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Henry Curwen (1528–1596)
Henry Curwen (1528–1596) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament for Cumberland. Life and work He was a son of Thomas Curwen of Workington (died 1544) and Agnes Strickland. In 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots came to Workington by boat as a fugitive after her defeat at the battle of Langside. She stayed a night at Workington Hall as a guest of Henry Curwen's family. Mary's secretary Claude Nau later described how Lord Herries went to meet Curwen, who he knew well, with the news of Mary's arrival. Herries intended to pretend at first that the queen was a Scottish heiress. Curwen however was in London. The party were welcomed at the Hall and Mary's true identity was soon discovered. Mary wrote to Elizabeth from Workington Hall on 17 May, asking for assistance. An agate cup was treasured by the family as her gift to her hosts, known as the "Luck of Workington Hall". Mary is said also to have stayed in the house of Henry Fletcher (died 1574) at Cockermouth who gave her a velv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cumberland is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Cumberland East and Cumberland West in 1832. Mike Jenkinson, Conservative, served as the local MP in Workington from 2019 until the dissolution of parliament in 2024. Members of Parliament * ''Constituency created 1290'' MPs 1290–1640 MPs 1640–1832 *''Constituency abolished'' (1832) Notes Elections The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the town of Cockermouth. The expense and diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl Of Sussex
Thomas Radclyffe (or Ratclyffe), 3rd Earl of Sussex KG (c. 15259 June 1583), was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I. Family He was the eldest son of Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, and his first wife Elizabeth Howard. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his second wife, Agnes Tilney. His maternal uncles included, among others, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lord Edmund Howard (father of Queen Katherine Howard); Sir Edward Howard; Lord William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham; and Lord Thomas Howard. His aunt, Elizabeth Howard, Lady Boleyn, was the mother of Queen Anne Boleyn. Early life He was born about 1525, and after his father's succession to the earldom in 1542 was styled Viscount Fitzwalter. After serving in the army abroad, he was employed in 1551 to negotiate a marriage between King Edward VI of England and a dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1596 Deaths
Events January–March * January 6 – Drake's Assault on Panama: Sir Francis Drake, General Thomas Baskerville and an English force of 15 ships land at the Atlantic Ocean port of Nombre de Dios in an attempt to capture the Isthmus of Panama. * January 20 – Francis Drake, unable to receive a ransom for the town of Nombre de Dios, orders the town and all Spanish ships in harbor to be burned. At the same time, General Baskerville leads 750 men on a mission to clear the Isthmus of Spanish parties. * January 27 – With an epidemic of dysentery spreading through the English forces of Drake and Baskerville, Drake orders survivors to retreat to the English ships, anchored off of the island of Escudo de Veraguas. Drake dies of dystentery two days later on his flagship, ''Defiance''. * February 11 – Albert of Austria arrives in Brussels to begin his administration as Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands. * February 14 – Archbishop John Whitgift begins building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1528 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 1528 ( MDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, there is also a Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523. * January 26 – The Canton of Bern becomes the second in Switzerland to officially adopt Protestantism after 21-day debate, the Bern Disputation * February 29 – John Zápolya, ruler of the remaining eastern portion of Hungary after its the acquisition of the western section by the Habsburg Austrians, joins in an alliance with the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Turks, receiving protection and autonomy in return for allowing Turkish occupation of his Eastern Hungarian Kingdom. * February ** Peasant uprising in Dalarna, Sweden: The rebel campaign fails, and the rebel leader, later known as '' Daljunkern'', flees to Rostock. ** Die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doublet (clothing)
A doublet (; derived from the Italian language, Ital. ''giubbetta'') is a snug-fitting jacket that is shaped and fitted to a man's body. The garment was worn in Spain, and spread to the rest of Western Europe, from the late Middle Ages up to the 17th century. Until the end of the 15th century, the doublet was sometimes worn under another layer of clothing such as a gown, mantle, or houppelande when in public. In the 16th century it was covered by the jerkin which often matched. Women started wearing doublets in the 16th century. The doublet could be thigh length, hip length or waist length depending on the period, and worn over the shirt with matching or contrasting "hose", the term for the tight leggings and later breeches-like lower garment which were attached by lacing to the doublet with "points", the cord or ribbon laces. Like the pourpoint, its ancestor, the doublet was used by soldiers in the 15th and 16th centuries to facilitate the wearing of the brigandine, breastplat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trundle Bed
A trundle bed (or truckle bed) is a low, wheeled bed that is stored under a twin/single bed and can be rolled out for use by visitors or as just another bed. A pop-up trundle bed can be raised to meet the height of the normal bed, effectively creating a wider sleeping surface when positioned side-by-side. Gallery File:Antique Romanian Jack Bed - Closed.jpg, Antique trundle bed (closed) File:Antique Romanian Jack Bed - Open.jpg, Antique trundle bed (open) References See also * Bunk bed A bunk bed or set of bunks is a type of bed in which one bed frame (a bunk) is stacked on top of another bed, allowing two or more sleeping-places to occupy the floor space usually required by just one. Bunks are commonly seen on ships, in th ... * Murphy bed Beds Space-saving furniture {{Furniture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bed Warmer
A bed warmer or warming pan was a common household item in countries with cold winters, especially in Europe. It consisted of a metal container, usually fitted with a handle and shaped somewhat like a modern frying pan, with a solid or finely perforated lid. The pan would be filled with embers and placed under the covers of a bed, to warm it up or dry it out before use.Cora Millet-Robinet (1853): ''Domestic Economy''. "A copper warming pan is indispensable to a household. Take care to have a big enough quantity of embers, above all some red cinders, when you want to heat a bed. Get it smouldering well before you use it, otherwise the fire will soon go out and the bed will not warm up. You must move the warming pan constantly to avoid scorching the sheets. A bed-wagon (moine), well-known and inexpensive, is a suitable alternative." Cited b"Bed warmers" ''Old & Interesting'' website. Accessed on 2019-05-10.Thomas Rowlandson (1794): ''The Comforts of High Living''. Satyrical cartoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stool (seat)
A stool is a raised seat commonly supported by three or four legs, but with neither armrests nor a backrest (in early stools), and typically built to accommodate one occupant. As some of the earliest forms of seat, stools are sometimes called ''backless chairs'' despite how some modern stools have backrests. Folding stools can be collapsed into a flat, compact form typically by rotating the seat in parallel with fold-up legs. History The origins of stools are obscure, but they are known to be one of the earliest forms of wooden furniture. The ancient Egyptians used stools as seats, and later as footstools. The diphros was a four-leg stool in Ancient Greece, produced in both fixed and folding versions. Percy Macquoid claims that the turned chair, turned stool was introduced from Byzantium by the Varangian Guard, and thus through Norsemen, Norse culture into Europe, reaching England via the Normans. In the medieval period, seating consisted of bench (furniture), benches, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsington
Helsington is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the English county of Cumbria. It includes the village of Brigsteer and Sizergh Castle and Garden, a property owned by the National Trust. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 288, increasing at the 2011 census to 308. Significant Roman artefacts have been discovered in the north of the parish close to the ruined fort at Watercrook, Alavana Alavana was a name tentatively (and probably wrongly) applied to the ruins of a Roman fort at Watercrook about south of Kendal in Cumbria, for which the Roman name Medibogdo is a perfect fit to its river-bend position. The fort at Watercrook .... See also * Listed buildings in Helsington References External links Cumbria County History Trust: Helsington(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) External links Helsington Parish Council Civil parishes in Cumbria {{Cumbria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Carus
Sir Thomas Carus SL (c.1515–5 July 1571) was an English barrister and judge who served as a Justice of the Queen's Bench. Born to William Carus and Isabel Leyburn of Westmorland, he joined the Middle Temple in the 1530s and became Member of Parliament for Wigan in 1547. Carus also represented Lancaster in Parliament in 1553 and 1555, became a Serjeant-at-Law in April 1559, and was made a Justice of the Queen's Bench on 31 May 1567. He held this position until his death on 5 July 1571. He was knighted in 1567. He married Catherine, the daughter of Thomas Preston of Preston Patrick, Westmorland. They had three sons and three daughters. He was initially succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, who purchased the manor of Halton and Halton Hall and who soon also died. He was eventually succeeded by his youngest son Christopher. Christopher, was the founder of a line that remained Catholic till the 18th century, when they supported the Jacobite rising of 1715 The Jacobite ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Musgrave
Simon Musgrave of Hartley and Edenhall (died 1597) was an English landowner, High Sheriff of Cumberland, and Member of Parliament for Cumberland in 1572. He was a younger son of Edward Musgrave of Hartley and his wife Joan, a daughter of Sir Christopher Ward of Givendale. He inherited the family estates of his nephew Richard Musgrave in 1555. He married Julian, a daughter of William Ellerker of Ellerker. Simon Musgrave was constable of Bewcastle Castle. He made his sons depute or Captain of Bewcastle, including Thomas Musgrave. He entertained the Scottish rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell at Edenhall in 1593. He died at Edenhall in January 1597. His children included: *Christopher Musgrave, who married Joan Curwen, a daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton
Sir Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (1495 – 23 August 1568) was an English nobleman and a follower of King Henry VIII of England. He is best known for his victory at Solway Moss on 24 November 1542 for which he was given a barony. Early life He was born in Wharton, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wharton of Wharton Hall and his wife Agnes Warcup, daughter of Reynold or Reginald Warcup of Smardale. His younger brother was the English martyr Christopher Wharton. His father died around 1520, and in April 1522 he served on a raiding expedition into Scotland. Officer on the Scottish border On 10 February 1524 he was placed on the commission for the peace in Cumberland, and on 20 June 1527 he is said to have been knighted at Windsor. To the parliament that met on 3 November 1529, Wharton was returned for Appleby, but on the 9th he was pricked for High Sheriff of Cumberland. On 30 June 1531 he was appointed commissioner for redress of outrages on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
