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Abt 1550 - 1597 (~ 47 years)
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Name |
Edmond BAKER |
Born |
Abt 1550 |
Gender |
Male |
Buried |
13 Sep 1597 |
Folkestone, Kent, England |
Person ID |
I14784 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
Last Modified |
28 Jan 2018 |
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Notes |
Will of Thomas Baker, jurat of Folkestone, 1593
son Thomas Baker gets messuage at Eastbrooke 16 acres called Mordifeilde
son Robert Baker gets land called Brodewaye and Hunters Meede and one lodge by the sea side
son Henry gets one close lying at Ford of 5 acres
son Richard Baker shares 7 acres at Hye, plus other lands
daughters Alice, Joane and Hester both under 21
sister Badle
wife Elizabeth
father-in-law Thomas Palmer, father of wife Elizabeth
son-in-law Thomas Jenkin
son-in-law Thomas Tydeman
Thomas Baker, jurat of Folkestone, 1629
wife Annes
son Thomas - mansion house at Northy field
son Edmund Baker
daughters Elizabeth Nicolls, Jane, Anne and Martha
brother Robert Baker
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BREDMER, usually called Broadmead, is another manor, near the western bounds of this parish, adjoining to Cheriton, in which it is partly situated. It was most probably, in early times, in the possession of a family of its own name; for in the antient deeds and courtrolls of Valoigns, who were owners of Cheriton in king Edward II. and III.'s reign, there is frequent mention of several of this name, who held lands of the Valoigns family; but before the latter end of king Edward III.'s reign, it was come into the possession of William de Brockhull, of Saltwood, whose second son Thomas Brockhull leaving an only daughter and heir Elizabeth, she carried it in marriage to Richard Selling, in whose descendants it remained till Henry VIII.'s reign, when it was passed away to Edmund Inmith, a retainer to Thomas, lord Clinton, and he gave it to his second son Edmund Inmith, who leaving two daughters and coheirs, one of whom married Rayner, and the other Baker, the latter of them, in right of his wife, shared this manor as part of her inheritance, and in king James I.'s reign alienated it to Beane, in which name it continued some length of time, and till it was sold to Worger, and thence again to Bayley, in which name it remained till Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey and other conveyed it to William Bouverie, earl of Radnor, whose son the right hon. Jacob, earl of Radnor, is the present owner of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
A descriptive and historical account of Folkestone
By Samuel Joseph Mackie, pp 142-143
On the road between Capel and Folkestone is the manor of Coldham, anciently the patrimony of the Coldhams. At the time of Richard II it had passed into the possession of the Bakers, a family of good account in this part of the county. John Baker, of Coldham, was gentleman porter of Calais in the reigns of Henry V and VI. Under the diredction of the Court of Chancery it was conveyed, AD 1691 to William Young, who pulled down the ancient Manor House and Built the present Court Lodge
ibid p. 101
We have historical evidence of extensive works in the fifteenth century, in the Will of John Baker, of Folkestone, proved AD 1464, which after providing for his wife Alicia's maintenance in St. Bartholomew's Hospital at Sandwich, directs the remainder of his lands and tenements within the town and liberty of Folkestone to be sold, and the proceeds appropriated to the erection of a "new work called an aisle, with a window in it, with the parishioners' advice; which work should be built between the vestry there and the great window, and to be built of stone, with lead, glass, and wood, as was seemly and meet for such a work." Philipott mentions also a peculiar chancel belonging to the Bakers of Coldham, "near the vestry, over the charnel house."
MOREHALL is a small manor near Cheriton, which was antiently held of the barony of Folkestone by knight's service, by William de Valentia, who in the 27th year of king Henry III. obtained a charter of privileges for it. William de Detling held it in king Edward II.'s reign; after which it passed into the possession of a family who took their name from it. When this family was extinct here, which was about king Henry IV.'s reign, the Bakers, of Coldham, became possessed of it. At length John Baker, of Coldham, dying anno 17 Henry VI. Joane, one of his daughters and coheirs, entitled her husband Robert Brandred to it; and their son Robert, about the latter end of that reign, passed is away to Sir Tho. Browne, of Beechworth-castle, whose descendant Sir Matthew Browne, at the very latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, alienated it to Thomas Godman, of London; (fn. 9) from which name it was sold, anno 3 Charles I. to John Eldred, esq. one of whose descendants, anno 34 Charles II. passed it away to John Michel, esq. and from him, anno 5 queen Anne, it was alienated to Jacob Desbouverie, esq. in whose family it has continued in the same manner as the rest of his estates in this parish, to the right hon. Jacob, earl of Radnor, the present possessor of it. A court baron is regularly held for this
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Caldham, usually named Coldham, from its exposed situation, is a manor in the south-east part of this parish [Capel-le-Ferne], which was anciently the patrimony of a family bearing the same name. Prior to the time of Richard II it passed away to the Bakers, in which it continued to John Baker, of Caldham, porter of Calais under Henry V and VI, who, dying without male issue, and leaving five daughters, this estate went with Joane to Robert Brandred, whose son, of that name, at the close of the reign of Henry VI, passed the property to Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth Castle.
[Source: Englands Topographer: Or a New and Complete History of the County ..., Volume 2, 1829.
By William H. Ireland, p 159.]
CALDHAM, now usually called Coldham, from its cold and exposed situation, is a manor in the south-east part of this parish, which appears by records to have been antiently the patrimony of owners of the same name, who bore for their arms, Gules, a fess, ermine, between three martlets, argent; but before the reign of king Richard II. they had passed it away to Baker, a family of good account in this part of the county, having a peculiar chancel belonging to them in Folkestone church, who resided at it; and in this name it continued down to John Baker, of Caldham, who was gentleman porter of Calais in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. and bore for his arms, Argent, on a fess, nebulee, sable, a tower, triple-towered, of the first, between three keys of the second; perhaps in allusion to his office. He died without male issue in the 17th year of the latter reign, holding this manor in capite, and leaving five daughters his coheirs; and upon the division of their inheritance, Robert Brandred, in right of Joan his wife, the fourth daughter, became entitled to it; and their son Robert, about the latter end of king Henry VI. passed it away to Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth castle, whose descendant, Sir Anthony Browne, in the 33d year of king Henry VIII. exchanged it for other premises with that prince, who in his 36th year, granted it to William Wilsford, and others, citizens of London, to hold in capite; and they, in the 37th year of it, alienated it to John Tuston, esq. of Hothfield, whose grandson Sir Nicholas Tuston, knight and baronet, was by king Charles I. created Baron of Tuston and Earl of Thanet, in whose descendants it has continued down to the right hon. Sackville, earl of Thanet, the present owner of it.
[Source: Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Capell', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (Canterbury, 1799), pp. 142-147. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp142-147 [accessed 10 April 2017].]
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Kentish archæology, Volume 1, p. 10, "Folkestone Church"
By William Archibald Scott Robertson
In the latter year, 1464, John Baker directed his executors to "make one work called 'an yle' with a certain window in the same, acting upon the best advice they can obtain from such parishioners as are most worthy of being consulted upon the matter; this work shall be built and constructed between the vestry of the church, and the great window, with such materials as shall be bet and most suitable for it, in stone, glass, iron, lead, wood, and all things needful." We are enabled to fix the position of this aisle by means of the tetiony of Philipot, the herald and historian, who was himself born at Folkestone, about 100 years after John Baker made his will In his account of the parish of Capel ['Villare Cantianum,' p. 96.] Philipot says that the family of Baker, of Caldham in Capel, and of Morehall in Folkestone, had a peculiar chancel belonging to them in this church; he adds that it was near the vestry door, and over the charnel house His mention of the vestry door identifies the Baker Chancel with the aisle built or rebuilt by John Baker's executors, and his allusion to the charnel house shews that the Baker Chancel was upon the south side of this church. The charnel house is a vault beneath the south chancel, in which vault tradition says were interred the bones of men killed in a great battle fought near Folkestone, the bones of their opponents, far greater in number, being deposited in a charnel house beneath the south chancel of Hythe Church. The battle theory is questionable; but there is great likelihood that bones from the desecrated cemetery of the old Priory and Church may have been deposited together in one vault here.
In connection with Baker's south chancel, we may mention as bequest made by Thos. Newsole in 1465 for a window in the south part of this church, opposite the altar of St George. To the light of St. George, John Baker left a bequest of 4d. Newsole's bequest may have referred to the south wall of the old nave, if not, it must have been an addition in or near to John Baker's Chancel, and this idea is supported by Baker's bequest to St. George's Light. What was the dedication of Baker's south chancel we cannot clearly ascertain. He left bequests to the Light of the Little Cross of which he was a brother, and to the Light of St Mary of Pity. From other wills we learn that there was a chancel dedicated to St Mary of Pity, and that there was a "Light of Holy Cross in the chancel of St Mary de Pity," [John Cole's will, 1472.] so that we may perhaps have ground for supposing that Baker's chancel was dedicated to St. Mary of Pity. It is probable, but not certain.
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Testamenta Vetusta: Being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, etc. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families, Volume 1, p. 306, "John Baker." [London: Nichols and Son, Parliament Street, 1826.] By Nicholas Harris Nicolas
John Baker.
John Baker, of Folkstone [apparently of the family from which Sir Richard Baker, the celebrated Chronicler, was descended.] on the Wednesday [26th September] next before the Feast of St Michael, 1464. Alicia, my wife. I will that, immediately after my decease, my executors, out of my goods and chattels, shall place my aforesaid wife in the House or Hospital of St Bartholomew, Sandwich; and I will that all my lands and tenements, within the ville and liberty of Folkstone (except three roods of land at Dullingburgh, and my lands at Merefeld, which I bequeath to my second sister, Granriger), be sold, and with the money arising therefrom that my said executors make a new work called an Isle [aisle], with a window in it, with the advice of the parishioners, which said work shall be built between the Vestry there and the great window, and to be built of stone, with lead, glass and wood, as is seemly and meet for such a work. [Query, Ann, daughter and coheir of John Baker, of Coldham, near Folkestone, in Kent?]
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EK-U270 - RADNOR MANUSCRIPTS
DEEDS
Folkestone estate
Capel-le-Ferne
EK-U270/T184 - Manor of Caldham
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- [S78] Will, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), PRC/17/50/192, 1597, 8 Oct 1597.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, the ninth day of August 1597 in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc, I, EDMUNDE BAKER of Bredmer in the parish of Folkestone in the county of Kent, being sick in my body at God's pleasure, but whole and sound of my remembrance thanks be to God, doe make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following,
First and principally I bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God my maker and to Jesus Christ my alone and only redeemer by whose precious bloodsheding I believe most steadfastly to be saved and to the Holy Ghost my only sanctifier, and my body I will to the Earth from whence it came.
Item, I give to the poor people of Folkestone aforesaid two shillings to be paid by my Executor.
Item, I give and bequeath to EDMONDE EDWARDES and THOMAS MAIECK my godchildren either of them twelve pence,
Item, I give unto AGNES BAKER my daughter my two yearing heifers colour brown goare [sic] and my great brass pott.
Item, I give and bequeath unto ALICE my daughter twenty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid unto her by my Executor when she shall accomplish the age of one and twenty years or at the day of her marriage which shall first happen.
The residue of all my moveable goods and chattels whatsoever, my debts, legacies and other charges discharged, I give and bequeath wholly to ALICE my wife whom I make, ordain and appoint sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me the said EDMOND BAKER made the day and year first abovewritten, concerning all my houses and lands which I have in the parish of Folkestone aforesaid or elsewhere in the County of Kent,
First, I will and bequeath all my houses and lands to ALICE my wife during the term of her natural life and after her deceased I will, give and bequeath my said houses and lands to AGNES BAKER my daughter and to her heirs forever in fee simple, so as she pay or cause to be paid to ALICE my daughter within three years next after the death of the said ALICE my wife the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England and if the said ten pounds be not paid unto her in such manner and form and within such time as is before limited then I will and my true meaning is that the said ALICE my daughter shall enter into one parcel of my land called Uppingswell Meadow containing by estimation one acre and one half lying next the park of Folkestone aforesaid to the
park aforesaid east and north and the highway west and north and the same to have and enjoy to her and her heirs forever in fee simple anything in this my present Will mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
Witnesses present at the making
of this and Testament [sic] The mark of Edmond Baker
Richard Wryttell by signature
Thomas Earden writer hereof
PROBATUM fuit pris suprascriptum testamentum coram ven[erabi]li viro Magro Georgio Newman legum doctor redi viri dmi Archm Cant offic etc octavo die Octobris anno dmi millilmo quingenmo nonagesuuo septimo ac approbat[um] etc omisq[yuam] executoris euisd[em] comiss[s] est executrici etc primiuts iurat
Probate granted 8 October 1597 to the Executrix named in the Will after lawful oath sworn faithfully to perform the same, etc.
Note: Daughter AGNES is referred to specifically as AGNES BAKER. Of course she would be called Agnes BAKER as she had married Thomas BAKER only about 1 month prior to Edmund making his Will. So the reference is correct. Note that he does not refer to his daughter Alice as Alice BAKER as her surname would be implied, her not being yet married.
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