Jane Monins

Jane Cranmer, daughter of Thomas Cranmer and Agnes Hatfield, sister of Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury (from 1533-1555).

Second wife of John Monins or Moninges, Lieutenant of Dover Castle. Not thought to be the mother of his children.

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The following information is from the Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson URL = library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/ff/Exherst.cfm written 20 December 1999 Last revised 15 December 2011

John Monins was still married to his first wife (Margaret Aldy) in 36 Henry VIII (i.e. 1544-45), when he and his wife joined with her cousins, Henry, Adam, Nicolas and John Alday to make an enfeoffment of the manors of Cheker and Chilton with 100 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 3 acres of wood and 160 acres of marsh in “Ash near Sandwich” and in Woodnesborough. [1]

He was married to Jane by 1548, when John “Monynge” and his second wife Johanna ____ made an accord with Humphrey Clerk, gentleman, over various lands by Elham including garden, pasture, and woods.[2]

The will of John Monins, which was proved 21 Jan. 1554 at Canterbury, reads in a published abstract [and mentions wife Jane]:

John Monyngs, Gent., Lieutenant of the Castle of Dover. JANE my wife. Bathell, wife of William Hanyngton. Pernell Stockwith, my daughter. Edmund Stockwith, my daughter’s husband. Jane and Katherine, my daughters. Thomas Culpepper, my servant. My sister Warren. John Monyngs, my godson. My farm of Curdeswoode. To Thomas, my son, my tenements and lands in Elham, and my tenements and lands at Eastbridge, in Romney Marsh, in tail mail, [with] remainder to my son William, and then to my daughters successively, in like tail. My barn and land in Deal, Sholden, and Mongeham, in like manner, and likewise my parsonage of Charlton. To William, my son, all my right, part, and purport [recte purpart], in the manor of Chequer, in Ashe, and all my lands in that parish, in tail male, with remainder to my son Thomas. To my said son William my lease of the parsonage of Sholdern. To my son Thomas my lease of the farm called Barton, with the pastures and landsbelonging thereto, and of and in all the gavelkind land in the occupation of Thomas Colley, of Dover; and likewise of and in my lease of the Downes called Warden Downes. To Richard, my base son, my term of years in my parsonage of the Leden [i.e. Lydden?], and the glebe lands belonging [thereto]. Christopher Engeham, an infant, to whom I am guardian. My cousin, Mr. Richard Monyngs. My cousin, George Monyngs. My cousin, Thomas Hamon.[3]

1. PRO CP 25/2/23/145/25, Feet of Fines, as abstracted in Kent Feet of Fines, Henry VIII, ed. Zell, no. 2145.

2. CP 40/1135, as reproduced in the Anglo-Amercian Legal Tradition project, at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/aalt1/E6/CP40no1135/aCP40no1135fronts/ IMG_0156.htm. [thanks to Rosemary Simons, who is preparing an index of these documents]

3. Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2 vols. (London, 1826), 2:742; Nicolas has modernized the spellings, and I have altered the punctuation slightly for clarification. Another abstract was published in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th series, vol. 4 (1920-22), 19.