Henry Ley (1595 - 1638)

Born 3 Dec 1595 in Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, England

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Baptised at Teffont Evias on 3 Dec 1595.^[1]

2nd Earl of Marlborough Member of Parliament ^[2] Westbury 1614 Devizes 1621 Westbury 1624 Wiltshire 1625 Devizes 1626 until 2 March

Married Mary, daughter of Sir Arthur Capell of Hadham at Little Hadham on on 5 Nov 1616 ^[3] following an agreement on 3 Nov 1616 between the couples parents and James 1st. So seised, the said James, Earl of Marlborough, before he was raised to the title, by the name of James Ley, knt., Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries, by indenture dated 03 Nov [1616] , 14 James 1st, made between himself of the one part, and Arthur Capell, knt., and Henry Capell, knt., son and heir apparent of the said Arthur, and William Ley and Matthew Ley, esqs., of the other part, in consideration of a marriage to be had between the said Henry Ley, afterwards Earl of Marleborough, then son and heir apparent of the said James Ley, and Mary Capell, one of the daughters of the said Arthur Capell, and in full satisfaction of the jointure of the said Mary, agreed that before the feast of Easter then next following one or more fines should be raised of all the said premises, to the use of him the said James for his life; and after the said marriage and decease of the said James, then to the use of the said Henry Lee for his life; and after the said marriage and the decease of the said Henry, then as to the said manor of Sewells and all the lands and tenements called Sewells in Hopwood, Bratton, and Westbury, the closes called Temes Leaze and Rush Laynes, the farm called Arrundells Farm, the farm called Sturtons Farm, the pasture called Bunwells Grove, and all the arable lands and parcels of meadow in the common fields of Heywood, Bratton, Hawkridge, Lighe, Brooke, and Westbury, to the use of the said Mary Capell, now Countess of Marlborough, for her life, in the name of her jointure, and in satisfaction of her dower; after her decease, then as to all the said premises, to the use in tail male of the first and second sons of the said Earl named in the writ, with divers remainders over, with remainder to the right heirs of the said James the late Earl for ever. ^[4]

They had two children, Lady Elizabeth Ley, who died unmarried and, James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough

See also biography in Wikipedia ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ley,_2nd_Earl_of_Marlborough
2. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ley-henry-1595-1638
3. ↑ Place: Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1596 - 1635; Film Number: 991375
4. ↑ Book: Henry, Earl of Marlborough. Wiltshire: - Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of Charles 1st
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ley,_2nd_Earl_of_Marlborough

• Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 11 page 1085

• England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 (Place: Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1596 - 1635; Film Number: 991375.)

• Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 2. London: Longmans, Green. p. 475.