King Henry VIII undertook a movement to unseat the supremacy of the Catholic Church and to create an independent Church of England. Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries throughout England, Ireland, and Wales between 1537 and 1541. This required a reinvention of the roles that these former ecclesiastical seats once had served. A rise in nationalism followed and
Cave Underhill (1634-1710) was born in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, on March 17, 1634,[i]the only son of Nicholas Underhill, a London clothworker.[ii]He was admitted to Merchant Taylor’s School in January 1644-45.[iii]Records of the Drapers’ Company show “Nicholas Underhill of Cow Lane musitian” was apprenticed to his father John Underhill and admitted to freedom on February 22, 1631.[iv] Cave
Ettington Manor has roots going back before the Norman Conquest. The Domesday Book in 1085 noted the “Manor of Eatington” was occupied by Saswalo. This same figure Saswalo or Sewallis was the first ancestor of the House of Shirley that would gain possession of Ettington. Later, the same figure by the name of Saswalo founded and endowed a church at
Relatively few families have had a greater influence in forming our American character than that of the Underhills, and still fewer families yet have individuals like Captain John Underhill. Underhill found himself among the first and earliest wave of a trans-Atlantic progression, immigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. His first purpose was to form the militia for
A few months after moving from Oyster Bay, New York, I had an opportunity to return for some family business related to the Underhill Burying Ground. Right away I gravitated to the Baptist Church Cemetery that I had been involved in restoration efforts for. I was struck how proudly in the distance stood the Octagon Hotel which I also had