John ‘the younger’ Fenner, MP

“Younger son” of Anne & Thomas Fenner of Crawley. Older brother also named John. His son and heir was Dudley Fenner.

Biography

From https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/f...

FENNER, John

The electoral patron at Midhurst was the 1st Viscount Montagu, who returned Catholics to the first two Elizabethan Parliaments. The Act passed in the first session of the 1563 Parliament made it mandatory for newly-elected MPs to take the oath of supremacy, and it is interesting to see that the parliamentary successor of Montagu’s Catholic steward William Denton, whose death had caused the vacancy, was either the uncle or the father of Dudley Fenner the puritan divine. Little is known about either of these brothers and namesakes. The former was the father of Edward Fenner the judge, the latter was of Amberley, Sussex. John Fenner of Amberley was born 1509, classed as a ‘favourer of godly proceedings’ in 1564, and died 25 Dec. 1566, a few days before the end of the Parliament.2

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: P. W. Hasler

Notes

• 1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament. Folger V. b. 298.
• 2. Mousley thesis 511-14; Cam. Misc. ix(3), p. 10; C142/145/15.

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Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex. 1 Henry VII, to 1649 and after. Abstracted and translated by F.W.T. Attree. Page 89 Archive.Org 408.

• JOHN FENNER of Amberley, esq. Vol. 145, No. 15.
• Steyning, 26 Sept. 9 Eliz. Died 25 Dec. 9 Eliz.
• Heir, son Dudley Fenner, aged 6 (?).
• Lands. Was seized of manors of Fishbourne, Bonewikes, and Kumbalswike, but sold them before his death.

Full text: A Calendar of Post Mortem Inquisitions Relating to the County of Sussex, 1 ... By Great Britain. Court of Chancery. Page 41 - 43. GoogleBooks. Eleanor Fenner, widow, mentioned.

The manor of BONWICKS was held of Ifield in 1566. (fn. 52) A Walter of Bonwick owned land possibly in Ifield in the 13th century, (fn. 53) and a yardland, 46 a., and rents in Ifield were settled on John Bonwick in 1381-2. (fn. 54) The 110 a. of land together with rents in Ifield settled on Thomas Fenner in 1506-7 (fn. 55) may have been the same, since John Fenner died seised of Bonwicks c. 1513. John's estate, subject to the life interest of his daughter-in-law Anne, then the wife of Thomas Culpeper, descended to his grandson John, (fn. 56) presumably the John Fenner who died seised of Bonwicks manor, then first so called, and 320 a. in Ifield and Rusper in 1566, leaving as heir his son Dudley. (fn. 57) Thomas Gage was said to be lord in 1579. (fn. 58)

'Rumboldswyke', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1953), pp. 171-174. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol4/pp171-174 [accessed 3 October 2019].

In 1560 it was granted to John Fenner, (fn. 39) who died on Christmas Day 1566, leaving an infant son Dudley. (fn. 40) He had, however, already sold the manor to Richard Pype, leatherseller of London, (fn. 41) who in 1569 sold it to Francis Bowyer, alderman of London, and Elizabeth his wife, to whose son William it came on the death of Francis in 1581

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John Fenner In England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858. Name John Fenner Probate Date 7 Sep 1511. Residence Crawley, Sussex, England. AncestryImage

John Fenner of Crawley in Sussex, in the diocese of Chichester. Joan, Allice and Elizabeth the daughters of Thomas Fenner my son, lately deceased. John Fenner the elder and John Fenner the younger, sons of Thomas (both living at the time of the will). Anne Fenner the widow of Thomas. Richard her son. John Fenner the younger is 4 years old.

From Sussex Record Society

FENNER John 28 Dec 1566 Amberley Master of ? PR Par 3/1/1/1

From MyHeritage tree

Granted arms and crest:

Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum By British museum Page 85 Num. 1507 68. Grant of Arms & Crest unto John Fennor of the Manor of Benewcks in the County of Sussex Gentleman, by Thomas Hawley Clarenceulx. dat. 10 Nov. ann. 3 Nov 10 1556

References

• https://archive.org/details/sussexarchaeolog48suss/page/67
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lewgriffin/family/g0/p272.htm#i8696
• https://archive.org/details/notesofpostmorte00greauoft/page/88