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    Cyoll, Germain

    Male Abt 1520 - 1598  (~ 78 years)


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    • Name Cyoll, Germain 
      Born Abt 1520  Kentish Town, Camden, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1587-1598  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08141  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 29 Apr 2015 

      Family Gresham, Cecily,   c. 12 Feb 1524/1525, Of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 10 Jan 1608/09, St Michael Bassingshaw, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years) 
      Married 20 Feb 1554/55  St Michael Bassingshaw, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Family ID F02454  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, S... C 3/34/65 Cyoll v. Paget . Cyoll v. Paget Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, Series II, Elizabeth I to Interregnum
        Date: 1558 - 1579 Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives
        Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, S... C 3/198/78 White v. Cyoll: Middlesex. . White v. Cyoll: Middlesex. Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, Series II, Elizabeth I to Interregnum
        Date: 1558 - 1579 Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives
        Court of Wards and Liveries: Inquisitions Post Mor... WARD 7/43/29 Cyoll, Cecily: London . Cyoll, Cecily: London
        Date: 1609 - 1610 Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives

        So seised, the said Anthony Bonvix, by indenture dated 4 July, 1 Edward VI [1547], granted all the said premises to Richard Heywood and John Webbe, gentlemen, and their heirs, to the use of the said Anthony for his life; after his decease, to the use of Peter Growte, son of Andrew Growte, deceased, and his heirs; for default, to the use of Anthony Roper, son of William Roper, esq., and his heirs; for default, to the use of German Cioll and his heirs; and lastly for default, to the use of John Rither, esq., cofferer of the Household of King Edward VI, and to the heirs of the said John for ever.

        From: 'Inquisitions: 1 Elizabeth I (1558-9)', Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London: Part 1 (1896), pp. 168-191. URL: http://193.39.212.226/report.aspx?compid=65878 Date accessed: 06 February 2011.

        Survey of London
        ....Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and lord protector, afterwards king, by the name of Richard III., was lodged in this house; since the which time, among other, Anthonie Bonvice, a rich merchant of Italy, dwelt there ; after him, Garmain Cioll, then William Bond, alderman, increased this house in height, with building of a turret on the top thereof: he deceased in the year 1576...
        The annals of St. Helen's Bishopsgate, London. Edited by John Edmund Cox
        Vestries, A.D. 1558-60. Item. It is agreade that lermyne Ciolle, Willm Hagar, Blase Saunders, and lasper Umpton shall take the accompte of Mr. Browne betwene this and Sonedaie next, and then to make reporte thereof. And also to take accompte of the Collector of the XV and of the strangers, so that the remayner thereof may be brought in to the use of the parishe church.

        CROSBY PLACE, BY PHILIP NORMAN, F.S.A., LL.D.,WITH AN ARCHITECTU- RAL DESCRIPTION BY W. D. CAROE, F.S.A. BEING THE NINTH MONO- GRAPH OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SURVEY OF THE MEMORIALS OF GREATER LONDON.
        ..The next on the list of those on whom the property had been entailed was Germain Cioll, of whose nationality Lmi doubtful. It has been suggested in Burgon's "Life of Gresham"that he was of Spanish origin and that he came over to England in the train of Philip IL, but he was evidently here much earlier. He married at the church ot St. Michael, Bassishaw, February 20th, 1554, and held the office of churchwarden of St. Helen's in i 566, which denotes that he was then at least a Protestant. There is an assignment of Crosby Place and its appurtenances to him and hiswitc Cicely, liy Peter Crowle, dated on the last day of February 1560, and they came into full possession of the property in June 1561, alter nominal tenure of the fee simple by James* and Thomas Altham during the earlier months of that year, a friendly arrangement, no doubt, the reasons for which are not now apparent. Cicely was a daughter of Sir John Gresham and cousin of SirThomas Gresham, founder of theRoyal Exchange, who lived in Bishopsgate Street hard by. He had been apprenticed to her father and left her by will /^loo. Among existing documents we find in Latin a pardon for Germain Cioll, dated January 15th, ist lilizabeth, or 1558, the offences laid to his charge being conspiracy and treason. On January 25th, 1561, the house was let by Germain to his brother John, and to John Frier, doctor of physic. After a time Germain Cioll, who was a merchant and during the reign of Queen Mary had been engaged in the service of the State,got into diffi- culties, as we learn from the following petition addressed to Cecil by Sir Thomas Gresham in i 566 : - " I am so bold as to send you a letter that my cousin Ciole hath written unto me, wherein I praie you, for my sake, to helpehim to his money if it be possible, in this his great necessitie, whom I will insure you is fallen in decay only by sea and Bankrowts." This explains the reason why Crosby Place with five messuages or tenements was sold on May 15th, 1566, to William Bond, alderman, for ^^1,600, Germain Cioll reserving four tenements, besides some chambers near the hall, to which allusion will presently be made. His wife, who survived him, seems in spite of his losses to have been fairly well off. She occupied one of the tenements till her death on January loth, 1609, and refers to it in her will as her "dwelling-house" in Bishopsgate Street. She left money for the poor of St. Helen's, and of the parish of St. Michael's Bassishaw, and was buried in her father's vault at theeastendof the south aisleof the latter church. The entrance to this vault was exposed to view on the destruction of St. Michael's about the year 1898. Alderman Bond, thepurchaserof the mansion from Cioll, increased it in height by building a turret on the top, probably of some portion thathaslongagodisappeared. Hedied in i 576, SirThomas Gresham being one of the witnesses of his will. He left the property to his widow Margaret for life if she remained unmarried...The information which we have, regarding the two rooms, is contained in the deed of sale of Crosby Place by Germain Cioll and his wife to William Bond in 1566 (now in the Bishopsgate Institute), of which mention has been made on a previous page. We have seen that they then retained four tenements. They also kept possession of "one chambre lyinge on the north side of the wall of bricke and stone of the great chambre, which great chambre is over and above thegreateparlourofthesaied Crosbies Place conteyninge from the saied wall of bricke and stone northward twentie foote of assise and from the west part thereof to the east two and twentie foote of assise; and all the rowmes under the same to the maen grounde and a garret directlie on the same chambre adjoyninge likewise to the wall of bricke and stone afore- said - and likewise excepted and reserved one little garret or loft con- teyninge about twelve foote square adjoyninge to the east ende of the said garret last mentioned directlie on the toppe ofthestaires leadinge up to thegreate chatnbre of the saied Crosbies Place." The dimensions stated here tally ex- actly with those shown on the foundations in Wilkinson's plan, and the position of the rooms is so precisely stated that there is no difficulty in placing them as shown on ourconjectural plan and markedRandS. These g 2 49 additions were probably in half-timberwork, the portion S being three storeys at least in height, and the part R containing the staircasewith a room over it in the roof. The site of the latter was recently occupied by an office androomsover, approximately of the size of the earlier building ...

        John Webbe:
        In his will of 28 Dec. 1556 ........To his wife he left his goods and landed property, including his interest in Ospringe parsonage at Faversham, and the custody of their son Germain. The only child mentioned, Germain was the godson of Webbe’s ‘gossip’ Germain Cioll, who was to retain all Webbe’s money for delivery to the son when he became 25, taking £100 for himself and £50 for his son John Cioll. (Germain Cioll was at this time the owner of Crosby Place in St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, once the home of Sir Thomas More, and since Webbe left a gift to the curate of ‘St. Ellyns’ he was probably a neighbour of Cioll in that parish.)

        The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke, ed. Steve Sheppard
        (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Vol. 2.
        Author: Sir Edward Coke
        Editor: Steve Shepherd
        1. A judgement given in the Exchequer in an information against Germane Cioll for 40.s. set by Queen Mary upon every Tun of wine, of the growth of France, to be brought into the Realme.81 But the case there was this, the Attourney generall informed, that where King Philip, and Queen Mary by their Proclamation, 30 Martii, in the 4. and 5. yeares of their raigne, did will and straitly command, that no wines of the growth of France, should be brought into this | Realme, without speciall licence of the said King and Queene, under paine of forfeiture of such Wine to the King & Queene, Cumq; etiã dict’ nuper Rex & Regina de advisamento Concilii sui ad tunc ordinaver’ & decreverunt, quod quaelibet persona, quae in hoc Regnum Angliae
        induceret hujusmodi vina contra formam proclamationis praedict’, solveret pro quolibet dolio hujusmodi vini 40 s. vocat. impost. & c.82 and that German Ciol, against the forme and effect of the said Proclamation, had brought into the Realme 338. tunnes of Wines of the growth of France, and had not paid 40 s. for each and every tunne: the Defendant pleaded a licence from the said King and Queene, dated the 9. of Decemb. anno 1. & 2. to bring into the Realme 1500. tunnes of wine, of the growth of Fraunce, in strangers bottoms, with a non obstante83 of any Law, Statute, or Proclamation made or to be made to the contrary, whereupon the demurrer was joyned. In this Record these things are to be observed, first that a Proclamation prohibiting
        importation of wines upon paine of forfeiture, was against Law: for it appeareth not, that any warre was between the Realmes. 2. The Proclamation was made of purpose to set an imposition, for the 40.s is imposed upon them only, and upon such as should bring in Wines against the said Proclamation, so as the Proclamation was the ground of this information. 3. The King and Queene by advice of their Councell, did order, and decree &c. and sheweth not how, or by what meanes this order and decree was made: the pleading of such a former licence so insufficiently sheweth, that it was by agreement and consent.

        London Subsidy Roll 1582 Normalized Index
        Cioll Cyoll Jarman 3 153

        Will of SIR ANDROW JUDDE, Knight and Alderman of the Cittie of London, 2 September 15 ....Executors: Dame Mary my wif and John Judde my sonne and heir.
        Witnesses: John Southcote, Germyn Cyoll, William Hagar.
        Proved 15 October 1558 by Mr. Thomas Willett notary public for John Judde. (P.C.C. 58 Noodes)
        May be the Jarman Sutell Frenchamn, sometime taylor buried 10 Feb. 1591 St Botoph London aged 85 years.
        At time of marraige spelt German Cyholli
        Grant of the old lease of Crosby Place by the Lord Darcy to Benedicte Bonvix, long document in English, dated ' in ye first yere of ye reigne of our lady quene Mary by ye grace of God quene of Eng-land Ffranee and Ireland.' Certificate of Thomas Wytton, relating to Germain Cioll, long document with seal, dated in the 1st yere of Q. Mary. "Assignment of Crosbye Place to Germaine Cioll. " Assignment from Germane Cioll to hys brother Jho. Cioll of Crosbie Place in ye ye Paryshe of Saint Helene, Bysshoppsgate, a beautifully written in-denture in English of 43 lines with signatures and seals, dated ! In the thyrd yeare of ye Reigne of our Souvarayne lady Elizabeth.' "Indenture of sale, and bargain of Crosby Place from Germane Ciol to Wm. Bond, document

    • Sources 
      1. [S00104] St Michael Bassingshaw, London Parish Registers.