MRP: Francis Coventry - Revision history

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 ===Primary sources===
 Letter from Elizabeth Hoskins to Sir GO, ?April 1667, ff. 91-92
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 Letter from Elizabeth Hoskins to Sir GO, October 13th 1667, ff. 52-53
 Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, ?November 1667, ff. 47-51
-Will of Sir Edmund Hoskins, Serjeant at Law 07 February 1665 PROB 11/316 Hyde 1 - 56
+C 5/81/81 Coventry v. Hoskins: Surrey 1689
+C 142/594/68 Coventry, Thomas, lord: Worcester 16 Charles I.
-Somerset Archive and Record Service: Papers of the Combe Family of Earnshill, Curry Rivel: [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddcm&cid=173&kw=francis%20coventry#173 - (14/1) BUCKLAND ST MARY, CHURCHSTANTON, UPOTTERY deeds  DD\CM/173  1634-1799:] Content: ...Sir John Thorold of Marston (co. Lincoln), bart., and wife Dame Margaret (widow of Hon. Francis Coventry of Mortlake, co.Surrey), 1703...
 PROB 4/20624 Coventry, Francis, of St. Andrew, Holborne, Mdx., ob. at Healing, Lincs, esq. 1688 27 Mar. (1687)
-C 142/594/68 Coventry, Thomas, lord: Worcester 16 Charles I.
+PROB 11/316 Hyde 1 - 56 Will of Sir Edmund Hoskins, Serjeant at Law 07 February 1665
-C 5/81/81 Coventry v. Hoskins: Surrey 1689
+Somerset Archive and Record Service: Papers of the Combe Family of Earnshill, Curry Rivel: [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddcm&cid=173&kw=francis%20coventry#173 - (14/1) BUCKLAND ST MARY, CHURCHSTANTON, UPOTTERY deeds  DD\CM/173  1634-1799:] Content: ...Sir John Thorold of Marston (co. Lincoln), bart., and wife Dame Margaret (widow of Hon. Francis Coventry of Mortlake, co.Surrey), 1703...
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 ===Secondary sources===
 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyparishmo00andegoog#page/n86/mode/2up - Anderson, John Eustace, History of the parish of Mortlake, in the county of Surrey, p. 89]
-The Burlington Magazine: Vol. 114, No. 837, Dec., 1972, p. 867 AUTHOR?
+''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 114, no. 837, Dec., 1972, p. 867 AUTHOR?
 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofinnert03inneuoft#page/10/mode/2up - Inderwick, F.A. (ed.), A calendar of the Inner Temple Records, vol. 3 (London, 1901), p. 10]
 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zqwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143&dq=%22francis+coventry%22+%22inner+temple%22&hl=en&ei=QAhlTuD2L8a88gOsk9yhCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22francis%20coventry%22%20%22inner%20temple%22&f=false - MacKinnon, Frank Douglas, Inner Temple papers (London, XXXX), pp. 142-143]
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 ===Potential primary sources===
 Longleat House: The Coventry Papers: [no title]  [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2238-co&cid=90#90 - CO/VOL. CXVI  1657]: Contents:
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 [[MRP: Sir Henry Oxenden|Sir Henry Oxenden]] thought that Sir William Coventry had contributed to the downfall of the Lord Chancellor: "The great L: Chanceller is in disfavoure w:th ye King & he hath taken ye seale from him & given it to S:r Orlando Bridgman, his great ennemys were S:r W:m Coventry & my Lord Arlington secretary of state"<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, ff. 47-51</ref>
-Thomas Foy and Samuell Barnardiston both mention in their letters around the same time that Henry Coventry is a commissioner to Breda to negotiate peace with the Dutch.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
+Thomas Fox and Samuell Barnardiston both mention in their letters around the same time that Henry Coventry is a commissioner to Breda to negotiate peace with the Dutch.<ref>[[MRP: 10th April 1667, Letter from Thomas Fox to Sir GO, London|10th April 1667, Letter from Thomas Fox to Sir GO, London]], XXXX</ref>
 ''Sources:''

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 '''Francis Coventry'''
-'''(b. ca.1612, d. 1699)'''
 '''THIS ENTRY REQUIRES STYLISTIC IMPROVEMENT AND CLEARER LINKAGE TO THE HOSKINS FAMILY AND TO THE OXENDEN FAMILY'''

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-==Francis Coventry==
+'''Francis Coventry'''
 '''(b. ca.1612, d. 1699)'''
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 /12/11, CSG: Restructured headings
-The father of Francis Coventry was, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640).  He was a prominent lawyer of the Inner Temple.  After entering Balliol in 1592, Thomas entered the Inner Temple in 1594, being appointed bencher in 1615, reader in 1616, and treasurer in 1617. He was appointed recorder of London in 1616 and solicitor-general in 1617, when he was knighted.  He was MP for Droitwich 1626 and appointed attorney-general in the same year.  He was lord keeper of the Great Seal from 1625 till his death.  He accumulated considerable wealth during his life.  His legal contemporaries were largely favourable as to his abilities and impact.  Clarendon thought well of his abilities and noted that he spoke largely on legal matters, rather than politics.
+==Francis Coventry==
-−
-'''Engraving of Thomas, first Baron Coventry'''
-−
-[[File:ENGRAVING_Thomas_FirstBaron_Coventry_C18th_From_C17th.jpg|thumbnail|300px]]
-−
-===Francis Coventry's career===
 Francis Coventry was the third son of Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry, but the second son by his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Aldersley, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire.  He was thus a cousin of [[MRP: Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins|Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins]], whose widow he married, since the mother of Sir Edmond was Dorothy Aldersley of Cheshire.
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 Ff.iv, 113.
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-===Coventry family in Sir George Oxenden correspondence===
+==Coventry family in Sir George Oxenden correspondence==
 Francis Coventry impinges ever so slightly in the correspondence of [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]].  Shortly after marrying the widowed Lady Hoskins he wrote to Sir George to introduce himself and to ask for Sir George's continued favour to his now son, Thomas Coventry, whose mother has his letter of attorney.<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96</ref>
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 BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, ff. 47-51
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-= Francis Coventry =
+==Francis Coventry==
 '''(b. ca.1612, d. 1699)'''
 '''THIS ENTRY REQUIRES STYLISTIC IMPROVEMENT AND CLEARER LINKAGE TO THE HOSKINS FAMILY AND TO THE OXENDEN FAMILY'''
-'''Thomas, first Baron Coventry'''
+'''Editorial history'''
 The father of Francis Coventry was, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640).  He was a prominent lawyer of the Inner Temple.  After entering Balliol in 1592, Thomas entered the Inner Temple in 1594, being appointed bencher in 1615, reader in 1616, and treasurer in 1617. He was appointed recorder of London in 1616 and solicitor-general in 1617, when he was knighted.  He was MP for Droitwich 1626 and appointed attorney-general in the same year.  He was lord keeper of the Great Seal from 1625 till his death.  He accumulated considerable wealth during his life.  His legal contemporaries were largely favourable as to his abilities and impact.  Clarendon thought well of his abilities and noted that he spoke largely on legal matters, rather than politics.
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 [[File:ENGRAVING_Thomas_FirstBaron_Coventry_C18th_From_C17th.jpg|thumbnail|300px]]
-'''Francis Coventry's career'''
+===Francis Coventry's career===
 Francis Coventry was the third son of Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry, but the second son by his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Aldersley, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire.  He was thus a cousin of [[MRP: Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins|Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins]], whose widow he married, since the mother of Sir Edmond was Dorothy Aldersley of Cheshire.
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 Francis Coventry's memorial is at Mortlake, Surrey, designed and executed by the sculptor Kidwell. The inscription records his birth at Croome, Worcestershire, and that he was eighty-seven years of age at his death in 1699.  A similar design was used for the memorial to his elder brother, Henry Coventry (d. 1686), which is in Croome, Worcestershire.  A further monument, that to an apparent third brother, William Coventry (d. 1686) is at Penhurst, Kent
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-''Primary sources''
+===Primary sources===
 Letter from Elizabeth Hoskins to Sir GO, ?April 1667, ff. 91-92
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 C 5/81/81 Coventry v. Hoskins: Surrey 1689
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-''Secondary sources''
+===Secondary sources===
 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyparishmo00andegoog#page/n86/mode/2up - Anderson, John Eustace, History of the parish of Mortlake, in the county of Surrey, p. 89]
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-''Potential primary sources''
+===Potential primary sources===
 Longleat House: The Coventry Papers: [no title]  [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2238-co&cid=90#90 - CO/VOL. CXVI  1657]: Contents:
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 Ff.iv, 113.
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-== Coventry family in Sir George Oxenden correspondence ==
+===Coventry family in Sir George Oxenden correspondence===
 Francis Coventry impinges ever so slightly in the correspondence of [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]].  Shortly after marrying the widowed Lady Hoskins he wrote to Sir George to introduce himself and to ask for Sir George's continued favour to his now son, Thomas Coventry, whose mother has his letter of attorney.<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96</ref>

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 '''Thomas, first Baron Coventry'''
-Francis father, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640), was a prominent lawyer of the Inner Temple.  After entering Balliol in 1592, Thomas entered the Inner Temple in 1594, being appointed bencher in 1615, reader in 1616, and treasurer in 1617. He was appointed recorder of London in 1616 and solicitor-general in 1617, when he was knighted.  He was MP for Droitwich 1626 and appointed attorney-general in the same year.  He was lord keeper of the Great Seal from 1625 till his death.  He accumulated considerable wealth during his life.  His legal contemporaries were largely favourable as to his abilities and impact.  Clarendon thought well of his abilities and noted that he spoke largely on legal matters, rather than politics.
+The father of Francis Coventry was, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640).  He was a prominent lawyer of the Inner Temple.  After entering Balliol in 1592, Thomas entered the Inner Temple in 1594, being appointed bencher in 1615, reader in 1616, and treasurer in 1617. He was appointed recorder of London in 1616 and solicitor-general in 1617, when he was knighted.  He was MP for Droitwich 1626 and appointed attorney-general in the same year.  He was lord keeper of the Great Seal from 1625 till his death.  He accumulated considerable wealth during his life.  His legal contemporaries were largely favourable as to his abilities and impact.  Clarendon thought well of his abilities and noted that he spoke largely on legal matters, rather than politics.
 '''Engraving of Thomas, first Baron Coventry'''

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 ''Sources:''
-BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96
+BL, MS. XXXXX, [[MRP: 10th April 1667, Letter from Francis Coventrie to Sir GO, Carshalton| Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667]], ff. 95-96
-BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from James Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, September 30th 1667, ff.15-18
+BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from James Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, September 30th 1667, ff.15-18 CHECK DATE
-BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir William Ryder to Sir George Oxenden, ?October 1667, ff. 27-29
+BL, MS. XXXXX, [[MRP: October 1667, Letter from William Ryder to Sir GO| Letter from Sir William Ryder to Sir George Oxenden, October 1667]], ff. 27-29
 BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, ff. 47-51
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 '''(b. ca.1612, d. 1699)'''
-Francis Coventry was the third son of Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry, and the second son by his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Aldersley, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire.  Francis was thus a cousin of [[MRP: Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins|Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins]], whose widow he married, since the mother of Sir Edmond was Dorothy Aldersley of Cheshire.
+'''THIS ENTRY REQUIRES STYLISTIC IMPROVEMENT AND CLEARER LINKAGE TO THE HOSKINS FAMILY AND TO THE OXENDEN FAMILY'''
 Francis Coventry  was specially admitted to the Inner Temple in 1628 and called to the Bar in 1635.  He joined a strong family legal tradition.  Both his father and grandfather had been distinguished lawyers attached to the Inner Temple.  His eldest brother Thomas Coventry (by his father's first marriage) was specially admitted in 1623, his  brother John Coventry (by his father's second marriage) was specially admitted in 1626.  His brother Henry (by his father's second marriage) was specially admitted in 1633, becoming Secretary of State (1672-1679).  Only William Coventry, his youngest brother, was not admitted to Inner Temple.  It is not clear how actively Francis Coventry senior practised law.  However, he retained his affiliation with the Inner Temple, appearing in Inner Temple records as an officer "for the Grand Christmas" in 1662 and 1663.
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 Francis Coventry's memorial is at Mortlake, Surrey, designed and executed by the sculptor Kidwell. The inscription records his birth at Croome, Worcestershire, and that he was eighty-seven years of age at his death in 1699.  A similar design was used for the memorial to his elder brother, Henry Coventry (d. 1686), which is in Croome, Worcestershire.  A further monument, that to an apparent third brother, William Coventry (d. 1686) is at Penhurst, Kent

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 == Coventry family in Sir George Oxenden correspondence ==
-Francis Coventry impinges ever so slightly in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence.  Shortly after marrying the widowed Lady Hoskins he wrote to Sir George to introduce himself and to ask for Sir George's continued favour to his now son, Thomas Coventry, whose mother has his letter of attorney.
+Francis Coventry impinges ever so slightly in the correspondence of [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]].  Shortly after marrying the widowed Lady Hoskins he wrote to Sir George to introduce himself and to ask for Sir George's continued favour to his now son, Thomas Coventry, whose mother has his letter of attorney.<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96</ref>
-James Oxenden, Sir George's nephew, commented on the fall of Sir William Coventry in 1667, interpreting it together with the fall of Clarendon, as a sign of "many mutations at Court".  Writing from Deane James noted: "S:r Will:m Coventry is also discharged fron his secretaryship to y:e Duke of York & one Mr Wren instated in his Office."
+[[MRP: James Oxenden|James Oxenden]], Sir George's nephew, commented on the fall of Sir William Coventry in 1667, interpreting it together with the fall of Clarendon, as a sign of "many mutations at Court".  Writing from Deane James noted: "S:r Will:m Coventry is also discharged fron his secretaryship to y:e Duke of York & one Mr Wren instated in his Office."<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from James Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, September 30th 1667, ff.15-18</ref>
-Sir William Ryder informed Oxenden of the commissioners chosen to attend treaty negotiations with the Dutch: "“our Comissioners are M:r Deputy Jolliffe M:r Tho: Papillion, & Majer Rob: Tomson, to attend his Ma:ties Commissioners Lord Hollis, & Henry Coventry Esq”
+[[MRP: Sir William Ryder|Sir William Ryder]] informed Oxenden of the commissioners chosen to attend treaty negotiations with the Dutch: "“our Comissioners are M:r Deputy Jolliffe M:r Tho: Papillion, & Majer Rob: Tomson, to attend his Ma:ties Commissioners Lord Hollis, & Henry Coventry Esq”<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir William Ryder to Sir George Oxenden, ?October 1667, ff. 27-29</ref>
-Sir Henry Oxenden thought that Sir William Coventry had contributed to the downfall of the Lord Chancellor: "The great L: Chanceller is in disfavoure w:th ye King & he hath taken ye seale from him & given it to S:r Orlando Bridgman, his great ennemys were S:r W:m Coventry & my Lord Arlington secretary of state"
+[[MRP: Sir Henry Oxenden|Sir Henry Oxenden]] thought that Sir William Coventry had contributed to the downfall of the Lord Chancellor: "The great L: Chanceller is in disfavoure w:th ye King & he hath taken ye seale from him & given it to S:r Orlando Bridgman, his great ennemys were S:r W:m Coventry & my Lord Arlington secretary of state"<ref>BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, ff. 47-51</ref>
-A Thomas Foy and Samuell Barnardiston both mention in their letters around the same time that Henry Coventry is a commissioner to Breda to negotiate peace with the Dutch.
+Thomas Foy and Samuell Barnardiston both mention in their letters around the same time that Henry Coventry is a commissioner to Breda to negotiate peace with the Dutch.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
 ''Sources:''
-Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir GO, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96
+BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Francis Coventry to Sir George Oxenden, April 10th 1667, ff. 95-96
-Letter from James Oxenden to Sir GO, September 30th 1667, ff.15-18
+BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from James Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, September 30th 1667, ff.15-18
-Letter from Sir William Ryder to Sir GO, ?October 1667, ff. 27-29
+BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir William Ryder to Sir George Oxenden, ?October 1667, ff. 27-29
-Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir GO, ff. 47-51
+BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, ff. 47-51
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	Somerset Archive and Record Service: Papers of the Combe Family of Earnshill, Curry Rivel: [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddcm&cid=173&kw=francis%20coventry#173 - (14/1) BUCKLAND ST MARY, CHURCHSTANTON, UPOTTERY deeds DD\CM/173 1634-1799:] Content: ...Sir John Thorold of Marston (co. Lincoln), bart., and wife Dame Margaret (widow of Hon. Francis Coventry of Mortlake, co.Surrey), 1703...		Somerset Archive and Record Service: Papers of the Combe Family of Earnshill, Curry Rivel: [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddcm&cid=173&kw=francis%20coventry#173 - (14/1) BUCKLAND ST MARY, CHURCHSTANTON, UPOTTERY deeds DD\CM/173 1634-1799:] Content: ...Sir John Thorold of Marston (co. Lincoln), bart., and wife Dame Margaret (widow of Hon. Francis Coventry of Mortlake, co.Surrey), 1703...
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		+	PROB 4/20624 Coventry, Francis, of St. Andrew, Holborne, Mdx., ob. at Healing, Lincs, esq. 1688 27 Mar. (1687)
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		+	C 142/594/68 Coventry, Thomas, lord: Worcester 16 Charles I.
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		+	C 5/81/81 Coventry v. Hoskins: Surrey 1689

	''Secondary sources''		''Secondary sources''