By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 53 
the only daughter and heir (her brother Arthur, mentioned afterwards 
being illegitimate) of Sir John Robsart, a knight of Norfolk, of 
lineage older than that of the Dudley family.' Her mother, Lady 
Robsart, had been married before, to a Mr. Appleyard, of a very old 
Norwich family : and by him she had a son John Appleyard, Amye’s 
half-brother, whose name I beg you to bear in mind. Robert Dudley, 
«Esquyer,” and Amye were married when quite young (she about 
18, and he about 19 years of age) in A.D. 1550, fourth year of 
King Edward VI. The proofs of their marriage are these. There 
is among the Records in London a settlement on the dady’s side, by 
Sir John Robsart, the father, dated 15th May 1550. There is at 
Longleat a deed of settlement on the husband’s side: which document 
I now produce (Appendix I.). It is dated 24th May, 1550: and 
runs thus: “Between John, Earl of Warwick, K.G., of the one 
part, and Sir John Robsart, Kt., on the other part: witnesseth that 
they are fully agreed that a marriage shortly after the ensealing 
hereof, shall be had and solemnized between Robert Duddeley, Esq., 
one of the younger sons of the said Erle, and Amye Robsart, daughter 
and heir apparaunte to the said Sir John Robsart, if the said Robarte 
and Amye will thereunto condiscend and agree : ” and then continues, 
about lands, &c. These two documents were settlements, in May, 
1550, on the intended marriage. The marriage itself took place on 
4th June, 1550, at Sheen, in Surrey, in the presence of the Court: 
and King Edward VI., then only eleven years old, who kept a little 
diary (now preserved in the British Museum), mentions it, and has 
‘also added a peculiar performance among the festivities ‘of the oc- 
ecasion, which seems to have particularly taken his juvenile fancy. 
©1550. June 4. Sir Robert Dudeley, third sonne to th’ Erle of 
Warwick, maried S. Jon. Robsartes daughter, after wich mariage, 
ther were certain gentlemen that did strive who shuld first take away 
a goose’s head which was hanged alive on two cross posts.” The 
marriage was therefore not in any way clandestine, but public and 
‘notorious as possible. 
1 She is believed to have been born at Stansfield Hall, Norfolk, a house which 
belonged to her father, and which some years ago obtained a horrible notoriety 
from being the scene of the murder of the Jermyn Family by Rush. 
