Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
DODMER, John (d.1571), of Putney, Surr.
Family and Education
1st s. of Sir Ralph Dodmer by his w. Margaret née Townsend. educ. L. Inn 1546. m. Helen, da. of Augustine Hynd, alderman of London, 1da. suc. fa. 1536.2
Biography
Dodmer inherited from his father, a brewer, alderman and lord mayor of London, a number of ‘brewhouses’ and other property in Thames Street and the parish of Allhallows. Through Pope he acquired land in Compton, Gloucestershire, and the reversion to monastic estates in Oxfordshire, but he lived at Putney. He is not known to have been called to the bar or to have been in legal practice. He died 9 June 1571. His will, made in April and proved in August the same year, asked ‘my good lord Burghley ... according to his accustomed and most godly disposition’, to help the widow to gain the wardship of the heiress Elizabeth, who was only five years old. Dodmer left detailed instructions about the disposal of his London and Surrey property and its furnishings, down to the wainscoting at Putney, ‘fixed with sixpenny nails’. Hogsheads of ‘double double beer’ in his ‘greatest beer brewhouse’ in London were to be shared among his friends. In a long religious preamble he attacked the ‘usurpation, supremacy and power’ of the ‘pope, high bishop of Rome’, that ‘little horn which shall spring out of the ten horns’ of Daniel’s prophecy, and the Catholic doctrines of purgatory and prayers for the dead. His hope for salvation was founded on the love of God ‘without any desert of man or saint ... according to the doctrine of St. Paul’.3
--
Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London, Part II. 4-19 Elizabeth 1561-1577, Tudor Period, Sidney J. Madge, 1901, p 162-163
John Dodmer, Gentleman .
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 2 April , 14 Eliz . [ 1572], before William Allen, Knight (and others)...p. 163: So seised, the said John, by deed dated 18 October 2 & 3 Philip & Mary (1555), in consideration of a marriage then to be had between himself and Helen Hynde of London, gentlewoman, one of the daughters of Augustine Hinde, Alderman of the City of London, deceased, gave all the said premises to the said Helen for life. [The said deed is here recited in full].
The said John married the said Helen on the 21st day of October in the said year at the Church of St. Peter the Poor....John Dodmer died 9 June last past; Elizabth Dodmer is his daughrter and next heir, and was aged 6 years on the last day of August last past. The said Helen, late the wife of John Dodmer still survives in London