Richard Peacock (son of John Peacock) died date unknown.
Notes for Richard Peacock: Yardley Mill. Yardley mill stood on the river Tove in the northernmost corner of Potterspury parish, powered by a leat which left the river just inside Grafton Regis. In 1252 Ralph de Cheney purchased a moiety of a virgate of land and one mill in Yardley from Robert de Twyford and Rose his wife, (Footnote 53) and in 1259 Robert and Rose conveyed the other moiety to Hugh de Morse. (Footnote 54) An undated 13th-century charter records a grant by Muriel, late wife of Richard de Levendon, to Henry Bonde of Alderton and Alice his wife for their lives of all her right in the fourth part of a moiety of a water-mill in Yardley and a fourth part of the water-mill in East Pury, which Muriel's father Peter de Clerne had previously held. (Footnote 55) In 1353 the mill at Yardley was held by Thomas de Ferrers as parcel of his manor of Moor End, paying 30s. to the earl of Warwick, lord of the manor of Potterspury; it was said to be worth nothing beyond this. (Footnote 56) In 1376, however, John de Ipres, keeper of the castle at Moor End, was ordered, on the petition of the earl of Warwick, to pay rent to the earl for various premises which he had shown were within the bounds of his manor of Potterspury, including the water-mill at Yardley and two parcels of meadow adjoining, for which 30s. and a 1lb. of pepper was payable annually. (Footnote 57) The same rent (with no mention of the 1lb. of pepper) was payable by Jasper duke of Bedford in 1488. (Footnote 58) Similarly, in 1542 the mill was a free tenement of the manor of Potterspury, held for his life by Lord Parr for a yearly rent of 30s. and 1lb. of pepper, and was said to belong to the king's castle of Moor End. (Footnote 59) Robert Basse was the miller there in 1543; (Footnote 60) three years later the manor court ordered repairs to be carried out to the mill, for which timber was to be taken from various local woods. (Footnote 61) In about 1551 the mill, with half an acre of meadow, was leased to William Smith alias Kent for 21 years at 53s. 4d. a year, when it was once again described as parcel of the manor of Moor End, where Smith was lessee of the capital messuage. The lessee, who appears already to have been in possession in 1546, (Footnote 62) was to keep the premises in repair, finding all materials except millstones and great timber. (Footnote 63) In 1566 the mill was said to be ruinous because the Crown had failed to provide timber, and a new lease was granted, without an entry fine because of the decay, to Richard Peacock, who undertook to carry out repairs. The previous occupier was named as William Marriott, holding under a lease to Lady Parr. (Footnote 64) In 1568-9 William Panton was the miller. (Footnote 65) The mill was still in decay in 1582, when a new lease, this time for 30 years, was granted at the same rent to John Brafield, and the Crown once again covenanted that it would provide the necessary timber. (Footnote 66) In 1591, however, the jury complained to the manor court that the mill was still in great decay and that 15 trees were needed to repair the premises. Five years later a new lease for 30 years was granted, at the same rent, to William Goodson, with no fine and yet another promise by the tenant to carry out repairs. (Footnote 67) In the intervening period Brafield had transferred his interest to Anthony Allen of Yardley Gobion, miller, who had himself assigned to Roger Richardson (who was there in 1585), (Footnote 68) and he in turn to Goodson. (Footnote 69) The mill was granted in fee farm to Edward Ferrers and Francis Phelips in 1610 at a reserved rent of 53s. 4d. but by 1620 was in the hands of Sir Thomas Hesilrige of Noseley, who had also acquired the reversion of Potterspury mill, and whose attempts (and those of his grandson Thomas) to enforce suit of mill from local farmers have already been mentioned. (Footnote 70) The rent of 53s. 4d. was sold off in 1650. (Footnote 71)
From: 'Potterspury', A History of the County of Northamptonshire: Volume V: The Hundred of Cleley (2002), pp. 289-345. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22789&strquery=Rich ard%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005.
The manor of LAMBOURNE-AND-ABRIDGE, later known as ST. JOHNS, originated in an estate in the north and west of the parish acquired by the Knights Hospitallers from various donors in the 13th century and perhaps earlier. (Footnote 40) The estate remained in the hands of the Hospitallers until the Dissolution. In 1553 it was granted, as the 'manors' of Lambourne and Abridge, to Richard Morgan and Thomas Carpenter. (Footnote 41) Soon after this it was acquired by Robert Taverner, who died holding it in 1556. (Footnote 42) Thomas Taverner his son and heir was an infant and became a royal ward. In 1557 the manor was valued at £23 15s., and Elizabeth Taverner, widow of Robert, was granted dower in it. (Footnote 43) Thomas Taverner sold the manor in 1597-8 to Sir Robert Wroth, Kt. (Footnote 44) Sir Robert died in 1606 and was succeeded by his eldest son, another Sir Robert. (Footnote 45) In 1608 the manor was said to include 4 messuages, 2 gardens, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 80 acres of wood, and 8s. rent. (Footnote 46) Sir Robert Wroth the younger died in 1614. (Footnote 47) James, infant son of Sir Robert, died two years later and was succeeded by John Wroth his uncle. (Footnote 48) John Wroth still held the manor in 1621. (Footnote 49) He apparently sold it before September 1630, when Richard Peacock received the royal confirmation of all rights and privileges connected with the manor. (Footnote 50) Peacock died in 1634, leaving the manor to his son Edward. (Footnote 51) In 1641 Edward Peacock conveyed it to John Charles. (Footnote 52) This was probably a lease, for in 1645 Charles was occupying St. John's Wood, which was part of the manor. (Footnote 53) In 1647 Charles Peacock, John Charles, and others conveyed the manor to George Bagstar. (Footnote 54) In 1648 Bagstar sold St. John's farm, which formed the southern portion of the manor, to William Browne the younger of Abridge. (Footnote 55) The northern portion, together with the manorial rights, did not go to Browne but was sold by Bagstar in 1649 to Edward Palmer, owner of Dews Hall (see below). (Footnote 56) It subsequently descended along with that manor.
From: 'Lambourne: Manors', A History of the County of Essex: Volume IV: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 76-81. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15568&strquery=Rich ard%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005.
One Letter written by him to the Lord Chancellor, dated the 21st of June, 1620; and One other Letter, written by him to the Lord Chancellor, dated 19 July, 1620. The Examination of Ralph Merefill, Scrivener. The Examination of Tristram Woodward. Mr. Attorney General, in like Manner, read first the Brief of the Examinations taken by the Earl of South'ton, and the Lords joined with his Lordship; and then the Examinations: videlicet, The Examination of Sir Rowland Egerton, Knight. The Examination of the Lady Dorothee Wharton. The Examination of Richard Keeling. The Examination of Anthony Gardiner. The Examination of Sir Thomas Perient, Knight. The Examination of Sir Henry Elmes, Knight. The Examination of Sir Edward Fisher, Knight. The Examination of James Kennedy. The Examination of Peter Vanlor. The Examination of John Churchill. The Examination of Sir Ralph Hansby, Knight. The Examination of William Compton. The Examination of Robert Johnson, Alderman of London. The Examination of Samuel Jones. The Examination of Sir Thomas Midleton, Knight. The Examination of John Bunbury. The Examination of John Kellet. The Examination of Gabriel Sheriff. The Examination of Richard Scott. The Examination of John Childe. The Examination of Henry Ashton. The Examination of Thomas Hasellwood. The Examination of Ralph More. The Examination of Thomas Knight. The Examination of Robert Bell. The Examination of William Spight. The Examination of Richard Peacock. These Letters and Orders were also read: videlicet, One Letter, dated the 14th of March, dated 1618, written by the Lord Chancellor to the Company of Vintners. An Order made by the Lord Chancellor to relieve the English Merchants of Vintners, dated 20 April. Order of Reference by the Lord Chancellor to Sir Thomas Love, dated 9th of May, 1619. Another Letter of the Lord Chancellor to the Vintners, dated 9th of June, 1619. These Examinations being read, the Earl of South'ton signified, That Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, being to be examined in this Business of the Vintners, is sick of the Gout. His Lordship also declared, That his Lordship, and the Lords Committees joined with him, have heard a public Fame and Report, how that the Lord Chancellor, having ordered Matters in open Court, did afterwards alter and reverse the same Orders upon Petitions; that their Lordships, in the Time of this Cessation, being desirous to know the Truth thereof, sent for the Registers of the Chancery (who then were in the Country); and now, upon their Return, they have, upon Search, found out some such Orders, altered and reversed upon Petitions, and required a longer Time to search for more; and then the said Registers will give their Lordships more full Satisfaction therein. The which was generally approved of by the House. The Clerk read the Examinations taken here in open Court: In Causa Domini Cancellarii: videlicet, The Examination of John Hunt. The Examination of Edward Shereborne. The Examination of Sir George Renell. The Examination of William Peacock. The Examination of James Rolph. The Examination of Robert Barker. The Examination of Thomas Mewtas. It was Agreed, That, forasmuch as these Examinations were taken by Three several Committees, and some were taken here in the House, and the Examinations of the one spake of some of the same Things taken by the other; That the Three Committees do meet together (attended by the King's Counsel) to make One Brief of all these Examinations. Agreed also, That the Three Committees, in causa Domini Cancellarii, do continue to receive Complaints, and take Examinations, in the same Cause; and that their Lordships meet this Afternoon, in the Little Committee Chamber, after the Conference with the Commons.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 19 April 1621', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 3: 1620-1628 (1802), pp. 78-80. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=30295&strquery=Will iam%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005.
In the mid 1560s the vicar of St. Cyriac's, in 1561 resident and qualified to preach, was serving St. Mary's as sequestrator. His colleague there, a pluralist, was non-resident in 1561. (Footnote 62) Between 1567 and the 1590s St. Mary's was served by successive vicars, who in the 1570s did not always provide the required quarterly sermons, St. Cyriac's by the same curate as sequestrator. A new vicar was only named to it in 1592. (Footnote 63) Besides working on the sabbath and holy days (Footnote 64) and repeated absence from communion, (Footnote 65) the churchwardens had occasion to report quarrelling in church, (Footnote 66) gambling in service time, (Footnote 67) and slandering women's reputations. (Footnote 68) In the early 17th century some householders would not send their children to be catechized. (Footnote 69) In 1609 the parish clerk was accused of parodying the minister singing the litany during Reach fair, even to wearing his gown. (Footnote 70) In 1618 one vicar was not wearing his surplice at communion. (Footnote 71) Both vicars, who, having served since the early 1590s, were apparently still normally resident, (Footnote 72) quitted their livings in 1618. (Footnote 73) After a brief tenure of both livings by the same man, St. Mary's was mostly held until the 1630s by young clergymen starting their careers, including, 1625-9, the later dissenting divine Edmund Calamy. (Footnote 74) The young Laudian, Richard Peacock, named to St. Cyriac's in 1639, normally preached and catechized once each Sunday and found like-minded clergy to supply his absences. The local puritans, however, in 1644 accused him of disaffection to Parliament and calling its supporters Roundheads, and of strictly observing 'innovated' ceremonies. Peacock had insisted on the cross in baptism, read communion at the altar even after the rails were pulled down, and preached wearing his surplice. Although ejected in 1644, he reappeared in 1647 to disturb the payment of tithe to Jonathan Jephcott, (Footnote 75) vicar of St. Mary's since 1633 and a friend of the Rants, who had been named in 1645 to serve both parishes. The 'godly' Jephcott was allegedly invited back by his Swaffham parishioners after resigning because St. Mary's was poor. He joined the Cambridge Presbyterian classis in 1656 and served Swaffham diligently, preaching twice every Sunday, until 1660 when Peacock's temporary reinstatement made his income again inadequate. Jephcott was formally deprived in 1662. Although the union of the two benefices had been considered in 1657-8, (Footnote 76) separate incumbents were presented in 1662-3. (Footnote 77)
From: 'Swaffham Prior: Churches', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume X: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 294-301. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18882&strquery=Rich ard%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005.
Richard Peacock (d. date unknown)
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