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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1475 Angmering, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom | | Death Date | 1544 MAY 12 Parish of St. Christopher within the City of London, London, Greater London, England, | | Father | John Palmer | Born: 1411 | | | Mother | Isabell Bilton | Born: 1433 | Died: 1495 | | Robert Palmer
Notes: | About Robert Palmer After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Henry VIII granted the manor of Parham, which had belonged to the Abbey of Westminster, to a London mercer called Robert Palmer. Parham’s foundation stone was laid in 1577 by Robert’s two-year-old grandson, Thomas; it was considered lucky to have this duty performed by the youngest member of the household. His mother Elizabeth was god-daughter to Queen Elizabeth I, and there is a legend that the Queen visited Parham. Thomas Palmer sold the house in 1601 to Sir Thomas Bysshopp, who came from Henfield. For 320 years Bysshopp descendants lived at Parham. In 1826 Sir Cecil, 8th Baronet, became the 12th Lord Zouche, and in 1922 the 17th Baroness Zouche sold the Parham estate to the Hon. Clive and Alicia Pearson. Clive was the second son of Weetman Dickinson Pearson, the 1st Viscount Cowdray.
| |  | | Birth Date | 1508 | | Death Date | 1546 SEP 20 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Dame Blanche Stanney Notes: | BLANCHE STANNEY (d. August 8, or September 20, 1563) Blanche Stanney was the eldest daughter of Richard Stanney of Oswestry, Shropshire (d.1540) and his wife Jane. In his will, written November 14, 1539 and proved April 15, 1540, her father left her his "best drinking pot for ale of silver double gilt with a cover." She married three times. Her first husband was Richard Reynolds (Raynolde/Reynolde) of London (d. May 6, 1542), a mercer. They lived in the parish of St. Christopher in the Stocks. He made his will September 30, 1541 and it was proved May 26, 1542. In the inquisition post mortem taken October 8, 1547, he is listed as "seised of 1 messuage, 1 garden and 3 tenements thereto adjoining lying next the Stockes in the parish of St. Christopher." By charter dated January 13, 1542, "for the love which he bore towards Blanche, his wife" he granted the premises to two friends to hold for her use. By another charter, dated May 18, 1543, Blanche regranted the property to the use of "the said Blanche and of Robert Palmer, mercer, whom the said Blanche then intended to marry, and of their heirs" with the default to the use of Joan and William Watson, Joan being her sister. Anne F. Sutton, in The Mercery of London, suggests that Blanche may have been a silkwoman, as her mother-in-law was. Husband number two was Robert Palmer (1474-May 12, 1544). She was his second wife. They had no children of their own, but she acquired several stepchildren by this marriage. They lived in St. George nigh Pudding Lane and St. Giles without Cripplegate. He made his will on May 5, 1544 and it was proved on July 24, 1544. Her third husband was Sir William Forman of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and London (d. January 13, 1547), a haberdasher who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1538/9. They married on August 30, 1544. They had one son, John Forman, who appears to have died young. Sir William wrote his will on January 10, 1547 and it was proved on March 12, 1547. He was buried in St. George, Botolph Lane, where Blanche erected a monument to him. The inquisition post mortem dated February 28, 1547 lists, among other properties, five messuages and tenements in St. Lawrence Poultney, one in St. Leonards Eastcheap, one in Canwyck (Candlewick) Street, St. Martin le Orgar, two in St. Bartholomew the Less, and one in St. George next Eastcheap. The heir was his daughter Elizabeth, age nine, and therefore not Blanches child. To "Dame Blanche his wife" he left "1 messuage in St. Leonards Eastcheap and others" and the premises making up her jointure are said to be worth £52/year. Blanche made her own will on March 29, 1563. This lengthy document, proved February 9, 1564, can be found in its entirety at oxford-shakespeare.com. Dame Blanche Forman asked to be buried in St. Christopher by the Stocks and left detailed instructions for her burial and the funeral. Among her bequests to family, friends, and servants are such items as "a great cypress chest," "a painted cupboard," a "bird cage that stood in the hall," and "my best Turkey carpet, being new and for the long table in the hall." To Anne Lloyd, her servant, she left £20 and various household items. Some bequests were contingent upon a "suit in Flanders." Apparently, she was owed a considerable sum of money from some business dealings there. If that debt was paid, she left instructions to double her bequest of £20 to Christs Hospital. | | |
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