Born 1600, succeeded 1632.
GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE CHOLMLEYS OF ROXBY, NEAR PICKERING.
(Taken from the details given in the memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmley.)
"I was," he says, "the first child of my dear mother, born upon the 22nd
of July, being a Tuesday, and on the feast day commonly called Mary
Magdalen's day, in the year of our Lord God 1600, at a place called Roxby,
in the country of York, within the Hundred of Pickering lythe near to
Thornton, now much demolished, but heretofore the chief seat of my
great-grandfather, and where my grandfather, Sir Henry Cholmley, then
lived, which place (since I was married was sold by my father and self,
towards the payment of his debts)."
Sir Hugh then describes his weakness as a child due to the fault of his
nurse. This gave him such "a cast back" that he was a weak and sickly
child for many years.
"At three years old, the maid which attended me let me tumble out of the
great chamber window at Roxby, which (by God's providence) a servant
waiting upon my grandfather at dinner espying, leaped to the window, and
caught hold of my coat, after I was out of the casement. Soon after I was
carried to my father and mother, who then lived with her brother Mr John
Legard, at his house at Ganton nine miles from Roxby, where I continued
for the most part until I was seven years old; then my father and mother
going to keep house at Whitby, went with them, and beginning to ride a
little way by myself, as we passed over a common, called Paston moor [?
Paxton, above Ellerburne] one of my father's servants riding beside me, I
had a desire to put my horse into a gallop; but he running away, I cried
out, and the servant taking hold of my arm, with an intention to lift me
from my horse, let me fall between both, so that one of them, in his
gallop, trod on my hat; yet, by God's protection, I caught no harm.
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