Sir Henry Knyvett, (also spelt Knevett), married Francis Elsynge, (also spelt Elsin), in 1577. He died April 20, 1603.

National Archives (UK)
Reference: KNY 445 371 x 9
Bond
From Thomas Sefelde of Waterden and Henry Knyvett of Buckenham Castle gentlemen to Robert Lestraunge gent. of Hunstanton for the delivery of 100 combs of barley at Burnham Staithe and Wells Haven, (1566).

Reference: KNY 447-52 371 x 9
Bonds and undertakings
From Henry Knyvett of Buckenham Castle for payments to Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe (Valentine) Kett of Wymondham and others sureties, (1573-1578).

Reference: KNY 453 371 x 9
Assignment
By Henry Knyvett of annuity granted by his grandmother Jane Knyvett and charged on property at Holbeach to John and George Dunscombe 'at the signe of the bottell in Watling Streat, (1574).

Reference: KNY 599 372 x 5
Henry Knyvett (d. 1603, brother of Sir Thomas Knyvett)
Anthony Knyvett, London, a brother. Return of a commission, (1575).

Reference: KNY 669-674 372 x 5
Henry Knyvett, London and Creake, a cousin, (brother of Sir Edmund Knyvett of Buckenham)
Mostly re business done for Sir Thomas and Henry's financial affairs and payment of his annuity. Refs. to suit of Sir Thomas with Henry's brother re debt, borrowing tax or subsidy book, search for a suitable foldcourse near Creake (Crab's Castle is suggested), rumour that Dr. Meye was made bishop, transport of corn to Sir Thomas at Cambridge, Henry's lack of 'favor counsell or cowmforte' except from his cousin Thomas Fermor, (1576, 1578 and undated).

Reference: KNY 424 371 x 8
Appointment by Sir Thomas Knyvett of Sir Henry Knyvett and Edmund Knyvett gent. to take seisin of the manor of Seend, (1579).

Reference: KNY 676-749, 672 x 5
Henry Knyvett, London(d.1603), brother, Sir Thomas Knyvett.
Henry was apparently in the household of the Chancellor, Sir Thomas Bromley, till his death in 1587. The letters contain much court, national, and foreign news, inc. treason trials and other causes celebres, refs. to the exploits of Sir Francis Drake, Spanish invasion scares and anti-papist sentiment. There is a detailed description of the visit of the Polish lord, Albertus Alasco, to Queen Elizabeth in 1583, and refs. to the committing of the Countess of Derby for sorcery 1579, Mary Queen of Scots, the muster at Greenwich 1565, bankruptcy of the London Turkish merchants 1595, Essex's execution. Also re lawsuits of Sir Thomas Knyvett involving the Flowerdews, re foldcourse at Colkirk, and with tenants (?at Wymondham) and numerous other of Sir Thomas's concerns inc. purchase of books (e.g. Hesiod, Matthew Paris, Stephenus de Urbibus) and purchase of antique medals and cameos. Also Sir Thomas Knyvett appointment as deputy lieutenant 1584 and subsequent dispute and disputed Norfolk election of 1586 and other parliament business, Henry Knyvett's appointment to a receivership in Norfolk, Sir Thomas Parry's projected missions to Scotland and France, Henry Knyvett's journey to Ireland with (?)Essex and to Calais, 1600, and (after 1599) his lack of fortune and attempts to secure a military command. Also advice in 1601 to Sir Thomas to smoke for health reasons. The letters include much on the workings of the central courts, (1579-80, 1583-9, 1592-6, 1599-1602).

Reference: KNY 638-640 372 x 5
Henry Knyvett (brother of Sir Edmund Knyvett of Buckenham)
Purchase of lyng and cod in East Anglian ports, placing servant to learn brewing with the Fermors of East Barsham, book 'conteyning the fyrst orders for the erection of Crystes churche' for Sir Thomas Knyvett, (1580).

Reference: KNY 641-652 372 x 5
Henry Knyvett (d. 1603, brother of Sir Thomas), London, (1585-1602)
Sir Thomas Knyvett's lawsuits and other concerns inc. purchase of the Parry estate and sale of North Creake manor. Inc. refs. to plague in Norwich and London, death of Henry's patron, Sir Francis Drake's attack on Spain 1587 and other public news, death of Henry's wife and care of his crippled son Mun.
Reply noted on one letter and on another draft letter to Mr. Hooper re hiring a house, (?) 1585-1602 and undated

Reference: KNY 807 372 x 6
Henry Knyvett (d. 1603), Fleet Street, to Thomas (?)Freistone of Wymondham
Negotiations re payment of debt of Sir Thomas Knyvett to the Flowerdews, with note from 'your mother Blom', (1588).

Reference: KNY 462 372 x 1
Bond
From Hugh Hare Esq. of the Inner Temple, Ralph Wolley merchant of London and Henry Knyvett gent. of Fleet Street to Peter Blundell merchant of Tiverton (co. Devon) for the payment of £200, (1590).

Reference: KNY 928 372 x 6
Letter from Henry Knyvett, Santon, to Bassingborne Gawdy requesting payment of debt, (1593).

Reference: KNY 929 372 x 6
Acknowledgement of receipt by Henry Knyvett deputy receiver for the Queen from Bassingborne Gawdy Esq. of 9s. 4d for tenths for the manor of Rushall, (1593).

Reference: KNY 464 372 x 1
Bond
From Henry Knyvett gent. of London and Sir Thomas Knyvett to Sir Drue Drury for Henry's good behaviour as Drury's deputy as receiver of the royal revenues in Norfolk, Norwich and Huntingdon, (1593).

Reference: KNY 465 372 x 1
Bond
From Sir Thomas Knyvett, Henry Knyvett gent. of Fleet Street and William Browne merchant of same to Margaret (?) Wheul widow of London for payment of (?)£105, (1595).

Reference: KNY 668 372 x 5
Frances, wife of Henry Knyvett, sister-in-law
Claiming £40 annuity and declaring her poverty, (1597).

KNY 668 372 x 5
Queries in Sir Thomas Knyvett's hand re his brother Henry's debts, with answers, (16C-17C).

Reference: KNY 467 372 x 1
Acknowledgement of receipt
By Henry Knyvett of Sir Thomas Knyvett of £12 for plate on behalf of his brother Robert Bowyer and also for a gilt salt and other plate (described) lent by Henry to Thomas, (1598).

Reference: CKS-U908/8/4/1/2
Burgh against Burstowe and Streatfeild. In Chancery over the claims of Lady Frances Burgh [widow of Thomas, Lord Burgh] to the estate, the reversion of which had been sold to the Streatfeild family
Lady Frances Burgh, plaintiff, against William Burstowe and Henry Streatfeild, defendants Exemplification, (November 10, 1623), of interrogatories and answers, (taken December, 1613 and January, 1614), made at the request of Frances Alphrey [a trustee for the Streatfeild family]; the interrogatories asking about Thomas, Lord Burgh's estates in Lincolnshire, what property he had settled on his wife, Frances, whether his father, William, Lord Burgh, had settled the manors of Westcliffe, Chiddingstone Cobham, Tyehurst, Leighton in Cowden and Goudhurst, after the death of his wife, Katherine, on his second son, John; how old John was at his father's death and how long he lived after his father's death and whether he was seized of the land, (until after, May 4, 1587), and whether he contracted with the lessees of the land to sell it to them after the death of his mother, Katherine; whether by a deed, (of July 12, 1590), Thomas confirmed John's rights to these manors; whether there was a deed (of March 4, 1587)from Thomas, Lord Burgh, to Sir Henry Knevett and Thomas Knevett of property in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; deposition, taken at Starborough Castle, (December 15, 1613), of Katherine, Lady Burgh of Starborough Castle, aged 70 years, stating that she had only known the defendant, Henry Streatfeild lately; that she confirmed the grant of the reversion of the property to her son John about two or three years before her husband's death; stating that John lived several years after his father's death, that John obtained a release from her of her rights and contracted to sell the lands to tenants; depositions at Penshurst, (January 10, 1613/4), of Christopher Willoughby of Penshurst, gent. aged 54 years, stating that he had known. Lady Frances seventeen years, Henry Streatfeild twenty years and William Burstowe ten years, that in 1595 he had negotiated with John Burgh to buy lands in Penshurst and Chiddingstone and had made enquiries from his kinsman, Thomas Willoughby of Bore Place, Chiddingstone, as to John's right to sell but John died before the bargain was completed; and deposition of Walter Woodgate of Penshurst, yeoman, aged seventy two years, stating that he had known the defendants for twenty years, that Sir John Burgh was reputed to be the owner of the lands in reversion and had leased land in Chiddingstone and Penshurst to the deponent for twenty one years [good impression of great seal of James I attached], (1613-1623).

Reference: CKS-U908/8/4/1/3
Saxby against Streatfeild. In King's Bench over the removal of sheep from land, the title to which was disputed.
John Saxby, plaintiff, against Henry Streatfeild, defendant Exemplification, (February 10, 1623/4), of a verdict in King's Bench in Michaelmas Term 1623 stating that the plaintiff accused the defendant of, (on February 3, 1622/30, at Chiddingstone at a place called Bustopes, taking eleven sheep belonging to the plaintiff and keeping them. The defendant stated that he took the sheep as bailiff of William and John Alphre, who owned the land, as the animals were doing damage. The plaintiff claimed that the 12a. of land were part of the manor of Chiddingstone and that this had belonged to William, Lord Burgh, who, (on July 1, 1577), had settled it, with other property, on trustees for his marriage settlement; he died on January 1, 1586/7 (U908/L35 and U908/L36/1 give 1585 as the date of his death) leaving his wife Katherine with a life interest in the property and the reversion eventually descended to his son, Thomas; Thomas, Lord Burgh, (on March 4, 1586/7), settled the property on trustees for his marriage settlement; he died October 20, 1602, Henry Knevett, one of the trustees died April 20, 1603 and by the will of the remaining trustee, Thomas Knevett, (July 27, 1622), his widow Elizabeth Knevett became his executrix and by her will, (September 4, 1622), Elizabeth Hampden, widow, became her executrix. Elizabeth Hampden, assigned her right, (October 31, 1622), to Frances, Lady Burgh [widow of Thomas, Lord Burgh], and she, following the death of Katherine, Lady Burgh [widow of William, Lord Burgh], (on February 1, 1622/3), leased the 12a. of land (on February 2, 1622/3) to John Saxby. The defendant was awarded damages against the plaintiff but ordered to return the animals, (1623-24).

British Libray of Manuscripts
Reference: Eg. 2713 f. 33
Knyvett (Henry). nephew of Thos. Knyvett. Receipt of moneys for the use of, (1566).

Reference: Eg. 2713 ff. 273, 274
Knyvett (Henry). Acquittances to R. Hare, (1591).