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Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

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Jane Roberts , children = 8, including Henry Skipwith , mother = Jane Hall , father =

Henry Skipwith (died 1588) Henry Skipwith (died 14 August 1588) was a Member of the Parliament of England for Leicester in 1584 and 1586. Skipwith was a child of William Skipwith (died 1547) and Alice Dymoke. He married Jane Hall, and had thirteen children, including Willi ...

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Cotes Cotes may refer to: Placename * Cotes, Cumbria, a village in England * Cotes, Leicestershire, a village in England * Cotes, Staffordshire, a village in England; see List of United Kingdom locations: Cos-Cou * Cotes, Valencia, a municipality in ...

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

, was an English politician. He was the eldest son of

and was educated at

. He was appointed

Sheriff of Leicestershire This is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Leicestershire, United Kingdom. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries mos ...

for 1598. He was a

Member Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ...

(MP) of the

Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised t ...

for

in 1601 and

Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ...

in 1604. He married twice: firstly Lady Margaret Cave, the daughter of Roger Cave of Stanford, Northamptonshire. They had four sons and four daughters. His second wife was Jane, the daughter of John Roberts and the widow of John Markham of Sidebrook. His eldest son was Sir Henry Skipwith.

Skipwith was knighted on 21 April 1603 at

Worksop Manor Worksop Manor is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. It stands in one of the four contiguous estates in the Dukeries area of Nottinghamshire. Traditionally, the Lord of the Manor of Worksop may assist a B ...

King James 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 ...

, who was travelling to London following the

Union of the Crowns The Union of the Crowns ( gd, Aonadh nan Crùintean; sco, Union o the Crouns) was the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of the Kingdom of England as James I and the practical unification of some functions (such as overseas dip ...

. He returned to Worksop on 18 June to meet

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 The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional fo ...

at Worksop, and she and her son

Prince Henry Prince Henry (or Prince Harry) may refer to: People *Henry the Young King (1155–1183), son of Henry II of England, who was crowned king but predeceased his father *Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394–1460) *Henry, Duke of Cornwall (Ja ...

went on to stay in his house at Leicester on 23 June, despite fears of plague. Princess Elizabeth stayed at the house of Mr Pilkington, sleeping in sheets borrowed from a house at

Elmesthorpe Elmesthorpe (''sometimes spelt Elmersthorpe, Elmsthorpe or Aylmersthorpe'') is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated to the south-east of Earl Shilton, near to Hinckley on the A47 road. In ...

. Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry were given silver cups by the town council. The cups were bought in London from William Herrick (a goldsmith with a Leicester background), and then engraved with the royal arms. Prince Henry's cup was smaller. Princess Elizabeth arrived separately in Leicester and was given claret, white wine, and Rhenish wine, with a sugar loaf weighing 9 pounds 10 ounces. She was nearly 7 years old. On 15 and 16 August 1604,

Prince Charles Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...

and Alexander Seton lodged in Skipwith's Leicester townhouse on their way to London. Next they went to Dingley, the home of

Thomas Griffin Thomas Griffin may refer to: * Thomas Griffin (died 1615), English landowner *Thomas Griffin (Australian gold commissioner) (1832–1868), police officer executed in 1868 * Thomas Griffin (baseball) (1857–1933), of the Milwaukee Brewers * Thomas G ...

.Walter Seton, 'Early Years of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Charles, Duke of Albany', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 13:52 (July 1916), pp. 373-4. He died on 3 May 1610 in London and was buried in Leicestershire.

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1560s births 1610 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for Leicestershire High Sheriffs of Leicestershire English MPs 1601 English MPs 1604–1611 People from the Borough of Charnwood Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge {{17thC-England-MP-stub