Roger DRURY

Abt 1422 - 1494  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Roger DRURY  [1]
  Born	Abt 1422	Suffolk, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	LTBK-ZJ9
  TitleOfNobility	Hawstead, Suffolk, England   [2]
  	Esquire (Esq)
  Buried	1494	Hawstead, Suffolk, England   [1]
  Died	20 Jan 1494	Suffolk, England   [1]
  Person ID	I594767212	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Nicholas DRURY,   b. Abt 1365,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Joan HEATH,   b. 19 Nov 1416, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England ,   d. 30 Oct 1479, Essex, England  (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F536728872	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Felice DENSTON,   b. 1434, Besthorpe, Breckland Borough, Norfolk, England ,   d. 12 Jan 1523, Hawstead, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England  (Age 89 years)
  Married	1454	Hawstead, Suffolk, England   [2]
  Children	1. Lady Cicely DRURY,   b. 1431, Rodes Court, Carmarthenshire, Wales. ,   d. 1490, Dylton, Wiltshire, England  (Age 59 years)   2. Catherine DRURY,   b. Abt 1450, Suffolk, England ,   d. 31 Jan 1496, Norfolk, England  (Age ~ 46 years)   3. William DRURY,   b. Abt 1457, Hawstead, Suffolk, England ,   d. 1558, Hawstead, Suffolk, England  (Age ~ 101 years)   4. Felice DRURY,   b. Abt 1459, Hawstead, Suffolk, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Elizabeth DRURY,   b. 1460, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 16 Jan 1524  (Age 64 years)   6. John DRURY,   b. Abt 1463, Hawstead, Suffolk, England ,   d. Rougham, Suffolk, England   7. Robert DRURY, Of Hawstead, Speaker Of House, Sir,   b. Abt 1465, Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England ,   d. 11 Jan 1536-1537, St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023
  Family ID	F536728871	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  ROGER DRURY was born about 1428 of Saxham, Suffolk, England, to Sir Nicholas Drury (1365-1456) and Joan W Health (1406-1479.) He married Felice Denston about 1448 of England. Roger Drury Died 31 January 1494, Hawstead, Suffolk, England, age 66. from "The Drury's of Hawstead".. Nicholas Drury of Thurston's son, Roger Drury(d. 1493/94) continued the Hawstead line of Drurys. He and his wife Felice Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk had five children, including William Drury who founded the Besthorpe Drury line and Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead. Sir Robert, buried in the elaborate tomb at St. Mary's Church at Bury St. Edmunds, was father of Sir Robert Drury who started the Drurys of Edgerley, Bucks County, and Sir William Drury of Hawstead. Wikitree: Roger Drury was born about 1422, because in a 1476 deposition he stated that he was 54 years old (and he was also said to have been 74 years old when he died on 20 January 1495/96). From Campling's book: "Roger Drury married 1. Felice, daughter and heir of William Denston of Besthorpe, co. Norfolk, by whom he had issue Sir Robert, who succeeded him at Hawstead, William, 2nd son, who founded the family of Drury of Besthorpe, John and Roger, died without issue, and two daughters, Katherine wife of 1. Sir Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, knight, and 2. Sir Robert Ratcliff of Attleburgh, co. Norfolk, knight, and died 1496; and Felice, married James Andrews of Baylham, co. Suffolk." ?Roger died 31 January 1493/4. His will was dated 20 January 1493/4. By his testament dated at Hawsted he bequeathed his body to be buried in such place as God should assignat the time of his death, willing that if it pleased the Abbot and Convent of Bury to keep a dirige for him in the choir, and mass of requiem on the next day at the high altar, because it had pleased them to make him a brother of their chapter, the Abbot should have 20 shillings, the Prior 6s. 8d., the sexton 3s. 4d., the celerar 3s. 4d., the chanter 3s. 4d. and every other monk priest 20d. and such as were not priests 12d. apiece. And the testator bequeathed to Anne Basset, daughter of John Basset and Elizabeth his wife 40s. to her marriage; to Thomas Coote, parson of Hawsted, for his tithes not full content in times past, 20s.; to the high altar of each of the Churches of Hartest, Somerton and Whepsted, 6s. 8d.; to the reparation of the Church of Onehouse, where he was patron 40s.; to each of the two houses of Friars of Thetford, for a dirge and mass, 12s. 4d.; to the nuns of the same town 20s.; to the Friars of Sudbury 12s. 4d.; to the Friars of Clare 12s. 4d.; and to the White Friars of Cambridge 2s. 4d. And after other pecuniary legacies to persons therein named, and among others, to Elizabeth Drury his servant and kinswoman 10 marks, which his son Robert had in his keeping, the testator desired that an annuity of 10s. payable by George Nunne for a term on 37 years should be spent by his executors yearly in red herrings, in Lent, among the inhabitants of Whepsted, some more and some less as poverty required, and to be bought as therein mentioned. And the testator willed that Anne his wife should have all such stuff of household utensils plate and jewels, with the books that were hers before marriage; and of his plate a gilt piece, with a base foot, weighing 23oz.; a standing piece, white and gilt, weighing 27oz.; his old silver bason with the Drury arms departed, weighing 27oz. Also his gilt ewer weighing 18oz. And he willed that she should have his chased piece with his arms in the bottom, weighing 12oz. because she has two pieces of the same suit; also his plain flat piece with a gilt knob, weighing 16oz.; also his powder box, weighing 7oz; and his primer clothed with purple damask, and his book clothed with red leather in which book was the Mass of J'hu also his white counterpane which had his arms, his green coverlit wrought with white cotton, his pair of fustians, and my payre of staymyns (blankets made of wool), the whole chamber (furniture) that he lay in, his two beds in the maidens chamber whole, with the change of sheets belonging to all the said chambers. And of his other sheets and napery such part as she thought necessary. And the testator willed that Robert his son should have his books of Latin lying in his chapel or belonging thereto, and his two vestments, one of cloth of gold, the other black velvet, with all the altar cloths, fronteleys and hangings concerning the said chapel; his gilt chalice, weighing 20oz.; his two standing candlesticks of 23oz.; his two cruets, gilt and white, 20oz.; and his silver bason with his whole arms, and the white ewer thereto, weighing 3lb. 11oz. Also his chaffing chaffer of silver, weighing 27oz., and the 13 spoons which were daily in the buttery, "with the square peynts" weighing 13oz. and three quarters; and his great counterpane with the Bourchier arms, and his pair of stamyns; and that Anne the wife of his said son Robert should have the choice of his two masers, and that Margaret the wife of the testators son William should have the other maser; the one maser with the cover silver gilt weighed 16oz. And the other with the peynted cover and the gilt knob weighed 16oz., and that Anne the daughter of the said Robert should have his primer clothed in bawdekyn. And that William his son should have his two English books Bochas (Boccacio) of Lydgates making; also one of his feather beds, with a traversin of the same suit lying in the chapel chamber; and that Anne the testators wife should have of his coffers and chests such as she might think necessary. The residew of his stuff of household in the keeping of the said Robert and Anne his wife, his said son Robert to have; and his son William to have all such shepe as the testator had at geyst at the time of his death. And the testator willed that 100 marks which his son Robert had in keeping, in money and in plate, should go to the founding of a scholar of Divinity in Cambridge for ten yeres, giving him 10 marks yearley if he preached once in the year during the 10 years at Bury and once at Hawsted; and if he would not preach, then the testator willed that he should have but 8 marks by the year. Also that Katharine, Jane, and Anne, the daughters of his sone William, should have 150 marks which is in the keeping of the said William, to their marriage, that is to say, each of them 50 marks; and if any of the sisters should die, her 50 marks to be departed between the two sisters; and if any of them intended to be a woman of religion, then he willed that she should have 10 marks on the day of her profession, the residue to be departed between the other two sisters; and if two of them should die or marry, the survivor to have 100 marks of the said 150 and the 50 marks residue to be disposed of at the discretion of his said son William, his son Robert, and Katharine his daughter; and if they all died, the said 150 to be disposed among his other children, and the money to be in the keeping of William, and if he died, of Robert, as therein mentioned." And the testator made his sones Robert and William executors of his will. TOMB ROGER DRURY AND FELICE DENSTON LADY FELICE DENSTON was born about 1434 of Besthorpe, Breckland BorouFwilligh, Norfolk, England, to William Denston (1410-) and Anne Calthorpe (1398.) She married Roger Drury about 1448 of England. Felice Denston passed away 12 January 1523, Hawstead, St. Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England, age 89. Wikitree: FELICE DENSTON See pedigree of Drury of Hawstead in Muskett, "Suffolk Manorial Families, Vol. 1".[1] As an heiress, she passed on the Denston lands in Besthorpe to a branch of the Drury family. Campling wrote: Roger Drury married 1. Felice, daughter and heir of William Denston of Besthorpe, co. Norfolk, by whom he had issue Sir Robert, who succeeded him at Hawstead, William, 2nd son, who founded the family of Drury of Besthorpe, John and Roger, died without issue, and two daughters, Katherine wife of 1. Sir Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, knight, and 2. Sir Robert Ratcliff of Attleburgh, co. Norfolk, knight, and died 1496; and Felice, married James Andrews of Baylham, co. Suffolk.[2] Blomefield wrote: Roger Drury of Hausted in Suffolk had by Felice, or Phillis, daughter and heir of William Denton of Festhorp in Norfolk, William Drury, his second son, to whom he gave Besthorp.[3] He also says that concerning "Page's manor" in Besthorp... in Edward the Fourth's time it belonged to the Dentons, and went with Felice, daughter and heir of William Denton of Besthorp, to Roger Drury of Hausted in Suffolk, who married her; and thus this manor came to the Drurys. Her son Robert has an article in the History of Parliament biographies: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/drury-sir-robert-i-1456-1535 ********************** Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors Roger Drury, Esq.1,2,3 Last Edited4 Apr 2020 M, #35631, d. 31 January 1494 FatherNicholas Drury b. c 1365, d. 2 Sep 1456 MotherJoan Heath Roger Drury, Esq. was born at of Hawstead, Suffolk, England. He married Felice Denston, daughter of Sir William Denston and Anne de Calthorpe, circa 1454 at England.2,3,4 Roger Drury, Esq. died on 31 January 1494. Family Felice Denston b. c 1436, d. 12 Jan 1523 Children Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House of Commons+2,3 b. c 1455, d. 2 Mar 1536 William Drury b. c 1457 Felice Drury b. c 1459 Katherine Drury+ b. c 1461 John Drury b. c 1463 Roger Drury b. c 1465 in Edward the Fourth's time it belonged to the Dentons,

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Robert DRURY, person ID K8G3-7J8. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Roger Drury, person ID LTBK-ZJ9. (Reliability: 3).