Anne Reynolds (died 1634) was an English courtier.
She was a daughter of Robert Reynolds (d. 1635), a gentleman of London.
In 1600 she married Thomas Havers, a merchant tailor and collector of customs known as a customer. She became a friend of
Anne of Denmark
Anne of Denmark (; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I; as such, she was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and Eng ...
, wife of
James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...
.
She had several children with Havers, naming her daughters Mary and Sophia (d. 1621) after the queen's daughters.
In 1605
Elizabeth Kitson
Elizabeth, Lady K(i, y)tson born Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis (1546/7 – 2 August 1628) was an English music patron. She lived and managed Hengrave Hall in Suffolk where she and her husband employed personal musicians and created a music collection. ...
told
Philip Gawdy that his nephew
Framlingham Gawdy
Framlingham Gawdy (8 August 1589 – 1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1614 to 1648. He was a passive Parliamentarian during the English Civil War.
Gawdy was the son of Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy of West Har ...
had formed an unsuitable connection with a "Mistress Havers". It is not clear if this was the same person. Gawdy had connections to Anne of Denmark's household, acknowledging
Mary Gargrave and
Elizabeth Southwell as cousins.
Her second son Charles Havers (b. 1606) married Mary Baker (b. 1608), a daughter of one of the royal surgeons Alexander Baker, in November 1626. Alexander Baker (d. 1635) is best known for his role in the Lancashire witch trials of 1634, selecting midwives to be trained by
William Harvey
William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and propert ...
to examine the accused women for
witch marks. Charles Havers quarreled with his father-in-law, who left Mary Havers his little portative organ in his will and cancelled litigation against Havers provided he did not abuse his wife.
Havers died in August 1616 during an epidemic described as a "new ague or sickness".
John Chamberlain wrote that Havers had died, "a customer, better known than esteemed for his wife, a fine minx that is the Queen's woman".
She married
Sir Thomas Burton of
Stockerston Hall
Stockerston Hall is a late-18th-century English country house in Leicestershire, near the town of Uppingham, Rutland. It is a Grade II listed building.
The Manor of Stockerston was owned by the Boyville family in the 15th century and passed by m ...
(1580–1655) on 28 August 1617 at
St James,
Clerkenwell. She was the mother of Sir Thomas Burton, 2nd Baronet (1622–1659) and other children.
[Harry Bristow Wilson, ''A History of the Parish of St. Laurence Pountney'' (London, 1831), p. 227: John Nichols, ''History and Antiquities of Leicestershire'', 2:2 (London, 1798), pp. 817-8.]
She died in 1634.
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Household of Anne of Denmark
17th-century English people
1634 deaths