Sixteenth Generation

33544. Richard RAYNESFORD²³ died about Feb 17, 1603/4 in Epping, co. Essex, England. Richard resided at Gyles, in Epping, Co. Essex, England, and
possessed

Daventry and Northants. He was third son of his father and was
buried

17 Feb 1603/4 at Epping where he held the Manor of Gyles; he
also held other

manors. Epping is about a mile SW of North Weald Basset and is
about 18

miles NNE of the center of London.

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Richard Raynsford, of Epping co. Essex, where he was buried 17
Feb.

1603/4 (microfilm of parish register transcript at Essex Record

Office, no. T/R 57). Philip Morant's History adn Antiquitites of
the

County of Essex (1767), 2:k50 says the manor of Giles in Epping
passed

to Antony Browne in 1566, then was held by Richard Raynsford,
Esq.,

"who dyed 14 Feb. 1603." His inquisition post mortem, held at

Stratford, 3 July 1604, states he died 14 February 1604 holding
the

Manor of Gilles, lands at Epping Bury and Epping [faded word] in
co.

Essex, lands at Sabredyworth, and in the manors of Pisho Bury,
[faded

word] Bury and Shinglehall, co. Herts., and that his son and
heir was

Robert Raynsford, more than twenty-one (PRO 665/59). The
Victoria

County History of Essex, 4:295, notes that Richard Rainsford of

Epping, who died in 1604, left L5 to found a charity in the
parish of

North Weald Bassett, the income to be applied for relief of the
poor.

He was twice married, first to Anne Meade, the only wife
mentioned

in the pedigrees, and second at St. Gregory-by-St.-Paul, London,
6

July 1585, as "Richard Rainfford of Epping in Essex, gent.," to

Elizabeth Revell (parish register, no MS 10,231 at Guildhall
Library,

London). The first marriage is probably that marriage recorded
at

North Weald Bassett on 8 November 1559 between Richard Raynsford
and

Anne Godden [sic]. Anne is called a daughter of Thomas Meade of

Berdon, co Essex, in the pedigrees, but her father has not yet
been

sufficiently identified among several of the name. The will of
Joan

Mead of Berden, widow, dated 28 August 1557 (Essex REcord Office
no.

B/ABa 1/103 Reel 1, xerox copy provided by /archivist) names
sons

John, Edward, Thomas and Richard Mead, son Richard Bennett,
mentions

unnamed wives of all sons, names daughters Joan, wife of Thomas

Pelham: Elizabeth Wright, and Agnes Goddaye, and leaves unnamed

children of Agnes cash legacies at their day of marriage. The
will of

Edward Mead of Berdon, dated 10 Sept 1577 and proved 19 November


following (PCC 44 Daughtry) names his ten children, brothers
Thomas

and Richard Mead, sister Jane Pelham but not sister Agnes/Anne,
who

was perhaps then dead.

On 4 December 1558 Robert Godday of Sabrythesworth, alias
Groves,

co Hertfordshire, was licensed to alienate the same and land in

Sherying, co. Essex, to his son Thomas Godday, and on 12 June
1560

Thomas Gooddaye and Joan his wife of Sabrigeworth, co.
Hertfordshire,

were licensed to alienate lands in Shering, co. Essex (Calendar
of

Patent Rolls: Elizabeth I, 10:136, 363). The Hertfordshire "Feet
of

Fine," Trinity Term 8 Elizabeth I 1566 (The Herts Genealogist &

Antiquary 1 [1895]: 345) show "Three messuages and lands in

Sabrygeworth, Tho. Goddaye & Benedict Averyll; Rich. Raynsforde
&

Agnes his wife." Much later, at Hilary Term 34 Elizabeth I,
1591/2,

there ws an action regarding messuage and lands in North Mymmes,


Herts., between Henry Knowlys, gent. vs. Rich. Raynesford,
gent.,

Elizabeth his wife and Elizabeth Marvyn, widow (ibid., 3 [1898]:
97).

George Baker, History of Northamptonshire (1822-1830), 1:348,
states

that in 1602 Richard Symes alienated his manor of Drayton in

Northamptonshire to Richard Raynesford, Esq., and Robert his son
and

heir apparent in fee, "which Robert, in 6 Jac. (1608) his father
being

then dead," conveyed to Richard Farmer, Gent., and Edward FArmer
his

second son.

The will fo Richard Raynsford of Epping, Gentleman, was made 22

August 1599 and proved 5 June 1604 (PCC 59 Harte). By it he left
wife

Elizabeth various personal and household goods she was to
forfeit if

she remarried. He left L500 apiece to "my sonnes two daughters
Marye

and Jane" when they married or at age twenty-one; L25 to be paid


within three years to "Phillippa Marshe the child of my late
daughter

deceased," and the balance of his estate to son Robert Raynsford
who

was also nominated executor. His "loving nephew Richard Bugge,

gentleman and my loving brother-in-law Richard Meade, yeoman"
were to

be supervisors and each was to receive a gold ring worth forty

shillings when three months. The will was witnessed by John
Milles,

Edward Stauemont and Roger Numan. Richard RAYNESFORD and Anne MEADE were married on Nov 8, 1559 in North Weald Bassett, England.

33545. Anne MEADE²³ died before Jul 1585. ichard's first marriage is probably that marriage recorded at

North Weald Bassett on 8 November 1559 between Richard Raynsford
and

Anne Godden [sic]. Anne is called a daughter of Thomas Meade of

Berdon, co Essex, in the pedigrees, but her father has not yet
been

sufficiently identified among several of the name. The will of
Joan

Mead of Berden, widow, dated 28 August 1557 (Essex Record Office
no.

B/ABa 1/103 Reel 1, xerox copy provided by archivist)0.......
names

sons John, Edward, Thomas and Richard Mead, son Richard Bennett,


mentions unnamed wives of all sons, names daughters Joan, wife
of

Thomas Pelham: Elizabeth Wright, and Agnes Goddaye, and leaves

unnamed children of Agnes cash legacies at their day of
marriage. The

will of Edward Mead of Berdon, dated 10 Sept 1577 and proved 19

November following (PCC 44 Daughtry) names his ten children,
brothers

Thomas and Richard Mead, sister Jane Pelham but not sister
Agnes/Anne,

who was perhaps then dead.

On 4 December 1558 Robert Godday of Sabrythesworth, alias
Groves,

co Hertfordshire, was licensed to alienate the same and land in

Sherying, co. Essex, to his son Thomas Godday, and on 12 June
1560

Thomas Gooddaye and Joan his wife of Sabrigeworth, co.
Hertfordshire,

were licensed to alienate lands in Shering, co. Essex (Calendar
of

Patent Rolls: Elizabeth I, 10:136, 363). The Hertfordshire "Feet
of

Fine," Trinity Term 8 Elizabeth I 1566 (The Herts Genealogist &

Antiquary 1 [1895]: 345) show "Three messuages and lands in

Sabrygeworth, Tho. Goddaye & Benedict Averyll; Rich. Raynsforde
&

Agnes his wife." Much later, at Hilary Term 34 Elizabeth I,
1591/2,

there ws an action regarding messuage and lands in North Mymmes,


Herts., between Henry Knowlys, gent. vs. Rich. Raynesford,
gent.,

Elizabeth his wife and Elizabeth Marvyn, widow (ibid., 3 [1898]:
97).



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16772	i.	Robert Esq RAYNESFORD.
	ii.	Phillipa RAYNESFORD.
	iii.	George RAYNESFORD.
	iv.	John RAYNESFORD.
	v.	Judith RAYNESFORD.
	vi.	Susan RAYNESFORD.
	vii.	Jane RAYNESFORD.