THE MUDDLE FAMILIES

THE LINEAGE & HISTORY OF THE MUDDLE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD

INCLUDING VARIANTS MUDDEL, MUDDELL, MUDLE & MODDLE

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SUSSEX MUDDLES

[Ardingly Muddles] [Buxted Muddles]

[Framfield Muddles] [Mayfield Muddles]

KENT MUDDLES

[Harrietsham Muddles]

DORSET MUDDLES

[Portland Muddles] [Wimborne Muddles]

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EARLY RECORDS

This is a miscellaneous collection of 15th (two records only), 16th and 17th century records that have not been connected to any of the named families, but hopefully help to give a wider picture of where the Muddles were living and what they were getting involved in during this time.

1439 John Modyll witness to grant of land at Rotherfield, Sunday after feast of St Edward.[1]

1471 Geoffrey Wharton to arrest John MUDDLE, Joan MUDDLE & others, Sussex/Surrey.[2]

1504 Nicholas MODELL one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 16 February.[3]

1509 Thomas MODYLL one of the jury at inquest held at Buxted on 7 September.[4]

1510 Wife of Stephen MUDDELLE, 12d for pew at St Edmund's Church, Sarum, Wiltshire.[5]

1524/5 Subsidy, Sussex, SRS Vol 56.

p125 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Mayfield)	Ric MODYLL	£2
p125 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Mayfield)	Ric MODYLL elder	£4
p125 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Mayfield)	Johane MODYLL widow	£2
p125 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Mayfield)	Nich MODYLL	£4
p126 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Mayfield)	John MODYLL	£6
p127 Lokesfeld Hundred (No place)	Wm MODLE	£1
p136 Lokesfeld Hundred (Borough of Greenhurst)	Thos MOODLE	£5-6-8
p136 Lokesfeld Hundred (Withyham, Greenhurst)	John MODLE	£1

These records show that of the Muddles living in Sussex, all those paying tax were concentrated in the small area of Mayfield and adjacent Withyham and Buxted (Borough of Greenhurst) in the early 16th century.

1531	John MUDDILLES of Merstham, Surrey supplied stone for king’s manor, Westminster
1534	Nicholas MODYLL commoner in White Book of the Cinque Ports.
1539	George MUDDELL archer in muster of Mylton (Milton Lilbourne), Wiltshire.
1542	John MODDELL commoner in White Book of the Cinque Ports.
1547	Nicholas MOODELL of Waldron, Sussex, will.
1550	Richard MODOWLE of East Grinstead, Sussex, will.
1551	Thomas MUDDYLL one of the jury at inquest held at Playden near Rye on 5 June.[6]
1556	William MODDYLL one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 20 April.[7]
1557	Thomas MOODLE of Playden near Rye, Sussex, will.
1560	Benedict ELLYS or MUDDELL weaver of Oxted, Surrey burgled house.
1562	Richard MUDDYLL of Mayfield, Sussex, will.
1562	John MUDLE of Balcombe, Sussex, will.
1564	Thomas MUDDELL rippier of Goudhurst, Kent, accessory to stealing oxen.
1564	Thomas MUDDLE gaol prisoner on remand – Dartford Assizes.
1565	Thomas MUDDELL of Goudhurst, Kent, accessory to stealing money.
1566	Henry MUDDELL of Etchingham, Sussex, will.
1568	John MOODLE of Mayfield, Sussex, will.
1569	John MUDDILL of Godstone, Surrey, had goods stolen.
1572	Henry MUDDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Rye on 30 April.[8]
1572	Henry MUDDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Rye on 27 August.[9]
1577	Robert MUDLE, goal prisoner on remaind – Rochester Assizes.
1578	John MUDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Ticehurst on 28 July.[10]
1583	Ralph MUDDLE in coroner’s jury at St George, Southwick, Surrey.
1583	John & Richard MUDDLE of Rotherfield & Mayfield, Sussex, pardon.
1587	Andrew MUDDLE of Ticehurst, Sussex, will.
1588	Robert MUDDELL, indicted with others for assault – Rochester Assizes.
1590	Robert MUDDELL, on trial at East Grinstead Assizes.
1592	John MUDDLE of Ticehurst, Sussex, admon.
1594	Hugh MUDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 8 October.[11]
1594	Richard MUDDELL to keep peace to brother Henry MUDDELL, Kent Qtr Sessions.
1594	Robert MUDDELL to keep peace to brother Richard MUDDELL, Kent Qtr Sessions.
1594	Henry MUDDLE of Woulham, Kent, to keep peace to brother Richard MUDDLE.
1595	William MUDDELL, to keep peace to brother Richard MUDDELL, Kent Qtr Sessions
1595	William MUDDLE had coat stolen at Headcorn, Kent.
1596	Richard MUDDLE, on jury – Maidstone Assizes.[12]
1596	Richard MODDELL of Buxted, Sussex, will.
1598	Hugh MUDDLE & Edward MUDDLE of Cranbrook, Kent – Kent Qtr Sessions.
1603	Alexander MUDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Wadhurst on 30 July.[13]
1623	John MODLE one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 23 April.[14]
1624	John & Thomas MODLE two of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield 3 November.[15]
1629	John MUDDLE one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 21 September.[16]
1647	John & Edward MUDLE inquest into John’s death falling off a horse, held at Heathfield on 11 June, Edward labourer of Mayfield has the horse.[17]

Occupation of Corn Mill at Newbridge on Ashdown Forest

1564 Survey of Duddleswell Manor. ESRO Ref: ADA94

They hold in the same place by Copy of the Court

Within the forest

John Longeleye holds, in right of Agnes his wife, late relict of Richard Muddle, by Copy of the Court, dated the first day of April in the fourth year of the Reign of King Edward the sixth [1550], one tenement and one Water Mill, and one parcel of land lying in the same place within the Forest of Ashdown, containing one acre and three Roods of land lying at the land of Thomas Alphrey called Fordelande towards the north and east, and the King's highway leading from Newbridge to Forestrawe [Forest Row] towards the south and west,

To have to him for the term of the life of the same Agnes, to remain therefrom to John Muddle the son of the said Richard and Agnes, and his heirs, at the will of the Lord, according to the custom of the Manor in the same place,

Yielding in respect thereof annually 7d, and other services thence formerly due and of right accustomed, and heriot for the death of each, and a fine should be made of each tenant, yielding as above, per annum, 7d.

[Note in top margin:] Now Henry Bowier, gentleman's

[Note in right margin:] 1631 now in the tenure of William Longly

Coroner’s Inquest into death of Richard Muddle, 24 October 1605

Court of King’s Bench, Term Indictments Files. TNA Ref: KB 9/720

Indented Inquisition, taken within our Lord the King's gaol of the White Lion, situated in the parish of St George the Martyr within the burgh or town of Southwark, in the County of Surrey,

On the twenty fourth day of the month of October in the years of the reign of our Lord James, by the grace of God, now King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc, that is to say, of England, France and Ireland, the third, and of Scotland the thirty ninth,

Before Thomas Wilbraham, one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King within the burgh or town aforesaid,

Upon an inspection of the body of Richard Muddle, late of the burgh aforesaid, yeoman, lying dead in the same place,

By the corporal oath of John Vaughan, Henry Davis and Nicholas Aldresey, honest and law-abiding men of the same parish, and of three other parishes closely adjacent to the same parish, as is the custom and practice within the burgh or town aforesaid,

Sworn to inquire how, in what manner, and when the same Richard Muddle came to his death,

Who say, on their corporal oath, that the aforesaid Richard Muddle, for the space of three weeks before the taking of this inquisition, within the gaol aforesaid, that is to say, in the parish and in the burgh or town aforesaid, and in the county aforesaid, was suffering and weakening from a certain infirmity called a pyning sickenes,

And from the same infirmity, on the twenty third day of the aforesaid month of October in the aforesaid years of the reign of our Lord the present King, of England, France and Ireland the third, and of Scotland the thirty ninth, within the gaol aforesaid, that is to say, in the parish and in the burgh or town aforesaid, and in the county aforesaid, of a divine vistation, he died.>

And thus the Jurors aforesaid say that the aforesaid Richard Muddle came to his death from a divine visitation, in the manner and form aforesaid, and not otherwise, nor in any other manner.

In witness whereof both I, the aforenamed coroner, and the aforesaid Jurors, have affixed our seals alternately to this inquisition.

In witness whereof to the one part of this indented inquisition, to remain in the possession of the aforenamed Escheator for our said Lady the Queen, both the aforesaid Escheator and the aforesaid Jurors have affixed their seals,

And indeed to the other part of this inquisition, to remain in the possession of the Jurors aforesaid, the aforesaid Escheator has affixed his seal.

Given on the day and year first abovesaid.

By me, Thomas Wilbraham, the Coroner aforesaid.

By visitation of God.

[1] ESRO DYK/371 Grant of Land in Archive of Dyke family of Frant etc.

[2] C.P.R.1467-77 p.288.

[3] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.4.

[4] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.9.

[5] H J F Swayne Chruchwarden's Accounts of S.Edmund & S.Thomas, Sarum Wiltshire Record Society

[6] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.44.

[7] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.59.

[8] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.21.

[9] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.23.

[10] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.46.

[11] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.118.

[12] TNA ASSI 35/38/5 m.7 Assize Indictment Files, trial of Thomas Knight.

[13] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.2.

[14] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.62.

[15] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.65.

[16] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.77.

[17] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.99.

Last updated 22 November 2009

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