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Will of Margery Denne
of Littlebourne, Kent
Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, PRC 17/47/32, Film # 188945
Transcribed by Norm Dennie
In the name of God Amen the fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord a thousand five hundred four score and 5 in the 27th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. I Margery Denne of the parish of Littlebourne in the County of Kent, late wife of David Denne late of Littlebourne aforesaid .... being poor in body but of good and perfect remembrance Thanks be to God Almighty, I do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, revoking all former wills here to fore by me made.
First I bequeath my soul unto Almighty God hoping through the death of his only sonne Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour to obtain full remission of all my sinnes and to be partaker of his eternal kingdom, and my body I will to be buried in the church of Littlebourne beside my husband there lately buried.
Item, I give to the poor members of the said parish of Littleboune seven shillings, nine pence ....
Item, I give to my sonne John Denne twenty pounds .... when he shall accomplish the age of 21 years.
Item, I give ... to him at his said age of 21 years, my feather bed .... together with the .... three pairs of curtains and pillows, .... table cloth .... and .... from younger Thomas that next .....
And I will that William Parker my sonne shall have the duration of the said John Denne my sonne, and the .... shall .... legacies as and payable to him after by his father by this my will until his said age of 21 years and that he .... him will brought up in the fear of God with sufficient meat, drink, and apparel thereof for him and to be taught to .... made and .... .
And my will is that the said John my sonne shall not enter upon the farm of the manor of Littlebourne or any part thereof nor shall meddle with or of it any thereof until he shall accomplish the said age of one and twenty years, but shall.... quietly permit and suffer the said William Parker my son to have and enjoy all the means profit thereof which in consideration that I have in this my will .... the duration of the said John and of Christopher my sonnes provided that if John my said sonne does not ... and suffer the said William Parker to have and enjoy the said ... profit and commodities of the said farm as aforesaid, then my will is that the said John shall not have or enjoy .... By this my Last Will and Testament anything therein mentioned and to the contrary not withstanding.
And I .... the said William Parker my sonne, but if the said John my sonne shall suffer the said William Parker quietly to have and enjoy the said profit and commodities of the said farm as aforesaid and .... shall happen to dye before he accomplishes his said age of 21 years, then I give the said to .... unto Christopher my sonne at his age of 21 years If he so long lives.
Item, I will to Christopher Denne my sonne one bedsted standing in the .. which ... have after my death by his fathers will with one feather bed and all other .... furniture belonging to a bed and the table with .... the frame to it the .... stables and all other .... household stuff being .... in the farm house and .... table cloth a dozen of napkins and a ... at his age of 21 years and if the said Christopher dye before he accomplishes the said age of 21 years, then I give the said .... thirteen pounds given to him by his father’s will to my sonne John and if the said John shall dye before he accomplishes the said age of 21 years. And I will that my sonne William Parker shall .... the duration of the said Christopher my sonne and the sole ..... Of all legacies as and assigned unto him .... by his father’s will Then my will ... to his age of 21 years if he so long lives and shall be his in the mean time until brought up in the fear of God and at ... with sufficient meat, drink, and apparel for him .... paid William Parker enjoying and reaping all the profits and commodities of the ..... with the lands thereto belonging of my husband willed to the said Christopher after my death .... tenements and lands my will assigns my said sonne Christopher shall not meddle nor enter upon before his age of 21 years, but shall suffer .. William Parker my sonne to have and enjoy all the means profits and commodities thereof for and towards his bringing up as aforesaid he the said William Parker keeping the said tenements and mortgage the lands out.
Item, my will is that Thomas Denne my husbands’ sonne shall have for his children at Cambridge by my executors until the feast of Saint Michael in the year of our Lord. I ... said sonne a ... hundredth summe of his father in his life time over and besides the summe of fifty one pounds which his father gave him by his will. And not with standing his father appointed the said sum of fifty one pounds to be paid him by twenty pounds a year or five pounds quarterly yet my will is for the better .... of the said Thomas Denne that my executors shall pay to him his said whole legacy at or before the said feast of Saint Michael in those paid years of ..... ..... said five hundredth ......, unto them an ......
Item, I will to Mary Denne my daughter .... pounds .... above the twenty pounds which my husband hath willed unto her at the day of her marriage or at her age of 18 years which first shall happen.
Item, I will to Anne Denne and Margery Denne my daughters to both of them .... Pounds apiece over and above the twenty pounds that my husband hath willed to them of them at their personal marriages or at their personal ages of 18 years which shall first happen.
Item, I will to Alice Parker my daughter fifteen pounds over and above the thirteen pounds six shillings one pence which my husband Paul Parker hath willed her and .... and over and above the .... which my husband David Denne hath willed to her at the day of her marriage or at her age of twenty years which first shall happen.
Also I will to the said Alice Parker one .... with the .... table in the .... loft and all other .... belonging, and also four pairs of .... ..... pillows with pillows ..... to them and tablecloth and a dozen napkins and one ..... napkin .....
Item, my will is that if any of my fore said four daughters shall die before their personal marriage and before they shall personally accomplish their personal ages aforesaid, then .... of these my said daughters as shall .....
And also my will is that David Denne my sonne in law shall have the duration of Anne Denne and Margaret Denne my daughters and the sole benefit of their personal portions assigned to them by this my will or by their father until they shall be married or accomplish their personal ages of 19 years if they do personally so long live. And to suffer them in the mean time will be brought up in the fear of God, and have sufficient meat, drink and apparel for them and to be taught to read and to .... and to learn other things that shall .... for them.
And I will that my said older daughters Alice Parker and Mary Denne shall and sufficiently provided for as those things that shall .... for them equally at the charges of my executors until their personal marriages or the accomplishment of their personal ages before limited.
And if it fortunes the said William Parker or David Denne not to bring up well nor find or provide for my said sonnes and daughters and for only of them as aforesaid, then I will that my executors here after named shall see it remedied and amended by their good .... and amending to the true meaning of this my .... Last Will and amend as I have defined them and put ..... And if need require to produce sufficient meat, drink, and apparel for them or .... of them for the ... my will is that my executors together and personally or .... as they are by this my will shall fully .... and pay them.
Item, I will to Elizabeth Denne my husbands’ daughter all the ... in the .... in the last .... the parlor which ......
Item, I will to my brother Henry Brigden five pounds over and above the five pounds which my husband willed to Alice his wife.
Item, I will to Henry Brigden sonne of my said brother Brigden one .....
Item, I give to Annie We.. my brother Thomas Brigden’s daughter .... the .....
Item, I will to Annie Denne daughter of my said daughter .....Denne one .....
Item, I give to Mary Denne daughter of my daughter Amy Denne One ....
Item, I will to Annie Halke my God daughter .... Thomas Halke his daughter and .....
Item, I give to Henry Parker my sonne, my fathers bed with the bedstand that was and did stand in the parlour with the .... and all other ..... my furniture hereto belonging, and one blue carpet, And also I will to him my great ....
Item, I give to David Denne my sonne in law and to John Denne my sonne the .... and the table with a blue carpet .... and the long .... stools .... and painted .... being in the parlour.
And I do .... give my both ..... to the said David Denne and John Denne ....
..... of all my goods moveable and .... bequeathed I will and give to William Parker my sonne and to David Denne my sonne in law whom I make Executors of this my Last Will and Testament equally to be divided between them ... of my debts and the performance of this my will and the will of my former husband Paul Parker and David Denne deceased.
Provided that all monies that neither of them shall .... or be .... as executor or be partaken of said part of this .... of the .... or remnants of my goods and chattels unto .... shall within 21 days next after my decease enter the .... or if he dye before, then to my daughter or to the .... of them .... happen their like .... to the official of the church of Canterbury for the time being for the .... and faithful .... ..... of this my will according to .... as .... they shall last for the .... of all matters that may .... thereof.
And I will that he or they that shall be my executors as aforesaid shall ordered and stand to the .... and .... of the said .... his life in all matters and .... shall .... of any part of this my testament. .... Also and my will is that if any of my .... or my husband David Denne .... to perform this my Last Will and Testament.
Item, my will is that the .... shall .... by this my testament any thing before maintained to the .... ..... I make my brother Thomas Brigden and my .... Thomas .... of Canterbury my [overseers?] of this my Last Will and Testament and I do give to them ...... Item, for their ..... shillings ..... ..... said Margery Denne .... to this my .... will put my mark .... Margery Denne .... to this will .... shall by this mark .... the 21st day of September Anno Dni a thousand five hundred four score .....
Item, I give .... to my sonne John Denne twenty pounds for and towards the ..... and ..... of his .... of the farme of the manor of Littlebourne to be payed him ..... he cometh to his age of one and twenty years happen ..... is mentioned in my will.
Probatum 21 Sept. 1585
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Will Roome John Folkestone 1635 PRC/17/69/89a PRC/16/210 R/3 1635
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CCA-U137 - OXENDEN DEEDS
Title Copy of proceedings
Ref No CCA-U137/333
Alt Ref No CCA-U137/333
Description In Court against Thomas Tiddeyman for wrongfully distraining on the livestock of John Roome, in the parish of Folkestone. Mich. 17 Jas. I.
Date 1619
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Will Roome Stephen Adisham 1708 1712 PRC/32/58/442a PRC/16/360 R/4 CCR 1712
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Will Rucke Gabriel Boughton under Blean 1623 1623 PRC/32/46/93 PRC/31/83 R/1 1623
Inv Ruck Gabriel Boughton under Blean 1623 1623 PRC/28/10/288 Yeoman, Will 1623
Inv Rucke John Boughton under Blean 1638 1638 PRC/28/18/25 1638
Inv Ruck, Rucke Elizabeth Boughton under Blean 1641 1641 PRC/27/9/51 Film Pos 9/106 Widow, Will 1641
Will Rucke Elizabeth Boughton under Blean 1639 1641 PRC/31/118 R/1 1641
Will Ruck John Boughton under Blean 1661 1662 PRC/32/53/483a PRC/31/131 R/4 1662
Inv Rucke, Ruck John Boughton under Blean 1662 1662 PRC/27/14/85 Film Pos 14/48 Gentleman, Will 1662
Will Rucke George Boughton under Blean 1670 1670 PRC/32/54/670 PRC/31/139 R/1 1670
Inv Ruck George Boughton under Blean 1670 1670 PRC/27/22/91 Film Pos 22/100 Will 1670
Inv Ruck Valentine Boughton under Blean 1685 1685 PRC/27/30/233 Film Pos 30/237 Yeoman, Will 1685
Will Ruck Valentine Boughton under Blean 1685 1685 PRC/32/55/190 PRC/31/155 R/1 1685
Will Rucke Gabriel Lynsted 1676 1680 PRC/17/75/149 PRC/16/304 R/4 1680
Will Ruck John Lynsted 1684 1684 PRC/17/76/177 PRC/16/311 R/2 1684
Will Ruck Gabriel Milton next Sittingbourne 1751 1752 PRC/17/94/398 PRC/16/418 R/3 1752
Will Ruck John Milton next Sittingbourne 1751 1755 PRC/17/95/79 PRC/16/421 R/2 1755
Act Ruck Martha Norton 1643 PRC/3/36a/127 1643
Will Rucke John Elham 1625 1626 PRC/17/65/159 PRC/16/186 R/4 1626
Inv Ruck John Elham 1626 PRC/10/59/109 Will 1626
Will Ruck John Elham 1692 1692 PRC/32/56/141b PRC/31/162 R/2 1692
Will Ruck Thomas Elham 1699 1699 PRC/17/79/335 PRC/16/335 R/2 1699
Will Ruck Richard Elham 1702 1705 PRC/17/80/304 PRC/16/346 R/4 1705
Will Ruck Jane Elham 1709 1709 PRC/17/81/224a PRC/16/354 R/1 1709
Will Ruck Thomas Elham 1773 1775 PRC/17/99/310 PRC/16/445 R/4 1775
Will Ruck William Westwell 1610 1610 PRC/31/58 R/2 1610
Will Ruck Thomas Birchington 1667 1667 PRC/31/136 R/2 1667
Will Ruck George Birchington 1680 1680 PRC/32/54/567 PRC/31/150 R/3 1680
Inv Rucke George Birchington 1680 1680 PRC/27/28/209 Film Pos 28/194 Yeoman, Will 1680
Inv Rucke Thomas Dover Priory 1681 1681 PRC/27/29/170 Film Pos 29/185 Yeoman 1681
Will Ruck Thomas Faversham 1667 1668 PRC/16/281 R/5 1668
Will Ruck Martha Canterbury 1718 1721 PRC/32/59/510b PRC/31/191 R/2 1721
Will Ruck Valentine Hartlip 1729 1729 PRC/17/87/40g PRC/16/392 R/6 1729
Will Ruck Elizabeth Stelling 1720 1741 PRC/17/91/39e PRC/16/407 R/1 1741
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Strong Possibility for parents or grandparents comes from the index of Chancery Records:
Name: Hamon Rukke
Place: Kent
Date: 1404-1426, 1456-1460
Volume: 1
Page: 246
Bundle: 26
NB Henvy IV 1399-1413; Henry V 1413
Name: Elizabeth Rukke
Place: Kent
Date: 1404-1426, 1456-1460
Volume: 1
Page: 246
Bundle: 26
Name: John Rukke
Date: 1442-1450, 1454-1457
Volume: 1
Page: 134
Bundle: 15
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witnesses to will possible relative of Margaret = John Adane, Robert Sulfar and Thomas Austen
Will Astyn Thomas Selling 1544 1545 PRC/17/25/4
Will A' Dane John Throwley 1553 1554 PRC/17/30/102 PRC/16/17 A/4 PRC/3/13/106 1554
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From: 'Deeds: C.4801 - C.4900', A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6 (1915), pp. 132-146. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64478&strquery=rucke. Date accessed: 02 April 2008.
[Kent.] C. 4924. Grant by Stephen Rukke to John Rukke his brother, and William son of the said John of . . . . at [Hyl]frynden in a certain wood (broca) to wit, whatever descended to him in the said wood after the death of [Maurice] his father, in the parish of . . . . ; to hold to the said John and William and the heirs of William of his body begotten; warranty to John and William, the heirs of William's body or the heirs of John; for this John gave him 8s. beforehand. Witnesses:- Martin and Lawrence of Polle, Gilbert de Thegherst, Richard and John de Yeudenne, William and John de Cranstede, John de Shipregge, William atte Seilyerd and others (named). Whitsunday, 26 Edward [I]. (1297/8)
Endorsed: de terra in Hylfrenden.
[Kent.]C. 4867. Grant by Robert son of the late . . . . de . . . herst to John Rucke, Maud his wife, William their son, and the heirs of William, of 3a. land called 'Brodefeld' and 2a. land called 'Schor . . . . . esland' in Hevere. Monday, the feast of St. . . . the Apostle, 15 Edward II. Faded. (1321/22)
[Kent.]C. 4864. Indenture of defeasance of a charter of feoffment, 9 October, 13 Henry VI, whereby John Rukke of Hevere 'colyer' gave to Sir John Mason and Richard Staneford all his land and all his goods; to wit if John pay them 20l. in the church of Chidyngston within two years, as specified, the charter and seisin had thereon to be void. Chidyngston, 10 October, 13 Henry VI. (1435/36)
[Kent.] C. 5621. Quitclaim by William Rokke of Hevere to . . . . of the same of his right in a way which he claimed to have as his right to his lands called 'Schermanesland.' Hevere, the feast of St. Mary . . . ., 11 [Edward] IV. (1471/2)
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fonds CONFEDERATION OF THE CINQUE PORTS
series Brotherhood Papers
Repository East Kent Archives Centre
Level file
RefNo EK-CP/Bp/200
Title Fragment of circular letter referring to an order made at Sandwich against Edward Spillett and William Ruck for suing writs of restition
Date c.1663
RelatedMaterial Related Material See B.B.f. 283v
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B. 4221. Grant in frank almoin by Simon le Rukke of Hauekhurst, to the abbot and convent of Battle, for the use of the office of sacrist, of a piece of his land and grove called 'Rowghehok,' lying on the hill (dennam) of Cesele in the parish of Hauekhurat, abutting on land called 'Lengeland.' Witnesses:—Thomas atte Cherethe, John de Henselle, and others (named).
'Deeds: B.4201 - B.4232', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 3, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1900), pp. 305-308. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol3/pp305-308 [accessed 16 August 2020].
C. 4924. Grant by Stephen Rukke to John Rukke his brother, and William son of the said John of . . . . at [Hyl]frynden in a certain wood (broca) to wit, whatever descended to him in the said wood after the death of [Maurice] his father, in the parish of . . . . ; to hold to the said John and William and the heirs of William of his body begotten; warranty to John and William, the heirs of William's body or the heirs of John; for this John gave him 8s. beforehand. Witnesses:— Martin and Lawrence of Polle, Gilbert de Thegherst, Richard and John de Yeudenne, William and John de Cranstede, John de Shipregge, William atte Seilyerd and others (named). Whitsunday, 26 Edward [I].
Endorsed: de terra in Hylfrenden.
'Deeds: C.4901 - C.5000', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 146-159. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp146-159 [accessed 16 August 2020].
Richard Bedell, 'husbondman' of Chesilhurst, to Thomas Bedell and Stephen Kete of Bromley, Robert Cheseman, Richard Hochenson and Henry Rukke of Levesham co. Kent, 'husbondmen,' their executors and assigns. Gift of all his goods, chattels and debts within the realm: and he has put them in possession thereof by delivery of two silver pennies. Dated 24 February, 16 Edward IV.
'Close Rolls, Edward IV: 1477-1479', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III 1476-1485, ed. K H Ledward (London, 1954), pp. 103-119. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw4/1476-85/pp103-119 [accessed 16 August 2020].
C. 4864. Indenture of defeasance of a charter of feoffment, 9 October, 13 Henry VI, whereby John Rukke of Hevere 'colyer' gave to Sir John Mason and Richard Staneford all his land and all his goods; to wit if John pay them 20l. in the church of Chidyngston within two years, as specified, the charter and seisin had thereon to be void. Chidyngston, 10 October, 13 Henry VI.
'Deeds: C.4801 - C.4900', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 132-146. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp132-146 [accessed 16 August 2020].
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24 BAKER V SPENSER
William Baker of Boughton-under-Blean, co. Kent, gent v Adam Spenser of the same, fellmonger
August 1637 - April 1638
Abstract
Baker petitioned that Spenser had called him a 'lying base fellow' on 28 July 1637. According to a series of depositions taken before Mr Lovelace, between August and December 1637, the quarrel had begun when Baker gave evidence against Spenser at the assizes for not maintaining his hedges properly. When Baker's hogs had trampled Spenser's corn, Baker alleged it was because Spenser's son had called them in, which Spenser replied was 'a base lye'. Baker also claimed that Spenser had cheated the parish of Boughton, Kent, of £5 through his assessment for ship money. Spenser challenged whether Baker was a gentleman which necessitated an investigation by Sir William Le Neve, Clarenceux King of Arms. On 30 November 1637, Le Neve found that Baker was a gentleman entitled to bear the arms Or a Greyhound courant in fess between two Bars Sable which had been confirmed to his uncle George Baker, gent, and his grandfather Christopher Baker, gent, by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, in 1573. Thereupon the suit proceeded with a fresh libel from Baker on 28 April 1638 claiming that Spenser had said 'I was no gentleman, and aske Baker when you see him what his armes or gentery cost him.' In the meantime, Spenser had procured a remarkable petition signed by sixty eight of the villagers of Boughton-under-Blean which declared that Baker was a yeoman 'of small estate and no inheritance', who was 'no way agreeable to the degree of a gentleman'. It also claimed that Baker had shown little hospitality to the poor, had sat in church as a yeoman and that many other yeomen were preferred before him and taxed at higher rates. A witness on Spenser's behalf also testified that the extra £5 on ship money had been levied at the request of Mr Place, the minister, to repair a parish house, and had been paid back when Baker and others had complained to the sheriff about it. Nevertheless, it appears that Baker won the cause. Spenser subsequently petitioned Lord Maltravers for his release from the messenger's custody, saying that he was now 'hartelie sorry' for his 'provoking words', and that he was 'willing to perform any submission' required.
John Chillenden, aged 52, William Rucke, aged 44, Stephen Partridge, aged 30, Stephen Spenser, aged 31 and Robert Spenser, aged 51, all of Boughton-under-Blean, co. Kent
They had heard William Baker 'give many scandalous and most vile and uncivill speeches against Adam Spenser, sayinge that Adam had cozened or cheated the parish of Boughton of the sum of five pounds which came to the hands of Adam by reason of a cesse made for and towards his Majestie's shipping, which is a most unjust and scandalous imputation and report, for Adam to our knowledge hath made a just accompt with the parish for the same, as by the records of the parish will most plainly appeare.
¶Signed by John Chillenden, William Rucke, Stephen Partridge, Stephen Spenser [his mark]
EM68, Certificate of Spenser's good behaviour
The certificate on behalf of Spenser carried 68 signatures or marks.
'Certificate of Spencer's good behaviour and that Baker was not reputed a gent
These are for truth to certify such in authority as it may concerne that for these seaven or eight yeares last past William Baker of Boughton under the Bleane in the County of Kent hath lived amongst us as a parishioner there in the rancke and condicon of a yeoman and not otherwise, and that not as a yeoman of the better but rather mean quality, as a fermor of small estate and no inheritance at all, and his habite meane, no way agreeable to the degree of a gentleman. In which time he hath much used buying and selling of corne, and shewed little hospitality to the poore or otherwise during his abode amongst us. And hath ever took his place in the church and other places as a yeoman onely (many of that condicon being preferred before him and he for his ability sessed under them). And touching Adam Spencer he was borne in Boughton aforesaid and there lived as an housekeeper of good esteem for these twenty years past and upwards. All which time (for ought we ever heard or observed to the contrary) he hath demeaned himself very quietly justlie and neighbourly. And this much we are all ready to aver whensoever hereunto required as wee testify by our hands hereto subscribed, the sixt of Februarie 1637.'
William Rucke
Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper, '24 Baker v Spenser', in The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640, ed. Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper, British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/court-of-chivalry/24-baker-spenser [accessed 16 August 2020].
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Will Rucke Hamon Selling 1616 1617 PRC/17/63/454b PRC/16/160 R/3 1617
Inv Rucke Hamon Selling 1617 PRC/10/49/39 Will 1617 | RUCK, Hammon (I5275)
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Will Russell Thomas St. Peter in Thanet 1575 1579 PRC/17/43/246 PRC/16/73 R/4 1579
Inv Russell Thomas St. Peter in Thanet* 1579 PRC/10/10/31 Will* 1579
Russell Nicolas & James c 5 Jun 1608 s/o Thomas St. Peter Thanet
Russell Thomas c 17 Aug 1600 s/o Thomas
Russell Martha c 25 Sep 1614 d/o John
Russell Thomas c 19 Jan 1616/7 s/o John, Jr. of Upton (a hamlet in St. Peter parish)
marriages start p 19
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fcant%2f005265416%2f00479
Russell Thomas Richards Elizabeth m 6 Sep 1593
years missing in baptisms 1589-1597
Coppin Thomas Russell Mary m 16 Dec 1602
Russell, Thomas, of St. Peter's in Thanet, husbandman, bachelor about 27, whose father consents, and Mary Hall of the same place, virgin, about 22, daughter of John Hall of the same place, yeoman, who also consents. At St. Mildred's Canterbury. John Russell of St. Peter's in Thanet, yeoman, bondsman. July 22, 1644.
Will Russell Thomas St. Peter in Thanet 1575 1579 PRC/17/43/246 PRC/16/73 R/4 1579
Inv Russell Thomas St. Peter in Thanet* 1579 PRC/10/10/31 Will* 1579
Will Russell Thomas Canterbury St. George 1631 1631 PRC/17/68/55 PRC/16/199 R/13 1631
Inv Russell Thomas Canterbury St. George 1631 PRC/10/64/178 Will 1631
Will Russell Nicholas St. Peter in Thanet 1685 1687 PRC/17/77/57 PRC/16/317 R/2 1687
Will Russell John St. Peter in Thanet 1661 1665 PRC/17/72/177 PRC/16/275 R/6 John senior 1665
Will Russell John St. Peter in Thanet 1689 1689 PRC/32/55/412 PRC/31/159 R/3 HMS Diamond 1689
Will Russell John St. Peter in Thanet 1700 1702 PRC/17/80/91b PRC/16/340 R/3 1702
St. John Thanet
Carpenter John c May 1561 s/o Augustine/Elisabeth, no date, buried in the same month [no date]
Carpenter Marie c 19 Mar 1562/3 Augustine/Elizabeth
Carpenter Joane c 8 Apr 1565 Augustine/nwn
Russell John c 18 Sep 1569 Nicholas/Alice
Russell Nicholas c 22 Oct 1570 Nicholas/Alice
Valance Joseph c 11 May 1577 Peter/nwn
Russel Thomas c 4 Aug 1583 no parents recorded
Harnet Robert Brabourn m 6 Jun 1560
Cooles Symon Carpenter Cicilee m 8 Oct 1577 | RUSSELL, Thomas (I19002)
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Will Smythe Thomas Stanford Westenhanger 1542 PRC/17/24/14b PRC/3/8/67 of 1541 1542
Will Smyth William Stanford Westenhanger 1468 1468 PRC/17/1/453 1468
Will Smith George Stanford 1590 1590 PRC/32/36/261 PRC/31/34 S/1 1590
Will Smith Thomas Elham, Stanford 1610 1610 PRC/17/56/272 PRC/16/139 S/13 1610
Will Smith, Smyth George Stanford 1622 1622 PRC/32/45/351b PRC/31/81 S/4 See also PRC/32/45/354 1622
Inv Smyth George Stanford 1622 1622 PRC/28/11/563 Will 1622
Inv Smith William Stanford 1664 1664 PRC/27/16/75 Film Pos 16/69 Gentleman, Will 1664
Will Smith William Stanford 1664 1664 PRC/32/53/273 PRC/31/133 S/1 1664
Inv Smith Ann Stanford 1679 1680 PRC/27/28/236 Film Pos 28/222 Widow, Will 1680
Will Smith Ann Stanford 1679 1680 PRC/32/54/577 PRC/31/150 S/1 1680
Inv Smith George Stanford 1683 1683 PRC/27/30/73 Film Pos 30/89 Gentleman, Will 1683
Will Smith George Stanford 1683 1683 PRC/32/55/98 PRC/31/153 S/5 1683
Will Smith John Stanford 1692 1694 PRC/32/56/276b PRC/31/164 S/7 1694
Inv Smith John Stanford 1694 1694 PRC/27/33/281 Film Pos 33/206 Gentleman, Will 1694
Inv Smith Sarah Stanford 1698 1698 PRC/27/34/235 Film Pos 34/245 Widow, Will 1698
Will Smith Sarah Stanford 1698 1698 PRC/32/57/80 PRC/31/168 S/4 1698 | SMITH, Thomas (I19358)
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Will Spayne, Spaine Henry Elham 1583 1583 PRC/17/45/322b PRC/16/81 S/2 1583
Will Spaine, Spayne Alice Elham 1587 1588 PRC/17/47/136b PRC/16/91 S/4 1588
Will Spaine Richard Elham 1630 1630 PRC/32/49/131a PRC/16/196 S/19 1630
First name(s) Richard
Last name Spaine
Residence Elham
Year 1604
Marriage date 22 Oct 1604
Marriage place Elham, St Mary the Virgin
Spouse's first name(s) Margery
Spouse's last name Bulfinch
Spouse's marital status Widow
Spouse's residence Elham
First name(s) Richard
Last name Spain
Gender Male
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1609
Baptism date 04 Mar 1609
Residence Elham, Kent, England
Place Elham
County Kent
Country England
Father's first name(s) Richard
Father's last name Spain | SPAINE, Richard (I18989)
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Will Strowd Henry Elham 1628 1629 PRC/17/67/189 PRC/16/193 S/18 1629
Inv Strowd, Strood Henry Elham 1629 PRC/10/63/102 1629 | STROUD, Henry (I20020)
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Will Sutton Thomas Hawkinge 1611 1611 PRC/17/60/176 PRC/16/142 S/1 1611
Will Suttonne Thomas Hawkinge 1506 1506 PRC/17/10/206a 1506
Will Sutton Roger Sen. Hawkinge 1518 1529 PRC/17/18/254b
Will Sutton Margery Ewell 1526 1526 PRC/17/17/138b
Will Sutton Roger Folkestone 1545 1545 PRC/17/25/14b
Will Sutton Henry Hawkinge 1553 1553 PRC/17/29/41b PRC/16/16 S/10
Will Sutton Margery Eastry 1557 1558 PRC/32/26/169b PRC/16/23 S/20
Will Sutton Thomas River by Dover 1609 1609 PRC/17/56/269 PRC/16/136 S/7 1609
Will Sutton Thomas River by Dover 1631 1631 PRC/17/68/109 PRC/16/199 S/6 1631
Will Sutton Thomas Kennington 1634 1634 PRC/17/69/313a PRC/16/208 S/10 1634
Will Sutton Thomas Shoulden 1649 1663 PRC/17/71/463 PRC/16/271 S/7 1663
Will Sutton Thomas Hothfield 1704 1705 PRC/17/80/317b PRC/16/346 S/2 1705
Will Sutton Thomas Ewell 1762 1763 PRC/17/96/525a PRC/16/431 S/6 1763
Will Sutton Thomas Boughton Aluph, Littlebourne 1833 1833 PRC/17/109/184 PRC/16/534 R/9 OW at CKS only no film 1833
Possible parents
Thomas Sutton of Folkestone, husbandman, bachelor, 40 and Agnes Wood of the same place, maiden, about 30. At St. Peter's Canterbury. Thomas Wood of Folkestone, labourer, bondsman. Oct. 4, 1625.
Baptism at Wye
Thomas son of Thomas Sutton c 15 Mar 1645/6
First name(s) Thomas
Last name Sutton
Gender Male
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1615
Baptism date 10 Sep 1615
Residence Kennington, Kent, England
Place Kennington
County Kent
Country England
Father's first name(s) Thomas
Father's last name Sutton
MIs found on Kent Archaeological Society website - Leland Duncan abstracts from Hinxhill, Kent, England.
27. Head. John SUTTON late of Elham died January 20 1785 aged 76, also Jane his wife died December 10 1786 aged 79. They left issue five daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Jane and Rebecca. 28. Head. Susanna relict of Thomas SUTTON late of Hampton died 9 January 1801 aged 68. Left issue 3 sons Thomas, John and Daniel. 29. Head. with two cherubs heads and wings – Thomas SUTTON died December ye 30, 1775 in his 65th year. He left issue 4 sons and 2 daughter. viz Judith, Rebecca, and William by a former wife. Thomas, John and Daniel by the latter.
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very Strong contender for baptism of this Thomas is:
First name(s) Thomas
Last name Sutton
Gender Male
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1627
Baptism date 30 Mar 1627
Residence Kent, England
Place Hawkinge
County Kent
Country England
Father's first name(s) Thomas
Father's last name Sutton
First name(s) Thomas
Last name Sutton
Gender Male
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1625
Baptism date 17 Feb 1625
Residence Kent, England
Place Hawkinge
County Kent
Country England
Father's first name(s) William
Father's last name Sutton
Mother's first name(s) -
First name(s) Thomas
Last name Sutton
Gender Male
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1619
Baptism date 14 Feb 1619
Residence Kent, England
Place Hawkinge
County Kent
Country England
Father's first name(s) Christopher
Father's last name Sutton
Mother's first name(s) -
Mother's last name -
1. Strong contender for baptism of this Thomas is:
Sutton Thomas c 15 Mar 1646 s/o Thomas at Wye
This Thomas, Sr. may have been the Thomas Sutton who married Amy Meredith at St. Peters Canterbury, both being of Wye, on 23 May 1643.
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2. Strong contender for baptism of this Thomas is:
Name: Thomas Sutton
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 31 Dec 1637
Baptism/Christening Place: Lydden, Kent, England
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Daniel Sutton
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Dorothy
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C04299-5
System Origin: England-EASy Source Film Number: 1736875 Reference Number: 27-3
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Baptism Day:26
Baptism Month:Mar
Baptism Year:1638
Forename(s):Thomas
Surname:Sutton
Relationship:Son of
Father's Forename:Richarde
Mother's Forename:Marie
Mother's Surname:
Birth Day:
Birth Month:
Birth Year:
Abode:
Parents's Occupation:
Notes:Ats
Dedication:
Place:Langley
County:Kent
Record Source:Langley baptisms 1578-1860
Kent FHS Ref:207
Record source:Kent Baptisms
Data provider:Kent Family History Society
Transcriptions © Kent Family History Society
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Burial Day:18
Burial Month:Oct
Burial Year:1684
Forename(s):Thomas
Surname:Sutton
Age:
Abode:
Occupation:
Notes:Housekeeper
Dedication:
Place:Brabourne
County:Kent
Record Source:Brabourne burials 1558-1992
Record source:Kent Burials
Data provider:Kent Family History Society
Transcriptions © Kent Family History Society
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Will Thrume John Chilham 1548 1551 PRC/17/27/266b PRC/16/12 T/2 | Alice (I16573)
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Will Webb Joseph Canterbury St. Martin 1752 1759 PRC/32/64/301 PRC/31/229 W/1 1759
Will Webb Mary Canterbury St. Martin 1775 1779 PRC/32/66/190b PRC/31/249 W/1 1779
Act Webbe Thomas Canterbury St. Martin 1549 PRC/22/1/94 1549 | WEBB, Joseph (I2587)
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Will Webbe Richard Warehorne 1519 1519 PRC/17/14/83 1519
Will Webbe William Warehorne 1551 1553 PRC/17/28/68 1553
Inv Webbe Richard Warehorne 1587 PRC/10/16/533 Will 1585
Will Webbe Richard Warehorne 1587 1587 PRC/17/47/328a 1587 | WEBBE, Miss (I14174)
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Will believed to be of this Robert Worger:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, I, ROBERT WORGER, of the parish of Hinxhill do this twenty eight day of March in the year of our Lord, 1745, make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, revoking all Wills before by me made.
Imprimus I commend my soul to God who gave it me, and my body to be decently buried by my Executor hereafter named and as to my worldly goods I dispose of as followeth.
Item, I give all my personal estate, after my funeral expenses and debts be discharged, to my four cousins, viz. JOHN CHITTENDEN and STEPHEN CHITTENDEN (son of JOHN CHITTENDEN, deceased) and to GEORGE CLARK and ELIZABETH CLARK of Ruckinge.
Item, I nominate and appoint my uncle STEPHEN STAINS Executor to this my last Will and Testament unto which I have set my hand and seal.
Robert Worger
In the presence of us whose names are under written.
Edward Andrews
Mary Stains
Martha Whitnall
May the 25th, 1745, Stephen Staines Executor of this Will was duly sworn on the same and also that the deceased's effects will not amount to 40L before me
Thomas Lamprey, Surrogate
In the presence of me John Keet, Notary | WORGER, Robert (I13265)
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will dated 10/7/1476
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 1
By John Burke, Bernard Burke, pp 324-325, Denne of Denne Hill.
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Kent. C. 4448. Indenture quadrupartite, whereby Michael Shakewey of Berham, reciting that he had enfeoffed Thomas Goldyng, Richard Smothe and Simon Goldyng, of Berham, and Richard Mynot of Bourne, of all his land, &c., in the parishes of Berham, Kyngeston, Stellyng, Orgoryswyke and Seintemaricherche, or elsewhere, co. Kent, without any condition, declares nevertheless that his will is:—that Parnel, his wife, after his death have all the said land, &c., for her life and that after her death all the land, &c, which they have in Kyngeston, Orgoryswyke, and Seintemaricherche, parcel thereof, remain to John Cherche and Isabel his wife, his daughter and her heirs and assigns; and that all the land, &c, which they have in the parish of Stellyng, at Pinestede, and in the parish of Berham in places called 'Southberham' and 'Southderyngeston,' which latter were late of Thomas Bakere of Berham remain after her death to Richard son of John Denne and to Eleanor his wife, and the heirs of Richard; and that all the land, &c., which they have in the parish of Berham in places called 'Calbergh,' 'Grenehell,' 'Berhammed,' 'Pykelottemere,' and 'Hamme,' and by 'Barhamcherche' after her death be sold and the money received therefrom disposed for the souls of William his father and Ellen his mother, and for his own soul, and for the souls of Cecily and Parnel, his wives, and for the souls of his children and of all faithful deceased, in works of charity, &c; provided that the said John Cherche and Isabel his wife be preferred purchasers thereof by 100s. Berham, the morrow of All Souls, 21 Henry VI. One seal. [1442/3]
[Source: 'Deeds: C.4401 - C.4500', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 78-91. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp78-91 [accessed 15 July 2016].]
from the index of persons same resource:
Dene, Deen, Deine, atte Dene, de Dene, de la Dene, 3961, 5121, 5123, 5156, 5426, 7364, 7474.
-, See also Deane; Deyn.
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Will dated 1717, died at Sheldwich | GYLES, Richard (I7962)
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Will dated 1777 | BUCK, Thomas (I7328)
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Will made 1694 | GRILLS, John (I15421)
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Will Mereworth, 1671, DRb/Pw36, 25.154 available online through Family Search
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1949814
First name(s) John
Last name Eastland
Marriage year 1655
Marriage date ? Oct 1655
Marriage place Loose, All Saints
Spouse's first name(s) Elizabeth
Spouse's last name Carpenter
County Kent
Country England
Archive Kent History & Library Centre
Archive reference P233/1/A/1
Register type Baptisms, marriages & burials | EASTLAND, John (I19350)
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Will of Catherine indicates that she lived at Lynsted and died unmarried. Her burial was recorded at Norton at age 86 years. | RUCK, Catherine (I5410)
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Will of Robert Omer of Ash-next-Sandwich (Consistory Court, fols 111-113), 28 Mar 1550:
Now wife: Pleasance
Sons: Richard; Francis to get red sow and red heifer; William to get GB10; Lawrence to get lands in Hoath
Repository Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Level file RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/H/141
PreviousNumbers F trefoil (Norris); H 121 (late 19th c) Title Grant Date nd [early 13th century]
Description From: William, son of Omer of Thanet; Simon, son of Omer of Thanet; Thomas, son of Omer of Thanet To: Mary, mother of William, Simon and Thomas, sons of Omer of Thanet 25 acres of land lying at Felderland ('feldwarelond'') [in Eastry] and an annual payment of 30s in the vill ('villa') of Hacklinge ('Halekelinge') [in Worth] which their father bought ('adquisivit'). For this Mary has also paid 10 marks as a gersum fine. No date. [Date: handwriting.] Witnesses: Mgr Simon of Thanet; Stephen de Valle; John, brother of Stephen de Valle; William osseuuord; Brictulus the clerk; Henry gisors; Henry de stanes; Henry kempe; Henry de chelbrig'; Richard de stanes; Batholomew part; Reginald cupere Endorsed with description, giving Omer's name as Mgr Omer of Thanet, in late 13th cent hands.
Language Latin
PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, 3 seals, slightly dirty
RelatedMaterial Related grant: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/103
Extent 1 document
SubjectIndex Roses, payments of
Repository Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Level file RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/M/81
PreviousNumbers M 219 (Norris); M 69 (late 19th c)
Title Grant Date nd [early 13th century]
Description From: Henry of Sandwich To: Mgr Omer de valle 16 acres and one-third of 2 acres, except one-third of an acre which lies 'en la gare' next to 'le broc', of which 8 and one-third acres lie at 'Halclinge [Hacklinge in Worth?], and 8 and one-third acres lie at Mongeham in the holding ('tenementum') of Adisham. For an annual payment of 1lb of pepper, payable as specified at Sandwich. Also for an annual payment of 4s as a quit-rent ('forgabulum'), payable as specified to William and Nicholas, the sons of Hilary, on the land called 'la gare' at 'Halclinge'. For this the priory has also paid 3 marks as a gersum fine. No date. [Date: handwriting.] Witnesses: John the young ('Iuvenis') of Felderland [in Eastry]; Samuel, son of John the young of Felderland [in Eastry]; Alwardus the fair ('Blundus'); Edmund, son of Alwardus the fair ('blundus'); Nicholas of Worthe; Charles, brother of Nicholas of Worth; William of Worth; Samuel, son of William of Worth; Charles ('Carelus'); Thomas of 'Halclinge' [Hacklinge in Worth?]; Stephen of 'Halclinge' [Hacklinge in Worth?]; Dunstan of 'Halclinge' [Hacklinge in Worth?]; John of 'Halclinge' [Hacklinge in Worth?]; Elias, brother of John, of 'Halclinge' [Hacklinge in Worth?] Endorsed with description in late 13th cent hands. Language Latin PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, seal wrapped in linen? Extent 1 document
SubjectIndex Pepper, payments of
Repository Canterbury Cathedral Archives Level
file RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/S/255
PreviousNumbers S 2 trefoils (Norris); S 257 (late 19th c) Title Quitclaim Date nd [mid 13th century]
Description From: Solomon son of Laurence; Simon son of Adam of Sandwich To: Mgr Omer de valle For an annual payment 47d, payable by Omer, [in acknowledgement of] 22s 8d which he paid them in the moment of their greatest necessity. No date. [Date: handwriting.] Witnesses: 'Dominus' Henry of Sandwich; William, brother of 'Dominus' Henry of Sandwich; Adam the baker ('pistor'); Laurence, brother of Adam the baker ('pistor'); William; Nicholas; Matthew of Worth Endorsed with description, which does not mention any place name, in late 13th cent hands. Language Latin PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, seal
Extent 1 document
fonds STAPLE ST JAMES
Repository Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Level file
RefNo CCA-U3/183/1/1
Title Composite Register
Date 1544-1691
Description Baptisms 1544-1689; Marriages 1544-1683, Burials 1544-1691. At back of book list of parish officials 17 century. Notes on poor rates 1658. Copy of licence allowing Anne and Mary Omer not to eat fish in Lent 1636.
Pencil notes on the church plate.
PhysicalDescription 1 Volume
Extent 1 Volume
Repository Centre for Kentish Studies
Level item RefNo CKS-Q/S/R/2/m.6d
Title Session at Maidstone, 21st April, 1601 Date 1601
Description General session of the peace at Canterbury Castle on Tuesday before the feast of St. James the Apostle, on the 21st July, 1601, before Thomas Wilsford, Michael Sondes and William Lovelace, knights, and Peter Manwood, John Boys, Richard Hardres, Thomas Palmer, Mathew Hadd, Henry Fynche, Thomas Peyton, James Crowmer, Nicholas Gilborne, John Beckenden, Thomas Engeham, Edward Hales, Samuel Boys, John Johnson, and Thomas Harfleete, esquires and others. Precept of venire facias to the sheriff, John Smyth, esq. , ............... returned.............. defaulters fines assessed at 10s. Certain of the constables, that is William Thwaytes, gentleman, Edward Dyxson, Stephen Mylles, Nicholas Brooke, Thomas Oldfield, John Marche, John Deane, Robert Pylcher, Thomas Waterman, Christopher Spycer, Peter Partridge, John Den, Clement Janoock, Lawrence Omer, junior, John Hamon, Ambrose Wilson and Thomas Dence, present. 1 William Bowlinge, husbandman, Robert Barrowe, yeoman, and Robert Baldocke, tailor, all of Wye, on the 4th July, 1601, illegally broke and entered the mansion house of Elias Martyn at Lower Hardres, of which William Hawke is the owner, expelled Elias against his will and so deseized William Hawke of his free tenement and on the 21st July, 1601, forcibly excluded them. Writ of venire facias for William Bowling, Robert Barrowe and Robert Baldocke to appear at the session at Maidstone on Tuesday before Michaelmas next [22nd September, 1601] to answer, on which day they do not come and the sheriff returns nichil habent, therefore writ of capias to have them at the next session at Canterbury Castle on Tuesday after Epiphany [12th January, 1601/2]. [In margin] Bowlyng and Barrowe and Baldock appeared and were discharged because pardoned by Act of Parliament. Restitution of possession of the premises was made.
Repository Centre for Kentish Studies
Level item
RefNo CKS-Q/S/Rp/m.4r
John Chapman of Bidborough since 12 October has carried three loads of pots from Borden Furnace to Tonbridge Town, etc. [as in 82]. By the same [no number] John Worseley of Tonbridge for a similar offence with three loads. By the same 87 Thomas Gibbons of Tonbridge, Richard Lorkyn of the same, and Thomas Harris of Pembury have severally carried six loads of iron from Woodsgate in Tonbridge to Fyve Oakes in Capel, whereby the King's highway in Tonbridge (one mile), Pembury (two miles), Tudeley (two miles) and in Capel (two miles) is in bad repair. By the same Francis Segars, gentleman, Clerk of the Peace [B] General Session of the Peace at Canterbury Castle on Tuesday before St. James the Apostle, 20 July, 6 Charles [I], 1630 Jurors for the body of the county: John Wood William Barrett Thomas Haunce John Knowler Anthony Knowlden Edward Taylor Edward Maxted John Jarman John Terry William Fagg Thomas Thatcher Richard Dilnett Richard Sackett John Boughton John Wynter William Fagg John Carr Richard Browne, Esq., Sheriff Jurors for the Hundred of Milton and others: Joell Hills Gibbon Hawker William Pemble William Gouldocke, gentleman David Bowell Jurors for the Hundred of Felborough and others: Thomas Wanstall Laurence Essex Anthony Wanstall Thomas Carter Caleb Kennett Arnold Terry James Wise Jurors for the Hundred of Folkestone and others: Richard Ladd Thomas Deere Samuel Fagg David Robins John Horton Jurors for the Hundred of Blengate and others: Richard Allen William Turner John Knowler Richard Knowler John Bennett William Barbett Joseph Hennaker Steven Hunt Jurors for the Hundred of Cornilo and others: Thomas Harvy Edward Virgin Simon Short John Short William Elvy Andrew Omer Silvester Neame William Wanstall Being sworn, they present: 1 The King's highway in Woolwich, from the west of the town of that parish to H.M. Storehouse called "the Docke"", on the south of a cemetery and other lands, and the river Thames, being the highway from Woolwich to Greenwich, is in bad repair, and the inhabitants of Woolwich ought to repair it. By Nicholas Gilborne, Knight 2 Thomas Hughes of Ash, husbandman, on 1 March, 5 Charles [I, 1629/30] at Ash, assaulted John Jones with a "ploughe Goade"". John Jones sworn 3 William Swifte of the City of Canterbury, gardener, Arthur Middleton of the same, gentleman, Henry Maple of the same, labourer, Richard Maple, labourer, and John Ashenden, labourer, all of the same, on 1 July, 6 Charles [I, 1630] and at divers times before and after, at Thanington, fished with hooks, etc., and took divers fish in the river called "le Stower", within the liberty of the Most Rev. George [Abbot], Archbishop of Canterbury. Stephen Meade and Thomas Meade sworn. | OMER, Roger (I8038)
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Will of this Simon indicates that he died at Bapchild but was buried at Norton. He appears to have never married. | RUCK, Simon (I5409)
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Will of Thomas Denne
of Sarre, Kent
Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1821 Transcribed by Brian Denn
In the name of God Amen I Thomas Denne of the Village of Sarre in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent being of sound mind memory and understanding praised be Almighty God for the same do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) first and principally I commend my Soul to God who gave it and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named and as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I dispose thereof as follows.
First I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Mary and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life one annuity or clear yearly sum of three hundred pounds sterling to be paid and payable by two even and equal half yearly payments on the birth of our Lord Christ and the Festivity of Saint John the Baptist in every year the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said feast days as shall first and next happen after my decease which said annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds I do hereby direct shall be issued and payable out of and from my personal estate and I do hereby accordingly direct my Executors hereinafter named to set apart appropriate and invest a sufficient sum of money in their names(?) out of my said personal estate to answer(?) and pay the said annuity.
Also I give and bequeath unto my said dear wife the sum of one thousand pounds sterling and my carriage and two horses with the ? and appertuances thereunto belonging together with such furniture and effects as she was possessed of at the time of our intermarriage.
Also I give and bequeath unto my dear sister Martha Denne the sum of eight hundred pounds sterling. Also I give and bequeath unto each of my dear sisters Elizabeth the wife of John Bridges Esq., Mary the wife of Joseph Coxon and Sarah Denne the sum of two hundred pounds sterling. Also I give and bequeath unto my Executors hereinafter named the sum of one hundred pounds sterling apiece as an acknowledgement for their trouble. Also I give and bequeath unto my old servant Robert ? the sum of twenty five pounds Sterling. Also I give and bequeath unto the Treasurer for the time being of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital for the use and benefit of that Institution the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling. All which legacies I do hereby direct my Executors hereinafter named to pay within six calendar months next after my decease.
Also I give and bequeath all my plate, linen, china, books, wines and liquors unto my said dear wife and to my dear daughter Mary Elizabeth the wife of the Reverend John Hilton of Wingham in the said County of Kent Clerk in equal shares as tenants in common and to their respective executors administrators and assigns. Also I give and bequeath all my household furniture and other household effects not hereinbefore disposed of and except fixtures unto my said dear wife.
Also I give devise and bequeath all and every my manors, messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate whatsoever and wheresoever and after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the annuity and legacies hereinbefore given all my leasehold and other personal estate and effects not hereinbefore otherwise disposed of into and to the use of my said dear daughter Mary Elizabeth the wife of the said John Hilton her heirs, executors administrators and assigns respectively according to the nature and quality of the said several estates and I do hereby make nominate and appoint my said dear daughter Mary Elizabeth, the said John Hilton and the said John Bridges Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby declare that the said annuity and the several legacies hereinbefore by me given to my said dear wife Mary are over and above and in addition to the provision made for her by the settlement executed previously to our intermarriage and hereby revoking and making void all former and other wills and testaments by me at any time herebefore made I declare this only to be my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Denne the Testator have to the first sheet of this my last Will and Testament in two sheets of paper contained set my hand and to this second and last sheet thereof have set my hand and affixed my seal the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Thomas Denne. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Thomas Denne the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names at witnesses. J L Plummer, J L Plummer Jnr, Edward Plummer.
Proved at London 10th May 1821 before the Judge by the oaths of Mary Elizabeth Hilton wife of the Reverend John Hilton Clerk the daughter, the said Rev John Hilton and John Bridges the Executors to whom administration was granted having first sworn by commission duly to administer. | DENNE, Elizabeth (I8385)
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Will probated 5 Feb 1629. | Elizabeth (I12016)
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Will proved 15 Mar 1630 Archdeaconry Court of Cornwall | LANNYAN, Edward (I14819)
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Will proved 4 Jun 1713 by Edmund Sheafe, son and Thomas Sheafe, brother. | SHEAFE, Edmund (I13593)
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Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829. [Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London, England PROB 11/1754, fols. 377-381]
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me, WILLIAM SHERRIFF, of Southville, Wandsworth Road, in the parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, whereby I recommended my soul to God and dispose of my worldly estate and effects in manner -following, that is to say and first it is my will and desire to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named and I hereby direct that my debts, funeral, and testament expenses and the pecuniary legacies hereinafter given and bequeathed as also such other pecuniary legacies as I may hereafter give by any Codicil or Codicils to this my Will shall be paid and discharged by my Executors hereinafter named out of the residue of my personal estate hereinafter mentioned and disposed of but in case such a residue should prove insufficient for that purpose then I charge the specific legacies hereinafter given with the payment of such insufficiency each legacy to abate or legatee to contribute equally in proportion to the clear annual rent or profit of their respective legacies.
I give and bequeath to my sister, MARY LANGDON, widow of [left blank] LANGDON now residing at Waltham Green in the County of Middlesex, harness maker, the sum of fifty pounds to and for her own absolute use and benefit.
I give and bequeath to my sister, SARAH VAUGHAN (wife of SAMUEL VAUGHAN) now residing with me the sum of fifty pounds to and for her own sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of her said husband and I direct that her receipt alone (notwithstanding her coverture) shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors for the same.
I give and bequeath to CATHERINE MAY the wife of [left blank] MAY late of the Commercial Road, Whitechapel, Cheesemonger, the sum of fifty pounds to and for her own sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of her said husband and I direct that her receipt alone notwithstanding her coverture shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors for the same.
I give and bequeath unto DANIEL STURDY the Elder of Chapel Street, Stockwell, in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, and HENRY CRUNDEN of Ryegate [sic] in the said County of Surrey, Innkeeper, the sum of ten pounds each for a mourning ring.
And I hereby direct that the before mentioned legacies shall be respectively paid by my Executors hereinafter named within the space of six calendar months next after my decease.
I give and bequeath unto my eldest son BENJAMIN SHERRIFF, his Executors, Administrators and assigns all that leasehold messuage or tenement situate and being Number 12 in Clayton Street, Kennington, in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, now in the occupation of [left blank] Garner and also all those four leasehold messuages or tenements situate and being Numbers Five, Six, Seven and [left blank] in Ebenezer Place, Wandsworth Road, in the parish of Clapham, in the County of Surrey, in the several occupations of [left blank] Richards, [left blank] Collings and [left blank] Melberry and also all that piece or parcel of Garden ground containing in admeasurement above one acre in the respective occupations of [left blank] Melberry and [left blank] Collins situate lying and being at the back of and adjoining the said four leasehold messuages in Ebenezer Place aforesaid held by me on lease from Mr. Thomas Henry Sawyer, deceased, with their respective rights, members, and appurtenances to hold to him the said BENJAMIN SHERRIFF [sic] his Executors, administrators and assigns for all my term, estate and interest therein respectively.
I give and bequeath unto my youngest son FREDERICK SHERIFF, his Executors, administrators and assigns all that my ready furnished messuage, tenement or cottage situate and being in Union Road, Clapham Road, in the parish of Clapham, in the County of Surrey late in the occupation of Mrs. Hope and also all those four leasehold messuages or tenements situate and being on the south side of and in Union Road, Clapham Road, aforesaid, in the several occupations of Thomas Sare, [left blank] Walker, [left blank] Hall, and [left blank] Gloyn with
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Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829, page 2.
their respective rights, members and appurtenances to hold to him my said son, FREDERICK SHERRIFF [sic], his Executors, administrators and assigns for all my term, estate and interest therein respectively. I also give and bequeath to my said son FREDERICK SHERRIFF, his Executors, administrators and assigns all and singular the household goods and furniture, plate, linen and china that I may leave within the said ready furnished cottage late in the occupation of Mrs. Hope, situate in Union Road, aforesaid, at the time of my decease to and for his and their own absolute use and benefit.
I give and bequeath unto my daughter, SARAH GRAY, the wife of RICHARD GRAY, of Arnolds Parogan, Walworth, stockboker, all those two leasehold messuages or tenements situate and being Numbers eight and nine in Arnolds Parogan, Francis Street, Walworth, in the several occupations of the said Richard Gray and [left blank] Workman and also all that leasehold, messuage or tenement situate and being Number 12 in Southville, Wandsworth Road, in the parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, now in my own occupation and also all that leasehold messuage or tenement situate and being at Nine Elms, Vauxhall, in the parish of Saint Mary Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, now in the occupation of Joseph Shaw with their respective rights, members and appurtenances to hold to her my said daughter SARAH GRAY, her Executors, administrators and assigns for all my term, estate and interest therein respectively. I also give and bequeath unto my said daughter SARAH GRAY, her Executors, administrators and assigns all and singular the household goods and furniture, linen and china that I may leave at the time of my decease within the said dwelling now occupied by me situate and being Number 12, Southville, Wandsworth Road, aforesaid, to and for her and their own absolute use and benefit. But in case my said daughter SARAH GRAY shall depart this life in my lifetime or without having attained a vested interest in the several bequests made to her by this my Will then I do hereby give and bequeath the same unto the said DANIEL STURDY and my said youngest son, FREDERICK SHERRIFF, and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease make sale and absolutely dispose of the said leasehold estate and household furniture hereinbefore bequeathed to my said daughter either entirely or altogether or in parcels by public auction or private contract to any person or persons willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof respectively for such price or prices or sum or sums of money as to the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERIFF of the survivor of them or the Executors, administrators or assigns of such survivor shall seem reasonable and for promoting and facilitating such sale or sales do and shall enter into, make and execute all such contracts, covenants, agreements, conveyances, surrenders, assignments, assurances, acts, deeds, matters, and things which to my said trustees or the survivor of them or the Executors, administrators or assigns of such survivor respectably shall seem reasonable and I do hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor for any money payable to them or him under this my Will shall effectually discharge the person or persons paying the same from being answerable or accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof or of any part thereof or from requiring the necessity or propriety of any sale that may be made by virtue of this my Will and I hereby declare my will and mind to be that the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all the money to arise from the sale or sales aforesaid hereinbefore by me directed to be made upon the trusts following, that is to say,
Upon trust that the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease invest the said monies arising from such sale or sales as aforesaid in some or one of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain in their or his names or name and I do hereby declare that the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and
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Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829, page 3.
the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor shall stand and be possessed of an interested in the said trust monies and the stocks, funds and securities in which the same shall be invested and the interest, dividends and annual produce thereof upon trust for all and every the lawful child and children of the body of my said daughter SARAH GRAY now born or hereinafter to be born who being a son or sons shall live to attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or be married and their respective Executors, administrators and assigns to be divided between or among them if more than one equal shares and proportions and in case there shall be no such child of my said daughter SARAH GRAY who being a son shall live to attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter shall live to attain that age or be married then upon trust to pay or transfer the said trust monies, stocks, funds and securities together with the accumulations thereon unto such person or persons as would be entitled to the same under the Statute for the distribution of the estate and effects of persons dying intestate in case I had died intestate and I hereby declare my will and mind to be that in the meantime and until the vesting or payment of the portions hereby provided for the children of my said daughter SARAH GRAY respectively as aforesaid they the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor shall and may be, with, and out of the interest, dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies, stocks, funds, and securities, respectively, raise and pay such sum and sums of money as they or he shall think fit, proper for or towards the maintenance and education of the said children of my said daughter SARAH GRAY for the time being and also shall and may advance any sum or sums of money they or he may think proper out of the said trust monies, stocks, funds, and securities, respectively, for or towards the placing out or advancement in the world of any one or more of my said daughters children during his, her or their minority or respective minorities and my will is that such advancement as aforesaid shall be taken as part of the portion or portions hereby provided for the child or children of my said daughter to or on account of whom the same shall respectively be paid, provided always that in the meantime and until the said trust monies, stocks, funds, and securities shall vest absolutely in some person or persons under the trusts hereinbefore declared of and concerning the same respectively, they the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor shall receive the dividends, interest and annual produce of the said trust monies, stocks, funds, and securities, respectively, or the invested share or shares respectively and lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of or upon such stocks, funds, and securities as aforesaid and do and shall receive the interest, dividends and annual produce of the said last mentioned trust monies, stocks, funds, and securities and lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of or upon the like stocks, funds, and securities so that the same and the resulting income and produce thereof may during such suspense as aforesaid accumulate in the way of compound interest and that the said interest, dividends and annual produce of the said stocks, funds and securities and the accumulations thereof, respectively, shall belong to and be in trust for the person or persons who under the trusts hereinbefore or hereinafter declared shall become absolutely entitled to the funds from which such accumulations shall have respectively proceeded.
And whereas HENRY COLE, late of Number 1 Castle Alley, Whitechapel, in the parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, in and by his last Will and Testament being date on or about the ninth day of November which was in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen [1818] bequeathed all his leasehold, estates, money in the funds, book debts, household furniture and all the personal property of what nature or kind soever he might die possessed of unto me the said WILLIAM SHERRIFF, in trust, in the first place to pay all his just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses then upon further trust to permit and suffer his niece JANE COX, the wife of THOMAS COX, of Cannon Street, London, to take and receive out of the monies then standing in his name in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England one clear annuity or yearly sum of fifty pounds for and during the term of her natural life
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Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829, page 4.
for her own sole use and benefit, also upon this further trust to permit and suffer his said niece, JANE COX, to take and receive the rents, issues and profits of his leasehold house and premises situate and being Number 15 Duke Street, Aldgate, London, to whom he gave and bequeathed the same during the term of her natural life for her own sole use and benefit and all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever (as well the reversion in the Government funds to secure the annuity of fifty pounds per annum to his said niece, JANE COX, as the residue of the term of years that might be to come and unexpired in his said leasehold estate in Duke Street, Aldgate after the decease of his said niece he gave and bequeathed to me the said WILLIAM SHERRIFF for my own sole use and benefit and whereas the said reversion in the Government funds to secure the said annuity of fifty pounds to the said JANE COX part of the said residue so bequeathed to me the said WILLIAM SHERRIFF by the hereinbefore in part recited Will of the said HENRY COLE, deceased, consisted at the time of his decease of the principal sum of one thousand pounds, five pounds per cent Bank Annuities and whereas the said five pounds per cent Bank Annuities are no longer in existence and the said principal sum of one thousand pounds is now standing in my name in the new four cent Bank Annuities and whereas the said JANE COX is still living and whereas the said principal sum of one thousand pounds now four per cent Bank Annuities is not sufficient to pay the said JANE COX her said annuity as aforesaid now i do hereby give and bequeath unto the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN of Ryegate [sic], in the County of Surrey, Innkeeper, and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor the said principal sum of one thousand pounds now four per cent Bank Annuities and also the further sum of five hundred pounds now four per cent Bank Annuities upon trust that they the said DANIEL STURDY, FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor shall and do as soon as conveniently can be after my decease transfer and invest the said two principal sums of one thousand pounds and five hundred pounds new four per cent Bank Annuities in some or one of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain in their own names or name and do and shall stand possessed thereof upon trust in the first place with and out of the dividends, interest, and annual produce thereof to pay the said annuity or clear yearly sum of fifty pounds unto the said JANE COX for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately after the decease of the said JANE COX (in case she should survive and outlive me then upon trust that they the said DANIEL STURDY, FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall pay, apply, divide and dispose of the said two principal sums of one thousand pounds and five hundred pounds new four per cent Bank annuities and the surplus interest that shall be from time to time accrue after payment and satisfaction of such annuity as aforesaid and all expenses and disbursements attending the same unto and equally between my said three children BENJAMIN SHERRIFF, FREDERICK SHERRIFF and SARAH GRAY, their respective Executors, administrators and assigns to and for him, her and their own respective absolute use and benefit. But in case my said daughter SARAH GRAY shall depart this life in my lifetime or without having attained a vested interest in that part or share of the said two principal sums of one thousand pounds and five hundred pounds new four per cent Bank Annuities so given to her as aforesaid, then upon trust as to such part or share to be retained and held by the said DANIEL STURDY, FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor upon such and the like trusts and to and for the same ends, intents, and purposes as are hereinbefore expressed and declared of and concerning the leasehold houses and household furniture hereinbefore given and bequeathed to my said daughter and her children in case of her decease in my lifetime, or without having attained a vested interest therein and in case the said JANE COX shall happen to depart this life in my lifetime then it is my will and I hereby direct that the said two principal sums of one thousand pounds and give hundred pounds new four per cent Bank Annuities shall sink into and be considered and taken as part of my residuary personal estate and effects hereinafter particularly mentioned and disposed of. . . . 5
Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829, page 5.
And as to, for and concerning all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same shall or may consist at the time of my decease I do hereby dispose thereof in manner following, that is to say,
I give and bequeath the same unto the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor upon the trusts following, that is to say,
Upon trust that they, my said Trustees DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor, shall and do with all convenient speed after my decease sell, dispose of and convert into money all such parts of the said residue of my said estate as shall not consist of money and shall in its nature be valuable and for promoting and facilitating the sale do and shall enter into, make, and execute all such contracts, conveyances, assignments, surrenders, or assurances, acts, and deeds as my said Trustees, DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF or the survivor of them or the Executors, administrators or assigns of such survivor, shall think proper and I do hereby declare that my said Trustees, DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor, shall stand and be possessed of such part of the said residue of my said estate as shall consist of money and of such other part thereof as shall arise by such sale and conversion into money as aforesaid upon trust that they the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall with and out of the said residuary monies pay, satisfy, and discharge all my just debts, funeral, and testamentary expenses and the pecuniary legacies hereinbefore specifically bequeathed as also all such other pecuniary legacies as I may hereafter give by any Codicil or Codicils to this my Will and do and shall pay, apply, divide, and dispose of the residue of the said monies which shall remain after answering the purposes aforesaid unto and equally between my said two sons BENJAMIN SHERRIFF and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and my said daughter SARAH GRAY their respective heirs, Executors, administrators and assigns to and for his, her and their own respective absolute use and benefit.
But in case my said daughter shall depart this life in my lifetime or without having attained a vested interest in that part or share of the said residue so given to her as aforesaid then upon trust as to such part or share to be retained and held by the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor upon such and the like trusts and to and for the same ends, intents and purposes as hereinbefore are expressed and declared of and concerning the leasehold houses and household furniture hereinbefore given and bequeathed to my said daughter and her children in case of her decease in my lifetime or without having attained a vested interest therein, provided always and I do hereby declare that it shall and may be lawful for the said DANIEL STURDY and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN and the survivor of them and the Executors, administrators and assigns of such survivor to sign and give any receipt or receipts for any sum or sums of money payable to them or him under or by virtue of this my Will and that any person or persons paying them or him any such sum or sums of money and taking their or his receipt or receipts for the same respectively shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for the loss, misapplication or nonapplication thereof or be in any wise bound or concerned to see to the application of the money in the said receipts mentioned or acknowledged to be received, provided always and I do hereby further declare that if the trustees appointed by this my Will or to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned or any of them, their or any of their heirs, Executors, administrators and assigns shall happen to die or be desirous of being discharged from or refuse or decline or become incapable to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as aforesaid before the said trusts shall be fully executed then and in such case and when and as often as the same shall happen it shall and may be lawful to and for the said DANIEL STURDY
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Will, William Sherriff of Lambeth, Gentleman, made 8 Aug 1828, proved 24 Apr, 1829, page 6.
and FREDERICK SHERRIFF and HENRY CRUNDEN during their lives and after the decease of either of them then to and for the then surviving or continuing trustee or trustees or the Executors or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee by any deed or deeds, Instrument or Instruments in writing to be by them, him or her sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses from time to time to nominate, substitute, or appoint any person or persons to be a trustees or trustee in the place or stead of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing, declining, or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and when and so often as any new trustee shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust, estates, monies, and premises the trustee or trustees whereof shall so dye or desire to be discharged or refuse or decline or become incapable to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed conveyed, assigned, and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the person or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid either solely or jointly with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees as occasion shall require to the uses and upon and for the trusts, intents and purposes hereinbefore expressed and declared of and concerning the same trust, estates, monies, and premises or such of them as shall be then subsisting, undertermined [sic] and capable of taking effect and the person or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee or trustees in whose room he or they shall be substituted and I do hereby further declare that the said trustees hereby appointed and to be appointed as aforesaid and each and every of them and their heirs, Executors, administrators and assigns each and every of them shall be charged and chargeable respectively for such monies only as they respectively shall actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed notwithstanding their or any of their giving or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and any one or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the others or other of them or for involuntary losses and also that it shall and may be lawful for them with and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves respectively and also to allow their respective co-trustees or co-trustee all costs, charges, damages, and expenses which they or any of them shall or may suffer, sustain, expend, disburse, or be put unto in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereto.
And I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at any time heretofore made and publish and declare this present writing to be and contain my last Will and Testament only.
In testimony whereof I the said WILLIAM SHERRIFF, the testator, have to this my last Will and Testament contained in ten sheets of paper set my hand and seal that is to say my hand to the nine sheets hereto annexed and my hand and seal hereto this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
William Sherriff (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said WILLIAM SHERRIFF, the testator, as and for his last Will and Testament on the day of the date in the presence of us who, in the presence of each other, in his presence and at his request have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Richard Knott, Solicitor, Chichester Place, Wandsworth Road, Surrey John Hall, Bedford Arms, Clapham Road.
PROVED at London 24th April 1829 before the Worshipful Charles Coote, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of DANIEL STURDY the elder and FREDERICK SHERRIFF the son, the Executors according to the tenor, to whom administration was granted having been first sworn duly to administer. | SHERIFF, William (I1051)
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William Baker married Jane Mattock he otp, she of Bishops Hull 12 May 1754 [he bc 1732 or earlier] | Family (F4150)
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William Albany Battersley Greenwell | STRONG, Victoria (I16779)
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William and Ann emigrated to the USA circa 1866 and had 12 children, the majority of whom were born in the England before their emigration to Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio in US 1866/1867. | PHARE, William (I14444)
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William Baker a sojourner in the parish
Betty Baker of the parish - by banns, both parties signed their names
Witnesses: Thomas Woodruff, Hannah Stoller | Family (F3690)
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William Baker of age, bachelor, sawyer, Nynehead, James Baker, sawyer
she Martha Jane Bruford, of age, spinster, servant, Bradford, Charles Bruford, labourer
October 3, 1880
No. 129
Parish Church Bradford on Tone banns by Hugh Jenison Adair
both parties signed with their signatures
Witnesses: Eli Baker by his mark
Matilda Baker | Family (F249)
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William Berry, County Genealogies:Kent, pp. 194f.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 1
By John Burke, Bernard Burke, pp 324-325, Denne of Denne Hill. | A’DENNE, Thomas (I12108)
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William Boleyn - Will 8 October 1505
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40 Holgrave
Sir William Boleyn (Hever) d. 8 Oct 1505. "Wherfore I now beyng in my full mynde and stedfast faith and in pfite charite aske or erg the Jhu and all the world ?mercy Trustyng verely that thrugh thy passion and with the socor and relief of that gracious lady thy moder and mayde to synners to hir callyng for helpe of grete petie very comfortable and in suche requests of the not denyed Seint Anne Seynt Antony Seynt Erasme Seynt George Seynt Cristofer Seynt Mary Magdalen Seynt Blase Seynt Katerine Seuynt Margarete Seynt Brigide Seynt Ursule, Seynt Apolony, Seynt Dorothee Seynt Jamys Seynt Roke Seynt Cristine Seynt Armegill holy Kyng Henry the VIth and Seynt Andrewe myn avowers to whose preservy and help I comytte my soule Trustyng verely that through their meanes I shalbe noon of the dampnable nowmbr but at the lest in the ?lvey of saluaion
To be buried in the Cathedrall Church in Norwich next to the Sepultur of dame Anne Boleyn my moder.
His manor of Bliklyng. Son Thomas. Dame Margaret my wif.
I will that doctr. Hugh freer Austyn of Norwich shall syng for my soule and also preche the worde of Almighty God within the Citie of Norwich and townez next adioynny by the space of iiij yeres taking for his stipendy yerely
iiijli. Doughters Alice and Margate at their marriage. 1000 mks between them.
Son Jamys son William when 21 – in def. sone Edward in def. son Thos. Manors in Norfolk, Bed and Hertf. and my manors of Heveir and Seall with appts. in Kent (to go as above). [etc. etc. not Kentish].
Proved 27 Nov 1505 by Thos Boleyn exor.
[Source: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Bk08/223.htm]
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Sir William Boleyn, Knt.
William Boleyn, Knight, 7th October 1505. My body to be buried in the Cathedral of Norwich, near the sepulture of Dame Ann Boleyn [daughter of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings], my mother; I willl that my son Thomas Boleyn [Earl of Wiltshire, K.G.], according to the Will of Geoffrey Boleyn, my father, have the manors of Blickling, Calthorp, Wykmere, and Mikelbarton, to him and his heirs male, he paying to Dame Margaret [daughter and coheir of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde and Carrick, in Ireland, and Baron Ormond of Rochford, im England], my wife, cc marks yearly; to my daughters Alice [married Sir Robert Clere] and Margaret [married John Sackville] M marks between them; my daughter Ann Skelton [wife of Sir John Skelton]; my sons James [died s.p.], Williamd, and Edward [married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir John Tempest]: my manors of Hoo, Offley, Cokenhoo, Fylby, West Lexham, Stiffleby, and Betingham, in Norfolk, and my mansors of Hever and Seale in Kent.
Proved 27th November 1505. | BOLEYN, Alice (I1558)
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William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick gained the title of 9th Earl of Warwick in 1268.
Citations:
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1. Volume XII/1, page 610; volume III, page 147.
Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 76.
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Chapter 1 : The Beauchamp family to 1369
Sir William, the first earl of Warwick from the Beauchamp family, formally did homage for his lands on 9 February 1268. From the outset, this was unusual; whereas most sons only received their inheritance on the death of their father, it is evident that Earl William's father, William Beauchamp of Elmley, was still alive at the time when his son acceded to the earldom; the will of the elder William clearly refers to his son as the ‘earl of Warwick’, and we also have an undated charter in which the elder William Beauchamp concedes 20 librates of land to his son, ‘William, earl of Warwick’. William Beauchamp of Elmley had the right to assume the title of earl himself, as had happened in similar circumstances a generation earlier, but chose to give the title to his eldest son. Earl William had inherited his title from his uncle, William Mauduit, whose sister Isabel had married William Beauchamp of Elmley, Earl William's father. It was the union between William and Isabel which proved to be the making of the Beauchamp fortunes, changing them from a strong family of regional significance into one of the greatest English families of the later middle ages.
The Beauchamps, up to this time, were essentially a great Worcestershire family. They derived their fortune from the marriage of their ancestor Walter Beauchamp to the daughter of Urse D'Abitot, the ‘Conqueror's notorious sheriff of Worcester’, around the year 1110. D'Abitot, along with his brother Robert, had seized a great part of his land from the church in Worcester during the years of the conquest, and Walter Beauchamp inherited half of D'Abitot's estates, including the castle of Elmley which was their principal centre of power in the period from 1110 to 1268.
From the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the Beauchamps owed much of their pre-eminence to a number of fortunate marriages, and the marriage to D'Abitot's heiress was the first of these. They were of that class of men whose ability and influence made them essential cogs in the administrative machinery of the localities; part of D'Abitot's inheritance was the hereditary shrievalty of Worcestershire and, although free to nominate a deputy to perform the job in his place, only Walter Beauchamp (II), Earl William's grandfather, did not serve as sheriff of Worcestershire, in person, for at least part of his adult life. The shrievalty certainly helped to secure the Beauchamps' status as the most prominent lay landholders in Worcestershire, a county unusually dominated by ecclesiastical landlords.
There is no doubt that the Beauchamp family would have continued to be only of regional historical importance were it not for the marriage between William Beauchamp of Elmley and Isabel Mauduit. The Mauduits were a ‘respectable official family’ in the same mould as the Beauchamps. One of Isabel's ancestors had been chamberlain of the exchequer under Henry I, and the Mauduits inherited that hereditary office from him. What made Isabel such a prized catch, however, was that her brother, William Mauduit, earl of Warwick, lacked legitimate issue, making Isabel his heiress. Mauduit had inherited the title from his mother, a member of the twelfth-century Beaumont earls of Warwick. The inheritance of the earldom can perhaps be viewed as more of a fortuitous accident than a planned marriage; Earl William was said to be between the ages of 26 and 30 in 1268, placing the marriage of William and Isabel in the late 1230s or early 1240s. At this time, the chances of the earldom passing to Isabel must have seemed remote at best: Thomas Beaumont was married to Ela, countess of Salisbury (who nearly lived on until the very end of the thirteenth century), and if their union failed to produce any issue, then it was likely that the marriage of his sister Margery to John de Plessis probably would. It was only on Margery's death in 1253 that it was clear the earldom was going to descend to the Mauduits, and even then any issue from the marriage of William Mauduit and Alice de Segrave would have prevented the earldom coming into William of Elmley's hands. In effect the earldom descended by chance and by default, for it was the failure of both the Beaumont and Mauduit lines to produce male heirs that allowed the earldom to pass into the hands of the Beauchamps in 1268, and not the result of a cunning marriage policy on the part of William of Elmley.
By January 1268, William of Elmley and Isabel Mauduit had produced at least seven children. Of the three sons, all of them were to found important branches of the family which survived into the fifteenth century. William was the eldest of the three, and not only inherited the earldom, but also most of the Beauchamp estates that had been built up in the past 150 years. However, generous endowments were given to the two younger sons, Walter and John: John began the line of the Beauchamps of Holt, who were based in the Severn valley, north of Worcester, and Walter was granted lands in south-west Warwickshire. The Beauchamps, throughout our period, were well known for their military accomplishments: William of Elmley had fought in Scotland and Wales, and all three of his sons appear to have followed in the family's martial tradition. William proved himself on the battlefields of Scotland and Wales; Walter, it would appear, had an ambition to go on a crusade. His father's will describes him as a ‘crusader’, and William left his son a debt of 200 marks in aid ‘of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land for me and his mother’. By the late 1290s he was calling himself the ‘lord of Alcester’, having purchased, in 1271-72, the moiety of the manor of Alcester in Warwickshire, making that place one of his principal seats, alongside Powick in Worcestershire. Walter was also to follow in the family's tradition of administrative service; in Prestwich's words he was ‘well schooled in the established tradition of the household’ and was a highly suitable choice for the post of steward of the royal household, an appointment which suited both his bureaucratic and military skills. Walter was appointed as steward in 1289, became sole steward in 1292, and held this position until his death in early 1303. He served with the king in Flanders and Scotland, fighting alongside Edward in the battle of Falkirk and appears to have been a man much admired for his military prowess, but criticised for his arrogance; the Song of Caerlaverock describes Walter as ‘a knight who would have been one of the best of all, according to my opinion, if he had not been too proud and rashly insolent, but you won't hear anyone talk of the steward without a "but"’.
John Beauchamp of Holt was a lesser figure than his two brothers, although the three of them did fight together in Gascony in 1296/7, and he served the following year in Scotland. It appears that he may have been one of the Beauchamps, alongside Earl Guy, and William, lord of Bergavenny, in succeeding generations, who was inclined to cultured pursuits; for his father bequeathed him ‘that book of Lancelot which I have provided for him’. Whilst John of Holt was not a man of national importance like his brothers, he was of significant standing locally, and the dynasty was to remain loyal to the earls of Warwick until the end of the fourteenth century. James, another male relative of Earl William, deserves mention. Sometimes described as the earl's uncle, at other times the earl's brother, James appears to have been the most intellectually active of the Beauchamps, as well as the most obscure member of the family; in 1283 he was granted royal protection to go overseas ‘for study’.
The fate of Isabel Mauduit, wife of William of Elmley, and mother to Walter, William, and John is much disputed. Cokayne insists that she died at some point before 1268 whilst Dugdale insists that, as the foundress of the nunnery of Cookhill, she ‘betooke herself to a religious life there’. The only evidence for either of these assumptions is the internal evidence contained in William of Elmley's will. Certainly, William does make provision for a chaplain to ‘perform divine service in my chapel without the city of Worcester, next the Friars Minors, for my soul and the souls of Isabella my wife and Isabella de [Mortimer] and all the faithful dead’, endowing the church with property in Droitwich and Witton, and it is this which Cokayne sees as proof that she had died by the time William had written his will, although there is no other reason to suppose that this was the case. Moreover, the same document explicitly states ‘To the church and nuns of Kokeshull [Cookhill] and to Ysabella, my wife, 10 marks’. Admittedly, this does present some problems: Isabella would appear to have become a nun at least several months before the death of her husband, and not after his death as was usual. Also the allocation to her of 10 marks seems remarkably tight-fisted when compared to the 200 marks he gave Walter, or the 100 marks in aid of the marriage of his daughter Sarah. It is possible that Isabel took her vows out of concern for the state of the Warwick earldom. Matriarchs connected to the earldom of Warwick had an unnerving ability to outlive their husbands by a considerable margin; in 1268 there were no less than three of these women, Countess Ela, Angaret, and Alice, who between them soaked up valuable demesne lands in the earl's possession. It has been calculated that, at one point, these dowagers siphoned off around 22% of the earl's income. From the time of the Beauchamp accession in 1268, it was not unusual for surviving widows and unmarried daughters to enter the convent instead of being a potential drain upon the family's resources, and what is certain is that the Beauchamps could not afford a fourth dowager. In the context of this situation, Isabel's entering the convent of Cookhill does seem to be a very likely possibility.
Of the first three Beauchamp earls of Warwick, Earl William is the most shadowy figure. Clearly a great and important figure in his day, no chroniclers have left us any personal picture of the man, in the way which they have for his son and grandson. William was a soldier of considerable importance; he was frequently summoned against the Welsh between 1277 and 1294, and from 1296 to his death in 1298 was involved in the Scottish wars. He was a vigorous and innovative military commander, and it is in this role that he is best remembered by historians and chroniclers; his tactics at the battle of Maes Moydog over the Welsh forces commanded by Madog ap Llywelyn have been credited as anticipating the successful use of crossbow men at Falkirk, although there is some dispute as to how much of the victory can be ascribed to Earl William's strategy. He was also present at the siege of Droselan, and with John, earl of Surrey, helped recover the castle of Dunbar. Apart from his military exploits, William appears to have had a tendency toward hot-headedness; particularly demonstrated by his exhumation of his father's corpse in the middle of the church of the Friars Minor in Worcestershire, because he had given credence to the rumour that someone else had been buried in his stead. After his brothers, who were present and identified their father ‘by certain markings’, the earl was excommunicated for his sacrilegious actions. Despite this episode, and the lifelong enmity between him and Bishop Giffard, William appears to have been a conventionally religious man; he added ‘crosse-crosslets’ to his coat of arms, which Dugdale interprets as possibly implying a ‘testimony of....pilgrimage by him made into the holy land, or a vow to do so’. By the end of his life the earl had resolved any quarrel with the Minorites, and, under the influence of Brother John de Olney, bequeathed his body to their church. The friars, according to a disgruntled annalist at Worcester Cathedral, ‘having got hold of the body of so great a man, like conquerors who had obtained booty, paraded the public streets, and made a spectacle for the citizens’.
It was also William who began to cultivate the association of the Beauchamp earls with the legendary tale of ‘Gui de Warwic’. The tale of Guy de Warwick is an Anglo-Norman romance which has been dated from between 1232 and 1242, and is thought to have been written to flatter Thomas Beaumont, the contemporary earl of Warwick. William's appropriation of the name ‘Guy’ for his eldest surviving son was undoubtedly influenced by the mythical figure of Guy of Warwick. Previously the most common male family names were either William or Walter, with James and John also being used occasionally for younger sons. The Beauchamp family grew increasingly attached to the legend of Guy of Warwick as our period progressed: not only was Guy used as a name for the firstborn son of Earls William and Thomas (I), but Thomas (I) named one of his younger sons ‘Reinbrun’ after the son of the mythical Guy. ‘Un volum del Romaunce du Guy’ is listed in the collection of books which Earl Guy gave to Bordesley Abbey in 1305, and he was reputedly buried there with the relics of his legendary namesake. By the time of Thomas I's death in 1369, the legend of Guy of Warwick was so interwoven into the Beauchamps' psyche that he bequeathed his son ‘the coat of mail sometime belonging to that famous Guy of Warwick’ as the most highly treasured of his possessions; in his will, this mythical relic took precedence over other caskets of gold, and ornate crosses containing pieces of Christ's cross. As McGoldrick points out, ‘the holiest of relics from good kings and venerated public figures were subordinate to symbols of family honour and ancestry’. However the ‘family honour and ancestry’ was an invented one, and William's adoption of the Guy of Warwick legend must, at least in part, have been motivated by shrewd political and practical reasons. He belonged to a family of administrators, and owed his earldom either to good fortune or, as some might suppose, manipulative social climbing. It is no surprise that he should have adopted this legend in 1268, for it provided the family with a noble heritage and a heroic legitimacy. By Earl Thomas' time, the Beauchamps were firmly established amongst the higher nobility, and his attachment to the legend of Guy of Warwick appears to have been fostered by a genuine sense of family honour.
William had married Maud, the daughter of Sir John Fitz-Geoffrey whose lands were concentrated in Surrey and Essex, and was the widow of Sir Gerard de Furnivalle. Furnivalle died in 1261, and it would appear likely that she had married Earl William by the time of his accession as earl; their son Guy is described as ‘30 or more’ in 1301, placing his birth in 1271, and there is no reason at all to suppose that he was among the first born of William and Maud's seven children. In fact it would make sense for Maud to have married William soon after the death of her first husband, well before the succession to the Warwick inheritance had been determined. McFarlane refers to the Fitz-Geoffrey as a ‘very minor baronial house’, and it would seem likely that this marriage was at least arranged before the succession of the earldom of Warwick had been properly secured. The notion, sometimes put forward, that William married Maud for financial gain can also be dismissed. Maud is frequently referred to as an heiress; indeed she was one of four co-heiresses to the Fitz-Geoffrey estates after her brother died without issue in 1297. However it is most unlikely that this chance windfall had been a factor in the arrangement of their marriage thirty years previously.
Whatever the circumstances of the marriage, Earl William was clearly fond of his wife. Judging by his will, William does seem to have possessed a sentimental side; he requests that if he should die oversees, his heart be removed from his body and buried wherever his wife (‘his dear consort’) should choose to have herself interred, and their surviving son Guy was present when she was buried next to her husband. She certainly seems to have suffered from a disabling infirmity toward the end of her life which made travel impossible, but this does not appear to have been a hindrance earlier on, for they had seven children that we are aware of. Of the three sons, Guy was the only one to outlive his father; Robert died in infancy and Dugdale maintains that John ‘died in the life of his father’, although it does not seem likely that he survived long into his childhood. By the time of the earl's death, two of his daughters were nuns at Shouldham in Norfolk, a remote monastery with close links to the FitzGeoffrey family, taking up a cloistered existence like so many women in the Beauchamp family. After Guy, their sister Isabel was the most fortunate of that generation. She firstly married into the Gloucestershire family of Chaworth; Sir Pain de Chaworth had fought with Prince Edward in his crusade and his heir Patrick, whom Isabel married, was a man of reasonable importance, possessing land or property in Berkshire, Wiltshire, Wales and Southampton. This marriage yielded one child, Maud, who went on to marry the king's nephew, Henry of Lancaster. Dugdale reports that, following Chaworth's death in 1286-7, Isabel had four manors in Wiltshire, and two in Berkshire, assigned to her ‘until her dowry should be set forth’ along with the livery of Chedworth in Gloucestershire, and the Hampshire manor of Hartley Mauditt, which had been granted to her and her husband in frankmarriage by her father. Shortly afterwards, she married the elder Despenser, without the king's licence, for which Hugh Despenser was fined 2,000 marks.
The figure of Guy Beauchamp, the second Beauchamp earl, is a much clearer figure than that of his father, largely due to his outspoken political criticism of the failings of Edward II which attracted much attention from contemporary chroniclers. We have already noted that he was born in the early 1270s, but from then we do not know anything until the occasion of his knighthood on 25 March 1296. What is certain is that he enjoyed an unusually broad education for his age. The description of Earl Guy in the Annales Londonienses as ‘bene literatus’ is seized on by McFarlane who reminds us that contemporary prelates were only ‘literatus’ if they possessed a university education. McFarlane refutes the notion that Guy spent any time at Oxford, but insists that the term ‘can hardly have meant less than that he was well grounded in Latin grammar’. It seems likely, however, that he was grounded in much more; Tout, by no means an admirer, admits that the earl possessed an education ‘seldom found in the higher nobility of his age’. Guy's extensive library is well known, and we have a catalogue of what would appear to have been a small selection from it, which the earl presented to Bordesley Abbey in 1306, described by McGoldrick as ‘one of the most interesting book collections of the fourteenth century’. The majority of the works in the list are ‘romaunces’, meaning they were written either in French or Anglo-Norman, and concern such diverse topics as the lives of Titus and Vespasian, physiology and surgery, biblical tales, legends of the holy grail, lives of the saints, and historical stories concerning figures such as Charlemagne and Alexander. One book is mentioned only as ‘un petit rouge livre, en le quel sount contenuz mous diverses choses’. The inclusion of a number of ‘chansons de gestes’, outdated by the early fourteenth century, could betray Earl Guy's conservative literary tastes, or else might simply represent a clear-out of some of the older books in the Warwick library.
Guy was not the only Beauchamp book-owner that we know of in our period. His daughter, Matilda de Say, was to enter the royal household of Edward III, and bequeathed a number of unnamed French and Latin books to John de Harleston. Her sister-in-law, Katherine Mortimer (wife of Earl Thomas [I]) left a book of ‘ch’ to her son Thomas. Perhaps this refers to a book of songs [‘chansons’], but whatever, Earl Guy is perhaps the best example of a cultured and cerebral member of the higher nobility in the early fourteenth century. This was not lost on his contemporaries: the author of the Vita Edwardi Secundi claims that ‘in wisdom and council he had no peer’, and that ‘other earls did many things only after taking his opinion’; the author of the Lanercost chronicle credits him with ‘equal wisdom and integrity’, whilst the Annales Londonienses describes Beauchamp as ‘homo discretus et bene literatus per quem totum regnum Angliae sapienta praefulgebat’. A streak of simple piety, in an age unrenowned for its modesty, is evident in Guy's will, in which he requests that he be buried in Bordesley Abbey in a simple ceremony ‘without any great pomp’, especially when we compare it with the preparations made for the funeral of his grandson, William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny, who requested that five tapers be hung about his body from the moment of death, and that twenty-four poor men be cloaked in black, and each carrying torches, before 10,000 masses are said ‘by the most honest priest that can be found’. His affinity for the austerity of the Cistercian order was probably, in part, political. It would be surprising to find him embracing the Benedictines after his father's quarrels with Bishop Giffard. However, there is also the small possibility that Guy was influenced by the Cistercian ideas in the romance The Quest for the Holy Grail. A number of the books which the earl gave to Bordesley Abbey were Arthurian romances, and it is just possible that the earl was influenced by this piece of Cistercian propaganda.
What makes Earl Guy interesting is the contradictory nature of his character, perhaps best summed up by Tout when he compared the earl to the ‘cultivated aristocratic ruffians’ found in the later renaissance. This apparently ‘discreet’ and ‘well-read’ man was also a highly skilled soldier and ruthless politician; he served frequently in the Scottish wars under Edward I, and was present at Falkirk, the siege of Carlaverock and the siege of Stirling Castle. He clearly cut a very impressive figure on the battlefield, and the author of the Siege of Carlaverock claims that:
‘De Warwik le Count Guy
Coment ken ma rime de guy
Ne avoit voisin de lui mellour
Baniere ot de rouge coulour
O feasse de or et croissilie’
in a clear reference to the Beauchamp coat of arms. His single-mindedness can be seen in his activities during the reign of Edward II, when, despite Lancaster's de jure leadership of the baronial opposition, Earl Guy seems to have been the most active opponent of Edward and Gaveston. The Vita Edwardi Secundi sees Earl Guy as the ‘brains behind the Ordinances’, when it claims that it was ‘by his advice and skill the Ordinances were framed’. Earl Guy also merits the distinction of being the only earl to have opposed Gaveston's influence at court consistently from Edward's coronation until Gaveston's death in 1312, which was largely engineered by the earl himself. His nick-name of ‘the black dog of Arden’, reputedly coined by Gaveston, probably refers to more than his swarthy complexion. Indeed the Chronicle of Lanercost claims that ‘when this was reported to the earl, he is said to have replied with calmness: "If he call me a dog, be sure that I will bite him so soon as I shall perceive my opportunity"’.
Guy, it would appear, married twice. He first married Isabella de Clare, daughter of the earl of Gloucester, at some point prior to May 1297. The two were related in the ‘third degree of consanguinity’, and so had to obtain a papal dispensation which was granted to them on 11 May 1297, stating that the marriage had, on an unspecified date, already taken place. How long the marriage survived is not known, but divorce proceedings were in motion by June 1302, and the marriage had probably been dead for some time before that. Perhaps the reason for the failure of the marriage was Isabel's age; she was at least ten years the senior, and in 1302 she would have been in her early forties, making the chances of her producing an heir most unlikely, and the marriage, for however long it survived, does not seem to have produced any children. In 1306, apparently concerned that his lands would be split up if he died without issue, Guy entailed his entire estates to his nephew, Philip Despenser. The earl remarried in 1310, to Alice de Tony, sister and heiress of Ralph de Tony, and therefore the heiress of the Tony inheritance. The value of the Tony inheritance is much disputed, for Alice already had issue by Thomas de Leyburn, her first husband, and McFarlane maintains the earl ‘merely enjoyed her inheritance from their marriage in 1310 until his death five years later’. However, this is patently untrue as a glance at the Inquisitions Post Mortem of Earls Guy and Thomas will demonstrate. The manors of Walthamstow in Essex, Abberley in Worcestershire, Flamstead in Hertfordshire, Stratford Tony and Newton Tony in Wiltshire, Kirtling in Cambridgeshire, and the lordship of Painscastle in the Welsh Marches, were all to become valuable and important parts of the Beauchamp inheritance, although, as Sinclair rightly points out, the presence of a surviving Tony dowager meant that the earldom had only two-thirds of the inheritance until she died in 1340.
The marriage seems to have been successful in more than just the property which it brought into the family; during the time of their marriage, Alice was constantly pregnant, supplying Earl Guy with at least six children in the space of five years, all of whom survived infancy and subsequently married. After Guy's death, Alice went on to marry William Zouche of Ashby, with whom she had more children, and was married to him until her death in 1324.
When Earl Guy died in 1315, which contemporary rumours claimed was from poison administered on the orders of Edward II, Alice was bequeathed a portion of his plate, a crystal cup, and half of his bedding, plus ‘all the vestments and books pertaining to his chapel’, while Thomas, his eldest son, was left a coat of mail, helmet and suit of harness, and John, the younger son, received his second coat of mail. His daughter Maud received a crystal cup, and Elizabeth, another daughter, received the marriage of the Astley heir. However, there was a very serious problem. Thomas, the eldest son, was between one and two years old at the death of his father, meaning that, as was the practice in these circumstances, the estates of the earldom would be taken into the possession of the crown. The abuse of lands taken into the hands of the crown was common at this period, and a lengthy period of minority could have produced long term repercussions for the inheritance, with lands being exploited and neglected by those charged with their maintenance. The dying earl was certainly aware of the dangers which a prolonged minority could bring, and was successful in wringing a very valuable concession from Edward II, that, on the event of the earl's death, the executors of his will should have full custody of his lands ‘until the full age of his heirs’. It was fully in keeping with Edward II's character, that the crown's assurance was soon disregarded, and the Warwick lands were taken into the crown's hands within two years of Guy's death, and remained out of the control of the executors until Thomas came of age.
Possession of the Warwick estates from this point, until 1329, was determined by the whims of royal patronage. The Despensers were the prime beneficiaries in Edward II's reign, with the elder Despenser gaining wardship of all Guy's lands except for a few which had already been granted, for which he agreed to pay 1,000 marks a year, an arrangement soon commuted in Despenser's favour, allowing Despenser the custody of the Warwick estates in consideration of £6,770 which the king owed him. The issue of custody of the Warwick lands was brought up in 1321 in the articles against the Despensers. The agreement that the Warwick earldoms should be handled by Guy's executors is said to have been repealed ‘without reason’ except to deliver to the elder Despenser ‘the wardship of those lands for his own profit, so defeating by [the Despensers'] evil counsel what the king had granted in his parliaments by good counsel with the assent of the peers of the land’. The only long term effect which the events of 1321-22 had on the Warwick lands was to remove Elmley Castle from the hands of the elder Despenser and take it back into the hands of the crown, with the rest of the estates remaining in the Despensers' possession until Isabella and Mortimer's invasion in 1327. Afterwards, the lands passed to Roger Mortimer, who was able to capitalise on his predominance at the royal court by taking custody of Thomas' wardship.
It was at this time that the marriage of Thomas to Katherine Mortimer seems to have finally taken place. The marriage itself was worth 1,600 marks, and had originally been granted to Roger Mortimer as far back as 20 July 1318. There were problems with this arrangement, for the king had arranged a dispensation from the pope, granted 19 April 1319, on account of the two being related ‘in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity’. The purpose of the union was to put an end to the ‘great discord’ that existed between Earl Guy and Mortimer over the manor of Elvel, in the marches of Wales, although it should be noted that the Mortimers gained more from the arrangement than the Beauchamps, for Katherine did not bring with her any marriage portion. This arrangement seems to have been permanently shelved by Edward, following the troubles of 1321-22, which resulted in Mortimer's dramatic fall from royal favour and imprisonment, and arrangements were made for Thomas to marry one of the daughters of the earl of Arundel, either in 1324 or 1325. Arundel was executed along with the Despensers in the reprisals which followed Isabella and Mortimer's invasion, and with Mortimer back in royal favour, the original plans for the marriage between Katherine and Thomas were back in place, and they were almost certainly married between 1328 and 1330.
Of Guy's other children, the career of John Beauchamp is the most documented, being considered ‘a person of singular note in his time’. Like his father and brother, he was a military man, attending the king into Flanders in 1338, present at the naval victory of Sluys in 1340, and, along with his brother, one of the original knights of the Garter. He had the distinction of carrying the standard-royal at Crecy, and was appointed captain of Calais in 1358. John was raised to the rank of banneret in 1348, having £140 per annum granted to him from the exchequer to help him support the title. John fell out briefly with his king in 1354, who removed John from his post as Constable of the Tower of London, because Edward supposedly gave credence to ‘sinister suggestions’ against Beauchamp. He was swiftly back in favour with the king, and John faithfully served Edward until his death. He was based primarily in the capital, where he built an impressive house which was subsequently bought by the crown and used for the king's wardrobe. By the time of his death in 1360, he had acquired the Worcestershire manor of Frankley, as well as Brockenhurst in Hampshire, and gained the Wiltshire manors of Stratford Tony and Newton Tony from his elder brother. Of Guy's daughters, Elizabeth did indeed marry the heir of the Warwickshire lord, Nicholas of Astley, which her father had granted in his will. Thomas de Astley was in fact Nicholas' nephew, and he founded a chapel for the aid of the souls of him and his wife in 1337. It is not known how long she lived for, but it seems that they produced at least six children, and that he was still alive in 1366. Maud, another of Guy's daughters, led a more colourful life. She firstly married Geoffrey de Say, whose property included manors in Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Kent. Together, they produced at least four children. William was the only boy, and his father's heir. Of the three daughters, Idonea went on to marry John Clinton of Maxstoke. Maud was also very close to Edward III, Queen Philippa, and their daughter Isabel; she was so valued by the royal family that, in 1368, she was awarded an annuity of 100 marks per annum for her long service in the royal household. After Geoffrey's death in 1359, it appears that she married again, for in her will she requests that she be buried in Black Friars, London ‘near Edmund, my beloved husband’, but Edmund's identity remains a mystery.
Earl Thomas has been described as the ‘embodiment of the preux chevalier’, a man apparently uninterested in domestic political machinations, but devoutly faithful to his king. In Dugdale's words, he was ‘scarcely out of some great or memorable imployment’, and was undoubtedly one of the finest soldiers of his age. The reason for his loyalty may lie in the circumstances of his youth. Sinclair is right to point out that there is much we do not know about the circumstances of his minority. What is certain is that he and Edward III were very close in age, Edward being two years Thomas' senior, and that in, January 1328, Joan du Boys, a nurse to Princess Eleanor, was curiously described as ‘keeper of the land and heir of Guy de Beauchamp’. There is a reasonable chance that Thomas may well have spent some of his youth in the royal household, and the chances of a friendship existing at the time of his minority are reasonable, given that the new king did ‘a special favour’ for Thomas by receiving his homage on 20 February 1329, despite the fact that Beauchamp was then still a minor. McFarlane is probably right in assuming that the two young men would have found a common bond in their animosity to the court favourites of Edward II and Isabella when he writes that ‘nor was Edward III likely to be unsympathetic toward those who had suffered at the hands of the Despensers and Mortimer’.
Thomas, like his father and grandfather, served in Scotland frequently during the 1330s, being captain of the army against the Scots in 1337, but is most remembered for his service in France which constantly preoccupied him from 1339 up until his death in Calais thirty years later. Most notably, he was at the battle of Crecy in 1346, where he was one of the two marshals of the army, and held joint command of the Prince of Wales' division. The Complete Peerage provides an effective summary of the earl's exploits, which are far too extensive and of too little relevance to merit inclusion here. Of interest to us are the rewards which Earl Thomas received for his services. His loyalty to the king's cause was certainly very lucrative and he frequently enjoyed one-off payments of cash after major excursions; he obtained £1,000 in June 1340 for his wages following the French campaign the previous year, which saw the withdrawal of the French army at Vironfosse, and a further £610 was earned the following year ‘for the time in which he was beyond the seas as a hostage for the king's debts’. In 1347 he enjoyed a £1,366 11s 8d ‘gift from the king’. Eventually, in 1348, Earl Thomas was retained for life by Edward III, at a cost of 1,000 marks per annum, ostensibly ‘for his fee for his stay with the king with 100 men-at-arms’, but also undoubtedly for his loyal and faithful service. In addition to these monetary rewards, Thomas enjoyed royal patronage with grants of offices and decoration. Alongside his brother John, he was one of the founder Knights of the Garter, and served as Marshal of England from 1343/4 until his death, a post that was held at the discretion of the king. Another grant allowed him to consolidate his hold of the West Midlands; in 1344 he was made sheriff of the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire for life, in addition to the shrievalty of Worcestershire which he already held through hereditary tenure. The surrender of royal power was a valuable concession given that the role of sheriff could be a very politically sensitive one. The oath that Thomas' father Guy had to swear when he took up the hereditary post of sheriff of Worcester is preserved in the exchequer, and ‘shows the importance attached to safeguards against a power which was likely to be maintained for a generation’. The actual financial benefit generated by the shrievalty was probably slight: in 1390-91 the shrievalty of Worcestershire yielded a grand profit of £2 6s 6d; this does not show the true value which this award brought, namely an increased political dominance over his local region. In addition to these gifts, we have to add the spoils of war, which appear to have been considerable. In the aftermath of the battle of Poitiers, for instance, we know that Thomas captured the archbishop of Sens who eventually paid £8,000 for his freedom, whilst he also won three-quarters of the ransom of the Bishop of Le Mans, which netted the earl a further £3,000. In the 1960s, debate raged amongst historians as to who, if anyone, gained financially from the Hundred Years' War. McFarlane put forward the hypothesis that the crown and certain members of the nobility did very well out of higher taxes, and ransoms, and Thomas' experience would support this theory. Whilst this notion was famously questioned by Postan, both did agree that, at least, in the first two or three decades of the Hundred Years War, there was a substantial amount of money coming in from abroad. Certainly the earl of Warwick did considerably well out of Poitiers at least, especially when one considers that the earl had fought so long throughout the battle ‘that his hand was galled with the exercise of his sword and poll axe’.
Given that his family's crusading tradition was amongst ‘the longest and the most consistent’ of all the higher nobility, it is hardly surprising that the most martial of our three earls should have chosen to further enhance his family's crusading credentials. In 1365, Thomas took advantage of the lull in hostilities between England and France by embarking on a three year expedition to join the crusades of the Teutonic knights in Lithuania, bringing with him an army of no less than ‘300 horse for his attendants and train; which consisted of knights, esquires, archers, friends and servants’, supposedly returning with a son of the Lithuanian king, who was christened in London with the name Thomas, with the earl acting as godfather. By the time of his death in 1369, Beauchamp had undoubtedly earned a reputation as the most feared soldier in the English army, and it was in this year that he oversaw the devastation of Caux whilst serving as a member of John of Gaunt's expedition. Beauchamp was clearly seen by chroniclers and opponents alike as the most formidable of Edward II's commanders: ‘a man who possessed a military élan of a kind which can never be attributed to John of Gaunt’ who, on arriving at Tourneham, on the French coast, to find a stand-off between the English and French armies, mocked Lancaster and Hereford by asking how long they intended on doing nothing, and boasted ‘that if the French remained as they were for two days, he would have them dead or alive’. Walsingham goes further in his account, claiming that the French were so terrified by reports of the arrival of the earl of Warwick, that they fled even before he had time to disembark.
Earl Thomas died of plague whilst on this expedition, in November 1369. In his will, dated two months previously, he requested that he be buried in the collegiate church of Warwick, the first Beauchamp earl to request this, and bequeathed that his executors build a new choir in the same church which in Dugdale's time still boasted pictures of Thomas' daughters ‘curiously drawn and set up in the windows’. He requested that every church in each of his manors be given ‘his best beast to be found there, in satisfaction of tithes forgotten and not paid’, a distinct sign that he did not trust his own officers, the reeves or bailiffs, who should have paid the tithes. A further demand that his executors ‘should make full satisfaction to every man, whom he had in any sort wronged’ shows that he might well have turned a blind eye to the abuse of power by those who acted in his name. He also asked that his executors cause masses to be sung for his soul and distribute alms for its health, ‘especially at Bordesley, Worcester and Warwick’. The list of Beauchamp's goods which he bequeathed gives some idea of the opulence which he enjoyed: amongst them ‘twenty-four dishes and as many more saucers of silver’, golden rings, ornate crosses and religious relics were all to be distributed. The bequests also give an idea of the supreme social circle in which he existed: his son William inherited a casket of gold with a relic of St George which Thomas of Lancaster had given him at his christening; John Buckingham, bishop of Lincoln, gained a cross of gold, which the Lady Segrave had given him, and reputedly had ‘sometime been the good King Edward's; and his daughter Philippa de Stafford received "an ouche called the eagle" which had been given him by Edward the Black Prince alongside "a set of beads of gold, with buckles" which the queen had given him’.
Thomas, like so many other members of the higher nobility from the mid-fourteenth century attempted to determine how his estates would be handled after his death. He did this on a number of occasions, in order to make provisions for all of his children. In April 1344, he jointly enfeoffed the bulk of his lands to himself, with successive remainders to his son and heir Guy and then his other sons. He set aside lands in South Taunton and Carnanton, and the Cornish manors of Blisland and Helston, to be given after his death directly to his son Thomas, with remainder to Reinbrun. Reinbrun in turn was to receive the Rutland manors of Barrowden and Greetham along with Wrangdyke hundred in the same county. He furthermore settled a group of Worcestershire manors on himself and his wife, thereby providing Katherine with a jointure. As the Beauchamp family circumstances changed, this arrangement was revised; Guy's death in 1360 left Thomas as the main heir, but there were two younger sons who were clearly reaching the age of majority, and these had to be accommodated. Already in 1356, William and Roger were mentioned in the re-enfeoffment of Gower, which was made into a jointure between him and his wife in tail male. The position of Roger, being the youngest of five sons, at this time must have appeared rather tenuous, and so it was probably for this reason that his uncle, John Beauchamp, specified him as his heir to a purchase of a £40 rent in 1360. Meanwhile, from 1358 to 1361, his brother William was at Oxford being groomed for the church; as such he became the first peer known to have a university education. He was already in possession of a canonry at Sarum when the death of two of his elder brothers reduced the potential future pressure on the Warwick estates, and it was safe for him to follow the family's martial traditions and become a knight. In his father's will, provisions were made for Beauchamp's executors to provide William with lands worth 400 marks per annum, a bequest which McFarlane estimates as a capital loss of more than £5,000 from the earldom. Clearly his father's generosity was only possible because, by 1369, William was his only surviving younger son.
In July 1345, Thomas Beauchamp also attempted to make provision for his daughters in the event of his death. He created a trust in which Elizabeth, who was to marry John Beauchamp of Hatch, received £1,200; Matilda, who was to marry Roger Clifford, received 1,000 marks; likewise Philippa, who was to marry Hugh de Stafford; and Katherine, who even at this point might have been destined for a convent, was to receive £200. This presumably expired after the twelve years stated in the agreement, and the future of the daughters in question had been settled. The earl's financial situation had clearly greatly improved by the 1350s, for when Philippa finally did marry Hugh de Stafford in 1353, her portion was £2,000, three times the amount the earl had provided in 1345. For the most part, the earl used his daughters as means of attracting eligible son-in-laws or rewarding his supporters. Philippa's marriage to Hugh, earl of Stafford, served to cement an alliance between two great midland families of national importance. Joan's marriage to Ralph Basset of Drayton was intended to ease relations between the two neighbouring families who had not always been allies, and also secured a jointure for the bride of Buckby, Moulton in Northamptonshire, Olney in Buckinghamshire, and the Staffordshire manor of Walsall, with a reversion to the Beauchamps if the male line expired. Thomas vigorously used his children's marriages as a means of extending his own considerable land holdings. The Beauchamp family's patrimony was the sole consideration in his dealings and the individuals involved in the marriages sometimes suffered harsh consequences as a result of this policy. This is evident in his treatment of his daughter Margaret, and the young family of Guy, his eldest son. Thomas had obtained a highly prestigious wedding for Margaret with Guy de Montfort, a Warwickshire family who had been the Beauchamps' tenants and associates for generations. As part of the marriage settlement, a jointure of the entire De Montfort estate was arranged consisting of five Warwickshire manors, two Nottinghamshire manors, two manors in Rutland and one in Surrey, with reversion back to the earldom if the line should die out. When Guy died in 1361, the estates were then the property of Margaret, who, it would appear, was sent by her father into a religious life at Shouldham, where she was still living when he wrote his will in 1369, allowing the De Montfort estates to be absorbed into the Warwick fief.
Philippa de Ferrers had married Sir Guy de Beauchamp, son and heir of the earl of Warwick, at some point before 1353. She was the daughter of Henry Ferrers of Groby, a lesser noble family with a record of administrative and military service. Guy's portion, like his brother Thomas, who married Philippa's niece, was ‘unlikely to have been large’, at least according to McFarlane. However, by an agreement of 1340, Henry de Ferrers acknowledged that he owed the earl 5,000 marks, as did a certain Thomas de Ferrers, presumably a kinsman, and Ralph de Hastyng, sheriff of York. It is possible that this might be a record of some part of the marriage settlement, but even if this is unrelated, it shows that Henry de Ferrers was able to make financial deals with Earl Thomas involving substantial sums of money, and we should not be so naive as to believe that he married his daughter into the ranks of the higher nobility with a less than appropriate settlement. The result of this union were three children, Margaret, Katherine and Elizabeth, the latter two aged 7 and 1¾ respectively at the time of their father's death in 1359. That Guy should die, leaving a young family, and no male heir, was clearly a cause for concern for the earl. Cokayne points out that Guy's daughter Katherine was entitled de jure to the title of the Warwick earldom, although the estates were not in danger of passing to her because of the 1344 entail discussed above. Doubtlessly at her father-in-law's insistence, Phillippa made a solemn vow of chastity on 11 August 1360, before Reginald Bryan, Bishop of Worcester, at the collegiate church in Warwick, which, it would appear, she kept until her death in 1384. Guy's two daughters were both nuns at Shouldham, and it would appear that Katherine was the only one to survive infancy, living there until at least April 1400. Her titular right to the earldom of Warwick was explicitly recognised in May 1398 by Richard II, when he gave her a life pension of 40 marks per annum. on account of her being ‘a daughter of Guy de Warrewyke and kinswoman and heir of the last earl of Warwick, and because she cannot enjoy aught of her inheritance’.
It would not be unreasonable to say that life was kinder to those members of the family whose actions did not threaten the stability of the Warwick estates. John Atherston, Thomas' illegitimate son, was taken care of after his father's death by his half-brother Earl Thomas [II], who gave him a rent in Worcestershire and probably used his influence to secure a captaincy for Atherston of a castle in the Calais March, whilst Mary, another illegitimate daughter, received respectable gentry status by marring Sir Richard Herthull, a knight and close associate of her father. Reinbrun's daughter Eleanor, probably illegitimate, for there is no record of a marriage or of her mother, likewise married a knight in her grandfather's Buckinghamshire manor of Hanslope, had a daughter called Emma, who, according to Dugdale, married a man named Forster ‘from whom the Forsters of Hanslope owe their descent’. It was the earl's legitimate heirs who were occasionally forced into the priesthood, or a far away nunnery.
There is a common thread that binds the first three earls of Warwick and the century from 1268 to 1369. All were remarkable warriors whose undoubted skill on the battlefield earned them substantial rewards from both Edward I and Edward III. They were, by nature, faithful supporters of the crown; we must remember that Earl Guy opposed Edward II after years of faithful service to Edward I. They were also helped greatly by fortune; invariably the Beauchamp earls had fewer sons than they did daughters, so that Guy was the only son of William's to reach manhood, and Guy and Thomas each produced one surviving younger son who outlived them. Both John Beauchamp and William Lord Abergavenny were notable men in their own right who enhanced the family name and gained lands which eventually were brought back into the family fief. The Beauchamp family escaped the fate of less fortunate families, who broke up their estates in the desire to endow a multitude of sons. Furthermore, by the middle of the fourteenth century, the earl was quick to utilise new legal developments which gave him greater control over how his estates were to be handled after his death. He was able to use enfeoffment to specify how his lands were to be distributed after his death, firstly in order to provide land for his younger sons, and secondly to prevent the possibility of a female heir, following the death of his eldest son. By 1369, the earl was using his will in order to stipulate the settlement he had decided for his younger son. Earl Thomas' use of new legal formulas is remarked upon by Bean who writes that ‘whereas Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, in 1345 employed an indenture with his feoffees to raise dowries for his daughters after his death, twenty-four years later he bequeathed lands to a younger son by means of directions to his feoffees which were incorporated within his testament’. By the only time in our period when there was the possibility of a future drain on the Warwick estates through an excess of younger sons, the earl was using the latest legal solutions available to keep his patrimony secure, and his children provided for.
All in all, the year 1369 seems to mark a temporary watershed in the Beauchamp family's fortunes. With Thomas' death ended the 1,000 marks per annum cash supplement which the family had been used to, and William's endowment deprived Warwick of a further 400 marks per annum. Neither did the second Earl Thomas have the advantage of the shrievalty of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, or indeed the personal qualities of his father and grandfather. Thomas [II] is best remembered by history as Warwick the Appellant, who spent the final years of Richard II's reign imprisoned and with his estates confiscated. It was left to Richard, earl of Warwick, to revive the Beauchamps' fortunes in the fifteenth century From powernet.com.uk
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Parishes Elmley Castle
Sponsor Victoria County History
Publication A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3
Year published 1913
Pages 338-346
Citation
'Parishes: Elmley Castle', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 338-346. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43134. Date accessed: 13 July 2008.
CASTLE
Elmley Castle, which stood on the summit of a hill in the deer park to the south of the village, is supposed to have been built by Robert le Despenser, brother of Urse the Sheriff. (fn. 9) After the castle at Worcester fell into decay Elmley was for a time the chief seat of the Beauchamps, and it followed the same descent as the manor of Elmley Castle (q.v.) until the death of Thomas Byrche Savage in 1776. The house and park went to his widow, who sold them to Richard Bourne Charlett, at whose death in 1822 they were purchased of his executors by Colonel Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, M. P. for Worcester. (fn. 10) He died in 1846 without issue, leaving the estate to his widow for life, then in succession to his two brothers, Warburton, who died in 1870, and General Francis John Davies, who died in 1874. Colonel Davies's widow married Sir John Pakington, afterwards Lord Hampton, and died in 1892, when the castle passed to the present owner, Lieut.-General Henry Fanshawe Davies, J.P., D.L., son of General Francis John Davies. (fn. 11)
In 1216 the king committed the custody of Elmley Castle to Walter de Lacy, Hugh de Mortimer and Walter de Clifford to keep while Walter de Beauchamp went to the Papal Legate to obtain absolution for his lapse from fidelity to the king. (fn. 12) In 1298 the castle was found to be in need of much repair, (fn. 13) and after the death of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in 1315 it was in such a bad state as to be valued at only 6s. 8d., evidently a nominal valuation, as in another survey taken at the same time it was said to be worth nothing. (fn. 14) The castle was granted by the king to the executors of Guy's will in 1315–16 on condition that they should not grant it to any other without the king's licence. (fn. 15) The custody of the castle was, however, taken from them and granted to Hugh le Despenser the elder about 1317. (fn. 16) In November of that year Hugh was ordered to fortify it, (fn. 17) and to put in twenty fencible footmen to be retained at the king's wages until further orders. (fn. 18) Hugh le Despenser having been banished in 1321 the Sheriff of Worcester was ordered to take the castle into the king's (fn. 19) hands, and to cause it to be safely guarded and to make an inventory of the arms and victuals and other goods contained in it. (fn. 20) Later in the same year Elmley Castle was taken by the rebel barons under Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford, and suffered considerable damage. (fn. 21) It is not known whether it underwent a siege, but the gates and some of the houses were burned and many of the defenders slain. (fn. 22) Peace having been restored, order was given in 1322 to the keeper of the castle to disband the extra menat-arms placed there during the war. (fn. 23)
Some slight repairs were made in the castle in 1413 and 1425, (fn. 24) and again in 1480 and 1492. (fn. 25) William Adams was appointed keeper and Thomas Brugge steward in 1478, the castle being then in the hands of the king on account of the minority of Edward Earl of Warwick. (fn. 26) Sir John Savage, the younger, received a grant of the constableship in 1488. (fn. 27) In 1528 the castle seems to have been still habitable, for Walter Walshe was then appointed constable and keeper, (fn. 28) and ten years later Urian Brereton succeeded to the office. (fn. 29) In 1544, however, prior to the grant to Sir William Herbert and Christopher Savage, a survey was made of the manor and castle of Elmley, and it was found that the castle, strongly situated upon a hill surrounded by a ditch and wall, was completely uncovered and in decay. (fn. 30) Leland writing at about this time says, 'Ther stondithe now but one Tower, and that partly broken. As I went by I saw Carts carienge Stone thens to amend Persore Bridge about ii miles of. It is set on the Tope of a Hill full of Wood, and a Townelet hard by.' (fn. 31)
Of the fabric of the ancient castle, which stood on the summit of the hill about half a mile to the south of the existing building, only a very small amount of masonry, probably forming part of the keep wall, remains. The outer and inner ditch and the site of the barbican can be distinctly traced.
The present mansion of Elmley Castle is a large stone Elizabethan (fn. 32) house of two stories with gabled attics. The plan seems to have been originally E-shaped, but in 1702 the house was entirely remodelled and the character of the plan transformed by filling the arms of the E with brick additions, the south or garden front being refaced with brick to harmonize in appearance with the new building. At the same time large sash-windows were substituted for the original mullioned openings, one or two of which still survive in the attic story and in the cellar. The finest feature of the house is the handsome staircase hall added at this period to the south of the entrance hall. The ceiling is a particularly good example of Queen Anne plaster work. The stairs are of oak with twisted balusters supporting the hand-rail. The east wing contains the principal apartments, and the panelling, where not replaced by later work, dates from the 1702 remodelling. The drawing room at the south end of this wing has been increased to its present size by the removal of a partition. In the southernmost of the two rooms out of which it has been formed Queen Elizabeth is said to have slept when she visited Elmley Castle. Between the drawing room and the dining room is a small room called the cedar parlour from the panelling of this material which lines its walls. At the side of the doorway opening from the hall to the staircase was originally an entrance to a secret chamber or hiding hole which can now be entered from one of the first floor bedrooms. The kitchen and offices are in the west wing, which retains some original 16th-century detail, including a stone fireplace with moulded jambs and a four-centred head, and a small external doorway now partly masked by a brick porch.
The PARK at Elmley, which belonged to the lords of Elmley Castle, was possibly made about 1234, for in that year Walter de Beauchamp received from the king a gift of ten does and three bucks for stocking his park at Elmley. (fn. 33) In 1298 the wood in the park was worth 4s. yearly. (fn. 34) Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick complained in 1349 that several persons, including Robert de Amyas, parson of the church of Great Comberton, had hunted in his free chase at Elmley Castle and carried away deer. (fn. 35) The park was enlarged about 1480 by the addition of part of the demesne land of the manor called Court Close. (fn. 36) In 1478 William Adams was appointed keeper of the park and warren at Elmley Castle. (fn. 37) In 1480 John Mortimer was appointed master of the game in Elmley Park, (fn. 38) and in 1484 John Hudelston succeeded to this office, (fn. 39) but it was granted in the following year to Richard Naufan, and in 1488 to Sir John Savage. (fn. 40) Henry VIII appointed Sir John Savage and his son John Savage keepers of the park and warren in 1512. (fn. 41) Walter Walshe was appointed keeper in 1528. (fn. 42) He died in 1538, and Thomas Evans (fn. 43) and Rowland Morton both wrote to Cromwell asking for his aid in obtaining the position, the latter saying, 'if it please the King by your Lordship's mediation to prefer me, I and mine shall stand balanced in also et basso, live and die in your Lordship's retinue.' He also begs credence for his messenger 'and will give your Lordship £20.' (fn. 44) Neither of these suppliants received the post, which was granted to Urian Brereton. (fn. 45) The park was included in the sale to Christopher Savage, (fn. 46) and remained in his family until 1822, when it was sold with the castle to Colonel Thomas Henry Hastings Davies. It now belongs to Lieut.-General Henry Fanshawe Davies, J.P., D.L.
HONOUR
Elmley Castle was the caput of the Worcestershire honour of the Beauchamps. The chief part of the honour descended to them from Urse the Sheriff, but Elmley Castle came to them from Robert, Urse's brother. The honour seems to have consisted of the land which Urse held of the Bishop of Worcester in 1086, (fn. 47) and was held in 1166 (fn. 48) and in the 13th century (fn. 49) by the Beauchamps for fifteen knights' fees. The manor (fn. 50) and castle were included in the honour (fn. 51) and followed the same descent. A rent roll of the honour in 1698 is preserved at the British Museum. (fn. 52) When the castle was purchased by Colonel Davies he revived the claim to chief rents due to the honour, which had been allowed to lapse. The owners of most of the manors compounded and their lands were enfranchised.
The court of the honour of Elmley seems to have been held at Worcester in the 14th century, for in the inquisition taken on the death of Guy de Beauchamp in 1315 it was said that the pleas and perquisites of the court of the castle of Worcester called the court of knights pertained to the manor of Elmley. (fn. 53)
MANORS
King Offa is said to have granted the land of two manentes in ELMLEY to the Bishop of Worcester in 780, (fn. 54) and the overlordship of the manor remained with the see of Worcester (fn. 55) until the middle of the 15th century. (fn. 56) In 1478–9 the manor was said to be held of the king in chief. (fn. 57)
Brihteah, Bishop of Worcester (1033–8), gave the vill of Elmley to a certain servant of his, but Bishop Lyfing, his successor, restored it to the monastery. Later, however, on the entreaties of his friends, he gave it to Aegelric Kiu, one of his knights, to hold for his life only, with reversion to the monastery. (fn. 58) 'After the death of Kiu, it was restored to the monastery and one Witheric was bailiff, but Robert le Despenser, the brother of the sheriff, with the authority of the King took it away from the monastery.' (fn. 59) This Robert held 4 hides in the manor of Cropthorne, evidently representing the manor of Elmley, (fn. 60) at the date of the Domesday Survey. He died without issue, and the manor of Elmley Castle passed to the Beauchamps, the heirs of his brother Urse D'Abitot, the Sheriff of Worcester. Emmeline daughter and heir of Urse married Walter de Beauchamp, (fn. 61) who is mentioned as the owner of these 4 hides in an early 12th-century survey of Oswaldslow. (fn. 62) He was succeeded in 1129–39 by his son William. (fn. 63) For his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud William was dispossessed of his lands by King Stephen, but was afterwards restored to them. His son William succeeded him in 1170, (fn. 64) and dying before 1211 (fn. 65) was followed by his son Walter, a minor. (fn. 66) In 1211 Roger de Mortimer gave 3,000 marks for having the wardship of Walter de Beauchamp and the custody of his lands, and married Walter to his daughter. (fn. 67) Walter de Beauchamp seems to have taken the part of the barons against John for a short time in 1216, but made his peace with the king in August of that year. (fn. 68) He died in 1235, and in the following year the king took the homage of his son William for the estates in Worcestershire. (fn. 69) In 1254 this William obtained from the king a grant of a weekly market on Wednesdays at Elmley and a fair for three days at the feast of St. Leonard in the summer. (fn. 70) He married Isabel daughter of William Mauduit and sister and heir of William Mauduit Earl of Warwick, (fn. 71) and dying in 1269 was succeeded by his son William de Beauchamp, (fn. 72) who had previously inherited the earldom of Warwick from his uncle. (fn. 73)
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In 1275 Bishop Godfrey Giffard renewed the suit against the Beauchamps, which had been begun by Walter de Cantilupe, alleging that they held the assize of bread and ale at Elmley Castle without author | DE BEAUCHAMP, WIlliam 9th Earl of Warwick (I8279)
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William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG (c. 1312 – 16 September 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander.
Contents
1 Lineage
2 Life
3 Campaigns in Flanders, Brittany, Scotland, Victor at Sluys and Crecy
4 Renowned Diplomat
5 Senior naval command
6 Issue
7 In Historical Fiction
8 External links
9 Ancestry
10 References
11 Bibliography
Lineage
He was the fifth son of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan. He had a twin brother, Edward. His maternal grandparents were Edward I of England and his first Queen consort Eleanor of Castile.
Life
William de Bohun assisted at the arrest of Roger Mortimer in 1330, allowing Edward III to take power. After this, he was a trusted friend and commander of the king and he participated in the renewed wars with Scotland.[1]
In 1332, he received many new properties: Hinton and Spaine in Berkshire; Great Haseley, Ascott, Deddington, Pyrton and Kirtlington in Oxfordshire; Wincomb in Buckinghamshire; Longbenington in Lincolnshire; Kneesol in Nottinghamshire; Newnsham in Gloucestershire, Wix in Essex, and Bosham in Sussex.
In 1335, he married Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313 – 8 June 1356). Her parents Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, and Margaret de Clare had both turned against Edward II the decade before. Elizabeth and William were granted some of the property of Elizabeth's first husband, who had also been Mortimer's son and heir.
William was created Earl of Northampton in 1337, one of the six earls created by Edward III to renew the ranks of the higher nobility. Since de Bohun was a younger son, and did not have an income suitable to his rank, he was given an annuity until suitable estates could be found.
In 1349 he became a Knight of the Garter. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland from 1349 until his death in 1360.[2]
Campaigns in Flanders, Brittany, Scotland, Victor at Sluys and Crecy
In 1339 he accompanied the King to Flanders. He served variously in Brittany and in Scotland, and was present at the great English victories at Sluys and was a commander at Crécy. His most stunning feat was commanding an English force to victory against a much bigger French force at the Battle of Morlaix in 1342. Some of the details are in dispute, but it is clear that he made good use of pit traps, which stopped the French cavalry.
Renowned Diplomat
In addition to being a warrior, William was also a renowned diplomat. He negotiated two treaties with France, one in 1343 and one in 1350. He was also charged with negotiating in Scotland for the freedom of King David Bruce, King of Scots, who was held prisoner by the English.
Senior naval command
From the 8 March 1352 to 5 March 1355 he was appointed Admiral of the Northern Seas, Fleet.
Issue
1. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373)
2. Elizabeth de Bohun (c. 1350–1385); married Richard FitzAlan, 4th Earl of Arundel
In Historical Fiction
In Bernard Cornwell's series the Grail Quest, the Earl of Northampton plays a minor role as Thomas of Hookton's lord.
External links
Inquisition Post Mortem [3]
William de Bohun's IPM #168 and his wife Elizabeth de Bohun #169 follows Inquisition Post Mortem.[4]
Ancestry
Ancestors of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
References
Mortimer, Ian (2008). The Perfect King The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation. Vintage. p. 138.
Fuller, Thomas (1840). The history of the worthies of England, Volume 3 By Thomas Fuller. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem - Edward III
Bibliography
Le Melletier, Jean (1978). Les Seigneurs de Bohun. pp. 6, 17, 43–44.
Eales, Richard; Shaun Tyas, eds. (2003). Family and Dynasty in Late Medieval England. Shaun Tyas, Donington. p. 152. | DE BOHUN, William , 1st Earl of Northampton (I15211)
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William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (23 November 1116 – 23 November 1183) was the son and heir of Sir Robert de Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, daughter of Robert Fitzhamon and nephew of Empress Matilda.
Contents
1 Lineage
2 Early career
3 Relationship with King Henry II
4 Family and children
5 Notes
Lineage
William FitzRobert was the son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, during whose reign William was born. Thus William was a nephew of the Empress Maud and a cousin of King Stephen, the principal combatants of the English Anarchy period. It also meant that William is the great-grandson of the famed William the Conqueror.
Early career
In October 1141, William looked after the Baronial estates, when his father fell into the hands of partisans at Winchester. His father was exchanged for King Stephen, and during his father's absence in Normandy in 1144 he served as Governor of Wareham. In 1147, he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary.
In 1154 he made an alliance with Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, by which they agreed to aid each other against all men except Henry II of England.
FitzRobert granted Neath, a town in Glamorgan, a charter. He was Lord of the manor of Glamorgan, as well as Caerleon, residing chiefly at Cardiff Castle. It was there that in 1158 he and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach ("Ivor the Little") and carried away into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the Earl redressed Ivor's grievances.
Relationship with King Henry II
In 1173 the earl took the King's part against his sons, but thereafter he appears to have fallen under suspicion, for the following year he submitted to the King, and in 1175 surrendered to him Bristol Castle. Because his only son and heir Robert died in 1166, Earl William made John, the younger son of King Henry II, heir to his earldom, in conformity with the King's promise that John should marry one of the Earl's daughters, if the Church would allow it, they being related in the third degree.
Earl William was present in March 1177 when the King arbitrated between the Kings of Castile and Navarre, and in 1178, he witnessed Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. But during the King's struggles with his sons, when he imprisoned a number of magnates of whose loyalty he was doubtful, Earl William was among them.
Family and children
He was married to Hawise de Beaumont of Leicester, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amica de Gael and had children:
Robert fitz William (1151, Cardiff, Glamorganshire – 1166, Cardiff, Glamorganshire).
Mabel fitz William, married Amaury V de Montfort, her son Amaury briefly being Earl of Gloucester
Amice fitz William, d. 1220. Married Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, their descendants eventually inherited the Earldom of Gloucester.
Isabel, Countess of Gloucester. She was married three times:
John of England
Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, Earl of Gloucester
Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent
The earl died in 1183; his wife Hawise survived him. Since their only son, Robert, predeceased his father, their daughters became co-heirs to the feudal barony of Gloucester.
Notes
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VAUGHN, William Frank - May 1, 1925 - July 6, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of William Frank Vaughn at the age of 91. He is survived by his loving wife Shirley (nee George) of 66 years and his sons Bill (Arden), Bob and Brent. He is predeceased by his son Brian (2006). He also leaves behind grandchildren Elizabeth (Dave Hemming), Sarah (Justin Downes), Robert (Pasha Marcynuk) and great-grandchildren Katrina, Anna, Tucker, Chloe and Logan. Bill was a farmer through and through. It was in his blood. He was involved with the dairy industry for the first 45 years of his life where he received numerous awards and honours for dairy production and herdsmanship. He was a grape grower for 70 years and was honoured to be Grape King in 1971. Bill devoted 70 years to the Masonic Order, working his way up through the years to attain the 33rd Degree. Bill volunteered much of his time over 20 years to Community Living, helping enrich the lives of the intellectually disabled. Bill's first love may have been farming but his greatest love was for Shirley and his family. He was a kind, gentle and devoted husband, father and friend. He was a generous man who wouldn't hesitate to help out a friend or stranger at any time. Bill lived a full, rich life doing what he loved surrounded by family and friends. The family would like to thank the staff at Extendicare and the St. Catharines Hospital for all their care and a special thanks to Dr. Dennis Whitty for his care and kindness over the past years. In lieu of flowers a donation to Community Living St. Catharines would be greatly appreciated. Visitation will take place at TALLMAN'S FUNERAL HOME, 3277 king St. in Vineland on Monday, July 18th from 2pm - 4pm and 7pm - 9pm. A Masonic service will be held on Monday, July 18th at 6 pm. The funeral service will take place at Tallman's on Tuesday, July 19th at 1:00pm. Cremation has taken place. | VAUGHN, William Frank (I307)
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William Harris of Hayne in Com. Devon, Esq. son and heir, aged 24 at the taking of the Inquisitions on the death of his father, died 23 Feb, 1591, Inq pm. 33 Eliz., pt 1, No 38.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/26848868/New-Rich-Text-Document
CAPTAIN THOMAS HARRIS
This is a 'sketch' which shows that such as
Captain Thomas Harris
of Virginia,
Sergeant JohnHarris
of Virginia, and the
Harris family of Essex
, had strong connection to the
Harris family of Radford in Devonshire
, suggesting a common ancestry from the
Heriz family of Nottinghamshire
.This work is but a series of
rough notes
; without pretension of being either well written or arranged in any logical format; yet it is hoped it contain something of interest to those researchingHarris ancestry. Neither are definite answers given, attempting to suggest certainty when there isnone, rather, this work seeks to suggest
a trail to follow,
placing people within a context of their familial associations; for families of this period were defined by such associations, rarely marryingoutside of them; past associations underpinning present ones, and forming the basis of futureones;
a continuum of cousinship
.Although a fuller account of the people concerned is developed anon, I will commence byintroducing several genealogical tables, so as to offer an immediate glimpse into associations,and not bother the reader with too much tedious detail at the onset, for enough of that natureamply follows.It is often contended that Sergeant John Harris of West and Shirley Hundred married DorothyCaldecot, largely on the basis of their daughter, Dorothy Harris, receiving land in the will of "George Cawcott." I would rather suggest that Sergeant John Harris married Dorothy Paulet,daughter of Anne Chaldecott and "Thomas Pawlett of Melpasse" in com. Dorset, and that GeorgeCawcott, alias George Chaldecott, was Dorothy Paulet's cousin, a son of either Andrew or WilliamChaldecott, Anne Chaldecott's brothers.The connections between the Chaldecott and Paulet families were long established. Thefollowing table is partly based on the testimony of Francis Chaldecott, who is his family'ssignatory in the Visitations of the County of Dorset [1623].
TABLE I.
1. William Chaldecott, sp. Margaret; held in Purbeck; escheator for East and West Morden; in1371 a ship named the "Welfare" of Dartmouth was beached, and William was accused atSherborn Assizes of looting cargo.1.1. John Chaldecott, sp.
Alice Paulet, daughter of Sir Nicholas Paulet
& Alice de Parnham. 1.2.William Chaldecott, likewise escheator.1.2.1. Richard Chaldecott, escheator for Winchester, and M.P. for Wareham.1.2.1.1. Richard Chaldecott, escheator for Winchester [1454], and M.P. for Wareham, sp. heiressof the Quarels, bringing Quarleston to the Chaldecotts.1.2.1.1.1. Richard Chaldecott, inherited Quarelstone, his brother, William, inherited all of theKimmeridge and Wareham estates; William had a son named George who inherited the whole of his fathers estates, and he had an illegitimate son named William.1.2.1.1.1.1. Richard Chaldecott, noted as holding land in Hilton and Buckland Newton.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. George Chaldecott.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. William Chaldecott of Quarelstone, sp. Margaret Rogers of Brianstan, com.Dorset.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Anne Chaldecott, sp. Robert Bingham of Binghams Melcomb, com. Dorset.Anne married [2] Sir John Strode of Parnham, com. Dorset. He married [2] Anne Wyndham,
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daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard* [P.C.C. 167, Essex]; their son being Sir John Strode,sp. Anne Browne, wife firstly of Lord John Paulet of Hinton, obit. 15/9/1565.
This seems most significant, as it directly connects this family of Chaldecott [Cawcot] with both the Woodlief and Harris families Devonshire
- see anon , "THE CONNECTIONS EXPLAINED" ....... "John Pauletwas the brother of: Joan Paulet, sp. Sir Robert Haydon, son of Sir Christopher Haydon & AnneDrury; whose cousin & namesake was married to Robert Woodlief of Aylesbury.
Aylesbury Manor was among the many properties belonging to Thomas Boleyn, the father of Mary Boleyn and Queen Ann Boleyn
. Robert Woodlief's wife was the sister of Drewe Drury, married to the Boleynssister's cousin. Aylesbury Manor was later to be claimed by the Carys: Henry (Carey) LordHunsdon, great-grandson of Margaret Boleyn [Chan. Proc. Ser. 2, bdle. 47, no. 52]. Other likelytenants of the Boleyns in Ayelsbury were the Harris family of Ottery St. Mary, as we see a Harrisof Ottery St. Mary being descibed as "of Aylesbury" in church records of 1605.[1.*Sir John Wyndham, sp. Margaret Howard, daughter of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk andCatherine Moleyns. Lady Margaret's brother was Thomas Howard. 2nd Duke of Norfolk; two of his granddaughters, Catherine Howard, through his son, Edmund Howard, and Anne Boleyn,through his daughter, Elizabeth Howard, were two of the six wives of Henry VIII.
The Howard connection
will be more fully covered anon. 1.1. Sir Thomas Wyndham, sp. Eleanor Scrope.1.1.1. Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, sp. Elizabeth Sydenham; he acquired the estatenow called Orchard Wyndham in Somerset. Siblings: John Sydenham, sp. [a] Catherine Paulet[b] Ursula Bruges; Anne Sydenham, sp. Sir Thomas Bruges, Ursula's brother; Mary Sydenham,sp. Sir Christopher Harris of Radford. Florence Bruges, sister of Ursula and Thomas was marriedto Sir William Morgan of South Wales, whose famyly's arms impaled those of the Harris family of Cornworthy. *
The grandaughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham & ElizabethSydenham was Anne Wyndham, as above, whose brother, John, married Joan Portman, sister of Captain Thomas Paulet's wife
. As will be shown, the Sydenhams and the Carys were allianced bymarriage, and the Carys close relationship to the Paulets, and the Harris family of Radford,explains the above connections].1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Edith Chaldecott.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.
Walter Chaldecotte, of Barfield in com. Berks sp. [2], in 1548, the widow Bridget Fetiplace [formerly Skerne] of Sulhampstead Banister; fellow sergeant-at-arms to Henry VIII. withJohn Harris, military companion to the Ly
gons ..... father of William Harris of Hayne [and fiveother sons; see his will anon], who married Mary Greville [see anon], when he is was recorded tohave been part of the escort of Jane Seymour’s coffin, when her body was transported, fromHampton Court to Windsor. For his services to the king, Walter was given the tenancy of Frogmore, and, between 1546 & 1548, the rents of land at Windsor and Datchet, and the manor house of Elland. *Sergeants-at-Arms have been a part of British history since 1279 when EdwardI formed a bodyguard of 20 Sergeants-at-Arms. The gentlemen under this title, carried adecorated battle-mace as a weapon and as a badge of this particular office. Walter Chaldecottand John Harris would have been very well acquainted.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1. Francis Chaldecott, 1553-1636, sp. Edith Chaldecott, 1563-1638, as above.After the death of his mother in 1559, Francis was placed under the guardianship of his uncle,Thomas Noake of Semley, Wiltshire. He inherited estates of his father, and of his mother [Compton, in Berkshire; many prominent Dorset families were connected to Berkshire in that theywere court officials at Windsor. He was Sheriff of Dorset. His will bequeathed arms, armour andmunitions to his heirs, pointing to a military connection. Memorial Steeple Church, still extant: "Inthis chancel under a marble stone doe lye the bodies of Francis Chaldecott esq and Edith his wifehis younger daughter and coheir William Chaldecott of Quarleston in Dorset. esq who were liberalconstant house keepers, bountiful relievers of the poor, careful breeders of their children in pietyand virtue: diligent and devout comers to the church though it would be painful to them in their later times by means of age and other infirmities: 53 years and upward they lovingly lived achaste wedlock, and had issue of 15 children: whereof
3 sons and seven daughters
came to amature age and were most of them in the lifetime of their parents of their parents matched into
ancient families of worship most of them having fair issues: Thus having seen their children to thethird generation meekly died in the fear of God: he on Thursday the 19 may 1636 she onThursday 23 august 1638."1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Mary Chaldecott, sp. "Roger Newburie of Martlett, com. Somerset."[Roger Newborough ["Newburie"] mentions in his will, proved 10/12/1689, his son-in-law JohnProwse of Axbridge, whose family had strong links to the Harris family of Radford: 1. Sir JohnHarris, obit ante 1430, sp. Katherine Hansford. 1.1. John Harris obit. ante 16 Oct 1485. 1.1.1.Francis Harris, sp. Phillipa Grenville. 1.1.2. Elizabeth Harris, sp.
Thomas Mohun
. 1.1.1.1. WilliamHarris Esq., sp. Katherine Esse. 1.1.1.1.1. Sir Christopher Harris [1] Barbara Arscott [2]
Mary Sydenham
. 1.1.1.1.2. Jane Harris, sp. John Harris of Lanrest; his first spouse = KatherineTremayne = Phillipa Harris, sp. John Prouz Esq.; their son was Humphrey Prouz, sp. CatherineArscott; their son John Prowse, son-in-law of Roger Newborough, whose will also mentions hisbrother-in-law, Richard Morgan, of Hurst, Gloucestershire; a branch of the ancient family of Morgan of Tredegar, settled for some centuries at Hurst, whose arms impaled those of the Harrisfamily of Cornworthy. [Sir William Morgan, 1560-1653, of Tredegar; sheriff of Monmouthshire in1612, sp. [2] Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Winter of Lidney [spouse [a] Florence Bruges, asabove]; issue Thomas Morgan, obit 1664, of Machen; sp. [b] Elizabeth, daughter of
ThomasWyndham of Sandhills
]. In passing, it may be of interest to note that various members of theHarris family had connections to Morgans in Virginia: Captain Thomas Harris 620 acres for thetransportation of thirteen persons, including Thomas Morgan. William Harris - Ab. Childers(Childres) Deed of 29 February 1656 AT Curles [Neck] Of the James, Henrico - "Beginning at apine tree a little above the houses of the said Childers, and standing by the river (James) and onthe lower side of Morgan's Landing and soe running downe the (James) River to the Curles (1)swamp at the old gard (2), and from thence along the side of the (Curles) (3) swamp and meadowto an oak tree so one goes into the meadow close by the Curles (4) path, from thence on astraight line into the pasture to a parcel of oaks standing in the ridge, next above a place calledthe 18 lengths of boards, and from thence to the former line a straight line." Curls Neck beingwere Captain Thomas Harris planted. Roger Newborough's family were "cousins" of the family of Neweborrowe of Othe Frauncis, Dorset. The will of Richard Newborough of that place, dated3/12/1568, bequeaths to his "
sister Harryes a cloak
." Roger Newborough's father, GeorgeNewborough "the Highwayman", obit. 10/8/1603, was a most interesting character, but not moreso than his second wife, Mary Newborough, who was of no less infamy].1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.2. Anne Chaldecott, sp. "Thomas Pawlett of Melpasse in com. Dorset."1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.3. Honor Chaldecott, sp. "John Champneys of Orchard-Leigh in com. Somerset."[Henry Champneys, of Frome Selwood, will dated 28/7/1505, married Jane, daughter of GabrielLivesedge, of Vallis House, near Frome. His son John, of Yarnscombe, in Somersetshire, marriedChristian, daughter of Humphrey Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham. Henry was succeeded by hisson. Henry Champneys, of Orchardleigh, Esq,; he married Elizabeth St. Maur,* only daughter andheiress of ---- St. Maur of Seymours Court, Somersetshire; her will was dated July 5, proved July26 1580, and she was buried at Frome. Succeeded by his eldest son, John Champneys Esq.married to Joan, daughter of
William Sydenham
, and heiress to her mother,
a Wyndham
. Estatesdevolved to his brother, John Champneys of Orchardleigh, Esq., who married, 1610, Honor,daughter of Sir Francis Caldecot, Knt.; she was buried in the church of Orchardleigh, June 24,1664, will dated 10/5/1654, proved 31/1/1664-5. *St. Maur was the original spelling of Seymour.These St. Maurs were seated at Beckington near Frome, co. Somerset, where the old manor house still bears the name of " Seymour's Court;" and in the church of that parish there are theeffigies in brass of John and Elizabeth Seynt Maur, bearing the date of 1485. A tomb at HighamFerrers belonged to Laurentius St. Maur of this branch. As in the example of her aunt'sconnections, we can see in Honor Chaldecott's marriage very intricate connections to twoDevoshire branches of the same Harris family].1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.4. Susan Chaldecott, sp. "Henry Chettle of St. Mary Blanford in com. Dorset."
1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.5. Elizabeth Chaldecott, sp. "
Maximilian Mohun
of Corton in com. Dorset." [Noticelink to Mohun family connected to the Harris family of Radford].1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.6. George Chaldecott, "sone and hey." He married Margerie Snegge, daughter of Sir George Snegge of Bristol. George Chaldecott died in 1619.
There is some contention that it was a half-brother who so married, and died in 1619
. Thus, it could also be the case that it wasthis half-brother who is to be found in Virginia.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.7. Andrew Chaldecott, mentioned as eldest living son of his mother in her will,proved 31/10/1638. 1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.8. William Chaldecott.Chaldecott or Caldecot etc., from the family of Vaucotte alias Caudecotte, Avesnes, cantond'Envermeu.
TABLE II.
1. Sir William Paulet, 1° M. Winchester, sp. Elizabeth Capel; sp. [2] heiress of Bruges. 1.1. Sir John Paulet, sp. Elizabeth Willoughby. 1.1.1. Sir William Paulet, sp. Anne Howard. 1.1.1.1.
Captain Thomas Paulet
, godfather to the son of Captain Thomas Harris. 1.2. Lord George Pauletof Cossington in the county of Somerset, sp. Mary, daughter and heir of Thomas Moore, of Melpash, in Dorsetshire. 1.2.1. Thomas Paulet of Melpash, sp. Anne Chaldecott. 1.2.2. BarbaraPaulet, sp. Lodovick Stukeley.* 1.3. Giles Paulet, sp. Mary Trapps. 1.3.1. Anne Paulet, sp.Francis Harris.*The example of this marriage shows the extremely close links between the two branches of thePaulet family. The Stukely manor of Newnham passed to William Paulet third Marquess of Winchester, Captain Thomas Paulet's father, who was seised of three-quarters of the manor athis death in 1598 [Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxii, 125]. Captain Paulet's brother, William,administered the whole manor by fine in 1609 [Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 7 Jas. I.]. Thus, a very safeconjecture, given the closely integrated nature of families at this time, is that Captain ThomasPaulet would have known Lodovick Stukely, and, by implication, his wife's Chaldecott family.Francis Harris is of interest, in that he shared the same Paulet connections as
William Harris of Hayne
, who, as will be noted, was married to a second-cousin of
Captain Thomas Paulet
;suggesting Francis to be of the 'Hayne ilk' - possibly, on chronological grounds, being a son of thesaid William Harris of Hayne. However that may be, it seems likely that both Captain ThomasHarris
and Sergeant John Harris shared relationships with the families of Chaldecot and Paulet,the Paulet association being shared with the Harris family of Essex, see anon, and given thecustom of this period of marriages within closely-knit kinship networks, it would be surprising tofind these gentlemen more than 3rd. cousins removed. The above associations reflect a WestCountry kinship network, sread over the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dorset; andit will be shown herein that a family of Harris, descended, as noted, from the
Heriz of Nottinghamshire
, established themselves in Devon in the early thirteenth-century, and graduallyformed bonds with such as the Paulets and Lygons that gave shape to future alliances.
TABLE III.
1. Sir Richard de Beauchamp, 2nd. Baron Beauchamp of Powycke.1.1. Anne Beauchamp,* sp. Richard Lygon of Madresfield [contemporary of William Harryes of Madresfield, obit. 1428, son of John Harryes by his first wife, Johanna de Godolghan]; their son,Sir Richard Lygon, married Margaret Greville: [1. William Greville sp. Anne Franceys of theDerbyshire Formark branch, desc. Yorkshire Freschenes. 1.1. Ralph Greville. 1.1.1. Sir WilliamGreville. 1.1.1.1. Margaret Greville, sp.
Sir Richard Lygon, Sheriff of Gloucestershire
. 1.2. JohnGreville. 1.2.1. Sir Edward Greville. 1.2.1.1. Fulke Greville. 1.2.1.1.1. Mary Greville [2nd, cous.Capt. Paulet] sp. William Harris of Hayne. 1.2.1.1.2. Edward Greville. 1.2.1.1.2.1. FrancesGreville, sp. Nathaniel West, a daughter of his is
assumed
to have married a son of
Sergeant
John Harris
].1.2. Elizabeth Beauchamp,* sp. Robert, 2nd lord Willoughby de Broke. *They were very possiblycousins of Joan de Beauchamp, daughter of John de Beauchamp of Lillesdon, a
junior branch
of the barons Beauchamp [Debret]. Joan de Beauchamp married Theobald Gorges. By a first wife,Theobald was the father of Walter Gorges, who married a grandaughter of William de Willoughbyand Lucy le Strange.1.2.1. Elizabeth Willoughby, sp. Sir John Paulet, issue: Sir William Paulet; his issue: CaptainThomas Paulet, godfather to the son of Captain Thomas Harris.1.2.2. Edward Willoughby, sp. Elizabeth Neville.1.2.2.1. Elizabeth Willoughby, sp. Sir Fulke Greville.1.2.1.1.1. Mary Greville, sp. William Harris of Hayne
- "Gulielmi Harris de Hayne, Armigeri, 23 dieFeb. anno 1590 - sable, three crescents within a bordure Harris" - father of "Johannes Harris Armigeri" -
married 11/9/1553 in St. Dunstans, London. Her brother, Edward Greville, HaroldPark, Essex, married ----- de Grey, daughter of Lord John Grey & Mary Browne, dau. AnthonyBrowne [1st Viscount] and Alice Gage. Edward Greville and ----- de Grey were the parents of Frances Greville, who married Lt. Col. Nathaniel West, died 1623 in Shirley Hundred. Shemarried [2] Abraham Piersey and [3] Captain Samuel Matthews.
TABLE IV.
1. John Harris of Radford, obit. 16/10/1485.1.1. William Harris, married heiress of Hayne.1.1.1. John Harris, Seargeant-at-Arms, Recorder of Exeter, 1544.1.1.1.1. William Harris of Hayne, who married [1] Mary Greville, aunt of Nathaniel West's wife, [2]Honor Godolphin [in Breage Church on 15th December 1571. William succeeded William Milliton,Honor's first husband, as "Governor of the Mount"]. It may be of interest that "William Harry of Breage" named his son-in-law as John Flood in his will dated 25/9/1645; the Floods, as herein,being connected to Captain Thomas Paulet in the same way as a son of CaptainThomas Harris -he acted as godfather to both families.1. Sir William Godolphin.1.1. Honor Godolphin.1.2. Mary Godolphin, who married Sir Robert Dennys, Recorder of Exeter, 1576, son of Sir Thomas Dennys, Recorder of Exeter, 1514, his position on resignation going to William Harris of Hayne; both father and son buried at Holcombe Burnell.1.2.1. Sir Thomas Dennys, who married Anne Paulet, sister of Captain Thomas Paulet.1.2.2. Gertrude Dennys, who married Sir John Arundel of Trerice, son of Juliana Harris. GertrudeDennys was the daughter of Sir Robert Dennys of Holcombe Burnel and Mary Blount, widow of Edward Parker, Baron Morley, whose sister, Alice Parker, was the mother of ElizabethBarrington, first wife of Edward Harris, father of Thomas Harris of Essex. By a first wife, Sir Robert Dennys was father of Sir Thomas Dennys of Holcombe Burnel, who married Anne Paulet,sister of Captain Thomas Paulet.With acknowledgements to Bob Harris:"William Harris of Hayne received no significant inheretance, as he was a younger brother, but he
made a fortune by selling smuggled goods brought in by the Governor of Sir Michael Mount inCornwall. The Jamaica Inn on Dartmoor was a base for this purpose. This Inn is the subject of aDaphne Du Mauriers novel.""Members of the Harris of Radford and Hayne branches were active as financial backers insetting up the company that led to the establishment of british colonies in America.""Descendants of the Harris family at Hayne migrated to America. The will of John Harris, aresident of Saint Stephen's Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia America, dated 20September, 1718, mentions a legacy left by his uncle William Harris "of Hayne in parish of Stowford in County of Devon."John Harris, Esq. of Stone, a lawyer of high renown, was chosen, in 1535, as reader of Lincoln'sInn, and called, in 1540, to the degree of serjeant-at-law. He was subsequently recorder of of Exeter. "The eminency," says, Prince in te Worthies of Devon, "of this great lawyer we may infer from that considerable estate be acquired, and left to his family; for he added the hundred,manor, and advowson of Liston adjoining to Hayne, which he purchased from Lord Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland." Serjeant Harris married the dau. of Michael Kelly[grew], Esq. of Ratclifle, andhad issue. The eldest son, William Harris, Esq. of Hayne, m. Mary, dau. of Sir Fulke Grevill, Knt.of Beauchamp's Court, in Warwickshire, and had, with four daus.,* a son and successor, John,elected as MP. for Oxford in 1617. His brother, Arthur [father of John Harris, John Harris of Hayne, esq., and Thomas Harris of St Hilary],** and grandfather by the former of Arthur Harris of Hayne, created a baronet in 1678. Sir Arthur married a daughter of Sir — Turner, of London, butd. without issue, when the title became extinct, and the estates passed to his cousin, Christopher Harris, Esq. of Hayne; who m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Martin, Esq. of Lindridge. *Thedaughters being Elizabeth, Blanch, Ysod, and Katharine. **The St. Hilary holdings deriving fromthe second marriage of William Harris of Hayne.Assignment 1 Dec 1628(i) John Harris of Hayne in Devon, esq., executor of his father Arthur Harris. (ii) Thomas Harris of St Hilary, brother of (i)) Mansion etc. in Treveneth Marhasse [Trewarmeneth near Marazion] in StHilary.In 1649, a tract published in London states that Capt. Mathews married the daughter of Sir. Tho.Hinton; however, the "daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton" was not Samuel Mathews first wife. He hadpreviously been married to the widow of Cape Merchant, Abraham Peirsey, and he was her thirdhusband.Minnie G. Cook - (William & Mary College Qtly, Vol 15, Series 2, 1935 p. 299] discusses thepassenger lists of the "Supply." In the list compiled by John Smythe of Nibley there are marginalnotes about the passengers. It reports Frances Greville "married mr. de la war." [Mr. de la War =Nathaniel West]. Smythe's list shows a group of four single women: Frances Grevill, JoaneGreene, Elizabeth Webbe, Isabel Gifford. She had come toVirginia in 1620 in the Supply with William Tracy and his wife, a niece of Fulke Greville, when shewas less than 20 years old.
PIERSEY AND CARY
Amongst the lands Abraham held was Windmill Point, the site of the first windmill in the nowUnited States on land passed down for generations in the Cary line. Thomas Taylor, described asa "mariner" in patent, was probably a Bristol sea captain who later retired in Warwick County.Capt Taylor's daughter, Anne, married, in Virginia, to Miles Cary, an immigrant from Bristol, andThomas Taylor's plantation, Windmill Point, and land adjacent, known as Magpie Swamps weregiven to his son-in-law, Miles Cary."John Harris, brother of John Harris of Radford, married a daughter and heir of Stone of Lifton
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and had issue William, and four daughters, married to Piper, Jackman, Cole, Allen. WilliamHarris, of Stone, married Thomasin, daughter and co-heir of Walter Hayne of Hayne, and hadissue John, and Wilmot married to William Foster of Hole in Devon. John (the king's sergeant-at-law in the time of Edward VI.,) married Elizabeth, daughter to Michael Kelly of Radcliffe andSouthweek, esq., and had issue William, John, Oliver, Anthony, Arthur, Alice,
married to JohnWise of Sydenham
, esq., and Wilmot, married to John Trevelyan, of Nettlecomb in Somerset,esq. William Harris, of Hayne, esq., married Mary, daughter of Sir Fulk Grevill, of Beauchamp-Court, Warwick" [Pole].
TABLE V.
1. Thomas Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk.1.1. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.1.1.1. Thomas Howard; sp. Elizabeth younger daughter and co-heir of John, Lord Marney of layer Marney, Essex.1.1.1.1. Henry Howard, sp. Frances de Vere.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, sp. Elizabeth Stafford.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Howard, 4th. Duke of Norfolk , sp. [1] Mary FitzAlan, sp. [2] Margaret Audley,daughter of Thomas, first Baron Audley of Walden,
who also held Prittlewell
. Mary FitzAlan wasthe daughter of Henry FitzAlan and Catherine Grey. Henry FitzAlan was the son of WilliamFitzAlan and Anne Percy, sister of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. Henry FitzAlan married[2] Elizabeth Willoughby,* daughter of Robert Willoughby, 1st. baron Broke.* Henry FitzAlanmarried [3] Mary Arundel, who was the daughter of John Arundel II. & Philippa Grenville, whosesister, Katherine Grenville, was the wife of Francis Harris. Francis Harris was the son of JohnHarris of Radford, and brother of William Harris, who married the heiress of Hayne, and wasfather of John Harris, military companion to the Lygons, sergeant-at-law to King Henry VIII.Francis Harris was the father of William Harris of Radford, born 1504, who became the ward of Sir John Arundel on his father's death, 8/12/1509. According to his will, Francis Harris was alsothe father of a "bastard" son called John Harris. *His brother, Sir William Willoughby, of Turner'sPeddel, in the county of Dorset, was great-great-grandfather of John Willoughby of Gittisham, andSeton, the latter being in the hundred of Colyton, Devon, from where the family of Gatesoriginated; whose niece married William Taunton. The family of Taunton, who held in Colyton,were connected by marriage to family of Tanner of Collompton, Devon. William Lygon, oldest sonof Thomas Lygon and Mary Harris, daughter of Captain Thomas Harris, married Mary Tanner before 1680 in Henrico County. In the time of Henry VIII., the vicar of Seton was EdwardGurgany. **Elizabeth Willoughby had married, firstly, Lord John Dinham, by license 26/3/1488,this Lord Dinham being the uncle of the above John Arundel II.1.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth Howard, sp. Arthur Gorges.1.2. William Howard, sp. [1] Katherine Broughton.1.2.1. Anne Howard, sp. William Paulet.1.2.1.1. Captain Thomas Paulet.1.2. William Howard, sp. [2] Margaret Gamage [Gamaches].1.2.1. Charles Howard, sp.. Catherine Cary.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Howard, sp. Sir Robert Southwell. His nephew, Sir Thomas Southwell, sp.Anne Harris, whose father, Thomas Harris, was mortgaged of Colquite by Arthur Gorges, arelative. The Colquite estate was administered by Richard Grenville:
"Sir Ric. Greynvile to Viscount Howard, of Bindon. He and other trustees have endeavoured toeffect a sale of the manor of Colquit in Cornwall, but failed, as the land was so strictly assured toMr. Thomas Howard and his wife. 1,500. only offered for it. January — March, 1580."
THE CONNECTION TO GORGES
John Gorges, of Wraxhall, who d. 2 Henry V. and was
s.
by his brother, Sir Theobald Gorges,knight banneret, who in the reign of Henry VI. was lieutenant of Normandy under Richard, Dukeof York, then Regent of France, and had a salary from the crown for his government andmaintenance. He
m.
first, Joane, daughter of — Hanchford, and by her had issue, Walter, whodied in the lifetime of his father, leaving a son, Edward, heir to his grandfather& Elizabeth,
m.
toThomas Grenville. Although it can not be determined if this daughter of Hanchford was a sister of those who married into the Cary and Harris families, or, indeed, was one of them, a very closerelationship between these families is established. The Grenville connection, as above, isexplained by these marriages.
TABLE VI.
1. Walter Harris, who also held land in Monmouthshire, Wales. He was recorded at Tavistock withmembers of the Hayne, Radford, and Lanrest branches of Harris.1.1. Edward Harris, by his first wife, "a d. of Vowel" [Fowell]:1.1.1. Sir Thomas Harris, sergeant-at-law, sp. Elizabeth Pommeroy.1.1.1.1. Anne Harris, sp. Sir Thomas Southwell. Anne Harris was the daughter of Sir ThomasHarris (1547-1610) and Elizabeth Pomeroy (obit. 1634). On June 24, 1594 she married ThomasSouthwell of Spixworth, Norfolk (c.1575-1626). Anne was a poet, writing from a staunchprotestant viewpoint. She often wrote about prominent people. Her second husband, CaptainHenry Sibthorpe (obit 1626+), was her mentor and editor. She founded a school for the poor inCornworthy, which is only seperated from the parish of Ashprington by the Harbourne river;Ashprington being the seat of Sir Edward Giles, whose grandsons, Edward Giles [son Matthew,1604-1667], Thomas Giles, and Matthew Giles, were American colonists, sailing out of Bristol. Itcan not be ascertained whether the Giles family of Ashprington gave rise to the Mary Giles whomarried a son of Captain Thomas Harris in Virginia.1.1.1.2. Sir Edward Harris, -21 Aug 1638, sp. Elizabeth Fowell.1.1.2. John Harris of Cornworthy. "Edward Harris evidently had also by his first wife, ........FOWELL, a son, John, who is named in 1638, with his three sons, Thomas, Edward, and John, inthe will of his half-brother, Arthur Harris" [Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research inEngland,"New England Historical and Genealogical Register 68, 1914].1.1.2.1. Thomas Harris [Probably synonomous with the Thomas Harris connected to the Coombefamily in early Virginian records, and, as such, also connected to the Thomas Harris who died1672].1.1.2.2. John Harris ["the Sergeant"?].1.1.2.3.. Edward Harris.1.1. Edward Harris, by his second wife, "Anne Huckmore* d. of Wm. Huckmore":1.1.1. Arthur Harris of Norton, parish Cherston, sp. Honor Wykes. The seat of the Harris family of Cornworthy was Cherston Ferrers, which had been the domain of the family of Bere Ferrers for centuries. The connection between this family and the 'early' Harris family of Devon will beoutlined anon. Ralph de Fougeres held Chursto at Domesday. Ralph was youngest son of MainII. de Fougeres, who was the powerful Baron Fougeres in Brittany. Ralph succeeded him in 1084.
He also held in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Buckingham. He was ancestor of the Bohuns, and manyother noble families. Manors:
Adworthy, Afton Ipplepen, Galmpton [Cherston Ferrers].*Anne or Agnes Huckmore had married firstly Sir Henry Pomeroy; their daughter marrying thesaid Sir Thomas Harris.1.1.2. Susan Harris, sp.
Henry Fortescue
.1.1.3. William Harris.The Will of ARTHURE HARRIS of Norton [in the parish of Chruston], co. Devon, 20 April 1638.To the poor of Churston ,10. To the poor of Cornworthie ,10. To the poor of Blackawton ,5. To thepoor of Kingesbridge ,5. To the poor of Dodbr[ook] ,5, to remain as a stock tot he use of the poor forever. The overseers and churchwardens of said parishes to cause the tenour of this mybequest to be fairly written in parchment and put into a frame and hung up in the several parishchurches aforesaid that others may be encouraged and men's charities not spent, misemployed,and diverted, contrary to their intent and meaning, as too often in such cases is done. To mynephew Sir Thomas HARRIS lands in Cornworthie which I purchased for one thousand years, hepaying £100 to my nephew Edmond HARRIS, his brother, and confirming any such grants of estates as I have heretofore entered in the name and on behalf of Sir Edward HARRIS, his father.To Bartholemew FORTESCUE, son of Arthure FORTESCUE, all my estate called Pynwelles, hepaying to his brother John FORTESCUE £6 a year. To Arthur FORTESCUE and EdwardFORTESCUE, my sister's sons, the remainder of my estate after my wife's decease, in landscalled Norton and in woods called Lords wood, which I hold for their lives, and to them £10 a year until my wife's decease. To Susan FORTESCUE and Gartrude FORTESCUE, daughters of saidArthur FORTESCUE £70. To my sister FORTESCUE £20, and to her daughter AgnesWAYMOUTH £20, and to the said Agnes seven children £15 each. To Bridgett FRANCIS, mysister FORTESCUE'S daughter £20, and to her son John FRANCIS £50. To my cousin ThomasHARRIS, son of my brother John HARRIS £40, and to his brother Edward HARRIS £20, and tohis brother john HARRIS £60. "I give vnto Henry POMEROY, Sonne of Thomas POMEROY mybrother, three score pounds, and unto Tho[mas] POMEROY, sonne of the sd Henrey, fortiepoundes, all to be payed within a yeere after my decease." To Frances RYDER, my goddaughter £10. To Jane FOXWORTHIE £7 due to me from her husband. To Susan ROOPE 40s, and 20s.each to the children of said Susan. To each godchild 10s. To John MORTARY, my servant, all myestate in Butt Meadow purchased of George SAPP deceased. To goddaughter Jane BEARE,daughter of Thomas BEARE, gent. £10, and to my cousin Thomas BEARE a gold ring with thispoesie, "spare speake and spare speede." To every servant 40s. All residue to Phillipp HARRIS,my wife, executrix. Witnesses: Thomas BEARE, Marie BEARE, Richard BAKER, Edward WHITE,and Thomas EDWARDES. Proved 13 October 1640 by Phillipa HARRIS, relict and executrix. Thewidow took oath to the will 6 October 1640. Inventory, taken by Arthur RYDER, John BURTES,and Edward WHITE, and exhibited 13 October 1640, 928. 16s. 8d. [Principal Registry of theBishop of Exeter, 1640, original will and inventory].
ARMORIALS OF HARRIS OF CHERSTON FERRERS MANOR
Arms. 1. Sable, an antelope salient argent, maned and armed or. [Harris] 2. pale gules and azurea lion rampant argent, holding in three paws a fir-tree vert. 3. Argent, out of a dragon's head erased vert an hand proper. 4. Sable, a chevron between three spear-heads argent. [Whiddon?] 5. Gules, three towers triple-towered argent [Morgan?] 6. Vert, a chevron between three does' heads couped or. 7. Azure, a lion rampant argent [Monthalt] 8. Gules, on a chevron betweenthree eagles displayed or a rose gules.
A CONNECTION TO SOUTHWELLTABLE VII.
1.
John Jernegan of Somerleytoun, who married, in 1459, Isabel, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton
of Clifton and Hodsock and Isabella Franceys of Foremark; origins in the Franceys family of Selby, Yorkshire.1.1.
Sir Richard Jernegan.1.2
.
Mary Jernegan
,
who married
Sir Thomas Stanhope of Rampton
- ancestors of the Stanhopeearls of Chesterfield, the Earls Stanhope. The
Visitation of Suffolk
mentions three other unnameddaughters whose married names were Palmer, Scott, and Haslake.1.3.
Sir Edward Jernegan of Somerleytoun, who married firstly, Margaret, daughter of Sir EdmundBedingfield of Oxborough and his first wife Alice Shelton. Sir Edmund Bedingfield's mother wasAnne Waldegrave, daughter of Sir William Waldegrave & Joan de Durward.1.3.1
.
John Jernegan
,
first cousin of
Sir Michael Stanhope
. John Jernegan married Bridget Drury,daughter of his sister's fourth husband, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Speaker of the House of Commons.1.3.1.1.
Anne Jernegan [first cousin of Sir William Waldegrave,
who married Julian Raynsford;their daughter, Dorothy Waldegrave, married
Sir
Arthur Harris of Woodham Mortimer]. The aboveAnne Waldegrave was the great-aunt of Sir William Waldegrave's father, George Waldegrave,whose sisters included Margaret Waldegrave, married to Sir John St John of Bletsoe,Bedfordshire, and Bridget Waldegrave, married to Sir John Marney as his second wife. CaptainThomas Paulet's mother, Anne Howard, was the cousin of Lord Thomas Howard, who marriedElizabeth, younger daughter and co-heir of Sir John Marney by his first wife. Anne Jernegan wasalso first cousin of
Ann Drury
, wife of Sir Christopher Heydon, whose son, Sir Robert Haydon,married Joan Paulet, whose brother's relict, Anne Browne, married the son of Sir John Strode,who was the second husband of Anne Caldecot. The Haydon family lived at Cadhay Manor, near Ottery St. Mary, which was formerly owned by the Hone family "Thomas Bodley was descendedfrom an antient family, of that name at Dunscombe near Crediton in Devonshire [also calledDuncombe, from whence the family connected to the Woodliefs], and was son of John Bodley of the city of Exeter, by Joan, daughter and heiress of Robert Hone, of Ottery St. Mary, about ninemiles from that city" [Life of Sir Thomas Bodley, Oxon. vol. 1. col. 383]. Thomas Bodley'sdaughter was the great-grandmother of
Edward Harris
, son of
Sir William Harris of Southminster
.A sister of Joan Paulet, Margaret Paulet, married Sir Edmund Fowel, whose sister, Elizabeth,married
Sir Edward Harris of Cornworthy
. Jane Seymour, born circa 1540, may well have beenthe wife of William Harris II. of Essex, who is described as marrying "Jane Semer of Brawghinge"- this commonly taken to be synonomous with Bocking, Essex.
It is far more likely
to refer toBraughing or Brawghing in Hertfordshire, to where Jane Seymour's cousin, Sir Edward Seymour,Earl Hertford, held interest;
who was landlord of the Harris family of Cornworthy
.
Jane Seymour married secondly, by the above account, after 1560, John Rodney, their daughter, Elizabeth,marrying Henry Norwood of West Camell, Somerset, whose mother was Elizabeth Lygon,daughter of William Lygon & Eleanor Dennys. Thus, as well as many other connections, WilliamHarris III., may well have been a "cousin" of the Paulets; second-cousin of Sir Edward Seymour,as above. Anne Jernegan was also the niece of Elizabeth Drury, who married John Botteler, sonof Philip Botteler, son of John Botteler of Woodhall and Dorothy Tyrrell of Gipping, daughter of Sir William Tyrrell and Margaret Darcy; daughter of Sir Robert Darcy of Maldon. These families figuredirectly in the pedigree of the above
Edward Harris of Essex
. Anne Jernegan married Sir ThomasCornwallis of Brome, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.1.3.1.1.1.
Alice Cornwallis, who married Richard Southwell of Spixworth, a manor just outsideNorwich [son of Richard Southwell of Horsham St. Faiths and Woodrising, who married firstly,Bridget, daughter of Sir Roger Copely of Roughway and Elizabeth Shelley. She had beengoverness of the young Princess Elizabeth. Richard Southwell of Horsham being the son of Sir Richard Southwell of Woodrising and his second wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt, Sheriff of Essex, and his wife Margaret Sulyard.1.3.1.1.1.1.
Sir Thomas Southwell.
He married
Anne Harris of Cornworthy
, daughter of Sir
Thomas Harris, and grandaughter of
Sir Edward Harris of Cornworthy.
Lady Anne southwell's memory is embalmed in the following tribute of her son, Valentine:
"My Mother was the Daughter of Sir Edward Harris, Knight, one of his late Majesty's Justices of the King's Bench in the Kingdom of Ireland, who had the reputation of a learned and a just Judge;and this I dare say оf her (who died some few years past, for I do but justice to her memory), shewas a virtuous and discreet Woman, an excellent Neighbour, and a most indulgent and provident Parent; she took care of my Education (my Father dying when I was tender in years."
The pedigree of the Harris family of Essex as recorded in the "Visitations" seems by anyunbiased account to be unreliable. There would have been a semblance of truth in it, aroundwhich the myths were spun, for it would have invited scorn from contemporaries if total fabricationhad been used. The Jernegan family were central to the mythology, yet it would be dangerous todismiss all direct links to them without pause for thought. Such genealogists as Pole and Risdononly recorded a few of the sons of major landowners, usually the main heirs, and were even lessforthcoming about female issue. So, when it is recorded that the Mary Jernegan who married Sir Thomas Stanhope had three unnamed sisters [whose married names were Palmer, Scott, andHaslake], it can not be totally discounted that one of them subsequently married a Harris. MaryJernegan's brother, Sir Edward Jernegan, was the great-grandfather of Alice Jernegan, who wasthe mother of Sir Thomas Southwell, husband of Anne Harris of Cornworthy, alias the poetessLady Anne Southwell. This leads to a major point: The two branches of the Harris family thatshared the most common connections were those of Cornworthy and Essex. In the exampleabove, Sir Thomas Southwell's grandmother was first cousin of Sir William Waldegrave, whosedaughter married Sir Arthur Harris of Woodham Mortimer.The Harris family in general are easy to describe: In becoming "cousins of the Carys" they werebrought into the Paulet orbit, Paulet matriarchs being the foundation of both the Cary and Limberyfamilies relevant to
this
Harris history. Other "satelites" of the Cary/Paulet world included theDrurys, and these associations gave rise to "connected" families living in close proximity inEssex. The Cary/Paulet association was carried over to Virginia, and is evident in both the caseof "the Sergeant" and "the Captain." - the former's connections having a decided Welsh element.William Harris of Hayne ["Pirate Billy"] had a foot in both camps, for his two wives had directconnections to both Nathaniel West and to Captain Thomas Paulet. William had not been leftmuch of an inheritance, so he took to piracy. He owned "Jamaica Inn" on which the book and filmare based, but the book gives a false account of he inn being used by shipwreckers. This was notso. William used the inn as a warehouse for pirated goods, gained by him and others, and hemade a fortune by selling these goods on without the burden of paying tax on them. A self-mademan. I imagine not many people have read the book or seen the film, though. Lady AnneSouthwell is also given an unfair press. She was a highly educated woman of a family of notedintellects. She would have spoken French and Latin fluently, and would have known some Greek.She would have been versed in maths and logic, and would also have been brought up to run alarge household. She knew the poet and courtier, Sir Arthur Gorges, to whom she was possiblyrelated, and she married a man of great intellectual renown. So, when people say her verse isextemely toadying toward the rich and powerful - to King James I, "Darest thou my Muse presentthy Battlike winge / before the eyes of Britannes mighty kinge?" - they miss the point; she wasshowing those she praised to be her inferiors by them accepting such 'drivel' as a complement.As a woman, she was not given the opportunities of her male counterparts, and this was one wayof venting her frustration. I think it's things like this that bring genealogy to life, for these peoplewere not just numbers, or just names on genealogical tables; they were as real to some as our own grandparents are to us.
A CONNECTION TO WALES
This family of Harris was firmly connected to Wales: "1580 Ricd. Hanbery v. John Lecke,
Edwd.Harry, Walter Harry
, Thos. Jerothe, and others: Ironworks in Tynterne, and wood cut in Glascoydfor fuel for same, and works at Monkeswood, Treveythyn: Monmouth 22 Eliz." This Edward Harris
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on chronological grounds is likely to be John's cousin. The complete arms of the Harris family of Devon and Monmouth show
impalings of Morgan
and Monthalto, among others. The firstMonthalto on record was one of the barons of
Hugh Earl
of
Chester.
Ralph,
his brother, had a son
Robert,
who was steward, and one of the barons of the Earl of
Chester,
and grandfather of
Roger,
who married
Cecily,
sister and coheir of
Hugh
Earl of
Arundel
[FitzAlan = later Percyconnection]. They took their name from a hill, Monte Alto, in
Flintshire,
in
Wales,
where theyanciently resided, and had a castle [Hawarden]. The Harris family of Cornworthy wereshareholders in the "Society of the Miners Royal" and the "Society of the Minerals and BatteryWorks" which had grant to explore for, and work mines of gold, silver, copper and quicksilver, andall other minerals and metals that might be discovered in England, Wales and the English pale inIreland." Works were established ....... for the manufacture of wire at Tintern where an iron workshad previously existed, and ironworks (a furnace and two forges) at Monkswood to supply theTintern works with the "osmond" iron necessary for producing wire. The major shareholder was,as above, Richard Hanbury, whose eldest son was John. The eldest son of this John Hanbury,likewise John, had died in 1634. Richard, the second son, in 1650 married Dame Mary Morgan,widow of Sir Ed. Morgan of Llantarnam Abbey. In 1655,
John Fortescue
and Dame Mary leasedto Capel Hanbury, fourth son of John and his first wife, Anne Capel, "a parcel of waste groundcalled Pontypool, together with the forge thereupon built and standing for the term of one andtwenty years if Dame Mary should live so long." You see many connections here, cetainlt theMorgan one, but also a Essex Paulet one in relation to Capel. It would not seem improbable thatRobert Harris of Wales "the immigrant" of "The Forks" near Weyanoke on James River was amember of this Harris family family, who seem to have established themselves at Llangwm yssa,co. Monmouth.A common prejudice of the ill informed is to denigrate Welsh connections, though such prejudicegives no credence to the fabulous and most interesting pedigrees of those concerned. The Harrisfamily of Cornworthy had such connections, as did the branch of the Carys they were related to,and such connections brought great wealth, as the lands gained in marriage were the source of valuable iron ore deposits.
TABLE VIII.
1.1.1. Sir Ieuan Morgan, Lord of St. Clere & Tredegar,
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
, sp. ElsbethVerch Thomas, b. 1404, dau. of Thomas Ap Llewellyn and Margaret Verch Phillip.1.1. Sir John Morgan of Tredegyr, Dyffryn, Monmouthshire, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, sp.Jonet Mathew, dau. of John Mathew and Catherine Kemeys.1.1.1 Thomas Morgan, Esq., sp. Elizabeth Vaughn, b. 1486, dau. of Sir Roger Vaughan and JaneWhitney.1.1.1.1. Sir Rowland Morgan of Machen, Gwynllwg, Monmouthshire, sp. Blanche Jones, dau. of William Jones and Elizabeth Herbert, dau. of Sir Walter Herbert of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, sonof William Herbert, 1st. Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux, Countess of Pembroke. Sir Walter Herbert's sister, Maud Herbert, was the wife of Henry Percy, 4th. Earl of Northumberland. Fromthis can be seen that Blanche Jones was the second cousin of the 5th. and 6th. Earls of Northumberland. It is most likely that Walter Harris of Cornworthy married a sister of Sir RowlandMorgan, thus gaining lands in Monmouthshire, and the impaling of the Harris arms with that of Morgan. Thus, Sir Edward Harris of Cornworthy would have been the first cousin of:1.1.1.1.1. Henry Morgan, b. 1536, of Llaurhymny, Monmouthshire, sp. Eleanor Morgan, dau. of John Morgan and Elizabeth Stradling, dau. of Sir Thomas Stradling of St. Donat's and CatherineGamage, dau of Sir Thomas Gamage of Coity. Sir Thomas Stradling was the son of Sir EdwardStradling and Elizabeth Arundel, dau. of Sir Thomas Arundel. Sir Thomas Arundel was the father of Sir John Arundel II., who was married to Katherine Grenville. Her sister, Philippa Grenville wasmarried to Francis Harris, son of Sir John Harris of Radford, who married Katherine Hansford,daughter of William Hansford. The Hansford connection made Francis Harris first cousin to the
Carys. The highly likely brother of Francis Harris, and likewise cousin of the Carys, was Walter Harris of Cornworthy, whose family were strongly associated with the Grenvilles, and whowitnessed deeds with the Radford family.* The sister of Catherine Gamage, Margaret Gamage,married William Howard [brother of the 2nd, Duke of Norfolk], and was the mother of CharlesHoward, who espoused Catherine Cary. They were the parents of Elizabeth Howard, aunt of Sir Thomas Southwell, who espoused Anne Harris [Lady Anne Southwell], daughter of Sir ThomasHarris of Cornworthy, son of Sir Edward Harris of Cornworthy by his first wife. Henry Morgan'ssister, Mary, married into the Thomas family. *
The arms of Sir Thomas Southwell, as above, wereimpaled with the three crescents of Radford
.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Edmund Morgan, a famous soldier of high connection, of Penllwyn,Mynyddislwyn, Monmouthshire, espoused, secondly, Margaret Francis [Fraunceys], dau. of JohnFrancis of Combe Flory. Margaret was the widow of William Fortescue of Preston, who was thebrother of Henry Fortescue, husband of Susan Harris, daughter of Sir Edward Harris of Cornworthy by his second wife, and aunt of John Harris of Cornworthy, most probably "theSergeant."
TABLE IX.
1. Sir William Stradling, sp. Isabel St. Barbe; her grandmother was Maud De Raleigh, daughter of Joanne le Boteler.1.1. Sir Edward Stradling, sp. Joan Beaufort.1.1.1. Sir Henry Stradling, sp. Elizabeth verch Williams.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas Stradling, sp. Janet Matthew.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Edward Stradling, sp. Elizabeth Arundel, whose family were familially connected tothe Harris of Radford.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas Stradling; his daughter, Elizabeth Stradling, was the wife of John Morgan,their daughter, Eleanor, being the wife of Henry Morgan, likely first cousin of Walter Harris of Cornworthy.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Katherine Stradling, sp. Thomas Palmer.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Palmer, sp. Elizabeth Verney.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Katherine Palmer, sp. Thomas Hinton.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Mary Frances Hinton.1.2. Sir William Stradling, sp. Anne verch John.1.2.1 "Gwen" Stradling, sp. Sir Anthony Woodville, 2nd. Earl Rivers, brother of ElizabethWoodville, wife of King Edward IV.1.2.1.1. Margaret Woodville, sp. Sir Robert Poyntz.1.2.1.1.1. Katherine Poyntz, Sir Owen Perrot.1.2.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas Perrot, sp. Mary Berkely.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Sir John Perrot, lord Deputy of Ireland, Admiral of the Fleet, sp. Anne Cheyney.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas Perrot, sp. Dorothy Devereux, widow of Henry Percy, 9th. EarlNorthumberland, daughter of Sir Walter Devereux and Lettice Knollys, daughter of Katherine
Cary and Sir Francis Knollys, from whom Nathaniel West [de la Warre] had descent.The Stradling family were kinsmen of the Savoyard Soldier, Sir Otto de Grandison. They obtainedSt. Donat Castle through a marriage to a Hawey heiress who was then living at Compton Hawey,Dorset, now Compton, Nether and Over, near Sherborne, which had close Limbery links.A cadet of the Perrot family of Pembrokeshire lived in the
Parish of Cornworthy
from at least theearly 1500's, according to early tax rolls. "Robert Perot and others, inhabitants and parishionersof the parish of Cornworthy
v. Stephen Cruse. (Eliz. 6.) Bill to appoint new trustees for a charity. Atenement called the church-house in the parish of Cornworthy, conveyed by Sir PearceEdgecombe, knight, or some of his ancestors, to feoffees in trust for the benefit of the parish of Cornworthy ["Reports of Cases" v. ii. pp. 156-160, 1845]. A John and Alice Perrot are recorded asof this parish in their wills, dated respectively 1583 and 1586, as is their son, Robert, in his will of 1625. Sir James Perrot, illigitimate brother of Sir Thomas Perrot, as above, by Sybil Jones of Radnorshire, was one of the original investors of the Virginia Company.
A CONNECTION TO THE FAMILY OF STONE
There were various Devonshire manors with which the family of Harris were associated with in avery direct way. They held the manor of Stone in Chumleigh and Stowford through marrying itsheiress; they had several holdings in "Stone in Lifton parish", and came to hold Stone inUgborough. These were not just the names of manors, for in each case the manor represented afamily of Stone, who were of ancient [de la Stane] and noble stock, but who came to be removedfrom the peerage by 1620. After the main family of Stone ended in the heiress who marriedHarris, the junior branch were represented in Ugborough; "A younger branch of this family, whichhad been of Stone in Ugborough, was in existence in Sir William Pole's time, in a reducedcondition, and the name is still to be found among the yeomanry in the south-west part of thecounty" ['General history: Families removed or extinct by 1620', Magna Britannia: volume 6:Devonshire (1822), pp. CLXI-CLXXII.].The families of Combe and Harris of Cornworthy had very close associations in Devon from theearliest of times. The 1332 Devonshire Lay Subsidy Rolls show "Walter de Comb' 20d, Ottery St.Mary" [the site of early Harris settlement, including links to Cornworthy]; "John de Combe 12dGittisham" [parish in the Eastern Division, Hundred of Budleigh, less than two miles northeast of Ottery-St. Mary, 2-3 miles west southwest of Honiton and less than 4 miles southwest of Combe-Raleigh,
once the manor of the Beaumont family
, to whom remain many fine monuments;"Alexander de Cumbe 12d" [Torbryan and Denbury Torbryan and Denbury Parishes are both inthe Southern Division, Hundred of Haytor, only 1-1/4 miles apart and only 2-3 miles north of BerryPomeroy, of the family of which the Harris of Cornworthy were linked by marriage; thesePemeroys being the overlords of many Combe families, as examples - "Walter atte Combe 8dGreat Fairwood [At Domesday Survey, Tedbourne (Teteborne) was held by Ralph de Pomerai];"Nicholas atte Combe 8d Melhuish Barton" [also held by Ralph de Pomerai]; "Henry Come 12dEast Allington and Hauleston" [from whence Fallapit manor was anciently the seat of a family of its own name whose heiress married Sir Henry Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice of the CommonPleas in Ireland, of the family linked by marriage to the Harris of Cornworthy.The earliest known ancestor of the family of Combe was William de Cumba, born early twelth-century. His son, Richard de Cumba, received land at Farwood in Colyton in 1199. His grandson,Richard de Cumba, was mayor of Exeter, and witnessed important charters. His eldest son wasWilliam de le Stone, whose descendants remained in the Bridestowe area, while a presumedyounger son lived in the Exeter area. There seems a possibility that the family's earliest knownancestor may have been Count Gilbert de Brionne, a benefactor to the Abbey of Bec. His son"Baldwin the Sheriff" was lord of Okehampton castle, and ancestor of the Redevers andCourtney's, Earls of Devon. The youngest son of Baldwin was Richard, Sheriff of Devon, and ithas been suggested that William de Cumba, as above, might have been Richard's grandson. Thefacts which have suggested the possibility of a descent from Count Gilbert are as follows: [1]Henry le Riche, brother of Richard de Cumba, the mayor, was enfeoffed of the land of le Stone
and Waterlete by lady Muriel de Bollay of Bridestowe in 1228; and it is thought the ownership of this land is traceable to "Baldwin the sheriff." [2] "Richard de Cumbe" received a transfer of landat Farwood in Colyton in 1190 from Walter, Abbot of Quarrier- an off shoot of the Abbey of Bec, of which Count Gilbert of Brionne, Baldwin the Sheriff, and the latters three sons were benefactors.[3] "Baldwin the Sheriff" held Bradstone under
William the Conquerer
, and the de Combes alsoheld land there at a very early date. Thus, by this possibility, the family of Stone and that of Ivo deHeriz II. of Notts. shared common ancestors, as Ivo's wife was of Redvers descent; Ivo'sgrandaughter married a Redvers; and Ivo's great-grandson, John Harryes, established his familyin Devon under the patronage of this Redvers, whose family married into the Courtneys. Colytonwas a focal point of Harris settlement.
The last heiress of this family of Stone married adecendant of John Harryes
.
The family of Combe and that of the Harris of Cornworthy were connected by marriage. In 1580,John Harris married Sybil Marwood in St. Lawrence, Exeter. The Marwood family were situatednear Totnes, some four miles from Cornworthy, and were intermarried to the Pomeroys, and theylikewise to the Harris of Cornworthy ........ Philip Combe & Elizabeth Harris were married 8/3/1640in St. Lawrence, Exeter. An example of other Combe/Harris marriages within Totness parish,connections that may have been repeated in Virginia:"Ther was now divers and sundry shares presented to be passed approued by the Auditors onebill of Adventure of 10 shares from my Lord of Dorsett, to Henry Manneringe six shares to sixseuerall psons by Capt Iohn Bargaue, one to Sr Iohn Thornburough, one to John Collett gent: oneto Tho. Collet gent, one to Thomas Masterson gent, one to Captaine Lawrence Masterson, andone to Augustine Lynsell, Tho. Mellinge, Iohn Cuffe, George Piersey.
4 shares to ........ Martin,and lastly
Tho. Harris to Tho. Combe
, which the Court ratefied and confirmed" [Records of theVirginia Company Volume I, 1619-1622, p.344].I have written herein about the Thomas Harris of 1672 and his proposed associations with theHobbs/Meador/Greene families of Rappa, and associations of the Thomas Harris of 1688 tofamilies of Jermyn and Bridgeman ............ The earliest Combe (including var. sp.) located thusfar in Old Rappa is that of Abraham Combe in 1662:"These present Witnesseth that I Sarah Meador, widdow of Thomas Meador the Younger latelydeceasedd in the County of Rappa ....... do bind & oblige myself my Exrs. or Admrs. to confirmunto my Son John Meador ....... my eldest daughter Susanna Meador ....... my youngest daughter Mary Meador ....... in presence of Abraham Combe [Old Rappahannock Co, Va. D.B. Part II,1656-1664, pp. 187- 188]."Nich. Copeland of Rappahannock to John Tarkington of same 450 acres part of greater quantityconveyed in a patt: betwen me the sd. Nich. Copeland & Wm. West 25th Sep 17th year of thereign of Lord Charles .......... Copeland ....... ransportation of 32 pers: Will. Ball, his son, HannahBall, Mary Jones, George Comes, Yarrett Williams, Joshua Greene, Tho. Harris, George Martin,Jno. Bridgeman" [Old Rap. Co., Va. D.B. 3, pp. 258-262]."Know all Men by these pntes that I Archdale Combe of Rappa Plantr. have for a valuable consid.by me in hand receivedd have bargained & sold from me and my heirs for ever the two thirds of land mentioned with Bill of Sale on the other pt. Of the Leafe that I bought of James Coghill untoFrancis Triplett his heires for Ever …As Witnesse my hand this 9th day of April, 1668, ArchdallCombe" [Old Rappa D. B. 1668-1672, pp. 29-31].There may be reasonable grounds to consider that the John Harris of 1580 had some connectionto the above.
UGBOROUGH
Like most of the Harris holdings, was situated in the Deanery of Plymton, and was once theholding of William de Briwere II., much connected to the family of Heriz in Nottingham. It became
the home of the family of de Voghill, of Voghill, in the south of Devon; a John of which familymarried the heiress of Roger Boulter of Bolterscombe, acquiring the adjoining estates of Fenton,Stone [Stane] and Wydescombe. This family became known as Fowell, and were situated in their Ugborough estate of Fowelscombe. The Fowell and Harris family of Cornworthy were to be linkedby marriage. The Fowells also married into the family of Fortescue, also attached by marriagealliance with the said Harris family, and into the family of Courtenay, much acquainted withThomas Lymbery. It was through a marriage of a Courtenay heiress that the Strode family alsoheld interest here.
A CONNECTION TO THE FAMILY OF HOARE
The family of Hoare were more closely associated with Devon over a longer time than is generallyappreciated. About 1330, Robert Hoare married the heiress of Sir Hugh Chagford of Chagford inDevonshire. His grandson is mentioned of that place in a Harleian MS. His son, Robert, isrecorded in 1397, followed by his son, William Hoare of Salis., Mercer, 1405-75, and his son,Robert Hoare, of Rushford in Chagford, Devon, Mayor of Salisbury in 1433. Chagford is about 15miles from Exeter.There were several manors in Chagford, Rushford was not abandoned by the Hoares, theyrented it out, returning in Elizabeth's time, building the Tudor barton of Rushford. Chagford Manor itself was successively held by the Wilbery and Whyddon families, for many generations, and thelatter were long seated at Whyddon Park
[Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. 92-102]. It can be mentioned that intervening holders were the family of Gorges, "The family of Wibbery possessed this manor for seven generations; after which it passed, by successivefemale heirs, to Gorges ......" [ibid.]. In the parish church are the monuments of Sir JohnWhyddon, who died in 1575, and John Prouz, Esq., the last of that family, who died in 1664.The arms of the Harris family of Churston Ferrers in Cornworthy are impaled with those of thisWhyddon family [I can confirm]; the "cousins" of this Harris family, the Harris's of Haynepossessed nearby Cheriton-Fitzpaine, which lies about nine miles from Exeter. The manor belonged, in the reign of Henry III., to the family of Stanton, from which it passed, by successivefemale heirs, to those of Fitzpain, Kelly[grew] ......... and was purchased by the Harris family of Hayne; the wife of Wiliam of which was second-cousin of Captain Thomas Paulet, another second-cousin of the Captain being married to Anne Chaldecott, of anon.Other manors within Chagford included Way Barton; long the residence of "the ancient family of Prous, or Prouz." The 1509 marriage settlement of Mary Prouz shows an inheritance from theHarris family of Radford, and this relationship is repeated through further marrages between thetwo families. From the Harris's of Radford stemmed those of Hayne and Cornworthy. The Dorsetfamily of Chaldecott alias Caldecot [of orig. Avesnes, canton d'Envermou] also had repeatedmarriage links to the Devon families of Prouz and Harris, as detailed herein.
THE POMEROYS
[With acknowledgements to Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England,"New EnglandHistorical and Genealogical Register 68 [1914].In the following pedigree, the earlier generations given in the photograph of Harleian MS. 1091are omitted:1. THOMAS (third son of
Henry
) married AGNES CALWAYE, or KELLOWAY, daughter of Thomas of Sherborne, co. Dorset. Children: i. ANNIS, m. THOMAS TRESOYL of co. Cornwall. ii.THOMAS, b. abt. 1481; named as son and heir of his father and as aged twelve years at thedeath of the latter, 29 Dec. 1493 (Inquisitions Post Mortem, Chancery Series 2, vol. 9, no. 61, 9Henry VII); not mentioned in the Visitation pedigree of 1564. iii. MARGARET. iv. THOMASINE. v.RICHARD, b. within a few years of 1487. vi. ELIZABETH. vii. ANNA, m. TRISTRAM HENGSCOTof Exeter; had issue.
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2. RICHARD POMEROY, born within a few years of 1487 and named in the Visitation of 1564,married, probably about 1520, ELEANOR COKER, daughter of John of co. Dorset. Children: i.HENRY, b. probably abt. 1520. ii. JOHN, named in the Visitation of 1564.3. HENRY POMEROY (
Richard, Thomas
), born probably about 1520 and named in the Visitationof 1564, was of Totnes, co. Devon, and died before June 1559, when administration on his estatewas surreptitiously obtained by a Richard POMEROY, as is learned from a later administrationgranted 5 July 1575 to Richard POMEROY, the son of Henry, doubtless when this son came of age. (
Vide supra
, p. 48.)Henry POMEROY married, about 1550, AGNES or ANNE HUCKMORE, daughter and heiress of William; she married secondly, about 1561, as his second wife, Edward HARRIS of Cornworthy,co. Devon, who was buried there 10 Apr. 1592; she was buried there 26 Nov. 1602, being thetestatrix of 1 Dec. 1601.Children of Henry and Agnes (HUCKMORE) POMEROY, of Totnes, co. Devon: i. ELIZABETH(perhaps), b. abt. 1552; bur. at Cornworthy 18 Apr. 1634; m. abt. 1572 SIR THOMAS HARRIS,KNT., of Cornworthy, sergeant-at-law, probably her stepbrother, b. abt. 1547, eldest s. of Edwardof Cornworthy by his first wife, ........ FOWELL. Vivian, in his Visitations of the County of Devon, p.607, erroneously states that she married
first
Edward HARRIS and
secondly
Henry POMEROY.For her children by her second husband, Edward HARRIS,
vide infra
, p. 54.[Administration on the estate of HENRY POMEROYE. On 5 of July [1575] a commission wasissued to Richard POMEROYE, natural and legitimate son of Henry POMEROYE, late of Totnesin the county of Devon, having [goods] etc., being sworn to administer well the goods, rights, andcredits of the said deceased, there being revoked letters of administration on the goods of thesaid deceased, elsewhere granted to a certain Richard POMEROYE now or formerly of theaforesaid Totnes, which were surreptitiously secured by him by suppression of truth and by falsestatement in the month of June 1559, for the full requirement of justice, as appears from the actsof the court on this day concluded. (P.C.C., Administration Act Book, 1572-1580, fo. 80
dorso
.Translated from the Latin].Edward HARRIS evidently had also by his first wife, ........ FOWELL, a son, John, who is namedin 1638, with his three sons, Thomas, Edward, and John, in the wi | HARRIS, William Esq. (I14838)
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William Harris of Hayne, younger brother. He married Jael Thomas (died 1770), a daughter of John Thomas of Tregolls in Cornwall. His daughter Jane Harris married William Arundell of Trengwainton[3] in Cornwall and her son William Arundell (later "William Arundell-Haris") became the heir to the Harris estates of Lifton and Kenegie in Gulval, Cornwall.[10] | HARRIS, William (I17435)
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William Harris, d 12 Jan 1547, Inq. p.m. 38 Hen. VIII, No 31 | HARRIS, William (I14844)
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William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (c.1423-1469)
SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE, was elder son of William Herbert of Raglan Castle, called also William ap Thomas, and in Welsh Margoah Glas, or Gumrhi, who fought in France under Henry V, and was made a knight-banneret in 1415. Herbert's mother was Gladys, daughter and heiress of David Gam, and widow of Sir Robert Vaughan. Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrook was a younger brother. Sir William's grandfather, Thomas ap Gwillim ap Jenkin (d.1438), secured Raglan Castle on his marriage with Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir John Morley.
The Herbert family claimed descent from 'Herbertus Camerarius,' a companion of William I, and his son 'Henry Thesaurarius,' both of whom were tenants in capite in Hampshire.1 The descendants of Henry Thesaurarius in the fifteenth-century claimed that he was 'son natural of King Henry the First,' and that they were thus connected with 'the Royal Blood of the Crown of England,'2 but the pretension contradicts established fact. Peter, the great-grandson of Henry Thesaurarius, seems to have been the first of the family to settle in Wales. He received from John in 1210 many grants of land there forfeited by William of Braose, Peter's descendants by intermarriages with Welsh heiresses acquired very large estates in South-east Wales, and practically became Welshmen.
Herbert was a warrior from his youth. He was knighted by Henry VI in 1449, and in 1450 was on active service in France under the Duke of Somerset. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Formigny in 1450, but was apparently soon released. He played a prominent part on the side of the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses. In Wales he did very notable service against Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, Henry, Duke of Exeter, and James, Earl of Wiltshire.
On 1 May 1457 it was reported that the Lancastrians had offered him his life and goods if he would come to Leicester and ask pardon of Henry VI; but the Yorkists were still strong, and he remained faithful to them.3 On Edward IV's accession Herbert was made a privy councillor (10 March 1461). On 8 May following he was granted the offices of chief justice and chamberlain of South Wales, and some sub-ordinate posts; on 7 Sept. he was made steward of those castles, including that of Brecknock in South Wales, which had belonged to Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham. On 4 Nov. he was created Baron Herbert, and received in consideration of his services the castle, town, and lordship of Pembroke, with numerous manors and castles on the Welsh marches.
On 29 April 1462 he appeared in the House of Lords, and was made a knight of the Garter. Shortly afterwards he joined Edward IV in an expedition to the north of England, where Lancastrians still held out. In 1463 he was appointed justice in Merionetshire, and received new grants of land, including Dunster, and those manors in Devonshire and Suffolk which had been forfeited by Sir James Luttrell. On 3 June 1466 he was in London, and accompanied Edward IV on a visit to the Archbishop of York. In 1467 he was nominated chief justice of North Wales for life, and made constable of Carmarthen and Cardigan castles.
In August 1468 Pembroke and his brother, Sir Richard, advanced against the castle of Harlech, the last Lancastrian stronghold in Wales, where Jasper Tudor, with his young nephew Henry (afterwards Henry VII), still resisted the power of Edward IV. After a siege the castle, although strongly fortified, surrendered, but Sir Richard promised the governor to do what he could to save his life. Sir Richard petitioned Edward IV to that effect, and the request was unwillingly granted. Herbert seems to have taken Prince Henry prisoner, and he was appointed his guardian; but a plan to marry Henry to his daughter Maud failed.
He was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Pembroke (8 Sept. 1468), after the attainder of Jasper Tudor, and received the manor of Haverfordwest and the offices of chief forester of Snowdon and constable of Conway Castle. Soon afterwards the two brothers proceeded to Anglesey to apprehend seven brothers who had been guilty of 'many mischiefs and murders.' The mother pleaded strongly with Pembroke to spare the lives of two of her sons. Richard seconded her prayer, but Pembroke refused to yield, and executed all. Whereupon the mother cursed him on her knees, 'praying God's mischief might fall to him in the first battle he should make.'4
Meanwhile Pembroke and the Earl of Warwick had quarrelled. Pembroke, it is said, desired to marry his infant son to the daughter of Lord Bonvile, and Warwick opposed the arrangement. Pembroke thenceforth sought to widen the breach which was threatening the king's relations with Warwick, and as early as 1466 he had captured in Wales a messenger of Queen Margaret of Anjou, with whom he showed that Warwick was intriguing. In January 1467 the disagreement seemed subsiding, and Pembroke and Warwick both attended a meeting of the king's council.
But in July 1469 a rebellion, which was largely fomented by Warwick, broke out in the north. The rebels declared for Henry VI, and rapidly marched south. Pembroke readily prepared an army of Welshmen to resist their progress. He and his brother were ordered with their army to join at Banbury a strong detachment of archers under the command of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devonshire, and to intercept the enemy there. The first part of the manoeuvre was successfully accomplished. But a skirmish between a detachment of Pembroke's army under Sir Richard and some rebel troops ended in the total rout of the former.
Immediately afterwards Pembroke and Devonshire encamped at Hedgecote, near Banbury. A quarrel between the commanders, however, caused Devonshire to lead his archers away, almost in presence of the enemy. On 26 July Pembroke, with his strength thus seriously impaired, was forced to give battle [Battle of Edgecote]. Panic seized his Welsh followers. He and his brother fought desperately. Sir Richard is said to have twice passed through the 'battail of his adversaries,' armed with a poleaxe, and 'without any mortal wound returned.'But the defeat was decisive, and both brothers were taken prisoners.
Pembroke pleaded for his brother's life in vain, on the ground of his youth; he declared that he was willing to die. On 27 July he made his will, giving directions for his funeral, making many pious bequests to Tintern Abbey and other religious foundations, and providing almshouses for the relief of six poor men. On 28 July Pembroke and Sir Richard were brought to Northampton and beheaded there. Pembroke was buried in Tintern Abbey, and Sir Richard in Abergavenny Church, where his wife Margaret was also buried.5
Pembroke married Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and had by her four sons, William, Walter, George, and Philip, and six daughters. By a mistress, Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt, he had some illegitimate issue, including Sir Richard Herbert, father of Sir William, first Earl of Pembroke of the second creation (1501?-1570).
1 cf. "Domesday Book", 49b.
2 Dugdale, "Baronage", ii. 256.
3 Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, i. 417. [link]
4 Lord Herbert, "Autobiog." 1886, p.14. [link]
5 cf. Coxe, "Tour in Monmouthshire", 1801, p. 189; Churchyard, "Worthines of Wales", 1587, p.53.
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William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (c.1423-1469)
SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE, was elder son of William Herbert of Raglan Castle, called also William ap Thomas, and in Welsh Margoah Glas, or Gumrhi, who fought in France under Henry V, and was made a knight-banneret in 1415. Herbert's mother was Gladys, daughter and heiress of David Gam, and widow of Sir Robert Vaughan. Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrook was a younger brother. Sir William's grandfather, Thomas ap Gwillim ap Jenkin (d.1438), secured Raglan Castle on his marriage with Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir John Morley.
The Herbert family claimed descent from 'Herbertus Camerarius,' a companion of William I, and his son 'Henry Thesaurarius,' both of whom were tenants in capite in Hampshire.1 The descendants of Henry Thesaurarius in the fifteenth-century claimed that he was 'son natural of King Henry the First,' and that they were thus connected with 'the Royal Blood of the Crown of England,'2 but the pretension contradicts established fact. Peter, the great-grandson of Henry Thesaurarius, seems to have been the first of the family to settle in Wales. He received from John in 1210 many grants of land there forfeited by William of Braose, Peter's descendants by intermarriages with Welsh heiresses acquired very large estates in South-east Wales, and practically became Welshmen.
Herbert was a warrior from his youth. He was knighted by Henry VI in 1449, and in 1450 was on active service in France under the Duke of Somerset. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Formigny in 1450, but was apparently soon released. He played a prominent part on the side of the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses. In Wales he did very notable service against Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, Henry, Duke of Exeter, and James, Earl of Wiltshire.
On 1 May 1457 it was reported that the Lancastrians had offered him his life and goods if he would come to Leicester and ask pardon of Henry VI; but the Yorkists were still strong, and he remained faithful to them.3 On Edward IV's accession Herbert was made a privy councillor (10 March 1461). On 8 May following he was granted the offices of chief justice and chamberlain of South Wales, and some sub-ordinate posts; on 7 Sept. he was made steward of those castles, including that of Brecknock in South Wales, which had belonged to Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham. On 4 Nov. he was created Baron Herbert, and received in consideration of his services the castle, town, and lordship of Pembroke, with numerous manors and castles on the Welsh marches.
On 29 April 1462 he appeared in the House of Lords, and was made a knight of the Garter. Shortly afterwards he joined Edward IV in an expedition to the north of England, where Lancastrians still held out. In 1463 he was appointed justice in Merionetshire, and received new grants of land, including Dunster, and those manors in Devonshire and Suffolk which had been forfeited by Sir James Luttrell. On 3 June 1466 he was in London, and accompanied Edward IV on a visit to the Archbishop of York. In 1467 he was nominated chief justice of North Wales for life, and made constable of Carmarthen and Cardigan castles.
In August 1468 Pembroke and his brother, Sir Richard, advanced against the castle of Harlech, the last Lancastrian stronghold in Wales, where Jasper Tudor, with his young nephew Henry (afterwards Henry VII), still resisted the power of Edward IV. After a siege the castle, although strongly fortified, surrendered, but Sir Richard promised the governor to do what he could to save his life. Sir Richard petitioned Edward IV to that effect, and the request was unwillingly granted. Herbert seems to have taken Prince Henry prisoner, and he was appointed his guardian; but a plan to marry Henry to his daughter Maud failed.
He was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Pembroke (8 Sept. 1468), after the attainder of Jasper Tudor, and received the manor of Haverfordwest and the offices of chief forester of Snowdon and constable of Conway Castle. Soon afterwards the two brothers proceeded to Anglesey to apprehend seven brothers who had been guilty of 'many mischiefs and murders.' The mother pleaded strongly with Pembroke to spare the lives of two of her sons. Richard seconded her prayer, but Pembroke refused to yield, and executed all. Whereupon the mother cursed him on her knees, 'praying God's mischief might fall to him in the first battle he should make.'4
Meanwhile Pembroke and the Earl of Warwick had quarrelled. Pembroke, it is said, desired to marry his infant son to the daughter of Lord Bonvile, and Warwick opposed the arrangement. Pembroke thenceforth sought to widen the breach which was threatening the king's relations with Warwick, and as early as 1466 he had captured in Wales a messenger of Queen Margaret of Anjou, with whom he showed that Warwick was intriguing. In January 1467 the disagreement seemed subsiding, and Pembroke and Warwick both attended a meeting of the king's council.
But in July 1469 a rebellion, which was largely fomented by Warwick, broke out in the north. The rebels declared for Henry VI, and rapidly marched south. Pembroke readily prepared an army of Welshmen to resist their progress. He and his brother were ordered with their army to join at Banbury a strong detachment of archers under the command of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devonshire, and to intercept the enemy there. The first part of the manoeuvre was successfully accomplished. But a skirmish between a detachment of Pembroke's army under Sir Richard and some rebel troops ended in the total rout of the former.
Immediately afterwards Pembroke and Devonshire encamped at Hedgecote, near Banbury. A quarrel between the commanders, however, caused Devonshire to lead his archers away, almost in presence of the enemy. On 26 July Pembroke, with his strength thus seriously impaired, was forced to give battle [Battle of Edgecote]. Panic seized his Welsh followers. He and his brother fought desperately. Sir Richard is said to have twice passed through the 'battail of his adversaries,' armed with a poleaxe, and 'without any mortal wound returned.'But the defeat was decisive, and both brothers were taken prisoners.
Pembroke pleaded for his brother's life in vain, on the ground of his youth; he declared that he was willing to die. On 27 July he made his will, giving directions for his funeral, making many pious bequests to Tintern Abbey and other religious foundations, and providing almshouses for the relief of six poor men. On 28 July Pembroke and Sir Richard were brought to Northampton and beheaded there. Pembroke was buried in Tintern Abbey, and Sir Richard in Abergavenny Church, where his wife Margaret was also buried.5
Pembroke married Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and had by her four sons, William, Walter, George, and Philip, and six daughters. By a mistress, Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt, he had some illegitimate issue, including Sir Richard Herbert, father of Sir William, first Earl of Pembroke of the second creation (1501?-1570).
1 cf. Domesday Book, 49b.
2 Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 256.
3 Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, i. 417.
4 Lord Herbert, Autobiog. 1886, p.14.
5 cf. Coxe, Tour in Monmouthshire, 1801, p. 189; Churchyard, Worthines of Wales, 1587, p.53. | HERBERT, Sir William 1st Earl Pembroke (I15035)
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William I Talvas (c. 995 – 1052), seigneur of Alençon. According to Orderic Vitalis his nickname Talvas meaning shield, presumably alluded to his hardness or callousness like that of a shield. He was a member of the House of Bellême.
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1 Life
2 Family
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
Life[edit]
He was a son of William of Bellême and Mathilde of Condé-sur-Noireau. He held lands at Bellême, Domfront and Alençon,[1] He obtained the lands of Bellême from his brother Yves de Bellême, Bishop of Séez[a][2] who held them of the King of France while Alençon was held of the Duke of Normandy and Domfront of the Count of Maine[3]
While as treacherous and self-serving as any of his family before him he surpassed them in wickedness and cruelty.[4] He had married a Hildeburg, daughter of a nobleman named Arnulf, but he had his wife strangled on her way to church, according to Orderic, because she loved God and would not support his wickedness.[4] William married secondly a daughter of Ralf de Beaumont, Viscount of Le Mans.[5]
Among the private feuds going on during the minority of Duke William was one that erupted between William Talvas and William fitz Giroie. William fitz Giroie was a vassal of William Talvas and his father Giroie, Lord of Échauffour had assisted Talvas' father and uncle in the struggles against Herbert I Wake-dog, Count of Maine.[b] William fitz Giroie himself had greatly assisted William Talvas in obtaining his own lands, apparently by force.[4] But William fitz Giroie was also a vassal of Geoffrey de Mayenne, an adherent, in turn, of the Count of Maine. About 1044 William Talvas attacked the castle of Montaigu which was being defended by William fitz Giroie. Unable to defeat the castle William Talvas captured Geoffrey de Mayenne and held him prisoner until William Fitz Giroie destroyed the castle of Montaigu.[6] William fitz Giroie immediately razed his own castle to free his lord and in return Geoffrey de Mayenne built fitz Giroie a new castle at St. Cenery on the river Sarthe.[7] This apparently caused great resentment in William Talvas.[6]
On the occasion of his second wedding, William Talvas invited William fitz Giroie to attend. Suspecting nothing fitz Giroie while a guest at the festivities was suddenly seized by Talvas' men and imprisoned, then according to Orderic horribly mutilated and blinded before being released.[6] Somehow William Giroie survived his torture and mutilation and retired to Bec Abbey to live out the remainder of his life as a monk.[8] To avenge this atrocity the sons and kinsmen of William fitz Giroie sacked and destroyed the lands of William Talvas who would not face them in the field.[9] Finally, Talvas' son Arnulf rebelled and exiled his father, now reviled by everyone.[9] He wandered until he was taken in by the de Montgomery family whose son Roger agreed to marry his daughter Mabel in return for the lands William lost.[6] It seems certain that after the death of Arnulf the following year, that William Talvas recovered his lands.[6] William confirmed a gift to St. Aubin of Angers made by his brother Yves circa 1060-2 and after that nothing more is heard of him.[6]
Family[edit]
By Hildeburg, his first wife, William had two children:
Arnulf de Bellême, who deprived his father of his estates and wealth[5] and was dead by 1049.[7]
Mabel de Bellême, who married Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and was murdered 2 Dec 1079[10]
His second wife, a daughter of Ralf de Beaumont, may have been the mother of his son:
Oliver who after long service in the wars, became a monk at Bec.[c][5]
William Talvas is said to have cursed the infant William, later to become William the Conqueror, in his cradle predicting the child would be the downfall of the house of Bellême.[11]
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Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ While Orderic stated that William Talvas succeeded his brother Robert, Yves (a.k.a. Ivo) inherited the lands of Bellême at the death of Robert about two years before he became Bishop of Séez in 1035. William Talvas probably held the lands from his brother Yves while he was Bishop and recovered the other family lands on his own. William Talvas never was lord of Bellême as evidenced by his use of his nickname 'Talvas' instead of de Bellême. See Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), pp. 81-3.
Jump up ^ For additional information on the wars between Bishop Avesguad de Belleme and Herbert I 'Wake-Dog', Count of Maine see the articles William of Bellême and Avesgaud de Bellême.
Jump up ^ He is considered illegitimate by some sources due to his not inheriting his father's extensive lands but Geoffrey White thinks it possible he was legitimate and excluded from inheriting due to an agreement with Roger de Montgomery. See: Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 85
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Jean Jacques Gautier, Histoire d'Alençon (Poulet-Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire, Place Bourbon, 1805), p. 24
Jump up ^ Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 75
Jump up ^ W. Scott Jessee, Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, C. A. 1025-1098 (Catholic University of America Press, 2000), p. 32
^ Jump up to: a b c Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 83
^ Jump up to: a b c Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 85
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 84
^ Jump up to: a b Guy Halsall, Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West, (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 1998), p. 132
Jump up ^ François Neveux, A brief History of The Normans, Trans. Howard Curtis (Constable & Robinson, Ltd., London, 2006), p. 113
^ Jump up to: a b The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, Vol. II, Ed. & Trans. Elisabeth M.C. Van Houts (The Clarendon Press, Oxford & New York, 1995), pp. 110-12
Jump up ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, a History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, Volume XI, Ed. Geoffrey H. White (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949), p. 686
Jump up ^ Edward Augustus Freeman, William the Conqueror(Perkins Book Company, New York, 1902), p. 33
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_Talvas]
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William James is a mystery. I have not found the marriage of William James and Patience despite having searched over 200 registers of parishes in East Kent. The first christening of a child to William and Patience, that I have found, occurs in 1729 with William, Jr.. William, Sr. was born about 1695 if the age of 84 years that had been included in his burial entry is remotely accurate. If one assumes, for the moment, that William, Sr. was born circa 1695 then his marriage to Patience would likely have taken place sometime between 1715 and 1729, when William, Jr. is christened at Boughton-under-Blean.
There are two male James who are presumed to be children of William and Patience: Joseph, who married at Faversham during 1767 and John who married Sarah Harvey circa 1750. There is no hard evidence that exists that confirms either of these associations. However, in the case of Joseph, Sarah appears in Faversham to marry Edward Gregory about 18 months before Joseph marries Elizabeth Wraight. These are the only two James individuals in Faversham during that period. In the case of John James and Sarah Harvey, John names his second daughter Patient and his only son, William. Certainly the estimated range of years in which William, Sr. and Patience could have married leaves open the possibility of not only two unknown children but several others as well.
William, Sr. spent the majority of his adult life living in Dunkirk, an extra-parochial ville in the middle of East Kent. Given the reputation of the inhabitants of Dunkirk I have to wonder why it is that I have not been able to find any hint of a christening for William.
The description of Dunkirk that follows is a portion of the entry found in J. M. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870:
"It [Dunkirk] is an extra-parochial ville, which is also a chapelry (church built after 1838). The name Dunkirk was first given to it, about the middle of the last century [18th] by a body of squatters who took free or forcible possession of the land and who became notable for smuggling practices. Many of the persons implicated in the extraordinary outbreak of 1838, connected with Sir William Courtenay or Thoms, were inhabitants of Dunkirk."
From the manorial records (LDS Film #1850144, 1850205-06) of the manor of Darby's Court in Stalisfield it was learned that one Thomas James was a tenant during 1740. The entry in the Court Baron included a statement indicating that the manor had been rented previously by Thomas James' father. Unfortunately, the name of that individual was not recorded. Prior to the James' family occupation of the property in Stalisfield, it had been rented by one William Crowhurst. At the time of the entry in 1740 the occupier of the property was one Thomas Epps.
Also from the manorial records (LDS Film #1850205, specifically) comes the following entry: Robert Hinde and William James, 10 shillings due to the Lord of the manor for 1 messuage called "Belwin", the barns, stables, outhouses, buildings, pastures and marsh, containing approximately 80 acres at St. Thomas the Apostle in Harty. Late in the occupation of John Swift, now deceased, upon whose decease the same property came to and is now legally vested in Robert Hinde and William James. Relief due to the Lord 5 shillings a piece, which was paid, both being admitted tenants of the manor but fealty being respited inasmuch as they were both physically absent from the proceedings.
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James George Pinyon Harriett m 16 Oct 1847 both of full age, he bachelor, labourer of Harbledown, father William James, labourer, she spinster, no occupation, residing at Petham, father John Pinyon, labourer. Married in the Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by me, J. H. Hughes Hallett, Officiating Minister. This marriage was solemnized between us, George James by his mark, Hariet [sic] Pinyon in the presence of us Henry Adams and Hannah Gillis, both signed by their marks | JAMES, William (I4521)
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William Jemmett died unmarried of carcinoma of the jaw with metaslisis and a contributory cause of chronic nephritis. Informant on death was his sister, M. A. Crees. | JEMMETT, William (I8005)
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William Lewington Jemmett died in the 1864 Erith Explosion. He was master of the "Good Design", one of the two sailing barges which were blown up in the accident. The mate and only other member of the crew was Luke Barber. The "Good Design" belonged to Hall's, the owners of the Faversham gunpowder factories; she displaced 36 tons and had been built at Nine Elms in 1844. The other barge was the "Harriott", crewed by the master John Dodson and the mate Daniel Wise.
On Dec 24, 1851, William Lewington Jemmett joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | JEMMETT, William Lewington (I7550)
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