1491 Augustine Steward/Austen Styward born of Geoffrey and Cecily Boyce in St George Tombland (current Augustine Steward House)
1504 Geoffrey Steward dies. Will mentions house on Tombland as being where Augustine Steward was born. Cecily, his wife, Augustine Steward’s mother remarries, to John Clerk, merchant and grocer. https://pamelamorse.com/2018/07/15/augustine-steward-11th-great-grandfather/
1508 St George Tombland house burnt in fire
1515 or 6 Augustine Steward admitted as freeman of the City of Norwich, mercer
1526 Alderman, sheriff
1530 son William born. St George Tombland house may have been rebuilt.
1531 bought Swardeston Hall from John Clerk and his third (?) wife Agnes, an alderman of Norwich (possibly the husband of Augustine’s mother Cecily, who must have died before 1531). After rebuilding and additions, passed on to son, William Steward alias Styward in 1566 – renamed Gowthorpe Manor; who passed it on to son, Thomas Styward; who sold it with Mary his wife and Christopher Layer to Dame Julian Berney in 1628 (c.1568-1645);
1534-35 Mayor
1538 Augustine Steward asks for reduction of rent on Princes Inn estate because it is a void messuage.
1540-44 Steward and the City Council purchase St Andrews/Blackfriars at the end of Princes Street and turn it into an assembly hall.
1546-47 Mayor
1549 Kett’s Rebellion. Augustine Steward’s house on Tombland ransacked by rebels
1553 Augustine Steward’s son William is admitted to the Freedom of Norwich. Augustine Steward is freeman, mercer, alderman.
1556-57 Augustin Steward is Mayor
1565 – John and Elizabeth Clerk grant to Augustine Styward a tenement and garden (which the said John and Elizabeth Clerk bought of Miles Spencer; LL.D.) between a tenement of the said John Clerk E(ast), a tenement of the said Augustine Styward W(est), a garden of the said Augustine Styward N(orth), and a highway S(outh). Possibly = sale of 22 to Styward and continuing to live in 24 and 26 Princes Street
1568-1570 landgable records show Augustine Steward has passed on Princes Inn messuage to son William (1527/30 – 1610) – clergyman and alderman. Neighbouring tenement (22?) owned by Augustine Sotherton (bef 1553-1585), grandson of Augustine Steward.
1571 Augustine Steward dies. Asks to be buried at St Peter Hungate where both his wives are buried.
1610 William Styward dies at Swardeston, Swardeston Hall (Gowthorpe Manor)
1628 Thomas Steward, son of William, grandson of Augustine, sells Gowthorpe Manor to Dame Julian Berney/Barney. Dame Julian also owns Princes Inn by this point.
1637 Thomas Steward dies
1648 Augustine Stewart, son of Edward, apprenticed to William Steward of Norwich, worsted weaver, for 7 years
1659 Austin Steward apprenticed to William Steward as a worsted weaver
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