Kent, England, Tyler Index to Wills, 1460-1882,
image 6/236 under Ladd
by Laura Knight
See Knight Records 1166-1549 for key.
You will notice that the date range of the records installments is getting shorter; that's because more records are available and the text gets longer and longer.
I've added a new category called "Info" which I am using to insert some crucial historical information into the chronology. Without knowing the context, it is difficult to understand what raw records actually represent.
Also note that a burial reference that includes the father's name probably always refers to the death of an infant or child.
I've gone over the text a time or two to try to find and fix errors, but I'm sure some remain. Some of the old text styles, language and spellings are conserved, but, as usual, I try to render names of individuals and locations in the modern spelling for search purposes.
1600 – Jan 6 - UK Surrey Southwark St Mary Rotherhithe – Bap – Olife Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – UK Kent Hythe – Admin – William Knight - elected mayor of Hythe (Hist. of Parliament online)
1600 – Feb 23 – UK Cornwall Redruth – Bap – John Knight - s/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Feb 23 – UK Kent Stockbury – Mar – Jeanne Knight & Richard Sawgood (Tyler)
1600 – Mar 24 – UK London St Katherine Tower – Bap – Marie Knight - d/o John Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Mar – UK Kent Hadlow – Bap – Jone Knight - d/o Richard Knight (Tyler)
1600 – Apr 4 – UK London St Dunstan West – Bur – Nathaniel Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Apr 6 – UK Norfolk Attleborough – Bap – Elizabeth Knight - d/o John Knight (London Met Arch/Norfolk Rec Office)
1600 – Apr 7 – UK London All Hallows – Bur – John Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Apr 15 – UK London St Gregory – Mar – John Knight & Mary Titchborne (London Met Arch)
1600 – May 30 – UK London Stepney – Bap – Samuel Knight - s/o James Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Jun 1 – UK London St Katherine Coleman – Bap – Jane Knight - d/o John Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Jun 29 – UK Wiltshire Luckington – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch/Wiltshire Records)
Note: Is this the Peter Knight of St Bride’s, who married Cicely Moore, and was father of Peter Knight b. 1620 who went to VA and became Capt. Peter Knight?
1600 – Jul 15 – UK Kent Cowden – Mar – George Knight & Elizabeth Wicking (Tyler)
1600 – Jul 22 – UK Gloucestershire Coates – Will – John Knight, Clerk – To the poor of the parish, 40 shillings; to Mr. Llewellen, the vicar of Sydenham, my best cloak if he do preach my funeral sermon; if he refuses, then I give it to Mr. Masters, the vicar of Compton; I give my next best cloak to Mr Goar, the curate of Westonbirte. To the town of Wotton-under-Edge, where I was born, and to the town of ___ to the poor of either of them, 20 shillings; to Mr Sir Henry Poole my halberd, most humbly praying him to be a friend to my brother, my executor; to my good Lady Poole, my silver crater and to Mr. Sir Giles, his picture (?); to both my sons, John Knight and Thomas Knight, and their wives, and to all my brothers and sisters born of the same mother, a gold ring with a death’s head engraved on it worth 13 shillings and 4 pence apiece; and I will that everyone to whom I give a ring, they shall meet at my house on the next Monday, 6 weeks after my burial, to receive the rings; but if my executors do not have the rings made, they shall pay to every one of them 20 shillings; to all my godchildren 2 shillings apiece; to my cousin and godson, John Knight, the lease of my house, and all my estate; he shall pay to my sister, Joan, 10 pounds; and he shall pay to the said Joane 20 shillings per annum; concerning my two sons John Knight and Thomas Knight, God and the __ do know ho that I have spared no toile… and have purchased livings for them and builded them new houses … and have maintained and bred them up amongst the best… as well in the university, as in the county, to make them scholars, which knowing that to be the best ornament belonging to any man, and likewise … a far better patrimony than they have any way understood, yet nevertheless hoping that they will have a deep consideration of their duties than heretofore they have had, and humbly beseeching God that they may make good use of their talents (?) and learnings to God’s glory and to the profit of the commonwealth and country, I do therefore make them executors of all my printed books except the hereafter named (bequeathed), but if my sons shall unlawfully contend with the executor of this, my last will and testament, then they shall lose the benefit of this, their legacy and executorship. I give to my brother, Robert Knight of Woton-under-Edge 20 pounds; I give to my eldest son’s wife, my Geneva Bible, and to my younger son’s wife, I give my other large English Bible; my gilt Bible I give to my sister Edith; to my sister Bull, and to my brother Robert Knight’s wife, all Mr Beaton’s works as they are severally bound into books or volumes; to either of them one book both of which contain all his works; to my sister Anne Robin and my sister Christian Harmer, a chaine; to my wife’s brother, Richard Fyler, one of my ___ poets; and to Thomas Fyler, the crossbows that were his father’s, and to their sister Dorothy, 5 shillings to buy her a pewter basin or dish; to Agnes Loxen I give 10 shillings; to my maid I give 5 shillings; to every one of my brother’s and sister’s children, being only their own, 12 pounds apiece; residue of estate unbequeathed to brother Thomas Knight who is sole executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 096: Wallop, Quire Numbers 39-81 (1600))
1600 – Aug 24 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Anna Knight - d/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 5 – UK Kent Stockbury – Bap – Judith Knight (Tyler)
1600 – Oct 5 – UK London St Stephen Coleman – Mar - Margaret Knight & John Gough (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 5 – UK Surrey Southwark – Bap – William Knight - s/o Anthony Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 6 – UK Sussex Hastings – Bap – William Knight - s/o John Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 6 – UK Cornwall Poughill – Bap – Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 9 – UK London St Botolph – Mar – Hellen Knight & John King (London Met Arch)
1600 – Oct 20 – UK Kent Stockbury – Mar – Richard Knight & Margaret Iden (Tyler)
1600 – Nov 2 – UK Wiltshire Chirton – Bap – Thomas Knight - s/o Paul Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Nov 15 – UK Somerset Cudworth – Will – John Knight, Yeoman – To wife, all tenements and lands in Cudworth for life; after decease of wife, tenements and lands to go to son Richard Knight; after decease of Richard, tenements and land to go to daughter, Elizabeth; to wife, 16 cows and 6 young bullocks 1 yr old; to wife, 20 bushels of wheat and 20 bushels of oats and a measure of hay; to son Richard, “all my lands in Mooreton” and lands in Bobeight and Willonory and Exeter and Samford and Peverell; if son Richard dies before 21, and unmarried, then lands to go to daughters Elizabeth Knight and Johane Knight, equally divided; if either daughter dies before 18 and unmarried, her portion to be divided among surviving children; residue of estate to children Richard, Elizabeth and Johane, equally divided, and the three of them to be executors; William Gomer and Thomas Wigham to be overseers and they to receive 10 shillings apiece; wife to receive other household items, bed, pots, pans as long as she is unmarried; list of those who owe testator money: Nicholas Burgine, John Knight, John Hill, Nicholas Membry, William Deline, Roger Watt, mother-in-law Johane Knight owes 16 shillings. ( Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 096: Wallop, Quire Numbers 39-81 (1600))
1600 – Nov 16 – UK Sussex Rudgwick – Bap – Thomas Knight - s/o Walter Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Nov 23 – UK Sussex Billingshurst – Bap – William Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Dec 7 – UK Cornwall St Erney – Bap - Daniel Knight - s/o Ferdinando Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Dec 7 – UK Sussex Aldingbourne – Bap – Richard Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Dec 21 – UK Sussex Oving – Bap – John Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1600 – Dec 28 – UK Kent Canterbury – Bap – Sara Knight (Tyler)
1600 – UK Kent Lympne – Chancery – Peter Knight - Brodnax v Knight. Plaintiffs: Robert Brodnax and his sons Robert, William, Thomas and John. Defendants: Peter Knight, Thomas Knight, Edmund Knight, Christopher Knight, James Knight and William Knight. Subject: Dilapidations, waste; Capital messuage etc called French, situate in Lympne and Aldington, Kent, which premises were subject to gavelkind custom, of which William Knight was seised, who devised to his son William Knight, who died seised, leaving his sons Peter and James his heirs: Peter, being seised of a moiety, had issue Thomas and William etc. Document type: [pleadings]. Between 1558 and 1603. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/Eliz/B6/49)
Note: Connect this group with the Knights of the Ladd will below.
1601 – Jan 1 – UK Wiltshire Stratton St Margaret – Admin - John Knight - Agreement to partition an estate in Stratton St. Margaret between Richard Bridges and John Knight, concerning the whole manor and appurtenances which they hold jointly by virtue of letters patent of 35 Hen. VIII, 16 Feb 1547; Licence of alienation by letters patent of the whole manor of Stratton St. Margaret granted to John Knight, to alienate to Adam Blandy, 1 Dec 1601; Feoffment of the whole manor and appurtenances of Stratton St. Margaret. John Knight to Adam Blandy, 1 Jan 1601; Bargain and sale of the whole manor of Stratton St. Margaret, Nether Stratton and Stratton Thorpe. John Knight to Adam Blandy, 1 Jan 1601; Indentures of fine of the whole manor, as above. John Knight to Adam Blandy, Hil. 1601; Exemplification of a recovery of land in Stratton St. Margaret, Broad Blunsdon, Throppe, Westend and Groundwell. Otho Gayer and Richard Money, demandants; Adam Blande - tenant; John Knight - vouchee, Hil. 1601. (Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Ref: 116/7)
1601 – Feb 7 – UK Kent Lenham – Bur – Agnes Knight – w/o John Knight (Tyler)
1601 – UK Kent Hythe – Admin – William Knight - elected MP for Hythe (Hist of Parliament online)
1601 – Apr 3 – UK Worcestershire Great Malvern – Admin - John Knight - Recognizance before William Ligon and Thomas Folliott by Augustine Taylor of Newland, Clerk and John Knight of Great Malvern for the appearance of Dorothy Taylor of Newland, Spinster at the Sessions. (Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, Ref: 1/1/16/8)
1601 – May 14 – UK London St Margaret Pattens – Bap – George Knight - s/o Peter Knight and Katherine (London Met Arch)
1601 – Oct 20 – UK Suffolk Aldeburgh – Will – Thomas Knight, Mariner – Wife Sybil (Sibell), to receive for 7 years income from tenements and appurtenences in Rendham Barnes, now leased to Robert Clarke; after 7 years, to go to daughter, Joan; wife to receive half ownership of Clipper called “Mary Anne”; wife to receive annuity of 4 pounds a year for her natural life; after my decease, all my moveable goods to be divided into 5 equal parts, 1 part to go to wife, 4 parts to be sold; manor at Aldeburgh, lands, tenements, hereditaments, etc, to go to son Thomas Knight, son to pay his sister Joan 30 pounds in 3 installments; sister Anne Newsonne; daughter Elizabeth; numerous small bequests. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 098: Woodhall, Quire Numbers 39-89 (1601))
1601 – UK Sussex Stedham – Chancery – John Knight - Knight vs Knight - Plaintiffs: John Knight. Defendants: Barsabee Knight widow and others. Subject: property in Stedham and Iping, Sussex. Document type: bill, answer, replication. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 3/278/15)
1601 – UK Oxfordshire Banbury – Will - William Knight – Estate to Sir John Knight, knt. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608)
1602 – Feb 18 – UK Oxfordshire Banbury – Will – John Knight Laborer – Long philosophical/religious preface; to brother Richard Knight of Maydes Mooreton, County Buckinghamshire, 20 shillings; to brother William Knight of Lockomswood, Buckingham, laborer, 20 shillings; to Embry Knight, my kinswoman, 20 shillings; to Joanne Louth, the daughter of Mariam Louth, 5 pounds at age 18; residue of estate to Marian Louth who is to be executor. Signed with his mark. Wit: Rowland Bull and George Haines (Heynes). (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 101: Bolein, Quire Numbers 1-56 (1603))
1602 – Mar 14 - UK Surrey Southwark St Mary Rotherhithe – Bap – Roger Knight (London Met Arch)
1602 – Apr 1 – UK Warwickshire Castle Bromwich – Admin – Richard Knight, Yeoman - Counterpart of indenture "between Richarde Knight of Castle bromwich [Castle Bromwich], y[e]oman, Elizabeth, his wife, John Knight, son of the said Richarde Knight, Thomas Jennens of Birmingham, Smythe, and John Chattocke of Castlebromwiche, y[e]oman, being a settlement on the intended marriage of the said John Knight and Anne Cowper alias Piddocke, Widow, sister of the said Thomas Jennens, of a messuage, lands and appurtenances in Castle bromwich. (Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service, Ref: MS 3001/Acc 1800-001/19911)
Note: Is the bride twice married before? Or is she a half-sister of Thomas Jennens (Jennings?)?
1602 – May 17 – UK Somerset Dungersburie – Will – William Knight – Wife, Eleanor Knight (Elianor), 5 pounds over and above the 4 pounds and such goods as I am obligated to give her; and then something about her possibly making claims for more and how the executors should handle this; he apparently wasn’t very happy with her; to daughter, Marie, 34 pounds and a feather bed, a bolster, a pair of blankets, the best coverlet and pane; to daughter Agnes Lyminge, 20 pounds and two years old heifer; to daughter Frances, two milk cows and 3 pounds; to Alice Paine, the daughter of John Paine, 5 pounds (with a warning that it was not to fall into her father’s hands); to Henry Paine, the son of John Paine, 5 pounds with same warning about his father; to Richard Martin, 5 shillings; to the poor of the parish, 5 shillings 8 pence; to Lawrence Knight (son), 13 shillings; “all the rest of my goods and chattels” to son, William Knight who is to be executor; Overseers: brother Robert Knight, David Hardwicke of Chedder, and Edmond Kent of Puriton. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 099: Montague, Quire Numbers 1-43 (1602), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1602 – Jun 26 – UK Sussex Yapton – Nuncuperative Will or Admin – Thomas Knight – In Latn; appears to be either testimony about a nuncupative will, or court document about probate, or a lawsuit between heirs. Son and executor is Richard Knight; wife and relict, Elizabeth Knight; mentions a John Cooper who may be second executor or overseer; no details of the will here; (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 100: Montague, Quire Numbers 44-83 (1602))
1602 – Nov 8 – UK Southampton – Will – John Knight, Alderman – To John Jeffries, godson, a goblet of silver and 5 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence; to daughter Aberin Cornwallis, the lease of my late dwelling house with the glass in the windows, and the hangings, with all the implements whatsoever etc, for her use during her natural life, and after her decease to her son Thomas Cornwallis; daughter to receive many other specified household items such as bed, silver gilt bottle, carpet, robes, bolsters, feather pillows and blankets, plates, dishes, spoons; to Barbara Cornwallis, Anne Cornwallis, Richard Cornwallis, Thomas Cornwallis, Bartholomew Cornwallis, Miles Cornwallis, every one, 53 shillings 4 pence at age 21; Mr. Simon Pott, 10 shillings; Thomas Sutton, my son-in-law, is indebted to me for 31 pounds and has my books etc; in consideration of his ____ and great ___ towards me, my will is that if he will pay to my estate at one entire payment, after my decease, 15 pounds within one half year of my decease, I will forgive him the rest; to servant Agnes Holland, 40 shillings over and beside her wages; and to every maid in the house of my son-in-law Cornwallis, 2 shillings 5 pence; residue of estate to son-in-law Richard Cornwallis who is to be executor. I hope he will not deny that the legacies before given to my daughter, Aberin, his wife, may be by him ratified and allowed, and that it may be lawful for her to give and bestow the gifts to her given, to her children or friends as to her shall seem good. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 100: Montague, Quire Numbers 44-83 (1602))
Note: Richard Cornwallis is likely the son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis (1519-1604) though the History of Parliament does not appear to note him. His grandfather, Sir John Cornwallis (1491-1544) was steward of the household of Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Cornwallis was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1552–53 and made a Privy Councillor in Aug. 1553. He was Treasurer of Calais from April 1554 to December 1557 and Comptroller of the Household from December 1557 to November 1558. It may be of note that current biographies of the Thomas Cornwallis who was connected with Lord Baltimore, are unsure of his origins saying only that somehow he is related to Sir Charles Cornwallis of Beeston, Norfolk. They suggest that “Thomas was probably the son (or the brother) of the author William Cornwallis. “
1602 – Nov 25 – UK Southampton – Ox Alum – John Knight – Of Southants, pleb, Magdalen Hall, matric. 25 Nov. 1602, aged 18; B.A. from Christ Church 2 Jul 1606. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 861)
1603 – UK London – Info – Plague - There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603 in the City of London.
1603 – Jan 11 - UK Kent Canterbury – Admin – Court Session – Recognizances Discharged: …Robert Bennett of Chartham, yeoman, for good behaviour in £20….Luke Padnoll, grocer, and William Hall, innkeeper, both of Ashford, both in £10, to keep the peace at the suit of Mary Whitehead of the same. Sureties, John Eppes (Epps) of Selling, gent., and John Barker of Ashford, both in £10…. Recognizances until the next [session] here. Martin Cooke of Faversham, husbandman, in £10. Sureties, Christopher Barrett and William Dixe of the same, husbandmen, both in £5. To keep the peace towards Mathew Carter….John Knight of Newington, weaver, in £10, for good behaviour. Surety Robert Pratt of Stellinge, husbandman, in £5. Richard Knight of Allington, yeoman, in £10, for good behaviour. Surety, John Knight of the same, yeoman, in £5….John Freind of Swakefield, labourer, in £13 6s. 8d. for good behaviour, Sureties, Christopher Stoke of Seasalter, yeoman, and Andrew Symmes of Faversham, husbandman, both in £6 13s. 8d…. John Merriwether (Merywether) of Sutton Valence, gent… Recognizances Defaulted. William Eppes of Ashford, gent., to keep the peace at the suit of Stephen Esden of Kennyngton, shereman….John Merriwether of Sutton Valence, gent., in £20, to keep the peace at the suit of Robert Sharpe of the same, gent. Surety, Christopher Bacheler of the parish of St. Lawrence-without-Canterbury, yeoman, in £10….John Merriwether (Merywether) of Sutton Valence 5s. paid to the sheriff. Special Session at Maidstone, 20th January, 1602/3, before Sir Thomas Fludd, Martin Barneham, and others.
The jury empannelled, that is, Edward Godden, gent., William Everneden, John Trendall, John Baseden, Richard Riche, Henry Hunt, John May, John Woodyer, Joseph May, Thomas Coveney, John Fyshenden, Thomas Baker, Henry Baker, Mathew Crowherst and James Dowle, present that William Lampard of Chart next Sutton Valence, gent., on 31st December, 1602, at Maidstone, riding on a gelding, in the highway, with a "dager drawen", with malice aforethought, assaulted Richard Willard, being in the way leading to the town of Maidstone. Writ of venire facias, for him to appear at the next session at Maidstone, sheriff returns nichil habet, therefore writ of capias to have him at the following session at Canterbury, sheriff returns non est inventus, therefore writ of sicut prius capias [sic].
John Wood of Tonbridge, labourer, with Jonah Carr of Tonbridge, weaver, on 18th December, 1602, at Loose, on Coxheath, stole five wethers worth 40s. from George Charlton. Writ of capias to have him before the justices at Maidstone on Tuesday next after the close of Easter [3rd May 1603] and the sheriff to enquire what goods, chattels, lands and tenements he has and to distrain them, sheriff returns non est inventus and bona....... nulla, therefore writ of sicut prius capias [sic].
Edward Hunt, of Rusthall, husbandman, with William Aplebee of Speldhurst, tailor, on 6th December 1602, at Speldhurst, stole one sheep worth 6s. 8d. belonging to Andrew Frye. (Kent History and Library Centre, Ref: Q/SR/1/m.15)
Note: I’ve included this text in extenso because it is such an amazing collection of names that later appear in Virginia.
1603 – Feb 14 – UK London St Michael – Nunc Will – John Knight – Father John Knight; brother Richard Knight; cousin Francis Edwards; main heir appears to be a friend, Thomas Godney, who cared for this John during a long sickness. May have been in the military because his sword, pistol and dagger and fustian clothing are given to said Godney. Wit: Fortune Hill and Dorothy Savage. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 103: Harte, Quire Numbers 1-48 (1604))
Note: Rather long for a nuncupative will.
1603 – Mar 25 – UK Kent Godmersham – Bur - ___ Knight (Tyler)
1603 – Jun 30 – UK Southampton – Admin – John Knight – In Latin. John Knight of Southampton; Names mentioned: Barbara Jeffries alias Knight; John Jeffries; Richard Cornwallis is executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 101: Bolein, Quire Numbers 1-56 (1603))
1603 – Jul 27 – UK London St Margaret Pattens – Bur – Anne Knight - d/o Peter Knight and Kathering (London Met Arch)
1603 – Aug 14 – UK Kent Lydd – Bap – Elizabeth Knight - d/o John Knight (Tyler)
1603 – Aug 15 – UK London St Andrew – Bur – Jacob Knight (Or James) (London Met Arch)
1603 – Aug 21 – UK Hampshire Ringwood – Bap – Leonard Knight - s/o John Knight (London Met Arch)
1603 – Sep 16 – UK London St Margaret Pattens – Bur – Peter Knight - s/o Peter Knight (London Met Arch)
1603 – Oct 4 – UK London St Margaret Pattens – Bur – Peter Knight - h/o Katharine (London Met Arch)
1603 – Nov 18 – UK Dorsetshire Shapwick – Will – Jane Knight, Widow – To the parish church at Shapwick, 6 shillings 8 pence; to the church at Lymington, 10 shillings; to the poor of Lymington, 5 shillings; to cousin Thomas Kilway, 40 shillings; to Joane Hannington, daughter of Reynold Hannington, clothing items and 10 pounds; to Rachell Hannington, another daughter of Reynold, 10 pounds; to kinswoman Joane Scot, clothing, household items, bed, etc, and 10 pounds; to Henry Hannington, son of Reynold, 40 shillings; to Luce Hannington, wife of Reynold, clothing, household items; to Andrew, Robert and Ralph Kilway, sons of Thomas Kilway of Shapwick, Gent, 6 pounds to be divided equally; to Elizabeth Kilway, wife of Thomas, clothing and 3 pounds; to Alice Kilway, wife of Richard Kilway of Hooke, “my wedding ring”; to Susan Holcomb, clothing; to all the house servants of Master Thomas Kilway of Shapwick, 5 pence apiece; residue of estate to Master Thomas Kilway who is to be executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 102: Bolein, Quire Numbers 57-111 (1603))
1603 – Dec 28 – UK Lincolnshire Swineshead – Will – John Knight, Yeoman – To the mother church of Lincs, 6 pence; to the poor of the parish, 20 shillings; to John Swillingford, “my brother”, items; to Robert Sergeant, Henry Sergeant, Elizabeth Sergeant, Susan Sergeant, money at age 21; to wife Mary, all lands and tenements in Swineshead to hold until daughter, Elizabeth, turns 18; if wife bears a son, that son gets everything at 18 yrs; if another daughter, she will divide with current daughter; If his heirs fail, the estate to go to daughters of his Uncle, John Knight, late of Swineshead, deceased. Additional small bequests, etc. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 102: Bolein, Quire Numbers 57-111 (1603))
1603 – UK Sussex Barnham – Chancery – John Knight - Thompson v Knight. Plaintiffs: Thomas Thompson and Agnes Thompson his wife and John Capron. Defendants: John Knight. Subject: Claim by descent, and to protect the plaintiff John Capron, as under-tenant and lessee, against suits at law of the defendant, till disputed title between the parties should be adjudged and determined by this court. The rectory and parsonage of Barneham [Barnham], Sussex, with the appurtenances, and messuages and lands in Barneham, and the manor in Todham, with the appurtenances, and messuages and lands in the city of Chichester, late in the possession of John Standen, grandfather of the plaintiff Agnes Thompson - the defendant's father was son-in-law and executor to the said John Standen, and father of the plaintiff Agnes Thompson, who having in his life time set up a false claim to the fee simple of the said premises, the defendant asserts his claim. Document type: [Pleadings] (National Archives, Kew England, Ref:C 2/Eliz/T11/44)
1603 – UK Nottinghamshire Lowdham – Chancery – Peter Knight - Plaintiffs: Richard Firmery, Lawrence Baguley, Peter Knight. Defendants: Thomas Leeke alias Thomas Harrison. Subject: manor of Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, held under lease granted by William, Lord Vaux, late Lord Harrowden and George Harrowden, his son [William Vaux Lord Vaux of Harrowden (died 1595) and George Vaux his son (died 1594)]. Document type: [pleadings]. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/F10/4)
1603 – UK Sussex Arlington - Chancery – George Knight - Knight v Giles. Plaintiffs: George Knight (executor of John Knight, and guardian to Robert Knight his son). Defendants: William Giles. Subject: manor of Jeffington in Arlington, and farm in Alfriston, Sussex, late of William Crewe. Document type: [pleadings]. 1603-1625. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/K1/17)
1603 – UK Hampshire Romsey – Chancery – Aaron Knight - Knight v Okes. Plaintiffs: Aaron Knight (guardian of John Knight, an infant). Defendants: Charles Okes. Subject: lands in Rumsey [Romsey], Hampshire. Document type: [pleadings]. 1603-1625. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/K2/11)
1603 – UK London Tower Hill – Chancery – John Knight - Avarell v Knight. Plaintiffs: Francis Avarell and Joan Avarell his wife. Defendants: John Knight and Anne Knight his wife (late wife of Richard Lee). Subject: the Castle [Inn], in Rosemary Lane, Tower Hill, London. Document type: [pleadings]. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/A6/2)
1603 – UK Hampshire Bishop Stoke – Chancery – John Knight - Domer v Knight. Plaintiffs: Thomas Domer and Richard Domer his son. Defendants: John Knight and Joan Knight his wife. Subject: messuage and land in Bishop Stoke, Hampshire, late of John Busted, and afterwards of John Hampton. Document type: [pleadings] (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/D1/17)
1603 – UK Warwickshire Castle Bromwich – Chancery – John Knight - Stone v Collins. Plaintiffs: Henry Stone. Defendants: Thomas Collins, Elizabeth Collins his wife, John Knight, Martha Knight his wife, Thomas Plummer, Mary Plummer his wife and Hannibal Castleton. Subject: messuage and land in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. Document type: [pleadings] (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/JasI/S19/16)
1604 – Feb 18 – UK Northamptonshire Piddington – Will - Edward Knight - Son Thomas Knight, 100 pounds to be paid to him one year after his apprenticeship be ended; Son Richard Knight 100 marks; daus. Martha Knight , Anna Knight, Elizabeth Knight and Joanna Knight:100 marks each; wife Elizabeth gets all lands and chattels during her life/widowhood. (PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 106: Hayes, Quire Numbers 55-90 (1605),Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1604 Mar 24 – UK Kent Dover – Will - Robert Ladd - He was first married to a Martha who was bur. 15 Nov 1595 at Hythe. They had 4 children: Nicholas, Thomas, Mary and Richard Ladd. Robert Ladd then married Elizabeth Knight on 30 Jan 1598. She was the widow of an unnamed Knight and had Knight children. As his widow, she is left the use of the house in Hythe. She died 15 Apr 1609 at Hythe and was buried in the churchyard there. She made a will leaving bequests to her Knight children: Thomas Knight, Peter Knight, Christopher Knight, James Knight, Edward Knight and dau. Joane Knight Sanders, wife of Jeremy Sanders. (also Richard Ladd m. Elizabeth Sanders) Unfortunately, the available material does not tell us any more than these bare bones that I had to work to figure out by a close and careful reading of a mess of probate clerk notes. See below.
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1604 – Jun 15 – UK Kent Tenterden – Mar – Edward Knight & Rebecka Beamwell (Tyler) Name just above: John Paris.
1604 – Jul 4 – UK Kent Hythe – Admin - Peter Knight - Christopher Knight of Tunstall, yeoman, in £40, to appear and to be of good behaviour; sureties, Peter Knight of Hythe, yeoman and John Mouente [as in QM/SRc/1604/69] (Kent History and Library Centre, Ref: QM/SRc/1604/70)
1604 – Nov 16 – UK Southampton – Ox Alum – Thomas Knight – Of Southants, pleb. Hart Hall, matric. 16 Nov 1604, aged 16. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 862)
1604 Nov – UK London St Bride – Will - John Powell – Bequests to: Thomas Knight, Ann Powell wife; Lady Anne Gilbert, widow, relationships not specified. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608)
1604 – UK Devonshire – Chancery – John Knight - Kynsman v Cole. Plaintiffs: Roger Kinsman (Kynsman), gent of Devon. Defendants: John Cole, John Knight and Richard Chubb. Document type: answer only. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 2/ChasI/K26/161)
1604 – UK Essex Brundon Ballingdon – Will - Francis Knight, Rector – Estate to William Knight, clerk, brother. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608)
1604 – UK Gloucestershire Coln St Aldwyns – Will - Peter Knight – No data available. (Calendar of Gloucestershire Wills. Proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester, Chapter 1711. )
1605 – Feb 17 - UK Surrey Southwark St Mary Rotherhithe – Bap – John Knight – s/o John Knight. (London Met Arch)
1605 – Feb 25 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Henry Knight - s/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1605 – Mar 1 – UK Berkshire Reading – Ox Alum – Roger Knight – Of Berks., Gent, Magdalen Coll., matric 1 Mar 1604-5, aged 20; bar.-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn, 1614. See Foster’s Judges and Barristers. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 862)
1605 – Mar 9 – UK Kent Canterbury St Dunstan – Bur – Peter Knight (Christenings, Marriages and Burialls in St Dunstan's, Canterbury, 1559-1800; by J Cowper; 1887; Canterbury, Kent, England)
1605 – Jun 9 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bur – John Knight – The entry just before this one is dated May 29 and says “Ambrose Bennett (Ambros Benet) his wife was buried”. (Tyler)
1605 – Jun 7 – UK Kent – Ox Alum – James Knight – Pleb. St Alban Hall, matric. 7 Jun 1605, aged 17. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 861)
1605 – Jun 7 – UK Kent Selling – Ox Alum – Peter Knight – Pleb. St Alban Hall, matric. 7 Jun 1605, aged 16; B.A. from Magdalen Hall 19 Jun 1609, M.A. 16 May 1612, student of Gray’s Inn 1607, late of Selling, Kent, gent; vicar of new Romney, Kent, 1613. See Foster’s Gray’s Inn Reg. & Foster’s Index Eccl. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 862)
1605 – Aug 24 – UK Kent Sholden – Chancery – Peter Knight - Thomas Franklen of Sholden, yeoman, John Harnett of the same, labourer, George Verriar of Deal, labourer, John Forbrace of Northbourne, labourer, William Browne of Elham, labourer, James Phillipps of Northbourne, labourer, Peter Knight of Northbourne, labourer, at Sholden, illegally and riotously entered a close of Simon Lott of Sholden, yeoman, called Hull Close and Sholden Downe. [Ignoramus]. (Kent History and Library Centre, QM/SI/1605/22/11)
1605 – UK Northamptonshire Piddington – Will - Edward Knight, Gent – No details. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
1605 – UK Somerset Yatton – Will - John Knight – No details available. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
1605 – UK Suffolk – Camb Alum – William Knights - Matric. pens. from QUEENS', Easter, 1605. Of Suffolk. B.A. 1608-9; M.A. 1612.
1606 – May 7 – UK London St Bride – Mar – John Knight & Eleanor Jordan (Elynor) (London Met Arch)
1606 – May 10 – UK Kent Canterbury – Mar – Dorothy Knight & John Crookenden (Christenings, Marriages and Burialls in St Dunstan's, Canterbury, 1559-1800; by J Cowper; 1887; Canterbury, Kent, England)
1606 – May 12 – UK Kent Gravesend – Info - John Knight, Mariner - Journal: 12 May 1606-26 Jun 1606; (British Library: Asian and African Studies, Ref: IOR/L/MAR/A/II) Note: This John Knight was an explorer of Greenland and Labrador. He is known for two expeditions: he was a member of a Danish exploration of the coast of Greenland, and he led an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, during which he was lost. In April of 1606, he sailed from Gravesend in the Hopewell of 40 tons. On 19 June he sighted the coast of Labrador and followed it southwards, intending to explore as much as possible during the summer and to winter ashore. His plans went astray when the ship was badly damaged in a storm, probably in the vicinity of Nain. On 26 June, Knight and three companions, including his brother Gabriel Knight, went ashore; they never returned. His crew denied that they had borne any grudge against the commander whom they deserted, claiming that ice and hostile Eskimos prevented their searching for him. I have placed him in Kent because there is another Knight family there at Sutton with a Gabriel and I suspect it may have been a family name preference and thus, a relationship.
1606 – May 21 – UK Kent Hougham – Bur - Henry Knight - s/o William Knight (Tyler)
1606 – Jun 30 – UK Kent Bicknor – Mar – James Knight & Anne Cullen (Tyler)
1606 – Aug 8 – UK Somerset Preston – Will – John Knight – To the church at Preston, 10 shillings 8 pence; to the poor of the parish, 6 shillings 8 pence; to daughter Jone, 15 pounds of which 10 pounds is due from John Nicholls of Lillington in Warwick; to daughter Mary, 40 pounds; the legacy shall remain in the hands of John Roswell of Preston and John Collins of Preston, for the use of said daughter until she be of lawful age or married; residue of estate to wife, Joan/Johane, who is to be executrix. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 108: Stafford, Quire Numbers 51-101 (1606))
Note: Apparently, no male issue.
1606 – Aug 20 – UK London St Bride – Bur – Henry Knight - s/o Thomas (London Met Arch)
1606 – Sep 4 – UK Kent Newington Hythe: Mar – Paule Knight to Alice Tilden, wid. (Tyler)
1606 – Oct 16 – UK Kent Canterbury St Dunstan – Bur – Peter Knight (Christenings, Marriages and Burialls in St Dunstan's, Canterbury, 1559-1800; by J Cowper; 1887; Canterbury, Kent, England)
1606 – UK Hampshire Faringdon – Chancery – Knight vs Knight - Plaintiffs: John Knight and John Knight. Defendants: Lawrence Knight. Subject: property in Faringdon, Hampshire. Document type: Bill only. (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: C 5/615/99)
1606 – UK Warwickshire – Will - John Knight – Estate to John Knight, presumably his son but not enough information given to be sure. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608)
1607 – Jan 21 – UK Hampshire Kingsclere – Mar – Peter Knight & Jone Winkworth (London Met Arch)
1607 – Feb 3 – UK Herefordshire Madley – Will – Alice Knight – To 3 children, William Knight, Katherine and Elizabeth, 20 pounds apiece; to the three of them, numerous household items such as beds, bolsters, linen, pots, etc; to son Francis Knight, one cow (?); wills that son John Knight shall release all her debtors (?). Son John to be executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 111: Windebanck, Quire Numbers 1-55 (1608))
1607 – Mar 22 – UK London St Andrew Holborn – Bur – Peter Knight (London Met Arch)
1607 - Apr26 – VA Jamestown – Info – Foundation of Jamestown - After the failure of the Roanoke colonies, investors in the Virginia Company of London were anxious to find profit farther to the north, and in April 1607 three ships of settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay. On 26 April, Jamestown colonists first dropped anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, and after a brief skirmish with local Indians, began to explore the James River. On May 13th, the colonists selected a marshy peninsula 50 miles up the James River, to establish a settlement. The Jamestown settlement, established in 1607, was England's first permanent colony in North America. The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined Indian resistance, was a miserable failure at first. "The adventurers who ventured their capital lost it," the historian Edmund S. Morgan has written."Most of the settlers who ventured their lives lost them. And so did most of the Indians who came near them."
1607 – Jul 17 – UK Somerset Crewekerne – Will – Robert Knight – To son Robert Knight, house, lands, etc; if he has no male heirs, will default to son, John Knight and his heirs; daughter Elizabeth Northover; Robert Knight, 150 pounds; Elizabeth, 4 pounds; son-in-law John Northover, 20 shillings; to Alice Reymoughe, 3 pounds, 5 shillings, 8 pence; George Perdue, one of the Aldermen of Hinton, 20 shillings; to the poor, 10 shillings; residue of the estate to go to son John Knight who is executor; Gyles Danberry, Esq, of Warford, to be overseer. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 110: Huddleston, Quire Numbers 48-99 (1607), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1607 – Aug 9 – UK Kent River – Bap – Joane Knight - d/o William Knight (Tyler)
1607 – Sep 13 – UK Sussex Arlington – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o William Knight (London Met Arch)
1607 – Oct 17 - UK Surrey Southwark St Mary Rotherhithe – Bap – Sara Knight – d/o John Knight. (London Met Arch)
1607 – UK Wiltshire Cricklade – Will - Francis Knight – Estate to Peter Knight, brother. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1596-1608)
1607 – VA Jamestown – Info – Lost Colony at Roanoke - John Smith and other members of the Jamestown Colony sought information about the fate of the Roanoke colonists. One report indicated that the survivors had taken refuge with friendly Chesapeake Indians, but Chief Powhatan claimed that his tribe had attacked the group and killed most of the colonists. Powhatan showed Smith certain artifacts that he said had belonged to the colonists, including a musket barrel and a brass mortar and pestle. However, no archaeological evidence exists to support this claim. The Jamestown Colony received reports of some survivors of the Lost Colony and sent out search parties, but none were successful. Eventually they determined that they were all dead.
In her 2000 book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, Lee Miller postulated that some of the Lost Colony survivors sought shelter with a neighboring Indian tribe, the Chowanoc, that was attacked by another tribe, identified by the Jamestown Colony as the "Mandoag," but who Miller thinks were actually the Eno, also known as the Wainoke. Survivors were eventually sold into slavery and held captive by differing bands of the Eno tribe, who, Miller wrote, were known slave traders. Miller wrote that English settlers with the Jamestown Colony heard reports in 1609 of the captive Englishmen, but the reports were suppressed because they had no way to rescue the captives and didn't want to panic the Jamestown colonists.
1608 – Mar 20 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Grace Knight - d/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1608 – May 17 – UK Wiltshire Salisbury St Edmund – Bur – Christopher Knight – s/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1608 – May 23 – UK Kent Tenterden – Mar – Mary Knight & Thomas Collins (Colyns) (Tyler)
1608 – Sep 5 – UK Hampshire St Denys – Admin – John Knight - Assignment of term of years by John Knight of St Denys, Hants, gent, to Sir George More of Loseley and Sir Robert More of Great and Little Pond in Frensham with fishing rights, leased by the Bishop of Winchester to Knight, for the lives of Sir William, Sir George and Sir Robert. (Surrey History Centery, Ref: LM/349/54/1)
1608 – Sep 19 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bur – Rebecka Knight – w/o Edward Knight (Tyler)
1608 – Nov 7 – UK Wiltshire Burbage – Will – William Knight, Yeoman – To the Cathedral church, 10 shillings; to the parish church, 10 shillings; to the poor of Burbage, 40 shillings; son George Knight, 30 pounds; brother Thomas Knight of Buckinghamshire, tailor, 4 (or 40?) sheep; to his children, Elizabeth Knight and William Knight, 4 ewes between them; to cousin Francis Knight, 4 sheep; to sister Joan Knight, 30 shillings; to Amy Wyatt of Calne, my sister, 40 shillings; to Mary Wyatt of Calne, sister, 1 bull; to Jane Kingston, goddaughter, 2 sheep; to William Kingston, George Kingston and Anne Kingston, 3 sheep between them, viz; 1 apiece; to Marie, one of my godchildren 12 pence; residue of estate to wife, Elizabeth who is to be executrix; good friend, George Comyn, squire of Burbage, and John ___ of Salton (?) overseers; list of debts owed to him. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 112: Windebanck, Quire Numbers 56-114 (1608))
1608 – Dec 9 – UK Kent Cranbrook – Mar – Agnes Knight & Richard Waterman (Tyler)
Note: The entry just above this one is the marriage of Edward Blackmore (Blackamoore) and Elizabeth Waterman.
1608 – Dec 13 – UK Worcestershire Hatfield – Will – Thomas Knight – To be buried at Norton; to son John Knight, 20 pounds, 3 stone of wool, 3 timber trees which I bought in Abbotte wood; to eldest son, Edmond Knight, 4 oxen and all the tools and implements of husbandry, a malt mill, a perry mill, a great poll, all the wainscot in the parlor, a joined bedstead, a press and the wainscot in the hall from the ___ to the glass window; also to Edmund, a feather bed, coverlet, 4 pair of sheets, 3 cows, 10 sheep, and other items in house and barns; to daughter Margaret Knight, 30 pounds, the best feather bed, bedstead, 2 bolsters, 4 pillowcases with pillows, 2 double blankets, and more household items, to be delivered to her on the day of marriage; to daughter Elizabeth Larke, 20 shillings of the 7 pounds which her husband owes me; to the two daughters of Elizabeth Larke, 10 shillings apiece to be paid out of the said 7 pounds which their father owes me; to Edward Knight, the son of John Knight, my son, 2 sheep and to his daughter 1 sheep; to niece Elizabeth Bullard, 1 heifer; to my servant, 3 shillings 4 pence and one sheep; to Joane Dither, Widow, 20 shillings; to Eleanor Dither, Widow, 20 shillings; to every godchild, 5 pence apiece; to the poor of Norton, 10 shillings to be distributed by William Mathews and Richard Wright; to the repairs of the church, 5 shillings 8 pence; residue of estate, all goods and chattes, etc, to son George Knight who is to be executor; William Mansell, William Mathews and John Knight, overseers; to each of them, 12 pence. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 112: Windebanck, Quire Numbers 56-114 (1608))
1608 – Dec 16 – UK Somerset Puriton – Ox Alum – William Knight – B.A. from Balliol Coll 16 Dec 1608; one of these names vicar of Puriton, Somerset 1616. See Foster’s Index Eccl. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, pp. 861-863)
1608 – UK London St Olave’s – Will - Robert Knight Cit. and Clothworker – Leg. to: brother: Edmond Knight; Margaret, Edmond’s wife; sister: Maria Smith wife of Henrie Smith of Morton in the county of Surry, Yeoman; their dau. Anne Baker, husb. Henrie Baker; Richard Knight fishmonger and Jane his wife; Jane Knight, dau. of bro. Edmond, 150 pounds(!) Kinsman James Frankin, Salter, and his wife: ten pounds, everything else to wife Anne Knight. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
Note: See: 1549 Humfrey Knight; 1558 Robert Knight; 1564 Johanna Knight.
1609 – UK Kent Hythe – Admin – William Knight - appointed porter of Sandgate Castle (Hist of Parliament Online)
1609 – Feb 3 – UK Gloucestershire Gloucester – Ox Alum – John Knight – Of co. Gloucester, pleb. Christ Church, matric. 3 Feb 1608-9, aged 17; B.A. from Broadgates Hall, 2 Jul 1612, M.A. 4 May 1619; one of these names vicar of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, 1620. See Foster’s Index Eccl. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 861)
1609 – May 22 – UK Kent Tenterden – Mar – Agnes Knight & Thomas Collins (Collynes) (Tyler)
1609 Jun 2 – England / Virginia – Info - The largest fleet England has ever amassed - nine ships, 600 passengers, and livestock and provisions to last a year - left England for Virginia. Led by the flagship Sea Venture, the fleet's mission was to save the failing colony. Sir Thomas Gates headed the expedition.
1609 – Aug 31 – UK Somerset Combe St Nicholas – Will – Simon Knight, Yeoman – Annuity to mother, Elizabeth Alford, of 3 pounds out of a lease in Burkland St Marie. Residue of estate to wife, Agnes Knight. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 114: Dorset, Quire Numbers 57-120 (1609))
1609 – Sep 1 - UK Somerset Portbury – Will - John Knight, Mariner – Bequest to the poor of the parish; small bequests to friends, relatives with no apparent Knight connections named. (PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 114: Dorset, Quire Numbers 57-120 (1609), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1609 – Oct 11 – UK London St Leonard Shoreditch – Bur – Christopher Knight (London Met Arch)
1609 – Nov – VA Jamestown – Info - First Anglo-Powhatan War - After the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, they struggled to survive through terrible drought and cold winters. Unable to adequately provide for themselves, they pressured the Indians of Tsenacomoco for relief, which led to a series of conflicts along the James River that intensified in the autumn of 1609. In Nov of 1609, Powhatan ordered something like a siege of the English fort, which lasted through the winter of 1609–1610 and precipitated the so-called Starving Time. While the English colonists starved in Virginia, the shipwrecked crew and passengers of the Sea Venture made camp in Bermuda. They built two new boats, the Patience and Deliverance, from Bermuda cedar and the scavenged remains of the Sea Venture. (Brendan Wolfe, Encyclopedia Virginia, Library of Virginia, Online)
1610 - Feb 11 – UK Kent Sutton at Hone - John Knight Will – To daughter Anne Knight 40 pounds to be paid out of my rent at Stambridge beginning the next rent day after my decease; to daughter Frances Knight 5 pounds on her marriage day if she marry someone to the liking of her brothers Thomas Knight and John Knight, or one of them; there was a legacy of 40 pounds given to daughter Frances by her Aunt Katherine Heyward, the money was placed into my hands and my two sons, John Knight and Thomas Knight have bound for it in court; the same 40 pounds being put in my son Henry Knight’s hands to do him good, hath contrarywise embezzled and wasted it and for that I am bound to make good; therefore, this 40 pounds to begin to be repaid out of the rents from Stambridge property after daughter Anne has received her 40 pounds; if one or other of the daughters dies before receiving entire amount, the rest to go to the other daughter; to daughter Elizabeth Knight, 30 pounds to be paid out of rent from Stambridge after Frances has received her 40 pounds; to son Gabriel Knight, all the rest and residue of the rents from Stambridge property except for 4 pounds, 5 shillings per year to my wife during her widowhood; wife, Ursula, to receive lease of house at Sutton and all goods and chattels and she to be executrix; after her death, estate to my two sons John Knight and Thomas Knight; to godson John Rawlins, 2 shillings 5 pence. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 117: Wood, Quire Numbers 1-58 (1611)Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
1610 – Feb 14 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bur – Margery Knight - Widow to Richard Knight (Tyler)
1610 – Mar 25 – UK Kent Bicknor – Bap – Robert Knight – s/o James Knight (Tyler)
1610 – May 24 - VA Jamestown - Info - Due to the fact that much of the planet was still in the grip of the Little Ice Age, famine was almost everywhere, especially among the Native Americans. During the winter of 1609–1610, the VA colony, unable to obtain food from the Natives, who simply didn’t have it, nearly starved. The resupply ship Sea Venture, carrying much of Virginia's new leadership, was thought lost at sea. When it finally arrived in May 1610, only 60 colonists still survived. After the arrival of the reinforcements, the colonists turned savagely against the Indians who had laid siege to their settlement causing unimaginable hardship and suffering. Using terror tactics borrowed from Queen Elizabeth's conquest of Ireland, English soldiers burned villages and towns and executed women and children. Eventually they defeated the Nansemonds and Kecoughtans at the mouth of the James and the Appomattox near the falls. (Brendan Wolfe, Encyclopedia Virginia, Library of Virginia, Online)
1610 – Jun 22 – UK Rutland Oakham – Ox Alum – Benjamin Knight, Vicar – Subscribed; one of this name, Vicar of Oakham Rutland, 1647. See Foster’s Index Eccl. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1880, p. 861)
1610 – Aug 12 – UK London St Bride – Bur – Grace Knight - d/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1610 – UK Hampshire Kingsclere – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Peter Knight (London Met Arch)
1610 – Aug 25 – UK London St Bride – Bur – Arthur Knight - s/o Arthur Knight (London Met Arch)
1610 – UK Devonshire Stokenham – Admin – John Knight, Husbandman – Quitclaim: 1 John Knight of Stokenham, husbandman to 2 Sir Frances Popham; Stert tenement, Stokenham. (Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, Ref: 74/63/14)
1611 – Feb 11 - UK Kent Sutton at Hone – Will - Ursula Knight, Widow – Estate to sons John Knight and Thomas Knight. (Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1609-1619) (National Archives, Kew England, Ref: PROB 11/117/135)
1611 – May 28 – UK Kent Bromley Elmstead – Mar – Peter Knight & Alice Inge (Tyler)
1611 – May – VA Jamestown - Sir Thomas Dale, appointed Virginia's marshal, arrived in the colony with about 300 well-armed soldiers. He immediately issued orders to erect palisades at the James River settlements to secure them from attack. Discipline at Jamestown did not match the urgency of the moment until Sir Thomas Dale's arrival and his full implementation of the strict Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall. By year's end, Dale had founded an outside settlement at Henrico, near what became Richmond. The introduction of saleable tobacco soon after helped secure the colony's economy. (Brendan Wolfe, Encyclopedia Virginia, Library of Virginia, Online)
1611 – Jul 3 – UK Berkshire Comner – Will – Francis Knight, Yeoman – To the poor, 10 shillings; to son, John Knight, 20 shillings; to Samuel Knight, the son of William Knight of Bucks, 10 shillings; to Francis House, son of John House, 10 shillings; to daughters of Edward Knight, Anne and Katherine, 10 shillings apiece; to godson Francis Kirkwood, son of John Kirkwood, 6 shillings 8 pence; to son Francis Knight, 40 pounds; to Nicholas Knight, the son of John Knight, ___ at age 21; residue to wife, Johane executrix; overseers Henry Jackson and Robert Phillips. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 118: Wood, Quire Numbers 59-108 (1612))
1611 – Jul 25 – UK London St Bride – Mar – Jayne Knight & Charles Harrison (London Met Arch)
1611 – Oct 20 – UK Kent Lydd – Bap – Margaret Knight - d/o Nicholas Knight (Tyler)
1611 - Oct 24 – UK London St Bride – Bap – William Knight - s/o Arthur Knight (London Met Arch)
1611 – Nov 24 – UK Oxfordshire St Ebbe – Bap – Phillip Woodson – s/o John Woodson, chimneysweep. (London Met Arch)
1611 - Nov 27 – UK Kent Cowden – Will - John Knight, Yeoman – Wife, Isabell, 30 pounds, to be paid in installments over 10 years or so; then wife to get bed and furnishings and many items; son John Knight, a 3 yr old bull; to son George Knight, 30 pounds to be paid within a year; George gets a bed and other furniture; daughter Dorothy, a coffer; to Edward Bearde, kinsman, 5 pounds; to Marie Knight, the daughter of brother Samuel Knight, 40 shillings at 21 or upon marrying; to Jonas Knight, godson, 5 pounds; and to all other godchildren, 12 pence apiece; to servant John Croberry, 10 shillings; to Marie Knight, daughter of George Knight the elder of Eaton bridge (Windsor Bridge in Eton?), 20 shillings ; everything not bequeathed, all goods, chattels, to son Richard Knight who is to be executor; kinsmen John Knight and Robert Knight, sons of brother George Knight, to be overseers. Then, the will takes off on land bequests: wife, Isabell, to rec house and lands called Fidlord (?) being in Cowden, Kent; then all lands and tenements in Chislehurst, Kent, called Lampington and Woollywood (?), to son George Knight and heirs of his body; then other lands in the same location to go to sons Richard Knight and John Knight and their heirs; Signed with his marke. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 118: Wood, Quire Numbers 59-108 (1612))
1611 – UK Hampshire Kingsclere – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Robert Knight (London Met Arch)
1612 – Feb 23 – UK London Southwark St Olave – Will – Giles Knight – To wife Elizabeth, the rents or payments from one Mr William Haynes and a house he owned in Dover, Kent, occupied by a Mr Jacob Heighson, the wife having to pay the said tenant 100 pounds. Wife to get all other goods and chattels and to be executrix; no children mentioned. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 121: Capell, Quire Numbers 1-65 (1613))
1612 – Mar 1 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Jayne Knight - d/o Thomas Knight, Scrivener (London Met Arch)
1612 – Mar 20 – UK Devonshire Lynton – Admin - John Knight - Lease for 99 years or 3 lives: 1. Sir Robert Bassett of Heanton, knight; 2. John Knight the younger of Lynton; his wife Agne and their son John; Property: West Lyne; Consideration: 15s annual rent; Lives: John Knight, Agnes Knight and their son John. (North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust), Ref: 2309-3/33/2)
1612 – Mar 29 – UK Kent Elmstead – Bap – Annis Knight – d/o Peter Knight (Tyler)
Note: Appears to be the only Knight entry in this parish.
1612 – May 1 – UK Kent Lenham – Bur – Clement Knight (Tyler)
1612 – Jun 1 – UK Devonshire Ottery St Mary – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Clement Knight (London Met Arch)
1612 – Aug 16 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bap – Margaret Knight – d/o Gabriel Knight (Tyler)
1612 – Sep 5 – UK Kent Charing – Bur – Richard Knight (Tyler)
1612 – Sep 11 – UK Kent Kingsdown – Bur - John Knight - s/o William Knight (Tyler)
1612 – Oct 12 – UK Devonshire Churston Ferrers – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1612 – Oct 22 – UK London – Will – Frances Knight, Spinster – To Edmond Woodhall, Esq, Margaret Woodhall “my mistress”, one half of her estate; the other half to brother, Thomas Knight who is also executor. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 120: Fenner, Quire Numbers 60-121 (1612), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1612 – Nov – UK London St Helens Bishopsgate – Admin – Banns for Christopher Knight and Rachel Axton. (London Met Arch)
1612 – Dec 4 – UK Southampton – Ox Alum – Michael Knight – Of Southants, gent. New Coll., matric 4 Dec. 1612, aged 19; B.A. 12 April 1616. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 861)
1612 – Dec 13 – UK Kent Lydd – Bap – Anne Knight - d/o Nicholas Knight (Tyler)
1612 – UK Sussex Echingham – Nunc Will – Joseph Knight – That his 5 oldest daughters should have 100 pounds, 20 pounds apiece and several debt bonds apiece; the elder of four younger daughters to have 20 pounds; Goodwife Freeman to bring up the elder of the four younger daughters; the youngest daughter to be brought up by their mother; none of the daughters named; 5 sons mentioned but not by name; discussion of how money was to be allocated for support of children; Thomas Cruttenden to be executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 for Joseph Knight, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 119: Fenner, Quire Numbers 1-59 (1612))
1612 – UK Devonshire Stert – Admin – John Knight - Exemplification of deeds showing the copyhold estates of John Knight and others in Stert. (Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, Ref: 74/63/17)
1612 – UK Hampshire Kingsclere – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Nicholas Knight (London Met Arch)
1613 – April – VA Jamestown – Info – Pocahontas - Captain Samuel Argall captured Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas in the spring of 1613 and turned his prisoner into the leverage necessary to make peace. (Brendan Wolfe, Encyclopedia Virginia, Library of Virginia, Online)
1613 – May 10 – UK Isle of Wight Brading – Will – Michael Knight – To daughter Marian, 320 pounds at 21 or marriage; to daughter Anne, 300 pounds, at age 21 or marriage; to daughter Adrian, 300 pounds at 21 or marriage; to son Michael Knight, 500 pounds at 21 plus several land leases; to wife Anne, some bedroom furniture; residue of estate to son, Thomas Knight, who is to be executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 121: Capell, Quire Numbers 1-65 (1613))
1613 – Jun 22 - UK London St Stephens – Joane Knight, Widow, Will – Appoints son, Roger Harris, as executor; to son, Roger Harris, 10 pounds, silver spoons, furniture, items; to Ann Harris, daughter of said Roger Harris, 40 shillings and a silver spoon; son-in-law John Collins forgiven of his debt; to daughter Sara, a silver spoon and all wearing apparel except a gown to Joan Twigg and “one dress to my maid servant”; to Joane Twigg, 40 shillings and bed with bolster and bedstead “whereon I lie” and other items; to niece Alice Harris 40 shillings when 21 or married; residue to son Roger Harris and daughter Sara to be equally divided. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 121: Capell, Quire Numbers 1-65 (1613))
1613 – Nov 3 - UK London – Will - Marmaduke Knight, Cooper – Ship “Hector”; to shipmate, William Wilson, Cooper, aboard the Hector, items and 7 pounds; to Thomas Betrell, Tailor, all his clothing; to Roger Galloway, Cooper, dwelling in Harpe Lane, London, residue of estate and he to be executor. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 122: Capell, Quire Numbers 66-124 (1613))
1613 – UK Hampshire Odiham– Will - Anne Knight, Widow - widow of Robert Knight, citizen and clothworker of London. No details. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
1613 – UK Surrey Southwark St Olave – Will - Giles Knight – No details available. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
1614 – Apr 5 – VA Jamestown – Info - On or about this day, Pocahontas and John Rolfe were married in a ceremony assented to by Sir Thomas Dale and Powhatan, who sent one of her uncles to witness the ceremony. Powhatan also rescinded a standing order to attack the English wherever and whenever possible, ending the First Anglo-Powhatan War. (Ency. VA, op. cit.)
1614 – Apr 7 – UK London St Helens Bishopgate – Bap – George Knight – s/o Christopher Knight, carpenter, and Rachel. (London Met Arch)
1614 – Jun 30 – UK Kent Lympne – Will - Edmund Knight, Yeoman – To Johane Sanders, sister, 5 pounds; to cousin John Knight, son of my cousin William Knight, yearling colt; residue of estate to brother James Knight who is to be executor and John Knight to be overseer. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 123: Lawe, Quire Numbers 1-66 (1614))
1614 – Jul 14 – UK Kent Aldington – Mar – Ralph Knight (Ralfe) & Margaret Stevens (Tyler)
1614 – Aug 15 – UK Sussex Earnley – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o William Knight (London Met Arch)
1614 – Aug 22 - UK Kent Lydd – Mar – Thomas Knight & Jone Coomber (Tyler)
1614 – Sep 11 – UK Kent Lydd – Bap – Thomas Knight - s/o Nicholas Knight (Tyler)
1614 – Sep 19 – UK Kent Tenterden – Mar – Thomas Knight & Elizabeth Cox (Tyler)
1614 – Oct 2 – UK Kent Aldington – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Peter Knight (Tyler)
1614 – Oct 9 – UK Kent Woodnesborough – Bur – Austen Knight (or Augustine) - s/o John Knight (Tyler)
1614 – Oct 21 - UK London St Martin le Vintrey – Will - Richard Knight, Cit and chandler – Leaves entire estate to wife, Elizabeth, and she is executrix. No mention of children or other relations. Signed with his mark. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 124: Lawe, Quire Numbers 67-127 (1614))
1614 – Dec 5 – UK London St Andrew – Mar – Nicholas Knight & Elizabeth Bradshaw (London Met Arch)
1614 – Dec 13 – UK Kent Canterbury – Mar – Peter Knight & ?? : St George’s. (London Met Arch)
1614 – UK Norfolk Norwich – Camb Alum – John Knight - Matric. sizar from CHRIST'S, Dec. 1614; B.A. 1618-9; M.A. 1622. Ord. priest (Norwich) Dec. 1620. V. of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, 1620. Subscribed to the new college buildings. One of these names V. of Brington, Hunts., 1626-9. Died 1629. (Peile, I. 299.)
1615 – May 30 – UK Kent Boxley – Mar – William Knight & Anna Fisher. (Tyler)
1615 – Jun 29 – UK London St Helens Bishopsgate – Bap – Christopher Knight – s/o Christopher Knight, Carpenter, and Rachel. (London Met Arch)
1615 – Jul 17 – UK Hampshire Frensham – Admin – John Knight - Lease for lives (replacing former lease) by the Bishop of Winchester to Sir George More of Loseley, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, of Great and Little Ponds in Frensham (assigned to the Mores by John Knight on 5 Sep 1608) for £13 6s 8d in lieu of former rent of live fish which usually died in transit. The Bishop reserves the right to take fish from the Great Pond for household use when residing at Farnham Castle. Lease for lives of Sir George, Sir Robert and Poynings More. (Surrey History Centre, Ref: LM/349/54/3)
1615 – Aug 6 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bap – Annah Knight - d/o Thomas Knight the Younger (Tyler)
1615 – Aug 17 – UK Hampshire Kingsclere – Bap Peter Knight - s/o John Knight (London Met Arch)
1615 – Sep 10 – UK Kent Lydd – Bap – Peter Knight - s/o Peter Knight (Tyler)
1615 – Sep 28 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bap – Mildred Knight – d/o Gabriel Knight (Tyler)
1615 – Oct 8 – UK Kent Hythe – Bap – Richard Knight - s/o Robert Knight (Tyler)
1615 - Oct 31– UK London All Hallows Bread St – Will - Richard knight, Cit and Grocer – To James Gough (Goffe), Bryan Goffe, Ellen Goffe, the sons and daughters of my sister, Ellen Gough (Goffe), 5 pounds apiece; the rest of estate to go to wife, Cicely (Sissillie) and she to be executrix; father, John Knight and friend, Edward Underwood, brother-in-law, Robert Grimnaud, to be overseers. Says will is written by his own hand. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 126: Rudd, Quire Numbers 67-118 (1615), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1615 – Nov 2 – UK Kent Lympne – Mar – Anne Knight & Richard Collin SR (Tyler)
1615 – Nov 27 – UK Kent New Romney Hope – Bur – Peter Knight - s/o Peter Knight (Tyler)
1615 – Dec 17 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bur – Thomas Knight (Tyler)
1615 – Dec 17 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bap – Sara Knight – d/o John Knight (Tyler)
1615 – UK Hampshire Frensham – Admin - John Knight - Draft assignment of term of years by John Knight of St Denys, Hants, gent, to Sir George More of Great and Little Ponds in Frensham. (Surrey History Centre, Ref: LM/349/54/2)
1616 – Feb – UK London St Andrew – Bur – John Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1616 – Feb 8 – UK London St Bride – Bap – William Knight - s/o Thomas Knight & Jayne (London Met Arch)
1616 – Mar 3 – UK London St Andrew – Mar – John Knight & Adria Taylor (London Met Arch)
1616 – Apr 15 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bur – Thomas Knight of Leeds (Tyler)
1616 – Apr 19 – UK Surrey Southwark St George’s – Bur – Peter Knight (London Met Arch)
1616 – May 5 – UK Kent Old Romney – Bap – John Knight (Tyler)
1616 – Aug 26 – UK London St Andrew – Bur – Thomas Knight - s/o Thomas Knight (London Met Arch)
1616 – Oct 4 – UK London Westminster Court – Admin – Thomas Knight, Scrivener & wife Joan (Jayne?) & Katherine Knight w/o Richard; charged with Recusancy (History of Parliament Online)
1616 – Oct 12 – UK Gloucestershire Bristol – Will - Francis Knight, Alderman, – Son, Francis Knight and son’s wife, Katherine; son Edward Knight and Edward’s wife, Martha; daughter Martha Shalloner, wife of William Shalloner; John Knight, grandson (son of Francis); Frances Knight, daughter of his brother Mathew Knight; nephew, Thomas Knight; brother John Knight; very long and detailed; large estate, many bequests, large and small. (PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 128: Cope, Quire Numbers 68-131 (1616), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1616 – Nov 13 - UK Kent Stockbury – Will - Richard Knight, Gent – Daughter, Thomasyn Knight, 200 marks in money; daughter, Barbara Knight, 200 marks; both when they reach 19 years; son, William Knight, items; son, Richard Knight, 50 pounds when 21; wife, Martha, executrix; wife to receive manor of Yelford, lands, tenements, everything, for her natural life, afterwards to go to sons, William Knight, Richard Knight, John Knight with details about how to divide etc. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 128: Cope, Quire Numbers 68-131 (1616), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858))
Note: There is a Yelford Manor near Oxford, but I haven’t found anything with a similar name in Kent.
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1616 – UK Wiltshire Wokingham – Will - Hugh Knight, Yeoman – No details available. (Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-1619)
Note: Wokingham is near Reading.
1617 – Jan 1 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bur – Marie Knight – d/o Christopher Knight (Tyler)
1617 – Jan 31 – UK Kent Hollingbourne – Bur – John Knight JR (Tyler)
1617 – Mar 11 – UK Devonshire Dartmouth – Robert Knight, Mariner, Will – To the poor of Dartmouth 10 shillings; to son Henry Knight, 20 shillings; to son Thomas Knight 20 shillings; rest of estate to wife, Amy Knight who is to be executrix. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 131: Meade, Quire Numbers 1-65 (1618))
1617 – Apr 6 – UK London Greenwich St Alfege – Bur – Edmond Knight (London Met Arch)
1617 – Apr 10 – UK London St Andrew – Bur – John Knight - s/o Simon Knight (London Met Arch)
1617 – Apr 29 – UK Kent Tenterden – Bap – Thomas Knight – s/o Thomas Knight. (Tyler)
1617 – Jun 15 – UK London St Bride – Mar – Ann Knight & Thomas Hurst (London Met Arch)
1617 – Jun 30 – UK Kent Lenham – Mar – Thomas Knight & Grace Knatchbull, wid. (Tyler)
1617 – Sep 7 – UK Kent New Romney – Bap – John Knight - s/o Peter Knight (Tyler)
1617 – Sep 15 - UK Kent Sandwich – Will - Gregory Knight, Mariner – Wife Sarah Knight, 5 pounds; Uncle William Knight of Canterbury; John Knight. Appears to be giving away a lot of foreign goods to numerous friends and relations. Wife is residuary legatee and executrix. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 130: Weldon, Quire Numbers 64-125 (1617))
1617 – Sep 22 – UK London Stepney St Dunstan – Mar – Peter Knight & Marie Wilcocke (London Met Arch)
1617 – Oct 9 – UK Devonshire Kentisbury – Admin – John Knight, Yeoman - Lease for 2000 years: 1. John Delbridge of Barnstaple, merchant; 2. John Knight of Kentisbury, yeoman; Property: West Lyne; Consideration: £105. (North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust), Ref: 2309-3/33/4)
1617 – Nov 5 – UK Kent East Langdon – Bur – Mary Knight, gentlewoman (Tyler)
1617 – Nov 19 - UK Somerset Puriton – Nunc Will - William Knight, Clerk – To wife, Mabel, entire estate and she to be executrix. Wit: Robert Colliford, Jaremy Nicholls, Elizabeth Colliford. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 130: Weldon, Quire Numbers 64-125 (1617))
1618 – Jan 3 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Elizabeth Knight - d/o Peter Knight & Cicely (London Met Arch)
1618 – Jan 17 – UK Cambridgeshire Cambridge – Camb Alum – Thomas Knight - Adm. at SIDNEY, Jan. 17, 1617-8; B.A. 1621-2; M.A. 1625; B.D. 1632. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Sept. 18; priest, Sept. 19, 1625. V. of Minting, Lincs., 1631. V. of Shephall, Herts., 1641-60. Died 1660.
1618 – Feb 8 – UK London St Andrew – Mar – Simon Knight & Ann Gaford (Gifford?) (London Met Arch)
1618 – Feb 28 – UK Kent Bicknor – Bap – James Knight – s/o James Knight (Tyler)
1618 – Feb - UK London Westminster Court – Admin – Thomas Knight, Scrivener & Joan, Katherine Knight w/o Richard; charge Recusancy. (History of Parliament Online)
1618 – Apr 17 – UK Kent Maidstone – Bur – Francis Knight – d/o Gabriel Knight (Tyler)
1618 – Apr 21 – UK London St Bride – Bap – Rebecka - d/o Thomas Knight & Joan/Jayne? (London Met Arch)
1618 – May 13 - UK Somerset Yatton – Will - Edmund Knight, Husbandman – To daughter Elizabeth, all rights and title to lease of tenements lying at Chipping when she comes of age; mentions Mary Knight and John Knight the younger, son of brother John Knight; Lewis Knight and Edmund Knight, sons of his brother George Knight; Alice Knight, daughter of ‘sister’ Annis Knight; wife, Mary Knight, executrix. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 131: Meade, Quire Numbers 1-65 (1618))
1618 – Sep 7 – UK London St Andrew – Bur – Thomas Knight - s/o Richard Knight (London Met Arch)
1618 – Sep 28 - UK Kent Cowden – Will - John Knight Yeoman – To the poor of the parish, 20 shillings; wife Margaret, 100 pounds; wife to have all goods etc that she brought to the marriage; wife to have wardship of the house and lands of Giles Glire (?), her son, and the benefit of the wardship; something about a bond of 500 pounds to be put up by executors; and to release to his sons: Jonas Knight, John Knight, Robert Knight, Oliver Knight, Edward Knight and Edmond Knight, all the rights of the said lands, tenements, furnace, mill and buildings; and if the said Margaret, wife, shall intermeddle with any of said lands or tenements of shall not be content (words to that effect), then she shall not have the wardship of the said Giles, her son, nor of any of his lands. “To every one of my sons, John, Robert, Oliver, Edward and Edmond, 40 shillings; daughters Mary and Agnes, 150 pounds apiece at 21 or when married; if one of the daughters dies, the other shall have the share of the deceased one”; residue – dwelling house, lands, barns, tenements, to Jonas Knight, my eldest son, who is executor. Brother, George Knight, Edward Bishe of ___ Surrey, Esq, and George Turner of Lingfield, Surrey, Gent, to be Overseers. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 132: Meade, Quire Numbers 66-127 (1618))
1618 – Dec 2 - UK London St. Sepulchre – Admin - Gabriel Knight, – Admin: to Martha Knight, wife, pend her suit vs. Thomas Knight, brother, (by decree Jun 1618, p. 176); to Martha Knight alias Tarver (Dec 1618, p. 210). (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 132: Meade, Quire Numbers 66-127 (1618))
1618 – Dec 9 – UK Buckingham Calverton – Bur – Christopher Knight – s/o John Knight. (London Met Arch)
1619 – Apr 22 – UK Huntingdonshire Winwick – Will – Richard Knight, Yeoman – To his son, Richard Knight, underage, lands, tenements, houses, meadows, fields, farm, in the counties of Huntingdon and Northampton; daughter, Alice Knight, 300 pounds to be paid when she is 18 or on the day of her marriage; if his son fails to live or produce a male heir, all to go to the 4 nephews, sons of his brother, John Knight; if the nephews inherit, then they have to pay the daughter, Alice, 500 pounds; bequests to poor, etc. ( PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Piece 133: Parker, Quire Numbers 1-73 (1619), Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858)
1619 – Apr 29 – UK Kent Bicknor – Bap – Joan Knight – d/o James Knight (Tyler)
1619 – May 26 – UK Kent Old Romney – Mar – Peter Knight & Jane Gouldrogg (Tyler)
1619 – Jun 7 – UK Kent Lympne – Mar – Cicely Knight & Richard Smith (Tyler)
1619 – Jun 9 – UK Northamptonshire Winwick – Camb Alum – John Knight - Adm. sizar at CAIUS, June 9, 1619. S. of John, gent. Bapt. at Winwick, Northants., Sept. 29, 1600. Matric. 1620; Scholar, 1621-5; B.A. 1622-3; M.A. 1626. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Sept. 25; priest, Sept. 26, 1625.
1619 - Jul 30 – VA Jamestown - Info - Twenty-two burgesses gathered in Jamestown for the first meeting of the unicameral General Assembly.
1619 – Aug 9 – UK Wiltshire Westbury – Mar – Christopher Knight & Margaret Clifford. (London Met Arch)
1619 - Aug – Africa Angola Kingdom of Ndongo – Info - The kingdom was under siege by the Portuguese Governor Luis Mendes de Vasconcellos and when the siege ended, men, women, and children were enslaved and marched to the Port of Luanda to be transported to the silver mines of Mexico. Of the six slave ships leaving the port of Luanda in the summer of 1619 for the Port of Vera Cruz, only one would report a raid by English pirates: The San Juan Bautista, captained by the Don Manuel Mendez de Acuna which carried . 350 enslaved Africans, 200 of whom had embarked under a license, or asiento, held by investors in Seville to sell them in New Spain. When da Cunha arrived at Vera Cruz on August 30, however, he delivered only 147 slaves, including, according to Spanish records, twenty-four African boys whom he at some point sold in Jamaica. Those same records indicate that da Cunha had been robbed off the coast of Campeche (along present-day Mexico's Gulf Coast) by "English corsairs," or privateers. Working as a "consort," the two ships attacked the São João Bautista late in July or early in August 1619 and apparently robbed da Cunha of about 50 of his African slaves. These two ships were, apparently, The White Lion and The Treasurer.
* Late August 1619 - The White Lion, captained by Reverend John Colyn Jope, a Calvinist Minister from Merrifield in Cornwall England, arrived at Point Comfort, where Jope sold "20. and odd Negroes" in exchange for food. Jope claimed he took the Africans from a floundering Spanish warship. These were the first Africans to enter the Virginia colony. They probably were Kimbundu-speaking people, and many of them may have had at least some knowledge of Catholicism. Evidence suggests that many were baptized and took Christian names, and some, like Anthony and Mary Johnson, won their freedom and bought land.
* Captain John Colyn Jope was not Dutch, but English with possible Dutch ancestry, carrying a Dutch marque out of Vlissingen. From the reign of Elizabeth into the reign of James, many English privateers routinely avoided the hassle of on-again, off-again treaties by obtaining marques from foreign governments embroiled with Spain and Portugal. The Dutch commission gave Jope's privateering the veneer of legality needed to avoid charges of piracy.
* Four days later, the Treasurer arrived carrying between twenty-five and twenty-nine additional slaves. The Treasurer was owned by the powerful Earl of Warwick, Robert Rich II, and the then Governor of Jamestown, Samuel Argall; It was captained by Daniel Elfrith. Elfrith and the Treasurer had left England in late April or early May 1618 and arrived in the Settlement of Virginia just as the Neptune, carrying Lord Del la Warre to retrieve Argall back to England was making its way into the mouth of the James River.
* Daniel Elfrith, also bore a letter of marque, his on the authority of Charles Emmanuel I, duke of Savoy, an independent duchy whose land has since been subsumed by present-day France and Italy. Although he apparently managed to sell some of his slaves, Captain Elfrith found that the residents of Kecoughtan (present-day Hampton VA) refused to sell supplies to him or his crew. Elfrith sailed to the English colony at Bermuda, where, for 50,000 ears of corn, he sold fourteen of his Africans to acting governor Miles Kendall and his successor, Nathaniel Butler.
* In the decades that followed, most slaves arriving in Virginia through the slave trade were captured not by Europeans but by other Africans who sold them to the Europeans at markets. As a result, slaves suffering through the Middle Passage often hailed from different regions and villages, spoke different languages, and abided by different social, political, and religious customs. The Ndongo, by contrast, were captured directly by the Portuguese and shared with one another a complex ethnic identity.
1619 – Oct 5 – UK Bromley St Leonard – Mar – Bond: Arthur Knight & Ursula Salter (London Met Arch)
1619 – Nov 3 – UK Kent Aldington – Admin – John Knight - Ecclesiastical cause papers; Plaintiff: John KNIGHT Aldington; Defendant: Mildred KNIGHT Brabourne; Documents: Arts; Case: M; (Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, Ref: DCb/J/J/24/38)
1619 – Nov 12 – UK Berkshire Reading – Ox Alum – Thomas Knight – Of Berks, pleb. St John’s Coll., matric 12 Nov 1619, aged 16; B.A. 17 Feb 1622-3, bar.-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn, 1629, as son and heir of Roger, of Reading, Berks, gent. See Fosters Judges and Barristers. (Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886, p. 862)
1619 – Nov 30 – UK Cornwall Pillaton – Admin – Thomas Knight - Enfeoffment. £70. Annual rent 6s. 8d. (i) Thos. Mohun of Tavistock, gent. (ii) Chris. Bill of Clifton, Cornwall, gent. - 2/3 of Sawnton, Pillaton, part of the manor of Pillaton. Distraint after arrears of 6 months. (i) attorneys Alexander Arundell, gent. and Thomas Knight. Witd. Robt. Rous, Thos. Sprye, Wm. Treuisa, Benjamin Cappron, Peter Pomerey. Endorsed with livery of seizin 1 October 1623, witd. Jn. Skelton Grenvile Byll, Nich. Moone, Coniock May. (Cornwall Record Offic, Ref: CY/687)
1619 – UK Devonshire Ugborough – Mar – Leonard Knight & Thomasia Russell (London Met Arch)
1619 – VA Charles City – Info - John Woodson - John Woodson and Sarah his wife arrive on the ship George, fellow passengers with Governor Sir George Yeardley and his wife Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley. Apparently, a family account, written in 1785 – 166 years later - by Charles Woodson (1712-1796) supplied alleged details and connected the later appearing Robert Woodson and John Woodson of Curles, with this early John Woodson who, in the family tale, has been granted a medical degree, and Sarah is given the identity of a woman who actually married a Churchill and never came to Virginia (Sarah Winston 1598 -1678)). This story claims that “Dr”. John Woodson was killed in the Indian attack of 18 Apr 1644. Sarah allegedly remarried to 1) a Mr. Dunwell; 2) a Mr. Johnson. Being thrice widowed, Sarah left a nuncupative will recorded 17 Jan 1660/1 which made bequests to John Woodson, Robert Woodson, Deborah Woodson (under age) and Elizabeth Dunwell (also under age). John Woodson was the implied executor. I’ll include the text of the widow Johnson’s inventory at the appropriate time slot.
The family story says that John Woodson came from Devonshire. Following the arrival of John and Sara Woodson in VA, “Owing to the loss of records, we have nothing further until about 1679 when Robert and John Woodson, brothers, appear among the tithables of Curles, a plantation on the north side of James River, above Flowerdew Hundred. Presumably they were sons of John Woodson and Sarah his wife. According to a deposition, Robert Woodson was born in 1634, i.e. nine years after the Jamestown Muster of 1625.” (Dorman)
I hope the reader may well note the birth records of a John Woodson and Robert Woodson in 1634 May and 1638 Sep 9, respectively, in England. Taken together with additional records I have found, as will be shown below, there are earlier records of the two Woodsons in VA before 1679 – as headrights on land patents. That is to say, they were either “borrowed” or imported.
The family myth, with no evidence to contradict it, has prevailed for two centuries when, in point of fact, there is no real documentary evidence relating to their origins or any details of their lives that later became “common knowledge” among genealogical researchers. I believe that the records show that the truth was somewhat different.