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Leicestershire, where she had lived in her later years. The austerity shown in her husband's will was amplified in hers, which was dated 6 March 1657. She asked that only one nephew, James Abney, attend her funeral and that even bell ringing be avoided. Most of the bequests relate to Abney and to
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Here resteth the Bodie of Sir Edward
Bromley, Knight, second Baron of Exchequer, being second sonne of Sir George Bromley, Knight, and of Dame Jane his wife. Who married Margaret one of the daughters and coheirs of Michael Lowe, of Tymore, in the County of Stafford, Esquire and died without issue,
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Bromley left £100 for "a monument to be set up in
Shifnall church or elsewhere". He had installed a fine alabaster monument for his parents at Worfield and may have doubted it would be available. In the event, a substantial alabaster tomb was built at Worfield and dedicated to him by his wife. His
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Bromley estates. However, matters were not so clear-cut at Hallon itself. Francis
Bromley also left a daughter, Jane, who had married William Davenport, allegedly after a secret and forbidden courtship. Jane and William Davenport now laid claim to Hallon and the other lands that had been inherited
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Bromley can have had little expectation of inheriting substantial estates. He was installed in a modest property of the Bromley patrimony at Shifnal, which became his seat: he was known as “of Shifnall Grange” in his early career. When Sir George Bromley died in 1589, the
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were nominated as attendants to the Reader – generally a signal that the appointee was himself to receive this high academic honour in the near future. As expected, on 3 November 1605 the Inn's parliament named
Bromley Lent Reader for the following year, attended by Coke and
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Bromley was admitted to the Inner Temple by its parliament on 27 November 1580: a special admission, without cost, in recognition of his father's status. An undated note states that he was in debt to the treasurer, Andrew Gray, to the tune of 20
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Bromley was sent to confer with the House of Lords on the king's proposals for a Union of the kingdoms of
Scotland and England. He was also instructed to draft a bill to exclude "outlaws" – in this context referring to
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giving all his personal property to his wife in compensation for her likely losses. He appointed as overseers of his will his three sisters, his brother-in-law Cotton and his friends, the judges John Denham and
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for this purpose in the reign of James I. He was presented with a purse containing £10 by the treasurer of the Inner Temple. The benchers and fellows of the Inner Temple then accompanied him in procession to
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he was appointed to the commission which investigated the conspirators' lands in
Shropshire. He was a commissioner for the subsidy in 1608. Most of these posts brought some profit as well as responsibility.
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Loughborough : Mr. OLIVER BRUMSKILL. Add; He was a judicious solid Divine, and excellent Preacher, and holy Liver. He liv'd with that eminent Saint, the old Lady Bromley, Widow to Judge Bromley.
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Thrush and Ferris: BROMLEY, Sir Henry (c.1560–1615), of Holt Castle, Worcs., Shrawardine Castle, Salop and St. Lawrence Pountney, London; later of Westminster. – Author: Ben Coates
2090:, in Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, volume 8, 1893–4. Accessed at Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 19 May 2014.
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of the ministers, lecturers, masters and fellows of colleges, and schoolmasters, who were ejected and silenced after the restoration in 1660, by or before the Act for uniformity,
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of 1601. This was business of great importance to the Bromley family, as John Lyttelton's widow and Thomas's mother was Meriel Bromley, Edward Bromley's cousin and a daughter of
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period, was evidently related to Lady Bromley by marriage and her active support for his ministry, as well as Calamy's encomium, makes clear that she was a committed
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Edward Bromley, meanwhile, start to build up his own landholding, in 1593 marrying the coheiress to the small estate of Tysoe, near Enville, in neighbouring
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2245:Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (1982).
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2099:The Judges of England, volume VI
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152:Edward Bromley's elder brother,
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2077:A continuation of the Account
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1206:Chief Baron of the Exchequer
913:Education and legal training
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2289:Politicians from Shropshire
2284:Members of the Inner Temple
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2168:Hasler, P.W., ed. (1981).
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2133:Clarenceux king of arms
1783:– Author: Alan Davidson
2146:George Grazebrook and
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2215:John Randall (1887).
2115:by Robert Tresswell,
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1850:– Author: Simon Healy
1824:– Author: Simon Healy
1798:– Author: Simon Healy
1753:– Author: Simon Healy
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1055:as well as
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160:Family Tree
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2066:References
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