John Wyncoll (C)  

John Wyncoll (C)
(c1500 - 1576)


 


The Wyncolls of
Suffolk and Essex:
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Map
Arms of Wyncoll
Author's Addendum
Text Chapters:
  • Intro + John Wyncoll (A)
  • Roger Wyncoll (B)
  • John Wyncoll (C)
  • Isaac Wyncoll (D)
  • Isaac Wyncoll (E)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (F)
  • Thomas Spring Wyncoll (G)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (H)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (I)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (J)
  • William Wyncoll (K)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (L)
  • Charles Wyncoll (M)
  • Charles Edward Wyncoll (N)
  • Pedigree Diagrams:
  • Fowler and Alexander
  • Gawdy
  • Umfreville
  • Waldegrave
  • Wyncoll
  • Concordance:
  • People (surname ordered)
  • Places & Upper-Cased Words:

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         John Wyncoll (C) was only son and heir of his father, Roger Wyncoll (B), and was the first of the family not engaged in trade. In all the public records, one finds him described as "John Wyncoll, Gentleman."

         He owned the manor of Netherhall, in Little Waldingfield. Whether he purchased such manor, or inherited it from his father, has not been ascertained, but the better opinion seems that he purchased it. His father does not mention it in his will (although he refers to his "manors"), and it is not mentioned in the list of lords of that manor in Davy's History of Suffolk. 1

         He inherited Twinstead manor from his father, and held his first court there on 18th January, 1562. 2 Besides this estate, he had the manor of Harberts, in Rayleigh.3

         That he was in affluent circumstances is undoubted, for, besides making a good many pecuniary bequests to his children, friends, servants, and others by his will dated 14th October, 1576, amounting to a large sum of money (also "to the Churchwardens of Little Waldingfield, Five pounds to repair the glass windows of the Church"), he also mentions his lands, tenements, etc., in Great and Little Cornard, his manor of Netherhall and other lands in Little Waldingfield, Brent Eleigh, Milden, Alphamstone and Twinstead, his manors of Twinstead and Harberd, lands and tenements in Great Henny, Lamarsh, Pebmarsh, Rayleigh, Raweth and Great Hockley, Essex, so that his real estate must have been considerable.
     

     
    Arms of Rosse, of Nayland:
    Argent, three water bougets, gules, two and three.
    1.
    Lords of manor of Netherhall, Little Waldingfield: - 
    • "John Spring, 1524.
    • "John Wyncoll, Gent., died seised 18 Elizth.
    • "Isaac Wyncoll, Gent., son and heir, 1576, died 1638.
    • "Thomas Wyncoll, Gent., son and heir, 1638."
    See also Copinger's Manors of Suffolk, vol. i., p.48: "The manor subsequently passed to John Wyncoll, son of Roger Wyncold and Thomasine his wife, dau. and heir of ... Page." 

         The Subsidy Returns for Suffolk in 1568 throw light as to the annual value of his property in that county, for, in the parish of Little Waldingfield, he is assessed on 16l. and, in the parish of Thorpe Morieux, on 30l. in lands.4

         It should be noted that the commissioners (who were William Waldegrave, Thomas Eden, Robert Crane and Robert Gurdon) only assessed on the annual value of the lands, where such were owned, and not on moveable goods as well. 

         John Wyncoll married Margery,5 daughter of Edward Rosse, of Nayland, widow of Robert Risbye, of Thorpe Morieux, on 19th October, 1557, at Thorpe Morieux, as appears by the registers of that parish. Robert Risbye died on 4th May, 1557 (the register gives 6th May, and adds "Lord and Patron of this Church"), so that the marriage of John Wyncoll and Margery Risbye took place five months later. 

         By this marriage there were seven children, viz.: Isaac (D); Thomasine, who married Thomas Hull, gentleman, of Denham, Suffolk; Anne, who married, first, Richard Huggins, of Boxford, Suffolk, secondly Taylor; John, who died sine prole; Jane, who married Richard Holborough, gentleman, of Sudbury, afterwards of Middleton, Essex; Bridget, who married Rev. Thomas Rogers, of Horringer; and Amy, who died unmarried at Denham, 1592. 

         It is presumed that John Wyncoll came to reside with his wife at the Hall, Thorpe Morieux (in which she had a life interest under her former husband's will 6), as four of the above-mentioned children were baptised at that parish church,7 and subsequently returned to Little Waldingfield.

     
    2. Morant's History of Essex, vol. ii., p.75. 
    3.  Ibid., vol. i., p.276: "John Wyncoll, Esq. held the Manor of Harberts, lately Thomas Lawrence's, of the Lord Hunsdon of his Honour of Rayleigh."
    4. 
    Waldingfield Parva:- 
    John Wyncoll, 16l. in landes ... 21s 4d. Thorpe Moryew.- 
    John Wyncoll, gent., 30l. in landes ... 2l
    5. Her grandmother was Mary, daughter of Robert Daundy, of Ipswich.
    6.  Proved 28th June, 2557, Prerogative court of Canterbury, ref. it : Wrastley. 
    7. Vide East Anglian Miscellany, 1909 part 5, p.23.
     
         John Wyncoll died on the 24th December, 1575,8 at Netherhall, Little Waldingfield, and is buried at Little Waldingfield. He appointed his "well beloved Cousin, John Wyncoll, of Little Waldingfield, Clothier, sole Executor" of his will, which was proved in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury (Lib. Wroo, fo. 222) on the 25th February, 1577.
     
    8. I.P.M. 19 Eliz: Harl. 639, fo. 577:-
    "These Inquisitions post mortem were held in order to ascertain the profits that arose to the crown by the various fruits of tenure obtaining at this age and to grant the heir his livery, and the itinerant Justices, or Justices in eyre, had it in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a Jury of the county, Commonly called an inquisitio post mortem, which was instituted to enquire (at the death of any man of fortune) the value of his Estate, the tenure by which it was holden, and who and of what age his heir was; thereby to ascertain the relief and value of the primer seisin, or the wardship and livery accruing to the King thereupon. A manner of proceeding that came in process of time to he greatly shooed and, at length, an intolerable grievance; it became one of the principal accusations against Empson and Dudley, the wicked engines of Henry VII., that, by colour of false inquisitions, they compelled many persons to sue out livery from the crown who by no means were tenants thereunto." 
    Blackstone, 1811 ed., pp.68 and 69.


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