Humphrey Robinson of Thicket (1579 - 1626)

Born 1579 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Pyott) Robinson — married 1605 in London, England

Descendants

Died 1626 at about age 47 in Wheldrake, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Humfry, son of John Robinson, was baptised on 1 February 1579 in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England.^[1]

1600 Nov 11 - Bond Of Rafe Harrison, citizen and clothworker, to Humfrey Robinson to pay at the "Tendringhouse" on the west side of the Royal Exchange £260 by installments. ^[2]

1602 Aug 28 - Bond of Gyle Aels and George Bolle of London, merchant strangers, to Humfrey Robinson, citizen and grocer, in a penalty of £120 to pay rent and perform covenants in a lease granted 27 Apr 1593 by Roger Owfeild, citizen and fishmonger, to Clement Buck, citizen and draper, of a garden and tenement in St. Andrew Undershaft, near Lime Street, being the most easterly of 3 tenements built by Owfield and adjoining east to a tenement in occupation of Henry Lodge towards Aldgate. The lease was assigned on 5 Feb 1602 from Buck to Robinson, and later by the latter to Peter Aels of London, merchant, and Anna Aels wife of the said George Bolle. ^[3]

1603 Mar 30 - Indenture of covenant between Humfrey Robinson, citizen and grocer, and Robert Robinson of London, merchant of the Staple, sons and executors of John Robinson, late citizen and merchant tailor, as to the execution of the latters will dated 12 Jul 1599 which is being undertaken by Robert Robinson alone. ^[4]

Humphrey married Anne Pyott in 1605 in London St Bartholomew by the Exchange, London, England.^[5]

He visited the astrologer and doctor Simon Forman on not less than 12 occasions at which time his year of birth was confirmed to be 1579.^[6]

Mentioned in the will of his father John, dated July 12, 1599. Will of John Robinson, Merchant Tailor, London Alderman

In a suit brought by eldest brother John against his siblings which disputed his inheritance , Humphrey deposed that he had been away, trading in Turkey from 1596 until after the death of John the Elder.^[7] It would seem that John's suit was unsuccessful as Humphrey retained the Thicket estate.

30 Mar 1603 - Covenant: Humfrey Robinson, grocer and Henrye Robinson, haberdasher, citizens of London, to their brother Robert Robinson of London, merchant of the staple. - For payment to him, at his house 'in Little St. Helens within Bysshops gate streate' of £535 in their hands, bequeathed by their father, John Robinson, citizen and merchant tailor of London, dec'd, by his will (12 July 1599) for division among four of his daughters children. Witn. George Hill notary public, and his servant Thomas Harris^[8]

Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth to the East India Company. Dated the 31st December, in the 43rd year of Her Reign. Anno Domini, 1600. ^[9] Includes the names of both Humphrey and his brother Henry, founding members.

Letters Patents granted to the Governor and Company of the Merchants of England, trading into the East Indies James I, 1609 ^[10]
pg 31 of document, 36 of PDF
Both Henry and Humphrey are listed.

July 6, 1609 - East India Company - 200l. of the adventure of Humphrey Robinson, grocer, in the third voyage, transferred to the account of Wm. Robinson, mercer. ^[11]

Sept. 28, 1609 — Letter read from Captain Keeling from Bantam, dated December 20, 1608, containing the whole discourse of his voyage to Bantam, and an account of the commodities sent home in the Dragon. Agreement to sell the whole of the pepper to the King; committee appointed to confer with the Lord Treasurer. Gratification of 100 marks to Edmund Scott for his extraordinary service at Bantam. Touching admission of adventurers in the first, second, and third voyages. Thos. Colthurst, apprenticed to Humphrey Robinson for nine years, unexpired, enrolled with the Company. ^[12]

1610 Dec 20 - Assignment of residue of term of lease Whereas Henry Awdley of London, gent., on 21 Feb 1544 demised to Thomas Barnes, citizen and currier a corner tenement then inhabited by Allen Bignall, in parish of St. Michael Bassishaw, together with void ground abutting on the "Curriers fyeringe house" used by Henry Harrison, to hold for 99 years from Christmas 1543 at 20s per annum, and whereas the lease came into the possession of John Robinson, merchant tailor and merchant of the Staple, whose son and executor Robert Robinson assigned his interest to John Thompson of London, merchant, now the said Thompson assigns the residue of the term to Henry Robinson, haberdasher, and Humfrey Robinson, grocer. ^[13]

Court Minutes of the East India Company February 1615 - Adventures of Humphrey Robinson set over to his brother Henry Robinson.^[14]

The manor of Fulthorpe and Grindon, Durham - Anne Nevill, widow of Francis Wandesforde settled the manor to her own use for life with remainder to her son Sir Christopher Wandesforde. Christopher's son Sir George sold it in 1596 to Thomas Blakiston of Blakiston, who in 1617 conveyed it to Arthur and Humphrey Robinson. Nineteen years later Arthur Robinson, with Henry Robinson, senior, his brother, and Henry, son and heir of Henry Robinson, conveyed it to Alexander Davison.^[15]

Covenant 1622 Aug 20 William Pyott of London, gent., covenants to pay Humfrey Robinson of London, merchant, £90 at the house of William Robinson, merchant, in Little St. Helens and assigns to Robinson debts owed to the said Pyott by Peter Jones and Anthony Stubbs, citizens and drapers, and John Knight, citizen and haberdasher, Thomas Knight, citizen and vintner, and Thomas Osborne, citizen and cook, and payable at the dwelling house of Margery Pyott, widow, in St. Lawrence Lane.^[16]

7 May 1623 - Agreement between (i) Robert Dewcye, alderman of London (ii) Humfrey Robinson of Reddinge Graunge, co. York esq. and (iii) Henry Robinson of Fulthorpe, co. Durham, gent. -
Recites that Henry Robinson was seised of the sites of Ellerton and Thickhead Priories and their messuages and lands in Ellerton, Thickhead, Aughton, Thurganby, Westockwith and West Cottingwith ; that he made specified leases ; that he contracted to make conveyances of the premises to Robert Dewcye and Humfrey Robinson ; and that doubts arose from the wording of the conveyances which led to Robert Dewcye instituting a suit in Chancery. To settle which doubts, and to end the suit, a recited survey has been made of the premises by Thomas Claye and the parties now agree on the identity of the lands conveyed and excepted. Witn. Tho. Bere, Will. Thurbane, Robert Ducie jnr.. Endorsement by R[obert] R[obinson] that he has since purchased the lands in West Cottingwith and Thorganby from Sir William Ducie 'the Aldermans son'.^[17]

Humphrey died in 1626 and was buried on 7 October 1626 in Wheldrake, Yorkshire (East Riding), England.^[18]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
   citing Digital film/folder number: 007809921; FHL microfilm: 845235
   FamilySearch Record: NPKY-Y82
   Humfry Robinson baptism on 1 Feb 1579, son of John Robinson, in St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England, United Kingdom.
2. ↑ Reference: CLC/522/ADDMS0877A Deed number: 136.11 London Metropolitan Archives Miscellaneous Deeds pg 206 https://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLC_522.pdf
3. ↑ Reference: CLC/522/ADDMS0870 Deed number: 136.3 London Metropolitan Archives Miscellaneous Deeds pg 206 https://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLC_522.pdf
4. ↑ Reference: CLC/522/ADDMS0872A Deed number: 136.5 London Metropolitan Archives Miscellaneous Deeds pg 208 https://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLC_522.pdf
5. ↑ Marriage: "England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850"
   FindMyPast Transcription
   Humphrey Robinson marriage to Anne Prat in 1605 in London St Bartholomew by the Exchange, London, England.
6. ↑ Casebooks of Dr. Simon Forman https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/identified-entities/PERSON6107
7. ↑ Robinson v Robinson
   Reference: C 2/Eliz/R6/62
   Plaintiffs: John Robinson, son and heir apparent of John Robinson deceased. Defendants: Henry Robinson, Arthur Robinson, Robert Robinson, Thomas Waltham and Ann Waltham Walthall his wife, Robert Sandie and Mary Sandie his wife, William Savage, Humphry Robinson, William Walthall and Hervy Anderson or Harry Anderson. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5706617
8. ↑ Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre Reference GB 50 U DRA/553 https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/be16e3f4-3632-3d41-8b08-9816ee2c146c?component=f287cf83-0a07-380d-a93f-5e854d4e846c
9. ↑ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charter_Granted_by_Queen_Elizabeth_to_the_East_India_Company
10. ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Charters_Granted_to_the_East-India_Company%2C_from_1601.pdf
11. ↑ 'East Indies: July 1609', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1864), pp. 187-190. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp187-190
12. ↑ 'East Indies: September 1609', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1864), pp. 192-194. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp192-194
13. ↑ Reference: CLC/522/ADDMS0872B Deed number: 136.5 London Metropolitan Archives Miscellaneous Deeds pg 209 https://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLC_522.pdf
14. ↑ 'East Indies: February 1615', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1864), pp. 376-389. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp376-389
15. ↑ 'Parishes: Grindon', in A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3, (London, 1928) pp. 247-254. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/durham/vol3/pp247-254
16. ↑ Reference: CLC/522/ADDMS0858 Deed number: 134.15 London Metropolitan Archives Miscellaneous Deeds pg 197 https://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLC_522.pdf
17. ↑ Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre; Reference GB 50 U DRA/557 https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/be16e3f4-3632-3d41-8b08-9816ee2c146c?component=a17658af-73af-3ab4-aa04-81f2a36514e8
18. ↑ Burial: "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
    citing Page: 41; Affiliate Name: Borthwick Institute for Archives; Digital film/folder number: 007569084
    FamilySearch Record: 661W-L3XG
    FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-996R-3HS6 Image number 00409
    Humphrey Robinson burial (died in 1626) in 1626 in Wheldrake, Yorkshire, England.

See Also

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions. https://archive.org/details/dugdalesvisitati01dugd/page/110/mode/2up

Burke's Family Records; Ashworth P. Burke:London 1897 p 527 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924029781212&view=1up&seq=527&q1=robinson

Hunter, Joseph, Clay, John W.; Familiae Minorum Gentium Vol 3 pg 990: London 1895 https://archive.org/details/familiaeminorumg03hunt/page/1150/mode/2up

Research Notes

THICKET PRIORY John Aske of York was granted the former monastic estate by Henry VIII in 1542, with another John Aske selling it to John Robinson in 1596 (VCH2). The estate remained with the generations of Robinsons. In 1752 Nicholas Robinson left his estate to his daughter, Sarah, who married Henry Waite, becoming Henry Waite Robinson on Nicholas Robinson’s death in 1754. In 1801 the Revd. Nicholas Waite Robinson sold 23 acres (9.3 ha) to Robert Jefferson and in 1803 the remainder of the lands, comprising 220 acres (89 ha), including Thicket Priory estate, to Joseph Dunnington (VCH2), grandson of Thomas Dunnington. https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/thicket-priory

A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 3, Ouse and Derwent Wapentake, and Part of Harthill Wapentake, ed. K J Allison (London, 1976), pp. 112-120. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol3/pp112-120

Thicket Estate: The priory's former estate in Thorganby and West Cottingwith was let by the Crown to William Wytham in 1540, before being granted in fee to John Aske in 1542. At the same time Aske acquired the former Ellerton priory estate. In 1596 another John Aske sold his West Cottingwith estate to John Robinson. Before his death in 1601 Robinson sold the estate to his younger sons Arthur and Henry. The latter sold it in 1622, part to Robert Ducy and the rest to Humphrey Robinson, who was the son of John, the eldest son of John Robinson (d. 1601). Humphrey (d. 1626) was succeeded by his son Richard and Sir William Ducy sold his father's part to Richard in 1659. The estate was conveyed to Richard's son, another Richard, the same year and was held by Humphrey Robinson in the 1680s and in 1718. It was sometimes described as a grange. (fn. 94) In 1752 Nicholas Robinson (d. 1754) left it to his daughter Sarah, who had married Henry Waite in 1752, and Waite adopted the additional surname Robinson. In 1760 he sold WEST COTTINGWITH manor and about 450 a. to Emanuel Jefferson. In 1801 the Revd. Nicholas Waite Robinson sold 23 a. to Robert Jefferson and in 1803 the remainder of the estate, comprising 220 a., to Joseph Dunnington. In 1812 John Dunnington succeeded to the Jefferson estates and the land subsequently descended with Thorganby manor.