Sir Erasmus Dryden, of Canons Ashby, 1st Baronet

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• Burke, John and John Bernard Burke. 1838. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster, and Geary: London. Available at: Google Books:—
  • I. Erasmus Dryden, esq. of Canons Ashby, in the county of Northampton, who took, the degree of bachelor of arts in the university of Oxford 17th June, 1577, levied a fine of the manor on bis father’s decease, served the office of sheriff of his county in the 40th of Elizabeth, and again in the 17th of the succeeding reign, in which he was raised to the rank of Baronet, by patent dated 16th November, 1619. Sir Erasmus m. Frances, second daughter and co heir of William Wilkes, esq. of Hodnel, in Warwickshire, and had issue,
    • I. John, his successor.
    • II. William, of Farndon, Notts, who m. first, a daughter of — Cave, esq. of the county of Leicester, and had a son and two daughters,…
    • III. Erasmus, of Tichmarsh, in Northamptonshire. m. Mary, daughter of the Rev. Henry Picker¬ing, D.D. and dying in 1654, had issue,…
    • I. [IV] Elizabeth, m. to Sir Richard Phillipps, bart. of Picton Castle.
    • II. [V] Mary, m. to Sir Edward Hartopp, bart. of Freathby, in Leicestershire,
    • III. [VI] Dorothy, m. to Edward Salway, esq. of Stan¬ford, in the county of Worcester, M.P. for Droitwich in 1638. (See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 153.)
    • IV. [VII] Susan, m. to Sir John Pickering, bart. of Tichmarsh.

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Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet

Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (c. 1549 – 22 May 1632) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624.

Erasmus Dryden was the son of John Dryden who built Canons Ashby House, Northamptonshire. Erasmus' mother, Elizabeth Cope, was the daughter of Sir John Cope, from whose heirs the Drydens purchased the priory and village remnants of the Canons Ashby estate.[1] Sir Erasmus Dryden was the grandfather of the poet John Dryden[1] (through his third son, Erasmus) and he was also the uncle of Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift, who was the grandmother of Jonathan Swift. Dryden's sister-in-law, Katherine (Throckmorton) Dryden, was a first cousin of Lady Elizabeth (Throckmorton) Raleigh.

He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1571 aged 18. and was demy from 1571 to 1575 and fellow from 1575 to 1580, being awarded BA on 11 June 1577. In 1577, he was student of the Middle Temple. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1599 and in 1618. He was created a baronet on 16 November 1619.[2] In 1624, Dryden was elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in the Happy Parliament.[3]

Sir Erasmus Dryden married Frances Wilkes, daughter of William Wilkes of Hodnell, Warwickshire. They had 3 sons and 4 daughters. His eldest son John succeeded to the Baronetcy. He was an uncle of female Puritan preacher Anne Hutchinson.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Erasmus_Dryden,_1st_Baronet

DRYDEN, Sir Erasmus, 1st Bt. (1553-1632), of Canons Ashby, Northants.

• b. 20 Dec. 1553,1 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Dryden of Canons Ashby and Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Cope† of Canons Ashby.2 educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1571, BA 1577; M. Temple 1578.3 m. c.1580, Frances (d. 16 Feb. 1631),4 da. of William Wilkes of Hodnell, Warws. and coh. to her bro. Robert, 3s. 4da.5 suc. fa. 1584; cr. bt. 16 Nov. 1619.6 d. 22 May 1632.7
  • Fellow of Magdalen, Oxf. 1575-8;8 commr. musters, Northants. 1579-at least 1599,9 inquiry, goods of George Carleton 1590,10 escheator, Northants. and Rutland 1593-4;11 commr. land assessment, Northants. (Western div.) 1597;12 sheriff, Northants. 1598-9, 1619-20,13 j.p. by 1599-1605, 1609-27, 1628-d.,14 commr. subsidy 1608, 1621-2, 1624.15
• Dryden’s father migrated from Cumberland and settled at Canons Ashby.16 Dryden himself was a hot Protestant. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, his contemporaries included George Hunt, later father-in-law of Banbury’s famous puritan vicar William Whately. In 1605 he suffered imprisonment in the Fleet and removal from the commission of the peace for signing the petition drawn up by Sir Francis Hastings* in favour of deprived ministers.17 The puritan minister John Dod, who preached for a while at Canons Ashby, dedicated works to both Dryden and the latter’s cousin Sir William Cope*.18
• Dryden became the first of the family to enter Parliament when he was returned for Banbury, some ten miles from his home, on Cope’s interest in 1624. He made no recorded speeches but was named to 15 committees, including those for bills to enable incumbents to lease property (22 Mar. 1624), establish the Whetenhall divinity lectures (10 Apr.) and prevent simony in colleges and halls (12 April).19 After presentments had been read against a number of suspected papists including Viscount Wallingford (William Knollys†), the high steward of Banbury, whose wife was Catholic, Dryden was among those appointed to review their cases (27 April).20 On 1 May he was added to the committee to investigate the charges against Dr. Anyan, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford,21 and three days later he was added to the committee for the Feltmakers’ bill (4 May), which he is known to have attended on three occasions.22 On 3 May he joined in the attack on the Arminian bishop Samuel Harsnett, whom he declared was ‘not a lover of the truth, and like to bring ruin upon the Church’, and he was later appointed to prepare for a joint conference with the Lords on the matter (15 May).23
• In 1627 Dryden was again imprisoned, this time for resisting the Forced Loan, when it was reported that ‘the prisons are full of Northamptonshire gentry’.24 At the beginning of the year he was confined in the Gatehouse, but by August he had been sent to Oxfordshire under the charge of his cousin Sir Cope Doyley, who was sheriff for the year.25 He was released with all the other prisoners immediately before the elections of 1628, and was offered a seat at Northampton by the townspeople as a ‘loan recusant’, but he declined the honour.26 In 1631, ‘within one year of the age of fourscore’, he compounded for knighthood at £200.27 He died intestate on 22 May 1632 and was buried at Canons Ashby.28 His eldest son, Sir John, sat for Northamptonshire in the Long Parliament.29 His grandson, John Dryden, became poet laureate and royal historiographer to Charles II.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/dr... ___________________________

Erasmus Dryden

• M, #105216, b. 20 December 1553, d. 22 May 1632
• Father: John Dryden, Gent.1 d. 3 Sep 1584
• Mother: Elizabeth Cope1 b. c 1529
• Erasmus Dryden was born on 20 December 1553 at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.1 He married Frances Wilkes, daughter of William Wilkes, in 1575.1 Erasmus Dryden died on 22 May 1632 at Warwick, Warwickshire, England, at age 78.1
• Spouse: Frances Wilkes b. c 1555, d. 16 Feb 1630
• Child
  • Elizabeth Dryden+1 b. c 1597, d. a 2 Jun 1658
• Citations: Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3503.htm#...
• Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Bt.1
• M, #177992, b. 29 December 1553, d. 22 May 1632
• *Last Edited=5 Feb 2014
• Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Bt. was born on 29 December 1553.2 He was also reported to have been born on 20 December 1553.3 He was the son of John Dryden and Elizabeth Cope.2 He married Frances Wilkes, daughter of William Wilkes, before 1580.2 He died on 22 May 1632 at age 78.2
• He graduated from Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Banbury.3 He held the office of High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1598.3 He held the office of High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1598.3 He was created 1st Baronet Dryden, of Canons Ashby, co. Northampton [England] in 1619.4
• Children of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Bt. and Frances Wilkes
  • Elizabeth Dryden
  • Erasmus Dryden d. c Jun 1654
  • Sir John Dryden, 2nd Bt.+4 d. b 11 Nov 1658
  • William Dryden d. c Dec 1660
  • Mary Dryden
• Citations
• George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 176.
• George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume I, page 128.
• Burke's Peerage, volume 1, page 1183. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• Burke's Peerage, 2003. [S37]
• Burke's Peerage, 1999 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p17800.htm#i177992 ________________
• Sir Erasmus Dryden
• Birth: 1553
• Death: 1632, England
• Family links:
• Parents:
• John Dryden (____ - 1584)
• Burial: Canons Ashby, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 149948457
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=149948457 __________________
• Sir John Dryden, 2nd Baronet (c. 1580 – c. 1658) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1654.
• Dryden was the son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Wilkes, daughter of William Wilkes of Hadnel, Warwickshire. In 1632, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1634.[1]
• In November 1640, Dryden was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Long Parliament. In 1654, he was re-elected MP for Northamptonshire in the First Protectorate Parliament.[2]
• Dryden married firstly Priscilla Quarles, daughter of James Quarles of Romford Essex, and sister of the poet Francis Quarles, and secondly Anne Parvis, daughter of Henry Parvis of Ruckholts, Essex. He had no children from his first two wives. He married thirdly Honor Bevile, daughter of Sir Rober Bevile, of Chesterton, and by her had a family. His eldest son Robert succeeded to the baronetcy. Dryden was an uncle of the poet John Dryden.[1]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Dryden,_2nd_Baronet __________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 16
• Dryden, John by Leslie Stephen
• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631–1700), poet, was born 9 Aug. 1631 at Aldwinkle All Saints, Northamptonshire (the precise day is doubtful: Malone, p. 5). His father was Erasmus, third son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, bart., of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire; his mother was Mary, daughter of Henry Pickering, rector of Aldwinkle from 1597 to 1637, in which year he died, aged 75. Erasmus and Mary Dryden were married 21 Oct. 1630 at Pilton, near Aldwinkle (Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii. 207). The Drydens (or Dridens), originally settled in Cumberland, had moved into Northamptonshire about the middle of the sixteenth century. Erasmus Dryden after his marriage lived at Tichmarsh, where the Pickerings had a seat. John Dryden had 'his first learning' at Tichmarsh, where his parents were buried, and where, in 1722, a monument was erected to him and them by .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dryden,_John_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft#page/64/mode/1up to https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft#page/75/mode/1up ________________________________
• Links
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=149947822
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson

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Category: Canons Ashby, NorthamptonshireCategory: Magdalen College, Oxford

Biography

• Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1Bt. of Canons Ashby, co. Northants. (b. 20Dec 1553 - d. 22 May 1632), was the son of:
• John Dryden.<ref name=cokayne />* and Elizabeth Cope, dau. of John Cope.<ref name=cokayne />He succeeded his father on 13 September 1584; and was later created baronet on 16 November 1619.<ref name=cokayne>Cokayne, 1900.[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924092524374#page/n151/mode/2up]</ref> He's described as a, "hot Protestant."<ref name=hop />

Origins

• According to Thrush & Ferris (2010), "Dryden’s father migrated from Cumberland and settled at Canons Ashby."<ref name=hop />

Marriage

• m. (in or bef. 1580) Frances Wilkes (d. 16 Feb. 1631; bur. Canons Ashby), younger dau. of William Wilkes of Hodnell, co. Warws. & co-h. of her bros. Robert of Hodnell.<ref name=hop /><ref name=cokayne /> Issue:
• John, MP for co. Northants. (Long Parliament).<ref name=hop />
• Susanna::: m. (1609) John Pickering.<ref>Page (1930), mentions Dryden as the father of Susanna Pickering (nee Dryden)::"The ... King granted Lovel's manor to Charles Somerset, afterwards Earl of Worcester. His grandson, William Earl of Worcester, obtained anew grant of the manor in 1553, and in the same year sold it to Gilbert Pickering. :: Gilbert's son John (d. 1591) had a son Gilbert, who married Elizabeth, daughter of . . .Hogard of Bourn, in Cambridgeshire. He was succeeded in 1613 by his son John, who in 1609 had married Susannah, daughter of Sir Erasmus Dryden. Their son, Sir Gilbert Pickering, was created a baronet in 1638,and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Sidney Montagu." [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp142-149]</ref>

Education===*1571: matriculated Magdalen College, Oxford, age18.<ref name=hop>Thrush & Ferris, 2010.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/dr...]</ref>

• 11 Jun 1577: BA

Occupation

• 1598-9 & 1619-20: sheriff of co. Northants.<ref name=cokayne />
• 1624-5: MP for Banbury.<ref name=hop /><ref name=cokayne />

Religion

• Protestant.<ref name=hop />

Events

• 01 May 1624: committee to investigate Dr. Anyan, pres. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.<ref name=hop />* 1627-8: incarerated - initially detained at Gatehouse; later moved to Oxfordshire.<ref name=hop />

Death

• Dryden died intestate on 22 May 1632 and was buried at Canons Ashby.<ref name=hop />
• adm. 06 Jun 1632.<ref name=cokayne />

Northamptonshire Memorial Inscriptions:<ref>"Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records," in Parish Burials. Collections from England, Great Britain. Notes: Brass floor plaque.</ref>:Erasmus Dryden (d. 1632): Dedication: St Mary, Canons Ashby, co. Northants. Inscription: :Here lyeth interred the bodyes of ERASMUS DRYDEN Barronnett (sic) whodeceased the 22th of Maye, Anno Domini 1632 and of Dame FRANCES his wife who deceased the 16th of Feb 1630.

Descendants

• grandson John Dryden: poet laureate and royal historiographer to Charles II.<ref name=hop />

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Sources

• Cokayne, G.E.C. (1900). "Dryden or Driden," in Complete Baronetage 1611-1625, I, pp. 128-9. Exeter: W. Pollard. Archive.org. eBook.* Thrush & Ferris, J.P. (2010). Dryden, Sir Erasmus, 1st Bt. (1553-1632), of Canons Ashby, Northants. HOP. Web.* Page, W. (1930). 'Parishes: Titchmarsh', in A History of the County of Northampton, 3, pp. 142-149. London. BHO. eBook.

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Profile & Merge History

Merged into Dryden-35?

• contributors:, Michael Stephenson
• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/drydenb1619.htm

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