Anne Newcomen was die buite-egtelike dogter van Sir Francis Wortley.
Die tweede Sir Francis Wortley was die eerste geslag oor 'n tydperk van vyf eeue, wat nie 'n manlike erfgenaam gehad het nie. Aangesien hy geen ander kinders gehad het nie, het hy al sy vaste eiendom met sy dood in 1665, aan sy dogter Anne Newcomen nagelaat, op voorwaarde dat die man wat met haar trou, die naam Wortley as sy eie moes aanneem. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt) Dit was uiters ongewoon, aangesien buite-egtelike kinders en hul ma's gewoonlik geïgnoreer is of 'n geskikte man andersins oorreed is (m.a.w. omgekoop) om met die moeder te trou. (A guide to the history of Wortley Hall & its gardens)
Sir Francis Wortley se testament (waarmee daar 'n probleem met handtekeninge was) is onsuksesvol betwis. Die eerste Earl of Sandwich is as een van Anne Newcomen se voogde aangestel en met haar pa se dood is sy onmiddellik na Hinchingbrooke house in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire geneem, waar sy later met sy tweede seun Sidney Montagu getroud is. Anne was ses jaar oud toe Lord Sandwich beheer oor haar geneem het. Dit is moontlik dat sy selfs as 'n kind aan haar toekomstige man verbind was. Soos met meeste gedwonge huwelike, was dit nie 'n gelukkige een nie. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinchingbrooke_House)
I suspect that John Wilson was of influence at this time. It has been suggested that John Wilson acted as parliamentary receiver of the confiscated Wortley estates after the Civil War. In which case, he must have been involved when Sir Francis Wortley II recovered his estates. John Wilson must surely have advised Anne Newcomen Wortley in 1674, when, aged 16, she acquired the advowson of Babworth Church near Retford. John Wilson’s brother, the rev. Charles Wilson, was installed as Rector of Babworth in 1675. John Wilson’s son, the rev. Richard Wilson became Rector of Babworth in 1682 when Charles became vicar of Sheffield. Anne Newcomen Wortley married Sidney Montagu in 1676. Sidney Wortley Montagu assigned the lease of the Wortley Forges to William Simpson of Babworth Hall in 1676. (https://www.topforge.co.uk/wortley-people-in-history/)
Evelyn states the case of the first Duke of Grafton (an illegitimate son of Charles II.), who, when nine years old, was married to the Lady Isabella Bennet, who was only five; but then, she was daughter and heiress of Lord Arlington, and brought with her the Euston Estate, near Thetford, where the Duke of Grafton now lives. When, in 1688, the Prince of Orange sailed for England to take the vacated throne of James II., Mr. Montagu astonished his neighbours, who were not, like himself, in the secret of the intended landing at Torbay, by going several times in the day to a high spot at Wortley, known as the " Wortley Ashes," and there spreading his handkerchief to try which way the wind blew, that he might calculate on the arrival of the Dutch fleet. As these ash trees at Wortley date in age about the time when King William arrived in England, it seems probable that they were planted in commemoration of the great historical event. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)
On the news of the Dutch landing, Wortley Montagu wrote to a neighbouring squire: ‘Pray God send us soon rid of ill guests’. But encouraged by reports of desertion from James’s army, he took a prominent part in the Revolution. He occupied Sheffield with the West Riding militia, and was the second to sign the Yorkshire petition for a free Parliament. He was again returned for Huntingdon to the Convention, and again appointed only to the elections committee. But he was listed as supporting the disabling clause in the bill to restore corporations. (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/wortley-montagu-hon-sidney-1650-1727)
Like her father’s wife, Anne Newcomen was given in marriage “more of ambition than affection” and was in due course forced to demand a separation. Sidney splendidly rebuilt for his mistress a family house about six miles from Wortley. In the Year Lady Mary was born (1689), a bill in parliament settled the maintenance for Ann’s five children during her lifetime. She became a Catholic and moved abroad. Her second son, Edward, always spoke of his father’s conduct towards her with resentment and indignation. He and his elder brother Francis were sent to Westminster School when already in their teens (unusually late) perhaps because of this family break up. They were in time to experience the headship of the terrific disciplinarian, Dr. Busby, on whose death Edward wrote a Latin Poem: Busby made history by bringing the sons of the nobility and upper genry to form the middle class boys at a public school; but Westminster declined steeply towards the end of his long rule. (Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory Professor: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Wortley Montagu continued to sit in Parliament as a Whig with two brief intervals until his death on 9 Nov. 1727, shortly after contesting his 14th election. He was succeeded by his only surviving son Edward, who sat for Huntingdon, Westminster and Peterboroug. (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/wortley-montagu-hon-sidney-1650-1727)
Under George I the chief interest at Peterborough was in its Whig custos rotulorum, the 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam of Milton, 3½ miles from the city, which he represented from 1710 till his death in 1728. During this period the other seat was held by Charles Parker, of a Tory town family, till 1722, when he was defeated by Sidney Wortley, formerly Montagu, a wealthy Whig coal owner, M.P. Peterborough 1698-1710. The dean and chapter, a pro-government body, appointed the returning officer. In 1727 Parker, having been appointed sheriff, which prevented him from standing, used his office to send the precept for the election not to the bailiff of Peterborough, appointed by the dean and chapter, but to the bailiff of Nassaburgh Hundred, whose return of Fitzwilliam and a Tory, Sir Edward O’Brien, he accepted, rejecting that of the bailiff of Peterborough in favour of Fitzwilliam and Wortley. On petitions from the bailiff of Peterborough and the dean and chapter, the House of Commons ordered the indenture returning Fitzwilliam and O’Brien to be taken off the writ and replaced by that returning Fitzwilliam and Wortley, allowing O’Brien to petition on the merits of the election, on which Wortley was declared duly elected, six months after his death in November 1727. Soon afterwards Fitzwilliam also died. No one of their families being available, the vacancies were filled by two wealthy Whig strangers, Joseph Banks and Charles Gounter Nicoll, till 1734, when they were succeeded by Wortley’s and Parker’s sons, Fitzwilliam’s heir being a minor. Wortley’s son retained his seat till his death in 1761, but Parker was succeeded in 1741 by the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam, now of age. Parker recovered his seat on Fitzwilliam’s elevation to the Lords in 1742, but in 1747 he was replaced by the Fitzwilliam family’s agent, Matthew Lamb. Two years later the 2nd Lord Egmont in his electoral survey describes Peterborough as ‘in Wortley Montagu and Lord Fitzwilliam’. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/constituencies/peterborough)
The Hon. Sidney Wortley, of Wortley, will dated 2 April 1726, pro 1 Oct 1728 to be buried at Barnewell, co. Northants. (Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London: 1874)
The year had one last family event in store. On 9 November Sidney Wortley Montagu died at Wharncliffe. He left behind him five successive versions of, or codicils to, his will. His son, now his heir, as he duly read these and endorsed them in his usual business-like style, could see just how his father;s intentions had shifted. Sidney had not believed, any more than Edward, in the eldest son getting everything. His earliest will, 1721, gave Edward a legacy for 1,000 pounds and half the personal estate; it gave his surviving brother John, half the collieries. A codicil of 1722, after brother John’s death, arranged to leave his half in trust, presumably for his son. Sidney remade his will in 1724 and again, almost for the last time, on 2 April 1726. He thought of everything; repaying a large debt incurred by his father-in-law Sir Francis, tying the loose ends of complex property deals, arranging tenancies, doling out legacies to business associated, nephews, and servants, with 400 pounds for the poor of Peterborough and Huntingdon. His son Edward was to receive (besides the entailed Wortley estates, Wortley Hall and some church patronage) just the Barnsley collieries. The surplus of the personal estate (half of it allotted to Edward in 1724) and the Northumberland and Durham mines were now all to go to the executors; these mines were in trust for Edward’s nephew John, til he reached twenty two. The elder John’s widow and daughters were to have annuities. Finally, if Edward should contest the will, everything left to him would also revert to his nephew or nieces. A final version performed some fine-tuning. It provided legacies of 1,000 pounds for Edward, for his late brother John, for Edward’s son and for each living child of John; that is, for every one of Sidney’s grandchildren except Edward’s eight year old daughter. Edward’s endorsements throw no light on the problematic aspects of all this. He was not an executor, he had to wait for his share. P. 260. A separate inventory for Wortley Hall marks everything of value as Carried to (Wharncliffe) Lodge; the Hall, left by Sidney to “fall down” was now to be rebuilt. John Platt of Rotherham set to work on the west wing in 1728. Tradition later said that on Sidney’s death “ it was proposed that they should reside upon the family estate” – that is, obviously, that Wortley proposed this to Lady Mary. She replied that neither the ruined Hall nor the tiny Lodge was possible, but that she would be content to live at St Ellen’s Well, in the elegant house with its busts of goddesses where Sidney had kept his mistress. Her husband in turn could not endure that house, so the matter was closed. Wortley had St Ellen’s Well pulled down. (Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
The year had one last family event in store. On 9 November Sidney Wortley Montagu died at Wharncliffe. He left behind him five successive versions of, or codicils to, his will. His son, now his heir, as he duly read these and endorsed them in his usual business-like style, could see just how his father;s intentions had shifted. Sidney had not believed, any more than Edward, in the eldest son getting everything. His earliest will, 1721, gave Edward a legacy for 1,000 pounds and half the personal estate; it gave his surviving brother John, half the collieries. A codicil of 1722, after brother John’s death, arranged to leave his half in trust, presumably for his son. Sidney remade his will in 1724 and again, almost for the last time, on 2 April 1726. He thought of everything; repaying a large debt incurred by his father-in-law Sir Francis, tying the loose ends of complex property deals, arranging tenancies, doling out legacies to business associated, nephews, and servants, with 400 pounds for the poor of Peterborough and Huntingdon. His son Edward was to receive (besides the entailed Wortley estates, Wortley Hall and some church patronage) just the Barnsley collieries. The surplus of the personal estate (half of it allotted to Edward in 1724) and the Northumberland and Durham mines were now all to go to the executors; these mines were in trust for Edward’s nephew John, til he reached twenty two. The elder John’s widow and daughters were to have annuities. Finally, if Edward should contest the will, everything left to him would also revert to his nephew or nieces. A final version performed some fine-tuning. It provided legacies of 1,000 pounds for Edward, for his late brother John, for Edward’s son and for each living child of John; that is, for every one of Sidney’s grandchildren except Edward’s eight year old daughter. Edward’s endorsements throw no light on the problematic aspects of all this. He was not an executor, he had to wait for his share. P. 260. A separate inventory for Wortley Hall marks everything of value as Carried to (Wharncliffe) Lodge; the Hall, left by Sidney to “fall down” was now to be rebuilt. John Platt of Rotherham set to work on the west wing in 1728. Tradition later said that on Sidney’s death “ it was proposed that they should reside upon the family estate” – that is, obviously, that Wortley proposed this to Lady Mary. She replied that neither the ruined Hall nor the tiny Lodge was possible, but that she would be content to live at St Ellen’s Well, in the elegant house with its busts of goddesses where Sidney had kept his mistress. Her husband in turn could not endure that house, so the matter was closed. Wortley had St Ellen’s Well pulled down. (Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
The
following is entered in Hobson’s diary – 17th October, 1727 – At
Wharncliffe Lodge, Hon. Sidney Wortley, died the Sunday before, about 8
o’clock. He was aged about 78 years, and
son to the Earl of Sandwich, that was killed in the Dutch Wars, 1672 at the
battle of Solebay. “27, November 1727 –
That day Mr. Wortley was carried from Wharncliffe Lodge in order to be buried
at Barwell, near oundle, Northants. (P. 19) (Wortley & the Wortleys: A
Lecture delivered before the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society also
the Rotherham Literary and Scientific Society, by the Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D.
Vicar of Ecclesfield, and Sub-dean of York,, Sheffield. 1877)
Kinders:
u.1. Francis WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 1676 (voor sy pa oorlede).
u.2. Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 08/02/1678,
of Wortley, Tankersley, Yorkshire,
oorl. 01/01/1761, begr. St. Leonard's Churchyard, Wortley, Metropolitan Borough
of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Engeland x 1712 met Lady
Mary PIERREPOINT, geb. 15/05/1689, oorl. 21/08/1762, d.v. Evelyn Duke of
Kingston.
u.3. John WORTLEY MONTAGU, Esq. oorl. 1726
u.6. Ann WORTLEY MONTAGU, ged. 01/08/1683. Nooit getroud
