The manor of the vicarage of Coddenham is very ancient; and in 1655, Robert
Ryece, Esq., of Preston, possessed some original
rolls for a Leot held by the vicar, to which belonged a great part of this
parish, Crowficld, Stonham, Hemingston, and Gosbeck; which from various causes
are now quite lost from the vicarage. These documents were from the 1st of
Edward III., and perfect during that king's reign; and kept not very negligently
in the reign of Richard II.; but then little remains, until Henry VI., and King
Edward IV.; from whose time they had again been kept very imperfectly. The
tenement called Wigmoll's, on the Mote, in this parish, was long in the family
of Daye; and was sold by William Dave, to Henry Crane, Esq.; and by Sir Robert,
his son, to Francis Chop-pyngc, Gent.; who sold it to Thos. Wingfield, Esq., of
Nettlestead; who left it by his will to be sold by his executors ; of whom it
was purchased by Francis Bacon, of Ipswich, Esq.; who sold it to John Chapman,
Gent., who died in 1657, and left it to John Shainar, D.D., Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, and afterwards rector of Aldham, near Hadleigh. The tenement
Jordaiue's, was built by William Jordainc, in the time of King Henry VI., and
was but a mean cottage until John Deynes, Gent, bought it of Thomas Dove, and
built upon it. He was executor and heir of William Deynes, of Barrow, his uncle;
his wife was Alice, daughter of James Revet, of Witnesliam, Gent. and Christian
his wife, daughter of Robert Gosnold, of Ottley, Esq.
He was Chief Collector for tliis hundred, Samford, and Stow, in the 44th of
Queen Elizabeth, and assessed £10 at that subsidy.
He left this estate, and sundry other lands and tenements, the most of which
were purchased of Sir Anthony Felton, K.B., to his
second sou, John Deynes (Robert, his eldest son, had an estate at Barrow), who
was Treasurer for the maimed soldiers, in 1627-8, and Chief Constable of this
hundred for many years, and fined for Knighthood, as were all persons of £40 per
annum in lands, at the beginning of King Charles's reign. Mr. Deynes married
Dinah, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Hammond, of Wetherden. His eldest son,
John Deynes, Esq., M.D., inherited this estate. Dr. Deynes went out Captain of a
foot Company, in the service
of the Parliament, at the beginning of the civil war ; and was afterwards
Serjeant Major and Lieut. Colonel of Colonel Rupill's regiment ; and was at the
taking of Lincoln, when the government and chief commanders there yielded up
themselves to him. He was also at the battle of Marston Moor with his regiment,
the first and last that charged of the Infantry: and was Major of Horse at the
siege of Colchester. His first wife was Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Broke,
of Nacton, Knt.; his second was Bridget, daughter of Bartholomew Dade, Gent.,
and Elizabeth his wife, sister of Sir Robert Naunton, Knt., Secretary of State
to King James I. The tenement Jordaines stood over against the
church-gate.ARMS.—Deynes: or; two bare and a bordure, sable. Chep-
jiyne: or ; a chevron between six mullets, gules. Blomeville: quarterly, per
fess indented, argent and azure, a bend, gules.