Descents

from Magna Carta Suretiesto Audrey (Barlow) Almy

Facsimile of the beginning of the Magna Carta.King John's unsuccessful military efforts were expensiveand required heavy taxes. The barons of the realm finallyrebelled and in June 1215 forced the king to accept theMagna Carta or Great Charter. This charter limited theking's powers in various ways, declaring that he was notabove the law. It was reissued later in several modifiedversions. The chart below shows descents from two of the25 barons who were sureties, responsible for guaranteeingthat the king followed the charter.

William de Huntingfield, Knight, of Huntingfield,Suffolk.

Richard Basset, Knt.;b. ca. 1274. He wascontinually employedin the Scottish warsand was summonedto Parliament asRicardo Basset deWeledon. He wastaken prisoner at theBattle of Bannock-burn in 1314 anddied less than twomonths later.

Joan de Huntingfield,daughter of Roger deHuntingfield, Knt.,and great-great-granddaughter of theMagna Carta Surety.

Humphrey Stafford,Esq., of Grafton, etc.,Knight of the Shirefor Worcester-shireand Warwick-shire;b. Grafton,Worcestershire, ca.1427, executed byorder of King HenryVII at Tyburn, 1486,for his support ofKing Richard III.

Katherine Fray; b. ca. 1447, d. 1482; daughter of John Fray, Knt.,Chief Baron of theExchequer.

William Malet of Curry Mallet, Somerset.

John Greville ofDrayton, Oxfordshire,Justice of the Peacefor Gloucestershireand Warwickshire; hewas the only son ofRalph Greville andMargaret Poyntz.

Jane Forster;daughter ofHumphrey Forster,Esq., of Harpsden byHenly, Oxfordshire;she and her husbandwere dead by 21Apr. 1507.

Sir Edmund Tame's

Tame impaling monumental brass. Greville.

Edmund Tame, Knt.,of Fairford, Glouces-tershire; d. 1534;two monumentalbrasses at Fairford.He was called"brother-in-law" inthe 1528 will of SirEdward Greville, sonof John and JaneGreville (above).

1 Agnes Greville; herarms impaled bythose of her husband(above) appear intheir monumentalbrasses at Fairford.

Humphrey Stafford, Knt., of Blatherwick; b. ca. 1505, d. 1548.

1 Margaret Tame; as a widow she m. 2nd JohnCope, Knt., who died (before her) in 1557/8.

Thomas Barlow, of Huncote,Leicestershire.

2 Ellen Stafford.

Stafford Barlow of Lutterworth;he was living in 1626, when heconsented to the marriage ofhis daughter Audrey.

Portsmouth and Newport, Rhode Island, and vicinity.Based on a 1936 map prepared by the Rhode IslandState Planning Board.

William Almy, ofPortsmouth, RI; b. Dunton-Bassett,Leicestershire,England, ca. 1601, d. Portsmouth, 1677.He and his familysailed toMassachusetts on theAbigail in 1635. Theysettled permanentlyin Portsmouth, RhodeIsland, about 1642.

Audrey Barlow; b. ca. 1601, m.Lutterworth, England,1626, d. after 1676.

Christopher Almy; b. Dunton-Bassett,Leicestershire, 1632,d. Newport, RI,1712/13.

Elizabeth Cornell; b. 1636/37, m.Portsmouth, RI,1661, d. Newport, RI,1714.

Notation: Magna Carta Sureties are displayed inboxes with a red inner border. A dotted linesegment indicates one or more omittedgenerations.

Note: Audrey (Barlow) Almy is ancestral to Benna Jean (Jones) Dowdey and hence to Benjamin Charles Dowdey, M.D.

Prepared by LineageCharts.com 30 March 2013 version of chart