Margery Roberts

Margery Piggott

• Birth: About 1511
• Death: Before 29 April 1587
• Father: Thomas Pigott
• Mother: Elizabeth Iwardby
• Partner 1: Thomas Cotton Marriage: About 1525
• Partner 2: Walter Hendley Marriage: Before 1537
• Partner 3: Thomas Roberts Marriage: After 10 September 1553
• source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g23845.htm

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Notes

From https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/r...

This John Roberts, a younger son in a family settled near Cranbrook, owed his advancement to a connexion with his eminent neighbour (Sir) Walter Hendley. It was probably his father whom Hendley named overseer of his will and his elder brother Thomas was to become the fourth husband of Hendley’s widow. She had been born Margery Pigott, and in her will of 1587 she was to call John Roberts’s widow her niece; the two were living together when Roberts made his own will in August 1573. It is Roberts’s kinship with Margery Hendley which furnishes the most likely explanation of his election for Steyning, for her stepdaughter Anne married, not long before his death in 1547, Richard Covert of Slaugham and thus became the daughter-in-law of John Covert. As one of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk’s servants in Sussex, and a man of independent standing there, John Covert sat in several Parliaments, including that of November 1554, and could well have been instrumental in procuring his kinsman’s return on that occasion, as he probably was to be when Walter Hendley’s servant Robert Byng came in for Steyning a year later.4

Research Notes:

conflict re: parents--Thomas Pigott and Katherine Langeston, or Thomas Pigott and Elizabeth Irwardby? Need documentation for parents.

conflict re: children: No children are mentioned in the wills of Margaret and Thomas Roberts. Consider detaching Rosa and Thomas for lack of proof.

Notes for Thomas Roberts and Margery Pigott

1553 September 10 Marriage settlement: "Thomas Roberth the elder of Glassenbury in Cranbrook, Kent, esq, to his son Thomas Roberth the younger, and Lady Margery Hendley, widow, and to their heirs in tail, remainder to the heirs of TR the younger. TR the younger to marry MH.

1. A messuage, barn, gardens, land and wood called Pesemershe on the den of [blank] in Ticehurst and Etchingham (S: highway from Ticehurst to Swiftsden)
2. A messuage, two gardens and 20 pieces of land and wood and a water-mill, called Boarzell on the den of Boarzell in Ticehurst (E: land of the heirs of John Congeherst, once Belherst; N: highway from Swiftsden Cross to Flimwell; W: land of Thomas Maye, gent; S: highway from Swiftsden Cross to Ticehurst)

In all 300a W: Thomas Hendle, Thomas May, George May, Humphrey Dunk, Thomas Fuller, William Manser, Thomas [?]Cheseman" [1]

1556 "The master, fellows, and scholars of Balliol College,Oxford, and Thomas Roberth otherwise Robards, esquire, and Margery, his wife, late the wife of Sir Walter Hendley,knight. Premises within the precincts of the late monastery of Clerkenwell, in Clerkenwell. Easter Anno 2 and 3 Philip and Mary." [2]

1556 "Sir Thomas Pope, knight, and Elizabeth, his wife, and Thomas Roberth otherwise Robards, esquire, and Margery, his wife, late the wife of Sir Walter Hendley, knight. The site and messuage of the late house or monastery of Clerkynwell, &c., in Clerkynwell. Easter Anno 2 and 3 Philip and Mary." [3]

1576 "Probate (PCC) of the will (4 Feb 1567) of Thomas Robertes of Ticehurst, esq, 20 Nov 1576. Requests burial at Ticehurst near his mother with a tomb and inscription recording her motherly example. Lands to his wife Margery for life, remainder to his brother John Robertes in tail male. Goods and chattels to his wife Margery except the parsonage of Ticehurst, to his brother John Robertes. Executrix: his wife Margery (called Margery Hendle in probate). W: Walter Robertes, Walter Hendle, John Robertes, William Ketchelowe." [4]

1587 "Fragment (folios 1-6, 10 only) of a copy of the PCC probate of the will (29 Apr 1587) of Margery Henley of Boarzell in Ticehurst, widow of Thomas Robertes of Ticehurst, esq, 29 Apr 1587. Bequests of money and chattels in named rooms at Boarzell to cousin Thomas Hampden of Boarzell 'whom I have brought up of a child', including the best armour which Thomas Roberts was wont to wear; his sister Margery Hampden, and to Walter, son of John Robertes of Boarzell, gent, deceased." [5]

Footnotes:

[1] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, DUN 48/1, East Sussex Record Office, [UK_National_Archives].

[2] W. J. Hardy and W. Page, A calendar to the feet of fines for London and Middlesex, Vol. 2, 1 Henry VII and 11-12 Elizabeth (1893), 94, [HathiTrust].

[3] W. J. Hardy and W. Page, A calendar to the feet of fines for London and Middlesex, Vol. 2, 1 Henry VII and 11-12 Elizabeth (1893), 94, [HathiTrust].

[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Document held at East Sussex Record Office, DUN 49/8, [UK_National_Archives].

[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, DUN 49/12, East Sussex Record Office, [UK_National_Archives].

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