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Family and Education
prob. s. of John Wakehurst of Wakehurst. m. bef. Oct. 1409, Elizabeth (d. 19 July 1464), da. of Robert Etchingham of Dixter, Suss., 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 3da.

Offices Held
Commr. of sewers, London to Greenwich Nov. 1405, Suss. Oct. 1415, Feb., Oct. 1422, Kent, Suss. May 1429 (q.), Suss. Nov. 1433 (q.), Kent Mar. 1440; inquiry, Kent, Suss. June 1406 (concealments), Suss. Aug. 1408 (petition of Lord Camoys), Surr., Suss. Feb. 1411 (restitution of goods to Thomas, earl of Arundel), Suss. Dec.1413 (restitution of shipwrecked cargo), Surr., Suss. Feb. 1419 (concealments), Suss. June 1421 (unlawful disseisin), Salop, Suss. Nov. 1424 (estates late of the earl of Arundel), Suss. Feb. 1425 (assaults), May 1426 (piracy), Surr., Suss. Nov. 1427 (concealments), Suss. Dec. 1432 (jurisdiction of archdeacon of Lewes); to determine an appeal in admiral’s ct. Apr. 1412; of oyer and terminer, Surr. June 1413; arrest, Kent, Suss. July 1435; gaol delivery, Battle Oct. 1438.

J.p. Suss. 13 Feb. 1407-d., Surr. 7 Aug. 1448-June 1452.

Biography
The Wakehurst family had lived at Ardingley since the early 13th century. It is uncertain precisely when the manor of Wakehurst itself passed to Richard: between 1404 and 1411 he was conducting a suit (possibly collusive) for land there against John Wakehurst (either his father or elder brother), but John remained in possession at least until 1415. In that year Richard acquired other property in Ardingley and elsewhere. Some time earlier he had taken possession of land and rents at East Grinstead and Worth, also in Sussex, while in the neighbouring county of Surrey he already held property at Lingfield and, together with his wife, had acquired in 1409 the manors of Throwle and Bysshe Court. In later years Wakehurst was to become owner of Ockley, while the manors of Dixter and Gatecourt, which belonged to his wife’s family (the Etchinghams) came to him and Elizabeth by virtue of a complicated arrangement made with her kinsmen.1

Wakehurst’s career as a lawyer began by 1400, and before long his evident ability, especially in the area of the law which related to land tenure, attracted him to a wide clientele among the gentry of southeast England. In those early years he often acted as a mainpernor in the Exchequer and Chancery, doing so on behalf of a former duchy of Lancaster bailiff, for the alnager of Surrey and Sussex, and for successive farmers of the estates of Seés abbey and Cogges priory. In 1404 he assisted Sir Philip St. Cler to complete the legal formalities for his purchase of a manor in Ospringe, Kent, and by St. Cler’s will he received a small bequest for travelling expenses while paying the testator’s debts. He was to continue to be employed as a feoffee of the St. Cler estates for the next 20 years. One of his closest associates in the early 15th century was Sir William Burcester*, who named him as a trustee of his lands and executor of his will (1407), making him responsible for settlements of property on his widow and children, and for providing himself with an annuity of £1 for life from the estate.2 During that same period Wakehurst established a connexion which was to last until his death, with the baronial family of Cobham of Sterborough. He was appointed as a feoffee of the Cobham estates by Sir Reynold Cobham in 1406, acted as attorney for Sir Reynold during his military service in France in 1417, and after his death in 1446 had several dealings with his widow and sister.3 A similarly long attachment existed between Wakehurst and the widow of Sir William Brenchesle, the judge, to whom he regularly offered assistance from 1407 to 1440.4 By 1408 he could also number among his clients Robert, Lord Poynings, on whose behalf he appeared as patron of various ecclesiastical livings, while in later years his services in legal transactions were to be engaged by Lord Robert’s son, Sir Richard Poynings† (d.1429).5 For over 20 years, from 1411, he was involved in the affairs of Sir Roger Fiennes*, his tasks including the acquisition of a royal licence in 1413 for the furtherance of Fiennes’s schemes to enlarge his park at Herstmonceux, the presentation of an incumbent at Herstmonceux rectory, and the purchase of manors in Kent.6

There can be little doubt that, of all Wakehurst’s distinguished clients, the most important in the context of his election to Parliament in 1413 was Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel. He had entered the service of the earl at least two years earlier, having been already so well versed in Arundel’s affairs as to be named in September 1411 as one of his attorneys at home while the earl was in Burgundy on a royal embassy. Wakehurst’s successful candidacy for Henry V’s first Parliament followed within weeks of Earl Thomas’s promotion to the treasurership of the Exchequer. Like other of the earl’s retainers he soon benefited from the patronage dispensed at Westminster: not long after the Commons were dismissed he shared with William Ryman* the valuable farm of the estates of the alien abbey of Seés. Early in 1415 Arundel made him his co-feoffee of certain Fitzalan lands, and then, in May that year, when making preparations to join the King’s expedition to France, he appointed him among the trustees of his lordships in Surrey and Sussex for settlement on the Countess Beatrice in jointure. The trustees received final instructions as to how to dispose of the property in the will made by the earl that August. Wakehurst’s trusteeship ensured his continued involvement in the administration of the Fitzalan estates for several years after the earl’s death; and he also took on additional tasks to assist the countess, for whom he provided securities in Chancery in 1417, and in whose interests he served on a royal commission concerned with property in Shropshire in 1424.7 He also long remained on good terms with former adherents of the late earl. Thus, he accepted the executorship of the will of Thomas Salman in 1430 (as a consequence being instrumental in the foundation of ‘Salman’s chantry’ in Trinity church, Arundel), and he acted as a feoffee of the lands of Sir John Bohun (d.1433) of Midhurst.8 All this while Wakehurst had been a member of the Sussex bench; indeed, his service as a j.p. was outstanding, lasting as it did a remarkable 48 years without break. It is not surprising that his wife’s kinsman, Sir Thomas Etchingham, selected him to arbitrate in a vexatious local dispute in 1437. Wakehurst is also noted for his involvement in a number of religious foundations, in particular the ‘Salerne chantry’ in St. Clement’s church in Hastings (1443) and ‘Boteler’s chantry’ in St. Mary’s, Horsham (1444).9

In the course of his long career Wakehurst had several dealings with Sir Thomas Sackville II* of Buckhurst, an association which culminated in the marriage of Sackville’s son and eventual heir, Edward, to his daughter Margaret. (In the 1440s both Wakehurst and his son, another Richard, acted as trustees of the estates in which Margaret Sackville enjoyed jointure.) A second daughter, Anne, married the Surrey MP John Gainsford (d.1460), forming a connexion which was strengthened further by the marriage of Gainsford’s sister to Anne’s brother, Richard. The latter died shortly before November 1454, when his aged father was still alive.10

Wakehurst’s will, made on 3 Jan. 1455, contained bequests to the churches of Ardingley and Robertsbridge abbey, the Austin priors at Rye, and the hospitals of St. Mary of Bethlehem and St. Anthony in London. He was re-appointed as a j.p. that April, but died before 23 Aug., when the will was proved. A month later Chancery issued a posthumous royal pardon addressed to him in connexion with a transgression in his trusteeship of the Cobham estates.11 Wakehurst’s heirs were his grand daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, the children of his son, Richard junior. Their inheritance came to be the subject of acrimonious suits in Chancery following their abduction and marriage by Richard and Nicholas Culpepper, whose brother, Sir John, had wedded their mother. Wakehurst’s widow showed considerable spirit in endeavouring to retain his principal manors and their related title deeds; indeed, she succeeded in doing so until her death in 1464.12

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: L. S. Woodger
Notes
1. G.W.E. Loder, Wakehurst Place, 5, 10; VCH Suss. vii. 129; ix. 273; C143/448/31; Feudal Aids, v. 122-3; vi. 526; Suss. Feet of Fines (Suss. Rec. Soc. xxiii), nos. 2787, 2847; Add. Ch. 7633; VCH Surr. iii. 152; iv. 293; Reg. Chichele, iii. 488.
2.CCR, 1399-1402, pp. 264, 322; 1402-5, p. 305; 1422-9, pp. 70-71; PCC 14 Marche; CFR, xii. 140, 194, 210; xiii. 150; xxi. no. 152; CPR, 1408-13, p. 203; Lambeth Pal. Lib. Reg. Arundel, 1, f. 254v; Suss. Arch. Trust, Lewes, Firle Place Ch. 236.
3.CCR, 1405-8, pp. 468, 471; 1441-7, pp. 380-1; CPR, 1408-13, p. 36; Rot. Norm. ed. Hardy, 235. It was his son, Richard junior, who was party to Cobham’s widow’s grant to St. Peter’s college at Lingfield in 1449: CPR, 1446-52, p. 240.
4.CPR, 1405-8, p. 300; 1436-41, p. 419. Richard junior helped in the foundation of Brenchesle’s chantry in Canterbury cathedral in 1446 and that at Bexhill subsequently: ibid. 1446-52, p. 21; 1452-61, p. 89; Suss. Arch. Colls. liii. 81, 86.
5.Reg. Chichele, iii. 456; Reg. Rede (Suss. Rec. Soc. xi), 299, 319; CCR, 1419-22, pp. 122, 126; 1454-61, p. 98.
6.CPR, 1408-13, pp. 284, 454; 1413-16, p. 133; Reg. Chichele, iii. 460; CCR, 1429-35, pp. 45, 69, 266-7.
7.Foedera ed. Rymer (orig. edn.), viii. 699; CFR, xiv. 34; CPR, 1413-16, p. 336; 1416-22, p. 63; Reg. Chichele, ii. 71; Sel. Cases in Chancery (Selden Soc. x), 122; CCR, 1413-19, pp. 459-60.
8.Suss. N. and Q. iii. 169-72; CPR, 1436-41, p. 525; Suss. Arch. Colls. xx. 12; CCR, 1447-54, p. 24.
9.CCR, 1435-41, p. 122; CPR, 1441-6, pp. 197, 278.
10. C139/141/10; Suss. Arch. Colls. x. 151-2; CPR, 1452-61, p. 214.
11. PCC 3 Stokton; CPR, 1452-61, p. 274. The date of death inscribed on his monu

Family/Spouse: Etchingham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth (daughter of Etchingham, Robert) was born in 1400 in Etchingham, Sussex, England; died on 3 Dec 1452 in Etchingham, Sussex, England; was buried after 3 Dec 1452 in Etchingham, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Gaynsford, Agnes. Agnes (daughter of de Gaynesford, John V and de la Poyle, Margaret) was born in 1420 in Ardingly, Sussex, England; died before 9 Oct 1450 in Goudhurst, Kent, England; was buried on 9 Oct 1450 in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married Culpeper, Sir Nicholas in 1464 in Wakehurst, Ardingly, Sussex, England. Nicholas (son of Culpeper, Sir Walter and Roper, Lady Agnes) was born in 1434 in Goudhurst, Kent, England; died on 23 May 1510 in Wakehurst, Ardingly, Sussex, England; was buried after 23 May 1510 in St Peter's Churchyard, Ardingly, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 1509, Sussex, England

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She may have been born in Goudhurst, Kent England

Anne married Hever, Sir John II on 3 Jul 1473 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. John (son of Hever, Sir John I and Hever, Joan) was born on 1 May 1450 in Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England; died between 8 Jun and 29 Jul 1483 in Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: M6ZV-ZJ5
• Birth: 1479, Cranbrook, Kent, England
• Burial: 1538, Saint Mary's Church, Northiam, Sussex, England

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Born in about 1479 in Cranbrook Kent
Died between 1528 & 1538 in Northiam Place Northiam Sussex

It is not know for certain if Lady Margaret is buried in St. Mary's "however as her husband Sir Nicholas is buried in the church is would seem very likely that she is buried in in the church"

Nicholas & Margaret Tufton were the great great grandparents of John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thannet, he married Lady Margaret Sackville who's ancestors were the earls of Dorset & the Tudor & Plantagenet line of the throne of England this line is through John Tufton Aug 1519 – 16 Oct 1567 whom I have marked in blue, see end of family tree for an extensive genealogy which shows our connection to the Sackville's & the Noble & Royal genealogy of Margate Sackville wife of our common ancestor John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thanet.

Also Nicholas & Margaret's Great Grandson Nicholas Tufton 1557 – 30th June 1632 married Francis Cecil who was the Daughter of Sir Thomas Cecil Earl of Exeter & the Granddaughter of William Cecil Lord Burghley Treasurer of England to Queen Elizabeth Tudor 1st.

Margaret the daughter & heir of John Hever of Cranbrook Kent, John Hever was a descendant of the Hever's of Kent & the founders of Hever castle which later became the home of Sir Thomas Bullen the father of Ann Boleyn wife of Henry the 8th. The Hever's line of descent before John Hever is unknown but an early ancestor from who John Hever would have descended is Walter de HEVER, first owner of Hever Castle, whose 1211 contemporary Hughe de HEVER bore arms "Gerv., A playn Crosse Arg., a Labell of 5 Azur." William de HEVER, Sheriff in the reign of Edward I, became owner of Hever Castle in 1270, the year the Gatehouse was constructed. Ownership then passed to Thomas de HEVER in 1300, William de HEVER in 1340, and in 1360 to Joan de HEVER, who married Sir Reginald de COBHAM. Passing through eight more proprietors, in 1505 Hever Castle became the home of Sir Thomas BULLEN, and of daughter Anne BOLEYN - the second wife of Henry VIII. Upon the death of Sir Thomas BULLEN, Hever Castle reverted to the Crown, and Henry granted ownership to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, as part of the divorce settlement in 1540. Magnificantly restored by William Waldorf ASTOR, 1st Viscount Astor of Hever, a double moat, gardens and a Tudor Village surround

Margaret married Tufton, Sir Nicholas in Nov 1500 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Nicholas was born in 1479 in Northiam, Sussex, England; died on 30 Dec 1538 in Northiam, Sussex, England; was buried after 30 Dec 1538 in St Mary's Church, Northiam, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Baker, Captain Christopher. Christopher was born on 5 Jan 1528 in Surrey, England; died in 1573 in Coates, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Jeffrey, Joan. Joan (daughter of Jeffrys, Williams and Harvey, Audrey) was born on 1 Jan 1579 in Chiddingly, Sussex, England; died on 1 Jan 1623 in Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L14P-FC1
• Will: 18 Mar 1681, Surry, Virginia, USA

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Baker, Capt. Lawrence, of Surry county was a justice of Surry from 1652 to his death 1681. He was also a member of the house of burgesses from 1666 to 1676. His will was dated March 18, 1681 and was proved Sept. 6, 1681, and by it he left his whole estate to his wife Elizabeth, and to his daughter Catherine, wife of Arthur Allen of Surry county. He was a kinsman of Lieut.-Col. Henry Baker, of Isle of Wight County.

Family/Spouse: Howell, Elizabeth Anna. Elizabeth was born in 1607 in England; died on 7 Oct 1702 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 5 Sep 1710, Bacon's Castle, Surry, Virginia, USA

Katherine married Allen, Arthur in 1650 in Lawne's Creek Parish, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA. Arthur was born in 1627 in Surry, Virginia, USA; died in 1669 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA; was buried in 1669 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 7 Feb 1682, Wednesfield, Staffordshire, England

Thomas married Blake, Lucina on 10 Aug 1685 in Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, USA. Lucina was born on 7 May 1671 in Middlesex, Virginia, USA; was christened on 7 May 1671 in Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, USA; died in 1700 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah married Musick, George IV in 1714 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA. George was born in 1683 in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died on 5 Mar 1754 in Saint Georges Parish, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried after 5 Mar 1754 in Musick Family Cemetery, Cleveland, Russell, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]