Miles Pendreth (abt. 1525 - 1591)

Born about 1525 in Kent, England [uncertain]

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Died Jan 1591 at about age 66 in Northbourne, Kent, England

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Biography

Miles was born about 1525 in England, his marriage to Elizabeth Lewin/Lowin (daughter of Thomas Lewin ^[1]) would have taken place before c1550 as that is the year of birth for their daughter Anne.

No record has been found in Kent for Miles prior to 1585 when a certificate of residence was issued showing that he was liable for taxation in Kent ^[2]. In 1559 and 1566 the certificates of residence show that he was liable for taxation in Essex ^[3][4].

Miles Pendreth of Northbourne Kent was granted Arms in 1586 by Cooke^[5][6] The arms were "paly of six, ar. and sa. (another az.); on a chief or, a griffin, segreant, of the second." The Crest was "a tiger, sejant, erm. tufted and maned or. dually crowned of the last".

Myles Pendreth of Northbourne made his Will on 29th September 1590 and he died at Northbourne in January 1590/1. ^{[7] [8]}

He was buried at St Augustine Northbourne on 29 January 1590/1 - 'Myles Pendrethe'. ^{[9] [10]}

Probate of his Will was granted on 11th February 1590/1 to William Patrick, Edward Burton and William Frith.

In his Will, Myles names -

• son-in-law Edward Saunders - and refers to the covenant made and expressed in the lease, between Myles and Edward, of "my farme of Norborne Court".^[11]
• son Francis Pendreth
• cousin John Pendreth, his two children, both under 21, of Hertford
• daughter Margery Atkinson's children "being five in number, Elizabeth, Richard, Cicely, Anne and Leonard"
• son-in-law Peter Atkinson
• wife Margaret

Research Notes

1551 Dec 14: Mrs Pendred’s child.
Cofferer’s Account of the Lady Elizabeth, Oct 1551-Sept 1552:
‘Paid the 14th of December at the christening of Mrs Pendred’s child...50s’. [‘Household Expenses of the Princess Elizabeth...at Hatfield’, Camden Miscellany (1853)].
Blanche Parry wrote in 1582 to Lord Burghley on behalf of ‘Mr Pendryth’, whose wife nursed the Queen, and who is one of the Queen’s tenants of the manor of Northbourne in Kent. ^[12]

Feet of Fines for Hertfordshire ^[13] 1578; Trinity Term; 20 Eliz: "John Brockette knt: Miles Pendreth, gent. & Francis Pendreth, gent & Ursula his wife. Five messuages and lands in Bishops Hatfield."

Feet of Fines of Essex 1594; ^[14] “Domestic uses of timber Surveys and court rolls demonstrate the variety of domestic and building uses to which timber was put. A survey made when Hatfield was granted to Princess Elizabeth in 1551 reported that the copyholders ‘may not fell or sell any wood or timber without licence of the lord’, but might ‘fell and take all manner of firebote, cartbote, ploughbote, foldbote, palebote and hedgebote necessary where they will without assignment’. They had ‘always stocked and grubbed [uprooted] any wood or trees for the cleansing of their ground … without the lord’s groves and within the outer ring of their fence’. However, Elizabeth’s surveyor also reported that several trees had been cut down for the repair of buildings held by copyholders. Ten timber trees and saplings were felled, with permission, by John Hanks the elder to make spar timber for the repair of a decayed barn. John Bustard senior had been permitted to fell a tree to make boarding for his barn, as had Miles Pendreth, who felled a hornbeam or two and an ash to make a ‘cart ladder’ and ‘axletree his cart’."

SEAX Essex Record Office Title: Names of the jurors for the body of the County; Series-SESSIONS ROLLS; File-EASTER 1564; Dates of Creation: n.d [1563-1564]; Scope and Content: Names of the jurors for the body of the County:- Miles Pendred Also appeared on the ‘Jurors for the body of the County’ in Michaelmas 1564

Miles was born in 1524. Miles Pandreth ... Miles died in January 1590/1 and was buried at Northbourne, Kent on 29 January 1590/1.

Sources

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/visitationofkent00camd/page/102/mode/2up
2. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15551404
3. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15550875
4. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15551188
5. ↑ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Grantees_of_Arms/yzbBCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pendreth%22+%22northbourne+kent%22&pg=PA196&printsec=frontcover
6. ↑ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_British_Herald_Or_Cabinet_of_Armoria/03EUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pendreth%22+%22kent%22&pg=PA133-IA74&printsec=frontcover
7. ↑ https://wills.canterbury-cathedral.org/ ; Ref: PRC/16/95 P/6
8. ↑ https://wills.canterbury-cathedral.org/ ; Ref: PRC/10/18/410
9. ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8JB-T8H : 14 March 2020), Myles Pendreth, (year 1590/1)
10. ↑ The Tyler Collection, The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies; Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874; Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874; Northbourne
11. ↑ https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.024%20-%201900/024-04.pdf
12. ↑ https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/archive/d/da/20170623170345!ECDbD_Court_Women_Royal_Household.pdf
13. ↑ https://archive.org/details/hertsgenealogis02briggoog/page/n257/mode/2up?q=pendreth
14. ↑ file:///C:/Users/jupem/Downloads/balh-the-local-historian-49-01%20(1).pdf

• https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4457268; Reference: WARD 2/57C/213/4; Indenture of bargain and sale ; Date: 1594 May 26
• burial "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8JB-T8H : 14 March 2020), Myles Pendreth, 1590.