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Description: Monument in Ely Cathedral of Sir w:Mark Steward (1524-1604), of Heckfield in Hampshire and of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire, a Member of Parliament for Stockbridge in Hampshire (1597) and for St Ives in Cornwall (1588–9). He was the 3rd son of Simeon Steward of Lakenheath in Suffolk by his wife Joan Besteney, daughter and heiress of Edward Besteney of Soham in Cambridgeshire. His uncles included Robert Steward (d. 1557), Dean of Ely, and w:Edmund Steward (died 1559), Dean of Winchester 1554–1559 and another who became Pastor of the English congregation at Frankfurt where he was an associate of w:John Knox. The Steward family had been settled in East Anglia from the fifteenth century. Their claimed descent from the Stewart family, Hereditary High Stewards of Scotland, as recounted in the inscription here, has in modern times been proved false. See 1771189 for more information. Transcript of Latin inscription, from: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, Volume 1, 1662, pp.259-60[1]: « Premendo sustulit. Ferendo vicit. “ Secundum Redemptoris Mundi adventum expectat hic Marcus Steward Miles, filius hæresque Simeonis Steward Armig. Nicholao Steward Armig. geniti, qui patrem habuit Richardum Steward Armig. quem genuit Thomas Steward Armig. Johannis Steward Mihtis filius, cujus pater erat Johannes Steward Miles, ejus nominis in Angliâ primus, qui cum Jacobo Roberti Scotiæ Regis filio in Franciam transfretans (regnante tunc Henrico quarto) vento eorum propositis opposito, in Anglicano littore applicuerunt, ubi diu post pro obsidibus custodiebantur: Sed hic Johannes in amorem cujusdam virginis Anglicanæ, nomine Talmach, incidens, obtentâque Johannæ Reginæ veniâ, cui ancilla inserviebat, eam in conjugem cepit, infidemque Regis Henrici dum vixisset solenniter est juratus. Hujus pater erat Alexander, quem genuit Andreas Steward Miles, Alexandri cognominati Ferocis filiorum natu minimus, cujus pater erat Walterus Steward, à Dundevale in Scotiâ dictus. Sed primus in Genealogiâ hâc summonitus, & hic sepultus, ex Annâ unâ filiarum & Hæredum Roberti Huicke Armig. Reginæ Elizabethæ Medici primarii, varios habuit liberos, quos omnes inadultos Fata rapuere, præter duos, Mariam scilicet Gulielmo Forster in Com. Berke. Militi nuptam, & Simionem Steward Militem, Hæredem filiumque suum mæstissimum, qui pii officii, singularisque erga Patrem Amoris gratiâ, hoc posuit monumentum, ubi inscriptum legas, quòd cum multos Annos, & Bello & Pace, pro Patriâ feliciter egisset, ætate tandem confectus militari singulo, & Auratis Calcaribus à Jacobo Rege Serinissimo ornatus, senex pene octogenarius fatali Necessitati concessit, 28o Februarii, anno Salutis 1603." ” Which may be translated: "By pressing he bore up. By bearing he won. Awaiting here the second coming of the Redemptor of the World is Mark Steward, Knight, son and heir of Simon Steward, Esquire, born of Nicholas Steward, Esquire, who had as father Richard Steward, Esquire, whom bore Thomas Steward, Esquire, the son of John Steward, Knight, of whom the father was John Steward, Knight, the first of that name in England, who crossing the sea with James, the son of Robert, King of Scots (during the reign of Henry IV) with an opposing wind to their intentions they steered their ship towards the English shore where for a long while afterwards they were held as hostages. But here John, falling in love with a certain English virgin by the name of Talmach, and with leave having been obtained from Queen Johanna, whom she was serving as a maid, he gained her hand in marriage and was solemnly sworn into fealty of King Henry so long as he should live. Of him the father was Alexander, whom bore Andrew Steward, Knight, of Alexander called “the Fierce” the youngest-born of his sons, of whom the father was Walter Steward, called “of Dundeval” (Dundonald ?) in Scotland. But the first one mentioned in this genealogy and buried here, from Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of Robert Huicke, Esquire, the first physician of Queen Elizabeth, had various children, whom all before adulthood were seized away by Fate, apart from two, that is to say Mary, married to William Forster, Knight, in the County of Berkshire, and Simon Steward, Knight, his most sorrowing son and heir, who by pious duty and by grace of exceptional love towards his father, placed this monument, where you read what is written, how during many years both in war and in peace, he acted joyfully for his country, at last having finished an extraordinary military age and having been decorated by James, the most Serene King, with gold spurs, as an old man barely an octogenarian he conceded to necessary Fate on the 28th of February in the year of Salvation 1603”" (i.e. 1604 new style) For the official pedigree of the Steward family of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, which largely agrees with the inscription, see Clay, J. W., ed. (1897). The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added thereto. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 41. London, pp.7-11, pedigree of "Stuart" [2]. Genealogy The descent of Sir Mark Steward is as follows, per Heraldic Visitation of Cambridge, 1575: John Steward, the first of the Scottish family to have settled in England (supposedly having been shipwrecked in East Anglia whilst sailing with a son of the King of Scotland, and then held hostage by the English), married Mary Talmache (Tollemache ?), an English virgin with whom he fell in love during his captivity; Sir John Steward, son, who married a daughter of Sir Thomas Keyriell Thomas Steward of Soham, son, who married a daughter of SirJohn Hamerton Richard Steward, son, who married the daughter and heiress of John Boreley (who quartered Walkfare) Nicholas Steward of Wells, Norfolk, son, who married Cicelia Baskerville, daughter and heiress (Steward quartered Baskerville) of ....... Baskerville of ...... Simeon Steward of Lakenheath in Suffolk, son, who married Joan Besteney, daughter and heiress of Edward Besteney of Soham in Cambridgeshire. His brothers included Robert Steward (d. 1557), Dean of Ely, and w:Edmund Steward (died 1559), Dean of Winchester. Sir w:Mark Steward (1524-1604), 3rd son, of Heckfield in Hampshire and of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire. Brother of Robert Steward (1526/30-1570), both with monuments and effigies in Ely Cathedral.Heraldry Detail from shield on monument of Robert Steward (1526-30-1570), brother of Sir Mark Steward, in Ely Cathedral. See file description for heraldryHatchment of a wife of the the Mynors / Baskerville family, St Weonard's church, St Weonards, Herefordshire, showing quarterings of Baskerville some of which which also appear on momument of Sir Mark Steward (quarters 9-14)Atop the monument is a shield of 23 quarters: 1&2: Arms of Stewart, Hereditary High Steward of Scotland: Or, a fess chequy argent and azure 3: Steward Augmentation: Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or 4:Vert, three boar's heads couped argent (Boreley) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.101 "Boreley / Borseley of Wiltshire") 5: Argent, a lion rampant sable on the shoulder a mullet or (Walkfare, a Boreley heiress) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1066 Or / argent, a lion rampant sable "Walkfare of Norfolk") 6: Azure, a chevron gules between three hurts (Baskerville). Sir Mark Steward's grandparents were Nicholas Steward of Wells and his heiress wife Cecilia Baskerville (Rye, Walter, The Steward Genealogy and Cromwell's "Royal Descent"[3]); 7: Gules, a fess ermine a label of five points or (Wallis / Walers ? or Lenthall ?). For Wallis / Wales see: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk[4] & Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1064 "Walers", p.1068 "Wallis of Cowden, Hampshire"; for Lenthall see: Heraldry of the Whitney Family [5]) 8: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosses-crosslet or (Boteler) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.103-4, variants) (a Baskerville heiress) 9: Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets or (Grosse / Le Gros) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.431 "Grosse of Norfolk") (Le Gross of Crostwight and Sloley, Norfolk) (a Baskerville heiress, as quartered on a Baskerville hatchment in St Weonard's Church, Herefordshire, seeFile:Hatchment, St Weonard's.JPG). A later prominent member of this family was Sir w:Charles Le Grosse (c.1596-1650) of Crostwight Hall near North Walsham in Norfolk, MP. The Le Grosse family probably descended from William Gross of Norfolk, a land-holder mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.[1][2] However, only one previous member of the family, Oliver Groos, knight of the shire in 1419, had sat in Parliament, and his immediate progenitors were not sufficiently prominent to be members of the Norfolk bench.22 The family’s property, including their seat at Crostwright, was predominantly situated in the north-east of the county. (Source: LE GROS (GROSS), Sir Charles (c.1596-1650), of Crostwight, Norf.Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[6]). See chest tomb of Oliver le Gros (d.1435) in St Bartholomew's Church, Sloley,[7] displaying the arms of Le Gross: Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets or. 10: Argent, on a cross sable a leopard's face or (Brugge / Abruges / Bruges) an early heiress of Baskerville of Eardisley Castle, Herefordshire (Heraldic Visitation of Herefordshire, pedigree of Baskerville[8] (later Brydges of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire (Duke of Chandos)) ("Bruges of Letton" as quartered by Whitney, see: Heraldry of the Whitney Family [9]). Sir John Baskerville of Eardisley Castle, Herefordshire, married Joan Brugge, daughter and heiress of John Brugge (d.1436), MP, of Staunton-on-Wye, Letton and Sapey, all in Herefordshire (BRUGGE, John (d.1436), of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[10]). His eldest son was Sir John Baskerville (1408-1455) who married a daughter of Lord Audley and his younger son was Ralph Baskerville of Icomb Baskerville (now Icomb), Gloucestershire (Source: The Picards or Pychards of Stradewy (now Tretower), Castle, and Scethrog, Brecknockshire, London, 1878, p.104 [11]), who married the heiress of Sir John Blaket / Blacket (1381-1431) of Icomb whose effigy survives in Icomb Churchof Icomb. 11: Gules, a fess or between three escallops argent (Pychard/Picard) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.831 "Pychard of Hereford") (a Brugge heiress) Johanna Pychard of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire, was the mother of John Brugge (d.1436), MP, and the daughter and heiress of Thomas Pychard of Staunton-on-Wye. (Source: The Picards or Pychards of Stradewy (now Tretower), Castle, and Scethrog, Brecknockshire, London, 1878, p.104 [12] and Pychard fold-out Pedigree after p 172[13]) 12: Azure, a fess or between three chessrooks argent (?) (Bodenham) (chessrooks sometimes shown or) (see Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk); shown more clearly on mural monument to w:Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet in St Mary's Church, Cranworth, NorfolkFile:Arms SirWilliamCook 2ndBaronet CranworthChurch Norfolk.svg 13: Argent, a chevron between three birds/martlets sable (?) 14: Argent, a griffin rampant sable (?) 15: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent crowned or (Bestney) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.78 "Bestney of Hertfordshire") Visitations gives: Per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant argent crowned or on the shoulder a crescent of the second (Bestney); Pedigree of "Bestney of St. Albans, Hertfordshire" as reported to the 1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[14]: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent ducally crowned or. Descended from Edward Bestney "of West Bestney", Constable of Flint Castle in Wales. 16: Or, a castle triple-towered sable (?) 17: Gules, an eagle with two heads argent crowned and armed or (?) 18: Argent, a cross flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper / martlets of the second (Spenlow) (Spenlow of St Albans, Hertfordshire (1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[15])) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (here shown as Cornish choughs proper) (not listed in Burke). 19: Argent, two pallets and three barrulets between nine fleurs-de-lis sable (?) 20: Vert, three lions passant or a mullet of the last (FitzGeffrey) (not listed in Burke) 21: Argent, a lion rampant guardant sable within a bordure of the second (Beruen) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.76 "Beruen/Berven/Berwen") (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") 22: Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard's faces or (Blackney) (Blackney of Cropley Hall, Hertfordshire, heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire" (1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[16]) (here with chevron or) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.87 Sable, a chevron ermine between three leopard's heads or "Blackney of Norfolk") 23: Argent, a griffin rampant sable (?) On the base of the monument are shown 13 of the quarterings included in the shield of 23 quarters at top. See better image[17]. Top row, left to right: 1: Baskerville 2: Gules, a fess ermine a label of five points or (Wallis / Walers ? or Lenthall ?). For Wallis / Wales see: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk[18] & Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1064 "Walers", p.1068 "Wallis of Cowden, Hampshire"; for Lenthall see: Heraldry of the Whitney Family [19])[20]) 3: Boteler 4: Grosse 5: Argent, a chevron between three birds/martlets sable (?) 6: Argent, a griffin rampant sable (?) 7: Bestney 8: Or, a castle triple-towered sable (?) Bottom row: 1: Brydges 2: Pychard 3: Azure, a fess or between three chessrooks argent (?) (Bodenham) (chessrooks sometimes shown or) (see Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk); shown more clearly on mural monument to w:Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet in St Mary's Church, Cranworth, NorfolkFile:Arms SirWilliamCook 2ndBaronet CranworthChurch Norfolk.svg 4: Gules, an eagle with two heads argent crowned and armed or (?) 5: Spenlow 6: Argent, two pallets and three barrulets between nine fleurs-de-lis sable ?
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