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Aidan Goodall sent a lot of very interestiong Brereton
information, plus a pictures of Jane Brereton (wife of Sir Robert
Holte):
 From:
AIDAN GOODALL [mailto:aidangoodall@btinternet.com]
Hi Bruce,
First of all thanks for managing such a great site and useful internet
resource.
I am just starting with genealogy and investigating my Brueton family
on my mothers side. I believe that Brueton or Bruton/Bruerton/Bruereton/Brerton
is another derivation of Brereton & you may wish them to your
list & invite us to the next family reunion! I have found the
following online references that make the connection:
• http://www.genealogysource.com/hawsted.htm
• Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII - August-December
1535, Volume 9, (Appendix B good starting point) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=850
You also have a section on Jane Brereton, wife of Sir Robert Holte
at Aston Hall in Birmingham, so thought you may like to add the
attached picture of her which is usually displayed in Aston Hall
(although it its currently undergoing a £10M refit so the
painting is in storage). http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/astonhall.bcc
Books & References
Thought others may want to share these I have found as it will take
me many years yet, although I have included brief notes where I
have browsed them:
Omens and Ghosts
• The Penguin Book of Ghosts: Haunted England by Jacqueline
Simpson (Author) - relates the death omen of a black log floating
in the lake (Blackmere or Bagmere [c/f draining the lake to rid
omen in Haunted England: A Survey Of English Ghost Lore 1941 by
Christina Hole (Author)]) either the head of the family or Heir
will die. Also story of all Brereton ghosts gather at Shocklach
Church and their "phantom" coaches block the lane.
• See also Britannia by Camden (1610), Sir Philip Sidney:
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Philip Sidney (Author),
General Index to the Remains, Historical and Literary Published
by the Chetham Society - Vol I-XXX: 1-30 for Bagmere legend. Also
Curiosities of Literature - Vol IV (Paperback) by Isaac Disraeli
(Author)
• The Legend of Perseus: A Study of Tradition in Story Custom
and Belief by Edwin Sidney Hartland (Author) - log story with various
other references. see also Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
+ Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England Including Rivers,
Lakes, Fountains and Springs (1893) by Robert Charles Hope (Author)
• need to get a wecam on it!
• See also Poetry & Prose
Poetry & prose
• The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (The
New Cambridge History of English Literature) by David Wallace (Editor)
- "Lady Bessy" a ballad-style Poem about Queen Elizabeth
preserved in the Percy Folio (Stanley Family), composed by member
of the Brereton houshold who "stars" in it
• The Making of the Tudor Dynasty by Ralph A. Griffiths (Author),
Roger S. Thomas (Author) - Gives further detail of the Lady Bessy
poem and connection of Stanley's & Breretons in Edward IV's
reign
• Poems by Mrs. Hemans by Hemans 1887 - "The vassal's
lament for the fallen tree" about the legend of the heir dying
when a dead log appears on Brereton's lake
Religion
• Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
(Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Judith Maltby
(Author) - Brereton printing anti-episcoplaian petition pamphlet
in 1640s
History & Politics
• Pepys later diaries - Brooke House Journal 03/01/-21/02/1670
- record of proceedings before the Privy Council when Pepys defended
the management of the Navy during the 2nd Dutch war. Chairman was
Lord Brereton - a Cheshire Squire who had sat in Richard Cromwell's
Paliament and the Convention of 1660 before inheriting an Irish
Barony (infers distance from political arena). Yet he was also a
gifted algebraist and a founding Fellow of the Royal Society and
shared Pepys love of music. See also ref to math papers held by
Brereton in "John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with
Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician"
by Noel Malcolm (Author), Jacqueline Stedall (Author)
• Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual
Communication by Mark Greengrass (Editor), Michael Leslie (Editor),
Timothy Raylor (Editor) - loads of interesting descriptions &
references To Breretons in 1600s inc William in the 1650s which
lists him as a quiet Royalist (unlike his famous Roundhead relative),
his interests in Mathematics (John Pell was his Tutor), Chemistry,
Philosophy (Necessity & free will), Member of the Georgical
(?) & Mechanical Committee, Musician (treatise on French instrument,
the Angelique - picture attached) composer, experimented & dismissed
the omen of the floating log on the lake, chemist, Cheese &
Salt Baronatage of Royal Vale, sold Baronecy of Malpas to Sir William
Drake, Royal Society Refs & Ref to George Brereton in Oxford
University. I particularly like the references to his interest/excitement
about Coffee, breaking wind, Cider & Ale - some things are truely
genetic!
• The letter books of Sir William Brereton (The Record Society
of Lancashire and Cheshire) (Unknown Binding) by William Brereton
(Author)
• Extraordinary Newes from Colonell Iohn Barkeer Governour
of Coventry, to a merchant of London. Shewing how Sir William Brereton
hath raised the siege from Namptwich in Cheshire by John Barker
(Unknown Binding - 1643)
• The Successes of our Cheshire Forces: as they came related
by Sir William Breretons own Pen, to a Minister of note and eminency
in the City ... To which is added, late good newes from Lancashire,
etc by William Brereton (Unknown Binding - 1644)
• A True Relation of two great Victories obtained of the Enemy:
the one by Sr William Brereton in Cheshire, the other by Sir Iohn
Meldrum in Lancashire, etc by William Brereton and John Meldrum
(Unknown Binding - 1644)
• The Breretons of Cheshire, 1100 to 1904 A.D. With plates,
including portraits by Robert Maitland Brereton (Unknown Binding
- 1904)
• The Story of Brereton Hall, Cheshire. With plates by Arthur
Lowndes Moir (Unknown Binding - 1938)
• Norton Priory: The Archaeology of a Medieval Religious House
by J. Patrick Greene (Author) "The Augustinian priory was originally
founded at Runcorn in 1115 by the second baron of Halton - Sir Randolph
Brereton of Malpas, chamberlain of Cheshire 1504-1530 was father
of Sir William Brereton, groom to the Privy Chamber, executed in
1536 for criminal intercourse with the Queen. Another William Brereton,
from the Brereton Parish, was implicated in money conterfeiting
with the Abbot of Norton by his enemy Sir Piers Dutton
• Community, Class and Careers (Cambridge Studies in Medieval
Life & Thought: Third) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and
Thought: Third Series) by Michael J. Bennett (Author) - The five
sheriffs of Cheshire between 1408 & 1427 included Sir William
Brereton and Hugh Dutton
• Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society,
1401-1499: (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth
Series) by Christine Carpenter (Author)
• History of Parliament, 1509-58 (The History of Parliament)
(The History of Parliament) by S.T. Bindoff (Author, Editor) - details
of several Breretons in the 1500s
• The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England: Basic Readings (Basic
Readings in Anglo-Saxon England) by Catherine E. Karkov (Editor)
• The English Civil War: The Essential Readings (Blackwell
Essential Readings in History) by Peter Gaunt (Author) - Whole Chapter
on Sir William Brereton (1604-1661) and the wars of religion. Loads
of good refs
• Puritan Gentry Besieged, 1650-1700 (Library Binding) by
Trevor Cliffe (Author) - Sir William Brereton's defeat in the Cheshire
election was a consequence of his political isolation: his autocratic
behaviour as commander-in-chief of the parliamentary forces in Cheshire
had made him unpopular and he had settled in Surrey via a Grant
from the Arhbishop of Canterbury's palace (then at Croydon, palace
is still extant)
Law
• The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell:
A Case Study (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History) by E.
W. Ives - ref to William Brereton using a lawyers clerk (to John
Skewys, Wolsey's former adviser) to document his agreements with
Baliffs in 1530
• Law and Politics in Jacobean England: The Tracts of Lord
Chancellor Ellesmere (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)
by Louis A. Knafla (Author) - several references to various Breretons
around 1600
Misc
• 100 Walks in Cheshire by David Bishop - Astbury Church -
During the Civil War Sir William Brereton stabled his horses in
the pews, doing considerable damage
• The Cheshire Boatman. A true account of a cripple who learned
to read at the age of thirty-five by William Brereton (Unknown Binding
- 1852)
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth by Richard Lovell Edgeworth (Author)
- Staying at Brereton Hall with the Holte's in 1780 for his marriage
& the church clock
• Historic Linlithgow: A Scottish Burgh Survey (Scottish Burgh
Surveys) by E. Patricia Dennison (Author), Russel Coleman (Author)
- On a trip to Linlithgow in 1636, William seems to like its Church
& dainty conduit in the middle of the street
Campanology
• The Bells of England by J.J. Raven (Author) 1906 - mention
of Lord Brererton of Brereton (an irish peer) founding the Wittington's
College of the Holy Ghost & Hospital of God's House (Chepesyde
Society?) in 1424
Many Thanks
Aidan Goodall
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