The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

Reinold and Matthew Marvin 1 3 1
"Attourney of Henry VIII, and for his great learning, 24 H.
8, [i. e. 1533] was Prolocutor in the Parliament House."
There seems to be some confusion between the accounts of
this gentleman and his nephew Sir Anthony, son and heir of
Sir John, the eldest brother of Sir Humfrey, for I find that
Shoberl* says that Anthony was a Knight of the Garter, and
was appointed to assist the executors of the Will of Henry
VIII, for which service the King bequeathed him a legacy of
^200. He was also "Captain of the Guard," Vice Chamber-
lain, and a member of the King's Privy Council. This state-
ment would seem to apply with greater probability to the
" Attourney " of the King, than to his nephew, if the account
in the Visitations of Huntingdon is to be accepted. Either
Humfrey or his nephew Anthony, had an elegant residence in
Ipswich, portions of which were still remaining in 1818, when
it had become a public house called " The Tankard," in which
the family arms could be seen preserved among the decora-
tions of one of the rooms.
The name of the second wife of John Marvin does not
appear in his Will ; the Parish Register of St. Mary's, Great
Bentley, has the record of the marriage, 30 August, 1585,
of a John Marvin to Margaret Swallow, and it may be that
it was this John.f I have found numerous allusions to mem-
no reference to his having been Speaker, etc., and his name does not appear in the list
of Speakers in Beatson's "Political Index."
* See Shoberl's Suffolk, as cited, p. 256.
t She cannot be the Margaret, wife of John of Little Oakley, since he died five
months previously, if the date of marriage has been correctly transcribed from the
Great Bentley Register by Mr. Watkins, which I have no reason to doubt.