William Noyes
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1541-1542 - Weyhill, Hampshire, England
Christening:
Death: 1626
Burial: 24 Jul 1626 - Weyhill, Hampshire, England
Cause of Death:
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Parents
Father: Peter Noyes (Abt 1517-After 1586)
Mother: Edith Blake ( -1584)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hellene ( - )
Marriage:
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Children:
1. William Noyes Jr. (Abt 1562- )
Notes
General:
Got Ramridge Hall. Apparently after another Noyes who was a better administrator. He and his son together were sued for neglect.
Events seem to require three William's in successive generations in the family. They are given here as how it calculates out.
aged 57 25 Oct 1599 (41 Elizabeth I)
Peter Noyes had been a benevolent lord to the tenants of his manor. After his death, those same tenants brought suit against William Noyes "father and son" of Ramridge manor. In depositions dated 9 July 4 James I [1606] and 22 and 23 April 5 JAmes I [1607], it was stated that the Noyes family held the manor of Ramridge, which was part of the possessions of the Almhouse of Elwelme, including lands in Penton Grafton, Nutbeame, and Glanvill or Glanfield. The tenants complained that they had been allowed to pasture cattle in certain fields and to use a pond to water their animals, but that William Noyes, after succeeding to the manor, denied them those privileges. Furthermore, William had set up a lodge with a keeper in it on the tenants' common. He allowed an increase in the rabbit population so the tenants no longer had sufficient pannage for their pigs. And they no longer had brushwood for fuel and hedge mending. These were very real and important issues to the comfort of their daily lives.
The tenants also claimed that William was allowing the buildings to decay and collapse. The timber was no longer supplied free of charge for repairing tenants' houses and outbuildings, as it had been by Peter Noyes, and the woodreeve was no longer chosen by the tenants. William Noyes was also putting up hedges and ditches, impeding what they believed to be dreaded enclosures that became a main battle theme between lord and tenants during this period. "Ould" Peter Noyes, "who used to use the tenants very kindly," did not charge the tenanta for the release of impounded animals. He had replenished the woods and coppices for some fifty years, and had stored them with the "game of conies." Peter Noyes was stated to be the father of William Noyes the elder. Robert Same, aged sixty, who was born within two miles of the farmhouse, stated he never knew any other farmer than Peter Noyes the father and William Noyes the elder "that synce now dwelleth there with William his son for they ever had it in their name synce he this deponent was of understanding." Peter Noyes, gentleman, of Andover, aged forty-five, also testified, but he managed not to say much of anything one way or another.
An important point that emerges from this suit is that there must have been three generations of William Noyeses at Ramridge, rather than two, after "ould" Peter Noyes. When William Noyes "the father" , born about 1541/2, was stated to be dwelling at Ramridge "with William his son," this would refer to an adult William under whose care the old man was living, not a young son age about fourteen. The elder William's son William, must have been born about 1562, as he married the heiress Joan Bacon in 1581, when both were in their late teens. It is understandable that as both the younger William Noyes and Joan BAcon were heirs of important estates their marriage would have been arranged well in advance. Such an arrangement would explain what would otherwise seem uncomfortably tight chronology. The eldest William Noyes was buried at Weyhill 24 July 1626. His administration was granted to his relict, Hellene, on 2 October 1626. The administration of William Noyes "sen" [the first William's son], late of Ramridge, was granted to his daughter Catherine Noyse (corrected in the margin to Catherine, wife of Ambrose Prewett) on 6 February 1629/30. But the son and heir of Joan BAcon, William Noyes, was alive and aged forty when she died in 1631 - a fact that forces the conclusion that there must have been two generations of William Noyeses of Ramridge between "ould" Peter Noyes and the William baptized at Weyhill on 15 October 1592.
The Court of Requests cases prove that William Noyes of Ramridge was son of Peter Noyes.
William Noyes
[207]
A
Father: Peter Noyes
Mother: Edith Blake
[207] He succeeded to the manor of Ramridge. Ramridge Court Rolls note the following: Oliver Livingston, the master, and two chaplains and 13 poor men of Eweime Almhouse entered into bond on 8 Dec. 1570 to William Noyes of Ramrugge yeoman [sic] in £400 to allow and grant their capital messuage and manor of Ramridge to the said William as by the lease thereof made to him. The lease was dated the same day and was for a term of 18 years [1570-1588] at a rent of £8 6s 8d. Another lease made 4 June 1592 demised to William Noyes of Rumridge, gentleman, four coppices called Lady Cops, Rydynge Cops, Pound Cops, and Shephouse Cops, in the manor of Ramridge and all trees thereon to have and hold to him during the lives of his son William and his daughters Sarah and Katherine for an annual rent of £4. William Noyes, farmer of the lord [of Ramridge] was fined 6d on 28 June 1592. William Noies of RAmridge, gentleman, entered into a bond of £1,000 on 17 June 1610 to the master and poor men of Ewelme not to interfere with the copyhold lands or courts of the manor of Ramridge, which manor and capital messuage of the same they had demised to him. Burial - 24 JUL 1626; Weyhill, Hampshire, England; Birt Note Aged 57, 25 Oct. 41 Eliz. I [1599]. Paul Noyes