Walter Bagot (died 1622)

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Sir Walter Bagot of Blithfield (1557-1622/3), was a landowner and Member of Parliament for Tamworth in 1586.

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Background

Walter Bagot was the son of Richard Bagot (1530-1597) of Blithfield and Mary Saunders. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford.

Bagot married Elizabeth Cave (d. 1638), daughter of Roger Cave of Stanford and Elizabeth Cecil, a daughter of Thomas Cecil (1542-1623). [1] [2]

The Chadwick Bagot letters

Bagot's eldest son Lewis's behaviour in London caused his parents concern. He had discussed marrying his cousin Jane Skipwith behind his father's back. Before and after his death in 1611 there was a rumour that he had a child or was married. Bagot asked his associates in London, John Chadwick and Thomas Docksie, to investigate. They found a woman called Mary Bagaley who claimed to be Lewis's wife, but the marriage had been kept secret by Lewis for "fear of his father's displeasure". Mary said she was pregnant by Lewis. Chadwick and Docksie heard that Lewis had denied any relationship with Mary, and they thought she was faking the pregnancy with padding. [3] Chadwick discovered another woman, Jane Wilcox, a connection of Lewis's aunt Dorothy Okeover, who claimed to have had a child by Lewis. He found midwives willing to testify that she had not had a child. Wilcox was calling herself a widow and living near Theobalds at a house provided by her new lover. [4]

Death and legacy

Bagot died on 16 March 1622/3.

Many of the Bagot family papers from Blithfield Hall were acquired by the Folger Shakespeare Library at Sotheby's in 1955, from Winnie Myers in 1959, and from Bernard Quaritch in 1962. These include letters to Walter Bagot from his sister Lettice Kinnersley. [5]

Family

Walter and Elizabeth Bagot had five sons and six daughters, including: [6]

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References

  1. ↑ 'BAGOT, Walter (1557-1622), of Blithfield, Staffs', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
  2. ↑ 'CECIL, Thomas (1542-1623), of Burghley House, Lincs. and Wimbledon, Surr.', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
  3. ↑ Courtney Erin Thomas, If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself (Toronto, 2017), pp. 182-4: The padding was 'cotton layed and doubled aboute her bellye', see FSL L.a.355 (1).
  4. ↑ Folger Luna, L.a.355 (2), 'Letter from John Chadwick to Walter Bagot'.
  5. ↑ Folger Shakespeare library, Bagot family papers.
  6. ↑ William Bagot, Memorials of the Bagot Family (Blithfield, 1824), pp. 53-4.
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