Edward Warner (1511–1565)

In March 1550/51, he received a license from the king for himself and his wife to eat flesh and white meats during Lent and other fasting days for the rest of his life.

His disgrace increased his discontent, and he listened to the outspoken complaints of his friend Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who bitterly censured the ecclesiastical changes which Mary had introduced.

Warner's disposition was known, and on the outbreak of Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion, in which his father-in-law, Lord Cobham, was supposed to be implicated, he was promptly arrested on suspicion on 25 January 1553/4 with the Marquis of Northampton, at his own house by Carter Lane, and the next day was committed to the Tower.

On the accession of Elizabeth I he was promptly reappointed Lieutenant of the Tower, and in September 1559 he was present at the obsequies of Henry II of France that was celebrated in London, and took part in the procession in St. Paul's.

He had instructions to the effect that 'many persons of high rank were known to have been privy to the marriage,' and injunctions to urge Lady Katherine to a full confession of the truth.

In 1565 he proceeded to the Netherlands, apparently to inquire into the condition of the English trade there, and on 3 November was nominated as a commissioner for Norfolk to carry out measures for repressing piracy and other disorders on the sea coasts.

At the upper end of the chancel in a little church in Little Plumstead there is a marble grave-stone, with the portraiture of a knight in complete armour, at his feet a — couchant, in brass.

[1][6] Sir Edward Warner, Knight, now resteth here Who lived to full 50 years and fower His wifes also by armes you see appeare What needeth then with words to blaze them o're His virtues rare, would not be letten passe Ne yet so worthy state in silence synke But who dares wright his golden gifts in brasse Or blot his fame with rude and silly inke In somme therefore, let this be sayd for all With God and man he liveth and ever shall

Audrey daughter of William Hare, His only heir by law, and right, Of Thomas Hobart, a wife very rare, And then to Sir Edward Warner, Knight.

Full ty's to them, a wife most true, To these a most good and loveing mother; But by Hobart only her issue grew, The eldest Miles, and Henry his brother.