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Lyra

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May 31, 2008, 2:45:31 PM5/31/08

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Eleanor Bull's uncle, and the Archbishop (Whitgift) of Canterbury

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The link is
that the said uncle
ACTUALLY WORKED FOR the Archbishop.

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Information about Whitgift -

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John Whitgift

John Whitgift (c. 1530 – February 29, 1604) was Archbishop of
Canterbury from 1583 to his death. Noted for his hospitality, he was
somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and
other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horsemen. Whitgift's
theological views were often controversial.

Contents

* 1 Making of a High Churchman
* 2 Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604)
* 3 Legacy
* 4 References

Making of a High Churchman

He was the eldest son of Henry Whitgift, a merchant, of Great Grimsby,
Lincolnshire, where he was born. His date of birth was probably
somewhere between 1530 and 1533. His early education was entrusted to
his uncle, Robert Whitgift, abbot of the neighbouring monastery of
Wellow, by whose advice he was afterwards sent to St Anthony's School,
London. In 1549 he matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and in
May 1550 he moved to Pembroke Hall, where the martyr John Bradford was
his tutor. In May 1555 he became a fellow of Peterhouse.

Having taken orders in 1560, he became chaplain to Richard Cox, Bishop
of Ely, who collated him to the rectory of Teversham, Cambridgeshire.
In 1563 he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at
Cambridge, and his lectures gave such satisfaction to the authorities
that on July 5, 1566 they considerably augmented his stipend. The
following year he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, and also
became master first of Pembroke Hall and then of Trinity. He had a
principal share in compiling the statutes of the university, which
passed the great seal on September 25, 1570, and in November following
he was chosen as vice-chancellor.

Whitgift's theological views were controversial. An aunt with whom he
once lodged wrote later that “though she thought at first she had
received a saint into her house, she now perceived he was a devil”.
Macaulay's description of Whitgift as "a narrow, mean, tyrannical
priest, who gained power by servility and adulation," is rhetorical
and exaggerated; but undoubtedly Whitgift's High Church beliefs led
him to treat the Puritans intolerantly.
In a pulpit controversy with Thomas Cartwright, regarding the
constitutions and customs of the Church of England, his oratorical
effectiveness proved inferior, but was able to exercise arbitrary
authority. Together with other heads of the university, he deprived
Cartwright of his professorship, and in September 1571 Whitgift
exercised his prerogative as master of Trinity to deprive him of his
fellowship also. In June of the same year Whitgift was nominated Dean
of Lincoln. In the following year he published An Answere to a Certain
Libel entitled an Admonition to the Parliament, which led to further
controversy between the two churchmen. On March 24, 1577, Whitgift was
appointed Bishop of Worcester, and during the absence of Sir Henry
Sidney in Ireland (1577) he acted as vice-president of Wales.

Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604)

In August 1583 he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury to replace
Edmund Grindal, who had been placed under house arrest after his
disagreement with the Queen over 'prophesyings' and died in office.
Whitgift placed his stamp on the church of the Reformation, and shared
Elizabeth's hatred of Puritans. Although he wrote to Queen Elizabeth
remonstrating against the alienation of church property, Whitgift
always retained her special confidence. In his policy against the
Puritans, and in his vigorous enforcement of the subscription test, he
thoroughly carried out the queen's policy of religious uniformity.

He drew up articles aimed at nonconforming ministers, and obtained
increased powers for the Court of High Commission. In 1586 he became a
privy councillor. His action gave rise to the Martin Marprelate
tracts, in which the bishops and clergy were strongly opposed. Through
Whitgift's vigilance the printers of the tracts were discovered and
punished; and in order to prevent the publication of such opinions he
got a law passed in 1593 making Puritanism an offence against the
statute law. In the controversy between Walter Travers and Richard
Hooker he prohibited the former from preaching; and he presented
Hooker with the rectory of Boscombe in Wiltshire, in order to afford
him more leisure to complete his Ecclesiastical Polity, a work which
in the end did not represent either Whitgift's theological or his
ecclesiastical standpoint.

In 1595, in conjunction with the Bishop of London and other prelates,
he drew up the Calvinistic instrument known as the Lambeth Articles,
which were not accepted by the church. Whitgift attended Elizabeth on
her deathbed, and crowned James I. He was present at the Hampton Court
Conference in January 1604, in which he represented 8 bishops. He died
at Lambeth the following February.

Legacy

Whitgift is described by his biographer, Sir George Paule, as of
"middle stature, strong and well shaped, of a grave countenance and
brown complexion, black hair and eyes, his beard neither long nor
thick." He left several unpublished works, which are included among
the Manuscripts Angliae. Many of his letters, articles, injunctions,
etc. are calendared in the published volumes of the "State Paper"
series of the reign of Elizabeth. His Collected Works, edited for the
Parker Society by John Ayre (3 vols., Cambridge, 1851-1853), include,
besides the controversial tracts already alluded to, two sermons
published during his lifetime, a selection from his letters to Cecil
and others, and some portions of his unpublished manuscripts.

Croydon was the site of a palace which was used as a summer retreat by
Archbishops of Canterbury in those days. Whitgift set up there a
charitable foundation, which still supports homes for the elderly and
infirm, and three thriving and substantial schools – Whitgift and
Trinity for boys, and more recently Old Palace School for Girls, which
is housed in the palace buildings once used by him. He was buried in
Croydon at the Parish Church of St John Baptist, but his monument
there, with his recumbent effigy, was practically destroyed when the
church was burnt down in 1867.

Whitgift Street, near Lambeth Palace (the official London residence of
the Archbishop of Canterbury), is named after him.

References

* Life of Whitgift by Sir George Paule, 1612, 2nd ed. 1649. It was
embodied by John Strype in his Life and Acts of Whitgift (1718).
* A life included in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography (1810)
* W. F. Hook, Archbishops of Canterbury (1875)
* Vol. i. of Whitgift's Collected Works
* C. H. Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses.
* The Master of Trinity at Trinity College, Cambridge
* This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica
Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitgift

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Lyra

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May 31, 2008, 2:54:04 PM5/31/08

Lyra wrote:

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> Eleanor Bull's uncle, and the Archbishop (Whitgift) of Canterbury
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> that the said uncle
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Here is a post from another thread -

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Lyra wrote:

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More about the intriguing story of Eleanor Bull
and her real place in life...

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iii. John Whitney, d. 1597, had made a claim on the estate of his
niece Eleanor (Whitney) Bull, when he stated his residence was at
Lambeth. He died without issue, his will stating he was a servant of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, mentioning his nephew Eustace Whitney of
Clifford, and Eustaces's son James, and Thomas Whitney of Clifford.

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from the page following...

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Family:Whitney, Eustace (s1497-?)

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Eustace Whitney, Esq. (John, [perhaps] Robert, Eustace, Robert,
Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), perhaps son of John
and ----- (Walter) Whitney, was born say 1475, Gorsington, Clifford,
Herefordshire, and died before 9 October 1525.[1]

He married Ellen Vaughan, "dau. and heir of William Vaughan, the
tyrant of Clifford."[2]

He was of Gorsington.[3]

Children of Eustace and Ellen (Vaughan) Whitney, order uncertain, and
possibly incomplete:

i. James Whitney, b. say 1500; m. Sibyl Parry.[4]

ii. Richard Whitney, of Hardwicke, m. Anne -----.

iii. John Whitney, d. 1597, had made a claim on the estate
of his
niece Eleanor (Whitney) Bull, when he stated his residence was at
Lambeth. He died without issue, his will stating he was a servant of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, mentioning his nephew Eustace Whitney of
Clifford, and Eustaces's son James, and Thomas Whitney of Clifford.

iv. William Whitney, d. 1563; m. ----- Vaughan.[5]

v. Eleanor Whitney,, mentioned in her brother William's will,
1558

vi. Margaret Whitney, mentioned in her brother William's
will,
1558

vii. Elizabeth Whitney, mentioned in her brother William's
will,
1558

References

1.^ Faraday, Michael A. and E. J. L. Cole, editors, Calendar of
probate and administration acts 1407-1541 and abstracts of wills
1541-1581 in the court books of the Bishop of Hereford, (London:
British Record Society: 1989; 1525-1526 Register of William Burghill,
Official Principal, Commissary General and Vicar General, page 223 9
October 1525: Ustans [sic] Whitney of Clifforde. Executor: James his
son (p.3.)

2.^ Henry Austin Whitney, Memoranda Relating to Families of the Name
of Whitney in England (Boston: 1859), p. 3. See also: Bartrum Whitney
Table 2 for his wife's first name.

3.^ Ibid.

4.^ Ibid.

5.^ Henry Austin Whitney, The First Known Use of Whitney as a
Surname: Its Probable Signification, and Other Data (Boston, MA: Henry
Austin Whitney, 1875), p. xv.

Copyright © 2006 Robert L. Ward and the Whitney Research Group
Retrieved from "http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/
Family:Whitney
%2C_Eustace_%28s1497-%3F%29"

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> > ................................................................................

> > > * * *

> > > The Whitneys descend to Prince William
> > > (son of heir to the throne)

> > > * * *

> > > > * * *

> > > > The Whitney family ancestry -

> > > > * * *

> > > > I am looking for details of this -

> > > > I shall start with the following -

> > > > * * *

> > > > (quote, excerpts)

> > > > The Vaughans of Trebarried were a branch of those of Tre'rtwr
> > > > (Tretower), deriving as Vaughans from "Roger Vaughan of Talgarth," and
> > > > son,

> > > > according to the St. Mark's Coll. MS., of Sir Roger of Tre'rtwr, son
> > > > of the first knight (of Agincourt)
> > > > of that name.

> > > > Maternally they were derived from a Norman line, the mother of the

> > > > first Vaughan (Roger)
> > > > of Trebarried

> > > > being dau. and co-heiress of Robert WHITNEY, Esq.,
> > > > commonly called Lord WHITNEY,
> > > > and back in direct line to "Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Belesmo" in
> > > > Normandy,
> > > > who "came into England with William the Conqueror," and so on, as
> > > > usual.

> > > > from

> > > > Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

> > > > Old families of British origin.

> > > > http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M34ystsNDn8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95
> > > > &dq=vaughan+trebarried+whitney&source=web&ots=I5zSVQyY8h&sig=SFAN
> > > > aPe95vvHKu-ZhPaX2gvqfZg&hl=en

> > > > > > > > * * * * * * *
> > > > > > > > * *

> > > > > > > > Eleanor Bull's REAL status and why she wasn't likely to be keeping a
> > > > > > > > tavern...

> > > > > > > > * * * * * * *
> > > > > > > > * *

> > > > > > > > especially of the low variety!

> > > > > > > > * * * * * * *
> > > > > > > > * *

> > > > > > > > first, for anyone who doesn't know or has forgotten...

> > > > > > > > Eleanor Bull is her married name,

> > > > > > > > she is born
> > > > > > > > Eleanor Whitney,
> > > > > > > > of the Whitneys of Whitney-on-Wye...
> > > > > > > > where they had a castle.

> > > > > > > > It's very near the Welsh borders.
> > > > > > > > In England.

http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg/8fc3ce6ad4c653ea

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Lyra

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May 31, 2008, 3:02:55 PM5/31/08

Lyra wrote:

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James Whitney and Sibyl Parry are
Eleanor Whitney Bull's father and mother.

Sibyl Parry is the SISTER
of Blanche Parry -
maybe the Queen's oldest friend.

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Lyra

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May 31, 2008, 3:25:39 PM5/31/08

Lyra wrote:

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> Eleanor Bull's uncle, and the Archbishop (Whitgift) of Canterbury
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> that the said uncle
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I'm quoting here from a Whitney site,
which refers to John Whitney.

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Archive:The Life and Acts of John Whitgift

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Archives > Archive:Extracts > The Life and Acts of John Whitgift

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The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, D.D., The Third and Last Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, By John Strype, Clarendon Press: 1821.

Page 431.

To conclude, as Archbishop Parker had made a great figure in this
church for fifteen or sixteen years, and was a person of great
integrity, worth, and learning, a very solemn funeral was celebrated
for him the 6th of June. Whereat his officers and menial servants made
the greatest number; whereby we may judge of the great house which he
kept. I transcribe it out of the authentic paper; superscribed thus by
the Lord Treasurer's own hand, The burial of Archibishop Parker.

Page 431.

The Life of Matthew, The Order of the Funeral,

Gentleman Mourners in gowns.

Among them:

MR. WHITNEY

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Page 466.

...The next to that is Parker, and the arms impaled is paly of six
pieces, or, and sable, which I suppose might pertain to Matthew Parker
(or Richard Parker) and his wife. The last is the coat of Diggs (which
is gules, a cross argent, charged with five eagles displayed sable)
and Parker: that is, Mr. Thomas Diggs and Mrs. Margaret Parker, who
lived here at Bekesborn with their father: as also did Mrs. Rachel
Cox, the sister of Mrs. Parker, and daughter to Bishop Cox; as appears
by a list of oblations given at the communion in the year 1587. After
the year 1590, he seems to have left Bekesborn; and then lived
sometimes in Doctors Commons, and sometimes at Lambeth.

Bekesborn House was conveyed by John Parker,

and JOHN WHITNEY,

to Alexander Hamon, by indenture, May the 7th, 36 Eliz. anno 1594, for
335 pounds and May the 8th ensuing 30 pounds more, to be paid at the
chamber of the said John Parker, at Doctors Commons.

The manor of Bekesborn that had been granted by John, Archibishop of
Canterbury, to Matthew Parker, soon after came into other hands, as
hath been shewed before.

...After the death of his brother Matthew, the manor of Daumson or
Daunsington in Bexly, in the county of Kent, (which he gave by will to
his wife for twenty-one years, and after that time to be disposed of
by the Archbishop his father,) dying without issue surviving, came to
John his brother. For the said Archbishop, by virtue of his son
Matthew's will, have the said Daunson to the said John his heir, in
cawse the child his said wife went with came no tto the age of one and
twenty. This deed was dated the 20th of March, anno 1574. The 23rd of
June, anno Eliz. 18, 1576, the said John Parker did grant unto Frances
Parker, his brother Matthew's widow, an annuity of 44 pounds to be
yearly issuing out of the said manor of Daunsington, and out his manor
of Boughton: in consideration, that she had surrendered the said manor
of Daunsington (whereof she was then possessed for term of her life)
to him, to remain without incumbrance. Of this manor John Parker, and
his wife Joan, afterwards acknowledged a fine, according to covenant,

with JOHN WHITNEY,

the 8th of February, anno Eliz. 20.

To the same John Parker came also Lambeth House, formerly belonging to
Thomas Duke of Norfolk, (in which capital mess or dwelling-house he
and his ancestors were accustomed to lie,) with other houses and lands
thereunto appertaining.

NOTE: The above JOHN WHITNEY was the son of Eustace and -----
(Vaughan) Whitney, q.v.

Transcribed by Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq.

Retrieved from "http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/
Archive:The_Life_and_Acts_of_John_Whitgift"

http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Life_and_Acts_of_John_Whitgift

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> * This article incorporates text from the Encyclop�dia Britannica

Lyra

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May 31, 2008, 4:02:46 PM5/31/08

Lyra wrote:
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> > that the said uncle
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The following URLs are from the next stage that I
am looking at - no time to send it right now -
don't want to lose the data so sending the links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thorpe

http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Chapter_VII

http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Introduction

http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Special:Search?search=archbishop&go=Go

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