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Lisle was elected Member of Parliament for Winchester during the Short and Long Parliaments and was active on the Hampshire county committee during the First Civil War. In the Parliament of England, he was chairman of the committee that investigated Oliver Cromwell's allegations against the Earl of Manchester in December 1644. He also chaired the committee that framed the ordinance to create the New Model Army early in 1645. Lisle voted against continuing negotiations with the King after the Second Civil War (1648) and was appointed a commissioner of the High Court of Justice for the King's trial in January 1649. He sat beside Lord-President John Bradshaw during the trial to advise him on points of law. He also helped to draw up the sentence, but he was not a signatory of the King's death warrant. With the establishment of the Commonwealth of England, Lisle was one of the commissioners who framed the new republican constitution. He sat on the five-man committee appointed to select members of the Council of State, and in February 1649 he was made a commissioner of the Great Seal. Lisle was active as a law reformer, but he also gained a reputation for acquisitiveness and sharp practice.

Lisle continued to hold high office after Cromwell's dissolution of the Rump Parliament in April 1653, and administered the oath of office when Cromwell became Lord Protector. He supported the offer of the Crown to Cromwell and was appointed to the controversial Upper House in December 1657. When the Rump was restored in May 1659, Lisle was dismissed from most of his lucrative offices. He escaped abroad at the Restoration and settled at Lausanne in Switzerland with other exiled republicans.

He was murdered in Lausanne by an Irishman known as Thomas Macdonnell, an alias of Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter.

The Complete Peerage article on John Lord Lisle
(Vol IV, Appx G, p.622)
"JOHN LISLE, Regicide, of Moyles Court. Ellingham, Southants, s. and h. of Sir William L., of Wooton, Isle of Wight, by Bridget, da. of Sir John Hungerford, of Down Ampney, co Gloucester; b.1609; matric at Oxford (Magd Hall) 25 Jan 1625/6; admitted Middle Temple 11 May 1626; called to the Bar 1633; Bencher 9 Feb 1648/9; Gov of Westminster School 26 Sep 1649. MP for Winchester 10 Mar 1639/40; again, in the Long Parl., 27 Oct 1640, and for Southampton 12 July 1654. He was a violent anti-royalist, and active promoter of the King's trial, and drafted the sentence. He was present in Westminster Hall, 27 Jan 1648/9, when the sentence was pronounced, though he did not sign the death-warrant. Councillor of State 14 Feb 1648/9, 13 Feb 1649/50, 13 Feb 1650/1, and 24 Nov 1652; member of the LORD PROTECTOR's Council, with a salary of £1,000 per ann., 16 Dec 1653; Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal with a further £1,000 per ann., 8 Feb 1648/9, 15 June 1655 and 22 Jan 1658/9; and a member of the High Court of Justice, in which Sir Henry Slingsby and other royalists were condemned, 21 Nov 1653; President thereof 1654. He was sum. to the OTHER HOUSE, 10 Dec 1657, and took his seat, as "JOHN LORD LISLE," 20 Jan 1657/8. He was app. Commissioner of the Navy 28 Jan 1659/60. At the Restoration he was absolutely excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 29 Aug 1660, and attainted, but fled to Switzerland, where he was assassinated by Thomas MacDowell, 11 Aug 1664. He m., 27 Oct 1636, at Ellingham afsd., Alice, 1st da. and coh. of Sir White BECKONSHAW, of Moyles Court afsd., by Edith 1st da. and coh. of William BOND, of Blackmanston, Dorset. His widow was tried on a charge of High Treason, sentenced to death by Judge Jeffreys, 28 Aug and beheaded 2 Sep 1685, in the market-place at Winchester aged 70." 1679 Jeremiah Whitaker 1673 Tryphena Whitaker 1674 - JAN 1674/75 John Whitaker 1677 - 1750 James Whitaker 73 73 1680 Mary Whitaker 1682 - 1767 Daniel Whitaker 85 85 14 MAR 1685/86 - 1767 Robert Whitaker 1634 - 1682 Tryphena Lisle 48 48 1640 Elizabeth Lisle 1642 - 1682 William Lisle 40 40 1645 - 1682 Beaconshaw Lisle 37 37 17 MAR 1601/02 - 15 MAR 1635/36 Mary Elizabeth Hobart 1675 - 1719 Joshua Whitaker 43 43 1637 - 6 FEB 1740/41 Robert Hugh Whitaker 1639 - 1686 Margaret Lisle 47 47 1617 - 1685 Alice Beacomsawe 68 68 On 20 July 1685, a fortnight after the Battle of Sedgemoor, the old lady consented to shelter John Hickes, a well-known Nonconformist minister, at her residence, Moyles Court, near Ringwood. Hickes, who was a fugitive belonging to Monmouth's army, brought with him Richard Nelthorpe, also a partizan of Monmouth, and under sentence of outlawry. The two men passed the night at Moyles Court, and on the following morning were arrested, and their hostess, who had denied their presence in the house, was charged with harbouring traitors.

Her case was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester. She pleaded that she had no knowledge that Hickes's offence was anything more serious than illegal preaching, that she had known nothing previously of Nelthorpe (whose name was not included in the indictment, but was, nevertheless, mentioned to strengthen the case for the Crown), and that she had no sympathy with the rebellion. The jury reluctantly found her guilty, and, the law recognizing no distinction between principals and accessories in treason, she was sentenced to be burned.

Jeffreys ordered that the sentence should be carried out that same afternoon, but a few days' respite was subsequently granted, and James II allowed beheading to be substituted for burning. Lady Lisle was executed in Winchester market-place on 2 September 1685. She is buried in a tomb on the right hand side of the porch at St Mary's church, Ellingham, Hampshire. There is a plaque marking the spot of Lady Lisle's execution opposite "The Eclipse Inn" near the Cathedral in Winchester.By many writers her death has been termed a judicial murder, and one of the first acts of parliament of William and Mary reversed the attainder on the ground that the prosecution was irregular and the verdict injuriously extorted by "the menaces and violences and other illegal practices" of Jeffreys. It is, however, extremely doubtful whether Jeffreys, for all his gross brutality, exceeded the strict letter of the existing law. 1636 - 1695 Mabella Lisle 59 59 1632 - 1723 Bridget Lisle 91 91 Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9L3D-7P[horrocks.FTW]

"Hoar, Mrs. Bridgett, dan. Lord Lisle, m. (1) Dr. Leonard H oar, Pres. H. C., m. (2) Hezekiah Usher, sailed for England 1687, d. Bost. 25 May 1723, bur. in Hoar tomb, inscription given by Sexton's Monitor, 585, 674; mentioned in Judge S ewall's diary, 673" -- Cambridge (Mass.) History, p. 388

"Lisle, Bridgett (Lord Lisle) m. (1) Pres. Leonard Hoar in England, (2) Hezekiah Usher, of Bost., embarked for England 1687, d. Boston. 25 May 1723, interred in grave of firs t husband, 585, 673" -- Cambridge (Mass.) History, p. 458

"Mrs. Bridget Hoar wife of Leonard m. 2d Hezekiah Usher 168 6. They did not live together long. She went to England in 1687. She had two daughters, one died young. The other, B ridget, married in London June 21, 1689, Thomas Cotton, wh o was born at or near Worthy, England 1657, d. 1730." -- Al fred Hoar Family
Alt Birth: Abt 1645,, England 1708 - 1769 Bethia Cole 61 61 15 MAR 1657/58 - 17 FEB 1737/38 Hugh Cole 1683 - 1753 Hugh Cole 69 69 1660 - 1724 Deborah Buckland 64 64 11 FEB 1681/82 Debrah Cole 1686 Mary Cole 19 MAR 1686/87 - 1730 Joseph Cole 1691 - Dead Lydia Cole 1695 Christian Cole 1699 - 1751 James Cole 52 52 1702 - 1760 Hannah Cole 58 58 11 FEB 1703/04 Deborah Cole 1706 Christiana Cole 1706 Christian Cole 1689 Christen Cole 1602 - 1692 Robert Shelley 90 90 1604 Margaret Shelley 1660 - 1748 John Cole 88 88 1635 - 1688 Mary Foxwell 53 53 1641 Ruth Foxwell 8 JAN 1665/66 - 17 MAR 1717/18 Ruth Cole 1610 - 1643 Richard Foxwell 33 33 1612 - 1660 Anne Shelley 48 48 1662 - 1704 Anna Cole 42 42 1664 - 1711 Martha Cole 47 47 1638 - FEB 1698/99 Martha Foxwell 1655 - 1712 James Cole 57 57 1668 - WFT Est 1669-1762 Joseph Cole 1671 - 1719 Ebenezer Cole 48 48 1676 - 1756 Mary Cole 80 80 1678 - 1748 Benjamin Cole 70 70 1643 - 1646 John Foxwell 3 3 1586 - 1636 Robert Shelley 50 50 1627 - 22 JAN 1698/99 Hugh Cowles Grove 1650 - 8 FEB 1742/43 Daniel Hoar 1622 - 1704 John Hoar 82 82 The Hoar family were among the early bay colonists and some true conception of their character may be had by referring to a matter of New England history, wherein it is recorded that after the Indian massacre at Lancaster at the time of King Philip's war, John Hoar, at the request of the colonial authorities, followed the Indian band far into the wilderness, and after great hardship and the exercise of great ingenuity, recovered by ransom Mrs. Rowlandson, a lady captive from Lancaster. Her account of her ransom is published. The rock where she was redeemed is situated in (???), close by the base of Wachusett Mountain, and has been marked by the senator with a suitable inscription."

--SOURCE: Worchester County-- 1646 - 1687 Elizabeth Hoare 41 41 1648 - 1697 Mary Hoar 49 49 1649 - 1691 Joanna Hoare 42 42 1630 - 1675 Leonard Hoar 45 45 M.D.
University of Cambridge
President of Harvard College
"LEONARD, the third president of Harvard College, at which he grad. in 1650, went to England, was a physician and clergyman, and settled as the latter, at Wensted, in Essex. He was ejected from office for non-conformity, and returned to N. E. 1672, and in July, was elected president, but resigned 15 March, 1675, and d. at Braintree, 28 Nov. same year. He had no sons, but two daughters, Bridget and Tryphena. His widow, a daughter of Lord Lisle, m. Mr. Usher, of Boston, and d. 25 May, 1723. Mrs. Joanna Hoar, probably his mother, d. at Braintree, 21 Dec. 1661."

SOURCE: First Settlers

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"Leonard returned with his wife to Boston, Mass., in July, 1672, and preached for a short time as assistant at the South Church. He was soon called to be president of Harvard College, December, 1672."

SOURCE: Colonial Ancestors

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"LEONARD, grad. Harv. Coll., 1650; M.D.; President of Harv. Coll. 1672 to 1674-5, when he died"

SOURCE: Watertown Genealogies

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"Leonard Hoar (1630-75; son of Charles, g.son of Charles); came from Eng. with his widowed mother, Joanna Hincksman, 2 bros. and 2 sisters, and settled in Braintree, Mass., 1639-40; M.D. Harvard, 1650; returned to Eng. and settled as a clergyman in Wenstead, Essex Co.; returned with his wife to Boston, Mass., 1672, and preached for a short time as asst. at South Ch.; pres. Harvard Coll., 1672-75; m Bridget Lisle (John, of Moyles Court, Co. Southampton, one of the judges who condemned Charles I, made to leave the country and was murdered at Lausanne, m Alice, dau. and co-heir of Sir White Beconsaw, Kent, she was beheaded by order of Judge Jeffries at Manchester, 1685);"

SOURCE: Compendium of American Genealogy.

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"LEONARD, Cambridge, br. of John, b. in Eng. but never has it been kn. wh. was the f. wh. we therefore presume, did not come to our land; his mo. Joanna, who d. at Braintree, 21 Dec. 1661, brot. the three s. and ds. Margaret, wh. was prob. the eldest ch. and m. Rev. Henry Flint, and d. 10 Mar. 1687; and Joanna, wh. m. 26 July 1648, the sec. Edmund Quiney. He was gr. at H C. 1650, went to Eng. was min. at Wenslead, Essex, and one of the ejected under the Bartholomew Act, took the degree of M. D. at the Univ. of Cambridge, 1672, and came again higher to preach by invit. at third, or Old South Ch. but with commend. from strong friends in London, that he should be made Presid. of the coll. to succeed Chauncey, late dec. He arr. 8 July 1672, and same mo. was chos. to the office; but was sadly unfortunate in his place. A combination against him of three of the corp. created such diffic. that all the stud. left the Inst. and in Mar. 1675 he resigned, as the Gen. Court in Oct. preced. had, not indistinctly, desired, tho. on his coming two and a half yrs. bef. they had voted a salary half as much again as they gave C. on the sole condit. that H. be elected. On 28 Nov. foll. he d. prob. of broken heart for his treatm. aged only 45 yrs. Cotton Mather was then one of the undergrad. and may, perhaps, be believed in what he says of the unhappy countenance of sev. very good men, towards the ungovernable youths in their ungovernableness, at least as to the latter portion he was an unwilling, if we may presume he could have been, a good witness. See Magn. IV. 129, among the best, tho. characterist. pages of that strange work. Contempo. documents should be referred to in the Coll. of Hutch. 435, 45, 52, 64, and 71; but the noble Hist. of the Univ. by Quincy, I. 31-5, may seem to be adequate in its decision. His w. Bridget was d. of that lady, sacrificed by the detestab. governm. of James II. and his worthy Ch. Just. Jeffries, 2 Sept. 1685, and of John Lisle, the regicide (a lawyer of distinct. made by Cromwell one of his Commissrs. of the Great Seal, sometimes call. erroneously, Lord Lisle, because the Protector summoned him to the other house, who met a death by violence, after the restoration, in Switzerland). We kn. not of any ch. but d. Bridget, b. at Cambridge, 13 Mar. 1673, who went with her mo. 1687, to England, and bef. her ret. 1697, after d. of her [p.432] sec. h. the d. m. Rev. Thoas Cotton, a min. of London, wh. was a most lib. benefactor of H. C. The wid. of the Presid. had m. 1686 (and she long outliv.) the 2d Hezekiah Usher, with whom she was not happy, and d. 25 May 1723. Farmer mistook, I presume, for that of one of the ds. of the Presid. the name of Tryphena, sis. of the w. of the Presid. wh. m. first, a Lloyd, and bef. the d. of her sis. a Grove. This Tryphena was, prob. mo. of the w. of Lord James Russell, fifth s. of William, first Duke of Bedford, and after his d. wh. was on 22 June 1712, m. Sir Henry Houghton, and d. 1 Sept. 1736. See Collins's Peerage. This lady and her mo. wrote after the d. of Mrs. Usher, sis. of one, and aunt of the other, to Ch. Just. Sewall wh. had many yrs. bef. kn. the m, when in his visit to Eng. 1689; and in return he sent the mourning ring that had been presented for Lord James's d. A greater mistake may be observ. in an Art. of Geneal. Reg. IV. 92, where Leonard Cotton, wh. was of Hampton Falls, N. H. and chief mourner at the funer. of his gr.mo. Madam Usher, in Boston, s. of that Rev. Thomas C. (of course gr.gr.s of John Lisle), is made to m. Alicin, d. of Lord John Lisle aforesaid therefore sis. of his gr.mo. Against such matches, the Levitical instit, or the law of nature, is not often necessary to be invoked. "

SOURCE: Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers.

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"President Leonard, H. C. 1650, M.D. Univ. Camb., preached Wanstead, Essex, Eng., ejected 1662, Pres. Harv. Coll. 1672-75, m. Bridgett, dau. Lord Lisle, d. 28 Nov. 1675, a. 45, wid. m. Hezekiah Usher of Bost., 565; opposition of Urian Oakes to, compelled to resign presidency, 274-5; befriended by Elijah Corlett, 368"

SOURCE: Cambridge (Mass.) History

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"Rev. Leonard, son of Charles and Joanna, b. at Gloucester, Eng. about 1632, came to N. E. about 1642. Was grad. at Harvard College in 1650; became its third president, constituted 10 (10) 1672. [S.] He m. Bridget, dau. of Lord John and Alicia Lisle. Ch. Bridget b. March 13, 1673, (m. Mr. Thomas Cotton; res. at Shoreditch, London, in 1695, her mother then dwelling with her). He d. in Boston 28 Nov., and was bur. at Braintree 6 Dec. 1675, ae. 45 years. Will dated 25 Oct. 1675; beq. to dau. Bridget and wife; to bros. Daniel and John Hoar, sisters Flint and Quinsey; cousins Josiah Flint and Noah Newman. To be interred at Brain-tree. The widow m. Hezekiah Usher. She d. May 25, 1723. [Reg. IX, 1 54, and 377.]

SOURCE: Pioneers of Mass.

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"HOAR, LEONARD, educator, college president, was born about 1629. He was president of Harvard college from 1672 till 1675, and was the first person to propose the modern system of technical education, by the addition of a garden and orchard, a workshop, and a chemical laboratory to Harvard. He died Nov. 28, 1675, in Braintree, Mass."

SOURCE: Encyclopedia of American Biography

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"HOAR, Leonard (1630? - 28 Nov. 1675), Puritan minister and president of Harvard College, was born in Gloucestershire, England, the sone of Charles Hoare, a brewer, and Joanna Hinksman. Charles Hoare was wealthy enough to provide in his will for Leonard to be sent to Oxford University, but after his father's death in 1638, Leonard's mother moved the family across the Atlantic to New England, where they settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. Instead of Oxford, Leonard Hoar enrolled at Harvard College, where he received an A.B. in 1650 and an A.M. in 1653.

"By this time the success of the Puritan faction in the English civil war had begun to lure many Harvard graduates and New England clergymen back to England, and Hoar joined the exodus. In July 1654 he was granted an M.A. from Cambridge University and soon thereafter was made rector of Wanstead, Essex. But the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the subsequent Act of Uniformity forced Hoar and many of his fellow Puritans from their clerical posts. Throughout the 1660s Hoar maintained close ties to other dissenters, especially through his marriage (probably in the late 1600s) to Bridget Lisle, daughter of John Lisle, one of the regicide judges who passed sentence on Charles I. The couple had two daughters. Hoar also strengthened his connections to England's scholarly and scientific communities. He published an abridgement and guide to the historical books of the Bible, studied botany and medicine, and in 1671 was made a "Doctor of Physick" by Cambridge University. Hoar's intense piety and scholarly ambition were reflected in a letter to his nephew, Josiah Flint, a student at Harvard College. He instructed Flint not to do only what is "expected of you; but daily something more than your task.... [W]he n the classes study only logick or nature, you may spend some one or two spare hours in languages, rhetoric, history, or mathematics, or the like." In addition to this formidable plan of study, Hoar recommended that Flint "read every morning a chapter in the old testament, and every evening one in the new," and meditate on the meaning of these daily scriptural passages.

"In the early 1670s Hoar's reputation for scholarship and piety raised considerable interest in New England. The newly formed Third Church of Boston recruited him to be its minister, and in 1672 Hoar returned to Massachusetts intending to take up the post. At the time the advanced age of Charles Chauncy, the Harvard College president, was worrying P uritans on both sides of the Atlantic. A group of English dissenting ministers sent letters of introduction strongly recommending Hoar's "gifts of learning and the grace of his spirit" as suitable qualifications for Chauncy's successor. Chauncy died while Hoar was crossing the ocean, and shortly after his arrival Hoar was elected to the Harvard presidency and formally installed on 10 December 1672.

"Hoar approached the Harvard presidency with vigor and enthusiasm. He planned to revive the impoverished and underenrolled college by introducing experimental science to the curriculum and by providing equipment for agricultural, chemical, and physical experiments. He pushed through a new college charter to strengthen the hand of the corporation, made up of the president and teaching fellows, against the influence of the outside board of overseers. He also used his transatlantic connections to raise money for a new college building to replace the rapidly decaying "Old College. " But for reasons that remain obscure, Hoar's presidency quickly degenerated and ended in disgrace. Shortly after his inauguration, the resident teaching fellows and student body turned sharply against the new president. Cotton Mather, a very young student at the time, later wrote that "the Young Men in the Colledge [sic]... set themselves to Travestie whatever he did and said, and aggravate everything in his Behaviour disagreeable to them, with a Design to make him Odious." In 1673 the four teaching fellows resigned their posts, many students dropped out, and vague complaints about Hoar's "untruthfulness" were brought before the Harvard Overseers and the Massachusetts General Court. These bodies gave some measure of support to Hoar, but their encouragements were only half-hearted, and the students continued their steady withdrawal from the college. Hoar finally resigned on 15 March 1675. His health rapidly declined, and less than nine months later he died in Boston of a "consumption."

"The reason for Hoar's rapid downfall was the subject of considerable controversy at the time and has never been fully resolved. Some blamed the affair on the jealousy of other aspirants for Hoar's position, notably Urian Oakes, the minister of Cambridge who was passed over for the presidency. In addition, Boston's churches had recently been riven with contention over issues of ecclesiastical authority. In this context, Hoar's sudden departure from his English dissenting church without a formal dismissal, together with the breach of his implied promise to become the minister of Boston's Third Church, may have turned some supporters against him. Thomas Danforth, a Third Church member who was glad not to have Hoar as his minister, believed "he will be a better presid[ent], than a pulpitt man (at least) as to vulg[a]r acceptation," hinting at the possibility of Hoar's general unpopularity. But supporters like Cotton Mather and John Hull insisted that he was a "worthy man " wronged by enemies, and that if "those that accused him had but countenanced and encouraged him in his work, he would have proved the best president that ever yet the college had."

"Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard's tercentennial historian, blames "some fault in Hoar's character or conduct," perhaps "something unfortunate in Hoar's manner, repellent in his personality, harsh in his discipline, or unreasonable in his policy." Yet as recently as 1976 a resolution was passed by the Massachusetts State Senate defending Hoar against the "contumacious and envious displeasure" of the college fellows who forced him to resign and proclaiming his "innocence of any misdeed while president of Harvard College. " Judged by his scholarly promise and the strength of his plans for the curriculum, it does seem possible that Hoar could have revived the rapidly deteriorating college. But whether the trouble was caused by his personal shortcomings or by a conspiracy of his enemies, Hoar's presidency was a disaster, perhaps the low point in the early history of Harvard."

SOURCE: American National Biography

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"... Leonard graduated from Harvard College in 1650, took degree of Doctor of Medicine, returned to England and settled as a clergyman in Wenstead, Essex Co. Married Bridget Lisle, daughter of John Lisle of Magles Court, Co. Southampton. He was one of the judges who condemned Charles I. He had to leave the country and was murdered at Lausanne. He married Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir White Beconsame, Kent. She was beheaded by order of Judge Jeffries at Manchester in 1685.

"Leonard returned with his wife to Boston, Mass., in July 1672, and preached for a short time as assistant at the South Church. He was soon called to be president of Harvard College, December 1672. "At his inauguration the college was thinly attended and badly supported. With little profit and much anxiety, discipline was badly supported and he retired in 1675." (C'lop. Am. Lit., vol. 1, p. 8.)

                     "Epitaph wrote for the Tomb of
                     Leonard Hoar, Doctour of
                     Phisick, who departed this life
                     In Boston the 28 November.
                     Was interred(*) here the 6 December
                     And was aged 45 years.
                     Anno Dom. 1675.

"Three precious friends under this tombstone lie Patterns to aged, youth, and infancy, A great mother, her learned son, with child, The first and least went free, he was exil'd In love to Christ, this country, and dear friends, He left his own, crosse'd seas, and for amends Was here extoll'd, envy'd, all in a breath, His noble consort leaves, is drawn to death. Stranger changes may befall us ere we die, Blest they who well arrive eternity."

SOURCE: Alfred Hoar Family 1626 - 1709 John Lisle 83 83 1648 - BET 1640 AND 1720 Anne Lisle BET 1569 AND 1570 - 1637 William Lisle 1598 - 1666 William Lisle 68 68 1602 - BET 1602 AND 1690 Daniel Lisle 1604 - BET 1604 AND 1690 Edward Lisle 1606 - BET 1606 AND 1690 Richard Lisle 1608 - BET 1608 AND 1690 Elizabeth Lisle 1610 - BET 1610 AND 1690 Mabel Lisle 1612 - BET 1612 AND 1690 Bridget Lisle "Hoar, Mrs. Bridgett, dau. Lord Lisle, m. (1) Dr. Leonard Hoar, Pres. H. C., m. (2) Hezekiah Usher, sailed for England 1687, d. Bost. 25 May 1723, bur. in Hoar tomb, inscription given by Sexton's Monitor, 585, 674; mentioned in Judge Sewall's diary, 673" -- Cambridge (Mass.) History, p. 388

"Lisle, Bridgett (Lord Lisle) m. (1) Pres. Leonard Hoar in England, (2) Hezekiah Usher, of Bost., embarked for England 1687, d. Boston. 25 May 1723, interred in grave of first husband, 585, 673" -- Cambridge (Mass.) History, p. 458

"Mrs. Bridget Hoar wife of Leonard m. 2d Hezekiah Usher 1686. They did not live together long. She went to England in 1687. She had two daughters, one died young. The other, Bridget, married in London June 21, 1689, Thomas Cotton, who was born at or near Worthy, England 1657, d. 1730." -- Alfred Hoar Family
Alt Birth: Abt 1645,, England 1614 - BET 1614 AND 1690 Mary Lisle Crook 1632 Hezekiah Usher Richard Lloyd Mary Lowe 1637 - 1653 Beconsawe Lisle 16 16 Harfield 1622 William Lisle 1536 - 1580 Bridget Shelley 44 44 1587 - 1643 John Hungerford 56 56 1589 - 1613 Constantia Hungerford 24 24 1593 - BET 1593 AND 1680 Elizabeth Hungerford 1580 - BET 1604 AND 1690 Bridget Hungerford 1585 - 1645 Anthony Hungerford 60 60 1591 - BET 1591 AND 1680 Barbara Hungerford 1602 - 1688 Margaret Hungerford 86 86 1566 - 18 MAR 1633/34 John Hungerford 1540 - 1594 Anthony Hungerford 54 54 1506 - 1550 John Shelley 44 44 1505 - 1536 Mary Fitzwilliam 31 31 1565 - 1628 Mary Berkeley 63 63 13 MAR 1672/73 - 1730 Bridget Hoar [horrocks1.FTW]

"Mrs. Bridget Cotton was willed by her stepfather, Mr Usher, the tumbler with the "Arms of Hoare" engraved thereon. He says in his will that the reason that she did not receiv e more was on account of her mother trying to get something from him, and further he did not see but that one head was enough for the eagle." -- Alfred Hoar Family

"Mrs. Bridget Hoar, wife of Leonard, married second, Hezeki ah Usher, 1686. They did not live together long. She went to England in 1687. She had two daughters, one died young. The other, Bridget, married in London, June 21, 1689, Thoma s Cotton, who was born at or near Worthy, England, 1657; di ed 1730. Mrs. Bridget Cotton was willed by her stepfather, Mr. Usher, the tumbler with the "Arms of Hoare" engrave d thereon." -- Colonial Ancestors 19 FEB 1574/75 Alice Tassell 1527 - 1592 John Shelley 65 65 1565 Eleanor Lovell 1585 - 1642 John Shelley 57 57 1588 Henry Shelley 1590 Elizabeth Shelley 1490 - 1509 Maud Mildred Sackville 19 19 1518 - 1597 William Shelley 78 78 1520 Eleanor Shelley 1522 Richard Shelley 1525 Anne Shelley 1531 James Shelley 1533 Elizabeth Shelley 1535 Margaret Shelley ? 1537 Mary Shelley 1543 Shelley 1509 Ellen Fitzwilliam 1691 Mary Godolphin 1648 - 29 JAN 1732/33 Henry Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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4th son, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1707, Provost of Eton fo r 35 years, named in the will of his brother Charles 1719. 1675 - 1734 Hugh Boscawen 59 59 [willperf.FTW]

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Warden of the Stannaries, Comptroller of the Household an d a P.C., created 9 Jun 1720 Baron of Boscawen Rose and Vis count Falmouth.
P.P.C. 21 Jan 1735[willperf.FTW]

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Warden of the Stannaries, Comptroller of the Household and a P.C., created 9 Jun 1720 Baron of Boscawen Rose and Viscount Falmouth.
P.P.C. 21 Jan 1735[willperf.FTW]

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Warden of the Stannaries, Comptroller of the Household an d a P.C., created 9 Jun 1720 Baron of Boscawen Rose and Vis count Falmouth.
P.P.C. 21 Jan 1735 1628 - 1685 Edward Boscawen 56 56 [willperf.FTW]

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Named in his father's will. M.P. temp. Chas. II.
Will 28 Jul 1686, pro. 3 May 1686, P.C.C. (Lloyd 54)[vivian2.ged]

Named in his father's will. M.P. temp. Chas. II.
Will 28 Jul 1686, pro. 3 May 1686, P.C.C. (Lloyd 54)[willperf.FTW]

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Named in his father's will. M.P. temp. Chas. II.
Will 28 Jul 1686, pro. 3 May 1686, P.C.C. (Lloyd 54)[willperf.FTW]

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Named in his father's will. M.P. temp. Chas. II.
Will 28 Jul 1686, pro. 3 May 1686, P.C.C. (Lloyd 54) 1647 - 1730 Jael Godolphin 82 82 [willperf.FTW]

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5th daughter, named in the will of her brother Charles[willperf.FTW]

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5th daughter, named in the will of her brother Charles.[willperf.FTW]

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5th daughter, named in the will of her brother Charles. 1605 - 22 MAR 1666/67 Francis Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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M.P. for St. Ives, K.B. at Coronation of Charles II. 1614 - 1668 Dorothy Berkeley 54 54 1579 - 1666 Henry Berkeley 87 87 1637 - 1697 Penelope Godolphin 60 60 [willperf.FTW]

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3rd daughter 1636 - 1697 Catherine Godolphin 61 61 [willperf.FTW]

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6th daughter 1642 - 1675 Francis Godolphin 33 33 [willperf.FTW]

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2nd son 1653 - FEB 1670/71 Margaret Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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4th daughter 1650 - 1707 Frances Godolphin 57 57 [willperf.FTW]

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2nd daughter 1656 - 1679 Anne Godolphin 23 23 [willperf.FTW]

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7th daughter 1659 - 10 MAR 1675/76 Edward Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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6th son 1651 - 1720 Charles Godolphin 69 69 [willperf.FTW]

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5th son, M.P. for Helston, and a Commissioner of the Custom s, died aged 69 years.
Will 8 Jun 1719, pro. 22 Oct 1720, P.C.C.[willperf.FTW]

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5th son, M.P. for Helston, and a Commissioner of the Customs, died aged 69 years.
Will 8 Jun 1719, pro. 22 Oct 1720, P.C.C. 8 FEB 1634/35 - 1707 Elizabeth Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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1st daughter 1645 - 1712 Sidney Godolphin 67 67 [willperf.FTW]

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M.P. for Helston in the Long Parliament, a Commissioner of the Treasury 1679, created Baron GODOLPHIN of Rialton 8 Sep 1684, was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Anne, K.G. 1704.. .. 1678 Mary 1618 Frances Berkeley 1609 - 1705 Jael Berkeley 96 96 1616 - 1659 Margaret Berkeley 43 43 1678 - 1766 Francis Godolphin 87 87 [willperf.FTW]

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Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Governor of Scilly Isles . Named in the will of his uncle Charles GODOLPHIN 1719. Cr eated Baron GODOLPHIN of Helston 23 Jan 1735, with rem. t o heirs male of his uncle Henry GODOLPHIN. 1655 - 5 FEB 1729/30 Henry Northcote 1633 - 1688 Arthur Northcote 55 55 1633 - 1697 Alice Lisle 64 64 Anne Boscawen [willperf.FTW]

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Named in her father's will Dorothy Boscawen [willperf.FTW]

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Named in her father's will. 1652 - 1678 Margaret Blagge 26 26 [willperf.FTW]

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Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine 1663 - 1726 Elizabeth 63 63 15 MAR 1693/94 William Godolphin 1690 - 1690 Anne Godolphin 3m 3m D. 1785 Francis Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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M.P. for Helston, succeeded his cousin as 2nd Lord GODOLPHI N of Helston 17 Jan 1766. Arthur Northcot D. 1710 William Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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Eldest son, created a Baronet 29 Apr 1661. Margaret Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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1st daughter, named in the will of hre aunt Elizabeth 1724. Eleanor Godolphin [willperf.FTW]

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2nd daughter, named in the will of her aunt Elizabeth 1724. 1504 - 1576 Anthony Cooke 72 72 1510 - 1588 Anne FitzWilliam 78 78 1524 Mildred Cooke 1482 Anne Hawes Anne Cooke 1411 John FitzWilliam [norvan.FTW]


"Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom" by G.E. Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 and "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1425 Ellen Villiers [norvan.FTW]

"Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom" by G.E. Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 and "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1528 - 1609 Elizabeth Cooke 81 81 1530 - MAR 1602/03 Henry Killigrew 1530 - 1609 Katherine Cooke 79 79 1564 - 1615 Henry Neville 51 51 1568 - 1628 Anne Killigrew 60 60 1593 Dorothy Neville 1586 - 1629 Henry Neville 43 43 1590 - 1642 Mary Neville 52 52 1592 - 1659 Frances Neville 67 67 1596 - 1640 William Neville 44 44 1602 - 1632 Edward Neville 30 30 1604 Robert Neville 1607 Charles Neville 1608 Richard Neville 1610 - 1611 Anne Neville 1 1 1588 - 4 JAN 1656/57 Elizabeth Neville 1571 - 1643 Dorothy Killigrew 72 72 1585 - 1650 Catherine Neville 65 65 1463 - 1534 William FitzWilliam 71 71 [norvan.FTW]

Servant of Cardinal Wolsey, Alderman

"Ancestors/Descendants of Royal Lines" (Contributors: F. L. Jacquier (History of Charlemagne by Christian Settipani); L. Orlandini,  Manuel Abranches de Soveral, Reynaud de Paysac, F.L.  J P de Palmas (Aurejac et Tournemire; Frankish line; The Complete Peerage}, Jacquier (Genealogy of Lewis Carroll, Justin Swanstrom, The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage; Debrett's Peerage & Baronage; Table of descendants French Canadian Genealogical Society; Families of Monfort-sur-Risle & Bertrand de Bricquebec; The Dukes of Normandy, XXXXI), A. Brabant ("Dynastie Montmorency, Michel d'Herbigny), Paul Leportier, Claude Barret, H.R. Moser (Burke Peerage), O.Guionneau, L.B. de Rouge, E. Polti, N. Danican (Britain's Royal Families; Buthlaw, Succession of Strathclyde, the Armorial 1961-62) A.Terlinden (Genealogy of the existing British Peerage, 1842), L. Gustavsson, C. Cheneaux, E. Lodge, S. Bontron (Brian Tompsett), R. Dewkinandan, H. de la Villarmois, C. Donadello; Scevole de Livonniere, H. de la Villarmois, I. Flatmoen, P. Ract Madoux (History of Morhange; Leon Maujean; Annuaire de Lorraine, 1926; La Galissonniere: Elections d'Arques et Rouen), Jean de Villoutreys (ref: Georges Poull), E. Wilkerson-Theaux (Laura Little), O. Auffray, A. Brabant (Genealogy of Chauvigny of Blot from "Chanoine Prevost Archiviste du Diocese de Troyes Union Typographique Domois Cote-d'Or 1925), Emmanuel Arminjon (E Levi-Provencal Histoire de l'Espagne Andalouse),  Y. Gazagnes-Gazanhe, R. Sekulovich and J.P. de Palmas ("notes pierfit et iconographie Insecula", Tournemire), H de Riberolles (Base Tournemire), Franck Veillon; ,(Histoire Généalogique de la Maison de Hornes, Bruxelles 1848; Notice Historique Sur L'Ancien Comté de Hornes, Gand 1850; Europäische Stammtafeln, Marburg 1978); E.Driant / "La Maison de Damas" par Hubert Lamant, 1977 (Bibliothèque municipale d'Eaubonne) ......

"Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom" by G.E. Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 and "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis,


Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir Knight William married twice: 1) Ann Hawes b. ABT 1475in London,London, England 2) Maud Mildred Sackville b. ABT 1490 in Buckhurst,Sussex,England m. ABT1514 in Of, Buckhurst,Sussex,England 1400 - 1481 William Villiers 81 81 1408 - 1475 Joan Bellers 67 67 1385 Elizabeth Sutton 1414 - 1489 Mariana Bellers 75 75 1375 Elizabeth Sutton Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.