanhope by his last will among other things willed that Elizabeth Stanhope, his sister, should have the issues and profits of all his lands and tenements in Estretford and South Leverton, until she had taken £40 for her marriage. Further they say that by certain Indentures between the said Richard Stanhope of the one part, and Anthony Babyngton of the other part, dated 10 February, 11 Hen. viij [1519-20], for £40 by Anthony to be paid to Richard among other covenants it was agreed that John Babyngton should marry Sanchia, daughter and heir then apparent of the said Richard Stanhope, and that Richard should make to John Topclyffe and Thomas Thurland, esquires, and Roger Nedham, rector of the church of Eganton, Nicholas Palfreman, Richard Sewdell and Robert Alleyn, clerks, a sufficient estate in law in fee simple of and in lands and tenements to the yearly value of £40, to the use that the said Topclyffe and his associates should permit the said Anthony to receive the issues of the lands and tenements to the value of £20, parcel of the said £40, for the exhibition of the said John and Sanchia, until the said John is 21 years of age, and at such age to the use of the said John and Sanchia his wife and the heirs male of their bodies begotten. And of the residue to the use of the said Richard Stanhope for term of his life, and after his decease to the use of John and Sanchia his wife and the heirs male of their bodies begotten. And in default of such to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard Stanhope for ever. Provided always that if John and Sanchia died, or either of them died, before reaching the age of 18 years without heir male begotten between them, who shall be surviving at such death, that then the said Topclyffe and his associates shall stand seized of all those lands and tenements to the yearly value of £40 to the use of the said Anthony his assigns and executors until the the said Anthony or his executors shall take of the issues such sum of money as Anthony before paid to the said Richard Stanhope for the said marriage of Sanchia. Further it was covenanted between the parties that Richard should make to Sir John Donham, knight, Sir Richard Basset, knight, John Wylloughby, esquire, and John Topclyffe, a sufficient estate in law in fee simple of and in other lands and tenements to the yearly value of £93 6s. 8d. the jointures of Anne, then wife of the said Richard and of Alice now his wife excepted. To have and to hold to Sir John Donham and the others, to the use of the said Richard Stanhope and the heirs male of his body begotten. And in default of such issue to the use of the said Richard and the heirs of his body begotten; and in default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard for ever. By virtue of which covenant the said John Babyngton on 5 October, 12 Henry viij [1520], married the said Sanchia, which marriage still continues between them. And the said Anthony well and faithfully paid to Richard the said £40 according to the covenant aforesaid. Further they say that in fulfilment of the estate to be made of and in the lands and tenements of the yearly value of £40 to the use above declared, the said Topclyffe and the others in Easter term, 12 Henry viij [1520], by the King’s writ of entry super disseisin in le post recovered against the said Richard, his manor of Tuxfford called “Stanhope manor” and also the third part of the manor of Parva Markham and a third part of a third part of the manor of Tuxfford called “Cromwell landes” and 10 marks of rent in Tuxfford called “Deyncourte Rent” and also his manor of Sowthmarneham and also all other his lands and tenements in Tuxfford, Westmarkham, Mylneton and Sowthmarneham. By virtue whereof the said Topclyffe and the others entered and were seized in their demesne as of fee to the use aforesaid. And further they say that
  In fulfilment of the estate to be made of lands and tenements to the value of £93 6s. 8d., the said Donham, Basset, Wylloughby, Topclyffe in Easter term, 12 Hen. viij [1520], by another writ of entry super disseisin in le post, recovered against the said Richard, the manors of Rampton, Houghton, Laxton and Egmanton, and also all his lands and tenements in those places. By virtue whereof the said Donham and the others entered and were seized in their demesne as of fee to the use aforesaid. And further they say that
  The said Richard Stanhope by another indenture between himself and the said Anthony made, dated 3 January, 12 Hen. viij [1520-1], declared that all the lands and tenements by the said Topclyffe and the others above recovered should be accepted for lands and tenements of the yearly value of £40, and to such uses in the indenture of the marriage of John and Sanchia specified, and that all the lands and tenements in Tuxfford called “Stanhope manor,” which were of the ancient inheritance of the Stanhopes should be accepted for £20 and assigned to Anthony Babyngton for exhibition of the said John and Sanchia his wife. And the residue of the lands and tenements by them recovered, should be accepted for the other £20 in completion of the sum of £40, and to the use in the said indenture of marriage specified. And also that all the manors, lands and tenements by the said Donham, Basset, Wylloughby and Topclyffe above recovered, should be accepted for lands and tenements of the yearly value of £93 6s. 8d., and to such uses in the indenture of marriage specified.
  Afterwards Thomas Thurland and Roger Nedham died, and John Topclyffe, Nicholas Palfreyman, Richard Sewell and Robert Aleyn survived and remained, and now are seized of the manor called “Stanhope manor” to the use of Anthony Babyngton until John is of full age, and at that age they shall be seized to the use of John and Sanchia and their heirs male. And of the rest of the manors, etc., in Tuxfford^West Markham, Mylneton and Southmarkham, except those lands, etc., in Marneham, parcel of the jointure of Anne, late wife of Richard, the said Topclyffe and others were seized and now are, to the use of the said John Babyngton and Sanchia and their heirs male, because the said Richard Stanhope to whose use they were seized for term of his life, is dead. Further they say that
  Donham, Basset, Willoughby and Topclyffe were seized of and in the manors, lands and tenements in Rampton, Houghton, Laxton and Egmanton by virtue of the recovery aforesaid in their demesne as of fee to the use of the said Richard Stanhope and the heirs male of his body begotten, and in default of such issue to the use of the said Richard, and the heirs of his body begotten, and in default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard Stanhope. The said Basset died, and Donham, Willoughby and Topclyffe survived, and by their charter dated 8 October, 17 Hen. viij [1525], leased to John Hersye, George Zouche, Edward Thurland, Cuthbert Bezercootes, esquires, and to Humphrey Ferrers, George Griffith, Thomas Chetwyn and John Turvyle, esquires, all the said manors and lands above by them recovered in Rampton, Houghton, Laxton and Egmanton. To have and to hold to them their heirs and assigns to such uses as Donham and the others before recovered the same. By virtue whereof Hersye and the others were seized of the premises in their demesne as of fee to the use of Richard Stanhope and his heirs male, and now are seized to the use of Sanchia, wife of the said John Babyngton and the heirs of her body begotten, because the said Richard is dead without heir male of his body begotten, and the said Sanchia is the only daughter and heir of the said Richard Stanhope. And they say that
  The manor of Houghton is charged to the Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, late wife of Sir Edward Stanhope, knight in a yearly rent of 20 marks payable to the said lady for term of her life; and it is also charged to Edward Thurland, esquire, his heirs or assigns in 7 marks and a buck yearly or in default of such buck 3s. 4d. Further they say that
  The said manor of Tuxfford also all the aforesaid lands and tenements in Tuxfford are held of the King in chief by the service of third part of a knight’s fee and are worth yearly, besides reprises, £30. And the said lands and tenements in Westmarkham and Mylneton are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster by fealty only and are worth yearly, besides reprises £5. And the said lands and tenements in Sowthmarneham are held of the King as of his honor of Donyngton, parcel of his Duchy of Lancaster but by what service they know not and are worth yearly besides reprises £5. And that the said manor of Rampton and all the lands and tenements there are held of the King as of his said Duchy of Lancaster by the eighth part of a knight’s fee and are worth yearly £40 besides reprises. And the said manor, lands and tenements in Laxton are held of the heir of Adam de Everyngham by the service of 1½d. for all, and are worth yearly £18. And the said manor and tenements in Egmanton are held of the Duke of Norfolk by a tenth part of a knight’s fee and are worth yearly, besides reprises 20 marks. And the said manor, land and tenements in Houghton are held of the heir of Monbocher by one rose for all, and are worth yearly besides the said 20 marks of yearly rent payable to the Lady Elizabeth Stanhope and 7 marks payable yearly to Edward Thurland, 5 marks. And that the said manor, land and tenements in Southcotom are held of the King as of his Duchy of Lancaster but by what services they know not and are worth yearly 20 marks. And the said lands and tenements in Wallesbye, Wylloughby and Boughton are held of the Abbot of Rufford by what services they know not. And the said lands and tenements in Allerton are held of the heir of John Fitzwilliam by homage and fealty for all. And the said land and tenements in Triswell are held of the King as of his honor of Tykhull in socage. And all the aforesaid in Wallesby, Willoughby, Boughton, Allerton and Tryswell are worth yearly 10 marks. And the said lands and tenements in Estretford are held of the King in free burgage. And the said lands and tenements in Southleverton and Northcotom are held of the Abbot of Westminster as of his soke of Oswelbeke and all the aforesaid in Retford Sowthleverton and Northcotom are worth yearly 40s. Further they say that
  The said Richard Stanhope held no other lands or tenements of the King or of any other in the county on the day he died, nor did any other to his use.
  Richard Stanhope died 21 January, 18 Hen. viij [1526-7] and Sanchia, wife of John Babyngton, esquire, is his only daughter and
heir and at the time of his death was the wife of the said John and married to him and was aged 13 years and 9 months and that on the 10 May last past, before the day of taking this Inquisition she was aged 15 years.
    Inq. p. m., 20 Hen. viij., Ser. ij., Vol. 47, No. 17.
  [NOTE.—This has been compared with the Esch. Inq., File 743, No. 11.]

Sources:

Robert Stanhope

Birth: 1379/80
Robert is documented to be aged 18 at the IPM of Reginald Everingham in August 1398 (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429)

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Notes:
When Robert's brother, Richard, inherited substantial estates - parts of the manors of Tuxford, Egmanton and Laxton - from a fairly distant relative on the death of Edmund Everingham in 1398, Robert also inherited a portion of lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton, and Northcotum which were divided between all the brothers according to the custom of the soke of the manor of Oswerbek.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429
1160
NOTTINGHAM .  Inq. taken at Retteford, Saturday, All Souls’ Day, 22 Richard II.
... the said messuages, lands etc. ought to remain to Richard Stanop, aged 28 years and more, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, son of Elizabeth, sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, except those held of the soke of Oswerbek, which are partible among heirs male according to the custom of the soke and ought to descend to the said Richard and to his brothers, Stephen, aged 21 years and more, Robert, aged 18 years and more, and Ralph, aged 12 years and more.
Wellum Morehos. 4 cottages.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. land and meadow.
Fenton. A cottage.
Littilburgh. 3 cottages, a common oven, a bovate of land and a twentieth part of a ferry over the Trent.
South Leverton and Northcotum. A messuage, 6 cottages, 240a. land and 20a. meadow.
All the above are held in socage of the heirs of the earl of Pembroke as of the soke of Oswerbek.

Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 11 1391-1399 pp286-7 (1929)
1398. Nov. 12.
Westminster.
... (1) the said messuages, land, meadow, fisheries and rent in Hoghton, Allerton, Drayton, Eton, Carlton, Elkesley, Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford, Northcotum, Marneham and Southcotum ought after the death of Reynold and Agnes to remain to Richard Stanhop, son of Elizabeth the daughter of Stephen the son of Elizabeth the sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, as kinsman and next heir of Agnes, because Reynold and Agnes died without issue, (2), the said third part, moiety and fourth part ought after the death of Edmund to remain to the same Richard because Edmund died without heir male of his body, and (3) the said lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton, and Northcotum are divisible between the said Richard, who is of full age, Stephen, his brother, also of full age, and Robert and Ralph, his brothers, who are minors, according to the custom of the soke of the manor of Oswerbek, and ought to remain to the said Richard, Stephen, Robert and Ralph by virtue of one of the said fines,—to make a partition of the lands in Wellum etc. into four equal parts, and cause Richard to have full seisin of his pourparty thereof, as well as the whole of the remaining premises, saving to the aforesaid Joan her reasonable dower of the aforesaid third part, moiety and fourth part, as the king has taken the homage and fealty of Richard for the third part of the manor of Tuxford; and to remove the king’s hand from the remaining three pourparties of the lands in Wellum etc., if they are in the king’s hand by the death of Reynold and for no other cause, delivering any issues thereof taken since the death of Reynold to those to whom they belong.

Robert was also left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5).
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
   Jan. 3, 1434-5.
... Item lego domino Roberto Stanhopp militi, meum parvum Missale de usu Eboracensi.
... Domino Ricardo Reydon, capellano domini Roberti Stanhopp militis, meum pilche de bever. 
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
   Jan. 3, 1434-5.
... I also bequeath to Sir Robert Stanhope, knight, my little Missal of the use of York.
... To Sir Richard Reydon, chaplain of Sir Robert Stanhope, knight, my beaver cloak.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John de Stanhope ... by his first wife he had five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph, and a daughter Margaret

Sources:

Stephen Stanhope

Birth: 1376/7
Stephen is documented to be aged 21 at the IPM of Reginald Everingham in August 1398 (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429)

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Notes:
When Stephen's brother, Richard, inherited substantial estates - parts of the manors of Tuxford, Egmanton and Laxton - from a fairly distant relative on the death of Edmund Everingham in 1398, Stephen also inherited a portion of lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton, and Northcotum which were divided between all the brothers according to the custom of the soke of the manor of Oswerbek.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 17 Richard II [1392-1399]  pp417-429
1160
NOTTINGHAM .  Inq. taken at Retteford, Saturday, All Souls’ Day, 22 Richard II.
... the said messuages, lands etc. ought to remain to Richard Stanop, aged 28 years and more, son of Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, son of Elizabeth, sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, except those held of the soke of Oswerbek, which are partible among heirs male according to the custom of the soke and ought to descend to the said Richard and to his brothers, Stephen, aged 21 years and more, Robert, aged 18 years and more, and Ralph, aged 12 years and more.
Wellum Morehos. 4 cottages.
Stretton. 2 1/2a. land and meadow.
Fenton. A cottage.
Littilburgh. 3 cottages, a common oven, a bovate of land and a twentieth part of a ferry over the Trent.
South Leverton and Northcotum. A messuage, 6 cottages, 240a. land and 20a. meadow.
All the above are held in socage of the heirs of the earl of Pembroke as of the soke of Oswerbek.

Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 11 1391-1399 pp286-7 (1929)
1398. Nov. 12.
Westminster.
... (1) the said messuages, land, meadow, fisheries and rent in Hoghton, Allerton, Drayton, Eton, Carlton, Elkesley, Grymeston, Welhagh, Kirketon, Walesby, Retteford, Northcotum, Marneham and Southcotum ought after the death of Reynold and Agnes to remain to Richard Stanhop, son of Elizabeth the daughter of Stephen the son of Elizabeth the sister of John Lungvileres, father of the said Agnes, as kinsman and next heir of Agnes, because Reynold and Agnes died without issue, (2), the said third part, moiety and fourth part ought after the death of Edmund to remain to the same Richard because Edmund died without heir male of his body, and (3) the said lands in Wellum, Morehous, Stretton, Fenton, Lutilburgh, Southleverton, and Northcotum are divisible between the said Richard, who is of full age, Stephen, his brother, also of full age, and Robert and Ralph, his brothers, who are minors, according to the custom of the soke of the manor of Oswerbek, and ought to remain to the said Richard, Stephen, Robert and Ralph by virtue of one of the said fines,—to make a partition of the lands in Wellum etc. into four equal parts, and cause Richard to have full seisin of his pourparty thereof, as well as the whole of the remaining premises, saving to the aforesaid Joan her reasonable dower of the aforesaid third part, moiety and fourth part, as the king has taken the homage and fealty of Richard for the third part of the manor of Tuxford; and to remove the king’s hand from the remaining three pourparties of the lands in Wellum etc., if they are in the king’s hand by the death of Reynold and for no other cause, delivering any issues thereof taken since the death of Reynold to those to whom they belong.

In 1399 Stephen was granted the office of ‘tolsale’ (Tholsel) in Dublin.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1399-1401 p240 (1903)
1399. Nov. 8.
Westminster.
  Grant for life to the king’s servant Stephen de Stanhope of the county of Nottingham of the office of ‘tolsale’ of the city of Dublin in Ireland, which Gerard late the chamberlain of William Lescrope, late earl of Wiltshire, had, with the due fees and profits to the value of 100s. yearly.     By p.s.

In 1412, Stephen sold land in Newcastle to John and Mary Maylle.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV 1409-1413 p336 (1932)
1412.
  Stephen de Stanop, son of John de Stanop sometime lord of Rampton, to John Maylle burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne and Mary his wife, their heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of all the land lying in the ‘Cloys’ in Newcastle between land of John Maylle on the east and land late of Lawrence de Acton on the west, extending from the high way in front on the south to land of John Paulyn behind on the north, and of any rent issuing from the same; and general release of all actions real and personal. Witnesses: John Bywelle mayor of the town, John Paulyn sheriff, William Jonson, William Esyngton, William Redmarshill, John Walle. Dated Newcastle aforesaid, 6 March 13 Henry IV.
  Memorandum of acknowledgment, 13 May.

The Peerage of England vol 3 p255 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  John de Stanhope ... by his first wife he had five sons, John, Richard, Stephen, Robert, and Ralph, and a daughter Margaret

Sources:

Susan Stanhope

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Notes:
Susan, along with Ann and Jane, the two elder daughters of Edward Stanhope and Susan Coleshill, is named and bequeathed 100 marks in the will of her maternal grandfather, Thomas Coleshill, dated 23 April 1593 with a codicil dated 28 February 1594(5), held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/85/243).
Item I give and bequeathe to Ann Stanhope the daughter of Edward Stanhope one hundered markes Item I give and bequeathe to Jane Stanhope her sister one hundered markes Item I give and bequeathe to Susan Stanhope their sister one hundered markes

Susan is not, however, named in the will of her father dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).

The logical conclusion is that Susan was the third daughter of Edward Stanhope and Susan Coleshill, born sometime between between 1579 (their second daughter, Jane, was baptised on 25 June 1578) and 1593 when she is named in her grandfather's will, and that she had died before her father wrote his will on 8 August 1603.

Sources:

Thomas Stanhope

Father: Richard Stanhope

Mother: Joan (Staveley) Stanhope

Children: Notes:
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V 1413-1419 p527 (1929)
1419. March 11.
Westminster.
  Richard Stanhop of Hoghton co. Notyngham knight, Nicholas Goushill of Barleburgh co. Derby esquire and Thomas son of the said Richard to Joan who was wife of William Thyrnyng knight. Recognisance for 200 marks to be levied etc. in the counties aforesaid.
  Memorandum that this recognisance was taken by John Cokayn by a writ.
  Cancelled on payment.
  Thomas Chaworth of Wyverton co. Notyngham, Ralph de Shirley knights and Joan who was wife of William Thirnyng knight to Richard Stanhope knight. Recognisance for 200 marks, to be levied etc. in Notynghamshire.
  (Like) memorandum.
  Cancelled on payment. 

Thomas is left a bequest in the will of John Gilby, rector of Knesale, in January 1434(5). The will documents that Thomas is a brother of Jacob and Elizabeth.
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p51-2 (1855)
XXXVIII. TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS GYLBY RECTORIS DE KNESALE.
...  Codicillus, 24 Jan. 1434.—Domino Ricardo Stanhopp militi, quatuor quysshyns blodii coloris cum plumis, et novam cathedram quietis. Henrico Stanhopp meas trussyng coffers. Thomæ Stanhopp meam peciam meliorem de argento; et meam aliam peciam debiliorem lego Jacobo fratri suo. Elizabethæ Stanhopp, sorori suæ, blodiam togam furratam cum byse, et meam nigram zonam de serico cum barrez deauratis. Katerinæ, sorori suæ, meam nigram togam furratam cum pelour.
which roughly translates as:
36. TESTAMENT OF MASTER JOHN GYLBY RECTOR DE KNESALE.
... Codicil, 24 January 1434.—To Sir Richard Stanhope, knight, four cushions of blood color with feathers, and a new chair of rest. To Henry Stanhopp my travelling chests. Thomas Stanhope my better piece of silver and I bequeath my other weaker piece to Jacob his brother. Elizabeth Stanhopp, his sister, a red gown lined with fine linen, and my black leather with satin barrez gilt. Katherine, his sister, my black gown lined with fur.

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p393 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth, but by others said to be Joane, the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph (Staveley or) Staley, by whom he had divers Children, Richard, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Agnes.

Death: May 1462
Thomas wrote his will on the Friday following the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. The feast is on 3 May, which seems to have been a Monday in 1462, making the following Friday 7 May 1462 and the will was proved on 10 May 1462. The writ of diem clausit extremum to the escheators in Nottingham and Derby to inquire into Thomas's estate was issued on 18 May 1462 (Calendar of Fine Rolls 1461-1471 p65).

Buried: All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire
In his will, Thomas requested to be buried before the cross in the parish church of All Saints, Rampton ("sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce".

Will:
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 2 p254-5 (1855)
CXCVII. TESTAMENTUM THOMÆ STANHOP DEFUNCTI.
   Die Veneris proxime post festum Philippi et Jacobi Apostoli 1462. Ego Thomas Stanhop de Hoghton, armiger—sep. in ecclesia parochiali Omnium Sanctorum de Rampton coram cruce. Et nomine principalis lego vicario de Walesby optimum equum meum et omnia averia eidem pertinencia, prout equitare solebam. Willelmo Wilbram unam togam penulatam. Johanni Tunstall unum equum coloris le blak gray. Katerinæ sorori meæ unam equam cum pullo. Elizabethæ sorori meæ unum equum vocatum gray geldyng. Johanni filio meo unum yrne bonden wayn, et xxx bull stirkus. Johanni Stanhop armigero unum cornu garnest. Executores meos facio Elizabetham et Katerinam sorores meas, Johannem Tunstall armigerum et Johannem filium meum, Johannemque Stanhop de Rampton armigerum supervisorem. Johanni filio meo sex cocliaria argenti. Johannæ Stanhop filiæ Johannis Stanhop armigeri duas togas penulatas cum martis et menyver. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]
which roughly translates as:
197. TESTAMENT OF THOMAS STANHOP DECEASED.
Friday after the feast of Philip and James the Apostle 1462. I Thomas Stanhope of Hoghton, esq. to be buried in the parish church of All Saints of Rampton before the cross. And by the name of the principal I bequeath to the vicar of Walesby my best horse and all the beasts that belong to him, as I am accustomed to ride. William Wilbram one lined toga. John Tunstall one horse of the color black gray. To my sister Katherine, one mare with a colt. To my sister Elizabeth one horse called gray geldyng. To my son John one yrne bonden wayn (???), and 30 bullocks. To John Stanhope, esquire, one garnest (???) horn. I make my executors my sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, John Tunstall, esquire, and John my son, and John Stanhope of Rampton, esquire, supervisor. To my son John six silver spoons. To Joan Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, esquire, two gowns lined with marten and squirrel fur. [Pr. 10 May, 1462.]

Sources:

Thomas Stanhope

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Talbot) Stanhope

Married: Mary Jerningham

Children: Notes:
The Peerage of England vol 3 p259 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  Thomas Stanhope, Esq. (son and heir of John) in 14 Edw. IV. was retained by indenture to attend the King in person in his wars in France, with one man at arms, and ten archers, receiving 20l. 19s. 6d. in hand towards his wages on that account. He married Mary, daughter of John, and sister to Edward Jerningham, of Somer-Layton, in com’ Suffolk, Esq. and left issue Edward his son and heir.

The original record, in Latin, of the payment to Thomas to attend the war in France in 1473 can be viewed at Fœdera, conventiones, literœæ et cujuscunque generis acta publica, inter reges Angliæ vol 11 p844 (Thomas Rymer, 1710)

Thomas and his son, Edward, are named in the IPM of his father, John Stanhope. Since Edward inherited directly from John, Thomas was probably deceased by the date of the IPM, 22 April 1494.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire vol 1 p10 (W.P.W. Phillimore, 1905)
         John Stanhope, esquire.
    Delivered into Court, 10 May, 9 Henry vij [1494].
Inquisition taken at Notyngham, 22 April, 9 Henry vij [1494]; ...
  He died 12 December, 9 Henry vij [1493], and Edward Stanhope, esquire, is his kinsman and next heir, namely son and heir of Thomas son and heir of the said John Stanhop, and is aged 24 years and upwards.
      Inq. p. m., 9 Henry vij., No. 92.

Sources:

Thomas Stanhope

Armor of Thomas Stanhope
The armour of Thomas Stanhope, on display in St Peter and St Paul, Shelford, Nottinghamshire
photo taken in 2011 by Frances Hart
Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Married:
Elizabeth Giffard and children brass
Rubbing copy covering the memorial brass of Elizabeth Giffard and her children in Etwall, Derbyshire. Margaret Porte is the small, rightmost figure
photo taken in 2009 by jmc4 posted on flickr.com
Margaret Porte on 12 June 1557, in Etwall, Derbyshire, England
Derbyshire Parish Registers: Marriages vol 14  p37 (1917)
    Marriages at Etwall.
... Thomas Stanape, arm., & Margaret, d. of John Port, knight ...  12 June 1557

Margaret was born in 1441-2, the third daughter and coheir of Sir John Porte, of Etwall and Cubley, Derbyshire, and Elizabeth Giffard.

Children: Notes:
Thomas was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1575, at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.
The Knights of England vol 2 p76 (William Arthur Shaw, 1906)
1575.  THOMAS STANHOP, of Co. Nottingham, sheriff of Notts (ibid) [at Kenilworth]

Thomas was left a bequest in, and was an executor of, the will of his nephew, Thomas Cooper, was dated 24 August 1584, and proved on 1 September 1584.
North Country Wills: 1558 to 1604 p111 (1912)
I make my lovinge brother and heire, William Cooper, and my lovinge uncle, Sr Thomas Stanhope, knight, my executors. ... To my uncle, Sr Thomas Stanhope, my graye amblinge geldinge. ... To every of my uncles by my mother’s syde, to eche one peece of goulde of twentie shillinges, called a double sufferand. ...  I make my brother, William Cooper, and unckle, Sr Thomas Stanhope, executors.

The Court Album p4 (D. Bogue, 1853)
Sir Thomas Stanhope ... lived until 1596, and was vigorous until the day of his death; for we find Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, applying, in 1592, to the Lords of the Council for redress on account of certain injurious expressions spoken against him by old Sir Thomas. In the February following, we see the feud brought to a height by the Earl’s arms being effaced from the sign of an inn at Newark—an insult which he attributed to the Stanhopes—and which led to the famous abusive message of defiance from “Bess of Hardwick,” the Countess of Shrewsbury, to Sir Thomas, that is still preserved in the “State Paper Office, ”having been sent by Sir Thomas himself to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, “with a letter of heinous complaint.”
  This message was spoken to the irate old knight in his own hall, by one of “Bess of Hardwick’s” pursuivants, as a regular defiance. The lady, it appears, had previously sent him a preliminary intimation that he was a reprobate, and his son John a rascal; and that the child yet unborn should rue what had been done. “My lady,” said the messenger from the Countess, “hath commanded me to say thus much to you. That, though you be more wretched, vile, and miserable than any creature living; and for your wickedness become more ugly in shape than any creature in the world, and one to whom none of reputation would vouchsafe to send any message: yet she hath thought good to send thus much to you:—That she be contented you should live, and doth no ways wish your death; but to this end, that all the plagues and miseries that may befall any man, may light upon such a caitiff as you are, and that you should live to have all your friends forsake you; and, without your great repentance—which she looketh not for, because your life hath been so bad—you will be damned perpetually in hell fire.” To these were added, so says Sir Thomas’s complaint, “many other opprobrious and hateful words, which could not be remembered, because the bearer would deliver it but once, as he said he was commanded; but said if he had failed in anything, it was speaking it more mildly, and not in terms of such disdain as he was commanded.”

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series Elizabeth 1595-1597 p48 (1869)
1595. May ?
 45. Warrant to Lord Keeper Puckering, Sir Wm. Cecil, Lord Burghley and others to mitigate the fines imposed by the Star Chamber on 13 rioters, now in the Fleet, for pulling down the wear belonging to Sir Thos. Stanhope, at Shelford, co. Notts, and to liberate them on payment of part of the fines, and giving security for their good behaviour.
May ?
  46. Certificate of the fines, varying from 1,000 marks to 40l., imposed by the Star Chamber, May 10, upon each of 13 persons named, for pulling down the wear of Sir Thos. Stanhope, and order that they be not liberated till they have paid Sir Thomas’s costs. With notes [by Burghley] of the mitigations.

Four of Thomas's children were left bequests in the will of Thomas's brother, Edward.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/111/228 (dated 28 February 1603, modern spelling transcript ©2007 Nina Green)
I do give to my nephew, John Stanhope, son and heir to my late loving brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, deceased, to remain to the heirs of his house after his decease, and so from heir to heir of that house, one basin and ewer of silver and gilt of the weight of six score ounces with the Stanhope arms in the bottom of the basin and the Stanhope crest upon some part of the ewer with the difference of the fourth brother, with this inscription about the arms: Memoria Edwardi Stanhope Legum Doctoris;
Item, I do give to my nephew, Edward Stanhope, the Lady Anne Holles, and my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, being the sons and daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased, to each of them one signet ring of gold of the weight of three angels apiece, the crest belonging to our own arms being engraven on them, and on the inside of each of them to be engraven these words: Edwardus Stanhope Legum Doctor;

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    Shelford.
Sir Thomas Stanhope married Margaret daughter and co-heir of Sir John Port, by Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Thomas Gifford of Chillington, and Dorothy, one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Sir John Montegomery of Cubley in Darbishire, by whom he had Sir John Stanhope, father of Philip, created Earl of Chesterfeild by King James, and other Children, as Anne, wife of John Hollis Lord Houghton, and Earl of Clare, Edward and Thomas Stanhope.

The Peerage of England vol 3 pp264-5 (Arthur Collins, 1768)
  I now return to Sir Thomas Stanhope, eldest son and heir of Sir Michael; which Thomas was Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 4 Eliz. and of Nottingham alone in 16 Eliz. and two years after, A.D. 1575, attending the Queen in her progress, received from her Majesty the honour of knighthood at Kenilworth-castle in com’ Warw. In 28 Eliz. he was elected one of the Knights of the shire for the county of Nottingham; and in the year following was again Sheriff of the said county. He augmented his estate by several purchases, as the manor of Whatton, Bingham, and Toveton, with other lands; and likewise by his marriage with Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir John Port of Etwall and Cubley, in com’ Derby, Knt. and of Elizabeth his wife, only daughter of Sir Thomas Gifford of Chillington in com’ Stafford, Knt. and of Dorothy his wife, second of the three daughters and coheirs of Sir John Montgomery, Knt. of Cubley in Derbyshire, who died on April 7, 1513, 4 Hen. VIII. and was lineally descended from Walter Montgomery of Cubley; who in consideration of his services to King Edward the IIId. had a grant, in the 26th year of his reign, of the manor of Merston in Derbyshire, and of 5 messuages, and 300 acres of land in Snelston.
  Sir Thomas, by his wife the said Margaret, who was fourteen years of age, October 14, 1556, as appears by the inquisition taken on the decease of her father, had issue three sons, John, Thomas, and Edward; as also a daughter Anne, married to John Holles, Earl of Clare.
  This Sir Thomas had a great spirit, choosing rather the intendment of his own fortune by good œconomy, than by any dependence to rife at court; which induced Queen Elizabeth to make this distich (as tradition affirms) on four of her Nottinghamshire Knights,
    Gervase, the gentle; Stanhope, the stout;
    Markham, the lyon; and Sutton, the lout.
  I have seen his picture in the Harleyan library at half-length, painted in his own hair in armour, holding in his right-hand a General’s truncheon; and on the right-side, is 1572, Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the county of Nottingham, Esq. Knight in 1575, and died in 1596. He departed this life on August 3, 1596, and was buried at Shelford; John, his son and heir, succeding to the estate.

Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights p11 (Philip Henry Stanhope, 1855)
  The eldest son of the first Sir Michael, SIR THOMAS STANHOPE, was knighted in 1575. He served in several Parliaments as Knight for the county of Nottingham, and was also Sheriff of that county and of Derby. He died in 1596, having married MARGARET, daughter and coheir of Sir John PORTE of Etwall, in the county of Derby. By her he had three sons, John, Thomas, and Edward; and one daughter, Anne, married to John Holles, Earl of Clare.
pp28-30
    PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS STANHOPE.
  Of Sir Thomas Stanhope (No. XI. in the Line of Descent) Collins states:
  “I have seen his picture in the Harleian Library at half-length, painted in his own hair in armour, holding in his right hand a General’s truncheon, and on the right side is: 1572. Sir Thos. Stanhope of Shelford in the Co. of Nott. Esq. Knight in 1575, and died in 1596.”
  Observing that this picture is described as in the Harleian Library, I thought it probable that it might have followed the Harleian collections to the British Museum. This, I learnt was not the case; but I received upon the subject the following letter from my learned and indefatigable friend, Sir Henry Ellis.
        “Brit. Mus. Nov. 26. 1849.
  My Lord,
    I have just found a Note in one of the volumes of Sir William Musgrave’s Adversaria here, which will answer the inquiry which your Lordship made of me a day or two ago.
    ‘Sir Tho. Stanhope of Shelford ob. 1596.
    Pict in Welbeck ho.: Notts.’
      Your Lordship’s faithful Servant,
        HENRY ELLIS.”
  With this clue I wrote, to put the question to my old college acquaintance, Lord Henry Bentinck. He, and also other members of his family, were so obliging as to take some pains upon the subject; but came to the conclusion that no such picture can now be identified at Welbeck. Lord Henry writes: “A Sir T. Stanhope is to be found in the Catalogue, but nowhere else.”
    LETTER OF SIR THOMAS STANHOPE.
  Failing the portrait, I will here present to the reader a letter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, of which the original is preserved in the State Paper Office. It is addressed to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and dated July 15, 1590. I give it word for word, and have only modernised the spelling.
  “Right Honorable, my humble duty premised. It may please the same to understand, that of late I have been advertised from some of my friends above, how it should be reported, that whilst I lay in London I sought to have the Earl of Southampton in marriage for my daughter, that I offered with her 3000l. in money, and 300l. by year for threescore years, &c. True it is, my Lord, that I have been beholden to my Lady of Southampton of long time, and so was I to my Lord, her late husband, during his life, and therefore both I and my wife did willingly our duties to see her when health did permit. Unto her Ladyship I appeal if she can impeach me of such simplicity or presumption to intrude myself, or of the meaning of so treacherous a part towards your Honour, having evermore found myself so bound unto you as I have done. I name it treachery, because I heard before then you intended a match that way with the Lady Vayer, to whom you know also I am akin. And my Lord I confess that talking with the Countess of Southampton thereof, she told me you had spoken to her in that behalf. I replied she should do well to take hold of it, for I knew not where my Lord her son should be better bestowed. Herself could tell what a stay you would be to him and his, and for profit, experience did teach her how beneficial you had been unto that Lady’s father, though by him little deserved. She answered, I said well, and so she thought, and would in good faith do her best in the cause; but, saith she, I do not find a disposition in my son to be tied as yet; what will be hereafter, time shall try, and no want shall be found on my behalf. I think once or twice such like words we had, and not to any other effect: which I refer to her Ladyship’s credit to tell, who I think will no ways dissemble with your Honour in any cause. For other parts of honorable courtesies both to my wife and daughter, I found myself much bound to her, for she bade us twice to her house, and herself having occasion one afternoon to come with my Lord her son to Mr. Hare’s house, of the Wardes, I did all that in me was to invite them to a simple supper at my house, being the next house adjoining. And this, Right Honorable, hath been all my proceeding that way; for if it can be proved I made any attempt or had the thought of any that way, let me lose my credit with your Honour, and with all the world besides, which truly I would not do for the worth of the best marriage that ever my daughter shall have, and yet, Sir, I love her very well, and have given her education accordingly, and would be as glad to bestow her thereafter. Thus much, my very good Lord, in discharge of my humble duty, I have presumed as beforesaid, and so shall your Honour find me faithful in all the service I can, though not able to be thankful as I desire. So praying for the continuance of your good health and long life, I humbly take my leave. Shelford, this 15 of July, 1590.
    Your Honour’s humble cousin to command,
        THO. STANHOPE.
  To the Right Honorable his special good Lordp the Lord Burghley, L. High Treasurer of England—give these.
        (Indorsed, by Burghley)
        “15 July 1590.
        Sr Tho. Stâhope
        Erl Southâptô.”

Death: 3 August 1596, at his house "Stoke" in Nottinghamshire, England

Burial: 27 September 1596 in St Peter and St Paul, Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England

Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire vol 1 pp291-2 (John Throsby, 1797)
The fac similes of the hand-writing in the same plate are taken from a very curious account of the burial of Sir Thomas Stanhope: the original paper is now in my possession. The following is a copy:
  “Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford, in com. Nott. Knight, married Margarett, 3d daughter and one of the heires of Sir John Porte, of Etwall, in com. Derb. Knighte, and by her had yssue John Stanhope, Esq. his eldest sonn and heire; Edward Stanhope, second sonn, Thomas Stanhope third sonn, Anne married to Sir John Hollis, of Honghon, in com. Nott. Knighte. The said Sir Thomas Stanhope after many years worshipfully spent, went the waye of all fleshe, the third daye of August, 1596, at his house called Stoke, in com Nott. and was from thence conveighed to his mannor-house of Shelford aforessaide, and then into this churche, being worshipfully accompanied; his body was buried the xxvii of September next followinge, at wch buriall John Stanhope, Esq. his sonne and heire was chief mournor, Sir John Hollis, Knighte, Mr. Edward Stanhope, Mr. Doctor Stanhope, Mr. Mychell Stanhope, Esq. was assistants: his standard borne by William Cooper Esq.    borne by Edward Stanhope his second sonn. The helme and crost borne by Yorke Herauld, his coate, sworde, and targe was borne by Clarencienle Kinge of Armes of that province, who had the marshallinge and orderinge of the same buryall. In witness that all this is trewe, we have set our hands hereunto, the daye of the buryall aforesaid.”

Sources:

Thomas Stanhope

Baptism 15 September 1596 in St Michael le Belfrey, Yorkshire, England
Thomas Stanhoope is recorded as the son of Mr Stanhoope, Queen's Counsel "one of hir Maiestyes counsell hear".

Father: Edward Stanhope

Mother: Susan (Coleshill) Stanhope

Education: Middle Temple, where Thomas was admitted on 8 November 1615, and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A. on 16 January 1617(8)

Middle Temple Records: 1603-1649 p599 (1904)
1615 Admissions:—
8 Nov. ... Mr. Thomas, fifth son of Edward Stanhope of Grimston, Yorks, knt., deceased, generally; bound with Messrs. James Legge and ― ; fine, 3l.

Alumni Oxoniensis Early Series vol 4 p1409 (Joseph Foster, 1892)
Stanhope, Thomas, of co. Derby, eq. aur. fil. BALLIOL COLL., matric. 15 March, 1615-16, aged 16. B.A. 16 Jan., 1617-18; student of Middle Temple 1615 as 5s. Edward of Grimston, Yorks, kt.; brother of George. See Foster’s Inns of Court Reg.

Notes:
Thomas was bequeathed a legacy in the will of his uncle, Sir Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civil Laws, dated 28 February 1602(3), held at the National Archives PROB 11/111/228
modern spelling transcript at www.oxford-shakespeare.com ©2007 Nina Green
Item, I do give to every one of the sons and daughters of my brother, Edward Stanhope, and my sister, Susan, his wife, which shall be living at the time of my death one gold signet ring of three angels’ weight apiece with the same crest and inscription as is set down for the sons and daughter of my brother, Sir Thomas Stanhope, knight, deceased; ...
Item, I do give unto my nephew, Thomas Stanhope, son to my brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, to be paid by mine executor or executors after he shall have accomplished the age of ten years, yearly to be paid unto him for and towards his education, eight pounds by the year until he shall accomplish the age of twenty-two years, and at his full age of twenty-two years, if he shall [+so] long live, then my executor or executors to pay unto him the full sum of one hundred pounds of lawful English money;

Thomas was bequeathed an annual allowance of forty pounds in the will of his father, Sir Edward Stanhope, one of His Majesty's Councellors in the North, dated 8 August 1603 and proved 16 February 1603(4), which is held at the National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/103/253).
... Item I giue vnto Thomas Stanhope my youngest sonne oute of my landes fourtie poundes by yeare during his naturall life, That he may distreyne for the same in and vppon my landes for non payment of the rente for the same, to be paide at two vsuall Feastes in the yeare, that is to saie, at the feast of sainte Michaell th'archangell nexte ensuing the date hereof,

Thomas was left a bequest in the will of his aunt Jane, dated 20 July 1617, held at The National Archives (PROB 11/131/287). A modern spelling transcript (©2007 Nina Green) is at oxford-shakespeare.com
  Item, I give unto my nephews, Michael Stanhope, John Stanhope, George Stanhope and Thomas Stanhope, sons of my deceased brother, Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, to each of them forty shillings apiece

Thomas was remembered in the will of his brother, Sir John Stanhope, dated 30 April 1627 and proved on 30 September 1627, held at the National Archives PROB 11/153/40
Itm I give to my welbeloved brother Thomas Stanhope one gould Ringe of the value of twentie shillings

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions p221 (William Dugdale, 1894)
5. Thomas, mat. at Balliol Coll., Oxf., 15 Mar. 1615/6, student Middle Temple (Foster). Named in his brother Sir John’s will.

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Ursula (Stanhope) Walker

Baptism: 30 October 1610, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Mary (Hawley) Stanhope

Married: George Walker in 1642

Children: Notes: There is a tablet in Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire (incorrectly identified by Leslie in Derry Clergy and Parishes p100 as Deighton Church, Suffolk), to the memory of Ursula.

The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. p124 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  the Kirk Deighton Registries prove that he took refuge in England during the early troubles of the Revolution, and that he obtained probably the livings of Kirk Deighton and Wighill through the influence of the Stanhope family. The following is a copy: “1650 Sept. 20 Baptisms Margaret d. of Geo Walker and Ursula his wife”; again, “1654 May 20 Burial Ursula wife of Mr Geo Walker of Why Hill.” A stone in the S.W. chancel has: “Here lies Ursula daughter of Sir John Stanhope of Melwood, wife of Geo Walker Archdeacon of Derry. She died May 17th A.D. 1654.”

Derry Clergy and Parishes p100 (James B Leslie, 1937)
Parish of Badoney: Rectors
1636. George Walker (Sen.) inst. Badoney and Cappagh, Jan 13 (F.F.). ...  In the tablet in Dighton Church, Suffolk, to the memory of his wife, Ursula (dau. of Sir John Stanhope, who d. Aug. 17, 1654) he is called "Archdeacon of Dun (sic.)" which cannot be correct.

Death: 17 August 1654

Burial: S.W. chancel of Kirk Deighton parish church, Yorkshire, England

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William Stanhope

Father: Michael Stanhope

Mother: Anne (Rawson) Stanhope

Notes:
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148 (Robert Thoroton, 1677)
    In Shelford Church,
  Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope, wydowe ... By Sir Michaell she had these children, Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight; Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire; Edward Stanhope, Esquire, one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England; Julian married to John Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum, Esquire; John Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth; Jane married Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com Norf. Edward Stanhope, Doctor of the Civile Law, one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery; Michaell Stanhope, Esquire, one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth; besides Margaret, William, and Edward, who died in their infancy.

Death: in infancy

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_____ (Stanhope) Grimsby

Father: John Stanhope

Mother: Elizabeth (Maulovel) Stanhope

Married: _____ Grimsby

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