674:"Whereas Christopher Saxton, servaunt to our trustie and wel beloved Thomas Sekeford esquier, master of requestes unto us, hath already (at the greate coste, expenses and charges of his said master) traveyled throughe the greateste parte of this oure realme of England, and hathe to the greate pleasure and comoditie of us, and our lovinge subjectes, uppon the perfecte viewe of a greate nomber of the severall counties, and sheires of oure said realme, drawen oute, and sett forthe, diverse trew and pleasaunt mappes, chartes or platts of the same counties, together with the citties, townes, villages, and ryvers therein conteyned, vearie diligentlie and exactlie donne; and entendithe, yf God graunte hym lief, further to travell therein, throughout all the residue of oure said realme, and so from tyme to tyme to cause the same platts, and discriptions, to be well and fayre ingraven..."
854:. The Letters Patent licensing their foundation (as "Seckford's Alms-house") were issued on 23 May 1587 (Elizabeth's 29th year). Seckford wrote his ordinances for the almshouses (then "newly-erected") on 10 July 1587, and the necessary directions and bequests of land to the Governors were expressed in his will dated 1 August 1587. The Governors were incorporated by Patent, to be the Chief Justice of the Court of Bench, and the Lord of the manor of Seckford Hall, if he be an heir-male of Seckford's father: or, in default of such heir-male, then the Master of the Rolls. These, with advice of the minister and churchwardens of Woodbridge parish church, were to select the candidates.
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die of the sickness round about it...". In writing a little later to Queen
Elizabeth she observed, "But, most dear Sovereign, I confess and acknowledge that I have found great mercy and goodness at your hands, in that, of your merciful consideration you sent me to the house of your Majesty's grave officer the Master of Requests, my very good friend and kinsman...", before being sent on to Isleworth House. The Countess's kinship to Seckford lay through the Wingfield side. She is mentioned in Thomas Seckford's will, and in the final section of her own will of 1596 made arrangements concerning a house which she had leased from Seckford at Clerkenwell.
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quarterly, and were provided with cloth for new robes annually, and a silver badge displaying the
Seckford arms, so that they were identifiable as they went about the town. They were, of course, to attend services and sermons regularly at St Mary's church. Tippling and playing at cards or gaming were forbidden, as was swearing or cursing at one another, and all kinds of lewdness and fornication, which were punishable first by fines deducted from the pensions, and ultimately by expulsion. Three poor widows received a pension and lodgings nearby to attend to and care for the men when they were sick or infirm.
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201:. It was perhaps the grandfather Thomas who built the brick porch of Great Bealings church, as recorded by a carved inscription. By his will, his lands were to be held by his widow, making an allowance to his son Thomas (the benefactor's father), then aged nearly ten, until he should reach the age of 21. He also held manors in Norfolk which were to be administered for Thomas until that time. The Woodbridge manor and market were anciently granted to
631:: in the following year he was chosen again for Ipswich with Edward Grimston. In 1575 he was appointed "Bailiff, collector and receiver of rents of all manors, messuages and lands which had belonged to the Priory or Hospital of St John of Jerusalem but now in the possession of the Crown in the City of London and the County of Middlesex," and it is suggested that this position may have facilitated the improvement of his Clerkenwell estate.
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church, with a handsome display of heraldry, to embrace them in the celebration of his own 25 years of service as Master of
Requests. It is a composite wall plaque with twin fluted pilasters in flat relief at either side in pale limestone, rising from a register ornamented with panelling beneath, centrally recessed, and with an entablature above bearing inscriptions, surmounted by a projecting pediment with richly dentillated cornices.
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354:, Thomas Seckford received rapid advancement and various tokens of royal approval. In her Letters Patent of 1587 for Seckford's Almshouses in Woodbridge, Elizabeth wrote of "Our well beloved and faithful Thomas Seckford, Esquire, who hath faithfully served Us from the first Day of February, in the Third Year of Our Reign, for Our Counsel about Our Person and attendances about the same."
670:, during the 1570s. The engraved plates of the completed atlas (dedicated to the Queen), each of which bears the royal arms and those of Thomas Seckford as patron, range in date from 1574 to 1579. By her patent of 1577, Elizabeth granted to Saxton the sole rights to produce maps and atlases for ten years, and introduced the project in this way:
961:) were built on an adjacent site in 1838-42: they have been very substantially refurbished in modern times and are administered as the Seckford Foundation Almshouses by a sector of the Trust named Seckford Care. The smaller terrace of almshouses near to the entrance of the site stand on the actual site of the original houses.
710:: Harrison (1534-1593) thanked him for his "singular curtesie" and help with the description of the rivers and streams of Britain, observing that Seckford's good nature "greatly favoureth any thing that is doone for a commoditie unto many," and called down blessings upon him and upon "my good Lady your Wife".
1035:, London, is built on land once owned by Thomas Seckford and is named for him. Sekforde Street adjoins Woodbridge Street, laid out at the same time in the 1830s. The Sekforde public house at the corner of Sekforde Street in Clerkenwell has a modified version of the be-hatted portrait for its inn-sign.
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The vault was surmounted by a rectangular monument like a table-tomb: from the basal slab (the re-used matrix of an elaborate brass) eight squared and panelled columns arise between three arched openings on either side of the chest, with one arch at each end, leaving the interior space entirely open.
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To his beloved parents, Thomas
Sekford of Sekford Esquire, and Margaret his wife, one of the daughters of Sir John Wingfield of Letheringham, Kt., their son Thomas Sekford, Master of Requests to the Queen's Majesty through 25 years of service and devotion on that account placed in the 67th year of
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The received portrait of Thomas
Seckford, as it appears on Loder's 1796 token, as frontispiece to Loder's 1792 printing of Seckford's original Statutes for the Almshouses which he founded in Woodbridge, and in other recensions, was derived by the Woodbridge artist Isaac Johnson (c. 1754-1835) from a
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the main character, Will, lives in a flat in No.1 Sekforde Street (actual research shows the temporary movie-set doorway was constructed at 16-18 St James's Walk, the same glazed-brick building but around the corner.) Woodbridge Chapel on
Woodbridge Street also features in the film as the scene of
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church. Thomas died at
Clerkenwell 19 December 1587, aged 72, and was first buried there: but in accordance with his will his body was afterwards transferred to a vault in a chapel at the north-east side of St. Mary's Church in Woodbridge. That chapel is now an organ-chamber: it was the vault, not
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the
Countess mentioned her hopes to move to Clerkenwell: "My cousin Sackford hath built him a house at Clerkenwell, which is not yet thoroughly finished. I would be very gladly his tenant; for the air, as I take it, cannot be much unlike to that of his house at St. John's: but I hear now that they
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Reformation. Seckford's land was in the area laid out in the 19th century as Sekforde Street and Woodbridge Street, and on this land Seckford built a large house called Woodbridge House, and another which became his own private residence. The latter was near to the residence of his younger
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of
Ipswich (by which time it belonged to Sir William Barker), shows a building of two principal storeys with five bays of Tudor fenestration, the first, third and fifth rising to gabled attic windows above, the whole flanked by a pair of four-storey towers with paired windows in each storey, and
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MP (son of Francis Seckford of Seckford Hall, then deceased), was his heir. His will was proved on 3 January 1588, but became the subject of a dispute between Charles and Henry Seckford (a younger brother of Thomas's), leading to a Sentence in Charles's favour in 1590. Charles died in 1592, and
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Thomas Seckford senior of Seckford Hall, father of the benefactor, died in 1575 aged 80, and was buried in the parish church of Great Bealings. Seckford's mother, Margaret (Wingfield), had died in 1557 at the age of 64. In 1583 Thomas Seckford, then aged 67, dedicated a memorial to them in that
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In 1566 Seckford purchased an estate of land in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, consisting of the greater part of a field called St Mary's Close, which had belonged to the Benedictine Nunnery of St Mary at Clerkenwell. The nunnery church of St Mary (a modified 12th-century structure) was rededicated as
369:) as chief Judge, dealt with poor men's causes brought by petition before Elizabeth as she journeyed around her realm. In accompanying her he maintained a position close to the monarch and gained a knowledge of the different parts of Britain. In a commission of October 1560 he is mentioned as a
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almsman to occupy alone (13 in all). Anyone found to have a wife was to be summarily expelled. Each house had its own garden which the occupants were to work for produce, and there was additional land for working, and a fount for water with a yard for washing. The men received a pension paid
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in Great Bealings after 1553, but, although it was so close to Woodbridge, and Queen Elizabeth is known later to have held court there, this never became the benefactor's personal residence. Nor did his mother live long to enjoy it, for Margaret Seckford (née Wingfield) died in 1557 aged 64.
1019:) with the legend "AT WHOSE EXPENCE COUNTY MAPS WERE FIRST ENGRAVED 1574."; within this, in Latin, was "ORATIONES . ET . ELEEMOS . ASCENDUMT . IN . MEMORIAM . CORAM . DEO." (Prayers and alms rise before God in his memory). This was probably intended to resemble the old badge of the almsmen.
388:, deputy chief Steward for the Duchy of Lancaster (northern parts), in the commission of the peace for Suffolk and Middlesex (1558/59), and a commissioner for ecclesiastical causes in 1559. In 1561 he was a commissioner for the preparation of orders and regulations for the governance of the
141:, and it was held in 1185 by Bartholomew de Sekford, son of William de Sekford, when it passed to Bartholomew's son John de Sekford. From this period the tenure of the Seckford Hall manor came down to the family of Thomas Seckford. The Seckford family had also been substantial landowners in
814:"Parentibus suis charissimis, Thomae Sekford de Sekford armigero: et Margaritae uxori eius de filiabus Ioannis Wingfeld de Letheringham militis Thomas Sekford filius Regiae Maiestati, a libellis Supplicum per annos 25 observantiae et pietatis ergo posuit aetatis suae 67, Ano Dni 1583."
516:, as a two-storey structure with open market below (the arches of which have since been infilled), and a room above which he gave to the County in perpetuity. Seckford's arms are displayed in stonework over the first floor west entrance. He became Treasurer of Gray's Inn in 1565.
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Small painted escutcheons of arms appear dexter (father) and sinister (mother) of the entablature, beside short inscriptions stating their ages and dates of death, and the impalement of the two (representing the marriage) is painted into the tympanum of the pediment.
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and his wife Dorothy, in 1541. In 1542 John Wingfield demolished the priory church and added the land to the parish churchyard. However John Wingfield died without an heir, and the priory manor remained to his widow for term of her life, with reversion to the Crown.
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In February 1562 he had permission to rebuild the sill of his mansion in Ipswich (which had a frontage onto Westgate Street where Museum Street now emerges) on condition that it did not impinge on the traffic in the highway. Although not so grand as
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At the time of his death in 1505, the benefactor's grandfather Thomas Seckford held Seckford Hall manor and the advowson of Little Bealings from Sir John Wingfield, Kt., and lands and estates in the parishes mentioned above, principally from Sir
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He is not to be confused with his younger brother, Thomas Seckford of Ludlow, also a Member of Parliament, nor with his father, also Thomas Seckford (of Great Bealings), nor with his nephew Thomas Seckford, buried at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Seckford built or completed the brick mansion at the priory site, which became his private residence in the town. It was (and partly remains, though much renovated, reformed and embellished) a tall south-facing two-storey structure with gabled
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appeared in a library sale of 1763. The text of the vellum manuscript, which came into the possession of the Master of the Rolls, was published in 1792 together with extensive historical notices and a view of the original almshouses.
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In May 1564 he purchased from the Crown the reversion of the manor and site of Woodbridge Priory (pending the death of Dorothy Wingfield), together with the capital mansion, all its dependent lands in Martlesham, Bealings, Hasketon,
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Above the columns large consoles project outwards to support the table slab, which overhangs the lower structure. This monument, restored, is now positioned in the most easterly arcade between the chancel and the north-east chapel.
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Ordinances and statutes made by me, Thomas Sekford esq; the 10th of July, 1587, for the election, admission, exercises, expulsion, and government of 13 poor persons placed in my new-erected alms-houses in Woodbred, in the county of
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were tried for high treason. In 1556 he deliberated on the trial of offences committed within the verge of the Queen's household, and in 1570 his commission of oyer and terminer for London encompassed the trial and condemnation of
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Will of Thomas Seckforde or Sackforde, Ordinary Master of the Requests to Her Majesty of Woodbridge, Suffolk (P.C.C. 1588, Rutland quire); Sentence of Thomas Seckforde or Seckford of Ipswich, Suffolk (P.C.C. 1590, Drury
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The almshouses occupy a site in Seckford Street, Woodbridge (running between Market Hill and Drybridge Hill), and an inn named The Seckford Arms (now a private house) stood beside the gateway entrance to the site.
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the chapel itself, which had been constructed by Seckford. His coat of arms, as a quartering with helm and crest within a strapwork oval, appears in original glass in the west window of the north aisle.
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or medalet was issued by R. Loder of Woodbridge, commemorating Thomas Seckford. The obverse showed a bust of Seckford in his hat with the legend "THO SEKFORD ESQ. FOUNDED WOODBRIDGE ALMSHOUSES 1587."
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in the City of London. Elizabeth had moved in the higher circles of London civic society, and was already twice widowed. Her first husband, William Billingsley (died 1553), was a prominent
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564:. Seckford remembered in his will his "loving friend and late son-in-law, William Bowes" - "late", i.e. former, (stepson) because William's mother had died in the previous year, 1586.
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Built in a single terrace, the almshouses consisted of six houses with attics over, each to be occupied by two poor or infirm unmarried men or widowers, and a seventh similar for the
365:, a role which Seckford held until his death. In January 1558/59 they are described as "learned in the Comon Lawes of this realme." These officers, assistants to the Lord Privy Seal (
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Seckford's near relationship to Anthony Wingfield no doubt favoured him, and despite his uncle's death in 1552 that advantage persisted through Sir Anthony's son, Seckford's cousin
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presiding over the Court of Wards and Liveries. The figure identified as Seckford wears a tall patterned hat and sits at the table on the mid-left of the early painting. The
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in 1578), in 1579 she was arrested under suspicion of having imagined the Queen's death by sorcery, and was detained under house confinement. In a letter of 1580 to Sir
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Monumental Inscription, Great Bealings parish church, Suffolk. "Obit mater 29 Octobris 1557, Ano aetatis suae 64"; "Obit pater 30 Septembris 1575 Ano aetatis suae 80."
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It has been presumed that Seckford's religious sympathies were with the reforming party. In 1539 Seckford's uncle Sir Anthony Wingfield, then newly admitted to the
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It was by the encouragement and considerable expense of Thomas Seckford that the first County Maps of England produced from an actual Survey were undertaken by
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Seckford's personal integrity became considered as a byword. A short poem of Latin verse was made for Seckford as a compliment by "M. Doctor Norton" (?
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survive on the north side. The most striking survival is the three-storey brick porch (with a rooms in the upper storeys) with triple superimposed
233:'s. His elder brother's name was Francis, and there were younger brothers John, Anthony, Humfrey, Henry and Thomas and sisters Mary and Elizabeth.
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British Topography, or, an Historical Account of what has been done for illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland
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The Statutes, and Ordinances, for the Government of the Almshouses in Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, Founded by Thomas Seckford, Esquire
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In the interim between these two acquisitions he had served in several important commissions and parliamentary committees, beginning with an
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In 1796, at a time when English copper coinage was in poor condition and was augmented by many tradesmen's tokens, a one-penny-sized copper
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Seckford's wife Elizabeth died at Clerkenwell in November 1586, and was buried in the vault of her second husband Sir Martin Bowes at
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Will of Dame Margaret Stanley or Margaret Stanly, Wife (P.C.C. 1596, Drake quire): see Transcript and notes by Nina Green (2008),
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D. Broomfield, 'The Seckford Monument - Trinity College, Cambridge. A brief outline of the heraldry and genealogy,'
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A. Thrush, 'Billingsley, Sir Henry (c.1538-1606), of Fenchurch Street, London', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds),
1641:'Translation of the Letters Patent granted by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Seckford, Esquire (&c.)', in R. Loder,
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1564:'L. Sir Robert (VI) Wingfeld of Lethringham', in P. and M. Bickerton (2020), "The Wingfield Heraldry and Crests",
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H. Miller, 'Bowes, Sir Martin (1496/97-1566), of London, Woolwich and North Cray, Kent', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.),
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Seckford's beneficence is still felt in Woodbridge and Suffolk today. His endowments are managed by Trustees as
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pyramidally-roofed with dormers above, crowned with onion-shaped pinnacles. The central three bays overshot a
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318:, and this is taken to account for his entry into parliament for the duchy seat of
314:
At the start of Mary's reign, early in 1554, Seckford obtained a minor post in the
222:
2365:
1288:
J.J.C., 'Seckford, Thomas II (d.c.1579), of Ludlow, Salop', in P.W. Hasler (ed.),
2243:
The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life
619:
replaced Haddon as Seckford's fellow Master of Requests, and Seckford was junior
524:
On 5 February 1566/67 Seckford married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Harlowe, at
508:
Seckford also built the nearby Woodbridge Shire Hall, or Sessions-Hall, when the
1032:
847:
628:
433:
198:
150:
64:
260:
in 1542, and Gray's Inn admitted him to the grand company of Ancients in 1547.
133:
The Seckford family was associated with a place named Sekford in the parish of
1045:
984:
980:
799:
678:
Saxton obtained the services of various engravers, including the Dutch artist
662:
Saxton's Map of Hampshire, c. 1575: Seckford's arms in the lower right corner.
537:
486:
470:
245:
194:
162:
1464:
The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, 1561, Cooke, 1577, and Raven, 1612
1414:
Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents, Henry VII
311:
appointed Lord Deputy of Calais in 1553), and received knighthood from Mary.
1258:. The caption refers to the "right" side, in the heraldic sense of "dexter".
851:
843:
767:
462:
76:
1832:
C. Paine (ed.), 'Excursions 1983. 16 April. Norman Scarfe, Woodbridge', in
47:
Suffolk gentry, Member of Parliament, and public benefactor of the town of
2585:
792:
Hunter: Argent a fess gules between three hunting horns sable adorned or;
639:
494:
284:
166:
1957:
The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623 by Robert Tresswell
2435:
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History
1617:
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History
1551:
I: 1559-1659 (Masters of the Bench/Stevens & Haynes, London 1901),
1380:
Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britain
976:
972:
299:. In 1549 Robert Wingfield was active in persuading the king to remove
218:
193:
and from John Blenerhassett of Loudham, Suffolk (an historic estate in
154:
137:
from early times. A Sekford Hall manor, the second manor, is listed in
87:
in the making of the first surveyed County Atlas of England and Wales.
60:
44:
36:
1424:(Internet Archive). Will of Thomas Sekford (P.C.C. 1506, Adean quire).
99:
identification as Seckford was made in the caption to an engraving by
482:
478:
442:
174:
39:(1515–1587) was a senior lawyer, a "man of business" at the court of
1761:
Ichnographical Survey of... the Borough and Corporation (of Ipswich)
964:
The almshouse trust was extended in 1861 to include support for the
919:
The informatively heraldic tomb of Thomas Seckford in the chapel of
326:, is supposed to underlie Seckford's return to parliament as MP for
303:, and to place him under guard. Wingfield married Cecily, sister of
2561:
2536:
1993:
Vol. 46: South and East Clerkenwell (London County Council, 2008),
1929:. Thrush confuses the sequence of his mother's first two marriages.
949:
Site of the original houses, and the old Seckford Arms, now closed.
337:
Seckford's father began the building of the great brick mansion of
1776:
All that remains from the house is a staircase built into the old
1549:
The Pension Book of Gray's Inn (Records of the Honourable Society)
999:
944:
936:
894:
878:
833:
753:
657:
499:
485:-finished brick mouldings and mullions. Portions of former gabled
399:
262:
124:
20:
2525:
The Seckford Foundation: Four Hundred Years of a Tudor Foundation
2287:, citing British Library Add. MSS 15891, fol. 84b (Hathi Trust).
2279:'Countess of Derby to Sir Christopher Hatton', in N.H. Nicolas,
1851:
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop of London
552:(died 1566), one of the great Lords Mayors in the last years of
279:, had a lease of the former priory manor of Woodbridge from the
2304:, citing British Library Add. MSS 15891, fol. 72 (Hathi Trust).
1834:
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
1600:
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
2095:, 2nd Edition (Charles Herbert, London 1881), Chapter XIII,
1101:(Hambledon, London and Rio Grande 1994), pp. 59-86, at p. 65.
722:
became a possible heir to the throne (following the death of
83:(to which he owed his early patronage). He was the patron of
1906:
The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948
1438:
The Manors of Suffolk: Notes on their History and Devolution
1310:
The Manors of Suffolk: Notes on their History and Devolution
1015:
The reverse showed an escutcheon of Seckford's single arms (
185:. Lands were released by Sir John de Sekford, Kt., in 1359.
1885:
Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies
1585:'Seckford Hall, Great Bealings', Historic England listing,
2548:'Almshouses, Seckford Terrace', Historic England, Listing
2228:'Christopher Saxton. Atlas of England and Wales. 1579' at
1823:
The carving has been restored, but very crudely repainted.
1399:(Joshua Page, Ipswich/J.B. Nichols and Son, London 1844),
746:, and records his title on the Bealings memorial of 1583.
1974:
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558
1940:
A Survey of London written in the year 1598, by John Stow
1923:
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629
1290:
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603
1214:
Isaac Johnson of Woodbridge: Georgian Surveyor and Artist
1131:
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603
1082:
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558
911:
held in 30 Elizabeth (1588) it was found that his nephew
217:
Thomas Seckford the benefactor was born near Woodbridge,
2451:
Registers of S. Mary Woolnoth and S. Mary Woolchurch Haw
1630:
A Short History of Seckford Hall and the Seckford Family
1598:
E.A. Martin, 'Two exceptional Tudor houses in Hitcham',
2420:, (T. Payne and Son, and J. Nichols, London 1780), II,
734:
In 1579 or 1581 Seckford was appointed Surveyor of the
642:
on Seckford's name. One English version was written by
149:
at least, when (in 1335) a grant (of special grace) of
55:
to Queen Elizabeth, 1569-1587, and was Surveyor of the
2281:
Memoir of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton
1814:, Historic England Listing (retrieved 16 August 2021).
1750:(East Anglian Magazine Ltd., Ipswich 1948), pp. 34-38.
1228:'Thomas Seckford and his Almshouses', in E. Griffith,
493:, its entrance archway in the Doric style with fluted
2117:(Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London 1828),
1660:
Select Cases in the Court of Requests, A.D. 1497-1569
1271:(The British Museum). View another copy at a Digital
2183:
Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy
2115:
History and Description of the Parish of Clerkenwell
1662:
Selden Society XII (Bernard Quaritch, London 1898),
1049:
the "Single Parents Alone Together" (SPAT) meeting.
2006:'Clerkenwell Close area: St James Clerkenwell', in
1516:
The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889
1328:, IV: 1-14 Edward III, A.D. 1327-1341 (HMSO 1912),
560:, and a notable survivor during the reign of Queen
79:, and deputy Steward for the northern parts of the
1959:, Harleian Society, 2 vols (28 and 29) (1889), I,
1382:(Thomas Harper for Laurence Sadler, London 1631),
361:were almost immediately appointed Elizabeth's two
324:William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham
2601:(George Jermyn, Ipswich/T. Conder, London 1798),
1908:(Cambridge University Press, 1953), pp. 101–115,
1615:V.B. Redstone, 'The Seckfords of Seckford Hall',
153:was made to John de Sekford and his heirs in his
957:. The existing almshouses (sometimes called the
842:In his last year, Thomas Seckford founded seven
758:Thomas Seckford's memorial for his parents, 1583
236:Thomas is believed to have been educated at the
225:, Suffolk and his wife Anne Tuchet, daughter of
1904:'Renaissance and Debasement', in J.H.M. Craig,
1232:(Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 32-40,
1159:J.H. Baker, 'Seckford, Thomas (1515/16–1587)',
51:. He was one of the Masters in Ordinary of the
1462:'Sekford of Sekford', in W.C. Metcalfe (ed.),
907:Since Thomas Seckford had no children, at his
322:in November 1554; similarly, the patronage of
103:after the original painting, published by the
2315:'The National Archives PROB 11/88, ff. 217-8'
2136:Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials
1887:, 3rd Edition (John Hearne, London 1840), I,
1163:(Oxford University Press, 2004), superseding
1148:A Tudor Worthy: Thomas Seckford of Woodbridge
899:Seckford's arms in glass at Woodbridge church
209:came into the hands of the Wingfield family.
8:
2181:The versions are collected in J. Haslewood,
2061:'St John's Church and St John's Square', in
1420:; '446. Thomas Sekford, Esquire (Norfolk)',
363:Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Requests
59:1581-1587. He built mansions in Woodbridge,
2527:(The Seckford Foundation, Woodbridge 1987).
2378:
2376:
2374:
2356:
2354:
2296:'Countess of Derby to Queen Elizabeth', in
2138:, I: 1163-1600 (R. Bagshow, London 1809),
1925:, (from Cambridge University Press 2010),
1790:
1788:
1786:
802:: Paly of six or and gules a chief ermine.
2340:'1577: Sekford of Sekford', in Metcalfe,
1530:
1528:
1017:ermine on a fess gules 3 escallops argent
774:, the helm above crested with the talbot
2298:Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton
883:Seckford's monument at Woodbridge church
121:Sekford of Great Bealings and Woodbridge
2109:
2107:
2105:
1866:J.M.S. Brooke and A.W.C. Hallen (eds),
1432:
1430:
1224:
1222:
1161:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1058:
587:, who was married to a daughter of Sir
384:He was, simultaneously, Steward of the
1955:G. Grazebrook and J.P. Rylands (eds),
1348:, Vol. X: A.D. 1354-1360 (HMSO 1908),
1304:
1302:
1216:(D.K. and M.N. Sanford, Ipswich 2014).
1150:(East Anglian Magazine Limited, 1979).
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818:his age, in the year of Our Lord 1583.
416:in parliament in 1559, and again with
191:William Willoughby, Lord de Willoughby
2642:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
2327:
2325:
2323:
2113:T. Cromwell with J. and H.S. Storer,
1812:The Abbey (Junior School), Woodbridge
1693:Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I
1572:, Vol. V (James Moore, Dublin 1789),
1191:
1189:
1187:
770:compartment enclosing three rosettes
615:for his treasonable actions. In 1571
305:Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth
248:and their circle. In 1540 he entered
7:
2185:(Robert Triphook, London 1815), II,
1942:(Chatto & Windus, London 1876),
1853:, Harleian Society Vol. XXV (1887),
1412:'361. Thomas Sekford (Suffolk)', in
1308:'Great Bealings', in W.A. Copinger,
1256:Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
941:Seckford Foundation Almshouses today
556:, destroyer of the monuments in the
1676:Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth
1346:Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III
720:Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby
469:"or St Petronelle", the rectory of
177:: John was also holding a manor of
16:Member of the Parliament of England
14:
1849:J.L. Chester, ed. G.J. Armytage,
1678:, Vol. I: 1558-1560 (HMSO 1939),
1497:C.H. Cooper and T. Cooper (eds),
1180:. Vol. 51. pp. 173–174.
991:Commemoration and popular culture
923:, restored, is that of a nephew.
229:. His mother was a sister of Sir
2574:Seckford Education Trust website
2433:E. Farrer, 'The Dunthorne MSS',
2283:(Richard Bentley, London 1847),
2241:See W. Harrison, ed. G. Edelen,
1976:(from Boydell and Brewer 1982),
1870:(Bowles and Sons, London 1886),
1436:'Woodbridge', in W.A. Copinger,
1292:(from Boydell and Brewer 1981),
1177:Dictionary of National Biography
1133:(from Boydell and Brewer 1981),
1084:(from Boydell and Brewer 1982),
597:Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
540:, by whom she was the mother of
105:Society of Antiquaries of London
91:16th century painting depicting
2637:People from Woodbridge, Suffolk
2485:Supplement to Suffolk Traveller
2441:(Society's pdf), at pp. 178-80.
606:for Surrey in which Edmund and
1712:(S.H. Cowell, Ipswich 1884),
1536:Trinity College Chapel website
857:A finely-illuminated folio of
381:and others in a Final Decree.
1:
2317:(oxford-shakespeare.com pdf).
1481:"Sackford, Thomas (SKFT515T)"
795:Hackford: Chequy or and vert;
583:brother Sir Henry Sekford, a
548:. Her second husband was Sir
373:, having sat with Archbishop
367:Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1558-1571
350:At the onset of the reign of
2091:W.J. Pinks (ed. E.J. Wood),
1978:History of Parliament Online
1927:History of Parliament Online
1695:, V: 1569-1572 (HMSO 1966),
1534:'Thomas Sekford the Elder',
1294:History of Parliament online
1135:History of Parliament Online
1086:History of Parliament Online
2586:Seckford Foundation website
2364:Vol. 13 no. 2 (Lent 2008),
2023:'Sekforde Street area', in
1840:(Society's pdf), at p. 331.
1606:(Society's pdf), at p. 196.
1485:A Cambridge Alumni Database
736:Court of Wards and Liveries
698:published as a part of his
646:of Ipswich, and another by
481:above (four survive), with
57:Court of Wards and Liveries
2663:
2342:The Visitations of Suffolk
2251:The Description of Britain
2093:The History of Clerkenwell
2042:The Bedingfelds of Oxburgh
1566:Letheringham Lodge website
1487:. University of Cambridge.
1254:Then in the possession of
1004:1796 Conder Token, Reverse
930:
921:Trinity College, Cambridge
838:1796 Conder Token, Obverse
827:
823:
585:Groom of the Privy Chamber
465:, the manor and chapel of
295:, Captain of the Guard to
2523:M. Weaver and C. Weaver,
2198:Christophorus Saxtonius,
2069:(British History Online).
2031:(British History Online).
2014:(British History Online).
1997:(British History Online).
1619:IX Part 3 (1897), 359-69.
1326:Calendar of Charter Rolls
408:Seckford was chosen with
205:, but at the time of the
2562:Seckford Theatre website
1748:Ipswich Through the Ages
1518:(Hansard, London 1889),
1416:, Vol. III (HMSO 1955),
1171:"Seckford, Thomas"
580:St James's parish church
532:and Assay-master of the
2632:English philanthropists
2550:ref. no. IOE01/06658/17
2384:Statutes and Ordinances
2264:Statutes and Ordinances
2253:(1587), pp. 51 and 107.
2213:Statutes and Ordinances
1796:Statutes and Ordinances
1708:W.H. Richardson (ed.),
1643:Statutes and Ordinances
1499:Athenae Cantabrigienses
1466:(Editor, Exeter 1882),
955:The Seckford Foundation
927:The Seckford Foundation
909:inquisition post mortem
696:Description of Scotland
530:citizen and Haberdasher
386:Court of the Marshalsea
334:at Gray's Inn in 1556.
238:University of Cambridge
2504:(Discovery Catalogue).
2230:Royal Collection Trust
2153:The Annalls of Ipswche
1759:J. Ogilby, 1674/1698,
1602:XXXVII Part 3 (1991),
1005:
950:
942:
900:
884:
839:
821:
810:The inscription reads:
759:
750:Seckford memorial 1583
700:Description of Britain
676:
663:
653:
505:
405:
396:Ipswich and Woodbridge
346:Elizabethan prosperity
268:
183:John, Earl of Cornwall
130:
26:
2537:Seckford Care website
1691:'84. 9 May 1570', in
1547:R.J. Fletcher (ed.),
1363:The Manors of Suffolk
1277:at missouri education
1003:
995:
948:
940:
898:
882:
837:
824:Seckford's Alms-House
812:
757:
672:
661:
503:
438:Ichnographical Survey
403:
266:
128:
43:, a landowner of the
24:
2437:, XX Part 2 (1929),
1836:XXXV Part 4 (1984),
1714:p. 252, and note (a)
996:Robert Loder's token
546:Lord Mayor of London
430:Christchurch Mansion
227:the 6th Baron Audley
2474:(Internet Archive).
2472:p. 354 and note (a)
2348:(Internet Archive).
2247:pp. 220-21, note 47
2159:(Internet Archive).
2134:T.B. Howell (ed.),
2052:(Internet Archive).
1737:(Internet Archive).
1720:(Internet Archive).
1699:(Internet Archive).
1682:(Internet Archive).
1666:(Internet Archive).
1658:I.S. Leadam (ed.),
1587:List number 1030755
1568:, citing J. Lodge,
1555:(Internet Archive).
1522:(Internet Archive).
1505:(Internet Archive).
1470:(Internet Archive).
1369:(Internet Archive).
1361:See W.A. Copinger,
1352:(Internet Archive).
1275:(Vol. 1 Plate 70),
1269:Museum no. Y,5.121.
1031:Sekforde Street in
682:and the Englishman
621:Knight of the Shire
371:Doctor of both laws
157:lands in Great and
2468:Annalls of Ipswche
2200:Descriptio Angliae
1731:Annalls of Ipswche
1099:Elizabethan Essays
1006:
951:
943:
901:
885:
840:
760:
728:Christopher Hatton
714:Wards and Liveries
688:Cornelis de Hooghe
680:Remigius Hogenberg
668:Christopher Saxton
664:
593:Clerkenwell Priory
512:were removed from
506:
406:
316:Duchy of Lancaster
301:Protector Somerset
281:Augmentions Office
269:
145:since the time of
131:
85:Christopher Saxton
81:Duchy of Lancaster
69:Clerkenwell Priory
27:
2249:(Google), citing
2044:(Private, 1912),
1765:some details here
1514:J. Foster (ed.),
1273:Vetusta Monumenta
966:Woodbridge School
959:Seckford Hospital
830:Seckford Hospital
704:Raphael Holinshed
604:oyer and terminer
558:London Greyfriars
542:Henry Billingsley
258:called to the bar
231:Anthony Wingfield
203:Woodbridge Priory
110:Vetusta Monumenta
53:Court of Requests
41:Queen Elizabeth I
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1023:Streets and inns
913:Charles Seckford
889:St Mary Woolnoth
875:Death and legacy
692:William Harrison
684:Augustine Ryther
644:Edmund Withypoll
589:Henry Bedingfeld
526:St Mary Woolnoth
510:quarter-sessions
453:, was afforded.
426:Edmund Withypoll
293:Robert Wingfield
107:in 1747 for the
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724:Lady Mary Grey
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135:Great Bealings
122:
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73:City of London
34:Thomas Sakford
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2627:1587 deaths
2622:1515 births
2597:J. Conder,
2067:pp. 115-141
2065:, Vol. 46,
2027:, Vol. 46,
2010:, Vol. 46,
1883:R. Ruding,
1628:M.S. Bunn,
1604:pp. 186-207
1041:About a Boy
1033:Clerkenwell
848:Clerkenwell
744:David Lewis
629:Owen Hopton
627:, with Sir
613:John Felton
608:Arthur Pole
573:Clerkenwell
544:, a future
487:cross-wings
467:Alnesbourne
434:John Ogilby
357:He and Dr.
332:Lent Reader
207:Dissolution
199:John Weever
151:free warren
65:Clerkenwell
2616:Categories
2439:pp. 147-85
2416:R. Gough,
2302:pp. 149-50
2285:pp. 147-48
2187:pp. 302-03
2140:p. 1085-88
2123:pp. 240-42
2119:pp. 172-74
1944:pp. 119-20
1838:pp. 331-35
1418:pp. 220-21
1350:pp. 641-42
1334:pp. 426-27
1195:R. Loder,
1053:References
1046:Hugh Grant
985:Felixstowe
981:Saxmundham
844:almshouses
800:Knodishall
783:Clarenceux
708:Chronicles
554:Henry VIII
471:Brandeston
449:) towards
277:Henry VIII
250:Gray's Inn
246:John Cheke
213:Early life
195:Pettistree
163:Martlesham
147:Edward III
143:Woodbridge
49:Woodbridge
45:armigerous
2605:(Google).
2491:(Google).
2424:(Google).
2398:(Google).
2392:pp. vii-x
2366:pp. 25-30
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2168:Briscoe,
2125:(Google).
2099:(Google).
2078:Briscoe,
2050:pp. 46-47
2046:pp. 31-32
2029:pp. 72-85
2012:pp. 39-54
1995:pp. 28-39
1963:(Google).
1946:(Google).
1910:at p. 113
1895:(Google).
1857:(Google).
1802:(Google).
1680:p. 334-35
1664:p. xix-xx
1649:(Google).
1576:(Google).
1553:p. xxxiii
1503:pp. 18-19
1403:(Google).
1386:(Google).
1367:p. 255-57
1236:(Google).
1044:starring
868:Principal
852:Middlesex
798:Jenny of
768:strapwork
623:(MP) for
495:pilasters
463:Newbourne
352:Elizabeth
297:Edward VI
77:Middlesex
2396:pp. 1-10
2388:pp. v-vi
2344:(1882),
2172:, p. 43.
2082:, p. 38.
1780:in 1846.
1168:(1897).
640:acrostic
520:Marriage
436:for his
285:Hasketon
167:Hasketon
97:possible
2514:quire).
2382:Loder,
2262:Loder,
2211:Loder,
2151:Bacon,
1794:Loder,
1729:Bacon,
1520:col. 14
1314:pp. 5-6
977:Ixworth
973:Beccles
860:Suffolk
625:Suffolk
479:dormers
414:Ipswich
219:Suffolk
179:Clopton
155:demesne
71:in the
61:Ipswich
37:Esquire
2603:p. 142
2483:Page,
2455:p. 197
2422:p. 252
2346:p. 102
2217:p. iii
2157:p. 294
1872:p. 126
1735:p. 262
1718:p. 264
1647:p. vii
1574:p. 263
1442:p. 325
1422:p. 270
1384:p. 781
1330:p. 305
1201:Google
776:ermine
514:Melton
491:orders
483:stucco
443:loggia
377:, Sir
328:Orford
175:Boulge
2489:p. 42
2268:p. iv
2202:1579.
1961:p. 46
1893:p. 40
1889:p. 34
1855:p. 35
1800:p. ii
1697:p. 14
1468:p. 64
1401:p. 43
780:Cooke
718:When
595:, or
538:mints
451:Stoke
320:Ripon
181:from
171:Burgh
2394:and
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1891:and
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562:Mary
309:Mary
244:and
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