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 Abt 1520 - 1589 (~ 69 years)
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| Name |
Younge, John |
| Born |
Abt 1520 |
Of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
Abt 1540 |
| Buried |
4 Aug 1589 |
Bristol Cathedral, Gloucestershire, England |
| Person ID |
I03217 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 May 2015 |
| Family |
Wadham, Joan, b. Abt 1533, Of Merrifield, Somerset, England , bur. 14 Jun 1603, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1563 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Younge, Jane, b. Abt 1566, Of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England , d. Aft 1603, Of Leweston, Dorset, England (Age ~ 38 years) |
| + | 2. Younge, Margaret, b. Abt 1568, Of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England , d. Aft 1618 (Age ~ 51 years) |
| + | 3. Younge, Robert, b. 1 Jun 1570, Of Haselbury, Wiltshire, England , d. Aft 1606 (Age 36 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01087 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Sir John Younge of Bristol, Gloucestershire 26 November 1589 PROB 11/74
Sir John Younge, described as of the city of Bristol, Knight, made his will on the 5th January, 28 Elizabeth (1585-6).
To be buried in the Cathedral of Bristol at the upper end of the quire on the right hand, amongst the seats there/with a vault under the same, by the right pattern of the tomb of Alderman Bonde in St. Ellen's Church, London. To Dame Joan my wife my dwelling house in Bristol, she to live in it live months every year ; mentions his son Robert Younge, under 21, my Manor of Haselbury, Wilts, Rectory of Abbotsbury, Dorset, which I purchased to my said wife for her jointure. Appoints Nicholas Wadham and George Snigge his executors ; mentions his two daughters (without naming them) and his sister Margaret Marty.
IXTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. All rights reserved Sixteenth-Century Bristol (Originally published under the title of "THE CORPORATION OF BRISTOL IN THE OLDEN TIME") JOHN LATIMER, 1908
...Early in the reign of Elizabeth a gentleman named John Young, who had estates in Dorset and Wilts, determined to settle in this city, where several of his ancestors had been men of mark ; and having taken up his residence in the above Friary, he resolved on constructing an imposing mansion on the site. In February, 1568, he accordingly purchased the old building from Alderman Chester, and proceeded so vigorously with the erection of his " Great House " that it served, in 1574, for the fitting reception of Queen Elizabeth and her numerous suite during her week's sojourn, during which its owner was knighted in reward for his hospitality. Sir John was not s3,tisfied 120 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. with this capacious residence. In 1578 he purchased from the Corporation the remaining part of their estate, consisting of a house and garden previously in the occupation of Nicholas Thome, and he at the same time acquired Rowland's Lodge and garden on Stony Hill. On this latter spot he forthwith set about the construction of the large mansion now known as the Red Lodge, the beautiful internal decoration of which remains to attest his cultivated taste and ample means. Sir John died in 1589, and it may be noted that at the usual inquest held by the Crown to discover the extent of his estates the jury declared on their oaths that the yearly value of the Great House was 40s., and that of the Red Lodge 20s. Their late owner left an only son, Robert, then 19 years of age. Within seven years of his attaining his majority, this young man appears to have dissipated most of his fortune, and to have been over head and ears in debt ; and on March 29th, 1599, being about to adventure as a soldier in Ireland, and desirous of protecting his Bristol estate from seizure by creditors, he conveyed both the mansions to his half-brother, Nicholas Strangeways, their mother's right to reside in the Great House for life being reserved. Strangeways probably disposed of the Red Lodge, but nothing more is recorded about it in the Great Red Book at the Council House. The prodigal returned from Ireland, where he obtained the title of knight, but was probably poorer than ever. Soon afterwards, in conjunction with Strangeways, he sold the Great House for £660 to Sir Hugh Smyth, of Long Ashton, and then vanished from history, nothing being known of his ultimate fate.
Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet,: Containing a Series of Elegant Views ...
...The 20th Elizabeth it was in the possession of Sir John Young, whose son and heir, Robert Young, of Haselborough, in the county of Wilts, sold this house, S8th March 1599, then newly built, and occupied by sir John Young's widow, to Nicholas Strangeways, of Bradly, in the county of Gloucester, esq. Queen Elizabeth, on coming to Bris tol, kept her court and held a council at this house; and it was the usual residence of the nobility visiting the city.
Will of John Younge, Merchant of Bristol, Gloucestershire 11 July 1597 PROB 11/90
Sir John Younge, described as of the city of Bristol, Knight, made his will on the 5th January, 28 Elizabeth (1585-6). To be buried in the Cathedral of Bristol at the upper end of the quire on the right hand, amongst the seats there with a vault under the same, by the right pattern of the tomb of Alderman Bonde in St. Ellen's Church, London. To Dame Joan my wife my dwelling 1 Iikj. house in Bristol, she to live in it live months every year ; mentions his son Robert Younge, under 21, my Manor of Haselbury, Wilts, Rectory of Abbotsbury, Dorset, which I purchased to my said wife for her jointure ; appoints Nicholas Wadham and George Snigge his executors ; mentions his two daughters (without naming them) and his sister Margaret Marty .
National Archives:[no title] 5535/2 1577 February 20 Contents:
Bargain & Sale - John Bumpas of Bewdeley, Worc., and Alice his wife to Sir John Yonge. (For copy of PCC will of Sir John Younge see xerox copies of documents not in B.R.O. no. 96) of Bristol and Robert Sandford of Bristol, merchant - 8 garden grounds and all buildings thereon in the parishes of St. Michael and St. Augustine.
Consideration: £60
[no title] 5535/8 1599 March 26 Contents:
Mortgage for £120 subject to demise in (6) - Robert Younge of Haselbury, Wilts., esq., to Thomas Arthur of Bristol, gent. - Redd Lodge in the parish of St. Michael lately built by Sir John Younge, dec'd., and all grounds belonging excepting one garden sold to George Whyte.
Survey of Smuggling in Bristol, 15 May 1565
Source: Transcribed by Evan Jones <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/Staff/jones.htm> (2003)
Manuscript: PRO E 159/350 Hil. 351 r,v,seq.
....And overmore we fynde that all the officers of the custumehowse
of this porte be resident uppon their offices theare savinge John Younge esquier one of the custumers there who hathe his deputie one Thomas Warren which John Younge upon his personal Answer saithe that he hath a dispensacon from the quenes highness for his nonresidence upon the same office/ And fynally we saie that as unto all other ~ ~ offences disorders trespaces and transgressions mencyoned and expressed in the saide commyssion commytted or perpetrated within the porte of ~ ~ Bristoll or countie of the same sithens the firste daye of Januarie in the fyvethe yere of the reigne of the quenes majestie that nowe is we can have no advertysemente therof by any meanes or waies....
Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society >" Transactions for the Year 1890-91.
At the Inquisition, taken after his death for the county of Dorset, the jurors find that he died seized of the Manor and Advowson of Abbotsbury in that county, and it is mentioned that he lived at Brandon-on-the-Hill in the county of the city of Bristol, and the jurors say that he died on the 4th September last, and that Robert Yonge is his son and nearest heir, and was aged 18 years on the 1st February last.
It appears from the Inquisition taken at Calne, 2nd October, 31 Eliz. (1588), after the death of Sir John Younge, that by charter dated 10th February, 7 Elizabeth (1585), he demised to William Poole [Pole] of Shute, co. Devon, and Edmund Downing, the Rectory of the Church of Abbotsbury with the advowson of the same and all the tithes of the parish lately belonging to the dissolved Monastery of Abbotsbury, and also the Rectory of Rendcome in the county of Gloucester, to hold to the use of the said John Younge and Johanna his wife and the heirs of the said John. The jurors also found that he had long been seized of the Manor of Halesbury with appurtenances, in the co. of Wilts, and of 6 messuages and 40 acres of land, meadow, and pasture, in Boxe, and of the Rectory and Advowson of Boxe ' and Waddes- wick, with two messuages with appurtenances in the same county, and so thereof being seized on the 10th January, 28th Elizabeth, (1585-6) by indenture, demised the said premises in Wilts to Richard Fitz James. Esq., and George Snygge, Esq., from immediately after the death of the said John, for the term of 13 years at a certain rent ; and the jurors further say that the said John Younge, long before his death, was seized in his demesne as of fee of a certain capital messuage called " White Friars," with appurtenances, and also of one garden, one orchard, with appurtenances in the county of the city of Bristol ; and of certain premises called Waterhouse with garden and adjacent land, and also of one other messuage, called a Lodge, also of one old barne, &c. ; and on the 10th January, 28 Elizabeth (15S5-6), he granted by indenture all the said premises to George Snygge, Esq., from immediately after the death of the said John, to hold until Michaelmas, 1592 [the year in which his son and heir would attain the full age of 22 years as prescribed in his father's will], at the rent of £3 annually ; and further, the jurors say that the said John being so seized, made his last will, dated loth January, 1585-6, in which he gave to his executors all the rents issuing out of his lands and tenements (the Rectory and Parsonage of Abbotsbury, which he had bought to the use of his wife in recompense of dower, only excepted), to hold to them until his son should attain his full age of twenty-two years, to the performance of this his last will, &c, Ac. And the jurors further say that the said John Younge, being of all the said premises seized, died seized, and that Anna sic [1 Johanna] his wife is still living at Bristol. And they say that the Rectory of Abbotsbury is worth £10 per annum ; that the Manor of Halsbury is held of Robert Bayard, Esq., by military service by the moiety of one knight's fee, and that it is worth, beyond reprises, £10 per annum ; and that the aforesaid six messuages in Boxe are held of William F in free socage and are of the value of 40s., and that the rectory of Boxe and the advowson of the church, &c, in Boxe and Waddiswick are held of the Queen in capite by the 40th part of one knight's fee, and the value is £4 ; and that the aforesaid capital messuage with appurtenances is worth per annum 40s., but by what tenure held the jurors are ignorant ; and that the lodge and other premises are worth 20s. per annum, but by what tenure held the jurors are ignorant. And the jurors say further that the aforesaid John Younge held no other lands in the counties aforesaid, and that he died on the 4th September next before the taking of this Inquisition, and that Robert Younge is the son and nearest heir of the said John Younge, Knight, and was aged 18 years on the 19th February last past.
Dame Joane Younge, described " of Bristol, Widow," made her will on 1st April, 1603 : gives £150 for her funeral, poor of Abbotsbury £20, my son Nicholas Strangways, my daughter Ann Bridgman, my late husband Sir Giles Strangways, Joan Buller [Butler ?], my daughter's child, my daughter Boteler. To my daughter Fitz James a silver bason worth £20 ; to my daughter Lady Elizabeth Berkeley a cup worth £10; my brother Nicholas Wadham, Esq. and Nicholas Strangways, my son, Exo'rs Codicil ; to Peregrine Young £200, at 23, after the decease of my son-in-law John Fitz James, Esq., and of my son-in-law Nicholas Boteler, Esq.
John Wadham, the father of Dame Joan, in his will dated 1st April, 1577, mentions all the children of "my son Sir John Yonge," Robert, Jane, and Margaret Younge. Robert Young, son and heir of Sir John, was born on 1st July, 1570, and on attaining the age of 21 years in 1591, he again proved his father's will, 3 and afterwards entered into possession of his father's real estates, except the Manor of Hazelbury and the Advowson of the Rectory of Abbotsbury, which Sir John in his will states he had purchased to his wife in redemption of her jointure, and which Sir Robert inherited after his mother's death. On the 18th April, 1604, he received the honour of knighthood at Whitehall from King James I., when he was described as of Som- erset. He might then have been residing at Easton-in-Gordano, which belonged to him, or at Halsbury, which had then devolved upon him. He appears to have bee.i twice married, but we 1 Prob. P.C.C. 25th Nov., 1589, and again by Robert Younge, 26th b., 1591 (9.'5 Leicester). - Prob. 7th Feb., 1603-4. P.C.C. (60 Stafford). 3 Prob. P.C.C. (93 Leicester). Notes on the Family of Yonge. 2-43 do not know the name of either of his wives. His half-sister, Ann Bridgman, of Badminton Magna, Gloucester, widow, nee Strangwayes, in her will dated loth February, 1G06, 1 names " Elizabeth Young, daughter of Sir Robert Young by his first wife." She also names Peregrine Young, son of my brother, Sir Robert Young, and also Nicholas Young, son of Sir Robert Young. This difference of description between Elizabeth and her brothers would seem to imply that the latter were by a second wife. We have not at present been able to obtain any further information relative to Sir Robert Young. No Inquisition post mortem is found in the Record Office. He probably survived until the Great Rebellion, when the Ecclesiastical Courts were abolished, and Inquisitions post mortem ceased to be taken. No will of him, nor of his sons Nicholas or Peregrine, are recorded in the Probate Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, nor in the Diocesan Registry at Wells. If proved at Bristol they would have been destroyed by the disastrous fire caused by the Bristol rioters in 1832. Peregrine Young, son of Sir Robert, would appear to have married Theophila, daughter of John Butcher, or Bowcher, Alder- man of Bristol, and relict of Thrupp, provided Mr. Young's name, as used in Mr. Butcher's will, dated 30th January, 1621, viz., " Pellegrine," may be accepted as a corruption of Peregrine. 2 i Prob. 8th July, 1606. Further adm° 12th November, 1682. P.C.C. (60 Stafford). 2 Prob. 15th March, 1622-3. P.C.C. (22 Swansea).
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