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- PROWSE, Richard (d.1607), of Exeter, Devon.
- s. of Richard Prowse by Joan, wid. of Thomas ?Pole. m. (1) da.; of one Vincent of Exeter, 1da.; (2) Anne Vaughan, wid. of Henry Lok, mercer of London, at least 2s.
- Offices Held
- Bailiff, Exeter 1563, receiver of revenues 1575, sheriff 1576, alderman 1579, mayor 1578, 1589, 1600.
- Prowse was a puritan draper or tailor whose second wife was a correspondent of John Knox. In 1565, at the suit of ‘divers gentlemen of special honour and credit’ in the county, he was granted permission to have a tennis court and bowling alleys at Exeter. On friendly terms with the Carews, Peryams and Strodes, he represented the city once in Parliament, when the MPs attended to matters concerning the salmon from the haven, a grant of the impost of wines, the mustering of horses in Exeter, and a lease of the fee farm of the manor of Ottery. Prowse was given charge of a bill introduced by his relation Richard Carew, imposing conditions for the manufacture of Devon and Cornish cloth, 15 Mar. 1584, and took charge of a bill about apprentices, 23 Mar. 1584, in which it is possible that he made an attempt to have provisos inserted on the city’s behalf. On 27 Nov. 1584 he was put on the committee of the bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day. The Exeter merchant adventurers paid Prowse £34s. ‘which he hath laid out at the said Parliament time about the suit of the Company’.
- Apart from property (including a brewhouse) at Exeter, valued at £10 for the subsidy of 1576, Prowse held land at Cullompton, Devon and at Staverton, near Totnes. He died in 1607, leaving bequests to the poor at various places including Broadhempston, possibly his birthplace, where he had already built an almshouse.
- Roberts thesis; HMC 15th Rep. VII, 145; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 628; Trans. Dev. Assoc. lxi. 209; HMC Exeter, 24; St. Ch. 5/E2/9; W. Cotton, Eliz. Guild Exeter, 61, 74; Exeter City act bk. 4, f. 458; 5, ff. 351, 382; D’Ewes, 333, 363, 368, 371, 372; Devon N. and Q. xxvi. 179; PCC 83 Huddleston; Devon RO, Tingay 1537.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pr... ________________
- Anne Locke (Lock, Lok) (1530 – after 1590) was an English poet, translator and Calvinist religious figure.
- Anne Locke was the daughter of Stephen Vaughan, a merchant, royal envoy, and prominent early supporter of the Protestant Reformation. She married first Henry Locke (Lok), a younger son of the mercer William Lok. In 1553 John Knox lived for a period in the Lok household, and in 1557, during the reign of the Catholic Mary Tudor, Anne took two of her children (the younger of whom, a baby girl, died shortly after her arrival) and followed Knox to Geneva, where she translated John Calvin's sermons on Hezekiah from French into English. Henry Locke remained in London for the 18 months that Anne was in Geneva.
- In 1560, after the accession of Elizabeth I, Anne and the young Henry Locke, who would become known as a poet, returned to England, and to her husband. Knox sent Anne reports from Scotland of his reforming endeavours, and she worked to find him support among London merchants. Henry Locke died in 1571, and in 1572 Anne married Edward Dering, who died in 1576. Her third husband was Richard Prowse of Exeter. In 1590 she published a translation of a work of Jean Taffin.[1][2][3][4]
- Scholars now agree[5] that Anne Locke published the first sonnet sequence in English, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner; it comprises 26 sonnets based on Psalm 51. It was added to a 1560 volume of translations of Calvin's sermons on Hezekiah that she dedicated to the Duchess of Suffolk.[6] Anne's sonnets show that she was influenced by both Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.[7]
- Editions
- Kel Morin-Parsons (editor) (1997), Anne Locke. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Anne Locke's Sonnet Sequence with Locke's Epistle
- Susan Felch (editor) (1999), The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock
- Anne's family background was a dense web of relationships involving the Mercers' Company, the court, Marian exiles and notable religious figures. Her father, Stephen Vaughan, was a merchant and diplomatic agent for Henry VIII. His second wife, Anne's stepmother Margery, was the widow of Henry Brinklow, mercer and polemicist.[8] Through his connection to Thomas Cromwell, Stephen Vaughan found a position for Anne's mother, also called Margery, as silkwoman to Anne Boleyn.[9]
- Henry Lok was a mercer and one of many children of the mercer William Lok, who married four times;[10] William Lok was also connected to Cromwell. Anne's sister-in-law, and one of Henry Lok's sisters, was Rose Lok (1526–1613), known as a Protestant autobiographical writer, married to Anthony Hickman.[11] Another of Henry Lok's sisters, Elizabeth Lok, married Richard Hill; both Rose and Elizabeth were Marian exiles. Elizabeth later married Bishop Nicholas Bullingham after his first wife died (1566).[12] Michael Lok was a backer of Martin Frobisher, and married Jane, daughter of Joan Wilkinson, an evangelical associate of Ann Boleyn and her chaplain William Latimer.[13][14]
- From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Locke ____________________
- Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England By Diana Maury Robin .... etc.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ8mdTjxungC&pg=PA219&dq=the+comp...
- Pg.218-219
- Locke, Anne Vaughan (1530-1590)
- English scholar, religious writer, Calvinist
- Anne Vaughan Locke was born into a pious Protestant household in London; her father Steven Vaughan, was a diplomat in the service
- Pg.219
- of King Henry VIII. Although Anne received no formal education, she was taught to read and write and she was particularly learned in theology.
- In her early 1520s Anne married henry Locke, who, like Anne, was committed to Protestant principles. In 1553 Scottish protestant reformer John Knox lived with the Lockes in London before the accession of Catholic Mary Tudor led to his departure for the Continent. Knox, taken with Anne's piety, wrote her several letters from Switzerland and invited her to join the community of Protestants in exile there. In May 1557 Anne accepted Knox's invitation and moved to Geneva with her two small children; her husband joined them later. In Geneva, Ann began translating some of John Calvin's sermons into English. After the death of Queen Mary and the accession of Elizabeth, which made England safer for Protestants, Anne returned to England; in 1560 she published her Sermons of John Calvin and dedicated her work to Catherine, dowager duchess of Suffolk, who had herself been a Protestant in exile.
- Anne's husband, Henry, died in 1571, and she remarried a preacher, Edward Dering. Anne's second husband, ten years younger than herself, was an outspoken and active preacher whose views were initially applauded by the queen but were eventually found too critical of the Church of England. In 1576 Dering died after a brief illness, leaving a strong legacy of Puritan criticism against what he and his circle perceived as Elizabeth' insufficient measures toward Protestant reform.
- In 1583 Anne married again; her third husband was Richard Prowse, a cloth merchant and member of Parliament who, like her first two husbands, demonstrated decidedly Puritan Sympathies. At the end of her life, Anne published a translation from the French of Jean Taffin's religious treatise, Of the markes of the children of God, and of their comfort in afflictions.
- In recent years scholars have attended to the work appended to Locke's translation of Calvin's sermons: A Meditation Of A Penitent Sinner: Written in Maner of A Paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David. This work, a reflection on the healing powers of faith, takes the form of twenty-six sonnets and is particularly notable as the first known sonnet sequence in English. Throughout her life, Locke remained within the domesstice sphere circumscribed for Sixteenth-dentury women but nonetheless made significant contributions to the religious writing of her period.
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- PROWSE, John (-d.1625), of Exeter, Devon
- 1st s. of Richard Prowse† of Exeter, merchant tailor and his 1st w. Richard, da. of one Vincent of Exeter. m. (1) 5 May 1577, Judith, da. of Eustace Oliver of Exeter, merchant, 1s. 1da.; (2) Grace, da. of William Chappell of Exeter, s.p. suc. fa. 1607. d. 24 Feb. 1625.1 sig. Jo[hn] Prouse.
- Offices Held
- Freeman, Exeter 1577,2 bailiff 1584-5,3 common councilman 1595-d.,4 recvr. 1598-9, sheriff 1599-1600, mayor 1608-9, 1619-20,5 commr. and collector, aid 1609,6 alderman 1611-d.,7 commr. oyer and terminer 1612, 1614-15,8 piracy, Devon 1614, 1620;9 dep. lt., Exeter from 1621.10
- Member, Exeter French Co. from 1597, gov. 1607-8.11
- Prowse’s family can be traced in Exeter from the late fifteenth century. His father Richard, a wealthy cloth merchant, served twice as mayor, and represented the city in Parliament in 1584.12 Prowse himself, who first held municipal office that year, pursued the same trade successfully enough to warrant a subsidy assessment of £6 in 1602. Five years later he inherited the bulk of his father’s estate, including his townhouse, the barton of Bowhill in Exeter’s suburbs, and numerous properties 15 miles away at Broadhempston. Among the latter were three almshouses founded by Richard, but Prowse, disregarding filial piety, sold these in 1615. A forceful character prone to lecturing and even abusing his corporation colleagues, he was nevertheless trusted by them to represent the city in four consecutive Parliaments.13
- .... etc.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pr... _____________________
- LOK, Henry (?1557-?1609), of London and Acton, Mdx.
- b. ?1557,2 3rd s. of Henry Lok, mercer of London, by his w. Anne Vaughan. m. Anne, da. of one Moyle of Cornwall, at least 7ch., at least 2s.3
- Offices Held
- English agent in Scotland by 1590-4.
- Lok had a puritan upbringing, his mother being the friend and correspondent of John Knox. When she went to join Knox’s congregation in Geneva in 1557, she took him with her. After Knox had left Geneva in 1559 he wrote to Anne Lok:
- as touching the remembrance of you, it cannot be, I say, the corporal absence of one year or two that can quench in my heart that familiar acquaintance in Christ Jesus, which half a year did engender, and almost two years did nourish and confirm.
- She returned to London by way of Frankfurt in the spring of 1559, having written to Knox from Geneva expressing qualms at participating in what Knox called a ‘bastard religion’, and she retained her radical religious views throughout her life. Her second marriage was to the puritan Edward Dering. Her third, to Richard Prowse, provided her son with west country connexions, and a period of residence there would explain his wish, in 1594 and 1597, to obtain the collectorship of the diocese of Exeter, and his ability to furnish two lists of securities, in 1594, from among the gentlemen of Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. One of the lists contained the name of two of the members of the Prowse family. ... etc.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/lo... ___________________
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Richard Prowse's Timeline
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1517
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Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
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1550
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Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
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1554
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Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
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1556
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Of, Torbrian, Devon, England
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1561
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Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
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December 24, 1608
Age 91
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December 24, 1608
Age 91
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Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
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