Because my surname is pronounced 'cokely' and by common consent this is the pronunciation of that branch of the family connected to Wexford, here are a few miscellanea...
John
Full text of "The manors of Suffolk; notes on their
history and ... WA Copinger.…amongst Abbreviation of pleas in 1292 is a
judgement in favour of William de Cokeley on finding that he had not
‘disseised’ … Robert de Ludham ( owner of Cookley Manor noted at least in 1285)
for a meesuage including land, woodland,
meadow and pasture…
The History of Framlingham, in the County of Suffolk: Including Brief ... p337. Robert Hawes, Robert Loder
William de Cokeley was anciently owner of Cokeley in the manor of Framlingham Suffolk.
November 10th 1389
Grant with the assent of the great council for 800(shillings?) paid for the kings use to John de Hermesthorp one of the chamberlains of the Receipt of the Exchequer, by John bishop of Salisbury, George de Felbrigge knight, Thomas More, clerk, Robert de Asshefeld, Robert Grigge, Thomas de Wroxham and Thomas Fulmere to them their heirs and assigns, of the reversion of the manor of Huntyngfeld Co. Suffolk with the avowances of the priory of Mendham abd the churches of Huntyngfeld and Cokely, Co Suffolk…
'Index of Entries: S', Petitions to the Pope:
1342-1419 (1896), pp. 728-739.
Maximo, Francis de, archdeacon of Suffolk, 294, 303. -,
Paulo, Baldwin de, knt., ..... Sterman, William son of William, alias de
Cokely, 54. Sternfield, Sternefeld
The under-written clerks. For the office of notary public:—Richard,
son of William Lerveton, of Tykhull, in the diocese of York. Stephen de
Marthingho, alias de Combemartin, in the diocese of Exeter. Robert de Skipton,
in the diocese of York. Roger Fraunceys, of the diocese of Salisbury. Robert de
Swalfield, in the diocese of Lincoln. William de Neuton, in the diocese of
Lichfield. Robert son of Richard de Torphankere, in the diocese of Lincoln. Nicholas
de Wharroum, of Wartre, in the diocese of York. Adam de Hilton, in the diocese
of Lichfield. Conrad Trowrede, of Kingston-on-Hull, in the diocese of York. William,
son of the late William Sterman, of Walpole, alias de Cokely, in the diocese of
Norwich. John Bronclade, of Coliford, in the diocese of Exeter. Geoffrey Jolif,
of Canoligi, in the diocese of Exeter. Granted, if they be found sufficient.
Avignon, 14 Kal. June. From: 'Volume V: 2 Clement VI', Petitions to the Pope:
1342-1419 (1896), pp. 54-75.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=92355&strquery=de
cokely Date accessed: 05 January 2014.
More research to connect the above with the below, when I get some time...
Colclough’s and 14th 15th century MP’s
in England
Richard Colclough
(d. by 1385) of Newcastle-under-Lyme MP 1360
John Colclough d
1420/1
Eldest son of Richard Colclough (d. by 1385) of
Newcastle-under-Lyme, and bro. of William (see below). Married by Easter 1408, Margery ...
Offices Held
Bailiff, Newcastle-under-Lyme Mich. 1377-8, 1379-81; mayor
1384-5, 1386-7, 1388-90, 1394-5, 1400-1, 1402-5, 1406-7, 1408-9, 1410-11.2
The Colclough
family enjoyed considerable influence in Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire and its environs From the mid 14th century probably before. John’s
father represented the borough in the Parliament of 1360, and subsequently held
office as both bailiff and mayor. Over the years he established himself as a
local landowner of some consequence, for besides acquiring land in Newcastle
and the neighbouring village of Wolstanton, he was able to purchase the
Staffordshire manor of Hanley from Sir Richard Peshale. However the manor came with litigaon and Sir Richard Peshale's widow.
John had served his first term as bailiff of
Newcastle in 1377, and on at least four occasions over the next ten years he
went surety for his successors in office. At some point before October 1379 he
took on the lease of additional holdings in Wolstanton, where he appears to
have been farming his father’s property as well. In 1380 (while he was again
acting as bailiff) he witnessed a deed for the prior of Trentham, who had
strong connexions with the borough, and may, indeed, have been his feudal
overlord. According to a lawsuit heard many years later, Colclough paid £15 to
one of Thomas Lichfield’s receivers at about this time. No other burgess could rival his record of 12 terms as
mayor, which were served over a period of 27 years. His two returns to
Parliament were both made when he was in office; and on each occasion he sat
with his younger brother, William, whom he engaged in 1393 to be his attorney
in his lawsuit with Joan Peshale )see above), and who eventually made him his executor.
Even when he was not acting in an official capacity, Colclough played a
prominent part in municipal life. In 1396, for example, he ranked as second
among the senior members of the merchant guild, and in 1410
he attested the minutes of that body.
Much of Colclough’s time after 1385 was taken up with the
administration of his late father’s estate, and, together with his fellow
executor, John Keen, he was obliged to bring a number of lawsuits for the
recovery of debts owed to the deceased by such persons as the Newcastle
burgess, William Thickness, and Joan, widow of Sir John Swynnerton. In 1397
Colclough joined with Roger Longridge
and the influential landowner, Nicholas Bradshaw, in purchasing property
in the Staffordshire villages of Walton near Stone and Great Chatwell. Five
years later he and Bradshaw obtained a royal licence to settle most of this
land on Stone priory. Other endowments were to be made by Bradshaw’s brother,
Roger, so it would appear that Colclough was acting as a feoffee-to-uses rather
than a direct benefactor of the priory. During the Easter term of 1408 the MP
and his wife either sold or conveyed land in Chorlton, Staffordshire, to a local
man. That Colclough earned at least part of his income as a farmer is borne out
by a case heard at the Stafford assizes in March 1414 involving the theft of
two of his oxen. The death of his younger brother at about this time involved
him in yet more litigation, notably as defendant in an action for debt brought
in the following year by Sir William Newport. Following a long-established
family tradition, Colclough’s son, John, was already active in municipal
affairs by then, and it was probably he, rather than his father, who became
mayor of Newcastle in 1418, and stood surety for John Mynors at the
parliamentary elections held there in the following year. Both men were being
sued for a debt of £20 by Margaret Delves a surname noted in various Colclough family trees, during the Hilary term of 1420, although
since John Colclough the younger was alone ordered to appear in court during
the summer of 1421. The elder was probably dead by this time.
Sourced: History of Parliament
Sourced: History of Parliament
