Manor of Scadbury
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Scadbury is a historic
History
The manor is first recorded in the thirteenth century, when it was held by the de Scathebury family.[2] In 1424 it was purchased by Thomas Walsingham (died 1457)[3] a wealthy wine and cloth merchant in London and a Member of parliament.[4] He married Margaret[5] Bamme, daughter of Henry Bamme, of the City of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.[6] Walsingham added additional land to the estate in 1433.[7]
His son, Thomas Walsingham (1436–1467) married Constance Dryland (died 14 November 1476), a daughter of James Dryland, of
James' eldest son and heir was Sir
Thomas and Dorothy had five sons. The oldest, Guldeford, predeceased his father and the estate had passed to the second son, Edmund, who died in 1589,[11] following which the third son, Sir Thomas Walsingham (died 1630) inherited. He was an MP and was patron of Christopher Marlowe,[12][13] who was known to have been staying at Scadbury just before his violent death in 1593. Sir Thomas' son and heir, also Sir Thomas Walsingham was Vice-Admiral of Kent. He sold Scadbury in 1660.[citation needed]
Many of the Walsingham family's marriages are represented heraldically in stained glass escutcheons dated 1562 now forming the east window of Mereworth Church in Kent.[14]
During the 1670s Scadbury was the seat of
References and sources
- ^ "Scadbury Park, St Paul's Cray Common, Pett's Wood & Hawkwood Estate". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Scadbury Park". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ Scadbury Manor Retrieved 15 June 2103.
- History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [1]
- ^ Robertson 1880, p. 403.
- ^ "Brief history of Scadbury".
- ^ Lee 1899, p. 228.
- ^ a b Robertson 1880, p. 390.
- ^ Robison 2004.
- ^ Metcalfe 1879, p. 622.
- ISBN 0-8014-3978-7.
- ^ Walsingham, Thomas (c.1526–84), of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ Guildford, John (by 1508–65), of Hemsted, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ C. R. Councer, Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.77, 1962, pp.48-62, esp. p.50 et seq.
- ^ The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent Vol 2 (1797) Edward Halsted pp 2–22 from British History on line
- Adams, Simon; Bryson, Alan; Leimon, Mitchell (2004). "Walsingham, Sir Francis (c.1532–1590)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28624. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Arnold, Frederick H. (1871). "Racton". Sussex Archaeological Collections. XXIII. Lewes, Sussex: Sussex Archaeological Society: 1–19. doi:10.5284/1085399.
- Bannerman, W. Bruce, ed. (1899). The Visitations of the County of Surrey. Vol. XLIII. London: Harleian Society. pp. 11, 33.
- Dugdale, Thomas (1835). Curiosities of Great Britain; England and Wales Delineated. Vol. II. p. 468.
- Lee, Sidney (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–30.
- Lysons, Daniel (1796). The Environs of London. Vol. IV. London: T. Cadell. p. 351.
- Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1879). The Visitations of Essex, Part II. Vol. XIV. London: Harleian Society. pp. 543, 622.
- Nichols, John Gough, ed. (1866). The Herald and Genealogist. Vol. III. London: J.G. Nichols. pp. 49–53.
- Robertson, W.A. Scott (January 1880). "Chislehurst and its Church". Archaeologia Cantiana. XIII (1). London: Mitchell & Hughes: 386–409.
- Robison, William B. (2004). "Walsingham, Sir Edmund (c. 1480–1550)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28622. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)