William Huddleston, 12th Lord of Millom

Biography

From the History of Parliament biography for William Huddleston, MP (member of parliament):

Family and Education 1st s. of Anthony Huddleston of Millom by Marie, da. of Sir William Barentyne† of Little Haseley, Oxon. m. Mary Bridges of Glos., 7s. 8da. suc. fa. 1598.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Cumb. 1617-18.1

Biography Returned to Elizabeth’s last Parliament as knight of the shire for Cumberland, Huddleston could have attended the main business committee (3 Nov.), the committee on monopolies (23 Nov.), one to strengthen the defences of the northern border (3 Dec.) and another to regulate the local government of the northern counties (14 Dec.). During the course of the Parliament his servant was arrested for non-payment of a surgeon’s bill, but the House granted him privilege and censured the surgeon (15 Dec.).2

Several lawsuits over his estates expose Huddleston as a violent, contentious man, at odds with neighbours, relations and the law. One concerned a neighbour, John Hill, a yeoman of the guard and a tenant of the duchy of Lancaster. In May 1607 Huddleston and his son Anthony, with 20 retainers, broke into Hill’s house ‘sparing neither sex nor age’, and dragging the ladies ‘by the hair of their heads, in most barbarous and exorbitant manner’. When the bailiffs arrived with a writ of attachment from the Chancery court, they were sent away, with the writ and ‘a box under the ear ... for a token’. Other misdeeds included issuing licences for the sale of beer, taking bonds for good behaviour and summoning people before him, ‘as if he were a justice of the peace’.

Huddleston died in 1628, and was buried on 25 Mar. in the chancel of Millom church. He hoped his family would live together in Christian harmony.3

Sources: Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: B.D. Notes 1. Vis. Cumb. 23; Nicholson and Burn, Hist. Cumb. ii. 11-12; Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. n.s. xxiv. 228; VCH Cumb. ii. 317. 2. D’Ewes, 624, 649, 657, 665, 680, 685, 686. 3. St. Ch. 7/2/22; 8/167/23; Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. l. 275 seq.; Hatfield ms 108/113; APC, 1613-14, p. 136; 1625-6, pp. 89-90; 1626, p. 16; CSP Dom. 1619-23, p. 411; 1625-6, p. 369; 1627-8, pp. 71, 226, 509; Hutchinson, Hist. Cumb. i. 528; Daniel Fleming, Surv. of Cumb. and Westmld. (Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. tract ser. iii), 3-4; PCC 56 Barrington; Registers of Millom, Cumb. (Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc.), 184.

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Notes

From “Marie Barentyne & Anthony Huddleston marriage 1541.” By Roy Huddleston July 22, 2004. < genealogy.com >

"Oxford Church Depositions 1592-1596..."...church wardens of Haseley qnd curate Thomas Jones...had been summoned by Hudleston to baptise a child in his house...Jones had since been told....now commonally reported...that the child had been unlawfully begotten by Hudleston on Elizabeth a single woman who had had other children by him..."

William, his wife Mary, and mistress Elizabeth had a "menage a trois" at Haseley, until his father Anthony died , when they moved to Millom. Mary (nee Bridges) d. 1601 at Millom. William died 1628 at Millom. Elizabeth Hartepole (now Hudleston) marr. 2ndly 1631 Samuel Knipe William Huddleston [birth 1549 death 4 March 1627]

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Millom Castle Now a farmhouse; complete with dry surrounding moat and ruined adjoining buildings.

Source: Andrew Woodhall, CC BY-SA 2.0 < Wikimedia Commons >

References

• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hu...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huddleston_(MP)
• < Stirnet - 'Hudleston02' >
• “Source Request: Huddlestons of Millom Castle” Brad Verity, Feb 6, 2006 < GoogleGroups >
• “Marie Barentyne & Anthony Huddleston marriage 1541.” By Roy Huddleston July 22, 2004. < genealogy.com > [Anthony Hudleston who married Marie Barentyne, quarrelled violently with Marie and more or less deserted her. He tried to disinherit his son, William, who was brought up at Haseley Court, Marie's estates, but did not succeed. There is a brass in Haseley Church to Marie and her five children, only two of whom grew to adulthood.]
• “Hudlestons of Millom...further children and careers.” By Annette Hudleston Harwood November 30, 2003. < genealogy.com >
• “Thwaites Hall; William and Mary Bridges; Elizabeth Hartepoole.” By Annette Hudleston Harwood March 06, 2004. < genealogy.com >
• The Project Gutenberg EBook of All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1913) < link >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millom_Castle Millom Castle is an ancient building at Millom in Cumbria. It is a Grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument.[1][2] A manor on the site was granted to Godard de Boyvill, owner of the Manor of Millom, in around 1134.[3] The manor came into the Hudleston family's ownership in around 1240 when de Boyvill's granddaughter married into the Hudleston family.[4] John Hudleston was given a licence to crenellate in 1335.[3] The great tower dates from the 16th or perhaps 17th century.[5][6][7]
• “The MAN & Other Families.” < link >
• Christophe Roy Hudleston (1905-1992) < link > Genealogist and Lecturer. FSA, the acknowledged expert on the family. (Cumberland Families and Heraldry, Hudleston & Boumphrey, Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society Extra Series Vol XXIII, 1978)