Edward Lewknor, II

MARGARET COPLEY, married EDWARD LEWKNOR, Esq., of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Ham, Hamsey, and Parham, Sussex, son and heir of Edward Lewknor, Esq., of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex, Gentleman Usher to Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, by his 1st wife, Margaret. They had two sons, Edward and Anthony, and three daughters, Eleanor (wife of Giles Saint Barbe), Mary (wife of John Michell), and Barbara (wife of John Dawtrey, Knt.). He was a legatee in the 1522 will of his father. In 1524 he was assessed for tax with his nine servants at half the total for Kingston and Southwick together. EDWARD LEWKNOR, Esq., died 7 July 1528. He left a will dated 1 Oct. 1527, proved 7 Nov. 1528 (P.C.C. 39 Porch). In 1537 the manor of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex was settled on his widow, Margaret, for life and an additional 20 years, with remainder in tail male on her younger son, Anthony Lewknor. In 1548 Margaret was the demesne lessee of the manor of King’s Barns (in Upper Beeding), Sussex.

Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 2 (1848): 469–470 (Lewknor pedigree). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89–102. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25–30 (Lewknor pedigree: “Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsey. = Margarett d. of …. Copley.”), 111 (Copley pedigree: “Margarett [Copley] ux. Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bowsey.”). Genealogist n.s. 33 (1917): 74, 79. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148–162. Copley Letters of Sir Thomas Copley (1970): xvi.VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 132–138; 6(3) (1987): 34–37; 7 (1940): 83–87.

Ursula, daughter of Henry St. Barbe, esq. of Ashington, co. Somerset, by Eleanor, daughter of Edward Lewknor, of Trotton in Sussex. She was married first to Richard Worsley, Captain of the Isle of Wight, who died 1565; secondly to Sir Francis Walsingham. She died 1602, and was buried in St. Paul's cathedral with ber second husband. See the pedigree of St. Barbe in Hoare's South Wiltshire, Hundred of Frustfield, p. 10; and a notice in The Herald and Genealogist, 1862, vol. i. p. 78, of a conjoint pedigree of Walsingham and St. Barbe, now in the possession of G. F. St. Barbe, Esq. (1)

Of Kingston Bosey (in Kingston by Sea) nd Hmsey, Sussex, Groom Porter to King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Bugesss (MP) for Horsham, Sussex, 1553, son and heir. He was Legatee in the 1527 will of his father. On his mother's death, he took possession of the manor of Kingston Bowsey. In 1551 the king and Council recommended him for the packership of London, but the City refused on the ground that the yield of the office had been allocated to the poor. In 1553 he was granted the manor of King's Barns (in Upper Beeding) and an esate called New Park (in Lower Beeding) , Sussex by the King. In Feb. 156, he and his cousin, William West, the disabled heir of the 9th Lord la Warre, were informed by Henry Peckham of the conspiracy being hatched by Henry Dudley, Knt. against Queen Mary I, and asked to procure a copy of the will of King Henry VIII as proof of the queeen's ineligiblty to wear the crown. Lewknor sent the document to West's house in St. Dunstan's, Parringdon. Without where it was handed over to Peckham. Lewknor was also said to have had meetings with sympathizers both at his house in Sussex and in London, and more vaguely to have been privy to a plot to kill the Queen during a card game. On June 1556 he was taken to the Tower of London and on June 15, following he ws ried at Guildhill and sentenced to death for treason. Edward Luwknor died a prisoner in the Tower of London September 5.

Sources

1. Wills from Doctors' Commons: A Selection from the Wills of Eminent Persons Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1495-1695, Volume 83 (Google eBook) John Gough Nichols, John Bruce Printed for the Camden Society, 1863 - Wills - 174 pages.  "Sir Francis Walsingham 1590." Page 69-71
2. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2. Page 1173