General Notes

Note:
[5497] He was named in his father's will (1559) as 'John Cu
lpeper my eldest
son,' and lived out a long and uneventful life at Wigsell
. There is no
record of his education. If he was not sent to Winchester l
ike his
younger brothers, he probably spent some years in residenc
e at one of
the inns of chancery: but he was not admitted to any of th
e Inns of
Court. It is thus possible, by the process of elimination
, to
distinguish him from the other three Johns of his generatio
n.
.
All the public testimonies for him are in the acts of Queen
Elizabeth's Privy Council ranging from 1558 to 1592. Thes
e show him an
active Justice of the Peace, included in the quorum of th
e Commission
for the Rape of Lewes and the Cinq Ports of Sussex, in suc
h periodical
correspondence relating to the routine of local governmen
t as made up
his father's public record also.
.
The inquisition taken in 1614, after the death of his eldes
t son
(post), testifies that he made a settlement of his estate i
n 1589 in
lieu of a will, and died on October 20, 1612. He was burie
d in
Salehurst, October 21, 1612, as 'Johanes Colepeper, armiger
, etatis
82,' whence it may be deducted that he was born the year af
ter his
parents' marriage. If there was an MI., it was destroyed i
n the
desecration of Salehurst Church during the Commonwealth.
.
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