| Description | Lady Penelope was one of the daughters of the third Sir Richard Bulkeley (d. 1621), and widow of Sir Edwin Sandys - evidently Mr J.E. Griffith in the Pedigrees (42) is completely misinformed as to the exact marriages of some of Sir Richard's daughters, as he makes Lady Penelope the wife of one of the officials of the Court of Star Chamber. The case turns on the death in 1640 of Sir Richard's second wife, Dame Mary, who as part of her jointure enjoyed and occupied the manor of Whateroft, &c. in Cheshire H.B. is accused of having fraudulently, because of the remote dimiciles of Dame Mary's kindred, got letters of administration of her personal estate issued to a poor man, a stranger, and one of his own confederates; he is accused also of detaining rents, profits, goods asnd crops, for his own use (amounting in all to little less than £1,000 on the paltry excuse (see p.15) that Dame Mary had died on the day before Martlemas (when the rents, &c. were due). The appeal was lodged before the Palatine Court at Chester; it runs to 30pp., but is nevertheless incompete, some pp. having been lost. It seems, what with this petition of Ldy Penelope's and the regsitered claims of his sister-in-law Dorothy, that H.B.'s lot at this period was not altogether a happy one |