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JUDITH AUSTIN (1566-August 28, 1640) Judith Austin (or Ostern) was the daughter of Thomas Austin of Oxley, Staffordshire (1538-April 9, 1601) and Mary Cresswell (1540-1574). Her first husband was William Boothby of Old Jewry, London (1564-1597), by whom she had two sons, Henry (b. June 24, 1594) and Richard (b.1596). She married second William Bassett of Blore, Staffordshire and Langley Meynell, Derbyshire (August 18, 1551-December 9, 1601), by whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth (1599-April 17, 1643). Bassett, although he served as sheriff of Derbyshire, was examined on allegations of Catholicism, treason, necromancy, and cowardice in the early 1590s but nothing was proven. Upon his death, Judith attempted to keep custody of her two-year-old daughter but the child became a ward of the Crown. Her wardship was sold to Henry, Lord Cobham, who in turn sold it to Sir Walter Raleigh. At age four, Elizabeth was betrothed to Walter Raleigh, age ten. At the same time, an agreement was reached to return her custody to her mother until she was sixteen years old. This cost Judith an annual payment of £40 until Elizabeth was ten and after that 100 marks per annum. In 1603, however, both Cobham and Raleigh were attainted for treason and the wardship reverted to the Crown. In 1605, Judith was still trying unsuccessfully to acquire it for herself. Judith commissioned a monument in the Bassett Chapel in St. Bartholomew’s Church in Blore that features alabaster effigies of herself and her husband, her daughter and her husband, Henry Howard, and Elizabeth’s daughter, Catherine. Elizabeth’s two sons, who died young, are represented by two caskets. Judith married third Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire (c.1545-1606). They had no children.
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1566 - 1640 (~ 74 years)
, d. 17 Apr 1643 (Age ~ 44 years)