Posted by Mark Tooker on October 20, 19101 at 20:31:24:
An earlier message on this forum mentioned that
there was a Tooker who was organist at Salisbury
c1621.
I'm not sure who was the organist of Salisbury,
but I'll bet I know how he got his job. Pasted below
is some information I dug up on the Internet about
one William Tooker (1554-1621), "canon resident
of Sarum" (the old name for Salisbury). In his
will he mentions a Giles Tooker, it is only a
guess but I think that this is most likely
Giles Tooker Esq. (c1557-1623) of Maddington,
Wiltshire, son of Charles Tooker and
Matilda (Maud) Nipperhead.
If anyone can throw any light on the genealogy of
William Tooker (1554-1621) and his possible
relationship to the descendants of William Tooker
of Maddington (born Tavistock Devon, died 1538
Maddington Wiltshire), I would greatly appreciate it.
William Tooker (1554-1621), Salisbury
Biography
III.15 William Tooker or Toker of Devonshire [1554 - 1621]
had matriculated from New College in 1575 B. A. 1579,
M. A. 1583, D. D. 1594; canon
of Exeter 1580, archdeacon of Barnstaple 1585,
royal chaplain and prebendary of Sarum 1588,
rector of West Dean, Wilts. 1588 - 1621, and of
Coloverly, Devonshire, 1590 - 1601, Dean of
Lichfield 1605 (Foster p. 1495).
http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/affaniae/notes2.html#III.15
A Cenotaphic Poem to William Tooker
From CENOTAPHIC POEMS ERECTED AND CONSECRATED TO THE
SHADES AND PIOUS MEMORY OF VARIOUS MEN,
BY CHARLES FITZGEOFFREY
The world's secret busom and the universe of the pious
now possesses those who have run the course of their
well-deserving lives. PRINTED
AT OXFORD BY JOSEPH BARNES, 1601.
http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/affaniae/3eng.html
15. AD GULIELMUM TOKERUM, THEOLOGIAE DOCTOREM
Te mea, si auderet tantum sperare triumphi,
Lectorem optaret Musa, Tokere, sibi.
Nempe venustates omnes, omnesque lepores,
Quicquid et est Charitum, quicquid et Aonidum,
Si modo te ferret, poterat mea ferre papyrus.
Cunctarum siquidem es dextra, Tochere, manus.
15. TO WILLIAM TOOKER, DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY
If my Muse could dare aspire to such a triumph,
Tooker, she would wish you as her reader,
for you embody all the charms, all the
beauties, whatever there is of the Graces,
and of the Boeotian Muses. If only she
could win you, so could my paper. For, Tooker,
you are the right hand of all things.
The Will of William Tooker
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BRKwills/wa10484.html
1621 william tooker salisbury wil PCC [1] will 10484 will
of william tooker dean of lichfield and canon resident of
sarum, weak and feeble in body.
my farm of east deane [2] co south to my son robert tooker
and his heirs the lease of my ground called totts [3] co
south to my said son after my wife his mothers decease to
my said son my books ring of gold bearing my arms, and
scarlet gown and hood my servants to be respected by
my wife all my other goods profits etc to my beloved
wife anne tooker who is sole executrix my wife to pay
my son robert tooker £20 per annum
out of the lands in her hands until he comes into
his lands in devon and then to cease witnessed:
john mosely, g[?] tooker, martha staninge, john hurse,
sarah (x) hawkins. overseers: my worll(?)
deputie giles tooker [4] of sarum to be my overseer
my son robert tooker upon my blessing not
to marry maria baylie or he is disinherited of
all i have given him witnesses: john mosely,
harry cowarde probate: london 9 may 1621 to anne
tooker relict and executrix before egidio thornburgh
clerico
Notes to the will of William Tooker:
[1] Prerogative court of the archbishop of Canterbury
[2] Probably East Dean, Hamsphire - 12 km east of
Salisbury. There are other East Dean's in East
Sussex (near Eastbourne) and West Sussex
(near Chichester).
[3] Evidently this is in Devonshire, see later in the
will "until he comes into his lands in devon".
The identification of this property could possibly
lead to an ancestral home of this branch of the
Tooker family in Devon.
[4] Probably Giles Tooker Esq. (1557-1623 "The Baronet")
of Maddington, Wiltshire, first son of Charles Tooker
(1526-1571), Yeoman, of Maddington Farm, Wiltshire.
Or, he could be Giles Tooker (?-?), the nephew of Giles
Tooker Esq. (1557-1623) and son of John Tooker (1562-?).
Thornhill v. Tooker
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When William Tooker was serving as Dean of Lichfield,
he was sued by a member of his congregation, over
the question of whether the parishioners or the Church
authorities should be allowed to choose the parish
priest. The whole famous case is described in detail
here:
http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~marchington/04-THE%20CHURCH-OF-THOMAS-BECKET.htm