Anne Master, wife of Nicholas Gifford

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Anne Master, wife of Nicholas Gifford

Legg inn av John Brandon » 28 sep 2005 20:50:47

Searching the online catalogue of the National Archives

( http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp ),

I've come across a document that clearly applies to the ancestry of New
England immigrant Mr. William1 Sargent of Charlestown, Malden, and
Barnstable:

[Ref: SP 46/5/Part 1, fo 273]

John Master to the same (Glapthorne): requests him to send L20 to help
his daughter who was left in debt at the death of her husband William
[sic; recte Nicholas] Gifford, who has bought from the King the abbey
of St. James near Northampton; Sandwiche; 22 June 1547.

The description above appears on the first webpage generated by the
search ("Glapthorne AND Master," in this instance), but when I click to
see the full entry I get the following:

"The same to the same: sends all the quails left after distribution to
Mr. Cave and others, and a trunk with shoes, hose, etc: will bring some
money when he comes: has received a letter from Henry Suthweke; London;
7 June [?1548];"

Odd ...



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "MRGIFFORD"
Date: 10 Mar 2001 18:46:15 +0100
Subject: Sargent-Gifford-Master of co. Northampton
To:

G.A. Moriarty, in his articles on the ancestry of Rev. William Sargent
of Malden and Barnstable, Mass. (NEHGR, vols. 71 & 74, or thereabouts),
showed that the immigrant had a line of descent as follows:

1. Nicholas Gifford, of St. James Abbey near Northampton, gent., d.
1546, married (by 1528) to Agnes or Anne Master, daughter of John
Master, mayor of Sandwich, Kent.

2. Margaret Gifford, married Hugh Sargent, born about 1530

3. Roger Sargent, b. 1560, d. 1649 m. Ellen Makerness

4. Rev. William Sargent, the immigrant to Massachusetts Bay.

D. S. Chambers, ed., _Faculty Office Register, 1534-1549_ (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 58, shows the following:

[1536, June 16.] Nich. Gyfford & Agnes Colwell, Linc. dio. Disp. for
marriage without banns. 26s.8d.

The following document indeed indicates that Agnes (or Anne) was born a
Master, but had a first marriage to Richard Colwell of Faversham, Kent:

THOMAS COLWELL.

1593, February 4.--"The life death and buriall of Thomas Colwell
prisoner in the Fleete London who died their imprisoned for the
Catholic Religion _anno_ 1593, 4 _die Februarii_, being Sonday about
eleven of the clock inn the forenone.

29 December 1607. _In Dei nomine Amen._--Thomas Colwell borne at
Feversham in Kent uppon the Friday, and as I take it about the 10th or
11th of December in the yeare of our Lord 1531, descending both by his
father's side and mother's side of auncient houses in Kent, viz. his
father at Feversham in Kent who alwayes detested heresies, which then
began to springe, and his mother of the house of the Maysters in
Sandwich, both which houses were then indowed with great possessions.
Whose father's name was Richard Colwell having had a wife before by
whome he had divers sonnes and daughters, after whose death about Anno
Domini 1530 he took to wife Anne Maisters nere the age of xv yeres,
being himselfe about the age of 40, who died after that he had lived
with the said Anne his wife 6 yeares, having had by her twoo sonns,
wherof one died an infant and 1 daughter named Barbara who died at the
Abbies of St. James by North[amp]ton about 14 years of age, of the
plague, but in vertuous maner leading her life, and so departed. And
coming to the said Abbie by this chaunce the said wife of Richard
Colwell being a widow at xxi yeres of age and richly left, one Nicholas
Giffard brother to Sir George Giffard of Middle Cledon in
Bukinghamshier mareing with her, and after purchasing the said Abbie of
St. James, by whome shee had many sonns and daughters whom her said
husband left in yong and tender yeres to brought up by the said Anne
their mother who brought them up Catholikely as she alwayes lived and
vertuously died herself after she had lived a widow nere fortie yeres.
Yet after, her said sonnes and daughters of the line of the Giffards
mareing to their own wills, forsaking her motherly admonitions and her
pitifull teares often shed for them in wishing them to beware of
heresie, making small account of their first education, were supped up
in the fluddes of schisme and heresie." (_Manuscripts of His Grace the
Duke of Rutland, G.C.B., preserved at Belvoir Castle, vol. I_
[Historical Manuscripts Commission, Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part IV],
pp. 307ff.)

And so forth, the life of the martyr. His step-father, Mr. Nicholas
Gifford, sent him to school "to my Lord Mountegues at Boughton by
Geddington in Northamptonsheir." His step-uncle, Sir George Gifford of
Middle Cleydon, took such a liking to him that he married him to "his
neece Barbara Sexten, who was the Lady Giffard's sister daughter,
descended of Catholike parents both by the father and mother's side and
brought up in the hose of the said Sir George Giffard withe his
daughters, and instructed in the Latin tongue by one Mrs. Jone Dene a
nunne of Sion. . . . By which said Barbara the said Thomas Colwell had
xi sonns and daughters . . ."

P.W. Hasler, ed., _The History of Parliament : The House of Commons,
1558-1603_, 3:369, has a sketch of a member of Parliament, one Edmund
Sexton, who was also a Catholic, and whose 1586 will mentions "a young
cousin named Calwell, 'now prisoner in Bridewell in London'." Thomas
Colwell would have been about 55 in 1586, but this may be a reference
to him or, perhaps, to one of his children.

Since Nicholas Gifford died in 1546, and his i.p.m. shows his heir as
"Roger Gyfford, a minor, aged eighteen years and three months"
(Register, 74:236)--hence born in 1528--Nicholas must have been married
twice. Agnes Master could still be the ancestress of Rev. William
Sargent, but this should be investigated. The line of descent from King
Ethelred the Unready is still correct, since it comes through the
Giffords.

Finally, a bit of further evidence supporting the English origin of
Rev. William Sargent of Massachusetts. One of the early New England
notarial records (either Lechford's or Aspinwall's), mentions that
William Sargent was from Northampton in Northamptonshire, but it never
hurts to have redundant proof. _Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on
Historical Manuscripts, Part II, Appendix and Index_ (London: 1884), p.
497, the diary of Robert Woodford, steward of the town of Northampton,
Northants.:

[1637/8.] March 31st. We have invited the good people that are goeinge
for New England, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Curwyn, and their wives, for Monday
night.

Woodford was probably a moderate Puritan, as indicated by other
comments in his diary: "We went and heard the sermon in Paules preached
by one Dr. Turner who preached for bowing at the name of Jesus and
towards the altar. Oh Lord look from Heaven in mercy to thy poore
church. . . . I prayed and went to church where Mr. Newton preached
honestly and well, though his prayer is turned somewhat canonical and
gave thanks for the S[ain]ts. days."

John Brandon

Re: Anne Master, wife of Nicholas Gifford

Legg inn av John Brandon » 29 sep 2005 14:40:08

Here's another item that applies to this line ...

[C 1/240/18] Thomas Gifford, son and heir of Agnes, daughter of Thomas
Wynslowe. v. Humfrey Seymour, Nicholas Filoll, and Elizabeth, his wife,
Morys Filoll and Agnes, his wife.: Detention of deeds relating to the
manors of Burton, Wendelbury, Chorleton, Upton, and Otmore; the manor
of Eve Swyndon, and lands in Ramesbury and elsewhere; the manor of
Olveden, and other lands.: Oxford, Wilts, Worcester [1500-1515].

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