Dorothy Peyton

Sources

• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 240-241.
• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 89.
• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 842-843.

also

• "Stemma Robertson" a book in the Soc Gen, London
• Inscription,. Gough ii, p.305, but see H.Haines 'Monumental Brasses' p 154;
• Pedigree in The Chesters of Chicheley gives 18 Jan 1532-3 "MI at Hockwold."

Descendants of Amphilice Coningsby

6. DOROTHY13 TYNDALL (AMPHILICE12 CONINGSBY, HUMPHREY11, THOMAS10, THOMAS9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, ROGER4, JOHN3 DE CONINGSBY, JOHN2 CONINGSBY, ROGER BARON1 DE CONINGSBY) [31]

• was born 1518, and
• died after 18 oct 1559.
• She married JOHN PEYTON [32] Abt. 1537 [33],
  • son of ROBERT PEYTON and ELIZABETH CLERE. He was born Abt. 1503 in Knowlton, Kent, and
  • died 22 Oct 1558.

DOROTHY TYNDALL had a legacy of 401. towards her marriage portion from her grandfather, Sir Humphrey Coningsby, and married about 1537 JOHN PEYTON EsQ., of Knowlton in Kent.

JOHN PEYTON, Esq., of Knowlton, Kent, younger son, Burgess for Hastings, and of Winchelsea, 2nd son, born about 1503 (aged about fifteen at death of father), and was admitted a student at Gray’s Inn in 1521. Under the terms of his father’s will, he inherited the manor at Barnham St. Martin, Suffolk, which had been the inheritance of his grandmother, Joan Calthorpe, and also the manor of Caldecote, Cambridgeshire.

On the death of his youngest brother, Edward, he became entitled to large estates in Kent, and established himself in that county. He married about 1537 DOROTHY TYNDALL, eldest daughter of John Tyndall, Knt., KB., of Hockwold, Norfolk, by Amphillis, daughter of Humphrey Coningsby, Knt. [see TYNDALL 12 for her ancestry].

They had three sons and two daughters. JOHN PEYTON died intestate 22 Oct. 1558. His widow, Dorothy, was living 18 Oct. 1559.

• Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 288, 245-248, 276.
• Bindoff House of Commons 1509-1558 3 (1982): 100-101.

Chesters of Chicheley p 247:-

John Peyton married about 1537 Dorothy, the eldest daughter of Sir John Tyndall K.B. of Hockwold in Norfolk, and was one of the witnesses who attested his ikther-in-law’s Will on 16th May 1538. He had agreed on his marriage to settle on his wife the manor and advowson of Bamham in Suffolk, with the manor of Caldecot in Cambridgeshire and his lands in Caldecot and Iselham; and this settlement was completed by a fine and recovery in Michaelmas term 1538, when he conveyed the premises to Humphrey Tyndall his brother-in-law and others as trustees. (5a)

He afterwards made a further provision for his wife in Kent, and is described as John Peyton Esq. of Northcourt and Thornton in Kent, in a deed dated 1st July 1544, whereby he settled the manor of Northcourt and lands in Eastry called Thornton, subject to the life estate of his aunt Dame Joan Ryngeley widow, to the use of himself and his wife Dorothy as joint tenants. (2) It seems that after the death of her second husband Sir Edward Ryngeley, his aunt surrendered to him the manor of Knowlton, for she was living at Sandwich at the date of her Will, 14th Dec. 1551, and she says in it that she has ‘ given and delivered all her estate and goods into the hands of her nephew John Peyton.’ Lady Ryngeley died about Christmas 1551.

John Peyton of Knowlton survived his aunt seven years, and died on 22d Oct. 1558. His wife Dorothy survived him, and was still living on 18th Oct. 1559, when the inquest after his death was held at Greenwich. (2) He died without a Will, but by some deed of settlement made in his lifetime his leasehold manor of Doddington, which he held from the Church of Ely, descended to. his second son John. His portrait was long preserved by his descendants, and is mentioned in 1668 as the earliest of a series of family pictures of the Peytons of Knowlton. (6)

John Peyton had issue by his wife Dorothy Tyndall five children, three sons and two daughters.

Children of DOROTHY TYNDALL and JOHN PEYTON are:

• 1. 16. i. SIR THOMAS14 PEYTON,
  • b. 31 Mar 1540;
  • d. 1611.
• 2. 17. ii. SIR JOHN PEYTON,
  • b. Abt. 1541, of Dodington, Cambs;
  • d. 04 Nov 1630, Doddington, Cambs.
• 3. iii. EDWARD PEYTON,
  • d. Bef. Nov 1576, died unmarried.
• 4. 18. iv. ELIZABETH PEYTON.
• 5. v. FRANCES PEYTON,
  • d. died with no issue;
  • m. THOMAS ENGEHAM;
    • b. of Goodneston, Kent.