Humphrie Purefoy Esq. (1555 - 1598)

Born 1555 in England

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Died 1598 at about age 43 in Barwell, Leicestershire, England

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Biography

Humphrie Purefoy of Barwell was born about 1555, possible in Warwickshire, England and died in 1598, Barwell, Leicestershire, England.

He graduated from Cambridge University ^[1]

Matriculated, sizar*, from St. Nicholas’s Hostel (see map), Easter, 1544. (St. Nicholas’s Hostel was prominent among the houses of jurists, and had many eminent men among its members. It also seems to have had a reputation for rowdiness. ^[2])

Doubtless 3rd son of Michael, of Caldecote, Warwickshire.

He also had B.A. from Trinity, 1553-4. Adm. at Gray's Inn, 1556. Of Barwell, Leicestershire. Married Alice, daughter of William Faunt, of Foston.

Died 1598. Will (P.C.C.) 1598. Brother of Arthur (1555), etc. and father of Thomas (1595). (Nichols, IV. 601.)

He married Alice Faunt, daughter of William Faunt, Esq. & Jane Vincent and had issue: ^[3]

• Thomas Purefoy (no source yet if this is the Thomas who married Lucy Ransome, see below that Thomas willed book aft death in 1612 ^[4])

... All the MSS. and Collections of John Leland were given after his death, into the custody of Sir John Cheek, Tutor to the King [Henry VIII]; who not long after gave the tomes of his collection to Humphrey Purefoy, Esq, (who was at one time a member of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth, in the North Parts of England.) whose son, Thomas Purefoy of Leicestershire, giving them to William Burton of Lyndley, a cousin, after his death in 1612 ... ^[5]

He was a Justice in Leicestershire. ^[6]

His will was proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 1598 Purefey, Purefoy, Humfrey, esquire, Barwell, Leicestershire. Lewyn ^[7]

Notes:

• Sizar= At Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin, an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.

Sources

1. ↑ John Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Part III Kaile-Ryves. Page 408. (Cambridge, United Kingdom: University of Cambridge, 1924); digital image. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Alumni_Cantabrigienses_Abbas_Cutts_vol_I/-cZ1-u62c0gC?hl=en&gbpv=0).
2. ↑ 'The University of Cambridge: The Middle Ages', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge, ed. J P C Roach (London, 1959), pp. 150-166. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp150-166.
3. ↑ John Fetherston, Samson Lennard, Augustine Vincent William Camden, The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619. Page 28. (London: Harleian Society, College of Arms (Great Britain), 1870); digital image. (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044011818200).
4. ↑ John Nichols. 1782. Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer Printer, F.S.A., and of Many of His Learned Friends. Containing an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom, from the Beginning of the Present Century to the End of the Year MDCCLXXVII. Digital Image: (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biographical_and_Literary_Anecdotes_of_W/D3rPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
5. ↑ Edward Burton, The Life of John Leland (the First English Antiquary) with Extensive Notes and a Bibliography of His Works, Including Those in Ms (London: Alfred Cooper, 1896); digital image. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_John_Leland_the_First_Englis/KBY-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0).
6. ↑ Rev Charles Rogers, Transactions Of The Royal-Historical Society, Volume 6. Page 405. (Edinburgh: M. Forlane and Erckine, 1877); digital image. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Transactions_Of_The_Royal_Historical_Soc/8IVp8ElspysC?hl=en&gbpv=1).
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. England (General): Parish and Probate Records. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.[Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry Somerset House, London.]

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