Will of James Bacon, citizen and fishmonger of London. Dated 22
April 1573. I late purchased of Richard Brittein keye called Dice Keye
in psh. of St. Dunstan's in the East, London, for 900 li, of which 450 li is
paid to said Richard, the remaining 450 li to be paid after death of Eliza-
beth Gascoyne, mother of the said Richard Brittein, to whom, during her
life, 50 li. to be paid yearly ; the said 450 li to be raised from my property
& jilacedin hands of Anne, my wife, for discharge of said debt. Should
my wife die, then to go to my friend William Webb, citizen and Salter of
London. Of remaining property I give one third to Anne my wife, one
third to my two sons James and William Bacon and one third in legacies
as follow? : — Gowns to 20 poor m.en of tlie Fishmongers Company and 30
others. Black gowns to each of the followino- — Thomas Bacon mv brother
in law and his wife, Sir Lyonell Duckett, knt., Lord Mayor, and the Lady
his wife, Lady Barbara Champion, widow, the swordbearer Sir -lohn White
and the Lady his wife. Sir Christopher Draper and liis wife. Sir Roger JNIar-
ten and his wife, Mr. Recorder and his wife, Mr. Alderman Langley, Mr.
Alderman Bonde and Mr. Alderman Oliff and their wives, my brother Pas-
ton and his wife, my brother John Lambert and his wife, my brother Coles
and his wife, Robert Blackman, my sister Helemau, my brother William
Packington and his wife, Mr. John Jackman, son of Edward Jackman,
my brother Edward Pakenton, Robert Bacon, the foresaid William
Webb and his wife, my sister Amy Hill, widow, my brother Williamson
and his wife, Michael Goldstone and his wife, my daughter Tyrell, and my
household servants, Robert Goldestone and his wife, Oliver Goldstone and
his wife if he have not any at time of my decease, Helen Flowerdale,
widow, my son Ryvett and his wife, Thomas Bankes and his wife, Thomas
Sharpe, my cousin Cockes in Lumbardstrete and his wife, Mr. John Cooper
and his wife, my neighboure Pyrowe Cottie, George Lordinge, clerk of the
fishmongers' Com., the deputies of my ward and the bedell of my warde,
the goodman Golding of Ilornechurche, co. Essex and his wife, Humfrey
Bawdrick and his wife, William Ashebolde, M.A., and Thomas Cattell,
curate of St. Dunstan's in the East. To tlie following money for rings: --
My Lord Keeper^ and his wife, my cousin Nicholas Bacon my lord's eldest
son and his wife, my cousin Woodhouse and his wife, my cousin Windoam (?)
*His will proved P. C. C, Bakon, 1.
t Visit, of Suff. 1561, ]\rptciilf, p. 2.
X Sir Nicholas Bacon, Kut.
25
and his wife, my cousins Nathanyell Bacon and his wife, Edward,
Anthony and Fraunces Bacon, my said son Ryvett and his wife, my said
brotlier Thomas Bacon and his wife, my cousin Robert Bacon, my cousin
Thomas Banckes and his wife, my cousin Robert Bhxckman, my cousin
Robert Brownings and his wife, my cousin Thomas Sharpe, Bartholomew
Kemp and his wife, the sd. Sir Lyonell Duckett, knt., Lord Mayor, and
his wife, the sd. Sir John White and his wife, and others mentioned above,
Nicliolas Packington and his wife, the sd. William Webb and his wife, my
said daughter Tyrell and her sisters Margaret and Martha and to their
brother Richard Goldestone, the ring which was his fathers with a cornelin
therein, Mr. John Broxholme, Sir Valentine Browne and his wife, _ my
cousin CraifFord and his wife, Mr. Lilgrave and his wife, John Gardiner
the elder, John Gardiner the younger and his wife, my brother John Pack-
ington the elder and his wife, Margerie Burbridge, Mr. Edmond Burton
and his wife, John Dudley and his wife, my cousin Owen and his wife, Mr:
William Sebright, William Meggs and his wife, John Jackman and his
wife, Fraunces Bowyer and his wife, John Nayler's wife, Richard Weekes
of Battell, Bartholomew Jeffrey, Clement Hicmon {Hicins^), David Wil-
lard, Robert Davis, Thomas May and Henry Davis. Bequests to St.
Thomas' Hospital, Southwark, Christs Hospital, Bartholomews Hospital,
Smethfield, and to Bridewell, Ludgate and Newgate Prisons and the two
compters, etc. Two young men of the Fishmongers Company to have use
of 50 li. each, for which they must provide two loads of coals for poor of
sd. Co., and to the sd. Company I give 13 li. 68. 8d. for a dinner. To
Robert Bacon son of my bro. Thomas Bacon 100 li. and he to be good to
his sister Jane. To son Ryvett and his wife 66 li. 13s. 14d. Legs, to
friend William Webb, Thomas Sharpe, (To John I forgive his
debts,) Margaret and Christopher the two children of the sd. Wm : Webb
(at their age or marriage) and my wife Anne. To repair of church of St.
Peter where I am now a parishioner 3 li. 6s. 8d. and to poor there 4 li.
Forgive beadle of my ward, Richard Spueling, all debts. To poor of
Hornechurch 3 li. 68.*8d. Legs, to Henry Amcottes, John Davies, Thomas
Emson, Michael Collett, Edward my boy in the kitchen, maidservants, the
four children of Richard Goldstone, viz. to Jane Tyrrell and Margaret,
Martha and Richard, to be paid at age or marriage (of last three). To
poor at gate of house where I now dwell & in psh of St. Dunstans in the
East, to preachers for sermons in St. Peters and St. Dunstans. to goodman
Golding of Hornchurch and his wife and Mary their maiden, Robert Hole-
man at age, my cousin Cockes and his wife, Robert Blackman & my poor
kinsfolk above named. Res. Legs, sons James and William. Exors : wife
Anne and son James. Supervisors : my son Ryvett, brother Cole, and
William Webb. To Henry Jaye 3 li. Vds. 8d. Witn : Willm Webbe,
William Ashebolde, Thoms. Cattell, Georgio Lordinge.
My farm and lands in Hornechurch, co. Essex, in tenure of Edmonde
James ah Pynner to my son William and his heirs, remainder to my son
James and his heirs, and my daughter Ryvett and her heirs. My tenmt.
called ye signe of ye bores Hedd in Thames Strete, in psh. of St. Mary at
Hill, in the tenure of William Pennington, George Jackson and the Lady
Barbara Champion, also tenmt. called the sign of the neates Foote, in psh.
of St. Dunstans in the East, in tenure of George Quernebie, to my son
James, rem. to son William and to daughter Ryvett and their heirs. To
son James keye called Dice Keye in Thames Strete, in psh. of St. Dunstans
afsd., and in tenure of Lawrence Mellowe, William Yonge, Walter Dypen-
26
rack, stranger, and Thurstan, widow, and of the above named
"William Webbe, remainder as before.
Codicil of 5 May 1573, relating to repair of houses on Dice Key and
profit under copartnership with William AVebbe, Salter. Witn : as above-
Proved 2 October 1573, by Anne the relict and Extrs. named.
P. C. C, Peter, 28.
James Bacon, the above testator, was married three times ; by his first
wife, Mary, dan. of John Gardiner of Grove Place, co. Bucks., he had a
daughter Anna, who married John Ryvett of Bramston, co. Suff., Esq., and
three other children who all died in infancy. By his second wife, Margaret,
daughter of Richard Rawlins of London, and widow of Richard Goldstoue
of London, salter, he had issue Sir James Bacon of Freston Hall, Sutf.y
Knt., and William, second son, as well as two other children who did
not survive.* His third wife was Ann, dau. of Humphrey Packenton, and
relict of Edward Jackman, Alderman and Sheriff of London, by whom he
had no issue. The eldest son, Sir James Bacon, by his wife Elizabeth,
daughter of Francis and Anne (Drury) Bacon, left issue Nathaniel Bacon,
his son and heir, who was grandfather, through his eldest son Thomas, of
Nathaniel Bacon of Virginia, " the Rebel," and, through his second son.
Rev. James Bacon, Rector of Burgate in Suff., by his wife INIartha Honey-
wood, of the other Nathaniel of Virginia, Councellor and acting Governor.
Martha, the widow of Rev. James Bacon, married second. Rev. Robert
Peck, for 30 years Rector of Hingham in Suff., afterward of Hingham in
Massachusetts, who had had issue by his first wife, a daughter, Anne Peck,
who became the wife of Major John Mason of Seabrook, Conn., distin-
guished in the Pequot War.§ Reverand Robert Peck of HIngham, MA
Resuming the theme of the Gosnold family, I will now revert to the
direct Gosnold line, and have pleasure in giving the long sought and most
valuable will of Anne (Doggett), widow successively of Thomas Bacon of
Hessett and of Robert Gosnold of Otley. It is notewvorthy that she speaks
of her husband Gosnold's grandchildren as her own, but the known dates
render it certain that they were the issue of his first wife Agnes (Hill),
and her step children only.
This family appears connected with the John and Anna Bacon Ryvette family and any
connection to John and Alice Ryvette Daynes is purely speculative. This family is certainly
connected to the Drury family and the family of Rev. Robert Peck of Hingham, MA, who had a brother named Joseph Peck of Hingham, Ma.
1638 - Rev. Robert PECK, fleeing from persecutions of the church, sailed on board the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, England, John MARTIN, master; arriving, with his brother Joseph PECK and other Puritans, at Hingham, Massachusetts in 1638. Rev. Robert PECK was ordained teacher at Hingham in October 1638; and he was made a freeman 13 March 1639. Returning to his rectorship at Hingham, England in 1641, he died in his old parsonage in 1656. His daughter, Ann PECK married John MASON. Whittemore, Henry, GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA, p.409; CLEVELAND GENEALOGY, p.566; James Kendall Hosmer, ed., WINTHROP'S JOURNAL "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" (1908), v.I, p.279.
Joseph PECK, of Hingham, Norfolk, England, came in the "Diligent" arriving in Boston, 1638, from Ipswich in Suffolk, with his wife, three sons, one daughter, two men servants, and three maid servants. He was made freeman 1639, and was granted a house lot of seven acres adjoining that of his brother, Robert PECK. He served as a representative to the General Court, 1639-42; removed to Seekonk (Rehoboth) in 1645; and there died 1663. - Whittemore, Henry, GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA, p.409. http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/conewlondon/billc1625.html
April 1573. I late purchased of Richard Brittein keye called Dice Keye
in psh. of St. Dunstan's in the East, London, for 900 li, of which 450 li is
paid to said Richard, the remaining 450 li to be paid after death of Eliza-
beth Gascoyne, mother of the said Richard Brittein, to whom, during her
life, 50 li. to be paid yearly ; the said 450 li to be raised from my property
& jilacedin hands of Anne, my wife, for discharge of said debt. Should
my wife die, then to go to my friend William Webb, citizen and Salter of
London. Of remaining property I give one third to Anne my wife, one
third to my two sons James and William Bacon and one third in legacies
as follow? : — Gowns to 20 poor m.en of tlie Fishmongers Company and 30
others. Black gowns to each of the followino- — Thomas Bacon mv brother
in law and his wife, Sir Lyonell Duckett, knt., Lord Mayor, and the Lady
his wife, Lady Barbara Champion, widow, the swordbearer Sir -lohn White
and the Lady his wife. Sir Christopher Draper and liis wife. Sir Roger JNIar-
ten and his wife, Mr. Recorder and his wife, Mr. Alderman Langley, Mr.
Alderman Bonde and Mr. Alderman Oliff and their wives, my brother Pas-
ton and his wife, my brother John Lambert and his wife, my brother Coles
and his wife, Robert Blackman, my sister Helemau, my brother William
Packington and his wife, Mr. John Jackman, son of Edward Jackman,
my brother Edward Pakenton, Robert Bacon, the foresaid William
Webb and his wife, my sister Amy Hill, widow, my brother Williamson
and his wife, Michael Goldstone and his wife, my daughter Tyrell, and my
household servants, Robert Goldestone and his wife, Oliver Goldstone and
his wife if he have not any at time of my decease, Helen Flowerdale,
widow, my son Ryvett and his wife, Thomas Bankes and his wife, Thomas
Sharpe, my cousin Cockes in Lumbardstrete and his wife, Mr. John Cooper
and his wife, my neighboure Pyrowe Cottie, George Lordinge, clerk of the
fishmongers' Com., the deputies of my ward and the bedell of my warde,
the goodman Golding of Ilornechurche, co. Essex and his wife, Humfrey
Bawdrick and his wife, William Ashebolde, M.A., and Thomas Cattell,
curate of St. Dunstan's in the East. To tlie following money for rings: --
My Lord Keeper^ and his wife, my cousin Nicholas Bacon my lord's eldest
son and his wife, my cousin Woodhouse and his wife, my cousin Windoam (?)
*His will proved P. C. C, Bakon, 1.
t Visit, of Suff. 1561, ]\rptciilf, p. 2.
X Sir Nicholas Bacon, Kut.
25
and his wife, my cousins Nathanyell Bacon and his wife, Edward,
Anthony and Fraunces Bacon, my said son Ryvett and his wife, my said
brotlier Thomas Bacon and his wife, my cousin Robert Bacon, my cousin
Thomas Banckes and his wife, my cousin Robert Bhxckman, my cousin
Robert Brownings and his wife, my cousin Thomas Sharpe, Bartholomew
Kemp and his wife, the sd. Sir Lyonell Duckett, knt., Lord Mayor, and
his wife, the sd. Sir John White and his wife, and others mentioned above,
Nicliolas Packington and his wife, the sd. William Webb and his wife, my
said daughter Tyrell and her sisters Margaret and Martha and to their
brother Richard Goldestone, the ring which was his fathers with a cornelin
therein, Mr. John Broxholme, Sir Valentine Browne and his wife, _ my
cousin CraifFord and his wife, Mr. Lilgrave and his wife, John Gardiner
the elder, John Gardiner the younger and his wife, my brother John Pack-
ington the elder and his wife, Margerie Burbridge, Mr. Edmond Burton
and his wife, John Dudley and his wife, my cousin Owen and his wife, Mr:
William Sebright, William Meggs and his wife, John Jackman and his
wife, Fraunces Bowyer and his wife, John Nayler's wife, Richard Weekes
of Battell, Bartholomew Jeffrey, Clement Hicmon {Hicins^), David Wil-
lard, Robert Davis, Thomas May and Henry Davis. Bequests to St.
Thomas' Hospital, Southwark, Christs Hospital, Bartholomews Hospital,
Smethfield, and to Bridewell, Ludgate and Newgate Prisons and the two
compters, etc. Two young men of the Fishmongers Company to have use
of 50 li. each, for which they must provide two loads of coals for poor of
sd. Co., and to the sd. Company I give 13 li. 68. 8d. for a dinner. To
Robert Bacon son of my bro. Thomas Bacon 100 li. and he to be good to
his sister Jane. To son Ryvett and his wife 66 li. 13s. 14d. Legs, to
friend William Webb, Thomas Sharpe, (To John I forgive his
debts,) Margaret and Christopher the two children of the sd. Wm : Webb
(at their age or marriage) and my wife Anne. To repair of church of St.
Peter where I am now a parishioner 3 li. 6s. 8d. and to poor there 4 li.
Forgive beadle of my ward, Richard Spueling, all debts. To poor of
Hornechurch 3 li. 68.*8d. Legs, to Henry Amcottes, John Davies, Thomas
Emson, Michael Collett, Edward my boy in the kitchen, maidservants, the
four children of Richard Goldstone, viz. to Jane Tyrrell and Margaret,
Martha and Richard, to be paid at age or marriage (of last three). To
poor at gate of house where I now dwell & in psh of St. Dunstans in the
East, to preachers for sermons in St. Peters and St. Dunstans. to goodman
Golding of Hornchurch and his wife and Mary their maiden, Robert Hole-
man at age, my cousin Cockes and his wife, Robert Blackman & my poor
kinsfolk above named. Res. Legs, sons James and William. Exors : wife
Anne and son James. Supervisors : my son Ryvett, brother Cole, and
William Webb. To Henry Jaye 3 li. Vds. 8d. Witn : Willm Webbe,
William Ashebolde, Thoms. Cattell, Georgio Lordinge.
My farm and lands in Hornechurch, co. Essex, in tenure of Edmonde
James ah Pynner to my son William and his heirs, remainder to my son
James and his heirs, and my daughter Ryvett and her heirs. My tenmt.
called ye signe of ye bores Hedd in Thames Strete, in psh. of St. Mary at
Hill, in the tenure of William Pennington, George Jackson and the Lady
Barbara Champion, also tenmt. called the sign of the neates Foote, in psh.
of St. Dunstans in the East, in tenure of George Quernebie, to my son
James, rem. to son William and to daughter Ryvett and their heirs. To
son James keye called Dice Keye in Thames Strete, in psh. of St. Dunstans
afsd., and in tenure of Lawrence Mellowe, William Yonge, Walter Dypen-
26
rack, stranger, and Thurstan, widow, and of the above named
"William Webbe, remainder as before.
Codicil of 5 May 1573, relating to repair of houses on Dice Key and
profit under copartnership with William AVebbe, Salter. Witn : as above-
Proved 2 October 1573, by Anne the relict and Extrs. named.
P. C. C, Peter, 28.
James Bacon, the above testator, was married three times ; by his first
wife, Mary, dan. of John Gardiner of Grove Place, co. Bucks., he had a
daughter Anna, who married John Ryvett of Bramston, co. Suff., Esq., and
three other children who all died in infancy. By his second wife, Margaret,
daughter of Richard Rawlins of London, and widow of Richard Goldstoue
of London, salter, he had issue Sir James Bacon of Freston Hall, Sutf.y
Knt., and William, second son, as well as two other children who did
not survive.* His third wife was Ann, dau. of Humphrey Packenton, and
relict of Edward Jackman, Alderman and Sheriff of London, by whom he
had no issue. The eldest son, Sir James Bacon, by his wife Elizabeth,
daughter of Francis and Anne (Drury) Bacon, left issue Nathaniel Bacon,
his son and heir, who was grandfather, through his eldest son Thomas, of
Nathaniel Bacon of Virginia, " the Rebel," and, through his second son.
Rev. James Bacon, Rector of Burgate in Suff., by his wife INIartha Honey-
wood, of the other Nathaniel of Virginia, Councellor and acting Governor.
Martha, the widow of Rev. James Bacon, married second. Rev. Robert
Peck, for 30 years Rector of Hingham in Suff., afterward of Hingham in
Massachusetts, who had had issue by his first wife, a daughter, Anne Peck,
who became the wife of Major John Mason of Seabrook, Conn., distin-
guished in the Pequot War.§ Reverand Robert Peck of HIngham, MA
Resuming the theme of the Gosnold family, I will now revert to the
direct Gosnold line, and have pleasure in giving the long sought and most
valuable will of Anne (Doggett), widow successively of Thomas Bacon of
Hessett and of Robert Gosnold of Otley. It is notewvorthy that she speaks
of her husband Gosnold's grandchildren as her own, but the known dates
render it certain that they were the issue of his first wife Agnes (Hill),
and her step children only.
This family appears connected with the John and Anna Bacon Ryvette family and any
connection to John and Alice Ryvette Daynes is purely speculative. This family is certainly
connected to the Drury family and the family of Rev. Robert Peck of Hingham, MA, who had a brother named Joseph Peck of Hingham, Ma.
1638 - Rev. Robert PECK, fleeing from persecutions of the church, sailed on board the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, England, John MARTIN, master; arriving, with his brother Joseph PECK and other Puritans, at Hingham, Massachusetts in 1638. Rev. Robert PECK was ordained teacher at Hingham in October 1638; and he was made a freeman 13 March 1639. Returning to his rectorship at Hingham, England in 1641, he died in his old parsonage in 1656. His daughter, Ann PECK married John MASON. Whittemore, Henry, GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA, p.409; CLEVELAND GENEALOGY, p.566; James Kendall Hosmer, ed., WINTHROP'S JOURNAL "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" (1908), v.I, p.279.
Joseph PECK, of Hingham, Norfolk, England, came in the "Diligent" arriving in Boston, 1638, from Ipswich in Suffolk, with his wife, three sons, one daughter, two men servants, and three maid servants. He was made freeman 1639, and was granted a house lot of seven acres adjoining that of his brother, Robert PECK. He served as a representative to the General Court, 1639-42; removed to Seekonk (Rehoboth) in 1645; and there died 1663. - Whittemore, Henry, GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA, p.409. http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/conewlondon/billc1625.html