Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR HENRY MILDMAY OF WOODHAM WALTERS THE heir to the fourth Thomas Mildmay was his brother Sir Henry of Woodham Walters, Sheriff of Essex, 1629, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Thomas Darcye of Toleshunt Darcye. The name of Walters came from the Fitz Walters, who formerly owned the property. Sir Henry was a claimant for the FitzWalter Barony, as is more fully related in the account of the Fitz Walters. In the time of this Sir Henry an interesting event is recorded as taking place at Moulsham. John Reeve writes: ? 1 November 1638/9. Uppon Monday last the King waited on by the Lords and the rest of the Court went from hence to Chens- ford and next day to Mousum to Sir Henry Mile- ma’s where the Queene Mother had been lodged the night before. Shee mett hym below the Stayres in the Hall near the Screene ledd by my Lord Goring, where after the King had bowd towards the hemme of her garment then rising towards her hand kissed her who held him a great while uppon her neck without speaking to him. 1 The above agrees very well with the account in 1 Denbigh Papers, Hist. MS. Com. a little book or pamphlet by P. de la Serre, entitled, Histoire de FEntree de la Reine Mere dam la Grande Bretagne. In this there is an engraving of Moulsham, which shows a castellated structure walled round, with moat and drawbridge, and pictures the meeting in 1639 of King Charles I and Marie de’ Medici in the outer Courtyard, thus described, (translated from the French) page 19: ?
Her Majesty left this fine house (St. John’s Abbey, Colchester) to sleep near the town of Chelmsford in a castle belonging to M. de Mildmay, a Knight of importance, as well for his own merit, as from the antiquity of his noble race. Then follows a description of how the Queen and her suite were lodg…