The Strachey Family

Joane (_____) Strachey

Married: Thomas Strachey

Children: Notes:
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 pp225-7 (Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994)
James Bodley, the mercer, had married Joan, the daughter of Thomas and Joan Strachey of Saffron Walden, before 1510. The Stracheys were part of the town's ruling clique which exercised its power mainly through the chantry guild of Our Lady of Pity which administered the town's almshouses.
 

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol 1 part 2 pp771-2 (1862)
5 HENRY VIII. [1514]
24 March. 4911.   For KATHARINE SEMAR, late of Cheping Walden, widow, THOMAS STRACHY, JAMES BODLEY, WILLIAM BIRR and NICHOLAS RUTLAND, all of Walden aforesaid.
  Licence to found a guild in honor of the Trinity, in the church of St. Mary, Walden, to consist of one treasurer, two chamberlains, brethen and sisters, of the parishioners of Walden; with mortmain licence to acquire lands to the annual value of 20 marks, for a chaplain to pray daily for the King and Queen Katharine, for Katharine Semar, Thomas Wulcy, late almoner to the King, Joan Bradbury, widow, John Leche, vicar of the said church, the said Thomas [Strachy] and Joan his wife, James Bodley and Joan his wife, William Bird and Anabella his wife, and Nicholas Rutland and Clemence his wife; and for the souls of Thomas Bodley, William Lawnselyn and Alice his wife, Walter Cook and Katharine his wife, Roger Pyrk and Joan his wife, Thomas Semar and Margery his wife, Nicholas, Thomas and Katharine, children of the said Katharine Semar, George Thoorne and Florence his wife, John Strachy and Alice his wife, Thomas Thoorne and Joan his wife, and Richard Mynott . . . . . . . . .5 Hen. VIII.  Del. Westm., 24 March.
  Pat. 5 Hen.VIII. p.2, m. 24.

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Joane Strachey

Father: Thomas Strachey

Mother: Joane (_____) Strachey

Married: James Bodley

Children: The Bodley pedigree in Visitations of Surrey in Publications of the Harleian Society vol 43 p147 (1894) list two children of James Bodley and Joane Strachey in addition to John and Joane, namely Elizabeth and Mary. Anne Sutton, in Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 p211 (Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994) lists three children, John, James and Joan, with the additional information that James died before 1530, and later that these three were minors when James died in 1514:
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 p227 (Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994)
... The same year saw the death of one of the youngest and most energetic campaigners for this license: James Bodley, who left three children, all minors, to the care of his wife and executrix, Joan Strachey.


Notes:
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 pp225-7 (Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994)
James Bodley, the mercer, had married Joan, the daughter of Thomas and Joan Strachey of Saffron Walden, before 1510. The Stracheys were part of the town's ruling clique which exercised its power mainly through the chantry guild of Our Lady of Pity which administered the town's almshouses. James swiftly became part of this clique: he became ‘Jamy Bodley of Chepyng Walden’ and apparently preferred provincial life, leaving London to his other and his sister, Denise.
  All three of them were closely involved in one of the most important ventures in the history of Saffron Walden: its campaign to achieve self-government. It was part of the king's duchy of Lancaster and as a consequence it had several charters of privileges but no corporate status. From the 1490s its trade had increasingly suffered from royal enforcement of manorial rights of toll which drove traders to patronise the rival market of Newport. In 1513 John Leche, Joan, her son James, his father-in-law and other leading townsmen failed in a petition to Henry VIII offering to redeem the tolls for a substantial sum of money: the king's rights could not be bought. On advice it was decided that a new religious guild of the Holy Trinity should be set up to which the tolls and other manorial rights could be granted by the king. The new guild would be able to operate just as if it was the town incorporate and its basis would be the chantry already envsiaged by Katherine Semar, a wealthy widow of the town. The king's license directed to Thomas Strachey, James Bodley and two others, permitting the establishment of a Holy Trinity guild in the church of Saffron Walden with land worth 20 marks a year, arrived in March 1514 - Joan's chantry in London was being planned at this time and personnel and expertise were used to the common benefit of the two projects, James Bodley being an energetic factotum in both.
  The list of those to be prayed for and the lavish decoration of the license sets out graphically and precisely who had contributed most to the ‘freedom’ of the town and what position Joan occupied in this heirarchy. Katherine Semar headed the list (after the king, queen and Wolsey), Joan came second, followed by John Leche, Thomas Strachey and his wife, James Bodley and his wife, and then a long list of others, both alive and dead, including Thomas Bodley.
... The same year saw the death of one of the youngest and most energetic campaigners for this license: James Bodley, who left three children, all minors, to the care of his wife and executrix, Joan Strachey.


Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol 1 part 2 pp771-2 (1862)
5 HENRY VIII. [1514]
24 March. 4911.   For KATHARINE SEMAR, late of Cheping Walden, widow, THOMAS STRACHY, JAMES BODLEY, WILLIAM BIRR and NICHOLAS RUTLAND, all of Walden aforesaid.
  Licence to found a guild in honor of the Trinity, in the church of St. Mary, Walden, to consist of one treasurer, two chamberlains, brethen and sisters, of the parishioners of Walden; with mortmain licence to acquire lands to the annual value of 20 marks, for a chaplain to pray daily for the King and Queen Katharine, for Katharine Semar, Thomas Wulcy, late almoner to the King, Joan Bradbury, widow, John Leche, vicar of the said church, the said Thomas [Strachy] and Joan his wife, James Bodley and Joan his wife, William Bird and Anabella his wife, and Nicholas Rutland and Clemence his wife; and for the souls of Thomas Bodley, William Lawnselyn and Alice his wife, Walter Cook and Katharine his wife, Roger Pyrk and Joan his wife, Thomas Semar and Margery his wife, Nicholas, Thomas and Katharine, children of the said Katharine Semar, George Thoorne and Florence his wife, John Strachy and Alice his wife, Thomas Thoorne and Joan his wife, and Richard Mynott . . . . . . . . .5 Hen. VIII.  Del. Westm., 24 March.
  Pat. 5 Hen.VIII. p.2, m. 24.

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Thomas Strachey

Married: Joane _____

Children: Notes:
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 pp225-7 (Caroline Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994)
James Bodley, the mercer, had married Joan, the daughter of Thomas and Joan Strachey of Saffron Walden, before 1510. The Stracheys were part of the town's ruling clique which exercised its power mainly through the chantry guild of Our Lady of Pity which administered the town's almshouses. James swiftly became part of this clique: he became ‘Jamy Bodley of Chepyng Walden’ and apparently preferred provincial life, leaving London to his other and his sister, Denise.
  All three of them were closely involved in one of the most important ventures in the history of Saffron Walden: its campaign to achieve self-government. It was part of the king's duchy of Lancaster and as a consequence it had several charters of privileges but no corporate status. From the 1490s its trade had increasingly suffered from royal enforcement of manorial rights of toll which drove traders to patronise the rival market of Newport. In 1513 John Leche, Joan, her son James, his father-in-law and other leading townsmen failed in a petition to Henry VIII offering to redeem the tolls for a substantial sum of money: the king's rights could not be bought. On advice it was decided that a new religious guild of the Holy Trinity should be set up to which the tolls and other manorial rights could be granted by the king. The new guild would be able to operate just as if it was the town incorporate and its basis would be the chantry already envsiaged by Katherine Semar, a wealthy widow of the town. The king's license directed to Thomas Strachey, James Bodley and two others, permitting the establishment of a Holy Trinity guild in the church of Saffron Walden with land worth 20 marks a year, arrived in March 1514 - Joan's chantry in London was being planned at this time and personnel and expertise were used to the common benefit of the two projects, James Bodley being an energetic factotum in both.
  The list of those to be prayed for and the lavish decoration of the license sets out graphically and precisely who had contributed most to the ‘freedom’ of the town and what position Joan occupied in this heirarchy. Katherine Semar headed the list (after the king, queen and Wolsey), Joan came second, followed by John Leche, Thomas Strachey and his wife, James Bodley and his wife, and then a long list of others, both alive and dead, including Thomas Bodley.


Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol 1 part 2 pp771-2 (1862)
5 HENRY VIII. [1514]
24 March. 4911.   For KATHARINE SEMAR, late of Cheping Walden, widow, THOMAS STRACHY, JAMES BODLEY, WILLIAM BIRR and NICHOLAS RUTLAND, all of Walden aforesaid.
  Licence to found a guild in honor of the Trinity, in the church of St. Mary, Walden, to consist of one treasurer, two chamberlains, brethen and sisters, of the parishioners of Walden; with mortmain licence to acquire lands to the annual value of 20 marks, for a chaplain to pray daily for the King and Queen Katharine, for Katharine Semar, Thomas Wulcy, late almoner to the King, Joan Bradbury, widow, John Leche, vicar of the said church, the said Thomas [Strachy] and Joan his wife, James Bodley and Joan his wife, William Bird and Anabella his wife, and Nicholas Rutland and Clemence his wife; and for the souls of Thomas Bodley, William Lawnselyn and Alice his wife, Walter Cook and Katharine his wife, Roger Pyrk and Joan his wife, Thomas Semar and Margery his wife, Nicholas, Thomas and Katharine, children of the said Katharine Semar, George Thoorne and Florence his wife, John Strachy and Alice his wife, Thomas Thoorne and Joan his wife, and Richard Mynott . . . . . . . . .5 Hen. VIII.  Del. Westm., 24 March.
  Pat. 5 Hen.VIII. p.2, m. 24.

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