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Edward Fraunceys

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as a result. Fraunceys, who was generally respected by his colleagues, was not personally suspected of involvement in the Plot, but the Crown could scarcely overlook the fact that his wife Elizabeth Astlowe and her father were both open
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in 1605: his great patron Lord Northumberland was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the Plot and spent many years in the
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at various times between 1597 and 1626. His career was hampered by his marriage into an openly recusant family.
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and re-elected for the same constituency in 1601. He was appointed, through Northumberland's influence, a
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Fraunceys married Elizabeth Astlowe, daughter of Edward Astlowe, a member of the
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Combermere Abbey, the family home of Franceys's moyher Elizabeth Cotton
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and his wife Elizabeth Cotton, daughter of Sir George Cotton of
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Venn has no biographical details for this student, however.
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Index

House of Commons
Derbyshire
Ticknall
Combermere Abbey
Cheshire
Viscount Combermere
Shrewsbury School
St John's College, Cambridge

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Petworth
Sussex
Member of Parliament
Beverley
Justice of the Peace
paymaster
Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners
knighted
Haslemere
Gunpowder Plot
Tower of London
Roman Catholics
recusancy
Steyning
Royal College of Physicians
Sir William Goring, 1st Baronet
St. Margaret's, Westminster
"Frances, Edward (FRNS582E)"

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