| EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS | |||||
| Eleanor or Elizabeth Belknap (1452-1517): married Philip Cooke (1454-1497) | |||||
| Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of materials on the Cooke family into which a branch of the Belknap family married. | |||||
| Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about this family: | |||||
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| Chancery Records (UK National Archives) | |||||
| Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515 | |||||
| ▪ | John, son and heir of Philip Cooke, knight, son of Thomas Cooke, knight. v. Alice Trewthale, prioress of Great St. Helens.: Refusal to grant a new lease of houses in place of an old one surrendered by the said Philip.: London. | 1486-1493, or 1504-1515 | C 1/126/7 | ||
| Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary | |||||
| ▪ | Philip Coke, esquire, son and heir of Sir Thomas Coke, knight. v. Thomas Fulsnap, of Hadley, clothman.: A bond entered into by the late Sir Thomas, now in possession of Sir Robert Bradow, chaplain.: Suffolk. | 1465-1471, or perhaps 1480-1483 | C 1/37/19 | ||
| ▪ | Philip Cook, son of Thomas Cook, knight, and Elizabeth, his wife. v. George, son of Thomas, brother of Sir Ralph Joslen, knight, deceased.: Manor of Chaldwell, and houses and land in London and Southwark, late of Philip Malpas, of London, merchant.: Essex, London, Surrey. | 1475-1480, or 1483-1485 | C 1/58/111 | ||
| ▪ | Philip Coke, son, heir and executor of Sir Thomas Coke, late of London, knight, customer at Southampton. v. Sir John Asteley, knight: Action brought by the said Sir John Asteley for arrears of an annuity granted to him by Henry VI. out of the customs of Southampton.: Hants. | 1475-1485 | C 1/60/88 | ||
| ▪ | John Foster, esquire v. Philip Coke, esquire, son and executor of Thomas Coke, knight.: Money matters. | 1486 | C 1/80/33 | ||
| ▪ | Beatrice Corneburgh, widow. v. Philip Coke: Plaint of debt by defendant in the court of Romford.: Essex. | 1486-1493 | C 1/87/50 | ||
| ▪ | Edward WOTON, knight, Mary DANETT and Anthony COKE, esquire, son and heir of John Coke, v. John BRUGGE and Alice his wife, late the wife of Edward Belknap, knight.: Portions of the manor of Dorset (i.e. Burton or Avon Dassett) not bequeathed to the said Alice.: WARWICK. | 1538-1544 | C 1/1087/51 | ||
| ▪ | Edward WOTON, knight, Mary DANETT and Anthony COKE, esquire, son and heir of John Coke, v. John BRUGGE and Alice his wife, late the wife of Edward Belknap, knight.: Manor of Weston-under-Weatherley, late of the said Sir Edward Belknap, brother of the said Mary and uncle of the said Sir Edward Woton and John Coke.: WARWICK. | 1538-1544 | 1/1087/49-50 | ||
| Lincolnshire Archives | |||||
| ▪ | Manuscripts of the Earl of
Ancaster [2ANC]: FILE - Counterpart indenture of bargain and sale. Contents: Chas., Duke of Suffolk, to Sir Edward Wotton, Mary Danett, widow of Gerard Danett esq., and Anthony Cooke, esq. Property: manor of Stockingford, co. Warwick and the parsonages and advowsons of Dorsett Magna and Weston Underwetheley, parcel of the late monastery of Erbury. Consideration: £1050 10s. Signatures and seals of purchasers (Mrs Danett by attorney). |
14 Dec 1542 | 2ANC3/B/20 | ||
| Visitation Records | |||||
| ▪ | The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634. To Which are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts: and an Appendix Containing Berry's Essex Pedigrees, part I, pp. 39-40 | http://www.bel | |||
| ▪ | The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634. To Which are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts: and an Appendix Containing Berry's Essex Pedigrees, part II, pp. 563-65. "Cooke" | http://www.bel | |||
| ▪ | Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19 (1887), p. 79. "Cecil, Earl of Exeter" | http://www.bel | |||
| ▪ | Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19 (1887), p. 88. "FitzWilliam of Clapthorne" | http://www.bel | |||
| Land Holdings/Other | |||||
| ▪ | "Romford," The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 183-203 | http://www.briti | |||
| ▪ | "Parish: Burton Dassett," A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 69-77 | http://www.briti | |||
| ▪ | "Parish: Weston-under-Wetherley," A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 6, pp. 251-55 (1951) | http://www.briti | |||
| ▪ | "Parish: Bubbenhall," A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 6, pp. 46-48 (1951) | http://www.briti | |||
| ▪ | "Parish: Nursling," A History of the County of Hampshire, Victoria County History, vol. 3 (1908), pp. 433-439 | http://www.briti | |||
| ▪ | "Borough of Nuneaton," A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 4: Hemlingford Hundred (1947), pp. 165-73 | http://www.briti | |||
| Web Links | |||||
| ▪ | Stirnet: Cooke | http://www.stir | |||
| ▪ | Tudor Place: Cooke | http://www.tud | |||
| Parents | |||||
| ▪ | Sir Henry Belknap (about 1420-1488) | ||||
| ▪ | Margaret Knollys (1432-1488) | ||||
| Photographs and Images | |||||
| ▪ | Cooke Family | ||||
| Last update: 26 Oct 2007 | |||||
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