Walter FROST

- Bef 1478

• Name	Walter FROST
  Gender	Male
  Will	12 Dec 1477	Yorkshire, England
  Death	Bef 10 Jan 1478	Yorkshire, England
  Probate	10 Jan 1478
  Notes	(1) "Pedigree of Frosts of Yorkshire," in Frost, Thomas G. and Frost, Edward L., The Frost Family in England and America, Buffalo, NY: Russell Printing Company, 1909, pp. 33-36: WALTER FROST, died 1477. (See Foster's Visit'n of Yorks, Brit. Museum.) Will 12th Dec, 1477. Mar. ALICE. . . . Child of the above WALTER FROST and wife ALICE (III): IV. THOMAS FROST of Beverly. Will dated 20th Oct., 1496. Buried at St. Mary's, Beverley. Mar. ELIZABETH. (2) Fowler, James, "On Two Heraldic Bench-Ends in Great Sandal Church," in The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, Vol. 1: Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, 1870, pp. 132, 146-148: . . . Walter [Frost], . . . early in the fifteenth century, married Isabel Fetherston, the sister of Simon de Fetherston and heiress of the Fetherston estates, and had issue, Thomas (buried in S. Mary's church, Beverley), who married a daughter of John Woodruffe, of Woolley and other extensive estates. . . . (3) Index of Wills in the York Registry - 1389 to 1514, The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association, Record Series, Vol. VI, 1889, p. 66: [The date of the Probate precedes the Name and that of the Will follows the Name, the reference to the Register and folio following the latter. The letter s. before the same signifies that an abstract of the Will is to be found in the Surtees Society's "Testamenta Eboracensia," and the abbreviations "Test. Ebor., S.S.," in the foot-notes refer to the same work. The term "Prob. Act" signifies that there is no Will existing, but only the Probate Act; "Adm." in like manner means that there is no Will but an Administration Act.] Jan. 10, 1477[/8], s., Froste, Walter, son & heir of Thos. F., late of Beverley, Dec. 12, 1477, Vol. 5, Fol. 116 (4) Testamenta Eboracensia, A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York, Vol. III, Durham, England: Surtees Society, 1865, pp. 237-238: LXXXIV. THE WILL OF WALTER FROSTE, ESQ. OF BEVERLEY. [Reg. Test. v. 116.) Dec. 12, 1477. Walterus Froste, filius et hæres Thomæ Froste, quondam de Beverlaco. Sep. in capella. B. M. V. Beverlaci, juxta sepulturam Thomæ Froste, patris mei. Thomæ Froste, filio et hæredi meo, unum cornu potabile, argento ornatum et deauratum; omnia arma mea defensibilia; duas pecias argenti cum uno cooperculo argenti signat cum trafules; unum Missale; unum Portiforium divisum, usus Ebor.; unum calicem cum patena arg. et deaur.; duas fiolas argenti; unum vestimentum de damask russet cum j frontale; j corporax; unum superaltare; unum tintinnabulum argenteum; et omnia altari et capellæ meæ pertinentia. Terræ, etc., in Beverlaco, Molescroft and Shrobfeld. Wife Alice, and son Thos. exrs. [Pr. Jan. 10, 1477-8.) [Note 1: (Walter Frost, the testator, was) the head of an ancient East-Riding family of which there is little known. His grandson, Walter Frost, esq. left an only child and heiress, Margaret, who married Jocelyn Percy, esq. of Newland in right of his wife. (Coll. Top. et Geneal. ii. 61.) On Nov. 2nd, 1468, an oratory was granted to Walter Frost of Newland for three years. (Reg. Neville, 1. 106 b.) The license was renewed for a similar period to Walter Frost and Alice his wife on Oct. 20, 1471. (Ibid. 138 a.) The testator was the grandson of Walter Frost, who was buried in the church of St. Mary at Hull, and the son of Thomas Frost of Beverley who died in 1421, by Catharine daughter of William Kelk, esq. Thomas Frost made his will at Beverley on August 8th, 1421, in which he styles himself sometime son and heir of Walter Frost of Hull. To be buried in the chapel of the Virgin at Beverley, in the north aisle, before St. Michael's altar, near Thomas Frost my late uncle. To my son, Thomas Frost, the Portiphor which I carry in my hand. To my dau. Margaret, 40 l. towards her marriage. To my dau. Joan, 45 marks for the same purpose. If they die, this money to be spent at Hull and Beverley for the souls of Walter Frost my father, Ellen my mother, William Kelk, sen., John Leversigge, and Katharine my wife. To Katharine, my wife, all the jocalia in my house at Beverley, save a drinking horn adorned with silver and gilt, the armour belonging to my body, a jack of defence covered with black worsted, six silver pieces with covers marked with trefoils, a Missal, a Portiphor of the York use in two volumes, a chalice with a patten of silver and gilt, two silver-gilt phials, a vestment of russet damask with two pieces of the same suit, a frontell with corporax, a super-altar, a silver bell, and everything belonging to the said portable altar; all which things are to go to my son, Walter Frost, when of age. John my son. My dau. Ellen, a nun at Nuncotom. In the entail are mentioned my brother Walter Frost, my sister Eliz. Pund of Hull, Henry son of Robert Morton of Bawtry, and Katharine my sister, Wm. Leeds, son of Joan my sister. (Reg. Bowet, i. 384-5.) Walter Frost of Hull, gentleman (brother of Thomas Frost), made his will on the feast of the Conception of the Virgin, 1425, desiring to be buried in the chapel of the Virgin, near the tomb of Walter, his father. To Alice his wife (an exx.), he leaves his dwelling-house. Pr. Jan. 20, 1425-6. (Reg. sede vacante, 419 a b.)] [Note 2: On Oct. 20th, 1498, Thomas Froste of Beverley, esq., made his will, desiring to be buried in the church or chapel of the Blessed Virgin at Beverley, in St. Michael's aisle, near his father's tomb. To my five children and their mother, 200 marks. I give my daughter Elizabeth to John, son of John Rosse of Routh, esq., to be married to him. The residue to John Rosso, senr. He, and Elisabeth my wife, exrs. Pr.Nov. 9th. (Reg. Test. v. 488 b.)] [Note 3: Another son (of Walter Frost, the testator), perhaps, or, more probably, a grandson, was Robert Frost, canon of Bole at York, archdeacon of Winchester and Stow, and chancellor of Prince Arthur. He was a great benefactor to the church of Thornhill, of which he was the rector.]
  Person ID	I24449	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William FROST   d. Bef 20 Jun 1426, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
  Mother	Alice FRANK
  Family ID	F10735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice (FROST)
  Children	1. Thomas FROST   d. Bef 9 Nov 1496, Beverley, Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F10739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024