Hercules Loveden, Retainer of Dudley, Earl of Leicester (favourite of Queen Elizabeth I)

Bef 1566 - Aft 1618  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Hercules Loveden
  	1566 Visitation calls him the fourth son of Walter Loveden of Fyfield, Berkshire.
  Suffix	Retainer of Dudley, Earl of Leicester (favourite of Queen Elizabeth I)
  Born	Bef 1566
  Gender	Male
  Event:	c 1587-92+	Evelyn Papers catalogue, British Library
  	EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Abuses by purveyors; 1587- circa but after Nov. 1592. Fair copy , with additions. The twenty-one counties represented comprise all those below the line between the Severn and the Wash, with the addition of Lincolnshire but excluding Devon and Cornwall. The first section (ff. 1-20) comprises, on rectos only, tables of provisions supplied by named purveyors for the years 1590 and 1591, with prices charged, etc., compiled from certificates issued by local JPs. This is followed (ff. 21-50) by a record of ‘The sondry and great abuses and disorders comytted by the purveiors of Oxen and Muttons in sondrie sheres breiflie collected as followeth’, followed by other commodities. The three final pages [ff. 51, 52] comprise expenses of provisions in Oct. and Nov. 32 and 34 Eliz. I [1590, 1592]. Text transcribed in a secretary hand, with additions and annotations in others. Inscribed by John Evelyn on third flyleaf is ‘Note that these Abuses & Clamors produced a Reformation of Pu[r]veyers & of that settlement of euery dayes provision in Court, by the sole suggestion, paines & Industry, of Sr: Rich: Browne, Cleark of the Greene-cloth to Q: Eliz. & K. James’. Name of William Loveden jotted in contemporary italic hand on verso of first flyleaf [likely William Loveden whose brother Hercules Loveden is listed in 1587 as a servant of Leicester’s. In the will made by Hercules he left all property to his brother William Loveden]
  Occupation:	21 Jul 1587	Clerk of the Kitchen to the Earl of Leicester
  	Hercules was listed as one of the 27 [!] Clerks of the Kitchen to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (favourite of Queen Elizabeth I). Hercules' brother John Loveden had for a stepfather-in-law Richard Browne who was at the time the head of Leicester's household as Steward. Hercules' name appears in the household roll of this date as taking the oath of allegiance to the Earl of Leicester and Queen Elizabeth I. The Clerks of the Kitchen appear to have been responsible for all provisioning of food etc. Did Richard Browne perhaps obtain the position for Hercules Loveden?
  Event:	30 Jan 1591	London
  	A Signet office docquet records the grant of privy seals [similar to a passport to leave the Kingdom?] to 24 individuals, including Hercules Loveden.
  Legal:	9 Feb 1593
  	Bond by Hercules Loveden and John Loveden, of Lamborne, gentlemen, and Michael Cawley, of Chilton, gentleman, to Ralph Rokeby, John Herbert, William Awberie and Julius Cesar, Doctors of Laws and Masters of the Court of Requests, in £60, conditioned for the repayment by Hercules of such sums as he should have received under a decree of the Court of Requests, in a suit between him, complainant, and John Toppe and Dorothy, defendants, dated 12 October, 33 Elizabeth [1591], whereby the said John and Dorothy were ordered to pay him £20 yearly during the life of the said Dorothy; such repayment to be made within three months after such time as by the \'counsell of her Majesties\' said Courte\' he shall be adjudged to make it, upon the hearing of a cause now depending in the said court mentioned in a bill of complaint, endorsed 8 June last, wherein the said John and Dorothy are complainants against the said Hercules, defendant. Berkshire. 9 February, 35 Elizabeth, 1592. Witnesses, N. Vavasour, William Hampson, Roger Twyford. Signed by H. Loueden, Jo Loueden, Mychaell Cawley. Note: Seal of arms [g. ] a bend between four sinister hands a paumy couped [arg. ] a crescent for difference [Loveden]. Seal of arms, as above. Seal of arms (?) quarterly a fess dancetty and a bend. [National Archives E 40/12408]
  Legal:	3 Jul 1595	Court of Requests
  	Volume REQ 1/18 (orders, decrees and memoranda of the Court of Requests): 3 Jul 1595 Plaintiff - Hercules Loveden, Gent, administrator of Walter Loveden decd, his brother. Defendant - John Toppe the elder & Dorothy his wife executrix of Walter Loveden Esqr decd, late husband to the said Dorothy, and father of the complt Hercules. Notes - Concerns legacy of £200 bequeathed to Walter L. The son by the will of Walter L. the father. Ref to previous order whereby the same cause had previously been dismissed and referred to the ecclesiastical court, where sentence had been granted in favour of the complt, but he claims he can have no remedy there. Ordered to be dismissed unless the complt can provide a note from the judges at the Ecclesiastical Court confirming that he can have no remedy there.
  Died	Aft 1618
  	Hercules was executor and a beneficiary of the will of his brother Robert Loveden who died in 1618.
  Legal:	c 1603 - 1625	Chancery Case
  	Loveden v Bridges. Plaintiff: Hercules Loveden. Defendant: Francis Bridges. Re messuages and lands in Highworth, Eastrop, Westrop and Hampton Turvill, Wiltshire. [National Archives UK ref. C2/JasI/L14/28]
  Legal:	c 1603 - 1625	Chancery case
  	Loveden v Loveden. Plaintiff: Hercules Loveden. Defendant: John Lovedon. Subject: messuages and lands in Highworth, Eastrop, Westrop and Hampton Turvill, Wiltshire. Document type: [pleadings] [National Archives C2/JasI/L15/56]
  Person ID	I2156	Grant
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Walter Loveden, of Fyfield, Berkshire, Tudor conspirator and Recusant,   d. c 21 Mar 1582
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Dorothy Warneford, of Sevenhampton, Recusant,   d. Aft c 1603
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	[Dorothy?]
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart