Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire
.To the right side of the altar is a black and white marble memorial with the effigy of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry d1640 , who was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. His effigy is shown reclining between statues of Justice holding the Great Seal, and Virtue.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of the City of London in the reign of Henry VI), and Margaret daughter of William Jeffries / Jeffreys of Earls Croome / Croome D'Abitot.
His sister Margaret m William son of William Childe of Blockley flic.kr/p/qs25Zv
He m1 Sarah daughter of John Sebright of Besford & Anne daughter of Richard Bullingham. (Aunt of Sir Edward Sebright of Besford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4hV11N ) Her mother Anne m2 Thomas Walsh of Stockton on Teme
Children
1. Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron 1606 – 1661 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9kV8v0 m 1627 Mary www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7x7685 wealthy daughter of Sir William Craven, former Lord Mayor of London by Elizabeth Whitmore
2. Elizabeth m John Hare of Stowe Bardolph & Docking Hall (parents of Mary who m Thomas Savage www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/579mR9 son of Giles & Katherine Savage of Elmley Castle www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mTn3Zm
He m2. Elizabeth, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire , merchant of London ,by Anne Lowe, Elizabeth was the widow of William Pitchford, Grocer of London
Children - 4 sons & 4 daughters
1. John 1611-1652 m Elizabeth daughter of John Colles 1627 & Elizabeth Wyndham
flic.kr/p/u6Tvz5 of Pitminster
2. Francis 1612-1680 m Margaret Waterer widow of Sir John Thorold 1717
3. Henry 1618-1686 unmarried www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/UAYczR
4. Sir William Coventry 1628 – 1686 unmarried
1. Anne 1662 m (Defended royalist Sheffield Castle in Civil War ) Sir William Savile, 3rd bart (1629) grandson of Sir George Savile 1622 of Thornhill flic.kr/p/b3gDfX m2 Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole (1699) son of Sir Thomas Chicheley 1616 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mT9310 and Dorothy Kempe
2. Mary m Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Bart of Kempsford 1680 son of Thomas Thynne & Catherine Howard
3. Margaret m Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury 1683 son of John Cooper of Rockbourne by Ann Elizabeth Ashley
4. Dorothy 1622-1679 m Sir John Pakington, 2nd Bart.
son of Sir John Pakington of Ailesbury & Frances Ferrers
Educated at Balliol College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, his exceptional legal abilities were rewarded early with official promotion. On 16 November 1616 he was made Recorder of London in spite of Francis Bacon's opposition, who, although allowing him to be "a well trained and an honest man," objected that he was "bred by my Lord Coke and seasoned in his ways." On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted. In November 1621 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal holding it until 1640 and amassed a large fortune.
In 1621 he was MP for Droitwich & Attorney-general taking part in the proceedings against Bacon for corruption,
In 1625 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; in this capacity he delivered Charles I's reprimand to the Commons on 9 March 1626, In April 1628 he was made Baron Coventry of Aylesborough.
At the opening of parliament in 1628 he threatened that the king would use his prerogative if further thwarted in the matter of supplies. In the subsequent debates, however, while strongly supporting the king's prerogative against the claims of the parliament to executive power, he favoured a policy of moderation and compromise. He defended the right of the council in special circumstances to commit people to prison without showing cause, and to issue general warrants. He disapproved of the king's sudden dissolution of parliament, and agreed to the liberation on bail of the 7 imprisoned members on condition of their giving security for their good behaviour
He showed less subservience than Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, and his resistance to the latter's pretensions to the office of Lord High Constable greatly incensed the duke. Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; Coventry replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement
In 1634 he supported the proposed levy of ship money on the inland as well as the maritime counties on the plea of the necessity of effectually arming, "so that they might not be enforced to fight," "the wooden walls" being in his opinion "the best walls of this kingdom." He voted in Star Chamber in 1633 to remove the Irish judge Lord Sarsfield from office for corruption, censuring him severely for hearing a murder case in private and for bullying the jury into returning a guilty verdict.
He was remembered by Edward Hyde as having "in the plain way of speaking and delivery a strange power of making himself believed," "rather exceedingly liked than passionately loved"
. - Church of St Mary Magdalene , Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire
Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire
.To the right side of the altar is a black and white marble memorial with the effigy of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry d1640 , who was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. His effigy is shown reclining between statues of Justice holding the Great Seal, and Virtue.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of the City of London in the reign of Henry VI), and Margaret daughter of William Jeffries / Jeffreys of Earls Croome / Croome D'Abitot.
His sister Margaret m William son of William Childe of Blockley flic.kr/p/qs25Zv
He m1 Sarah daughter of John Sebright of Besford & Anne daughter of Richard Bullingham. (Aunt of Sir Edward Sebright of Besford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4hV11N ) Her mother Anne m2 Thomas Walsh of Stockton on Teme
Children
1. Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron 1606 – 1661 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9kV8v0 m 1627 Mary www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7x7685 wealthy daughter of Sir William Craven, former Lord Mayor of London by Elizabeth Whitmore
2. Elizabeth m John Hare of Stowe Bardolph & Docking Hall (parents of Mary who m Thomas Savage www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/579mR9 son of Giles & Katherine Savage of Elmley Castle www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mTn3Zm
He m2. Elizabeth, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire , merchant of London ,by Anne Lowe, Elizabeth was the widow of William Pitchford, Grocer of London
Children - 4 sons & 4 daughters
1. John 1611-1652 m Elizabeth daughter of John Colles 1627 & Elizabeth Wyndham
flic.kr/p/u6Tvz5 of Pitminster
2. Francis 1612-1680 m Margaret Waterer widow of Sir John Thorold 1717
3. Henry 1618-1686 unmarried www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/UAYczR
4. Sir William Coventry 1628 – 1686 unmarried
1. Anne 1662 m (Defended royalist Sheffield Castle in Civil War ) Sir William Savile, 3rd bart (1629) grandson of Sir George Savile 1622 of Thornhill flic.kr/p/b3gDfX m2 Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole (1699) son of Sir Thomas Chicheley 1616 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mT9310 and Dorothy Kempe
2. Mary m Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Bart of Kempsford 1680 son of Thomas Thynne & Catherine Howard
3. Margaret m Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury 1683 son of John Cooper of Rockbourne by Ann Elizabeth Ashley
4. Dorothy 1622-1679 m Sir John Pakington, 2nd Bart.
son of Sir John Pakington of Ailesbury & Frances Ferrers
Educated at Balliol College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, his exceptional legal abilities were rewarded early with official promotion. On 16 November 1616 he was made Recorder of London in spite of Francis Bacon's opposition, who, although allowing him to be "a well trained and an honest man," objected that he was "bred by my Lord Coke and seasoned in his ways." On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted. In November 1621 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal holding it until 1640 and amassed a large fortune.
In 1621 he was MP for Droitwich & Attorney-general taking part in the proceedings against Bacon for corruption,
In 1625 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; in this capacity he delivered Charles I's reprimand to the Commons on 9 March 1626, In April 1628 he was made Baron Coventry of Aylesborough.
At the opening of parliament in 1628 he threatened that the king would use his prerogative if further thwarted in the matter of supplies. In the subsequent debates, however, while strongly supporting the king's prerogative against the claims of the parliament to executive power, he favoured a policy of moderation and compromise. He defended the right of the council in special circumstances to commit people to prison without showing cause, and to issue general warrants. He disapproved of the king's sudden dissolution of parliament, and agreed to the liberation on bail of the 7 imprisoned members on condition of their giving security for their good behaviour
He showed less subservience than Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, and his resistance to the latter's pretensions to the office of Lord High Constable greatly incensed the duke. Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; Coventry replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement
In 1634 he supported the proposed levy of ship money on the inland as well as the maritime counties on the plea of the necessity of effectually arming, "so that they might not be enforced to fight," "the wooden walls" being in his opinion "the best walls of this kingdom." He voted in Star Chamber in 1633 to remove the Irish judge Lord Sarsfield from office for corruption, censuring him severely for hearing a murder case in private and for bullying the jury into returning a guilty verdict.
He was remembered by Edward Hyde as having "in the plain way of speaking and delivery a strange power of making himself believed," "rather exceedingly liked than passionately loved"
. - Church of St Mary Magdalene , Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire