Edward was Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire
b c1441 in Of Farnsborough, Warwickshire, England.
d <20 June 1509.
will prob 20 Jun 1509[rt9;14-36]
m c1376 in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England
m 1445 in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England
Emma Pyking %Emme
b 1412/1420 in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England
Sir Ralph, a mercer (textile merchant), was Lord Mayor of London in 1465; M.P. for the city in 1472; knighted by Edward IV in 1471 Link - Link - Link
"Foreigners, visiting England in the sixteenth century, were surprised by the unusual sight of castles with no military equipment, no armed guards, gates wide open. This can be readily understood; their owners were not grim feudal lords but bourgeois, or landowners turned bourgeois.
This partial coalescence of the interests of the bourgeoisie and the landowners is excellently
illustrated by the history of the Verney family. The founder of the line, the merchant
Ralph Verney, became Lord Mayor of London in 1465. After the Battle of Tewkeshury which ended
the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV knighted twelve citizens in testimony of gratitude to his
supporters; among these, Verney stood first and received a grant of land. Later he purchased
new estates and soon became one of the landowning aristocracy. ..."
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"the Kynge dubed Knyghtes the maior, the recordar, dyvars aldermen, with othar worshipull of the sayd Citie of London." -- The Chronicler in Leland, supplying information which we might have expected to find in Fabyan, informs us, that, "Syr John Stokton [the Mayor], Syr Rafe Verney, Syr Richard Lee, Syr John Young, Syr William Taylor, Syr George Ireland, Syr John Stoker, Syr Mattieu Philip, Syr William Hampton, Syr Thomas Stalbroke, Syr John Crosby [one of the Sheriffs], and Syr Thomas Ursewike, Recorder of London," were the persons thus honored. (Lel. Coll. II. 507.) Link
m 1467 in Farnborough, Warwickshire, England
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Sir Edward Raleigh of Farnborough
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