SOUTHWELL, alias Darcy, Richard (by 1531-1600), of Lincoln’s Inn, London; Horsham St. Faith, Norf. and Gatton, Surr.

b. by 1531, 1st illegit. s. of (Sir) Richard Southwell of London, and Wood Rising, Norf. by Mary, da. of Thomas Darcy of Danbury, Essex. educ. Corpus Camb. matric. 1545; L. Inn, adm. 4 Feb. 1547. m. (1) by Dec. 1555, Bridget (d.1583 or later), da. of Sir Roger Copley of Gatton, 3s. 4da.; (2) by Oct. 1589, Margaret, da. of John Styles of Ellingham, Norf., 2s. 3da.Date of birth estimated from education. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 259; Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), i. 124-6; C. Devlin, Robert Southwell, 7; H. Spelman, Hist. of Sacrilege (1895 ed.), 152-4; Letters of Sir Thomas Copley (Roxburghe Club 1897), pp. xix, 169.