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Easton, John († bef. 4 Nov 1565): Southwark, Surr, pat. phv, Brightwell, Berk by grant of Stephen Gardiner (qv) (CRP, no. 2175); will 24 Apr 1565/prov 4 Nov (TNA, PROB 11/48, fo. 232v PCC 32 Morrison; BRS 18, p. 103): Protestant preamble, places: Southwark St Olave, Battell Bridge, Mdx, Purfleet, Layton, both Ess, Bankside, people: wife Margaret (res leg and exec), unborn child, da Marie Sparks and husband Edward, da Margaret, father-in-law John Gamsforde, esq of Lincoln’s [Inn] Fields (ovs), bro Thomas’s chil, Elizabeth Tourner, Mary Barten, Joan Robinson, Richard Pattenson, clk, Nicholas Spencer, citizen and merchant tailor of London (ovs), Thomas Kinge, rect Clapham, Ricard Pattenson, vic Walthamstowe, Ess, Anthony Butler, Derrick Skynner, John Skinner, Edward Mendall, Derrick Gosse, Robert Newman, Morgan Robinson, Hamlet Harrington, bp of Winch, Lady Welborne, Edward Chamberlain, Walter Hardwicke, Richard Hicks of the Fleur de Lis, legacies: cash (£31 2s, multiple 10s), debts owed (£162), debts owing (£88), 3s 4d or 20d to svts, real estate, seal, chain, whistle, clothing, books: some to wife’s child if boy, black covered virginals to da Marie, 12 of best books and astronomical instruments (except [Ranulf Higden,] Polichronicon in Latin to wife’s child if male) to Pattenson, items of interest: execs to engross rolls for courts of Southwark borough

Edmonson, Ralph (prob. † bef. 23 Aug 1555): inst 26 Sept 1537 rect Houghton on the Hill, Leic, Coventry priory, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 164v), vac (†) bef. 14 Sept 1555, wrb William Heythcot (qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 61v; LI1, no. 334); disp 12 July 1555 pluralism Houghton and rect Noseley, Leic (CRP, no. 1293); inst 24 July 1555 Noseley, Bartholomew Haselrige, esq, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 110r; LI2, no 169), vac bef. 23 Aug 1555 (LincRO, P.D. 1555/9)

Edward IV: contested between Pole and Somerset as example of troubles to his chil aft. his death (CRP, nos 545 and 549)

Edward VI: bib: Diarmaid MacCulloch, The boy king: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (New York: Palgrave, 2001) see ODNB

Edward, Bernard († bef. 29 June 1562): B&W, ord 11 June 1530 priest Exeter to title of Montacute priory (DRO, EDRC 14, unfoliated list of ordinations at end vol.); inst 18 Apr 1542 vic Chilthorne Domer, Som (SRS 55, no. 514)–† bef. 29 June 1562 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 9v), worth £5 7s (VE 1, p. 199); inst 19 June 1554 rect Buckland Mary, Som, Frances, duchess of Suffolk, pat. (SRS 55, no. 705), vac bef. 24 Jan 1580 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 56v), worth £12 19s 9d (VE 1, p. 164); abs and disp 9 July 1556 (CRP, no. 1594)

Edward, Humphrey († bef. 31 May 1557): sup MA 1548, as such BTh 22 Nov 1554 (RUO 1, p. 215); inst 26 Apr 1549 rect St Mary Woolnoth, Sir Martin Bowes (qv), pat. (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 174r)–† bef. 31 May 1557 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 197r); oc 1553 or 1554 rect Caerwys, Flint (Willis’ St Asaph 1, pp. 186-7, 263)–†1 (CRP, no. 2023);

comp 10 Dec 1554 for Ad StA (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 213v)–† bef. 31 May 1557 holding it and Llandrillo, Denbighs (CRP, no. 2023); ‘possibly’ rect Llandrillo and Caerwys; mistakenly said to have became SJ and † in Milan 1587 and to be dist from rect St Mary Woolnoth, † 1557 (Wainewright, ‘Archdeacons’, p. 42 citing Henry Foley, Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus, 7 vols [London: Burns and Oates, 1877-83], 7, pp. 222 and 956 who did not, however, confuse the SJ with the Ad)

Edwards, John ap: inst 11 June 1558 vic Llanynis, Denb (CRP, no. 2250), vac bef. or competing inst 12 Dec 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 169)

Egbear, Richard († bef. 23 Dec 1585): stipendiary of Tedburne St Mary ordered 30 Mar 1530 to transfer within ten days to unserved Doddiscombsleigh, both Dev (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 59r), caveat for Doddiscombsleigh 1 Nov 1556 (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 41v); inst 25 Oct 1538 vic Dunsford, Dev,3 John Fulford, pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 121v), comp 16 Nov 1546 [sic] £17 11s, George Ashe, St Peter Paul’s Wharf, roy vintner and Richard Lambert, Dunsford, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 104v)–† bef. 23 Dec 1585 (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 24r), caveat 6 Aug 1585 (DRO, EDRC 19, fo. 34r); inst 12 Sept 1554 rect Belstone, Dev, Sir John Fulford, pat. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 26v), comp 5 Nov 1556 £8 2s, John Alford, Chagford, Dev, gen and Giles Balle, Mamhead, Dev, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 39v)–resig bef. 28 Jan 1574 (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 17v); disp 12 Aug 1555 for Dunsford and Belstone (CRP, no. 1341)

Eiton, Peter (CRP, no. 2283a in the Addenda to this vol.): priest, inst 12 June 1556 vic Syde, Glos, John Berkeley, pat., rep. Richard Etton (GRO, GDR 2A, pp. 123 and 77)

Elcock, Alexander: CCO 1550 (RUO 1, p. 318); MA 18 July 1552 (RUO 1, p. 214); involved Apr 1556 in William Tresham’s (qv) negotiations with Pole abt St Mary Hall, Oxford (R. W. Jeffrey, ‘A forgotten college of Oxford’, Brazen Nose, 4 [19249], pp. 260-88, p. 270) when adm 17 May prin (RUO 2:1, p. 286), Pole’s order in confirmation 17 Sept (CRP, no. 1688b in the Addenda to this vol.), although premises surrendered by 1562 to city of Oxford (Jeffrey, p. 171), Hall remained in being and Elcock vac bef. 1572 (RUO 2:2, p. 42)

Elgar, Bartholomew: in accts Cant. cath 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 5v); among 10 choristers 1555/6 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564), 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 66r), 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 88v)

Elizabeth I see ODNB Ellerker, Robert († bef. 9 Nov 1568): pres by crown 22 Apr 1557 rect Barnoldby le

Beck, Linc (CRP, no. 1949b)–† bef. 26 Feb 1569 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 15r; LI1, no. 118), bef. 14/16 Jan 15624 unmarr priest, moderately educ, resident, non-preacher, no other ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 89r), worth £14 13s 2d in 1576 (LER, p. 178); will 12 Sept 1568/prov 9 Nov (LincRO, LCO Wills 1568, fo. 132v-133r; BRS 28, p. 132): bur in chancel, William Oronie, late svt to Mr William Ellerker, esq, best cloak and hat, gown and old hat to Richard Garborowe plus 5s owed me from Beardall of Grimsby, Thomas Kent ag implements (incl. 3 swine troughs), 5s owed by Cooper of Laceby and furniture to svt William Butler, dishes to Jane Kent, to Anne Kent, my hostess, all

my hemp and lime, tithe fruits and geese, plus all my sheets, to John Colman, parson of Waltham, Linc5 my tippet, to Lambert, vic S. Cave, E. York, priest cap, Amos Kent fur gown, godson Robert Netlam wheat and coat, 5s to Mary Clark owed me by William Westmorland her father-in-law, his son John wheat owed by his father, Hugh Ellerker, svt to Mr Jobson of Hull quarter of barley, niece Ellerker chest, forgive bro Musgrave and sis’s debt (ca. 8s 4d), John Atkinson, John Cowper, and Christopher Crofts a pig each, bro Marmaduke Ellerker, res leg, and his son William, execs, debts to Thornby of Beverley, E. York, draper 34s 5d, Thomas Kiddall 8 quarters of beans due 2 Feb, Mr Blesbie £4 8s 4d which he owes me, cow tithe to Christopher Thompson, 18d to William Burwell for hay, Robert Atkinson for cow tithe

Ely, William († 1609): BA 1547, sup for MA 1549, for BTh 21 June 1557 (RUO 1, p. 212); disp 18 Mar 1553 to study medicine; 1553-4 vice-prin of BCO (Hegarty), expelled 14 Aug 1556 (Stevenson and Salter, p. 323); Heref dioc, fell. BCO, ord priest 21 Dec 1553 London (GL, 9535/1, fos 14v, 18v and 20r); involved in effort to convert Cranmer (Stevenson and Salter) but refused to shake hand at execution (Wood, Fasti 1, p. 153); prob. chap to Maurice Griffin or Griffith (qv) by whom given next (Stevenson and Salter citing Abp Laud) and certainly his legatee; inst 30 May 1556 rect Norton, Kent (CRP, no. 1573)–depr bef. 7 July 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 783); 25 Nov 1558 preaching lic from Oxford (RUO); inst 17 Dec 1558 rect Freckenham, Suff, Sir Thomas Whyte, citizen and alderman of London and Joanna, formerly wife of Sir Ralph Waren, pats. on † of Maurice Griffin (qv) (SVI, p. 47 and Bullen, ‘Suffolk clergy’, p. 301, called Elys, also in Fielding, p. 110 citing CCA, Reg. N; p. 395 says to 1562, † 1562-3)–depr bef. 9 May 1562 (Reg. Parker, p. 788); 1st vice-president SJCO (Hegarty), prob. Nov 1559 2nd president on removal Alexander Belser (qv), withdrew bef. Nov 1560 (Stevenson and Salter); inst6 2 May 1560 rect Crick, Ntht, Thomas Whyte, pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 200), vac bef. 1561 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, 557); on list ca. 1561 of ‘certain evil-disposed persons. . .which lurk so secretly that process cannot be served upon them’ in Heref (Gee, p. 184); witn both White’s wills in 1564 and Nov 1566, possibly as chap (ODNB); aft.7 living on continent ‘obscurely. . .having. . .entered some religious order’, returned and imprisoned at Heref where prob. † 1609; in 1605 sheriff of Heref reported him as ‘setter forward of their [the SJs’] desperate designs with all his might, having such liberty as that he rideth up and down the country as he lists’ (Old DNB); on list of academicians either dead or in exile for faith (Sander, DVM, p. 692); bro Humphrey Ely als Havard (see ODNB)

Emersam, William († bef. 6 May 1561): of Paglesham, Ess, receiver for estate of Thomas Segre, late of Woburn, Bed, exc and request for his arrest 10 Dec 1556 (CRP, no. 1784a); will 4 Sept 1558/prov 6 May 1561 (TNA, PROB 11/44, fo. 122v PCC 16 Loftes; BRS 18, p. 106):8 yeom of Woburn, Bed, places: Hawstid [?Hawstead, Suff], Warner, Asplinge and Newlandes in Great Waltham, Ess, persons: sis Elizabeth Lax als Bromley (exec), Thomas Lockey of St Albans, William Saunders, gent of Pottesgrave, Bed, Thomas Locke, William Johnson of N. Crawley, Richard Smyth of Wilton, Everingham, James Lax, Nicholas Tongby, Nicholas Aldaye, Lawrence Hollyngshed, Giles Alens, John Easton (ovs), Robert Norton, Thomas Seger, Henry

Warner, Lord Rich, John Standethe, John Miller of Pagelsham, John Corlolde of Rochford, ‘Stackhouse’, Humfrey Mason, George Robinson, Edmond More, John Ellessanunder, William Brooke, William Wiate, legacies: cash (£51), four years arrearages of £22 6s 8d annuity, £130 in goods in hands of Lockey and Saunders, real estate, leases (churches at Pagelsham and Great Stambridge, Ess), horses, clothing, items of interest: estimates £769 16s 8d owed him, mostly for back rents or items stolen from house when prisoner in King’s Bench, 12 ‘flaunders skinnes’ to Brooke and Wyate

Emmet, John: scholar, Chester dioc, orders (CRP, no. 1867a): ord acol 18 Sept 1557 and subd to title Sir Richard Norton of Norton9 (Irvine, ‘Ordination book’, p. 95), ord deac and priest Buckden 26 Mar 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fos 4v and 5r); ?Emott, inst 23 May 1558 rect Mablethorpe St Mary, Linc, George Fitzwilliam esq, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 131v; LI2, no. 441), vac bef. 14/16 Jan 156210 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 87r)

Englefield, Sir Francis (1522-13 Sept 1596): son Sir Thomas Englefield, Englefield, Berk; marr Katherine Fettiplace, heir of Sir Thomas Fettiplace, Compton Beauchamp, Berk; knighted at Edward VI’s coronation; sheriff Oxon and Berk, 1547; ‘svt’ in Princess Mary’s household 1549; imprisoned in Tower 29 Aug 1551-18 Mar 1552 for refusing to order Mary to cease hearing mass (ODNB); with Anthony Browne (viscount Montagu; qv) joined Mary at Ipswich in 1553 (VMR, p. 220); pc 25 July 1553; mr of court of wards and liveries 1 May 1554; MP Berk 4 of 5 sessions of Marian parliament; various comms (ODNB); 17 Aug 1555 suggested as member of comm on ecclesiastical property (CRP, no. 1343); resig roy appointments on Elizabeth’s accession; granted 12 Apr 1559 travel for two years (ODNB) or mr of roy household, fled England on Elizabeth’s accession (Sander, DVM, p. 704); oc 3 Mar 1560 pat. Edgecott, Leic when William Lewes inst (LI2, no. 836), still 30 May 1564 when John Field [?the John Field] inst (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 63v; LI1, no. 345); on list of fugitives of 29 Jan 1576 (Strype, Annals 2:2, p. 597); indicted for treason and outlawed 1584; attainted 1587; † St Alban’s Coll., Valladolid (ODNB); [n.d.] Whimple conveyed to along with Sir Thomas Cordell by Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon (both qv) (Risdon, p. 57); see HPT 2, pp. 100-103 and A. J. Loomie, The Spanish Elizabethans: English exiles at the court of Philip II (New York: Fordham University Press, 1963), pp. 17-51

Ermested, Armistead, William († 31 Oct 1558 [BRUO2]; 9 Sept 1558/24 Mar 1559 [F3]): inst 14 Feb 1525 chantry in St Mary Woolnoth, Clerkenwell convent, pat. (GL, 9531/10, fo. 14v); MA abroad, incorp. Oxford 8 July 1527, sup 12 Dec for incorp BTh of foreign university (RUO 1, p. 148); inst 3 Nov 1529 rect Stoke Dry, Rutl, Sir William Weston, prior of Hospitallers in England, pat., 20s pension to inc-resig bef. 2 Dec 1534 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 129v and 136r); pres 24 Nov 1532 rect Marsh Baldon,11 Oxon, Andrew Sulyard and John Freman receivers for Andrew Lord Windsor, pats. (LincRO, P.D. 1532/7), inst 5 Feb 1533-resig bef. 17 May (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 191r), worth £14 11s 10d (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 151v); inst 12 Mar

1534 rect Fryerning, Ess, John Farrar [or Ferror, see bel.], Islington, Mdx, pat. by grant from Hospitallers-resig bef. 17 June (GL, 9531/11, fos 27r and 28r); inst 22 Aug 1534 rect Catmore, Wilt, Weston, pat., Richard Holt (qv), proc-resig bef. 4 Oct 1534 (W&SRO, D1/2/15, fo. 48r-v); a roy chancellor’s [priest], inst 24 Dec 1534 vic Conisborough, W. York, Lewes priory, pat. (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 12r)–resig bef. 12 Feb 1538 (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 16r); inst 5 Dec 1535 rect Great Wilbraham, Camb, Weston, pat. (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 103r), tithed at 23s 10d 1535 (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 134v), vac July 1538 (BRUO2 p. 13); pres 3 Aug 1536 rect Adel, W. York, Henry Speyght, clk, Henry Joye, BTh and William Pulley, York, pats. phv (BI, Adm 1536/9; Calendar of Admissions papers), inst by proxy 4 Aug, inst again 12 Feb 1538, crown pat. (BI, Reg. 28, fos 13v and 16r; BRUO2 gives Oct for date and incorrectly cites last ref. as date of vac), vac bef. 18 Aug 1551 (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 45r); coll 31 July 1538 vic Birstall, W. York, £8 pension to inc (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 68r-69r), still 1547 (BRUO2 p. 13); inst bond 7 Jan 1538 rect Darfield, W. York (BI, Adm 1537/8; Calendar of Admissions papers)–resig bef. 19 July, Weston then pat. (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 17r); coll 23 June 1539 Nesden preb, London-† (F3 1, p. 45); oc 1539-41 mr of the Temple, London, prob. still 1543-413 (L&P 16, no. 745, fo. 40 and 20:1, no. 557, fo. 33), still 1556 (see bel.); inst 11 Feb 1542 rect Kislingbury, Ntht-† bef. 14 Feb 1559 (BRUO2 p. 13 and NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 77v); comp 18 July 1544 rect Saddington, Leic, £17 4s, crown pat., Ferror [or Farrar, see ab.], yeom, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 23v), inst 19 July (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 172r)–resig bef. 20 Oct 154614 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 174r); comp 24 Oct 1545 vic Northampton All Saints £11 18s 7d, Ferror [or Farrar], innholder and William Dernbroke, St Martin Ludgate, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 69v), inst 4 Dec 154715 (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 22v); mr in chancery 1547 (BRUO2 p. 13 citing CPR 1548-9, p. 152), still 1558 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 72); adm 4 May 1552 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 151); on comm 5 Sept 1553 to restore Bonner with Gilbert Bourne, Henry Cole and William Cooke (all qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 57r); oc 1554 roy chap (BRUO2 from CPRPM, 1553-4, p. 329); pat. of Ralph Jackson (qv); examing ordinands in London 21 Sept with John Harpsfield, Richard Smith II, Cuthbert Scot, Richard Marshall and William Dalbie (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 35v); inst 20 June 1554 preb Windsor-† (BRUO2 p. 13); on comm to restore Tunstall [see fitz Alan, earl of Arundel for membership] (Statues of Durham, p. 197), another to review statutes of Dur cath 1555-6 with Heath, Bonner, Tunstall and Thirlby (all qv) which suggests Ermested did much of work (ibid., p. 73); proc to convocation of D&C London 18 Oct 1555, again Jan 1558 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 120r and 164r); 3 Oct 1556 abs schism, disp pluralism (Kislingbury, Temple, Nesden preb), orders (CRP, no. 1714); provided title for orders 22-3 Dec 1553 for Thomas Packard (qv), 12 June 1557 for Ralph Meryman, Winch dioc (GL, 9535/1, fo. 65r), 5 Mar 1558 for

Thomas Morse (qv), 26 Mar 1558 for William Harrison (qv), all at London; bef. 24 Mar 1558 granted advowson (which had from earl of Cumberland) of Severn Stoke, Worc to William Moore, Pixham, Worc (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 72); † 31 Oct 1558, bur in Kislingbury (BRUO2 p. 13); will 22 Dec 1556 and 5 Sept 1558/ prov 24 Mar 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42A, fo. 389r PCC 50 Welles; BRS 18, p. 107): Catholic preamble, places: St Katherine’s chapel, St Paul’s cath, Kislingbury, Ntht, Greenwich Greyfriars, Therfield, Hert, persons: D&C, my confessor, Edward Turner, clk, rect of Finchley, Mdx (exec), James Colens of Islington, Mdx (exec), widow Agnes Robbyns of Crede Lane, William Shotte of Ilkley, W. York, Henry Runthawt of Leeds, W. York, John Ryngresse [Ringrose (qv)], John Gregory, George Freeman, Stephen Hemisworthe, Robert Hawkyns, Courtall, Dr Person of London, legacies: cash (£29 6s 8d), doles (20s), half-year’s wages (26s 8d) to five svts, advowson of Therfield, household goods, clothing, horses, items of interest: 40s for grave and 40s for tombstone, elaborate funeral arrangements, 40s for dilapidations to successor at Kislingbury, bequests for requiem mass, res for Oxford scholarship

Ersley, Arseley, Harsley, William: inst 9 May 1554 vic S. Scarle, Nott, Thomas Sherewod and William Hethcote, clk (?Heythcot, qv), pats. phv (BI, Inst.AB.2, fo. 3r and Reg. 5/A, fo. 689v; Dickens, Marian reaction, 1, p. 34), comp 26 May £4 12s 1d, Francis Mering, Collingham, Nott, arm and Thomas Arsley, St Benet Paul’s Wharf, merchant tailor, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 151v), Casper Hanson comp 29 Nov 1554 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 213v), as such Ersley failed to appear at 1559 visitation (RVAB, fo. 152r), resig S. Scarle 3 Aug 1561 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 5v); disp 10 Mar 1557 pluralism, it and rect S. Collingham, Nott (CRP, no. 1898), disp from John Dakyn (qv), endorsing Pole’s disp, dated 8 Apr 1557 (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 126v-127r); resig S. Collingham 9 Jan 1578 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 113v);16 party 1 Aug 1567 to indenture b/w D&C Peterb and George, earl of Shrewsbury, etc (incl. Francis Mering ab.) for Collingham Southby, part of Collingham, Nott (CUL, Peterb MS 13, fos 85v-87r; name underscored and note in margin ‘the parson a party to the indenture’), spelled out (fo. 87v) that held one messuage and three and one-half oxgang, 22s p.a. rent, biggest tenant aft. Shrewsbury

Exilbye or Excelbye, Robert († 29 Dec 1558/18 Mar 1559): ord 28 Feb 1534 priest York (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 193r); inst 16 Feb 1557 rect Sawtry All Saints, Hunt now Camb, Thomas Lowthe, pat. (CRP, no. 1858)–† bef. 18 Mar 1559 wrb Nicholas King (qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 150r; LI2, no. 705), Sawtry Moyne in VE 4, p. 269, acc. LI2, no. 705n; will 29 Dec 1558/prov 27 Apr 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42B, fo. 52r PCC 7 Chaynay; BRS 18, p. 109): Catholic preamble, places: Sawtry All Saints, Copmanford, Hunt, persons: da Katherine (exec), bro George Exelby (exec), bro John Exelby, his chil (George, Peter and Robert), bro Thomas’s wife, Thomas Myckefeld (ovs), godson Thomas Myclefeld [same as prev?], Richard Jacob, rect Hamerton, Richard Knight’s chil of Copmanford, John Knight’s child, Elizabeth Jackson, witns (William Cockson, Thomas Lane, Richard Webbe), legacies: cash (16s 4d), dole, household goods, plough, cart, ag pro, much livestock, horses, ‘4 whete landes’, debts owing (£23), items of interest: bequest for highways (13s 4d in Sawtry All Saints, 10s in Copmanford)

Exnive [sic; Exmewe], Elizabeth: ex-nun of Dartford, pensioner, 1 July 1557 rect

Rainham, Kent (CRP, no. 2051); living at Walsingham, Suff on £5 pension pd at Bury acc. undated (but aft. Marian deprivations and suspensions) list of all ex-religious in Norwich dioc, Elizabeth Geygood another ex-Dartford nun also living in Walsingham on 40s pension (DRO, DN/SUN 3, fos 22v-23r); Exmewe, known 1529-85, da. of Sir Thomas Exmewe, lord mayor of London in 1517 (ex inform. Peter Cunich); prioress of exiled Dartford community when pd 20 gulden from off. of Liège carried by John Ramridge (qv) (Christian Coppens, Reading in exile: the libraries of John Ramridge (d. 1568), Thomas Harding (d. 1572) and Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), recusants in Louvain [Scottsdale, AZ: L P Publications, 1993], p. 14); ?rel William Exmew, ord priest 18 Sept 1529 (GL, 9531/10, fo. 163v), one of the London Carthusian martyrs (AtC 1, p. 52)