Rev. George Phippen als Fitzpen, A.M.

concerns

not the father of Jane Pinckney

brief biography

This ancient family descends from Thomas de Segrave, described in the Domesday Book, 1080, (Burke)

IV. Rev. George Fitzpen, als Phippen; m. 1st: Joan Pye; m. 2nd 3/16/1634 Joan Penrose; m. 3rd: 6/20/1648, Mary Penrose. (Helston Parish Reg.) No children.

MA degree Oxford; Rector St. Mary's 1624/36, and of Lamorran. Master of the grammar school in Truro. Polwhele says of this longstanding institution -"It may well be classed with the first seminaries of England, and its masters and scholars have frequently been formidable rivals to those of the Royal foundation in genius, taste and learning." He was persecuted, hounded and thrown in jail, where he was heavily plundered of his possessions. (His will gives some idea of the trials and tribulations the clergy was forced to undergo.)

George Fitz Pen, A.M. was son of ROBERT FITZ PEN/PHIPPEN and his wife, CECILY (JORDAN) FITZ PEN.

From 1621-1635, he was Mastor of the Truro Grammer School, and Rector of St. Mary's Church in Truro for 26 yrs. until his death.

His will dated July 20, 1650 and proved March 1, 1651, he made bequests to the sons of his brother, David, in New England and the poor in Lamorran among others.

Will

Will of Rev. George Fitzpen als Phippen, dated 20 July 1650, proved in London 1 March 1651, by Mary Phippen, relict and executrix:

• ”Whereas, John Catcher, pretending against me, an Oxford degree (void in itself), during the time of mine imprisonment for mine adhering to the Parliament, plundered me in coin and goods of all kinds, according to a schedule hereunto annexed, of the value of 710/-7 shillings, for recovery whereof against him and his agents I leave to mine Extrx. hereafter named,-
• Item: To his sisters which had no portion, viz: Mr. Wm. White for dec. wife Constance; to Margaret, Elleanor, Jane, Mary and Honor I give and bequeath freely all my lands in Peransand, (by me dearly paid for) which were their father's and all this I do for them, (God be my witness) not out of any check of conscience that I ever wronged that family, for I did supply and support them many years with mine own estate; so as they have spoken against me without a cause for my love - they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer, the good God give them repentance and forgive them.
• 50/ to Mrs. Margaret Catcher, widow;
• I forgive unto Henry Pye of Stephent, gent. all money which he oweth unto me (about 100/)
• ”I forgive unto Mr. Henry Edmonds and Thomas Drake all the cost in law for suit begun in the consistory of Exon and finished with sentence for me in the Arches. -
• I forgive unto the executor of one Hercules Ashe- the money which he owed me -
• To Mrs. Mary Woolcott, sheep To certain servants, etc.
• To Joanne Phippen, widow, sheep, -
• To Eleanor Phippen, now Eleanor George, and Francis George her husband -
• To my honored friend Hugh Boscowen I give my cabinet Press, and unto his honorable lady my clock, and I humbly pray his assistance to my wife, his near kinswoman, and to my heirs. -
• To Ann Grosse, the dau. of my bro-in-law, Edward Grosse of Truro, land in Kenwyne St. Somerset, in the tenure of John Rankin and John Danell. -
• To my kinsman and brother's son, Roger Phippen of Pennycomquicke, I give that silver bowl which was Mr. Upcott's, if it be not redeemed with 50 shillings before my death, and I give unto him my land in Enoder, now in the tenure of Mary Thomas. (Note: He had already given James I, a silver service and land in Ireland. AWS):
*”Item, for my brother David Phippen in New England I give and bequeath to his eldest son the lesser Trewoone;
• unto his 2nd son that Trevossa whereon Nicholas Clemowe liveth;
• unto his 3rd son, the other Trevossa called Penthericks, etc.
• To David's dau or daus 20/. -
• To my sister Cicely Reynolds my biggest silver spoons; my ring with death's head unto her husband. -
• To Edmond Braine 10/, and to each of his brotherWm. Priske holdeth of me from year to year. (and other property).
• Item - My prayer is that God would provide some able and faithful Minister to succeed me in Lamorran....
• Certain legacies to my wife, Mary, she to be extrx.
• ”Hugh Boscowen, Esq., John Penrose, Esq. and Edward Grosse, Gent. overseers, and to each 40 shillings.
• References to jointure promised to wife in marraige (30/ per year). Truly her virtuous and respectful deportment towards me deserves well at my hands.
*”To the poor of Weymouth in Dorset 5/ - of Melcombe 10/ - of Camborne, 3/ - of Enoder - 40 shillings.
• I pray my brother John Penrose to distribute of my moneys 20/ more unto the poor of twenty parishes when he shall think fit, 20 shillings to each. I give to every one of his children 20 shillings apiece
• . /s/ George Fitzpen als Phippen
• Witnesses: Hugh Boscowen - John Penrose - Thomas Harvey
• Margaret (Pye) Catcher and Joan Pye, first wife of Rev. George, were sisters.

Relatives mentioned in Will

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Phippen%2C_Melcombe_Dorset_and_...

family

He married (1) Joan Pie, daughter of Constance Pie, and (2) Mary ____, who survived him.

Marriage

• 1. Jane Pye in 1621[6] She died in 1636[7]
• 2. Mary Penros in 1648[8]

notes

2) George was born c 1593 in Dorset . He attended Exeter College Oxford He was plural rector of Truro and of Lamoran. In his will he wrote that he was imprisoned at one time for his adherance to Parliament . His alumni entry says that he was sequestered to Berkhamstead by the Assembly of Divines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Assembly

Phippen, George of Dorset, pleb. Exeter Coll., matric. entry 6 Feb., 1606-7, aged 14; B.A. 27 Oct., 1610, M.A. 28 May, 1614; rector of Truro St. Mary, Cornwall, 1629, sequestered to the rectory of Berkhampstead St. Peter, Herts, 1645, by the Westminster assembly of divines. See Add. MS. 15,669, p. 48; & Foster's Index Eccl. "Phanne-Popejoy," in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891), 1154-1181. British History Online, accessed December 31, 2017, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1154-1181

George is listed on the Church of England Clergy database ( CCEd Record ID: 3470) with appointment to Lamoran as curate and to Truro and Lamoran as Rector in 1624 and 1625( he received dispensation for the two livings in 1625) His MA and BA degrees are mentioned but not the university he gained them at. His name is spelled in these documents as Phippen or Phippinge

comments

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1650 at London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England.

sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phippen-91
• Visitation for Cornwall in 1620. Page 71. Archive.Org
• [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=caNCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front...] This is the only piece of complete information I could locate on the good Reverend. May it be a spark that sends a more seasoned historian towards the flame.
• https://sites.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps06/ps06_048.htm “In the Principal Probate, Registry, London. P.C.C. 57 Bowyer. 1650, July 20. Fitzpen alias Phippen, George, clerk, in his will refers to his adherence to the Parliment and an Oxford decree pretended against him by Catcher, John. His land in Enodes, Cornwall. To my brother David Phippen in New England his eldest son the lesser Trewoone, to his second and third sons Trevosa. . . . Proved at London 1 March 1651/2 by relict Mary.
• Ancestors & descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue. Page 176-177. Archive.Org
• https://www.acvancestors.com/g0/p611.htm#i18323
• https://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/trees/229281/I1777/georgeamfitzpe...
• Re: Fitzpen / Phippen Thigpen? (was re: Cecily, wife of William Farrar GoogleGroups “.... The mention of 'John Pen' is interesting: this is found in the fascinating Phippen chart (with a genealogy of sorts and a number of heraldic achievements) drawn up in Salem, Mass. in 1808, which was copied from a similar earlier (but now lost) chart dated 1767 (and of which George D. Phippen's 1868 article gives a partial transcription). The chart contains material which could only have come to the New England Phippens by way of their ancestral uncle Rev. George in Truro (including, for example, the impaled coat of arms of Rev. George Phippen's first wife, Jane Pye, and her first husband, Henry Burgess of Truro). ... “
• Phippen, George D. Fitzpen Or Phippen And Allied Families. [Boston?: s.n. , 1868. Hathitrust

links

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65281377/george-a.m.-fitz_pen
• http://eradcliffe.tripod.com/thigpen.html
• FamilySearch AFN GX52-NM
• FamilySearch AFN LVWF-L3
• FamilySearch AFN NXTS-W5
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