Martin Bowes
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Sir Martin Bowes was a very prominent and active civic dignitary of Tudor London whose career continued through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Born into the citizenry of
Sir Martin Bowes in 1562 (Broke Hall portrait)
Debased testoon 1544–1547
Tower Place in Woolwich, built by Bowes in the 1540s
Thomas Seckford
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Thomas Seckford or Thomas Sakford Esquire was a senior lawyer, a "man of business" at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, a landowner of the armigerous Suffolk gentry, Member of Parliament, and public ben
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…composed later than 1566, for Elizabeth was still very much alive, and remarried (at St Mary Woolnoth on 5 February 1566/67) to the Master of Requests, Thomas Seckford, Esquire, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. She lived until 1586, when, on 8 October, Sir Martin Bowes's vault was re-opened to receive her body. Thomas Seckford…
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards: the supposed Seckford figure is seated mid-left.
Porch of Great Bealings church, with carved inscription and angel turrets. The Seckford arms appear in the dexter spandrel of the arch
Seckford Hall, Great Bealings: main range entrance, south-western side (begun after 1553)
Woodbridge Shire Hall, built by Seckford as an open market with courtroom above, later modified