46 Notes on Lacock Abbey. 
400,000 crowns, from the French King, Henry II., for the cession 
of Boulogne. He died whilst in office as Sheriff of Wilts, apparently 
July 8th, 1553.1. His monument, in Lacock Church, which by the 
date on it—1566—was not erected till about thirteen years after his 
death, exhibits armorial bearings referring to his marriages; firstly 
to Ursula, natural daughter of John Bourchier, Lord Berners, the 
translator of Froissart; secondly to Elyanor, daughter of William 
Walsingham, and sister? of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of 
State to Queen Elizabeth; and thirdly to Grace Farington, of 
Farington, in Devonshire, widow of Robert Paget, Alderman of 
London. Sir William Sharington left no issue,5 and his estates 
passed to his brother Henry, who married Anne, daughter of Robert 
Paget and his wife Grace. 
Henry Sharington received Queen Elizabeth at Lacock Abbey in 
1574, and was knighted in the same year. Sir Henry Sharington’s 
eldest daughter, Ursula, was the first wife of Thomas, eldest son of 
Sir Ralph Sadleir, of Standon, in Hertfordshire, the statesman of 
Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, and died without issue. 
His second daughter, Grace, married Sir Anthony Mildmay, of 
Apthorpe, in Northamptonshire, and was ancestress of the present 
Earl of Westmoreland. His third daughter, Olive, matried, firstly, 
John Talbot, of Salwarpe, in Worcestershire; and secondly, Sir 
1 Court of Wards Deeds, 94, D. No. 2 (Extract of Great Roll of Pipe), in Record 
Office, seems to fix the date. There are also extant, in the Record Office, orders 
signed by Lady Jane Gray, as Queen, dated July 14th, 1553, for the making of 
letters patent to constitute Edward Baynard (of Lackham) Sheriff of Wilts, in 
the place of Sir William Sharington, late sheriff, deceased, and by Queen Mary, 
in identical terms, antedated at Framlingham, July 6th, 1553, being the date of 
the death of Edward VI. These documents are, I understand, given in fac.simile 
in the great work on National Manuscripts, and also in the Leisure Hour 
for 1889, page 326, in an article on the “ Handwriting of our Kings and Queens.” 
2TI am informed by C. H. Athill, Esq., Richmond Herald, that this is con- 
clusively proved by the records of the Heralds College. The arms of this 
alliance, viz., Sharington impaling Walsingham and Writle quarterly, original 
glass of the sixteenth century, are preserved in the windows of the modern hall. 
3. No male issue, at any rate; but a note added from some “ Visitation of 
1623 ” to the pedigree taken “from the Visitation of Wiltshire, 1565” (Bowles 
and Nichols, p. 298), states that he “ had issue Margaret, wife of William Barnes, 
of London.” 
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