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 1522 - 1579 (~ 57 years)
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| Name |
Gresham, William |
| Born |
25 Apr 1522 |
England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
20 Jun 1579 |
Titsey, Surrey, England |
| Person ID |
I06628 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 May 2015 |
| Father |
Gresham, John, b. Abt 1497, Of Holt, Norfolk, England , bur. 23 Oct 1556, St Martin Orgar and St Clement Cheapside, London, England (Age ~ 59 years) |
| Mother |
Ipswell, Mary, b. Abt 1500, Of London, England , bur. 21 Sep 1538, St Mary Aldermanbury, London, England (Age ~ 38 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1521 |
England |
| Family ID |
F01912 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Gibbon, Beatrice, b. Abt 1536, Of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England , bur. 22 May 1604, Titsey, Surrey, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1552 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Gresham, William, b. Abt 1556, Of Titsey, Surrey, England , bur. 8 Mar 1624, Croydon, Surrey, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| | 2. Gresham, Mary, b. Abt 1557, England , bur. 14 Mar 1611, Horsham, Sussex, England (Age ~ 54 years) |
| | 3. Gresham, Thomas, b. Abt 1560, Of Limpsfield, Surrey, England , bur. 3 Jul 1630, Titsey St James, Surrey, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| | 4. Gresham, Cecily, b. Abt 1565, Of London, England , bur. 26 Jun 1632, Titsey St James, Surrey, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02690 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Births of the Children of Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London 1547, BY HIS FIRST WIFE MARY, DAUGHTER AND COHEIR OF Thomas Ipswell (MS. Addit. Brit. Mus. 6239).
Wyll*m Gresham was borne uppon saynt Mark the Evangelyst daye the xxv. daye of Apryll, An® D'ni xr^ xxii. And M' Will'm Buttir and M' John Gostwyck and Will'm Hardyng, thev were his godfathers, and my lady Allen his grandame was his godmother. And God make bym a good old man. Amen.
Mentioned as deceased in will of sister Mary Rowe 1579.
Titey, Surrey??:
NEAR THIS Place lyethe Wyll'm Greshame sone and Hayer unto Sir John Gresham Knyght, late Shryfe of Surrey and Sussex he toke to wyflfe one Beatrys Gybone by home he had Issewe Jaymes Wyll'm Thomas and John Mary Elizabeth and Sysselley On whose Soule Jesus have mercy. 1579.
On the same wall is a black marble tablet enchased in white, oyer it the Gresham Arms, standing on a scull; and in capitals is this inscription (Aubrey, Ih,, p. 13). The slab now merely remains, and is fixed on the south wall over an arch in the mortuary chapel : - NEAR This Place Lyeth The Body Of Sir John Gresham Of This Parish Of Titsy K^ Whoe Married Elizabeth Eldest Daughter Of S' Tho» Bishopp Of Parham In The County Of Sussex K^ & Baronet With Whom Having Happily Livd In A Conjugall Estate 31 Yeeres & 5 Months He died Without Issue In The 56 Yeere Of His Age The 26th Day Of May 1643. To Whose Merits Truth Gives This Impartial Character That He Was An Orthodox Christian & An Obedient Sonne Of The Church Of England A Loyall Subject To His Soveraigne An Affectionate Lover Of His Lady A Noble & Bountifull Entertayner Of His Friends And Neighbours A Charitable Releever And Benefactor To The Poore. To whose pious memory his Deere Consort and Relict hath Erected this monument as well to expresse her owne affection as to preserve his Virtues For the imitation of Posterity. Shee having continued His widdow ever since theire seperation desires to be conioyned againe in the same Tombe when God shall Please to call her out of this Mortall Life. This monument was erected in the yeare of our Lord 1660.
Horsham Sussex.
On the south wall of south chancel aisle on a mural tablet of alabaster, in gilt letters, on black marble. Below are the Arms of Michell impaling Gresham : - Here under lyeth ye bodies of John Michell of Stamerham gent ye sonn of Avery Michell gent. & Mary his wife, daughter of William Gresham of Titsey in ye County of Surrey, Esq. which said John died ye six & twentieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred & tenn, and ye said Mary his wife died the ninth day of March then next following unto whose remembrance Edward Michell now of Stanmerham, gent, cousen to the said John hath caused this to be erected in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred & twelve.
William Grebham, Esq., 1572. In the name of God Amen. The xx of Maye 1572 I William Gresham of Tittesey Co. Surrey Esquire son and heire of Sir John Gresham Knight and late Alderman of London deceased, being of hole mynd and in good and perfecte memory thanks be unto God doe make and ordeine this my presente Testament conteyning herein my last Will touchinge the order and disposicion of my goodes cattells and debts to me owing in manner and forme following that is to say. First and principally I commende my soule to Almighty God my Master and to his onely sonne Jesus Christ my Savior and Redemer in whome and by the merits of whose most blessed death and passion ys all my hole trust of clere remission and forgiveness of all my synnes. And my bodye to be buried in the Parish Church of Tittesiey aforesaid in such place as yt shall please God to provide for me. Item I will that all such debts and duetyes as I owe of right or in conscience to any person shall as shortly after my decease as may be be well and truly contented and paid by my Executrix hereunder named. Item I will and my mynd and intent is that within six days after my decease a good just true and perfect inventory valuacion and appraisement be had made and taken of all and singular my goodes moveables cattells plate and debts (all ceilings and portalls of waynscot remayning in any or every oi my houses onely excepted) by such discrete honest and indifferent persones as my well beloved frends Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe my cosen shall thereunto appoint and think most meete. And after the said valuacion and appraisement thereof nad I will that the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe shall with as much convenient expedicion as may be make and ingrosse or cause to be made and ingrossed into parcnment the said Inventory of all the said goodes cattells leases plate redy money, and debts, tripartite indented, one parte I will shall remain with Beatrice my well beloved wief and th'other two partes th'one to remain with Thomas Bayerd th'other with Wm Rowe. And after said Inventory made and all debts and funerall charges paid I will that the said goodes Cattells leases Plate and debts shall be equally divided into three equall partes and porcions, whereof one equall parte and porcion I will and bequeath to said Beatrice my wief to her own use in the name of her reasonable partes and porcions of my said goodes and cattells. And the two other equall partes and porcions thereof I will, give, and bequeath unto such of my children whom shall hereafter name and expresse and to no other that is to say to my two youngest daughters Elizabeth Gresham and Cicely Gresham my children except out of the said equall partes and porcions such legacyes and bequests as I have here- after willed and bequeathed. And I will that yf it shall fortune the said Elizabeth Gresham or Ciceley Gresham before they shall accomplish and come to their dayes of marriage or lawful ages of twenty one yeres to decease and departe out of this vaine and transitory worlde that then the partes and porcions of her so deceasing shall be and remain to the survivt)r of them and yf they both decease then their partes and porcions shall be to Thomas Gresham my sonne and Mary Gresham my daughter equally to be distributed parte and porcion alike. And with the said two equall partes and porcions of my said goodes and cattells I will the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe to have the use occupying employment and advancement to the use of my said children until they shall attain their said age of twenty one yeres or dayes of marriage if the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe do so long live and that my Executrix shall make full and wnole delivery of the same within convenient time after my decease unto the said Thomas and William to the intent that the said Thomas and William shall give and deliver to the said Elizabeth and Ciceley Gresham and the survivor of them when they shall accomplish the age of 21 yeres or dayes of marriage the two said equall partes and porcions of my said goods cattells plate ready money and debts (except before excepted) and also such reasonable parte and porcion of the encrease and gaines that shall arise come and growe by reason of the ymployment and occupation of the said two equall partes as to their good consideration wisdom and discretion shall thincke and seme good. Item I will that yf the said Thomas Bajerd or William Rowe doe depart out of this worlde before my said children shall accomplish their lawfdl ages or dayes of marriage that then the Executor or Administrator of the said Bayerd and Rowe shall within two months after their decease not only make and declare in writing a juste true and perfect acconnte and reckoning of all and every the premises but also make tme payment and delivery of all the said two equall partes of my goodes cattells &c. and the increase and gaines of the same as then shall be in their hande or shall before that have come to the hands and possessions of the said Bayerd and Rowe and then being and remaining unpaid, unto the Right Worshipfdll the Master and Wardens of the Company of Mercers in London unto which said Co. I will and give by this my presente Testament lawfuU power and authority to recover receive and take all the said two equall partes and porcions of the said goodes Cattells debts and all other things to my said children before bequeathed or so much as shall be unpaid at the decease of the said Bayerd and Rowe out of the hands of the Executors or Administrators of the said Bayerd and Rowe. And then I will that the said two equall partes and porcions of my said children or so much as shall be then unpaid, to remain in the use occupying and advancement of the said Master and Wardens until my said Children shall come to their lawful ages or dayes of marriage, and that then the said Master and Wardens shall deliver and pay to my said children, the said two partes and porcions of my goods cattells plate ready money and debts (except before excepted) and also of the increase and gaines of the same that shall arise come and grow by reason of the ymployment and occupation of the said two equall parts. And that the said Master and Wardens shall do the same well truly and effectually and according to the true meaning of this my last Will and Testament I will that t^e said Master and Wardens shall have and take out of the two said equall partes of my goods the sum of three poundes six shillings and eight pence to be bestowed upon a djrnner for their travell and pains therein. Provided always and my mind and will is that the said Master and Wardens shall become bounden and putt in sufficient suertyes unto Beatrice my wief or unto her Ex*>" or Assigns for the answering paying and delivering of the said two equall partes and portions of said goods and cattells to my said children bequeathed when they shall accomplish their lawful ages or days of marriage as is before declared. And further I will and my mynd and intent is that the ceelings and portalls of Waynscott before excepted shall remaine and appertayne to the fee simple of my said houses as parte and parcell thereof and to discend and goe as annexed unto the inheritance thereof and not to be severed from the same in any wise. Also I will that John Plomley shall be my bayly of mv Manners of Westerham and Stonegrave in Eatonbridge during his lief naturall and he to colcte and gather all such rents Herriotts and other things of the same coming and growing and shall yeld and give a just and perfecte Accompte and well and truly pay his receipts thereof once in every yeare and he to have for his labour and paines therein fortie shillings yearely during his naturall lief out of the said Manner of Westerham. Also I will that John Constable shall have the bayly-weeke of my Manners of Lymsfeld and Brodeham during his naturall lief and shall make a juste and true accompte yerely of all the revenues and proffitts of the said Manners and to make true payments of the receipts thereof and he to have for his fee yearly fortie shillings during his naturall lief out of the said Manor of Lymsfeld. Also I will that John Burton my smithe shall have the house forge and ground that he hath now in his occupation during his lief paying therefore yearely xx" and he shall keep it in sufficient reparacions. Also I will that William Bentlye have after my decease the house and land that one Alice Hurtling Widowe now dwelleth in the parish of Tittesey during his naturall lief paying such yerely rent as the said Hurtling now payeth and that he do kepe the nouses in good reparacions and shall well and sufficiently repaire and amend all the hedges closes and fences belonging to the said ground during his naturall lief and shall doe. nether stripe nor wast and that he kŁall looke well to my pondes and kepe them cleane and in good order. [ 38 ] Also I will that Thomas Chapman shall be my rent gatherer of all my tenements and gardens in the Parish of St. Giles without Criplegate of London during his naturall lief and to make true payment of the receipts thereof and he to have yearely for his fee fortie shillings for and in consideracion of the said office. Also I will to every one of my men servants that shall dwell with me at the time of my decease a twelvemontmng bullock apece. And to every one of my mayde servants that shall dwell with me at the time of my decease an ewe apece. And I give to every one of my men servants a blacke coate, and to every one of my maide servants a blacke Gassocke. And of this my present Testament and last Will I ordeine and make Beatrice my Wief my sole Executrix, and to the intent that the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe may doe as good and faithfull frends in the executing of this my last Will and testament as my trust is in them to see unto my children in whome I repose my whole trust and confidence I make and ordeine the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe together with the R^ Worshipfall Sir William Gordall K* Master of the Rolls my Overseers. And I give to the said Thomas Bayerd and William Rowe to ether of them a ringe of golde of forty shillings apece and to each of them a horse. And to the said Sir Wm Gordall I give and bequeath for his paines and travell to be taken herein the best horse that I shall have at the time of my decease. And to the said William Rowe I give and bequeath my best coate my best cloake and my night gowne. In witness whereof to this my presente Testament and last Will I have sette my scale and subscribed my name in the presence of these whose names be hereunder written being specially called to be witnesses to the same these whose names be hereunder written were present at the reading perusing and sealling of this Will that is to saie. Also I saide William Gresham do give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Gresham four hundred poundes upon condicion that she shall not marry without the advice and consent of Beatrice my wief my Lady Rowe Cicely Ciall and my brother John Gresham or two of them at the least and if she doe this legacye shall be voide and then the said sum shall remain and be to Elizabeth and Giceley my daughters. In witness whereof to this said Codicil I William Gresham have sette my scale and subscribed my name in the presence of W"* Gresham - Edmund Stile - Rob* Gunsley - ^Arthur Heyward - George Hodges - Edward Cooke - John Constable. Probatum apud London 14 Julii 1579.
Seal of Willam Gresham. Arms Gresham, impaling Gybbon, those of his wife.
1564. 17 Jnne. Commission to William Gresham, natural and lawful father of James Gresham* of Tittesey, deceased, to administer the goods of the said James during the minority of Thomas Gresham and William Gresham, brothers of the said deceased.
1576. 21 May. Commission to William Gresham, the father, and Thomas Gresham, the brother, and Mary Qresham the sister of James Gresham, late of Tytsey, co. Surrey, to administer.
William Gresham, Esq. [Chancery Inquis. p.m. 21 Eliz., 2 Pt. No. 14.] Inquisition taken at Depteforde, co. Kent, 29 Oct. 21 Eliz. (1579) before Thomas Culpeper and others. The Jurors say that William Gresham Esq. was seised in his demesne as of fee tail to him and his heirs male of the gift of Sir John Gresham Kt.y his father, of the manor of Hethenden and the lands called Henden Parke in the parishes of Sundrish, Brasted, and Chedyngstone, co. Kent, in the tenure of Robert Sone, and of a fiann parcel of the manor of Westram called the Cm*telage of Westram, in the tenare of Anthony Saxbye, and of a tenement called Charmans with the profits of the conies, of a messuage called Rowholtes and divers lands there in the county of Surrey, of the manor of Waldyngham and divers lands, of the manor of Felcourt, of the manor or farm of Lovest^e, and of a messuage in Milk Street in the city of London, and that he was seised in fee of the manor of Stangrave in Eatonbridge and of the rectory of Eatonbridge, co. Kent, of the manor of Westram and certain lands there called Shotts and Hame, lately purchased of William Casingherste, of a messuage called Welcomes and Laurence with divers lands Co. Surrey, and of divers lands, tenements, and almshouses in Bowe Brickhill, Little Brickhill, Wandon, Calcote, Sewenestis,t and Fenny Stratforde, co. Bucks, of divers messuages, tenements, and gardens in the parish of St. Giles without Crepelgate, London, and that at the time of his death he was seised of the rectory of Westram co. Kent and of the manors of Tuttesey alias Tichesey, Lymsfelde, and Brodham, and of the patronage of the rectory of Lymsfelde, and of the manor of Oxstede in Brodham, and of a stable with the appurtenances in the borough of Southwark in the parish of St. George, and of a tenement in Milke- streete in the city of London, and of another tenement in the parish of St. Mary Aldermanbury, and of a tenement called " le Sonne " in the pansh of St. Alphege within Creplegate, and of divers lands in Westram lately purchased of Cuthbert Brewad (here recites his will dated 9 Oct. 1575), and gives the value of his property as follows - Henden Park 24Z. 19«. l^d. The curtelage of Westerham and Iharmans 23/. 6s. Sd. Manor of Rowholts 53^. id. The manor of Waldyngham 201. Manor of Felcourt 13/. 6«. 8d. Manor of Lovestede bl. Tenement in Milk- strete 100*. Manor of Stangrave 16/. lOd. Rectory of Eatonbridge 17/. 10«. Manor of Westerham 36/. 10«. Sd. Shotts and Hames in Westerham 20s. Well- comes and Laurence '50^. The messuages etc. in Bowe Brickhill etc. 19/. Ss. 6d. The messuage and garden in St. Giles 10/. The rectory of Westerham 12/. The manor of Ticchesey 40/. The manors of Lymesfelde and Brodeham and the advow- son of Lvmesfelde 50/. 7^. 8^. The manor of Oxstede 8/. 19^. The stable in Southwark lOs. The tenement in Milk Street 40^. and the tenement in St. Mary Aldermanburv and " le Sonne " Ł3. The land bought of Cuthbert Brewood 31. That he died on 20 June last, and that William Gresham is his son and heir, and aged 23 and upwards.
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