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Iustice weston ( 556). Iustice harper (557). +207 Iustice Corbet (558). 208 seriant wraie ( 559). 209 seriant lowels ( 560). 210 william latesham (561). Andrue Grey (562). 211 212 Peter Grey (563) .

+205 206 Kent

hanchet (564). Underhil (565). henry Darcy mar to M" Dymocks sister (566). (556) For Richard Weston, Justice of Common Pleas, who died 6 July 1572 , see D.N.B. Ix. 364, and Foss, op. cit. 543 . (557) For Richard Harpur, Justice of Common Pleas, who died 29 Jan. 1576/7, 213 214 215

see Foss, op. cit. 496.

(558) For Reginald Corbet, Justice of Queen's Bench, who died in 1566, see D.N.B. xii. 203, and Foss , op. cit. 475. (559 ) For Sir Christopher Wray, see D.N.B. Ixiii . 75, and Foss , op. cit. 546. (560) No Kent Lovells appear as recusants; but in 1587 Thomas Lovel was a magistrate of Norfolk suspected and " reckoned to be backward in religion " (Strype , A. III . ii . 460) , and in 1592 Robert Lovell, of Beech Amwell, Norfolk, Esquire, was a recusant at liberty (Cal. Cecil MSS. iv. 268). They were the first and third sons respectively of Sir Thomas Lovell, of East Harling, who died in 1567. (Blomefield , i. 323.) Robert was admitted to Lincoln'sInn, 19 Dec. 1564 ( Rec. of Linc. Inn, Adm. . 72).

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(561 ) William Lottisham , of London , was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1554, and is frequently mentioned in the Records. (M.I.T. 20 ; Cal. Rec. I.T. . 244, 260, 261 , 263 , 269.) i (562) Andrew Gray, of Albury, Herts , entered the Inner Temple in Feb. 1552/3, and was a recusant in 1569 , but eventually conformed. He was called to the Bench 1574 , was Autumn Reader the same year, Double Reader in Lent 1583, and Treasurer 1585. He died 13 January 1614/5, aged 85, and was buried at Hinxworth. (M.I.T. 16 ; Cal. Rec. I. T. I. passim ; Cussans , Hertfordshire , Hundred of Odsey , 12. ) , (563) PerhapsJohn Gray, of Bisley, Herefordshire who entered the Inner Temple in Nov. 1564, became a barrister , and was disbarred for recusancyin 1572. (M.I.T. 53 : Cal. Rec. I.T. I. passim.) One John Gray, of Preston, in Suffolk, was sent to the Marshalsea, 2 January 1577/8, where he was in 1577 , 1579, 1584 , 1585, and 1588, and in 1593 had been in prison for nearly twenty years. ( C.R.S. ii . 232, 235, 240, 283 ; Strype , A. II. ii . 661 , III. ii . 600, IV. 261.) Another of this name, described of St. Saviour's in Southwark , was a recusant at liberty in 1592. (Cal. Cecil MSS. iv . 271.)

(564) Probably ? Thomas] Hanchet , of Braughing, Herts , father of the Thomas Hanchet who entered the Inner Temple in Nov. 1578, and was Sheriff of Herts 1591 and 1602. ( M.I.T. 86 ; H.S.P. xxii . 63. ) (565) William Underhill, e . s . of William Underhill, of the Inner Temple , Barrister -at-law, and of Idlicote and New Place, in Stratford -on-Avon , who died in 1570, sold New Place to Shakespeare, 4 May 1597, and died poisoned, 6 July 1597. He had married his 1st cousin , Mary, d. of Thomas Underhill, of Eatington . (See Herald and Genealogist , ii. 130-132. ) (566) This Henry D'Arcy is unidentified . Another HenryD'Arcy ( e. s . of Hon. Sir Arthur D'Arcy , Lieutenant of the Tower of London , 3rd s. of George, 1st Baron D'Arcy) entered the Inner Temple in November 1555, and was knighted 21 Aug. 1565 at Kenilworth by the Earl of Leicester. He was of Bremham, Yorks, and Leighton , Huntingdonshire , for which latter county he was a justice of the peace. He married (1 ) Catherine , d . of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt , and (2) Catherine , d. of Sir John Fermor. In 1581 he with others was ordered to search Mr. Price's house at Washingley in Huntingdonshire for Ralph Emerson, and for books and other superstitious stuffe belonging to B. Edmund Campion . (Shaw, ii . 71 ; Burke , Peerage (ed. 1907), 460 ; M.I.T. 24 ; Dasent, xiii . 153 ; Cal. Dom . 1581. )

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