Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
IX - The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The history of the people who came by the name of de Coker through betaking themselves elsewhere does not properly belong to the annals of the village; but since the items of this history in earlier times have not been collected elsewhere and should be of some interest to the village, it has seemed worth while to set them down here. In doing this, there is the danger that the actions of the family that remained at Coker may be attributed to those that moved to other parts of the county, and vice versa, for the Christian names in use were comparatively few. The Thomas's, Johns, Roberts and Richards married Joans, Margerys, Eleanors and Alices. The difficulty, however, is greatest in the case of those who did not marry at all; monks and priests were sent to places other than where they were born and with which their families may have had no association.
At a very early date de Cokers must have settled in Bristol, as Nicholas de Coker was ‘prepositus’ or reeve there in 1226. In 1285 Thomas de Coker was mayor. In 1303 a Thomas Coker (and there is little reason to doubt it was the same person), was one of four commissioners appointed to levy the customs ‘in Hwerford and in every place thence to Bristol and thence in every place by the sea-coast to Exeter’. This included the coasts of south Wales, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.
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- The Annals of West Coker , pp. 485 - 491Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1957