WASTELL John, died 1659

WASTELL John, died 1659 John WASTELL, died 1659

The Will of John Wastell of Scorton

July 8 1659. John WAISTELL of Scorton, Esq. To grandson William JAMES £20 yearly till twenty-five, if his father shall so long live. To grandchildren Sarah, Dorothy, Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret JAMES, children of daughter Dorothy JAMES, £50 each at eighteen. Grandson Leonard SMELT £20 yearly from seventeen till twenty-five, for education. To grandchildren Anne and John SMELT £50 each at eighteen. To daughter Susanna, for her filial portion, £1,500, to be paid by executrix provided she marry with consent of her mother, Mr Leonard SMELT, her brother-in-law, Mr James DANBY of New Building, or any two of them of which her mother is to be one; if she does not, she only to have £750; if she dies the money to go to her brother Leonard WASTELL and to her sisters Dorothy JAMES and Anne SMELT. The legacies, except daughter’s portion, to be paid out of rents, &c., of lands called Saltholme, and which I grant to my loving wife Anne, to son in law Leonard SMELT, Mr Mathew BECKWITH, and cosen James DANBY for thirty years, to pay the legacies and overplus to said Anne for her life, after to son Leonard. To sister ROBINSON 40s to buy a ring. To nephew Stephen ROBINSON, £20. To cosen Anne DANBY £10. To nephew John DANBY, £10. Residue to wife Anne, executrix.

[Proved Aug 10, 1660, by Anne, relict].

[Abstract of Will, YAS Record Series, Volume 9]

From "History & Annals of Northallerton" , by Saywell.

p 92. The year 1649 - The following Bishop's lands belonging to the see of Durham were sold this year:- Lands in Northallerton to John WASTELL and James DANBY, for £102.10s.

The year 1650 - Northallerton Borough to Henry DARLEY and John WASTELL for £237.3s.2d.

Appendix to book - XXXl - Northallerton, Court Halmot, Court Leet and Baron - Learned Stewards - 1625: John WAISTILL.

Cambridge University Register:......................

WASTELL, John. Adm. Pens. At Sidney, Feb 11, 1610-1. Doubtless s. and h. of Leonard, of Ellerton-on-Swale, Yorks., gent. Matric, 1611. Adm. at Gray’s Inn, May 13, 1613. A Master in Chancery. M.P. for Northallerton, 1640. Of Scorton, Yorks. Married Anne, daughter of John Robinson, of Hackforth, Yorks. Died Dec. 4, 1659, aged 66. Buried at Scorton. M.I. Will (PCC), 1660. Probably father of the next [ie , John, 1653-4] and of Leonard, 1647. (Vis of Yorks, 1665; Victoria Hist. Yorks., 1, 157).

WASTELL, John. Matric. Fell-Com from St Catharine's, Lent 1653-4. Doubtless 2nd s.of John (above), of Scorton, Yorks, Esq. Adm. at Gray's Inn, June 23, 1653. Died unmarried. Brother of Leonard (1647) (Vis. of Yorks., 1665)

WASTELL, Leonard. Adm. pens. at Trinity, June 18, 1647. Of Yorkshire. Doubtless s. and h. of John (1610-1), of Scorton, Yorks., Esq. Scholar, 1650; B.A. 1650-1. Adm. at Gray's Inn, Mar. 16, 1640-1. Married Elizabeth, dau. of John SAVILE, of Methley, Esq. Of Scorton. Died Sept. 1664 (Surtees Soc., xxxvi, 227)[The compiler also includes some information re a Rev Leonard Wastell of Hurworth, who died 1712 - possibly a cousin of the above]

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Monumental Inscription, Church, Bolton on Swale, Yorkshire:

"Here lyeth JOHN WASTELL of Scorton, Esq

Councellor at Law Justice of the Peace
And Master in Chancery>
Who Dyed 4 Decr 1659
Also Lady ANNE, Relict of
Sr RICHARD TANCKRED of Scorton
And Wife of the above JOHN WASTELL
Who Dyed Apr 1^st 1665
Also LEONARD WASTELL
Esqr. Justice of the Peace Eldest Son
Of the above JOHN WASTELL Esqr.
Who DYED 1 Octr. 1664."

KIPLIN HALL ARCHIVE, ZBL I1/1/122

Deed to declare uses of a fine 29 May 1640 -
-John WASTELL, younger son of John WASTELL to begin 1654, £30 per annum
-£100 for 8 years for Anne and Susanna, daughters of John WASTELL
-Leonard WASTELL, elder son and heir of John WASTELL, can pay off John WASTELL younger with some Scorton property and daughters with £400 apiece
-Scorton property in general trust to use of Anne the wife till Pentecost 1652 and on if she lives, if she is dead, to use of Leonard.

Kirkby Fleetham, Monumental Inscription in Church -

Here lyes the body of Thomas PEPPER of Temple Cowton Esq., great-grandson of Sir Cuthbert PEPPER, attorney general to Queen Elizabeth. And Susan PEPPER his wife, one of the daughters of John WASTELL of Scorton, Esq. She dyed 17th February and he the 6th March 1680. "Waiting for the resurrection of the first".

THE SCORTON ARROW and the WASTELL Family

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In this account mention is made of John Wastell (the younger son of Colonel John Wastell who died 1659), and the silver arrow which he reputedly won in an archery tournament when at Cambridge University, and which he brought back home with him to Scorton. The Cambridge Registers show that John was indeed there from 1653, but the family stories are silent on his fate, except to state, possibly incorrectly, that he died unmarried; so it is certainly possible that he may have eloped with a housemaid and been subsequently disinherited, as is claimed in the story of the Scorton Arrow. But it has not been proven that he died without issue, nor when he died. Questions arise concerning "Barbary, wife of Jo: WASTELL, buried in 1662", and John and Margaret WASTELL who had a son John baptised in 1665, both of these events being recorded in the Church Registers of Bolton on Swale.

We do know that John's elder brother, Leonard, died in 1664, leaving a widow Elizabeth, and two little children; I have been unable to find that Leonard left a will, although an Inventory of his possessions was made, and is deposited in the Sheepscar Archives at Leeds. For Leonard's widow Elizabeth, this may have been an anxious time, to secure the family property of Scorton for her little son. It was probably Elizabeth who supplied much of this information concerning her brother-in-law. Elizabeth was indeed the Wastell family "matriarch", being 66 years a widow, and dying in York in 1730, in her ninety-first year.

It is not clear just who presented the Scorton Arrow to Henry Calverley for an Archery Tournament which was held in May 1673; if it was John Wastell senior before his death, then it is strange that Henry Calverley should wait 14 years before holding that tournament; if it was the elder son Leonard, who died in 1664, then again there is a space of nine years.

Could the donor actually have been John, the second son...perhaps still living in 1673, but not wishing to be seen to be associated with this trophy which probably should have been returned to Cambridge?

Or could the donor have been Leonard's widow, Elizabeth Wastell, perhaps wishing to remove from her home the evidence of one who they considered had so disgraced the family name?

For an abstract of the will of Elizabeth WASTELL, widow, see SAVILE John and Family

Also see the full pedigree of WASTELL of Scorton, 1665 Visitation of Yorkshire