Person:Nicholas Tufton (1)

Nicholas was named as a feoffee and executor in the 1506 PCC will of Thomas Hell of Northiam. He appears in some court cases in the early 1500s.^S3

1.   Pocock, Robert. Memorials of the family of Tufton, earls of Thanet: deduced from various sources of authentic information. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2003)
   [1] p. 10, 1800.
2. ↑ Will of Nicholas Tuston of Northiam, Sussex, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Probate Records, 1384-1858
   PROB 11/27/410.

   In his will, in Latin, (dated 2 Jan, 29 Henry VIII), Nicholas Tufton:
   -directs his body to be buried before the altar of St Nicholas in the church of the Blessed Mary in Northiam, and a stone with picture and writing to be placed over his tomb
   -leaves a number of religious bequests including one to the tomb of St Richard of Chichester
   -leaves 12 pence to each of his godchildren
   -leaves 20 marks to John Capellano for celebrating masses and other rites for his soul and the souls of: William, his father; Alice, his mother; John Hever and Marion his wife; Thomas Hell:; Thomas Cryour; John Buckland; and all the faithful dead.
   -leaves 20 shillings a year for life to his daughter Isabelle Cryour
   -leaves 20 shillings for the marriage of 6 poor girls of Northiam, chosen from his kin and one to be his servant Alice Peacock.
   -leaves 20 shillings 7 pence for the marriage of poor girls in Bello
   -leaves 10 shillings to other works of charity in Bello, according to the will of John Buckland
   -leaves 5 marks to the reparation of the church, library, vestry, and other needs in the parish of Northiam
   -leaves 10 shillings to Nicholas Cryour the son of John Cryour and to each of the sons and daughters of his daughters
   -leaves to Joan Erle, widow, 9 pence a week for the rest of her life
   -leaves more money for his burial, funeral rites, and rites on the anniversary of his death for 8 years
   -leaves [land?] to John Tufton, his son
   -leaves cattle and tools to Margaret, his wife
   -leaves 20 pounds to Richard Sharp and Alice his wife
   -leaves 20 pounds to Joan Haye and her daughters
   -leaves 18 pounds to Richard Ashhurst and Margaret his wife
   -leaves 10 pounds to Nicholas Cooke and Joan his wife for the celebration of their marriage
   -leaves Vysnor(?) between Northiam and Rye 20 pounds[?]
   -leaves to each of his servants 6 shillings 8 pence, except Alice Knight whom he leaves 3 shillings 4 pence, and John Clerk and Gregory Tufton whom he leaves 10 shillings each
   -leaves to Margaret Peacock, his goddaughter, 10 shillings
   -leaves Richard Sharp 5 marks a year from the collection of rents, farms, etc. in Kent and Sussex
   -leaves to Robert Wodde 13 shillings 6 pence per year from rents and farms in Rye, Gatebarow marsh(?), and Playden, and the supervision of his shops and stables/taverns
   Witnesses: John Cryfford, Henry Upton, John Pyper
   [Proved 20 Feb 1538]
   
   [from my (werebear’s) non-expert reading of the Latin original]

3.   Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916)
   3384 and 3386.

   22 Henry VII.
   
   3384. Nicholas Tu . . . . [and Thomas] White v. Mathew Idell and Alice his wife; a messuage, . . . ., 15 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 15 acres of pasture, 4 acres . . . ., 17½d. rent in Northyam; to Thomas [White], etc.
   
   3386. Nicholas Tufton, Thomas Cryour and John Tufton v. Humphrey Warner and Philippa his wife; a messuage, a garden, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 120 acres of wood, 20 acres of heath, 42 acres of marsh, 21s. 8d. rent in Rya, Pesemerssh, Udymer, Brede, Playden and Iden; to Nicholas, etc.

4. ↑ Attree, F. W. T. Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex: 1 Henry VII to 1649 and after, [1485-1649]. (London: Sussex Record Society, 1912)
   p. 228.

   Nicholas Tufton, esq. Vol. 61, No. 22.
   Horsham, 27 Dec. 31 Hen. VIII. Died 30 Dec. last.
   Heir, son John T., aged 19 years 4 months and more at Inq.
   Lands.-- Messuages and lands in ...and Ewhurst, Bodyham, Monthfeld, Sedlescombe, Ore,..., Ferligght, Beckley, .... etc., and of fee and lordship of "Velde" and "Burcetto" in Peasmarsh, messuages and land and half a windmill in Playden .... land in Vdymer, messuage, gardens and land, also salt marsh in Rye. On 26 Sept. 30 Hen. VIII. enfeoffed trustees to use of himself for life and after for John T., son of N.T., and his heirs male, remainder to use of Alice Sharpe, .... Joan Barowe, Anne Meller, Agnes Denne and Joan Cooke, daughters of said N.T., and their heirs, with exception of tenement called "Nepsums" in Ferlyght, a tenement in Ore, and one other tenement, which to Nicholas Cryour, son of Isabel Cryour, and his heirs male, remainder to aforesaid Alice Sharpe, Joan Haye, Margaret Assehurst, Joan Barowe, Anne Meller, Agnes Denne and Joan Cooke, paying Isabel (Cryour) £3 a year for life. Land and tenements in Northiam and Ewhurst.

5.   Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916)
   3335.

   14 Henry VII.
   3335. John Tufton, Nicholas Tufton, John Sharp and John Cryfford v. William Broke and Joan his wife; a messuage, 2 gardens, 50 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood in Bekley; to John Tufton, etc.; William and Joan and heirs of Joan to warrant against George, Abbot of Westminster, and his successors.

6.   Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916)
   3354.

   17 Henry VII.
   3354. Nicholas Tufton, Thomas Hill, Thomas Frencham, Thomas Whyte and John Bechefeld v. Laurence Steuyn and Margaret his wife; 40 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood in Pesemershe; to Nicholas, etc.

7. ↑ Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-)
   Volume 9, page 160.
8. ↑ Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-)
   Volume 9, pages 275 and 276.

   "Another brass on the nave floor, with effigy and inscription, is to Nicholas Tufton, who died in 1538. The effigy is of a civilian in fur-lined gown, lappets, and sabbatons."

9. ↑ Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta vetusta: being illustrations from wills, of manners, customs, &c. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families, from the reign of Henry the Second to the accession of Queen Elizabeth. (London: Nichols, 1826)
   page 679.

   An abstract is given here.

10.   Hovenden, Robert, and John Philipot. The visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, marshall and deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. (London: [Harleian Society], 1898)
    p. 118.
11.   Brydges, Egerton. Collins's peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. (London: [T. Bensley], 1812)
    3:438-439.