Rushton Hall

Rushton Hall had been the possession of the Catholic Tresham family since the fifteenth century, when William Tresham bought the estate in 1438. He was Attorney General to King Henry V, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Speaker of the House of Commons and was murdered in 1450. His son Thomas Tresham, High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and later Speaker of the House of Commons, was involved in the plots of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, principal commander of Henry VII of England's army at the Battle of Bosworth Field of the Wars of the Roses. Sir Thomas Tresham (1500–59), another member of the family of Rushton hall, was Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire,…