 1541 - 1588 (47 years)
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| Name |
Francis Yates |
| Birth |
1541 |
Lyford Grange, Berkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Dec 1588 |
London, England |
| Cause: Died in Tower of London having been there since 1580 |
| Age |
47 years |
| Person ID |
I24381 |
Base Tree |
| Last Modified |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Father |
Thomas Yates, (founder of Lyford Yates), b. 28 Nov 1509, Lyford Grange, Berkshire, England d. 28 Nov 1565, Lyford, Berkshire, England (Age 56 years) |
| Mother |
Frances White, b. 14 May 1514, England d. 23 Dec 1584, Lyford, Berkshire, England (Age 70 years) |
| Family ID |
F9846 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- the Recusant
John Yate died in possession of Lyford in 1541, and was succeeded by his younger son Thomas, who founded the family of Yate of Lyford. He was succeeded by a son and heir Francis, who died in possession in 1588. His son Thomas succeeded him and had a (grand) son John, who was in possession of the estates in 1665 and died in 1671. Charles son of John was the next owner; he died in 1696, and seems to have left co-heiresses. Winifred Yate, spinster, released the manor in 1713 to William Dunn and his wife Mary, a daughter of Charles. William Dunn died in 1745 and was succeeded by Charles Dunn, probably his son. (A History of the County of Berkshire, vol. 4, pp. 285-294).
In 1501 it (Drayton Estate) was conveyed to John Yate of Charney Basset (Berks.), and remained with his family during the 16th century. This estate was not treated as a separate manor in later records, but as part of Dorchester manor held in free socage. In 1530 John Yate settled his Drayton estate on his wife Alice and younger son Thomas. Thomas (d. 1565) was the founder of the Yate family of Lyford (Berks.). In the mid-16th century he was one of the most substantial tenants in Drayton, paying 60s. 6d. rent for his land held of Dorchester manor; at his death in 1565 he held 4 yardlands copyhold as well as about 200 acres, 9 yardlands called Drayton Farm, freehold, which was leased to Richard Pawling of Drayton. Thomas Yate's son Francis succeeded him and seems to have lived in Drayton. By 1597, however, Francis's son Thomas had sold the farm to a Robert Doyley of Hambleden (Bucks.) and George Lazenby of Drayton.
'Parishes: Drayton St Leonard', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7: Dorchester and Thame hundreds (1962), pp. 71-81. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63769&strquery="John Yate of Charney Basset" Date accessed: 07 April 2009.
1588 DEATH: Died in Tower of London having been there since 1580 for recusancy. The Yate family acquired interest in Cowdrey's Manor at Padworth from his wife. He requested Fr. Edmund Campion to attend to the religious needs of family in Lyford Grange. On his way to Norfolk , Campion stopped at Lyford , then in Berkshire , where he preached on July 14 and the following day, by popular request. Here, he was captured by a spy and taken to London with his arms pinioned and bearing on his hat a paper with the inscription, "Campion, the Seditious Jesuit." Campion was executed on 5 Dec 1581.
St. James Church, Denchworth, West Hanney, Berkshire, ENG, where Thomas Yate is buried in the churchyard and also has Francis, 1588; Frances White Yate;and Jane Tichborne Yate, 158-. Andrews Court, a manor in West Hanney, was purchased by the Yate family in 1511. The church dates from the 12th century. Francis was originally buried at St. Ebbs in Oxford, Oxfordshire, by the Crown but the family apparently reinterred him.
1588 WILL: By a nuncupative will, bequeathed lands in West Hanney to brother Edward for seven years. All else should continue as in his agreement with Francis Tregian upon the marriage between Thomas Yate, his son, and Marie, the eldest daughter of Francis Tregian (see P.R.O., Prob11/72).
1623 ITEM: Visitation of Berkshire, Yate, of Lyford.
(White, Jim. Richard Wells & Frances White, Virginia & Maryland Immigrants, 1635-1637. Jim White: Lulu Press, Inc, 2009, pp. 43-44, 68)
the Yates of Lyford, like their cousins across the fields at Buckland, continued to maintain a Catholic presence. The creation of martyrs is often counter-productive, and for the Yates Campion’s death proved to be an inspiration rather than a deterrent.
Lyford was part of Hanney parish and in the parish church of St James the Great at West Hanney are two monuments to Yates from Lyford, each clearly emphasising their ‘entire Catholicke Faith’. These were John (grandson of Francis Yate) and his son Charles, who died 90 and 115 years respectively after the raid. Neither did the family relinquish its support for nuns after the Lyford raid.
Thomas, son of Francis Yate, had three daughters who were variously nuns at Gravelines (between Calais and Dunkirk), Rouen and Brussels. Thomas’s son, the John Yate commemorated in Hanney church, had three daughters who were choir nuns with the Augustinians in Paris. Furthermore, in 1690, in the anti-Catholic clampdown after the accession of William and Mary, an informer discovered that a small estate at nearby Garford had been reserved as a site for a convent, should Catholicism ‘come in again’.
Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812 Source info
Birth, Marriage & Death
Name Franuces Yates
Death abt 1588 Different
Burial 12 Jun 1588 Oxford, St Ebbe, Oxfordshire, England
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