Roger Dethick

Citations

1. [S912] Daniel & Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia: Volume 5:, pages 112-152 -.
2. [S937] Joseph Tilley, Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire, Volume 2: page 19 - ... There was a second son of Sir William, named Roger, from whom " descended," says Dr. Cox,* " Sir Gilbert and Sir William, who successively held the office of Garter King at Arms." True, such a fact was known to most genealogists, but, says Mr. Thompson Cooper, F.S.A., in an article he contributed to the National Biograph)',] " Ralph Brooke asserts, on the other hand, that their origin was •derived from Robert Dethick, a Dutchman, who came to England with Erasmus Crukenez, yeoman armourer to Henry VIII., and whose wages amounted to only tenpence a day." To strengthen this assertion, Cooper goes on to say that Dethick, the Dutchman, married Agatha Leydendecker, whose father was a Dutch barber of Aachen, and that he had a son, Gilbert, whose wife was a daughter of one Leonard, a Dutch shoemaker, living at the sign of the Red Cock, in St. Martin's Lane. Further, that Sir Gilbert, the Garter King at Arms for thirty-six years (1550-86), was their son, and, by Alice Paterson, had Sir William, his successor in the Garter office ; Nicholas, who was Windsor Herald ; and Henry, who •was a Bachelor of Divinity and Law. But Cooper neglects to remind us that Brooke was a contemporary of Dethick, and a sworn enemy, whom he detested both for his monopoly of the herald's fees and for his horrible temper, and thus the evidence of Brooke becomes invalid. We have pointed out elsewhere]: that Warburton, the historian, asserts that one of our Kirkes, whose father was born at Norton, was a French Calvinist refugee, and all because his father sojourned the other side the Channel for so long. Yet no one turns upon such assertions as Warburton's or Brooke's to wither them with the exposition which ignorance deserves.