Shropshire Tong - an arrant and dangerous papist

Sir Edward Stanley 1632 lies below his parents Margaret Vernon heiress of Tong flic.kr/p/4oeizY , and Sir Henry Stanley flic.kr/p/4oeizU son of Edward 3rd Earl of Derby.

He married Lady Lucy Percy ,(1601) www.flickr.com/photos/stiffleaf/5476361134/ 2nd daughter of the Thomas Percy 7th Earl of Northumberland by Anne daughter of Henry Somerset , Earl of Worcester by Elizabeth Browne flic.kr/p/8yWn1b

She and 4 of their 7 daughters are on a monument at Walthamstowe Essex. flic.kr/p/5npyXd

Left with 3 living daughters, his son having died as an infant, Edward never remarried but raised her tomb in 1602 together with this one with his parents at Tong

children:

1. Thomas died an infant

1. Petronella who died unmarried ++

2. Venetia Anastasia m Kenelm Digby great grandson of Kenelm Digby 1590 and Ann Cope flic.kr/p/bBQqXJ

3. Frances m Sir John Fortescue of Salden son of Sir Francis Fortescue flic.kr/p/DpZwbU and Grace www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8264093236/ daughter of Sir John Manners and Dorothy Vernon flic.kr/p/dA7M3E

4 - 7 Arbella, Marie, Alis and Priscilla all died in 1601

 

Edward's lack of management of his estates eventually left him all but destitute, his son in law Kenelm Digby took over

the running of the estates in exchange for the discharge of Edward's debts. (Kenelm also made money for himself along the way)

++Edward left what was left of his estates to his eldest surviving daughter Petronella who never married. Curiously the estates were to be administered by his son in law John Fortescue Sir Edward called by the Puritans an " arrant and dangerous Papist,", the last of the Vernon heirs to own Tong, which he sold to Thomas Harries c1630.

Done