Henry Audley (1604 - 1672)

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Sir Henry Audley was aged 19 in 1624. Sir Henry Audley's monument in the chapel at Berechurch, Essex, is the most imposing in that place, and it was erected in 1648 prior to his death.

Sir Henry Audley married 3rdly Anne Daniel, by whom he had two sons.

One source states that Sir Henry Audley married 2ndly in June 1628.

Sir Henry Audley presented his cousin, John Audley M.A., as rector of Layer in 1640.

The pedigree: "The Pakingtons of Harvington Hall" (1998), by Michael Hodgetts, shows five children for Sir Henry Audley by his marriage with Anne Pakington.

"After the suppression of that monastery [St. Edmund's], [the manor of Great Barton] remained in the Crown till the last year of Edward VI [1557]. In the first of Queen Mary, the lord's court was held in the names of Thomas Audley and Katherine his wife."

The Berechurch, Essex, estate was given by Sir Thomas Audley to his brother, also named Thomas (d. 1558), for his life, with remainder to Thomas Audley's son, also named Thomas (d. 1572). In turn, this Thomas Audley was succeeded by his son, Robert Audley (d. 1624), whose son Sir Henry Audley died in 1672. [Victoria County History of Essex, Vol. 9, pp. 408-418]

The Victoria County History of Shropshire states that Humphrey Pakington of Harvington Hall settled the manor of Priors Ditton, Shropshire, on his daughter Anne Pakington (d. 1642) and Sir Henry Audley of Berechurch when they married in 1628.

Sources

The Marquis of Ruvigny in his Plantagenet Roll has numerous entries on the Audley family.

See also:

• THE STORY OF LAYER DE LA HAYE (1934), by Mary Hopkirk
• HARVINGTON HALL (1998), by Michael Hodgetts
• TOPGRAPHICAL & GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF SUFFOLK (1847), by Augustine Page, p. 703
• british-history.ac.uk/vch/Essex/vol9/pp408-418
• british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/pp300-320