affectionately loved as a son and a friend - Exton Rutland
"Here lies Robert Kelwey a distinguished esquire amongst civilians (whilst he lived), renowned for talent, learning and virtue, who loved retirement, lived as a Christian and died in the Lord on the 21st of February in the year of our Salvation, 1580, and the 84th year of his age. He left Anne his sole heiress and only most dearly loved daughter married to John Harrington of Exton, Knt., whom he had always affectionately loved as a son and a friend, which Anne the said John had during the life of the aforesaid Robert two children, a son, Kelway, who died Dec 2nd 1570, 21 weeks old, and lies buried here with his grandfather, and also a daughter Lucy still surviving, and may God grant her a long life. To pay, therefore, a just tribute to so dear and affectionate a parent and to leave to prosperity an evidence of their deep gratitude, the said John and Anne have raised this monument and dedicated it to their father, Keylwey, and their son Keylwey (to their lasting memory if it so please God) and design it, if God will, as a sepulchre for themselves also".
Monument attributed by Pevsner to Nicholas Johnson and elsewhere (Rutland Magazine Vol. III) to Nicholas Stone
Robert Kelwey 1580 m 1548/9 Cecily daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley: a widow of Sir Alexander Unton with 7 sons and 2 daughters.
He obtained in 1553 a lease for lands at Minster Lovell, Oxon which had been granted to Cecily's first husband. Also in 1556 he obtained a lease for Coombe Abbey, Warks.
A lawyer, as surveyor of the Courts of Wards and Liveries, he was clearly a very wealthy man with “dwellinge howse(s)” in Warks, Bucks, Berks and London at the Temple and in Fleet Street, and property and interests elsewhere. His first and largest monetary bequest was “ ... unto my coosen ffrancis Kellwaye sonne and heire of Sir William Kellwaye knight deceased one Thowsannde Pounds ... ” Additional family bequests included: ten pounds to Lady Kellwaye, late wife of Sir William, ten pounds to his Godson Edward Button and a horse/house? to his cousin Ambrose Kellwaye. He left one of his best horses or geldings to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, and named him as one of four trusted friends appointed to be supervisors and overseers of his will. After a large number of specific bequests Robert Kellaway left the remainder of his estate to his daughter Anne, the wife of John Harrington.
Describing himself as “of Stebimhaith” (Stepney) he probably died at house of his daughter here at Exton.
1. Anne 1549-1620 his sole heir m c1570 Sir John Harrington of Exton 1613 eldest son of James Harington 1591 and Lucy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Np215J daughter of William Sidney - (John received Exton manor from his parents on his marriage)
As a descendant of the de Bruce family was a favourite of James 1 who created him Baron Harington of Exton in 1603. He looked after the king’s eldest daughter Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia. The honour nearly bankrupted Harington, They remained her guardians until her marriage to Frederick V, Elector Paletine in 1613 by which time they were deeply in debt despite an annual income of c£6000 they owed at least £30,000. The king had initially granted them £1500 pa which was inadequate and a further grant of £1000 was made. John paid for all the bridal equipments, and was some £3,500 out of pocket. The King was unable, or unwilling, to reimburse him, and so, instead, granted him, on the 19th May 1613, a Royal Patent to coin brass farthing tokens which were to be valid throughout the realm. The Haringtons accompanied Elizabeth to Heidelberg on her marriage and spent 4 months abroad but on the return journey John Harington died of a fever at Worms 23 Aug 1613. Ann brought his body back to Exton for burial but then returned to the Palatinate and served for a time as a lady-in waiting to Elizabeth,
Children of John & Anne (they had 4 but the 2 who were born after Robert Kelway died in 1580 were not included)
a. Kelway b/d 1570 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o15167
b. Lucy 1581 -1627 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Vaf87 heiress of Minster Lovell estate with a dowry of £3000 m 1594 Edward Russell 3rd Earl of Bedford 1627 son of Sir Francis Russell, Lord Russell and his wife, Eleanor Forster
c. Frances 1586-1615 m (1st wife) Sir Robert Chichester 1627, they kneel at Pilton flic.kr/p/iFVffm (they were parents of Anne 1604 - 1627 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4o95Zm m Thomas Bruce 1st Earl of Elgin who has a monument here
d. John 1592 -died of smallpox in 1614 unmarried
John inherited large debts along with the title, he sold the lordship of Exton to Sir Baptist Hicks flic.kr/p/adEVpE and by his will left the overplus of the estates, after the creditors had been paid (according to his mother the debts amounted to £40,000), to his 2 sisters, two-thirds to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, and one-third to Frances, Lady Chichester. Lucy eventually sold the remaining family estates in Rutland
www.leshaigh.co.uk/notesstories/robertofwandl.html - Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Exton Rutland
affectionately loved as a son and a friend - Exton Rutland
"Here lies Robert Kelwey a distinguished esquire amongst civilians (whilst he lived), renowned for talent, learning and virtue, who loved retirement, lived as a Christian and died in the Lord on the 21st of February in the year of our Salvation, 1580, and the 84th year of his age. He left Anne his sole heiress and only most dearly loved daughter married to John Harrington of Exton, Knt., whom he had always affectionately loved as a son and a friend, which Anne the said John had during the life of the aforesaid Robert two children, a son, Kelway, who died Dec 2nd 1570, 21 weeks old, and lies buried here with his grandfather, and also a daughter Lucy still surviving, and may God grant her a long life. To pay, therefore, a just tribute to so dear and affectionate a parent and to leave to prosperity an evidence of their deep gratitude, the said John and Anne have raised this monument and dedicated it to their father, Keylwey, and their son Keylwey (to their lasting memory if it so please God) and design it, if God will, as a sepulchre for themselves also".
Monument attributed by Pevsner to Nicholas Johnson and elsewhere (Rutland Magazine Vol. III) to Nicholas Stone
Robert Kelwey 1580 m 1548/9 Cecily daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley: a widow of Sir Alexander Unton with 7 sons and 2 daughters.
He obtained in 1553 a lease for lands at Minster Lovell, Oxon which had been granted to Cecily's first husband. Also in 1556 he obtained a lease for Coombe Abbey, Warks.
A lawyer, as surveyor of the Courts of Wards and Liveries, he was clearly a very wealthy man with “dwellinge howse(s)” in Warks, Bucks, Berks and London at the Temple and in Fleet Street, and property and interests elsewhere. His first and largest monetary bequest was “ ... unto my coosen ffrancis Kellwaye sonne and heire of Sir William Kellwaye knight deceased one Thowsannde Pounds ... ” Additional family bequests included: ten pounds to Lady Kellwaye, late wife of Sir William, ten pounds to his Godson Edward Button and a horse/house? to his cousin Ambrose Kellwaye. He left one of his best horses or geldings to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, and named him as one of four trusted friends appointed to be supervisors and overseers of his will. After a large number of specific bequests Robert Kellaway left the remainder of his estate to his daughter Anne, the wife of John Harrington.
Describing himself as “of Stebimhaith” (Stepney) he probably died at house of his daughter here at Exton.
1. Anne 1549-1620 his sole heir m c1570 Sir John Harrington of Exton 1613 eldest son of James Harington 1591 and Lucy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Np215J daughter of William Sidney - (John received Exton manor from his parents on his marriage)
As a descendant of the de Bruce family was a favourite of James 1 who created him Baron Harington of Exton in 1603. He looked after the king’s eldest daughter Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia. The honour nearly bankrupted Harington, They remained her guardians until her marriage to Frederick V, Elector Paletine in 1613 by which time they were deeply in debt despite an annual income of c£6000 they owed at least £30,000. The king had initially granted them £1500 pa which was inadequate and a further grant of £1000 was made. John paid for all the bridal equipments, and was some £3,500 out of pocket. The King was unable, or unwilling, to reimburse him, and so, instead, granted him, on the 19th May 1613, a Royal Patent to coin brass farthing tokens which were to be valid throughout the realm. The Haringtons accompanied Elizabeth to Heidelberg on her marriage and spent 4 months abroad but on the return journey John Harington died of a fever at Worms 23 Aug 1613. Ann brought his body back to Exton for burial but then returned to the Palatinate and served for a time as a lady-in waiting to Elizabeth,
Children of John & Anne (they had 4 but the 2 who were born after Robert Kelway died in 1580 were not included)
a. Kelway b/d 1570 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o15167
b. Lucy 1581 -1627 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Vaf87 heiress of Minster Lovell estate with a dowry of £3000 m 1594 Edward Russell 3rd Earl of Bedford 1627 son of Sir Francis Russell, Lord Russell and his wife, Eleanor Forster
c. Frances 1586-1615 m (1st wife) Sir Robert Chichester 1627, they kneel at Pilton flic.kr/p/iFVffm (they were parents of Anne 1604 - 1627 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4o95Zm m Thomas Bruce 1st Earl of Elgin who has a monument here
d. John 1592 -died of smallpox in 1614 unmarried
John inherited large debts along with the title, he sold the lordship of Exton to Sir Baptist Hicks flic.kr/p/adEVpE and by his will left the overplus of the estates, after the creditors had been paid (according to his mother the debts amounted to £40,000), to his 2 sisters, two-thirds to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, and one-third to Frances, Lady Chichester. Lucy eventually sold the remaining family estates in Rutland
www.leshaigh.co.uk/notesstories/robertofwandl.html - Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Exton Rutland