Person:Richard Campe (2)

Richard Campe of Snowes not the be confused with Richard Campe of Homo.

1.   Robert Battle, Magdalen (Hall) Camp Was Not the Grandmother of William1 Curtis and Mary1 (Curtis) Ruggles of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   173: 119+, 2019.

   Two Richard Camps buried in Nazeing within a year of each other — Richard Camp “Snowes” on 17 August 1584 and Richard Camp “Homo” on 30 July 1585. The second of these was the husband of Magdalen Hall; he made a will dated 28 July and proved 18 September 1585:
   
   “I Richard Camp of Nasing”; names sons Robert, William, Francis, and Richard,[6] daughter Elizabeth Camp, “Mr. Thomas Hall of Nasing my wyves uncle & Mr. Robert Hall of Claverinbury my wives brother”, and wife Magdalen (she to be executrix); signed by mark; witnesses Mr. Willm Hall, Andrew Richardes, Geordg Wren, and John Hopkyns (scribe); proved by Magdalene, widow and executrix.
   
   The Richard Camp of Snowes who was buried in 1584 was the husband of Elizabeth _____. His will was dated 17 August 1583 and proved 31 September 1584:[7]
   
   “Rychard Campe of Snowes in the p[ar]ishe of Nasyng . . . yeoman”; names daughters Mary and Elizabeth Campe; wife Elizabeth to be executrix; witnesses Roberte Hall gentleman, John Bannyster and Wyllm Curtes yeomen, and John Hopkyns minister; proved by Elizabeth, widow and executrix.
   
   This Thomas Camp’s will was dated 1 January and proved 1 February 1591/2:[10]
   
   “I Thomas Campe of Snowes yeoman in the Parrishe of Nasinge”; names daughter Rose, sons Thomas, Richard, and George, child wife possibly pregnant with, brother Robert, and mother Elizabeth Campe; executrix wife Elizabeth Campe; overseers brother Thomas Curtis and cousin George Campe; witnesses Edward Baker minister, Jeames Campe, William Hall, Thomas Curtes, and Thomas Camp

2.   Rychard Campe probate 17 Aug 1584, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department. Pre-1858 English probate jurisdictions, London. (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Department, c1977).

   In the name of God Amen / The Xvij day of August in the year of
   our Lord god a thousand fyve hunderth LXXXiiij [17 Aug 1584] and in the XXvjth
   yere of the reign of our sovraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of
   god of England France and Ireland Quene defender of the faith
   etc Richard Campe of Snowes in the pish [parish] of Nasyng in the
   countye of Essex yeoman being of hole mind and perfycte
   Memorye made and declared his Last Will and Testament
   nuncupatyve in manner and forme following / (that is to say)
   Fyrst he bequeathed his soule to Almightye god and
   his body to be buryed in Chrystian buryall / Item he
   gave and bequeathed to eyther of Mary and Elizabeth
   Campe his doughters Twentye poundes of Lawfull
   money of England to be payed to them out of his
   Landes att their severall dayes of their Maryages /
   Item he made and ordeyned Elizabeth his wyfe his
   sole executrix of his said Last Will and Testament /
   Wytnesses hereof Robert Hall gentleman John Banyster
   and Wyllim Curtes yeoman and John Hopkyns minister there”
   Probated 8 Sep 1584 [Elizabeth his relicte]

3.   Elizabeth his relict probate 12 May 1607: This will is indexed incorrectly as ‘Jacob’ Campe, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department. Pre-1858 English probate jurisdictions, London. (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Department, c1977).

   Elizabeth Campe, wife of Richard Campe, died 1607
   Written 18 March 1605. [Though torn at the right side it seems likely that the will was written in the 2nd year of James I as King of England and the 38th year as King of Scotland.]
   In the Name of God Amen. The xviijth day of March An[torn]
   raigne of our souveraigne Lord James by the grace of God [torn]
   the second and of Scotland the eight and thirteth Defender [torn]
   of Nasinge in the countie of Essex widow being in good [torn]
   my lord god yet waying wth my selfe the frayltye of my life [torn]
   growing upon mee; and to set all things at quiet, as touching my [torn]
   his great mercy hath lent mee wherby noe troble might arise after [torn]
   make this my last will and testament renouncing and revoking herby [torn]
   mee made or [illegible] by writing or by word, ffirst and principallie I bequeath[torn]
   almightie god most stedfastly believing by the most precious death & bloodshed [torn]
   Christe to have free remission of all my sinnes and therby to be saved and my body [torn]
   earthe as earthly to be buryed in the parish church of Nasinge aforesaid according [torn]
   of my executors here undernamed And as touching my lands I doe will and bequeath [torn]
   my sonne Francis Campe to have & to hold to him & to his assignes [insert illegible] during his natural life & after his disease [illegible] [torn]
   of land in Parndon in the said countie of Essex be it more or lesse wth the appurtenances [torn]
   the same lands wth the appurtenances unto his
   two daughters Mary Campe and Jane Campe and to their heirs and assignes for ever [torn]
   allwaies and my mind and will is that if it shall happen ether of them to die before [torn]
   accomplish her full age of twentie and one yeres that then the said lands shall descend [torn]
   survivor of them and to her heires and assignes for ever. Item I doe will and bequeath [torn]
   poore people of Nasinge aforesaid twentie shillings of lawfull English monie to be distributed [torn]
   amongst them on the day of my burial/ Item I will and bequeath unto my honest neighbor [torn]
   parishoners of Nasinge to be bestowed in a dinner amongst them ye somme of twentie shillings [torn]
   life money, Item I doe give and bequeathe unto my sonne Willyam Campe the chest that doth [torn—lie?]
   at my beds feete and also one paire of flaxen sheetes. Item I doe give and bequeath to the [torn]
   children of my sonne Thomas Campe being foure sonnes and one daughter three shillings and
   foure pence a piece of like lawfull money of England Item I give and bequeath to Rose Campe [torn]
   one brass pott Item I give and bequeath to the foure children of my sonne Curtis being one
   one sonne and three daughters three thillings and fource pence a piece of like lawfull money
   Item I doe give and bequeath towards the reparacons of the parish church of Nasinge aforesaid
   six shillings and eight pence of lawfull English money. The residue of all my goods cattels chattels
   and money whatsoever my debts being paied legacies performed, and funerals dischared I will
   and bequeath unto my two sonnes ffrancis Campe and Henry Campe whom I doe ordaine and make
   executors of this my last will and testament I doe desire them that they will duely and trewly p’forme
   this my last will and testament in all poynts according to my expresse meaning and I do nom=
   nate and appointe my lovings ffriends George Ducket and Nicholas Campe overseers of this my last
   will and testament, desiring them as my trust and confidence is in them (for soe much as in
   them lyeth to see this my said will in all points performed as aforesaid And I doe give & bequeath
   unto my said overseers as a taken of my good will for there pains and care to be taken therein
   six shillings and eight pence a piece of like lawfull money of England In witness whereof hereunto
   I have set my hand and seale in the p’sence of these whose names are underwritten. The marke
   of Elizabeth Cample Sealed and delivered in the presence of those p’sons under
   written as hir laste will & testament Anthony Millington the marke of
   George Holmes, William Harris, George Sawells marke./
   Probate 12 May 1607 by Francis Campe