John Master, Mayor of Sandwich

• John Masters
• M, #74930, b. circa 1490, d. 1 September 1558
• Father Thomas Masters b. c 1462, d. Mar 1509
• Mother Agnes b. c 1465, d. 1517
• John Masters was born circa 1490 at of Sandwich, Kent, England. He married Elizabeth Payne circa 1509. John Masters died on 1 September 1558 at Sandwich, Kent, England.
• Family Elizabeth Payne b. c 1492
• Child
  • Anne (Agnes) Masters+ b. c 1510
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2494.htm#... ___________________________
• MASTER, John (by 1490-1558), of Sandwich, Kent.
• b. by 1490. m. (1) by 1511, 2s. 2da.; (2) by 1549, Elizabeth, da. of one Thomson of Canterbury, 2s.2
• Offices Held
  • Auditor, Sandwich 1517, 1521-5, 1531, 1532, 1535, 1538, 1542, 1546-8, 1550, 1551, 1556, treasurer 1517-18, common councilman (St. Clement’s parish) 1517-18, (St. Mary’s parish) 1518-23, jurat 1523-58, mayor 1527-8, 1543-4, 1552-3, 1557-d., keeper of the common chest when mayor and 1544-8, 1551-2, of the orphans when mayor (except 1552-3) and 1538-41, 1544-8; bailiff to Yarmouth 1529; commr. gaol delivery, Kent 1543, sewers 1554.3
• John Master was a merchant and brewer. When on 2 Apr. 1543 he and a fellow-townsman were committed to ward by the mayor for breaking the regulations for brewing in the town, Master obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the lord warden for their release. Although the deputy mayor held this to be contrary to the charter of the Cinque Ports, a month later the pair were assisting the mayor in dispensing justice. After the dispute had been referred to the town’s learned counsel, it was decreed that any brewer refusing to pay his duties would lose his freedom, and in October Master paid ‘his money of brewing’ and the costs of the suit. While arbitration was pending, he was elected to go to the Brotherhood with the mayor; although he did not do so on this occasion he was one of the deputation from Sandwich 16 times between 1518 and 1558. In 1533 he was a representative of the town at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, in 1534 at the installation of Lord Rochford as lord warden, and two years later at the installation of Rochford’s successor, Sir Thomas Cheyne. His testimony against Vincent Engeham’s defence of idolatry in 1543 shows that he did not share Engeham’s view, but whether as a convinced Protestant is not known.4
• In September 1544 Master and his eldest son bought for £1,138 two manors in Kent, lands in Woodnesborough, houses in Dover and Sandwich, some property in London and a messuage called the ‘Abbot’s Place’ within the Tabard, Southwark; it was perhaps at the last of these that he stayed while attending Parliament. He had been an unsuccessful candidate for Sandwich to the Parliament of 1542, and it was perhaps in compensation that he was returned to its successor. He and his fellow-Member Thomas Menys then agreed to serve for 18d. a day, thus forgoing 6d. of the usual 2s., but when he was re-elected nine years later to Mary’s second Parliament neither he nor Simon Linch was asked to accept less than his due. In 1555 Master again stood unsuccessfully for election. Nothing is known about the part he had played in the Commons.5
• At the time of his last election as mayor Master was described as ‘very aged and of many years’. He made his will on 24 Aug. 1558, asking to be buried in the chapel of St. Mary in the church of Sandwich where he was accustomed to sit. After providing for his wife and children, including an unborn child, he left his best horse to Simon Linch, 13s.4d. to his goddaughter Agnes, daughter of Nicholas Peake and widow of Thomas Menys, and a gown to his brother-in-law Richard Martin of Wye. As executors he appointed his wife and Thomas Colwell, and as overseers his ‘brother’ William Payne of Canterbury and his son Thomas Master. At the same time he set up a property trust at Ash, Sandwich, Worth and elsewhere in Kent to the use of himself during his life and then to the use of his youngest son John, who was given no land by the will. Master died on 1 Sept. 1558, when his son and heir Thomas was aged 47 and more, Peter his second son 32, James eight and John six.6
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ma... ____________________
• The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 75 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
• http://books.google.com/books?id=88sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58&dq=%22Hugh+sa...
• 19. NICHOLAS GIFFORD (Roger, John, Thomas, Roger, Sir Thomas, Sir John, Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osbern de Bolebec), of St. James near Northampton, Gent., the testator of 1546 (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 270), born about 1508, died at Duston, co. Northampton 19 May 1546 (ib., vol. 74, page 236). He married before 1528, AGNES MAISTER (or MASTER), who died between 18 Aug. 1581 and 28 Mar. 1584, daughter of John of Sanwich, co. Kent, the testator of 1558 (ib., vol. 74, page 279), mayor of Sandwich, a warden of the Cinque Ports, and a member of Parliament (cf. REGISTER, vol. 71, pate 175). She is called Anne in the will of her husband and in his inquisition post mortem, and "sister Anne Gyffard" in the will of her brother-in-law, Sir George Gifford, in 1556. She is called Agnes in the will of her father, 24 Aug. 1558, and in her own will, 18 Aug. 1581, but in that part of her will relating to her lands
• Pg.138
• she states that she is commonly called Anne Gyfford (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 272).
• On 20 Oct. 1530 Nicholas Gifford was recommended to Thomas Cromwell by John Plauden, "late clerk of the lands of Woolsey's College, Oxford" (Letters Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII). In 1538 he was one of the gentlemen to attend upon the King's household when required (ib.). In that year he was called of Brynon, Northants. He was active in the work of dissolving the monasteries; and by letters patent, dated 12 Sept. 1545, the house and lands of the dissolved monastery of St. James, in the parish of Duston near Northampton, with the annual fair held there, were granted to him and his heirs, and he died seised thereof, Roger Gyfford, a minor, aged eighteen years and three months, being his son and heir. (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 236.) Children:
  • i. ROGER, of St. James near Northampton, Gent., the testator of 1591 (ib., vol. 74, p. 274), b. probably about Feb. 1527/8; d. at St. James 20 Oct. 1591 (ib., vol. 74, p. 237); m. AMY SAMWELL, the testatrix of 1618 (ib., vol. 74, p. 275), who d. between 28 May and 11 July 1618, dau. of Francis, Esq., and Mary of Northampton. Children: .... etc.
  • ii. MARGARET, b. about 1535; m. about 1554 HUGH SARGENT of Courteenhall, co. Northampton, Gent., b. probably about 1530, d. at Courteenhall 28 Feb. 1595/6. Fifteen children.(*)
  • iii. BARBARA, m. THOMAS COLWELL, who is named in the will of his mother-in-law, Agnes Gifford, 18 Aug. 1581, and in the nuncupative will of his brother-in-law, Roger Gifford, 26 Sept. 1591. Children, .... etc.
  • iv. GEORGE, living 26 Sept 1591; m. before 18 Aug. 1581 ANNE PRESTLAND, living in 1581, dau. of John. Children: .... etc.
  • v. ANNE, d. before 18 Aug. 1581; m. GERVAISE MORTON, who was living 18 Aug. 1581. There were children of this marriage who were living and under twenty-one on 18 Aug. 1581.
  • vi. MARIE, m. (1) THOMAS WALDRAM; both were living 18 Aug. 1581; perhaps she m. (2) JOHN WILSON. _______________________________
• Sargent genealogy : Hugh Sargent, of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire and his descendants in England (1895)
• https://archive.org/details/sargentgenealog00unkngoog
• https://archive.org/stream/sargentgenealog00unkngoog#page/n37/mode/1up
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• The family of Gifford is of high authority. They were seated at Honfleur, in Normandy, in the eighth century, — three centuries before the conquest of England by Duke William. At the battle of Hastings (1066) "Sire Rundolph de Gifford," was one of the Conqueror's standard-bearers. Walter Gifford, Earl of Buckingham, was a cousin of the Conqueror. In the reign of Henry II. (1154-89) Sir Peter Gifford married Alice, daughter of Sir Grey de Corbuchin. In the reign of Richard I. (1189-99) Sir Stephen Gifford was one of the barons accompanying the king (Richard Coeur de Lion) to the Holy Land, and was killed at the siege of Jerusalem ; and his son, Sir Stephen, was wounded there. Baron George Gifford was made Earl of Buckingham, and subsequently Duke of Buckingham. He married the Princess Maude Plantagenet, the king's cousin. George Gifford, Duke of Buckingham, son of the first George, Duke of Buckingham, was a favorite of Richard III., but being detected by him in the act of corresponding with the Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., he was attainted of high treason and beheaded by Richard's order, and his children deprived of their lands and titles, which Henry VII. found it convenient not to restore. George Gifford, son of George, Duke of Buckingham, continued the first line, and constantly solicited the crown and Parliament to restore him to his land and titles, but was always defeated. The family continued to press their claim before Parliament, but were never able to obtain a judgment.
  • Arms : gules, three lions, passant, in pale, argent.
• https://archive.org/stream/sargentgenealog00unkngoog#page/n38/mode/1up
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• John Gifford was in Twyford, in Buckinghamshire, in the fifteenth century. Roger Gifford, grandson of John, leased the manor of Middle Claydon in 1535; and his heirs leased it to Martin Lister, who surrendered it to Sir Edward Verney.
• The line of descent from John Gifford to Margaret, who married Hugh Sargent, appears in the "Heralds' Visitation of Northamptonshire" in 1618-19. In the "Visitation" of 1681-82 the family is stated to be lineally descended from the ancient family of the name ; and the same arms are given as being the arms of Francis Gifford, son of Roger, who was brother of Margaret.
• JOHN GIFFORD of Twyford, co. of Bucks. = ; ch: THOMAS (m. MARY ___ ) GIFFORD
  • THOMAS of Twyford, co. of Bucks. = MARY ___ ; ch ROGER (m. MARY ___ ), ANNA (m. RICHARD SAMWELL) GIFFORD.
    • ROGER of Middle Claydon, co. of Bucks, Esq.; d. about 1542. = MARY ___ ; ch: NICHOLAS (m. AGNES MASTERS) GIFFORD.
      • NICHOLAS of the Abbey of St. James, co. of Northampton, Bailiff, Gent.; d. 1546. = AGNES MASTERS, dau. of John of Sandwich, co. of Kent; d. about 1583.; ch: ROGER (m. AMY SAMWELL), MARGARET (m. HUGH SARGENT) GIFFORD.
        • MARGARET = HUGH SARGENT of Courteenhall, co. of Northampton.
        • ROGER of the Abbey of St. James, Gent.; d. 1591. = AMY SAMWELL dau. of Francis of Thorpe, co. of Northampton; d. about 1618.; ch: FRANCIS (m. JANE THROUGHTON) GIFFORD .... etc.
    • ANNA = RICHARD SAMWELL of Edgcote, co. of Northampton. ____________

John Masters married Elizabeth Payne in 1519. 1st Wife

John Masters married Elizabeth Thompson in 1547. 2nd Wife.

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ID: I14990

Name: John Masters

Sex: M

Birth: 1490 in Sandwich, Kent, England

Death: 1 SEP 1558 in Sandwich, Kent, England

Father: Thomas Masters b: 1462 in Wye, Kent, England

Mother: Agnes Masters b: 1447 in Kent, England

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Payne b: 1492

Children

John Masters b: 1555 in Aldenham, Herts, England

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Testator of 1558, mayor of Sandwich, a warden of the Cinque Ports, and a member of Parliament.

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