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From: (Reedpcgen)
Subject: Re: Off Topic : Tomlinson, Elizabeth PART I
Date: 12 Apr 2001 19:34:41 GMT
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<<Edward Sutton didn't have a fortune to waste, his grandfather did that. His
grandfather, John Sutton c1495-1553, 3rd Lord Dudley, was a half-wit, nicknamed
'Lord Quondam', who sold much of the family landholdings. His wife, Cicely
Grey, so disliked him that she requested to be buried in her own family plot
under her maiden name!>>


Yes, in addition, it wasn't Edward's mistress that was how he wasted his money,
so much as the attempt to devise a better way at smelting iron and developing
usable charcoal, in which process he was involved with his illegitimate son,
Dud Dudley. They were trying to make succesful something that had never
succeeded before.

The article I wrote with John Brandon on the English affairs of John Mansfield
that just came out in the New England Historic Genealogical Register examines
his and others' involement in the allum mines and development. Mining
interests in England at that time were encouraged by Elizabeth I, who was
trying to develop things at home, rather than foreign reliance. Because of the
expense of the ventures, a great many of those involved went bankrupt. So I
think it was the adventure of being on top of something new that might make one
very rich (gambling) that drew so many of the gentry into putting their
inheritance on the line.

Paul

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