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- HONYWOOD, MARY (1527–1620), daughter and coheiress of Robert Waters, esq., of Lenham, Kent, was born at that place in 1527. In 1543, being then in her sixteenth year, she married Robert Honywood, esq., of Charing, and afterwards of Marks Hall, Essex, by whom she had sixteen children. Mrs. Honywood was chiefly celebrated for her longevity, and for the unprecedentedly large number of lineal descendants whom she lived to see. By her sixteen children she had 114 grandchildren, 228 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren, 367 in all. Her grandson, Dr. Michael Honywood [q. v.], dean of Lincoln, was accustomed to tell of his having been present at a banquet given by her to her descendants, two hundred of whom sat down to table. She was also noted for her piety, but in her declining years fell into deep despondency. It is recorded that Foxe, the martyrologist, having visited her with the view of consoling her, she ‘dashed a Venice glass to the ground, saying, “Sir, I am as sure to be damned as this glass is to be broke,” when by God's wonderful providence the glass was taken up uninjured.’ She died at Marks Hall on 12 May 1620, aged 93. She was buried at Lenham on 20 May, and a monument was erected to her memory at Marks Hall. One portrait is at Marks Hall, ‘æt. suæ 70,’ and another in Lincoln Cathedral Library. An engraved portrait is in the ‘Topographer and Genealogist,’ ii. 185, 256. [Fuller's Worthies; Botfield's Cath. Libraries; Flavel's Mystery of Providence; Hasted's Kent; Topographer and Genealogist, ii. 185, 256.] From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Honywood,_Mary_(DNB00) https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio25stepgoog#page/n269/mode/1up to https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio25stepgoog#page/n270/mode/1up When Mary Atwater married Robert Honywood in 1543, she recieved from her father the manors of Pett and Newcourt in Charing, and Down Court and Royton in Lenham, which by marriage became the property of her husband. They resided at Royton in Lenham and Pett in Charing. He died at Pett. +++ She was married in February 1543, at the age of sixteen, to Robert Honywood of Postling in Kent. She had sixteen children. Two died young. An account of the remaining fourteen is given in "Morant's History of Essex". She lived to see three hundred and sixty-seven of her descendents, nine of them being in the fourth generation. Mrs. Honywood was on many accounts distinguished, but chiefly for her Christian character, for her attachment to the Protestant doctrines, and her fearless manifestation of sympathy with the Reformers. A sketch of her life can be found in the "History of the Croke Family" by Sir Alexander Croke. Mrs. Honywood was buried at St. Mary's Church, near her husband, though a monument was erected to her memory at Mark's Hall in Essex by her eldest son, Robert Honywood. https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/70193190/mary-honywood
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