Rose (Locke) Throckmorton (1526 - 1613)

Born 26 Dec 1526 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Anthony Hickman — married 28 Nov 1543 (to 1573) in London, England

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1613 at age 86 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Rose Locke ( 26 Dec 1526-21 Nov 1613) was "the third of eleven children of Sir William Locke, great-great-great grandfather of the philosopher John Locke" by his second wife, Katherine Cook, daughter of Sir Thomas Cook of Wiltshire.^[1]

Rose married first, 28 Nov 1543, Anthony Hickman (d.1573). He was a business partner of her brother Thomas Locke.^[1] Rose and Anthony had eight children:^[2]

Children of Rose Locke and Anthony Hickman

1. Mary (b.1547)
2. William (c.1549-September 25,1625)
3. Henry (b.c.1550)
4. Walter (c.1552-before February 1618)
5. Mary (b.1554)
6. Anthony (c.1560-December 13, 1597)
7. Eleazar (b.c.1562)
8. Matthew

During Mary Tudor’s reign, Rose’s husband, Anthony Hickman, and her brother, Thomas Locke, were charged with heresy and imprisoned in the Fleet. When they were set free, Anthony left England for Antwerp. Rose, being pregnant, retired to Oxfordshire to give birth, after which she joined her husband abroad. She gave birth to another child in Antwerp. The Hickmans returned to England when Elizabeth Tudor became queen.^[2]

After Anthony Hickman’s death, Rose married Simon Throckmorton of Brampton, Huntingdonshire (1526?-March 27, 1585) as his second wife. She had no children by him.^[1][2] Simon Throckmorton died in 1585.^[1]

In 1610, Rose wrote her autobiography from the year 1534 to Queen Mary’s death in 1558. This still exists in manuscript.^[1][2]

Parents and Siblings

Sir William Locke (1486-1550), Son of Thomas Lock and Joan Wilcock

William Locke

Sir William Locke, Knight, Alderman of London, was born about 1486, as he was admitted to the freedom of London at the end of his apprenticeship in 1507. Although formally admitted to the company only in 1507, Lok was already supplying clothes of gold and silver to the king in that year. He succeeded to his father's business and estate, and became an eminent tradesman and citizen. He received the royal appointment of Mercer to King Henry VIII, with whom he was an especial favorite, having a key to the King's Private Chamber, and occasionally entertaining him at dinner at his house in London. There are records in existence showing materials furnished by him to the royal household, including Queen Anna Boleyn and the Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth, as also Will Somers, the King's Jester. After being several years an Alderman, he was elected Sheriff of London in 1548, and was knighted on the 3 d of October in that year, but died before it was his turn to become Lord Mayor.

The " Visitation of the County of Cornwall" says, in a note on p. 50, that Sir William Locke was " Mercer of London, and Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall."

In the 25th year of Henry VIII, Lok "undertook to go over to Dunkirk, and pull down the pope's bull which had been there posted up by way of a curse to the king and kingdom. For this exploit the king granted him a freehold of £100 per annum, dubbed him knight, and made him one of the gentlemen of his privy-chamber" (Book of the Lockes). The crest— "A hand ppr. holding tip a cushion Or" —given by Burke to Lock of London, with the shield described by Col. Chester, probably symbolizes this exploit as an upholding of the Protestant pulpit.

Sir William Locke was employed by Henry VIII, having the charge of his commercial affairs 'both at home and abroad.' In the Cottonian Library, London, are several manuscript letters from him to the King, and to Secretary Cromwell, dated at Antwerp in 1533-34 relating to some “works carrying on at Calais, concerning negotiations with France and about the woolen trade." He was, says Collins, "particularly employed by Queen Anne Bullen privately to gather the Epistles, Gospels and Psalms, from beyond sea, in which he ran great hazard, some having been secretly made away with for attempting the same thing." (Book of the Lockes).

In Mercers' Chapel, Cheapside, London, there was "a monument to Sir William Locke, with his arms in the window." The church " was destroyed in the great fire of 1666." (Book of the Lockes).

William Lok had a strong Lutheran conviction — his first wife, Alice, one of England's first converts to that doctrine, made him a willing servant of the early architects of the English Reformation.

Lok was married four times:

1. Alice Spence or Elizabeth Spencer (d. 1522), daughter and heir of Mr. Spencer, a citizen and fishmonger of London, buried at Mercer's Chapel, London

2. Katherine Cooke (d. 14 Oct 1537), daughter of William, and sister and co-heir of Sir Thomas Cook, of Wiltshire, knight

3. Eleanor Marsh (d. 1546), widow of Walter Marshe

4. Elizabeth Meredith (d. 1551), widow of Robert Meredith

Sir William Locke died 24 August 1550 and was buried on the 27th at Mercers' Chapel, St. Thomas Of Acres, with his parents and his first and fourth wives (the latter after her death the following year); he bore arms, which were displayed in a window in the chapel.^[1]

Children of Sir William Lok ^[1][3]

See also British History Online: St. Mary le Bow 104/23, where Sir William Lock's sons Thomas, Matthew, John, Henry, and Michael Lock are mentioned in the disposition of Sir William's property following his death in 1550.^[4]

Sir William Lok fathered nineteen children, of whom twelve, five sons and seven daughters from his first two marriages, survived into adulthood. His children included Rose Throckmorton, Michael Lok and Henry, father of the poet Henry Lok, all children of Katherine Cooke, and from his first marriage daughters Elizabeth (who married Nicholas Bullingham, later bishop of Lincoln and Worcester) and Jane, whose own three daughters all married members of the common council.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Rose Throckmorton (1526-1613): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67979 Lowe, Ben. Throckmorton (née Lok; other married name Hickman), Rose (1526-1613). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Sept 2004. Online edn, Oct 2006. : accessed 18 Mar 2007. Subscription required.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Emerson, Kathy Lynn. A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: L. 2013. Rose Locke : accessed 30 Aug 2018.
3. ↑ ssoc.genealogy.medieval Sir William LOK (LOCK) - Alderman of London - 16th C : accessed 23 Feb 2018.
4. ↑ British History Online: St. Mary le Bow 104/23 St. Mary Le Bow : accessed 28 Jul 2018.

Acknowledgements

• Researched by Sara V Mosher
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