Thomas Tasburgh
[4][5] In addition to his Everard cousins, by his maternal aunt Anne (or Agnes) Everard, John (III) became the nephew of Sir Edward Echyngham of Barsham in north Suffolk, and therefore the cousin of Anne Echyngham, wife of Sir Owen Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, and of her sister Mary, wife of John Blennerhassett of Frenze and Barsham.
[10] As administrator, Elizabeth Tasburgh faced suits for her husband's debts,[11] and she soon remarried to Francis Clovell, Armiger, of Cloville Hall (Fullers) in West Hanningfield, Essex,[12] and now of South Elmham.
Only one of the three escutcheons survives, which shows the heraldry for Dorothy's parents, Kitson (dexter) impaling a quartering for Donnington (sinister).
[1] He married secondly, on 16 January 1587/88 at Twyford, Buckinghamshire, Jane West, daughter of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, and widow successively of Thomas Wenman (or Waynman), Esquire of Thame Park, Oxfordshire and Twyford (died 1577), and of James Cressy of Beaconsfield (died 1581).
The neighbour apologised but said that he could not rule his wife's tongue, and that she was agitated against Tasburgh and another magistrate because they had called her husband to account for his running of a victualling house.
[35] The Statutes against recusancy were becoming increasingly severe, and (in the face of accusations) it may have seemed needful to escape the risk of forfeiture or limitations on the bequest of property.
By his own account, he had gone with Lord La Warr "to bring the Earl of Essex on his journey", not at first intending to travel further than Cheshire.
[39] On 26 May, from captivity, he has heard ("from Mr Bowyer, my neighbour and enemy") that the queen proposed to deprive him of his office (which is in good order and not neglected), which she had recently granted to him in lieu of a large sum of money owing to him.
He refers to a sum of £6,500 which should have been due to him, and objects that he is being asked to place his information in the hands of "The Lady Carie, mine adversary".
The tenour of the pastorals is that the speaker is a shepherd boy (Anetor) who has been taken under the wing of a courtly young man Anander, whom he greatly admires.
But (alas) finding my abilitie too little to make the meanest satisfaction of so great a Principall as is due to so many fauourable curtesies, I am bold to tender your Ladyship this unworthy Interest, wherewithall I will put in good securitie, that assoone as Time shall relieue the necessitie of my young inuention, I will disburse my Muse to the uttermost mite of my power, to make some more acceptable composition with your bounty: In the meane space, liuing without hope to be euer sufficient inough to yeeld your Worthinesse the smallest halfe of your due, I doe onely desire to leaue your Ladyship in assurance, That when encrease of Age and Learning, sets My Minde in wealthi'r state then now it is, I'll pay a greater portion of my debts, Or mortgage you a better Muse then this, Till then, no kinde forbearance is amisse, While, though I owe more then I can make good, This is inough, to shew how faine I woo'd.
[42][43]At his death, which occurred suddenly early in 1603, he was buried in the old church of St Andrew's, Holborn in London, in the Ward of Farringdon Without.
[44] Sir Thomas Tasburgh was shown to have been indebted in considerable sums (£2,530) to the Crown upon the remainder of his account for his office as Teller.
: Dame Jane was permitted to compound, with the assistance of Sir John Tasburgh of Flixton and of Richard Blennerhassett of Kelvedon.
[52][53] Around 1605 Dame Jane married, as her fourth husband, that notable adherent to the Old Faith, Ralph Sheldon (1537-1613), Esquire, of Beoley, Worcestershire, whose first wife had been Anne Throckmorton.
[55] Sheldon's will was proved in April 1613,[56] and an inventory of Dame Jane Tasburghe's possessions at Bracondale House beside Norwich was made in that year (to the value of nearly £379.00).
