43 Facts About Anthony Hussey

Anthony Hussey was simultaneously Crown Agent and Governor of the English Merchants Adventurers in Antwerp from 1556 to 1558.

Anthony Hussey had a sister named Margaret, probably somewhat younger than him.

Anthony Hussey was the nephew of Henry Hussey, MP, and cousin of Sir Henry Hussey, MP of Slinfold.

Katharine Anthony Hussey's mother held the small manor of Faites and Wades, in Dedham, Ardleigh and Lawford, between 1529 and 1537, though she lived for many years after, making her will in 1564.

In 1530, at the time of Wolsey's fall, Anthony Hussey was one of sixteen men indicted for breaching laws against advocating Papal supremacy over the English church, for having abetted Wolsey in his role as Papal legate.

Early in the archiepiscopate of Thomas Cranmer, Anthony Hussey was appointed registrar to the ecclesiastical court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, under the immediate direction of Dr Richard Gwent, the Archbishop's Commissary.

Anthony Hussey's name is associated with various Lambeth records of 1537, when he was apparently acting as First Clerk of the Faculty Office, and he was appointed successor to William Pottkyn as Principal Registrar in 1538.

In 1542 Anthony Hussey acquired additional duties as Proctor of the Court of Arches, which at that time was still under the authority of Dr Gwent as Dean of the Arches until his death in 1543, when John Cockes succeeded him.

Anthony Hussey chose his own officials, Anthony Hussey, Dr John Cockes his Chancellor, and Dr Anthony Bellasis, who all went to Canterbury to make their investigations.

In 1536 Anthony Hussey began to sit as a judge deputy in the Court of Admiralty, where John Tregonwell had been the principal judge since 1524.

Anthony Hussey was a proctor in the Court until the time of his becoming a judge, and in 1537 both men are described as judges of the Admiralty.

Anthony Hussey was called "President" of the Court in 1538, among other descriptors.

The Governorship, to which Anthony Hussey himself came a decade later, required legal expertise in presiding over the courts at the marts, and in representing English merchants in their lawsuits in Antwerp and Brussels and in their dealings with the English authorities.

Anthony Hussey made sundry gifts to officers of the Admiralty and many charitable bequests.

Thomas Argall, uncle of the testator, was one of his executors: to Mrs Argall and to Mrs Anthony Hussey he left an old ryall each, and "to Mr Hussy's two sonnes twentie poundes betwene them".

Nicholas Wotton and Anthony Hussey were to be his overseers.

Laurence and William Anthony Hussey witnessed his doctoral examinations in theology at Padua, and those of George Dudgeon, in 1550, and Lawrence afterwards obtained his own doctorate in Civil Law in Bologna.

Early in Edward's reign, Anthony Hussey was put under notice of scrutiny by the Lord Protector Somerset, who accused him of injustice through slackness, at least in part concerning a judgement made in the Court of Admiralty.

The Lord Admiral Seymour stood to his defence, but the Protector gave Anthony Hussey warning to be strictly upright in his proceedings, or he would be held to account for it.

Anthony Hussey is still found at the Admiralty Court in 1548, but appears to have been replaced in 1549.

The London bishopric appears to have shared its Chancellory with London, and Anthony Hussey kept registers for the bishop of London.

In that parliament Anthony Hussey was not listed among those who stood against the reinstatement of the Roman Catholic religion.

Anthony Hussey's witnesses included Sir John Tregonwell, Henry Harvey, Robert Johnson, Thomas Lodge and John Incent the notary: Sir Henry lived until 1557.

At an uncertain date, Anthony Hussey appears in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments in the examination of suspected heretics, though his interventions are not of the most extreme nature.

Green answered that Anthony Hussey knew more than he did himself.

Anthony Hussey called him again a week later and told him more of what he knew, not omitting to say that he knew Green had other copies of the book and demanding to know what he had done with them.

Anthony Hussey promised this, provided that Green himself would abide his judgement.

Anthony Hussey was taken and was subjected to nine separate examinations, the first of which was conducted by Anthony Hussey, who had her held in The Clink in Southwark.

Anthony Hussey confessed to him that she had absented herself from Mass for many years for sake of conscience.

Anthony Hussey asked why she would not take an oath on the Gospels before a judge, and began to instruct her in it, but she refused to learn the oath as she could not understand it.

Anthony Hussey replied that she did not want to understand it, and brought his examination to an end.

Anthony Hussey's mercantile, Admiralty, notarial and archiepiscopal horizons suited the needed expertise, intelligence and polity; Southcote, a nephew of John Tregonwell's, was a respected lawyer of the Middle Temple, in middle life, who sat in both parliaments of 1553 and had a career of prominence in justiciary lying before him.

Anthony Hussey succeeded him, both as Royal agent and Governor, from 1556 to 1559, and Marsh resumed from 1559 to 1560 and from 1562 to 1572, becoming a valued intelligencer.

Anthony Hussey went to Antwerp bearing royal instructions to stamp out Protestantism among the members of the English Company.

In Mary's last parliament, Anthony Hussey was returned as Member for New Shoreham, a constituency represented in 1547 by his cousin Sir Henry Anthony Hussey.

Anthony Hussey needs to see the will of Robert Legge finally closed, of which he had been executor in 1550.

The inference arose from a false supposition that the same William Anthony Hussey was alive and living in Wiltshire until 1581, with a wife and several children.

Anthony Hussey lived 28 years, three months and seven days.

However, as Registrar to the Archbishop, Anthony Hussey had commenced the Register of Parker, inscribing a lengthy title declaring Parker's election, confirmation and consecration, and naming himself Principal Registrar of the said very reverend father.

Anthony Hussey's widow is to enjoy the house in Paternoster Row for life, and the remaining term to pass to Laurence and his heirs, or in default to Ursula.

Anthony Hussey granted 40 shillings a year to Edmund Campion, Sir William Chester's scholar at Oxford, for as long as he was a student in Oxford, and 26s.

Anthony Hussey is often styled "Esquire" or "gentleman" because he was armigerous.

Anthony Hussey married Catherine, daughter of John Webb of Essex, by whom he had three sons and one daughter.