Adeline Nevill

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ADELINE NEVILLE (c.1547-1613)

Adeline Neville was the daughter of Henry Neville, 5th earl of Westmoreland (1525-February 10, 1564) and Anne Manners (1527-1549). She was left a thousand marks in her father’s will but never married. Adeline's brother, the 6th earl, was one of the "Northern Earls" who rebelled against the Crown in 1569. The Westmorland title was forfeit in 1571 and he ended his life in exile in 1601. Burke's Landed Gentry mentions Adeline as standing godmother to Anthony Trotter in 1576 and says that she "sheltered" with the Trotter family of Helmenden, to whom he says she was related by marriage, until her death. This is contradicted by Adeline's will, made on March 22, 1612/13, when she was living in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. In this will, she asked to be interred in the church at Stanthorpe, Durham and left £4 to her waiting gentlewoman, Elizabeth Tasbrough. The will was proved at London on October 7, 1613. It is as a result of the death of one of Adeline’s sisters in 1591, however, that Adeline is remembered today. Catherine Neville, Lady Constable, made Adeline her executor and left £40 in her will to be used to build a memorial to herself, their two grandmothers, and an aunt in St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch. Adeline duly oversaw the creation of a monument showing four women kneeling around a prayer desk. Represented were Catherine Stafford, Countess of Westmorland, Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland, Margaret Neville, Countess of Rutland, and Catherine Neville, Lady Constable. All except Lady Constable had died in the 1550s. Two of Adeline's uncles are also shown in effigy on the monument. In 1735, the church was torn down and replaced by a new building but the tomb was preserved in the British Museum.