John Anketell

Name: John Anketell Suffix: MP Sex: M Birth: 20 JAN 1597 in of Compton, Wilts Death: 12 APR 1638 Residence: Farrihy, Ireland Occupation: Induced to have sex with his wife?s stepmother. Note: 1 2 3

   3rd son (Vis of London).

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   John Anketell of Farriby (of Compton, Wilts, and Newmarket, Cork). John was a favourite of Melvyn?s. He was accused by Lady Audley of raping her mother Elizabeth [wasn?t her mother Anne?] at the instigation of her husband, Melvyn.

   He came to Fonthill as Castlehaven?s page, progressed to managing some of the estates, and in 1621 represented the family interest as a member of Parliament.

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   Had an only son, John, and three daughters, Elisabeth, Peternell, and Frances.

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   Of Farriby? Can find no reference to such a place.

   Would seem it is Farrihy, in the parish of Killagholehane, Limerick.

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   Allegedly married Lucy without consent.

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   ?The McGillycuddy papers : a selection from the family archives of "the McGillycuddy of the Reeks" : with an introductory memoir : being a contribution to the history of the county of Kerry?, 1867, includes:

   MGillycuddys bond to John Anketell, of Farrihy.

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   I have assumed this is the John Anketell born 20 Jan 1597 Of Compton, Wiltshire, England, parents John ANKETELL & Phillippa GRIGG, given in IGI?

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   Note from C. Herrup's book, reviewed by D. Wooton: "John Anktill was the younger son of "decayed" genteel stock from Dorsetshire. He came to Fonthill as Castlehaven's page, progressed to managing some of the estates, and in 1621, represented the family interest as a member of Parliament. Allegedly without the Earl's consent, he married Castlehaven's eldest daughter"

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   Note from Rictor Norton's essay - "...Amptil (or Antill in some accounts) sometimes also participated in these odd nuptial rites, though he was usually busy elsewhere. Amptil had originally been a beggar and a vagabond, until Sir Henry Smith picked him up and made him his footman. Castlehaven eventually acquired Amptil as his personal page, and found his services so agreeable that he made him his master of the stables. For thus tending his horses, Castlehaven gave Amptil a salary of £500 per year, compared with a yearly allowance of only £100 given to his own son James. James was furious when Castlehaven arranged for Amptil to marry his daughter by his first marriage, giving Amptil a dowry of £7,000. As will appear throughout the tale, Castlehaven was a kind master, though an unkind father and a vicious husband.?

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   The two servants who were proved to have had intercourse with Lady Castlehaven were a footman named Giles Broadway and a page named Ampthill, who married a daughter of Lord Castlehaven by his first marriage.

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   She also deposed that her husband 'delighted to see the act done, and made Ampthill to come into bed with them, and lie with her whilst he might see it: and she cried out to save herself. This testimony was corroborated by Ampthill and also by Broadway, who swore that while he (Broadway) was ravishing Lady Castlehaven, the earl amused himself with Broadway 'using his body as the body of a woman, but never pierced it, only emitted between his thighs.

   (The other love: an historical and contemporary survey of ... Harford Montgomery Hyde - 1970.)

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   THE "ANKETILL" FAMILY:

   John Anketell, of Newmarket, co. Cork, d. 12 April, 1638. He Lucia, dau. of Mervin, Earl of Castlehaven.

   (The Irish And Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell Came to ... John O'Hart. 1884. Page 28.)

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   The countess of Castlehaven's examination:

   That shortly after the earl married her, via. the first or second night, Amptil came to the bed's side, while (he and her husband were in bed, and the lord Audley spake lasciviously to her, and told her, ' That now her body was , his; and that if she loved him she must love Amptil: and that if she lay with any other man wiht his consent, it was not her fault but his, and that if it was his will to have it so, she muts obey and do it.? - That he attempted to draw her to lie with his serbvant Skipwith...

   (A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high ..., Volume 3.)

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   Two of the servants involved, Laurence Fitz Patrick and Giles Browning or Broadway, were executed as well as Castlehaven.Page: Touchet section not O?Grady

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Father: John Anketell b: ABT 1555 in St Peter?s, Shaftesbury, Dorset Mother: Philippa Grigg b: ABT 1569

Marriage 1 Lucy Tuchet

   Married: ABT 1623 in Newmarket, co Cork, Ireland 4

Children

   Has Children Frances Anketell

Sources:

   Type: Book

   Periodical: A House in Gross Disorder

   Author: Cynthia Harrup

   Date: 1999

   Type: Web Site

   Author: Tom Paterson

   URL: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/tom.paterson/ogrady1.htm

   Type: Book

   Periodical: A House in Gross Disorder

   Author: Cynthia Herrup

   Text: IGI 

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