Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 30 March and 11 April 1558.
Place of Death: probably Enville, Staffordshire.
John made his will 30 March 1558 and and his probate inventory was taken 11 April 1558.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
The will of what is presumably an ancestor of John, perhaps his grandfather, is below in the evidence section.
Spouse: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children (with his first wife):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Henry Wilcox alias Taylor (died 1603) married Angel.
Humphrey Wilcox.
Four daughters.
Children (with his second wife):
Two children.
Evidence
John’s will:
In dei nom’ Anno 30 die martij Ao dni 1558. I John Wylcockis als Taylor [...] sicke in body albehit perfect in memorye make my testament & last wyll [...] maner & forme first I bequeth my sowle to almyghtie god to our lady saint Mary [...] & to all the whole company of heaven & my body to be buryed in the church of Seynt laurence of Enfeld & as Tochyng my temporall goods & cattells I gyve & bequeth to my son henry my howse & land & do wyll thatt he gyv[...] therfore to his brother humfrey & to his foure susters which I had by my first wif xls Apeece at such tymes as shalbe thowghte Convenyent by the descressyon of my executours Item I gyve to my son henry my Iron [bowndwayn?] Tunbrell ploughe & harrous & ij yookes with the Irons therto belongyng & my great pott & a bed at the descressyon of my executours. Provided always also that if my seid son henry do refuse & deny to pay the forseid money to his for seid brother & susters that then I wyll my executours to let & sett my howse & land for the space of iiij yers & then the Rent therof to be payd unto my seid son humfrey & his seid susters the forseid henry my son the meanewhyle medelyng nor harryng nothyng to do therwith furthermore if the seid henry my son wylbe advysed controolled and ordered by the advysement of my executors & my ouerseer: their I will he shall have parte of my howshold stuff at the descressyon of my executours, All the Rest of my goods & cattells: I browght whome & my detts fyrst payed I gyve & bequeth to my vij yongyst childerne my wif hauyng Ample therin as shalbe thowght convenyent by my executours, And if my wife will take Asent her honestly to kepe the seid childerne with her: then I wyll she haue the seid resydew of my goods & Catells fyndyng suffycyent surteis for the performans therof, As I putt hit only to the descression of my executours whom I ordeyne & make my especyall frynds John Wylcocks als Taylour & Wyllm Marteyne & make my ouerseers to the same Edward Haweis Cleark & Curate of Enfeld that this my last wylbe performed & kept. These beyng wittnesse Edward Hawes Curate Richard Wylcockes George Whitbrocke als backerdyne henry wylcocks humfrey wylcockes whit other moo the day & yere aboue wryttn
These ar the detts of John Wylcocks Als Taylor which he owith
Imprimis Item Hugh Clare – iij li
ditto Humfrey Clenfrey – liij s viij d
ditto Humfrey Rychurds – xs
ditto Ryc Clare – vs
ditto Wyllm Rychards the weyner – xvs viij d
ditto Willm Marteyn & his wif iiij marks vs viij d
ditto Elzabeth garbett - xiijs iiij d
ditto Edward Toye – xxvj s viij d
ditto Joys Toye — vs
ditto Hanbury of Hampton – xs
ditto Foxalls wyf — viij s
ditto Smyth of Worfeld — xxd
ditto John Taylour — xxd
ditto Wyllm Marteyne — vj s viij d
ditto Rychard Taylour — xls
summa — xvli ixs
Invitorin viz bonor’ Johnie Wilcox als tayllor de luteley parochie enfeld xjo die aprilis
Imprimis iiij oxen ij bulloks – vij li vij s xiij d
Item vj kyne iiij Calues — vij li vj s viij d
Item ij yere old Calues – xxs
Item one horse — xxxiij s iiij d
Item iiij Schore shypp
Item xxvj lambes — ix li v x iij d
Item iiij Swyne vj pygges – xvj s
Item ij mattresses — iij s iiij d
Item ij bowsters one Couerlett – ij s
Item vj Candelles – vj s
Item vj pere of shetes of noggerd/ one flaxen — vj s
Item vj potts one pane one skyner j pip — xxxj s
Item iij Catheruse one skellett – v s
Item xj peeter dyshes iij secerd dishes & trenshers – viij s
Item ij Candle stycks one styengbeend one salt — ij s iiij d
Item vj stonds iij mergbegsells[?] & ij payles — iij s viij d
Item one broche a pese of potthoobs – xij d
Item ij axes one hatchett ij bylls one mattog j spade – xx d
Item one adze vj na[...es] iij Wymbles one spoke shave ij d
Item one blocke sab a grassynge sacke ij Chysells ij s viij d
Item one syeth iij hamers one pere of pynsons ij s iiij d
Item ij bottells iij Candel iij Cyeulls – xiij d
Item ij cotes ij dubeletts iij shurts ij hatts 000 viij s
Item one pere of hose one nyghtarpp of satten – xij d
Item xiij stycks of Rosett cloth vj stycks of wyght cloth xviij s
Item Woods & tymber & borde – xiij s iiij d
Item one sadle one brydle one pere of botes one pere of spoores v s
Item one yron bound Wayne one tunbrell plowes harrows and other implements therto belongyng –xx s
Item fetters & byrchs — ij s
Item xviij stycks of malt — xviij s
Item Corne in the barne threshid & unthresshyde & Corne in the Feld Growyng — v marks
Item a gryndlestone – xij d
Item iiij ladders – ij s viij d
Item geese & hennes — vs
Item table bords Formes & tressells – xxd
Item rent boords — vs
Item beyss & bakon – xxs
Item one Weetyngsall a bolttyng vessell a tubb and a troth – vj d
Item a stryke one hoope & [...ives] –vj d
Item a spynnyng whyll a hatchett & iij peyre of cards xv d
Item iij stycks & ahalf of playne Clothe – iij s
Item iij quoffers — iij s
Item bedhangyngs of payntyde cloothes – ij d
Item badges & mates – ij s
Item one Wayne [...orpe] vjd
Item lynnen yoren & towe – xvj d
Item one borde cloth one towell — xij s
Item v stycks of puke & j payntyd clothe – viij s viij d
Presyde by Frauncys Cox Edwarde Gravenor Ryc Spyttle Wyllym Pratt & Rychard Hasellwood
Sum’ totalis – xlij li xij s xd
[Proved 5 July 1558]
Probably John’s grandfather’s will:
In the name of god amen the yere off oure lorde god mo ccccciijo the secunde day of August I John Wylcoks alias tayler mak my wyll in this maner of forme I be quethe my soule to all myghty god to his mother saynct mary & the blessed company of hevyn my body to be beryed in the church yard of Enfeld Item I bequeth to the red lyghts xijd to margery my doughter vj li xiij s iiij d a cofer a payre of beds a [...ll] a [...] duscrecon of fur them my [...] Item to humfrey my son a wayne a tu[mb]rell all my wood with colts a pack of bullocks & my fats bedsteds packs [ch...] with all other things to my secturs named Item to John my son wyfe vj li Item [thomas?] bate a heyfer to Elizabeth bate [...] a shepe to Elnor Byrd a shep syshe [...] a shepe to John taylyer a shepe [...] Item to vj of my eldest chyldern every on of them a sylver spon the Resydue of my goods my detts payd my testament fulfylled I wyll that [...] Thomas my son & Thomas Bate my son in law to be stow them for the welth of my soulle accordyng to my [...] schewed unto them & the forseyd thomas bate to have for his labur vj s vvvj d the which for thomas & thomas bate [I] mak my lawfull Executors thes beryng wittnes for them curet Humfery spetull Humfrey taylyer [...] John Taylyer & others else yere & day as a bove namyd
[Will registered 12 October 1533, although dated 2 August 1503]
References
Johnson, D.A. and N.J. Tringham. “Enville” in The Victoria County History of Staffordshire v. 20 (1984).
Will of John Wilcox of Enville. Proved 1533 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk.
Will of John Wylcockys alias Taylor of Enville. Proved 1558 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk.