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3301 Will A' Denne William Lympne 1545 1545 PRC/17/24/128 1545 A’DENNE, William (I16340)
 
3302 Will Amis, Amys Richard Molash 1665 1665 PRC/17/72/111 PRC/16/274 A/3 1665
Inv Amys Andrew Molash 1566 PRC/10/2/151 Will 1566
Act Amys John Molash 1501 PRC/3/1/156 1501
Will Amys John Molash 1506 1506 PRC/17/10/189 No end, Folio 190/191 not filmed 1506
Act Amys John Molash 1510 PRC/3/2/140 1510
Will Amys, Amis Andrew Molash 1566 1566 PRC/17/39/270a PRC/16/43 A/2 WY from PRC/17 - OWD 1566 		AMIS, Richard (I19857)
 
3303 Will Austen Richard Adisham 1618 1619 PRC/32/44/310b PRC/31/75 M/1 1619

Will Austen Richard Adisham 1665 1666 PRC/32/53/398 PRC/31/135 A/1 1666
Inv Austen Richard Adisham 1666 1666 PRC/27/18/20 Film Pos 18/94 Yeoman, Will 1666

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A. File of indictments for both felonies and mis-demeanours covering dates Feb 1613/14 to August 1617,
West Kent Quarter Sessions Records

1. Repository: Centre for Kentish Studies, RefNo CKS-Q/M/SI/1617/7/9
Christopher Adman of Brook, husbandman, at Brook, broke into and entered a close of Richard Austen and trampled grain worth 40s. [Ignoramus] Date 19 July 1617

2. Repository: Centre for Kentish Studies, RefNo CKS-Q/M/SI/1617/7/6
Richard Austen of Brook, yeoman, broke into and entered the close of a certain Christopher Adman at Brook. [Ignoramus] Date 8 Aug 1617

B. Kent Quarter Sessions
Sessions Papers

Repository: Centre for Kentish Studies
RefNo CKS-Q/S/B/8/45
Title Depositions
Date 5 June 1662
Description John Jerman of Brook who confesses that he played a part in theft of Austen's horse 		AUSTIN, Richard (I10309)
 
3304 Will Austen Thomas Adisham 1578 1580 PRC/32/34/66b PRC/31/22 A/1 1580 AUSTEN, Thomas (I12075)
 
3305 Will Baker Leonard Folkestone 1589 1590 PRC/17/47/384 PRC/16/94 B/4 1590
Inv Baker Leonard Folkestone 1590 PRC/10/18/50 Will 1590 		BAKER, Leonard (I17728)
 
3306 Will Baker Thomas Folkestone 1557 1557 PRC/17/32/210 1557


IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, the ninth day of August 1597 in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc., I, EDMUND BAKER, of Bredmer in the parish Folkestone in the county of Kent, being sick in my body at God's pleasure, but whole and sound of my remembrance thanks be to God, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following;

First and principally I bequeath my soul unto the hands of Almighty God my maker and to Jesus Christ my alone and only redeemer by whose precious bloodshedding I believe most steadfastly to be saved and to the Holy Ghost my only sanctifier, and my body I will to the earth from whence it came.

Item, I give to the poor people of Folkestone aforesaid two shillings to be paid by my Executor.

Item, I give and bequeath to EDMOND EDWARDS and THOMAS MAIECK my godchildren either of them twelve pence.

Item, I give unto AGNES BAKER my daughter my two yearling heifers colour brown goare and my great brass pot.

Item, I give and bequeath unto ALICE my daughter twenty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid unto her by my Executor when she shall accomplish the age of one and twenty years or at the day of her marriage which shall first happen.

The residue of all my moveable goods and chattels whatsoever my debts, legacies and other charges discharged, I give and bequeath wholly to ALICE my wife whom I make ordain and appoint sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me the said EDMOND BAKER made the day and year first above written, concerning all my houses and lands which I have in the parish of Folkestone aforesaid or elsewhere in the County of Kent.

First, I will and bequeath all my houses and lands to ALICE my wife during the term of her natural life, And after her decease I will, give and bequeath my said houses and lands to AGNES BAKER my daughter and to her heirs forever in fee simple, So as she pay or cause to be paid to ALICE my daughter within three years next after the death of the said ALICE my wife the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England And if the said ten pounds be not paid unto her in such manner and form and within such time as is before limited, then I will and my true meaning is that the said ALICE my daughter shall enter into one parcel of my land called Uppingswell Meadow containing by estimation one acre and one half lying next the park of Folkestone aforesaid to the park aforesaid east and north and the highway west and north and the same to have and enjoy to her and her heirs forever in fee simple anything in this my present Will mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.

The mark of Edmond Baker
Witnesses present at the make of this said Testament
Rocjard Wrytell par signum
Thomas Earden writer hereof

Exaiatur

PROBATUM fuit pns suprascriptum testamentum coram venli viro magro Georgio Newio legum doctor ven viri dm Archm Cant offic etc. octavo die Octobris anno dmi millimo quingenmo nonagesuuo septi ac approbatum etc omnisquam Executois euisd comiss est Executrici etc primntas iurat etc 		BAKER, Thomas (I17726)
 
3307 Will Cherche Isabel Otterden 1496 1497 PRC/17/6/257b 1497 SHAKEWEY, Isabel (I16348)
 
3308 Will Denn, Denne Agnes Littlebourne 1638 1638 PRC/17/70/27 PRC/16/219 D/16 1638 Agnes (I16362)
 
3309 Will Denne, Den Michael Lympne 1559 1559 PRC/17/35/38b PRC/16/29 D/1 1559
Will Denne Michael Ickham 1593 1594 PRC/32/37/198 PRC/31/38 D/5 1594 		A’DENNE, Michael (I16341)
 
3310 Will Gay Christopher Elmsted 1509 PRC/32/10/17b No probate 1509

Will Gaye Christopher Swalecliffe 1586 1588 PRC/17/47/217a PRC/16/90 G/7 1588
Inv Gaye Christopher Swalecliffe 1588 PRC/10/17/408 Will 1588

Will Gaye Thomas Swalecliffe 1612 1613 PRC/17/59/263 PRC/16/147 G/2 1613
Inv Graye, Gay* Thomas Swalecliffe 1613 PRC/10/34/40 Will 1613

Inv Gaye Christopher Herne 1633 1633 PRC/28/19/664 Will 1633
Will Gaye, Gey Christopher Herne 1633 1633 PRC/32/50/288b PRC/31/100 G/2 1633
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Testamenta Cantiana, p. 115
Elmstead
Buried in the Chancel of St. John the Baptist, on the side next unto the Chancel of St. James of Elmsted: Christopher Gay, 1507 (Con. 10, fol. 17)

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Inside Elmstead church part of a brass to Christopher Gay, d. 1507.

The south chancel, [of Elmstead church] dedicated to St. John, belongs to Evington, in which there are several monuments, and numbers of gravestones, the pavement being covered with them, for the Honywood family, some of which have inscriptions and figures on brasses remaining on them. Underneath this chancel is a large vault, in which the remains of the family lie deposited. On the north side of this chancel is a tomb, having had the figures on it of a man between his two wives: and at each corner a shield of arms in brass for Gay. On the capital of a pillar at the east end of this tomb is this legend, in old English letters, in gold, which have been lately repaired: Pray for the sowlys of Xtopher Gay, Agnes and Johan his wifes, ther chylder and all Xtian sowlys, on whose sowlys Jhu have mcy; by which it should seem that he was the founder, or at least the repairer of this chancel. Underneath is carved a shield of arms of Gay.

At Elmsted

58. Pray for The Sowlys of Cristofer GAY, Agnes and Johan his Wyfes, ther Childer, and all Cristen Sowlys - On Whose Sowlys, Jesu have Mercy. Under ye Angel is a Lyon Rampant, as in ye Above Coat. (* This Gay, according to Philpot was ye Possessor of Evington, before it came into ye Hands of ye Honeywoods - he tells Us, that, One Christopher Gay, sold it to John HONEYWOOD Esq. abt. the beginning of the Reign of HENRY 7).
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CCA-U15 - CHURCH COMMISSIONERS MANORIAL COURT ROLLS
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Title Doccombe Court Roll
Order Number CCA-U15/14/5
PreviousNumbers 48974
Date 1489-1509
Description 32 courts, and a view of the manor made by Christopher Gay, auditor, 2 May 1499 detailing the holdings of tenants.
Extent Parchment roll, 16rr each of 1m & Paper roll, 2rr each of 1p
Physical Description Parchment roll, 16rr each of 1m & Paper roll, 2rr each of 1p
Language Latin
AccessStatus Open
Open
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CCA-DCc - DEAN AND CHAPTER
ChAnt - Chartae Antiquae
S - Chartae Antiquae S
Title Evidence
Order Number CCA-DCc/ChAnt/S/345
PreviousNumbers S 364 (late 19th c)
Date 16 Jan 1500
Description In a case between the prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory and Thomas Benett of Sheppey concerning 'Monkenhope' in Rushenden [in Minster in Sheppey], which the prior claims is part of the manor of Barksore, heard before Christopher Gay, the priory's auditor, and William Godfrey of Gillingham. Evidence of John Wreke of Halstow parish, husbandman, aged 70, and Eliott of Sheppey, aged 80, and an account of the jury viewing the land. John Wreke's evidence relates to John Hyth', formerly farmer of Barksore, and William Benett, Thomas's father.

Jurors: John Elmyston' of Rainham; William Whiteloke of Rainham; John Holford of Halstow; Stephen Bull of Newington; John Wynselowe of Newington; Thomas Blakeborn' of Newington

Endorsed 'Southmershe' in early 16th cent hand.
Extent 1 doc
Physical Description Paper, 1p, dirty, creased, several small holes
Language English
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CCA-DCc - DEAN AND CHAPTER
ChChLet - Scrapbooks
III - Letters
Title Letter
Order Number CCA-DCc/ChChLet/III/1
Date 1495
Description Writer: Dunmow, John
Addressee: Goldston, Thomas, IV, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory

Concerning the news received from Goldston's servant, Christopher Gay, that he has taken up the post of prior. 11 May.

Written at Bologna (Italy)
Extent Paper, 1p
Physical Description Paper, 1p
Language Latin
AccessStatus Open
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CCA-DCc - DEAN AND CHAPTER
ChAnt - Chartae Antiquae
S - Chartae Antiquae S
Title Confirmation of arbitration award
Order Number CCA-DCc/ChAnt/S/241
PreviousNumbers S 243 (Norris); S 243 (late 19th c)
Date 26 Nov 1508
Description From: Thomas Goldstone, IV, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
To: Edward Tyrell of Essex, esq, priory tenant of the manor of Southchurch, Essex

There have been disputes between Edward and the priory concerning rents and services he owes for lands and tenements in Southchurch belonging to the priory's manor of Southchurch. The parties have submitted themselves to arbitration by Robert Read, chief justice of the king's bench, and John Kingsmill, justice of the king's bench, dated 29 May 1508, which was delivered on 6 Jun 1508 (recited).
A dispute has arisen between Edward and the priory concerning annual payments of 9s 5d and 2s 3d called 'Custumsilver', payable as specified by Edward for a messuage, 54 acres of land and 21 acres of marsh in Southchurch late of John Brett, in addition to an annual payment of 15s which Edward pays and does not withhold ('nego'). The priory also claims an annual payment of 13s 4d, payable as specified, for 5 acres of land called 'Gildynland' in Southchurch, which were of John Brett, lying with John's former messuage to east, with the lands of the priory's manor to north, the marsh late of Sarah Bret and the lands of the manor to east, the lands called 'Porters' to west and the lands of the manor and the lands late of Thomas Pytman to south. The prior, through Christopher Gay, surveyor of the manor, impounded Edward's cattle ('averia') in a place called 'Botereys', which is part of the messuage, 54 acres of land and 21 acres of marsh, for arrears. Edward recovered his cattle in the king's court. Both parties, wishing to avoid more conflict, have submitted to the judges' arbitration.
The judges declare that Edward shall hold the 54 acres of land and 21 acres of marsh of the priory for an annual payment of 20s, services as specified and a relief of 10s. Christopher acknowledges that he seized the cattle for 2 years' arrears, amounting to 40s. He should not prosecute for the return of the cattle but Edward should pay the priory 30s. The 5 acres called 'Gyldynland' were never part of Edward's lands and he shall allow the priory to occupy them and the priory shall acquit him for their occupation.
The priory confirms the award and promises to implement it. It remits all Edward's rents in Southchurch except those specified in the award. Edward also confirms the award and promises to implement it. Edward's signature on plica. [Document faded in places. Some details supplied from registered version.]
Given at the chapter house of Canterbury Cathedral Priory.

Endorsed with descriptions, one virtually illegible, in late 15th cent hands.
Extent 1 doc
Physical Description Parchment, 1m, indented at top, seal tag, with traces of red wax, dirty, creased, stained, faded
Language Latin
AccessStatus Open
Related Material Registered version: CCA-DCc-Register/T, ff64v-66r

Humfrey Gay became auditor following Chrisopher's death in 1507

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Name: Gay, Christopher
Dates: 1509
Place: General, England
Book: Calendar of Wills and Administrations now preserved in the Probate Registry at Canterbury, 1396-1558 (Will)
Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills and Administrations in the Probate Registry at Canterbury, 1396-1558 and 1640-1650
Text: Gay, Christopher, Elmsted C. 10 17 1509

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CP 25/1/117A/349, number 334.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Kent.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St Michael, 17 Henry VII [6 October 1501].
Parties: Christopher Gay and Joan, his wife, querents, and Humphrey Gay and Alice, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 10 marks of rent issuing from 4 messuages, 72 acres of land, 16 acres and a moiety of 1 acre of meadow, 143 acres and half a rood of pasture, 6 acres, 3 roods and a moiety of 1 rood of wood, 31 acres of marsh, 8 acres of heath and 11 shillings, 5 pence, 1 halfpenny and 1 farthing of rent and a rent of 5 hens, 27 eggs and 1 quarter of barley in Elmystede, Lymme, Broke and Wye.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Humphrey and Alice have granted to Christopher and Joan the rent issuing from the aforesaid tenements and rent, and have rendered it to them in the court, to receive each year, to wit, a moiety at the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary the Virgin and the other moiety at the feast of St Michael the Archangel, to Christopher and Joan for the lives of Christopher and Joan. Christopher and Joan shall have the right to distrain Humphrey and Alice and the heirs of Alice or those who shall hold the same tenements and rent afterwards. And after the decease of Christopher and Joan, Humphrey and Alice and the heirs of Alice shall be quit of the payment for ever.

Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: Christopher Gay, Joan Gay, Humphrey Gay, Alice Gay
Places: Elmsted, Lympne, Brook, Wye
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THE YOKE OF EVINGTON is an estate and seat in the south-west part of this parish, over which the manor of Barton, near Canterbury, claims jurisdiction. The mansion of it, called Evington-court, was the inheritance of gentlemen of the same surname, who bore for their arms, Argent, a sess between three burganetts, or steel caps, azure; and in a book, copied out from antient deeds by William Glover, Somerset herald, afterwards in the possession of John Philipott, likewise Somerset, there was the copy of an old deed without date, in which William Fitzneal, called in Latin, Filius Nigelli, passed over some land to Ruallo de Valoigns, which is strengthened by the appendant testimony of one Robert de Evington, who was ancestor of the Evingtons, of Evington-court, of whom there is mention in the deeds of this place, both in the reigns of king Henry III. and king Edward I. After this family was extinct here, the Gays became possessed of it, a family originally descended out of France, where they were called Le Gay, and remained some time afterwards in the province of Normandy, from whence those of this name in Jersey and Guernsey descended, and from them again those of Hampshire, and one of them, before they had left off their French appellation, John le Gay, is mentioned in the leiger book of Horton priory, in this neighbourhood, as a benefactor to it. But to proceed; although Evington-court was not originally erected by the family of Gay, yet it was much improved by them with additional buildings, and in allusion to their name, both the wainscot and windows of it were adorned with nosegays. At length after the Gays, who bore for their arms, Gules, three lions rampant, argent, an orle of cross-croslets, fitchee, or. (fn. 2) had continued owners of this mansion till the beginning of the reign of king Henry VII. Humphry Gay, esq. alienated it to John Honywood, esq. of Sene, in Newington, near Hythe, and afterwards of St. Gregory's, Canterbury, where he died in 1557, and was buried in that cathedral.

2. In the Visitation of the county of Kent, anno 1574, is a pedigree of Gay.
gules, crusily or, 3 lions ramp. argent Gay 1574 p. 53
per pale argent and gules, on a chev. azure 3 crosses-crosslet —— (q) Gay 1574 p. 53
Crest: a demi greyhound rampant sable collared or.

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Reference: C 1/95/33
Description:
Short title: Gay v Daly.
Plaintiffs: Humphrey Gay and Alice, his wife, daughter and heir of Nicholas Smethe, of Elmested, executor of Margaret Trocher.
Defendants: Thomas Daly, feoffee to uses, and William Horn.
Subject: A messuage and land in Elmested sold to the said Nicholas under the will of the said Margaret.
Kent.
3 documents
Date: 1486-1493
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MI in Elmstead from KAS
50. (Now gone: slab is in floor near S.E. L of S.C.). Here is also a very Ancient Altar Tomb on ye Flat Stone of which have been 4 Coats of Arms, and 3 Figures (a Man & 2 Women) in Brass. 2 of ye Figures are lost; that wch. remains is of a woman standing in a praying Posture – 1 Of the Coats also is lost. The 3 remaining re as follows. [3 shh. in line: I. 1&4). Gu. crusilly & 3 lions rampt. or (GAY). 2&3). Per pale arg. & purp. on a Λ arg. 3 +s botony sa. II. (GAY, ¼ly) imp. Az. a lion rampt. or. III. The Same as The Second (written)].

51. On a Pillar over this Tomb is ye Figure of An Angel (in Stone) holding a Brass (sic – really stone) Scroll before him, on wch. is written in very Anc. Characters.

58. Pray for The Sowlys of Cristofer GAY, Agnes and Johan his Wyfes, ther Childer, and all Cristen Sowlys – On Whose Sowlys, Jesu have Mercy. Under ye Angel is a Lyon Rampant, as in ye Above Coat. (* This Gay, according to Philpot was ye Possessor of Evington, before it came into ye Hands of ye Honeywoods – he tells Us, that, One Christopher Gay, sold it to John HONEYWOOD Esq. abt. the beginning of the Reign of HENRY 7). 		GAY, Christofer (I14798)
 
3311 Will Gotely, Goatly Christopher Molash 1670 1674 PRC/17/73/322b PRC/16/292 G/8 1674 GOATELY, Christopher (I20173)
 
3312 Will Gotely, Goatly Thomas Molash 1584 1585 PRC/17/46/1b PRC/16/84 G/6 PY from PRC/17 1585
Inv Goately Thomas Molash 1585 PRC/10/14/240 Will 1584
Inv Goatlye Laurance Molash 1608 PRC/28/6/225 Will 1608
Will Goteley, Gotley Lawrence Molash 1608 1608 PRC/32/41/212 PRC/31/55 G/7 1608
Inv Goatelie Christopher Molash 1612 PRC/10/44/62 1612
Will Goately, Goateley John Molash 1616 1616 PRC/17/56/12 PRC/16/156 G/8 1616
Inv Goatelye John Sen. Molash 1616 PRC/10/43/106 Will 1616
Will Goteley Thomas Molash 1646 1646 PRC/16/249 G/1 Origial will 2 copies 1646
Will Gotely, Goatly Christopher Molash 1670 1674 PRC/17/73/322b PRC/16/292 G/8 1674
Will Goatly Norton Molash 1700 1701 PRC/17/79/488c PRC/16/337 G/1 1701
Will Goatly, Gotely John Molash 1705 1706 PRC/17/80/414a PRC/16/347 G/3 1706

Slow-Court is a small manor in this parish, which some years since belonged to the family of Goatley, which had been settled here from the time of Queen Mary. One of them, Laurence goatley, died seised of this manor in 1608, and devised it to his third son Laurence, whose descendant continued here till within memory, when it cam by sale into the possession of Mr. David Fuller, of Maidstone, gent. who dying without issue devised it by his last will to his widow, who at her decease in 1775 bequeathed it to her relation, Wilkiam Stacy Coast, late of Chartham in this county, Esq., wh is the present proprietor of it.

[Source: Hasted]

Chiles, alias Slow-Court, is a small manor in this parish, which some years since belonged to the family of Goatley, which had been settled here from the time of queen Mary. One of them, Laurence Goatley, died possessed of it in 1608. He then dwelt at his house in this parish, called Bedles, and was lessee of the parsonage. Searles Goatley, esq the last of this family, was brought from Maidstone a few years ago, and buried in this church. Laurence Goatley devised this manor to his third son Laurence, one of whose descendants passed it away to Moter, and in 1661 Alice Moter, alias Mother, of Bethersden, sold it to John Franklyn, gent. of this parish, whose daughter carried it in marriage to Thomas Benson, of Maidstone, and he in 1676, by fine and conveyance, passed it away to Robert Saunders, gent. of that town, as he again did in 1703 to Esther Yates, widow, of Mereworth, whose executors in 1716 conveyed it to David Fuller, gent. of Maidstone, who dying s. p. devised it in 1751 by will to his widow Mary, who at her death in 1775, gave it to her relation, William Stacy Coast, esq. now of Sevenoke, the present proprietor of it.

[Source: www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp292-297]


after the Poor Law of 1601 the overseers had to raise a rate from all landholders, and in the mid-eighteenth century a Mr Goatley of Molash stubbornly witheld his dues for his plots in King’s Wood, and so did his heirs after him.
[Source: https://jennyuglow.wordpress.com/home/articles/kings-wood-sketches-from-a-history/] 		GOATELY, John (I20174)
 
3313 Will Greenstreet Joseph Eastling, Boughton under Blean 1631 1631 PRC/32/50/6b PRC/31/97 G/2 1631
Inv Greenstreet Joseph Boughton under Blean 1631 1631 PRC/28/17/416 Will 1631 		GREENSTREET, Joseph (I7352)
 
3314 Will Hamond, Hammon Edward Boughton under Blean 1567 1567 PRC/32/30/481 PRC/31/9 H/4 HAMMON, Edward (I19194)
 
3315 Will Hutchin Richard Faversham 1590 1590 PRC/17/48/17b PRC/16/95 H/10 1590
Inv Hutchin Richard Faversham 1590 PRC/10/19/149 Will* 1590


Described as "a householder and one of the common counsel" on his burial. 		HUTCHINS, Richard (I19074)
 
3316 Will James Moses Dunkirk Kent 1825 1826 PRC/32/69/198b PRC/31/296 M/7 OWF in letter group M 1826 JAMES, Moses (I4532)
 
3317 Will James Thomas Dunkirk Kent 1812 1813 PRC/31/283 IJ/1 1813 JAMES, Thomas (I4535)
 
3318 Will Joce John Stone 1466 PRC/17/1/189 No probate 1466
Will Jooce William Rainham 1473 1474 PRC/17/2/365
Will Joce or Jooce Robert Bearsted 1484 1484 PRC/17/4/21 1484
Will Joce John Hernhill 1484 1484 PRC/32/2/609a 1484
Will Joce Thomas Boughton under Blean 1498 1498 PRC/32/5/11 1498
Will Joce John Boughton under Blean 1501 1500 PRC/32/6/2d 1500
Will Joce Richard Boughton under Blean 1509 1509 PRC/32/10/6a 1509
Will Joyce, Joce Joan, Johane Faversham 1544 1544 PRC/17/23/215a 1544
Will Joyce, Joce John Sandwich St. Clement 1545 1545 PRC/17/23/266a 1545
Will Juse, Juce William Boughton under Blean 1564 1565 PRC/32/30/335 1565
Will Joyce, Joce Robert Bearsted 1571 1572 PRC/17/41/343b PRC/16/60 IJ/1 1572
Will Juce William Boughton under Blean 1595 1597 PRC/32/38/83 PRC/31/41 IJ/1 See also PRC/32/42/324, OW & court 1597
Will Joce, Joyce Philipp Bearsted 1598 1601 PRC/17/53/85 PRC/16/118 IJ/2 1601

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One of Cade's rebels was a John Rukke a labourer of Pluckley
Source: Cade's Followers, p. 264.


Hundred of Swanborough,
Village of Kingston near Lewes
William Denn 1s 1-1/2 d.
William Denn, Jr. 1s 9d.
Auwis' Rucke 2s 3-3/4 d.
[Source: "Sussex subsidy of 1296: The rape of Lewes." The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Ed. William Hudson. London: Sussex Record Society, 1910. 40-53. British History Online. Web. 20 November 2018. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp40-53.]


The earliest recorded Rucke identified so far is as follows:
The history of Chislehurst: its church, manors and parish, p. 368
Roll of the Hundred of Ruxley, of a fifteenth, in the 30th year of King Edward I (1301/2)
"Good of William Rughe (Rucke) - 1 horse at 6s; 1 cow at 6s; 1 pig at 2s; 1 porker at 12 pence; 2 sheep at 20 pence; 4 bushels of wheat at 2s. ed.; 2 bushels of wheat flour at 10-1.2 pence; 4 bushels of barley at 1s 6d; 2 bushels of beans at 6d; 4 bushels of fodder at 10 pence; 1 quarter of oats at 20 pence. Total, 24s 3-1/2 d. of which one-fifteenth is 19-1/2 pence.



[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. [1321/2] [Source: Citation:
'Deeds: C.4801 - C.4900', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 132-146 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp132-146 [accessed 13 March 2016].]

buried at Birchington Henry Rucke 14 May 1544.
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Name: Agnes Rook
Place: Kent
Date: 1391-1432, 1449-1453
Volume: 1
Page: 47
Bundle: 7

Name: John Rook
Place: Kent
Date: 1391-1432, 1449-1453
Volume: 1
Page: 47
Bundle: 7

Name: Nicholas De Roukeo
Place: Kent
Date: 14th & 15th Centuries
Volume: 2
Page: 502
Bundle: 69

Name: Nicholas De Rouko
Place: Kent
Date: 14th & 15th Centuries
Volume: 2
Page: 504
Bundle: 69

Name: Richard Roche
Place: Kent
Date: 1544-1547
Volume: 9
Page: 63
Bundle: 1131

Name: Robert Roke
Place: Kent
Date: 1432-1433
Volume: 1
Page: 111
Bundle: 12

Name: Herry Roke
Place: Kent
Date: 1465-1471, 1480-1483
Volume: 1
Page: 382
Bundle: 35

Name: Richard Roke
Place: Kent
Date: 1475-1480, 1483-1485
Volume: 2
Page: 187
Bundle: 52

Name: William Rokke
Place: Kent
Date: 1431-1443, 1467-1473
Volume: 1
Page: 89
Bundle: 11

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Inquisitions Miscellaneous, p. 198, #799
Commission to Henry de Cobeham, John de ifeld, and Thomas de Faversham. Laghton. 4 July 17 Edward II [1324]. By the king on the information of W. de Ayremyne.

Inquisition: Rochester. Thursday after St. Peter's Chains 18 Edward II. Walter Colpeper, before his forfeiture, on Thursday before St. Margaret 14 Edward II., disseised Gilbert Burdon and Maud his wife, and William Falke and Emma his wife, of a messuage and 3 acres and 3 roods of land in East Farlegh, which they held as the right and inheritance of the said Maud and Emma after the death of Henry Rucke their kinsman.

The messuage and land are in the king's hand by the forefeiture of the said Walter, and are of the yearly value of 12d., and are held of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, by the yearly service of 16d.

Writ of privy seal to Master Robert de Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex, chancellor, ordering him to do right. Westminster. 14 November, French.

Writ of Certiorari to Henry de Cobham, keeper of lands in the king's hand by forfeiture in Kent. Westminster. 15 November. by p.s.

Similar writ to the treasurer and chamberlains.

Transcript of a grant by Henry de Kemesyngge to Walter Colpeper, of a yearly rent of 12d., which Richard son of Maurice atte Vorde of East Farlegh used to pay for a piece of land in the parish of East Barmlyngge near the bridge of East Farlegh, for which grant the said Walter paid the said Henry 11s, 8 Edward II.

Transcript of a grant by the said Henry to the said Walter of a piece of land in East Farlegh between the land of the prior and convent of Christ church, Canterbury, eastwards, of the heir of John de Cruce southwards, the kings' highway westwards, and the said Walter's land northwards, in exchange for all the land at Denestrete, which the said Walter had of the demise of John de Frenyngham and John Gregory. 10 Edward II.

Transcript of a grant by Henry Rukke of East Farlegh to the said Walter, of a piece of land called "Lougheland" in East Farlegh between the way called Fritheslane eastwards, the wood of the prior and convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, southwards, and the land of the heir of John de Cruce westwards and northwards, for which grant the said Walter paid the said Henry 30s, 10 Edward II. C. Inq. Misc. File 97. (2). [1316/7]

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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). [no date, likely circa 1300s]
'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]. [1297/8] [Believed by the source to be in the year of 26 Edward I. However, as there was no discernable date the transcriber of the source has chosen to leave the designation of Edward questioned as to whether or not it was 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. [1476/7]
'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. [1434/5]
'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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August 1430
Aug. 10.
Westminster.

Membrane 4d.
William Cheyne knight chief justice of the King's Bench, John Gaynesforde and Stephen Bykeman clerk to Agnes who was wife of John Hadresham, her heirs and assigns. Quitclaim of the manors of Bure and Podyngden, 6s. 10d. of yearly rent by the hands of Simon Dane, 5s. 3d. by the hands of John Pope, 3s. by the hands of Henry Halstede, 8d. by the hands of William atte Brugge, 7s. by the hands of John Partriche, 18d. by the hands of John Bryggere, 3s. by the hands of Richard atte Ware, 22d. by the hands of the tenant 'atte Grove,' 5s. 6d. by the hands of John Barden, 2s. 6d. by the hands of John Haywarde, 1d. by the hands of Robert Doge, 6d. by the hands of John Harlynge, 2s. 7d. by the hands of William Inefelde, 1d. by the hands of Richard Dene, 4s. 8d. by the hands of John Wowere, 4s. 6d. by the hands of John Prynkham clerk, 6½d. by the hands of John Rukke, 2s. by the hands of Simon atte Venne, 8½d. by the hands of John Savoy, 2s. by the hands of William Wynchedoun, 6s. 1½d. by the hands of John Nelande, 2s. 6d. by the hands of John Bayhalle, 14d. by the hands of John Legger, 2d. and one dart by the hands of John Michel and 2s. by the hands of Richard Dereman with services, escheats etc. in Lymmesfelde, Lyngefelde and Crowherst co. Surrey, and in all the lands in those parishes called Wynterselle, Brownes, Pyppeherst, Dwelye, Scoredeye, Peresfeldes, Oxenrednes, Alvythelonde and Brownynges, all late of John Hadresham, whereof she is seised for term of her life by their charter indented of demise to her previously made, reserving to themselves and their heirs after her death 16s. 4d. of rent due from John Halle, John Newdegate and Roland Lyndere and their services. Dated 1 April 7 Henry VI.

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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol31/pt4/pp74-95
[1580–1581.]—Richard Porth to the Mayor and Jurats of Rye.

"Whereas I, by the most assent and consent of the good parishioners of this towne about 5 yeares past, was electid and appointid your parish clarke and therewith to have all suche wages, duties and commodities perteyning to the same office. And for that Mr. Flecher had appointed Mr. Ruck to serve under him in his absence, a greate parte of that stipent, appertayning to my foresaid fees and wages, was abridged and taken awaye, in so muche as it was scant sufficient to mayntayn me and my poor wif. And the rather by reason of God's longe visitation amongest us, by reason wherof I could not instruct and teach children in kepeing of scole, as in tyme before I have don, which was a greate parte of my lyvinge, and the want therof gretly to my impoverishment. In tender consideration whereof, and in so much as at this instant Mr. Flecher is departid from our towne, and that (as I ame informid) Mr. Ruck hath that stipend appointid to him which Mr. Flecher had, whilest he was minister here, and further for that I know that it lieth most part in your Worshipes handes to restore those duties pertayning to my said office to me agayne, I most humbly beseche your Worshippes to extend your favourable goodwylles towardes me."

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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp168-183
'Sussex subsidy of 1327: The rape of Lewes', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 168-183. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp168-183 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Rapus de Lewes Xxa Anno Primo.
Hundr' de Swanbergh.
Villata de Kyngeston.

Johne Rucke 4s 11d

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Sussex subsidy of 1296: The rape of Lewes
Pages 40-53

The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Originally published by Sussex Record Society, London, 1910.

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'Sussex subsidy of 1296: The rape of Lewes', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 40-53. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp40-53 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Villat' de Kyngeston.

Auwis' Rucke 2s 3¾d

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Sussex subsidy of 1327: The rape of Bramber
Pages 152-168

The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Originally published by Sussex Record Society, London, 1910.

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'Sussex subsidy of 1327: The rape of Bramber', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 152-168. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp152-168 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Villat' de Grenstede.

Johe le Rucke 5s 0½d

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The Common Paper: Subscription to the oath, 1613-28
Pages 54-62

Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1968.

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'The Common Paper: Subscription to the oath, 1613-28', in Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, ed. Francis W Steer (London, 1968), pp. 54-62. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol4/pp54-62 [accessed 27 March 2021].

3. In the left-hand margin is a note between this and the next entry that Edward Ledsham was Master with Henry Best and Robert Hill as Wardens; in Rawl. D51, however, the Wardens at this identical point are given as Francis Kempe and Robert Griffith.

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Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Bramber
Pages 269-282

The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Originally published by Sussex Record Society, London, 1910.

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'Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Bramber', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 269-282. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp269-282 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Hundr' de Westgrensted.
Villat' de Grensted.

Johe Ruck 3s 0¾d

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Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Lewes
Pages 282-297

The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Originally published by Sussex Record Society, London, 1910.

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'Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Lewes', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 282-297. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp282-297 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Villat' de Kyngeston.

Johe Ruck 5s 4d

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The corporation of Rye: 1578-80
Pages 60-74

The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, Etc. Thirteenth Report, Appendix: Part IV. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

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Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'The corporation of Rye: 1578-80', in The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, Etc. Thirteenth Report, Appendix: Part IV (London, 1892), pp. 60-74. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol31/pt4/pp60-74 [accessed 27 March 2021].


Zealdecaies Wood, s. of Leaver Wood late of Boughton, (fn. 2) co. Kent, app. to Thomas Ruck [1596], adm. 'but in the art of a scrivener unskillfull', 5 Oct. 1613 (fn. 3)

1579, August 19.—Certificate by the Mayor and Jurats of Rye that there came before them John Osborne, Nicholas Lynge, Edward Smith, of London, merchants, Thomas Philpot with Thos Rucke of Cranbroke in Kent, merchants, and John le Roye, a post, having her Majestys packet, who declare that on the 18th of this inst. between twelve and two in the afternoon a certain flyboat manned with 30 or 40 persons all Englishmen as they appeared, near the Ness by Rye, boarded the "passage" wherein the said merchants and post came from Dieppe and spoiled them of their apparel and goods.

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Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Chichester
Pages 231-253

The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332. Originally published by Sussex Record Society, London, 1910.

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'Sussex subsidy of 1332: The rape of Chichester', in The Three Earliest Subsidies For the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, ed. William Hudson (London, 1910), pp. 231-253. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/suss-record-soc/vol10/pp231-253 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Hund' de Westbourn.
Villata de Westbourn.

Galfro Ruck 1s 0d

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Charles I - volume 307: Undated 1635
Pages 21-42

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1635-6. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1866.

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'Charles I - volume 307: Undated 1635', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1635-6, ed. John Bruce (London, 1866), pp. 21-42. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/1635-6/pp21-42 [accessed 27 March 2021].

50. Petition of William Parbo, post of Sandwich, to the Lords of the Treasury. About 13 years since petitioner bought the said post's place in the name of a poor kinsman, Arthur Ruck, then a child, intending the profits to be applied towards his education. Being much impoverished by the forbearance of his post wages for ten years and a half, petitioner is unable longer to maintain his kinsman at the University of Oxford. If his arrearage of 16d. per diem were paid he should be a loser above 100l., he being at charges of boat hire to carry his Majesty's letters aboard his Majesty's ships, and of warning fires on shore, besides of horse and man by land. Prays payment of his arrears amounting to 255l. 10s. [1 p.]


Will Parbo Edmond London, Sandwich 1640 1640 PRC/17/70/130b PRC/16/229 P/12 1640
Inv Parbo Edmund Sandwich 1640 PRC/11/7/102 Will 1640
Will Parbo Elizabeth Sandwich 1664 1664 PRC/16/273 P/2 1664
Will Parbo Elizabeth Sandwich 1664 1668 PRC/17/72/451 PRC/16/281 P/2 1668

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Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: April 1575
Pages 481-483

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: April 1575', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1871), pp. 481-483. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/pp481-483 [accessed 27 March 2021].

April 18. 18. Report by Thomas Ruck, of Cranbrook, Kent, merchant, addressed, to the Lord Treasurer. Being at Dieppe, in company of other English merchants, and Mr. Crewes, a gentleman of Cornwall, I inquired of John Atkinson who Crewes was; was told that he was a Papist, and very conversant with the Jacobin friars in Rouen, and had great secrets committed to him touching perilous attempts against Her Majesty and the realm, which I think it my duty to reveal.
That a certain Scottish Lord had lately come to the French Court, who had been in England, in merchant's apparel three months, and had travelled in the north parts, especially in Northumberland and Cumberland, with certain gentlemen who have promised to assist him with 2,000 men or more.
That if the French King concluded peace with his subjects, the enterprise should then go forward with expedition.
That the Bishop of Ross has a large sum of money coming from the Bishop of Rome, and orders to gather a larger sum of the spirituality and religious houses in France, to further this enterprise.
Crewes declared to Atkinson that he was going immediately to Rouen and Paris, to understand more of the matter, and would return to England if I would stay 10 days, which I promised to do, but Crewes did not come.
He requested to have a gelding passed into France, when I promised to do all I could.
The French King had 30 men-of-war in the Narrow Seas, all well appointed, four whereof are taken to Rochelle. [1page.]

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Queen Elizabeth - Volume 259: June 1596
Pages 223-249

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1595-97. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1869.

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'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 259: June 1596', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1595-97, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1869), pp. 223-249. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1595-7/pp223-249 [accessed 27 March 2021].


June 1. 1596
At another session held at the same place on 20 May 1583, before the said Sir Roger Manwood, Stephen Rucke, mayor of Sandwich, and the Commissioners before named, it was stated that 108 rods of the sea wall had been finished at Whitstable, and that 106 rods half wall in charge surmounted the last tax or scot; that the work thereabouts was thought meet for the commonwealth of the county, but because the upland and salts were not to take so much benefit as the houses and low grounds, the latter only were now to pay another, tax, at the same rate as before.

At another session held 1 June 1596, before Thos. Palmer, high sheriff of Kent, Peter Manwood, John Smith, John Boys, Wm. Partheriche, Edw. Fagge,Chas. Hales, and Thos. Hovenden, mayor of Canterbury, it was decreed that John Saver, of Whitstable, and Thos. Rucke, of Seasalter, should be expenditors in the place of John Menvile, the late expenditor, deceased, and that John Newstreate, and another not names, should be bailiffs, to collect all monies to be paid by former orders towards keeping and maintaining the sea walls, bridges, and also to collect and levy all arrears due in Menvile's lifetime, and render an account yearly, upon pain of 5l., to be levied on the offender or upon his goods, by distress or sale. [4¾ pages.]

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Henry VIII: Miscellaneous, 1536
Pages 566-590

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11, July-December 1536. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1888.

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'Henry VIII: Miscellaneous, 1536', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11, July-December 1536, ed. James Gairdner (London, 1888), pp. 566-590. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol11/pp566-590 [accessed 27 March 2021].

Most of the above, with John Raynold, Ric. Ruck, Wm. Mede, Thos. Byspyn, Robt. Coke, Alex. Wellys, Henry Soggs, Robt. Benett, of Rye, and Nic. White, of Winchelsea, are indicted for holding articles after their new learning preached by the following persons:
John Swynerton, priest.—Who preached that our Lady was not of such honor as the people paid her, and against pilgrimages, oblation to saints, prayers for the dead, and purgatory. 		RUKKE OR RUCK, Hamon unverified (I5205)
 
3319 Will Lawrence John Faversham 1626 1626 PRC/32/47/59b PRC/31/89 L/1 1626
Inv Lawrence John Faversham 1626 1627 PRC/28/15/364 Jurat, Will 1627

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He a Jurat at time of burial.

This baptism for him could prove problematic as there is another burial of a John Lawrence on 24 Jan 1568 a puer
and puer in Latin indicates a boy aged between 2 and 15 years.

Will
SURNAME GIVEN NAME RESIDENCE YEAR WILL TYPE VOLUME FOLIO FHL FILM #
LAWRENCE John Faversham 1626-1626 CC 32 RW 47 59 188859

LAWRENCE Richard Faversham 1570-1573 AD 17 RW 41 313 188940

LAWRENCE John Faversham 1642 AD 3 AB 36 89 189279

LAURANT Isabel Faversham 1544 AD 17 RW 23 208 188931


http://www.kafs.co.uk/pdf/port.pdf
The Historical Development of the
Port of Faversham, Kent 1580-1780
The Kent Archaeological Field School
Director; Paul Wilkinson, PhD, MIfA, FRSA.
The Office, School Farm Oast, Graveney Road
Faversham, Kent. ME13 8UP
Tel: 01795 532548 or 07885 700 112. e-mail: info@kafs.co.uk

The droits of timber, wood, coal were paid by the waggoners as they brought the loads through the town, and
from “the time of Elizabeth a chain had been put across
the streets to stop the carriages the better to collect the
droits”. The Mayor had always employed two or three
collectors, and they were allowed to retain a quarter of the
cart money. The earliest “cart money” recorded is from
1536 - some £2 15s47 - and a full record can be found in
the appendices.
The following table appears in the town’s archives:48
(1622) John Lawrence £18 a year for 7 years
p. 54

Other merchants or brewers itemised in 1601 are: Philipe
Row, alien, John Castlocke, (4 tons of beer). John
Caslocke (5 tons of beer). John Lawrence, (6 tons of beer).
p. 130


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Ecclesiastical cause papers
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Plaintiff: Office per Wm TAYLER Bethersden; Defendant: John LAWRENCE Faversham; Document: Arts; Case: M

Date: 3 May 1597
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U984/O1: Note regarding a fee farm rent in Faversham (7 Sep 1608)
Description:Note of appearance before Commissioners regarding a fee farm rent for a quay at Faversham. Recites:
1. patent of 25 Feb 1586/1587 to Edward Wilmarke, gentleman, of lands, waste and 'Kayes'
2. assignment 20 July 1587 to Robert Shrubsole and Francis Calter and
3. further assignment 3 Dec 1587 to Nicholas Upton and Abraham Snothe of Faversham.
The quays are now held by John Castlock senior, John Upton senior, Robert Allen, Francis Thornhill, John Lawrence and states apportionment of rents.Held At:Kent History and Library CentreDocument Order #:U984/O1Date:7 Sep 1608Level:fileExtent:1 doc

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Session at Canterbury, 13th January, 1600/1
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Title: Session at Canterbury, 13th January, 1600/1
Badgers Authorized.
John Lawrence of Faversham, merchant, by the same justices.



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KENT QUARTER SESSIONS
Session at Canterbury, 13 Jan 1601
Q/SR/2/m.2

Badgers Authorized
4 John Lawrence of Faversham, merchant, by the same justices.

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KENT QUARTER SESSIONS
Session at Canterbury, 12 Jan 1602
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Badgers Authorized.
1 John Lawrence of Faversham, merchant, by the court.

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KENT QUARTER SESSIONS
Session at Canterbury, 11 January 1603
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Badgers Authorized.
1 John Lawrence of Faversham, merchant. 		LAWRENCE, John Jurat (I17412)
 
3320 Will Nasshe William Barham 1547 1547 PRC/17/25/177 1547
Will At' Nasshe William Bishopsbourne 1483 1484 PRC/32/3/11c 1484




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Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, PRC 17/47/32, Film # 188945
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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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3321 Will Nasshe William Barham 1547 1547 PRC/17/25/177 NASSHE, William (I19732)
 
3322 Will Roome John Folkestone 1635 PRC/17/69/89a PRC/16/210 R/3 1635
Inv Roome John Folkestone 1635 PRC/10/69/164 Will 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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Other Roome Wills:


I have this one - Will Roome John Folkestone, Hawkinge 1654 1661 PRC/17/71/163 PRC/16/267 R/5

Will Roome Elizabeth Acrise 1605 1606 PRC/17/54/46 PRC/16/129 R/1 1606
Inv Roome Elizabeth Acrise 1606 PRC/10/31/303 Will 1606
Inv Roome Thomas Dover 1700 1700 PRC/27/35/70 Film Pos 35/4 Yeoman, Will 1700
Will Roome Thomas Dover 1700 1700 PRC/32/57/123 PRC/31/170 R/1 1700
Inv Roome Ann Dover 1701 1701 PRC/27/35/150 Film Pos 35/17 Widow, Will 1701
Will Roome Anna Dover 1701 1701 PRC/32/57/152 PRC/31/171 R/1 OW&C 1701
Will Roome Stephen Adisham 1708 1712 PRC/32/58/442a PRC/16/360 R/4 CCR 1712
Inv Roome Stephen Adisham 1712 1712 PRC/27/39/89 Film Pos 39/209 Yeoman, Will 1712 		ROOME, John (I14797)
 
3323 Will Roome Thomas Dover 1700 1700 PRC/32/57/123 PRC/31/170 R/1 1700
Inv Roome Thomas Dover 1700 1700 PRC/27/35/70 Film Pos 35/4 Yeoman, Will 1700
Inv Roome Ann Dover 1701 1701 PRC/27/35/150 Film Pos 35/17 Widow, Will 1701
Will Roome Anna Dover 1701 1701 PRC/32/57/152 PRC/31/171 R/1 OW&C 1701 		ROOME, Thomas (I14758)
 
3324 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].

---------------------------------------------------------------- 		RUCK, John (I3624)
 
3325 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)
 
3326 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)
 
3327 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)
 
3328 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)
 
3329 Will Thrume John Chilham 1548 1551 PRC/17/27/266b PRC/16/12 T/2 Alice (I16573)
 
3330 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)
 
3331 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)
 
3332 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)
 
3333 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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3334 Will dated 1717, died at Sheldwich GYLES, Richard (I7962)
 
3335 Will dated 1777 BUCK, Thomas (I7328)
 
3336 Will made 1694 GRILLS, John (I15421)
 
3337 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)
 
3338 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)
 
3339 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)
 
3340 Will of this Simon indicates that he died at Bapchild but was buried at Norton. He appears to have never married. RUCK, Simon (I5409)
 
3341 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)
 
3342 Will probated 5 Feb 1629. Elizabeth (I12016)
 
3343 Will proved 4 Jun 1713 by Edmund Sheafe, son and Thomas Sheafe, brother. SHEAFE, Edmund (I13593)
 
3344 William Albany Battersley Greenwell STRONG, Victoria (I16779)
 
3345 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)
 
3346 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)
 
3347 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)
 
3348 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)
 
3349 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)
 
3350 William died at about age 70 years. THOMSON, William (I3781)
 

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