Title:
Copy of inquisition, 30 December 1662
Level: Category
Charity records
Level: Fonds
NEWPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LATER JOYCE FRANKLAND ACADEMY, NEWPORT
Level: Sub-Fonds
SCHOOL RECORDS
Scope and Content:
Inquisition taken at Gresham College in the City of London under commission dated 20 March 1662.

Jurors state that Joyce Franckland, late of the Rye in parish of Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire, widow, was seized of a certain portion of the tithes of Banstead, Surrey, and of 2 messuages in Distaff Lane in St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London (tenants named), and of 2 little houses in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. By her will, dated 20 February 1586/7, Joyce Franckland bequeathed premises to Jeoffrey Nightingale, esquire, Richard Stanes, John Langham and John Aldrich alias Bedell, inhabitants of Newport, and to Dr Legge, master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on trust to establish school [for details, see abstract of will in Charity Commissioners Reports, pp. 562-563].

Joyce Franckland died seized of premises in Distaff Lane, subsequently conveyed to Sir Thomas Nightingale senior, Henry Rookes senior., John Stanes senior, Robert Nightingale esquire, Peter Wykes, William Harris and Matthew Nightingale. By indenture of 24 October 1634 they leased one of the messuages, being then much in decay and part fallen, to Gabriel Benyon, citizen and tallow chandler of London, for 43 years at £14 per year, being then of the yearly value of £20; house rebuilt by Benyon as 3 tenements at a cost of £350, raising its yearly value to £42. Same trustees, by indenture dated 22 October 1634, leased other messuage for 40 years at £8 per year to Richard Lee, who assigned lease, 16 January 1657/8, to Francis Barker.

Bill exhibited in Court of Chancery by Robert Brady, Doctor of Physick and Thomas Edwards, Doctor of Laws, answered by Jeoffrey Nightingale esquire, Henry Rookes and John Stanes, reciting lease by trustees, 1653, of Gabriel Benyon's 2 houses to Jeremy Wooley, schoolmaster of Newport, for 21 years commencing on expiration of Benyon's lease, reserving £16 per year.