Re: Gorham Pedigree

In a message dated 5/17/06 3:21:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< A grand house built to impress Elizabeth and house her for a couple of
weeks
wasn't necessarily the sort of place you would want to spend money on
maintaining otherwise! Could be a rather poisonous inheritance, unless you
happen to become Lord Chancellor! >>

I've found a good reference finally. In the biography of Anthony Bacon (his
son), it states that the Lord Keeper gave the house to his wife (Anne Cooke)
for her life, with REVERSION to Anthony of children of *her* body (Anne's), so
the next heir would be Anthony's brother Francis.

Now Anthony himself *never actually lived there!*, he spent a long time on
the continent, which his mother greatly disapproved. And for those of us with
HOTMAN family descent, it should be noted that he was ingratiating himself with
the house of Navarre (this would be prior to Henry becoming King of France
you see).

At any rate, Anthony finally returned to England around the 1592 time period,
and lived off and on with his brother Francis at Greys Inn and later with
Essex at Essex House, prior to Essex's treason trial that is.

Badly for him I suppose he died in 1601 prior to his mother's death, so he
never actually enjoyed the house himself!

It then would pass from Anne (Cooke) Bacon to her next son Francis.

And as for Redgrave, Sir Nicholas Bacon 1540-1624 DID in fact dispute the
will of his father giving Gorhambury to Anne and her sons. But he lost.

So there you go. Nice, neat, and explains it all.

Will

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