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Biography
John Mede, son of Thomas Meade III and Margaret, born about 1440 in Bristol, died 1496 in Bristol.[1]
He and his parents were together on a list of parishioners of St Mary Redcliff in 1455.[1]
John was a weaver and a churchwarden of St Mary Redcliffe several times between 1473 and 1490. His will[2] mentions his cousin Richard and wife Alice.[1]
He and his wife are buried in the Mede Chantry tomb in St Mary Redcliffe with a memorial in Latin: “Here lies John Mede, burgess of the town of Bristol, who died 17 April 1496, and beside him rests Alice his wife, may God have mercy on their souls." (Hic jacet Johannes Mede, burgensis villae Bristoliae, qui obiit 17 die mensis Aprilis A.D. 1496, et juxta eum requiescit Alicia uxor ejus, quorum animabus propicietur Deus. Amen.)[1]
Research Notes
Estimated birth year: "He must have been born later than 1415, say 1435 to 1440."[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Biographical information from Vance Mead, posted here. See sources, given here (also below). Both links are comments in Vance Mead's 11 May 2019 G2G question, Two John Medes in Bristol?
- ↑ PCC 1496
- ↑ From Vance Mead's May 2019 G2G post, Two John Medes in Bristol?
- Will of John Mede of St Mary Redcliffe, 1496, (PCC): https://sites.google.com/site/meadfamilyhistory/home/wills/bristol
- Churchwardens Accounts, St Mary Redcliffe. John Mede, warden of the said church (of St Mary Redcliffe): http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=P.St+MR%2f5163%2f270&pos=3.
- The Chantries of William Canynges in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with a survey of chantries in general and some events in the lives of the Canynges / by Edith E. Williams, 1950: http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=5163%2f181&pos=2 (John Mede, weaver, in 1492)
- An image of the Mede Chantry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mede#/media/File:St_Mary_Redcliffe_Mede_Tomb.jpg
- In the left compartment, with effigies, are Thomas and Philip, and their wives. To the right is another tomb, without effigies but with two brasses, one for Richard and his two wives, and the other for John and Alice.
- Ancestry Family Trees (Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7122319&pid=1004 - source citation for WikiTree profile Mede-6 created through the import of Whittaker Family Tree.ged on Jul 2, 2011 by Pamela Durrell.
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from Mede-20 - replaced.
John is the child of Margaret and Thomas (son of Thomas and Margaret) Mede.[4] His parents were on a list of parishioners of St Mary Redcliff in 1455.
He was a weaver and a churchwarden of St Mary Redcliffe several times between 1473 and 1490. His will, PCC 1496, mentions his cousin Richard and wife Alice. He and his wife are buried in the Mede Chantry tomb with a memorial in Latin: “Here lies John Mede, burgess of the town of Bristol, who died 17 April 1496, and beside him rests Alice his wife, may God propitiate their souls."[3]
Research Notes
Estimated birth year: "He must have been born later than 1415, say 1435 to 1440."[3]
From Vance Mead:[3]
- Another John Mede, a priest, was born about 1435 and studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1457. In January 1457/8 Thomas Bekynton, bishop of Bath and Wells, issued letters dimissory, entitling to ordination "to all holy orders for John Mede of the parish of Redcliffe, Bristol, B.A., acolyte." John Mede M.A. became vicar of Wraxall in 1467, witnessed by Philip Mede, merchant of Bristol, and Richard Mede, literate. Master John Mede, vicar of Wraxall, witnessed Philip Mede's will in 1471.
- For this reason, I thought this John must be a son of Philip and Isabel, but then I found a Common Pleas case from Trinity term 1480 that shows he wasn’t.
Additional information from the same G2G post by Vance, but it appears this is talking of another John Mede (neither the priest nor Mede-6, son of Thomas), as it appears to document a John Mede of Somerset whose father was Walter, son of Thomas (all of Somerset):
- Soms. Thomas West of London, knight, attached to answer John Mede, clerk, on a plea of trespass: breach of close at Wroxhale and taking horses, oxen and sheep worth 20 pounds.
- Thomas answers that John Mede is his villein of his manor of Brystylton or Brustlyngton in Somerset. John de Claydon and his ancestors were seized of the said manor and of a certain Thomas Mede and his ancestors in villeinage, that is to say, the father of Thomas, the father of Walter, the father of the aforesaid John Mede, time out of mind. And the manor descended to Thomas, who is the son of Richard, the son of Reginald, the son of Joan, the sister of Thomas, the brother of John, the son of Roger.
- John Mede answers that he is a free man and of free condition and not a villein of Thomas West. The jurors say under oath that John Mede is a free man, of free condition and not a villein and award damages for the trespass of 20 pounds.
- There was a Walter Mede, merchant of Bristol, in Common Pleas cases 1422 to 1441. This must be John’s father. And there was a Thomas atte Mede of Brislington, who paid vi pence in the Lay Subsidy of 1327, who must be the ancestor (or one more generation back) mentioned in the lawsuit.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Biographical information from Vance Mead, posted here. See sources, given here (also below). Both links are comments in Vance Mead's 11 May 2019 G2G question, Two John Medes in Bristol?
- ↑ PCC 1496
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 From Vance Mead's May 2019 G2G post, Two John Medes in Bristol?
- ↑ Information from a private message from Vance Mead, 14 May 2019.
- Churchwardens Accounts, St Mary Redcliffe
- Will of John Mede (PCC 1496)
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