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ID: I27273 Name: JOHN NORRIS Suffix: , OF ST DECUMANS, SOMERS; GENT. 1 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1585 in ST DECUMANS, SOMERSETSHIRE Death: BEF 25 JUL 1650 in ST DECUMANS, SOMERSETSHIRE Note: 2 1 3 4 1 5
JOHN NORRIS, of St Decumans, Somerset, 2nd son, & heir to his brother Anno 1623.
NORRIS, of Winkleigh in Devon, and Splate and St. Decumans in Somersetshire.?Arms.?Sable, a cross-florette between twelve billets, a bordure argent.
John Norris, of Gibhouse in Winkleigh, esq., married and had issue John, William. John Norris, of Splate in Somersetshire, married a daughter and heir of Gallantine, and had issue Hugh; who married a daughter of Clark, of Wells in Somerset, and had issue Thomas sans issue, and John of St. Decumans in Somerset.
William Norris, of Milverton in Somerset, (second son of John of Winkleigh,) married and had issue John, Richard, and Silvester. John married Mary, daughter of Anthony Appletree, of Deddington in Oxfordshire, esq., and had issue Anthony, John, and Silvester. Anthony married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fursdon, of Raddon in Thorverton.
About 1190 Simon Brett gave the church of St. Decuman as a prebend in Wells cathedral. The PREBEND or PARSONAGE was farmed by 1434, the first known lessees being the vicar of Carhampton and William Everard of Aller in Carhampton. William Bowerman was farmer in 1577, probably in succession to two members of the Clark family. By 1586 it was let to Hugh Norris, the first of several generations of his family to occupy the estate until 1676, when the lease was assigned to Sir William Wyndham. Thereafter successive members of the Wyndham family or their trustees held it on lease from the prebendaries until 1858 and the Wyndham trustees bought it from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1862.
Hugh Hill v. Hugh and Johan Norris, temp. Eliz. 'Splott' (a tenement) and lands in Westmuncton. (Ibid. ii. 84.) [NOTE: The Manor of ?Splate? referred to in Westcote appears to be the tenement named Splott in West Monkton, Somerset. No Splate Manor in St Decumans owned by the Norris family has been found to date (2013).]
JOHN NORRIS, of S' Decumans, Somerset, esq. Will dated June 17, 1646, proved July 25, 1650, by Dorothy Norris. [117 Pembroke.] Poor of S' Decumans, 40/. The Parsonage of S' Decumans secured to my son Thomas Norris for his portion & his wife's jointure. My son Ames Norris, ^25 yearly. My daughter Ann Pawlett, £20 yearly. Her three children, Robert, Thomas, & Alice. My daughters Dorothy & Elisabeth Norris. My lands in Bridgwater. My son John Norris has by grant of Letters Patent, the Office of Customer & Collector of the Ports of Bridgwater & Minehead, for my use & benefit. Robert Pawlett, late husband of my daughter Ann Pawlett. My three daughters Dorothy, Elisabeth, & Joan, Exlxes, my goods, &c., among them. C0dicil, Apr. 14, 1650. Thomas Norris, of Hill Bishops, Somerset, gent., standeth bound to John Norris, his father, of S' Decumans, esq., in a bond of ^1,200, for the payment of £100 yearly for 16 years, after the death of John Norris, to his Exors.
The said John Norris married 1st. Elisabeth .... buried at St. Decumans, March 13th, 1607-8. 2ndly. at St. Decumans, July 6th, 1609, Joan, daughter of William Lewes. 3rdly. Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Phelips, of Barrington, and widow of Arthur Farewell, buried at St. Decumans, July 27th, 1629.