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Will of Richard Hope, 1730 Gentleman of Devizes. PRO11/639
Four in Ref Num
1. Francis HOPE Date of death 8 Jan 1770 Age 68 Notes RefNum 93094 Place Devizes, WIL
2. Name Richard HOPE Date of death 31 Dec 1730 Age 80 Notes RefNum 93094 Place Devizes, WIL
3. Name Edward PIERCE Date of death 12 Nov 1684 Age Notes gent 3 times Mayor RefNum 93094 Place Devizes, WIL
4. Name Robert PIERCE Date of death 1 May 1692 Age 69 Notes gent RefNum 93094 Place Devizes, WIL
Edward HOPE Date of death 3 Feb 1706 Age 66 Notes RefNum 128470 Place Devizes; St Mary, WIL
Sole person in RefNum
FILE [no title] - ref. 212B/1256 - date: 1726 Apr. 1
[from Scope and Content] (1) Hope, Richard, gent., of Devizes.
[from Scope and Content] Hope, Frances, spinster, daughter of Richard.
FILE [no title] - ref. 212B/1268 - date: 1727, Aug. 10
[from Scope and Content] (1) Hope, Richard, gent., of Devizes.
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Will of Richard Hopkins Edmonds St Saviour. 1821
Name: Richard Hopkins Edmonds
Record Type: Burial
Estimated Death Date: abt 1821
Burial Date: 15 May 1821
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
Parish or Poor Law Union: Southwark St Saviour
Borough: Southwark
Register Type: Parish Register
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Will of Richard Hopkins Yeoman Steventon, Berkshire 16 April 1729 9 May 1729
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Will of Richard Kemm Gentleman Ramsbury, Wiltshire 7 November 1812 2 November 1816
Groom's Name: John Rowland Groom's Birth Date: Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: Bride's Name: Sarah Kemm Bride's Birth Date: Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: Marriage Date: 11 May 1830 Marriage Place: Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England
1851 Census: Bath, Somerset, England:
Name: Sarah Rowland
Age: 56
Estimated birth year: abt 1795
Gender: Female
Where born: Oybourn, St George
Civil parish: Bath St James
County/Island: Somerset
Country: England
Registration district: Bath
Sub-registration district: Abbey
ED, institution, or vessel: 1a
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 89
Household Members: Name Age
Mary Baker 60
Frances Dale 29
Helan Dale 70
John Rowland 55
Sarah Rowland 56
Dorothy Thacker 66
Possibly the Sarah Rowland buried Axford 27.11.1854 aged 60 years??
Name Sarah ROWLAND Date of death 21 Nov 1851 Age 60 Notes wife of John RefNum 150220 Place Ramsbury, WIL
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Will of Richard Michelborne. 6 July 1665
I Richard Michelborne citizen and cloth worker of London...- to be buried in St Mary Abchurch as near my deceased wife ...one third part to my wife Mary Michelborne - one third part to my children Benony, Richard, Barbarah and Mary Michelborne and such child as my said wife is now with child of, sons at 23 and daughters at 21 or marriage -one third part for following legacies - to my sister Dorothy Michelborne £10 - to my neece Dorothy Ellis £5- to my father Benony Honywood Esq,^ to my brother Edward Michelborne, to my kinsman Mr. Philip Michelborne and to my sister Sarah Browne ... to my neece Barbarah Stapley wife of John Stapley ...to my nephew Edward Michelborne eldest son of my brother Edward Michelborne ... to my neece Elizabeth ...to my loving kinsman Mr Philip Michelborne ... and remainder equally among John Michelborne son of my brother Edward Michelborne and my neeces Mary and Dorothy Ellis daughters of my sister Mary Ellis widow... Proved 9 May 1671 by Thomas Pernell and Anthony Stanford Executors. (P.C.'C. 65 Duke.)
Inscription quoted by Sir Wm. Burrell (Add. MS., 5,698) as on a Sussex marble stone at Clayton,
"Thomas, the son of Edward and Dorothy Michelborne, Gent., was buryed the . . . day of April, 1665". The registers give the date as 10th April.
Benoni Honywood was evidently the father of his first wife, as there is a marriage license in the Vicar-General's Office, dated 3rd June, 1661, for Richard Michelborne, of St. Mary Abchurch, woollen draper, widower, about 38, and Mary Robinson, of St. Margaret Pattens, spr., about 26, with consent of her father, William Robinson, of the same, gent., to marry at Great St. Bartholomew's, London.
The child she is pregnant with is probably, "Dooratie, daughter of Mr. Richard Michiburne and Mearie his wife," born 19th September, 1665, and baptised at Uckfield 25th September, in the same year.
On the 22nd September, 1680, there is a marriage license in the Vicar-General's Office for his widow Mary, then described as of St. Martin Orgars, London, widow, about 30 (?), to marry Peter Vincke, of St. Peter-the- Poor, London, clerk, widower, about 40, at St. Dunstan's in the East.
Will of Babbara Michelborne. 22 Aug 1679.
I, Barbara Michelborne....to my brother Richard Micbelborne... to my sister Mary Michelborne.... to my aunt Dorothy Michelborne ...to my cousin Sarah Annand ...to my cousin Mara Annand £150 - to my cousin Elizabeth Staples ....to my mother (stepmother) Mary Michelbome ... to my uncle and aunt Michelborne ...to my uncle and aunt Annand .... to my cousin Edward Michelborne.... to my cousin John Michelbome ... to my cousin William Browne ...to my brother Benoni Michelborne... Proved 15 May 1680 by Sarah Annand Executrix. | Mitchelborne, Richard (I08677)
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Will of Richard Richmond alias Webb: September 1 1609
....Richard Richman als Webb of parish of Chiseldon Wilts, husbandman being sick of body. To the cathedral church of Sarum 12d. I give towards repairing of the parish church of Chiseldon 12d. To my goddaughter Elizabeth the dau. of my brother Andrew Webb 5li. To my cousin Noah Richman als Webb all my sheep which I now have in the keeping of my brother Nicholas Webbe. To my sister-in-law Agnes Webb and to my cousin Margery Webb her dau. in law between them equally to be divided all my wool which I now have. My bro. Nicholas Richman als Webb Res. leg. and ex'tor.
John X Harding, James Withie Wm Beale.
Pr. at Marlborough 16 Oct 1609. Arch, Wilts. | Webb, Richard Richmond (I02654)
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Will of Richard Stacey Esquire Hollyport, Berkshire 5 April 1740 15 April 1740 -Mentions wife Ann Stacey,. | Stacey, Richard (I01517)
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Will of Richard Trewlock, Yeoman of Steventon, Berkshire 04 February 1657 PROB 11/261
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Two Richard; one born Steventon 1598, one born Radley 1601?? Both to father John.
There is a baptism of a Susanna Trewlock to Richard and Allis at Steventon in 1635?? Second marraige. This Susannah may have maried a THomas Pulfrey of Chilton Berkshire?
Radley (and other) Wills, as follows ....For information about an entry in the catalogue please contact the Club archivist (archives@radleyhistoryclub.org.uk
(lxxxviii) Inventory of the goods etc. of Joseph Trewlock of Steventon, listing his possessions at Steventon, Radley and Honeybourne, Worcs,, dated September 1671.
Two Richard Truelocks-one maried to Edith and one to Alice?? Or 2nd marriage??
Name: Susanna Truelocke Gender: Female Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Mar 1635 Baptism/Christening Place: STEVENTON,BERKSHIRE,ENGLAND Birth Date: Birthplace: Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Richard Truelocke Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Alles
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Will of Richard Vylett mentions wife's mother alive in 1571
Dorothy living at Marlborough, Wiltshire in 1596 according to IPM of Thomas Stephens.
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Will of Richard Vyolett Fishmonger London Date range:30 September 1578 - 30 September 1578 PROB 11/60/464:
Written 1571 Wants to be buried St Boltophs, London.
..I Richard Vyolett ffishmonger and citizen of London, being of hole minde and of good and perfect remembraimce, Laud and praise be unto god therfore," made his will loth December, 1571, which, however, was not proved till the last day of September, 1578. In it he mentions his wife, Dorothy, and his sons and daughters respectively in order of seniority, viz., Henry, Nicholas, Robert, and Richard, and Mary, Dorothy, Jone, and Bridget. Brother John Vyolett, To them he gives his estate, including land at Bromley, with remainder to his cousin, Mr. Nicholas Rutland, and to his cousins Mary and Jone Rutland, Nicholas' daughters. He mentions also Frauncis and William, sons of Mr. Nicholas Rutland; his cousins, John and William Hedworthe, his cousins, William and John Stokes, and his wife; and others (C.P.C., " Langley," fo. 35). A John Hedworth, fellow of the Middle Temple is a witness to the will.
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Will of Robert Cobbe, Girdler of Saint Mary Le Bow, City of London
Date 21 February 1607
Catalogue reference PROB 11/109
'St. Mary le Bow 104/6', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 231-236. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=1602
By his will, dated 1591 and proved 1592, Baker left his 2 tenements in Hosier Lane alias Bow Lane in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, now or late held or occupied by Robert Cobb, girdler, and Thomas Rivington, merchant tailor, to his wife Elizabeth for life, with remainder to his daughter Judith Bennet and her heirs for ever. Robert Cobbe, citizen and girdler, of St. Mary le Bow parish, died in 1606 or 1607 but it is not clear whether he was then occupying 6A
In 1537 the hospital granted to Stephen Cobbe, citizen and haberdasher, a lease of the properties at the old rent for a term of 50 years beginning in 1550, ...Stephen Cobbe paid the rent to the Mercers' Company in 1542-3, and from then until 1588 the descent of the property under this lease was identical to that of 19B and C (q.v.). In 1588-9 Robert Cobbe, son and assign of Stephen, paid the rent and in 1589-91 ....
From: 'St. Mary Colechurch 105/20', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 527-528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=4704 Date accessed: 26 February 2009.
On the capitalist side, Robert Cobbe, citizen and girdler , was a charter investor in the East India Company, and one of Elizabeth I's privateers, preying primarily on the Spanish Main per the records of the High Court of Admiralty. He owned a ship named the Margaret, no doubt named after his first-born daughter...
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Will of Robert Jenkinson, Merchant Tailor of Saint Dunstan in the West, City of London 15 December 1617 PROB 11/130
Name: Robert Jenkinson Burial Date: 2 Dec 1617 Parish: St Dunstan in the West County: London Borough: City of London Record Type: Burial Register Type: Parish Register
Daughter of Robert Jenkinson, merchant taylor and Bridget Whinyard. Brother of Sir Robert Jenkinson. Robert Jenkinson married secondly by 1616 Margaret Carlisle. Her will dated 1640. John Robinson executor. Margaret Carlile grandmother of Apelina Southwicke.
Will of Margaret Jenkinson, Widow of London 01 July 1640 PROB 11/183
The Gentleman's magazine (London, England), Volume 78:
"In this chancel are interred the bodies of Sir Robert Jenkiuson, of Walcot, knt. who departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1645.
Dame Anne-mary Jenkinson, his wife, deceased Nov. the -, 1668.,
Sir Robert Jenkinson, baronett, their sonne, deceased March the 30th, 1677. Dame Mary Jenkinson, his wife, deceased June the 13th, 1691.
Dame Sarah, wife of the grandson of Sir Rober T Jenkinson, knt. deceased Aug. the 8th, 1709.
Sir Robert, grandson and bart. Jan. the 30th, 1709."
On a black stone slab:
"Here lyeth the body of Richard Jenkinson, merchant, son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, of Walcot, in the county of Oxford, knight, and brother of Sir Robert Jenkinson, of the same place, N baronett, who departed this life the 20th day of September, anno Domini 1688."
On a neat monument of grey marble on the North wall:
"Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson, bart. and of Dame Sarah, his wife, died April the 24th, 171O.
Sir Robert Jenkinson, bart, son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, bart. and of Dame Sarah, his wife, died Oct. the 29th, 1717, aged 32.
Sir Robert Banks Jenkinson, of Walcot, who died July the 2d, 1738."
The three following black stone slabs: "Here lyeth the body of Edward Jenkinson, youngest son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, bait, who died the 30th day of March, 172* aged 23 years."
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Will of Robert Oxenbregge of Guestling, Sussex 08 May 1504 PROB 11/14
Robert married Alice, daughter and heir of Richard Knight of Guestling. She married secondly Henry Lacy.
Robert held land in Southbroke, Brede and Udimore. He was steward of the Honour of Aquila, steward of Battle and in 1490 chief steward of Syon Abbey in Sussex, of which he received lands. He was bailiff for Edward Hastings.
He died 1503.
Transcript of Sussex Wills, V. II (Sussex Rec. Soc.) testament made in Guestling 12 Feb. 1503, will dated 16 Feb. 1503-4, proved 8 May 1504 Feb 12:
"I give to the chapel of St. John the Evangelist 3 lbs 6s 8d. I will that my executors shall pave the church of Gestlyng on my proper costes."
Also leaves a goblet each to 'my lady Carewe' and my niece Anne Banister,' and also to 'my sister Margaret Cheyne.'
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Will of Robert Oxenbrigge or Oxenbrigg of Brede, Sussex 11 December 1488 PROB 11/
Brede, Sussex: In its church there are brasses with Latin inscriptions to Robert Oxenbridge, dated 1487 and 1492.
Robert Oxenbridge, son of John Oxenbridge and his wife Alice, purchased from Sir Alan Buxhall, an estate at Brede and a reversion of 30 acres of land in 1405. This Robert was followed by another Robert whose son, another Robert died March 1487. His will directed his burial in the Lady Chapel of St. George at Brede. His eldest son Thomas inherited and died in 1497. Thomas' younger brother Sir Goddard then inherited.
Gen-Medieval Archive:
On 26th May of 2002 Henry Sutcliffe wrote:
From VCH Sussex IX:169, it would appear both men have been confused. FWIW I've got hold of the Sussex Visitations of 1530 and 1633-4, published by the Harleian Society in 1905, and they have a long section on the Oxenbridge family on pp. 14 to 16. All in rough agreement so far. A few differences on the very people but I would not credit the Visitation with much veracity.
He was married twice (1) the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Etchingham
of Etchingham (Christian name not given). Though in the Echingham section of the same Visitation (pp.124-6) they say she was "Anne [or] Elizabeth".
(2) Anne Fiennes.
The Visitation shows a third marriage.
Sir Goddard died in 1531.
Just to confuse matters a tad, there was an Ann Blount, dau of Margaret
Etchingham (sister to the Anne [or] Elizabeth above) who married a
Thomas Oxenbridge whom I cannot locate clearly, or even darkly, in these
pedigrees.
Hope this helps.
Henry Sutliff
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charlotte Smith" wrote in message
news:006901c20363$29b3f3a0$5c9f9c40@prodigy.net...
In 1487 Goddard Oxenbridge died and is buried in Brede, Sussex. Some
records say he was married to Elizabeth Echyngham and others say it
was Robert Oxenbridge who was her husband. The records in Brede say Robert
or Goddard. The church in Etchingham, Sussex has an Agnes Oxenbridge
buried -daughter of Robert.
There is an Ann, dau of a Robert Oxenbridge who was alive in 1574 and
who has no husband assigned to her. But not all the various daus are
in the Visitation(s), notably one Malyn whom Faris says is the dau. of
the Robert who died in 1487.
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org
For a patchwork of bygones: http://powys.org
Malyn Oxenbridge was previously the wife of Arthur Darcy of Huntingdon,
Cambridgeshire by whom she had a son Arthur in addition to her children by
Carew.
"Sutliff"
wrote in message
news:11f4sal905d432c@
Sir Godard was son of Robert Oxenbridge of Brede Place, Sussex and his
wife Ann (her maiden name may have been Lovelode, but I have not verified
this). I think it is VCH Sussex (or HOP - Wedgwood) which says that his
grandfather another Robert whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas
Echingham. This may be where the confusion of Elizabeth or Anne Echingham
married to Oxenbridges comes into play. Sir Godard's sister was Malyn
Oxenbridge, wife of Sir Richard Carew of Beddington, Surrey. Other sisters
were Katherine and Margaret and brothers were Thomas (wife Anne Blount,
daughter of William Blount and Margaret Echingham) and Robert.
Best regards,
HS
A possible source for some of the above is VCH Sussex IX:169.
""Leo van de Pas"" wrote in message
news:
Dear Charlotte,
This Goddard is new to me. Do you know when he lived? If this Sir Thomas
Echingham is the same as the one for whom gave his will, then Anne must
be wrong as you suggest.
For that Sir Thomas I have already a daughter called Anne married to John
Rogers of Bryanston and then to John Touchet, Lord Audley. This Anne is
also an ancestor of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Many thanks.
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
On 10 June 1477 Thomas Echingham, Henry Auger, Robert and Thomas Oxbrygge, William and Henry Belknap and others received a commission to survey the dykes between Appledore and Rye (CPR).
In 1484 Robert won a plea against John Neufeld and Agnes his wife concerning land in Battle, Monfield and Ewsherst (Sussex FF).
On 5 Aug. 1486 Robert Oxenbregge and others enfeoffed Margaret, widow of John Elrington and Elizabeth, widow of Roger Fenys, daughters of Sir Thomas Echingham, kt., of 70 a of land and marsh in Bexhill (Battle Abbey CH).
His will dates from 16 April 1483, his testament from 18 Oct. 1482.
He died on 9 March 1487, will proved at Lambeth 11 Dec.1488 (PROB 11/8).
His wife Ann died 27 Feb. 1493-4. There is a brass with her figure in Brede church where her arms are shown. On a saltier five fleur-de-lis, the centre in pale, the others bendways.
Adam Levelode, her father, was a London merchant and had a brother Robert. Surviving her husband, she had as her dower the manor of Ford and Robert's lands in Brede and Udimore for life.
Robert and Anne had six sons and four daughters:
1. Agnes, appears together with Elizabeth Echingham (d. 3 Dec. 1452-3) on a brass in Echingham church whereupon Agnes's death is marked 4th August 1480.
2. Margaret was first married to John Cheney. From him she received in dower the manor of Cralle in Warbleton and other lands where she maintained Robert, younger son of her brother Goddard. She married secondly Sir Richard Carew of Bedington, Surrey, lieutenant of Calais. Their only son was Nicholas Carew KG, favourite of King Henry VIII, who was executed. Margaret survived him as well. In her will she mentions her stepdaughter Joan Carew, her niece Eleanor, daughter of her sister Maulyn, her stepson Thomas and the two children of William Cheyney deceased. An ancestor of Nicholas Carew, also called Nicholas had the arms OR three lions passant gardant sable (Caverlock Poem, K 22).
3. Mariana was also called Malyn. She married Richard Carew of Bedington who died 23 May 1520. He was son of James Carew and Elianor Hoo, daughter of Lord Hoo and Hastings and Eleanor, daughter of Leonard Lord de Welles, and grandson of Nicholas Carew and Margaret de Fiennes (Genealogies).They had a daughter. - (Margaret and Mariana married to the same man?)
4. Margaret who married John St. John, son of Sir John St. John and Joan Iwardly (Peerage.com).
5. Eleanor, mentioned in her aunt Margaret's will.
6. Katherine died unmarried. The latter two appear on a brass in Brede in c.1500 : "Here lie Mariana and Katharina, daughters of Robert Oxenbrigge, on whose soul may God have mercy."
6. Robert's d. 1503. He married Alice, daughter and heir of Richard Knight of Guestling. She married secondly Henry Lacy. Robert held land in Southbroke, Brede and Udimore. He was steward of the Honour of Aquila, steward of Battle and in 1490 chief steward of Syon Abbey in Sussex, of which he received lands. He was further bailiff for Edward Hastings.
Robert and Alice had a daughter - Anna, married first to Henry Stokes, a merchant of the Staple who exported wool and other merchandise, and secondly Oliver St. John. The three of them released their rights in Bixle (Bexhill) in 1539.
7. William of Guestling. His will was proved in 1504. - He was married to Alice and they had an only daughter Ann.
8. John, a clerk. In 1504 he was presented by the abbey and convent of Ramsey to the church of Shillingdon in Bedford. Canon of Windsor in 1509, founded the Oxenbridge Chantry in the St. George Chapel. Prebendary of Hampstead 1499-1522 was M. John Oxenbrigge B.H.L (Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541, Vol. 7). In 1505 John had a commission with the earl of Surrey and others to collect the money granted to the King by Parliament. He died on 25 July 1522.
9.Thomas, serjeant at law, married Anne who survived him. His will was proved 8 Feb. 1497
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Will of Robert Salmon 1628
Robert Salmon of Chaureth Hall (also called Great Broxted Manor)
Son Henry Salmon
Mary Salmon, daughter
John son of anne my daughter
Ellen and Hester my daughter
Mary my wife
Boyd's:
1594 SALMON ROB NATT MARY WEALD, SOUTH ESSEX
1603 SALMON ROB ALLEN MARIE THAXTED ESSEX
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In 1604 Thomas Crabbe was holding with Grace his wife, and in that year conveyed the manorto Francis Cutt of Debden, co. Essex, and John Cutthis brother (sons of Richard Cutt of Debden). (fn. 131) After the death of Francis within a year, John Cutt(called of London) sold the manor with the meadowcalled Pigotts Hatch, the two fields called the Leyes, &c.,to Robert Salmon of Broxted, co. Essex, (fn. 132) who held his first court in 1606. (fn. 133) He granted the manor in1622 to his son Robert, (fn. 134) who held his first court in1649. (fn. 135) Later he joined in a sale with Nicholas Westwood of Farnham, co. Essex, and Sarah his wife, John Cleere the elder of Bengeo and Mary his wife,and John Cleere the younger and Sarah his wife to Edward Hawkins of Stortford.
From: 'Parishes: Bishop's Stortford', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 292-306. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43620 Date accessed: 23 May 2012. | Salmon, Robert (I06043)
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Will of Rowland Backehouse Esquire City OF London 12 November 1647 April 1648
Alderman. Citizen and Mercer.
Widford
...In 1589 his son and heir Henry Adams conveyed it together with forty messuages, a water-mill, free warren, free fishery and view of frankpledge to Bartholomew Barnes, sen., and Bartholomew Barnes, jun. (fn. 29) A Bartholomew Barnes, probably the younger, citizen and mercer of London, settled it in 1608 on Elizabeth, one of his three daughters, the wife of Roland Backhouse, (fn. 30) also citizen and mercer of London. Their grandson, William Backhouse (son of Nicholas, a younger son of Roland), created a baronet in 1660, sold it with the water-mill, warren, fishery, and frankpledge to William Bird (fn. 31) of Martocks in Ware. Thomas Bird, according to Chauncy, was lord of the manor in 1700. (fn. 32)
From: 'Parishes: Widford', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 402-406. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43632 Date accessed: 25 February 2009.
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Will of Samuel Carleton, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex
Date 02 December 1702
Will of Bigley Carleton, Gentleman of Poplar, Middlesex 11 December 1714 PROB 11/543
Sentence of Bigley Carleton of Saint Lawrence Jewry, City of London 10 December 1714 PROB 11/542
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Will of Samuel Pocock Yeoman Walton, Wiltshire 19 November 1854 22 March 1855
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Will of Sarah Brown of Overton Manton, 1689.
Will for Sarah Brown
Ref No.
P3/B/870
Alt Ref No
P3/B/870
Title
Inventory, will Date 1690 Person Brown, Sarah Occupation Widow Place Key /Overton/Wiltshire Community Overton Description Of Preshute according to the will, but Overton according to the inventory. | Sarah (I01269)
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Will of Simon Theloall or Thelwall of Plasward, Denbighshire 07 November 1586 PROB 11/69
Will of Margaret Theloall or Thelwall, Widow of Plasward, Denbighshire 07 November 1586 PROB 11/69
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION: 'Heraldic Visitations of Wales' volume 2 page 113 fn 1:
Simwnt Thelwal was buried at Rhuthin, where is a monument to his memory, with the following inscription:
'Here lyeth the body of Simon Thelwal, of Plase-ward esquire on of her Majesty's consell of estate established in the Marches of Wales who departed the world the 18th of April 1586, being of the age of 60. & Margaret his wife the daughter of Sir William Griffith, Knt, year 1594."
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Will of Sir Allen Apsley of Saint Martin in the Fields, Middlesex 02 November 1683 PROB 11/374
Buried:
Text: 26 Sep 1698 The Lady Frances Apsley: at the bottom of the steps going up to K. H. 7th's Chapel, on the South side. Book: Burials in Westminster Abbey. (Burial) Collection: Middlesex: Westminister Abbey - Register For Westminster Abbey
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Will of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of His Majesty's Tower of London 14 May 1631 PROB 11/159
Lord Lieutenant of the Tower of London under King James 1.
One of the founders of the New England Company in 1620.
London:
....Against the wall, on the south side of the chancel, a plain tablet preserves the memory of Sir Allan Apsley, knight, who died the 24th of May, 1630. He was victualler of the royal navy twenty-one years, and fourteen years lieutenant of the Tower. Sir Allan first married Ann, daughter and heiress of Sir Peter Carew, knight; by whom he bad issue Peter, son and heir; Joyce, married to Lyster, second son of Sr Richard Blount, of Maple Durham, knight; and Carew, who died an infant.
By his second wife, Lucy, daughter of Sir John St. John of Lidyard, knight, he bad ten children, six of whom died young. In the floor, fronting the communion table, a mutilated brass plate marks the spot of his interment.
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Will of Sir Arthure Darcye of York, Yorkshire 10 May 1561 PROB 11/44
Will 16 Sep 1560, proved P.C.C., 10 May 1561.
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Will of Sir Charles Pleydell or Pleydall of Midghall, Wiltshire 21 May 1642 PROB 11/189
St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire: All the legible names shown on the Charles Pleydell grave monument (GPR grave number 137677)
Charles Pleydell 1642
Katherine Pleydell first wife of Charles Pleydell
Thomas Bourchier of Charles Pleydell
Jane Pleydell second wife of Charles Pleydel
Baronet St John St John of Charles Pleyde
Pleydell family.
"Oliver Pleydell, son of Sir Charles Pleydell, (by Jane his wife,) baptized July 3, 1621;
John, July 11, 1622;
Gabriel, Sept. 24, 1623;
Giles, Sept. 21, 1625;
Lucy, Jan. 6, 1625/6 (buried Jan. 12);
Allen, July 19, 1627 (buried June 7, 1631);
Charles, Jan. 20, 1628/9;
Edward, buried June 1, 1629;
Lucy, baptized Feb. 22, 1629?30; (buried Sept. 13, 1633).
"Sir Charles Pleydell was high sheriff for the county of Wilts, anno 1620, in which year he was knighted. His second wife was Jane, daughter of Sir John St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, and relict of Robert Atey, Esq. of Kilbourn. Oliver Pleydell here mentioned, was ancestor of Edmund Morton Pleydell, Esq. of Dorsetshire. John was knighted, and resided at Brinkworth in Wiltshire. Charles was settled at Minety, in Glocestershire, and lies buried there. Gabriel and Giles died young (fn. 64). From: 'Hampstead', The Environs of London: volume 2: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 527-51. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45421. Date accessed: 15 April 2007.(British Hisotry onlne-Hampstead)
Sheriff for Wiltshire, 1620.
Boyd's:
1598 PLEDDAL CHAS BOWCHER CATH HOLBORN ST GILES IN THE FIELDS MIDDLESEX
Day: 15 Month: Jun Year: 1704 Age: 76 Forenames: Charles Surname: PLEYDELL Place: Minety County Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 94627 Notes: husb of Arabella youngest son of Sir Charles
Forenames: Charles Surname: PLEYDELL Place: Minety County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 94627 Notes: Sir of Midg...Hall Wilts
Will of Sir Charles Pleydell or Pleydall of Midghall, Wiltshire 21 May 1642 PROB 11/189
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Will of Sir Edward Miles, Colonel of Boulogne sur Mer , France 27 December 1848 PROB 11/2085
Sir Edward Miles served on the Continent in 1794 and 95, including the battle of Lincelles, action at the bridge of Wallam, storming of Fort Nook, siege of Nimeguen, and defence of the Ems River. Actively employed in the West Indies in 1796 and 97, and was present at the sieges of Sl Lucia and Grenada, and capture of Trinidad. Served in Ireland during the Rebellion, in 1798. Embarked for the Peninsula in 1808, and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, action at Lugo, and battle of Corunna. Proceeded with the expedition to Walcheren, in 1809. Served afterwards in the Peninsula, from June 1812, to the end of that war, including the battle of Salamanca (severely and dangerously wounded), action at Villa Muriel, battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, siege and storming of San Sebastian (dangerously wounded at the assault), pasaage of the Bidassoa, battles of Nivelle, and Nive (9th to 13th Dec). Proceeded to Ava in command of a brigade, and was engaged in all the operations against the enemy in that country from June to 17th Aug. 1824; embarked for the eastward, and commanded the force at the storm and capture of Mergui, 6th Oct.; returned to Rangoon, in Nov., served there during its investment in Dee. 1824, and commanded the Madras force in several assaults on the enemy. Sir Edward has received a medal and a clasp for Salamanca and San Sebastian.
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Will of Sir George Maners, Lord Ros, December 1513, PROB 11/17
George Maners, Knight 26th October 1513. My body to be buried next unto the place where I shall happen to die, ... to each of my daughters unmarried ccc marks in ready money, if they will be ruled by my wife,....Sir Robert Maners, my father, ....between me and my uncle Sir Thomas Lovell, Knt. dated 21st February, 4 Henry VIII.; also I will that my son Thomas Maners and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Lovel, Knt. ... and that they stand seised of the same to the use of the said Thomas Maners and Elizabeth his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. And I constitute Anne' my wife, my uncle Sir Thomas Lovel, and my brethren William Fayrfax, and Thomas Fayrfax, Gilbert Stoughton, and Ralph Elwick, my executors . No probate.
Lord Roos, in right of his mother Eleanor, sister and heir of Edmund Lord Roos; he is said, by Collins, to have died at the siege of Therouene and Tournay 2d November 1513, ... his Will is stated, both in a MS. note of it, and by Dugdale, to have been made on 26th October, whilst Collins asserts that it was dated on the 30th of that month, three days before his demise, but that writer gives the inscription on his tomb, from which it appears he died the,
" xxvi daye of Octobre, in the yere of our Lorde God Mvcxiii." that is, three days before the date assigned to his will by Dugdale, and in the MS. abstract, and seven days antecedent to, the date given by Collins.
A warrant was issued, 21 Nov. 1512, for his sum. to Parliament, "by name of
George Maners, knight, Lord Rose" {Idem, vol. i, and ed., pt. i, p. 685). He m., about 1490, Anne, da. and heir of Sir Thomas St. Leger, otherwise Seint-Leger, otherwise Selenger (beheaded Nov. 1483), by Anne, divorced wife of Henry (Holand), Duke of Exeter, sister of Edward IV, ist da. of Richard (Plantagenet), Duke of York. He died 27 Oct. 1513, in France and was bur. in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. M.I. Will dat. 26 Oct. 1513.
His widow was b. in 1476, d. 21 Apr. 1526, and was bur. with him. Will pr. 1526.
National Archives:
Valuation of the lands of the late George Manners, Lord Roos, in Yorkshire, and statement of a half-year's rents received by his widow at Martinmas, 5 Henry VIII. Paper roll, 4 sheets. Damaged LM/1842 1513
On 13 Dec. 1509 Hen. VIII granted to "Sir George Maners knight for the Body" the annuity of 700 marks payable to the King by virtue of an Act of Pari. 7 Hen. VII {Idem, vol. i, 2nd ed., pt. I , p. 1 36). This suggests that by that date he was the sole heir.
The North Transept "is the Rutland Chapel, within which a chantry was founded in 1481 by Sir Thomas St. Leger in memory of his wife Anne, Duchess of Exeter and sister of Edward IV, who was buried in it.
In the middle stands an alabaster tomb with fine recumbent effigies of Sir George Manners, Lord Roos, who d. in 1513, and his wife, the Lady Anne da. of the Duchess of Exeter, who d. in 1526. Along the sides are figures of their children and upon the ends angels, all holding shields. On a bracket in the east window is a large funeral helm that may belong to this tomb" {F.C.H., Berkshire, vol. iii, pp. 39-40).
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Will of Sir Giles Capell of Rayne, Essex 19 February 1557 PROB 11/39
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Will of Sir Gyles Strangwaie of Melbury Sampford, Dorset Date 27 June 1562 Catalogue reference PROB 11/45
-of Melbury Sampford, wife Johan alias Jane Strangwais, son John Strangwais, daughter Anne, father in law John Wadham, Nicholas Wadham,
Codical written 1558-son Edward
Codical 1562-John Wadham my father-in-law, George my son.
P. 281. Funeral of Sir Giles Strangways. "Sir Gyles Strangwysh, of Melbury Sanford, in the county of Dorset, knight, dysceased the xjth of Apryll, 1562, and is beryed in the churche of Melbury. He maryed Jone doter of John Wadham of Meryfelde in the county of Somerset, and by her had issue John Stranguysh son and heyr, George 2 son, Nycolas 3 son, Anne." (MS. Lansd. 897, f. 20b.)
From: 'Notes to the diary: 1562', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 388-393. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45543 Date accessed: 24 July 2010.
See History of Parliament Online
Giles was born abt 1528, first son of Henry Strangeways by Margaret, daughter of George Manners, Lord Ros. He married about 1546, Joan daughter of John Wadham of Merifield, Somerset and sister of Sir Nicholas Wadham; by whom he had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He succeeded his grandfather Sir Giles Strangeways in 1546.
He was knighted 1549. Strangeways owned extensive estates in Dorset, including the site of the monastery of Abbotsbury. Through his wife his heirs acquired rights to considerable property in Somerset, which he himself did not live to enjoy. He also owned lands in Yorkshire, from where the family had moved to Dorset in the fifteenth century.
A license to alienate was granted in Oct 1546: "Sir Giles Strangeways to Sir Hugh Paulet...John Sydenham of Brympton...to the use of the said Sir Giles for Life..." He was a protestant during Edward VI's reign, when he served as a commissioner for church goods. After Mary's accession he came up to London to render an accont of his proceedings in the latter capacity. He was one of those who "stood for the true religion" in the Oct 1553 parliament.
In 1557 he commaned 50 men in the expedition of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, to St. Quentin.
In June 1555 he surrendered himself to the Fleet to avoid outlawry for debts that included over £100 to two London tailors.
He sold 700 ewes, 600 wethers and 300 hogs, leaving three estates denuned of livestock. When he died in his early thirties on 11 April 1562 he left his widow with at least six children under 21. His will, which he made before going on the St Quentin campaign and to which he added two codicils, in 1558 and 1562, required his wife, if she married again, to give a bond of £2000 to carry out her duties as executrix. The executrix was compelled to sell all the household goods to pay debts amounting to over £3000. Strangeways left 1000 marks to his daughter Anne on her marriage and 600 marks to a younger son. There is an effigy of him in plate armour at Melbury Sampford church.
See "The Brasses of England", Rev. H. W. Macklin, M.A., 1907
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Will of Sir Henrie St George, Principal King at Armes 31 October 1646 PROB 11/197
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Will of Sir Henry Fredericke Thynne of Kempsford, Gloucestershire 05 August 1680 PROB 11/363
Hannington, Wiltshire: 17 January 1687 Lease. Lands known as ‘Stirte’ [Stert] in the parish of Hannington (Wilts. and Glos.) heretofore conveyed to Henry Coventry and Sir William Coventry by the late Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, Bart. Hon. Francis Coventry the elder, of Carshalton, Surrey, brother and heir of Hon. Henry Coventry and Sir William Coventry, both deceased, Hon. Andrew Newport and James Halsall of St Martin in the Fields (Middx.) to the 1st Viscount.
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Will of Sir Henry Robinson of Cransley, Northamptonshire 30 January 1638 PROB 11/176
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Sir Henry Robinson in 1629, in which year he was sheriff of the county, settled his three-fifths on Martha Sherington, widow of John Sherington, merchant of London, whom he married at Cransley on 31 August following. He died on 9 December 1637, leaving no issue by Martha, and was succeeded by his son by his first wife (Mary, daughter of Sir William Glover) Henry, aged 12. (fn. 57)
From: 'Parishes: Cransley', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4 (1937), pp. 162-167. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66340 Date accessed: 01 January 2012
Mary ? as his first wife (Lie. London, 6 July, 1611, being then aged 20), Sir Henry Robinson, of Cransley, co. Northampton, who d. 9 Dec. 1637, & was bur. at Islington, Funeral certificate (I., xxiv., 1 1 6) at the Coll. of Arms.
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John eldest son of John, heir but not heritor of the estate, was born in 1575. He matriculated at All Souls, Oxford, in 1589 graduated as a B.A. from St. Mary's Hall in 1593 and was a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple in 1604. He married Alice, daughter of Henry Robinson, citizen and brewer, London. She received for her life portion Knights Washbourn estate; and from her mother received one-fifth of the manor of Cransley in Northamptonshire amounting to 394 acres, which manor had been bought of the Cecils in 1594. John died in 1615 at the age of 40, 18 years before his father. He was buried in the chancel of St. Michael's Church, AVichenford. His wife died about 10 years later, having married in the meantime Francis Downs.
John = and Alice had three children,
William, John and Mary.
Alice Owen: The Life Marriages and Times of a Tudor Lady
Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Phillimore & Co Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Mar 2006) Language English ISBN-10: 1860773796
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Will of Sir Henry Woodhouse of Waxham, Norfolk 24 February 1625 PROB 11/145
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Will of Sir John Barnardiston of Long Melford , Suffolk 13 November 1745 PROB 11/742 -wife Dame Elizabeth, Anne Blakeway sister to my wife,
Will of John Barnardiston of Melford, Suffolk 01 February 1732 PROB 11/649-late brother Robert, Lady Barnardsiton his wife, son John, Sophia Nieton ? the daughter of my late wife, brother Samuel Barnardiston,
Second wife??
Will of Dame Elizabeth Barnardiston, Widow of Melford, Suffolk 16 March 1738 PROB 11/688
Sir THOMAS BARNARDISTON of Kedington, was born and baptized at Little Thurlow in 1615. Admitted to Gray's Inn on 1th May 1635, he was knighted at Whitehall on 4th July 1641. Served as Parliamentary assessor for Suffolk from 1643. MP. for Bury St.Edmund's from 1645-8. In the Civil War he was a Parliamentarian who commanded a Foot Regiment againist the King's forces at Colchester in 1648. Appointed Controller of the Mint in 1649. MP. for Suffolk from 1654-9 and for Sudbury in 1661. Afterwards he welcomed the return of Charles II and was created a Baronet on 7th April 1663 "for the antiquity of the family and the virtues of his ancestors". He mar. (in or before 1643) ANNE, 2nd dau. of Sir WILLIAM ARMINE, 1st Baronet of Osgodby in Lines, by ELIZABETH dau. of Sir MICHAEL HICKES of Beverstone Castle in Gloucestershire. He died on 4th October 1669 and was buried at Kedington on 14th October. For more details of his life see the Dictionary of National Biography. His widow died on 16th August 1671 and was buried at Kedington on 25th August following. They had issue
1. Nathaniel Barnardiston. He died during his fathers lifetime, s.p., and was buried at Kedington.
2. THOMAS BARNARDISTON (Sir), 2nd Baronet, of whom presently.
3. William Barnardiston, who died s.p.
4. Nathaniel Barnardiston, who died s.p.
5. Samuel Barnardiston, baptized at Kedington on 20th May 1654. He died s.p.
6. Michael Barnardiston, baptized at Stallingborough on 19th July 1656. He became a merchant and died at Smyrna, unmarried, and was buried at Kedington on 7th June 1679.
7. John Barnardiston, baptized at Kedington on 11th June 1658. He became a merchant. He mar. Margaret dau. of Sir Robert Cordell, Baronet of Long Melford in Suffolk. She died at sea and may have been buried at Kedington on 30th November 1687.
1. Joan Barnardiston, baptized at St.Andrew's Undershaft in London on 10th July 1643. She was buried at Kedington on 29th June 1664.
2. Mary Barnardiston, wife of Sir Joseph Brand of Edwardston in Suffolk.
3. Anne Barnardiston, baptized at Kedington on 10th December 1655. She mar. Sir Philip Skippon of Wrentham in Suffolk, son of the celebrated Parliamentary general. She died on 11th October 1683 and was buried at Kedington. Her husband was buried with her on 8th August 1691.
4. Elizabeth Barnardiston, baptized at Kedington on 30th May 1659. She mar. Thomas Williams of Tendring Hall in Suffolk and had issue.
5. Armine Barnardiston, born on 3rd December 1664 and baptized at Coleby in Lincolnshire on 22nd December following. She was buried at Kedington on 10th April 1677.
6. Martha Barnardiston.
November 16th 1745 1745 Ipswich Journal newspaper archive
All persons having claims on the estate of Sir John Barnardiston Bart, late of Long Melford are desired forthwith to send particular to John Alexander, attorney at law of Threadneedle Street, London.
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Will of Sir John Cordell of Melford Hall, Suffolk 01 December 1690 PROB 11/402
Text: 262. Cordell John. Eldest son of Robert Cordell of Long Melford. He is in the Bury school list for 1656. Succeeded his father as second baronet in 1680. Died. F Book: Burials. (Burial) Collection: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds - Biographical List of Boys Educated At King Edward 6th Free Grammar School, 1550-1900
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Will of Sir John Dawtrey of Petworth, Sussex 20 January 1550 PROB 11/33
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Will of Sir John Gresham, Alderman of Saint Michael Bassishaw, City of London 26 November 1556 PROB 11/38
Also Lord Mayor of London
Sheriff of London 1537.
Wikepedia:
Gresham was probably born in 1495, at Holt, in Norfolk, and was descended from an old Norfolk family[1] (see section 'Gresham Family', below). Biographers have suggested that he probably attended a school kept by Augustinian canons at nearby Beeston Regis[2]. At that time, England was a Roman Catholic country and was largely dependent on the church for education.
In about 1510, Gresham was apprenticed to John Middleton, a London mercer, and after serving his seven years he was admitted as a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. In 1519, he and his older brother William Gresham were both elected to the livery of the company. Later, John Gresham was four times Master of the Mercers' Company[2]
Gresham was in partnership with his brother, Richard Gresham, in the export of textiles and in importing grain from Germany and wine from Bordeaux[2]. He also imported traded in silks and spices from the Ottoman Empire and imported timber and skins from the Baltic. He founded the Russia Company to trade with Russia. Meanwhile, he acted as an agent for Cardinal Wolsey[2], and through him knew Thomas Cromwell[2].
Gresham invested his money in land, buying the manors of Titsey, Tatsfield, Westerham, and Lingfield on the borders of Surrey and Kent, as well as properties in Norfolk and Buckinghamshire. He lived at a great house called Titsey Place at Oxted in Surrey from 1534 until his death[3].
Gresham was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1537-1538 and at the same time was knighted[2]. He was a member of the Royal household between 1527 and 1550, first as a 'gentleman pensioner' and later as one of the 'esquires of the body' of King Henry VIII[2]. In 1539, the king granted Gresham the manor of Sanderstead in Surrey, following the dissolution of the monasteries: it had previously belonged to the Minster of Winchester since the year 962.
In 1541, Gresham was one of the jurors who tried Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham for treason - that is, intimacy with Queen Catherine Howard[2]. Both were duly beheaded at Tyburn on 10 December 1541, and their heads were put on display on London Bridge. Queen Catherine Howard was subsequently executed on February 13, 1542.
In 1546, he was one of the King's commissioners to survey the properties of chantries to be dissolved in Surrey and Sussex[2].
In 1547, Sir John Gresham became Lord Mayor of London[2].
In 1555, a year before his death, he founded Gresham's School in the town of his birth, Holt in Norfolk. Gresham endowed the school with land and money and placed these endowments in the care of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, which has continued to carry out his trust to the present day[2].
Gresham died on 23 October 1556, ?of a malignant fever?. His tomb is in the City of London church of St Michael Bassishaw[1].
St. Michael Basbishaw, London. On a tomb in the south aisle of the choir of St. Michael's Chnrch, Bassiflhaw, destroyed by the fire in 1666 (Ward ' Lives of the Gresham Professors/ page 5, and Stow * Survey of London/ ed. 1633, p. 300) :- Here lyeth buried under this Tombe the Body of Sir John Gresham, Knight, sometime Alderman and Lord Mai- or of this City of London, who had Two Wives, Dame Ma- ry his first Wife, by whom Hee had Issue Five Sonnes and Sixe Daughters. By Dame Eatherine his last Wife no Issue ; which Sir John deceased the xxiii. day of October Anno Domini hdlyi. And Dame Mary died the zxi. day of September, Mnxxxvni.* Dame Katharine died - f
Register of St. Michael's, Bassishaw, London.
Burials. 1565. The xxv*** day of October was buryed Sjt Jhon Gressam, Knyght, mercer.
1576. The buryall of the Ladye Kateryn Gresham late the wyflfe of Syr Jo'n Gresham, Knyght, was the ix. daye of January, Ann^ D*ni 1576
Will of John Gresham (AND SECOND ONE FOLLOWING)
Sir John Gresham K*- This is the last Will and Testament of me Sir John Gresham K* citizen and alderman of London touching and concerning the order and disposition of all and singular my Lordeshippes Manners Lands Tenements Rents Possessions and Here- ditaments which I have as well within the counties of Surrey Sussex Kent Norfolk Buckinghamshire and the citieof London as elsewhere within the realme of England made the 12"» day of Feb^ 1552 in manner and forme following. First I will and bequethe unto Dame Katherine my wiffe during her natural litfe in full satisfaction of all her dower all and singular those Manners messuages lands and tenements hereinafter expressed that is to say all that my Mannor of Hethenden otherwise called Henden in the County of Kent with all the appurtenances and all that my mansion and lodge of Hethenden alias Henden Parke thereunto adjoining and all the lands tenements meddowes and pastures lying within the precincte and compas of the park pale of the same Hethenden Parke within the parishes of Sondnge Brasted and Chedingestone Co. Kent now in the holding of Robert Stone of Sondridge aforesaid and Anne his wiffe, and all other messuages lands rents and services reputed or taken to be parcell of the said Mannor of Hethenden. And whereas I the said Sir John Gresham K^ by dede indented dated the xvi"» Feb^ in the xxxiiii. yere of the late Kyng of most famous memory Henry VIII, Granted and demised unto one Brian Gaville of Westram yoman and Margaret his wiffe for terme of certain yeres yett enduring all that ferme parcell of the Mannor of Westram called the Curtilage of Westram with all edifices to the same belonging, and also all that my tenement called Charmanes in Westram with all and singular the appurtenances, together with the game and profittes of the conyes belonging to the same Mannor, yielding and paying therefore yerely unto me my heyres .and assigns £28 5s. 8d. Item I give unto the said Dame Katherine my wiffe in ftirther recompence of her said dower all that my said Mannor or ferme of Westram and other the premises devised to the said Brian Gaville to have and to holde for terme of her litfe. Also I give and bequethe unto the said Dame Kathe rine my wiffe all that my Mannor of Warlingham and the parsonage of War- lingham in the County of Surrey with all the appurtenances, granted by indenture tor terme of yeres to one John Cater Vintener of London, and all that my Manners of Felcourte Sandersted and Langhurste Co. Surrey, and also all that my Ferme wherein Stevyn of Loffested dwellithe and payethe by yere £10 and also all my Mannor of Rowholtes in Warlingham Co. Surrey late in the tenure of William Hardyng and now in the tenure of one Mr. Warner, and all that my ferme, messuages and lands in the parish of Marten Co. Surrey called Westbarnes now in the tenure of Thomas Carpender. And all that my parsonage of Mayefelde alias Maigfelde Co. Sussex now in the tenure and ferme of William Pankurst for £15 by yere and also all that my parsonage of Wadhorste Co. Sussex now in the tenure of Thomas Darrell for £11 by yere and also aU that my Mannor of Waldyngham with the appurtenances Co. Surrey now in the tenure of Richard Kemsail and all messuages lands and tenements in Waldyngham now in the tenure of Robert Rowete, and all other my lands and tenements being parte or parcell of Felcourte Sandersted Langhurste Warlingham Mayefeld Wadhurst Rowholtes Waldyngham and the ferme called West- barnes I give and bequethe unto the said Dame Katherine my wiife and her assigns during her natural liffe. Also I give unto the said Dame Katherine in recompense of her dower all that my messuage or tenement with the appurtenances sett and being in Milkestreete in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Milkestreete London, now in the tenure of Nicholas Byngham haberdassher and all my messuages and tenements with the appurtenances in Bassingehawe in London except the great messuage and tenement with the appurtenences wherein I nowe doo enhabite and dwell to have and to hold daring her naturall liffe, and farther I give and and beqaethe. my great messaage and tenement unto her as long as she shall live sole and anmarried. And if the said Dame Katherine be not content with the lands herein devised to her by way of dower, I will that then my will be void and of none effect as touching the premises therin to her devised. Item I leave and suffer to descende and com to William Gresham my oldest Sonne and heire apparaunte My Manner of Tyttesey alias Ty thesey Co. Surrey with all the members and appurtenances and all other lands rents reversions fermes and services in the townes parishes and feldes of Tythesey aforesaid, and also my Manners of Lymesfelde and Brodeham Co. Surrey with the appurtenances, and also my capital Mansion and tenement called ^ le place ' in the parish of Oxstede which I the said Sir John Gresham K^ lately purchased of Sir Thomas Pope E^ and all mannors lands and tenements in Lymesfelde Brodeham and Oxstede excepte my Manner of Langhurste. Also I leave and suffer to descend to William Gresham my sonne my Manner of Etonbridge alias Edolnebridge Co. Eent and the parsonage of the same and my mannor and parsonage of Westram and all the lands and tenements to the said mannor belonging and to the Mannor of Etonbridge except the ferme of the curtilage of Westram and my. tenement of Charmanes. Also I leave to W"* Gres ham my Sonne after the decease of Dame Katherine my wiffe all the ferme wherein Stevyn of Lofested dwellith in Counties of Surrey and Kent and a certain quit rent of 13* 4^ paid out yerely of the lands belonging to Feky lies-hole which was belonging to my late brother William Harding. Aid all my lands tenements and houses in Bowe Brickhill and little Brickhill Co. Bucks and all those my lands in Bucks and my ferme called Wellcombes and Laurence in the parish of Wattington in the occupation of Rowete and Bassett, and all my tenements sett and being in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Milkestreete in the tenure of Bobert Sharpe. And if my son William Gresham be not satisfied with the lands by me devised to him in reversion, then the said lands to descend to John and Edmund Gresham my sons and their heires, and for lack for such heires to Ursula Cicile and Elizabeth my daughters and their heires, and for lack of them to Mary Rowe my daughter and her heirs, and for lack of them to Helin Uvedale my daughter and her heirs, remainder to the right heirs of me Sir John Gresham E^ Also I give and bequethe to the said John Gresham my sonne my Lordeshipp and Mannor of Mayefeilde alias Maghefelde with the Parkes of Mayefeilde and Frankham in the Countie of Sussex, and also I give and bequethe unto him after the decease of Dame Katherine my wiffie all that my said parsonages of Mavefeilde and Waddehurste in the same Countie of Sussex. Also I give and bequethe unto John Gresham my sonne all other my lands tenements rents reversions services &c. to the same mannors parkes and parsonages belonging, and all other my messuages milles lands woods rents reversions services tithes pencions pordons and all other my possessions whatsoever they be whiche I late bought and purchased of Sir Edward Northe Knight now Lord Northe sett lying and being in the towne and parishes of Mayefelde Waddehurst Frankham and Lambhurst in the Countie of Sussex. Also I give and bequethe unto John Gresham my sonne after the decease of the said Dame Katheryne my wyffe my ferme messuages lands and tenements called West- bames lying and being in the parish of Marten in the Countie of Surrey to have and to hold all the said fermes lands and tenements to the said John and the heires of his body lawfully begotten upon condition hereafter following that is to say, that he the said John Gresham or his heirs shall give and pay to Elizabeth Gresham my daughter his sister at the day of her marriage or within one year after, of the rents and profits of the said Mannors one hundi'ed pound over and above her parte of my goodes to her belonging by the custom of the citie of London. And if it shall fortune the said John Gresham to decease without issue of his body lawfully begotten then the said Mannors shall holie remayne and come to William Gresham and the heirs of his body upon like condition of the payment of one hundred pound, and for lack of the issue of William Gresham to Edmond Gresham mv sonne and the heires of his body upon like condition, and for lack of such issue shall holie remayne to the right heires of roe the said Sir John Gresham upon like condition, and for default of payment of the Baid sum of one hundred pound shall go to Elizabeth Gresham and the heires of her body lawfully begotten. And I give and bequethe to Edmond Gresham my sonne my mannors of Thorpe and Bruserdes in the Countie of Norfolk and all other my lands tenements and hereditaments sett and being in Holte Co. Norfolk whiche I late bought and purchased of my late brother William Gresham together with all 'rents services and hereditaments which I have in Holte aforesaid or elsewhere in the Countie of Norfolk excepte My Manner of Holte Hales and all other lands and tenements which I purchased of late of John Appliard Esq. and except the lands and tenements whiche I late purchased of Sir Edmond Windham K' and Giles Sefowlde Esq, and also except all the land and tenements being freehold which I late purchased of Thomas Foly in Holte and Hetheringsett Co. Norfolk. Also I give and bequethe to Edmond Gresham after the decease of Dame Katherine my wyffe my Mannors of Sandersted and Langhurste and all other my lands tenements and hereditaments in the parish of Sandersted and all the lands called Langhurste in the parish and feldes of Lymesfelde, and also my Mannors of Warlingham with the appurtenances and parsonage of Warlingham, the chapell of Chelsham with all tithes profitts and comodyties to them belonging and all other lands in Wai'lingham and Chelsham Co. Surrey, to have and to hold to my said Sonne Edmond and the heirs of his bodv lawfully begotten. And furthermore m^ mynde and will ys that after the decease of the said Dame Katherine my wyflfe, or if she clayme any further dower and be not content with the portion to her given that then the aforesaid tenements with the appurtenances which have in Milkstrete shall remayne and come to William Gresham my sonne and his heires for ever. Also I will and bequethe and my mynde and will ys that my tenement with the appurtenances in the parish of St. Pankeres in London shall after my decease remayne to Elizabeth Gresham my daughter and her heires for ever. And I will that ymmediately after the decease of Dame Katherine my wyffe my Mannors of Hethenden alias Henden and all the lands and pastures lying within the precincte and compaa of the park pale of Handen Park within the parishes of Sondridge Brasted and Chiddingston, and my ferme and curtelage of Westram with the tenement of Charmaynes, my Manner of Waldyngham and lands in Waldyngham wherein Richard Kemsall and Robert Rowte nowe dwell and also a parcell of ground called the Manner of Rowholtes in the parish of Chelsham now being in the tenure of Mr. Warner and letten to Rowhodd and Bassete, and also my Manner of Felcourte in the parish of Lyngfield devised to her for life shall remayne and come to William Gresham my sonne and the heires males of his body lawfully begotten, remainder to John Gresham and the heires males of his body, and for default of such issue to William John and Edmond Gresham and the heires of their bodies equallie to be divided, remainder to the right heires of me Sir John Gresham K^ And to the intent that this my present Testament and last will shall be taken and knowne to be my very true last will I the above-named Sir John Gresham K* have hereunto subscribed my name with my owne hand and sette my scale in the presence of these whose names be hereafter written being specially called to be witnesses to the same. By me John Gresham Alderman, per me Jacobum Skynner, by me John Southcote one of the undershriefcs of the citie of London, by me John Anderton Parson of St. Michaell in Bassinghall, by me Thomas Rowe merchant tailor, by me John Harlowe one of the clerks of the compter in the poultry and writer of this will, by me Fraunces Hendye, Alexander Comwell and Aiine Bower.
Probatum fuit apud London 26 Nov. 1556 juramento Joh^ Gresham ThomsB Rowe et Edmundi Gresham executorura.
Second Will of John Gresham
In the name of God Amen the 18^ day of September 1554. I, Sir John Gresham K* citizen and alderman of London being hole of mynde and bodie and in good and prfect remembraunce lawde and praise be unto Almighty God do make my last will in manner and form following. First and principally I give and commend my soule to Almighty God and to his only begotten Son Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer in whom and by whose meritts I trust only to be saved and have remission of my sins. And I will my bodye to be in honnest manner buried and if I decease in the citie of London then I will me to be buried in the parishe of St. Michaells in Bassingehawe in London by the discretion of my executx)rs. . Also I give and bequethe to threescore pore men threescore gownes of the value of xxvi* and viii** a pece. And to fortie pore women fortie gownes of the value of xx» a pece, the gownes to be delivered to every of them i*eddy made, the self same day that my bodye shall be buried, and I will the making thereof to be paid at my costs and charges. And if it fortune me to decease without the citie of London then I will that my bodye be buried within that parishe Churche where it shall fortune me to decease, by the advice of my Exe- cutors. And after my buriall I will that all such debts and duties as I have of right or conscience shall be truly contented and paid, and after my debts are paid and my funeral expenses fynished and don, I will and my mynde is that all such blacke gownes and golde ringes as I have bequethed by my will to any person shall be deducte out of my hole goodes cattails and substaunce or ever any parte thereof be devided and this I charge my Executors to do before they make any portion or division of my saide goodes. And I will that aftre the said deductions made that then all and singular my goodes marchandizes cattails plate juells household stuff and debts whatsoever and wheresoever they be shall be devided into three equall partes and porcions according to the laudable use and custome of the citie of London, whereof I leave to Dame Katherine my wyffe one parte, also one other third parte I give to my children unmarried equally to be devided to be delivered to them at their age of xxi yeres or day of marriage, and the other thirde parte of all my goodes and cattails I reserve unto myselfe and to my Executors towards payment and performance of my legacies and bequests hereaflre following except before excepte. That is to say First I give and bequethe unto the high aulter of the parish Churche of our Lady in Aldermanbury where of late I was a parishioner for my tithes forgotten or withholden negligently x', and more to the reparations and amending of all things that doth appertain to the parish Church of AJdermanbury vi^ xiii* and iiii** the same to be paid to the Churchwardens there. Item I give and bequethe to the buildings and reparacion in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene in Milkstrete where I was sometime a parishioner twentie marcs to be bestowed by the discretion of the churchwardens and parishioners. Item I give towards the buying of ornaments and other neces- saries for the parish Churche of Bassies Hawe where l am a parishioner xvi" xiii* & iiii**. Item I give to be distributed and delte among the pore housholders of the xxi v. wardes in London ccxl" that is to say to every warde x". Item to poor maydens marriages within the citie of London c" whereof I will every of them shall have x" Item to vii. prison houses hereafter named t.^. Ludgate Newgate the Marshalsea, the Kinges Benche and the two Compters and the con vie te house at Westminster xiiii" among the prisoners of every of them xl*. Item to the pore people of every one of the five lazer nowses next aboutte the citie of London xx" a pece i.«. every house xx* Also to the newe erected hospitall called St. Barthelmew's Spittell in London of the foundation of King Henry VIII. the sum of Ixvi" xiiii* & iiii^. Also to the hospitall lately founded within the late howse called the Gray friers and nowe Christes Church I" to be paid within three months after my decease. Item to the repainng and amending of highways being most noysome and foule within xx miles compasse of the citie of London and especially Southwards 1" by the discretion of my Executors. Item to my brother Thomas Gresham priest xx" and a black gowne. To my sister Margaret King wyffe to Henry King gurdeler xxiii" vi" & yW and to every childe she now hath xx" at the age of xx yeres or day of marriage. And if they all decease then my sister to have the said sum. And by this my will I remitt and forgive unto the said Henry King all such debts as he shall owe me at the time of my decease. Item I bequethe to and amonges the daughters children of myne Uncle William Gresham late of Walsingham Co. Norfolk which shall be living at the time of my decease xx" to be divided among them equally. Item To my kynns- woman's daughter Thomas Candler's sister sometyme dwelling with Mystris Creswell widdowe x" to her marriage. Also to Thomas Candler my apprentice x". Also to be delte and distributed among pore people housholders dwelling within the towne and parish of Holte Market Co. Norfolk xxiii" vi* viii<* at the discretion of my Executors, to be understaunde I will that every such pore housholder shall have X" or more if it so arise. And where I was Executor of William Bottery citizen and mercer of London whereby among other things he devised cc" among pore maydes marriages dwelling within the parishe of Thorpe Co. Norfolk and other towns thereto adjoining which held or did owe any sute and service to the Manor of Thorpe Markett whereof I have already paid Ixx" and cxxx" remain unpaid I will that myne Executors shall within one yere after my decease paye and distribute the said cxxx" among pore maydens marriages i.e, to every mayde xP until the said cxxx" be paide. Item I bequethe to every of the persons here ensuing i.e. First to my cosen Paule Gresham and to my cosen his wyffe to every of them a ringe of golde of the value of xl* a pece, to Ann Bower a blacke gowne and a ringe of golde price xl", to Xtopher Mering William Southwode Thomas Pierson scrivener and William Bowyer to every of them a ringe of golde value xl*. To my lady Gresham my sister a blacke gowne and a ringe of golde price iii" vi» & viii<^. Item to Henrriche Foster one of the clerks of the mercers of the Citie of London a blacke gowne and a ringe of golde value xls. To my well beloved nephew Thomas Gresham and his wiffe to every of them a blak gowne and a golde ringe of xl» a pece To my sonne in lawe William Uvedale and Hellyn his wife, to Thomas Leveson my sonne in law and Ursula his wiffe, to every of them a blak gowne and a ringe of gold price xl*, to the said Thomas and Ursula xx^ and to their sonne nowe living xx^, ana to olde Mrs. Leveson a ringe of golde price xl" and to the parson of Bassingehawe a ringe of golde price iii*^ vi* & viii^. Item to the late wiffe of my brother William Harding a ringe of golde value xl* and in like manner another to Mr. Warner her husband, to Richard Kemsall and Robert Rowett my servants a black cote of twoo yardes a pece, to James Skynner a ringe of gold of lii" vi» & viii** and to his wiffe another of xl", to John Southcot Esq. a ringe of golde of iii" vi» & viii<* and in redy monye xvi^^ xiii* & iiii^ And to his wiffe a ringe value xl*. Also to my cosen Crafford's wyffe widdowe a ringe value xl", and to John Harlowe one of the clerks of the compter a blak gowne and a ringe of gold value xl*. Item to the Worshippful Company of the Mercers in London to the intent to have a dynner amongis them in their common hall called the Mercers Hall xiii" vi« & viii** desiring them after dynner to have my soule in remembrance with theire prayers, and if the saide dynner extende above xiii^ vi" & viii**, then I will that myne Executors shall consent and paye the same so that the said dynner amountith not above vi^ xiii* & iiii*^ besides the xiii" vi* & viii**. Item to every of myne apprentices that now be a blake gowne and vi" xiii® & iv^ a pece, and to every of them which have been my apprentices in tyme past a blacke gowne. To Katherine Fuller and Joane Kemsell v" and a blacke gowne. To Ellyn .... fourtie shillings and a blak gowne. To Ellyn Thomkyns and Mary Lynedowne my servants v^ to either of them. Item to William Gaye and Richard Gaye my porters sonnes to either of them x" at their full age. To William Ache my servant a blak gowne. Item I give to Philipp Reynoldes of Tittsey the bailywicke of Lymesfelde and Brodham and make him my Rent gatherer of Lymesfelde and of Oxted with a fee of iii" vi» & viii** to be paid during his naturall liffe, going out of my Manners of Lymesfelde and Brodham. Item to Brian Mylles James Cooke Hughe Cooke John Johnson Richard Giles William Gay my porter a blak gowne and xl". To my cosen John Marshe and his wiffe to either a blak gowne, and to the said John a ringe of golde of v" and to his wiffe a ringe of xl*. To Agnes Richardson my maide vi" xiii" & iiii** at the day of her marriage. To Elizabeth Gresham c" over and above her portion to be paid at her day of marriage or ftill age. To my daughter Ellyn Uvedall wyffe of William Uvedall c marcs upon the condition that if the said William Uvedall do make any brabling or other demaunde of myne Executors and doth denye at the payment thereof to make them a general acquittance, then this gifte to be of none effect. And if it shall fortune me to dye any of my children being orphanntes then I will that myne Executors or other who shall have my orphaunt's porcions or money in occupying, by consent of my Lord Mayor to putt in sufficient suerties, as well for the legacie money as for the orphanage, to the chamber of London in the courte of orphanage before the said Lorde Mayor for the same, and if the said orphans decease before they are married or come to age then I will that the other shall have the hole 100" of ham or her deceased and if they both decease then I will that Ell Uvedale have xxxiii" vi" & viii^ and Cicelly Jermvn the other xxxiii" vi" & viii**. To Elizabeth Gresham ^^yffe of my sonne John Gresham fifty marcs. To Mary Rowe my daughter Ixvi" xiii* iiii** to Thomas Rowe her husband fifty marcs, to every child that my sonne Roo has xx" at their lawful age or marriage. Also to every child that my sonne William Gresham hath alive at my departing out of this world P a pece at their lawful age or marriage. Also I will that thirty loads of carte coles shall be distributed among pore inhabitants of St. Michaell in Bassingehawe where I nowe dwell by three loads every year, for the space of ten yeres. And I will that there be delte to the pore prysonners of Newgate every yere between Hallowtyde and Christmas three loades of coles till twelve yeres be past. And I will that myne Executors pay xxv" for making of Alexander Gornwell my servant free of the staplers at such time as he shall l^ made free of the said Company. And of this my present and last will I make executors John Greshame my sonne Dame Katherine my wyffe, my sonne in lawe Thomas Roo and my sonne Edmund Gresham having trust in them to perform my will To my sonne in law Thomas Rowe for like intent fifty marcs. To every of my Executors and their wifes a black gowne to every of them and a ringe of gold of vsaue iii" vi» & viii^. And Overseers of this my last wille I make Sir Eowland Hill and Sir Andrew Judd K*" and aldermen of the citie of London and my well beloved nephew Thomas Gresham. To Sir Rowland Hill and Sir Andrew Judd xl" a pece and a blacke gowne and to my nephew xv" desyring and praying them to take sudi riins for me my wife and children as they wolde other men should do for them and desire and pray them to call upon my Executors to bring in my Inventory of all my goodes juells and plate in the Counsell chambre before mv Lord Mayor and his brethem and in no wise to drive and prolong the tyme as we have done my brother Richard Gresham. And if my Lord Mayor please to call it within six weeks I will he have for his pains xl» and a black gowne. Item I bequethe to the right heir of Lytkin Vivolde Jenewaies which sometime did dwell in London in discharge of my conscience of XX peces of good kersies valued to be wonrthe xl* a pece, 5" in ready money to be paid to his right heir. And the residue of my goodes &c. I will to be disposed of in dedes of charitie and pittie to pore hoseholders by the discretion of myne executours and especially if any of my own children shall hereafter in decay. Signed and witnessed by the same witnesses as the former will.
St. Michael Basingishaw, London.
On a tomb in the south aisle of the choir of St. Michael's Chnrch, Bassiflhaw, destroyed by the fire in 1666 (Ward ' Lives of the Gresham Professors/ page 5, and Stow * Survey of London/ ed. 1633, p. 300) :- Here lyeth buried under this Tombe the Body of Sir John Gresham, Knight, sometime Alderman and Lord Maior of this City of London, who had Two Wives, Dame Mary his first Wife, by whom He had Issue Five Sonnes and Sixe Daughters. By Dame Katherine his last Wife no Issue ; which Sir John deceased the xxiii. day of October Anno Domini hdlyi. And Dame Mary died the xi. day of September, Mnxxxvni.* Dame Katharine died -
ABSTRACT OF INQUISITIONS POST MORTEM:
Sir John Gresham, Kt. [Chancery Inquis. p. m. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mary, 1st Pt., No. 98.] Inquisition taken at Southwark 15 Feb. 4 Ph. and Mary (1556-7), on the death of Sir John Gresham K^ The Jurors say that the said Sir John Gresham was seised on the day of his death of the manors of Tyttesey, Lymesfelde, Brodham, Oxtede, Warlingham, Sauderstede and the Borough of Langehurst, and of Rowholtes, and Waldingham, and of the right of patronage of the rectory and vicarage of the parish Church of Sandersted, and of 26 messuages, 1000 acres of land, 200 of meadow, 600 of pasture, 300 of wood, 500 of furze and heath,* and of £5 rent with the appurtenances in Tuttesey, Lymesfelde, etc., and of the rectory of Wallingham, and of a messuage or tenement called Welcombes and Lawrence,t and of 100 acres of land, meadow and pasture, 20 of wood, 10 of furze and heath, and 6d. rent, and of a messuage or tenement called Felcourte,:j: and of 60 acres of land, 30 of meadow, 40 of pasture, 60 of wood, and 20 of fnrze and heath, and of another messuage or tenement called Westbarnes,§ and of 100 acres of land, 40 of meadow, 100 of jiasture, 20 of wood, 2 of furze and heath in Westbarnes ; and that the said Sir John Gresham being thereof so seised made and declared his last will at Tittesey (here the Will is set out). They further say that the said Sir John died at Ticheseyll seised of the said manors, that the manor of Tichesey is held of the King and Queen in socage by fealty only, and that it is worth 40Z. The manors of Lymesfeld and Brodham £21 6s. 8d. The manor of Oxtede £8 19s. The manor and rectory of Warlingham £20. The manor of Sandersted and the advow- son of the rectory and vicarage of the Church of Sanderstead and the borough of Longhurst etc. £20 9s. The manor of Rowholtes 53s. 4d. The manor of Waldingham £20. Tlie messuages called Welcombes and Laurence 50s. The messuage called Felcourt £18 Gs. 8d.; Westbarnes £l8 10s. That said Sir John Gresham died on 23 Oct. last, and that William Gresham Esq. is his son and heir, and aged 34. [Chaucery Inquis. p. m. 5 and 6 Ph. and Mary, 2nd Pt., No. 89.]
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Will of Sir John Saint John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire 05 November 1599 PROB 11/94
Mentins wife Lucie, brother Richard St John, late father Nicholas, son John St John, daughters Katherine, Anne, Jane, Eleanor, Barbara, Lucie, and Martha St John, Richard Blount of Dottesham Sussex my uncle, John Warnsford John St John of Hatfield Essex my uncle, brother Oliver of Battersley,
“Here lieth the body of Sir John St John, Knt who married Lucy, daur and coheir of Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley, Kent, by whom he had issue Walter, that died young, Sir John St John, Knt., and Baronet, Oliver, that died young, Catharine, Anne, Jane, Elinor, Barbara, Lucy, and Martha, that died a child; he deceased 20th Sept. 1594. She was secondly married to Sir Anthony Hungerford, Knt., by whom she had Edward, Bridget, and Jane, then died the 4th June, 1598. This was erected by Sir John St John, Knt. And Baronet, in the year 1615, the 20th of July." From The Beauties of England and Wales: Wiltshire, pp. 645-9. See also Smallwood, Frank T., The Reports of The Friends Of Lydiard Park, 3 (1970) and 5 (1972).
Text: St. John Walter, Lydiard, Wilts. To Lady LucySt. J. als. Hungerford, m., Sep 1597 , p. 219. Adm. d.b.n. to Anthony H., esq., h. of Lady Lucy St. J. als. H., dec'd., dur. min. Edw., Bridget & Jane H., bro. & sis's. of intestate, Jun 1598 , p. 252; ren. Feb 1599 ; no effects. (Adm. d.b.n. Nov 1611 , p. 40). Book: Index to Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1596 - 1608 (Acts of Administration) Collection: England: Canterbury - Administrations in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608
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Will of Sir John Seynt John or Saynt John of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire 23 May 1525 PROB 11/21
Possibility??
In 'Testamenta Vetusta' Nicolas, London 1826, there is the following
transcription of the will of Sir John St.John:
'John St.John, of the parish of Bletnesho, Knight, 22nd March 1524. My body to be buried in the Chapel of St. Edmund, in the north side of the church of our Lady St.Mary of Bletnesho aforesaid. To Oliver, my son, all my lands in Sharnebrok, Milton, and Risley, in Bedfordshire; to Alexander, my son, my lands about Bedford. And I constitute John St.John, Sir William Gasken, Knt. and Oliver and Alexander St.John, my sons, my executors; and my Lord Morley, my supervisor.'
There is a footnote that identifies the testator as 'Grandfather of
Oliver first Baron St.John of Bletsho. He was Knight of the Bath 17
Henry VII.' Another footnote identifies Lord Morley as 'His son-in-law, having married his eldest daughter Alice.'
. Sir John St. John, Knight of the Bath, of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, was
probably born by 1460 (certainly several years earlier than 1475). He married Sybil, daughter of Rhys ap Morgan ap Jenkin. (I have to check Bartrum again, as I think he said Sir John married Margared v. Morgan ap Jenkin. Morgan ap Jenkin had married [2] Margared, daughter of Sir David Mathew of Llandaf Court [above].)
Sir John St. John died in 1525, leaving a will proved in the PCC. His
inquisition post mortem found that his son and heir, John, was aged 30 and more. A daughter Alice had married, before 1505, Henry Parker, Lord Morley. As their son and heir Henry Parker was a page of the Chamber to Henry VIII in 1516, Alice was clearly several years older than her brother John (b. 1495), which pushes her parent's marriage date back before 1485. This is important as it eliminates any possiblity of an extra generation between the Sir John St. John who was son of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John who died in 1525.
Text: 1615 St. John, Katherine, Dowager Lady St. John of Bletsoe 37 Rudd Book: Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry. 1605 to 1619. (Will) Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619
Text: 1618 St. John, Oliver, Lord St. John, [P.A.B. Bletsoe, Beds.] 110 Meade Book: Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry. 1605 to 1619. (Will) Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619
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Will of Sir John Thynne or Thinne of Longleat, Wiltshire 12 November 1580 PROB 11/62
One source gives his birth date as 1522 eg MP in 1546 when only 24 years old?
Family originally of Shropshire??
Steward to Edward Seymour. Merchant/Financier
In the Chapel of the Thynne family at Longbridge Deverill, Co. Wilts, is a marble monument to Sir John Thynne, K* ; it records that, - ^' Duas habuit conjuges, primam Christianam Bichardi Gresham Militis, alteram Dorotheam Wilhelmi Wroughton Equitis Aurati filiam ; e auibus numerosa utrius^ue sexus beatus prole placide in Domino obdormivit mense Aprilis MDLXXX."
Sir John Thynne died on the 21st of May, 1580, and was interred in the church of Longbridge* Deverill, where a marble monument was erected to his memory in the chapel of the Thynne family. It bears the following Latin inscription :
P. M. JOHANNIS THYNNE, de Botefields Lye in agro Salopiensi, Equitis aurati, qui a GALFRIDO BOTEVILLO (nobili Pictavo copiosii compatriotarum manu, in suppetias JOHANNIS Regis hue primum appellente) paternum genus recto stemmate deducens, BOTEVILIANJE domus temporum et fatorum injuria labefactatae insignia instaurator evasit ; EDWARDO Duci Somersetensi, Angli Protectori, Hospitii Se- neschallus, a quo etiam in prjeclarum singularis in pnelio Muscleborensi (Musselburgh) virtutis praestitse testimonium militari balneo donatus. Religionis reformats etiam in angustissimis MARI.E temporibus assertor strenuus ; vir gravis, prudentiuque utraque fortune sorte major, et vicini LONGALATENSIS asdificii fundator. Duas habuit conjuges, primam CHRISTIANAM RICHARDI GRESHAM Militis, alteram DOROTHEAH WILHELMI WROUGHTON, Equitis aurati, filiam ; e quibus numerosa utriusq. sexus beatus prole, placide in Domino obdormivit mcnse Aprilis MDLXXX. Filius ejus primo-genitus JOHANNES, etiam Eques auratus, uxorem duxit JOANNAIJ, ROLAND: HA WARD, Militis, filiam, e quu suscepit THOMAM THYNNE, Equitem auratum, magnum patri- monii, olim satis ampli, auctorem. Primo MAIUAM TOUCIIET, quaa Baronis AUDILL* i filia, posted CATHEIUNAM THOM* Vicecomitis BINDON o filio neptem, uxores habuit. PriorU lecti filii, JACOBUS THYNNE, miles, Isabella) filia; HOLLANDLE comitis maritus, cjui improk-a ol>iit, vir de Rege, patria, et farailiii optime merit us; et THOMAS THYNNE etiam miles, STUARTI* BALCANQUU.L.* conjux; qui omnes in sacello subterraneo hoc juxta iiihumantiir. t' It inn THOM.X haeres erat THOMAS THYNNE, morum suavitate et humanitate insignia, licet nefario et nunquam satis dolendo crimine sicariorum manibus, oetatis flore abreptus. Priori* TIIOMJS e secundis nuptiis filius FHEDEIUCUS HENRICUS THYNNE, Miles et Baronettus, MARINE, THOU* Baronis COVENTRII magni Anglise sigilli xv annos usque ad mortem custodis, maritus, ingenii vir acerrimi, nee virtutis minus conspicuaj, qui egregio in Principem fide magno bonorum dispendio Rebel lium rapacitate poenas luit; cujus filius natu maximus THOMAS Vicecomes WEYMOUTH et Baro de Warminster, majorum cineribus pietatis ergo hoc marmor posuit.
COURT AND CORPORATION ROLLS, ETC. Ixxxi No. 51. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, London.
Extracted from the Inquisition taken upon the death of Sir John Thynne, 23rd of Queen Elizabeth, A.D. 1580-1.
Et ulterius Juratores predicti super sacramentum suum presentant quod predictus Johannes Thynne, miles, die ante obitum suum fuit seisitus in dominico BUO ut de feodo de et in medietate manerij et Rectorie de Nunnkeling in com. Ebor. etc. Ac de et in manor de Walton et Yarton alias Yardingtou et diversis terris, tene- mentis, et hereditaments in Bridgcnorth in comitatu Salopie, etc. etc. Capta decimo Martij 23 Elizabethe (1580-1).
Text: 1580 Thynne, Thinne, Sir John, knt., Longleat, Longbridgedeveral, Corseley, Wilts. [Ad. de bo. Nov 1651 ] With sentence 44 Arundell Book: 1558 to 1583. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1583 (A-Z)
Wiltshire Corsley 28 March 1573 Deed. Grant. 'VAGE's Close'. Deed of sale from William HOOPER, yeoman, of Corsley, to Sir John THYNNE of Longleat, of a close of pasture in Corsley called 'VAGE's Close' inclosed in the park there.
WILTSHIRE Corsley 11 April 1574 Deed. Fine. Manors of Whitbourne Temple and Corsley. The manors of Whitboume Temple and Corsley Fine whereby Sir John THYNNE conveys to William THYNNE, esq., and Richard CABELL, gent.; consideration £311.
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Will of Sir John Wadham 01 July 1502 PROB 11/13
JOHN WADHAM, KNT. [II Blamyr.] March 20th, 1501. John Wadham Knyght. My body to holy sepulture in the chapell of St. Kateryne in the Church of Illmyster in the tumbe in which William Wadham my grauntfer and Jone his wyff lyen. I will that there be disposed an C shillings to the chapell aforesaid and to make a chalice and the residue to the reparacion of the chapell aforesaid and an C shillings to the churche aforesaid and to the fraternite of the same. To the Church of Wells 40s. To the Church of Withlakington 40s. To the Church of Ilton 20s. whereof 10s. to go to the church and the other 10s. to the store of our Lady. The Abby of Athelney to have my gilte coope, the which was my cosayne John Warrs or ells the valiew of hym, at the election of my sone, to pray for the Warres and for me by name, as they be ordered in the said abbey. I will that my detts be well payed and content as it shall apeer by writing and the mowthis of the chalengers of itt taking betweene God and them discharging of my soule, and that it be content of my goodes excepte implements and stuff of howshold and my plate the which I will my sone Nicholas have at 2s. a unce yf he will, hooly with the manor of Merifild, except that I will my wyff have only the manor of Merifild a yere aftre my deth, and wheras my goodes will not streche to the contentacion therof, I will that it be levied of the manor of Slyverton and Wadham the which I put itt in feoffment to the same extent the which feoffment restith in the hands of Sir John Speke, Knight. Also I will that my sone Nicholas have my manor of Alvyngton, Venicott, and Braden immediately after my decesse, except that I will that he suffre my feoffes and executors to receve on anuell rent of £20 to be levied of my manor of Braden aforsaid with a distres of non-payment the which ^*2C I will that it shall go to the exhibicion of my daughter Alianor in sum house of Religion of women with a woman to waite on her, and that the house be devised by the discrecion of my feoffars and exors. I will that the will of my cosayne Jone Warre be fulfilled as it apperith upon her testament the which 1 Silverton, co. Devon, 3ofjn QHattfjam, lint. 29 resteth at Merifild in the parlor. Also I will that my nece Isabell Fauentleroy have £20 in money towarde her mariage for her goode service don in tymys paste. I will that my Emons [yeomen] have ther hole wages a yer after my decesse unless then they can gett them service in the mene season. I will that Sir John Wadham my cosayne have £20 in money to singe for me by the space of two yeres and to pray for me as long after as hitt please hym. Wheras the vicar of Milverton oweth me ^"20 of the which I recevid a portuouse in prise of 10 marks I wolle that the said portuouse be evin to the chauntre of Ilmyster ther to be chayned in the yelde of St. Kateryne with other stuffe of howsholde that restith in the said chauntrye for to pray for us and the names her folowing to be prayed for, that is to say, Richard Warre, Jone and Margery her modre, John Wadham knt, and Isabell Elizabeth and Isabell his wyffis. Also I wolle that the other 20 markes be recovered of the said vicary, and yf he will not deliver itt by his free will I will that it be recovered by the wey of accion, whereof I will that 40s. be geven to the Abbott of Atthelney to holde an obite for us, also to the prioras and covente of Buklonde 40s. also to the prior and covent of Taunton 40s. to holde an obite for us. Also wheras the house of Wilton hath had gret injurye and wronge for non- payment of 2$s. and ode money going out of the manor of Alvyngton. I will that they have a tune of wyne in recompense of the injurye done by me and 40*. to hold an obite for me as sone as they have knowledge of my deth. Also I will that there be levyed of my lands in feoffment so moche money as will paye for glasynge of a paene of new werke in Mowntegew and they to hold an obite for me after my decesse, and I and my wyff and children to be putt in ther fraternite. I will that the freres of Briggewater have 40s. to hold an obet for me and that Doctor Wollffe have 10s. a quarter till he be full content of 40s. wherof he is content of 20s. Also I will that the ffreres of Ilchester have 6s. id. Also I will that my wifes detts be payed of the manor of Hardington or ellse of my lands put in feoffees hands to performe and content my will and detts, yf any interruption be made to the said manor of Hardington. I will that Edith my wyffes woman have 40s. I will that the vicary of Whytelakyngton have i$s. 4d. to the parson of Enjner ior, To Sir Philippe 6s. 8d t jo domerlet WHtti. The vicary of IIton 20 s. My exors to redeme a color of golde that was my wyflfs the which lieth with Umfray Walkron and that my doughter Alianor have hym. Also I will that she have hym that lyeth at plegge with John Herion for 20s. I will that my doughter Newborow have a bye that my wyffe hath the which was my furste wyffes. I will that myn exors cause sum honest man to go for ne on pilgrimage to St. Jamys, to Haills, to Master John Schornen, to Walsingham, to Canterburye, to the roode of Northdore at Pawlis, to our lady of pewe, to king Harrye, to our lady of Bowe, to Saint Brownewill, to Bysshope Lacy and he to have for his labours beside his costs 40*. and so moche more to be geven to preests and power men in almys as my selffe should have spent doing the said pilgrimage. I will my cosayne Sir John Wadham have the bedde that is in the chambre that he lyeth in. And this my will to be well and trewly performed and don. I ordayne and constitute Sir John Speke, knt, Master William Summaster, clerke, Master John Tayler, clerke, and John Wadham, clerke, to be myn exors, every of them to have for his labor 40s. a yer unto the tyme my will be content and performyd. In witness whereof I sett myn signe manuell. Proved at Lamehithe, July 1st, 1502.
Wadhams genealogy, proceded by a sketch of the Wadham family in England. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRIET WEEKS WADHAM S STEVENS (MRS. GEORGE THOMAS STEVENS)
...Sir John, the second, left two sons, William and Thomas, the latter of Redworthy in Ashreigny. Sir William, Sheriff of Devon, married Margaret, daughter of William Cheselden. His heir was John, who became Sir John, third, who married Elizabeth, one of the four daughters of Stephen Popham, the representative of an ancient Hampshire family as well as of Merefield, in llton near Ilminster. This John left two sons, John and Edward, also a daughter, Alice, who married Nicholas Stukeley, of Affeton, North Devon. This latter John also became Sir John, the fourth of the name and title, and he married Elizabeth, who was daughter of another Stukeley, Hugh, of Affeton. The heir of this fourth Sir John was Nicholas, and another son was William. Nicholas, like his ancestors, was knighted. He married first, Joan, daughter of Robert Hill, of Halsway, and his heir was another John. Nicholas and Joan had also other children : Andrew ; Giles, who married Agnes, daughter of Clauson of Barton ; Mary, who married Sir Richard Chudleigh of Ashdon ; and Elizabeth, who married first, Sir Edward Bampfield, and second, Richard Warr. Nicholas, four times married, took for his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Seymour, who was aunt of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VHI and sister also to the Protector, Edward, Duke of Somer- set. The children of Nicholas and Margaret Seymour were Nicholas and a daughter, Jane. Nicholas was knighted in 1494 "at ye creacion of Prince Henry," then two years old, to be Duke of York. In 1498 he, Sir Nicholas, was made Captain of the Isle of Wight. He was also Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset about 1502.
This latter John also became Sir John, the fourth of the name and title, and he married Elizabeth, who was daughter of another Stukeley, Hugh, of Affeton. The heir of this fourth Sir John was Nicholas, and another son was William. Nicholas, like his ancestors, was knighted. He married first, Joan, daughter of Robert Hill, of Halsway, and his heir was another John. Nicholas and Joan had also other children : Andrew ; Giles, who married Agnes, daughter of Clauson of Barton ; Mary, who married Sir Richard Chudleigh of Ashdon ; and Elizabeth, who married first, Sir Edward Bampfield, and second, Richard Warr.
Daughter?
no title] FH1939 20 Oct 19 Henry VII [1503]
These documents are held at Northamptonshire Record Office
Seal. Pt. Contents: Settlement
marriage of Alexander Pyme of Cannyngton, co. Somst. esq.,
to Elysabeth, daughter of Robert Gilbert of Wytcomb, esq. and Margaret daughter of John Wadham, his wife, lands in Stert concerned.
Will of John Wadham of Merifield, Somerset 12 July 1505 PROB 11/14
JOHN WADHAM. August 9th, 1503. John Wadham of Merifeld in co. Somerset, clerk. My body to holy sepulture to be placed near the chapel of the B.M. in the parish church of Ilton, if I depart from this light in Merifeld, or within one day's journey (dietatri) of the same and then I bequeath to the said church 6s. &/. To the Vicar of Whitlakyngton for tithes forgotten jr. 4^ I will that my executors cause a trental of St. Gregory to be celebrated for the souls of those for whom 1 am bound to pray, and I will that the priest so celebrating have for his stipend £10. I will that my debts be fully paid. I will that the residue of my goods be disposed for the contentation of the debts of Sir John Wadham, knt, formerly my master and of his wife both deceased. Executors : William Wadham of Caterston, and Lady Joan Wadham, wife of Nicholas Wadham, knt. In witness whereof I have written my name with my own hand. Proved at Lambeth, July 12th, 1505.
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Will of Sir John Woodward of Weston Sub Edge, Gloucestershire 03 June 1659 PROB 11/293-Sir John Woodwwod of Weston Sub Edge, Gloucestershire?? Mentions Henry Farrer of Hertfordshire, neice Catherine wife of Rowland Widderington?
When was he knighted. Is his wife The Lady Catherine Woodward buried 1614 St dionis Backchurch?
03 Jun 1614 The Lady Woodwards Funerall, the wife of Sr John Woodward, Knight Book: Book 25 Collection: London: St. Dionis Backchurch - Parish Register (City of London), for Maryages, Christenynges, and Buryalles
Text: 24 May 1614 Mary Woodward, dau. of Sr John Woodward, Kt Book: Book 25 Collection: London: St. Dionis Backchurch - Parish Register (City of London), for Maryages, Christenynges, and Buryalles (Marriage
[no title] DR 140/26 1743
Contents: Abstract of title of the manor and advowson of Clifford Chambers from the Dissolution when the manor passed from the Monastery of St. Peter's, Gloucester.
Reciting
i) 11 May 1562 Letters Patent from Elizabeth I to Charles Rainsford [William Rainsford was last lessee of St. Peter's]
ii) Death of Charles and descent successively to his son Hercules and grandson Sir Henry Rainsford.
iii) 6 Nov 14 James I. Purchase of Advowson by Sir Henry Rainsford from Sir Arthur Ingram, London, John Eldred and Martin Freeman, London, esqs.,
Reciting 8 May 1581 Purchase by Edward Greville of Milcote from Henry Best and John Wells, citizens and scriveners of London
30 Dec 1598 sale by Greville to John Woodward, citizen and ironmonger
24 Feb 1609/10 Sale by Sir John Woodward, son of John, deceased, to Wells & Freeman to the use of Henry Rainsford.
iv) 5 Dec 14 James I. Licence to Sir Henry Rainsford to impark and make Free Warren.
v) 20 Nov 1623 Letters Patent confirming manor to Henry Rainsford esq., son of Sir Henry.
vi) 8 Dec 1649 Sale of manor by Henry Rainsford to Job Dighton, Middle Temple, esq. (schedule).
The margins of the Abstract of Title are annotated in a different hand and on the verso of each sheet are genealogical notes relating to the Rainsford and Dighton families, 16th - 18th centuries.
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Will of Sir John Wyndham or Windham of Saint Decumans, Somerset 28 April 1575 PROB 11/57
Will of John Windham or Wyndham of Saint Decumans, Somerset 24 October 1572 PROB 11/54
Father/Grandfather??
SIR THOMAS WYNDHAM, KNT. Thomas Wyndham, Knt.*at my manor of Felbrigge, 22d October, 1521. First, for the recommendacion of my soule into the moost mercifull hands of him that redemed me and made it, I make and say this my accustomed prayer. Do" mine Ihu Creste, qui me ex Nichelle Creasti, Fecisti, Redimisti, et PriBdestinasti ad hoc quod sum, Tu scis, quod de me facere vis. Face de me secundum Voluntatem tuam cum Miseracordia. Therfor do of me thy wylle, with grace, petie, and mercy, humbly and intirely I beseche the ; and into thy moost mercifull hands my soule [ commytte. And howe be it, as synfull creature^ in synns conceyved, and in synne have lyved; kn o win ge perfectly that of my merits I cannot atteyn to the lyfe everlastyng, but only by the merits of thy blissid passid, and passion, and of thyne infinite mercy and grace. Nevertheless my mercifull Redemer, Maker, and Savyour, I trust that by the speciall grace and mercy of thy blessyd mother, ever virgyn, our' Lady Mary, in whom, after the in this mortall lyfe, hath ben my moost singular trust and confidence, to whom in all my necessities I have made my contynuall refuge, and by whom I have hitherto ever had my speciall comfort and releef ; will in my moost extreme nede, of her infinite pitye, take my soule into her hands, and hit present unto her moost dere sonne ; whereof^ swete Lady of mercy, very mother and virgyn, well of petie, and surest refuge of all nedefull, moost humbly, most intirely, and roost hartely I beseche the, and for my comfort in this behalfe I trust. Also to the singular mediacions, and prayers of all the holy company of hevyn, aungells, arch- aungells, patriarches, prophets, apostells, evangelists, mar- tyres, confessoures, and virgynes ; and specially to myn accustomeed advourrys *, I call andcrye, Saint John Evan- gelist, Saint George, Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Saiut Margaret, Saint Kateryn, and Saint Barbara, humbly be- .«eche you, that not onlye at the houre of deth, soo too ayde, socour, and defend me ; that the auncyent and goostly enemy, nor noon other yll or dampnabell spirite, have power to invade me, nor with his tereablenes to anoye me ; but also with your holy prayers, to be intercessorice, and mediatrice, unto my Maker and Redemer, for the remyssion of my synnes, and salvacion of my soule ; and for as moche as J intende and purpose, to the honor of God, and our blessed Lady Saint Mary the Virgyn, to adowrne and vawghte a chapell, called our Lady Chapell, set and buylded at the estende of the quere, within sight of the mo- nastery of the Holy Trinitie, at the citie of Norwiche; and also to have in the same monastery, for the comforte of my soule, and remission of my synnes, a yerely memorial of my obyte, in perpetuum, I will and bequethe that whenso> ever it shall please my Savyer J'hu Crist, to call me owyte of this transitorye lyfe, my body be buryed in the mydst of the same Chapell of our blissed Lady, after my poor es- tate and substaunce that God hath gevyn me, without dampnable pomp, or superfluities. Where, uppon my body I woU have a tombe, as shall be thought convenient to myn executors, sufficiently large for me and my two wyfs, yf my wife Elizabeth woll be there buried. And as touching the funerall interment of my body, and charges of my sepulture, Iremitt it to the discrecion of my executors, desyring theym that it may be convenient after my littell substance. And in any wyse, I woll have a sermon made by a doctor of divinitie, at the mass of requiem. Also I will have immediatelie after my decesse, as shortly as may be possible a m masses to be said within the citie of Norwich, and other places, within the shire of Norfolk ; whereof I will have, in the honor of the blissed Trinitie, one hun- dreth; in honor of the five wounds of our Savyoar J'hu Crist, one hundreth ; in honour of the five joys of our blissed Lady, one hundrelh ; in the honor of the nine orders of Aungells, one hundreth ; in the honor of the Patriarchs, one hundreth ; in the honor of the twelve Apostells, one hun- dreth; in the honor of all Saints, one hundreth; of Re- quiem, one hundreth; in the honour of St. John the Evan-' gelist, thirty; in the honor of St. George, forty; in the ho- nor of St. Thomas of Canterbury, thirty ; in the honor of St. Margaret, forty ; in the honor of St. Kateryn, thirty ; and of St. Barbara thirty, which maketh the whole nombr of M masses. Also I will that all my debts, first and before all other charges, be paid by the handes of myne executors ; wherewith I charge theym as they will aunswere before God, and discharge my conscience. Also [ will yf any man or woman cause or complayne of any injuries, or wrongs doen by me, and so duely proved before myn exe- cutors, or supervisors, that they be restored to the uttermost. Also I will that myn executors, as sone as it may be boom out of my goodes, doo cause the said Chapel of our blissed Lady to be wawtyd ' with free stone after the workmanship and wawtyng ' of the Church there, as well in stars and co- lours, as in gilding with sterrys,as shall bedevysed by myn executors ; and with myn arms, badgys, and devyses. Also I will have a priest^ secular or religioaS} to synge for me, Qiy said wyffs and frends, in the said Chapel in perpetuum, with an yerely obite, to be kept with a solemne dirige and masse of requiem, by the prior and convent and their suc- cessors; every such a daye as it shall happen me to die ^pon, or as near as it may be conveniently ; and the said prior and convent, and their successors, shall distribute yerely as they think convenient, in perpetuum. Proved 4th March 1522, by Elizabeth his relict and Thomas Earl of Surrey
As to his manors, lands, &c. he made the following dis- position ; I, Sir Thomas Wyndham, Knyght^ sonne and heire of Sir John Wyndham, Knyght, this I2th October, 13 Henry VIII. As to the disposition of all my manors, lands, tene- ments, rents, services, and reversions, hereditaments, with their appurtenances. And also of all my wards and mar- riages now bowght by me, with all advowsons by any means belonging to me, or to any other to my use» in the counties. of Norfolk and Yorkshire, or ells where within the realme of Englond. First, I will that my co-feoffees suffre Dame Elizabeth my wife to occupie my manors of Bentley and Hamelthwayte in Yorkshire, and all purchased lands within the same manors ; and my o»anor of Melton Constable, in the county of Norfolk, for term of hir lyfe, according to the purport of indentures the same shall descend; remainder to my Sonne Edmond and to the heires of his body ; and in de- faulte to the right heires of me the, said Sir Thomas Wynd* ham. And yf it forEune my next heir to be not of full age at the death of my said wyfe, that then my executors shall receive and take the profitts of the manors of Bentley and Hamelthwayte, in Yorkshire, during the nonage of my said next heire, toward the performaunce of my last will and testament. I will that my son Edmonde, my heir apparent, shall have all my manors of Crownthorpp, Wybjlwode, and Hackforth^ immediately after my decease, to hym and to Susanne • his wyfe, and to the longer ly ver of them, and to the heires of his body lawfully begotten. And for defawte of issue, to the right heires of me the said Sir Thomas, in fee simple. And yf it fortune the saide Ed- monde, and Susanne his wyfe, to dye without yssue within vii yeres next after my decesse, and yf my next heire be then of full age, I wille that he shall have the said manors to him and his heires. And I will that his executors shallreceive, towards the performance of my will, all the proffitts of the manors of Felbrigge, Aylmerton, and Kunton, with the ad- ?owsons and presentations to the same ; and of the manors of Todyngion, Barnyngham, Yngworth, and Colby, with the like advowsons and presentations ; and of the manors of Briston and Wolterton, and of the manor of Whighton, in Yorkshire, with all purchased lands within any of the said manors ; excepted suche purchased lands as I have graunted to Peter Nobis, D. D. for terme of his life. To holde the said manorsfor term of vii yeres fully complete after my decesse, to be imployed to the use of my wille. Also I will that my wyfe shall have the manor place of Felbrigge, the manors of Aylmerton and Runton, for terme of her lyfe, being a widowe, sole and unmaryed. Andyf she will dwell io the said place, to pay to my executors for the performance of my will, yerely xl L out of the said manors. And I will that Doctor Peter Nobys shall havethe proffitsof two parts of the manors of Lystens in Metton, and of all the lands called TyK locks, and Sadclers, lying in Colby and Suffeld; and also of the manor of Yves in Bryston, by me purchased, for terme of his lyfe; as I have graunted unto him by my dedes. I will that my sonne £dmonde, or who shall fortune to be my next heire, shall have the manors of Felbrigge, Aylmerton, and RuntoD^ after the seven yeres exspyred. And after the de- cesse of my wyfe, to him and to the heires of his body ; and for defaulte of the heires of my sonne Edmonde^ to re* mayne to the right heires of me the said Sir Thomas, ac- cording to an intaile thereof made by my grauntfader John Wyndham, Esquier. I will that my sonne Edmonde, or any other that shall fortune to be my next heire, shall have ont of the said manors of Felbrigge, Aylmerton, and Runton^ yerely after the vii yeres exspyred, the which I have ap- poynted for the perfourmance of my wylle, xl /. to be paid by my wyfe, Dame Elizabeth Wyndham, yf she will dwell in it. Also I woll that my sonne Edmond, or any other that shall fortune to be my next heire, shall have the manors of Todyngton, Bamyngham, Yngworth, and Colby, imediatly after the seven yeres exspyred next after my deth, and to his heirs of his body lawfully begotton. And for defawte of issue of him, the said manors to remayn to the right heirs of me the said Sir Thomas, according to an intayle thereof, made by my grauntfader John Wyndham, Esquier. Also I woll that immediatly after the seven yeres exspyred, for the performaunce of my will, the said Edmoude, my sonne, or any other that shall be myn next heire, shall have the manor of Bryston to him and to his heires, in fee sim- ple. Also I woll that my executors shall take and recey ve the profits of the manor of Susted, called Danys, and of all other londes thereto belonging, the which I lately pur. chased of Robert Danne, for terme of seven yeres after my decesse; and after the seven yeres exspyred^ and the deth of my wyfe, to my next heire, upon suche condicion as before expressed. I will that my sonne, John Wyndham, shall have my parte of the manor of Wulterton after seven yeres exspyred for the performance of my wille, and also the manor of Melton Constable, after the decesse of my wyfe, to hold the said manors to him and his heires, and for de> faute of yssue of him, to the right heires of me the said Sir Thomas. I will that my sonne Thomas Wyndham, shall have my manor of Whighton, in Yorkshire, when he comyth to the age of twenty-one yeres ; to hold to him and to the heires of his body ; and for defaale of suche issue, to tke right heires of me the said Sir Thomas. I will that my said son, Thomas, shall have the moytie of the manors of Bowkingy called Dorwarde ; and also of the moytie of the manor of Alseford, of the which manors I lately bought the reversion. I woll that Erasmus Paston, sonne and heire of William Paston, Knyght, shall marry, and take to wife, Mary Wyndham, my daughter : but yf the said mar- riage happen not to take effect ' for lack of agreement, ca- sualtie of deth or otherwise, then I will that myn executor shall receive all suche sumes of money comprysed in certain indentures. I will that my sonne Edmonde, or any other of my sonnes and their heires, that shall happen to be myn heire, whensoever it shall happen them to have my purchased londsy with the profits of my manors of Felbryge, Aylmer- ton, and Metton, Runton, and Snsted, with their appurte- nances, and all my purchased lands within the same; and my manors of Todyngton, Barnyngham, Yngwoith, and Colby; that he or they shall fynde an honest preest to synge in the Chnrche of Felbrige^ for my soule, for my wyfs soule, my fader, and mcder soules, and all my frends soules. And that he shall have x marks by yere, without mete and drynk. And yf he will have mete and drynk with them at the place, then he to have v marks for his stypende ; and this to be contynued as long as it shall please God, that any of my blood shall contynue, and to kepe myne obeite. In recompense whereof, I have purchased certeyn lands in Aylmerton, Suffeld, Colby, Albye, Melton, Briston, Crown- thorpp, Wykylwood, Sustede, and Bentley, in Yorkshire, and in other places, to the yerely value of xlvi/. by the yjre and above. I will that myn executors shall take the proffits of all such londs, as 1 now have in my hands, by the reason of the nonage of Edmond Knevet, or of his next heire; or by reason of any bargain made with Edmond Knevet, by the will of Sir William Knevet; and of suche lands as shall happen to fall in revetsion* by any graunt made by the King, of the said Edmond or of his next heires. Also I wyll that Anthony Wyngfield shall buy the marriage of the said Edmondy yf he will pay cccc /. at the lest^ for he cost me D /• And I will that he shall have to kepe him xx L by the yere at the moost. And wher I have putt certem ma- nors in feoffment, and declared my last will of them, to- warde the helping of my two younger sonnes, I think it very reasonable, and that my next heire shuld in noo wyse grudge at it; for I have redemyd all my lands out of King Henry the Seventh's hands who had of me in money, for the same mmdcgcl marks, over and above my costs of sute for the same. Also I have paid to Mary, Jane, and Kate- ryn Scrope, my first wyfs susters, m L in redy mony, the whych was owyng for the purchas of Bentley, and Hemel- thwayte, in Yorkshire, purchased by my fader Sir John Wyndham. And also I have left in possession ane rever- sion, as much lands to my next heire, of myn own'purcheas, as I have gevyn to my two younger sonnys, the which lyeth more necessarye for him, than the other dyd. In wit- nesse, &c. Proved 4th March 1522.
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Will of Sir John Younge of Bristol, Gloucestershire 26 November 1589 PROB 11/74
Sir John Younge, described as of the city of Bristol, Knight, made his will on the 5th January, 28 Elizabeth (1585-6).
To be buried in the Cathedral of Bristol at the upper end of the quire on the right hand, amongst the seats there/with a vault under the same, by the right pattern of the tomb of Alderman Bonde in St. Ellen's Church, London. To Dame Joan my wife my dwelling house in Bristol, she to live in it live months every year ; mentions his son Robert Younge, under 21, my Manor of Haselbury, Wilts, Rectory of Abbotsbury, Dorset, which I purchased to my said wife for her jointure. Appoints Nicholas Wadham and George Snigge his executors ; mentions his two daughters (without naming them) and his sister Margaret Marty.
IXTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. All rights reserved Sixteenth-Century Bristol (Originally published under the title of "THE CORPORATION OF BRISTOL IN THE OLDEN TIME") JOHN LATIMER, 1908
...Early in the reign of Elizabeth a gentleman named John Young, who had estates in Dorset and Wilts, determined to settle in this city, where several of his ancestors had been men of mark ; and having taken up his residence in the above Friary, he resolved on constructing an imposing mansion on the site. In February, 1568, he accordingly purchased the old building from Alderman Chester, and proceeded so vigorously with the erection of his " Great House " that it served, in 1574, for the fitting reception of Queen Elizabeth and her numerous suite during her week's sojourn, during which its owner was knighted in reward for his hospitality. Sir John was not s3,tisfied 120 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. with this capacious residence. In 1578 he purchased from the Corporation the remaining part of their estate, consisting of a house and garden previously in the occupation of Nicholas Thome, and he at the same time acquired Rowland's Lodge and garden on Stony Hill. On this latter spot he forthwith set about the construction of the large mansion now known as the Red Lodge, the beautiful internal decoration of which remains to attest his cultivated taste and ample means. Sir John died in 1589, and it may be noted that at the usual inquest held by the Crown to discover the extent of his estates the jury declared on their oaths that the yearly value of the Great House was 40s., and that of the Red Lodge 20s. Their late owner left an only son, Robert, then 19 years of age. Within seven years of his attaining his majority, this young man appears to have dissipated most of his fortune, and to have been over head and ears in debt ; and on March 29th, 1599, being about to adventure as a soldier in Ireland, and desirous of protecting his Bristol estate from seizure by creditors, he conveyed both the mansions to his half-brother, Nicholas Strangeways, their mother's right to reside in the Great House for life being reserved. Strangeways probably disposed of the Red Lodge, but nothing more is recorded about it in the Great Red Book at the Council House. The prodigal returned from Ireland, where he obtained the title of knight, but was probably poorer than ever. Soon afterwards, in conjunction with Strangeways, he sold the Great House for £660 to Sir Hugh Smyth, of Long Ashton, and then vanished from history, nothing being known of his ultimate fate.
Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet,: Containing a Series of Elegant Views ...
...The 20th Elizabeth it was in the possession of Sir John Young, whose son and heir, Robert Young, of Haselborough, in the county of Wilts, sold this house, S8th March 1599, then newly built, and occupied by sir John Young's widow, to Nicholas Strangeways, of Bradly, in the county of Gloucester, esq. Queen Elizabeth, on coming to Bris tol, kept her court and held a council at this house; and it was the usual residence of the nobility visiting the city.
Will of John Younge, Merchant of Bristol, Gloucestershire 11 July 1597 PROB 11/90
Sir John Younge, described as of the city of Bristol, Knight, made his will on the 5th January, 28 Elizabeth (1585-6). To be buried in the Cathedral of Bristol at the upper end of the quire on the right hand, amongst the seats there with a vault under the same, by the right pattern of the tomb of Alderman Bonde in St. Ellen's Church, London. To Dame Joan my wife my dwelling 1 Iikj. house in Bristol, she to live in it live months every year ; mentions his son Robert Younge, under 21, my Manor of Haselbury, Wilts, Rectory of Abbotsbury, Dorset, which I purchased to my said wife for her jointure ; appoints Nicholas Wadham and George Snigge his executors ; mentions his two daughters (without naming them) and his sister Margaret Marty .
National Archives:[no title] 5535/2 1577 February 20 Contents:
Bargain & Sale - John Bumpas of Bewdeley, Worc., and Alice his wife to Sir John Yonge. (For copy of PCC will of Sir John Younge see xerox copies of documents not in B.R.O. no. 96) of Bristol and Robert Sandford of Bristol, merchant - 8 garden grounds and all buildings thereon in the parishes of St. Michael and St. Augustine.
Consideration: £60
[no title] 5535/8 1599 March 26 Contents:
Mortgage for £120 subject to demise in (6) - Robert Younge of Haselbury, Wilts., esq., to Thomas Arthur of Bristol, gent. - Redd Lodge in the parish of St. Michael lately built by Sir John Younge, dec'd., and all grounds belonging excepting one garden sold to George Whyte.
Survey of Smuggling in Bristol, 15 May 1565
Source: Transcribed by Evan Jones (2003)
Manuscript: PRO E 159/350 Hil. 351 r,v,seq.
....And overmore we fynde that all the officers of the custumehowse
of this porte be resident uppon their offices theare savinge John Younge esquier one of the custumers there who hathe his deputie one Thomas Warren which John Younge upon his personal Answer saithe that he hath a dispensacon from the quenes highness for his nonresidence upon the same office/ And fynally we saie that as unto all other ~ ~ offences disorders trespaces and transgressions mencyoned and expressed in the saide commyssion commytted or perpetrated within the porte of ~ ~ Bristoll or countie of the same sithens the firste daye of Januarie in the fyvethe yere of the reigne of the quenes majestie that nowe is we can have no advertysemente therof by any meanes or waies....
Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society >" Transactions for the Year 1890-91.
At the Inquisition, taken after his death for the county of Dorset, the jurors find that he died seized of the Manor and Advowson of Abbotsbury in that county, and it is mentioned that he lived at Brandon-on-the-Hill in the county of the city of Bristol, and the jurors say that he died on the 4th September last, and that Robert Yonge is his son and nearest heir, and was aged 18 years on the 1st February last.
It appears from the Inquisition taken at Calne, 2nd October, 31 Eliz. (1588), after the death of Sir John Younge, that by charter dated 10th February, 7 Elizabeth (1585), he demised to William Poole [Pole] of Shute, co. Devon, and Edmund Downing, the Rectory of the Church of Abbotsbury with the advowson of the same and all the tithes of the parish lately belonging to the dissolved Monastery of Abbotsbury, and also the Rectory of Rendcome in the county of Gloucester, to hold to the use of the said John Younge and Johanna his wife and the heirs of the said John. The jurors also found that he had long been seized of the Manor of Halesbury with appurtenances, in the co. of Wilts, and of 6 messuages and 40 acres of land, meadow, and pasture, in Boxe, and of the Rectory and Advowson of Boxe ' and Waddes- wick, with two messuages with appurtenances in the same county, and so thereof being seized on the 10th January, 28th Elizabeth, (1585-6) by indenture, demised the said premises in Wilts to Richard Fitz James. Esq., and George Snygge, Esq., from immediately after the death of the said John, for the term of 13 years at a certain rent ; and the jurors further say that the said John Younge, long before his death, was seized in his demesne as of fee of a certain capital messuage called " White Friars," with appurtenances, and also of one garden, one orchard, with appurtenances in the county of the city of Bristol ; and of certain premises called Waterhouse with garden and adjacent land, and also of one other messuage, called a Lodge, also of one old barne, &c. ; and on the 10th January, 28 Elizabeth (15S5-6), he granted by indenture all the said premises to George Snygge, Esq., from immediately after the death of the said John, to hold until Michaelmas, 1592 [the year in which his son and heir would attain the full age of 22 years as prescribed in his father's will], at the rent of £3 annually ; and further, the jurors say that the said John being so seized, made his last will, dated loth January, 1585-6, in which he gave to his executors all the rents issuing out of his lands and tenements (the Rectory and Parsonage of Abbotsbury, which he had bought to the use of his wife in recompense of dower, only excepted), to hold to them until his son should attain his full age of twenty-two years, to the performance of this his last will, &c, Ac. And the jurors further say that the said John Younge, being of all the said premises seized, died seized, and that Anna sic [1 Johanna] his wife is still living at Bristol. And they say that the Rectory of Abbotsbury is worth £10 per annum ; that the Manor of Halsbury is held of Robert Bayard, Esq., by military service by the moiety of one knight's fee, and that it is worth, beyond reprises, £10 per annum ; and that the aforesaid six messuages in Boxe are held of William F in free socage and are of the value of 40s., and that the rectory of Boxe and the advowson of the church, &c, in Boxe and Waddiswick are held of the Queen in capite by the 40th part of one knight's fee, and the value is £4 ; and that the aforesaid capital messuage with appurtenances is worth per annum 40s., but by what tenure held the jurors are ignorant ; and that the lodge and other premises are worth 20s. per annum, but by what tenure held the jurors are ignorant. And the jurors say further that the aforesaid John Younge held no other lands in the counties aforesaid, and that he died on the 4th September next before the taking of this Inquisition, and that Robert Younge is the son and nearest heir of the said John Younge, Knight, and was aged 18 years on the 19th February last past.
Dame Joane Younge, described " of Bristol, Widow," made her will on 1st April, 1603 : gives £150 for her funeral, poor of Abbotsbury £20, my son Nicholas Strangways, my daughter Ann Bridgman, my late husband Sir Giles Strangways, Joan Buller [Butler ?], my daughter's child, my daughter Boteler. To my daughter Fitz James a silver bason worth £20 ; to my daughter Lady Elizabeth Berkeley a cup worth £10; my brother Nicholas Wadham, Esq. and Nicholas Strangways, my son, Exo'rs Codicil ; to Peregrine Young £200, at 23, after the decease of my son-in-law John Fitz James, Esq., and of my son-in-law Nicholas Boteler, Esq.
John Wadham, the father of Dame Joan, in his will dated 1st April, 1577, mentions all the children of "my son Sir John Yonge," Robert, Jane, and Margaret Younge. Robert Young, son and heir of Sir John, was born on 1st July, 1570, and on attaining the age of 21 years in 1591, he again proved his father's will, 3 and afterwards entered into possession of his father's real estates, except the Manor of Hazelbury and the Advowson of the Rectory of Abbotsbury, which Sir John in his will states he had purchased to his wife in redemption of her jointure, and which Sir Robert inherited after his mother's death. On the 18th April, 1604, he received the honour of knighthood at Whitehall from King James I., when he was described as of Som- erset. He might then have been residing at Easton-in-Gordano, which belonged to him, or at Halsbury, which had then devolved upon him. He appears to have bee.i twice married, but we 1 Prob. P.C.C. 25th Nov., 1589, and again by Robert Younge, 26th b., 1591 (9.'5 Leicester). - Prob. 7th Feb., 1603-4. P.C.C. (60 Stafford). 3 Prob. P.C.C. (93 Leicester). Notes on the Family of Yonge. 2-43 do not know the name of either of his wives. His half-sister, Ann Bridgman, of Badminton Magna, Gloucester, widow, nee Strangwayes, in her will dated loth February, 1G06, 1 names " Elizabeth Young, daughter of Sir Robert Young by his first wife." She also names Peregrine Young, son of my brother, Sir Robert Young, and also Nicholas Young, son of Sir Robert Young. This difference of description between Elizabeth and her brothers would seem to imply that the latter were by a second wife. We have not at present been able to obtain any further information relative to Sir Robert Young. No Inquisition post mortem is found in the Record Office. He probably survived until the Great Rebellion, when the Ecclesiastical Courts were abolished, and Inquisitions post mortem ceased to be taken. No will of him, nor of his sons Nicholas or Peregrine, are recorded in the Probate Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, nor in the Diocesan Registry at Wells. If proved at Bristol they would have been destroyed by the disastrous fire caused by the Bristol rioters in 1832. Peregrine Young, son of Sir Robert, would appear to have married Theophila, daughter of John Butcher, or Bowcher, Alder- man of Bristol, and relict of Thrupp, provided Mr. Young's name, as used in Mr. Butcher's will, dated 30th January, 1621, viz., " Pellegrine," may be accepted as a corruption of Peregrine. 2 i Prob. 8th July, 1606. Further adm° 12th November, 1682. P.C.C. (60 Stafford). 2 Prob. 15th March, 1622-3. P.C.C. (22 Swansea).
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Will of Sir John Zouche 12 June 1585 PROB 11/68
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Will of Sir Lewis Dive of Combehay, Somerset 18 May 1669 PROB 11/329 -mentions daughter Grace Hussey wife of George Hussey.
Royalist commander.
The Tower of London Letter Book of Sir Lewis Dyves, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 38/9 (1958-59), p.75.
Select illustrations, historical and topographical, of Bedfordshire By John Docwra Parry
....This expedition was probably designed to countenance Sir Lewis Dyves, of Bromham, whilst he fortified Newport-Pagnell, at which place he hoped to fix a garrison. Heath says, it was Sir Lewis Dyves himself that commanded this expedition; and that, bieng sent into Bedfordshire with 2000 or 3000 horse, he came first to Ampthill, then to Bedford, which town he entered, and took Sir John Norris and other parliamentary officers prisoners. From thence he went to thg house of Sir Samuel Luke (Butler's Hudibras), " and served that as his own house at Bromham had been served by the sequestrators." " Soon after this, Col. Montague, with some of the parliamentary forces, entered Bedford by a feint, under a pretence of their being the royal army, under Sir Lewis Dyves, and took away some money and horses intended for the King's use." It is a very singular coincidence, that nearly about this time the royalist forces executed an exactly similar manoeuvre, and with the same success, at Luton. This is all that occurs respecting Bedford at this period.
The history and antiquities of the borough and town of Weymouth and Melcombe ...By George Alfred Elli
...Sir Lewis Dyves of Bromham, Bedford, commander of the Dorsetshire forces, was taken at the capture of Sherborne Castle with an immense booty, together with colonel Fusell an attorney, once sub-governor of Sandsfoot Castle for the king; before surrendering he sent the following letter to general Fairfax:
"Sir,
" I mast acknowledge the advantage you have of me by being master of my walls, and that you may not think me obstinate without reason, I have sent this drum unto you, to let you know that if 1 may have such conditions from you, as are fit for a soldier and a gentleman with honour to accept, I shall surrender this castle into your hands; otherwise 1 shall esteem it a far greater happiness to bury my bones in it, and the same resolution have all those that are with me; and give me leave to add this, that your victory will be crowned with more honor by granting it, than you will gain glory by the witling it with the loss of so much blood as it will cost.
" Sherborne Castle, " Your servant,
" August 15th, 1645. " L. Dyves."
The answer returned was, " No terms but quarter, and he -was not to expect that, except he surrendered immediately."
Sir Lewis Dyves and Sir John Strangeways were brought to the bar of the House of Commons, and refusing to kneel, were compelled by force, and both were committed to the Tower for high treason, 1645.
A brass plate in the floor of Combe Hay in Somerset states he died 17 April 1669. See Collinson's History and Antiquities of Somerset, v. 3, p. 336. The brass indicates he had four children who survived him: Francis, Lewis, John and a daughter Grace who m. George Hussey. Another dau. Jane died young.
Sir Lewis is buried at Combe hay and a brass in the church bears the following record respecting him, "Here lieth the body of Sir Lewis Dyve of Bromham in the county of Bedford knt, only son of Sir John Dyve of Bromham knt, by Dame Beatrice his wife, daughter of Charles Walcot in the county of Salop, esq, who was afterwards married to the Right Hon. John, Earl of Bristol, by whom he had issue the Right Hon. Gage, now Earl of Bristol. The said Sir Lewis Dyve took to wife Howard daughter of Sir John Strangeways of Melbury, Sampford in the county of Dorset knt, and by her had issue living at the time of his death three sons, Francis, Lewis and John and one daughter, Grace, who married Gen. Hussey of Marmhull in the county of Dorset, esq. He died April 17 Ano. Dom. 1669.
Combe Hay:
In the floor on a brass-plate: "Here lyeth the body of Sir Lewis Dyve, of Bromham in the county of Bedford, knt. only son of Sir John Dyve, of Bromham, knt. by Dame Beatrice his wife, daughter of Charles Walcot, of Walcot in the county of Salop, esq; who was afterwards married to the Right Hon. John earl of Bristol, by whom she had issue the Right Hon. George now Earl of Bristol. The said Sir Lewis Dyve took to wife Howard daughter of Sir John Strangways, of Melbury-Sampford in the county of Dorset, knt. and by her had issue living at the time of his death, three sons, Francis, Lewis, and John, and one daughter, Grace, who married George Hussey, of Marnhull in the county of Dorset, esq. He died April 17, Ano Dom. 1669."
The life and letters of Sir Lewis Dyve, 1599-1669 HG Tibbutt 1948
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Will of Sir Michael Lystar or Lyster of Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire 20 October 1551 PROB 11/34
In 1546 Andrew Bayntun the reversion of the manor... to Sir Michael Lyster. (fn.20) Sir Michael apparently conveyed it to Richard Fauconer, lord of Hurstbourne Fauconers (q.v.), for the heirs of the latter, Francis Yate, Alice Kingsmill and Margaret Sotwell, were jointly seised in 1562 of and in the immediate reversion of the manor of Week 'which Sir James Stumpe in right of Dame Isabel Stumpe, now his wife, holdeth for term of natural life.' ...From: 'Parishes: St. Mary Bourne', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 295-299. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56812 Date accessed: 14 January 2011.
P.11. Funeral of Sir Michael Lyster.
The name of the lord chief justice of the king's bench was Sir Richard Lyster, but that of his eldest son, here recorded, was Sir Michael. See the memoir on the monument of Sir Richard Lyster at St. Michael's church, Southampton, by Sir F. Madden, in the Winchester volume of the Archæological Institute. There is a portrait of a lady Lyster among the Holbein Heads: it may be doubtful to which lady of the name it belongs (see the pedigree given by Sir F. Madden); but Mr. Lodge, in his accompanying memoir, supposed it to be that of lady Mary, daughter of the earl of Southampton, wife of Sir Richard, grandson of the chief justice. (See her funeral afterwards, p.273)
From: 'Notes to the diary: 1550-51', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 313-323. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45532 Date accessed: 14 January 2011.
CHADNOR or CHABNOR
....the manor of Chabnore had passed, through a marriage, to the Delaberes, whose heiress brought it to Sir Michael Lyster, circa 1530. Sir Michael died seised of it in 1552 (IPM), ...
A History of the Mansions & The Manor of Dilwyn - 1872 by Rev. Charles J Robinson
In a Court Roll of 1545 (5M53/932) the Court Minutes of the Manor of Husseys is listed with many others in a marriage settlement between Mary Wriothesley and Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Baron of the King’s Exchequer who held this manor for a further ten years when on the 21st day of December in the second and third years of the reigns of the late King and Queen (Philip and Mary, 1555), he sold Husseys to John Gifford of Northall (Northolt) in the County of Middlesex.
Final concord for a quarter of the MANOR OF STENBURY, p. Goddeshyll, I.W. JER/WA/15/15 1533 Michaelmas Term
Contents:
(1) Edward Marvyn, sergeant at law (quer.)
Michael Lyster, esq (quer.)
Francis Dawtrey, esq. (quer.)
William Wayte, esq. (quer.)
Anthony Wayte (quer.)
Anthony Cope (quer.)
John Welbek (quer.)
(2) Richard Dowce (deforc.)
Elizabeth, his wife (deforc.)
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Will of Sir Nicholas Wadhin or Wadham of Merifield, Somerset 31 January 1543 PROB 11/29
....November 25th, 1539. Nicholas Wadham of Muryfelde co. Somerset, knight. My body to be buried in the parish church of Ilemyster if I die within the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Southampton, or Devonshire. .. If dame Johane my wife overlive me ....To my son Giles being .... To my son Andrewe ..... To my son Nicholas .... Also where I Nicholas Wadham, knight, do owe to my son-in-law Richard Chudleigh, esquier, .... To my son John Wadham my best gown. To my three other sons Giles, Andrewe, and Nicolas ... Proved January 31st, 1542.
Name: Joan TREGARTHEN
Birth: ABT 1498 in Of Thorne, Devonshire, England
Death: SEP 1581 5
Buried: 30 SEP 1583 St. Winifred's, Branscombe, Devon
From Prince's "Worthies of Devon", p 748:
"In the mother of Nicholas Wadham, the last of this name, who lies buried there (Branscombe Church, Devon); which may administer to us a probable ground to suppose, that he also was born in that parish. There is a noble monument erected to her memory with this inscription, which time hath rendered something imperfect:
Here Lieth intomb'd the Body of a virtuous and antient Gentlewoman, descended of the antient House of the Plantagenets, sometime of Cornwall, namely Joan one of the Daughters and Heirs unto John Tregarthin in the County of Cornwall, Esq; She was first married unto John Kelleway, Esq; who had by her much issue; After his Death she was married to John Wadham of Meryfeild in the County of Somerset, Esq; and by him had - - - Children. She lived a virtuous and godly Life, and died in an honourable Age, Sept. - - - in the Year of Christ 1581."
Her IPM is lengthy and full of property rights and dispositions. She was the widow of John Kelloway of Columpton. Her tomb shows Joan's two husbands Sir John Kelloway, backed by five boys and nine girls and John WADHAM and his issue Nicholas and three dau. She is descended from Richard Earl of Cornwall.
Marriage 1 John KELLEWAY b: ABT 1494 in of Thorne, Devonshire, England
Children:
Agnes KELLAWAY
George KELLEWAY
Florence KELLEWAY
Anne KELLEWAY
Mary the Younger KELLEWAY
Mary KELLAWAY b: ABT 1520 in Thorne, Devonshire, England
Marriage 2 Sir John WADHAM of Merifield b: 1505 in Edge, Branscombe, Devon
Married: ABT 1530
Children:
Florence WADHAM b: in Edge, Branscombe, Devon
Margaret WADHAM b: in Edge, Branscombe, Devon
Sir Nicholas WADHAM b: 1532 in Merifield, Somerset
Joan WADHAM b: 1533 in Edge, Branscombe, Devon
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Will of SIR PIERS EDGCOMB, KNIGHT. Piers Edgcomb, Knight*, Sd March 21 Henry VIII. 1530. My body to be buried where it shall please God to dispose of it. To the parish Church of Plymouth in ... to every of my household servants a year's wages; and whereas Sir John Arundel and Sir William Courtenay, Knights, are enfeoffed by the name of Esquires, with Andrew Hillersdon, John Wise^ Thomas Tremayne, Esquires, and Stephen Trevyllian, to the use of me and the performance of my last will, and of my heirs in the honor and borough of Totness, and in the manor of Comeworth in Devonshire, by deed bearing date 3d May 12 Henry VIII.; .... and my tin works in the County of Cornwall to my son James and the heirs of his body; to Dame Katherine, my wife, to her own use and behoof, all the plate in her keeping which was Sir Griffin Rice's, her late husband, with all her apparel and stuff of household left by him ; and in case my son and heir do trouble or take from her any parcel of lands which I have given her in jointure, or attempt to procure to be done any thing to the least breach or accomplishment of this my will or any part thereof, or disallow any grants possessed by me either of Dame Jane, his mother's, inheritance, of my own, by indentures, copies, &c. for which upon their oaths they may prove I have made grants and. am paid fines ..... | Edgecombe, Piers (I08036)
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Will of Sir Richard Blounte of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire Date 26 August 1564 Catalogue reference PROB 11/47
His son Sir Richard (d.1564) who married Elizabeth Lister, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice, succeeded him; in 1558 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London, a post also held by his son Sir Michael (d.1610) (pictured left). Father and son lie beneath a splendid tomb in the Chapel Royal in the Tower.
http://www.mapledurham.co.uk/history/manorhouse/
Sir Richard Blount, of Maple Durham Gurney, was one of the gentlemen of the chamber to King Henry VIII. of the Privy chamber to Edward VI. and held various offices of trust under Elizabeth, amongst others that of lieutenant of the Tower. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Lister, chief-justice of England, and sister of Sir Michael Lister,* knight of the Bath, by which lady he had issue, Michael (Sir), his successor. Richard (Sir), who resided at Dodsham or Dysliam, in Sussex. He m. the Hon. Elizabeth West, second daughter of William, first Lord De la Warre, by whom (who d. in 1595) he had a son, William. Elizabeth, m. to Nicholas St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke. Barbara, m. to Francis Shirley, of East Grinstead, in Sussex. Sir Richard d. 11th August, 1564, was buried under a splendid monument in the church of St. Peter in Vinculis, in the Tower, erected ^by his widow (whose will was proved 26th June, 1582), and t. by his elder son,
Tv! Elizabeth, i both died voun8v. Frances, b. 23rd February, 1569. vi. Elizabeth, b. 28th July, 1574. The date of the decease of Sir Michael Blount is not upon record. He was buried under a sumptuous monument near his father, in St. Peter's Church, in the Tower, and *. by his eldest son,
Mapledurham is fine, red-brick late-16th century manor house set at the edge of the village and close to the River Thames. In the late Middle Ages the Mapledurham estate passed from the Bardolf family to the Lyndes. A large part of Lyndes' timber-framed house was retained when Sir Michael Blount built the present, far larger, house in 1588.
Sir Michael was Lieutenant of the Tower of London whose grandfather, Richard Blount, had purchased the estate in 1490. The Blount family were Catholic recusants and in the 17th and early 18th centuries the estate suffered a decline. However, the family fortunes had recovered by the 19th century and in 1828 - 31 Michael Henry Blount restored the exterior in Elizabethan style and created new interiors.
In the 20th century the direct line of the Blount family died out and in 1943 the Mapledurham estate passed by descent to the current owner, a member of one of the county's oldest Catholic families. Today the house is run by the Mapledurham Trust.
The Elizabethan house, set on sweeping lawns, is H-shaped with attractive brickwork and tall chimneys. The picturesque remains of the Lynde family's medieval house provide a great contrast to the rather severe 16th century building that replaced it.
Although at first glance Mapledurham appears to be an unaltered example of late-16th century domestic architecture there have been several alterations. In the 18th century the chimneys were rearranged and the original gables removed.
The neo-Tudor porch was added in the 1820s and at the same time the brickwork of the entrance front was restored and the windows returned to their original mullioned and transomed appearance.
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In a Court Roll of 1545 (5M53/932) the Court Minutes the Manor of Husseys is listed with many others in a marriage settlement between Mary Wriothesley and Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Baron of the King’s Exchequer who held this manor for a further ten years when on the 21st. day of December in the second and third years of the reigns of the late King and Queen (Philip and Mary, 1555), he sold Husseys to John Gifford of Northall (Northolt) in the County of Middlesex.
The Earl of Southampton seems to have had his full pardon by that time. His mother had long been failing and was now very ill; she lived over six months after.
P.C.C., Martyn 43
Her will was drawn up on 1st July, I574* and she died not long afterwards; the will was proved on 26th July. She left certain leases to her son, Henry, Earl of Southampton, failing whom to his son, Lord Harry Wriothesley, failing whom to the Lady Mary Wriothesley, failing whom to her own daughters. Her household stuff was to go in the same way. She left liberal shares of her cattle and sheep to her son-in-law, Cornwallys, and his wife Katharine, the rest to her son. Certain leases were left directly to her grandson, failing whom to his sister Mary. Her own daughter, Mabel, was to have for life Longlands and Gravelpits, lately parcel of the possessions of the monastery of Clerkenwell, after her to Robert Cornwallys, her daughter's son. One hundred pounds' worth of plate was left to each of her daughters, 100 marks' worth to Lord Harry Wriothesley, and the same to Lady Mary. To my son the Earl all my stuff in Southampton Place, Holborn, my best crosse of gold set with diamonds on one side and enamelled with green and red on the other, with a faire pearl hanging at it. A faire tablet of golde wherein is the picture of my Lord his father's face, weighing about ^\ ounces, also my great flaggon chayne that I was wont to weare about my middle for a girdle, weighing 12 ounces.... To my Lady Southampton, my son's wife, a Browche with an Agate and 7 little rubyes, with the picture of a face upon the Agatt; also a girdle of gold, with roses black and white enamelled, and wheatsheaves enamelled. . . .To my daughter Katharine my best booke of gold, set with 4 diamonds and a ruby in the midst on one side, and 4 rubyes with a diamond in the midst on the other side, and the Queen's writing in the same book; also my wrethed long girdle of gold with black enamel ; and a short girdle of perles with little perles of gold enamelled in black, a brooch of gold with a saphire in it, and a Storye, also a cheyne of fine golde. To my daughter Mabel my best brooche which hath 10 diamonds in it and a ruby at the foot of the Storye; also a gold booke with a black knot inamelled and two scallop shells; a chain of gold inamelled black and white; a long girdle of gold, another with pillars inamelled red and white and black, the links playne and wrethed, and a cross of gold, with a crucifix sett with 2 diamonds and a perle pendent, with another chayne. To my son's daughter, the Lady Mary, my best flower of gold set with 2 rubyes, 2 emeralds, and 3 perles pendent, a tablet of gold with an old storey in it, a pair of beads without Amell, and a tablet hanging at them, inamelled ; a browche of gold with 2 little rubyes in it. These jewels to her at her marriage. If she dye, to her brother the Lord Harry, if he die too, to my daughters. All my perles to my daughters. . . . To my daughter Cornwallys a pair of Tennes, with red currall richly dressed with lyly pottes enamelled with words graven on them. To my daughter Mabel another payre of tennes in gold and jewels and one of my diamond rings to each . All the rest of my rings to my son .... To Robert Cornwallys my daughter's son 40, to , weight to Michael Lyster my daughter Mary Lyster's son, a gilt bowl 32 ounce weight. To her daughter Mabel she left 500 if she marries within three years, or 300 if she marries later, the 200 to go to her son's daughter. She prayed her son to be good to his sisters, to her servants, farmers, and tenants. She left to Andrew Mundaye, her servant, 10, and a year's wages to all her servants. To the poor of Titchfield and Holborn near London she left 60. 13-r. 4^. Her son Henry to be sole executor; overseers, Mr Justice Manwood and Mr Baver of Lincoln's Inn, who are to have .10 a year for their trouble.
Her son buried her at Titchfield, but I have found no account of the proceedings. Beyond his legacies, the Earl would step into her jointures and dwelling-houses, and his position in the county would be strengthened.
Montague's son in law, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, died 4 Oct 1581 and was buried at Titchfield, Hants, on 30 Nov
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Text: 1575 Blunt, Richard, esquier, St. Stephen's in Colmeyne strete in the cytie of London; Stafford; Williton, Somerset 47 Pyckering Book: 1558 to 1583. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1583 (A-Z)
Text: 1587 Blounte, Blunt, Richarde, gent., Barnards Inne, St. Andrewe in Holborne, Middx. Will with Sentence 41 Spencer Book: 1584 to 1604. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1584-1604
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Will of Sir Richard Carewe of Beddington, Surrey February 1522 PROB 11/21
Knight. Sheriff of Surrey.
Monuments at Beddington church, Surrey.
Richard, who succeeded to the family estates in 1492, was created a baronet in 1497. He was sheriff of Surrey in 1501. His son, Sir Nicholas, also held this office and sat as knight of the shire for Surrey in parliament. He rose to favour at the court of Henry VIII, who in 1531 visited Beddington, and hunted in his grounds. He had a place of honour at the christening of Edward VI in 1537, but in 1539 was attainted for his complicity in the Marquis of Exeter's treason.
During the lives of Sir Richard and Sir Nicholas, the family lands has been greatly increased. Walton on the Hill and Banstead manors, the property of Catherine of Aragon, were leased, and afterwards granted in reversion, to Sir Richard and Sir Nicholas in 1513 and 1532 respectively. Bletchingley passed into the king's hands on the attainder of the Duke of Buckingham in1521, and was immediately granted to Sir Nicholas. Epsom, Horley, Sutton and Coulsdon, part of the possessions of Chertsey Abbey, were the subject of a further grant after the dissolution. The manors of Plumpton, Plumpton Boscage and Barcombe in Sussex were granted in reversion to Nicholas, before he succeeded his father, on the attainder of Francis Lord Lovell, the heir tail to the estates.
Only these last were allowed to Elizabeth Carew after the attainder of her husband, though she pleaded to be allowed Bletchingley also. The attainder was reversed in 1549, but the return of the lands to Sir Nicholas' son, Sir Francis, followed more slowly, piecemeal. Bletchingley, Horley and Wartling were never returned. In 1596 Sir Francis added to his possessions the manor of Wallington, the capital messuage of which had been in the possession of the Carew family since at least 1539.
Sir Francis died, unmarried, on 16 May 1611, leaving the bulk of his estates to his nephew, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who took the name of Carew. The manor of Walton on the Hill was left to another nephew, Sir Francis Darcy, who alienated it to Sir Nicholas four years later. Coulsdon and Epsom passed to Sir Edward Darcy, an elder brother of Sir Francis, to whom the reversions had been granted by Elizabeth I in 1589. Sutton had also been granted in reversion to Sir Edward, but in 1609 was conveyed by Sir Francis Carew and Sir Edward Darcy to Sir Robert, Edward's son, in trust for Sir Francis Darcy for life, with reversion to Sir Robert.
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