Individual Details
Mary Ferrers
( - )
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ferrers-george-1510-79
Documents survive in two Star Chamber cases brought by Ferrers. The first in 1562, concerned a riot in Flamstead ‘bury ground’, over the right to collect wood. The defendant accused Ferrers of packing a general sessions with his ‘assured friends’ in the county. The other case, dated 1573, followed the marriage of Elizabeth Preston, Ferrers’s stepdaughter, to Thomas Seale, a servant of the Earl of Leicester. Ferrers and his wife claimed that they had not consented to the marriage, and that Rowland Carew, who had given away the bride, was not a relative. The defendants answered that the contract, which had been signed in the presence of Mary and Jane Ferrers, daughters to the plaintiff, was legally binding. Further details of the case are lacking.4
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ferrers-george-1510-79
Documents survive in two Star Chamber cases brought by Ferrers. The first in 1562, concerned a riot in Flamstead ‘bury ground’, over the right to collect wood. The defendant accused Ferrers of packing a general sessions with his ‘assured friends’ in the county. The other case, dated 1573, followed the marriage of Elizabeth Preston, Ferrers’s stepdaughter, to Thomas Seale, a servant of the Earl of Leicester. Ferrers and his wife claimed that they had not consented to the marriage, and that Rowland Carew, who had given away the bride, was not a relative. The defendants answered that the contract, which had been signed in the presence of Mary and Jane Ferrers, daughters to the plaintiff, was legally binding. Further details of the case are lacking.4
Families
| Father | George Ferrers (1510 - 1579) |
| Mother | Jane Southcote ( - ) |
| Sibling | Julius Ferrers ( - 1596) |
| Sibling | Richard Ferrers ( - 1598) |
| Sibling | Jane Ferrers ( - ) |