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record that Lady Lisle ordered "images & scripture...for Mt Basset's tomb" before she departed for Calais to join her new husband Lord Lisle, and a letter from
Richard Kyrton to Lady Lisle dated 21 November 1533 states: "And as for your plates for the tomb, they are sent home by the carrier, and
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ordered her release and this news, together with the news of her husband's release, is said by Elis
Gruffydd to have reached her before the news of his death, which "was the last ironic twist of the tragic screw" (Byrne). She lived out the remaining 24 years of her life in retirement and obscurity,
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in Devon. At her father's death in 1492 Honor was his only daughter by his first wife (the heiress Alicia Mules/Moels) who was still unmarried, and in his will, Sir Thomas
Grenville requested: "I will that my sonne Roger shall mary my doughter Onor and to give her in marriage CCC markes in money to
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squire", thus to an enemy of King Henry VIII, who at that time was convinced that the French were planning an assault on Calais. It was due to one of the Lisle's servants having travelled, secretly and without official permission, from Calais to Rome, to see the Pope supposedly in order to betray
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Foxe disliked Honor, and stated of her: "The Lord Lisly albeit...himselfe of a most gentle nature, beeing fiercelie set on, and incessantlie intised by the wicked Lady Honor his wife, who was an utter enemie to God's honour, and in
Idolatrie, hypocrisie and pride incomparably evill, since beeing
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That afternoon in the twilight Lord Sussex and the
Council went to the Staple Inn where Lady Lisle kept house. She, after the Council had conversed a little with her, was put in prison in a room of the palace and the girls were taken from her and put in prison in various places throughout the
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hath laid out xxxiii s iiii d unto
Candlemas, the which Burye then must pay him". In a letter dated April 1534 Sir John Bonde wrote to Lady Lisle "the pictures of Mr Basset's tomb" have been "laid on by the hands of Oliver Tomlyng". Thus the brasses were made in 1533 and set onto the tomb in
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with his fellow North-Devonian, Sir John Basset of
Umberleigh, for the marriage of his sister Honor, then aged about 20 or 22. Basset was a widower aged 53, and still lacking a son and heir. By John Basset she had children as follows, depicted as a row of small kneeling figures below her
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himself felt obliged to write tactfully to
Viscount Lisle pointing out that in matters of state a crown official could not simply do what his wife told him to. They also give insights into the administration of the manor of Umberleigh, and the negotiations with the
413:(see below) were seized by the state. The contents of the Staple Inn were minutely catalogued on their removal, with headings for gilt plate, plate parcel gilt, white plate, gold, jewels, and with goods (i.e. furnishings) listed for every room in the house.
388:. Although no evidence was ultimately found to implicate him and in 1542 he was due for release and pardon, he died in the Tower "at the sudden rapture", having heard the good news but before regaining his freedom. During this time Honor had been under
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Rumours circulated that Honor herself was the real traitor who brought about her husband's downfall. It was said in the highly insular and
Protestant fortress of Calais that she was planning to marry one of her daughters to a Catholic Frenchman, "a
426:, like Honor of popish sympathy, nicknamed "Sir Gregory Sweet-Lips", who was said by evil rumour to be Honor's lover. Honor's daughter Mary Basset was in fact in receipt of love letters from a young French aristocrat,
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Her husband was arrested in 1540 whilst on recall to
England, for alleged involvement in a plot to betray Calais, Henry VIII's cherished personal possession, to the French, and was imprisoned in the
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Lady Lisle was then taken on 1 June 1540 to the house of Francis Hall a Spear of Calais, where she remained under house arrest for two years. The Lisle household was broken up on 2 June and the
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that immediately on hearing the news she "fell distraught of mind and so continued many years after". Foxe had a dislike for Honor, whom he suspected as being a determined Catholic.
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dailie and hourelie thereunto incited and provoked by Sir Thomas Palmer Knight, and John Rookewood Esquire, too enemies to God's word, beginning nowe to flourish at Calice".
434:, who had proposed marriage to her, and these she disposed of in the cess-pit. When they were found by Lord Sussex they added further to evidence of suspicious activity.
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however reported that she lost her senses whilst imprisoned in Francis Hall's house at Calais and that he never heard if she ever completely recovered them.
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took possession of all the treasure and clothes of Lord and Lady Lisle in the King's name. It was at this time and place that the surviving
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for the gilding they must descry all the arms by the reason of colours. And they asketh £ v for the doing of it and for the making Master
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Calais to the French, that Lord Lisle was suspected of involvement in treason. This servant was a mischievous domestic chaplain named
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be levied of my lands and goods". His son Roger duly followed his father's instructions, and on 15 December 1515, he signed a deed of
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The brass and its companion pieces were ordered by Honor Grenville herself, made in 1533, purchased by her lawyer and land agent
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Byrne, vol.6, p.153, quoting Mostyn MS 158, Elis Gruffydd's Chronicle translated from Welsh by Prys Morgan, folio 571b
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by Basset on a monumental brass escutcheon below Honor Grenville's figure on the chest tomb in Atherington Church.
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with Henry VIII in 1532. She moved permanently to Calais with her second husband in 1533 when he was appointed
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before July 1534, and set onto the tomb in 1534. The
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348:, an illegitimate son of King
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