THE MUDDLE FAMILIESTHE LINEAGE & HISTORY OF THE MUDDLE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD INCLUDING VARIANTS MUDDEL, MUDDELL, MUDLE & MODDLE |
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EARLY RECORDS
This is a miscellaneous collection of 15th, 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 land grant at Rotherfield, Sunday after feast of St Edward.[1] 1440 Thomas MUDDLE brewer of Southwark & wife Felicia rent the Moon brewhouse.[2] 1458 John MODELL sold 2 crofts of 7 acres called Grove Crofts at Rotherfield.[3] 1458 William MODELL yeoman of East Grinstead forcibly entered Ashdown Forest.[4] 1458 Thomas MODELL husbandman of Chalke in Wiltshire owing abbess of Wilton 40s.[5] 1463 John MODELL butcher of East Grinstead owing John Wody 40s.[6] 1465 John MODULL butcher of East Grinstead owing William Langridge 40s.[7] 1468 William MODELL husbandman of East Grinstead owing Nicholas Boylle £40.[8] 1468 William MODYLL had two horses & goods stolen at Yalding in Kent.[9] 1468 William MODELL had goods stolen from his houses in East Peckham in Kent.[10] 1468 William MODYLL yeoman of East Grinstead owing Thomas Cobham knight £24.[11] 1468 William MODELL husbandman of Horton near Farningham, Kent owing 40s.[12] 1470 William MODYLL yeoman of East Grinstead owing Thomas Cobham knight £24.[13] 1470 William MODYLL yeoman of East Grinstead owing John Sherman of Lewes £14.[14] 1470 William MODELL yeoman of Horton near Farningham, Kent, not supplying barley.[15] 1471 Geoffrey Wharton to arrest John MUDDLE, Joan MUDDLE & others, Sussex/Surrey.[16] 1472 William MODELL alias Elys of Horton & before of East Grinstead owing 40s.[17] 1472 William MODYLL of Sussex owed £14 by John Esthawe of East Peckham.[18] 1472 William MODYLLE yeoman of East Grinstead owing John Sherman of Lewes £14.[19] 1472 William MODULL yeoman of Farningham owing 40s to executors of Thomas Porter.[20] 1486 John Elys alias John MODYLL husbandman of East Grinstead owing £10.[21] 1496 Sometime before this date Thomas MODELL & others held Estyepe Manor, Dorset.[22] 1502 John MODELL of Mayfield had a horse stolen by John a Tree of Wivelsfield.[23] 1504 Nicholas MODELL one of the jury at inquest held at Mayfield on 16 February.[24] 1509 Thomas MODYLL one of the jury at inquest held at Buxted on 7 September.[25] 1510 Stephen MUDDELLE's wife, 12d for pew at St Edmund's Church, Sarum, Wiltshire.[26] 1516 Stephen MUDDELL brewer of New Sarum owed rent on a brewhouse at Salisbury.[27]
1524/5 Subsidy, Sussex, SRS Vol 56. (Original Documents for 1524 are TNA Ref: E 179/189/117, 164 & 165)
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.
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 sickness, 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 visitation, 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 above said. By me, Thomas Wilbraham, the Coroner aforesaid. By visitation of God. [This Richard Muddle is probably the one arrested with three others, all labourers of Sanderstead near Croydon, and charged with highway robbery, in that, on 20 December 1604, they assaulted Simon Joye on the highway at Sanderstead and stole from him a black horse valued at £2 and a cloak valued at 5s together with £2 belonging to John Stevens. They were tried at Southwark Assizes on 11 March 1605, found guilty, remanded in custardy, and sentenced to hang at the summer assizes. Then at the Summer Assizes held at Croydon on 11 July 1605 Richard Muddle, but not it seems the others, was again remanded in custardy.[57] He would have been held in the county gaol in Borough High Street, Southwark that was known as the White Lion Goal after the inn on the site, where on 23 October 1605 he died as detailed in the above inquest. Richard was probably the son of Richard and Margaret Muddle, who was baptised at the Parish Church St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London on 17 June 1582, which would mean that he was 23 years old when he died.] [1] ESRO DYK/371 Grant of Land in Archive of Dyke family of Frant etc. [2] H E Malden MA The Victoria History of the County of Surrey Vol.2 p381. [3] ESRO PAR465/26/1/1 p12 Translation of Manor of Rotherfield Court Book, 1444-1458. [4] TNA CP 40/788 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 36 Henry VI. [5] TNA CP 40/788 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 36 Henry VI. [6] TNA CP 40/807 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 2 Edward IV. [7] TNA CP 40/814 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 4 Edward IV. [8] TNA CP 40/826 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Edward IV. [9] TNA CP 40/826 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Edward IV. [10] TNA CP 40/826 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Edward IV. [11] TNA CP 40/826 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Edward IV. [12] TNA CP 40/826 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Edward IV. [13] TNA CP 40/837 Court of Common Pleas Michaelmas 49 Henry VI. [14] TNA CP 40/837 Court of Common Pleas Michaelmas 49 Henry VI. [15] TNA CP 40/837 Court of Common Pleas Michaelmas 49 Henry VI. [16] C.P.R.1467-77 p.288. [17] TNA CP 40/841 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 11 Edward IV. [18] TNA CP 40/841 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 11 Edward IV. [19] TNA CP 40/841 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 11 Edward IV. [20] TNA CP 40/841 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 11 Edward IV. [21] TNA CP 40/895 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 1 Henry VII. [22] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem etc. of Henry VII Vol.III, London 1955, p551. [23] TNA CP 40/959 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 17 Henry VII. [24] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.4. [25] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.9. [26] H J F Swayne Chruchwarden's Accounts of S.Edmund & S.Thomas, Sarum Wiltshire Record Society [27] TNA CP 40/1013 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 7 Henry VIII. [28] TNA CP 40/1055 Court of Common Pleas Trinity 19 Henry VIII. [29] TNA CP 40/1068 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 22 Henry VIII. [30] Vanessa Harding & Laura Wright London Bridge: Selected Accounts and Rentals, 1381-1538. [31] TNA CP 40/1096 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 29 Henry VIII. [32] TNA CP 40/1124 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 36 Henry VIII. [33] TNA CP 40/1127 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 37 Henry VIII. [34] TNA CP 40/1135 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 1 Edward VI. [35] TNA CP 40/1138 Court of Common Pleas Michaelmas 2 Edward VI. [36] TNA CP 40/1139 Court of Common Pleas Hilary 2 Edward VI. [37] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.44. [38] TNA CP 40/1157 Common Pleas Hilary 1 Mary. [39] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 SRS Vol.74 p.59. [40] TNA CP 40/1176 part i m.13d Court of Common Pleas Michaelmas 5&6 Philip & Mary & 1 Eliz. [41] TNA CP 40/1177 & CP 40/1178 m.887d Court of Common Pleas Hilary 1 Elizabeth. [42] TNA ASSI 35/2/1 m.8 Southwark Assizes Indictment Files 8 March 1560. [43] TNA C 78/33/3 Chancery Decree Roll Trinity 4 Elizabeth. [44] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.21. [45] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.23. [46] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.46. [47] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558-1603 (PRO Publications, 1996) p.118. [48] TNA ASSI 35/38/5 m.7 Assize Indictment Files, trial of Thomas Knight. [49] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.2. [50] William Le Hardy Calendar to Middlesex session records, vol 1, 1612-14 (1935) pp.71-86. [51] TNA ASSI 35/56/3 Surrey Assizes indictment files. [52] Greater London Record Office GDR 2/29d,30,33d Middlesex Goal Delivery Roll. [53] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.62. [54] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.65. [55] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.77. [56] R F Hunnisett Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1603-1688 (PRO Publications, 1998) p.99. [57] TNA ASSI 35/47/4&5 Surrey Assizes indictment files.
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