John Salter
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 25 April 1492.
Place of Burial: Newport, Shropshire.
The date is given on his monument in the parish church of Newport.
Relationships
Father: probably Thomas Salter.
Mother: probably Elizabeth Glover.
See the Commentary section below. Elizabeth was probably a daughter of John Glover.
Spouse: Isabella [Charlton?].
John’s wife is named Isabella on his monumental inscription. She is named Isabel in a Chancery pleading from 1473-5. I explain why I believe the evidence suggests that she was a Charlton her page (Commentary section).
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.
Evidence
Concerning Thomas Salter and Elizabeth Glover:
The 1623 Shropshire visitation makes John’s father Thomas Salter. This is consistent with documentary evidence.
A Thomas Salter shows up as a witness in Newport starting in 1420:
from the Court of Common Pleas (CP40/636):
1420
London, debt
Plaintiff: John Abbot of London, mercer
Defendants: Thomas Saltere of Neweport, Salop, chapman; John Hillyng of Exeter Devon, chapman
(CP40/776):
1455
Worcester, debt
Plaintiff: Reginald Neweton, clerk
Defendants: William Teteley of Teteley, Cheshire, gent; Thomas Salter of Neweport, Salop, yeoman; John Gervays of Tyrenhyll, Salop, yeoman
Shropshire Archives
1429 grant: witnessed by …Thomas Salter…
1429 grant: witnessed by William Glover…Thomas Salter…
1430 grant: witnessed by …Thomas Salter, William Glover, …
1436 grant: witnessed by …Thomas Salter, William Glover, …
1443 grant: witnessed by Thomas Salter…
1446 grant: “Thomas son of John Salter, attests the grant of land by the Burgesses of Newport to William Glover” (Jones p. 123. It is not clear to me whether the “son of John Salter” is what is written in the grant or Jones’ editorial comment).
1447 lease: witnessed by… Thomas Salter…
1458 grant: witnessed by …Thomas Salter …
1465 will of Thomas Reynolds: witnessed by Thomas Salter
1468 rent agreement: witnessed by …Robert Charlton, Thomas Charl[ton], Thomas Salter of Newport.
1468 grant: witnessed by Thomas Salter, …
And there is this Chancery pleading (NA C 1/38/287):
1433-1443, or more likely 1467-1472 Newport
Salter v Griffith
Plaintiffs: Thomas Salter and Elizabeth his wife, sister of William Glover.
Defendants: Reginald, son and heir of Griffith Baker, late surviving feoffee to uses.
Subject: Messuages in Newport (Neuport). Shropshire
Concerning the John of this page:
In the Court of Common Pleas:
John Salter appears about 50 times between 1448 and 1480 as an attorney for the defendant in the Court of Common Pleas. Often (maybe 25% of the time) the defendant was from Shropshire.
A John Salter acted as an attorney for the abbot and convent of Lilleshall in 1453.
According to Burke, John Salter was clerk of the peace in 1459. The VCH (v. 3 p. 68) states that he first occurs as clerk of the peace in 1462 and continues until at least until 1490, and perhaps until his death in 1492.
He appears a witness to grants etc.:
Cherynton:
Shropshire Archives 972/1/1/182
1457 Cherynton Grant
Cherynton (Cherrington), Saturday after the feast of St Gregory 35 Hen. VI
Parties: 1 John Taylor alias Ladyman of Newport and 2 Philip Young (Yonge) of Caynton, William Glover of Newport, Richard Offeley, Roger Offeley, chaplain
Description: The tenement where John Shetton lives in the village of Cherynton
Witnesses: John Chetewynd esquire, John Salter of Neuport, John Halle of the same, Thomas Cherynton of Cherynton, John Payne of the same
Seal: Tag with round red seal
Ercall: 1463 (with William Glover), 1464
Lilleshall: 1464, 1470, 1475, 1488, 1491 (John Salter the elder and John Salter the younger)
Newport: 1465, 1483
Haughmond: 1484
from the Feet of Fines (Abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy):
County: Shropshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from Holy Trinity, 6 Edward IV [8 June 1466].
Parties: John Salter, querent, and John Maleherst and Isabel, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 3 messuages, 3 acres of land and 6 acres of pasture in Neweport.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John Maleherst and Isabel have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John Salter, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Isabel to him and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty against George, abbot of Westminster, and his successors.
For this: John Salter has given them 40 marks of silver.
A Chancery pleading (NA C 1/48/371):
1473-5
Short title: Salter v Chorleton.
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.
John Salter was a mainpernor in Newport in 1482 (Griffiths p. 162).
John’s monumental inscription in the parish church of Newport (Jones, p. 124):
Clericus en pacis custos pacisq: Johnes in cineres vtres Salter iacet his tumulatus. In festo Marci spiritū xro dedit iste: anno milleno quingenteno mīn octo huic sociat ppr sese coniux Isabella, hiis det solamen cunctor conditor Amen.
Jones’s translation: Lo, here lies entombed among ancient ashes John Salter clerk of the peace and guardian of the peace; he gave his soul to Christ on the feast of St. Mark in the year one thousand five hundred less eight. Near him in close company lies his wife Isabella herself. May the Creator of all things give them peace. Amen.
Concerning Richard:
From the Calendar of the Patent Rolls:
1465
Presentation of Richard Salter, chaplain, to the parish church of Suthwotton, in the diocese of Norwich. [Calendar of Patent Rolls]
From the Lateran Regesta:
1474-5
To Richard Salter, rector of St. Giles's, Stanlake, in the diocese of Lincoln, doctor in decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice, or without the said church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches, etc., or dignities, etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1 p.]
from Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae:
Prebendary of Nethbury in Terra
M. Richard Salter D.Cn.L. 1483-1508.
Occ. 1483 (Miscell. et Statuta f. 117, cited in Jones, Fasti 11 408). Res. by 20 Oct. 1508 (Reg. Audley f. 38b).
Prebendary of Hansacre
M. Richard Salter D.Cn.L. 1489-1501.
Coll. 30 May 1489 (Reg. XII (Hals) f. 60b). Chancellor 1501.
Chancellors of Lichfield
M. John Doket D.Cn.L., B.Th. 1489-1501.
Coll. 13 Feb. 1489 (Reg. XII (Hals) f. 60). Adm. to preb. of Alrewas s.d. (A.C. 11 f. 30). D. before 24 Apr. 1501 (Reg. XIII (Arundel) f. 214).
M. Richard Salter D.Cn.L. 1501-1505.
Coll. 24 Apr. 1501 (Reg. XIII (Arundel) f. 214). Precentor 1505.
Precentor of Lichfield
M. Richard Salter D.Cn.L. 1505-1519.
Coll. 14 Feb. 1505 (Reg. XIV (Blythe) f. 25). Adm. s.d. (A.C. 111 f. 83b). D. before 27 May 1519 (ibid. f. 123).
Fines from 1513:
No. 29. On the Quindene of St. Hillary. 5 Hen. VIII.
Between Richard Salter, Richard Delves, Canons of the cathedral church of Lychefeld, Richard Strete and Thomas Langworth, Clerks, complainants, and Robert Sprotte and Agnes his wife, and Thomas Sprotte and Margaret his wife, deforciants of two messuages, thirty acres of land, twelve acres of meadow and thirty-two acres of pasture in Great Wyrley.
Robert and Agnes and Thomas Sprotte and Margaret remit all right to the complainants, for which the complainants gave them £30 sterling.
No. 8. On the Quindene of St. Hillary. 5 Hen. VIII.
Between Richard Salter and Richard Delves, Canons of the cathedral church of Lychefeld, Richard Strete and Thomas Langworth, Clerks, complainants, and John Veyse and Agnes his wife, deforciants of a messuage, six acres of land, eight acres of meadow and 100 acres of pasture in Stychebroke, Elmehurst, and Curborow, next Lychefyld.
John and Agnes remit all right to the complainants, for which they gave 100 marks of silver.
No. 45. On the Quindene of St. Hillary. 5 Hen. VIII.
Between Richard Salter and Richard Delves, Canons of the cathedral church of Lychefyld, Richard Strete and Thomas Langworth, Clerks, complainants, and Robert Sprotte and Agnes his wife, deforciants of a messuage, twelve acres of land, two acres of meadow and three acres of pasture in Great Wyrley.
Robert and Agnes remit all right to the complainants, for which they gave 20 marks of silver.
No. 5. On the Morrow of the Purification. 5 Hen. VIII.
Between Richard Salter and Richard Delves, Canons of the cathedral church of Lychefeld, Richard Strete and Thomas Langworth, Clerks, complainants, and John Pach and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants of two messuages, twenty acres of land, eight acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture and ten acres of moor in Walsall, Caldmore and Wodend.
John and Elizabeth remit all right to the complainants, for which they gave 100 marks of silver.
Concerning Roger:
from the Shropshire VCH (v.2, sub The College of St Mary Newport):
The college had only two masters or wardens between 1452 and 1543. Roger Salter, instituted in 1491, was granted leave of absence for study in the same year, but masters seem normally to have observed the provisions for continual residence.
Roger Salter, instituted 1491, resigned 1543.
From the Shropshire Archives:
Lease (1/75):
1. Thomas Newport of Ercall, Esq. 2. Roger Salter, warden of the College of Newport, William Hatton, William Gowre, prysts brethren of the college, Francis Yong, master of the Gyld and Rychard Powtrell, Stuart of our Ladyes lands there. A certain voyde place of ground in Newport between a tenement of Francis Yong on the east and one late of Jamys Gernye on the west, being 29 feet broad and stretching in length from the Hye Street to a river running into "the pole of Newport". For 80 years. 2s. p.a. rent. Grantees responsible for the repair of any buildings they put on the ground. Witnesses: William Newport, John Newport, William Taylor, Richard Hurlebott, William Bradshaw, Roger Symons. 12 August, 14 Henry VIII (1522)
Deed (1/69):
High Ercall 1. Roger Salter of Newport, clarke 2. Thomas Newport of Hye Ercall, Esq. Benefice or free Chapel of Roden. For three years from Easter (?) next, and so from three years to three years during Roger's life. 40s. p.a. Grantee responsible for repair of the Chapel. 18th October, 36 Henry VIII (1544)
References
Bright, Jonathan Brown. The Brights of Suffolk, England. (1858).
Jones, Edward. “Historical Records of Newport, Co. Salop” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol. IX., 1886. Pages 117-170.
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Paul Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, eds. (London, 1889).
Will of John Salter. Proved 1532 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.