In 1493 William Yewle and Thomas Grey both sued Katherine Garington, each claiming she had contracted marriage with him. As her father Robert Elys had a different surname, on first glance it seems likely she was a widow, suggesting one reason (property from her dead husband) why both men sought to marry her, though ofContinue reading “William Yewle and Thomas Grey c. Katherine Garington”
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Master John Clavering c. Richard or John Swan
John Clavering, a parish priest with an M.A. degree from Oxford who bounced around from one lucrative parish to another (in 1493 he was both rector of Twickenham and vicar of Staines),[1] seems also to have dabbled in the retail of wine: when a man named Swan failed to pay him for some wine, despiteContinue reading “Master John Clavering c. Richard or John Swan”
Herbert Rowland c. Elizabeth Croft; Margaret Hordley c. Herbert Rowland
In this pair of related 1494 cases, first Herbert Rowland sued Elizabeth Croft to claim her as his wife and then Margaret Hordley sued Herbert Rowland to claim that he had previously married her. A conspiracy-minded person (i.e. me) might suspect that the second suit was a set-up, an attempt to rescue Elizabeth Croft, aContinue reading “Herbert Rowland c. Elizabeth Croft; Margaret Hordley c. Herbert Rowland”
Thomas Laurence c. Agnes Jaco alias Sawier
This is one of those Consistory suits that is not really adversarial: both plaintiff Thomas Laurence and defendant Agnes Jaco alias Sawier appear to have wanted to be married to one another. There may in fact have been another plaintiff only obliquely indicated in these depositions, John Weston, and it was certainly his objections toContinue reading “Thomas Laurence c. Agnes Jaco alias Sawier”
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