John Michell (died 1474)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1474.

The date is given in the Victoria History of the County of Sussex (Volume 6, sub Horsham: Manors and Other Estates).

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

According to Attree, who is followed by the History of Parliament, the Michells of Stammerham were a junior branch of the Michells of Cuckfield, who had been established there from the 13th century: "From the fact of a small copyhold property, called Lower Moonhill, held of the Manor of Pangdean, the descent of which was to the youngest son, remaining for some centuries after in a junior branch of the family of Michell, of Stammerham, in Horsham, and from the Horsham and Cuckfield families, both bearing the same arms -- sable, a chevron between three escallop shells, argent -- the Horsham family with a mark of cadency, it seems likely that the Cuckfield Michells were the oldest branch, and that the Stammerham Michells obtained their subsequent importance in the county by the marriage of the heiress of Stammerham."

Spouse: Alice.

This relationship is given by Comber (1:230). It is supported by a fine given by Salzman (no. 2888).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

John Michell married Margaret.

Henry Michell (died 1513) married Alice.

Evidence

A fine dated 9 Henry V [1421-2]:

William Ryman and Elizabeth his wife v. John Michell and Alice his wife; a moiety of a messuage, a garden, 100 acres of land, 60 acres of pasture, 40 acres of wood, a weir and 30s. rent in West Ichenore, Est Ichenore and Brydham; to William and Elizabeth. (File 84. No. 23.)

from the West Sussex Record Office catalogue:

Demise

26 May 1465

By Thomas Covert and Richard Stenyng to John Aldratte and Elizabeth Michell, daughter of John Michell of Stamerham in Horsham, of all those lands and tenements, rents and services in Regewyk and Byllyngeshurst which they lately had by feoffment of the said John Aldratt To hold to the said John Aldratte and Edithe Michell and the heirs of their bodies of the chief lords of that fee &c. Reversion in default of such heirs to the right heirs of the said John. 2 tags, seals gone

from the National Archives catalogue:

E 326/4040

Grant for seven years by richard Merlet, to John Michell the elder of Stamerham, of land in Horsham called 'Wollockys Byggyng,' abutting on the land of the lady of Cheseworthe and on the highway from Horshamys hethe to Stenyng: [Sussex.] 21 May, 3 Edw IV. English. Seal.

21 May 1463

E 326/4045

Grant by Richard Marlett of Hechyngfeld, to John Muychell the elder of Stamerham, for a further term of twenty years, of the piece of land in Horsham, called 'Wollokkes,' which the said John held him for seven years: Sussex. 20 March, 8 Edw IV.

20 March 1468

E 326/4044

Release by Richard Merlott of Hechyngfeld, gentleman, to John Mickell of Stamerham, of all his right in a piece of land in Horsham called 'Wollokkis,' lying between the land called 'Goffes,' and 'the Swelde lond,' and the high road from the Bullokkes Brigge to the park of Seggewyke: Sussex. 24 May, 9 Edw IV. Seal.

24 March 1469

LM/345/152/1-2 [Surrey History Centre]

Abstracts of title of Hokeland in Itchingfield, Sprekland in Horsham, Bachelers in Shipley and other lands in these parishes which eventually came to Mitchell family, all in Sussex.

1345-1472

References

Attree, F.W.T. “Cuckfield Families: The Michells” in Sussex Archeological Collections volume 53 (1910) pp. 109 - 130.

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916).

Horsham: Manors and Other Estates, in Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-). Volume 6, Part 2, pages 156 to 166.

John Michell in England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -).

Salzman, L.F. ed., An Abstract of Feet of Fines for the County of Sussex: Vol. 3, 1308-1509. (1916).

Swales, R.J.W. and A.D.K. Hawkyard. “Michell, John I (by 1491 - 1546), of Cuckfield, Suss.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982).