Amey, Richard

1334 The Lay Subsidy for Maidstone does not mention anyone with a name like Amey.

A rather damaged and illegible list of 24 Commoners attending a Portmote meeting in 1474 included a name transcribed by Martin as "Richard Ayne" who might have been the jurat's father. 

1501 a Richard Amy of Canterbury left a will [PRC3/1/149] which I have not yet read.  

1537 a Thomas Amy of Leeds left a will [PRC17/21/121] which I have not yet read.

Richard Amey the jurat's name appears on the 1547 list of Maidstone residents who petitioned for the sale of church assets to pay for the Grammar School.  [Gilbert p.42]  He was probably at least 40 years old at that date, as he was chosen a jurat in Maidstone in 1549 at the time the first charter was granted to the borough by Edward VI.

No record of him survives after that, so it must be assumed that he died before the new Charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1559.  The surviving burial register for All Saints begins in 1559, so Richard must have died either before July 1553 in the reign of Edwartd VI or between that date and January 1559 in the reign of Queen Mary or the early months of Queen Elizabeth.

No Amey marriages have been found in the early Maidstone registers [the Cave Brown transcript begins 1542] but there were three christenings in the next generation of the family at All Saints in the 1560s.   John Amy (possibly Richard's son) married Joan Prosser [?] in 1563 so some of those children were probably theirs.  Also Thomas Amy (possibly John's brother) married Alice ?? in 1570 and christened their son Thomas in 1572 and three daughters Joan, Avis and Katherine in 1574, 1577 and 1579. 

1595 John Amie of Maidstone died and left a will PRC32/38/189 which I have not yet read.  He was buried at All Saints early in 1596.