Background
Frankland was the daughter of Robert Trappes, a citizen and goldsmith of London, by his wife Joan. She was born in London in 1531.
Frankland was the daughter of Robert Trappes, a citizen and goldsmith of London, by his wife Joan. She was born in London in 1531.
At Newport Ponds, Essex, she founded a free school (now known as Joyce Frankland Academy). She also provided maintenance for four scholars and a yearly stipend for an under-reader in logic and for a bible-clerk. In recognition of Jocosa Frankland"s generosity her name was included in the "grace after meat" repeated daily in the college hall.
And after her death, which occurred at Aldermanbury, London, 1587, the principals and fellows of Brasenose erected a monument to her memory in the church of Saint Leonard"s, Foster Lane, where she was buried.
In the same church, which was destroyed in the Fire of London, her father"s tomb bore the epitaph:
In the hall of Brasenose College is a portrait of Jocosa Frankland with some Latin verses inscribed, commencing:
The portrait was later engraved by Fittler. Another portrait is in the master"s gallery in the Combination Room at Caius College.
To Lincoln College, Oxford, she gave 3₤ a year in augmentation of four scholarships founded by her mother, Joan Trappes, and to Brasenose College she left by her will, dated 20 February 1586, both land and houses for the increase of the emoluments of the principal and fellows, and for the foundation of an additional fellowship, the holder of which was to be by preference a member of either the Trappes or Saxey families.