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 1562 - 1602 (~ 40 years)
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| Name |
Gregory COLLARD |
| Christened |
3 May 1562 |
Barham, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
29 Oct 1602 |
St. Mildred, Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Person ID |
I8167 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
3 Oct 2020 |
| Father |
John COLLARD, b. Abt 1528, bur. 30 Apr 1585, St. Mildred's, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 57 years) |
| Mother |
Rose, bur. 13 Apr 1569, St. Mildred, Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Married |
Abt 1549 |
| Family ID |
F2184 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- I have no evidence, as yet, that it was Gregory Collard who was the subject of the following discourse. However, in the absence of his marriage it would seem that he would be the most likely candidate of the children of John Collard to fill these shoes.
"Collections for an history of Sandwich in Kent: With notices of the other Cinque Ports" pp. 476-477
Vol. iii, p. 270. 1584.
Something occurred this year in Canterbury that despake Richard suffragan bishop of Dover to have been a pious, upright and just man. There happened to be a foul murther committed in that city by a gentleman's son there; so barbarous, that when it came to Manwood the lord chief baron's ears, that lived hard by, he was resolved the murtherer, as he deserved, should die for it. But nothwithstanding afterwards it was put up; and the malefactor walked confidently about the streets to the indignation of the people. Which the said suffragan related to Thomas Diggs Esq. a gentleman of good quality in those parts, in a letter to this purport. 'The son of one Collard of Canterbury did lately in the open streets there mostr wilfully kill a poorer man. Whereat the chief baron was so moved at the first that he earnestly vowed the hanging of the murtherer. But aft erht father, being a rich man, had dealt with him in behalf of his son, he brake his vow; and contrary to all expectation procured, as it must needs be of some wrong suggestion, a pardon for the said murtherer who then walked up and down the streets in Canterbury, as it were in despight of all his enemies, to the great grief of all his inhabitants there. But such parts as these were, were not as he (the suffragan) thought strange unto him (unto whom he wrote) in this party, (meaning the chief baron). He added upon this, that he hoped a day would come when they should see him a better man; or else he was persuaded his confusion would not tarry long. For the Lord is a righteous judge, strong and patient: and God is provoked every day. if a man will not turn, he will wet his sword. He hath bent his bow and made it ready. He hath prepar'd him for the instruments of death.' (By these words of Psalm VII, glancing at the that chief baron corrupt.) It was dated from Sutton 27th October: subscribed your most assured Ri. Dover.
In a catalogue of articles drawn up afterwards against this aforesaid lord chief baron, (the paper endorsed, Abuses committed by him) this was on. "Collard son of Canterbury killed a poor man, coming from his work, in the open street at Canterbury. For which the chief baron threatening at the first to hang him: but by means of 240L. paid by his father, the son had his pardon by the chief baron's means. And ever after the offender wore the chief baron's livery. His father was a brewer in Canterbury, who said and swore that it cost him 240L. to appease the matter by soliciting the chief baron."
[Source: "Collections for an history of Sandwich in Kent: With notices of the other Cinque Ports" pp. 476-477, citing Extracts relating to Sir Roger Manwood from 'Strype's Annals', Vol. iii, p. 270. 1584.
Vol. iii, p. 270. 1584.]
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