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Richard ARDERNE |
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Abt 1400 |
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| Person ID |
I13118 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
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- Hugh C. Penfold, "Sussex Pedigrees", a MS in Reference Library,
Brighton, England, IV: fol. 27. Cites Harleian MSS 1076 and 6164.
Visit. of Sussex, 1530, p. 195. Visit of Kent. 1619, Harl. Soc. 53,
citing Harl. MS 1432, fol. 245.
in the British Chancery Records, 1386-1558
Name: John Arderne
Place: Northampton
Date: 1431-1443, 1467-1473
Volume: 1
Page: 80
Bundle: 10
Name: John Arderne
Date: 1452-1454, 1494-1501
Volume: 1
Page: 221
Bundle: 22
Name: John Arderne
Place: Ches
Date: 1486-1493
Volume: 3
Page: 32
Bundle: 83
Name: Rauff Arderne
Place: Ches
Date: 1486-1493
Volume: 3
Page: 32
Bundle: 83
Name: Thomas Arderne
Place: Ches
Date: 1486-1493
Volume: 3
Page: 32
Bundle: 83
Name: Richard Arderne
Place: Surrey
Date: 1502-1503
Volume: 4
Page: 85
Bundle: 264
Name: Richard Arderne
Place: Surrey
Date: 1504-1515
Volume: 4
Page: 419
Bundle: 366
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[Source: Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Chancery, preserved in the public Record Office by Great Britain. Public Record Office. p 39]
Richard Arderne of Sussex holds, and has held for 10 years before Michaelmas last, of the king the alien priory of Ellingham with all rights and appurtenances in Hampshire for a term of years by rent of 9 marks yearly, it being worth 10 marks net yearly in addition. [C 145/305, no. 15]
[Source: Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Chancery, preserved in the public Record Office by Great Britain. Public Record Office.]
Richard Arderne of Sussex holds, and has held for 10 years before Michaelmas last, of the king the alien priory of Ellingham with all rights and appurtenances in Hampshire for a term of years by rent of 9 marks yearly, it being worth 12 marks net yearly in addition. He made sale and waste of the priory buildings by allowing a grange worth 100s....worth 100s.......worth 50s to stand unroofed so that the timber decayed [12 Henry VI, 1434] p36, Entry No. 61.
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[Source: Surrey Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History and... Vol. 11, Some account of Leigh Place, Surrey, and of its Owners. pp. 143-149]
The next family in possession of Leigh Place, so far as can be traced, was that of Arderne, in the 15th century, but it does not appear in what manner they acquired it. This family had been connected with the county long previously to this date Thomas Arderne, of Horndon-on-the-Hill in Essex, and Thomas, his son, gave the Church of St. George, in Southwark, and certain tithes in Horndon to the priory of Bermondsey in 1122. (3) About 1286, William de Arderne was rector of Merros; (4) in 12th Edward II, 1319, John de Arderne and Agnes, his wife, made a grant of lands in Basselagh, a member of the manor of Byfleet; (5) in 1324, John de Arderne was instituted vicar of Dorking; (6) and in 10th Edward III, 1336, Roger Arderne was M.P for the borough of Southwark. (7)
In the patent roll, 21st Edward III, (8) 1347, there is a grant to Reginald de Cobham, of all the lands in tenements of Sir Thomas de Arderne, Knight, which had escheated to the Crown by reason of the rape of Margery, formerly wife of Nicholas de la Beche, and the murder of Nicholas de Poynings, and other felonies of which the said Thomas was convicted. It is said, in Sir William Burrell's Sussex Collections (1) that Arderne pacified the widow by marrying her, and that his lands were restored; the murder seems to have been forgotten. There is a tradition that the crimes were committed in Leigh, and that the Lady died of a broken heart; and it is said that the white Lady still haunts the house, but it is very doubtful whether an Arderne held Leigh Place at such an early date
The first of the Ardernes who is recorded to have held land in Leigh was John Arderne, probably one of the family of that name seated at Cudworth in Warwickshire. There is no evidence to connect the Ardernes of Leigh with the Warwickshire family, except the statement bove, but the similarity in the arms born by the two families makes it probable tht they were related. (2) John Arderne was buried in the chancel of Leigh Church and had two wives, Margaret and Elizabeth, both of whom died in his lifetime, and six children - Thomas, John, Henry, Anna, Bregitta or Bridget, and Susanna. On a small slab in the middle of the chancel of Leigh Church is a brass, nine inches in length, of Susanna, one of his daughters, with the following inscription:
Hic iacet Susanna filia Johis
Arderne Armig'i & Elizabeth ur'is
Sue Tui aie ppicietur deus. Amen
And on a label over the head of the figure -
Mercy Ihu & graunt m'cy
John Arderne was high sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 132, 11th Henry VI. He made his Will on the 1st February, 1446, in which he describes himself as "armiger" and after bequeathing his soul to God, his Saviour and Creator, to the blessed Mary His Mother, to St. Michael the Archangel, and all the holy angels, and to St. Kaherine and all the holy virgins, desired, if he should die in or near London, that he should be buried in the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Carmelite Brothers, in London, or Westminster, or near London, under the marble slab where his late wife Margaret lay buried, but, if he should die at Leygh or near that parish, that he should be buried in the chancel of the church of Leygh, under the marble slb where his late wife Elizabeth lay buried. He bequeathed, for the relief of the poor on the day of his burial, 20s, and appointed as executors John Somerset, William Fallan, John Elmerugge and Robert Thorp, and desired that they should carry out his last wishes contained in a schedule under his seal; and further, that john Arderne, his son and heir, and William Selman, shoud counsel and assist his executors in carrying out his Will. He appointed John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury, supervisor, and gave all the residue of his goods, etc after payment of his legacies and debts, to his said son and heir John Arderne and his daughter Bridget, to be disposed according to the discretion of his executors towards their marriages. The Will was proved at lambeth on the 12th May, 1449, by William Fallan, John Elmerugge, and Robert Thorp. (1) John Arderne appears to have died at Leigh; he was buried in the chancel of Leigh Church.
On a slab on the northern side of the communion table are two whole length brasses, measuring three feet four inches in length, of John Arderne and Elizabeth his wife, the male figure being habited as a merchant, and the female wearing a horned headdress and a long cloak, on which is a talbot dog. There are smaller figures below them of their six children. The inscription is as follows:
Thomas, Johnes Henricus, filii Johni
Arderne Armigi' & Eliabeth ux'is sue.
Anna, Birgitta & Susanna, filie Johis Arderne, Armig'i & Elizabeth ux'is sue
There is no date to the inscription. On a sheild in the corner of the stone above the woman's effigy, is the coat of Arderne, arg., a fess chequy or and az. between three crescents gu, and on a shield below the same coat, impaling 1st and th,...2nd and 3rd, paly of six
As two only of the children of John Arderne, John and Bridget, are mentioned in his Will, it is probablyl that the others died in his lifetime. John, his second son who became his heir, succeeded to his estate in Leigh
In 1453, Flauncheford in Reigate, with certain other lands, was conveyed by feoffment to John Ardern, of the county of Warwick, nd Alice his wife, John Gaynesford, Esquire, John Elmerugge, of Albury in Merstham, and John Skynner, in trust for the said John and Alice, for their lives, and the heirs of John Arderne forever. The letter of attorney for delivering seisin was dated the 12th February, 32nd Henry VI, 1453-4, and on the 20th of the same month and on the 18th October following, Thomas Hornyngescerthe of London released all his right etc in the same lands to the said John Arderne and Alice his wife
the last-mentioned John Arderne is said to have been seised of the manors of Purching, Adberton, (1) La Wick, Hangleton, Fulking, Nutknolle, Bolney, Alburne, Woodmancourt, and Hurst in Sussex, and probably was the same person who had a grant from the crown, temp Henry VI, of the manor of Tooting Bec for ten years, and who was lord of the manor of Imworth in Thames Ditton. (2)
John Arderne married Alice Grene, and had three children by her, Richard, his heir, Walter, parson of the Church of Cheyham (Cheam) in Surrey, and Elizabeth. I cannot find the date of his death and cannot trace his Will. He is said to have been esquire of the body to King Henry VII, but this seems to be an error, as he must have died before that king's accession. His widow, Alice, afterwards married John Holgrave, appointed Baron of the exchequer in 1484 (1), by whom she had four children, Thomas, John, Kateryne, who married... Colyns, and Elizabeth. Holgrave died in 1487, and his widow survived him a very short time. (2)
Leigh Place descended to the eldest son of the second John Arderne, Richard, who made his Will at Boseham, nar Chichester in Sussex, on the 18th November 1499, and there calls himself Richard Ardyn. After bequeathing his soul to Almighty God and our lady of St. Mary, and all the holy company of heaven, he directed his body to be buried in the chancel before the image of St. Kateryn in the parish church of "the Lee" and gave to the said pairsh church 40s and to the rood of rest for a "cote" 13s 4d. He also gave to his brother Thomas Holgrave a gilt cup, and to his brother John Holgrave his chain of gold, and appointed Johen his wife his sole executrix, and gave to her all his goods and chattels, moveable and unmoveable, wheresoever they might be He further willed that John of Lee, (3) of Addynton, Richard Culpex of Ardyng Lee, and John Chaloner, his feoffes, should suffer Johen, his wife, peaceably to enjoy and occupy all his lands without impeachment of waste during her lie, and that they should see that his said wife found an honest priet, to pray for him and all his friends and all christian souls, during her life. After her death he gave all his lands unto John Holgrave, his brother, and to his heirs wheresoever they were, and directed his feoffees to see that the said John Holgrave and his heirs found an honest priest for evermore, and to give him GB6:13s.d. by the year to pray for him, for Johen his wife, his father and mother and other friends, and all christian souls. He further gave to Walter Dabernon his house at Craley (Crawley) for evermore, and to richard Stylar, after the death of his wife, all his houses and lands in the parish of rowsper; the said Richard, his heirs and assigns, to make an obit once a year to the value of 6s 8d for him and Johen his wife and all christian souls, the said obit to be continued for evermore. Richard Arderne died on the 22nd November 1499, and his Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 2nd February, 1499-1500 (1) Thomas Grene, vicar of Boseham, was one of the witnesses.
Richard Arderne was buried on the south side of the chancel of Leigh church, where are indents for a man and woman the brasses themselves hving been lost for many years), with supplicatory labels issuing from the mouths of the figures with the following inscriptions:
(Man) ut videntes Ihum semper colletemur
(Woman) ffili redemptor mudi deus miscrere nobis
Underneath is the following inscription:
Orate pro animabus Ricardi Ardern Gentilman et Johanne xoris eius
qui quidem richrdus obiit xxij di Mensis Novembris Anno Dni llmo CCCClxxxxix Quoru animabus Propiciet' deus. Amen.
There are also four shields with the arms of Arderne as above, and the same coat impaling (sable) a chevron between three stags trippant [argent] There is also a small brass on the top of the stone with a representation of the Trinity; God the Father holding the Saviour on the cross, on which the Dove is sitting. All these brasses are engraved in Drummond's Noble Families, and are shown in the annexed plate.
There is no record of the foundation of the chantry mentioned in Richard Ardern's Will, and it is uncertain whether he intended it should be founded in Leigh or some other church; neither is there any record on the death of Joan Ardern, nor the succession of John Holgrave, his step-brother, to the estate. Not long after Arderne's deth, however, Leigh Place appears to have been purchased or acquired in some way by Edmund Dudley, the minister of King Henry VII. There would appear to have been some connection between the families of arderne and Dudley, for in the act 3rd Henry VIII, c. xix, for the restitution of John Dudley, mentioned below, it was provided that the act should not affect the title of Thomas Stydolphe to the reversion of a messuage in Cheapsidein London, which Margaret, then the wife of John Theccher and late wife of Richard Arderne, of the parish of Lee, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, then held for the term of her life. It is possible that Margaret was the same person as Joan, widow of Richard Arderne, mentioned above, and that a mistake was made in her christian name in the act.
3 Dugdales' Monasticon, Vol. I, p 640.
4 Manning and Bray, Vol. III, pp 60, 63
5 Ibid, p. 188. Close roll, 1st Edward III, p 2, m 67
6 Reg Stratford, 90a.
7 Manning and Bray, Vol. III, p 649
8 P 3, memb. 34.
1 No. 5680, Vol. III, p 93
2. See Drummond's Noble Families, Vol. I, p. 8.
1 Lambeth Library, Archbishop Stafford's Register, fol 172
1 In 1327, a charter of free warren was granted to Robert de Arderne as to his manor of Edbarton (Tower Records, I Edward III, No 45), of which, with Perching, he died seised in 1331. (Dugdale's Warwickshire, p 297)
2 Manning and Bray, Vol. I, p 455*
1 Foss's Lives of the Judges, Vol. V, p. 54
2 Wills of John Holgrave, dated 6th August, 1486, Prerogative Register, Milles, fol. 4; of Alice Holgrave, dated 17th September, 1487, register Milles, fol 4; and of Walter Arderne, parson of Cheyham, dated 13th September, 1492, Dogett, fol. 9
3 Blank in Will
1 Prerogative Calendar, Moone, fol. 5
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