Snowe baronets
The Snowe Baronetcy (also spelled Snow), of Salesbury, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 25 June 1679 for Sir Jeremy Snow (also rendered Jeremiah Snowe), a London goldsmith and banker who had acquired the manor and mansion of Salisbury Hall, in the parish of Shenley, Hertfordshire, ten years earlier.[a] He was childless, and the baronetcy became extinct on his death on 16 November 1702.[2]
Biography
[edit]Sir Jeremy Snow was a goldsmith and banker in the City of London, trading under the sign of the Golden Anchor.[7] In 1669, the manor of Shenley Hall, alias Salisbury (or Salisburies), was bought on his behalf by his relatives William Snell and John Snell, acting as trustees, from James Hoare, who had himself purchased it only the previous year.[3] Snow was knighted and, shortly afterwards, created a baronet on 25 June 1679.[1]
Snow "appears to have entirely rebuilt" Salisbury Hall, according to the Victoria County History, which records that "a considerable portion of his work still exists."[3] The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments' 1910 inventory likewise attributes the porch and much of the surviving 17th-century fabric of the house to him, and states that "Charles II visited the house several times."[4] Historic England's listing dates the present house to 1668–79, "for Sir Jeremiah Snow", and notes that the arms of Snow survive carved in a cartouche in the broken pediment above the entrance porch.[5] Charles Henry Ashdown, in a 1902 paper to the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, likewise records that Snow "added very largely to the mansion in 1690" and that Charles II "often visited Sir Jeremy, and, as boon companion, passed considerable time with him"; Ashdown also relates a local tradition that Nell Gwynne was a frequent visitor to the house, though this should be treated as tradition rather than established fact.[7]
Death and succession
[edit]Sir Jeremy Snow died on 16 November 1702, in his 74th year, and was buried at St Botolph's Church, Shenley, where his monument records him in Latin as "Lord of the Manor of Shenley Hall alias Salisbury, in the county of Hertford."[2] As he left no children, the baronetcy became extinct on his death. His widow, Dame Rebekah (Rebecca) Snow, is separately commemorated at Shenley; she died on 26 October 1703.[2] Salisbury Hall itself passed to his relatives the Snells, in whose family it remained until 1831.[3]
Arms
[edit]Burke's General Armory blazons the arms of Snowe of Salesbury, county Hertford, baronet (extinct 1702), as: Argent, on a fess between two bars nebuly sable a lion passant of the field.[6]
Snowe baronets, of Salesbury (1679)
[edit]- Sir Jeremy Snowe, 1st Baronet (c. 1629–1702)
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Burke's 1838 Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England gives the creation as "Snowe, of Salesbury" in "the County of Southampton" (i.e. Hampshire).[1] No independent source corroborates a Hampshire location, and multiple sources instead place Snow's seat at Salisbury Hall (also spelled "Salisburies" or "Salbury") in Shenley, Hertfordshire, including his own funerary monument, which styles him "Lord of the Manor of Shenley Hall alias Salisbury, in the county of Hertford," the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments' 1910 inventory, Historic England's listing of Salisbury Hall, and Burke's own separately published General Armory, which gives the Snowe baronetcy as being "of Salesbury, co. Herts."[2][3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England. p. 495.
- 1 2 3 4 "Monumental Inscriptions". A Shenley Miscellany.
- 1 2 3 4 Page, William (1908). "Parishes: Shenley". In Page, William (ed.). A History of the County of Hertford. Vol. 2. London: Victoria County History. pp. 264–273.
- 1 2 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) (1910). "Shenley". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire. London: HMSO. pp. 205–206.
- 1 2 "Salisbury Hall, Shenley". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. 1346960.
- 1 2 Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Harrison.
- 1 2 Ashdown, Charles Henry (1902). "Salisbury Hall" (PDF). Transactions of the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society: 86–88.
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