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633:£400 for the custody, wardship and marriage of Sir Henry Felton, baronet, son and next heir of Sir Henry Felton, baronet, deceased. Attached: survey of the manors, messuages, lands and tenements late of Sir Henry Felton, baronet, deceased on 18 September 1626, reverted to Henry Felton, baronet, his son, aged 5 years 9 months and 9 days at his father's death. Includes the manors of Playford and 'Meerchall'. Seal of the court of wards and signed Robert Naunton [master of the court of wards]
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for Essex about 1569 and in 1600 was described as the county's senior justice. His efforts for Queen and county were recognised and the completion of his court duties noted when another cousin, James I, four days before his coronation, raised him to the peerage on 21 July 1603 as Baron Grey of Groby,
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Indenture between
Charles I on the one part and Elizabeth, lady Felton of Playford, Suffolk, widow and grandmother of the ward Dorothy, lady Felton of Shotley, Suffolk, widow and mother of the ward John Gosnold of Otley, Suffolk, and Bassingborn Gawdy of Sproughton, Suffolk, on the other part, for
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The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of
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Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others: Illustrated with 2,000 Zinco
Etchings from the Bayear Tapestry, Greek Vases, Seals, Tiles, Effigies, Brasses and Heralcic Rolls. Some Chart Pedigrees
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six months of each year. Otherwise based 20 miles away at Pirgo in Essex he filled many local and county duties, was appointed
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Elizabeth Nevill, died suddenly, in October 1611 in his father's lifetime. Their son
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Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John.
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The sisters of Lady Jane Grey and their wicked grandfather
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25:Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Groby
315:Sir Walter Wrottesley, 1st Baronet
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127:Relatives
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