1441 Henry VIII. granted Richard Stoughton the reversion of the office of the clerk of the Great Wardrobe on November 28. [1]
68. Ric. Stoughton. Reversion of the office of clerk of the Great Wardrobe, now held by Laurence Gower. On surrender of pat. 30 July 15 Hen. VIII. granting the same reversion to Roger More. Westm. Palace, 26 Dec. (sic) 33 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm. 28 Nov. 'ao R.R. H. VIII.' — [Footnote: The year is omitted.] —P.S. Pat. 33 Hen. VIII., p. 9, m. 34.
1554 April 18. "The first survey [of Kennington Manor] is dated 18th April, 1554. [Footnote: P.R.O., E/36/168.] It lists only four freeholders: Mary Coo, widow, holding a tenement occupied by James Ambley, gentleman, and another tenement and cottage, at the yearly rent of a pound ofcinnamon; Ralphe Ode, holding several tenements lately held by Roger Leigh; Richard Stoughton, gentleman, holding a tenement occupied by Mary Coo, with a curtilage and half an acre of ground, lately held by John Parker, valet to the King's Wardrobe; and Thomas Pouley, of London, fishmonger, holding ten scattered tenements in Lambeth Marsh. Most of the copyhold land is described as meadow, pasture or garden ground." [2]
1555 "Richarde Stoughton of the Parishe of Sainte Andrewes nexte Brainarde Castell in London," wrote his will on 4 December 1555. The probate date was 16 Dec 1555. [3] [4]
[1] James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII., Vol. 16 (London: HMSO, 1898, reprinted by Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1965), 644, [HathiTrust].
[2] Survey of London: Vol. 23: Lambeth: South Bank and Vauxhall (1951), 9, [GoogleBooks].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/37/209, Will of Richarde Stoughton, Gentleman of Saint Andrew next Baynards Castle, City of London, [UKNationalArchives].
[4] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, Piece 37: More (1554-1556), [AncestryImage].