Cecily (Ashfield) Fortescue (abt. 1540 - 1570)

Born about 1540 in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 7 Feb 1570 at about age 30 in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England

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Cecily Ashfield daughter of Edmund Ashfield of Ewelme in Oxfordshire and his wife, Eleanor Barton was, in about 1556, married to John Fortescue, son of Adrian Fortescue and his wife, Anne Reade. ^[1] The advowson of the parish of Mursley, Buckinghamshire passed from the Ashfield family to the Fortescues at the time of their marriage. ^[2]

She was buried in the chancel of the church at Mursley, Buckinghamshire. Her moulded top chest tomb has a Latin inscription on brass round the edge to Cecily daughter of Sir Edmund Ashfield, kt., and wife of John Fortescue, who died in 1570. Let into the top of the slab is a small brass figure of a lady in a richly embroidered gown, and a plate with a long Latin inscription setting forth the virtues of the lady, the date of her death, and the names of her children: Robert, Francis, William, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Eleanor. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Parliament online entry for her husband, John Fortescue
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Parishes: Mursley," in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1925), 401-406. British History Online, accessed October 20, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp401-406.

See also:

• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 36, Fortescue.