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Notes for William Hexstall and Joan
1427 Margaret Bromley was aged 16 and more when her brother John Bromley died on 7 November 1427. She and William Hexstall were married by 10 September 1428, the date of John's IPM. "John de Bromley. Writ. 14 November 1427. [Wymbyssh] Staffordshire. Inquisition. Ecceshall. 10 September 1428. [Whitegreve]. Jurors: Robert Marchall; Richard Nowell; Thomas Hunt; Thomas Lokwode; Richard Snede; Richard Warde; William Warde; John Brenner; Thomas Pereson; James Thy. . .s [hole in ms]; Stephen Begenald; and John Dutton. He held the following in demesne as of fee of the king in chief as 1/2 knight's fee. Ashley, 1/3 manor with advowson of the church there at every third presentation. There are 4 messuages, each worth 15d. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each a worth 4d. yearly. He died on 7 November 1427. Margaret wife of William Hexstall is his sister and next heir, and was then aged 16 and more. [1]
1435 Nov 7-1436 Nov 23. Escheator: William Hexstall, Escheatry: Staff. [2][3]
The following abstracts of deeds and court cases confirm the parentage of Margaret Hexstall, suggest the given name of her mother was Joan, and provide information about when Margaret married William Whetenhall, when she married Henry Ferrers, and when William Hexstall died.
1446 April 19. William Hexstall of East Peckham, Kent, esq: original will (mentions land in Sutton) [4]
1449 April 25. The goods and chattels of William Morcok; grant by William Morcok of Sundridge, turner. To trustees, John Pemberton, clerk, William Hexstall, esq., Richard Ford, Clerk of the Pipe to the Exchequer, John Fenwyk, of the "hospitium" of the King, gent. [Gordon Ward ref. Chidd. II 112] [5]
1452 June 25 County: Kent. Place: Westminster. Date: The day after St John the Baptist, 30 Henry VI [25 June 1452]. Parties: William Hextall' and Joan, his wife, querents, and Richard Plomer and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants. Property: 20 acres of land, 1 acre of meadow, 10 acres [of wood] and a moiety of 1 messuage in Westerham. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Richard and Elizabeth have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of William, as those which William and Joan have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth to William and Joan and the heirs of William for ever. Warranty: Warranty. For this: William and Joan have given them 20 pounds sterling. Persons: William Hextall, Joan Hextall, Richard Plummer, Elizabeth Plummer. Places: Westerham. [6][7]
1454 June 14. Feoffment 1) John Elmebrugge, Hugh Hexstall, clerk, Thomas Hexstall and William Constantyne 2) William Hexstall, esq, and Joan his wife, for life, and after their deaths to their daughter Margaret and her husband William Wetenhale, junior and her heirs. Land in East Peckham, Hadlow, Wateringbury and Nettlestead, Kent. [8]
1456-1460. Richard Bruyn v. John Colvyle, grocer, and John Parker, of London, executors of William Whetenale, grocer, of London.: Money promised for procuring the marriage of said William's son with Margaret, daughter of William Hexstall, esq.: London. [9]
1457 June "No. 57. On the Morrow of St. John the Baptist. 35 Hen. VI.
Between John Nedeham and Hugh Hexstall, Clerk, complainants, and William Hexstall, Armiger, and John Bromley, Knight, and Joan his wife, deforciants of the mauors of Wonyngton (Wenington) and Bromley in Halys, three messuages, 200 acres of land, forty acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture, twenty acres of wood, and 10*. of rent in Podmore, Rugge, and Chatculno. and a third part of the manor of Assheley. William, John Bromley and Joan acknowledged the said manors, etc., to be the right of the complainants, for which the complainants granted them to William, for his life, with remainder to the issue male of John Bromley and Joan, and failing such issue, to the right heirs of Joan (sic) for ever." [10]
1469 May 28. Letter of attorney 1) William Hexstall, esq 2) Robert Untan and Richard Turnour. Authority to deliver seisin of manor of Hexstells and of lands in fee of Ranton and Ellenhall called Frankvile, and lands in Milwich, Great Wyrley, Walsall and Willenhall, all in Staffs, to Hugh Hexstall, clerk, William Harpur of Ryshale [Rushall], esq, Thomas Hexstall senior, John Petyt and Henry Hexstall. [11]
1470 August 24. Letter of attorney 1) William Hexstall of East Peckham, Kent, esq 2) John Stokle of East Peckham. Authority to deliver seisin of lands in East Peckham, Hadlow, Leigh, Nettlestead, Tonbridge, Westerham (some field names), all in Kent, to Henry Ferrers, esq, Hugh Hexstall, clerk, Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall. [12]
1481 September 30, 21 Edward IV: Grant by Henry Ferrers, knight of the King's body-guard, and Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of William Hexstall, esquire, deceased, to Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of lands, &c., in the parishs of Halstow and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo. Appointment of Martin Roberd and William Whyte attornies to deliver seisin: Kent. St. Mary's Hoo, Note: two seals. [13]
1481 October 4, 21 Edward IV. Grant by Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall, gentlemen, to Robert Weston, William Medylton and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of all their lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo. Appointment of William Whyte and William Grene, attornies to delivers seisin: Kent. Note: two seals. [14]
1481 October 4, 21 Edward IV. Letters of attorney from Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, to Adam Palmer and William Whyte, to receive seisin from Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall of lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo: Kent. Note: three seals. [15]
1481/2 February 9, 21 Edward IV. Release by John Petytt, gentleman, to Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstow and St. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, deceased: Kent. Note: seal. [16]
1482 March 31, 22 Edward IV. Grant by Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, to Robert Rede, gentleman, William Wodegate, John Pratte, and Richard Cressy, of all their lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St.. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, and Hugh Hexstall, clerk, deceased. Appointment of William Whyte and Thomas Grene attornies to deliver seisin: Kent. Note: three seals. [17]
1487 August 6, 2 Henry VII. Release by Margery Whetnall, spinster, to Robert Rede, serjeant-at-law, William Bruyn, gentleman, William Wodegate, and Richard Cressy, of all her right in lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, deceased, her grandfather: Kent. Note: fragment of seal. [18]
1504-1515. Edward Ferrers v. William Harper and John Petyt, feoffees to uses.: Refusal to complete a sale of messuages, land, and rent in Walsall, by Edward, son of Thomas, brother of William Hexstall, esquire, deceased.: Stafford. [19]
1504-1515. Herry Hexstall, of Surrey, gentleman. v. William Harpour and John Petyt, feoffees to uses.: Messuages and land in Walsall, late of William Hexstall, brother of complainant.: Stafford. [20]
Research notes:
"William Hextall m. (1) by 1422, Margaret, b. 1412, a da. of William and sis. and h. of John Bromley, who held one-third of Ashley and died 1427. His tomb at Walsall was inscribed 'Ora pro aminis Willi Hexstall et Margaretaa et Johnae uxorum.'" [21]
1452 July 30, William Hexstall, Randal Bromley, and others: 'writ "ouster le main", setting forth inquisition, viz., that Margery, who was wife of Gilbert Berwyk, held not on the day she died, any lands in the county of Chester...' [22]
Footnotes:
[1] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 23, 6-10 Henry VI, 1427-1432 (London: HMSO, 2004), 88, (number 155), [Google_Book].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Reference E 153/2562, Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Henry III to Richard III, [UK_National_Archives].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, E 153/1623, Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Henry III to Richard III, [UK_National_Archives].
[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/2011/40, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, U908/T109/2, Centre for Kentish Studies, [UK_National_Archives].
[6] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/116/324, number 753, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[7] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, [AALT_Image].
[8] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/341/73, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[9] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/26/286 Chancery pleadings addressed to William [Wayneflete], Bishop of Winchester as Lord Chancellor, [UK_National_Archives].
[10] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 11 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1890), 237, [Google_Book], [Google_Book].
[11] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/342/16, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[12] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/342/18, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[13] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/431 Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[14] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/341, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[15] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/405, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[16] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/216, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[17] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/403, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[18] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/353, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[19] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/134/10, Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515] The National Archives, [UK_National_Archives].
[20] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/140/45, Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515], [UK_National_Archives].
[21] Anne D. Holt and Josiah Clement Wedgwood, History of Parliament. Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, 1439–1509, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1936-1938), 450-1, citing Feudal Aids and Staffs. Colls (1917), 208, [Google_Book].
[22] The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of The Deputy Keeper of The Public Records (London: HMSO, 1876), 558-559, [Google_Book], [HathiTrust].
Notes for William Hexstall and Joan
1427 Margaret Bromley was aged 16 and more when her brother John Bromley died on 7 November 1427. She and William Hexstall were married by 10 September 1428, the date of John's IPM. "John de Bromley. Writ. 14 November 1427. [Wymbyssh] Staffordshire. Inquisition. Ecceshall. 10 September 1428. [Whitegreve]. Jurors: Robert Marchall; Richard Nowell; Thomas Hunt; Thomas Lokwode; Richard Snede; Richard Warde; William Warde; John Brenner; Thomas Pereson; James Thy. . .s [hole in ms]; Stephen Begenald; and John Dutton. He held the following in demesne as of fee of the king in chief as 1/2 knight's fee. Ashley, 1/3 manor with advowson of the church there at every third presentation. There are 4 messuages, each worth 15d. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each a worth 4d. yearly. He died on 7 November 1427. Margaret wife of William Hexstall is his sister and next heir, and was then aged 16 and more. [1]
1435 Nov 7-1436 Nov 23. Escheator: William Hexstall, Escheatry: Staff. [2][3]
The following abstracts of deeds and court cases confirm the parentage of Margaret Hexstall, suggest the given name of her mother was Joan, and provide information about when Margaret married William Whetenhall, when she married Henry Ferrers, and when William Hexstall died.
1446 April 19. William Hexstall of East Peckham, Kent, esq: original will (mentions land in Sutton) [4]
1449 April 25. The goods and chattels of William Morcok; grant by William Morcok of Sundridge, turner. To trustees, John Pemberton, clerk, William Hexstall, esq., Richard Ford, Clerk of the Pipe to the Exchequer, John Fenwyk, of the "hospitium" of the King, gent. [Gordon Ward ref. Chidd. II 112] [5]
1452 June 25 County: Kent. Place: Westminster. Date: The day after St John the Baptist, 30 Henry VI [25 June 1452]. Parties: William Hextall' and Joan, his wife, querents, and Richard Plomer and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants. Property: 20 acres of land, 1 acre of meadow, 10 acres [of wood] and a moiety of 1 messuage in Westerham. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Richard and Elizabeth have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of William, as those which William and Joan have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth to William and Joan and the heirs of William for ever. Warranty: Warranty. For this: William and Joan have given them 20 pounds sterling. Persons: William Hextall, Joan Hextall, Richard Plummer, Elizabeth Plummer. Places: Westerham. [6][7]
1454 June 14. Feoffment 1) John Elmebrugge, Hugh Hexstall, clerk, Thomas Hexstall and William Constantyne 2) William Hexstall, esq, and Joan his wife, for life, and after their deaths to their daughter Margaret and her husband William Wetenhale, junior and her heirs. Land in East Peckham, Hadlow, Wateringbury and Nettlestead, Kent. [8]
1456-1460. Richard Bruyn v. John Colvyle, grocer, and John Parker, of London, executors of William Whetenale, grocer, of London.: Money promised for procuring the marriage of said William's son with Margaret, daughter of William Hexstall, esq.: London. [9]
1457 June "No. 57. On the Morrow of St. John the Baptist. 35 Hen. VI.
Between John Nedeham and Hugh Hexstall, Clerk, complainants, and William Hexstall, Armiger, and John Bromley, Knight, and Joan his wife, deforciants of the mauors of Wonyngton (Wenington) and Bromley in Halys, three messuages, 200 acres of land, forty acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture, twenty acres of wood, and 10*. of rent in Podmore, Rugge, and Chatculno. and a third part of the manor of Assheley. William, John Bromley and Joan acknowledged the said manors, etc., to be the right of the complainants, for which the complainants granted them to William, for his life, with remainder to the issue male of John Bromley and Joan, and failing such issue, to the right heirs of Joan (sic) for ever." [10]
1469 May 28. Letter of attorney 1) William Hexstall, esq 2) Robert Untan and Richard Turnour. Authority to deliver seisin of manor of Hexstells and of lands in fee of Ranton and Ellenhall called Frankvile, and lands in Milwich, Great Wyrley, Walsall and Willenhall, all in Staffs, to Hugh Hexstall, clerk, William Harpur of Ryshale [Rushall], esq, Thomas Hexstall senior, John Petyt and Henry Hexstall. [11]
1470 August 24. Letter of attorney 1) William Hexstall of East Peckham, Kent, esq 2) John Stokle of East Peckham. Authority to deliver seisin of lands in East Peckham, Hadlow, Leigh, Nettlestead, Tonbridge, Westerham (some field names), all in Kent, to Henry Ferrers, esq, Hugh Hexstall, clerk, Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall. [12]
1481 September 30, 21 Edward IV: Grant by Henry Ferrers, knight of the King's body-guard, and Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of William Hexstall, esquire, deceased, to Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of lands, &c., in the parishs of Halstow and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo. Appointment of Martin Roberd and William Whyte attornies to deliver seisin: Kent. St. Mary's Hoo, Note: two seals. [13]
1481 October 4, 21 Edward IV. Grant by Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall, gentlemen, to Robert Weston, William Medylton and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of all their lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo. Appointment of William Whyte and William Grene, attornies to delivers seisin: Kent. Note: two seals. [14]
1481 October 4, 21 Edward IV. Letters of attorney from Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, to Adam Palmer and William Whyte, to receive seisin from Thomas Hexstall and Henry Hexstall of lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo: Kent. Note: three seals. [15]
1481/2 February 9, 21 Edward IV. Release by John Petytt, gentleman, to Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, of lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstow and St. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, deceased: Kent. Note: seal. [16]
1482 March 31, 22 Edward IV. Grant by Robert Weston, William Medylton, and Thomas Vocatour, citizens of London, to Robert Rede, gentleman, William Wodegate, John Pratte, and Richard Cressy, of all their lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St.. Mary's, in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, and Hugh Hexstall, clerk, deceased. Appointment of William Whyte and Thomas Grene attornies to deliver seisin: Kent. Note: three seals. [17]
1487 August 6, 2 Henry VII. Release by Margery Whetnall, spinster, to Robert Rede, serjeant-at-law, William Bruyn, gentleman, William Wodegate, and Richard Cressy, of all her right in lands, &c., in the parishes of Halstowe and St. Mary's in the hundred of Hoo, which formerly belonged to William Hexstall, esquire, deceased, her grandfather: Kent. Note: fragment of seal. [18]
1504-1515. Edward Ferrers v. William Harper and John Petyt, feoffees to uses.: Refusal to complete a sale of messuages, land, and rent in Walsall, by Edward, son of Thomas, brother of William Hexstall, esquire, deceased.: Stafford. [19]
1504-1515. Herry Hexstall, of Surrey, gentleman. v. William Harpour and John Petyt, feoffees to uses.: Messuages and land in Walsall, late of William Hexstall, brother of complainant.: Stafford. [20]
Research notes:
"William Hextall m. (1) by 1422, Margaret, b. 1412, a da. of William and sis. and h. of John Bromley, who held one-third of Ashley and died 1427. His tomb at Walsall was inscribed 'Ora pro aminis Willi Hexstall et Margaretaa et Johnae uxorum.'" [21]
1452 July 30, William Hexstall, Randal Bromley, and others: 'writ "ouster le main", setting forth inquisition, viz., that Margery, who was wife of Gilbert Berwyk, held not on the day she died, any lands in the county of Chester...' [22]
Footnotes:
[1] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 23, 6-10 Henry VI, 1427-1432 (London: HMSO, 2004), 88, (number 155), [Google_Book].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Reference E 153/2562, Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Henry III to Richard III, [UK_National_Archives].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, E 153/1623, Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Escheators' Files, Henry III to Richard III, [UK_National_Archives].
[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/2011/40, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, U908/T109/2, Centre for Kentish Studies, [UK_National_Archives].
[6] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/116/324, number 753, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[7] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, [AALT_Image].
[8] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/341/73, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[9] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/26/286 Chancery pleadings addressed to William [Wayneflete], Bishop of Winchester as Lord Chancellor, [UK_National_Archives].
[10] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 11 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1890), 237, [Google_Book], [Google_Book].
[11] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/342/16, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[12] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, LM/342/18, Surrey History Centre, [UK_National_Archives].
[13] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/431 Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[14] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/341, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[15] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/405, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[16] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/216, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[17] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/403, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[18] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 146/353, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C, [UK_National_Archives].
[19] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/134/10, Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515] The National Archives, [UK_National_Archives].
[20] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/140/45, Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515], [UK_National_Archives].
[21] Anne D. Holt and Josiah Clement Wedgwood, History of Parliament. Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, 1439–1509, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1936-1938), 450-1, citing Feudal Aids and Staffs. Colls (1917), 208, [Google_Book].
[22] The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of The Deputy Keeper of The Public Records (London: HMSO, 1876), 558-559, [Google_Book], [HathiTrust].
Families
| Spouse | William Hextall ( - 1470) |
| Child | Margaret Hextall ( - ) |