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Title: Memorials of old Northamptonshire
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dryden, Alice. ed. cn
Subjects: Northamptonshire (England)
Publisher: London and Derby, Bemrose and sons, limited
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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his mother, Jane Seymour). RichardFermor, Sir Richards father-in-law, was persecuted byHenry VIII. and Cromwell, and stripped of all his pro-perty, apparently for no other crime than that of sending8d. and two shirts to one Nicholas Ghayne, formerly hisconfessor, closely imprisoned at that time. This may haveaccounted for Sir Richards violent opposition to theChurch. He threw in his lot with the Puritan party, whoabout that time began to be very prominent in the State,and took an active part in the production of those violentlibels on the bishops and clergy of the day, known as theMartin Marprelate Tracts. Mr. Arber, in his interesting Sketch of the MartinMarprelate Controversy, says that in November, 1588, aprivate printing-press was set up in the house at Fawsley,and the tract called the Epitome printed there. Thepress only remained at Fawsley a short time, and thenwas removed to another house belonging to Sir Richardat Norton, and then to Coventry, where it was seized. Sir (^JUU^^
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Bay Window of Hall, Fawsley. Fawsley. 105 Richard was brought before the Star Chamber, and fined;;i^2,ooo, but Archbishop Whitgift appears to have inter-ceded for him, and the fine was never enforced. In i6og,however, w^e find him writing a piteous appeal to the Earlof Salisbury to beg that it may not be exacted, it havingbeen granted by the King to Lord Hayes, for notexpecting any charge of this nature, I have long sinceso disposed of my estate to my Children as that little whremaynes is only a verie sparing maintenance. He wasone of the divers gentlemen of good accompte whowere present at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, aswell as one of the four knights who bore the canopy ather funeral in Peterborough Cathedral. Lady Elizabeth, his wife, who like most of the high-bornladies of her day had passed through troublous times in heryouth, is said to have been very extravagant, and to havecontributed much to the impoverishment of the familywhich took place about this time. She seems

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