David Cecil, Esq., MP

David Cecil (courtier)

David Cecil (c. 1460 – 1540?) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.

See Peter Bartrum, https://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6315/CECIL_3... (March 1, 2017; Anne Brannen, curator)

He was born to a Welsh family, the third son of Richard Cecil ap Philip Seisyllt of Alt-yr-Ynys, Herefordshire and settled near Stamford, Lincolnshire.

He was an alderman of Stamford in 1504–05, 1515–16 and 1526–27. He was made a Yeoman of the Chamber by 1506, a position he held all his life. He was elected Member of Parliament for Stamford in 1504, 1510, 1512, 1515 and 1523. He was a serjeant-at-arms from 1513 to his death and appointed Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Rutland from 1532 and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire from June 1532 to November 1533.

He probably died in September 1540 and was buried in St George's church, Stamford. He had married twice: firstly Alice, the daughter of John Dicons of Stamford, Lincolnshire, with whom he had two sons and secondly Jane, the daughter of Thomas Roos of Dowsby, Lincolnshire and widow of Edward Villers of Flore, Northamptonshire, with whom he had a daughter. He was succeeded by his son Richard.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cecil_(courtier)_

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• David Cecil1
• M, #189506, d. October 1535
• Last Edited=6 May 2008
• David Cecil was the son of Richard Cecil and Margaret Vaughan.2 He married, firstly, Alice Dickons, daughter of Sir John Dickons.2 He married, secondly, Joan Roos.2 He died in October 1535.1
• He was Water Bailiff of Wittlesea Mere in 1511/12.2 He was a practising Serjeant-at-Arms in 1513/14.2 He was Steward of the Lordship of Collyweston in 1523/24.2 He held the office of Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1531/32.2
• Child of David Cecil and Alice Dickons
  • Richard Cecil+1 d. 19 Mar 1552/53
• Citations
• [S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 125. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1363. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p18951.htm#i189506 ______________
• David Cecil
• M, #75911, b. circa 1473
• Father Philip Cecil b. c 1445
• Mother Maud Vaughan b. c 1447
• David Cecil was born circa 1473 at of Burleigh, Gloucestershire, England. He married Jane Dicons, daughter of John Dicons and Margaret Semark, circa 1493. David Cecil was buried circa 1541 at St's. George & Paul Church, Stamford Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England.
• Family Jane Dicons b. c 1475
• Child
  • Richard Cecil, Esq., Sheriff of Rutland, Constable of Maxey & Warwick Castles+ b. c 1495, d. 19 Mar 1553
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2526.htm#... ______________
• CECIL DAVID, (c.1460-?1540), of Stamford, Lincs.
• b. c.1460, 3rd s. of Richard Cecil ap Philip Seisyllt of Alt-yr-Ynys, Herefs. by Maud, da. of Philip Vaughan of Tillington, Herefs. m. (1) Alice, da. of John Dicons of Stamford, Lincs., 2s. inc. Richard; (2) Jane, da. of Thomas Roos of Dowsby, Lincs., wid. of Edward Villers of Flore, Northants., 1da.6
• Offices Held
  • Commr. grain, Rutland 1496, tenths of spiritualities 1535, to survey monasteries 1536; member of the second Twelve, Stamford by 1500, of the first Twelve by 1503-d., alderman 1504-5, 1515-16, 1526-7; yeoman of the chamber by 1506-d.; jt. (with Sir David Philip) keeper Kings Cliffe park, Northants. 1506; bailiff, Whittlesea Mere Northants. 1506, manors of Skellingthorpe, Lincs., Essendine, Preston and Uppingham, Northants. 1509; serjeant-at-arms 17 Nov. 1513-d.; steward, manor of Collyweston, Northants. 1523, Nassington, Upton, and Yarwell, Northants. by 1534; escheator, Northants. and Rutland 1514-15, Lincs. 1529-30; j.p. Rutland 1532-d.; sheriff, Northants. June 1532-Nov. 1533.7
• Their family’s humble origin was to be often used to denigrate William and Robert Cecil. Its fortunes were founded by David Cecil’s service with Sir David Philip, who may have been his uncle. After perhaps fighting alongside him at Bosworth, Cecil settled near Philip at Stamford and married a kinswoman of his wife; Philip stood godfather to Cecil’s second son, was associated with him in grants of office and appointed him an executor. What Philip’s standing with Henry VII and the King’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, did for his progress at court Cecil’s marriage to the daughter of an alderman of Stamford did for his local advancement; it was during John Dicons’s third term in the office that he was made a freeman of the borough and ten years later he became alderman himself. He had by then already sat for Stamford in Henry VII’s last Parliament and he was to be re-elected to the first four summoned by Henry VIII. The fact that he was not re-elected in 1529 probably reflects his advancing years.8
• In 1526 Cecil entertained Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, during his visit to Kings Cliffe Park. On Sir William Spencer’s death in June 1532 he was chosen sheriff of Northamptonshire, and in spite of some objections on the score of his uncertain temper he was pricked for the following year after Cromwell and Sir Thomas Audley, who thought well of him, had suggested his transfer to Rutland. In his will of 25 Jan. 1535 he styled himself esquire. He asked to be buried in the church of St. George, Stamford, and left the incumbent a stipend of £5 to sing for his soul. He made provision for his wife and children, for the expenses of his funeral and for the payment of his debts. The executor, his son Richard, was granted probate of the will on 16 Mar. 1541, and it is likely that Cecil had died on the previous 14 Sept.; he is last included among the first 12 comburgesses of Stamford for the year 1535-6, but Richard Cecil did not succeed to any of his offices until 1541.9
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ce... _______________________________

Weblinks

• http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Richard_Cecil

Notes

David had land in Lincolnshire. In their book, The Great Governing Families of England, authors Townsend and Sanford state that David founded a chantry at St George's there in the 22nd year of the reign of Henry the Seventh (1506/7). David rose in favor under King Henry VIII. David was appointed bailiff of Whittlesey Mere and Keeper of the Swans in 3H8. In 5H8 David was made one of the King's Sergeants-at-Arms and "...thus obtained for his son Richard the office of page". David became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1529 and 1530, and was three times an alderman of Stamford. David was also in 1535 Bailiff of Tinwell, a post also taken up by his son Richard and grandson William. David died in 1536, his only known wife was Jane Dichons, daughter and heiress of John Dichons of Stamford by Margaret, heiress of John Sewark.

Notes

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-92-316.pdf

The draft and final versions of David Cecil’s will establish that he married secondly a wife named Jane or Joan [Roos?]. The provisions by which he bequeaths her the plate and household stuff which was hers before their marriage suggest that she was a widow when he married her, perhaps the widow of the Stamford glover and alderman, John Dyccons whose will David Cecil was charged with administering.

For the draft and final versions of David Cecil’s will, in which he mentions his wife, Jane or Joan, his two sons, Richard Cecil and David Cecil, and his daughter, Joan Cecil, see TNA PROB 11/29/71, and ‘Sir David Cecil’s Will’, supra.

In the two versions of his will, David Cecil leaves bequests to his unmarried daughter, Joan Cecil, and states that his current wife is her ‘natural mother’. He does not make the same statement with respect to either of his sons, Richard Cecil and David Cecil, and it seems likely they were his sons by his first wife, Agnes, and that therefore the testator’s grandmother was David Cecil’s first wife, Agnes.

Joan Cecil married Edmund Browne of Stamford. See the Browne pedigree in Corner, George R., ‘Robert Browne’, in Tymms, Samuel, ed., The East Anglian, Vol. I, (Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms, 1864), pp. 180-2 at: GoogleBooks

Through his aunt, Joan Cecil Browne, Lord Burghley was distantly related to the playwright, John Lyly.

• Browne pedigree in Corner, George R., ‘Robert Browne’, in Tymms, Samuel, ed., The East Anglian, Vol. I, (Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms, 1864), pp. 180-2 GoogleBooks