The Crayford Family
Arthur Crafford
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Effigy of Arthur Crafford
This effigy (24½ inches high) affords a large and excellent
representation of a venerable long-bearded man attired in large
neck-ruffle, doublet, and trunk hose, with a cloak overall
reaching to the level of the knees and embroidered down the edges.
The sword, usually seen in effigies of this character, is lacking
in this case.
There can be no doubt, we think (for reasons given hereafter),
that this is the effigy of Arthur Crafford, 1606, of South Weald,
whose inscription remained in the church of that place till 1868
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23 February 1534(5)
Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the City of
London part 1 (ed G. S. Fry, 1896)
Inquisitions: Edward VI (part 3 of 3)
Guy Crayford, esquire.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 7 March, 7 Edward VI
[1553]
... Guy Crayford died 31
January last past; Arthur Crayford
is his son and next heir, and was then aged 17 years 11 months and 8 days.
Guy Crafford
Joane
(Bodley) Crafford
Anne Scott
Anne was the daughter of George Scott, of Chigwell, Essex, who died in 1588.
She is named in the will of her father, dated 22 May 1588 and proved 15
December 1589 held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/74/532) and extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 pp338-9 (1910):
... Testator’s
daughter, Anne Crafford, to have his black nagge, or another as good; or
5l. to buy one.
In 1589 "Prudence, wife of William Skott of Chigwell, gentleman, Ann, wife
of Arthur Crayford of the same, gentleman" were indicted for "not coming to
church from the above date until 26 March then next following, for the space
of three months, contrary to the Acts of 1 and 23 Elizabeth" (Essex
Record Office Q/SR 112/64)
Arthur is possibly the Arthur Crayford or Crafforde who attended Jesus
College, Cambridge University.
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 1 p415
(John Venn, 1922)
CRAYFORD
or CRAFFORDE, ARTHUR. Matric.
pens. from JESUS, Easter, 1552
Arthur is mentioned in the will of his great-aunt, Denys (Bodley) Leveson,
dated 1 August 1560.
Wynch,
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(1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... ITEM; I give and bequeath to my
cousin Arthur CRAYFORD, Nicholas CRAYFORD, and Edward CRAYFORD ten pounds to be paid to them equally
and quarterly forty shillings until the same be lawful paid, also I
bequeath to my cousin John CRAYFORD
twenty pounds.
Arthur is not mentioned in the will of his father, Guy Crayford dated
29 January 1552(53), but is the primary heir in and one of the executors of,
the will of his mother, Joane (Bodley) Crayford, dated 10 December 1583.
Wynch,
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(1584 Joane Crafford widow)
ITEM; I give and bequeath unto my son Arthur
CRAFFORD one black gown with the hood price eighteen shillings
the yard, and also one ring of gold engraved with a (falcon’s) head, and
one brooch of gold enamelled and also one ring of French crown gold with a
death’s head.
... for as much as the said messuage and cottage
with the barn with other their appurtenances are very old and greatly
(suynous) and decayed my mind and will is that my
said son Nicholas Crafford shall have as much good oak timber and
other necessary wood from time to time as shall be requisite and necessary
for the repairing and amending of the premises at any time during the
space of three years next after my decease, the same to be felled and
taken at seasonable times in and upon my grounds belonging to my
Manor called (Buddes) or Downsettes in the County of Essex
without any let denial or interruption of my
said son Arthur Crafford his heirs executors or assigns or of any
of them
... ITEM; I give and bequeath unto Cicely
Coldwell one black gown price fourteen shillings the yard, and to Mary
Coldwell her sister a black gown of like price, and also I give and
bequeath unto the said Mary to be paid to her by the hands of
my son Arthur Crafford his heirs executors or assigns at the date
of her marriage or within one month after his decease which shall first
happen the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England to be answered out
of such goods as I shall leave unto my
said son Arthur
... ITEM; my will and mind is that all such my
plate and jewels as shall remain at the time of my death unbequeathed
shall be equally divided between my two
sons Arthur Crafford and Nicholas Crafford whom I name ordain and
make my full and only executors of this my present last will and testament
to see it executed according to the true meaning thereof, and also I will
and my mind is that the residue of my goods and household stuff which
shall remain at the time of my death unbequeathed shall wholly remain to
the use of my said son Arthur so
that he the said Arthur do not
only perform this my last will but also bear and pay the whole charges of
the funeral and other debts and duties growing by me or for me
Arthur is named as an overseer of the will of his father-in-law, George
Scott, dated 22 May 1588 and proved 15 December 1589 held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/74/532) and extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 pp338-9 (1910):
... To Arthur
Crafford, gent., and Thomas Allen, yeoman, both of Chigwell, 4l.,
to be bestowed on mending the highways: ‘betwene Lamborne Bridge and
Randolphes Meade, 20s.; betwene
Lamborne Crosse and Billingborne lane end, next the forrest, 3l.;
wheare most neede is and nott ells wheare.’
... Robert Scott, testator's son, and Arthur Crafford, to be overseers ;
to the former his ring ‘withe a deatbes heade’ in it; to the latter a
black gowne.
He is a witness to the will and codicil of his brother-in-law, Thomas
Colshill, dated 23 April 1593 with a codicil dated 28 February 1594(5), and
proved 12 April 1595, which is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/85/243):
... In
witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale and have published
this as my last will and testamente in the presence of these witnesses
Arthur Crafford Thomas Allen John Serrott William Kirkland: The marke of
Thomas Colshill.
Memorial that uppon the eighte and twentithe daye of fFebruarie one
thousande five hundered nintie fouer and in the seventh and thirtith yeare
of the raigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabethe Thomas Colshill of
Chigwell in the countie of Essex, Esquier, beinge in his bedd in the ???
Parlor where he do finallie lay there beinge presente with him his brother
in lawe Arthur Crafford gentleman John Manwood gentleman and William
Kirkland the sayed Thomas Colshill Clarke he the sayed Thomas Colshill
beinge in communication with the sayed Arthur Crafford of the death of
John Smithe of London Deputie Surveyor to the sayd Thomas Colshill of her
Matie Cusstomshouse sayed brother John Smith hath not
remembered me nor my wife for such ??? a mourning gowne not ane other
remembrance at all by his will at ??? ??? ??? man hath ??? me which he
havinge beene my man and deputie afterwardes for longe as he was he mighte
well have done And therefore thought I have put him and his wife ??? in my
Will for to have such legacyas you knowe I will have it Broken oute for
them bothe, and neither he nor his wife shall have ani thinge by my
Will By mi Arthur Crafford By mi John Manwood William Kirkland
Arthur is also named as an overseer of the will of his brother-in-law,
William Scott, dated 20 November 1597 and proved 30 May 1598 held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/91/522) and extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 p343 (1910):
... Testator's
brother, Robert Scott; his sisters Crafford, Wentworth, and Stone, are
named. To each man-servant, 6s.
8d.; to each woman-servant, 3s 4d.
Residue to his son, George, who is made sole executor. Arthur Crafford,
his brother-in-law, and Hugh Base, his cousin, are made overseers.
Witnesses :—William and Robert Scott; Arthur Crafford; Hughe Base;
George Bristo; Alexander Stowell.
Arthur and his wife are named in, and Arthur is appointed an executor of,
the will of his sister, Mary (Crayford) Colshill dated 2 June 1599 and
proved on 29 June 1599 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/93/439) "to my brother Arthur, and his
wyfe, ... each of them mourning gowns and cloth of Eighteen shillings the
yarde ... Item I give to my brother Arthur Crafford whom I make a Executor
of my will a ringe of a deathes head which was my husbands, and to his
eldest daughter one gold hoope which was my Aunt Lusons."
A reference to Arthur on 20 August 1601 states that he is resident at
Chigwell, Essex.
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop
of London, 1520 to 1610 vol 1 pp263 (Joseph Lemuel Chester,
1887)
1601.
Aug. 20 Richard
Myles, of Lamborne, Essex, Gent., Widower, 60, & Susan Barefoote,
Maiden, dwelling in Chigwell, Essex, with Mr Arthur Crafford,
Gent., age 30, dau. of Benedict Barefoote, of Lamborne aforesd,
Gent., who consents; at Lamborne aforesaid.
11 May 1606, aged 72, in South Weald,
Essex, England
The inscription
to Arthur in South Weald church states that his date of death was 11
May 1606, and this date is corroborated by Philip Morant and the fact that
the Inquisition
Post Mortem for Arthur was held in the year 1606-1607.
The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 (Philip Morant, 1763)
Arthur
Crafford Gent. who lived at his maner of Downsells, and dyed 11
May 1606, aged 72 years, held the maner of Bawdes, alias
Downesells, with apputenances in South-Weld, of Sir Thomas Lucas, as of
his maner of Shenfield;—Mary,
and Winifrede then wife of George Gittens, were his daughters
and heirs.
A lawsuit from about 1668 incorrectly gives the date of Arthur's death as 1
May 1600.
Modern Entries, in English pp298-9 (John
Mallory, 1791)
Hill. 19 & 20 Car.
2. In the Common Pleas.
Roll 1512.
TOOK
against GLASCOCK.
... the said Guy
Crafford and Johanna
his wife, afterwards (to wit) on the first day of November,
in the eighteenth year of the reign of our late sovereign lady Elizabeth,
late Queen of England, died at
Southwald aforesaid, being so
seized of such their estate therein; after whose decease, the tenements
aforesaid, with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, descended to Arthur
Crafford as son and heir lawfully begotten of the bodies of the
said Guy and Johanna
his wife, whereby the said Arthur
entered into the said tenements, with the appurtenances, above specified
in the said declaration, and was seized thereof in his demesne, as of a
fee-tail; (that is to say) to him and the heirs lawfully issuing of the
bodies of the said Guy Crafford
and Johanna his wife; and
being so seized thereof, the said Arthur
afterwards, (to wit) on the first day of May,
in the forty-second year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth,
died at Southwald aforesaid,
so seized of such his estate therein, after whose death the said
tenements, with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, descended to Mary
and Winefrid Crafford, as
daughters and coheirs of the said Arthur
Crafford, lawfully issuing of his body;
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Inscription to Arthur Crafford, formerly
at South Weald church, Essex
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South Weald church, Essex, England
The inscription to Arthur Crafford, formerly at South Weald church, Essex,
from an image in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 8 p277 (1903), reads:
Here lyeth the bodye of Arthvr Crafford Gentleman
who sometime lived at his Mannor of Downesells in this parish and beinge
of the age of 72 yeares departed this world the xj of May in the yeare of
ovr lord 1606. He had issue 2 davghters Marie and Winifred.
"Some Interesting Essex Brasses" by Miller Christy and W.W. Porteous in Transactions
of the Essex Archaeological Society New Series vol 8 p268-77
(1903)
SOUTH
WEALD.—Ten
Compositions, all now lost or mutilated. Dates from 1450 (about) to
1634.
Any account of the Monumental Brasses now or formerly existing in
the fine church of South Weald must include, of necessity, a lamentable
tale of destruction at the hands of the church restorer.
Buckler, writing in 1856, remarked that “many ancient
gravestones, with fragments of brasses, suggest that this church was
formerly rich in monumental records.” Such was, indeed, once the case.
In 1868, however the church was “restored,” and the brasses it
contained were treated with a disregard which was remarkable, even for
that time. All, with one exception, were torn from their slabs, and the
slabs themselves were either broken up, removed elsewhere, buried, or
used to pave the church-yard paths.
... But for the fact that, about the year 1850, Mr. Arthur H.
Brown, of Brentwood, our veteran Essex brass-rubber, took rubbings of
all the brasses then existing in the church, we should have been
ignorant of the former existence of several of those now lost, and quite
“at sea” as regards the relationship of several plates which still
remain. Our figures of all brasses which are lost are from Mr. Brown’s
rubbings, which he has placed most kindly at our disposal, together with
such information as he possesses.
...
VI.—[Effigy of Arthur Crafford,
Gentleman, with Inscription and Shield. Now lost.] Date
1606.
Our knowledge of this brass is derived from Holman’s Manuscripts,
from Mr. Brown’s rubbing of the inscription and shield, taken on 26th
August 1854, and from the effigy, which exists in private hands.
The effigy remained when Holman wrote about 1710, and he
describes it as that of “a venerable old man in brass, with a long
beard, having on him a cloak faced with gold lace; his hands folded.”
This effigy was lost in 1854, when Mr. Brown rubbed the inscription, but
Holman’s description leaves no reasonable doubt that it is the latest of
the three effigies now in the possession of Mr. John Sands, of the
Priory, Noak Hill, scarcely two miles from South Weald Church, as
already described (see p 268).
The inscription (7 by 20½ inches) is in Roman capitals and small
capitals. It states that Arthur Crafford owned the Manor of Downsells,
in South Weald, where he resided, and that he died, aged 72, on the 11th
May 1606.
The shield bears Quarterly, 1st and 4th Crafford1:
2nd and 3rd Bodley,2 with a crescent on the
fess point for difference.
This Arthur Crafford married, apparently, a member of the Bodley
family. Morant says that he left only two daughters—Winifred, who was
married to John Gittens, and Mary, who subsequently married — Jermin,
but she died soon after, on 13th June 1608, when her moiety of the
estate went to her sister.
1 [Or], on a chevron [vert], three
hawk's heads erased [argent].
2 [Gules], five martlets [argent]; on
a chief indented [or], three crowns [azure].
The effigy described above was restored to South Weald church in 1933, shown
in this
photograph from 2013. The inscription shown appears to be a
reproduction as some of the word placement differs from the brass rubbing of
the original.
The
Victoria History of the County of Essex vol 8 p88 (W. R.
Powell, 1983)
When the
church was restored in 1868 many of the monuments were destroyed,
including the altar tomb of Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1567), of which only
the top slab, with a fragment of the brass, remains. During the
incumbency of Duncan Fraser some of the brasses were recovered. Three
others, having been in private hands, were given to Noak Hill church,
but those, including the brass of Arthur Crafford (d. 1606) were
restored to South Weald in 1933.
- Date calculated from
data given in Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the
City of London part 1 (ed G. S. Fry, 1896)
"Guy Crayford died 31 January last past; Arthur
Crayford is his son and next heir, and was then aged 17 years
11 months and 8 days." Aged 72 at death on 11 May 1606 from rubbing of
memorial inscription at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903) gives a year of 1533-4.
- married to mother from Visitations
of Surrey in Publications of the Harleian
Society vol 43 p147 (1894)
- Arthur is named in the
will of his mother, Joane (Bodley) Crayford, dated 10 December 1583
transcribed at
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1584 Joane Crafford widow)
- Will of Annes Scott's
father, George Scott, dated 22 May 1588 and proved 15 December 1589
(extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 11 part 4 pp338-9) names "Testator's
daughter, Anne Crafford" and "son-in-law, Arthur Crafford"; The shield
above Arthur's memorial inscription formerly in South Weald, a rubbing
of which is reproduced in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903) shows a quartering of the
arms of Crafford and Bodley. This would typically indicate that Arthur
married a Bodley, although the fact that Arthur's mother was a Bodley
may possibly be confusing the issue.
- Arthur's memorial
inscription formerly in South Weald, a rubbing of which is reproduced in
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903); The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 (Philip Morant, 1763); place from Modern Entries, in English pp298-9
(John Mallory, 1791)
- Arthur's memorial
inscription formerly in South Weald, a rubbing of which is reproduced in
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903)
- Arthur Crafford
Avery Crafford
Thomas
Crafford
Alice (_____) Crafford
Avery is named in the will of his father, Thomas Crafford, dated 28 July
1508 which is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198). From the ordering of the
remainders in the estate, Avery is presumably the youngest of the three sons
mentioned. Avery was not yet twenty-one years at the writing of this will,
so born after 28 July 1487.
... And after the decesse of my said wif I will
all my saide lands tenaments meadows pastures rents and services
with their appurtenances shall holly remany unto the said Richard my son
and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten paying unto Guy my forsaid
son v marks yearly during his life And if the said Ricd deys wtoute
heirs of his body lawfully begotten Then I will that all my forsaid lands
and tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with their appurtenances
shall remayn to the forsaid Guy my son and to the heirs of his body
lawfully begotten ffaylyng his heirs of his body lawfully begotten then I
will that all that all my lands and tenaments meadows pastures rents and
services with thappurtenances shall remayn to my son Avery and
to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten ffaylyng heirs of the said
Avery lawfully begotten then I will that all that all the forsaid lands
and tents meadows pastures rents and services with thappurtenances shall
remayn unto the next heirs of right blood of me the said Thomas Craford
for evrmore. Ffurthermore I will that Avery my son have xx l to be paid by
the hands of my forsaid wyf or her assigns when he cometh to the age of
xxj years.
Denys Crafford
Guy
Crayford
Joane
(Bodley) Crayford
Denys is mentioned in the will of her father, Gye Crafforde of London, dated
29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53), at which time she was
unmarried.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1552 Guy Crafford)
ITEM; I give unto my
daughters Denys, Elizabeth and Grissell to every of them forty
pounds towards their marriages and that to be levied of my plate and
jewels, and that my wife shall
have the occupation of the same money unto such time as they shall be
married, and then to deliver it unto them, and every of them to be other’s
heir, and I will that if any of my said daughters do marry or bestow
herself without the consent of her mother that then she to lose her part
bequeathed.
However, Denys is not mentioned in the will of her mother, Joane (Bodley)
Crayford, dated 10 December 1583, despite the fact that her married sister
Mary is mentioned many times in the will, giving rise to the likelihood that
Denys was deceased by that date.
Edward Crafford
Guy
Crayford
Joane
(Bodley) Crayford
Edward was married - an unnamed wife is mentioned in the will of Edward's
mother Joane (Bodley) Crayford, dated 10 December 1583 (Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk
through family history (1584 Joane Crafford widow))
Edward is mentioned in the will of his father, Gye Crafforde of London,
dated 29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53), at which time he
was still a minor.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1552 Guy Crafford)
ITEM; I give to my
son Edward twenty pounds to be paid to them at their full and
lawful age by my wife.
He is also mentioned in the will of his great-aunt, Denys (Bodley) Leveson,
dated 1 August 1560.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... ITEM; I give and bequeath to my
cousin Arthur CRAYFORD, Nicholas CRAYFORD, and Edward CRAYFORD ten pounds to be paid to them equally
and quarterly forty shillings until the same be lawful paid
In 1582, Edward was assessed £3 in the parish of St Ellyns, London ('1582
London Subsidy Roll: Bishopsgate Ward', in
Two Tudor Subsidy Rolls for the City of London,
1541 and 1582 pp 149-159 (ed. R G
Lang, 1993). His widowed mother is also assessed in the same
parish.
Edward is mentioned in the will of his mother, Joane (Bodley) Crayford,
dated 10 December 1583.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1584 Joane Crafford widow)
ITEM; I give and bequeath to my
son Edward CRAFFORD one black gown with the hood price eighteen
shillings the yard, and one ring of gold with a death’s head with this
sentence: “Nosce te ipsum” which weighs half an ounce and half a quarter,
and also one salt of silver gilt with a cover. ITEM; I give and
bequeath unto the said Edward Crafford
six silver spoons and six pairs of sheets whereof three pairs are of
canvas and the other three pairs are of a finer sort and six pillow
beres. ITEM; I give and bequeath unto his
wife one black gown of fifteen shillings the yard and a hoop ring
of gold and eight and twenty skeins of yarn to make them some linen cloth
containing by estimation about four and twenty pounds weight, but if my said son Edward Crafford his heirs
executors or assigns or any other for him or them do at any time after my
decease sue vex or trouble my said executors or do interrupt my last will
and testament for any other benefit portion or legacy than herein is
expressed or do refuse to deliver them a sufficient acquittance or lawful
discharge at the receipt of these parcels aforesaid to him given and
bequeathed that then my will and mind is that my gift and bequest of every
of them shall be unto him utterly frustrated and of none effect.
Elizabeth Crafford
Guy
Crayford
Joane
(Bodley) Crayford
Elizabeth is mentioned in the will of her father, Gye Crafforde of London,
dated 29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53), at which time she
was unmarried.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1552 Guy Crafford)
ITEM; I give unto my
daughters Denys, Elizabeth and Grissell to every of them forty
pounds towards their marriages and that to be levied of my plate and
jewels, and that my wife shall
have the occupation of the same money unto such time as they shall be
married, and then to deliver it unto them, and every of them to be other’s
heir, and I will that if any of my said daughters do marry or bestow
herself without the consent of her mother that then she to lose her part
bequeathed.
However, Elizabeth is not mentioned in the will of her mother, Joane
(Bodley) Crayford, dated 10 December 1583, despite the fact that her married
sister Mary is mentioned many times in the will, giving rise to the
likelihood that Elizabeth was deceased by that date.
Grissell Crafford
Guy
Crayford
Joane
(Bodley) Crayford
Grissell is mentioned in the will of her father, Gye Crafforde of London,
dated 29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53), at which time she
was unmarried.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1552 Guy Crafford)
ITEM; I give unto my
daughters Denys, Elizabeth and Grissell to every of them forty
pounds towards their marriages and that to be levied of my plate and
jewels, and that my wife shall
have the occupation of the same money unto such time as they shall be
married, and then to deliver it unto them, and every of them to be other’s
heir, and I will that if any of my said daughters do marry or bestow
herself without the consent of her mother that then she to lose her part
bequeathed.
However, Grisell is not mentioned in the will of her mother, Joane (Bodley)
Crayford, dated 10 December 1583, despite the fact that her married sister
Mary is mentioned many times in the will, giving rise to the likelihood that
Grisell was deceased by that date.
Guy Crafford
first name also spelled Gye, and Guidonis, last name also spelled Crayford
and Crafforde
Thomas Crafford
Alice (_____) Crafford
Joane
Bodley
Lawyer. Guy was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on
8 August 1514 (Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn
vol 1 p36 (1896))
Guy was a member of the Bonner
commission established in 1541 by Henry VIII to enforce the Six
Articles, part of an ongoing attempt to define the doctrine of the new
church of England.
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe vol 5 p440
(John Foxe, 1838)
The Commission
for taking the Oath of the Mayor of London and Others, for the execution
of the Act aforesaid.
Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God,
king of England and of France, defender of the faith, lord of Ireland,
and in earth supreme head of the church of England, unto the reverend
father in Christ Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, and to his wellbeloved
the bishop's chancellor, health. Know ye that we have given you, jointly
and severally, power and authority to receive the oaths of William
Roche, mayor of London; John Allen, knight; Ralph Warren, knight;
Richard Gresham, knight; Roger Cholmley, knight, serjeant-at-law; John
Gresham; Michael Dormer, archdeacon of London, the bishop's commissary
and official; Robert Chidley, Guy Crayford, Edward Hall, Robert Broke,
and John Morgan, and every of them, our commissioners for heresies, and
other offences done within our city of London and diocese of the same,
according to the tenor of a certain schedule hereunto annexed. And
therefore we command you that you receive the oaths aforesaid; and when
you have so received them, to certify us into our chancery, under your
seals, returning this our writ.
Teste me ipso at Westminster the twenty-ninth of
January, in the thirty second year of our reign.
p264
Provided moreover that every person that should
be named commissioner in this inquisition, should first take a corporal
oath, the tenor of which oath here ensueth.
The Oath of the Commissioners.
Ye shall swear, that ye, to your cunning, wit, and power, shall
truly and indifferently execute the authority to you given by the king's
commission, made for correction of heretics and other offenders
mentioned in the same commission, without any favour, affection,
corruption, dread, or malice, to be borne to any person or persons, as
God you help, and all saints.
"Guidonis Crayford" is named as the
father of Mary in the Latin inscription on her tomb. The Latin name
"Guidonis" is rendered in English as "Guy".
Guy is named in the will of his father, Thomas Crafford, dated 28 July 1508
which is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198). From the ordering of the
remainders in the estate, Guy is presumably the second of the three sons
mentioned.
... the said Alice pay unto Ricd my son v marks
yearly during hyr life and also give unto Guy my son during hyr naturall
lif other v marks toward their fynding: And after the decesse of my said
wif I will all my saide lands tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with their appurtenances shall holly remany
unto the said Richard my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully
begotten paying unto Guy my forsaid son v marks yearly during his life And
if the said Ricd deys wtoute heirs of his body lawfully
begotten Then I will that all my forsaid lands and tenaments meadows
pastures rents and services with their appurtenances shall remayn to the
forsaid Guy my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten ffaylyng
his heirs of his body lawfully begotten then I will that all that all my
lands and tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with
thappurtenances shall remayn to my son Avery
In 1539, Guy was allowed to buy part of the land of the Priory of St Helen,
in London, confiscated by Henry VIII.
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archeological
Society vol 2 pp195-6 (1864)
On the
3rd of October, 31st Henry VIII. 1539, the King granted to Guy Crafford,
Esq. and Joan his wife, in consideration of the sum of £54, a messuage
or tenement, with cellars, solars, stables, gardens, &c. situated in
the parish of S. Helen's, and within the close of the late Priory,
formerly in the tenure of Thomas Benolt, then in that of Sir Arthur
Darcy, knt. and lastly in that of the aforesaid Guy. Also another
messuage adjoining the same on the west, and lately in the tenure of
George Taylour, gent. Both were among the possessions of the late
Priory, and were to be held from Lady Day last past by the service of a
twentieth part of one knight's fee, and a yearly rent of six shillings
and eight pence by name of tithe payable at Michaelmas. The grant was
made without fine great or small, and was dated, witness the King at
Westminster, on the day aforesaid.
Guy is likely the "Guye Crawford" who, along with Thomas Colshill, was a
churchwarden in the parish of St Ollyns in 1548 (Lawful Church Ornaments page lxxiii (Thomas
Walter Perry et al, 1857)).
Land once owned by Guy and Joane in Southwald, Essex, is mentioned in a
later court proceeding (around 1668) in which the history of the land
ownership was fully explored.
The Reports of the Most Learned Sir Edmund Saunders,
Knt. vol 85 pp251-254 (Edmund Saunders, 1807)
Took versus
Glascock. Case 38.
Hil. 19 & 20 Car. II. Regis, in Comuni Banco, Rol. 1512.
... the tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances, by
the name of one messuage or tenement, with a garden and backside, and
two parcels or closes of land to the same adjoining, containing by
estimation four acres, be the same more or less, and also one wind-mill
with the appurtenances, commonly called by the name of Bentley-Mill,
next adjoining to the said messuage or tenement; which said messuage and
premises were situate, lying, and being in Southwald
...
dame Johanna Bradbury afterwards, to wit, on the 2d day of March,
in the 21st year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord Henry
the Eighth, late King of England,
at Southwald aforesaid,
ordained and made her last will and testatment in writing, and thereby
gave and devised that one Guy
Crafford, and Johanna
then his wife, should, amongst other things, have the said tenements
with the appurtenances, specified in the said declaration, to them and
the heirs of their bodies lawfully issuing; and afterwards, to wit, on
the same day and year, she the said dame Johanna
Bradbury died at Southwald
aforesaid; after whose decease the said John
Rooper esquire, Humphrey
Tyrrell gent., William
Rooper gent., son of the said John,
Nicholas Levison merchant of the Staple,
and Henry Fincham, by virtue
of the said last will and testament of the said Johanna
Bradbury, became seised of the tenements aforesaid with the
appurtenances, above specified in the said declaration, in their demesne
as of fee, to the use and behoof of the said Guy
Crafford and Johanna
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully issuing, and remained
and continued so seised thereof, to the same use and behoof, until the
4th day of February, in the
27th year of the reign of our late sovereign lord Henry
the Eighth, late King of England;
on which day, by virtue of the said act made and provided in the
parliament of the said late King Henry
the Eighth at Westminster, in
the county of Middlesex, on
the same 4th day of February,
in the 27th year aforesaid, for transferring uses into possession, the
said Guy Crafford, and Johanna his wife, were seised of
the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances above specified in the
said declaration, in their demesne as of fee-tail, to wit, to them and
the heirs of their bodies lawfully issuing; and being so seised thereof,
the said Guy Crafford and Johanna his wife, afterwards, to
wit, on the 1st day of November,
in the 18th year of the reign of our late sovereign lady Elizabeth,
late Queen of England, died at
Southwald aforesaid, being so
seised of such their estate therein; after whose decease, the tenements
aforesaid with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, descended to Arthur
Crafford as son and heir lawfully begotten of the bodies of the
said Guy and Johanna
his wife, whereby the said Arthur
entered into the tenements with the appurtenances, above specified in
the said declaration, and was seised thereof, in his demesne as of
fee-tail, (that is to say) to him and the heirs lawfully issuing of the
bodies of the said Guy Crafford
and Johanna his wife;
Guy was bequeathed £20 in the will
of his wife's uncle, Nicolas Leveson (dated 7 November 1536), and
named as an executor of the will
of Edward Dormer (dated 21 January 1539), in which he and his wife are
also bequeathed "a black gown of the price of 13s 4d the yard". He is also
named as an executor of the will of Dame Anne Tirrell dated 16 July 1552,
and proved 26 November 1562 (TNA
PROB 11/45/314, transcribed
by Nina Green). The probate of the will in 1562 notes that Guy
Crafford is deceased.
31 January 1552(53)
Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the City of
London part 1 (ed G. S. Fry, 1896)
Inquisitions: Edward VI (part 3 of 3)
Guy Crayford, esquire.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 7 March, 7 Edward VI
[1553], before George Barons,
Mayor and escheator, after the death of Guy
Crayford, esq,, by the oath of James
Altham, William Chambers, Robert Kytchyn, Matthew Harryson, John Grene,
William Goodwyn, John Warren, John Brewer, Michael Haythwayte, John
Arthur, Nicholas Creswell, Thomas Goughe, William Strete, Thomas Dale,
John Bullock and Simon Burton,
who say that
Guy Crayfford and Joan
his wife were seised of 1 messuage, together with the houses, stables,
gardens, etc. thereto belonging, situate in the parish of St. Helen within
the City of London, and next to the close of the late Priory of St. Helen:
which said messuage was sometime in the tenure of Thomas
Benalt and afterwards in the tenure of Arthur
Darcye, knight; also of 1 messuage in the tenure of George
Taylor, gent., adjoining the above mentioned messuage on the
south part; which said messuage lately belonged to the said late Priory of
St. Helen.
The said premises are held of the King by the service of the
20th part of a knight's fee and by the yearly rent of 6s.
8d., and are worth per ann.,
clear, £3 6s. 8d.
Guy Crayford died
31 January last past; Arthur Crayford
is his son and next heir, and was then aged 17 years 11 months and 8 days.
The said Joan still
survives in the said parish of St. Helen.
Inq. p.m., 7 Edward VI,
No. 39.
Probably in the church of St Helen,
London, according to the direction of his will.
The will of Gye Crafforde of London,
dated 29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53), is held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/36/76). A transcription
of the will in modern English has been done by Nina Green, and another
transcription in modern English can be found at:
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TRANSCRIBED WILLS
1552 Guy Crafford
In the name of God Amen; this is the past will and testament of me Guy CRAFFORD of London Esquire made
the 23rd day of January in the year of our Lord God 1552?
First and principally I give and bequeath my soul unto Almighty God my
maker, Redeemer and Saviour, and my body to be buried within the
church of Saint Elens. ITEM; I give unto my
daughters Denys, Elizabeth and Grissell to every of them forty
pounds towards their marriages and that to be levied of my plate and
jewels, and that my wife shall
have the occupation of the same money unto such time as they shall be
married, and then to deliver it unto them, and every of them to be
other’s heir, and I will that if any of my said daughters do marry or
bestow herself without the consent of her mother that then she to lose
her part bequeathed. ITEM; I give to my
son Nicholas twenty pounds. ITEM; I give to my
son Edward twenty pounds to be paid to them at their full and
lawful age by my wife. ITEM; I give to my
daughter COLSHALL one gilt spoon for a remembrance to pray for
me. ITEM; I will that Anthony Smyth shall have fifty pounds in
money that was his mother’s over and besides certain household stuff
which also was his mother’s at the time of her death. The residue
of all my goods and chattels, my debts and legacies paid, I give and
bequeath unto my well beloved wife whom I make my sole and full executor
desiring her to be good unto my children and (xxx) as my (xxx) trust is
in her. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day
and year above written. Witness to this will – Thomas Watson, clerk;
John Watson, gentleman; Guy Stafford; Richard Stafford; Thomas Colshall
Proved 12th March 1552
- Essex
Record Office D/DQ 22/132. This is a bond from 1513 concerning the
Manor of Gobyons in East Tilbury and Waltons in Mucking. The content is
abstracted as "Bond from Alice Craford of Rainham, wife of Tho.Craford,
esq., Richard Craford and Guy Craford, sons of Thomas and Alice Craford,
to Robt.Lyman of Havering." The connection of this Guy Crafford to the
Guy Crafford, son of Alice of Rainham, is shown in the will
of Guy's wife, Joane (Bodley) Crafford in which she leaves to her
"son Nicholas Crafford all that my messuage with a cottage thereunto
adjoining and with all and singular their appurtenances set lying and
being in the town of Rainham in the County of Essex adjoining near the
bridge there, and also all the writings and evidence concerning and
belonging to the same, to have and to hold the said messuage and cottage
with the appurtenances together with all the said evidence to him the
said Nicholas Crafford and his heirs and assigns forever, which said
messuage and cottage with their appurtenances my late husband gave unto
me"; the will of Thomas Craford dated 28 July 1508 held at
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198) mentions "Guy my son";
also as summarized in Bradbury Memorial p50 (William Berry
Lapham, 1890), the inquisition held after the death of Joan's
grandmother, Joan Bradbury "Mentions her daughter, wife of Thomas
Crofford, and their daughter Joan" which is not the exact descent but
corroborates that Joan's father-in-law might have been named Thomas.
- Visitations
of Surrey in Publications of the Harleian
Society vol 43 p147 (1894)
- Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn
vol 1 p36 (1896); Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 p229
(Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994)
- Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem For the
City of London part 1 (ed G. S. Fry, 1896)
- Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk
through family history (1552 Guy Crafford)
- The
National Archives (PROB 11/36/76); Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk
through family history (1552 Guy Crafford)
- Guy Crayford
Isabell (Crafford) Rawson
Alice
(Cornburgh) Crafford
Richard
Rawson
Notes and Queries 2nd series vol 1 p452
(1856)
Isabella
Rawson died in 1497, and was buried with her husband at St Mary
Magdalen, Milk Street. By her will she gave many charitable and
devotional legacies, comprising one to the free chapel of Grysenhale,
Norfolk, of which her son Nicholas was master, and a legacy for amending
of High noyous and Joypdous (noyous or noxious and jeopardous?) waies
between Four Elmes and the house of her brother, Thomas Trafford, in
Essex. She gave a dozen of silver spoons with knoppes to each of her
sons, Avery, Christopher, John, a Knight of Rhodes, Richard Rawson (then
at Bononye, query Bologna?) ; and to her god-daughter, Isabella Celey,
child of her daughter Anne Salle (or Celye), wife of Richard Selye, als Cely, merchant of the Staple,
who died possessed of the manor of Bretts, in Aveley, Essex, in 1494,
she gave all the halling and bedding of the great chamber at Brett's.
Notes
and Queries 2nd series vol 2 p27 (1856)
Since
writing these Notes and Queries I have found or been furnished with
answers to some of the latter, but first I must correct an error in my
Notes. The family name of Isabella, wife of Richard Rawson, the sheriff
of London in 1476, was not Trafford, but Craford.
One of her sons, John, mentioned in her will as a knight of
Rhodes, bore two coats quarterly : the first is, parted per fess undée,
sa. and az. a castle with 4 towers arg. (Rawson) ; the second is, Or, on
a chevron, vert, 3 ravens heads erased, arg. (Craford), ensigned all
over with a chief gules, and thereon a cross of the third. (Gwillim's Display of Heraldry, p. 435.)
1497
Lady Chapel in St Mary Magdelen,
Milk Street, London, England
The will of Isabell Rawson, widow of
Saint Mary Magdalen Milk Street, City of London, widow, dated 1 September
1497 and proved on 11 October 1497, is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70. Her will distributing her lands and
houses is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/534.
An extract of Isabell's will can be found at
Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp130-1 (1869)
LXVII.
THE WILL OF ISABELL RAWSON OF LONDON, WIDOW.
[Reg. Horne, at Doctors’ Commons.]
Sept. 1, 1497. Isabell Rawson of London, widow. To be bur.
near my late housband, Richard Rawson. To the free chapell of S.
Nicholas in Gryssenhale in Norfolk, whereof my sonne Nicholas Rawson is
maister, a torche. Alverey Rawson, myne eldest sonne, c. li. To Isabelle
his dou., my god doughter, a cheyne of goold with J.H.C. hanging
thereby. To my son Chr. Rawson j dosin of sponis of silver wt
knoppis gilt. To John Rawson, knight of the Rhodes, my sonne, a stonding
cup with a cover of silver gilt, a leyer of burall garnisshed with
silver and gilt, and xx li. To Richard Rawson, my sonne, atte Bononye,
xx li. Son Nich. Rawson xx li. Dau. Anne Salle wid. c li. Dau. Eliz.
wife of John Foxe, mercer, xx li. Dau Alice xx li. Bror Thos.
Craford. To Wm. Rawson, skolar of Oxford, v mark. The bishop of Durham
supervisor. Son Alverey, etc., exrs.
[Pr. Oct. 11, seq.]
A different extract in more modern English is at
Essex Institute Historical Collections vol 41
pp279-80 (1905)
ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS IN NEW ENGLAND
Communicated by Lothrop Withington
...
ISABELL
RAWSON of London, widow, 1 Septemper 1497, proved 11
October, the same year. My body to be buried in such place as the body
of my late husband, Richard Rawson, late mercer, citizen and alderman of
London, lieth buried. To the high altar of the parish church of St. Mary
Magdalen in Milk St. London, where I am a parishioner, for tithes
&c. forgotten and that the curate there pray specially for my soul,
twenty shillings. Also I will that mine executors shall ordain and
purvey twenty convenable torches and four convenable tapers to “brenne”
at dirige and mass of requiem at my burying : and that twenty four men
householders, not common torchbearers shall hold the said torches and
tapers, &c. gifts of torches, &c. to other churches in London.
To the free chapel of St. Nicholas in Griffinhall in Norfolk, whereof my
son Nicholas Rawson is master, one torch. Other like bequests. To Avery
Rawson, mine eldest son one hundred pounds sterling and to Isabell his
daughter, my god daughter, a chain of gold, &c. To Christopher
Rawson my son one dozen of spoons of silver, with knobs gilt. To John
Rawson, Knight of the Rhodes, my son, a standing cup with a cover of
silver gilt (and other gifts). To Richard Rawson, my son “atte Bononye”
one dozen spoons of silver knobs gilt and in money twenty pounds. To
Nicholas Rawson my son (a similar gift). To Anne Salle, widow, my
daughter, one hundred pounds “of suche duete she oweth unto me,” and
also a standing cup of silver gilt. To Elizabeth my daughter the wife of
John Foxe, mercer, in money twenty pounds and a pair of beads, &c.
To Alice, my daughter, a dozen of spoons of silver knobs gilt, a cup of
silver gilt and in money twenty pounds. To Isabell Cely, daughter of my
daughter Anne Salle. Reference to a debt that her father, Richard Cely,
whose soul God pardon, owed to me. To the other four daughters of my
said daughter Salle, viz. Margaret Cely, Barbary Cely, Anne Cely and
Bridget Salle. Richard Cely spoken of as the late husband of the said
Anne Salle. To my brother Thomas Craford. To William Rawson, scholar of
Oxford, towards his exhibition. To William Geve at Bononye towards his
exhibition. To James Rawson servant with the prior of Westminster. I
make and ordain mine executors Master Nicholas Lathell, one of the
Barons of the King’s Exchequer, William Purches, alderman of London and
Avery Rawson my son, citizen and mercer of the same city. And I humbly
beseech my singuler good Lord the Bishop of Durham to be overseer.
Horne,
10.
- The will of Isabell
Rawson of London, widow, dated 1 September 1497 and proved on 11 October
1497, is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70 transcribed at Essex Institute Historical Collections vol
41 pp279-80 mentions "my brother Thomas Craford"; Isabell's son,
Avery Rawson, is mentioned as the nephew of Thomas Crafford in Thomas's
will dated 28 July 1508 and proved on 4 November 1508, is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198)
- The will of Isabell
Rawson of London, widow, dated 1 September 1497 and proved on 11 October
1497, is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70 transcribed at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp130-1
(1869) mentions "my late housband, Richard Rawson"
- The will of Isabell
Rawson of London, widow, dated 1 September 1497 and proved on 11 October
1497, is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70
- In the will of Isabell
Rawson of London, widow, dated 1 September 1497 and proved on 11 October
1497, is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70
transcribed at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp130-1
(1869) she requests "To be bur. near my late housband, Richard Rawson";
Notes and Queries 2nd series vol 1 452
(1856)
- The will of Isabell Rawson
of London, widow, dated 1 September 1497 and proved on 11 October 1497,
is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/70; extracts at Testamenta Eboracensia vol 4 pp130-1
(1869) and Essex Institute Historical Collections vol
41 pp279-80 (1905); Isabell's will distributing her lands and
houses is held at The
National Archives PROB 11/11/534
- Isabella Craford
John Crafford
1445(6) to 1446(7)
Alice
(Cornburgh) Crafford
In 1485, both John Crafford and Thomas Crafford were part of a military
commission to Alvred Cornburgh.
Calendar of the patent rolls 1476-1485 p545
(1939)
1485
April 8. Westminster.
Commission, until 31 August next, to Alvred Cornburgh, esquire,
under-treasurer of England, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Bulkeley, John
Crafford, Thomas Gale, Thomas Crafford and Henry Palmer to take muster
in any convenient places within the realm of George Nevyll, knight,
captain, and the men at arms, armed men, archers and others of a force
which the king has ordered to go to sea to resist his enemies, and to
certify thereon to the king.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp104-5 (1898)
237. ALFRED
CORNBURGH, esq.
Writ 15 Feb., inq.
Tuesday 13 March, 2 Hen. VII.
...
He died 2 Feb. last. His sister Agnes Chambre, aged 60 and more,
and John Crafford, aged 40 and more, son of Dame Alice Crafford his
other sister, are his next heirs.
ESSEX. Manor of Goseys, 6 messuages, 20 cottages, 40
tofts, 500a. arable, 100a.
meadow, and 500a. wood, worth
20 marks, and a rent of 10 marks, in Haveryng, Rumford, and Hornchirche,
held of the King in socage, as of the manor of Haveryng-at-Bowre, by
fealty, and 40s. rent yearly.
A third part of the manor of Dovers, in Haveryng, and in the
parishes of Hornchirche, Boures, Gyfford, Reynham, and Alvetheley, worth
7l. held together with the two
other parts, of the King, by fealty and 20s.
rent.
C. Series II. Vol. 2. (79.)
The manor of Dovers in Havering, Essex, a third part of which John inherited
from his uncle, Avery Cornburgh in February 1486(7), was, in the 1490's, in
the possession of John's brother, Thomas Crafford - a lawsuit concerning a
farm on Thomas's estate at Dovers was brought in the 1490's (Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering,
1200-1500 p248 (Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2002).
In 1500 or 1501, a legal proceeding was brought by Thomas Grayson against
John Crafford regarding "The manor of Goseys, and lands and tenements in
Havering, late of Avery Cornburgh." (List of Early Chancery Proceedimgs 1500-1515
vol 4 p14 (1963)) and in 1501 or 1502 we see a proceeding by John
Morton against John Crafford regarding "The manor of Goseys and other lands
and tenements in Rumford and Haveryng atte Bowre, bought of Thomas Grayson"
(List of Early Chancery Proceedimgs 1500-1515
vol 4 p46 (1963))
- Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp104-5 (1898), dated 13 March 1486(7), names "His
sister Agnes Chambre, aged 60 and more, and John Crafford, aged 40 and
more, son of Dame Alice Crafford his other sister, are his next heirs."
- Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII
vol 1 pp104-5 (1898) names "His sister Agnes Chambre, aged 60 and
more, and John Crafford, aged 40 and more, son of Dame Alice Crafford
his other sister, are his next heirs."
Mary (Crayford) Colshill
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Closeup of the effigy of Mary Crayford on
the monument on the south wall of the chancel in St Mary,
Chigwell, Essex
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1524-25
Guy Crafford
Joane
(Bodley) Crafford
Thomas
Colshill circa 1545
According to the inscription on Thomas's tomb, Thomas and Mary were married
for fifty years. Since Thomas, the first dying of them, died in 1595, we can
deduce a marriage date of around 1545. However, Thomas "and his wife" are
remembered by Richard Reynolds in his will dated 30 September 1541 (held at
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/29/375)) "Item I bequeath to Thomas
Colsell Citizen and mercer of London and his wife viij yards and a halfe
blak clothe at vjs the yarde", which would indicate that either Thomas was
previously married, or that his marriage to Mary occurred before 30
September 1541.
Mary is mentioned in the will of her father, Guy Crayford in 1552, dated 29
January 1552(53).
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1552 Guy Crafford
ITEM; I give to my daughter COLSHALL
one gilt spoon for a remembrance to pray for me.
Mary is mentioned in the will of her great-aunt Dionyse (Bodley) Leveson.
THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/43/645 (last will and testament, dated 13
March 1559 (will of lands) and 1 August 1560 (will of goods) and proved 20
December 1560, of Dionyse Leveson), modern spelling transcript ©2014 Nina
Green)
Also I will and bequeath unto every of
those my loving friends hereafter written a ring of [-of] gold of the
value of 30s, that is to wit, unto the Lady Dorothy Broke, late wife of
Sir Robert Broke, knight; to the Lady Dormer of London; to my cousin, Jane
Crafford; to my cousin, Thomas Colshill and to his wife, either of them a
ring;
...
Also I bequeath to my said cousin Colshill and his wife, either of them a
black gown;
The ring she is bequeathed by her great-aunt is found again in Mary's own
will when she passes it on to her niece "Item I give to my brother Arthur
Crafford whom I make a Executor of my will a ringe of a deathes head which
was my husbands, and to his eldest daughter one gold hoope which was my Aunt
Lusons."
She is also mentioned in the will of her mother, Joane (Bodley) Crayford,
dated 10 December 1583.
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1584 Joane Crafford widow
ITEM; I give and bequeath to my
daughter COLSHILL a black gown with the hood piece eighteen
shillings the yard, and also one ring of gold with a diamond three
square set in the same ring, and also one chain of fine gold weighing
two ounces quarter and a half, and also I give and bequeath unto her my
two best gowns and two of my best (kyrtles) the one of satin and the
other of damask, and my best hood never as yet worn with my best
(boneygrate) and other the appurtenances. ITEM; I give and
bequeath unto her one Flanders chest barred with round bars of iron and
locked with two locks now standing in my bedchamber with certain parcels
of linen in the same which are expressed in a certain writing remaining
in the same chest.
3 June 1599, aged 74
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Monument to Thomas Colshill and Mary
(Crayford) Colshill on the south wall of the chancel in St Mary,
Chigwell, Essex
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in the chancel of St Mary at
Chigwell, Essex, England
The History of Essex p238 (Elizabeth
Ogborne, 1812)
CHIGWELL.
On the south wall of the chancel is a white marble monument, with
the effigies of the deceased kneeling at a stand with books; the lady
with her two daughters behind her in the same attitude, dressed with
large ruffs and lappeted head-dresses and inscribed as follows:
“Thomas Colshill, ar. et Maria uxor, filia Guidonis Crayford, ar.
nupti 50 annos. Ipse serviens Edw. regi, Mariæ et d'ne Eliz. Reginis,
per ide·· tem·· ut superiu······ sor magne custumiæ civitatis London.
“Et in isto comitatu unus custodu’ pacis per 24 an’os; quorum
integritas vitæ et mortis christianitas placentur eoru’ animas in’ cœlo,
ut corpora in hoc tumula requiescere.
ipsi 77
37 30 Martii
ætatis
obiit Eliz. Re.
ipsi
74
41
3 Junii.
“Hic sepulti sumptibus Edwardi Stanhope, militis, et Susannæ
uxoris Jasparis Leake armigeri, et Mariæ uxoris filiaru et heredu’
predictoru’.”
The Environs of London vol 4 p119 (Daniel
Lysons, 1796)
CHIGWELL.
Against the south wall of the chancel is a monument of alabaster
and veined marble, (with the effigies of the deceased in kneeling
attitudes,) to the memory of Thomas Coleshill Esq., servant to King
Edward IV., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and inspector of the
customs for the city of London, ob. 1595. Mary, his wife, daughter of
George Crayford, Esq. died in 1599: they were married fifty years. The
monument was put up by Susanna, wife of Sir Edward Stanhope, and Anne,
wife of Jasper Leeke Esq. daughters and co-heirs of the deceased.
(Note: the source above incorrectly identifies the daughter of
Thomas and Mary who married Jasper Leeke as Anne, while it can be seen
from the original Latin that this should be Mary (Mariæ).
Transactions
of the Essex Archeological Society New Series vol 12 p140
(1911)
CHIGWELL CHURCH.
On a
mural monument on the south wall of the chapel near the east end,
depicting under an entablature the kneeling figures of a man and woman
on either side of a priedieu and behind the woman two smaller female
figures, probably children, all with hands clasped in prayer, is a Latin
inscription, of which the following is a translation:—“Thomas Coleshill
Esq., and Mary his wife, daughter of Gideon Crayford Esq., were married
50 years. During the same time, he served King Edward, Mary and
Elizabeth, as Surveyor of the great Customs of the City of London, and
in that County was one of the Justices of the Peace, 24 years. The
integrity of their lives and their Christian deaths promise their souls
to rest in Heaven as their bones do in this tomb. He died March 30th,
aged 77. 37th Elizabeth (1595). She died June 3rd, aged 74 years, 41st
Elizabeth (1599).”
The will of Marye Colshill or
Collshill, Widow of Chigwell, Essex, dated 2 June 1599 and proved on 29 June
1599, is held at the The
National Archives (PROB 11/93/439).
Transactions
of the Essex Archeological Society New Series vol 11 p343-4
(1909)
MARYE
COLSHILL.—June 2, 1599. Of Chigwell, widow. To be buried
in the church ‘so nere where my late deere husband, Thomas Colshill,
lyes buried as may bee.’ A tomb or monument to be made ‘of a memoriall
of’ her husband and self, to the value of 20l.
‘I doe will that my bodye be decentlye buried according to my degree,
with a convenient number of my frendes and neerest of kinne and
neighbors to accompany me to the church and dyne with my executors at
that day.’ To the parishes of Chigwell, Lawton, and Wodford, 3l.
each, 4d. to be given to each
poor person, chosen by her executors, at the funeral, or afterwards in
the churches. ‘But yf the concourse of the poore people be greater than
can be so served then to the end that each should have parte, to
distribut yt by Twoo pence apeece to the poore.’ Mentions, —i.a.,
her grandchild, Elizabeth Dacres. Many gifts of monrning gownes, coats,
or cloaks. ‘Item, I requier that Mr. Harsenett, the Vicar of Chigwell,
will take paynes to preach at my funerall and for a token of my well
wishinge to him, I give him 6s.
8d.’ Mentions her husband's
‘cloth gowne lined with satten.’ Requires of her husband's heirs that
John Kelley, her servant, ‘may have the next Almes Room that falls voyd
in Chigwell, which was of my husband's gift and foundacion.’ Residue to
her sons-in-law, Stanhope and Leeke. (There was trouble with the third,
Dacres.)
Proved June 29, 1599. (P.C.C.:
46 , Kidd.)
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons
1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, entry for COLSHILL,
Thomas
His will, made
in April 1593 and proved two years later, is that of a wealthy man, his
salary of £46 13s.4d. no doubt having been supplemented by the usual
perquisites. He asked to be buried in the high chancel of Chigwell
parish church. He left money and plate to a number of relatives, some of
the bequests totalling 100 marks or more. Only two children are
mentioned, Mary, wife of Jasper Leeke, and Susan, who married Edward
Stanhope I. Another daughter, Katherine, married Sir Thomas Dacres of
Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The widow was sole executrix and residuary
legatee, and the two overseers were John Wood of the Middle Temple and
John Manwood, husband of Colshill’s cousin Mary. A codicil was added on
28 Feb. 1595.
My transcription of the will is:
In the name of
God: Amen. I Mary Colshill of Chigwell in the county of Essex
widdow late wyfe and sole Executrix of Thomas Colshill Esquire deceased
weake of bodye by age and infirmitie but of good and perfect memory thanks
be to Allmightie God do this Second day of June one Thousand ffive hundred
ffoure score and nynttyne make and ordayne this my last will and Testament
in forme followinge. Ffirst I bequeath my soule to Allmightie God my maker
and redeemer acknowledging Three persons in Trinity God the father, God
the sonne, and God the holly ghost, and all to be one God in unitie and as
I was created by allmightie God of nothinge, and baptised in the fayth of
Jesus Christ whereby I was made a member of him and of his church Soe doe
I stedfastly beleeve that by the sheedinge of Christ's most precious blode
I being hartily penitent for all my sinnes by ??? and asking forgiveness
of allmightie God for the same by the fayth and beleefe of I have in him
and by his mercies ??? and blood sheedinge to have full remission of my
sinnes And yf my soule shall partake Everlasting lyfe after it shall
departe out of this vale of mysorie and be separated from this my bodye,
and that at his glorious and ??? day of Judgment my body shall rise
agayne, and that I shalbe ??? both bodye and soule into that ??? company
unto which it is promised by Christ himself that it shall be sayde (ye of
my right hand come ye blessed of my father, inherite the kingdom prepared
for you from the beginning of the world) and in this fayth I stedfastly
hope to end my lyfe which I beseech Allmighty God to strenghten in me, and
continue me in, my body I doe bequeath to be buried in the parish church
of Chigwell so nere where my late deere husband Thomas Colshill lyes
buried as may bee. Item I doe will and bequeath that some convenient place
nere where I shallbe buried a Tombe or monument may be made of a memoriall
of my said husband and of myself at the discretion of my Executors to the
value and charge of Twenty pounds Item I doe will that my bodye be
decently buried according to my degree with a convenient number of my
frendes and neerest of kinne and neighbors to accompany me to the church
and dyne with my Executors at that day. Item I give to be distributed to
the poor of Chigwell parish, Lawton parish, and Wodford parish eyther at
the tyme of my ffunerall, or in their parish churches at the discretion of
my Executors Three poundes by ffour pence apeece. But yf the concourse of
the poore people be greater than can be so served then to thend that each
should have parte to distribut yt by Twoo pence apeece to the poore. Item
I doe give to my sonne Stanhope and my daughter Susan his wyfe, to my
sonne Leeke, and my daughter Mary his wyfe, to my brother Arthur, and his
wyfe, to my cosen Manwood and his wyfe, to my Grand childe Elizabeth
Dacres each of them mourning gownes and of such stuff as shalbe thought
meete by my Executors. The gentlemen to have cloth of Eighteene shillings
the yarde; And the gentlewomen silke ??? of Three shillings ffour pence
the yarde, hoping that they (if their helthes will permitt them) will not
only attende my body to the buriall but will also furnish such of their
children as may be at it with mourning apparel for that purpose. Item I
give to Willm Kirkand my servente a mourning cloke, To Joane my mayd a
mourning gown; And to every other of my household men a mourning ??? a
peece And to every of my women serventes such mourning gowns as my
Executors shall thinke meete. And to my cosen Thomas Manwood a mourning
cloake. Item, I requier that Mr. Harsenett, the vicar of Chigwell, will
take paynes to preach at my funerall and for a token of my well wishinge
to him, I give him Six Shillings eight pence. Item whereas my Sonnes in
Lawe Edward Stanhope and Jasper Leeke did kindly and frendly compound with
Alderman Lee for a debt which he challenged of and as Executor to my late
husband and recovered by verdite against me for the same ??? action of
???. Three hundred and ??? poundes And nevertheless they did not only
compound and agree with him for it, for Eight score poundes to be payd in
ff??? years but ??? their bondes unto him for payment of the same whereof
they have allreddy payd him fforty poundes and there is Thirty poundes
thereof payd by my annuity out of Goodnoy for Three quarters rente which I
doe well allowed of and doe acquitt him of soomuch And for that it was
allways my meaning to give them security by that my Annuitie duringe my
lyfe, and by somuch of my goods as should make up the sayd some of Eight
score poundes as was ??payed at my death. Therefore my will is that yf
there be not other order taken by my deede in my lyfe time of speciall
goods set out for the purpose, That then my Executors shall (before any
division made of my goods) make choyse of the best of such goodes as shall
remayne (my funeralls discharged and my legacies therein particularly
named excepted) And the same shall sell towardes the paymente of the ???
of the said debte owing to Allderman Lee which at this presente is Six
score and Ten poundes, and Mr Lee to be taken order withall for
the ??? of the said debte for such ??? as the said Edward and Jasper can
agree with him to be payd out of the ??? of those goods So as all their
bondes for that debt may be discharged betwixt this and michellmas next,
and what they can save by that ??? or by the payd goods to be devided
equally betwixt them. Item I give to my daughter Leeke in token of my
motherly good will to her my ??? gilte bason And Ewer hopinge that she
will keepe it at a memoriall of me and her father I give it as an
heireloome to her sonne and heire after her decease. Item I give to my
daughter Stanhope my Twelve silver and gilte spoones that be with ??? on
their order, hopinge that she will keep them as monument made by her
father of his my good will and love to her, And so I give them to her
sonne and heire as an heirloome after his parents decease And although
they be much lease in value than my gift to my daughter Leeke yet I doubt
not but she knoweth my love to them both to be equall. Item my will is
that my sonne Stanhope may take away at his pleasure a suite of hangings
being of ffive ??? which he bought of my the last yeare and payed me
Twenty poundes for them. Item likewise my will and meaning is that my
daughter Stanhope may take away at her pleasure after my decease the
Alabaster Tankard bounde with silver and gilte which her father gave her,
And likewyse for the gilte Cupp called ye Cullyn Cupp with the cover which
her father in his lyfe tyme signified unto her in his letters that he had
given unto her to the behoof of such childe as she was then in childe with
which was in Ffebruary before he dyed. Item my will is like wise that my
cosen Manwood may take away the legacie of the beddinge in his chamber
which my husband gave him and his wyfe or either of them and the cloth
gown lyned with satten, that was my husbands which I gave him. Item that
Willm my servante may take the ??? which he gave him. And my daughter
Leeke the silver porringer that my husband gave her in his lyfe tyme. Item
I give to my cosen Mary Manwood my silke grograine gowne and the ??? which
my daughter Stanhope gave me for a peticote. Item I give to my brother
Arthur Crafford whom I make a Executor of my will a ringe of a deathes
head which was my husbands, and to his eldest daughter one gold hoope
which was my Aunt Lusons. Item I give to my ??? Elizabeth Dacres One gilt
Cupp called a ??? and also my weddinge ringe which I charge her she shall
keep till she bee married to make her wedding ringe of. Item I give to my
sonne Stanhope my husbands seale ringe of gold. And to my sonne Leeke one
of my ??? saltes with the cover, and I give them to remayne to his sonne
and heire after his and my daughters decease as an heirloome. Item whereas
my husband stoode bonnde in Covenante to pay to Mr Thomas
Dacres a hundred poundes within Three months after my decease as the last
paymnt of my daughter his wifes marriage money and nevertheless
afterward took such order for the prefermt of Elizabeth Dacres
his only daughter by my daughter as he thought that Mr Dacres would have
released bothe the hundred poundes after my husbandes decease, and this
hundred poundes, my humble request to the Right Honorable my Lord ?ooper
is, That yf he cannot take such order betwixt my sonne Dacres, and my
sonne Stanhope, and my sonne Leeke, That by his discharging them of ye
Twoo hundred poundes Elizabeth Dacres my grannde childe may be preferred
accordinge as my husbands intente and meaninge was, That then his
lordshippe will yett take order yf they being forced by the said Thomas
Dacres to pay this last hundred poundes they may be discharged uppon
payment thereof (as they have already payed thother) of thone ffive
hundred marks to the termes of the ??? ??? Indentures made in my husbandes
lyfe tyme, And allso that his lordshippe will have that honorable care of
the poore infante for this hundred poundes as he had of the last, that he
may be bounde to pay it for her at the tyme of her marriage, and to make
unto her allowance for it towardes her mayntenence in the meane while
Tenne poundes by the yeare for that. I doubte he will ells be ??? for to
mainetayne her having hitherto for the most part from her infancie put her
over to the fyndinge of my husband in his lyfe tyme and me since. Item I
give to willm and Joane my servantes Three poundes, Six shillings eight
pence a peece, and their wages due at midsomer next for their longe and
faythfull service. Item I give to Julian and Joyce my Twoo mayde servantes
ffortye shillinges apeece and their wages due at midsomer likewise. Item I
give unto John Kelley my servante Twenty shillinges and his wages then due
likewyse and require my husband heires that he
may have the next Almes Room that falls voyd in Chigwell, which was of my
husband's gift and foundacion. Item I give to every other of my house hold
men servantes Tenne shillings apeece and there quarters wages due at
midsomer next. Item I give to my cosen John Manwood a ringe of Twenty
shillings price whom I doe make my ??? Supervisor of this my last will All
the rest of my goodes and chattells unbequeathed (my funerall and debts
discharged) I doe aswell in support of the paymts before
mentioned by them to be made, and for the trust in me reposed by most
deare and lovinge husband give unto Edward Stanhope, and Jasper Leeke
esquires my sonnes in lawe for the good and betteringe of the estate of
them and their wyves my motherloved and kinde daughters whom I pray God to
bless and all their children and posteritie, And doe ordayne and make the
sayd Edward Stanhope and Jasper Leeke my sole Executors of this
my last will and Testamt made and published in the presence of
theis whose names are hereunder written the day and yere abovesad under my
hand and seale Marye Colshill. Testor Arthur
Crafford, John Manwood, John Stanhope John Sleightholme Willm
Kirkland ffrancis Williams
- Aged 74 at death on 3
June 1599 from translation of memorial inscription at Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society
New Series vol 12 p140 (1911)
- The History of Essex p238 (Elizabeth
Ogborne, 1812)
- Visitations
of Surrey in Publications of the Harleian
Society vol 43 p147 (1894)
- The Environs of London vol 4 p119
(Daniel Lysons, 1796) and Visitations
of Essex in Publications of the Harleian
Society vol 14 p562 (1879); date from memorial
transcription in The Environs of London vol 4 p119
(Daniel Lysons, 1811) that Thomas and Mary were married for fifty years,
and then that the first dying of them, Thomas, died in 1595.
- Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society
New Series vol 12 p140 (1911)
- The History of Essex p238 (Elizabeth
Ogborne, 1812); The Environs of London vol 4 p119
(Daniel Lysons, 1796); Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society
New Series vol 12 p140 (1911)
- The
National Archives (PROB 11/93/439); Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society
New Series vol 11 p341 (1909); The
History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W.
Hasler, 1981, entry for COLSHILL,
Thomas
- Mary Crayford
Mary (Crafford) Jermyn
Arthur Crayford
Anne (Scott) Crafford
William Jermyn about 1606
Philip Morant in The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 states that Arthur died on 11 May 1606 and "Mary was
married very soon after into the Jermin family". William's first name is
given in
The
Victoria History of the County of Essex vol 8 p82 (W. R.
Powell, 1983)
Arthur
Crafford (d. 1606) left Bawds to his daughters Mary, later wife of
William Jermyn, and Winifred, wife of George Gittens. Mary died in 1608,
leaving Winifred as sole heir.
Mary is named in the will of her grandfather, George Scott, dated 22
May 1588 and proved 15 December 1589 held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/74/532) and extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 pp338-9:
... to Mary
Crafford, daughter of his son-in-law, Arthur Crafford, a ring of goulde
with a ruby in it which her mother has;
Both Mary and her sister, Winifred, are named in the will of Margaret
Fulham, dated 4 February 1595 and proved 11 March 1595 extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 p341:
.. To Marie and Wynnyfred Crafford, a gold piece
of 5s.
Mary is also mentioned in the will of her aunt, Mary (Crayford) Colshill
dated 2 June 1599 and proved on 29 June 1599 (The
National Archives (PROB 11/93/439) "Item I give to my brother Arthur
Crafford whom I make a Executor of my will a ringe of a deathes head which
was my husbands, and to his oldest daughter one gold hoope which was my Aunt
Lusons."
The inscription to Arthur Crafford, formerly at South Weald church, Essex,
from an image in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 8 p277 (1903), reads:
Here lyeth the bodye of Arthvr Crafford Gentleman
who sometime lived at his Mannor of Downesells in this parish and beinge
of the age of 72 yeares departed this world the xj of May in the yeare of
ovr lord 1606. He had issue 2 davghters Marie and Winifred.
The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 (Philip Morant, 1763)
Arthur
Crafford Gent. who lived at his maner of Downsells, and dyed 11
May 1606, aged 72 years, held the maner of Bawdes, alias
Downesells, with apputenances in South-Weld, of Sir Thomas Lucas, as of
his maner of Shenfield;—Mary,
and Winifrede then wife of George Gittens, were his daughters
and heirs. Mary was married
very soon after into the Jermin
family, and held a moiety of
the maner of Bawds, alias
Downsels, in South-Weyle, Shenfield, and Duddinghurst. She left no
issue, for at the time of her decease 13 June 1608, her sister Winifrede,
wife of George Gittens Gent. was found to be her heir.
13 June 1608, in South Weald, Essex,
England
"Some Interesting Essex Brasses" by Miller Christy and W.W. Porteous in Transactions
of the Essex Archaeological Society New Series vol 8 p277
(1903)
This
Arthur Crafford married, apparently, a member of the Bodley family.
Morant says that he left only two daughters—Winifred, who was married to
John Gittens, and Mary, who subsequently married — Jermin, but she died
soon after, on 13th June 1608, when her moiety of the estate went to her
sister.
A lawsuit from about 1668 incorrectly gives the date of Mary's death as 10
November 1602.
Modern Entries, in English pp298-9 (John
Mallory, 1791)
Hill. 19 & 20 Car.
2. In the Common Pleas.
Roll 1512.
TOOK
against GLASCOCK.
... the said Arthur
afterwards, (to wit) on the first day of May,
in the forty-second year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth,
died at Southwald aforesaid,
so seized of such his estate therein, after whose death the said
tenements, with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, descended to Mary
and Winefrid Crafford, as
daughters and coheirs of the said Arthur
Crafford, lawfully issuing of his body; whereupon the said Mary and Winifrid
entered into the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances above
specified in the said declaration, and were seized thereof in their
demesne, as of a fee-tail; (that is to say) to them and the heirs of the
said Guy Crafford and Johanna
his wife lawfully issuing; and being so seized thereof, she the said Mary afterwards, (to wit) on the
tenth day of November, in the
forty-fourth year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth,
at Southwald aforesaid, died
so seized of such an estate therein, without any issue begotten of her
body, after whose decease the said Mary's
moiety descended to the said Winefrid,
as sister and heir to the said Mary,
whereby the said Winefrid was
seized of the whole tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances, in her
demesne as of a fee-tail;
- The inscription to
Arthur Crafford, formerly at South Weald church, Essex, from an image in
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903), notes "He had issue 2
davghters Marie and Winifred"; Mary is named in the will of her
grandfather, George Scott, dated 22 May 1588 and proved 15 December 1589
held at the National
Archives, Kew, (PROB 11/74/532) and extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 11 part 4 pp338-9 "to Mary Crafford,
daughter of his son-in-law, Arthur Crafford"
- Philip Morant in The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 states that Arthur died on 11 May 1606 and "Mary was
married very soon after into the Jermin family". William's first name is
given in The Victoria History of the County of Essex vol
8 p82 (W. R. Powell, 1983)
- "Some Interesting Essex
Brasses" by Miller Christy and W.W. Porteous in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903); place from Modern Entries, in English pp299 (John
Mallory, 1791)
Nicholas Crafford
Guy Crayford
Joane
(Bodley) Crayford
Dorothy Mustchampe on 1 June 1582
in the diocese of London, England
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop
of London 1520-1610 vol 1 p109 (Joseph Lemuel Chester, 1887)
1582 June 1 Nicholas Crafforde & Dorothy Mustchampe, of City of
Lond.; Gen. Lic.
Dorothy is mentioned in the will of Nicholas's mother, Joane (Bodley)
Crafford, dated 10 December 1583.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1584 Joane Crafford widow)
... ITEM; I give and bequeath unto my
daughter Dorothy CRAFFORD his wife a black gown and a hood price
eighteen shillings the yard and one hoop of fine gold weighing half an
ounce lacking twenty grains wherein is enamelled these words “see ye
forget me not”, also I give and bequeath unto her my best gown that is in
goodness next to the two gowns that I have given to my
daughter Colshill and my (kyrtle) of taffeta and my holiday hood.
Nicholas is possibly the Nicholas Crafforde who attended St John's College,
Cambridge University.
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 1 p415
(John Venn, 1922)
CRAFFORDE,
NICHOLAS. Matric. pens. from ST JOHN'S,
Easter, 1550
Nicholas is mentioned in the will of his father, Gye Crafforde of London,
dated 29 January 1552(53) and proved on 12 March 1552(53)
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1552 Guy Crafford)
... ITEM; I give
to my son Nicholas twenty
pounds.
He is also mentioned in the will of his great-aunt, Denys (Bodley) Leveson,
dated 1 August 1560.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... ITEM; I give and bequeath to my
cousin Arthur CRAYFORD, Nicholas CRAYFORD, and Edward CRAYFORD ten pounds to be paid to them equally
and quarterly forty shillings until the same be lawful paid, also I
bequeath to my cousin John CRAYFORD
twenty pounds.
Nicholas is mentioned in, and one of the executors of, the will of his
mother, Joane (Bodley) Crayford, dated 10 December 1583.
Wynch,
Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
(1584 Joane Crafford widow)
... ITEM; I give and bequeath unto my
son Nicholas CRAFFORD one black gown with the hood price eighteen
shillings the yard, and one ring of French crown gold with a death’s head
enamelled with the posie “nosce te ipsum”, and also I give and bequeath
unto my said son Nicholas Crafford
all that my messuage with a cottage thereunto adjoining and with all and
singular their appurtenances set lying and being in the town of Rainham in
the County of Essex adjoining near the bridge there, and also all the
writings and evidence concerning and belonging to the same, to have and to
hold the said messuage and cottage with the appurtenances together with
all the said evidence to him the said
Nicholas Crafford and his heirs and assigns forever, which said
messuage and cottage with their appurtenances my
late husband gave unto me the
said Johan freely to give sell and bequeath unto whom I like as
by a deed bearing date the tenth day of October in the eight and twentieth
year of the reign of the late king of famous memory Henry the eighth more
at large does and may appear, and for as much as the said messuage and
cottage with the barn with other their appurtenances are very old and
greatly (suynous) and decayed my mind and will is that my
said son Nicholas Crafford shall have as much good oak timber and
other necessary wood from time to time as shall be requisite and necessary
for the repairing and amending of the premises at any time during the
space of three years next after my decease, the same to be felled and
taken at seasonable times in and upon my grounds belonging to my
Manor called (Buddes) or Downsettes in the County of Essex
without any let denial or interruption of my
said son Arthur Crafford his heirs executors or assigns or of any
of them, and further I give and bequeath unto my
said son Nicholas Crafford all the interest and term of years
which shall remain after my decease of certain grounds adjoining upon the
said messuage and cottage called Rainham (Rayneham) Brooks containing by
estimation five acres. ITEM; I give and bequeath unto my
said son Nicholas Crafford one of my best feather beds, one
bolster, two pillows, one grounded with orange tawny and one other
needlework cushion with my late
husband’s arms and mine wrought therein, and also one carpet with
flowers which carpet is five yards and three quarters long and two yards
broad. ITEM; I give and bequeath unto my
daughter Dorothy CRAFFORD his wife a black gown and a hood price
eighteen shillings the yard and one hoop of fine gold weighing half an
ounce lacking twenty grains wherein is enamelled these words “see ye
forget me not”, also I give and bequeath unto her my best gown that is in
goodness next to the two gowns that I have given to my
daughter Colshill and my (kyrtle) of taffeta and my holiday hood.
... ITEM; my will and mind is that all such my plate and jewels as shall
remain at the time of my death unbequeathed shall be equally divided
between my two sons Arthur Crafford and
Nicholas Crafford whom I name ordain and make my full and only
executors of this my present last will and testament to see it executed
according to the true meaning thereof
Nicholas is stated to be of Cassalton, Surrey, in
the will of his brother-in-law, Thomas Colshill, dated April 1593 with a
codicil dated 28 February 1595, and proved 12 April 1595
Transactions
of the Essex Archeological Society New Series vol 11 p341
(1909)
THOMAS
COLSHILL.—April 23, 1593 ... Names several persons —i.a., Mary Manwood; Nicholas
Crafford, of Cassalton, Surrey; Elizabeth Dacres; and a brother-in-law,
Crafford.
Richard Crafford
Thomas
Crafford
Alice (_____) Crafford
Richard was elected Justice of
the Peace for Havering from 1520-2 and perhaps onwards.
Richard is named in the will of his father, Thomas Crafford, dated 28 July
1508 which is held at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198). From the ordering of the
remainders in the estate, Richard is presumably the eldest of the three sons
mentioned.
... the said Alice pay unto Ricd my son v marks
yearly during hyr life and also give unto Guy my son during hyr naturall
lif other v marks toward their fynding: And after the decesse of my said
wif I will all my saide lands tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with their appurtenances shall holly remany
unto the said Richard my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully
begotten paying unto Guy my forsaid son v marks yearly during his life And
if the said Ricd deys wtoute heirs of his body lawfully
begotten Then I will that all my forsaid lands and tenaments meadows
pastures rents and services with their appurtenances shall remayn to the
forsaid Guy my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten ffaylyng
his heirs of his body lawfully begotten then I will that all that all my
lands and tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with
thappurtenances shall remayn to my son Avery
1544
The will of Richard Crafford of
Hornchurch, gentleman is held at the Essex
Record Office D/AEW 2/146. This record is indexed with a "Date of
Creation" of 25 March 1545 although another record of the document Essex
Record Office D/AER 6/157/2 lists a date of creation of 25 March 1544.
Thomas Crafford
Alice
(Cornburgh) Crafford
Relationship discussion:
Thomas was related to a John Crafford (born about 1446) whose mother was
Alice (Cornburgh) Crafford, sister of Alured Cornburgh. Alured died 2
February 1486(7) and his post mortem inquisition, dated 13 March 1486(7),
names "His sister Agnes Chambre, aged 60 and more, and John Crafford, aged
40 and more, son of Dame Alice Crafford his other sister, are his next
heirs." Alured held the manor of Goseys and 1/3 of the manor of Dovers in
Havering, and the manor of Dovers ended up in Thomas's possession - a
lawsuit concerning a farm on Thomas's estate at Dovers was brought in the
1490's (Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering,
1200-1500 p248 (Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2002).
So what was Thomas's relationship to John Crafford and Alice (Cornburgh)
Crafford? Possibly Thomas could have been John's son, his brother
(presumably younger since John is named as Alured's heir) or John's father.
We do not know when Thomas was born, but he was part of Alured military
commission in 1485 and coroner of Havering in 1494, so probably born
sometime in the range of 1450 to 1465. Alice's sister, Agnes, was 60 years
old at Alured's post-mortem inquisition, so born about 1426, and so Alice
was likely born around this time as well, adding weight to Thomas and John
being brothers and Alice Cornburgh being their mother. The range between
their probably births seem pretty large for Thomas to have married Alice
Cornburgh, and very small for Alice to have been Thomas's grandmother. The
same conclusion is drawn, for example, in this
article by the Havering Parks and Open Spaces which states that "Avery
Cornburgh died at Gooshays in 1486 and was buried in his "stately tomb" no
trace of which survives today. The position was then filled by Philip, the
son of Thomas Cook, before Thomas Crafford, the nephew and heir of
Cornborough, held the position from 1498 to 1508 when he died."
In 1485, both a John Crafford and Thomas Crafford were part of a military
commission to Alvred Cornburgh. This lends weight to the two being brothers.
Calendar of the patent rolls 1476-1485 p545
(1939)
1485
April 8. Westminster.
Commission, until 31 August next, to Alvred Cornburgh, esquire,
under-treasurer of England, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Bulkeley, John
Crafford, Thomas Gale, Thomas Crafford and Henry Palmer to take muster
in any convenient places within the realm of George Nevyll, knight,
captain, and the men at arms, armed men, archers and others of a force
which the king has ordered to go to sea to resist his enemies, and to
certify thereon to the king.
I think most likely Thomas and John Crafford were brothers, sons of Dame
Alice Crafford, and nephews of Alured Cornburgh, and that Thomas married,
coincidentally, another Alice, and this is how I have represented the
relationships, but I would still like further confirmatory evidence.
Alice
'Henry VIII: Pardon Roll, Part 3', in Letters
and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514
pp 234-256 (ed. J S Brewer (1920)
1509-10
Alice Crayford, Craford or Crafford, of Newhall,
Dovers in Hornchirch parish, "Parkars and Spycepyttes," and Nastoke,
Essex, and London, widow of Thomas Crafford, esq., 12 May.
In the period between 1529 and 1532, a legal proceeding was brought by
Thomas Brewster against "Alice, late the wife of Thomas Crafford" for the
"Detention of deeds relating to the manor of Dovers in Hornchurch." (List of Early Chancery Proceedimgs 1500-1515
vol 6 p18 (1963)) indicating that Alice was alive at least as late as
1529.
The Pedigree of the Family of Lynne of Southwick complied by Everard Green
and published in The Genealogist vol 1 p345 (George W.
Marshall, 1877) notes a daughter of John Lynne of Southwick and Joane Knyvet
Anne "wife to . . . . Crayford of Raynham, co.
Essex. ARMS.—Or, on a chevron vert, 3 hawks’ heads erased argent.
Anne's brother, William Lynne had a daughter Anne who married Sir John
Tyrrell and Anne Tyrrell's will dated 16 July 1552, and proved 26 November
1562 (TNA
PROB 11/45/314) mentions her "cosen Guy Crayforde" as well as "Richard
Crayforde of Dovers in the countie of Essex", strengthening the link between
the Lynnes and the Crayfords. It is possible that Thomas Crayford's wife was
Alice Lynne, and that Everard Green's Lynne pedigree mis-names her as Anne;
another possibility is that Anne Lynne married John Crafford, Thomas's elder
brother.
Thomas was coroner for Havering
from 1494 until 1498, and then elected Justice of the Peace for Havering
from 1498 until 1508.
In 1485 Thomas was appointed as controller of the great and petty custom in
the ports of "Plymmuth and Fowey"
Calendar of the Patent Rolls p536 (1901)
1485
Jan. 5. Westminster
Appointment, during pleasure, of Peter Hogg as controller of the
great and petty custom. the subsidy of wools, hides and wool-fells and
the subsidy of the 3s. in the
tun and the 12d. in the pound
in the port of Pole and ports and places adjacent, receiving the
accustomed fees, provided that he execute the office in person, with the
custody of one part of the coket seal. By bill of the treasurer.
The like to the following in the ports named and ports and places
adjacent:—
...
Feb. 25. Westminster
Thomas Craforth in the ports of Plymmuth and Fowey. By bill of
the treasurer.
Thomas was also a dealer in wool. A puchase in 1486 is described in
The Celys and Their World: An English Merchant Family
of the Fifteenth Century p341 (Alison Hanham, 2002)
Both Pardo, and
a second purchaser of their wool in England, Thomas Crayford, paid in
instalments, but they could perhaps have expected a shorter delay in
returns than when stocks had to await buyers abroad.
... Crayford bought the rest of Smith's wool and one sampler of
Midwinter's.8
... 8 File 10 fo.37. Avery Cornburgh paid £40 on behalf of
Crayford in July: File 10 fo. 2.
Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering,
1200-1500 p248 (Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2002)
A greater
challenge to the independence of the Havering court came through the
expansion of the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. The court
had received a few complaints against the Havering court in earlier
years, but around 1480 the number of petitions alleging faults with the
court or its officials began to increase. The complaints focused upon
favouritism, practices discriminatory to non-residents and unjust
imprisonment in Romford gaol. In the late 1490s, for example, Lewis
Bampton, a powerful figure in the neighbouring community of Rainham, was
at law in Havering against Thomas Crafford, a Hornchurch gentleman,
concerning the farm of the estate called Dovers. Bampton claimed in a
petition to Chancery that he was unable to receive a fair hearing in the
Havering court because "the said Thomas is of high office and behaviour
within the said lordship and fraunchise, that is to say, justice of the
pease there, and londid and fraunchisid within the said lordship, to
whom the most parte of the tenantes and inhabitauntes there stond in awe
and drede. . . Your said oratour is also a straungere and dwellith
withoute the saide fraunchise and for that cause hath there the lesse
favour and socour among them."
pp253-4
The court was
joined in its attempt to preserve public order by Havering's two
justices of the peace and the coroner. The steward was normally
represented as a justice by his deputy, who convened the manor court;
the elected justice was by 1489 chosen by the chief pledges at the
annual view. The wealthiest new families controlled this position. Avery
Cornborough was followed by Philip Coke. When Coke was
disqualified after his attack on the queen's rent collector in 1497, he was replaced by Thomas Crafford, son of Avery
Cornborough's nephew and heir, John
Crafford. There are no surviving records of
sessions of the justices outside the manor court. They appear to have conducted much of their business in the
traditional setting. The deputy steward was always in attendance, and
the elected justice came to most, possibly
to all, sessions.
... The justices' duties were diverse.
They took bonds of those suspected of
threatening the peace, usually at the request of another individual. They received indictments of felony prepared by
court juries and investigated possible felonies on their own authority
outside the court.
... The coroner, elected at the view from among the middling gentry houses, carried out the normal duties of his office and acted in place
of the bailiff within the manor court when the bailiff was himself a
party in a private suit.
Calendar of the patent rolls 1476-1485 p545
(1939)
1485
April 8. Westminster.
Commission, until 31 August next, to Alvred Cornburgh, esquire,
under-treasurer of England, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Bulkeley, John
Crafford, Thomas Gale, Thomas Crafford and Henry Palmer to take muster
in any convenient places within the realm of George Nevyll, knight,
captain, and the men at arms, armed men, archers and others of a force
which the king has ordered to go to sea to resist his enemies, and to
certify thereon to the king.
In 1502 or 1503, a record was made of the sale of a tenement called
"Spicespittis" in the lordship of Havering by Thomas Reynold to Thomas
Crayforde (List of Early Chancery Proceedimgs 1500-1515
vol 4 p82 (1963)). In 1509-10, the property of "Spycepyttes" is later
recorded in the possession of Alice Crafford, widow of Thomas Crafford ('Henry VIII: Pardon Roll, Part 3', in Letters
and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514
pp 234-256 (ed. J S Brewer (1920)).
Essex
Record Office D/DQ 22/132 is a bond from 1513 concerning the Manor of
Gobyons in East Tilbury and Waltons in Mucking. The content is abstracted as
"Bond from Alice Craford of Rainham, wife of Tho.Craford, esq., Richard
Craford and Guy Craford, sons of Thomas and Alice Craford, to Robt.Lyman of
Havering." The connection of this "Alice of Rainham" and her husband Thomas,
to Guy Crafford, husband of Joane Bodley, is shown in the will
of Guy's wife in which she leaves to her "son Nicholas Crafford all
that my messuage with a cottage thereunto adjoining and with all and
singular their appurtenances set lying and being in the town of Rainham in
the County of Essex adjoining near the bridge there, and also all the
writings and evidence concerning and belonging to the same, to have and to
hold the said messuage and cottage with the appurtenances together with all
the said evidence to him the said Nicholas Crafford and his heirs and
assigns forever, which said messuage and cottage with their appurtenances my
late husband gave unto me"
The
Victoria History of the County of Essex vol 7 p34 (W. R.
Powell, 1978)
Thomas
Crafford (d. 1508) left a widow Alice, who was holding Dovers in 1510.
p48
The 'church of Havering', i.e. St.
Andrew's, Hornchurch, existed by 1163, when Henry II gave it to the
newly-founded priory of Hornchurch. ... The church has many monuments.
There are brasses, or parts of brasses, to Thomas Scargill (d. 1476),
Thomas Crafford (d. 1508) of Dovers
Notes on an inquisition held after the death of Joan's grandmother, Joan
Bradbury are as follows:
Bradbury
Memorial p50 (William Berry Lapham, 1890)
Inquisition
held in Chelmsford, county Essex, June 10, 1530, after the death of Joan
Bradbury, relict of Thomas Bradbury, late of the city of London,
merchant. She died May 11, 1529, at Coleman street, London. Mentions her
daughter, wife of Thomas Crofford, and their daughter Joan; daughter of
Elizabeth, wife of William Tyrell, and their son Humphrey.
In this extract, Dame Bradbury does mention her grand-daughter Joan (Bodley)
Crafford in her will, but Joan was the daughter of James Bodley, Dame
Bradbury's son. It is hard to tell without access to the original
inquisition, but likely Joan's descent is misinterpreted above and Thomas
Crafford is mentioned as Guy Crafford's father.
1508
Hornchurch, Essex, England
The will of Thomas Craford of
Havering, Essex, dated 28 July 1508 and proved on 4 November 1508, is held
at the
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198). A transcription
of the will in modern English has been done by Nina Green. A
transcription of the direct text is:
In the name
of god Amen the xxviij day of July the year of our lord god
?? viij I Thomas Craford of Haveryng atte Bowre in the countie of Essex
Esquire being in good and hole mynde make my testament and last will in
manr and forme following ffirst I bequeath my soule to
almighty god my maker to his blessed moder saynt mary and to all the
holy company of heven And my body to be buried in the chapell of
Hornchurch before the holy Trinitie there Item I bequeath to the high
altar of the same church for my tithes and oblations forgotten and
negligently withholden vj s viij d Item to the reparations of the said
church iiij lode of ??? tymbre Item to the brotherhed of the Trinitie
there during the ??? of vij yeres ??? yere xiij s iiij d. toward fyndyng
of the Trinitie preest Item I will that Alice my wife have all my lands
and tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with thappurtenances
for the terme of hyr life unde thys condition that the said Alice pay
unto Ricd my son v marks yearly during hyr life and also give unto Guy
my son during hyr naturall lif other v marks toward their fynding: And
after the decesse of my said wif I will all my saide lands tenaments
meadows pastures rents and services
with their appurtenances shall holly remany unto the said Richard my son
and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten paying unto Guy my
forsaid son v marks yearly during his life And if the said Ricd deys wtoute
heirs of his body lawfully begotten Then I will that all my forsaid
lands and tenaments meadows pastures rents and services with their
appurtenances shall remayn to the forsaid Guy my son and to the heirs of
his body lawfully begotten ffaylyng his heirs of his body lawfully
begotten then I will that all that all my lands and tenaments meadows
pastures rents and services with thappurtenances shall remayn to my son
Avery and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten ffaylyng heirs of
the said Avery lawfully begotten then I will that all that all the
forsaid lands and tents meadows pastures rents and services with
thappurtenances shall remayn unto the next heirs of right blood of me
the said Thomas Craford for evrmore. Ffurthermore I will that Avery my
son have xx l to be paid by the hands of my forsaid wyf or her assigns
when he cometh to the age of xxj years. Morover where as my nephew Avery
Rawson oweth to me xiiij l as it appeareth by an obligation of the said
Avery Rawson according to the promysse that he hath made to me afore
tyme woold suffer my said wyf and my said sonnes to have and enjoy
according to thys my present will the ij crofts of land called Rodyons
for evermore Then I will that my said wyf shall never clayme the forsaid
xiiij l of hym nor of none of his The residue of all my goodes and
catells not given nor bequeathed after my detts paid and my will
fulfilled I give and bequeath to Alice my wyf to dispose for my soule
helth as she thinketh most best And the same Alice I ordayne and make
myn executrice And ??? George Rede and my nephew Avery Rawson to be
overseers and the said ??? George Rede to have for his labor
xj s xiij d In Witness whereof to thys my present testament and last
will I have put my seale given the day and yere abovesaid Thys Witnesses
??? Richard Nicholson, vicar of Dagenham ??? Cristofer Browne vicar of
Reynham and Willm Wakefield wt many other
- Essex
Record Office D/DQ 22/132. This is a bond from 1513 concerning the
Manor of Gobyons in East Tilbury and Waltons in Mucking. The content is
abstracted as "Bond from Alice Craford of Rainham, wife of Tho.Craford,
esq., Richard Craford and Guy Craford, sons of Thomas and Alice Craford,
to Robt.Lyman of Havering."; the will of Thomas Craford at
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/16/198) mentions "Alice my wyfe";
'Henry VIII: Pardon Roll, Part 3', in Letters
and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514
pp 234-256 (ed. J S Brewer (1920)
- Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of
Havering, 1200-1500 p273 (Marjorie Keniston McIntosh,
2002)
- The Victoria History of the County of Essex vol
7 pp31-9 (W. R. Powell, 1978); will dated 28 July 1508 and proved
on 4 November 1508 from The
National Archives (PROB 11/16/198)
- The Victoria History of the County of Essex vol
7 p48 (W. R. Powell, 1978)
- The
National Archives (PROB 11/16/198)
- Thomas Craford
Winifrid (Crafford) Gittens
Arthur Crayford
Anne (Scott) Crafford
George Gitttens
George was possibly the George Gittens, son of Thomas Gittens of St Martin's
le Grand, who was admitted
to Middle Temple on 22 January 1600(1).
- Crafford Gittens (1610 - 1664)
Winifred is named in the will of Margaret Fulham, dated 4 February 1595 and
proved 11 March 1595 extracted at Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 11 part 4 p341:
.. To Marie and Wynnyfred Crafford, a gold piece
of 5s.
The inscription to Arthur Crafford, formerly at South Weald church, Essex,
from an image in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society New
Series vol 8 p277 (1903), reads:
Here lyeth the bodye of Arthvr Crafford Gentleman
who sometime lived at his Mannor of Downesells in this parish and beinge
of the age of 72 yeares departed this world the xj of May in the yeare of
ovr lord 1606. He had issue 2 davghters Marie and Winifred.
The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 (Philip Morant, 1763)
Arthur
Crafford Gent. who lived at his maner of Downsells, and dyed 11
May 1606, aged 72 years, held the maner of Bawdes, alias
Downesells, with apputenances in South-Weld, of Sir Thomas Lucas, as of
his maner of Shenfield;—Mary,
and Winifrede then wife of George Gittens, were his daughters
and heirs. Mary was married
very soon after into the Jermin
family, and held a moiety of
the maner of Bawds, alias
Downsels, in South-Weyle, Shenfield, and Duddinghurst. She left no
issue, for at the time of her decease 13 June 1608, her sister Winifrede,
wife of George Gittens Gent. was found to be her heir. The son of this
George, named also George Gittens,
dwelt at Bishop’s Hall in this
parish, and departing life there 25 November 1712, in the 83d of his
age, was buried in this Church
Philip Morant states here that George Gittens (d. 1712) was the son of the
George Gittens if this entry, but from the dates (he would have been born in
1629 or 1630), and data
indicating Winifred's death in 1626, it seems more likely he was a
grandson of this George.
Modern Entries, in English pp298-300 (John
Mallory, 1791)
Hill. 19 & 20 Car.
2. In the Common Pleas.
Roll 1512.
TOOK
against GLASCOCK.
... the said Arthur
afterwards, (to wit) on the first day of May,
in the forty-second year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth,
died at Southwald aforesaid,
so seized of such his estate therein, after whose death the said
tenements, with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, descended to Mary
and Winefrid Crafford, as
daughters and coheirs of the said Arthur
Crafford, lawfully issuing of his body; whereupon the said Mary and Winifrid
entered into the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances above
specified in the said declaration, and were seized thereof in their
demesne, as of a fee-tail; (that is to say) to them and the heirs of the
said Guy Crafford and Johanna
his wife lawfully issuing; and being so seized thereof, she the said Mary afterwards, (to wit) on the
tenth day of November, in the
forty-fourth year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth,
at Southwald aforesaid, died
so seized of such an estate therein, without any issue begotten of her
body, after whose decease the said Mary's
moiety descended to the said Winefrid,
as sister and heir to the said Mary,
whereby the said Winefrid was
seized of the whole tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances, in her
demesne as of a fee-tail; (that is to say) to her and the heirs of the
bodies of the said Guy and Johanna his wife lawfully issuing;
and being so seized thereof, she the said Winefrid
afterwards, to wit on the first day of May
in the eighteenth year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord James,
late King of England, at Southwald aforesaid, married the
aforesaid George Gibbens,
whereby the said George and Winefrid, in right of the said Winefrid, became seised of the
tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances above specified in the said
declaration, in their demesne as of a fee-tail; (that is to say) to them
and the heirs of the bodies of the said Guy
and Johanna his wife lawfully
issuing; and being so seized thereof, they the said George
Gibbens and Winefrid
his wife afterwards, (to wit) on the eleventh day of February,
in the twenty-first year of the reign of the said late King James,
at Southwald aforesaid, had
issue the said Crafford Gibbens
between them lawfully begotten; and the said George
Gibbens and Winefrid
being so seized of the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances above
specified in the said declaration, she the said Winefrid
afterwards, on the last day of December,
in the second year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles
the first, at Southwald
aforesaid, died seized of such estate therein, after whose decease the
said George Gibbens held the
said tenements with the appurtenances, and was seized thereof in his
demesne as of a freehold, for the term of his life, as a tenant thereof
by the curtesy of England, and
the reversion of the said tenements with the appurtenances descended to
the said Crafford Gibbens, as
son and heir of the said Winefrid
lawfully begotten of her body, whereby the said Crafford
Gibbens became seized of the reversion of the said tenements,
with the appurtenances as of a fee-tail and right
... he the said George Gibbens
afterwards, (that is to say) on the fifteenth day of April,
in the said nineteenth year of the reign of his said present Majesty,
died at Southwald aforesaid
... and before the said feast of St. Michael
the archangel now last past, (that is to say) on the twentieth day of April, in the fourteenth year of
the reign of his said present Majesty, died at Southwald
aforesaid;
The
Victoria History of the County of Essex vol 8 p82 (W. R.
Powell, 1983)
Arthur
Crafford (d. 1606) left Bawds to his daughters Mary, later wife of
William Jermyn, and Winifred, wife of George Gittens. Mary died in 1608,
leaving Winifred as sole heir.
31 December 1626, in South Weald,
Essex, England
A lawsuit from about 1668 gives the date of Winifred's death as 31 December
1626.
Modern Entries, in English pp298-300 (John
Mallory, 1791)
she the said Winefrid
afterwards, on the last day of December,
in the second year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles
the first, at Southwald
aforesaid, died seized of such estate therein
- The inscription to
Arthur Crafford, formerly at South Weald church, Essex, from an image in
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 8 p277 (1903), notes "He had issue 2
davghters Marie and Winifred"
- The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
vol 1 p121 (Philip Morant, 1763); The Victoria History of the County of Essex vol
8 p82 (W. R. Powell, 1983); Modern Entries, in English pp298-300
(John Mallory, 1791)
- Modern Entries, in English pp298-300
(John Mallory, 1791)
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