PEDIGREE OF BARLEE FAMILY (Came originally from Barlee or Barley, in Herts., and were for several generations settled at Albury, Herts.) Arms of Barlee, quarterly of 9. 1.-Barlee, Erm., 2 bars wavy Sab. 2.-Lampay, Or, a water bouget Sab., border Sab. besanty. 3.-Moyhill, Arg. on cross Az. 5 roses Or. 4.-Bellhouse, Arg. 3 lions rampant Sable, 2-1. 5.-Paghall, Argent a fess Sab. between 3 crescents Gu. 6.-Walden, Sab. 2 bars and in chief 3 cinquefoils Arg. 7.-Breton, Az. 2 chevrons Or, in chief 2 mullets Arg. 8.-Norwood, Erm. cross engrailed Gu. 9.-Geredot, Gu. 3 crescents Arg., 2-1. John Barlee, Esq., d. Aug. 1420, = Johanna dau. of John Walden, Esq. She d. Feb. 15, 1419, see inscription bd. at Albury, see inscription in Henry Barlee, Esq., Sheriff of Essex-Anne, relict of Sir John Colville, Knt. and Herts, in 1466, d. 1475, seized of the Manors of Albury, Herts, and Wicken and Elsenham, Essex a VOL. I. Henry Barlee, Esq., lord-Katherine-William Barlee, Esq., eventual heir, forfeited his of Wicken, &c. estates for joining Perkin Warbeck, restored 1500, d. March 22, 1520, bd. at Elsenham. He died seized of the Manors of Wicken, Elsenham, Albury, Wickhamstead, Moulsham, and patron of the livings of Wicken, Tolleshunt, and Little Salcot. Issue 3 daughters. Henry Barlee, Esq., Sheriff of Essex and Herts, 1524, d. Nov. 12, 1529, lord of Wicken, &c., &c. Anne, widow of Ld. Gray, and dau. of Charles, Duke of Suffolk. Elizabeth She d. 1520, see her inscription on brass plate in Elsenham Church. Dorothy Barlee, Abbess of Barking, d. 1557. Anne Barlee, heiress of Wicken. Richard Barlee, Esq., son of Francis B., Esq., of Great Waltham, d. July 31, 1593, bd. at Elsenham. = Dorothy-1.-Clopton, Esq., of Norfolk. 2.-Thos. Leventhorpe, 2nd son of Ed. Leventhorpe, Esq., of Shingay Hall, in Sawbridgeworth. Mary Barlee d. Ap. 25, 1635,-Henry Wiseman, Esq., of Borworth, bd. at Elsenham. co. Northants. PEDIGREE OF BRADBURY FAMILY. .... 3.-Filmer, ..Arg. Arms of Bradbury, quarterly of eight. 1.-Bradbury, Sab. a chevron Ermine between 3 round buckles Arg. 2.-Rockhill, Arg. a chevron between 3 chess-rooks Sab. Gu. 3 bars Arg., a canton Erm. 4...bendy of 10 Or, Az. 5.... lion ramp. Az. 6.-Langham, Arg., 3 bears head's erased Sab., muzzled Or. Arg. on fess dancetté Sab., 3 crosslets Arg. 8.-... Crest-a falcon rising Or. 7.-Ashwell, Ermine a lion ramp. Gu. Sir Thomas Bradbury, Knt., Sheriff of London, 1498, Lord Mayor 1509; descended from the Bradburys, of Braughin, co. Herts.; was bd. in St. Stephen's Church, Coleman Street, London. William Bradbury, Esq. Jane, dau. of Fitz Williams, Esq., of Littlebury, Essex, and widow of Thos. Bendyshe, Esq. Thomas Bradbury, Esq., William Bradbury, Esq., second son. lord of Wicken,born 1547, died there, and was bd. in the chancel, 1622. He built Brick House for his second son. = Margaret, dau. of Philippa Anne, dau. of Richard John Barlee, Esq.. of Stapleford Abbotts, Herts. Barbara 1 Sir Henry Cutt, Knt. 4 William Covent, Esq., a CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL HISTORY (pp. 62, 74.) Mr. John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., has just published a valuable and interesting Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of the Camden Society. Society was founded in the year 1838, and has printed no less than a hundred separate works, very few of which would probably otherwise have seen the light. The care with which Mr. Nichols has arranged and classified them, enables any one to see at a glance that the books, now for the first time brought before the world, are not mere literary curiosities, but really valuable histories, illustrating almost every portion of our annals. Among the works having more direct reference to the district of East Anglia, appear to be the following: Speculi Britannia Pars: an historical and geographical Description of the County of Essex, by John Norden, 1594. Edited, from the original MS. in the Marquess of Salisbury's library, at Hatfield, by Sir Henry Ellis. Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder: performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich, With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. This is a reprint of a very scarce printed Tract, of which the old title is as follows: "Kemps nine daies vvonder. Performed in a daunce from London to Norwich. Containing the pleasure, paines, and kinde entertainement of WILLIAM KEMP betweene London and that Citty in his late Morrice. Wherein is somewhat set downe worth note; to reproue the slaunders spred of him: many things merry, nothing hurtfull. Written by himselfe to satisfie his friends. London, Printed by E. A. for Nicholas Ling, and are to be solde at his shop at the west doore of Sainte Paules Church, 1600." (With a woodcut representing Kemp dancing his morris, his legs covered with small bells, and Thomas Slye, his attendant, walking before him with pipe and tabor.) William Kemp was the original actor of some of Shakespeare's characters, and a comedian of high reputation. Like Tarlton, whom he succeeded "as well in the favour of her Majesty as in the opinion and good thoughts of the generall audience" (Heywood's Apology for Actors), he usually played the Clown, and was greatly applauded for his buffoonery, his extemporal wit, and his performance of the Jig. Kemp's famous morrice-dance to Norwich was performed in the spring of 1599, and Ben Jonson alludes to it in his "Every Man in his Humour," which was produced that same year. Warton admired so much some poetical lines which are introduced to describe the jovial Innkeeper at Rockland in Essex, that he thought they could not have been written by Kemp, but were most probably contributed by his friend and fellowplayer Shakespeare. Only one copy of the original edition is known to exist; it is in the Bodleian Library, and was by Blomefield, the historian of Norfolk, mistaken for a manuscript. Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, de rebus gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi, Nunc primum typis mandata, curante Johanne Gage Rokewode. This chronicle comprehends the annals of the monastery of St. Edmund from 1173 to 1202. The early pages give a rapid sketch of its state under abbot Hugh, intended as an introduction to the history of Samson de Totingham his successor in 1182. Jocelin de Brakelond the author, who derived his name from one of the ancient streets of St. Edmund's Bury, was chaplain to abbot Samson, and almoner of the abbey. His story (remarks the Editor) is told throughout with a pleasing naïveté, and sometimes humour; the characters are drawn with spirit, and the whole seems written with truth. As a picture of the internal economy of a large monastery it is perhaps unrivalled. An English translation, made by Mr. T. E. Tomlins, Editor of Littleton's Tenures, &c., was published in 1844, under the title "Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century." The original is part of the Liber Albus of the abbey, now the Harleian MS. 1005. |