Show the romantic and adventurous dudley family romance and adaven 1 turc are closely interwoven with the family history of the dudlets dudleys Dud leys both amy robsart and lady jane grey come into the story and one of the autographs preserved with other relics is that of jane dudley as the queen of a few days styled herself after her marriage to lord guilford Guil tord dudley jane DUDLEY the queen is another old signature written by the way in a bold dashing hand on the word of the historian we have it that robert dudley earl of leicester was not the cruel husband he has been painted and that amy Robs arts death was really due to a fall it is related in rhyme that the unfortunate lady fell down stairs breaking her neck never were there two mightier peers in england than the ear of leicester and his father the privy counsellor af pf henry VII was edmund dudley who was the ninth in descent from the first lord of dudley edmund dudley has a splendid tomb at clapton with a long epitaph in verse which begins in this chapel he sleeps forever dead the oldest ruin in england is dudley castle in staffordshire it was built by dudo or cia about A D when was icing the plain was known as dudda lea or and hence through vardine evolutions we arrive at the present name dudley in england it is sometimes spelled dud leigh ancient forms are Dud deley and dc Dud delcye another account of the derivation of the name is that the castle stood in a locality which was covered with plants called dodd that is it was a dodd lea among pilgrim fathers or early ancestors in this country were francis dudley who came over about 1637 settling in concord mass and william dudley who arrived about the same time he settled jn connecticut the principal founder and pillar of the colony of massachusetts was thomas dudley who came to america ten years after the arrival of the mayflower born in england in 1576 he had been brought aprin the family of the earl of northampton while detill a young man he formed a military company and a commission from queen elizabeth led soldiers to france in support of the protestant faith against philip II 11 he was in the service of his adopted country america for twenty three years continuously he was the second governor of and the founder of cambridge jt was to do honor to his memory that the governor thomas dudley family association was formed holding it firt meeting in boton in 1893 in the early struggles with the french and indians and in he revolution we and members of the pud icy family samuel dudley was a lieutenant of captain com janythe pany the of our his wife was a daughter of governor they were blessed with a large family eighteen tons and daughters th to have been a favor je number with the dudlets dudleys Dud leys another member of the family the countess of lincoln 10 lo had eighteen children for the guidance of other mothers the published a book the countess of Lincol ns nursery on the duties of mothers A daughter of the countess the lady arriella Ar fiella came to america with other pilgrims in one of the early ships the Arbella named for her ladyship governor thomas dudley came over in the same hip and a wicker cradle which was brought at the time and was used generation after generation is still in excellent condition there are many other relics some of which are preserved by the new england historic genealogical society many distinguished men of letters have belonged to the dudley family there was that gallant sportsman who wrote arcana del mare and of whom it is recorded that he was the first who taught a dog to sit in order to catch partridges oliver wendell holmes had dudley blood in his veins and edward everatt hale boasts that he married into the dudley family the arms of the dudlets dudleys are or a lion rampant vert tail forked crest a lions head azure the motto nee gladio nee arcu neither by sword nor by bow is seen on the arms of some branches of the family lions cither vert or azure appear on all dudley arms on dishop dud leys tomb in westminster abbey erected in 1483 is his escutcheon with four the ajon vcr in one and two lions zure in another |