Mary Hales

Biography

Mary Harper Her parents were Sir Richard Morison, MP or George Harper of Kent, and Lucy Peckham.

Mary married Bartholomew Hales. Together they had the following children: Sir Bartholomew Hales, of Snitterfield.

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In 1545 Henry VIII granted the manor to Richard Moryson. In September of the next year Moryson conveyed the manor to John Hales for regrant to himself for one month and then to Lucy Harper for life, with contingent remainders to her various children. One of these children, Mary, was presumably the 'Mary daughter of George Harper of Kent' who married Bartholomew Hales, younger brother of John Hales, as Bartholomew and Mary Hales made a settlement of the manor in 1568, and he died seised thereof in 1599. His son Sir Bartholomew Hales died in 1626 seised not only of the manor of Snitterfield but also of 'a messuage called the manor of Luscombe in Snitterfield', and of lands called Comyns Field, Pardies Hill, and Hollow Meadow, 'reputed to be the manor of Comyns'. No other reference to Comyns as a manor is known, but the manor of LUSCOMBE had been bought by Sir Bartholomew from Richard Woodwarde and Frances, and John Woodwarde and Alice in 1602, and from this date is included in all conveyances of Snitterfield. Sir Bartholomew settled Snitterfield on his wife Catherine for life, with remainder to a cousin Stephen Hales. Stephen's son Charles held it in 1639, and his son Stephen, a minor, in 1640. He was knighted in 1661, married Elizabeth daughter of Sir James Hales, and died in 1668 without issue. His widow at once sold the manor to Edmund Page, who was apparently acting for Thomas Coventry, who later became Earl of Coventry and died in 1699. It descended in this family until 1816, when George, Earl of Coventry, sold it to Robert Phillips, after which time the manor follows the descent of Wolverton (q.v.), the present lords being the trustees of Lady Trevelyan.

Family Crest Hales. Gules three arrows or feathered argent.

In 1535 the rectory of Snitterfield was farmed by the canons of St. Sepulchre's at £7, from which a payment of 3s. 4d. was made to the vicar. After the dissolution of the priory it was granted in June 1553 to Kenelm, Clement, and John Throckmorton. By 1599 one moiety of the rectory had come to Richard Woodwarde and Frances his wife, who sold it to Bartholomew Hales; he in 1619 conveyed it to Richard Baker. The other moiety was evidently divided, as in 1574 Adrian Gylbert conveyed ¼ of the rectory to Edward Sheldon. Ambrose Sheldon sold this quarter in 1621 to Richard Catesby, who in 1640 settled it on Eleanor wife of his son Richard for life with remainder to her son William. The later descent of these fractions is obscure.

Charity:

Sir Stephen Hales by will in 1668 gave £100 to the use of the poor. The legacy was invested in the purchase of a meadow containing 2 acres or thereabouts in Alveston. The land is now let on a yearly tenancy at a rent of £4 10s., which is distributed to the poor by two trustees appointed by the parish council.

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp167-172#fnn67

John Bates, who was executed for the gun powder plot, estate was confiscated and granted to Bartholomew Hales, then Lord of Snitterfield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snitterfield Warwickshire People and Places, John Burman, 1936

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Mary, married to Barth Hales, Esq.

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Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Morrison_(ambassador)

By his mistress Lucy Peckham (d. 31 July 1552), the daughter of Thomas Peckham, and wife of Sir George Harper (d. 12 December 1558), Richard Morrison had a son and three daughters. According to the inquisition post mortem taken 18 October 1560, these children were Marcellus Harper (d. 1 February 1559); Frances, who married William Patrickson, gentleman; Mary, who married Bartholomew Hales, gentleman, brother of John Hales; and Anne, who died unmarried.[12]

• 12. 'Inquisitions: 2 Elizabeth I (1559-60)', in Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the City of London: Part 1, ed. G S Fry (London, 1896), pp. 191-211. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/abstract/no1/pp... [accessed 11 July 2023].