William Urry

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1414.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Parnel Glamorgan seems to have brought East Standen into the Urry family. She presented to the chapel in 1375-6 and William presented in 1385 and 1404. William is described in a case given below in the evidence section as “cousin and one of the heirs of Peter de Euercy. Parnel’s mother was an Evercy.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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

Elizabeth Urry (died between 1487 and 1492) married William Hawles.

Evidence

from the Calendar of the Fine Rolls:

1369. Brother Peter Ultra Aquam, alien prior of Carebrok in the Isle of Wight and proctor of the abbot of Lire in the same isle, touching the keeping of the said priory, by mainprise of Geoffrey Roukle, John Bourgham and William Urry of the county of Southampton, found in the Exchequer.

1378, May 12. Westminster. Commitment to brother Thomas de Vallosoul, prior of the alien priory of Caresbrok in the Isle of Wight,--by mainprise of Ralph de Wolverton, Willam Urry and Nicholas Spenser, all of the Isle of Wight,-- of the keeping of the said priory and all of its lands and possessions, which are in the king’s hand by reason of the was with France…

1380. Commission as a tax collector for the Isle of Wight. Also in 1384, 1406, 1407.

1380. July 14. Commitment to Ralph de Wolverton, – by mainprise of William Athelyngton, Nicholas Spenser, William Urry, and Thomas Bulbek of the county of Southampton, – of the keeping of the manor of Bouecombe in the Isle of Wight, late of Ingram de Cousy, which was lately taken into the king’s hand for certain causes by the advice of council, …

from the Calendar of the Close Rolls:

1394. November 25. To the sheriff of Suthampton. Writ of supersedeas, by mainprise of William Urry and John Veer of the county of Suthampton, and upon his own undertaking, in favour of John Bremshete whom the king ordered the sheriff to attach to answer in chancery touching certain articles laid against him.

1410. William Urry, John Veer, John Dounton, all of the Isle of Wight, and John Tame of London ‘draper’ to Robert Pobelowe clerk, Robert Jugler of Cicestre and John Tyer, son of John Tyer of the said isle deceased. Recognisance for 100l., to be levied etc. in the county of Suthampton and city of London.

1412. July 14. To Hugh Huls, William Hankeforede, Edmund Forde and John Broune of Sobbury, appointed justices, with others joined with them, to take an assize of novel disseisin concerning tenements in Stynchecombe by John Speke, Margaret his wife and William Urry arraigned against Walter atte Pole knight, Elizabeth his wife, and others….

1414. William Urry, cousin and one of the heirs of Peter de Euercy, to Walter de la Pole knight, Elizabeth his wife and the heirs and assigns of the said Elizabeth. Quitclaim with warranty of all lands, reversions, rents and services of freeholders and neifs called ‘Lamportescourt,’ in Styntescombe, Stamcombe and Metesdone within the hundred and liberty of Berkeley co. Gloucester, sometime of Thomas de Euercy knight; with proviso that this warranty shall extend only to bar the said William and his heirs, and not to warranty against strangers. …

from the Feet of Fines (abstracted on the website Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):

County: Hampshire.

Place: Westminster.

Date: One week from St Michael, 13 Henry [IV] [6 October 1411].

Parties: William Urry of the Isle of Wight, querent, and Thomas Bergh' of the county of Surrey and Maud, his wife, deforciants.

Property: A fourth part of the manors of Gotton' and Hale with appurtenances in the Isle of Wight.

Plea of Covenant.

Agreement: Thomas and Maud have acknowledged the fourth part to be the right of William, and have rendered it to him in the court, to hold to William and his heirs, of the chief lords for ever.

Warranty: Warranty.

For this: William has given them 20 pounds sterling.

from the National Archives catalogue:

AC95/32.51

Gift with Warranty

(i) William Ury

(ii) John Garston

Lands and tenements, rents and reversions with appurtenances in Vowellford (Fulford), vill of Arreton, which (i) late had of the gift of John Boneye of Faselham [parish of Gatcombe], son and heir of John; and which lie on the south and east sides of the old road from the mansion of (ii) right to the highway leading from Arreton Church to Horringford Mill. Dated at Fulford

Witnesses: Thomas del Isle, John Veer, William Burgham, Richard Martre and Thomas Heyward

27 August 1413

from a miscellaneous inquisition:

Commission [1414] to Thomas Brerdyng and Henry Haweles to inquire by a jury of the Isle of Wight concerning the serious complaint, made on behalf of the abbot and convent of the abbey of Beaulieu (Bello Loco), co. Southampton, which is of the foundation of the king’s progenitors, kings of England, and of his patronage, that although the abbey and all the manors and possessions belonging to it are taken into the king’s hands for certain causes, nevertheless John Clerk of Branstone, pretending to have the right and title in a messuage and 3 acres of land in Branstone which are and have been from time immemorial parcel of the glebe of the church of Newchurch in the Isle of Wight, which church is appropriated to the said abbey, has entered on them and enfeoffed William Urry thereof, by virtue whereof William has entered on them and has for a long time hindered the tenants thereof in taking their profits arising therefrom, as they should, and still does, in contempt of the king and the manifest danger of disherison of the abbey.

from Wykeham’s Register:

East-Standen.--Inst. said Thomas de Nortone, clk., to the chapel. Pat. Parnel Urry.--Highclere (17 March 1375-6).

St Leonard’s, East Standen.--Inst. William Brygge, pr., to chapel of St. Leonard’s, Estaundone, Isle of Wight, on res. of William Nortone. Pat., William Urry.-- Southwark, 15 Feb., 1385-6.

East Standen Chapel.--Inst. ds. Peter Hert, pr., to St. Leonard’s chapel, Estaundone, Isle of Wight, on d. of William Brygges. Pat., William Urry, esquire (domicellus).--Waltham, 4 May, 1404.

from the Victoria County History of Hampshire (5: sub Arreton):

…What was afterwards known as the manor of East Standen seems, however, to have passed to the Urrys, for Parnel Urry, one of the sisters of Nicholas Glamorgan, presented to East Standen Chapel in 1375–6 and William Urry in 1385 and 1404, while George Bramshott held the manor of East Standen about the middle of the 15th century in right of his wife Elizabeth the daughter and heiress of William Urry.

References

'Parishes: Arreton', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 139-151.

Wykeham’s Register (Hampshire Record Society, 1896).