Edward Lewknor, MP

LEWKNOR, Edward (1516/17-56), of Kingston Buci, Suss.

• Family and Education
• b. 1516/17, 1st son of Edward Lewknor of Kingston Buci by Margaret, daughter of Roger Copley of Roughey, Sussex and Gatton, Surrey
• m. by 1542, Dorothy, daughter of Robert Wroth of Durants, Enfield, Middlesex, 3 sons including Edward†, 6 daughters
• Succeeded father 7 July 1528.[1]

Offices Held

• Justice of the Peace for Sussex 1554-d.;
• Commissioner of sewers, 1554, 1555.[2]

Biography

Edward Lewknor came of a Sussex family which had provided many Members of 15th-century Parliaments, one of them his grandfather. On his father’s death in 1528 Lewknor was committed to his mother’s custody but by 1535 he had become the ward of Robert Wroth. Wroth may have sent him with his own son Thomas Wroth to Gray’s Inn. Lewknor’s father and grandfather had served the Lords la Warr, and his mother’s sister had married the 8th Lord, but if he took service it appears to have been with the 3rd Duke of Norfolk; he was probably the ‘master Lewkenor’, a member of Norfolk’s household, who in December 1545 was committed to the Fleet with Thomas Hussey I, the duke’s treasurer, after the two had fought one another near the palace of Westminster. Hussey was a Member of the Parliament then in session and it is possible that Lewknor also sat in it; he could have been nominated by the duke for one of the several Sussex boroughs whose Members on this occasion are unknown.[3]

The fall of Norfolk did not harm Lewknor, who not only acquired some of the duke’s forfeited lands in Sussex but also established himself at the court of Edward VI, although no evidence has been found of his being groom porter there as is often said. In March 1551 both 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. He could thus probably have relied on official support for his election at Horsham early in 1553, although this is sufficiently explained by his own local standing and his marriage-link with John Michell II, who was to succeed him as Member for the borough. He evidently did nothing in the summer of 1553 to compromise himself with Mary, for he was brought on to the Sussex bench early in 1554 and it was as one of the Queen’s servants that he was lent a corslet from the Tower armoury at the time of Wyatt’s rebellion.[4]

Two years later Lewknor was himself caught in the web of treason. As the brother-in-law of the exile Thomas Wroth he was doubtless in touch with dissidents. On 1 Feb. 1556 he and William West, the disabled heir of the 9th Lord la Warr, were informed by Henry Peckham of the conspiracy being hatched by Sir Henry Dudley and asked to procure a copy of Henry VIII’s will as proof of the Queen’s ineligibility to wear the crown; this Lewknor did, sending the document to West’s house in St. Dunstan’s, Farringdon Without, where it was handed over to Peckham. He was also said to have had meetings with sympathisers 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 6 June 1556 Lewknor was taken to the Tower and on 15 June he was tried at Guildhall and sentenced to death for treason. He was among those whose execution was deferred, and he would probably have been pardoned but for his death on 6 Sept. in the Tower, where for several weeks his wife and one of his daughters had been lodged with him ‘for his better comfort’. The lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Henry Bedingfield (with whom he had sat in the Commons), reported that he had died without the sacrament but had asked the Queen to forgive him and to spare his wife and children. This Mary did to the extent of speedily restoring to Dorothy Lewknor the manors of Hamsey and Kingston Buci, although not all the movable property was returned: thus the moiety of a ship, the Bark of Shoreham, was sold to a Household servant. Lewknor’s heir Edward was restored in blood in March 1559 and was to become a leading Puritan Member of seven Elizabethan Parliaments.[5]

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558

• Author: R. J.W. Swales
• Notes
• 1. Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s death. Suss. Arch. Colls. iii. 92-102; Suss. Rec. Soc. xiv. 142.
• 2. CPR, 1553-4, pp. 24, 37; 1554-5, p. 111.
• 3. LP Hen. VIII, vi; PCC 28 Maynwaryng, 39 Porch, 36 Hogen; APC, i. 289.
• 4. Suss. Arch. Colls. iii. 89; CPR, 1553, p. 102; SP10/19/61; 12/1/15; Suss. Rec. Soc. xxxvi. 106; City of London RO, Guildhall, rep. 12(1), f. 209v.
• 5. CPR, 1555-7, pp. 451, 531, 539; SP11/8/68; E. H. Harbison, Rival Ambassadors at Ct. of Q. Mary, 198; D. M. Loades, Two Tudor Conspiracies, 208 and n, 228, 232-3, 236; E101/63/20; HMC 3rd Rep. 239; Harl. 608, f. 70v.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/le... ______________________
• Edward Lewknor, Esq., Burgess of Horsham1,2
• M, #154639, b. circa 1518, d. 6 September 1556
• Father Edward Lewknor, Esq.3 b. c 1490, d. 7 Jul 1528
• Mother Margaret Copley3 b. c 1481, d. a 1550
• Edward Lewknor, Esq., Burgess of Horsham was born circa 1518 at of Kingston Bowsey, Kingston by the Sea, Sussex, England.1 He married Dorothy Wrothe, daughter of Robert Wrothe, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Jane Haute, before 1542; They had 4 sons (Sir Edward; Thomas, Gent; Stephen; & William) & 5 daughters (Leverest (Lucrece), wife of William Jackson; Anne; Mary, wife of Matthew Machell, Gent; Dorothy, wife of Benjamin Pellatt, Esq; & Elizabeth).1,2 Edward Lewknor, Esq., Burgess of Horsham died on 6 September 1556 at Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England.1
• Family Dorothy Wrothe b. c 1522
• Citations
• 1.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 365.
• 2.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 400.
• 3.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 364.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5149.htm#... ______________________
• LEWKNOR, Edward (1542-1605), of Kingston Buci, Suss. Denham Hall, Suff.
• b. 1542, 1st s. of Edward Lewknor† of Kingston Buci. by Dorothy, da. of Robert Wroth† of Durants in Enfield, Mdx. educ.St. John’s, Camb. 1559, BA 1561, fellow 1561-3; M. Temple 1562. m. Susan, da. of Thomas Heigham of Higham Hall, Suff., 1s. suc. fa. 1556. Kntd. May 1603.3
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/le... ________________________

16. EDWARD LEWKNOR, of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex, Groom Porter to King Edward VI and Queen Mary I, Burgess (M.P.) for Horsham, Sussex, 1553, son and heir, born about 1518 (aged 11 in 1529). He was a legatee in the 1527 will of his father. He married before 1542 DOROTHY WROTH, daughter of Robert Wroth, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex, by Jane, daughter of Thomas Haute, Knt. They had four sons, Edward, Knt., Thomas, Stephen, and William, and five daughters, Leverest [Lucrece?] (wife of William Jackson), Anne, Mary, Dorothy (wife of Benjamin Pellatt, Esq.), and Elizabeth.

On his mother’s death, he took possession of the manor of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex. 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 estate called New Park (in Lower Beeding), Sussex by the king. In Feb. 1556 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 queen‘s ineligibility to wear the crown. Lewknor sent the document to West’s house in St. Dunstan’s, Farringdon 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 6 June 1556 he was taken to the Tower of London and on 15 June following he was tried at Guildhall and sentenced to death for treason.

EDWARD LEWKNOR died a prisoner in the Tower of London 6 Sept. 1556. Following his attainder in 1556, the Crown granted the manors of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex to his widow, Dorothy. She and his brother, Anthony Lewknor, appear to have broken the entail on the manor of Kingston Bowsey, Sussex in 1559. Dorothy left a will dated 1587, proved 26 Aug. 1589 (P.C.C. 68 Leicester).

References:

• Strype Eccl. Mems. 3(1) (1822):
• 494. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 2 (1848):
• 469–470 (Lewknor pedigree). Nichols Diary of Henry Machyn (Camden Soc. 42) (1848):
• 108, 114. Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850):
• 89–102. Elwes Hist. of the Castles, Mansions & Manors of Western Sussex (1876):
• 130–131. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905):
• 25–30 (Lewknor pedigree: “Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsey. = Dorathey d. of Sr Rob. Wroth of Enffeild knight.”). English Rpts. 7 (1901):
• 898–899. Denham Parish Regs.:
• 1539–1850 (1904):
• 86–93, 198–219. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933):
• 148–162. Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955):
• 177–178. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980):
• 132–138; 6(3) (1987):
• 34–37; 7 (1940):
• 83–87. Bindoff House of Commons 1509–1558 2 (1982):
• 528–529 (biog. of Edward Lewknor).

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The Groom-Porter was an office at the royal court of the kings of England, who had 'the Inspection of the King's Lodgings, and takes care that they are provided with Tables, Chairs, Firing, &c. As also to provide Cards, Dice, &c. when there is playing at Court: To decide Disputes which arise in Gaming'. He was also responsible for 'oversight of common Billiards Tables, common Bowling Grounds, Dicing Houses, Gaming Houses and Common tennis Courts and power of Licensing the same within the Citys of London and Westminster or Borough of Southwark.[1] Eventually, the term became used for the owner, or operator of a gaming hall.[2]

The title may originally have referred to the keeper of the king's furnishings in his bedchamber. It was a position in the royal household, and therefore had certain privileges associated with it.[3]

In 1702 the remuneration was rasied to £680 per year, which it remained until it was abolished with other sinecure offices at court in 1782.

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Edward Lewknor Birth: circa 1518 Kingston Bowsey, Sussex, England Death: September 6, 1556 (38) London, United Kingdom Immediate Family: Hide Show

Son of Edward Lewknor and Margaret Lewknor Husband of Dorothy Wroth and Dorothy Lewknor Father of Mary Machell, Edward Lewknor, Stephen Lewknor, Thomas Lewknor, William Lewknor and 5 others, Leverest Jackson (Lewknor), Elizabeth Lewknor, Dorothy Pellat, Anne Lewknor and First Name Last Name « less Brother of Eleanor Lewknor

16. EDWARD LEWKNOR, of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex, Groom Porter to King Edward VI and Queen Mary I, Burgess (M.P.) for Horsham, Sussex, 1553, son and heir, born about 1518 (aged 11 in 1529). He was a legatee in the 1527 will of his father. He married before 1542 DOROTHY WROTH, daughter of Robert Wroth, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex, by Jane, daughter of Thomas Haute, Knt. They had four sons, Edward, Knt., Thomas, Stephen, and William, and five daughters, Leverest [Lucrece?] (wife of William Jackson), Anne, Mary, Dorothy (wife of Benjamin Pellatt, Esq.), and Elizabeth. On his mother’s death, he took possession of the manor of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex. 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 estate called New Park (in Lower Beeding), Sussex by the king. In Feb. 1556 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 queen‘s ineligibility to wear the crown. Lewknor sent the document to West’s house in St. Dunstan’s, Farringdon 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 6 June 1556 he was taken to the Tower of London and on 15 June following he was tried at Guildhall and sentenced to death for treason. EDWARD LEWKNOR died a prisoner in the Tower of London 6 Sept.

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1556. Following his attainder in 1556, the Crown granted the manors of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex to his widow, Dorothy. She and his brother, Anthony Lewknor, appear to have broken the entail on the manor of Kingston Bowsey, Sussex in 1559. Dorothy left a will dated 1587, proved 26 Aug. 1589 (P.C.C. 68 Leicester).

Strype Eccl. Mems. 3(1) (1822): 494. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 2 (1848): 469–470 (Lewknor pedigree). Nichols Diary of Henry Machyn (Camden Soc. 42) (1848): 108, 114. Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89–102. Elwes Hist. of the Castles, Mansions & Manors of Western Sussex (1876): 130–131. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25–30 (Lewknor pedigree: “Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsey. = Dorathey d. of Sr Rob. Wroth of Enffeild knight.”). English Rpts. 7 (1901): 898–899. Denham Parish Regs.: 1539–1850 (1904): 86–93, 198–219. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148–162. Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 177–178. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 132–138; 6(3) (1987): 34–37; 7 (1940): 83–87. Bindoff House of Commons 1509–1558 2 (1982): 528–529 (biog. of Edward Lewknor).

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16. EDWARD LEWKNOR, of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex, Groom Porter to King Edward VI and Queen Mary I, Burgess (M.P.) for Horsham, Sussex, 1553, son and heir, born about 1518 (aged 11 in 1529). He was a legatee in the 1527 will of his father. He married before 1542 DOROTHY WROTH, daughter of Robert Wroth, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex, by Jane, daughter of Thomas Haute, Knt. They had four sons, Edward, Knt., Thomas, Stephen, and William, and five daughters, Leverest [Lucrece?] (wife of William Jackson), Anne, Mary, Dorothy (wife of Benjamin Pellatt, Esq.), and Elizabeth. On his mother’s death, he took possession of the manor of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex. 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 estate called New Park (in Lower Beeding), Sussex by the king. In Feb. 1556 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 queen‘s ineligibility to wear the crown. Lewknor sent the document to West’s house in St. Dunstan’s, Farringdon 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 6 June 1556 he was taken to the Tower of London and on 15 June following he was tried at Guildhall and sentenced to death for treason. EDWARD LEWKNOR died a prisoner in the Tower of London 6 Sept.

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He was among those whose execution was deferred, and he would probably have been pardoned but for his death on 6 September in the Tower, where for several weeks his wife and one of his daughters had been lodged with him 'for his better comfort'. The lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Henry Bedingfield (with whom he had sat in the Commons), reported that he had died without the sacrament but had asked the Queen to forgive him and to spare his wife and children. This Mary did to the extent of speedily restoring to Dorothy Lewknor the manors of Hamsey and Kingston Buci, although not all the movable property was returned: thus the moiety of a ship, the Bark of Shoreham, was sold to a Household servant. Lewknor's heir Edward was restored in blood in March 1559 and was to become a leading Puritan Member of seven Elizabethan Parliaments.

1556. Following his attainder in 1556, the Crown granted the manors of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea) and Hamsey, Sussex to his widow, Dorothy. She and his brother, Anthony Lewknor, appear to have broken the entail on the manor of Kingston Bowsey, Sussex in 1559. Dorothy left a will dated 1587, proved 26 Aug. 1589 (P.C.C. 68 Leicester).

Strype Eccl. Mems. 3(1) (1822): 494. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 2 (1848): 469–470 (Lewknor pedigree). Nichols Diary of Henry Machyn (Camden Soc. 42) (1848): 108, 114. Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89–102. Elwes Hist. of the Castles, Mansions & Manors of Western Sussex (1876): 130–131. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25–30 (Lewknor pedigree: “Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsey. = Dorathey d. of Sr Rob. Wroth of Enffeild knight.”). English Rpts. 7 (1901): 898–899. Denham Parish Regs.: 1539–1850 (1904): 86–93, 198–219. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148–162. Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 177–178. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 132–138; 6(3) (1987): 34–37; 7 (1940): 83–87. Bindoff House of Commons 1509–1558 2 (1982): 528–529 (biog. of Edward Lewknor).

most of the above is from

http://books.google.com/books?id=1_cGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA230&dq=Edward+Le...

Also

The Groom-Porter was an office at the royal court of the kings of England, who had 'the Inspection of the King's Lodgings, and takes care that they are provided with Tables, Chairs, Firing, &c. As also to provide Cards, Dice, &c. when there is playing at Court: To decide Disputes which arise in Gaming'. He was also responsible for 'oversight of common Billiards Tables, common Bowling Grounds, Dicing Houses, Gaming Houses and Common tennis Courts and power of Licensing the same within the Citys of London and Westminster or Borough of Southwark.[1] Eventually, the term became used for the owner, or operator of a gaming hall.[2]

The title may originally have referred to the keeper of the king's furnishings in his bedchamber. It was a position in the royal household, and therefore had certain privileges associated with it.[3]

In 1702 the remuneration was rasied to £680 per year, which it remained until it was abolished with other sinecure offices at court in 1782.[

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