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THE HISTORY OF
THE HAWTREY FAMILY
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THE HISTORY OF THE
HAWTREY FAMILY
BY
FLORENCE MOLESWORTH HAWTREY
** Have regard to thy name : for that shall continue
^uitb thee above a thousand great treasures of gold***
— EccLEsiAsncus xli. 12.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
WITH THIRTEEN PORTRAITS
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LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1903
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JUL 2 9 1904
PREFACE
The first lines of my comjnlation are really a Preface to the
work. Here, I only desire to express my cordial thanks to
those who have kindly shown interest in it, or have materially
helped it forward.
In particular, I wish to express very sincere thanks for
encouragement emanating from the Royal library at Wind-
sor Gistle ; and my gratitude is due to Lord Hawkesbury —
himself a descendant from Lady Bankes, nee Mary Hawtrey
— to Lord Coleridge, Mr. Frankland Russell Astley of
Chequers, Mr. and Miss Hawtrey Collins Splatt, Dr.
Hawtrey Benson, the Hon. Mr. Justice Benson, Mrs.
Cholmeley, Canon Garry, Mr. Herries, and others too many
to mention, for their kind contributions. Also for the
same, and for the loan of valuable MSS., I wish to ex-
press my best thanks to Mr. Storey-Maskelyne, Mr. Ralph
Hawtrey Deane, Miss Jones of MuUinabro, and Mrs. Vere-
Benson.
Another fiiend has done me a Idndness which I warmly
appreciate — namely, Mr. Arthur Jelf (K.C.), whose letter
will be found in my book. To him, and to Mr. Montague
Noel for his recollections of my brother kindly given to me,
I offer my sincere and grateful thanks.
Of help from nearer home I will not particularly speak,
but those who have afforded it well know they have my
heartfelt gratitude.
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One or two more friends, however, I wish to name. My
cousin, Miss Marshall, who has given me her recollec-
tions of passages she has heard or known of 'relating to
my father's early life ; and my cousins (on both sides), the
Miss Hawtreys of Tenby and the Miss Watsons ; all these
I desire to thank for materials and information very kindly
afforded me.
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NOTE AS TO THE HAWTREY CREST
The crest which appears on the binding of the work is
not recognised at the College of Arms; but as it has
been in use^ in our branch of the family^ at least since
the end of the eighteenth century^ I have thought it best
to continue the use of it. A Lion ^^ passant gardant^^
was apparently adopted as crest after the family settled at
Ruislipj and continued^ with some alterations^ to the present
time ; but it seems that it never was registered at the
College of Arms.
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CONTENTS
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PEDIGREE I To fact page i
I. INTRODUCTORY i
II. EARLY NOTICES 8
III. HEADING TO PEDIGREE AND SUSSEX HAW-
TREYS la
IV. HAWTREYS OF ALGARKIRK . . .15
V. HAWTREYS OF CHEQUERS 18
VI. HAWTREYS OF RUISLIP 35
VII. CORFE CASTLE 43
VIII. RUISLIP AND SANDERSTEAD . , . . 60
IX. PINNER 79
X. LAST HAWTREYS OF RUISLIP . .81
PEDIGREE II Tofactpage 86
XI. DIRECT ANCESTORS OF THE PRESENT HAW-
TREY FAMILY 86
PEDIGREE III Tofactpage 97
XII. THE SLEECH FAMILY 97
PEDIGREE IV. . . . . . Tofactpage ii>
XIII. DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES HAWTREY, SUB-
DEAN OF EXETER ita
XIV. LETTERS FROM MY GRANDFATHER AND HIS
BROTHERS 145
XV. MARRIAGE OF STEPHEN HAWTREY, RE-
CORDER OF EXETER, AND LETTERS
FROM HIM AND HIS FAMILY . . .151
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XVI. FURTHER LETTERS FROM MEMBERS OF MY
GRANDFATHER'S FAMILY . . .157
XVII. LETTERS FROM MY GRANDFATHER,
STEPHEN HAWTREY, TO HIS SONS .171
XVIII. MY GRANDFATHER'S ELDEST SON STEPHEN 190
XIX. LETTERS FROM JOHN HAWTREY, VICAR OF
RINGWOOD, TO HIS NEPHEW, MY FATHER 19*
XX. MY FATHER'S VISIT TO IRELAND, AND
NOTICES OF MY MOTHER'S FAMILY . 196
XXL IRISH REBELLION . . . . . .305
XXII. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD WATSON . 314
XXIII. EARLY LIFE OF ANNE WATSON ... 344
XXIV. MY FATHER'S FIRST INTRODUCTION TO
THE WESLEYANS 249
XXV. MY FATHER'S LETTER FROM SEA AND
FROM MADEIRA 351
XXVI. LETTERS FROM THE WEST INDIES . . 380
XXVII. MY FATHER'S JOURNAL OF 1809 amd 1870 . 3J1
XXVIII. EARLY LETTERS FROM MY FATHER . . 367
XXIX. FALMOUTH, CANTERBURY, AND FRANCE . 377
XXX. MEMOIR OF GEORGE HAWTREY . . .393
XXXI. END OF SOJOURN AT MANCHESTER . . 409
XXXII. PORTSMOUTH, SHERBORNE, AND MAID.
STONE 437
XXXIII. MONTAGUE HAWTREY 433
XXXIV. VARIOUS FAMILY LETTERS . . . .475
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Ralph Hawtrst op Ruitup (1570)
Ma&y» Davohtbk op Edward and Mary Altham, and
WiFi OP Ralph Hawtrey op Rvisup
Bromzb Statub op Lady Bankbs . • • •
Edward Altham •
BCary, Wifb op Edward Altham
John Hawtriy op RtnsLip» Son op Ralph •
Ralph, thi Last Hawtrby op Ruitup
Charlbs Hawtriy, Svb-Dban op Exbtbr and Rbctor
OP Hbayitru
John Hawtriy, Rsctor of Maplb Durham (1645)
Stsphbh Hawtrby, Rbcordbr of Exbtbr
Sarah Hurnaro^ Wipb of Stbphbn Hawtrby of Exbtbr
JoHm Hawtrby, Captain in H.M. 25TH Rboimbnt
Aim WaTBOM, APTBRWARDt THB WiPB OF JoHN HaWTRBY
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Sir RALPH of the Exchequer. Kni||
KATHERINE, only child to the aH
who lived in the tir
Sir WILLIAM HAWTREY of Algarkiri
ADAM
THOMAS DE HAWTREY of Chequers, who lived in the Ume
of Sir Hal
NICHOLAS DE HAW
RICHARD DE HAWTREY, son and heir to the above, lived in
THOMAS HAWTREY of Chequers, son and heir to the at
THOMAS HAWTREY of Chequer
Chequers.
THOMAS HAWTREY,
son and heir to the above, died in 1544, the scth yes
He was probably bom early in the reign of Henry '
SiBBLL Hampden, and was brother to the " Raufe^' \
fred Wollaston and settled at Ruislip
JACOB DELAVAL ASTLEY. bom il
When EUcsborough Church was restored, whatever
Hawtrey Family were found, were placed in one part ol
flat stone was let into the floor with this inscription :— ^
UNDER
this stone
IS THE RESTING PLACE
OF THE ANCIENT
HAWTREYS
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
/ Being the youngest of a large family most of whom have
passed away before me, I have become the recipient of a
number of old papers and letters, with the help of which,
and of my own recollections, journals, and notes from the
recollections of my sister, Anna Hawtrey, I may be able to
make a sketch of some of the members of my family inter-
esting, at all events, to the children of my brothers and
sbters, and possibly to others.
Amongst the papers mentioned above, which have come
into my hands, is one written, or rather begun years ago,
probably in 1875, by my sister. I give it, with but little
alteration, as I find it.
Fragment left by Anna Hawtrey
"My dear nephews and nieces" (she writes), "one of
you asked me a question about your grandfather a short
time ago, which led me to think how rapidly the past is
forgotten. I determined at once to begin what I have long
thought about— a history of your ancestors, including this
dear grandfather, who well deserved to be remembered.
" I wish to make it as far as possible an interesting his-
tory — not a dull pedigree; I want you not to think of
names, but of people. To this end I do not intend to
begin at the beginning, or at this time to say much about
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your more remote ancestors, but to give you the history of
the younger branch of the family from which you descend,
from the time when they became distinct from the elder
branch.
"But first, in order that you may be able to believe
what I say, I must tell you that it is quite possible to
ascertain the history of private families. You know it
can be done in the case of royal families, or there could
be no authentic histories; it is not so easy in the case of
private families, but a great deal may be done. There are
records of undoubted authority kept at the Heralds* Col-
lege, the Record Office, the British Museum, the Bodleian
Library at Oxford, and all these places have been visited by
my eldest brother. There he has examined MSS. of per-
fect authority, ancient books in which are to be found copies
of monumental inscriptions now effistced by time, old his-
tories of the foundation of monasteries, and other things of
this kind; but especially the MSS. of the Heralds* visita-
tions. Of later — that is, for the last 250 years — ^the records
of Eton College, and of King*s College, Cambridge, supply
valuable information; and when you add to this, parish
registers, monumental brasses and inscriptions, and old
family parchments, deeds, wills, letters, inventories, of
which there is quite a large collection in the old chests
at Ruislip, I think you will agree with me that there may
well be sufficient evidence of what I am going to tell you.
"Let me then begin by introducing you to Ralph
Hawtrey, who was born in the year 1495. ^^ was the
fourth son of Thomas Hawtrey of Chequers in Bucking-
hamshire, a property which at this time had been for about
250 years in the family. It had been acquired by the
marriage of Sir William de Alta Ripa, Dawtrey, or Hawtrey,
of Algarkirk in Lincolnshire, with the heiress of Sir Ralph
de Chequers, Lord of Ellesborough.
"I went to see this beautiful old place last summer.
The house, somewhat in the Elizabethan style, was rebuilt
in 1566 by William Hawtrey, nephew to the Ralph above
mentioned, our direct ancestor.
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" Though many changes have come over the old house,
many of the rooms continue unaltered in their material
features.
"The grounds are most picturesque and beautiful.
The house is in a shady valley sheltered by the Chiltern
Hills. The * Velvet Lawn/ the * Happy Valley/ the
•Silver Springs/ are names given to different parts of
the grounds; there are some very old trees — an elm called
* King Stephen's Tree/ and some very old yews.
" The name of Hawtrey at Chequers ceased with the grand-
daughters of the above-mentioned William Hawtrey. They
were three co-hcircsses ; the second daughter, Bridget, carried
the estate of Chequers into the Croke family, from whence
it passed by descent through the Thurbanes, Rivetts, Russels,
Russel-Greenhills, into the possession of the present family of
Sir Robert Frankland Russel. The traces of the Hawtreys
still left at Chequers are a large picture of Sir William
Hawtrey, son to the William who rebuilt the house, and his
wife — this picture is in the drawing-room — also there is one
of their daughter, Bridget (Lady Croke), and one of her son ;
the whole coat-of-arms of the Hawtreys in stained glass in
the dining-room, and several of their quarterings in different
windows ; also a piece of sculpture on the north front of the
house, representing the crest of the Hawtreys, with the initials
W.H. and A.H., William Hawtrey and Agnes, his second
wife, daughter to William Walpole; also a small blazoned
roll of arms, in which is the ancient coat of the Hawtreys
(az. five fusils in fess ar.), with the coats of the several families
into which they had married; also a pedigree executed in
1632, from about a.d. 1150 till the extinction of the eldest
branch of the family in the male line.
" In the * Life of Sir Thomas Gresham * is an interesting
account of Lady Mary Grey (sister to Lady Jane Grey), who
displeased Queen tlizabeth by marrying * the gentleman
porter * of the Queen's household. Lady Mary was immedi-
ately separated from her husband, and the Privy Council
determined that she should be sent into the country, and
given in charge to Mr. Hawtrey of Chequers. She lived
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there for two years, and was then transferred to the custody of
the Duchess of Suffolk, and thence to Sir Thomas Gresham*s.
Ultimately, after her husband*s death, she was restored to the
Queen's favour. This William Hawtrey had been frequently
employed on State affairs in Queen Mary's reign, as the
minutes of the Privy Council show.
" Before returning to Ralph Hawtrey, our direct ancestor,
I will give you the monumental inscription to his eldest
brother Thomas of Chequers (father to the William last
mentioned). Nearly ef&ced as this inscription now is in
Ellesborough Church, it is preserved almost entire in Willis's
MS. 4, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where you may
read as follows : —
" * Of your charitie pray for the Soules of Thomas Haw-
trey, Esquyer, and Sybell his wyffe, which Thomas decessyd
the XV. day of November in the yere of our Lord God
MCCCCCXLiiij. and the said Sybell decessyd the . . . day of
... in the yere of our Lord God mccccc ... on whose
Soules and all Christian Soules J. H. U. have mercy.'
"This Sybell was the daughter of Richard Hampden, in
the county of Bucks.
" And now to return to Ralph Hawtrey of Ruislip, brother
to the above. He was born in a.d. 1495.
**The first thing which appears to mc to be interesting is
his Christian name. There is no Ralph in the pedigree be-
tween him and Sir Ralph de Scaccario of Chequers, the father
of the Katharine who married Sir William de Alta Ripa (or
Hawtrey) of Algarkirk in Lincolnshire, and who lived in
the time of Henry III. (1261). Therefore, wc may con-
clude that Thomas Hawtrey of Chequers took some interest
in his ancestors, going back from his own time (a.d. 1494)
more than two hundred years, to find a name for his
younger son.
*^ Ralph came to live at Ruislip, no ddubt in consequence
of his marriage ; his wife is described as Winefred, daughter
of Mr. WoUaston of Rislip in the county of Middlesex.
"I have at this moment in my hand a beautifully pre-
served parchment — the lease in Latin by which the Dean and
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Canons of Windsor grant the Rectory of Rislip to Ralph
Hawtrey, a.d. 1532, reserving to themselves the right of
appointing the Vicar. This must have been among the
earliest effects of the Reformation.
"This Ralph Hawtrey had a friend, or at all events an
acquaintance, in Gabriel Dormer of Shipton Lee, in the
parish of Quainton.
" The Dormers derive their descent from Thomas Dormer
or d*Ormer — in Latin, De Mare Aureo. Thomas Dormer,
in 1042, attended King Edward the Confessor on his return
from France,
"Among the valuable documents preserved in the old
chests at Ruislip is a copy of the will of the above-mentioned
Gabriel, the descendant of this Thomas Dormer — it was made
in 1557, and by the kindness of the Librarian of the Bodleian
I had it translated into modern English. It is very interest-
ing, as showing the comparative simplicity of those times.
A great part of his property seemed to be, like that of the
patriarchs of old, in flocks and herds. He had land and
leases of land. He leaves to his wife Bridget most of his
property in money, land, and 1000 sheep, also *steync,* bulls,
and oxen, all his horses *that go to plough or harrow, my
dune gelding, my Iblack amblyng geldyng, my grey gelding,
ij.- Lyncolnshire herraurne nagges, a bolte amblyng mare
with an amblyng colt, and a great bay trotting mare.*
" He leaves the lease of Tewchwick, with the stock of 1000
sheep, to be employed for the use of * his three sonnes,* and
to them also he leaves everything after his wife's death : first,
that is to his eldest son Peter, and in case of his death to his
second son Ralph, and after him to William. He also leaves
something to his daughters, and money to the Mother Church
at Lyncoln, * to the Hye Aulter at Queynton,* to mending
various causeways and bridges, *to repairing of our bells,*
also to servants he leaves both sheep and money. His * wyffe
is to pay Richard Thompson yerlye xx** over and above his
wages, and for that I give my wyflFe xx^* pounds more, trusting
that he will do to her sutch trustye service as he hath done to
me, and for that I give him the bolted gelding.* He seems
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to have a tender love for his wife, and to be most anxious for
her welfare, and whenever he expresses a wish that she should
give anything extra to the servants he leaves her an extra sum
of money for the purpose. He leaves legacies to all his God-
children and relations, chiefly * shepe ' ; to his cousin Ambrose
Dormer he leaves his * sygnet,' also * my brown amblyng
geldyng, my brown bay trotting geldyng, my rowne geldynge* ;
also he leaves to his brother. Parson Bury, his best crossbow,
and to his brother James Bury * my next bowe and all things
belonging thereto/ He makes * Brigett his wyflFe ' and his
* cosyn Ambrose Dormer ' his executors. He speaks of the
rent of some land to be paid to * Mr. Hawtrey.*
" The reason I believe him to have been a friend of Ralph
Hawtrey is because he calls his second son Ralph : also,
that his widow Bridget marries John Hawtrey, Ralph's eldest
son, and his daughter Elizabeth marries Edward Hawtrey, his
second son, from which marriage we descend. John, the elder
brother, died without issue. There were also marriages be-
tween the Hawtreys of Chequers and the Dormers. Wine-
fred Dormer, daughter of the Ambrose mentioned as cousin
and executor of Gabriel, married Sir William Hawtrey of
Chequers, and her brother. Sir Michael Dormer, married Sir
William Hawtrey*s sister Dorothy. These two. Sir William
and his sister Dorothy, were first cousins once removed to the
John and Edward Hawtrey, the two brothers who both mar-
ried Dormers, cousins to Sir Michael and his sister Winefred.
" At the east end of the church at Ruislip, and on the
south side near the chancel, is a flat stone with the following
inscription in memory of the first of the Chequers family of
Hawtrey, who settled, as we have seen, at Ruislip upon his
marriage with Winefred WoUaston of that place : —
*Etat79 Etatyi
21 June 1574. 14 October 1573.
Ralph Hawtrey, gentleman, and Winyfryde his wife, whose
bodyes here in the earth lyeth, and Heaven their souls for aye
hath won, and brynge us thether when we are gone.*
" By this quaint inscription, compared with that above given
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to his eldest brother, Thomas, who died thirty years before,
we see the change in religious thought and feeling which
was taking place in England at this period.
" This inscription is now entirely effaced, but it was visible
in 1767, when a copy of all the inscriptions upon upright
monuments and monumental flat gravestones of the Hawtrey
family in the chancel and church of Ruislip, was made and
examined at Ruislip by Henry Bankes, Esquire, 1 2th August
1767. He was a descendant of Mary Hawtrey, who
married Sir John Bankes of Corfe Castle, * Lord Chief Justice
of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and of the Privy
Council to his late Majesty King Charles of blessed memory,
who' (the epitaph goes on to say, speaking of Mary, Lady
Bankes) * having had the honor to have borne with a con-
stancy and courage above her sex a noble proporcon of the
late calamities, and the happiness to have outlived them so
far as to have scene the restitution of the Government, with
great peace of mind laid down her most desired life, the nth
day of April 1661/
" This is an extract from an inscription on a white marble
monument in the chancel of Ruislip Church, put up * by her
son and heire. Sir Ralph Bankes/ "
My sister's manuscript ends here : my first idea was to
carry on her narrative, but I should like, before doing so, to
collect all I can of the earliest notices of our family, and to
bring in some account of other branches, after which I will
return to that one from which we directly descend.
I have manuscripts by me, some of them compiled by
my sisters, or by my cousins (sisters to Dr. Hawtrey, the
late Provost of Eton) ; besides these, and other sources of
information, through the kindness of Mr. Deane of East-
cote House, Ruislip, the old home of the Hawtreys (his
and my ancestors), I have access to valuable manuscripts
belonging to him.
From all of these, from family letters, and from recol-
lections of things I have heard, I shall draw what informa-
tion or suggestions I can give.
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CHAPTER n
EARLY NOTICES
To begin with, I must tell an old legend from Sir Kenelm
Digby's "Broad Stone of Honour/* He says that in re-
mote times the monks of the monastery of Dautrive,
"Altenryf," in Switzerland, found upon the stones of
the mountain stream, near their convent, a forlorn infant.
They received him into their house and educated him, and
when, not taking to the monastic life, he went out into the
world to do knightly deeds, they gave him the name of the
monastery which had sheltered him.
The following is copied from the authority referred to
above, "The Broad Stone of Honour," by Kenelm Henry