1683 On 25 of month 9 (November), Editha Coat, daughter of Marmaduke Coat[e] was one of seventeen Quakers imprisoned for attending a Quaker meeting at Ilminster. [1]
1686 Edith Coate, daughter of Marmaduke Coate of Hambridge, Curry Revell, Somerset, and Hugh Plaice were married at Crewkorne?, on 6 of month 8. [2] [3]
1687 Hugh Plaice was present at the Ilchester monthly meeting on 27 of 11m 1686/87. [4]
1687 Marmaduke Coate's will was proved in 1687. However, registers of the Somerset Quaker Meeting show his death as April 11, 1689. He made bequests to sons Marmaduke and William; daughters Edith, Jane, Elizabeth, and Ann; and widow Edith, the execturice. [5] An abstract by Parks reports [6]:
Will of Marmaduke Coate of Curry Rivel, dated 1st day of September 1685. He gave legacies to his sons Marmaduke Coate and William and to his daughters, Edith, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, and Ann. The rest of his goods and chattels he gave to his wife Edith, who he made sole Executrix of his will. (One daughter named Hanna died in his lifetime). Will proven Taunton 1687.
1692 Hugh Plaice attended the quarterly Quaker meeting at Glastonbury, Somerset, England on 22th of the 10th mo [December]. [7]
1693 Edith Plaice and Elizabeth, wife of John Coate, were to inquire about the clearness of another member for marriage at the Northover monthly meeting on 27 of 2m, 1693. [8]
1693 Hugh Plaice attended the quarterly Quaker meeting at Ivelchester, Somerset, England on 28th of the 7th mo: [September], 1693. [9]
1694 Hugh Plaice attended the quarterly Quaker meeting at Ivelchester, Somerset, England on 27th of 7th mo: [September], 1694. [10]
1695 Hugh Plaice attended the quarterly Quaker meeting at Glastonbury, Somerset, England on 21th of 1st mo: [March], 1694/95. "A letter from our deare friend Wm Penn was read in this meeting." [11]
1695 Hugh Plaice attended the quarterly Quaker meeting at Ivelchester, Somerset, England on 26th of 7th mo: [September], 1695. [12]
1702 Edith Place of Hambridge was prosecuted in the Exchequer, at the Suit of the said Robert Banbury Impropriator. [13]
Research Notes:
1684 Edith Coate, beloved daughter of Marmaduke Coate, died while he was in prison. [14]
We have not reconciled the reported discrepancy in dates for Edith Coate, between her reported death in 1684 and her reported marriage to Hugh Plaice in 1686. [15]
[1] John Whiting, Persecution Exposed, in some Memoirs Relating to the Sufferings of John Whiting, Second edition (London: James Phillips, 1791), 205, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Piece RG6/1439: Monthly Meeting of South Somerset (to 1783), and Mid-Somerset (1657-1748), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 118, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[4] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 118, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[5] Edward Alexander Fry, ed., Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Court of the Archdeacon of Taunton (Parts I and II, wills only), 1537-1799 (London: British Record Society 45, 1912), 152, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 141-142, item 10, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[7] Stephen C. Morland, ed., "The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668-1699," Somerset Record Society 75 (1978), 223, [HathiTrust].
[8] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 120, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[9] Stephen C. Morland, ed., "The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668-1699," Somerset Record Society 75 (1978), 228, [HathiTrust].
[10] Stephen C. Morland, ed., "The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668-1699," Somerset Record Society 75 (1978), 233, [HathiTrust].
[11] Stephen C. Morland, ed., "The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668-1699," Somerset Record Society 75 (1978), 237, [HathiTrust].
[12] Stephen C. Morland, ed., "The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668-1699," Somerset Record Society 75 (1978), 239, [HathiTrust].
[13] Thomas Hayter, An examination of a book, lately printed by the Quakers; and by them distributed to the members of both houses of Parliament (1741), 107, [HathiTrust].
[14] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 29 (1856), No 35, 277, middle column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[15] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 33, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].