s.2. Sir Francis, ged. 24/08/1617, Tankersley, Yorkshire, Engeland (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.
Francis was die seun van Francis Wortley en Grace Brouncker.
Francis was die seun van Francis Wortley en Grace Brouncker.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
Sir Francis, die tweede Bart of
Wortley het in die regeringstyd van Koning Charles I (1625-1649) en Koning Charles
II (1660-1685) geleef. Koning Charles I
was op 30 Januarie 1649 op Whitehall tereggestel. Hoewel die Parliament van Skotland op 6
Februarie 1649 in Edinburgh aangekondig het dat Charles II Koning van
Groot-Brittanje en Ierland was, het die Engelse Parliament 'n wet gemaak wat so
'n proklamasie onwettige maak. Engeland het die tydperk binnegegaan wat bekend
staan as die English Interregnum of die English Commonwealth (Statebond), en die land was in 'n de facto republiek wat deur Oliver
Cromwell gelei is. Uit die 'Index of names and places: W', in Acts and
Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait (London,
1911), pp. 378-398 word die volgende lede van die Wortley-familie
gelys: Wortley (Whartley, Whirley,
Wirley, Worley, Worthley, Wyrley): Sir Francis, Bart.; Sir Edward, Knt.; Henry;
John; en Sir John, Knt. Cromwell het vir Charles II op 3 September
1651 by die Slag van Worcester verslaan en Charles het na die vasteland van
Europa gevlug en het die volgende
nege jaar in ballingskap in Frankryk, die Verenigde Provinsies en die Spaanse
Nederlande deurgebring. (Wikipedia) Die politieke krisus wat na die dood van
Cromwell in 1658 gevolg het, het die Restoration
of the monarchy tot gevolg gehad.
Charles II was gevra om na Engeland terug te keer. Na 1660 is alle dokumente so aangepas asof hy
sy pa as koning in 1949 opgevolg het. The bodies of the key men who ordered the
execution of Charles I - Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton - were
exhumed and their heads stuck on poles on one of the Hall's towers. Cromwell's
remained there for more than 20 years.
(http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/westminsterhall/government-and-administration/trial-of-charlesi/)
William Faunt was the son and grandson of men who, bred in the law,
became counsellors and servants of the aristocracy. William Burton describes
him as ‘attorney at law and fellow of the Inner Temple ... one who ever carried
himself just and upright, a learned man’. A younger son, Faunt succeeded his father
after his elder brother had been disinherited; but the estate was probably
inconsiderable and there is no trace of it in his own inquisition post mortem.
He continued to act as a lawyer for the Leicestershire gentry, for his name
appears as attorney in land transactions in the late 1520s and early 1530s. As did so many of his sort, Faunt owed his
introduction to public affairs to Cromwell, who employed him as agent and
watchdog in Leicestershire. A few years
later he married a daughter of George Vincent and thus joined the group of
gentlemen who supported the 2nd Earl of Huntingdon. From the later 1540s he
began the series of purchases by which he built up a considerable estate; he
also bought a number of small parcels for each of the sons as they were born.
Under Edward VI he began to serve on the midland circuit, of which he remained
a member until his death. The connexion
probably had much to do with Faunt’s return for Leicester when Strelley was a
knight of the shire. A Hastings supporter who had nothing to fear from the
tottering Duke of Suffolk, Faunt also offered the capital advantage of court
favour. Two years later Faunt outmatched
his first achievement, and his first colleague, by attaining the senior
knighthood of the shire. On this occasion his orthodoxy may have had more to do
with his election, and not surprisingly his name is absent from the roll of
Members of this Parliament who voted against one of the government’s bills.
This was to be Faunt’s last appearance in the House. Faunt died on 4 Sept. 1559. By his will,
proved two months later, he left a considerable landed estate in trust for his
heir and his other sons, and lands to his executors for a certain number of
years to provide dowries for his daughters. Moreover, he charged his heirs
‘neither to enclose nor improve the pastures and commons in Newton Burdett from
the poor inhabitants as they should answer before God’, and stipulated that all
his tenants were to have their farms without fine or increase of rent.
Believing that he left sufficient provision for all his sons, he yet commanded
his wife that should they all survive the second should be trained as a lawyer
and the two younger apprenticed to friends in London. It is a testimony to his
many friendships that, on the event of his wife’s death or re-marriage, almost
every leading personage in the county was to have one of his children to
educate and instruct. As it turned out, his brother-in-law Edward Vincent
obtained the wardship of the heir, and his widow seems to have fulfilled most
of his intentions for the upbringing of the younger children. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/faunt-william-149596-1559)
Sir Francis, die tweede baronet, was die enigste seun en erfgenaam van
sy vader, Sir Francis, by sy eerste vrou, Grace Brouncker. Hy het opleiding aan Gray’s Inn in 1640 ontvang.
Admission to Grays Inn – 1640 - Francis Wortley, Esq., son and heir of Francis W., of Wortley, co. York
Toe die Engelse Burgeroorlog in 1642 uitbreek het die jong Francis, net
soos sy pa aan die kant van die Royalists gestaan. Ou Sir Francis en sy seun het ‘n
argument gehad, wat tot gevolg gehad het, dat die jong Francis na Italië gevlug
het. Die argument het gegaan oor 'n sekere man, genaamd
Bailie, van Dodworth, wat met die Engelse Burgeroorlog, teen sy wil in die
koning se diens was. Hierdie man het
gedros en toe hulle hom vang, het die jong Francis hom, sonder die uitspraak
van ‘n court-martial aan ‘n boom naby Wortley Hall opgehang. Ou Sir Francis was baie kwaad oor sy seun se haastige
optrede. Om sy vader se woede te vermy,
het hy na Italië gegaan. Francis (Jr.)
het vir 'n geruime tyd oorsee gewoon.
Om geld vir die Parliament in te samel, het die Committee for
Compounding with Delinquents die waarde van die eiendom van die koningsgesinde
ondersteuners bepaal en hulle beboet teen ‘n koers wat afgehang het van hul
graad van ‘delinquency’, sowel as hul godsdiens en beroep. Die boete het
gewissel tussen 'n derde en twee derdes van die beskuldigde se bates.
http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/The_Bravest_Cavalier.pdf) Die
laat 1640's was nie 'n maklike tyd vir die Kavaliers van Suid-Yorkshire nie. Hulle landgoede is in beslag geneem en hulle moes
met die Parliamentary Committee for
Compounding onderhandel vir die
afkoop daarvan.
Report. His delinquency that he was in actual war
against the Parliament; he submitted and came to London, petitioned 15 Mar
1646, took the Oath the same day and the Covenant 4 Apr 1646 before William Barton. (Clay,
John William, ed.: Yorkshire Royalist
Composition Papers: Or the Proceedings of the Committee ... ) Sir Francis (jr.) is £671/13s/4d beboet vir die feit dat hy in die oorlog teen
die Parlement geveg het. (Cooper, Stephen: When night-dogs ran. A Yorkshsire poacher and his family,
1642-1699)
Francis trou in 1646 met Frances FAUNTE of Foston. He
m. Frances, da. and coheir of Sir William Faunte, of Poston, co. Leicester, by
Lucy, da. of Sir James Harrington, of Ridlington. (Cokayne, George Edward: Complete baronetage. Vol. I. 1611-1625. 1900)
17 Desember 1646. Petition. That
before June last he presented his petition and by reason of the Oxford
compounders his composition hath been retarded and since he hath about 3 weeks
taken a wife most part of whose estate is not yet discovered desires to include
in his former particular what estate comes to him by his marriage. (Clay, John William, ed.: Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers: Or the
Proceedings of the Committee ...)
3 Maart 1648. He is seized in right of his wife Frances
daughter of Sir William Faunte Knt deceised in the moiety of a tenement with
lands called the Spittle in Lutterworth, co Leic worth yearly 40; there is owing to his wife 4386 by several
persons, owing to her as executrix to her sister Bridget Faunt most of them
desperate 1900 due to her as executrix to her mother and to go to grandchildren
2980 but he saith all his wife’s estate is out of his hands and desires respite
to compound for it when he shall recover it. (Clay, John William, ed.: Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers: Or the
Proceedings of the Committee ...)
Augustus 1650. State of the case of Francis Wortley as it
stands before the Committee wherein the direction of the house is desired. He
petitioned to compound 4 Apr 1646, but afterwards married Francis Faunt, he
desired to compound for his own estate only and to leave his wife's till he
should recover it. The Committee refused this and the report was laid aside and
no fine set. The 1st Aug 1649 being past the time limited, discovery was made
by Col. Sydenham and Col. Bingham of 2000 li owing by one Staresmore to the
wife of Francis Wortley not compounded for.
It was adjudged by the late Committee to be a discovery and the debt was
sequestered. (Clay, John William,
ed.: Yorkshire Royalist Composition
Papers: Or the Proceedings of the Committee ...)
31 Des 1651. Fined
300 1' for an estate in reversion one
moiety to be paid in 14 days the remainder in 6 weeks. 8 Jan 1652. Ordered that the fine on the estate of 300" be fixed at 50".
N.B. There
are a great many papers scattered through the volumes as to his wife's estates. (Clay, John William, ed.: The proceedings of the committee for compounding
with delinquents during the commonwealth.
Vol. III. Edited by John William
Clay, F.S.A. Member of the councils of the Yorkshire archaeological and
harleian societies, printed for the society, 1896)
Die laat 50ger en vroeër 60ger jare van die 17de eeu het groot politieke
en godsdienstige veranderinge gebring. Francis
het sy pa in 1652 as baronet opgevolg.
Ten spyte van die politieke woelinge van 1649-60, kon sommige families
‘n relatief stil lewe lei, al was hulle Royalists. The Cavaliers now came back into their own. Sir Francis Wortley the elder had died, after
his imprisonment in the Tower of London, but he was succeeded by his son, the
second Sir Francis, who, found himself in possession of a noble estate, despite
all the sufferings and losses which he and his father had experienced in the
civil wars. Charles II rewarded those
who had been loyal to the Stuart cause during the Interregnum. (Cooper, Stephen: When Night-dogs
ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and his family, 1642-1699. 2012)
Na sy pa se dood (1652) het Sir Francis by St Hellen’s well, naby Monk Bretton
gewoon. ‘n Ene mnr Skelton, wildbewaarder
van die Wortleys, wat sedert 1650 in diens van Sir Francis Jr. was, het hom as was 'n klein maer man met geel
hare, wat baie gedrink en skynbaar melankoliek was, beskryf. Ook dat hy troubled in mind was. In die
sewentiende eeu was die Engelse burgers berug vir drink en dronkenskap. Ale
was die algemene drankie. Tee en koffie
was nie beskikbaar voor Charles II se bewind nie en min mense het dit
gedrink. Water was onveilig en ale was deel van die stapelvoedsel vir
volwassenes en kinders, selfs met ontbyt. Dit was onvermydelik dat die gebruik
van alkohol hoog was en dat sommige mense meer gedrink het as wat goed was vir
hulle.
In die middle van die sewentiende eeu was die mense ook baie
bygelowig. Around 1650, Sir Francis Wortley the younger’s gamekeeper claimed that
he often saw the ghost of a boy or girl walk along the gallery over the kitchen
in his master’s house at St Ellen’s Well near Monk Bretton, while in the same house there was a room
called the yellow chamber “thro’ which, if anyone attempted to carry a candle
in the night, it would burn blue and go out immediately.” (Cooper, Stephen: When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and
his family, 1642-1699. 2012)
1653-1655 The leasing of Wortley Manor by Thomas and
Robert Beverley to Francis Taylor and his sons. (http://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/1123594)
1660. Sir Francis het die Office
van Deputy Lieutenant in the West Riding,
Yorkshire, temp Car. II. en Justice
of the Peace in the West Riding, Yorkshire, temp Car. II beklee.
Sir Francis Wortley, Bart. Who
serv’d Deputy-Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and all other Offices suiting
his condition in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the Reign of K Cha.2 . (Collins, Arthur: The Baronettage of England: Being an
Historical and Genealogical account of baronets from their first institution in
the reign of King James I. Vol 1. London
1720)
1662 Feb 22. Petition from Sir Francis Wortley for same
of divers tenements, &c., in the several towns and places called Marske,
Fulford Ings, Halsham, Darton, and Ruston, co. York, as formerly granted to one
Mr. Smith. ('Minute Book: February
1662', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol 1, 1660-1667, ed. William A Shaw
(London, 1904), pp. 327-332) Marske-by-the-Sea
is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the
ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. Fulford
lies on the southern edge of York just over a mile from the centre of the city. Fulford Ings, the open land bounding the
river Ouse. Halsham
is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan
Borough of Barnsley (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with West
Yorkshire. Ruston Parva, a parish, in
the union of Driffield, wapentake of Dickering, E. riding of York.
Letter from George Barnby, Gunthwaite, Yorkshire to
Sir Thomas Wentworth, bart., at "his Lodgings at mistress Wentworths a
widdow in Swan alley in Colemantreete", 1663/4 March 24. Requests that he intercede with Sir George
Savile, later Marquis of Halifax, to stop the building of a town mill at
Oxspring, Yorkshire by Sir Francis Wortley, bart. (http://findingaids.folger.edu/dfocavendish.xml)
1663. Thomas Burdett het op 28
April 1663 in die hof verskyn. Onder die
regters wat sy saak aangehoor het was die ou Kavaliers, Sir Francis Wortley (jr.)
en Francis Vevile van Chevet. Both these men were members of the gentry
and, Wortley had inherited his father’s extensive deer parks. They were not likely to take a sympathetic
view of the poacher and his tade. (Cooper, Stephen: When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and
his family, 1642-1699, 2012)
Die lewens van hierdie Sir Francis se voorgeslagte was dalk meer indrukwekkend as syne self, maar daar is ‘n interessante verwysing na hom op die webwerf van
die Thoroughbred Heritage. Hierdie webwerf spoor die geskiedenis van
beroemde renperde, waaronder een bekend as 'Ou Montagu, op. Die webwerf noem dat die perd moontlik besit
was deur the wealthy horse breeder Sir
Francis Wortley. Verdere verwysings
maak dit duidelik dat Sir Francis inderdaad hierdie een is. Hierdie perdteler-verwysing kan verduidelik waarom
daar op 18de eeuse kaarte 'n verskeidenheid geboue, suid van die Old Hall
getoon word, wat vermoedelik met die ontwikkeling van die tuine gesloop
is. Dit kon wel 'n perdestoet gewees het.
Dit wil voorkom asof Sir Francis beide Turnham Green sowel as Wortley
Hall as permanente woonplekke aangehou het. In 1590 Turnham Green common was the name of waste
land of Sutton Court manor along the high road, west of the prebendal manor. Although Turnham Green had fewer ratepayers
than Old Chiswick in the 17th century, there were substantial houses by 1664,
when those of Lady Wortley and Lady Margaret Cholmley contained 24 and 22
hearths respectively and when the first, with College House, was assessed as
the fourth largest in the parish. Lady
Wortley was presumably the widow of Sir Edward Wortley, who had paid rates from
1649, and a Sydney Wortley was still at Turnham Green in 1683. (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp54-68)
Series 2: Wentworth family papers, 1627-1705
Letter from George Barnby,
Gunthwaite, Yorkshire to Sir Thomas Wentworth, bart., at "his Lodgings at
mistress wentworths a widdow in Swan alley in Colemantreete", 1663/4
March 24. Requests that he intercede with Sir George Savile,
later Marquis of Halifax, to stop the building of a town mill at Oxspring,
Yorkshire by Sir Francis Wortley, bart. On the address leaf there is a forwarding address in another hand: "ffor
Mistress Mary Wentworth at the Cat & fidell in the strand beyond St
Clemon's Church," a postal stamp with the date "Mr 25," and the
note, "latin for gloues is grotetarum [sic]." (
'Hearth
Tax: Middlesex 1666, Chiswick', in London Hearth Tax: City of London and
Middlesex, 1666 vind ons ‘n inskrywing vir Sir Francis Wortley
Sir Fra. Wortley 12 s Emty;
emptie
6 s Emty; another of his emptie
Inventories
have survived for the Chiswick and the Yorkshire locations (PROB 11/320 Mico
47-91 Sentence of Francis Wortley 27 January 1665; PROB 11/322 Mico 139-184
Sentence of Sir Francis Wortley of Chiswick, Middlesex 27 June 1666; PROB
11/316 Hyde 1-56 Will of Dame Elizabeth Wortley of Chiswick, Middlesex 23 March
1665; Sr Fra: Wortley; PROB 32/1/30 Deceased: Wortley, Sir Francis, bart., of
Wortley Hall, Yorks., resident in Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middx. (Earl of
Manchester con Wortley et Lady Griffith) Inventory of goods at Wortley Hall and
Holley Hall 1666 May 17 (1666 Apr. 2); PROB 32/1/36 Deceased: Wortley, Sir
Francis, bart., of Wortley Hall, Yorks., resident in Turnham Green, Chiswick,
Middx. (Earl of Manchester con Wortley et Lady Griffith) Inventory of goods in
Yorks. 1666; PROB 32/1/48 Deceased: Wortley, Sir Francis, bart. Inventory of
goods in Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middx. 1665/6 Mar. 16. (http://marinelives-tools.wikispot.org/Hearth_tax:_Middlesex)
(http://senlachill.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/parliament-routed-at-turnham-green.html)
Sir Francis Wortley het
in 1665 'n testament opgestel, maar het dit
eenkant gesit, met die bedoeling om 'n fair copy daarvan te maak.
Hy het nooit sover gekom om dit te doen nie. Wortley se testament was
ongeteken en onbevestig, toe hy oorlede is.
This omission led in due course to
labyrinthine legal proceedings and to some accounts a change in the law. (Cooper, Stephen: When Night-dogs ran, a Yorkshire Poacher and
his family, 1642-1699. 2012)
Sir Francis het op 14
March 1666, by Turnham Green, naby London gesterf en is op 30 Maart 1666 by
Westminster begrawe. Will pr.
1668. (Cokayne, George Edward: Complete
baronetage. Vol. I. 1611-1625. 1900) Hierdie Sir Francis het geen kinders by sy vrou
gehad nie. Hy het ook geen manlike nageslag
gehad nie en was die laaste baronet van Wortley. Sir
Francis Wortley died and left his estate with "my manors of Ordsall,
Babworth and Tylne" to his daughter, Anne. (http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/ordsall1940/ordsall10.htm)
In 1666 a non-conformist minister, Oliver Heywood,
wrote in his journal that Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley Hall in Yorkshire had
died very lately,”having no child by his Lady, he having turned her off many
yeares agoe, but hath left his estate to the Earl of Manchester’s second son if
he will change his name to Wortley and marry a bastard that Sr Francis had by a
common whore in London. (Cliffe, John Trevor: The World of the Country House in
Seventeenth-century England)
In die 1700's het ryk en magtig mans vroue aangehou vir appearances en minnaresse vir vermaak. Nie
net het die samelewing dit geduld nie, dit is selfs verwag, solank as wat die
mans diskreet was. 'n Minnares om te vertroetel, was 'n vermaaklike speelding,
en sy moes 'afleiding van sy sorge' aan die man verskaf en hom goed in die oë van
die wêreld laat kyk. Die sexier die minnares was, hoe meer jaloers was die man
se vriende. Die man wat met 'n mooi jong verleidster aan sy arm gespog het, het
aan sy vriende bewys dat hy 'n man van mag en invloed was. Sy mog vir hulle oogknip,
maar sy het aan hom behoort. Minnaresse wat die bloeityd van hul jeug verloor het of
nie meer die lord interesseer het nie is dikwels weggegooi --- soms met klein
lewenstoelaes of afskeidsgeskenke, en soms daarsonder.
(http://royalfavourites.blogspot.com.au/2014_09_01_archive.html)
With the second baronet, the house of Wortley passed away in a legitimate line, though otherwise, not so. He left the whole of his vast estates to his left-handed daughter, Anne Newcomen. (Full text of the Old Halls, manors and families of Derbyshire).
Though Sir Francis was an author, he was not a
sensitive soul. He lived long apart from
his wife, Having no children by her, he
made his illegitimate daughter Anne Newcomen his heiress conditionally on her
future husband taking his name. He
intended, if he had lived to marry her into the Willoughby or the Berkeley
family. But Lord Sandwich P. 31. was one
of his executors, charged with Anne’s protection and education and it was
Sandwich’s son Sidney who married her. (Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory Professor
Isobel Grundy: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Sidney Montagu het
die Wortley-naam aangeneem annexed to the condition of obtaining her in
marriage, that her husband should assume the name of Wortley.
Dit is opsigself baie ongewoon. Buite-egtelike kinders en hul moeders is
gewoonlik geïgnoreer of 'n toepaslike man was oortuig (dikwels omgekoop) om met
die moeder te trou, wat 'n soort ordentlikheid aan die gebeure moes gee. Mens
kan net wonder hoekom Anne as sy erfgenaam benoem is en wat die verhouding
tussen Sir Francis en haar ma was. Onder
sulke omstandighede sou die wettige naasbestaandes verwag het om te erf. (Andrew, Nick: The Wortleys of Wortley Hall)
The Wortleys of Barnsley made some unsuccessful attempts to recover the ancient inheritance of their family when it was passed by will of the last baronet to an illegitimate daughter. All hope of recovering the property having ceased, Richard Wortley of Barnsley, gentleman, was content to place two sons, Montague and Francis, as apprentices to cutlers at Sheffield. The indentures of the former were enrolled in 1709 of the latter in 1710. I wish I could add that they retrieved by successful commerce the fortunes of their ancestry. (Hunter, Joseph: Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield)
Ly. Wortley versus Vyner & al.
Upon hearing of Counsel on both Parts this Day at the Bar, upon the Petition of Dame Frances Wortley, late Wife of Sir Francis Wortley Baronet, deceased, being an Appeal for reversing a Decree made in the Exchequer Chamber, on the Behalf of Edmond Staresmore Esquire, concerning certain Lands and Tenements in Frowlesworth, in the County of Leicester, which Lands and Tenements were since the said Decree purchased by Sir Robert Vyner Baronet; and upon the Answer of the said Edmond Staresmore and Sir Robert Vyner put in thereunto: After due Consideration had of what hath been offered by Counsel on either Part thereupon, it is Resolved and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Petition and Appeal of the said Dame Frances Wortley be, and is hereby, dismissed this House.
Sir Francis se weduwee, Frances Faunte was bur. from Holborn, 22 Jan. 1683/4, at St. Giles' in the Fields. WUl
dat. 2 Oct. 1683, pr. 3 Jan. 1683/4. (Cokayne, George Edward, 1825-1911: Complete baronetage. Vol I. 1611-1625 . 1900)
St Giles-in-the-Fields, also commonly known as the Poets' Church, is a
church in the London Borough of Camden, in the West End. The first recorded church on this site was a
chapel of the parish of Holborn attached to a monastery and leper hospital
founded by Matilda of Scotland, the wife of Henry I, in 1101. At that time, it
stood well outside the boundaries of the city of London, though on the main
road to Tyburn and Oxford. This chapel probably came to function as the church
of the small village that grew up to provide services to the hospital. In 1391,
Richard II sold the hospital, chapel, and lands to the Cistercian abbey of St.
Mary de Graces, just by the Tower of London.
The monastery was dissolved in 1539.
However, the chapel survived as a local parish church. The early church
fell into disrepair and a Gothic brick structure was built between 1623 and
1630. (Wikipedia) Foto: St. Giles in-the-fields, a parish in the
Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulstone and borough of Finsbury, county
Middlesex, 1 mile W. of St. Paul's. (Genuki)
Die woelinge van die
sewentiende eeu en ook die feit dat die tweede Baronet Sir Francis sy vrou vir
‘n ander vrou verlaat het en haar op Wortley Hall sonder enige finansiële steun
gelaat het, het daartoe gelei dat Wortley Hall in verval geraak het. Teen die einde van die agtiende eeu was
uitgebreide herbouing nodig. (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.)
The (Wortley) village is most famous for
the notorious highwayman Swift Nick (John Nevison, 1639 - 1684) who was born
and raised there. It was really he (and not Dick Turpin) who made the infamous
ride on horseback from London to York in order to establish an alibi for a
robbery.
(Wortley, South Yorkshire. http://www.cyclopaedia.fr/wiki/Wortley,_South_Yorkshire)
Kind:
t.1. Ann NEWCOMEN, geb. 02/09/1659 x Sidney MONTAGU.
