John Wilcox alias Taylor
Events
Date of Birth: probably about 1580.
Place of Birth: unknown.
In 1603, six of John’s seven siblings were under age.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Henry Wilcox alias Taylor.
Mother: Angel.
These relationships are recorded in Henry’s will.
Spouse: Elizabeth Coxe.
This relationship is recorded in the will of Elizabeth’s father Thomas Coxe.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Wilcox.
John Wilcox alias Taylor (buried 10 July 1672 in Enville, Staffordshire) married Anne Grove 16 May 1627 Enville.
Two daughters.
Evidence
from the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions Rolls.
(v. 4, p. 100)
17 April 1599
John Willcox of Envile, yeom., licensed to keep an alehouse; sureties, the said John (£10), Humphrey Spittall of the same yeom. and John Willcox of ‘Le Lane’ of Envile, yeom. (100s. each).
(v.5, p. 220)
1605
no. 9. Venire facias
…John Tayler otherwise Wilcockes of Envield lab. (trespasses etc)
(v. 5, p. 240)
no. 45.
Holograph letter, 26 May [no year], from John Collumbyne, parson of Enveild, to Edward Leigh knt. and the other justices.
Informs him that John Taylor otherwise Wilcokes of ‘the Stone’ in Enveild, being indicted at the last Quarter Sessions for many misdemeanours, hopes my means of friends to be freed at these Sessions; but he continues in drunkeness, and allows unlawful games and abuses the parson and the sacrament every Sabbath. Therefore he petitions that Taylor’s alehouse may be suppressed.
Staffordshire Record Office Q/SR/95/27
Indictment of John Tayler alias Wilcoxe, victualler, laterly of Enveild (Enville); [and others]
July 1605
Charged with keeping unlicenced alehouses at the several townships and selling ale and beer.
Not endorsed
Staffordshire Record Office Q/SR/131/39
Indictment of John Wilcoxe alias Tayler, innholder, lately of Envilde (Enville)
July 1614
Charged with offences at Enilde at a place called Cawdwell Field.
Ignoramus
Staffordshire Record Office D(W)1735/5
Grant of one half acre of land in Lutley, p. Enville near the mill of John Wilcoxe
13 Nov 1619
Consideration: £17
Parties:
Olliver Whorwood of Lutley, gent., and Thomas Whorwood his son and heir apparent;
John Wilcoxe of Lutley, yeoman;
Norman Lee of Enville, gent., and John Spittall of Enville, yeoman
Chancery Pleading National Archives catalogue: C 2/JasI/S37/27
Short title: Spittull v Stanford.
Plaintiffs: John Spittull, Frances Spitull his wife, John Wilcox and Elizabeth Wilcox his wife.
Defendants: Edward Stanford and Charles Stanford.
Subject: lease of a messuage called Coxgreen and lands in Enville and Morfe, Staffordshire.
Document type: [pleadings]
1603-1625
The 1625 will of John’s wife's brother in law John Spitull of Enville:
In the name of God Amen The sixetenth daye of maye Anno Dni 1625 I John Spittull of Enveild in the Countie of Staffs yeoman sicke in bodye But God be praysed, of good & perfect remembraunce, doe make & ordayne this my present last will & Testament in manner & forme followinge, That is to saye First I give & bequeath my soule unto Almightie God Trustinge to be saved by the meritts death & passion of his sonne & my onlie Saviour Jesus Christ, and my bodye to the earth. The decente interring whereof I referr to the discrecion of my Executors Item I doe ordayne constitute & make my welbeloved wife Frauncis Spittull; and my trustie & lovinge Brother in lawe John Wilcoxe alias Tayler of Lutley yeoman my Executors of this my present last will and Testament, Item I give & bequeath unto my said Executor Twoe Closes or pastures lyinge in the Meare in the parishe of Enveld, Called by the name of the heyes, And all those Tenemts Cottags Orchards Gardens lands & hereditamt which I latelie purchased and bought of John Wherworth of Dunsley in the said Countie of Stafford Esqr, scituate lyinge & beinge in the lordshipp of Enveild or within the Countie of Staffs To have and to hold all & singuler the said premisses with theire & trulye of theire appurtenances unto my said Executors theire heires and assignes forever. To this intent & purpose That it shall & maye be lawfull to & for the said Executors to sell & dispose of the same premisses and every or anye parte or parcell of them for the raysinge of money for the satisfyinge & discharginge of my debts Item I give & graunt unto my said wife Frauncis Spittull duringe her life, The moytie or one halfe of one messuage and halfe yarde land Thereto belonginge lyinge in Enveild wherein I newe dwell and beinge in my occupacon, The Moytie and one halfe of one Meadowe and twoe pastures called by the name of wallowes which I latelie purchased of Richard Croswaye of the Morffe yeoman The moytie & one halfe of all those my Cottages and Tenements and all the lands & hereditaments thereunto belonginge lyinge & beinge in the Lr’pp of Morffe & Lutley beinge mowe in the Tenure of my selfe, Richard Yorke, Humfrey Tomyns and Thomas Tomins, sonne of the said Humfrey, And after the death and decease of the said Frauncis mywife, I give bequeathe and graunte unto John Smithe of Womborne in the said Countie yeoman and to his heires upon trust & confidence that he shall ymploye the same to the use and benefitt of Joyce Brooke my daughter and to Thomas Brooke gent duringe her life for the maytenaunce of her selfe & her sonne Edward Brooke all & singuler the foresaid moyties & premisses last recyted, And after her decease/ I give graunte and bequeathe the same premisses unto the said Edward Brooke & his heires Males forever, And for wante & default of such yssue I give graunt & bequeathe the same premisses to the second sonne of my said daughter, Joyce, if God send her anye, And for want of such yssue, To the right heires of me the said John Spittull forever./ The other Moytie or one halfe of all & singuler the messuage Tenements Cottages lands pastures meadowes Closes and hereditaments above menconed I give graunte and bequeathe unto the said John Smith & his heires upon like trust & [...] that he shall ymploye the same to the use & benefit of my said daughter Joyce Brooke duringe her life for the maytenaunce of her selfe & her Sonne Edward Brooke, and after her decease/ I give graunte & bequeath the same last menconed Moytie with all & singuler thappurtenances unto the the said Edward Brooke & his heires Males forever, and for wante & default of such yssue I give graunte & bequeathe the same premisses tothe second Sonne of my said daughter Joyce (yf God send her any) And for want of such yssue to the right heires of me the said John Spittull forever./ Item I give & bequeathe unto my said wife Frauncis Spittull all and singuler my Cattel Chattels goods plate money utensells houshold stuffe ymplements of husbandrie Tymb’ & all other goods moveables and unmoveables whatsover wheresoever they remaye or be within the Realme of England for the satisfyinge and discharge of my debts The resydue or overplus remayninge my debts beinge paide, the legacies of this my will performed & my funerall expencs beigne discharged to remayne & be to the onely use and behoofe of my said wife and her Assignes Item I give and bequeathe unto my said Brother in law John Wilcoxe Twentie shillinges Sterlinge. Item I give unto Thomas Wollaston the writer hereof five shillings/ Provided alwayes that yf Controversies and differences maye be decided determined and endended by the Judgemt and determinacon of Humfrey Jurden of Dunsley gent and the said John Smith The which Judgemt Censure and determinacon of theires I doe allowe approue and confirme as effectuall as if I had done the same in my owne personn, Item I doe further give and bequeath unto my said sonne in lawe Thomas Brooke and his wife Twoe ewes & twoe lambs In witness whereof to this my present last will and Testament I have sett to my hand & Seale the daye & yeare first above written viz the xvjth daye of Maye 1625
John Spittull
John Wilcox
the marke of Thomas Kyteley
Mawdlyn Deawe
Thomas Wollaston
[registered 23 June 1625]
Release. Shropshire Archives 5735/2/23/1/34
John Wilcox of Luttley, Enville and Frances Spittull of Enville acquit John Brooke of Blackland of anything owing.
27 January 1628/9
Appointment of Trustees. Shropshire Archives 5735/2/22/2/8
Sir Richard Brooke of Norton, Edward Gravenor of Enville, John Wilcox and Sir Randulph Mainwaring of Peever, Chester are appointed trustees of the settlement of the capital messuage of Blackland on Thomas Brooke and his wife Joyce.
2 July 1630
Tithe Case. 1636-1637. Kinver. Staffordshire Record Office B/C/5/1636/38
2 cases
Plaintiff: John Whorwood esquire
Defendant: John Wilcox alias Tayler the elder of Enville and Thomas Stanley the younger of Enville
Witnesses: 4 sets of depositions
Details of case: concerns non-payment of tithes of lambs, wool and herbage
Outcome: [no sentence]
Staffordshire Record Office 1485/12/2/6
Libel in ecclesiastical court case at Lichfield relating to the tithes of Kinver parish.
[post 1635]
John Whorwood/ John Wilcoxe alias Tayler
Grant of fine, five leasowes in Lutley, parish of Enville. Staffordshire Record Office D(W)1735/8
2 February 1638
Two known as Lutley Wood, and Perryns Meadow or Older Meadow or Wallacy Meadow, and New Poole Meadow, and Walk Mill Poole Meadow; also a mill and two pools.
Consideration: £400
Parties:
John Wilcox of Four Ashes, p. Enville, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, and Thomas, his son and heir apparent;
Edward Careswall of Shifnal, co. Salop, gent.
References
Inventory of John Spittull, tailor of Lutley. 1610. Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk.
Johnson, D.A. and N.J. Tringham. “Enville” in The Victoria County History of Staffordshire v. 20 (1984).
Will of Angela Cox of Enville, widow. Proved 1624 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images in Findmypast.co.uk.
Will of Joyce Wilcox of Enville, spinster. Proved 1622 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images in Findmypast.co.uk.
Will of John Spitull of Enville. Proved 1625 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images in Findmypast.co.uk.