1. John Harrys, of London. Jan. 21, 1470. Protection for John Harrys of London in the retinue of George duke of Clarence, lieutenant of Ireland. (C.S.P.). Debtor: William Skyby, clerk, John Harris, citizen and grocer [merchant] of London. Creditor: Thomas Chatterley, citizen and mercer [merchant] of London. Amount: £40. Before whom: John Brown, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. July 12, 1482. (C 241/261/15). Debtor: Thomas Cotton, formerly of Lichfield in Staffs., gentleman, and Henry Cotton, formerly of Lichfield, gentleman. Creditor: John Harris {Harrys}, citizen and grocer, of London. Amount: 100m. Before whom: William Brown the Younger, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. Writ to: Sheriff of Bristol. Attached is the inquisition made at Bristol in the Guildhall, on Aug. 22, 1511. Thomas Cotton of Lichfield in Staffs. was seised in demesne in the right of his wife Elizabeth, one of the daughters and heiresses of Hugh Fleming, formerly of Wentllouk in Wales, gentleman, deceased, of a messuage, 8 tenements, 3 cellars, and 2 gardens in the Town and suburb of Bristol, worth £3 8s. 4d. a year. March 27, 1510. (C 131/97/2).

2. John Harrys. Harrys v Bele. Plaintiff: John Harrys, of Bristol, grocer, son of John Harrys, of London. Subject: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and barn in Ware, late of complainant’s father, in right of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bull, of Roydon. 1504-1515. (C 1/320/92). Thomas Bull of Roydon co. Essex, to John Harrys, grocer of London, John Grene esquire of Kent and Edmund Lichefelde clerk, their executors and assigns. Gift of all his goods and chattels etc. Dated 2 November, 15 Edward IV. (C.C.R.). Harrys v Gryme. Plaintiffs: John Harrys, of Bristol, son of John and Elizabeth Harrys, daughter of Thomas Bull, of Roydon. Defendants: Johane Gryme, widow. Subject: Detention of deeds relating to messuages and gardens in Ware. Hertfordshire. 1504-1515. (C 1/324/21).

3. David Harris. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982: b. by 1511, s. of John Harris of Bristol by Alice.* m. (1) Margery, wid. of Thomas Browne of Bristol, 3s. 1da.; (2) by Apr. 1543, Margaret. David Harris was the son of a Bristol grocer and in July 1532 was himself admitted to the freedom of the city as a grocer. In 1542 Harris leased several tenements on the Bridge which had formerly belonged to a number of dissolved monastic houses and religious fraternities. David Harris ‘grocer and alderman’ died late in 1582. He had made his will on 4 Oct., directing that he should be buried in the church of St. Nicholas where his father and first wife lay. To his wife Margaret he left a share of their dwelling house with his son David, leaving a third part to his daughter Alice and her husband Ralph Bennet should they desire it. He bequeathed to his son David the shop attached to his house, a turquoise ring and books of physic. To his daughter Alice he also left eight houses and some plate. Other legatees included his sons John and George. The will was proved on Nov. 20, 1582. PCC 41 Tirwhite. *Edwards (REQ 2/4/362).

September 10, 1550. David Harries, grocer … now holds all right and interest in the garden leased, by right of his marriage with Margerie Browne, decd, sometime extrix of the Will of Thomas Browne; in cons. of this and for certain causes, he has surrendered [etc.] the said indenture and his estate and right to his well-beloved in Christ Giles White, merchant, in the term which he held. (On) the 8th Aug. 1566 and 8 Eliz. Anne White, late wife of Giles White, merchant, deed: surrenders and delivers to Thomas Colston, mercer; William Yeman, grocer; William Pill, grocer; and Robert Younge, merchant; feoffees of the lands, tens. etc. of All Saints. (B. A., AS/D/NA/70).

4. John Harris, bapt. April 7, 1558, d. 1633. (Blagdon). He and his elder (half) br., David, witnessed a deed of Walter Kelke and his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Woodward .. late bookebynder; and Robert Smythes and Elizabeth his wife, late wife of Woodward; to Walter Davies, glover, and David Jones, barbour; parishioners of All Saints. October 3, 1582. (B.A., P.AS/D/CS/B/8). The Smyth(es) family held land in Blagdon, 10 mls fr. Long Ashton: Conveyance. 1. George Kirkham of Blagdon, esq. and James Kirkham of Exeter, gent. 2. Humphry Smyth of the Inner Temple, London. 1570-1572 (Dev. Arch., 1926 B/W/T/14/1-2).

5. John Harris,* bapt 1589/90, in Blagdon.

5. Joan Harris, bapt. May I, 1603, m. (as second wife and her second husband) John Oson, bapt. Apr. 22, 1604, the father of Ann Ozen (bapt. June 19, 1625), who m. James Derrick, July 20, 1648, cousin of Francis Derick Jr., bapt. March 10, 1607, in Long Ashton, who bought land from Dorothy, “daughter of the late deceased *Sergeant John Harris”, p. 113.

5. William Harris, m. Dorothy Bath, Nov, 17, 1628. Harris v Osen. Plaintiffs: William Harris. Defendants: John Osen and Joan Osen his wife. Subject: property in Blagdon, Somerset. 1649. (C 6/132/98). Deed: House or cottage newly built, 1a. ground formerly occ. by John Osen, now by John Dirrock, all in Blagdon. 1628. (S.H.C., DD\GB/43). John Dirrock, atty of the Smyth family, bapt. Nov. i, 1564 in Long Ashton, was the uncle of Francis Derrick Jr.

4. George Harris. Lease for 10 years: 1. John Butcher, draper, Abel Kitchen, merchant, Thomas Farmer, vintner, Henry Yate, chandler, John Woodward, fletcher, George Harris, baker, Nicholas Wynall, mercer, John Northall, gentleman, and Giles Gough, grocer; 2. Christopher Flower. Messuage in tenure and ocupation of Morgan Jones, clerk, another of John Doughtie, mercer, etc. Jan. 24, 1607. (B.A., 26166/141).

4. David Harris. Harris v Colman. Plaintiffs: David Harris, executor of his late father David Harris, deceased. For an account of rents received. Divers messuages, gardens, lands, and tenements, in the parish of St Augustine and elsewhere in the city of Bristol, Somerset, held by lease from the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Bristol. (C 2/Eliz/H3/55).

5. Margaret Harris, m. George Thorpe, February 21, 1611. Commission on Historical Manuscripts, vol. 5: Copies of Orders made at Courts for the Company, regarding the debts of Capt. Thorpe, in Virginia. 1634, April 10. Inventory of the goods and estate of Capt. George Thorpe, deceased, appraised by three persons (named). They are valued at pounds of tobacco; total, 1,3234 lbs. (3 pp.) 1634, Aug. 14. Bristol. William Thorpe, son and heir of George Thorpe, to Mr. Taylor, asking him when he arrived in Virginia to enquire when George Thorpe died, what goods and servants he had, who was then Governor, whether an inventory was taken, and what lands he had in Berkeley Town.

5. Thurston Harris. William Weale of the city of Bristol, baker. (Dat. 18 Jan. 1619-20.) Bur. in chyd. of St. Thomas; poor of the Weavers Almshouse, Temple St., Bristol; the Tuckers Alms-house in sd. street; the Whitehouse Almshouse at Temple-gate, and St. Thomas Almshouse in Bristol; Ids. in Brislington, Co. Somst.; Extx: wife Alice; Eliz. Hamlyn, wid.; hou. in Wine Street; Wm., son of Thurston Harris; hou. in Temple St., Bristol; kinsm. Francis Weale; tent, in Tucker St., Bristol, bot. of Mr. Geo. Thorpe; kinsm. and servt. Edwd. Weale (und. 21); Mr. Davies, minister; Rowland Benbowe;bro, Matthew Weale; sist. Eliz. Whitcot; sist. Francis Corfe; Anne Weale, dau. of Hum. Weale, deed.; goddau. Mary Parphey; cos. John Tomlinson; Wm. Tomlinson; godsons, Edwd. and Wm. Warren; goddau. Anne Yeamans, dau. of Wm. Yeamans; goodwife Deane; Mr. Lovering; cos. Wm. Yeamans; Co. of Bakers in Bristoll; 5 chn. of Thurstan Harris; Overs: frd. Mr. Matthew Warren and cos. Thurstan Harris; godson, Wm. Daniel; Matthew Bat, servt., “at the end of his covenant year.” (William Weale) Wits: William Yeamans, Not. Pub., Matthew Warren, Thurstone Harris. (Pr. 14 Feb. 1619-20.)

6. William Harris. Marriage settlement of William Harris and Margaret Divick (Derrick) of a tenement known as the Rose and Crown in Redcliffe street and tenements in Marsh and Wine streets. Parties: (1) Thurston Harris of Bristol, baker. (2) Francis Divvick (Derrick, Margaret’s br.) and Edward Boulashe of Bristol, merchants. November 2, 1628. (B.A., 19835/2f). The Derricks were tenants of the Smyth family of Long Ashton. Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court – Lease for seven years 1. Henry Gibbes, alderman, 2. William Harris of Sherehampton, husbandman Messuage in Sherehampton in the occupation of John Harris, brother of William Annual rent: £54 for the first four years £56 for the last three years One bushel of apples and pears. Covenant to discharge William from all costs of quartering soldiers and horses of ‘any of the Armyes now in this Kingdome’. December 24, 1648. William Harris was deceased by Oct. 8, 1656, when his wife was described as “Margaret Harris of Bristol, widow”. (B.R.O.).

6. John Harris.

6. Henry Harris. Assignment of lease for 99 years. 1. John Sam, clothworker, 2. John Betterton, clothworker. Property: messuage in Tucker Street in which the lessor dwells, between messuage in the occupation of Henry Harris on the east and garden ground in the occupation of William Weale on the west. May 10, 1631. (B.A., P.St T/D/305).

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