A Dynasty

The Quennells of Chiddingfold…

…and the Quynelds in Lancaster,

Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire,
Kent and Surrey

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 Preface

This is a living document and will change as and when more resources become available.
Some resources that have been available till now have been sketchy at best and often
contradictory. Some assumptions have been made based on possibilities and others have
been best guesses based on circumstantial evidence. Where evidence has been
contradictory additional clues as to the accuracy of each has been taken into account and
a judgement made on the facts that best fit the peripheral evidence. For instance the
family links between the Crandleys and the Quennells, who their children were and the
property they owned or occupied, have been based on a combination of facts drawn from
the most detailed evidence available such as the will of Roger Cranley (Crandley) of Field
Hall, Compton, and the Victorian records of the county of Surrey maintained by British
History Online. Other connections have been made based on historical context such as
the movements of people as a consequence of the tumultuous events of their time;
William Quyneld in Yorkshire and his possible connection to the campaigns of Edward I
against the Scots, and the move of John Quyneld’s family from Hertfordshire to the
South Coast as a consequence of his reneging on a commission to fight in the English
campaigns against the French during the Hundred Years War, his fall from favour with
the Crown and as a result the potential disbursement, by the Crown, of his properties in
Hertfordshire. Where possible the short biographical sketches of the people associated
with the family members have been fleshed out, along with the main events that took
place during their lives to give a better perspective on the possible role of the family in
influencing those events and how they may have been affected. As for the historical
lineage of the family they had quite a presence in Yorkshire, particularly around the Hull
area, in Sheffield and York and it is possible that with a shift in focus of the Crown away
from York to London and the south coast during the Hundred Years War that the family’s
fortunes and their own seat followed suit, firstly to Hertfordshire and from there to
Southampton, Kent and Middlesex, and finally to Surrey. The reader should try to place
the events referred to in this document not only in a historical but also political and
geographical context. As with regional focus of political power and geographical
influence, landholdings ranged far and wide. When Surrey is mentioned it should be
borne in mind that in pre modern times the county’s borders ran all the way to the
southern end of London Bridge and along the Thames nearly to Deptford and into present
day Hamsphire. Politically speaking, during the English Civil War, loyalty was divided
along Northern/Western (Royalist) and Southern/Eastern (Parliamentarian) lines with the
Parliamentarian vanguard of support being predominantly made up of the middle classes,
merchants, the navy and the puritans, and the Royalist vanguard amongst the Anglican
Church, the Catholics, the nobility and the peasants.

This is primarily an investigation into what might be loosely termed a dynastic family
ranging from about 1260 to 1891. For more detail on the social conditions in the Surrey
area readers should refer to Greta Turner’s ‘Shottermill: its Farms, Families and Mills.
Part 1 – Early Times to the 1700s’, and for an in depth elaboration on cooking and rural
life to Dianne Purkiss’s ‘The English Civil War: A Peoples’ History’.

Conventions:

Given the difficulty in working out precise dates of birth and death where the latter is
unclear the latest age of the father for the birth of the youngest child has been assumed
to be about 50.

For the sake of narrative, as far as it goes, from John Quyneld (the elder?) about 1340 –
1390/91, onwards the parents of the following descendants are left indented. The names
of offspring whose family line is not generally followed are centred

A bulleted timeline has been included though where events occurred in and around
Surrey and may have had an influence on or been influenced by the family have been
included in the narrative.

A fair variety of name variants were found and used in the course of this research:
Quenyld, Quyneld, Qwyneld, Qwenyld, Queynnild, Quynel, Quenild, Quinild, Quineld,
Quinnell, Quinell, Qwinnell, Quenhill, Quenhilt, Quennell, Quennel, Qieniiill, Quynild
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 Introduction

Why the Quennells as a subject? As an amateur genealogist this particular branch of the
family, though not related by blood, has proved one of the most interesting. Led by the
unfolding clues the trail has taken many twists and turns and when facts have connected
they have opened a window on the past that provides a fascinating view into a different
world. It’s a combination of the ordinary things, such as the inventories contained in
wills, as well as the potential involvement that members of the Quenell family have had
in influencing some of the momentous times in English history that make the stories of
their lives and the family’s history so appealing. For those descendants of the Quennells
who may happen on this document it is hoped that both the personal histories and the
overview of the history of the family that this document contains will help to provide a
sense of their continuity with the past. This journey started in December 2007 standing
at the War Grave of my Great Grandfather and though it hasn’t ended it has taken me to
places I would never have otherwise been and revealed facts that I would never have
otherwise known. Most surprising has been the discovery of connections between
ancestors who at the time were unrelated; the founder of Meaux Abbey for instance,
William De Forz, an ancestor of the author’s mother’s paternal line, the Fores, and
Richard Quyneld, a monk at the same Abbey, pensioned off by Henry VIII at the
Dissolution of the Monasteries. This is the fascination and the pull of genealogy.

A special thanks to Ian Thacker, Chairman of Chiddingfold archive.

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 Chiddingfold

Chiddingfold is located in the Weald in the Waverley District of Surrey, England

Chiddingfold, “Chadynge's fold" (Anglo-Saxon: meaning – enclosure for animals) became

famous for its glass-making during the reign of Elizabeth I; there were no fewer than
eleven glass works on the green. Chiddingfold glass was used in some of the finest
buildings in the land, including St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, and St George's
Chapel, Windsor.1 However, the industry went into decline in 1615 when the prohibition
of the use of wood fuel was issued2, and was overtaken by the iron works industry,
founded in Chiddingfold in about 1575 when Lord Montagu(e) established an iron forge at
South Imbhams. Eventually some of the property was bought by the Quennells who,
whilst remaining involved in the agricultural industry, were successful enough to have
developed and established ironwork forges in Surrey at Chiddingfold, Shottersmill and
Frensham.

In the 1300s there used to be an annual fair held over the Nativity of St. Mary on the 7-9
September and a Tuesday Market but these are no longer held. Chiddingfold was part of
the manor holdings of Godalming

The village can be reached via Haslemere on the main South West Trains service
between London Waterloo and the Isle of Wight with connecting bus services between
Haslemere and Chiddingfold. Accommodation can be found in period buildings that
provide accommodation at the Crown Inn (whose owner in 1651 was Peter Quennell),
Petworth Road, Chiddingfold and at the Lythe Hill Hotel (built and occupied by the
Quennell family in 1480), on the Petworth Road between Halsemere and Chiddingfold.

Lythe Hill Farm

Chiddingfold and its neighbourhood abound in ancient farm-houses and cottages,

prominent among which may be mentioned Lythe Hill Farm, on the right of the road
leading from Haslemere to Anstead Brook, with halftimber work of two periods, the richer
and later being a gabled wing with square and circle patterns in the timber framing,
probably c. 1580; but the main body of the house is at least half a century earlier. The
wing is panelled, and has a good mantelpiece of c. 1700. It was owned by the Quenell
(pronounced ‘Chennel’), Quenel, or Quyneld family who held land in Hertfordshire,
Hampshire, Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, finally settling down in Chiddingfold in 1480.3
Quenell is old French name and means ‘dweller by the little oak’4 though another source
asserts that it derives from the Old English pre 7th Century female personal name
'Cwenhild', in Middle English 'Quenilla' and 'Quenilde'. The name is composed of the
elements 'cwen', meaning 'woman', and 'hild', meaning 'battle' or 'war'.5. It is likely that
the family originally came from France with William the Conqueror to settle in England

1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiddingfold
2
http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Sussex
3
Malden H E, A Victorian County History: A History of the County of Surrey Volume 3, Parishes, Chiddingfold.
pub 1911. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42922
4
Mybaby-name.com
5
Surnamedb.com
6
http://www.jvsn.co.uk/history.htm
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 The Quynelds of Lancaster, Yorkshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent,
Middlesex and Surrey

Lancaster, probably about 12607

Universis Christi fidelibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris Thomas de Coupmanwra
salutem. Noveritis me pro salute animee me et animarum predecessorum et
successorum meorum concessisse dedisse, et hoc presenti scripto meo confirmasse Deo
et ecclesie beate marie de Lancastr[e], Priori et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, tres
acras terre et dimidiam in villa de Skerton quas habui de Quenild filio Roberti Scathon in
puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Tenendas et habendas dictas tres acras terre et
dimidiam cum omnibus suis pertinenciis dictis Priori et monachis et eorum successoribus
adeo libere et quiete sicut aliqua elemosina liberius dari potest et concedi. Et ego Thomas
predictus dictam terram cum pertinenciis et heredes mei dictis Priori et monachis et
eorum successoribus contra omnes mortales warantizabimus et defendemus
imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis
testibus Domino Benedicto Gernet, Domino Willelmo de Heton, Alano de Catherton,
Johanne Gernet, Johanne de Oxclyve, et aliis

To all the faithful of Christ who shall see or hear this writing, Thomas of Capernwray8
greeting. Know ye that I, for the welfare of my soul and of the souls of my predecessors
and successors, have granted, given, and by this my present writing have confirmed, to
God and the church of the Blessed Mary of Lancaster, to the Prior and monks there
serving God, three acres and a half of the Church of Lancaster land in the village of
Skerton9, which I had of Quenild, son of Robert of Skerton, in pure and perpetual alms.
To hold and to have the said three acres and a half of land, with all their appurtenances,
to the said Prior and monks and their successors, as freely and quietly as any alms can
be freely given and granted. And I, the aforesaid Thomas and my heirs, will warrant and
defend the said land with the appurtenances to the said Prior and monks and their
successors against all men for ever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal to this
present writing. These being witnesses Sir Benedict Gernet10, Sir William of Heaton11,
Alan of Catherton12, John Gernet, John of Oxcliffe13, and others

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Heaton. Vert three garbs or

1264 Battle of Lewes. Simon De Monfort and rebel barons defeat Henry III and
establish the first directly elected Parliament

1265 Battle of Evesham. De Monfort is defeated by the future Edward I and killed

1272 Henry III dies. Edward I becomes king

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Materials for the History of the Church of Lancaster Part II. The Chartulary of the Priory of Lancaster. Chapter
III. 40. Land in Skerton. Pp.268-269 in Volume 31 New Series: Remains Historical and Literary connected with
the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Printed for the Chesham Society, Manchester. Ed. Roper W O.
1894
8
Coupmanwray. Hamlet of Over Kellet in Lancashire. Thomas was lord of the manor of Over Kellet 1236-1296
9
Schertune in the Domesday Book, lit. Scar Town. Known as Skereton in 1292. On the banks of the River Lune
Lancaster parish, Lancashire
10
Of Bluet. An interesting fact since Philip Bluet and his wife Katherine were granted possession of John
Quyneld’s manor of Cottered in 1387/88 to be enacted at John’s death
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Of Heaton with Oxcliffe, Lancaster
12
Of Ellel, Lancashire
13
Of Heaton with Oxcliffe, Lancaster. John of Oxcliffe and Sir William Heaton were neighbours in 1283
14
'Townships: Heaton with Oxcliffe', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914), pp. 69-72. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
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 Yorkshire 1296-1338

Jordan Quenild

Jordan Quenild was listed as a debtor along with William, the son of Alan de Knapton15.
Hugh Grime of Rufforth16 issued the writ which was heard in York on the 29th September
1296 at which the Cancellario, or Chancellor17, found in favour of the plaintiff, a Master
Robert (de la Ford) who is recorded as Magistro18

Once again Jordan Quenild, alongside two others, Hugh Boye19 and Jordan de Braham of
Rufforth, were named in a writ of debt considered at York on the 12th June 1297 for a
debt of 40 shillings, owed to Ralph de Whitewell of Yorkshire20 which was endorsed ‘Ebor’
(York)21

1290 King Edward I expels all Jews from England. Queen Eleanor dies

1295 King Edward I calls the Model Parliament

William Quyneld

At Lanercost Priory22 in Cumbria, during Edward I’s residency there for the duration of his
last campaign in 1306/7, a pardon was issued by the King on the 26th January 1307 to
Richard, son of Thomas Thurstan a ‘mercer’23, of Estrington24 for the death, at his hands,
of William Quyneld25. The pardon was again issued by Edward II to Richard for William’s
death ‘and for other felonies’ on the 26th October 1310 ‘on account of his good service in
Scotland and for his abjuration of the realm on that account’26. It is possible that William
Quyneld had sided with the Scots against the Crown and both Edward I and II showed
favour to Richard Thurstan as a result.

C. 1300 Glass windows and chimneys are becoming common among people who
are well off but below the nobility such as rich merchants. (Most people have a
hole in the roof to let out smoke)

1307 Edward I dies at Burgh Marsh, Solway Moss whilst campaigning against the
Scots and Edward II becomes king

1314 The battle of Bannockburn. The Scots utterly defeat the English

1315-1316 Famine stalks the land

It would seem that Richard Thurstan’s father Thomas was something of a bully since in
1323 a petition was made against him to Edward II, in the week of Pentecost in the

15
At a hearing in 1292 William (who was subject to a number of writs for unpaid debts) laid claim to a charter
given to him by the husband of Amery de Eccleston but which he was unable to produce as evidence since it
had been destroyed in a fire which had also destroyed his house and goods. 'Townships: Eccleston', A History of
the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 362-367. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
16
Rughford, a parish some 5 miles to the west of York in Ainsty Wapentake sometimes included with East or
West Riding
17
probably Thomas of Corbridge
18
Magistro - a Master of a Guild. C 241/31 National Archives, UK
19
Of Rufforth, Ainsty Wapentake, West Riding, Yorkshire (see fn. 16)
20
Ralph is listed in ‘The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine, of Durham’, By William Hutchinson, page
36, as a bastard and who’s will ordered his property in Hartlepool to be sold to pay for a Chaplain to pray for
his soul in the Chapel of St. Helen, Hart Warren (medieval Hert), on the outskirts of Hartlepool (County
Durham). However, when he died Bishop Beaumont seized the property and kept it is an escheat (a reversion
of property and land to the lord of the manor so it is not left in limbo) though this was reversed by a ruling by
Bishop Bury on 3rd April 1336. In 1845 the area was excavated and a large stone coffin containing a skeleton
(Ralph perhaps?) was found but no attempt was made to conserve the remains.
21
C 241/56 National Archives, UK
22
Lanercost Priory, in the north of Cumbria close to the Scottish border, was attacked a number if times by
William Wallace and was where Edward I spent the last months of his life directing a campaign against Robert
the Bruce, where he caught and hanged three of the Bruce's four brothers. The seriously ill but stubborn 68
year old King still refused to admit defeat and on horseback on 26th June attempted to cross the estuary on his
way to Scotland to crush the rebellion lead by Robert the Bruce. He finally had to be carried in a litter and
reached Kirkandrews-on-Eden on 2nd July. he struggled on for three days until he arrived at Burgh by Sands,
where on 7th July 1307 he died at Burgh Marsh, Solway Moss
23
A merchant
24
now Eastrington in the East Riding of Yorkshire
25
Patent Rolls. Edward I, Volume 4, Membrane 40, pg 439. 26 January 1307
26
Patent Rolls. Edward II, Volume 1, Membrane 6d, pg. 295/298. 26 October 1310
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sixteenth year of the King's reign, by a John de Touthorp, a clerk, who requested remedy
for actions by Thomas de Estrington and John de Esshton, both of York, that they ‘came
to Clifton and took 101 sheep of the petitioner and drove them to York and then to
Knavesmire27 where they detained them, and ate some, and the petitioner could not
have delivery until he made a fine and ransom, and he could still not have delivery until
he released all manner of actions that he had against them’. He was advised sue a writ of
trespass28 though it was doubtful this would have succeeded as it would seem that both
William and Thomas were in the favour of the Crown as between 1328 and 1330 under
Edward III they were both made freemen of York29

1324-1384 Life of John Wycliffe the religious reformer

1327 Edward II dies. Edward II becomes king

1337 The Hundred Years War between England and France begins

Richard Quyneld

Richard Quyneld is listed as one of the Cistercian monks who received a pension from
Henry VIII on 11 December 153930 on the dissolution of Meaux Abbey31, Beverley,
Yorkshire, not far from Hull

Meaux Abbey Earthworks and Wharram Percy Medieval village, site of the Abbey’s Sacred Well

1536-1540 Henry VIII closes the monasteries and confiscates their property

1537 Jane Seymour dies

1539 Ague, cholera and dystentry

William Quenild

Matilda, the wife of William son of Hugh de Garthorp32, swore an oath to the Edward III
on the Tuesday after the Annunciation, in the presence of a Richard de Ty33 and William
Trussel34, the King’s escheator for the south of Trent that she would not marry without
the king's licence. In return she was made a present by Edward III of a dower on the 21st
April 1338, the custody her husband’s lands which formed a third part of a property in
Wyverton35, with an income of 8 pennies a year, 21½ acres of land and a third part of a
half of an acre of land with the adjacent headrigs36 and property and land in Berneston37,
worth 7 shillings and 2½ pennies annually, and 4 acres of meadow in both towns, worth

27
Knaresmire, aka Strays of York, a collective name for four areas of open land of 800 acres in York
28
SC 8/327 E 787-E 866 UK National Archives, in French
29
'Admissions to the Freedom of York: 1-25 Edward III (1327-52)', Register of the Freemen of the City of York:
Vol. 1: 1272-1558 (1897), pp. 23-45. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
30
'Letters and Papers: December 1539, 11-15', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume
14 Part 2: August-December 1539 (1895), pp. 243-255. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
31
Eastrington (see William Quyneld page 4) is not far from Hull and Meaux Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey founded
in 1151 by William le Gros, Lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, who’s daughter
Hawise married William de Forz who inherited the title Count of Aumale
32
Garthorpe/Fockerby. Not far from Hull on the Lincolnshire/Yorkshire border
33
Owner of property let to the Knights Templar and Hospitalier in South Witham, Lincolnshire
34
of Billesley in Warwickshire. Created Lord of Bergues in Flanders 18 October 1331. See
http://www.britannia.com/bios/gents/wtrussell.html
35
In Nottinghamshire, south west of Hull to the east of Nottingham
36
Sawmills
37
Barmston or Burmeston: the manor of Beneston, or Berneston as the name is written in records subsequent
to the Domesday Book is situated on the Hull road, near the sea coast, six miles south of Bridlington Quay and
was in the Wapentake of Holderness (North Division) and was part of the estates of the De Forz, Counts of
Aumale, Earls of Holderness. Ancestors of the author through the maternal line
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4 shillings and annual rents of 4 shillings, 10 pennies and a farthing from the meadows.
Also annual rents of 17 pennies and 3 farthings from Margery Kynt38, of 12 pennies from
William Quenild, and of 2 shillings and four pence ha’penny from Richard Knollen.39

1340 The English win the naval battle of Sluys against the French. Geoffrey
Chaucer is born

1346 The battle of Crecy. English longbow men crush the French army

1348 The Black Death comes to England. Perhaps a third of the population died
over the next year

1356 The battle of Poitiers. Once again the England crush the French

1373 Plague

Robert and Roger Quenild of Hallum

Date 17 Jul 1343. Between Beatrix daughter of Robert del Appilyherd of Hallum40, of the
one part, and Richard son of Adam Wye of Sheffield, and Mary his wife, of the other part;
of all lands, tenements etc. which the grantor had after her father's death, in Hallum.
Witnesses: John Parker of Sheffield, William Lambert of the same, Thomas de Capella,
Robert de Maples, Robert Quenild of Hallum, John Machun of the same, Roger son of
Robert Quenild, and others. Seal: missing, on tag41

Sheffield – Quenyld, Queynnild and Quenild

Johan Quenyld, Magot and her daughter Johanna, Johannes Queynnild, his wife Matilda,
and William Quenild and his wife of Strafforth wapentake42, Sheffield parish in Yorkshire,
were documented in the Yorkshire Poll Tax in 137943

1381 Plague in the north of England. The Peasants Revolt led by Wat Tyler.
Peasants in Essex and Kent rose up and marched on London capturing the Tower
and killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King’s Treasurer. The King,
Richard II, managed to persuade them to disperse by making promises, none of
which he kept

1382 Winchester College is founded by William of Wickham

Hampshire 1310/1320
William Quenyld

In 1310 in Andover Robert Cappell is recorded as a witness to certain transgressions

between William of Shamwell and William Quenyld44 and in 1320 William petitioned a
senior Guild Official for compensation for the killing of a bull45

1314 The battle of Bannockburn. The Scots utterly defeat the English

1315-1316 Famine stalks the land

38
Probably of Torinton (Torrington), Lincolnshire
39
'Close Rolls, Edward III: April 1338', Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: volume 4: 1337-1339 (1900), pp.
398-407. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
40
South Yorkshire
41
West Yorkshire Archive Service in Bradford (Ref SpSt/4/11/53/1)
42
A political unit similar to a "Hundred" in Anglo-Saxon England, The Wapentake is a collection of local
parishes. The term is used in former Danelaw region of England and derives from words meaning "show your
weapon". The idea was that all in favor of a resolution would raise their sword, axe, etc. to show agreement.
Sheffield parish. Strafforth was the southernmost wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England
43
Johan Quenyld. Magot Quenyld' & Johanna filia (daughter) ejus (his). Johannes Queynnild' & Matilda uxor
(wife) ejus (his). Willelmus Quenild' & uxor (wife). Subsidiary Patent Roll, Poll tax, Sheffield, 1379
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/SubsidyRolls/WRY/Sheffield.html
44
Essoniatus (Excuses) Willielmus atte (of) Schamele (Shamwell) uesus (versus) Willielmum Quenyld de (of)
placito (the pleasure of) transgressionis per (according to) Robertum Cappellanum. Gross C PhD, The Gild
Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History, Vol. II. Pub. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1890. pp 303
45
Will. Quenyld vadiat (petition) Senescallis (of the official. "Seneschal" from the Old French and was
introduced by the Normans) Emendas (finance) pro (for) eo quod (because) mactauit (to slay, or kill) unum
(one) taurum (bull). Gross C PhD, The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History, Vol. II. Pub.
Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1890. pp 315
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 Hertfordshire

John Quyneld (the elder?) about 1340 – 1390/91

1340 The English win the naval battle of Sluys against the French. Geoffrey
Chaucer is born

1346 The battle of Crecy. English longbow men crush the French army

1348 The Black Death comes to England. Perhaps a third of the population died
over the next year

1356 The battle of Poitiers. Once again the England crush the French

John Quyneld (sic Quenyld) born around 1340, was an MP in 1377, 1378 and 1380, and
held land in 1373 in the manor of Ware in Hertfordshire. He may have been the father of
John Quyneld the younger, also born in Hertfordshire and potentially the father of Peter
Quyneld, as was shown by a monument formerly at Haslemere46. It would seem that he
had a brother called William who is mentioned in 1374 alongside Luke Vynter who, in
1363, is also listed as a Justice of the Peace alongside John. The family seat at the time
was in Hertfordshire, and he also had property investments in Middlesex, Surrey,
Southampton. His wife, Emma (Quynild), of Thorley, listed as a widow, made a grant on
Morrow of Holy Trinity, 14 Richard II (22 May 1391 – so John had passed away by that
time) to John Babelake of the same and Christina his wife of a garden called Morisgardyn
abutting on Botilleris croft and Ballyscroft’47

In the lead up to the appearance of John Quyneld of Hertfordshire in the records the
Ordinance and Statute of labourers was enacted in 1349/1351 in response to a labour
shortage and introduced by Sir John Halles, who resided in a mansion called 'le brick
house' within the cemetery of the priory of St. Mary Spital48 in London, then known as
the New Hospital of St Mary without Bishopgate, one of the biggest hospitals in medieval
England.

About a third of the population of Europe had been killed by the Black Death, resulting in
a dramatic decrease in the supply of labour which resulted in a sharp increase in
competition for workers who, with increased bargaining power, could command higher
wages which in turn led to inflation throughout the economy. The elite classes resented
this shift in economic power and Edward, in an attempt to control the cost of labour and
increasing inflation, issued the Ordinance of Labourers in 1349, reinforced by Parliament
with the Ordinance with the Statute of Labourers in 1351 which set a maximum wage for
labourers to match that of wage levels before the Black Death, levels which had been low
as a result of the economic depression in England as a result of the Hundred Years War
and even lower during the period of the Black Death. The Statute demanded that healthy
men and women should work, imposing strict penalties for idlers but this was poorly
enforced and unsuccessful and exacerbated the situation for those who were unable to
work for whatever reason, resulting in laws enacted later to address issues of poverty.

The Statute was very unpopular with those who wanted higher wages and improvements
in their quality of life and the simmering resentment of the peasantry contributed to
unrest and the subsequent Peasants' Revolt of 1381. As is shown in the records John
Quyneld was involved in a number of commissions from 1360 onwards relating not only
to the Hundred Years War but also in maintaining the peace in England in the face of
outbreaks of protest and increasing unrest as a result of the Statute, and would result in
changes in his location and shifting fortunes and favour with the Crown until a John
Quyneld, possibly the younger, is recorded in Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, and Surrey
where the family finally settled in Chiddingfold. During John’s lifetime he would have
served the interest of two Kings and their shifting fortunes; Edward III 1327-1377 and
Richard II 1377-1399. Potentially there are two John Quyneld’s involved, the elder and

46
'Parishes: Chiddingfold', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 10-16. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
47
DE/Z120/44803 Nationol Archive. UK
48
Spitalfields, London. Now the property of the Carpenters’ Company
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the younger. From the records the age range that is possible for John Quyneld the elder
is from about 1340, which would make John roughly 20/21 years old at the time, the age
which in Medieval Europe would mark his coming of age at about the time of his first
commission in 1360. Since we know John died in 1390/91 his son John would have been
a servant of Henry IV 1399-1413, and Henry V 1413-1422; the last mention of John
Quyneld in the Rolls Patent is in 1413. For it to be possible for the fathering of the
sequence of generations between John Quyneld (the elder?) and Peter Quennell the
potential dates would have to look something like this…

John Quyneld the elder 1340-1390/91 (death date established – Emma

Quynild, widow in 1391)
John Quyneld the younger 1390-
Peter Quyneld 1440-
Peter Quennell 1485-1558 (death date established – bequest for
upkeep of bells in 1558)

Based on this premise if would be relatively safe, and quite compelling in fact, to say that
John Quyneld the elder, mentioned in the following records, held the manor of Cottered
in Hertfordshire in 1387 which was transferred to Philip Bluet and his wife Katherine on
John’s death. John Quyneld the elder also held property in Crassalton49 in Surrey in 1383
so it may be reasonably safe to assume that if John Quyneld the elder died in
Hertfordshire in 1390/91 that John Quyneld the younger at the age of about 33, hailing
from Hertfordshire, moved his family to their holdings from Middlesex, where evidence
shows he held property in 1413, to Surrey some time after Cottered reverted to the
Bluets, confirming the wording on the monument previously at Haslemere. And so to the
records…

Between 1361, around about the time of his coming of age, and 1365 John Quyneld was
commissioned to keep the peace no less than four times, twice in 1361 alone. No doubt
this was in response to the simmering undercurrent of resentment resulting in sporadic
outbursts of violence on the part of the peasants in response to the Ordinance and
Statute of labourers which would result in the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, events that
would eventually place John Quyneld’s future and his life on a knife edge, and precipitate
a fall from the favour of the Crown and a downturn in his fortunes.

During the last year of the phase of the Hundred Years War called the Edwardian War
1337-1360, and under Edward III, John Quyneld seems to have held substantial rank
and to have been held in high enough esteem that he was entrusted, along with some of
the most prominent figures of the day with the serious responsibility or arraying men to
arms and at Westminster on 28 March 1360, under Edward III, a Commission was
issued50 which reads…

To Hugh Chastilon51, Sherriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. and his fellows,

arrayers52 of men at arms and archers in the county of Buckingham, reciting that
because it is the king's will that twenty men at arms, to wit the said Hugh, (Sir) Henry
(de) Chalfhunt53, Lord of Frinstead54 in Kent, Geoffre de Lucy55, Of Cublington56, John son
of John Giffard57, Edmund de Hampden58, Edmund Waleys59, Martin Chaunceux60, John

49
John Quenyld of Crassiilton, co. Surrey on 1st Mat 1383 Carshalton
50
Patent Rolls, Edward III, Volume 11, Membrane 22, pg 413/4. 28 March 1360
51
As master of the cross-bows in France, in 1369, along with count Guy de St. Pol, besieged and took the town
of Abbeville, and the whole country of Ponthieu. The records of the Exchequer of Edward III state that in 1370
a ransom of 10,000 marks was paid to Sir Nicholas Levigne (of the Parish of All Hallows the Great in Thames
Street) for the freedom of Hugh, his prisoner taken in war
52
Who was an officer who had a commission of array, to put soldiers of a country in a condition for military
service
53
Chalfont/Chalshunt, who bore for his arms, three bends ermine, ward to the castle of Dover
54
small village in the parish of Wormshill and in the Maidstone District of Kent
55
Sir Geoffrey de Lucy 1324-1400, U.S. President's 15-Great Grandfather, HRH Charles's 19-
Great Grandfather, PM Churchill's 17-Great Grandfather, Lady Diana's 18-Great Grandfather,
HRH Albert II's 20-Great Grandfather, Gen. Pierpont Hamilton's 18-Great Grandfather
56
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
57
Of Chillington Hall, South Staffordshire whose father was an MP under Edward II.
http://www.chillingtonhall.co.uk/
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de Coueley(e)61, William Wyot62, John de Thame63, Thomas Frisel64, Richard Hampden65,
John Baret66, John de Wermeston67, John de Amondesham68, John Reynam69, John de
Nowers70, and three other men at arms, twenty armed men and eighty archers of the
strongest and bravest of the county be selected in the county and go in ships upon the
sea for the defence of the realm, he commands that on sight of these presents these said
men be arrayed and duly furnished with arms, armour, bows and arrows and brought to
Sandwich71, and that if need be they be compelled to this by incarceration of their bodies
and taking of their lands and goods into the king's hand, so that they be there by
Tuesday in Easter week to enter the ships ordained to take them to go on the king's
service at the accustomed wages of war. In the meantime the commissioners are to send
men to Sandwich to provide victuals for the men ready to be shipped on their arrival. It
is the king's will also that when they reach the sea their horses shall be sent back to their
own parts. He has commanded the collectors of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the
commonalty of the realm for the expenses of the men going on the said service to pay
them their wages, to wit to every knight 2 shillings to an esquire I2 pennies to an armed
man 6 pennies and to an archer 4 pennies a day, for one month from the time of at
which they left the said county. Furthermore he gives the commissioners power to arrest
and imprison contrariants or rebels and take their lands and goods into his hand, and
hereby gives command to the sheriff, men at arms and archers, mayors, bailiffs,
ministers and others of the said county to be attending, answering, counselling and
aiding to them in the premises. By the guardian & C.

The like to the following arraying men at arms be in the counties named and bringing
them to Sandwich at the same day: Hugh de Blount72, knight, and the arrayers in the
county of Essex, twenty, men at arms, to wit the said Hugh, John de Seintclier73, Thomas
de Clopton74, Henry Moyne75, William Gennyn76, John de Boys77, Lionel de Bradenham78,

58
Of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England. John de Hampden, the son of Reginald, held the manor in
1346, and was a knight of the shire in two Parliaments of Edward III in 1351–2, and again in 1363. There is a
tradition that Edward III. and the Black Prince once paid a visit to Hampden, and that while the Prince and his
host were amusing themselves with games of chivalry, a quarrel arose and the prince received a blow in the
face, which greatly enraged his royal father, who instantly left the house with his son; and afterwards seized
some valuable manors belonging to De Hampden as a punishment for his want of manners and loyalty. The
following lines are said to refer to this incident:-

"Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe

Hampden did forego
For striking of a blow,
And glad he did escape so."

http://www.mspong.org/picturesque/great_hampden.html
Edmund was sheriff of the two counties, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, five times during the reigns of
Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V
59
Son of Lord William Le Waleys of Aston Cantlow. Warwickshire?
60
Of Okhide Manor, Horton, Buckinghamshire
61
Of Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. The place where Edward II was murdered 21 September 1327
62
Possibly the brother of John Wyatt and brother in law of John of Gaunt’s wife, Catherine Swinford
63
Of Buckinghamshire. Nominated to the Council of the Guildhall of London for Aldersgate in 1347. Possibly a
Knight Hospitalier
64
Occupied Bradenham Manor, Desborough, Buckinghamshire between 1350-1360
65
Probably a kinsman of Edmund de Hampden
66
Of Barnwell, Chesterton, Cambridge
67
Of Urmston Old Hall, Urmston then Wermeston
68
Of Amondesham/Agmondesham/Amersham, Buckinghamshire, near Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
69
Of Buckinghamshire, now Raynham and part of Luton
70
of Gothirst, Buckinghamshire
71
an important major port in Kent
72
Knight of Essex and High Sherriff of Hertfordshire in 1361, Owned land adjacent to St. Mildred the Virgin in
Poultry, City of London
73
John Saint Clair, knight, of Aldham St Cleres, Igtham (Eyghtham), Kent,
74
(Croyon-Cum) Clopton Deserted Medieval Village (Cambridgeshire) is situated to the west of Croydon village,
and can be reached by following the footpath at the western end of Croydon High Street. The Medieval village
of Clopton is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and is known from documentary sources to have had a market
in the 13th century. The village seems to have gone into decline during the later middle ages, and was finally
deserted during the early 16th century when the land was purchased by John Fisher. By enclosing the common
strip fields into large pasture fields, the villagers were stripped of their livelihood and ejected from the
countryside. All that remains today are the earthwork traces of the village layout. The earthworks are difficult
to interpret as the village was terraced into the hillside. However earthwork survey and excavation have greatly
increased our understanding, and demonstrated the presence of a central church, two moated sites and a
probable mill. The roughly rectangular moat has been identified as that of Clopton Bury, the manor of Clopton,
and a series of channels link the moat with the mill site in the south-east of the village.
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William de Dale79, Robert de Rokele80, Roger Monkoye and ten others, twenty armed men
and sixty archers, (Sir) Hugh FitzSymond81, and his fellows, arrayers in the county of
Hertford, twenty armed men, to wit the said Hugh, John de Chilterne82, John Quenyld83,
Hamo de Ware84

It is likely that the assembled company accompanied Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of
Warwick to France during Edward III’s last campaign there between 1359 and 1360.
Thomas Qwyneld, probably a younger brother of John who may have been killed in the
lead up to the Treaty of Brétigny, signed at Brétigny, a village near Chartres, which
marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. The circumstances of his
death are unknown but that Henry Hewen of Westefeld was involved who was under the
command of the Earl of Warwick, and that the subsequent pardons (see below) were
issued as a result.

At Westminster on the 28th of May 1360 Edward III issued a ‘Pardon, for good service to
the king done in his last voyage in France in the company of his son the earl of Richmond
to… …and the like to…’85 which on the 16th of July 1360 at Westminster included ‘Henry
Hewen of Westefeld86, in the company of Thomas de Bello Campo87, earl of Warwick,
marshal of England, for the death of Thomas Qwyneld’88

Effigies of Thomas de Beauchamp and Katherine Mortimer his wife, Earl and Countess of Warwick.
Effigies located in centre of quire, St. Mary's church in the city of Warwick89

The following year at Westminster on 21 March 1361 John Quenyld, along with a number
of high ranking officials, was again given a commission, this time of the peace under
Edward III’s Great Seal90, which also included a warrant to raise militias as the need
arose to John de la Lee91, William de Notton92, John Lodewyk93, Richard de Bydeford94,
Thomas de Eston95, John de Whitewell96 in the county of Hertford

75
Of Willingham, Cambridgeshire?
76
Of Guildford, Surrey?
77
Patron of the Augustinian Priory of Tiptree, Essex. The only remaining part of the priory is a rubble wall
extending E of the present house built in the 16th century
78
Knight and Lord of the Manor of Langenhoe, Essex
79
Sheriff of Hampshire and Constable of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight in 1345
80
Of Hertfordshire
81
Knight and Lord of the Manor of Merston, Kent, and Caxton, Cambridgeshire
82
Of Chilthorne Vagg, near Yeovil in Somerset
83
MP in 1377,1378 and 1380
84
Of Meldebourn and Ware in Hertfordshire who also occupied property in Cambridge. The name Hamo means
house or home and was introduced from Germany during the Norman Conquest
85
Patent Rolls. Edward III. Volume 11, Membrane 5, pg. 381. 28 May 1360
86
Hambury, now Hanbury, Hertfordshire or could be Sussex
87
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick. Founder Knight of the Order of the Garter. His father Guy
captured and imprisoned Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and Edward II’s lover, at Warwick Castle
88
Patent Rolls. Edward III. Volume 11, Membrane 3, pg. 394. 16 July 1360
89
Image taken in April 2004 by descendant of both. GNU Free Documentation License
90
Patent Rolls. Edward III. Volume 12, Membrane 33d, pg. 64. 21 March 1361
91
Knight and Royal Steward of Edward III’s household, of Albury, Hertfordshire. Seized the manor of
Chamberlains in Cambridgeshire and sold it back to Corpus Christi College in 1361 for 700 marks. In 1368 tried
by Sir Robert Thorpe
92
Knight, of Notton in Yorkshire and the King’s serjeant and justice of the King’s bench. He was the King’s
lieutenant in 1361 when he was sent to Ireland
93
Of Wormlee (Wormley) of Brokysburn (Broxbourne), and Ludwick in Hertfordshire on the route from London
to Ware; 23 miles. Justice of the peace for Hertfordshire. His father, William, went on pilgrimage with Hugh
Fitzsimmons to Santiago de Compostella in 1332
12
The same year, on the 21st of October 1361, Pelham, Thursday after St Luke, 35, Edward
III, John Quynled, along with Robert de Geddyng97, Thomas Logat, William Schanke and
William Rokesburgh98 were witnesses to the granting of the title and deeds of Landbeach
to Sir John de la Lee, the Royal Steward, in the presence of Sir Thomas de Knesworthe99
and Adam de Wyvelyngham100, knight, in return for his support to Thomas Grey of
Hertfordshire101

Later that year at Westminster on the 15th December 1361, John Quenyld was reaffirmed
in his role as a one of the commissioners of the peace for Hertfordshire102 alongside Guy
de Boys103, John de Chilterne, Thomas de Eston, and John de Whitewell104

Once again, on the 3rd of May 1365 we find John Quyneld in distinguished company when
at Westminster, probably once again in response to simmering resentment and unrest on
the part of the peasantry as a result of Edward III’s Statute of Labourers, he was
confirmed as a Commissioner of the Peace, pursuant to the statutes of Winchester,
Northampton and Westminster, alongside John, Duke of Lancaster105, John atte Lee106,
Edward Fitz Symond, John Foxcote107, John Strete108, and Luke Vynter109 of oyer and
terminer110, touching felonies, trespasses, forestalleries and regrateries, abuses of
measures and weights and delinquencies against the statutes and ordinances of
labourers111 in the county of Hertford112, intended to put and keep the peasants in their
place.

On December the 10th 1366 John Quynild received from the King at Westminster a
‘Commission of oyer and terminer’ along with ‘John Knyvet113, Robert de Thorpe114,
William de Wychyngham115, Richard de Leycestre116, on complaint by Walter de Mauny117
that William Lost, John Merseye118, chaplain, Aylwin Parker of Campes119, William Parke
of Walden, Thomas Tannere of Walden, Richard Somer, Robert Sweyn, John Chalk and
others, broke (into) his park at Chestreford120, co Essex, hunted therein and carried away
deer121

94
Coroner of Hitchin, Hertfordshire
95
Of Ormesby, York
96
Of Skeyton, Runhal, Norfolk
97
Knight, of Northampton
98
Previous owner of Mark Lane, now in the ownership of the Drapers' Company of Throgmorton Avenue,
London EC2N 2DQ
99
Kneesworth now Bassingborn-Cum-Kneesworth Cambridgeshire
100
A village now known as Willingham. Cambridgshire
101
Deeds relating to Landbeach, Cambridgeshire. CCCC09/35/55 http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk
102
Patent Rolls. Edward III, Volume 12, Membrane 32, pg. 66. 15 December 1361
103
Lord of the manor of Munden or Great Furnivall, Hertfordshire in 1361
104
Of Watford and Caysho. See CP 25/1/89/90, number 539 at
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_89_90.shtml
and http://aalt.law.uh.edu/CP25(1)/CP25(1)Herts89/IMG_0074.htm
105
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, third son surviving son of Edward III, Called Gaunt because he was
born in Ghent in Belgium; Gaunt was the old English name for Ghent
106
Probably John de la Lee
107
a major fish merchant
108
Mayor of Dover in 1378
109
who Testified at the petition of a John West about the Manor of Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire in 1370
110
Oyer and terminer - a term used in England in commissions directed to judges of assize about to hold court,
directing them to hear and determine cases brought before them,
111
post 1348 Black Death institution of Edward III’s Statute of Labourers in 1351, hugely unpopular with the
peasants of England
112
Edward III, Volume 13, Membrane 22, pg. 144. 3 May 1365
113
Sir John Knyvet, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 1365-1372. On the 30th June 1372 appointed Chancellor.
Built and occupied Knyvet’s Place, now Southwick Hall, near Oundle, Peterborough and open to the public
114
In 1356 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and in 1371 Chancellor
115
Witchingham, Norfolk
116
Clerk of the Court
117
Baron of Mauny, Lord of Wexford, Sheriff of Mentieth and Custodian of Harlech and Knight of the Garter.
One of Edward III’s military commanders. Founder of Charterhouse
118
Chaplain of St. Mary Le Strand, was where Somerset House now stands
119
Campes, probably in France
120
Chesterford, a village in the Uttlesford district of Essex
121
Patent Rolls. Edward III, Volume 13, Membrane 6d, pg. 370. 1366, December 10th
13
Three years later, one month from St Michael, 42 Edward III on the 27th of October
1368122 at Westminster a plea of covenant submitted in the county of Hertfordshire was
heard. The plaintiff was John Quynild123 and related to 1 messuage, 40 acres of land, 6
acres of meadow, 2 acres of pasture, 9 pence of rent and a rent of 1 clove in Thoreleye124
and Sabrychesworth125, and was against Roger Bunne126 and Joan, his wife, deforciants,
having obstructed John’s access to his estate

127

The agreement reads: Roger and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right
of John, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan
to him and his heirs for ever. Warranty: Warranty. For this: John has given them 100
marks of silver

There is the connection between John Quenild and Emma holding property in Thorley
which is mentioned above and which is reinforced by a record dated 49 Edward III, 10th
August 1375, when John is a witness to a grant of land in Thorley and Sawbridgeworth128

In 1373 plague once again struck England. Then, on the 12th of January 1374 a licence
was granted for the alienation129 in mortmain130 for John Quyneld and Walter Lepere to
transfer two properties and 2 acres of land in Eggeswere and Ildestre131 and for John
Chishull132, William Stoteville133, and John Harpesfeld to transfer a toft134, 116 acres of
land, 5 acres of meadow and 6 acres of wood in Acton valued of 32 shillings annually, the
value determined in a survey undertaken by Nicholas Heryng135, escheator136 in the
county of Middlesex, which were given to the Priory and Convent of St. Bartholomew's,
Smethefeld137, at an estimated value of 40 shillings annually, as part of the King’s grant

122
CP 25/1/89/92, number 589.
123
Quenild
124
Thorley, Hertfordshire
125
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
126
Bunn
127
CP 25/1/89/92, number 589. © Crown copyright. National Archives, London, England
128
DE/Z120/44802 National Archive, UK
129
The regulation of the 'alienation' or transfer of feudal lands without a licence from the Government. Henry
III issued an ordnance prohibiting the tenants in chief of feudal lands from alienating those lands without a
proper licence from the state. The penalty for not going through the licensing system was forfeiture of the lands
concerned
130
Mortmain is a legal term, derived from medieval French, literally meaning dead hand and refers to the
sterilisation of ownership of property by vesting it perpetually in the form of a religious office
131
Edgware and Elstree
132
Chaplain of the Priory of Thomas of Watford
133
Vicar of the church of St. Sepulchre without Neugate (Newgate), London
134
Homestead
135
Seneschal and Supervisor of the King’s castles and manors in Kent
136
In feudal England, escheat referred to the situation where the tenant of a fief died without an heir or
committed a felony. The fief reverted to the King's ownership for one year and one day, by right of primer
seisin, after which it reverted to the original lord who had granted it. From the time of Henry III, the monarchy
took particular interest in escheat as a source of revenue. From the 12th century onward, the Crown appointed
escheators to manage escheats and report to the Exchequer, with one escheator per county established by the
middle of the 14th century. Upon learning the death of a tenant, the escheator would hold an "inquisition" to
learn if the king had any rights to the land. If there was any doubt, the escheator would seize the land and
refer the case to Westminster where it would be settled, ensuring that not one day's revenue would be lost.
This would be a source of concern with land owners when there were delays from Westminster
137
a large area, about 3 acres in extent, much of it marshy, full of water and mud, lying to the north-west of
the City of London, adjoining the Church and Hospital of St. Bartholomew on the west, at the northern end of
Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without, and extending to the Bars of Smithfield. Formerly used as a large
Cattle Market. Harben Dictionary
14
to the Priory and Convent to enable them to raise £20 yearly in lands and rent138. In the
fourteenth century the Prior was Thomas de Watford'139

As a result of disturbances and uprisings that occurred between the post 1348 Black
Death institution of Edward III’s Ordinance and Statute of Labourers in 1351, hugely
unpopular with the peasants of England, and the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, on the 26th
July 1374 at Westminster, Commissions were given by the King and Council140 to,
amongst others, John Boterwyk141, David de Westminster. Berdevill, Henry Traynel, John
de Salesbury and John Bysouth, serjeants-at-mace, and on 29th July 1374 to John
Filyol142, Luke Vynter, William Quenyld to arrest a large group of men (given that Luke
Vynter is also mentioned it is likely that William is quite possibly John’s younger brother,
since John by the principle of primogeniture143 John would have had to have been the
eldest to inherit the family’s property) …

Robert Cavendyssh, John Hidigham, Thomas Branton, John Wespray, Simon Bereford,
John Morewell, Richard Norhampton, John Peyk, Richard Ivy, Walter Guldeford, Bobert
Spelyng, John Halys, William Michel, John Hamstede, John Faucon, John Waryn, Thomas
Fakenam, Bobert Anton, John Grandon, William Bysude, William Ledys, Gilbert Forester,
Thomas Pope, John Brokelee, John Walche, John Stalbrigge, John Orby, John West, John
Kent, Benedict Wade, William Barton, John Woleward, Nicholas Kembere, William
Catisby, Bobert Aston, Robert Nely, Simon Bucell, Henry Biriount, John Lane, Walter
Wynchestre, Nicholas Nettilham, John Sharp, John Wolwirton, John Brandon, John
Someri, John Lilie, Nicholas Neubolt, Roger Lucas, Simon Vinur, Richard Fitekyn, Richard
Poche, John Topclif, John Stirbourne, William Walys, Richard Couke, Robert Duram,
Thomas Strode, John Stekis, John Frend, Stephen Goldfynch, William Ocle, John atte
Parke, John Salusbiri, Richard Shirbourne, William Witby, William Schambir, Walter West,
John Wodestoke, Walter Lucas, William Alret, John Fulbourne, John Sutfold, Richard
Dancastre, John Honcler, John Clifford, Richard Baker, John Soutyng, Thomas Harnme,
John Grenehell, Richard Sutton, Hugh Cursun, Thomas Langeton, William Martlesham,
John Wytbred, John Ermyn, John Helmele, Henry Juwet, John Kitteson, John Catour,
Robert Hare, John Bynle, Martin Zonge, William Gillot, John Dobbys, Richard Little, John
Lile, Richard Frere, Roger Kendale, John Freman, Robert Bladys, Robert Hedon, Reynold
Man, Richard Bakere, William Cook, John atte Wode, John Causere, William Berkyng,
Henry Cok, Thomas Croft, John Cristemasse, Richard Gerard, John Dodele, John Elene,
John Herewell, John Dod, Ivo Serle, John Spencer, Richard Fuller, Robert Sewet, John
Goudwyn, Thomas Fischere, John Froisel, Nicholas Cruce, Alexander Stephan, William
Haunsel, John Cook, Thomas Skynnere, Thomas Prince, Simon Bakere, Hugh Toky,
William Walter, William Leverik, John Poddyng, John Smyth, John Tredegold, John Brice,
William Raulyn, 'page,' John Passelewe, John Bylet, John Coggere, Edmund Vynceiit,
Thomas Sneyth, Simon Hasse, Richard Thomme, John Sharp, Stephen Beneyt, John
Belde, John Walyngton, John Barker, William Somer, William Bussh, John Hert, Benedict
Neweland, Ellis Rekeman, William Flemyng, John Lambyn, William Catour, 'page,'
Thomas Shippernan, 'page,' Thomas Staleworthyn, John Do, John Thomme, Thomas
Salman, Robert Hood, Ralph Smyth, Geoffrey Perers, John Cheseman, 'page,' John More,
John Berne, John Bode, John Bondys, Roger Zongwyne, Thomas Rolf, John Gaskwyn,
Alan Coggare, John Stemhache, Robert Bam, Nicholas Taillour, William Hudde, John Mois,
Thomas Adam, Richard Pirye, 'archer,' Nicholas Dole, John Symond, 'archer,' John
Furmyton, John Herdyng, John Jacmyn, ' archer,' Philip Yle, ' archer,' John Kencot, Philip
Sampton, ' archer,' John Frere, Richard Byx, Henry Norkyn, John Reynold, ' archer,' John
Edwyne, Ralph Denys, William Shepherd, John Sellay, John Pipere, William Sneyere,
William Moys, ' archer,' John Wytle, ' archer,' Richard Souter, ' archer,' Thomas Bor, John
Andreu, John Lenne, Thomas Surl, John Knetthere, Gilbert Hesne, John Cherryngherst,
Nicholas Boydyn, John Boydyn, Thomas Page, Laurence Justice, John Zonge, Walter
Zonge, Henry Tybbe, John Grene, John North, John Cornyssh, John Gallewere, Andrew

138
Patent Rolls. Edward III, Volume1, Membrane 5, pg. 380. 12 January 1374
139
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory [and] St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: volume 1
(1921),
pp. 168-177
140
Patent Rolls. Edward III, Volume 15, Membrane 6d, pg. 489-491. 26 July 1374 – 29 July 1374
141
Sheriff of Middlesex
142
Sheriff of Essex and Hertford
143
common law right of the firstborn son to inherit the entire estate
15
Yasterlyng, Andrew Smert, John Person, Gilbert Trumplour, John Spriner, Thomas Alwyk,
John Yol, Thomas Yol, John Wyther, John Malle, Thomas Brokman, John Colyn, John
Sende, Simon Londyn, Robert Soleys, John Prison, John Arnold, William Huglot, William
Spisour, Alexander Cook, John Aleyn, Thomas Elys, John Ecchere, John Short, John
Corey, John Chelf, John Crippe, 'page,' John Soylard, 'page,' Thomas Iryssh, Andrew
Mersey, Pernelt Laurence, Thomas Meynard, John de Baylle, Peter Gerard and William
Richard, ' page,' and to bring them to London and deliver them to the sheriffs for safe
keeping in Neugate gaol until further order for their delivery

Two years later Southampton is mentioned as a residence of John Quyneld when a writ
issued against him on the 10th August 1375, by the executors, Matilda Hervyle, Thomas
Potesgrave, and John Clayditch, as part of the probate proceedings of the will of Matilda’s
husband Walter Hervyle, citizen and pewterer of London, now deceased, through the
office of Nicholas Brembre, Mayor of London, on the matter of a debt of £40. The writ
was heard on the 2nd of February 1376144 by William Walworth145 and Helmyng Leget,
Clerk, and endorsed in London: Coram Justice de Banco in quindena Pasche146, though no
record seemed available to show the eventual outcome

Then, on the 18th October 1375, John Quyneld (of Kent) was involved in a debtors
hearing alongside a Richard Carbonell (of Oxted [Tandridge Hundred] and Tatsfield
Surrey) for the sum of 20 marks owed to Thomas Wilford, a citizen and fishmonger of
London. It would seem that either John paid his dues or could have had his investments
tied up in Richard Carbonell’s properties. Richard was not at the hearing and, according
to the then Sherriff of Surrey, John Seyncler147 he was not in his (the Sherriff’s)
bailiwick148. Either way, Richard’s lands and property was made over to Thomas
Wilford149. Its also quite possible that the connection here alongside that of his
connection with Robert De Gedyng, a major fish merchant, in 1361 indicates an
investment by John in fish mongering, a trade which he would become known for in
Southampton and, given the period when 75% of the population ate fish not only as a
choice but as a religious duty, must have been quite lucrative.

John was a busy man as ten days later, on 12 February 1376 at Westminster,
commissions were issued to Edmund Fauconer150, Simon Kegworth, John Quyneld,
William Brok and John Welde, escheator in the county of Hertford, to find by inquisition in
the counties of Hertford and Essex what lands, knights' fees and advowsons151 of
churches Simon son of Imbert and Henry Merk152, held of the king in chief, in
demesneas153 well as in service, on the days on which they died, and what they held of
others, at what time they died, who are their next heirs and who have held the lands
since their death and taken the issues, and by what title154The next few years, at least
until 1376/78, looked like they may have been relatively uneventful for John Quyneld
though he was involved in a number of writs arising from property disputes and rulings.
One week from Holy Trinity, 50 Edward III, on the 15th of June 1376 at Westminster,
Geoffrey Hunden, John Quyneld155, John Basset of Chishull156 and John Basset of
Walkern, querents157, had a plea of covenant158 entered by John Heydon159, which was
submitted in Hertfordshire and were granted the tenements of 2 messuages160, 4 tofts,

144
C 241/173 National Archive
145
Mayor of London In 1381 killed Wat Tyler leader of the Peasants’ Revolt army which marched on London.
Previously worked for a time for Geoffrey Chaucer at the Customs House in London
146
Coram Justice de Banco qundena Pasche – Brought to the attention of the Justice of the Bench on the
quindene of Easter, the Monday on which the Easter law term usually began
147
Sinclair
148
The term applied to a territory in which the sheriff's functions were exercised under a Crown grant
149
C131/23 National Archives, UK
150
Of Heston and Isleworth
151
the right to nominate a person to hold a church office in a parish
152
Of the medieval moated manor of Marks, Dagenham, Essex
153
land kept in the lord's possession, not leased out but, under the feudal system, worked by villeins (peasants)
to supply the lord's household
154
Edward III, Volume 6, Membrane 37d, pg. 315. 12 February 1376
155
Quineld
156
Chishall in Essex
157
Plaintiffs
158
A plea for the enforcement of leases
159
Haydon
160
Properties
16
140 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 2 acres of pasture and 4 pounds of rent in
Asshewell161, Hynxstworth162 and Redreth163 replacing John Basset and John Basset164,
and William Rokesburgh165 and Pernel, his wife, deforciants166

167

The agreement reads: William and Pernel have granted to Geoffrey, John, John and John
and have rendered whatsoever they had in them for the life of Pernel to them in the
same court, to hold to Geoffrey, John, John and John and the heirs of John Basset of
Chishull', of the chief lords for the life of Pernel. For this: Geoffrey, John, John and John
have given them 100 marks of silver168

On the 6th of October the same year, 1376, 50 Edward III, Margery Draper granted to
John Quenild, for the term of her life, land lying in Codrech169 in Spedeleye, in
Hertfordshire170. The following year Richard II was enthroned in 1377 at the age of 10
and John of Gaunt became regent in all but name. The first poll tax was levied the same
year

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Aquitaine

In 1378 preparations were probably being made in the lead up to the beginning of the
Caroline War phase (1379-1389) of the Hundred Years War. John Quyneld, then in Kent,
was commissioned into the service of Richard II but didn’t turn up when John of Gaunt
Duke of Lancaster left England on his embassy to meet the Dukes of Anjou and Berry at
Bruges in 1375 to sue for peace. For this misdemeanour, on the 8th of August 1378, a
revocation of the protection was issued at Westminster171, with clause volumus172,
granted to John Quenyld, going over sea (as was believed) on the king's service in the

161
Ashwell
162
Hinxworth
163
Ruddery, in Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
164
Probably elder and younger; father and son
165
Roxburgh
166
One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate
167
CP 25/1/90/95, number 674 © Crown copyright. National Archives, London, England
168
Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/90/95 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk
169
Cottered
170
D. 997 'Deeds: D.901 - D.1000', A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 3 (1900), pp. 511-523.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
171
Richard II, Volume 1, Membrane 37, pg.268. 8 August 1378
172
Judicial protection, which granted immunity from most suits at law guaranteeing the safety of possessions
and servants
17
company of John, duke of Lancaster, as Thomas de Cobeham, sheriff of Kent, certifies
that he is skulking173 in his (the sheriff’s) bailiwick

From this point on there is a change in regional focus and fortunes for John Quyneld,
possibly to escape the plague, away from his holdings in Hertfordshire to the south of
England, in particular to Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. It would seem that he became a
fishmonger in Southampton probably as an investment whilst stationed in on the south
coast between the Crown’s overseas campaigns and expeditions that he never turned up
for. This reluctance to attend to his two overseas commissions as well as an allegation of
obtaining money by deception had seemingly given cause for suspicion of his loyalty to
the Crown as well as his integrity. This was exacerbated by the uprising in June 1381
when 10,000 men, forming the vanguard of the Peasants Revolt, marched on London.
They destroyed the Savoy Palace and some of the rebels found their way to the wine
cellars, "where they dranke so much of sweet wines that they were not able to come out
in time, but were shut in with wood and stones that mured up the door, where they were
heard crying and calling seven days after, but none came to help them out till they were
dead."174 John Quyneld, referred to in one record as having been expected at
Westminster as an insurgent, was likely suspected of involvement in the Peasants’ Revolt
of 1381, when on the 13th June, residents in Hertfordshire joined the uprising in the
south-east, which continued even after the death of Wat Tyler at Smithfield175

On the issue of obtaining money by deception a Commission was issued on 20th October
1380 and reviewed on the 10th February 1381176 to John de Monte Acuto177, Sir Bernard
Brocas178, Walter Haywode179, Michael Skillyng180, and William Ryngebourne181, to
enquire into the truth of a petition (which eventually succeeded) of Hugh Craan182, of
Winchester, alleging that, whereas on Tuesday after St. Benedict, 2 Richard II, he
acquired to himself and Isabel his wife, for life, the manor of Oterbourn183, co.
Southampton, from Richard Wyncestre184, for a certain sum of money, the said Richard
and Agnes his wife, Richard Uttokcestre185, parson of the church of Lymynge, co, Kent,
John Quenyld of Edenbrugge186, Thomas Stanton, of Oxford, clerk, executor of the will of
William Underhull, Nicholas Langestoke187, late mayor of Southampton, Thomas (de)
Kyngton188, clerk, for receiving recognizances of debts in the same town, schemed to
dispossess him and his wife of the same, and forged a recognisance of the statute of
merchants for 550 pounds, dated 22 February, 26 Edward III., payable on a day now
past to the said William Underhull and John Payn, clerk, and caused it to be sealed under
the names of John de Wyncestre, knight, and the said Richard his brother, and in the
presence of the said mayor and clerk to be enrolled in the books for the purpose, and a

173
Evading his obligation
174
http://www.londononline.co.uk/history/tudor/3/
175
Le soulèvement des travaileurs d'Angleterre en 1381: études et documents publiés avec un introd.
historique par Ch. Petit-Dutaillis (1898). The rising of the workers of England in 1381: studies and documents
published with an historical introduction by CH. Small-Dutaillis (1898). Pp. 340
176
Richard II, Volume 1, Membrane 10d, pg. 577. 20 October 1380 and Richard II, Volume 1, Membrane 13d,
pg. 630. 10 February 1381
177
Aka Montague. Knighted in France during the Hundred Years War. Earl of Salisbury and supporter of Richard
II. One of the wealthiest men in England at the time with substantial landholdings. Aristocratic poet and
possibly the author of the early ballads of Robin Hood. Convicted of treason for raising troops to challenge the
ascent of the Duke of Lancaster who later became Henry IV. He was beheaded by a mob in Wales 7th Jan
1399/1400 after his failed plot to kill Henry IV at the jousts. His head was placed on London Bridge and his
body was buried at Cirencester Abbey then later moved to Bisham Priory, Berkshire
178
of Clewer near Windsor, Berkshire. Friend and companion to the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III who
had died 4 years earlier than this entry. Bernard was Edward III’s Master of the Horse and Master of the
Buckhounds. Captain of Callais under Richard II and the Queens Chamberlain. MP for Hampshire in 10
parliaments and Wiltshire on the 11th time of re-election. His son would also be executed alongside John De
Monte Acuto in Cirencester (see above). Familial brass monuments extant in churches in Sherbourne St John
and Bramley in Hampshire. Sir Bernard is buried in Westminster Abbey
179
Of Stratfeld and Lord of the Manor of Sulham, Berkshire. Hampshire County Sherriff and guardian of the
manor of Compton Monceux
180
Sherriff of Winchester in 1357 and Justice of the Peace in 1380
181
Of Barton Stacey and Liss, both in Hampshire
182
Or Crane. Sometime holder of the manor of Hedgecourt, Felbridge, on the Surrey-Sussex border
183
Otterbourne, district of Chilcombe, Hampshire
184
Winchester
185
Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
186
Eatonbridge aka Stangrave, Kent
187
and Steward of Southampton and owner of two vaults in English Street
188
who In 1404 became rector of St. Andrews Church, Burton Overy, Leicester
18
certificate to be delivered in Chancery for obtaining execution in respect of the manor
and other hinds189 belonging at that date to the said John and Richard Wyncestre.

In 1381 there was plague in the north of England and the Peasants Revolt, led by Wat
Tyler from Kent, took place in June. Peasants in Essex and Kent rose up and marched on
London capturing the Tower and destroying John of Gaunt’s Savoy Palace. on June 14th,
after the King promised to give them all they wanted asking them to return home, some
did but one group did not and killed the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King’s
Treasurer, beheading them at Tower Hill. On June 15th the King, Richard II, met the
rebels at Smithfield, where the Lord Mayor killed Wat Tyler. Richard managed to
persuade the rebels to disperse by making promises, none of which he kept. The poll tax
was withdrawn but nothing had really changed as they came under the control of the
Lord Mayor. However, given the shortage of labour over the next 100 years the
peasants, the only labour force available to the landowners to reap the harvests, were
able to demand higher wages

The situation at the time was exacerbated by the Caroline War phase (1379-1389) of the
Hundred Years War which was ongoing at this juncture and an expedition was
undertaken in 1381 when Edmund, Earl of Cambridge190, sailed to Portugal, then at war
with Castile, and was joyfully received at Lisbon by King Ferdinand.

Edmund, Earl of Cambridge,

John Quyneld didn’t do himself any favours at the time since, on the 13th October 1381,
and for a second time, a revocation of protection with clause volumus, for one year, was
granted at Westminster191, retrospective to the 3rd of October to John Quenyild,
fishmonger of, or lately staying in, Edenbrigge, co. Kent, alias of the county of
Southampton, as going beyond seas on the king's service in the company of Edmund,
earl of Cambridge, on testimony that he is not on the king's service, but stays in England
on his own affairs.

1382 Winchester College is founded by William of Wickham

Two years later it would seem that to some degree John Quyneld, in Hampshire at the
time, was back on his feet as one week from St Hilary, 6 Richard II, on 20 January 1383
and again two weeks from Easter in the same year on 5 April 1383 a plea of covenant
was issued in Hampshire between the plaintiffs Richard Auditour192, the parson of the
church of Lemyngge193 (in Yorkshire; providing evidence of a connection between John
Quyneld and Yorkshire), John Lauynton194 the elder and John Quenyld195, esquire,

189
Middle English hine, household servants
190
Of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Fourth of the five sons of Edward III. 1361 created Earl of Cambridge and
on 6 August 1385 created Duke of York
191
Richard II, Volume 2, Membrane 19, pg. 46/7. 18 October 1381
192
Auditor
193
Leeming (in Yorkshire)
194
Lavington
195
Quenild
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querents, and Richard de Wynchestre196 and Agnes, his wife, deforciants regarding the
property of the manors of Suburton197 and Leyneston198 and the advowson of the church
of Leyneston.

199

The agreement reads: Richard de Wynchestre and Agnes have acknowledged the manors
and advowson to be the right of Richard Auditour, and have rendered the advowson to
the same Richard, John and John in the same court, to hold to Richard Auditour, John
and John and the heirs of Richard, of the chief lords for ever. And besides Richard de
Wynchestre and Agnes granted for themselves and the heirs of Richard that the manor of
Suburton' - which Geoffrey Roucle200 and Henry Jordan held for a term of 12 years - and
also that the manor of Leyneston' - which Hugh, the prior of St Swithin, Wynton', held for
a term of 13 years - of the inheritance of Richard de Wynchestre on the day the
agreement was made, and which after the terms ought to revert to Richard de
Wynchestre and Agnes and the heirs of Richard - after the terms shall remain to Richard
Auditour, John and John and the heirs of Richard, to hold together with the advowson of
the chief lords for ever. Warranty; For this: Richard Auditour, John and John have given
them 200 pounds sterling201

Two months later, at Westminster, on the 1st of May 1383202 a request for the pardon of
John Quenhill of Surrey, alias Quenyld of Edenbrigg (still a fishmonger), co. Kent, alias
Quenyld of Crassalton, co. Surrey was made at the supplication of Richard de Burde,
knight, for all treasons, felonies and trespasses committed by him, notwithstanding he
was excepted in Parliament as a principal insurgent; a reference perhaps as a result of a
suspicion that he may have participated in the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. It is recorded on
the same day that, although he was excluded from any amnesty at the Parliament of
Westminster, Richard II probably wanting to put the Peasants’ Revolt behind him
thanked John Quenhill, of Surrey, (also called John Quenyld d' Edenbridge, of Kent, or
John Quenyld de Carshalton, of Surrey)203. Though he had in fact been pardoned on 15th
of May 1385, for of outlawries in the counties of Southampton and Middlesex and for not
appearing in the King's Bench to answer Hugh Crane and John Glemes for respectively
touching trespasses or to pay the king a ransom in each case, he surrendered to the
Marshalsea prison…

196
Winchester
197
Soberton
198
Lainston (in Sparsholt), Winchester
199
CP 25/1/207/28, number 33 © Crown copyright. National Archives, London, England
200
Rockley
201
CP 25/1/207/28, number 33 UK National Archives
202
Richard II, Volume 2, Membrane 12, pg 269. 1 May 1383.
203
1383, 1st mai, Westminster. — Le roi accorde sa grâce à John Quenhill, du Surrey, (appelé aussi John
Quenyld d'Edenbridge, du Kent, ou John Quenyld de Carshalton, du Surrey,) bien qu'il ait été exclu de toute
amnistie au parlement de Westminster. Pat. 6 Ric. II, part. 3, m. 12.
CH. Small-Dutaillis (1898). Ibid Pp. 227. Note 92
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 The old Marshalsea. The building on the right with the five tall windows was the courthouse

…as certified by Robert Tresilian, chief justice204 who was appointed chief justice of the
King’s bench in 1381 and tried and hanged rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt the same year.
John’s imprisonment was probably pending a review of his case though he then escaped
and was being pursued as a fugitive. Eventually John, and the letters, were delivered
coram rege (into the presence of the King himself) and his Bench of Justice and returned
sine die (permanently) and was pardoned at Easter on the 22nd of April 1386205

In 1388 Robert Tresilian was tried for treason by the Lords Appellant206, opponents of
Richard II, and executed on Tyburn Hill.

The execution of Robert Tresilian

However, with the Caroline War phase (1379-1389) of the Hundred Years War being
fought at the time, on the 2 November 1387, a revocation of protection with clause
volumus for one year, was granted at Westminster207 to John Quenhild alias Quenyld,
sometime of Edenbrigge, co. Kent, as going to Calais on the king's service in the
company of (Sir) William de Bello Campo, captain of Calais208 (William De Beauchamp,

204
Richard II, Volume 3, Membrane 15, pg. 141. 15 May 1385
205
15 May 1386. John Quenyld, poissonnier, en fuite et mis hors la loi, s'est présenté au terme de Pâques en
1386 et a obtenu ensuite, le 15 mai, des lettres de pardon. Coram rege, East. 9 Richard. II, m. 2. CH. Small-
Dutaillis (1898). Ibid Pp. 227. Note 93 and 18 May 1386. John Quyneld (sic), demeurant à Edenbridge,
poursuivi par les shériffs de comté en comté sur l’ordre du roi, et mis hors la loi, a comparu au Banc du roi à
Westminster le 18 mai 1386 et s’est constitué prisonnier. Il apporte des lettres de pardon du 15 mai 1386 et
est renvoyé sine die. Coram rege. East. 9 Ric. II, Pt. 3. M 2d. CH. Small-Dutaillis (1898).pp. 227. Note 94
206
John of Gaunt's son, Henry of Bolingbroke (Earl of Derby and later Duke of Hereford;) Richard Fitzalan, 11th
Earl of Arundel; Thomas (de) Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; and Thomas Mowbray (Earl of Nottingham, and
later Duke of Norfolk.)
207
Richard II, Volume 3, Membrane 12, pg. 364. 2 November 1387
208
William Beauchamp, Knight, made 1st Baron, Lord of Bergavenny, Monmouthshire, England, in 1392, and
third son of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. His grandfather Guy, who was with Edward I when he died,
would most likely have been at the hearing at Lanercost in 1307 when the first of two pardons was issued to
Richard of Estrington for the death of William Quenyld. Guy was responsible for the kidnap at Deddington and
the subsequent trial and execution of Piers Gaveston, Edward II’s lover. William Beauchamp is buried at Black
Friars, Hereford, Herefordshire, England. The will of William Le Beauchamp, Lord of Bergavenny, dated 25 April
1408, reads… My body to be buried in the Church of Friars Preachers at Hereford, next and beneath the tomb of
John of Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. I will that five tapers be hung about my body as soon as may be after my
decease, and that twenty four poor men be clothed in black, and that each of them carry a torch, receiving two
21
one of the Lords Appellant responsible for Robert Tresilian’s execution), because he is not
preparing to go.

John Quyneld wasn’t doing himself any favours as on the day after All Souls, 11 Richard
II, the 3rd of November 1387 and again one week from Holy Trinity in the same year, the
31st May 1388209 a plea of covenant issued by Andrew de Burys210, son and heir of
Andrew de Burys of the county of Suffolk, querent, and Philip Bluet211 and Katherine, his
wife, and John Radeswell212 and Margaret, his wife, deforciants, and originating in
Hertfordshire was heard at Westminster

213
Bures. Ermine a chief indented sable with two lions or therein

The plea was entered regarding the manor of Coderede214, which John Qwenyld215 of the
county of Hertford holds for life (a fact not mentioned at all in 'Parishes: Cottered', A
History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 226-232216)

Cottered: The Lordship from the Northwest and the ground plan217

The agreement reads: Philip and Katherine and John Radeswell' and Margaret have
acknowledged the manor to be the right of Andrew, and have granted for themselves and
the heirs of Katherine that the manor…

pence a piece for that service. To the place of my burial twenty marks or more, as my executors shall think fit;
for the charges of my funeral one hundred pounds; I desire that ten thousand masses be said for my soul in all
possible haste after my death by the most honest priest that can be found; and that four good priests be found
for ten years to sing for my soul and for the soul of my Lord Sir John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, and for all the
souls to whom I owe obligation; to the poor tenants within my Lordship one hundred pounds; to Joan, my wife,
a pair of basons covered and over gilt, having the arms of Warwick and Arundel impaled thereon; to Richard,
my son, my best sword and harness for the justs of the peace, which belonged to war; to Joan and Elizabeth,
my daughters, one thousand marks each for their marriage. And I constitute Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of
Canterbury; Thomas Earl of Arundel; and Joan, my wife, my executors. From the Testamenta Vetusta by
Nicholas Harris Nicolas,
209
CP 25/1/90/99, number 97 UK National Archives
210
Bures
211
Bluett
212
Radswell
213
'Parishes: Cottered', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 226-232. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
214
Cottered, Hertfordhsire
215
Quenild
216
Op cit: 'Parishes: Cottered' http://www.british-history.ac.uk
217
Op cit: 'Parishes: Cottered' http://www.british-history.ac.uk
22
 218

…which John Qwenyld' held for life of the inheritance of Katherine on the day the
agreement was made, and which after the decease of John Qwenyld' ought to revert to
Philip and Katherine and John Radeswell' and Margaret and the heirs of Katherine - after
the decease of John Qwenyld shall remain to Andrew and his heirs, to hold of the chief
lords for ever. For this: Andrew has given them 100 marks of silver. It is likely that this
was heard in John Quyneld’s absence and, given John Quyneld’s record, would have been
looked on positively by the Crown, who in effect disinherited John Quyneld’s family from
the estate and probably resulted in the removal of the family to Surrey on John’s death.

In 1086 the manor of Cottered was held by Bishop Walkelin of Winchester. The chancel,
nave, with south porch and west tower, of the church of St. John the Baptist in Cottered,
built in about 1350, would have been a building familiar to those involved in the hearing.

219
St John the Baptist, Cottered, Herts

1388 The Scots defeat the English at the battle of Otterburn

The last record found which possibly relates to this John deals with a debt, to John
Quyneld and trespass on his land. On the 9th November 1389 at Westminster in the reign
of Richard II220… …Pardons of outlawry to the following - John Costidell, parson of
Hevere, co. Kent, for not appearing to answer John Quenyld touching a debt of 80
pounds

We know from the records of his wife’s grant of land in Thorley in 1391 that John had
passed away by then so it is highly likely that later records refer to John the younger, the
son.

Perhaps it was just as well that, given the downturn in his fortunes and loss of favour,
John kept his head down during his later years

218
CP 25/1/90/99, number 97 © Crown copyright. National Archives, London, England
219
© under common license, John Salmon
220
Richard II, Volume 4, Membrane 41-40, pg. 63/66. 9 November 1389
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 Chiddingfold, Surrey

John Quyneld (the younger?) about 1390- ?

When John Quyneld (the elder?) died around 1390/91 his manor at Cottered would have
then passed to the Bluets by order of the King, Richard II. Until his coming of age John
(the younger?) may have been cared for by his mother, Emma, though if she was still
based in Thorley he may have been cared for by a wet nurse. John Quyneld the younger,
probably by then in his early twenties, is mentioned on the 11th February 1413 as being
of Middlesex.

1391 Plague in the north of England almost as bad as that of 1348-1349

1400 Geoffrey Chaucer dies. He was the first great writer in the English language

1405 Plague

1407 Plague

On the 11th February 1413 at Westminster in the reign of Henry IV221… …Pardons of
outlawry to the following - Richard Hylles ' sometyme dwelling in Missenden222,' for not
appearing before the king to answer John Quenyld touching a trespass. Middlesex

Given the decimation of the population as a result of the Black Death and subsequent
death from starvation of the population as a result of pestilence many properties were
left unattended and derelict. John may have taken advantage of the situation by
investing in the family property in the south adding to that inherited from his father, in
Middlesex upon which the trespass occurred but most notably in Surrey where his father
had a foothold (in Carshalton) in 1383, requisitioning the building of Lythe Hill Farm and
occupying it in around 1480. It may have been that an empty property already existed at
the site as a result of the plague and starvation and that John had a new property built
on the site.

1415 The battle of Agincourt. Once again the English win a great victory

1420 Plague

1427 Influenza

1439 Pestilence

Peter Quyneld about 1440 – ?

The family had moved to and settled in Chiddingfold by around 1480 when Lythe Hill
Farm was built. Peter had two sons, Peter (abt 1480-1559) and another, possibly Richard
Quyneld, a Cistercian monk at Meaux Abbey, who was granted a pension by Henry VIII
on 11 December 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries223 Richard may have had
a daughter, Elynor, cousin to Thomas Quenell 1500-1571 and mentioned in his will

1453 The Hundred Years War ends. England loses all its territory in France except
for Calais

1461 The battle of Towton

1464 Plague

Between 1455 and1485 England suffered a series of civil wars known as the Wars of the
Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Margaret Beaufort, the mother of
Henry Tudor sometimes resided at Woking. In November 1470 Henry Tudor (the future
Henry VII) and his mother were reunited for a while at the Beaufort residence in Woking
and, after parting on November 12, Henry left to rejoin his uncle. The next time he would
see his mother would be after the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 when he had become

221
Henry IV, Volume 4, Membrane 27.25, pg. 437/444. 11 February 1413
222
Buckinghamshire
223
'Letters and Papers: December 1539, 11-15', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume
14 Part 2: August-December 1539 (1895), pp. 243-255.
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King. On the 14th of May 1471, London was unsuccessfully attacked at Bishopsgate,
Aldgate and London Bridge, from the Surrey (a Lancastrian stronghold) when Thomas
Neville assaulted each gate in succession and was repulsed at every one

1471 The battle of Tewkesbury and plague

1472 Plague

1476 Caxton introduces the printing press into England and plague

1478 Plague

1479 Plague

Peter Quenell (abt. 1485-1558) m Alice unknown

Peter Quenell (abt 1485-1558), the eldest son of Peter Quyneld, was born at Lythe Hill
Farm about 1485, the year that Lythe Hill Farm was built, and inherited the property
from his father. Peter married Alice and they had seven children; Elizabeth, Cathryn,
Thomas (1500-1571), John (1507-), Richard (1510-), Robert (1540-1612), and Peter
(1553?- though, as this would have meant that Peter the elder would have been 68 years
old at the time of Peter the younger’s birth an earlier date of birth may be more likely,
unless of course he was a virile elderly man!)

1483-1485 Reign of Richard III

1485 Plague and the English sweat. Henry VII wins the battle of Bosworth.
Richard III is killed and Henry becomes the first Tudor king

1487 Plague

1494-1496 Syphilis

In 1497 a momentous event occurred in Surrey, one that the family may have very well
been witness to, when as a result of the raising of war taxes by Henry VII, reneging on
previous rights granted by Edward III to tin miners in Cornwall, there was a popular
uprising by the Cornish. By Tuesday 13th June Surrey had been overrun by 15,000
Cornish rebels who arrived at Guildford heading for London. There was a general cry of
'Every man to harness! To harness !' An English force of 8,000 led by Giles, Lord
Daubeney, Henry VII's chief general and Lord Chamberlain, took up position upon
Hounslow Heath and were cheered by the arrival of food and wine dispatched by the Lord
Mayor of London. The Crown decided to take the offensive and test the strength and
resolve of the Cornish forces as Lord Daubeney sent out a force of 500 mounted
spearmen and they clashed with the Cornish at 'Gill Down' outside Guildford on
Wednesday 14th June 1497. The Cornish army left Guildford and marched north east
through Banstead and right across Wallington and Brixton Hundreds as far as Blackheath
in Kent where they pitched their final camp, looking down from the hill onto the Thames
and City of London. Somehow An Gof, the leader of the Cornish, held his army together,
but faced with overwhelming odds, some deserted and by morning only there only some
9-10,000 Cornish stalwarts left in arms who were eventually defeated on 17th June 1497
at the Battle of Deptford

Crossing the Tamar the Cornish Rebellion by Donal Macleod

1497 John Cabot sails to North America

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1499-1500 Severe plague

1508 English sweat

1509 Henry VII dies. Henry VIII becomes king. Henry VIII marries Catherine of
Aragon. Great outbreak of plague

1510 Ague

In 1511 The Mary Rose was launched. It is possible that with the family’s connections in
Southampton, were it is thought the Mary Rose was built, that they would have been in
some way involved, if not directly perhaps indirectly providing supplies and provisions to
the dockyards and navy.

The Mary Rose off Southsea Castle, Mark R Myers RMSA 15/10/82 (Author’s Collection)

1513 The English win the battle of Flodden against the Scots. Great outbreak of
plague

1517 Plague and English sweat

1528 English sweat

1531 Great outbreak of plague

1533 Henry divorces Catherine of Aragon. He marries Anne Boleyn

1534 Henry VIII makes himself head of the Church of England

1535 Great outbreak of plague

1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace - an uprising in York against the break with Rome
and the Dissolution of the monasteries. Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Henry marries
Jane Seymour

Between 1536 and 1540 Henry VIII closed the monasteries and confiscated their
property. This included Chertsey and Waverley Abbeys in Surrey, both major
landholders, which were dismantled and their bricks used to build Oatlands Palace at
Weybridge (from Chertsey) for Henry VIII and Loseley House for Sir William More, one of
Elizabeth the First’s advisors (from Waverley).

1537 Jane Seymour dies

1539 Ague, cholera and dystentry

1540 Henry marries Anne of Cleves but quickly divorces the 'great Flanders mare'
Henry marries Kathryn Howard. Outbreak of dysentery, cholera and spotted fever

1542 The battle of Solway Moss. The English defeat the Scots. Kathryn Howard is
beheaded

1543 Henry marries Catherine Parr. Great outbreak of plague

In 1545 an irate elderly gentleman, Walter Venables, who owned Lake House and other
property in the parish of Chiddingfold but resided at Barstead in Sussex, sent a petition
to the Court of Augmentation and Revenues of Henry VIII, that in April of that year Peter
Quennell, John Osbourne, Thomas Borowe, Henry Woodier the younger, and Jamys Wood
most of whom were men of some standing in the Parish, though described by Walter as
‘men of evill Disposition and light persons’ broke up the head of the great pond (the pond
on the village green) and in doing so had taken away and destroyed most shamefully and
lewdfully a great store of bream and other fish which were in the village pond, which had
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been intended for the great pleasure and profit of the King’s Majestie, and fish from Mr.
Venables adjoining dike, fish valued at £3 and dike at 20/0224

1545 The Mary Rose sinks

1547 Henry VIII dies. Edward VI becomes king. The Duke of Somerset is made
Lord Protector. Great outbreak of plague

1549 An Act of Uniformity imposes a Book of Common Prayer. The Duke of
Northumberland becomes Lord Protector

1551 last ever outbreak of the English sweat

1552 The Duke of Somerset is executed

Most of the family would have witnessed Edward VI’s progress when in July 1552,
accompanied by a substantial retinue, of court officials and men at arms numbering some
4,000 horse, camped on the village green.

Edward VI

Edward stayed at Chiddingfold’s Crown Inn (still extant) on his way to a State visit to
Shillinglee, not far from Chiddingfold and the home of the ‘Master of Game’, Henry, Earl
of Arundel.

Henry, Earl of Arundel – portrait and signature

Around about the 24 July, not long after the progress passed through Chiddingfold, the
retinue was substantially reduced to 150 as they had ‘begun to eat up the country’ and
on 25 July they arrived at Cowdray, the house of Sir Anthony Browne. Edward recorded
in a letter to his close childhood friend, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, that ‘we were marvellously,
yea, excessively banqueted’225

Crown Inn, Chiddingfold

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Chiddingfold archive
225
Skidmore C, Edward VI The Lost King of England, 2007, Pub. Orion, London
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1553 Edward VI dies. Mary becomes queen.

1554 Lady Jane Grey is beheaded

Between 1555 and1558 Queen Mary persecuted Protestants and nearly 300 people were
burned to death for 'heresy'. London was held for three days and pillaged during a rising
of the southern counties under Mary.

1557 Cholera, dysentery, ague and spotted fever

1558 Queen Mary (also known as 'Bloody Mary') dies. Elizabeth I becomes queen.
Cholera, dysentery, ague and spotted fever

C. 1560 to C. 1640 'The Great Rebuilding'. Stone and brick replace most wooden
houses. Chimneys and glass windows become common

1563 Plague

1568 Plague

The date of his death is established by a 1558 bequest of three shillings and four pence
from Peter Quennell, husbandman of Lythe Hill, for the upkeep of the bells of
Chiddingfold Church226

When Peter died he was interred in the Quennell’s burial place at St. Mary’s Church,
Chiddingfold “against the east end of the Chancell within the Churchyard“. Of Peter and
Alice’s children…

John b 1507

Nothing is known about him though he is mentioned in his brother Thomas’s will

Elizabeth m John Brodefolde, son Richard Brodefolde

Elizabeth Quenell married John Brodefolde whose son Richard would act as guardian of
the inheritance of Peter Quenell (1553?-) from his brother Thomas

Cathryn m Richard Hardonne, sons Thomas Hardonne and John Hardonne

Cathryn Quenell married her cousin Richard Haredonne, who would later transcribe his
cousin Thomas Quenell’s Last Will and Testament on 3rd April 1571. They had two sons,
Thomas and John

Richard b 1510 m unknown

Richard Quenell moved to Chithurst, as attested by a Deed of Partition dated 4 April 1598
and issued in West Sussex between two Yeoman, Peter Bettesworth of Elsted and John
Bettesworth of Chithurst of the Manor of Chithurst which reads … a messuage or
tenement with barns, orchard, gardens, lands &c. in the tenure of Richard Quenell in
right of his wife and lands called Lobsters in the tenure of Ayling holden by copy of court
roll of the said manor of Chithurst227

Peter b 1553? – abt 1591

On 10 October 1584 Peter, a husbandman, purchased property from Giles Hull of

Hambledon, a gentleman, and his wife Mary (with consent of Sir William More and son
George) which included a barn, garden etc called 'Sollers', alias Soleste (later sold by
Peter’s nephew and great nephew, both called Peter on the 2nd September 1663), on
north side of Chiddingfold Street (bounds given); also 35 acres called 'Whytlands',
bounded by highway from Chiddingfold to Haselbridge on the east, the brook running
from Haslemere to Dunsfold on the south and west and a lane leading from the highway
to Chownings on the north - all of which Giles inherited from his father John Hall for a

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Chiddingfold archive
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Add Mss 37,938 National Archives
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consideration of £90228. Peter also had a Covenant agreed with Sir William More of
Loseley and George More on the 24 Sep 1588 that the Mores will not make any claim to a
property called Sollers or Soleste and 35 acres at Whytlande in Chiddingfold which Peter
had purchased from Giles Hull of Hambledon) by reason of a civil contract recognised in
law on Giles Hull's lands.229 Peter probably purchased the land rights from the inheritance
made to him by his brother Thomas. Peter’s inheritance had been kept and maintained
by his cousin Richard Hardedonne between the date of his brother Thomas’s death in
1571 and 1577 when Peter reached the age of twenty four. Peter’s will was proved on 7th
September 1591

Thomas Quenell 1500-1571 m Agnes Irelond

As the eldest son, and in line with the principle of primogeniture, Thomas inherited Lythe
Hill Farm and, as mentioned in his will purchased Anstrood and Anstrood (now Anstead)
Fields along with a barn, which had belonged to a Mr. Denham, from a John Covert of
Hascombe, and purchased a plot of land adjoining a water-course, called Rovis (now
Imbhams pond) from a the same John Covert and purchased the other half of the
property in 1568 from John More, grandson of Sir Christopher More’s sister Florence
Scarlett, a widow. This water course had previously been the supply for Viscount
Montague of Cowdray’s forge furnace which had been located on leasehold land at the
south corner of Imbhams Farm at a rent of six shillings eight pennies a year.

It is likely that this is the same Thomas who, in 1536, leased Hammer Farm (see
Appendix 2) and Shottovermill for 20 shillings (see Appendix 4). Thomas Quenell farmed
the tithes of the “parsonage of Hasilmore (present day Haslemere)," and was acquainted
with its curate at the time, one Richard Crampe. His mother church was Winchester to
which he bequeathed two pennies. His family had no risen from humble beginnings but
had gone through a resurgence in fortunes and he was classified as a yeoman; not quite
a gentleman but certainly someone who’s family had done well for themselves and were
more privileged than many others; labourers, servants, itinerant workers and the like. He
had four servants to whom he left legacies in his will dated 1571 (the year when Sir
Francis Drake was raiding the Spanish West Indies as an English Corsair)…

Robert Page: one cow to be delivered to him within one month next after my
death and six pounds thirteen shillings and four pennies to be paid to him within
one year next after my death

William Wodier: one heifer bullock of the age of three years such as one as my
supervisors will appoint to be delivered within one month next after my death

William Allyn: three ewe tegge (A sheep in its second year or before its first
shearing) to be delivered to him within two months next after my death

Agnys Todman: one heifer bullock of two years old to be delivered within seven
years next after my death

In his will he describes in detail Lythe Hall Farm which he left to his wife, ‘a parlour in the
west side of my house at Lyethehill which adjoins the hall there, the chamber over the
same pier (Abutment of masonry which projects from the fireplace with recesses either
side of it), the garret (A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof;
an attic) above the same chamber, the loft over the hall and the kitchen loft with free
ingress, egress and regress Room and foyer in the said hall at all times and also half the
kitchen, and wood or fuel, to dress meat and drink, bake and brew, and to do all other
necessaries mete and convenient in the same kitchen at all times and half the new coop
now standing in the said kitchen with free ingress, egress and regress into the same
kitchen at all times and also all my old stable which adjoins to the west side of my house,
the west end of my barn to have hay or straw in, and half the rest of my barn, and also
the upper gates for (her) cattle… garden which adjoins the east side of my said house
and all my orchard which adjoins to the said garden on the south side of my said house

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from the new pale that adjoins the said garden on the eastside unto the home field on
the west side and extends from the said house on the north side unto the little mead on
the south side’ and three best beds with bolsters, pillows and pillow cases belonging to
them, two bedstead, sheets, three pairs of canvas sheets, blankets, three best coverlets
& one Quilt, pewter vessels, his father’s five pewter platters, two pewter dishes and one
basin, his candlesticks, best brass pots, kettles, a kettle which was bound with iron by
Hewghe the Smithy, a posnet (A little pot) of brass bells, a Skyllet (A small pot with a
long handle) of brass, and a Caldron, wooden vessels, a vate (From the Middle Dutch for
cases) and kyfe (Or keeve : a large tub or vessel used in brewing), bacon flytches (Side
of bacon) at the beam, Lard and grease, flytches of dried beef, two best table clothes,
two best towels, table napkins, one dozen spoons, three best stone cups, a best chest
and coffers and one belonging to his wife. The kitchen at the time was a focus of hard
work, particularly at harvest time as produce would need to be prepared for the coming
year. Though Thomas left the property to his brother Robert, in keeping with the
practices of the time he ensured that his wife was taken care of, at least for the
remainder of her life.

He also owned the lease on lands called Padbrooke, Harwells the Leecrofte and Harwels
meade (field). His livestock is listed as one cow, , two ewes, one cow, one heifer bullock
of the age of three years, three ewe tegge, one heifer bullock of two years old, one ewe
of two years old, seven ewes and wethers(a castrated ram) shipe (a productive, non-
combinative suffix forming abstract nouns from other nouns – friendship(e). In this
instance probably implies ward ship or care) in keeping with one Mr. Lussher of
Hyndehed230 in the Parish of Thurseley, six best keene(Noun for cows), one cow named
Lustye, four heifers whereof one black with a white star in the forehead, one Red with a
white back, one other Red with a chinned (With a narrow strip of white on the face) face
and one brown with a white face, six best oxen with yokes and chains meet for them my
new wollen wheles (Wool wheels – for spinning yarn. The main use for sheep in the area
was for wool and their skin for parchment, though one wonders if a family of their status
also ate mutton as a by product), a young bay Amblynge (Gentile, a superior, better-
bred animal, an easy-gaited, gentle and pleasant-mannered horse) mare, a black
Amblynge mare with a white star in the forehead two stears now going in Anstroode the
one having a brended (Brindled or streaked) face and the other being a yellow stear with
white face, one brown heifer going with the said two stars in persaid ground of Anstroode
and one other heifer of cooler Red with a star in the forehead, twelve best ewes and
twelve Lambs, five hogs of one sort being about two years old at Michaelmas last (29th
September), two Red hogs going among my wild hogs and half my wheat and Rye that I
have now growing on the ground and also half my oats that I have now growing on the
ground (except all the oats now growing in the two Snow fields), one acre of grass in the
Hearnelonde231, my poultry whatsoever, all the Rye, Rye straw and all the oat straw for
the threshing of the oats in Haslemere, one hundred of the best oaks of which one oak is
already felled that are standing, growing & being in and upon the manor of South
Imbham, barren cow (of five) except two

According to his wishes he was buried at St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold next to his
father “against the east end of the Chancell within the Churchyard“ though nothing
remains to mark the spot. The service would have been conducted by the then Chaplain
of St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold, John Evans

232

St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold. J Hassell 1822

230
Hindhead
231
Or Hernland/Sternland, Shere, near Guildford in Surrey
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Surrey Archaeological Society Flickr photo collection
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1570 The Pope excommunicates Queen Elizabeth and the Liitle Ice Age begins.
Lasting to 1600, when the Thames froze solid, the crops failed and a large part of
the population starved

Robert 1540-1612 m Elizabeth Hall233

When Thomas died in 1571 without issue, he willed Lythe Hill Farm to his brother, Robert
Quenell (1540-1612) who added a wing to the east end of the house. Robert also
became owner of the Imbhams iron furnace in Chiddingfold (the works probably reached
into Haslemere) purchasing more of South Imbhams in 1574 from Thomas Hull. Robert
had a fine levied against him in 1576 by Florence Scarlett who inherited South Imbhams
from her brother, Sir Christopher More. Robert’s brother Peter was pardoned by Anthony
Browne, Viscount Montague of Cowdray, probably in early 1575, for a misdemeanour,
alluded to in correspondence between the Viscount and William More in a letter dated 1st
April 1575. Viscount Montagu employed Guy Fawkes as a servant and his daughter in
law, Mary Dormer, who married his son Anthony (who predeceased his father), was a
cousin to Robert Catesby, one of those involved in the Gunpowder Plot.

Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu(e)

The letter, from the Viscount, expresses his concerns about an ‘outrageous band of
hunters’ in Whitley Park and, his own, Cowdray Park, which included the ‘chief’ Robert
Quenell. He states that since they ‘are his own men, and thus he is reluctant to proceed
alone. He has three or four of the offenders, and has sent for another, Yalden (possibly
Edmund Yalden who purchased Field Place in Compton from Elizabeth Quennell and her
son Peter in 1651), late servant to Mr Hill [?Hull] of Hambledon. The men 'deny all things
peremptorily'.’234. Perhaps the ‘outrageous band’ felt that as their political sympathies
were shared with those of the Viscount that this also applied to the sharing of the
animals on his land, if they had in fact realised they were on his land. Common land was
in those days in effect not common with common land rights often assigned to landed
gentry and the rights were jealously guarded. Perhaps there was a local shortage of food,
though this seems unlikely. This incident deserves further investigation to see what, if
any, issues might have caused their trespass. It could just be that Robert was in some
way trying to assert a sense of his own perceived gentrification, masculinity and local
power and influence by the act of hunting. This incident though, and others like it, may
have influenced the proposal of an act, passed through Parliament in 1604, against
unlawful Hunting and Taking of Deer or Conies235

Cowdray Castle

233
Fn 89. Inq. p.m. Wards and Liveries, 15 Eliz. bdle. 100, no. 30. in 'Parishes: Compton', A History of the
County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 16-24. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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'House of Lords Journal Volume 2: 15 May 1604', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 2: 1578-1614
(1802), pp. 299-300. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
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It might be worthwhile to note at this point that though the fortunes of the Quennells,
traditionally Roylist, and the Yaldens seem to be linked throughout a substantial period of
the Quennell family’s history in Surrey, the Yaldens were Parliamentarians and there
seems to be a tension in their dealings which for a large part revolve around the buying
and selling of property; each seeming to want to outdo the other.

It would seem that the issue was resolved and Robert is involved, some years later as
one of the Trustees on the 20th of August 1601 granting a gift of a messuage with barns,
stables and orchards in Chedingefold in the tenure of John Osborne, snr, and all his lands
in the parishes of Chedingefolde and Whitley [Witley], apart from a cottage with eight
acres of land in Chedingefolde in the tenure of John Lawborne and an annuity of 10
shillings out of land now of Stephen Peito in the parish of Witley as a settlement upon the
marriage of John Osborne, jnr, son of John Osborne, snr, to Johan Gould, daughter of
William Gould of Dunfolde [Dunsfold], Surrey, yoman. The Trustees were John Osborne,
senior, and Roberte Quennell, both of Chedingefolde, Surrey, and both yoman, and
William Billinghurst of High Billinghurst in the parish of Shalford, Surrey, yoman. Dated
43 Elizabeth I [1601]236

Robert died in 1612. His wife was Elizabeth Hall, heiress of George Hall of Field Place237,
Compton, In 1490 Field Place, a small manor-house, belonged to Anne Saint Leger
(descendant of Edward III and granddaughter of Richard Plantagenet). The whole manor
descended to Peter Quenell (1580-1650), son of Elizabeth (nee Hall) and Robert238. It
was here the Quenells came to live. Robert and Elizabeth (nee Hall) had two sons, Robert
(abt 1585-1643) and Peter (1580-1650) both born in Chiddingfold. Peter (1580-1650)
married Elizabeth Crandley and their son Peter (1603-1666), who married Elizabeth
Grey, sold it to William Yalden in 1651 with the agreement of his mother.

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Field Place, Compton

1573 The architect Inigo Jones is born

1576 The first theatre opens in London

1577-1580 Francis Drake sails around the world

1580-1582 Cholera, hot ague and spotted fever

1585 Plague in Chesterfield in Nov

1587 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded. Plague in Chesterfield in May 1588

During the fears of invasions from Spain, levies, local able bodied men committed to
defence, were held in readiness in Surrey to protect London until, in 1558, the Spanish
Armada was defeated. The fleet was commanded by Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham
whose residence was at Haling and sent constant updates in despatches to the Queen at
Nonsuch Palace at Cuddington near Epsom. He is buried at St Mary Magdalene's Church,
Reigate. The coming of the great Armada was flashed forth by signal-fires from Surrey's
hill-tops;
“And eastward straight from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went,
And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth;
High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north;
And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still:
All night from tower to tower they sprang, they sprang from hill to hill."

236
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=503-pw&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
237
‘Parishes: Compton', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 16-24. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx.
238
'Parishes: Compton', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 16-24. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
239
Google Earth
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On the second outbreak of the Spaniards, after the great invasion, Rowland Whyte
reported that, “Our fleet goes to sea; Sir Walter Raleigh took leave at Court of all the
ladies and his friends; he was brought to see the singularities of the gardens, which
pleased him infinitely." 240

1596 Francis Drake dies. Cholera and spotted fever

1597 spotted fever and famine fever

1600 The East India Company is founded

1601 The Poor Law is passed. People are made to pay a rate to support the poor

Cricket became established in Surrey during the 17th century and the earliest village
matches took place before the English Civil War. It is believed that the earliest Surrey
county teams were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration in 1660. Generally
churchyards were used as playing grounds.

Robert (1585-1643) married a Dorothy

241
Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College)

Robert (abt 1585-) matriculated from Magdalen Hall on 26 November 1602 aged 17. The
principal at Magdalen Hall at the time was a Puritan called John Wilkinson. Robert’s
contemporary alumni at Magdalen Hall were Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian
(Magdalen Hall 1579-1603) and Thomas Hobbes, Political philosopher and author of
Leviathan (Magdalen Hall 1603-1608, Sir James Hussey, his master)

Thomas Hobbes

Whilst Robert was at Magdalen Hall the Queen, Elizabeth I, died on the 24th March 1603
at Richmond and James VI of Scotland was proclaimed King James I of England

Queen Elizabeth the First’s funeral cortège

240
Clinch, G. Bygone Surrey, London. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and co.
241
From James Beverell's "Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne" published by Pieter van der Aa, Leiden
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 James VI of Scotland and I of England and his ‘favourites’; George Villiers (left) and Robert Carr (right)

Then on the 15th of May 1604, when Robert was 19, it is recorded under the Bishop of
Oxford's Privilege that, ‘Upon Complaint this Day made by the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
That one Robert Quinell, his Lordship's ordinary Servant, hath been lately arrested, and
committed to the Prison of The White Lyon (an inn converted to a profit making jail and
an appointed jail for Surrey) in Southwarke (on the east side of the old road leading south
from London Bridge, then called Long Southwark and now known as Borough High Street),
upon a Capias ut legatum (a writ for the arrest of an outlaw), contrary to the Honour and
Privilege of the said High Court; it is Ordered, That a Writ of Habeas corpus shall be
awarded, for the removing of the said Prisoner out of Prison, and for the bringing of him,
by the Sheriffs of Surrey (whose Prisoner now he is), before the Lords, in the Upper
House, on Saturday next, the 19th of this Instant May, by Nine in the Morning242. That
this is Robert attending Magdalen Hall is highly likely since it’s the Bishop of Oxford,
whose see is the location of Magdalen Hall and College, who has taken his privilege in
getting Robert out of prison. Perhaps as a member of a Royalist family Robert may have
gone to London to celebrate the season and had fallen foul of the law or possibly as a
result of protesting an end to the ban on Roman Catholic affiliation and worship in
Ireland that would have been a proposal and would come about as a result of the
Somerset House Conferences which took place between the 20th of May and the 16th of
July 1604 to establish peace between England and Spain; eighteen conference sessions
were held at Somerset House, and the treaty was signed on the 16th of August.

243
Somerset House Conference 1604, oil on canvas, unknown artist

242
'House of Lords Journal Volume 2: 15 May 1604', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 2: 1578-1614
(1802), pp. 299-300.
243
(Juan De Velasco Frias; Juan De Tassis, Count of Villa Mediana; Alessandro Robida; Charles De Ligne, Count
of Aremberg; Jean Richardot; Louis Vereyken; Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Charles Howard, Earl of
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Whatever the outcome Robert returned to his studies and was duly elected a Demy at
Magdalen College in July 1605 (elections for Fellowships and Demyships were always
held in this month) shortly after the future Charles I was elected Duke of York. He took
his BA on 24 January 1607 and his MA on 9 November 1609; at the time Bas and MAs
were taken verbally as debate and discourse. During his time there, the one time when
he actually appears in his own right was when on 5 October 1610, he and four other
Demies were punished for missing morning prayers by being “deprived of their
commons” for a day. That means that they lost the free meals to which they were
entitled under their scholarships. This was a common punishment at the time. Poor
students would also wait on fellows to pay for their education and commoner students
were divided into two classes; rich fellow commoner and lesser commoner. Robert
remained in his post until 1612. The Vice-President’s Register for 10 February 1612
reports that Master “Quennill” [sic] was deprived of his post “because he had spent time
away from College beyond the days permitted by statute, although he was not hindered
by illness”. Quite what he was doing away from Magdalen is not stated, but it seems that
he had been staying away long enough to arouse official wrath.244. It may be possible
that Robert Quennill had been spending time in London lobbying for a student and
Fellow, John Elton, to be elected a demy at Magdalen College as two letters are recorded
having been sent by the Court of James I’s to the Master and Fellows of Magdalen
College on the matter, one on the 18th of January 1612 and the second on the 31st. On
the same day, the 31st of January a Commission of appeal was decided on to investigate
and rule on a controversy over debt between two privileged persons of the University of
Oxford, John Preston and Henry Marman, which the University authorities had failed to
decide245. If Robert had been involved in any of these issues it may have been perceived
by the authorities at Magdalen College that he had exceeded his responsibilities,
attempted to anticipate a decision on the matters at hand, and as a result undermined
the authorities at Oxford who, aggrieved, may have used his absence as an excuse to
relieve him of his post. Conjecture yes, but certainly a possibility, though Dr. Robin
Darwall-Smith, the Archivist at Magdalen College Oxford, comments that when a
monarch dropped heavy hints to Magdalen (and other Colleges) about electing a
favoured candidate to a scholarship or Fellowship, there was often a very big fish
hovering in the background. A mere Demy might not have had much leverage.

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Magdalen College

1602 Plague

1603 In March Queen Elizabeth dies. James I becomes king. Plague

1605 The gunpowder plot, a Catholic conspiracy to blow up parliament, is
discovered.

1607 Jamestown, the first successful British colony in North America, is founded

1610 Smallpox and plague

1611 The King James Bible is published. Plague

1612 Epidemic ague and spotted fever

1613 Smallpox, epidemic ague and spotted fever

1614 Smallpox

1616 Epidemic ague

1621-1622 Smallpox

Nottingham, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire and Robert Cecil, Earl of
Salisbury)
244
Courtesy of Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist, Magdalen College Oxford. The original is in Latin, this is Robin’s
translation.
245
'James 1 - volume 68: January 1612', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1611-18 (1858), pp.
109-117. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
246
Project Gutenberg - Open License
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1623 Great fever, spotted fever and hot ague

1624 Great fever, spotted fever and hot ague

1625 James I dies. Charles I becomes king. Great fever, spotted fever, hot ague,
great plague, malignant fever and the end of harvest ague

1626-1627 Plague and malignant fever

1628 William Harvey publishes his discovery of the circulation of the blood. The
Petition of Right is presented to the king by parliament. George Villiers, the Duke
of Buckingham and favourite of James I is assassinated in Portsmouth. Smallpox,
measles, plague and malignant fever

1629-1640 The Eleven Years Tyranny. Charles I rules without parliament.

1632 Christopher Wren is born. Moderate smallpox

Some years later, in May 1649, Oliver Cromwell would dine and play bowls at Magdalen,
shortly after dealing with Leveller uprisings at nearby Burford and Northampton.

At the time Oliver Cromwell and the other Parliamentarian leaders had to decide how to
run the country. Many radicals put forward their views, and it was in this atmosphere
that the Levellers and the Diggers came to life. Their main opponent was Henry Ireton, a
gentleman and landowner who, not surprisingly proposed that only those who owned
property and land should be able to elect Parliamentary representatives, since they, and
only they, had a vested interest in England and therefore were the true English citizens
able to elect MPs; anyone without land or property was, as a consequence, completely
disempowered from the elective process, something for which many felt they had fought
and died for. Most ‘grandees’, as they were known, were quite connect with maintaining
their status quo as landed gentry, even if they had fought as Parliamentarians, their main
focus being the establishment of the Protestant faith and the retention and investment of
power with Parliament, somewhat ironically, as duly elected representatives

The Levellers agitated for a democratic society, with power distributed among the poor or
common people of England. The common people, they pointed out, had both won the war
and paid for it with their taxes. Furthermore, they pointed to the desperate state of a
great deal of the population. The agricultural economy of the country had been unable to
deal with a century and a half of population growth. Poverty, hunger and homelessness
were rife. They first appeared in Surrey in April 1649 and went about pulling down park
palings and levelling hedges, especially those on Crown lands. In 1649 the matter came
to a head when some regiments of the Roundhead army mutinied in support of the
Levellers. They were ruthlessly put down at Burford and Northampton and ceased to be
an important political force.

At this time that Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers appeared on the scene, proclaiming
themselves the 'True Levellers' and putting forward an even more radical platform.
Gerrard Winstanley, a radical thinker and leader of the "Digger" movement, proposed the
free use of common land by "the common people of England". In 1649, led by Gerrard
Winstanley, they set up a commune on St. George’s Hill in Weybridge. They believed that
everyone should be equal and were against the private ownership of property.

They believed that everyone should live in equality and that both property and the
organised church were evil. They were confident that God's spirit and the goodness of
the earth would provide for those who lived in accordance with their views. Led by
Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard the Diggers came to St. George’s Hill on 1 April
1649. They built simple huts to house themselves and attempted to grow beans, parsnips
and barley in the extremely poor soil. They also spread their revolutionary views around
the local area, alarming the local landowners and clergy. At this time the hill was
common land, giving local people certain rights over it, including the right to pasture
cows. Many appear to have felt these rights were threatened by the presence of the
Diggers’ camp.

The actions of local inhabitants soon dashed their hopes and showed itself in a number of
violent raids on the camp. Many of the Diggers were beaten, their crops were burned and
their huts destroyed. The army was called to the hill on several occasions. The army
commander himself, General Fairfax, visited the hill. He took a sympathetic view but
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failed to protect the settlement from attack when, in July 1649 local landowners took the
Diggers to court at Kingston, and won an action for trespass. The Diggers could not pay
the fine and so their cattle and some goods were confiscated. By August the Diggers
were forced to leave St. George’s Hill and moved to Little Heath, Cobham. Once again
they were continuously harassed and by Easter 1650 the settlement was dispersed. “that
we may … lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All, both Rich
and Poor” Gerrard Winstanley, The True Levellers Standard Advanced247

On 21-22 Feb 1632 Robert, who was living in Dunsfold at the time, had a deposition
made against him which alleged that he had killed some stray sheep and had kept a gold
chain he had found while ploughing248. Perhaps this was a case of a Royalist killing sheep
belonging to a Parliamentarian. This sort of event would have provided propaganda for
the sort of news articles that appeared in the Parliamentarian newspaper Mercurius
Civicus.

Field Place, Dunsfold

The residence of Robert Quenell
Probably named after his brother’s place of residence Field Hall in Compton

At Ashtead Rectory, on the 23rd of Sept 1643 an Ordinance for sequestring the Rectory of
Ashtead was issued, in the County of Surrey. The post had become void by the death of
Mr. Quennell, the late Incumbent, who had been sequestered on the 20th September
1643 but had died 4 days earlier on the 16th249. On the north wall of the chancel of the
Church of St. Giles, Ashtead, Surrey is a brass plate to Dorothy wife of Robert Quennell,
'Pastor of this church,' 1640250

St. Giles Church, Ashtead, Surrey

Peter 1580-1650 m Alice Crandley 1567-1599 in 1598 then Elizabeth Crandley –

1631 in 1599, both cousins

251
Signature of Peter Quyneld about 1640

247
http://www.elmbridgemuseum.org.uk/
248
LM/1057/1 National Archives
249
'House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 23 September 1643', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 3:
1643-1644 (1802), pp. 252-254.
250
Surrey Archaeological Collections, Volume XXV in "List of Monumental Brasses in Surrey" compiled by Mill
Stephenson has on page 49 an inscription found in Ashtead Church to Dorothy wife of Robert Quinell pastor
1640, aged 54
251
http://www.jvsn.co.uk/history.htm
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Solars and Nether Beckhams was inherited by Alan Bycknold’s widow Agnes who passed
it to her second husband, Roger Cranley (Crandley) when she died in 1569. Roger was
the grandfather of the children Roger, Robert and John of Peter Quennell and his
daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s second husband was John Hode to whom Roger left the
residue of his estate on his death in 1594/95. One of his bequests, itemised in his will
proved in May 1594, was... …an Joined bestedell yt standethe in the lofte over the
parlour and two pewter platters marked with the mark of an horseshoe’252.

Peter (1580-1650), ‘a gentleman’, married his cousin Alice Crandley (1567-1599) in 1598
and subsequently, after Alice’s death in 1599 her sister, his other cousin, Elizabeth
Crandley (- 1631) in 1599 by whom he had four sons, Roger, Robert, John and Peter
(1603- ) and a daughter Elizabeth (-1640).

Bargain and sale 1) Peter Quennell of Chiddingfold (could have been the elder or
younger), gent 2) Thomas Remnant of Compton, his wife Susan and his youngest son
Richard. Cottage with garden etc and 1 acre in Compton (position described) to Thomas
and Susan for life, then to Richard and his heirs for £25 down and peppercorn rent. 1
Nov 1613253

Peter had the manor of Ashurst and Fridinghurst conveyed from John Middleton of
Horsham and Thomas Burdett of Abinger to himself and Thomas Payne of Pitfold and in
1623 and the same year he was made a gentleman of coat armour at the Heralds'
Visitation254. Its interesting that this is the same coat of arms used by Peter Quinil,
Bishop of Exeter and which appear in a stained glass window at Exeter Cathedral. There
may be a connection between the Quennells of Chiddingfold and the west country since
the rectory and church of Cleve, Somerset was a property that belonged to Elizabeth
Quennell (nee Grey). However, this may have belonged to her though her father
Reverend Edmund Grey

Azure a cross argent between two roses or in the chief and two fleur-de-lis argent in the foot
The picture on the right is of Bishop Peter Quinil’s arms in Exeter Cathedral

In 1619 Peter Quennell presented for an ecclesiastical post at the Church of St. Giles,
Ashtead in Surrey and again in 1647255 following his brother Robert’s presentation in
1643 prevented by his (Robert’s) death (see above)

Peter’s name occurs amongst the chief landowners in Surrey in 1625, who subscribed to
the loan levied by the King in 1625, his own share being 10 pounds. That he was not yet
a knight may have resulted in him being fined by Charles I for not having become one by
the time of Charles’s coronation in 1625; a way for Charles to raise funds which seems to
have been tolerated as a Royal prerogative. Peter, along with everyone else, would have
been subject to the King’s tax called Ship Money, levied to supposedly pay for ships to
defend England in times of war. Since parliament had been dismissed by Charles this was

252
Chiddingfold archive
253
LM/349/96 National Archives
254
Malden H E, A Victorian County History: A History of the County of Surrey Volume 3, Parishes, Chiddingfold.
pub 1911. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42922
255
the right of presentation to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice, so called because the patron defends or
advocates the claims of the person whom he presents
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done without the legally required consent of Parliament, and was one of the issues
underlying the disquiet that eventually led to the English Civil War

In 1627 Peter acquired the other part of Imbhams from John Covert’s sons John and
Anthony. He is recorded as supplying 'gunns and shott' for Charles I on credit when the
Civil War was breaking out. He would have had to be careful given that George Mynne,
an iron master and politician, of the manor of Horton, near Epsom in Surrey had been
exposed by Elizabeth Alkin (aka Parliament Jones or Joan) for hiding shot, wire and gun
powder in support of Charles I. On a number of occasions, in the lead up to the Civil War,
Parliamentarian saltpetre inspectors tried to gain access to George’s pigeon coop where
they obviously suspected gunpowder was buried. George turned them away on the 4th of
November 1632 with the excuse that the pigeons were in breeding season and could not
be disturbed. They returned again the 4th March 1633 and were once again turned back
by George’s servants armed with pitchforks and bills (a thick, heavy knife with a hooked
end, useful for chopping off small branches of trees or cutting apart entangled vines or
roots). He was visited again on the 30th May 1633 and this time the inspectors were
turned back with the excuse that George held a writ which freed him of any due to allow
the inspectors on to his land and property. Eventually the Lords issued a summons to
George on the 15th June 1633 and he was heavily fined for supplying six thousand
pounds worth of iron to Charles I and his Royalist forces prior to the declaration of
hostilities and with 400 tonnes of iron when war broke out, and for arranging for £40,000
worth of iron and wire to be hidden in caches around the country256

Dated the 10th of March 1629, 4 Charles I, a vellum indenture records the sale of a
tenement and lands in Bramshott, Sussex (now Hampshire), between Peter Qwynnell of
Lythe Hill (the elder?) in the parish of Chiddingfold, Surrey, gent, and Robert Palmer of
Lippuck257, Hants, yeoman. The sale relates to lands called Bowhunt, 100 acres arable
land in Bramshott and the manor of Rogate in Sussex. Also mentioned are an Elizabethan
deed between Right Honourable Earl Arundell and the Right Honourable John Lumley
Knight Lord Lumley and Lady Jane his wife, daughter of the said Earl. It is handwritten in
English on vellum. Notes indicate is very good clean indenture, 66 by 60 cm with a large
3.5 cm diameter wax seal with a rampant lion impression258. This connection with
Hampshire, and the family’s fishing trade in Southampton, is interesting in light of the
later muster by Captain Peter Quennell of a band of Royalists in support of Charles I.

1633 William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

1634 Smallpox

1638 Epidemic ague, hot ague and spotted fever

1639 Epidemic ague and hot ague

1641 MP's draw up a list of grievances called the Grand Remonstrance. Smallpox
in London and plague

1642 Civil war between king and parliament begins. They fight the indecisive
battle of Edgehill. Isaac Newton is born

1643 War typhus, spotted fever and epidemics of hot ague

1644 Parliament wins the battle of Marston Moor. Plague, spotted fever and
epidemics of hot ague

1645 Parliament wins the battle of Naseby. William Laud is executed. Plague

In 1644/45 during the decline of the Royalist’s cause during the First Civil War there was
a brief raid of Goring's horse in Surrey, which advanced through Hampshire and occupied
Farnham, and then in 1646 the war ended

1646 Charles I surrenders to the Scots and the first civil war comes to an end.
Plague

1647 Plague

1648 Charles I starts another civil war. The Scots intervene on his behalf.
However the battle of Preston ends hopes of restoring Charles I to power. Pride's
Purge. Thomas Pride removes some Presbyterian MPs from parliament. Plague

256
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/MynneG.html
257
Liphook
258
Qwynnell, Palmer. Sold on e bay
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In 1648 the second civil war began. In Surrey a Royalist campaign was attempted in a
conflict at Kingston on July 7, remembered only for the death of the young and gallant
Lord Francis Villiers, but collapsed almost as soon as began. Its leaders, the duke of
Buckingham and the earl of Holland, escaped to St Albans and St Neots, where Holland
was taken prisoner and Buckingham escaped overseas. Towards the end of the war there
was also a brief skirmish at Leigh

1649 King Charles I is beheaded. Plague and smallpox in London

1650 Plague

Peter Quennell died in 1650 and was buried on 7th May 1650 at Haslemere, Surrey where
there is a Latin memorial inscription to him

In 1651 a Scottish army invaded England in an attempt to put Charles II on the throne.
The Scots were defeated at Worcester and Charles II escaped from England passing
through Petworth just south of Chiddingfold. Thomas Hobbes published his work
Leviathan. There were epidemics of spotted fever and epidemics of hot ague

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Alms House at Petworth

1652 Inigo Jones dies. Smallpox in London

1652-1654 The first Anglo-Dutch war

1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

1655 Smallpox in London

1655-1657 Rule of the Major-Generals

Robert Quennell -1659

By 1651, a year after his father’s death Robert Quennell had become the owner of the
Crown Inn260. Robert had a daughter Jane and a son also called Robert. His son
succeeded him as owner of the Crown Inn in 1659 when his father died. Robert Quennell
the younger died in 1682 and a charge for non-payment of taxes was levied against his
estate by the Crown. How this is resolved is not clear but it seems from what appears
below that his property then passed to his recently (1674) widowed sister, Jane Younge

Elizabeth -1640 married John Bromham who predeceased her

They lived at Wintershull, Dunsfold, Surrey and had three children, Ann, Joan and John.
John had two daughters, Joan and Margaret. John senior set up a new rail, the upkeep of
middle post of which was the responsibility of both John senior and Arnold Quenell, for
the Church of St. Mary’s and All Saints in Dunsfold. It would be surprising to find out
whether these were subsequently vandalised by the Puritans since they were perceived
as part of Archbishop William Laud’s Arminian Reforms261, John senior’s mother was

259
Project Gutenberg – Open Licence
260
Chiddingfold archive
261
placing a greater emphasis on the traditional liturgy, sacramental elements and ceremony that, at the time
were associated with Catholicism and a part of which called for the installation of church rails. This approach
was considered part of a slippery slope towards popery. Arminianism is a rejection of the Calvinist doctrine of
predestination, a belief in attaining the kingdom of heaven through good works and faith, whereas the
Calvinists believed fervently in predestination
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known as Old Widow Bromham and lived at a property called New Inne in Dunsfold and
was buried at St. Mary’s 12 December 1663 aged 91262

263

Church of St. Mary’s and All Saints in Dunsfold

Daughter Joan married a Mr. Medgick and daughter Ann married a Mr. Stoner. Elizabeth’s
Will reads…Testatrix: Elizabeth Quennell of Dunsfold, widow, Date of Will: 27 Jan
1639/40 [nuncupative]. To my son John Bromham a bed and bedstead and a cauldron
(which was his father's); to my granddaughter Margaret Bromham daughter of John a
cupboard; to my granddaughter Joan Bromham daughter of John two pairs of sheets; to
my daughters Joan Medgick and Ann Stoner both of Kirdford, Sussex. Witnesses: John
Shipsea, rector; Arnold Quennell (X) (nephew?). Proved: 12 Apr 1640 to Joan Medgick,
daughter and principal legatee264 John senior’s mother, referred to as Old Widow
Bromham lived in a property called New Inne. She was buried aged 91 on 12 December
1663265

Peter 1603-1666 married Elizabeth Grey daughter of Rev. Edmund Grey and
sister of Joan Grey

‘Captaine’ Peter (1603-5 May 1666), married Elizabeth Grey in 1628 and they had four
sons, Arnold (- Jan 1682), Peter (-after 1685), Robert (-1719) and Thomas (-after 1688)

Peter and Elizabeth’s son Peter, born in 1603 enrolled as an undergraduate at Magdalen
Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford in 1621 and studied there at the same time as
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a moderate Royalist during, and historian of, the
English Civil War, who fled to Jersey with Charles (II), Prince of Wales in 1646 (Magdalen
College 1622-1626). In the 1620s Magdalen Hall enjoyed an immense and not altogether
explicable popularity. With over three hundred resident members, it was larger than any
college, and accommodation was hard to find, so much so that the Principal, John
Wilkinson, had inaugurated an ambitious building programme to which he himself
contributed £3,000. John Oliver, fellow and later President, in writing to Hyde's father
alluded to the throng in the Hall, but reassured him that his son occupied 'a chamber
warm and convenient to study in, and, among so great a company as we are, at a
reasonable price'.266

Edward Hyde in 1626

262
Dunsfold and its Rectors, Surrey Archaeological Collections Vol 32 pg 10
263
Presented by the Rev. Erskine Wm. Holland. T. Allom. Engraved for Brayley's History of Surrey. J.H. Kernot.
Dorking. Published by & for Mrs. R.B. Ede
264
Archdeaconry Court of Surrey DW/PA/7/13 f.123v; DW/PA/5/1640/120
265
Dunsfold and its Rectors, Surrey Archaeological Collections Vol 32 pg 10
266
Hertford College Alumni http://alumniweb.hertford.ox.ac.uk
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The curriculum would have comprised rhetoric, logics and metaphysics and been studied
in the mornings after chapel with the afternoon being left for recreation followed by
supper and vespers.

Peter served a commission in the king's army, and for his loyalty and that of his father, "
Peter Quinnall, Esq. '' it was intended at the Restoration for him to be raised from the
Yeomanry to the Gentry as one of the thirty-two persons in Surrey selected as Knights of
the Order of the Royal Oak. However, for political reasons it was never instituted. His
estate was valued at a wealthy £600 a year and he married Elizabeth daughter of the
Reverend Edmund Grey and went to live a Field Place.

When Charles I raised his standard in 1642 Captaine Peter raised a Royalist company of
74 men, but it was soon disarmed. There is a record of their surrender, ‘A note what
arms every man hath laid down out of Captain Queanel's band', detailing the arms
handed in by each soldier (see Appendix 15)267. It is likely that Captain Quennell was
responding to the Commission of Array issued by the Marquess of Hertford, under a
warrant from Charles I, on the 2nd of August, to muster all men between 15-60. Though
it was forbidden by Parliament for Militias ‘to attend the King’s Commission of Array’
Captain Quennell would have rallied his band at around about the time that war was
declared, the King raised his standard at Nottingham on the 22nd August and that Colonel
Goerge Goring, Governor of Southampton, had declared for the King and was under siege
by Parlaimentarians. Given Peter the elder’s connections with land and holdings in
Hampshire it is possible that Captain Quennell’s band, numbering seventy four, is that
referred to in connection with a disturbance on the 11th of August 1642 when, probably
riding in support of Goring, a mile out of Southampton, at Hounsdown, between sixty and
seventy cavaliers attacked a party, led by the High Sherriff of Hampshire, who were
raising a Parliamentarian militia. In the mêlée, which lasted an hour, fifteen of the
Royalists were killed, nine mortally wounded with five killed on the Parliamentarians
side268. The deaths and mortal wounds referred to on the Royalist side could of course
allude to casualties amongst the one hundred or so locals who fought in support of and
alongside the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers were quickly captured, disarmed and placed ‘in
safekeeping’. They would have been considered, in acting contrary to the instruction not
to obey the Commission of Array, as ‘disturbers of the peace’. Though the list does not
indicate if any of the party were killed or later died, in keeping with any investigation the
names of all those involved and their arms would have been taken regardless. Further
investigation might reveal if any of those involved disappear from the records at about
this time. What does become apparent researching the people named in the list and their
places of residence, of the Godalming and Godley One Hundreds, is the inter
relationships that existed between the various members of the band, either through
family, business, and possibly patronage which deserve further investigation. Suffice to
say that, with the footnotes provided in the appendix, an attempt has been made to
expand on what initially seems ‘just’ an abstract list of names in order in some way to
bring back to life those listed as living breathing people and not just abstracts in type.
Once they had been disarmed the Southern Association of the Parliamentarian Army and
Militias would have easily been able to contain any pockets of Royalist sympathisers in
Surrey so it would have been likely that, after they had been disarmed, they would have
been fined, bound over to keep the peace and returned to their homes. Thomas Kelsey,
originally a London tradesman, was appointed Major-General for Surrey and Kent during
the Rule of the Major-Generals. Kelsey became a severe persecutor of Royalists in his
region and attempted to purge them from office wherever possible. Royalists were
expected to obtain the local Major-General's permission before they could travel away
from home and their movements were carefully monitored. Any further ‘disturbance of
the peace’ would have been a somewhat risky undertaking since not far away, near
Haslemere is Black Down House, built in 1607, which was used by Oliver Cromwell as his

267
[HMC p.677b; published in Surrey Musters, part III, pp.331-333] 6729/4/174 Aug 1642. Surrey History
Centre
268
Godwin, G N. Ch. VI Events in Portsmouth, Skirmishes near Southampton and in the Isle of Wight, in ‘The
civil war in Hampshire (1642-45) and the story of Basing House’. Southampton : H. M. Gilbert and son ;
London, J. and E. Bumpus, ltd. Pp38.

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headquarters during the Civil War269. Cromwell’s soldiers were also stationed at
Chiddingfold but were so rowdy they had to be removed by petition270

At this point it is worth mentioning that though during the English Civil War, loyalty was
generally divided along Northern/Western (Royalist) and Southern/Eastern
Parliamentarian) lines with the Parliamentarian vanguard of support being predominantly
made up of the middle classes, merchants, the navy and the puritans, and the Royalist
vanguard amongst the Anglican church, the Catholics, the nobility and the peasants, it
was not clear cut with pockets of support ranging across the entire country. Surrey was
generally Parliamentarian headed by prominent leaders Richard Onslow and Sir Poynings
More. There were also powder mills at Chilworth and cannon foundries in the Weald.

Both sides would hold sway over the same areas at different times, Farnham Castle and
Kingston changed hands several times during the course of the War and three of the line
of forts which defended London were in the Surrey. Burnt Stub Mansion, a Royalist
stronghold, in Chessington was raised to the ground by Oliver Cromwell when Surrey
trained militias were ordered to defend Kingston against the Royalists

1655 introduction of the Decimation Tax of 10% on the income of Royalists though by
this time Lythe Hill Farm had already been sold

On 16th March 1657 a quitclaim was made between Peter (using the name variant
Quynnell), at the time classified in the court register as a gentleman, and Richard
Remnant of Compton, a brick maker, on property and land called Wattillham in
Compton271.

1657 Great epidemics of ague, influenza and hot ague

1658 Oliver Cromwell dies. His son Richard takes over. Great epidemics of ague,
influenza and hot ague, catarrhal influenza and spotted fever

Oliver Cromwell’s head

1659 Richard Cromwell resigns. His fall from power is so swift he becomes known
as 'Tumbledown Dick'. Great epidemics of ague, influenza and hot ague, catarrhal
influenza and spotted fever and smallpox

1660 Charles II becomes king. Official founding year of the Royal Society

A year after the restoration, in 1661 Peter, his fortunes renewed for his loyalty to Charles
I during the English Civil War, was made a Commissioner to oversee the collection of
money from Surrey granted to the King in an Act established on behalf of Charles II the
same year which reads...

‘granting unto the Kings Majestie twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to bee
assessed and levied by an assessment of threescore and ten thousand pounds by the
moneth for eighteene moneths

269
http://www.haslemere.com/vic/outandabout.htm
270
Chiddingfold archive
271
Item ref: LM/351/20 Surrey History Centre
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Reasons for the present Grant.

£1,260,000. granted in the Manner following, but not to be drawn into Example.

We your Majesties most dutifull and loyall subjects the Commons assembled in
Parliament taking notice of the present and important occasions for your Majesties supply
and of your Majesties abundant grace and bounty to your people in the late Act of free
and generall pardon indempnity and oblivion and withall considering that the great and
heavy taxations which your people have lately undergone were cheifely if not onely for
the paying off those publique debts to the Army and Navy which were contracted in ill
times and most of them for ill purposes under the late tyranicall and usurping powers
insomuch that wee are nowe to provide for all those necessities your Majestie hath beene
reduced to by the new setling [of] your Majesties household without any setled revenue
by the putting forth of severall Fleets and Navies to sea although your Majestie found the
stores neere exhausted by the provisions for the Garrison of Dunkirke and the
establishment att Tangiers and alsoe att Jamaica three great additions of honour att
present and wee hope of plenty hereafter by securing our trade and commerce besides
the charges of those guards to your royall person which the implacable spirits of some
men have for some time made necessary and that noblest expence of all in bringing
home your Royall Consort (whom Almighty God preserve and blesse to the joy and
comfort of your Majestie and to the happines of all future generations) Nevertheles that
your Majestie may see wee are no way discouraged by the charge or difficulty of the
present occasions and that your enemies may see and knowe our readines to assist your
Majestie with the utmost hazards both of our lives and estates Wee your said Commons
doe hereby freely and cheerefully give and grant unto your Most Excellent Majestie the
sum of twelve hundred and threescore thousand pounds to be raised and levied in
manner following And although wee cannot but knowe that the ancient and usuall
parliamentary course of raising moneyes for the aid and supply of your Majesties
extraordinary occasions is and hath beene by way of subsidies which wee desire may bee
observed in future times And that the course hereby taken may not bee drawne into
example for the time to come and considering that the way of subsidies hath for many
yeares last past been disused and that the regulac[i]on of that method in raising moneys
would require more time and occasion more delay then your Majesties pressing and
urgent affaires can well permit Wee therefore your Majesties faithfull and obedient
subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament beseech your Majestie that it may be
enacted [And be it enacted] by the Kings Most excellent Majestie by and with the consent
and advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and of the Commons in this present
Parliament assembled That the su[m]me of threescore and ten thousand pounds by the
month for eighteene moneths begining from the five and twentieth day of December One
thousand six hundred sixty one shall bee assessed taxed collected levied and payed by
six quarterly payments in the severall Counties Cities Burroughs Townes &places within
England and Wales and the Towne of Berwicke upon Tweed according to the severall
rules and proporc[i]ons and in such manner as is hereafter expressed (that is to say) for
every moneth of the said [eighteen] moneths Upon

The County of Surrey the sum of One thousand five hundred threescore and five pounds
five shillings and six pence

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every the persons
hereafter named shall be Commissioners of and for the severall and respective Counties
Cityes Boroughs Townes and Places hereafter named that is to say… … Peter Quennel
senior Esq[uire]272

During the English Civil Way as many as 12,000 Royalists, Catholics and insurgents from
England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales had been sent, by the Parliamentarians, to work in
the sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean. It may be that they were repatriated after
the Restoration, though this would require further investigation.

272
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On 2 Sep 1663 a feoffment with livery of seisin273, was granted between Peter Quynell
esq the elder of Compton and his son and heir Peter, to William Sadler of Chiddingfold, a
blacksmith, for Sollars, Chiddingfold, which had been purchased by the elder Peter’s
Uncle Peter on 10 October 1584, for a consideration of £57.274

The elder Peter died on the 5th of May 1666, and was buried at Compton Church,
Compton, Surrey, England 7 May 1666 in the north part of Compton Church (Pilgrim’s
Progress – 1678. Compton was one of the villages that the pilgrims travelled through on
their way to Canterbury) under the uppermost arch in the wall there. In the vault
probably of the Halls of Field Place, whose heir he was. During his lifetime he had
borrowed heavily, a habit which was to come back to haunt his son Peter. There is an
inscription in the church to Elizabeth Quynell (nee Grey)275

Compton Church, Compton, Surrey

Just a year later a Grant, dated 30 Apr 1667, was made by his widow Elizabeth to 1) Sir
William More 2) Edmund Yalden, rector of Compton, and his successors. All trees planted
or to be planted by Yalden within 50 yards of hedges and ditches of the Barn Field,
Gascoynes and Bushy Parkes in Compton and land of Elizabeth Quennell, widow. Lops
and tops, from Middle English loppe, small branches and twigs, to be distributed to poor
at discretion of rector, churchwardens and overseers of the poor. 276

Peter (- after 1685)

The younger Peter (- after 1685) with his mother Elizabeth Quynell (nee Grey)’s
agreement sold South Imbhams, and perhaps had already also sold Lythe Hill, in 1651 to
Thomas Newton and William Yalden to pay off his father’s debts. Yet there was still some
contention between Peter Quynell (Quennell) and Thomas Newton in 1680 as is shown by
a legal suit over the mortgage of Imbhams [iron forge] and Lythill [Lythe Hill Farm,
Chiddingfold], which was settled by private arbitration by Messrs Killingworth, Wight and
Child and may have been written in the hand of James Gresham277, the MP for Haslemere
in 1661 and 1679, grandson of Sir Thomas More, Constable of Farnham Castle and Uncle
of Sir William More.

In 1653 when the Parliamentarians won the English Civil War they destroyed the forge at
Imbhams and ruined the family who had to leave their ancestral home at Lythe Hill, now
a hotel. In 1673, after the Restoration, this Peter was also known as Captain Quynnell, a
title by which he was still being referred to after 1695. He had two daughters; Elizabeth

273
Livery of seisin was the dominant method of transferring land in England until 1536, and it continued to be
legal until 1925. The term livery of seisin means simply "transfer of possession": livery means "delivery" and is
from the Old French livrer, and seisin means "possession" and is from the Old French saisir or seisir. The
concept behind livery of seisin, therefore, was the symbolic transfer of the possession of land. The entire
ceremony of transfer was called feoffment with livery of seisin, with feoffment meaning "a gift," specifically a
gift of a freehold interest in a parcel of land. The transferor was the feoffor, the transferee was the feoffee, and
the land interest was the fief
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Surrey Archaeological Collections, Volumes XII in "Compton Church" by J Lewis Andre, pages 1-19 has an
inscription to Elizabeth Quynell
276
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18#-1
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and Joan, and one son, Simon Quenell (-1744) who married Susannah. Elizabeth married
Robert Beare and Joan married John Waight.

30 Jan 1673 letter from James Gresham, Haslemere, to his nephew Sir William More,
Lord of Godalming, whose residence was at Loseley Park near Guildford. ...Title Letter
from James Gresham, Haslemere, to Sir William More, Loseley. He responds to a letter
from More and refers to a coroner's inquest, possibly regarding a murder and a claim on
the felon’s goods (or the victim’s stolen property) made by Sir William, about which
Gresham's 'cousin', Wight, has 'consulted with some very ignorant lawyers'. Gresham
advises More that he may have a 'melius inquirement to avoid the first inquest,' and
should get a copy of the inquest from either Mr Child of Guildford or the coroner in
London. He also refers to another matter retrospectively concerning a previous 'discourse
between Captain Quenell and Mr Wimbolt'. Mr Wimbolt and his brother, Child, believe
that More 'may by a melius inquirement get Payne to be found compos mentis'. Gresham
offers to find a deed of purchase by Sir George and Robert More for a 'charge of £16 at
the Rolls' if Mr Smith denies he has it278

Peter died after 1685 leaving two sons Simon (-1744 see below) who moved to Chertsey
and became an Inn Keeper, and possibly a Peter Quenell, Esq., who, in 1693/94, owned
a house at the City of London, Farringdon Ward Without, St Dunstan Precinct, Street
side279

As a result of the sale of their land and property in and around Chiddingfold the focus for
the family seems to have moved to Guildford though they retained their interest in
faming as is indicated by their profession; butchers.

31 Aug 1685. Warrant in the usual form for renewing the Charter of Guldeford in Surrey
Amongst others Peter Quennell, Simon Quennell, both Burgess of Guildford, as
Serjeants-at-Mace280 were both probably Peter’s sons

Simon, the son of Peter (- after 1685), an Inn Keeper in Chertsey married a Susannah.
Simon died about June 1744. His Will proved 9 June 1744281 states…I do hereby give and
bequeath unto my dear wife Susannah all my Personal Estate whatsoever and I do
appoint her Executrix of this my Will I do also give and devise to my said Wife and the
Heirs of her Body all my freehold Estates in the County of Surry or elsewhere and also
my right Title Interest Remainders or Reversions which I have or may claim of in or to all
or any of the Lands and Premises devised to me after the death of my Mother by the Will
of my father Peter Quennell In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
this fifteenth day of February and in the seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
the King 1743 Simon Quennell

Henry Wapshot Junr

Nicklas Wooten
William Horne Junior

Robert (-1719)

In a will proved on the 22nd September 1661 Peter and Robert, named as brothers, were
left land in Harting, West Sussex, by a kinsman (cousin?) John Hargrave282. Robert made
a feoffment of some of his bequest on the 7th February 1707 to an Anthony Palmer283.
Robert, who’s will dated the 18th of July 1719, possibly died somewhere around the
middle of 1719 (the probate of his will was proved some years later on the 29th April
1785 at Chichester and was the subject of some wrangling as attested by a letter dated

278
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279
'Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693-1694: City of London, Farringdon Ward Without, St Dunstan Precinct,
Street side', Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4: The City of London, the City of Westminster, and
Metropolitan Middlesex (1992).
280
'James II volume 1: August 1685', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1685 (1960), pp. 290-317.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
281
Prob11/734 http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/surnames/p-q-r/quennell_simon_q10.htm
282
SAS-K/73 National Archive, UK
283
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12 November 1767, in which it would seem the ownership of property relating to his will
was contested by his niece Rachel Hambledon284) and includes property in Harting285.
One of the witnesses was an Edmund Yaden (Yalden?), a possible connection with the
Yalden family mentioned in previous connections with the Quenells. Robert was still alive,
and recorded as a gentleman of Guildford, in 1665 as attested by a deed relating to
property in East Harting, dated the 18th of July 1665286.

Thomas (-after 1688)

On 26 May 1656 Thomas Quynell of Chiddingfold, a gentleman, sold a Mortgage (with

covenant to levy a fine) on White Lands (13 enclosures containing 50 acres) in
Chiddingfold to Richard Watts Esq. of Guildford for £150287

On 19 Jan 1658 Thomas Quynell288 and Richard Watts assigned a lease to William Sadler
of Chiddingfold, a blacksmith, on Whitelands, Chiddingfold for a consideration of £150
paid to Watts and £100 to Quynell289

On 18 Jan 1660 William Sadler paid £150 in addition to previous payment290

1661 Robert Boyle publishes his great work The Sceptical Chemist. Brain fever
and nervous stock predominantly affecting children, fevers, small pox and spotted
fever

1662 The Royal Society (a Scientific organisation) is given its charter by Charles II
who marries a Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza. The Act of Uniformity
is passed. Fevers and spotted fever

1663 The first turnpike road is opened. (Turnpike roads were owned by turnpike
trusts that maintained them. You had to pay to use them

1663-1664 Fevers and spotted fever

1665 Last great plague in London. This is the last outbreak of bubonic plague in
England

1666 Last plague and the great fire of London. Most of the city is destroyed but it
is soon rebuilt

1665-1667 The second Anglo-Dutch war

1667 John Milton publishes Paradise Lost. Smallpox

1668 Smallpox

1666-1670 Hudson’s Bay Company is formed

1669 Cholera nostrus, smallpox, infantile diarrhoea, summer of cholera

1670 Measles, smallpox, summers of cholera

1671-1672 Smallpox and griping in the guts

1672-1674 The 3rd Anglo-Dutch war

1673 The Test Act is passed. Catholics and Protestant dissenters are prevented
from holding public office. Comatose fever

1674 Comatose fever, measles spring and summer, smallpox autumn and winter

1675 Comatose fever, influenza and griping in the guts

1676 Comatose fever and griping in the guts

1678 Titus Oates claims he has discovered a 'Popish plot' against Charles II. (The
whole thing is a hoax). Hot ague epidemic and influenza

1679 The Act of Habeas Corpus. Imprisonment without trial is outlawed. Hot ague
epidemic

On 24 Apr 1680 Elizabeth and John Layfield, a clerk of Chiddingfold, sold the rectory and
church of Cleve, Somerset, Cowpers and Coxgarden, Balefield, piece of land (11 acres),
and 60 acres called 'Harrolds', Chiddingfold, previously mortgaged to Elizabeth Quynell
for £500 to Richard Coldham esq and Edmund Yelden (Yalden?), a clerk, both of

284
SAS-K/728, West Sussex Record Office
285
SAS-K/336, West Sussex Records Office
286
SAS-K/86, West Sussex Records Office
287
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No records found for Thomas and brother Arnold Quynell may have been cousins of the younger Peter, or
possibly even his brothers. Both were butchers. Arnold’s will is dated 21 Jul 1718 and in it kinsmen Arnold and
John Quinell are mentioned
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Compton, and Richard Symes of Guildford, a gentleman. A subsequent memorandum of
22 Oct 1688 - term of years now vested in Charles Layfield of Farnham, clerk, who
hereby assigns it to Thomas Newton, esq, in trust for Thomas Hutches of Guildford who
has bought the freehold of the Chiddingfold property from John Layfield.291

1680 Hot ague epidemic

1681 Hot ague epidemic and smallpox

On 5/6 October 1683 Thomas Quynell appeared as a witness to the issue of a lease and
release by William Winson of Plaistow in Kirdford, yeoman, as a marriage settlement, and
William Putticke of Plaistow, a butcher, of a property and 20 acres called Phillips, near
Plaistow Green in Kirdford, adjoining Plaistow Green on north west, and lands of Thomas
Jackman called Quynell House (Plaistow, Kirdford) on the south east and also garden and
field called Rickman Garden and Rickman Field, containing 4 acres in Plaistow. With
covenant to levy a fine to John Woods, William Winsom, and Robert Lusher of
Chiddingfold, Surrey, mercer (textile merchant) for £230 to Putticke, £170 to Winson292

On 9 and 10 October 1688 Thomas Hutches, alias Hutchest, of Guildford, a yeoman, sold
Cowpers and Coxgarden, Balefield and Spookes alias Swanland in Chiddingfold to Peter’s
brother Thomas and nephew Arnold Quennell the younger (-1718, son of Arnold -1680),
both of Chiddingfold and both butchers, for a consideration of £362293 buying back the
land that had once belonged to Thomas’s mother Elizabeth. Then, in all likelihood to raise
further finance, they sold the mortgage on Cowpers and Coxgarden property to Johane
Yalden of North Chapel, Sussex, a widow, on the 22 October 1688 for the sum of £150294

Arnold (- Jan 1682)

Arnold, a butcher, had one daughter, Mary, and three sons Arnold, Robert and John, who
lived on a property called Boxalls. They still owned Cowpers and Coxgarden which would
continue to be passed down through the family, seemingly in perpetuity.

In 1641 Arnold was a Witness and Overseer to the Will of Thomas of Dunsfold,
Husbandman. Proved: 9 Jun 1641295

The Will of Arnold Quennell (the elder), yeoman, ‘ancient and weak’, was proved on 21
January 1681/2 for a fee of £101 and 10shillings at the Commissary Court of Surrey, the
Will of Arnold Quennell of Dunsfold, and dated 14 February 1679/80. He was to be buried
in the churchyard and bequeathed to the poor ten shillings. The remainder of his will
states that…

To Bridewell, Foster and Higglett (probably servants or farm hands) four shillings each; I
have settled my land by conveyance to my three sons; to my son Arnold ten shillings; to
my son Robert Quennell twenty pounds above the sixty pounds he has already had, the
cupboard in the hall, twelve pewter dishes, the bed and bedstead I lie on with bolsters,
blankets and its trappings and two pairs of good sheets; to my daughter Mary Quennell
ten pounds over and above the hundred pounds she has had already; to my godson and
grandson John Meersh ten pounds and to my son John Quennell’s daughters Mary
Quennell and Joan Quennell ten pounds each at age twenty one; to my daughter Mary a
joined cupboard in the parlour, twelve pewter dishes, second best bed, pillows, bolsters,
blankets and its trappings and a bedstead in the chamber where my sons lie, a flaxen
tablecloth, a pair of holland sheets, two pairs of very good tire flaxen sheets and the
second chest in the house; to my son Robert a joined chest at the foot of the bed in the
parlour to my godchildren one shilling each; to my son John Quennell a little close of land
at Hazel Bridge (Pickhurst Road. The Quenells were shown as still living at Hazelbridge

291
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292
Add Mss 53,645-53,646 dated 26 March 1662, Add Mss 53,647-53,652 dated 21/22 April 1680, and Add Mss
53,653-53,658 National Archive
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House, with kinsfolk living at Rodgate in the 1841 Census of Chiddingfold. See
Appendices 6 & 7), Chiddingfold and residue, Executor Overseers: my friends John
Holney of Dunsfold; George Entiknappe of Chiddingfold, yeoman. Witnesses: John Ifold;
Arnold Fullett; William Dowlter296

1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opens its doors

1684 Severe bowel complaints

1685 Charles II dies. James II (a Roman Catholic) becomes king. The Duke of
Monmouth (Charles II's illegitimate son) leads an unsuccessful rebellion in
Southwest England. Typhus and smallpox

1686 'Hanging' Judge Jeffery’s sentences many of the rebels to death. Typhus

1687 Isaac Newton publishes his great work Principia Mathematica. He lays the
foundations of modern physics.

1688 The 'Glorious, Bloodless Revolution'. James II flees abroad and William and
Mary become the new monarchs. Influenza and infantile diarrhoea

1689 The Bill of Rights is passed. Infantile diarrhoea

1693-1699 Seven ill years

1694 Mary dies of smallpox aged 32. The Bank of England is founded. Fever
epidemic in London

1698 Thomas Savery invents the first steam engine

1701 The Act of Settlement is passed. Jethro Tull invents the seed drill

1702 William dies. Anne becomes queen

1703 Scarlet fever in London

1704 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Blenheim. The
British capture Gibraltar

1705-1706 Measles

1706 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French army at Ramillies

1707 The Act of Union joins England and Scotland

1708 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the army of Louis XIV at Oudenarde

1709 Abraham Darby uses coke instead of charcoal to smelt iron. The Duke of
Marlborough wins the battle of Malplaquet against the French. London fever and
influenza

1710 London fever and smallpox

1712 Newcomen makes steam engines for pumping water out of mines. Influenza

1714 Queen Anne dies. George I becomes king. Fever epidemic in London and
smallpox

1715 The first Jacobite uprising. The Highlanders rise but the uprising ends in an
indecisive battle near Stirling. Convulsions

1718 Typhus and measles

Mary married a Mr. Meersh and had a son, John Meersh

Robert Quennell (1670-1747)

Robert Quennell, was church warden of Chiddingfold 1700-1704297. He had fifteen

children, the first five by a marriage in 1687 to Elizabeth Woodhatch and the remainder
by his marriage in 1709 to Jane Penycod298. Their descendants lived at Hazel Bridge
House in 1841. Most of this family left for Canada in 1850

John Quennell

John had two daughters, Joan and Mary and as mentioned in brother Arnold’s will was
bequeathed a farm called ‘Lower Tugley’

296
DW/PC/7/1 Q36; DW/PC/5/1682/47 http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/surnames/p-q-
r/quennell_arnold_q8.htm
297
Courtesy of Sir Edward Fennessy, Surrey
298
Courtesy of Sir Edward Fennessy, Surrey
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Arnold (-1718)

Arnold’s will mentions both kinsmen Arnold and John Quinell. Probate of will, dated 21 Jul
1718, of Arnold Quennell (the younger) of Chiddingfold, butcher. House and lands called
'Swan Land', the Ballfield and Coxgarden to kinsman Arnold Quinell (son) after wife's
death. Farm called 'Lower Tugley' to kinsman John Quinell (brother). Several legacies.
William Osmen of Chiddingfold, chirurgeon299 one of the overseers of the will on paper
and sealed. Lodged 24 Dec 1718300

1719 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe. Measles, smallpox and typhus

1720 The South Sea Bubble (stocks in the South Sea Company suddenly fall in
price and many people lose huge sums of money.)

1721 Robert Walpole becomes the king's main minister. People call him the Prime
Minister. (Originally it was a term of abuse)

1722 General smallpox epidemic

1723 The great architect Christopher Wren dies. General smallpox epidemic, fever
and griping

1725 Smallpox in London

1726 Relapsing fever, typhus, convulsions and griping

1727 George I dies. George II becomes king. Isaac Newton dies.

1727-1729 Great febrile epidemic in London, relapsing fever and some typhus,
fatal anginas, cholera, epidemic agues and ‘influenzas’, fever, convulsions and
griping, dysentery (amongst others), smallpox in London

1731 Smallpox in London

1733 John Kay invents the flying shuttle. Measles followed an influenza epidemic
in same year, scarlet fever, influenza

1734 Scarlet fever, convulsions, ‘milatary fever’ (eruption of red and purple and
white vesicles), smallpox in London

1735 The Prime Minister moves into 10 Downing Street. ‘Milatary fever’ (eruption
of red and purple and white vesicles)

1736 ‘Milatary fever’ (eruption of red and purple and white vesicles), smallpox in
London

1737 Influenza, smallpox in London

1739 The highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged. John Wesley founds the Methodists.
Typhus

1740 Typhus and smallpox

1741 Smallpox, great epidemic of fever, great typhus epidemic, fever in Sheffield

1742 Prime Minister Robert Walpole resigns. Smallpox, great epidemic of fever,
great typhus epidemic

1743 Dysentery followed influenza

Arnold (1700-1785)

On 20-21 Jun 1743 Arnold Quennell of Frensham, a butcher, and devisee of late A
Quennell of Chiddingfold, sold the lease and release with bond for Ballfield in Chiddingfold
to Thomas Martin of Enton, Godalming, a yeoman, for £56301

On 22-23 Jun 1744 Arnold Quennell of Chiddingfold, a butcher, ex of Frensham, sold the
property divided into two called 'Cowpers' and 'Coxgarden' and 11 acres called 'Spookes'
or Swanland in Chiddingfold to Thomas Martin of Enton, a yeoman, for £500302

Thomas Martin, as plaintiff lodged a complaint, in 1744 on the indenture of a fine,

against Arnold Quennell and Thomas Dudman and wife Joan, deforciants (having illegally

299
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kept out) Thomas Martin as the rightful owner of the estate of a property and two
gardens, 2 orchards, 30 acres, etc in Thursley, Chiddingfold303

1745 The second Jacobite uprising. The Jacobites invade England and reach as far
as Derby but then turn back. Ulcerous sore throat - Sheffield

1746 The Jacobites are crushed at the battle of Culloden. Smallpox in London

1749 Smallpox in London

1751-1752 Smallpox

1754 Smallpox in London

1755 Measles

1756 The Seven Years War against France begins. Putrid fever

1757 Fever in Sheffield Oct/Nov, smallpox in London

1758 Dysentery

1759 General Wolfe captures Quebec but is killed. His victory ensures Canada will
be a British colony not a French one

1759-1760 Dysentery, Yorkshire epidemic (‘Military’), "anomalous malignant
measles"

1761 The Bridgwater canal opens. Dysentery

1762 Dysentery and influenza

1763 The Seven Years War ends

1767 Influenza

1769 James Watt patents an improved steam engine

1771 Richard Arkwright introduces a loom powered by a water mill

1772 Smallpox

1773 The Stock Exchange is founded. London high febrile mortality, smallpox in
Warrington

1774 Smallpox in Chester

1775 Jane Austen is born. Influenza

1777-1778 Scarletina anginosa

1779 The world's first iron bridge is built in Shropshire. Samuel Crompton invents
the spinning mule

1780 Dysentery, epidemic agues

C. 1780 The Industrial Revolution begins to transform Britain

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Appendices:

Appendix 1: Linchmere Priory

1500s – 1600s Quenells listed in manor rolls as tenants of Viscount Montagu304

Appendix 2: Hammer Farm, Manor of Pophole, Frensham, Surrey305

Belonged to the Quennels from 1536.

Roger Quenell, owner 1673, value 30 and a few sheep (£4 worth in 1623306), a few acres
of rye and oats and five stalls of bees. Grandson James inherited the property and land
at a value of £71 though with more sheep.

1654 – James admitted to Pophole for £8, paid £5 with a promissory to pay the balance
later

1670 – Raised £84 on farm

1671 – Raised £105 on farm

1675 – Mortgaged farm for £30

James Quennells’ Will (Wife was referred to as Widdow Quennell in 1682307)

£20 a piece to his two daughters at the age of 24 or when they are married. 20 shillings
and the farm to his son Thomas

Thomas Quennell died 1741 and farm passed out of the ownership of the Quenells

Appendix 3: Pophole Ironworks, Tythe Dispute, 1598

Roger Quenell, witness to the deposition. Statement that the ironworks had been in place
for about twenty years308

Appendix 4: Shottover Mill

Leased to Thomas Quennell in 1536 for 20 shillings Ministers Account of 1536 to the
Crown309

304
Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg 60. pub. John
Owen Smith. 2004
305
Turner G A, Ibid, pg 77
306
Turner G A, Ibid pg 44
307
Turner G A, Ibid, pg 76
308
Turner G A, Ibid pg 133
309
Turner G A, Ibid pg 100
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Appendix 5: Places in Surrey and Sussex associated with the Quenells

Chiddingfold
Lythe (Leeth) Hill Farm – Petworth Road towards Chiddingfold
Crown Inn, Chiddingfold
St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold - “against the east end of the Chancell within the
Churchyard“. Burial place of the Quenells
'Sollers', alias Soleste, on north side of Chiddingfold Street
Chownings
House and lands Spookes alias Swanland
Ballfield
35 acres called 'Whytlande' (White Lands), bounded by highway from Chiddingfold to
Hasellbridge (Hazelbridge) on the east, the brook running from Haslemere to Dunsfold on
the south and west and a lane leading from the highway to Chownings on the north
Hazelbridge House (Pickurst Road), with kinsfolk living at Rodgate and Prestwick
Anstrood and Anstrood (now Anstead) Fields along with a barn
Rovis (now Imbhams pond)
Padbrooke, Harwells the Leecrofte and Harwels meade (field)
Chaplain of St. Mary’s; John Evans 1571
Hyndehed in the Parish of Thurseley
Hearnelonde
Whitley Park
Cowpers and Coxgarden, Balefield, piece of land (11 acres), and 60 acres called
'Harrolds'
Hazel Bridge
Farm called 'Lower Tugley'
Thursley, property and two gardens, 2 orchards, 30 acres

Ashtead St. Giles Church

Compton
Field Place
Wattillham
Compton Church, Compton, Surrey – burial Peter Quenell 1666. Under the uppermost
arch in the wall there. In the vault probably of the Halls of Field Place, whose heir he was
Barn Field, Gascoynes and Bushy Parkes

Dunsfold
Field Place
Arnold Quenell buried in the churchyard
Boxalls House

Haslemere
“parsonage of Hasilmore (present day Haslemere)," and was acquainted with its curate at
the time, one Richard Crampe
Peter Quenell, St. Bartholomews Church?, May 1650
Whitely (Witley) Park

Manor of Ashurst and Fridinghurst

Chithurst Manor of Chithurst – Lobsters, tenure of Ayling

Chertsey Inn Keeper Simon Quenell

Kirdford

Plaistow Quynell House

Sussex Bramshott. Midhurst, Cowdray Park and Castle

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Appendix 6: Chiddingfold, Hazel Bridge House (1841 Census)

Edward b 1811 m Sarah b 1811

Edward b 1831
Walter b 1834
James b 1837, 1891 Census Widower, Labourer, 166 Oldfield Road, Hampton, Middlesex,
George b 1840. 1891 General Labourer. Lodger, 128 Cricket Green Chiddingfold

…and William b 1844

All of the family except James and George moved to Canada in 1850

Appendix 7: Chiddingfold, Rodgate (1841 Census)

Edward b 1791 m Sarah b 1791

Gea (male) b 1821

Sarah b 1826

Appendix 8: Plantagenet Roll of Royal Blood

Rev William Quennell, Rector of Shenfield, Essex

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Appendix 9: Guildford Quennells

Richard Quennell (clothworker), and wife Margaret both alive on 20 Jul 1620

Peter Quennell the Elder (butcher), father of James Quenell married Mary and
predeceased her before 8 Aug 1735. Building called 'The Leaden Porch' the site of the
present 124 Guildford High Street. The garden, or yard, of the house, apparently
extended as far as the South Town Ditch, now Castle Street. Mary sold the mortgage to
53 The Hugh Street, Guildford on 8/9 Aug 1735 and bought it back on 4 Sep 1740
↓
James Quennell (Holy Trinity, butcher) married and predeceased Anne Quennell (nee
Hammond, alive 6 Jun 1696, deceased by 25 May 1733) – of Guildford, then St. Martin in
the Fields. Lived at the westermost tenement of the two houses and with barn stable
slaughterhouse etc near the top of the High Street on the north side
James joint owner of property in Chiddingfold; slaughterhouse and cornlofts etc
↓
Henry Quennell of Guildford, gent, cousin
and heir at law of James

Simon Quennell
↓
Son Peter Quennell the younger, gent (butcher), executor of the last will and testament
of Simon 7 Feb 1696. 53 The High Street, Guildford and 3 properties, tanyards,
malthouse, gardens etc in Shalford, 15 Apr 1726 - 16 Apr 1726. Also part owner of
tenement in Holy Trinity with curtilage, garden, etc 1 Feb 1664. By 1725 in association
with the Holy Trinity property John Quennell 10 Aug 1676. This Peter becomes Peter
Quenell the elder and possibly with a brother called Henry, gent (butcher), both alive in
23 Dec 1696, and son now called Peter Quenell the younger (butcher) possibly born after
that date.. Peter the younger in 1725 may then have gone on to have a son called
William who owns part of the property at 4,5 & 6 Trinity Churchyard sold it on 1-2 May
1789. Peter the younger, joint Trustee of Gilberts 1a, 0.5a at West Shelf upon the Head
of Stamford, 1a in the common field, all land in East Clandon. 10 May 1718

Elizabeth Quennell mentioned and alive 23 Dec 1749. (Inheritor of 'The Leaden Porch')

Sarah Quennell died 2 Feb 1852 (daughter and inheritor of 'The Leaden Porch')

Appendix 10: Frensham Quennells

Arnold Quennell, of Guildford then Halsemere. 'Wheelwrights', The Street, Thursley. 1

Dec 1741 to 28-29 Mar 1749 when his mortgage was repaid.

Appendix 11: Dunsfold Quennells

John Quennell. Property called Grove alias Groveland and 4 acres. To about 1712. Also
Quennell alias Quynell - deeds to Field and Field Place Farm, Dunsfold. 1608-1766

Appendix 12: Hascombe Quennells

Richard Quennell, blacksmith. Property bounded by Alfold, Guldford and Dunsfold Roads.
23 Jun 1625

Appendix 13: Alfold Quenells

Thomas, yeoman. Probate of will 18 Nov 1635.

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Appendix 14: The Will of Thomas Quenell

The following is a transcript of the Will of Thomas Quenell which is in the possession of
Mr. J. E. Sitwell, of Killinghurst (Haslemere, Surrey, England). And is a good specimen of
the last will and testament of a substantial Surrey yeoman of the sixteenth century. The
original is written in a tolerably legible hand, the writer being, as the document states,
Richard Haredonne, a cousin of Thomas Quenell.

Amongst the long list of items contained in the will are some of considerable importance
to local history; the acquisition by the Quenells of the manor of South Imbhams, for
instance; also of several small holdings, survivals of ancient divisions of land, which
marked the gradual development of the English farm into its present state. Other items
throw a light on the plan of the house and on the farm stock with details such as
descriptions of horses and cattle and even the name of the cow, "Lusty". There are also
many words and expressions which are of interest. And though nothing is said about an
iron furnace, it is significant that Thomas Quenell had purchased a plot from a Mr. Covert
adjoining land, with a water-course, called Rovis. From its position this is evidently what
is now Imbhams pond, which formerly supplied the furnace of the forge which Viscount
Montagu of Cowdray had started on leasehold land at the south corner of Imbhams Farm.
Thomas Quenell farmed the tithes310 of the “parsonage of Hasilmore (present day
Haslemere)," who’s curate, Richard Crampe, is mentioned in the Will.

Thomas Quenell, was the eldest of the five sons of Peter Quenell, of Lythe Hill, who died
in 1558-9. The family settled in Chiddingfold in 1480, when the head of the family was
another Peter Queynold or Quenell. The name is not common and it is fair to conjecture
that the family at Lythe Hill (not the residence of the late Mr. J. Stewart Hodgson but the
farm of that name), with its picturesque home- stead on the right of the road leading
from Haslemere to Anstead Brook, originally came from Hertfordshire, and was perhaps
directly descended from John Quyneld, who in 1373 held land in the Manor of Ware,
where his ancestors had been settled for several generations.

The burial place of the family at Chiddingfold was “against the east end of the Chancell
within the Churchyard “though unfortunately nothing remains to mark the exact spot.
Here Thomas Quenell, who had married Alice Irelond (Ireland), member of another good
yeoman family in the neighbourhood, was buried near his father.

Thomas’s brother, Robert, who succeeded him at Lythe Hill, did much to consolidate the
property and also added a wing to the east end of the house. He became an ironmaster,
working the furnace at Imbhams in succession to Lord Montagu. In 1612 he was buried
at Chiddingfold. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of George Hall of Compton. Their eldest
son, Peter, and their grandson of the same name, were perhaps the most noteworthy
members of this family. The former by marriage with Alice, daughter of Emery Cranley
(Crandley) of Wisborow, Sussex, and granddaughter and heir of Thomas Hall of Field
Place, Compton, eventually inherited the estate. It was this Peter Quenell who raised the
family from its yeoman status in about 1624 with a grant of arms, namely, azure, a cross
argent between two roses or in the chief and two fleurs-de-lis argent in the foot. His
name occurs amongst the chief landowners in Surrey, who subscribed to the loan levied
by the King in 1625, his own share being ten pounds. Later on he and his son shared in
the troubles of the Civil War. The Quenells appear to have been staunch Royalists, and as
long as they were permitted to do so, “made Gunns and shott for supply of his Majesties
stores" at Imbhams furnace. After a married life of just over fifty years the elder Peter
died in 1649-50, and was buried at Haslemere, where in the Church there is a stone to
his memory with a Latin inscription311.

His son received his education at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and afterwards held a
commission in the Royalist Army, though in the same month as the King set up his
standard at Nottingham "Captaine Quenel with his band “was compelled by the Round-

310
The right to receive tithes was granted to the English churches by King Ethelwulf in 855. Tithes were given
legal force by the Statute of Westminster of 1285
311
Possibly St Bartholomew's Parish Church Haslemere which since 1180 has stood above the town on Church
Hill from an unconsecrated chapel on the Piperham Estate to its dedication in 1363 as a church serving the
hamlet of Haslemere, within the Parish of Chiddingfold.
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heads, who appear to have been a strong party in the neighbourhood, to lay down his
arms. For his loyalty and that of his father, " Peter Quinnall, Esq. '' was at the
Restoration one of the thirty-two persons in Surrey selected as Knights of the Royal Oak,
an Order, how- ever, which for political reasons was never instituted. The value of his
estate is given at the time as six hundred pounds a year, a very good income in those
days. On his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Edmund Grey, he went to live
at Field Place where he died. He was buried "in the north part of Compton Church312
under the uppermost arch in the wall there" on May 7th, 1666, in the vault probably of
the Halls of Field Place, whose heir he was.

Peter Quenell, elder son of the above, was the last of the family at Lythe Hill. When and
to whom he sold the estate I have not been able to discover, nor do I know what became
of him beyond this, that in 1695 he is found spoken of as Captain Quynnell.

For many generations representatives of collateral branches of the family continued to

reside in the parish of Chiddingfold; some were small holders of land, others were
tradesmen, but by far the greater number filled very lowly positions. The last male
representative was George Quennell, a stone-breaker, who having carried on his vocation
till upwards of eighty years of age, was compelled to retire a few months ago to the
workhouse infirmary. It will thus be seen that the family was represented in Chiddingfold
with varying fortunes for upwards of four centuries, a reason why this brief notice should
appear by way of preface at the head of the Will of one of its members.

The Will

In the name of God Amen the third day of April AD 1571 and in the thirteenth year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and
Ireland, Defender of the Faith. I Thomas Quenell of Chiddingfold in the County of Surrey
being sick in body but of good mind and perfect remembrance (God be praised) do make
and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following first I give and
bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God my maker and his son Jesu Christe my
redeemer through whose death & passion I trust to be saved and to have a glorious and
Joyful resurrection among the number of his elect, & I will my body to be buried in the
churchyard of Chiddingfold near unto the place where my father Peter Quennell was
buried

Item - I give to the Mother Church of Winchester two pennies

Item - I give to ward of the Deacons of the body of my said parish church of Chiddingfold
six shillings eight pennies

Item - I give to the poor men’s box of my parish church of Chiddingfold aforesaid three
shillings and four pennies

Item - I give towards the Deacons of the parish church of Haslemere twenty pennies

Item - I give to the poor people of Haslemere aforesaid, twenty shillings, to be

distributed among them by John Brodefolde my brother-in-law, my cousin Richard
Haredonne and my executer within one month next after my death

Item - I will that there be given to the poor people of my said parish of Chiddingfold in
bread, drink and money the sum of forty shillings to be distributed by my executor at the
time of my burial

Item - I give & bequeath to Agnys my wife during the time of her natural life my parlour
in the west side of my house at Lyethehill which adjoins the hall there, the chamber over
the same pier, the garret above the same chamber, the loft over the hall and the kitchen
loft with free ingress, egress and regress Room and foyer in the said hall at all times and
also half the kitchen, and wood or fuel, to dress meat and drink, bake and brew, and to
do all other necessaries mete and convenient in the same kitchen at all times and half

312
Possibly St. Nicholas Church, Compton
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the new coop now standing in the said kitchen with free ingress, egress and regress into
the same kitchen at all times and also all my old stable which adjoins to the west side of
my house, the west end of my barn to have hay or straw in, and half the rest of my barn,
and also the upper gates for her cattle.

Item - I give to the said Agnys my wife all my garden which adjoins the east side of my
said house and all my orchard which adjoins to the said garden on the south side of my
said house from the new pale that adjoins the said garden on the eastside unto the home
field on the west side and extends from the said house on the north side unto the little
mead on the south side To have and to hold all the said garden and orchard unto the said
Agnys and her assignees enduring the time of her natural life. And after the death of the
said Agnys, my wife, I will that all the said pier313, chambers, lofts, garret314 hall kitchen,
Coop, stable, barn, gates and garden and orchard aforesaid shall remain wholly unto
Robert Quennell my brother and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten for ever

Item - I give and bequeath unto the said Agnys my wife during the time of her natural
life (without destruction and waste) all my lands called Anstrood and Anstrood fields with
all and singular rents, profits and commodities of the same with one barn thereon which
some-time was the land of one Mr. Denham as by evidences thereof made unto me from
one Mr. Covert may appear. Also I give and bequeath unto the said Agnys my wife all
that my one piece of land called Rovis315 with all and singular the appurtenances. And
also one close of ground with the watercourse which I bought of the said Mr. Covert
adjoining to the said land called Rovis enduring the time of her natural life without
stype316 and waste by yielding and paying therefore yearly enduring her said natural life
unto the said Robert Quennell his heirs or assignees six shillings eight pennies of good
and lawful money of England at two feasts and terms in the year most visual by even
portions. And if of fortune the said Annual Rent of six shillings and eight pennies or any
part thereof to be behind and not paid by the space of sixteen days after any of the
feasts in which it ought to be paid The same being lawfully asked or demanded of the
said Agnys or her assignees.

That then it shall be lawful to and for the said Robert his heirs & assignees into the said
lands called Rovis and the said close thereunto adjoining (which I bought of Mr. Covert as
aforesaid) to enter and distrain317; and the distress so taken lawfully to bear, lead, drive,
and carry away, impeach and impound And the same to withhold & detain until the said
Annual Rent of six shillings and eight pennies & any part thereof be unto the said Robert
his heirs and assignees fully satisfied contented and paid, And after the death of the said
Agnys my wife I will that all the said Land called Anstroode & Anstroode fields with all
and singular Rents, profits and commodities of the same & barn The said lands called
Rovis with all and singular the appurtenance and the said close of land with the
watercourse which I bought of the said Mr. Covert shall also Remain wholly unto the said
Robert Quennell, my brother, and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten for ever

Item - I give & bequeath unto the said Agnys my wife during her said natural life
(without stype and waste) all those my lands called Padbrooke with all and singular the
appurtenance which I hold of the said Mr. Covert of Hascombe. Also I will that the said
Agnys my wife shall have hold occupy and enjoyed during the time of her natural life
without destruction and waste all my moytie318 part and equal portion of the manor of
South Imbham with all the appurtenance and commodities thereunto belonging together
with all Rents, service, issues, fines, amercyaments319 ward heryote prerequisite of
courts and court baron to the said moytie part and equally belonging or in any wise
appertaining. And that in as large and ample man and form in every thing and condition
as she the said Agnys is joined purchaser with me in the same. And after the death of
the said Agnys my wife I will that the said lands called Padbrooke with all and singular

313
Abutment of masonry which projects from the fireplace with recesses either side of it
314
A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.
315
Not Rovis or Rovehurst near Ramsnest Common, but 40 acres of land on that portion of Imbhams farm
which is in the parish of Chiddingfold.
316
Destruction
317
to seize and hold (property) to compel payment or reparation, as of debts
318
Half
319
Exceeds the value of
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the appurtenance320 and all my moytie part and purparty of South Imbham with all the
appurtenance and commodities to her unto belonging together with all rents, services,
issues, ward, heryote, escheat321, prerequisite of courts and court baron to the said
moytie part and purparty belonging or in anywise appertaining shall also remain wholly
unto the said Robert Quennell, my brother and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten
for ever And if it shall fortune the said Agnys my wife to marry at any time during her
natural life then I will that my said wife shall let (the said pier, chambers, lofts, orchard
and garden aforesaid, The said lands called Anstroode, The Lands called Rovis which the
said close of land and watercourse that I brought of Mr. Coverte together with all the said
Lands called Padbrooke and also the said moytie part and purparty of the manor of South
Imbham with all and singular the appurtenance, commodities, rents, services, issues,
fines, amercyaments, wards, heryote escheat prerequisites of courts and court baron to
the same belonging) to fermes322 unto the said Robert Quennell my brother & his heirs or
assignees for so much Annual or yearly rent unto the said Agnys or her assignees to be
paid enduring the natural life of her the said Agnys as shall be thought meet by my
overseers and two other friends of my said wife whom she will chose

Item - I give & bequeath unto Peter Quennell my brother all those my lands in
Chiddinfold called Harwells the Leecrofte and Harwels meade323 To have and to hold all
the said lands called Harwells, the Leecrofte and Harwels meade unto the said Peter
Quennell his heirs and assignees for ever more except and always reserved unto my said
brother Robert Quennell and to his heirs for ever two reasonable loads of indifferent hay
out of the said meade called Harwels Meade to be yearly perceived324, mowed, made and
carried by the said Robert Quennell or his heirs within seven nights after the feast of St.
John the Baptist for evermore So that he bears and pays all men of Rents and service
issuing out of all the same premises for ever and thereof acquit, exonerate and say
harmless the said Peter Quennell his heirs and assignees for evermore

Item - I give and bequeath unto the said Robert Quennell my brother and to the heirs of
his body lawfully begotten for ever all that my meswage325 called Lyeth Hill in
Chiddingfold aforesaid with all and singular lands tenements services rents reversions
and heredytaments326 with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging And
also all other my lands tenements meadows pastures feedings reversions & commons
with all and singular the appurtenances together with all rents, services, issues, fines,
amercyaments, prerequisites of courts and court baron whatsoever I have within the
County of Surrey The Right Title and estate of the said Agnys my wife of and in the
premises unto her given & bequeathed in this my last will and testament for term of her
natural life always forprised327 and excepted and also except and always reserved unto
the said Peter Quennell my brother the said lands called Harwels the Leecrofte and
Harwels meade to him and to his heirs for evermore except the said two loads of hay
before excepted unto my said brother Robert Quennell and his heirs under the condition
aforesaid onto of the said meadow called Harwels meade And if it fortune the said Robert
Quennell my brother to die without heirs of his body lawfully begotten Then I will that all
the said meswage called Lythe Hill with all and singular lands, tenements, services, rents
reversions and heredytaments with all and singular the appurtenants there unto
belonging and all other my lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, reversions
and commons with all and singular the appurtenance together with all rents, services,
issue, fines, amercyaments, prerequisites of courts and court baron whatsoever I have
within the said County of Surrey shall remain wholly unto my brother John Quennell
(except before excepted) and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten for ever And for
default of such issue of his body lawfully begotten I will that all my said Lands,
tenements, rents, reversions and heredytaments with all and singular the appurtenance
before specified in my said last will and testament (except before excepted unto the said
Agnys my wife) shall remain wholly unto the Rights heirs of me the said Thomas
Queunell and their heirs for evermore

320
A right, privilege, or improvement belonging to and passing with a principal property
321
A common law doctrine that operates to ensure that property is not left in limbo and ownerless
322
Collected duties to owed to the Crown
323
Meadow
324
Received
325
Place or tenement
326
Any kind of property that can be inherited
327
Excluded
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Item - I give and bequeath unto my said brother John Quennell ten pounds (of the
current money of England) and one cow to be paid & delivered to him or his assignees
within three years next after my death

Item - I will that Richard Hardonne, my cousin shall be guardian and have the custody of
my said brother Peter Quenell and also have the tenure, occupation and Receive the Rent
of all his lands tenements & heredytaments whatsoever until the said Peter shall
accomplish his full age of twenty and four years and then at that age of twenty four to
render any accompte328 thereof unto him

Item - I give and bequeath unto Catharyn Quennell my sister six pounds thirteen
shillings and four pence to be paid and delivered to her within three years after my death

Item - I give and bequeath to Elynor Quennell, my cousin, two ewes to be delivered to
her within one year next after my death And six pounds thirteen shillings and four
pennies to be paid to her at the day of her marriage And I will that she continue until the
time of her marriage in service with Agnys my wife

Item - I give to Robert Page my servant one cow to be delivered to him within one month
next after my death and six pounds thirteen shillings and four pennies to be paid to him
within one year next after my death

Item - I give to William Wodier, my servant ,one heifer bullock of the age of three years
such as one as my supervisors will appoint to be delivered within one month next after
my death

Item - I give to William Allyn, my servant, three ewe tegge329 to be delivered to him
within two months next after my death

Item - I give to Agnys Todman my servant one heifer bullock of two years old to be
delivered within seven years next after my death

Item - I give to John Ireland my wives brother one ewe of two years old to be delivered
to him within one month after my death

Item - I give to Thomas Brodefolde and John Brodefolde my Sister Brodefold’s children
seven ewes and wethers330 shipe331 which are in keeping with one Mr. Lussher of
Hyndehed in the Parish of Thurseley for ten years And also I will that the said Thomas
and John shall also have my obligation thereof made and the keeping of the said shipe all
the term of years composed in the said obligation

Item - I give to every one of my godchildren twelve shillings that will require to have the
same

Item - I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Brodefolde, my Sister (if she fortune to Survive
and over live John Brodefolde her husband) one Annual pension of twenty shillings by the
year to begin and be paid from and after the death of her said husband during her
natural life by my executor his executors or assignees at two feasts and terms in the
year most visual by even portions

Item - I give and bequeath to the said Agnys my wife Six of my best keene332 (except
one cow named Lustye) four heifers whereof one black with a white star in the forehead,
one Red with a white back, one other Red with a chynned333 face and one brown with a
white face Also I give to the said Agnys, my wife, six of my best oxen with yokes and

328
Refers to a deposit, down payment, or instalment
329
A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing
330
A castrated ram
331
A productive, non-combinative suffix forming abstract nouns from other nouns – friendship(e). In this
instance probably implies ward ship or care
332
Noun for cows
333
With a narrow strip of white on the face
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chains meet for them my new wollen wheles334 my young bay Amblynge335 mare, my
black Amblynge mare with a white star in the forehead two stears now going in
Anstroode the one having a brended336 face and the other being a vellow stear with white
face, one brown heifer going with the said two stars in persaid ground of Anstroode and
one other heifer of cooler Red with a star in the forehead

Item - I give to the said Agnys my wife twelve of my best ewes and twelve Lambs, my
five hogs of one sort being about two years old at Michaelmas last, two Red hogs going
among my wild hogs and half my wheat and Rye that I have now growing on the ground
and also half my oats that I have now growing on the ground (except all the oats now
growing in the two Snow fields)

Item - I give to the said Agnys my wife one acre of grass in the Hearnelonde which I
bought of one William Wakeforde for this one year To be mown made and carried away
within a fortnight after midsummer next (if the said Wakeforde have no cattle going
therein this spring time but if his cattle eat it this spring Then the said Agnys to cause
the same to be made mown & carried at some seasonable time after midsummer as the
said Wakeforde and she can agree therefore), and my said wife to pay him in money
twelve pennies at the carrying away of the said hay which I owe him Also I give to the
said Agnys my wife all my poultry whatsoever, my three best beds with bolsters, pillows
and pillow cases belonging to them, my best bedstead (except one) all my sheets (except
three pairs of canvas sheets) all my best blankets (except one pair), my three best
coverlets & one Quilt, all my pewter vessels, (except five pewter platters, two pewter
dishes and one basin which were my father’s), my best and my least two candlesticks,
my best brass pots, my best and my least two kettles, and my kettle which was bound
with iron by Hewghe the Smithy, my posnet337 of brass bells, my least Skyllet338 of brass,
and the occupation of my Caldron as often as she shall have need, so long time as she
shall be dwelling at Lythe Hill aforesaid and also half of all my of my wooden vessels to
be equally divided (except my best vate339 and my best kyfe340)

Item - I give to the said Agnys my wife half my bacon at the beam (except the two
greatest flytches341 and the two least flytches), half my Lard and grease, two of the best
flytches of dried beef, two of my best table clothes, two of my best towels, half of all my
table napkins, one dozen of my best spoons, my three best stone cups, my best chest
which I now have to my self, and all the residue of my coffers (except the best of them)
which coffer is now in the tenure of my said wife and also Six pounds in money which
remains in the hands of one William Bonyngefolde of Darkinge

Item - I give and bequeath unto the said Agnys my wife and my brother Brodefolde all
that my moytie or half of all the tithes, commodities, profits, emoluments, offerings, and
advantage of the personage of Hasilmore which I have in form of one Richard Crampe342,
person there, until Michaelmas next after the date hereof, to be equally divided between
them And I will that they shall pay the said person his wage according to the purpose of
a bill made thereof by the said person unto me so that my said brother Brodefolde will at
his own costs thresh all the Rye to them before given, and suffer my said wife to have all
the Rye straw to her own use, and also that my said brother Robert Quennell may have
all the oat straw for the threshing of the oats

Item - I give and bequeath to my said brother Robert Quennell one hundred of the best
oaks of which one oak is already felled that are standing, growing & being in and upon
the manor of South Imbham which oaks I bought of one Robert Coop & of Henry
Brodefolde, as may appear by Indentures thereof made

334
Wool wheels – for spinning yarn
335
Gentile, a superior, better-bred animal, an easy-gaited, gentle and pleasant-mannered horse
336
Brindled or streaked
337
A little pot
338
A small pot with a long handle
339
From the Middle Dutch for cases
340
Or keeve : a large tub or vessel used in brewing
341
Side of bacon
342
Curate of Halsemere
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Item - I give and bequeath to Anne Wodyer vidue343 my best barren cow (of five) except
two to be delivered to her within one month next after my death. The Residue of all my
goods, chattels and chattels moveable’s and immovable’s not given nor bequeathed in
this my last will and testament my debts and legacies being performed and paid and my
funeral ended in such manner and form as is before specified I give and bequeath unto
Robert Quennell my said brother whom I make my sole whole and full executor of this
my last will and testament And I ordain, constitute and appoint Richard Haredonne, my
cousin, and George Wakeforde of Gretham, my supervisors of this my last will and
testament to see this my last will performed and kept by my said executors according to
the true meaning thereof And I give unto the said Richard Haredonne for his pains in and
absolute the execution of the premises twenty eight shillings and eight pennies and to
the said George for his travail and pains in and absolute the same twenty shillings. And
thus I make an end of this my last will and testament In witnesses whereof I the said
Thomas Quennell unto the same have subscribed my mark with mine own hand and also
have put my Seale the day and year above written In the Presence of John Brodefolde,
Walter Gace, Robert Philippe, Robert Page and Richard Haredonne the writer hereof.

Part of a seal attached bearing the effigy of St. Andrew. Proved in the Court of the
Archdeaconry of Surrey, 22 August 1571.

Original Middle English version transcribed by Rev. T S COOPER, M.A., F.S.A, Surrey
Archaeological Collections, 1900. Pub. Surrey Archaeological Society

Notes:
• Though the general content of the text transcribed by Rev. Cooper remains the
English syntax in use in 1900 has also been updated in parts to provide a clearer
understanding of the text
• Additional footnotes to the text have been added where Rev. Cooper did not
provide explanations of some Middle English terms

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Appendix 15: Transcription of - A note what arms every man hath laid downe
out of Captaine Queanels band. August 1642344

Godalmin345
Corsletts/346
Joshua Taught whole armes
George Taught whole armes
John Perryer no armes
John French whole armes
Robert Chandler no armes
Henry Chitty347 no armes
Nathaniel Wepham348 whole armes
Thomas Woods no armes
Musquetteeres/349
John Chittye350 no armes
William Smith whole armes except sworde and headpoote351
Henry Denyer352 whole armes except a headpoote
John Hooke whole armes
Laurence Keene whole arms except a headpoote
Thomas Michanell353 whole armes

Francomb354
1 Common Corslet/
Henry Bowler355 whole armes
Musqetteers/
1 Common Musquetteer
John Plonker whole armes
John Page whole armes except sword and headpoote

Binscomb356
Richard Hammond whole armes except a sword
Robert Champion whole armes except a headpoote

Catshall357
1 Common Corslet
Andrew Weylie358 whole armes except a sword

Eshinge359
2 Common Corslets
Thomas Farming whole armes except a sword
Joshua Keene360 whole armes
Richard Browne whole armes except a headpoote

Hambledon361
Musqetteers/

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6729/4/174 Losely Collection. Historical Correspondence. August 1642. Surrey History Centre
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Godalming, Surrey
346
Corselets: Armour worn by pikemen; breast and back plate and usually armed with a pike or bill (hooked
chopping blade with several pointed projections mounted on a staff)
347
Alias Bocher. Anna, his wife
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Hills Garden, Godalming
349
Musketeers: Didn’t usually wear armour. If they were mounted on horse back, as some of these men
undoubtedly were, they would be classed as dragoons
350
Aka Chittie, Blacksmith
351
Head pot: Pot helmet
352
Of Thursley, Godalming. Husbandman
353
Michenall, Michener. Born 10 March 1610 in Ash
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Farncombe, near Losley Park, Surrey
355
Clothier
356
Near Compton, Surrey
357
Catteshill/Catteshall near Godalming
358
Weylie
359
Eashing, parish of Godalming, Surrey
360
Carpenter
361
Village near Godalming, Surrey
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John Jackman whole armes except a sword
John Thawyer whole armes except sword and headpoote
Jeremy Coale whole armes

Compton
1 Common Corslet
Richard Snellinge362 whole armes except sword and headpoote

Shackleford363
2 common Musqets Default/
Musquets
William Billinghurst364 whole armes

Hartmore365
George Chitty366 whole armes except a sword

Artington367
John Maybank whole armes except a headpoote
Robert Palmer368 whole armes except a sword
Musquet
John Peto369 whole armes except a headpoote

Tewsly370
Musquet
Martin Passingham whole armes except sword and headpoote

Laborne371
Common Musquet
Thomas Callingham372 whole armes
Thomas Nickland whole armes except sword and headpoote
Thomas Corson whole armes except a sword

Pepperharrow373
Common Corslet
John Lucas whole armes except a sword

Puttenham374
John Hart whole armes
Richard Bicknoll375 whole armes except sword and headpoote
Hugh Moth376 whole armes except sword and headpoote
Richard Tice377 whole armes except a headpoote
Richard Bicknoll jun. whole armes

Worplesdon
Corslets/
John Underwood whole armes
Thomas Coxe whole armes

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Blacksmith
363
Godalming One Hundred
364
Of Mitchen/Michen Hall, Shackleford. Married to Emma
365
Hurtmore/Hertmere, Godalming
366
Husbandman and butcher
367
Aka Ertington. Now a part of Guildford on the river Wey where there used to be a mill
368
Of Littleton, Artington. Husbandman. Possibly the owner of the King’s Arms in Haslemere in 1636
369
Peyto(e)
370
One of the nine ancient tithings of Godalming
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One of the nine ancient tithings of Godalming
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land at Beales Grove, Balhams Hatch, the Hangers, Artington
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Peper Harrow, Surrey. Old English Pipers Hearg meaning Pagan Temple. Privately owned village with
restricted access
374
Godalming One Hundred
375
Bignell?
376
Tailor
377
Yeoman. Rodsell Farm, Hardinges, closes called Red Wheatefurlonge and Hascombes Close, all in Puttenham
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Thomas Hendy whole armes except a sword
Robert Kinge whole armes
Musquetts/
Robert Kinge whole armes except a sword
Thomas Curtis whole armes
William Crabbe whole armes except sword and headpoote
Richard Baker378 whole armes except a sword
Henry Lowland whole armes except a headpoote
Thomas Lowland whole armes except a sword
William Banister whole armes

Wanburrow/379
Corslet
Osdwall Stanton whole armes except a sword

Ash
Henry Faggatter380 whole armes except a headpoote
Thomas Choft whole armes
John Remnant381 whole armes except a headpoote
Richard Heather382 whole armes
Musquet
Thomas Remnant383 whole armes except a sword

Purbright384
Corslets/
Richard Wood whole armes
John Faggatter whole armes except a headpoote
Musquetts/
William Collings whole armes except a sword
George Lee385 whole armes except a sword

Frimly386
Musquets/
Bartholomew King whole armes
Robert Watts387 whole armes except sword and headpoote
Corsletts/
Robert Knight whole armes except sword and headpoote
John Hall whole armes except sword and headpoote
John Coxwhole whole armes except a headpoote

Windlesham and Bagshot388

Coursletts/
John Atfield whole armes except a sword
Thomas Chuter whole armes except a sword
John Atfield whole armes
Musquetts/
Thomas Webb whole armes except a headpoote
John Salter whole armes except a sword
Thomas Hart389 whole armes except a sword and headpoote

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Yeoman
379
Wanborough
380
Wife Wilsifer Page married 30 January 1653, children with dates of baptism: Ambrose (M) 30 Oct 1664,
Charity (F) 10 Nov 1656, Amy (F) 6 Dec 1672, Henry (M) 19 Sep 1658, James (M) 6 Mar 1666, Jane (F) 10
Nov 1654
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Richard Remnant, a brickmaker, of Compton, Surrey is mentioned in connection with Peter Quynell junior,
gentleman of Compton. John, son of Thomas of Normandy, Ash
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Property called Mitcheners, Wells Lane opposite the Anchor
383
Thomas Remnant of Normandy, Ash. Father of John Remnant of Normandy, Ash (see above)
384
Pirbright
385
Yeoman
386
Frimley. Saxon Fremma's Lea, which means "Fremma's clearing"
387
Yeoman
388
Bagshot Lodge was designed by Inigo Jones for Charles I and it was here in 1635 that he signed the warrant creating the
Royal Mail
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Authors note:

Dates of birth and death are notoriously difficult to pin down and their accuracy
deteriorates as research progresses further into the past. The sequence of generations is
correct and is verified by research sources though some adjustment to the dates of birth
and death have been made based on such things as legal documents, court hearings,
undergraduate admissions, marriage dates, child bearing age, etc., etc.

In the Monument Room at Guildford is the Quennell family tree. In Surrey Archaeological
Collections, Volume X there is a Quennell pedigree in the article "The Visitation of Surrey
made approximately 1623 by Samuell Thomson et al" edited by Joseph Jackson Howard.

Additional References:

The Patent Rolls (Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium, Rotuli litterarum patentium) are
primary sources for English history, a record of the King of England's correspondence,
starting in 1202. The record the letters patent, or royal letters issued unsealed, and were
started under the Chancellorship of Hubert Walter. This was during the reign of King John
of England, and the patent roll was started in order to keep track of letters that had been
issued by the government. Instead of keeping the records in a register or book form,
they were written on sheets which were stitched together into long rolls to form a roll for
each year. Saul, Nigel A Companion to Medieval England 1066–1485 Stroud: Tempus
2000 ISBN 0-7524-2969-8 p. 116

List of famines and pestilences in England to 1894. http://www.fraser-courtman.co.uk

A Timeline of English History. http://www.localhistories.org/timeline.html

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Gentleman
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 Author’s relationship with the Quennells

Trevor Skingle 1957

↓
Victor Skingle 1928-1995
↓
Violet Jales 1907-1991
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Uncle Henry William Jales 1876-1957
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Mother in Law Eliza Jane Ellis 1856-1906
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Mother in Law Ellen Melville 1822-1907
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Brother William Melville 1828-1905
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Wife Eliza Dodson 1833-1914
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Mother Eliza Crandley 1809-1866
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Father James Crandley 1722-1838
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Father Thomas Crandley 1736-
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Father Thomas Crandley 1713-1763
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Father Thomas Crandley 1685-1742
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Father Thomas Crandley 1664-1710
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Father John Crandley 1635-1695
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Father Thomas Crandley 1597-
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Brother Emery Crandley 1596- married Unknown Hall, sister of Elizabeth Hall wife of
Robert Quenell 1540-1612 and father of Peter Quennell 1580-1650
↓
Alyce Crandley 1567-1599 married Peter Quennell 1580-1650 in 1598
And then her sister Elizabeth Crandley -1631 married the same in 1602

Some Quennells settled in Ireland390, possibly a John Hilyard Quennell in the 19th
century391

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Miss Eileen Quinnell, Kerry, Ireland
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Courtesy of Sir Edward Fennessy, Surrey
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Area Map (Google Maps)

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