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Francis Fitton

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In his will, written in March 1608 when he was living at Gawsworth, he left a sapphire, a "clowdy lowpe saffer", which he used as medicine for the eyes to his sister Margaret (died 1612), wife of John Englefield (1562-1631), with the hangings and tapestries and furnishings including the
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in his two chambers and dining chamber at Holleshotte. Fitton mentions a number of musical instruments, loaned and exchanged among family members, including sets of
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Fitton died on 17 June 1608. He is commemorated with a two-stage monument depicting him in armour and as a decayed cadaver below at
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travelled to London, and aristocrats and gentry were keen to meet them on the way. Fitton wrote to his great-niece
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became the queen's Vice-Chamberlain. Anne Newdigate's name was put forward as a nurse for the queen's daughter
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in 1605. She sent Francis Fitton lace that she had made and he called her "his owne sweete Nan".
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine: Lancashire and Cheshire Wills
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine: Lancashire and Cheshire Wills
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Gossip from a Muniment Room: being passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton, 1574–1618
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Gossip from a Muniment Room: being passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton, 1574–1618
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Gossip from a Muniment Room: being passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton, 1574–1618
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in Yorkshire (another Latimer property) to the Earls's solicitor John Carvile.
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with news of a delay to the queen's journey, caused by her miscarriage at
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess, Countess of Bedford
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REED Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester
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In 1588 he married Katherine Nevill (died 1596), a daughter of
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in Worcestershire (a Latimer property which had belonged to
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Household Papers of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
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Index


Gawsworth Old Hall
Edward Fitton
Gawsworth
Horton
Beamish
Wadborough
Katherine Parr
Binfield
Heckfield
John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Nun Monkton
Union of Crowns
James VI and I
Anne of Denmark
Anne Newdigate (1574–1618)
Stirling Castle
George Carew
Princess Mary
St James' Church, Gawsworth
virginals
viols da gamba
recorders
gittern
Edward Fitton, the younger
gimmal
The Fitton Memorials at Gawsworth
A history of the house of Percy (London, 1902), pp. 43-5

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