Excerpt from The Ancestor, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities
The earliest authentic information of the history of this family which has been associated for between three and four centuries with the counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire, is gathered from an ancient 'cartulary' of 180 folios, bound in vellum and compiled in 1551 during the lifetime of its owner Richard Jerveys, mercer and alderman of London.
From the pedigree on the first page we find that he was born in 1500 and that his father was 'Thomas Jerveys sometyme of Kidderminster.'
The next memorandum in this 'cartulary,' or, as Richard calls it, his 'Book of Evidences,' is as follows: -
'Memorandum that I Richard Jerveis of London mercer toke to wyffe Wenefride late the wyffe of William Stathum of London mercer and maried her the thursdaye the xxvj day in Octobre A° dni. 1525 whiche was doughter of John Bernerd of London mercer and had isshues by the soveraunce of God these children as hereafter doth folowe by the said Wenefride Jerveis.
'Item Barnard Jerveis my first sone was borne the xv daye of Septembre A xv cxxx betwext x and xi of the cloke at night and crisined the xvj daye Doctor Clement and James Barnard his godfathers Mrs. Resce late the wyffe of John Grene mercer godmother and James Bolney mercere godfather at the bysshop which Barnard departed to Gode in Octobre anno dni. 1535.
'Item Thomas Jerveis my second sone was borne on Saterday being Childermas day the xxviij daye of Decembre the yere of our Lord God xv and xxxij iij quarters of the houre after ix of the cloke in the night and crisined on Seint Thomas day followyng, his godfathers Sir Thomas More Knyght late Lord Chauncellor of Inglond Mr Thomas Walshe the Kyngs Remembrauncer in his Exchequer Ladie Mary Seymer wyffe to Sir Thomas Seymer Knyght Alderman of London godmother, godfather at the busshop George Welshe brother to the said Thomas Walshe.
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