George Saunders

Notes

From http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-68_ff_273-6.pdf

George Saunders was murdered on 25 March 1573 by Oxford’s former servant, George Browne. The murder was the subject of a pamphlet by Oxford’s uncle, Arthur Golding (1535/6-1606), Brief Discourse of the Late Murther of Master George Saunders, and an anonymous play, A Warning for Fair Women, performed by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
In his will the testator also mentions the four children (Walter Saunders, Elizabeth Saunders, Thomas Saunders and George Saunders), of his late brother, George Saunders, and Anne (nee Newdigate) Saunders. Anne (nee Newdigate) Saunders was hanged for the murder, as were George Browne, Anne Drury, and Roger Clement.
For the identification of the testator’s sister-in-law, wife of the murdered George Saunders, as Anne Newdigate, the daughter of John Newdigate (1514 – 16 August 1565), of Harefield, Middlesex, see Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., 2011, Vol. II, p. 453, and the Saunders pedigree in Howard, Joseph Jackson and George John Armytage, eds., The Visitation of London in the Year 1568, (London: Harleian Society, 1869), p. 34 at: https://archive.org/details/visitationoflond00cook/page/34
For Anne (nee Newdigate) Saunders, see also the Newdigate pedigree which states that Anne Newdigate married George Saunders at Harefield on 10 February 1559/60, and that she was administratrix to her uncle, Anthony Newdigate, 12 July 1568. See Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed., Visitation of England and Wales, Vol. 7, (1907), p. 36 at: https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl28howa/page/36
See also Joseph H. Marshburn, ‘ “A Cruell Murder Done In Kent” and Its LiteraryManifestations,’ Studies in Philology 46, (1949), pp. 131-40.
See also Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia, (London: E.J. Francis & Co., 1878), p. 309, which references letters between the Lord Mayor of London and Anne (nee Stanhope) Seymour (c.1510-1587), Duchess of Somerset, in which the Duchess states that the custody of Elizabeth Saunders, the daughter and orphan of George Saunders, deceased, had been committed to the custody of her uncle, Francis Newdigate (1519-1582), the Duchess’ late husband.
See also the will of Francis Newdigate (1519-1582), TNA PROB 11/65/321, in which he requests that the Duchess ‘do see my niece, Bess Saunders, brought up and bestowed’, and the History of Parliament entry at:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ne... 1519-82

References

• The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux ... edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, Sir George John Armytage. “Saunders. Page 34. GoogleBooks
• The Tudor Murder Files By James Moore. “A lust that led to double murder, 1573.” Google books