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period of "fourteen years together" during the time which Henry Hastings, the Puritan Earl of
Huntingdon, was Lord President of the North. They had three daughters also, including Martha, who
married Thomas Percy the conspirator, and Ursula, who married firstly John Constable of Hatfield,
and secondly Marmaduke Ward of Mulwith, the suspected brother of Thomas Ward, servant to
William Parker, Lord Monteagle. By his first marriage to Anne Grimston, Robert Wright also had a son
William, and two daughters, Martha and Anne.
by David Herber
More About Robert Wright:
Occupation: Sheriff of Yorkshire
More About Robert Wright and Anne Grimston:
Marriage: 1526, Yorkshire, England
More About Robert Wright and Ursula Rudstone:
Marriage: Abt. 1567
Children of Robert Wright and Anne Grimston are:
+ 17 i. William 4 Wright, born 1528 in Plowland, Yorkshire, England; died Unknown.
18 ii. Ann Wright, born 1529; died Unknown.
19 iii. Martha Wright, born 1530; died Unknown.
Children of Robert Wright and Ursula Rudstone are:
20 i. Alice 4 Wright, died Unknown. She married William Readshaw; died Unknown.
21 ii. John "Jack" Wright, born January 16, 1566/67 in Welwick, Yorkshire, England; died November 08,
1605 in Holbeche House, Staffordshire, England. He married Dorothy; died Unknown.
Notes for John "Jack" Wright:
John (Jack) Wright
by David Herber
Born: 13 January 1568, Welwick, Yorkshire
Died: 8 November 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire
The son of Robert Wright of Plowland, Holderness, and his second wife Ursula Rudstone, daughter of
Nicholas Rudstone of Hayton (near Pocklington), John (Jack) Wright was probably born at Plowland
Hall in Holderness [in the parish of Welwick]. Along with his younger brother Christopher, he was said
to have been a school fellow of both Oswald Tesimond and Guy Fawkes at the free school of St. Peters
in York, known as "Le Horse Fayre".
Very little is known of the early life of the two Wright brothers and a great deal of what is written is
often attributed to either or both of them, so accuracy and specifics in detail between the two brothers
are often blurred, but later, Father John Gerard described John as a "strong, stout man, and of very
good wit, though slow of speech". Renowned from his youth for his courage, "he was somewhat taciturn
in manner, but very loyal to his friends, even if his friends were few".
By all accounts he was an excellent swordsman, considered by some to be the best swordsman of his
day. He was purported to be much disposed to fighting until he was reconciled to the Catholic faith,
which according to Gerard occurred during, or just prior to, the time of the Essex Rebellion.
Prior to the Essex Rebellion however, John, his brother Christopher, and a number of others, including
Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham, were arrested as a precautionary measure during an illness of
Queen Elizabeth I. This was later dubbed the "Poisoned Pommel" incident, although no evidence of a
plot or conspiracy was ever truly uncovered that implicated either these four or any others.
Both John and his wife Dorothy then seemed to endure a great deal of harassment and persecution by
the authorities, and they appear more than once on the recusancy rolls, for their profession of the
Catholic faith.
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