The information on this page is obtained from a lengthy list of families and clergy in the archdeaconry of Stafford apparently drawn up in the early 1530s, mostly in 1532. There seems to be no parallel in other English ecclesiastical archives. It was not a census, and is not a comprehensive list of inhabitants. Some people were dead, and some listed twice. It contains some 51,000 names (originally nearer 55,000 if allowance is made for damage). The manuscript itself is held in the Lichfield Joint Record Office (reference B/A/27ii). It was transcribed and published by the Staffordshire Record Society in 'Historical Collections, Staffordshire, Fourth Series, Vol. VIII - A list of Families in the Archdeaconry of Stafford, 1532-3'. The Society advises that the information "must be used with extreme caution".
The purpose of the list is not clear. The favoured hypothesis of the Staffordshire Record Society is that it is a list of families entitled to prayers or other benefits in return for a contribution towards the fabric of Lichfield Cathedral.
There are 27 families listed within the parish of Mayfield. These include:
"John Frogett, Agnes, Agnes, Alice, uxores eius, Joan, Margery, Ralph, William, Ellen, Richard, Thomas, John, Thurstan, Elizabeth, Humphrey."
and
"Thomas Satre, Agnes, uxor eius, Thomas, Agnes, Joan, Frances, Richard Frogett, sp'us."
Uxores eius is Latin for his wives. This therefore indicates that John Frogett (0T1) had three wives, Agnes, Agnes and Alice, though we can't tell which was the current wife in 1532, and which of the children belong to which mother. His eleven children are thus: Joan (0U1), Margery (0U3), Ralph (0U5), William (0U6), Ellen (0U2), Richard (0U7), Thomas (0U8), John (0U9), Thurstan (0U11), Elizabeth (0U4) and Humphrey (0U10), though we can not be sure which of these were still alive in 1532.
As for the Richard Frogett appearing with Thomas and Agnes Satre and their family, the term "sp’us" is thought to represent the former husband of the wife of the head of the family, being short for ‘sposus’, an uncommon term for husband, or "spiritus" meaning for "for the soul of". We thus conclude that this Richard Frogett (0T2) was dead by 1532, and that his widow married Thomas Satre. As Thomas and Agnes had had four children by 1632, one concludes that Richard died around 1525 or earlier.
Humphrey (0U10), the son of John Frogett (0T1), was probably the Humphrey Frogot who died in 1595, and whose will written in 1594 is the oldest surviving Froggatt will at the Lichfield Record Office. The will includes reference to his sons, Humphrey and Richard, and daughters, Dorothy and Isabel. The will is witnessed by Robert Froget, whose relationship to Humphrey is not known, but presumably is quite close, though not his son (otherwise he would presumably have been bequeathed something in the will itself). This Robert Froget could be the Robert (3V1) who died at Mayfield in 1600.
These are the only Froggatt references in the 1532 listing, which covered the whole of the Archdeaconry of Stafford. There could, of course, be other Froggatt families in this jurisdiction, who were not included in the listing, but this is probably an indication that most of the Froggatt families at this time were still across the border in Derbyshire. The Archdeaconry of Stafford does not extend into Derbyshire, but it covers most of Staffordshire, including all the area in the north of the county and within about a 10 mile radius of Mayfield.