SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557- 83 



namely, William Cavendish, sold the Manor of Cavendish in 

 Suffolk, from which the family take their name, in the year 

 1569. 



At Welbeck there is a pocket book of Sir William Cavendish 

 in which he has entered several particulars of his marriages and 

 of his children. 



I married first Margaret, daughter of Edward Bostotk, of Whatcross, 

 in Cheshire, esquire. 



By this marriage there were one son and two daughters who 

 died early, and two daughters who grew to maturity. 



(i) Catherine, married to Thomas Broke, son to Thomas, 

 Lord Cobham. 



(2) Anne, married to Sir Henry Baynton, knt. 



It was during this marriage that Sir William Cavendish was 

 appointed a Commissioner for Dissolving the Monasteries, of 

 which we shall speak further on. There is extant a document 

 in the Record Office which runs as follows : — 



To Wm. Cavendisshe and Margaret his Wife, Pardon for having 

 acquired to themselves and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder 

 in default of issue to the right heirs of the said William for ever of 

 Thomas Lord Audley of Walden the Lord Chancellor the Manor called 

 Bircheholt, Heits., and the Messuage Lands, etc., called Bircheholt in 

 Hertyngfordbury, Herts., without royal licence. 



Margaret, his first wife, died 32 Henry VIH., and was buried 

 in the church of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, under the monument 

 of Alice Cavendish, his mother. 



Here lyeth buried under this stone Margaret Cavendishe late Wife of 

 William Cavendishe, which William was one of the sonnes of the above- 

 named AUce Cavendishe, which Margaret dyed the 16 June in the year 

 of our Lord God MCCCCCXL., whos soul Jesu pardon. 

 " Heven blis be here mede 

 Yat for the sing, prey or rede." 



During the years 1538-9, Sir W. Cavendish was very busy in 

 taking the submission of the abbots, priors, prioresses, monks, 

 and nuns of many monasteries and nunneries, and assigning 

 pensions to them, and selling up all the internal fittings, the 

 painted glass, the vestments, the corn and cattle, and all belong- 

 ings excepting the lands, which usually were granted as a free 



