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    Hawstead is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Bury...
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    Lady Drury's Closet (also known as the Hawstead Panels) is a series of painted wooden panels of early 17th-century date, currently installed in the room...
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    her first husband, Sir William Drury, entertained Queen Elizabeth I at Hawstead in 1578. Elizabeth Stafford was the daughter of Sir William Stafford (d...
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  • Sir Robert Drury (1575-1615), of Hawstead, Suffolk, and Drury House, Westminster, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). Robert was the first son of...
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    memory of Elizabeth Drury, daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk. This poem treats Elizabeth's demise with extreme gloominess,...
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    Robert Drury (speaker) (category People from Hawstead)
    Sir Robert Drury (1456–1536) was an English knight, Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, Suffolk, and Knight of the Body to Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. As...
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    Suffolk, owned by Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House of Commons, of Hawstead Place. It was subsequently purchased in the seventeenth century by Royalist...
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    north of the Pier, this house of the 1400s was moved from the village of Hawstead, Suffolk and reconstructed here in 1911 – though considerably modernised...
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    William Drury (MP for Suffolk) (category People from Hawstead)
    William Drury, in 1558, inheriting considerable land in Suffolk, including Hawstead Place, where in 1578 he entertained Queen Elizabeth I. He was knighted...
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  • Gawdy called her "Nann Bacon". She married Sir Robert Drury (d. 1615) of Hawstead and Hardwick in 1592. Her parents provided a dowry of £1,600. Anne was...
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