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Subject: [MALLORY] Peter Mallory vs Braveheart
Date: 23 Oct 2006 14:10:43 -0600

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Does anyone know the lineage of Peter Mallory , one of the most important of K ing Edward's commission of judges, that sentenced William Wallace to be hung, drawn and quartered in 1305? The Washingtons (Mallory ancestors) and the Lambertons (grandaughter of George married Peter Mallory jr....he lived in Hylton Castle, just 3 miles from the place the Mallorys had inherited from the Washington's (Wessingtons.)

1304 A.D. SIR WALTER DE WESSYNGTON III WASHINGTON, ENGLAND
He succeeded Sir William de Wessyngton III to the property in 1287, and attended Bishop Bek and Bishop Kellaw at their episcopal castles and manors in Durham and Yorkshire. In 1304 King Edward I, "The Hammer of the Scots" stayed at Washington for several days on his return from the Scottish borders. For King Edward I to succeed in Scotland, getting the support of Sir William de Wessynton who had Royal Scots blood flowing through his veins would have been crucial. In 1305, William Wallace, (Braveheart) was captured and hung, drawn and quartered. In 1306. after the disasterous battle of Methven during which the Scots were routed, Sir Walter de Wessyngton III was commanded to accompany William Lamberton, the Bishop of St Andrews and two other clerics who had been involved in crowning Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland from Newcastle to Nottingham to start their imprisonment. Both the Bruce and the Lamberton families originated from Durham and no one knows what plans were made b!
etween Sir Walter de Wessygnton III and William Lamberton, the Bishop of St Andrews at that time. Suffice to say, that William Lamberton ended up back in Scotland as Bishop of St Andrews


It was Sir William Wessyington V who had a daughter Eleanor who married her cousin William Tempest and had Dionysia (an only child) who married Sir William Mallory and
so the Mallorys acquired Washington Old Hall, Washington, Durham, England. Wessyington (washington) served with Sir Henry de Percy and it was henry's son henry who was Shakespeare's Henry Hot Spur .

A later decendant, George Percy , was governor of the Jamestown colony ..... Sir John Mallory sold Washington Old Hall shortly after his investment in the Jamestown Colony.

Shakespeare also wrote about the storm that struck the fleet of ships in 1609 that was bringing the second wave of settlers to Jamestown... (It was actually written by William Stachey, but Shakespeare changed the location to the Mediteranean and copied much of it word for word. Strachey's signet ring was found at the site of the jamestown colony in 1999.)

Percy was governor of Jamestown at this t ime... called the
"Starving time"....1609/10)

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