The Yeomen of the Guard and the Early Tudors by Anita Hewerdine;

Author:Anita Hewerdine;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857732101
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2019-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

PART II

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

John and William Almer

John and William Almer were sons of John Almer or Aylmer who adopted the name of his residence in Denbighshire. The Almer family was of ancient Welsh descent, tracing its pedigree back to Ithel ab Eunydd in the eleventh century. The father was a supporter of Henry Tudor and became a marshal of the Hall in the royal household.1 For his good service, John Almer senior was granted for life in November 1489 the office of sergeant-at-arms with Prince Arthur, with 12d. a day from the issues of the earldom of Chester.2 On 4 July 1492, however, he surrendered his patent for this office, in order to be released from a debt of £12 owing to the Chester Exchequer.3

John Almer junior and his brother William were granted the fee of the crown of 6d. a day on 22 March 1486, with effect from Michaelmas 1485, when the two brothers were evidently appointed yeomen of the crown.4 Both appear in a list of yeomen of the crown in ‘A Declaration made to King Henry VIII by Sir John Cutte, under-treasurer of the Exchequer, of all Fees, Wages and Annuities paid at the Exchequer 24 Henry VII’,5 and both were listed as Yeomen of the Guard receiving livery of cloth for the funeral of Henry VII in May 1509.6

John Almer’s name does not appear on the lists examined of yeomen of the Chamber receiving livery of cloth for ‘watching clothing’, but he was described as a yeoman usher of the Chamber in June 1513 when he was granted the office of bailiff, during pleasure, of the lordship of Wellington-under-Wrekin, Shropshire, from the first day of the reign.7 In November 1513 he was appointed a sergeant-at-arms with 12d. a day, to take effect from the previous Easter,8 his fee of the crown then being granted to John Jackson, yeoman of the Guard, from 8 June.9 His name appears on two official lists of sergeants-at-arms included in personnel of the royal household dating from the mid-1520s.10

John Almer married Catherine, daughter of Philip Egerton of Egerton, Cheshire. His second son, Edward, sat in Parliament for Denbighshire in 1555.11 He was almost certainly the John Almer of Gresford, Denbigh and Flint whose will was proved in 1524.12

William Almer, brother of John Almer, is mentioned in an account of deliveries from the Great Wardrobe in 1489 as a yeoman of the crown and Chamber receiving allowance of cloth for watching.13 He appears on the Chamber list of 1496 as a yeoman.14

On 12 March 1495, William Almer and a Godfrey Alee were jointly granted the keepership of the park of Merseley in the lordship of Bromefeld, forfeited by Sir William Stanley, deceased, with wages of 2d. daily from the issues of the lordship.15 Almer received the office of keeper of the little park of Denbigh on 7 December 1499,16 and an office ‘called in Welsh Ynad’ in the lordship of Denbigh on 9 October 1500.17 He received a new patent, for himself alone,

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