Anne was die dogter van Richard Wortley en Elizabeth Boughton.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
(Burke, John esq & Burke, John Bernard , esq: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. 2nd ed. London MDCCCXLIV)
(https://archive.org/stream/visitationscoun01britgoog#page/n114/mode/2up)
Willoughby sold various properties during his
lifetime, including Easthampstead manor to Sir Richard Lovelace. He passed
Aston Rowant to his eldest son, Sir Rotherham, but this reverted to him after
the latter’s death in 1613. In his will of 28 Oct. 1615, Willoughby gave the
manor of South Muskham, Nottinghamshire, to his grandson William, while Sir
Rotherham’s widow Lady Anne, who shortly thereafter married Sir George Morton,
had her jointure estate confirmed for life. Kingston Blount manor and the lease of Aston
Rowant descended to Willoughby’s two surviving sons. Willoughby died on 29 Oct.
1615, whereupon the wardship of his grandson, William, was purchased for £1,000
by Morton. Neither of his sons sat in Parliament. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/willoughby-sir-william-1566-1615)
The Vicarage of Seleston was ten marks when the Prior of Beauvale was Patron.— In the Kings Books it is now 5l. value, and Sir William Willoughby remains the last Patron. In the east Window of the south Ile, are these three Coats:—Or, a Fesse Dancette Sable, Vavasor. Arg. a Lion Rampant Queve Furche, sable, Cressy. Arg, a Chevron between three Martlets erected Sable. In the Chancell east Window:—Gules, on a Bend Arg. There Roses of the first, and under it Willielmus Jay, Armig. sibi & hæred.—riam, Anno.—. By the north Wall of the Chancel is a fair Tomb, whereon are the Arms of Willoughby with quarterings, and, Here lyeth William Willoughby, Esquire, sonne and heir of Sir Rotheram Willoughby of Muscombe in the County of Nott. Knight, and of Dame Anne his wife, one of the daughters of Sir Richard Wortley, Knight, and Elizabeth his wife, now Countess of Devon. He married Elizabeth, one of the daughters of Timothy Pusey, Esquire, who made this Monument in memory of her husband; and by her he had four children. He was aged twenty-one years and three quarters, and died the xii, day of Novemb. 1630. (Throsby, John, ed. : Robert Thoroton, 'Selston', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 2, Republished With Large Additions (Nottingham, 1790), pp. 264-266)
Sir Rotherham’s widow Lady Anne, who shortly thereafter married Sir George Morton
Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet (died 1662) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626. Morton was the son of Sir George Morton of Milbourne St Andrew, Dorset and his wife Joan Holloway of Walton. He succeeded to the estate a Milborne on the death of his father in 1611, and was created baronet of Milbourne St Andrew in the County of Dorset on 1 March 1619. In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for Dorset. He was a faithful Royalist during the English Civil War. Morton married firstly Catharine Hopton, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton, of Witham. He married secondly Anne Willoughby, widow of Sir Rotherham Willoughby who had died by July 1634, and daughter of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, Yorkshire. He was succeeded by his son John. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Morton,_1st_Baronet)
(Burke, John esq & Burke, John Bernard , esq: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. 2nd ed. London MDCCCXLIV)
Family and Education b. 1 Feb. 1593, 1st s. of Sir George Morton of Winterbourne Clenston, Dorset and Katherine, da. of Sir Arthur Hopton† of Witham Friary, Som. educ. M. Temple 1612. m. Anne, da. of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorks., wid. of Sir Rotherham Willoughby (d.1613) of Aston Rowant, Oxon., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. suc. fa. 1611; cr. bt. 1 Mar. 1619.6 d. 28 Feb. 1662.
Constituency Dates
DORSET 1626 -
17 Feb. 1626; DORSET 27
Feb. 1626
Family and
Education
b. 1 Feb. 1593, 1st s. of Sir
George Morton of Winterbourne Clenston, Dorset and Katherine, da. of Sir Arthur
Hopton† of Witham Friary, Som. educ.
M. Temple 1612. m.
Anne, da. of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorks., wid. of Sir Rotherham
Willoughby (d.1613) of Aston
Rowant, Oxon., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. suc.
fa. 1611; cr. bt. 1 Mar.
1619. d. 28 Feb. 1662.
Offices Held
Commr. piracy, Dorset
1622; freeman, Weymouth, Dorset 1634; j.p. Dorset 1637-at least 1640, commr. array 1642, roy. contributions 1643, oyer and
terminer 1643,dep.
lt. 1661-d.
Gent. of privy chamber
extraordinary by 1641.
Biography
Morton’s forebears held
Milborne St. Andrew from the early fifteenth century. One of the family sat for
Shaftesbury in 1437, but their most famous member was Cardinal Morton,
archbishop of Canterbury and chief minister to Henry VII. Morton’s father was
‘a man of great note’ in Dorset, and the owner of more than a dozen manors.
However, the estate carried debts of £8,000 when Morton inherited it as a minor
in 1611, and he was also obliged to provide for 11 younger brothers and
sisters. Despite these initial financial problems, he was able to purchase a
baronetcy in 1619. Morton resided chiefly
in Oxfordshire, presumably on his wife’s dower lands, and was therefore little
known in Dorset when he was proposed by his kinsman Sir John Strangways* for a
seat as knight of the shire in 1626. With no significant local following, he
defeated John Browne II* only because the sheriff brazenly manipulated the poll,
disqualifying some of Browne’s supporters. When the Commons
learned of this it voided the election (17 Feb.), but when it was re-run Morton
again beat Browne, albeit by just 13 votes, and with further evidence of fraud.
Having finally secured his seat, Morton kept a low profile in the House, making
no speeches, and receiving no committee appointments. The 1st earl of
Shaftesbury (Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper†) described Morton as ‘of the shape and
temper of his family, large, strong, stout, generous, and plain-hearted; but
wanting conduct [he] had much worsted his estate’. His financial difficulties increased
in the 1630s through his involvement in the affairs of the equally indebted
(Sir) George Horsey*, and he was even reduced to selling his furniture for £400
to his brother-in-law, Edward Pitt*. In 1637 he fled to Wales to evade his
creditors. However, he hadpresumably returned to
Dorset by the outbreak of the Civil War, as he was repeatedly appointed to
royalist commissions there. He subsequently claimed that he had merely taken
refuge with friends in the king’s quarters, and as his entire estate was
already under extent by the end of the conflict, he escaped with a delinquency
fine of £600. Morton drew up his will on 25 Mar. 1656, but lived on for nearly
six more years, dying in London in February 1662. In accordance with his
wishes, he was buried with his ancestors at Milborne St. Andrew, though without
the funeral monument that he had also requested. His affairs were clearly still
in disarray, as his son John, who sat for Poole in the Cavalier Parliament,
took nearly nine years to prove the will.
(http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/morton-sir-george-1593-1662)
Offices Held
Commr. piracy, Dorset 1622; freeman, Weymouth, Dorset 1634; j.p. Dorset 1637-at least 1640, commr. array 1642, roy. contributions 1643, oyer and terminer 1643, dep. lt. 1661-d.
Gent. of privy chamber extraordinary by 1641.
Biography Morton’s forebears held Milborne St. Andrew from the early fifteenth century. One of the family sat for Shaftesbury in 1437, but their most famous member was Cardinal Morton, archbishop of Canterbury and chief minister to Henry VII. Morton’s father was ‘a man of great note’ in Dorset, and the owner of more than a dozen manors. However, the estate carried debts of £8,000 when Morton inherited it as a minor in 1611, and he was also obliged to provide for 11 younger brothers and sisters. Despite these initial financial problems, he was able to purchase a baronetcy in 1619. Morton resided chiefly in Oxfordshire, presumably on his wife’s dower lands, and was therefore little known in Dorset when he was proposed by his kinsman Sir John Strangways* for a seat as knight of the shire in 1626. With no significant local following, he defeated John Browne II* only because the sheriff brazenly manipulated the poll, disqualifying some of Browne’s supporters. When the Commons learned of this it voided the election (17 Feb.), but when it was re-run Morton again beat Browne, albeit by just 13 votes, and with further evidence of fraud. Having finally secured his seat, Morton kept a low profile in the House, making no speeches, and receiving no committee appointments. The 1st earl of Shaftesbury (Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper†) described Morton as ‘of the shape and temper of his family, large, strong, stout, generous, and plain-hearted; but wanting conduct [he] had much worsted his estate’. His financial difficulties increased in the 1630s through his involvement in the affairs of the equally indebted (Sir) George Horsey*, and he was even reduced to selling his furniture for £400 to his brother-in-law, Edward Pitt*. In 1637 he fled to Wales to evade his creditors. However, he had presumably returned to Dorset by the outbreak of the Civil War, as he was repeatedly appointed to royalist commissions there. He subsequently claimed that he had merely taken refuge with friends in the king’s quarters, and as his entire estate was already under extent by the end of the conflict, he escaped with a delinquency fine of £600. Morton drew up his will on 25 Mar. 1656, but lived on for nearly six more years, dying in London in February 1662. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried with his ancestors at Milborne St. Andrew, though without the funeral monument that he had also requested. His affairs were clearly still in disarray, as his son John, who sat for Poole in the Cavalier Parliament, took nearly nine years to prove the will. (https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-George-Morton-MP-1st-Baronet/6000000019806949259)
Kinders:
s.1. William WiILLOUGHBY of
Carlton x Elizabeth Pusey, d.v. Timothy Pusey, Esq of Pewsey in Com. Nottingham.
At
Selston sometimes lived Mr. Jay. And since that house hath been purchased by
Mr. Timothy Pusey, who made it his place of residence; he left only three
daughter his heirs, one whereof (Sarah the eldest) was married to Gervas
Clifton, eldest son of Sir Gervas, but she died without issue; another was wife
of—Brooks of Norton in Cheshire; and the other which succeeded in this place,
was first married to William Willoughby, Esquire, (descended from the family of
Normanton on Sore, where the genealogy is therefore placed), and afterwards to
Sir John Cooke of Melbourne, by whom she had no issue; but by her former husband
she left Sir Will. Willoughby, Bart. and Mary, the wife of Beaumonte Dixie,
Esquire, who is now become the Inheritrix of this place, by reason that the
said Sir William Willoughby her brother left no heirs of his body lawfully
begotten. He was very rich, and had the Lordship of Wortley in Yorkshire, by
the settlement which his great grandmother the Countess of Devonshire made of
it; but it returned also to the heirs general of the Wortleyes. He had two
natural sons by the wife and widow of — Revell a Black smith, one called
Richard Revell, the other Hugh Willoughby (who is now dead 1675,) for both
which he made good provision in his Will, which his said sister and her husband
have with great expence and loss, vainly hitherto endeavoured to destroy, it
being strongly supported by the diligence and interest of Mr. Francis
Willoughby of Wollaton, to whose son he gave the Lordship of Muscam: he died at
Selston, Feb. 10, 1670, and had a solemn funeral in the beginning of May (as I
remember) next ensuing. (Throsby, John, ed. : Robert Thoroton, 'Selston', in Thoroton's
History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 2, Republished With Large Additions (Nottingham,
1790), pp. 264-266)
s.2. Seun MORTON, jonk dood.
s.3. John MORTON, c.1628-99 of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset x 12/08/1662 Eleanor Fountaine, oorl. 1671, d.v. John Fountaine,
serjeant-at-law, of Wood Dalling, Norf., s.p; xx lic. 24/02/1676 met Elizabeth Culme, d.v. Benjamin Culme, DD, dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
Constituency dates: Poole 16 May 1661 - Jan 1679; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Oct 1679 - Mar 1681; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1685 - 1687; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1689 - 1695.
Constituency dates: Poole 16 May 1661 - Jan 1679; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Oct 1679 - Mar 1681; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1685 - 1687; Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1689 - 1695.
