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- [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 2: 123-4 and digitized at Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal02macl/page/122/mode/2up.
"We have seen that he had already attained to the degree of a knight, having been dubbed by King James I., among the 410 whom he knighted at Whitehall, on the 23rd July, 1603. Hitherto knighthood had been regarded as an especial mark of royal favour, but on the 17th July, the king, being then at Hampton Court, issued a general summons, that all persons who possessed £40 a year in land, either to come and receive the honour or compound with the king's Commissioners. 1 It appears from the pitiful petition in chancery of Matthew Poyntz that he had on the marriage of his son Nicholas settled upon him the manor of Simondshall of the value of £200 a year, so that, so far, he was qualified to partake of the king's shameless prostitution of a most honourable dignity."
- [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 2: 129 and digitized at Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal02macl/page/128/mode/2up.
"We have no further information concerning (Nicholas) until 31st April, 1636, before which time he had died, for, under that date, it appears that the king had granted to Eobert Marburg, one of his Majesty's gentlemen ushers quarter waiters, a fine of £500 imposed on Sir Nicholas Poyntz deceased, in the Star Chamber, and £200 imposed upon Robert Poyntz his son in the 11th of King James, for levying whereof process had been issued to the sheriff of Gloucestershire, who had returned that neither lands nor goods were to be found for the payment of the said fines, as Mr. Barker, receiver of the fines imposed in the Star Chamber, has certified."
- [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 2: 121 and digitized at Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal02macl/page/120/mode/2up.
- [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 2: 124 and digitized at Archive.org athttps://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal02macl/page/124/mode/2up.
Nicholas "was a wild, violent, unprincipled and extravagant man, who eventually brought his estate and his family to utter ruin. On 15th June, 1583, he married Ann, daughter of Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Bruton, co. Somerset, by Catherine, daughter of William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, and relict of Champernoun, his first wife, an alliance which the unfortunate lady had doubtless sufficient cause to regret during her whole life, which terminated in 1625. Sir Maurice Berkeley was dead before this marriage of his daughter, and hence it was arranged by his son and successor Sir Henry Berkeley and his wife, Dame Margaret daughter of William Ligon, Esq., and relict of Sir Thomas Russell. By his will dated 10th February, 1579-80, and proved 16th November, 1581, Sir Maurice Berkeley bequeathed to his daughter Ann £600 and £20 to buy her a gold chain."
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