Biography

COKE, Thomas I (by 1458-1523), of Salisbury, Wilts.

Family and Education

b. by 1458. m. Catherine, 1s. 4da.4

Offices Held

Member of the Twenty-Four Salisbury 1479, auditor for special acct. 1483, for city 1491, 1494-5, 1497-1500, 1502, 1506-9, 1511, 1513-14, 1515-17, 1520, assessor for Market ward 1488, 1498, for city 1497, 1512, mayor 1491-2, 1510-11; commr. subsidy, Wilts. and Salisbury 1495, 1512, 1514, 1515.5

The most active years of Thomas Coke’s career were passed under Henry VII, when he rose to become one of the leaders of a group of rich Salisbury merchants with international trading interests. In 1500 or earlier he joined Richard Bartholomew, who was three times his colleague in Parliament, and other unnamed plaintiffs in a chancery suit before Cardinal Morton concerning attempts by the mayor and sheriffs of London to impose scavage on goods from Salisbury. He traded in tin and in 1523 he was assessed on goods worth £2,433 in the Market ward.6

Coke made his will on 8 May 1523, asking to be buried in St. Thomas’s, Salisbury. After leaving sums to all three parish churches in the city, as well as to those at Fisherton Anger and Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, he provided for his family and named his son-in-law Thomas Chaffyn I and John Stowe executors and John Erneley overseer. Coke died on 9 June 1523 and was succeeded by his 18 year-old grandson and namesake.8

Family

https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/zwrk/tmp07.php

• Thomas Coke of New Sarum (Salisbury) (d before 19.10.1524) m1. (before 1482) Jane
  • 1. William Coke of New Sarum m. Elizabeth Compton [The man in the will in 1510]
    • A. Thomas Coke [succeeded his grandfather in 1524, named in will]
    • [B. Kathryn Dunfin [?] [named in will]
  • 2. Thomas Coke (rector of Donhead St. Andrew)
  • 3. Scholastica Coke m. Thomas Chafyn of New Sarum
  • 4. Lucy Coke m. John Ernley of Cannings (son of John of Ernley)
  • 5. Alice Coke m1. John Bartilmewe of New Sarum @1@ below m2. Thomas Lambert of Maiden Bradley & New Sarum (d 1509-10)
  • 6. Joan Coke m. John Stone of New Sarum @2@ below
• m2. Catherine

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sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(MP_for_Salisbury)
• COKE, Thomas I (by 1458-1523), of Salisbury, Wilts.
• The visitation of Wiltshire 1565 Author Harvey, William, fl. 1565,Marshall, George W. (George William), 1839-1905. Page 17.< Archive.Org > < Hathitrust > John Erneley of Cannyngs, co. Wilts, Esq., son and heir to John, mar. Lucye, da. of Thomas Cooke of Salsbury, merchant, and by her had issue, ...
• 'The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine' (vol XLIX, no. 175, December 1941, 'Pedigree showing Coke, Stone and Webbe families, with intermarriages', before p479). < link >
• 'The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine', page 449. "The Coke Family of New Sarum." < Archive.Org >
• "William Coke 1510 of Salisbury, Wiltshire, merchant" < link > William Coke outlives his father Thomas and makes many charitable bequests. John Stone (Will 1535) is a witness and husband of Joanne Coke, William’s niece.
• Will of John Stone 1535 of Salisbury, Mercer < link > his widow is Anne [Nee Anne Payne, first husband Walter Tourney]. Wife Joane [Coke] deceased; Thomas Coke, grandfather of Thomas Stone
• https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/zwrk/tmp07.php#coke1 (membership required in order to view without interruption)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Lok According to Sutton, Rose Lok's mother was Alice Spenser, the first of Sir William Lok's four wives, who was an early convert to Protestantism.[1] However, according to McDermott, Alice Spenser died in 1522, and Rose Lok's mother was Sir William Lok's second wife, Katherine Cooke (d.1537), daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire.[4][3] [sic: granddaughter]
  • Sutton "The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578" < GoogleBooks >
  • 4. Lowe ODNB (2004)
  • 3. McDermott ODNB (2004)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lok He married secondly Katherine Cooke (d. 14 Oct 1537),[8] daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire.[4][1][9]
  • 4. Lowe ODNB (2004)
  • 1. McDermott ODNB (2004)
  • Lee, Sidney (1893). "Lok, William" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 93. < DNB >
  • 9. According to Lee, Catherine Cooke (wife of William Locke) was the daughter of William Cooke of Salisbury, and at her death on 14 October 1537 was buried at Merton Priory in Surrey.