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18-554: Thomas was related to Sir Charles Cornwallis of Beeston, Norfolk (d. 1629), who was an ambassador to Spain and the brother of both Elizabeth Cornwallis and Sir William Cornwallis of Brome. Sir William was the direct ancestor of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis . Thomas was probably the son (or the brother) of the author William Cornwallis . As the second son, he did not hope to inherit his father's land. The Cornwallis family were Roman Catholic Recusants , and therefore, George Calvert 's project of an autonomous colony in

36-603: A Native American attack. In 1644, Richard Ingle sailed into Chesapeake Bay with his ship, Reformation, and fired on St. Mary's City . Cornwallis' land was occupied and many of the buildings he had constructed were destroyed. As a result of these losses and his loss of influence in the colony, Cornwallis returned to England, where he died at some point after 4 March 1675. The tombs of Cornwallis and his wife Penelope are inside St. Mary's Church in Erwarton . Charles Cornwallis (diplomat) Sir Charles Cornwallis (died 1629)

54-497: A duel with Sir Benjamin Rudyard , but they subsequently became great friends. When he was a Serjeant-at-law , and was indicted for not keeping the pavement in front of his door in good repair, he successfully defended his case arguing that the charge did not specify how he was liable, whether he owned a property at that location, whether he lived there, or even whether he had a tenant who had legally assumed such responsibilities. Hoskins

72-570: A house in, and was elected to parliament for Hereford in 1604 and 1614. In 1614, in parliament, he spoke his mind about the Sicilian Vespers and consequently was imprisoned for a year in the Tower of London with Sir Charles Cornwallis. After his release he was elected Lent Reader in 1619, and became a Judge in 1623. He was re-elected MP for Hereford in 1628. Hoskins was an intimate of John Selden , Sir Walter Raleigh and Ben Jonson . He fought

90-467: The New World of English Catholics appealed to Thomas. Thomas Cornwallis sailed with Leonard Calvert from England to Maryland, not Virginia, as one of the original Commissioners of the colony. King Charles I signed the charter of Maryland in 1632, making George Calvert and his heirs Proprietors of Maryland. It was George Calvert's son, Cecil Calvert, who signed the charter, second Lord Baltimore, and received

108-556: The island for the Calvert family. In 1634, he accompanied Leonard Calvert to what was then Virginia, and became a Commissioner to the Governor. This put him in a powerful advisory position to Leonard Calvert. In 1635, Cornwallis fought the Virginian colonist William Claiborne and his allies over the jurisdiction of Kent Island , and captured it in 1638. In 1643, he defended the colony against

126-609: The province of Maryland from King Charles I. However, the English civil war between Parliament and Charles I, left the possession of the Maryland Province in question. Kent Island was part of the land owned by one William Claiborne of Virginia. He resented that his land had been included in the grant to Lord Baltimore and refused to submit to Maryland's Authority. Cornwallis was involved in several Naval battles over Kent Island in 1635, and in 1638, he led an expedition that took control of

144-673: Was Cornwallis's agent. Cornwallis disclaimed all knowledge of Hoskins, but admitted that he had procured the election of another member of parliament, and had supplied him with notes for a speech against recusants and Scotchmen. The privy council placed Cornwallis under arrest in June 1614, and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a year, with Hoskins and Leonel Sharp . Cornwallis, who at one time lived at Beeston St Andrew , Norfolk , as well as in Suffolk , retired late in life to Harborne , Staffordshire , where he died on 21 December 1629. He

162-579: Was Isabel, daughter of William Riseley of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire , and successively widow of Thomas Heath, of Shellswell, Oxfordshire , and of Devereux Barratt of Tenby , Pembrokeshire . The couple had no children. Early in 1638, when attending assizes , "a massive country fellow trod on his toe"; gangrene set in but, despite an amputation, he died in August that year, aged 72. He is buried in Abbey Dore , Herefordshire . His surviving son Bennet Hoskyns

180-434: Was Sir Charles's son by his first wife. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Lee, Sidney (1887). " Cornwallis, Charles (d.1629) ". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 234. John Hoskins (poet) Serjeant John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1 March 1566 – 27 August 1638)

198-552: Was a candidate for the post of master of the wards in the same year; was one of four commissioners sent to Ireland on 11 September 1613 to investigate Irish grievances, and reported that Ireland had no very substantial ground for complaint. In 1614 Cornwallis was suspected of fanning the parliamentary opposition to the king. John Hoskins , who had made himself conspicuous in the House of Commons of England by his denunciation of Scots and Scottish institutions, declared when arrested that he

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216-633: Was active in attempting to protect English merchants from the Spanish Inquisition , and lobbied the home government for English commercial interests. He was recalled in September 1609, and his secretary, Francis Cottington , took his place at Madrid . In 1610 he became treasurer of the household of Henry, Prince of Wales , resisted the proposal to marry the prince to a daughter of the Duke of Savoy , and attended his master through his fatal illness of 1612. He

234-559: Was an English poet, scholar of Greek , lawyer, judge, and politician. He was the son of John and Margery Hoskins born in Mownton-upon-Wye , Llanwarne , Herefordshire . His father, impressed by his memory and mental abilities, arranged for him to be taught Greek at the age of ten. He attended Westminster School for a year before going to Winchester College in 1579. From 1584 to 1588 he attended their sister foundation New College, Oxford , arriving alongside Henry Wotton . Hoskins

252-443: Was an English courtier and diplomat . He was the second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis , controller of Queen Mary's household, who had been imprisoned by Elizabeth in 1570. He was probably born at his father's house of Brome Hall , Suffolk . Nothing is known of Cornwallis till 11 July 1603, when he was knighted. In 1604 he was Member of Parliament for Norfolk . Early in 1605 he was sent as resident ambassador to Spain . He

270-687: Was buried in London at St. Giles in the Fields . Cornwallis wrote: In John Gutch 's Collectanea Curiosa are two papers by Cornwallis detailing the negotiations for Prince Henry 's marriage with the Spanish Infanta and the Savoyard princess. Ralph Winwood 's Memorials (ii. and iii.) and Edmund Sawyer , Memorials of Affairs of State (1725) include many of Cornwallis's official letters from Spain. Cornwallis married three times: Sir William Cornwallis

288-487: Was created a Baronet in 1676. The poem Absence, Hear thou my Protestation (Printed anonymously in Francis Davison 's A poetical rhapsody containing diverse sonnets, odes, [etc.] (V. S. for J. Baily, 1602)) was at one time attributed to John Donne . Herbert Grierson has argued persuasively that it should be attributed to Hoskins. Hoskins is noted for painting an image of The Trusty Servant as an emblem outside

306-530: Was expelled from Oxford University before he became Regent master : the authorities did not appreciate his biting satire . He became a teacher in Ilchester , Somerset , where he worked on a Greek lexicon which went as far as the letter M. Through a fortuitous meeting with Benedicta Moyle, who later became his first wife, he then gained entrance to the Middle Temple to study for the bar. Hoskins by 1601 acquired

324-525: Was twice married. His first wife was Benedicta Moyle, daughter of John Moyle, of Buckwell, Kent . They met before he became a law student but did not marry until 1 August 1601, when she had in the meantime married Francis Bourne (a fellow barrister) of Sutton St Clere, Somerset, who had died in February 1601. The couple had three sons (two of whom predeceased him) and one daughter. Benedicta died on 6 October 1625. His second wife, whom he married on 10 December 1627,

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