Reve, Thomas

Summary

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Birth: c1506
Birth Source: King's College

Death: c1589
Death Source: Inquisitions: 1589

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Narrative

Known as Thomas Reve of London, gent

Thomas was granted many monasteries such as Lady St Mary Priory, Holm Friary, and Middlesburgh Priory. He owned lots of chantry land in many parts of England. He is described as a London merchant and a prominant speculator in monastic property in 1550. He often did business with George Cotton of London, gent and his brothers, Giles Isham of Pytchley., gent., and John Perient, Knt.


There is no doubt Thomas is either a brother or cousin to Robert Ryves of Dorset.

Fol. (138) 128.
643.
Charter of Robert Aden, made to Edith Aden.

Robert Barbet, alias dictus Robert Aden, of Dorchester, draper (reciting that Queen Mary, by letters patent under the Great Seal, inter cetera, granted to Thomas Reve and Giles Isham, gentleman, and their heirs, 23rd July, second year of her reign (1554), a messuage and garden adjacent, in Dorchester, formerly in the tenure of Roger Bond, and afterwards in that of Robert Snellynge, between the tenement of William Palmer on the east and that of John Peryn on the west, late parcel of the lands and possessions of Thomas Seymor, Knight, Lord Seymor of Sudeley, attainted of high treason, and before of the late Preceptory or Hospital of Mayne, to hold of the Queen as of the manor of Easte Grenewiche, by fealty only in free socage, and not in capite, and that the said Thomas Reve and Giles Isham have sold the same to Robert Barbet aforesaid) now sells the said messuage and garden to his mother, Edith Barbet, alias dicta Edith Aden, and her heirs, containing in length, viz., from the back door (postico) in the south part of the messuage to a certain hedge of elder (sepem sambuceam), 340 feet by measure, and in length 30 feet by measure. Warranty. William Stone, jun., and John Howell to deliver seisin. 24th November, I and 2 Philip and Mary (1554). (Cf. 644.)

Fol. (139) 129.
645.
Charter of Joan Ryve, made to William Aden.

Joan Ryve, of Blandford Forum, Dorset, widow, late relict of Robert Ryve, of the same, deceased, in her pure widowhood for the intimate love and special zeal she bears to William Aden, alias vocatus William Barbet, of Dorchester, draper, etc., grants to him and his heirs two messuages in Dorchester, (i) One in St. Peter's parish, now in the separate tenure of John Dowredge, on the west side of High South Street, between the burgage of John Stratford on the south and that of John Peryn on the north ; and (2) the other in All Saints' parish, in the separate tenure of John Baunton, on the south side of High East Street, between the burgage of Walter Buclond on the east and that belonging to the parish church of All Saints on the west, to hold of the chief lords of the fee. Warranty. William Stone, jun., and John Howell to deliver seisin. 4th June, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary (1557). [Cf. 623.]

The Aden (Adyn) family went by aliases Barbet/Barbett/Barbette and Barbour.

Research Notes

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monastic_houses_in_England

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~fordingtondorset/Files2/DorchesterWills-Charters1500.html

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/abstract/no3/pp129-143 - Inquisitions: 1589

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp321-330 - London merchant

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp102-112 - prominant speculator in monastic property.

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp98-136 - King's College

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/pp22-44 - London speculator