Mary Mildmay

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mildmay

Walter Mildmay married Mary Walsingham (died 16 March 1576), a daughter of William Walsingham by his wife Joyce Denny, a daughter of Edmund Denny, a Baron of the Exchequer, and a sister of Sir Francis Walsingham. By his wife he had issue including:

• Sir Anthony Mildmay (d.1617), of Apethorpe, eldest son and heir, an ambassador to France, who married Grace Sharington by whom he had one daughter Mary Mildmay.
• Humphrey Mildmay of Danbury Place, Essex, father of Sir Henry Mildmay;
• Winifred Mildmay, wife of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Gains Park, Essex;
• Martha Mildmay, wife of Sir William Brouncker;
• Christiana Mildmay, wife successively of Charles Barrett of Aveley in Essex, and Sir John Leveson of Kent, Knight.

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Early Modern Female Book Ownership > “Walter Travers, A full and plaine declaration of Ecclesiasticall Discipline (1574)” < link >

This book, which advocated that the English church should do away with government by bishops and move instead to a Presbyterian model, was sufficiently unorthodox to be printed abroad, by Michael Schirat in Heidelberg, in order to evade censorship. While it was likely to have been smuggled into England in a barrel, the elaborate binding betrays a book that was anything but hidden by its first owner.

And to compound the public association with this illicit text, that owner, Mary Mildmay (1527/8–1577), wrote her name boldly across the title page, making it clear that this was very much her book, not her husband’s. The complex subject matter of the work, and the quality of her handwriting, both imply that she was an exceptionally well-educated member of the elite. …

References

• “Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government.” Stanford E. Lehmberg. GoogleBooks
• https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/publications/EmmanuelHeraldry.pdf
• Visitation of Essex 1612 Page 251: Mildmay Archive.Org
• https://moulshamhistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/thomas-and-walter-...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apethorpe_Palace Apethorpe was left to Princess Elizabeth in her father's Henry VIII's will. In April 1551 Sir Walter Mildmay acquired it from Edward VI in exchange for property in Gloucestershire and Berkshire. Queen Elizabeth dined with Mildmay at Apethorpe on her progress in 1562, 1566 and 1587. He added a stone chimney-piece with her words engraved dated 1562, and after his death it was inherited by his eldest son Sir Anthony Mildmay (c. 1549–1617), from whom Apethorpe passed to his daughter Mary (1581/2–1640) and her husband, Sir Francis Fane (1617), later Earl of Westmorland. Apethorpe remained in the Fane family for nearly three centuries.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20085/mary-mildmay
• “Brief memoir of the Mildmay family”. by Mildmay, Herbert A. St. John. “Genealogy”. Page 238. Archive.Org
• Visitation of Essex 1612 Page 251: Mildmay Archive.Org