Beatrice ap Rice

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Beatrice ap Rice (died 1561) was a servant of Mary I of England. She was first recorded as a laundress in 1519. [1]

Her name was sometimes written as Beatrix a Pryce, or Beatrice Aprice. [2] [3] The household accounts of Lady Mary call her the "launder". [4] She and Jane Foole were ill in 1543 while the household was at Beddington, [5] and at Greenwich Palace. [6]

Mary and Philip II of Spain granted her lands at Boreham in the honour of Beaulieu alias Newhall, citing her forty years in royal service. [7]

Beatrice died in December 1561, after making a will on 25 May, [8] and was buried at Boreham in Essex. The parish register recorded her burial in January, "Betteris Apryse landeris to Queen Marie". [9]

Family

Her husband was David ap Rice, a yeoman of the chamber. [10] He died before November 1557. [11] Their children included Harry, Susan, Winifred, and probably Mary. The accounts of Lady Mary include gifts to the children. [12]

It is not known if she was a relation to Mrs Barbara Ryce, Mary's chamberer, and her husband William Ryce (died 1588), who was also a royal servant. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ David Loades, Reign of Mary Tudor (Routledge, 1979), p. 12.
  2. ↑ W. C. Richardson, The Report of the royal commission of 1552 (Morgantown, 1974), p. 133.
  3. ↑ James Gairdner, Letters & Papers Henry VIII, vol. 10 (London, 1887), pp. 494–95 no. 1187.
  4. ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of Princess Mary (London: Pickering, 1831), p. 245.
  5. ↑ Melita Thomas, The King's Pearl (Amberley, 2017), p. 217.
  6. ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of Princess Mary (London: Pickering, 1831), p. 207.
  7. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1663–1664 (London, 1862), pp. 570–71.
  8. ↑ Frederick Emmison, Essex Wills: 1558–1565 (Chelmsford, 1982), p. 122.
  9. ↑ Robert H. Browne, 'Boreham Registers', Essex Review, 1 (1892), p. 220.
  10. ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of Princess Mary (London: Pickering, 1831), p. 207.
  11. ↑ Calendar Paper Rolls, 1557–1558 (London, 1939), p. 117.
  12. ↑ Melita Thomas, The King's Pearl (Amberley, 2017), p. 217.
  13. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1553–1554 (London, 1937), p. 53: HMC 7th Report: Molyneux, p. 612: John Nichols, Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), p. 22
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