Edmund Withypoll
Lucar lived to 1573: having been imprisoned and fined by Queen Mary for his part in the acquittal of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton in 1554, he became Master of the Company in 1560,[15] and was a contributor to the foundation of the Merchant Taylors' School.
[16] Edmund was educated by the humanist scholar Thomas Lupset, who taught him Latin, and who in 1529 (while staying at Wolsey's palace at The More, Hertfordshire) wrote in the form of a letter dedicated to Withypoll An Exhortation to Yonge Men (published 1535).
In 1544 he apparently accompanied the King's expedition at Boulogne: a beautiful manuscript folio of the Letters of Cicero, now in Canterbury Cathedral Library, carries his inscription noting that he took it from the Church of Our Lady at "Bulleyn" in September of that year.
The adjacent church of St Margaret's, Ipswich, soon became the family's habitual place of baptism, marriage and burial, commencing with his son Peter, who was baptised there on 20 March 1549.
In 1567 Withypoll confronted the Town Bailiffs[30] over their attendance at the "Holy Trinity Fair" (granted to the Priory by Henry II) held annually in Tuddenham Road beside Christchurch.
Loans were sought from the Portmen, councilmen and burgesses, and scot and lot was imposed upon the householders to raise £200 for the town's debts and for this suit, upon pain of distraint, seizure of property, disfranchisement and imprisonment for default of payment.
Full records of the affair were preserved by the Borough, which brought counter-suits claiming that Withypoll had illegally enclosed lands, highways, conduits and other amenities, and had committed various other infringements of rights.
[33] Conversely, at his manorial Courts Baron held at much the same time, Withipoll had difficulties in obtaining due payment of fines and adequate repairs to properties: in taking control he incurred at least one suit in Chancery which was not resolved until 1579.
[36] Edmund's own literary interests are shown in extracts included in essays by Harvey, including these lines translated by Edmund from a Latin epigram dedicated to Thomas Seckford:[37]"Our merry dayes, by theevish bit are pluckt, and torne away,And every lustie growing thing, in short time doth decay,The pleasaunt Spring times ioy, how soone it groweth olde?And wealth that gotten is with care, doth noy as much be bolde,No wisedome had with Travaile great, is for to trust indeede,For great mens state we see decay, and fall downe like a weede.Thus by degree we fleete, and sink in worldly things full faste,But Vertues sweete and due rewardes stande sure in every blaste.
[42] With regard to his widow, he wrote: "I leave to my wife Elizabeth, for her dower, all my lands in Walthamstow and Leyton, during her life, which is within little of 200 marks by the year: trusting (yea, I may say, as I think, assuring myself), that she will marry no man, for fear to meet so evil a husband as I have been.
