Anthony Chute [55772] ¹⁰

  General Notes:

Anthony Chute of Kent <gp15.htm> and unnamed daughters of Gee and/or Girling/Gyrlinge:

Occupation: Gunner of King Henry VIII.
From the British Library Department of Manuscripts, Add MS 33376, folio 40:
English Translation of Latin text, translated by Lionel Chute (Latin text follows)

Master of the Ordinance of the King and also clerks, yeomen and gunners of the same
folio 43v,
"Anthony Chute one gunner of the lord king to whom the now lord king Henry the eighth by his letters patent bearing date 19th day of February in the 21st year of his reign [1530] granted to him for the exercise of the office aforesaid the wages and fee of 18£ 5s by the year for the term of his life. In money to him paid as a result of this thing aforesaid for his fee owed for the feast of St Michael the Archangel in the 23rd year [September 29, 1531] and Easter in the 24th year of the reign [March 31, 1532] of the now king begun, received the money of Henry Everard one of the tellers of the Exchequer of receipt by his proper hands by an individual writ of the king of the great seal of payment of current money both the order of Michaelmas term in the 23rd year and Easter term in the 24th year of the reign of now king begun, 18£ 5s"
Latin:
Magro ordinacoun' r[eg]is necno' clicis valect' et vibrellat' ea[run]nd'
Antonio Chute u[nu]m vibrellat' d[omi]ni r[eg]is cui dns' rex nu[n]c Henricus octavus p[er] lrs' suas paten' gerenet' dat' xix die Februarij anno regni sui xxj concessit sibi p[ro] exercitio officij p[re] dic[ti] vad' et feod' xviijli vs p[er] annu[m] p[ro] termino vite sue In denar' sibi lib[er]atis ex causa p[re]dicta p[ro] feodo suo debit p[ro] festis Michis' anno xxiij et pasche anno xxiiij r[eg]is nu[n]c incipient' recipient' denar' de Henrico Everard uno num[er]at[orum] rete p[er] man[us] suas p[ro]prias p[er] sep[er]alia bria' R[eg]is de libate' [curr'] de mango sigillo int' mandat' de termis Michis anno xxiij et Pasche anno xxiiij r[eg]is nu[n]c inc[ipient] xviijli vs"
"As promised, please find attached the Latin transcription and translation of the payment record for Anthony Chute's service as gunner at the Tower of London. The translation was accomplished by Duncan Harrington, a professional Latinist and genealogist. The document refers to "terms" - you may be very familiar with these, but I wasn't until I found this online:
"The practice of dividing the legal year into various "terms" can be traced back at least to the Middle Ages. See /A Handbook of Dates For Students of English History /, Edited by C. R. Cheney and Michael Jones, 2nd Edition, April 2000, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521770955, pages 98-99 (reproduced here with the kind permission of the Royal Historical Society ):
"The Common bench at Westminster, from the time of its separation from the Exchequer in the mid-1190s, seems to have heard and dealt with business on an almost continuous, day-by-day basis during four distinct periods of the year, the law terms, and separate plea rolls were compiled to record the business heard during each of these terms. The terms were so constituted as to avoid the major ecclesiastical festivals (Christmas and Easter, though not Whitsun) and the periods immediately preceding and succeeding them and so as to ensure that the court did not sit during Lent or harvest-time. The longest of the terms, *Michaelmas*, began one week after Michaelmas, at the end of the first week of October, a week later than the Exchequer. Prior to 1230, Michaelmas term commonly continued past Advent Sunday to end as late as 7 December (1200 and 1223) or even 9 December (in 1195) but thereafter it normally finished on about 1 December. After a break for Christmas and the feast of the Epiphany, *Hilary* term began one week after the feast of St Hilary (20 January) and always continued for at least two weeks, usually continued for at least three weeks and occasionally lasted for as many as four or five weeks (as in 1200, 1224, 1229, 1243 and 1278). The term regularly ran on past Septuagesima but ended before the beginning of Lent, perhaps because of the ecclesiastical prohibition on the taking of oaths during Lent: the differing lengths of the term were determined by the different dates for the beginning of Lent. *Easter* term always began two weeks (and a day) after Easter Sunday, again a week later than the Exchequer, and regularly continued past the feast of the Ascension to end one week after Ascensiontide. *Trinity* term was also of variable length. It always began a week and a day after Trinity Sunday and normally ended three weeks after the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (14 July): its length depended on when Trinity Sunday fell in the year concerned. When the court of King's Bench was reconstituted on a permanent basis c.1234 it too adopted a similar pattern of hearing business in termly sessions and its terms were of similar length to those of the Common Bench."
Source: E-Mail, Lionel Chute to Francis Chute, Subject: Re: WESTON'S RECORD OF EXCHEQUER PAYMENTS, Date: 7/15/2006 9:39:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
[Jackie's Note: If anyone is interested, his salary would equate to £6,346.44 per year (for life) today. There's an easy conversion website, "How Much Is That Worth Today?" that helps you convert past dollars or pounds into current values. How Much is That Worth Today? <http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/>.]

Update on Lionel's annotated letter <annlet.htm> from the College of Arms: The 2nd to 4th lines of the 1.3 paragraph <annlet.htm>, ("A Visitation of London in 1633/4 by Henry St. George (Richmond Herald) records a five-generation pedigree headed by Anthony Chute [there is a cross-reference to Norfolk 11/79 - see below] of Kent and his wife, the daughter of Girling.") took everyone back and ultimately sent Francis to the British Library for a second look at the Visitation Record. According to our family records, Anthony had married a daughter of "Gee", not a daughter of "Girling"; Philip was the Chute who had married the daughter of "Girling". Francis reported, after seeing the Visitation Record:
"Yes - as I have recently been discussing with Steve, and have confirmed this week from the Visitation record in the British Library (which I had not opened because the recent re-binding omitted the title of contents on the spine (of all stupid reasons)! - it appears that Anthony and brother Philip did both marry ladies née Girling. This looks odd and is probably the reason why the BCHR scribe wrote Gee as the name of Anthony's wife (when See was the surname of his son Arthur's wife.)" - Francis Chute
Raising the new questions: did Anthony marry a "Gee" and a Girling, or only a Girling? Same family? Different families? More importantly, is this going to give the search for Anthony of Kent records an important shot of adrenalin? In any event, the records for Anthony of Kent have been changed to reflect Francis's discovery - which might never have been discovered at all were it not for Lionel's annotated letter.



Type: GEDCOM File
FILE Through the Ages: Mayberry Clan
Date: 8/3/2000
Submitter: Doreen H. Russell


Record Type: Unpublished Manuscript
Title: Notes on the Girling Family
Author: Katherine Peabody Girling
Date: 1926
URL of Original: <http://www.girlingfamily.com/Book/book.pdf>
Comments: The Girling version of the Chute pedigree is somewhat different than ours - or anyone else's, for that matter. Her sources are not mentioned. "A man named Charles Chute had two sons Anthony and Philip. Anthony Chute married the daughter of Mr. Girling, of Suffolk, and they had three sons, Anthony Chute, Charles Chute and Challoner Chute, who married Lady Dacre, and was Speaker of the House of Commons, and died in 1659. Philip, the second son of Charles Chute, was standard bearer to Henry the Eighth. His line became extinct in 1700. This shows that there was a Mr. Girling of Suffolk, whose grandson died in 1659, and that the family connections were good." [She seems to have confused three separate generations of Chutes into that summary and dispensed with poor Arthur Chute (Challoner's father) altogether, but it does show you that the Girlings were in 1926 as lacking in documentation for this juncture of the Chute family as we are, at the moment.]
This Source Has Been Cited for: Anthony Chute
GROUP NO: Chute Family Records/GP15-0


Record Type: Visitation
Title: The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633,1634 and 1635
Made by: Sr. Henry St. George, Kt; Sr. Henry St. George, Kt.
Volume: 1
Page: 163
Editors: Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., F.S.A; Joseph Lemuel Chester, LL.D.
Published: London, 1880
This Source Has Been Cited for: Anthony Chute and (Unknown) Gyrlinge Chute, through four generations.
GROUP NO: Chute Family Records/GP15-0

  Noted events in his life were:

• Receipt of payment, 29 Sep 1531. - (see General notes)

• Receipt of payment, 31 Mar 1532. - (see General notes)

Anthony married Girling [55773] [MRIN: 551614663]. (Girling [55773] was born in Suffolk, England.)