Griffith Hampden, MP

• HAMPDEN, Griffith (1543-91), of Great Hampden, Bucks.
• b. 1543, 1st s. of John Hampden of Great Hampden by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Ferrers. educ. I. Temple 1560. m. (?1) Elizabeth, s.p.; (2) 30 Nov. 1564, Anne, (d.1594), da. and h. of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, 2 or 3s. inc. William 5da. suc. fa. 7 Dec. 1558.1
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Bucks. from c.1575, q. by 1583, sheriff 1576-7.
• The wardship of Griffith Hampden was granted on 15 June 1559 to Robert Keilway. He had inherited most of his estates through his father from Sir John Hampden, head of the senior branch of the family. The property was almost all in Buckinghamshire, and was valued at a survey made in 1589 at £112 4s.6d. His marriage brought him new wealth and status: ‘by the good means of my well beloved wife Anne Hampden and by the help of her good friends, not only myself hath been, but all my posterity . . . may be most highly advanced and greatly enriched’.
• He seems, however, to have remained in the ranks of the middling gentry, and there are few references to him in national records, though he was probably busy in local affairs. Although his name is not mentioned in the parliamentary journals, he may have attended the subsidy committee to which all the knights of the shire were appointed on 24 Feb. 1585.
• He made his will on 27 Aug. 1591 when ‘in perfect health both of body and mind’. By it he left half his household stuff to his wife, and all his cattle and sheep at half price, and she was to have the use of the remaining plate and household stuff during the minority of their son. Dowries of 1,000 marks and £500 were left to his two unmarried daughters. He seems to have made little provision for his younger son. As executors he appointed his wife and elder son, William: all his lands were eventually to revert to William. Hampden died that October or November at Hampden, where he was buried 18 Nov. He was the grandfather of both John Hampden, the ‘Patriot’, and of Edmund Waller, the poet.2
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• Griffith Hampden married Anne Cave.
• Child of Griffith Hampden and Anne Cave
  • William Hampden+1 b. 5 Nov 1570
• Citations
• [S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p30456.htm#i304554 _________________________
• Elizabeth FERRERS
• Born: ABT 1519, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire England
• Father: Edward FERRERS (Sir)
• Mother: Constance BROME
• Married: John HAMPDEN (d. 1565) (son of William Hampden and Audrey ?)
• Children:
  • 1. Griffith HAMPDEN (b. 1543 - d. 27 Oct 1591) (m. Anne Cave)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FERRERS.htm#Elizabeth FERRERS4 ____________
• Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley ..., Volume 1 By Robert Edmond Chester Waters
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• III. ANTHONY CAVE, the second son of Richard Cave Esq. of Stanford by his second wife, was bred by his uncle William Saxby to the trade of a merchant of the Staple at Calais, but we learn from his father's letter to Cromwell (4), that in 1528 he was seeking some employment or provision which would enable him to settle in England. Cromwell procured for him a lease of Tickford Abbey in Bucks from Cardinal Wolsey, and Anthony established himself in London as a merchant, where he was free of the Drapers' Company. He acquired great wealth, which he chiefly invested in the purchase of land in Bucks, Beds, and Northamptonshire. His chief purchase was from the Crown in 1545, when Henry VIII. granted to him the Manor of Drayton near Daventry and the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes in Bucks, with other possessions of the dissolved Abbey of Tickford, which had formed part of Wolsey's endowment of the King's College at Oxford. (21) Cave's petition for the grant of Chicheley is dated 15th Sept. 1545, and sets forth that he was already in actual possession of the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes as lessee for a term of 70 years at the rent of 33l. 17s. 11 1/2d. per annum under a crown lease dated 30th April 1541, and he proffered for the purchase of the fee simple 632l. 5s., which was computed to be twenty years' purchase of the net annual value. These terms were not accepted, but on 4th Dec. 1545 the King granted to Anthony Cave Esq. of Tickford by letters patent, in consideration of 788l. 18s. 9d., the Manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes, with the Rectory and Advowson of Chicheley, to be held by .... etc.
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• Anthony Cave married Elizabeth Lovett, the eldest daughter of Thomas Lovett Esq. IV. of Astwell, by Anne Danvers of Dauntsey. She was the niece of the wife of Sir William Chester, and this connexion evidently led to the subsequent marriage of her eldest daughter Judith to William Chester. They had issue a son, who died in childhood, and five daughters, of whom one died before 31st May 1555, when Anthony Cave made his Will. It was found by the inquest post mortem held at Newport Pagnel on 13th March 1558-9, that Anthony Cave died on the 9th September 1558, and that his next heirs were his four daughters : Judith Cave, who was aged 16 on 15th November 1558 ; Anne Cave,
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• aged 14 on 24th February 1558-9; Martha Cave, aged 13 on 24th February 1558-9; and Mary Cave, aged 2 on 1st November 1558. (21) What became of these daughters will be fully told in the next chapter.
• Anthony Cave was buried in the north aisle of Chicheley church as he directed by his Will, and the place of his interment was marked by a marble slab bearing brass effigies of a man in armour, and his wife, with this inscription :
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• Some eighteen years afterwards his widow, who had in the mean while buried two subsequent husbands, became mindful of the husband of her youth, and erected a stately monument to the memory of Anthony Cave, which is affixed to the wall of the north aisle. .... etc.
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• ELIZABETH, the widow of Anthony Cave, held in jointure the Manor and Mansion of Chicheley, and soon married again. Her second husband was John Newdi-
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• gate Esq. of Harefield in Middlesex, M.P. for that county. He was a widower, and (by a common arrangement of those days) his son and heir John, by his first wife, married Martha Cave the daughter of his second wife. He died about 1565, and his widow Elizabeth married thirdly at Chicheley,* on 7th July 1566, Richard Weston Esq., a Judge of Common Pleas. She was his third wife, and her youngest daughter Mary Cave married Jerome Weston, his son and heir by his first wife. Richard Weston rose to eminence at the Bar in the reign of Queen Mary, and purchased in 1554 the Manor of Skreens in the parish of Roxwell, in his native county of Essex. (24) He was made Solicitor-General 20th November 1557, and a Judge of Common Pleas 16th October 1559. (25) He had no issue by his third marriage, and died 6th July 1572.
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• .... She died in the summer of this year, and was buried at Chicheley on 21st August 1577.*
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• I NOW proceed to give some account of the sisters of Judith Chester the heiress of Chicheley, for her father Anthony Cave left at his death in 1558 four daughters and coheirs, of whom Judith was the eldest and his principal heir. The others were named Anne, Martha, and Mary. They were all unmarried in 1558, and there was a great difference in their ages, for Judith was born on the 15th Nov. 1542, and was only twenty months older than Anne, whilst Mary was nearly fourteen years younger. They all married persons of some consideration, and had children. Anne married Griffith Hampden Esq., Martha married John Newdigate Esq., and Mary married Sir Jerome Weston Kt.
• ANNE CAVE, the second daughter of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, was born on 24th Feb. 1544-5. her godmother was Mrs. Lovett of Strixton, the widow of Thomas Lovett Esq. III of Astwell (her mother's grandfather), who, by her will in 1556, bequeathed 'a heifer' to her goddaughter (see p. 160). Anne married Griffith Hampden Esq. of Great Hampden, whom Queen Elizabeth honoured with a visit at Hampden in 1563, in her progress through Buckinghamshire, (1) He was High Sheriff of Bucks in 1575, and was returned to Parliament in 1585 as one of the knights of the shire. He died 27th Oct. 1591, and was buried at Great Hampden on the 18th Nov. following. (2)
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• His widow Anne Hampden died 31st Dec. 1593, and was buried at Great Hampden 9th Jan. 1593-4.
• Griffith and Anne Hampden had issue three sons and five daughters, who were all born and baptized at Great Hampden. (2)
• I. WILLIAM, their son and heir.
• II. EDMUND HAMPDEN was admitted a student of the Inner Temple in 1599,(3) and inherited his father's estate of Prestwood in Great Missenden. He was knighted by James I., and married Elinor, widow of Baldwin Bernard Esq. of Abington, Northants, in whose right he was lord of the manor of Abington. He died there 21st Dec. 1627, and left issue. (4)
• III. JOHN was baptized 2d Nov. 1578, was buried on the 12th Feb. following.
• I. DOROTHEA was baptized 26th March 1569, and married 24th Oct. 1587 (2) Robert Hatley Esq. of Bedfordshire, by whom she had issue.
• II. ELIZABETH, married in 1592 Sir Jerome Horsey Kt., who was knighted at Whitehall 23d July 1603, (5) and was Sheriff of Bucks in 1611. Their son and heir Jerome was baptized at Great Hampden 25th Jan. 1593-4.
• III. RUTH was baptized 15th May 1575, and married at St. Dunstan's in the West London, 21st Jan. 1587-8, Edward Oglethorpe Esq. (6) She married, secondly, Sir Philip Scudamore Kt., and thirdly, Henry Leigh Esq. of Rushall, who was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1622, and was buried at Rushall on 19th Dec. 1630.
• IV. MARY, baptized 9th July 1576.
• V. ANNE HAMPDEN was baptized 10th Dec. 1589, and married Robert Waller Esq. of Coleshill Bucks, the cousin german of Elizabeth Boteler, the wife of the first Sir Anthony Chester. He therefore was related to Lady Chester in precisely the same degree as his wife was related to Sir Anthony. He was buried at Beaconsfield on 2d Sept. 1616, and his Will shows that he left four sons.
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References

1. https://www.johnhampden.org/about-john-hampden/genealogy/?ancestor=670