Biography of John Cheke 1514-1557

On 16th June 1514 John Cheke was born to Peter Cheke at Cambridge [Map].

Around 1528 John Cheke (age 13) educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].

Around 1548 [his son] Henry Cheeke was born to John Cheke (age 33).

Henry Machyn's Diary. 27th July 1553. The xxvij day of July the duke of Suffoke (age 36), maister [Cheke] (age 39) the kynges scolmaster, maister Coke, (and) ser John Yorke (age 43), to the Towre [Map].

Note. Sir John Yorke had been under-treasurer of the mint. Together with other officers of the same he had a pardon for all manner of trangressions, &c. July 21, 1552. (Strype.)

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. From London, 1 Aug. 1553. "Sir John Cheeke (age 39), with diveres others, whos names presently I cannot remember, be prisoners in the Towere.

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 13th September 1553. Note, that the xiijth of this moneth mr. Cheke (age 39) a was dismissed out of his imprysonment in the Tower.

Note 1. Sir John Cheke.

On 13th September 1557 John Cheke (age 43) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 13th September 1557. The xiij day of September ded ser John Cheyke (age 43), sumtyme skollmaster unto kyng Edward the vjth tyll he [died].

Note. P. 151. Death of sir John Cheke. He was buried in London in St. Alban's, Woodstreet; and his epitaph in Latin verse will be found in Stowe. His biography is well known from the Life by Strype; his "Gospel according to St. Matthew and Part of St. Mark, translated from the Original Greek, with Notes," was first published in 1843, with an Introduction by James Goodwin, B.D.

John Evelyn's Diary. 19th July 1670. I accompanied my worthy friend, that excellent man, Sir Robert Murray (age 62), with Mr. Slingsby (age 49), Master of the Mint, to see the latter's seat and estate at Burrow-Green [Map] in Cambridgeshire, he desiring our advice for placing a new house, which he was resolved to build. We set out in a coach and six horses with him and his lady, dined about midway at one Mr. Turner's, where we found a very noble dinner, venison, music, and a circle of country ladies and their gallants. After dinner, we proceeded, and came to Burrow-Green [Map] that night. This had been the ancient seat of the Cheekes (whose daughter Mr. Slingsby married), formerly tutor to King Henry VI [NOTE. Possibly a mistake for Edward VI since John Cheke was tutor to Edward VI]. The old house large and ample, and built for ancient hospitality, ready to fall down with age, placed in a dirty hole, a stiff clay, no water, next an adjoining church-yard, and with other inconveniences. We pitched on a spot of rising ground, adorned with venerable woods, a dry and sweet prospect east and west, and fit for a park, but no running water; at a mile distance from the old house.