Myles Forrest, of Morborne
Myles Forrest,
or Miles, or Forest,
of
Morborne,
Huntingdonshire (now in Cambridgeshire).
Probably born around 1550.
See
Wikitree.
He might be Miles Forrest who was educ
Christ's College, Cambridge
(matric June 1565).
It is a rare name, and his son went to Cambridge.
He
mar 12 December 1572 to
Elizabeth Colly.
She was dau of Anthony Colly,
of
Glaston, Rutland,
by his wife Juliana Richardson of Yorkshire.
They mar at Glaston.
I had him formerly as "Sir Myles Forrest" but I cannot now see the source of this.
Page 223 of
[Denny, 1886]
has him as "Sir Miles Forest".
thepeerage.com
has "Sir Myles Forrest".
But primary sources do not have him as a knight.
This is probably confusion with his son.
[The History of Parliament]
seems to say he died c.1624.
Myles and Elizabeth
had issue:
- Sir Anthony Forrest, MP,
or Forest,
of Morborne,
bapt 27 Sept 1573, at his mother's place of Glaston.
See wikipedia.
He was
educ Emmanuel College, Cambridge
(entered 8 Sept 1591).
He entered
Gray's Inn 8 July 1595.
Knighted 20 Aug 1604.
He knew the Cromwell family.
He
was godparent to Oliver Cromwell's 1st cousin in 1608.
See [Hickson, 1893].
He invested in the
Virginia Company,
England's first attempt to settle North America.
"Sir Anthony Forest, Knt."
is among the hundreds of subscribers to the
Second Virginia Charter,
dated May 23, 1609.
He inherited Morborne.
[VCH]
says his father settled Morborne on him at his marriage in 1611.
He incurred heavy debts and mortgaged the manor of Morborne in 1620
to Sir Robert Beville of Chesterton.
Forrest never regained the manor.
MP for Wallingford 1624-1626.
He
died 6 Mar 1631, age 57 yrs.
He was buried the same day at
St Martin in the Fields, London.
No will or administration has been found.
- Isabella Forrest,
or Isabel, NOT Mary,
bapt Morborne, 27 July 1575.
[O'Carroll, 2009, pp.44-45]
says she was a lady in waiting to
Elizabeth I.
She mar George Lynne and had issue.
- Elizabeth Forrest.
[O'Carroll, 2009, pp.37-38]
says she was a lady in waiting to
Elizabeth I.
She
mar 1stly, 8 June 1604, to Sir Arthur Denny and had issue.
They mar at
Haddon,
Huntingdonshire (now in Cambridgeshire).
See transcript.
Arthur's father had been granted Tralee town and castle, Co.Kerry, Ireland.
They settled in Tralee.
He died 1619.
She mar 2ndly to Sir Thomas Harris.
Forrest marriage at Glaston in 1572, and notes.
From
p.45
of
[Simpson, 1884].
Forrest baptisms at Glaston.
From p.93
of [Simpson, 1884].
Complete entries for FORREST and FOREST among Cambridge students up to 1751.
From p.159
of vol.2
of Part I of
Alumni Cantabrigienses.
References
- "Extracts from the parish registers of Glaston, Co.Rutland",
Justin Simpson,
The Reliquary,
vol.25.
-
The Genesis of the United States,
by Alexander Brown, 1890.
- Vol.1 lists the subscribers to the Second Virginia Charter.
-
"Sir Anthony Forest, Knt." listed
on p.212.
- Notes on Lynne and Forrest
by Mary Agnes Hickson,
Kerry Evening Post, 9 Dec 1893.
- Sir Anthony Forest
in
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
Sources yet to be consulted
-
[Green, 1877]
gives the following two references for Forrest, but I am unable to find out what these are:
- Brooke's "Chaos", vol.1 p.126.
- Brooke's "Church Notes", vol.7-11, p.166.
- No Forrest in Heralds' Visitations
