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FILE [no title] - ref. 9/2/47 - date: 10 September 1753
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of lease for 21 years, (1) Edward Garlick of Bristol, merchant, (2) George Brown of Manton, Preshute, yeoman.
Posibly the one whose will is dated 1759, yeoman of Preshute.
The Will of George Brown of Manton in the parish of Preshute in the county of Wilts and Diocese of Sarum..
Son?
ref. 9/2/89 - date: 9 January 1773
[from Scope and Content] Copy of will of Thomas Brown of Ashwick Farm, parish of Marshfield, Gloucestershire, yeoman; John Neate and John Waterford, trustees and executors in trust. 6 April 1773 Letters of administration granted to George Brown, brother of deceased.
FILE [no title] - ref. 9/2/91 - date: 3 February 1781
[from Scope and Content] Copy of will of George Brown of Manton, Preshute, yeoman, dated 19th November 1778. Anne Brown wife of testator, sole executrix. Extracted from the registry of the Bishop of Sarum.
Marriage of a George Brown and Ann Parry at Salisbury in 1735??
There seems to a number of possible children born to a George Brown and Rebecca at Overton ?? A Miram Biggs marries at Devizes in 1764 and a Rebecca in 1759 eg born in the 1730's??
Another family of George Brown and his wife Jane have children christened in Overton about 1710. Second marraige to Rebecca?? This George Brown too young. What about the one born 1655. Too old then for this will.
Day: 12 Month: Sep Year: 1741 Groom Forenames: George Groom Surname: BROWN Groom's parish: Overton Groom's county: Wiltshire,England Groom's condition: Groom's occupation: farmer Groom's age: Groom's notes: Bride Forenames: Mary Bride Surname: CLIFTON Bride's parish: Overton Bride's county: Wiltshire,England Bride's condition: sp Bride's age: Bride's notes: Place of Marriage: Patney/Huish Bondsman 1: JAQUES Hennery,clerk,Patney Bondsman 2: Jurisdiction: The Bishop of Salisbury in Wiltshire and Berkshire
George BROWN. He was born circa 1694 (mother's name given as Merriam). He was baptized on 9 May 1694 at Preshute, Wilts. He married ? Biggs He left a will on 10 Mar 1759 at Manton, parish of Preshute, Wilts (yeoman). He died in 1759. | Brown, George (I01973)
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First child?
Name: Kath Fetteplace Gender: Female Record Type: Christening (Baptism)Baptism Date:23 Jul 1692 Baptism Place: St Giles, Cripplegate, City of London, London, England Father: Franc Fetteplace Mother: Margt Fetteplace
Register Type: Parish Register | Family (F13603)
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First child?
Name: Abigail Walton Event Type: Baptism Event Date: 11 Jul 1691 Parish: Withybrook Father's Name: Samuel Walton Mother's Name: Elizabeth Walton
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First marriage possibility??
Groom's Name: Alexander Mctavish Groom's Birth Date: Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: Bride's Name: Catharine Fraser Bride's Birth Date: Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1815 Marriage Place: Boleskine,Inverness,Scotland
Loch Keeper on the Caledonian Canal.
There is a record of marriage for a Alexander Mc Tavish and Anna Cameron at Killen, Perth in 1816?
1984 I.G.I.- Alex and Una Mc Tavish- Christian born 21.06.1822 Kilmanivaig
Ann born 28.08.1823 "
Colin born 3. .1826 "
Mary born 3.10.1827 "
Christy born 8.05.1832 "
There is also a Christian , baptised Kilmallie 1822 son of Alexander McTavish and Una Cameron. Perhaps orginally found but can't find now??
At time of death was a Loch Keeper at Fort Augustus, Scotland
Birth of Alexander McTavish 1760 Dores, Inverness son of Son of Duncan McTavish and Elspet Cameron?
There are numerous IGI entries of Alexander Mc Tavish in Boleskine, Inverness, neighbouring area to Kilmonvaig.
On the 1881 census is a Donald McTavish born 1824, Kilmoinvaig, Inverness? Died 1902, son of Tavish Mc Tavish and Mary Fraser
From McTavish List March, 2004.
Hi Catherine,
My paternal grandmother was Jessie Mary McTavish (1884 - 1955) from Dores, near Inverness. I'm don't know if there's a connection between our ancestors - my lot seem to have stuck around the Dores/Boleskine area, haven't found any connection to Ardersier as yet.
I found the details of the gravestone in a book by the Scottish Genealogy Society called "Inverness District East - monumental inscriptions pre-1855" (ISBN 0901061 68 9) - haven't found any of my ancestors in it yet, but I did remember seeing an inscription which mentioned a McTavish lock keeper.
One thing I was curious about - your John McTavish was described as a "pensioner" on the gravestone - in the early 1800s would this suggest that he had served in the army at some point? I don't know if you're familiar with the area, but Ardersier is right next to Fort George, which has been an army base since 1748. It was the base of the Queen's Own Highlanders which merged with the Gordon Highlanders quite recently to become "The Highlanders". In the introduction about the burial ground it does say that it served Fort George as well as the local village. Pure speculation, but you never know.....!
Also, John and Alexander are the only McTavishes mentioned in this fairly large churchyard (although the book only covers pre-1855 MIs) - would this suggest that they were incomers to the area? Or a more simple explanation would be that llike so many other families, they couldn't always afford to erect a stone?
Hope some of this helps!
Regards
Lynn
hi lynn,
i so appreciate the information you have shared. this part of the family particularly interests me as i did some research in inverness during a holiday in 1998. it was quite disappointing to get as far as alexander & una & no further.
so i was inspired to go searching online yesterday & found an IGI entry for: Alexr. Mctavish, born 12 jul 1789 at Dores, Inverness, SCT with parents John Mctavish & Anne Mcpherson. i also found entries for his siblings: Mary Mctavish (born 7 jul 1787) & Donald (born 8 oct 1792) all born in Dores, Inverness, SCT. interestingly, Alexander's daughter Alexandrina was born 28 jan 1841 in Boleskine, Inverness - so perhaps our families are connected.
Alexandrina's birth record is quite detailed & stated that Alexander was a lochkeeper at Fort Augustus when deceased - so i'm assuming that he died 1840/41. obviously, i am very interested in the inscription about the mctavish lochkeeper & any other information that you may have about alexander & john. if john served in the army, there may be more information somewhere too.
Another hint for those with military service is at
http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/
This is a great source for information on military service. I find several records for John McTavish their in the war office
WO 97/190/17 JOHN MCTAVISH Born DARES, Inverness-shire Served in 3rd Foot Guards Discharged aged 26 1836-1839
WO 97/244/106 JOHN MCTAVISH Born BOLESKIN, Inverness-shire Served in 2nd Foot Regiment; 55th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 41 1812-1836
WO 97/580/55 JOHN MCTAVISH Born CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Africa Served in 42nd Foot Regiment; 6th Royal Veteran Battalion Discharged aged 41 1811-1840
WO 97/843/91 DUNCAN MCTAVISH Born BOLESKIN, Inverness-shire Served in 72nd Foot Regiment; Fraser's Fencibles Discharged aged 46 1799-1822
WO
WO 97/1011/65 JOHN MCTAVISH Born DUNTEMPLE, Inverness-shire Served in 92nd Foot Regiment Discharged aged 32 1806-1815
WO 97/1130/95 JOHN MCTAVISH Born BOLESKIN, Inverness-shire Served in 78th Foot Regiment; 6th Royal Veteran Battalion Discharged aged 55 1802-1814
Good Luck!
Cathy
if you're interested, perhaps we could discuss this further via email? my email adress is charleigh@bigpond.com
thanks again for your help!
catherine mims
There is a John Mc Tavish chistened 1822 Kilmallie, son Of Archibald Mc Tavish and Una Cameron? (Should this be Alexander Mc Tavish?)
Title: Treasury: Caledonian Canal Commission: Accounts, Vouchers and Memoranda Scope and content
Accounts, vouchers and memoranda of the Caledonian Canal Commission. Covering dates 1807-1825 Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s) Language English Creator names
Caledonian Canal Commission, 1807-182
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First marriage: (She died 1622-1626)
Name: Richard Cooke Age: 45 Birth Year: abt 1572 Event Date: 6 Oct 1617 Parish: St Swithin London Stone County: London Spouse's Name: Mary Vale Spouse's Age: 30 Spouse's Parish: St Swithin London Stone Event Type: Allegation Reference Number: Ms 10091/6
Name: Mr Richard Cook Preacher Marriage Date: Feb 1626 Parish: St Stephen, Walbrook County: London Borough: City of London Spouse: Margrett Sowwich Record Type: Marriage Register Type: Parish Register, by licence.
"White sheete, or A warning for whoremongers. [microform] A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there".
Name: Mr Richard Cooke Parson of this parish aged 72 years, parson here for 34 years Burial Date: 15 Aug 1639 Parish: St Swithin London Stone County: London Borough: City of London Record Type: Burial Register Type: Parish Register
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First marriage?
1851 Census:
Name: John Adam
[John Adams] Age: 25 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826 Relationship: Head Spouse's Name: Marth Adams Gender: Male Where born: Drumoak, Aberdeenshire Parish Number: 231 Civil parish: Peterculter County: Aberdeenshire Address: Westside Benthoul Occupation: Agricultural Labourer ED: 3 Page: 12 (click to see others on page) Household schedule number: 41 Line: 14 Roll: CSSCT1851_50 John Adam 25 Marth Adams 25 John Adams 2 Robina I Adams 8 Mo Robert Adams 23
1861 Census:
Name: John Adams Age: 36 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1825 Relationship: Head Spouse's name : Martha Adams Gender: Male Where born: Drumoak, Aberdeenshire Registration Number: 252 Registration district: Banchory Ternan Civil parish: Banchory Ternan County: Kincardineshire Address: House At Bruckelboy Occupation: Labourer & Crofter Of 8 Acres ED: 5 Household schedule number: 49 Line: 1 Roll: CSSCT1861_34 John Adams 36 Martha Adams 36 John Adams 12 Robena Ireland Adams 10 James Camie Adams 7 Andrew Adams 4 Mertha Hay Adams 1
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1871 Census:
Name: John Adams Age: 45 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826 Relationship: Boarder Gender: Male Where born: Drumoak, Aberdeenshire Registration Number: 185 Registration district: Cruden Civil parish: Cruden County: Aberdeenshire Address: Blackhill Occupation: Stone Quarrier ED: 7 Household schedule number: 83 Line: 1 Roll: CSSCT1871_37
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1881 Census:
Name: John Adams Age: 50 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831 Relationship: Head Spouse's name : Helen Adams Gender: Male Where born: Drumoak, Aberdeenshire Registration Number: 222A Registration district: Midmar Civil parish: Midmar County: Aberdeenshire Address: Woodsid Of Kebbaty Occupation: Quarrier & Crofter Of 6 Ac ED: 5 Household schedule number: 24 Line: 18 Roll: cssct1881_64
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First marriage??
Day: 28 Month: Nov Year: 1757 Groom Forenames: Anthony Groom Surname: HILL Groom's parish: Lambourn Groom's county: Berkshire,England Groom's condition: bac Groom's occupation: shopkeeper Groom's age: Groom's notes:
Bride Forenames: Ann Bride Surname: CHILD Bride's parish: Lambourn Bride's county: Berkshire,England Bride's condition:sp Bride's age: Bride's notes: Place of Marriage: Bondsman 1: HILL Thomas,clockmkr,Lambourn Bondsman 2: Jurisdiction: The Bishop of Salisbury in Wiltshire and Berkshire
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First name(s) Ann Sen Last name Bonnett Birth year - Death year 1717 Age - Burial year 1717 Burial date 03 May 1717 Parish Litlington
Possible Marriage:
Name: John Bennet Gender: Male Marriage Date: 24 Aug 1672 Marriage Place: Lyonshall,Hereford,England Spouse: Anne Lurcot FHL Film Number: 992316
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First name(s) John Sen. Last name Bonnett Birth year - Death year 1703 Age - Burial year 1703 Burial date 17 Sep 1703 Parish Litlington
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First name(s): Ann Last name: BROWN Date of burial: 15 Jun 1765 Age at death: 68 Calculated year of birth: 1697 Place of burial: Wroughton Dedication: All Saints County: Wiltshire
Age: 68 Forenames: Ann Surname: BROWN Place: Wroughton County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 117630 Notes: d 12 Jun 17(6)3
There is a will of a Thomas Nalder, yeoman dated 1711 of Winterborn Monkton. Wife Martha and 5 children mentioned.
May possibly be the daugher of John Nalder and Joan Shergoll who married 19.12.1681 at Chirton, Wiltshire:
Probable children of this couple- all born at Preshute: No mention of Anne
Margaret 04.01.1682
Elizabeth 26.08.1684
John 19.03.1685
Sarah 09.12.1687
Martha 18.12.1689
Thomas 27.11.1690
Stephen 21.02.1692
See John Nalder died 1691 so Ann not of this family?? Too early? Possibly not see will of John Nalder dated 1727 of Preshute with wife Joan and son Stephen?
Possibly daughter of Francis Nalder yeoman of Marlborough whose will is dated 1711?? A Francis Nalder marries a Mary Roach at Preshute in 20.03.1697??
Also a Stephen Nalder marries a Jane Martimer at Preshute in 1682??
A Margaret Nalder marries a John Mortimer at Preshute in 1684??
Could this Anne be a relative of William Neate of Yatesbury and Anne Nalder Of Calne who marry in 1688?
Also witness of Anne and Thomas Browns marriage was a Stephen Nalder of Preshute-a brother or uncle of Anne?
Also a couple Stephen and Jone Nalder who had a daughter Mary in 1684 in Preshute?
A John Nalder is buried Preshute in 1715(and 1727 and 1729)
Margaret in 1692 and 1709
Martha in 1690
Stephen in 1685
Thomas in 1688 and 1691
Preshute-MI Inscriptions
Here lyeth the body of John, son of Stephen and Elizabeth Nalder. He died May ye 3rd, 1729. Aged 5 years.(Stephen Nalder married Elizabeth Patter in Shalborne in 1720)
Possibly has a sister Mary as one marries a John Bullock at Preshute in 1721. One Mary, daughter of Francis and Mary baptised Preshute in 1700.
Mary Grace Francis and Margaret all baptised at Marlbourough, children of Francis between 1698-1702? No Anne.
Two Stephen Nalders on the National Burial Index(Wiltshire)
One buried 30th July 1685 Preshute St George, son of Thomas Ref 82206. Also Thomas buried no date other details Ref 82206
Another buried 8th May 1772 Winterbourne Gunner St Mary
Another Stephen Nalder buried Berkshire, Newbury in 1760
Wiltshire Memorial Inscriptions Index:
Stephen Nalder 22.01.1701 Great Dunford, Wiltshire
Stephen Nalder 12 April 1722, son of Stephen and Elizabeth, Ogborne St George, Wiltshire. Also Stephen and Elizabeth Nalder(no other details) Could this be the couple that lived at Preshute in the 1720's??
Stephen Nalder of Preshute is bondsman to the wedding of Ann Nalder and Thomas Brown. Brother of Ann? | Nalder, Ann (I00161)
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First name(s): Barbarah Last name: HAREDINE Date of burial: 6 Jan 1808 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not known Place of burial: Ashwell Dedication: St Mary the Virgin County: Hertfordshire
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First name(s): Edmund Last name: WEBBE Date of burial: 2 Mar 1621 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not known Place of burial: Rodbourne Cheney Dedication: St Mary County: Wiltshire Notes:
Succeeded his grandfather William.
1580- Edmond sued by his brother Thomas over provisions in his fathers will.
1587-Was of Rodbourne Cheney. Held Chief Estate there.
20.04.1613-Conveys Manor of OverWroughton to his son Oliver and Oliver's wife Mary Fuller.
1634/35 Admin. of his estate given to Cath als Webb als Richmond "pronepoti".
Died interstate.
Chanc. Inq. Post Mortem Ser. 2 389/97 Edmund Webb alias Richmon Esq.
Inquisition taken at Trowbridge, Wilts 25 Sept 19 James 1(1621) before Nicholas Goldesborough, Esq. Queens escheator in that parish by the oath of 14 jurors(named) who said that Edmund Webb als Richmond long before his death was seized in his demisne as of fee of the manor of Overraughton als Wroughton and diverse lands etc. therto belonging. So seized he by fee levied and by sufficinet assurance in law dated 20Apr. 11 James 1(1613) conveyed the said manor and premises to Oliver Webb als Richmond Esq. his son and heir apparant and to Mary one of the daus of Nicholas Fuller, Esq. deceased, now wife of said Oliver for her jointure and the heirs male of the sd Oliver and for default of such issue the issue male of the body of sd Mary by him begotten, having issue between them any daughter or daughters their ex'tors or assigns for 7 years next after the decease of Mary for their maintenance and at the end of the 7 years to the use of the sd Edmund and his assigns during the life aned after his decease to the use of Richard Webb als Richmond an other of the sons of the sd Edmund an in default of such issue to the use of John Webb als Richmond gent. and his heirs male, one ot the sons of sd Edmund and in default of such issue to the use of Richard Webb als Richmond an other of the sons of sd Edmund and his heirs male and for default of such issue to the use of Thomas Webb als Richmond another of the sons of sd Edmund and his heirs male and for default, etc to right heirs of Edmund forever. By virtue whereof and by force of statue of uses Oliver and Mary were seized of the manor of Overwroughton and so seized Edmund Webb als Richmond died.
The jurors further say that the sd Edmund was likewise seized in his demesne as of fee of 1 Capitol messuage called Rodbourne Farm, in which lately dwelt situated in Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts and diverse land and tenements thereto to the sd capital messuage belonging situated in Rodbourne Cheney, Haydon, Haydon Weeke and Moorden. So seized he by find and sufficient assurance in law dated 20 April 11 James 1st(1613) conveyed all those premises to the use of himself for life and after his death to use of Katherine Webb als Richmond then his wife for her life for her dower and after her death to use of sd Oliver and heirs male with remainder to John Webb als Richmond and heirs male, remainder to Richard Webb als Richmond, remainder to Thomas Webb als Richmond. Remainder to right heirs of sd Edmund by virtue whereof and by force of the statue of uses sd Edmund was seized of sd capitol messuage and prem. in his demesne as of free tenement for his life with remainder as aforesaid. And he died so seized on 26 March 17 James 1(1622) at Rodbourne Cheney and Oliver Webbe is his son and nearest heir and was of full age 38 years and upwards at time of his father's death and that Katherine survives and lives at Rodbourne Cheney.
The manor and premises of Overwroughton are held of William Colley. Esq as of his manor of Chiseldon, Wilts, in free and common soccage by fealty only for all services and are worth yearly clear 7 li 7s 3d and the capitol messuage called Rodbourne Farm and premises in Rodbourne Cheney, Haydon, Hayden Week and Mooredon are held by Sir Edw. Baynton. Knt. as of his manor of Rodbourne Cheney in common soccage by fealty and a yearly rent of 9s 11/2 d and a lb pepper and are worth yearly clear 10".
Edmund Webb at the time of his death had no more manors and lands in the co. or elsewhere.
"And as Edm. son of Thos. Webb, has paid all the issues and profits(from Buston Manor) from the time of Wm. Webb(his grandfather) death until 30 Nov. last in the Court of Ward and Liveries we, for 1/2 mark paid to us have respited the homage of the sd. Edm. due to us until the feast of the Nat. of St. John the Bapt. next to come and have rendered the manor and tenemant to him. (Mem. Roll 22, Eliz. Mem 11)
First name(s): Edmund Last name: WEBBE Date of burial: 2 Mar 1621 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not known Place of burial: Rodbourne Cheney Dedication: St Mary County: Wiltshire
| Webb, Edmund Richmond als (I00189)
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First name(s): George Last name: HARRADINE Date of burial: 3 Feb 1805 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not know Place of burial: Ashwell Dedication: St Mary the Virgin County: Hertfordshire
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First name(s): Hugh Last name: TILLY Date of burial: 3 Nov 1716 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not known Place of burial: Erlestoke Dedication: St Saviour County: Wiltshire
Second Marriage??
Day: 21 Month: Dec Year: 1700 Groom Forenames: Hugh Groom Surname: TILLY Groom's parish: Erlestoke Groom's county: Wiltshire,England Groom's condition: Groom's occupation: yeo Groom's age: 53 Groom's notes:
Bride Forenames: Mary Bride Surname: AVON Bride's parish: Erlestoke Bride's county: Wiltshire,England Bride's condition: Bride's age: 34 Bride's notes: Place of Marriage: Erlestoke or Coulston Bondsman 1: AVON Edward, husb, Hill Deverill, Wilts Bondsman 2: Jurisdiction: The Bishop of Salisbury in Wiltshire and Berkshire
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First name(s): Martha Last name: NEATE Date of burial: 25 Apr 1776 Age at death: 12 Calculated year of birth: 1764 Place of burial: Wroughton Dedication: All Saints County: Wiltshire
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First name(s): Mary Ann Last name: BROWN Date of burial: 18 Jul 1832 Age at death: 2 Months Calculated year of birth: 1832 Place of burial: Broad Hinton Dedication: St Peter Ad Vincula County: Wiltshire
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First name(s): Mary Last name: NEATE Date of burial: 7 Dec 1772 Age at death: 5 Calculated year of birth: 1767 Place of burial: Wroughton Dedication: All Saints County: Wiltshire
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First name(s): Rachel Last name: BROWN Date of burial: 28 Jan 1802 Age at death: 6 Calculated year of birth: 1796 Place of burial: Chiseldon Dedication: Holy Cross County: Wiltshire
Year: 1802 Age: 3 Forenames: Rachel Surname: BROWN Place: Chisledon County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 117859 Notes: 25 -- 1802 dau of William & Anne
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First name(s): Thomas Last name: WEBB Date of burial: 14 May 1700 Age at death: Calculated year of birth: Not known Place of burial: Rodbourne Cheney Dedication: St Mary County: Wiltshire
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First name(s): William Last name: NEATE Date of burial: 13 May 1772 Age at death: Infant Calculated year of birth: 1772 Place of burial: Wroughton Dedication: All Saints County: Wiltshire
Also another William aged 10 years buried at Wroughton in 1772. Possibly the son of the William Neate aged 44 years who is buried in 1778? | Neate, William (I00307)
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First name(s): William Last name: NEATE Date of burial: 30 Apr 1771 Age at death: Infant Calculated year of birth: 1771 Place of burial: Wroughton Dedication: All Saints County: Wiltshire Notes:
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First of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and then of Tidworth, Wiltshire.
JOHN SMYTH
Christening: 02 JUN 1616 Saint Mary The Virgin Aldermanbury, London, London, England
Parents:
Father: THOMAS SMYTH Family
According to Boyd a Goldsmith of Aldermanbury, London.
Will of John Smith of South Tidworth, Hampshire 22 October 1690 PROB 11/401 .Will dated 11 July 1686. Proved October 1690.
Son John Smith??
COLLINGBOURNE KINGSTON
Title Deeds
FILE [no title] - ref. 9/10/2 - date: 17 January 1693
[from Scope and Content] Articles of agreement for enclosing Collingbourne Kingston Cowdown, (1) Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, Lord of the Manor of Collingbourne Kingston, (2) Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Winchester and John Smith of Tidworth, Hants., (3) tenants (named) of the said manor.
"...During the 12th and 13th centuries the Zouche family were in control of North Tidworth;...In the 17th century the area was famous for game, especially hares, and the estate owners enjoyed coursing and hunting over their lands. The Tedworth estate was bought from Jane Ashburnham in 1650 by Thomas Smith, whose family were to remain here for 200 years. There was already a fine house here, but it is uncertain as to when this was built. The Smith family was to take a leading role in the nation when John Smith was Speaker of the House of Commons (1705-10) among other roles.
The Tedworth estate had been inherited by Thomas Assheton Smith, in 1773 and it passed to his son, Thomas Assheton Smith II in 1774. He was a keen sportsman and by the early 19th century both communities were part of a large sporting estate, which owned nearly all of both parishes by the 1830s. Woodland for coverts was planted on the downs and by 1845 the establishment had 400 foxhounds and a stable of 50 horses. This was in the time of Thomas Assheton Smith III, who was one of the country?s leading foxhunters and cleared many square miles of land for hunting. He also demolished and rebuilt Tedworth House between 1828 and 1830, moving into it in 1830.
The Churches of South Tidworth
For more than 100 years following the demolition of the old mediaeval church in 1784, the only church in South Tidworth was the small family chapel - now known as the Burial (or Mortuary) Chapel - at the top of Church Lane. It was built using stone from the demolished mediaeval church and still holds a couple of interesting inscribed wall plaques from the original church, dating from about 1730.
One commemorates a previous owner of Tedworth House, John Smith, an eminent politician of his day, who was a Lord of the Treasury at the time the Bank of England was first opened (1694) and Speaker of the first British Parliament following the Act of Union of England and Scotland in 1707.
Portal of Laverstoke
Catalogue Ref. 5M52
Creator(s):
Portal family of Laverstoke
TITLE DEEDS
HAMPSHIRE
ASHE
FILE - Manor of Ashe: Deeds, leases, settlement and memoranda of a deed, of various parcels of land in Ashe and Deane - ref. 5M52/T2 - date: 1633-1652
[from Scope and Content] (vi) John Smith Esq. and others
FILE - Manor of Ashe: Deeds, leases, quitclaims etc. re parcels of land in Ashe and Deane - ref. 5M52/T3 - date: 1646-1653
[from Scope and Content] (viii) John Smith and Robert Cordell of London, Esqs
FILE - Manor of Ashe: Deeds, leases and releases, fines, mortgages etc. re manor and farm of Ashe - ref. 5M52/T4 - date: 1669-1773
[from Scope and Content] (ii) John Smith of Tedworth [Tidworth], Esq., and others
FILE - Kingsdowne, etc: Deeds, settlements, recovery, etc., of various lands - ref. 5M52/T7 - date: 1653-1709
[from Scope and Content] (vi) John Smith of Inner Temple, London, gent
LAVERSTOKE
FILE - Deeds, royal grants, conveyances etc., of the manor of Laverstoke - ref. 5M52/T50 - date: 1539-1672
[from Scope and Content] (vi) John Smith of Tedworth, Esq., and others
May have had a daughter Martha Smith(or a grandaughter) who married John Benet of Salthorp. In Southhampton??
Possibly the Martha Smith, daughter of John Smith of Tidworth, who married Thomas Bennet of Salthorp, Wiltshire, in 1659 in St Lawerence, Pountney, London?? This Martha died 11.05.1694
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First wife may have died in 1755.
Remarried??
WILLIAM JACKSON Pedigree
Marriages:
Spouse: AMEE FARNHAM Family
Marriage: 27 JUL 1757 Manuden, Essex, England
| Jackson, William (I05289)
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For Auction:
Howard (James, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, 1619-88) Indenture agreement between James Howard and Barbara Wenman, Walter St. John, Tho. Woodforde etc., manuscript on vellum, 2pp., folds, browned and foxed, seals attached, 540 and 265 x 700mm., 21st January 1650; and a quantity of other, indentures, agreements etc., 16-19th cent. including several relating to Brighton in the 1820's, in a metal deed box, v.s., (QTY) est. £200 - £300
| Villiers, Barbara (I03583)
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Forenames: Margaret Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105649 Notes: 1st wife of John dau of Richard CAREW
| Carew, Lady Margaret (I00209)
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Forenames: Margaret Surname: ST JOHN Place: Lydiard Tregoze County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 105655 Notes: 2nd wife of Sir John dau of William WHITMAE formerly wife of Richard GROBHAM
Inscription on tomb: "Margaret was the daughter of William Whitmore, Knight of Apley in the county of Shropshire; she is living, in her fifty eighth year, notable for the fame of her virtue and given to good works; she is to be added to the tomb of this family when her time comes unless she one day decides otherwise."
Margaret died in 1637,
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FORMER OCCUPANTS OF PIPES PLACE ~
Rev. Wm Pepyr - Mid 15th Century
Richard Parker (Squire) d. 1646 Subseneschal of Gravesend
Henry Parker (son of Richard Parker)
John Parker (son of Richard Parker) Understeward for Oliver Cromwell d. 1683.
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John Parker, efq. one of Oliver's sergeants, was £°t£er< made lord-chief-justice and, by the commonwealth, in may 1659, lord-chief-baron of the Exchequer; and called again to the degree of a sergeant in 1660. His son Samuel, though educated a puritan, was a great enemy to them, and after enjoving many ecclesiastical preferments, became bishop of Oxford in 1686, and was, by open violence, in 1687, put in possession of the presidency of Magdalen-college, in that university, contrary to the statutes, but died march 20 following.
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Year: 1669 Supplied Surname : ROBINS Surname : ROBINS Full First name: Bridg Supplied First Name: Bridg Spouse Surname: PARKER Spouse Full First name: Thomas Spouse First Name: Tho Place: CLERKENWELL (ST JAMES) County: London
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Foxhanger is close to Devizes. | Haull, Elizabeth (I01212)
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Frances, widow of Sir John Gresham, jun. to Sir J. Thynne proposing a match for his daughter [Elizabeth] and a son of Sir Ralph Sadler: Pillings, 21 Aug. 1576. f.270: (b) on the desire of "Mr Nevell" [Henry Neville, of Billingbeare co. Berks, her son in law] to Mary "Lady Doyle my Lord keppers dafter", and his intention to break the promise he made to her and her deceased daughter in order to provide a jointure: Pillingbeare, 18 Nov. 1577. In the hand of, and with a postscript by, Elizabeth Thynne. f.272
My Ladye Nevells Book is a manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd, dated 1591. Its exceptional importance has long been recognized, but ‘Ladye Nevell’ has never been firmly identified. However, the only person to whom the title could correctly have been applied in 1591 was Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Henry Nevell of Billingbere (c.1518-93); and fresh examination of the arms represented in the book has confirmed that they are Sir Henry’s. Elizabeth Nevell’s principal home was Greenland, at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire, and Byrd and his brothers had homes nearby. The possibility of a local connection between Byrd and Lady Nevell is strengthened by the fact that his daughterin-law’s mother came from a Hambleden family. After Sir Henry’s death Lady Nevell remarried, and as Lady Periam received the dedication of The First Booke of Canzonets to Two Voyces by Byrd’s colleague and probable pupil Thomas Morley, who had married one of her servants.
THE NEVILLE MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH AT WALTHAM ST. LAWRENCE, BERKSHIRE
The monument was erected by Sir Henry's father. Sir Henry senior’s plaque bears the following words:
Here lyeth Buryed Sir Henry Nevill knight, descended of the Nevills Barons of Abergavenny who were a branch of the House of Westmorlande. He was (besyde martial services) of the Privie Chamber to Henry The 8 and Edward 6. He died in January Ao 1593. Issue he had only by Elizabeth sole Heyer to Sr John Gresham Knight by Dame Frances sole Heyer to Sr Henry Thwaites Knight Which Dame Elizabeth died 6 November 1573. Dame Frances are both here allso buryed with Elizabeth Nevill the oldest daughter.
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Francis Shirley died March 1577/8, seized of Boddington, Howe Court, and West Grinstead in Sussex, and of Hatherley in Somerset; and left a son, Thomas, then 22 years of age. He was buried at West Grinstead, 24th March, 1577, by the side of his wife, Barbara, who pre-deceased him and was buried 28th February, 1563, both burials being recorded in the Registers. (Stemmata Shirlieana)
1578 - Francis Shirley esq. Died 20 Mar 1578. Heir son Thomas esq age 21 and more- Sussex Post Mortem Inquisitions 1485-1649
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Francis Webb Neate
Birth: 13 May 1940
Source: Debrett's People of Today. Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 2004.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family: s of Francis Webb Neate (d 1982), of Kew, Surrey, and Fiona L M, née O'Brien; m 25 Aug 1962, Patricia Ann, da of Anthony Vincent Hugh Mulligan (d 1984), of Putney, London; 2 da (Polly b 1966, Emily b 1973), 2 s (Vincent b 1968, Patrick b 1970). Education: St Wilfrid's Sch Seaford, St Paul's, BNC Oxford (BA), Univ of Chicago Law Sch (JD). Avocational Interests: cricket, reading, family. Memberships: MCC, Berkshire CCC, Richmond CC, Falkland CC. Style: Francis Neate, Esq. Address: Schroders plc, 31 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QA
CAREER
Career: assoc Davis Polk & Wardwell NY 1963; admitted slr 1966; Slaughter and May: articled clerk 1964-66, asst slr 1966-71, ptnr 1972-97; gp legal advsr Schroders plc 1997-; vice-pres Int Bar Assoc; memb: Law Soc, City of London Slrs' Co.
SOURCE CITATION
"Francis Webb Neate." Debrett's People of Today. Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 2004.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC | Neate, Francis Webb (I00557)
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From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, March 13, 1824; Issue 3698. ...DIED. At Hastings, Mary Frances, wife of Capt. ANDREWS , and daughter of T. S. SALMON , M. D. of Reading.
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From Sue Wragg:
I am seeking information about my gggrandfather, Rev William Jarrett b. 1810 in London, England, ordained a Congregational minister in 1832.
He arrived in Sydney Australia in 1833 where he married Mary Ann Russell in 1834. He worked at churches in Sydney, Hobart and different parts of Melbourne, as well as running small schools and apparently editing The Argus newspaper in Melbourne for a time.
He left Melbourne for England in 1867, went to a charge in Galway, Ireland for about 12 months before sailing from Liverpool for America in 1868.
In 1869 he was known to have been at a church in the northern part of Philadelphia. He severed his connection with this church in 1871 and was heard of from Hampton Virginia, 1872-4.
He is said to have died on 18 Feb 1883, but where? His wife died in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 19 Jun 1884.
I would greatly appreciate any further information about this man, especially his American years, and confirmation of his date of death and place would be wonderful.
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From the Index of O.P.R. of Scotland, Parish of Pencaitland;
1799 January 8 Baptism of Jean.
Witnesses:Thomas Craig and John Robertson(Uncle?)
Parish Register of Pencaitland(Index of O.P.R. of Scotland)
1799 January 8 Baptism of Jean(a daughter of Jean/Joan and Thomas Craig) | Craig, Jean (I01072)
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From the Sherbourne Mercury, Monday, April 30th 1781.
"..and the Salisbury cutter, having taken and brought in with her a French schooner, laden with sugar, coffee, &c, and also a Flemish galliot, laden with wine and indigo..."
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From the will of Anne Harling it seems her sister Elizabeth married Robert Wingfield.
EAST HARLING (Norfolk). The stained glass window of St. Peter & St. Paul (1450), installed in 1472 by Sir Robert Wingfield (d. 1481), husband of the heiress Anne Harling, is a great treasure. The Wingfields refurbished the church in 1480. Sir Robert was Lord of the Manor, Knight of the Shire for Norfolk and Comptroller for Edward IV. As is his wife, sir Robert is portrayed in the window, kneeling on a blue and yellow cushion, wearing complete armor with a tabard of red, gold and black and a crossbelt and shoulder strap bearing the three pairs of silver wings (for Wingfield) on a red background, with his red-plumed helmet beside him....
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From www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PRO
SUMMARY: The document below is the Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the will, dated 1 August 1541 and proved 22 July 1544, of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Peche, first cousin of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, second wife of John de Vere (1442-1513), 13th Earl of Oxford. The testatrix was born Elizabeth Scrope, the daughter and co-heir of Robert Scrope, the third son of Henry Scrope (1418-1458/9), 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and his wife, Elizabeth Scrope (d. 10 May 1504), the daughter of John Scrope (b. c. 1388, d. 15 November 1455), 4th Baron Scrope of Masham, Lord Treasurer of England, and his wife, Elizabeth Chaworth (d.1466?). Through his grandparents, Richard Scrope (d. 29 August 1420), 3rd Lord Scrope of Bolton, and Margaret Neville (d.1463/4), daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Margaret Stafford (d. 9 June 1396), Robert Scrope was descended from Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113-1151), King Henry II (1133-1189) and King Edward I (1239-1307) of England. See Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2004), pp. 254-5, 538-1, 645, 670-3; the entry for Scrope of Masham in The Complete Peerage, p. 564-6; and the entries for Henry Scrope (c.1376-1415), 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, and John Scrope (1437/8-1498), 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton in the online edition of The Dictionary of National Biography. Robert Scrope married Katherine Zouche by dispensation dated 9 November 1469 (see Gibbons, A., Ely Episcopal Records (Lincoln: James Williamson, 1891), p. 225, available online), and by her had four daughters: Elizabeth, the testatrix; Anne, who married Thomas Redman of Bossall; Margaret, a nun at Barking; and Agnes. The testatrix leaves bequests in the will below to her sister Anne Redman, and to Anne Redman’s daughter, Dame Anne Willestropp, and granddaughter, Eleanor Willestropp. She also leaves a bequest to her unmarried sister, Anne Scrope, and to her sister, Dame Margaret Scrope, formerly a nun at Barking. This would appear to be the same Dame Margaret Scrope mentioned in the will of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont De Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford:
Item, I give & bequeath to my cousin, Dame Margaret Scrope, five pounds in money. Both the testatrix and her sister, Dame Margaret Scrope, were first cousins of the Countess.
For the Scrope pedigree, see Norcliffe, Charles Best, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1563 by William Flower, Vol. 16, (London: Harleian Society, 1881), p. 280, available online. For the Redman pedigree, see Greenwood, William, The Redmans of Levens and Harewood, (Highgate: Titus Wilson, 1905), pp. 117-19, available online. The testatrix married Sir John Peche (d.1522). The couple had no children. The testatrix’ first cousin, Margaret (nee Scrope) de la Pole (d.1515), widow of Edmund de la Pole (1472?-1513), 8th Earl of Suffolk, a claimant to the throne who was executed in 1513, lived with the testatrix and Sir John Peche (d.1522) during the last years of her life (see Harris, Barbara J., English Aristocratic Women 1450-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 173, available online).
Two of the testatrix’ executors were the courtiers William Fitzwilliam (c.1490-1542), Earl of Southampton, and his stepbrother, Sir Anthony Browne (c.1500-1548). William Fitzwilliam (c.1490-1542), Earl of Southampton, was a younger son of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam (d. 1498) of Aldwark and his wife, Lucy (d. 1534), daughter and coheir of John Neville, first Marquess Montagu, and niece of Richard Neville, earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker). Sir Anthony Browne (c.1500-1548), was the son of Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1506) and his wife, Lucy (d. 1534), widow of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam (d.1498) of Aldwark, Yorkshire, and daughter and coheir of John Neville, Marquess Montagu. Thus, these two executors were stepbrothers, both being the sons of Lucy Neville (d.1534). The testatrix refers to Sir Anthony Browne (c.1500-1548) as her ‘cousin’. This may be because the testatrix’ mother, Elizabeth Scrope (d. 10 May 1504) was the sister of Thomas Scrope (c. 1430-1475), 5th Lord Scrope of Masham, whose son, Thomas Scrope (b. c.1459, d. 23 April 1493), 6th Lord Scrope of Masham, married Elizabeth Neville (d.1515), the sister of Lucy Neville (d.1534). For the will of Elizabeth Neville Scrope Wentworth (d.1515), mentioning her sister, Lucy Neville (d.1534), see Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. V, pp. 50-2, available online. It is also of interest that Henry Scrope (b. c. 1373, beheaded 5 August 1415), 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, elder brother of the testatrix’s grandfather, John Scrope (b. c. 1388, d. 15 November 1455), 4th Baron Scrope of Masham, is the Lord Scrope who is implicated in the Cambridge conspiracy in the anonymous play Sir John Oldcastle, and is the Lord Scrope of Masham who is executed for his alleged part in that conspiracy in Act II, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Henry V. It is also of interest that the testatrix’ relations are known to have been owners of books and manuscripts:
The children and grandchildren of Henry, Fourth Baron Scrope of Bolton and his wife, Elizabeth Scrope (a distant cousin) were avid readers and patrons of vernacular literature, especially the women. See Wada, Yoko, ed., A Companion to Ancrene Wisse (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003), p.166, available online.
For the will of the testatrix’ first cousin Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, see TNA PROB 11/27, ff. 84-6. For the will of the testatrix’ first cousin Mary (nee Scrope) Jerningham Kingston (d.1548), see TNA PROB 11/32, ff. 168-9. For the will of the testatrix’ first cousin, Margaret (nee Scrope) de la Pole (d.1515), see TNA PROB 11/18, ff. 44-5. For the will of the testatrix’ husband, Sir John Peche (d.1522), see TNA PROB 11/20, ff. 200-1.
RM: Testamentum Elizabethe Peche
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/30, ff. 92-3 3
In the name of God, Amen. The first day of August in the year of Our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and one and in the 33rd year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eight, I, Dame Elizabeth Peche, widow, sometime wife of Sir John Peche of Lullingstone in the county of Kent, knight, deceased, being in good, whole and perfect memory, lauded be Almighty God, make, ordain and declare this my present testament and last will in manner and form following, that is to say:
First I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, my Saviour, Maker and Redeemer, and to his Blessed Mother Saint Mary, and to all the holy company of heaven, and my body to be buried in the parish church of Lullingstone aforesaid within the tomb where the said Sir John Peche, my late husband, lieth buried;
Item, I bequeath to the high altar of the said parish church of Lullingstone ten shillings sterling;
Item, I bequeath to the high altar of the parish church of Eynsford ten shillings sterling;
Item, I bequeath to the parish church of Shoreham six shillings eight pence sterling;
Item, I will that mine executors shall cause a trental of Masses to be said within the said
parish church of Lullingstone the day of my decease if they can get so many priests, and
if they cannot, then the same to be done as soon after my decease as it conveniently may
be, and likewise I will that one other trental be said in the said church of Lullingstone at
my month’s mind;
Item, I will that mine executors give and dispose in deeds of charity amongst the poor
people next inhabiting to the said parish of Lullingstone at my burial forty shillings
sterling or more, to be distributed by the discretion of mine executors, to pray for my
soul, and likewise at my month’s mind other forty shillings or more in like manner to be
divided, distributed and dealt;
Item, I will that a priest be found to pray for my soul, my husband, Sir John Peche[‘s]
soul, our friends’ souls, and all Christian souls by the space of five years or more next
after my decease as mine executors shall think convenient to be done;
Item, I bequeath unto my singular good Lord, the Earl of Southampton, Lord Privy Seal,
two gilt bowls;
Item, I bequeath to George Harte, my godson, a gilt cup with a cover;
Item, I bequeath to every one of my gentlewomen that shall happen to wait upon me at
the time of my decease ten shillings sterling;
Item, I bequeath to every one of my menservants that shall happen to be in my service at
the time of my decease, over and above his or their wages due to them at the time of my
decease, six shillings eight pence sterling;
Item, I bequeath to my sister, Agnes Redman, a gilt salt pounced with a cover, four gilt
goblets with a cover, seven spoons with knops, the bed that I lie in wholly as it standeth,
one other bed in the chamber within the King’s great chamber as it standeth, five other
featherbeds of the meaner sort, a garnish of pewter vessel, all my kitchen stuff which I
shall leave not bequeathed in this my will, seven pair of sheets, four tablecloths, if there
be so many left, the hangings in my parlour, three chests, four coffers such as she will
choose, six cushions, two carpets, one of them long and the other short;
Item, I bequeath to my sister, Agnes Scrope, one hanging of red and green say which
hangeth in the chamber over the gate, and a white silver goblet;
Item, I bequeath to my sister, Dame Margaret Scrope, sometime a nun at Barking, five
pounds sterling;
Item, I bequeath to Agnes Goldwell, wife to James Goldwell, a gilt cup with a rose in the
top of the cover and a lion in the bottom, three silver spoons with knops, three plain
spoons, a plain silver goblet, one featherbed, a bolster, a counterpoint, one little cover
such as my sister, Anne, shall appoint, a bed of wainscot, the featherbed, the bolster, the
bed of white and green satin with the curtains and counterpoint as it standeth in the
chamber over the nursery, one brass pot, one kettle, two spits and one chafing-dish;
Item, I bequeath to Elizabeth Goldwell, daughter of the said Agnes Goldwell, a plain
goblet of silver and six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to her marriage in money or
money worth to be paid and delivered to her in the day of her marriage, and if she happen
to decease before she be married then I will that the said six pounds thirteen shillings four
pence in money or money worth shall remain to her brethren to find them to school with;
Item, I bequeath to John Goldwell, son of the said Agnes, forty shillings sterling, and to
George, her son, forty shillings sterling;
Item, I bequeath to my niece, Dame Anne Willestropp, a cross of gold with a ruby and a
diamond, and my twelve beads of gold, with a ring of gold with a little cross;
Item, I bequeath to my niece, Elizabeth Kirkeby, my ring with a flat diamond;
Item, I bequeath to Eleanor Willestropp, daughter of my said niece, Dame Anne Willestropp, my drinking cruse of silver and gilt with two ears and a cover with a scutcheon with a pomegranate;
Item, I bequeath unto each one of my maiden-servants being with me at the time of my decease ten shillings sterling;
Item, I bequeath to my chaplain, Sir John Dean, parson of Lullingstone, to pray for my
soul, one cup of silver and gilt, such one as mine executors will assign and appoint, one
white silver goblet, two gilt spoons, two cushions and a short carpet;
Item, I bequeath to John Whytwood, my steward, my cup of silver and gilt [+with?] a
lion in the top and also having a lion in the bottom of the said cup, and one white silver
goblet;
Item, I bequeath to my friend, Sir John Baker, knight, my greatest cup of silver double gilt
which I have used to lend to be borne before brides at their marriages and the covering of
the same fashioned like a standing cup, and one of my greatest standard coffers;
Item, I bequeath to my Lady Baker my plate box of silver;
Item, I bequeath to Mary Baker a pair of long small beads of jet and gold with an image
with a stone;
Item, I bequeath to Sir John Garland, priest, a featherbed and all that belongeth to it, and
two of my spoons silver with knops;
Item, I bequeath to Master Robert Johnson two gilt spoons with knops, to pray for my
soul;
Item, I bequeath to Mistress Page a goblet parcel gilt without a cover;
Item, I bequeath to Alice Sandbache a featherbed and a bolster and ten shillings in money;
The residue of all ready my [sic] money, plate, jewels, stuff of household, corn, cattle and
other my goods as well movable as unmovable whatsoever they be, over and above my
debts and funerals contented and paid, I give and bequeath to mine executors hereafter
named, they to dispose and order the same as by their discretions they shall think
expedient and convenient;
And of this my said testament and last will I make and ordain the same right honourable
and my singular good Lord the Earl of Southampton, the said Sir John Baker, my sister,
Anne Redmayne, John Whitwood, my steward, and Sir John Dean, parson of
Lullingstone, mine executors, praying the same mine executors that they will see this my
present testament performed and kept as my special trust is in them;
In witness whereof to this my present testament and last will I have set my sign the day
and year abovesaid. Elizabeth Peche. Per me Iohannem Baker. Per me Iohannem Deane
clericum. Per me John Garland, Anne Redmayne, Agnes Goldwell. Per me Alexandram
Courthopp. Per me Thomam Godfrey.
By this codicil made the 27th day of May the 36th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
King Henry the 8th, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and in
earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland Supreme Head, I, Dame Elizabeth
Peche, widow, will, devise and ordain that where I, the same Dame Elizabeth, by my
testament and last will bearing date the first day of August the 33rd year of the reign of
our said Sovereign Lord have made and ordained the right honourable Lord Earl of
Southampton and late Lord Privy Seal one of mine executors, who is now deceased and
departed to Almighty God, whose soul God pardon, and by the same have bequeathed to
the same late Earl two gilt bowls, and where also I gave by the same will unto Eleanor
Willstropp, now deceased, a drinking cruse of silver and gilt with two ears and a cover
with a scutcheon with a pomegranate, and farther by the same testament gave and
bequeathed unto John Whitwood, now deceased, a cup of silver and gilt with the cover
having a lion on the top and also having a lion in the bottom, and one silver goblet, and
unto Alice Sandrach(?) a featherbed and a bolster and ten shillings in money, I will and
ordain by this present writing that as well the same my legacies and bequests as the
assignment of the said Earl to be one of my executors shall be utterly void and of none
effect, and I will, ordain and make by this my present codicil my well-beloved cousin, Sir
Anthony Browne, knight, one of mine executors in the stead and place of the said late
Earl, and do give and bequeath unto him for his pains and labours to be taken by him in
that behalf two of my gilt bowls;
Item, I give and bequeath to Agnes Goldwell one of my white silver bowls pounced;
Item, I give and bequeath unto Mistress Page one featherbed and a bolster;
And by this present codicil I ratify, affirm and confirm all other my legacies, bequests,
gifts and making and assignment of mine other executors in the same my testament made,
bequeathed, given and appointed, desiring my said cousin, Sir Anthony Browne, and
other mine executors in my said testament named to see my said testament in and by all
things performed and fulfilled as my special trust is in them. John Baker, Stephen
Keymys, Steven Dowle(?), Annes Holwell.
Probatum fuit suprascriptum Testamentum vnacum Codicillo annexo xxijdo Die mensis Iulij Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo quarto Ac approbatum et insinuatum Commissaque fuit Administracio omnium et singulorum bonorum Iurium et creditorum antedictam Defunctam et eius testamentum qualitercunque concernentium Domino Anthonio Browne militi preclari ordinis Garterij militi Domino Iohanni Baker militi Agnete Redmayne et Iohanni Dean clerico Executoribus in huiusmodi testamento nominatis De bene et fideliter administrando etc Ac de Pleno et fideli Inuentario etc Necnon de plano et vero Compoto etc inde Reddendo ad sancta Dei Euangelia in Persona xpoferi Robynson notarij publici Procuratoris dictorum Executorum in hac parte Legitime constituti Iuratis
[=The above-written testament together with the codicil annexed was proved on the 22nd day of the month of July in the year of the Lord the thousand five hundred forty-fourth, and probated and entered, and administration was granted of all and singular the goods, rights and credits whatsoever concerning the aforesaid deceased and her testament to Sir Anthony Browne, knight, Knight of the noble Order of the Garter, Sir John Baker, knight, Agnes Redman and John Dean, clerk, executors named in the same testament, sworn on the Holy Gospels in the person of Christopher Robinson, notary public, proctor of the said executors in that behalf sufficiently and lawfully constituted, to well and faithfully administer etc., and [+to prepare] a full and faithful inventory etc., and also to render a plain and true account thereof.
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From:
Website:Combs &c. Families of Saint Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury ...
11 Feb 1621 Saint Mary The Virgin Aldermanbury, London, England. Christened: Henry SMYTH, s/o Thomas SMITH (FamilySearch.Org)
Perhaps Henry, brother of Martha, christened 1617, her brother named in her hsuban'd's 1673 Wanlip, Leicester will.
14 Sep 1617 Saint Mary The Virgin Aldermanbury, London, England. Christened: Martha SMYTH, d/o Thomas (FamilySearch.Org)
Possibly Martha SMYTH, d/o Thomas of London, who married Archdale PALMER, s/o William and Barbara ARCHDALE Palmer, who was possibly the Thomas SMYTH who witnessed the 1633 Aldermanbury will of Ellis COMBE (below).
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From: "Kevan L. Barton" Subject: Repost: Estate Conveyance: Atye and St. John
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:19:59 -0500
In-Reply-To:
....When Sir Arthur Atye, Knt., of Kilburn Priory, Middlesex, died 2 Dec 1604, his s. and h. Robert Atye, Esq., of Kilburn Priory was aged 17 years, 11 months. This would put Robert's birthday at c. Jan 1587. According to NHH, the wardship was granted to the Earl of Devon per the wishes of Sir Arthur. If this is true, the Earl would probably have been William Courtenay.
Arthur's IPM was conducted 2 Jac. (1604/05?) and found him "seised of one moiety of the manor of Hampstead alias Shuttep-Hill, held of the king in capite by a fourth part of a knight's fee, and valued at 4l.2s. and the site of the dissolved monastery of Kilborne, with the demesne lands, held of the king in capite, by knight's service, and valued at 40 shillings". (NHH. Cole's Escheats, Harl. MS. 410. p. 63)
NHH states that Robert Atye, "on his marriage with Jane, daughter of Sir John Saint John, of Lydiard Tregoze, conveyed this manor of Hampstead with appurtenances in Hampstead, Hendon, and Ealing held of the king in capite, to the said John St. John, [This John would not have been Jane's father (d. 1594), but her brother John, who would become the 1st Baronet], his heirs and assigns, to the use of the Said Robert Atye for life, and then to the use of his wife Jane for life, as her jointure; and then to the use of the first, second, and other sons of the said Robert Atye and his wife Jane, and their heirs male successively; and in default of such issue sundry remainders over." This alienation supposedly took place 1 Dec 6 Jac (1608/9?).
Robert and Jane, however, had no surviving issue male and the estate was conveyed, c. 1637, by Sir John St. John to Eleanor wife of Sir William Roberts, knt. of Willesdon, and daughter and heir of the said Robert Atye. (NHH. Pat. 6 Jac. p. 27, m. 13). Robert had died in 1612 according to Friends of Lydiard Tregoz Report No. 20, dated 16 May 1987. Jane died in 1654.
Now, the problem. Robert and Jane's heir, Eleanor (alias Anne), was born 4 June 1608. There is also a Hampstead registered, 11 June 1606, birth of an Arthur Atye, son of Mr. Robert Atye. Obviously, the conveyance (1608/9) of the estate "on the marriage of" presents problems.
In today's parlance, I'd assume the statement "on the marriage of" to mean when they were married. I'd assume then that the Robert Atye/St. John marriage occurred in 1608. Can the conveyance have occurred a number of years after the marriage, after the children started coming, and still mean "on the marriage of"? The Friends of Lydiard Tregoze give the marriage date as c. 1607.
Remember that Robert would have been just 20/21 years of age at the conveyance, and I believe, just recently took possession of his properties. Prior to that, they would have been tied up in his wardship. Would a conveyance have been postponed until after the wardship was over?
This is all pretty basic, but I wanted to get your thoughts on it as it has tremendous bearing on my genealogy. Keep in mind as well that Middlesex Pedigrees provides Jane and Robert as the parents of Eleanor. As does NNH. The question is not on the marriage of Jane and Robert, just when it occurred.
Any notes welcome.
Cheers,
Kevan
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From: Portculis
Subject: Corrected St. John ancestry
Date: 29 Jan 1998 10:00:33 GMT
7. Sir John St. John, born in or before 1495, died in 1558. His monumental inscription says he was raised by Margaret Beaufort (d. 1509). He married Margaret Walgrave by 1521, and was father of Oliver St. John, 1st Lord St. John of Bletsoe (d. 1581-2). | St. John, John (I04615)
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From: Portculis
Subject: Corrected St. John ancestry
Date: 29 Jan 1998 10:00:33 GMT
4. Sir Oliver St. John, born by 1398, was aged 26 at his father's death. Oliver's witnessed the conveyance of the manor of Llanfair, Glamorgan, and was mentioned in other Welsh records. As his father was such a prominent member of the royal household, it is no wonder that he was married, as her first husband, to Margaret Beauchamp (the "de" in surnames was generally dropped about 1400), heir of the Barony of Bletsoe. Margaret was born about 1409-10 (aged 11 in 1420-1), and DIED IN 1482-3. Her first husband, Sir Oliver, died in 1437 As previously stated, Margaret married, second, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, by whom she was grandmother of Henry VII. It was probably because of this close connection with the House of Tudor that her eldest son and heir was made a Knight of the Bath after Henry VII ascended the throne.
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Full text of "Letters from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe
GEORGE LORD CAREW
SIR THOMAS ROB,
AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT MOGUL
1615-1617.
EDITED BY
JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A.
...Black Oliver St. John (p. 11.) TheE identity of this person is involved in obscurity. We know but little relating to him. The proceedings on his trial are not recorded, with the exception of the speech of Lord Bacon on the prosecution, which is printed in Ilowell's State Trials, ii. 899, wherein he describes him as a gentleman of ancient house and name, and as being a principal person and a dweller in that town (Marlborough), and one whom the mayor considered likely to give both money and good example. Lord Campbell supposes him to be the same Oliver St. John who in the reign of Charles I. was one of the prominent leaders of the republican party in the House of Commons, and who, in 1640, was made Solicitor-General and afterwards Lord Chief Justice. Clarendon states of the latter (book iii. 186) that he " was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, reserved and of a dark and clouded countenance, very proud, and conversing with very few, and those men of his own humour and inclinations. He had been questioned, committed, and brought into the Star Chamber many years before, with other persons of great name and reputation (which first brought his name on the stage), for communicating some paper among themselves, which some men at that time had a mind to have extended to a design of sedition, but, it being quickly evident that the prosecution would not be attended with success, they were all shortly after discharged." Lord Campbell was probably misled by the close similarity of the character, as here given, of St. John, the future Lord Chief Justice, to that of the gentleman mentioned in the text, although the historical part of the narrative does. A swarthy complexion seems to have been hereditary in this family. Leland, Itinerary, vi. 27, speaking of " Olyver Saynt John, sonne to the excellent duchesse of Somerset " (as he is designated in his will, printed in Nicolas's Testamenta Vetusta, and in Jacob's Peerage, and which will is dated in 1496), describes him as "a blak and big felow that died at Fonterabye in Spayne, when the late Marquise of Dorset was there."
This Oliver was the founder of the family of Lydiard Tregoze. ....not agree with the case of the latter, in which the prosecution was quite successful. Mr. Foss, however, clearly proves his Lordship to be mistaken, by showing that the Oliver St. John who became Lord Chief Justice was born about the year 1598, and that he was admitted a pensioner of Queen's College, Cambridge, on Aug. 16, 1615, being then seventeen years of age. It is highly improbable that the letter to the Mayor of Marlborough was written by such a youth, or that the prosecution of a mere boy would have created such anxiety at court as to cause, at the request of the Council, the trial to be deferred until the Lord Chancellor (Egerton), who from age and infirmity was upon the point of resigning the great seal, could attend the hearing, " so necessary" did they "judg his presence there." The statement of Mr. Foss is confirmed by the will of Oliver St. John of Cayshoe, co. Beds, which proves the parentage of the Lord Chief Justice, and shows that in 1625 he was still a student in London. Mr. Foss falls into a still more remarkable error himself by stating, upon the authority of Harris's Lives, that Black Oliver mentioned in the text was Oliver St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, who in 1622 was created Lord Grandison. The printed genealogical accounts which we have of this gentleman certainly state that in his youth "he was sent to study the law in the Inns of Court, but having been engaged in a duel he was obliged to quit the kingdom." He served in the Low Countries under the Veres, and was knighted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He afterwards distinguished himself in the wars in Ireland, and in December 1605 was made Master of the Ordnance in that kingdom, which office he continued to hold until 1616. He thus spent the early part of the reign of James I. in that country, and we find him taking an active part in the debates in the Irish House of Commons in 1613 and 1614. In 1615 he seems to have been in England, but not in disgrace, for in October of that year he was so much in the confidence of the King as to be entrusted with the custody of the Earl of Somerset, and in the following April he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland. He could not, therefore, be the same person who was prosecuted and received so severe a sentence in April 1615, as Mr. St. John of Marlborough, who is no-where spoken of as a Knight. Having disposed of the claims advanced for these two gentlemen, it remains to be considered who was "Black Oliver St. John," who on 11 October, 1614, wrote the letter to the Mayor of Marlborough. Chamberlain calls him " Oliver St. John of Wiltshire." He was therefore in all probability of the Lydiard stock, and, on turning to the pedigree of that branch of St.John, recorded in the Heralds' College, we find that John St.John of Lydiard had two sons: John, the grandfather of Oliver who became Lord Grandison, and Oliver, who had a son of his own name, described as " son and heir."
The elder Oliver is stated by Edmonson, iv. 328, to have married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Love, of Winchelsea, and to have had three sons : Oliver, Nicholas, and John. This statement is confirmed by the following document among the title-deeds of an estate called Troppinden, in Sussex, preserved among the Evidences of George E. Courthope, of Whilegh, in that county, Esq. by whom it has been kindly communicated. " Sir Edward Randyll, Knt. and Anne his wife, by Ind're 10 May, 6 Jas. did sell unto Thomas Risly of Brenchley the moiety of all these lands and tenements. [The preamble of the said Indenture is as follows : Between Sir Edward Randill, of Albury, co. Surry, Knt. and dame Anne his wife, sole dau'r and heir of Anne Morgan, dec d, late wife of Sir John Morgan, Knt. and one of the dau's and heirs of John Love, late of Winchelsey, co. Sussex, Gent.] "Olyver St.John, Esq. by Ind're same date, did sell the other moiety to said Thomas Risley. [The preamble of the said Indenture is as follows : Nicholas St.John, Gent, one of the sons of Olyver St.John, Esq. and of Margaret his wife, one of the dau'rs of John Love, dec d , late of Winchelsey, Merchant.] " Thomas Risly, by will, 6 Feb. 1612, gives all sd lands to Symon Bynyor, who sold the same to Stephen Ballard and Richard Besbeech. " Richard Besbeech hath the custody of all the ancient writings. " John Love, of Winchelsey, dec d , was owner of these premises, and he had issue 2 dau'rs, viz 1. Margaret, who married to the said Oliver St.John, and another to Sir John Morgan, Knt. and died leaving issue only the said Ann, wife of the af d Sir Edward Randyll. " Margaret died leaving issue Nicholas St.John, Oliver St.Johu, and John St. John, for whom their father hath undertaken that they shall release, or else there is a lease for 1000 y'rs for security. " Nicholas St. John hath already released. " The other two brothers be not of age.
He made his will, dated 26 Mar. 1593; names "son St. John and Margaret my dau'r his wife, all lands, &c." "son St. John, house he now lives in in Winchilsea "son Morgan, house in Winchilsea," &c. After his decease to "Anne Morgan, his dau'r begotten on Anne Love deceased, late dau'r of me the said John Love." A subsequent Indenture, dated 5 May, 13 Jas. (1615), shows that Oliver and John St. John were still under age, and that their father Oliver was living at Marlborough, co. Wilts, and their mother was dead.
It appears from this document that Oliver St.John and Margaret Love were married before 1593, when John Love made his will, in all probability just previous to that date, for in 1612 Oliver St.John's eldest son was of age, and the two younger were yet minors in 1615. In 1593 he resided at Winchelsea. How soon afterwards he settled at Marlborough we have no evidence to show, but we find his name, as an inhabitant of that town, in an armoury book preserved in the corporation chest of the date of 1606; and the register of burials of the parish of St. Mary shows that "Margaret, wife of Oliver St.John, gent, buried Sept. 19th, 1606."
This entry agrees with the statement in the Indenture of 5 May, 13 Jas. that the mother of his three sons was dead. After the death of this wife he seems to have re-married, for the register above quoted records that " Mrs. St.John, wife of Mr. Oliver St.John (was) buried April 3rd, 1608." In the "Taxation of the Freeholders of the Borough, and Out-dwellers holding freeholds, for aid-money to marry the Princess Elizabeth," his name does not appear. This, however, was the benevolence against which he wrote, and as it was regarded as a free gift, the names of the contributors, only, would be recorded. The above document shows that he was a resident in Marlborough in 1615. We have no evidence of the date when he died, but the will of an Oliver St.John is recorded in the registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the year 1639, although, unfortunately, as stated in a marginal note in the volume, neither the original nor any copy can be found. No trace of his burial is found in the Marlborough registers. If, therefore, we can regard Edmonson as correct in stating that Oliver, the second son of John St.John of Lydiard, was the husband of the daughter of Love, of Winchelsea, there can be no reasonable cause to doubt his identity with " Black Oliver." Only one discrepancy remains to be disposed of. Both Edmonson and the Visitation Pedigree of 1623 show Oliver as the " son and heir" of Oliver St.John, by Margaret Love. This can only be reconciled by supposing that Nicholas, who is proved by the above document to have been his eldest son, died between 1612, when he released his interest in Troppinden, and 1623.
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Gen MedievaL
THOMAS ECHINGHAM, Knt., of Etchingham, was born about 1404 (aged thirteen and more at father's death)> He was married for the first time to AGNES SHOYSWELL, daughter of John de Shoyswell, of Shoyswell, Sussex. He was married for the second time between 1415 and 1424 to MARGARET KNYVETT, childless widow of Robert de Teye, Knt., of Barsham, Suffolk (died 1415), and daughter of John Knyvett, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, by Joan, daughter fo John de Botetourt, Knt. SIT THOMAS ECHINGHAM died on 15 Oct.
1444 (will proved at Lambeth 28 Oct. 1444), and was buried at Etchingham. His widow was living in 1467. (Arch. Jour. 7:268 (1850). Echyngham (1850), pp. 13-14. Gen. (n.s.) 21:243-250 (1905). C.P. 1: 342 (1910). Paget (1977), p. 445.
Then there is C.P. VI 561-5 which I haven't seen but which apparently says "He [Thomas Hoo] married, 1stly, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Wyhingham, of Whychingham, Norfolk." From SGM discussions last year I seem to remember that C.P. is wrong and this Elizabeth is the daughter of Sir William Echynham although I can't see a correction for C.P. on Chris Phillips' page. The relevant post was 7 Feb 2003 where I quoted from Thomas Echyngham's will that Rosie Bevan sent me where Thomas Echyngham refers to Elizabeth Lewkenor as his sister.
"Residuu oim bonoz meoz non legatoz decimis meis pimit plenarie psolutis Do & lego Margarete Uxori mei Thome Lewkenore militi Dne Elizabeth Lewkenore sorori mei Thome Echyngham filio meo Henrici priori priorat de CoumbewelleThome Hoo Rico Wakhurst Juniori & Johi Asheburnham quos constituo & ordino executores meos ad disponend & exequend presens testamentum meu & ultima voluntatem mea prout ei melius viderint expedire Et Johem ffortescu & Rogeru ffenys Milites quos constituo & ordino supuisores hui testameti & voluntatis mee predicte."
In terms of the descent, these sources say;
1. William Echyngham = Joan FitzAlan
2.(a) Thomas Echyngham = Margaret Knyvett
2.(b) Joan Echyngham = John Baynton
And by an unknown wife
2.(c) Elizabeth Echynham = (1) Thomas Hoo, (2) Thomas Lewkenor
Whereas if I have this right you are suggesting this is the descent;
1. William Echyngham = Alice Batisford
2.(a) Joan Echyngham = William Rikell
2.(b) Elizabeth Echynham = (1) Thomas Hoo, (2) Thomas Lewkenor
2.(c) Thomas Echynham
And by Joan FitzAlan
2.(c) Thomas Echynham = Margaret Knyvett
The first question has to be am I correctly representing your views?
Secondly, where is the Joan who married John Baynton?
Thirdly, I do not understand why the will of Joan Echyngham Brenchley
makes Elizabeth Echyngham Hoo Lewkenor the daughter of Alice Batisford
rather than Joan FitzAlan, could you explain this further please?
thanks
Louise
Sir William de11 ETCHINGHAM of Etchingham, Sussex (William de10, James de9, Richard de8, William de7, Simon de6, Simon de5, William de4, Simon fitz Drogo de3, Drogo de2, Reinbert1), born abt 1360; died 20 Mar 1412/13. He married (1) Alice BATISFORD (heiress), died abt. 1395, daughter of William BATISFORD of Buckholt, co. Sussex and Margery de PEPLESHAM; (2) aft 1395 Joan FITZALAN (ARUNDEL), born Est. 1370; died 1 Sep 1404, daughter of Sir John FITZALAN 1st Lord Arundel, Lord Maltravers and Eleanor MALTRAVERS de jure Baroness Maltravers.
Notes for Sir William de ETCHINGHAM of Etchingham, Sussex
RD 500, p 295.
Faris, pps 9, 127.
Marlyn Lewis, post to SGM dated 1997-3-23, Re: Echyngham.
Louise Staley, post to SGm dated 2003-2-7, ECHYNGHAM & HOO (was Elizabeth wife of William ECHYNGHAM).
Charlotte Smith, post to SGm dated 2004-5-22, Wm. Echyngham and wifeAlice Batisford.
Genealogic et Heraldica, Vol. 1, p 332.
H.S.P. 105:6 [1954] [1623 Vis. Wilts [Johes Bainton miles fils: et
haer temp: E.4 = Jana filia Willi Ichingham mil:]. Abel Lunt [1963],
pp 209-223.
D. E. Ball, The Stainbed Glass Windows of Nettlestead Church, (1908).
Children of Sir William de ETCHINGHAM of Etchingham, Sussex and Alice BATISFORD (heiress) were as follows:
+24iElizabeth12 ETCHINGHAM, born Est 1385. She married (1) Sir
Thomas HOO of Hoo; (2) Sir Thomas LEWKNOR.
25ii Joan12 ETCHINGHAM. She married Sir William RICKHILLL, died
1407.
Children of Sir William de ETCHINGHAM of Etchingham, Sussex and Joan FITZALAN (ARUNDEL) were as follows:
+26iSir Thomas12 ETCHINGHAM of Etchingham, born abt 1401; died 15 Oct 1444. He married (1) Agnes SHOYSWELL; (2) Margaret KNYVETT.
+27iiJoan12 ETCHINGHAM, born bef 1 Sep 1404; died bef 1456. She married Sir John BAYNTON of Falstone in Bishpston, co. Wilts, MP,
Sheriff of Wiltshire.
Abduction: An Alternative Form of Courtship?
by Julia Pope, M.A.
Presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo. MI, May 2003
...I will turn now to the facts of the case itself. Richard Wakehurst the Elder, who had been a member of Parliament and Justice of the Peace, died in 1455. In his will he named Thomas Hoo and William Gaynesford as the supervisors who would ensure that the executors fulfilled their duties properly.[5] His only son, Richard the Younger, had predeceased him. Thus, Richard the Elder’s only heirs were his two granddaughters Margaret and Elizabeth, the children of his son Richard and daughter-in-law Agnes Gaynesford (a sister of William and John). Although their ages are not certain, they were still unmarried at the time of their grandfather’s death. They were probably quite young, most likely in their early teens. Their wardship apparently fell to their grandmother Elizabeth’s relatives.
Not long afterwards, a petition was sent to the chancellor by the girls’ grandmother Elizabeth, who was writing along with Thomas Etchingham, Thomas Hoo, and John and William Gaynesford, esqs.[6] This petition stated that her granddaughters had been placed under the care of Sir John Culpepper. Incidentally, in a detail apparently not mentioned in Elizabeth’s original petition, Sir John had, some time previously, married Agnes Gaynesford, the girls’ widowed mother.[7] Their joint tomb remains in the Lady Chapel at Goudherst, Kent, and it indicates that together they had six children.[8] Culpepper had, the petitioners claimed, “promysed on the faithe and trouthe of his bodye and as he was a gentylman” that no harm would come to the girls. The plaintiffs made serious accusations against John, along with his brothers Richard and Nicholas Culpepper and their brother-in-law Alexander Clifford, claiming that they “with force and armes, riotously agense the Kinges peas, arayed in the manner of warre…toke and caried away” the girls to Clifford’s home in Bobbing, Kent. At the time of their abduction, we learn, Margaret and Elizabeth made “grete and pittious lamentacion and weping.” Elizabeth and her co-petitioners ended by claiming that the two young women were still being detained against their wills in London at the home of one John Gibson.
The various families involved here, all members of the local gentry, were heavily connected through several marriages.[9] There is strong evidence that Etchingham and Hoo (whose father was married to a woman named Elizabeth Etchingham) were relatives of the girls’ grandmother Elizabeth (whose maiden name was also Etchingham), although the exact nature of their relationship remains unclear.[10] The Gaynesford family was doubly married into the Wakehurst family, and thus could also be expected to have a strong interest in the matters at issue.
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GEN Medieval List:
Robert Scrope was said in Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire to have been seated at Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. He was granted the manor of South Mimms, in Middlesex, by Richard III in 1484. [Hampton, citing CPR 1476-85, p. 376] He died on 25 Aug. 1500 [Dugdale - Hampton merely says c.1500], and was buried at Hambledon, where his brass remains today. He married Katherine, "dau. of ... Zouche" [Dugdale], and left 4 daughters and co-heiresses:
1) Elizabeth Scrope, m. "Sir John Percehay" [Dugdale], but this may have been [from a post by Adrian Channing on 3-18-2003 entitled 'PECHE of Lullingstone, Kent'], Sir John Peche, of Lullingstone, Kent (born c1473, PCC Will 28 Apr 1521 (25 Maynwaring), pr at Knowll 2 Oct 1522; altar tomb and MI at Lullingstone), son and heir of Sir William Peche of Lullingstone (d. 9 Apr. 1488), by his first wife Jane (possibly a Clifford). If Sir John Peche was indeed Sir John Percehay, then Elizabeth is perhaps the Dame Elizabeth Peche of Lullington whose will was proved 1544; PCC Pynnyng 12.
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Gen-Medieval List:Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:39:24 +1000
Leo this is what I'm showing
Thomas Knyvett, 4th Lord /Berners/ de jure died 9 Feb 1617/1618
He is the one who married Muriel Parry daughter of Thomas /Parry/ , Comptroller of the Household to E1; Knt 1558 by his wife Anne /Reade/
We can know that Muriel was *old* because Thomas her father died 15 Dec 1560, so she cannot be the wife of Thomas Jr.
The Thomas who m Elizabeth Bacon "second daughter" of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey (by his wife Anne Gresham), d.v.p. and he was buried 20 Sep 1605 (at an unknown place)
according to stirnet.
They did however manage to have at least or exactly three children:
Catherine Knyvett born by 1595 (not in) married Sir Edmund Paston
"heir apparent of his father" (so-called in 9J1), who Edmund died 1632 "aged 48" and is buried at Paston.
In addition to this Catherine, Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon had a son Thomas bap 10 Jun 1596 who was the "successor of his
grandfather" giving extra proof that his father had d.v.p. This last Thomas (the 3rd if you will) is that one who m Catherine de Burgh "fourth and youngest daughter of her father" the 6th Baron Burgh of Gainsborough.
And also, Thomas Knyvett and Elizabth Bacon had a son Nathaniel Knyvett (1598-1659) who married the intriguingly named "Margaretha Vernatti" in 1630.
Will Johnson
Hope that confused you even more.
National Archives: Copy letter from Sir Thomas Knyvett to Sir Nathaniel Bacon KNY 471 372 x 1 1607
1 paper Contents: Re his daughter's jointure, mentioning suit between him and the unruly people of Wymondham
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GEN-Medieval:
Of the many sons-in-law of Ralph Nevill, 1st Earl of Westmorland, surely the most obscure (followed in a close second by Sir Gilbert Lancaster) is "William Cressoner of Sudbury, Suffolk" [CP, Vol. XI, pg. 543], the second husband of Margaret, widowed Lady Scrope of Bolton, sixth daughter of Earl Ralph by his 1st wife Margaret Stafford.
Margaret's first marriage in 1413 to the 19-year-old Richard, 3rd Lord Scrope of Bolton, was undoubtedly the result of her father's negotiations. Lord Scrope served with Henry V at Agincourt and on other French campaigns before his death in 1420, at the young age of 26. His lands were quickly granted in less than a month to Margaret's half-brother Richard Nevill (future Earl of Salisbury), during the minority of his young son Henry le Scrope, and Margaret gave a f1,000 recognizance 2 months later that she would keep Henry and his younger brother Richard le Scrope unmarried.
Luckily the huge sum of f1,000 did not apply to her staying nmarried, for on 5 Nov. 1427, she was pardoned f100 (or paid f100 for the pardon - it's not clear) for marrying William Cressoner. CP provides no biographical information on him beyond the fact that he died shortly before 16 May 1454, when writs were issued for IPMs regarding his lands in Norfolk, Essex, Hunts and Suffolk. Also that his son and heir Alexander was given seisin of his lands in Essex and Suffolk on 5 Nov. 1454.
Using the published Calendars of IPMs, plus the PRO website index, we can fill in some blanks regarding this obscure William Cressener.
Firstly, he was born on 25 Nov. 1392, and was the son and heir of Robert Cressener, whose 1410 IPMs for Essex, Huntingdon, and Suffolk survive. Robert died on 9 Sept. 1410, and the Suffolk IPM returned "William his son and heir will be 18 years of age on 25 Nov. next."
I get confused with regnal years, but believe this matches up with William's unpublished proof of age in the PRO:
C 138/10/49 Cressener, William. Proof of age.: Suff 2 Hen V
William's father Robert seemed to be of very limited means at his 1410 death. According to his IPMs, he held only scattered lands in Essex and Suffolk - valued in total at less than 50s. annually. He'd held the manor of Eynesbury in Huntingdon, and the manor of Preston called Mortimers and the manor of Netherhall in Otley, both in Suffolk, but "long before his death he granted [them] by charter." Perhaps this was a legal loophole, though, and Robert managed to retain the income from those manors.
At any rate, William Cressener was certainly not wealthy, and it's curious how this minor Suffolk gentryman managed to even cross the path of the Northern widow of the Lord Scrope of Bolton. Sudbury is a market town in Suffolk, and is not mentioned at all in his father's IPM, so it's hard to determine why CP has William seated there. Suffolk certainly seems to be the county Cressener was associated with. Aside from Margaret, Lady Scrope of Bolton, being buried in 1463/4 in the Austin Friars church in Clare, Suffolk, the Proof of Age shows William was born in that county.
It is certainly William who is mentioned in the following PRO document:
C 143/448/21 William Cressenere, Esq., Robert Cavendyssh, John Coo, Thomas Heygham, and Henry Trace to grant their manor in Stetchworth called Patemeres to the prior and convent of Ely, retaining land in Thriplow. Camb. 17 HENRY VI.
Margaret's two Scrope sons by her first husband went on to quite successful political careers, Henry as the 4th Lord Scrope of Bolton, and Richard as Bishop of Carlisle. CP does not mention if William's heir Alexander Cressener was his son by Margaret, or by a previous wife (William turned 35 in 1427, the year Margaret was pardoned for marrying him). We can only be sure that Alexander was at least age 21 in 1454 when he inherited William's lands. William's unpublished IPM would probably help determine if Margaret was Alexander's mother.
C 139/152/16 Cressener, William, esq: Hunts, Essex, Suff 32 Hen VI
Alexander, in turn, apparently left issue, though the inheritance seems vague:
C 1/490/25 Edward, son of Alexander Cressener. v. John Cressener, knight, cousin and heir of the said Alexander.: Annuity charged by the said Alexander on lands in Boxted called `Mores' and `Smokell,' to commence after the death of Raufe Cressener, his brother.: Suffolk.
Was Raufe Cressener the brother of Alexander and son of Margaret? Could he have been named for his grandfather Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmorland?
The IPMs of Alexander Cressener and his kinsman and heir Sir John Cressener probably shed some light:
E 150/610/7 Cressener, Alexander: Suffolk 13 Henry VII
C 142/82/87 Cressener, John, knight: Essex 30 Hen. VIII.
At any rate, it's interesting to see how the blood of the Nevill Earls of Westmorland and Stafford Earls of Stafford could flow in two generations to a minor Suffolk gentry family.
The Cressenors were an ancient family in Norfolk and Essex, who had ennobled their blood by marriage with the Mortimers of Attleburgh and the Ferrers. Sir Alexander was the eldest son of William Cressenor of Hawkendon and his wife Margaret, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and widow of Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton. Sir Alexander was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk during the reign of Edward IV, at whose coronation he was made a Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The Cressenors bore on their coat armour six horse shoes, the original arms of Ferrers."
(She is called Cecily in two IPMs of Alexander. His 1498 IPMs and those of his daughter-in-law Anne Knevett, who died the year before him and was widow of his eldest son John, also reveal that John was killed at Bosworth.
I say "sister or perhaps half-sister" because Hampson says she is daughter of Sir John Radclyffe, KG (d. 1440) and his wife Katherine Burnell. This couple is identified in CP 5:484-5 as the parents of the younger Sir John who d. at Towton. But Hampson says Katherine Burnell was the 2nd wife of the earlier Sir John and the younger Sir John was son of the 1st wife Cecilia, one of the three daughters of Sir Thomas Mortimer of Attleburgh by his wife Mary Parke and widow of Sir John Herling of East Herling, Norfolk.
His mother Cecilia was also half-sister to "the great Sir John Falstolf" (of Shakespeare fame), through her mother's third marriage to John Fastolf of Caistor near Yarmouth (her third husband was cousin to her 2nd second husband).
CP does appear to support this adequately by citing in two footnotes the inquisitions post mortem of Katherine (p. 485, note a) and the younger John Radcliffe (note d). Both these identify the younger John as the son and heir of John and Katherine.
A more detailed account of this Cressener family and descendants is given in Morant's _History of Essex_ 2:266, which states that William Cressener (d. 1454) married Margaret Nevill (d. 1461) and that she was mother of his son and
heir Alexander, who was aged 23 at his father's death and became Knight of the Bath. The Visitation of Essex [HS 14] also states that Alexander is son of Margaret.
The extended ancestry [under the misreading Cressovere] is given in Pedigrees From the Plea Rolls, concerning the manor of Ikelyngham, Suffolk, from a fine levied 10 Edward II by William de la Cressovere of Ikelyngham and his wife Petronilla:
1. William = Petronilla
2. John
3. Walter
4. Robert
5. William
6. Alexander, the plaintiff, De Banco, Hillary 5 Edw. IV, m. 129.
I have Copinger's _The Manors of Suffolk_ vol. 1 here, and it says on p. 36, concerning the manor of Mores, in Boxtead,
"William Cressener...died in 1454 and was succeeded by his third son Ralph Cressener and he by Robert Cressener and he by Alexander Cressener the brother of Ralph. Alexander Cressener died in 1497 and was succeeded by his son and
heir John Cressener, who in 1542 sold the manor to Richard Poley."
Now Copinger comes a little closer to the PRO document in which Edward Cressener, son of Alexander brought suit against Sir John Cressener, heir of Alexander. But Sir John is described in it as "cousin", not "grandson", of Alexander. Was that a common substitute in the early 16th century?
| Cressoner, William (I08910)
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| 1397 |
GENEALOGICAL DESCENT OF THE HUXLEY FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES.
COMPILED FROM GENERAL AND SPECIAL HISTORIES, PUBLIC RECORDS, PRIVATE
WRITINGS AND DOCUMEMTS, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, CHURCH REGISTERS, AND LASTLY, WHEN ALL OTHER SOURCES FAILED, ' FROM FAMILY TRADITION.
SECOND EDITION
REVISED AND ENLARGED
JARED HUXLEY,
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO,
April 18th, 1901.
YOUNGSTOWN, O. :
THE VINDICATOR PRESS.
456244
...George Huxley, Eldest son and heir, but disinherited, became a merchant in London, and purchased the estate of Wyre Hall, Edmonton,- Middlesex, 1609- 1627. Married Catherine, daughter of John Robinson. After Ptr. Huxley's death she married Robt. Lord Viscount Kilmorey. They had one son.
of Wyre Hall, died 29 Sept., 1661, aged 64 years, buried at Edmonton, married Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Tryon. Her will proved 16 February, 1684, as of Wyre Hall. They had one son.
....while at the end of the sixteenth century, George, the
disinherited heir of Brindley, became a merchant in London, and purchased Wyre Hall at Edmonton, where his descendants lived for four generations, his grandson being knighted by Charles II in 1663.
Wyer-hall.
Wier, or Wyer-hall, an ancient mansion in this parish, took its name, perhaps, from the family of Wyrehalle, who had property in Edmonton in the reign of Edward III. (fn. 69) About the year 1581 it belonged to Jasper Leeke, Esq. who inherited it from his father. From that family it passed to the Huxleys, to whom it still belongs, being the property of Mrs. Sarah Huxley, under whom it is held on lease by Lewis Leitch, Esq. The house was rebuilt in the year 1611 by George Huxley, Esq. as appears both by the date and initials on the pipes, and the arms of Huxley over a chimney-piece in one of the principal rooms. An ancient door-way remains belonging to a former house, of which it is probable that the hall also was a part. It is sitted up with scrolled pannels, among which the rose and pomegranate, the devices of England and Arragon, frequently occur. In this hall are some good family-pictures. In an upper room are the arms of the Merchant-Adventurers, to which company it is most probable Mr. Huxley belonged.
...Monuments.
At the north-east corner of the chancel is an ancient altar-tomb of purbeck marble, richly ornamented with quatrefoils, &c. The arms and brass figures have been torn off (fn. 72). On the north wall is the monument of George Huxley, Esq. (fn.73) of Wyer-hall, who died in 1627, and his wife Katherine,(afterwards married to Robert Viscount Kilmorey,) who died in 1629.
Arms. Erm. on a bend cottised Gul.3 crescents Or, impaling Vert. on a chev. betw. 3 stags Or, as many tresoils slipped Gules, for Robinson. George Huxley married the daughter of John Robinson.
From: 'Edmonton', The Environs of London: volume 2: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 249-277. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45412
Inscription on the monument in the Church at Edmonston, Middlesex.
"George Huxley, de Wyre Hall in agro Middlesex
Armg. Pioe deccesit 30th die April A Saltvis
1627. Etat 26 Superstite Conivge
Catherina(Dno Roberto Needham Vice Comite
Kilmorrey denvo nupta) Quce Biennio post
Diem suum Obijt Parentib Hic conditis
Johannes Huxley. Fill et. Haeres Memoriae ergo. P
Text: Huxley, Geo. (Sir), Knt., Wyrehall, Middx. 30 Apr 1627 , aet. 66. (Neve's Mon. 107.) Book: Obituary Prior to 1800 (as far as Relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled by Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled by him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, with Referrence to the Books Where the Persons are Mentioned, and Where some Account of their Character is to be Found." Collection: England, Scotland, Ireland: Musgrave's Obituaries Prior To 1800, Parts 3 & 4
The Huxleys and the Tryons were gentry with City connections. Moses Tryon, a Royalist, is recorded in 1638 as one of the wealthiest inhabitants of St Olaves, Old Jewry in London[3]. George Huxley, a haberdasher, bought the medieval Wyer Hall from Sir John Leeke in 1609 and substantially altered it. Daniel Lysons described the house in 1795: ‘The house was rebuilt in the year 1611 by George Huxley, Esq. as appears both by the date and initials on the pipes, and the arms of Huxley over a chimney-piece in one of the principal rooms. An ancient door-way remains belonging to a former house, of which it is probable that the hall also was a part. It is sitted up with scrolled pannels, among which the rose and pomegranate, the devices of England and Aragon, frequently occur. In this hall are some good family-pictures. In an upper room are the arms of the Merchant-Adventurers, to which company it is most probable Mr Huxley belonged’[4].
Funeral Certificate. George HUXLEY, 1627. He was buried at Edmonton 10 May 1627. "Son John HUXLEY (sonne and heire) about 28 years, Thomas 2nd son about 18, James 3 sonne about 12, Anne eldest daughter about 22, 2 Jane about i6, 3 Katherine about 14. Son John HUXLEY chief mourner & deceased brothers Mr. Thomas HUXLEY and Mr. James HUXLEY. Pennons were borne by Mr. John ROBINSON and Mr. Thomas SMITH brothers in law of defunct " (Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Second Series, Volume I., page 188.)
| Huxley, George (I05538)
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| 1398 |
General Notes:
1st son and heir (a), born 22 July 1437 or 1438. The escheators in cos. Leicester and York were ordered to cause him to have full seisin of his father's lands, 5 May 1459. He was summoned to Parliament from 30 July 1460 16 January 1496/7; knighted before 23 August 1460, when he was on the Commission of the Peace, co. York, North Riding. A Yorkist, he was with Warwick at the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460; present in London when Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, surrendered the Great Seal, 25 July 1460; "sore hurt" at the battle of Towton, 29 March 1461; present at the battle of Hexham, 15 May 1462; attended Edward IV on his journey to Scotland, December 1464; nominated K.G. before 22 April 1463; Captain of Newcastle, winter 1463-64. He headed a rising in Richmondshire, but submitted to Edward at York, 22 March 1469/70; in charge of the East coast before Edward's landing, 14 March 1470. He was a Commissioner to negotiate a marriage between the Lady Cecily, youngest daughter of Edward IV, and James, the infant son of James III [SCT], 29 July 1474, and stood proxy for her at her betrothal, Edinburgh, 26 October following; took part in the King's invasion of France with 20 men-at-arms and 200 archers, 1475; was on a mission to Rome with Earl Rivers, 1476; Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Middlesex 12 May 1477 and co. York, 5 May 1481/2; Commissioner of Array, co. York, North Riding, 20 June 1480. With Northumberland he led the van of the English army invading Scotland, July 1482; Commissioner to treat with the Ambassadors of Alexander (Stewart), Duke of Albany [SCT], 12 January 1482/3. He attended the Coronation of Richard III, 6 July 1483; Commissioner to assess and collect certain subsidies, co. York, 1 August 1483; Commissioner of Array to resist the rebels, Devon and Cornwall, 13 November 1483; co. York, North Riding, 8 December 1484; on the Commission of the Peace, Cornwall, 30 December 1483; Devon and Somerset, 5 December 1484. For his good serviccs against the rcbels Richard III granted him and the heirs male of his body certain manors and lands in Devon and Cornwall, 5 December, and appointed him Constable of Exeter Castle for life, 6 December 1484. After the accession of Henry VII he was present at the banquet of the Order of the Garter at York, 22 April 1486, but he supported Lambert Simnel and, with Thomas, Lord Scrope (of Masham), made an unsuccessful attack on Bootharn Bar, York, June 1487. He had a general pardon February 1487/8. He fought against the Scots and assisted in raising the siege of Norham Castle, August 1497.
He married, 1stly (dispensation 22 November 1447, they being related in the 4th degree), Joan, daughter of William (FITZHUGH), 4th LORD FITZHUGH, by Margery, daughter of Sir William (DE WILLOUGHBY), LORD WILLOUGHBY. She, who, as well as her husband, was admitted to the Gild of Corpus Christi, York, 1462-63, died before 1470. He married, 2ndly, before 10 December 1471, Elizabeth, widow of William (LA ZOUCHE), 5th LORD ZOUCHE (of Haryngworth) (died 25 December 1462), daughter of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, by Margaret, only daughter and eventually heir of Sir John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe, Beds. She was living in 1489 and died before 3 July 1494. He married, 3rdly, after 9 February 1490/1, Anne, widow of (i) Sir William CHAMBERLAINE, K.G. (died March or April 1462), and (ii) Sir Robert WINGFIELD, M.P., Controller of the Household (died shortly before 13 November 1481), daughter and heir of Sir Robert HARLING, of East Harling, Norfolk, by Jane, daughter and heir of Edmund GUNVILLE. He died 17 August 1498 [a2]. His widow, by whom he had no issue, died 18 September 1498. [Complete Peerage XI:544-6, XIV:573-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
SUMMARY: The document below is the Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the will, dated 3 July 1494 and proved 8 November 1498, of John Scrope (1437/8-1498), 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, paternal uncle of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, second wife of John de Vere (1442-1513), 13th Earl of Oxford. The testator names the 13th Earl as one of the supervisors of his will. The testator was the eldest son and heir of Henry Scrope (1418-1458/9), 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and his wife, Elizabeth Scrope (d. 10 May 1504), the daughter of John Scrope (b. c. 1388, d. 15 November 1455), 4th Baron Scrope of Masham, Lord Treasurer of England, and his wife, Elizabeth Chaworth (d.1466?). Through his grandparents, Richard Scrope (d. 29 August 1420), 3rd Lord Scrope of Bolton, and Margaret Neville (d.1463/4), daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Margaret Stafford (d. 9 June 1396), the testator was descended from Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113-1151), King Henry II (1133-1189) and King Edward I (1239-1307) of England. See Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2004), pp. 254-5, 538-1, 645, 670-3; the entry for Scrope of Masham in The Complete Peerage, p. 564-6; and the entries for Henry Scrope (c.1376-1415), 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, and the testator, John Scrope (1437/8-1498), 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, in the online edition of The Dictionary of National Biography. For the Scrope pedigree, see Norcliffe, Charles Best,
ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1563 by William Flower, Vol. 16, (London: Harleian Society, 1881), p. 280, available online.
From the online edition of The Dictionary of National Biography:
Scrope married three times. His first wife, whom he married after 22 November 1447, was Joan, daughter of William, fourth Lord Fitzhugh (d. 1452), and Margery, daughter of William, Lord Willoughby. With her he had one child, his heir, Henry. She died before 1470 and he married second, before 10 December 1471, Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver St John and Margaret Beauchamp, daughter and heir of Sir John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, and widow of William, fifth Baron Zouche. She was living in 1489 and died before 3 July 1494. They had one child, Mary, who married Sir William Conyers (1467/8-1524) of Hornby. Scrope married third, after 9 February 1491, Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Harling of East Harling, Norfolk, and Jane, daughter and heir of Edmund Gunville, and widow of Sir William Chamberlaine and Sir Robert Wingfield. They had no children and Scrope died, possibly at East Harling, on 17 August 1498. In his will, dated 3 July 1494 and 8 August 1498 (proved on 5 November 1498 at York), he asked to be buried in St Agatha's Abbey, Easby (as had several of his ancestors), or in the Dominican priory at Thetford, depending on where he died. He left a printed Bible and a volume of chronicles (also printed) to St Agatha's. As his executor he named his wife, who survived him for only a short time, dying on 18 September 1498.
The testator’s third wife and her second husband, Sir Robert Wingfield (d.1481), raised Sir Robert Wingfield (b. in or before 1464, d. 1539) from childhood, and it seems likely that he is the recipient of this bequest by the testator in the will below:
Item, I give to Robert Wingfield my great primer.
For the will of Sir Robert Wingfield (b. in or before 1464, d. 1539), see TNA PROB
11/27, ff. 262-3. For the will of the testator’s third wife, Anne (nee Harling) Chamberlain Wingfield Scrope (d.1498), see TNA PROB 11/11, ff. 212-14.
For details of the testator’s career as a soldier and courtier, see the entry in the online edition of The Dictionary of National Biography.
RM: Testamentum Iohannis domini Scrop
In the name of God, Amen. At East Harling the third day of July the year of Our Lord God from his Incarnation 1494, I, John, Lord Scrope, whole of mind and in competent heal [=health] of body, thanked be God, make and ordain my testament in this manner and form following: First & foremost and most specially I commend my soul unto Almighty God, my Creator and Redeemer, and to the mercy of my Saviour, Jesus, and to the suffrages of his bitter passion, and also to the merits of Our Blessed Lady Saint Mary Virgin, his Blessed Mother, of all angels & of all saints of the holy court of heaven, and my body to be interred and buried in the Abbey of Saint Agatha in Yorkshire if it fortune me to decease within the foresaid shire, and if it please God to dispose me to decease within the shire of Norfolk, then I will my body to be buried & interred in the choir of the Blackfriars in Thetford or in another as convenient place discerned by mine executrice or executors, and I give and bequeath to the same church where God shall ordain me to have sepulture, for a memorial and that I may the rather be prayed for there, 10 marks to buy withal a chalice or another jewel of the same value that shall be thought by mine executrice or executors more necessary to the place of my sepulture than the chalice; And secondarily I will before all other things and in all wise I require mine executrice or executors underwritten truly to content & pay all my debts proved true debt to whomsoever they been owing, and all the costs and charges to be done for or about my burying or month’s mind and legacies to the same place where it shall hap me to be buried, of or within the issues, revenues & profits as shall grow of certain my manors, lands & tenements which in my last will I have named, declared & assigned to the same intent, and in no wise with any manner of goods or chattels that I am or hereafter at any time may be entitled to or have interess in by the reason of marriage betwixt my most entirely well-beloved wife, Anne, & me, or any other wife, for it is my full will and clearly I give unto my said loving wife, Anne, all my movable goods & chattels on this side Trent, and over that all such debts as been owing me in all places, in party of recompense of £100 which I borrowed of her afore our marriage & of other charges which I know well I have put her to, except such goods as shall happen me hereafter to give or dispose to any of my kinsmen, friends or servants; And alway I will that the said Anne have and retain still in her possession all the foresaid goods and chattels, debts & titles of debts without interruption or deliverance to mine executors, so that her possession aforesaid shall be sufficient title in right for her very property(?) of the said goods if my said wife refuse to take the charge of my testament upon her, except before excepted, and if it fortune not me at day of my decease to have ready money to make the costs and charges of & about my burying & month’s mind, & then my said loving wife of her goodness will purvey for such ready money and make the said charges, then I will that mine executors, if she refuse the charge of my testament, been bounden to my said wife to repay the said sums of money so paid for me on that behalf readily as any of mine other debts oweth [=ought] for to be of the revenues, issues & profits of the manors, lands & tenements in my last will assigned to the same; And if any person or persons after my decease complain of any injury or wrong that I or any of my servants by my commandment have done, that injury or wrong duly proved of truth, I will that they been satisfied & agreed with according to reason and good conscience; Item, I will & bequeath to my son & heir, Henry Scrope, God’s blessing & mine, and all my stuff that I have in my castle and place at Bolton, and all my quick cattle that I have within Yorkshire under this condition, that he be as kind & loving to my soul as I trust he is to my body, and that he love, comfort, aid & help to his power my right kind & loving wife, Anne, Lady Scrope, whether she take charge and administration of my testament or not, and that he in no wise let, interrupt nor minish through no manner occasion nothing concerning my testament nor last will, but help & do to the performance & accomplishing of the same; he thus doing, I beseech God grant him much honour, long life and good fortune; And moreover I give and bequeath to the said Henry beside-forth for a reward, & to the heirs of his body lawfully coming forevermore, all my plate the which I laid to pledge to Saint Christopher’s Guild in York, and if my foresaid son be not loving and kind & helping to my said wife, mine executrice, or interrupt, let or cause to let anything concerning my testament or last will or any article thereof, then I will that my foresaid movable stuff in Bolton Castle & my foresaid plate with all my cattle aforesaid being in Yorkshire be sold by mine executrice or executors, and with the money thereof coming and by her & them to be received help to fulfil this my testament and also my last will and to pay my debts; The residue of all mine other goods not bequeathen, if any there been, I bequeath & give unto the disposition of mine executrice or executors of this my testament, whom I name my wife, Anne, now Lady Scrope, solely and alone mine executrices, and if the said Anne within the space of a year next after following my decease will take the charge upon her, then these underwritten I assign, ordain & will to be coadjutors & counsellors unto her, that is to say, Guy Fairfax, Henry Heydon, knights, William Bardwell, esquire, Henry Spelman, John Aylwerd, parson of East Harling, & John Paynot, parson of Weston Favell And if it be so that my said wife within the space of a year next after following my decease refuse to take charge upon her by reason and consideration of any charge suing, then I assign, ordain & name my foresaid son, Henry Scrope, Guy Fairfax & Henry Heydon, knights, mine executors, and coadjutors to them then I assign & name William Bardwell, esquire, Henry Spelman, my brother Thomas Metcalfe of Nappa, John Aylwerd, parson of East Harling, and John Paynot, parson of Weston Favell, that the foresaid mine executrice or executors with the foresaid revenues & profits pay my debts and fulfil this present my testament and also my last will, and the surplusage thereof, if any there be to expend, distribute and dispose as they think should best please God and be most merit and comfort to my soul; And of this present my testament also I name & make surveyors the Bishop of Ely, my Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Oxenford, and the Earl of Surrey; In witness whereof to this present testament my seal of arms with my subscription I have set to the day and year abovesaid. This codicil containing certain legacies and bequests of me, John, Lord Scrope of Bolton, given and bequeathed the 8th day of August the year of Our Lord 1498 to certain persons hereafter following, which codicil though I be not in power to subscribe it with mine ease, yet I command & will that it be sealed with the seal of mine arms and my privy signet, and so annexed to my former testament & last will: Inprimis, I give & bequeath to my Lady, my mother, my plain cup with arms for a remembrance, to pray for me; Item, to Sir Henry Scrope, my son & heir, all my Parliament robes; Item, I will & give to my servant, Ralph Vincent, a yearly fee or annuity of £5 at 2 terms of the year to him or his assigns to be paid during the term of his life out of the manor of Harleston otherwise cleped Harlston, as more plainly appeareth in a patent sealed under the seal of mine arms & to him delivered; Item, to Rowland Dente, George Watson, Thomas Francis & to William Hutton, to each of these 4, my servants, a fee of 20s a year out of the foresaid manor till my son & heir hath given each of them an office of as good value; Item, I give to my wife, Anne, Lady Scrope, the surplusage of the revenues of the foresaid manor for term of her life; Item, I give to Christopher Reynes my russet gown furred with white lamb, and also 20s; Item, I give to John Cook, my servant, 20s; Itm, I give to Robert Wingfield my great primer; Item, to Master Ralph Scrope, my brother, my little Bible that is at Bolton; Item, to Robert Scrope, my brother, my camlet gown; Item, to the Abbey of St Agatha, my Bible imprinted, & my book, also imprinted, called Cronica cronicarum; Item, to the said Abbey 2 whole suits of vestments of velvet, the one suit to be blue & violent palled, orphreyed with cloth of gold, the 2nd suit to be black velvet orphreyed with cloth of gold; Item, I give to the College of Rushworth [=Rushford] an whole suit of vestments of tawny velvet orphreyed with cloth of gold; Item, I give to the parson of Weston, my chaplain, my porteous imprinted; Item, I give to Sir John Hamelyn, parson of Barnhambrome, my Mass book imprinted; Item, where I late covenanted & bought of mine entirely beloved wife, Anne, Lady Scrope, the reversion of certain manors, lands & tenements lying in Blundeston, Olton [=Oulton?] & Flixton in the county of Suffolk with her title of the same for the sum of £100, for the which sum I sealed late an obligation & bound myself to William Bardwell, Robert Wingfield and Thomas Fyncham for the same sum, which said covenant & bargain made I will keep and hold the said £100 to be paid as I have in my last will appointed all my debts to be, and of the issues and profits of such manors, lands & tenements there named & assigned for the same, now I will & bequeath the foresaid reversion and title after the decease of my said wife to little John Scrope and the heirs of his body lawfully coming, and in default of such issue of his body coming, the said manors, lands & tenements to remain to my son, Henry Scrope, and to his heirs forever.
LM: Vltima voluntas eiusdem Iohannis domini Scrop
This is the last will of me, John, Lord Scrope of Bolton, knight, made at East Harling in the county of Norfolk the third day of July in the year of Our Lord God from his Incarnation 1494 and in the year of the reign of King Henry the 7th the 9th, I, the foresaid John, Lord Scrope, make, declare and show this my last will in this wise and form following:
First and foremost I will that my Lady my mother Elizabeth have, hold, peaceably enjoy & keep during the whole term of her natural life withouten interruption or letting all those manors, lordships with their appurtenances the which my said Lady & mother had and hath of the gift of my Lord, my father, Henry, late Lord Scrope, by reason of jointure, and also of me by composition and agreement betwixt her & me made for recompense of her dower; Item, in like wise I will that my very kind & loving wife, Anne, now Lady Scrope, have, hold & keep and quietly enjoy to her & to her assigns for term of her natural life all those manors, lordships, parks, woods with all manner appurtenances thereto longing, which manors, lordships, parks, woods with their appurtenances I, the foresaid John, Lord Scrope, have given or caused to be given, promised & granted unto the said Anne, my wife, & to certain feoffees to her use for term of her life, as more plainly appeareth by certain deeds & writing indented sealed with my seal of arms & with mine own hand subscribed and to my said wife delivered, and all the same deeds & writing by this my last will I ratify & affirm as my deed; Item, I will & ordain that certain feoffees to the number of 6 or 7 persons be made sure and have a good & sufficient estate to them, their heirs & assigns, afore the feast of the Holy Trinity next coming after the said date of this present to them made of the manors of Dishforth, Rainton, Norton & Sinderby, Middleton Quernhow, Sutton Howgrave & Thornborough(?), Fencote, Fleetham and Vekurby with the appurtenances in the county of York, and all the same feoffees so to remain & continue feoffees in the same said manors to the intent and true contentation & payment of my proper debts, and also to the intent & of great special trust that they, the same feoffees & each of them & their heirs, shall suffer, comfort, maintain, license, aid & grant in all that shall to them appertain my said wife, Anne, if she will take upon her to be mine executrice, or else my executors underwritten if my said wife refuse to take on her the charge, and her or their attorneys, deputies & servants to gather, receive & rere [=rear?] yearly after my decease by the space of 10 years or more all the issues & profits of all the same said manors, lands, tenements and other the premises with th’ appurtenances to content and therewith to satisfy all my creditors of all my said proper debts which I owe of right to content any man or woman; And in semblable wise I ordain & will that the same said feoffees shall be enfeoffed and have a good sufficient estate to them, their heirs and assigns, afore the same feast of the Holy Trinity of the manor of Brignall & Horneby in Cleveland in the said county of York to the intent & of great special trust that they & each of them, their heirs & assigns, shall suffer, comfort, maintain, license, aid & grant in all that shall to them belong my said wife, Anne, & all her attorneys, deputies & servants to gather, perceive and rere [=rear?] yearly at all times after my decease during the life of the same Anne, my wife, all the wages and fees which I have granted unto each of these persons consequently subscribed term of their lives, that is to say, Ralph Josselyn, gentleman, £10, Thomas Aynysworth, £6, Elizabeth, his wife, £3 6s 8d, and to Robert Zouche, esquire, £6 13s 4d in relief and discharge and advantage of the said Anne of all thoo [=those?] the same said wages and fees which I, the said John, Lord Scrope, have afore this time granted by several writings under my seal unto the said Ralph Josselyn, Thomas Aynysworth, Elizabeth, his wife, and to Robert Zouche particularly issauntes [=issuants?] payable of the manor of Pysho, Rampton and Coveney; And moreover I will and ordain by this present that, after the decease of my said Lady mother, that all the said lordships, lands & tenements which as afore yet belong unto my said Lady and mother immediately after her decease shall entirely remain unto my son and his heirs, the lordship of Hamylden only for 3 years next after her decease except, and also all the said lordships, lands, tenements and other premises with th’ appurtenances which yet now belong in the form aforesaid to my said wife, Anne, and all other lordships, lands, tenements and hereditaments with th’ appurtenances which belong unto me, the said John, Lord Scrope, shall after her decease immediately remain unto my said son, Henry, & to his heirs in perpetuity, my debts and testament paid and performed according to good reason and conscience; Provided alway and with this condition following, that neither he, the same Henry, ne any of his heirs or any of them, ne any other person or persons by the exhortation, will or maintenance of any of them shall make any interruption, ejection or letting of the restful possession of the premises again [=against] or in derogation or prejudice of my said mother or of my said wife in or of any of the premises during any of their lives, which if my said son or any of his heirs do or cause to be do [=done] in or of any of the same
premises in derogation, damages or prejudice of my said Lady and mother, or of my said wife, Anne, contrary to the true effect or intent of any of all the premises of my will or testament, then I will and ordain that the reversion of the manor of Pysho with the park & appurtenances in Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, of the manor of Rampton and Cotenham with th’ appurtenances in Cambridgeshire, the reversion of the manor of Coveney within the Isle of Ely with th’ appurtenances of the same to be sold and give by my said wife, Anne, mine executrice, if she take upon her the charge, or else by mine executors under-named unto some other worshipful man, to have & enjoy to him & his heirs and assigns for a great reasonable sum of money to be paid unto the said Anne, my wife, mine executrice, or to mine executor and to their executors toward the plener [=plainer?] performation of my testament & last will, and to be distribute furthermore in deeds of alms & in ways of charity and pity for the souls of my said father & mother, of me & of my wives, and for the souls of all our kin and ancestors, & for all Christian souls; And moreover where certain premises were made betwixt me & my son and heir, Henry Scrope, first that my said son hath promised me to be & shall be bound by his obligation to my Lord the Earl of Surrey, Sir Henry Heydon & to James Hubberd, the King’s attorney, in the sum of £1000 to mine use upon condition that he shall never let her interrupt the true execution of this my last will and testament ner nothing contained in the same, & that he in no wise shall let mine executrice or executors or any of their servants, attorneys or deputies to execute and fulfil the said my last will and testament ner none other that shall occupy in their name in that behalf for to levy & receive to the performance of this my said will & testament all manner revenues & profits of all such lands as I have before expressed, declared & assigned in this present my last will and testament for payment of my debts and performance of the last will and testament, that is to say, all the revenues & all profits of the manor of Dishforth, Rainton and Sinderby, Norton, Middleton Quernhow, Sutton Howgrave & Thornborough(?), Fencote, Fleetham and Vekyrby with all their appurtenances and profits aforesaid; And whereas I and my said son, Henry, for divers causes concerning the marriage of Alice, the daughter and heir of my cousin Scrope of Upsall, the which is married to his eldest son, stand bound to the King to pay to him 400 marks in the form following, beside 100 marks that I have paid to the King for the same cause before the making of this said my last will and testament upon condition to pay of the said 400 marks yearly during 4 years next after following the date hereof each year 100 marks at the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady by even portions, it is furtherly granted, agreed and covenanted betwixt me and the said Henry by these presents that if it fortune me to decease before the foresaid 400 marks be plainly & clearly contented and paid, that as much as shall remain then or therefore after my decease unpaid to the King, the foresaid Henry, my son, shall pay and clearly discharge me & mine executors of the same residue and remanence of the said 400 marks, and for observing of which promise & covenant I will and grant to the foresaid Henry, my son, him then fro [=from] thenceforth to have & enjoy all the lands and manors with all the commodities, issues and profits of the same which were my said cousin’s Scrope of Upsall which shall come to mine hands during the said daughter[‘s] nonage; And moreover whereas I have granted to my said son toward the marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth, to be married by the grace of God to a gentleman cleped Stapleton, 400 marks in 4 years next after following the date hereof to be paid by even portions, this grant I affirm & promise to hold & perform by this my will to the comfort, ease and pleasure of my said son, Henry, and for him under this condition, that is to say, if it fortune me to decease within 7 years next now immediately following after the date hereof, if then the foresaid Henry, my son, repay the foresaid 400 marks unto my executrice or executors or as much of it as shall fortune thereof to be paid by me before my decease in 4 years next after suing my decease, that is to say, every year 100 marks to [=until] the foresaid sum of 400 marks be perfectly paid, then I will that my said grant, assurance & promise shall stand good, and else void; And the same executrice that I have named, institute & assigned in my testament for execution and fulfilling of the same also of this my last will I ordain, name & make my wife, Anne, now Lady Scrope, solely and alone if the said Anne within the space of a year next after following my decease will be executrice and take charge of it, and then the underwritten I assign counsellors & coadjutors to her, that is to say, Sir Guy Fairfax, Sir Henry Heydon, knights, William Bardwell, esquire, Henry Spelman, John Aylward, parson of East Harling, and John Paynot, parson of Weston Favell; And if it be so that my said wife within the space of a year next after following my decease refuse to take charge by reason of consideration of any charge to her showed, then I assign mine executors my foresaid son and heir, Henry Scrope, Sir Guy Fairfax and Sir Henry Heydon, knights, and these to be coadjutors to them, William Bardwell, esquire, Henry Spelman, my brother, Thomas Metcalfe of Nappa, John Aylward, parson of East Harling, and John Paynot, parson of Weston Favell; And of this present my last will as well as of my testament I ordain, name & assign surveyors the Bishop of Ely, my Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Oxenford & the Earl Surrey; In witness whereof to this present my last will as well as to my testament my seal of arms I have set to, and with mine hand subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Probatum fuit suprascriptum Testamentum vnacum vltima voluntate et codicello eiusdem coram Domino apud Lamehith viiijo die mensis Nouembris Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo Nonagesimo Octauo Iuramento Reginaldi Swale in decretis bacallarij procuratoris &c Ac approbatum et insinuatum &c Et comissa fuit administracio omnium et singulorum bonorum et debitorum dicti defuncti Domino Henrico domino de Scrop de Bolton militi executori in persona dicti procuratoris De bene & fideliter administrando eadem Ac de pleno & fideli Inuentario &c Citra festum sancti Nicholai Episcopi proximum futurum exhibendo Necnon de plano & vero compoto &c Ad sancta Dei Euangelia Iurati
[=The above-written testament together with the last will and codicil of the same was proved before the Lord [+Archbishop] at Lambeth on the 8th day of the month of November in the year of the Lord the thousand four hundred ninety-eighth by the oath of Reginald Swale, baccalaureate(?), proctor etc., and probated and entered etc., and
administration was granted of all and singular the goods and debts of the said deceased to Sir Henry, Lord Scrope of Bolton, knight, executor, in the person of the said proctor, sworn on the Holy Gospels to well & faithfully administer the same, and to exhibit a full
& faithful inventory etc. before the feast of Saint Nicholas, Bishop, next to come, and also [+to render] a plain & true account etc.]
Appended to this document is the disposition of the testator respecting his I estates, of which I give all the material parts. July 3, 1494. My mother Elizabeth to have the joynture lands which my father, Henry, late Lord Scrope, gave her for life; & my said wife what I have ; given her for dower. My feoffees to pay my debts out of manors of Dishforth, Raiuton, Norton, Sinderby, Middleton-Quernhow, Sutton-Howgrave, Thorn- 1 burgh, Fencotes, Fleth am, and Uckerby. They, out of my manors of Brignall, i and Hornby in Cleveland, to pay the following yearly fees during my wife's life, viz., to Kalph Josselyn, gen., 102., Thos. Aynysworth, 6L, Eliz., his wife, 3Z. 6s. &d., ' Rob. Souch, esq., 61. 13s. kd. On my wife's death all to come to my son and his i heirs. If my son lets my wife, Pysho, Sabridgeworth, Cotenham, and Coveney to I be sold and the money spent in alms, etc. : my son to be bound in 1000Z. not to let. Where I and my seid son, for dyvers causes concernyng the mariage of Alice the doughter and heire of my cosyn Scrop of Upsall, the which is maryd I to his eldest son, stond bownde to the kyng to pay to hym cccc marc, besyde c marc I have payed; for observyng which covenaunte, I graunte to my son the londes, etc., which were my seid cosyn's Scrop, duryng the said doughter's none- i age. Where I have graunted to my seid son, towarde the maryage of his dou. Eliz., to be niaryde to a gentilman clepid Stapilton, cccc marc in iiij. yeres, it ' ; to stand good.
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General. Served in India.
Name: Crawford Trostler Chamberlain
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 21 Jul 1821
Father's Name: Henry Chamberlain
Mother's name: Anne Eugenia Chamberlain
Parish or Poor Law Union: St Marylebone
Borough: Westminster
Register Type: Parish Registers
1881 Census Mayfair, London, England:
Listed as a vistor at the house of AC Guthrie.(Husband of his sister Anne)
http://www.britishmedals.us/collections/TB/heic/chamberlain.html
Crawford Trotter Chamberlain was born in London on the 9th of March, 1821. He was the fourth son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, Bart., Counsel-General and Charge´ d’Affaires in Brazil and his second wife Anne Eugenia, née Morgan. Crawford was educated at private schools and tutored by the Reverend Evan Roswell’s in Brixton.
Nominated a cadet for the Bengal Army by Russell Ellice, Esq., on the recommendation of J. H. Buckle in 1837, Crawford was commissioned an Ensign on the 12th of December, 1837. Sailing for India aboard the Robarts, Ensign Chamberlain arrived at Fort William on the 20th of March, 1838. Originally posted to the 28th Native Infantry at Barrackpore, in early December of that year he was transferred as a ‘special case’ to the 16th Native Infantry in which regiment his older brother, Neville Chamberlain (later General Sir Neville Chamberlain) was already serving, the transfer having been arranged by an old family
friend, the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Henry Fane, with whose family Crawford spent his leaves. With the 1st Afghan War just beginning, Sir Henry was keen that Crawford and Neville should see active service as their regiment, the 16th Native Infantry, was to be included in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division of Sir Willoughby Cotton’s Bengal Column of the Army of the Indus. On the 10th of December, 1838, General Cotton’s column began the long march towards Cabul.
Having been present at the capture of fortress of Ghuznee on the 23rd of July, 1838, the 16th N.I. was left to garrison the fortress of Ghuznee. Chamberlain received the medal for Ghuznee and shared in the prize money for the capture of the heavily defended fortress.
Promoted to Lieutenant on the 26th of March, 1840, Chamberlain accompanied the 16th N.I. to Candahar in August 1841, and having been placed at the disposal of the Envoy and Minister at the Court of Shah Soojah, in September of the year he was appointed to the temporary command of Shah Soojah’s 5th Janbaz Cavalry, but the following month he was appointed Adjutant of Shah Soojah’s 1st Irregular Cavalry, commanded by Captain John Christie, which was to become better known as Christie’s
Horse. Following the mutiny of some native members of the Janbaz Cavalry, Chamberlain was rode in pursuit, and catching up with them, charged their ranks. In the ensuing mêlée, Chamberlain had a narrow escape when a rebel slashed open the seat of his trousers and injured his horse. His brother, Neville, also had a close escape when a Native Officer of his own regiment saved Neville’s life by cutting off the sword arm of a rebel who was in the act of cutting Neville down. Chamberlain was
continually engaged in the fierce fighting around Candahar, and in all probability accompanied Christie’s Horse in the march on Cabul, the entrance into the city signaling the end of the war. Chamberlain received the Cabul 1842 medal with Candahar reverse for his part in the war.
In 1843, Lieutenant Chamberlain was sent to Scinde with two squadrons of irregular cavalry as an independent command known as Chamberlain’s Horse. In 1845, he succumbed to the effects of India and was sent on sick furlough to the Cape, where he married his first wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of J. de Witt.
Returning to duty in India in 1846, Chamberlain was next appointed second-in-command of the 9th Irregular Cavalry (Christie’s Horse), into which his own Chamberlain’s Horse was merged. During the Second Sikh War he was constantly in action. He served at the battle of Chillianwalla on the 13th of January, 1849, and, with his brother Neville, managed to find his way to the front in spite of the fact their brigade had been left to guard the baggage. On the 30th of January, after heavy rain prevented Sir Hugh Gough from following up the enemy, Chamberlain was engaged in a particularly spectacular cavalry skirmish, in which his patrol killed sixteen of the enemy, though he himself was wounded. Gough was sufficiently impressed by the results of this encounter to make him the subject of a special despatch:
‘Lieutenant Chamberlain slew two of the enemy with his own hand, receiving a slight wound himself, and his energy and gallantry were, as usual, most conspicuous, and merit the best commendation of his Excellency. Lieutenant Chamberlain speaks in high terms of the conduct of the party he commanded on this occasion, and especially of the gallantry evinced by Ally Buksh, sowar of the first troop; and the Commander-in-Chief is persuaded that other parties sent on the important duty of protecting the
carriage cattle of the army, will emulate the activity, conduct, and courage which has now so deservedly elicited his Lordship’s applause.’
At the battle of Goojerat on the 21st of February, Chamberlain, not yet recovered from his wound, had to be lifted into his saddle ‘where he remained throughout the day’. After the battle his Brigadier, Sir John Hearsey, commented in his despatch: ‘Lieutenant Crawford Chamberlain, second in command 9th Irregular Horse, although still suffering from his wound, was present with the regiment the whole day, thus showing his usual energy.’ Lieutenant Chamberlain was present at the final surrender of the Sikh Army at Rawul Pindee.
For his services in the Punjab campaign, Chamberlain was mentioned in despatches, received the Punjab medal with two clasps, was promoted Captain in his regiment and made Brevet Major. He was also rewarded with the command of the 1st Irregular Horse, formerly known as Skinner’s Horse, which had already made its mark on the military history of India. The regiment had been raised in 1803 by Captain James Skinner from men who had defected from the forces of Scindia following Lord Lake’s
victory at the battle of Delhi.
Major Chamberlain next commanded a column, including a squadron of his own regiment, the 1st Irregular Horse, in the force under Colonel Sydney J. Cotton in the Momund expedition of 1854. The Momund are a tribe of Pathans, closely allied in dress, language and customs to the Yusafzais, residing in the Northwest Frontier of India along the Afghan/India border. They had been the subject of a previous military expedition commanded by Brigadier Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., in which the Momunds
were resoundingly defeated at Panjpao in April of 1852. In the 1854 expedition, Major Chamberlain led his forces in the capture of the fortified Momund villages of Dabb, Sadin and Shah Mansur Khel and the subsequent destruction of those villages in an effort to deprive the Momunds of a base for cross border raids. The members of this expedition received the India General Service medal with the Northwest Frontier clasp.
In May of 1857 Major Chamberlain was in command of the 1st Irregular Cavalry stationed at Multan when the Bengal native regiments at the large cantonment at Meerut rose against their officers and began murdering any Europeans they encountered. The mutiny quickly spread to Delhi where the rebels declared the old Mogul emperor the King of Delhi, placing him on the throne. Almost immediately the rebellion began spreading to other regiments of the Bengal Army and the loyalties of the men of all of the native regiments were soon in question.
In early June, the men of the 1st Irregular Cavalry evidenced their loyalty to Major Chamberlain by volunteering to shoot men condemned for mutiny at Jullundur. Lord Roberts’ memoirs relate the story of an incident that happened during this “anxious time” which is illustrative of Major Chamberlain’s mutual loyalty with the men of his regiment:
“There were several Rangars (a name applied by Hindus to any Rajput converted to Islam) in the 1st Irregulars. One day in June, Shaidad Khan, a Resaidar of this class, came to Chamberlain, and said: ‘There was a rumour that I (Chamberlain) had not as much confidence in Rangars as in other classes of the regiment, and he came to be comforted’! Chamberlain asked him to sit down, and sent to the banker of the regiment for a very, valuable sword which he had given him for safe custody. It had belonged to one of the Amirs of Sindh, was taken in battle, and given to Chamberlain by Major Fitzgerald, of the Sindh Horse. On the sword being brought, Chamberlain handed it over to Shaidad Khan and his sect for safety, to be returned when the Mutiny was over. The tears rose to the Native officer’s eyes, he touched Chamberlain’s knees, and swore that death alone would sever the bond of fidelity of which the sword was the token. He took his leave, thoroughly satisfied.”
Lord Robert had been a friend of Crawford Chamberlain and his wife since Roberts first returned to India as a “Griffin” following Roberts being commissioned an Ensign in the Bengal Army. In Forty-one Years in India, Roberts discusses at some length the explosive situation existing at Multan during the early stages of the Mutiny:
“Multan had next to be considered. Matters at that time were very unsettled, and indeed were causing the authorities grave anxiety, but Multan was more fortunate in many places, in being in the hands of an unusually able, experienced officer, Major Crawford Chamberlain. Consequently, the Commander-in-Chief and Chief Commissioner agreed, while fully appreciating the great value of Multan, that the presence of British troops was less urgently needed there than elsewhere, and it was decided they could not be spared from the Punjab for its protection.
The garrison at Multan consisted of a troop of Native Horse Artillery, two regiments of Native Infantry (the 62nd and the 69th N.I.), and the Irregular Cavalry, composed entirely of Hindustanis from the neighbourhood of Delhi; while in the old Sikh fort there were about fifty European Artillerymen, in charge of a small magazine. The station was nominally commanded by an officer who had been thirty-four years the army, and had great experience amongst Natives; but he had fallen into such a bad state of health, that he was quite unfit to deal with the crisis which had now arrived. The command, therefore, was
practically exercised by Chamberlain. Next to Delhi and Lahore, Multan was the most important place in Upper India, as our communication with the sea and southern India depended on its preservation.
To Chamberlain’s own personality and extraordinary influence over the men of the 1st Irregular Cavalry must be attributed to his success. His relations with them were of a patriarchal nature, and perfect mutual confidence existed. He knew his hold over them was strong, and he determined to trust them. But in doing so he had really no alternative-had they not remained faithful, Multan must have been lost to us. One of his first acts was to call a meeting at his house of the Native officers of the Artillery, Infantry, and his own regiment, to discuss the situation. Taking for granted the absolute loyalty of these officers,
he suggested that a written bond should be given, in which the seniors of each corps should guarantee the fidelity of their men. The officers his regiment rose en masse, and placing their signet-rings on the table, said: ‘Kabul sir-o-chasm’ (‘Agreed to on our lives ‘). The Artillery Subadar declared that his men had no scruples, and would fire in whichever direction y were required; while the Infantry Native officer pleaded that they had no power over their men, and could give no guarantee. Thus, Chamberlain ascertained that the Cavalry were loyal, the Artillery doubtful, and the Infantry were only biding their time to mutiny. Night after night sepoys, disguised beyond all recognition, attempted to tamper with the Irregular Cavalry. The Wurdi-Major (Native Adjutant), a particularly fine, handsome Rangar, begged Chamberlain to hide himself in his house, that he might hear for himself the open proposals to mutiny, massacre, and rebellion that were made to him; and the promises that, if they succeeded in their designs, he (the Wurdi-Major) should be placed upon the gaddi (throne) of Multan for his reward. Chamberlain declined to put himself in such position, fearing he might not be able to restrain himself.
Matters now came to a climax. A Mahomedan Subadar one of the Native Infantry regiments laid a plot to murder Chamberlain and his family. The plot was overheard and frustrated by Chamberlain’s own men, but it became apparent that the only remedy for the fast increasing evil was to disarm the two Native Infantry Regiments. How was this to be accomplished with no Europeans save a few gunners anywhere near? Sir John Lawrence was most pressing that the step should be taken at once; he knew the danger of delay; at the same time, he thoroughly appreciated the difficulty of the task he was urging Chamberlain to undertake, and he readily responded to the latter’s request for a regiment of Punjab Infantry to be sent to him. The 2nd Punjab Infantry was, therefore, despatched from Dera Ghazi Khan, at the same time the 1st Punjab Cavalry arrived from Asni, under Major Hughes, who, hearing of Chamberlain’s troubles, had marched to Multan without waiting for orders from superior authority.
The evening of the day on which these troops reached Multan, the British officers of the several regiments were directed to assemble at the Deputy-Commissioner’s house, when Chamberlain told them of the communication he had received from Sir John Lawrence, adding that, having reliable information that the Native Infantry were about mutiny, he had settled to disarm them the next morning.
It was midnight before the meeting broke up. At 4 a.m. the Horse Artillery troop and the two Native Infantry regiments were ordered to march as if to an ordinary parade. When they had gone about a quarter of a mile they were halted, and the Punjab troops moved quietly between them and their lines, thus cutting them off from their spare ammunition; at the same time the European Artillerymen took their places with the guns of the Horse Artillery troop, and a carefully selected body of Sikhs belonging to the 1st Punjab Cavalry, under Lieutenant John Watson, was told off to advance on the troop and cut down
the gunners if they refused to assist the Europeans to work the guns.
Chamberlain then rode up to the Native Infantry regiments, and after explaining to them the reason for their being disarmed, he gave the word of command, ‘Pile arms!’ Thereupon a sepoy of the 62nd shouted: ‘Don’t give up your arms; fight for them!’ Lieutenant Thomson, the Adjutant of the regiment, instantly seized him by the throat and threw him to the ground. The order was repeated, and, wonderful to relate, obeyed. The Native Infantry regiments were then marched back to their lines, while the Punjab troops and Chamberlain’s Irregulars remained on the ground until the arms had been carted off the fort.
Following the disarming of the native regiments at Multan, Sir John Lawrence wrote to Chamberlain: “I have to thank you very heartily for the admirable manner in which you disarmed the 62nd N.I.; it was, I assure you, most delightful news hearing that it had been done. It was a most ticklish thing, considering that it had to be done entirely by native troops. I shall not fail to bring it to the special notice of Government. It would have proved a great calamity had our communications with Bombay been
intercepted. I beg you will thank yours and the 2nd Punjab corps for their conduct.” Chamberlain’s name was duly brought to the notice of the Government in the Punjab Mutiny Report, which stated: “Too much credit cannot well be given to Major Chamberlain for his coolness, resolution, and good management on the trying occasion ... As the result of failure would have been calamitous, so the result of success was more favourable. Indeed the disarming at Mooltan was a turning-point in the Punjab crisis, second only in importance to the disarming at Lahore and Peshawur.” Although Chamberlain was promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel, Field Marshal Lord Roberts commented:It was a most critical time, and enough credit has never been given to Chamberlain. Considering the honours which were bestowed on others who took more or less conspicuous parts in the Mutiny, he was very insufficiently rewarded for this timely act of heroism. Had he not shown such undaunted courage and coolness, or had there been the smallest hesitation, Multan would certainly have gone. Chamberlain managed an extremely difficult business in a most masterly manner…
In September, Chamberlain had a close call when his regiment was attacked at Cheechawtnee by an overwhelming force of rebels and mutineers, compelling him to withdraw his men inside a caravanserai (a roadside inn for travelers), where they were surrounded for three days. Although sick, Chamberlain succeeded in maintaining the defense until relieved. For the 1st Irregular Cavalry’s service in disarming the troops at Multan and their loyalty during the Mutiny, Lord Roberts states: “His (Chamberlain’s) personal influence insured his own regiment continuing loyal throughout the Mutiny, and it has now
the honour of being the 1st Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, and the distinction of wearing a different uniform from every other regiment in the service, being allowed to retain the bright yellow which the troopers wore when they were first raised by Colonel James Skinner, and in which they performed such loyal service.”
Chamberlain was promoted Colonel in April of 1862, and in 1864 was appointed honorary A.D.C. to the Governor-General. In 1866 he was made a Companion of the Star of India, and was included in the first list of twelve officers granted a good service pension. That same year he was transferred to the command of the two silladar regiments of the Central India Horse involved in suppressing dacoity and banditry on the Grand Trunk Road. In 1867 he was given command of the Gwalior district with the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1869, he was officiating Political Agent at Gwalior for which he received the thanks of the Government for his services and from October of that year until February of the next year he was acting Political Agent at the court of Scindia.
Promoted Major-General in 1870, Chamberlain spent the several years on the unemployed list, serving on various commissions and courts of inquiries until being given command of the Oudh Division in 1874. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in October of 1877 and relinquished command of the Oudh Division in 1879. Upon being promoted General in January of 1880,
Chamberlain returned home to England for the first time since he had sailed for India forty-seven previously. General
Chamberlain retired from the active list in 1884 after having served for fifty-four years. At age seventy-five, having been a widow for two years, General Chamberlain married Augusta Margaret, the daughter of Major-General John Christie of Christie’s Horse fame, one of the first regiments Chamberlain had served with. On the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Chamberlain was finally given a long over-due knighthood when he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Indian Empire.
General Sir Crawford Chamberlain, G.C.I.E., C.S.I. , “who retained his splendid physique” till near the end, died at his residence in Lordswood, Southampton, on the 13th of December, 1902, and was buried near his brother, Field-Marshall Sir Neville Chamberlain, at Rownhams.
Refs:
Hodson Index (NAM);
Dictionary of National Biography;
IOL L/MIL/10/31 & 58;
Forty-One Years in India (Roberts);
The Gemini Generals (Wilkinson);
My Service in the Indian Army and After (Vaughan);
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India (Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters, India).
Promoted Major-General in 1870, Chamberlain spent the several years on the unemployed list, serving on various commissions and courts of inquiries until being given command of the Oudh Division in 1874. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in October of 1877 and relinquished command of the Oudh Division in 1879. Upon being promoted General in January of 1880,
Chamberlain returned home to England for the first time since he had sailed for India forty-seven previously. General Chamberlain retired from the active list in 1884 after having served for fifty-four years.
At age seventy-five, having been a widow for two years, General Chamberlain married Augusta Margaret, the daughter of Major-General John Christie of Christie’s Horse fame, one of the first regiments Chamberlain had served with. On the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Chamberlain was finally given a long over-due knighthood when he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Indian Empire.
General Sir Crawford Chamberlain, G.C.I.E., C.S.I. , “who retained his splendid physique” till near the end, died at his residence in Lordswood, Southampton, on the 13th of December, 1902, and was buried near his brother, Field-Marshall Sir Neville Chamberlain, at Rownhams.
Name: Sir Crawford Trotter Chamberlain
Probate Date: 9 Jan 1903
Death Date: 13 Dec 1902
Death Place: Southampton, England
Registry: London, England
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Gentleman's Magazine. 1828. Marriages p. 81
At Ramsbury the Rev. Thomas Hawkins of Sherstone to Sarah the daughter of the late John Nalder esq of Berwick Bassett.
Wiltshire Memorial inscriptions:
Forenames: John Surname: NOLDER Place: Berwick Bassett County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 53040 Notes: father of Sarah HAWKINS
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