950670.
Mayor Stephen Forster & 950671. Agnes ?
~1395, Stephen baptised at Staunton Drew, Somerset, England,
s/o 1901340. Robert Forster.
~1420, Agnes born in England.
1421-22, Petitioners: Citizens of the city of Bayonne. The
citizens request a licence for [Stephen] Forster and [Richard] Selby to export
100 quarters of wheat from England in relief of the scarcity of wheat and corn
there. (S) UKNA.
8/31/1422, Henry VI (an infant) succeeded Henry V as King of
England.
3/9/1425, Debtor: John Cheney of Bucks., esquire. Creditor:
Stephen Forster, fishmonger [merchant] Robert Colbrook, ironmonger, and John
Milbourne, grocer, [merchant] citizens of London. Amount: £60. Before whom:
John Michell, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. (S) UKNA.
12/4/1429, Charter of Feoffment. Roger Lyveden to John Inyn,
knight, Thomas Wyke, Stephen Forster, ... All his lands etc. in vill of
Asshton; to hold of the chief lords, etc. [Bristol] (S) UKNA.
1435, Stephen, MP for the city of London.
4/1/1439, Agreement by William Brekespere, citizen and
merchant of London ... to Stephen Forster citizen and mercer and others, of the
reversion of all lands etc. in Herefeld ... (S) UKNA.
7/10/1439, Lease by Dionisia Swanlond, widow, Lady of
Herefeld Co. Middlesex, to Stephen Forster, mercer, John Basset the elder of
Chisehull Co. Essex, gentleman ... (S) UKNA.
5/4/1440, Debtor: Thomas Squery, of Essex, esquire. Creditor:
Stephen Forster, citizen and merchant of London, and William Godyng, of Essex,
gentleman. Amount: 1000m. (S) UKNA.
1444-45, Stephen, Sheriff of London. (S) UKNA.
1444-58, Stephen, Alderman of Bread Street, London.
6/26/1450, War of the Roses. Richard, earl of Warwick, and
Richard, duke of York, land at Sandwich and march on London. Seige is laid to
the Tower, which surrenders to the Yorkists on July 19th.
1453-54, Stephen “Forster” was one of the deforciants in a
fine of the manor of Ashton, Somerset. (S) Feet of Fines, Somerset.
1454, A chapel was added for inmates, which “Sir Stephen
Foster, Knight, some time Lord Maior of this honorable city, and by Dame Agnes
his wife” endowed. (S) The London Mag., V10, 1824, P646. [The “Sir” appears to
be an affectation added by Agnes.]
1454, Stephen, Lord Mayor of London.
10/21/1454, John Norman mayor, John Walden and Thomas Cooke,
Sheriffs, Stephen Forster, Alderman of the ward. (S) UKNA.
1455, Stephen enlarged the Prison of Ludgate, and endowed a
chaplain.
12/1458, Stephen died, buried in the Church of St. Botolph,
Billingsgate.
[––Agnes––]
6/28/1461, Edward IV succeeded Henry VI as King of England.
1463-65, Plaintiffs: Eleanor, late the wife of Robert `lord
Hungerford and of Molyns, knt.'. Defendants: William bishop of Winchester, ...
feoffees for petitioner and for Agnes Foster, widow, ... and Simon Nory,
merchant, of London. (S) UKNA.
1463, Dame Agnes, through the Mayor, Mathew Philip,
“procured in a common Counsell of the Citie, certayne Articles to established,
for the ease, comfort and reliefe of poore Prisoners there.” Stephen provided
that the Ludgate, prison “should be free for all Freemen, and the they,
providing their own Bedding, should pay nothing at their Departure for
Lodging.” Water was also supplied free to the all in residence. (S) A Survey of
London, V1, Stow, 1908, P116.
1465-71, Defendants: The sheriffs of London. Subject: Action
of trespass brought by Dame Agnes Foster against complainant for entering her
house at the request of the Earl of Warwick to speak with the Lord Gravyle and
Sir Cardot Malorte, prisoners in her custody. Petition for a writ of `corpus
cum causâ.'. London. (S) UKNA.
1471, Lancastrian, Thomas Neville, burns Southwark.
11/1476, William Caxton sets up the first printing press in
England at Westminster.
1478, Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’ published by Caxton
at Westminster.
5/14/1479, Grant to Anges Forster the elder, widow, of all
goods and debts late of Robert Forster, citizen and grocer of London, at the
time of his death. (S) CPRs.
1484, Agnes wrote her will. [In her will she names her
granddaughter Dorothy Feld.]
Bef. 9/24/1484, Agnes, sometime the wife of Stephen Foster,
Fishmonger, Mayor, died, buried in the Church of St. Botolph, Billingsgate.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P329. (S) The Fleet, Ashton, 1889,
P204.
Family notes:
·
On a copper plate in a chapel at Ludgate built
by Dame Agnes Foster of London: (S) A New and Accurate Hist. of London, 1766,
P393: Deout soules that passe this way, for Stephen Foster, later Maior,
heartily pray, And Dame Agnes, his spouse, to God consecrate, that of pitie
this house made of Londoners in Ludgate, So that for lodging and water
prisoners here nought pay, as their keepers shall answere at dreadful doomes
day.
Child of Stephen
and Agnes:
i. John Forster Esq., born ~1448 in England.
1469, John of age.
John married to Johanne Cooke, d/o 475376. Sir Thomas Cooke
of London.
4/15/1478, John Foster and Johanne his wife the tenement
called “Cok” on the north side of Cornhill left to them by Johanne’s father in
his will.
Plaintiffs: John Jernyngham, esquire, and Isabel, his wife,
... Defendants: John Foster, son and executor of Dame Agnes ... Subject: The
manor of Harenge, the aldermanry of Westgate, Canterbury, and the manor of
Sellynge and mortgages thereof. Kent. (S) UKNA.
5/14/1486, John left a silver, gilt cup in the will of his
brother-in-law Robert Morton, 2nd husband of his sister Agnes.
By 1493, Johh died.
ii. Agnes Foster (475334), born ~1450 in England.