Anne Poyntz
[7] Their daughter Frances married John Astley, a member of a family whose estates were at Melton Constable in Norfolk and Hillmorton in Warwickshire.
[11][12] John Pointz of North Ockendon was involved the fortification of Tilbury, where he was a supervisor of building work in 1545.
William Tyndale, a Protestant writer who had been exiled after writing in support of the cause of Katherine of Aragon, was staying with him when he was arrested in 1535.
[15] Armed with a letter from Thomas Cromwell, the younger Poyntz attempted in vain to secure Tyndale's release.
Tyndale had been tutor to the children of Anne Walsh née Poyntz (died 1528) at Little Sodbury, a distant relative of the Ockendon family.
[17] As a widow, Anne Poyntz seems to have retained her rights at North Ockendon, and was able to present a clergyman to the benefice.
Mary gave her ladies and gentlewomen pairs of "billiments", gold bands to wear on their head dresses or French hoods at her coronation.
Dorothy Broughton was summoned to court from Woodstock Palace where she was serving in the household of Lady Elizabeth, who was in the care of Henry Bedingfeld.
A silver gilt "cruse" (a drinking pot) in Anne Poyntz's will had been Mary's New Year's Day gift for 1554.
Anne Astley was bequeathed an "edge for a billiment" of 45 round garnets alternating with 48 gold pieces with blue enamelling, Anne Poyntz's gold chain, and a figurative tablet or locket featuring the temptation of Adam and Eve "by the spirit figured over their heads", with the mottoes:"Come forth Trowgthe thoughe falsehoode be wrothe"The other side of this piece depicted a man holding flowers and a woman holding a heart, encircled by the inscription:"Take you here my harte with love, and love more"[44] The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has a Tudor hat badge depicting Adam and Eve, though its inscription is now mostly effaced,[45] and Sir Thomas Palmer's New Year's Day gift from Henry VIII in 1532 was a tablet of gold with a device of Adam and Eve and a hanging pearl.
[47] Bess Astley was given a "Turkey bean" garnished with gold with the "H" and "K" initials of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon on either side, perhaps a gift at a Twelfth Night feast.
[49] Anne Poyntz bequeathed her eldest granddaughter Bridget Astley a brooch depicting a woman "enamylled" with a caged bird with a French proverb, "Miex suys bocage que toy dan la cage" (Better to be bird in the wood than caged), and to another granddaughter Rebecca Astley, a brooch with "a woman sitting upon a wheel, and clawing a lion at the back", Fortune and Hercules.
