High Sheriffs of Bedford

11 November 1616: Roger Burgoyne [4]

6 November 1617: Sir Oliver Luke[4]
9 November 1618: Sir Edmund Conquest[4]
1623: Sir Francis Clarke[4]
1640: John Burgoyne[4]
1661: Sir Roger Burgoyne, 2nd Baronet[6]
1662: Francis Wingate[6]
16 November 1693: John Eston[6][39]
16 December 1697: Sir John Burgoyne[6][44]
20 November 1699: Sir John Burgoyne, 3rd Baronet[6
John Burgoyne

Born about 1538 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors
Son of Thomas Burgoyne and Ann (Bowles) Catlin
Brother of Robert Burgoyne, Walter Burgoyne, Margaret Burgoyne and Mary (Catlin) Fowler [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died 26 Apr 1605 at about age 67 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England

John Son of Thomas and Anne Bopwles He died 26 Apr 1605, and his will was proved 5 June the same year. He left £100 to repair the tomb at Sutton
where he wished to be buried with one of his sisters and her husband, Sir Robert Catlin. The will mentions another sister, (stepsister - the daughter of
his mother's second husband) Lady Marie Spencer, his nephew Robert Spencer and a kinsman Oliver Bowles, who was to receive money to study
divinity and to have the benefice at Sutton when a vacancy occurred. As well as making generous provision for a number of servants by name,
Burgoyne left charitable legacies totalling over £160, to the poor of Sutton and other parishes, to prisoners at Bedford, and for repairs to Sutton church
and bridge. His main beneficiary to whom he left his property was his kinsman Roger Burgoyne (and so his cousin), son of his cousin (should be his
uncle) Robert Burgoyne.[1]

BURGOYNE, John (c.1538-1605), of Sutton, Beds.

Family and Education

b. c.1538, 1st s. of Thomas Burgoyne of Sutton by Anne, da. of John Bowles of Wallington, Herts. ?unm. suc. fa. 1546.1

Offices Held
Commr. to enforce Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, dioceses of Lincoln and Peterborough 1571.2
Biography

Burgoyne’s main estates were at Sutton, Dunton and Potton, Bedfordshire,

but he also owned property elsewhere in the county, in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire,
and over the Huntingdonshire border.
He was only about eight when, on the death of his father in August 1546,

he became the ward of Richard Rich†, 1st Baron Rich,

who drew an annuity of 50 marks from the Burgoyne lands until John was granted livery in December 1560.

Soon after taking over the administration of his property he sold lands in Girtford and Sandy, Bedfordshire,
but he later increased his estate by buying in 1565 the manor of Potton Much Manured
and, in 1587, the three parts of the manor of Dunton, with lands at Ashwell, Hertfordshire.3

Burgoyne was returned once for his local borough. In 1564 he was recommended by the bishop of Lincoln as ‘earnest in religion’ and suitable to
become a justice of the peace, but surprisingly, he is not known to have been put on the commission. In June 1595 a patent was issued exempting him
‘aged sixty [sic] and blind’ from the offices of justice of the peace, sheriff, escheator or collector. He was wealthy enough to be asked to subscribe £40
to the Armada fund and to provide a mounted musketeer for the 1601 Bedfordshire musters.4

Burgoyne died 26 Apr. 1605, and his will was proved 5 June the same year. He left £100 to repair the tomb at Sutton w

here he wished to be buried with one of his sisters and her husband, Sir Robert Catlin. T
he will mentions another sister, Lady Mary Spencer, and a kinsman Oliver Bowles,
who was to receive money to study divinity and to have the benefice at Sutton when a vacancy occurred.
 As well as making generous provision for a number of servants by name, Burgoyne left charitable legacies totalling over £160, to the poor
of Sutton and other parishes, to prisoners at Bedford, and for repairs to Sutton church and bridge.5

Robert Catlyn or Catlin was born about 1510. He married Anne, daughter of John Boles, who lived at Wallington in Hertfordshire, and widow of
Thomas Burgoyne, and they had an only child, Mary. He died on 16 Sep 1574 at Newnham Priory in Bedfordshire and in accordance with his wishes

was buried at Sutton in Bedfordshire on 30 Sep 1574.[1] He is an ancestor of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge.

John "High Sheriff of Hertfordshire" Bowles Esq. aka Bolles

Born about 1480 in Wallington, Hertfordshire, England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants
Father of Dorothy Bowles and Ann (Bowles) Catlin

John Bowles Esq. of Wallington, Hertfordshire, England married Ann Devenish of Weston, Herfordshire.[1]
Their children were:
 Richard
 Thomas
 Nicholas
 George
 Ann m.

 Dorothy Bowles (-abt.1557) m. Ralph Rowlett (1513-1571)

 Elizabeth

"John Bowles purchased also the manors of Monks and Montfitchets (q.v.), thus consolidating in Wallington a considerable estate, which he settled
upon his grandson Thomas. (fn. 41) The latter was aged thirteen at his grandfather's death, which took place in 1543. (fn. 42) In his time a single court
was held for his manors in Wallington. In consequence even the tenants of his son and successor Thomas Bowles began to doubt the existence of two
distinct manors of Monks and Wallington, while the existence of Montfitchets was almost forgotten. (fn. 43) Thomas Bowles the younger settled the
Wallington estate on John son of his eldest son Lewis with remainders in succession to Lewis and to the latter's younger brothers, Charles, Thomas
and others. Thomas Bowles died 10 September 1626, (fn. 44) and John, the grandson, on whom the estate had been settled, 28 January 1627–8, (fn.
45) leaving a brother and heir Thomas. Lewis Bowles survived till 1 February 1633–4, when his son Thomas was still living. (fn. 46) It is not clear
whether this Thomas was to inherit under his grandfather's settlement. A Thomas son of Thomas Bowles and probably nephew of Lewis was dealing
with the estate in 1659, (fn. 47) and was possibly the same Thomas who in 1671 sold it to the Rev. John Breton, D.D., Master of Emanuel College,
Cambridge. (fn. 48)."[2] He died in 1543 in Wallington, Hertfordshire, England.[2]

Baldock is a parish and town comprising an area of nearly 144 acres. It was in the possession of the Knights Hospitallers on Sept. 18, 1522 when
Thomas Docwra, the Prior of the Hospitaller's house of St. John of Clerkenwell, granted a lease on the manor of Baldock to John Bowles for a term of
21 years "with all the rents, perquisitions of court, view of francpledge, and profits of fairs and markets for an annual rent of £13".
"This document held at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies refers to a lease held by John Bowles of Baldock going back to 1522. (See website)
He was one of the Commissioners appointed in 1523 to collect the Royal Subsidy in Herts for 4 years In 1538, the Vicar of Baldock parish was under
the patronage of John Bowles, Esq. An inquisition and post mortem was performed on July 3, 1543 after the death of John Bowles and is available at
the Hertfordshire Archives ref. His cousin, Thomas Bowles, was found to be the next heir to the property which is listed as "the Manor and rectory of
Norton; Manor of Montfitchets in Wallington and Clothall; land in Wallington; land in Great Offley called Westbury Wood." John Bowles' Will is
available at the National Archives ref. John Bowles was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1530 and 1543 and Thomas Bowles held the position in 1576
and 1601. He was succeeded in 1602 by Sir Edward Denney of Waltham Abbey who was also the landholder of Tralee and much of county Kerry,
Ireland. The Hertfordshire Archives also have a lease dated Apr. 7, 1660 between Thomas Bowles of Wallington, Esq. and Thomas Bowles, his son,
involving their interest in the Manor of Nortonbury and property at Norton, Baldock and Willian. ref.
Oliver Bowles (died c. 1646) was an English Presbyterian minister and divine.
Life
Oliver Bowles, minister of Sutton, was one of the oldest members of the Westminster Assembly.[1]

All Saints Sutton

14 - Pulpit:
Jacobean, dated 1628 and reputed to have been carved by a former
Rector - presumably Oliver Bowles, Rector from 1606 to 1645.
He attained the degree of B.D., and was tutor to John Preston at Queen's College, Cambridge.[2] He probably died in or before 1646.[3] However,
some sources report that Timothy Cruso was impressed by the dying counsels of Bowles (died 5 September 1674), who advised him never to trouble
his hearers "with useless or contending notions, but rather preach all in practicals".[4] His son was the Presbyterian minister Edward Bowles.[1]

Edward Bowles (1613-1662) was an English presbyterian minister. Bowles was born in February 1613 at Sutton, Bedfordshire. His father was Oliver
Bowles, B.D., minister of Sutton, and one of the oldest members of the Westminster Assembly, also author of 'Zeale for God's House quickned: a Fast
Sermon before the Assembly of the Lords, Commons, and Divines,' 1643, and 'De Pastore Evangelico,' 1649; 1655 and 1659, (published by his son,
and dedicated to the Earl of Manchester).

Bowles was educated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, under Richard Sibbes and Ralph Brownrigge. He was chaplain to the Earl of Manchester, and
after the surrender of York, 15 July 1644, was appointed one of the four parliamentary ministers in that city, officiating alternately at the minster and
Allhallows-on-the-Pavement. On 10 June 1645 the House of Commons voted him £100 as one of the ministers in the army. His preaching was
popular, even with hearers not of his own views. Among the presbyterians of the city and district he was a recognised leader. On 29 December 1657
he wrote to Secretary John Thurloe, urging the suppression of preachers who advocated the observance of Christmas Day.

In 1660 he was active in the restoration of the monarchy, accompanying Fairfax to Breda. A Presbyterian excluded from York Minster, he continued
to preach at Allhallows, and subsequently at St. Martin's, besides conducting a Thursday lecture at St. Peter's. The parishioners of Leeds petitioned the
king in April 1661 for his appointment to that vicarage, but it was given to John Lake. Efforts were made (Calamy says by John Tillotson and Edward
Stillingfleet) to induce him to conform; but when asked in his last illness what he disliked in conformity, he replied 'The whole.' He died just before
the Uniformity Act 1662 came into force, and was buried on 23 August 1662. His wife, who predeceased him, was a granddaughter of Matthew
Hutton, and widow of John Robynson of Deighton.

The Robinson family’s connection to Deighton began in 1596 when Arthur Robinson acquired the manor of Deighton from John Aske. The Aske
family had held the manor since 1542, prior to the Reformation it had been held by St Mary’s Abbey, York.

https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/qr/robinson06.php

Matthew Hutton

Sir Thomas
Hutton

John Elizabeth Edward

Robinson Hutton Bowles
 The most important bit is John Robinson and Elizabzeth Deighton

Sturton-le-Steeple

Sir Geoffrey Fenton (1539-1608), the poet and politician was born in Sturton Le Steeple.

 Edward Fenton (died 1603), the navigator and brother of Geoffrey Fenton was born in Sturton Le
Steeple.
 William Grey, who according to the parish records died aged 119 (b. 23 April 1659 d. 1778).[9]
 John Lassells, who was burnt at the stake in 1546 and is known as a prominent English Protestant
martyr. John Lassells acquired the manor of Sturton in 1540 after the execution of its former owner,
Thomas Lord Darcy.
 Pastor John Robinson was born in Sturton Le Steeple about 1576, the first child of John and Ann
Robinson. John Robinson was the founder of the Pilgrims who sailed to North America on the
Mayflower. Robinson himself died in The Netherlands in 1625.
 John Smythe the theologian and minister was born in Sturton, later dying in The Netherlands in
1612.
 Colonel Francis Thornagh is buried in Sturton after he was killed leading the Parliamentary army
against the Royalists in the Battle of Preston (1648). He was the MP for Retford at his death, which
was announced by Oliver Cromwell in Parliament.

John Mason Robinson, Sr.

Birthdate: 1478
Birthplace: England, United Kingdom
 1548 (69-71)
Death:
Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
Son of John Ralph Robinson and Albreda Gifford
Husband of Ann Robinson
Immediate Family:
Father of Sir John Mason Robinson

Managed by: Rodney Belt Davenport

Last Updated: April 30, 2022

Christopher Robinson, 1645 - 1693

Christopher Robinson was born in 1645, in birth place, to John Robinson and Elizabeth Catherine Robinson
(born Potter).
John was born on August 15 1619, in Cleasby, Middlesex, Yorkshire, England.
Elizabeth was born in 1619, in Cleasby, Yorkshire, England.
Christopher had 19 siblings: Judith Bowles Armistead (born Robinson), Major William Anthony Robinson
and 17 other siblings.
Christopher married Katherine Catherine Robinson (born Armistead).
Katherine was born in 1649.
They had 3 children: Clara Walker (born Robinson) and 2 other children.
Christopher then married Agatha Bertram Robinson (born Obert) circa 1677, at age 32.
Agatha was born in 1652, in of Rappahannock, Middlesex, Virginia.
They had 3 children: Christopher Robinson and 2 other children.
Christopher then married Unknown.
They had 3 children: Unknown Obert and 2 other children.
Christopher lived in 1678, in address, Virginia.
His occupation was a occupation.
Christopher passed away on month day 1693, at age 48 in death place, Virginia.
John Ralph Rio
 John Joan
Burgoyne Bill
1490 in Sutton John
Bowles

Barholomew Robert Elizabeth Thomas Anne Sir Robert

Burgoyne Lytton Burgoyne Bowles Catlin
Lord Chief Justice

Roger Judith Sir Thomas John Mary John

Burgoyne Wroth Wendy Burgoyne Catlin Spencer
(1538-1607)

Joyce Roger Margaret Brother of

Giffard Burgoyne Wendy Katherine Leigh
(Gifford?) Stoneleigh

Julius
Kempe

Friend John Jane Judith Onslow

of Ralph Burgoyne Kempe Burgoyne Winch
Verney (1592–1657
? 1st Baronet Burgoyne of Sutton

Oliver Humphry
Bowles Winch

Edward Elizabeth John Charles

Bowles Hutton Robinson Snelling
‘(Deighton)

William Elizabeth Anne Sir Roger Burgoyne Anne

Love Burgoyne Robinson (?- (1618 – 1677) Snelling
(merchant)
William Abigail Constance Sir John
Hickman Pargiter Lucy Bourgoyne

Charles Anne
Hickman Bourgoyne
DD
 Robert Elizabeth
Burgoyne Lytton

Roger Judith Sir Thomas

Burgoyne Wroth Wendy

Joyce Roger Margaret

Giffard Burgoyne Wendy

Julius
Kempe

Friend John Jane Judith Onslow

of Ralph Burgoyne Kempe Burgoyne Winch
Verney (1592–1657
Charles
Humphry Snelling
Winch
William Elizabeth Sir Roger Burgoyne Anne
Love Burgoyne (1618 – 1677) Snelling

William Abigail Constance Sir John

Hickman Pargiter Lucy Bourgoyne

See link to Bowles

Charles Anne
Hickman Bourgoyne
DD

Family and Education

b. c.1538, 1st s. of Thomas Burgoyne of Sutton by Anne, da. of John Bowles of Wallington, Herts. ?unm.
suc. fa. 1546.1
See Bowles Connection (and slavery … filed with Bowes for the moment in Wray family)

Humphrey Winch’s sister married to Sir Samuel Luke’s son

(Hickman family
see also William Hickman1
Merchant

BURGOYNE, John (c.1538-1605), of Sutton, Beds.

Burgoyne’s main estates were at Sutton, Dunton and Potton, Bedfordshire, but he also owned property
elsewhere in the county, in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, and over the Huntingdonshire border. He was only

about eight when, on the death of his father in August 1546, he became the ward of Richard Rich†, 1st Baron
Rich, who drew an annuity of 50 marks from the Burgoyne lands until John was granted livery in December
1560. Soon after taking over the administration of his property he sold lands in Girtford and Sandy,
Bedfordshire, but he later increased his estate by buying in 1565 the manor of Potton Much Manured and, in
1587, the three parts of the manor of Dunton, with lands at Ashwell, Hertfordshire.3

The Ist Baronet

Sir John Burgoyne, 1st Baronet (c. 1592–1657)

was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1645 to 1648.
He supported the Parliamentarian cause
in the English Civil War.

Burgoyne was the son of Roger Burgoyne, of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and Wroxall, Warwickshire
and his wife Margaret Wendy, daughter of Thomas Wendy, of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.

He was baptised at Haslingfield on 29 January 1592.

 He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 16 April 1607
and admitted at the Middle Temple in October 1611.[1]
His father, who was twice a High Sheriff
acquired the estate of Honily at Sutton in 1625
and built Old Honily Hall.[2]
Burgoyne succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1636.

He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1640

and was created a baronet of Sutton on 15 July 1641.[3]

In 1645, Burgoyne was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire

in the Long Parliament.[4]

He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge.

Claydon House

Sir Roger was a life long friend of Sir Ralph Verney,

he warned him that the Parliament troops
were about to raid his home Claydon House, Buckinghamshire.
Sir Ralph fled to France but returned after several years.

In 1431 he and his wife Alice conveyed Middle Claydon to John Brockley, William Edy and other
feoffees, and they in 1434 bought up outstanding interests in it (fn. 34) arising out of previous feoffments.
(fn. 35)

In 1460 William Edy was sole owner. (fn. 36)

Sir Ralph Verney advanced him money on the security of Middle Claydon, (fn. 37)
and his son and heir John, afterwards Sir John Verney, died seised in 1505. (fn. 38)
In 1514 Sir Ralph Verney obtained livery of this manor as his father's heir, (fn. 39)
and died in 1525, in the minority of his son Ralph, (fn. 40)
who did homage for Middle Claydon in 1536. (fn. 41)

Dying in 1546, (fn. 42) he left Middle Claydon among five sons,
so that on the death of the eldest, Sir Edmund Verney, without issue in 1558,
the next brother,
 Edmund (afterwards knighted, and, to prevent confusion, often called junior),
had the largest interest. (fn. 43)
Edmund died scised of the whole manor in 1600. (fn. 44)
It had been settled by Act of Parliament, in 1597, (fn. 45)
on his widow Mary until their son Edmund had attained his majority. (fn. 46)
In 1620 he purchased from Martin Lister the remainder
of a lease formerly made to Roger Gifford, (fn. 47)
and was the first of the Verneys to reside at Middle Claydon.

Burgoyne died at the age of 65.

Burgoyne married Jane Kempe, daughter of Julius Kempe, of
Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex, b
y whom he had four daughters and three sons.

His son Roger succeeded him in the baronetcy.[3]

The Second Baronet

Sir Roger Burgoyne, 2nd Baronet (1618 – 16 September 1677)

was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons
at various times between 1641 and 1656.

Burgoyne was the son of Sir John Burgoyne, 1st Baronet

of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and Wroxall, Warwickshire,
and his wife Jane Kempe, daughter of Julius Kempe,
of Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex.[1]

He was baptised at Wroxall on 10 March 1618.

He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 22 October 1634

and admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 11 November 1637.[2]

In 1641, Burgoyne was elected Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire in the Long Parliament
after the sitting MP was raised to the House of Lords.[3]
He was knighted on 18 July 1641[4] He sat in parliament until 1648
when he was excluded under Pride's Purge.

In 1656 he was elected MP for Warwickshire

 in the Second Protectorate Parliament.[3]

Burgoyne succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1657.

He presented Edward Stillingfleet, later Bishop of Worcester, to the rectory of Sutton,

where Stillingfleet wrote his Originas Sacra, when he was a young man.[1]

Burgoyne was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1661.[2]

Burgoyne died at the age of 59 and was buried in Sutton church.[1]

Snelling Connection

Burgoyne married Anne Snelling, daughter of Charles Snelling,

merchant of London, by whom he had several children.
He married secondly Anne Robinson, daughter of John Robinson, of Dighton, Yorkshire,
by whom he had further children.
He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John.[1]

By 1640, Thomson was linked George Snelling and Edward Thomas,

also Samuel Vassall and William Felgate, in Virginia
and with West Indies tobacco and provisioning business.

Sir John "3rd Baronet Burgoyne of Sutton" Burgoyne

Born about 1651 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England
Ancestors
Son of Roger Burgoyne Bt and Anne Snelling
Brother of Jane (Burgoyne) Symonds, John Burgoyne, Anne Burgoyne, Mary Burgoyne, Judith Burgoyne,
Elizabeth Burgoyne, Roger Burgoyne [half], Elizabeth Burgoyne [half], Phillipa Burgoyne [half], Anne
Burgoyne [half], Robert Burgoyne [half], Anne Burgoyne [half] and Philadelphia Burgoyne [half]
Husband of Constance (Lucy) Burgoyne — married 18 Jul 1677 [location unknown]
Descendants
Father of Constance Burgoyne, Elizabeth (Burgoyne) Davies, Anne (Burgoyne) Hickman, Roger Burgoyne
Bt, John Burgoyne, Thomas Burgoyne, Lucy Burgoyne, Mary Burgoyne and Robert Burgoyne

Sir Roger "4th Baronet Burgoyne of Sutton" Burgoyne Bt

Born about May 1681 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England
Ancestors
Son of John Burgoyne and Constance (Lucy) Burgoyne
Brother of Elizabeth (Burgoyne) Davies, Constance Burgoyne, Anne (Burgoyne) Hickman [half], John
Burgoyne, Thomas Burgoyne, Lucy Burgoyne, Mary Burgoyne and Robert Burgoyne
Husband of Constance (Middleton) Wren — married 21 Jun 1695 in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn,
London, England
Descendants
Father of Constantia Maria (Burgoyne) Pigott, John Burgoyne Bt and Roger Burgoyne Bt