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| Name |
Harpsfield, |
| Born |
Abt 1470 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I07522 |
My Genealogy |
| Father |
Harpsfield, Nicholas, b. Abt 1440, England  , d. Abt. 1490, England (Age ~ 50 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Norton, Alice, b. Abt 1450, Of Nutley and East Tisted, Hampshire, England , d. Aft 1500, England (Age ~ 51 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Family ID |
F02920 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Children |
| | 1. Harpsfield, John, b. 31 May 1516, St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, England , bur. 10 Nov 1578, St Selpuchre, Holborn, London, England (Age ~ 62 years) |
| | 2. Harpsfield, Nicholas, b. 16 May 1519, St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, England , d. 18 Dec 1575, London, England (Age 56 years) |
| + | 3. Harpsfield, Alice, b. Abt 1520, Of St Mary Magdalen, London, England , d. Bef 1548, England (Age ~ 28 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02236 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Might be John??
Father Nicholas? Mother Alice Norton.
Boulogne
Will of JOAN VISCOUNTESS LISLE.
Joan Viscountess L'isle, widow, 8th August 1500. My body to be buried in the parish Church of St. Michael upon Cornhill, under the sepulture where Robert Drope, late my husband, lieth. ... my nephew John Harpesfeld; my nephew Nicholas Harpesfeld, a scholar at Bonony; my nephew George Harpesfeld; my nephew John Morton, draper; to my niece Philippa Harpesfeld, who is to marry Thomas Dynley ccc marks; Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Capel, Knight; my godson Reginald Bray, nephew of Sir Reginald Bray Proved 21st November, 1505
There is a pedigree chart of the Norton family found in "Herald and Genealogist, Volume 5", published 1870, pages 127-130. The
pedigree chart there identifies Jane, Viscountess Lisle as Jane
Norton, daughter of John Norton, Esq., "lord of the manors of Nutley
and East Tisted, co. Hants." The chart includes all of Jane Norton's
near relatives, including her brother, Richard Norton, and her three
sisters, Christiana (wife of William More, Esq.), Agnes (wife of
Nicholas Harpesfeld, Esq.), and Alice (marriage not identified), as
well as numerous nephews and nieces.
81. John Harpesfeld, draper, and Lewis Harpesfelde, mercer, of London. Protection for one year; going in the retinue of Sir Gilbert Talbot, Deputy of Calais. Del. Westm., 16 June 5 Hen. VIII. S.B. Pat. 5 Hen. VIII. p. 1, m. 16. [4240.]
82. John and Lewis Harpesfelde. Warrant for protections and writs, according to the Statute, as appointed to serve in the war under Viscount Lisle. 12 June 5 Hen. VIII. [Del.] 16 June. S.B. (signed: Charlys Lysley). [4241.]
From: 'Henry VIII: June 1513, 27-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1: 1509-1514 (1920), pp. 918-940. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102690 Date accessed: 21 October 2011.
British Archaeological Association Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Volume 19). (page 21
ON THE PARISH CHURCH OF WYKE,
the nortli wall, is a small inscribed stone measuring not more tlian fifteen inches in length and twelve in height. As several attempts have been made to decipher the inscription, and the best rendering of it (here . lyeth . MR. . docer . OUR . respected . PARSON . HERE . 1513. APRIL . XIII.) is evidently incorrect, I venture to give not only an accurate reading of it, but also to add a few words about the individual whom it commemorates Such memorials of the sixteenth century are, comparatively speaking, rare in this county. I have consequently deemed it worthy of being engraved. (See plate 14, fig. 1.) The inscription reads
HERE . LYETH . MR. . DOCTER . HARPESFELDE . PARSON . HERE .
1550 . APRIL, in.-' The rector whom it commemorates in so quaint a manner is the above mentioned Dr. Nicholas Harpesfeld- the elder, who for many years was a leading dignitary in the diocese of Winchester. He was born at Wyeford, in the parish of Sherborne Priors, in this county, on the 2nd of February, 1473-4, and was admitted a scholar of Winchester College in 1486. He was elected thence to
New College, Oxford, and admitted as a scholar of that society on the 23rd Juno, 1400, and obtained liis fellowsln'p on 23 June, 14f)2.i On the 2nd Marcli, 149(J-7, he was instituted by Dr. Oliver Kyng, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the rectory of Uphill, in the county of Somerset, at the presentation of Johanna Viscountess Lisle, relict of Edward late Viscount Lisle. From an inquisition held to inquire as to
the right of patronage of this church, dated February 23rd, 1497-8, I learn that Nicholas Harpesfeld was at that time twenty- four years of age, had the clerical tonsure, and was of good repute and honest conversation, and studying in
the university of Oxford. Owing to some informality or other, he was again instituted to the rectory of Uphill on the 19 May, 1498. On 21 February, 1497-8, he was instituted by Dr. Richard Redmayne, Bishop of Exeter, to the rectory
of Eeigneash, alias Ayshreyne, co. Devon, on the presentation of Joanna Viscountess Lisle and Thomas Specket, gentleman. Sir Nicholas Harpesfelde (as he was now called) held these two livings by virtue of an apostolic dispensation,
dated at Eome April 19th, 1498, for which he had petitioned in order that he might be enabled to pursue his studies in civil law.^ He resigned his fellowship of New College in the month of January 1498-9. He afterwards became a student in the celebrated university of Bologna, and whilst studying there he visited Rome as a pilgrim. Entering the city on Friday the 17th October, 1505, he claimed the hos-
pitality of the English Hospital, founded for the resort of English pilgrims, by King Ina, in the year 727. At the early part of the year 1508 he resigned his Somersetshire rectory; and on the 29th of March in that year, the vicar-general of
the Bishop of Bath and Wells instituted John Baschurch to the rectory of the parish church of Uphill, void by the resignation of Nicholas Harpesfeld, on the presentation of Thomas Knyvet, Esq. It was probably in this year that he obtained
his first benefice in tlie diocese of Winchester, - the rectory of East Tisted, in the county of Hants, - to which he was presented by the Norton family, who seemed very partial to Wykehamists. In April 1524, Dr. Kichard Fox, Bishop of A\'inchcster, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, appointed him his commissary and sequestrator-general throughout the archdeaconry of Winchester; and in the same year, on the 2nd of December, he was present in the chapter-house of Winchester Cathedral as one of the winesses to the election of Dom. Henry Brook, Professor of Sacred Theology, as prior of the cathedral church of St. Swithun's, Winchester. In 1526 he was appointed official
of the archdeacon of Winchester by Eichard Pates, who was collated to this office on the 3rd of March, 1526-7; and his commission was renewed by Mr. William Boleyn, who succeeded to the archdeaconry on 20th January, 1529-30; and in this capacity I find him, on and after the 9th March, 1526-7, granting probates of wills in the conventual church of the Carmelite friars in the Soke, Winchester; and after the suppression of the religious houses he was wont to offi-
ciate in a similar manner in the neighbouring parish church of St. Michael, Kingsgate-street. On the 21st January, 1526-7, Bishop Fox collated him to the rectory of Havant, CO. Hants, void by the resignation of Mr. Edw. Coren, S.T.P
Bishop Fox died on Monday, October 5th, 1528, and was succeeded in the bishopric of Winchester by Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal appointed Dr. Harjjesfeld his commissary- general throughout the diocese, and henceforth he is invari- ably styled " Nicholas Harpesfeld, Doctor of Decrees, Commissary-General of the most Reverend Father in Christ, and Lord the Lord Thomas, Cardinal Archbishop of York and legate of the apostolic see, also Bishop of Winchester, in his city and diocese of Winchester, also official of the Lord Archdeacon of Winchester."
On the 18th December, 1531, in the consistory court of the cathedral church of Winchester, he delivered to Mr. Edmund Steward, Doctor of Laws, and rector of Easton, the letters patent of Dr. Stephen Gardiner, the newly consecrated
bishop of Winchester, sealed with the ol>long seal, impressed in red wax, and signed by the hand of the said right reverend father, appointing the aforesaid ]\Ir. Edmund Steward his vicar-gcneral in spiritualities; "which were reverently received by liim, and at his command publicly read by Mr. John Cooke, notary public; and afterwards, at the petition and request of the said Mr. Nicholas llarpesfelde. Doctor of Decrees, he accepted the burden of the commission, for
the honour of God, and in reverence of the said reverend father." On the 27th of the same month I find Dr. Nicholas Harpesfelde, as the official of the archdeacon of Winchester, assisting at tlie enthronization of Bishop Gardiner : indeed,
he was one of the three persons to whom Dr. William Warham, the archdeacon of Canterbury, deputed his powers and authority to enthrone the bishop. Bishop Gardiner appears to have renewed Bishop Fox's commission, as in a record of
the judicial proceedings against Eobert Cooke, of Eye, co. Sussex, held in the Consistory Court of Winchester, before the bishop's vicar-general, on the 1st March, 1533-4, among those who are named as being present, occurs " Nicholas
Harpesfeld, Doctor of Decrees, commissary of the said reverend father, in the archdeaconry of Winchester, also official of the lord archdeacon." On the 5th December, 1538, the prior and convent of Winchester Cathedral leased to him,
for sixty years, a certain tenement in Kingsgate-street, Whichester, newly repaired, with new stabling and garden adjoining, lying between the tenement and garden of the said prior and convent, and near the church and place of the late
Carmelite friars, on the south side ; and opposite the tenement of the warden and fellows of New College, Winchester, near the church of St. Michael, on the west side. In this document he is styled "Nicholas Harpisfelde, priest, of Kingsgate-street in the Soke near Winchester, in the county of Southampton, doctor of laws." He was to pay £4 upon his entrance, for the repairs, and 10s. per annum afterwards, payable quarterly in equal portions. In 1542 Bishop Gardiner collated him to the rectory of Wyke, otherwise Weke, void by the death of Mr. AVilliam A^tkinson, its late rector. He resigned his rectory of East Tisted in June 1543, his
rectory of Havant in the month of October in the same year, and his rectory of Ashreigny, in Devonshire, in June or July; as from the register of Dr. John Veysy, Bishop of Exeter, I learn that on the IGth July, 1543, John Bagbere was instituted to the parish church of Aysherigney, void by the resignation of Dr. Nicholas Harpesfeld, on the presentation of Anthony Harvy, Esq. Among the additional MSS. preserved at the Britisli Museum may be seen a foolscap volume of twenty-two folios, jnu-chased by the trustees on 12th March, 1842, of the late jMr. Rodd, the bookseller, and formerly belonged to the Rev. J. Price of Trinity College, This MS. is the record, or act book, of a visitation of the archdeaconry of Winchester,
held by Dr. Nicholas Harpesfeld in the year 1543. It commences Avith the deanery of Basingstoke, and is headed, " The Visitation held in Parish Church of Basyngstoke on the 29th day of March a.d. 1543, by Master Nicholas Harp-
isfeld, the Official of the Lord Archdeacon of Winchester."^ Nearly all the deaneries commence with a similar heading. His visitation of the deanery of Alton was held in the parish church of Alton on the 30th ; Alresford deanery, in the parish church of iMartyr AVorthy, on the 31st; Andover deanery, on Tuesday April 3rd, in the parish church of Andover; Southampton deanery, in the parish church of Holy Rood, Southampton; Droxford deanery' on the 6 th, in the parish church
of South wick; the Isle of AVight deanery on the 10th, in the chapel of Newport; Fordingbridge deanery, in the chapel of Lymington, April 11th; and the deaneries of Somborne and AVinchester on the 1 6th, in the church of St. Mary Kaleudar,
AA^inchester. All of which were held by Dr. Harpesfeld in person, excepting the Isle of AVight visitation, which he deputed to Mr. Ranulph Harward, rector of Gatcombe. On the 20th October, 1546, the dean and chapter of AA^in-
chester Cathedral leased to him, for the term of sixty-one years from the preceding feast of St. Michael the Archangel, at tlie annual rent of twelve pence, together with a fine of that amount on every death or avoidance, a new house built at the
sole cost and charge of the said " Nicholas Harpy sf eld, clerk, parson of the parish church of AA^eke," and a piece of vacant ground or garden at Weke. The house and ground, measuring in length sixty-two feet, and sixteen feet in breadth, abutted upon the king's highway north-west and southward, and
upon a close Ijclonging to Richard Complyn on the east side. In the early part of the year (154G) Dr. Harpesfeld, admonished, perhaps, by advancing years and the consequent decay of physical strength, or warned by the unsettled aspect of religions afFuirs, resigned his official appointments,^ and retired to Wyke, that he might have leisure to prepare himself for another world ; and from the circumstance of a horselitter being named among his effects, it may reasonably be
concluded that latterly at least he had become debilitated in body, or was oppressed by sickness. His will, written by his own hand, is dated on the 3rd
March, 1.549-50; and on Saturday, the 15th of the same month, he closed his earthly career at the age of seventy-six years, one month, and thirteen days. He appointed his nephews, Mr. John Harpesfelde, priest, and Mr. Nicholas
Harpesfelde, Bachelor of Laws, his executors;^ and the latter proved the will on the 20th May, 1550. The document contains several charitable legacies, and names two or three of his poorer parishioners as the special objects of his bounty.
Though he held for many years a high position in the church, it will be seen tliat his worldly goods were not only few in number, but of little value; not more than £lG : 2 : 2, and £20 in money. The legacies named in his will amount to
more than £'21; and of this sum he leaves £7 : 10 to be distributed among the poor people of Winchester.
In the Name of God, Amen. Whenever it shall please Almightie
God to call me from this transitory worlde, I will that this shall stande
for my last will and testament. In primis, I commende my soule to
Almightie God and to our blessed lady the virgin mother of our Saviour
Jesus Christ and to aU the sayntes of heven, my body to be buryed
mthin the ChaunceU of Weke, or where it shall please Almightie God.
My goodes to be disposed by Mr. John Harpesfeld prest and Mr. Nicolas
HaT"pesfeld bacheler of Law, and in especiaU I bequeth to the church
of Weke xxs. Item, amonge the powi'e folke of Wynchester vijZi. xs.
Item to the powre of Havant xl.s. Item to my servant Thomas besj^de
his wages xs. Item to Mother Alices xs. Item I forgive Sir Anthony
Parker xxs. whiche he oweth me.^ Item I forgive Cheynye xiijs. iiijcZ.
whiche he oweth me. Item I give to the said Cheynyes son my god-
son xs. Item I geve the lease of my howse buUded of my cost in Weke
to my said Executors, and to the longer lyver of them, and after their
decease yf any yeres shall then remayne I give the same lease to my
godson Christopher Smyth son. Item to the said Christopher's son I
give xs. Item, to Syr Thomas Dackcombe I geve xls.^ Item, to old
Angell \js. viij'i. for him and his wife. Item, to Mother Meryman iijs.
iiij(7. Item, to Mother Hether iijs. iiijcZ. Item, to Mres. Dyall xls.
Item to Syr Emanuell [May bond] ^ I bequeth one of my olde goAATies and iij.N". 'uiyl. Item, to my god daughter in Havant vj.s. viij(/-. Item,
I forgive Kerby xxs. Item I will my executors to agree with tho
Arches.^ Item I wyll Mr, Argall be commonde withall for my dettes
to Mr. Barrat.2 The rest of all my goodes not bequethed I gevc and
bequethe to the same Mr. John and Nicholas Harpesfeld whom I
ordayn and make my executors to dispose after their discretion to the
honour of God and for my soiilcs healthe with Syr John Bakers coun-
cell, whom I ordayn supervysor of this my will desyringe him to accej)t
the same. Item I will that the said Syr John Baker have xls. for his
councell and helpe.^^ Wytness hereof the iij^® of Marche in the yei'e of
oure lorde God, 1549. Syi' Thomas Dackney prest, Syr Emanuell
Maybond prest, Thomas Meke.
" Probatum fait hujus testamcntum coram Magistro Edmundo
Stewarde, Legum Doctore, Reverendi in Christo patris
Domini, Domini Stephani Wintonicnsis Episcopi, Vicario
in spiritualibus generali, apud Winton. xx"" die mensis
Maii anno Domini 1550. Commissa fuit administratio
omnium bonorum Nicholao Hai-pesfeld executorum uni,
in hujusmodi testamento nominato, ac in forma jmis
jurato ; reservata potestate committendi consimilem ad-
ministrationem Johanni Harpesfeld alteri executori in
eodem testamento nominato cum voluerit eum admittere.
[" Summa inventarii xxxvjK. ijs. ijc?.]
" The Inventory of Mr. Doctor Harpsfelde goods of Wyke deceased
the XV. daye of March, prased by S}t Thomas Dackliam prest,
Harry Wade and Richarde Complyn paryshyners of Wyke tlic
xvj. day of the said moneth.
Imprimis all maner of lynen, xxiijs.
Item V gownes, iij7/. xiij.?. iiijcL
Item an maner of bedding, iijli. ixs.
Item chestes, cobbards, tables, trestles, stoles, chayres, xxjs. ij(?.
Item all vessells of yerne, laten, & pewter, liiij.9. iiijcZ.
Item tyi^ettes, cappes and nyghtcappys, xs.
Item bokes Ix in nomber, xx.s.
Item hangings and testurs, vs.
Item stone pottes, xvijfZ.
Item vessells longing to baking and wasking, viijs
Item an horslitter cum pertinentiis, iiijs.
Item saddclles and bridelles, iij.*^. iiijVZ.
Item rj. quussions and a boankar,^ vs. vjf?.
Item a colte, xs.
Item a nagge, vj.s. viijcl.
Item a bedstede, xijcZ.
Item a carte with harness, vs.
Item a bush ell to mete corne, vj'?.
Item a lader and a malepilien,^ xiiij*'.
Sunima, xvjli. ij.?. ijc?.
Item in pecuniis numeratis, xxZi."
It will be seen tliat the heading of the inventory records
the day of his decease. This is at variance with the date
given upon the inscribed slab ; and the difference is too great
to allow the supposition that it gives the date of his burial.
It is not improbable that the stone might have been engraved
a few years later, and hence the mistake. There exists
no record of his burial, as the parish registers do not extend
farther back than the year 1573. The episcopal register of
Dr. Stephen Gardiner informs us, however, that "on the
twentieth day of March, 1549-50, Mr. John Gambou, clerk,
was admitted to the parish church of Weke, in the diocese
of AVinchester, vacant by the death of Master Nicholas
Harpesfeld, clerk, its last incumbent ; on the collation of the
lord bishop, and was instituted rector in the same, with all
its rights and appurtenances."
On the Patent Roll of the 5th Henry VIII, among the letters of pro-
tection granted by the king to persons wishing to go abroad, there is one on
lichalf of John llarpesfelde, citizen and draper of London; otherwise called
John Hari)esfcld, late of London, draper ; otherwise John Harpesfeld, of London,
gentleman, and Lewis llarpesfelde, of London, mercer. They were going in
the retinue of Sir Gilbert Talliot, Lejiuty of Calais. Tested by the king at
WestTniiister, .lune Hi, 1513. (Pat. 5, lien. VllI, p. 1, m. IG.) The former was
in all probability the father of John ;uid Nicholas Harpesfeld the younger.
Arms : ar
Notes for Gent. John Harpesfield:
FTM CD194, Mass. & Me. Families, Vol II, Mitton, of Weston-Under-Lizard, pg 620:
John Harpesfield, eldest son of Nicholas and Agnes, after his father's death in the latter years of the fifteenth century, sued the Abbot of St. Albans, demandng the return of the deeds of entail to the manor of Harpesfield which were in the abbot's hands. John was a citizen and draper of London in 1513 when he and his brother Lewis received letters of protection to travel to Calais in the retinue of Sir Gilbert Talbot. There can be no doubt that he was the John Harpesfield of London, gentleman, who was the husband of Joyce Mitton and who d. bef 1533/4 when she was a widow. Of their three kno wn sons, Edward Harpesfield, his mother's heir, succeeded her at Weston-under -Lizard; ...
Notes for Joyce Mitton:
Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonist by David Faris, 1st Edition, 1996, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, pg 188:
3. Joyce Mitton, dau and heiress, was b. abt 1487. She m. by 1505/6 to John Harpesfield, Gent., citizen and draper of London, and heir of Nicholas Harpesfield, of Harpesfield in St. Peters St. Albans, co Hertford by Agnes, dau of John Norton, of Nutley and East Tisted, co Hants. John Harpesfield, Gent., d. bef 27 Oct 1533. She d. abt 1558.
FTM CD194, Mass . & Me. Families, Vol II, Mitton, of Weston-Under-Lizard, pg 619:
Joyce Mitton, possibly born abt 1490, m. presumably in 1505/6, when her father settled l and on her and her husband, John Harpesfield of London, gentleman. After the death of her husband and her father, she seems to have preferred to live in London rather than to return to her ancestral Staffordshire home, and in 1534 whe leased the manor of Weston to her mother for life. The date of her death is not known.
D/DL/T1/593
Level: Item Dates of Creation 1 August 1509 Scope and Content Quitclaim.
Sir Thos.Tyrell, kt., to John Barett, gent., Thos.Tyrell, arm., Wm.Poyntz, arm., Robt.Latham, gent., John Harpesfeld and Gilb. Gentill, clothiers.
Messuages, lands, tenements.etc. in Aveley (no details) which the said John Barett and others above-mentioned purchased from John Ketylby, arm., and wife Margaret (daughter and heir of Rich.Cely, late merchant of the Staple at Calais), Robt. Wareham, gent. and wife Isabel (daughter and heir of said Rich.Cely), Anne Cely (sister of the said Margaret and Isabel) and which they had of the demise of Rich., Bp. of Winchester, John Foxe and Thos.Semer [D/DL T1/586]. The said Sir Thos.Tyrell (then Thos.Tyrell, arm.), Rich.Cely, Alfred Corneburgh, arm., Master Robt. Goer, clerk, and Wm.Marion, decd., jointly held the property of the demise of Thos.Wade of London, goldsmith and Wm.Smyth, yeoman [D/DL T1/509].
Signed: `Thoms. Tyrell'.
Endorsed `Blaches'
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