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RICHARD DE LUCY (d. 1179)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD DE See also:LUCY (d. 1179)  , called the " loyal," See also:chief See also:justiciar of See also:England, appears in the latter See also:part of See also:Stephen's reign as See also:sheriff and justiciar of the See also:county of See also:Essex . He became, on the See also:accession of See also:Henry II., chief justiciar conjointly with See also:Robert de See also:Beaumont, See also:earl of See also:Leicester; and after the See also:death of the latter (1168) held the See also:office without a colleague for twelve years . The chief servant and intimate of the See also:king he was among the first of the royal party to incur See also:excommunication in the See also:Becket controversy . In 1173 he played an important part in suppressing the See also:rebellion of the See also:English barons, and commanded the royalists at the See also:battle of Fornham . He resigned the justiciarship in 1179, though pressed by the king to continue in office, and retired to Lesues See also:Abbey in See also:Kent, which he had founded and where he died . See also:Lucy's son, See also:Godfrey de Lucy (d . 1204), was See also:bishop of See also:Winchester from 1189 to his death in See also:September 1204; he took a prominent part in public affairs during the reigns of Henry II., See also:Richard I. and See also:John . See J . H . See also:Round, See also:Geoffrey de See also:Mandeville (1892) ; See also:Sir J . H . See also:Ramsay, Angevin See also:Empire (1903) ; and W .

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Stubbs, Constitutional See also:History, vol. i . LUCY, SIR See also:THOMAS (1532-1600), the English See also:Warwickshire See also:squire who is traditionally associated with the youth of See also:William See also:Shakespeare, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:April 1532, the son of William Lucy, and was descended, according to See also:Dugdale, from Thurstane de Cherlecote, whose son See also:Walter received the See also:village of Charlecote from Henry de See also:Montfort about 1190 . Walter is said to have married into the Anglo-See also:Norman See also:family of Lucy, and his son adopted the See also:mother's surname . Three of Sir Thomas Lucy's ancestors had been sheriffs of Warwickshire and Leicester-See also:shire, and on his See also:father's death in 1552 he inherited See also:Sherborne and See also:Hampton Lucy in addition to Charlecote, which was rebuilt for him by John of See also:Padua, known as John See also:Thorpe, about 1558 . By his See also:marriage with Joyce See also:Acton he inherited See also:Sutton See also:Park in See also:Worcestershire, and became in 1586 high sheriff of the county . He was knighted in 1565 . He is said to have been under the tutorship of John See also:Foxe, who is supposed to have imbued his See also:pupil with the Puritan principles which he displayed as See also:knight of the shire for See also:Warwick in the See also:parliament of 1571 and as sheriff of the county, but as Mrs See also:Carmichael Stopes points out Foxe only See also:left See also:Oxford in 1545, and in 1547 went up to See also:London, so that the connexion must have been See also:short . He often appeared at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon as See also:justice of the See also:peace and as See also:commissioner of musters for the county . As justice of the peace he showed See also:great zeal against the Catholics, and took his See also:share in the See also:arrest of See also:Edward See also:Arden in 1583 . In 1585 he introduced into parliament a See also:bill for the better preservation of See also:game and See also:grain, and his reputation as a preserver of game gives some See also:colour to the Shakespearian tradition connected with his name . See also:Nicholas Rowe, See also:writing in 1710, told a See also:story that Lucy prosecuted Shakespeare for See also:deer-sealing from Charlecote Park in 1585, and that Shakespeare aggravated the offence by writing a ballad on his prosecutor . The trouble arising from this incident is said to have driven Shakespeare from Stratford to London .

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tale was corroborated by See also:Archdeacon See also:Davies of Sapperton, See also:Gloucester-shire, who died in 1708 . The story is not necessarily falsified by the fact that there was no deer park at Charlecote at the See also:time, since there was a See also:warren, and the See also:term warren legally covers a preserve for other animals than See also:hares or rabbits, See also:roe-deer among others . Shakespeare is generally supposed to have caricatured the See also:local See also:magnate of Stratford in his portrait of Justice Shallow, who made his first See also:appearance in the second part of Henry IV., and a second in the Merry Wives of See also:Windsor . Robert Shallow is a justice of the peace in the county of Gloucester and his ancestors have the dozen See also:white luces in their coats, the arms of the Lucys being three luces, while in Dug-See also:dale's Warwickshire (ed . 1656) there is See also:drawn a coat-of-arms in which these are repeated in each of the four quarters, making twelve in all . There are many considerations which make it unlikely that Shallow represents Lucy, the chief being the See also:note-worthy difference in their circumstances . Lucy died at Charlecote on the 7th of See also:July 1600 . His See also:grandson, Sir Thomas Lucy (1585-164o), was a friend of See also:Lord See also:Herbert of Cherbury, and was eulogized by John Davies of See also:Hereford in 161o . The Charlecote estates eventually passed to the Rev . John See also:Hammond through his marriage with Alice Lucy, and in 1789 he adopted the name of Lucy . For a detailed See also:account of Sir Thomas Lucy, with his son and See also:grand-son of the same name, see Mrs C . Carmichael Stopes, Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries (2nd ed., 1907) .

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article by Mrs Stopes in the Fortnightly See also:Review (Feb . 1903), entitled " Sir Thomas Lucy not the See also:Original of Justice Shallow," and J . O . Halliwell-Phillipps, Observations on the Charlecote Traditions (See also:Brighton, 1887) .

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