Elizabeth & Francis Trentham of Rocester Abbey

Notes - Part 1

The Shropshire Years
Heraldic & geneological information:
The Visitation of Staffordshire, AD 1583, Staffordshire Historical Collection

Parliamentary information:
The History of Parliament - The House of Commons Vol I 1509-1558
by ST Bennett, Secker & Warburg 1982.

Shrewsbury Draper's Company, deeds - X1831/2, Shropshire Archive, Shrewsbury

Rocester Abbey
Rocester Parish Register 1564-1705, Stafford Record Office, F925/1/1.
Published version has comprehensive introduction.

Rocester Excavation Project, 1986 by IM Ferris.
North Staffs Field Club.

A View of Staffordshire by Sampson Erdeswick (begun about 1593, published 1717, again 1820, 2nd edition -Survey of Staffordshire edited by T. Harwood 1844). Two manuscript copies at Stafford Record Office - D649/2/1-2.

Rocester Abbey Surrender, 1538 - transcript of original, Stafford Record Office D1529/1

Earl of Shrewsbury Staffordshire estate survey, 1542, Stafford Record Office D1529/2

From local gentry to Shire Knight
The Catholic threat and the Recusancy laws
Parliamentary information:
The History of Parliament - The House of Commons Vol II 1559-1601 by ST Bennett, Secker& Warburg 1982.

Staffordshire Parliamentary History, Volume I - 1213-1603, by Josiah C Wedgwood, Staffordshire Historical Collection Volume 1917

Correspondence: Bagot Family Papers, 1559-1671, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS L.a.1-1076; Walter Chetwynd’s Manuscript Collection, Staffs RO - D649/12-5, D649/1/1; Bagot Letters, Staffs RO - D1721/3/290, D1721/3/294, D1721/3/295, D1721/3/186

Privy Council correspondence:
Acts of the Privy Council;
Calender of Letters and State Papers, Vol. II. Elizabeth, 1568-1579;
Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1547-1580;
A Calendar of the Talbot Papers, Volume N

Staffordshire Sheriffs and JPs:
Staffordshire Historical Collection, Vol 1912

Family archives
The Sneyd Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Keele University
The Cokayne Papers, Northampton Record Office

Notes - Part 2

King’s Place and an heir
Queen Elizabeth and her Maids of Honour:
‘Elizabeth I’ by Anne Somerset,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1991, Phoenix Press 1997, ISBN 1 84212 624 5

History of King’s Place:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/tudorhackney/localhistory/lochhy2.asp
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22707&strquery

Purchase of King’s Place by Countess of Oxford:
PRO C66/1476, m. 20 – Thanks to Nina Green for her translation, transcription and permission to quote – seeNina Green’s website: www.oxford-shakespeare.com

Estate matters
Great Garden at Aldgate: 1609 lawsuit, PRO SP 15/39, f. 141; Oxford’s IPM of 1608, PRO C 142/305/103. Thanks to Nina Green for transcriptions, summaries and permission to quote.

£10,000 settlement of ffrancis Trentham: The Cokayne Papers C663, Northampton Record Office; ‘The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex (1763-68)’ by Philip Morant – thanks to Christopher Paul for transcription.

Castle Hedingham: 1587 Grant to Queen: PRO E 211/35, PRO CP 25/2/133/1707/29/30ELIZIMICH, item 45; Sale to Burghley: PRO CP 25/2/135/1723/33/34ELIZIMICH, item 74, PRO C 66/1392, mbs. 30-31, PRO C 66/1387, m. 31, PRO CP 25/2/135/1725/34ELIZIEASTER, item 44; Sale of Bretts: HL/PO/PB/1/1609/7J1n33RO, ERO D/DRg 2/39. Thanks to Nina Green for her transcriptions, summaries and permission to quote.

A contested election
The History of Parliament - The House of Commons Vol II 1559-1601
by ST Bennett, Secker & Warburg 1982.

Staffordshire Parliamentary History, Volume I - 1213-1603
by Josiah C Wedgwood, SHC Volume 1917.

Bagot Family Papers, 1559-1671: La81, La468, La469, La470.
Folger Shakespeare Library, Microfiche at Stafford RO.

The end of an era
Elizabeth Countess of Oxford’s correspondence:
Earls Colne: Earls Colne Grammar School, Essex; A History by AD Merson,
(Colchester: Benham and Company, 1975), p.25;

Her son Henry: SP14/65, ff.76-9. Thanks to Nina Green for both transcriptions.

Purchase of Hedingham: Letter to Cecil: Calendar of Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Part X111, pp 108, HMSO 1915; Petition to House of Lords: HoL Journal Office, Main Papers 1509-1700 108-138 ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/329. HoL Records of the Parliament Office, Lords Journals, XII. 192 & 211 ref HL/PO/JO/10/1/329/136

Ten funerals and a wedding
Trentham pedigree: The Visitation of Staffordshire,1583 & 1614, Staffordshire Historical Collection; Rocester Parish Register 1564-1705, Stafford Record Office, F925/1/1.

Wills: Countess of Oxford – PRO PROB11/121, ff. 74-75v;
Thomas Trentham IV – PROB 11/105

Purchase of Westwood: Staffs Historical Coll, Vol XVIII (1)

Thomas Eyre dowry: Bagshaw Papers C2723, Sheffield RO