Thomas "the clerk" Coney

Following first the line of Thomas the town clerk, and that of his son John who succeeded him in his office, the parish record shows the baptism of the first child of Thomas and Mary (Hawkredd) Coney, which reads: "John, son of Thomas Coney, gent, baptised Nov. 28, 1619." The father held his town office from 1620 to 1647. Thompson says he died July 31, 1649. The register of St. Botolph's has this record: "John Conny and Ann Mitchell married by license 16 Jan. 1638." This was the John who succeeded his father as town clerk. He died not later than 1653.

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From Page 51 of English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, at the Period of the Reformation: As Exhibited in a List of the Goods Destroyed in Certain Lincolnshire Churches, A.d. 1566

The Coney family is said to be of French extraction. Bobert Conin came into this country in the train of Isabella, daughter of Philip V. of France, who married Edward II. 25 Jan. 1308. They were settled in South Lincolnshire in the fifteenth century. In 1792 Edmund Turnor, F.R.S., F.S.A., the historian of Grantham (died 19 March, 182S), communicated to the Society of Antiquaries a series of extracts from the household book of Thomas Coney, the son of Richard Coney of Basingthorpe, by his wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Ellis of Paunton. Both father and son were Calais merchants. This record of their property and expenses shows that they were also among the wealthiest of the Lincolnshire gentry. Thomas Coney married Alice, second daughter of Sir Thomas Legh, Kt., Lord Mayor of London, 1558, by whom he had numerous issue. His mercantile pursuits were not without trouble and hazard to him. He was made prisoner by the French at the taking of Calais in 1558, nor did his captors release him until the sum of 374/. had been paid. ost of the members of this family took the king's side in the war between Charles I. and his parliament. Thomas's grandson, Sir Button Coney of Basingthorpe, was fined, March 1648, in the sum of 2648Л for his own delinquency and that of his eldest son, William Coney: this latter person was soon engaged in new troubles, for we find, in 1652, his name among the long list of Cavaliers whose estates were forfeited for high treason. Another grandson of Thomas Coney, Sir William Coney of Staunton Parva, was one of the seventy-five gentlemen of this county who subscribed "horse furnished fit for warre" for the king's service in the of 1642. His quota was three horses. Richard Coney of Grantham, Gent., was one of the Parliamentarians indicted of high treason at Grantham, 1643. Some other members of this family seem to have taken the popular side.
Thomas Coney of Boston served the Parliament in a civil capacity aз collector of the subsidies for that borough in 1643. He had previously filled the office of town-clerk. His wife was Mary Cotton, sister of John Cotton, that noble Puritan, of a descent from whom the most illustrious families in New England are not unnaturally proud. Mary survived her husband ; she was buried at Boston 15 Jan. 1655.
Bassingthorpe Hall, the old home of the Coneys, was built about 1586; the north wing is yet standing in fair preservation, but degraded into a farmhouse. The badge of the family, a demi-lion holding a pansy flower, is carved on the building.

—Had. MS. 1550, f. 3 b. Archeeologia, v. ii. p 22. Gent. Mag., Nov. 1S52, p. 487. Simpson's Obituary Records, 297. Thompson, Hut. Boston, 83, 413. Commons' Jour. v. 7, 102. A Declar. of Commons in Pari, upon two Letters sent by Sir John Brooks to Sir Wm. Killegrew, 4to, 1643.

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