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Ampthill & District News: Saturday 30th April 1898

Obituaries: Funeral at Hulcote:  Our readers will learn with much regret of the death of the Rev. Boteler Chernocke Smith, R.D., vicar of Salford and rector of Hulcote, whose demise occurred somewhat suddenly on Thursday evening. His age was 78 years …  (continues) … The Rev. B. Chernocke-Smith is survived by ten of his twelve children. The sons are Edward, Harry, Villiers, John Charles, and Boteler Chernocke-Smith … … The eldest daughter, Edith, died in 1894, and the third son, Pynsent C. Smith, in 1893 … (continues) … These recurring names form interesting links with the past. The inscription on the monument in the chancel states that it is to the memory of Robert Chernocke, who descended of an ancient house, called Chernocke Hall in Lancashire … … (continues describing descent) …Sir Robert Chernocke of Hulcote, whose son John was created the first baronet. The last baronet was Sir Villiers who died without issue in 1779, when his Bedfordshire estate passed to his nephew, the Rev. Edward Hervey, Rector. This gentleman’s daughter, Charlotte, married the Rev. Edward Orlebar Smith … … The name “Boteler” or “Butler” is derived by marriage with the Biddenham family of that ilk. Helen, daughter of William Boteler, of Biddenham, married Sir Pynsent Chernocke, 3rd baronet of Hulcote, who was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1703, and M.P. for the county in the reign of Queen Anne. … …(continues) … Mr. Pynsent Smith is well remembered in Bedford as a highly respected house-surgeon at the General Infirmary … … (continues with service and list of attendees). 

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Gentlewoman: Saturday 31st July 1897

Visitors at the New London Hotel, Exeter, include the Hon. Lady Northcote, Captain and Mrs. Dennis Bowles, Lord Courtenay, the Rev. Charles Penrose Quicke and Mrs. Quicke, Mr. De Castro, Major and Mrs. Stafford Harding and Mr. Pynsent Matthew.

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Tablet: Saturday 27th March 1897

St. Benedict’s Rome: The Benedictine Community, founded under the patronage of the holy Patriarch, in the Via San Nicola da Tolentino, by the Lady Abbess Pynsent, which has existed for a few years with the approval of the Roman ecclesiastical authorities, presented on St. Patricks Day, in October last, a petition for its formal recognition. Thanks to the interest personally manifested by the Holy Father himself, the nuns are now enabled to celebrate the feast of the Pater Monachorum, after the additional gratification of having received full and explicit acknowledgment as the members of a Monasterium. The glad tidings came early in the week, while Father Magnier, C.SS.R., was preparing to preach on “Sin.” He changed the subject of his discourse and bade the nuns to pray for the welfare of the Holy Father, which they did, going in procession to the shrine of St. Benedict, outside their chapel. The enclosure is a modified one, conceived in the spirit put forth in A Feature in Benedictine Life (St. Benedict’s, Rome, 1896), one of the manuals published by the community. … (continues) …

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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934

Portadown News: Saturday 4th November 1896

Concerning Pipes and Such: On an old silver tobacco box, said to have belonged to a Pynsent who left all his estates in Somersetshire to the great Lord Chatham, “from admiration of his talents and patriotism,” was engraved the following lines under a death’s head: – Mens ignis tubulus corpus, mihi vitaque fumus Herba penus, clavus, fata cinis. Which have been rendered: – Of lordly man how humble is the type, a fleeting shadow, a tobacco pipe! His mind the fire, his frame the tube of clay, His breath the smoke so idly puffed away, His food the herb that fills the hollow bowl, Death is the stopper, Ashes ends the whole.

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Gentlewoman: Saturday 31st October 1896

Our County Correspondence: Exeter, October 26th: Visitors at the New London Hotel, Exeter, include the Hon. Stafford Northcote, C.B., M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bramall, Mr. Martin, Dr. Pollard, Captain Battiscombe, The Rev. A. J. Rendle, … Mr. Pynsent Matthew, Mr. E. L. Keates, Mr. Pitt-Kennedy, Lieutenant Scott and Mr. T. T. Bucknill, Q.C., M.P. … (discussion) …

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Bromley and West Kent Telegraph: Saturday 9th November 1895

Old Bromley: A peep into the past: … Sundridge was owned just after the Conquest by the Blunds or Blounds, who were of a powerful family in France, and came over with the Conqueror. Peter le Blund, owner of the place in the time of Henry III, was made by him Constable of the Tower of London in 1254. His descendant, Edward le Blund, contributed ten shillings towards making the Black Prince a knight, in 1345, being assessed at one fourth of a knight’s fee for that purpose, as appears from the book of “Aids” in the reign of Edward III, the king having the right to levy 40s on every knight’s fee on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son. This family ended in a female heir, who carried the seat in marriage to Willoughby, from whom it passed by purchase to Booth, whose descendant William Booth was found, by inquisition, to die seized of the manor of “Sundrigg,” in the 1st year of Henry VII., held of the Bishop of Rochester by knight’s service, and by the service of making suit at the court of the Palace aforesaid. A descendent, Seth Booth, dying without male issue, one of his daughters carried it in marriage to Thomas Bettenham, whose grandson, Stephen Bettenham, gave it in marriage with his daughter Anne to Robert Pynsent, of Devonshire. He died without issue, and was succeeded by Thomas Washer, a barrister, whose only daughter, and heir Mary carried it in marriage to William Wilson, high sheriff of the county in 1766. His grandson William Wilson sold the manor in 1792 to Edward G Lind in 1796. Claude Scott, of Chislehuret, purchased it, pulled down the old house, and built the handsome mansion which now stands. …

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Tablet: Saturday 2nd March 1895

… … You may now state the following facts: A house has been taken in the Via S. Niccole da Tolentino, and several ladies of good position are, under the guidance of the Lady Abbess Pynsent, 0.S.B., living together in the observance of regular life. This is with the encouragement of ecclesiastical authority pending canonical approbation. Although in the meantime the ladies wear no external distinctive habit, their domestic life is disposed according to the practices of a formed community, with the recitation of the divine office, rising to Matins at 1.30. A special object which they have in view in their preparation is to be of use in giving instruction to others who are led to seek admission into the Church, and so to assist the clergy in this part of their work. Until the present, Mass was said in a room fitted up as a chapel. They have now, however, constructed on the ground floor an oratory tastefully decorated in the Gothic style. Behind the altar is the choir, separated from the sanctuary by open tracery. The altarpiece is a copy of the fresco painting of our Lady before which St. Benedict is said to have prayed when a child. Two life-size statues of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica stand on either side of the chancel arch. There is accommodation in the body of the oratory for about too externs. On Sexagesima Sunday his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar solemnly blessed the new oratory and the picture of Our Lady, and then celebrated Mass, all the music of which was rendered in well executed Gregorian, without external help … …  (continues) … …

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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934

Pulman’s Weekly News and Advertiser: Tuesday 22nd January 1895

The Charge of Attempted Murder: James Mayne was then charged, on remand with the attempted murder of Arthur Wyndham Marshall, whose evidence in the previous case was accepted in this. … Mr. Charles Pynsent Matthew, medical practitioner, who gave his evidence for the prosecution at a previous Court, was questioned by Mr. Booker. Witness expressed the opinion that when the gun was fired its muzzle was not more than 10 feet from Marshall, and not nearer to him that three or four feet. … (continues) …

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Norfolk News: Saturday 22nd September 1894

Deaths: The Rev. F. A. Pynsent, Deceased. ALL Persons having Claims against the Estate of the Rev. F. PYNSENT, late of The Rectory, Bawdeswell, in Norfolk, Deceased, are requested to send particulars thereof at once to Messrs. E. & A. ELWIN, Solicitors, Dover: 19th September 1894.

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GRO0295 Hennock: Ferdinand Alfred Pynsent: 1822 – 1894

Homeward Mail from India, China and the East: Monday 18th December 1893

List of Persons who have engaged passages by the P. and O. Co.’s Steamers from December to February: S. S. Parramatta, from London, Dec. 21, from Brindisi, Dec. 31, for Australia; connecting at Aden with the S.S. Sutlej, for Bombay, and at Colombo, with S. S. Ravenna, for Straits, China (etc).  … …  For Wellington – From London: Mr. A. B. Pynsent (sic) …

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GRO0744 Hennock: Robert Burton Pynsent: 1869 – 1953