John Garrard

[2] His mother was Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill, of Coventry,[3] and his paternal grandfather was John Gerrard, alias Garret, of Sittingbourne.

[2] In 1603 William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, noted: "He dwelleth in St Martin's Lane, between Canwickstrete and the Olde Swanne."

They purchased the manor of Hatcham-Barnes, in Deptford St Paul (formerly an endowment of Dartford Priory, a nunnery), which long remained a part of Jones's Monmouth Charity.

[10][11] Sir John's name heads the list of "Honourable Senators" among the patrons of the new parish church of Trinity Christ-church, also called the "Temple of St James" (i.e. St James Duke's Place), built in the ruins of Holy Trinity Priory in Aldgate, who were present at the official consecration on the morrow of New Year's Day (i.e. 26 March) in the mayoralty of Sir Peter Probie (1622-1623).

The church was new-built to accommodate the inhabitants of "The Duke's Place", who had formerly resorted to the old St Katherine Christchurch nearby.

According to Cussans, the manor of Lamer, near Wheathampstead, was sold to Sir William Garrard by a member of the Boteler family during the reign of Edward VI.

of Dorney secured a definitive decree of possession of the manor of Southfleet, which he had previously enjoyed for fifty-seven years (claiming from the 36th and 37th years of Henry VIII, when the King had conveyed the manor to Sir William Petre, who in 1 Edward VI conveyed it to Sir William Garrard), against the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.

Lord Keeper Egerton made an example of the defendants, whom he considered had deliberately and craftily concealed an inconsistency in the original enrolment in order to deprive Garrard of his title.

[23] A monument to him, erected by his son Benedict Gerrard in 1629, survives there,[5] and bears the following inscription: Here lieth interred the Bodies of Sir John Gerrard, Knt., and Dame Jane, his wife, who was Daughter to Richard Partridge, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, by whom he had 13 children; five whereof died young.

He clearly refers to his house called Lamer and other his lands in Hertfordshire, the contents of which he has already bargained and sold to his son Sir John Garrard the younger.