Dorothy Beaupre

Citations

1. [S106] Howland Delano Perrine, The Wright Family of Oysterbay, L.I. with the ancestry of and descent from Peter Wright and Nicholas Wright, 1423-1923, page 22 - Dorothy Beaupre married Sir Robert Bell, November 15, 1559. Sir Robert Bell was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, May 10, 1572, 14th Elizabeth, serving until 1576, when he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, in succession to Sir Edward Saunders. He died at Oxford, in 1577, and left issue. His death was caused by jail fever (typhus) while he was presiding at the famous Black Assize in Oxford, during the trial of a bookseller for slander of Queen Elizabeth, who was sentenced to have both ears cropped. His picture, from an old print in the possession of the Bell family, in his official robes as Chief Baron, is shown for purpose of showing a type of the men of that period, and also to see possibly the type of men Nicholas and Edmund Wright may have been, as all three men had married into the Beaupre family, and were in all probability of the same class, and of equal station. (Speakers of House of Commons. Arthur I. Dasant. 1911. p. 139.) After the death of Sir Robert Bell, Dorothy Bell married, in 1578, Sir John Peyton, of Durrington, in Isle of Ely, Knt., a son of John Peyton, of Knowleton, county Kent, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tindall of county Norfolk, Knt., and had issue Sir John Peyton, of Thornborough, in Isle of Ely, the first knight created by King James I., and who married Alice, daughter of Sir John Peyton, of Islesham, Cambridgeshire. (Harleian MS., Visitation of Cambridgeshire, p. 5.) Sir John Peyton was "leftenant" of the Tower.