r.1. Sir Francis, geb. 15/08/1591,
Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 18/09/1652, begr. St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, Engeland, 1st Bart of Wortley x marriage settlement 28/11/1610 met Grace BROUNCKER, oorl. 23/08/1621, Tankersley,
Yorkshire, Engeland, begr. Wortley, d.v. Sir William Brouncker of Melksham and Stoke, co. Wiltshire en Mary Mildway xx 19/04/1625 met Hester SMITHIES, d.v. George
Smithies, alderman of London en Sarah Woolhouse. Hester voorheen getroud met Christopher Eyre.
Francis was die seun van Richard Wortley en Elizabeth Boughton.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
Sir Francis Wortley
het geleef in 'n tyd van groot politieke, sosiale en godsdienstige onrus in die Britse Eilande. Koningin Elizabeth is opgevolg deur Koning James I (r.1603-1625),
die eerste Stuart Koning in die gekombineerde krone van Engeland, Ireland en
Skotland. He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period
known as the Jacobean era after him, until his death in 1625 at the age of 58. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I) He was
a major advocate of a single parliament for both England and Scotland. (Wikipedia)
James I was ‘n ondersteuner van literatuur en kuns. William
Shakespeare was among the ‘Kings Men’ troupe of actors who performed plays for
their patron James. (Royal family
history) Na Koning James I se dood in
1652 het sy seun Koning Charles I (r. 1625-1649) die troon opgevolg. Koning Charles I was vasbeslote om die Royal
oppergesag oor die Kerk van Engeland, wat tot
stand gebring is deur Koning Henry VIII, te handhaaf. Hy wou ook hierdie oppergesag uitbrei na die
Kerk van Skotland. Charles wou oor die
hele Brittanje eenvormigheid in die metode van aanbidding bewerkstellig. Hy het geglo in die leer van Goddelike
regte van die konings which he believed
made him answerable only to God and therefore he believed himself to be above
the law. Parlement het egter geglo dat die Koning se optrede deur die wet beheer moet word en dat vorme
van aanbidding, binne die grense van die Protestantisme, grootliks 'n kwessie
van vrye keuse moet wees. Die Koning en
Parlement het beide voortbeweeg en die botsings het gelei tot die Burgeroorlog. (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages. The History of the Long Term Development of
the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the
Modern Period.)
KNIGHTS BACHELORS
1610-11, Jan. 15. FRANCIS WORTLEY, of Co. Yorks. (at Theobalds).
1621, Aug. 6. EDWARD WORTLEY, of Co. York, (at Belvoir Castle).
1629, Sept. 24. THOMAS WORTELEY (at Hampton Court).
(Shaw, WM. A.
ed.: The Knights of England. A Complete
Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the
Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors.)
Henry Brouncker,
the eldest son and heir of Robert, had in 1535, a conveyance of lands at Bubton
and Thornhill, in Clyffe Pypard, from Simon and Margaret Baker. In 1541 his
name appears again in another conveyance, from Peter Morgan and his wife
Elizabeth, of messuages and lands in Orcheston St. Mary, Tilshead, Potterne, Marston,
and Steeple Ashton. Later, in 1544, he became the purchaser from Giles Gore,
gent., and his wife Elizabeth, of other messuages and lands in Melksham,
Whitley, Shaw, Benacre, Seend, Seendrow, Woodrowe, and Wolmere, as part of the
possessions of the dissolved Monastery of Amesbury. In 1552, we find him also owner of property
in the New Port of Devizes, which borough he sometime represented in
Parliament. He was also a member of the Company trading to Muscovy. In 1555, he presented to the Vicarage of
Melksham, by grant from its patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. He was
also owner of Earlstoke, which he purchased from the Crown temp. Henry VIII. In
1558, he filled the office of Sheriff of Wiltshire. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of
James Braybrooke, of Abingdon, co. Berks, Esquire of the Privy Chamber to Henry
VII. By this lady he had two daughters.
His second wife was Ursula, daughter of John Yate, of Lyford, also in co.
Berks, by whom he had two sons, William, and Henry ; and three daughters. William Brouncker, the eldest son, presented
to Melksham Vicarage, in 1576, was Sheriff' 1580, and Member for Wiltshire,
1586. In 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, we find him contributing 25
towards the defence of the country. He
was afterwards knighted, and died 27th March 1597. His wife, Mary, was a daughter
of Sir Walter Mildmay, knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of the Privy
Council to Queen Elizabeth, by Mary,
sister of Sir Francis Walsingham. They had five children, a son Henry, and four
daughters: (i) Mary, married to John Winter, of co. Gloucester ; (2) Grace, to
Sir Francis Wortley, Bart. ; (3) Anne, to Sir John Jennings, and (4) Elizabeth,
to Hugh Halswell, of co. Dorset. (Wiltshire
notes and queries)
(Metcalfe, Walter C.
ed.: Harvey, William.: The visitation of Wiltshire 1565 by Wiliam
Harvey together with additional Wiltshire pedigrees from various Harleian MSS.
1897)
George Smythes was born circa 1563.
He was admitted to Gray's Inn 14 March
1608-9. A member of the Goldsmiths'
Company, he was Prime Warden in 1610-11, and Alderman of Bridge from 30 April
1611 till his death in 1615. In 1611 he
was elected Sheriff of London, and there is a note in the records of the
Goldsmiths' Company that a gratuity of £100 was given to him on his election
" towards the tryming of his house and other charges in the time of his
Shrievalty. His arms (Argent, a chevron azure between three oak-leaves
vert, each charged with an acorn or) were exemplified and a crest granted to
him (A demi-arm azure and hand proper, holding a branch of oak-leaves with
acorns or, set in a wreath of his colours) on 9 March 1602. It would appear that by 1602 he was in full
possession of Wike Court, which by his father's will was, with all other
property, except certain legacies and annuities, left jointly to George and his
brother William, the inference being that William had either died or sold his
rights to his brother. As regards his descent in the County of Lancaster, we
find tins referred to also in the Vincent MS. quoted above, and since there are
frequent mentions of the name in early records of the northern counties of
Northumberland, York, and Lancaster, there seems no justification for
concluding that the descent was merely conjectural. On 12 April 1588 a licence (Mar. Lie. Chester
and London) was granted for the marriage of George Smythes, described as "
of St Mathew, Friday Street, Goldsmith,
and " Sara Woolhouse, spinster, of St Magnus, London, da. of
Anthony Woolhouse, haberdasher, deceased, gen.," also of St. Magnus,
London, and of Chapwell, co. Derby. The Funeral Certificate of George Smithes
shews that he died in July 1615, and was buried at St. Mary's Steyning on 10
August following; that he had four sons, Arthur (the eldest), William, and two
named George, who died young, also a daughter Hester, who married Christopher Eyre,
Esq., of Wilts, Citizen and Merchant of London, and a daughter Elizabeth, who
married Edward Semster. His wife is described as Sara, daughter of Anthone
Wollis (sic) of the county of Derby, gent., late Citizen and Haberdasher of
London. (Records of the Smythies family
compiled by Major R.H. Raymond Smythies, 1912, London)
(http://www.smythies.com/~doug/genealogy/rotsf/Smythies_Records0074.PDF)
Prins Henry was die oudste kind van koning James I. Wortley
may have initially wanted a career at Court.
As a young man he (Francis Wortley) secured a place in the Household of Prince Henry, whom he subsequently
described as ‘my first master, whose name is, sacred to Mars and the Muses,
whose memory is still precious to the world’.
However he failed to find further preferment after Henry’s death in 1612.
(The history of Parliament
British political, Social & local history) Sir
Francis held the office of Gent. Of privy chamber extraordinary to Prince Henry
c.1610-12 to Charles I 1630-at least 1641. (The history of Parliament. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wortley-sir-francis-1591-1652)
Die huidige hereditary Orde
van baronette in Engeland dateer uit 22
Mei 1611 toe dit ingestel is deur James I wat die eerste Letters Patent aan 200 gentlemen van goeie afkoms met 'n
inkomste van ten minste £1000 per jaar toegestaan het. Sy bedoeling was tweeledig. Firstly he wanted to fill the gap between
peers of the realm and knights so he decided that the baronets were to form the
sixth division of the aristocracy following the five degrees of the peerage.
Secondly, and probably more importantly, he needed money to pay for soldiers to
carry out the pacification of Ireland. Daarom was daar van dié wat eerste hierdie eer
ontvang het, verwag om vir die onderhoud van dertig soldate vir drie jaar ten
bedrae van £1095 te betaal, wat in daardie dae 'n baie groot bedrag was. (A short history: The Standing Council of the Baronetage) Sir Francis was die nege en dertigste gentleman op die lys, en die derde in die County van York. (Morehouse,
Henry James: The history and topography
of the parish of Kirkburton and of the graveship of Holme, Holmfirth in the
county of York. Huddersfield MDCCLXI) Hy was die 1st Bart of Wortley. In 1619
James I erected the Baronetage of Ireland and laid plans for a further new
Baronetage with the object of assisting the colonisation of Nova Scotia.
However in 1624 he died before this could be implemented. In 1625 Charles I
took up the previous plans and erected the Baronetage of Scotland and Nova
Scotia. (A short history: The Standing Council of the Baronetage)
Sir Francis trou op 28 November 1610 met Grace Brouncker, die dogter van
Sir William Brouncker of Melksham and Stoke, co. Wiltshire en Mary Mildwa.
(Morehouse, Henry James: The
history and topography of the parish of Kirkburton and of the graveship of
Holme, Holmfirth in the county of York. Huddersfield MDCCLXI) Na sy huwelik met Grace en gedurende die res
van daardie regeringstyd, sowel as die eerste regeringsjare van die volgende
koning, lyk dit of hy ‘n gelukkige lewe op Wortley gehad het. treading
in the steps of his worthy ancestors in hospitality, charity and good
neighbourhood.' (Abbeys, Castles,
and Ancient Halls of England and Wales:
Their legendary lore and popular history)
The owners or freeholders of South Muskham, and South Carleton in 1612,
are said to be William Willoughby, knight, Raph Barton, esquire, Thomas
Powdrell, esquire, the heirs of Thomas Greaves, Henry Garnon, Henry Saxton,
Francis Wortley, three mess. three cottages, three pounds, and seventy seven
acres of land. (Robert Thoroton, 'South
Muskam and South Carleton', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3,
Republished With Large Additions by John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham,
1796), pp. 148-152)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol3/pp148-152
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., quer: Jervase Hanson and Eliz. His wife, def. Manor of Darley and 2 messuages, cottage, lands and rent, common of estovers, etc. in Darley, Worsbrough and Worsbroughdale and view of frank pledge and leets in Worsbrough, Worsbroughdale, Ardesley, Rockley and Falthwayte alias Rockley.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., quer: Jervase Hanson and Eliz. His wife, def. Manor of Worsbrough alias Workisbroughdale alias Wisburghdale alias Westburghdale alias Worsburghdale and 16 messuages, 20 cottages, windmill, lands, rent, common of estovers, free fishery and free warren there.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., Thos. Barton esq. and Robt. Rookley esq., quer: Francis Burdett esq., def. Six messuages, 9 cottages and lands in Swalowhill alias. Swalwell, Maplewell, Darton, Billingley and Kexbroughe.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. John Bennocke gent., quer: Francis Wortley knt. and bart., def.
Manors of Newhall, Carlton, Wortley, Pilley, Hunshelf, Swynton and Hoylandswayne and 120 messuages, 50 cottages, 5 watermills, lands and rent in same places and Over Shitlington, Mi die Shitlington, Midgley, Adwicke, Mortomley and Thurguland.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., quer: Jervase Hanson and Eliz. His wife, def. Manor of Darley and 2 messuages, cottage, lands and rent, common of estovers, etc. in Darley, Worsbrough and Worsbroughdale and view of frank pledge and leets in Worsbrough, Worsbroughdale, Ardesley, Rockley and Falthwayte alias Rockley.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., quer: Jervase Hanson and Eliz. His wife, def. Manor of Worsbrough alias Workisbroughdale alias Wisburghdale alias Westburghdale alias Worsburghdale and 16 messuages, 20 cottages, windmill, lands, rent, common of estovers, free fishery and free warren there.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. Francis Wortley knt. and bart., Thos. Barton esq. and Robt. Rookley esq., quer: Francis Burdett esq., def. Six messuages, 9 cottages and lands in Swalowhill alias. Swalwell, Maplewell, Darton, Billingley and Kexbroughe.
YORKSHIRE FINES 1614/15. John Bennocke gent., quer: Francis Wortley knt. and bart., def.
Manors of Newhall, Carlton, Wortley, Pilley, Hunshelf, Swynton and Hoylandswayne and 120 messuages, 50 cottages, 5 watermills, lands and rent in same places and Over Shitlington, Mi die Shitlington, Midgley, Adwicke, Mortomley and Thurguland.
John Midgley gent., quer: Francis Wortley knt. and bart. and Robt. Bladon gent., def. Tithes in Howlandswayne alias Hoylandswayne and Silkeston.
Beevor Hall. Bond, 1622.
(The
town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period by Rowland
Jackson, London 1858. P. 145)Beevor Hall. Bond, 1622.
Die Index to records genoem, the Originalia and Memoranda on the lord
treasurer's remembrancer's side of the Exchequer: extracted from the records,
and from the manuscripts of Mr. Tayleure, Mr. Madox and Mr. Chapman; formerly
officers in that office deur Edward Jones, bevat al die toekennings van abbey grond en ander eiendom, wat deur die kroon toegestaan is, van die begin
van die regering van Henry VIII. tot aan die einde van die regeringstyd van Queen
Ann. Asook, inrollments van charters, grants en patents aan verskeie
godsdienstige huise, stede, boroughs, dorpe, maatskappye, kolleges, en ander
openbare inrigtings vanaf die vroegste tydperk. Saam met pleadings en proceedings met betrekking tot die tenures en estates van
die nobility en gentry; ; commissions to
survey manors, lands and tenements; [etc.] . (http://www.worldcat.org/) Die volgende inskrywings vir lede van die
Wortley familie kom daarin voor:
Wortley (Willielmo), & Willielmo Catenby, Gen.
& aliis, Firma dimissa in Com. Eboraci. Pars Original. Anno 6 Rotulo 1.
Wortley (Thomae), Militi, & aliis, Manerium de
Kymberford conceffum in Comitatu Eboraci, Original. Anno 2, Rotulo 10.
Wortley (Fransisco) Militi, & Baronetto,
Concessio in Com. Eboraci. 3 Pars Original.
Anno 12. Rotulo 14.
Admission to Grays Inn – 1624 - Francis Wortley, of Wortley, co. York, Knight and Baronet.
Sir Francis was een van die grootste ironmasters in die area en as Steward of Barnsley het hy die steenkoolneerslae van die manor ontgin. Net soos sy voorgeslagte was hy ‘n ruthless enclose. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Bloomeries van die sestiende en vroeër eeue is naby die Donrivier en ander rivierstrome van Suid-Yorkshire opgerig. Die oudste bevestigde iron working site wat deur die Wortley familie besit is, is ‘n bloomery (Wortley Bloomery) wat uit 1621 dateer. Dit was na alle waarskynlikheid alreeds in 1600 in werking. Dit lyk of hierdie bloomery aanhoudend gewerk is tot by die laaste verhuring aan William Wood in 1683-4. Wortley Family Records 2 water wheels - going concern. Possible references to 5 wheels. Ore from Thurgoland, Dodworth & Silkstone. (Wortley Top Forge History Of Iron Making at Wortley)
In die 17de eeu was 'n bloomery 'n eenvoudige oond vir die smelt van ystererts om iron blooms te produseer en waarvoor houtskool as brandstof gebruik is. Iron blooms required hammering to expel entrained slag in order to make the iron suitable for subsequent use, and it was common for bloomeries to have a tilt-hammer for the task. Omdat 1 ton yster ongeveer ‘n ½ akker woodland benodig het, was die bloomeries gewoonlik in beboste gebiede geleë en was dit verskuif na ‘n nuwe area sodra die brandstof opgebruik was. Die aanplant van plantasies
sagte hout het die ontwikkeling van die bloomeries
gevolg. (The first top forge at Wortley,
South Yorkshire)
Sir Francis kon die uitgebreide landgoed met goed beplande woude van sy huis af sien. Daar was baie dele plantasies in verskillende stadiums van ontwikkeling, gebaseer daarop dat dit vyftien jaar vir bome vat om tot volwassenheid te ontwikkel. Met ‘n siklus van 15 jaar, het ‘n grondeienaar vyftien keer die oppervlakte nodig gehad om een jaar se voorraad brandstof te voorsien. Die bome wat in 1640 afgekap was, was waarskynlik in 1625 geplant. Sir Francis was reaping where his ancestors had sown. The woods of the Wortley estate had been supplying charcoal for bloomeries in the sixteenth century if not earlier. (The first top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire)
Die ligging van die Wortley Bloomery is onseker. Dr. R.A. Mott, wat vir jare die verhaal van iron-making in Suid-Yorkshire nagevors het, dui aan dat dit in
die omgewing van Wortley Tin Mill geleë was, based on the proximity of the required raw materials and the existence
of bloomery slag observed in the woods below the tin mill and in the vicinity
of the cottages The area was, however, widely favourable for iron bloom
production with known bloomeries also documented in nearby Thurgoland in
1567 and Oxspring in 1589. (Archaeological Desk-based Assessment and
Survey. Ref: February 2013
87410.01 Wortley Tin Mill, Wortley, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire).
(Fifteen walks around Wortley)
Ysterklip is hier gesmelt tot ná die regeringstyd van Charles I (r.1625-1649) toe die oonde tot niet gemaak is en 'n forge, wat aansienlik vergroot is, opgerig is. Daar was 'n opeenvolging van Forges op die Donrivier. The Old Wire Mill, The New Wire Mill, the Tilt Mill in Thurgoland Parish, Top Forge, Low Forge and finally the Tin Mill in Wortley.
Dr. R.A. Mott, het sterk bewyse gelewer dat die beginpunt van Wortley forge in 1640 was. Sir Francis Wortley se tydperk van bou, sou voor die oorlog van 1642 gewees het. Sir Francis Wortley moes noukeurig na moontlike plekke op die oewer van
die Donrivier gekyk het, voordat hy uiteindelik besluit het op die plek waar
Top Forge vandag is, wetende dat die woud van sy eie landgoed, houtskool moes
voorsien en dat pig-iron voorsien moes word deur die Bank Furnace. His experience of operating a bloomery on the Don
would persuade him that the Don could fill dams to turn wheels. So it was a
question of taking water from the Don higher up than the bloomery and half a
mile was considered a fair distance between competitors for water-power. When forge-workers used bellows at the
finery hearth or the hammer to shape a lump from the chafery, they needed to be
sure of a supply of power to the end of the operation. ‘n Dam het
aan hulle hierdie versekering gegee. Met
opgedamde water kon die werkers meer water neem as wat die rivier kon verskaf. (The first top forge at Wortley, South
Yorkshire)
Iemand met
ervaring van forges moes vir Sir Francis Wortley ingelig het oor die dimensies
van die Top Forge van 1640. Dit was
waarskynlik Sir Francis Fane. Van die
baie min forges in Yorkshire, was twee baie
naby - Kimberworth en Wadsley. (The first top forge at Wortley, South
Yorkshire)
Sir Francis Wortley het in 1621 saketransaksies met ‘n vriend, Sir Francis Fane, van Aston, die seun van ‘n Sir Francis Fane, wat twee houtskooloonde saam met finery forges naby Trowbridge bedryf het, gehad. Buiten vir sy aktiwiteite naby Wortley, was Sir Francis Wortley se vriend, een van vier wat 'n bloomery op 'n terrein naby Kirkstall Abbey gehuur het. Sir Francis Wortley was afhanklik van advies van die kundiges, Fownes, en Cotton. (The first top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire) Sir William Fownes, wat ervaring in operating furnace with forge in Shropshire gehad het, het ‘n geruime tyd voor 1639 na Wortley gekom. Hy is met die suster van Walter Spencer getroud. In haar testament van 1657 word haar skoonseun William Cotton as van "Wortley Forge in Huns Helf" genoem. Dit is die Cotton wat hoofklerk tot die Wortley en Kirkstall sentrums, onder 'n vennootskap van 1658 geword het. (The first top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire) Die Korporasie van Doncaster het in 1654 navraag gedoen oor die hoeveelheid yster wat, tydens die voorafgaande 14 jaar deur mnr Cotton van "Watley Forge" aan hul wharf gelewer is. Dit bewys dat William Cotton, op wie die grondeienaar staatgemaak het, by Wortley was in 1641. (The first top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire)
Sir Francis Wortley het waarskynlik 'n plaaslike Millwright gevind om die wiele van Top Forge op te stel. Al die
wiele in iron works het die werk van
'n kundige geverg. The total cost of setting up Top Forge cannot be worked out now; we
cannot estimate the number of man hours put in, or how much material came from
Sir Francis Wortley's own resources. We cannot put a price on all the iron used
in setting up the forge. (The first
top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire)
Die eerste verwysing van die forge as ‘n finery is in ‘n huurooreenkoms van 1658 toe dit gebruik was vir refining pig iron. (Archaeological Desk-based Assessment and
Survey. Ref: February 2013
87410.01 Wortley Tin Mill, Wortley, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire). 1657 / 58 - 'Forge in Hunshelf' 10 Smiths 17 Forges
Complaints about High Price of Iron.
(Wortley Top Forge History Of Iron Making at Wortley) The Top
Forge was chiefly occupied with the conversion of pig metal into malleable
iron. (Fifty walks around Wortley)
Die 1658 akte, die oudste oorlewende akte vir Top Forge, moes
voorafgegaan gewees het deur vroeër aktes wat verlore geraak het. Die 1658 akte is waarskynlik die derde een,
wat die tweede akte van 1649 vervang het. 'n Nege-jaar huurkontrak was toe 'n
aanvaarde gebruik vir 'n nuwe onderneming. (The first top forge at Wortley, South
Yorkshire) It is of course true that the Wortley estate
had been important in iron working (the forges bearing the Wortley name are a
obvious reminder of this), but the signatory to a lease on Wortley Top Forge in
1658 is Sir Edward Wortley, not Sir Francis the younger. Maybe the family
estate had been divided, but that would tend to spread more thinly the recovery
from supposed poverty. (The Wortleys of Wortley Hall - written and
researched by Nick Andrew)
This massive stone cam lifts the hammer and
then lets it drop on the workpiece. It has a direct drive from the water-wheel,
and the moderate head of water can generate enough force to lift the heavy
hammer. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Cam,_Wortley_Top_ Forge,_Stocksbridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1497928.jpg)
Belly helve hammer. Water powered forging
hammer. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Belly_helve_hammer,_Wortley_ Top_Forge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_257521.jpg)
No. 1 hammer. This is the oldest of the hammers at
the forge. It is supported by two cast iron legs clamped to a massive wooden
beam for rigidity. The curved piece of wood below it, and above the hammer,
acts as a spring to increase the force of the hammer. The workpiece is
supported by a crane. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No. _1_hammer,_Wortley_Top_Forge,_ Stocksbridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1497943.jpg)
Looking out at Wortley Forge
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_out_ at_Wortley_Forge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1022486.jpg
Leland skryf van die Sheffield distrik, "Great numbers of smiths ... lived in those parts". Sir
Francis would be able to recruit the first workforce from the local pool of
labour. Some man may have been persuaded to leave a local forge; a man of
promise may have 4 been promoted from bloomery to forge work. Under a good man,
a blacksmith's assistant could be trained, first at the chafery and later at
the finery. We expect the first hammerman to have been an experienced worker -
the quality as well as the quantity of iron produced depended so much on him.
An inscription on a stone in Wortley churchyard announces, "Here lies the
body of Francis Askew of Upper Forge, hammerman; died October 24, 1699".
Was he the first or the second of the
experts working the hammer of Top Forge? (The first top forge at Wortley,
South Yorkshire)
(Fifteen walks around Wortley)
In the 1630s, Sir Francis Wortley was able to mortgage his estates to his mother – now dowager Countess of Devonshire – and build the Wortley Forges and Bank charcoal blast furnace near Cawthorne before 1640. It is not surprising that Newcastle, in the Civil War, was able to request, from his cousin by marriage, Sir Francis, cannon shot, forged at Low Forge, for the defence of Sheffield Castle and later Pontefract Castle and in preparation for the Battle of Marston Moor near York. (https://www.topforge.co.uk/wortley-people-in-history/)
Wortley Low Forge is
stroomaf van Top Forge af geleë op 'n terras rivier binne 'n lus van die Donrivier. (Archaeological Desk-based Assessment and
Survey. Ref: February 2013
87410.01 Wortley Tin Mill, Wortley, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire). At Low Force were 'chaferies' where the
rough unfinished products of the Top Forge were forged into bars. (Fifty walks around Wortley) A chafery is a variety of hearth used in
ironmaking for reheating a bloom of iron, in the course of its being drawn out
into a bar of wrought iron. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chafery) Lower Forge en Top Forge is in twee
afsonderlike gemeentes geleë; die voormalige in Tankersley, die laasgenoemde
(in Huns Helf) in die Penistone gemeente. (The first top forge at Wortley, South
Yorkshire)
Top Forge word duidelik van Lower
Forge onderskei "that shot forge called by the name of the
New Hammer or Lower Forge and lately erected and built by Sir Francis
Wortley". (The first top forge at Wortley, South Yorkshire) Wortley Low Forge includes the standing earthwork and associated buried
remains of an iron forge, which operated from the mid-17th century until final
closure in 1929. (Archaeological
Desk-based Assessment and Survey.
Ref: February 2013 87410.01 Wortley Tin Mill, Wortley, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire).
Die oorsprong van die Wortley Tin Mill is nie bekend nie. Dit is in ‘n area, aan die rand van die
dorp Hunshelf in die Penistone gemeente, wat ‘n lang tradisie van iron working het, geleë. Aan die suide en ooste van die area is die
Donrivier wat die grens tussen die chapelry
van Wortley en die gemeente van Tankersley is.
(Archaeological Desk-based Assessment and Survey. Ref:
February 2013 87410.01
Wortley Tin Mill, Wortley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire)
Sir Francis was as jong man in die regte opgelei. Hy was lojaal teenoor sy servants en in 1620 het hy ‘n Nottinghamshire magistraat, Sir
George Lassalls, in Star Chamber
vervolg, omdat hy een van hulle geslaan het.
Star Chamber was an English court
of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster from the late 15th century
until 1641. (Wikipedia) In Mei 1622 het hy ‘n lisensie ontvang om
oorsee te reis, maar indien hy daarvan gebruik gemaak het, was hy teen Julie
van die volgende jaar al terug, toe hy met die secretary of state Conway (Sir Edward Conway I) korrespondeer het
oor ‘n kneg wat daarvan aangekla is, dat hy die koning se pelikaan cormorant weggedra het. (The
history of parliament British political,
Social & local history)
In 1624 was Sir Francis toegelaat aan Gray’s
Inn. Gray's Inn, is een van die vier Inns of Court (professionele verenigings vir advokate en
regters) in Londen. Die Inn het in die
jare 1625 – 1642 floreer en meer as 100 studente per jaar was toe daar toegelaat.
Sy afgeronde intellek en ervaring het hom vir poste
van eer en diens in sy land gekwalifiseer. (Gatty, Alfred, rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of
York: Wortley & the Wortleys - a
lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also
the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield)
Offices Held: Member, Virg. Co.
1610, Guiana Co. 1627, E.I. Co. by 1628.
J.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) by 1614-at least 1641, Derbys. 1619-at least
1623, Notts. 1629-37, liberties of Southwell and Scrooby Notts., 1627-at least
1641, custos. rot. 1630-at least 1639; commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ.
1617-41, Midland circ. 1630-42, sewers, W. Riding 1623-at least 1631, Yorks.,
Notts and Lincs. 1629, 1634-7, Yorks. and Notts. 1635; dep. lt. Derbys. by
1621-at least 1624; steward, Barnsley and Dodsworth manors, Derbys. 1621;
commr. subsidy, Derbys. 1621-2, 1624, W. Riding 1621-2, 1624, 1629, 1641-2,
Forced Loan, W. Riding 1627, array, Yorks. 1642. Custos Rotulorum 1630-at least 1639. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wortley-sir-francis-1591-1652)
Hy, saam met ander
ridders en edeles, het op die Bench for
the West Riding Quarter Sessions gesit. Dit was die basiese alledaagse prosedure van
die kriminele regstelsel in Wortley se tyd en was so sedert die vroeë
Middeleeue. Hulle het feitlik elke soort
van plaaslike misdaad - insluitend geweldadigheid en oortredings hanteer. The felonies, the serious crimes, would mean
that the offenders were sent on to York Castle to be tried at York Assizes, so
before Francis and his peers there could be any kind of criminal matter, from
payment of constables to homicide. Dikwels
was daar probleme a.g.v. bakleiery: dit
was algemeen in die 14de tot 17de eeue, as
in a violent society with little effective policing, men resorted to knives and
staffs if they were riled. Geringe
diefstal was al die tyd aan die gang. (Foul
Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster By Stephen Wade Barnsley 2010) This example was recorded by Robert Combe the
Constable of Ecclesfield in his accounts for 1642. Paid to two men for watching Ellen Shaw one
nighte and goeinge with her before Sir ffran:Woortley she being accused for
felonie …. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and
his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012)
Monson, the younger son
of a well-established Lincolnshire gentry family, followed in the footsteps of
his two elder brothers as a student at Gray’s Inn, and was knighted at the
coronation of James I. Although he took out the freedom of Lincoln ahead of the
general election in March 1614 with the apparent intention of standing, he
failed to obtain a seat in the Addled Parliament. He held property less than
four miles north of the city; but by this time his marriage connected him more
closely with the West Riding. He was dismissed from the Yorkshire magistrates’
bench in around 1616 for religious reasons; a former colleague who had incurred
Monson’s enmity while searching a recusant’s house described him in Star
Chamber in 1618 as a ‘known favourer of the popish recusants’. Monson was frequently involved in litigation
over the coming years. As sole executor of his late brother-in-law Sir Thomas
Reresby from 1621, he and Sir Francis Wortley, 1st bt., launched a series of
Chancery suits against Sir Simeon Steward, who had married Reresby’s widow. Furthermore, in 1624 evidence was
given in another Chancery case on behalf of Richard Graham* that Monson was
chiefly responsible for a fraudulent entail of the Norton Conyers estate in
Wath, Yorkshire. Monson was not finally
elected to Parliament until 1626, when he was returned for Lincoln, presumably
aided by the local connections of his nephew, John, who sat in the same
Parliament as a Lincolnshire knight of the shire. Over the course of the
session he was named to only two committees, one for a private bill to reverse
a Chancery decree concerning his brother-in-law Steward’s estate (2 Mar. 1626),
and the other for a bill to restrict urban development (4 March). He was fined £10 on 2 June for being
absent without leave. In 1626-9 Monson
and Wortley were sued in Chancery by Reresby’s children, and found guilty of
embezzlement. As a result Monson was required to yield a full account of the
profits accrued during his trusteeship of their estates, and to relinquish
large sums of money and various leases to the plaintiffs. Monson died intestate on 15 Sept. 1638
and was buried at North Carlton. As
his only son had died without issue, his property was eventually divided
between his five daughters, one of whom married Sir Vincent Corbet
(http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/monson-sir-robert-1574-1638)
Sir Francis signed the Yorkshire return in 1620. Soos sy pa, was Sir Francis vyandig
gesind teenoor die Savile familie, en
het hy gevolglik ‘n ondersteuner van Sir Thomas Wentworth, wat Sir John
Savile se bitter teenstaander in Yorkshire se electoral politics was, geraak. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history) Sir Francis
was ‘n goeie vriend van die Earl of Strafford. They had for their political antagonists the Saviles,
of Howley Hall. A misunderstanding
appears to have originated as early as 1623, out of an election for knights of
the shire for this county. (Morehouse, Henry James: The history and topography of the parish of
Kirkburton and of the graveship of Holme, Holmfirth in the county of York. Huddersfield
MDCCLXI)
Die baronet moes kort van humeur gewees het. In 1623 he insulted Sir Thomas Savile, and challenged him to fight in Germany, whither he would go to meet him; but Sir Thomas preferred a duel in a neighbouring field. Daar kan aangeneem word dat hulle humeure afgekoel het terwyl hulle oor die bymekaarkomplek besluit het, want dit lyk of die rusie bedaar het. (Gatty, Alfred, rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of York: Wortley & the Wortleys - a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield)
Sir Francis had to
look outside his native county, to the Nottinghamshire borough of East Retford,
for his own election to Parliament. Die manors Badworth en Bollom, wat vantevore
aan Francis se pa behoort het, maar wat daarna deur sy ma, wat life interest in die eiendom gehad het,
gehou is, lê naby East Retford. Sy ma
het na sy pa se dood nog gronde in die omgewing aangekoop en haar tweede man,
die Earl of Devonshire het die advowson of East Retford besit. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history) Sir Francis het East Retford in die drie Parlemente van 1624, 1625, en 1626
verteenwoordig. (The history of
Parliament British political, Social
& local history)
In 1624 het Sir Francis Office
Member of Parliament vir East Retford geraak. Wortley’s younger brother Edward represented the borough in the third
Jacobean Parliament, and in 1624 was a candidate in the election which followed
(Sir) Nathaniel Rich’s decision to sit for Harwich, but this time he was pipped
to the post by John Darcy, the nominee of Sir George Lassells’ friend, Sir
Gervase Clifton. There was a by-election after Darcy died on 21 Apr 1624, but
it was Francis, rather than his brother, who finally gained the seat. Teen
die tyd wat hy teruggekeer het, was die Parlement amper oor en gevolglik is dit
nie verbasend dat daar geen vermelding van hom in die rekords is nie. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history)
Savile en sy pa het
weer vir Yorkshire in die algemene verkiesing van 1625 gestaan, toe hulle
teengestaan is deur Sir Thomas Fairfax I en William Mallory, vir wie hulle van Catholic sympathies beskuldig het. This only compounded their troubles, as
Mallory resigned his interest to Wentworth, whose supporters carried the day at
the county court, with the assistance of the sheriff, Sir Richard
Cholmley. Sir John Savile chose to
handle the petition to the Commons in person on this occasion, but Sir Thomas
came to Westminster as a witness, and on 31 May he brawled on Westminster Steps
with one of Wentworth’s supporters, Sir Francis Wortley. The
Saviles managed to get the Yorkshire return voided, but lost the resulting
election.
Nadat hy in 1625 vir East Retford herverkies was, het Sir Francis drie
weke voor die opening van Parliament, vir Sir Thomas Savile, Sir John se seun,
buite Westminster Hall teëgekom en hom beledig.
Savile het vir Wortley geskop en hy het toe vir Savile met sy swaard gewond. Waarna een van Savile se knegte hom in die gesig gekap het. Die Lord chief justice (Sir) Ranulphe Crewe het 'n ondersoek gedoen en Savile is vervolg in King's Bench, omdat hy 'n verbreking van die vrede veroorsaak het. Die geval is egter uitgestel, sodat Savile tyd gehad het om kwytskelding van die koning te kry, wat toegestaan is in Maart 1626. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history) On 20 Mar. Savile took out a pardon for wounding Wortley, a timely precaution, as he was sued for assault in King’s Bench in Easter term; the court took a dim view of a crime perpetrated on the doorstep of Westminster Hall, and Wortley secured damages of £3,000. The two men were reported to have duelled over the summer, and in September the Privy Council attempted to effect a reconciliation. However, with his father high in favour at Court, Savile was never likely to be severely punished. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/savile-sir-thomas-1590-16579) Savile in turn appealed, and the case dragged on until at least 1631. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Sir Francis was slegs twee keer genoem in die oorblywende rekords van
die 1625 parliament. On 5
July Sir Clement Throckmorton presented a petition to the Commons on Wortley’s
behalf to obtain privilege concerning a suit in Star Chamber, possibly
concerning the affray with Savile, and the Speaker was ordered to write a
letter to stay proceedings. Three days later he was appointed to his only
committee, for the bill to enable the trustees of the 3rd earl of Dorset to
sell land. On 25 July it was reported that Wortley ‘hath entreated all his neighbours
and friends’ to support Wentworth in the forthcoming Yorkshire election,
although he refused to endorse Wentworth’s running mate, Sir Thomas Fairfax. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history).
Sir Francis Wortley hertrou in 1625 met Hester Smithies, d.v. George
Smithies, alderman of London en Sarah Woolhouse of Glapwell, Bolsover,
Derbyshire. An alderman is a member of a
council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be
titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a
council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by popular
vote, or a council member elected by voters. In the City of London, aldermen are elected for each
ward, by the regular electorate, and until recently for life. They form the
Court of Aldermen. To be a candidate to be Lord Mayor of the City of London, it
is necessary to be an alderman and to have been a sheriff of the City of London. (Wikipedia) Die rykste handelaars was baie ryk, byvoorbeeld,
raadslede van Londen was ryker as byna alle landed gentlemen. (Sommerville, J.P.: Economy and society in early
modern England.)
In April 1626 het Sir Francis ‘n aanvraag vir ‘n Privy Seal loan van £30 ‘met ‘n groot
gebaar van minagting teengestaan. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history). Die Privy Seal loan was nog ‘n
vorm van belasting. These 'loans' were
usually voluntary in theory - although refusal could be very difficult, and
might result in imprisonment - and were often never repaid. They varied in
their scope, but often only the wealthier members of society were invited to
contribute. (Some notes on medieval
English Genealogy: Public records: Subsidies and other taxes) He
showed no less contempt for the Forced Loan, and was certified as a defaulter,
causing the Privy Council to instruct the Yorkshire Loan commissioners in April 1627
to call for him. Die kommissarisse het terug laat weet dat Sir Francis in
London was. Sir Francis was waarskynlik
in die hoofstad in verband met sy tweede vrou se fortuin. Haar vorige man se persoonlike boedel van
ongeveer £16,000, was onderhewig aan uitgebreide liefdadigheid en familie
nalatingskap (subject to extensive charitable and family legacies). Wortley contended
(aangevoer) that these had been revoked
by a nuncupative codicil, but failed to convince the lord keerer Sir Thomas
Coventry. He subsequently disregarded
Chancery’s ruling and in July 1627 was imprisoned for contempt (minagting).
(The history of Parliament British
political, Social & local history).
Sir Francis het nie weer in 1628 vir Parlement gestaan
nie. ‘n Tweegeveg met Barnham Swift, 1st Viscount Carlingford, halfbroer van Sir
Edward Swift, het weer vir Sir Francis in Star Chamber in die laat 1620’s vroeë
1630’s, gebring. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history).
In 1630 het hy ‘n ander pos by Court gekry, toe hy aangestel was as a gentleman of the privy chamber extraordinary. Hy het ook connection
gehad met die Household van die
toekomstige Koning Charles II en hy het meer as een keer gesê that he had been the first to ‘gird’ a sword
about the prince. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wortley-sir-francis-1591-1652)
Mr. Wortley Gent. of
the Privy Chamber, Privilege. Upon
reading the Petition of Francis Wortley Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of His
Majesty's Privy Chamber, complaining, "That he hath been arrested, upon two
several actions, in the Knight Marshal's Court, at the suit of one Richard
Thorneton, by Thorowgood, a Bailiff, without leave obtained:" Hereupon this House Ordered, that the parties
complained of shall be sent for, to attend this House, and then their Lordships
will take the same into further consideration; and that it be made appear that
the said Mr. Wortley is upon the Roll, a Servant of the King's. ('House of Lords Journal Volume
5: 14 February 1643', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 5, 1642-1643
(London, 1767-1830), p. 605)
Wortley purchased the court leets of half a dozen
manors in the West Riding from the duke of Lennox. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history) The court leet was a court of record, and its duty was not only to view
the pledges, which were the freemen's oaths of peacekeeping and good practice
in trade, but also to try by jury, and punish, all crimes committed within the
jurisdiction. The most serious
crimes were committed to the King's Justices.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_leet)
Sir Francis verloor sy Chancery
saak oor die Eyre erfenis in 1633, toe hy gevonnis is tot £865 14s 8d. skadevergoeding bo en behalwe die
oorspronklike nalatenskap. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history). Chancery. Die hof van die Lord Chancellor van Engeland, die hoogste hof van regswese naas die
House of Lords.
Regskoste moes bygedra het tot 'n finansiële posisie so desperaat dat hy
in 1635 die grootste deel van sy estate,
ter waarde van £1,000 per jaar aan sy ma, wat dit op sy broer (Sir) Edward en
sy swaer Sir Henry Crofts in trust vir Wortley se seun settled it. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history) Sir Francis verhuur sy herehuise van
Wortley, Pilley, Huns Helf en Hoyland Swein, aan Anthony Crofts, Esq., wat met
'n suster van die baronet getroud was. This lease of the lands was to extend over 40
years, and the sum paid was 7,800. To the mother of Sir Francis, this lease was
afterwards transferred; and, in June 1635, the Countess purchased the whole
property for 20,000: her son agreeing at the same time to settle the manor of
Carlton on his own son, the second Sir Francis Wortley. In the following month, the Countess also
settled on her grandson the purchased estates, to be enjoyed at her death,
which took place on the 23rd October, 1643. This transaction, no doubt, secured
the estates to the family. (Gatty, Alfred,
rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and
sub, dean of York: Wortley & the
Wortleys - a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical
society also the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield)
Frankus Wortleius de Wortley, 1636. Gedenkplaat in
raam, gevlek en verdonker van sy oorspronklike, vermoedelik wit voorkoms met
Latynse inskripsie. Dit vertel van die
red van Wortley se lewe deur ‘n ongenoemde person, wie moontlik 'n sekere
Walter Harcourt was, wie se gedenkplaat oorspronklik onder die Wortley tablet
was, toe dit in die chancel located
was. (Monuments in St Bartholomew’s Wednesbury, Birmingham)
The frame consists of two thick square pilasters, bulky at base and capital, an upper and lower plainer frame, all these being somewhat darker than the central plaque, but perhaps just more stained, with a small appendage above each pilaster. In between, detached from the monument, is a free-standing coat of arms, upon a roughly square backing carved as a piece of fabric with many small folds all emanating from a knight’s helm above; this helm is crowned, and upon it is a simple but spirited carving of a peacock. Below the capitals of the pilasters are the initials G. H. Presumably all this is the surviving remnant of some more ornate tomb. (Monuments in St Bartholomew’s Wednesbury, Birmingham. http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptplaces/ bhamwednesburystbarts.htm ) Francis Wortley's crest, with peacock.
The parish church of Wednesbury. On the west wall of the south transept, on a marble tablet, is the following: In cujus beneficii perrennem memoriam Franciscus Wortleius de Wortley Ebor. miles et baron, (quondam patronus suus) banc commemorationem illi servorumque fidelitate dicavit. Hie a cunabilis Marti dicatus nil nisi inhonestum non ausus, ardua gressus, san- guinem sudoremque perpessus. In juventute veteranus, in arte militari peritus inter cohortes regi Persarum assignatas centurio electus, jam iter facturus in matrem pietate ardens Ithacam petijt, febri maligna insidiatus, Persarum arma deposuit, Christi indnit* solita magnanimitate, insolita alacritate animse aromata cum hisce verbis (euge bone fidelisque serve) suaviter exhalavit : sic invictus cecidit non perijt 1636. (A History of Wednesbury in the county of Strafford by J.N. Bagnall. London MDCCCLIV P 33-34)
(Jackson,
Rowland: The town and township of
Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period. London 1858. P. 242)
Dit wil voorkom of daar by Barnsley ‘n horse-mill was wat hoofsaaklik vir die maal van mout gebruik is en wat aan Sir Francis behoort het. Die ander mill wat die Queen’s mill genoem is, is deur Sir Francis gehuur. Die Barnsley mills was aan die Wortleys en aan Thomas Edmunds (secretary to the Earl of Strafford) verhuur. (Jackson, Roland: The history of the town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period. London. 1858) It appears that Isacke Waterhouse, a merchant of Woodhouse, near Halifax, was holding two mills at Barnsley (being then the King’s mills) in 1608, in which year he instituted a suit in the Exchequer against Gabriel Keresforth and other inhabitants of Barnsley, in consequence of their sending corn to grind at the Abbey Mill of Monk Bretton, and others in the locality. The case was dismissed. And again, in 1637, during Easter Term, we find Sir Francis Wortley bringing an action in the Exchequer against Thomas Headen of Wood Hall Mill, in Darfield, for the same offence. The defendant proceeded to Barnsley Mills. London on foot to appear in the cause, and was brought to ruin through the expenses. One William Silvester held the mill at Monk Bretton of the King in 1638, at a rent of five nobles per annum, and like Headen seems to have ground a considerable quantity of the corn belonging to the Barnsley people, which excited the wrath of Sir Francis Wortley, who instituted legal proceedings against Silvester, but from its being made appear that the Barnsley people were bound by no custom to grind their corn at the Barnsley Mills, and that those mills were not able to grind half the corn consumed by the townspeople, the case seems to have fallen through. (Jackson, Roland: The history of the town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period. London. 1858. P. 235)
Daar was ‘n groot hoeveelheid deer in die vroeë 17de eeu in Suid Yorkshire. Daar was
wild deer in die Rivelin forest, in Grenowoods, Hesley woods, en op die free chase at Wharncliffe, terwyl deer parks 'n algemene verskynsel was. Elke groot familie het een gehad of het gestreef
om een te hê. Daar was parke by
Sheffield (behoort aan Thomas of Arundel), Wortley, Tankersley en Kimberworth. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire
Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Dit
lyk of Sir Francis net soos sy voorgeslagte steeds in stryd met sy sosiaal
ondergeskiktes was, ten opsigte van die wildstropery. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by
Stephen Cooper, 2012)
In
1637 het Ralph Greaves van Bolsterstone, met sy greyhounds in die wildpark van Sir Francis by
"New Parke" Wortley ingegaan, om die regter se deer te jag. (Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster By Stephen Wade Barnsley 2010) In 1637 a yeoman, called Ralph Greaves of
Bolsterstone was charged at Quarter Sessions with “unlawfully breaking and
entering the free chase or park of Sir Francis Wortley commonly called the New
Park and with killing a doe after a chase with greyhounds. (When Night-dogs ran, a
Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Hy was gelukkig om net 'n
groot boete te kry. (Foul Deeds &
Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster By
Stephen Wade Barnsley 2010)
In 1637, in een van die verskeie hofsake oor stropery
en kriminele skade in die New Park, het ene Nicholas Graves in sy verdediging
geëis dat hy ⅛ van die gebied in die park besit het en so geen oortreding teen
die Wortleys gepleeg het nie. Die Wortley’s het die saak gewen, maar die oortreders het
lig daarvan afgekom, wat daarop dui dat die verdediging meriete gehad het. (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the
ages. The History of the Long Term
Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice
Age to the Modern Period.)
Nicholas
Whiteley, of Jackhouse, en Richard Hall, of Wightwisle, beide yeoman van die
West Riding was aangekla en skuldig bevind, by theire owne confessions either of them for the unlawfull huntinge,
chaseinge, and killinge of A Deare in the Parke of the Right worshipfull Sr.
Francis Wortley, Knight and Barronett, comonly called the newe parke att
Wortley in the said W. R. These are therefore in his Majestie's name to charge
and comaunde youe to receive into your custody the said N. W. and R. H. and
them safely keepe in your custodie by the space of three moneths next ensueinge
the date hereof. And further, untill either of them have satisfied unto the
said Sr. Fras. Wortley the summe of iijJt. vj*. viijd — viz., for his damages
in that case suateyned if he please to accept thereof: — And further, untill they shall have entered recognizance unto his Majestie's
use with sufficient suerties to be of good behaviour towards his Majestie and
all his Leige people for the space of seaven yeares next ensueinge, aocordeinge
to the Statute in that case made and provided, whereof fayle not. (The Yorkshire journal. Vol. V.
London MDCCCLXXIX) ‘Robert ward, senr, of Bradfeild, yeoman, for
on the 20th Sept., 1639, having there contemptuously refused to permit one
Thomas Revell, then constable of Bradfeild to search in his house by virtue of
a warrant from Robert Rockley, esq., one of the Justices, for one Richard Hall,
indicted for unlawfully hunting in the park of Francis Wortley kt and bart.,
and for arresting Elizabeth wife of said Robert Ward. Witn. Tho. Revell. (Puts
himself guilty.) (The Revells of Yorkshire. http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/part5yorks.pdf)
Daar was verdere moeilikheid oor die New Park in Wortley en in 1638 is nege
plaaslike mense, insluitend 'n priester en 'n paar yeomen aangekla vir die doodmaak
van veertig stuks deer in New Park,
terwyl verskeie ander aangekla is vir die slag van nog dertig. Die beskuldigdes het erken dat hulle die deer
doodgemaak het, maar beweer dat een van hul groep deel van die gebied wat deur
die Park in beslag geneem word, besit, en dat daar so geen onreg aan die Wortley
familie gedoen is nie, maar soos 'n mens kan verwag, het die ridder die saak
gewen. (When Night-dogs ran,
a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Quarter sessions cases concerning poaching in his
new park and insulting remarks by a social inferior testify to his (Sir Francis Wortley) loss of local prestige. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history).
Sir Francis as JP was ongewild by sekere gereelde oortreders, onder wie James en Zachariah
Parkin van Mortomley, in die gemeente van Ecclesfield (nou deel van High Green,
Sheffield) was. In 1638 was James Parkin
vervolg omdat hy openlik gesê het, I scorne Sir Francis Wortley's proposition
with my arse, and I worship him with my arse. Die volgende jaar het Thomas Beale van
Masborough naby Rotherham en Walter Hurt van Bradfield verklaar dat they cared not a fart for Sir Francis. (Cooper, Stephen: The Bravest Cavalier. John Morris & the siege of Pontefract
Castle 1648-9. http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf)
Sir Francis was een
van die digters van sy tyd. Hy was ‘n vriend van Ben Jonson, en het
bygedra tot ‘Jonsonus Virbius’
(1638).
Wortley, Francis,
Sir, 1591-1652. / [1641]
The dvtie of Sir Francis Wortley deliniated in his piovs pitty and
christian commiseration of the sorrowes and sufferings of the most vertuous yet
unfortunate Lady Elisabeth Queene of Bohemia being a dedication to fame and
trvth : prefer'd to both Houses of Parliament / by ... Sir Francis Wortley ...
Wortley, Francis,
Sir, 1591-1652. / [1641]
Eleutherosis tåes aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice
of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors,
from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir
Francis Wortley ...
Wortley, Francis,
Sir, 1591-1652. / [1642]
A declaration from York by Sir Francis Wortley ... ; in vindication of
himself from divers aspersions and rumours concerning the drawing of his sword,
and other actions, wherein he desires to give the world satisfaction.
Wortley, Francis,
Sir, 1591-1652. / [1642]
Lines dedicated to fame and truth written by Sr. Francis Wortley, knight
and baronet, vpon the consideration of the various fortunes of that blessed and
most vertuous Lady Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia.
Wortley, Francis,
Sir, 1591-1652. / [Printed in the yeere, M DC XLVI. 1646]
Characters and elegies.: By Francis Wortley, Knight and Baronet.
Characters and elegies.: By Francis Wortley, Knight and Baronet.
Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652. / [1647]
A loyall song of the royall feast, kept by the prisoners in the Towre in
August last, with the names, titles and characters of every prisoner.: By Sir
F.W. knight and baronet, prisoner.
In September 1639 het
Sir Francis vir John Taylor (1580−1653) the
water poet, wat ‘n beskrywing van sy besoek aan Wharmcliffe gemaak het,
onthaal. “From Leeds I went to Wakefield, where, if the vallant Pinder had been
living. I would have play’d Don Quixot’s
part and challenged him, but beimng it was so happy that he was dead, I passed
the towne in peace to Barnsley and so to Wortley to Sir Francis Worteleyes
ancient houme. The entertainment which
himself, his good lady, and his most faire and hopefull daughter gave mee
there, as I never did or can deserve, so I never shall be able to requite. To talke of meat, drinke, money and free
welcome for horse and man, it were but a meer fooling for me to begin, because
then I should hardly finde the way.
Therefore, to his worship my humble thanks remembered, and everlasting
hapinesse wished both to him and all that is his, yet I cannot forbeare to write a little of the further favour of this noble knight. Upon the 14th of September afternoon, he took
horse with mee and his lady and daughter in their coach, with some other
servants on horseback; where three miles
we rode over rocks and cloud kissing mountains one of them so high that in a
cleere day a man may from the top therof see both the minsters or cathedral
churches, York and Lincoln, neere 60 miles off us; and as it is to be supposed that when the
Devil did looke over Lincolne as the proverb is, that he stood upon that
mountain or neer it; (Hunter,
Joseph: The History and Topography of
the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the
Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of
Bradfield. London. 1819)
(Timbs, John:
Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England and Wales. Their legendary lore and popular
history. Vol 3. London. P. 234 )
Taylor het aangeteken
dat hy vir Sir Francis gedurende ‘n ete met Archbishop Neile ontmoet het. Dit is moontlik dat Sir Francis, Neile se anti-Calvinistiese oortuigings gedeel
het. Hy was ‘n vurige ondersteuner van
die bisdom en in 1641 het hy ‘n verhandeling gepubliseer waarin hy d.m.v.
argumente uit die geskrifte en Christelike tradisie, redeneer dat die
instelling deur God gemaak is. Hy het
verder gegaan deur te sê dat ‘n ware Engelse Protestant, tradisie en seremonies
eer en het himself as for the bishops and
the church beskryf.
In buitelandse beleid
het Sir Francis die Protestantse kant in die Dertigjarige Oorlog sterk
ondersteun. Hy het Gustavus Adolphus betreur
as 'Great Sweden’ en verwys na die
Katolieke kerk as ‘Rome’s ravenous eagle’. Dit lyk of hy 'n verbintenis
met die koningin van Bohemia gehad het. Hy
het waarskynlik sy ere MA van Cambridge ontvang, tydens die besoek van haar
oudste seun aan die universiteit in die vroeë 1636. In 1641 publiseer hy 'n gedig in heroic couplets
expressing his ‘pious pity and Christian commiseration’ for her ‘sorrows and
sufferings’, wat die volgende jaar herdruk was. Die tweede uitgawe het ook reëls in, wat Prince Rupert se koms na
Engeland om vir Charles I te veg, vier. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wortley-sir-francis-1591-1652)
Soos Wentworth (en in
teenstelling met die Saviles van Tankersley), was Sir Francis 'n koningsgesinde. Hy
was nie net ‘n geleerde man nie, maar ook ‘n dapper ridder, want hy moes sy
boek en pen neerlê om die swaard op te neem, in ‘n tyd toe koning Charles I
elke familie gedwing het om kant te kies in die stryd van ‘n burgeroorlog.
Hy was wel 'n ondertekenaar van 'n petisie aan die Koning in 1640,
waarin hulle kla oor die koste van die koning se magte in Yorkshire, In
August 1640 Wortley signed a petition of Yorkshire gentlemen protesting at the
billeting of the army raised by Charles I to fight the Covenanters. However, in the aftermath of the Scots
victory at Newburn later that month he brought 100 gentleman volunteers to
serve the king at their own charge. (The history of Parliament British Political, Social & local
history) Covenanter: an adherent of the National Covenant (1638) or of the Solemn League and
Covenant (1643), upholding the organization of the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
Die teregstelling van Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, die 1ste Earl of Strafford in Mei 1641 was een
van die mees berugte gebeurtenisse in die tyd, onmiddellik voor die uitbreek
van die Engelse Civil War. As
President of the Council of the north and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Strafford
had been one of Charles I’s most effective ministers, and an advocate of a
“Thorough” approach to government, during the so-called “Eleven Years’
Tyranny”, when the King attempted to rule without Parliament.
Detailed engraving of
trial of Strafford by Wenceslas Hollar, labelling various present people.
Aan die begin van die oorlog was die mense van Sheffield en Rotherham,
Parliament gesind, terwyl die meerderheid van die plaaslike aristokrasie en gentry die koning ondersteun het. Sommige lede van die gentry was onwillig om kant te kies en het probeer om so lank as
moontlik onbetrokke te bly. (When
Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen
Cooper, 2012)
Die
Roundheads was diegene wat hulle aan die kant van die
Parlement geskaar het tydens die oorlog en die Royaliste was diegene wat
hulle aan Koning Charles se kant geskaar het.
Sir Francis was
konings gesinds. Hy word beskryf as een van die eerste lords wat engaged a party vir die koning in
Yorkshire. Amongst those who joined the ranks of the Cavaliers in South Yorkshire
were: Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley,
described by the Roundheads as the first incendiarie in this county that
publikely engaged a party for the King against the Parliament, and Wortley’s
son of the same name; Richard Elmhirst
of Hound Hill near Worsborough, who had been a close associate of the Earl of
Strafford in the 1630s; Robert Greene of
Thundercliffe Grange; and Thomas Barnby
of Barnby Hall, near Cawthorne.
(When night-dogs ran. A
Yorkshsire poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper)
Sir Francis het aangevoer dat 'n ware kavalier glo dat: “The king to be the head of the
church...dares call his sovereign the anointed of god...He conceives passive
obedience always due to the power of the king.” (http://www.jfarraruk.plus.com/mar08.htm)
Soos beide kante nader aan oorlogvoering beweeg het, het die Parlement,
as gevolg van sy besit van al die groot stede (soos die groot arsenaal in
Londen), toegang tot meer militêre materiaal gehad. In Kingston
upon Hull, waar die meerderheid van die inwoners rojaliste was, was daar 'n
groot arsenaal wat tot stand gekom het vir die tweede Bishops Oorlog in 1638. Om te
verhoed dat die koningsgesindes toegang tot hierdie arsenaal kry, is Sir John
Hotam in Januarie 1642 deur die Parlement beveel om beslag te lê op Hull. Dit was dadelik uitgevoer deur sy seun John,
wat die Militêre Goewerneur van Hull geraak het. Charles I het gehoop om die groot arsenaal by
Hull te gebruik om die armouries by
Derbyshire en Stafordshire aan te vul. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history) In April 1642 Hotham refused to admit
Charles I to Hull. Later he promised his
prisoner, Lord Digby, that he would surrender the city to the king, but when
Charles appeared again, after travelling to Beverley (a walled medieval town
some 8 - 10 miles away which was an armoury) to collect more soldiers, Hotham
refused a second time and drove away the besiegers. Charles took great personal affront to these
actions, and declared Hotham a traitor.
22 Apr 1642. Sir
Francis het 'n petisie aan Charles gerig, waarin hy hom beroep om Hull in beslag te
neem en homself teen sy vyande te bewapen. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wortley-sir-francis-1591-1652)
"The humble Petition of the
Gentry and Commons of the County of Yorke.
"Most Royal Sovereign,
The Petition.
"Encouraged by Your Majesty's
gracious Goodness to us and our County, which we can never sufficiently
acknowledge, do in all Duty and Loyalty of Heart humbly address ourselves to
Your Sacred Majesty, beseeching You to cast Your Eyes and Thoughts upon the
Safety of Your own Person, Your Princely Issue, and this whole County, a great
Means of which, we conceive, doth consist in the Arms and Ammunition at Hull,
placed there by Your Princely Care and Charge, which by Your Majesty was
conceived necessary for the Defence of the Northern Parts of this Kingdom, and
since, upon Apprehension of Dangers from Foreign Parts represented to Your
Majesty, thought fit as yet to be continued: We, for our Parts, conceiving
ourselves to be still in Danger, humbly beseech Your Majesty, that You would be
pleased to take such Course and Order, that Your Magazine of Ammunition may
still there remain, for the better securing of these and the rest of the
Northern Parts; and the rather, because we think it most fit, that that Part of
the Kingdom should be best provided where Your Sacred Person doth reside; Your
Person being the David, the Light of Israell, and worth more than Ten Thousands
of us; who shall daily pray, etc."
This Petition was assented unto and
delivered by these Gentlemen:
Sir Francis Wortley. Sir William Wentworth. Sir John Gibson. Sir Tho. Mettam.
Sir Ric. Hutton. Sir Paul Neale. Mr. Bryan Palmes. Mr. Geo. Butler. Mr. Dawney.
Mr. Mountaine. Captain Franckland:
('House of Lords
Journal. Volume 5: 25 April 1642', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 5,
1642-1643 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 12-16)
The House of Commons on 25 April 1642 ordered him (Sir
Francis) to be sent for as a delinquent, but the vote was fruitless. Hy was een van die mees aktiewe ondersteuners
van die koning in Suid Yorkshire. (Dictionary of national Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63 – Wortley,
Francis by Charles Harding Firth) The Names of such Knights and Gentlemen sent
for to be summoned by Order of this House … accordingly they were summoned, as
followeth: Sir Francis Wortley, Knight;
he served him in Person, and he shewed a Warrant under the King's Hand. (Pages 85-88
Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 5, 1642-1643. Originally published
by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.)
The Petitioners sent for as
Delinquents.
And this House, taking these Things
into Consideration, agreed with the House of Commons in their Sense concerning
this Business; and Ordered, That the said Sir Francis Wortley, Sir William Wentworth,
Sir John Gibson, Sir Thomas Metham, Sir Richd. Hutton, Sir Paul Neale, Mr.
Bryan Palmes, Mr. George Butler, Mr. Dawney, Mr.Mountaine, and Captain
Franckland, shall be summoned forthwith, upon Sight hereof, to appear before
the Lords in Parliament, to answer their Misdemeanors in this particular
Business.
('House of Lords
Journal Volume 5: 25 April 1642', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 5,
1642-1643 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 12-16)
Sir Francis het die
koning met ywer vergesel in sy poging om besit van Hull te kry. (Dictionary of national Biography, 1885-1900,
Volume 63 – Wortley, Francis by Charles Harding Firth) Agt dae later, by ‘n groot
openbare byeenkoms in York het hy blykbaar sy swaard getrek en dit bo sy kop
geswaai, terwyl hy uitgeroep het ‘for the king, for the king!’ maar hy
het nie veel reaksie van die skare gekry nie. Wortley
himself denied the whole story, but the parliamentarian polemicist William
Prynne asserted that this incident marked the beginning of the royalist army. Sir Francis se suster, die vrou van Sir
Edward Radcliffe, was ontsteld oor sy
optrede en het hom in ‘n brief aan Sir Ralph Verney beskryf as ‘n ‘foolish
man ... full of vanity, who deserved ‘great punishment’, alhoewel sy toegee
dat hy ook baie goeie eienskappe het, had
he wisdom to have managed them. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history)
Met die aanvang van die Civil Wars het die Earl of Newcastle, wat deur sy koning vir die leër van die Noorde gekies was, garrisons op Barnsley, Wakefield, en ander plekke tot stand gebring. Doncaster adhered to the King’s party, while Rotherham and Sheffield took an apposite course. (Jackson, Rowland: The town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period, London 1858.)
Gedurende die tweede helfte van 1642, het die Parliamentarians die gebied rondom Rotherham en Sheffield gefortifiseer for about four miles around. According to one Royalist, this was in order to give protection and encouragement to all those parts of the country which were populous rich and rebellious; and the constables of Aldwark, Rawmarsh, Greasborough, Kimberworth and Ecclesfield received orders from the local Parliamentary commanders to furnish or lend money plate armes or horses for the support of the garrison at Rotherham. Die konings gesinde gentry het ook hul herehuise versterk. Deel van die fortifikasies van Richard Elmhirst by Hound Hill kan steeds gesien word. Sir Francis Wortley het 'n garnisoen by Tankersley georganiseer, wat bestaan het uit 150 dragoons plus officers. Die constabels van Tankersley, Royston, Penistone, Silkstone, High Hoyland, Cawthorne, Darton, Barnsley, Darfield en Wath het bevele van die koningsgesindes ontvang dat hulle moes help om te betaal vir die instandhouding van die garnisoen. (http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf)
There is a Royal warrant "to the chief constables of the Wapentake of Staynecross and the "pettye constables of these Parishes," giving them notice "to forbeare "to demande or collecte of any of the inhabitants of the said severall "Parishes any part of the assessment of thirtie thousand pounds "lately granted of this country towards the maintenance of His Majestie's army." This garrison of Sir Francis Wortley was established at Tankersley. (This warrant is given in Hunter, Vol.11., p.317, as signed by Edward Osborne, Wm. Wentworth, Francis Monckton, Edward Stanhope, and Robert Rockley. http://midgleywebpages.com/chap06.html)
8 Julie 1642. Declaration
on Defence of the Kingdom. An Addition
to be made, concerning the Information of great Provision of Arms and
Ammunition at Dunkirke; and concerning Sir Fra. Wortley's and Sir Tho. Metham's
coming with Forces, and cutting the River from the Town. (Pages 659-662 Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 2,
1640-1643. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London,
1802.)
Die Engelse burgeroorlog het vir 9 jaar, 1 week en 5 dae aangehou, vanaf 22 Augustus 1642 tot 3 September 1651. Gegewe die toewyding van Huntingdon se militia cadre, was dit heeltemal gepas dat een van hulle, Francis Wortley, die eer van die hys van Charles se banner by Nottingham in 1642, sou gehad het. (Cogswell, Thomas: Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the state and provincial conflict. Stanford. 1998P. 294) Wortley recruited a troop for the king in Yorkshire and played a prominent part in the raising of the king’s standard at Nottingham on 22 August. In Oktober was hy beskryf as one of the chief Cavaliers that bear sway in the City of York. (The history of parliament British political, Social & local history)
Nadat hulle as voet kapteins onder Huntingdon gedien het, het Francis Rooe, Francis Wortley en William Roberts elkeen opgang gemaak in die Burgeroorlog. Roberts het tot 'n kaptein gestyg, Rooe het 'n luitenant-kolonel geraak en Wortley het die leiding van sy eie regiment geneem. Ten spyte van hul relatief beskeie estates, het hulle gesamentlike compositions £ 3000 oorskry. (Cogswell, Thomas: Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the state and provincial conflict. Stanford. 1998 P. 294) Sir Francis was appointed commander of a royalist garrison in his own house. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Gedurende die eerste maande van die oorlog was daar nie grootskaalse gevegte nie, alhoewel daar raids en skirmishes tussen die twee partye was. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Charles I het gehoop dat vinnige oorwinnings die Parliament se advantage in materiaal sou negate, aangesien die armouries in London buite sy bereik was. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Persons sent for. Resolved, upon the Question, That Fra. Nevile Esquire, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Mr. Benson, Sir Jo. Goodrick, SirEdw. Osborne, Sir Fra. Wortley, the Archbishop of Yorke, be forthwith sent for, as Delinquents: And that Mr. Jo. Hotham be required to take the best Course he can, for the Apprehending of these Delinquents, and Sending them up to the Parliament. ('House of Commons Journal Volume 2: 08 October 1642', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 2, 1640-1643 (London, 1802), pp. 800-801)
The Royalists' unsuccessful siege of the city (Hull) was a major step on the road to full scale war which would start at in earnest with the pitched battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642. (Twenty-Two Turbulent Years 1639 – 1661 By David C. Wallace)
Nadat hulle as voet kapteins onder Huntingdon gedien het, het Francis Rooe, Francis Wortley en William Roberts elkeen opgang gemaak in die Burgeroorlog. Roberts het tot 'n kaptein gestyg, Rooe het 'n luitenant-kolonel geraak en Wortley het die leiding van sy eie regiment geneem. Ten spyte van hul relatief beskeie estates, het hulle gesamentlike compositions £ 3000 oorskry. (Cogswell, Thomas: Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the state and provincial conflict. Stanford. 1998 P. 294) Sir Francis was appointed commander of a royalist garrison in his own house. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Gedurende die eerste maande van die oorlog was daar nie grootskaalse gevegte nie, alhoewel daar raids en skirmishes tussen die twee partye was. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Charles I het gehoop dat vinnige oorwinnings die Parliament se advantage in materiaal sou negate, aangesien die armouries in London buite sy bereik was. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local history)
Persons sent for. Resolved, upon the Question, That Fra. Nevile Esquire, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Mr. Benson, Sir Jo. Goodrick, SirEdw. Osborne, Sir Fra. Wortley, the Archbishop of Yorke, be forthwith sent for, as Delinquents: And that Mr. Jo. Hotham be required to take the best Course he can, for the Apprehending of these Delinquents, and Sending them up to the Parliament. ('House of Commons Journal Volume 2: 08 October 1642', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 2, 1640-1643 (London, 1802), pp. 800-801)
The Royalists' unsuccessful siege of the city (Hull) was a major step on the road to full scale war which would start at in earnest with the pitched battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642. (Twenty-Two Turbulent Years 1639 – 1661 By David C. Wallace)
Sir Francis het in Staffordshire, Derbyshire
en Yorkshire geveg, en Wortley Hall
gebruik vir die huisvesting van 150 Dragoons. Besides
commanding a troop of horse, Sir Francis Wortley is recorded in the Army lists
of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 1642, as Colonel of the 5th regiment of foot,
which averaged 1000 strong. His traditionary riding boots are preserved at
Wharncliffe Lodge. (Gatty, Alfred, rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of
York: Wortley & the Wortleys - a
lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also
the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield) In
1642, was die Parish of Cawthorne een van nege aangrensende Parishes wat vir Sir Francis Wortley moes
ondersteun. Soon after this a royal
warrant was sent out by King Charles ordering the parish constables of
Tankersley, Royston, Penistone, Silkstone, High Hoyland, Cawthorne, Darton,
Barnsley and Wath to collect a tax from their parishioners of eighty-five
pounds, fifteen shillings and five pence farthing within a week. They were then
to hand the money over to Sir Francis Wortley to maintain the garrison of 150
dragoons that he had raised. The King
wrote that no further payment would then be required of them towards Wortley’s
garrison. But then the King goes on in this warrant to urge the addressees to
get on with collecting their part of a national tax of £30,000 needed to
maintain the King’s own army. (Newton,
Richard: Wortley through the ages. The
History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall
from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.) Oliver Heywood het gesê: Sir Francis Wortley in the war time kept
Penistone Church as a garrison for the king; and adds, though it did him no
good, but from thence he roved up and down the country, robbing and taxing many
honest people. Those were not times of delicacy. (Gatty,
Alfred, rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield,
and sub, dean of York: Wortley & the
Wortleys - a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical
society also the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield)
Die volgende maand het hy ‘n plunderende raid deur Derbyshire, Staffordshire en Cheshire gelei, terwyl hy volgens ‘n parliamentarian newsbook, miners
and other base shag-raggs gewerf het. (The history of parliament British political, Social & local
history)
Derbyshire. "When
the civil wars broke out, a party of the Royalists, under Sir Francis Wortley,
came to Ashbourne. In the dead of the night, Captains Bard and Dennis broke
into Mr. Hieron's house, and took him from his bed. Captain Dennis said to Mr.
Hieron, Gentlemen cannot drink the King’s
health but you must reprove them for it.' They then conveyed him to their court
of guard and kept him there till the morning, when, urging him to speak of many
things, they lay at catch for matter to accuse him. Sir Francis Wortley charged
him with speaking against episcopacy. He answered, Never, but against the exorbitances of it.'
His wife's father passed his word for him, which was at present satisfying. The
next day he appeared, Sir Francis inclined to release him, but would have him
call the Parliament ' a company of dissemblers; ' this he refused to do. In the
upshot they discharged him. He then desired his horse and saddle might be
restored ; Nay,' said Sir Francis, you
may be glad you are at liberty yourself.'
(Old halls, manors and families of Derbyshire by J.T. Volume II The
appletree hundred and the wapentake of wirksworth MDCCCXCIII)
Derbyshire. You will remember Sir John Gell, of Hopton,
who seas once on the King's syde and he when sheriffe did grievously oppress
the people in collecting taxes, and I never could bear the sighte of him since
he starved sir John Stanhope's cattel to death in the pound for shipp money;
but now on the syde of parliament he was trying to enlist the myners, a troupe
of souldiers, in their favour, and he also did become a great braggart, and did
pays the diurnals well for sounding his praises; but when the King came to
Darbie, Sir John thought him too near a neighbour, and did move to
Chesterfield, and thence to Hull, to cake assistance of Sir John Witham ; and
when he was awye (the) King did send Sir Francis Wortley to Wirksworth, with a
company of dragooners, to Jaye, waste Sir John's estate, and to collect
benevolences, which they did with great goodwill, and left, Sir John little to
come too. And they did also committ great riott and excess in the country
round; but, thinking that either Sir John or Col. Hutchinson would some day or
night be coming on them by surprise, Sir Francis did send some fifty men is
Asher [Ashover] to watch the Chesterfield road and keepe a look out towards
Nottinghamshire, and also, as usual, to collect benevolence. "These men,
on coming here, did take up their quarters at Eddlestone, but as Sir John
Pershall was awaye at his other house in Staffordshire, they ob. Wiled no
benevolences from him, but they lived at free quarters, and there was great
slaughter of pigs and sheep and fowles; they also did drink all the wine and
ale in his cellars. They then, drunken and meld, did come down to towne and did
do the same at the alehouses. but Job Wall withstood them in the doorway, and
told them they should have no drink in his house, they having had too muche
already ; but they forsoothed him and did turn him .cute and sett a watch at
the doors till all the ale was drunk or wasted. They then came to me, and to
Dakin, and to Hodgkinsou, and demanded ten pounds from each for the Kyng's use,
and also smaller sums from the farmers and myners; and when we did beg them to
be content with less they swore we were Roundheads, and enemies to the Kyng,
and if we did not paye they would burn our house about our ears, which I
believe they would have done, and we were glad to paye. Soon after this,
however, Sir J. Gell did return to Chesterfield with a large companie of
souldiers, borrowed off Sir J. Hotham, and by beat of drum he did I raise many
more in the neighbourhood; upon which Sir Francis thought it best to retire,
and so he withdrew his men from Eddlestone. And they, not liking to goe awaye
empty, did take all the cattel they could find on the hills awaye with them.
Sir John sown took his place at Wirkswortb. (http://www.newmillshistory.org.uk/sbook/sbook6.html)
The first service which Sir John Gell recounts in his Narrative, is the
driving of Sir Francis Wortley and his forces from Wirksworth and the Peak, in
November, 1642. Soon afterwards he took Bretby-house, which had been fortified
by the Earl of Chesterfield. In the beginning of January following, he took Sir
John Harpur's house at Swarkston, and Swarkston-bridge, where he defeated a
party of Royalists, in a skirmish, which is called, in the parish-register of
All-Saints, in Derby, the battle of Swarkston-bridge. (Pages iii-xi
Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire. Originally published by T Cadell
and W Davies, London, 1817.)
Staffordshire. Soos die
skeidslyne in die burgeroorlog duideliker geword het, het Staffordshire probeer
om sy neutraliteit te handhaaf. Maar
teen die einde van 1642, was die mense in hierdie area steeds betrek in die
befondsing netwerke. In November het
Charles I vir Hastings en Comberford, as High
Sheriff van Staffordshire, beveel om
beheer van Staffordshire te neem. Die
koning het vir Comberford as Governor of
Stafford aangestel en as 'n kolonel van 'n regiment perderuiters. Hy stel
Comberford as sheriff en Sir Francis Wortley to garrison Stafford, terwyl Sir Thomas Leveson was to garrison Wolverhampton and Dudley
Castle. At a session of the peace
held in Stafford on 15 November, the High Sheriff, William Comberford, the
justices of the peace, and the grand jury issued a declaration decrying “the
manie outrages, riots, routs, and unlawful assemblies that have been made and
committed in divers parts of this county by certain persons in arrays and
warlike manner,” to “the great fear of all the inhabitants in general.”
Comberford sent the petty constables to visit the “commissioners” at Lichfield
on 29 November 1642, within days of the attempt by the Justices of the Peace to
declare neutrality. By the end of
January, Comberford and Wortley were established in a fortified Stafford,
holding the county town for the king as Comberford tried to raise horse with money
lent by the townspeople. (comerfordfamily
history)
Teen die einde van
Januarie 1643 was Sir Francis goed gevestig in Stafford en het hy geld wat deur
die dorp se inwoners aan hom geleen is, gebruik om perderuiters te werf. (The
Sutherland Collection) In February 1643 he secured Stafford for the
king but was sent back to Yorkshire by the royalist commander in the north
Midlands. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history)
'Februarie 1643: For the county of Devon, Sir Peter Prideaux, Sir George
Chudleigh, Sir John Pool, Sir John Northcot, Baronets; Sir Edw. Fowell, Knight;
Sir Samuel Roll, Sir Shilston Calmady, Sir Nic. Martin, Knights; Sir Francis
Drake, Baronet; Robert Savery, Henry Walrond, Esquiers; John Davy, Baronet,
Henry Wortley, Hugh Fortescue, Arthur Upton, George Trowbridge, Esquires. (Firth, C.H. & Rait, R.S. eds.: An Ordinance for the
speedy raising and levying of Money for the maintenance of the Army Raised by
the Parliament, And other great Affaires of the Commonwealth, by a Weekly
Assessement upon the Cities of London and Westminster, and every County and
City of the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales.', in Acts and
Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, London,
1911, pp. 85-100)
In
1643 het die Earl of Newcastle, wat die koning se bevelvoerder in die Noorde
was, ‘n aanval op die Parliamentary
forces in Yorkshire geloots. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire
Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) Hulle het die Parliamentary force wat in die
ou kasteel in Sheffield gestasioneer was, aangeval en die Sheffield garnisoen
was nie in staat om hulle teen te staan nie en het hulle na Derbyshire gevlug. And its place was supplied with a party of Royalists under Sir
William Savile, who being otherwise engaged, empowered Major Beaumont to act in
his stead. (Jackson, Rowland: The town and township
of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period, London 1858.)
Sir Francis Wortley was in bevel van die loyalist garrison naby Tankersley, en het die battle on Tankersley Moor gelei. (http://www.jfarraruk.plus.com/mar08.htm) He fought what was called the battle of Tankersley Moor, which must have
been some encounter between his dragoons and a skirmishing party from the
opposing side. (Gatty, Alfred, rev., D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of
York: Wortley & the Wortleys - a
lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also
the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield) Sir Francis en sy Dragoons was
onder bevel van die Earle of Newcastle. Newcastle
sent a considerable party into the west of Yorkshire, where they met with about
2,000 of the enemy's forces, taken out of their several garrisons in those
parts, to execute some design upon a moor called Tankersley Moor, and there
fought them and routed them; many were slain, and some taken prisoners. (http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf) This was around April 1643. Tankersley Moor is noordoos van Tankersley Park geleë. The fact that bullets and cannon balls, believed to be from this battle, have been discovered within the grounds of Tankersley Park suggests that the moor must have been located close by. Daar is beweerings dat kanonkoeëls vervaardig was by die nabygeleë Wortley Forge en dat sommige van hierdie kanon koeëls in die Tankersley stryd gebruik is. (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages. The History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.) Toe
die koning die Earle vir sy dienste beloon, deur hom tot Duke te bevorder, word
Tankersley as een van die plekke, waar hy suksesvol vir die koning geveg het, genoem.
Na aanleiding van hierdie oorwinning het die koningsgesindes beide
Rotherham en Sheffield ingeneem. Rotherham is op 4 Mei, na 'n aanval wat twee dae
geduur het en met groot weerstand aan die kant van die verdedigers, geneem. These
included a party of thirty boys from the grammar school, who made good use of a
piece of artillery known as a ‘drake’ from the vantage point of Rotherham
bridge. Die
seëvierende rojaliste het toe opgeruk na Sheffield, en die dorp en sy kasteel is
op 9 Mei 1643 deur hulle verower. Twee weke later het die afgevaardigde
bevelvoerder Lord
Ferdinando Fairfax aan die Speaker van die House of Commons geskryf
dat hy die feit betreur dat die graaf
van Newcastle se weermag nou oor die hele suid-westelike van die land strek, pillaging and cruelly using the
well-affected party. Vir 'n
tydperk van 'n jaar, in 1643-4, het die Kavaliers se plaaslike mag versterk. Uit hul vesting by Sheffield Castle, het hulle
die koning se oorlog gefinansieër deur die heffing van belasting op die
omliggende platteland, en het hulle patrollies gedoen met die opdrag om spioene te soek. Hulle het ook goeie
gebruik gemaak van die vaardighede van die plaaslike ambagsmanne. Die graaf van Newcastle het ysterwerke daar naby
gevind en het opdrag gegee vir die giet van 'n yster kanon en ander instrumente en
enjins vir oorlogvoering. Hierdie
ystergieterye kon moontlik die op Kimberworth en Wortley ingesluit het. (http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf)
Sir Francis Wortley’s
Regiment of Horse Service history
1642 July - first siege of Hull
1642 Oct - Skirmish at Wirkscorth
1643 Feb - biesieged in Stafford
1643 Apr - battle of Tankersley
Moor
1644 June - Stormed at Wortley
Hall
Sir Francis Wortley’s
Regiment of Foot Service History
1643 Apr - battle of Tankersley Moor
1646 Mar–Apr - besieged at
Bridgenorth
Die situasie het dramaties verander toe die Skotte in die volgende jaar
aan die kant van die Parliament ingryp.
(When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by
Stephen Cooper, 2012) Die Duke of Newcastle
se magte was besieged in die City of York deur drie afsonderlike Roundhead forces,
the Skotte onder Lord Leven, die Yorkshiremans onder Lord Fairfax en die Eastern
Association onder die Earl of Manchester en Oliver Cromwell. The
siege of York lasted from April to July 1644.
Baie van
die Yorkshiremans wat aan die Parliamentarian kant geveg het, was nie deel van
'n permanente weermag en was nie betaalde soldate nie. Hulle het nie
voortdurend gedien nie, maar het gegaan om te veg wanneer dit nodig was. Wanneer
die onmiddellike gevaar oor was, het hulle teruggekeer na hul boerdery. Wanneer 'n
ander noodgeval voorgekom het, het hulle teruggekeer om te veg. There
were several battles in the immediate area. These included the battle of
Adwalton Moor, Kirklees, the storming of the Saville estate at Thornhill. By
all accounts the locals were fierce and valiant fighters. Many of them were
Puritans who marched into battle singing "the Psalms of David".
(http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/York.html)
Intussen het die Roundhead cavalry eenhede weer aktief geraak na die
noorde en suide van Barnsley en een van die gevangenes daar was Sir Francis
Wortley op 3 Junie 1644, toe Walton Hall naby Wakefield deur die Parliament se
magte oorwin is. (When Night-dogs ran, a
Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by Stephen Cooper, 2012) The same day some of the Parliaments
Soldiers took Walton Hall, near Wakefield; and in it Sir Francis Wortley, the
Elder, and with him one Hundred and Twenty Soldiers. (John Rushworth, 'Historical Collections:
Proceedings in the North, 1644', in Historical Collections of Private Passages
of State: Volume 5, 1642-45 (London, 1721), pp. 603-653) Dit was ook in hierdie tyd dat Wortley se seat in Wortley Hall oorgegee is
en Richard Elmhirst se huis by Hound Hill bestorm is. York het hierna oorgegee. Under
the terms of the surrender, the Royalist garrison was allowed to leave the City
with colours flying; but this did not disguise the fact that the King's cause
in the North was shattered. (http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf)
At the battle of Adwalton Moor 30 Junie 1643 the
Parliamentarians numbered three thousand five hundred, many of them with no
military training. They were greatly outnumbered by the King's troops who were
trained soldiers. Accounts say that the local militia men fought bravely and
with great spirit. Many men lost their lives and the Kings army did win the
battle. (http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/York.html)
Die koning se magte is op 2 Julie 1644 by die battle of Marston Moor verslaan en die Duke of Newcastle se weermag moes
oorgee aan die Parliamentary magte van die Earle
of Manchester. Hierdie nederlaag van die koninklike leër was fataal vir die Koning. The Earl of Newcastle quitted the kingdom, when
all the forces in South Yorkshire submitted to Major-General Crawford, who
acted under the orders of the Earl of Manchester. (The
town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period by Rowland
Jackson, London 1858.)
Die stede van Suid-Yorkshire het weer onder
die beheer van die Parlement geval. Rotherham het sonder 'n geveg geval, maar
Sheffield Castle het net oorgegee nadat sy mure deur drie
kanonne aangeval is. http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf) Sheffield Castle het op 10 Augustus 1644 oorgegee. Sheffield Castles was
vernietig op bevel van Parliament. (Newton,
Richard: Wortley through the ages. The
History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall
from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.) Die Kasteel van Tickhill is aan Major Monckton toevertrou en Sir Thomas Fane is governor of Doncaster gemaak. (Jackson, Rowland: The
town and township of Barnsley in Yorkshire from an early period, London 1858.)
Sir Francis was gevange geneem deur die
parliamentarian forces onder bevel van Sir Thomas Fairfax. (The history of Parliament British political, Social & local
history) Op 22 Augustus1644 is Sir Thomas na die Tower
gestuur. (Rushworth, v. 622; Commons' Journals, iii.
603).
Persons committed. Ordered, That Sir Francis Wortley, Sir
Charles Lucas, Major General Porter, Colonel Tylier, Lieutenant ColonelHuman,
and Captain Goring, be committed Prisoners to the Tower of London, for High
Treason, being taken in actual Arms against the Parliament.
('House of Commons
Journal. Volume 3: 22 August 1644', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume
3, 1643-1644 (London, 1802), pp. 602-603)
Sir Francis Wortley was an unrepentant
Royalist: he was regarded as a
ringleader, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for many years. (When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699 by
Stephen Cooper, 2012) In 1644 was daar beslag gelê op Sir Francis se landgoed,
soos die normale gebruik van die tyd was. In the Tower he remained for several years,
suffering, like other royalist prisoners, great hardships because parliament
confiscated their estates and made no allowance for their maintenance, in spite
of repeated petitions. (A true
Relation of the Unparalleled Oppression imposed upon the Gentlemen Prisoners in
the Tower, 1647). (Firth, Charles Harding: Dictionary of national Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63 – Wortley,
Francis) Some people would not have been sorry that
Sir Francis Wortley was made to suffer. (http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf)
Sufferers by Plunder, &c.
Ordered, That those Gentlemen, and others, that were plundered, fined,
or ransomed, by Sir F. Wortley, and his Adherents, in Derbyshire, Cheshire,
Staffordshire, and Shropshire, shall have Reparation and Satisfaction out of
the Estates of the said Sir F. Wortley, and those that have adhered unto him,
countenanced or assisted him, in these his illegal Proceedings. ('House of Commons Journal
Volume 2: 24 November 1642', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 2,
1640-1643 (London, 1802), pp. 861-863)
Die Ashby-de-la-Zouch
kasteel was ‘n Royalist stronghold gedurende die Civil War. Ashby was onderhewig aan langdurige siege tussen September 1645 en sy
oorgawe in Maart 1646. Met oorgawe is
daar bepaal dat die kasteel gesloop moes word. 1654. An
Ordinance for admitting Sir Francis Wortley Baronet, to the Benefit of the
Articles made upon the Rendition (oorgawe) of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. ('June
1657: An Act touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of
April, 1653. and before the third of September, 1654, and other Acts.', in Acts
and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait
(London, 1911), pp. 1131-1142)
Gedurende sy aanhouding in die tronk het hy sy Characters and Elegies geskryf wat
waarskynlik in Julie 1646 gepubliseer is.
The ‘characters’
included pen portraits of members of the royal family and certain archtypes,
including those of ‘a noble general’, ‘a northern lady’ and ‘a sharking
committee-man’. His character of ‘a true English Protestant’, which concludes
‘this is your true Cavalier’, is probably a statement of Wortley’s personal
views. In it he wrote that the king was ‘only answerable to God’ and ‘that to
resist his powers, is to resist him that gave it’. ‘Parity in church or in
commonwealth’ was to be detested as ‘tending to anarchy’, and ‘passive
obedience [was] always due to the power of the king, where active cannot be
performed with a good conscience’.
Die werk bevat ook ‘n aantal elegies, waarvan die meeste, die van
royaliste was, wat tydens die gevegte gesterf het. Dit sluit in: (Sir) Bevil Grenville en die 2de
earl of Northampton (Spencer Compton), sowel as Sir Henry Spelman and the digter
Francis Quarles. Sir Francis het ook ‘n
aantal kleiner werke gepubliseer, terwyl hy in die Tower was, including a broadside commemorating a feast
held by the prisoners in the Tower in August 1647. (The
history of Parliament British political,
Social & local history)
Op 19 Augustus 1647
het King Charles vir die gevangenes a
brace of fat bucks vir 'n fees gestuur, which gift and banquet Wortley celebrated in a ballad containing
characters of the different prisoners. Van himself sê hy:
Frank
Wortley hath a jovial soul,
Yet
never was good clubman;
He's
for the bishops and the church,
But
can endure no tubman
‘A Loyal Song of the Royal Feast
kept by the Prisoners in the Tower,’ 1647, fol. (reprinted in Wright's
Political Ballads published during the Commonwealth, Percy Soc. 1841, p. 87).
Hy is die outeur van Mercurius
Britannicus his Welcome to Hell,’ 1647, 4to. Hy het ook 'n twee prosa
pamflette geskryf: ‘Declaration in
Vindication of himself from divers Aspersions and Rumours concerning the
drawing of his Sword and other Actions,’ 1642, 4to (reprinted in the Yorkshire Archæological Journal, viii.
395). (Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63 Wortley, Francis
by Charles Harding Firth)
Koning Charles I is op 30 Januarie 1649 by Whitehall tereggestel. Die verhoor van Charles I was
een van die belangrikste gebeurtenisse wat ooit plaasgevind het in Westminster
Hall. Konings is onttroon en vermoor,
maar nog nooit vantevore was daar een wat verhoor is en tot die dood veroordeel
is, terwyl hy nog steeds Koning was nie.
(http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/westminsterhall/government-and-administration/trial-of-charlesi/)
On 14 April 1649 Wortley petitioned to compound for an estate reduced to
a single manor worth £200 p.a. (The history of parliament British political, Social & local
history) Dit het beteken dat hy 'n argument aan die parliamentary
Committee for Compounding moes bied en 'n betaling vir die teruggee van sy
landgoed moes maak. Hierdie betaling was
moeilik om by te bring, aangesien die waarde van die landgoed bereken was
volgens die waarde van grond, soos voor die Burgeroorlog was. His
fine was set at £500. In Julie 1651
was hy daarvan beskuldig dat hy met koning Charles II korrespondeer het, maar
hy was op borgtog vrygestel na die battle of Worcester, and found sanctuary from his creditors in lodgings in Whitefriars.
(The history of parliament British political, Social & local
history)
In sy testament,
gedateer 9 September 1652, het hy aangedring om soos sy pa op Windsor begrawe te
word. A
nuncupative will (mondelingse testament) of
9 Sept. 1652, drawn up while ‘sick of the sickness whereof he died', was proved
four days later; the most substantial legacy was £150 to the poor of Tankersley
and Wortley. (The history of
parliament British political, Social
& local history) £50 for making a family vault there, besides
some annuities; but the bequests were not received . Sy testament was proved in Londen, 13 September 1652, deur
sy seun en erfgenaam, Sir Francis.
(Jackson, Yorkshire Diaries, i. 281).
Daar kan ongelukkig nie bepaal word of sy wens om in Windsor begrawe te
word, uitgevoer is nie, want die Registers van St. George’s Chapel by Windsor
het geen begrafnisse tussen 1646 en 1660 aangeteken nie.
Fragments from Wood's original MS. of the Athence, containing: Account of Sir Francis Wortley, shorter than the printed one, but adding that he " was probably buried in the church of St. Bride," Fleet Street. f. 643 b. (http://163.1.127.173/misccoll/datasets/Quarto Rawlinson DPart2/Rawlinson-D-861-to-1516.pdf)
St Bride's Church is a church in the City of London, England. In 1666 the church was completely destroyed during the Great Fire of London, which burned much of the city. The medieval church from the south, as it appears on the "Copperplate" map of London, surveyed between 1553 and 1559. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bride's_Church)
Kinders:
s.1. Margaret, Margaret
x 17/01/1635 met Sir Henry GRIFFITHS, geb. 1603, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, oorl. c. 1660, Burton
Agnes, Yorkshire, Engeland, Bart
of Agnes Burton, Yorkshire,
s.v. Henry Griffith en Mary Willoughby.
s.2. Sir Francis, geb. c.1615, (Age 22 13 Charles I), oorl. 14/03/1666, begr. 30/03/1666, St. George Chapel, Windsor x 1646 met Frances FAUNTE of Foston, geb. 1615, Leicestershire, begr. 22/01/1683/84, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, Middlesex, d.v. Sir William Faunte van Freeston en Lucy Harington.
