MDDM Ch. 60 Latimers, Wyvils, or Mowbrays

Sun Jun 23 21:08:02 CDT 2002

"He would have much preferr'd a Dragon, Dragons
having, from time to time, in County Durham, chosen to
infest the roads and lay desolate the countryside,--
it falling, usually, to such known antidraconical
families as the Latimers, Wyvils, or Mowbrays, to
respond." (M&D, Ch. 60, p. 590)

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
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> 590.26 Latimers, Wyvils, or Mowbrays ?

Latimers, or Wyvils, or Mowbrays--oh my ...

Latimers

The Dragon of Well 

This 'true' dragons reign of terror was brought to an
end by a young knight named Latimer. He concealed
himself in a spiked barrel, and when the dragon
attempted to bite into it it succeeded only in
wounding itself. Once it was sufficiently wounded, he
emerged and finished the horror off. From then on a
dragon appeared on the armourial bearings of the
Latimer family.

http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.goodwin/dragons.htm

Hugh Latimer (148?-1555) was famous as a preacher. He
was Bishop of Worcester in the time of King Henry, but
resigned in protest against the King's refusal to
allow the Protestant reforms that Latimer desired.
Latimer's sermons speak little of doctrine; he
preferred to urge men to upright living and devoutness
in prayer. But when Mary came to the throne, he was
arrested, tried for heresy, and burned together with
his friend Nicholas Ridley. His last words at the
stake are well known: "Be of good cheer, Master
Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light
such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace
shall never be put out."

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/l.html

Wyvils

Robert Wyvil, Bishop of Salisbury

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgbmxd/success1.htm

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/w.html

WYVILL, of CONSTABLE-BURTON, co. York.
25 Nov. 1612

Sir MARMADUKE WYVILL, of Constable-Burton was created
a Bart. as above; he d. 1648, and was succeeded by his
eldest son,

Sir CHRISTOPHER 2d bart., was succeeded by his eldest
Son,

Sir WILLIAM, 3d bart., who had, besides other issue, 2
sons, sir MARMADUKE, 4th bart., and Darcy, who had
issue 2 sons,

William, who settled in America, and Edward.

Sir MARMADUKE-ASTY WYVILL, 6th bart., (grandson of sir
Marmaduke, 4th bart, above named,) d. s.p. in 1774,
when the title devolved on his cousin sir Marmaduke,
eldest son of William, the settler in America, above
named, and is at present in his issue male, if any
such be in existence; if not, the title is vested in
the representative of Edward Wyvill, next brother of
the said William.

Arms---Gules, three cheveronels, interlaced, vaire,
and a chief, or.

Crest---A dragon, argent

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/baronets/wyvill.htm

Men like Wyvill and Wilkes were philosophical radicals
who wanted constitutional reform for its own sake
whereas many working men wanted constitutional reform
as a first step towards social and economic betterment
for themselves and their families.

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/corrsoc.htm

In this lecture we move on to another of the four
major themes this course will be addressing in its
analysis of eighteenth and nineteenth century British
politics, that of radicalism and reform. I hope to
give a general introduction of the nature of
radicalism in the latter half of the eighteenth
century before moving onto a discussion of the
particular strains of reform personnified by John
Wilkes and the Reverend Christopher Wyvill.

[...]

Christie, in his book, Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform, sees
an overtly political motive for the increase in
radical activity after the accession of George III. He
argues that the reform movement in Britain derived its
momentum from 'the resentments of frustrated
minorities already in the enjoyment of constitutional
rights who were unable to rectify circumstances of an
entirely temporary character to which they were
opposed'. Chrisite dates the beginning of the radical
renaissance to the mid 1750s and the start of the
Seven Years War when Pitt insisted that British
interests should not be sacrificed to George II for
his electorate of Hanover. The nation triumphed over
the court....

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/courses/gender/rad.html

Christie, I.R.  Wilkes, Wyvill And Reform:
   The Parliamentary Reform Movement in British
   Politics, 1760-1785.   London: Macmillan, 1962.

Mowbrays

The founder of the Mowbray family was one Roger
Mowbray (d. ~1188). The Dictionary of National
Biography has two alternative accounts of where he
died. He fought on the Crusades and was captured by
Saladin along with King Guy of Jerusalem, and
subsequently ransomed and released. The first version
of the story says that he died shortly afterwards and
is buried at Tyre (now Tel Aviv) in what was then
Palestine. The second version, which I prefer, says
that he returned home, coming upon a valley called
Saranelles, where he found a lion fighting with a
dragon. He slew the dragon, and the lion was so
grateful that it followed him home to his castle at
Thirsk in Yorkshire where he died. It then says that
he is buried at nearby Byland Abbey - which he
founded.

[...]

Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk

Skipping forward 200 years, we come to Isabel's
father, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, who was a
supporter of the ill fated King Richard II. His career
was the peak of the Mowbray's fortunes, and also ended
them. He fell out with the future Henry IV (1367-1413)
(their dispute is described in Shakespeare's "Richard
II" ) which resulted in them both being exiled. He
died in Venice in the following year, 1399, where
(according to Jan Morris' book "Venice") he was buried
at the Basilica of San Marco.

[...]

I found the image to the left over a gateway in
Venice. It looks like the Mowbray's rampant Lion
crest, but it does not look like it is 600 years old,
and the angel is a little too saintly to be anything
to do with Thomas. The interesting thing about Thomas
and Venice is that the two patron saints of Venice are
Saint Theodore, who killed a Dragon, and Saint Mark,
whose symbol is the Lion. These two emblems are
everywhere in Venice; they must have reminded Thomas
of his ancestor Roger. Thomas was a mere 33 years old
when he died.

http://www.rotwang.freeserve.co.uk/Images/MowbrayCrest.jpg

http://www.rotwang.freeserve.co.uk/Mowbray.html

And see as well ...

John Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections (1862 [1659-1670])
...

http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/Aubrey_names.htm

http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/Aubrey.htm

The Durham Cathedral Registers (1609-1837) ...

http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/Transcriptions/DUR/DCA.html

Who's Who in British History: Beginnings to 1901 ...

http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/Contents/BritHisConts.htm

Coming soon to a theater near you ...

http://bventertainment.go.com/movies/reignoffire/

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