The Cooke Family
Anthony Cooke
Philip Cooke
Elizabeth
(Belknap) Cooke
Anthony was given, for his lifetime,
the proceeds from a farm in East House, Essex, in the will of his brother,
John, dated 7 October 1516.
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
Item, I will
that my brother, Anthony Cooke, have yearly out of the farm of Esthouse
[=Easthouse] £6 13s 4d during his life, and that my brother, Richard,
and my brother, Anthony, shall have that I have bequeathed them
immediately after my death;
... Item, after the said 16 years ended, then I will my son, Anthony,
have all the said lands to him and his heirs according to th’ old
entails, if any be, except such as I have given to my brother Richard
and Anthony during their lives, and all my said lands after their
decease
Beatrix (Cooke, Copley) Rawson
Philip Cooke
Elizabeth
(Belknap) Cooke
William Copley
Nicholas
Rawson before 7 October 1516
Beatrix is mentioned, as Beatrix Rawson, in the will of her brother, John
Cooke, dated 7 October 1516
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
Item, I will
that my sister, Beatrix Rawson, have all such sums of money as my father
bequeathed to her;
Item, I will that my sister, Mary, have fifty marks that my father
bequeathed to her, and fifty marks more, which I will shall be paid to
her after the rate of £17 6s 8d by the year, but I will that my sister,
Beatrix Rawson, to be first paid before my sister, Mary Cooke, have the
said fifty marks that I have bequeathed to her;
Beatrix was a witness to the will of her uncle, Gerard Danett, dated 30
April 1520 (held at the National
Archives (PROB 11/20/18))
Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity
vol 7 pp12-13 (1887)
His son,
Nicholas Rawson, was not only an owner of an estate in Aveley, but also
held lands there in fee simple by copy of Court Roll. He married the
widow of William Copley, Esq., whose maiden name was Beatrix Cooke,
daughter of Sir Philip Cooke, Knight of Giddea Hall, County of Essex.
She died at the home of her daughter, Lady Anne Rawson Stanhope, at
Shelford, January 14, 1554.
14 January 1554, at the home of her
daughter, Anne, in Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England
St Peter and St Paul, Shelford,
Nottinghamshire, England
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire p148
(Robert Thoroton, 1677)
Shelford.
Upon a smaller Tomb close by,
Here lieth Beatrix Rauston, widowe, daughter of Sir Philip
Cooke, Knight, of Essex, who departed 14 January,
1554. She was Mother of the Lady Stanhope.
Transactions
of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire vol 7 p47 (1904)
Near to
this. and on the floor, is a flat incised stone, on which the
inscription is now for the most part illegible; but it is given by Dr.
Thoroton as follows:—“ Here lieth Beatrix Rauston, widowe, daughter of
Sir Philip Cooke, Knight, of Essex, who departed 14 January, 1554. She
was Mother of the Lady Stanhope.”
Hugh Cooke
Robert Cooke
Katherine (_____)
Cooke
Dictionary
of National Biography vol 12 pp94-5 (Leslie Stephen, 1887)
COOKE, SIR THOMAS (d.
1478), lord mayor of London, was the son of Robert Cooke, of Lavenham in
Suffolk, by Katherine his wife. The family was a long-established one.
Hugh, another son, who died in 1443, possessed lands in various parishes
of Suffolk (will in Probate Registry, Luffenham, 34).
1443
Johane (Cooke) Foster
Thomas Cooke
Elizabeth
(Malpas) Cooke
John Foster
This marriage occurred before 26 April 1469, when the two are mentioned as
married in the will of Johane's grandfather, Philip Malpas
Johane and her husband, John Foster, are mentioned in the will of her
grandfather, Philip Malpas, dated 26 April 1469 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/5/419)).
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp10-11 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
... to John
Foster and Johanne his wife, to either of them, “a cup of siluer
co͠ued,” &c.
...To John Foster and Johanne his wife
(the daughter of Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke) he bequeaths all that
his tenement called the “Cok,” lying in and on the north side of
Cornhill, in the parish of St. Peter, and in ward of Lime Street, with
remainder in default of heirs, &c.
They also mentioned in the will of Johane's father, Sir Thomas Cooke, dated
15 April 1478
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp18-19 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
He also
bequeaths to John Forster and Johanne his wife (whom he describes as his
daughter) all those his tenements which sometime belonged to John Maldy,
&c. in the parish of St. Olave, against the Bridge House in
Southwark, and after the decease of Elizabeth his wife all those his
tenements, &c., in the parish of St. Swithin, in London, &c.
Johane and her husband are also left bequests in, and they are both made
executors of, the will of her mother, Elizabeth (Malpas) Cooke, dated 15
November 1484 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/7/165)).
... For default of
yssue of the body of the said John Coke to the use and behoff of John
Forster esquyer my son in law and Johane my daughter his wiffe and to
the heyres of their two bodyes lawfully begotyn For default of such
yssue to the use and behoff of my said daughter Johane and to the heyres
of her body lawfully begotyn And for default of such yssue of the said
Johane that then all the said manors lordshippes landes and ??? ??? of
??? with the apputenances above rehersed be disposed by the advyse of
myn executors ... I ordeyn and make myn executors John Coke my son John
Forster esquyer my son in law and Johane my doughter his wiff and John
deVale
They are also mentioned as coming into the remainder of property in the IPM
of Johane's brother, John Cooke, held on 4 November 1486
Calendar
of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII vol 1 pp38-9 (1898)
94. JOHN COKE.
Writ 19 Nov., 1 Hen. VII; inq. 4 Nov., 2 Hen. VII.
One
Philip Malpas, citizen and draper of London, was seised of the
undermentioned manors and lands, which at his death descended to
Elizabeth late the wife of Thomas Coke, knt., his daughter and heir. She
gave them by deed dated 27 Oct., in the 2nd year of the King aforesaid.
[? Ric. III], to the said John Coke, and to John Vavysour,
serjeant-at-law, John Forster, and John Vale, who survive, to the use of
her will, viz. to the use of herself for life, with remainder to the
said John Coke in tail, with remainder to John Forster and Joan his
wife, her daughter, and their issue, with remainder to her executors for
the benefit of her soul.
He died 20 Aug., 1 Hen. VII. Philip Coke, aged 34 and more, is
his brother and heir, but neither as brother nor under the will of the
said Elizabeth does the said Philip inherit any part of the premises.
ESSEX. Manor and advowson of Chaldewell, worth 10 marks,
held of the Abbot of Stratford Langthorn, by fealty only.
Manor of Bellehowse, and a tenement called ‘Morelles’ in the
parish of Stanford Ryvers, worth 100s., held of the Earl of
Wilts, as of the manor of Stanford Ryvers, by fealty and 2d.
rent.
A tenement called ‘Apultons’ in the parish of Chykewell, worth 26s.
8d., held of John Mannok, esq., by fealty and 1d. rent.
A rent of 4l. called ‘Porter’s’ fee in the parish of
Dagynham.
A tenement called ‘Tylehurst’ in the parish of Southwelde by
Brendwode, worth 26s. 8d., held of the Abbot of Waltham,
by fealty and 1d. rent.
Eight messuages, 8 gardens, 20a. meadow, 400a.
heather, and 3a. osier beds in the parish of West Ham, worth 20s.,
held of the said Abbot of Stratford Langthorn, by fealty and 8s.
rent.
Forty acres of land, meadow, wood, and pasture in the
above-mentioned parishes.
John Cooke
Thomas Cooke
Elizabeth
(Malpas) Cooke
John is mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Philip Malpas, dated 26
April 1469 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/5/419)).
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp8-11 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
... Το
Elizabeth his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., he bequeaths
500 marks of the 1000 marks, 100l., and 30l., of “ferme,”
which the said Sir Thomas was indebted to him, &c.; and to each of
the four sons of said Sir Thomas and Elizabeth be bequeaths 100 marks
more of the said amount owing him, each to have his part when he arrived
at the age of twenty-one years, with provision for remainder in event of
their respective decease.
... He also bequeaths to Sir Thomas and
Elizabeth Cooke, for term of their lives respectively, his place called
“Belle hous,” and the place called “Appultons,” “Porters’ ffee,” and
“Boyeles,” in the county of Essex, with all his meadows, &c. at
Stratford Langthorn, which he had before assigned and delivered to the
said Sir Thomas Cooke, the same to remain after the decease of said Sir
Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife unto Thomas, William, and John,
their sons, each taking his third part, &c., &c.
John is also mentioned in the will of his father, Sir Thomas Cooke, dated 15
April 1478, in which it is implied that John had not yet reached 24 years of
age.
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp16-20 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
His manual
book, and all his mass books, bibles, portuses, saulters, vestments,
chalices, corporales, sepultures, altar cloths, and curtains, he desires
to remain in the custody of Philip his son, to the intent that he
deliver them to John or William his brothers, or either of them who
shall happen to be a priest, without any delay the day next before he
shall sing his first mass. After his burial and all his debts paid, he
bequeaths the residue of all his goods, &c. &c., whatsoever, to
be divided into three equal parts. The first part to Elizabeth his wife,
the other part to Philip his son, and the third part to be equally
divided between John and William his sons, when they arrive at the age
of 24 years, &c. &c., with a provision for remainder in event of
John and William being priests or dying without issue.
... To John his son and his heirs he bequeaths all that his great place
called the Swan in Brentwood, in the county of Essex, and all other his
tenements, lands, &c., in the town and parish of Brentwood. The said
John to have, to him and his heirs, after decease of Elizabeth his wife,
all that his manor of Belhouse and his places called “Morells” and
“Boyeles,” and his lands called “Tyleherstes,” &c., in the county of
Essex; and also all his rent of assize and quit rent called Porter’s
Fee, in the county of Essex, with provision for remainder in event of
John dying without heirs.
John is left bequests and is named an executor of, in the will of his
mother, Elizabeth (Malpas) Cooke, dated 15 November 1484 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/7/165)).
... Also I will
that John Coke John ??? ??? of the late John Foster esquyre Robert
Morton gentleman and John deVale and all other feoffes of and in all the
manors lordshippes and tenements wt their apputenances ??? of
??? ??? ??? and ??? with all their appurtenences of the which they stand
joyntly and severally feoffed and ??? ??? lying in the Countes of Essex
??? London Sussex and Chess?? which late were my said father Philipp
Malpas and Julyan his Wiffe my mother and eyther of them or Any of them
or to their use or unto ??? feofees to the use and behofe of me duryng
my lyffe naturall And after my decese to the use and behoff of John Coke
my son and to the heyres of his bodye lawfully begotyn For default of
yssue of the body of the said John Coke to the use and behoff of John
Forster esquyer my son in law and Johane my daughter his wiffe and to
the heyres of their two bodyes lawfully begotyn ... I ordeyn and make
myn executors John Coke my son John Forster esquyer my son in law and
Johane my doughter his wiff and John deVale
20 August 1485
Calendar
of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII vol 1 pp38-9 (1898)
94. JOHN COKE.
Writ 19 Nov., 1 Hen. VII; inq. 4 Nov., 2 Hen. VII.
One
Philip Malpas, citizen and draper of London, was seised of the
undermentioned manors and lands, which at his death descended to
Elizabeth late the wife of Thomas Coke, knt., his daughter and heir. She
gave them by deed dated 27 Oct., in the 2nd year of the King aforesaid.
[? Ric. III], to the said John Coke, and to John Vavysour,
serjeant-at-law, John Forster, and John Vale, who survive, to the use of
her will, viz. to the use of herself for life, with remainder to the
said John Coke in tail, with remainder to John Forster and Joan his
wife, her daughter, and their issue, with remainder to her executors for
the benefit of her soul.
He died 20 Aug., 1 Hen. VII. Philip Coke, aged 34 and more, is
his brother and heir, but neither as brother nor under the will of the
said Elizabeth does the said Philip inherit any part of the premises.
ESSEX. Manor and advowson of Chaldewell, worth 10 marks,
held of the Abbot of Stratford Langthorn, by fealty only.
Manor of Bellehowse, and a tenement called ‘Morelles’ in the
parish of Stanford Ryvers, worth 100s., held of the Earl of
Wilts, as of the manor of Stanford Ryvers, by fealty and 2d.
rent.
A tenement called ‘Apultons’ in the parish of Chykewell, worth 26s.
8d., held of John Mannok, esq., by fealty and 1d. rent.
A rent of 4l. called ‘Porter’s’ fee in the parish of
Dagynham.
A tenement called ‘Tylehurst’ in the parish of Southwelde by
Brendwode, worth 26s. 8d., held of the Abbot of Waltham,
by fealty and 1d. rent.
Eight messuages, 8 gardens, 20a. meadow, 400a.
heather, and 3a. osier beds in the parish of West Ham, worth 20s.,
held of the said Abbot of Stratford Langthorn, by fealty and 8s.
rent.
Forty acres of land, meadow, wood, and pasture in the
above-mentioned parishes.
C. Series
II. Vol. 1. (98.)
John Cooke
1484-5
Philip Cooke
Elizabeth
(Belknap) Cooke
Alice Saunders
- Anthony Cooke (1505 - 1576)
- Beatrix Cooke ( ? - 1561)
- Mary Cooke
Margaret Pennington
The
Essex Review vol 21 p1 (1912)
THE COOKES OF GIDEA HALL
(Continued from Vol. xx., p. 211).
BY
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
... Philip ... was succeeded at his decease by his eldest son, John
Cooke, esquire, who held the manor of Gidea Hall of Katherine of Aragon,
queen of Henry VIII.
John died in 1516, and was buried in the church of the
Crouched Friars near the Tower of London. Anthony, his eldest son, by
his marriage with Alice, daughter and heir of William Sanders, esquire,
of Sanbury, co. Surrey and Oxfordshire, was born in 1504, and was
consequently twelve years of age at the time of his father’s decease
between the date of John's will, 7
October 1516, and the date that will was proved, 28 August 1517
In his will, John requested to be
buried in the Church of Crossed Friars beside the Tower of London.
dated 7 October 1516
The will names John's brothers, Richard and Anthony, his sisters, Beatrix
and Mary, as well as his daughters, also named Beatrix and Mary, and his
son, Anthony.
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
In the name of
God, Amen. This is the last will of me, John Cooke, esquire, made the
7th day of October the eight year of the reign of King Henry the 8th.
First I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, Our Blessed Lady Saint Mary,
and all the holy company of heaven, my body to be buried in the church
of the Crossed Friars beside the Tower of London;
... item, I
will that my brother, Richard, shall have all my lands called Ryden
Court [=Redencourt] during his life with the stock that is upon it at
this time which goeth for £14 6s 8d;
Item, I will that my brother, Anthony Cooke, have yearly out of the farm
of Esthouse [=Easthouse] £6 13s 4d during his life, and that my brother,
Richard, and my brother, Anthony, shall have that I have bequeathed them
immediately after my death;
Item, I will that my sister, Beatrix Rawson, have all such sums of money
as my father bequeathed to her;
Item, I will that my sister, Mary, have fifty marks that my father
bequeathed to her, and fifty marks more, which I will shall be paid to
her after the rate of £17 6s 8d by the year, but I will that my sister,
Beatrix Rawson, to be first paid before my sister, Mary Cooke, have the
said fifty marks that I have bequeathed to her;
Item, I will that my daughters, Beatrix and Mary, be found by the said
Gerard, Richard, Richard and William till they be married or till my son
have his lands;
... Item, after the said 16 years ended, then I will my son, Anthony,
have all the said lands to him and his heirs according to th’ old
entails, if any be, except such as I have given to my brother Richard
and Anthony during their lives, and all my said lands after their
decease;
... [=The above-written testament was proved before the Lord at Lambeth
on the 28th day of the month of August in the year of the Lord the
thousand five hundred 17th
- Aged 18 at his
father's IPM held on 3 February 1503(4)
- Named as son and heir in
his
father's IPM
- The Visitations of Essex 1558 p39
(1878); The Essex Review vol 21 p1 (1912);
notes to John's will dated 7 October 1516 at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- The
History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T.
Bindoff, 1982, entry for COOKE,
Sir Anthony (1505/6-76), of Gidea Hall, Essex;
Notes to John's will dated 7 October 1516 at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- Notes to John's
will dated 7 October 1516 at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- As requested in his will
dated 7 October 1516 at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- Sir John Cooke Kt.
Katherine (_____) Cooke
Robert Cooke
Dictionary
of National Biography vol 12 p94 (Leslie Stephen, 1887)
COOKE, SIR THOMAS (d.
1478), lord mayor of London, was the son of Robert Cooke, of Lavenham in
Suffolk, by Katherine his wife. The family was a long-established one.
Hugh, another son, who died in 1443, possessed lands in various parishes
of Suffolk (will in Probate Registry, Luffenham, 34). Thomas came to
London, became a member of the Drapers’ Company, and soon grew rich.
Mary Cooke
Philip Cooke
Elizabeth
(Belknap) Cooke
Mary was left a bequest in the will
of her brother, John, dated 7 October 1516.
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
Item, I will that my sister, Mary, have fifty
marks that my father bequeathed to her, and
fifty marks more, which I will shall be paid to her after the rate of £17
6s 8d by the year, but I will that my sister, Beatrix Rawson, to be first
paid before my sister, Mary Cooke, have the said fifty marks that I have
bequeathed to her;
Philip Cooke
1451-2
Thomas Cooke
Elizabeth
(Malpas) Cooke
Elizabeth
Belknap
The New Chronicles of England and France p660
(Robert Fabyan, reprinted in 1811 from Pynton's edition of 1516)
And. in this
season also sir Thomas Cook, befornamed, auoydyd the lāde, entendynge to
haue sayled into Fraũce. But he was taken of a shyp of Flaunders, and
his sone and heyre with hym; and soo sette there in pryson many dayes,
and lastly was delyueryd vnto kynge Edwarde.
Philip was heir of his father, Sir Thomas Cooke, whose will, of which Philip
was an executor, was dated 15 April 1478
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp16-10 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
His manual
book, and all his mass books, bibles, portuses, saulters, vestments,
chalices, corporales, sepultures, altar cloths, and curtains, he desires
to remain in the custody of Philip his son, to the intent that he
deliver them to John or William his brothers, or either of them who
shall happen to be a priest, without any delay the day next before he
shall sing his first mass. After his burial and all his debts paid, he
bequeaths the residue of all his goods, &c. &c., whatsoever, to
be divided into three equal parts. The first part to Elizabeth his wife,
the other part to Philip his son, and the third part to be equally
divided between John and William his sons, when they arrive at the age
of 24 years ... and he makes and ordains his son Philip, William Edward,
John Vavasour, John Hawe, and Humfrey Howarden, his executors ... To
Philip his son and his assigns for term of his life he bequeaths all
that his “Chaumbre and Stuff of Chamberyng thereto bilongyng, which that
nowe I occupie and lye ynne my silf, wt my ij Studies and
Countyng houses thereto annexed. Also ij other of my Chambres whereof
oon is wt a Chapell next adioynyng to my saide Chapell†, on
the same side stretching Este and Weste, and abuttith vpon the south
toward the grete place late myne, and nowe bilongyng to Robert Hardyng,
goldesmyth, in the pish” of St. Peter le Poer, &c., with free access
to and from the same. The residue of his said dwelling place from the
day of his month’s mind to remain to Elizabeth his wife for term of her
life, with remainder after her decease to his son Philip, &c. To his
wife Elizabeth he also bequeaths for term of her life his “grete place,”
with tenements and appurtenances, in the parish of St. Margaret
Lothbury, and also his place called “grene gate,”* &c., in the
parish of St. Andrew Cornhill, on the condition that the said Elizabeth,
nor any one on her behalf, do not vex or annoy his executors, &c.,
with reference to the distribution of his property, and after her
decease the same to remain to Philip his son &c. &c. To Philip
his son he leaves the brewhouse of the Swan, in the parish of St.
Botolph without “Aldrichgate,” and to the said Philip and his heirs,
after the death of said Elizabeth, he bequeaths all his places and
tenements, &c., in the parish of St. Andrew Cornhill and Lime
Street, formerly belonging to Philip Malpas, and to the said Philip he
also leaves his brewhouse called the Garland, &c. in the parish of
St. Andrew Eastcheap, and also his place called the Wharf in the parish
of St. Botolph Billingsgate, also his two shops in the parish of St.
Magnus, and his tavern and brewhouse called the Bear and Dolphin in the
parish of St. Olave and St. Mary Magdalen in Southwark, and also his
lands, &c., in Whitchurch, in the county of Chester, and in the
county of Surrey, with provision for remainder in event of failure of
heirs to Philip, &c. To John Vale his servant he bequeaths an annual
rent of 4l. for term of his life, to issue out of his places in
the parish of St. Helen’s and “St. Albourgh”† within Bishopsgate Ward,
and further directs that all the said places and the residue of all his
tenements called “black Alee,” to remain wholly to Philip his son during
the end and term of an indenture made to him for certain years, &c.
under the seal of the Prioress and convent of St. Helen’s; then follows
provision for remainder, and conditions respecting same if Philip die
without heirs. He also bequeaths to John Forster and Johanne his wife
(whom he describes as his daughter) all those his tenements which
sometime belonged to John Maldy, &c. in the parish of St. Olave,
against the Bridge House in Southwark, and after the decease of
Elizabeth his wife all those his tenements, &c., in the parish of
St. Swithin, in London, &c. To Philip his son, and his heirs, he
leaves his manor of Gidea or Geddy Hall and Easthouse, &c. with all
the ploughs, carts, &c,; and also all his mills, tenements, &c.,
in the parishes of Hornchurch and Romford, in Essex, also his manor
called Bedford’s, and his place called “Revles,”* and his place called
“Tilehous;” also his manor of Reden Court, and his places and tenements
called “Actonys” and “frethes,” &c. in the parish of Hornchurch;
also his manor of “Haughannes, and his place called “Martynes,” in the
parishes and towns of “Chigwell, Lambourn, Hetunboise, Stapilforde
Abbat, and a brigge,” in the county of Essex; with provision for
remainder in default of issue of said Philip. He also bequeaths unto
said Philip his manor called “Maudelen lawser” and his Limekyln,
&c., at Stifford Bridge, in the county of Essex. To Aluere
Cornebourgh‡ he bequeaths his tenement called “Willotys” (in which
Bernarde Tilemaker is described as then dwelling), on condition that he
pay his executors 5l., and also discharge his heirs for ever of
all quit-rents going out of his manor of Gidea Hall, or otherwise the
said tenement to remain to Philip his son.
... To Philip his son he also bequeaths his place called the Bell and
the Angel in Newland, in Witham, and also his places called Pages and
the Mote, &c., in the parish and town of Witham, and also in the
towns of “Revnale, Cressyng, Falborn, and Brakstede,” in the
county of Essex, with remainder to William his son, if Philip die
without issue
† (?) Chambre.
* Inherited from Philip Malpas.
† St. Ehelburga
* (?) Nerles.
† Heybridge.
‡ Avery Cornburgh, of Gooshays, in the parish of Romford, died
1486.
Philip was knighted in 1497, at the Bridge Foot, London, after the Battle
of Blackheath.
The Knights of England vol 2 p30 (William
Arthur Shaw, 1906) 1513, Sept. 25.
[after 1497, June 17.]
Knights dubbed at the Bridge Foot on the King's entering London
after the Battle of Blackheath.
...
PHILIPPE COOKE.
Philip was Justice of the Peace for Havering, Essex from 1489 until 1497,
when he attacked the queen's rent collector!
Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering,
1200-1500 pp64-6 (Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2002)
The last
attempt by a queen to extract full profit from Havering came at the end
of the fifteenth century. This effort provoked both minor recalcitrance
and a violent individual response. In 1487 Henry VII’s
wife Elizabeth decided with her council to send a collector of rents to
Havering with instructions to live in the manor and carry out a broader
range of duties than was normal.
... In 1497 the rent collector expanded his assignment, either of his
own accord or in response to the queen’s orders ... On 2 March the
collector, now Thomas Elrington, swore into office an exceptionally
large jury of twenty-two men who were to investigate and report upon
unpaid rents. ... the juror's list of delinquents was remarkably modest.
They announced that they had found only three withheld payments, coming
to total of 8s. 6d. The largest sum, a rent of 4s., was due from
Dir Philip Coke, son and heir of Thomas Cook and tenant of nearly 900
acres. Sir Philip was the most important person in the manor in the
later 1490s, the elected justice of the peace for Havering and recently
knighted for his valour on the battlefield at Blackheath. When Elrington
at a court session held late in September ordered the bailiff to seize
goods as bond from each of those owing rent, Coke’s anger exploded. He
first argued with the collector and then physically assaulted him, and
act said by the clerk to be in contempt of court, injurious to the
honour of the queen, and a dangerous example to the tenants present at
the session. The queen’s council agreed with this assessment and imposed
on Coke an extraordinary penalty of £5. Emboldened by royal support,
Elrington announced at the next court session that he had decided to
collect twelve years’ back rent from the three holdings as well as the
current payments. Once again Coke flared up. His belligerent words and
threatening behaviour so disturbed the court that the steward hastily
adjourned the session. For this verbal attack the queen’s council
ordered that he pay another £5. Coke’s conduct on these occasions surely
explains why he was never again elected justice of the peace for
Havering nor named to any other office until his death in 1503.
p273
10
ELECTED JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, 1465-1500
1489-97 Philip Coke, knight. Son of Thomas Cooke. Aged
thirty-four in 1489.
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological
Society vol 3 p306 (1870)
Sir Philip
Cooke, Knight, of Gidea Hall; born 1454; living 1478. Dubbed a Knight at
the Bridge Foot, at the King’s entry into London after the Battle of
Blackheath 17 June, 1497.=Elizabeth, second dau. and coheir of Sir Henry
Belknap, Knight; died before 1517.
The
Essex Review vol 21 p1 (1912)
THE COOKES OF GIDEA HALL
(Continued from Vol. xx., p. 211).
BY
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
WHEN Sir Thomas Cooke died, his eldest son Philip was twenty-four
years of age, having been born in 1454. He succeeded not only to the
Gidea Hall estate, but apparently to the profitable draper’s business in
London; and, like his father before him, took his part in the government
of the capital. Upon the entry of Henry VII. into London after the
battle of Blackheath, he was dubbed a knight at the Bridge Foot on 17
June 1497. He married Elizabeth, second daughter and coheir of Sir Henry
Belknap, knight, and was succeeded at his decease by his eldest son,
John Cooke, esquire, who held the manor of Gidea Hall of Katherine of
Aragon, queen of Henry VIII.
7 December 1503
St. Edward the Confessor churchyard,
Romford, Essex
Performance of Philip's will is mentioned in the will of his son, and
presumably his executor, John Cooke, dated 7 October 1516
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
Item, I will
that all they that now be or hereafter shall be seised of all my lands
and hereditaments or any part of them in Havering shall be [-be] from
henceforth seised to th’ use of the performance of the last will of Sir
Philip Cooke, knight, my father, and after his will performed, then to
th’ use of the performance of this my will;
... Item, I will that my sister, Beatrix Rawson, have all such sums of
money as my father bequeathed to her;
Item, I will that my sister, Mary, have fifty marks that my father
bequeathed to her, and fifty marks more, which I will shall be paid to
her after the rate of £17 6s 8d by the year, but I will that my sister,
Beatrix Rawson, to be first paid before my sister, Mary Cooke, have the
said fifty marks that I have bequeathed to her;
... Item, I will that they that be seised of and in my lands in
Southwark shall after my father’ will performed be seised to th’ use of
the performance of my will;
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 2 p472 (1915)
723. PHILIP
COKE, knight.
Writ 28 January, inquisition 3 February, 19 Henry VII.
He was seised of the under-mentioned tenements, &c., in fee, and,
being so seised, long before his death, by charter 11 July, 18 Henry
VII, enfeoffed Thomas Tyrrell, knight, Edward Belknapp, esquire, Gerard
Danett, esquire, and John Carell, gentleman, thereof, for the
performance of his last will. They were seised thereof accordingly in
fee to the intent aforesaid, and they being so seised, he died.
He died 7 December, 19 Henry VII. John Coke, aged 18 and more, is
his son and heir.
SURREY. A tenement in Southwerk, called ‘le Bere,’
another tenement there, called ‘le Dolfyn,’ fourteen tenements in
Southwerk, mutually lying next a lane there called ‘Bere Alye,’ and a
place of land there, commonly called ‘le Wharff,’ adjacent to the
Thames, worth beyond outgoings, 16l., held of Robert Michell,
prior of the church, or priory, of St. Mary of Overe, in right of his
church, or priory, by fealty and a rent of 5l. 6s. 8d.
payable quarterly, for all service.
C. Series
II. Vol. 17. (46.)
- The IPM of his brother,
John, dated "4 Nov 2 Hen. VII" (1486), states "Philip Coke aged 34 and
more is his brother and heir", giving Philip's birth as 1451 or 1452. The Essex Review vol 21 p1 (1912)
states that "When Sir Thomas Cooke died, his eldest son Philip was
twenty-four years of age, having been born in 1454." without providing a
basis for the statement; the 1454 date is repeated in Dictionary of National Biography vol 12 p94
(Leslie Stephen, 1887) again without basis.
- The Visitations of Essex 1558 p39
(1878); notes to the will of his son, John Cooke, dated 7 October 1516
at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- The Visitations of Essex 1558 p39
(1878); The Essex Review vol 21 p1 (1912);
notes to the will of their son, John Cooke, dated 7 October 1516 at The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
- Date of death stated in
Philip's IPM at Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry
VII vol 2 p472 (1915)
- findagrave.com
(194623664)
- Sir Philip Cooke
Richard Cooke
Philip Cooke
Elizabeth
(Belknap) Cooke
Richard was given, for his lifetime,
land in Redden Court, Essex, in the will of his brother, John, dated 7
October 1516. He was also the executor of that will.
The
National Archives PROB 1/18/537, transcribed
by Nina Green
And after my
father’s will performed, I will that Gerard Danett, esquire, Richard
Cooke, Richard Fermer and William Shelley shall of th’ issues and
profits of the said lands give to every of my daughters, Beatrix and
Mary, £40 to their marriage, and if any of them die before she be
married, then I will the said Gerard, Richard, Richard and William
bestow her part so dying upon the payment of my debts;
item, I will that my brother, Richard, shall have all my lands
called Ryden Court [=Redencourt] during his life with the stock that is
upon it at this time which goeth for £14 6s 8d;
Item, I will that my brother, Anthony Cooke, have yearly out of the farm
of Esthouse [=Easthouse] £6 13s 4d during his life, and that my brother,
Richard, and my brother, Anthony, shall have that I have bequeathed them
immediately after my death;
... Item, after the said 16 years ended, then I will my son, Anthony,
have all the said lands to him and his heirs according to th’ old
entails, if any be, except such as I have given to my brother Richard
and Anthony during their lives, and all my said lands after their
decease
... Item, I will that my daughters, Beatrix and Mary, be found by the
said Gerard, Richard, Richard and William till they be married or till
my son have his lands;
... Item, I
make and ordain [-and] mine executors Gerard Danett, William Shelley and
Richard Cooke, my brother, and I bequeath to every of them £6 13s 4d for
their labour and all their costs
... [=The above-written testament was proved before the Lord at Lambeth
on the 28th day of the month of August in the year of the Lord the
thousand five hundred 17th by(?) Richard Gifford, proctor in that
behalf, and probated etc., and administration was granted of all and
singular the goods and debts of the said deceased to Richard Cooke,
executor named in the same testament, in the person of the said proctor,
sworn to well and faithfully administer the same, and to prepare a full
and true inventory, and to exhibit [+the same] before the feast of
Michael next to come, and also [+to render] a plain and true account
etc., with power reserved etc. to the other executors when they shall
have come etc.]
Robert Cooke
Katherine _____
Robert was of Lavenham, Suffolk
Dictionary
of National Biography vol 12 p94 (Leslie Stephen, 1887)
COOKE, SIR THOMAS (d.
1478), lord mayor of London, was the son of Robert Cooke, of Lavenham in
Suffolk, by Katherine his wife. The family was a long-established one.
Hugh, another son, who died in 1443, possessed lands in various parishes
of Suffolk (will in Probate Registry, Luffenham, 34). Thomas came to
London, became a member of the Drapers’ Company, and soon grew rich.
The Essex Review vol 20 pp201-8 (1912)
THE COOKES OF GIDEA HALL
BY
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
PART I.
... Thomas Cooke, the builder of Gidea Hall, was son of Robert
Cooke, of Lavenham, in Suffolk. He seems to have left his native place
in early manhood, journeyed to London, and started in business as a
draper.
Thomas Cooke
Robert Cooke
Katherine (_____)
Cooke
Elizabeth
Malpas
Draper, Member of Parliament,
Alderman and Mayor of London
Thomas was sheriff of London from 1453 to 1454, and mayor from 1462 to 1463.
As an alderman, he represented Vintry Ward from 1456 to 1458, then Broad
Street Ward from 1458 until 1468, and later was alderman for Bread Street
Ward. Thomas represented London in Parliament in 1460 and again in 1470.
The Aldermen of the City of London, Temp. Henry
III.-1908 p206 (Alfred Beaven Beaven, 1908)
VINTRY
WARD.
October 4, 1456 [Sworn October 15] Thomas Cook, Draper
.. .. .. (S. 1453-4)
[Nominated: J. Feelde, T. Oulegrave, Sheriff Steward]
Removed to Broad Street, March, 1458.
p72
BROAD
STREET WARD.
March, 1458 [Acting Aug. 12, 1458] Thomas Cook, Draper
.. .. .. (S. 1453-4) M. 1462-3.
From Vintry.
K.B., May 26, 1465.
Exonerated by command of the King, November 21, 1469 (Journal 7,
fo. 182).
Afterwards Alderman of Bread Street.
p39
BREAD STREET WARD.
October 13, 1470 Sir Thomas Cook, K.B., Draper .. .. ..
(S. 1453-4) M. 1462-3.
Formerly Alderman of Broad Street
Displaced 1471.
p272
ALDERMEN
OF LONDON IN PARLIAMENT.
1460
(Elected September 22).
WILLIAM MAROWE [Tower]
THOMAS COOK [Broad Street]
Richard Nedebam, Mercer.
Robert Bassett.
...
1470
(Elected November 6).
SIR THOMAS COOK [Bread
Street]
Thomas Urswyk, Recorder
John Marchall, Mercer.
Stepben Fabyan.
Thomas was created a Knight of the Bath on the occasion of the coronation of
Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV, on 26 May 1465.
The New Chronicles of England and France p655
(Robert Fabyan, reprinted in 1811 from Pynton's edition of 1516)
Anno Domini. M.iiii.C.lxiiii.
... And in this
mayres yere, and begynnynge of the5. v. yere, that is to
saye, ye. xxvi. daye of May, that yere Whytsonday, quene
Elizabeth was crowned at Westmynster with grat solempnytie. At the
whiche season at the Tower, the nyght before the coronacion, amonge many
knyghtes of the Bathe there made, was as of yt company sir
Thomas Cook, sir Mathewe Philip, sir Rauffe Iosselyne, and sir Henry
Wauyr, cytezeins of London, than and there made knyghtes.
5 the kynges. MS.
p656-7
Anno Domini. M.iiii.C.lxvii.
IN this
yere of the mayer, and in the beginning of the. viii. yere of this kynge
Edwarde, that is to meane vpon Saterdaye next ensuynge the feest of
Corpus Cristi, dame Margaret, suster vnto the kynge, rode thorough the
cytie of London towarde the sees syde, to passe into Flaunders, there to
be maryed to Charlys duke of Burgoyne, before named in the story of the.
xi. Lowys kyng of Fraunce. After whose departure, sir Thomas Cook, late
maier, which before was pechyd of treason by a seruaunt of the lorde
Wenlokkis, called Hawkyns, and at the request of the sayd lady
Margarete, vpon suertie sufferyd to go at large, then was arrestyd and
sent vnto the Tower, and his goodes seasyd by the lorde Riuerse then
tresourer of Englande, and his wyfe put out of his house, and commytted
to the charge of the mayer, in whose place she laye a season after. And
after the sayd sir Thomas hadde lyen a tyme in the Tower, he was brought
vnto the Guyldhalle, and there areygned of the sayd treason, and quyt by
sondry enquestes; and after that commytted vnto the Countour in
Bradstrete, and from thens to the Kynges Benche in Southwerke, where he
laye within the sayd pryson tyll his frendes agreed to sir John Brandon,
then keper of the sayd pryson, to take hym home to his place, where to
his great charge he remayned as prysoner longe after. In which tyme and
season he loste moche good; for bothe his places in the countre and also
in London were vnder the gydynge of the sayd lord Ryuers seruauntes, and
of the seruanntes of sir Iohn Fogge than vnder tresourer; the whiche
spoyled and distroyed moche thynge. And ouer that moche of his iewellys
and plate, with great substaunce of the2 marchaundyse, as
cloth of sylkes, & clothes of aras, were discouerid by suche
persones as he had betaken the said goodes to keepe, and came to the
treasourers handes, which to the sayd sir Thomas was a great enemye. And
fynally, after many persecucions and losses, was compelled as for a fyne
sette vpon hym for offence of mysprysion, to paye vnto the kynge. viii.
M.li. And after he had thus agreed, and was at3 large
for the kynges interest, he was thanne in newe trowble agayne the quene;
the whiche demaundyd of hym as her right, for euery M.li. payde
vnto the kynge by waye of fyne, an hondreth marke. For the which he had
after longe sute and great charge, and in conclusion was fayne to agre,
and to gyue to her a great pleasure, besyde many good gyftes that he
gaue vnto his1 counsayll.
2 other. MS.
3 set as. M.S.
1 her.
p660
Anno Domini.
M.iiii.C.lxx.
And the. xxvi. daye of the sayd moneth folovvyng, beganne a parlyament1,
and from thens prorogyd to Paulis, where it contynued tyll Cristemas. In
the2 parlyament sir Thomas Cooke, before trowbelyd as I haue
shewyd in the. vii. yere of kynge Edwarde, put in a byll into the comon
house, to be restoryd of the lorde Ryuers landes and other occacioners
of his trowble, to the sūme of. xxii. M. marke; of the whiche he had
good comfort to haue ben allowed of kyng Henry if he had prosperyd. And
the rather, for that yt he was of the cōmon house, and
therwith a man of great boldnesse in speche and well spoken, and
syngulerly wytted and well reasoned.
... Thus durynge this queysy season, the mayer ferynge the retourne of
kynge Edwarde, fayned hym syke, and so kept his house a great season.
All which tyme sir Thomas Cooke, whiche thenne was admytted to his
former rome, was sette in his place, and al- lowyd for his deputie,
whiche tourned after to his great trowble & sorowe.
...
And in this
season also sir Thomas Cook, befornamed, auoydyd the lāde, entendynge to
haue sayled into Fraũce. But he was taken of a shyp of Flaunders, and
his sone and heyre with hym; and soo sette there in pryson many dayes,
and lastly was delyueryd vnto kynge Edwarde.
1 The MS. adds at Westminster.
2 which. MS.
p662
EDwarde
the. iiii. before named, began agayne his domynyon ouer the realme of
Englande the. xiiii. daye of Apryll, in the begynnynge of the yere of
our Lorde. M.CCCC.lxxi.
... Whan kynge Edwarde hadde thus subduyd his enemyes, anone he sent
quene Margarete vnto London, where she restyd a season, and fynally she
was sent home into her countre. And the goodes of sir Thomas Cook agayne
ceasyd, and his wyfe put forth, and cōmaundyd to be kepte at the mayers.
Thomas is mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Philip Malpas, dated
26 April 1469, held at The
National Archives (PROB 11/5/419).
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp8-11 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
Το Elizabeth
his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., he bequeaths 500 marks
of the 1000 marks, 100l., and 30l., of “ferme,” which the
said Sir Thomas was indebted to him, &c.; and to each of the four
sons of said Sir Thomas and Elizabeth be bequeaths 100 marks more of the
said amount owing him, each to have his part when he arrived at the age
of twenty-one years, with provision for remainder in event of their
respective decease. Then follows a very curious passage, which I give
verbatim:—
“Also where as it hath been demed and surmysed by the said
sir Thomas Cooke heretofore þat I the said Philip Malpas was the cause
of tarying and taking of the goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke, which
were takin in a Ship which I was in vppon the see, whan I last passed
o͠ver the see, I the said Philip Malpas, for myn acquitall and discharge
in that behalf, say and declare verely vpon my conscience þat I was
never the cause of suche said tarying or taking of the said Ship and
goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke therin, and that the same
Ship with goodes was never so taried nor takyn in my cause or defaute,
as I woll answer vnto God.”
This no doubt refers to the matter mentioned by Fabyan, and
quoted in p. 6, in which it appears Malpas was taken prisoner by a
Frenchman named Columpne.
... To Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife he bequeaths all his
great place in which he was then dwelling, &c. situate in Cornhill
and Lime Street in the parish of St. Andrew Cornhill, &c., &c.
He also bequeaths to the said Thomas and Elizabeth all his lands and
tenements in the parish of St. Andrew Eastcheap; his shop in Bridge
Street, in the parish of St. Magnus; and all his lands and tenements,
&c. in the parishes of St. Olave and St. Mary Magdalen, in
Southwark; to have and to hold to them, and the heirs of their bodies,
&c; provided always, that in case the heir of John Tychborne will
buy and have those lands and tenements in Southwark, &c., and that
he will pay for the same, &c. 100l., then the said heir of
John Tychborne, on payment of said 100l., to have again the same
lands, &c. To John Foster and Johanne his wife (the daughter of Sir
Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke) he bequeaths all that his tenement called
the “Cok,” lying in and on the north side of Cornhill, in the parish of
St. Peter, and in ward of Lime Street, with remainder in default of
heirs, &c. He also wills that the said Sir Ralph Jocelyn, knt. have
and hold for his life the manor of “Chaldewell,” in the county of Essex,
&c., and after the decease of Sir Ralph the said manor to remain to
Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke for term of their lives, and after their
decease to remain to Philip their son and his heirs, &c., with
provisions for remainder in default of heirs, &c. He also bequeaths
to Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke, for term of their lives respectively,
his place called “Belle hous,” and the place called “Appultons,”
“Porters’ ffee,” and “Boyeles,” in the county of Essex, with all his
meadows, &c. at Stratford Langthorn, which he had before assigned
and delivered to the said Sir Thomas Cooke, the same to remain after the
decease of said Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife unto Thomas,
William, and John, their sons, each taking his third part, &c.,
&c.
The Essex Review vol 20 pp201-8 (1912)
THE COOKES OF GIDEA HALL
BY
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
... Philip Malpas, his father-in-law, died in 1469. In his will, dated
26th April and proved at Lambeth 8th May 1469, he bequeaths to Elizabeth
his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., 500 marks of the 1,000
marks 100li and 30li of ‘ferme’ which the said Sir Thomas was indebted
to him, and to each of the four sons of the said Sir Thomas and
Elizabeth he bequeaths 100 marks more of the said amount owing him.
There is also the passage before referred to, which runs:
‘Also whereas it hath been demed and surmysed by the said sir
Thomas Cooke heretofore that I the said Philip Malpas was the cause of
the tarying and taking of the goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke, which
were taken in a Ship which I was in vppon the see, when I last passed
ouer the see. I, the said Philip Malpas, for myn acquittall and
discharge in that behalf, say and declare verely vpon my conscience that
I was never the cause of suche said tarying or taking of the said ship
and goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke therin, and that the same ship
with goodes was never so taried or taken in my cause and defaute, as I
woll answer vnto God.’
To Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife he also bequeaths all
his ‘great place’ in which he was then dwelling, situate in Cornhill and
Lime Street, in the parish of St. Andrew, Cornhill, and all his lands
and tenements in the parish of St. Andrew, Eastcheap; his shop in Bridge
Street in the parish of St. Magnus, and all his lands and tenements in
the parishes of St. Olave and St. Mary Magdalen, in Southwark. To John
Foster and Johanne his wife (daughter of Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke)
he leaves his tenement called the ‘Cok’ on the north side of Cornhill,
and to Sir Ralph Jocelyn Kt. (his other son-in-law) his manor of
Chaldewell in Essex for life, with remainder to Sir Thomas and Elizabeth
Cooke, for their lives, and after their demise to Philip, their son, and
his heirs. He also bequeaths to Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke, for
terms of their lives respectively his place called ‘belle hous’ and the
places called ‘Appultons,’ ‘Portersffee,’ and ‘Boyeles’ in the county of
Essex, with all his meadows, etc. at Stratford Langthorn, which he had
before assigned and delivered to the said Sir Thomas Cooke, the said to
remain after the said Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife, unto
Thomas, William and John, their sons, each taking his third part.
Dictionary
of National Biography vol 12 pp94-5 (Leslie Stephen, 1887)
COOKE, SIR THOMAS (d.
1478), lord mayor of London, was the son of Robert Cooke, of Lavenham in
Suffolk, by Katherine his wife. The family was a long-established one.
Hugh, another son, who died in 1443, possessed lands in various parishes
of Suffolk (will in Probate Registry, Luffenham, 34). Thomas came to
London, became a member of the Drapers’ Company, and soon grew rich. The
earliest certain mention of him is in 1439, when he appears in the grant
of arms to the Drapers’ Company as one of the four wardens of the
company. He next appears, in June 1450, as agent to Jack Cade, who was
encamped on Blackheath, and opened communications with the city. Cooke
was requested by the rebels to tax the foreign merchants, to supply ‘us
the captain’ with horses, accoutrements, weapons, and money. Cooke,
though in sympathy with the Yorkists, married Elizabeth, daughter and
coheiress of Alderman Philip Malpas, one the leaders of the Lancastrian
party within the city. By her he had one daughter and four sons, of whom
Philip, the eldest, afterwards knighted, was born in 1454. He served as
sheriff in 1453, and was elected alderman of Vintry ward in 1454, and
mayor in 1462.
Edward IV, upon the coronation of his queen, Elizabeth, in May
1465, rewarded the leading members of his party in the city, including
Cooke, by creating them knights order of the Bath. In 1467 Cooke began
to build a mansion called Gidea Hall, near Romford in Essex, and
obtained a license for fortifying and embattling it; but on account of
his subsequent misfortunes he completed only the front, the remaining
sides of the quadrangle being built by Sir Anthony Cooke [q. v.] Cooke
was in all probability a draper by trade, and had extensive dealings
with foreign parts. A curious clause appears in his father-in-law’s will
(made and proved in 1469), in which Malpas solemnly disavows any
responsibility for ‘the tarying or taking of Sir Thomas Cooke’s ship and
goods’ when he was last upon the sea, although he was in the ship at the
time. Cooke’s will shows that he owned at least four brewhouses,
taverns, and beerhouses, besides fishing-weirs on the Colne, a large
farm at Gidea Hall, and numerous properties and manors in London,
Surrey, Essex , and Kent. His residence was in the parish of St. Peter
the Poor, Old Broad Street, where he had a ‘grete place,’ which he
afterwards sold to Robert Hardyng, goldsmith.
In 1467 Cooke was impeached of high treason, for lending money to
Margaret, the queen of Henry VI. One Hawkins, tortured on the rack, was
the only witness against him. Chief-justice Markham directed the jury to
find it only misprision of treason, whereby Cooke saved his lands and
life, though he was heavily fined and long imprisoned (FULLER,
Worthies, ii. 207).
While awaiting his trial in the Tower his effects, both at his
town house and at Gidea Hall, were seized by Lord Rivers, then treasurer
of England, and his wife was committed to the custody of the mayor. On
his acquittal he was sent to the Bread Street compter, and afterwards to
the king’s bench, and was kept there until he paid eight thousand pounds
to the king and eight hundred pounds to the queen. Lord Rivers and his
wife, the Duchess of Bedford, also obtained the dismissal of Markham
from his office for having determined that Cooke was not guilty of
treason. In December 1468, Cooke, then alderman of his own ward of Broad
Street, was discharged from his office by order of the king, but was
reinstated in October of the following year. According to Fabyan, Cooke
was a member of the parliament that met 26 Nov. 1470, on the temporary
restoration of Henry VI , and he put in a bill for the restoration of
certain lands, to the value of twenty-two thousand marks, ‘whiche,’ says
Fabyan, ‘he had good comfort to have ben allowyd of King Henry if he had
prosperyd. And the rather for yt he was of the com̃on house,
and therwith a man of great boldesse of speke and well spoken, and
syngulerly wytted and well reasoned.’ In the beginning of 1471 Cooke
acted as deputy to the mayor, Sir John Stockton, who, fearing the return
of King Edward, feigned sickness and kept his house. Edward returned in
April, and Cooke, attempting to leave this country for France, was taken
with his son by a ship of Flanders, where he was kept in prison many
days, and was afterwards delivered up to King Edward. Cooke lived seven
years after this, and though he was probably again heavily fined, he
left a large amount of landed and other property. In 1483, when the Duke
of Buckingham addressed the citizens of London in the Guildhall in
favour of the pretensions of Richard III to the throne, he referred at
length to the sufferings and losses of Cooke as a notable instance of
the tyranny of the late king (HOLINSHED, ed. 1808, iii.
391). Cooke died in 1478, and was buried, in compliance with his wish,
in the church of the Augustine friars, within the ward of Broad Street
in London. His will, dated 15 April, was proved at Lambeth 1 June 1478
(Probate Reg., Wattis, 36). His great-grandson was Sir Anthony Cooke [q.
v.]
[Herbert’s Livery Companies; Orridge’s Particulars of Alderman
Philip Malpas and Alderman Sir Thomas Cooke, K.B.; Hook’s Archbishops of
Canterbury, v. 164; Foss’s Judges, iv. 442-3; Drapers’ Company’s
Records; Lysons’s Environs.]
C.W-H
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The Essex Review vol 20 pp201-8 (1912)
THE COOKES OF GIDEA HALL
BY
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
PART I.
... Thomas Cooke, the builder of Gidea Hall, was son of Robert
Cooke, of Lavenham, in Suffolk. He seems to have left his native place
in early manhood, journeyed to London, and started in business as a
draper. That he prospered is certain, for in 1439 he was one of the four
wardens of the influential Drapers’ Company, when they obtained a
charter of Incorporation from Henry VI. and a grant of arms from Garter
King of Arms. Thomas Cooke’s name first comes into prominence in
connection with the insurrection of Jack Cade. In Dr. Hook’s Lives
of the Archbishops of Canterbury, Cade is described as an unknown
Irishman who pretended to be Sir John Mortimer, brother to the Earl of
March. He is stated to have added a pregnant wit to a princely bearing.
The real reason of this rising was to secure control of the Court for
the Yorkists. It is evident that the Corporation of the City of London
were more than favourably inclined to the Yorkists, for the Court of
Aldermen in 1448 rejected the nomination for alderman, by the Commonalty
of the Ward of Lime Street, of Philip Malpas, draper, who had served the
office of Sheriff in 1439 and represented the City in the Parliament of
1441. His name was presented with three others, but the court affirmed
that all were unfit for the office, the object being to exclude Malpas,
who was known to be favourable to the Lancastrian interests. The King
personally intervened, and as a consequence of the Royal letters Malpas
was elected an Alderman and duly sworn, but did not retain the office
long:
‘At a Common Council held the 26 June, 1450 a petition was
presented from the Commonalty that Philip Malpas should be exonerated
from his office of alderman, and the request of the petitioners was
conceded to them.’
‘Jack Cade encamped on Blackheath between Eltham and Greenwich on
the 1st of June 1450. Here, while he maintained his people by pillaging
the country, he opened a communication with the City, styling himself
the Gaptain of the Commons. All business was transacted in an orderly
manner, passports were duly signed and Thomas Cooke of London was
constituted the Captain’s agent, He was required to tax the foreigners
(the phrase has a modern ring) the Genoese, Venetian and Florentine
merchants. They were to be duly convened and were required to supply ‘us
the Captain’ with 12 harnesses of the best fashion, 24 brigandines, 12
battle axes, 12 glades, 6 horses with saddle and bridle completely
harnessed and a thousand marks in ready money. That the demand was met
is inferred by Stowe from the the fact that when the rebels entered the
City no foreigner was molested.’
Fabyan in his Chronicle, says :—
Vpon the seconde day of the sayd moneth [July 1450] the mayer
called a comon counsayll at ye Guyldhall for puruey ye withstandynge of
thyse rebellys, and other matyers, in which assemble were dyuers
opynyons so that some thought good that the sayd rebellys should be
recyued into ye cytie and some otherwyse; amonge ye which, Robert Horne,
stokfyshmonger, then beyng an aldermā, spake sore agayne them that wold
haue hym entre. For the whiche sayinges the comons were so amouyd agayne
hym that they ceased nat tyll they hadde hym comytted to warde.’
Malpas was expelled from the Court of Aldermen and Horne ‘comytted to
warde.’ On the second day after Cade’s entrance into the City the
premises of these two eminent supporters of the Lancastrian party were
plundered. Fabyan’s account is that he went into the house of Philip
Malpas, draper and alderman, robbed and spoiled his house, and took
thence a great substance, but the draper was forewarned and thereby
conveyed away much of his money and plate, or else he had been undone
‘At which spoyling were many poore, redy to do harme’ There seems little
reason to doubt that Malpas received this friendly ‘forewarning’ from
Thomas Cooke, who at the time was courting his daughter Elizabeth, and
who naturally was averse to any distribution or spoiling of his future
father-in-law’s goods in which he did not share.
In 1453, three years after Jack Cade’s rebellion, Thomas Cooke
was elected Sheriff of London. About this time he must have married
Elizabeth Malpas, for in 1454 his son, Philip, named after his
father-in-law, was born. Three years after his election as Sheriff
(1456), Cooke was chosen Alderman of the Ward of Vintry. Supporters of
the Lancastrian party were in a position of more or less danger, for
notwithstanding that the battle of St. Albans in 1461 had resulted in a
victory for their forces, the young Duke of York, supported by the
Corporation and citizens of London, assumed regal authority as Edward
IV. This is clearly shown by Fabyan, who, describing the state of
insecurity following this action, says
‘Dyuerse cytezyns auodyd the cytie and lande, among tke whiche
Phylyp Malpas which as before is shewyd was robbyd of Jacke Cade, whiche
Malpas and others were mette vpon thesee with a Frensheman naymd
Columpne, and of hym taken prysoner, and after payed iiij. thousand
marke for his ransom.’
That Thomas Cooke had something to do with this maritime adventure, or
was thought to have had, is made clear by a reference in Malpas’s will,
quoted hereafter; he certainly grew in prosperity and influence, and
after filling the office of Lord Mayor in 1462-3, was created a Knight
of the Bath on the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth Woodville,
Queen of Edward IV, in May 1465. At the same time a similar honour was
conferred upon the then Lord Mayor, Ralph Jocelyn, Cooke’s
brother-in-law by marriage with his wife’s sister Philippa. During these
years the prosperous city draper had been steadily acquiring wealth, and
had already invested some portion of it in the purchase of land; for
there is reason to believe that so early as 1453, the year of his
shrievalty, he bought an estate in the parish of Romford within the
Royal Liberty of Havering.
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It was not apparently for some years
that he applied for leave to build, for the royal licence is dated 12th
October, 1465. It grants him permission to include in the park 140 acres
of land, 20 acres of wood, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and
to build his castle of stone and chalk, turreted, moated, embanked,
machicolated and battlemented. The year 1467 saw the building commenced,
but only the front had been completed when misfortunes befell him.
Edward IV., like so many royal personages before and since, was
constantly in need of money and was not altogether scrupulous in the
manner of its getting; the suspicion of Lancastrian connections,
probably in the person of his father-in-law, made Sir Thomas Cooke a
victim. At the instance of a certain Hawkins he was impeached of high
treason in 1467. Hawkins had approached him some time previously with a
request for a loan of one thousand marks upon good security, it being a
not unusual custom for wealthy traders to do this kind of business.
Naturally, before making such an advance, Sir Thomas wanted to know who
it was for, and for what purpose it was required. Upon the discovery
that it was intended for the use of Queen Margaret, wife of Henry VI.,
he replied that he would not lend a hundred pounds. He was at first
admitted to bail, but then re-arrested and sent to the Tower his effects
seized by Lord Rivers, then Treasurer of England, and his wife committed
to the custody of the Lord Mayor. Being brought to trial at the
Guildhall, he was acquitted, but was sent notwithstanding to the Bread
Street Compter, and from thence to the King’s Bench, where he was kept
until he had paid £8,000 to the King, and £800 to the Queen. Upon
release his wife found his house ‘in very evil plight, for the servants
of Lord Rivers and of Sir John Fagge (then under treasurer) had made
havoc of what they listed. Also at Gidea Hall, Essex, they had destroyed
the deer in his park, his conies and fish, and spared not brass, pewter,
bedding nor all they could carry away; for which never a penny was
gotten back in recompense.’ On 21st November, 1468, Sir Thomas Cooke by
the King’s command was discharged from his office of alderman, but
reinstated in October 1469.
Philip Malpas, his father-in-law, died in 1469. In his will,
dated 26th April and proved at Lambeth 8th May 1469, he bequeaths to
Elizabeth his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., 500 marks of
the 1,000 marks 100li and 30li of ‘ferme’ which the said Sir Thomas was
indebted to him, and to each of the four sons of the said Sir Thomas and
Elizabeth he bequeaths 100 marks more of the said amount owing him.
There is also the passage before referred to, which runs:
‘Also whereas it hath been demed and surmysed by the said sir
Thomas Cooke heretofore that I the said Philip Malpas was the cause of
the tarying and taking of the goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke, which
were taken in a Ship which I was in vppon the see, when I last passed
ouer the see. I, the said Philip Malpas, for myn acquittall and
discharge in that behalf, say and declare verely vpon my conscience that
I was never the cause of suche said tarying or taking of the said ship
and goodes of the said sir Thomas Cooke therin, and that the same ship
with goodes was never so taried or taken in my cause and defaute, as I
woll answer vnto God.’
To Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife he also bequeaths all
his ‘great place’ in which he was then dwelling, situate in Cornhill and
Lime Street, in the parish of St. Andrew, Cornhill, and all his lands
and tenements in the parish of St. Andrew, Eastcheap; his shop in Bridge
Street in the parish of St. Magnus, and all his lands and tenements in
the parishes of St. Olave and St. Mary Magdalen, in Southwark. To John
Foster and Johanne his wife (daughter of Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke)
he leaves his tenement called the ‘Cok’ on the north side of Cornhill,
and to Sir Ralph Jocelyn Kt. (his other son-in-law) his manor of
Chaldewell in Essex for life, with remainder to Sir Thomas and Elizabeth
Cooke, for their lives, and after their demise to Philip, their son, and
his heirs. He also bequeaths to Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke, for
terms of their lives respectively his place called ‘belle hous’ and the
places called ‘Appultons,’ ‘Portersffee,’ and ‘Boyeles’ in the county of
Essex, with all his meadows, etc. at Stratford Langthorn, which he had
before assigned and delivered to the said Sir Thomas Cooke, the said to
remain after the said Sir Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife, unto
Thomas, William and John, their sons, each taking his third part.
Sir Thomas Cooke appears to have been a member of a parliament
which met on 26th November 1470, on the temporary restoration of Henry
VI., for according to the chronicler, he ‘put in a byll into the comon
house, to be restoryd of the lorde Ryuers and other occacioners of his
trowble; [lands] to the sume of 22,000 marks, of the which he had good
comfort to haue been allowyd of King Henry if he had prosperyd. ‘And the
rather,’ comments the chronicler ‘for yt he was of the comon house and
therwith a man of great boldnesse of speche and well spoken, and
syngulerly wytted and well reasoned.’ This appeal met with no success,
King Henry’s restoration being of short duration. Still following the
narrative of Fabyan, we are told that in the beginning of 1471, ‘the
mayer [Sir John Stockton] ferynge the retourne of kynge Edwarde fayned
hym syke, and so kept his house a great season. All which tyme sir
Thomas Cooke, whiche thenne was admytted to his former rome, was sette
in his place, and allowyed for his deputie, whiche tourned after to his
great trowble and sorrowe.’
King Edward returned in April, and Sir Thomas Cooke taking with
him his eldest son, fled for France, but was taken prisoner by a ship of
Flanders, and after being kept in prison there for many days, was
delivered up to King Edward. His goods were again seized, and his wife
put forth, and no doubt before regaining his liberty he was once more
heavily fined.
Upon the death of Edward IV., Richard, Duke of Gloucester, made
known his ambitious designs upon the throne, and sent the Duke of
Buckingham into the City to address the assembled citizens in the
Guildhall to secure their favour for his projects. With considerable
art, Buckingham made much of the injuries some of them had suffered at
the hands of the late king. ‘What, Cooke,’ he exclaims, ‘your owne
worshipful neighbour, alderman and maior of this noble citie, who is of
you either so negligent that he knoweth not, or so forgetful that he
remembreth not, or so hard-hearted that he pittieth not that worshipful
man’s losse? What speake we of losse? His utter spoile and vndeserued
destruction, onelie for that it hapned those to fauouer him whome the
prince fauoured not.’
1478, between 15 April 1478, when his
will is dated, and 1 June 1478, when his will was proved
In his will, Thomas requested to be
buried in the Church of the Friars Augustine, London, England “to be buried
wtin the Churche of the ffreres Augustynes, sett wtin
Bradstrete Warde of london̄, on the south side bitwene the two pillers in
the thirde vpmost Arche of stone exopposite the grave and monument of
William Edward, Aldreman, late mayre and grocer of london;”
dated 15 April 1478, proved 1 June
1478
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Sir
Thomas Cooke died in 1478. By his testament and last will† dated the
15th April 1478, after the preliminary bequest of soul to God, &c.
&c., he desires his body “to be buried wtin the Churche
of the ffreres Augustynes, sett wtin Bradstrete Warde of
london̄, on the south side bitwene the two pillers in the thirde vpmost
Arche of stone exopposite the grave and monument of William Edward,
Aldreman, late mayre and grocer of london;” and for his tomb to be made
of stone he bequeaths 20 marks. He also desires 16 poor men to attend
his burial with 12 torches and 4 great tapers of wax but without “any
manner of curious hers or Candlesticks,” and each of the said poor men
to have 20d. and a “gown clothe of blake frise or lynyng;” he
also instructs his executors to desire and pray the mayor and aldermen
to be at his burial and month’s mind, and describes himself as a
parishioner of the parish of St. Peter le Poer, to the altar of which
parish church he bequeaths 13s. 4d. for duties forgotten,
&c., and to the repair of the body of same church 10s. To
each of the four orders of Friars in London, viz., Augustines, Minors,
and the Black and White Friars, to say “Placebo and Dirige” within the
church of the Augustin Friars on day of his burial, to each order 20s.
To the Friars of Chelmsford, Maldon, and every order of Friars of
Colchester, 20s. to each order, to sing “Placebo and Dirige by
note” the day of his burial and month’s mind, and three days next after
the same, and also on the morning following mass of Requiem by note. To
the Grey Friars of Ailesbury 40s., on condition that they keep an
obit yearly for 20 years in their church for his soul, the soul of John
Maldy, William Thurston, and all christian souls. He also bequeaths 10l.
for prayers to be said every Sunday at St Paul’s Cross in London, yearly
for a space of six years; also 3l. for prayers to be said at St.
Mary Spittal, the three preaching days in Easter week, for a term of 20
years next ensuing his decease; then follows a bequest of 6s.
every month for a term of five years next after his decease, to be
bestowed in bread among the poor prisoners of Newgate, Marshalsea and
King’s Bench, to pray for his soul and the soul of Thomas Bassett,
&c., and 5 marks to such person or persons as the Prioress and nuns
of St Helen’s within Bishopsgate are indebted to, on condition that the
said Prioress and convent on the day of his decease and month’s mind,
within their church, sing “Placebo and Dirige,” &c. for his soul,
&c. To Sympkin Ludbroke of London, draper, he bequeaths 5 marks, and
to his chaplain Sir Robert . . . . . . . 4 marks. He also
bequeaths to William Taillour his servant 4 marks. To Robert Whittingham
his servant 40s., and to John Vale his servant 50l. of the
best debts owing to him, &.c He also bequeaths to six poor men such
as should be blind and lame and not dwelling in his “rente in the
blak Ale,” for a term of 90 years next ensuing after his decease, every
Sunday 1d. each, and also that the said poor men and others after
them in their stead, each of them to have “bi himself an hous bi the
grounde nexte the streete of tho” his “rente and tenemente
sett in blak Alee a foresaide, in the pish of Allhallowes in the Walle
in Bradstrete Warde of London a foresaide,” to have and to hold the said
six tenements during their lives without any rent or charge, and he
further desires this bequest to take effect the Sunday eight weeks after
his month’s mind, &c., and he desires Thomas of Kente and Godfrey,
late his servants, to have the preferment or choice of the said six
houses, and to the said Thomas he bequeaths 20s. His manual book,
and all his mass books, bibles, portuses, saulters, vestments, chalices,
corporales, sepultures, altar cloths, and curtains, he desires to remain
in the custody of Philip his son, to the intent that he deliver them to
John or William his brothers, or either of them who shall happen to be a
priest, without any delay the day next before he shall sing his first
mass. After his burial and all his debts paid, he bequeaths the residue
of all his goods, &c. &c., whatsoever, to be divided into three
equal parts. The first part to Elizabeth his wife, the other part to
Philip his son, and the third part to be equally divided between John
and William his sons, when they arrive at the age of 24 years, &c.
&c., with a provision for remainder in event of John and William
being priests or dying without issue. To Thomas Rotherham, Lord
Chancellor and Bishop of Lincoln, he bequeaths his “best standing Cupp
co͠ued gilt;” and to William Edward, Alderman, to be one of his
executors, 10 marks. He also bequeaths 10 marks each to John Vavasour of
the Temple, gentleman, and John Hawe* of London, gentleman, and he makes
and ordains his son Philip, William Edward, John Vavasour, John Hawe,
and Humfrey Howarden, his executors, the last mentioned also to have 10
marks; and for their overseer he appoints the said Lord Chancellor. He
then directs his executors after his decease to grant to the Prior and
convent of the Augustin Friars an annuity of 40s. yearly of the
issues of the place in which he was then dwelling, and of all his other
tenements in the parish of St. Peter le Poer, to have and to hold the
same from the day of his decease for a term of 90 years; that the said
prior and convent, &c., suffer his grave and tomb to be made within
their said church, and so to remain for ever, the said prior and convent
keeping and observing an obit for his soul, &c. &c., in their
said church every year for 90 years. To Philip his son and his assigns
for term of his life he bequeaths all that his “Chaumbre and Stuff of
Chamberyng thereto bilongyng, which that nowe I occupie and lye ynne my
silf, wt my ij Studies and Countyng houses thereto annexed.
Also ij other of my Chambres whereof oon is wt a Chapell next
adioynyng to my saide Chapell†, on the same side stretching Este and
Weste, and abuttith vpon the south toward the grete place late myne, and
nowe bilongyng to Robert Hardyng, goldesmyth, in the pish” of St. Peter
le Poer, &c., with free access to and from the same. The residue of
his said dwelling place from the day of his month’s mind to remain to
Elizabeth his wife for term of her life, with remainder after her
decease to his son Philip, &c. To his wife Elizabeth he also
bequeaths for term of her life his “grete place,” with tenements and
appurtenances, in the parish of St. Margaret Lothbury, and also his
place called “grene gate,”* &c., in the parish of St. Andrew
Cornhill, on the condition that the said Elizabeth, nor any one on her
behalf, do not vex or annoy his executors, &c., with reference to
the distribution of his property, and after her decease the same to
remain to Philip his son &c. &c. To Philip his son he leaves the
brewhouse of the Swan, in the parish of St. Botolph without
“Aldrichgate,” and to the said Philip and his heirs, after the death of
said Elizabeth, he bequeaths all his places and tenements, &c., in
the parish of St. Andrew Cornhill and Lime Street, formerly belonging to
Philip Malpas, and to the said Philip he also leaves his brewhouse
called the Garland, &c. in the parish of St. Andrew Eastcheap, and
also his place called the Wharf in the parish of St. Botolph
Billingsgate, also his two shops in the parish of St. Magnus, and his
tavern and brewhouse called the Bear and Dolphin in the parish of St.
Olave and St. Mary Magdalen in Southwark, and also his lands, &c.,
in Whitchurch, in the county of Chester, and in the county of Surrey,
with provision for remainder in event of failure of heirs to Philip,
&c. To John Vale his servant he bequeaths an annual rent of 4l.
for term of his life, to issue out of his places in the parish of St.
Helen’s and “St. Albourgh”† within Bishopsgate Ward, and further directs
that all the said places and the residue of all his tenements called
“black Alee,” to remain wholly to Philip his son during the end and term
of an indenture made to him for certain years, &c. under the seal of
the Prioress and convent of St. Helen’s; then follows provision for
remainder, and conditions respecting same if Philip die without heirs.
He also bequeaths to John Forster and Johanne his wife (whom he
describes as his daughter) all those his tenements which sometime
belonged to John Maldy, &c. in the parish of St. Olave, against the
Bridge House in Southwark, and after the decease of Elizabeth his wife
all those his tenements, &c., in the parish of St. Swithin, in
London, &c. To Philip his son, and his heirs, he leaves his manor of
Gidea or Geddy Hall and Easthouse, &c. with all the ploughs, carts,
&c,; and also all his mills, tenements, &c., in the parishes of
Hornchurch and Romford, in Essex, also his manor called Bedford’s, and
his place called “Revles,”* and his place called “Tilehous;” also his
manor of Reden Court, and his places and tenements called “Actonys” and
“frethes,” &c. in the parish of Hornchurch; also his manor of
“Haughannes, and his place called “Martynes,” in the parishes and towns
of “Chigwell, Lambourn, Hetunboise, Stapilforde Abbat, and a brigge,” in
the county of Essex; with provision for remainder in default of issue of
said Philip. He also bequeaths unto said Philip his manor called
“Maudelen lawser” and his Limekyln, &c., at Stifford Bridge, in the
county of Essex. To Aluere Cornebourgh‡ he bequeaths his tenement called
“Willotys” (in which Bernarde Tilemaker is described as then dwelling),
on condition that he pay his executors 5l., and also discharge
his heirs for ever of all quit-rents going out of his manor of Gidea
Hall, or otherwise the said tenement to remain to Philip his son.
He also wills that his executors make or cause to be made to the
vicar and wardens of the church of St. Nicholas of Witham, in the county
of Essex, a lawful estate in fee for evermore of all those his tenements
called “ffresles” in the parish of Witham, to yearly keep and hold an
obit in said church for his soul, &c. and the souls of Thomas
Bassett, John Debenham, John Maldy, and William Thurston, &c.
&c. To Philip his son he also bequeaths his place called the Bell
and the Angel in Newland, in Witham, and also his places called Pages
and the Mote, &c., in the parish and town of Witham, and also in the
towns of “Revnale, Cressyng, Falborn, and Brakstede,” in the
county of Essex, with remainder to William his son, if Philip die
without issue; and if William die, then remainder to Thomas Downe (whom
he describes as his nephew) and his heirs for evermore. To John his son
and his heirs he bequeaths all that his great place called the Swan in
Brentwood, in the county of Essex, and all other his tenements, lands,
&c., in the town and parish of Brentwood. The said John to have, to
him and his heirs, after decease of Elizabeth his wife, all that his
manor of Belhouse and his places called “Morells” and “Boyeles,” and his
lands called “Tyleherstes,” &c., in the county of Essex; and also
all his rent of assize and quit rent called Porter’s Fee, in the county
of Essex, with provision for remainder in event of John dying without
heirs. To William his son and his heirs, when he is of lawful age, he
bequeaths all his places and tenements in the town of Colchester, in the
county of Essex; and also his fishing wears within the Colne Water,
between St. Osyth’s and Colchester; also all that his beer-house between
the “Forthe of Stratford Bow and Stratford Langthorn,” in the parish of
Witham, in the county of Essex; also all his messuages and tenements in
the parish of Eastham. And to the said William and his heirs, after the
decease of Elizabeth his wife, he bequeaths his place called
“Appultones,” &c. in the parish of Chigwell: also all his meadows,
&c., in Stratford Langthorn, &c., which late belonged to Philip
Malpas, &c. He also wills and ordains that all his ffeoffees
enfeoffed to his use of his lands, &c., in the towns of “Erehith,
Lesnes, Maideston̄, Loose fferte, Boughton̄ Monchesey, Redmersham,
Bapchilde, Milstede,” and in the hundred of Middleton, or in other
places in the county of Kent, shall make estate thereof to such persons
as his executors shall require, and that the said estates be sold, and
the proceeds to be applied in payment of his debts, &c. &c.
This will was proved at Lambeth the 1st day of June 1478.
† Prerog. Reg. 36 Wattis.
* (?) Sheriff of London, 16 Hen. VII. 1500.
† (?) Chambre.
* Inherited from Philip Malpas.
† St. Ehelburga
* (?) Nerles.
† Heybridge.
‡ Avery Cornburgh, of Gooshays, in the parish of Romford, died
1486.
Thomas Cooke
Thomas Cooke
Elizabeth
(Malpas) Cooke
Thomas is mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Philip Malpas, dated 26
April 1469 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/5/419)).
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Elizabeth his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., he bequeaths
500 marks of the 1000 marks, 100l., and 30l., of “ferme,”
which the said Sir Thomas was indebted to him, &c.; and to each of
the four sons of said Sir Thomas and Elizabeth be bequeaths 100 marks
more of the said amount owing him, each to have his part when he arrived
at the age of twenty-one years, with provision for remainder in event of
their respective decease.
... He also bequeaths to Sir Thomas and
Elizabeth Cooke, for term of their lives respectively, his place called
“Belle hous,” and the place called “Appultons,” “Porters’ ffee,” and
“Boyeles,” in the county of Essex, with all his meadows, &c. at
Stratford Langthorn, which he had before assigned and delivered to the
said Sir Thomas Cooke, the same to remain after the decease of said Sir
Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife unto Thomas, William, and John,
their sons, each taking his third part, &c., &c.
Thomas is not mentioned in the will
of his father, Sir Thomas Cooke, dated 15 April 1478, which does mention his
other brothers, Philip, John and William, nor in his mother's will dated 15
November 1484. He is, however, mentioned in the will of his grandfather,
Philip Malpas, dated 26 April 1469, and so he probably died between 26 April
1469 and 15 April 1478.
William Cooke
Thomas Cooke
Elizabeth
(Malpas) Cooke
William is mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Philip Malpas, dated 26
April 1469 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/5/419)).
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp8-11 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
... Το
Elizabeth his daughter, the wife of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., he bequeaths
500 marks of the 1000 marks, 100l., and 30l., of “ferme,”
which the said Sir Thomas was indebted to him, &c.; and to each of
the four sons of said Sir Thomas and Elizabeth be bequeaths 100 marks
more of the said amount owing him, each to have his part when he arrived
at the age of twenty-one years, with provision for remainder in event of
their respective decease.
... He also bequeaths to Sir Thomas and
Elizabeth Cooke, for term of their lives respectively, his place called
“Belle hous,” and the place called “Appultons,” “Porters’ ffee,” and
“Boyeles,” in the county of Essex, with all his meadows, &c. at
Stratford Langthorn, which he had before assigned and delivered to the
said Sir Thomas Cooke, the same to remain after the decease of said Sir
Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth his wife unto Thomas, William, and John,
their sons, each taking his third part, &c., &c.
William is also mentioned in the will of his father, Sir Thomas Cooke, dated
15 April 1478, in which it is implied that William had not yet reached the
age of 24 years, or even "lawful age".
Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s Rebellion pp16-20 (Benjamin Brogden Orridge,
1869)
His manual
book, and all his mass books, bibles, portuses, saulters, vestments,
chalices, corporales, sepultures, altar cloths, and curtains, he desires
to remain in the custody of Philip his son, to the intent that he
deliver them to John or William his brothers, or either of them who
shall happen to be a priest, without any delay the day next before he
shall sing his first mass. After his burial and all his debts paid, he
bequeaths the residue of all his goods, &c. &c., whatsoever, to
be divided into three equal parts. The first part to Elizabeth his wife,
the other part to Philip his son, and the third part to be equally
divided between John and William his sons, when they arrive at the age
of 24 years, &c. &c., with a provision for remainder in event of
John and William being priests or dying without issue. ... To Philip his
son he also bequeaths his place called the Bell and the Angel in
Newland, in Witham, and also his places called Pages and the Mote,
&c., in the parish and town of Witham, and also in the towns of
“Revnale, Cressyng, Falborn, and Brakstede,” in the county of
Essex, with remainder to William his son, if Philip die without issue;
and if William die, then remainder to Thomas Downe (whom he describes as
his nephew) and his heirs for evermore. ... To William his son and his
heirs, when he is of lawful age, he bequeaths all his places and
tenements in the town of Colchester, in the county of Essex; and also
his fishing wears within the Colne Water, between St. Osyth’s and
Colchester; also all that his beer-house between the “Forthe of
Stratford Bow and Stratford Langthorn,” in the parish of Witham, in the
county of Essex; also all his messuages and tenements in the parish of
Eastham. And to the said William and his heirs, after the decease of
Elizabeth his wife, he bequeaths his place called “Appultones,” &c.
in the parish of Chigwell: also all his meadows, &c., in Stratford
Langthorn, &c., which late belonged to Philip Malpas, &c.
William is mentioned in the will of
his father, Sir Thomas Cooke, dated 15 April 1478, but not in his mother's
will dated 15 November 1484, so he probably died between 15 April 1478 and
15 November 1484.
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