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- From Robin Wood
Generation No. 2
2. THOMAS (THE ELDER)13 TYNDAL (AMPHILICE12 CONINGSBY, HUMPHREY11, THOMAS10, THOMAS9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, ROGER4, JOHN3 DE CONINGSBY, JOHN2 CONINGSBY, ROGER BARON1 DE CONINGSBY)10 was born Abt. 1505 in Of Hockwold11,12,13, and died Abt. Dec 1583 in Will Made13,14,15. He married (1) ANNE PASTON16 1526 in Hockwold, daughter of WILLIAM PASTON and BRIDGET HEYDON. She died 1531 in Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk. He married (2) AMY (FARMER) FERMOR17 Bef. May 1544. She was born in of Basham, Norfolk.
Notes for THOMAS (THE ELDER) TYNDAL:
The Elder
Sir Thomas Tyndall Kt., the son and heir of Sir John by Amfelice Coningsby born about 1505, for he was thirty-four years of age when he had livery of his father's lands on 29th Oct. 1539. (32)
He was one of the Esquires attired in a gown of velvet with a chain of gold' who attended the Duke of Norfolk on New Year's-eve 1539-40, when he met Anne of Cleves near Rochester and conducted her to the King; (57) and he was one of' the Knights of the Carpet who were dubbed by the Earl of Arundel in the presence of Queen Mary on the day after her coronation, 2d Oct. 1553. (58)
Sir Thomas had special license from the Crown on 15th Nov. 1556 to aliene and convey to William Tyndall, his son and heir apparent, on the occasion of his marriage, the manors of Ilsington and Clenchwarton with lands in Wigenhale and Tylney in Norfolk, and in 1570 he conveyed his manor of Hockwold and all his other estates in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, to William Lainbarde, Humphrey Windham, and Sampson Leunard Esquires, to hold the same, subject to his life interest therein and to certain powers of charging the same by his Will, to the use of his son and heir apparent 'William Tyndall, and John Tyndall brother of William, and their heirs absolutely. (60)
It is the proverbial fate of old men who abdicate in favour of their children that they live long enough to regret it, and Sir Thomas seems to have been no exception to the rule, for he carefully excludes from all share in the execution of his Will the two sons to whom he had made over the absolute reversion of his estates thirteen years before. Whatever may have been his motive for making these arrangements, it is certain that his intellectual faculties were in now is decayed, for we hear of him in 1579 writing with success to his old friend Lord Burghley, the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, to beg the Mastership of Queen's College for his son Humphrey Tyndall.
Sir Thomas had two wives, and survived them both. By his first wife Anne, the daughter of Sir William Paston Kt. of Paston in Norfolk, he had an only son William, who succeeded him at Hockwold. By his second wife Amy, the daughter of Sir Henry Fermor Kt. of East Barsham, lie had five sons and four daughters, of whom a full account will be given hereinafter. The precise date of his second marriage is not known, but it certainly took place before May 1544, when Sir Thomas sold the manor of Helpston, the last remnant of the Tyndall estates in Northampton shire, for the dower of his wife Amy was reserved from the sale. (6 i) Sir Thomas died about Christmas 1583, in his seventy-ninth year.
Child of THOMAS TYNDAL and ANNE PASTON is:
i.WILLIAM14 TYNDAL18, b. Bef. 1529; d. Oct 1591, Boston, Lincs19; m. (1) ANNE //; m. (2) ANNE JERMYN20, Nov 1556, Hockwold20; b. 1536, Rushbroke, Suffolk; d. Bef. 11 Sep 1574, Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk.
Notes for WILLIAM TYNDAL:
WILLIAM TYNDALL Esq., son and heir of Sir Thomas by his first wife Anne Paston, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where lie matriculated in 1548. (62) He married in Nov. 1556 Anne, daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn ., when his father had special leave from the Crown to convey to him by deed, dated 15th Nov. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, the manor of Ilsington with lands extending into Wigenhale and Tylney). This must have been an absolute gift, for William Tyndall obtained license on 18th Sept. 1565 to alienate all these lands to Francis Southwell. It would appear, however, that lie did not by this sale forfeit his father's favour and confidence, for about 1570, Sir Thomas Tyndall, being then sixty-five years of age, conveyed the whole of his estates in Norfolk and the adjoining counties to his sons William and John, subject to his life interest therein. Sir Thomas died at the end of 1583, and his heir proceeded immediately to sell the whole of his inheritance. Accordingly by deed dated 20th Jan. 1383-4, and made between William Tyndall Esq. of Hockwold (son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Tyndall Kt deceased) and John Tyndall Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, one of the younger sons of the said Sir Thomas Tyndall of the one part, and Sir William Paston Kt. of Paston, Norfolk, and Clement Paston Esq. of Oxnard, Norfolk, of the other part, the said William and John Tyndall sold to the said Sir William and Clement Paston, their heirs and assigns, all those manors and lands situate in the parishes of Hockwold, Wilton, Feltwell, Brandon, and Weting in Norfolk, and in Brandon and Lakenheath in Suffolk and in Cambridgeshire and in the Isle of Ely, which had lately belonged to Sir Thomas Tyndall Kt. deceased, and which had for thirteen years and which had been in the possession of the said William and John Tyndall. Thus passed away from the Tyndalls every acre of their ancient inheritance.
A certain air of romance is thrown round the unthrift and extravagance of the last Tyndall of Hockwold, by the tradition that lie was dazzled by the offer of the Crown of Bohemia. He was descended through the marriage of his ancestor with Alana Fellbrigge from the ancient monarchs of that kingdom, whose last male heir died in 1526, and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Ferdinand of Austria. The new dynasty soon became embroiled with their subjects on the score of religion, for the doctrines of the Reformers were eagerly accepted in Bohemia, and the encroachments of the Protestants on the rights and privileges of tile Church were with difficulty kept in check by the Catholic Emperors. They demanded an absolute equality with the Catholics, and were powerful enough to extort from the policy of Ferdinand and his successor the free exercise of their religion. But the Emperor Rudolph II. had been educated by the Jesuits, and could not endure to see the decrees of the Council of Treat daily violated by the toleration of heresy. In 1578 lie issued an imperial edict prohibiting Protestant worship within his dominions under the penalties of treason. The Brethren of the Bohemian Confession and called to the Diet, and the Estates of Bohemia solemnly protested against the revocation of liberties which they had long enjoyed ; but Rudolph was inexorable, and from this time Bohemia remained for generations in a state of chronic insurrection. Rudolph bad no children, and the election of a King of the Romans was expected with intense anxiety by both Catholics and Protestants.
The Electors were divided in religion, and three out of the seven had long been avowed adherents of the Reformed Faith. But in November 1582, Gebhard Truchsess, the Archbishop Elector of Cologne, astounded the world by renouncing the Catholic Faith and by marrying the beautiful Chanoine Agnes de Mansfeldt. He insisted on retaining his archbishopric as a secular Electorate, but his conversion was immediately followed by the anathema of the Pope and the ban of the Empire. The crisis was of the highest importance, for if Gebhard were allowed to retain his electoral vote the Protestant Electors would be in the majority, and the imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire would be lost to Catholicism. His deprivation therefore became a trial of strength between the Protestant Princes and the Catholic Powers, and both parties strained every nerve to increase their influence.
The Estates of Bohemia had always maintained that the rights of the house of Austria were solely derived from election, and they seized this opportunity to throw off their allegiance. They declare(l the throne of Bohemia to be vacant, and sought for a Protestant candidate, round whom they could rally with some show of hereditary right. Their eyes were naturally turned towards England, for Queen Elizabeth was regarded as the bulwark of the Protestant cause and the determined foe of the house of Austria. There was a current rumour that some years back diplomatists had conversed with a Protestant knight in the English Court, who traced his descent from the ancient kings of Bohemia, and it was resolved to send a deputation to offer him the throne. The deputies carried with them, amongst other presents, a bed of state, with curtains richly embroidered with the insignia of Bohemian royalty; and when they found that Sir Thomas Tyndahe was an old man of eighty, who had long relinquished the management of his estates, they presented these royal ornaments with the offer of the crown to his son William, who was in the prime of life. But William Tyndall had no qualifications for time throne except his age and his pedigree, and when it was ascertained that no help was to be expected from the English Government, the Quixotic project of electing an Englishman without rank, resources, or talents was silently abandoned.
This does not sound a very probable story, although I have narrated the tradition in its most plausible form; and it is a suspicious circumstance that our authorities widely differ, as to which of the Tyndalls it was, to whom the crown was offered, for it is variously attributed to the great-grandfather, the father, and even the younger brother of William Tyndall. Sir Henry Spelman, the Norfolk antiquary (1562-1641), relates in the description of Feibrigge in his Icenia, the descent of Sir William Tyndall 1(3. from Margaret of Bohemia; and then goes on to say, that he was knighted at the creation of Arthur Prince of Wales (29th Nov. 1489), 'et jure Margaret Proavite sute Uturedem Regni Bohemitn den unciatum. Sic Heraldorum nostrorum Fasti; sic me puero fama celeln'is.'
On the other hand, a geographical quarto, published in London in 1630, under the title of Relations of the most famous Kingdomes and commonwealths thorowout the World, contains this passage at p. 276:
The kingdom of Bohemia is merely elective, although by force and faction now almost made hereditary to the house of Austria, which it seems it was not, when as within these two Ages that State made choice of one Mr. Tyndall, an English gentleman, father to Mr. Doctor Tyndall, Master of Queen's College in Cambridge, sending over their Ambassadors to him and hr them their presents, which story is famously known at Cambridge.'
Fuller, however, in his History of Cambridge, gives a different version of the story current in the University, for be says
•Dr. Humphrey Tyndall, Dean of Ely, of whom there passeth an improbable tradition. That in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he was proffered by a Protestant Party in Bohemia to be made King thereof Which he refused, alleging That lie had rather be Queen Elizabeth's subject than a forain Prince. However, because no smoak without some fire or heat at least, there is something in it, more than appears to every eye.'
Fuller is no mean authority for the Cambridge tradition of his day, for he was nephew to Dr. John Davenant who witnessed Dr. Tyndall's Will, and succeeded him in the Mastership of Queen's. His concluding sentence probably expresses the true state of the case, for there is contemporary evidence that some kind of offer of the crown was made to one of the Tyndalls, although it was probably of a less formal character than the tradition suggests. This evidence agrees with chronology in clearly indicating William Tyndall as the person selected for the throne, and it is remarkably supported by the passage in his Will, whereby lie specifically bequeaths to his brother, Sir ,John Tyndall, 'my bed caller the bed of Bohemia with all the furniture thereto belonging, and with the curtaynes also, as ye now standeth furnished.'
More About ANNE JERMYN:
Burial: 11 Sep 1574, Horningsherth, Suffolk21
Children of THOMAS TYNDAL and AMY FERMOR are:
ii.WILLIAM (THE YOUNGER)14 TYNDALL22, b. Aft. 1544; m. ?? WHELDALL23.
Notes for WILLIAM (THE YOUNGER) TYNDALL:
WILLIAM TYNDALL, the eldest son of Sir Thomas by Anne Fermor his second wife, is called the younger in his father's Will to distinguish him from his half-brother of the same name, and was provided for by an annuity of twenty marks per annum charged upon Hockwold. He became the head of the family on the death of his brother William in 1591, but has been so constantly confused with him that the Heralds have ignored altogether the existence of this younger William and his children, and it was deliberately assumed in the proceedings before the House of Lords in 1858 in the Scales Peerage Case that Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead was the eldest son of his father's second marriage. This blunder, however, has been perpetrated in defiance of the clearest evidence, for Felix son of William was judicially found in 1631 to be the heir-at-law of his uncle Francis Tyndall, ( inc.p.m. Franciscus Tyndall Arm. 7 Car. I March 2) and Thomas son of Felix was expressly recognised as the head of the family in 1644 by his cousin Deane Tyndall of Maplestead. William Tyndall married and left a son Felix with three daughters, but the date of his death and the name of his wife are unknown. Neither be nor his children are mentioned in any of the family Wills except that of Francis Tyndall, but his son Felix was educated at Queen's College under his uncle Humphrey. His wife survived him and married a second husband, for she is called in 1626 in Francis Tyndall's Will 'Mrs Wheddle, sometime my brother,' William's Wife'
~(It. is stated in Philipot's genealogies in the College of Arms (32 fo 29) that Felix and his sisters were the children of William Tyndall at Boston, the only son of the first marriage of Sir Thomas Tyndall, and that their mother was his second wife, Anne Hunt But Felix could not possibly hare been the heir-at-law of his uncle Francis, unless his father had been brother of the whole blood to Francis.)
iii.JOHN TYNDALE24, b. Abt. 1545, of Much Maplested, Essex; d. 12 Nov 1616; m. ANNE EGERTON25; b. of Much Maplestead, Essex; d. 20 Jul 162026.
Notes for JOHN TYNDALE:
From Chesters of Chicheley pages 279/280
SIR JOHN TYNDALL Kt., the second son of Sir Thomas Tvndall of Hockwold by Amy Fermor, was bred to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn. He was so intimately asso¬ciated with his eldest brother William Tvndall in the ownership and sale of the Hockwold estates, that I should have suspected him to have been like William the son of his father’s first marriage, if his son Deane Tvndall had not certified in 1634 that he was the son of Amy Fermor. (89) Such however being the case, it is manifest that Sir John Tyndall had no pretensions whatever to be the coheir of the Barony of Scales, as all the received pedigrees assert; fur it has been abundantly proved that the younger William Tyndall and his descendants were the heirs of the famih, which descended from Sir Thomas Tyndall’s second marriage.
Tyndall’s descent from the kings of Bohemia was well known amongst his con-temporaries at Lincoln’s Inn, for Ralph Rokeby the younger writes to his nephew as follows: (90)
‘Also in Lincoln's Inn m the north-east corner chamber, I placed our coat of aims together with my veiy loving chamber-fellows Chailes Calthoipe, John Tyndall, anti John Stubbs So far fiom pndiug ouisehes in others' plumes, as always for morale and vntues and good services to our king and countiy, to think of mv veiy good bedfellow m Lincoln’s Inn Mr. John Tyndalls word of arms Ptopna qucmque, and yet I tell yon he beaieth the coat ami's of the Ci own of Bohemia, wrhereof by Felbngg’s daughter and heiresb he is lineally descended
John Tyndall practised in Chancery, and was appointed one of the Masters of that Court on 17th April 1598. (91) He was a doctor of civil law, and was knighted at Whitehall on 23d July 1603, when three hundred knights were all dubbed together bv James I. in the Royal Garden. (7) He had married in 1586 Anne, widow of William Deane Esq. of Great Maplestead, who died 4th Oct. 1585. (92) She had been previously married to George Blythe Esq. (who was Clerk of the Council of the North in 1572), and was the younger daughter of Thomas Egerton, citizen and mercer of London, who claimed to be descended from the Egertons of Wrinehill in Cheshire, and entered his pedigree in the Visitation of London 1568. (93) Her brother Stephen Egerton was the well-known Presbyterian preacher of St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, and Lady Tyndall was a thorough Puritan in all her sympathies and associations. It may be guessed that Sir John, like his brother the Dean of Ely, belonged to the extreme Protestant party, for all his children were educated in Puritanical tenets. John Deane, the son and heir of Lady Tyndall’s previous marriage, inherited the seat of Dyne’s Hall in Great Maplestead, and in order to be near him his mother persuaded Sir John Tyndall to purchase ChelmshoeHouse, and two hundred and forty nine acres adjoining in that [arish, and to fix his residence in Essex.
Sir John was for many years the STEWARD of Queens College, Cambridge, and held their manorian cours until 1614, when his younger son Arthur was associated with him in the stewardship. His administration in Chancery was not above suspicion for Chamberlain, in one of his news-letters to Sir Dudley Carleton, says, that he was not held for integerrimus; but at that period the Court of Chancery was in so much disrepute, that its officials would be unfairly judged by mere gossip. Tyndall, however, paid the penalty of his life for the unpopularity of his office, for on the afternoon of 12th Nov. 1*310, as he was enter¬ing his chambers at Lincoln’s Inn, on his return from Westminster Hall, he was shot in the back by an old gentleman named Bertram, against whom lie had adversely reported in a cause then pending. Sir John was killed on the spot, for the pistol had been charged with three bullets, which lodged in his spine. (94) This desperate murder of a judge by a grave old gentleman of nearly eighty made so much noise, that the king resolved to examine Bertram in person, and to sift thoroughly the justice of his grievance; for the Court of Chancery was attacked 011 all sides, and Sir William Walter of Wimbledon, a noted wit of that day, declared with general approbation that ‘ the fellow mistook his mark, and should have shot liailshot at the whole Court.’ But Bertram was seized with remorse at what he had done, and was alarmed by apprehensions of torture; and without waiting for the threatened examination he contrived to hang himself from a nail in the wall of his prison on the Sunday after the murder. (94) His case, however, was thoroughly examined by the law-officers of the Crown, and Bacon, then attorney-general, wrote to Villiers what must be taken as a complete vindication of Sir John Tyndall’s character, for he says : (95)
‘ I send the case of Bertram, truly stated and collected, and tlie examination taken before myself and Mr. Solicitor; whereby it will appear to his Majesty that Sir John Tyndall, as to his cause, is a kind of martyr, for if ever he made a just report m his hfe this was it ’
Sir John Tyndall was above seventy years old at the time of his death, and although his health and faculties were still vigorous, the preamble of his Will expresses in a remarkable manner his forebodings that he had not long to live.
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SIR JOHX TYNDALL Kr. of Much Maplestead, Essex 'Will without date
Considering that my tyme of departure out of this transitone lvfe is. by the ordmane age of man, nowe neere at hande, I doe make my labt Will and testament, yet in my reasonable liealthe and under standmge, m manner and foim follow mge: My dearly beloved wife to have the rest oi my goods and chattels, my debts being paid, and to be my sole executrix, and after her death, or if she refu&e to act, then my very land and loung brother Francis Tyndall Esq to be my residuary legatee and only executor, and after his death, or if he refuse to act, then my son Deane Tyndall to be my executor, and after his death, 01 it he refuse to act, then my son Arthur Tuidall and my daughter Margaret Tyndall to be my executors
Sir John Deane Kt and the lady his wife, my brother Frauncis Tyndall, my sister Fisher, my nephew Mr. Thomas Fisher, and my loving brother –in law Mr Thomas Egerton and Mr Stephen Egerton to have rings given to them by my executor of some convenient value to be worn by them.
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* It should be remarked that the pedigree of the Tindals of Essex, printed in Nichols’s Literary Anec- 1 lutes (ix. p. 302), attributes to Sir John Tyndall a son Matthew, who is called Rector of Beiealfcton in Devon, and is said to have been educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, by his uncle the Dean of Ely. This pedigree was drawn up by Rev. Nicholas Tindal, Rector of Alveistoke, Hants, and translator of Rapin, who descubes himself as Matthew’s giandson. But it is certain that Sir John Tyndall of Maplestead left 110 sons except Deane and Arthur mentioned in the text, and also that Nicholas Tmdalof Alveistoke was the grandson, not of Matthew Tindal, Rector of Bcealston, but of John Tindal B.D., Rector of Beer 1'erns, of which parish Berealston is a hamlet. This John Tindal was a native of Kent, and matriculated at Corpus Cliristi College, Cambndge in 1622, eight yeais after the death of the Dean of Ely. He was elected a fellow in 1633, and taking Holy Ordeis became domestic chaplain to Lord Howard of Escrick and tutor to his sons By the influence of this nobleman he obtained in 1G36 a royal dispensation to defer taking the degiee of B.D. for five years, but in 1637 he was Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and proceeded B D. m 1639 (62) He died Rector of Beer Ferns, and was buried there on 25th Jan 1673-4 (Par. Kegntei) He left two sons: 1. Matthew, a well-known theological winter; and 2. John, the father of Nicholas the translator of Rapm, from whom the late Chief Justiee of Common Pleas, Sir Nicholas Tiudal, was lineally descended. The parentage of John tyndal of Beer Ferris, the founder of this family, is wholly unknown, but it is impossible that he ^ -ged to the Tyndalls of Maplestead.
Notes for ANNE EGERTON:
To my eldest son Sir John Deane and my daughter-in-law his wife a gold bracelet each, and to that sweet brood their children £10 to buy some pretty jewel for each of them To my eldest daughter Rachel Deane my silver standish To my daughter Anne Deane my two new silver poringers To my loving brother-in-law Mr Francis Tyndall my wedding ring that I was married with to his brother To my loving and kind brother Mr Stephen Egerton and to my loving sister his wife for want of a better legacy my gilt tankard, and to my loving and good brother Mr Thomas Egerton £4 to be bestowed in a pece of plate. To my son Deane Tindall and to his heirs my gilt bason and ewer with nest of gilt cupps and salts statable thereto, and the gilt spones, and to my loving daughter-in-law his wife my paier ot best borders of goldsmith's work, and my cipresse box with tills, with such trifles as she shall find in it To my goddaughter Ann Tyndall my great silver salt and the trencher salt belonging to it and £20 in money, and to my grandchild John Tindall two silver boules, a bigger and a lesser, and my two livery' potts and £10 in money. To my son Arthur Tindall £30 To our Pastor Mr Blith £ 3 To my daughter Tindall my velvet gown To my daughter Winthrope sundry gowns and linen and my cabinet which her father gave me To my servant Margery Freeborue my clothes which I wear every day To my niece Gibson and my goddaughter Anne Hunwith her daughter the rest of my apparel and linen To my loving son and daughter John and Margaret Wmthorpe and then two sons Stephen and Adam all my plate not heretofore bequeathed My son Deane Tyndall to be my sole executor. To my brother and sister Winthorpe each a ring of 20s value
Will proved in C P C. 2d Nov. 1020 by Deane Tindall [94 Soame]
Lady Tyndall's brother Stephen Egerton, who is thus affectionately remembered in his sister's Will, was a Puritan Divine of some note amongst the Presbyterian Party. He was educated at Cambridge, where extreme Protestant tenets then prevailing, and was incorporated M.A. at Oxford 9th July 1583. He was for many years the preacher at the Blackfriars in London, which was a donative in the gift of the inhabitants, and was the author of several theological tracts, which are enumerated by Anthony Wood He was associated with Arthur Hildersham in 1603 in getting up 'the millenary petition' to the king and the parliament against conformity in Church discipline and doctrine. He married at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 4th May 1585, Sarah, sister of Sir Thomas Crooke Burt., but had children. He was buried at the Blackfriars on 7th May 1622.
iv.DR. HUMPHREY TYNDALL27, b. 1546; d. 12 Oct 1614, Burried at Ely Cathederal28; m. JANE RUSSELL29, 20 Dec 1593, Hockington, Cambs29; b. , of West Rudham in Norfolk29.
Notes for DR. HUMPHREY TYNDALL:
HUMPHREY TYNDALL was born in 1546, for we have his sworn declaration that on 13th March 1580-1 he was in his thirty-fifth year. He matriculated a pensioner at Gonville hall, Cambridge, in November 1553, being then nine years old, hut was afterwards a scholar of Christ's College. He proceeded B.A. in 1366, and was elected a Fellow of Pembroke hall 24th Nov. 1567. lie took his Master's degree in 1569, and was for some rears in residence at Pembroke, for he was junior bursar of his college in 1570, a]~(l senior bursar in 1572. (69) He was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Peterborough on 31st July 1572, (70) and was appointed one of' the University preachers in 1576. In the next year he proceeded B.D., and was presented by his College to the Vicarage of Soham in Cambridgeshire, which he heldwith his other preferments until his death. He became about this time Chaplain to the Earl of Leicester, who was then at the height of his power, and Tyndall was so much in the Earl's confidence, that he was selected to officiate at his secret marriage with the Countess of Essex. This marriage took place at Wanstead House, in Essex, on 21st Sept. 1578, and was recorded in solemn form before a Notary Public on 13th March 1580-1 by the sworn depositions of Ambrose Earl of Warwick, Roger Lord North, Sir Francis Knollys , and Humphrey Tyndall. The knowledge of so important a secret pro-rapid preferment, and Tyndall's favour with the powerful Earl was so notorious, that so soon as it was rumoured that Dr. Chaderton, the Master of Queen's, had the Earl's promise of a bishopric, it was confidently expected at Cambridge that the vacant Mastership would he conferred on Tyndall by royal mandate. Accordingly Mr. Yale, one of the Fellows of Queen's, wrote to Lord Burghley, the Chancellor of the University, on 19th July 1578, to protest against the Earl's influence being used to insist on Tyndalls election ; for if a free choice were permitted to the Fellows, they had amongst their own body men better fitted to be their Ideal than a young man like Tyndall, who belonged to another College and had no experience
in University affairs. This remonstrance however was made in vain, for when Dr. Chaderton resigned in .June 1579, on becoming Bishop of Chester, Tyndall was elected Master on 3d July, on the recommendation of Lord Burghley. His letter of thanks to the Lord Treasurer is still extant, and is dated 23d Sept. 1579. (72) It is remarkable that he makes no allusion to the Earl of Leicester, and that he attributes Lord Burghley's interposition in his favour to his wish to oblige Sir Thomas Tyndall, who had written to his old friend on behalf of his son.
The Master of Queen's was created D.D. in 1582, and was Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1585-6. During his term of office he was preferred to the Arebdeaconry of Stafford and the Chancellorship of Liechfield Cathedral, which he held from 21st Feb. 1585-6 until his death. (69) His University career was not distinguished by any literary achievements, for his only known composition is a copy of verses on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, which were published with others in a book entitled Academies Cantobrigiensis lacryntte tumulo noblissimi equitis D. Phillippi Sidnij sacrotoe, per Alexandrom Nevillum. London 1586-7 He was collated to the Prebend of Halloughton, in the Collegiate Church of Southwell, on 7th July 1588, and was promoted to the Deanery of Ely by patent, dated 17th Dec. 1591, with which he held in commendam the Rectory of Wentworth; but he resigned this Rectory in 1610 in favour of Daniel Wigmore, one of the Fellows of Queen's. The Dean exerted the legitimate influence of his position in favour of his relatives, for by his means his brother Sir John Tyndall was the Steward and Francis Tyndall was the Auditor of the estates of Queen's College, and his sister Ursula obtained a beneficial lease of the College lands at Coton. His care also extended to the next generation, for his nephews, Felix Tyndall the son of his brother William, and Humphrey Coxey the son of his sister Ursula, were educated at Queen's under his Mastership. Simon Tyndall, whose precise relationship has not been ascertained, was still further indebted to the Dean's protection, for lie was elected a Fellow of Queen's on 11th Oct. 1599, and was presented to the Vicarage of Great St. Andrew's, Cambridge, in 1601. (73) Simon was Junior Proctor in 1606, and resigned his Vicarage in 1608, when he proceeded B.D., and was a chaplain in the service of the East India Company
The Dean did not marry until late in life, and, if we may believe Fuller, he displayed the usual weakuess of an old man with a young wife, by studying her wishes more than the interests of his College ' uxorii suoe (quam senex duxerat), nimis indulsit, non sine Collegii detrimiento, coetera satis luadandus. He married at Hockington in Cambridgeshire, 20th Dec. 1593, Jane, daughter of Robert Russell Esq., of West Rludham in Norfolk, by Mary, sister of Sir William Drury Kt, of Hawsted, by whom he had a son John, who died young, in his father's lifetime, and was buried at St. Botolph's, Cambridge, on 12th Feb. 1610~11.* His son's death was followed by an illness so severe that his death was reported in London, and a royal mandate was sent down on 17th June 1611 to elect Dr. George Meriton in his place, but Dr. Tyndall recovered and enjoyed all his preferments more than three years longer. He was strongly inclined to the Puritan doctrines, and was reckoned amongst the leading divines of that party. Therefore when Dr. Nicholas Bound published in 1606 the second edition of his famous hook on the stricter observance of the Sabbath, the second book was dedicated to the Dean of Ely. (76a)
Dr. humphrey Tyndall died on 12th Oct. 1614, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, and was buried in Ely Cathedral. His monument, in the south aisle of the Choir, bears on the slab his effigy in brass of life-size, dressed in an academic gown, with this marginal legend in Roman capitals
Usienasnus TYNDALL, NOBILT NOIIFOLCIENS 1CM TYNDAILORUM FAMILIA ORIUNOUS, DECANUS QUARTUS ISTIUS EccLasI1E, OmIT X110 DIE M£xsis OcTon. AD. MncxIv0, ANNO ~ETATI5 SItE. LXV
On a brass plate at his feet is inscribed:
'Usque quo Domine usque quo.
The body of the woorthy aad Reverende Prelate Humphry Tyndall D.D., the fourth Dean of this Church and Master of Queene's College in Cambridge, doth heere expect ye coming of Our Saviour.
In presence, government, good actions and in birth,
Grave, wise, courageous, noble was this earth.
The poor, ye Church, ye Colledge says, here lyes
A friende, a Deane, a Maister, true, good, wise.'
Above his head is an armorial shield of six quarterings, and there is also a shield of arms at each of the four corners, on one of which Tyndall impales Russell a lion rampant, on a chief three escallops.
HUMPHRY TINDALL Doctour in Divinitie, President of the Queen's College in Cambridge and Dean of Ely. Will dated 12th March 1613-14.
To he buried according to my calling at the discretion of Jane my wife. To the President and Fellows of Queen's College for the use of my successors all t7 .e ' seeling' and wainscotting of my chambers and lodging, which amounteth to about £230 over and above what I have received from tile College or any other benefactors towards the same; and also all my books in folio which are not already in tice College Library.
To the poor of Ely £10. To my sister Upeher for her life all my household stuff and goods in the Vicarage house of Soame [Soham] , and after her death to her daughter Amy Coxy. To ,Jane my wife my copyholds in Sutton, taken up in trust for me by my brother Upeher, also £30 due to me on a Bond by Thomas Taylor of Litchfield Gent., and also all the residue of my goods and chattels. My said wife to be my executrix and my brother Mr. Francis Tindall to be supervisor of my Will, by whose advice I would have my wife to be ruled and counselled, as being assured lie cloth love me and mine well, and that lie will show that at his death, and I give to him fur a remembrance of me my seal ring.
Jane Tyndall, the widow of the Dean, proved her husband's Will, and married secondly Henry Jay Esq., Alderman of London, whom she survived, for she married thirdly Sir Henry Duke Kt., of Cossington, Kent
More About DR. HUMPHREY TYNDALL:
Burial: Ely Cathedral30
v.FRANCIS TYNDALL31, b. Bef. 1547; d. 07 Sep 1631, London32.
Notes for FRANCIS TYNDALL:
FRANCIS TYNDALL, like his brother John, was bred to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and acquired a considerable fortune by the exercise of his profession. Through the influence of his brother Humphrey, who was then Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, he held on a beneficial lease part of the College estates, and was for many years the Auditor of the College revenues. This pleasant and profitable connection with Queen's College was gratefully remembered in his Will, for he bequeathed 40/. to the Master and Fellows to buy a silver basin and ewer, and 3/. to be distributed amongst such poor scholars as the Master should think fit.
Francis was singularly happy in all the circumstances of his life; for in a family distracted by quarrels he retained the full confidence and affection of his father and brothers, and born to the slender inheritance of a younger son, he honourably acquired by his own exertions a plentiful estate, which he enjoyed to a ripe old age. He was one of his father's executors in 1384, and in 1614 the Dean of Ely appointed him to be supervisor of his Will, in these touching terms
: 'I would have my wife to be ruled and counselled by the advice of my brother Francis, being assured that he doth love me and mine well.' He was equally trusted by his brother Sir John, and is most affectionately remembered in the Will of Sir John's widow, for Lady Tyndall says (14th June 1620): 'I give to my loving brother-in-law Mr. Francis Tindall my wedding ring that I was married with to his brother.'
He resided for many years at Cambridge, and was the owner of an estate in the neighbouring village of Hockington, which he purchased in 1396. The purchase deed is dated 13th Aug. 38 Eliz., and expresses that John Shute Esq. of Hocking-ton, Humphrey Gardener of St. Ives, Gent., and Robert Audeley of St. Ives, Gent., bargained and sold to Francis Tyndall Esq. of Cambridge, the manor of Burgornes aN Shutes in Hockington, with the mansion and lands attached. (78a) Francis left this estate by his Will to his nephew Felix Tyndall. He removed from Cambridge to the suburbs of London early in 1610, when by deed, dated 23d Feb. 7 James I., he purchased from Thomas Norwood Gent., of Northampton, a house at Pinner, near Harrow-on-the-Hill, with a garden and orchard and six acres of meadow. This was his residence during the rest of his life, and he died unmarried on 7th Sept. 1631 He must then have been at least eighty-four years old, and had survived all his brothers and sisters. Many of his relations are remembered in his Will, but his principal legatee was his godson and nephew Deane Tyndall of Maplestead.
As Francis Tyndall died seised of freeholds in London, an inquest was held after his death at Guildhall, on 2nd March 1631-2, whereby it was found that his next heir at the time of his death was his nephew Felix Tyndall, Clerk, the son and heir of his deceased brother William.
Francis TYNDALL of Pinner in the parish of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, Esquire. Will dated 11th April 1626, and published 28th June 1626.
To my nephew and godson Deane Tyndall my leases in Pinner and elsewhere. To Mr. Willis the preacher of Pinner, £4 per annum for seven years out of my parsonage of Pinner. To my sister Upeher £10 per annum for her life out of the same parsonage, and to Mrs. Wheldall, sometime my brother William Tyndall's wife, £15 per annum for her life. To Thomas Prior my servant £10 per annum for his life. To my sister's son Humphry Coxey £20, and to his sister Amy, wife to Mr. Hitch, preacher, £20.
To Queen's College, Cambridge, for a basin and ewer of silver £40, and to poor scholars of the same College £5. To the poor of Pinner £10. To my sister Fisher my pointed diamond ring, my broche, and my diaper in my chest in London. To my nephew Sir Thomas Fisher my other diamond ring and my hatband of buttons of gold. To my Lady Fisher5 £5. To my Lady Darnelit my ruby ring. To my nephew Deane Tyndall's wife £10. To Henry Bullock my godson, son of Francis Bullock, #100 after he is out of his apprenticeship. To Felix Tyndall my nephew £100. To my niece Margaret daughter of Sir John Tyndall £100.
All the residue of my personal estate and also my lands and tenements in Pinner, Middlesex, Stockwith and Misterton, Notts and in Golding-lane, London, to my godson Deane Tyndall and his heirs for ever, but he is to pay out of the same £10 per annum for her life to my niece Hester Bullock, sometime wife of Francis Bullock.
To my godson Francis Tyndall son and heir apparent of my nephew Deane Tyndall my houses near the Holborn-bridge in London, but his father is to have the rents thereof till he be 21. To Rebecca+ wife of John Strougnell and to Deborah5 wife of Daniel Bockocke a house in CateatonStreet, London, each. My lands in Cambridgeshire to my nephew Felix Tyndall. My godson J)eane Tyndall to be my sole executor.
Will proved 14th Sept. 10;3l in C.P.C. [99 St. John.]
vi.HENRY TYNDALL32, d. 30 May 1592, Old Buckenham, Norfolk33; m. DOROTHY FOX.
vii.THOMASINE TYNDALL33, m. WILLIAM CALTHORPE33; b. of Ingham in Norfolk.
viii.ELIZABETH TYNDALL33, m. HENRY PAGE33; b. of Watling Street, London.
ix.SUSAN TYNDALL33, d. Bef. 1633; m. (1) JAMES WHETHALL33; m. (2) SIR THOMAS FISHER33; b. Standon, Herts; d. Bef. 29 Apr 1613.
Notes for SUSAN TYNDALL:
Chesters of Chicheley page 273:-
SUSAN TYNDALL was still unmarried on 20th Sept 1583, when her father Sir Thomas Tyndall, made his Will, but she afterwards had two husbands. By her first husband, James Whethall, she had no children, and their marriage must have been of short duration. (82) Her second husband was Thomas Fisher, Citizen Skinner of London, who died in 1613, and by his Will devised lands in Puckeridge Herts, to the poor of his native parish of Standon in the same county. (83) He left two daughters and a son Thomas, who acquired the manor of Barnsbury, in parish of Islington, by marrying Sarah, the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Fowler Bart., of that place. (84) Thomas Fisher the son was knighted at Whitehall, 12th March 1616-17, and was created a Baronet on 19th July 1627 ( when he is styled as of St. Giles in the Fields. His mother Susan lived to a great age, for she was living in 1626, but she died before 1633. (76) The pedigree below supplies the omissions of Burke’s Extinct Baronetage, which gives no account what ever of Sir Thomas Fisher’s parentage
x.URSULA TYNDALL34, b. Abt. 1552; d. Abt. Dec 162834; m. (1) // COXEY, Aft. 158334; m. (2) EDWARD UPCHER34, Bef. 04 Oct 160834; b. of Soham.
Notes for URSULA TYNDALL:
Ursula TYNDALL was born about 1552, and was still unmarried when her father made his Will in 1583. She married Coxey, by whom she had two children: 1. Humphrey, who was admitted a Pensioner of Queen's College, Cain- bridge, 12th Jan. 161 0-11 and was living in 1628; and 2. Amy, who married before 1626 Mr. William Hich, 'a preacher of God's Word,' who had been admitted a sizar of Queen's 1st May 1606, and was his mother-in-law's executor. Ursula married secondly Edward Upcher of Soham, of which parish her brother, Dr. Humphrey Tyndall, was vicar, and they resided in the parsonage house. Their marriage took place before 4th Oct. 1608, when the Master and Fellows of Queen's College granted to them jointly a beneficial lease of the College estate at Coton. Ursula had no issue by her second husband, whom she survived. She died about Christmas 1628 and was buried in Ely Cathedral, where her memory is preserved by this singular inscription on a brass plate affixed to a tombstone :
'Yet a very little, and He that will come shall come.
The Speritte and the Bride say, come.
Lett him that heareth say, come
And lett him that is athirst say, come.
Even soe come, Lord Jesu.
Tyndall by birth
Ursula Coxee by choice
Upcher in age and for comfort
Anno AEtatis 77.'
Ursula UPCHER of Ely, widow. Will dated 12th Dec. 1628.
My lands at Coton held on lease from Queen's Coil. Cambridge. My son Humphrey Coxec. My daughter Amy Coxee now wife of William Hich, Clerk. Richard Upcher of Sutton. Mv son-in-law William Hich to be my executor.
Will proved in C.P.C. 9th Jan. 1628-9.
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Burial: Ely Cathedral
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