 Ca 1545 - 1609 (64 år)
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SOMMERSCALES, Robert |
| Født |
Ca 1545 |
Settle  |
| Kjønn |
Mann |
| Død |
1608-1609 |
Gainsborough |
| Person ID |
I13688 |
Geelmuyden_etc |
| Sist endret |
7 Feb 2021 |
| Familie 1 |
Jane |
| Barn |
| | 1. SOMMERSCALES, Gertrude, f. 14 Okt 1583, d. Ja, ukjent dato |
| | 2. SOMMERSCALES, Robert, f. 14 Nov 1584, d. Ca 1655 (Alder 70 år) |
| | 3. SOMMERSCALES, Henry, f. 18 Jan 1590, Gainsborough , d. 1634, Lincoln (Alder 43 år) |
| | 4. SOMMERSCALES, Rebecca, f. 5 Mar 1592, d. Ja, ukjent dato |
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| Sist endret |
10 Aug 2013 |
| Famile ID |
F13254 |
Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram |
| Familie 2 |
Jane |
| Barn |
| | 1. SOMMERSCALES, Robert, f. 14 Nov 1584, d. Ca 1655 (Alder 70 år) |
| | 2. SOMERSCALES, Henry, f. 18 Jan 1590, Gainsborough , d. 1634, Lincoln (Alder 43 år) |
| | 3. SOMERSCALES, Gertrude, f. 14 Okt 1583, d. Ja, ukjent dato |
| | 4. SOMMERSCALES, Rebecca, f. 5 Mar 1592, d. Ja, ukjent dato |
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| Sist endret |
7 Feb 2021 |
| Famile ID |
F15715 |
Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram |
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| Notater |
- Scrivener.
Robert the son of Adam Somerscales (c 1542/45.. to 1569) was baptised around 1545 and died in Gainsborough in 1608 aged about 63.
He worked with Henry Burre (scrivener) in 1573 and was admitted to that company/guild in 1578. Robert was one of two children of Adam described as being in London in Adam's will.
Robert would have been 24 when his father died and did not enter the scriveners until 1573 when he was 28, it appears he was apprenticed elsewhere before joining the scriveners. In his subsequent career it is apparent he had legal abilities and he may have been educated at one of the law schools prior to 1573. He may have been at Barnards Inn in 1604 although this might have been his son.
In 1575 he witnessed a deed in which Richard Frankland gent of York sold some property, Hugh Frankland was also a witness [Beverley Borough records: DDBC/15/338]. It is likely he met the Franklands in London where William Frankland was a citizen and cloth worker. Richard and Hugh were William Franklands' sons. William's third son Ralph had two sons, William who developed the Frankland estates at Thirkelby and Richard who married Bridget Somerscales (the daughter of Henry of Stockdale). Later, Robert Somerscales was to be involved with land purchases by the Frankland family.
In July 1580 Percival Brooke wrote to Robert at his house in Fleet Street near the Belle Savage Inn describing him as his cousin, enquiring after the health of his "bedfellow" and asking him to attend the court of Mr John Stanhope esq to deal with some business matters. Robert was described as a very able man for such work.["The York Mercers and Merchant Adventurers 1356-1917": Surtees Society vol 129 (1917)]
Robert's wife was Jane although whether she was his "bedfellow" at this time is not known.
During the early 1580s Robert was buying properties and estates in Yorkshire but he may have been acting as agent because the only properties he had at his death were described in his inquisition post mortem.
In 1589 he bought a messuage, stable and lands in Smeathley, Womwell, Woodhead and Worsborough from Thomas and Frances Wombwell and their son & heir William
It was either this Robert (or Robert of Giggleswick) who with Leonard Caston secured properties in Beamsley and Somerscales from George and Elizabeth Clapham, their son and daughter-in-law Gresham and Ann and grandchild George in 1584 (the Claphams were selling and the Franklands were buying in this locality).
Robert, Richard Frankland, Anthony Wright and Anthony Pulleyn (who sold Blubberhouses to the Franklands) bought a house and lands in York from William and Mary Watkinson in 1581 (the Watkinsons had married with the Somerscales as early as 1561)
Robert and John Nicholls bought 12 messuages and lands in Brocksey in 1581 from a group of 5 families including William Catterall.
Before October 1584 Robert was living in Gainsborough where he witnessed a deed in that month concerning lands in East Stockwith, Lincs.
Robert petitioned Queen Elizabeth and he is remembered as the founder of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Gainsborough 1589.
By 17th July 1593 Robert was employed by the earl of Shrewsbury (Gilbert Talbot) as a steward and wrote to the earl from Gainsborough. The letter refers to business matters concerning a release from Mr Wray for Sir George Saville. He mentions his "own secret and very good friend Mr Hamerton" who had married the sister of John Ellis of Retford. There was something underhand going on and one sentence reads "Sawre will be ready to refrain and suppress all violence". The Hamertons were from Hellifield near Giggleswick and until the Pilgrimage of Grace were landlords to one branch of the Somerscales in Settle.
The "Sawre" mentioned above might well be William Sawre who in 1592 was a servant of Lord Burghley. He had complained that the weirs on the river Trent disturbed the fishing there. William provided the parchment and Robert Somerscales drew up a petition and endorsed it. A Nicholas Taylor returned the petition to Robert to be passed to someone in authority (probably a JP) but he passed it to his master the Earl of Shrewbury who used it in another dispute concerning the weirs near Nottingham. [A Calendar of the Shrewsbury and Talbot papers in Lambeth palace library and the College of Arms vol H folio 405]
On the 9th August 1603 Robert wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury from York mentioning that Sir Edward Stanhope was dying and refuses to make a will. If he dies "which God grant" Somerscales recommends that the Earl requests the appointment of the recordership of Doncaster.
He also mentions that Michael Wentworth of the manors of Woolley and Notton refuses to do fealty, he is a non-communicant and recussant and moreover has annexed Staincross Moor and turned off the freeholders. [A Calendar of the Shrewsbury and Talbot papers in Lambeth palace library and the College of Arms Vol M folio 106. The Wentworth family had a branch living in Ashby Puerum where Robert Somerscales (the youngest of Giggleswick) lived.
On the 9th January 1602 when he was steward of Pontefract Manor Court there were complaints from the tenants that he was charging extortionate rates for copies of court roll, probate of wills and the tuition of minors. (Sheffield Archives BFM/2/159-161). He was in this post during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James 1 and shared the role with Mathew Kay.
Robert and his wife had a number of children, many of whom died
Jane d of Mr Robert died 6th May 1594
Frances d Mr Robert 9th Jan 1586 died 13th May 1596
Daniel s Mr Robert 23 Mar 1587 died 19th April 1589
Thomas died 9th August 1590
another Thomas s Mr Robert 2nd April 1594 died 16th Nov 1597
Claramond d Mr Robert 3rd Sept 1595 died 4th Jan 1597
William s Mr Robert d 18th Mar 1595
But Gertrude (b14th Oct 1583); Robert (b14th Nov 1584) and Henry (b18 Jan 1590) all survived as did Rebecca baptised 5th Mar 1592, she and Michael Bland of Habblesthorpe gent were married 25 Mar 1611.
(In 1612 about ½ Habblesthorpe was owned by Michael Bland who was sought out in August 1626 by an emissary of the Privy Council as a suspected tobacco grower in Utterby in the Lincolnshire marshland. Bland was not at home because he was being pursued by creditors and dared not show his face. The royal messenger judged him to be very poor and so fearful that he had to live away from home, leaving his wife and children alone at Utterby. His crop of tobacco intended for medicinal purposes occupied only 1/10th of an acre. [PRO SP 16/34 no 40])
A Richard Bland of Habblesthorp was a treasurer of the county of Lincs in 1627 (a post usually given to a gent or esq) and possibly their son.
Another Henry the son of Robert was baptised on the 15th Dec 1587 in Gainsborough. There is no record for this Henry's death and, unlike all the other records the father is just Robert and not Mr Robert.
Elizabeth Hall, Mr Somerscales servant died 5th Mar 1593
Mr Robert Somerscales gent died 28th March 1607/8, his will was dated 15th January 1607/8 and proved 22nd April 1608.
The will mentions his wife Jane (? last name); eldest son Robert; son Henry under 21 in 1608/09 so this is definitely not the Henry bapt 15 Dec 1587
Nephew Robert of Settle
daughter Rebecca
son in law Worsley
brother Richard (probably father of Robert of Settle)
cousin "Richardson"
grandchild Richard Bransby
grandchild Edward Worlsey
Bridget Bransbie
He left his widow Jane all his purchases, messuages, cottages, lands in Gainsborough and the profits from all his leases, tythes of corn and hay and wool and lambs, lands, meadow and pasture in Lincolnshire.
Two messuages "Paiyer garth" and "Crabtree Garth" in Knottingley were to be given to his son Henry.
His eldest son Robert was to make a grant of £20 a year from the parsonage of Giggleswick to Henry from Easter 1616 on condition that Henry released all his rights in the parsonage to Robert. (Robert senior then explains that on the 5th December 1601 he had purchased the lease of the parsonage and tithes of Giggleswick for three lives for £44. The lease was taken in the names of Robert and Henry Somerscales sons of Robert (the orator) who was then the tenant of the parsonage and Robert son of Richard Somerscales. The three had taken it in trust for the use of Robert senior.
On the 9th June 1604 Robert wrote to Sir Thomas Egerton knt, Lord Elsmere the lord chancellor of England complaining that he and his nephew Robert the younger of Settle (son of Richard) had been swindled out of £10 by Sir Ralph Bosville. In the letter Robert Somerscales of Barnards Inn is mentioned but the paper is so damaged that it is difficult to decipher to which Robert this refers. [Chancery Proceedings C2/Chas 1/S 133/162]
Rebecca received £200 and the proceeds of the sale of the lease of the great barn and croft in Settle lately tenanted by Thomas Howson.
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