Sir John Chaworth Knight [17173] ²⁵

  General Notes:

knighted 1533, at the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutAnneBoleyn.htm>, and dates his will in "...the fift and sext years of the reignes of our sovraigne lord and lady Philippe and Marie by the grace of God King and Queene of England Spayne, france, both Cicilles Jerlem and Ireland. Defenders of the Faith...". Will proved 1559; Dame Mary, his widow, Sir Gervase Clifton, Knight, and John Manners, Esq. <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnManners.htm>, were the executors. Sir John leaves by will "...that my dearly beloved wif Dame Marie Chaworth for that she shall be the more able to mayntayne and kepe a substanciall house at Wyverton after my decease which my will and desire is she shall so do, I give unto her one acre of wood to be had and taken within my wods of Ep'ston and Burton Jorce yerly during her life to be taken for firewode and spent at Wyverton...". He also expresses a wish that an "...honest house be kepte at my house at Wyverton one half yere after my death, so that my household servants resorting thither may have meate and drynke so oft as they com...". Another bequest orders "...500 loodes of stones to be gathered in the fieldes of Bingham and Tithbye and to be lade in the lane at Wyverton...". He also leaves to every parish church in Notts., Derbyshire, and Leicestershire "...having dyvine service wekely...", where he has any land, 6s. 8d., and that quarries of glass, coloured with his arms, shall be set in every one of the churches, that "...the people seeing the same may be the rather moved to pray for me...". Sir John Chaworth and his wife lie buried under a handsome alabaster tomb in the north transept of Langar Church, and by the curious inscription round it, it would appear that husband and wife died in the same month. Glover gives the translation as follows: "Here lyeth Sir John Chaworth . . . who died at Wyverton 3rd Sept. 1558... His 2nd wife Mary daur of Sir Wm Fasten died in the year and month aforesaid, and together with him is here buried, who being joined together in this tomb, I pray may be joined together in Heaven. Thus life gave what death was not able to give". Perhaps this is only to be taken allegorically, as Dame Mary appears to have proved the will in the following year.

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHAWORTH.htm#John%20CHAWORTH%20(Sir%20Knight)1

John married Elizabeth Compton [28388] [MRIN: 12945], daughter of Edmund Compton [28389] and Joan Aylworth [28390], about 1528 in Dorset, England. (Elizabeth Compton [28388] was born in 1489 in Buckwell, Somerset, England.)

John next married Mary Paston [17174] [MRIN: 8186], daughter of Sir William Paston [16675] and Bridget Heydon [17163], about 1548. (Mary Paston [17174] was born about 1520 in Wiverton, Nottinghamshire, England, died on 30 Sep 1583 in Wiverton, Nottinghamshire, England and was buried in Langar, Nottinghamshire, England.)