HUMPHREY COLE OF TILLINGHAM
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Humphrey Cole (Vicar of Tillingham, Essex) c1553-1624
m1 Mary Mott; (sister of Richard Mott of "Allens", Dengie, Essex yeoman)
m2 Hester -----; [? m2 William Nicholson clerk] [NOTE: William Nicholson clerk and
his wife Hester and John George presented Robert Cole to Great Oakley in 1629]
i 27 Mar 1624 Tillingham, Essex; M.I. [below]; Will (St Paul's) 4 Nov 1623/17 May 1624 [see below]
(as Humphrey Coles, Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 1568.9 [FOSTER]
(B.A.) 28 Jan 1573.4
(Fellow) 1574
(Rector, Stepney, Middx) 16 Oct 1579-1593
- (presented by Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth 1525-1584 [CP])
- (as B.A., appointed) 16 Oct 1579 [NREPL] [CCEd]
(Rector, London St Mary le Bow) 8 Dec 1584-1588
- (collated) 8 Dec 1584 [CCEd]
(Vicar, Tillingham, Essex) 1588-d
(executor to the will of John Debanke (Rector of Bradwell-near-the-Sea, Essex) 1602
(purchased the advowson of Great Oakley, Essex) 1614 OR 1615
chn: Martha Cole b c1594; m1 c1614 James Walker (Rector of Great Oakley, Essex)
c1580-1618; (and had chn: John); m2 Michaiah Wood (Rector of Great Oakley,
Essex) c1586-?1628; m3 ----- Hunt; [? d 14 Dec 1638] [for her first two
husbands see below]
William Cole [1] b c1597; "now in Virginia (if he be living)" 1623
Thomas Cole [2] b c1602; [? m Rebecca -----; d Jan 1641; (of Bradwell-by-
Sea/Bradwell-near-the-Sea, Essex)]
Robert Cole [3] b c1603; m ----- -----; (and had chn: Humphrey b c1626, Henry
b c1644); (Rector of Little Oakley, Essex) 1629-42; (Rector/Minister, Great
Oakley, Essex) 3 Nov 1629-p1650 [see below]
John Cole [4] [? Will of Great Oakley, husbandman (Essex) 1627] OR [? m -----
-------; (and had 2 chn); i 16 Jul 1646 Tillingham]
-dau- Cole m John George of Writtle, Essex, yeoman ....-1638
[NOTE: ***Easily confused with Humphrey Cole b c1573 Ipswich, Suffolk; (educated at Ipswich); (admitted pensioner at Caius, Cambridge) 14 Apr 1589 [VENN]; (B.A., Pembroke, Cambridge) 1593.4; (M.A.) 1598]
[NOTE: A namesake Humphrey Cole b c1625 was son of William Cole of London and Elizabeth Deards dau of Nathaniel Deards of London silkman]
[NOTE A namesake was (Rector, Kirkheaton, Yorks WR; - (presented by the Crown); - (instituted) 28 Jun 1588 [CCEd]]
(27 Feb 1601) (PCC) 27 Feb 43 Elizabeth [1600.1] ... Richarde Mott of Denge in the county of Essex yoman ... daughter Mary Motte [£100] ... sonne Richard Motte ... tenement and coppiehoulde lande lieing in denge called Allens ... [if children die land to be sold and] ... equally distributed between the children of Margarett my wife and of my brother in lawe Humfrey Cole vicar of Tillingham ... by my sister Mary ... brother Henry Motte ... my wyves two children Edward King and Margarett ...
HUMFRIE COLE of Tillingham, Essex, Clarke, Will 4 November 1623: proved 17 May 1624. To be buried in Chancell of Tillingham. To poore of Tillingham fower marks to be distributed by Overseers of the Poore. To sonne Robert Cole, student of Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge, towardes his bringeinge up in learninge all bookes, my wearing apparell both Linen and woollen, with sex yardes of broad cloth upwardes wch I bought of Mr. Purchase of Mauldon to make myselfe newe clothes together with five yardes of blacke Kersey a halfe wch I bought of a Widdowe at Malden to make myself a newe suite. Also to Robert all Corne in house and hay in fieldes except two quarters each of Corne, barley, or mault, and oates for my beloved wife Hester Cole for housekeeping and Executor or Executrix and Overseers to sell advowson of Rectorie or Parsonage of Okeley magna, Essex, and money to sons etc., also to sell (with consent of wife Hester two whom they are given for life) my free lands in Tillingham commonly called Hodgewattes, lately in tenure of John Bridge of Tillingham, husbandman, and the use of £80 to wife Hester for life and rest of money and £80 when due to my sonns William, Thomas, Robert, and John. "Item I do give unto William Cole now in Virginia (if he be living) my three acres of free hold more or lease with a new barne built upon it called sewders head in Tillingham & next adioyninge to a Cottage & two acres of Coppihould land called Finches & Doth belonge unto his brother Robert Cole. And if my said sonne William be not livinge at the time of my Death then I give & bequeath the same land to my second sonne Thomas Cole & his Heires forever." My plate, household stuffe [? words missing] & wch wife Hester shall enioye for life by deed made by me to Sir John Sames, Knight, and Mr. Blunt, Gentlemen, and the other goodes to be divided to my sons at her death and my Keyne, horses, Sheep, lambes, Swine and debts due to be impioyed for payment of my debts and except one spaid Mare colte of two yeares to wife Hester, Executrix: wife Hester Cole. If she refuse then son Thomas Cole, Overseers: my two sonnes in law Michaiah Wood, Person of much Okeley, and John George of Writtle, Essex, yeoman, giving to same Wood my clocke that hangeth in the Vikaredge Hall and to same John George three yeare ould coalt to be sent to his house. Witnesses: John Traske, John Moody. Dean and Chapter of St. Paul, Register D (1608-1633), folio 233. [VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND 299-300]
[said to be aged 77] Hic jacet Humfredus Carbo Carbone notandus / Non Nigro, Creta sed meliore tua / Claruit in Clero nulli Pietate secundus / Coelum vi rapuit, Vi cape si poteris ... [Here lies Humphrey "Coale" Coale by name / not black: ..... ???]
When the four 'appraisers' listed the 'goods Chattle Cattle manye napery utensells and houshold stuffe' of John George of Writtle in Essex in 1638 they found in his hall two tables, a form and ten stools, eight chairs, a clothes press, cushions ... [INTERNET]
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William Nicolson c1565-1640
b c1565 Kent
d a16 May 1640; Will (PCC) 1640
(matriculated pensioner from Queens, Cambridge) Michs 1581 [VENN]
(B.A.) 1585.6
(M.A.) 1589
(Fellow) 1588-97.
(ordained priest by Peterborough) 27 Jul 1589
(Rector, Ashen, Essex) 1607-16
(presented by the Crown)
(as M.A., instituted) 30 Oct 1607
- (resigned) a16 May 1616
(Vicar, Little Wigborough, Essex) Apr 1613
- (presented by Sir John Cotton of Landwade, Cambs Knight)
- (instituted) Apr 1613
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James Walker (Rector of Great Oakley, Essex) c1580-1618
m c1614 Martha Cole dau of Humphrey Cole
d aged 35[but ?] 30 Jan 1617.8; Will (Essex Consistory Court) 1618
(admitted pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 3 Mar 1596.7 [VENN]
(B.A.) 1600.1
(M.A.) 1604
(ordained deacon and priest) 26 Apr 1611
(Rector, Woodham Mortimer, Essex) 1611-3
- (instituted) 20 Apr 1611
(Rector, Great Oakley, Essex) 19 Jun 1613-d
- (instituted) 19 Jun 1613
chn: John Walker
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Michaiah Wood (Rector of Great Oakley, Essex) c1586-?1628
m Martha Cole dau of Humphrey Cole
Will (Essex Consistory Court) 1628
(as impubes, matriculated sizar from King's College, Cambridge) Michs 1602 [VENN]
(B.A.) 1606.7
(M.A.) 1610
(ordained deacon by Lincoln)
(ordained priest by London) 18 Dec 1614
(Stipendiary Curate, Hadham, Herts)
(B.D.) 1617
(Rector, Great Oakley, Essex) 1617-d
- (presented by Humphrey Cole and John George)
- (as B.D., instituted) 6 Mar 1618.9
- (replaced in office) 22 Mar 1628.9
Will (Essex Consistory Court) 1628. Wife, Martha; eldest brother Robert Wood of Harlow, Essex. His widow as Martha Hunt is mentioned in the will of John Laighton. Testator had a godson John son of James Walker the Rector. Miciah Wood was son in law of Humfrey Cole patron of the living.
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Robert Cole (Rector of Great Oakley, Essex) c1603-....
m ----- -----
(admitted pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 10 Oct 1620 [VENN, who
misidentifies his father]
(matriculated) 1620
(B.A.) 1623.4
(M.A.) 1627
(Rector, Little Oakley, Essex) 3 Nov 1629-a16 Mar 1641.2
- (presented by Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers ....-1640 [CP])
- (instituted) 3 Nov 1629
- (resigned) a16 Mar 1641.2
(Rector/Minister, Great Oakley, Essex) 3 Nov 1629-p1650
- (presented by William Nicholson clerk, his wife Hester and John George)
- (instituted) 22 Mar 1628.9
- (Faculty Office grant) 26 Oct 1629
- (in office) 1650
[? (created B.D., Oxford) 1 OR 2 Nov 1642]
chn: ----- Cole [1] b c1625
Humphrey Cole [2] b c1626; (aged c13, admitted at Colchester RGS) 8 Aug 1639
Henry Cole b c1644 [see VENN]
[?] Elizabeth Cole m Richard Drake (Rector of Great Oakley, Essex) c1671-1738;
i 1706 Tillingham