John Spencer of Cople

==Primary Sources==

==Primary Sources==

*Visitations of Bedfordshire, made in 1566, 1582 and 1634..., edited by Frederic Augustus Blaydes. London (1884)

*Visitations of Bedfordshire, made in 1566, 1582 and 1634..., edited by Frederic Augustus Blaydes. London (1884)

**[http://books.google.com/books?id=yygEAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA141&vq=cople Page 141, "Spencer of Cople"], beginning with Thomas Spencer and Anne Bulkeley

**[http://books.google.com/books?id=yygEAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA141&vq=cople Page 141, "Spencer of Cople"], beginning with Thomas Spencer and Anne Bulkeley

*"The first mention of it [Rowlands] as a manor is found in 1531, when John Spencer made a settlement of it. His father Robert's name occurs a few years earlier as holding land in Cople. Thomas son of John Spencer died seised in 1547. He was succeeded by his son Robert, who was followed by his son Nicholas, who died about 1625. His son, another Nicholas, married Mary daughter of Sir Edward Gostwick of Willington, and died in 1643.  William Spencer, son and heir of Nicholas, was living and in possession of Rowlands in 1691. From: 'Parishes: Cople', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 238-42. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42423 URL]. Date accessed: 24 February 2007."

*"The first mention of it [Rowlands] as a manor is found in 1531, when John Spencer made a settlement of it. His father Robert's name occurs a few years earlier as holding land in Cople. Thomas son of John Spencer died seised in 1547. He was succeeded by his son Robert, who was followed by his son Nicholas, who died about 1625. His son, another Nicholas, married Mary daughter of Sir Edward Gostwick of Willington, and died in 1643.  William Spencer, son and heir of Nicholas, was living and in possession of Rowlands in 1691. From: 'Parishes: Cople', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 238-42. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42423 URL]. Date accessed: 24 February 2007."