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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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sibly three) gen-erations between John1 de Schedde of Edwardstone in 1327 andhis undoubted descendant John4 Schedde of Sudbury remain forthe present shrouded in oblivion. During this period of Englishhistory only scant records now remain concerning the mass of thepopulation. But in the fifteenth century the mists clear away andreveal, JOHN4 SCHEDDE of Sudbury, County Suffolk, born about1390. This ancient town in Babergh Hundred in Suffolk is situatedon the river Stour which separates the counties of Suffolk andEssex, and as early as the Norman Conquest (1066) was a market-town of importance. About 1350 a small colony of Flemings intro-duced here the manufacture of wollen cloth which rapidly increasedin importance, flourished over four centuries as the main industryof the place, and then fell into decay. But during the last centuryit has been replaced by divers manufactures on a small scale, andthe town has become a prosperous place of about ten thousand ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF DANIEL SHED
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4 DANIEL SHED GENEALOGY population. Since 1554 Sudbury has been an incorporated borough,and it comprises three parishes, All Saints, St. Gregory, and St.Peter, the last-named being in ancient times a chapelry of St.Gregory. The three churches are fine structures of flint and rubble,built principally in the fifteenth century, of which St. Gregory isthe most ancient and imposing. The head of Simon de Sudbury,Archbishop of Canterbury, who was seized and beheaded by amob during Wat Tylers Bolshevik rebellion in 1381, is still to beseen in a grated niche in the walls of St. Gregorys Church. Our knowledge concerning John4 Schedde is obtained from someancient manor court rolls of Sudbury which state that he was afuller (or wollen cloth refiner). The mentions of John4 Scheddeextend from 1420 to 1437, and among them are the followingitems: Court held 22 Apr. 8 Henry V. (1420); John Schedde appliesfor licence to settle with John Martyn in a plea of trespass. Courtheld 22 Sept. 11 Henry VI. (143

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