Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
I explain in the Commentary section why I think Thomas Charlton and Cecily Francis were either Isabella’s parents or grandparents.
Spouse: John Salter.
John’s wife is named Isabella on his monumental inscription. She is named Isabel in a Chancery pleading from 1473-5.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. All the children below are tentatively placed here,without documentary evidence for the relationships. Possibly, Roger should be in a later generation.)
Thomas Salter.
John Salter married Rosa (or Anne) Cludd. Possibly Thomas was the husband of Rosa/Anne.
Richard Salter (died about 1519), doctor of decrees.
Roger Salter (died after 1543), clerk. Roger was master of St Mary, Newport, from 1491 to 1543. He was living in 1544.
Commentary
Isabella’s parents
Here are my reasons for thinking that Thomas Charlton and Cecily Fraunceys were Isabella’s parents (or perhaps grandparents).
First, John Salter (died 1532), a grandson of Isabella, mentioned his “cousin William Chorelton” in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury.
William Chorleton’s ancestry is fairly well known. I don’t think it is possible for John Salter and William Chorleton to have been first cousins, since none of their parents were siblings. But second cousins, or first cousins once removed, is a possibility. Isabella is the only unknown grandparent of John Salter or William Chorleton. For them to be second cousins, Isabella would have to be daughter of one of William’s four pairs of great-grandparents. These were:
Thomas Knightley alias Charlton of Apley and Cecily Fraunceys
Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet and Margaret
Randle Mainwaring of Ightfield and Margery Venables
John Warren of Ightfield and Emma Cheney
A number of considerations make the first pair the most likely parents for the wife of the attorney John Salter of Newport (died 1492).
Distance from Newport. Apley is 8 miles, Moreton Corbet 15 miles, and Ightfield 16 miles.
Thomas Charlton often had business in Newport, and appears in documents together with John Salter’s probable father Thomas Salter.
John Salter the attorney defended Thomas Charlton’s son Robert in London in a case in the Court of Common Pleas.
There is a Chancery case concerning property in Newport where John Salter and his wife Isabel are the plaintiffs, and Thomas Charlton’s son and grandson Robert Charlton of Apley and Richard Charton are the defendants. I assume Isabel is named as a plaintiff because the case directly concerned her in some way.
I don’t see evidence connecting the other couples (b, c, and d) to the Salters. It is maybe possible, but chronologically more unlikely, that Isabel was the daughter of Thomas and Cecily’s son Robert Charlton.
Evidence
National Archives Catalogue:
Talbot papers
probably 1516
John Salter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, no place, 26 March, n.a. He has helped the Abbot of Shrewsbury before the Council of the Marches, as the Earl asked. He apologizes that the courts of the Honour of Tutbury have not been held for six months; he had asked a deputy to do it and promises to attend in person next Easter. His cousin, William Chorleton, will discuss other business with the Earl. 1p. Endorsed. 'To my good lord'.
Shropshire Archives 972/1/2/2
1 July 1436
Dated: Leghcombray, 1 Jul 14 Hen VI
Parties: 1 James [Tuchet] lord of Audley, and 2 John Stafford, bishop of Bath and Wells, William Lee, Richard Bernard, clerk
Description: The manors of Leghcombray, Dalyley and Ketley (Leegomery, Dawley, Ketley) and a moiety of the manor of Fordeshome (Ford) to hold in perpetuity
Witnesses: William Burley, Thomas Charlton (Chorleton), Philip Young, Roger Lynay, Thomas Salter, William Glover
Seal: Large red seal on tag, fine impression including Tuchet/Audley coat of arms and a visored basinet with a swan crest, flanked by ?dragonflies; legend SIGILLUM [IA]COBI DUX DE AUDELEY
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Court of Common Pleas CP40/813
Term: Michaelmas 1464
County: London
Writ type: Trespass (force and arms)
Damages claimed: £100
Case type: Assault; Housebreaking; Taking of goods
Plaintiff: Thomas Osborn
Defendants: Robert Chorleton, esquire, of Apley, Shropshire; William Mitton, esquire, of Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire, and Thomas Dawe of Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire
Attorney for the Defendant: John Salter.
Pleading: Thomas Osborn states that on 3 July 1443 Robert Chorleton, William Mitton and Thomas Dawe, the defendants, together with Thomas Yarme, Robert Stokes, John Wolley, Thomas Barker and John Sandysshe, forcibly broke into his house in London, assaulted him, and took and carried away goods worth £40, namely 9 silver cups ('ciphos') called 'Paris pieces', one silver and gilt bowl called a 'standing piece', a silver bowl called a 'bolle pece', two pairs of silver and gilt salts, 3 dozen silver spoons, 21 gold rings, 7 silk girdles of various colours decorated with silver, a saddle, a bridle, a scarlet gown lined with marten fur, a blue gown lined with marten fur, a violet gown lined with polecat fur, and a bill called a Normany bill. This was against the peace, and to his damage of £100.
Pleading: Defendants granted licence to imparl to octave of Hilary.
Pleading: [Followed by mesne process entry of same TO against accessories, who did not come. Sheriff to take, not found, sicut pluries to octave of Hilary. Sheriff did not send writ (twice), to same quindene of Trinity 1465.
Postea text: 3 further licences to imparl, to quindene of Trinity 1465.
Shropshire Archives 972/1/1/131
1468
Dated: Howle, 7 Jul 8 Edw IV
Parties: 1 Rose Marston (Merston), widow of John Merston knight, and 2 William Young (Yonge) esquire, Margaret his wife, Lewis Eyton, Radulf Eyton, Thomas Acton, John Cotes esquire
Description: 4 messuages with all 1's lands, tenements, rents, meadow, common pasture, fishpond and fishery in Howle. 2 to hold, followed by the heirs or assigns of William Young
Rent: 32s. a year to 1 for her life, half at Michaelmas and half at Easter. If rent is in arrears, 1 may distrain goods in the property and hold them until satisfaction is given. If the rent is in arrears by a quarter of a year, the tenants must pay 20s penalty and an additional 20s penalty at each quarter after the feast on which it should have been paid.
Witnesses: William Newport (Neuport), Thomas Gravenor (Grauenore), Robert Charlton (Charleton), Thomas Charl[ton] , Thomas Salter of Neuport
Seal: Tag with round red seal
Court of Chancery C/48/371
1473-5
Plaintiffs: John Salter and Isabel, his wife.
Defendants: Robert Chorleton, of Appeley, esquire, and Richard, his son.
Subject: Cottages and closes in Newport, purchased from John Halle. Shropshire.