From "Drake in England" p. 75: "Joan Drake...was presented for the assizes of bread and ale between 1424 and 1438 and, at the Court held on June 8, 1441 as 'a common scold and disturber of the peace.' She survivedher husband, to whose lands she had the reversion according to the terms of his death-bed surrender, and it was reported to the Court on August 28, 1481 that she had died since the previous Court." Based on these court dates, it is evident that she was married no later than 1424 and was very likely born no later than 1408.