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Elizabeth Sackville (née Thetcher) 1535 |
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| Date |
1535 - 1535 |
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| Gender |
Female |
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A monument to Richard Sackville and Elizabeth Thetcher (died 1535) shows the husband and wife with one son and one daughter (Pevsner and Nairn, 1965, 372-373). Richard Sackvile wears in furred gown, kneels at a faldstool, with one son similarly dressed behind him; east is his wife Elizabeth, in kennel head-dress, mantle, and kirtle, kneeling at a similar faldstool, with one daughter similarly dressed behind her. No inscription is now legible on the scrolls which surmount both principal figures (Salzman, 1973, 175-80).
The man is dressed in a robe covering his legs and feet, and a gown trimmed with fur, having long dependant sleeves, the arms showing at the upper part. He is clean-shaven, bare-headed, hair long; and has an extended plain scroll. A son kneels behind him dressed in a three-quarter, fur-lined coat and trunk hose. The wife wears a "pedimental" bonnet, girded kirtle with deep cuffs, and a mantle. A bag is attached to her girdle. Behind her kneels a daughter in kirtle and "pedimental" bonnet. (Mosse, 1933, 188).
Richard was the second son of Richard Sackville of Chiddingly, uncle to Thomas, first Lord Buckhurst. His wife Elizabeth, was the daughter of Thomas Thetcher, of West Hampnett Place, a mansion built by a member of the Tawke family, from whom Thetcher acquired it. His people lived at "Presthawes", in the parish of Westham, near Pevensey: still some remains, but the house is very modernized. The ruins of Pevensey Castle were largely drawn upon to build the residence. The Thetchers were marked as "recusants". Hampnett Place, after many changes of ownership, came into the hands of Charles, Duke of Richmond (Mosse, 1933, 189).
Bibliography
Evans, A (undated) Westhampnett: the parish church of St Peter - some notes, historical and architectural on the church, Eastbourne: Sussex Printers
Good, M (2004) The Buildings of England Database, Oxford: Oxford University Press
National Monuments Record (English Heritage), Images of England, (http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk)
Pevsner, N & Nairn, I (1965) The buildings of England: Sussex London: Yale University Press, 372-373
Salzman, L (ed) (1953) Victoria County History of Sussex: Rape of Chichester, 4, 175-80 at URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41735&strquery=westhampnett. Date accessed: 07 August 2007
Mosse, H.R. (1933) The monumental effigies of Sussex (1250-1650), Hove: Combridges,188-9
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