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Notes
See Surrey Archaeological Collections, XXXIX (1930), 62, and British Museum MSS., Additional 28, 191, A-D. The latter is the manuscript on which the present article is based. Bludder's estate had been sequestered and the case reviewed by 22 September 1646. See Calendar State Papers Domestic Charles I, 1645-47, p. 472. The inventory appears on a long narrow roll of paper.
He was elected in 1621, 1624, 1625, 1626, and 1628, and in the Short Parliament. "He was the only one of the Surrey members of the Long Parliament who was a consistent Royalist." See Surrey Archaeological Collections, XXXIX (1930), 62.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I, 1627-28, pp. 448, 450. The office was granted with a fee of 2 s. per diem during his life, "to commence with the death of Sir Alexander Brett." Brett may have been a relative of Bludder's future third wife Elizabeth Brett.
See R. B. Davis, "George Sandys v. William Stansby: the 1632 Edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis," The Library, 5th Series, III (December 1948), 193-212.
Bludder's and fourteen other elegiac poems by various hands are listed as included in a manuscript volume by John Gauden, Bishop of Worcester, in memory of Lady Ann Rich. Bishop Gauden's own title contribution was The Shadow of the (sometimes) Right Faire, Vertuous, and and Honourable Lady Anne Rich now an Happy, Glorious and Perfected Saint in Heaven. The manuscript is listed for sale in A Catalogue [No. 106] of Manuscripts and Autograph Letters of Literary . . . Interest Offered for Sale by Percy Dobell & Son, Tunbridge Wells, 1949, p. 3.
See Alexander Brown, Genesis of the United States, 2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1897, II, 830; and Surrey Archaeological Collections, XI (1893), 197.
Admitted in November 1615 "Thomas Bludder, Flanchford, Surrey. Eldest son of Sir Thomas Bludder, Knt." Surrey Archaeological Collections, XIV, (1899), 26.
The elder Sir Thomas died on 1 November 1618 (Surrey Archaeological Collections, III (1865), n. p. [actually pp. 368-9], "Visitations of Surrey."
In "Visitations of Surrey," (cf. note 15 supra) she is referred to in the family genealogy only as his wife, mother of "Georgius Bludder," "unus anni a° 1623." Yet she is referred to elsewhere (Surrey Archaeological Collections, XI (1893), 197) as the third wife who erected the tablet to his memory. For John Chamberlain's reference to Lady Bludder, see note 18 below.
For in Norman E. McClure, ed., The Letters of John Chamberlain, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1939, II, 429, under date of 30 March 1622 in a letter to Sir Dudley Carleton, is the remark that "the last weeke the Lady Bludder lay in at Denmarke House where the Lord Treasurer, Lord Marques, and Countess of Buckingham were gossippes." McClure identifies this Lady Bludder as Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Brett, and third wife of Sir Thomas Bludder.
Surrey Archaeological Collections, XIV (1899), 68. Bludder's property is located incidentally as adjacent to the "Tenement with a Garden" of a Mr. Rice in this section. Presumably Bludder's property might have been described in similar fashion.
R. B. McKerrow, A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers, 1557-1640 (1910), pp. 31-33, contains a sketch of John Bill Senior. John Junior was to succeed his father as King's Printer, and was to rise in the world socially as a major in the Royal army and as husband of a daughter of the Earl of Westmoreland (Notes & Queries, 4th Series, III, 561). Like Bludder, John Bill, Junior, was "sequestrated" (in 1648) for his activities in the King's cause.
See Henry R. Plomer, Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers and Stationers from 1492 to 1630 (1903), p. 51, for the date of Bill's death: before 12 May 1630. See note 17 above for evidence that in 1636/7 Jane was Bludder's wife.
The family Bible and its inscription reproduced below gives the date of Bill's birth. Information as to his printing career appears in McKerrow, Dictionary, pp. 31-33.
For this will see Plomer, Abstracts, pp. 51-4 and McKerrow, Dictionary, p. 33. The will lists three sons, John, Charles, and Henry (McKerrow, p. 33). For more information regarding John Bill's activities, see Notes & Queries, 4th series, II, 300; III, 457, 606; 8th series, XI, 282-5; Historical Manuscripts Commission, 6th Report (1877), Pt. 1., pp. 229-30; E. A. Arber's A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 A. D., IV (1877), 283-5.
Even many John Marshalls. E.g., see C. H. Hopwood, ed., Middle Temple Records, (4 vols., 1904-5), I, 181; II, 871.
"Visitation of Surrey," in Surrey Archaeological Collections, XI (1893), 239. This John married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Taylor, M. D. The younger was the third son of the elder John Marshall.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I, 1637/8, p. 602, items 71 and 72. The commissions are dated 22 August 1638.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I, 1635-36, p. 119. A Captain John Marshall of the infantry of Charles I emigrated to Virginia in 1650 (see Notes & Queries, 10th series, XII, 467, and Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I, 1644, p. 399).
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