Isaac Wyncoll (E)  

Isaac Wyncoll (E)
(1593 - 1650)


 



 

The Wyncolls of
Suffolk and Essex:
Contents
Map
Arms of Wyncoll
Author's Addendum
Text Chapters:
  • Intro + John Wyncoll (A)
  • Roger Wyncoll (B)
  • John Wyncoll (C)
  • Isaac Wyncoll (D)
  • Isaac Wyncoll (E)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (F)
  • Thomas Spring Wyncoll (G)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (H)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (I)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (J)
  • William Wyncoll (K)
  • Thomas Wyncoll (L)
  • Charles Wyncoll (M)
  • Charles Edward Wyncoll (N)
  • Pedigree Diagrams:
  • Fowler and Alexander
  • Gawdy
  • Umfreville
  • Waldegrave
  • Wyncoll
  • Concordance:
  • People (surname ordered)
  • Places & Upper-Cased Words:

  •       A-D E-H I-M N-R S-V W-Z
  • other words:

  •       a b c d e f g h i j k l m
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         Isaac Wyncoll (E), the only son of his father, Isaac (D), was born at the Hall at the end of 1593 and was baptised at Twinstead church on New Year's Day, 1594, his baptism being the first Wyncoll entry in those church registers.1  He was, therefore, 44 years of age when he succeeded his father, the whole of whose property he inherited. 

         He married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Waldegrave, of the Ferrers, in Bures Hamlet, Essex, great granddaughter of Sir William Waldegrave, of Smallbridge, Bures St. Mary (who died 30th January, 1527)2 By this marriage, the family obtained fourteen additional quarterings to its arms. The arms of this Sir William Waldegrave were 

    • 1. Party per pale, argent and Gules. Waldegrave
    • 2. Barry of ten argent and azure. Mountchency
    • 3. Gules, an eagle displayed ermine. Vauncy
    • 4. Or, a fess, vairy of the first and gules. Creake, or Creek
    • 5. Argent, two bars and in chief three mullets, sable. Moigne
    • 6. Erm, a fess sable, between three bee-hives, or. Fraye
         Sir William Waldegrave's second son (by Margery, daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth of Codham Hall, Wethersfield, Essex) was Anthony, of Ferrers, Bures Hamlet, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Graye, of Burnt Pelham, county Herts, and had four sons, two of whom married, the eldest (William, of Ilford) to a daughter of ... Germond, of Barkaway, and, the youngest (Thomas, of Ferrers) to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Gurdon, of Assington, whilst his two other sons, Julian and Barnaby, both died without issue. William, the eldest son of William Waldegrave, of Ilford, married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Donnington, of Hackney, the issue of that marriage being two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, both of whom died unmarried. Thomas, the youngest son of Thomas Waldegrave, took up his father's residence at Ferrers, Bures Hamlet, and had Thomas (who married Margaret, daughter and heir of John Holinshead, of Hempstead, Essex, and had Margaret, who died unmarried), John and William, who died without issue, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, the latter marrying Isaac Wyncoll. These two daughters became co-heiresses of their father, Thomas Waldegrave (see pedigree of Waldegrave), and Isaac Wyncoll was therefore entitled to quarter his wife's arms, which, in addition to the six above-mentioned coats of Sir William Waldegrave, included the following seven coats obtained on the marriage of Antony, grandfather of our ancestress, Mary Waldegrave with Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Ralph Graye:- 
    • 7. Arg, a bend vert, cotized indented, gules, for Graye
    • 8. Arg, three bars, vert. Burgh (Bury)
    • 9. Argent, a bend vert, a label of three points, gules. Kendall
    • 10. Or, a fess, gules. Colville
    • 11. Arg, on a chevron, sable, three bezants. Bond
    • 12. Gules, on a chevron, or, three lions rampant, sable. Cobham
    • 13. Arg, on a bend, azure, between two lions, rampant, gules, three bezants. Turke
    • 14. Gules, a fess, ermine. Wallis, or Walleys
     
    1. 1594. Isaake Wincoll, sone of Isaake Wincoll, Gent, was baptized the first day of January, 1594.'' 
    2. "One of the most distinguished members of the Waldegrave family was Sir William Waldegrave, who was nominated 5 Henry VIII. as one of the most discreet persons for assessing and collecting the Subsidy." - Proceedings of the Suffolk Archaeological Society, vol. iv., pp. 357, 358. Queen Elizabeth twice visited Smallbridge in her progress through the Eastern Counties; once in 1561 and again in 1579 - Ibid.
     
         In proof of the above, the following references are interesting:- Harl. MSS. 1541, fo. 71b., gives the whole of these quarterings to our ancestor, Waldegrave, as does Harl. MSS. 4600,  p. 21/12 to Graye of Pelham. Copy of Visitations made by Harvey, Clarancieux Herald, and Harl. MSS. 1531, fol. 55, Visitation of Bedfordshire, 1566, give Graye the quarterings 7 to 14 with the following pedigree, which shows Elizabeth Graye to have been an heiress, and that her husband and heirs were entitled to the quarterings.3
     

         The coat of Waldegrave should bear a crescent for difference, Thomas Waldegrave being the sole male representative of Anthony Waldegrave (second son of Sir William Waldegrave). On the death of Margaret, only child of Thomas Waldegrave, who died at Twinstead in November, 1637 (his brothers, John and William, being dead) his sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, became his co-heiresses. 

         According to Morant, the Waldegrave family is "said to have flourished in this Kingdom before the Conquest and to have been originally seated in Northamptonshire, where they gave name to the parish of Waldegrave. John de Waldegrave, it is reported (see Weever's Funeral Monuments, p.757-758), lost his lands upon the Conqueror's invasion, but having an only daughter and meeting with a namesake of his in William's service that was come out of Germany, upon conferring together they found they were related, and the German promised the other to obtain a restitution of his lands, and a pardon from the Conqueror if he would give him his daughter in marriage. It was accordingly performed. The pardon and re-grant of the lands, in old French, with King William's seal, remained in the possession of the Lord of Navestock Manor in the year 1612" (see Morant's Essex, vol. i. p.181). 

         In right of his wife, Isaac Wyncoll had the manors of Peyton Hall and Ravensfield, which lie on the road leading from Pebmarsh to Bures and Lamarsh.4 I shall treat with the extent and situation of these properties in a subsequent generation. 

         It would appear that Isaac Wyncoll was a Parliamentarian during the civil war. The extracts from Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in Essex (Davids), given below, are interesting and would forward that idea.5

        He had eight children, viz:- (1) Isaac, who died an infant on 24th July, 1620, (2) Thomas (F), (3) Elizabeth, baptised at Bures 23rd October, 1626, (4) Waldegrave, baptised at Bures 6th November, 1628, buried there 20th November, 1628, (5) Penelope baptised at Bures 8th July, 1630, who married Isaac Hubbard, of Pebmarsh, (6) Mary, buried at Twinstead 8th November, 1638, (7) Margaret, baptised at Twinstead 16th November, 1634, buried there 27th November, 1637, and (8) Hannah, buried at Twinstead 25th February, 1680. The gravestone to the memory of the latter was (according to Holman) formerly "by the north wall just within the chancell under the pews" of old Twinstead church. 

     
    3. Burgh, or Bury - for coat of Arms, see Harl. MSS., 1080 f. 427. Fourth daughter and co-heiress married Richard Graye, of Barnstable, Devon, first husband. Confirmed by Harl. MSS. 889, f. 110. The only brother ob s.p. - Vide Harl. MSS. 108, f. 427, corroborated by 1567, f. 25.
    4. Morant's Essex, p.267 (under Peyton Hall).
    5. p.227. "Aldham: Depositions were taken against Daniel Falconer, Parson of Aldham, July 23rd, 1644, at Halstead, before Thomas Cooke, Isaac Wyncoll, John Elliston, Robert Crane and Richard Harlackenden. Four witnesses deposed on oath to his having read the Book of Sports, preaching that the King was innocent mid that God would bless his innocent cause, etc., 'Belcham Oten. Rev. Joseph Bird: Articles were exhibited against him. May 10th, 1644. At the same time there is an attestation entered bearing the signature of Isaac Wyncoll. This of my own knowledge I can witness that the said Revd. Bird was once or twice much disgusted with beere at Castle Hedingham, so that he was scarce able to speak common sense and uttered such words to me who was a mere stranger to him. '0! Thou man of God, take up the business between me and my neighbours touching the tithe calfe, for I know thou hast the spirit of God in thee, I will stand in thy judgment whatever it be.'" Footnote, p.330:- "Wincoll was of Twinstead. He was buried with the Waldegraves, his wife's relatives, at Bures, August 6, 1650. Morant II. 271." 

    p.522. "Little Yeldham: Mr. Cole adds in a subsequent page that the depositions were taken at Halstead and that the committee were John Barnardiston, Sir Thomas Honeywood, Richard Harlackenden, Isaac Wincoll and John Elliston."

    It is now in front of the south porch of the present church. It bears, on a lozenge shield, the arms of Wyncoll impaling Waldegrave and also the following inscription:-

    M. S.
    Hannah Wyncoll, the youngest daughter of Isaac Wyncoll (of Twinstead Hall) esquire and of Mary his wife deceased February the xxvth 1680. 


     


         It would seem that Isaac Wyncoll had a very strong liking for his wife's family, for, in addition to choosing their christian names and surname as the christian names of his children, he spent a great deal of his married life in Bures and baptised his sons Thomas (F) and Waldegrave, as well as his daughter Elizabeth, at that parish church and he himself was buried there (as Morant puts it) "amongst his wife's relatives." The fact that he was 44 years of age when his father died accounts for his non-residence at Twinstead Hall during the early part of his married life. 

          He died intestate Letters of Administration to his estate being granted on 2nd September, 1680, to "Audrey (or Mary) Wincole, relict of Isack Wincole, of Buers in County Essex, deceased."6 He was buried in Bures church on 6th August, 1650, and was in his fifty-seventh year. 

     
    6. P.C.C.: Pembroke 141.


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