ii s. iv. AUG. 5, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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Berkeley " (1525). There were also bequests
to Nicholas Arnold 40s., to Richard Arnold
5li., to Margaret Denys 40s.
John Arnold was granted an annuity of 40s., for the term of his life, for performing the office of steward of the manor of West- bury (on Severn, Gloucestershire), by John Baynham, by deed dated 5 Feb., 17 Hen. VIII (1526). See Trans. Bris. and Glouc. Archceo- log. Soc., vi. 133.
'The Cartulary of Flaxley Abbey,' by A. W. Crawley-Boevey, quotes from ' Valor Ecclesiasticus ' of Hen. VIII. under the heads of the various manors belonging to the abbey :
" Flaxley. Valet clare in redd' et firm' unacu al' casual' ib'm per annu ultra 53s. 4d., solut' pro feod' Johls Arnold armigeri capit'li sen omi' terr' et ten't' pred'co monasterio pertin' . . . . "
Smyth in ' Lives of the Berkeleys,' vol. ii. p. 186, says :
" The said Margaret Denis, an other daughter of the said Anne Berkeley and of Sir William Denis her husband, was in the 20th of Henry the 8th marryed to Sir Nicholas Arnold son and heire of John Arnold, to whom her uncle Thomas lord Berkeley, the fifth, by his will gave two hundred marks to her marriage ; who had issue Rowland Arnold, who by Mary his wife daughter of John Brydges created lord Chandois, had issue Dorothy marryed to Sir Thomas Lucy, who had issue Joyce maryed to Sir William Cooke Knight, whom Henry lord Berkeley made one of his executors in trust."
On 4 Sept., 1538, John Arnold, Esq., and two others were granted the next presenta- tion to the chantry of St. James or St. Anne, in the churchyard of Newent, by the Prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. Bartho- lomew, Gloucester (Glouc. dioc. rec. in MS.).
By his will (dated 26 March, 1537, proved 22 June, 1538) Sir Richard Skidmore, parson of the parish church of Rudford, Gloucestershire, bequeathed to "Mr. Arnold, esquire, a pair of organce called porty- tudes " (Reg. Cranmer, fo. 104a, at Lambeth Palace). He also bequeathed " a pair of portytudes " to Sir Philip Oxen ford, monk. I should be glad to know what these instru- ments were.
A record in the Worcester Diocesan Registry, undated, but 'probably of Decem- ber, 1540, gives a list of the 21 " stipendary prists of the Kyngs College of the towne of Glouceter," commencing with " Syr William Jenyns wa[r]den .and stipendary there." Each name is followed by the words " payd bie Mr. John Arnold." Arnold was the King's receiver for the possessions of the dissolved monastery of St. Peter, which accounts for his paying the " stipendaries " during the interval between the surrender, and the foundation of the cathedral church, diocese, and city of Gloucester, by the charter of 3 Sept., 33 Hen. VIII. (1541). His accounts are in the P.R.O.
In 'Suppression of Monasteries' is a letter (p. 236) from the King's Commissioners in the West, John Arnold being one, report- ing on 4 Jan., 1539/40, that they had taken the surrender of St. Peter of Gloucester, Hayles, and Winchcombe.
Atkyns in his ‘Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire,' 1712, under Churcham, says:
"The manors of Highnam and Over and divers messuages and lands with the tithes thereof lying in Churcham, all which did formerly belong to the abbey of Gloucester, were granted to John Arnold of Monmouthshire, esq., 33 Hen. VIII. who died 37 Hen. VIII., and livery of this manor [sic] was granted the same year to sir Nicholas Arnold, son of John. He married Margaret daughter of sir William Dennys of Dyrham, and was succeeded by Rowland Arnold his son, who married Mary daughter of John Brydges, lord Chandos, and left an only daughter and heiress married to Thomas Lucy, son of sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecot, in Warwickshire. Thomas Lucy likewise left an only daughter married to sir William Cook. . . .By this marriage sir William Cook had the manor of Highnam and died seised thereof 1618."
He also mentions an inscription in the church which is given with more details in Bigland, as follows :
'A small tablet of stone inlaid and bordured with alabaster, sculptured with devices and arms as follows : On four escutcheons : 1. Gules, on a fess between three billets argent, three lions passant guardant purpure, for Oldisworth ; impaling, gules, five marlions’ wings in saltire argent, for Porter. 2. Porter ; impaling, gules, a chevron ermine, between three pheons or, for Arnold. 3. Arnold, impaling, or, a chevron between three cinquefoils azure, on a chief gules, a griffin passant ermine, for Hawkins. 4. as the first."
The inscription runs :
"Here lye buried near this place the bodies of Edward Oldisworth, Esq., and Tace his wife dowghter of Arthur Porter, Esq., and of Alice his wife, and sister to Sir Thomas Porter, Knight, which Alice was dowghter of John Arnold Esq., and of Isabel his wife, and sister to Sir Nicholas Arnold, Knight, which Isabel was the daughter of William Hawkins, Esquier, the said John, isabel, and Sir Nicholas, being also interred in this church. The said Edward departed this ife the 8th day of August, 1570 ; and the said Tacey the 8th day of June, 1576, having had Between them five children ; wherof two sonnes, Arnold and Thomas, and three daughters, Mar- garet, Anne, and Dorothy, of whom only Anne died yonge, in the life of her parents."
Atkyns says that Thomas Luci, Esq., was in 1712 the tenant of the manor of Rudford, by lease from the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester.
