Nicholas Mynn


Nicholas Mynn


Nicholas Mynn (fl. 1558–1572), of Little Walsingham, Norfolk, was an English politician.

Career

Mynn was a servant of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bramber in 1558, Horsham in 1559, New Shoreham in 1563, Morpeth in 1571 and Castle Rising in 1572.

By 1560 he had moved to Little Walsingham, and he was in the service of the Duke of Norfolk by 1558, when he was in Rome to negotiate for the dispensation regarding Norfolk's second marriage.

Life

According to History of Parliament and the Visitations of Rutland, Nicholas Mynn was the son of John Mynn of Woodcote, Surrey. Other sources say he was the son of Robert Wynne and a daughter of Lord Rich. But almost certainly he was the son of Nicholas Mynne (d.1528), his youngest child, born about 1525–28. The son of John Mynne of Woodcote called Nicholas of Horton was a young man in the 1590s, and his parents could not have married before 1557, when his mother was an unmarried waiting gentlewoman in the household of Anne of Cleves. Nicholas Mynne of Horton, Surrey, gentleman was 12 when he matriculated at Oxford in 1575, so he would have been born in or around 1563.

The earliest one knows for certain of this gentleman is that his career started in 1558.

Family background

The Mynne family tree has been described as a "tangled skein". Some branches can be defined:

The Mynnes of Fransham Parva

In Norfolk, there were three brothers, Nicholas Mynne of Fransham Parva, Norfolk (d.1530), John Mynne of Fransham Little (d.1541/2) and Robert Mynne of East Lexham.

Nicholas Mynne of Fransham Parva

Nicholas Mynne of Fransham Parva in Norfolk (d.1530) had the children:

  1. Nicholas Mynne of St. Bartholomew's Close, London and Epsom, Fransham Magna (d.1528) married Joan Merston (d. 31 October 1540), with whom he had five children. After Nicholas Mynne's death in 1528 his widow Joan remarried to become the first wife of William Saunders.
    • John Mynne of Woodcote (c.1520–1595), eldest son, who married Dorothy Curzon of Croxall in Derby, the half-sister of Joyce Curzon, Dorothy Curzon was born to Thomas Curzon of Croxall Hall, Staffordshire (formerly Derbyshire) and his second wife Elizabeth Lygon. In 1557 she was serving in Anne of Cleves' household as a waiting gentlewoman, together with her married sister Maud (also known as Magdalen) Tatton. John Mynne of Woodcote (c.1520–1595) and Dorothy Curzon had at least three children:
      1. Sir William Mynne of Woodcote and of Horton (1561–1618), gentleman, matriculated at New Inn Hall at Oxford in 1575 aged 14, student of Inner Temple 1585. Knighted in the Royal Garden at Whitehall, on 23 July 1603. He married by indenture of 24 October 1594 Margaret, the daughter of Francis Jermy of Brightwell and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William FitzWilliam in Ireland, and had:
        • John Mynne, who married Alice, daughter of William Hale. John Mynne sold Woodcote and the manor-house of Horton to his second cousin once removed George Mynne of Lincoln's Inn in London in 1626
        • Elizabeth Mynne, married firstly Sir Henry Berkeley, 1st Baronet of Wymondham, Leicestershire, and secondly Sir Hugh Wyndham.
        • Frances Mynne, married Henry Mytton or Mitton of Westminster and Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, Member of Parliament
        • Jane Mynne (b.1612), married at the age of 19, by license dated 28 July 1631, Thomas Hanson of St. Peter, Cornhill, Citizen and Grocer, Bachelor, 27 of age, at St. Peter the Poore
      2. Nicholas Mynne of Horton in Surrey (b. 1563), gentleman, matriculated at New Inn Hall at Oxford in 1575 aged 12, student of Inner Temple 1585
      3. John Mynne of Woodcoate and of Horton the younger (b.1565), gentleman, matriculated at New Inn Hall at Oxford in 1575 aged 10, student of Inner Temple 1589
    • William Mynne of Wendling and of London, second son, married Agatha (bur. at Saint Martin in the Fields on 26 November 1595) the daughter of Hugh Malet of Enmore and the widow of John Payne. From her first marriage Agatha had the children Christopher Payne, Nicholas Payne (b.1560) and Mary Payne
    • Francis Mynne of London (d.1592/3), 'merchaunt adventurer'
    • Elizabeth who married Bartholmew Fromonds of Cheam in Surrey, and had issue, among them Jane Dee
    • Nicholas Mynne of Walsingham, Norfolk, married firstly Katherine Knyvett (d.b.1564 and 1568), the daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvett of Buckenham, Norfolk, by his wife Muriel Howard (d.1512), the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Tilney, and the widow of Sir William Fermor (d.1558), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1540, whom she had married by an indenture of 20 November 1526. Nicholas Mynne of Little Walsingham married secondly on 28 March 1567 Elizabeth (b. 8 February 1547), the daughter Sir Robert Drury by his wife Audrey Rich, the daughter of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England, and sister of Sir William Drury, and widow of Thomas de Grey of Merton in Norfolk, whom she had married when he was eleven. Nicholas Mynne and Elizabeth Drury had three sons and three daughters:
      1. Thomas Mynne of London, who married Anne Lovell of Lincolnshire, and had:
        • Thomas Mynne
        • William Mynne
        • Elizabeth Mynne
        • Rebecca Mynne
      2. Ann, the wife of Peter Barker of Walsingham in Norfolk
      3. Frances, the wife of Thomas Hughes of Gray's Inn in London
      4. Sir Henry Mynne of Whitsundyne in Rutland, Knight, second son, who married Mary, daughter of John Coote of Lopham in Norfolk, and widow of John Barkley of Whitsundyne, and had:
        • Francis Mynne, ob. s.p.
        • Henry Mynne (b.1611)
        • Nicholas Mynne
        • Catherin Mynne
      5. Christopher Mynne of London, third son, who married the daughter of Wright of London
      6. Jane, the wife of Thomas Southworth of Gray's Inn
  2. John Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Auditor of the Exchequer, Clerk to the Surveyor General and Master of the Woods to Henry VIII (d. 14 December 1542), who married Alice Standish, who after his death remarried to Francis Southwell. They had three sons and several daughters. Children of John Mynne and Alice Standish:
    • Edward Mynne, eldest son and heir (22 June 1534 – 14 July 1551)
    • George Mynne (14 February 1535/6 – 20 May 1581) of Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, married by indenture of 24 April 1574 on 25 May 1574 at Hertingfordbury in Hertfordshire, Elizabeth Wroth (d.1613), the daughter of Sir Thomas Wroth, and had three sons and three daughters. Elizabeth married secondly Nicholas Boteler of Netherhill, Essex, Esquire. Nicholas Boteler was the brother of the Richard Boteler who married Anne Mynne. Children of George Mynne and Elizabeth Wroth:
      1. Robert Mynne (b. 6 April 1578), eldest son and heir
      2. John Mynne, to whom was willed Gaulden, Somersetshire
      3. George Mynne of Lincoln's Inn in London and later of Woodcote in Epsom in Surrey (1581–c.1648), posthumous son, Member of Parliament, who helped his brother Robert out financially and later bought Woodcote. George Mynne married Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Parkhurst of Pirford, and left two daughters and co-heiresses:
        • Elizabeth (d.1692), who married in 1648 Richard Evelyn (d.1670), the brother of the diarist, John Evelyn
        • Anne (d.1704), who married firstly Sir John Lewknor, son of Richard Lewknor by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Bennett, Alderman of London, and nephew of Christopher Lewknor and the diarist Sir John Oglander, and secondly Sir William Morley
      4. Mary Mynne
      5. Susan Mynne
      6. Anne Mynne (20 November 1579 – 8 August 1622) buried in St. Mary's church, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, who married on 22 November 1604, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
    • Andrew Mynne
    • Susan, who married John Darnall and died soon, leaving a son:
      1. Henry Darnall of Bird's Place, Essenden, Hertfordshire
    • Elizabeth who married Roger Lawrence and had four daughters, one of whom:
      1. Susan, who became the second wife of John Darnall
    • Anna, who married Richard Boteler, and perhaps others. Richard Boteler was the son of Sir John Boteler of Woodhall, Hertfordshire, and Grizel Koche of Wixley, Yorkshire. The Monumental Inscription of the Botelers in the Watton-at-Stone Parish Church, Herts, is in Latin and, translated, reads; "Here lies the bodies of Richard Boteler of Stapleford in the County of Hertfordshire, Esq., who died 5 May 1614; and Anna his wife one of the daughters of John Mynn of Hertingfordbury, Esq., who died 12 Oct., A. D. 1619; and Elizabeth, only daughter of the same Richard and Anna, wife of Rowland Graveley of Graveley, Esq., who died before the parents, ? Feb. 1600, without issue." Richard Boteler was the brother of Elizabeth Wroth Mynne's second husband, Nicholas Boteler of Netherhill, Essex.
  3. Edward Mynne of Little Fransham in Norfolk (bur. 22 September 1543), who married Maude and had at least four sons and three daughters:
    • Nicholas Mynne (d.1546), Auditor of the Exchange of the coinage and mint of gold and silver, coin and bullion, who was the first husband of Katherine Hyde, second wife to Sir Nicholas Le Strange.
    • Henry Mynne of Fransham (d. 25 January 1565/6), second son and Member of Parliament. His brother's heir. According to History of Parliament, he was born before 1513, and studied at Grays Inn, having been admitted there in 1527. This was probably his uncle. According to his brother's inquisition he was 24 in 1548. He later had a legal practice in Norwich, where he was made Clerk of the City in 1553. He married Christiana, daughter of William Bishop of Great Yarmouth. Christiana married secondly Andrew Clarke. Children of Henry Mynne and Christian Bishop:
      1. Nicholas Mynne of Great Fransham (September 1561 – 1627+), baptised 29 September 1561 at Great Fransham, whose wardship and marriage was granted to Ralph Ellys. Nicholas Mynne of Fransham, gentleman, married Margaret Buxton on 29 January 1582 at Tibenham in Norfolk. Margaret was the daughter of Robert Buxton (c. 1533 – 15 Nov 1607), Member of Parliament, solicitor and surveyor in the service of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and Philip, Earl of Arundel; by his wife Joan (bur. 6 June 1594), daughter of Robert Herne of Tibenham
        • Robert Mynne
        • Edward Mynne
        • Alice Mynne
      2. Edward Mynne (bap. 28 October 1562 at Great Fransham – 27 July 1626), draper
      3. Mary Mynne, baptised 1565 at Great Fransham, Norfolk, married Rust, and had Robert, Edward, John, Edmund, Dorothie, Sarah and Hester Rust
      4. William Mynne, baptised 16 June 1566 at Great Fransham
    • Edward Mynne of Little Fransham (d.1572), probably the Edward Mynne who on 24 May 1569 married his second cousin Alice Mynne (b. 1549), the daughter of Henry Mynne of Swaffham (d. 1588/9). Edward Mynne was buried at Fransham Parva on 8 April 1572, described then as gentleman. His widow Alice remarried to Richard Beckham, gentleman, on 26 May 1575. Children of Edward and Alice Mynne:
      1. Mary Mynne (bap. 28 May 1570)
      2. Martha Mynne (bap. 11 March 1571/2)
    • Robert Mynne of Wolterton (bur. 19 November 1582 at Wolterton), who married Anne, sister of William Morse, and had:
      1. Christian Mynne, a daughter (bap. 26 December 1560 at Fransham Parva)
      2. Edward (bap. 2 November 1562 at Fransham Parva – probably died young)
      3. Agnes (bap. 20 December 1562 at Fransham Parva)
      4. Dionisia (bur. 16 April 1563 at Fransham Parva)
      5. Henry Mynne (bap. 30 November 1563 at Fransham Parva)
      6. William Mynne (bap. 18 October 1565 at Fransham Parva)
      7. Christopher Mynne (bap. 15 April 1567 at Wolterton – probably died young)
      8. Winifred (bap. 28 February 1568 at Wolterton – bur. 12 February 1570 at Wolterton)
      9. Christopher Mynne (bap. 4 September 1569 at Wolterton)
      10. Edward Mynne (bap. 27 July 1575 at Wolterton)
      11. Anne Mynne, probably the Anne Mynne who married Edmond Bacon on 26 September 1589 at Wickmere
      12. Dennis Mynne, a daughter, probably the same name as her sister Dionisia and named for her. And the Dionis Mynn baptised on 8 January 1566 at Wickmere. She was then the first daughter born to Robert and Anne after Dionisia's death. Dionis Mynn married John Larwood 30 May 1590 at Wickmere
    • Maude
    • Thomasyn
    • Katheryn
  4. Henry Mynne (d. 13 October 1540), parson of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, youngest son. An alumnus of Eton, went away A.M. from the College, became steward to Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely, and Rector of Balsham, in Cambridgeshire. He was one of the Executors of that Bishop, by which office he grew in a short time very rich. He gave over all pastoral charge, and lived as a Lawyer at Norwich; yet while he resided there, he supported many poor Scholars at Eton at his own expense. Fellow of Eton College in 1508. Had his M.A. from Oxford. Perhaps rector of Hadstock, Essex, 1515–9. Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from when he was elected on 6 December 1538 to his death on 13 October 1540. Buried in St. Mary's Church.
  5. Alice Mynne, who married Alexander Chapman of Rainthorpe Hall in Norfolk
  6. Agnes who married James Gresham (d.1526), the son of William Gresham and Agnes his wife, the daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Porter (d.1485) and his wife Beatrice. James Gresham (d.1526) was the first cousin to Sir John Gresham, who founded Gresham's School, and Sir Richard Gresham. Probably remarried to either Salmon or Sparrowe, and one of the two Agneses below, mentioned in the will of Nicholas Mynne of Fransham Parva in 1530
  7. Agnes Salmon (d.1566), mentioned in his will
  8. Agnes Sparrowe, mentioned in his will

John Mynne of Fransham Little

John Mynne of Fransham Little (bur. 8 March 1541/2) married Alis (bur. 25 September 1558) and had:

  1. William Mynne the elder of Little Fransham (bur. 13 June 1591), who married on 8 November 1555 Joan (bur. 16 October 1571) and had:
    • Jargius Mynne (bur. 6 December 1558 at Fransham Parva)
    • William Mynne (bap. 10 April 1560)
    • Mary (bap. 22 February 1562/3)
    • Rose (bap. 24 January 1563/4), the goddaughter of Rose Mynne
    • Thomas Mynne (bap. 16 March 1565/6)
    • Alice (bap. 25 January 1567/8 – bur. 10 February 1567/8)
    • John Mynne (bap. 27 February 1568/9)
    • Christopher (bap. 7 October 1571)
  2. John Mynne of Little Fransham and Swaffham, probably dead 1550
  3. Nicholas Mynne of Little Fransham (bur. 14 July 1581 at Fransham Parva) who on 25 January 1544 married Rose (bur. 1 January 1584/5 at Fransham Parva) and had:
    • Edward Mynne (bap. 10 March 1545/6 – bur. 27 April 1601 at Fransham Parva) who married on 18 July 1574 Johane (bur. 5 June 1610 at Fransham Parva), the widow of Robert Brett. By her first marriage Joane had the daughters Margaret Brett and Joane, the wife of John Sooden of Beeston next Mileham
    • John Mynne (bap. 28 December 1547 – bur. 9 November 1555 at Fransham Parva)
    • Ursula Mynne (bap. 19 January 1549/50) who married Robert Roberds on 17 July 1575
    • Mauld Mynne (bap. 15 July 1551) who married Pawle Turner on 19 July 1579
      • Nicholas Turner
    • Margaret Mynne (bapt. 29 December 1554) who married James Burnham
    • Agnes who married Edmund Holland of Wendling, and had:
      • Maria Holland, the goddaughter of her grandmother Rose
  4. Henry Mynne of Swaffham (bur. 10 March 1588/9), who married on 30 April 1548 Johan (bur. 4 January 1588/9)
    • Alice Mynne (bap. 2 September 1549), who married firstly on 24 May 1569 Edward Mynne (bur. 8 April 1572, described then as gentleman), this was probably her second cousin, Edward Mynne of Little Fransham, and secondly Richard Beckham (d. 17 April 1612), gentleman, on 26 May 1575.
      • Mary Mynne (bap. 28 May 1570)
      • Martha Mynne (bap. 11 March 1571/2)
      • Mynne Beckham (bap. 6 January 1575/6)
      • Richard Beckham (b.1576), eldest surviving son and heir
      • Walter Beckham
      • Henry Beckham
      • George Beckham
  5. Isabell
  6. Margaret

John Mynne of Fransham Little (d.1541/2) appointed Edward Mynne overseer of his will. In a codicil to his will his nephew Edward Mynne (d.1543) gave Henry Mynne, the son of John Mynne of Fraunsham Lyttle, a legacy.

Robert Mynne of East Lexham

Robert Mynne of Est Lexham (d.1519) married Alice and had the children:

  1. John Mynne
  2. James Mynne of West Lexham (d.1540/1), who married Isabell (possibly his cousin Isabell Mynne) and had:
    • Richard Mynne
    • Alys Vincent
      • Maria Vincent, the goddaughter of Rose Mynne
    • Katherine Mynne
  3. William Mynne of Rougham (d. 1566/7), who bought the messuage and croft called Bovells in Rougham, married Alys and had:
    • William Mynne of Rougham, husbandman (d. 1612.)
      1. John Mynne
      2. Alice Mynne
      3. Amy Mynne
    • Robert Mynne, senior, of Rougham (d. 1597/8), who married Margaret, and had:
      1. Edward Mynne
      2. Francis Mynne
      3. Caterin Mynne, who married William Newman on 23 July 1570
      4. Mary Mynne
    • Anne Mynne
  4. Henry Mynne of Est Lexham (d.1550) who had:
    • Robert Mynne
  5. Robert Mynne
  6. Margaret Mynne, married Skyrrie
  7. Crystyan Mynne
  8. Agnes Mynne, married Moore

The Manor of Horton and Woodcote

Nicholas Mynne of Little Walsingham was the youngest of the five children of Nicholas Mynne of St. Bartholomew's Close, London and Epsom, Fransham Magna (d.1528) and his wife Joan Marston.

His father, Nicholas Mynne (d.1528), came to the Manor of Horton on his marriage (about 1519) to Joan Merston (d. 31 October 1540), daughter and co-heiress of William Marston of Horton in Surrey. After his death in 1528, the widowed Joan remarried to become the first wife of William Saunders.

Nicholas Mynne had four older siblings of the full blood.

During the minority of his eldest brother John Mynne of Woodcote, their step-father William Sander was granted an annuity of £4 issuing from the manor of Horton, with wardship and marriage of the said John.

Ralph Sanders in Generations: A Thousand-Year Family History, writes that:

Exactly how John's siblings, William, Nicholas, Francis, and Elizabeth Mynne, were cared for in subsequent years is unclear. The tight relationship between the Saunders and Mynnes extended to the Saunders of Aston and even to a later generation.

And indeed there is much to suggest that they enjoyed an upbringing together under the roof of their step-father. All five children, John Mynne of Woodcote, eldest son; William Mynne of Wendling, second son; Francis Mynne of London (d.1592/3); Elizabeth who married Bartholmew Fromonds of Cheam in Surrey and had Jane Dee; and Nicholas Mynne of Walsingham, Norfolk, would later display strong ties to London.

John Mynne of Woodcote

John Mynne of Woodcote (c.1520–1595), who held the manor in 1564, married Dorothy Curzon of Croxall in Derby, the half-sister of Joyce Curzon who was burned at the stake for her religious convictions in 1557. Dorothy Curzon was born to Thomas Curzon of Croxall Hall, Staffordshire (formerly Derbyshire) and his second wife Elizabeth Lygon. In 1557 she was serving in Anne of Cleves' household as a waiting gentlewoman, together with her married sister Maud (also known as Magdalen) Tatton. Dorothy was a favourite of her mistress, which led to Anne leaving her £100 for marriage in her will and asking her step-daughter the Princess Elizabeth Tudor to take in her "poor maid", but there is no evidence that this happened. According to one source, John and Dorothy died on the same day, at Southwark, on 16 April 1595.

John Mynne of Woodcote (c.1520–1595) and Dorothy Curzon had at least three children, Sir William Mynne of Horton (1561–1618), Nicholas Mynne of Horton (b. 1563), John Mynne of Woodcoate and of Horton the younger (b.1565). All three were students at the Inner Temple. William and Nicholas entered together, in November 1584, while John entered in November 1588, together with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Nicholas Mynne's eldest brother John Mynne of Woodcote died in 1595, leaving a son and heir William. An indenture was made on 24 October 1594 between Francis Jermy and Thomas Jermy, Esqs., and John Mynne, Esq., and Dorothy his wife, previous to marriage between William Mynne, son of said John, and Margaret Jermy, daughter of Francis. Margaret was the daughter of Francis Jermy of Brightwell and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William FitzWilliam in Ireland. William Mynne of Horton was knighted in the Royal Garden at Whitehall, on 23 July 1603. Sir William's son John succeeded his father in 1618. John married Alice daughter of William Hale and settled various lands and tenements on her, among them the manor-house of Horton; but in order to pay his debts he with the consent of William Hale sold these estates to George Mynne of Lincoln's Inn in London in 1626. George Mynne left two daughters and co-heiresses, Elizabeth and Anne. Elizabeth (d.1692) married in 1648 Richard Evelyn (d.1670), the brother of the diarist, John Evelyn. On the division of the estate the manor of Horton fell to the share of Elizabeth.

Samuel Pepys writes on Sunday 14 July 1667 of how he went by coach

through Mr. Minnes's wood, and looked upon Mr. Evelyn's house

Elizabeth, who, having survived her husband and children, left the manor, Woodcote Park, to Charles Calvert, third Lord Baltimore, a grandson of Anne, daughter of George Mynne of Hertingfordbury, a connexion of her family.

William Mynne of Wendlyng and of London

According Harold Coward in The Story of Hutton, the later Sir William Mynne, of Horton and Crixton, married Agatha, the daughter of Hugh Malet of Enmore and the widow of John Payne by 16 May 1590 and was married to her to at least to 1592. Agatha had been a widow since at least 1580. Agatha was the mother of the Nicholas Payne (b.1560) who received a ring with a death's head and of the Mary Payne who received £5 in the will of Francis Mynne (d.1592/3). This William Mynne may also, as seems more likely, have been Sir William's uncle, and Francis's brother, William Mynne of Wendlyng and of London, especially if she was the Agatha Mynne buried at Saint Martin in the Fields on 26 November 1595, a year after William of Horton's parents had started marriage negotiations between him and someone else.

Francis Mynne of London, 'Merchant Adventurer'

The Mynne-Payne connection must have gone a long way back, for in the pardon roll of 1559 of Elizabeth I, Francis Mynne, who describes himself as, "Francis Mynne, citizen and mercer of London, alias of London, 'merchaunt adventurer'," is directly above that of "John Payne late of Criston, co. Somerset, alias late of Hutton, Co. Somerset, alias late of Stronde Inne in the parish of St. Clement Danes without the bars of the New Temple, London."

Marriages and other connections

First marriage

Nicholas Mynne's first marriage was to Katherine Knyvett, the daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvett of Buckenham, Norfolk, by his wife Muriel Howard (d.1512), the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Tilney. Katherine Knyvett had been the cousin of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Katherine Howard. Her siblings were Elizabeth Grey, 5th Baroness Lisle, 3rd Viscountess Lisle, one-time betrothed of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and the wife of Henry Courtenay; Sir Edmund Knyvett who married Anne Shelton, the sister of Madge and Mary Shelton; Ferdinando; Anne Knyvett, lady in waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon, who married firstly Thomas Thursby (d.1543) of Ashwicken and secondly Henry Spelman (d.1581), the son of Sir John Spelman (d.1546), and the father of Sir Henry Spelman and of Erasmus Spelman, whose son Henry went to Virginia; and Sir Henry Knyvett (d.1546/7), who married Anne Pickering, the widow of Francis Weston, and would thirdly marry John Vaughan, the nephew of Blanche Parry.

Katherine Knyvett had married firstly and was the widow of Sir William Fermor (d.1558), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1540 and son of Sir Henry Fermor of East Barsham Manor in Norfolk and Margaret, through whom he was the half-brother of Elizabeth Wood, Lady Boleyn and uncle of John Astley.

Mary Fromonds, the daughter of Bartelmew Fromonds and Elizabeth Mynne, married Thomas Fermor, the nephew and heir of Sir William Fermor.

Henry Spelman (d.1581), the widower of Anne Knyvett, Katherine Knyvett's sister, married secondly Frances, daughter of William Saunders, Nicholas Mynne's step-father. Her sister Katherine Saunders married Henry's nephew John Spelman of Narborow. Henry's brother, Erasmus Spelman, married Ursula Bainton, the widow of Anne Knyvett's son, Edmund Thursby.

The will of Katherine Knyvett alias Fermor alias Mynne was dated 29 July 1564 and proven on 9 September 1568.

Francis Blomefield wrote:

Nicholas Mynne, Esq. and Katherine his wife, granted it by fine, in the 4th of Elizabeth, to William Mynne, Gent. quit of the heirs of Katherine; and on May 26th, in the 13th of Elizabeth, Nicholas Mynne of Walsingham Parva released it to Thomas Fermor, Esq. of East-Barsham; so it was joined to Wolterton's manor.

Second marriage

Nicholas Mynn of Little Walsingham married on 28 March 1567 Elizabeth (b. 8 February 1547), the daughter Sir Robert Drury by his wife Audrey Rich, the daughter of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England, and sister of Sir William Drury, and widow of Thomas de Grey of Merton in Norfolk, whom she had married when he was eleven. Nicholas Mynne and Elizabeth Drury had three sons and three daughters.

Elizabeth's paternal grandparents were William Drury (d.1558) and Elizabeth (d. 19 May 1575), daughter and co-heiress of Henry Sothel, Esquire, Attorney General to Henry VII of Stoke Faston, Leicestershire, and Joan Empson, daughter of Sir Richard Empson. She was the first cousin once removed of Sir Thomas Lucy, whose paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Lucy (d.1525) and Elizabeth Empson, also the daughter of Sir Richard Empson.

Dr. Jessop described the two marriages of Elizabeth Drury:

"Among the Parkhurst correspondence at Cambridge, Ee. II. 34, there are a great many letters in a cause which came before his Lordship as Bishop of Norwich, and which he appears to me to have done his best to adjudicate upon unfairly. Thomas de Grey, a boy of seven at his father's death, son of Thomas de Grey of Merton, by Anne, dau. of Henry Everard of Linstead, co. Suffolk, was heir to the Merton estate, by the death of his father in 1562. The lad became the ward of his father's second wife Temperance, dau. of Sir Wymonde Carew of Anthony, co. Cornwall, who married seondly Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorpe. He was very delicate, and fearing he might slip through their hands, the Heydons married him when he was ten years old or thereabouts to Elizabeth Heydon, who, I presume, vas a daughter of Sir Christopher by a former marriage. The lady was, I think, sixteen. The child died at Baconsthorpe (where he was married) in 1566, and the young widow was subsequently married to Nicholas Mynne, "Esqr.," evidently a great favourite of the Bishop's, who thereupon sued for the widow's dower. Robert de Grey resisted the demand, pleading the nullity of the marriage. The bishop Wrote discreditable letters to his chancellor and others on the subject, they for the most part giving it as their opinion that the marriage was null and that Mynne had not a leg to stand on. Nicholas Mynne, Esq., was of Little Walsingham, who belonged to a malignant family who christened their sons Nicholas again and again with no other object than to puzzle genealogists. He was quite a young man in 1571, and was mixing with the first people in the county at that time."—A. J.

Thomas de Grey was married, not to Elizabeth Heydon, but to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Drury and his wife Audrey, and niece of Anne Drury, the first wife of Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorpe.

Nicholas Mynn of Little Walsingham and Elizabeth were definitely still alive in 1582 when he was involved in a transaction with Elizabeth's old in-laws, the de Greys of Merton.

Servant of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Through his first wife Katherine Knyvett, Nicholas Mynne was a kinsman of his master, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk fell from power and was executed in 1572.

Servant of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

The Nicholas Mynne (living 1590) who was the servant of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was described as "a near kinsman of Henry Golding", who was the Earl's uncle. Henry Golding's mother was Ursula Marston (died c.1564), daughter and coheiress of William Marston of Horton, Surrey, and his wife, Beatrix Barlee. Henry Golding (d.1576), was steward of the household to John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, and the half-brother of his second (by some counting third) wife, Margery Golding, the 17th Earl's mother, and the full-brother of Arthur Golding. Ursula Marston was the sister of Joan Marston or Merston, Nicholas Mynne's mother. They were both daughters and co-heiresses of William Marston of Horton, Surrey.

However, while the Nicholas Mynne who had lent £400 from Mary Waldegrave, Henry Golding's step-daughter, in 1567, was almost certainly this Nicholas Mynne, Nicholas Mynne of Little Walsingham:

Afterward, she went on to say, her mother married Henry Golding, who in right of his wife became seized of some of the said property and, while she was under age, Henry Golding "ded use diverse wayes and meanes to gett and obteyne of the sayd Mary the moiety of the property as well as the reversion of the remainder residue and she was brought to be contented to bargayne and sell her half and her portion of the reversion for far less value than they were worth." She also asserted that her portion was worth £700 of which about twelve years before she lent £400 to Nicholas Mynne, Esq., a near kinsman of Henry Golding, and he and his brothers John and William Mynne had bound themselves to William Ayloffe, Esq., her uncle and to Henry Golding (because she was then under age) to repay the money, which should have been done eight years before. For this, Mynne had charged the Manor of Kettleston in Suffolk (of the yearly value of £40) for one thousand years, with a yearly rent of £12 as interest and as security for the payment of the £400. Because about two and a half years before, Henry Golding had died and Arthur had succeeded him, the interest which Henry had bought from her became his. She complained that Nicholas Mynne for three years had not paid the yearly £12 promised nor repaid the £400, and that Arthur Golding would not help her as he favored his kinsman Nicholas Mynne and his brothers. Mary seems to have had some grounds for discontent but it is hardly clear why she should sue Golding except upon the theory that as the ultimate beneficiary of Henry's will he was responsible for having its provisions carried out notwithstanding the fact that George Golding had been appointed executor and was then living.

The Nicholas Mynne who was the servant of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, may also have been this Nicholas Mynne's first cousin once removed, Nicholas Mynne of Great Fransham (September 1561 – 1627+).

On 10 November 1590 a Chancery petition was filed by Christopher Marshall, executor of William Marshall, against Thomas Skinner and Oxford's servant, Nicholas Mynne, regarding the Queen's extents against the manor of Castle Camps.

On 21 February 1590/1 Burghley wrote to Fanshawe to release Nicholas Mynne, imprisoned for debt, on condition that Buxton pays £75 and that the bonds of Nathaniel Bishopp, merchant of London, are assigned to the Queen; Westminster.

Nicholas Mynne of Fransham, gentleman, had married Margaret Buxton on 29 January 1582 at Tibenham in Norfolk. Margaret Buxton was the daughter of Robert Buxton, Member of Parliament, solicitor and surveyor in the service of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and Philip, Earl of Arundel. Nathaniel Bishopp, merchant of London, was Nicholas Mynne of Great Fransham's maternal uncle.

A debt and a wardship

In 1560 Nicholas Mynne was granted the wardship and marriage of Richard Burton, son of Nicholas Burton (d. 9. January 1559/60). Richard Burton later married Anne Hampton, the sole daughter and heir of Barnard Hampton (d.1572), Clerk of the Council. Richard Burton was the brother of Mabel Burton, Viscountess Bindon, and the uncle of Frances Howard, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond.

The brothers Nicholas and William Mynne are mentioned in the will of John Blennerhasset dated 29 June 1573:

Nicholas Mynne and William Mynne doe owe me likewise twoe hundreth marks

Last years and death

Nicholas Mynne of Little Walsingham was dead by 1596.

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