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1428-1429 A Nicholas Wyfold was a defendant in a plea concerning a tenement in All Hallows Honey Lane in London. "In 1428 William Caketon, citizen and vestment maker, brought a plea against the prioress of Haliwell (owner of 2) and Nicholas Wyfold, citizen and grocer, of nuisance in his tenement in All Hallows Honey Lane. In 1429 Caketon, with Sir John Preston, clerk, of Suffolk, John Aylewyn, citizen and bookbinder, of London, and John Justice of Tunstall (Suffolk) brought a similar plea against the same." [1]

1430 Nicholas Wyfold, citizen of London, and Alice his wife, 5 Kal. April (f. 313.) received an indult to have a portable altar (dated at SS. Apostoli, Rome). [2]

1433 December 4 "Berks. C. 1482. Demise by Thomas Chaucers, John Golafre, John Warfeld, and Thomas Berdesley, to Nicholas Wyfold, citizen and grocer of London, for 43 years, of three puddells of arable land called 'Botulphus Puddellez,' which William atte Lee lately farmed from Thomas de Stonore, esquire, deceased, in Hertley in the parish of Shenyngfeld, paying 20d. yearly (inter alia) to the manor of Berefeld, late belonging to John Drayton, knight. 4 December, 12 Henry VI. Seal." [3]

1442 Nicholas Wyfold, Castle Baynard, succeeded John Welles, Grocer, as an Alderman in London on 20 July. He was Alderman, Castle Baynard, 1442-51, Tower, 1451, and Cornhill, 1451-6. He was succeeded by Ralph Josselyn on 29 November 1456. [4] [5]

1443-1444 Nicholas Wyfold was Sheriff of London with John Norman under Mayor Thomas Catworth, grocer, in 22 Henry VI. [6].

c1445 Nicholas Wyfold married Katherine, widow of John Brokle, Draper, after 7 June 1445. (See 1449 court case below.) John Brokle died and was succeeded as Alderman, Walbrook, London, on 19 October 1444. [7]

1445-1450 Plaintiff "Harry Kent, draper, late servant to John Broklee, alderman of London" sued defendants "Nicholas Wyfolde and Katherine his wife, late the wife and executrix of said John, and William Tresham and others, her co-executors" concerning "wages for service." London, 1443-1450. [8] In another Chancery suit, plaintiff "John Gournay, esq.," sued defendants "John Runkton, husbandman, of Brockley, and Joan Crabbe, widow, of Bury," concerning a "conspiracy with Nicholas Wyfold, grocer, of London, to make a false claim to lands in Rede, Whepstead and Brockley, on pretence that the said Joan was heiress of John Broklay, draper, of London: (with writ of subpoena annexed): Suffolk. 1443-50." [9]

1448 "William Hogekyns citizen and grocer of London to master John Blodwell clerk and Nicholas Wyfold citizen and alderman of London, their executors and assigns. Gift of all his goods and chattels in London and elsewhere within the realm, and all debts to him due. Dated London, 1 October 1448, 27 Henry VI. Memorandum of acknowledgment, 8 November." [10]

1449 "Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/752, rot. 336. Term: Hilary 1449. County: London. Writ type: Debt (bond). Damages claimed: 20m. Case type: Bond. Pleading: Nicholas and Katherine Wyfold state that on 7 June 1445 Godard Pulham made bond with KW, when she was a single woman, in £42. GP satisfied KW of £20 of this debt, but has not paid the remaining £22, to their damage of 20m. They show the bond in court. Pleading: GP granted licence to imparl to quindene of Easter, with assent of plaintiffs." [11]

1450-1451 Nicholas Wyfold was Mayor of London. [12].

1449-1452 Nicholas Wyfold's wife Katherine died. Plaintiff Nicholas Wyfold, of London, sued defendant "Thomas Burgoyn, feoffee of John Brokley, alderman of London," concerning a "messuage, etc. in Chelmsford, sold by Katherine formerly the wife and executrix of the said John, and late the wife of petitioner, to John Roper and others." [13] The suit is addressed to Cardinal Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England, thus dating it to 31 January 1450-21 July 1452. [14]

1454 "Between 1422 and 1441 John Hore, esquire, of Childerley (Cambs.), Gilbert Hore his son, Thomas Pulter, parson of Hemingford Abbots (Hunts.), and Richard Argaston of London, fishmonger, granted tenements in All Hallows Honey Lane in Cheapside to Nicholas Wyfold, citizen and grocer, Master Reginald Kentwode, dean of St. Paul's, Robert James, esquire, and John Kentwode of Berkshire, gentleman. Wyfold survived the other grantees and in 1454 granted the tenements to William Chivaler, chaplain, who then granted them back to Wyfold, Thomas Billyng, sergeant at law, William Marwe, William Hulyn, Robert Gayton, and William Clover." [15]

1456 "Nicholas Wyfold died in 1456 ... Wyfold's heir was his daughter Isabel, who married John Nores and afterwards Sir Henry Marny, kt. (cr. Lord Marny 1523). The London properties appear to have been settled, by agreement, on Isabel's children by Sir Henry Marny. In 1503 John Marny, esquire, probably the elder son of Sir Henry by a previous marriage, and Robert Sympson, clerk, recovered certain properties in London, including 4 messuages in All Hallows Honey Lane, against Edmund Nores, son of John Nores and Isabel. The recovery was to the use of Thomas Marny, son of Sir Henry and Isabel, and his heirs, with remainders successively to Grace Marny, daughter of Sir Henry and Isabel, Edmund Nores, and Anne, wife of Edmund Suliard and daughter of John Nores and Isabel. John Marny and Robert Sympson granted the properties to Sir Henry Marny and Robert Badby, clerk, to hold for the former's life with remainders as above. In 1505 Edmund Nores quitclaimed in the property for Sir Henry Marny's life and to Thomas Marny and Grace Marny and their heirs." [16]

Research Notes:

Nicholas Wyfold purchased property in All Hallows Honey Lane. These properties descended to his daughter Isabel and subsequently to her descendants. [17]

Between 1422 and 1441 John Hore, esquire, of Childerley (Cambs.), Gilbert Hore his son, Thomas Pulter, parson of Hemingford Abbots (Hunts.), and Richard Argaston of London, fishmonger, granted tenements in All Hallows Honey Lane in Cheapside to Nicholas Wyfold, citizen and grocer, Master Reginald Kentwode, dean of St. Paul's, Robert James, esquire, and John Kentwode of Berkshire, gentleman. Wyfold survived the other grantees and in 1454 granted the tenements to William Chivaler, chaplain, who then granted them back to Wyfold, Thomas Billyng, sergeant at law, William Marwe, William Hulyn, Robert Gayton, and William Clover. (fn. 13)

Nicholas Wyfold died in 1456, and his widow married John Howard, duke of Norfolk (k. 1485); they apparently held the property for a time. Wyfold's heir was his daughter Isabel, who married John Nores and afterwards Sir Henry Marny, kt. (cr. Lord Marny 1523). The London properties appear to have been settled, by agreement, on Isabel's children by Sir Henry Marny. In 1503 John Marny, esquire, probably the elder son of Sir Henry by a previous marriage, and Robert Sympson, clerk, recovered certain properties in London, including 4 messuages in All Hallows Honey Lane, against Edmund Nores, son of John Nores and Isabel. The recovery was to the use of Thomas Marny, son of Sir Henry and Isabel, and his heirs, with remainders successively to Grace Marny, daughter of Sir Henry and Isabel, Edmund Nores, and Anne, wife of Edmund Suliard and daughter of John Nores and Isabel. John Marny and Robert Sympson granted the properties to Sir Henry Marny and Robert Badby, clerk, to hold for the former's life with remainders as above. In 1505 Edmund Nores quitclaimed in the property for Sir Henry Marny's life and to Thomas Marny and Grace Marny and their heirs. (fn. 14)

Thomas Marny died without heirs and on Sir Henry (now Lord) Marny's death in 1523 the properties passed to Grace, who married Sir Edmund Bedyngfeld, kt. In 1523 they demised a tenement in Cheapside in All Hallows Honey Lane, formerly in the tenure of Richard Rawson, to John Ellyot, citizen and draper, to hold for 12 years at £4 rent; in 1525 they demised another part of the property, described as a tenement with shop(s), solar(s), and cellar in Cheapside, to William Apps, citizen and leatherseller, for 20 years at £6 rent. Apps may already have been in occupation, as in 1522-4 he was assessed for subsidy in the parish. In 1527 a number of properties, including 6, which was described as 4 messuages, 4 shops, 3 cellars, and 3 gardens in the parish of All Hallows Honey Lane, were recovered by William Holgill, clerk, John Hales, baron of the Exchequer, and Edmund Holgill, by writ of right in the Husting against Sir Edmund Bedyngfeld and his wife Grace, who shortly afterwards quitclaimed in the same. The object of the recovery was to endow Henry VII's new hospital of the Savoy, of which William Holgill was the first master, with these properties. (fn. 15)

Footnotes:
13. HR 183(25-26); for Reginald Kentwood, dean 1422-41, see Fasti 1300-1541, St. Paul's, London, p. 6.
14. Beaven; PRO, SC6/Hen 8/2116; HR 231(20, 29). Cf. Complete Peerage, viii, p. 523, ix, p. 612; Burke's Extinct Peerages (s.n. Marney).
15. PRO, E179/251/156, f. 52v; HPL 177, m. 9; HR 240(8-9); VCH London i, 546-9.


Footnotes:

[1] D.J. Keene and Vanessa Harding, Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), 37-44, [URL].

[2] J. A. Twemlow, Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 8: 1427-1447 (1909), 179-191, [URL].

[3] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1890), 534, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[4] Alfred B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III.-1908 (London: Evan Fisher, 1908), 90, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[5] Alfred B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III.-1912 (London: Eden Fisher, 1913), 9, which also notes that Nicholas Wyfold was Auditor 1442-4: Master Grocers 1443-4, 1451-2. Died 1456; Will [P.C.C. 8 Stokton] dated June 22, 1456, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].

[6] Reginald R. Sharpe, ed., Calendar of Letter-Books of the City of London, Letter-Book F, 1337-1352 (London: John Edward Francis, 1904), 294, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[7] Alfred B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III.-1912 (London: Eden Fisher, 1913), 9, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].

[8] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/15/248, [UKNationalArchives].

[9] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/13/220, [UKNationalArchives].

[10] C.T. Flower, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. 5, 1447-1454 (London: HMSO, 1941, reprinted 1971), 102, [FHLBook].

[11] Jonathan Mackman and Matthew Stevens, Court of common pleas: The National Archives, CP40: 1399-1500 (2010), [URL].

[12] Reginald R. Sharpe, ed., Calendar of Letter-Books of the City of London, Letter-Book F, 1337-1352 (London: John Edward Francis, 1904), 294, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[13] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Chancery pleadings addressed to John [Kempe] Cardinal Archbishop of York as Lord Chancellor, C 1/19/109, [UKNationalArchives].

[14] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, C 1/19/109, [AALTImage].

[15] D.J. Keene and Vanessa Harding, Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), 37-44, citing HR 183(25-26), [URL].

[16] D.J. Keene and Vanessa Harding, Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), 37-44, citing Beaven; PRO, SC6/Hen 8/2116; HR 231(20, 29), [URL].

[17] D J Keene and Vanessa Harding, Historical Gazetteer of London Before the Great Fire Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary Le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (London, 1987), British History Online pp37-44#p20, [BritishHistoryOnline].