Sir White
Beckonshaw (Becomsawe)-Esther
Pitt Whippey Scott
Ancestors
Sir White Beckonshaw 11TH GREAT GRANDFATHER
TO ME. Some of the
Information on this branch of the Family came from www.lfthompson.com. Other
info came from various places on the web.
He
married Edith Bond.
Edith: The Bonds came from the Isle of Purbeck,
Dorset.
Children:
2. i Lady Alice Beckonshaw.
Second
Generation
2.
Lady Alice Beckonshaw, (1.Sir1) 10thGreat grandmother to me.
Moyles Court Family Home
of Alice Beckonshaw Lisle
Moyles Court, the ancestral home of Lady Alice, today houses a school. Her trial and it's subsequent reversal have been
a well documented part of English history Moyles
Court was the home of Lady Alice Lisle before she married Lord Lisle, and the
home to which she returned after the assassination of her husband in
Switzerland in 1664. She lived there
until her arrest, on a charge of harbouring fugitives
from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685. Formerly much larger than the present
building, probably surrounded by a moat, traces of which still exist on two
sides, whilst a brook ran near to the house and gave an ample supply of water
in case of siege.
Moyles Court is mentioned
in the doomsday book of 1086 as held Cola the Huntsman but it's not until 1614
that Alicia Lisle nee Beconsawe was born and our
little history begins.
In 1630,
Alicia married John Lisle of Wooton, Isle of Wight
and joined two eminent families. Her fathers, Sir William White Beconsawe and John Lisle's an army Colonel, Judiciary and
assessor to Bradshaw at the trial of Charles I. He was also a staunch
Parliamentarian during the English Civil War (1642-1646) and was later made a
Viscount by Oliver Cromwell. He was also involved in the trial and subsequent
execution of Charles I.
The death
of Oliver Cromwell (1658) and the restoration of the monarchy (1660), saw problems for John and he fled to Switzerland to avoid
the wrath of the Cavalier Parliament. He was eventually murdered in Lausanne in
1664 for his involvement in the kings death.
After the
death of Charles II (1685) James II succeeded to the Crown but as most
successions were, this was disputed by James, Duke of Monmouth Preparations were made and eventually
Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis,Dorset
in June 1685. His ill-equipped and trained army met the Royal Army at
Sedgemoor, Somerset where it was routed. Monmouth fled the field and was
captured at Ringwood, subsequently being beheaded in London. Monmouth's
followers were rounded up and the notorious Judge Jefferies toured the West
Country condeming 1300 souls to death or deportation.
John Hickes, to escape this revenge, sought shelter from Alicia
after fleeing the battle of Sedgemoor. Although Alicia knew Hickes
was wanted she thought this was for religious dissent not treason! Hickes was discovered hiding in the malthouse
by Colonel Penruddock and after trial, hung drawn and
quartered.
At
Winchester, Alicia was charged with the treason of harbouring
the Kings enemies. Three times the jury found her innocent and three times
Judge Jeffries refused to accept the verdict. After much coercion, and probably
in fear for their own lives, the jury found her guilty and she was sentenced to
be burnt at the stake. After the intercession of the Clergy of Winchester,
James II commuted the sentence to beheading and Alicia was put to the sword on
2nd September 1685 in Ringwood Market Square.
There has also been some interest in the
"haunting" by Lady Alice of Moyles Court.
"The sound of her
silken dress, and the tapping of her feet, were heard long afterwards in
the corridors of Moyles Court, and she was also seen
on several occasions riding down Ellingham Lane in a driverless coach.
Although Lady Lisle has not been observed
in recent years at Moyles Court, the sound of the
coach and horses has been heard in recent times, riding up the drive to the
house. Lady Lisle also haunts the Eclipse Inn, at Winchester, where she spent
the last few days of her life whilst awaiting execution."
-Linda-
St Mary's Church, Ellingham, where Lady Alice Lisle
buried.
Ellingham
Known as
"Adelingham" in the eleventh century,
Ellingham is just to the North of Ringwood. The tomb of Dame Alice Lisle
can be found in the Thirteenth Century church. It is thought that there
was an earlier, probably Saxon, church on the site. Dame Alice Lisle
lived in the Elizabethan house of Moyles Court, also
in the Parish, and was one of the victims of the infamous Judge Jeffreys. Charged with harbouring
fugitives from the battle of Sedgemoor, and convicted on very flimsy evidence,
she was executed in 1685.
Moyles Court is now used as a school, and the Eighteenth Century building which has
become "The Alice Lisle Inn" was formerly the village school for
Rockford.
The
villages of Harbridge and Harbridge
Green are situated West of the river, and to the South
lies Somerly Park, home of the Earls of Normanton. The mansion was built in 1792-5, to the
designs of Samuel Wyatt, and was extensively remodelled
in 1868, the picture gallery contains several
paintings by Joshua Reynolds. The village of Ibsley
lies to the East of the Avon on the main road between Ringwood and Fordingbridge, and has some picturesque thatched cottages.
The church dates from 1832 and contains an interesting memorial to Sir John
Constable with his wife and five children.
A brief history of Moyles Court
by Paul Hughes
Alice of Moyles Court fame was born about
1614. Since records of births at Ellingham Parish are only extant from the end
of the 17th century it is difficult to be exact.
Her marriage to John Lisle in 1630
brought two eminent families of the gentry together.
John Lisle (1610-1664) was the son of William Lisle of Wooton. John was a Colonel in the Army,a prominent parliamentarian,Judiciary
and an Assessor to Bradshaw at the trial of Charles I He was MP
for Winchester
in 1640 and a member of the bar - the middle temple. He was a rigid puritan and
a
fervent politician. He was an active supporter of Parliament during the English
Civil War (1642-1646) and was later made a Viscount by Oliver Cromwell. He
appears to have been a prominent member of the Commonwealth serving on
Cromwell's Privy Council. He was a member of the Long Parliament and had some
responsibility for the execution of Charles I although his name does not appear
on the list of signatures on Charles' death warrant.
The English Civil War was devastating for the people of England. There
was a division of support throughout the country. Those who supported the King,
Charles Stuart, were known as Royalists or Cavaliers and those who pposed the King were known as Parliamentarians or
Roundheads. This conflict between Crown and Parliament permeated throughout the
land, divided regions, North from South, West from
East, father from son, mother relatives, neighbours
and friends on good terms before the war were now
enemies. The argument usually revolved around loyalty to one's King or to one's
God. Politics and Religion became entwined and were for many historians the
real cause of the outbreak of the war. I do not wish to discuss this theme any
further since there is a wealth of information from this period of history. My
intention for mentioning the conflict is simply this; the Lisle household also
became a divided one. The father was for Parliament whilst the son was for the
King. This put Alicia in the middle
of a very
awkward situation. She was not interested in or involved in politics. She was a
religious woman but not a fanatical Puritan, disliking many rituals at her own
church in Ellingham. As for Alicia, her sentiments about the execution of
Charles I are made clear by her comment that she 'shed more tears for Charles I than any woman then
living did'. Lady Lisle did not share the extreme views of her husband, and was
much grieved at the King's death. It
would appear that Lady Lisle did not grieve too deeply over her husband's
death. According to Burnett, quoted in the Salisbury Journal, 'She was not
easily reconciled to her husband on account of his association with the
regicides.' After her husband's death she lived quietly as a widow at Moyles Court and showed some sympathy with the dissenting
ministers in their trials and ordeals during Charles II's reign.
The Presbyterians were disappointed with the Restoration. The Cavalier
Parliament preserved the Church of England for which Charles I had died.Moreover, the Clarendon Code persecuted nonconformist
ministers, forbidding them from all public office. The Act of Uniformity 1662
authorized a new edition of the prayer book and many Puritan teachers were
dismissed from office for refusing to use it. The Conventicle
Act was introduced making it a crime to worship anywhere but in a Church of
England church. Furthermore, the Five Mile Act stopped nonconformist clergy
living within a five mile radius of a town or old parish. The reign of Charles
II, far from being merry, was an unhappy time for many sincere Christians like
Alicia Lisle. Charles II was married to Catherine Braganza of Portugal. She did
not bear him any children and as a result, James his Catholic brother was due
to succeed him. There was support for Charles's illegitimate son, James, Duke
of Monmouth, to become King instead of James. The Duke's mother, Lucy Walter,
had been one of Charles's mistresses. After the death of Charles in 1685 and
the succession of James to the throne, the Duke of Monmouth, who was in
Holland, plotted to overthrow James II. Alicia Lisle spent the first week of
July in London during the Monmouth rebellion, but some days later returned to Moyles Court. 'On 20th July 1685 she received a letter from
John Hickes, the dissenting minister,asking her to shelter him.' Hickes
had fled the battle of Sedgemoor seeking refuge from the King's Army. Unbeknown
to Alicia, he was a
Monmouth man!The two fugitives were
found after a search of Moyles Court by Penruddock's soldiers. Hickes was
found in the malthouse and Nelthorp
in a hole by the chimney in one of the rooms which presumably is the cupboard
hole situated in the present staff room at Moyles
Court School. Lady
Alicia was arrested and conveyed to Winchester for trial before Judge
Jeffries. Hickes and Nelthorp
were taken to Glastonbury and after trial
were hung, drawn and quartered.On 27 August
1685 she was tried by special commission before Judge Jeffreys
at Winchester, on the capital charge of harbouring Hickes, a
traitor. No evidence respecting Hickes's offences was
admitted, and in spite of the brutal browbeating by the judge of chief witness,
Dunne, no proof was adduced wither
that Mrs. Lisle had any ground to suspect Hickes
of disloyalty or that she had displayed any sympathy with Monmouth's
insurrection. She made a moderate speech in her own defence.
The jury declared themselves reluctant to convict her, but Jeffreys
overruled their scruples, and she was ultimately found guilty, and on the
morning of the
next day (28
Aug) was sentenced to be burnt alive the same afternoon. Pressure was, however,
applied to the judge, and a respite till 2 Sept. was ordered. Lady Lisle
petitioned James II (31 Aug) to grant her a further reprieve of four days, and
to order the substitution of beheading for burning. The first request was
refused; the latter was granted. Mrs. Lisle was accordingly beheaded in the
market-place of Winchester on 2 Sept., and her body was given up to her friends
for burial at Ellingham.
On the scaffold she gave a paper to the sheriffs denying her guilt, and
it was printed, with the "Last Words of Colonel Rumbold,"
1685, and in "The
Dying Speeches...of several Persons.
The Last Speech of Madam LISLE,
beheaded at Winchester, September 1685
Gentlemen, Friends and Neighbours,
It may be expected that I
should say something at my Death, my Birth and
Education being near this Place ; my Parents instructed me in the Fear of God ;
and I now die of the reformed
Religion ; always being instructed in that Belief
that if Popery should return
into this Nation, it would be a great Judgement. I
die in Expectation of Pardon
of my Sins, and Acceptation with the Father, by the
imputed Righteousness of Jesus
Christ : He being the End of the Law for
Righteousness to every one that believeth. I thank God, thro' Christ
Jesus, I
depart under the Blood of
Sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of
Abel ; God having made this
Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did as
little expect to come to this
Place on this occasion, as any person in this
Nation ; therefore let all learn
not to be high-minded, but fear. The Lord is a
Sovereign, and will take
what Way he seeth best to glorify himself by his poor
Creatures ; I there for humbly desire
to submit to his Will, praying of him,
that in Patience I may possess
my Soul.
The crime was, my
entertaining a Non-conformist Minister, who is since sworn to
have been in the Duke of
Monmouth's army. I am told, if I had not denied them,
it would not have affected me
: I have no Excuse but Surprise and Fear ; which I
believe my Jury must make use of
to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have
been told, That the Court ought
to be Council for the Prisoner : Instead of
Advice, there was Evidence
given from thence, which (tho' it was but Hearsay)
might possibly affect my Jury.
My Defence was such as might be expected from a
weak Woman ; but such as it
was, I never heard it repeated again to the Jury.
But I forgive all persons
that have wrong'd me ; and I
desire that God will do
so likewise. I forgive
Colonel Penruddock, altho'
he told me, He could have
taken those Men, before they
came to my House.
As to what I expected for
my Conviction, that I gave it under my Hand that I
discours'd with Nelthrop
; that could be no Evidence to the Court or Jury, it
being after my Conviction and
Sentence.
I acknowledge his Majesty's
Favour in revoking my Sentence ;
and I pray God he
may long reign in Peace, and
that the true Religion may flourish under him.
Two things I have omitted
to say, which is, That I forgive him that desir'd to
be taken from the Grand Jury,
and put upon the Petty Jury, that he might be the
more nearly concern'd
in my Death ; and return humble Thanks to God, and the
reverend Clergy, that assisted me
in my Imprisonment.
Sept 85.
ALICIA LISLE
Alice Lisle’s Article in the British
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press © 1997
Lisle, Alice 1614?-1685
Name: Lisle, Alice
Dates: 1614?-1685
Active Date: 1654
Gender: Female
Field of Interest: Miscellaneous
Occupation: Victim of a judicial murder
Place of
Death: The
market-place of Winchester
Burial:
Ellingham
Spouse: John Lisle
Sources: Howell's State Trials, xi. 298-382;
Luttrell's Brief Relation, i...
Contributor: S. L. [SIDNEY LEE]
Article
Lisle,
Alice 1614?-1685, victim of a judicial murder, born about 1614, was
daughter and heiress of Sir White Beckenshaw of Moyles Court,
Ellingham, near
Ringwood, Hampshire. The registers at Ellingham are
not extant at the period of
her birth, about 1614. In 1630 she
became the second wife of John Lisle [q.v.].
William Lilly, the astrologer, states in his autobiography
(p. 63) that Mrs.
Lisle visited him in 1643 to consult him about the
illness of her friend Sir
Bulstrode Whitelocke.
A note states that at the date of Charles I's execution
she was reported to have exclaimed
that ‘her heart leaped within her to see the
tyrant fall;' but she herself asserted
many years later that she ‘shed more
tears' for Charles I ‘than any woman
then living did’ (State Trials, xi. 360),
and she claimed to have been at the
time on intimate terms with the Countess of
Monmouth, the Countess of Marlborough, and Edward
Hyde, afterwards lord
chancellor. She probably shared her
husband's fortunes till his death at
Lausanne in 1664. Subsequently she lived quietly
at Moyles Court, which she
inherited from her father, and she showed
while there some sympathy with the
dissenting ministers in their trials during
Charles II's reign. Her husband had
been a member of Cromwell's House of
Lords, and she was therefore often spoken
of as Lady or Lady Alice Lisle. At
the time of Monmouth's rebellion in the first
week of July 1685 she was in London,
but a few days later returned to Moyles
Court. On 20 July she received a message from John Hickes [q.v.], the dissenting
minister, asking her to shelter him. Hickes had taken part in Monmouth's behalf
at the battle of Sedgemoor (6 July)
and was flying from justice. But, according
to her own account, Mrs. Lisle
merely knew him as a prominent dissenting
minister, and imagined that a warrant was
out against him for illegal preaching
or for some offence committed in
his ministerial capacity. She readily consented
to receive him, and he arrived at
ten o'clock at night, a few days later,
accompanied by the messenger Dunne, and by
one Richard Nelthorp [q.v.], another
of Monmouth's supporters, of whom
Mrs. Lisle knew nothing. Their arrival was at
once disclosed by a spying villager
to Colonel Penruddock, who arrived next day
(26 July) with a troop of
soldiers, and arrested Mrs. Lisle and her guests. Mrs.
Lisle gave very confused answers to the colonel,
whose father, John Penruddock
[q.v.], a well-known royalist, had been sentenced to
death by her husband. On 27
Aug. 1685 she was tried by special commission before
Judge Jeffreys at
Winchester, on the capital charge
of harbouring Hickes, a traitor. No evidence
respecting Hickes's
offences was admitted, and in spite of the brutal
browbeating by the judge of the chief
witness, Dunne, no proof was adduced
either that Mrs. Lisle had any ground
to suspect Hickes of disloyalty or that
she had displayed any sympathy with
Monmouth's insurrection. She made a moderate
speech in her own defence. The jury
declared themselves reluctant to convict
her, but Jeffreys
overruled their scruples, and she was ultimately found guilty,
and on the morning of the next day
(28 Aug.) was sentenced to be burnt alive the
same afternoon. Pressure was,
however, applied to the judge, and a respite till
2 Sept. was ordered. Lady Lisle petitioned James II
(31 Aug.) to grant her a
further reprieve of four days, and to
order the substitution of beheading for
burning. The first request was refused;
the latter was granted. Mrs. Lisle was
accordingly beheaded in the market-place of
Winchester on 2 Sept., and her body
was given up to her friends for burial
at Ellingham. On the scaffold she gave a
paper to the sheriffs denying her
guilt, and it was printed, with the ‘Last
Words of Colonel Rumbold,'
1685, and in ‘The Dying Speeches ... of several
Persons,' 1689. The first pamphlet was also
published in Dutch. The attainder
was reversed by a private act of
parliament in 1689 at the request of Mrs.
Lisle's two married daughters, Triphena
Lloyd and Bridget Usher, on the ground
that ‘the verdict was injuriously
extorted and procured by the menaces and
violences and other illegal practices’ of Jeffreys. The daughter Triphena
Lloyd
married, at a later date, a second
husband named Grove, and her daughter became
the wife of Lord James Russell,
fifth son of William Russell, first duke of
Bedford. Bridget Lisle also married twice; her first
husband being Leonard Hoar
[q.v.], president of Harvard University, and her
second Hezekiah Usher of
Boston, Massachusetts; a daughter, Bridget Hoar,
married the Rev. Thomas Cotton
(Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii.
99, 3rd ser. iv. 159).
Sources
Howell's State Trials, xi. 298-382; Luttrell's Brief
Relation, i. 357;
Macaulay's Hist. vi. 302-4; C. Bruce's Book of Noble English-women (1875), pp.
122-46.
Contributor: S. L.
PUBLISHED 1892
She
married ab 1630. Sir John Lord Lisle, (son of Sir William Lisle of Wooton, Isle of Wight and unknown). Sir :b.
1610 d. Aug 11, 1664.
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."
John Lisle's Article in the British
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press © 1997
Lisle, John 1610?-1664
Name: Lisle, John
Dates: 1610?-1664
Active Date: 1650
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Anti-establishment
Occupation: Regicide
Place of
Education: Magdalen Hall, Oxford, Middle
Temple
Death: Lausanne
Burial: Lausanne, Church of the city
Spouse: A daughter of Sir Henry Hobart,
Alice
Sources: Wood's Athenæ
Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 665; Wood's Fasti Oxon...
Article
Lisle, John 1610?-1664, regicide, born
about 1610, was second son of Sir William
Lisle of Wootton,
Isle of Wight, by Bridget, daughter of Sir John Hungerford of
Down Ampney, Gloucestershire (BERRY, County Genealogies,
‘Hampshire,' p. 174).
On 25 Jan. 1625-6 he matriculated as a
member of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and
graduated B.A. in February
1625-6. He was called to the bar from the Middle
Temple in 1633 and became a bencher of his
inn in 1649 (FOSTER, Alumni Oxon.
1500-1714, p. 917). He was chosen M.P. for
Winchester in March 1639-40, and
again in October 1640.
He advocated violent measures on the king's removal to
the north, and
obtained some of the plunder arising from the sale of the crown
property. To the fund
opened on 9 April 1642 for the ‘speedy reducing of the
rebels’ in Ireland,
Lisle contributed 600l. (RUSHWORTH, Hist. Coll. pt. iii.
vol. i. p. 565).
On the eviction of Dr. William Lewis (1592-1667) [q.v.] in
November 1644 he was made master of St.
Cross Hospital, near Winchester, and
retained the office until
June 1649. In 1644-5 he sat on the committee to
investigate the charges
preferred by Cromwell against the Earl of Manchester
(Commons' Journals, iv. 25). He displayed
his inveterate hostility to Charles in
a speech delivered
on 3 July 1645, before the lord mayor and citizens of London,
with reference to the
discovery of the king's letters at Naseby. It was printed.
In December 1647, when the king was
confined in the Isle of Wight, Lisle was
selected as one of the
commissioners to carry to him the four bills which were
to divest him of all
sovereignty. He spoke in the House of Commons on 28 Sept.
1648 in favour
of rescinding the recent vote, that no one proposition
in regard
to the personal
treaty with the king should be binding if the treaty broke off
upon another; and
again, some days later, urged a discontinuance of the
negotiation with Charles. He
took a prominent part in the king's trial. He was
one of the managers,
was present every day, and drew up the form of the
sentence. He was appointed
on 8 Feb. 1648-9 one of the commissioners of the
great seal, and was
placed on the council of state.
Lisle became one of Cromwell's creatures.
He not only concurred in December 1653
in nominating
Cromwell protector, but administered the oath to him; and having
been reappointed lord
commissioner, was elected member in the new parliament, on
12 July 1654, both for Southampton, of
which town he was recorder, and for the
Isle of Wight. He selected to
sit for Southampton. In June previously he had
been constituted
president of the high court of justice, and in August he was
appointed one of the
commissioners of the exchequer. established house of
peers.
Richard Cromwell preserved him in his
place; but when the Long parliament met
again in May 1659, he
was compelled to retire. The house, however, named him on
28 Jan. 1660 a commissioner of the
admiralty and navy (ib. vii. 825).
When the Restoration was inevitable Lisle
escaped to Switzerland establishing
himself first at Vevay and afterwards at Lausanne, where he is said to have
‘charmed the
Swiss by his devotion’ (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1663-4), and was
treated with much respect
and ceremony. There he was shot dead on 11 Aug. 1664,
on his way to
church, by an Irishman known as Thomas Macdonnell
[see art.
Maccartain, William]. Macdonnell escaped, and Lisle was buried in the church of
the city. His first
wife was a daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, chief justice of
the common pleas. His
second wife Alice [q.v.] is noticed separately. With other
issue he had two sons,
John (d. 1709), of Dibden, Hampshire, and William,
who
adhered to the king and
married the daughter of Lady Katherine Hyde (ib. 1660-1,
p. 341).
Sources
Wood's Athenæ
Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 665; Wood's Fasti Oxon. (Bliss), i. 422, 437;
Foss's Judges, vi.
452-5; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1644-65; Parl. Hist. vol.
iii.; Howell's State
Trials, iv. 1053 et seq., v. 875, 886, 908, xi. 297; Hist.
MSS. Comm. Reports v. vi.
vii. and viii.; Ludlow's Memoirs.
PUBLISHED 1892
Children:
3. i Alice Lisle b. ab
1628.
Third Generation
3. Alice
Lisle, (2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born ab 1628, died June
05, 1696 in Concord,Mass. She was the daughter of Sir John Lord Lisle,
President of the High Cour Of
Justice, Lord comissioner of the great seal, who drew
the indicment and death sentence of King Charles1, He
was murdered in Lusanne, Switzerland Aug 11, 1664.
Her mother was beheaded by brutal judgement of
Jefferies in 1685. The Story of her arrest on a charge of treason for
sheltering rebels her condemnation to be burned alive and her execuation by beheading, with all the cruel, gastly details, forms a disgraceful page in English
History. Information from
www.lfthompson.com/.
She
married John Hoar, born 1622 in Glouchester,
England, (son of Charles Hoar and Joanna Hincksman (Henchman)) died Apr 02, 1704 in Mass. John: John Hoar was a Lawyer,
distinguished for his courage and independance.Lived
in Scituate Mass 1643-1655. He settled in about 1660 in Concord Mass. He took
great interest in the welfare of the Indians, and built a house on his place
for Christian Indians. They at the time of King Philips war were under his care
by order of the general court. "Captain Samuel Mosley with 103 men took
these Christian Indians(the Nashobahs) away from Mr. Hoars Place, insulted Mr. Hoare and plundered the poor,
helpless Indians, of all they had and sent them 58 in number only (12 able
bodied men) to Boston under the guard of some 20 rough and brutal soldiers.
Afterwards they were sent to Deer Island. He secured the release of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson from the Indians. On Feb 10,
1676 Mary Rowlandson(wife of the Minister of Lancester) and child were taken prisoners. Efforts were
made to secure her release without success. Until Mr. Hoare by the desire of
her husband made an attempt. On Apr 28, 1676 he left Lencester
with 2 guides. May 02,1676 with 20 Lbs and some goods
and secured her release, Although King Philip refused his consent. It has been
said that no other person in the colony could have secured her release. Note info taken from www.lfthompson.com.
See
more on John Hoar
and Ancestors in Charles Hoar History.
.
Children:
4. i Daniel Hoar b. ab
1651.
Fourth Generation
4. Daniel
Hoar, (3.Alice3, 2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born ab 1651 in Glouchester, England, died Feb 08, 1743 in Concord, Middlessex, Mass.
He
married Mary Stratton, July 16, 1677, (daughter of Mary
Frye and Samuel Stratton).
Children:
5. i Leonard Hoar b. 1684.
Fifth Generation
5. Leonard
Hoar, (4.Daniel4, 3.Alice3, 2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born 1684 in Hadley, Mass, died Apr 1771 in
Brimfield, Mass. Don't have list of
children but David and Possibly Esther b. Apr07, 1719. Died at age 86 buried
Brimfield Center Cemetery, Brimfield Mass.
He
married Esther Hubbard, Nov 13, 1707 in Brimfield, Mass, born
Jan 17, 1685, (daughter of Daniel Hubbard and Esther Rice).
Children:
6. i David Hoar b. Feb 23, 1713.
Sixth Generation
6. David
Hoar, (5.Leonard5, 4.Daniel4, 3.Alice3, 2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born Feb 23, 1713 in Brimfield, Mass, died in
Onslow. David and Abigail had 8 children
born between 1743-1760. David,
Abigail, Mary, Soloman, Ebenezer, David, Ruth and
Prudence.
He
married Abigail Hitchcock, May 17, 1741, born June 01, 1718.
Children:
7. i Ruth Hoar b. 1756.
Seventh Generation
7. Ruth
Hoar, (6.David6, 5.Leonard5, 4.Daniel4, 3.Alice3, 2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born 1756, died Dec 08, 1848. Ruth and William had 9 children Allen, Esther
Pitt, Agnes Pitt, William, David, Abigail, Stephen, Samuel,
Bethsheba.Ruth had 2 children to second husband James
b. Sep 22, 1794 and Hiram Jan 22, 1800. She would have been 46 by the time her
last child born.
She
married (1) William Pitt Whippie, Apr 01, 1773 in Truro, NS, died
Jan 24, 1791.
Children:
8. i Esther Pitt Whippey(or
Whippie) b. Nov 19,1774.
She
married (2) William Downing, Dec 26, 1793, born in Ireland.
Eighth Generation
8. Esther
Pitt Whippey(or Whippie), (7.Ruth7, 6.David6, 5.Leonard5, 4.Daniel4, 3.Alice3, 2.Lady2, 1.Sir1) born Nov 19,1774 in Onslow, NS. Esthers maternal lineage can
be traced,.
She
married William Scott, May 23,1793 in Onslow, NS, born
1769, (son of Ephriam Scott and Elizabeth Tackles) died in Musquodoboit, NS.