Biography of Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley 1599-1630
Paternal Family Tree: Lake
On 19 May 1591 Elizabeth Manners 15th Baroness Ros Helmsley (age 16) died in childbirth at Tower Street, All Hallows [Map]. Her son [her future husband] William Cecil 16th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 1) succeeded 16th Baron Ros Helmsley.
On 29 Jun 1591 [her father] Thomas Lake (age 23) and [her mother] Mary Rider (age 16) were married.
Before 14 Nov 1599 Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley was born to Thomas Lake (age 32) and Mary Rider (age 24).
In May 1614 [her future brother-in-law] Edward Rodney (age 23) and Frances Southwell were married at Somerset House [Map]. She the daughter of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard Countess Carrick (age 50).
On 12 Feb 1615 William Cecil 16th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 24) and Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley (age 15) were married. She by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley. See Diary of Anne Clifford. He the son of William Cecil 2nd Earl Exeter (age 49) and Elizabeth Manners 15th Baroness Ros Helmsley.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1616. 12 Feb 1616. Upon Monday the 12th my [her husband] Lord Roust (age 25) was married to Mrs Ann Lake (age 16) the [her father] secretary’s (age 48) daughter.
Before 27 Jun 1618 [her husband] William Cecil 16th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 28) divorced Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley (age 18).
On 27 Jun 1618 [her husband] William Cecil 16th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 28) died. His first cousin once removed Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland (age 40) succeeded 17th Baron Ros Helmsley. Cecily Tufton Countess Rutland by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.
After 27 Jun 1618 George Rodney (age 10) and Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley (age 18) were married.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1619. 15 Feb 1619. The 15th Sir [her father] Thomas Lake (age 51), his Lady (age 44), and Lady Ross (age 19), were sent to the Tower [Map]. There was nothing heard all this term but the matter between the Countess of Exeter (age 39) and them, at which the King sat [five] several days. It was censured on my Lady Exeter’s (age 39) side against them, who were fined great fines both to the King and her, there was spoken extraordinary foul matters of my Lady Ross (age 19) and reports went that amongst others she lay with her own brother, so as their foul matters did double the miseries of my Lady Lettice (age 30) Lake in her unfortunate marriage. Sarah Swarton was fined and censured to be whipt, which censure was not executed, the reason she confessed all that she knew.
In Sir Thomas Lake’s (age 51) place Sir George Calvert (age 39) was sworn secretary.
In 1630 [her husband] George Rodney (age 22) died.
After 1630. Church of St Leonard, Rodney Stoke [Map]. Monument to Anne Lake Baroness Ros Helmsley (deceased). Finely crafted in Watchet Alabaster. Jacobean Hooded Monument.