Joan Cotton

Name seen as Cecily Sharpe in older sources, in error.

Notes

... Nicholas Sharpe had died by 1473, when his widow Agnes and brothers Thomas, Christopher and Robert acted as his executors. Agnes is said to be daughter of John Tyrell in Hervey's pedigree, but this is false [...]

His heir was his daughter Joan, second wife of Thomas Cotton of Landwade and Exning, the son of his predecessor as Receiver General, William Cotton. The couple's tomb lies on the south side of the chancel in Landwade church. It once held brass inlays which have now disappeared, but the outline in the stone shows a man with two wives. The first wife, Margaret, has two daughters and the second, Joan, has several children surrounding her.

Source: Sharp Practice: An Expose of The Sharpe Pedigree from the 1588 Visitation of Essex. (page 74) (document attached).

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References

1. https://cybergata.com/roots/3141.htm cites
   1. Beaumont, G.F. "History of Coggeshall in Essex", 1890
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3. Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles), The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13. Archive.org p. 100-101.
4. https://cybergata.com/roots/4120.htm
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10. https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00177519&tree=LEO (has errors)
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