Ulalia Glanville

Alternate Names

     She was also known as Eulalia. Her married name was Page. She was also known as Eutatia.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Ulalia Glanville was born before 1570 at ENG.
     She married William Page before 1590 at ENG.
     She died in March 1590/91 at Castle Green, Barnstaple, DEV, ENG; executed by hanging.
     She was buried on 20 March 1590/91 at Bishops Tawton, DEV, ENG, Barnstaple Register "Burying in March 1590. Here ffolloweth the names of them prysoners which were buryed in the church yearde of Barnistable the Syce week March 1590. ... Ulalya Payge buryed at Byshope Tauton the xxth daye"
Bishops Tawton Register "March 20 1590. Eulalia Page daughter of Nicholas Glanville buryed."

Other information

     The entry in the Barnstaple Register mentions Ulalia being one the Prisoners Executed at the Assize and says she is buried in Bishops Tawton.....the Register for Bishops Tawton says she is the daughter of Nicholas Glanvill.
Ulalia Page, Robert Prideaux, George Strangwidge and Thomas Stone were take to Barnstaple to the Assize for the March Quarter 1590/1 as plague was very high in Exeter....The Assize started there on Tuesday 16th March 1590/1 ... the Judge hearing the case was Lord Anderson....who had sentenced Mary Queen of Scots to death 2 years earlier....Sir John Glanvill was also at the Assize probably to represent Ulalia...
The Assize continued over the Wednesday Thursday and Friday and on the Saturday 18 prisoners were Executed...
There is no record to say how Ulalia was Executed but if she was implicated in the death of her husband she would have been charged with Petty Treason....and the punishment for this in those years was Burning at the Stake.
The bodies of Prideaux, Strangwidge, Stone and Ulalia were claimed after the execution and buried...The three men were buried on the 20th March 1590 in Barnstaple Church Yard...and Ulalia was buried in Bishops Tawton in the Churchyard.
Records show that two people George Strangwidge and Thomas Stone were arrested on the 9th of February 1590/1 the night of Stone's marriage celebration...his marriage can be found on the IGI in Plymouth to an Iset Saunders. on the 9th .....There is an entry in the Plymouth register for the burial of William Page on the 10th Feb 1590/1 so it would seem that William Page was murdered on the 8th ..there is no entry for the arrest of Ulalia Page or Robert Prideaux who were also involved in the murder.

Extract from The Lost Chronicles of Barnstable.
...1590...Monday the 16th of march this year to assises were kept at this town (exeter being infected with the plague) by Judge Anderson alone: the places for him to sit in were made upon the kay, the one ag(ains)t the kayhall (quay hall), and the other by the north end of Mr Collybere house and both were covered with rude: Mr Roger Beaple was now maior: Mr Medford parson of of (sic) Combmerten preached on tewesday. 16th of march, before the judge, 18 were condemned the wenesday and executed at the Castle the saturday following in the afternoone a whereof Mrs Paige was one.
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Martyne the gaoler kept some of his prisonrs in house late Bailiffs in this towne, and others in Castle Green under tylts with sayles.
Judge lodged at Mr Doddridges.
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Serjt Glandyl at Rog. Cades
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Tuesday sat on nisi prius
Wednesday by 5 o clock the judg tried ii or iii causes of nisi prius & then upon the gaol, continued the Wednesday & gave judgement upon those who were to be executed.
Friday & Saturday sat on nisi prius & ended.
The gibbet was sat up on the Castle Green and xviii prisoners hangd, whereof iiii of plymouth for a murder.

The Tragedy of Page, of Plymouth.
The story runs that Judge Glanville, who resided near Tavistock, had a daughter named Ulalia, who became attached to a young man of Tavistock, named George Strangwidge, a lieutenant of a man of war, whose letters the father, disapproving of the attachment, intercepted. An old miser, of Plymouth, named Page, availed himself of this apparent neglect of the young sailor, and on settling a good jointure, obtained her father's good graces and her hand. She took with her a maid servant from Tavistock, but the husband was so penurious, that he dismissed all the other servants, and compelleed his wife and her maid to do all the work themselves. At this time George Strandwidge returned from sea, had an interview with Mrs Page, at which, after mutual upbraidings, they found that letters had been intercepted. The maid and the mistress then plotted to get rid of the old gentleman, to which Strangwidge with great reluctance consented. Page lived in Woolster Street, in Plymouth, and a woman who lived opposite hearing at night some sand thrown against a window, arose, and looking out, saw a young gentleman under Page's window and heard him say, "for God's sake stay your hand." A female voice replied, "'Tis too late, the deed is done." On the following morning it was given out that old Page had died suddenly in the night, and he was buried. On the testimony, however, of the neighbour, the body was disinterred, and it appearing that he had been strangled, his wife, the maid, and Strangwidge were arrested, tried, and executed; and it has since been commonly said that Judge Glanville, her own father, tried her, and pronounced her sentence (Mrs Bray's Traditions of Devonshire Vol 2 p 316). Philip Wyot not only confirms the truth of the legend, but incidentally proves that her father did not try or condemn her. It appears that owing to the plague being that year at Exeter, the assizes were held at Barnstable, and that but one Judge Lord Anderson came, who tried the prisoners, and he writes, "The gibbet was set up the Castle Green, and XVIII prisoners hanged, whereof III of Plymouth, for a murder." This execution is corroborated by our parish registers, which have entries of the names of "those who died in the assize week," "Ulalya Page". A number of Ballads founded on the event, are in the British Museum, entitled as follows: "The lament of Master Page's wife of Plymouth, who being enforced by her parents to wed him against her will, did most wickedly consent to his murder, for the love of George Strangwidge, for the fact she suffered death at Barnstaple. Written with her own hands, a little before her death." Another was entitled "Mr George Strangwidge's lament for consenting to Mr Page's death, for the love of Mrs Ulalia, Mr Page's wife". Another "the sorrowful complaint of Mistress Page for causing her husband to be murdered for the love of George Strangwidge, who were executed together at Barnstaple".