George Bentall: gentleman porter

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I am researching an obscure story about a possible 16th century relative, maybe a grandson of my 10 x great grandfather, (William Bent(h)all).

George Bentall was for at least 6 years the head of security in charge of making sure that Mary Queen of Scots could not escape from her house arrest or meet with potential conspirators trying to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.

William's son, John was my 9 x GGF. An elder son, Richard, married Jane Ludlowe and died in 1575. They had plenty of children - maybe 15 - including possibly George.

I have written up the easily found details of George's life and some speculation about how he might be connected to my family tree - see attached.

I would be very interested if anyone has an idea about to connect these dots.