From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Anne Lake:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p35450.htm#i354492

Anne Lake [1]

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Anne Lake is the daughter of Sir Thomas Lake and Mary Ryther.1 She married, secondly, George Rodney.[2]

She married, firstly, William Cecil, 16th Lord de Ros of Helmsley, son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter and Elizabeth Manners, Baroness de Ros of Helmsley, on 13 February 1615/16.[2] She and William Cecil, 16th Lord de Ros of Helmsley were divorced.[1]

Her married name became Rodney.[2]

From 13 February 1615/16, her married name became Cecil. After her divorce, a vicious dispute erupted between the Lake and Cecil families.[1]

Citations

• 1. [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
• 2. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1108. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

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Notes about Lady Ann from the perspective of Posthumous Kirkton:

POSTHUMOUS KIRTON (or, as he signed himself: "POSTHUMUS") - (b. 1611, kia 1644) As can be seen from his given name he was born probably sometime after January / early February, 1611, soon after his father's evidently sudden death. We hear nothing further from him for the next 20 odd years, until a record of his name was found in Bernau's Record of Town Depositions, which produced PRO Depositions C 24/569. This contains several depositions made in May 1631 on behalf of a certain 'George Rodney', who had married, as her second husband, Lady Ann Ros, widow of William Cecil, Lord Ros, who had died without issue in 1618. Lady Ann was the daughter of Sir Thomas Lake of Cannons, co. Middlesex.

Having married George Rodney, she made over her estate, which consisted of the Manors of Walthamstow, High Hall and Low Hall by three deeds to her husband before she died in early September, 1630, at the age of 30. It seems that after her death certain of her relatives made an attempt to challenge the legitimacy of these deeds. From his Deposition it is clear that Posthumus Kirton had been a member of George Rodney and his wife's household for some time, at least during the period of their marriage, and so was an important witness as to what had occurred.

Three witnesses, including evidently two servants and an attendant, also gave testimony, while young Posthumus Kirton, of Westminster, gent., aged twenty one, stated that he knew Lady Ann Ros, and had heard her say several times that she was minded to settle all her property on George Rodney. Furthermore that he had actually seen the signing of two of the three deeds by her, and had served as a witness to them, and had seen the deeds actually sealed by her.

It then took a very long time for this writer to finally confirm that this George Rodney who married Ann, Lady Ros, was, in fact, the same George Rodney who was the younger brother of Elizabeth Rodney, and of their brother, Sir Edward Rodney, Kt. (ref.: Sir Egerton Brydges, ibid, p. 560; and Sir Edward Rodney's own account, as reported in "The Genealogist", ibid, Vol. XVII, p. 102-3). It is thus becomes clear that Posthumus Kirton had been resident for a considerable period of time in the household of his maternal uncle, George Rodney, which I am now convinced, confirms him as being the last son of James (the elder) Kirton and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Rodney).

It must have been fairly soon after that Posthumus Kirton became a professional soldier, and we next find a record of him in 1640, when he is named as "Captain Postumus (sic) Kirton, serving under the Earl of Northumberland for the expedition (having recently returned from serving as part of the Anglo-Dutch Brigade fighting in the Low Countries, i.e. the Nederlands) - taken according to the Muster Roll after the Armies retreated from Newcastle into Yorkshire." (ref.: "Rushworth's Historical Collections", Vol.II, part II, p.1274) And this is also supported by Reid (ibid); as well as in: "The Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers" (ref.: Edward Peacock, F.S.A. (1874)) which in an Appendix shows: "The Names of all the Collonels (sic), Lieutenant Collonels, Sergeant-Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, Ensignes,, Preachers, Chirugeons, Quarter Mafters, under his Excellency the EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Captain General for the Expedition, 1640. It then lists 21 Regiments, of which Regiment 2 shows: The Earl of Newport, Collonel; George Monke, Lieutenant Coll.: and Henry Warren, Sergeant Major. Seven Captains were listed, including Poftumus Kirton." (Also references: Rushworth (ibid)). By the spring of 1643 he had become a full colonel of one of the battalions of the Marquess of Newcastle's own Regiment of Foot, "The Whitecoats". (William Cavendish, (b. 1592, d. 1676), grandson of Sir William Cavendish of Chatsworth (d.1557) and his third wife, Bess of Hardwicke; son of Sir Charles Cavendish, (b. 1553, d. 1617) possesed of Bolsover Castle; William inherited Bolsover, & in 1620 was created Viscount Mansfield; & in1628 was created Baron of Bolsover & Earl of Newcastle-on-Tyne; & in 1644, Marquess of Newcastle. (ref.: BHO & Magna Britannia, Vol. 5 (1817) pages XLVIII-LXII) (It is very unlikely indeed that this is in anyway connected with the fact that Posthumus' father's first cousin Daniel Kirton of Almesford, co. Somerset and of London, was married briefly to Dudley Brooke, one of the daughters of Catherine Cavendish, a half-sister of Sir Charles Cavendish.)

In 1642 King Charles I gave Newcastle command of the four northern counties; Newcastle had a series of encounters with Lord Fairfax which culminated in the Battle of Adwalton Moor on 30 June, 1643. (ref.: "Cavaliers and Roundheads" by C. Hibbert, ISBN 0-586-09008-8, p. 122 and <http://www.theteacher99.btinternet.co.uk/ecivil/adwalton.htm> & "All the King's Armies" by Stuart Reid, p.78)

"Thus far the pikemen had played no part in the battle, save on the left where they had stopped Sir Thomas, but now the pikes of the Marquis of Newcastle's own regiment, led by Colonel Posthumous Kirton, surged forward on the right and an astonishing collapse took place" & "The Royalists had been on the verge of withdrawal when one of Newcastle's infantry commanders, Posthumous Kirton, "a wild and desperate man", who had long experience of continental warfare, brought his pikemen against the Roundhead musketeers and sent them scattering in all directions, while Newcastle's artillery devastated Fairfax's cavalry." and "Colonel Kirton attacked the enemy with his Royalist pikemen (Whitecoats) on the right and soon the Parliamentarian forces were beaten back in the 'push of pike' and finally routed as they were also outflanked by the Royalist cavalry." Stuart Reid (ref.: "Officers and Regiments of the Royalist Army", Partizan Press) also supports these statements, and also identifies Posthumous Kirton as being a professional soldier who came from Somerset, and was credited with leading the decisive counter-attack.

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