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Offices Held
Esquire of the body by 1509; bailiff, manors of Snitterfield and Warwick, Warws. 1509-d.; sewer by 1511; j.p. Warws. 1511-d.; commr. subsidy 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524, musters 1522; other commissions 1519-d.; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1513-14, 1518-19, Worcs. 1528-35; steward, manor of Knowle, Warws. at d.

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Vice-admiral of England under Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter

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In February 1405, as ‘King’s knight’, Arundell was appointed as Captain of Marck, one of the Calais outposts, this included the castle and town with all lands, fisheries, franchises and perquisites outside the liberty of Calais were granted to him for life.
[Wikipedia 2016-09-13]

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Buried standing up as penance for two murders committed by him against a business rival, and the Parish Church minister, whom Nicholas found "chucking" his wife under the chin.

Nicholas was responsible for the extensive rebuilding of the nearby parish church dedicated to Saint Michael, done as penance for killing the parish priest, a murder reputed to have taken place in the great house itself.

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28 May 2016 - St Michael’s Church, Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
Megan Tilley - 29 May at 09:07
I also visited St Michael's Church, which adjoins Baddesley Clinton (though is still a church and not part of the National Trust). I was met by the "Church Cat", who was quite friendly until a family with children approached... noisy bunch.
The first church here was dedicated to St James, but the current dedication is to St Michael. The church stands in a lovely wooded glade about 250 yards from the moated manor house at Baddesley Clinton.
The church is rather a small one, and the layout is simple, consisting of a west tower, nave, and chancel. The tower is worth noting; it was added around 1500 by the lord of the manor, Nicholas Brome, as penitence for murdering the local priest.
The story goes that Brome arrived home unexpectedly one day and surprised the priest in the act of tickling his wife under the chin. ("...that Nicholas 'slew the minister of Baddesley Church findinge him in his plor (parlour) chockinge his wife under ye chinne, and to expiatt these bloody offenses and crimes he built the steeple and raysed the church body ten foote higher").
Brome assumed they were having an affair and slew the priest on the spot. He escaped punishment for murder with the aide of his powerful friends, and was granted pardon by the king and Pope. However, to atone for his deed, Brome built towers for the church here and at nearby Packwood. These are known locally as the 'Towers of Atonement'.
This wasn't his first murder, however; his father John had been slain by John Herthill, Steward to Richard "the Kingmaker", Earl of Warwick, and Herthill murdered him in 1468 on the porch of the Whitefriars Church in London. Nicholas eventually avenged his father's murder by killing Herthill in 1471. Nicholas was also pardoned for this murder. Good to have friends in high places, I guess.

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An obvious mis-transcription of the Baptismal Register for daughter Elizabeth b1800. Should show JONATHAN TOWNSEND, which makes sense as his name is "John" in other records.

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Bernard of Neufmarché (c. 1050 - c. 1125) was "the first of the original conquerors of Wales."[1] He was a minor Norman lord who rose to power in the Welsh Marches before successfully undertaking the invasion and conquest of the Kingdom of Brycheiniog between 1088 and 1095. Out of the ruins of the Welsh kingdom he created the Anglo-Norman lordship of Brecon. His byname comes from Neuf-Marché, from the Latin Novo Mercato, and has sometimes been Anglicised as "Newmarket" or "Newmarch". [Wikipedia 2016-09-23 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Neufmarch%C3%A9]

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Heraldic Emblems within St Dionysius' Church, Market Harborough
8. SCROPE OF MASHAM AND UPSHALL. The Manor of Harborough was granted in 1334 by Edward III to Geoffrey le Scrope, and these arms must certainly have been set for him. It is extremely likely that he was the chief builder of this Church (St Dionysius' Church), and it is said that until recent times it was possible to discern the remains of his arms on the outside of the spire. No one seems to have a better right than Geoffrey le Scrope to have his arms in this Church.