Edward Ferrers MP (1526 - 1564)

Born 3 Feb 1526 in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England

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Family and Education b. 1524/27, o. s. of Henry Ferrers (d.1526) by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir John Hampden of Hampden, Bucks. m. 1548, Bridget, da. of William Windsor, 2nd Lord Windsor, 6s. inc. Henry† 3da. suc. gd.-fa. 29 Aug. 1535.1

Offices Held

Steward, the chamber by 1545; under steward, manor of Snitterfield, Warws. 1545; collector, subsidy, Warws. 1545; gent. pens. by Apr. I549-d.2

Edward Ferrers was not yet in his ‘teens when his grandfather, Sir Edward Ferrers, died in 1535; three years later his wardship was granted to Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Englefield and daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton. In her Will, dated 31st August 1543, Dame Elizabeth Englefield requested that "mine executors do within a convenient time after my decease bargain and sell Edward Ferrers, my ward, to the best profit and advantage, and so much of the money so received and taken for him as shall be needful I will and give to my daughter, Susan Englefield, towards her marriage, so that she do marry by th’ advice of mine executors".^[1][2]

Nothing is known of his education, although he may have studied at the Middle Temple, as did Englefield and many of the Throckmorton circle. He began his career at court when the Throckmortons were benefiting from their kinswoman Catherine Parr’s royal marriage; both he and George Throckmorton, who succeeded him as one of the Members for Warwick, attended the funerals of Edward VI and Mary as gentlemen pensioners. Ferrers took Mary’s side in July 1553, at least to the extent of avoiding service in Northumberland’s army. He entered into the remainder of his inheritance after the death of his grandmother in 1551 and he was of an age and standing to secure a seat in Mary’s first Parliament. (His uncle and namesake of Cock Bevington, in south Warwickshire, is unlikely to have taken precedence over him.) Unlike his fellow-Member Clement Throckmorton, Ferrers was not listed among those Members who ‘stood for the true religion’, that is, for Protestantism.

In 1548 Edward, together with his grandfather John Hampden and his second wife Philippa, quitclaimed the Manor of Theydon on the Mount & 60 messuages, 1 dovecote, 60 gardens, 1,000 acres arable, 200 acres meadow, 300 acres pasture, 200 acres wood, 200 acres furze and heath & 100 s rent In Theydon on the Mount & the advowson of the church of Theydon on the Mount to Edmond Wyndesor Esq., Hy Hampden, gentlemen, John Wylforde senior and John Wylford junior and the heirs of the said Edmond for a consideration of £600.^[3]

His failure to play any further part in national or local affairs may find its explanation in the financial troubles which by 1561 had forced Ferrers to mortgage his lands. Two years later he and the mortgagees gave his brother-in-law Edward, 3rd Lord Windsor, the management of all his property in Warwickshire, five other counties and London for a period of 12 years, and it was at Windsor’s own house at Tardebigge in Worcestershire that Ferrers died on 10 or 11 Aug. 1564: he appears to have made no will.4

From the Baddesley Clinton parish register are the following entries :

"Edward Ferrers, son and heir of the above named Henry Ferrers and Catherine his wife, who married Brigett daughter to William Lord Windsor died the 10th day of August at [..ewell] in the county of Worcester and lieth buried in the parish church of Turbicke AD [blank] and Brigett his wife lieth buried at Bradenham in the county of Buckingham in the parish church there and died in March".

"These were the children of Edward Ferrers and Brigett Windsor his wife who died infants and are buried in the chancel of this church at sundry times unknown to any : - 1) William Ferrers : 2) Joane Ferrers : 3) Andrew Ferrers (senior) : 4) Andrew Ferrers (junior)"

"Those that lived of the said Edward and Brigett's children to ripe [..] to men and womans estate : - 1) Henry Ferrers the eldest son Lord and heir of Baddesley born 15.. : 2) Ferdinando and 3) Edward who died and were slain in the wars of the Low Countries : 4) Elenore married to one John Ferrers of Fiddinto... in the county of Gloucester : 5) Katherine married to one John Pilkinson [...] died 1599".

"The said Edward Ferrers, father of the afore children died at [Hewell] the house of the Lord Windsor and was buried at Turbicke [Tardebigge] church in the county of Worcester the 10th day of August 1564 at the age of 38 and Brigett his wife died upon the annunciation of our Lady (?25 March) and lieth buried in Bradenham church at the age of 53."

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 Author: S. M. Thorpe Notes 1. Date of birth estimated from parents’ marriage and father’s death. Dugdale, Warws. ii. 973; Trans. Birmingham Arch. Soc. xvii. 98; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 5; H. Norris, Baddesley Clinton, 28-29; Dugdale Soc. Occasional Pprs. xvi. 6. 2. LP Hen. VIII, xx; E179/69/62; 192/170; Stowe 571, f. 31v; Lansd. 3(89), f. 197. 3. LP Hen. VIII, xiii; LC2/4/1, 2; E101/427/6, no 24, ex inf. W. J. Tighe; CPR, 1553, p. 413; Cam. Misc. ix(3), 8; VCH Warws. iii. 160. 4. Dugdale Soc. Occasional Pprs. xvi. 6-7; C142/141/10, 48

Sources

1. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D978302 ; PROB 11/30/47; Will of Dame Elyzabeth Englefelde, Widow; Date: 16 February 1544
2. ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-30_ff_25-8.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.esah1852.org.uk/library/files/F1500000.pdf - Feet of Fines Essex Volume 5

• Visitation of Wawickshire Page 5: Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton

• FERRERS of Baddesley Clinton (Sir)1 Sir Edward Ferrers on Tudor Place
• Sir Edward Ferrers on Geni
• History of Parliament online: FERRERS, Edward (1524/27-64), of Baddesley Clinton, Warws
• 'Fisherton Anger', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1962), pp. 180-194. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp180-194 [accessed 12 May 2021].