Sir John Hill, Lord of Spaxton, Judge of the King's Bench

• The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
• Pg. 223 CHART
• Denyse, or Dionisia (3rd husband), dau. of John Durborough (? Sir J. D., of Heathfield, near Taunton, who d. 16 Ed. III.). She mar. (1) Martin Langdon; (2) Robert Challons, of Challonsleigh, Devon (son - Ralph); d. before 1392 = SIR JOHN HILL (or HULLE), knight, of Hill's Court, St. Sidwell's Exeter. Probably of a Somersetshire family. (? Recorder of Exeter, 1379); King's Serjeant, 1382; Justice of King's Bench, 1389. Had a grant of Houndstone, near Yeovil; ? June 24 1408., and was bur. in St. John Baptist's Priory, Exeter, where his two wives were also bur. = Maud, or Matilda (2nd husband), dau. of Sir Giles Daubeny (d. c. 1386), of Barrington, Somerset. She mar. (1) Sir Hy. Percehay, of Chalsfield, Wilts, Baron of Exchequer, Etc. (d. c. 1380); and (3) Sir Robert Latymer, of Duntish, in Dorset; she d. April 21, 1416.
  • CHILDREN of Dionisa Durborough & John Hill
  • (Joan (marriage settlement dated 5 Rich. II.). = Sir John Mallet, of Enmore, Somerset.)
  • ((? Henry, Maurice, etc.))
  • Robert, of Spaxton; Sheriff of Somerset; d. April 25, 1423. = Isabella (b. 1383; living 1416). dau. and heir of Sir Thos. Fychet, of Spaxton, near Bridgewater, and Ricarda his wife, heir of families of Ingpen, Cobham, and De Halton; holding great estates in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and manor of Westcote in Inkpen.
  • CHILDREN of Maud Daubeny & John Hill
  • John, d. s.p. Oct. 23, 1427.
  • Ralph, of Hound stone (? d. 15 Ed.VI.). = Edith Mode (? Moody), of Glo'ster.
  • Elizabeth, nun at Buckland Minchin, Somerset.
  • Margaret.
• Pg. 222 Short Notes and Correspondence.
• HILL OF SPAXTON.
• Since the notes on this family were published in the Antiquary of June last, they have been found to need correction in various ways, and the annexted tabular pedigree may be of interest as being more exact, it is believed, than previous attempts. It is founded mainly an that printed in Nichols' Collectanea (i. 409) from one compiled about 1530, and on those in Sir J. Maclean's Trigg Minor (i. 42), and Lieutenant Colonel Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall (p. 227).* The chief blemish of the two latter is the identification of Robert Hill, of Spaxton (not Spraxton) with his contemporary namesake Sir Robert Hill, of Shilston, as Judge of the Common Pleas, and last husband of Joan, the daughter and heir of Sir Otto de Bodrugan. This mistake was made by Foss in his Lives of the Judges, and has thus crept into the Dictionary of National Biography; so that it is well to point out (1) that Robert Hill, of Spaxton, died "on Sunday, on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist," in the first year of Henry VI., i.e., on April 25, 1423, while his namesake, the judge, was acting in 1425; and (2) that Isabell Hill (Fychet) was married to Robert Hill in 1396, and was still living in 1416, being mentioned in Dame Latymer's will, while Joan de Bodrugan had married the other Robert Hill before 1408, and died about 1428.
• The property of John Hill, of Spaxton, was, according to Sir J. Maclean, divided among the four heirs in 1529. The Waldegraves seem to have received the bulk of the Somerset property, and the Cloptons that in Devonshire and Cornwall. William Clopton, however, sold his share, and thus (about 1562) the Rouses, of Devonshire, had possession of Halton and Dittesham; the last of the Clopton family at Liston seems to have been Dr. Poley Clopton, who died in 1730. Robert Hussey, of Sleaford, was the second (or third) son of Sir William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench; Thomas Hussey left a daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married Thomas Stidolph, of Mickleham in Surrey, and their son, Sir Francis, was a man of some note in the first half of the seventeenth century (Manning's Surrey, ii., 651). George Babington, who married Helen Ellis, seems to have been the second son of Sir Anthony Babington, of Dethick, by his second wife (Katharine Ferrers); if this be so, he must afterwards have married Anne Constable, who on his death, became the second wife of Sir Anthony Thorold. George Babington left no children. . . . . .
• (1) William Hill (d. 1450-1510). probably a grandson of Robert Hill, of Spaxton, settled at Taunton. He married Eleanor ___, and was succeeded by his son,
  • (2) Roger Hill, of Taunton, who married Margery ___, .... etc.

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Sir John Hill Birth 1338 Death 24 Jun 1408 (aged 69\'9670) Burial St John the Baptist Priory Exeter, City of Exeter, Devon, England Memorial ID 120994516

King's Sergeant, and Justice of the King's Bench. His chief residence was at Hill's Court in Saint Sidwell's, Exeter, although he also had a grant of Houndstone near Yeovil.

Family Members Spouses

Denise Durburgh Hill unknown\'961387

Maud Daubeney Latimer unknown\'961416 Children

Robert Hill 1361\'961423

"Sir John Hill (died 1408) of Kytton in the parish of Holcombe Rogus, and of Hill's Court in the parish of St Sidwell in the City of Exeter, both in Devon, was a Justice of the King's Bench from 1389 to 1408. He sat in Parliament for a number of Devon boroughs between 1360 and 1380.
Hill's Court, Exeter
Hill's Court was in the parish of St Sidwell in the City of Exeter, in Devon. In 1811, a Thomas Johnson died at "Hill's Court, near Exeter", as reported by the "Monthly Magazine" (Vol.31) In 1822, Daniel and Samuel Lysons reported there being no surviving remains of the ancient mansion, and the site, on which several houses had been built, was by then the property of a John Newcombe."
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Sir John Hill
Birth 1338
Death 24 Jun 1408 (aged 69'9670)
Burial
St John the Baptist Priory
Exeter, City of Exeter, Devon, England
Memorial ID 120994516

King's Sergeant, and Justice of the King's Bench. His chief residence was at Hill's Court in Saint Sidwell's, Exeter, although he also had a grant of Houndstone near Yeovil.

Family Members
Spouses

Denise Durburgh Hill
unknown'961387

Maud Daubeney Latimer
unknown'961416
Children

Robert Hill
1361'961423