Justinian Povey

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Justinian Povey (d. 1652), held office as Auditor of the Exchequer and administrator for Anne of Denmark.

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Career

Justinian Povey was the son of John Povey, an embroiderer in London. [1] His sister Joan married William Angell, a fishmonger. [2] A brother, John Povey, became the owner of Lauderdale House at Highgate.

Povey worked as an auditor's clerk for the administration of the crown lands of the North East from around 1590. He was able to some lands from the crown estate. In 1611, he became the Queen's Auditor, succeeding Ralph Ewens of Southcowton (died 1611). [3] Ewens had also been Clerk of Commons. [4] In 1617 Povey audited an account of jewels supplied to Anne of Denmark by George Heriot. [5] He was listed as a member of the household of Anne of Denmark as auditor-general in 1619. [6]

Povey became auditor for Henrietta Maria and Keeper of the Woods in Yorkshire for Charles I.

In 1641 Povey was living on Aldersgate in London. He also owned The Priory at Hounslow.

In September 1641 he was asked for evidence of the institution of a Queen's Court, concerning the property and revenues of English queens consort, and also as a court of equity, dealing with legal matters. Povey had some of Anne of Denmark's revenue accounts, and a red vellum bound book of papers. [7] He was deprived of his offices during the Civil War. [8]

Family

Justinian Povey married Beatrix Stanley, the daughter of John Stanley of Roydon Hall, Essex, and Beatrix daughter of Henry Dynne of Heydon, Norfolk, an Auditor of the Exchequer. [9] Their children included:

Sir John Povey, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, was a close relative: his branch of the family settled at Market Drayton in Shropshire.

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References

  1. ↑ John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry (London, 1724), p. 138.
  2. ↑ ANGELL, John (1592-1670), of Old Fish Street, Billingsgate, London and Crowhurst, Surrey, Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
  3. ↑ Madeleine Gray, "An Early Professional Group? The Auditors of Land Revenue in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries", Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, 20:87 (January 1992), p. 45. doi : 10.3828/archives.1992.5
  4. ↑ Helen Wilcox, 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (Wiley, 2014), 112: Madeleine Gray, 'Exchequer officials and Crown property', Richard W. Hoyle, The Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640 (Cambridge, 1992), 45, 123, 126–128.
  5. ↑ Daniel Packer, 'Jewels of 'Blacknesse' at the Jacobean Court', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 75 (2012), p. 201 fn.1.
  6. ↑ See a household list of 1619, BNF MS Français 15990
  7. ↑ N. R. R. Fisher, 'The Queenes Courte in Her Councell Chamber at Westminster', The English Historical Review, 108:427 (April 1993), 315: Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1641–1643 (London, 1887), 118–19.
  8. ↑ Madeleine Gray, 'Exchequer officials and Crown property', Richard W. Hoyle, The Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640 (Cambridge, 1992), 133.
  9. ↑ Walter Charles Metcalfe, The Visitations of Essex, part 2 (London, 1879), p. 603.
  10. ↑ Joseph Lemuel Chester, London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869 (London, 1887), p. 139.
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