Harvey, Nicholas

Other Events:

• Residence: of Eastbury-in-Godalming, Surrey

Notes:

History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, page 447:
Hervey (Harvey), Humphrey (1455-1516); of Bristol. M.P. Wells 1483 Jan, 1485-6, 1489-90. S. of Nicholas Hervey M.P. (1425-71) by Elizabeth (Scofield); m. (1) Agnes da. of John atte Water of Wells M.P., and (2) Elizabeth Hawkys, widow who survived him. Witnessed a Wells deed 1480, but never admtd. to freedom of Wells

History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, page 448:

HERVEY, Sir (?) NICHOLAS (I425- 71); of Eastbury in Godalming, Surrey. Recorder of Bristol. Lawyer. M.P. Launceston 1449 (I); Hindon 1459, 1467-8. Lancastnan.

S. of Richard Hervey, M.P. Lostwithiel, who was s. of Robert Hervey of Lostwithiel; m. Elizabeth, da. and coho of John Scofield. He lived at Eastbury, Surrey, which manor belonged to the family of Brocas and his wife's sis. m. Humphrey Brocas. As these ladies, Elizabeth and Eleanor: were das. and cohs. of John Scofield of Brackley near Bristol, the editor of the Hervey Dictionary concludes that the Members for Launceston and Rindon were identical with the Nicholas Hervey who was Recorder of Bristol and the Sir Nicholas Hervey slain at Tewkesbury.3

J.P. Surrey, of the quorum, 4 July 1458 to 24 Dec. 1460; on Surrey comns., issued by the Lancastrian party in 1459 and 1460; on a Devon comn. in 1464, and Bristol comns. in 1468 and 1469. He was sued by a priest called Henry Ward as " of Betteshanger" for falsifying deeds of lands in Northboume, Kent, in 1453, and a Nicholas Hervey, gent., was a feoffee for lands in Hants in 1469 .
In Warkworth's Chronicle (p. 18) Sir Nicholas Hervey was killed at Tewkesbury. , 4 May 1471. He may have been knighted immediately before the battle.

3. Hervey Dictionary, No. 2029.

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From "The architectural antiquities of the city of Wells" by John Henry Parker, 1866:

William Gascoigne, Esq., of Bridgwater, who was elected one of the representatives in parliament for that town in 1413, and whose son, "William Gascoigne, lived in Wells, and represented the city in parliament, having been chosen to fill that office in 1447. In 1417, William Gascoigne the elder purchased one-third of the manor of Newton Placey, in the parish of North Petherton, near Bridgwater, of John de Garton, a descendant of Emma, one of the three sisters and co-heiresses of Sir Richard de Placetis, from whose family the name of the manor, Placey, or Placetis, was derived. William Gascoigne, the son, married Johane, daughter of Robert Bavent, and widow of Humphrey* Scovell, lord of the manor of Brockley, Somerset, and by whom she had three daughters, her co-heiresses. Elizabeth, the third daughter, married Sir Nicholas Harvey, whose son and heir, Humphrey Harvey, was elected member of parliament for "Wells in 1482, and 1488. He was a man of great wealth and importance, having married Agnes, daughter of John Attewater, Esq., of Wells, whose extensive estates in Wells and other parts of Somersetshire he thus acquired. As a proof of the local influence of this John Attewater, it may be mentioned that he was M.P. for Wells 23 Edward IV. and 1 Richard II., and Mayor of the city no less than ten times between the years 1453 and 1485.

*note from M. Hervey: to be consistent with "The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, Together with Additional Pedigrees, Chiefly from the Visitation of 1591" this should read "widow of Joh. Scoffeilde"

Buried:
Bradford, All Saints Churchyard

Died:
He died in the Battle of Tewkesbury, War of Roses.

Family/Spouse: Scoville, Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Harvey, Humphrey was born in 1455; died on 5 Mar 1516 in England; was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

Notes:

The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993:

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hervy-richard-1429

s. of Robert Hervy of Lostwithiel by his w. Margaret. m. 1s.2 Nicholas.

Offices Held

Clerk of the statute merchant, Lostwithiel by Dec. 1408-d.3

Sub-bailiff of the stannary of Blackmore c.1414-17.4

Biography
The Hervys of Lostwithiel perhaps traced their descent from one Thomas, son of Hervei, who was living there in the 12th century. In the 1380s members of the family held property in the town and were engaged in the local tin trade. The exact date of Richard Hervy’s enlistment in the service of the duchy of Cornwall is not known, but in the accounts of the havener’s deputies for the year 1403-4 he is mentioned as keeper of the goal and also pesager of the town of Lostwithiel, offices which may have been co-ordinate with that of the deputy clerk of the statute merchant. Four years later he was discharging the office of clerk itself. Hervy’s predecessors in this post included two annuitants of the Black Prince, Nicholas Pego and Lambert Fermer, both of whom had also accounted to the duchy as controllers of cockets and wrecks; and it is quite likely that Hervy held a similar position. (There are no records of the controllership in his time.) Naturally, since Lostwithiel was the regional administrative centre of the duchy, Hervy came into close contact with other duchy officials: at the local elections to the Parliament of 1411 he and his brother William both provided securities for Thomas Jayet, the controller of the stannaries, who was then returned for Lostwithiel; and three years later he began to serve, under William Alcock, as sub-bailiff of the nearby stannary of Blackmore. However, he evidently fell out with Alcock, who brought an action against him in the court of common pleas for a debt of 22 marks. In February 1420, as ‘of Lostwithiel, husbandman’, Hervy took out a royal pardon of his outlawry for failing to appear to answer the charge.

Although Hervy was still active as clerk of the statute merchant of Lostwithiel in January 1429, he died before 2 Nov. that year, when the post was granted to John Peyntour.

Richard married Lanhidrake, Margaret St. Bony of. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
of Lestidell (Lostwitheil) Cornwall, England

Robert married Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]