unpopular - Suffolk Eyke
c1420 Brass of John Staverton in his judicial robes, with wife Margaret Brotherton who he married in 1381..
He was the son of William de Staverton 1401
A High Court Judge of Westminster 1380, he was appointed to the office of Baron of the Exchequer in 1399.
His London home was Baynards Castle, near St Paul's Wharf, St Benets Parish.
He was lord of the manor of Staverton Park and lived at the hall there. This was probably affected by the Peasants' Revolt on Sunday 16th June 1381 - it is recorded that rioters under the leadership of William Bernard of Copdock, "broke down the home of John of Staverton", destroyed various Charters and Court Rolls and carried off booty to the value of 100 shillings. They ‘tore open and there likewise broke the various boxes of the said John Staverton and feloniously carried away the written letters with other munitions of the said John to the detriment of the said John Staverton….’ . Two years later a new insurrection took place led by Roger Powel of Eyke.
John de Staverton was an unpopular ‘king’s clerk’, who was one of those appointed to oversee the property forfeitures of the rebels in the wake of the uprising. An inventory of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk in 1382 records ‘a manor including a park without deer, now greatly broken down, grazing at Oldmore and Chyfen’.
In 1384 he added to his unpopularity by attempting to do away with a footpath in Rendlesham through Snellings Close.
He was lord of the manors of Staverton, Chcsylford, Cotton, Newton, Skeyth, and rules and perquisites of messuages and lands, in Ash, Rendlesham, Blaxhall, and Marlesford.
In 1428 he surrendered certain lands in Rendlesham to be sold, and the money thus obtained to be used for the welfare of his soul and the souls of his ancestors. These were probably the acres known as Whetcroft. The manor of Chesylford he also gave to the prior and convent at Butley, to pray for his soul and those of his ancestors
After the his death the land seems to have been in the possession of the Airaid family - one Thomas Airaid, who was in 1527, a servant of Cardinal Wolsey.
- Eyke church Suffolk
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unpopular - Suffolk Eyke
c1420 Brass of John Staverton in his judicial robes, with wife Margaret Brotherton who he married in 1381..
He was the son of William de Staverton 1401
A High Court Judge of Westminster 1380, he was appointed to the office of Baron of the Exchequer in 1399.
His London home was Baynards Castle, near St Paul's Wharf, St Benets Parish.
He was lord of the manor of Staverton Park and lived at the hall there. This was probably affected by the Peasants' Revolt on Sunday 16th June 1381 - it is recorded that rioters under the leadership of William Bernard of Copdock, "broke down the home of John of Staverton", destroyed various Charters and Court Rolls and carried off booty to the value of 100 shillings. They ‘tore open and there likewise broke the various boxes of the said John Staverton and feloniously carried away the written letters with other munitions of the said John to the detriment of the said John Staverton….’ . Two years later a new insurrection took place led by Roger Powel of Eyke.
John de Staverton was an unpopular ‘king’s clerk’, who was one of those appointed to oversee the property forfeitures of the rebels in the wake of the uprising. An inventory of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk in 1382 records ‘a manor including a park without deer, now greatly broken down, grazing at Oldmore and Chyfen’.
In 1384 he added to his unpopularity by attempting to do away with a footpath in Rendlesham through Snellings Close.
He was lord of the manors of Staverton, Chcsylford, Cotton, Newton, Skeyth, and rules and perquisites of messuages and lands, in Ash, Rendlesham, Blaxhall, and Marlesford.
In 1428 he surrendered certain lands in Rendlesham to be sold, and the money thus obtained to be used for the welfare of his soul and the souls of his ancestors. These were probably the acres known as Whetcroft. The manor of Chesylford he also gave to the prior and convent at Butley, to pray for his soul and those of his ancestors
After the his death the land seems to have been in the possession of the Airaid family - one Thomas Airaid, who was in 1527, a servant of Cardinal Wolsey.
- Eyke church Suffolk
reinterred.blogspot.com/2025/05/staverton-park.html?m=1
shct.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Eyke-Suffolk.pdf archive.org/stream/topographicalgen00pageuoft/topographic...