Stephen Vaughan (merchant)
Stephen Vaughan (1502-1549)
Life
Vaughan was a merchant of London. About 1520 he made the acquaintance of
John Hutton, governor of the Merchant Adventurers' Company, in 1529 instigated charges of heresy against Vaughan before
In December 1532 Vaughan was sent on a mission to Paris and Lyons, and in August following accompanied
Vaughan died in London on 25 December 1549.[4] His Inquisition post mortem was held at the Guildhall, London before Sir Rowland Hill in June 1550.[9]
Family
Vaughan's sister Magdalen or Mawdlyn was married first to the citizen and Grocer William Pratt (stepson of Sir Christopher Askewe, Draper, Lord Mayor 1533-34), who died in 1539.[10] She then married (as his first wife) Pratt's apprentice Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor 1562-63), who (by a later wife) was father of the poet-physician Thomas Lodge.[11] Mawdlyn died in 1548, and in 1549 Stephen Vaughan made his "trustie friend" Thomas Lodge one of the two overseers of his will: the other was John Griffith alias Vaughan, the King's clerk.[12]
Vaughan was twice married. His first wife was Margaret ("Margery") Gwynneth or Guinet, daughter of Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Ithel of Castellmarch (
- Anne Vaughan, married Henry, a younger son of Sir William Lok: Anne was a poet, and they were the parents of the poet Henry Lok.[14]
- Stephen Vaughan (born 4 October 1537[15]), who inherited his father's property (consisting of twelve tenements in St. Mary Spital, Shoreditch, three in Watling Street, All Saints, one in St. Benedict's, and one in Westcheap).[4]
- Jane Vaughan, married a member of the Wiseman family, of Braddocks, Wimbish, Essex.[16][17][18]
Vaughan married secondly to Margery, widow of
Notes
- ^ The History Of Parliament:The House Of Commons 1509-1558 Volume 3, ed. Stanley Bindoff, 1982
- ^ M.K. Dale, 'Vaughan, Stephen (by 1502-49), of St. Mary-le-Bow, London', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament online.
- ^ I. Blanchard, 'Vaughan, Stephen (b. in or before 1502, d. 1549)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
- ^ a b c d e f s:Vaughan, Stephen (DNB00)
- ^ Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (1998), p. 297.
- ^ Robert Hutchinson, Thomas Cromwell (2007), p. 49.
- ^ C.E. Challis, 'Tower II 1545-1552', British Numismatic Journal XXXVII, no 14 (1968), pp. 93-97 (Society's pdf).
- ^ 'DCLXXXIX': Carne and Vaughan to King Henry VIII' and 'DCXC: Henry VIII to Carne and Vaughan', in State Papers Published under the Authority of Her Majesty's Commission, VIII: King Henry the Eighth, Part 5 - Continued (Commissioners, 1849), pp. 593-95 and pp. 595-97 (Google).
- ^ 'Inquisition post mortem: Stephen Vaughan', in G.S. Fry (ed.), Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the City of London, Part 1 (London 1896), pp. 78-95 (British History Online).
- ^ Will of William Pratt, Grocer of London (P.C.C. 1539, proved 12 June).
- ^ C.J. Sisson, 'Thomas Lodge and his Family', in Thomas Lodge and other Elizabethans (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 1933) pp. 1-163, at pp. 11-14.
- ^ a b Will of Stephen Vaughan (P.C.C. 1550, Coode quire).
- ^ Will of Edward Awpart, "Girdler" (mis-written "Gardener" in Discovery Catalogue of TNA (UK)) of London (P.C.C. 1532, Thower quire, m/film imgs 237-38): PROB 11/24/211 and PROB 11/24/220.
- ^ H. Ostovich, M.V. Silcox and G. Roebuck, Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies (Associated University Presses, Inc., 1998), p. 272.
- ^ 'Inquisition to find the age of Stephen Vaughan', in G.S. Fry (ed.), Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the City of London, Part 1 (London, 1896), pp. 168-91 (British History Online).
- ^ W. Wizeman (SJ), The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church (Ashgate, 2006/Routledge, London & New York 2017), p. 39 (Google).
- ^ T.P. Ellis, The Catholic Martyrs of Wales, 1535-1680 (Burns, Oates and Washborne, Ltd., London 1933), p. 65; C. MacCabe, '"Macbeth": history, ideology and intellectuals', in MacCabe (ed.), Futures for English (Manchester University Press 1988), at p. 65 (Google).
- ^ R.M. Warnicke, Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation, Contributions in Women's Studies, no. 48 (Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut/London, England 1988), p. 173 (Google).
- ^ J. Meadows Cowper (ed.), Henry Brinklow's Complaynt of Roderyck Mors, Early English Text Society (Trübner and Co., London 1874), at p. 122 (Internet Archive).
- ^ The National Archives (UK), Chancery: Vaughan v Rolles, ref. C 1/1319/9-11 and C 1/1319/12-14.
- ^ A.D.K. Hawkyard, 'Rolle, George (by 1486-1552), of Stevenstone, Devon and London', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (from Boydell and Brewer 1982), History of Parliament Online.
- ^ The National Archives (UK), Chancery, Pleadings: Chamberlayn v Guyneth, C 1/1339/16-20, and C 18/10/26; Final decree: Chamberlayne v Gwnyneth [sic, recte Gwyneth], ref. C 78/10/26, View original at AALT, images 0025 and 0026.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Vaughan, Stephen". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Further reading
- W.C. Richardson, Stephen Vaughan, Financial Agent of Henry VIII: a study of financial relations with the Low Countries (Louisiana State University Press, 1953)
- Rose, Susan, Henry VIII and the Merchants: The World of Stephen Vaughan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, ISBN 978 1 350 12769 2.