Jane Saunders

Marriage to: William F Saunders, MP 1529 in Epsom, Surrey, England

Family and Education

b. by 1497, 1st s. of Henry Saunders of Ewell by Joan da. of John Lepton of Yorks. m. (1) Jane (d.1539), da. and coh. of William Marston of Horton, Surr., wid. of Nicholas Mynn (d.1528) of London and Norf., 3s. inc. Nicholas at least 1da.; (2) Joan, wid. of Thomas Gittons (d.c.1544) of London, 4da. suc. fa. 1518.2

By his will of 2 Oct. 1570, proved on the following 10 Nov., Saunders asked to be buried without pomp. He left farm animals, corn, household fittings and plate to his wife Joan, who was also to have a life interest in the manor of Cardens if she chose to live there. To his son Erasmus he gave his ‘cross of gold with a pearl in the end thereof’, his best doublet, a sum of £100 and a share with the third son Francis of Harsing marsh in Kent; Francis himself received jewelry, clothes, household goods, annuities totalling £25, a lease of property in Ashstead, Surrey, and lands in Cliffe, Kent. After small bequests to his daughters, his grandchildren, his stepson Oliver Gittons and his servants, Saunders bequeathed the rest of the estate to his eldest son Nicholas.12

Sources

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Author: S. R. Johnson Notes

1. Bodl. e. Museo 17.

2. Date of birth estimated from father’s will, PCC 15 Ayloffe. Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 459; PCC 23 Spert; Surr. Arch. Colls. xxi. 128; liv. opp. 102; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 53; C142/71/82.

3.LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1547-8, p. 90; 1553, pp. 327, 357, 406; 1553-4, p. 24; 1560-3, pp. 325, 441; 1563-6, pp. 26, 36, 39; 1569-72, p. 220; Guildford mus. Loseley 1074; W. C. Richardson, Ct. Augmentations, 50; Manning and Bray, iii. 664; Osborn coll. Yale Univ. Lib. 71-6-41; Surr. Arch. Colls. iv. 136; viii. 302.

4. PCC 15 Ayloffe; Surr. Archs. Coll. liv. opp. 102; DNB (Sanders, Nicholas).

5.Surr. Arch. Colls. xiii. 145; liv. 85; Surr. RO, Pendell rentals; PCC 15 Ayloffe, 35 Porch; Add. Ch. 23411, 23412; C142/71/82; U. Lambert, Bletchingley, i. 297-8.

6. LC2/190, f. 123; VCH Surr. iii. 684; A. Heales, Recs. Merton Priory, cxxvi; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xviii, xix, xxi; M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 556; E315/218, f. 26; Cal. I. T. Recs. i. 128; Richardson, 281.

7.Surr. Arch. Colls. xxi. 35-55, 60-62, 66, 74-76; liv. 87, opp. 102; E351/1795, mm. 6-11; Lansd. 156(28), ff. 90-94; DNB (Sanders, Nicholas); HMC 7th Rep. 614; G. A. Carthew, Hundred of Launditch, i. 185.

8.Loseley Mss, ed. Kempe, 140-4; HMC 7th Rep. 608, 610, 611; Surr. Arch. Colls. liv. 88; Lambert, ii. 416.

9.Surr. Arch. Colls. liv. 89-90; Suss. Rec. Soc. xvi. 61-64; E. Straker, Wealden Iron, 241-2; St.Ch.2/24/36.

10. Strype, Annals, ii(2); HMC Hatfield, iv. 267, 272; Surr. Arch. Colls. liv. 91-92; Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), i. 12, 35, 253; Carthew, i. 185; Arundel Castle ms G1/7; PCC 42 Holney; The Voyage of Sir Nicholas Carewe to the Emperor Charles V, 1529 (Roxburghe Club), 1.

11. PCC 42 Holney; Surr. Feet of Fines (Surr. Rec. Soc. xix), 266, 415; Surr. Arch. Colls. liv. 89, 90.

12. PCC 42 Holney.