C.P. Correction: Death date of Sir Thomas de Munchensy
Douglas Richardson
The authoritative Complete Peerage 9 (1936): 417 (sub Munchensy) has a
brief account of the life of Sir Thomas de Munchensy, of Edwardstone,
Suffolk. Regarding his death, the following information is provided:
"He was living in the autumn of 1375."
The item below from the A2A Catalogue indicates that Sir Thomas de
Munchensy was actually deceased before 17 June 1364, when his son and
heir, Thomas de Munchensy, settled his father's lands on various
trustees.
For interest's sake, the following is a list of the 17th Century New
World immigrants who descend from Sir Thomas de Munchensy:
1. Thomas Booth.
2. Nathaniel Burrough.
3. Elizabeth Butler.
4. William Clopton.
5. Anne Derehaugh.
6. Edmund, Edward, Richard, & Matthew Kempe.
7. Mary Johanna Somerset.
8. Jemima Waldegrave
For further information on Sir Thomas de Munchensy, please visit Jim
Weber's great website at the following web address:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I26127
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www.royalancestry.net
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Source: A2A Catalogue (http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: The Iveagh (Phillipps) Suffolk
Manuscripts, Reference: HD 1538/209
Quitclaim
Creation dates: 17 Jun 1364
Scope and Content
1. Thomas, son of Thomas de Monchansy, kt
2. Ralph de Shelton, kt
Ralph Swyft jun.
William son of John de Walsoken, vicar of Edwardiston' [Edwardstone]
John le Webbe of Edwardiston'
(1) quitclaims to (2), manors of Edwardiston' and Leleseye [Lindsey],
advowson of chapel of Leleseye, all lands, tenements, rents and
services in towns of Edwardiston', Leleseye, Groton, Kerseye [Kersey],
Holton and Brantham, and all knights fees which Sir Thomas de
Monchansy, (1)'s father held in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. Witnesses:
William de Clopton, Thomas de Morieux, William de Rochyngg, kts, John
de Cauendissh, Ralph de Walsham and others. Given at Bury St Edmunds,
Monday before feast of St John the Baptist, 38 Edw. III.
Endorsed with memorandum of enrolment before the King, Trinity term 38
Edw. III (1364), roll 44. Seal missing. Phillipps MS No. 35924