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- Shakespeare and the Bernards
All this time John Bernard remained a disconsolate widower. It may be assumed that he sincerely regretted his young wife, since he did not marry for six years after her death; and when he did make a second choice it fell on a widow of forty.
The connection between Shakespeare and the Bernards has been already set forth. John Bernard was about twelve when the poet died, and may easily have visited and conversed with him and with the members of his family; and this intercourse with the family would, in all likelihood, be continued, or at least renewed, whenever he went to stay with his mother's relations in Warwickshire. Susanna, the elder and favourite daughter of William Shakespeare, married Dr. Hall, a physician of great repute at Stratford, and said to inherit gentle blood, who wrote a book descriptive of the most remarkable cases placed under his care.
Susanna Hall was a bright, sympathetic, and pious woman, if the well-known epitaph on her tomb may be trusted, which begins :
“Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to salvation was good Mistress Hall”; and goes on to describe her as “one that wept with all; That wept, yet set her selfe to chere Them up with comforts cordiall.”
Dr. and Mrs. Hall had one child— Elizabeth—born at Stratford, and reared amid surroundings of an exceptional nature. No special traditions attach to her girlhood. At the age of eighteen, in 1626, she married Thomas Nash, who is described as a student of Lincoln's Inn.
William Shakespeare purchased a house with a garden at Stratford originally built by Sir Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor in the reign of Henry VII.
This home he enlarged and remodelled according to his own taste, and gave it the name of New Place. He left it by will to his daughter Susanna, and with remainder to her issue male, failing which to his granddaughter Elizabeth. If Elizabeth had no son it was to revert to Shakespeare's second daughter, Judith, and her issue male, and then to right heirs.
When the Civil War raged in England [says Theobald], and King Charles I.'s Queen was driven by the necessity of affairs to make a recess into Warwickshire, she kept her court for three weeks in “New Place.” We may reasonably suppose it then the best house in the town; and her Majesty preferred it to the College, which was in possession of the Combe family, who did not so strongly favour the King's party. [Dugdale (Sir William), Life, Diary, and Correspondence, edited by William Hamper, Esq. The contemporary authority of Dugdale may be allowed to settle this date, which is adopted by Miss Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England — ‘Henrietta Maria’, Consort of Charles I. Malone, indeed, adopts June 22 as the probable date; perhaps because the Shakespeare house was placed at her disposal from that day.]
Thomas Nash died on April 4, 1647, and perhaps on the next occasion when John Bernard visited his Warwickshire connections he began to think of his relict as a suitable person to superintend his household and take charge of his motherless children. It must also be admitted that Mrs. Nash was well provided with this world's goods. She had a substantial dower from her husband; she had inherited half her father's property, and would succeed to the rest, as well as to the Shakespeare houses, on her mother's death.
But there was a countervailing disadvantage. Elizabeth Nash had never borne children, and she was in her fortieth year when she married again; while John Bernard's hopes of succession in the male line rested on his one surviving boy, Charles. His brother William had settled at Ecton, a parish adjoining Abington, was unmarried. But either John was indifferent on this point, or he believed that Charles had outgrown the constitutional weakness which had proved fatal to his brothers, and he entered upon a second union.
There was no unseemly haste. Thomas Nash had been dead more than two years when John Bernard married his widow on June 5, 1649, a few months after the execution of the King.
The wedding took place at Billesley, three and a half miles from Stratford. The reason is not given, but it is possible that in a rural parish John and Elizabeth managed to obtain, if not the proscribed rites of the Church of England, at least some kind of religious ceremony. [The particulars of Shakespeare's family are taken chiefly from Tlie Plays of William Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens — that is, from Some Account of the Life, &c., of William Shakespeare, by Rowe, with notes added by the Editors from Malone, Theobald, &c., and from Halliwell Phillips and French.]
Mrs. Hall died in the following month, and her daughter became the owner of New Place.
How often she visited that house or her father's house after her second marriage does not appear.
This union, like her first, was childless, and it was followed at no great distance by a calamity which led, though not immediately, to the departure of the Bernards from Abington. Mr. Bernard's last surviving son, Charles, died in May 1651 at the age of eleven.
The next event chronicled in the history of Abington is the appointment of John Howes to the rectory, November 3, 1652. His nomination was perhaps a compromise between the authorities of the time being and Mr. Bernard who Howes afterwards described him as his 'patron.'
And then a glimpse is given of the domestic arrangements at Abington, which shows at least that John Bernard did not lightly discharge his old retainers.
There is an entry in Abington parish register in 1654 to the following effect: ' Robert Joyce, servant to John Bernard, Esq., aged about one hundred years, was buried 27 Nov., anno predicto.'
About this time Mr. Bernard made what was apparently his nearest approach to action in a public capacity. He was appointed one of the 'Commissioners for Sequestrations.’
It may be hoped that the squire of Abington was of these.
John Howes may have preached sermons worth hearing long before, but he now apparently began to take a lead; not only by the day, but by the wild opinions abroad :
'Christ, God-Man, Set out in a Sermon, preached at Northampton on the Lecture, being Christmas day 1656, by John Howes, sometime Fellow of Gonvil [sic] Caius College in Cambridge; now Ministerof God's Word at Abington. . . .' This sermon was printed for Joseph Nevill, at the Plough in Paul's Churchyard, and William Cochran, bookseller, in Northampton, 1657. This is the first known notice of a Northampton bookseller.
The sermon, with its Latin dedication to John Bernard and an address to the impartial reader,' occupies thirty-two quarto pages.
Soon after he had sent this sermon to the publisher John Howes may have been required to assist at the first of a series of weddings which enlivened the old Manor House for a while.
The three daughters of Sir John, now his coheiresses, married in quick succession and apparently well — perhaps by the management of their “Shakespearean stepmother”. Mary, the second daughter, was the first to leave. She gave her hand to Thomas Higgs, of Colesbourne, in Gloucestershire, on July 7, 1657.
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, became the wife of Henry Gilbert, of Locko, in Derbyshire, on February 15, 1657-8.
Eleanor, the third, married Samuel Cotton, of Hinwick, in Bedfordshire, on September 8, 1659.
All the sons-in-law are styled esquires in the pedigree, but Henry Gilbert's family is the only one of which can be found in records.
On one side of the house is a chapel of the 17th century, with the inscription "Domus mea vocabitur domus orationis."' And this inscription attests the Churchmanship of the Gilberts.
These unions were followed by the marriage of the squire's only brother, William Bernard, of Ecton. In 1658 he married, being then about fifty years of age. His bride—Mrs. Mary Lane, of Abington; she assumed to be either daughter or sister of *Francis Lane,'* of Northamptonshire, no doubt a relative of Sir Richard Lane, of Courteenhall and Kingsthorpe, Keeper of the Great Seal to Charles I, who in 1650 had died an exile. [See Murray's Handbook of Derby, Notts, Leicester, and Stafford.]
'Anne Lane,' who had married Richard Hampden of Drapers Company, half-brother to William Bernard, was daughter of 'Francis Lane, citizen of London'; the two Francis Lanes may have been father and son, and Anne a sister of Mary. [The entry given by Baker is Mar. 1658; a possibility that this may be the date of a deed in which William Bernard is described as the husband of Mary Lane, and that the marriage may have taken place in some previous year.] [see also 'List of intended Knights of the Royal Oak,' at the end of Wotton's Baronetage.]
Nothing more is related of William; he seems not to have been considered in Sir John's last arrangements. Some interest of a different sort attaches to his parish, Ecton, as the home of the Franklins, whose famous descendant was afterwards brought into contact with a Bernard of a younger branch, the Governor of Massachusetts.
The Franklin family possessed for three hundred years or more a farm of thirty acres, a small stone dwelling-house, and a forge, all of which the eldest son regularly inherited in Ecton... It was a custom in the family for the heir of the estate to learn the trade of a blacksmith, and to take his youngest brother as apprentice. All the other sons were apprenticed to trades; the daughters married tradesmen or farmers. [Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, vol. i. ch. i., 'Ancestors of Franklin.'The Life of Benjamin Franklin, written by Himself, edited by John Bigelow, vol. i. pt. i., has also been consulted.]
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Francis Bernard, Esq.1,2,3,4
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M, #21890, b. 1526, d. 21 October 1602
Father John Bernard, Esq.2,5,4 b. c 1490, d. 4 Feb 1549
Mother Cecily Muscote2,5,4 b. c 1495, d. 21 Sep 1557
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Francis Bernard, Esq. was born in 1526 at Abington, Northamptonshire, England. {2,3,4} He married Alice Haselwood, daughter of John Haslewood, Esq. and Katherine Marmion, in 1557 at England, and had 5 sons (John; Baldwin; Francis, Esq; Thomas; & Richard, Esq.) and 7 daughters (Katherine, wife of Ambrose Agard, Gent; Anne, wife of John Doyley, Esq. & of Sir James, Harington, 1st Baronet, & of Sir Henry Pode; Magdalen, wife of Thomas Danvers, Gent; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Harrison, Gent., & of Henry Favell; Joan (Jane), wife of Richard Saltonstall; Prudence, wife of Richard Winhall; & Dorothy, wife of Thomas Charnock, Gent.){2,3,4}
Francis Bernard, Esq. died on 21 October 1602 at Abington, Northamptonshire, England. {2,3,4}
Family:
Alice Haselwood born circa 1530, died 1612
Children:
Francis Bernard, Esq.+6,3,4 born 1558, deceased 21 Nov 1630
Katherine Bernard+7 born circa 1559. Married Ambrose Agard, Gentlemen.
Thomas Bernard born about 1563
Richard Bernard, Esq.+6,3,4 born circa 1578
John Bernard
Baldwin Bernard
Anne Bernard m (1) John Doyley, Esq. (2)Sir James Harington 1st Baronet and (3) Sir Henry Pode
Magdalen Bernard m Thomas Danvers, Gent
Elizabeth Bernard m (1)Thomas Harrison, Gent. (2) Henry Favell
Joan Bernard m Richard Saltonstall
Prudence Bernard m Richard Winhall
Dorothy Bernard m Thomas Charnock, Gent.
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Francis Bernard, Esq. was born in 1526 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England.
Francis married Alice Haselwood, daughter of John Haslewood, Esq. and Katherine Marmion, England in 1557.
Francis and Alice had 5 sons (John; Baldwin; Francis, Esq; Thomas; & Richard, Esq.); 7 daughters (Katherine, wife of Ambrose Agard, Gent; Anne, wife of John Doyley, Esq. & of Sir James, Harington, 1st Baronet, & of Sir Henry Pode; Magdalen, wife of Thomas Danvers, Gent; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Harrison, Gent., & of Henry Favell; Joan (Jane), wife of Richard Saltonstall; Prudence, wife of Richard Winhall; & Dorothy, wife of Thomas Charnock, Gent.).
Francis Bernard, Esq. died in Abington, Northamptonshire, England on 21 October 1602.
Family Alice Haselwood b. c 1530, d. 1612
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Francis Bernard, Esq.+6,3,4 b. 1558, d. 21 Nov 1630
Thomas Bernard6 b. c 1563
Richard Bernard, Esq.+6,3,4 b. c 1578
Citations
[S6650] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 20; The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 144.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 102.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 187.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 344.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 186.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 102-103.
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Charles the first in the name of the Bernard family
Baldwin survived his father only eight years, dying at the age of fifty-six in 1610.
Baldwin left issue, besides the three daughters of his first union with Alice Stafford, two sons, John and William, and a daughter, Catherine, children of his second marriage with Eleanor Fullwood.
John Bernard, son of Baldwin, became by his father's death head of the family at the age of six. He was made a ward of the King, and it may be hoped that his brother and sister obtained similar protection. [Baker, Hist. North, vol. i., ' Abington '; Lipscomb, Hist. Bucks, vol. i.,' Nether Winchendon.']
The dates of her death and of her daughter-in-law's second union are not given; but Eleanor did marry eventually, and brought to the home of her first husband as its new master Edmund, second son of Griffith Hampden, Esq., of Hampden, Bucks, and uncle to John Hampden, afterwards so famous in the strife between the Crown and Parliament. He is supposed to have lived at Prestwood, Bucks, before his marriage. Not long after that event he received the honour of knighthood.
There were, of course, many ways in which Mrs. Bernard might have made the acquaintance of her second husband, since his family belonged to a county adjoining Northamptonshire.
Nevertheless, this marriage lends strength to Mr. French's idea that Richard Arden was a grandson of Walter Arden, of Park Hall, who in the latter part of the fifteenth century married Eleanor, daughter and coheiress of John Hampden, of Hampden. In this case Eleanor Bernard may have met Edmund Hampden when visiting Warwickshire connections who were his relatives. [The marriage is given by Baker and Lipscomb in the Bernard pedigree. Fuller details of Edmund Hampden and his family may be found in Lipscomb's Hist. Bricks, vol. ii., 'Great Missenden,' where the pedigree of his branch of the family is given.] [The marriage of Eleanor Hampden with Walter Arden, and the descent of Robert Arden of Wilmcote from this couple, are set forth in pedigrees by French, Shakspeareana Genealogica, part ii.]
In consequence of the celebrity acquired some years later by John Hampden, the opponent of Charles I., it has been suggested that the Hampden alliance was a great honour to the family at Abington; but whether the young Bernards of that day so regarded it is doubtful. John Bernard seems to have left home as soon as he attained his age of majority.
Thomas Muscutt,' already noted as a probable relative of the Bernards, had been succeeded in 1588 by 'William Fleshware or Fletcher, B.D.,' who joined ‘particular classes of Puritans ' which were held at North Fawsley and sundry other places in the neighbourhood. The classes were in connection with synods or general meetings, in which the discussions sometimes went to such extremes as resolutions for doing away with bishops, and refusing to receive the Communion at the hands of ministers ' who cannot preach.'
Nevertheless, Fletcher, who was a Brasenose man, obtained his final degree from Oxford in 1594, and one John Freeman gave him the living of Moulton, which he held with Abington.
On his death in 1625, 'Charles Trewe' was presented by the King 'for defect of John Bernard, his late ward.' He lived only a year, and then 'John Bullyvant ' was presented by 'Lady Eleanor Hampden.'
John Bernard was probably away two years or more; and this was not an extravagant length of time according to the usage of his contemporaries.
Perhaps, indeed, he was none the less inclined to prolong his foreign experiences in that his home was ruled by a stepfather.
During his absence, or just before he left England in 1625, his half-brother, Justinian Hampden, the youngest child of Edmund and Eleanor, died at the age of two. A brass in Abington Church either does, or did, commemorate his death and the grief of his father.
Sir Edmund did not long survive his son; he died in 1627.
Lady Hampden lived seven years longer.
John Bernard, who may have returned in consequence of his stepfather's death, must have married during this interval.
Two altar-tombs still commemorate Edmund and Eleanor.
Either the widow must have superintended the erection of both, or else, after paying tribute to her husband's memory, she left designs for a similar monument to herself. Edmund is commemorated in a Latin prose epitaph; Eleanor in English verses supposed to be uttered by herself. The tombs are not now in their original position, but are huddled together in a corner of the north chapel. [Bridges, Hist. North., mentions them as 'at the southwest end of the north chapel’. See De Wilde, 'Abington,' in Rambles Roundabout. They are now in the southeast corner of the 'chapel,' which has no appearance of a chapel left.]
When John Bernard proceeded to carry out his mother's last wishes as to her interment, he doubtless awoke to the fact that no sepulchral honours had as yet been paid to his father, Baldwin, the lord of the manor. This is difficult to account for. Possibly some very simple slab or tablet had been deemed sufficient at the time, but did not satisfy his son, in the light of subsequent events, having regard also to the continued development of the taste for elaborate structures in memory of the dead. John Bernard now dedicated to his father a mural monument in alabaster, enriched by a shield,' with quarterings, supported by sculptured figures, and an inscription of some length, in which he names himself as the person who had carried out this filial duty. [The shield represents Bernard quartering Lillyng, Daundelyn, Champayne, and Pinkney, and impaling Fullwood, with Greswold and Dabridgecourt quarterly. Each shield is supported by a female figure. Both the wives of Baldwin Bernard and all their children are mentioned in the epitaph, but no notice is taken of Alice Stafford's arms; probably because this would have complicated the bearings. Eleanor died in January 1634. The monument bears date March 1634.]
John had half-brothers who were first-cousins to John Hampden.
Whether this sort of connection was likely to influence him for or against the revolutionary party might depend upon his recollections of his stepfather. The halfbrothers, indeed, do not appear to have been of stirring natures. Of the eldest, Alexander, I can find only that Sir Alexander Hampden of Hartwell — no doubt his godfather— left him 10k. a year; William, the second, is recorded as being of 'Honor End,' and that is all; Richard was 'of St. Paul's, London,' and also 'of Drapers' Company and Packer.'
Charles I had become king just before the termination of John Bernard's minority. He was more than once in Northamptonshire during the happy early years of his reign, taking his Queen for her health to the Redwell at Wellingborough.
On the first occasion in 1626, John Bernard was probably in foreign parts; on the second occasion in 1628, he may have been at home, and may have seen the King when he passed through Northampton; as a recent ward Charles might be supposed to feel an interest in him.
Meanwhile John Bernard had married and become the father of two sons, William and John, both then living.
It seems not unlikely that the King, being in the county at a time when the birth of another child was beginning to be anticipated, may have honoured his 'late ward,' whose wife was the daughter of a meritorious public servant, distinguished in literature and science, with a promise to stand godfather by proxy to the expected infant. Certain it is that the boy baptized in February 1637-38 was called Charles, the first of the name in the Bernard family. When this child died, in 1639, the name was passed on to a fourth boy, baptized in May 1640.
Years again elapsed, but in 1646 King Charles came once more into the vicinity of Abington, this time in the custody of Parliamentary Commissioners whom conducted him to Holdenby, familiarly known as Holmby. The King reached his princely manor of Holdenby on the 15th of February, having been something retarded by reason of white weather.' Many hundreds of the gentry of the county met the royal cavalcade two miles on this side Harborough, and 'thousands and thousands' of spectators thronged the road and hailed his Majesty with acclamations, 'causing many a smile from his princely countenance.' A guard of honour was drawn up to receive him at Holdenby; and he entered his palace, and his prison, through the great court gate, with all the state and pomp of royalty. When his Majesty's approach to his destination was announced at Northampton there was great rejoicing, the bells rang and cannon was discharged; insomuch that a gallant echo made its appeal at Holmby. [The Family Topographer, by Samuel Tymms, vol. v., Midland Circuit, 'Northamptonshire.' In this work only the visit of 1626 is mentioned.
The other visits are mentioned in Historic Notes on Wellingborough, 'The Redwell,' by Miss Gertrude M. Dulley. The author quotes an entry in the ' Parish Books of Wilby' of ' A Levy ... for provision for the Queene at Wendlingborow,' dated July 30, 1626. Also of payments made to sundry persons for wheat and malt 'served to the King's Court' in 1637. These are in the Town Book of Wellingborough.] [Baker, Hist. North, vol. i., 'Holdenby.' He quotes from Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of The Last Years of Charles I.]
Men of all parties joined in greeting the King, and Mr. Bernard was probably one of those who went forth to meet him; perhaps afterwards played bowls with him at Althorp and Boughton, the demesnes of the Earl of Sunderland and Lord Vaux.
A fair hope had at last sprung up, in some minds at least, of an accommodation between the King and Parliament; it was frustrated by the arrival of Cornet Joyce with an armed force at Holdenby, whence he carried off the defenceless King, whose affairs then went from bad to worse.
The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon
Francis Bernard was born at Kingsthorp, Northamptonshire, England.
He lived at Abington, Northamptonshire, England.
Children of Francis Bernard
Thomas Bernard+3 d. 1628
Bernard Bernard3
Francis Bernard+1
Citations
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 249. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
[S145] George Naylor, The Register's of Thorrington (n.n.: n.n., 1888). Hereinafter cited as Registers of Thorrington.
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume V, page 150.
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The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon: A Family History, Volume 1 By Sophia Elizabeth Higgins
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Two sons only are mentioned as the issue of Thomas and Margaret Bernard — viz. John and Thomas. .... There is some difficulty about the age of John Bernard, who was apparently the elder brother of Thomas, but not necessarily, although he succeeded to Abington. .... John is described as twenty-eight the year after his father died, that is in 1465 ; his brother had then been a vicar sixteen years. Of Thomas nothing more is related ; either he was of too devotional a character to seek for preferment, or else he died too young to have
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hoped for it. Otherwise the family patronage and influence must have helped him to rise.
Sir John Bernard,1 the next lord of Abington, .... etc.
His wife was Margaret, daughter of Henry, fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton, by Elizabeth, daughter of John, fourth Lord Scrope of Masham.2
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Sir John Bernard left five sons :
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JOHN BERNARD, eldest son of Sir John and Margaret Lady Bernard, had the good fortune to marry Margaret Daundelyn,1 who is styled in the 'County History' heir of her father, William, and her grandfather, John Daundelyn, of Doddington and Earl's Barton. In the 'Visitation of Northamptonshire' she is called heir of her father and of William Daundelyn, a cousin. The two accounts probably mean the same thing — namely, that Margaret was the last of her branch of the Daundelyns, and inherited all, or nearly all, the family property. .... etc.
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.... John Bernard died on August 20, 1508, shortly before King Henry VII., who died in the following year. When his affairs were wound up his wife, Margaret, is mentioned as deceased.
John, the eldest son of John Bernard and Margaret Daundelyn, was only in his eighteenth year when he lost his father. His chosen wife was Cicely,1 daughter of John Muscote, of Earl's Barton. Muscote is styled 'gentleman’.
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Dorothy, a daughter of the Abington house, was a nun at De la Pré Abbey, on the south side of Northampton, within a short distance of her paternal home, when the order came for its dissolution. ....
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Dorothy Bernard evidently remained true to her vows. Husbands are assigned in the pedigrees to the three other daughters of John Bernard,1 but none to her. .... etc.
1 1. Elizabeth married John Contyt or Covert ; and, 2ndly, William Dixon.
2. Bridget married John Dixon.
3. Mary married George Parley or Parley, of co. Lincoln.
4. Dorothy, a nun at De la Pré Abbey at the Dissolution.
The authorities for this list are Baker and The Visitation of Northamptonshire (1618-19). Lipscomb's account is imperfect. This is the order in which Baker arranges the family. The Visitation names Dorothy first, then Mary and Elizabeth, and, lastly, Bridget.
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John Bernard died in 1549, early in the reign of Edward VI. ; Cicely, his wife, in 1557, towards the end of Mary's reign. Some remains of their tombs are still to be seen in Abington Church. .....
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Francis Bernard, the eldest son of John and Cicely, was probably turned thirty at the time of his father's death, and perhaps already married to Alice, daughter of John Haslewood of Maidwell, Northants, Esquire.1 His only brother John married her sister, Mary Haslewood. The mother of these ladies was Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoyne, Knight. Their paternal grandfather, John Haslewood, is styled 'Master of the Fleete Prison' ; he married Katherine, daughter and heir of William Marmyon, of Kington, Lincolnshire, ....
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John Bernard, the younger brother of the Abington squire, had a son Robert ; the pedigree does not carry his line further, nor does it state where he lived. Dr. Edward Bernard, born in Northamptonshire, who will be mentioned in a subsequent chapter.1
Francis Bernard and Alice, his wife, became the parents of twelve children, who lived to be men and women and married. They had also two daughters, who apparently died in their cradles. .... etc.
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The alliances of Francis Bernard's daughters are subjoined seriatim in a note,2 as being too numerous and complicated for a more prominent position.
1. Catherine, married Ambrose Agard, of Broughton, gent, (meaning Broughton in Northamptonshire ; see Visitation).
2. Jane = Richard, son and heir of Sir Richard Saltonstall, knight. This is probably a mistake for Saltonston. In the same volume Baker chronicles the marriage of Sir Richard Saltonston of 'Wardon' with 'Jane, dau. of . . .' and this couple had a son baptized 'Barnard.'
3. Anne = 1. John Doyley, of Marton (or Merton), co. Oxon. = 2. Sir James Harrington, of Ridlington, co. Rutland. = 3. Sir Henry Pode, of co. Wilts.
4. Elizabeth = 1. Thomas Harrison, of Northampton, gent. This family is called in the Visitation Harrison of Gobion's Manor. The manor was in the town of Northampton. = 2. Henry Favell, of Coventry.
5. Magdalen = Thomas Danvers, of Banbury, co. Oxon, gent.
6. Dorothy = Thomas Charnock, of Wellingborough, Northants, gent.
7. Prudence = Richard Winhall, of co. Warwick.
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As already stated, Francis Bernard had five sons ; but John, the eldest, was not living when his father sold Little Brington. He probably did not long survive his marriage with Dorothy, daughter of Francis Cave, of Baggrave, in Leicestershire, esquire,1 and died childless. ....
.... Francis died in 1602 — just before the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Alice was living in 1610, at which time she had to bear a second great trouble alone, the death of her son Baldwin.
The five sons of Francis Bernard were :
1. John, who predeceased his father, childless.
2. Baldwin, the next lord of Abington Manor, and father of the last lord of his family.
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3. Francis of Kingsthorpe, ancestor of the Bernards of Huntingdon, and of Brampton, in Huntingdonshire.
4. Thomas of Reading, ancestor of the Bernards of Nettleham, Lincohishire, and Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
5. Richard of Astwood, Bucks, who, according to the pedigree, left no issue.1
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The Chibnall estate
The Chibnall estate did not long remain in the family,'- 'Thomas Chibnall, grandson of Kichard, by lease and release dated June 27 and '28, 1667, sold it to John Trevor and John Upton, in trust for the use of John Thurloe, late secretary to Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.' [Lipscomb, Hist. Bucks, vol. iv., ' Astwood.']
Baldwin Bernard and Alice Stafford — William Bernard — Death of Alice Bernard — Francis Bernard of Kingsthorpe — Baldwin Bernard's Second Wife — The Fullwood Family — The Ardens — Shakespeare — John, Son of Baldwin Bernard — Edmund Hampden — Foreign Travels of John Bernard — Elizabeth Edmondes — The Civil War — Sir Alexander Hampden — Susanna Shakespeare— The Halls — Elizabeth Nash — Death of Charles Bernard — John Howes — Marriages of the Co -heiresses — The Gilberts of Locko — William Bernard of Ecton — The Franklins — Knights of the Royal Oak — Sale of Abington— Death of Lady Bernard— Death of Sir John Bernard — The Fate of Abington.
Baldwin the eldest surviving son of Francis Bernard and Alice Haslewood, succeeded his father at Abington.
As one of a family of twelve children, he can hardly have inherited the position of former generations, and he did not seek to re-establish it by marriage with an heiress.
He took for his wife Alice, daughter of Thomas Stafford of Tattenhoe, or Tottenhoe, Bucks.
Tattenhoe is described in Lipscomb's History as 'a very small parish situated on the eastern edge of Whaddon Chase, and bordering upon the old Roman road called Watling Street, in its course from Hockcliffe, in Bedfordshire, to Stony Stratford.' The manor, as the manor of Westbury, in the adjoining parish of Shenley, is said to have been purchased by Thomas Stafford, son of Anthony and grandson of Sir John Stafford, of Grafton, Worcestershire, and Blatherwick, Northamptonshire when Edward IV. was king in 1477.
[Baker, Hist. North, vol. i., ' Abington ' ; Lipscomb, Hist. Bucks, vol. i., ' Nether Winchendon.'] [Lipscomb, Hist. Bucks, vol. iii., ' Tattenhoe '; vol. iv., ' Shenley ' and ' Wavendon.' Baker calls Alice Stafford's parish ' Tottenhoe,' Lipscomb 'Tattenhoe,' which is probably the ordinary modern spelling. He names as alternatives ' Tatenhoe, Totenhoe, Tattenhoe’.]
About the same time John Stafford, a younger son of the second Duke of Buckingham of that family, is supposed to have given the adjacent manor of Wavendon, with the advowson, to the same Thomas Stafford, who is styled his near kinsman.
Wavendon was, however, passed on by Thomas to his wife, and became separated from the rest of the property, which he left to his natural son, William Stafford.
The only John Stafford to whom this can refer, according to the pedigree in Burke's Extinct Peerages, is a son of the second Stafford Duke, who was created Earl of Wiltshire, and died 1473.
It may be noted that this branch of the Staffords was then, whatever might be reported of its illegitimacy, really in a better position than the descendants of the third Duke of Buckingham, attainted and executed under Henry VIII.
The eldest son of that Duke was made Baron Clifford by a re-grant, married the King's cousin, Ursula Pole, and was allowed to enjoy some of his father's estates.
His successor married the daughter of an Earl of Derby, but a letter written in 1595 states that 'My Lorde Stafforde's sonne is basely married to his mother's chambermaid.' There is, of course, the possibility that this 'chambermaid' may have been a poor gentlewoman. However, by the premature deaths of his son and grandson — which last succeeded to the title but died without issue — the barony would have gone to his kinsman, Roger Stafford, a grandson of the first lord under the re-grant. The unfortunate man was in such poverty that he had gone by the name of Fludd or Floyde in his youth, supposed to be borrowed from an old servant with whom he had taken refuge; he had a sister married to a joiner and mother of a cobbler. Charles I. now (in 1639) refused to confirm Roger’s right to the peerage by reason of his condition, and required him to surrender bis honours, name and dignity. Mary Stafford, sister of the last lord, and her husband, Sir William Howard, were then created Baron and Baroness Stafford. See Burke's Extinct Peerages, ' Stafford — Barons Stafford, Earls of Stafford, Dukes of Buckingham, Barons Stafford.'
In the south aisle of the nave is a raised white marble monument set against the east wall; and on an altar is the effigy of a man, lying in full proportion in armor; his head resting on his left hand, and over him a tablet of black marble, wherein is this inscription:
'Here resteth in peace, Thomas Stafford of Tatenhoe, Esq., descended out of ye house of the Staffords of Stafford, who, leading a long and virtuous life, yielded up the same in assured hope to rise in Christ, in the year 1607, the 25th day of March, his natal day, in the 80th year of his age, leaving of his four sons, Thomas, the younger, surviving, and three daughters, Alice, married to Baldwin Barnard; Eleanor, wife to Sir Eichard Thekeston, Knt.; and Jane, married to Sir Arthur Savage, Knt.'
Over this inscription is a shield with quarterings; and below, on the pedestal of the monument, effigies of Thomas Stafford, his wife and their seven children, kneeling. The name and arms of each child are given; in the case of sons the paternal arms only, while the daughters bear the same impaled with their husbands' arms. The Bernard bear appears to have been inaccurately portrayed, since it has been taken for a lion. There is a difficulty also about the date. The wording of the epitaph implies that all the daughters were alive in 1607; but Alice Bernard was certainly dead, and her husband had married again, before that year began. It seems possible that this date may have been originally 1601, and that a flourish to the ' 1,' deepened by repeated cleaning, perhaps recut, may have caused it to be taken in the nineteenth century for a ' 7.'
Francis Bernard Sr. probably died believing that the sons of his second surviving son, Francis Bernard of Kingsthorpe, would alone perpetuate his name in Northamptonshire; but about 1604 Baldwin at the age of fifty must have married a Warwickshire lady. It is not unlikely that the introduction was effected through Dorothy, the widow of his brother John, who had taken for her second husband one Richard Neale, of Rugby.
Baldwin Bernard's new wife was Eleanor, daughter of John Fullwood, Esq., of Ford Hall, Warwickshire; her mother was Katharine, daughter and coheir of Thomas Dabridgecourt, Esq., of Langdon Hall, Essex, a descendant of one of the first Knights of the Garter.
John Fullwood's father — another John — had for his wife Mary Hill, whose connections deserve some mention, as will appear. His grandfather — also John — had married Mary Heath, an heiress, through whom he came into possession of Ford Hall; but his family is said to have resided at 'Cley Hill, since called Fulwode,' also in Warwickshire, from the time of Richard II. See A Concise History of Abington, by W. J. Eush,’ The Registers.'
These and the subsequent particulars of the Fullwood family and its allies are chiefly taken from French, Shakespearen Geneology; Halliwell Phillips's Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare has also been consulted.
Mach erudition has been expended on the question whether the Ardens of Wilmcote were mere farmers, or whether they were a younger branch of the Ardens of Park Hall, a distinguished Warwickshire family. Mr. Halliwell Phillips is a strong opponent of their gentility, and includes the whole connection, even to the Fullwoods, in his judgment. Mr. French takes the opposite view. The Dabridgecourt marriage seems to me a strong point in favour of the Fullwoods, who, moreover, were evidently called ' esquires.'
As to the second husband of Agnes Webbe, it appears that although the designation 'esquire' is given to Robert Arden in the Shakespeare grant of arms, and 'gentleman of worship’ in the margin of the same document, he had been persistently called 'husbandman' in various deeds during his lifetime. Possibly, however, any younger son of a gentleman who took to farming might come to be thus styled; it is still more likely that his descendants would be. Arden, like Hill, was well off; his will reveals stores of cattle, furniture, and linen almost amounting to riches; and the 'painted cloths,' a kind of tapestry then in use, are noted by Mr. French as indications of a gentleman's position. There seems also some reason for presuming that these Ardens were connections of the Buckinghamshire Hampdens, who were certainly allied to the Ardens of Park Hall.
Mary Arden carried the goodly share of land and buildings left her by her father and grandfather in marriage to John Shakespeare, the farmer and wool-stapler of Stratford-on-Avon, who had been her father's tenant, and was then her own, it is doubtful if the Hill connection can have looked favourably on the alliance, especially as John Shakespeare seems to have launched out on marrying an heiress, and perhaps again on becoming High Bailiff of Stratford, so that for a time he involved himself in pecuniary trouble. Mary Hill, on the other hand, made in 1561 a decidedly advantageous match with John Fullwood, which probably raised her in the social scale.
There is, however, no evidence forthcoming of any direct breach between the Fullwood and Shakespeares; indeed, whatever reserve may have prevailed at first, the inmates of Ford Hall would be unlike other people if they did not unbend when William Shakespeare, the son of John and Mary, became famous and prosperous, though they may have allowed themselves an occasional sneer at his profession as an actor. So there is every probability, having regard especially to the sequel of the story yet to be narrated, that the young Bernards, children of Baldwin, were early acquainted with the family at Stratford-upon-Avon.
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==Biography==Francis was the eldest son [[Bernard-53|John Bernard]] and [[Muscote-1|Cecily Nuscote]].[Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). ''The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19'', Mitchell and Hughes, 1887, p. 3, [https://archive.org/details/visitationsnort00vincgoog/page/n16/mode/2up Internet Archive]] He was born in 1526.[Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 187, BERNARD 14, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=8JcbV309c5UC&q=butler#v=snippet&q=bernard&f=false Google Books]][Douglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 345-346, BERNARD 17] He was likely to have been born at Abington, Northamptonshire where his father lived.
Francis married [[Haselwood-3|Alice Haslewood]], daughter of John Haslewood[Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). ''The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19'', p.98, [https://archive.org/details/visitationsnort00vincgoog/page/n112/mode/2up Internet Archive]][J Charles Cox. ''The Records of the Borough of Northampton'', Vol. II, County Borough of Northampton, p. 168, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091777494/page/168/mode/2up Internet Archive]] and Henry Travell[John Fetherston (ed.). ''The Visitation of Warwick in the year 1619'', Harleian Society, 1877, p. 409, [https://archive.org/details/visitationcount01britgoog/page/408/mode/2up Internet Archive]]* Magdalen,[Sophia Elizabeth Higgins. ''The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon'', Longmans, Green and Company, 1903, pp. 34-41, [https://archive.org/details/bernardsabingto00higggoog/page/n54/mode/2up Internet Archive]]They may have had two other daughters who died in infancy.
Francis died on 21 October 1602, probably at Abington, Northamptonshire where he lived. His wife survived him.
== Sources ==
: See also:* Faris, David. ''Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists'', Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 20-21* Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard and William R Beall. ''The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215'', 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. p. 66, line 46/13* "Barnard Pedigree" from the "Barnard Family Papers" collection MS-541 located at the The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (not consulted when this profile was re-reviewed in October 2022 - it was not viewable on the web)
== Acknowledgements ==
===Magna Carta Project===: This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by [[Cayley-55|Michael Cayley]] on 21 October 2022.
: {{Name}} was identified by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta Project]] in a trail from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestors]] [[Bernard-103|Richard Bernard]] and [[Bernard-131|William Bernard]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[Clavering-13|John FitzRobert]] that was project approved/badged in March 2015. Over time, the project identified this profile in other badged trails from the Bernard cousins to surety barons [[Bigod-2|Roger le Bigod]], [[Bigod-1|Hugh le Bigod]], [[Clare-651|Richard de Clare]], [[Clare-673|Gilbert de Clare]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]] and [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]. This profile also appears in ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' in a Richardson-documented trail from the Bernard cousins to surety baron [[Ros-149|Robert de Ros]] (vol. 1, pages 186-188 BERNARD) and another trail, to surety [[Albini-39|William d'Aubigny]] branches off the Ros trail. These trails were badged in October 2022. All the trails named above are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails sections of the profiles of [[Bernard-103#Magna Carta Trails|Richard Bernard]] and [[Bernard-131#Magna Carta Trails|William Bernard]].
: See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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