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SIR WALTER MOYLE was born about 1403 of Eastwell, Ashford, Kent, England, to Sir Thomas Moyle (1370-1434) and Lady Isabell Knollys (1386-1461.) He married Margaret Lucombe about 1429 of Eastwell, Leicestershire, England.
Sir Walter Moyle died 1 June 1493, London, Middlesex, England, age 90. Buried at Saint Mary Church, Eastwell, Ashford, Kent, England:
Sir Walter Moyle was knighted in 1465.
Birth
Date: About 1425; Alternate date: 1403
additional alternate date about 1405[1]
Place: Eastwell, Kent
Will proved: 31 Jul 1480
Place: London, Middlesex
Notes
Through his wife Margaret he acquired the manor of Stevenston in Devon.
In the mid-fifteenth century the manor of Boughton in Kent came into the hands of Sir Walter Moyle, who bought much land in Kent including the Eastwell estates. Until his mansion was built in Eastwell Park he lived at Buckwell, still to be seen half a mile from the church. Sir Walter's eldest grandson inherited the Eastwell estates and his descendants became the Earls of Winchilsea. The second son retained Buckwell where his descendants lived, but in 1699 the heiress married a man named Breton. The Moyles and later the Bretons were the lay rectors and some-time the vicars of Boughton Aluph until the mid-nineteenth century. The chancel in the northeast of the church is known as the Moyle Chapel and here many of the Moyles are buried.
When he died, Walter was seized of numerous lands in Devonshire and Somerset, and his will was proved on 31 July 1480.
Thomas was supposed to be the grandson of Sir Thomas Moyle, the Mayor of Bodmin. (Source: Notes on Staffordshire Families). From further research it now appears that Sir Walter Moyle was the third son of Thomas Moyle of Bodmin and not his grandson. (Source: Dictionary of National Biography)
Sir Thomas Moyle (before 1500, probably at Eastwell - 2 October 1560, probably at Eastwell) was a commissioner for Henry VIII in the dissolution of the monasteries, and speaker of the House of Commons in the Parliament of England from 1541 to 1544.
He was the fourth son of John Moyle (died 1500, born in Cornwall, MP for Bodmin and Kentish, Cornish and Devon landowner) and Anne Darcy (his second wife, one of Sir Robert Darcy's daughters and heirs). By 1528, Thomas had followed his father's example and married an heiress, Katherine Jordeyne, one of the daughters of Edward Jordeyne (died 1514), a leading goldsmith at Cheapside with a manor at Raynham and employed at the mint in the Tower of London.
Moyle employed Richard Plantagenet to build Eastwell Place and (according to family tradition recorded around 1720 in Desiderata Curiosa) listened to his claims to be son of Richard III's son and allowed him to live in the grounds until his death in 1550.
Moyle made his will on 1 August 1560, leaving his wife property at Clerkenwell and his grandchildren houses in Newgate. Also leaving some land and an endowment to Eastwell parish for an almshouse, he split the remainder of his estates (in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Devon, and Somerset) between his daughter Amy's widower Thomas Kempe and his daughter Katherine. Katherine's husband was Sir Thomas Finch, and the couple's children were the ancestors of the earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham. (He also left £6 13s. 4d. to Clement Norton, a former vicar of Faversham who had, like Moyle, joined in the 1543 anti-evangelical prebendaries' plot to overthrowThomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury.)
Walter Moyle
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For his father, see Walter Moyle (MP).
Walter Moyle
Born 3 November 1672
Bake, Cornwall
Died 10 June 1721 (aged 48)
Bake
Resting place St German's Priory, Cornwall
Residence Bake House
Nationality British
Education Exeter College, Oxford
Occupation politician and political writer
Spouse(s) Henrietta Maria Davie
Children two sons and one daughter
Parent(s) Sir Walter Moyle and Thomasine Morice
Relatives John Moyle (grandfather)
Walter Moyle (1672–1721) was an English politician and political writer, an advocate of classical republicanism.
Life[edit]
He was born at Bake in St Germans, Cornwall, on 3 November 1672, the third, but eldest surviving son of Sir Walter Moyle, who died in September 1701, by his wife Thomasine, daughter of Sir William Morice. Walter Moyle the Elder had been High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1671, and was the son of John Moyle, the friend of Sir John Eliot.
After having been grounded in classical learning, probably at Liskeard grammar school, he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 18 March 1689, and a set of verses by him was inserted in the university collection of poems for William III and Mary II, 1689; but he left Oxford without taking a degree. About 1708 he contributed towards the erection of new buildings at Exeter College opposite the front gate and stretching eastwards, and his second son was a fellow of the college. On 26 January 1691 he was specially admitted at the Middle Temple, and took up the study of constitutional law and history. At first Moyle frequented Maynwaring's coffee-house in Fleet Street and the Grecian near the Temple, but to be nearer the realms of fashion he removed to Covent Garden, and became a regular companion of the wits at Will's.
Moyle sat in parliament for Saltash from 1695 to 1698. He was a zealous Whig, with a keen desire to encourage British trade, and a strong antipathy to ecclesiastical establishments. Moyle died at Bake on 10 June 1721, and was buried at St German's Priory on 13 June, a monument being placed to his memory at the end of the north aisle, near the chancel. He married at Bideford, Devon, 6 May 1700, Henrietta Maria, daughter of John Davie of that town. She died on 9 December 1762, aged 85, and was buried at St. Germans on 15 December. They had issue two sons and one daughter.
Works[edit]
Moyle speculated in his retirement from public life, in 1698, on forms and laws of government. He once had the intention of compiling a history of Greece, and later he went into ecclesiastical history. In the autumn of 1713 he finished a new library at Bake, and began to stock it. He was a student of botany and ornithology, making collections on the birds of Cornwall and Devon and was described as the ″Father of Cornish Ornithology″ by Roger Penhallurick in 1978.[1] He helped John Ray, as is acknowledged in the preface in the second edition of the Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum, and promised to send William Sherard a catalogue of his specimens for insertion in the Philosophical Transactions. Books in his study were full of notes. His library and manuscripts were destroyed by fire, at Bake, in 1808.
After Moyle's death Thomas Sergeant edited the Works of Walter Moyle, none of which were ever before published, 1726, 2 vols. It contained in the first volume:
• Essay on the Constitution of the Roman Government.
• A Charge to the Grand Jury at Liskeard, April 1706.
• Letters to Dr. William Musgrave of Exeter.
• Dissertation on the age of Philopatris, a Dialogue commonly attributed to Lucian.
• Letters to and from Tancred Robinson, Sherard, and others.
The second volume comprised:
• Remarks upon some Passages in Dr. Prideaux's Connection.
• Miracle of the Thundering Legion examin'd, in several Letters between Moyle and K—— [i.e. Richard King of Topsham, near Exeter].
This collection was followed in the subsequent year by a reprint by Edmund Curll of The Whole Works of Walter Moyle that were Published by Himself, with an account of his life and writing by Anthony Hammond (1668–1738). It contained, in addition to some works already mentioned:
• Xenophon's Discourse on the Revenue of Athens, which was translated at Charles Davenant's request, and after it had been included in his Discourses on the Publick Revenues and the Trade of England, 1698, was reprinted in Sir William Petty's Political Arithmetic, 1751, in Davenant's ‘Works’ in 1771, and in the Works of Xenophon translated by Ashley Cooper and others, 1831.
• An Essay on Lacedæmonian Government, which was included, with three other tracts by him, in A Select Collection of Tracts by W. Moyle, printed at Dublin in 1728 and Glasgow in 1750.
The Essay on the Roman Government, which was inserted in Sergeant's collection, was reprinted by John Thelwall in 1796, and, when translated into French by Bertrand Barrière, was published at Paris in 1801. The series of Remarks on some Passages in Dr. Prideaux's Connection was included in the French editions of the work that were published in 1728, 1732, 1742, and 1744. Moyle's Examination of the Miracle of the Thundering Legion was attacked by William Whiston, and Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Hearne, in his volume of John of Glastonbury, referred to some of Moyle's criticisms on the "Shield" of Dr. John Woodward,[2] but he was defended by Curll in An Apology for the Writings of Walter Moyle, 1727. His ‘Remarks on the Thundering Legion’ were translated into Latin by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim and published at Leipzig in 1733, discussed, with Moyle's Notes on Lucian, in Nathaniel Lardner's Collection of Ancient Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Religion, ii. 229, 241–50, 355–69, and they formed the text of some letters from Charles Yorke to William Warburton in Francis Kilvert's Selection from the Papers of Warburton, 1841, pp. 124 seqq.
Around 1693 Moyle translated four pieces by Lucian, which were included in the version issued in 1711 under the direction of John Dryden. Dryden acknowledged his indebtedness to Moyle for the argument on the reason why imitation pleases, as well as for "all the particular passages in Aristotle and Horace to explain the art of poetry by that of painting"; and again praised him in the Discourse on Epick Poetry. Charles Gildon published in 1694 a volume of Miscellaneous Letters and Essays’ containing ‘An Apology for Poetry, in an essay directed to Moyle, and letters between him, William Congreve, and John Dennis are included in Dennis's collections of Letters upon Several Occasions, 169
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