John Tyler d.1655
John TYLER d.1655
Biographical Note
Gentleman of Soham, Cambridgeshire. In 1597-1598, three legal matters involving John Tyler and Soham Manor were recorded in the Calendar of Inquisition. These were matters involving pasture for cattle, rent claims, and land disputes, for which he was plantiff and defendant varyingly. In 1616, further complaints were made for similar charges- John Tyler and John Ward were accused by the tenants of Soham Manor of having wrongfully enclosed 10 acres of common land for themselves. This complaint was made to Sir John Dackomb. In 1630-1, Tyler gave 3/4 of an acre in New Close to the poor, and "added £1 a year to be given for ten years following a 'godly' sermon." When he died in 1655 he left six fire buckets to his parish, to supplement two hoses he had already given during his lifetime.
Books
Tyler's will directs that "my executors shall within convenient time after my decease lay out and bestowe six pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence att least in bookes and the same bookes to give to the Masters and Fellowes of Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge to be kept in theire library for theire publique use if soe be that I have not given in my life time Bookes of the same valewe to the same Colledge". Examples: Multiple in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge. E.g. Expositio Epistolae D. Pauli Colossensis, Cantabrigiae, Apud Thomam Buck, celebrimae Academiae typographum, 1639.
Characteristic Markings
The books bequeathed by Tyler to Pembroke College at his death are inscribed "Ex dono Joh(ann)is Typer de Soham in Com. Cantebr(igensis) Gen. 1655" on their title page.
Sources
- Will of John Tyler, Gentleman of Soham, Cambridgeshire, The National Archives PROB 11/246/276.
- A F Wareham and A P M Wright, 'Soham: Local government and public services', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire) (London, 2002), pp. 529-533. British History Online.
- A F Wareham and A P M Wright, 'Soham: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire) (London, 2002), pp. 548-551. British History Online.
- Ducatus Lancestriae pars quarta. Calendar to the Pleadings from the Fourteenth year to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Printed by Command of His Majesty King William IV, 1834.
- Olorenshaw, J. R. (1895). 492.-history of soham (434). Fenland Notes and Queries : A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk, 3, 10-14.
- Information from Emerson Richards-Hoppe.