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windows occur on each side, and a larger and very handsome one at the end, having a rose of
Decorated character in the head. Outside, the walls are supported by panelled buttresses, surmounted by a cornice of finialed panels with shields, the gable being richly crocketted and pinnacled. Within is a finely-carved open-timbered roof. At the intersection of the cross rises one of those fine towers for which Somersetshire is celebrated. In the centre of the transept is a large high tomb, coeval with the foundation of the structure itself. On the sides under the table is a bold string-course of vine tracery, and below a series of canopied niches, now all void of their former occupants. The whole has been repeatedly whitewashed. The cover is a large
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The beautiful north transept of
Ilminster church may be assigned, we think, with little doubt, to have been erected by the Wadhams, and in it is their earliest memorial. The structure itself is a fine specimen of Perpendicular, and dates about the middle of the fifteenth century. Two large transomed
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of polished
Purbeck marble, and inlet are the figures of a knight and lady under a beautiful canopy. Above the canopy are the indents of shields, and a ledger line surrounds the whole. The effigies are perfect. The knight in early plate armour, with a lion at his feet ; the lady in long gown,
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The month and year were never engraved on the brass, and the badge of the family, a rose, occurs between the words. From the fragment of the inscription remaining it appears probable that the tomb was erected by (a later) Sir John Wadham to his father, William Wadham, and grandmother, Joan
253:"is this encomium; that being free of speech, he mingled it well with discretion, so that he never touched any man how mean so ever out of order, either for sport or spight; but with alacrity of spirit and soundness of understanding menaged all his proceedings." Sir John Wadham was
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mantle, and cover-chief, and a dog with collar and bells at her feet. Below them are eight lines of rhyming Latin. A large portion of the canopy is missing, all the shields, and a considerable length of the ledger line, of which the surviving inscription is as follows:
140:, both in Staffordshire. It is among the best surviving brasses from the fifteenth century, and depicts him in complete plate armour exported to England by Milanese armorers; the finest of the period. His mother is wearing 'widow's weeds'.
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William's father, 'the judge', had acquired land in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire, which was valued at £82 per annum in an incomplete survey of 1412, and at about £115 in his
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These large landholdings in
Somerset appear to have moved his principal interest away from Devon and the manor of Edge, and towards the end of his life he made his principal residence at
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Katherine Payne, a daughter of Thomas Payne of
Payneshay, on the death of Sir William in 1452 married, as her fourth husband, William Carent (died 1476) of Toomer many times
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Wrothesley, the wife of the Judge, whom the figures may be supposed to represent; the transept being erected about that time, and adopted as their
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Wadham
College, Oxford, its Foundation, Architecture and History, with an Account of the Family of Wadham and their Seats in Somerset and Devon
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as "... a glass-house. Only the panelled buttresses seem to remain of solid wall. The windows are transomed. Decorated parapet and pinnacles".
971:(died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 178, 189, 208
163:, where his arms impaling his wife's may be seen carved on the pews at the Church of St Mary the Virgin. They had eight children.
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in 1348. Married in 1385, Joan was the second wife of John Wadham, who had married first a certain Maud, by whom he had a son.
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His landholdings in
Somerset were even more extensive than those in Devon and mostly consisted of properties forfeited by Sir
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913:"WADHAM, Sir John (D.1412), of Edge in Branscombe, Devon and Merrifield in Ilton, Som. | History of Parliament Online"
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William Wadham first married and had children with Margaret Chiseldon, a daughter and co-heiress of John Chiseldon of
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Sir John Wadham, born in 1405, the eldest son and heir, who married
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Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1517
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who, by descent from the Champernowne, Hill and Gilbert families, was a cousin of the Devonshire adventurers Sir
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Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon
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of William Wadham (died 1452), Wadham Chapel (north transept), St Mary's Church, Ilminster, looking eastward
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Sir William lies buried with his mother in the transept traditionally known as 'the Wadham aisle' in the
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William Wadham married Margaret Chiseldon, a daughter and co-heiress of John Chiseldon of the manor of
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to William Wadham (died 1452) and his mother Joan Wrothesley, St Mary's Church, Ilminster
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who, outliving him, and in her advanced old age, saw the project through to completion.
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family with a leaning towards the law, who originally took their name from the manor of
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956:"STOURTON, John II (1400-62), of Stourton, Wilts. | History of Parliament Online"
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in 1481. The Penselwood estate stayed in the Wadham family until the death in 1609 of
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to depict him with his mother Joan Wrottesley, daughter of Sir William Wrottesley of
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in 1888, wrote as follows regarding the monument to William Wadham (died 1452):
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Another sister, Elisabeth, sometimes called 'Isabella' Wadham, married Sir
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See, John Wadham, Knight (died 1412); History of Parliament; Roger Virgoe.
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The Mynster of the Isle; James Street M.A., 1904, pp. 54 and 62. Also,
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Church, Dorset. William Wadham of Catherston inherited the manor of
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of the Penselwood estate, and married Sir John Bluett of the nearby
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Sir William was the eldest surviving son and heir of the judge, Sir
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Joan Wadham, first of three wives of Thomas Malet (died 1502) of
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in 1415. Another branch of the Popham family was later seated at
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in 1406. Margaret Wadham's sister, Maude Chiseldon inherited the
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of Shilston (died c.1426) who, like his father-in-law, became a
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for both Somerset and Dorset, who outlived her by three years
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Margaret Wadham, wife of Gilbert Yarde son of Richard Yarde,
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from 1389 to 1407, later related to the Wadhams by marriage.
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One of the younger sons of this marriage was Robert Hill of
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William Wadham's mother Joan Wrothesley was a sister of Sir
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survives today in the middle of agricultural land south of
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Sir William and Lady Wadham had eight children including:
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William Wadham's sister, Margery Wadham, was the wife of
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Ann Wadham, wife of William Montacute, of Henley Manor,
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Anno D'ni mill'mo CCCC ... et qui quidem Will'mus ...
186:, Somerset. There were no children by this marriage.
902:, 1st pub. 1701; WADHAM, Sir John, Knight p.743 ff.
568:Lawrence Wadham married Jane Hody, daughter of Sir
106:as seemingly "innated with a genius to study law."
98:; one of many Devonians of the period described by
649:Elizabeth Wadham, wife of Sir Robert Stawell, of
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694:, Devon. Their second son, Sir Baldwin Malet of
299:. His Devon landholdings included the manors of
309:John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Somerset
557:from 1592 to 1607, and financier in 1607 with
315:, purchased in 1403, and land he acquired at
22:William Wadham (died 1452), detail from his
638:James Wadham, sole patron of the living of
36:Gules, a chevron between three roses argent
533:, who commanded on the right wing at the
840:The Sheriffs of Devon since the Conquest
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26:in St Mary's Church, Ilminster, Somerset
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838:20 Henry VI; Given by Pole in his list
94:from 1389 to 1398, during the reign of
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944:Merryfield House, The Gatehouse record
450:. Sir Nicholas was grandfather to the
197:English Gothic style from the local
1109:The Founder and Foundress of Wadham
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1107:, Exeter, 1888, pp. 147–173,
989:Rogers, 1888, p. 156; Pole, p. 141
580:from 1485 to 1513, the son of Sir
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586:Chief Justice of the King's Bench
394:John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton
356:Chief Justice of the King's Bench
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760:William Henry Hamilton Rogers
555:Lord Chief Justice of England
130:William Henry Hamilton Rogers
578:Chief Baron of the Exchequer
510:, Sheriff of Devon in 1445.
454:who posthumously co-founded
328:Chief Baron of the Exchequer
191:Church of St Mary, Ilminster
126:Church of St Mary, Ilminster
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452:Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609)
436:Nicholas Wadham (1472–1542)
409:Justice of the Common Pleas
364:Justice of the King's Bench
247:Justice of the Common Pleas
92:Justice of the Common Pleas
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172:John Stourton (died 1438)
423:(1396–1434), and became
1078:Rogers, 1888, pp. 160–1
615:(1554), and Captain of
496:Manor of Holcombe Rogus
434:, father-in-law to Sir
330:. These lands included
297:inquisition post mortem
207:South and West Somerset
193:, built in spectacular
1156:High sheriffs of Devon
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625:Whitchurch Canonicorum
456:Wadham College, Oxford
303:and half the manor of
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999:History of Parliament
896:The Worthies of Devon
878:Thomas Graham Jackson
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711:Monument at Ilminster
466:Marriage and children
379:fortified manor house
332:Hardington Mandeville
324:John Cary (died 1395)
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1021:Rogers, 1888, p. 156
980:Rogers, 1888, p. 156
290:Knight of the Garter
271:Sir Philip Courtenay
136:and Joan Bassett of
60:, Devon came from a
823:Worthies of England
593:Catherston Leweston
591:William Wadham, of
535:Battle of Agincourt
267:Knight of the Shire
174:, of the manors of
109:William Wadham was
104:Worthies of England
1117:Political offices
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588:from 1440 to 1442.
398:Queen Jane Seymour
342:, and premises in
235:Queen Jane Seymour
42:Sir William Wadham
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1137:Succeeded by
969:Pole, Sir William
700:Solicitor General
651:Cothelstone Manor
559:Ferdinando Gorges
523:Popham, Hampshire
474:in Devon, and of
448:Richard Grenville
371:Merryfield, Ilton
352:Annery, Monkleigh
350:(c.1350–1423) of
261:in 1379, and for
243:Dukes of Somerset
180:Brympton d'Evercy
176:Preston Plucknett
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425:Sheriff of Devon
348:William Hankford
311:), the manor of
241:and the Seymour
209:, described the
203:Nikolaus Pevsner
118:monumental brass
111:Sheriff of Devon
86:His father, Sir
34:Arms of Wadham:
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319:and elsewhere.
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484:South Tawton
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900:John Prince
836:regnal date
779:East side:
749:Brasses on
679:, Somerset;
653:, Somerset;
611:(1553) and
565:in America.
543:John Popham
405:Robert Hill
389:aerodrome.
251:John Prince
223:John Wadham
128:is said by
88:John Wadham
1150:Categories
1134:1441–1442
1001:biography
799:References
720:Chest tomb
704:Henry VIII
692:St Audries
640:Penselwood
605:Lyme Regis
490:, who was
476:Penselwood
446:, and Sir
432:Houndstone
354:in Devon,
317:Branscombe
227:Merryfield
170:'s uncle,
149:Penselwood
122:chest tomb
75:, between
58:Branscombe
46:Merryfield
677:Crewkerne
607:, MP for
582:John Hody
576:in 1485,
539:Huntworth
531:Hampshire
427:in 1428.
375:Ilminster
360:John Hill
313:Lustleigh
305:Harberton
301:Silverton
275:Powderham
113:in 1442.
73:Knowstone
702:to King
635:in 1520.
613:Weymouth
601:Recorder
413:Henry IV
199:Hamstone
90:, was a
1095:Sources
1067:Burke's
792:chantry
686:and of
421:Modbury
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69:Wadham
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672:(NT);
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1103:,
898:,
880:,
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