page_title: John Tuckfield
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: John Tuckfield / Marriage
context_page_description: John Tuckfield of the City of Exeter, Devon, was a merchant, Alderman of Exeter, and member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of Exeter who was Sheriff of Exeter in 1547 and Mayor of Exeter in 1549–1550.
context_section_description: He married a certain Joan (1506–1573), whose portrait survives in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter as one of that museum's earliest paintings. By her will dated 14 June 1568 she left substantial bequests for charitable purposes.
  She also "inclosed" Ringwell, Exeter, a place for the  execution and burial of traitors and other criminals, as the following text inscribed on a stone tablet on the site was recorded in 1635:
  "5ᵗᵒ Marcii 1557. This place was bless'd by the Lord Bishop, given by Mr John Peter, then Mayor, inclos'd by the honest matron Joan Tuckfield, whose soule Lorde pardon". The inscription was transcribed slightly differently in 1828 by Oliver & Jones.
caption: Joan Tuckfield (1506–1573),[3] wife of John Tuckfield, Mayor of Exeter in 1549–1550. 1573 portrait, British (English) School. Collection of Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, transferred from the collection of Exeter Guildhall in 1971
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