Friday, January 3, 2014

1550-1559 Events

1550 Edward Stacey baptized Epping, England son of William & Alice (?) Stacey

1551 Thomas Loomis died in Thaxted, England

1552 Thomas Stacey baptized in Epping, England
Robert Bradford will written in Tickhill, England.
1553 Robert Bradford estate in probate.

1553 Michael Servetus burned at the stake in Geneva by protestants
Mary, daughter of Henry VIII becomes queen re-established Catholicism in England
ca. 1554 Mary Salte born Yoxall, England


1555 English Church founded in Geneva by English exiles

1556 Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury burned at the stake, about 300 other protestants suffer same fate in this period

1557 Richard Denton born Halifax, England son of Richard &  Gennett (Bannyster) Denton
William Doggett born Birford, England son of William Doggett
1558 Mary Queen of Scots married the Dauphin of France
Queen Mary of England dies and Elizabeth I becomes queen of England, Protestants come into power again
1558 ca. Peter Bradford died son of Peter Bradford
John Talcott born son of John & ? (Wells) Talcott
Roger Reade died son of William Reade
William Stacey will 
Robert Lathrop will & probate:
1. To ye blessed sacrament of ye altar for forgotten tythes, v s.
2. To poor people at his burial, 4 marks, by executors.
3. To ye church of "Sheriburton," 6s, 8d.
4. To son John all lands and tenements in So. Dalton and all freehold lands and titles; the lands in Burton purchased of Richard Fenle and Marmaduke Whytinge; and in default of issue from him, the reversion of the foregoing to be unto son Lawrence and his heirs.
5. To son Thomas all lands and their appurtenances in Walkinton.
6. To daughter Margaret a messuage in Beverlaie, in the Tenore of Christopher More. If she fail of issue this also to go to son Lawrence.
7. To wife Ellen, during widowhood, and then to son Thomas all leases and terms of years of his two "fermolds" in Burton and Rainthorpe. If she should marry or die the leases to remain in Thomas and his executors and heirs. The said Ellen and Thomas are to succor "with meat and drink and house room" in said
"fermold" in Burton all the rest of the children to their several marriages.
8. To daughter Margaret, 40 marks.
9. To son John, a gray stoned horse.
10. To son Thomas, an ambling gelding, dapple gray.
11. To son Lawrence, a bright bay gelding.
12. To daughter Margaret, a b
randed flect cow, in consideration of one I sold which my father gave to her. Also a lead, a table, two chairs, two trestles and a forme with a great ---- with eaves, two basings, two lavers, two candlesticks, twelve pieces of pewther, and "ye best (beast), yt came from Beverlaie."
13. To "everie of my godchildren, 4d".
14. To "everie of my sister's children, 8d".
15. To my three sisters, everie of the, 6s, 8d.
16. To John Swinburne, John Pickering, William Fisher, Robert Barnes, Gawin and Hewe Mason - my servants, every of them, halfe a quarter of barlye (two bushels).
17. To Catherine Shadlock, maid servant, half a quarter of barley and a bushel of wheat.
18. Elizabeth Thornton and Isabell Coke, maid servants, either of them a mett (two bushels) of barley.
19. To ye township of So. Burton, 6s, 8d.
20. To children of William Burne, every of them 8d.
21. To william and John, sons of Henry Sowersby, 7d. each.
22. To Alison Simson and Henry Bynks, 4d.
23. To Robert Binks, 4d.
24. To every of my three sons a bound waine and gear.
25. To Richard Eshton, a quarter of barley.
26. To Robert Hoyeson, Robert Wilson, William Burne, Robert Patenson, and John Patenson, 20d.
27. To Thomas Jervis, 6s, 8d.
28. To Mr. John Eglesfield, Esq., supervisor of this will, 20s.
29. To son Thomas, two draughts nante-a hawked and browne-and fourtie (40) weathers such as he will choose.
30. To son John, a cow "such as daughter Margaret will appoint," and a couple "stotes goying at Harswell such as he choose."
31. To son Lawrence, two stotes.
32. To daughter Margaret, two whies goying at Harswell.
33. "To ye Prests," 20d.
34. To ye Clerk, 12d.
35. To William Burne, "my buckskin doublet".
36. To Robert Johnson, "my vilett jacket".
37. To Simon Naves, "my second best vilett jacket".
38. To son Thomas, a "jack" (coat of mail, "bill" (battle ax), steel cap, and pair of splents.
39. To wife Ellen, son John, son Thomas, son Lawrence, and daughter Margaret, the rest of the estate, and all of them are appointed executors.

St. Catherine's Church, Runwell Parish, Essex, England
1559 ca. Elizabeth Lone & John Lake married in Runwell, England
Margery & Roger Fitch married
1559 John Knox rebellion in Scotland
Book of Common Prayer becomes legal form of English worship.

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