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11. THANKFUL, b. at Northiam, and there
bapt. 5th September, 1591. He be-
came purse bearer and secretary to
Lord Keeper Coventry. He pur-
chased of Francis, Viscount Monta-
cute, in 1628, the presentation, and
in 1637, the advowson of Northiam.
He died unm. in London, 30th No-
vember, 1656, and was buried in the
chancel at Northiam in December
following.

III. John, b. January, 1593, died Janu-
ary, 1594.

IV. John, bapt. 8th February, 1595, m.
15th April, 1623, Dorothea, daugh-
ter and co-heir of Thomas Scott, of
Goateley, in the parish of Northiam,
succeeded his father in the rectory
of Northiam, 1628, to which he was
presented by his brother, Thankful,
and died and was buried there, 27th
January, 1654. From him descend
the Frewens of Ilmer.

v. Joseph, bapt. 4th June, 1598, buried
2nd November, 1602.

VI. STEPHEN, of whom presently.

Digby, the ambassador into Germany, and in 1622, accompanied him (then created Earl of Bristol) in the same capacity, to the court of Spain, where he was when Prince CHARLES came to Madrid as the suitor of the Infanta: he preached before the prince from the text 1 Kings xviii. 21, "How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him." The Catholics were fully impressed with the idea that Charles was quite prepared to return to their faith, and he was continually appealed to on the subject: this sermon intended to confirm him in the Protestant religion, made a lasting impression, for on his accession to the throne, he called for Frewen by name, and put him into the list of his chaplains with his own hand.4

In 1625, he was made a prebendary of Canterbury; and on the death of Dr. Langton was elected president of Magdalen College, October 24, 1626, and compounded for his degree D.D. December 16th in that same year. In 1628 and 29, he executed the office of vice chancellor of Oxford, and September 13th, 1631, succeeded Dr. Warburton in the deanery of Gloucester. About the year 1635, he was inducted to the rectories of Stanlake, Oxfordshire, and Warneford, Hampshire, both in the gift of his college. In 1638-39, he again became vice chancellor at the particular request of Archbishop Laud, with whom he was most intimate. Whilst president of Magdalen, he was mainly instrumental in sending the University plate to the king at York, and he also lent £500 to the college, to be presented to Charles towards the expenses of the war, upon which the

3 Rapin's History of England, vol. ix. p. 535.

6 Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 214.

1. Mary, bapt. 19th June, 1603, m. John Bigg, of Tenterden.

By his second wife John Frewen had five sons, viz.

VII. Benjamin, bapt. 10th May, 1609, a citizen of London, one of the company of Haberdashers.

VIII. Thomas, bapt. 17th March, 1611. IX. Timothy, bapt. 10th October, buried 14th December, 1614.

x. Jacob, bapt. 18th June, 1615, buried 28th February, 1616.

XI. Samuel, bapt. 2nd March, 1617. The sixth son,

STEPHEN FREWEN, bapt. 19th October, 1600, was a citizen of London, of the Skinners' Company: he realized a large fortune in trade, which was much increased by his inheriting Archbishop Frewen's property, of which he conveyed 27,000 guineas in specie in his carriage to London, after the prelates' funeral: this money which he deposited with Sir Robert Vyner, the banker, was by this last lent to King CHARLES II. and all lost on the shutting up of the Ex

parliament ordered him to be apprehended, (July 7th, 1642,) but he withdrew, and did not return to Oxford until the king came there after the battle of Edgehill. In 1643, August 17th, he was nominated to succeed Dr. Wright in the See of Lichfield and Coventry, but the troubles of the times prevented his consecration till the ensuing year, when it was performed in the college chapel, by Archbishop Williams and others, in the month of April, 1644.5 Hacket speaks in the highest terms of Dr. Frewen's generosity, in leaving the presidency of his college, a secure and valuable situation, to brave all the dangers and opprobrium of a bishoprick at a time when the title was merely nominal, the bishops having been expelled from the House of Peers, and the property of the see exposed for sale. In 1652, by the act of November 18th, his property was declared to be forfeited for treason, and £1000 reward offered by Cromwell to any one who would bring him dead or alive; but his name being incorrectly inserted in the proclamation as Stephen Frewen, D. D. he found time to escape into France, where he remained till the fury of the times abated, when he returned and lived very privately, sometimes with his nephew at Fulham, in Middlesex, and sometimes at Banstead in Surrey.8

At the Restoration, Dr. Frewen being one of the nine bishops who survived the persecution, was nominated to the See of York, confirmed in Henry VIIth's Chapel, Westminster, October 4, 1660, and about the same time appointed lord high almoner of England. The bishoprick of Lichfield being kept open in the hopes that Mr. Calamy

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7 Compare Walker's Suff. of Clergy, part ii. p. 248, with Vindication of Dr. Frewen, p. 9.

8 Le Neve, p. 235.

"Calamy's Life of Baxter, vol. i. p. 151.

chequer. As a trifling compensation, government allowed him £300 per annum, and offered to settle the rent of the Post Office on him and his heirs for ever, which being then only £100 per annum, he did not think worth his acceptance, and he was deprived of the £300 annuity in the reign of King WILLIAM, by an alteration in the Excise, from which it arose. Mr. Alderman Frewen purchased Brickwall House of William White, esq. and bought other large estates in the counties of Lincoln, Middlesex, Kent, and Sussex. He lived to a great age, having survived two attacks of the plague, and died at Brickwall, and was buried at Northiam, 11th September, 1679.

Mr. Frewen married first, 9th April, 1629, Katherine, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Scott, of Goateley, in Northiam, and by her (who died in child-birth, and was buried in St. John Baptist's Church, London, 1st December, 1630,) had issue,

THOMAS, of whom presently. He m. secondly in 1636, Elizabeth Greene, supposed to have been daughter of John

Greene, esq. serjeant-at-law, descended from the family of Green,† of Green's Norton, in Northamptonshire, and by her (who died and was buried in St. John's, London, 26th December, 1655,) had another son,

John, bapt. 28th May, 1637, buried 2nd October, 1638.

He was s. by his elder son,

THOMAS FREWEN, esq. bapt. 27th September, 1630: returned to parliament for the borough of Rye in 1678, which place he represented in six successive parliaments, until 1698. He married first, Judith, sole daughter and heir of John Wolverstone, of Fulham, in the county of Middlesex, in whose right he inherited a large property there, and by whom (who died 29th September, 1666, in the twenty-seventh year of her age, and eleventh of her marriage, and lies buried in York Minster, 1) he had five children. Mr. Frewen married secondly in 1671, Bridget, § daughter of Sir Thomas Laton, of Laton, in the county of York, and co-heiress of her brother, Charles Laton, inherited in her right, the large estates in

don, on the election of Bishop Laud to the dignity of Chancellor of Oxford.

A common place book in folio, and another in quarto. The most interesting of his works, viz. "An account in Latin of his visit to the various German courts while chaplain to Lord Digby," has been unfortunately lost.

would conform and accept it, Dr. Frewen had the grant of renewing leases in that See as well as York, which was exceedingly profitable, the lives having all fallen in during the Rebellion: this grant will not appear undeserved, when we consider the profitable preferment given up for a see which for near twenty years produced nothing, and the loss of all his temporal estate on account of his exertions in the royal cause. In 1660, October 28th, he assisted at the consecration of Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, and in the January following, at that of Gilbert Trowside, Bishop of Bristol. In 1661, he was chairman of the Savoy Conference: his opponent Baxter speaks of him as a peaceable man, and one who refrained from taking an active part in the proceedings. In 1663, December 20th, he assisted at the consecration of William Paul, Bishop of Oxford, to which he was commissioned by Archbishop Sheldon. This great prelate closed his eventful life, March 28th, 1664, and was buried May 3rd, under the Dr. Frewen was so particular in his moral chaeast window of York Cathedral, where a hand-racter, that he never allowed a female servant to some monument is erected to his memory.

Dr. Frewen was accounted a general scholar and good orator, but has left nothing extant except an oration and certain verses on the death of Prince Henry. The works of the anonymous author of the Whole Duty of Man have by some been attributed to him, though apparently without sufficient reason: there are, however, in the possion of the present family the following works in his own hand writing:

A collection of Latin orations from 1628 to 1660; most of which were delivered by him in convocation whilst vice chancellor; one of them delivered before King CHARLES I. at Woodstock, in 1629, and another in the bishop's palace, Lon

1 Life of Baxter, vol. i. p. 171.
3 Vindication of Dr. Frewen.

Dr. Frewen expended near £1500 in repairing the cathedral at Lichfield, and a large sum in improving the palace at Bishopsthorpe, where he entirely rebuilt the great dining room and chambers over it. He bequeathed by his will £1000 to Magdalen College, Oxford, with some smaller legacies for charitable purposes. The advowson of Northiam, which he inherited from his next brother, Thankful Frewen, he left to his nephew, Thomas Frewen, the third rector of this family, and all the rest of his property, amounting to £30,000, to his brother and executor, Stephen Frewen, alderman of London.3

belong to his household: the circumstances attending his birth (fuit filius utero matris viventis excisus) had such an effect on his mind that he resolved to remain single, and died unmarried.*

Vindication of Dr. Frewen, p. 17, and Turnor's Case of the Bankers; London, 1675. + The arms of Green, of Greens Norton are, azure, three bucks tripping, or.

See Drake's York, p. 512.

By this alliance the present family claim descent from the noble houses of Fairfax, Lord Elmley; Constable, Lord Dunbar; and Percy, Earl of Northumberland; (see Fairfax of Gilling, vol. ii. of this work.) Arms of Laton, argent, a fess sable between six cross crosslets fitchèe.

2 Le Neve.
4 Ibid. p. 13.

the county of York of that ancient family, and by her (who died at Brickwall and was buried on the same day with her father-inlaw, Mr. Alderman Frewen,) had six more children. Mr. Frewen married thirdly, Jane, Lady Wymondsold, relict of Sir Dawes Wymondsold, of Putney, in the county of Surrey, and sole daughter and heir of Sir Robert Cooke, of Highnam, in the county of Gloucester, by his second wife, Jane, relict of Mr. George Herbert,+ by Lady Wymondsold, (who died 20th June, 1718, aged seventy, and lies buried at Putney,) he had no issue. Mr. Frewen died 8th September, 1702, and was buried at Putney in the vault of the Wymondsold family. By his first wife, Judith, Mr. Frewen had issue,

Thomas, d. unm. in 1680.

EDWARD (Sir), b. in 1661, and with Ro-
bert Wymondsold, received the ho-
nour of knighthood from King JAMES
II. in the royal bedchamber, 4th
March, 1684. Sir Edward was major
of the first regiment of the Cinque
Ports, and M.P. for Rye. He m.
Selina, daughter of John Godschall, +
of East Sheene, in Surrey, and by
her (who died suddenly at Hawk-
hurst, 25th November, 1714, and was
buried at Northiam,) had issue,
THOMAS.

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Laton Frewen, of Brafferton Hall, Yorkshire, b. in 1694, m. Mary, daughter of Faceby, (she d. 23rd April, 1786); assumed in 1770, the name Turner, on inheriting from his cousin, Selina Turner, the joint estates of the Frewens of Brickwall and the Turners of Cold Overton, and dying without issue, 19th July, 1777, was interred at Brafferton. Stephen, b. April, 1675, died unm. in the East Indies.

JOHN, of whom presently.

William, b. August, 1677, buried December the same year.

Charles, b. in September, buried December, 1678.

THOMAS, of whom presently.

Mary, b. 25th July, 1672, m. Henry Turner, esq. of Cold Overton, in the county of Leicester, serjeant-at-law. The fourth son by the second marriage, Jane, b. 1686, m. in 1704, to Wil- JOHN FREWEN, b. in 1676, in holy orders, liam Ives, of Bradden, in North-rector, first of Sidbury, in Devonshire, and amptonshire, and d. s. p. 10th afterwards of Tysoe, in the county of WarJanuary, 1706. wick, and Walton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, Selina, b. in 1691, m. 15th August, m. Rachel, daughter of Richard Stevens, of 1727, to John Turner, of Cold Culham, || in the county of Berks, and by Overton, in Leicestershire. This her (who died 21st March, 1752, aged selady, having survived her hus- venty-seven, and was buried at Sapcote,) band, inherited the Brickwall had issue, estate at the death of her nephew, Thomas Frewen, in 1766. She d. s. p. 5th March, 1770, and lies buried at Cold Overton. Sir Edward d. 8th Oct. 1723, was buried at Northiam, and s. by his son, THOMAS FREWEN, § b. in 1687, m. 7th July, 1713, Martha, only daughter of Mr. Serjeant Turner, of Cold Overton, and by her, who was burned to death at Brickwall, 6th February, 1752, had a son, THOMAS FREWEN, who d. unmarried, and was buried at

Sir Daws Wymondsold was an eminent royalist, and one for whom King CHARLES II. intended the order of the Royal Oak, (see his pedigree in Herald's College). Arms of Wymondsold, argent, a chevron between three martlets, sable. + See Walton's Life of Herbert, last page. Arms of Godschall, argent, three bendlets, wavy, azure.

John, b. 1715, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and rector of Tortworth, in the county of Gloucester, m. Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of John Townsend,¶ of Oxford, by whom (who survived him, and m. secondly, Nathan Wright, of Englefield,* ** in the county of Berks, and died 2nd April, 1814, aged seventythree,) he had issue one daughter,

Selina Frewen, b. at Tortworth, 5th January, 1767, m. 2nd September, 1794, the Rev. James Knight Moor, rector of Sapcote,

§ See his obituary in Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1738.

Arms of Stevens, parti per chevron, vert and argent, two falcons or, belled, in chief.

¶ Arms of Townsend, azure, three escallops argent.

** See Wyndham, of Cromer, vol. ii. of this work.

Leicestershire, and dying 7th | February, 1818, was interred at Rugby with her husband, by whom she left issue an only son. Mr. Frewen died 3rd October, 1767, and was buried at Tortworth. Bridget, b. in 1704, d. unm. in London,

and was buried in St. George's, Queen Square.

Rachel, b. in 1710, m. to Simon Knight,† of Rugby, and was buried with him at Slapton, in the county of Northampton, in July, 1794.

Mary, b. 1715, m. the Rev. Stanley Burrough, head master of Rugby school, and rector of Sapcote. She d. s. p. 12th September, 1801, and is buried at Sapcote.

Rev. John Frewen died at Sapcote, and was there buried, 19th February, 1735. His

elder son,

THOMAS FREWEN, a clergyman, born at Sidmouth, Devon, in 1708, was rector of Sapcote, Leicestershire. On the death of his cousin, Laton Frewen Turner, of Brafferton Hall, Yorkshire, in 1777, he succeeded to the joint estates of the Frewen and Turner families, and assumed the name of TURNER, pursuant to the will of John Turner, of Cold Overton. He m. Esther Simkin, by whom (who died 6th October, 1803, aged eighty-three, and is buried at Cold Overton,) he had issue,

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Selina, b. November, 1760, died at Cold

Overton, 7th April, 1784.

Rev. Thomas Frewen Turner died at Cold Overton, 22nd November, 1791, was there buried, and s. by his son,

JOHN FREWEN, esq. born at Sapcote, 1st August, 1755. On the death of Mrs. Frewen Turner, of Brafferton, in 1786, this gentleman succeeded to the Yorkshire estates of the family in 1791, he served the office of high sheriff for Leicestershire. On the death of his father in 1791, he assumed the name of TURNER, as possessor of the Turner estates in Leicestershire, of which county he was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant, and lieutenant-colonel of the yeomanry cavalry at the general election in 1807, he was returned to parliament for Athlone, which he represented till 1812. In 1808 he married Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of

* Viz. Rev. John Frewen Moor, of Bradfield House, in the county of Berks.

+ Arms of Knight, argent, on a fess between three buffaloes' heads, erased sable, armed, through each of their noses an annulet or, a fret between two eaglets close, of the field.

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Arms-Ermine, four bars azure, a demilion rampant, proper, issuant in chief. Quartering Scott of Halden, Conghurst of Conghurst, Laton of Laton, Hay of Hopes, and Clarke of the county of Clare, in Îreland.

Crest-A demi-lion rampant argent langued and collared gules, bearing in its paws a galltrap azure.

Motto-Mutare non est meum.

Estates--Chiefly in the counties of Leicester, Sussex, and Cork.

Seats Cold Overton Hall, Leicestershire; Brickwall House, Northiam, Sussex; Innishannon, in the county of Cork.

Family of Turner.

TURNERS married one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Edward Watson, of Bramcote, in the county of Warwick, by whom he acquired one moiety of the estate in that parish, which had belonged to the Abbey of Leicester, and which was granted to the said Edward Watson in 1542, by King HENRY VIII. He had issue,

JOHN TURNER, who purchased of Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1573, the estate and advowson of Atherstone-upon-Stour, in the county of Warwick, and presented to the living in the years 1581, 1583, and 1608 ; he was father of

WILLIAM TURNER, who sold his estate at Bramcote to Gamaliel Purefoy: jointly with his father he presented to the living of Atherstone, in 1608: he is supposed to have been the father of

JOHN TURNER, merchant of London, who in 1658, and following years advanced large sums of money to John St. John, esq. of Cold Overton, in the county of Leicester,

See his obituary in Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1829.

Parish of Bramcote. § See Dugdale's History of Warwickshire,

|| See ditto, Parish of Atherstone-upon-Stour.

upon mortgage of his estates there. This | which they descended to Laton Frewen, of John m. Martha, youngest child of John Brafferton Hall, Yorkshire. Pettiward, of Putney, in the county of Surrey, and by her (who survived him and died in 1681,) had issue,

HENRY, of whom presently.
John, a merchant of Exeter, died with-

out issue.

Richard, of Lincoln's Inn, afterwards of Barbadoes, died unmarried in 1705.

Roger, merchant of Faro, in the kingdom of Algarve, in Portugal, died there 6th February, 1735, unmarried.

Mr. Turner was compelled to institute legal proceedings against John St. John for the recovery of the money due to him, but died during the progress of the suit in 1669. His eldest son,

HENRY TURNER, born in 1656, was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and became serjeantat-law at the termination of the proceedings in Chancery, he obtained possession of the estates of Cold Overton and Sapcote, in the county of Leicester, the value of which, however, did not at all cover the debt due to him from Mr. St. John. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Frewen, M.P. of Brickwall, and by her (who died 13th October, 1735, and was buried at Sapcote,) had issue,

JOHN, his heir.
Martha, b. 1695, m. 7th July, 1713,
Thomas Frewen, of Brickwall, and
was burned to death there 6th Febru-
ary, 1752.

Serjeant Turner died at Coventry while attending the circuit, 29th March, 1724, was buried at Sapcote, and succeeded by

his son,

JOHN TURNER, esq. b. in 1691, who served the office of high sheriff for Leicestershire in 1739. He m. 15th August, 1721, Selina, youngest daughter of Sir Edward Frewen, of Brickwall, and dying at Cold Overton Hall, 5th August, 1753, without issue, lies buried in the church there. He bequeathed his Leicestershire estates to his widow for her life, and at her death entailed them on the Frewen family, in pursuance of

John Pettiward was a wealthy merchant of London, and was fined £500 for refusing to serve the office of Alderman. Hed. in 1671, possessed of lands at St. Dunstan in the East, and in the county of Suffolk. He is ancestor of the present family of Pettiward, of Putney. The following arms were granted to him by CHARLES II. for his zeal in promoting the Restoration:"Argent on a cross raguly sable, five estoiles of the field."

Of this elder branch was John Scott, D.D. rector of St. Giles in the Fields, London. He was a noted divine, and author of "The Chris

Arms-Ermine on a cross sable, five fers de moulins argent.

Crest-A lion passant argent, carrying in dexter paw a fer de moulin sable.

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The second son,

THOMAS SCOTT, married Mildred, only daughter and heir of George Conghurst, of Conghurst, in the parish of Hawkhurst. This family of Conghurst bad been seated here from time immemorial. Their original residence, called Old Conghurst, a castellated mansion situated close to the Level, (formerly an arm of the sea,) was burned by the Danes at a very remote period: ‡ they subsequently removed to the high ground, where the present house is situated. This last house Thomas Scott, after his marriage, began to rebuild, but he died before it was finished, and his widow completed it. By her he had issue,

GEORGE, his heir.

Thomas, m. Margery, daughter of Clarke, of Ford, in the parish of Wrotham, and by her, who died and

tian Life," 4 vols. oct. London, 1696: the first part was published some years before, but the last two vols. came out after his death in the year above mentioned.

Nothing now remains of old Conghurst, except the scite, which is moated round, it is about half a mile from the present house; this latter has been much modernized, but still retains some ancient portions, particularly in the kitchen, where are to be seen the arms of Scott and Conghurst, quarterly, and underneath them the date, 1599.

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