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The illustrious baronial and noble family of Howard has several younger cadet branches, among them one headed by Henry Howard, Esquire, of Boxted, Suffolk, who was murdered in 1446, apparently by retainers of John le Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham. The parentage and maiden name of Henry Howard’s wife, Mary Hussey, are covered by several published sources, among them:
1. Brydges, Collins’ Peerage of England 1 (1812): 56 (author identifies Mary, wife of Henry Howard, as “daughter of Sir Henry Hussey, of the County of Sussex, Knight;” citing Ex stemmate Fam. de Howard, MS.
p. 49 in Bibl Joh. Anstis, Arm. Gart.").
2. Tierney, Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 2 (1834): 340–350 (Howard ped.: “Henry Howard, to whom his father, by his will dated 1435, assigned lands in Norfolk. Collins, I.56. = Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Hussey, of Sussex. Collins, I.56.”).
3. Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 284 (sub Howard) (author identifies Mary, wife of Henry Howard, as “dau. of Sir Henry Hussey”).
4. On 12 July 1447 John le Scrope, king’s esquire, son and heir apparent of John le Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham, John Chesshire, and many others were pardoned by the king, they having been impeached of malice before the king and many magnates and lieges of England by Mary, widow of Henry Howard, Esq., late of Boxted, Suffolk, of having murdered her said husband. Reference: Cal. of Patent Rolls 1446–1452 (1909): 62.
As it turns out, research indicates Mary Hussey actually had three husbands, namely John Teye, Esq., of Layer de la Haye, Essex (died testate 10 Nov. 1440), Henry Howard, Esq. (died 1446), and William Allington, Esq., of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire (died 5 July 1459). The pieces of evidence which prove these various marriages are given below:
1. Hawley et al. Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 15 (Tey ped.: “Joh’es Tey ar’ obiit Ao 19 H. 6. = [left blank]”), 108–110 (Tey ped.: “John Teye. = Mary Hussey.”), 297 (Tey ped.: “John Tey of Layer de la haye in com. Essex, Gentleman lived the 4th of H. 6, 1425. = Mary, daugh. to Hussey.”).
Available at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=hqwKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109
2. On 26 Nov. 1446 various feoffees of John Teye, Esq. [deceased], including William, Abbot of Colchester, granted Mary Howard the manor and advowson of the church of Peldon, Essex (a Teye family manor) for life, with successive remainders to the children of John Teye, Esq., namely John Teye, Robert Teye, and Grace and Constance Teye (these last two together), and their respective heirs.
References:
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 409–410, available at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=jBBJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA409
Harvard Law Review 30 (1917): 229–230, available at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=lKkxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229
3. The following items are found in the Cole Manuscripts in the British Library, courtesy of Chris Phillips:
[September 1447]
Pateat &c me Will’m Webbe Cleric’ & Rectorem de Wulfurston remisisse
Will’o Allyngton Arm’o & Marie ux’i ejus nup’ Ux’i Henrici Haward Arm’i
de Boxstede in Essex o’es Acco’es p’sonales quas versus eundem Will’m &
Mariam & Henricu’ h’ui &c
Dat Mercurij p’x’a ante f’m S’c’i Mathe’ Ap’l’i 26 Hen 6 [Wednesday next
before St Matthias the Apostle; St Matthias=21 Sept 1447]. [Cole Add
5823, fo 226a]
[William Webbe clerk & rector of Wulfurston has released to William
Allyngton armiger and Mary hw formerly the wife of Henry Haward armiger
of Boxsted in Essex all personal [?receipts] which he had regarding
William and Mary and Henry]
Cole (Add 5823, fo 127) has (18 March 26 Hen 6 [1447/8]):
Sciant &c q’d Nos Thomas Prior S’c’i [?Bothi’] Colcestr Joh’es Leycestre
Cl’icus Robtus Donne & Ric’us Symond dimisimus & confirmavimus Will’o
Alyngton Armig’o & Marie ux’i ejus Man’iu’ de Horseth vocat Horseth
Halle, man’iu’ de West Wykham vocat le Hayes, Man’iu’ de Stretle vocat
Stretle Halle cu’ O’ib’s p’tin &c que nup’ h’uimus ex dono & feoff
p’d’c’i Willi Alyngton &c
Hiis testibs Will’o Buckeworth cl’ico, Thoma Grene Capell’o, Will’o Eyr,
Hugone Jacob, Joh’e Person & aliis.
Dat apd Horseth 18 March 26 Hen 6 [1447/8].
William Alington was buying arable land in Hallgate field (in
Horseheath) in 1449, and had lately annexed various crofts to his park
[VCH Cambs iv 75, citing Add 5823, ff 219v,247v].
Cole (Add 5823, fo 221b) gives the text (12 April 1449):
Nov’int &c Nos Will’m Bukworth & Thomam Grene Cl’icos ordinasse Joh’em
Levedale & Joh’em Gacche n’ros Attornatos ad deliverand’ seysina’ Will’o
Alyngton Arm’o & Marie ux’i ejus in una pecia t’re arab’ in Horseth in
Campo voc’ Hallegatefeld, quam peciam t’re cu’ bosco pd’c’o de
Goodredes Wode h’uimus cu’ Will’o Cotton Arm’o, Joh’e Gotobedde Cl’ico
& Hugone Jacob ex Dimisso’e Thome Tudenham militis, Thome Shuldham
Arm’r, Joh’is ffyncham, Rad’i Geyton & Joh’is [?]Tras H’end & tenend’ &c
Data apud Horsethe 12 Apr 27 Hen: 6 1449
2 seals [described]
Also another (same date):
Sciant &c nos Will’i Bukworth & Thos Grene Cl’ici dimisimus &c Will’o &
Marie Alyngton ‘as in the preceeding’
Test: Tho: ffynderne Milite, Joh’e Scarlett, Henrico Calbeck Armigeris,
Will’o Eyr, Joh’e Levedale & aliis.
Data apud Horseth 12 Apr 27 Hen 6 1449.
The same deed seems to be referred to in Add 5823, fo 251b, where the
land in Hallegatefeld ‘continent’ quinq’ Acras & dimidiam int’ t’ram
p’d’c’i Will’i Alyngton voc’ le Sixe acres, ac ecia’ unu’ Boscu’ voc’
Goodredes wode octo acraru’ ...’ 2 seals are described, one of Richard
de Grensford.
Another deed of the same date by the same grantors [Add 5823, fo 248b]
concerns 2 crofts lying in the park of William Alyngton armiger.
[1 Dec 1449]
Sciant &c q’d Ego Will’s Alyngton Arm’r dedi &c Nich’o Huse Arm’o,
Will’o Bukworth, Joh’i Leycestre Cl’icis & Joh’i Eyr Revercionem o’ium
Manorior’, ter’ ten’ & Boscor’, Redd’ & Servic’ cu’ p’tin’ in Horseth,
Wyka’, Stretle & Balsham post Mortem Marie ux’is mee &c
Test’ Thoma Grene Capell’o, Hugone Jacobbe, Joh’e Person, Will’o
Pluckerose, Will’ Jeynour & aliis
Dat ap’d Horseth 1 Dec 28 Hen 6 [Cole has 1450, but recte 1449].
[Cole, Add 5823, fo 228b]
4. In 1452–54 William Alyngton, Esq., and Mary his wife, late the wife of John Teye, Esq., sued William, Abbot of St. John, Colchester, and others, feoffees and executors of the said John Teye, in Chancery regarding profits of the manor of Picotes in Ardleigh, Essex, various goods; together with the manors, etc of Peldon, New Hall, Badcockes, Dorewardes, and Botynghams, and the advowson of Peldon Church.
Reference: National Archives, C 1/19/296, available at the following weblink:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7440749
5. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees 1 (H.S.P. 50) (1902): 4–8 (Alington ped.: "Sir William Alingon of Horseheah, Cambridge ... died 38 Henry VI., 1459-60 = Mary, widow of Henry Hayward of Boxed, Essex, Esq., 2nd wife"). The above is available at the following weblink:
https://archive.org/details/LincolnshirePedigreesV50/page/n21/mode/2up
6. Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales 7 (1907): 14-24 (Allingon ped.: "William Alington of Horseheath, esquire ... died 5 July 1459 ... He marr. 2ndly Mary, widow of Henry Haward of Boxted, co. Essex, esquire."). The above is available at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=w-kKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14
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From the record cited above dated 1446, we learned Mary Hussey had four children by her marriage to John Teye, Esq., namely two sons, John and Robert Teye, and two daughters, Grace and Constance Teye. Mary Hussey has modern descendants by way of her 1st marriage to John Teye, Esq., for which see Hawley et al., Visitations of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 15 (Tey ped.), 108–110 (Tey ped.), and 297. Elsewhere we learn that Mary Hussey and her 2nd husband, Henry Howard, Esq., had one daughter, Elizabeth Howard, wife of Henry Wentworth, Esq., which couple has many modern descendants.
Insofar as Mary Hussey’s extended ancestry is concerned, the pertinent chronology places Mary as a daughter of Henry Hussey, Knt. (died 1450), of Harting, Sussex, South Moreton and South Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Great Risindon and Saperton, Gloucestershire, Hascombe, Surrey, etc., by Constance his wife (died 1461). In this regard, it may be noted that Mary Hussey named a daughter, Constance Teye, by her 1st marriage, in honor of her mother, Constance Hussey. From a record in the Cole Manuscripts cited above, we see that Mary Hussey's brother, Nicholas Huse [Hussey], Esq., served as a feoffee in 1449 for a property settlement on Mary Hussey and her 3rd husband, Sir William Allington. Nicholas Hussey's place in the Hussey family tree can be found in VCH Surrey 4 (1953): 10–21. For further particulars of the Hussey family of Sussex, see Complete Peerage 7 (1929): 10–11 (sub Husee); VCH Surrey 4 (1953): 10–21; Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 3 (1992): 462–463 (biog. of Sir Henry Hussey (c.1362–1409), of Harting, Sussex).
Elsewhere I find that Banks, Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 221–223 (sub Ghisnes) states that Ralph Brooke and Milles mention that a certain Enguerrand de Coucy had a natural daughter Maud, who married _____ Lord Strange, by which marriage Maud had a daughter, Ankaret, the wife of Sir Henry Husee, knight. — Vincent on Brooke’s notes, viz., Prebetur quasi”). The Ankaret Husee/Hussey intended here is surely Mary Hussey’s great-grandmother, Ankaret (died 1389), 2nd wife of Henry Hussey, Knt. (married by 1377, he died 1383), of Harting, Sussex, and later wife of Andrew Hake, Esq. (married in 1385), for whom see Cal. of Patent Rolls, 1381–1385 (1897): 555; Cal. of Close Rolls 1389–1392 (1922): 37–38; VCH Surrey 4 (1953): 10–21; Court of Common Pleas, CP40/466, image 243; Year: 1377 (available at
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no466/466_0243.htm). The Lord Strange intended is surely Roger le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Knockin (died 1349), whose wife was in fact named Maud.
Banks was of the impression that the Enguerrand de Coucy mentioned by Brooke and Milles was Sir Enguerrand de Coucy, the well known son-in-law of King Edward III of England. However, the chronology simply does not permit such an identification. Rather, it appears that the Enguerrand de Coucy named by Brooke and Milles is Sir Enguerrand de Coucy’s male line great-grandfather, Sir Enguerrand (or Ingram) de Guines, 1st Lord Gynes, of Lancashire and Westmorland, who died in 1323. Sir Enguerrand (or Ingram) de Guines [died 1323] was heir in 1311 to his maternal uncle, Enguerrand de Coucy, seigneur of Coucy, Marle, la Fere, Oisy, Crévecœur, Montmirel, Condé en Brie, Boissy, etc., Châtelain of Château-Thierry and Cambray, Vicomte of Meaux, after which Enguerrand’s descendants adopted the surname Coucy. My research indicates Sir Enguerrand de Guines [died 1323] was a 1st cousin of Alexander III, King of Scots, and a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England.
The following is a list of the 17th Century New World immigrants that descend from Mary Hussey and her 2nd husband, Henry Howard, Esq.:
Marmaduke Beckwith, Thomas Booth, Nathaniel Burrough, Elizabeth, John, and Thomas Butler, William Clopton, Anne Derehaugh, Edmund Jennings, Edmund, Edward, Richard, & Matthew Kempe, Mary Johanna Somerset, Jemima Waldegrave.
Do you descend from Mary Hussey? If so, I’d very much appreciate seeing your line of descent posted here on the newsgroup.
For interest’s sake, I’ve copied further below my current file copy concerning Mary Hussey and her three husbands.
Douglas Richardson, Historian and Genealogist
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HENRY HOWARD, Esq., of Boxted, Essex, East Walton and Terrington Howards, Norfolk, etc., younger son. He was a legatee in the 1426 will of his mother, Alice Howard. He was a legatee in the 1435 will of his father, Sir John Howard, who bequeathed him the manors of Buckenham, East Walton, Terrington Howards, and Wiggenhall, Norfolk. He married MARY HUSSEY (or HUSEE), widow of John Teye, Esq. (died testate 10 Nov. 1440), of Layer de la Haye, Aldham, Ardleigh Hall, Birch Holt, Bockingham Hall, Marks Tey, Mose Hall, and Peldon, Essex, and daughter of Henry Hussey, Knt. (died 1450), of Harting, Sussex, South Moreton and South Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Great Risindon and Saperton, Gloucestershire, Hascombe, Surrey, etc., by Constance his wife (died 1461). HENRY HOWARD was killed in June 1446, while visiting his brother, Robert Howard's widow, Margaret Mowbray. His killers appear to have been retainers of John le Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham. On 18 June 1446 John Mowbray oversaw the presentment of an Ipswich jury to examine the murder, but the case stalled. Scrope petitioned the king on the basis that Mowbray’s proceedings were “inaccurate and inherently malicious.” On 26 Nov. 1446 various feoffees of John Teye, Esq. [deceased], including William, Abbot of Colchester, granted Mary Howard the manor and advowson of the church of Peldon, Essex (a Teye family manor) for life, with successive remainders to the children of John Teye, Esq., namely John Teye, Robert Teye, and Grace and Constance Teye (these last two together), and their respective heirs. On 12 July 1447 John le Scrope, king’s esquire, son and heir apparent of John le Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham, John Chesshire, and many others were pardoned by the king, they having been impeached of malice before the king and many magnates and lieges of England by Mary, widow of Henry Howard, Esq., late of Boxted, Essex, of having murdered her said husband. Mary married (3rd) before 21 Sept. 1447 (date of release) (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM ALLINGTON (or ALYNGTON), Esq., of Horseheath and Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, 1433, 1436, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshiure, 1437–8, 1451, son and heir of William Allington [died 1446], of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, Treasurer of Calais, 1398–99, Treasurer of the Exchequer of Ireland, 1403–4, 1406–13, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, 1410, 1416, 1429, Sheriff of Cambridegshire and Huntingdonshire, 1414–15, 1423, 1427–28, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1429, by Joan, daughter and heiress of William Burgh, Knt. They had no issue. On 21 Sept. 1447 William Webbe, clerk and rector of Wulfurston, released to William and Mary his wife, formerly the wife of Henry Haward, Esq., of Boxted, Essex all personal [?receipts] which he had regarding William, Mary, and Henry. In 1450 William Foster, Citizen and tailor of London, sued William Alyngton, Esq., of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of 40s. In 1452–54 William and Mary his wife, late the wife of John Teye, Esq., sued William, Abbot of St. John, Colchester, and others, feoffees and executors of the said John Teye, in Chancery regarding profits of the manor of Picotes in Ardleigh, Essex; various goods; together with the manors, etc of Peldon, New Hall, Badcockes, Dorewardes, and Botynghams, and the advowson of Peldon Church. In 1453 he and John Eyre sued Edmund Bendyssh, Gent., of Barrington, Cambridgeshire, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of 40s. In 1455 he sued Thomas Archer, of Upton, Norfolk, and another in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Upton, Norfolk. In 1458 he sued Thomas Buntte, the elder, of Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, husbandman, and another in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. WILLIAM ALLINGTON, Esq., died 5 July 1459. In 1463–67 John Breton, administrator of John Teye, Esq., sued John, Abbot of St. John of Colchester, in Chancery regarding bonds for debts due to the said John Teye, which were in the hands of William, late abbot, petitioner’s co-administrator.
References:
Madox, Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 409–410. Blomefield, Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 80; 3 (1769): 155–171; 4 (1775): 740; 5 (1806): 235–259; 9 (1808): 87, 145. Brydges, Collins’ Peerage of England 1 (1812): 50–143 (author identifies Mary, wife of Henry Howard, as “daughter of Sir Henry Hussey, of the County of Sussex, Knight”). Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 211 (will of Alice Lady Howard). Burke, Dict. of the Peerages… Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance 2 (1832): 231–235 (sub Howard). Tierney, Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 2 (1834): 340–350 (Howard ped.: “Henry Howard, to whom his father, by his will dated 1435, assigned lands in Norfolk. Collins, I.56. = Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Hussey, of Sussex. Collins, I.56. ”). Hawley et al., Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 15 (Tey ped.: “Joh’es Tey ar’ obiit Ao 19 H. 6. = [left blank]”), 108–110 (Tey ped.: “John Teye. = Mary Hussey.”), 297 (Tey ped.: “John Tey of Layer de la haye in com. Essex, Gentleman lived the 4th of H. 6, 1425. = Mary, daugh. to Hussey.”). Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 284 (sub Howard) (author identifies Mary, wife of Henry Howard, as “dau. of Sir Henry Hussey”). Harvey et al., Vis. of Norfolk 1563 & 1613 (H.S.P. 32) (1891): 162–164 (Howard ped.: “Henry Howard, 2 son.”). Rutton, Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth (1891): 145–146. Cooke & St. George, Vis. of Cambridge 1575 & 1619 (H.S.P. 41) (1897): 14–17 (Allington ped.: “Sr William Allington knight = Elizebeth d. & heire of Sr John Argentyne, knight.”). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 13. Crisp, Vis. of England & Wales: Notes 7 (1907): 14–24 (Alington ped.: "William Alington of Horseheath, esquire ... died 5 July 1459 ... He marr. 2ndly Mary, widow of Henry Haward of Boxted, co. Essex, esquire."). Brenan & Statham, House of Howard 1 (1908): 13. C.P.R. 1446–1452 (1909): 62. Harvard Law Review 30 (1917): 229–230. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 183–200. VCH Gloucester 6 (1965): 98–106. Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 2 (1992): 27–29 (biog. of William Allington). VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 196–205 Court of Common Pleas, CP40/758, image 1177d (available at
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no758/bCP40no758dorses/IMG_1177.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/768, image 93f (available at
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no768/aCP40no768fronts/IMG_0093.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/776, image 1639d (available at
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no776/bCP40no776dorses/IMG_1639.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/788, image 1456d (available at
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no788/bCP40no788dorses/IMG_1456.htm). Essex Rec. Office: Western Fam. of Rivenhall, Kelvedon, Aldham, and Mundon, D/DWe (available at
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk). National Archives, C 1/18/118; C 1/19/296; C 1/30/56; E 327/741; WARD 2/25A/84/42 (available at
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
Child of Henry Howard, Esq., by Mary Hussey:
a. ELIZABETH HOWARD, married HENRY WENTWORTH, Esq., of Codham Hall (in Wethersfield), Essex [see JENNINGS 16].