Surrey Dingleys

The Ewell DINGLEYs include an Allin DINGLEY bap. 1633 who might be the same one who married Prudence WILLIAMS in 1655 and were the ancestors of Edward HASTED, historian of Kent - see Descendants of Alan Dingley.

Sir John DINGLEY of Wolverton in the IoW (1589-1670) married Jane, the daughter of Dr John HAMMOND of Chertsey. It seems that Sir John spent much time in Surrey:

This Sir John lived altogeathor neare London and not in owre Island [IoW], as beinge drawen thethor by ye instigation of his wyfe and her ffryndes. He was longe a Justice of ye Peace; I gave him his oath at Nunwell AD 1614, but he never executed his office. [Oglander]

In 1643 he was made a member of the board of sequestration for Surrey and was concerned with the establishment of the Presbyterian system there. He seems to have returned to the IoW in the later 1650s. [Notes and Queries]

In 1638 a Mary, daughter of Cutbert DINELY, was baptised in Chertsey. [IGI] I have not connected them with Sir John or any other family.

The earliest DINGLEY reference to Sheen is the commitment of the farm at the King's manor of Sheen to Robert DE DYNLEYE esq. (of Kingsclere) in 1382:

30 Jul 1382.
Commitment to Robert DE DYNELEYE, esquire - by mainprise of John ATTE HYDE of the county of Rutland and Nicholas GASCOIGNE of the county of York, - of the farm of the King's manor of Shene with all the thing's pertaining thereto, to hold the same from Michaelmas next for ten years rendering to the king the extent thereof yearly, and paying the wages of the officers of the manor, (as Edmund THURBARN, formerly farmer there, used to do), on sufficient warrants from the king, whereby he shall have due allowance in his said farm. [CFR]

There was a further commitment to him for ten years in 1385 in which the King's manor at Sheen was referred to as 'Touncourt'. [CFR] Also in 1384-5, Robert DINGLEY and his wife Margaret acquired a messuage in Westhall from John DE SWANTON and his wife Margaret by Feet of Fine. In 1387-8, there was a Feet of Fine concerning East Sheen between Robert and Margaret DINGLEY and William and Margery HUNTE of Potenhethe. [Surrey Fines]

(King Richard II ordered the demolition of Sheen Palace after his wife, Anne of Bohemia, died there in 1394.)

In 1394-5 there was a Feet of Fine between William GASCOIGNE, Nicholas GASCOIGNE, William HORNBY & Thomas HORNBY v. James DYNELEY & his wife concerning Est Shene & Westhall. After Robert DINGLEY's death in 1395, his wife Margaret made a quitclaim of all his property in Westhall, East Sheen, Mortlake and Wimbledon in 1396 to James DINGLEY [CCR]. I reckon James was Robert's brother or cousin; James' wife, Ellen née COMYN, was certainly Margaret's sister.

I am not clear on the exact ownership of these properties. In 1414 the following deed was signed:

14 Apr 1414
Know present and future men that we Edmund STAFFORD, Bishop of Exeter, Thomas SKELTON, knight, Gilbert HAYDOK, knight, William GASCOIGNE, Richard GASCOIGNE/Nicholas CAREWE, William WESTON, William HORNEBY, Nicholas FAUCONER and John RAYNFORD, have given, granted, and by this our present deed confirmed, to William, son of William GASCOIGNE, and John DYNELEY all those lands and tenements, rents, reversions and services, meadows, woods, feedings and pastures, with all and singular their apputenances which formerly/we had by gift and feoffment of Robert DYNELEY deceased, in Wimbledon, East Sheen, Westhall and Mortlake in the county of Surrey. To have and to hold all the aforesaid lands/tenements... pastures with all the aforesaid appurtenances to the above mentioned William son of William and John DYNELEY and to their heirs/and assigns for ever of the chief lords of those fees by the services thence due and accustomed by law. In witness whereof we have attached our seals to this our present charter. Witnesses: Walter SONDES, knight, William BROCAS, Thomas ROLF, Nicholas CONYNGESTON, John WYNTERSHILL, John WESTON and others. [Surrey Arch.]

Many of the above signatories are the same as those to whom Robert DINGLEY of Kingsclere had granted his Fittleton manor before he died in 1394. So it is possible that Robert had made a similar grant for his East Sheen and surrounding property. I am not sure who John DYNELEY was - maybe Robert's younger son?

In 1420, Margaret's son, Robert DINGLEY, made a quitclaim to Peter DEL HALLE concerning lands in Wimbledon. [CCR] This was doubtless the same Peter HALLE whose property acquisition in Herne and Reculver in Kent was witnessed by James (see below). In 1442, Robert DYNELEY and William his son and heir make a quitclaim of Robert's late lands in 'Estchene, Westhalle' and Mortelake co. Surrey to Thomas BURGHILL. [CCR]

The earliest record of James that I have found is in 1392 when property in Worcs. is committed to him, including Morton Underhill which he inherited from his wife's father, John COMYN. [CFR] A James DYNELEY of Nottinghamshire appears in 1393 and a James DYNGELEY of London in 1395, but I cannot tell if these are the same James (although they probably are). [CCR]

As shown above, James acquired property in Westhall, East Sheen, Mortlake and Wimbledon in Surrey from Margaret DINGLEY in 1396, and became known as James DINGLEY of Sheen.

In 1396, James DINGLEY and Margaret, the widow of Robert DINGLEY of Kingsclere, disposed of their shares in Kinsaley manor, Dublin. [CCR] Later that year James went to Ireland and appointed his brother Thomas as one of his attorney in England. [CPR] I have covered Thomas under the Kent Dingleys.

In a memorandum of 1396, James DINGLEY, brother of Thomas, was described as a merchant:

Memorandum that on 22 October this year a release, dated Monday before Michaelmas 20 Richard II [1396], and made, as it is pretended, by Walter PYNCHOUN citizen and draper of London to Thomas DYNGELEY brother of James DYNGELEY merchant, was by the hands of Thomas STANLEY keeper of the rolls delivered into the King's Bench. [CCR]

"as it is pretended" sounds an inauspicious phrase. There must have been some unfinished business because, in November 1397, James DINGLEY of Sheen is indicted for killing Walter PYNCHON in Winchester. At his trial in February 1398 he pleaded not guilty, but is found guilty and is put in the prison of the bishop of Winchester, at Wolvesey 'because he was a clerk' i.e. a cleric. He remained in prison until December 1403 when he escaped at night with others who were also clerks. The bishop of Winchester was pardoned that same month for allowing them all to escape and James himself was pardoned in March 1404. [CPR]

... for having lain in wait and struck Walter PYNCHON with a knife called a 'baselard', of the value of 6d. in his back to his heart as he made water against a wall near the church of St. Laurence in that city [Winchester] on Monday after the said feast of St. Katharine, whereof he died instantly ... [CPR]

Killing someone while they were having a pee does seem extreme. I wonder what bearing the value of the knife played in James' conviction?

James held property in London as is shown in the inquisition before Richard (aka Dick) Whityngton, mayor of London:

11 Jul 1398. Inquisition taken before Richard Whityngton, mayor and escheator of London, by virtue of the annexed writ (now missing).
James DYNGELEY had 2 messuages and 4 shops with gardens annexed, worth 40s. net yearly, in the parish of St. Giles without Crepulgate in the suburbs of London on the day on which he was convicted of the death of Walter PYNCHON. They are held of the King in free burgage, like all the city of London. [CIM]

In 1406, James' lands in Worcs. and Warks. are restored to James and Ellen. The lands had been taken into the King's hand, because of his felony, and granted to Robert DINGLEY his nephew. [CPR] However, in 1408 James and Ellen seemed to dispose of what is doubtless the same property (in Morton Underhill and Newbold Comyn) to Rolland DYNELEY. [FF] I suspect that Rolland is actually Robert DINGLEY, James' nephew.

James DINGLEY also acquired land in Herne, Kent in 1406 from Agnes EDE of Cambridgeshire. [CCR] In 1408 James witnessed a charter for land in Herne and Reculver granted to Peter HALLE. In the same year Robert DYNELEY of Wolverton (co. Southampton) made a recognisance to Peter DEL HALLE and James DYNGELEY. [CCR] (In 1420 Robert made a further recognisance to Peter HALLE otherwise DEL CHAMBRE of Tonyngton, Kent. Tonyngton is almost certainly Thanington which is the same place that Martha HALES, wife of Moyle DINGLEY in 1587, came from - she was probably a descendant of Peter. See Kent Dingleys.)

There are a few more passing references to James, but the next one of significance is not until 1464, concerning his grandson Richard DYNGLEE, as follows:

31 May 1464
Richard DYNGLEE cousin and heir of James DYNGLEE of Sheen co. Surrey, namely son of James his son, to William HASTYNGES knight Lord Hastyunges, John FAWNE the younger citizen and vintner of London, Thomas FROWYK, Thomas MORE and Thomas LUYT gentlemen, their heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of the whole messuage and appurtenances called the 'Keye on the hoop' in St. John Street without 'Westsmythfeld barres' in the parish of St. Sepulchre without 'Neugate' London sometime of John MORYS of Middlesex 'brewer', which they had jointly by demise and feoffment of John FAWNE the elder, Katherine his wife and William NORTON. [CCR]

Given that James DINGLEY's son was also called James, I cannot be sure whether the following are references to James senior or junior (or someone else)

1410	Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 20l., made in chancery 7 July this year by James DYNGLEY of Surrey, John GARTON and Thomas WOLBALLE, both of Kent, for William MAIDESTON, and of undertaking by him under a pain of 100 marks, that he shall do or procure no hurt or harm to Thomas SEINTLEGGER, Henry BEKERTON, John AUSTYN and John GEDDYNG.	CCR
1411	[Commission de walliis fossatis] to James DYNGLEE on the shore of the water of Thames between the towns of Northflete and Grenewych, co. Kent.	CPR
1412	Commission of oyer and terminer to John COLEPEPER, William CHEYNE of Shepeye, Walter MAY, mayor of Quenesburgh [Queenborough], Roger HONYN, constable of the castle of Quenesburgh, and James DYNGLEY touching all felonies and trespasses committed within the town and the liberty of the same.	CPR

There are some records for DINGLEYs living in this area in the 16th and 17th centuries. I do not know their connection with other DINGLEYs. Possible connections include the following, but I have no evidence:

1593. Jane DINGLEY (daughter of Richard and Chrispian BLUNDELL of Ewell) had children John, Ann and Elizabeth DINGLEY, as mentioned in Richard BLUNDELL's Will. Frances DINGLEY was also mentioned. [Surrey Wills]

1593. DYNGLEY's children, John DYNGLEY a lamb, overseer Thomas DYNGLEY mentioned in the Will of Ralph BLUNDELL of Ewell. [Surrey Wills] Possibly Thomas DINGLEY was husband of Jane?

1624. Thomas DINGLYE witnessed the Will of Richard WOODMAN of Ewell. [Surrey Wills]

Children of Thomas DINGLEY of Ewell [IGI]:
  1624  Thomas
  1626  Jeane
  1631  John
  1633  Allin
  1637  Prudence
  1639  George
  1641  Eliza

(Allin DINGLEY could be the same one who married Prudence Williams in 1655 - see Descendants of Alan Dingley - but I have no real evidence for this.)

Children of Nicholas DINGLEY of Ewell [IGI]:
  1629  Anne
  1633  Frances
  1637  Isabell

1649. Thomas DINGLY of Ewell, tailor. Sons: Thomas, Nicholas, John, Alan and Robert. Eldest daughter: Jane. Daughters: Ann, Prudence and Elizabeth. Wife: Prudence. Thomas DINGLY's Will was proved in 1665. [Surrey Wills]

1662. Order permitting Allen DINGLEY of Sutton, Surrey, to keep an Alehouse. [Quarter Sessions]

1667. John DINGLEY of Epsom, Surrey, innkeeper. Son: John. Daughters: Mary ORPIN(?), Frances BAYSE. Sons-in-law: William BAYSE, Thomas DAY. [Surrey Wills]

1668. Thomas DINGLEY guardian for William FRANKE. Will of William FRANKE of Ewell, proved 1668. [Surrey Wills]

I do not know the connection between the DINGLEYs of Kingston and other DINGLEYs. Possible connections include the following, but I have no evidence:

1486. Thomas DINGELE witness to Will of Richard MORDON. Kyngston. [Surrey Wills]

1488. Thomas DYNGELEY executor of Will of Nicholas HOSEY. Kyngeston upon Thames. [Surrey Wills]

1504-5 the part of the king in the "Kyngham game" was taken by Robert DENGLEY, who was a member of the Butcher's Company and afterwards one of the two Bailiffs of Kingston. [Surrey Arch.]

1508-9. Kingston churchwarden's expenses. Item paid to Robert DYNGLEY for "moton 18d". [Surrey Arch.]

1518. Robert DYNGLEY overseer of Will of Robert HAYEMER of Kingston. [Surrey Wills]

1534. "...to the making of the highway from the house where DYNGLEY lives to the Thames Bridge" in the Will of Robert EXSOLDE of Kingston, butcher. [Surrey Wills]

1535. Will of Robert DYNGLEY of Kingston, butcher. Eldest son: Thomas. Sons: Robert and Henry DYNGLEY. Daughters: Juliana FOSTER and Margaret DYNGLEY. Wife: Katherine DYNGLEY. Overseer: Ralph PARKER, wife's brother. Will proved 1539. [Surrey Wills]

Robert and Dorothy DINGLEY's children at Kingston [IGI]:
1541 William
1543 Cecilia

1544. Thomas DINGLEAYE witness to Will of Thomas KYNGSTON of Kingston on Thames. [Surrey Wills]

Margaret Toynbee writing in Notes and Queries has provided a brief biography of his life.

He was baptised in Boston, Lincs., as the son of William DYNELA. This was doubtless William DYNELAY, sometime mayor of Boston, who descended from the DE DYNELEYs of Downham in Lancs. See Lincs Dingleys.

He married Penelope, the daughter of Sir Robert SEYMOUR of Dorset, who had previously been married to Peter BETSWORTH of Sussex. Penelope had died by 28 Sep 1648 when John was married again to Elizabeth BUTLER.

John DINGLEY was secretary to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and was knighted some time before 1648.

Sir John was resident in Richmond from at least 1649 to 1671 when he died and was buried there. His wife Elizabeth died in January 1671/2 and was buried in Beddington. His heir, Mildreda DINGLEY died in 1693 and was also buried in Richmond.

1570. "my sister Isard DINGLE widow of Thomas DINGLE". Will of George FAYRECHILD of Walton on Thames. [Surrey Wills]

1643. (Mr) Henry DINGLEY executor of the Will of Lancelot BAXTER of Walton on Thames, purveyor of the king's buttery. [Surrey Wills]

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