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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family The arms here show the fusils and bordure sable of the Montagus; the griffin is more problematical but might come from the arms of the early Salisbury line. It is unclear where exactly these arms originate. The Dudley arms look to be those given for the Dudley’s of Clopton, Northamptonshire as Azure, a chevron between three lions heads erased or 27 . As Agnes Dudley was the daughter of William Dudley of Clopton and Christiana Darrell then the cross, with the roses between the arms of the cross, are probably the arms of the Darrell family, but this has not been verified. Burke 28 doesn’t list the arms seen but he does describe a couple of Darrell arms that feature roses on them. Thomas and Agnes’ son Edward I inherited Hemington on Thomas’ death and another son, John, is mentioned in Thomas’ will. This Will also provided for “suitable chambers for his wife and her maid in the manor house at Hemington” 29 but she released her rights to these rooms to her step son in the autumn of 1516 and probably lived at Polebrook 30 . Sir Edward Montagu I was born in or before 1488 31 . He was educated at Cambridge University and entered Middle Temple 32 . He bought the manor of Weekley in 1528 33 He was made Sergeant at Law in 1531, King’s Sergeant in 1537 34 and was knighted 35 by Henry VIII in the same year. He was appointed Lord Chief 27 Grazebrook, HS The Heraldry of Northamptonshire pp176-7 28 Burke (1999 edition) The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales vol 1 p264 29 CP Vol IX Appendix D p27 30 She is described as being of Polebrook in her will of 1524 CP ibid 31 He was aged 29 or more when his father died in 1517 CP vol IX p28. 32 Venn, J & Venn JA (1924) Alumni Cantagrienses part 1 Vol III p201 Admitted 22 May 1505 33 Whellan, F (1874) the History and Topography of Northamptonshire p812 34 Venn, J & Venn JA (1924) Alumni Cantagrienses part 1 Vol III p201 14
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family Justice of the King’s Bench in the following year, which post he held until 1545, when he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas 36 . He was made very wealthy by Henry VIII and the king settled the manor of Barnwell in Northamptonshire, with its castle, on him in 1540, although he had been steward of the manor for the previous 20 years 37 . He was one of the 16 executors of the king’s will and was a governor to the young Edward VI. He was instrumental, with the earl of Northumberland, in drawing up the will of Edward VI 38 which “settled the crown on the beautiful, accomplished but unfortunate lady Jane Grey 39 ” . This did not endear him the Queen Mary and on her accession she removed him from his office and threw him into the Tower of London for six weeks 40 . After his release he retired to his seat at Boughton, where he died in 1557 41 and was buried in St Mary the Virgin, Weekely 42 . 35 Venn, J & Venn JA (1924) ibid 18 th October 1537 36 Bell, T (1853) The Rural Album p92 37 VCH Northamptonshire vol 3 (1930) p76 38 died 6 th July 1553 39 Bell, T (1853) ibid pp92-3 40 VCH Northamptonshire ibid maintains that “A few months later he was imprisoned for his opposition to the succession of Lady Jane Grey” but given that he helped draw up the will that put her on the throne....... Venn, J & Venn JA (1924) Alumni Cantagrienses part 1 Vol III p201 indeed confirm that he was ”deprived for his support of Lady Jane Grey” 41 Venn, J & Venn JA (1924) Alumni Cantagrienses part 1 Vol III p201 10 th February 1557. He was buried 19 days later 29/2/1557 [Weekley Parish Registers Northampton Record Office, hereafter Weekley PR] 42 The village south west of Boughton House. St Mary’s is a lovely church and contains some of the earliest Montagu monuments around. Our sincere thanks to Judith Turner, the Churchwarden, who made one of TP very welcome when he was able to visit. Much of the information on the monuments is taken from her excellent guide “A Short History 15
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