The other valentine

A little interesting event that happen is in 1575. Remember Valentine Browne, the man was the treasurer of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, who happen to have the share the name with Henry Carey possible bastard son. Well he seem he got into trouble. The previous year, the soldiers started to complain (Source) and that the food was being crappy. Then again money was alway problem, but it seem that this time it was enough for the authority to take action against Valentine as he seem to be more or less accuse of embazllement and he ended up in the same prison Henry Carey had been sent to previously, though eventually release several month later he was.  The entry on Valentine Browne and Lord Hunsdon in the act of the privy matters will give you the details

Little article I've found

Here something I've found by the  Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives on Lord Hunsdon (it should give the definitive story on it, sorry didn't put its info when I did the article on it, seem like I was wrong by thinking it was about Henry Carey when in fact it was about his son) and other topic on him

http://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Newsletter-2002-February.pdf

Archive binge

How bout we check-up on some of the national archive document on Henry Carey (essentially all the time he got sue)in and around our current time.

The Queen and Henry Lord Hunsdon, Captain of Berwick. v. Tenants of the fishing in the Tweed.: Right of fishing New Water of Tweed by the captains of Berwick Castle, and the Queen's title to New Water of Tweed.: Northumberland.

Description of Courts: Extracts from Courts, and Burgage Court. Court of Richard Ryche, knt., Lord Ryche (4 Phil. & Mary). Courts of Henry Carye, K.G., Lord Hunsdon (22 Eliz. & 2 Jas. I ).

 

Parties: Isham v Hunsdon, Lord, and Tottye. Subject: Proceedings on recognizance of debt County: London

Archbishop of Canterbury v Lord Hunsdon: depositions taken in the country

(wee bit curious about the last one though there is a possibility that its one of Henry descendant)

Thos. Jackson, Thos. Burrell. v. Thos. Moreton or Murton, John Crafford, tenants to the Lord Hunsdon.: Profits of the fishing in the new water of Tweed.: Northumberland.

Looking into this I think I might have to look into the fishing around tweed.

Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Charles I. Hunsdon, Henry: Middlesex.

Carey v Twisden.   - Carey v Pakington Segrey v Carey. (land dispute)

James Duckett, servant to Henry Carey, first Baron Hunsdon [styled 'Earl of' Hunsdon v Robert Garford  (amusingly he is style Earl of Hunsdon there, the always chase title )

                                                                                  

A traitor death

(While I know I keep advancing in time, I think i'll  go couple a few years in future issue, I may have skip a few things)

So today I've decide to look into the reason why Henry Carey seem to have a few issue with issuing the execution of the earl of Northumberland. To give futher context, what happen after the failure of the rebellion the earl tried to fleed to Scotland only to be sold back to england for 2000 pounds and sent to Berwick. (Source).  Its not really that Henry Carey was a guy who had a lot of ahead of his time idea regarding the death penalty. In fact several years later he will say that he is more use  with hanging than hunting or hawking (source). Remember he job involves law enforcement and execution are quite common as punishment at the time. Weirdly enough should you look at the previous page of the work, it will say that he preferred to talk hound and Hawks rather than political matters.

The answer seem to present itself in the Memorial of the rebellion of 1569. Page 331, sorta start with telling us that Elizabeth asked Hunsdon to use any mean necessary to get a confession out of him. Exactly what method he use for his interrogation, a bit hard to say for sure, but the rest of the page give us the answer is that apparently he though (if I am reading this correctly) that the the execution of nobleman wasn't of his domain as his he was charge of the warden and of Berwick. I guess the "Justification in giving him to Sir John Forster maybe that he was warden of middle marches and so technically the earl was of his territory.

Also if you want an idea of how brutal the rebellion got Berwick-upon-Tweed: The History of the Town and Guild will tell you on page 170 that Hundson, Essex and destroyed 90 castles and lay waste to 300 villages.

Fighting spirit

They are a couple reason why the rebellion didn't last too long. The rebel had a fairly simple objective which was to take out Mary Stuart of captivity, though that was taken care of fairly quickly by moving her more south, where her partisan had less support.  While the rebel had number in the thousands, when England had properly gathered up its strenght it could bring a much bigger fighting force (source), but the problem was that it needed to be gather up which took time, luckily for them the Northern rebels had little support.  I'd love to say that our dear baron was behind all this, but really its earl of Sussex (Although apparently Elizabeth wasn't sure he was loyal). The queen had asked him to stay at berwick when thing started to flare up (November 16 entry),.

Though the reason why Hunsdon involvement is important, is essentially because he saw the most fighting in the war and that because he was in a numerical disadvantage (and it was in the last moments of the rebellion). Sir Leonard Dacre was essentially a noble that covertly supporting the Marian partisan while declaring he was a supporter of the crowd, which enable him to gather up his force at his fortress. So it was now up to Henry Carey to smash it up.

Here a pretty good resume of the events.

Rebellion

So here some more general context to the rising of the North. We have essentially a mix of reason as to why thing happen, most of them having to do with protestantism of the crown while the local lord are catholic, but it also goes along with a centralising government against more feudal lord. At the same time you have the duke of northfolk seeking to get wed to Mary Stuart. Henry effectively an agent of that centralisation (he himself having no ties whatsoever to the region, but he is getting appointee to the matters by the central authority in London). I very much doubt that Henry had any sort of conflicting loyalty here, in fact the suppressing of the rebellion pretty much get brutal. Though most account actually put his force at numerical disadvantage.