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FIRST SERIES A.D. 1500-1600.MJtncolitshttt Mills
FIRST SERIES A.D. 1500-1600
WITH
NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH;
BY THE
REV. A. R. MADDISON, F.S.A.,
Priest-Vicar of Lincoln Cathedral.
Htltcollt :
JAMES WILLIAMSON, PRINTER, 290, HIGH STREET. 1888.TO
ISennet Eotf)es ilangton, of fLaitgtott,
WHO ALONE AMONG THE GENTRY OF THIS COUNTY
POSSESSES AND RESIDES ON THE ESTATE FROM WHICH HIS FAMILY DERIVES ITS NAME,
$ ingcrtfc tfns bolume.(Errata.
Page xxv, line 19. For ancester read ancestor.
„ xxxi, „ 11. For grandfather read great grandfather.
„ xxxvii, „ 11. For Leciester read Leicester.
„ „ ,, 16. For Joan de Ludlow read Margaret de
Ludlow.
„ lv, ,, 15. For marred read married.
„ lviii, „ 8. For Jane read Ann.
„ lviii, last line but two, dele the.
Will No. 49, last line but one. For and married read had married.
„ „ 143, note, line 27. For Barnoldby read Barnetby.
„ „ 190, first and last lines. For Castle Scrope read Carlton Scrope.
„ „ 232, last line but three. For i$gi read 1372.introduction.
T INCOLNSHIRE, although the largest County in England, next to Yorkshire, is still without a County History.
From time to time topographical works have been produced, such as Oldfield's History of the Wapentake of Gandleshoe, Thompson's History of Boston, Creasey's History of Sleaford, and Notitice Ludce, but nothing on the scale of Surtees* and NichoUs' noble folios.
Some forty years ago, the project was mooted of bringing out something worthy of the name of a County History ; but it fell through, owing partly to the difficulty of finding the right person to undertake such a vast work, and partly to the great expense such a work would inevitably entail.
In issuing a volume of Abstracts of Wills, my object is to supply, in some slight degree, the deficiency, by furnishing materials which may be useful to some future County Historian.
Perhaps, considering its size, no County in England has suffered so much in reputation from the absence of a proper History. The uncomplimentary rebuke of Henry VIII. has been quoted " usque ad nauseam," and Fuller's remarks on the lack of stately mansions have strengthened the impression that Lincolnshire is behind the world in culture and civilization, and destitute of beautiful scenery.
It is sufficient to reply that what a monarch may have said in a moment of irritation at a formidable insurrection need not necessarily be taken as true for all time; and that while Fuller notes the absence of magnificent houses, he does ample justice to the Parish churches which abound in Lincolnshire. If we cannot boast of a Chatsworth, a Wentworth, a Burghley, or a Longleat, we can at least point, with pardonable pride, to the Churches of Boston, Louth, and Grantham, and to a matchless Cathedral.
The subject-matter of this Volume, though not attractive to the general public, is useful and valuable to anyone who attempts to write the History of a County. To the genealogist Wills arexiv
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especially serviceable. They often supply missing links in pedigrees; often give a clue which has been vainly sought elsewhere; often give certainty to what has been before only conjecture or tradition. A noteworthy instance may be quoted from the last volume of Testamenta Eborctcensia issued by the Surtees Society, in which the tradition of Henry "VI. having been sheltered in Bolton Hall, after his defeat at Hexham, receives confirmation from the Will of one of the Pudsey family.
Wills also throw some light on periods of change, like the Reformation. They show by the retention of old Catholic forms of speech, and customs, long after the accession of Elizabeth, that the work of the Eeformation was a work of time, of slow development, and that many who may have publicly conformed to the new religion were at heart adherents to the old.
It is to be regretted that more of the Wills could not be given " in extenso," for much interesting matter is lost in a mere abstract; but it must be borne in mind that the Wills in the Lincoln Registry run tip to tens of thousands, and the costliness of doing the work of such, a Society as the Surtees is quite beyond the means of a single individual.
My aim has been to give all the names of persons related to the testators; all bequests of plate, jewellery, and furniture, when particularly described; and any special quaintness of diction, or grotesqueness of spelling, which may have struck my attention. In addition, I have been careful to note architectural details which serve to illustrate the history of our Parish Churches.
In proceeding now to offer a few remarks on the Familes which have been in Lincolnshire from the earliest times, or have migrated from other Counties at various periods, I should like to guard against misapprehension.
Some of my readers may be struck with the absence of well known, historic names, and may think me . capricious iD my selection.
The principle on which I have tried to act is this; to leave out those families that were of Baronial rank; whose pedigrees are to be found in Dugdale, and in Burke's Extinct Peerage.INTRODUCTION.
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Also those families that are known to us mainly through their names occurring in the Inqs. P.M., or the " Testa de Nevill," or the " Rotuli Hundredorum." Such as these, the Buslingthorpes, the Cumberworths, the Harringtons, early became extinct in the male line. Neither do I concern myself with such a family as that of Malebisse, or Malbys, which attached its name in early times to an Enderby, now known as Mavis Enderby. The connexion with Lincolnshire seems to have been purely territorial, and to have terminated before 1400.
My object has been to give in this " Introductory Sketch," a brief, readable account of what, for want of a better name, may be called the County Families of Lincolnshire down to the year 1600; meaning by the term, those families that were of undoubted gentle birth, -and good standing in the County.
There are three documents in the 16th century which afford a very fair test whereby we may ascertain these qualifications, viz : the Heraldic Visitations of 1562 and 1592 j and the List of Lincolnshire Gentry who contributed to the Defence Fund against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
The Visitations, which have been printed and published, let us know what families had survived the Wars of the Eoses, and other perils of mediaeval times, and enable us to see many which were forcing themselves upwards into the ranks of the Gentry on the ruins of the Monastic Houses.
A few Lincolnshire families failed to respond to the summons of Clarencieux both in 1562 and 1592. The Andersons of Flixborough, the Bleasbys of Bleasby, the Moignes of Willingham, the Monsons of South Carlton, the Sandons of Ashby, the Scupholmes of Scupholme, the Walcotts of Walcott, are defaulters, and it is difficult to conceive the reason. The Cholmeleys, of Burton Coggles, had so recently migrated from Cheshire, that no surprise need be felt at their non-appearance; but they figure in the " Defence Fund " of 1588. This document, which has also been published, is not altogether satisfactory. Many of the names belong to families of yeoman, not of gentle descent, and manyxvi.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
important names are missing. Still, as a supplement to the Visitations, it is useful, more especially as it introduces a new class, the " nouveaux riches " of the 16th century, who fattened on the estates of the suppressed monasteries, and who ultimately blossomed out as full-blown gentry in the Visitation of 1634.
I have fixed the date 1600 as a limit to this first series of Lincolnshire Wills, because the 17th century witnessed a complete transformation among the County Families. What the Wars of the Roses were to the Mediaeval Nobility, the Great Rebellion was to the Gentry of Lincolnshire. It simply decimated them. The majority were on the King's side; and fines for " malignancy " completed the ruin of those whose ancestral acres were already heavily mortgaged. A comparison of the present list of Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates with the Visitation of 1562 is instructive. It shows how very few of the Lincolnshire families, who played a part in the mediaeval history of their County, survive in the male line.
I have adopted a sort of classification in dealing with the subject I have in hand, and have tried to arrange the families, whose history I am sketching, in a certain degree of chronological order. First, those who take their names from places in the County; who, to use a Scotticism, are "of that ilk." Next, those who from the earliest times, i.e., anterior to the 13th century, have been in Lincolnshire. Then, those who have migrated from other Counties in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
Taking them in alphabetical order I will begin with the family of AMCOTTS. They took their name from Amcotts, a township in the parish of Althorpe in the Isle of Axholme. A series of deeds, in the possession of Mr. Cracroft, of Hackthorn, dating from the 12th century, testify to the antiquity of the race. In the Register of Bishop Beck, there is a copy of a licence given to William de Amecotes, to have mass said in his oratory within the Manor of Amecotes, in the year 1342. In the 15th century the family had moved to Aisthorpe, which they had acquired by marriage with an heiress. In the following century they dividedINTRODUCTION.
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into three lines. The eldest, seated at Aisthorpe, ended in an heiress, Rhoda, who married Sir Thomas Broughton, Bart., of Broughton, in Co. Stafford. Another settled in Wickenby but became extinct, in the male line, in the 17th century. The remaining one continued down to 1777, when Charles Amcotts, who possessed the ancestral property of Amcotts, which had passed to his branch of the family on the extinction of the Aisthorpe line, along with Harrington purchased from the Copledikes in the 17th century, Kettlethorpe, and other estates, died unmarried. His two sisters became his coheiresses ; of these, the younger, Frances, married Kev. Everard Buckworth, of Washingborough and died childless; the elder, Anna Maria, married Wharton Emerson, of Retford, who took the name of Amcotts, and was created a Baronet; their only child, Elizabeth, married Sir John Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire. Their only surviving son, the late Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby, died without issue in 1854, when the Amcotts estates passed to his eldest surviving married sister Augusta, wife of Robert Cracroft, of Hackthorn. Their eldest son, the late Col. Cracroft Amcotts, sold the estate of Amcotts, retaining only the manorial rights, which are vested in Major Frederick Cracroft Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe, his second surviving son.
ASFORDBY. This name figures in the printed "Visitation of 1562 as Affordby, owing to the long s having been taken for an f. It is derived from Asfordby, pronounced Asserby, a hamlet in the parish of Bilsby. The owners of the soil were certainly there in the 13th century. They seem however to have declined in importance towards the end of the 17th century, when they parted with their ancestral estate, lingering on at Saltfleetby so late as 1676. The very name has now disappeared.
BILSBY, written also Billesby. This family was of distinction in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Bilsbys were seated at Bilsby from the earliest times, and Sir Andrew Billesby, Knt., was High Sheriff in 1523 and 1530. But they faded away after the Reformation, probably in consequence of their adherence to the old faith.xviii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Bilsby had- passed from them altogether in 1660. The traces of
their moated mansion alone remain as evidences of their past existence.
BLEASBY. A hamlet in the parish of Legsby, which gave its name to an ancient race, seated there in the 13th century. They held also the Manor of Calcethorpe till 1532, when William Bleasby alienated it to the Maddison family. The Bleasbys, like so many other old Lincolnshire families began to fail in the 16 th century, and in 1597 the heir male, George Bleasby, died a minor, and his sister Hester, then aged 11, married afterwards William Dalyson. No traces now remain of the family.
BOLLE, or BOLLES. A family of great antiquity, seated at Bolle Hall, in the parish of Gosberton, from the very earliest times. Few Lincolnshire families flourished in so many different branches. One became possessed of the estate of Haugh by marriage with the heiress of that name in the 15th century. The history of this branch is adorned by the name of Sir J ohn Bolle, Knt., the hero of the ballad of the "Spanish Lady"; and by his son, Sir Charles Bolle, Knt., of Thorpe Hall, a noted cavalier. Another of his sons, Col. John Bolle, lost his life in the Royal cause at Alton, in 1643. This line ended early in the 18th century in co-heiresses. Erom one of them, Elizabeth, who married the Revd. Thomas Bosvile, of Ufford, descends, through the Emerson and Ingilby families, Edward Weston Cracroft, of Hackthorn, who is one of the representatives, through heirs general, of this branch of the Bolle family.
Another line was seated at Scampton, and obtained a Baronetcy in 1628, which became extinct in 1714, in the 4th Baronet. The representation of this branch is vested in the descendants of the daughters of the 2nd Baronet, Sir Robert Bolle. His eldest daughter, Isabella, married Sir Edward Ayscough, Knt.. of Stalling-borough. Erom this marriage descend Lord de Ros, and the Foljambe and Boucherett families, who thus represent the Scampton branch of the Bolles.
Another line continued at Gosberton down to the 17th century, when it seems to have gradually dwindled away. An account ofINTRODUCTION.
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the family is to be found in the History of Scampton, written by Archdeacon Illingworth.
BEATOFT. This family which took its name from the parish of Bratoft, where it was seated in the 13th century, ended in an heiress early in the 16th century, Joan, who married Sir Thomas Maseingberd, Knt., whose family made it their chief seat down to the 18th century.
CEACEOFT. In old deeds often written Crecroft. In a deed dated 1203, relating to a conveyance of land in Hogsthorpe, Warinus de Crecroft appears as a witness. In 1345 Eobert Cracroft obtained a licence for an oratory in his house of Cracroft in the parish of Hogsthorpe. The family continued lords of the manor of Cracroft Hall for several centuries. It was held in socage of the Abbey of Bardney and by 4s. rent. Towards the close of the 15 th century the family divided into three branches; of these, the eldest continued to hold Cracroft down to the 17th century, when it seems to have become extinct, for in 1656 Sir Ealph Maddison, Knt., made an entail of his " capital messuage and Manor of Cracroft Hall in Hogsthorpe " on his second son Humphrey, whose eldest son Ealph Maddison eventually inherited it. It passed from the Maddisons by sale about 1736, and now the very name has disappeared and is unknown.
Another branch was seated at Burgh in the Marsh, and continued there till the close of the 17th century.
Another, diverging from the parent stem about the end of the 15th century, settled at Winthorpe and Ingoldmells. Of this line Francis Cracroft, who died in 1569, and whose will may be read in this series, married Katherine, daughter of Hugh Grantham, and sister of Eobert Grantham, of the Black Monks, Lincoln, who, by his Will, in 1616 bequeathed to his nephew John Cracroft, the Manor of Hackthorn, and other estates. The family have remained there ever since, and Edward Weston Cracroft is the male representative.XX.
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
FRISKNEY. A knightly family taking its name from a large Fen-parish midway between Wainfleet and Boston. The Friskneys of Friskney had become extinct in the 16th century, but a junior branch lingered on at Benington till the Commonwealth.
FULNETBY. Of Fulnetby in the parish of Eand. A race which furnished knights of the shire in the 14th century. Sir Vincent Fulnetby, Knt., knighted in 1603, seems to have been the last " of that ilk." The estate was in the possession of tho Lodington family in 1670 and passed from them by marriage to the Cracrofts of Hackthorn, who now hold it.
GEDNEY. No doubt this family took its name from the great Fen parish in the south of the County. The arms, two " geds," i.e., pikes, are suggestive of the region. Early in the 15th century William Gedney married the heiress of the Enderbys, of Bag Enderby, and settled there. The family grew poor towards the end of the 16th century, and Bag Enderby passed from them before the Commonwealth. A junior line lingered on at Swaby a little longer. I know of no male representatives at the present day.
GRANTHAM. An important Lincolnshire family, taking its name, most probably, from the town. They were seated at St. Katherine's, Lincoln, where they had a stately mansion in which they entertained James I.; and also at Dunholme and Goltho. The Goltho line ended in an heiress, who married a Mainwaring from Cheshire, late in the 17 th century. Their line has again passed into female representation, and, at the present day, Mrs. Massy-Main waring, Mr. Burton, of Goltho, and Mr. Langton, of Langton, severally represent the three sisters and co-heiresses of Charles Mainwaring, the last male heir of the family.
The Cracrofts of Hackthorn represent, as has been already stated, another branch seated at the Black Monks, Lincoln. I know of no descendants whose descent has been proved in the male line.INTRODUCTION.
HAMBY, or HANBY. From Hamby, a hamlet in the parish of Welton-by-Spilsby. They held that manor in the 14th century. Later on and they acquired, by marriage, estates at Brocklesby and Tathwell. At the close of the 17th century the last Hamby, of Tathwell, left a daughter and heiress, who married John, son and heir of Sir Francis Chaplin, Knt., who had been Lord Mayor of London. Tathwell still belongs to his direct male descendant, Henry Chaplin, of Blankney.
HATCLIFFE. A parish near Great Grimsby which gave its name to a race who continued there, never taking a prominent part in the County, till the 17th century, when it became extinct.
HOLLAND. This family were Lords of the Manor of Estovening, in Swineshead, in Holland (whence they must have taken their name) from the very earliest times. The pedigree has never been satisfactorily worked out, but a good account is given in Pishey Thompson's History of Boston. The Hollands decayed in the 17th century, and their ancient patrimony passed to the Fairfax family, who sold it in 1705.
IRBY. Were the evidence perfectly clear as to the descent of this family, there would be no difficulty is assigning to Lord Boston a place among the aboriginal families of Lincolnshire; but a reference to the above mentioned History of Boston, pa. 391, will show that all the proof afforded is a somewhat dubious note to the effect that the pedigree given has been " copied from a manuscript in the British Museum." The connexion between Anthony Irby, of Gosberton, the undoubted ancestor of the Boston family, who died in 1552, and the ancient Irbys, of Irby, of the 14th century, requires more confirmation than so slight a proof. No pedigree is given at either Visitation in the 16th century, which adds not a little to the grounds of suspicion.
KYME. This great baronial family would not properly come within the scope of an introductory sketch which professes to deal only with knightly and gentle families, but a junior branch wasxxii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
settled at Eriskney in the 15th century, and was simply an ordinary County family. In 1473 Thomas Kyme of Friskney was High Sheriff. This branch of the Kymes put forth another branch which settled at Stickford. The Kymes were connected also with Boston, and in 1814 Nightingale Kyme, the last male heir of this ancient family died, without children, when the race became, it is believed, extinct. It is supposed by some that the husband of Anne Ayscough the martyr, a " Mr. Kyme," was of the Stickford family.
LANGTON. The simplest method of stating the antiquity of this family is to quote from the Register of Bishop Sutton, in which William de Langeton, acolyte, is presented to the Rectory of Langeton by John de Langeton son and heir of Sir Thomas de Langeton, Knt., in the year 1293. The advowson of the Rectory of Langton, along with the entire parish, is at the present day in the possession of Bennet Rothes Langton, descended in the direct male line from the above Sir Thomas de Langeton. Such an unbroken descent, coupled with the possession of the' ancestral estate from which the family derived its name, is uncommon in England ; in Lincolnshire it is unique.
The Langtons in addition to Langton had estates in other parts of the county. In 1403 Thomas Langton was found to hold one fourth part of the Soke of Mumby as well as the Manor and advowson of Langton. In 1521 Alexander Langton (who died in the life time of his father John Langton) held a Manor in Hagworthingham and estates in Mumby and Anderby, etc. No reader of Boswell's Life of Johnson can forget Bennet Langton, the Sage's intimate and valued friend. By his wife, the Dowager Countess of Rothes, he had, with other children, two sons, George, who by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter, and eventually co-heiress, of Thomas Mainwaring, of Goltho, had, with others, two sons, (1) John Stephen Langton, from whom the present head of the family, Bennet Rothes Langton, descends, and (2) the Rev. Charles Langton, whose son Edmund married his 2nd cousin Emily Caroline, elder daughter and co-heiress of Charles Langton Massingberd of Gunby.INTRODUCTION.
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Peregrine, the second son of Bennet Langton and Lady Rothes, married Elizabeth Mary Anne, daughter and heiress of Henry Massingberd, of Gunby, and assumed the name and arms of Massingberd. His son, the late Charles Langton Massingberd, of Gunby, left two daughters; of these the elder, Emily Caroline, married her 2nd cousin, Edmund Langton, as above stated, who died in 1875. She has also assumed the name and arms of Massingberd.
LEEKE, or LEAKE. The name was taken from the Fen parish in the neighbourhood of Boston. The Leakes do not figure in either of the Visitations of the 16th century, so we may assume that they had decayed in importance since 1475, when John Leake held the manor of Leake, and devised it, after his wife Eose, to his son Alexander. In 1556 Sir William Hussey held the manor. The family had attained to the knightly rank in the 14th century.
MANBY. In early times the Manbys were here, but later on at Elsham, and afterwards at Walmsgate and Wragby. They seem to have migrated into Essex in the 17th century. In 1819, the male representative of the family, Major William Manby, took the name of Colgrave. I do not know whether any of his descendants exist in the male line, but they are certainly not now connected with Lincolnshire by territorial possession.
ORMSBY, of North, or Nun Ormsby. Though of ancient lineage they never attained to any very high position in the county. They gradually grew poorer and poorer as the 17th century advanced, and at its close, their connexion with North Ormsby ceased. However, a younger branch went to Ireland, and flourished there, and numerous descendants are still existing in that country.
QUADRIN"G. From Quadring in the Parts of Holland, where they lived till a marriage with an heiress in the 15th century brought them to Irby-in-the-Marsh. Here and at Burgh they lingered on till late in the 17th century, when they disappear.xxiv.
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
SANTON. A family of which but little is known, taking its name from Santon, in the parish of Appleby. It became extinct before the Commonwealth.
SCUPHOLME. Another family, of great antiquity, but of small importance in the county, holding the small manor of Scupholme in Somercotes. They were there in the reign of Edward I., but never seem to have risen above the rank of the lesser gentry. They too pass away in the 17th century.
THIMBLEBY, written in various ways Thymolby, Thvmmelby, etc. They took their name from the parish near Horncastle, but Poolam Manor in Edlington, seems to have been their chief seat till they moved to Irnham on marrying the heiress of the Hiltons, early in the 16th century. The Thimblebys came to an end before the close of the following century, and Irnham passed by marriage through the Conquests and Arundells to the Cliffords, who sold it to the Woodhouse family in 1853.
TOWTHBY, or TOTHEBY. A hamlet in the parish of Alford. A family of some importance were seated here early in the 14th century, deriving their name from it. In 1380 Sir Gilbert de Towthby, Knt., died, and according to his Will left four sons, John, William, Eobert, and Gilbert. But they seem to have rapidly died out, as in 1396 Sir William Eyther, Knt., who is called nephew and heir of Sir John Towthby, joins with others in a deed assigning a rent of 113s. 4d. a year out of the manors of Towthby and Eigsby, to support a chaplain to say mass for the soul of Sir John de Towthby, Knt., deceased. From Sir William Eyther sprang another race, calling themselves Towthby, alias Eyther, and exhibiting their pedigree at the Visitations of 1592 and 1634. They too died out towards the close of the 17th century, and Towthby, now spelt Totheby, belongs to Miss Nisbet-Hamilton.
WALCOT. A parish in Kesteven giving its name to a family of but little importance though of ancient descent. They embraced the side of the Parliament in the great struggle of the 17th century, but became extinct before the 18th.INTRODUCTION.
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WATERTON. I must confess my ignorance on the question whether this great Lincolnshire house took its name from Waterton in the Isle of Axholme, on from another Waterton in the south of the county. The family were certainly one of the leading families of the county in mediaeval times. The senior line came to an end in an heiress Cecilia, who married Lionel 6th Baron de Welles who died in 1461 ; but a younger branch was seated at Walton, in Yorkshire, down to recent days, when that estate was sold by the late Edmund Waterton, the son of the eminent naturalist and traveller, Charles Waterton.
WELBY. It is not certain whether the Welbys derived their name from Welby in Lincolnshire, or Welby in Leicestershire. Very early they were seated at Gedney, where they held a* manor called Welby's Manor. They also were seated at Halstead in the parish of Stixwold. This ancient race has been extinct for some time in the male line. The Welbys of Denton have become possessors of Welby by purchase, but no documentary evidence has ever been produced in proof of their descent from the Welbys of Gedney. On the other hand, the direct male ancester of the Denton family, William Welby of Denton, in his Will, proved in 1613, describes himself as a yeoman, and does not exhibit the slightest token of being in any way connected with the Gedney line, or any family of gentle blood. The rapid rise of the family into the ranks of the gentry during the Commonwealth, (quite unparalleled except in the case of the Trollopes), is easily explained; they were on the side of the Parliament until the Restoration, when they became Royalists.
YARBOROUGH or Yarburgh. At Yarborough and Kelstem in this county, and at Heslington in Yorkshire. The last heir male was Nicholas Edmund Yarburgh, who died unmarried in recent times. . The representation of the family has passed through the Greames and Lloyds to the Batesons who have assumed the name of Yarburgh.xxvi.
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
So far I have confined my remarks to those families that are, so to speak, aboriginal in Lincolnshire, taking their names from the soil on which they lived. I am quite aware there are many more which might be added to the List, but they were either of Baronial rank, like the Willoughbys of Willoughby, who divided into three Baronies, d'Eresby, de Broke, and de Parham • the Multons, whose great estates passed into the Greystoke and Dacre families, or else they terminated in heiresses prior to the 16th century.
Of this latter class I may mention the Harringtons of Harrington whose estates went to the Copledikes; the Hundons of Hundon, represented afterwards by the Trowsdales • the Cumberworths of Cumberworth whose line merged with the Constables. All these families do not come within the scope of my work, which lies rather with those families that survived down to the first Visitation in 1562.
I turn now to another class; those who were established in Lincolnshire prior to the 14th century, and who, in many cases, had been, practically, quite as long in the County as the foregoing families, although, not like them, taking their names from Lincolnshire soil. In alphabetical order they run thus.
ANGEVINE. This name speaks for itself. Tvo Tailbois, chief of William the Conqueror's Anjouvin auxiliaries, obtained a vast tract of country in Lincolnshire. We find Angevines at Whaplode holding land in the 12th century. The branch I am dealing with was seated at Theddlethorpe and Saltfieetby in the 14th century, and also at Ashby by Horncastle in the 15th. They appear in the Visitation of 1562 but not 1592, and gradually dwindle away and disappear before the Commonwealth.
BARDE. A long pedigree is given in the Visitation of 1562. They were seated at Tealby and North Kelsey but make no great figure in the County's annals. In 1646 the Viscountcy of Bellamont was bestowed on Henry Barde, who was said to be lineally descended from the Bardes of North Kelsey, but he died without male issue.INTRODUCTION.
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BAUDE. Of Somerby near Grantham, which they acquired by marriage with the heiress of the Bluetts. I know nothing of their history subsequent to 1562, except that they are now extinct.
BOHUN. I know but little except what the Visitation of 1562 tells me about this race. They bore the arms, differenced, of the great Baronial house, of which they may have been an offshoot. They were seated at Wragby, and Driby, and acquired property by marriage with the Moignes of Willingham. The name figures as Bougham in more than one Will; and in Suffolk, the home of the de Bohuns, the name is said to survive, transformed into Bones.
BUSSY. Often written Bushy. Certainly one of the most distinguished knightly families. They had great estates, and Hougham was their chief seat. Sir John Bussy, the unfortunate favourite of Richard II., was executed at Bristol in 1399. The grandeur of the family decayed after this catastrophe, but they still were a leading County Family down to the 16th century, when Hougham passed to the Meres' by marriage. A junior line of the Bussys lingered on at Haydor, but it vanishes in the 17th century.
COPLEDIKE, or Copuldyke, or Cobbeldick. This was a leading Lincolnshire family from the 13th century down to the 17th. They held " Copuldyke's manor" in Frieston from the earliest times; acquired Harrington in the 14th century by marriage with the heiress of that name • gained large estates through the Hunting-fields. They contributed High Sheriffs in 1394, 1400, 1427, 1488, 1548, and 1567. The last heir male, Thomas Copledike, died without issue in 1658, and Harrington passed by sale to Vincent Amcotts, of Amcotts.
D ALISON. This name is not difficult to trace to its origin. In documents of the 12th and 13th centuries it is spelt, de Alengon, Dalyncun, Dalason, Dalizon, etc. They came no doubt from Alengon in France. We find them landed proprietors in South Elkington, Hackthorn, and Laughton at a very early date. They do not however figure among the knights of the shire, or Highxxviii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600,
Sheriffs till the 16th century, when William Dalyson, of Laughton, rose to eminence as a Judge in 1556. The family were devoted Royalists, and suffered accordingly in the 17th century. A Baronetcy was conferred on Sir Roger Dalyson in 1611, which came to an end in 1645. One branch was seated at Greetwell, near Lincoln. From another, seated at Hamptons in Kent, descends Maximilian Hammond Dalison, who represents the Dalisons of Laughton by female descent, through heiresses of the Beauvoir and Boys families.
DARBY, or Derby. A very old family, seated in remote times at Benington, near Boston. There they lived down to the end of the 17th century, when they decayed. The male representative Dymoke Derby, gent., and his sister Dorcas, were swept away by smallpox in January 1702. What little he had to leave he left to his surviving sister Elizabeth, " wife of Richard Parlebene, carpenter." A melancholy ending of a race which had attained knightly rank three centuiies before.
DE LA LAUNDE, or, Delalund. I am quite unable to say when this family came into Lincolnshire, though it is probable they came from Launde in Leicestershire. They certainly had acquired large estates in the south of the County by the 14th century. Their name was affixed to Ashby in consequence of William de la Launde marrying Cecilia, daughter and heiress of Sir Jordan de Ashby, who was living in the reign of Henry III. Here the De la Laundes were seated till the reign of Henry VIII., when trouble fell upon them, viz., poverty arising from unsuccessful litigation with the Knights Hospitallers of Temple Bruer. The two Wills of the last of the race may be read with interest.
DISNEY. Like the Dalysons a genuine Norman race. Like the De la Laundes they attached their name to the chief seat, viz., to Norton, now called Norton Disney. They were knights of the shire and High Sheriffs in the earliest times. Their ancestral estate has however passed from them, and belongs to Viscount St. Vincent. One branch of the family was seated at Swinderby, andINTRODUCTION.
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subsequently at Lincoln, where a house, now belonging to Mr. Arthur Leslie Melville, and called D'Isney Place, was built by a John Disney, in the last century, the great great grandfather (through the Smiths and Tumors) of the present owner.
I know of no male descendants existing in Lincolnshire.
Three families follow, known to me simply by their pedigrees in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. GOODHALL, GOODHAND, and GILBY. The last was seated early at Ashby-by-Partney, and later on at Stainton-le-Hole. All three are extinct, so far as I know, in the male line.
HANSARD. This family in some respects belonged more to Durham than to this County seeing that it sprang from the same ancestors, the FitzMaldreds, as the Neviles; but they held South Kelsey in the 13th century and were knights of the shire in 1413 and 1423. The race ended in an heiress Elizabeth who in the reign of Hen. VIII. married Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., of Stalling-borough. A family of Hansard continued at Wickenby and Biscathorpe into the 17th century, but some doubt has been cast on its legitimacy.
HENEAGE. According to a MS. account of this family, written by the Rev. William Oates in the last century, the earliest form of the name was de Heneage. No place however of this name is to be found in Lincolnshire, and certainly, since the beginning of the 14th century, the Heneages were seated at Hainton. They seem to have been feudally subject to the Barons de la Warr, who were Lords of the Manor of Hainton, and they did not rise into any importance till after the death of John de la Warr in 1398. He made John Heneage one of his executors, and bequeathed lO1*. to him. John Heneage acquired the Manor of Hainton and died in 1435. But the 16th century witnessed the growth of this family in wealth and station. Sir Thomas Heneage was high in favour with Hen. VIII. and profited thereby. An ample share of monastic property fell to his lot, including the Priory of Sixhills. From this period the Heneages were a leading family in the County. They
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were High Sheriffs of the County in 1576, 1585, 1598, and 1629. They suffered for "malignancy" under the Commonwealth, and for "recusancy" under the Hanoverian dynasty, as, in spite of the monastic spoil they had acquired, they adhered stedfastly to the old religion. At the present day Edward Heneage of Hainton is the head of the family, and in possession of the ancient patrimony. A family of the name of Walker-Heneage in Wiltshire represent through heiresses, a younger branch.
LITTLEBURY. This family might almost claim to be classed with the aboriginal families of Lincolnshire, for they were lords of a Manor in Kirton in the parts of Holland in the 13th century. They may however, have derived their name from Littlebury in Essex. They attained to knightly rank in the 14th century. Various branches were seated at Hagworthingham, Ashby Puerorum, and Stainsby; but all were extinct after the Commonwealth.
MASSINGBERD. Originally at Sutterton, where they were seated in the 13th century. By marriage with an heiress of the Bernack family they acquired estates in Burgh in the Marsh, and moved there in the 15th century. They greatly increased their property by marriage with the heiress of Bratoft in the 16th century, and made Bratoft their chief seat till the 18th century when they moved to Gunby.
In the 17th century there were two main branches; the elder, seated at Bratoft, obtained a Baronetcy, originally granted by Cromwell in 1658, and renewed by Charles II on his restoration. This became extinct on the death of Sir William Massingberd, Bart., the last heir male of this branch, in 1723. His sister Elizabeth married Thomas Meux of London and assumed the name of Massingberd. This line continued at Gunby till it ended in an heiress, Elizabeth Mary Ann, who in 1802 married Peregrine Langton, and assumed the name of Massingberd. The estate has again passed into the female line, and is held now by Emily Caroline, the elder daughter and coheiress of the late Charles Langton Massingberd, and grand daughter of the above Peregrine Langton.INTRODUCTION.
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The younger branch of the Massingberds was founded by Sir Draner Massingberd, Knt., an active Parliamentarian, and the 13 th child of Thomas Massingberd of Bratoft and Gunby. He purchased the Manor of South Ormsby, the ancient seat of the Skipwiths. This branch also ended in an heiress, Harriet, who in 1806 married Charles Godfrey Mundy of Burton Hall, in Leicestershire. Their grandson, Charles John Henry Massingberd-Mundy of South Ormsby, represents this branch of the family in the female line.
The head of the Massingberd family, in the male line, is the Rev. William Oswald Massingberd, Rector of South Ormsby, whose grandfather Francis Massingberd was a younger son, born in 1720, of Burrell Massingberd, of South Ormsby.
MERES, or MEERS. The name was originally " atte meres," i.e. living at the mere, a suggestive name for a family who lived in the swampy region of Kirton in Holland. They were there in the earliest times, and took a leading position in the county. They were knights of the shire in 1428, 1434, and 1441; High Sheriffs 1437, 1447, 1468, 1485, and 1596. In the reign of Hen. VIII. two lines existed, in consequence of John Meres disinheriting his eldest son Thomas, and settling the greater part of the estate on his son by a second wife, Anthony Meres. The eldest son, Thomas Meres, married Jane Bussy, of Hougham, and eventually the Bussy estates came to her descendants, in consequence of her niece dying without children. Anthony iJCeres, the grandson of Thomas, acquired great wealth at Lincoln, and his son Robert Meres was Chancellor of the Cathedral, and Rector of Hougham. His son Sir Th omas Meres, Knt., was Member for Lincoln, almost continuously, from 1660 to 1708. His son, the last heir male of this branch, Sir John Meres, Knt., one of the six Clerks of Chancery, died unmarried in 1735, when his three sisteis became his coheiresses, Mary, wife of William Hayley, Dean of Chichester; Frances Katherine, wife of George Whichcot, of Harpswell, and Elizabeth, wife of Sir Horatio Pettus, Bart, of Rackheath, Norfolk. Of these, Mrs. Whichcot is represented in the female line by Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart, of Aswarby, descended from Sir Christopher Whichcote, Bart., whoxxxii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
married Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Whichcot, of Harps well, son of George Whichcot and Frances Katherine Meres. The younger branch descended from Anthony Meres, the favoured son of John Meres, in the reign of Henry VIII., was seated at Aubourn. It came to an end in the 17th century.
MOIG-NE, otherwise MOYNE. Possibly the family were an offshoot of a great race in Dorsetshire, the Moignes of Shipton Moigne. They were in Lincolnshire certainly in the 13th century. In 1325 William Moyne was collector of a subsidy. In 1352 John Moyne held a messuage and 8 bovates of land in S tailing-borough. In 1431 Lawrence Moigne had a licence for an oratory in his house at Theddlethorpe. In 1444 Thomas Moigne was High Sheriff. The family however got into trouble in the year 1536, when, on the suppression of the monasteries, the people of Lincolnshire rose in revolt. Thomas Moigne, of Willingham, was executed in 1537, and the manor of Willingham was forfeited to the Crown. The family seem to have declined after this blow, and though his brother Simon Moigne carried on the line, it was with a diminished estate. The family disappear with the 17th century,
NEWCOMER, or NEWCOME. A genuine Lincolnshire race, though, as the name imports, they must at some period have been " new comer's." In deeds of the 13th century the name is le Keucomen. Saltffeetby seems to have been their earliest seat, but they spread into a great number of branches, at Low Toynton, Hagnaby, Maltby, Bag Enderby, and Theddlethorpe. One of the Saltffeetby line, Robert Newcomen, went to Ireland, and was created a Baronet in 1625. The title continued in the family till 1789, when it became extinct. And yet, in spite of the wide ramifications of this family, it is now almost extinct in Lincolnshire. The Maddisons represent, through female descent, the Theddlethorpe branch; and another, seated at Covenham, is represented by the heiress of the Fields, of Ulceby, who married the Revd, Henry Fletcher,INTRODUCTION.
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PAYNELL. Descended from Ralph Paganell one of William the Conqueror's favourites. The family were quite one of the most prominent in Lincolnshire in very early times, and were High Sheriffs in 1298. They added their name to one of the Boothbys, which was their chief seat. They had estates also at West Easen from the time of the Conquest, which, with the representation of the family, have passed through the Sothills, and Constables, to Lord Herri es.
PEDWARDINE. Eoger Pedwardine acquired the Manor of Burton near Sleaford early in the 14th century by marriage with Alicia heiress of the Longchamps and de Creouns. The family came, I believe, from Shropshire, where they held lands under the Mortimers, Earls of March. They were of great importance, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in Lincolnshire, and other Counties, but in the reign of Edward IV. Christopher Pedwardine of Brompton in Co. Salop, released all his right to the Manor of Burton Pedwardine, and all connexion ceased then with this County.
PORMONT, otherwise spelt PORMCTRT. I know but little of this family which in early times was seated at Saltfleetby, and passed away towards the close of the 16th century.
ROCHFORD. An important family during the 14th and 15th centuries. Their name added to Stoke distinguishes it from other places so called. In 1344 Sir Saier de Rochford was High Sheriff, and Sir Ralph de Rochford in 1401 and 1407. In 1409 John de Rochford. In 1376 and 1391, John de Rochford was knight of the shire, and again in 1399. Their glory however seems to have culminated at this point, for they do not make so much show in later years. In the reign of Henry VIII. an Inquisition was held " de possessionibus Radulphi Rochford distracti a mente," and after that the family pass away, no pedigree being exhibited at the Visitations in the 16th century.
SHEFFIELD. This ancient and important family possibly derived its name from the town in Yorkshire, but it was certainly seated in the Isle of Axholme before the 14th century. Butterwickxxxiv.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
was the chief seat. A younger branch settled at Croxby by marrying the heiress of that estate early in the 16th century. In 1547 Edmund Sheffield of Butterwick, was created a Baron. His descendant the 3rd Baron was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626. The 3rd Earl was created Duke of JSTormanby and Buckingham in 1703. The Dukedom became extinct in 1735. The present family of Sheffield of Normanby, descend from an illegitimate son of the 1st Duke.
SMYTH. The muniment room of this ancient family supplies most interesting information respecting the rise and progress of the Smyths of South Elkington. Anyone who has read Scott's " Fair Maid of PeTth" will remember that the Smith, or Armourer, of mediaeval times, was an^important person in days when armour and weapons belonged to his province, and when his handicraft was essential for the preservation of life. Among the many deeds in the possession of Mr. Smyth is one dated 1346, in which Andreas Eaber {i.e., Andrew the Smith) and Ann his wife, acquire a toft and five selions of arable land in Elkington. In another deed dated 1357 he is called Andrew Smyth of South Elkington, and again in 1366. In 1375 William son of Andrew Smyth is mentioned; and again, Johannes Eaber. Soon after, John Smyth acquired an estate in Ackthorpe, a hamlet in South Elkington, by marriage with an heiress of the name of Willarby. The family seem to have gained wealth by merchandise, for in 1468 the will of William Smyth, merchant, of Welton-le-Wold, was proved. In 1556 James Smyth purchased the Manor of Elkington, which had hitherto belonged to the Talboys and Kyme families. It has descended in the direct male line to William Henry Smyth of South Elkington.
SUTTON. This family may have come originally from Sutton by Mansfield in Co. Notts., but they so early became Citizens of Lincoln that they may be considered practically as having been in Lincolnshire from the first. They bore quite a different coat of arms from the Suttons of Aram. In 1369, 1373, 1381, 1384, 1385,INTRODUCTION.
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1386, 1391, 1393, 1396, 1399, 1415, 1420, 1422, 1423, 1424, 1448, 1449, and 1450, they represented the City of Lincoln in Parliament. They had a seat at Burton-by-Lincoln where they continued till the middle of the 16th century, when they were succeeded by the Monsons. They were seated also at Washing-borough and "Wellingore. In all probability Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, 1280-1300, was of this family. It became extinct in the 17th century.
TALBOYS, or TAILBOIS. Descended from Ivo Tailbois, or Tallibois, the Conqueror's Anjouvin ally. They had large estates in Northumberland, Durham, and Nottinghamshire, as well as Lincolnshire. One chief seat in this county was at Stallingborough where a branch of the family resided. The heiress married John Ayscough in the 15th century, and Stallingborough continued in the possession of his descendants, till Isabella, daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Ayscough, Knt., njarried Matthew Boucherett of Willingham, and brought him the estate, at the beginning of the 18th century. It is now held by Miss Louisa Boucherett, the direct descendant of the above marriage. The elder line of the Talboys family was seated at Goltho and Kyme. This terminated in coheiresses about the middle of the 16th century, and the estates and representation passed to the Tournay, Dymoke, and Willoughby families.
TOUBNAY, or TUENEY. Originally, perhaps, from Tournay in France, but in early times seated at Caenby and Glentham. John de Tournay was knight of the shire in 1340, and Nicholas Tournay was High Sheriff in 1416. The Tournays entertained Henry VIII. in 1541 at Caenby, and acquired considerable wealth by marrying one of the Talboys coheiresses; but the Civil Wars ruined them, and they gradually decline towards the 18th century. Finally the race ended in an heiress who married the Bevd. Thomas Cunington, Priest Vicar of Lincoln Cathedral, who died in 1734. Their daughter and heiress, Jane, married Lawrence Monck, a London Merchant, and their daughter and heiress Jane, married Sir William Middleton, Bart., of Belsay Castle, Northumberland. No traces of the Tournays remain except some dilapidated monuments.xxxvi.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
UPTON. I do not know whence this family came. The pedigree in the Visitation of 1562 displays their antiquity. They seem to have been originally seated in the neighbourhood of Boston, but latterly at Northolme by Wainfleet. There they continued till the 17th century when they came to an end. So far as I know, the last heir male was Valentine Upton, whose pedigree was given in the Visitation of 1634.
WOLMER. This family was feudally connected, like the Heneages, with the Lords de la Warr, and in 1398 Richard Wolmer is named as an executor along with John Heneage, and others, to the Will of John, Lord de la Warr. Just as the Heneages acquired the manor of Hainton, after Lord de la Warr's death, so the Wolmers became lords of the manor of Bloxham, which had been part of the de la Warr property. They also had estates in Swineshead. They seem to have become extinct in the 17th century.
I turn now to those families whose entrance into the county may be dated with more or less certainty, or who do not appear in connexion with Lincolnshire prior to the 14th century.
Taking them alphabetically I find, first the ARMINE, otherwise spelt, AYRMINE, or ERMINE, family. They came from Armine, a chapelry in the parish of Snaith, on the banks of the Aire, in Yorkshire. In the 14fch century they held lands in Willoughby, near Sleaford, of the Baronial family of Beaumont, and were one of the most distinguished knightly families of the county. A Baronetcy was granted to Sir William Armine, of Osgodby in 1619, which became extinct in 1682. The Earl of Kimberley represents them in the female line.
BARNARDISTON. From Barnardiston in Co. Suffolk. They acquired Great Coates, in this county, in the reign of Edward II. by marriage, but their chief seat was at Ketton in Suffolk. Two Baronetcies, both extinct, were granted to this family. At the present day, the only mtile branch known to exist is that of the Barnardistons of the Ryes, in Suffolk.INTRODUCTION.
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CONEY. The Visitation of 1562 makes them deduce their descent from Robert Conin, who came from France with Isabel, wife of Edward II. They gained great wealth as Merchants of the Staple of Calais. Bassingthorpe was their chief seat, and one branch was settled at Kirton in Holland, another at Ashby-Puerorum. All are now extinct.
CRATHORNE. From Crathorne in Yorkshire. They settled at Saltfleetby either at the close of the 14th or the beginning of 15th century. They ended in an heiress, Jane, who married Richard Dixie, ancestor of the Baronets Dixie, of Bosworth, Co. Leciester, in the 16 th century.
DYMOKE. Although this distinguished race have always been associated with Lincolnshire in consequence of the peculiar tenure of Scrivelsby, they nevertheless took their name from Dymock in Gloucestershire, and became connected with Lincolnshire in the 14th century by marriage with Joan de Ludlow the heiress, through the Marmions, of Scrivelsby. They were knights of the shire as early as 1372, 1373, and 1377. In the last year Sir John Dymoke was Champion at the Coronation of Richard II. They represented the county in Parliament in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth; and again in "William and Mary's reign, and that of Anne. They were High Sheriffs in nearly every reign.
The son of the first Champion, Sir Thomas Dymoke, increased the estates by marrying a coheiress of the Hebden and Rye families. A descendant gained a share of the great property of Lord Welles by marrying his daughter Margaret. A portion of the Kyme and Talboys property came to the family on the death of Baroness Talboys, without issue, in the 16th century. They suffered for their loyalty under the Commonwealth. At the death of Lewis Dymoke, the Champion, in 1760, without children, several junior branches were in existence. He selected one which was engaged in trade in London, to the exclusion of what was held to be a senior line, the Dymokes of Tetford, and settled Scrivelsby on Edward Dymoke.xxxviii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
This line came to an end in Lionel Dymoke, the late Champion, and the estates have passed to the representative of the Tetford Dymokes, who is the present Champion.
EURE, written also EVERS. They possessed Belton in the Isle of Axholme in the 13th century, though they belonged rather to Yorkshire and Northumberland than to Lincolnshire. In 1612 Sir Peter Eure, Knt., was Lord of the Manor of Washingborough. He was succeeded by his son Ealph. The family continued in the male line down to the 18th century, but I know of none now existing.
HARBY, or HARDEBY. No doubt from Harby in Nottinghamshire. They possessed the Manor and advowson of Evedon so early as 1419. The heiress of the family married Sir Peregrine Bertie, Knt., a younger son of Robert, 1st Earl of Lindsey, temp. Charles I. His daughter and heiress conveyed Evedon to the Widdringtons of Blankney by marriage.
KIDDALL. From Kiddall in Yorkshire. Adam de Kydale had free warren in Barton on Humber and Ferriby in 1318. In 1375 and 1378 Thomas de Kydale was High Sheriff. In the 15th century the family held the Manors of Holbeach and Whaplode as well as those of Barton and Ferriby. Nevertheless they never took a high place among the Lincolnshire gentry after the 15th century, and they seem to have gradually passed away before the Commonwealth.
MONSON, or MUNSON. The earliest trace of this family is in 1378 when John Monson held lands in East Rasen. There is reason to think he came from Yorkshire, as the family were connected with Hull at the beginning of the 15th century. John Monson's son was a merchant of the Staple of Calais, and in 1478 his grandson was lord of the Manor of Keelby, with lands in Caistor, South Kelsey, Cadney, Owmby, Owersby, and Middle Rasen. In 1541 they had made their chief seat at South Carlton, where Sir John Monson, Knt., entertained Henry VIII., during his Lincoln-INTRODUCTION.
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shire progress, for one night. In the latter half of the 16th century they moved to the adjacent parish of Burton, the former seat of the Sutton family, and almost continuously represented the City of Lincoln iD Parliament from 1558 to the 19th century. A judge, Eobert Monson, and an admiral, Sir William Monson, Knt., were of this family in the reign of Elizabeth. In the reign of James I., 1611, Sir Thomas Monson was created a Baronet. His 2nd son William was created Viscount Monson, of Castlemaine, in Ireland, in 1628, but left no issue male. In 1728 Sir John Monson, Bart., was created Baron Monson of Burton. From his second son, Lewis, descends Earl Sondes; from his eldest, John, the present Viscount Oxenbridge descends and is head of the family in direct male descent from John Monson in 1378.
MUSSENDEN, or MISSENDEN. From the place of that name in Buckinghamshire. They were possessed of the Manors of Brackenborough and Kelstern in this county early in the 14th century, while holding the advowson of the Abbey of Missenden in Bucks. The pedigree in the Visitation of 1562 is most unsatisfactory, and by no means gives a correct idea of the importance of the family. The real Mussenden family ended in a Francis Mussenden of Healing, early in the 17th century, but an illegitimate branch flourished at Great Limber, and entered a pedigree at the Visitation of 1592, which is altogether misleading; the reader will find in the Addenda a full explanation.
St. PAUL, often written St. POLL, or SAYNT POLL. They were seated at Byrom in Yorkshire in the 14th century, and at its close, married the heiress of the Snarfords of Snarford in this county, and settled here. They were a leading family in Lincolnshire all through the 16th century. The last heir male, Sir George St. Paul, was created a Baronet in 1611, and died in 1614 without children. The St. Pauls of Campsall in Yorkshire succeeded to the male representation; and the Tyrwhits of Stainfield to the female, through Faith, Sir George St. Paul's sister, who had married Sir Edward Tyrwhit.xl.
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SKIPWITH. This, perhaps, with the exception of the Tyrwhits and Ayscoughs, the most important of the Lincolnshire County Families in the 15th and 16th centuries, came originally from Skipwith in Yorkshire. In the 13th century the Skipwiths gained a footing in this county by marriage with the heiress of the Thorpes. Later on, South Ormsby, which became their chief seat, was added to their estates by a Fitz-Simon heiress; and later still, they acquired the manor of Ingoldmells from the Hiltofts. Two generations, successively, produced a Judge in the 14th century. Various branches were put forth, at Habrough, at Utterby, at Cawthorpe, and at JBiscathorpe; which last obtained a Baronetcy in 1678, and became extinct in 1756.
The senior line continued at South Ormsby down to the 17th century, when the estate was sold to the Massingberds. The Skipwiths seem to have migrated to Newbold in Warwickshire, where Fulwar Skipwith was created a Baronet in 1670. The title became extinct, it is supposed, in 1790.
The present Baronet descends from a younger son of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of South Ormsby, temp. Henry VIII., who settled at Prestwould in Leicestershire. This line obtained a Baronetcy in 1622, which still continues.
I know of no male descendants from the Skipwiths of South Ormsby, whose descent can be proved, other than the existing Baronet's line.
SOUTHILL, or SOTHILL, or SUTHILL. An important Yorkshire family, taking the name from Sothill in that county. They came into Lincolnshire in the 14th century. Sir Gerard Sothill, Knt., of Redbourn, was High Sheriff in 1402; John Sothill, in 1443. They pass away with the 17th century. Redbourn went to the Carters, and from them to the Nelthorpes and the Dukes of St. Albans.
STANLOW. This family held the Manor of Silkby in Willoughby, near Sleaford, as early as 1409. They intermarried with the Bussys of Hougham, and the heiress at the close of the 16th century married Thomas Darnall of Thornholm.INTRODUCTION.
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T AM WORTH. A family taking its name from the town, but settled at Leake and Leverton early in the 14th century, and passing away in the 17th.
TEMPEST. This ancient race belongs rather to Yorkshire, and its connexion with Lincolnshire arose in a great degree from a marriage. Sir Piers Tempest, Knt., one of the heroes of Agincourt, seated at Bracewell in Yorkshire, married Dorothy, daughter and coheiress of Sir Nicholas Hebden, Knt., of Gosberton in Lincolnshire, and sister of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Dymoke, Knt., of Scrivelsby. These ladies inherited large estates at Gosberton, Surfleet, Claypole, and elsewhere, in right of their mother Katherine, who was the heiress of a branch of the baronial family of de Rye. In 1512 the P.M. Inq. of Sir Thomas Tempest, Knt., makes him seized of estates in Gosberton, etc., which passed to his relative and heir male Richard Tempest. The family, however, seem never to have taken root in this county, and the estates passed from them into other hands before the 17th century. The family of Tempest is still represented in Lincolnshire, viz., by Major Arthur Tempest of Coleby, who, however, descends from a different branch, the Tempests of Broughton, in Yorkshire.
THOROLD. Although I am aware it is dangerous to dispute the claim of this family to be descended from the Saxon Sheriff, Torold, I must still adhere to the plain facts of the case as exhibited in the Thorold pedigree. Sir Richard Thorold, Knt., of Selby, in Yorkshire, acquired the estate of Marston in this county, by marriage, in the reign of Edward III. The present head of the family, Sir John Thorold, Bart., is the direct male descendant, and in possession of the Marston estate; a sufficiently good pedigree to dispense with a shadowy and mythical ancestry. No less than three Baronetcies have been granted to this family, in addition to the existing one, viz., two to the Harmston line, and one to that of Hough on the Hill. These are all extinct. A yeoman branch of the family was seated for some time at Cuxwold.xlii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
TYEWHIT, or TIE,WHIT. The history of this family has been privately printed by one of its members, and I have little to add to it. In the earliest times they held the Manor of Tyrwhit in Northumberland. In the 14th century they became seated at Kettleby, near Brigg. Along with the Skipwiths, and a few other families, they may be said to have taken the lead in County business all through the 15th and 16th centuries. The principal branches were settled at Kettleby, Stainfield, Harpswell, and Cammeringham. Of these, the senior, the Kettleby line, impoverished by the Civil Wars, came to an end in an heiress in the 17th century who married Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., and survived till the reign of George II.
The Tyrwhits of Harps well also ended in an heiress, in the reign of Edward IV., who married John Whichcote of Whichcote, in Co. Salop, who settled at Harpswell. Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart., represents this line.
The Stainfield branch obtained a Baronetcy in 1611 which became extinct in 1760.
One branch only, has male descendants at the present day, the Tyrwhits of Cammeringham, who are represented by Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, Bart., of Stanley Hall, in Shropshire, and by other members of the family; but the territorial possessions of the Tyrwhits in Lincolnshire have long since passed into other hands.
I pass now to the 15th century which saw a new class of gentry gradually rise in Lincolnshire. Various causes may be assigned. One, the Wars of the Eoses, in which the flower of the mediaeval nobility perished, while huge estates were over and over again confiscated, and dispersed by sale, or granted to favourites of the prevailing faction. A great impetus was given to trade by Edward IV., who encouraged the citizen and mercantile classes in order to act as a check on the hitherto preponderating power of the great feudal Barons. Henry VII. carried out the same policy ■ and so by degrees the rich Merchants of the Staple of Calais acquired manors and lands, and the mediseval Castle gradually gave place to the Tudor manor house or hall. A steady migration into Lincolnshire from the North of England may also be noticed in this and theINTRODUCTION.
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succeeding century. This too may be accounted for by the fact that the Archbishop of York, and the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle held large estates in this county, and also that some of the leading Northern families, such as the Umfravilles and Percys, who inherited the enormous possessions of the Kymes and Lucys, were territorially connected with Lincolnshire.
Perhaps I may select the AYSCOUGH family as one of the most important families that migrated from the north in the 15th century. The name is spelt also AYSCOGHE and ASKEW. We find them at Bedale in Yorkshire in the 14th century, but the Judge, Sir William Ayscough, Knt., living in the reign of Henry VI., became connected by marriage with Lincolnshire. His son, John Ayscough, greatly increased his estate by marrying the heiress of a junior branch of the great Talboys family, with whom he obtained theManor of Stallingborough. In the 16th century Sir Francis Ayscough still further enriched the family by marriage with Elizabeth Hansard, the heiress of South Kelsey. The Ayscoughs were frequently High Sheriffs and knights of the shire. They contributed a martyr to the reformed religion in the person of Anne Ayscough, whose husband, Thomas Kyme, has never been satisfactorily identified. In the Civil War they sided with the Parliament-The last heir male, Sir Edward Ayscough, Knt., died at the close of the 17th century. His only daughter by the 1st wife, a Skinner, is represented by Lord de Eos and others; his two daughters by the 2nd wife, a Harbord, are represented, one by the Foljambes of Osberton, the other by the Boucheretts of Willingham.
Some junior branches diverged from the parent stem in the 16th century j one was seated at Fulstow; and so late as the last century an Edward Ayscough was living at Louth, represented now in the female line by the Floyer family, who may have been the last recognized male descendant of the Ayscoughs of South Kelsey and Stallingborough.
ARMSTRONG. I know nothing of this family beyond what is told us in the Visitation of 1562. Corby, near Grantham, is where the Armstrongs were then seated. The name is Northern,xliv.
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and they probably came in the 15th century from the borders. They were Eoyalists, and compounded for their estates during the Commonwealth.
BELLINGHAM. They took their name from Bellingham in Northumberland, but moved to Burneshead in Westmoreland early in the 14th century on marrying the heiress of that estate. In the reign of Henry VI. Eichard Bellingham, 2nd son of Sir Eobert Bellingham, Knt., of Burneshead, acquired the lordship of Manton in Lincolnshire. His son increased the property by marrying the heiress of the Wastling, or Wacelin family. This branch of the Bellinghams continued at Manton till the close of the 16th century. Gradually they parted with their lands in Manton, Eedbourn, and elsewhere, and the apparently last male descendant, Eichard Bellingham, emigrated to America about 1634; rose to be Governor of Massachusetts in 1641, 1654, and 1665, and died in 1672, aged 80. No known descendants of the Lincolnshire line are now living.
BOOTH. From Barton in Lancashire, whence a younger son came in the 15th century, and acquired a manor in Killingholme by marriage with the heiress of the Gasteryke family. The Booths spread out into branches at Wootton and Thornton Curtis, but, so far as I know, the legitimate male line is extinct. Two junior lines are represented by the Tyrwhitts and Howorths.
BUEGH. Lords Burgh, of Gainsborough. These hardly come within the scope of my work, and belong rather to the Extinct Peerage. Springing from the de Burghs, Earls of Kent, they acquired the Manor of Gainsborough, by marriage, in the 15 th century.
CAEE. No better example can be produced of the way in which families rose by honest merchandise to eminence, than the one afforded by the Carrs. They were a great Northumberland family, and a cadet, towards the close of the 15th century, settled at Sleaford as a Merchant of the Staple, and laid the foundations of the wealth which was enormously increased by his son EobertINTRODUCTION.
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Cair, who died in 1590. His son Edward was created a Baronet in 1611. The history of this family has been published, and I need not do more than say that they became extinct before the close of the 17th century; that the heiress Isabella in 1686 married the Earl of Bristol; and that the greatly diminished estates of the Carrs have descended to the present Marquis, though he has not inherited the blood of the family.
FITZWILLIAM. A branch of the great Yorkshire family who became possessed of large estates in Withern and Mablethorpe in the 15th century. The race did not become totally extinct till the 18th century. I believe it is represented now by the WelfLt and Hodgson families.
HUSSEY. The origin of this very important Lincolnshire family is somewhat obscure. The Visitations do not help us. In that of 1562, the first ancestor given is the Lord Chief Justice Hussey in the reign of Edward IV. It is supposed that he came of the Husseys of Flintham in Co. Notts. His son John was created Lord Hussey of Sleaford by Henry VIII.; but he was executed for High Treason in 1537. From Sir Kobert Hussey, of Halton, his brother, descended the Husseys of Honington and Caythorpe, who obtained respectively, two Baronetcies in 1611 and 1661, which were both at last united in Sir Edward Hussey, Bart., who died in 1725.
At the present day the Packes of Prestwould and Caythorpe, and the Beresford family, represent the two lines of the Husseys.
KELKE. The Kelkes took their name from Kelke in Yorkshire. They were at Barnetby, in this county, in the 15th century, but pass away in the 16th.
MADDISOISr. The Maddisons came from a place called Allergill in the parish of Stanhope, in Durham, where they were living in 1370. In 1417 they acquired by marriage with an heiress of the Merley family the manor of Unthank Hall, also in Stanhope, which was held of the Bishop of Durham by knight's service. Inxlvi.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
1452, Christopher, the 5th son of William Maddison, of Unthank, married Avisa, the daughter and coheiress of Eichard Angevine, of Saltfleetby, in Lincolnshire, and gained a footing in the county. His son Edward Maddison acquired a large property, and was knighted at Anne Boleyne's coronation in 1533. By his wife Anne, daughter of John Eoper, of Eltham, Attorney General to Henry VIII., he had, with other issue, a son Edward, from whom descended Sir Ealph Maddison, Knt., who also greatly increased the estates by purchase in the reign of Charles I. His eldest son Edward died in 1672, leaving issue four daughters, who divided the old entailed estates among them. From the 3rd daughter, Mrs. Lomax, descends the Eevd. William Walsh, of Grimblethorpe, who posseses a portion of the property acquired by Sir Edward Maddison.
From Sir Ealph's 2nd surviving son, Humphrey Maddison, on whom he settled all the estates he had purchased, decends George Wilson Maddison, of Partney, who inherits the remnants of the property. Humphrey Maddison's younger son, Nathaniel, had an estate at Alvingham and Fotherby. From him descend the Ven. George Maddison, Archeacon of Ludlow, and Eichard Combe, late Maddison, of Earnshill in Somersetshire.
PUELEY. I know little of this race except that they came from Wymondham in Leicestershire, and acquired lands in the south of Lincolnshire. They purchased Farlesthorpe of the Welbys early in the 16 th century, and passed away in the 17th.
Neither do I know anything of the EOCHES who were at Walkerith in the reign of Edward IV., save that they are now extinct.
SAND ON. This family is a perfect enigma. No pedigree is given either in 1562 or 1592, and yet they were lords of a manor in the 15th century. Possibly they took their name from Sandon in Essex, but Ivo Sandon was lord of the manorINTRODUCTION.
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of Ashby by partney, and Patron of the living in 1494. His son Sir William Sandon, Knt., was High Sheriff in 1540, and his P.M. Inq., makes him possessed of the Manors of Ashby, Wragby, Panton, and Wilsthorpe, besides land in many other parishes. His son, Arthur Sandon, had died in his lifetime, 1531, and William Sandon was his grandson and heir. His Will is hereafter given (No. 152), and was proved in 1557-8. He left one son Ambrose, and three daughters. After this the family disappear.
WALPOLE. From Norfolk. They were seated at Pinchbeck in the south of Lincolnshire, and continued there till the 18 th century. I know little beyond what the Visitation of 1562 tells.
WHICHCOTE. From Shropshire. The Whichcotes took their name from Whichcote where they had an estate, and also at Sutton, as early as 1309. They came into Lincolnshire in the 15th century. John Whichcote, who was High Sheriff in 1466, had married an heiress, Elizabeth daughter of John Tyrwhit of Harpswell, in right of whom he acquired the Manor. In the 16th century, the then head of the house, Thomas Whichcote or Whichcot, of Harpswell and Dunston, had an enormous family of 12 sons. From the eldest, Hamond, descended Sir Hamond Whichcot, Knt., who was an active Parliamentarian in the Civil War. His grandson George Whichcot, of Harpswell, was knight of the shire in 1698, 1705, and 1708, and his son, Thomas Whichcot, continuously, from 1741 to 1768. His daughter and heiress, Jane, married Sir Christopher Whichcote, Bart., of Aswarby. He was descended from Christopher the 12th son of Thomas Whichcot of Harpswell and Dunston, aforesaid, in the 16th century. The two lines had marked their divergence by retaining and omitting the final " e " at the end of their surname; the elder being Whichcot; the younger Whichcote. Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart., of Aswarby and Harpswell represents both lines; the one by male descent, the other by female.
WYMBISH. This family is perplexing, like the Sandon, to trace. I cannot find any evidence of their having been in Lincolnshire prior to the 15th century. They may have taken their namexlwii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
from Wymbish in Essex, but at all events they were possessed of estates in Nocton which they seem to have acquired in marriage from the Darcy family, whose arms they quartered. In 1475 Thomas Wymbish was High Sheriff. The glory of the family culminated in another Thomas Wymbish, who married the heiress of the great Talboys family, and claimed in her right the Barony of Talboys of Kyme in the reign of Henry VIII. This, however, was denied him, and as he had no children by her, the estates passed from his family at his death, and eventually were divided among the Willoughbys, Dymokes, and Tournays, who represented his wife's aunts and coheiresses.
The Wymbish family declined after this, and passed away before the Commonwealth. The stately tomb of a Subdean of Lincoln Cathedral, of this race, Eobert Wymbish, in the Presbytery, remains as the sole memorial of their ever having existed.
I turn now to those Families that came into Lincolnshire during the 16th Century. Many of them are known to me simply by their names in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. Alphabetically they run thus.
ALINGTON. The Alingtons, according to a pedigree in the possession of Mr. Alington, of Swinhope, originally were seated at Allington Castle in Kent. The early part of the pedigree seems somewhat mythical, but there cannot be the slightest doubt that they were landed proprietors in Cambridgeshire in the 14th century. In the next century they acquired from the Argentines the Manor of Wymondley in Co. Herts., held of the Crown in grand serjeantry by the presentation of a Cup at the Coronation. The elder line, seated at Horsheath Hall, Co. Cambridge, continued there till it became extinct, with the two Peerages, English and Irish, granted to the family in the 17th century. At the present day, Lord Alington, late Mr. Sturt, represents this line, through the Napiers. The male representation of the family is in the Alingtons of Swinhope, who descend from a younger son of Sir Giles Alington, Knt., of Horsheath, George Alington, who died in 1558. His son, also George Alington, purchased large estates in Lincolnshire, whichINTRODUCTION.
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eventually came to his great nephew Henry Alington, from whom the present head of the family, George Marmaduke Alington, is in direct male descent.
Of the ALLENS, who came into the county from Staffordshire, I know nothing except what is told us in the Visitation of 1562.
ANDERSON. A tradition assigns to this family the original name of Lisle, and Northumberland as the county whence they came to Lincolnshire. It is however unsupported by any proof, and no pedigree being given at the Visitations of 1562 and 1592, one has to take the facts as one finds them.
The virtual founder was the Lord Chief Justice, born about 1530, at Elixborough. He was the 3rd son of Edward Anderson of that place, but rose to eminence at the law, and was Lord Chief Justice of the C.P. from 1582 to 1605. Two principal lines descend from him; (1) the Andersons of Manby, represented by the Earl of Yarborough, whose great great grandfather, Charles Anderson, assumed, in the last century, the name and arms of Pelham, on succeeding, through his grandmother, to the estates and representation in blood of the Pelhams of Brocklesby. (2) the Andersons of Lea, represented by Sir Charles H. J. Anderson, Bart., whose ancestor, Sir Edmund Anderson, was created a Baronet in 1660.
ANTON. From Yorkshire. George Anton was Recorder of Lincoln in the reign of Elizabeth. He married the heiress of the Taylors of Doddington, and his daughter conveyed that estate, by marriage, to the Husseys early in the 17th century.
AUDLEY. An illegitimate branch of the great Baronial family. It ended in two coheiresses in the 16th century, who married two brothers of the Thorold family, and conveyed an estate at Hough, near Grantham, with them.
AYSCOUGH. Of Blyborough, and quite distinct from their namesakes at Stallingborough. They appear early in the 16th century, and dwindle away in the 17th, when they were seated at Mablethorpe, having parted with Blyborough to the Southcotes.1.
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BARNARD. A confirmation of arms in 1580 to Archibald Barnard describes him as a "Gascoynge born," and "Lord of the Manor of Hagnaby." The family however soon disappeared, and Hagnaby became the property of the Earl of Exeter. It was purchased by the Coltman family in the last century, represented now by Mrs. Pocklington-Coltman, of Hagnaby Priory.
BAYLY. A family at Louth, of whom I know little or nothing. A pedigree is given in 1592.
BERTIE. The Earl of Lindsey represents Richard Bertie, who became connected with Lincolnshire by marrying the heiress of the Willoughbys of Eresby, the Duchess of Suffolk, in 1553.
The families of BISHOP of Hemswell, BLAXTON of Horn-castle, BOUNTAYNE of Hagworthingham, BRAND of Leadenham, BRANSPETH of Heapham, and BRIGHOUSE of Colby, are all equally uninteresting. They make but little show in the county, and so far as I know, are now extinct.
BROCKLESBY. At Glentworth. An unimportant family, which soon became extinct.
BROWNE. A family of some note in Lincolnshire during the reign of Elizabeth. They came from Hertfordshire apparently, and acquired by purchase or grant some portion of the great Talboys estates in Croft in the Marsh, soon after 1562. Sir Valentine Browne's beautiful monument, along with that of his son Sir John Browne, adorns the chancel, of the church. He left by his wife, a Monson of South Carlton, a numerous family of sons and daughters, but they had all disappeared from Croft before the end of the Commonwealth. The Earl of Kenmare is stated to be descended from a half-brother of Sir Valentine, viz., Sir Nicholas Browne.
BROWNLOW. From Derbyshire in the 16th century. Represented now by the Cust family.
BROXHOLME. No better instance can be selected than this family, to show how rapidly men of yeoman extraction rose into the ranks of the gentry after the suppression and spoliation of theINTRODUCTION.
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monasteries. Before that took place the Broxholmes were living at Owersby, in modest circumstances, as their Wills testify. We find however, a certain John Broxholme associated with John Bellow in large grants of monastic property, from Henry VIII. and Edward VI. The Broxholmes grew rich; produced a pedigree at the Visitation of 1592; and continued till the 17th century, when the male line failed, and the estates at Corringham and elsewhere passed by marriage to a family of the name of Browne, which figured in the civic annals of Lincoln down to the end of the 18th century.
BRYAN. A family seated at Bolingbroke early in the 16th century. It belonged to the lesser gentry, and continued down to the middle of the 18th century.
BURGH, or BOROUGH. In no way connected with the Burghs of Gainsborough. They came from Burgh Hall in Yorkshire, settled at Saltfleetby, and passed away before the Commonwealth.
BUTLER. At Coates near Stow. The heiress married Sir John Ramsden, Bart., in 1670.
I pass over the CARTWRIGHTS of Normanby, the CLAYTONS of Lea, and the COLUMBELLS of Blyton. A branch of the Staffordshire COTTONS was at Burton by Lincoln for a short time.
CHOLMELEY. A younger branch of the great Cheshire family, settled at Burton Coggles in 1590, and represented now by Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Bart.
CRESSY. Possibly an offshoot from Biikin in Yorkshire. They were at Blyborough about 1530, where they intermarried with the Ayscoughs of that place. From thence they moved to Kirkby on Bain, and lived at a hamlet there called Fulsby. They intermarried with the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, and the Tyrwhits of Stainfield. Like so many otheT families they decay with the monarchy, and I know not what became of the sons of Brandon Cressy, who died before 1637. His brother Thomas Cressy had an only child, Ann, who married Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart., of Bunny, Co. Notts., and died in 1725, aged 92.lii.
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DARNELL. I cannot say whence they came, but in the 16th century they were at Thornholm. In common with the Ayscoughs of Blyborough, and other families, they shared in some of the estates of the Brandon family, which were divided among the descendants of the sisters of Sir William Brandon, Knt., father of the Duke of Suffolk, in the 2nd Elizabeth.
The Darnells were extinct at the close of the 16th century.
DIGHTON. Another excellent example, like the Broxholmes, of the rise of a family in the 16th century. The Dightons were a citizen family at Lincoln, where Robert Dighton was Mayor in 1494. They acquired a good deal of monastic spoil, and became seated at Sturton, near Horncastle, in the reign of Henry VIII. They intermarried with the Dalysons, Monsons, and St. Pauls. In spite of an unusually large family of sons, the descendants of Eobert Dighton of Sturton have ceased to exist in the male line. The Duke of Newcastle represents the family in the female line, through the marriage of his ancestor, Sir Edward Clinton, younger son of Henry, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, in the 17th century, with Mary daughter and heiress of Thomas Dighton of Sturton.
I pass by the DOUGHTY family, from Yorkshire, settled at Louth, the ECCLESTONS, ELMERS, or AYLMERS, EVER-INGHAMS, GARDNERS, GERINGS, GOCHES, GRAYS of Kingerbv, an illegitimate branch of the Lords Grey of Codnor, GREGORYS, and GRESLEYS. All these families migrated from other counties into Lincolnshire during the 16th century, and none attained to any decided eminence.
GUEYARA. The Spanish marriages of Henry VIII., and his daughter Mary, brought many Spanish families to England. Among them came the Guevaras from the Basque Provinces, and settled at Stenigot in Lincolnshire. A most unlikely spot for a Spanish Hidalgo to find himself in ! Here they took root and flourished for some generations, intermarrying with the Saundersons of Reasby, the Smythes of Theddlethorpe, and other County Families. Sir John Guevara was knighted in 1604. But the family declined inINTRODUCTION.
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the 17th century, and dwindled down to Anthony Guevara, barber, of Market Rasen, whose will was proved in 1697. His two sons died apparently without issue, and the race disappeared.
HALTON. Of Clee, and afterwards of Great Carlton where Sir Roger Halton, knighted by James I., lived. Long since extinct.
HATCHER. Seated at Careby, and founded by a Physician in the 16th century. They intermarried with the Ayscoughs of Stallingborough, were ardent Parliamentarians, and came to an end at the beginning of the 18 th century.
KARSEY, otherwise CARSEY. This family shared in the possessions of the Duke of Suffolk, 2nd Elizabeth, and was at South Ormsby for a couple of generations, but then passed away.
LACON. Erom Shropshire. They were seated at Tetney and Humberston in this county. Two pedigrees are given in the Visitation of 1592. They became extinct in the 17th century.
The 'LAMBARTS from Yorkshire settled at Pinchbeck in the 16th century. I know nothing of this family after the 17th.
The LANAMS, LEEDS, and LOWNDS, require little notice. They were of no importance, and have passed away. The LOCTOISTS from Cambridgeshire, settled at Swineshead, also have become extinct.
MORYSON". Of Cadeby. Originally in Northumberland, but migrated first to Waltham in this county, and then to Cadeby. They intermarried with the Alingtons and Mussendens, and became extinct in the 17th century.
OGLE. Descended from the Baronial family in Northumberland, but settled at Pinchbeck early in the 16th century. There they continued till the commencement of the 18th.
PELHAM. This important family came from Sussex in the 16th century and was seated at Brocklesby. It was quite one of the leading Lincolnshire Families down to the 18th century, whenliv.
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the heiress married Francis Anderson of Manby. Their grandson Charles Anderson assumed the name and arms of Pelham, and was created Baron Yarborough in 1794.
The PEPPERS from Kent, seated at Thoresby, and the PISTORS at Metheringham, need no particular notice.
Something however may be said of the ROSSETORS, a family who mounted from the ranks of the yeomanry in the latter part of the 16th century, and were seated at Somerby, near Brigg. Of this family was Col. Rossetor, who distinguished himself on the side of the Parliament in the Civil War, and was returned Member of Parliament for the County during the Commonwealth. None of the race now remain.
SALTMARSHE. A younger branch of the ancient Yorkshire race " of that ilk." They settled at Strubby, near Wragby, and continued there till the 18th century.
SANDERSON, or SAUNDERSON. From Tickhill in Yorkshire. Settled at Reasby, or Revesby, in the parish of Stainton by Langworth, and also at Saxby. This family rose rapidly in importance. Nicholas Saunderson was created a Baronet in 1612, and Viscount Castleton in 1628. The 6th Viscount was created Earl of Castleton in 1720, but died s.p. in 1723, when the estates passed to the Lumleys, Earls of Scarborough. A younger branch was seated at Thoresby, near Alford.
The SAPCOTTS family really belonged to Huntingdonshire, though a branch settled at Bracebridge, near Lincoln, which ended in an heiress before the end of the 16th century, who married into the Beaumont family.
Two families of the name of SMYTHE, quite distinct from the Smyths of South Elkington, were seated at Honington and Theddle-thorpe, respectively, in the 16th century, and both have ceased to exist.
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WRAY. The Wrays of Glentworth have had their family-history written by Mr. Charles Dalton, and I need scarcely do more than quote from his book. Like the Andersons, they were brought into prominence by a judge. Sir Christopher Wray, born at Bedale in Yorkshire in 1523, rose to be Lord Chief Justice in 1574, and died in 1592. He was the founder of the family in Lincolnshire. His son William was created a Baronet in 16113 and the title did not become extinct till the death of the last Baronet in 1809.
The Filling ham and Sleningford estates passed by marriage to the Daltons, who represent, in the female line, Sir John Wray, Bart., who died in 1752. Few families held a more prominent position in the county than the Wrays during the 17th and 18th centuries.
WEIGHT. At Market Easen. They marred heiresses of the Monson and Hustwaite families, and appear among those who compounded for their estates under the Protectorate.
WYTHEENWYKE. Originally in Yorkshire, but settled at Claxby-by-Normanby. Extinct.
I will now bring to a conclusion what may seem to some of my readers a needlessly long introduction. It is impossible for me not to be aware that in the foregoing sketch there must be a good deal of superficiality, and perhaps inaccuracy. I have felt, all through, the difficulty of preserving the classification I have attempted, and am prepared for correction at the hands of critics.
It will perhaps be remarked that I have omitted the Kings of Ashby de la Launde, the Hickmans of Gainsborough, the Listers of Coleby, and several others who may be said to belong almost to the 16th century, though appearing only at its close.
In reply I can only say that I have reserved these families for the 2nd Series, simply because they really made no figure in the 16th century, though they may have been actually in Lincolnshire during the last decade. Many families, of great distinction and antiquity in other counties, e.g., the Fanes, Neviles, and Scropes,Ivi.
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play no important part in Lincolnshire till the 17th century. Others again, like the Ousts, though seated in Lincolnshire for a very long time, were never ranked among the Gentry of the county; produced no Pedigrees at the "Visitations, and did not even bear a coat of arms. I may be permitted to say here that the case of the Oust family is almost unique. Documentary evidence shows them to have been landed proprietors, though not on a large scale, in Pinchbeck certainly 500 years ago; and yet, strange to say, they neither appear in the "Visitations of the 16th century, nor bear coat armour till a grant was made in the 17th century. Their rapid rise, almost unprecedented, from simply lesser gentry to nobility, was mainly brought about by a series of wealthy marriages. Heiress after heiress brought gold and land to the Ousts till the family dignities culminated in the Earldom of Brownlow.
Very similar is the case of the Anderson-Pelhams. A country gentleman, Francis Anderson, of but moderate estate, married, in 1701, Mary Pelham, a lady who had no expectation whatever of becoming the heiress of her family. Her grandson became the heir of her brother, and had a long minority, and careful trustees. The times (1749-1770) were favourable for buying land. The Lincolnshire country-gentlemen were in many cases hopelessly insolvent. Estate after estate came into the market and was bought up. The magnificent property of the Earl of Yarborough was the result; but the absolute effacement of many old Lincolnshire families attended the process, which, so far as I know can be paralleled only by the aggrandisement of the House of Lowther in Westmoreland and Cumberland.
I am sensible also that I have not done full justice to the South Lincolnshire families, which present some very curious and interesting features to the genealogist. As a rule, the families in the Holland division were mostly of yeoman rank till the 17th century. A cluster round Spalding, engaged in merchandise, has been admirably treated by Mr. Everard Green, F.S.A., and I consider this part of the county his own peculiar field. The Gamlyns, Oldfields, Buck worths, Johnsons, and others, have had their family history carefully and accurately illustrated by his researches.INTRODUCTION.
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I have already remarked on the great changes that have taken place in Lincolnshire among the families which played any part in its history during the past six centuries. Nothing perhaps can give an enquirer a more clear and convincing proof of the fact that the Gentry of the 16 th and previous centuries have well nigh disappeared, than a contemplation of the lists of County Magistrates at the present day. No one can fail to be struck with the absence of most of the names of testators in the pages of this volume. A careful analysis leads to results which must be mortifying to those who put their faith in modern works such as Walford's County Families. Taking the year 1600 as a limit, and requiring an unbroken male descent from a family of undoubted gentle standing in the county before that date, as a qualification, I find only the following names, in a list of something like 250 magistrates, as the result:—Alington, Anderson, Bertie, Cholmeley, Cracroft, Heneage, Langton, Maddison, Massingberd, Monson, Smyth, Thorold, and Whichcote.
The name of Dymoke may be added, as represented still in the male line, and also the name of Waterton, though neither at present figure in the list of magistrates for 1888.
Such a result cannot fail to make some impression on an observer's mind. It shows in the most forcible way, what a tremendous revolution must have taken place, during the past two centuries, in the social framework of the Courity. It bears witness to the extinction of many an old race of whom the only relics left are the foundations of their " moated grange," or their mutilated monuments in the parish church. It supplies additional proof (if such were needed) that the " old order changeth." In days of steam and electricity the change is rapidly effected. The Ayscoughs, Tyrwhits, Skipwiths, Copledikes, of the 15th century belong to a very different state of things, and their amazement at the present social order of their County would probably be equalled by that of the Cluny Macpherson of 1745 on finding the author of Triumphant Democracy the tenant of his Highland castle in 1888.
Looking back on the past six hundred years, one may note certain features of interest in the history of the county families. Agriculture was of course the staple interest in a county likeIviii.	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Lincolnshire, and it is not too much to say that in the 15th and 16th centuries every Lincolnshire Squire was a practical Farmer and Grazier. A glance at the Wills is enough to show this. In days when Spain had the monopoly of South America, and the goldfields of California and Australia were yet undiscovered, there was but little coin in the country, and a man's personalty consisted mainly of sheep and oxen, plate and furniture. The bequests in the Will of Jane Heneage exemplify this. She evidently had farmed largely, and the mention of " Barkshire yowes " is a token that the introduction of a different blood into the Lincolnshire stock was practised even in the days of Elizabeth. The wide, rich, grazing fields in the marshes were covered with flocks of sheep, whose fleeces found their way to Calais in fleets of wool-ships from Hull and Boston. In an account of the damage done by the celebrated high tide in 1571 (on which Miss Ingelow founded her ballad) the chronicler states that, "Maister Maddison lost ashippe" (probably a cargo of wool) " Maister Dymock lost 400 sheepe, Maister William Askugh of South Kelsey, Sir Hugh Askugh, and others, lost by estimation "20,000 cattell."
The social relations of Lincolnshire Families have had some light thrown on them by the researches of the late Lord Monson, communicated to the Archaeological Institute in a most interesting paper, in 1848, entitled " Feuds of old Lincolnshire Families," and by another accomplished antiquary, Mr. Peacock, of Bottesford Manor, who in 1869 read a paper before the Society of Antiquaries on a brawl that took place at the Sessions at Caistor, in the reign of Henry VIII., between two of the Justices of the Peace, William Tyrwhit, of Scotter, and John Copledike, of Harrington. It would be well if these valuable communications could be reprinted. They show how rough and rude the manners of the time were, and how extremely clannish the Lincolnshire gentry were in sympathies and feelings.
I cannot say much in praise of the Lincolnshire gentry on the score of the their religious faith. So far as I am able to judge, they seem to have accepted the Reformation, less from a profound sense of the blessings it conveyed, than from a desire to retainINTRODUCTION.
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undisturbed the broad acres that had belonged to the Monasteries, and that had been purchased by them on easy terms. The market had been flooded with estates granted by the Crown to greedy underlings and time-serving courtiers, who made haste to sell the lands as quickly as they could, in view of a possible reaction and a disputed title. Queen Mary found it impossible to make even zealous adherents of the Papacy' disgorge the spoil they had swallowed; and the Heneages, although they eventually suffered severely, both for faith and loyalty, retained the ample estates that had been granted to them by Henry YIII.
The rising in 1536, on the Dissolution of the Monasteries, did not kindle much enthusiasm among the Lincolnshire Gentry. It was a popular tumult, fanned by the regular clergy; but the knights and gentlemen, though compelled by the insurgents to join them, were but half-hearted in the cause. Only Lord Hussey and Thomas Moigne of Willingham suffered capital punishment. Sir Edward Maddison, though selected by the insurgents, along with Sir Marmaduke Constable, to treat with the King, was simply detained in London. The tumult collapsed as suddenly as it rose.
The Civil War belongs to the second period, which I prppose to illustrate by another series of Wills, but I will briefly mention what I knojv of the part played by the few families I have mentioned as surviving in the male line down to these days in Lincolnshire.
On the King's side were the Alingtons, who had their house at Swinhope destroyed by the Parliamentarians. The senior line of the Andersons, represented now by Lord Yarborough, was also stedfastly loyal. So also were the Berties, whose history has been written by Lady Charlotte Guest. The Dymokes suffered cruelly for their loyalty, and the Heneages were more faithful to their King in his afflictions than they had been to the Pope in the preceding century. The Monsons divided on the great question of the day; the head of the family being on the King's side, while a cadet was instrumental in his death. The Thorolds were entirely royalist in their sympathies. On the other hand the younger branch of the Andersons, seated at Lea, adhered to the Parliament, thoughlx.
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Edmund Anderson seems, like so many others, to have turned to the King before the end of the Commonwealth. The Cholmeleys took the same side. I am uncertain as to the Langtons. They do not figure in the list of families compounding for their estates. The Maddisons were undoubtedly on the side of the Parliament, as Edward Maddison was High Sheriff in 1649, the year of the King's decapitation. The Massingberds were active on the same side, and so also were the Whichcotes. I am unable to say confidently on which side the Cracrofts and Smyths ranged themselves. The Watertons were then seated in Yorkshire.
At the same time it must be confessed that the descendants of many of these families have no particular reason to be proud of the part played by their ancestors. I make an honourable exception in favour of the Dymokes, Heneages, and Thorolds, who suffered severely in fortune, and got no compensation.
But many appear to have contrived to be practically on both sides; in opposition to the King till after his execution, and then retiring into private life till the prospect of the Restoration made them devoted Eoyalists.
Thus Edmund Anderson was created a Baronet in 1660, who in 1643 was serving on a Committee of the Parliament. Henry Massingberd's Baronetcy granted by Oliver Cromwell, was confirmed by Charles II. Not a single family seems to have suffered for disloyalty, however active it might have been against the King in previous years. No doubt it was the Crown's policy to wink at old offences in consideration of assistance given at the time of the Restoration, but it was hard upon the Andersons of Manby, who were heavily fined under the Protectorate; hard upon the Dymokes, Heneages, and Thorolds, to see their neighbours, who had done so much to bring about the great catastrophe, caressed and favoured by the restored dynasty when all danger was over. This, however, belongs, as I have said, to a future volume, and I will close this Introduction to the first one with the hope that it will be serviceable to anyone who attempts to write the History of the County.Pnccltwhfce Mills, 1500-1600.
The WiU of EDWARD BROWNE, Jueller, of Lincoln. 5 Feb. 1505. To be buried in the Church of St. Lawrence in the Chapel of St. Dunstan and St. Sebastian. To the Church of All Hallows Kirkby Kendall iijs. iiijd. The Chantry of Alexander Fitz Martyn in St. Lawrence's Church. My brother Nicholas Browne in Kendal. Magister Geffrey Simeon, Deane of Lincoln, to be supervisor.
Prob. 23 Feb. 1505-6.
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The Will of THOMAS THORPE, of ffreston (Frieston). 1513. To be buried in Church of St. James the Apostle at Frieston. To my wife Alice iij kye etc. To my son John Thorpe household stuff. To wife Alice viij silver spoons. My land in Frieston and Partney to my son John directly after my decease, and my land in Thorpe to him directly after my wife's decease, " the wych is her jontre." Wife Alice and Thomas Massingberd Esq. my exrs.
Prob. 19 Maij 1514.
By an Inq. P.M. 1520 Thomas Thorpe, gent,, died seized of one toft and 30 acres of land in Partney, and of one messuage and 50 acres of land in Thorpe. He married Alice daughter of Richard Massingberd of Bratoft.—See Visitation of Lincolnshire 1562 pa. 89.
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The Will of JOHN LONG, of Croft. 9 Jany. 1516. Leaves lands for masses to be sung by Sir William Gybson in the Chapel of St. Nycolas in the Church of Croft, for the good estate of Sir George Taylboys Knt., Dame Elizabeth his wife, Master Gylberd Taylboys and Master William Taylboys and all their children; and for the souls of Sir Robert Taylboys Knt. and Dame Elizabeth his wife; Sir William Gascon Knt. and Dame Margaret his wife, and Master Walter Taylboys Esqr.; and for the souls of John Long and Helene his wife, Thomas Long and Rose his wife " my fader and moder"; Sir John Cutteler, clerk, and John Hatelyng, Walter Tutyll and all crysten souls. Leaves land also to his wife Agnes and after her to Thomas Holland and after him to Helen his sister.
Prob. 1516-1520.
The testator was probably steward of the estates of the Taylboys family in Croft which they inherited from the Kymes. Elizabeth wife of Sir George Taylboys was daughter of Sir William GaBcoigne by Lady Margaret Percy.—See Flower's Visitation of Yorkshire 1563—4 pa. 136.
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The Will of JOHN ASSERBY (ASFORDBY), of Bilsby, Gent. 14 Novr. 1527. To be buried in Bilsby Church. The Prior and Convent of Markby to sing a trentall of masses for my soul. To my son Andrew the following " heyrlomes" :—" A standyng cuppe holl gylte with my harmes aloft upon the coveryng thereoff, a Goblet coveryd with the sayd harmes parcell gylt. Item ij saltes gylted the on with a cover and the other without. Item a drynkyng pott of sylver parcell gylt with a cover. Item half a dosyn off sylver sponys with ymages of the apostels upon them, and another dosyn off sylver sponys without knoppes. Item a gyrdyll with a dymysyn gylt with a rede stone and vi perels beads with vii sylver gawdes gyltyd and a sygnet off gold with myn armes." I make exr. my brother Sir Andrew Billesby who is to have the custody of my son during his minority. My wife Cecile to be exx. My brother George Heneage, Archdeacon of Oxford, to be supervisor. My lands in Assardby, Ingoldmells, Hogsthorpe, Sloothby, and Langton are in the hands of my feoffees, who are to pay 53s. 4d. yearly to each of my sons Andrew, John, and George, and to my daughter Margaret, for maintenance during 9 years. My feoffees are seized of lands in Bilsby to the use of my wife Cecile according to our marriage indentures.
(An inventory of goods follows, found in the Parlour, Little Parlour, Chamber over the Parlour, Hall, Gallery chamber, Low Parlour, Buttery, and Kitchen). Prob. 21 Deer. 1527.
The pedigree of this family is given in Cooke's Visitation of Lincolnshire. 1562. pa. 1 The name is spelt Affordby owing to the long s having been mistaken for an f. Asfordby (pronounced Asserby) is a hamlet in the parish of Bilsby, co. Lincoln.
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The Will of Sir SIMON FITZRICHARD, Knt. 5 Nov. 1527. To be buried in the Chapel of St. Michael in Church of St. Lawrence of Sydbroke (Sedgebrooke). " To the awter of the same Chapell of Saynt Michell in Sydbroke a challys all gylte. Item I bequeth a vestement to Saynt Sythe in the Churche of Newbowe. Item I bequeth to hys singler goodmaster the Ryghte worshypfull Sir John Husse, Knyght, a crossebow wyth'certyn shaffts and a Racke therto. Item I bequeth to Richard the Abbot of Newbo my gylte spoone. Item I will that the house of Newbo have iiij11. xiiis. iiijd. to the intent to kepe on obbit yerely for the soulys of me and dame Alice my wyff expendyng yerely vis. viiid. to be deliveryd by the hands of John Fitzrichard my sonne. To Richard Markham my sonne in la we my spanyels hounds and grayhounds with a crossebowe etc." " I will that the sayd Richard Abbot and John my sonne shall bye a marbyll stone aftyr my departyng and lay it uppon me and Alice my wyff." Residue of property to beLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	3
divided into 3 parts, 1 to Elyn my niece, the other 2 to my sons John and Simon. Sir John Hewsey and Sir John Mordaunt, Knyghts, to be supervisors. Richard the Abbot of Newbo and my son John exrs.
Prob. 5 Nov. 1528.
(JOHN, Abbot of Newbo, called co-executor with John Fitzrichard in the probate.) The testator was knighted in 1513. See Metcalfe's Book of Knights, pa. 64. His connexion with the MarkhamB of Sedgebrooke is not given in the printed Visitation of Co. Notts, 1569-1614.
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The WiU of THOMAS KYDDALL, Esqr., of South Ferriby. 1 Nov. L527. To my daughter Anne Kyddall xx11. To daughter
H-Kyddall xx11. To my brother Edward Kyddall iijH. vis. viiid.
To brother William Kyddall iiij11. and xxs. more to make it vli. To my sister Margaret Kyddall iiij marks. To my wife Margaret all messuages lands etc. in South Ferriby which I purchased of William Sheffield, Robert Hopkinson, and Roger Myddelwood, for her life, and then to my son William Kyddall what I purchased of Roger Myddelwood, and the rest to my sons Thomas, Philip, and Charles Kyddall. To Mr. William Tyrwyt vis. viiid., to Sir Robert Tyrwyt, Knt., xiiis. iiijd. whom I make supervisors. My wife and son William Kyddall exrs. Prob. 10 Feby., 1527-8.
The testator's pedigree is given in the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1592, pa. 44. This adds a generation.
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The Will of ALEXANDER MOIGNE, of Sixhills. 4 May, 1528. To be buried in Church of All Hallows, Sixhills. To daughter Margaret 40 marks; to daughter Ursula 40 marks; to daughter Bridget 40 marks ; to daughter Margery Bocher 20s. • to daughter Jane Bradoke 20s. ■ to my wife Anne, for life, rents from Lissington, East Rasen, West Rasen, Tealby, Ryseby beside Walesby, Long Ludford, and Thorganby. At her death they are to go to my son Thomas Moigne and his heirs male. To my wife Anne my manor of Waith with appurtenances in Marsh chapel, Fulstow, Horncastle, Hemingby, and Gautby, for her life; then my son Simon Moigne is to have the lands in Gautby to him and his heirs male. My son James Moigne is to have the manor of Waith to him and his heirs male. My son Thomas Moigne to have the residue. An annuity of xxvis. viiid. to be paid to Simon Moigne during his mother's life. My wife Anne to be Exx. John Heneage, junior, Esqr., and Richard Sotheby, clerk, to be coadjutors.
Prob. 21 May, 1529.
The Moigne pedigree does not appear in either of the printed Visitations of Lincolnshire. An Inq. P.M. of Lawrence Moigne taken on the 16th Deer., 19th Hen. viii. makes him seized of the Manor of Waith (which had been bought of Sir William Conyers) and it, apparently, passed to his brother Alexander Moigne the testator. Laurence left '2 daughters, Mary and Katherine. Alexander Moigne's wife Anne was a daughter of John Copledike of Harrington. Thomas Moigne of Clee, probably an ancestor, was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1444, and Laurence Moigne of Theddlethorpe occurs as early as 1380 as claiming the advowson of Theddlethorpe Church.4.
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The Will of JOHN LANGHOLME, Esqr., of Conisholm. 27 Feby. 1527. Heave Liiis. iiijd. to buy a cope and a vestment for the church of Conisholm, and xxH. for an honest priest to sing for my soul iiij years in Conisholm Church. To my son Humphrey " ij sylver pecys, ij saltes and xii spoones " when he is 21. To every one of my younger sons " vii copull of bredyng swannes" when they are 21. Residue of the "swannes"to my son Humphrey. My cosyn John Littlebury and other co-feoffees of my lands in Conisholm, Louthnay (Ludney) Somercotes, Theddlethorpe, Trusthorpe, Sutton, Skegness, Winthorpe, Burgh in the Marsh, Frieston, Wrangle, and Butterwick. To my 5 younger sons Christopher, George, Henry, Francis, and Anthony iii11. vis. viiid. apiece yearly out of my lands. My wife Matilda. My cosyn John Littlebury exr.
(No date of probate.)
See Visitation of Lincolnshire, pa. 73 for pedigree of 'testator. His wife is said to be the daughter and heiress of Sir John G-illiott, Mayor of York, but see vol. v. of the Testamenta Eboracensia, Surtees Soc., pp. 12-17.
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The Will of JAMYS MYSSENDEN (MUSSENDEN), of Great Limber, Gent. 21 May 1529. To be buried in the Church of St. Peter. To the church of Helyng 40s. To the Abbot of Thornton 40s., to the Prior vis. viiid., to every one of the said convent xiid. To Dame Maude Tyrwytte iiiH. vis. viiid., to Dame Elizabeth Beesby iii11. vis. viiid. To the Monastery of Cotton xii11. vis, viiid. To Dame Johan Thomson prioress of the same 40s. To Dame Margaret Johnson vis. viiid. To Dame Elynor Hylyarde vis viiid. To every other of the convent xiid. To Sythe Castylforth xx11. To Elizabeth Hopkinson C Marks. To George Dalyson and Isabel his wife 4011.; and all my goods at Immingham. To Elizabeth Dalton xx11. To Edmund Myssenden xx11. To Barnarde Myssenden, otherwise called Barnarde Spenser, all my lands in Great Limber, Keleby and Killingholme, and 4011. Also all my years of the parsonage of Great Limber which I have of the Prior and convent of the Charterhouse beside Coventry. To my son Sir William Myssenden xxs. Household stuff etc. to Sythe Castylforth, Elizabeth Hopkinson and Isabel Dalyson. To Richard Myssenden xxs. To Dame Elyn Myssenden 10s. yearly for 20 years. To Dame Mawde Myssenden 40s. To Dame Mary Myssenden 40s. To Dame Jane Myssenden 40s. To William Myssenden 40s. To Sir Dowke Myssenden 20s. To Sir Thomas Smythe, Vicar of Riby vis. viiid. To Margaret Dalton iii11. vis. viiid. To Thomas Myssenden, the younger, 40s. To Umfray Myssenden 20s. ToLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	5
Isabel Dalyson and her heirs all my lands in Habrough. To Elizabeth Hopkinson all my lands in Kirmington. To Sir Robert Tyrwhit iiij11. To Master Robert Tyrwyt iii11. vis. viiid. To Master William Tyrwyt iii11. vis. viiid. To Elizabeth Allot iiiu. vis. viiid, to her marriage. To Richard Allot vis. viiid. To Anthony Myssenden 40s. To Mr. John Hopkinson xu. To my brother Blessby 20s. To my sister Blessby his wife 40s. Residue to Barnard my son, Sythe Castleforth my Daughter, Elizabeth Hopkinson and Isabel Dalyson, to be divided equally among them by my " nevy Thomas Myssenden of Helyn " and by William Dalyson of JSTettleton whom I make Exrs. and leave each viu. viiis. iiijd. To my godson John Mounson 20s. To Catherine Myssenden my godchild 40s. To " Masterys Margaret Myssenden my neys of Helyng 20s." Witnesses Edward Madyson, Robert Johnson, vicar, and George Dalyson, and others.
Prob. 22 Jnne 1530.
This will amplifies considerably the pedigree of Mussenden given in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. The testator may be identified in the latter Visitation at pa. 53, but neither of his two wives is named, and it is impossible therefore to trace out all the relationships indicated by his will.
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The Will of THOMAS QUADRING, late of Careby. 6 April 1528. To my daughter Jane Sapcotts and Edward her husband all my lands in North and South Rauceby in Lindsey, and failing their heirs to Thomas Quadryng son of William Quadryng. Lands in Leyke, failing issue of Jane and Edward Sapcotts, to go to Lyon Quadryng. Leaves lands in Grantham to find a priest to sing for 99 years. Lands in Braceby and Corby. Edward Sapcotts, William Quadryng Esqr., and Richard Greve parson of Ropsley, to be exrs. Robert Hussey Esqr. to be supervisor.
Prob. 15 Jany. 1528—9.
The Quadring pedigree as given in the Visitation of 1562 is very meagre. The testator cannot be attached to it with any certainty. The Edward Sapcotts may possibly be identical with one in the Sapcotts pedigree in the Visitation for 1592, pa. 63.
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The Will of THOMAS WARDE, of Partney. 10 August 1527. Leaves two houses under one roof standing at the " Est chyrch style." These houses abut on the churchyard on the west, and on the south, " and off the hyeway off the Norte off the chyrch howys, and off the Est off the lorde of Skendleby." They are to go to his wife Betteris for life; then to his son William for life, and then to " Partney Chyrch charging the chyrchwardens of Partney to kepe every yere an obyt for my soule gyffing the parson for messe and dirige viiid.; to xiii pore men of the parish xiiid. and to the Ryngers viiid."
Prob. 1 April 1528.
There are two benefactions for the poor in Partney given by unknown donors. This Will may possibly throw a little light on the subject.6
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The Will of Damet JANE ARMSTRONG, " vowys," of Corby. 28 August 1529. Leaves money to churches of Corby, Burton, Swinestead, Swafield, and Irnham. Legacy to Dame Jane Tyssington Prioress of Haverholm. To the nuns of Semperingham vid. viiid. of which Dame Agnes Rud is to have 40d. To Sir Robert my " chaplayn a pare of flaxen shetts." Residue to my sons Thomas and William Armstrong and I make Thomas my Exr.
Prob. 20 Oct. 1529.
See Armstroug pedigree at pa. 5. of the Visitation for 1562. The name there given is oane. The testatrix had taken the tow of widowhood.
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The Will of GEORGE PORTYNGTON, of Barton on Humber. 1 April 1528. To George Portyngton my Brother's son xiiis. iiijd. To Edward Portyngton "a qwye." Leaves lands in Barton on Humber and Humberston in Co. Lincoln, and in Howden, Laxton, Skelton in Howden, Ashby, Snaith, and Carlton in Co. York, to his wife Anne whom he makes exXi
Prob. 5 August 1528.
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The Will of JANE SHEFFIELD, widow, of Croxby. 7 Jany. 1519 (15291). To be buried in the quire of our Lady in the Church of All Hallows^ Croxby. To each one of my children's children a sheep. My son Christopher Sheffield and his daughter Alice. My daughters Catherine, Jane, Alice, and Elizabeth. My son Jasper Sheffield, my son Edmund Sheffield. To Jane Sheffield daughter of Jasper a silver spoon. To Anne Sheffield, her sister, the same. To John Sheffield son and heir of Christopher two silver spoons. To Elizabeth wife of my son Jasper Sheffield my best amber beads. To George Sheffield son of Charles a silver spoon, and to Edmund his brother the same. My son Charles Sheffield. To my daughter Grace a brasen mortar and pestle. Refers to a deed of feoffment dated 4 June 8th Hen. VIII. whereby Sir John Sheffield parson of Hameringham, and others, are feoffed of all lands for me for my life ; and after my death my son Jasper Sheffield and Elizabeth his wife are to have my capital house in Croxby (according to a deed dated 12 March 10th Hen. VIII.) for their lives; it is then to go to John Sheffield son and heir of Christopher Sheffield my son and heir. Another deed is referred to made between the testatrix and Alexander Amcotts, Gent., of Aisthorpe, dated 19 June 15th Hen. VIII. By another deed dated 15 June 15 th Hen. VIII. Robert Sheffield of Butterwick isLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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enfeoffed of lands in Stainton le Hole to the use of testatrix, whereby the said John Sheffield son and heir of Christopher Sheffield is to find a priest to sing for the soul of the testatrix for 2 years in Croxby church. Appoints Charles and John Sheffield exrs. and her son Sir John Sheffield parson of Hameringham and Alexander Amcotts, Gent, of Aisthorpe, supervisors. Prob. 12 Oct. 1530.
The testatrix was heiress of Croxby. dee Sheffield pedigree in Visitation of 1592 pa. 64.
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X The Will of WILLIAM HATCLIFFE, of Grimsby, Esqr. 24 Feby. 1530. To be buried in parish church of St. James, "in the Iell of the Assumpsion of our Lady." To the high altar of Hatcliffe church iiis. iiijd. My godson William Goodhand. To my Lord Abbot of Welloo and his convent iiis. iiijd. To John Hatcliffe xiid. To James Hatcliffe xiid. To my cosyn Dame Margaret Hatcliffe ijs. To my son Thomas Hatcliffe 100 marks to purchase the " owt Rentts of Hatclyff; to be put in tale according to my father's tale." To my son Richard Hatcliffe xxx11., over and above what I have given him, " yff god send hym to skape at thys tyme hys sykenes and to come to hys hands." To my son Thomas Goodhand and my daughter his wife 40s. To Jane Goodhand 40s. To my son Gye Towers and my daughter his wife 20s. To my daaghters Anne and Alice Pavy 40s. apiece. My son John Hatcliffe. My son William Hatcliffe and my wife Catheryne exrs. I ordain the parson of Hatcliffe supervisor. Witnesses, my Lord Abbot of Welloo, Master More, Master Doctor the Warden of the gray freres, Sir Peter Mundy Vicar of St. James and Sir Robert Watson Chantry priest.
Prob. 26 August 1531.
A pedigree of the Hatcliffe family is given in both Visitations of Lincolnshire, but it will be evident that this will furnishes much additional information.
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The Will of WILLIAM WOODFORD, Gent., of Farlesthorpe. 30 March, 1530. To be buried in the Church of St. Andrew. To the Church of Barton Segrave beside Kettering in co. Northampton, where I was born, 40s. My brother Henry Woodford, my lands in Farlesthorpe, Alford, Woodthorpe, and Orby; my annuity of iiiju. xs. out of the Abbey of Revesby. My debts all paid a priest is to sing for my soul in Farlesthorpe Church for xx years receiving vH. a year. My daughter Alice Spenluffe to have 40s. a year, and her sons John and William are to have the same apiece. To Helen Woodford my brother John's wife viiis. iiijd. yearly for life. To8
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Edward Ormsby 40s. a year till lie is 25, " to fynde hym a scole." To Richard Woodford 40s. a year for life. My wife Jane is to have the rents for life of all my lands except Orby and is to pay the annuities. The lands eventually to go to Alice Spenluffe and her heirs ; failing them, to Eose Ormsby and her heirs. My wife is to have the annual rent of iiij11. xs. out of Revesby Abbey for life, and at her death it is to go to my cosyn John Awngewyn and his heirs. I appoint exrs. my wife Jane, John Madyson, and Rayff Grene, and leave each v marks. Mr. William Skypwyth to be supervisor, to whom vH. Witnesses John Awngewyn Esqr., Sir John Wollay, vicar of Farlesthorpe, and others. Prob. 6 Oct. 1530.
See pedigree of OrmBby, pa. 95, and Spenluffe 118, in Visitation of 1562. The Will improves the latter.
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The Will of WILLIAM GAUNTE, of Theddlethorpe. 12 March 1531. To be buried in church in St. Helen " in the south ile as nere to the dore of our Lady quere as my grave may be mayde." To the makyng of the stepill of my parish church 40s. To my son John Gaunte a sylver goblet, 12 sylver sponys and a lyttyll harneste gyrdyll that was his mother's ; also " certen inglysh bokes, Legenda aurea, Crownacles, Canterbury tales, and lyttylton teners • also a lyttyll cownter that standeth in his chamber. Harelomys, sc. the cownter in the hall, the high lofte bed in the parler and the whele bed. St. John hed of alabaster, a mazer which was my father's." To my son Barnarde Gaunte a " lyttyll cownter in the high parler for there is all hys evidence." The curate of St. Helen's church to sing a Requiem mass with Placebo and Dirige, yearly on St. Erancis' day or the morning after. A candyll to burn before St. Anne in the said church. To my daughter Elizabeth vi sylver sponys and a sylver salte. I appoint my son John Gaunte and my wife Elizabeth exrs., and Mr. John Awngevyne, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 16 April, 1532.
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The Will of GODFREY BOLLES, Gent., of Gosberkirk. 26 Jany., 1532. To be buried in the quere of our Lady in Church of SS. Peter and Paul at Gosberkirk. To our Lady's altar xiid. To the other iiij altars iiijd. each. To the poor children of St. Catherine's without the gates of Lincoln xiid. Mass to be sung in the church of Gosberkirk for 99 years for souls of testator and his parents. To my son John Bolles all lands contained in an indenture between me and Anthony Irby, Gent., of Gosberkirk. In delault of his heirs to my next son Rankyn Bolles; in default to my sonLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1600-1600.
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Thomas Bolles ; in default to my son Richard Bolles ; in default to my son George Bolles. To my son John " my marke of swannys, my mesboke and challys with a vestment • iii sylver sponys, my nutte of sylver and gylte." My son John Bolles' children, Margaret, Godfrey, Thomas and Anne, and his wife Rose. To my son Rankyn " iiij silver sponys, one salte of sylver and gylte with a coveryng." Catheryne, wife of the said Rankyn Bolles. To my son Thomas " iii sylver sponys, one sylver salte gylte." To my son Godfrey " iiij sylver sponys, one sylver goblet with a cover, one sylver bokyll with a pendyll thereto belongyng." To my son Richard Bolles " iij sylver sponys." To my son George Bolles " iij sylver sponys." I appoint my sons John, Rankyn, Thomas, and Godfrey, exrs.
Prob. 9 Eeby. 1532.
A glance at the Bolles pedigree at pa. 18 of the Visitation of 1662 will show how mnch this will amplifies it. From this Godfrey's 3d. son Thomas the Scampton line of the Bolle family descended.
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The WiU of ALICE HECKINGTON, of Bourn, " vowys." 7 Jany. 1533. To be buried in the parish church in our Lady's chapel. To my daughter Jane Cycyll one cow. To Wynyfryde Dyccons ij kye. " Magister Robert Haryngton is to have oversight and rewle of my husbande's preste in Bourne church to se that he do hys dewty and pray for my husbande's soule and myne." I appoint exrs. Magister Haryngton and his wife Alice.
Prob. 30 Jany. 1533.
The testatrix was the maternal grondmother of the great Lord Burghley. Like Jane Armstrong she had taken the tow of widowhood.
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The Will of JOHN LANGTON of Langton, Esqr. 23 May 1533. To be buried in church of St. Peter at Langton in our Lady quere by Elizabeth my wife. To my daughter Elizabeth Langton 100 marks, or 10 marks a yeaT for her life, as my son John prefers. To my son John " a gret bedde in the gret chamber as yt standvth with a fether bedd and the coveryng of ymagery ; also the hangyng of the gret chamber and the hangyng of th6 hall." My sons and daughters Alexander Langton, William Langton, Cassander Staynton, Catheryne Packe and Alice Darby; "to eche of ther chylder, sonys and daughters vis. viiid." Lands in Saltfleethaven and Saltfleetby. To Adelarde Langton v marks a year for life. To John Langton "a challys and a vestment." I appoint exrs. William Langton and Jamys Packe, and supervisor my brother John Lyttylbery, Esqr.10	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
A codicil dated 14 June 1533. Leaves residue to son William Langton and daughter Elizabeth Langton.
Prob. 5 Feb. 1533-4.
This Will adds considerably to the very meagre pedigree of the Langton family as given in the Visitation of 1562. The testator married Elizabeth daughter of William Quadring. His son Alexander Langton carried on the line of the family and married Cicely daughter of John Billesby of Billesby, who became the second wife of John Asfordby, and was exx. to his Will (see No. 4).
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The Will of JOHN" LITTYLBUEY, of Hagworthingham, Esqr. 20 June 1535. To be buried in the parish church before our Lady of the Rood. To my wife Katherine 40H. due to me from Mr. John Hercy, and 4U. of land in Somersby, Tetford, Skegness, and Orby to bring up my children during their nonage • she is to have it for life, and then Somersby and Tetford are to go to my son George and his heirs male. Skegness and Orby to go to my son Peter and his heirs male, failing them to my son Humfrey and his heirs. My she^pgate called Thorpe in the Mires to go to my wife for her life and then to my son Humfrey and Ursulay his wife according to the indenture between me and Mr. Hercy. My iii daughters. To my brother Humfray Myssendyne xs. a year for life out of my copyhold held of Lord Willoughby. My wife is to have the putting in of the priests at Langton for her life, and after her death the first avoidance of one priest is to go to my son Humfray, the other to my son Thomas. To my son Thomas Littylbury my lands in Kealcotes. My wife is to have my copyholds held of Lord Willoughby, and the farm of my son Langton as long as the lease lasteth. " Also I wyll yf my wyfe be in decay in her wydowhood I wyll she geve no peny to her daughters of 40u. that ys appoyntyd to every of them, and yf thay be not rewled by her in'their maryage they to have nothyng." " Item I wyll all my chylden be contente with ther landes which was assynyd to me by my broder and the feoffees of my fader's purchased lands accordyng to such deeds of feoffements, grants and reversions that I have, and yf they or any of them be interrupted of the parts assynyd to them by my neve Thomas Lyttylbury or his heyres, I wyll they resate their tytyll of Rychemonde fee wych ys the moyte of 360 akers as yt apperyth by a customar boke remanyng with my wyfe and a crosse set of the hede of yt by Sir John Lyttylbury my granfader's fader." My goods at Byker and Freston to my wife to dispose of at her pleasure. I appoint my brother John Eland, supervisor, and my wife exx. She is to follow the counsel of Sir George Fitzwilliam, knt. Witnesses :—William Langton, Gent., Sir Marmaduke Myssendyne and Sir Richard Cheles.
Prob. 12 Sept. 1536.
This Will illustrates the preceding one ; the Langtons and Littleburys being doubly related. According to the Littlebury pedigree in the Visitation of 1562 the testator had only 2 sons, neither Peter nor Thomas appearing, though both are mentioned in the Will. The " son Langton " is John son of Alexander and grandson of the testator of the preceding Will; he married Rose daughter of John Littlebury of Hagworthingham. The " brother Humfray Mussenden " (Myssendyne) was probably the brother of Sir Thoma6 Musaenden of Healing.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of Sir ROBERT AWBRAY, priest.
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16 May 1535. Sir Robert Awbray chaplain of the Chauntry of Dean Fleming in the Cathedral. " My body with license and favour of my lord deane and chapiture to be buried within the sayd Cathedral Churche besyde Sainte Christofer's altare at weste ende of Sir Robert Pecoke's grave." To the high altar of our Lady of Lincoln a " crosse of golde to be nalyd upon the altare besyde the Image of our Lady to the honour of her." To St. Hugh a ring of gold " to be nalyd upon hys myter." " A carpett to lye upon the banker in the high queare." To Dr. Pryn, subdeane, iiis. iiijd. " d.-^^ing hym by the way off charite to execute the dirige and messe." " Also I gyff a place with the appurtenances in Weste Stockwith in the countie of Nottingham to the comonaltye of olde vicars in the Cathedrall Churche of Lincoln with my owte rent in Withcall, that is to say a pownde of peper and a pownde of comyn payd owte for a close callyd haryggarth sowthe, as apperyth more playnly in the dede thereof for xx yeres; they to do an obbyt yerely for me and my frends as nye the feste of the assumption of our Lady as may be convenyently after, as more playnly is specifyed by two Indentures mayd betwixte them and me, yfF they can fynde meanes to make the sayd landes in Stockwith with owte rents in Withcall mortemane within these yeres before expreste, yff not, I will the sayd landes be solde to the best advantage they can, and to do the obbyt as long aftyr as the money will extende." "To the hole comonaltic of olde vicars haff a dosyn sponys of sylver and a maser with a foote." " To St. Stephyn's altare a vestment of bawdkyn." " To Sir Thomas fflowre, subchaunter, an ymage of St. Bee, a casket, a spone of sylver having on the ende thys lettre—a cope, my beste surples with my beste hoode, my beste portis, my legenda aurea, a goblet of sylver and a typpet of sarssenet." To Sir James Tuttyll, sacristan, xs. and a sylver spone. To master Watkyns, Vicancellare, an ymage of St. John and a sylver spone. To master Thorpe a pare of beads of dogeon and an ymage of Kyng Henry. To Sir William Bateman vis. viiid. and a sylver spone with my beste carpette. Residue to Thomas ffloure subchaunter whom I make exr.
Prob. 11 Sept. 1535.
An interesting Ecclesiastical Will. The property in West Stockwith bequeathed to the " comonalty of olde vicars" (i.e. to the Community of Senior or Priest Vicars) is enjoyed by the present corporation, though the Withcall outrent has disappeared. The Wills of Thomas Flower and the other legatees will be given later on.12
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The Will of THOMAS WELBY, Esqr., of Halstead. 6 Sept. 12th Hen. viii. To be buried in Church of Stixwold before the image of our Lady. My wife Catheryne to have her jointure according to the indenture made and feoffement to Geoffrey Paynell and Thomas Robertson. My second son Thomas Welby to have xu. lands to him and his heirs when 21. My third son William Welby to have viii marks when 21, or if he obtain a benefice of xxu. yearly if he be a priest. To eldest daughter Alice 100 marks. To second daughter Elizabeth 100 marks. A priest to sing for my soul three years. My wife to be exx. Sir Richard Weston, Knt., to be supervisor.
Prob. 18 August 1524.
See pedigree of Welby in the Visitation of 1562. pa. 134. This was the original line of the Welbys of Moulton, quite distinct from the present family of Dentoa whose descent from the Moulton and Gedney lines cannot be proved.
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The Will of NICHOLAS CRAWTHORNE of Boston. 23 August 1534. To my sister and her children vu. To Simon Melsonby my sister's son vu. and iij sylver sponys with mayden heads. To Agnes Melsonby my sister's daughter iij11. vis. viiid. and iij sponys with mayden heads. To the church of Crawthorne and Kirkbenyngton v11. vis. viiid. for a priest to sing a whole year. A trental of masses to be sung at the altar of " Scala Celi," and a trental of masses of St. Gregory with commendation and dirige. I desire to be buried in the church of St. Francis at Boston. My wife Agnes. I appoint my son John Crawthorne exr. My sister Newcome. I appoint Mr. Christopher Newcome, supervisor. Prob. 18 Nov. 1534.
The testator was evidently a scion of the old Yorkshire family of Crathorne from which a junior branch settled at Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire. See Visitation of 1562. pa. 35. See also Thompson's History of Boston, pa. 229. where the name is given Craythome.
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The Will of WILLIAM LILBORN, of Brigsley. 12 Sept. 1532. Legacies to the churches of Brigsley, Ashby and Great Grimsby. I will that Christopher Smyth, son of Elynore my daughter, after my death have all my lands in Fenby in the holding of Richard Holme; and pay yearly to my son John Lilborn during his life 40s. ; and pay to my son Sir George Lilborn v marks, and after the death of John Lilburn pay other v marks to Sir George Lilborn, and to my daughters Elynore, Johanna and Dorothy 40s. apiece. Residue to my son Sir George Lilborn. Witnesses :—Sir William Ayscough, Knt., and Robeit Smyth, Gent.
Prob. 14 Nov. 1534.
In the Smyth pedigree, pa. 117 of the Visitation for 1562, Robert Smyth marries Eleanor daughter and heiress of William Lilborne. We may infer then that the testator's 2 sons died S.P.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Win of NICHOLAS UPTON", the elder, Esqr., of Northolme beside Waynflete. 8 Jany. 1533. To the church at Northolme vis. viiid. My swan mark with the " half barrys " to my son Nicholas for life; then to my son John forever. My swan mark with the " barre and iij nykks." My swan mark with the " ij halfe mounes." My son John is to pay xxx11. equally to Isabel and Barbara daughters of Robert Barret when they are of full age ; if they die before marriage or lawful age the money is to " go to the makyng of the highway betweene Waynfiete and Spillesby." Entails lands on son John Upton, failing his issue on daughters Isabel and Dorothy with the exception of the fee simple lands ; in case of failure of issue from John and Hamond Upton these fee simple lands with those I have inherited from my uncle George Upton deceased, are to go to feoffees for the term of 20 years, to repair the highway between Waynflete and Spillesby, and after the term of 20 years to go to my daughter Isabel and her heirs. To my son Nicholas Upton x marks yearly out of my manor of Frampton " unto suche season as he be promotyd by the Eeligion of St. John and take the proffetts thereupon." To my son Hamond Upton x11. yearly out of my manor of Frampton in full satisfaction of Richmond Fe». To my brother Adrian Upton 40s. yearly for life. I appoint exrs. my son John Upton and Magister Dr. Smythe warden of the gray freres in Lincoln. Witnesses, John Lytylbery, Esqr. Richard Wolmer, Esqr. John Upton, Gent. Thomas Lytylbery, Gent. William Vavasor, Gent.
Prob. at Partney 10 Novr. 1533.
The testator's pedigree will be found at pp. 130-1 of the Visitation of 1562. His eldest son John's issue having failed the line was carried on by Hamond Upton, his son by the 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Hamond Sutton of Burton by Lincoln. The Upton family gradually decayed, and seems to have passed away before the Commonwealth. Northolme church has disappeared, and the old Hall of the Uptons after having been turned into a farmhouse was burnt to the ground some years ago.
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The Will of AGNES TEMPEST, widow, of Gosberkirk. 7 Feby. 1533. To be buried in the parish church. I appoint my son Robert Hu'pe exr. Mr. Thomas Tempest, Esqr., " to be good master to him." My son Robert's daughters Alice and Rose. Mrs. Tempest wife of Mr. Thomas Tempest.
Prob. at Swineshead 5 March 1533.
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The Will of WILLIAM JO WYTSON, of Stickford. 16 March, 1532. Leaves Cs. a year for a priest to sing for his soul in Stickford church for 4 years " yff he will teche the chyldren of the saide towne of Stickford," if not, then to have 7 marks only.14
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To Alice daughter of my son Thomas Jowytson xH. My son in law John Kyme and my daughter Beatrix his wife, and their sons Thomas, John, and Austyn, and their daughters Dorothy and Margaret Kyme. I appoint exrs. Mr. John Whytwell, priest, of Cambridge, my daughter Beatrix Kyme of Stickford, and John Kyrke of West Keal.
Prob. 6 May 1534.
It is interesting to note the testator's care for primary education before the days of Edw. VI.
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The Will of CATHERINE HATCLIFFE, widow, of Grimsby. 18 April, 1534. To be buried in the church of St. James " in the Assumption He." Refers to her deceased husband William Hatcliffe. Sons Thomas, William, Eichard, and John Hatcliffe; daughter Johan Goodhand • daughters Alice and Dorothy Hatcliffe. Leaves a velvet purse to Mary Hatcliffe ; mentions Elizabeth Goodhand and William Goodhand. Appoints her sons William, Richard and John Hatcliffe exrs., and her son Thomas Hatcliffe supervisor.
Prob. 28 April, 1534.
The testatrix was the relict of William Hatcliffe whose Will, No. 15, is given already. The Visitation of 1592, makes his wife " Anne," so possibly the testatrix was a 2nd wife.
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The Win of JOHN UPTON, Esqr., of Northolme. 17 July 1534. I leave my lands in Northolme, Wainfleet All Saints, Wainfleet St. Mary, Croft, Friskney, Thorpe and Jngoldmells to my wife Elizabeth for life as jointure, and to find a priest to sing for 20 years. My son Nicholas Upton to have to " hys exhibicion till he cum to 21 yeres x11. yerely out of my lands in Legbourn, Carlton, Reston, Gayton, and Theddlethorpe." I will that 300 marks be raised to pay my debts. " My unkyll Adryan Upton to have yerely for life xxvis. viiid. besides the 40s. of my father's bequest." To my cosyn John Lytylbery and my cosyn Thomas Moigne xs. apiece yearly for life. To St. Thomas' Church of Northolme vis. viiid. To my sister Dorothy Hatcliffe xx marks, over and above the xxx11. left to her children by my father, " yff she be good to my wyff." I appoint my wife exx. Witnesses :—Sir John Copuldyke, Knt., John Lytylbery, Esqr., David Edwards, doctor in medicines, and Thomas Lytylbery, Gent.
Prob. 3 March 1534-5.
The testator's death followed quickly on that of his father (see No. 26). His wife Elizabeth was the daughter of John Copledike of Harrington, and sister of Sir JohD who witnesses the Will; and through her he became connected with the Moignes, her aunt Anne Copledike having married Alexander Moigne of Sixhills. See Will No. 7.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of AGNES JAKSON, of Addlethorpe. 26 August, 1531. To be buried in the Church. To the High Altar iiijd. To the Trinity Altar iiijd. To our Lady's Altar iiijd. To the bells viiid. " For the fonte or basyn a layer and a towell to washe folk's hands with when they crysten chylder." Witness, Sir William Williamson my gostly father.
Prob. 21 Nov. 1531.
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The Win of NICHOLAS SARROTT, parson of Ingoldmells. 28 July 1535. To be tfuried " in the hye quere." Bequests to the churches of Addlethorpe, Ingoldmells, Skegness, Winthorpe, Burgh, Orby, Hogsthorpe, Mumby Chapel, Saucethorpe. To Sir William Skipwith, Knt., my master and patron " vi11. xiiis. iiijd. out of the some of xiii11. vis. viiid. whiche I have a letter of the receypte of hys owne hande. Also yf yt plese my seyd master to discharge my own executors of dylapydacyons then I wyll that myne executors shall deliver to my mayster certyn playtt pledgyd for xvi11. whiche parcells is a standyng cuppe with a cover, and an abbott staff in the bodons, and also a noder pece with a cover pounced and parcyll gylt, and also a sylver pott pounced with a cover and parcyll gylt; yff yt plese not my mayster thus to doo then I wyll my exrs. to take the xvi11. and deliver the playtt." To my lady Skipwith viJi. xiiis. iiijd. which she oweth me. To master William Skipwith xxs., and to my mistress his wife xiiis. iiijd. To Master Lyon Skipwith, Master John Skipwith, Master Henry Skipwith, Master George Skipwith, Mistress Margaret, Mistress Anne, and Mistress Bridget Skipwith, xiiis. iiijd. apiece. To Mistress Joan Bolles and Mistress Mary Skipwith vis. viiid. apiece. To Gawyn Skipwith my godson xiiis. iiijd. To Mistress Marys iijs. iiijd. Witnesses, Anthony Marys, Gent., and John Kirkman, Yeoman.
Prob. 11 May 1537.
The testator had probably been a chaplain in Sir William Skipwith's household and had been presented by him to the Rectory of Iugoldmells which was in his gift. The G-awyne Skipwith mentioned was a natural son of Sir William, and from him descended the Skipwiths of Staine in the Marsh ; see Visitation of 1592, pa. 64. The " Mistress Marys " was Jane, a natural daughter of Sir William, who married the Anthony Marys who witnesses the Will.
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The Will of JAMYS BURTON, of Horncastle. 9 June, 1536. To be buried in the parish church in the south side. To the Gild of St. Katherine vis. viiid. To the light in the quere viiid. To St. George's light viiid. To the Rood light xiid. To St. Nicholas'16
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light vid. To the light of our Lady of grace viiid. To our Lady's light in St. Nicholas' quere vid. To St. Helen's light viiid. To our Lady's light at the High Altar's end viiid. To our Lady's light at the Font vid. To our Lady's light at the south side of the church vid. To our Lady's light on the north side vid. To our Lady's light in the church porch vid. To the Jesus light viiid. To the Youngmen's light vid. To St. James'light iiijd. To the Trinity light vid. To All Hallows light vid. To St. Tronyan's light viiid. To St. Christopher's light vid. To St. Lawrence's light vid. To St. Leonard's light vid. To St. Saviour's light iiijd. To St. Clement's light iiijd.
Prob. 2 August 1536.
This Will is only remarkable for the immense number of lights mentioned in Horncastle Church.
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The Will of NICHOLAS WYMBYSSHE, Gent., of Blankney. 12 May, 1533. To be buried in the chapel of our Lady in Blankney Church. A priest is to sing for. me for 10 years in the church of little St. Peter above the Stonebowe in Lincoln. To my wife Margaret, "right wake and feble as she now is," my chief messuage in Blankney and my lands according to a deed of feoffment dated 2 July 13 th Hen. VIII, for her life, and then to my son Ryse Wymbysshe; failing his heirs to my son Edward Wymbysshe (similar entail on to sons Oswald, Anthony and Christopher Wymbysshe), then to my daughters Margaret and Anna Wymbysshe. To my son Nicholas Wymbysshe my place in Lincoln in the parish of little St. Peter's. The parties to the deed of 13th Hen. VIII. are, Sir Christopher Willoughby Knt., Sir Thomas Borough Knt., Sir Robert Tyrwhyt Knt., and Gilbert Talboys Esqr. I appoint exrs. my wife Margaret and son Ryse Wymbysshe. Witnesses, Mr. Robert Whichcote and Mr. Thomas Delaland.
Prob. 29 July 1533.
The testator came of an old and distinguished family, Wymbysh or Wimbish of Nocton, but its glories seem to have culminated in his nephew who married the great Talboys heiress, in right of whom he unsuccessfully claimed the Barony of Talboys. He died leaving no surviving issue, and the representation of the family came with diminished splendour to the testator, who married Margaret daughter of John Whichcote of Harpswell and left a large family. It became extinct in the 17th century.
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The Will of JOHN COCKE, parson of Ketsby. 26 June 1534. To be buried in the chancel before the image of St. Margaret. " My boke called pupilla oculi." To my master Sir William Skip with Knt. 40s.; to his lady 20s. ; to my young master William Skipwith xxvis. viiid. and to his wife xs.; to John Skipwith my godson one goblet with the cover. To Master BollysLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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one young horse; his wife Mistress Jane Bollys; Mistress Anne Skipwith daughter of Sir William; to Master George Fitzwilliam the younger xxs. ; to George, Henry, Margaret, Bridget, Dorothy and Elizabeth, sons and daughters of Sir William Skipwith, xiiis. iiijd. apiece. I appoint exrs. John Pryn, commissary of the Archdeaconry of Lincoln, and Nicholas Sarrott, parson of Ingoldmells.
Prob. 5 August 1534.
Ketsby is a hamlet in the parish of South Ormsby. The Church has long since disappeared. The testator seems to have been on the same friendly terms with his patron's family as his executor Nicholas Sarrott, who only survived him one year. See Will No. 32.
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The Win of THOMAS TEMPER, of Burgh-le-Marsh. 15 April 1535. To be buried " in the Trinity quere of St. Peter's Church." Bequests to the High Altar, the Trinity Altar, St. John's Altar. " I will that my executors cause to be selarde and gilte the sayd trinite quere in the sayd churche of Burghe equall and lyke to St. John's quere in the sayd churche of Burghe, and yff so be the paryshoners of Burgh do make an He of the south syde of the sayd churche as the north syde is, then I bequethe to the makyng of the sayd lie iii1*. vis. viiid." I appoint my brother Nicholas Temper and Richard Bonde of Burgh exrs., and Master John Craycroft of Addlethorpe supervisor. Witness, Robert Craycroft of Burgh. Prob. 14 June 1535.
This Will is interesting from an architectural point of view. The South Aisle of Burgh Church seems to be exactly of the above date- The omission of any mention of " our Lady's Altar " is remarkable.
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The Will of THOMAS HEYEN, Gent., of Wragby. 1535. To be buried in the north quere of our Lady in the church of All Saints Wragby. To my wife Anne " one sylver goblet and vi sylver sponys not gylted, and one sylver salte parcell gylte with a cover," and xx marks. To my son and heir Edward Heven " one sylver goblet with a cover parcell gylte; one cheyn golde with a portadewe and ii bowyd Ryallys price xx11., and vi11. xiiis. iiijd. in money, one sygnet of golde with the borys heade the syne of my harmes, the weigh tthereof 40s., and vii sylver sponys parcell gylte." To my younger son Richard Heven "an hoope of golde price 40s., and vi sylver sponys of the beste, parcell gylte, and vi11. xiiis/ iiijd. in money." To my daughter Elizabeth vi11. xiiis. iiijd. in money. My lease of a farm in Est rand which I hold of Thomas Harvy Esqr. To my cosen Thomas Brockton " one drynkyng home with a sylver foote gylte with a cover." To Sir Marmaduke Constable Knt. viis. vid., to my lady his wife vs. My cosen Thomas Phylypps
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and his wife. A priest is to sing for " my soule, Jane my wyfFs soule, Anne my wyff's welfare, my fader and moder's soules." I appoint my wife Anne and my sons Edward and Richard Heven exrs., and Mr. Subdean Pryn supervisor. Witness, Christopher Webster, Vicar of Wragby.
Prob. 2 July 1535.
No trace of this family is to be found in the printed Visitations of 1662, 1592, unless it is identical with that of Haven, which is styled "of Saltfleet-Haven " and " of Wold Newton," see pp. 34 and 55 of the Visitation for 1592.
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The Win of RICHARD CARTWRIGHT, Vicar of Mumby. 13 July 1535. " My wretchyd body to be buryed in the Sanctuary where it shall please God and my nyghbors." To the iii gylds in Mumby xs. To Lincoln Coll. Oxford to repair the buttery, 40s. " To Richarde Warde for makyng of the new stallys in the chauncell at Croft, v11."
Prob. 27 July 1535.
The testator was Vicar of Croft as well as Mumby, but resided at the latter place. No trace of the " new stallys" now remains.
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The Will of JOHN WYOTT, yeoman, of Grimoldby. 27 July 1535. To be buried in the church. My sons Raufi and Thomas Wyott to have v marks apiece when 14 years old. Thomas Crathorne, Gent., is to have the custody of them. I have enfeoffed Bryan Newcomen, Gent., George Pormort, Gent., Rauff Crathorne, Gent., and Nicholas Meres, Gent., with lands in Grimoldby and Saltfleetby for the use of my wife Cecily. My eldest son Richard Wyott; my brother Robert Wyott. I am bound for xu. to John Bryan of Bolingbroke and Richard Hardy, for the use of Elizabeth daughter of Robert Leche. I appoint my wife Cecily exx. and George Pormort, Gent., supervisor.
Prob. 22 Jany. 1535-6.
The names in this Will seem to suggest a higher grade than that of yeoman for the testator.
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The Will of THOMAS HANSARD, parson of Kelsey St. Mary's 1535. To be buried in the chancel. To the making of the desks in Kelsey church xs. My Brother Humfrey Hansard. I appoint John Hansard my exr., and Master William Mounson supervisor.
Prob. 1 April 1536.
The testator was probably a cadet of the great Hansard family. See pedigree No. 2, in the Visitation of 1562, pa. 60. The heiress of the elder line married Sir Francis Ayscough, and carried with her the South Kelsey property.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of WILLIAM FAYRFAX, Vicar of Metheringham. 28 Sept. 1535. To be buried in the chancel. To the brethren at Kyme monastery xxvis. viiid. To my brother John Fayrfax xa. To his wife xs. To each of their children xs. To William Fayrfax, my brother's eldest son, a feather bed. To my cousin Alice Grantham vis. viiid. I make my brother the Prior of Kyme exr.
Prob. 26 April 1536.
The testator was a younger brother of John Fairfax, of Swarby. See pa. 113 of Visitation of 1562. The Prior of Kyme was Ralph Fairfax, who was unusually well reported of by the King's Commissioners; but his virtues did not save his Priory from suppression.
42.
The Will of Sir WILLIAM BAYTMAN, old vicar in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. 29 July 1536. To be buried within the Chapel of St. Thomas in the said Cathedral. To the " reparacons of the olde vicars' house xxs."
Prob. 11 :N"ov. 1536.
The testator was a legatee of Robert Awbray. See Will No. 22.
43.
The Will of Sir JOHN BURTON, priest and fellow of the Burghersh Chauntry in the Cathedral of Lincoln. 16 March 1536. To be buried in the said Cathedral Church "in the northe yle unto the ymage of St. Christopher." "To everyone of my iiij brethren in our said house viiid. To every chylde in our house iiijd. and to my chylde vid. To our coke iiijd.. To our Butler vid. To the house of the old vicars one sylver spone."
Prob. 7 April 1537.
The foundation of the Burghersh Chauntry included choristers as well as priests. Hence the allusion to the " chylde."
44.
The Will of Sir ROBERT DOWFFE, priest and vicar choral of the Cathedral of Lincoln. 18 Feby 1536. "To be buryed in the north yle before the ymage of St. Rooke." To Thomas Scardon, " my childe " iijs. iiijd. I make Sir Thomas fflowre, subchaunter, exr., and leave him xxs. and " a payer of vyrgynallys."
Prob. 15 Sept. 1537.
According to the Valor Ecclesiasticus, Robert Dowfle, or Dove, held the chauntry of Robert Lacy combined with another, and received annually two fees for playing the Organ at the Mass of the B.V.M. and the Jesus Mass, respectively.20
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The Will of THOMAS BROUNE, glover, of St. Peter's Wigford, Lincoln. 18 July 1534. To be buried in the church. To my brother Richard Newcum xxs. and a " pece of russyt or else a violet gowne furred with black la'me." My brother Thomas Newcum. I make my sons William and Thomas Browne exrs.
Prob. 18 August 1534.
This Will should be read with that of Richard Newcomen, of Low Toynton, given later on.
46.
The Will of Sir ROBERT HANSERT (Hansard), parson of Trus-thorpe. 9 June 1538. To be buried in the chancel of St. Peter's church before the high altar. I make my cosyn John Mounson Esqr. of Carleton exr., who is to dispose of everything for the good of my soul. Witnesses, John Richardson, parson of Stayne, Osias Moyne parson of Maltby, and Sir Thomas Gybonson chauntry-priest of St. Parnellys, Mablethorpe.
Prob. 18 June 1538.
Another cadet of the Hansard family, as is shown by his calling John Mounson " cosyn." The latter was son of John Monson, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Hansard, Knt., cf Kelsey.
47.
The Will of JOHN BAKER, of Saltfleetby All Saints. 20 Octr. 1537. To be buried in the church. " To the makyng of the Sowthe yle of the sayde churche with a flat Rufe iii11. vis. viiid." My wife Elizabeth. I make my sons Bryan and Christopher exrs.
Prob. 26 Feb. 1537-8.
. This Will is interesting solely for the light it throws on the architectural history of the parish church.
48.
The Will of AGNES WOLMER, widow, of Wigtoft. 18 June 1537. To be buried in the parish church. Bequests to the High Altar, our Lady's Altar, and St. Nicholas' Altar. I make my brother John Wolmer exr.
Prob. 24 Sept. 1537.
See pedigree of Wolmer in Visitation of 1562.
49.
The Will of JASPER SHEFFIELD, of Croxby. 29 May 1536. To be buried in the church. My brother Charles Sheffield. My daughters Jane, Mary, and Anne. My brethren Thomas Estoft, Esqr., Charles Sheffield, Gent., and Christopher Estoft, Gent., are enfeoffed of my lands in Croxby, Binbrook, Howsham, Thorganby, and Waltham. I appoint my wife Elizabeth exx.
Prob. 4 Jany. 1536-7.
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50.
The Will of JOHN GEDNEY, of Bag Enderby, Esqr. 14 June 1535. To be buried in the church. My feoffees Thomas Littlebury of Stainsby, Esqr., John Langton Esqr. and Hugh Grantham Gent. My lands in Bag Enderby, Oxcumbe, Wynceby, and Langton. My lands in Somersby bought of John Ketlocke, and lands I exchanged with Sir William Skipwith for lands in Ormsby. To my daughters Elizabeth and Katherine CCU. for their marriages. My wife's jointure is out of Mavis Enderby, Hagworthingham, Ormsby, Slekeholme (sic), Sloothby, Winceby, and Ashby Puerorum. My sons John and Andrew. My wife Isabel is to bring up my children, and I make her exx. Sir Andrew Billesby Knt. is to be supervisor, and my brother Hugh Grantham Coadjutor to my wife. Witness, George Musgrave, parson of Oxcumbe.
Prob. 3 August 1535.
The testator's ancestor married the heiress of the Enderbys, of Enderby, and moved thither from the south of Lincolnshire. The family fell into poverty towards the beginning of the 17 th century. A younger branch settled at Swaby, but came to an end before the 18th century.
51.
The WiU of ALEXANDER HAWKESWORTH, parson of Healing. 30 August 1537. To be buried in St. Peter's Chancel. My exrs. are to sell all my goods " to pay for the redemyng of the pension of the benefice of Lathyngton, the which I had by the resygnacion of parson Robynson, as yet unredemyd." I make my Kinsman Arthur Hawkesworth exr., and my master Sir Thomas Myssendyne, Knt., supervisor.
Prob. 13 Sept. 1537.
52.
The Will of ROBERT BARDE, of Tealby. 10 Feby. 1536. To be buried in the parish church of All Saints. To daughter Joan Barde, v11. To daughter Isabel Barde, vJi. My brother Thomas Barde, my wife Agnes, and my son John Barde exrs. Witness, James Wallys, vicar.
Prob. 24 April 1537.
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The Will of Sir JAMES W ALLEYS, priest, late Prior of Sixhills, 21 April 1539. To be buried in the church of All Saints. My brother Richard Walleys' children. To my sister Isabel Walleys, " one cobberd which magister George Hennage dyd geve me beyng in the chamber where I lay in the Abbey." I make William Walleys, of Middle Rasen, exr., and Magister Thomas Kyme supervisor. Witness, Thomas Kyme, Esqr.
Prob. 23 May 1539.
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The Will of CHRISTOPHER MERES, of Great Carlton. 28 July 1539. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. My farm to my wife for 12 years, paying viii marks yearly to Anne Purley and to my children. To my 3 daughters Elizabeth, Parnell, and Frances Meres half my household stuff; the other half to my wife. To my wife a " standing cuppe gylted with the cover, and a gylted goblet with the cover." . George Purley my wife's son. To my son Nicholas Meres " the croppe of the land I have of my Lady Conyers." My son Thomas Meres. Refers to indenture dated 31 Jany. 8th Hen. VIII. between me and William Disney Esqr. for the marriage of my eldest son Vincent Meres with Catherine daughter of the said William Disney. I am bound to pay a marriage portion of C marks to Anne Purley. My lands in Wisbeach, Co. Cambridge. I make my sons Nicholas and Thomas Meres Exrs.
Prob. 15 March 1539-40.
This was a branch of the old Lincolnshire family of Meres, or Meers, of Kirton in Holland. They were seated there from the earliest times. The testator's line is not given in the Visitation of 1562. It came to an end early in the 17th century. The senior branch survived till 1735, when Sir John Meers, Knt., one of the 6 Clerks of Chancery died S.P., and the representation passed to his sisters, Mrs. Hayley, Mrs. Whichcot, and Lady Pettus. Christopher Meres' wife was Jane, the widow of Nicholas Purley (by whom she was mother of the George Purley, mentioned in the Will, and Anne Purley who became the 2nd wife of Bryan Newcomen, of Saltfleetby). His son Vincent must have been born of a former wife, who in one pedigree is given as Catherine, daughter of Charles Yarborough. The widow Jane survived till 1550, when her Will was proved, which will be given later on.
55.
The Will of MARTYN NEWCOMEN, of Saltfleetby All Saints. 1 May 1536. To be buried in the Chancel. "I wyll have a trowght of marbell layd uppon my grave with my armes and the armes of Mary my wife scripturyd in metall of lattyn." My wife is to have, over and above her feoffement, " all the weste parte of my hede howse I dwell in." My son Christopher Newcomen. I give to. my son George Newcomen, priest, xxvis. viiid. during his mother's life, and then iij11. vis. viii. My son Bryan Newcomen's son John. I make my son Bryan Newcomen exr.
Prob. 28 April 1540.
The testator was head of one of the oldest Lincolnshire families. It spread out into numerous branches, seated at LowToynton, Saltfleetby, Theddlethorpe, Bag Enderby, Lincoln, Maltby, and other places. One branch settled in Ireland, and obtained a Baronetcy and a Peerage. From being one of the most numerous and widely spread families in the County, the Newcomens have dwindled down almost to extinction. The testator's wife was Mary, daughter of Bryan Sandford, of Thorpe Salvin, Co. York. Her Will is given later on.
56.
The Will of ELIZABETH GAUNTE, of Ingoldmells, late wife of William Gaunte, of Theddlethorpe, widow. 15 Feb. -1539. To be buried in St. Peter's church, " in ye myd ally at myLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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sottle's ende."1 I leave "to a payr of new organs in St. Peter's church Ingoldmells, yf they bye eny, vs." To my daughter Elizabeth Bonde v sylver spones on Ryboen with sylver agglytts (sic.)." My son in law William Bonde and my daughter Amy Kyrkman. I make my son John Kyrkman exr.
Prob. 12 August 1541.
See the Will of her husband, William Gaunte, No. 17.
57.
The Will bf Sir CHRISTOPHER ASKEW, Knt., of Ashby. 12 Sept. 1540. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. To my wife one parcel of land in Ravendale, and another in Clee. My son Robert Askew. I make my wife ex*. My daughter Jane.
Prob. 15 Oct. 1540.
The name is variously spelt Askew, Ayscough, Ascough, and Ayscoghe. According to the Visitation pedigree of 1562, the testator was a son of John Ayscough, of Stallingborough, by his 2nd wife Ellen Tunstall, and half brother to Sir William Ayscough. Ashby is a village near Great Grimsby.
58.
The Will of THOMAS WHYCHCOT, Esqr., of Dunston. 14 Nov., 1540. My wife Anne. My daughter Jane under 20 years of age. My manors of Harpswell, Dunston, and Anwick in Lincolnshire. My manors of Melton, Goodmanton, and Beverley, in Yorkshire. My manors and lands of Whychcot and Sutton in Shropshire. . Indenture made between me and my brother Robert Whychcot, dated 3 Oct. 3rd Hen. VIII. My manor-place of Dunston to my wife for life, or till my son Hamond Whychcot marry, and x11. a year. I appoint my son Hamond exr., and Sir Robert Hussey, Knt. and William Thorold, Gent, supervisors.
Prob. 11 Deer. 1540.
The testator's grandfather John Whichcot, of Whichcot in Shropshire, settled in Lincolnshire by marrying the daughter and heiress of John Tyrwhit, of Harpswell. The family eventually divided into two lines ; the elder spelling the name Whichcot, and living at Harpswell, the younger seated at Aswarby, and adding an " e " to the surname. In the middle of the last century, Sir Christopher Whichcote, Bart., of Aswarby, married Jane, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Whichcot, of Harpswell, and thus restored the unity of the family.
59.
The Will of WILLIAM DELALUND, Gent., of Algarkirk. 8 Oct. 1540. To be buried in the church. My brother Edward Delalund. My children. I make my wife Mary exx., and my father Thomas Delalund supervisor.
Prob. 20 Oct. 1540.
60.
The Will of THOMAS DELALUND, Gent. 21 Octr. 1540. To be buried in the church of the Blessed Trinity of Ashby. To my son Edward Delalund my lands in Ashby,24
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" yf the Kyng's acts wyll admyt yt." To my daughter Margaret iiju. vis. viiid. yearly out of Fyrsney (Friskney 1), " yf the law admyt yt." I make my son and daughter exrs., and Mr. Robert Sutton supervisor.
Prob. 3 Deer. 1540.
The above two Wills of father and son are melancholy reading, since they testify to the impoverishment and extinction of a most distinguished Lincolnshire family . The manor of Ashby was acquired by William de la Launde in the 14th century by his marriage with the daughter and heiress of Sir Jordan de Ashby ; hence it was called Ashby de la Launde. But the de la Laundes fell into decay in the reign of Hen. vii., partly through law suits with their neighbours the Knights Hospitallers at Temple Bruer. The reader may be referred to a paper in the " Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute for 1848," on the " Feuds of old Lincolnshire families," by the late Lord Monson.
61.
The WiU of PETER EFFORD, Citizen of Lincoln, and Notary Public. 30 Sept. 1540. To be buried in the chapel of St. Peter in Eastgate Church. " To the Clarks' gylde, for to say or syng this Antiphon, Domine non secundum actum meum noli me judicare etc. cum De Profundis clamavi, iijs. iiijd." A priest to say " Dirige and commendacyon," " and that in his messe he have specyally this Collet emonge others, deus qui summa spes nostre redemptionis." My daughters Elizabeth, Helen, and Mary. To Dr. Pryn, Subdean, vis. viiid. My wife Jane exx., and Mr. John Pope, clerk, parson of Belton and Epworth, supervisor.
Prob. 17 Oct. 1541.
62.
The Will of RICHARD ROCHE, Gent., of Beesby. 2 March 1540. To be buried in Beysby Church. To Charles Roche 40s. Richard son of Richard Roche of Little Grimsby. To William son of Thomas Roche my copyholds. To Isabel daughter of Thomas Roche vi11. xiiis. iiijd. Residue to said William Roche my exr. Richard Roche of Little Grimsby supervisor.
Prob. 17 Jany. 1540-1.
The testator is easily identified in the pedigree at pa. 106 of the 1562 Visitation.
63.
The WiU of OSIAS MOYNE, Rector of Maltby. 1 Feby. 1640. To be buried in the "hye quere of Chyrche of All Hallows Maltby." To my brother John Moyne v marks. "To my lorde Parre a stage of my whyte mere." Residue to Nicholas Moyne exr. Magister Forcett supervisor.
Prob. 28 March 1541.
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64.
The Will of GODFREY FULNETBY, of Rand, Esq. 19 Deer. 1540. To be buried in the quire of my parish Church of St. Oswald of Rand. My son Duke (Marmaduke 1) and my daughters Anne, Barbara, and Katherine. My son Garnett (sic) to have " xx nobylls." My son and heir John Fulnetby. My wife Elizabeth exx. Witness, Edward Fulnetby, presbyter, and Thomas Hull, parson of Snelland.
Prob. 15 Sept. 1541.
The Fulnetbys were seated at Fulnetby, in the Parish of Band. The testator is wrongly called " GeofEery " in the Visitation of 1562, pa. 48.
65.
The Will of GUY TOWERS, of Tetney. 23 Feby. 1540. To be buried in the church of St. Peter at Tetney. To Edward Towers iiij sheep. To William Towers my land " in Borro (Burgh) yf that Sir Thomas Masyngberde my wyff's father send me not xvi1*. that he owys me for my wyff's feoffement." To Robert Bettneffe the house I dwell in to him and his heirs after my wife's death. Half my household goods to my wife. Land in Marsh-chapel. Dirige to be sung for my soul for which I give xs. Residue to Edward Towers and Robert Bettneffe exrs.
Prob. 27 Feb. 1540.
In 1530 Guy Towers was married to a daughter of William HatclifEe, of Grimsby (see No. 15). He must have married a Massingberd afterwards, though no trace of it appears in the Visitations. See a pedigree of Towers in the Vis. for 1692.
66.
The Will of GILBERT OTTYS, of Surfleet. 31 August, 1540. To be buried in Church of St. Lawrence, Surfleet. To my wife Elizabeth " iij sylver spqnes with rownde knobbs of gold." To my daughter Anne a silver salt and vi silver spoons. I make my lather George Ottys of Leddes (Leeds) in Yorkshire Exr., and Mr. John Harrington of Exton, and Mr. Robert Walpole of Pinchbeck, supervisors.
Prob. 22 Feb. 1540-1.
67.
The Will of THOMAS KYRKMAN, of Staine. 12 March, 1539-40. To be buried in the church of Staine. I give a vestment to the parish church of Melton in Yorkshire. " I bequethe to thebeyldyng of sanct peter churche in Mawbelthorpe, when, thay begyn to beyld the same, viu. xiiis. iiijd., and yf thay beyld yt not, then I wyll the sayd money be imployed upon coweryng of Stane churche with leade." Residue to the children of John Toynton deceased.
Prob. 16 Nov. 1540.
This Will is given simply on account of its architectural details. Staine is a hamlet in Withern ; its church has vanished. The Church of Mablethorpe St. Peter was carried away by the sea several centuries ago, and has never been rebuilt.26	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of RICHARD NEWCOMEN, yeoman, of Low Toynton. In the name of god amen, the iij day of September in the yere of our Lord god mccccoxl the xxii yere of the reyne of our sufferant lord Kyng henry the eyght wytnesseth that richard newcome dwelling in nether tointon within the Cowntie of lincoln yoman with a holle mynd and good remembrance maketh this my last wyll and testament with my owne hand in this maner and forme here after folowynge, fyrst I bequethe my soull to god almyghty to our blessyd lady seint Mary and to all the holy company of heven, and my body to be buryed in the churche of savnte peter in nether tointon in the myddyll yell, and my mortuary to be gyvyn after the custome of the countre. Item I bequethe to the hye alter of nether tointon for my tythes forgotten xiid. Item to our lady Wake of lyncoln xiid. Item to the churche of nether tointon for to be gyven to poore people ther beyng xxd. Item to gretham to be delte amonge poore people ther dwelinge xxd. Item to folowby (Fulletby) to be delte amonge poore people xxd. Item to asby for poore people xxd. Item to horncastre for poore people ijs. Item to Thomas Newcome my sonne my violett gowne one great bras pott one chyst callyd a huche and ten sheppe iiij stonnys of malte and ij sterrs of ij yeres olde and a gray stagge. Item to John Newcome my sonne my russyt with fur and the fourt bras potte, after my wyffe, iiij sterrs and iij kye and x sheppe and iiij quarters of malte. Item to Wyllam Newcome my sonne x sheppe ij sterrs and iiij quarters of malte. Item to richarde 'Newcome my sonne ij sterrs x sheppe and iiij quarters of malte. Item to emme Newcome my dowghter x sheppe ij quyes and iiij quarters of malte, and my wyffe's worst gyrdyll. Item to Anne Newcome my dowghter ten sheppe ij quyes iiij quarters of malte, a rede chyste and my fyrste wyffe's beste gyrdyll. Item I wyll that thomas Newcome my sonne have the pleace in nether toynton and all my landes and medows in nether toynton and over toynton to hym and to hys heyres of hys body lawfully begotten after the decese of Margytt my wyffe, and yf yt fortune that god take my sonne thomas Newcome with owt heres of hys body lawfully begotten then I wyll that the nexte sonne beyng alyve have all the landes to hym and hys heyres of hys body lawfully begotten, and yf that all my sonnes departe with owt heyres of ther bodyes lawfully begotten, then I wyll that all my landes remayne unto my dowyhters emme Newcome and anne Newcome and to ther heyres of ther bodyes lawfully begotten for ever, and yf yt fortune that god take all them vi chyldren with owt heyres and that my fortune to have no moo chylder to heyre my lands in nether toynton after hyr decesse then I wyll that yt be soald and that a preste be hyryd to pray for hyr father and mother soulls and me and my wyffe and all our goodLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	27
frends and in good dedes of pity to be bestowede so longe as the money doth laste, and I wyll the preste to sing at nether toynton. Item I wyll that thomas Newcome my brother have my russyt colte and my buckskyn dowblett. The residewe of my goods not bequethed my dettes paide and the legacies within namyd I wyll that Margaret my wyffe have to dispose and order for my soull and hyr's. Item I wyll that all my inward stufife that was myne before I maried my wylie Margaret be equally devydyd among my chvlder at the discrecyon of Margaret my wyffe and thomas my sonne. Item I wyll that the ij lynne shetts wiche robert dawson's wyff of lincolne hathe in hyr keepinge of fynne clothe be dely vered the one to William browne and the other to thomas browne. Item I wyll that the viii sponnys and the harnest gyrdyll with the bedis that my ostes robert dawson's wyffe of lincoln hathe in kepynge be delivered unto the said Wyllyam browne and thomas browne. Item I wyll that my oste dawsonne do take a general quyttance of the said Wyllyam browne and thomas bothe for me and hym selfe, or elles kepe the sponnys and gyrdyll with bedis to the proffyt of my heyres that they may sell them and dyspose them in charytable dedes for the soull of thomas browne wiche was the father. Also I do owe unto wyllyam browne wiche Edmunde Atkynson of lincoln hade and was delivered unto me iij1L sterling, wich iiju-my executors shall pay trewly unto the said Wyllyam browne yf he will thryve to have the iij11 - all holly att one tyme delyvered yf he wyll play the honest man in honest spending of yt to hys profyt and honestie, or elles to be gyven hym by porcyons as he shall stande moste in nede of yt at the syght of his best frendes. Item I wyll that Elizabeth coote my goddowghter dwellinge in conysby have one of my qweys of yeres olde and upworde. to and of this my laste wyll I gyve full power and strength unto Margaret my wyffe and thomas my sonne whome I constitute and make my full executores to performe this testament as is here before saide whereof I hertely pray and desyre whome I apoynte and make supervisor of this my wyll the ryght worshypfull Mayster Edwarde dymoke to ayde and secure my wyffe with hys councell at hyr nede, and he for hys payns takyng to have xiiis. iiijd. thes to recorde Edward taylyer, preste, Wyllyam Kinge, Robert smarte, charles barrytt.
Prob. penltimo die mensis maii anno domini millesimo quingentesimo XLimo coram magistro .Johanne pope in ecclesia de horncastell.
This Will is giveu in extenso as furnishing an admirable specimen of a Lincolnshire yeoman of ancient race in the 16th century. The testator's pedigree will be found in the Vis. of 1592. His father William Newcomen was a younger son of Martin Newcomen whose Will has been already given No. 56. Richard, by his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Maydenwell, of Low Toynton, acquired property in that place. His first wife seems to have been a Browne of Lincoln, see No. 45. Three of his sons married and left families. The eldest, Thomas, lived at Low Toynton, and his second son Charles settled at Saltfleetby, died in 1630, and left a large family of sons who all married and founded different branches. Notwithstanding the very nnmerous descendants of old Martin Newcomen, the name is seldom now to be met with in Lincolnshire.28
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The Will of WILLIAM DISNEY, of Norton Disney, Esqr. 6 Deer. 1540. To be buried in my chapel in the church of Norton Disney. My wife Margaret to have a chamber in my place at Norton Disney for her life. To my son Francis Disney 200 ewes I bought of Augustine Porter. I make my son Richard Disney and my brother John Disney exrs.
Prob. 16 Deer. 1540.
The Disneys of Norton Disney have passed away from Lincolnshire, though the race is not extinct.
70.
The Will of RICHARD GRAY, of Kingerby. 6 Sept. 1540. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. To my wife 40u. Jane, Katherine, Henry, and Anne Bukston. I make my son George Gray and Mr. William Disney Esq. exrs.
Prob. 20 Deer. 1540.
The Grays of Kingerby were an illegitimate branch of the Lords Grey of Oodnor. The testator's wife Ursula was a daughter of the preceding William Disney.
71.
The Will of Sir JOHN SETRYNGTON, Vicar choral of Lincoln Cathedral. 1 Sept. 1540. " To be buried in the Cathedral before the southe churche doore nigh unto Sir William Halyday." " To the coyke of the young vicars iijs. iiijd. To Elsbeth 'Redform my keper vs."
Prob. 11 Dec. 1540.
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The Will of JOHN ANGEYINE, Gent., of Ashby by Horncastle. 10 Oct. 1540. To be buried in Church of All Hallows, Ashby. To my brother Robert " my best gowne, my best dowblett and my soryll geldyng," etc. " I make my wife Margaret exx., and confirm to her possession all lands in Ashby and Hameringham to remain in her hands " unto suche tyme as all suche goods as I am bownden and myne heyres for hyr chylderyn partes in covenants by indenture and obligation to Sir rycherde Warde and to Sir Robert othes to suche tyme as the said chylderyn Thomas Warde and Elsabeth Plumpton be fully contente and paid." (Added in another hand) " I Robert Awngeven ys agreed to thys wyll."
Prob. 29 March 1541.
The name of the testator is spelt in a variety of ways. The Visitation of 1562 gives it as Angevile. It. is also found es Awngewyne, Aungevine, Haugewyne, and, as a climax, Aunchefeld. The pedigree in the Visitation is unsatisfactory in the extreme ; but a reference to Wills and P.M. Inqs. enables one largely to amplify it. Among the Royal Briefs issued in Bishop Bokingham's Episcopate is one from Richard II to that prelate announcing that the Abbot of Revesby had recovered the right of presentation to the Church of Theddlethorpe againstLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Lawrence Moigne of Theddlethorpe and Katherine his wife, and William Aungevyn of Boston, goldsmith, and Elizabeth his wife. The Brief is dated 14 April, 3 Ric. ii. Another Brief, issued 13 Rio. ii., states that the advowson of the Church of West Keal belonged to the Abbot of Croyland, William Aungewyn and Elizabeth his wife, Lawrence Moigne and Katherine his wife. By an Inq. P.M. 14 Hen. viii. No. 55, Michael Angevyne is found to be possessed of the manors of Theddlethorpe and West Keal. His grandson John was found his heir and aged 20. but his second son Charles (see Yis. pedigree of 1562,) was the father of the above testator and Robert Angevine by Margaret his wife whose Inq. P.M, 8. Hen. viii. No. 91. states that her late husband Charles Angevine was seized of the manor of Ashby by Horncastle with lands in Hameringham, and that John Angevine was her son and heir aged 28. He seems from his Will to have died without issue, and his brother Robert to have been his heir. The latter's Inq. P.M. 38 Hen. viii., No. 113, makes him seized of lands in Ashby by Horncastle, Long Ludford, Bilsby, and Hameringham, and his son Charles Angevine to be his heir aged 16. The Angevines disappear with the 17th century. Their arms, " argent 2 bars gules on a chief vert 3 bezants," may possibly owe the latter charge to the goldsmith ancestor in 1380.
73.
The WiU of KATHERINE GIRLINGTON, widow, (Imperfect). To Dorothy Haldenby iiju- vis. viiid. Katheren Girlington. William Girlington, and Elizabeth his sister. Christopher Hylyarde. To my son Nicholas Girlington all lands I and my husband bought of Hugh in Burton and Thelby and Normanby. To my daughter Girlington my son William's wife " the cownter in the hall that was Robert Hyllys, my spruse chest in my parler and the cubbord in the gret chamber." To my daughter Haldenby clothes etc. To my son William " vi sylver spones which I occupye daly," " my vestment with the abe (albe?) and the super altare." I make my son Nicholas exr.
Prob. 5 April 1540.
See Flower's Vis. of Yorkshire 1563. pa. 140. The testatrix was the daughter of Sir Robert Hildyard, of Winestead; married 1st John Haldenby, of Haldenby, 2nd William Girlington, of Normanby.
74.
The Will of THOMAS PORTINGTON, Esqr., of Roxby. 28 June 1540. To be buried in the quire of the Parish Church of Great Roxby. To my son Henry " my bay amblyng geldyng called baynes." To my sons Thomas, Anthony, and George, x11' a piece. My brother Robert Ayscugh. To my wife Anne my parsonage of Roxby. My daughter Maude. To my son Grydlyngton iQr. Girlington) "my yeres of the parsonage of Burton Stather." List of jewels. " Except the chene of gold and a gold ryng with a saphyr in yt and a ryng with a turkas and also the flowers the one ys a rose of rubyes with a grete perle the other one owch with one amidas in yt and the thyrd ys a saphyr lowpe set in gold in whyte after sent Kattryn wheyle facion with all the gold and perle of the goldsmythe warke for a gentyllwoman's paste," these to be divided between my wife, my daughter Maude, and my son Henry's wife. I make my wife and my son Henry exrs.
Prob. 20 August 1540.
See Vis. of 1592, pa. 69, and note the wife's name as there given.30
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75.
The Will of JANE HOUGH, of Hough, gentlewoman. 30 Oct. 1540. To be buried in the chapel of our lady in the church of St. Rumbold. To Brandon chapel xiid. To Jane Hough " my best gyrdyll." My daughter Anne Saenton. The 3 children of John Saenton. I make my son Robert Hough exr., and my son Alexander Hough supervisor.
Prob. 18 June 1541.
Hough-on-the-Hill, a few miles from Grantham, and not to be confused with Haugh near Alford.
76.
The Will of ANTHONY MARYS, Gent., of Burgh. 6 May 1541. To be buried in the " hye quere before the Sacrament." " To ether of the syde altars iijd. To the bellys xs. To my wife Jane my horse mylne at Ingoldmells and my horse mylne at Burgh. To Lyon Skipwith xxs. " To Mr. William Skip with Esqr. my young foole." To every woman in his house vid. To John Kyrkman, Thomas Skegness, William Raytheby, and Wyllyam Craycrofte xiid. a piece. I leave my wife Jane my lease .of the parsonage of Burgh and Winthorpe. John Kyrkman is to help her. I make her exx. and Sir William Skipwith Knt. supervisor, and give him 40s.
Prob. 12 August 1541.
The testator had married Jane, natural daughter of Sir William Skipwith, of Ormsby. She survived till 1593.
77.
The Will of ARTHUR ORMSBY, of North Ormsby, Gent., 20 April 1541. To be buried in the church. My wife Dorothy is to have my chief messuage in my manor of North Ormsby, and divers lands besides for 5 years, paying yearly to my son and heir Thomas Ormsby iiij marks. After the 5 years she is to have the said house for her widowhood " accordyng to the covenants of maryage made between me the said Arthur Ormsby of the one parte and Robert Cokytt of Wetwong in Yorkshire of the other parte," dated 3 Oct. 31 Hen. viii., paying yearly to the said Thomas Ormsby vi]i- xiiis. iiijd. My wife is to have for life the use of my plate and jewels, " a sylver pece parcell gylte abowtethe egge, a salte of sylver parcell gylte with a coverynge, a crosse of golde sett with perle and precyose stones, and my corall bedes with blew gawdes." I make my wife exx., and Mr. John Skipwith of Utterby supervisor. Witness, Christopher Yarborough, Gent.
Prob. 9 May 1541.
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78.
The Win of DOROTHY ORMSBY, of North Ormsby, widow. 3 May 1541. To be buried in the church of St. Helen. My sons Thomas, John, and Arthur Ormsby. My daughter Agnes. I make exrs. George Wymbyshe, Gent., of Brinkhill, and John Skipwith of Utterby.
Prob. 17 May 1541.
79.
The Will of ARTHUR BUCHER, Gent., of Low Toynton. 19 Sept. 32 Hen. VIII. To be buried in the church. To my wife Margery all my lands in Low Toynton for life in lieu of dower, paying yearly v11- to my son James. To my sons John, Thomas, and Francis Bucher xxH- apiece when 21. To my daughters Anne and Elizabeth xxu- apiece. This C!i- to be raised out of my lands in upper Toynton and Horncastle. I appoint my wife exx., and my brother Symon Moyne of Willingham supervisor. " Notwith-standyng wher god hath vysytt att this present tyme bothe me and my sayd wyfe with syknes so that she standyth in greete jeberdy of her lyfe." Witness, John Dyon, Gent.
Prob. 9 June 1541.
The.name is spelt indifferently Bocher, Bucher, and Bowcher. Richard Newcomen's wife, Margaret, was the daughter and heiress of Richard Maydenwell, by the daughter and heiress of William Bowcher, of Low Toynton, and "was probably a cousin of the testator. His wife, Margery, was the daughter of Alexander Moigne, of Sixhills. See No. 7.
80.
The Will of CHARLES SHEFFIELD, of South Willingham. 5 Jany. 1540-1, To be buried in the church of St. Martin. Wife, Grace. Sons, George, Edmund, and Jasper Sheffield. Daughter, Elizabeth Windell. I make my brother John Compton
6X1'*
Prob. 15 June 1541.
See Will of Jane Sheffield, of Crosby, (No. 14). This was one of her sons; and also No. 49.
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The Will of EDMUND SKERNE, Gent., of Waltham. 18 July 1541. To be buried in the "northe yle within the closyt wher I usyd to sytte." To my daughter Anne Skerne xx1L on her marriage out of my lands in " Waytwange, Skerne, Sonderlangwake, Baynton, Ageke, and Lokington in Co. York." To my sons Thomas, John, Edward, William, and Edmund Skerne 40s. a year apiece. My brother Sir Robert Skerne. Edmund Skerne of Aylesby. Edmund Skerne of Gousell. Margaret Skerne of Gousell. I make my wife Dorothy ex*.
Prob. 23 Sept. 1541.
See pedigree in Vis. of 1562, pa. 112.32
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82.
The Will of Mr. EDMUND EGMANTON, of Goxhill. 22 August ] 540. To be buried in the churchyard of All Hallows. To Robert Skerne the younger all my lands in Alkborough and my leases in Burton Stather. To Mr. Edmund Skerne my horse. I make my nephew Robert Skerne exr.
Prob. 1 June 1541.
Robert Skerne, the executor, hart married Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Egmanton, the testator's brother.
83.
The Will of WILLIAM JOHNSON, Yicar of Alford. 30 March 1541. To be buried in the chancel "before the higher lecture." Francys Totheby and the other vii children of Mr. Totheby. To Sir John Browne " one boke called Lynedewode, an other boke called Radulphus super Evangelia per totum annum, other wysse callyd vita Jesu christi, and my holle byble." I make Sir John Browne, priest, exr. Witness, Sir Robert Otes, parson of East Keal.
Prob. 18 May 1541.
84.
The Will of JOHN KELE, parson of Horsington. 26 Jany. 1540. To be buried in quire of All Hallows. To the church of Horsington " on messboke on porthuse on boke called manipulus curatorum. I also wyll that on broken chalyce that I have be sold and wared off the chauncell off the chapell off Horsyngton."
Prob. 17 Feb. 1540.
To " ware " in Lincolnshire means to spend.
85.
The Will of NICHOLAS GARNYT, parson of Saltfleetby St. Clement. (No date.) To be buried in the " hye quere " before the image of St. Clement. " To the stepull makyng of the same church iijH- vis. viiid."
Prob. 19 March 1540-1.
This is only given for the architectural detail.
86.
The Will of Sir JOHN WATKYNS, Vice chancellor of the Cathedral of Lincoln. 3 April 1542. To be buried in the Cathedral " nere unto Sir Nicholas Bate, late "Vice chancellor." " To the reparacon of the old vicars house xxs. To the coke, the brewer, and the butler iis. apiece. To the childe of the Kytchyn iiijd. ILINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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make supervisor " my magister Chaunceler my Sufferan," and give him xxs. I make exrs. Magister John Thorpe, chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir Thomas ffloure, sub-chaunter.
Prob. 15 April 1542.
This Will is interesting for the evidence it affords of the Collegiate life of the community of Priest Vicars. The childe of the Kytchyn was probably the turnspit.
87.
The Will of Sir WILLIAM D ANN YELL, chauntry priest of the chauntry in the parish of Burton by Lincoln. 14 April 1542. To be buried in the Church of St. Vincent. To the Church iijs. iiijd. To the high Altar viiid. To Sir Thomas Potte my curate xs. " and a gowne next the beste of my gownes."
Prob. 9 May 1542.
A chauntry was founded in Burton Church for the soul of William de Burton Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.
88.
The Win of GYLBERT THYMELBY, chauntry priest in Lincoln Cathedral. To be buried at the " south ende of the altare in St. Gyles' Chapel." " To my nece Margery Sayntpoll xxs." Richard Naylor of Snarford exr.
Prob. 3 April 1543.
One of the Thimblebjs of Powlam and Irnham who were related to the St. Pauls of Snarford. The chapel of St. Giles is the southernmost in the south arm of the great transept and contains the Talboys monument.
89.
The Will of EDWARD DARBY, Archdeacon of Stow. 30 Deer. 1542. To be buried before our Lady's chapel in the Cathedral. To Sir Robert persyvall "a gowne furred which
I	weare every day." My cosen Edward Yillers and his wife Margaret. To the poor of Gaddesby where I was born xxs. To the old vicars the house I dwell in for the years of the indenture, provided they keep my obit. To master Henry Hamcots, sheriff of London, " a sylver gilte cuppe like a peyr."
Prob. 3 Feb. 1542-3.
The Derbys of Gadsby have a short pedigree in the Vis. of Leicestershire 1619. " Henry Hamcots" was afterwards Sir Henry Amcotts, Lord Mayor of London 1548.
90.
The Will of WILLIAM HALLEY, parson of Kelsey St. Nicholas.
II	Sept. 1541. To be buried in the Chancel. To Mr. John Monson xxs. To Mr. William Monson xs. To Mr. parson Monson vis. viiid. To Mr. Thomas Monson, my supervisor, xxs. To Sir John Dyckson " legenda sanctorum, a greate portuse and
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dyryge booke." To the church of St. Nicholas " a lytle messe booke and surples." To Sir William Brumpton " the newe testament with the acts of the appostylls."
Prob. 11 June 1544.
Thomas Monson, a son of Sir John Monson of South Carlton by his first wife, lived at Kelsey on an estate called "Monson's manor."
91.
The Will of ELIZABETH BILLESBY, of Billesby, widow, late wife of Sir Andrew Billesby, Knt., deceased. 15 Oct. 1539. To Andrew Billesby, my grandson, son of John Billesby deceased, my Jewels when he is 21. My sons Thomas Billesby, George Billesby, and Anthony Billesby. Andrew Sandon. Ursula Billesby. Johan wife of my son Anthony Billesby. Johan Asfordby. Anne Billesby. Alice Totoft. My sons Sir George Billesby and Anthony Billesby, exrs. Sir William Sandon, Knt., my supervisor.
Prob. 28 Sept. 1541.
A glance at the Billesby pedigree in the Vis. of 1562 will show how this Will amplifies it. The family o£ Bilsby, seated at Bilsby near Alford, gave a High Sheriff to the County so early as 1388. But they decayed in wealth after the Reformation; were fined as Popish Recusants ; and John Billesby, Gent., who was. buried at Bilsby, 18 July 1651—2, aged 75, may have been the last of this ancient race.
92.
The Will of MARY NEWCOMEN", widow. 1544. To be buried in the quire of All Hallows Saltfleetby. To my daughter Mary Browe (Burgh) a gown. To my daughter Margaret Newcome a gown. To Margaret Browcher a gown. To Ed,ith Newcome a gown. To Edmund Yarbrough iijs. iiijd. To my son Bryan Newcome iis. viiid. To Agatha Browe xiid. To Elizabeth Newcome iijs. iiijd. Jane Newcome. Katharine Newcome. A trental of masses to be sung for my soul and the soul of Martin Newcome. I make my son George Newcome, and John Newcome, exrs.
■ Prob. 1 Sept. 1545.
The testatrix was widow of Martin Newcomen, of Saltfleetby (see No. 55). She was the daughter of Bryan Sandford, of Thorpe Salvin, in Co. York, and grandmother of Richard Newcomen, of Low Toynton (see No. 68).
93.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER TAMWORTH, clerk, Chaunter of the Cathedral of Lincoln. 13 Jany. 1545. To be buried in the Cathedral " before our Lady there." A ring worth xxs. to Master Bevercotes and young master Thomas Massingberd, apiece. To George Massingberd, my godson, " the great flatte and brode goblett ungilted." To my brother Thomas Browne " the best standyng cuppe with the coveryng." I make exrs. Thomas Browne, Richard Bevercotes, and James Tuttyll.
Prob. 1 Feby. 1545.
The Tamworths of Leake and Leverton deduced their descent from Sir Giles de Tamworth, Knt., who Was at Acre with Richard I. His son Nicholas first became connected with this County by marrying a Darby of Leverton. The testator was Reotor of the south mediety of Leverton in 1530, and Vicar of Frieston in 1535.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600
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94.
The Will of RICHARD BEVERCOTES, of the Close of Lincoln. 1 June 1546. To be buried in the Cathedral "at the fete of Bishop Atwater." To my wife Margaret my lands in Carlton, Kelham Ings, and Newark, for life, then to Thomas Masyngberde and Alice his wife, my daughter, according to covenants made between me and my brother Augustyne Massyngberde at the time of their marriage. To Cecile Bevercotes, my wife's daughter, my tenement at Balderton. To Anne Bevercotes, my half-sister, a tenement in Balderton. My lease of the manor and parsonage of Greetwell to my son Thomas Massingberd for xx years. To Anthony and John Bevercotes x1L apiece. To " my nawnte Waren xxs." To " my cosen Simon Waren, iff yt please God to restore hym to hys wyt, v11-" To my cosen Elizabeth Rose xxs. To my cosen Sansche Sutton xxs. To my cosen Brigyt Robertson xxs. To my cosen Anne Stronge xxs. To my cosen Dorothe Colyngrydge xxs. To my cosyn Elynor Hynde xxs. My cosen Cuthbert Bevercotes. To " my yonge cosyn Cuthbert one angele noble." To my cosen Barbara Bevercotes xiis. To my cosen Sanche Clerkson xs. To Sir Thomas Massingberd, Knt., "'one greate standyng nutte with a cover duryng his lyve, and after hym to my brother Austyn Massingberd duryng his lyve, and after hym to Thomas Massingberd, hys son and myn, and to his heyres as an heyrlome." To the said Austyn Massingberd xiis. To William his son 40s. To Grace his daughter xxs. To Anne his daughter xxs. To his other iiij children xs. apiece. To my sister Candishe one angel noble. To my good Lord the Bishop of Lincoln x11-. To my sister Elizabeth Bygot xs., and to her husband an angel noble. To the Archdeacon of Stowe " my beste ale cuppe of sylver with a cover doble gilte." To Sir Henry Sutton, Knt., "hermes for a man with a bill," and to my lady his wife viiis. To the choristers " a lode of hay." To the old vicars a quarter of malt. To the young vicars a quarter of malt. The wife of Anthony Beveicotes. The wife of John Bevercotes. I make my son Thomas Massingberd, and Thomas Robertson, exrs., and Christopher Massingberd, Archdeacon of Stowe, John Pryn, clerk, my brother Austyn Massingberd and my brother Anthony Bevercotes, supervisors, giving them 40s. apiece.
Prob. 2 August 1546.
The testator had been Receiver General of Lincoln Cathedral, and had reaped a rich harvest. There is a pedigree of his family in the printed Vis. of Co. Notts, in which most of the persons in the Will may be identified, but the name of his wife is not given. From the Will it would seem that she had been previously married to a Bevercotes, from the mention of " Cecile Bevercotes my wife's daughter." See also an excellent pedigree of the Massingberds of Bratoft in Oldfield's Candleshoe, pp. 195-206.
95.
The Will of THOMAS LILILOW, Canon of Lincoln. 8 Feby. 1545. Canon Residentiary, "though unworthye," of the Cathedral Church. To be buried " betweene the weste dore and36
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the sepulture of Mr. John Constable." To the High Altar " one corporax with a case of crymysyn velvet, of the one syde the crucifix Mary and John, and on the other syde Christe rysing from the sepulture with the crosse speyr and sponge edged with golde in a case of woode made for the same." To the Prebendal Church of Nassington " one corporax with a oover of redde velvyt having the arms of Deane Fitzhugh." To the Church of Kettlethorpe " a messe boke a corporax and the greate legende which is there." Mr. William Hylyard and my niece his wife. I make my nephew John Myckeley, of Thorndon in Co. Notts., yeoman, my exr., and Mr. Eichard Bevercotts, Gent., supervisor.
Prob. 6 March 1545-6.
96.
The Will of ROBERT ANGEVINE, Gent., of Langton by Horn-castle. 20 April 1545. To be buried in the church of St. Margaret. To my daughters Millesancte, Grace, Jane, and Mary v11- apiece; the money to come out of lands in Burnsall, Hebden, Connyseat, and Norton in Yorkshire. To my wife Margaret x11- a year for life out of the said lands. To my son William lands in Hameringham. I make my wife and brother in law Thomas Hewytson exrs., and my father in law William Mason supervisor. Witness, John Mason of Coningsby.
Prob. 10 Oct. 1545.
The testator was a brother of John Angevine of Ashby, whose Will has been given, No. 72. He does not mention his son Charles, whom the jurors found his heir at the Inq. P.M. 38 Hen. viii. and aged 16.
97.
The Will of JOHN FITZWILLIAM, Esqr., of Skidbrook. 20 Jany. 37 Hen. VIII. To be buried in the church. I have an annuity of xxxH- during the life of Lady Elizabeth Fitzwilliam; my exrs. are to take it and pay my debts. My son and heir George Fitzwilliam is bound to pay CCCU-; CC marks of it are to go to my children Thomas and Agnes Fitzwilliam. My lands in Skidbrook, Somercotes, Saltfleetby, and Mablethorpe. My son George owes me viii11. received from the Duke of Suffolk " for certaine greate stude mares." My son in law Christopher Scopholme. I make my wife Margaret and my 6on Thomas Fitzwilliam exrs., and George Sayntpole, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 18 April 1548.
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The Will of RICHARD DISNEY, of Haddington in the parish of South Hykeham. 25 June 1548. To be buried in the churchyard. Land in Leverington. My daughter Katherine.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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My father, brethren and sisters. (No names). Legacy to Fulbeck church. I make my wife Margaret exx., and Mr. Richard Disney and Mr. Anthony Meres, supervisors.
Prob. 12 July 1548.
The testator was of a decayed branch of the great family of Disney of Norton Disney, (see Vis. of 1562), his grandfather being a 4th son of that house. The wife Margaret was a Meres of Aubourn.
99.
The Will of JOHN HATCLIFFE, burgess of Grimsby. 24 Sept. 1548. To be buried in the churchyard. My sons Chrisl-opher, Thomas and Jamys Hatcliffe. My daughters Jenytt, Elizabeth, Katherine, Edon, Margaret, and Agnes. I make my wife Margaret exx. Witness, Richaid Thymylby, at the time " electe mayre of the same towne." Prob. 7 May 1549.
100.
The Will of GEORGE MADYSON, Gent., of Fulstow. 30 March 1549-50. To be buried in the church. I bequeath my soul to God. To the poor man's box iiijd. To the works of Lincoln Minster iiijd. To the "Vicar for tithes forgotten viiid. I make my wife Anne exx., and Robert Fanthorpe supervisor. Witness, Master Anthony Madyson. Prob. 7 May 1550.
The testator was jirobably a son of Sir Edward Maddison, Knt., of Fonaby. The Visitations give no clue, for they only mention Sir Edward's children by his last wife, from whom the present family descend. In the family pedigree drawn up about 1575, Sir Edward is Eaid to have had "divers wives," and 2 sons, William and John, are named, who both died S.P., the issue of a Portuguese lady. Sir Edward in 1629 married Anne daughter of John Roper of Eltham, Attorney General*to Hen. VIII., and had 3 sons and a daughter. In 1540 he settled his estates on himself, his wife Anne, his son Edward and his other sons in tail male. Inhislnq. P.M., taken in 1553, the jurors found Anthony Maddison to be his son and heir, aged 32 years. His name does not occur in the settlement of 1540, and he must have been born several years before his father married Anne Roper in 1629. Sir Edward's son, Edward Maddison,died on the 29 July, 1560, and in his Will as given inhislnq. P.M., he mentions having purchased lands in North and South Somercotes of hiB brother Anthony Maddison, and leaves him an annuity of v marks. In the Will of John Snarry of South Somercotes, proved 7 Novr. 1632, a legacy of xxvis. viiid. is left to " George and Anthony sons of Master Edward Madyson." Sir Edward was not knighted till Anne Boleyn's Coronation in 1533, so that it is most probable chat he is the " Master " Edward mentioned. On the whole this serves to show how useful Wills and Inquisitions are in supplementing Visitations.
101.
The Will of JOHN HYLTOFT, of Saleby. 9 Jany. 1549. To be buried in the Church before the high altar. To my daughter Ursula 40u. To my son John iiijH- a year for 4 years, then viu- till the end of his life. Residue to my son Richard Hyltoft whom I make exr.
Prob. 21 Feby. 1549.
The Hiltofts find no place in the Visitations, but they seem to have been in Lincolnshire for many centuries. (See pedigree of Skipwith in Burke's Extinct Baronetage.) Grace, daughter of John Hiltoft of Saleby, is said to marry Gawyn Skipwith natural son of Sir William Skipwith, of Ormsby. See Vis. for 1592, pa. 64.38
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102.
The Win of GEORGE NEWCOMEN, of Saltfleetby, clerk-27 Feby. 1548-9. To be buried within our Lady's quire in the church of All Hallows. To my godson George Ingleby " ii kye and x sheppe one bras potte ii chayres one table" etc. To my sister Margaret Newcome " my beste gowne " etc. My servants Margaret Taylor and Jenytt Kytson. Residue to John Newcome " my nevey," whom I make exr. Prob. 22 July 1550.
He was the son of Martin and Mary Newcomen whose Wills have been given. On the 8 May 1634 " Georgius Neucom, cantarista," was presented to St. Peter's Somercotes.
103.
The Will of JOHN" PARKYN, Vicar choral of Lincoln Cathedral. 1 Sept. 1548. To be buried in the Cathedral "before the late Image of St. Oswald of the north syde of the high altare." I make James Tuttyll exr.
Prob. 15 Sept. 1548.
The words " late image," taken in connexion with the date, are significant.
104.
The Will of JOHN BOLLES, Gent., of Gosberton. 21 April
1550.	To be buried at the north end of the altar in the quire of the B.V.M. in Gosberton church. My son Godfrey Bolles and Mary his wife. My son Thomas Bolles. My daughter Ann Bolles. My brother in law Leonard Irby. I make my wife Rose exx., and my brother Thomas Bolles supervisor.
Prob. 1550. (month torn off.)
In Thompson's History of Boston, pa. 392, the testator is identified. He is said to marry .Rose daughter of Anthony Irby of Gosberton. His father, Godfrey Bolles', Will is already given (see No. 18).
105.
The Will of THOMAS BOLLES, Gent., of Kirton. 5 Feby.
1551.	To be buried in.the churchyard. My son Thomas Bolles. My daughter Alice. 1 make my wife Margaret exx.
Prob. 14 March 1551.
Possibly a son of the preceding testator.
106.
The Will of GILES SCUPHOLME, of South Somercotes. 20 Oct. 1546. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. To Mrs. Jane Yarbrough iiiju- vis. viiid., to her marriage. To my nephews George and Philip Skopholme 40s. apiece. To my sister Margery Skopholme iiju- xiiis. iiijd. To my cosyn Alice Hatcliffe xxs. To my cosyn Mary Pormorte xxs. To Mrs. Newcome iijs.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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iiijd. To my niece Elizabeth Skopholme xxs. My cosyn George Pormorte. I make my brother Christopher Skopholme and my father exrs. My sister in law Anne Skopholme, Mr. Edmond Yarbrough, Mr. Bryan Yarbrough.
Prob. 24 Sept. 1551.
Scupholme is a hamlet in South Somercotes, and George Scupholme was lord of the manor in 1553. The family however do not appear in the Visitations, though the arms are given in Yorke's " Union of Honour."
107.
The Will of HAMOND FITZRICHARD, of Great Hale. 13 March 1550. To be buried in the church. To my daughter Jane Fitzrichard 40 marks. I make my wife Emmot exx. and William Awdlay, Gent., of Hough, supervisor.
Prob. 6 April 1551.
108.
The Will of RICHARD THYMELBY, Esqr., of Great Grimsby. 4 April 1550. I appoint Agnes my wife exx., and William Johnson, of Hull, supervisor.
Prob. 24 Sept. 1551.
The " electe mayre " witnessing Will No. 99.
109.
The Will of ANTHONY SALTMARSHE, of Strubby. 28 July 1550. To be buried in the chancel of the church of Langton. To the poor folke of Kirk Langton iiijs. To the poor folke of South Langton iiijs. Wragby, Barnack, Gautby, Hatton, Sotby, East and West Barkwith. To my sister Dame Ann 40s. To William Saltmarshe of Selby xxs. Ann Estoft. Luce Blaw, Elizabeth Estoft, Charles Kyddall. I make my son John Saltmarshe exr. He is to bring up John Saltmarshe the younger till he is of age. I make my cousin, Anthony Portington, supervisor. Witness, Christopher Dighton, Gent.
Prob. 9 Oct. 1550.
The testator was a 2nd son of John Saltmarshe of Saltmarshe in Yorkshire. " Dame Ann," his sister, was a Nun.
110.
The Will of GEORGE SCUPHOLME, Gent., of South Somercotes. 14 Jany. 1543. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. I leave my lands in Cuxwold, South Somercotes, and North Somercotes to my wife Agnes, during the minority of my son George Scupholme. I leave my lease of Lady Willoughby to my father William Scopholme for life, and then to my said son George. My mother Agnes Scopholme. My mare called " Bleys." To my sister Margaret Scupholme 40s. To my daughter Elizabeth Scopholme x11- when of age. I make my wife Agnes exx.
20 Jany. 1547.
Possibly a nephew of Giles Scupholme, see No. 106.40
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The Will of EDMUND WHICHCOTE, Gent., of Marston. 28 August 2 Edw. VI. My sister Jane Whichcote, cousin Mary wife of John Coke. To my brethren Nicholas, Leonard, Richard, and Thomas Whichcote viii11- to be divided. I leave all my lands etc. in Dunston which I late bought of William Wright, Gent., to Sir William Torrye and Eobert Reide, and their heirs ; they are to pay xu- to my brethren Anthony and Christopher Whichcote ; Anthony is to have the x11- till Christopher is "fourthe of his prentyseshippe." My brother Mr. Hamond Whichcote. Mr. Thomas Hussey Esqr. Mr Richard Thorold. Mr. Thomas Sutton. Mr. Robert Thorold. Mrs. Anne Sutton. Mrs. Mary Sutton. Mrs. Agnes Hawllay. Cousin Katherine Page and her children. Bequests to poor of Dunston, Hougham, and Hough. I make exrs. Sir William Torrye and Robert Reide.
Prob. 15 Sept. 1548.
One of the very large family of Thomas Whichcote, of Dunston, whose Will has been given, No. 58. From Christopher, who in the Vis. of 1562 is called the 12th son, descend the Baronets of Aswarby.
112.
The Will of MARGARET ANGEVINE, widow, of Ashby. 1 Sept. 1546. To be buried in our Lady's quire of the church of All Hallows, Ashby. To Mary Warde " one silver goblytt and the cover, iij silver sponys with mayden heds." To John Plumpton v marks. To Edward and Thomas Plumpton xxs. apiece ; all three being children of Bawdwyn Plumpton, and under age. Elizabeth and Margaret More. Residue to my son Thomas Warde and my son in law Robert Thorneyff, exrs. I make my brother Mr. Richard Ottes supervisor.
Prob. 11 May 1549.
The testatrix was widow of John Angevine, see Will No. 72.
113.
The Will of JOHN FULNETBY, of Fulnetby, Esq. 17 June 36 Hen. "VIII. To be buried in Rand church. Jointure provided for my wife Margaret by my father Godfrey Fulnetby. Lands in Fulnetby, Rand, Orby, Asliington, and Bratoft. My children Elizabeth, Isabel, Margaret, Anne, and Alice, to have C marks apiece when of age. I make my wife and my brother in law Thomas Grantham, Esq., exrs., and my father in law, Vincent Grantham, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 22 Oct. 1544.
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114.
The Will of WILLIAM KYDDALL, Esqr., of Ferriby. 21 April 1549. To be buried in the church of St. Nicholas. Lands in Horkstow. To my daughter Margaret Kyddall xxx11-. George and William Dalyson are to receive rents of Horkstow and pay my daughter Ann Kyddall Lu. My son John Kyddall under age. My brother Charles Kyddall. My godson William Kyddall of Barton. I make my wife Margaret exx. Witness, George Dalyson, Esqr.
Prob. 15 Sept. 1549.
See Vis. 1692. pa. 44. His father's Will No. 6. His wife was the daughter of William DalysoD, of Laughtou.
115.
The Will of JOHN BAENAEDISTON, Gent., of Great Coates. 9 August 1549. To be buried in the church of St. Nicholas. To Sir Thomas Barnardiston, Knt., of Keddington, Suffolk, 40s. Lady Anne Barnardiston widow. To Mr. John Barnardiston, parson of Great Coates, 40s. I desire them to be good to my wife Jenytt and my daughter Margaret. To Sir George Cooke, my wife's brother, xs. to pray for me. To every one of my wife's sons John, Thomas, Eichard, and George, iiju-vis. viiid. To Dame Elizabeth Cokermouth vis viiid. To Sir George Wyghtman, curate of Great Coates, vs. My parsonage of Eiby, failing heirs of my daughter Margaret, is to go to Sir Thomas Barnardiston, Knt., and he to pay 40u- to the brother's children of me John Barnardiston; viz. to Alexander Walleron, born at Aylesbury in Bucks, xxH>, and to Margaret Walleron xxu-; and to pay to my wife's sons John, Eichard, Thomas, and George Lacon, 40 marks. To my wife Jenytt all my lands in Grimsby for life, and then to my daughter Margaret, and failing her heirs, to John Lacon. I make my wife exx. Sir John Barnardiston, clerk, supervisor, (with others).
Prob. 29 August 1549.
116.
The Will of EOBEET BAEDE, of Tealby. 10 Feby. 1536. To be buried in the church of All Saints. To my daughters Joan and Isabel vu- apiece. My brother Thomas Barde. I make my son John Barde and my wife Agnes exrs. Witness, James Wallys, vicar.
Prob. 24 April 1537.
117.
The Will of THOMAS BAEDE, of Tealby. 23 May 1544. My six children under age, Thomas, William, Mary, Helen, Agnes and Margaret. I make my wife Alison and my son Christopher exrs. John Barde, my brother Eobert's son.
Prob. 28 July 1544.
The brother of No. 116. There is a pedigree of the Barda of North Keleey in the Vis. 1562, a place not far from Tealby.42
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The Will of JOHN HARBY, Gent., of Evedon. 20 Jany. 1543. To be buried in the church of our Lady. I leave my wife Johan all the leases I have of my brother William Harby in Evedon, and make her exx. Sir Kauff Antrobus, parson, supervisor.
Prob. 6 August 1544.
The Harbys of Evedon presented to the Rectory as early as 1419, yet no pedigree is given in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. The heiress of the family married Peregrine Bertie 4th son of Robert 1st Earl of Lindsey, in the 17th century, and conveyed to him the estate.
119.
The Will of EDWARD KNOTTISFORTH, Gent., of Walesby. 24 Feby. 1543. To be buried in the South aisle of Walesby church before the altar of our Lady. My brother George Knottisforth and John his son. My house in East Rasen. I give ix11- vis. viiid. to a priest to pray for my soul in Walesby church for 2 years. To Lady Elizabeth Talboys xs. "To my maistres Mary Wymbysshe xs. To maistres Norton vis. viiid. To maistres Francys Townley vis. viiid." To Mr. Thomas Wymbyshe Esqr. " my sylver coppe with the covering " and xs., and I request him to be supervisor " and gudd to my wyff and Hamond my sone." To master Hugh Wrowle Esqr. my black furred gown that was his father's. My wife Johan and son Hamond exrs. My brother Mr. John Wayte and Mi1. Hugh Wrowle Esqr. supervisors with Mr. Thomas Wymbyshe Esqr.
13 August 1544.
120.
The Will of CHARLES YARBOROUGH, Esqr., of Kelstern 15 March 1544. To be buried in the church. To my daughter Jane C marks on her marriage, and the same to my daughter Barbara. To Anne Yarbrough daughter of my deceased son Richard 40u- To my son Christopher Yarbrough vii11- To my son Edmund Yarbrough viiH- when he is 21. To my son Bryan Yarbrough vii1L To my wife Elizabeth my lands in Yarbrough for her life, aDd after her to Charles Yarbrough son and heir of my deceased' son Richard; failing his heirs, to iny son Christopher Yarbrough; failing his heirs, to my son Edmund Yarbrough ; and failing his heirs, to my son Bryan Yarbrough. I leave my manor and lands in Kelstern and Theddlethorpe to my wife Elizabeth, (with entail as before). My lands in North and South Somercotes to my sons Christopher, Edmund, and Bryan. My wife exx., and Bryan Newcomen supervisor.
Prob. 27 Sept. 1544.
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121.
The Will of ROBERT USTWAYTE, of Thomton-on-Humber. 13 August 1544. To be buried in the church of St. Lawrence in the high aisle before the crucifix. To my son William Roche and Johan his wife a coat I bought at London. My son William Ustwayte to have my lands in East Greenwich and Kidbrook. My son Edward Ustwayte. My lands in Adlingfleet in Co. York to my wife Agnes for her life. My daughters Eleanor, Dorothy, and Margaret.
Prob. 19 Deer. 1544.
The testator's daughter Dorothy married John Ormsby, of North Ormsby. (See Vis. 1562, pa. 96, and pa. 106 for the Roche marriage.)
122.
The Will of JOHN WELCOME, of St. Mary-le-Wigford, Lincoln. 20 Deer. 1544. To be buried in the church before the image of St. Rooke. To the upholding of the conduit xiid. My daughter Mary. My son John Welcome. I make my wife Elizabeth exx.
Prob. 23 March 1544-5.
The family are in Yorke's Union of Honour.
123.
The Will of HUMFREY PUREY, of Kirton. 1544 (no month given). To be buried in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul. My sons Francis and Anthony. My daughter Agnes. My father in law Anthony Holland. I make my wife Jenytt exx. Witness, John Irby, Gent.
Prob. 10 Sept. 1544.
The Pureys are now represented by Earl Brownlow and the Cust family.
124.
The Will of JOHN DIGHTON, of Hatton. 1 May 1544. To be buried in the churchyard of St. Elwold in Hatton. My brother Mr. Robert Dighton, parson of Haltham. I make my wife Agnes exx-, and my two fathers, Thomas Dighton and William Chaterton, supervisors.
Prob. 6 May 1544.
Hatton Church is now said to be dedicated to St. Stephen.
125.
The Will of THOMAS TOMPSON, priest, and parson of Boothby. 10 July 1544. To be buried in Wellingore Church at the end of the altar of St. Lawrence. To Wellingore Church I leave a chalice, a mass-book, a pair of vestments, an altar-stone, a corporax, and two altar cloths, with hangings to the said altar.
Prob. 12 June 1545.44
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126.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER BAYLLAY, Vicar of Wrawby. 25 June 1544. To be buried in the holy sanctuary. To the Church of Ruckland, where I am parson, xxs. for hanging the bells.
Prob. 13 Oct. 1544.
127.
The Will of THOMAS CONY, senior, of Kirton. 12 August 1545. To be buried in the church of SS. Peter and Paul. My brother William Cony. My godson Mr. Kenelm Irby. My daughter Elizabeth wife of William Pery. Roger Cony son of William. Thomas Cony son of Richard. My wife Agnes exx-. My brother William Cony and my kinsman Thomas Cony supervisors.
Prob. 28 August 1545.
The testator was probably one of the Cony family whose pedigree is given in the Vis. of 1562.
128.
The Will of JAMES TUTHYLL, clerk. 20 Oct. 1551. " trustyng and beleveying in the faithe Catholyke and by the merytts of Christ's passion to be partaker of the everlastyng joy in heven." To be buried " nere unto the Revestry dore in the Cathedral." To Sir George Bewsher " a syl'ver spone and xxs." To Sir Robert Freeman, curate of Linwood, vH- vis. viiid, and " a gowne of London tawny lynyd with St. Thomas worsted." To my barber iijs. iiijd. To Sir William Freeman, old vicar, xs. To Sir John Jackson, old vicar, vs. To Robert Bowcar, young vicar, vis. viiid. To every Canon present, and not resident, ijs. viiid. I make exrs., the Subdean John Pryn, to whom I give " my beste maser with a standynge foote," and John Fawkener, alderman of Lincoln, to whom I give " a cuppe with a covering gilte for ale." Witnesses, Sir Thomas Cartwright and Sir Thomas Lund, old vicars.
Prob. 31 Oct. 1551.
The testator was Sacrist of the Cathedral, a Priest Vicar, a Prebendary, and Priest of the Chauntry of Hugh de Welles, commonly called " Pele Altar," because situated under the peal of bells in the south west tower of the Cathedral. (Conf. the Church of St. Michael Belfry at York).
129.
The Will of THOMAS STAPLETOjST, clerk, vicar choral of the Cathedral. 23 March. 1551. My soul to God " who by the deathe and passion of his deare and tenderly beloved sonne hathe ransommed and redeemed the same, so that I loke, hope, and faythfully beleve thereby onely to be saved." To be buried in the Cathedral. To Helene " my wyffe all her own apparell—a fether bedde and matteris—one coverlyd and tenne pounds in money, chargeying herLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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to be no meddeler in no wyse to the disturbance of my executors." I leave her also the bedstock her mother lieth in. My brother John Stapulton. To my father in law Henry Bucston iijs. iiijd. To Sir John Jakson, old vicar, a silver spoon. To Sir William Whalley, clerk, whom I make exr. " v marks and my lattyn testament."
Prob. 7 May 1552.
The testator was associated with Robert Dove or DowfEe in the de Lacy Chauntry. He took advantage of the permission given to clergy to marry, and became the husbaud of Helen Bacston on the 20 April, 1547, in St. Margaret's Church. From the mention made in his Will of her relations he seems to have ■' married the family."
130.
The Will of WILLIAM WYMBISHE, Gent., of Woodthorpe in the parish of Strubby. 13 March 1553. My soul to God and all the holy company of heaven. My brother George Wymbishe. To my sister Agnes's children one cow apiece. To Thomas Wymbishe 40s. To my son Edward 40H- when he is 21. My cousin Anthony Gilby. My lands in Thorganby, which I bought, to my wife Alice whom I make ex*, and after her to my son Edward; if he die without heirs, then to Thomas Wymbishe of London; if he die without heirs, then to one of my brethren who hath most children.
21 April 1554.
An oflshoot probably of the Nocton family.
131.
The Will of WILLIAM BROXHOLME, of Owersby. 20 Octr. 1530. To be buried in the "Kyrkgarth" of St. Martin. To the high altar iiijd. My son William Broxholme and my wife Alyson to be exrs., and my son Robert Broxholme, supervisor.
Prob. 17 March 1530-1.
The testator is the first recorded ancestor of a family who profited enormously by the suppression of the monasteries. John Broxholme is associated with John Bellow in several grants of monastic sites in the 36th and 37th Hen. VIII. The family, who appear in the ViB. of 1592, seem to pass away in the 17th century ; one branch, that of Corringham, merging into the Browne family, who figure in the civic annals of Lincoln all through the last century.
132.
The Will of WILLIAM BROXHOLME, of Owersby. 22 April 1555. To be buried in the church of St. Martin. My brother Robert Broxholme. To Sir Francis Ascugh, Knt., and Mr. William Monson, Esqr., for their favour and good mastership to my wife and children, an old rivall apiece. To my daughters Margery and Anne xx11- apiece. My wife Jenytt, and Henry Hanshart, Gent., of Cuxwold, are to assist my son Christopher, whom I make exr., and who is under age. Witness, Thomas Broxholme, of Osgodby.
Prob. 1 July 1555.
The son of the preceding testator. William Monson was lord of the manor of Owersby.46
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The Will of THOMAS FLOWER, Sub-chaunter of the Cathedral of Lincoln. 20 August 1555. To be buried in the Cathedral " betweene the pillers nye unto the grave of Sir Robert Owbray." To my kinsman Sir Thomas Cartwright, old vicar, " a sylver spone, a boke de vita xti, calepyne, catholicon, destructorium vitiorum," and make him exr. My kinsman. Mr. George Flower. My brother Richard Flower. To Gervas Fishborne, Poor clerk, vis. viiid., and my " ortus vocabulorum with all my grammar bokes." To Henry Scott " sometyme my childe iijs. iiijd."
9 Deer. 1555.
An interesting Will, for the " Catholicon," i.e., Anglicum Catholicon, an English into Latin Dictionary, is now in the possession of Viscount Oxenbridge, and has on the back of the last leaf, " Liber Thome Flowre Succ. ecclesie Cathedralis beate Marie Lincoln." It has been printed by the Early English Text Society. The testator had held a chauntry, that of Edw. II. in the Cathedral; hence the reference to his " childe," i.e., the chorister who had assisted him.
134.
The Will of ROBERT STANLOWE, Gent., of Silk Willoughby.
12	Feby. 1553. To be buried where Elizabeth my wife shall choose, whom I make exx. My lands in Stickford to my wife bringing in x11- yearly out of my manor of Stickford. My manor of Dembleby, and the Advowson. My lands in Aunsby, Water Willoughby, and Newton, to my wife, with the residue.
Prob. 15 March 1553.
A reference to the Stanlowe pedigree in the Vis. of 1592, will show that this Will either supplements it or is out of harmony with it. The Stanlowes were seated at Silk Willoughby as far back as the 14th century.
135.
The Will of WILLIAM MESSYNDEN (MUSSENDEN), clerk, Yicar of Burgh-on-Bain. 27 Novr. 1554. To the reparation of the chancel, iijs. iiijd. To my sister Ellyn Messynden xx sheep. To Christopher Dighton, of Winceby, a cow. To " Mystres Clyfford my ambling mare." My property to be divided among my poorest kinsfolk by my cousin James Messynden of Great Limber, Avhom I make exr., and Christopher Dighton. Mr. Thomas Messynden, of Healing, to be supervisor.
Prob. 6 Oct. 1554.
See Vis. of 1592, pa. 53.
136.
The Will of MARY MIJSSENDEN, of Donington-on-Bain.
13	Oct. 1557. To be buried in the church. To my brother William Disney, of Fulbeck, a gold ring, silver spoon, etc. Thomas Disney. My nephew Christopher Disney. My nephew William Disney. My niece Katherine. My cousin Thomas Mussenden of Healing, and cousin Francis his son. My cousin Allott. My goddaughter Katherine Disney. Anne Disney daughter of JamesLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Disney of Fulbeck. Arthur Disney and his sister Anne. To my " cosyn Harre Hanserd's " wife a silver spoon, and at their decease to their son John. I make my cousin Ellyn Mussenden, of Bishops Norton, and Thomas Disney, of Fulbeck, exrs., and Geyles Disney, of Roxton, supervisor. Prob. 2 Novr. 1557.
Both the preceding Wills are additions to the Mussenden pedigree. The Will of James Mussenden, No. 9, should be read with them.
137.
The Will of FRANCIS TOWTHBY, of Towthby. 18 July 1556. To be buried in the quire on the north side of Alford church. To William Towthby, my brother, my manor of Towthby after the death of Katherine my wife, on condition he is bound not to sell the said manor, and on condition he pays to the crown the v xiiis. iiijd. due to the crown by right of the late chauntry in St. Lawrence's quire in the parish church of Alford. To my brothers, Edmund and John Towthby, my manor of Rigsby after the death of my wife Katherine. To Edmund my north wood in Rigsby, and to John my south wood. To Alford church 40s. To Rigsby church xxvis. viiid. To my mother Bridget Towthby a eouple of steers. To my sister Ursula " one red qwye." To my sister Ann v marks. To my sister Jane 40s. To Jane Ange-wyne 40s. . To ''Seisell Lane my godson ii (illegible) which my mother Lane did geve me." To Robert Compton 40s. Katherine Dalyson. Francis Towthby of Aby. To " my awnte Jane Totheby iijs. iiijd." To Jenytt Totheby, widow, viiis. My close bought of Richard Towthby. I make my wife Katherine exx. My brother in law John Lane, supervisor. Witness, Sir John Sharpe Vicar of Bilsby.
Prob. 12 Sept. 1556.
Towthby or Tothby is a small manor in the parish of Alford. From the pedigree in Vis. of 1592, it appears that the original name of the family was Ryther. On the 18 July, 1396, a royal license was granted for a chauntry in Alford church. Sir William de Ryther paid xx marks to the king, who granted power to Sir Philip le Despenser. Knt., Henry Malbysshe, parson of.Wllloughby, Robert Cumberworth, and others, to assign a rent of cxiiis. iiijd. out of the manors of Towthby and Higsby for a chaplain to say mass for the soul of John de Towthby, Knt. The manor of Towthby being worth x marks a year, and held of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, Sir Thomas Coiepeper, Knt., and the heirs of Walter de Towthby ; the manor of Rigsby, worth Cs. a year, and held of the Archbishop of York as of his manor of Benniworth. In a book of Chapter acts (U00—1420) in the Muniment Room of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, mention is made of a chantry for the souls of Sir John de Touthby, Knt., his son Robert and his wife Joan, and for the good estate of Sir William Ryther, Knt., nephew and heir of the said Sir John de Touthby, Knt., of Johan his wife, and of the children of Aiianore, late wife of the said Sir John de Touthby, Knt. The Rythers assumed the name of Towthby, and the first name given in the Visitation pedigree is, " Thomas Towthby, alias Ryther." In a MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, containing " Statuta et placita antiqua," is a conveyance of tenements in the parish of St. George, Lincoln, from William, son of Gilbert de Toutheby, Knt., to his uncle William, son of William de Braytoft, Knt., dated Thursday next after the feast of Pope Gregory, 17th Edw. III. In the same MS. is given part of the Will of Sir Gilbert de Toutheby, which was proved on Monday next after the feast of St. Chad, 3rd Edw. III. In it he leaves his houses in " ffletstrete in suburbis Lincoln et London " to his sons William, John, Robert, and Gilbert de Toutheby. To his daughter Margaret CC marks de exitibus custodies de Billesby et Marum." He leaves his wife Johanna exx. along with Thomas, rector of Tetford, and Ranulph de Saleby, rector of Grenford. Possibly the Sir John de Towthby, for whose soul the chauntry in 1396 was founded, was his son. On the 20 Novr., 1399, a license was granted by the Bishop of Lincoln to Sir William Ryther, Knt., and his wife, to have mass said in their oratory within the manor of Towthby. Francis Towthby had married Katherine, daughter of John Lane, of Orlingbury.48
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The Will of JANE HANGEWYNE (ANGEVINE), of Great Sturton. 23 May 1552. To be buried in the church of All Hallows. " To mystrys brydgyt tothebye one golde Rynge with a stone in yt. To my cosyne ffrancys tothebye one olde Ryall of golde, and to Wyllym Tothebye one angell, and to Edmunde Tothebye one dyapur bourde clothe, and vi napkyns. An Tothebye and Jane her syster. Ursuly Tothebye. Jane Tothebye of the chappell. My cosyne Wyllym Ellande and Jenet his wife. Robert and Wyllym Ellande and Annas their sister. John and Christopher Ellande. To my cosyne Charles Angewyne my beste bassyne and my beste Ewer. Margaret Ellande. I make Wyllym Ellande exr. and leave xx1L for the good of my soul."
Prob. 13 Feby. 1553.
According to the Angevine pedigree in 1562 Michael Angevine married the daughter of JohnTowthby, of Towthby. Hence the legacies in the above Will. The " cosyne" Charles Angevine must have been the son of Robert Angevine, of Langton, whose son he was found to be, and aged 16, in the Inq. P.M. 38. Hen. VIII. In the Vis. of 1634 William Towthby is made to marry Margaret, daughter of Charles Angevine, son of Michael.
139.
The Will of MARGARET FITZ WILLI AM, gentlewoman, of Skidbrook. 5 Oct. 1555. To be buried in the church, near to the door of my seat. To Charles Skopholme iijH- vis.viiid.,a.nd to Margaret Skopholme his sister iij11- vis. viiid., which sums are owed to me by their father Christopher Skopholme. I make my son Thomas Fitzwilliam exr., and Mr. John Dyon, of Louth, supervisor.
Prob. 17 Deer. 1556.
The testatrix was widow of John Fitzwilliam, of Skidbrook, see No. 97.
140.
The Will of THOMAS MONSON, Esqr., of South Kelsey. 12 March 1.557. To be buried in the church of St. Nicholas. To the church a blue velvet vestment. My wife Elizabeth to have my capital messuage, etc., in South Kelsey, for life, according to a deed made by my father Sir John Mounson, Knt., and my brother William Mounson, " in recompense of her lands in Co. Notts., which came to her." I desire my lord John Sheffield, my poor wife being his great aunt, to be supervisor with Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., and my brother William Mounson, Esqr., "to defend my pore wvffe in her Ryght agaynst our dysobedyent chyld John Mounson." My wife and son Thomas Mounson, exrs.
Prob. 10 July 1557.
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The Will of Sir JOHN COPLEDIKE, Knt., of Harrington.
11	Deer. 1556. To be buried in the church quire, near "the corps of my late wyff." To my sons Francis, Thomas, and Humphrey Copledike C marks apiece. To my daughter Mary L marks, to my daughters Sythe and Rose C marks apiece. To each of my sons Francis, Thomas, and Humphrey an annual rent of viii11. vis. viiid. out of my lands in Frampton, Wyberton, Kirton, Skirbeck, Algarkirk, Clayngarth, and Fosdyke. My brethren in law Thomas Littlebury and Hamond Upton, Esqrs., and my friend John Dyan, Esqr., are to take the yearly revenues of all my lands, over and above the said annuities, to the value of Lxxx11. a year, until they have received CCCCU., and out of that to pay Cu. apiece to my three daughters Mary, Sythe, and Rose, and Cu. for my debts. My lands in Ulceby, Forthington, Dexthorpe, Dalby, Skendleby, Langton, Sausthorpe, Sutterby, Frieston, Butterwick, Leake, Donington, Leverton, and Harrington. Residue to my son J ohn Copledike, exr.
Prob. 31 Deer. 1557.
The testator waa head of an old and important Lincolnshire family. In 1394 John Copledike, of Harrington, was Sheriff for the County, and in 1400, he represented it in Parliament. The last, heir male Thomas Copledike, died in 1638, and the estate of Harrington passed by sale to Vincent Amcotts, Esqr. The above testator's tomb in Harrington Church bears the following inscription, " Here lyeth Sir John Copledike Knt., late of Harrington, deceased: he died the 12th December 1557, and Elizabeth Littlebury his wife who died the 12th May 1552."
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The Will of ELIZABETH YARBOROUGH, of Kelstern.
12	April 1556. To be buried in the Church. To Thomas, Elizabeth, and Ann Tarburgh, children of Christopher Yarburgh, v11. apiece. To my son Christopher Yarburgh my best goblet of silver and gilt with the covering. To George and Elizabeth Yarburgh, children of Bryan Yarburgh, vu; apiece. To Bridget, daughter of Bryan Yarburgh, iiiju. vis. viiid. To my son Bryan Yarburgh a goblet of silver and gilt with the covering " of the hold fashion," and vi silver spoons, one of them ''a gret spoone." To my "good daughter" Elizabeth Dyan 40s. To my "good daughter " Margaret Dyan iiiH. vis. viiid. To William and Frances Radley, children of Thomas Radley, iii11. vi. viiid. apiece. To my daughter Bridget Radley iiiK. and iii silver spoons. To Margaret, daughter of William Derby, iii11. vis. viiid. To my daughter Barbara Derby " my flat pece of sylver." To my sister Margaret Newcome 40s. To my sister Elizabeth Burgh 40s. towards bringing up her children. Elizabeth Crathorne, daughter of Thomas Crathorne. To Richard Blesby and J ohn Grantham xs. apiece. Charles Yarburgh,
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the heir, to have the heir-looms of his grandfather's bequest. Residue to son in law William Derby, and my son Bryan Yarburgh, whom I make exrs., and John Dyan, Esq., supervisor.
Prob. 11 Sept. 1556.
The testatrix was a daughter of Martin and Mary Newcomen, of Saltfleetby, whose Wills have been given, and widow of Charles Yarborough, of Kelstern, see No. 120.
143.
The Will of Sir WILLIAM TYRWHIT, Knt., of Scotter.
8th--. To mj daughter Elizabeth CCC marks. To my
daughter Faith CC marks. To my daughter Troth CC marks. My sons William, Tristram, and Marmaduke Tyrwhit. My father Sir Robert Tyrwhit, Knt. Marriage settlement between my daughter Elizabeth and Robert Sutton. My sons Tristram and Marmaduke, being under 18 years of age, to have x marks a year each from their mother. My son William to have x11. a year. My son Robert to have, at the death of my wife, all my right and interest in the lordship of Burton on Stather ; and my son Marmaduke, to have all my interest and right in the manor of Scotton, and in the manor of Mawton. William Dalyson, of Laughton, to be good to my wife and children. I make my wife exx.
Prob. 1 June 1541.
The testator, who died in the life time of his father, was the eldest son of Sir Robert Tyrwhit, of Kettleby. He married Isabel, daughter of William Girlingl'on, of Normanby, by Katherine, daughter of Sir Robert Hildyard, (the Will of the latter is No. 73). His sons William, and Tristram dying issueless, the line was carried on by Sir Robert Tyrwhit, the eldest son, and by Marmaduke from whom the Tyrwhits of Cameringham descended, now represented by Sir Henry T. Tyrwhitt, Bart. The Will of Sir William Tyrwhit is much damaged. His wife Isabel was married first to Christopher Kelke, of Barnoldby. The marriage of his daughter Klizabeth with Robert Sutton apparently never took place. The Vis. of 1562 makes his daughter Troth marry Ambrose Sutton, of Wellingore, while Flower's Vis. of Yorkshire, gives her name as Faith. As he had daughters with both these names, it would be interesting to know which Visitation is correct. According to " Notices and Remains of the Family of Tyrwhitt," privately printed in 1858, Sir William died 19 March, 1541, aged 40.
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The Will of RAUFF QUADRING, of Irby. 28 June 1554. To be buried in the Church-porch of Irby. Mentions debts due to him by judgment of Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, Lord Chancellor, amounting to CCL marks, and C11. owed by his brother Gray. Leaves all to his wife Dorothy who may be with child. Daughters, Ann and Barbara Quadring. Brothers, Gabriel, William, Francis, and Robert Quadring. Brother, Thomas Quadring, supervisor.
Prob. 11 Novr. 1554.
See a pedigree of this ancient family in Oldfield's Candleshoe, pp. 219-220. It gives testator's name as Raphael, and makes him marry Dorothy daughter of Sir Robert Hussey, Knt., and afterwards wife of John Massingberd.
145.
The Will of THOMAS HUSSEY, of Caythorpe. 14 Novr. 1558. To my sister Elizabeth Hussey C marks. To " Sir FrancisLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	51
Ascow^, Knt., my geldynge callyd graye husseye," also, " my bedde of blewe satten imbrotherid with silver and golde with the curtaines of blewe sarcenett, a fether bedd of downe, a bowlster and towe pillowes," etc. To my sister Munson " a bedde of yellowe and redd sarcenett nowe in the custodie of my ladie Morison, and curtaynes of the same, a counterpoint of yellowe and blacke grograyne, a fether bedd of downe, a bowlster and towe pillowes of downe." Item I give and bequeath to my lord the Duke of Norfolk for a remembrance of my " pore goodwill towards hys grace my silver salte with a cover doble gilte having in the middle of it a pece of Birrall." To my sister Munson x11. To Anthony Thorold, Esq., of Blankney, my gelding called " graye Cooke." My nephew George Carre. To Mrs. Tuckffield xJi. and one of my silver bowls. To my lady Brown in London, my cousin, a standing silver cup with a cover double gilt in my lady Morison's keeping. To my cousin Dorothy Dockraye my best salt of silver double gilt. To mj- servant Thomas Page "my black trottyng geldinge callyd black Sutton." To my nephew Ambrose Sutton a gilt silver salt with a cover. To my niece Rigges my best silver bowl. To my brother Thorold my lease of the manor of Digby. My lands in Willoughby, Sapperton, and Little Eauceby to be sold. To Thomas Hussey, son of Sir Giles Hussey, Knt., deceased, one of my " chaiste silver bowles" in the custody of Lady Morison. All my lands, etc., in Halton, Steeping, Great Hale, Little Hale, Kirkby-green, Bassingham, and Roxham (?) to my brother Charles Hussey. Residue to John Hussey, of Grays Inn, whom I make oxr. with Sir Francis Ayscough.
Prob. 28 Deer. 1558.
The testator was the eldest son of Sir Robert Hussey, Knt., by his 1st wife Anne, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Say, of Liston Hall, Essex. By his Inq. P.M. dated 5 Oct. 1559, his half-brother, Charles Hussey, was found next heir in tail of the land, and that his sisters, viz., Margaret, wife of William Thorold, Esq., Anne, wife of Robert Savile, Esqr., Mary, widow of John Monson, Esq., Dorothy, wife of John Massingberd, Esq.. and Thomas Horsman aged 14, the son of Elizabeth, another of his sisters, were his next heirs at law. With this information, and the pedigree in the Vis. of 1562, it is easy to trace the relationships in the Will.
146.
The Will of ELIZABETH CAWDRON, of Heckington. 28 Sept. 1556. To be buried in the church near my late husband William Cawdron. To my son Anthony Cawdron 40 marks. To my son Francis Cawdron a silver salt. To my daughter Eleanor Clarke 40s. To William Cantrell 40s. To Elizabeth Warberton 40s. I make my sons John and George Cawdron exrs. Witness, Robert Carr, Esqr., of Sleaford.
Prob. 2 Deer. 1556.
The testatrix was the widow of the King's Bailiff, at Heckington. Her daughter Elizabeth married Robert Carr, of Sleaford, founder of the immense wealth of that family. The Cawdrons appear in the Vis. of 1634 ; they pass away in the 18th century.52
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The Will of RICHARD MASSINGBERD, of Swineshead. 16 June 1556. To be buried in the churchyard. My daughter Joan wife of Alexander Bell. My son Edward Massingberd. My daughter Ellen Richardson. My two youngest daughters by my last wife, viz., my eldest daughter " Seislie," and my youngest, Joan. Alexander son of Michell Richardson. I make my wife Joan exx., Thomas Echard, supervisor.
Prob. 6 Novr. 1556.
148.
The Will of RICHARD SKEPPER, of East Kirkby. 26 May 1556. To be buried in the church. My sons Thomas, and George Skepper. My eldest son Edward Skepper, under 21. My daughter Bridget Skepper. Ann Skepper. My copyholds in Friskney, Irby, Thorpe, Wainfleet, Bolingbroke, Miningsby, and Kirkby.
Prob. 1 Deer. 1556.
A Durham family. Surtees gives a short pedigree. The name figures in Yorke's Union of Honour as " Scepter."
149.
The Will of THOMAS SKEGNES, of Slcendleby Thorpe. 24 Eeby. 1553. To my son Leonard Skegnes at Ingoldmells " one gret masser, ii silver spoones." My daughters Johan Turtyll, and my son in law William Turtyll. My godchildren Leonard Kirkman, Thomas Thory, and William Skegnes. To my brother James Skegnes my copy of the courtroll I have of Sir William Skipwith, Knt. To Richard Hyltoft, Gent., the profits of my swans during the minority of my son Leonard. My lands in Halton, and Ingoldmells. I make my wife Frances exx-, along with my daughters Rose and Anne Skegnes.
Prob. 1556.
The testator came of an ancient Lincolnshire family, though not of sufficient distinction to find a place in the Visitations. Sir William Skipwith was lord of the manor of Ingoldmells.
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The Will of JANE ASTERBY (Asfordby), gentlewoman, of Bilsby. 15 Deer. 1558. To be buried in the church. I leave to my children the goods and chattels bequeathed to me by my late husband Andrew Asterby, whose soul God pardon. To my son Edward my wedding ring. My sons Thomas and Francis, my daughters Alice and Jane. The residue to my three youngest children, Sicilie, John, and Andrew. I make my brother John Langton sole exr. My cousin Bilsby, supervisor. Witnesses, Andrew Bilsby, John Langton, Adlard Langton, and others.
Prob. 6 April 1559.
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151.
The Will of ANDREW ASFOEDBY, Esqr., of Bilsby. 30. May 1556. My soul to God, St. Mary, and the company of heaven. To be buried in the parish church of Bilsby. To the church iijs. iiijd. List of heirlooms left to eldest son Edward Asfordby, under age. " My beste silver salte doble gilte with the cover. One silver salte doble gilte without a cover. Half a dosinn silver spoones graven with apostells, and half a dosynne silver spoones of a lesser sorte all plaine. My sygnitte or ringe of golde." Residue to be divided into iij parts j 1 part to my wife Jane, the other 2 parts to my seven youngest children. My revenue from lands in Bilsby to my wife Jane for life. Revenues of lands in Ingoldmells to be applied for the advancement of my children up to the sum of CLxx11., viz., to my daughter Alice xxx11. when 21 or to be married. The same to each of my daughters Jane and Cyscell when 21 or to be married. To each of my sons Thomas, Francis, John, and Andrew, xx11. I leave the annual rent of Liiis. iiijd. to my brother John Asfordby out of my lands in Langton juxta Partney, and the residue of my revenues there to the advancement and bringing up of my children. I make my wile Jane exx-, and Andrew Bilsby and John Langton, supervisors.
26 Jany., 1561. A Commission for administration of goods was issued " eo quod executores in eodem testamento jurati antequam onus executionis dicti testamenti in se subcepissent ab hac luce migravit Edwardus Asfordbie Alius et heres dicti defuncti." The probate of this Will is a mystery. Edward Asfordby, the eldest son of the testator, did not die before 1561, for his Will was dated and proved in 1591. Possibly there is some confusion with the widow, Jane, who, being left executrix, died so soon after her husband that the administration of his goods might be delayed till 1561, Andrew Asfordby's Will should be compared with that of his father, No. 4 ; the heirlooms will be found to tally in the two Wills.
152.
The Will of WILLIAM SANDON, Esqr., of Ashby by Spilsby. 9 Octr. 1558. To be buried in the church of Ashby. To my brother Andrew Sandon C ewes. To my brother George Sandon v marks. My lands in Welstrope and Brincle." My daughters Katherine, Anne, and Frances. To my cousin Elizabeth Gildon, daughter of my uncle in law Thomas Gildon xu. Margaret wife of my brother Andrew Sandon. All my lands to Richard Cracroft, Esq., and Laurence Meres, Gent., for the term of xx years. My wife's mother and my wife's brothei. My son Ambrose Sandon, under age. My wife Frances, possibly with child. I make Sir Edward Dymoke, Knt., supervisor.
Prob. 12 March 1558-9.
It is curious that this family do not appear in the Visitations. The testator's father Sir William Sandon, Knt., was High Sheriff in 1540. In 1480, William Sandon, Esq., presented to the living of Ashby, and again in 1483. By deed dated 4th Feby., 9th Hen. VII. (1494), Ivo Sandon, Esq., grants the next presentation of Ashby to John Fulnetby, Esqr., for one turn only. In 1534, Michael Sandon wa6 ordained Priest, on the title of his rectory of Ashby. The family disappear towards the close of the 16th century. Katherine Sandon, daughter of the testator, married Edward Asfordby, son and heir of Andrew whose Will has been given. The baptism of Thomas, son of Ambrose Sandon, at Bilsby, 5 May 1599-1600, is the last appearance of the name. There was a family of the name of Santon, seated at Santon, in the parish of Appleby, (see Vis. of 1592), but there is no proof of any connexion subsisting between them and the Sandons of Ashby.54
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The Win of SIMON MOIGNE, Esqr., of Willingham. 1557. To be buried in the church of St. Thomas of Willingham. To wife Anne xx11. rent out of Willingham and Scamblesby. To son Francis Moigne my manor of Scamblesby and lands in Ludford, " my swannes and Signettes with the swanne marke." My lands in Tealby. My cousin Dyon. To my daughter Anne, CCH. I make Anne my wife exx>, and Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., John Dyon, Esqr., of Tathwell, and Thomas Moryson, Gent., supervisors. Prob. 27 May 1558.
The testator was a younger son of Alexander Moigne, of Sixhills, -who died in 1529, (See No. 7.) According to the Vis. of 1592, Thomas Moryson, of Cadeby, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Moigne, Simon's elder brother. This Thomas Moigne is probably identical with one of that name who was executed at Lincoln, in 1537, for taking part in the rising against the Suppression of the Monasteries. (Froude, Vol. iii, pa. 211.)
154.
The Win of WILLIAM SCUPHOLME, Gent., of South Somercotes. 18 Jany. 1557. To be buried in Church. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Skopholme, xJi. when she is 18. To Charles, son of Christopher Skopholme, x11. To Thomas, son of Christopher Skopholme, xu. To Margaret, daughter of Christopher Skopholme, xli. My daughter Anne. To George, son of George Skopholme, my chief house called " Halley Place," and "iij acres of pasture in tenure of Mr. Madisonne." If George dies S.P. then it is to go to my son Christopher Skopholme, whom I make exr. List of heirlooms in Halley Place bequeathed to George Skopholme. John Dyon to have the custody of him till he is 21. Witnesses, Thomas Crathorne, Gent., Edward Madisonne, Robert Crathorne, etc.
Prob. 1558.
See Will of GileB Scupholme, No. 106, and of George Scupholme, No. 110. The testator is obviously the father of the lntter. 1 he Edward Madisonne " mentioned is the son of Sir Edward Mnddisnn. Knt.. of Fonaby. devisee of his father's property in 1553. By the Inq. P.M. of Sir Edward, it appears he held lands in South Somercotes and Skidbrook of George Scupholme, Gent., of Caistor, "as of his manor of Scupholme."
155.
The Will of THOMAS MUSSENDEN, Esqr., of Healing. 25th Jany. 1557. My manor of Stallingborough called "Tirwhite garthe." My son in law Adam Darnell. Mentions licence of alienation of lands which came to Adam's mother, Christian Darnell, as one of the heirs of the Duke of Suffolk. Daughter Anne, wife of Adam Darnell; her marriage indentures dated 8 August 1554. To my daughter Emme CC11. To my youngest son Nicholas Mussenden vi11. xiiis. iiijd. per annum, out of Little Cotes. My lease of the parsonage of Aylesby. Indentures of marriage between my eldest son Francis Mussenden and one of the daughters of Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., dated 22nd May, 2nd and 3rd of Philip and Mary.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	55
Thomas, son of Robert Allott and my daughter Katherine. My cousin Ellen Mussenden. Richard Hansard shall have my farm in Healing, now in the tenure of William Mussenden. Legacy to John Mussenden. My son Francis Mussenden exr. Witnesses, Francis Ayscough, Richard Thimolby, Knts., George Seyntpole, Edward Madisonne, William Goodhande, and Richard Legarde, gentlemen.
Prob. 8 June 1558.
See pedigree of Mussenden in Vis. of 1562 which this Will corrects. Francis Mussenden had married Katherine, daughter of Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., and Edward Maddison her sister Faith. Hence his name as witness.
156.
The Will of FRANCIS MERES, of Barton, Gentleman. 21st June 1557. To be buried in Kirton church "so nere as may be the place where my childe was buried." My son Godrid Meres. To my son Anthony Meres x11. when he is 18. "I will that Sara my daughter streightwayes after my departure be convayed unto my mother, and that she have the costodie and governaunce " etc. Legacy to Francis Cony. I leave my wife Anne v acres of land in Algarkirk, and ij acres in Sutterton for her life, and make her exx.
Prob. 20 July 1557.
An old and distinguished Lincolnshire family. Thomas Meres, of Eirton, wbb High Sheriff in 1437, and again in 1447. John Meres was Member of Parliament for the County, in 1420, Thomas Meres in 1428, 1434. and i441. Their arms, "Gules a fess between 3 water bougets ermine" point to a feudal connection with the baronial family of de Ros, who had large estates in the Holland division of Lincolnshire. John Meres, of Kirton, whe died 26 Hen. VIII., had two wives. He left the greater part of his estate to his son. by his 2nd wife, Anthony Meres, who was seated at Aubourn By his 1st wife, a Tempest, he left Thomas Meres, who married Jane, daughter of Sir Miles Bussey, Knt., of Hougham, and had issue the testator, who married a Cony, of Kirton. His mother Jane Bussey eventually became the heiress of that family, through the death of her niece Agnes, Lady Brudenell, without issue. His son Anthony Meres, who was under 18 in 1557, acquired great wealth as a merchant, and died at St. Swithin'F, Lincoln, in 1617. His son Robert Meres was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral and Rector of Hougham, and dying on 7 Novr. 1652, left issue a son Thomas, who was Knighted, and represented Lincoln almost continuously from 1659 to 1708. His son Sir John Meres, Knt., one of the six clerks in Chancery, died unmarried, in 1735, the last known male descendant of the family. The Aubourn line pass away in the 17th centnry.
157.
The Will of THOMAS GILBY, clerk, of Saltfleetby St. Clement. 19 May 1557. To be buried in the quire of St. Clement. " To the newe college towardes the maintening of the poor clarkes thereof vs." Legacies to the churches of Saltfleetby St. Clement, Thornton in the Moor, Kelsey St. Mary, Holton, Owersby, Theddlethorpe St. Helen's, Saltfleetby All Saints, and Saltfleetby St. Peter's. My brother in law W7illiam Sherwood of Mablethorpe. To Sir Francis Askeugh, Knt., iiju. vis. viiid. To his wife xxs. Bequests to the servants of Sir Francis, the cook, " Kitchine boys,' gardener, etg. To William Angevine of Saltfleetby one salt cellar56
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of glass gilded. To John Angevine his brother iijs. iiijd. My cousin John Angevine of Theddlethorpe. Residue to John Skipwith of Utterby, Esqr., and John Angevine, of Theddlethorpe, Esq., whom I make exrs., and Sir Francis Askeugh, Knt., supervisor. Prob. 8 July 1557.
See pedigree of Gilby, in Vis. of 1562, pa. 51. The testator may be a son of John Gilby of Ravendale, by Agnes Burgh ; or, possibly, by another wife, Agnes Angevine, (see pedigree at pa. 4), daughter of Michael Angevine, which wonld account for the cousinship of John Angevine.
158.
The Will of ALAN ASCUGH, Priest, of Harrington. 12 Sept.
1556.	To be buried in Harrington Church. To Mrs. Anne Copledike a still. To Mrs. Sithe Copledike a silver spoon. To my master Sir John Copledike, Knt., my " swallowe nett." My " bowe case of wood, my bowe arrowes and quiver and my lese of pasture in Frampton " to Christopher Brand.
Prob. 20 July 1557.
Evidently a chaplain in the family of the Copledikes.
159.
The Will of WILLIAM LANGTON, of Mumby. 10 Jany.,
1557.	To be buried in the church of St. Andrew* To my three daughters Mary, Ellen, and Anne vi11. viiis. iiijd. apiece, when 21. To my son William Langton 40s. To my son James Langton. iiij11. To my wife Dorothy my lands in North Somercotfes St. Mary for life, then to my son John Langton and his heirs; failing these, to my son Thomas Langton and his heirs ; failing these to my son Anthony Langton ; (same remainder to sons William and James Langton). Failing heirs of all my sons, the lands to go to ''the head housse of Langton wiche I came owte of." I make my wife Dorothy exx., and my brother Humfrey Littlebury, supervisor. Witness, Thomas Dyvilstone, Vicar of Mumby.
Prob. 7 Feby. 1561.
The testator was evidently an offshoot of the Langtons, of Langton, but the meagre pedigrees given in the Visitations do not enable us to identify him. The next Will is of a similar kind.
160.
The Will of ROBERT GEDNEY, of South Ormsby, Yeoman. 1 March 1556. To be buried in the churchyard. My daughters Elizabeth and Frances. My sons John, Harrie, and William. My wife's daughter Marget. My brother George Gedney. Bequests to Mr. Richard Gedney, Mr. George Gedney, Mr. John Gedney, and Mrs. Marie Gedney. My farm in Ormsby. I make my wife Jane, and my son John, exrs., and Mr. Andrew Gedney, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 1 April 1557.
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The Will of EDWARD LEYCH, parson of Mareham. 11 August 1556. To be buried in the quire of St. Helen. To my brother Robert Leych xii silver spoons. To Sir John Richardson vi great bookes, contaynyng the holle course of the bybyll, and a repertorii, and a concordance." To Sir John Morland "opera chrisostomi, and Sancte Thomas, and hayrno super epistolas Pauli." My cousin Edward Leych and his children. To " Mr. Lancelot Sawkeld, Deane of Carly 11, xxs., praying hym to cause a deryge and messes to be said for me." I make Mr. Arthur Dymmok, and Mr. Robert Dymmok, supervisors.
Prob. 22 August 1556.
The living of Mareham le Fen was in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle. Hence the reference to the " Deane of Carlyll."
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The Will of THOMAS TAILBUS, of Raithby. 7 March 1556' To be buried in our Lady's quire. " Mighty of mynde, whole of witt and understandynge." I make my wife Johan exx., she to give to my son Roger, and Agnes Harper, as may be conveniently spared.
Prob. 25 Octr. 1557.
See pedigree of Talboys, of Raithby, in Vis. of 1562, pa. 119.
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The Will of MARTYN HARPHAM, of Saltfleetby St. Peter. 6 August 1555. To be buried in the church. To my daughter Ellen, all my lands in Saltfleetby for ever, " she and her heares to geve to the pore people yearlie in Wednisday in palm sonday weke for ever out of the same landes in the churche of Saltfleetby vis. viiid. yearlie " (with liberty to distrain). Prob. 26 April 1557.
It would be interesting to know whether this payment still continnes.
162 b.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER DIGHTON. 15 July 1557. To be buried in the quire where I shall die. To the poor of Wainfleet xxs. My brethren Robert, William, Thomas, Gilbert, and Edmund Dighton. My brethren Humfrey and John Littlebury. To my son George Dighton x11. a year. To my wife Mary, whom I make exx., my interest in a farm at Saxby. To my daughter Anne Dighton LXXX11. Bequest to the poor of Langton by Horncastle. I make Thomas Littlebury, of Stainsby, Esqr., and George Saintpool, of Carlton, Esqr., supervisors. Prob. 30 Novr. 1557.
The testator was the 2nd son of Robert Dighton, of Sturton, by his wife Joyce St. Paul whose Will is given later on.58
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163.
The Will of MARGARET KYME, of Hainton, widow. 24 Jany. 1559. To be buried in the church of Hainton. Bequests to the poor of Driby and the high altar there. To my son George Sandon a great chest, etc., in chamber next to the " bowlinge allye" in Driby. Mentions the cattle, etc., " which my son Bougham found on entering the farm at Driby." Also half a dozen silver spoons, " a rownd salte which was my sister Heneage's," a goblet with a cover. My daughter Mary Arderin. My daughter Bougham. To my sister Anne Heneage a gilded spoon. My apparel to be divided among my five daughters. I make my son Robert Bougham exr., and my son Richard Cracroft, and my nephew George Heneage, supervisors. Witnesses, Robert Towers, clerk, Nicholas Wymbysshe, and Raphe Hollingworth, all of Hainton. Prob. 25 July 1562.
The testatrix was daughter of John Heneage, of Hainton, and married John Bohun '(Bougham), of Driby ; by him she had a daughter Margaret, who married Richard Cracroft, of Cracroft Hall, in the parish of Hogsthorpe.
164.
The Will of EDWARD MADDISON, Esqr., of Fonaby (from his Inq. P.M. taken 21 Oct. 1560). " In the name of God, Amen, the xx day of August in the yere of our lord god a thowsand fyve hundrethe and thre score. I Edward Maddyson, of Calstrop, in the county of Lincoln, esquire, make this my present testament confirminge herein my last Will in the manner and forme followinge etc. I wyll that my trusty frends and bretheryn Christopher Maddyson, John Maddyson, and Roberte Arnway shall sell my lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services with the appurtenances in North Somercotes and South Somercotes to the most advantage which I lately boughte of my brother Antony Maddyson, for and towards the payment of one hundred pounds which I doe owe to the said Robert Arnway, and what money shall want of the seyd hundred pounds I will that my executors shall pay it to the saide Robert Arnway as shortly as may be. Item I will that wheras my wife is with child at the present and not serten whether it be man child or woman child therefore I will that if it be a man child to have x11. a year for the time of his life out of all my lands and tenements in Caydby and Grvmolthorpe in the said county of Lincoln with clawes of destrese for none pament. And if it be a female child then I will she shall have one hundred pounds to be paid to. hir by my executors at the day of hir mariage or when she shall cum to the age of xxi yeres with the said anuite of x11. yerely for hyr fyndynge and bryngyng upp. Also I will that Fayth my wife shall have the custody of my seyd child or children with ther porcion duryng the mynority. Item I gyve and bequeth to my seidLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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wife one anuity of x11. yerely out of all my sayd lands and tenements in Caydby and Grymolthorp in the seid countye of Lincoln for terme of her life with clause of destrese for none payment at the dayes and feasts accostomyd. I will that all my lands tenements and hereditaments in Folnaby Cayster (my wyffe's joynter exceptyd) South Somercotes Salleby Skydbroke Marchchappell and Swathby in the countie of Lincoln shal be devyded into thre parties, the third parte to the Queue's majestie for hyr third parte duryng the menorite of my sonne. And the other two partes to my two brethren Christofer Madyson and John Madyson as well foi the performance of my father's wyll as for the performance of this my Will, and the overplus to their owne proper use. And wheras my mother hath a joynter of the manor of Calstrop and of lands and tenements in Caydby and Grymolthorp in the seyd county for terme of hyr lyffe, my Will is that yf my seid mother dye before my soune Edward or other my chyld cum to his or her lawfull age that then Fayth my wife, Charles Yarbroughe and Robert Arnway and the survivor of them, shall take the profitts of two partes of the seyd manor and other lands now beyng my mother's joynter for and during the mynorytic of my seid soune or other child, the third to the quene. And the profitts thereof to pay to any seyd eldest sonne or other child when he or she shall cum to ther lawfull age of xxi yeres. Also wheras my wife hath a jointer of all my lands and tenements in Nettelton and serten lands and tenements in Cayster Caydby and Grymolthorpe for the terme of hyr life, then my wyll is that if my seid wife chance to dy before my seid eldest sonne or other child cum to his or her lawfull age, then the seid Charles Yarbroughe and Robert Arnway shall take the profitts of the two partes of the seid lands and tenements for and duringe the tyme of the minority of my sun, and the quene the third parte, and the seid Charles and Robert to have yerely duringe suche tyme as they shall take paynes in resavinge in the said reversions the sum of xxis. apece. Also I will that my mother shall have all my lands and tenements in Calstrop which was bought of Gregory Gray for terme of hir life, uppon this condicion, that she suffer my tenants at Caydby and Grymolthorp to occupie all the lands within the townes and fey Ids of Caydby and Grymolthorpe which now is in Joynter. Also I wyll that yf Christopher Madyson and John Madyson whom I doe make executors of this my last will doe not in suche convenient tyme as may be performe fulfill and kepe as well my father's Will as this my last Will, and so beyng tryed and lawfully judged in the sperituall court, that then the tvtle and intrest in the same manors lands and tenements before named to be utterly voyd and exstynguyshed. And imedyatly after suche judgment gy ven I wyll that the seyd Charles Yarbroughe and Roberte Arnway shall have all the seid two partes of the seid manors lands and tenements to the said Christoper and John before appoynted for the performance60
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of this my wyll and. they to have it in like maner and sorte for the performance of my father's Will and this my last Will as the seid Christofer and John should do. Item I geve to my brother Anthony Madyson one anuytie of fyve markes for the terme of his life out of all my lands and tenements in Gaton, with clause of distres for none payment therof " prout per testamentum plenius apparet, etc.
The original Will of the testator has never been found. It is not at Somerset House, nor at Lincoln, and we are indebted to the Inq. P.M. for what has been given. It is interesting because it corroborates the Inq. P.M. of Sif Edward Maddison, the testator's father, in 1653. Anthony Maddison was found to be son aud heir aged 32 ; and yet by the settlement of 1540, the estates passed to the half-brother Edward, who leaves him an annuity of V marks. A poor compensation for a disinheritance I Probably the influence of Sir Edward's last wife, Anne Roper, was used on behalf of her own children. Two similarjinstances may be noted in the Monson and Meres families. In the former, No. 140, Thomas Monson, though the eldest son, does not succeed to the chief property at South Carlton, which passed to his half-brother William ; and in the latter, No. 156, we see Francis Meres, of Kirton, in comparative poverty, owing to his father, Thomas Meres, having been disinherited in favour of his half-brother, by the 2nd wife, Anthony Meres.
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The Will of WILLIAM BROXHOLME, of Osgarby. 30 Novr. 1557. To be buried in the Church of St. Andrew, Kiikby. To my son Henry Broxholme my land in Ludford. My son Robert Broxholme. I make my son John Broxholme and my wife Ellyn, exrs.
Prob. 15 Feby. 1557-8.
Osgarby, i.e. Osgodby, now joined to Kirkby.
166.
The Will of WILLIAM DISJNEY, of Haddington. 16 March 1559. To be buried in quire of South Hikam. I make my wife and my son Thomas Disney, exrs., and my brother Thomas Disney, supervisor.
Prob. 6 May 1559.
The testator was probably the 4th son of William Disney, of Fulbeck. See Vis. 1562, pa. 40, and No. 98.
167.
The Will of RICHARD KELKE, of Scartho. 12 Sept. 1557. To be buried in Church of St. Gyles. I make my sons Richard and Robert Kelke, and my daughter Anne Taton, exrs. Mentions Christopher, Richard, and James Kelke, sons of Richard Kelke. Also, Richard and Margaret Kelke, children of Robert Kelke. Alyson and Edward Kelke, Ellen Tatum, James Kelke, of Scartho. Bequests to the churches of Bilsby, Ravendale, and Barnetby.
Prob. 16 Feby. 1557.
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The Will of ROBERT KELKE, of Elsham. 22 April 1560. To be buried in the churchyard. My sons James, Edward, and Arnold Kelke. I make my wife Alice exx.
Prob. 20 June 1560.
Another of the same family.
169.
The Will of THOMAS THORY, of East Ingoldmells. 16 June 1555. To be buried in the church of St. Peter. To my son Thomas Thory, one silver salt and six silver spoons. My wife Elizabeth. Daughter Anne Thory. I make Cuthbert Cotnam and William Thory, exrs. Witnesses, Thomas Thory and Jenytt Thorpe, etc.
Prob. 17 Oct 1555.
The Thory family appear in York's " Union of Honour," 1640, but are not found in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. In the Vis. of 1634, a short pedigree is given deducing their descent from a Robert Thory, of Winthorpe.
170.
The Will of MARGARET DIGHTON, widow, of St. Benedict's, Lincoln. 4 Novr. 1557. To be buried in the church. I make my sons John Johnson, clerk, and James Dighton, exrs.
Prob. 18 Nov. 1557.
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The Will of ANTHONY HENEAGE, parson of Wold Newton. 22 May 1557. To be buried in the high quire before the high altar. Everything left to Elizabeth, Margaret, Johan, Anne, Katherine, and Thomas Heneage, of whom I make Elizabeth, Margaret, and Thomas, exrs., and William Tupholme, supervisor.
Prob. 25 Oct. 1557.
One of the Hainton family, but probably of a junior branch.
172.
The Will of HAMOND KNOTISFORD, Gent., of Walesby. 6 March 1553. To my wife xx11., and the " copy of St. Leonard's chapel." I make my father Anthony Holland exr. My mother living.
Prob. 11 July 1554.
See Will of testator's father, No. 119.
173.
The WU1 of WILLIAM MARSHALL, of Hatton, clerk. 26 Jany. 1557. To be buried in the quire of Hatton. "Item I wyll that the aforesaid Thomas Marshall shall have all my other lands62
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and tenements in Myntynge aforesaid to hym and to the heyres of his body lawfully begottyne payinge yerely owte of the same forever to fyve pore men whereof three of theyme to be of Hatton and two of theyme to be of Langton every fryday in the yere ffyve pence and to the parsone of Hatton for the tyme beynge yerely for sainge masse and dyryge the day of my deathe sexpence, and to the paryshe clerke theyre twoo pence, and to tene pore men the same day for every of theyme one peny." If Thomas Marshall fails to do this, then Christopher Dighton, Gent., of Winceby, is to have the lands so charged. If he will not, then my right heirs to have the lands. I make my nephew Thomas Marshall, aforesaid, and Christopher Dighton, exrs. My brother Christopher Marshall, and his son Anthony. I make Sir Edward Dymmok, Knt., supervisor. My nephew Mathewe Marshall. Bequest to the Vicar of Berdsey, in Yorkshire. Written by my own hand, in my parlour at Hatton.
Prob. 17 April 1564, by exrs.
This is one of the numerous bequests which has totally disappeared.
174.
The Will of JOHN" BALLET, parson of Nether Toynton. 17 April 1558. To be buried in the chancel of the parish church of SS. Peter and Paul. "My gown that the Bishop of Ely gave me." "To Mr. Goodryke of Kyrkby a golde riuge." Towards mending the way between Fulletby and Horncastle 40s. Refers to the Will of his father William Ballet.
Prob. 8 Octr. 1558.
The Bishop of Ely, who gave the testator his gown, was Thomas Goodricke, a younger son of Edward Goodricke, of East Kirkby.
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The Will of JANE MERES, of Great Carlton, widow. 13 June 1550. To be buried in the church or chancel. To my daughter Pepper a standing cup of silver with a cover, and half my silver spoons. To my daughters Pepper and Parnell my better cross of gold with the flowers and the device between them. My daughter Pepper to have the choice. To my daughter Parnell Meres a gilt goblet and half my silver spoons. To George Newcome a goblet parcel-gilt with a cover, to be given him when he is 21. To my son Pepper, and my daughter Frances his wife, both my silver salts and my chalice. My daughter Parnell Meres to be ordered and ruled by my son Pepper and my daughter Frances. My son Thomas Meres. My daughter Elizabeth Meres. The 40 marks owed to me by the Marquis of Dorset to go to my daughters Frances Pepper and Parnell Meres. To Susan Pepper xx11. ToLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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John Purley, v11. I make my son Pepper and my daughter Frances, exrs. Witness, Nicholas Thorndike of Great Carlton.
Prob. 22 Oct. 1550.
The widow of Christopher Meres, of Great Carlton, see No. 64. Her first husband was Nicholas Purley, by whom she had the son George to whom she leaves v marks, and a daughter, who was the 2nd wife of Bryan Newcomen, of Saltfleetby. Prom the Purley pedigree, in the Vis. 1562, it appears that the testatrix was the daughter and heiress of Thomas Holtoft in Holland.
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The Will of EMLYN SUTTON, widow. 2 Deer. 1557. To be buried in the church of Washingborough, nigh unto my husband. To George, Gilbert, Thomas, Nicholas, and Mary Yorke, children of my son Thomas Yorke, xx marks apiece. To Faith and Anne Waterton, xxs. apiece. To Isabel Waterton, xxs. and household stuff in the custody of my daughter Margaret Cony, her mother. My son Glascoke, and my daughter his wife. To Nicholas and Thomas Bolls 40s. each. My daughter Margaret Bullingham, and my daughter Alice Sutton. I make my sons Nicholas Bullingham and Nicholas Sutton, exrs.
Prob. 5 Jany. 1557-8.
The testatrix, according to the Vis. of 1592, was a Disney, of Fulbeck, and married Hamond Sutton, of Washingborough, a younger brother of Robert Sutton, of Burton by Lincoln. This branch of the Sutton family bore an entirely different coat to that borne by the Suttons of Aram. They were seated very early at Lincoln and Burton. In 1369, John Sutton was M.P. for Lincoln, and continued to represent the City till 1373. In 1381 Robert Sutton was Member, and again in 1384, 1385, and 1386 ; also in 1391, 1393, and 1399. Hamond Sutton was Member in 1415, 1420, 1422, aud 1423. In 1424 Henry Sutton. In 1448, 1449, and 1450 Robert Sutton. In 1434 Hamond Sutton was Member for the County. In all probability Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, 1280-1299, was of this family.
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The Will of JOHN TOURNAY, Esq., of Caenby. 21 Sept. 1557. " Whereas I have xxu. by the yere of my landes at my libertye to make my wyll off, or to make my wyffe a jointure, as it doth appeare by a pare of Indentures of mariage made ^between Richard Bowles Esqr. and me, and for as muche as I have two of my daughters to marrye " etc., I appoint William Lord Willoughby, and Sir Francis Ayscongh, Knt., trustees of my manor of Caenby with lands in Northorpe, Blyton, Pilham, and Owmby, and the manor of Ruston, in Yorkshire. To my daughter Margaret Tournay CC marks. To my daughter Elizabeth Tournay C marks. To my daughter Alice Kyme x11. To her husband Thomas Kyme "a coat of velvett and a gowne of sylke." To my son Anthony Tournay " a neste of bowles, two sylver saltes with covers, a dozen sylver spoones, and two gilte cuppes of sylver, household stuff, xii candlesticks, ii basons and ewers of pewter." To my wife Jane all the plate, etc., which she had as executrix to her late husband " Busshoppe Randes " as well in the city of London, and in the county of Lincoln, as elsewhere. 1 make the Rt. Hon. William Lord Willoughby, and Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., exrs., and give them xH, apiece. If64
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Lord Willoughby does not pay the Lxxx11. he owes to my daughter Margaret, then he is not to be exr., but Sir Edward Dymoke, Knt., instead.
Prob. by Sir Francis Ayscough, 7 Jany. 1558-9.
A very insufficient pedigree is given of this ancient family in the Yis. of 1592. So far back as 1328, John Tournay represented the county of Lincoln, in parliament; his name occurs again as member in 1340. Nicholas Tournay, of Caenby, was High Sheriff in 1416. The Will of John Tournay, of Caenby, is preserved in Bishop Beaufort's Register, proved 15 Novr., 1404. He left money to purchase a missal, a chalice, and a bell for Glentham Church. But the Tournays seem to have declined in wealth and position during the 17th century. They were cavaliers, and we find Edward Tournay, of Caenby, in Dring's List of Compounders during the Commonwealth paying £407 as a composition for his estates. They never seem to have recovered that blow, and the 18th century saw the ancient race dwindle down to coheirs through whom the property passed away to other families. In 1735 George Tournay died, apparently the last heir male. The Caenby estate passed to his niece Jane Cunington, daughter of the Revd. Thomas Cunington, Priest Yicar, and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral, who had married his sister. She married Laurence Monck, a London merchant, and their daughter Jane Monck married Sir William Middleton, Bart., of Belsay Castle, Northumberland, whose son in 1799 assumed the surname of Monck. The property has been sold within recent years, and nothing now remains to mark the connexion of the Tournays with Lincolnshire, except some mutilated monuments in Glentham Church. The testator John Tournay who died in 1558-9 was married twice. His first wife was Cecily Talboys, who through the death of her niece Elizabeth, Baroness Talboys, without issue, became a coheir of that family. Hence the reference to Lord Willoughby, of Parham, whose father, Sir Christopher Willoughby, had married another daughter. Sir Edward Dymoke also, who is named as an alternative executor, had married another. The second wife in the Will is called Jane, and mention is made of her first husband Bishop Randes, i.e., of Henry Holbeche, alias Randes, whose compliancy enabled him to surrender without a struggle the Episcopal estates to Edw. VI. In the Visitation she is called Joan, and is said to have been a St. Paul by birth. It was at this John Tournay's house, at Caenby, that Henry VIII. slept on the night of the 11th Octr., 1541, during his royal progress through Lincolnshire.
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The Win of NICHOLAS FAWNE, Vicar of Skendleby. 20 Jany. 1547. To be buried in the chancel. I make Jenytt and William Fawne, exrs., and Mr. Thomas Copledike, supervisor.
Prob. 20 April 1548.
179.
The Will of JOHAN FAWNE, of Skendleby, widow. 1 Deer. 1548. To be buried in the chancel. I make my sons George, Thomas, William, and Robert Fawne, exrs. My lands in Orby.
Prob. 8 Feb. 1548-9.
The testatrix was probably sister in law of the preceding testator. A descendant, Roger Fawne, in 1663 was excommunicated for nonconformity.
180.
The Will of ALEXANDER HOUGH, of Hough, Gent. 21 Novr. 1561. To be buried in the church. My granddaughters Elinor and Agnes Awdeley. I make my wife, exx., and my brother Robert Hough, exr., and William Thorold, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 17 Sept. 1562.
The testator was son of the Jane Hough, whose Will has been given (No. 75). His two granddaughters and co-heirs, Eleanor and Agnes, married two brothers, Sir Edmund and Robert Thorold ; see Burke's Extinct Baronetage, sub. Thorold of Harmston.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of THOMAS BILLESBY, Esqr., of Sixhills. 16 April 1562. My soul to God, our Lady St. Mary, etc. To be buried in the chancel of All Hallows Church. To Margaret Billesby, my nephew Billesby's daughter xx marks. I make my wife Elizabeth exx., and my nephew Sir Andrew Billesby, supervisor.
Prob. 25 June 1562.
The testator was son of Elizabeth Lady Billesby, whose Will has been given, No. 91. His father was Sir Andrew Billesby, Knt. His nephew Sir Andrew had married a Heneage of Hainton; hence probably his residence at Sixhills. The bequest of his soul shows that he adhered to the old religion.
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The Will of EOBERT BROXHOLME, junior, of Owersby. 5 May 1562. To be buried in the churchyard. My eldest brother Thomas Broxholme. My brother William Broxholme. My youngest brother Thomas Broxholme. My sister Elizabeth Broxholme. Johan Broxholme daughter of my brother William. I make my father Robert Broxholme, exr.
Prob. 25 June 1562.
The testator's father Robert Broxholme was probably a brother of William Broxholme whose Will has been given (No. 132).
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The WiU of WILLIAM MERES, of Theddlethorpe, Gent. 28 July 1562. To be buried in the church. I leave my. chief mansion house in Great Carlton to my eldest son George Meres. My chief manor house in Saltfleetby is mortgaged to Bryan Yarbrough, Gent. My lands in Great Carlton, South Reston, and Castle Carlton. " My tender young children Anne and Frances, and the infant wherewith my wife is now conceaved." My lands in Gayton le Marsh, late purchased of Mr. Bleasbie, and of Mr. Welbie. My brother Anthony. My sister Frances Barkworth. My brother William Angevine. I make my wife Anne, exx., and my friend Robert Allott, supervisor, and give him vu. Witnesses, Christopher Langholme, John Angevine, Adam Darnell, William Angevine, Bryan Yarburgh.
Prob. 21 August 1562.
The testator was the son of Vincent Meres, who was the eon of Christopher Meres, of Great Carlton, (No. 54). His wife Anne, was the daughter of John Angevine, of Theddlethorpe.
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The WiU of WILLIAM ROCHE, of Little Grimsby. 15 Novr. 1566. To my wife Sycily 40!i. To my brothers and sisters xu. Mr. Clyfford. My children Lyon, Thomas, George, Bartylmew, Edward, and Anne. Witnesses, Christopher Pormort and John Gedney.
Prob. 28 Novr. 1566.
The testator can be easily identified in the Vis. of 1562, pa. 106.
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185.
The Will of JOYCE DIGHTON, widow, late wife of Robert Dighton, Esqr., deceased. 1 Jany. 1570. My soul to God, our Blessed Lady St. Mary, etc. To be buried in the Cathedral church of Lincoln " nighe unto my sayd laite husband." To the reparation of Spridlington church vis. viiid. (the same to the churches of Baumber, Great Sturton, and Ingham). My cousin William Authorpe, and his sister Ellen Collingwood. My servants at Firsby and Lincoln. To Thomas and Ann Dighton, children of my son Christopher .Dighton, deceased, xxu. apiece, which I have given to Mr. Charles Fitzwilliam, his father in law, towards the buying of his Wardship. To my son Edmund Dighton two silver salts double gilt with axover. To my sons Robert and William Dighton my leases in Maydenwell and Waddingworth. To my son Gilbert Dighton and/his son Robert my lease in Ingham. To Robert Dalyson, son of Justice Dalyson, my son in law deceased, my sheep walk in^Hackthorne. To his brother Thomas Dalyson my sheepwalk in Spridlington. To each of my sons Gilbert, Robert, and William Dighton, a silver cup. Bequest to my daughter Dame Elizabeth Ayscough, alias Haward's, servants at Lincoln. Residue to be divided intq seven parts among—(1) my son in law William Haward, Esqr., and Dame Elizabeth, his wife, my daughter. (2) Gilbert Dighton, my son. (3) Robert Dighton, my son. (4) William Dighton, my son. (5) John Monson, Esqr., my son in law, and Jane his wife, my daughter. (6) William Dalyson, of Laughton, my son in law, and Anne, my daughter. (7) The children of my daughter, Dame Elizabeth Ayscough, alias Haward. To Robert Dighton, son of my son Robert Dighton of Stainfield, my sheepwalk in Welton. To my sister Authorpe 40s. To my son William Dighton CCH. owed by my son Edmund Dighton for rents in Sturton and Ashby, which rents amount yearly to 48u. I make Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, Knt., of Kettleby, and my son in law William Haward, Esqr., exrs., and Thomas Taylor, notary publique, of Lincoln, supervisor.
Prob. by Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, 14 April 1571.
The testatrix, who must have been aged, was the daughter and heiress of William St. Paul, a younger son of the Snarford family. Her husband Robert Dighton was the founder of a family which spread into many branches, but became extinct in the 17th century. It seems to have been originally at Lincoln, where a Robert Dighton was Mayor in 1494. Like the Broxholmes and other families, the Dightons acquired property by the suppression of the Monasteries, and the Nunnery of Stixwold was granted to Robert Dighton in the 32 Hen. VIII. The testatrix outlived her husband many years, and also her son Christopher, whose Will is given No. 162. Her daughter Elizabeth married three times : Istly, Sir William Dalyson, Justice of the Q.B., who died 18 Jany., 1559; 2ndly., Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt., of South Kelsey ; and 3rdly., William Haward, Esqr. Her daughter Anne, married William Dalyson, of Laughton, nephew of the Judge ; and her daughter Jane, married Sir John Monson, Knt., of South Carlton. Her son Robert Dighton's Will follows.
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The Will of ROBERT DIGHTON, of Stainfield, Gent. (No date.) To my wife Elizabeth xxu, To Elizabeth Harley, my servant,LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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ij kye and xxu. To *Mecelenaie and Goddard, her ij children, 40u. between them, when they are of age, with reversion to my sons Robert and William, if they die without issue. I make my said sons, exrs., and leave them the residue of my goods when they are able to govern. My brethren Gilbert and William Dighton, witnesses. I make my brother John Mounson, Esqr., and my friend Mr. Thomas Tailor, supervisors.
Prob. 23 June 1575.
* Marcellina ?
187.
The WiU of GREGORY WOLMER, Esqr., of Bloxam. 2 Novr. 1573. To be buried in the church. My mansion house, and lands in Swineshead to my wife with lands in Wigtoft, all worth xxx11. a year in consideration of her feoffement in Thorpe next unto Wainfleet. To my sons Jesper, and Samuel, x11. a year apiece for life, with leave to distrain on my manor of Bloxam. To my daughters Beatrix, and Anne, C1L apiece. To my daughters Susan, and Sara, Cu. apiece when 21. To my daughter Mary Boules 40u. To Gregory, and Francis Boules 40s. apiece when 21. I make my brother John Wolmer's annuity iiip. which before was only iij11. vis. viiid. I make my sister Dorothy's annuity iij11. which was before only Liiis. iiijd. My brother Anthony, parson of Bloxam. I leave all my lands in Thorpe, Croft, Winthorpe, the three Wainfleets, Eriskney, Frampton, Swineshead, Wigtoft, Bloxam, Dorrington, and Digby to my son Gregory Wolmer, whom I make exr., with my wife, and leave him all my swans and swanmarks.
Prob. 4 Nov. 1575.
The Wolmers were connected with Swineshead as early as the 14th century. Hichard Wolmer was one of the executors of John La Warr, Knt., in 1397-8, who bequeathed to him £40. The testator's wife is called, " Frances daughter and heir of ... . Holden, a yeoman," in the Vis. of 1562, and a family of that name were living at Burgh in 1503, one of whom founded a charity, and left money to the parishes of Irby and Thorpe, which may account for her feoffement in the latter parish.
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The Will of ROBERT CRACROFT, of Burgh, Gent. 19 tfovr. 18th Elizabeth. To be buried in the church. To my daughters Agnes and Elizabeth Cracroft, 40 marks apiece when 20 years old. To my son Robert Cracroft 40 marks when 21. George Quadring oweth me v11. xvis. viiid. I make my wife Prothesey exx., and my cousin Mr. Robert Dymoke, of Lincoln, supervisor. Witnesses, Leonard Cracroft, William Quadring, and others.
Prob. 30 Novr. 1575.
The Cracrofts were seated at Cracroft Hall, a manor in the parish of Hogsthorpe, from the earliest times. Warinus de Cracroft was a witness to a deed relative to the conveyance of land in HogBthorpe, so early as the 4th of John (1203). In 1345 a licence was granted to Robert Cracroft to have mass celebrated in the oratory " infra mansum suum de Cracroft in parochia de Hogsthorpe." The testator's branch separated from the parent stem in the 15th68
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century, and settled at Burgh in the Marsh, where it remained till late in the 17th century. He was buried on the 21st Novr., 1575, at Burgh. His wife Prothesey, or Pretafer, was the daughter of Thomas Quadring, of Irby, by his 1st wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Dymoke, of Friskney, and was born at Burgh, in 1547. Her grandson George Cracroft became through her in 1615, representative in blood of the Dymokes of Friskney, who were a branch of the Scrivelsby family, settled at Friskney by marriage with the heiress of the Friskneys, of Friskney. Mrs. Cracroft married 2ndly., Myles Ashton, of Burgh, Gent., who survived her, and by whom she had no issue.
189.
The Will of NICHOLAS WHICHCOTE, Gent., of North Rauceby. 4 August 1575. To be buried in the church. To Rawsby Church vis. viiid. To my wife Elizabeth, the lease of my farm, and half my household goods, cattle, etc. To my brother Leonard's children viu. xiiis. iiijd., whereof his son Nicholas, is to have iiju- vis. viiid. To my brother Christopher's two sons 40s. To Mr. Robert Whichcote my gold ring, and to his wife ij latten basons and to his daughters iiju. vis. viiid. To Bridget Whichcote iij silver spoons " whereof one is gilten." To Steven Garret " my best cloke turned with white, and to his wife that xxu. he oweth me." To my brother Leonard Whichcote my gray stoned horse, and to his wife ij ewes and ij lambs. To Elizabeth Whichcote, my brother Anthony's daughter, my best trusse bed, and half my household stuff. To Mr. Mason, the parson of Hanworth, " a spurrowell which is xvs." ; he to preach a sermon at my burial. To Mistresses " Faith and Trouthe Whichcote 40u. which lyeth in my hutche." To Elizabeth Whichcote my framed table and " iij'of my best silke quyshings." To my brother Leonard Whichcote my lease of Mr. Dysney, of Fulbeck, and to Mr. Thomas Wliichcote, of Anwick, my lease of Mr. Mackworth with residue of my goods, and I make him exr.
9 Novr. 1575.
According to the pedigree in the Vis. of 1562, he was the ninth son of Thomas Whichcote, of Dunston (see No. 58), and brother of Edmund Whichcote, of Marston (No. 111). The name of Lawrence in the pedigree is obviously a mistake for Leonard. Hanworth is probably Potterhanworth.
190.
The Will of ROBERT PALMER, of Castle Scrope, yeoman. 9 June 1574. In the Church of St. Nicholas. To my son Raynold Palmer, all my lands in Carlton Scrope and elsewhere, to him and his heirs. Bequests to the poor of Carlton Scrope, Ancaster, Sudbrooke, Willoughby, Honington, Barkston, and Normanton. "Towards the makinge of the north bridge of Hunington to be made with a little wall one either side vis. viiid." William, John, and Elizabeth Peachell, children of my son in law Thomas Peachell, of Normanton. Mentions xxx11. which he gave to his son Robert Palmer, of Grantham, not to molest Raynold Palmer in anyway. To said Robert Palmer "one cowe"; and to his daughterLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Annis the same. One cowe to my son Gyles Palmer, and the same to his son Thomas Palmer. My daughter Annis Peachell. I make my son Eaynold Palmer, exr., and Mr. Robert Thorold, of Hough, supervisor.
Prob. 18 April 1575.
The Palmers were seated at Castle Scrope in the 17th century.
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The Will of WILLIAM TOTHEBY, of Thoresthorpe, in the parish of Saleby. 24 Jany. 1572. To be buried in Saleby church. Bequests to brother Thomas Totheby and his children. To " Mystres Margaret Totheby my maister's daughter one fillie of an yere old," and to Francis Totheby "one yowe and to his sister Bennet one yowe." I make my wife Annas, exr., and leave her the residue of my goods. I make my brother Thomas Totheby, supervisor.
Prob. 14 March 1572.
One of the family of Towthby, of Towthby, though of the yeoman class. His brother Thomas Totheby's Will comes later on.
192.
The Will of ROBERT OSNEY, of North Willingham. 7 March 1571. To be buried in the quire of North Willingham Church. My sons James, Symon, and Richard Osney. To Elizabeth Osney Lxxx sheep. To my wife Isabel, whom I make exx , the profit of Lx sheep Mr. Giles Hanserd hath of me. I make Mr. George Hennage, supervisor.
Prob. 21 June 1572.
The Osneys figure in Yorke's " Union of Honour," and were among the Lincolnshire Gentry all through the 17th century.
193 (a).
The Will of LEONARD PALMER, of Binbrook St. Mary. 16 Deer. 1572. To be buried in the church. My cousin Edward Palmer. To my wife Agnes, sheep and lambs, etc. To my sons Richard, and John Palmer xxxvi11. apiece when of full age. My godson Leonard Palmer. I make my son William Palmer, exr.
Prob. 16 Jany. 1572-3.
Possibly one of a family of that name seated at Burgh. The name of Leonard is found there in 1610.
193 (b).
The Will of JOHN JOWYTSON, of Sibsey. 3 Novr. 1572. To be buried in the church. " Towards the releaving of them that alwayes remayne in the Almons house of Sibsey ij qweyes of ij yeres old." My farm and lease of Mr. Candisshe, and everything, to my wife Isabel, whom I make exx.
Prob. 5 Feby. 1572-3.
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The Will of WILLIAM GOODHAND, of Wold Newton. 12 March 1563. To be buried in the church "nye unto my wief." My son Thomas Goodhand to have all my lands, etc., in Wold Newton, Swinhope, and Fenby, and my leases in Wold Newton, and Swinhope, paying iiju. vis. viiid. yearly to my son Andrew Goodhand. To my son Edward Goodhand my lands in Ludborough. Residue to my children Thomas,William, Andrew, Edward, Deborah, and Margaret, all under age. I give and surrender to William Haven, son of Thomas Haven, all my lands in Humberston given to me by deed by Katherine Lyson. I make my sons Thomas and William Goodhand, exrs., and William Ayscough, Esqr., and Thomas Moryson, my supervisors.
Memorandum 16th March, addition to the Will. To the repair of the "Guyld hall" of Wold Newton xxs. To my sister Drope ij kye.
Prob. 5 Jany. 1573.
See Vis. of 1592, pa. 34.
195.
The Will of JOHN SAGHEVERELL, of Horncastle, Gent. 1 June 15th Elizabeth. To the free school of Horncastle iijs. iiijd., out of the profits of my lease. To Florence Reade C marks, according to the Will of her father John Reade. To each of my four children 40u. when 21. I will that the almshouse under the hall remain to the use of my " brother Raffe Sacheverell his will." To Mr. Moncke, Vicar of Horncastle, ijs. To my brother George Hartgrave my gown furred with fox. To my loving cousin Isabel Johnson vi11. vis. viiid. I make Richard Cooke, Henry Townerowe, and my said brother George Hartgrave, exrs., and Henry Nedome, Esqr., and Mr. Moncke, Vicar of Horncastle, supervisors.
8 July 1573.
A Townerow pedigree in the Vis. of 1562 shows that a connexion subsisted between the testator's family and the Townerows and Hartgraves.
196.
The Will of JOHN FYSHWICKE, of East Saltfleetby, yeoman. 10 Novr. 1572. To be buried in the church, next unto my late wife. To my eldest son Thomas Fyshwicke all my hangings in the hall, and my brasen laver, and iju. vis. viiid. towards buying one couple of oxen. My son in law Christopher Hesselton, and my daughter Catherine. To my sons Pawlle and William Fyshwicke xx11. apiece, and to my daughters Mary and Millesent xx11. apiece when 21. My Duchy lease to my son Thomas Fyshwicke, and my lease of Mr. Rogers in Theddlethorpe to my son in law Christopher Hesselton. I make my brother in lawLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Nicholas Thorn dyke, of Greenfield, and my cousin Roger Skutte, of Louth, exrs., and Sir Henry Cramer, parson of East Saltfleetby, " attorney " to them.
Prob. 18 July 1574.
A good example of a Lincolnshire yeoman. The " hangings in the hall," of tapestry, shows what comforts were found in houses of people of this class. The "Duchy lease" means a lease held of the Duchy of Lancaster
197.
The Will of GEORGE GRANDORGE, Gent., of Donington in Holland. 20 Oct. 1574. To be buried in the church. To my brother William Grandorge Ls. To my wife Dorothy ix11. iijs. iiijd. To Humfrey Bogge vu. To my brother Nicholas Grandorge " one graie amblinge maire I bought of my brother Bogge," and Ls. To my sister Bogge Ls. To Marie Bogge vu. I make my brother Nicholas Grandorge, and my brother in law Gfyles Bogge, exrs.
Prob. 23 Oct. 1574.
See pedigree of Grandorge in Vis. of 1562. The testator's name does not appear in it.
198.
The Will of WILLIAM BRAKENBIJRY, Gent., of Catley. 27 Sept. 1573. To be buried in the church of Digby, as near my mother in law as may be. To my wife Jane, one third of my goods, one silver salt, and my two best spoons. I direct that viJi. xiiis. iiijd., out of my children's portion, be given to " poore maydes' mariadge" according to my wife's discretion. I make my son Anthony exr., and give him the residue. My sons Francis and Thomas Brakenbury, and my daughters Katherine and Margaret Brakenbury. I make William Frobisher and George Yorke, Esqrs., supervisors.
Prob. 21 Feby. 1574.
A family of the name of Bracken bury rose into notice at the beginning of the 18th century, in the person of Carr Brackenbuiy, a lawyer. Possibly the testator was an ancestor. No connexion has been proved with the Durham family of the same name.
199.
The Will of RICHARD MARKHAM, Esqr., of Sedgebrook. 26 Oct. 1574. To be buried in the church. To Katherine Markham Cu. To Abraham Markham and his heirs the " carre close." To my son Richard Markham viu. xiiis. iiijd. Annuities to servants. I make " myne heire " John Markham, and Anthony Thorold, Esqrs., exrs., and my cousins Thomas and Robert Markham, supervisors.
Added on 27th Oct. That when my son William Markham shall enter on Metcalf's farm then Melcalf shall enter on Johnson's farm.
Prob. 8 Nov. 1574, by John Markham.
See Vis. of Notts., 1569 and 1614, published by the Harl. Socy., pp. 23, 24, 25.72
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The Will of FRANCIS PURLEY, Gent., of Farlesthorpe. 1 Deer. 12th Elizabeth (1569). To Dorothy, my wife, my manor of Farlesthorpe, which I lately purchased of Richard Welby, Esqr., for the term of eleven years; to bring up my children till Robert is 24. To my daughters Frances and Anne Purley 40u. apiece when 18. To my sons Edmund, Thomas, and Leonard Purley 40s. a year apiece. I make my wife Dorothy exx., and I make supervisors, Thomas Skearne, my wife's uncle, Edmund and John Skearne, her brothers, and Andrew Sandon, my brother in law.
Prob. 19 July 1584.
According to the Vis of 1562, the testator married Dorothy, daughter of Robert Skerne. Andrew Sandon was the brother of William Sandon, of Ashby-by-Partney, whose Will has been given (No. 152), his wife's christian name is there given as Margaret.
201.
The will of RICHARD AISCOUGH, Gent., of Great Grimsby. To my couin Robert Ustwaite xxs. To my nephew John Aiscough xK. To my nephew Francis Aiscough 40u. Mr. cousin William Barwell. The children of my brother Robert Aiscough. * I make my nephew Francis Aiscough, exr., and my cousin Robert Ustwaite, supervisor.
Prob. 8 April 1576.
Possibly one of the Ayscoughs of South Kelsey. The Ustwaite or Husthwaite family were of Little Cotes, and Bradley.
202.
The Will of ELIZABETH WHICHCOTE, widow, of North Rauceby. 18 Novr. 1576. To be buried in the churchyard. My sons John and Robert Bayt. Bequest to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Edwardes. I make my son in law Edward Bettson, exr. Prob. 7 Novr. 1577.
The testatrix was widow of Nicholas Whichcote, whose Will has been given (No. 189). She had evidently been married previously.
203.
The Will of JOHN ORMSBY, of Partner, Gent. 6 June 1576. " John Ormsby otherwise Dicconson." To be buried in the church. Thomas Littler, Gent., John Wallgrave, Thomas Skipworth, and Thomas Johnson, feoffees of my lands in Partney, and Gayton. My cousin William Ormsby. My daughter Dorothy West. My land in Gayton, bought of Philip Dicconson. I make my son John Ormsby, exr., and Thomas West, supervisor, and guardian of my son Nicholas Ormsby during his minority.
Prob. 3 July 1577.
The Ormsbys, of Partney, came from the family at North Ormsby. In 161G Andrew Ormsby owned 185 acres and more in Partney. See Vis. 1562, pa. 96, where testator is said to marry Katherine, daughter and coheir of Thomas Bryne of Partney.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600	73
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The Will of Sir WILLIAM TALBOYS, of Gautby, clerk. 24 Sept. 1577. To be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, in the chapel of my father, Sir George Talboys, and my mother, Lady Elizabeth. To my nephew Ambrose Willoughby, " a dubble duckett of golde." To my niece Katherine Willoughby, " an olde aungell of golde." The same to Lady Bridget, wife of Mr. Eobert Dymmok, of Scrivelsby. The same to " my Lady Hopton." To Elizabeth Ayscoghe, wife to my nephew Henry Ayscoghe of Blyborough, my mother's marriage ring. My niece Metham. My niece Wyndibank. My niece Walpole. My nephew Walter Ayscough. My niece Anne Dymmok. I make exrs. my niece Dorothy Tempest, my nephew Robert Dymmok, of Scrivelsby, and my nephew Charles Dymmok, to whom I leave " one standing cuppe of sylver and dubble gylte." Prob. 10 Oct. 1577.
The last male heir of the great Talboys family, who through marriage with the heiress of the Kymes, became one of the leading Lincolnshire families during the reigns of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. To understand the relationships in the Will it may be briefly stated that the testator's sister, Elizabeth Talboys, had married Sir Christopher Willoughby, Knt., and his other sister, Anne Talboys, had married Sir Edward Dymoke, Knt., of Scrivelsby. Their respective families are the legatees.
205.
The Will of GEORGE SHEFFIELD, of Tothill. 22 April 1577. To be buried in the Church. To my wife Margaret xx marks a year for her life, and vi silver spoons. To my daughter Alice my silver bowl, and 40u. To my daughter Anne " my lyttel silver peece and my lyttel salte," and 40H. To Katherine Sheffield, daughter of my brother Jasper Sheffield, viH. My sister Elizabeth Wyndell, and her children Thomas and Elizabeth. I make my son in law Richard Alleriston, and my daughter Dorothy his wife, exrs., and give them my lease in Tothill, and my best gilt salt. I make John Sheffield, Esq., of Croxby, and William Simcottes, of Louth supervisors.
Prob. 31 July 1577.
See Will of testator's grandmother, Joan Sheffield (No. 14). He is there called the son of her son Charles Sheffield.
206.
The Will of LION BOLLES, of Quadring, Gent. 4 Feby. 1576. To be buried in the Church. My cousin Anthony Bolles. My goods to be divided into two parts ; one to my wife Mary, whom I make exx-, and to whom I leave my farm; the other to be divided into three parts for my sons Richard, and Lyon Bolles, and my daughter Frances Bolles. My nephew Charles Bolles, Esqr., to bring up my son Richard till he is 21; my brother George Bolles74
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to bring up my other son Lyon Bolles. I make supervisors my said nephew Bolles and my uncle Christopher Holland, Gent. Prob. 5 Feb. 1576-7.
The testator's name does not occur in the pedigree of Bolles, in the Vis. of 1562, but from his mentioning his nephew Charles, and his brcther George, we can conclude that he was a son of Richard Bolles, of Haugh, by Marian Fitzwilliam.
207.
The Will of THOMAS WHICHCOTE, of Dunston, Gent. 24 July 1558. To] be buried ip St. Peter's Church. To my brothers Anthony, Nicholas, Leonard, Ryse, Christopher, and George Whichcote, 40s. apiece. To my nephew Humfrey Whichcote 40s. Residue to my brother Hamond Whichcote, whom I make exr.
Prob. 27 July 1558.
The eleventh son of Thomas Whichcote, of Dunston, whose Will has been given (No. 58). See also his brothers' Wills, Nicholas, of North Rauceby (No. 189), and Edward, of Marston (No. 111).
208.
The Will of ANNE PORTINGTON, widow, of Barton on Humber. 12 June 1558. To be buried in the church of SS. Peter and Paul, within the quire of St. Nicholas before his image. To my brother Nicholas Sutton xxs. To my sister Jane xxs: To my sister Mary xxs. To my niece Ursula Lynsaye xxs. To Edward Tirwhit son of Mr. Philip Tirwhit " my great beade with all things therto perteynynge." Residue to my son in law Philip Tirwhit and my daughter Margaret his wife, whom I make exx. Witness, " Mr. Phyllype chaplyn to the sayde Mrs. Anne Portyngton."
Prob. 7 Novr. 1558.
The testatrix had been the wife of Edward Burnaby, (whose daughter Margaret married Philip Tyrwhit, and brought him a manor in Barton on Humber) and had married a Portington for her second husband. She was the daughter of Hamond Sutton, of Burton.
209.
The Will of WILLIAM CRACROFT, of Burgh in the Marsh. 20 Sept. 1557. To be buried in the churchyard. Bequests to the poor of Burgh, Orby, Bratoft, and Gunby. To my eldest son Robert Cracroft my swan-mark and swans, one silver salt with a cover. To my son Leonard Cracroft Lxxx11. To my daughter Elizabeth Cracroft C'1. To my son Leonard Cracroft xv acres of pasture in Orby, purchased of Anthony Gunby, Gent. My land in Hogsthorpe. To my son Robert Cracroft xx11. To the three children of my brother John Cracroft xx marks. My sons to have their money when 22. My daughter Elizabeth when 15. My capital messuage in Burgh. "The common called Scalflete." I make my wife Elizabeth exx., and she is to " finde my sonnes at scoole honestlie." Symon Fobbe to be her " ayder."
Prob. 27 April 1558.
A branch of the Cracrofts, of Cracroft Hall. The marriage of William Cracroft with Elizabeth Howson took place at Burgh, 30 Jany., 1542. His death is recorded there ; " Mr. William Cracroft, buried, 26 Sept., 1557." The following Will of his namesake and relative is more interesting.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of WILLIAM CRACROFT, of Burgh in the Marsh. 2 Octr. 1557. To be buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's. " I wyll that ther be payde to the minster a certayne whyte rent called mynster fee which is a penny by yere and hath bene unpayde thies xxx. yeres." To the repair of the church bells xs. " I wyll that Pollen house be let for the space of xx. yeres and owte of the same I wyll ther be taken yerely during the forsaide yeres xiiis. iiijd., which I wyll be distributed among the poore." To my son John Cartar's children 40s. apiece. My house at Mosegate." " I wyll that Thomas Cracroft my sonne gyve house roome in the house which I dwell in, that ys to say in the Kytchin, to some poore woman to praye for my soule and all my frendes' soules." I jnake my son Thomas, exr. To Frances Cracroft my son's daughter 40s. To Agnes Cracroft my wife's best gowne. Prob. 27 April 1558.
The burial of the testator is recorded in the Burgh Register "William Cracroft of Moagate buried, 26 April 1558." The marriage, 28 July, 1573, of Francis Banson with Frances Cracroft, may have been thrt of the testator's grand daughter.
211.
The Will of WILLIAM FARMERIE, of Northorpe. 3 Feby. 1557. To be buried in the church of St. John, or the churchyard, as exrs. see fit. To my wife Margaret the house I live in, for her life, unless she marry again. To my daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Alice xx11. apiece. To my son George Farmerie my farm called Lambert farm. To my son Anthony Farmerie my farm that John Bett dwells in. To my son Robert Farmerie my farm in Corring-ham. My part of my sister Newell's house at Heapham to my son John Farmerie. Residue to my wife and sons George, William, Robert, Anthony, and John, whom I make exrs. My plough land in Blyton-carr to my son Anthony. To the high altar of Pilham iiis. iiijd. To the high altars of Scotton and Northorpe xiid. each. I make supervisors John Peike, my wife's brother, and Robert Farmerie, my brother, giving each iijs. iiijd.
Rob. 16 May 1558.
The farmeries do not appear in the Visitations of 1562 and 1692. A branch of the Monsons was seated at Northorpe in the 17th century, and as George Monson is said to have married Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Robert Farmery, of Northorpe, it is most probable that the testator was the grandfather.
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The Will of JAMES HATCLIFFE, of Great Grimsby, Burgess. 19 March 1557. To be buried in the parish church of St. James. I leave the mansion house I dwell in to my wife Margaret, for her to occupy till my son John is 28; if he die, then till my daughter Ursula is 28 j if she die, then till my son Thomas76
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is 28. My said son Thomas is to have my house in South St. Mary's-gate. My son John is to have at my wife's death, a silver salt, a goblet, and half a dozen of my best silver spoons. I make my wife Margaret, exx. John Garbray and Henry Coxson, supervisors.
Prob. 28 April 1558.
Probably a scion of the Hatclifles, of HatclifEe. See his father's Will (No. 99). The widow seems to have married 2ndly, Thomas Maddison, of Grimsby. His Will and her's come later on.
213.
The Will of HAMOND WHICHCOTE, Esqr., of Dunston. 20 August 1560. To be buried where my exrs. shall choose. To my son Thomas Whichcote all my lands, etc., in Melton, in Co. York, of the annual clear value of iiiju. ijs. iiijd., in the occupation of Peter Sisonne, and all my lands in Ryplingham, in the said County, for the term of his life, and to his assigns. Residue to my exrs., viz., all my lands in Goodmanton and Ferriby, in Co. York; Harpswell, Hemswell, Spital in the strete, in Co. Lincoln, for the term of viii years, paying rents to my wife Alice (provided she keep unmarried), and she to bring up my children till they marry or are 24 years of age. The residue to be divided among my daughters as they marry or come to 24. My lands in Dunston, Anwick, and Metheringham, to my wife, for her life. To my son and my heir, parcel of my plate., viz. "xii spoones with gilt knoppes ; a salte with a cover gilte; two bottles with a cover, and my cownter in the (hall T) at Dunston etc." when he is 24. My hangings, my great table, that I bought in London, with the frame; " one Lanceller cheist" etc., these to be given to my son and heir, on the death of my wife. To my brothers George, Nicholas, Anthony, Ryse, and Leonard Whichcote 40s. apiece. To my brother Christopher Whichcote iiju. vis. viiid. To Mr. Anthony Thorold vu. To William Thorold, Esqr., of Marston, xxs. To Humphrey Whichcote xxs. To Mrs. Margaret Thorold my gold ring with a red stone and a head graven on it. To my son Robert Whichcote the ring with the seal of my arms. I make my wife Alice, Anthony Thorold, and my brother Christopher Whichcote, exrs., and William Thorold, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 27 April 1563.
The eldest son of the enormous family of Thomas Whichcote, of Dunston (No. 58). His Brothers Nicholas (No. 189), and Edmund (No. 111). The testator's son and heir Robert Whichcote carried on the senior line, marrying Anne, daughter of Robert Carr, of Sleaford. The other son, Thomas Whichcote, lived at Kyme, where Holies noticed the tomb of his wife, who seems to have been a Savile, of Newton. " Mary the wife of Thomas Whichcote, Gent., died 16 Feby., 1591." Arms Whichcote impaling Savile. Prom the testator's youngest brother and executor, Christopher, descend the Whichcotes of Aswarby.
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The Will of Sir RALPH FAIRFAX, of South Kyme, clerk. 25 June 1560. To be buried in the church of South Kyme. ToLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	77
the poor of Croft in the Marsh xs. To the poor of Thorpe in the Marsh vis. viiid. To the reparation of Kyme Church 40s. To the poor at my burial viu. xiiis. iiijd. To the poor of Kyme xiii11. vis. viiid. To the poor of Metheringham xs. To the poor of St. Thomas of Wainfleet vis. viiid. To the poor of Ewerby, Swarby, and Osbournby, vis. viiid. each parish. To my niece Elizabeth Fairfax, widow, vu. To Elizabeth Fairfax, daughter of my deceased nephew William Fairfax, xu. when she is 18. To my niece Frances Bradley xxu. To my kinsmen Vincent, and Henry Skynner vii. apiece. To my kinsmen Thomas, and John Bradley v11. apiece. To Alice Bradley, daughter of Mr. John Bradley, vH. To my cousin William Grantham and Alice his wife v11. To every one of my poor godchildren xiid. To Sir Robert Edlingtonne, " sometime Chanon of Kyme," vis. viiid. Plate etc. to be divided into four parts, one to my nephew George Fairfax, who has the choice ; the others to my three nephews Humfrey, Thomas, and Richard Fairfax. Residue to nephews George, and Humfrey Fairfax, whom I make exrs., and my nephew John Bradley, supervisor, to whom I leave a gold ring " poiz-an-oze," with a death's head graven on it.
Prob. 24 June 1564, by George Fairfax, power reserved to Humfrey who claimed to prove it, 9 Octr. 1565.
The testator was the last Prior of Kyme, and surrendered his Priory to the Commissioners (who reported excellently well of his character) on the 6 July, 1539. He had been elected Prior on the 27 March, 1511. The pension awarded to him was £30 a year, and another of £5 was granted to Robert Ellington or Edlington, one of the nine Canons who joined with him in the surrender, and who was living when the Will was made. On the 17 Novr., 1535, the testator was presented to the Vicarage of Croft, which was in the gift of Kyme Priory, and which he appears to have resigned, as in 1557 we find him presenting Thomas Scrajfield to the Vicarage which was vacant by the resignation of William Serjeant. In 1568, George Fairfax, merchant of the staple, presented to Croft, Thomas Fairfax, clerk. A glance at the pedigree, given at page 113 of the Vis. of 1562, will show the relationship mentioned in the Will.
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The Will of WILLIAM HILIARDE, Gent., of Great St. Peter's at Arches, Lincoln. 1564. To be buried in the churchyard. My lease from the old vicars to my son William Hiliarde. My wife Joan, and my said son, exrs. Alderman William Scofeld, supervisor.
Prob. 26 Sept. 1564.
" The old vicars," i.e., the Corporation of Priest Vicars.
216.
The Will of ELIZABETH HUSTWAITE, gentlewoman, of Waltham. 25 April 1564. " To the finding of my brother Edward at scoole 40s." To my brother Thomas Hustwaite x11. To my brother William Hustwaite vi silver spoons and xs. To Robert Hustwaite xs. All to be paid out of my child's part which I had by my father's Will, and is now in the hands of Mr. Edmund Skerne, of Waltham. To my sister Mary Hustwaite, clothes, etc. Residue of my goods, in the hands of my cousin Christopher Smythe, of78
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Fenby, I leave to my brother George Hustwaite, whom I make exr., and supervisors my said cousin Smythe and Mr. John Kaie.
Prob. 12 June 1564.
Hustwaite or Ustwaite. The family seem to have been " gentle" but no pedigree is given in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592. Christopher Smythe (ancestor of the Smyths of Elkington) will be found in the Will of William Lilborne. See No. 25.
217.
The Will of ISABEL WOLMER, of Bloxham, widow. 1 July 1564. To be buried in the church. To Marie Wolmer " a purse of gold tesshewe " and one little cross of gold and xs. To Beatrix Wolmer one cross of silver and xs. To Agnes Wolnjer one pair of silver hooks and xs. To Susan and Sara Wolmer, one pair of silver beads and xs. apiece. To Gregory, Jasper, and Samuel Wolmer, xs. apiece. To every child of my daughter Tompson xs. To Euthe Wolmer xs. To my daughter Janie Tompson clothes, etc. To Lancelot and Isabel Burton xs. apiece. To parishes of Brauncewell, Ashby, and Digby, vs. each. Residue to be divided among my children, excepting my daughter Dorothy's part, which is to be settled by my son Gregory Wolmer and his wife Frances. To my daughter Frances a frontlet of gold. To Ruthe Wolmer a frontlet of tawney velvet. I make my son Gregory Wolmer, exr.
Prob. 14 Oct. 1564.
See Will of her son Gregory Wolmer (No. 187). She was the daughter and heiress of Nicholas TJpton of Northolme by his 1st wife.
218.
The Will of Dame KATHERINE HENEAGE, late wife of Sir Thomas Heneage, Knt. lOJany. 1571. To be buried in the high quire of Hainton Church, at the feet of my late husband. To Charles Lord Willoughby, of Parham, " my greate bowle parcell gilte with a cover to the same, and one sylver dyshe that hath my stampe with my Sypher." To my Lady Willoughby his wife, my grandchild, " my black velvet gown furred with wolverne." To William Willoughby, his son and heir, my " gylte goblet with a cover to the same." To Ambrose Willoughby, son of the same, a bason and ewer, with a cover parcel gilt, and four spoons with my u sypher." To Edward Willoughby, another son of the same, two spoons with my " sypher." To Katherine Willoughby, daughter of the same, four similar spoons. To Margaret Willoughby, another daughter of the same, " ij sylver spones with roses on the ends," (all these children under 20 years of age). To my grandaughter Metham, daughter of William Lord Willoughby, of Parham, deceased, "my dragon salte, the shaving pott and the shaving basin of sylver"; a silver dish that hath my stamp, the spiceplate of silver, two stock-salts of silver, two silver spoons, my satin gown furred with " lucernes,"LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	79
To my sister Anne Heneage my black velvet kirtle " and my furre of martenes." To my niece Elizabeth Heneage, of Sixhill grange, my casting flagon gilt. My niece Johan Heneage. My nephew William Heneage's] wife. My goddaughter Mary Skipwith. To my nephew George Heneage, son and heir of my brother John Heneage, my clock that hangs in my chamber. Katherine Heneage, daughter of my brother John Heneage. George Heneage, son of nephew William Heneage. "To Mris. Sythe Coopledyke my nightgown of grogram furred with conye." To William Bougham, son of my nephew Robert Bougham, the silver bowl with a cover that my sister Kyme gave me. My nephew Thomas Thimbleby. Nicholas Wymbishe. Katherine, daughter of the said Thomas Thimbleby. My granddaughter Mary Metham I make exx. My cousin William Fitzwilliam, at Lincoln. I make supervisors, Sir William Skipwith, Knt., and my nephew Andrew Gedney, Esqr. * Prob. 2 Sept. 1575.
Testatrix was daughter of Sir John Skipwith, Knt., of South Ormsby, and had married Sir Thomas Heneage, Knt., of Hainton, by whom she had issue a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, who married William Lord Wiiloughby, of Parham. See Will of her "sister Kyme." No. 163. Mary, daughter of William Lord Wiiloughby, married William Metham, of Bullington, and is the exx. to her grandmother.
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The Will of HENRY BARNABY (BURNABY), of Barton on Humber. 15 April 1563. To be buried in St. Peter's Church, nigh where my father lieth. To Jefferay Calverd and Margaret Barnaby my house in Great Limber, which I had by gift of my uncle Francis Barnaby. To my mother Margaret Pattrick all my child's portion remaining in her hands. To my sister Elizabeth iij11. of the bequest of my said uncle Erancis remaining in the hands of Mrs. Margaret Tirwhit. Residue to my brother in law Jefferay Calverd and my sister Margaret Barnaby, whom I make exrs.
Prob. 15 May 1563.
Philip Tyrwhit, M.P. for Lincolnshire in 1564, acquired a manor in Barton, by marriage with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Edward Barnaby. The testator was evidently a relation.
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The Will of EMMOTE FITZRICHARD, widow, of Great Hale. 6 Oct. 1563. To be buried in the church. To Robert Tebbott the moiety of my lease in Holland. To my son Thomas Tippler vi silver spoons that were his father's. My daughter Jane Browne. To my son William Tebbott and Agnes his wife one silver goblet. To my daughter Jane Fitzrichard my best gold Ting. I make my son William Tebbott, exr., who is to govern Thomas Tippler and Jane Fitzrichard till they are of lawful age. Prob. 6 Novt. 1563.
The widow of Hamond Fitzrichard (see No. 107), who died in 1551. He was probably a relation of Sir Simon Fitzrichard, Knt., of Sedgebrooke (see No. 5). The testatrix had been married previously.80
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The Will of EDWARD EMERSON, of Glamford Brigg. 4 May 1567. To be buried in the churchyard of Wrawby. I leave my children xxu. apiece. I leave my wife xxH. I make my sons Alexander, and George Emerson, exrs. My father and 'brother Alexander are to oversee them.
Prob. 9 May 1567.
The testator's family eventually settled at Retford and became wealthy. A descendant, Wharton Emerson, of Retford, married in 17G2 Anna Maria, eventually sole heiress of her brother Charles Amcotts, of Amcotts, and Kettlethorpe, and Harrington ; was created a Baronet, and assumed his wife's surname. Their only child Elizabeth married Sir John Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire.
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The Will of FRANCIS TOTOFT, Gent., of Revesby. 27 Oct.
1567.	To be buried in the churchyard. I bequeath to my mother, and father in law, one xx'i. that my mother granted me, which was at the death of my own father Anthony Totoft. I make my mother Dorothy Palmer, exx. To Rose, my mother's maid, iiijd. Roger Quadring son of Francis Quadring.
Prob. 13 Novr. 1567.
The testator's mother Dorothy was a daughter of William Quadring, of Irby, by his wife Jane Harding.
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The Will of GABRIEL KYME, Gent., of Friskney. 26 July 1566. To be buried in the church. To my son Thomas Kyme xu-To my daughter Marie viH. xiiis. iiijd. To my daughter Jane vih-xiiis. iiijd. To William Kyme, son of Nicholas Kyme 40s., over and above his portion given by his father's Will. Margaret, Elizabeth, and Grace Roche. To Dorothy, and Marie, daughters of Anthony Kyme, xs. apiece. Residue to my wife Frances whom I make ex .
Prob. 31 March 1568.
The testator was one of the ancient family of Kyme, a branch of which settled at Friskney as early as the 14th century. His brother Anthony Kyme, mentioned in the Will, was Mayor of Boston in 1575. From the testator's son Thomas descended (probably) Nightingale Kyme, of Boston, who died in 1814, the last of his race.
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The Will of THOMAS SCRAFIELD, clerk, of Croft. 7 Sept.
1568.	To be buried in the chancel. To the poor of Croft 40s., to be distributed at my burial. Bequests to poor of Firsby, and North-olme. I make my brother John Scrafield, and my wife Grace, exrs.
Prob. 8 Deer. 1568.
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The Will of WILLIAM BROXHOLM, of Osgarby. 30 Novr. 1557. My soul to God, our Lady St. Mary, and the whole company of heaven. To be buried in the church of St. Andrew, in Kirkby. My lands in Ludford, and Middle Rasen, to my son Henry Broxholm; failing his issue, to my son Robert Broxholm. To my son Robert Broxholm my lease of the parsonage of Market Rasen. I make my son John Broxholm and my wife Ellen, exrs.
Prob. 15 Feb. 1557-8.
226.
The nuncupative Will of ANNE BOLLES, of Boston, late wife to Richard Bolles, Esqr. 5 March 1568-9. To Ursula Bolles her maid xx11. To Margaret Raven her maid viK. xiiis. iiijd. This in the presence of the above Ursula and Margaret, and of Richard Bolles, Esqr.
Prob. 31 March 1569.
According to the pedigree of Bolles in the Vis. of 1562, Richard Bolles married three wives. His last wife was Jane Skipwith. In his Will dated 30 Novr., 1584, and proved 12 July 1591-2 he mentions his wife Margaret and "Elizabeth Raven my wife's sister." It is not easy to reconcile the pedigree with the Wills.
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The Will of JOHN ORMSBY, of Nun Ormsby. (No date.) Myvsoul to^God and the holy company of heaven. To be buried in the church. To my son Robert Ormsby my lands, etc., after the death of my wife, according to her feoffement. I leave him also " one tablytt of golde sett with perle as an ayrlome." To my daughter Margaret Ormsby xxu. when she marry. I make my wife Dorothy, exx., she to dispose of my goods to the health of my soul.
Prob. 16 June 1562.
The second, but eldest surviving son of Arthur Ormsby, of North for Nun) Ormsby. See No. 77. The " tablytt of golde " may be the " crosse " in the earlier Will. The testator's wife was the daughter of Robert Usthwaite or Husthwaite.
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The Will of FRANCIS CRACROFT, Gent., of Winthorpe. 13 Feby. 1569. To the poor of Winthorpe, Addlethorpe, and Ingoldmells. My children Edmund, Daniel, and Jane Cracroft under lawful age. To my son Edmund xu. To my daughter Jane xx11. To my son John Cracroft a silver salt. To my sister Megson xxs. To my sister Langton xs. To my sister Cassander xxs. To my sister Thory xs. I make Mr. Anthony Clamond, Gent., exr.,
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and Lawrence Meres, Esqr., supervisor. My lands in Winthorpe and Burgh.
Prob. 16 March 1569.
An account has already been given of the Cracrofta of Cracroft Hall, (No. 188), and of the branch settled at Burgh in the Marsh. The testator represented another line which separated from the parent stem about the end of the 15th century, and acquired lands in Winthorpe and adjacent parishes. The father of the testator was John Cracroft, of Ingoldmells, whose P.M. Inq. taken 13 Oct. 1537, describes him as holding lands in Ingoldmells and Winthorpe. He left issue Francis, who was aged 4, and a younger son Anthony. The testator's P.M. Inq. is dated 11 May 1570. His eldest son John, who was then 11 years old, was by his 1st wife Katherine, daughter of Hugh Grantham, and sister and co-heir of Robert Grantham, of the Black Monks, Lincoln, and Dunholme. In 1616 Robert Grantham bequeathed his estates in Hackthorn and elsewhere to his nephew John Cracroft and his heirs, and from him lineally descends the present representative of the family, Edward Weston Cracroft, of Hackthorn. By a 2nd wife, whose name is not known, Francis Cracroft had 3 children Daniel, Edmund, and Jane, of these, Edmund Cracroft had a licence, dated 25 August 1600, to marry Elizabeth Howe, spinster, of Goltho ; he being described " of the City of London, Grocer," His brother Daniel Cracroft obtained a licence dated, 16 August 1602 for the Curate of S. Michael's, Lincoln, to marry him to Ursula Lowdon.
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The Will of HUMPHREY LITTLEBURY, Esqr., of East Kirkby. 1 Sept. 1568. To my son John Littlebury all my lands in Hagworthingham; he to pay xxH. to my son Edward Littlebury, " for his exhibition," yearly, during my wife's life. The annuity to cease when Edward becomes a " Counsaler " and able to provide for himself. My lands in Hareby, East Keal, Keal Cotes,and Eaithby. To my daughter Ann Littlebury C marks if she will be ordered by her friends as Sir John Hersey (Hercy) and John Littlebury; if she will not, then to have never a penny. To my daughter Dorothy Littlebury C marks (with similar proviso). To my son John Littlebury my ring with the seal; he to pay vu. I owe to my cousin Denman, in London; I leave him also one silver salt, vi silver spoons, one silver goblet parcel gilt, a flat silver piece, one of my silver pots I bought at London, etc. Reference to an inventory of Lyon Goodricke, deceased, bequeathed to testator's wife Winifred, and Edward Goodrick, her son. I make my wife Winifred exx.; she is to have so many sheep as she bought of George Sapcotts, her brother. I owe xiiiju. to Edward Goodricke, her son. I make Charles Yarborough and Thomas Harrys, supervisors.
Prob. 20 Jany. 1568-9, by ex*. in the person of Thomas Harrys, Notary Public.
The testator had been twice married; Istly. to Ursula, sister and co-heir of Sir John Hercy, Knt., of Grove, in Co. Notts.; 2ndly. to Winifred, daughter of Henry Sapcotts, of Lincoln, and widow of Lyon Goodricke, of East Kirkby. His daughter Elizabeth had married Charles Tarburgh.
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The Will of HELEN MUSSENDEN, gentlewoman, of Little Coates. 1569. To be buried in the church. To Katherine Mussenden xxu. "besides her portion which I have of her's with xxu. to be paid of the forfyture of the obligation that Mr. Bilsbie hath forfitt to me and is in sute, and she to be with my cousinLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Hansherte" (Hansard). To Mary Mussenden Lxvis. viiid. To either of my two sisters xxs. To Thomas Allott vs. To my cousin James Mussenden vs. To Margaret Mussenden vs. To Johan fflente xxH. " and she to be put to Christopher Hatcliffe with her part till she be 20 or be married." I make exr., Mr. Eichard Hansherte, of Little Coates.
Prob. 9 March 1569-70.
Evidently one of the Mussendens, of Healing, but not mentioned in the Visitations. The Hansards, of Little Cotes, -were an offshoot of the South Kelsey family, which had come to an end in Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Francis Ayscough, Knt.
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The Will of JOHN MADDISON", Gent., of Marsh Chapel. 17 Feby. 1568. My sister's children Christopher, and Elizabeth Holland. My wife Ursula. My lands in Grainthorpe which I bought of Richard Maysters, Esq., Doctor of Physic. My daughter Alice Maddison. I make my son Thomas Maddison, and my brother Thomas Maddison, exrs.
Prob. 26 Novr. 1569.
The testator's brother's Will follows. His daughter Alice married Rowland Cartwright.
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The WiU of THOMAS MADDISON", of Great Grimsby. 4 August 1571. To be buried "in the yle callyd St. George yle in parish church of St. James." To the poor of Grimsby xxs. To the poor of Gamthorpe (Grainthorpe) xxs. To the repair of the pavement in Grimsby xs. " To the repaire of the maice that ys borne before the maire of Grimsby," vis. viijd. To Patryk Hunter one blacke gowne, " and he to bear the Rode of my maralte (mayoralty) before me according to the custome." To every one of John Hatclyfs children, except Agnes, xs, and to her 40s. To Margaret Maddison, daughter of my brother Richard Maddison, x11., according to her father's Will to be paid him when of lawful age or married. To Richard Maddison " prentis to John Thornley, of Louth," xs. To every one of my sister Jane Holland's children vis. viiid. To Alice Maddison, my brother John Maddison's daughter, xx11., when of full age or married. The same to his daughter Elizabeth Maddison. If they die without coming to full age, then the money to be divided between Thomas Maddison their brother, and George Maddison son of my brother Richard Maddison. To Dame Anne Maddison " one yonge cowe with calfe and she to chewse one of my iij yonge kye." To Mr. Colthurst, Town Clerk xs. To Thomas Maddison my brother John's son aforesaid " all my armore and artillarye that I have, my casoke of worsted and my beste gowne my newe satten doblet, a newe velvet gerdell and the hyngars (hangers) excepte owte of my armoure viij style capes which I gyve and bequeythe to every alderman of84	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Grymsby one of them. And to Mr. Hansart of Lytell Cotes one stele cape." Lands, etc., to my wife Margaret whom I make ex*., unless she marry again. My lands in Grainthorpe which I lately bought of Mr. Thomas Morisonne, Esq., to George Maddison aforesaid and his male heirs ; failing them to Thomas Maddison aforesaid and his male heirs; failing them to George Maddison's right heirs. To Thomas Maddison aforesaid the land I bought in Grainthorpe, of Eichard Maisters, Doctor in Physic (same entail). " All the glasse and glasse windowes, all the seelinges portalls dores benches nowe standinge and fixed in my dwelling house in Grimsby, and the long table in the dyning parlor, and the long table in the hall, and the standing bested in the parlour withi-n the dyning parlor where I lye, shall remaine within the said house as heire loomes." All deeds, evidences, etc., to be given to the keeping of the Mayor of Grimsby till my nephew George Maddison comes of lawful age. Those belonging to my nephew Thomas Maddison to be given to him directly after my death. To John Hatclyf "my casoke of grogram lade with velvet." To my sister in law Isabel Wylkinson a convenient dwelling house to live in ; my exz. to pay the rent during her life. My nephew George Maddison aforesaid is to remain under the custody of my wife till the Feast of the Purification next ensuing; after that, she is to " Keype and continew hym att wrytinge and Eeadinge to the best furtherance" and thjsn to bind him apprentice to some "mete and convenyent Merchante in hall" (Hull?); his master to have the rents of his lands so long as he is apprenticed. Also I will and devise " my very frende Mr. Eoberte Mounsonne, Esqr., shall have the custodye and brynginge uppe of Alice Maddison," my brother John Maddison's daughter, till she marry or come to lawful age ; if he refuses, then I devise her to my wife and my "frende my ladye Madysonne." I devise the custody of my niece Elizabeth Maddison aforesaid to my wife; if she refuses, then to Ursula Maddison mother of the said Elizabeth. Eesidue to my wife Margaret. I make supervisors Eichard Gooke, Michell Empringham, William Skayles, and Eobert Andesley, alderman. To Mr. John Dion, Esqr., " one horsman's armore wyth helmett" and he to be friendly and helping to my wife.
Prob. 22 Deer. 1571.
The two foregoing Wills belong to two brothers, whose precise relationship to the Maddisons of Fonaby cannot be determined. In 1511 among the State Papers is a grant of lands in "Garnthorpe and Warwholm" (Grainthorpe and Wragholme) made to John MadjBon. He died in 1541, and by his Will, proved on the 8th March of that year, left five sons and three daughters. Thomas, the eldest son, rose in wealth and station to be Mayor, and Alderman, of Great Grimsby. His widow's Will will be given later on. John, resided at Marsh Chapel, and his son Thomas inherited a large share of his childless uncle's property. Richard, left a son George who divided the uncle's estate with his cousin Thomas. Of the three daughters of the grantee of Grainthorpe, Margaret, Hannah, and Jane, we know that Jane married someone called Holland. The question arises what relations were these Maddisons to the Fonaby family ? Sir Edward Maddison had only one brother John, Yeoman Usher to Queen Katherine Howard, but he died without issue male. It may be observed that the testator does not claim any relationship with Anne, Lady Maddison, Sir Edward's widoy, who died at Grimsby in 1591, but only calls her his friend. The presumption therefore is that the relationship, if any, was remote. The Will of the remaining brother Richard Maddison, which follows, does not throw any light on the subject.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of RICHARD MADDISON, of Grainthorpe. 18 Deer. 1562. Wife Elizabeth. Son George Maddison. Daughter Margaret Maddison. Daughter in law Agnes Garman. My leases in Somercotes, Ludney, and Grainthorpe. I make my brothers Thomas, and John Maddison, exrs.
Prob. 18 Jany. 1562-3.
234.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER YILLERS, Gent., of Dowsby. 22 Feby. 1571. To be buried in the Church " in the entering into the chancell." To my brother in law Richard Barker vis. viijd. To his son Robert Barker vis. viijd. To my sister Bridget Barker vis. viijd. To my brother in law Thomas Talbot vis. viijd. To Robert Talbot his son vis. viijd. To Joan Talbot his daughter xiiis. iiijd. To my brother Robert Villers, Gent., vis. viijd. To Jane Villers his wife vis. viijd. To every one of their children vis. viiid. To my brother Thomas Cotton and his children vis. viiid. apiece. To my sister Cristian, whose 1st husband was William Gunwenne, vis. viijd., and her children by him. To my brother Blase Villers, Gent., my ring of gold and xxs. To my mother Jane Villers, gentlewoman, xxxs. To Mr. John Villers, my nephew, son of William Villers, Gent., xxs. -To my brother Edward Villers, Gent., my best gown. Bequests to poor of Dowsby, Dunsby, Rippingale, Grayby, Mylthorpe, and Aslackby. I make my brother Blase Villers, and William Bolton, clerk, exrs.
Prob. ultimo die Feb. 1571.
A Villers pedigree is given in the Vis. of 1562, but the testator does not appear in it. See however" pedigree of Villers of Brooksby, in Vis. of Co. Leicester, 1619. The names of Blase and Christopher are in it, and therefore the testator's family was probably an offshoot.
235.
The Win of NICHOLAS WYMBISH, Gent., of Newton. 12 Jany. 1571. To be buried in the church. To my brother Oswald Wymbish, and his daughters Marie and Ann Wymbish farming stock, etc. To Ann " a litle cheste her awnte did geve her at Ashby standing in the parlor under the north windowe." To her also and her father a silver spoon apiece. To Oswald Wymbish "all rayment excepte one cote I gave to my nephew's son." My daughter in law Dorothy Scochie, my wife's daughter, to take goods to the amount of 4811., which was bequeathed by her father Robert Scochie. "Also I will that Mr. Massingberd of Bratoft Hall in the Marsh be sent for after my death to discharge himself of the bond that he is bound in for me to Mr. Stanley for the payment of the 48u." Residue to my wife Margerie, whom I make exx. My brother Stanley, of Stickford, and my brother Oswald Wymbish, to86
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be supervisors. Witness, Hugh Northorpe, Vicar of Hainton.
Prob. 13 Eeby. 1571.
One of the numerous family of Nicholas Wymbish and his wife Katherine Whiohoote. See pedigree in Yis. of 1562. His father's will (No. 34) gives his mother's name as Margaret, which corresponds with the Whichcote pedigree in the same Visitation. Stanley is meant for Stanlowe.
236.
The Will of ROBERT CONEY, of Morton, Merchant of the Staple. 22 Jany. 1571. To my son Thomas Coney a lease made to me by my nephew Mr. Thomas Coney, of Bassingthorpe, Esqr., of lands in the parts of Holland. To my son Richard Thorold one goblet, 40s., and my nag. To my sons Thomas and Richard Coney, and Richard Thorold, all my wood and timber at Spalding. Residue to my sons Richard and Thomas Coney, whom I make exrs. All my lands in Morton and Boston to my eldest son Richard Coney. My son Richard Thorold to be exr. also.
Prob. 2 March 1572.
The testator's daughter Jane, had married Richard Thorold, of Morton, from whom descended Sir Nathaniel Thorold, Bart., who died unmarried in 1764. The pedigree of the Coneys, of Bassingthorpe is given in the Vis. of 1562.
237.
The Will of MICHAEL EMPRINGHAM, Gent., of Great Grimsby. 30 Sept. 20th Elizabeth. To be buried in the Church porch of St. James, near unto my father. I leave one half of my goods to my wife Margaret, the other half to my sons Gabriel and Raphael Empringham, both under lawful age. My lands in Grimsby, Howton, Tetney, and Waith, and my manor of Beford, in Yorkshire. My son Michael Empringham is to pay annuities of viH. each to Gabriel and Raphael. If Michael die before he is of lawful age, then Gabriel is to pay x11. annuity to Raphael. My wife is to have two thirds of the rents during the nonage of my sons so as to pay debts and legacies. My wife to be exx.; if she die, then my brother John Tbymelby, Esqr., to be exr. I make supervisors my brethren John Thymelby, Esqr., and Richard Thymelby, Gent., and Robert Empringham, Gent.
Prob. 21 Oct. 1578 by John Thymelby, exr., the wife having died.
The Empringhams do not appear in the Visitations, nor in Torke's " Union of Honour," though they seem to have been in a good position at Grimsby and Barton on Humber till the 18th century. See pedigree of Kingston in the Vis. of 1592.
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The Will of RICHARD DISNEY, of Norton Disney, Esqr., 22 Jany. 1577. To be buried in my chapel in the church, " withoute superfluus pompe but decentlie etc." To my wife Jane all my farming stock at Swallow, and North Carlton, and her jewels, etcLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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To my son Daniel Disney " my cheyne of gold, ij standing cuppes of sylver and gilte with their covers, and my best sylver salte gilte with the cover, and one neste of my greatest boules of sylver and gilte with their covers, xii spoones of the xii apostles and all my armor." He to confirm all leases to my tenants in Norton Disney, Morton, and Kingerby. To my wife Jane CCU. in consideration of Cu. paid to her by her brother Sir Francis Aiscough, Knt., deceased, and CCU. for the leases of North Carlton, and Aylesby, to me paid for them. To my brother Francis Disney xxx11., and to his son William Disney x11. To every one of my son Daniel Disney's children vu., and to those of my son Sirach Disney v11. each, and to those of my daughter Susan Amcotts vu. each. To Tsea Gylsland v marks, and to Edward Gylsland v marks; to John Barkworth viu., and to Joyes Grene x11. All such legacies to be paid out of money due to me from my cousin Nicholas Girlington, Gent., as appears by a statute of staple in the hands of my nephew Francis Manby, Esqr. To my godson Eichard Thymelby vu. To my son Daniel Disney "my velvet bonnet with aglettes of goulde." To my son Amcotts " my hatte of velvet with the broche of goulde." To my daughter Susan Amcotts vu. "to make her a cuppe." To my daughter Mary Disney "one ring of goulde with a rubie and one with a diamond." To my nephew Thomas Amory and his wife, iiju. vis. viijd., and the remainder of the lease of the vicarage of Swinderby. To my servants half a year's wages. " I will that the xxxij peces of gold which I was accustomed to accompte with all shall be made in rings, and this posie shall be graven in every ring, Remember thy frende, for suclie is thy ende." These rings to be instead of black gowns. I give my son Sirach Disney 40 marks. I make exrs., Mr. Thomas Moryson and Mr. Francis Manby, Esqrs., and give each xx11., and Eobert Tounley, Gent., to whom I give vi11. xiiis. iiijd. " I most earnestlie requier my especiall frend Sir Christopher Wraie, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of England to be supervisor." He is to take his choice of mv best horse or gelding.
Prob. 28 April 1578.
The testator had married twice; his 1st wife is called Nelle, daughter and coheir of Sir William Hussey, Knt., his 2nd was Jane, daughter of Sir William Ayecough, Knt., and widow of George St. Paul, of Snarford. Her Will is given next.
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The Will of JANE DISNEY, Widow, of South Kelsey. 24 Novr. 1590. To be buried in the church where I may die. To my son George St. Poll, Esqr., "my basin and ewer of silver, my livery pott of silver." To my niece Judith Hatcliffe my " white boule of silver, and my Limbecke to still aqua composita." To my nephew Edward Aiscoughe, of South Kelsey, " my rownde salte cellar of silver with the Disneys and Aiscoughes arms engraven upon it."88
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To my nephew Edward Maddison, of Fonaby, " one of my beste tunnes of silver and vi silver spoons." To my nephew Edward Aiscoughe, of Aylesby, " one of my white tunnes of silver." To my daughter Elizabeth Clifford " my beste boule of silver and gilte with the cover of silver and gilte." My niece Ursula Aiscoughe. To my niece Dorcas Toothbye "my second boule of silver and gilte with one of my best tunnes of silver, my salt sellar of silver and gilte, and half a dozen of silver spoones withoute knoppes wich I bought last." To Lady Wray " my least hoop ring of golde." To my niece Mrs. Anne Manby, of Elsham, widow, " one of my beste tunnes of silver." To my goddaughter " Mrs. Isabell Euljambe ij angells of gold." To my niece Elizabeth Toothby xx11. To George Skepper, of Hull, merchant, vu. To George Allington, Gent., and my goddaughter, Mrs. Jane Allington, a gold ring each. To my daughter Mrs. Frances St. Poll, table linen, etc. To my nephew Francis Mussendine, of Healing, " one ringe of goulde, called Sergeant's ringe." My nephews Francis, and Roger Aiscough, sons of my brother Sir Francis. To my goddaughter Mrs. Jane Aiscoughe, my nephew Edward's daughter, of South Kelsey, C marks. To my nephew Thomas Emory, of Beilsby, 40s. To Jane Waite vu. To Frances Bellingame xxs. My daughter Bridget wife of my son Sirach Disney. To my goddaughter Jane Emory iiju. vis. viiid. To William Aiscough, of East Randall, 40s. To my goddaughter Jane Aiscoughe (my nephew Edward's daughter) and Jane Toothby (my nephew John's daughter) all the remainder of my linen and napery, etc. To Vincent Disney xxs. To Jane Maddison my nephew Edwai-d's daughter xxs. To my daughter Mrs. Faith St. Poll a ring of gold with a ruby in it. To my nephew Thomas Hatcliffe, Esqr., a ring. To Elizabeth Aiscough (my nephew Edward's daughter) of South Kelsey, " my salte cellar of silver and gilt, one of my leiste silver tunnes which I bought last, and one boule of silver and gilt which I bought of John Rudd." " To Raffe Aiscoughe my servant one cople of oxen." To my son Richard Thimbleby, Esqr., Cu. To Elizabeth Aiscoughe, aforesaid, of South Kelsey (my nephew Edward's daughter), "my nowe servante C1*.," to be paid out of money due to me, of which Edward Maddison oweth Lu. To my son Richard Thimbleby, Esq., one dozen of silver spoones, half of them having the boore's head upon the ends, the other half a knoppe." To my nephew George Hatcliffe the elder a ring " and my great arke or chiste which I left at Hatcliffe." I make exrs., my nephew Edward Aiscoughe, of South Kelsey, and my son Richard Thimbleby. My rents in Aylesby and Swallow.
Will signed 25th Novr. Prob. 7 Jany. 1591.
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of 1562, will serve to identify most of the persons named in the Will. Jane Disney must have attained to a great age from the frequent mention of nephews, and nieces, who were really great nephews, and great niecea. " Frances Bellingam," though not named as a relation, was a great niece, being the wife of William Bellingham, of Manton, and the daughter_pf Alexander Amcotts, of Aisthorpe, by Susan daughter of Richard Disney above mentioned.' Jane Disney had five nieces, the daughters of her brother Sir Francis Ayscough, who all married and had families ; Mrs. Maddison, Mrs. Mussenden, Mrs. Manby, Mrs. Hatclifie, and Mrs Grantham, who married 2ndly. George Hatcliffe, brother of her sister's husband, who is called in the Will " my nephew George HatcliSe the elder.' The funeral directions of Richard Disney are worth noting, as testifying to his wish for comparative simplicity. The residence of his widow Jane at South Kelsey, among her own relations, may perhaps account for the favour shown to them in her Will. The pedigrees of the Disney family are at variance as to whether Richard's family came from his 1st or his 2nd marriage. The Vis. of 1562, makes his 2nd wife die S.P. and judging by the tenor of her Will it seems most probable.
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The Will of FRANCIS MOIGNE, of Cadeby. 11th August 1578. Leaves rents, etc., of two parts of his manors and lands in Waith, Gautby, Lissington, Rasen, Lincoln, Tealby, Ludford, and Marshchapel to the payment of his debts, and to his younger son Thomas Moigne towards his bringing up, whom he commits with his elder son John Moigne, and his daughter Susan, to the custody of his cousin Thomas Moryson the elder, and after him to his cousin George Allington. To my cousin Thomas Bowcher, clothes, etc. " I desire my cousin Morrison to be as good unto my tenants in Gawdebie (Gautby) as he can for their recompense concernyng the leases which I fere is not good." Residue to George Allington, the exr. Witnesses, Thomas Mussendine, Thomas Morrison, and others.
Prob. 1 Oct. 1578.
See the Will of the testator's father Simon Moigne, of Willingham (No. 153) and the note appended. George Allington, who is called of Grainthorpe in the Vis. of 1592, had married Jane, daughter of Thomas Moryson, of Cadeby, the testator's cousin. See also the Will of Alexander Moigne of Sixhills (No. 1) the testator's grandfather.
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The Will of GREGORY JON, Esqr., of Grays Inn. 3 April 1578. To my sister Anne Welcome's children, viz., William, Thomas, and Mary Welcome a recognizance, etc., in which my uncle Mr. John Broxholme, and my cousin William Broxholme stand bound for CCU. I leave them also a debt of xH. owing to me by exrs. of the estate of Humfrey Wilson, Gent., of Sheep wash. I make the said children my exrs., and my brother John Jon, and my brother in law Thomas Welcome, supervisors.
Prob. 11 April 1578.
The Jons were seated at Barrow on Humber. See the Will of John Welcome, of Lincoln (No. 122), his son John married Anne, daughter of Gregory Jon, and sister of the above testator, according to the Vis. of 1592, pa. 42 ; but the Will gives the name as Thomas. ku?m;|
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The Win of WILLIAM QTJADRING, Gent., of Burgh (nuncupative). 23 Jany. 1578. Left everything to his wife and daughter.
Prob. by relict Helen Quadring 6 March 1578.
One of the numerous family of William Quadring. of Irby, by his first wife Jatie Harding. See Vis. of 1592.90
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_ The Will of HERBERT THORNDIKE, of Great Carlton. 1578. To be buried in the church. My brethren James and Francis Thorndike. My sisters Margaret, Jane, and Agnes. My brethren Richard, and George Thorndike. My uncle William Thorndike, and his son George. I make my father and my brother George, exrs.
Prob. 7 Oct. 1578.
An ancient yeoman family seated at Carlton in the 15th century, and tenants of the Skipwith family, of Utterby. They appear however in the Visitation of 1634, and are in Yorke's Union of Honour. The celebrated Divine, Herbert Thorndike, Prebendary of Westminster in the 17th century, was of this family. The testator died uumarried. His father's Will follows.
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The Will of NICHOLAS THORNDIKE, of Great Carlton. 22 August 1580. To be buried in the church. My youngest son Francis Thorndike. My daughters Margaret, and Jane. My daughter Katherine Hindemarshe. Francis and Herbert sons of Nicholas Thorndike, of Greenfield. I make my wife Agnes, and my eldest son Richard Thorndike, exrs., and my son George Thorndike, and Nicholas Thorndike, of Greenfield, supervisors.
Prob. 5 Sept. 1580.
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The Will of NICHOLAS GRANDORGE, of Donington in Holland, Gent. 5 Sept. 1578. To be buried in the church. My sister Godayne. To my sister Alice Walpol] an annuity of 40s. I desire that xx gold rings be given with the posie " thinke not to scape deathe." To my sister Collingam an annuity of 40s. for xx years. To my brother William Grandorge an annuity of xu. out of lands at Sutterton devised to my brother Bogge at the yerely rent of x11. To my sister Bogge my silver salt and one of my little silver cups. My sister Hall. To Humfrey Bogge iii11. vis. viiid., and the same to Mary, and Susan Bogge. To Robert Hall, son of Reynold Hall, Gent., " tny little graie nage." To my brother Erasmus Walpoll " my baie nage." My brother John Walpoll shall have " over and above my borde, in consideration of my sickness, vu." My brother Gyles Bogge is to collect all rents with my brother John Walpoll and brother Reynold Hall, and xu. out of them is to be paid to my brother Gyles Bogge for bringing up my son Robert Grandorge till he is 10 years old, and then xxu. a year till he is 21. An account is to be rendered annually to the Mayor and Burgesses of Boston. To my brother John Walpoll vi silver spoons. To my brother Erasmus Walpoll iii11. vis. viiid. To Sara my child's nurse 40s. I make my son Robert Grandorge, and my brother Bogge, exrs., and my brother Walpoll, and my brother Hall, supervisors.
Prob. 2 Oct. 1578.
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The Will of GREGORY GANNOCK, of Sibsey. 1 Deer.
1578.	To be buried in the churchyard. My brother William Gannock. My godson Gregory Gannock. My cousin Thomas Gannock. My brother Gregory Gannock. My brother Robert Gannock. To my son Edward Garmock xu. when of lawful age. My father William Gannock to be guardian of my son during his nonage. I make my wife Johan, exx., and my father William Gannock, and my father in law Thomas Gannock, supervisors.
Prob. by William Gannock, 18th Deer., 1578, the executrix haying died meanwhile.
This family rose into the ranks of the gentry towards the close of the 16th centory. Thej» are in the " Union of Honour." The testator had married his first cousin.
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The Will of WILLIAM EMPRINGHAM, the elder, of Bonby. 1 Oct. 1579. To be buried in the Chancel. My sons Thomas and William Empringham. My daughters Ann Empringham and Isabel Williamson. I make my wife Margaret, who is with child, exx., and Mr. Edmund Skerne, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 30 Oct. 1579.
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The Will of JOHN KYME, Gent., of Stickford. 13 Novr.
1579.	To the "Reedifying of the Church of Bayth, (sic) vid." "To the repare of pourchmouth (sic) vid." To either of my own sisters vis. viiid. To "cossyng Plumtrie vs." To William Kyme my brother's son xxs. To John Kyme my brother's daughter xxs. My sister Grave. Residue to John Kyme my brother's son, and my swan mark. I make my brother in law Stephen Wright, of Stickford, supervisor, my brother's three children aforesaid being all under age.
Prob. 20 Novr. 1579.
" Bayth " may be Bath, and " pourchmouth " Portsmouth. No good pedigree of the Kymes, of Stickford, is given in the Visitations. They are [supposed to be a branoh of the Eymes, of Friskney.
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The Will of LYON KIRKMAN, of West Keal, Gent. 16 Oct. 1580. To be buried in the church of East Keal. My lands in Burgh, Orby, and Ingoldwells to my son John Kirkman, nnder 21, with the lease of Burgh and Winthorpe parsonage, and one silver salt gilt. To my daughter Dorothy Kirkman CO marks when 21, and one jewel of gold. To my mother Amy Kirkman one gold ring. To my brother Leonard Kirkman "one newe never worne blacke sattanne dublett." My brother John Kirkman. My brother92
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Fulstowe. I make my son John Kirkman and my "brother William Kirkman, exrs., and cousin George Bonde, supervisor.
Prob. 14 Novr. 1580.
The Kirkmans, though not appearing in Yorke's Union of Honour, were well connected. Leonard and John Kirkman, two of the testator's brothers, had married respectively Gertrude and Ursula, daughters of Richard Bolle, of Haugh.
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The Will of HENRY BROXHOLME, of Osgarby, in the parish of Kirkby. 2 Jany. 1579. To be buried in the church or churchyard. My lands in Ludford to my wife Alis for her life, then to my son Matthew Broxholme, and Lxxu. To my son John JBroxholme Lx11. To my daughter Mary Broxholme Lu. To Mr. Thimelby xs. To my brother Wetherwycke xs., and to my brother Thomas Broxholme xs., whom I make supervisors, and my wife Alis, exx.
Prob. 8 April 1580.
See teBtator'6 father's Will (No. 225). His wife Alice, was daughter of Oliver Wythern-wyke, of Claxby.
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The Will of THOMAS THORY, Alderman, of Boston. 1 Sept. 21st Elizabeth. To be buried in the church of St. Botulph. To my daughter Elizabeth Thory 40u. when 21/ My lands in Winthorpe which I bought of Mr. Francis Craycroft, and my land in Skirbeck. My sons Leonard, William, and Richard, and John Thory. My daughter Mary Thory. I make my wife Anne exx., and William Skegnes, of Anderby, supervisors.
Prob. 21 June 1580.
The testator had probably married the sister of Francis Cracroft, of Winthorpe (see his Will No. 228), who mentions his " sister Thory." The Thorys helda goodposition among the lesser gentry in Lincolnshire, down to the 18th century. The Will of William Thore, son of Robert Thore, of Ingoldmells, was proved 6 May 1534. He left a son John Thore, and named Thomas Skegnes and Thomas Thore or Thory, exrs. Possibly he was the testator's grandfather. See Will of his son (No. 169) and note appended.
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The Will of JOHN TAYLBOYS, of Raithby, Gent. 5 March 1579. To be buried in the church. My wife Johan. To my mother xs. I make William Tompson and George Wilcockson, exrs. ; they are to pay xiiu. bequeathed by my father " to sexe children."
Prob. 29 Oct. 1580.
See Will (No. 161).
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The Will of ELIZABETH SUTTON, of Washingborough, widow. 23 Deer. 1580. To be buried in the church. To my daughter Elizabeth Sutton C11. To my son Nicholas Sutton theLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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lease of the parsonage of Washingborough, paying yerely to my sons Roger and Hamond Sutton v11. apiece. My brother Nicholas Sutton. My brother William Towers. My brother Charles Fitzwilliam. My brother Thomas Reade. My son Richard Orsbie. I make my son Nicholas Sutton, exr. Prob. 16 Deer. 1581.
See Will of Emlyn Sutton (No. 176) the mother-in-law of the testatrix.
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The Will of WILLIAM CAWDRON, of Great Hale. Jany. 6 1580. To be buried in the church. My wife Marie. My son Robert Cawdron, and my daughters Elizabeth and Elinor Cawdron, all under age. I make my father Mr. George Cawdron, exr. Witness, Anthony Cawdron. Prob. 10 April 1581.
See Will of Elizabeth Cawdron (No. 146). The testator was probably her grandson.
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The Will of THOMAS CAWDRON, of Heckington. 1 Sept. 1582. My uncle Anthony Cawdron. My sister Anne Browne. To my sister Elizabeth Cawdron iiiju. My sister Jeane Whietney. My mother. I make my brother George Cawdron, exr. Prob. 17 Oct. 1582.
Probably another grandson.
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The Will of WILLIAM KEY, of Long Leadenham, the elder. 27 March 1581. To be buried in the church nigh unto my father. To my sons William and John Key a silver spoon apiece. To my wife Annable a silver spoon, and all the land which was her own. Thomas Key son of my son William Key. Alexander Key son of my son John Key. To my son Thomas Key, Master of Arts, xxs. My son William Key's wife Elizabeth, and daughter Jane Key. My son John Key's wife Annes and daughter Ellinor Key. I make my wife and said sons William and John, exrs. Prob. 1 Feby. 1581-2.
The Keys resided at Leadenham down to the middle of the 18th century. John Key was High Sheriff in 1773, and was the last heir male. His sister and heiress married William Reeve, of Helton Mowbray, from whom the present family at Leadenham descend.
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The Will of JOHN KIDDALL, Esqr., of South Ferriby. 29 May 1581. To be buried in the church as near my father as may be. I leave my lands in South Ferriby and Nether Langton to my wife Anne, and my children Thomas, Edward, Adam, Grace, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Ann Kiddall, for vi years, to pa,y all debts,94
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etc. My lands in Beverley, late Craven's lands, are to be sold. My son William Kiddall. To Mr. Stonehurst xxs. to make a sermon at my burial. To my mother Wilson " the parlor next the hall of the kechinge side daring her life." I make my wife Ann, exx., and my cousin Edmund Wakefeld, my brothers in law Bryan Eland, and John Dighton, supervisors.
Prob. 1 July 1581.
See Wills of testator's father and grandfather (No. 114 and 6). His wife Ann was the daughter of John Bland, of Carlton, in Yorkshire.
258.
The Will of FRANCIS SHERARD, of Lobthorpe, Gent. (No date). To be buried in the parish church of North Witham. I make my father Mr. Roland Sherard, Gent., of Lobthorpe, exr. My brothers William, John, Symon, Henry, and Edmund, and my iiij sisters. My uncle Edmund Porter, of Syston, and my aunt his wife. My aunt Katherine Porter, of Belton, and her son John Porter. " As concerninge my wife unto whome I have linked myself in wedlocke in the feare of god 1 give and bequethe juste nothinge because she hath bene unto me a greate hartebreakinge and the onlie cause of this my sickness wherein I have had manie and grievouse pangs and grevses (sic)."
Prob. 27 Sept. 1581.
See Burke's Extinct Baronetage, pa. 479. According to the pedigree the testator's father married Jane, daughter of Augustine Porter, of Belton. The family ended in coheiresses when the Baronetcy became extinct in 1748. Lobthorpe (written Lopinthorpe in the Will) is a hamlet in North Witham.
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The Will of GEORGE BLEASBY, of Bleasby, in the parish of Legsby, Gent. 4 Feby. 1581. To be buried where all my ancestors have been buried, at the discretion of my brother William Blesby, Esqr. His wife " Mystris Dorothy Blesby." My nephew George Blesby's wife Marie. My nephew Philip Blesby. My nephews Daniel and William Taylor. I make my wife Anne, exx., and she is to see my children virtuously brought up. I make my brother William Blesby, and Nicholas Saunderson, of Blesbv, supervisors.
Prob. 26 March 1582.
Bleasby is a hamlet in Legsby. The family resided there from the earliest times, and intermarried with the Tempests, Cracrofts, and Pormonts. Anne, the wife of the testator, was the daughter of Humfrey Littlebury, of Hagworthingham.
260.
The Will of JOHN HILTOFT, of Boston, Gent. 1 Octr. 24th Elizabeth. I make my wife Mildred and my daughter Mildred, exces. My lands which came to me by my brother Richard Hiltoft. My Kinsmen Francis Grene, Alexander Amcotts, Matthew Amcotts his brother, William Gannock, and John Skipwith, are toLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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have all my lands, in the event of my daughter Mildred^dying without heirs, divided among them. My brother William Gannock. To my sister Gannock vu. My daughter is to be ordered and ruled in her marriage by my "nevie Buckworth" and my "nevie Francis Grene," and my cousin George Noble and my friend Robert Watson, of Boston. Lands in Boston, Skirbeck, Friskney, and Wrangle. To everyone of my sisters an angel. If Mr. William Darbie, of Benington, shall redeeme my lands freely from Mr. Carre, of Sleaford, and also one obligation of CCU., wherein I am bound to Mr. Carre for Mr. Darbie, then I give and bequeath to William and Eobert, sons of the said William Darbie, 40H.
Prob. 6 Novr. 1582.
The testator was Mayor of Boston in 1577. See Will (No. 101) of John Hiltoft, of Saleby, probably the testator's father. The daughter Mildred eventually married Sir Nicholas Sanderson, Bart., of Saxby. Matthew Amcotts, of Wickenby, married Mary Hiltoft; and Qawen Skipwitb, of Staine, married, probably, her sister Grace Hiltoft. The connexion with the Buckworth family may possibly have arisen through the marriage of Richard Buckworth, of Wisbeach, with Rose Skegnes; as in the Will of Thomas Skegnes, of Skendleby (No. 149), a legacy is left to Richard Hiltoft, Gent., and Rose is the name of one of the testator's daughters.
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The Will of ROBERT SKERNE, clerk, of Wyham. 17 Sept. 1559. To be buried in the choir of the Church. My nephew Edmund Skerne, of Waltham. My nephew Robert Skerne's children. My cousin William Roche's children. My cousin Thomas Skerne's wife. My cousin Sandon's wife and children. My cousin Edward Hustwaite. Dorothy Lacie "late nunne of Thixill Abbey." My cousin Edmund Skerne, of Hotham, in Yorkshire. My niece Purley. My nephews Robert and John Skerne. I make my cousin Thomas Skerne, exr. Witness, Francis Purley.
Prob. 8 April 1561.
See his brother's Will (No. 81). " Thixill" is Sixhills.
262.
The Will of JOHN PALMER, of Boston. 24 Octr. 1581. To my wife Alice C marks, etc. To my brother William Palmer 3 parts of 94 acres of pasture lying in Walpolle, part holden of the Queen as of her manor of Walpolle, and of the Earl of Arundel as of his manor of West Walton. To Richard, son of Robert Palmer 40s. To my brother Mathie Palmer my lease of Leverton Parsonage. To my father Hardye and my mother vu. To my brother Leonard Palmer's iiij children xx11. To my brother William Palmer's ij children x11. To my sister Margaret Hamerton vH. To the poor of Wiuthorpe xs. To my cousin Heneage Lxvis. viiid. To Mr. Thomas Hunston and Mrs. Dorothy Hunston xs. each. To my cousin Pell's wife xs. Residue to my brethren Leonard Palmer and96	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Gilbert Hamerton, whom I make exrs. I make Mr. William Hunston, Esqr., supervisor. Witness, John Hardye. Prob. 28 March 1582, at Horncastle.
The testator came of a family long settled at Winthorpe in the Marsh. An epitaph in the Church still exists to a Robert Palmer, who died 10 May 15J5, probably his grandfather. His brother Leonard Palmer lived at Burgh, and a brass in the church describes him as having had 5 children, Christopher, Robert, Elizabeth, Mary, and Ellen. He died on the 8th March, 1610, aged 70. Another brother Matthew Palmer has a tomb in Cripplegate Church, London. He was in the exchequer, and married Ann, daughter of Roger Raven, by whom he had 4 sons and a daughter: Thomas, Edward, Andrew, Ralph, and Elizabeth; he died 18 May 1G05. Margaret, one of the testator's sisters, married 1st, Gilbert Hamerton, of Horncastle, and 2ndly, William Parker.
263.
The Will of MARGERIE WYMBISHE, of Bolingbroke, widow. 16 June 1582. My sister Wymbishe, and her daughter Anne Wymbishe. Richard and Robert Neylson, my daughter's sons, to be " ordered " by my brother Mr. John Stanlowe. My daughter Dorothy Neylson. I make my son in law Thomas Neylson, exr., and my brother John Stanlowe, supervisor. Witnesses, Oswald Wymbishe, and Raphael Throgmorton, minister of Bolingbroke. Prob. 29 Novr. 1582.
The Will of her husband Nicholas Wymbishe is given (No. 235). She was the daughter of William Stanlowe, of Stickford, and married for her first husband Richard Scoche, of Potterhanworth, Her sister Helen married Oswald Wymbishe her husband's brother, whose Will follows.
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The Will of .OSWALD WYMBISHE, of Bolingbroke, Gent. 4 Feb. 1588. My nephew Charles Wymbishe my brother's son. My nephew Thomas Wymbishe of Boston's son, Ryse Wymbishe. My daughter Ann Wymbishe. I make my wife Ellen, exx., and my brother in law Mr. Stanlowe, of Stickford, supervisor. Prob. 9 April 1589.
265.
The Will of THOMAS FORCETT, Gent., of Thoresthorpe. 3 Oct. 1583. To Saleby Church xiid. To my wife Johan 40s. My daughter Elizabeth Forcett under age. I make my son Robert Forcett, exr., and William Hastings, supervisor.
Prob. 17 Oct. 1583, by Richard Watson, and Robert Whyte, guardians of the children, the exr. being under age.
A family of this name were seated at Bilsby.
266.
The Will of HELEN HAMERTON, widow, of Horncastle. 23 August 1582. To be buried in the church, near unto my husband Thomas Hamerton. My sons John and James Hamerton. I make my son Gregory Hamerton, exr., and Mr. Thomas Rands, and Mr,LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Thomas Taillor, supervisors, to each of whom I give a silver spoon. To my daughter leuce (Lucy 1) my maser.
Prob. 18 Sept. 1583.
A family which probably came from Yorkshire, and continued at Horncastle down to the 18th century.
267.
The Will of THOMAS WOLBY, of Firsby. 1 Sept. 1583. To my daughters Elizabeth, Johan, and Jane L!i. apiece. My lands in Firsby, Irby, and Steeping. My 28 acres in Thorpe, late my father John Wolby's. My sons Richard and Josias Wolby. Josias to be kept at school till 14. I make my cousins Vincent and Symon Wolby, exrs., and my brother Symon Wolby and Robert Wilson, supervisors.
Prob. 12 Oct. 1583.
The Wolby family acquired considerable wealth towards the close of the 16th century, and were seated at Burgh, Thorpe, and Bilsby.
268.
The Will of SUSAN CONINGSBY, wife of Thomas Coningsby, Gent., of Ilmer, in Co. Bucks. 4 June 1583. To be buried in the chancel by my late husband Thomas Rawlyth, of Ilmer, of whom I am exx. To my son William my wedding ring. To my son George a Turkey ring. To my daughter Dorothy a grogram gown. To my daughter Lyer a ring and a chain of pearl and gold. I make my husband Thomas Coningsby, exr.
Prob. at Aylesbury 12 June 1583.
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The Will of JOHN LANGTON, of Langton, Esqr., 4 May 1583. To be buried in the church. Bequests to tbe poor of Langton and Horncastle, and the Church of Saucethorpe. I leave "unto my verie good lord the lord Willoughby of Earesbie my browne bay geldinge with two whit feet behinde." To my wife Amy " two silver boules, one salte duble gilte, and the half of all my silver spoons," and half my household stuff at Langton and Horncastle, and the lease of my dwelling-house at Horncastle. To my son and heir John Langton " one neste of silver tunnes " with their cover, and the other half of all my silver spoons. To my cousin John Jenney " my yonge baye nagge called Emson." To my eldest daughter Anne x11. To my daughters Rosamond, Marie, Thomasyne, Sithe, and Bridget Langton, C11. apiece when 21 or married. My exrs. to receive rents and use one third part of my rents of my Manor of Langton for 10 years so as to pay all debts, etc. Provision for the child my wife is now with. I make my
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cousin Mr. Thomas Copledike, and Thomas Batcheler, of Skendleby, exrs. My sons William, John, and Henry Langton.
Prob. 1 June 1583.
It is easy to identify the testator in the Visitation pedigree of 1562. His relationship with the Copledikes and Jenneys was through the Littleburys.
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The Will of THOMAS MADDISON, of Fulstrope, in the parish of Trusthorpe. 29 June 1583. To be buried in the churchyard of Trusthorpe. To my wife Isabel the Mansion house wherein I now dwell. To my daughter Elizabeth Emerson 40s. My brother John Maddison. My sister in law Jane Maddison. My son in law Robert Emerson. To my brother Nicholas Maddison xs. My son in law Emerson is to redeem the land he farms, and the Cu. which he is to pay is to go to my son Richard Maddison with the 40u. more I give to him; if he does not redeem it, then the house, etc., he lives in is to go to Richard Maddison. Residue to my wife Isabel and my son Thomas Maddison. I make my sons Thomas and Richard, exrs., and the Right Worshipful Mr. William Fitzwilliam, my good master, to be supervisor.
Prob. 3 August 1583.
The testator was the first of the Trusthorpe Maddisons who appear in the Vis. of 1634. The pedigree begins with his sons Thomas and Richard. Thomas married twice, and had issue by both wives. Richard had one daughter who married Thomas Saunderson, of Gainsborough, a younger son of Richard Saunderson, of Saxby. The family continued at Trusthorpe till the beginning of the 18th ceutury. Although in 1634 they claimed the same arms as the Maddisons, of Ponaby, there is no trace of any connexion beyond the name. Neither can they be connected, with any certainty, with the Maddisons, of G-rainthorpe, and Withern.
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The Will of JOHN SKEGNES, of Addlethorpe. 14 Novr. 1582. To be buried in the churchyard. My wife Alice. My daughter Jane Skegnes. My sons Edward, William, and Leonard Skegnes. My sister Marie. Margaret Skegnes. I make Thomas Hall, senior, of Candlesby, exrM and my brother in law John Burley, clerk, supervisor.
Prob. 1 June 1583.
See Will (No. 149) of Thomas Skegnes, of Skendleby. The testator was evidently a relation.
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The Will of Sir THOMAS ST. PAUL, Kn$. (No date.) To the ladie Sanctpoll, my wife, for her life, my manor of Melwood, in the Isle of Axholme, and my manor of Dunstall; my cattle at Snarford, etc. To Sir Christopher Wray, Knt., Thomas Moryson, Esqr., and Mr. Thomas Taillor, Gent., one third of all my fee simple lands for 8 years to pay my debts and legacies, etc.; they are to sell my moiety of the parsonage of Missen, my manor ofLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Bradley, and my moiety of the parsonage of Stallingboro. To my mother xx nobles rent out of Swallow in consideration of her annuity. To Nedham my servant v11. a year for life. To Thomas my horsekeeper four marks. My Will is that the School of Rasen should have an exhibition of xvii11. a year out of my lands so that my wife's lands be not charged. I leave DCC11. in Lord Chief Justice's hands to pay my debts. To Thomas Moryson, junior, my lands in Ludford.
Schedule of debts owed by testator.
To my father Taillor CIA for which he must have xvu. and Lxxx11. which he must have at Michaelmas come 12 months, which I would have my exrs. pay with a bond of Mr. Sanderson's for Lxxx11. To one Westwraie in London I owe DIA to be paid 1st Novr. next. I owe to John Browne IA To Dickonson, of Faldingworth, I owe xxu. To my cousin Robert Grantham Cxxxiv . To John Blake xx11., for which I promised him a lease of a farm in Aylesby for Lxs. To my cousin Richard Hanshard xx11., and to Midleton xxu., and to Smythe Lxs. To Mr. Hollingworth I do not know what but no great matter. To the eldest Robinson 4011. To Mr. Broxholme ML11.; of this CC". is to be paid on 1st Sept.; CC11. at Candlemas; Cu. at Easter; CC11. at Lammas; CCH. at Michaelmas, and at Martinmas CLii. To my cousin Edward Ayscough I owe v11. for wood at Missen.
Schedule of debts owed to the testator.
Mr. Madysonne Cx11.; Mr. Saunderson Lxii.; Mr. Thomas Hatcliffe xx11.; Dr. Maisters 40H.; Mr. Smythe, of Lincoln xxxii.; Mr. Southill xii. (and others). My son is to pay to his mother C11. when he comes of age, and to give his sister MX when she is 16, for which I let the manor of Dunstall descend to him at the death of my wife, and the reversion of my lands in Aylesby, Laceby, and Swallow, as well after the death of my mother as of Mrs. Skipwith my aunt. I desire my feoffees to help Edward Ayscough with the CC11. which Sir Roland Howard hath promised to pay. " I would wish that my exrs. made offer to give CCX11. rent for Snarford because my game might be preserved and my house mayntayned," " and I desire most hertelie my most assured frende Mr. Thomas Taillor, whose frendship I must confess hathe been to me of a stranger most wonderful, that he will take execution of my testament, and then I give him xx11. more. I do not mystrust but my good lorde the Chief Justice as well for frenship alwaies showed unto me as also nowe for his sonne will take execution therof also, and that my brother Morisonne will faithfullie joyn with them." I give to my sister Morison iij gold rings. " And because the present marriage of my sonne shall sett me in this good estate 1 pray my Lord that the day appointed be kept," etc. " My ladie Clynton doth owe me xx11. but X doubte howe it will be got although100
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I pay interest for the money to Browne." My exrs. are to render an account to my son when he comes of age. " Mr. MadySonne is to have for this yere's rente 40u." To each of my exrs. xx11. Witnesses, Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief .Justice, Mr. Nicholas Girlington, Esqr., Mr. Dr. Bradley, Thomas Taillor, and others.
Prob. 18 Sept. 1583.
The testator had been knighted on the 20 Novr., 1580. He can be easily identified in the pedigree of 1562. The Will of the testator's widow follows.
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The Will of DAME FAITH St. PAUL, of Grimsby, widow. 9 June 1589. "To my son George St. Poll, Esq., one basin and ewer of silver with his arms graven on it, and iij candlesticks of silver, and CH. he oweth me." To my daughter Faith St. Poll both my chains of gold and the residue of my silver plate, when she is 17. My brother Thomas Grantham and sister Rokeby to make an inventory. My nephew Thomas Saunderson, son of my late brother Robert Saunderson deceased. My nephew Thomas Grantham, second son of my brother Vincent Grantham,late of Goltho, deceased. To my sister Rokeby Cu. her husband oweth me. To my daughter St. Poll my perfuming pan of silver. To each of the youngest sons of my cousin Browne, deceased, x11. when 21. My niece Faith Saunderson. My niece Guevara. To my cousin Amcotts xu. and a " durance petticoate." My sister Grantham. To my niece Askewe a ring, and a ring apiece to my niece Saunderson, niece Missendyne, niece Moryson, cousin Hatcliffe, cousin the old Mrs. Marburie, niece Allington, and Mrs. Chamley. To Mary Trusdale some linen. My niece Jane Grantham, daughter of my late brother Vincent. To my brother Angevine vii. To my niece Francis Angevine some linen, etc., when she marry. My nephew Thomas Sanderson and his sister Katherine. To my cousin St. Poll of Campsall "my serjiante ringe." To my father Taylor a ring. I make my daughter Faith St. Poll, exx., and my son George St. Poll, supervisor. Witness, Rafe Rokeby and others.
Admon. given 26 August 1590 to Thomas Grantham and Katherine Rokeby, the exx. being a minor.
The connexion with the Moryson family, mentioned in this and the preceding Will, arose thus : Bridget, daughter of Sir William Hansard, of South Kelsey, married Vincent Grantham, and had a daughter Faith, the testatrix, wife of Sir Thomas St. Paul. She had married previously Thomas Moigne, of Willingham, attainted for treason in 1537, and had had 2 daughters, of whom Elizabeth married Thomas Moryson, of Cadeby. The " brother Angevine " and the " niece Prances Angevine "elude identification. No trace of any such connexion occurs in the pedigrees of the St. Pauls, Granthams, or Angevines. The mention of the cousin St. Paul, of Campsall, is interesting, because the son of the testatrix, Sir George St. Paul, created a Baronet in 1611, dying without issue in 1614, bequeathed a large portion of his landed estate to the heir male George, son and heir of John St. Paul, of Campsall, in Yorkshire.
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The Will of WILLIAM BLEASBY, of Bleasby, Esqr. 16 Octr. 1584. To be buried in church " in myne owne quier amonge myne ancestors." To my brother Philip Bleasby 40s. a year forLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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his life out of Bilcliffe's farm. To my brother Anthony Bleasby the same. To my son Philip Bleasby v marks for life yearly, " out of the litle Rydings in tenure of Munckton." To my nephew Daniel Powell xiiis. ivd. a year for life out of Bilcliffe's farm. To my brother in law Daniel Powell 40s. To my nephew William Powell 40s. To my son George Bleasby my gray nag, and to his wife my little gray mare. To my son Philip Bleasby my bay gelding. To my wife Dorothy my bay mare. Residue to my son George Bleasby, whom I make exr. He is to dispose of my goods, etc., " to God's honour and the health of my soul." I make my cousin Thomas Hansard, supervisor. Prob. 4 Deer. 1584.
The formula used by the testator respecting the disposition of his goods rather implies that the Bleasbys had adhered to the old religion, like the Bilsbys, Eeneages, and Thimblebya. His -wife Dorothy, whose Will follows, had been previously married to Francis Purley, of Farlesthorpe, and the Vis. of 1562 describes her as the daughter of Robert Skerne. See also the Will of George Bleasby, a brother of the testator (No. 259).
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The WiU of DOROTHY BLEASBY, of Farlesthorpe, gentlewoman. 16 March 1589. To be buried in the church. To the repair of the church vis. viiid. To my sons Edmund and Thomas Purley x11. apiece out of money owed to me by my son in law Robert Southill, which he had for my daughter, Anne his wife. My son Leonard Purley, Dorothy, and Susan Knightbridge, the children of my son in law Edward Knightbridge, of Farlesthorpe, (whom I make exr.) and my daughter Frances his wife. Elizabeth and Frances Southill, children of my son in law Robert Southill, and my daughter Anne, his wife.
Prob. 12 Octr. 1591.
The testatrix does not mention any of the Bleasby family, so we may assume that she was not the mother of William Bleasby's children. See Will of her 1st husband Francis Purley (No. 200).
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The Will of THOMAS TOTHEBY, of Bilsby, yeoman. 13 Deer. 1589. My wife Margaret. My daughters Mary, Katherine, and Alice. My daughter Helen, wife of Edward Wilson. My late brother William Totheby, deceased. My son in law Edward Blanchard; Ann Aplegarth, my sister's daughter. To Francis Totheby, of Ashby xxs.; his brother Thomas Totheby. To Mr. Richard Totheby, son of John Totheby, Esqr., one ewe. To his brother William Totheby, one ewe. To Elizabeth Totheby, his sister, one ewe. To Jane Totheby, one ewe. Residue to my four daughters, of whom I make Mary, exx., and supervisors Mr. John Totheby and Mr. George Jonson. Prob. 22 Deer. 1589.
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The Win of ELIZABETH WOLBY, of Bucknall, widow. 12 April 1583. I leave one half of my lands in Thorpe and Mumby Chapel to my brother Edward Earle for life, and the other half to my sister Grace Noddle for life. At his death his moiety is to go to William Earle and his heirs male; failing them, to his brother George Earle and his heirs male; failing them to the heirs male of George Earle their father; failing them to Vincent Earle and his heirs male; failing them to Martyn Earle, the younger, and his heirs male; failing them to Martyn Earle's heirs male their father. (Similar entail of the other moiety on Martyn Earle the younger, and his brother Vincent Earle.) My brethren George and Martyn Earle, and my sister Marie Ditton. To my brother Martyn Earle the piece of gold which was my husband John Cooke's. My sisters Bridget and Margaret Earle. My cousin Vincent Wolby's wife. My cousins Elizabeth Walles, Alice Walles, William Walles, and Nicholas Walles. To my niece Mildred Ditton the gown that was my husband Wolby's wife's. My cousin Clement Cooke. I make exrs. my brethren George and Martyn Earle, and my cousin Sir Arthur Wright, supervisor.
Prob. 1 June 1583.
The testatrix had been twice married, and her 2nd husband was a Wolby, of the Thorpe or Burgh family. It is remarkable that her brother Martyn Earle married Bridget, daughter of Richard Wei by, of Halstead. (See Welby pedigree in the Vis. of 1562). It is possible of course that the name Wolby may be a variation of Welby, and the name Wilby another ; but there is no decisive proof. It is curious too that the christian name of Vincent should have been common to both Wolbys and Welbys. See also (No. 267).
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The Will of WILLIAM BOOTH, of East Kirkby, yeoman. 31 Oct. 1584. My brother George Booth's children in Cheshire. My brother Edward Booth's children, of Eand. George Booth, of Thorpe. Thomas Booth, my brother's son. Six Thomas Scales and John Scales, my sons in law, I make exrs.
Prob. 12 Feb. 1584-5.
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The Will of JOHN BURGH, Gent., of Saltfleetby St. Peter. 9 Deer. 1584. To be buried in the church. To my nephew Robert Burgh iij silver spoons, etc. My sister Agatha. My cousin Richard Burgh, of Waltham. My cousin Elizabeth Hansard. My sister Marie's children. My brother Charlesworth. To my cousin Thomas Yarburgh my Calvine's Institutions, my book of prayers and meditations in English. Elizabeth Westmorland, my sister Agatha's daughter. My sister Ursele's daughter. To my goddaughter Alice Newcomen a silver spoon. To my nephew Robert Burgh my swan mark and my swans. Residue to be dividedLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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among my brethren and sister's children. My lands in Saltfleetby St. Clement. I make my cousin John Newcomen, junior, exr., to whom I give my young stoned horse called Winter. I make Sir William Stanehouse, parson of South Ferriby, supervisor.
Prob. 11 Feb. 1584-5.
His mother being Mary Newcomen, daughter of Martin (see Newcomen and Burgh pedigrees in Vis. of 1562,) accounts for the mention of that family. His wife had been Anne, daughter of Christopher Yarburgh, and grand-daughter of Charles Tarburgh, by Elizabeth Newcomen, sister of his mother.
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The WiU of MARY BURGH, of Saltfleetby St. Peter, widow. 23 Jany. 1579-80. To be buried in the church. To my cousin Mary Newcomen, my goddaughter, a silver spoon and a possnett." To my goddaughter Ellen Newcomen xiid. To my daughter Agatha Westmorland vis. viiid. To my daughter Mary Stanehouse vis. viiid. My clothes to be divided among my own daughters and my daughter in law Ann Burgh. My nephew Robert Burgh. I make my son John Burgh, exr., and my nephew John Newcomen, senior, supervisor.
Prob. 6 Oct. 1584.
This is the mother of the preceding testator. She must have been very old as her father Martin Newcomen's Will wos proved in 1540 (see No. 65), see also her mother's Will (No. 92), where her daughter Agatha is mentioned, who in the Visitation pedigree is called Agnes. The following Will is of another member of the family.
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The WiU of WILLIAM BURGH, husbandman, of Skidbrook. 31 March 1584. To be buried in the church. I leave to my son Henry Burgh and his heirs all my lands, etc.; failing his heirs, I leave them to my kinsman John Burgh, of Saltfleelly, except those lands which came to me by inheritance from my father, which go to the heirs of my brethren Robert, and Nicholas Burgh, deceased. To my son Henry Burgh xx11., ij silver spoons and a silver " pynne." I commit the custody of my son to Mr. Thomas Massingberd, of Saltfleetby, and he is to " chuse my said son a meet and honeste wife." To my daughter Bridget iija. vis. viiid., and my kinsman Robert Burgh, of Saltfleetby, is to have the custody of her. To William son of my nephew Robert Burgh, a lamb. 1 make my said son Henry, exr.
Prob. 25 Sept. 1585.
282.
The Will of EDMUND BOOTH, Gent., of Swineshead. 20 Sept. 1584. To be buried in the church " withoute enie relicke or oeremonie whatsoever but as becometh the creature of god." To my wife Ursulay, whom I make exx., my lease of Mr. Conye. My children Gregory, Edmund, Raffe, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Barbery Booth all under age. Prob. 14 Oct. 1584104
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The Will of GEORGE BOLLES, of Saltfleetby All Saints, Gent. 9 Deer. 1583. To be buried in the church. My son in law Christopher Garbray owes me Lxu. I leave of this xx!i. to his eldest son, with vi silver spoons of the Apostles, and to his youngest son Eichard xxh. and vi more silver spoons. To Henry Bolles my reputed son iijH. vis. viijd., and to Francis his eldest son iiju. vis. viijd. To Lyon Bolles son of my late brother Lyon Bolles v11. " if he return safe from beyond sea." To Richard, John, and Jane, my brother Richard Bolles' children, and to John and Katherine, my nephew Charles Bolles' children, vis. viijd. apiece. To my nephew Leonard Craycroft's son, and to my nephew John Kirkman's children vis. viijd. apiece. Residue to my son in law Christopher Garbray and his wife Elizabeth my daughter, whom I make exrs., and my nephew Charles Bolles, and my neighbour Thomas Massingberd, supervisors.
Prob. 31 March 1584.
The tesator, who was a younger son of Richard Bolles, of Haugh, had married Katherine daughter of Bryan Newcomen, of Saltfleetby. See the Will of his brother Lyon Bolles, of Quadring (No. 204), who commits the care of his son Lyon Bolles to him.
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The Will of GILBERT HAMERTON, Woollen draper, of Horncastle. 18 June 1584. To be buried in the c,hurch. To my wife Margaret, for life, my lands in Fulletby and Horncastle ; then to my brother Thomas Hamerton, and his heirs male; failing them to my cousin Nicholas Hamerton, son of Hugh Hamerton, of Darby, next to Burton on Stather, and his heirs male; failing them to my right heirs. To Christopher Palmer, son of Leonard Palmer, of Burgh, 40s. a year out of my lease in Claxby Pluckacre, for the years of the lease ; 40s. also out of the same to William Palmer, son of William Palmer, of Tetford. To my wife CCH. and 40H. to the " fynishinge of my house newlie buylded in Horncastle." To my wife the leases of two closes in the Southings of Nether Toynton, one of them late in the tenure of John Langton, Esqr., and the other now in my tenure lately purchased by William Hutchinson of Thomas Newcomen, Gent., deceased. To the governors of the Free School at Horncastle, xx11., " to be lent by them yearly to 20 poor occupiers in Horncastle for ever," the borrowers to put in due security. To my brother Thomas Hamerton xxu. worth of clothes. To Clement Moncke, Yicar of Horncastle, 40s. To Richard Wolbie my apprentice my gray packhoise. To my brother Leonard Palmer my black gelding. To my brother William Palmer my horse called Sereby. To my brother Richard Walesby 10 ewes. To my brother William Norton, son of Richard Norton, of Gainsborough, x11. Residue to my brother Leonard Palmer, whom I make exr., and I make John Neale, supervisor.
Prob. 23 July 1584.
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The Will of MARGARET LITTLEBURY, late wife of Thomas Littlebury, Esqr., of Stainsby in the parish of Ashby Puerorum, widow. 2 Jany. 1582. To be buried in the church of Ashby near unto my husband. Bequests to the poor of Ashby, Greetham, Salmonby, Somersby, Bag Enderby, and Hagworthingham. I leave the lease of the parsonage of Maidenwell, and the sheepwalk thereto to my sons George, and Edward Littlebury. To my daughter Ann wife of Thomas Grantham x11. To my daughter Elizabeth Fitzwilliam xH. To my daughter Katherine Wythornewyke v11. To Thomas Dighton, son of Christopher Dighton, deceased, x11. To Francis Atkinson, my " warrenner," xxs. Refers to a schedule of plate, etc., bequeathed by husband to his deceased son Humfrey Littlebury, to be handed over to Thomas Littlebury, son of the said Humfrey. I make my sons John, Andrew, Edward, and George Littlebury, exrs., and my sons Wythornewyke, Charles Fitzwilliam, and Thomas Grantham, supervisors.
Prob. 15 Jany. 1584, by Edward Littlebury; power reserved to the other exrs.
The testatrix was the daughter of John St. Paul, of Snarford, by his 1st wife. See pedigree of Littlebury in the Vis. of 1562, which is illustrated by this Will. The name of Anthony in the pedigree is probably a blunder for Andrew.
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The Will of ROBERT FRISKNEY, Gent., of Benington. 16 Sept. 1585. To be buried in the church. I make my wife Catherine, ex*. My wife's daughter. My brother's children. My sister Ellen's children. Witnesses, Mr. John Friskney, and Mr. William Darby.
Prob. 26 Sept. 1585.
See pedigree in Vis. of 1662. The testator was one of a family formerly of knightly rank and allied with the most distinguished families in Lincolnshire, the Friskneys of Friskney; but now rapidly verging to decay. They were knights of the shire as early as 1306, but they disappear in the 17th century.
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The Will of JOHN FAWNE, yeoman, of Skendleby. 7 Novr. 1585. My soul to God, Jesus Christ, " and all the blessed companie of heaven." To be buried in the church quire. To my daughters Margaret and Anne xx11. apiece. My aunt Raytheby of Louth. My brother Edward Ashe. My father Ashe is to be guardian to my son Roger Fawne under age. My lands in Skendleby, and Markby. I make my wife Margaret, who is with child, ex*.
Prob. 23 Feb. 1585-6.
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The Will of KENELM IRBY, Gent., of Sutterton. 8 Jany. 1585. I make my daughter Mawde, exx. under age. My son also under age. I desire my wife Mary to be good to him, and to educate and bring him up, most of my lands having been conveyed to her use. My leases held of Mr. Anthony Browne.
Prob. last day of Feb. 1585, by relict Mary; the daughter being a minor.
The testator is not given in the Irby pedigree in Thompson's History of Boston pp. 331^,
289.
The Will of ADLARD LANGTON, parson of Saucethorpe. 5 March 1585. "I Adlard Langton made this my last will." My wife and Andrew are to have all my goods unbequeathed; two thirds to my wife; one third to Andrew. To my son John Langton vs., and to his children xiid. apiece. My daughters Robert Cawford's wife and Anne Cowper. I make my wife, exx.
Prob. 26 April 1585, by relict in the person of Andrew Langton, her proctor.
There is hardly any doubt that the testator was the Adlard Langton mentioned in the Will of John Langton, of Langton (No. 20), to whom is bequeathed an annuity of v marks.
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The Will of ROBERT TOWNLEY, Gent., of Boston. 7 March 1585. To be buried in the church. I make my son William Townley and daughter Margaret, exrs., not knowing whether my wife shall live in this world after me.
Prob. 22 March 1585.
He came from Lancashire, and according to the monumental inscription preserved by Holies was " Contra-rotulator portus et Aldemannus." His wife, Joan, married Richard Skepper, of East Kirkby, and was buried there. His daughter, M argaret, married Richard Barnard.
291.
The Will of LAWRENCE BOOTH, yeoman, of Saltfleetby St. Clement. 24 April 1585. To be buried in the church. My father William Booth. My brother Edward Booth. My children. I make my wife, exx., and my brother Mr. Thomas Yarburgh, supervisor.
Prob. 21 May 1585.
292.
The Will of ROBERT ORMSBY, alias Dickonson, of Legboum, husbandman. 22 Sept. 1584. Robert, Thomas, and Agnes, children of my brother Richard Ormsby. My son Oliver Ormsby under age. My father in law George White, of Louth. My daughters Elizabeth and Agnes under age. I make my wifeLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Johan, exx., and my father Richard Ormsby, and my father in law George White aforesaid, supervisors.
Prob. 7 May 1585.
See Will of John Ormsby, of Partney " alias Dicoonson," (No. 203.)
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The Will of ARTHUR WALPOLE, Esqr., of Pinchbeck. 14 Deer. 27th Elizabeth. To be buried in the church-yard where my ancestors have been buried. I leave vs. for a learned man to make a sermon at my burial. To William Walpole my supposed son xx11. To Nicholas Walpole my supposed son xiiiii. vis. viiid. To my daughter Susan Walpole my copyhold lands for life, and then to Dymoke Walpole my youngest son. To my daughter Jane Walpole Cu. Entails, lands, etc., on eldest son Edwaid Walpole, then on Dymoke Walpole, then on his half-brother John Walpole, then on Erasmus Walpole. My sister Susan Haughton. My brother Theodore Walpole, Vicar of Pinchbeck, and his children Robert and Elizabeth Walpole. My plate, etc., to my wife Susan, whom I make exx., and Master Robert Carre, of Sleaford, the elder, Mr. Edward Hall, of Greatford, Mr. Charles Dymoke, of Cotes, Theodore Walpole, Vicar of Pinchbeck, etc., supervisors.
Prob. 2 Sept. 1585.
According to the Visitation pedigree of 1592 he married twice. 1st Elizabeth Staunton, of Staunton, in Co. Notts. 2ndly Susan daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, Knt., of Scriyelsby. One is referred to the " Genealogist" vol, I. pp. 6-12 and 193. (See No. 245, where the name of Erasmus Walpole occurs.
294.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER BARD, Gent., of Tealby. 13 March 1585. To be buried in the church. I make my wife Adrian, exx., and leave her iiij silver spoons and a silver salt. To my son Christopher Bard my lands in Tealby and Risby. To my son George Bard x11. yearly till he get a scholarship at Cambridge, and then but vu. yearly. My son Simon Bard. To my daughter Elizabeth Bard C marks and iiij silver spoons. To Francis Bleasbie vs. My brother Briskine. My sister Clarke. I make supervisors, Mr. Godfray Fulgham, Esqr., and Mr. George Sanctpoll, Esqr.
Prob. 6 May 1586.
Probably a son of Thomas Bard, of Tealby (see No. 117).
295.
The Will of EDMUND DIGHTON, Esqr., of Little Sturton. 31 July 1585. To be buried in the church of Baumber. To Robert Dighton my second son, my lands in Goulceby, and Asterby, and my leases held by grant of the late Abbot of Kirkstead; my house called Beadwaye House. To my brother William Dighton, and my108
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said son Robert my rent of ix11. a year out of the manor of Baumber, which I bought of Sir William Cordall, Knt., Master of the Rolls, and which formerly belonged to the monastery of Bardney. To every one of my daughters CC]i. which my son Thomas Dighton is to pay out of Sturton Grange. To my wife Elizabeth, my jewels, etc. I make exrs., Henry Earl, of Lincoln, Sir Edward Dymoke, Knt., John Monson, Denzill Hollys, Tristram Tyrwhitt, Robert Thorpe, and William Dighton, Esqrs. They are to take my rectory of Baumber, for 10 years after my death, to pay debts, etc. Witnesses, Robert Dighton, Joyce Dighton and others.
Prob. 28 March 1586.
He was the eldest son of Robert Dighton, of Sturton, by Joyce St. Paul, whose Will has been given (see No. 185). His father was the son of another Bobert Dighton, an Alderman of Lincoln. The testator's preamble is replete with piety, but his Will shows that he had profited by the spoils of the monasteries.
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The Will of ROBERT GANNOCK, of Skirbeck. 20 July 1586. To my son Edward Gannock my lands in Leake and Skirbeck. To my wife Marie x11. a year for her life. My swan mark and swans, armour, seal ring, etc., to my said son Edward who is under age. My daughters Ursula and Barbara Gannock under 18. Robert, and Gregory Gannock sons of my brother Thomas Gannock. John and Thomas Gannock sons of my brother Richard Gannock. I make my brother Grene and my wife, exrs.
Codicil. 23 July 1586. My executors are to have the power to let the lands of Edward Gannock, son of Gregory Gannock, late of Sibsey, deceased, as I the said Robert Gannock have by the last Will and testament of William Gannock, late of Sibsey, his grandfather.
Prob. 13 Deer. 1586.
See the Will of Gregory Gannock his cousin (No. 246).
297.
The Will of WILLIAM GANNOCK, of Boston, Merchant of the Staple. 4 July 1583. To my wife Ursula Cu. My lands in Lusby, Enderby, and Hagworthingham. My lease of Leake Chauntry. I make my son William Gannock, exr., and Mr. Robert Watson, Town Clerk of Boston, supervisor.
Prob. 25 March 1591-2.
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The Will of GEORGE PORTINGTON, of Glamford Briggs, Gent. 14 Deer. 1586. To be buried in Wrawby Church, in Kettleby little quire. To my sons Anthony and Edward Portington C marks apiece. I make my wife Cassander exx. Bequests to the poor of Brigg, Wrawby, and Langton. I make MarmadukeLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Tyrwhitt, of Thorpe, Esqr., and Edward Saltmarslie, Gent., of Strubby, supervisors. Witness, Robert Portington.
Prob. 23 Jany. 1586.
(See No. 13, and also No. 74). The testator is probably the son of John Portington, of Roxby, whose Will was proved in 1540.
299.
The Will of JOHN SHEFFIELD, of Croxby, Esqr. 27 April 1586. Bequests to the poor of Croxby, Thorganby, Thores-way, Rothwell, and Cuxwold. To my brother Matthew Amcotes 40s. To my nephew Alexander Amcotes, my brother Matthew's son, xxs. To my nephew Hide xs. To my sister Amcotes xs. To my nephew Matthew Amcotes, son of Matthew, xxs. To Robert White, my sister's son, liijs. To Elizabeth, Jane, and Ann, my sons' wives, a piece of gold of xs. each. To my son Edmund Sheffield xx11. To my son Vincent Sheffield "a standing cupp gilted and a bowle gilded," furniture, etc. To Ann and Dorothy, daughters of my son in law Nicholas Dowson, v11. apiece when 18. I make my sons John and Philip Sheffield, exrs., and my nephew Alexander Amcotes, and my brother Vincent Fulnetby, supervisors. Witnesses, Matthew Amcotes, Vincent Amcotes, John Sheffield, Vincent Sheffield, Edmund Sheffield, John Sheffield, Philip Sheffield, and Henry Sheffield.
Prob. 17 June 1586.
Admon. given to son Vincent Sheffield of goods etc. 15 April 1597.
See his grandmother's Will (No. 14), and his uncle Jasper Sheffield's (No. 49), and his uncle Charles Sheffield's (No. 80), and his cousin George Sheffield's (No. 205).
300.
The Will of HUMFREY WALCOTE, of Walcote, Esqr. 6 August 1586. To be buried in the church. To my sons Thomas, Harbert, and Anthony Walcote, an annuity of x11. a year apiece out of my lands in Walcote when they are 21. To my daughter Mylesent Walcote Cu. at Michaelmas 1590. To my daughter Anne Walcote Cu. at Michaelmas 1591. To my daughter Bridget Walcote C11. when 21. I make my wife Anne and my eldest son William Walcote, exrs., and my brother William Savill, of Great Humby, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 14 Feb. 1586-7.
No pedigree is given either in 1562 or 1692.
301.
The WiH of DANIEL DISNEY, of Norton Disney, Esqr. 30 Jany. 1587. To be buried in the church. " I give to my Lord Chief Justice of England my pyed colte lately taken into my stable for a memory of his Lordship's goodwill toward me at all tymes/'110
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To my brother Mr. Francis Molyneux my neyesse Falcon." To my son Mr. William Staunton the best hawk. To my daughter Elizabeth, his wife, viu. xiijs. iiijd, To my wife Marie my velvet gown, and one third of my household stuff, excepting those parcels which were given to my wife and children by Mris. Elizabeth Meares, deceased. To my wife a white silver salt, a silver bowl parcel gilt, that I bought at Kingerby, a silver can gilt; " my coche with two baye geldinges that were accustomed to draw the same " ; also her " cheyne of golde" and all her jewels, etc. My daughters Ann and Hester Disney. I desire that William Disney enjoy his farm at Stapleford paying the customary rent. My son Henry Disney is to pay 40s. yearly out of my manor of Kingerby to William Mawdesley. My kinsman William Disney to have iij1*. vis. viijd. yearly for his life. To " yonge Anthony Staunton a pyed foale." To Mr. Ellis a "tassel (tercel) gentle." To Mr. Thorneigh (Thorn-haugh) " a tassel." To Mr. Edward Disney " a tassel." To William Disney a gerfalcon. To Mr. Harby my best foal. To my wife Katherine xx11. yearly to maintain arid bring up my daughters Ann and Hester Disney. To my nephew William Disney, my godson, son of my brother Sirach Disney, iij11. vis. viijd. " My wife shall remayne and be in house with my son Henry Disney at Norton so longe as the same agree together, or els she to goe to Kingerby quietlie." I make my son Henry, exr., 'and my brother Francis Molyneux and my son Mr. William Staunton, supervisors. Prob. 24 Feb. 1587.
See Wills of his father (No, 238), arid of his stepmother (No. 239).
502.
The Will of ANNE HENEAGE, of Towes, widow. 18 August 1586. To be buried in the church of Hainton, " and that the bodie of my late good husband may be brought to the said place there to be laid by me withoute anie pompe or solempnitie to be used about the same saving that I will a tombe to be made like unto my father in law his tombe signifying that we both lye there with the armes of both the parties for a monument." My son Sir George Heneage to choose certain household furniture in the house at Towes. I leave my manor at Eybie to him and his heirs male; in default to my son William Heneage and his heirs male; whoever inherits the manor is to pay viu. xiijs. iiijd. yearly to my son John Higford for life. To my son Sir Sober t Lane, Knt., and my daughter Lane his wife, to my son in law Mr. John Higford, Esqr., and my daughter Higford his wife, to Mr. Nicholas Wilson, to my daughter Marie Dakins, and to my son Mr. John Pleidell, a ring of xxs. apiece with a death's head graven on it with this sentence, " of earthe toe came and to earthe we shall " (return ?). To Katherine Chilton and Anne Heneage, daughters of John Heneage my late sonne, the (X my lateLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	Ill
husbande left out of Towes to Elizabeth Higford, daughter of John Higford deceased, to which Elizabeth I have given in^recompence D marks, before her marriage. To Thomas Higford, son of John Higford, now being with me 100 wethers. To my daughter Katherine Higford my husband's ring of gold, for life, and then to her son John Higford. Katherine Hukine (?) my daughter Higford's daughter. My daughter Brannt. (Legacies to servants and godchildren). To my son William Heneage my four velvet " cusshings," and to his daughter Anne three " cusshings " of needlework, and to the said Anne my moiety I have of the manor of Milton, in Binbrook, paying yearly to my cousin Mary Waire 40s. for life. To Katherine Pleidell a gilt cup, and to Dorothy Higford who married to*Mr. Compton another cup. To my son William Heneage all my lands in East Wykeham, and West Wykeham, and Ludford for life, and then to his son George Heneage and his heirs male, and then to his brother Thomas Heneage. To Anne Heneage daughter of my son John Heneage, deceased, 100 ewes. To Anne Heneage daughter of my son William Heneage my lease of a farm at Towes for 21 years. To my daughter Jane Heneage, widow, my best " frenche hoode." To Marie Dakins, daughter of my son John Heneage, deceased, 20 ewes. To Katherine Chilton, her sister, 20 ewes. To George Heneage son of my son William 40u. out of my wool. My daughter Dakins' children, George, Thomasine, and Anne. I make Anne daughter of my son William Heneage residuary legatee. To my said son William Heneage fourtie of my barkeshire yowes and twoe Eammes of the same brede, and a silver salt. I make him my exr.
Testatrix was Ann daughter and heiress of Edward Cope, of Helmedon, in Northamptonshire. According to a MS. history of the Heneage family, she had married a Mr. Lovett who died on his wedding day, so that she was a maid, a wife, and a widow all on the same day. Her second husband John Heneage, of Towes, never enjoyed Hainton, as his elder brother's widow. Lady Katherine Heneage, out-lived him (see her Will No. 218). He died, 32 July, 1559. Of their children the eldest was Sir George Heneage, Knt., who succeeded to Hainton, but died S.P. The second was John Heneage, of Kirkby, who died without issue male in the lifetime of his mother; he married Jane daughter of Lewis Wingfield, and had three daughters ; Jane married to George Dakyns, of Trowbridge, in Yorkshire ; Catherine married to John Chilton ; and Ann to Philip Bleasby, of Bleasby. The third son and the executor, William Heneage, succeeded his brother Sir George at Hainton, and had several children. Of the daughters Catherine had three husbands, 1st, William or Francis Holies; 2nd, John Higford, of Henwood; 8rd, Sir John Higford, Knt., (Knighted in 1591). Another daughter Mary also had three husbands, 1st, Erasmus Cope ; 2nd, Sir Thomas Andrews, Knt,; 3rd, Sir Eobert Lane,-Knt., of Hooton. Of William Heneage's daughters, Anne (the residuary legatee of testatrix) married Nicholas Wilson, of Sheepwash, and Catherine, William Ayscough, of South Kelsey.
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The Will of GEORGE NEWCOMEN", Gent., of Saltfleetby All Saints. 21 Jany. 1586. To be buried in the church. To my sister Swall vs. To my sister Potter vs. To my sister Elizabeth Hulcotes an " Englishe crowne." To my cousin Elias Newcomen vs. My niece Marie Newcomen wife to my nephew John Newcomen; to their son my nephew Richard Newcomen a piece of gold called a112
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" soveraine," and to his brother John Newcomen a " duble soveraine." My nieces Ellen, Marie, and Alice Newcomen. My nephew Stephen Newcomen. To my nephew Thomas Newcomen xxs. To my niece Marie Graystock xxs. My cousin Elizabeth Garbray. To my cousin Thomas Yarburgh my book of Latimer's sermons. Thomas Newcomen and Joan his wife. I make my nephew John Newcomen, exr., and my brother John Newcomen, supervisor. Prob. 29 March 1587.
Testator was a son of Bryan Newcomen, of Saltfleetby, by his 2nd wife, Anne daughter of Nicholas Purley. He is a legatee in the Will of his maternal grandmother Jane Meres, of Carlton, in 1550, when he was under 21 years of age (see No. 175). The brothers and sisters mentioned in his Will are all of the half-blood. The cousin Elias Newcomen was really the son of his half-brother Charles. The sister Mary, who in the Vis. of 1562 is said to have married " Thomas Porter, a yeoman," really married the Revd. John Potter, Rector of Stubton. "Sister Swall" was his sister Edith, who married Gilbert Swale, of Green Hammerton, in Yorkshire.
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The Win of Sir WILLIAM SKIP WITH, Knt., of South Ormsby. 4 June 26th Elizabeth. To the poor of Ormsby, Ketsby, Asserby, and elsewhere, xx11. To my son Richard Skipwith all plate except my best gilded bowl which I give to his son William Skipwith. To each of my daughters viu. xiijs. iiijd. To each of Richard's children v11. " Whereas I have hitherto, brought up one Edward Tothebie otherwise called Edward Skipwith in learning from his childage hitherto of whose towardnes I do conceyve a good opinyon" etc. I give to him an annuity of xx11. out of my lands at Ingoldmells by deed dated 12 Jany., 21st Elizabeth. My manor of Ingoldmells, called North Hiltoft and South Hiltoft. My sheepwalk in Tathwell called Cardaile. Refers to a bond made between his son Richard Skipwith and Mr. Fitz-Rauf Chamberlain, Esqr. They are to pay Cu. to Sir George Heneage, Knt., and William Fitzwilliam, Esqr., for my daughter Carsey and her children. They are to pay also v11. yearly to keep John Carsey at school and learning till he is 24. " Whereas I remayne at Bordinge with my trustie and verie frende my brother Metham," I desire my exrs. to pay him what is due, etc. I make exrs. Andrew Gedney, of Bag Enderby, and George Metham, the elder, of Hanby, Esqrs.
Prob. 31 March 1587.
The expression " Edward Tothebie, otherwise called Edward Skipwith " casts a very grave suspicion on that person's legitimacy. In the Skipwith pedigree in Burke's Extinct Baronetage, Sir William Skipwith is said to have married 2ndly., Anne, daughter of John Towthby, of Towthby, by whom he had Edward Skipwith, from whom descended the Skipwiths, of Metheringham, who obtained a Baronetcy in 1678. No trace of this marriage is shown in the Visitations of 1562, but in the Towthby pedigree in 1592, Anne, daughter of Thomas Towthby is said co have married John Skipwith, of Ormsby. In all probability Sir William never married a 2nd wife, and the Edward Tothebie, otherwise Skipwith, was a natural son. In his Will proved in 1620, he styles himself "of Benni worth," and leaves money to the poor of Biscathorpe and Gayton, " where my first dwellinge and risinge forwarde in the worlde was," but never gives the slightest hint of being in anyway connected with the Skipwiths, of Ormsby. He was a member of Lincoln's Inn.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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305.
The Will of JANE SKIPWITH, of Washingborough, widow. 10 April 29th Elizabeth. To be buried in the Church. To my son William Skipwith my lands in Hogsthorpe and Mumby ; he paying his brothers George and John Skipwith viiiH. yearly apiece. I leave to him also my lease of Calthorpe (Cawthorpe), my seal of arms, my silver salt parcel gilt, " my tunne cuppe of silver" and four silver spoons. To my sons George and John Skipwith ij silver spoons apiece. I make my son William Skipwith, exr., and my brother George Skipwith, supervisor. Witnesses, Nicholas Sutton, Thomas Welbie, and Charles Yarburghe.
Prob. 17 June 1587.
The Skipwiths, of Cawthorpe, were a younger branch of the Ormsby family. Nicholas Sutton, of Washingborough, married Katherine, daughter of Lionel Skipwith, of Cawthorpe.
306.
The WiU of GEORGE BLEASBY, of Bleasby, Esqr. 20 May 1588. To be buried in the church at Legsby. My wife Marie to have two thirds of my lands, etc., during the minority of my heirs, and to bring up my youngest children. Afterwards she is to have an annuity of Lu. for life. Confirms the Will of his father William Bleasby. I make my wife Marie, exx., and my cousin Thomas Hansard, supervisors.
Prob. 6 June 1588.
See his father's Will No. 274), and his uncle's (No. 259).
307.
The Will of ANTHONY HANSARD, Gent., of Cuxwold. 16 April 1588. To my children two-thirds of my estate, and to my wife Elizabeth, whom I make ex*., one third. Witness, John Hansard.
Prob. 6 June 1588.
Probably one of the Hansards of Biscathorpe.
308.
The Will of GEORGE LILBORNE, clerk, parson of Mavis Enderby. 5 July 1587. To be buried on the north side of the chancel. Bequests to the poor of Enderby and Maltby. To my niece Lacon, my niece Hansard and my niece Simson, an old English crown apiece. To Sir Edward Hustwaite all the books he hath of mine, and a great book of St. Gregory's works in the hands of Sir Robert Welles, parson of Howell. To my servant Agnes Cressie a silver spoon with " an akorne at the end of it." To George Smyth iiju. in the hands of Richard Hartgrave. To Dorothy and Susan Smyth xs. apiece. To my nephew Herbert Lacon " a masser
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linned with silver and gilte." Cousin Thomas Smyth. Anthony-Smyth. To my nephew Tristram Smyth a little silver salt. George Simson. I make my nephews Harbert Lacon and Tristram Smyth, exrs., and Mr. Thomas Taillor, supervisor.
Prob. 8 May 1588.
See the Will of testator's father (No. 25), where he is called Sir George Lilborne as being a clerk in Holy Orders. See also Smyth pedigree in the Vis. of 1592, and the Lacon pedigree, where most of the people mentioned may be identified.
309.
The Will of MAEIE KYME, of Boston. 29 August 1588. To my brother William Calverley my lease of the parsonage of Friskney, paying to my mother Elizabeth Kyme viu. xiiis. iiijd. a year. To cousin William Dynley my gilded salt with a cover. My cousin Thomas Kyme. I forgive my brother Edward Calverley the debts he owes me. My sister Dorothy Calverley. To my kinsman Thomas Dynley 40s. I make my cousin William Dynley,
Prob. 1 Oct. 1588.
The Wills of William and Edward Calverley will be given later on. The mother Elizabeth Kyme survived both her families.
310.
The Will of RICHARD HARTGRAVE, Gent.,'of Eenby next Ashby. 7 Sept. 1577. To my wife Anne xxvu. To my brother Francis Hartgrave 40s. To Edward son of my brother George Hartgrave x11. ; to his daughter Anne x11.; to his daughter Frances 40s. To Tymon Villers xs. To my son in law Tristram Smyth xs. To Anthony Smyth xs. To George Smyth xs. To my sister Litler 40s. To my sister Jane Machine 40s. Residue to my brother George Hartgrave whom I make exr., and my friend Mr. Thomas Massingberd, supervisor. Witnesses, Tymon Villers, George Villers, Edward Sacheverell.
Prob. 11 July 1589.
See Will of John Sacheverell (No. 195;, and pedigree of Villers in Vis. of 1562.
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The Will of MARTIN" HOLLINGWORTH, of the City of Lincoln, Draper. 5 Deer. 1589. In the church of St. Peter-at-Arches in the high quire. To my wife Amie CC marks and jewels, etc. To my son Lyon Hollingworth Cu., my best standing silver cup which was his grandfather's, my best silver and gilt salt with the cover. To my son Edward Hollingworth CC11., my next best silver salt with the cover, and vi silver spoons. To my son Michael Hollingworth xx nobles " yf he do come for it." To my son James Hollingworth Cu. To my daughter SaTah Hollingworth my goblet of silver that is daily occupied, vi of the silver spoons that MorlayLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	115
made, and Lxxxu. To my daughter Alice Hollingworth one dozen of the best silver spoons with " London touche " upon them, and Lxxx11. To my daughter Marie Chippingdale 40 marks. To my daughter Elizabeth Hollingworth a little tun of silver, a stone pot garnished with silver, and Lxxx11. To the children of Mr. Thomas Taillor, which he hath by my daughter Jane, xxs. apiece. To my brother in law Mr. John Fawkener a crown of gold, and to Elizabeth his wife half a crown, and to his children half a crown. My cousins RafFe and Simon Hollingworth. My sister Granger. My cousin Zacharie Rodes. My cousin Helen Bolton. Alic« wife of my cousin Edward Mellers. I make my son Leon Hollingworth, exr., and my son in law Mr. Thomas Taillor, and my cousin Edward Mellers, supervisors. My sons being all under age.
Prob. 12 Jany. 1589.
The testator represented a wealthy citizen family which continued in Lincoln for two generations. He was Mayor in 1560 and his son Leon Hollingworth held the same office in 1594 and again in 1604. The testator's son in law Mr. Thomas Taillor amassed great wealth and purchased the estate of Doddington where he erected the present house. His daughter, by Jane Hollingworth, Jane, married George Anton, of Lincoln, and the only daughter by that marriage, Elizabeth, married Sir Edward Hussey, Bart., of Honington, and brought with her the Doddington estate into that family from whom it passed eventually by marriage to the Apreeces and Delavels. Mr. Taillor had another daughter, Elizabeth, who married William Ayscough, of Sonth Kelsey, but died without issue.
312.
The Will of JOHN" SPENLUFFE, of Farlesthorpe, Gent. 12 April 1588. To be buried in Alford Church. "To tene poor mayds in Alford xx11. viz. to every of them 40s., to Alice Mawer of Farlesthorpe 40s., to Frances Leeke 40s., to Marie Clerke 40s., to her sister Anne 40s., to Isabel Beche 40s., to Flowrance Dawlinge 40s., to Beatrix Dixon 40s., to Dorothy Brewster 40s., to Colton mayd 40s. upon condicion that every one of the said mayds to whom these legacies is geven within one yeare next after my decease shall be able to say their Catechisme and to declare their fay the and duties towardes God and their husbands." To everyone of my household servants xx11. To Robert Burt, my boy, xx11. To the governors of the School at Homcastle xx11. To the "assistance of Louthe towardes the buylding of their newe hall v11." To my godsons George Toothbie, John Dymocke son of John, John Caterton son of Richard, Peregrine Somerscales, v11. apiece. To John Toothbie vi11. To Edward Knightbridge x11. To George Hartgrave " my best gowne, all my lawe bookes and vu." To Edward Dymocke, son of Sir Edward Dymocke, Knt., Cxx11. To my good friend Mr. Thomas Broxholme, of Louth, vi old Ryalls. To my half supposed sister at Newark viiu. My tenants are to retain their farms paying the rent due, etc. " I will that my bodie be buried in Alford Church in the place when my mother was buried, and will that my exrs. cause to laie over me one fayre marble stone or frestone, and116
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upon the same my armes to "be sett and the tyme of my deathe with this posie. " Thoughe I lye here inclosed in earthe yet I do lyve by Christ his death." Ten poor men in Alford and Farles-thorpe, to have "black gowns at the funeral. " To my verie good Lorde the Lorde Willoughby of Earesbie my best gelding. To Sir Edward Dymocke Knt. my next best gelding." To Edward Knightbridge a messuage and lands in Farlesthorpe. My Lands in Oumberworth and Burnthorpe, late Lord Viscount Welles'. I make exrs. William Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe, and Andrew Gedney, Esqrs., John Somerscales, and Francis Marbury, to carry out my last Will. My land in Farlesthorpe, Woodthorpe, Withern, Strubby, and Trusthorpe are conveyed to George Hartgrave and John Neale to the use of me and my heirs ; in default, to the use I make by my Will, etc. Rents at Woodthorpe, Strubby, and Withern to the use of Henry Ormsby, son of Edward Ormsby, for his life, then to the use of the governors of Alford School. Provision for almshouses in Alford for viii poor people. My manors of Sutton, Trusthorpe, and Skendleby.
Prob. 10 June 1589.
The testator was a benefactor to the Alford Grammar School. His estates mainly furnish the income; and two scholarships, and one fellowship tenable for 5 years, at Magdalene College, Cambridge, were founded by him. His mother, by whom he desired to be buried, was Alice, daughter and co-heir of William Woodford, Gent., of Farlesthorpe, and sister of Rose, wife of John Ormsby. See Will (No. 16). The testator's brother William is said to be " servant to Sir Edward Dymoke," in the Vis. of 1562.
313.
The Will of RICHARD MADDISON, of Mablethorpe, yeoman. 14 Deer. 1596. To be buried in the Church. To Mablethorpe Church iiju. To the poor vu. To the poor of Trusthorpe 40s. To my uncle John Maddison 40s. yearly for life. To one of my master's youngest sons, whom he shall think well, Lu. To William Hopkinson my wife's son, xxx11. to redeem his wardship. To my daughter Dorothy Maddison CCU. besides the 44u. given by my mother's Will to her; the CC11. to be paid to Mr. Robert Fitzwilliam, and my brother Thomas Maddison, when she is 15; also silver spoons and linen, etc., which was my mother Maddison's. I also give her a silver tun. I leave my farm in Mablethorpe to my wife Anne, whom I make exx. To my son in law John White xxs. I make supervisors my master's eldest son Mr. Robert Fitzwilliam, and my brother Thomas Maddison.
Prob. 8 Jany. 1596-7.
See the Will of his father Thomas Maddison, of Trusthorpe (No. 270), and the note thereto.
314.
The Will of JOHN WITHERNWYKE, Esqr., of Claxby by Normanby. 13 Deer. 1595. To be buried in the church, "and a monument to be sett upon the place of my sepulture." To theLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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poor of Claxby, Normanby, Walesby, Nettleton, Houlton, Owersby, Usselby, and Thornton, xx11. To my sisters Ursula, Pawlyn, and Alice Sugden vu. yearly apiece till my daughter Judith is 16. To the six younger children of Oliver Withernwyke, of Rothwell, v marks apiece. To John Broxholme xxu. when 21, besides the Lxxxu. I am bound to pay him. To Matthew Broxholme's two daughters Frances and Grace xu. apiece. My wife Elizabeth. I make exrs. my father in law William Fitzwilliam, Esqr., Thomas Darnell my nephew, Robert Fitzwilliam, and George Anton, my brethren in law, giving them vu. apiece. My lands in Claxby and Normanby, Louth, Somercotes, and Markby. To my servant John "Withernwyke, a farm in Normanby for life. If my daughter Judith die before she is 16, all my lands, etc., to go to my two sisters; failing their issue, to Oliver Withernwyke, of Rothwell, aforesaid.
Prob. 22 Deer. 1596.
See pedigree in Vis. of 1592. His sisters Ursula and Alice must have married again.
315.
The Win of ALICE WHICHCOTE, of South Kyme, widow. 29 March 1591. To be buried in the chancel of Dunston church, near my late husband Hamond Whichcote, Esqr., deceased. To Bridget Whichcote xu. and half my sheep at Heighington. To Robert Copeland 40s., and to John and Elizabeth Copeland viu. apiece when 21. To my daughter Whichcote my best gown. To Hamond, Robert, and Elizabeth Whichcote xxs. apiece. To my son Thomas Whichcote all the writings made between me and my son Robert Whichcote, deceased. To my son in law George Copeland a spur royal. To Sir Anthony Thorold a double sovereign. To Robert Walker, clerk, xs. Residue to Joshua and William Whichcote, whom I make exrs., and my son Thomas Whichcote, supervisor.
Prob. 24 June 1592.
Testatrix was the daughter of Alexander Redish, of Redish, in Lancashire, and widow of Hamond Whichcote, whose Will has been given, see (No. 213).
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The Will of EDWARD ASFORDBY, of Asfordby in Bilsby, Gent. 2 June 32nd Elizabeth. To be buried in Bilsby Church. To my son William Asfordby household stuff, etc., when he is 21. " one framed table in the hall, one great long saddell of Wainescote in the hall; ij great chestes of the which one is of wainescote ; one gilted headpece; iij swordes, iij daggers." To my brother Thomas Asfordby v11. To my sister Wooddus vi1'. xiijs. iiijd. To my brother John Asfordby vH. Residue to be divided into three parts; one third to my wife, the other two among my seven children,118
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viz. Peregryn, Edward, George, John, Jane, Susan, and Elizabeth Asfordby, all under age. To my son John, iijn. vis. viiid. yearly out of my lands in Asfordby and Bilsby. To my son Edward Asfordby lands in Anderby, Mumby, and Thurlby. I make my wife Katherine exx. She is to account to Mr. Thomas Pepper, of Thurlby, and my cousin John Skipwith, of Staine. I make my cousin John Langton, of Langton, supervisor.
Prob. 23 Deer. 1591 by exx.
See the Wills of his father (No. 150), and his mother (No. 151). The Asfordbys after this seem to have gradually parted with their landed estates. William Asfordby, the testator's eldest son, married 20 April, 1597, Eleanor, daughter of John Newcomen, of Saltfleetby, by whom he had several children. His younger brother Peregrine Asfordby, married another Newcomen, a cousin of his wife's, viz. Anne, daughter of Charles Newcomen, of Saltfleetby, descended from Bichard Newcomen, of Low Toynton (No. 68). George Asfordby, another brother, was a woollen draper at Spilsby, and died unmarried in 1616-17. In his Will he mentions his brother William as living at Newark, so we may assume that the ancestral estate had been parted with.
317.
The Will of NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON, Gent., of Reasby. 31 Jany. 1590. To be buried in Stainton Church. To my wife Elizabeth one half of the Grange of Rearsbie for life, then to my son Robert. Half of my goods at Snelland and Stainton to my wife. " My half ferme at Scothorne to my son Robert during the years that remain; also my interest in the parsonage of Hackthorne. My mother Smith. To my cousin Mrs. Mildred Saunderson xxs. My sister Smith. To my sister Susan Thixton one little nagge called litle burnette." Robert and Katherine Thixton. To Mrs. Anne Gavera (Guevara) xxs. To Mrs. Faith Trewsdale xxs. Robert Smith. Johan Booth. Marie Osnay. I make my wife Elizabeth, and my son Robert Saunderson, exrs., and my cousin Nicholas Saunderson and my brother Nicholas Smith, supervisors.
Prob. 29 April 1591.
See pedigree in Vis. of 1692.
318.
The Will of VINCENT WOLBY, of Thorpe next Wainfleet. 4 June 1591. To be buried in Thorpe church. To the repair of the church xxs. To my wife Margaret CCU., plate, sealing ring, etc. To my daughters Elizabeth, Frances, Margaret, and Hester Wolby Cu. apiece when 21. To Elizabeth Wolby xs. To Hamond Upton the younger xxs. My cousin Symon Wolby's wife. My cousin John Wolby's wife. To my mother two mares which she hath at Firsby. To my son Robert Wolby household stuff, etc., " all the seeling and furniture of my dyning parlour." My father in law and sister Upton. My executor is to have the house wherein I dwell, and all grounds belonging to it, for the rent of xxu. a year, which was the late rent my uncle paid Mr. Wolmer before he bought it, till my son Robert is 21. My land in Thorpe, late Richard Wolby's,LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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and in Firsby, and "Wainfleet All Saints and St. Mary. My land in Gunby bought of Mr. Tuttoft. My sons John, Laurence,Vincent, and Yalentine Wolby. To my mother vi11. a year, and x11. a year to each of my younger sons. I make my brother Hamond Upton, Esqr., exr., and give him xu. My xxxij acres of land in Thorpe late Mr. Upton's. I make my cousin William Sawer, and Eobert Wilson, supervisors.
Prob. 6 July 1591.
According to one pedigree Vincent Wolby married Mary daughter of Lawrence Meres, while Hamond Upton married her sister Frances Meres. It iB possible that the wife Margaret in the Will was a 2nd wife, but it is difficult to see how the testator could have a father in law Upton. See No. 277 and No. 267.
319.
The Will of GEOEGE FITZWILLIAM, Gent., of Wyberfcon. 22 Novr. 1591. To be buried in the church in the quire where I do usually sit. I am indebted to my cousin John Fitzwilliam "servant" to Lawrence Doughty, of Sleaford, for viH. To my brother Robert Fitzwilliam xxs. To my brother Thomas Fitzwilliam v11. To my goddaughter Susan Massingberd vu. when of age. To my brother William Fitzwilliam, Esqr., my best trotting gelding ; his sons Eobert and George, and daughter Susan Fitzwilliam. To my sister Bullingham xxa. My brother in law Leonard Camock's two sons. I make my wife Alice, exx., and my brother William Fitzwilliam, Esqr., and my brother in law Thomas Massingberd, supervisors.
Prob. 8 Jany. 1591-2.
The testator was a younger son of George Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe, whose daughter Frances married Thomas Massingberd, of Bratoft.
320.
The Will of JANE SKEENE, of Bonby (nuncupative). 25 Oct. 1591. To Mr. Eobert Skerne vi angels. To his daughter Anne iv angels. Mrs. Dorothy Flower. To her brother John Eastoft vi angels. Her brother John's wife. To her brother Francis Eastoft xxu. To her sister Mary Skerne xx11. To her sister Dorothy Skerne xxu. To her sister Gering xu. Eesidue to A very e Birkby, and Alexander Gering whom she made exrs.
Prob. 6 Novr. 1591.
See Wills Nos. 81 and 82. Probably the testatrix was by birth an Eastoft, for Alexander Gering married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Eastoft, (see Vis. of 1592, pa. 31,) see also No. 261.
321.
The Will of ELIZABETH SKERNE, gentlewoman, of Bonby. 30 August 1591. To my sister in law Mrs. Anne Skerne xxu. To my brother Thomas Skerne xx1*. To my sister Colle xxu. To my cousin Frodingham xx11. To my cousin George Hatcliffe xx11. To120
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my sister Darryl vH. To Mrs. Dorothy Flower xxs. Residue to my brother Mr. Robert Skerne whom I make exr.
Prob. 23 Feby. 1591-2.
322.
The Will of JOHN HANSARD, Gent., of Gayton le Wold. 5 March 1587. My wife Elizabeth. My daughter Margaret. To my son Edward Hansard 40s. a year. I leave my lands in East Bark with to my son Henry Hansard whom I make exr., and my brother William Hansard, supervisor.
Prob. 2 April 1591.
Possibly a yonnger son of Richard Hansard, of Biscathorpe, who married a St. Paul, and brother of the Revd. Hamond Hansard, of Scartho. The widow's Will follows.
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The Win of ELIZABETH HANSARD, of Gayton le Wold, widow. 17 March 1591. My three children Edward, Margaret, and Marie Hansard. I make my father John Jackson, of Asterby, exr., and guardian of my children. To either of my brethren xxs. My brother William (Hansard). I make my brother Thomas Jackson, supervisor.
Prob. 28 Sept. 1591.
324.
The Will of HAMOND HANSARD, clerk, parson of Scartho. 23 Feb. 1595. To be buried in the churchyard. To my wife Eme 40s. To my son Nathaniel Hansard xH. when 21. To my daughter Elizabeth viii11. when 21. To my son Richard Hansard xiid. To my son William Hansard xiid. To my daughters Anne, Margaret, and Isabel xiid. To my son Thomas Hansard vu. whom I make exr., and my brother William Hansard, supervisor.
Prob. 25 March 1595.
In the Vis. of 1634 there is a pedigree of the Hansards, of Biscathorpe and Gayton-le-Wold. According to the Vis. of 1592, the testator married twice; Richard and Isabel being children of the 1st wife, Ellen Thompson. The Vis. of 1634, makes him marry Margaret Clerke. The name of the wife in the Will is different to either.
325.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER DISNEY, of Fulbeck, Gent. (No date.) To be buried in the " north alley of the Church." My son Arthur Disney. My son Christopher Average. My son William Atkinson. My daughters Ann and Mary, Nicholas Disney, Peter Disney, Katherine Disney, Elizabeth Disney. Francis Disney. My daughter Margerye. I make my son Thomas Disney, exr.
Prob. 14 Sept. 1590.
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The Will of EDWARD DISNEY, of Carlton le Moorland, Gent. 26 March 1595. My lease of Somerton Castle bought of Sir George Bromley. My manor of Carlton, my lands in Bassingham, Coleby, Navenby, Timberland, and Eastwood. To my eldest son Thomas Disney (under 21) "one bason and ewer of silver parcel gilt, one bell salt with a cover, double gilt, ij bowls double gilt, iij plain white bowls, vi spoons with knoppes" ; also he is to have xu. a year out of Somerton when 21. To my son William Disney Cu. when 21. To my son John Disney xu. a year and CH. when 21. The same to my son Richard Disney. To my daughters Jane, Anne, and Mary Disney CH. apiece when 20. I will that my son Thomas Disney remain as a student at Cambridge till 18, and have xxu. a year " for his exhibition," and then to go to some Inn of Court till he is 21, having xxvi]i. viiis. iiijd. a year. My son William Disney is to do the like. My cousin John Kellame. My sister Mounson is to have the house at Somerton, " with the moate and orchardes about the towers," for 30 years, if she shall so long live, and will dwell in the same; or else to have 40s. a year. My brothers Saltmarshe and Thomas Disney are to lay out x11. for the relief of my sister Mounson and her family, " provided that my brother Mounson be nott benefytted by this legacy." My mother Thorold. My brother George Thorold. My sisters Saltmarshe and White. My cousin Thompson. My wife Jane, whom I make exx., to have the house I now dwell in and the residue. I make my brothers William Thorold and Alexander White, supervisors. Provision for the child my wife is with.
Prob. 10 Oct. 1595.
See pedigree in Vis. of 1562.
327.
The Will of EDWARD CALYERLEY, of Boston (nuncupative). 13 Sept. 1595. Left every thing to his mother Elizabeth Kyme who proved the Will.
328.
The Will of WILLIAM CALYERLEY, of Boston. 15 May 37th Elizabeth. My mother Elizabeth Kyme. My sister Mary Kyme, late deceased. I make my brother Edward Calverley, exr.
Prob. 19 Sept. 1595.
See Will of the half-sister Mary Kyme (309). The brothers seem to have been swept away by the same illness. The mother Elizabeth Kyme survived till 1601.
329.
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tenements in Harrington, Aswardby, Ulceby, Forthington, Dalby, Bag Enderby, and Somersby, " being purchased lands by me or my father," I give and bequeath all these to my brother Francis Copledike and his heirs male ; and all household goods, " seelinges and glasse " ; all plate, armour, swanmarks and swans, except such part as shall be hereafter otherwise devised. All the above household goods to be heirlooms in the house at Harrington. I bequeath also to him my lease in Ulceby which I had of the Lord Parr, Marquis of Northampton. He is to manumit and make free Christopher and Thomas Guy, " villeynes regardant," belonging to the manor of Frieston. To my brother Thomas Copledike one annuity of v11., also my best suit of apparel, and my third bed. The rest of my apparel to be distributed among my yeomen of whom I account Charles Curteys one. To my brother Humfrey Copledike one annuity vH. xiijs. iiijd. and C marks. To Charles Curteys and Christopher Guy, an annuity of 40s. apiece. To my sister Sithe Copledike C marks, my fourth bed, and all my apparel except such as is otherwise specified. To my sister Eose xx11. To my sister Elizabeth, wife to my brother Francis, my wife's best gown and kirtle. To my sister Thomasyn, wife to my brother Humfrey, my wife's second best gown and kirtle. To John Copledike, eldest son of Humfrey, CCCC marks when 24 ; to be till then in the order and government of my brother Thomas Copledike, and the interest to be applied to maintaining him in the University or Inns of Court. In case of his death before 24 the money to be divided among the younger sons of Humfrey. If Humfrey interferes with or annoys Thomas Copledike then he forfeits all claim to his legacies. To Charles Lord Willoughby my best " felde hawke and all my spanyells." To my cousin Edward Billesby " my hawke called Cloudes." To the repair of Harrington Church viiju. vis. viijd. To the repair of Bag Enderby Church 40s., which was appointed for that purpose by Mr. Etton my father in law. To the repair of Firsby Church, over and besides the 40s. which I have already paid to the same, viiju. vis. viijd. which was appointed to be paid by Mr. Etton. To one Alice, daughter of one Herring late of Orby, being married to one Villersof Leicestershire, viu. viiis. iiijd., which sum I was required to bestow by Mr. Puttrell's wife of Firsby. To my cousin Edward Littlebury viiju. vis. viijd. To Mr. William Craycroft viii11. vis. viijd. To each of my yeoman servants one year's wages over and above wages due. To every " hinde servant " and woman servant half a year's wages. Residue, not bequeathed, to my brother Thomas Copledike, whom I make exr., " My verie frende Andrew Gedney, Esq." to be supervisor, to whom I give a gelding worth vi11. viiis. iiijd. or so much cash. To my godson Mr. Hamond Upton viijH. vis. viijd.
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To my brother Francis all my fishing nets and 12 of my best sheep. To my nephew Thomas Croftes xx11. To Lord Willoughby of Parham, my " best felde hawke being a sleyght faviour."
Prob. 21 April 1585.
Testator was eldest son of Sir John Copledike, Ent. (see No. 141). He married Anne daughter and heiress of John Etton, of Firsby, but died S.P. His brother Francis succeeded him and lived till 1600.
330.
The Win of CHRISTOPHER ANGEVINE, Gent. 20 Octr. 33rd Elizabeth. To be buried in the church of Saltfleetby All Saints. To my daughter Frances Aungevine " one cowe." To my brother Michael Aungevine xxs. To my brother John Aungevine xxs. " if he come again; if he never come my Will is that the xxs. be divided among the children of my sister Marie Elie." To my sister Dorothy Aungevine ijs. To my sister Marie Elie vs. Residue to my wife Ellinge whom I make exx., and John Newcomen, Esqr., supervisor. Witness, Robert Broughe.
Prob. 4 April 1592.
The son of William Angevine by Cicely daughter of Sir Christopher Hildyard. See Vis. of 1562.
331.
The Will of CHARLES BOLLE, Esq., of Haugh. 30 April 1590. "Emanuell, ffirste I commit and yelde my sowle into the handes of Almightie God by whose merits mercie and omnipotensie onlie I doe stedfastlie and faythfullie beleve to bee saved, and therbye onlye to have the fruition of everlastinge joye with his blessed saincts in heaven and not by anye meritorie deserts in my self or by any the devellishe trashe of that wicked Anterchriste the pope as some malitious backebiters in waye of revenge and for envie, faulslie and unjustlie (I most humblie thancke God therfore) doe privilie reporte of me." To my son John Bolle the lease of the parsonage of Alford, given to me by my father Richard Bolle, Esqr., of Boston, for my consent of his marriage with his present wife Margaret; also my lands in Ashby juxta Partney, which I bought of Henry Langholme, Esqr.; and in Strubby and Mable-thorpe. To my wife Anne, with whom I had only CCCC11. for a fortune, jewels and household stuff, etc. To my younger daughter Elizabeth CCCCC11. when 22, or married with the consent of my son John Bolle, my son in law Edward Carre, and my cousin Richard Gedney. Mentions legacies bequeathed to his said daughter by her grandmother Elizabeth Pouttrell, late of Stanley Grange, and an indenture between himself and her uncle Walter Pouttrell, Esqr., of West Hallam, in Derbyshire. To my daughter Elizabeth her mother's wedding ring. " I desire that my body be buried faste by the pulpitt in Haughe churche and some convenient124
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memorie ther uppon made o± my selfe and all my wyfes and children, and that ther be provided some vertuous preacher nether papist psitian (Precisian?) puritane nor suche like sectarie to preache at my buriall or funerall to whom I geve an angell of gold for his paynes." To my nephew Richard Cracroft vu. a year till he is 22, for his education, etc. Residue to my son John Bolle, whom I make exr. " Also I geve unto my verye deare frend and good Lord the lord Bysshop of Lincolne that nowe is my younge sorralde geldinge whom I humbly beseeche to bee and do make supervisor, assuredly trustinge that his good and ffatherlye counsell will ever be redye as always heretofore it hath bene to advise and directe my said son."
Prob. 12 March 1590-1.
The Will of the testator's father follows.
332.
The Will of RICHARD BOLLE, Esq., of Boston. 30 Novr. 1584. Refers to disposition of lands, etc., in Louth, South and North Elkington, Hallington, Boston, and Skirbeck, which he purchased for his younger sons Richard and John Bolle; and to the agreement made with his son Charles Bolle. The feoffees being William Hunston and others. To my wife Margaret my lands in Skirbeck and Boston, and my capital messuage in Boston for her life; then to my son John and his heirs; in default to my son Richard and his heirs; in default to my son and heir Charles Bolle; in default to Lyon Bolle, my brother's son; in default to John Bolle, of Gosberton. My wife's sister Elizabeth Raven. Richard Craycroft, son of Leonard. A codicil at Bourn, 27 Feb. 27th Elizabeth.
Prob. 12 July 1592.
The father had outlived the son. The wife, -whom the former had married, with the son's consent, is called the daughter of Risbye in the Vis. of 1562. The Lyon Bolle he mentions, was the son of his deceased brother Lyon Bolle, of Quadring (see No. 20G as also No. 283). The Will of the last mentioned in the entail, John Bolle, of Gosberton, follows.
333.
The Will of JOHN BOLLE, Gent., of Gosberton. 18 April 34th Elizabeth. To be buried in the Church. My son John Bolles. I make my wife Elizabeth ex .
Prob. 11 Oct. 1592.
He was a cousin of Eichard Bolle, of Boston.	_
334.
The Will of NICHOLAS ORMSBY, of Partney. 20 Deer. 1590. To be buried in the Church next unto my brother. My cousin William Waldegrave. To John Deane, Curate of Partney,LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	125
my bible. My cousin Thomas Waldegrave. My brother's children Andrew and Margaret Ormsby. I make my wife Elizabeth ex1.
Prob. 14 April 1591.
Possibly the son of John Ormsby, (seo No. 203).
335.
The Will of EDWARD TYRWHIT, Esqr., of Stainfield. 10 Deer. 1590. To my mother one gilded spoon. To my daughter Littleburie xx11. To my son Roger Tyrwhytt one standing bowl of silver parcel gilt and half a dozen of my new silver spoons. To my daughter Oglethorpe one of my lesser silver bowls of them " which be usuallie served at the table " ; the same to my daughter Allott and my daughter Tyrwhytt. Bequests to the poor of Stainfield, Barton, Barrow, Harpswell, and Spital. Residue to my son Philip Tirwhitt whom I make exr., and Sir John Mounson, Knt., supervisor.
Prob. 26 Jany. 1590-1.
Here follows his mother's Will.
336.
The Will of MARGARET TYRWHIT, widow, of Barton. 24 Feby. 1591-2. To be buried in the church of St. Peter's, Barton, near my father. To Edward Littlebury, of Winceby, lands I purchased in Barton. To Philip Tyrwhit, of Stainfield, the copyholds in Barton. To Mr. George Twistleton, of Barly in Yorkshire Cii. " as preferment " to my niece Margaret wife of the said George. My niece Tirwhit late wife to William Tirwhit, Esqr., of Kettleby. My nephew William Fitzwilliam. To my daughter Helen Haldenby viw. xiiis. iiijd. Edward son of Philip Tirwhit. My niece Martha wife of nephew Philip Tirwhit. Residue to my son Thomas Tirwhit, my daughter Helen Haldenby and my daughter Elizabeth Grysdale whom I make exrs., and my nephews Philip Tirwhit and William Fitzwilliam, supervisors. (Revokes bequest to Edward Littlebury).
Prob. 30 Sept. 1592.
The testatrix was the daughter and heiress of Edward Barnaby, of Barton, by his wife a daughter of Hamond Sutton, of Burton by Lincoln. Her husband was Philip Tyrwhit 3rd son of Sir Robert Tyrwhit, K.B., of Kettleby. By him she had a daughter Catherine who married Edward Holme, of Paul Holme in Yorkshire, and their daughter Margaret (whom she calls niece) married George Twistleton, of Barly, ancestor of the Viscounts Saye and Sele. Her " niece Martha " wife of her " nephew Philip Tirwhit," was really her grandson's wife, the daughter of Sir Anthony Thorold, of Marston (see No. 219). Her son who died before her and whose Will immediately precedes her's, married Anne, daughter of William Dalyson and sister of the Judge.
337.
The Will of MARMADUKE TYRWHIT, Gent., of Bigby. 16 Deer. 1588. To be buried in the church. My two children Marie and Elizabeth. My mother the lady Tirwhit. I make my wife Elizabeth, who is with child, and my brother William Thorold126
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exrs., and my brothers William Tirwhit and William Fitzwilliam, Esqrs., supervisors.
Prob. 10 Deer. 1589.
The 4th son of Sir Robert Tyrwhit, Knt., of Kettleby, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Oxenbridge, Knt, His wife's name is wrongly given " Anne " in the Vis. of 1562.
338.
The WiU of JOAN GANNOCK, widow, of Sibsey. 13 March 1589. My son John Porter. My son Symon Porter. My sister Mason. My sister Clarke. My daughter Mary Anderson. I make my son William Gannock, exr. Edward Gannock.
Prob. 24 June 1590.
Possibly the testatrix was the widow of Gregory Gannock (see No. 246). Her son's Will follows.
339.
The Will of WILLIAM GANNOCK, of Sibsey. (No date.) My lands to my eldest son John Gannock charged with a jointure of 40u. a year to my wife Katherine. To my sons William, and Robert Gannock, and my daughter Troth Gannock, " and the child that is in my wife's womb," Cu. apiece. To my brother Mr. John Anderson " the gray gelding which I lent him in London." My cousin William Gannock, of Boston. My cousin John Oresbie, of Boston. My sister Anderson and her daughter Ann. My lease of the parsonage of Sibsey. To my nephew Edward Gannock, now at Cambridge, lands, etc., in lieu of CH. I owe him. I make my son John Gannock, exr., and my cousins William Gannock and John Oresbie and my brother in law John Anderson, supervisors. Prob. 18 Feb. 1595.
His wife's Will follows (see 296 and 297).
340.
The Will of KATHERINE GANNOCK, widow, of Sibsey. 2 March 28th Elizabeth. To be buried in the Church. To my nephew Edward Gannock " my great paynted cheste." My sister Markham. My sister Seynton. My sister Bellingham. My sister Anderson. My cousin William Gannock and his wife. My cousin John Oresby. My son John Gannock. To my daughter Troth my double gilt bowl, my wedding ring, and my enamelled thimble. To my son Robert Gannock my parcel gilt tun. To my daughter Eaith my parcel gilt beaker. To my son Thomas Gannock six silver spoons. To my father Bellingham 40s. To my eldest brother my horse called Milner. Residue to my five youngest children, William, Robert, Thomas, Troth, and Eaith, whom I make exrs., and William Gannock and John Oresby, supervisors.
Prob. 20 March 1595.
Testatrix was daughter of John Bellingham, of Manton, one of the Lincolnshire branch of an ancient family, formerly of Bellingham, in Northumberland, and later of Burneshead Hall, and Levens Hall in Westmoreland, and now of Castle Bellingham in Ireland. See Vis. of 1692. Her sister " Seynton" was Troth, wife of Thomas Santon, of Santon.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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341.
The Will of THOMAS LITTLEBCTEY, Esqr., of Ashby. 3 Sept. 29th Elizabeth. To my wife Katherine Cu. " one goblett with a cover gylte, two tunnes parcell gilte, half a dozen silver spoones of the beste, my gylte salte I bought of my uncle Kelke with a cover." I desire my exccutors to sell all my lands in Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet, Spalding, Cowbit, and Moulton to pay my debts; and to hold my lands in Ashby Puerorum, Hagworth-ingham, Kirton, Kirkby, and Mareham, during the nonage of my son Humfrey Littlebury. My grandfather, Mr. Thomas Littlebury, granted annuities to my uncles Andrew, Edward, and George Littlebury, of viu. each, out of Kirton, and I have granted an annuity of xiiu. to my uncle John Littlebury out of Ashby. I give to my youngest sons Charles, William, and Philip Littlebury, annuities of x11. apiece out of Kirton, Ashby, Stainsby, Hemingby, and Somersby, and Cu. apiece when 21. My sister Frances Littlebury had CC marks under my father's Will. I make exrs. my wife Katherine, my father in law Charles Dymoke, and my brother Anthony Butler, and supervisors my cousins Andrew Gedney and Thomas Copledike.
Prob. 10 June 1590.
The testator-had married the daughter of Anthony Bntler, of Coates, near Stow, and her mother had married 2ndly, Charles Dymoke. Hia son Humfrey Littlebury eventually married Ann, daughter of Edward Maddison, of Fonaby, and grand daughter of Edward Maddison, whose Will has been given <,No. 164). In the Vis. of 1562, one of his uncles is called Anthony, evidently in mistake for Andrew. No trace of an " uncle Kelke " can be found.
342.
The Will of THOMAS PALFREYMAN, Gent., of Lusby. 13 Sept. 32nd Elizabeth (1590). To my son Eichard Palframan one silver pot with a cover in custody of my cousin Eichard Goodricke, and all my books that are called " Mr. John Calvine's books." Dorothy Palframan, my son Arthur Palframam's daughter. To Sarah Hutcheson, my son in law Thomas Hutcheson's daughter, v11. I owe my son Arthur vi11., and my son in law Thomas Copledike, Esqr., xxi]i. I make my son Eobert Palframan, exr., and Mr. Charles Bingham and Mr. John Somerscales, "preachers and ministers of the word," supervisors.
Prob. 21 Sept. 1590.
The testator's daughter Easter, had married Thomas Copledike, the 3rd son of Sir John Copledike, Knt., of Harrington (No. 141).
343.
The Will of EICHAED NEWCOMEN, of Kirkby on Bain. 19 Deer. 1592. To be buried in the church. To my daughter Elizabeth Newcomen " one cubbarde in the parlor, one square table in the hall" when she marries; also, one great chest in the chamber.128
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Refers to Will of her grandfather John Temple. My sons Edward, William, and Charles NTewcomen under age. My daughter Sisley Burton's child Frances. I make my wife Frances exx., and my brother John Newcomen and my cousin Samuel Newcomen, of Toynton, supervisors.
Prob. 28 March 1593.
He was a grandson of Richard Newcomen, of Low Toynton, whose Will has been given in extenso (68), and was probably the son of William Newcomen, of G-autby, see Vis. of 1592. His cousin Samuel Newcomen was the son of the said Richard Newcomen's eldest son Thomas, whose Admon. was granted to his son Samuel 5 June, 1579. Samuel Newcomen married Frances daughter of Thomas Massingberd, of Bratoft, and had three sons and one daughter, of whom nothing is known. The testator's line seems also to have dwindled away. The Will that follows is, probably, of another cousin descended from John Newcomen, another son of Richard Newcomen, of Low Toynton.
344.
The Will of JOHN" NEWCOMEN, of Spilsby. 21 Sept. 1599. My lands in Halton Holgate and Little Steeping. My son Lyonel Newcomen. My daughters Sycelie and Johan. I make my son Thomas Newcomen and my wife Johan, exrs. My long table in the hall.
Prob. 20 Feb. 1599-1600.
The family lingered on in Halton Holgate, but in a humble rank of life.
345.
The Will of JOHN AYSCOUGH, Gent., of Bolingbroke. (No date.) Everything to my brothers Richard and Francis Aiscough, whom I make exrs.
Prob. 13 July 1592.
346.
The Will of MATTHEW AMCOTTS, Gent., of Wickenby. 24 April 32 nd Elizabeth. My son Matthew Amcotts and his three sons. My daughter Gray and her children. My nephews Matthew and Richard Amcotts. My nephews Vincent, John, and Philip Sheffield. I make my son Alexander Amcotts, exr., and my nephews Vincent Sheffield and Matthew Amcotts, supervisors.
Prob. 27 May 1592.
He was the 3rd son of Alexander Amcotts, of Aisthorpe, who died in 1556. His sister Dorothy had married John Sheffield, of Croxby.
347.
The Will of ELEANOR SKIPWITH, of Walmsgate, widow. 2 Jany. 35th Elizabeth. To be buried in the church. To my brother John Kingston, of Grimsby, and my sister his wife, xs. apiece. To my niece Elizabeth Kingston xxs. To my son Lion Skipwith xxxx11. and a gold ring; his 3 children Elinor, Anne, and Margaret Skipwith. To my daughter in law Anne Skipwith xs. To ElinorLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Newcomen x11., and a gold ring with a red stone, and household stuff, etc. To Richard Xewcomen one silver goblet parcel gilt with a cover, one silver spoon and viu. xiiis. iiijd. To John Newcomen one silver spoon, and one silver salt double gilt, and xu. To Ann Newcomen one silver spoon, one gold ring with two stones in it, and xxu. To Elizabeth JSTewcomeu xiii11. vis. viiid. To my daughter Newcomen one gray nag, a gold ring with a diamond in it. To my son Lyon Skip with " all the glasse and paynted clothes and doares about the howses parlers and chambers, one communion table and one communion cup." To my godson John Gedney xs. Residue to my son in law John Newcomen, whom I mako exr.
Codicil 4 June 1599. Towards the building of Manby church xs.
Prob. 31 Deer. 1599.
Her husband John Skipwith had been the 3rd son of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of Ormsby, by his wife Elizabeth Tyrwhit. Burke in his Extinct Baronetage pa. 488, states that Lionel Skipwith the son died S.P. but in view of this Will it would be more accurate to say S.P.M. The daughter of the testatrix, Mary, had married John Newcomen, of Saltfleetby.
348.
The Will of THOMAS PUREY, of Kirton, Gent. 22 March 1591-2. To be buried in the south aisle of the church near where my father was buried. To my son Leonard Purey and his wife Betteris my swan mark. My son Robert Purey and his wife. My son John Harris and his wife. My brother William Purey and his wife. My brother Humfrey Purey and his wife. My son William Conie and my daughter his wife. Thomas and Martha children of John Harris. Thomas son of William Conie. My son Leonard's children Thomas, Jane, and Elizabeth Purey. My wife's son Thomas Gelson ; she is to pay xx11. to him when 18; and to give a bond to Humfrey Gelson, the elder, of Kirton. Plate and personalty to my wife Jane. I make my son Leonard Purey exr., and Humphrey Gelson, aforesaid, supervisor.
Prob. 11 April 1592.
See the Will of the (probably) grandfather (No. 123).
349.
The Will of ELIZABETH CLIFFORD, of Brackenborough, widow. 16 July 1592. To be buried in the church near my husband. My son and daughter Clifford. My son and daughter Metham. My daughter Yarbrough. To my daughter Thomasine Clifford Cu. in addition to CC marks, one silver salt with a cover, six silver spoons, one goblet of silver gilt, etc., and I make her exx. To the wife of Lion Lacon xs. My brother Gedney. My brother George Skipwith. My son Henry Clifford. My son George Metham, and my nephew Richard Gedney, whom I make supervisors.
Prob. 18 Novr. 1595.
She was the daughter of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of Ormsby, by his wife Elizabeth Tyrwhit. The Cliffords, of Brackenborough, descended from the 3rd son of John Lord Clifford, wtio died in 1461,
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350.
The Will of RICHARD THIMBLEBY, of Great Grimsby, Gent. 4 April 37th Elizabeth. To be buried in Grimsby Church. To my wife Mawde my house I dwell in till my son is 21, " being my inheritance." To my daughters Katherine and Easter Thimbleby vi11. xiiis. iiijd. apiece when 21. To Eldred Joyes, my wife's brother, 40s. My son John Thimbleby. Residue to my wife whom I make exx. I make my brother John Thimbleby, supervisor, with my cousin Thomas Hatcliffe, " being the last request I ever shall make." Witness, George Hatcliffe.
Prob. 1 May 1595.
A younger son of Sir William Thimbleby, Knt,, of Irnham. See Vis. of 1562 and 1592.
351.
The Will of DOROTHY MASSINGBERD, of Branston, widow, late wife of Thomas Massingberd, Esqr., of Bratoft. 11 August, 36th Elizabeth. To be buried in Branston Church. To my son in law Robert Dighton the lease of the farm of the house wherein I now dwell. To my son William Massingberd all the goods he hath of mine at Spilsby. Andrew Thorne,.my sister's son. My brother Somercotes. I make my daughter Dorothy Massingberd, exx.,and my sons Robert Dighton, Saiiiuel Newcomen, and William Massingberd, supervisors.
Prob. 29 Novr. 1594.
Testatrix was the 2nd wife of her husband, and was the daughter and heiress of Richard Ballard, Gent., of Orby.
352.
The Will of JANE MARIS, of Staine in the Marsh, widow. 20 April 1593. To Gawine Skipwith, son of my nephew John Skipwith, xx11. To William Skipwith, son the same, xxu. To the said Gawine Skipwith iv silver spoons and a silver salt, and " one greate chiste of waineskotte which my brother Skipwith his grandfather dyd bringe from Boollyn." Elizabeth Skipwith, daught6r of my nephew John Skipwith. To my nephew William Skipwith xxs. To my nephew Trustram Skipwith 40s. To my sister Grace Nutte a little gold ring and my spectacles. To Jane Fishewicke, my niece Jane Fishewicke's daughter, " a chiste ot waineskotte." My niece Margaret Harrington's son, and her daughters Susan and Grace Harrington. Residue to my nephew John Skipwith, whom I make exr. My niece Anne Woodd. I make my nephew, William Skipwith, supervisor.
Prob. 21 March 1594.
She was the illegitimate daughter of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of Ormsby (whose 1st wife was a Tyrwhit, and his 2nd a Dymoke). Her brother Gawen, also illegitimate, heads the pedigree given in the Vis. of 1592. Her husband Anthony Marys, of Burgh le Marsh, died In 1641 (see No. 76).LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600	131
353.
The Will of MARGARET SKIPWITH, of Cottam, wife of George Skipwitk, Esqr. 29 Oct. 1593. A true note of such matters which I would have my husband Mr. George Skipwith accomplish after my decease in manner following. To my daughter Towthbie one of my "gould braceletts." To my son Edward Ayscough my ring with a diamond. To my son Thomas Ayscough Lxu., of which xxx11. is to go to his daughter Jane on her marriage. To my son Francis Ayscough v11. To Henry Ayscough, son of my son Edward, my tenement at Ratcliffe, near London, and one hoop ring given me by my brother Disney, and my other "gould bracelett." My lease of Cottam to my husband George Skipwith.
Admon. given to husband, 18 April 1594.
She is described in the Ayscough pedigree as the daughter of - Gibson,
of London. Hence, perhaps, her tenement in Ratcliffe, near London, a phrase which appears strange to anyone who knows the Ratcliffe Highway. Her 1st husband was Edward Ayscough, a younger son of Sir William Ayscough, Knt., of Stallingborough : her 2nd, George Skipwith, was a younger son of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of Ormsby, by his 1st wife Elizabeth Tyrwhit.
354.
The Will of JOHN LITTLEBURY, of Hagworthingham, Gent. 27 March 1594. To Mr. William Wray " the ring that it pleased my lady his mother to give me." To Sir George St Poll "my half part of the hawks." My brother William Foster. My uncle and aunt Salmon. My cousin the elder Girlington. My cousin John Littlebury, junior, the son of Andrew Littlebury. My cousin John Littlebury, the son of John Littlebury of Hagworthingham. My cousin Edward Salmon. I make John Littlebury, my cousin, of Hagworthingham, exr., and my cousin Nicholas Girlington and my uncle Anthony Girlington, supervisors.
Prob. 11 April 1594.
355.
The Will of THOMAS SKIPWITH, Esqr., of Utterby. 22 June 1593. To be buried in the church. To my wife Mabel my manor of Utterby, and lands in Nun Ormsby for life, then to my son William Skipwith under age. I have in my hands CCCC11. of my daughter Margaret, wife of Samuel Skipwith, Gent. To everyone of my daughters an angel. I make my wife exx., and my brother in law, Edward Skipwith, of Biscathorpe, supervisor.
Prob. 11 June 1594.
He had married his distant cousin, the daughter of Sir William Skipwith, Knt., of Ormsby by his wife Elizabeth Page. The brother in law, Edward Skipwith, of Biscathorpe, was the " Edward Towthby otherwise Skipwith" provided for in Sir William Skipwith'a Will (see No. 304), and whom there is strong reason for suspecting to be illegitimate.132
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356.
The Will of ROBERT CAWDRON, single man, of Little Hale. 1 Sept. 1596. To be buried in the Church of Great Hale. To my sisters Margaret and Margery Cawdron 40s. apiece. To my brother John Cawdron 40s., and my brother Anthony Cawdron xs. To the children of my sister Ann Cawdron xs. To Mr. John Cawdron, " my maister's son," xs. To Elizabeth Browne, daughter to my Mistress Browne xs. To my brother William Cawdron, whom I make exr., 40s. and my gray filly.
Prob. 29 Oct. 1596.
See Wills 254 and 255. The testator was evidently a relation.
357.
The Will of ANNE KIDDALL, of South Ferriby, widow. 31 March 1596. To John, son of my son William Kiddall, v". To my sons Thomas and Edmund Kiddall x11. apiece. To my son Adam Kiddall the lease of the farm I now dwell in called North Grange, when he is 24. If he die, then the remainder of the lease is to go to my children Thomas, Edmund, Elizabeth, and Anne Kiddall. I also will that the fines and charges touching my daughter Cressie's feoffment be discharged. I make exrs. my daughters Elizabeth and Anne Kiddall, to whom'the residue. I make supervisors my son William Kiddall, my brother Eland, my brother Richardson, and my brother Dighton. Witnesses, Brian Eland, John Dighton, Richard Richardson.
Prob. 10 May 1596.
See Will of her husband (No. 257). She was the daughter of John Eland, of Carlton, Co. York.
358.
The Will of JOHN DIGHTON, of Horkstow, Gent. 29 July 1596. To the poor of Batley xxs. To my son John Dighton my lands in Bradford. My son Alveray Dighton. To my daughter Deborah Dighton CC marks. To my daughter Margaret Dighton Cu. To my sons William, Alveray, and Josua Dighton XCU. My signet of gold to my eldest son John Dighton. I make my wife Margaret ex2., and my uncle Alveray Copley, Esqr., and my father Mr. John Dighton, supervisors.
Prob. 19 August 1596.
359.
The Will of MARGARET DIGHTON", of Horkstow, widow. (No date.) The lands in Horkstow and Saxby, which shall descend from my father Bee and my mother his wife, I will to my children William, Josua, and Averall Dighton, and Deborah and Margaret Dighton. To my son John Dighton in his minority, my diamondLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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ring, etc. My sister Eland, my sister Richardson. I make exrs. my brother Brian Eland and my cousin Josua Wakefeld. And my brother in law Richard Richardson, parson of Saxby, supervisor.
Prob. 24 Sept. 1596.
The two preceding Wills are of husband and wife who probably both died of the same disease. These Dightons were quite distinct from the family at Sturton, and bore a different coat of arms, see Vis. of 1592. The connection with Lincolnshire was owing to the intermarriage with the Bee family. Testatrix was half-sister to Anne Kiddall.
360.
The Will of LEONARD WHICHCOTE, of Leasingham, Gent. 29 March 41st Elizabeth. To John son of Richard Barkworth xx11. when 21; if he die, then it is to be divided between Josua Whichcote son of Thomas Whichcote, and George Whichcote son of John Whichcote. All my land at North Kyme and my best silver spoon is to go to John Barkworth. My nephew Thomas Whichcote is to manage for him. Residue to George son of John Whichcote aforesaid whom I make exr., and John Jonson, of Kyme Ferry, supervisor.
Prob. 17 July 1599.
One of the younger sons of Thomas Whichcote, of Harpswell and Dunston (see No. 58). See also Wills of his brothers Hamond, Nicholas, and Edmund (Nos. 213,189, and 111).
361.
The Will of JOHN FRISKNEY, Gent., of Skirbeck. 7 Deer. 41st Elizabeth. Lands in Benington and Leverton. My wife Mildred is to bring up my son Richard Friskney till he is 21. Thomas and Anthony Doughty, and Edward Ashe, gentlemen, are to sell certain lands to raise portions for my children.
Prob. 7 Feb. 1598-9 by relict.
See Will No. 286 and note.
362.
The Will of WILLIAM SKEGNES, of Anderby, yeoman. 19 Sept. 1597. To the poor of Ingoldmells and Addlethorpe 40s. To my sons John and Christopher Skegnes Lx11. apiece for their schooling, etc. To my daughters Dorcas and Anne Skegnes Lxxx11. apiece; both under 21. My leases in Anderby, Mumby, and Mumby-Chapel to my son Vincent Skegnes. My mill in Winthorpe to my son Thomas Skegnes, whom I make exr., and supervisors, "Vincent Sheffield, of Croxby, and George Johnson, of Thwaites, Gent.
Prob. 27 Feb. 1598.
Testator was probably a son of John Skegnes, of Addlethorpe (see No. 271), see also Will of Thomas Skegnes, of Skendleby (No. 149).
363.
The Will of WILLIAM KIRKMAN, of East Keal, Gent. 10 Sept. 1597. My lands to my daughter Amy, after my wife's decease,134
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paying 40u. apiece to my daughters Anne, Cicely, and Bridget. I make my wife, exx.
Prob. 8 Feb. 1597-8.
According to the Vis. of 1592, pa. 8, tho testator married Dorothy, daughter of Archibald Barnard, of Spilsby, " a Gascoynge born, and a Free denizen and Lord of the Manor of Hagnaby in Com. Line."
364.
The Win of WILLIAM YARBURGH, yeoman, of Alvingham. 18 April 1597. To be buried in the Church. To the church of Alvingham vs. To the church of Cockerington S. Mary, 2s. 6d. To the church of Yarburgh 2s. My lands in Alvingham to my wife for life, then to my eldest son John Yarburgh for life, then to his eldest son Edward Yarburgh, with remainder to his younger son William Yarburgh. My said son John's daughters Mary and Ellen Yarburgh. My lands in Brackenborough. My younger sons Richard, William, and Charles Yarburgh. My daughter Margaret Rocliffe. My son in law John Yarburgh. My daughter Ann Yarburgh. My brother in law Mr. Thomas Allott and my sister his wife. Elizabeth, wife of my son John Yarburgh. Elizabeth, wife of my son Thomas Yarburgh. Margaret, wife of my son Charles Yarburgh. My cousin John Yarburgh. I make my wife Ellen, exx., and William Radley, Gent., of Yarburgh, supervisor. I leave my lands in Saltfleetby to my son Thomas Yarburgh.
Prob. 7 Sept. 1597.
There is little doubt the testator was an offshoot of the Tarburghs, of Yarburgh and Kelstern, though in the ranks of the yeomanry. Instances have been given in the Langton, Gedney, and Towthby families. Possibly William Yarburgh, of Cockerington St. Mary, whose Will was dated 27 May, and proved 8 July, 1557, was a relation.
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MARGARET MADDISON, of Great Grimsby, Aldris (Alder-manesse ?), and widow. 24 Sept. 1590. To be buried in churchyard of S. James. To my son Richard Allanson iiju. vis. viijd. To Thomas Hatcliffe x11. To Elizabeth Hatcliffe v11. To George Hatcliffe vJi. To Judith Hatcliffe v11. To Anne Hatcliffe vu. To Susan Hatcliffe vu. To Marmaduke Hatcliffe vH. To Arthur Hatcliffe v11. To Ursula Hatcliffe xv11. To my daughter Ursula Taylor a silver goblet, etc. To Bridget, Elizabeth, and Judith Taylor iiju. apiece. Residue to my son John Hatcliffe, whom I make exr.
Prob. 12 Oct. 1592.
Testatrix seems to have been the wife let of James Hatcliffe, of Grimsby, and 2ndly of Thomas Maddison, whose Will has been given (No. 232) and by whom she had no children.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of DAME MARGARET SUTTON. In dei nomine amen. The ffirst daie of the mon^th of Octobre in the yere of our good a thousand fyve hundreth and xxv. I dame Margarett Sutton, vowis, with hoole mynde and remembrance makith my last Will and testament in this forme folowyng. ffirst I gifF my soule to allmyghty god to our blessed lady and to all sayntts my body to be buried in the paroch church of Cheriburton by lincoln in the hye quere by my son Anthony, with my mortuary after the costom. Item I will ther be giffen that daie to prests and clerks that com to my buriall 40s. and peny doole to the pur peple that cum that daie. Item I will ther be disposed to prests and clerks if thei com on my xxxw. daie 40s. and to the poor peple that com peny doole. Item I will ther be disposed of on my yere daie in the hoole iiju. after the discretion of myn executors. Item I will have a secular prest continente after my decesse to syng oon yere at the Church wher my bodie shall lye saying iij daies in the weke placebo and dirige with ix lect. and commendation, and on daie in the weke messe of regimen takyng a speciall collect for my husband's soule and myn. And I will he have for his sallare or stipend vii marc, and bye hym brede and waxe with xxd. Also I will that he that is my chaplayn and prest the tyme of my departyng frome this world have it before another if he will. Item I gifF to the beforsaid church of Chere-burton towardes the bying of an new coope xxs. and to the hye altar of the said church for tithes forgotten vis. viiid. Item I giff to our mother church wark of Lincoln iijs. iiijd. Item I giff to S. Andrew churchwarke in Lincoln vis. viijd. Item I giff to the repare of Saxilby Church xiid. and to the repare of Broxholm Church xiid. Item I giff to the repare of Rysom Church xiid. Item I giff to every place of the iij ordres of the ffreres in lincoln iij shepe or elles for every on shepe xxd. And to ffreres observants in Newerke I giff iij shepe or elles xxd. for on, and so after the Raate to praye for my husbande soule and myn. Item I giff to the abbot and convent of Kyrkstyd Abbay to do myn obett and praye for me xxs. Item I giff to the Prior and convent of Bullington Abbay vis. viijd., and to the Nonnes and sistres in the same place I giff xiijs. iiijd. to do me an obett and praye for me. Also I giff to our Lady gild in Bullington xiid. Item I giff to Sanct Anne gild in Lincoln my best hood and my mantell. Item I giff to Dame Mary my daughter nonne in Bullington Abbey 40s. Item I giff to the church of Chereburton xiijs. iiijd. to the entent that on man of the most honest and forward in the same town have it to bye and sell with and bring in the hoole stokke at the daie of the church rekkennyng that wolde of his charyte fynde a light to hurne afor the sacrament on the hye altar in the hye messe tyme upon the holy daie. Item136	LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
I giff to my sonne Robert Sutton ij giltyd sawltes with on cover and all suche parcelles of householde as appeareth in a byll therupon playnly made, with another byll of heyrelomes. And the other parte and parcelles of howseholde. I giff to my sonne Nicholas to be devided and partyd bytwixt they«a as bedding and napere and such other as belongeth to the buttre and kechyn. Item I giff to my Lady powas a standing maser with a cover. Item I giff to my doghter Upton a gold ring. Item I giff to my son Hamond a giltyd bowle and a cover marked of rowses. Item 1 giff to my doghter Emlyn my sone Hamond's wiff a gowne furred with graye and vi swarme of beys. Item I give to my sone Sir John Sutton Knyght of the Roode a bowll of silver dowble gilted with the cover therto. Item I giff to my sone Nicholas ij sawltes of silver and half a dosyn spones of silver. Item I giff to my doghter Skeyrn x yowes and a ring. Item I giff to my doghter Barnaby xx shepe olde and yong and my best gowne. Item I giff to my doghter Jane a pownched pece and the spones belonging to the buttre, iij kye, x lames and an ambeling horse. Item I giff to Henry Sutton my sone Robert's eldest sone a silver bowll with a cover parcell gilte and a vise (sic) of golde for a gentill woman's nek. Item I giff to my sone Hamond's eldest sone a silver spone with a luce hede and gilted. Item I giff to Thomas Grauntham my doghter Alice yong sone xx yowes, and I will that they be delivered to his graunt dame maistres Grauntham of Dunham. Item I giff to Sir John husey doghter that I cristened a golde ring with a ruby. Item I giff every on of sones and doghters that I have cristened xs. Item I giff to the parson of saint paules in the baile of Lincoln vis. viijd. and a yong fylly. Item I will that all my husband's detts and myn that can be evidently proved be taken and paied of my hoole goods. The residue of my goods as corne, catell, detts and others I putte the discretion of Sir John Sutton Knyght my doghter Jane Sutton my sone Hamond Sutton and my sone Nicholas Sutton whom I make myn executours to receyve theym and dispose theym to the most pleasure of God and the wele of my saule. I giff every on of theym for theire labor and attendance 40s. And I make supervisor of this my "Will for the performation therof my sone Robert Sutton Esquier to se it fullfilled as my faithfull trust is in hym, and I giff him for his supervision and attendance on standing pece dowble gilte, with thies wittenes Syr John hudson parson of paules, Syr William Clarke parson of Rysom, Syr John Richardson, Syr Hugh Beket, prests, and John Benyngworth with other moo.
(No probate).
This Will is given in estenso on account of its interesting character. The testatrix was the daughter of Sir Eobert Sheffield, Knt., Recorder of London, and the widow of Hamond Sutton, of Burton by Lincoln and Wellingore. Her title of " Dame " may have been a religious one, for she had taken the vow of widowhood, and there is no record of her husband having been knighted. Her daughter in law Emlyn Sutton's Will has been given (see No. 176 and the note). Her eldest son Robert Sutton lies in Burton Church under a large stone with his arms and those of his two wives cut on it. He married 1st a coheir of the Boys family and 2nd a daughter of Lord Grey, of Powis ; hence the bequest in his mother's Will to the " ladie powas." The pedigrees in the Visitations of 1562 and 1592 are most unsatisfactory and do not by any means show the antiquity and high position of this family, which represented Lincoln in Parliament during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Wills of two of the daughters follow.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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The Will of JANE SUTTON, of Burton nigh Lincoln. 7 Novr. 1558. Sick in body. To be buried in the quire nigh unto my Lady my mother. To my sister Mary xx nobles, my rynge and beades, etc. My nephew Ambrose Sutton and his wife. To his daughter Jane a silver spoon. To my niece Lynsey xxs. To my nephew Edward Sutton a carpytt qwyssion with my father's armes. To my niece Alice Sutton, of Willoughton xxs. To ij yonge mayds in worshipe of God and ij virgins which shall "carry ij candells of waxe of quarter apece iiijd. each, and to have Kyrsan tassen (sic) over there hedds." I leave x11. for my buriall, my vii day, month's mind, xii month's mind, etc. I make my sister Mrs. Mary Sutton, exx., and my nephew Welby, supervisor.
Prob. 15 Feb. 1558-9.
Her sister did not long survive her.
III.
The Will of MAET SUTTON, of Willoughton, " professe and late pryorys of bullington." 4 Feb. 1558-9. To be buried before our Lady in the holy sanctuary of S. Andrew, Willoughton. To the Lady Light of Lincoln iijs. iiijd. For wax on the day of my burial xxs. and xiid. apiece to priests who sing mass and dirige. My niece Lynsey. My nephew Nicholas Sutton, and his wife, to have the household stuff which was my brother Nicholas', also my great posnet, my hourne bound with silver and gilt, and ij silver spoons. My nephews Thomas Skerne and Eobert Skerne. My nephews Ambrose Sutton and Edward Tyrwhit. My cousin Barbara Tyrwhit my said nephew's daughter to have a silver spoon, and to her sister Mary my " agnus dei set with our lady." My nephew Yorke; to Mary Yorke his daughter my little maser bound with silver and gilted " with a crowne in the bothome," also a " lytle Spannysshe pott of brasse," and a silver spoon, etc. To Mary Portington a pair of amber beads. To nephew Welby a ring of gold and v11., " so that he leuinly and without delay pay unto my exrs. xvu. in oulde golde which I delivered to my nevy Grantham to kepe for the charges of my buriall." To my niece Welby a pair of coral beads and to Thomas Welby his son a silver spoon. To my niece Yarburgh a pair of coral beads and xxx gauds of silver. My niece Cony. My godson Nicholas Sutton. To little Mary Sutton my agnus dei. To Sir Martyn Anderson, priest, ixu. yearly for his life in sickness and in health out of my lease of the parsonage of Broughton, in Yorkshire; he paying xs. yearly to Willoughton. To Burton by Lincoln vi11. xiiis. iiijd. to be put in a stock and the profit paid yearly to the poor of Burton at the discretion of the138
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parson of Burton. I make my nephews Thomas Skerne and Edward Tyrwhit exrs., and my nephew Nicholas Sutton, supervisor.
Prob. 15 Feb. 1558-9.
The two sisters must have attained to a great age, as Barbara Tyrwhit, mentioned in tho preceding Will, was a great great niece, being the daughter o£ Edward Tyrwhit who was the son of Philip Tyrwhit by Margaret Barnaby daughter of the " daughter Barnaby " mentioned in the mother's Will. The Sir John Sutton, " Knight of the Rood," was the Treasurer of the Preceptory of Temple Bruer. The " nephew Nicholas Sutton " was the son of Hamond Sutton, of Washingborough, by his wife Emlyn ; and he held the post of Receiver General for the Preceptory at Willoughton.
IV.
The Will of WILLIAM DALYSON, of Laughton. 11 June 1530. To be buried in the church of All Hallows. To S. Margaret's Church in York vs. To my daughters Isabel, Elizabeth, and Jane 40 marks apiece. I make my wife Margaret and my sons William and Roger exrs.
No probate, but he died 15 th June, 1530.
See pedigree in the Vis. of 1562. He was auditor of the Priory of Thornholme and hia son was father of the Judge. His son Roger became Precentor of the Cathedral of Lincoln.
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The Will of RICHARD St. PAUL, of Ealdingworth, Gent. 21 June 1543. To be buried in the Chapel of our Lady in the Church of Faldingworth. To our Lady's Work at Lincoln ij of my best silver spoons. To the Church of Friesthorpe ijs. To the Church of Snarford iijs. iiijd. To the Churches of Welton and Han worth xxd. each. To my cousin Matthew Sayntpolle " an angyll noble." To my cousin Margerie Sayntpolle " one Ryall of golde." To Alice Torney an " angell noble." To my cousin Anne Sayntpolle, my brother William's daughter, '' a cowe, ij yowes, ij lames, my best pott that was her father's," etc. To Richard Hansard, my godson, an ewe, a lamb, and an angel noble. I desire that a priest sing in the Church where I am buried viij years for my soul and the soul of my parents, twice a week placebo and dirige with commendation, and every Friday " messe of regimen " ; to have yearly ivu. xiijs. iiijd. for stipend to be paid by my cousin Vincent Grantham, Esqr., George Nevyle, and Thomas Freeman, yeoman, from 40u. which I have lodged with them. "Also I wyll that a fotte brige be maid by myn executors over the beeke in Welton felde betwixt Welton and Hanworth at the est ende of the furre lande." Residue to my cousin George Sayntpolle, of Louth Park, whom I make exr. along with Thomas Hall, of Huntingdon, Doctor of Physic, and I make my brother John Sayntpoll, of Snarford, my supervisor.
Prob. 17 August 1543.
The Will of his brother John St. Paul follows.lincolnshire wills, 1500-1600.
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The Win of JOHN St. PAUL, Esqr., of Snarford. 3 Sept. 1545. " Consideringe my great age etc." My soul to God who hath redeemed the same by the merits of his blessed passion, etc. I desire to be buried in the Church of St. Lawrence, Snarford. On the day of my burial v masses in honour of the v wounds of our Lord God are to be sung. A priest is to sing for xx years daily for me, my wives, my father and mother etc., according to a deed of feoffement giving certain lands for this purpose. My manor of Snarford to my son Matthew Sayntpole and his heirs male, with remainder to my son George Sayntpole. If my sons disagree touching my Will, then my son in law Thomas Littlebury is to be exr. instead of them. My son George borrowedmoney of me when he bought the grangeof Westlaby of the late Duke of Suffolk. To my eldest son Matthew aforesaid one bason and ewer of silver, a long pot of silver parcel gilt, ij salts of silver with one cover gilt, one standing piece with a cover wrought with a Rose in the top, one goblet with a cover gilt, one bowl of silver without any cover, a drinking cup with a cover gilt, one half dozen of great silver spoons and one half dozen of other spoons of silver. To my son George aforesaid one long pot of silver parcel gilt, one salt gilt, one bowl with a cover gilt, which bowl I bought of Sir William Ascughe, Knt., and I give unto him the bowl ol silver that I bought of Sir Francis Ascughe, Knt., " of parys worke," and two little drinking pots of silver with the cover, and one dozen of silver spoons. To my son in law Thomas Littlebury one bowl of silver with a cover with my arms wrought in it. To my daughter Margery one standing cup gilt " wroughte with oken leaves," one goblet parcel gilt and vi spoons of silver, also, furniture, etc., 40 sheep, 2 mares, " one that I rode upon and one that was the market mare," also, " one garnishe of vessell laite boughte at London markyd with a letter of M and S," and the great counter in the old parlour. To Humfrey Littlebury one standing cup with the cover gilt, " wroughte wythe chevernes" (qy. chevrons). I will that Alice Tourneye shall have x11. that my son Tourneye oweth me. " The house in Eduham (qy. Dunham) ys sett for one obytt to be done yerely for my sonne John Sayntpoll, and there remayneth over and above vis. viiid." My son Matthew is to cause an obit to be done at Snarford with it, viz : every year on the day of my burial v masses; the parson to have viijd. the other priests iiijd. each, and iijs. iiijd. to be dealt to 40 poor people. To each of my son Littlebury's children, except Charles, " a qwy and a steare," and the same to John and Mary Sayntpoll. Whereas William Manby, Esqr., oweth to me xxx11., I give x11. of it to Alice Tourney daughter of my son in law John Tourney, and xx11. to my son George Sayntpoll. I give my leases of lands for the term of 40 years, in Hackthorn and Spridlington, made to the said William Manby by the late140
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Prior and convent of Bullington, and bought of him by me, to my said sod George Sayntpoll. To Ellen Hansard, wife of Richard Hansard, Gent., v marks so that they release by fine at the next assize to my son Matthew all their right in a messuage and xvi acres of land in Friesthorpe which I bought of them. My lease in Newton to Edward Littlebury youngest son of my son in law Thomas Littlebury.
Prob. 18 June 1546.
The Wills of these two brothers St. Paul should be read in connexion with the Wills of Jane Disney (No. 232), Sir Thomas St. Paul, Knt. (No. 272), Dame Faith St. Paul (No. 273), and Margaret Littlebury (No. 285). It is interesting to trace the descent of articles of plate ; for instance, the bason and ewer of silver bequeathed by the last testator to his son Matthew probably went at his death without issue to his brother George St. Paul; and his widow Jane Disney bequeaths it to her son by him, George St. Paul. The St. Pauls oame from Byrom, in Yorkshire, and it is to be regretted that so little is known about the family. See Test. Ebor. Surtees. Soc. Yol. v. pa. 26.
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The Will of ROBERT MONSON, Esqr., of Belton, in the Isle of Axholme. 1 August 1555. To be buried in the church on the north side. I make my wife Margaret exx., and my brother William Mounson, supervisor, begging him " to be uncle to my children."
Prob. 13 August 1556.
A younger son of Sir John Monson, Knt„ of South Carlton, by his 2nd wife Dorothy Meres.
VIII.
The Will of ALEXANDER AMCOTTS, Esqr., of Aisthorpe. 16 Deer. 1556. To be buried in the chancel of St. Peter's Church. My soul to the mercy of God, etc., " desiring most hertely our blessyd Lady, Mother of our Saviour Jesus Cryst, and all the holy company of heaven to pray for me." Bequests to the poor of Brattleby, Aisthorpe, Scampton, Thorpe in the Fallows, Cammering-ham, and Welton. To my son in law John Compton vis. viijd. To Anne Compton his daughter viu. when 21 ; to Alice Compton iv11. when 21. To my son in law John Sheffield and his wife, my daughter, vis. viiid. apiece. To their son Vincent Sheffield xiiis. iiijd. when 21. To my son John Amcotts and his heirs male my furniture, etc., " a great rede arke," my silver salt with the cover having my arms graven upon it; to his wife vis. viijd. To my son Matthew Amcotts xx11. To my son Vincent Amcotts x11. and vis. viijd. to his wife. To Sir John Hanlay xxs. to pray for me. To my son Matthew's wife vis. viijd. To my daughter Jane furniture, etc. I make my sons John and Matthew and my daughter Jane exrs., and my worshipful friend Mr. George Sayntpole, Esqr., supervisor.
Prob. 5 Feb. 1556-7.
The head of the old family of Amcotts, of Amcotts, in the Me of Axholme. The family moved to Aisthorpe on marrying the heiress of that estate. In 1342 William Amcotts had a licence for an oratory within his manor in the parish of Althorpe, and in 1345 Richard Amcotts had the like permission for an oratory " infra mansum suum atte Westhalle de Amcotes in parochia de Althorpe." Alexander's 3rd son Matthew Amcotts was seated at Wickenby,LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.	141
see his Will (No. 346). The eldest son John Amcotts married Joan Knighton and his line ended in an heiress Rhoda in the 17th century. From the testator's 2nd son Vincent Amcotts descended the line which eventually became the senior male one, and in the 18th century Charles Amcotts was possessor of Amcotts and Aisthorpe, the original estates, besides Harrington and Kettlethorpe acquired in later times. He dying unmarried in 1777, the estates passed to his two sisters Anna Maria Emerson and Frances Buckwcrth. The former by her husband Wharton Emerson (afterwards Sir Wharton Amcotts, Bart.) had an only daughter Elizabeth who married Sir John Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle. Their son Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart., dying without issue, the Amcotts estates passed to his eldest surviving sister Augusta wife of Robert Cracroft, of Hackthorn, grandfather of Edward Weston Cracroft, of Hackthorn, and of Major Frederick Cracroft Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe.
IX.
The Will of JOHN CRESSY, of Blyborough. 28 Sept. 1553. To be buried in the church. To my wife Isabel one third of my estate " yf she marry nott to one that ys all redy formed and also that Robert my Sonne shall have half the ferme with my wyff but shall not marye in to howse to my wyff without her consent and good will." My son Bartilmewe. Bequests to the poor of Blyton, Kirton, Grayingham, and Willoughton. My brother Hugh Cressy and his wife. My sons and daughters. # Mr. Ascugh to be good to my wife and poor children. I make my wife exx., and my son Robert and William Wygan, supervisors.
(No date. Prob. at Spital).
The Will of his brother Hugh Cressy follows.
X.
The Will of HUGH CRESSY, of Blyborough. 20 Deer. 1558. To be buried in the church of St. Ankermound. I make my wife Jenytt and my son John exrs. Thomas Johnson and Robert Cressy, supervisors.
Prob. 4 Jany. 1558-9.
The family probably came from the Cressys, of Eirkin, in Yorkshire. The grandson of John Cressy, Nicholas, married a daughter of Sir Henry Ayscough, Knt., of Blyborough, and moved to Kirkby on Bain. The family became extinct in the 17th century. See Vis. of 1592.
XI.
The Will of RICHARD GERING, notary, of Winterton. 6 April 1552. To be buried in the chancel of All Hallows Church. To Winterton Church iijs. iiijd. To Marsh Chapel Church iijs. iiijd. Confirms gifts of his late wife to Anne Morley of clothes, etc., and to her sister Elizabeth Morley. To Peter, Richard, Anne, Elizabeth and Jane Morley xx marks when of age. To Robert, Jane, Mawde, and Anne Wright viu. xiijs. iiijd. when of age. To my son Peter Gering 2 tofts in Winterton which I bought of Thomas Lownd, Gent., with remainder to my son George Gering. To my son Peter all my leases, farm, etc., except the chantry lands in Winterton which I leave to my son George. To my son Peter all my books. My daughter in law Margaret. I make my sons Peter and George, exrs., and Mr. George Sayntpoll and my son in law John Morley, supervisors. Witness, William Morley, Vicar of Winterton.
(No probate.)
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The Will of MYLES METCALFE, Gent., of Crowle. 20 June 1559. Bequests to the poor of Belton and Scampton. "An honest dyner to be provided for all neighbours who go to church with me." Residue to Roger Tyldysley, Gent., and Anne his wife, whom I make exrs.
Prob. 9 Oct. 1559 by Roger Tyldysley.
XIII.
The Will of WILLIAM MORLEY, clerk, Vicar of Winterton. Last day of Feb. 1556. To my brother Robert Morley my best silver spoon. To my sister Holden my 2nd best silver spoon. To my sister Crowther my next best silver spoon. Sir Thomas Crowther, Vicar of Bonby. To Anthony Holden, Jane Morley, Elizabeth Ascugh, and John Crowther a silver spoon apiece. To Alice Morley daughter of Richard Morley, of Morley, (sic) ijs. I make my brothers John Morley and Thomas Holden, exrs.
Prob. 26 July 1567.
The testator was probably one of the Morleys, of Holme Hall, in Bottesford.
XIV.
The Will of DOROTHY WHICHCOTE, of St. Swithin's, Lincoln. 26 April 1560. To my brother Hamond Whichcote vH. My father Hamond Whichcote. To my aunt Grace Burton all the money left to me by my uncle Richard Fishburne, also my great pair of coral beads. To Katherine Burton, her daughter, my lesser pair of beads. To my cousins Edward, Anthony, and Thomas Burton a silver spoon apiece. To Henry Sapcotts my biggest cross of silver. To Elizabeth Sapcotts his sister my lesser cross. Residue to my aunt Grace Burton whom I make exx.
Prob. 8 May 1560.
See Vis. of 1592, where under " Sapcotts " the Fishbourne and Burton relationships may be traced. The testatrix was probably the widow of one of the numerous Whichcotes, of Dunston and Harpswell.
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The Will pf ROBERT SHEFFIELD, of Coleby, Gent. 27 March 1541. To be buried in the Church of Burton. To my wife Elisabeth the lease of Coulbe I have of Master John Wenslay, and my lease of the Vicarage of Burton. My wife to have her feoffement for her life with remainder to my son Robert and his heirs, with remainder to my sons Bartilmew and Nicholas. My house and close in Scoture (Scotter). I make my wife and children exrs.
Prob. 2 June 1541.
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The Will of RICHARD BELLINGHAM, Esq., of Manton. 22 March 1577. To be buried in the " hye quere of Manton." My soul to God and the Holy Company of Heaven. My sons Robert, Richard, Thomas, Christopher, Tristram, and Edmund Bellingham. My lands in Brumby and "my manor house in the wood." My son John Bellingham is to have all the wood in Brumby "for the maintenance of Trent bank." My lands in Burringham, Burton, and Burton Stather, and " the tolle in Burton." My lands in Cleatham, Colby, and Haytheby to be 8 years in my supervisors' hands to pay my debts. To my son Henry Bellingham, my lordship of Colby and Haytheby, for life, and after his death an annuity of Liijs. ivd. to be paid for her life to Lady Copley ; with reversion to my son John Bellingham. To my brother Thomas Bellingham my warren in Brumby, Scunthorpe, and Frothingham for the years. I make my wife Jaine exx., and supervisors, Sir Robert Tyrwhit, of Kettleby, Knt., and his son Mr. William Tyrwhit. My co-feoffees being William Burghe, Gent., of Kirton, and Peter Shaw, of Brumbie. Prob. 17 Oct. 1577.
Testator was the grandson of Richard Bellingham, who was the 2nd son of Sir Robert Bellingham, Knt., of Burneshead Hall, in Westmoreland. His mother was the heiress of the Wastling family, through whom hi9 father acquired the property at Brumby. His descendant, Richard Bellingham, was one of the early Puritan Governors of Massachusetts in the following century.144
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ADDENDA.
I subjoin a few proofs and evidences of the antiquity of the families mentioned in the foregoing pages.
In the Testa de Nevill, or Book of Knights' Fees, compiled in the 13th century, I find the following :—
William le Angevyn holds 2 carucates and 2 bovates of land by the service of one Knight, of Petronilla de Croun, in Holbeach and Whaplode.
Jordan de Asfordby holds the 4th part of a Knight's fee in Asfordby, of Galfrid de Beningworth, and he of the honour of the Countess of Bolingbroke. He also holds the 12th part af a Knight's fee in Saucethorpe of the Earl of Ferrers.
William de Billesby (Bilsby) holds 3 parts of a Knight's fee in Bilsby, Huttoft, and Hannah (Hagnaby), of the honour of the Earl of Ferrers. He holds also the 4th part of a Knight's fee in Bilsby, of Hugh de Harrington, and he of the heirs of John, Earl of Chester.
Walter son of William, and William de Bleseby (Bleasby) hold the 3rd part, and the 8th part of one Knight's fee in Walesby, of the old feoffment.
Reginald de Crevequor held in chief of the King in^Bleseby and Holton iij carucates of land, and the said King gave them to Joceline de Bleseby for the service of one Knight, and his heirs hold them.
Hugh de Bussy holds 2 Knights' fees in Hougham, and (with others) holds half a fee in Osbournby, of the old feoffment.
Eobert de Cubbeldich (Copledike) holds 8th part of a Knight's fee in Frampton and Kirton, of the honour of Richmond.
William de Iseney (Disney) holds one Knight's fee in Stapleford. The same holds one Knight's fee in Norton.
Jollanus de Hamby holds half a Knight's fee in Welton, and one fee in Hamby and elsewhere of the old feoffment. He holds also 3 parts of a Knight's fee in Ormsby.
John Hansard holds one Knight's fee in South Kelsey of the honour of Lancaster.
William de Langton holds one Knight's fee in Boleby and Saucethorpe. John de Langton holds half a Knight's fee in Langton and elsewhere of the Countess of Chester. John de Langton holds 48th part of a Knight's fee in Hagworthingham.
Thomas de Ormsby and others hold one Knight's fee in Ormsby (Nun Ormsby) of the Bishop of Lincoln. Henry de Ormsby holds one 16th part of a fee in Ormsby of the Earl of Albemarle.
Agnes de Walcot holds in Walcot 4th part of a Knight's fee of the Abbot of Peterborough, and he of the King.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Among the jurors who sat on Inquisitions in the different Wapentakes touching the Fees occur the following:—
Alan de Hadeclive (Hatcliffe), William de Manby, Ralph de Toutheby, &c.
By an Inq. P.M., 2nd Edw. II., Hugh, son of Galfrid de Whychcote, was found to hold 8 acres of arable land in Sutton, and in Great Sutton one messuage and 15 acres of arable land, all in the County of Shropshire. (Conf. Will of Thomas Whichcote, of Harpswell and Dunston, 1540, where he mentions his lands in Whichcote and Sutton, co. Salop.)
By an Inq. ad quod damnum, 18th Edw. II., Thomas de Bleasby held the manor of Calcethorpe.
By do. 10th Edw. II., William de Touthby held xxli. land in Touthby.
By an Inq. P.M., 25th Edw. Ill, William de Bleasby enfeoffed divers persons with the manors of Calcethorpe and Bleasby.
By do. 35th Edw. III., William de Bleasby held lands in Calcethorpe, Walesby, and Bleasby.
By do. 43rd Edw. III., Thomas de Mussenden and Isabella his wife enfeoffed their son Edmund and his wife Juliana, daughter of John de Grey, chivaler, in the manors of Kelstem and Bracken-borough, co. Lincoln.
By do. 18th Eic. II., Edmund Mussenden, chivaler, held the manors of Kelstern and Brackenborough, with the manor of Mussenden in co. Bucks, &c. His son and heir, Barnard Mussenden, proved his age 8th Hen. IV.
By do. 5th Hen. IV., Thomas Langton held the manor and advowson of Langton, and 4th part of the soke of Mumby as of the honour of Richmond.
By an Inq. ad quod damnum, 11th Edw. II., Adam de Kydale (Kiddall) had the right of free-warren in Barton, Ferriby, and Yarborough.
By an Inq. P.M., 11th Langley, 1417, (Durham), William de Merley was seized of the manor of Unthank, held of the Bishop of Durham by one 8th part of a knight's fee. Joan, his niece, the daughter of his deceased sister Agnes de Merley, and wife of William Maddison, was his co-heiress.
By an Inq. P.M. 5th Fox, 1499, (Durham), William Maddison, grandson of William Maddison and Joan the heiress of Unthank, held the manor of Unthank by knight's service and 20s. rent. His grandson (son of his 5th son Christopher), Sir Edward Maddison, Knt., suffered a recovery of his lands in Lincolnshire in 1540, viz,:
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the manor of Calcethorpe (purchased of the Bleasbys in 1532), the manor of Fonaby next Caistor, and lands in Cadeby, Welton, Bisca-thorpe, Grimblethorpe, Skegness, Sloothby, Marsh Chapel, Cabourn, Saltfleetby, North Someicotes, South Somercotes, Caistor, Grimoldby, Smythfeld, Swaby, Skidbrook, and Kingston-super-Hull.
By a P.M. Inq., 17th Edw. IV., John Monson was seized of the manor of Keelby and lands in Caistor, South Kelsey, Cadney, Owmby, Market Rasen, and Owersby.
By an Inq. P.M., 1st Edw. IV., Thomas Kiddall held a tenement in Ferriby called "Le Kynge's Fee," the manor of South Ferriby, the manor of Barton-on-Humber, etc.
In the 14th Henry VI., William Wymbish held the mediety of one knight's fee in Fulbeck.
An Inquisition was held 18th and 19th Hen. VIII. to inquire whether Thomas Wymbish, son and heir of John Wymbish, an idiot, is alive, and what lands came to him from his father.
By an Inq. P.M., 8th and 9th Hen. VIII., Nicholas Purley held lands 'in Spalding, Whaplode, Holbeach, Pinchbeck, Weston, Cowbit, Surfleet, and Gosberton, in co. Lincoln, and in Wymondham, co. Leicester. His son and heir George Purley, aged 4.
Alexander Langton, son and heir of John Langton, Esq., died 22nd August, 13th Hen. VIII., in the life-time of his'father, whose will (No. 20) has been given. He was seized of a manor in Hagworthingham, and lands in Hogsthorpe, Mumby, and Anderby. His wife Cecilia's feoffement was dated 10th May, 23rd Hen. VII. His son and heir was John Langton, aged 12 and upwards.
The following abstracts of P.M. Inqs. serve to illustrate the pedigree of the Angevine family :—
P.M. Inq. of William Angewen, Gent., of Ashby by Horncastle. Writ " De diem clausit" dated 23rd March, 15th Hen. VII. Being seized of the manor of Ashby by Horncastle, he enfeoffed Charles Moigne, Clerk, John Moigne, Gent., and others, in the said manor, and made his will. After his death they were to hold the manor to the use of his wife Margaret, and she was to have out of it xx marks per ann. for life ; the remainder to serve for the exhibition, etc., of his sons and daughters, viz., John his 2nd son, Robert his 3rd son, and Juliana and Dorothy, till they were 16 years of age. The manor was held of the Bishop of Carlisle, and was worth xx11. clear per annum.
Also, Martin Neucomen, of Saltfleetby, and Alan Musterluff, of Hameringham, were seized to his use of a messuago, etc., and 60 acres of land, 80 acres of meadow and pasture, in Hameringham, held of Richard Thymmolby.. Esq., as of his manor of Tetford. William Aungewen died 10 Sept., anno xv Hen. VII. Charles Aungewen, his son and heir, aged 20 years and more.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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This Charles Aungewen (or Angevine) was the father of John Angevine (see No. 72), and of Robert Angevine (No. 96). See also the note appended in which Charles is erroneously said to be the 2nd son of Michael Angevine, of Theddlethorpe.
Another P.M. Inq. taken in Yorkshire makes the above William Angevine possessed of lands in that county, viz., a mediety of the manor of Hebden with appurtenances, and one carucate of land in Thorpe, Bryndsall (Burnsall), and 3 bovates of land in Donyston; held of Fountains Abbey, and worth xx11. per ann. clear.
This property descended to his grandson Robert Angevine, of Langton by Horn castle (No. 96), who charges it with money for his daughters' portions.
The Will of James Myssenden, or Mussenden, of Great Limber, (No. 9) furnishes an additional reason for suspecting the legitimacy of his descent. In the Vis. of 1592 he is called the son of John Mussenden, of Healing, by Margaret Topcliffe his wife, although, as Mr. Peacock, in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries, has pointed out, his name does not occur in John Mussenden's will, who mentions all his other children. A clause in James Mussenden's Will, however, taken in conjunction with Gervase Holies' testimony, almost sets the question at rest. He bequeaths his lands in Great Limber, etc., to "Barnard Myssenden, otherwise called Barnard Spenser," and makes him residuary legatee, calling him his son. When we read what the antiquary Gervase Holies, who lived at Grimsby, close to Healing, the old Mussenden estate, says of James Mussenden's great-grandson, a certain Francis Mussenden, of Louth, it is difficult to draw any but one conclusion. His words are :—Nota denique quod nullus Mussendenorum jam extat qui non ex spurio et damnato coitu emanavit. Franciscus enim Mussenden de Louth in Com. Line. Legista, ex filio notho Bernardi Mussenden et cujusdam feminse (Alicise Spenser nomine) originem suam deduxit. Thomas etiam Mussenden nuper de Waltham in Com. Line, fuit filius Thomse qui filius fuit nothus Thomae Mussenden militis."
The Great Limber branch bore the Mussenden coat of arms differenced with "a bordure azure seme of plates," which is an additional item of evidence against their legitimacy.
Thomas Moigne, the eldest son of Alexander Moigne, of Sixhills (No. 7), was one of the few Lincolnshire gentry who suffered for engaging in the Rising of 1536. A graphic picture is drawn in Froude's Hist, of England, vol. iii., pp. 102-20. It is difficult to perceive why Moigne should have been singled out for vengeance, when so many were equally guilty, but possibly the fact of his having been the King's Escheator very recently, 1533-1534, may have aggravated his guilt in the eyes of his judges. He had been148
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appointed Recorder of Lincoln 11th July, 1532, and his legal knowledge stood him in good stead at his trial, where, according to Frou.de, pa. 211, he "spoke in his defence for three hours so skilfully that, hut for the diligence of the King's Serjeant, he and all the rest would have been acquitted." He was hanged, however, at Lincoln, with the Abbot of Kirkstead and another, the following day, 7 th March, 1537.
He had married Bridget, daughter of Sir William Hansard, Knt., of South Kelsey, and by her left two daughters—Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Moryson, of Cadeby, and Anne, wife of Thomas Brocklesby. By his attainder the manor of North Willingham went to the Crown, but both the Moryson and Brocklesby families had an interest in it and in other estates in Usselby, Owersby, Osgodby, and Stain ton, which probably were in the hands of trustees, and would not be affected by the attainder.
The Will of George Moigne, who may possibly have been godfather to Thomas Moigne, as he does not expressly name the son of Alexander Moigne, to whom he stood in that relation, may be inserted, though not proved in Lincolnshire.
George Moigne, Esq., of North Willingham. 2 Oct., 1505. To my sister Beatrix "ad maritagium suum xv marcas, et Johanni, filio suo, x marcas. Ecclesie de Kimberley x11. Filio Alexandri Moigne filiolo meo 40s. Eilio Christopheri Merys (Meres) filiolo meo 40s." Bequest to the images SS. Mary and Margaret in North Willingham Church. Eesidue to my exrs. Sir Thomas Wodehows, Knt., of Kimberley, Richard Thimmolby of Polum (Powlham), and Charles Moigne, Rector of Gaytesyde (sic).
Prob. at Lambeth, 19 Jan., 1505-6.
C. P. C. Adeane 15.
He was the son of Henry Moigne, who was the son of Thomas Moigne, of North Willingham, who was the son of Thomas Moigne, of Clee, High Sheriff in 1444. His sister Beatrix had married Henry Bohun, of Wragby. His father Henry Moigne's P.M. Inq. is dated 20 Oct., 19th Hen. VII. He was seized of the manor of North Willingham, and lands in Clee, Itterby, Thorganby, South Elkington, Stow, Marton, Grainsby, and Waith.
It is uncertain in what degree of relationship he stood to Alexander Moigne, of Sixhills (No. 7), and to Lawrence Moigne his brother, but a glance at the estates mentioned in the latter's P.M. Inq., dated 16th Dec., 19th Henry VIII., will show that there must have been some kinship. Thus, Laurence Moigne was seized of the manor of Waith, and his brother Alexander Moigne, of Sixhills, mentions his land in Thorganby; both places occurring in the schedule of Henry Moigne's estates.LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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Gilbert Thimbleby, whose will (No. 88) has been given, was presented to a ohauntry at Sutterton by Johanna Preston, widow, 30 Nov., 1521. On the 10th March, 1523, he was presented to a mediety of the Rectory of St. Witham, by Thomas Docwra.
In spite of his request to be buried in St. Giles' Chapel, his monumental stone, on which his epitaph is cut with a chalice and the initials G. T., lies in the centre chapel at the east end of the Cathedral.*
As the Ravenser Chauntry was attached to the altar of St. Giles, the reason for the place of burial indicated in his Will is obvious.
Christopher Tamworth (No. 93) was presented to a mediety of Leverton Rectory by Thomas Tamworth, 9 March, 1526, and to Frieston Vicarage by the Abbot and Convent of Croyland, 14 Feb., 1526.
The " Sir George Billesby " mentioned in the Will of Elizabeth Billesby, his mother (No. 91), was an ecclesiastic. On the 29th Jan., 1524, George Billesby, chaplain, was presented to the Rectory of Pan ton by William Sandon, Esq., of Ashby.
James Tuthyll (No. 128) had been presented to the Rectory of Linwood, 18 August, 1525, by Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Treasurer.
Anthony Heneage, of Hainton, was ordained Deacon on the title of Sixhills Priory in 1489, and it is possible that the testator of that name (No. 171), may be identical with him.
James Walleys (No. 53j the "late Prior of Sixhills," had been presented to Tealby Vicarage, 2 April, 1523, by the Priory.
By an Inq. P.M., taken 8th and 9th Hen. VIII., Henry Cracroft was seized of the manor of Cracroft in Hogsthorpe, and lands in Ingoldmells, Winthorpe, Welton, Theddlethorpe, Stickney, and Horsington.
Cracroft manor was held of the Abbot of Bardney in socage, and 4s. rent. He died on the 26th July, 9 Hen. VIII. Leonard Cracroft, his brother and heir, aged 20 years and more.
According to the Vis. of 1562, Richard was the eldest son of Thomas Welby, of Halstead (No. 23). But it appears that an Inquisition was held 13 Hen. VIII. (1522), " de possessionibus Thomae Welby de Halsted, armigeri, filii et heredis Thomae Welby, armigeri, lunatici."
The following abstract of a Towthby Will, though not proved at Lincoln, will be useful in supplementing the very unsatisfactory pedigree of the Visitations in 1592 and 1634. The testator was father of Francis Towthby, whose Will has been given (No. 137).
* Hie jacet Magr. Gilbertus Thymoldby quondam cantarista cantariae Ricardi Ravenser et Willielmi Waltham. Qui obilt xxvo die Martii anno domin mo cccccxlivo cuius etc.150
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Thomas Totheby, of Totheby, Esq., 7 April, 1546. My sons Edmund, William, and John Totheby. To my daughter Jane Totheby C marks. To my daughters Anne, Mary, and Ursula Totheby 40u. apiece. My lands in Totheby, Rigsby, Ailby, "Well, Manthorpe, Thoresthorpe, Scremby, and Grygby, etc. My sister Johan Totheby. I appoint John Awngewyn and Thomas Quadring exrs., and John Marbury, supervisor.
Prob. at London, 14 July, 1546.
C. P. C. Alen. 31.
1	add another Will, which has been found in a bundle of papers belonging to the See of Lincoln, containing many Wills not to be found in the Registry. The testator was evidently one of the great Littleburv family.
William Lytilbery, of Kyrton in Holland.
6 Feb. 1543. To be buried in the church. To every altar in the church where mass is celebrated, iiijd. I will that the legacies bequethed to John Jackson's childer in his laste Will be fulfyllyd. Residue to Margaret my wife, whom I make sole exx. Witness, Sir John' Bruster, Yicar of Kirton.
(No probate.)
Another Will is interesting on account of Bullington having been a monastic house, and its suppression very recent.
Sir Thomas Lyall, preste and curate, of old Bullington.
2	Jan. 1543-4. My soul to God, our blessed lady Sent Marye, etc. My body to be buried in the church of St. James in Old Bullington. To my Lady Tailboys my mastres for a token of remembrance vis. viijd. Also to Mr. William Tailboys, clarke, ijs. To the Yicar of Wragby one portuce for the winter half. To the churche of Bullington one surples, one silk bawdkyn, one baner clothe, one corporax case, etc. I will that my men of Bullington bere me to the churche. I bequethe at my burlall to every preste that cometh that day for messe and dirige, vid., and for the residewe of messes to one trentall be done after that day for every messe iiijd. To the poor folk of Wragby and Langton, xs. Witness, Sir Christopher Webster, Yicar of Wragby, etc.
Prob. 3 May 1544.
The following Will should be compared with No. 25 and No. 308. The testator was probably a brother of William Lilborne, of Brigsley.
Sir Thomas Lilburn (Lilborne), parson of Atcleff (HatclifFe). 10 March 1545. To be buried in ye quer off our ledys church of atcleff yff it pies god to tayk me." To the reparacion of Hatcliffe Church xiid. To Bilsby Church iiijd. To an honest priest to singLINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
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for me a year, iiijH. xiijs. iiijd. paid out of my goods at the discretion of my supervisor, William Hustwaite, of Waltham. I bequeath to the said William my debts that William Goodhand owes me for his father. Witness, Sir John Colman, Curate, Charles Smyth, etc.
Prob. at Grimsby, 19 May 1546.
The Inventory was taken 6 April 1546. Value xxv1*. xs. iiijd. One item, iiij silver spoons.
The family of Palmer, of Carlton Scrope, (No. 190), ended in an heiress, Jane, who married Sir Lewis Palmer, Bart., of Carlton in Co. Northampton, temp. Car. II., ancestor of Sir Geoffrey Palmer. The two families, though bearing the same name, were in no way related.152
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INDEX OF WILLS. (The Roman numerals have reference only to tlie Stow Wills.)
Amcotts, Alexander, VIII.
Matthew, 346 Angevine, Christopher, 330 Jane, 138 John, 72 Margaret, 112 Robert, 96 Armstrong, Jane, 12 Asfordby, Andrew, 151 Edward, 316 Jane, 150 John, 4 Awbray, Robert, 22 Ayscough, Alan, 158 Christopher, 57 John, 345 Richard, 201
Baker, John, 47 Ballet, John, 174 Bard, Christopher, 294 Robert, 52, 116 Thomas, 117 Barnaby, Henry, 219 Barnardiston, John, 115 Bayllay, Christopher, 126 Baytman, William, 42 Bellingham, Richard, XVI. Bevercotes, Richard, 94 Billesby, Elizabeth, 91
Thomas, 181 Bleasby, Dorothy, 275 George, 259, 306 William, 274 Bolle, Anne, 226 Charles, 331 George, 283 Godfrey, 18 John, 104, 333 Lyon, 206 Richard, 332 Thomas, 105
Booth, Edmund, 282 Lawrence, 291 William, 278 Brakenbury, William, 198 Browne, Edward, 1
Thomas, 45 Broxholme, Henry, 250 Robert, 182
William, 131,132, 165, 225 Bucher, Arthur, 79 Burgh, John, 279 Mary, 280 William, 281 Burton, James, 33 John, 43
Calverley, Edward, 327
William, 328 Cartwright, Richard, 38 Cawdron, Elizabeth, 146 Robert, 141 Thomas, 255 William, 254 Clifford, Elizabeth, 349 Cocke, John, 35 Coney, Robert, 236
Thomas, 127 Coningsby, Susan, 268 Copledike, John, 141, 329 Cracroft, Francis, 228 Robert, 188 William, 209, 210 Crawthorne, Nicholas, 24 Cressey, Hugh, X. John, IX.
Dalyson, William, IV. Dannyell, William, 87 Darby, Edward, 89 Delalund, William, 59 Thomas, 60INDEX OF WILLS.
Dighton, Christopher, 162 (b) Edmund, 295 John, 124, 358 Joyce, 185 Margaret, 170, 359 Robert, 186 Disney, Christopher, 325 Danie], 301 Edward, 326 Jane, 239 Richard, 98, 238 William, 69, 166 Dowffe, Robert, 44
Efford, Peter, 61 Egmanton, Edmund, 82 Emerson, Edward, 121 Empringham, Michael, 237 William, 247
Fairfax, Ralph, 214
William, 41 Farmerie, William, 211 Fawne, Johan, 179 John, 287 Nicholas, 178 Fitz Richard, Emmote, 220 Hamond, 107 Simon, 5 Fitz William, George, 319 John, 97 Margaret, 139 Flower, Thomas, 133 Forcett, Thomas, 265 Friskney, John, 361
Robert, 286 Fulnetby, Godfrey, 64
John, 113 Fyshwicke, John, 196
Gannock, Gregory, 246 Joan, 338 Katherine, 340 Robert, 296 William, 297, 339 Garnyt, Nicholas, 85
Gaunte, Elizabeth, 56
William, 17 Gedney, John, 50 Robert, 160 Gering, Richard, XI. Gilby, Thomas, 157 Girlington, Katherine, 73 Goodhand, William, 194 Grandorge, George. 197
Nicholas, 245 Gray, Richard, 70
Halley, William, 90 Hamerton, Gilbert, 284
Helen, 266 Hansard, Anthony, 307 Elizabeth, 323 Hamond, 324 John, 322 Robert, 46 Thomas, 40 Harby, John, 118 Harpham, Martyn, 162 (a) Hartgrave, Richard, 310 Hatcliffe, Catherine, 29 James, 212 John, 99 William, 15 Hawkesworth, Alexander, 51 Heckington, Alice, 19 Heneage, Anne, 302 Anthony, 171 Katherine, 218 Heven, Thomas, 37 Hiliarde, William, 215 Hiltoft, John, 101, 260 Hollingworth, Martin, 311 Hough, Alexander, 180
Jane, 75 Hussey, Thomas, 145 Hustwaite, Elizabeth, 216 Robert, 121
Irby, Kenelm, 288
Jackson, Agnes, 31154
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Johnson, William, 83 Jon, Gregory, 241 Jowytson, John, 193 (b) William, 28
,Kele, John, 84 Kelke, Richard, 167
Robert, 168 Key, William, 256 Kiddall, Anne, 357 John, 257 Thomas, 6 William, 114 Kirkman, Lyon, 249 Thomas, 67 William, 363 Knottisford, Edward, 119
Hamond, 172 Kyrne, Gabriel, 223 John, 248 Margaret, 163 Marie, 309
Langholme, John, 8 Langton, Adlard, 289 John, 20, 269 William, 159 Leych, Edward, 161 Lilborne, George, 308
William, 25 Lililow, Thomas, 95 Littlebury, Humphrey, 229 John, 21, 354 Margaret, 285 Thomas, 341 Long, John, 3
Maddison, Edward, 164 George, 100 John, 231 Margaret, 365 Richard, 233, 313 Thomas, 232, 270 Markham, Richard, 199 Marshall, William, 173 Marys, Anthony, 76 Jane, 352
Massingberd, Dorothy, 351
Richard, 147 Meres, Christopher, 54 Francis, 156 Jane, 175 William, 183 Metcalfe, Myles, XII. Moigne, Alexander, 7 Francis, 240 Osias, 63 Simon, 153 Monson, Robert, VII.
Thomas, 140 Morley, William, XII. Mussenden, Helen, 230 James, 9 Mary, 136 Thomas, 155 William, 135
Newcomen, George, 102, 303 John, 344 Martyn, 55 Mary, 92 Richard, 68, 343
Ormsby, Arthur, 77 Dorothy, 78 John, 203, 227 Nicholas, 334 Robert, 293 Osney, Robert, 192 Ottys, Gilbert, 66
Palfreyman, Thomas, 342 Palmer, John, 262 Leonard, 193 (a) Robert, 190 Parkyn, John, 103 Portington, Anne, 208 George, 13, 298 Thomas, 74 Purey, Humphrey, 123
Thomas, 348 Purley, Francis, 200INDEX OF WILLS.
155
Quadring, Ealph, 144 Thomas, 10 William, 242
Roche, Richard, 62 William, 184
Sacheverell, John, 195 St. Paul, Faith, 273 John, VI. Richard, Y. Thomas, 272 Saltmarshe, Anthony, 109 Sandon, William, 152 Sarrott, Nicholas, 32 Saunderson, Nicholas, 317 Scrafield, Thomas, 224 Scupholme, George, 110 Giles, 106 William, 154 Setryngton, John, 71 Sheffield, Charles, 80 George, 205 Jane, 14 Jasper, 49 John, 299 Robert, XV. Sherard, Francis, 258 Skegnes, John, 271 Thomas, 149 William, 362 Skepper, Richard, 148 Skerne, Edmund, 81 Elizabeth, 321 Jane, 320 Robert, 261 Skip with, Eleanor, 347 Jane, 305 Margaret, 353 Thomas, 355 William, 304 Spenluffe, John, 312 Stanlowe, Robert, 134 Stapleton, Thomas, 129 Sutton, Elizabeth, 253 Emlyn, 176
Sutton (continued). Jane, II. Margaret, I. Mary, III.
Talboys, John, 252 Thomas, 161 (b) William, 204 Tamworth, Christopher, 93 Temper, Thomas, 36 Tempest, Agnes, 27 Thimbleby, Gilbert, 88 Richard, 108, 350 Thorndike, Herbert, 243
Nicholas, 244 Thorpe, Thomas, 2 Thory, Thomas, 169, 251 Tompson, Thomas, 125 Totoft, Francis, 222 Tournay, John, 177 Townley, Robert, 290 Towers, Guy, 65 Towthby, Francis, 137 Thomas, 276 William, 191 Tuthyll, James, 128 Tyrwhit, Edward, 335 Margaret, 336 Marmaduke, 337 William, 143
Upton, John, 30 Nicholas, 26
Villers, Christopher, 234
Walcott, Humphrey, 300 Walleys, James, 53 Walpole, Arthur, 293 Warde, Thomas, 11 Watkyns, John, 86 Welby, Thomas, 23 Welcome, John, 122 Whichcote, Alice, 315 Dorothy, XIV. Edmund, 111156
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Whichcote {continued). Elizabeth, 202 Hamond, 213 Leonard, 360 Nicholas, 189 Thomas, 58, 207 Withernwyke, John, 314 Wolby, Elizabeth, 277 Thomas, 267 Vincent, 318 Wolmer, Agnes, 48 Gregory, 187 Isabel, 217
Woodford, William, 16 Wymbish, Margerie, 263 Nicholas, 34, 235 Oswald, 264 William, 130 Wyott, John, 39 Yarborough, Charles, 120 Elizabeth, 142 William, 364LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
157
INDEX OF NAMES.
(N.B.—This Index does not include the Stow Wills).
A.	B.
Alington, Geo., Jane, 239; Geo.,	Barker, Rich., Rob., Bridget,
240, 273	234
Alleriston, Rich., Dor., 205	Barkworth, Fran., 183; Jo., 238; Allott, Kath., 155; Eliz., Rich.,9; Rich. Jo., 360
Rob., 155., 183; Tho., 155,	Barrett, Chas., 68 ; Isabel, Barb., 230, 364 Rob., 26
Amcotts, 273; Alex., 14, 260,	Barwell, Will, 201
299; Hen., 89 ; Matt., 260,	Bate, Nich., 86
299; Susan, 138; Yin.,	Batchelor, Tho., 269
299	Bateman, Will, 22
Amory, Jane, 239 ; Tho., 239,	Bayt, Jo. Rob., 202
238	Bee, 359
Anderson, Ann, Jo., 239;	Beesby, Eliz., 9
Mary, 338	Bell, Alex. Joan., 147
Andesley, Rob., 232	Bellingham, 340 ; Fran., 239
Angevine, Jo., 16, 17 ; Frances,	Bettnesse, Rob., 65.
273 ; Jane, 137 ; Will, Jo.,	Bettson, Edw., 202
157, 183.	Bevercotes, Rich., 93, 95
Anton, Geo., 314	Bewsher, Geo., 128
Antrobus, Ralph, 118	Bigot, Eliz., 94
Arden, Mary, 163	Bilsby (Billesby), And., 150, Arnway, Rob., 164 151; Edw., 329; Sir And., Asfordby, Johan, 91 4, 50
Ashe, Edw, 287, 361	Bingham, Chas., 342
Atkinson, Edm., 68; Francis,	Black, Jo., 272
285, Will, 325	Blanchard, Edw., 276
Audley, Agnes, Elinor, 180;	Blaw, Lucy, 109
Will., 107	Bleasby (Blessby), Ric., 142, 9
Authorpe, Will, 185	Bogge, Giles, Humph, 197 244, Averaye, Christ, 325 Mary, 197
Awbray, Rob., 133	Bohun (Bougham), Rob., 163; Ayscough, Edw., 272, 353 ; Rob., Will., 218
Eliz. (Haward), 185 ; Sir	Bolle (Bolles, Boules), Nic.. Tho., Fran., 132, 140, 145, 153, 176; Rich., 177; Mary, 155, 157, 177, 238 ; Fran., Gregory, Fran., 187; Joan, 353; Hen., 204, 353; Rob., 32; Jane, 35
74; Tho., 353 ; Walter,	Bolton, Helen, 311; Will., 233
204; Sir Will., 25; Will.,	Bond, Eliz., 56; Geo., 249; Rich., 194 36158
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Booth, Johan, 317 Bowcar, Rob., 128 Bowcher (Bucher), Marg., 7, 92 ;
Tho., 240 Bradley, Alice, Fran., Jo., Tho.,
214; Dr., 272 Bradoke, Jane, 7 Brand, Christ., 158 Brocton, Tho., 37 Bromley, Sir Geo., 326 Browne, Ann, 255; Ant., 288; Eliz., 356 ; Jane, 220; Jo., 83, 272; Tho., 68, 93; Will., 68
Broxholme, Jo., 241, 314; Tho., 312; Will., 241; Mr., 272 Bryan, Jo., 39
Buckston, Ann, 70; Hen., 70,
129; Jane, Kath, 70 Buckworth, 260 Bullingham, Marg., Nich., 176 Burgh, Agatha, 92; Eliz., 142 ; Mary, 92; Rob., 330; Sir Tho., 34 Burley, Jo., 271
Burton, Isabel, Lane., 218;
Sisley, Eran., 343 Butler, Ant., 341
C.
Calverd, Jeff., 219 Calverley, Dor., Edw., Will., 309
Camock, Leo., 319
Cantrell, Will., 146
Carre, Edw., 331; Geo. 145;
Rob., 146, 293 Carsey, Jo., 304 Carter, Jo., 210 Cartwright, Tho., 128, 133 Castleforth, Sythe, 9 Caundish, 193b, 94 Cawford, Rob., 289 Cecil (Cycyll), Jane, 19 Chamberlain, Fitz Ralph, 304 Charles worth, 279
Chaterton, Jo., Ric., 312 ; Will., 124
Cheales (Cheles), Rich., 21 -Chilton, Kath., 302 Chippingdale, Mary, 311 Clarke, Eleanor, 146 Claymond, Ant., 228 Clerkson, Saunche, 94 Clifford, Eliz., 239 ; Mr., 184;
Mrs., 135 Clinton, Lady, 272 Cokermouth, Eliz., 115 Cokytt, Rob., 77 Colingridge, Dor., 94 Collingwood, Ellen, 185 Compton, Jo., 80 ; Rob., 137 Constable, Jo., 95 ; Sir Marm., 37.
Conyers, Lady, 54
Cony, Fran., 156; Marg., 176;
Tho., Win, 348 Cooke, Clem., 277.; Geo., 115;
Jo., 277; Rich., 195, 282 Cooper, Ann, 289 Copeland, Geo., 315 Copledike, Ann, 158 ; Sithe, 158, 218; Tho., 178, 269, 341, 342; Sir Jo., 30, 158. Copley, Alveray, 358 Cordall, Sir Will., 295 Cotnam, Cuth., 169 Coxon, Hen., 212 Cracroft, Fran., 251; Leo., 283, 332; Rich., 152, 163, 331, 332; Will., 76, 329; Jo., Rob., 36. Cramer, Hen., 196 Crathorne, Eliz., 142 ; Rob., 154; Tho., 39, 142, 154; Ralph, 39. Crofts, Tho., 329 Curteys, Chas., 329 Cuttelar, Jo., 3
D.
Dakins, Geo., Ann, Thomasine, Mary, 302INDEX OF NAMES.
159
Dalton, Eliz., Marg., 9 Dalyson, Ann, 185; Geo., 114; Kath., 137; Rob., 185; Tho., 185; Will., 114, 143, 185; Geo., Isabel, 9 Darby, Marg., 142; Rob., 260; Will., 242, 260, 286 ; Alice, 20
Darnell, Adam, 155, 183; Ann,
Christian, 155 ; Tho., 314 Dawson, Rob., 68 Deane, Jo., 333 Delalaund, Tho., 34 Diccons, Win., 19 Dicconson, Philip, 203 Dickenson, 272
Dighton, Christ., 109, 135, 173, 285; Jo., 257, 357; Rob., 351; Tho., 285 Dineley, Will., Tho., 309 Disney, Mr., 189; Will., 54, 70,136; Ann, Arthur, Giles, Jas., Christ., Tho., Kath., 136
Ditton, Mary, 277 Dockwra, Dor., 145 Doughty, Ant., Tho., 361; Lawr., 319
Douglas, Jane, 239 Dowson, Nich, 299 Drope, 194 Dyckson, Jo., 90 Dymoke, Ann, Bridget, 204; Arth., 160 ;Edw., 68, 312; Sir Edw., 152, 173, 177. 295, 312; Jo., 312; Chas., 204, 293, 341 ; Rob., 160, 188, 204 Dyon, Eliz., Marg., 142; Jo., 79, 139, 141, 153,154, 232 Dyvilstone, Tho., 159
E.
Earle, Bridg., Edw., Geo., Marg.,
Mart., Yin., Will., 277 Easton, Tho., 313
Echard, Tho., 147 Edlington, Rob., 214 Edwardes, Eliz., Tho., 202 ;
David, 30. Eland, Agnes, Christ., Jenytt, Marg., Jo., Rob., Will., 138; Bryan, 257, 359; Jo., 21.
Ellis; Mr., 301 Ely, Mary, 330 Emerson, Eliz., Rob., 270 Emperingham, Mich., 232 Estoft, Ann, Eliz., 109; Jo., Fran., 320; Christ., Tho., 49.
Etton, Mr., 329
F.
Fanthorpe, Rob., 100 Fawkener, Jo., 128, 311 Fishbourne, Gerv., 133 Fishwick, Jane, 352 Fitzhugh, 95
Fitzwilliam, Chas., 185, 253,285; Eliz., 286; Rob., 313; Will., 270, 304, 314, 312, 337; Sir Geo., 21; Geo., 35. Flente, Johan, 230 Flower, 86; Dor., 321; Tho.,
22, 44 Fobbe, Simon, 209 Forcett, 63
Foljambe, Godf., 294; Isabel, 239
Foster, Will., 354 Freeman, Rob. Will., 128 Frobisher, Will., 198 Fulnetby, Yin., 299 Fulstowe, 249
G.
Gannock, Will., 260 Garbray, Eliz., 283, 303; Christ.,
283; Jo., 212 Garman, Agnes, 233 Garrett, Steph., 189160
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Gascoigne, Sir "Will., Marg., 3. Gedney, And., 218, 304, 112, 329, 341 ; Jo., 184, 347; Rich., 348 Gelson, Humph., Tho., 348 Gering, Alex., 320 Gilby, Ant., 130 Gildon, Eliz., Tho., 152 Gilsland, Ysea, 138 Girlington, 74; Ant., 354; Nich.,
138, 272, 354 Goodhand, Jane, Tho., Will., 15; Will., 155; Johan, Will., Eliz., 29 Goodricke, Mr., 174; Edw.,
Lyon, 229; Rich., 342 Granger, 311
Grantham, Alice, 41, 214; Ann, 285; Jane, 273; Jo., 142; Rob., 272; Tho., 113, 285; Yin., 113; Will., 214; Hugh, 50 Gray, 144 ; Gregory, 164 Graystock, Mary, 303 Green, Fran., 260; Ralph, 16 Greve, Rich., 10 Grysdale, Eliz., 336 Guevara, 273; Ann, 317 Gunby, Ant., 209 Guy, Christ., Tho., 329 Gybonson, Tho., 46 Gybson, Will., 3
H.
Haldenby, Dor, 73; Helen, 336 Hall, Edm., 293 ; Raynold, Rob.,
244; Tho., 271 Halliday, Will., 71 Hamerton, Gilb., Marg., 262 Hansard, Giles, 92; Hen., 132, 136; Rich., 155, 230; Eliz., 279 ; Tho., 274, 306 Harby, Mr., 301 Hardy, Jo., 262 ; Rich., 39 Harley, Goddard, Marcellina, Eliz., 186
Harper, Agues, 161 Harrington, Jo., 66; Grace, Mary, Susan, 352; Alice, Rob., 19 Harris, Tho., 229, 348; Jo.,
Martha, 348 Hartgrave, Geo., 195, 312; Rich., 308
Harvy, Tho., 37 Hastings, Will., 265 Hatcliffe, Alice, 106 ; Agnes, Jo., ^32; Christ., 230; Judith, 239; Geo., Tho., 239, 350 ; Geo., 321; Tho., 274f; Rich., 272; Dor, 30 Hatelyng, Jo., 3 Haughton, Susan, 293 Haven, Tho., Will., 194 Haward, Will., 185 Hawley, Agnes, 111 Heneage, Geo. 4, 53, 163, 192; Sir Geo., 304; Ann, 163; Jo., 7
Hercy, Sir Jo., 229; Jo., 21 Hesselton, Christ., Kath., 196 Hewytson, Tho., 96 Higford, Jo., Kath., Tho., 302 Hildyard, Christ., 73; Will.,
95; Elynor, 9 Hiltoft, Rich., 149 Hindemarsh, Kath., 244 Holland, Ant., 123, 172, Christ., 206, 231 ; Eliz., 231; Jane, 232 ; Helen, Tho., 3 Holies, Denzill, 295 Hollingworth, Ralph, 163 Hopkinson, Will., 313; Rob.,
6; Eliz., Jo., 9 Howard, Sir Rowl., 272 Hulcotes, Eliz., 303 Hull, Tho., 64
Hunston, Dor., Tho., Will., 262, 332
Hunter, Pat., 232 Hupe, Rob., 27INDEX OF NAMES.
161
Hussey (Husse, Hewsey), Sir
John, 5; Rob., 10 Hustwaite, Edw., 261, 308 ;
Rob., 201 Hutchinson, Sarah, Tho., 342;
Will., 284 Hyllys, Rob., 73 Hynde, Eleanor, 94
I.
Ingleby, Geo., 102 Irby, Ant., 18; Jo., 123; Kenelm, 127; Leo., 104
J.
Jackson, Jo., 128, 129, 323 ;
Tho., 323 Johnson, Geo., 276, 362 ; Isabel, 195; Jo., 170, 360; Tho., 203; Win., 108; Marg., Rob., 9 Joyes, Eldred, 350
K.
Kaye, Jo., 216
Kelham, Jo. 326
Kelke, 341
Kiddall, Chas., 109
King, Will., 68
Kingston, Eliz., Jo., 346
Kirkman, Amy, 56; Jo., 32, 76,
283; Leo., 149 Kitson, Jenytt, 102 Knightsbridge, Edw., 312 ; Dor.,
Edw., Fran., Susan, 275 Kyme, Alice, 177; Eliz., 327, 328; Tho., 53, 177; Mary. 328; Jo., Beat., 28 KyTke, Jo., 28
L.
Lacon, Geo., Jo., Rich., Tho., 115; Jo., Humph., Tho., 162 (b); Herb., 308; Lyon, 348
Lacy, Dor., 261
Lane, Seisill, Jo., 137; Sir Rob., 302
Langholme, Christ., 183; Hen., 331
Langton, 228 ; Jo., 50, 150, 151, 284, 316; Adlard, 150; Will., 21 Leche, Rob., 39 Legard, Rich., 155 Lincoln, Hen., Earl of, 295 Litler, Tho., 203 Littlebury, Edw., 329, 336; Huipph., 159; Tho., 141, 162 (b), 26, 30, 50; Jo., 8, 20, 26, 30 Lund, Tho., 128 Lynsaye, Ursula, 208 Lyson, Kath., 194
M.
Machine, Jane, 310 Mackworth, Mr., 189 Maddison, (Madyson) Edw., 9, 154, 155; Edw., Jane, 239 ; Jo., 16 ; Mr., 272 Maisters, Dr., 272 ; Rich., 231, 232
Manby, Ann, 239 ; Fran., 238 Marbury, 273; Fran., 312 Marys, Ant., Jane, 32 Mason, Jo., Will., 97; Mr., 189
Massingberd, Alice., Aug., Christ., Grace, Tho., Will., 94; Sir Tho., 65, 94; Geo., Tho., 93; Mr. 235 ; Tho., 281,310; Susan, Tho., 319 ; Tho., 2 Mawdesley, Will., 301 Megson, 228. Mellers, Edw., 311 Melsonby, Agnes, Simon, 24 Meres, Eliz., 301; Lawr., 152, 228 ; Nich., 39
L162
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Metham, Geo., 304, 348 ; Mary, 218
Moigne, Simon, 79 ; Tho., 30 ;
Osias, 46 Molyneux, Fran., 301. Moncke, Mr., 195; Clem., 284 Monson, Mr., jo., Tho., Will., 90; WU1, 40, 132; Jane, Jo., 185; Jo., 186, 46, 295; Sir Jo., 335 ; Rob., 232; Jo., 9 Mordaunt, Sir Jo., 5 More, Eliz., Marg., 112; Mr. 15. Morland, Jo., 160 Moryson, Lady, 145 ; Tho., 153,
194, 232, 238, 240, 272 Mundy, Pet., 15 Musgrave, Geo., 50 Mussenden, (Missenden,
Myssendyne), Fran., 239; Sir Tho., 51, 240; Humph, 21; Marm., 21 Myckefey, Jo., 95 Myddelwood, Rog., 6
N.
Nayler, Rich., 88 Neale, Jo., 284, 312 Nedome, Hen., 195 Neilson, Dor., Rich., Rob., Tho., 263
Newcomen, Mr., 106; Marg., 142 ; Geo., 175 ; Alice, Jo., 279 ; Tho., 284, 45; Ann, Eliz., Elinor, Jo., Rich., 347 ; Sam., 351 ; Ellen, Mary, Jo., 280; Christ., 24; Bryan, 39 ; Rich., 45 Noble, Geo., 260 Noddle, Grace, 277 Northorpe, Hugh, 235 Norton, Rich., Will., 284 Nutte, Grace, 352
O.
Oglethorpe, 335
Ormsby, Edw., Hen., 312 ; Edw.,
Rose, 16 Orsebie, Jo., 339, 340; Rich., 253
Osney, Marg., 317
Otes, Rich., 112; Rob., 72, 83
P.
Packe, Cath., Jas., 20 Page, Kath., Ill, 145 Palmer, Dor., 222 ; Christ., Leo.,
Will., 284 Parr, Lord, 63., 329 Pattrick, Marg., 219 Pavy, Anne, Alice, 15 Pawlyn, Ursula, 314 Paynell, Geoff., 23 Peachell, Agnes, Eliz., Jo., Tho.,
Will., 190 Peake, Jo., 211 Pecocke, Rob., 22 Pepper, Fran., Susan, 175 ; Tho.. 316
Pery, Eliz., Will., 127 Philips, Tho., 37 Pleydell, Jo., Kath., 302 Plumpton, Eliz., 72 ; Baldw.,
Edw., Jo., Tho., 112 Pope, Jo., 61
Pormont, Geo., Marg., 106;
Christ., 184; Geo., 39 Porter, Aug., 69; Edm., Kath.,
Jo., 258, 338 Portington, Ant., 109 Potte, Tho., 87 Potter, 303
Powell, Dan., Will., 274 Pryn, Jo., Dr., 22, 61, 35, 37, 94, 128
Purley, Ann, Geo., 54; Jo., 175; Fran., 261; Edm., Tho., Leo., 275 Puttrell, Eliz., Walt., 331INDEX OF NAMES.
163
Q-
Quadring, Geo., 188; Fran., Eog., 222
R.
Radley, Bridget, Fran., Will.,
142; Will., 364 Eandes, Bp., 177; Tho., 266 Eaven, Eliz., 332; Marg., 226 Eawlyth, Tho., 268 Eavtheby, 287; Will., 76 Eeade, Florence, Jo., 195; Tho., 253
Eedfern, Eliz., 71 Eeid, Eob., Ill
Eichardson, Alex., Mich., 147 ; Jo., 46, 160 ; Eich., 357, 359 Eigges, 145
Eobertson, Bridget, 94; Tho., 23 Eoche, Johan, Will., 121; Eliz., Grace, Marg., 223; Will., 261
Eocliffe, Marg., 364 Eodes, Zach., 311 Eokeby, Ealph, 273 Eose, Eliz., 94 Eudd, Jo., 239; Agnes, 12
S.
Sacheverell, Edw., 310 Saint Paul (St. Poll), Geo., 97, 155, 162(6), 294; Geo., Faith, Fran., 239; Sir Geo., 353; Mary, 88 Salkeld, Lance., 160 Salmon, Edw., 354 Saltmarshe, Edw., 298 Sandon, 261; And., 200; Geo.,
163; Sir Will., 91 Santon, 311; Ann, Jo., 75 Sapcotts, Geo., 229; Edw., Jane, 10
Sarrott, Nich., 35 Saunderson, Mr., 272; Faith,
Eob., Tho., 273 Savile, Will., 300 Sawer, Will., 218
Scales (Skayles), Jo., Tho., 278;
Will., 232 Scardon, Tho., 44 Scochie, Dor., Eob., 235 Scofield, WiU., 215 Scott, Hen., 133 Scupholme, Chas., Christ., Marg., 139
Sharpe, Jo., 137
Sheffield, Jo., 140; Jo., Yin., Phil., 346; Yin., 362; Will., 6 Sherwood, Will., 157 Simeon, Geoff., 1 Simson, Geo., 308 Sison, Pet., 213 Skegnes, Will., 251; Tho., 76 Skepper, Geo., 239 Skeme, Edm., Eob., 82; Edm., Jo., Tho., 200; Edm., 216, 247
Skinner, Hen., Vm., 214 Skipwith, Lyon, Will., Sir Will., 76; Jo., 77, 78, 157, 260, 316; Sir WiU., 149, 218; Tho., 203; Mary, 218; Geo., 348; Eliz., Jo., Gawen, Trist., Will., 352; Will., 16; Sir Will., etc., 32; Sir Will., etc., 35 Skutte, Eog., 196 Smart, Eob., 68 Smith, Eich., Eob., 317 Smyth, Mr., 272; Eob., 25; Christ., 25, 216 ; Ant., Dor., Geo., Susan, Tho., Trist., 308; Ant., Geo., Trist., 310 ; Tho. 9; Dr., 26 Somercotes, 351
Somerscales, Jo., Pereg, 312;
Jo., 342 Sotheby, Eich., 7 Southill, Mr., 272; Ann, Eob., 275
Spenluffe, Alice, 16 Stanley, 235
Stanlow, Mr., 264; Jo., 263164
LINCOLNSHIRE WILLS, 1500-1600.
Staunton, Ant., Will., 301 Stayntoii, Cass., 29 Stonehouse, Mary, 280 ; Will., 279
Stonehurst, Mr., 257 Stronge, Ann, 94 Sugden, Ann, 314 Sutton, Rob., 60, 143 ; Sir Hen., Saunche, 94; Ann, Mary, Tho., Ill; Amb., 145; Alice, Nich., 176; Mch., 208, 305 Swale, 303
T.
Talbot, Joan, Rob., Tho., 133 Talboys, Eliz., Geo., Walt., Rob., Will., 3; Eliz., 119; Gilb., 34
Tatum, Ann, Ellen, 167 Taylor, Edw., 68; Mary, 102; Tho., 185, 266, 272, 308, 186; Dan., Will., 259; Jane, Tho., 311. Tebbott, Rob., Will., 220 Tempest, Dor., 204 Temple, Jo., 343 Thimbleby, Mr., 250; Rich., 99 ; Sir Rich., 155 ; Kath., Tho., 218; Jo., Rich., 237, 239 Thixton, Kath., Rob., Susan, 317.
Thomson, Johan, 9 Thorndike, Mch., 174, 196 Thorne, And., 351 Thorneyff, Rob., 112 Thornhaugh, Mr., 301 Thornley, Jo., 232 Thorold, Ant., 145, 199; Sir Ant., 315; Ant., Marg., Will., 213 ; Geo., 326 ; Rich., Rob., Ill ; Rich., 236, 238; Rob., 190; Will., 180, 337 Thorpe, Jenytt, 169; Jo., 186; Rob., 295 ; Mr. 22
Thory, 228; Tho., 149 Throgmorton, Ralph, 263 Tippler, Tho., 220 Tompson, Isabel, Jane, 218;
Win, 252 Torry, Will., Ill Totoft, Alice, 91
Towers, Guy, 15 ; Rob., 163 ;
Will, 253 Townerow, Hen., 195 Townley, Fran., 119; Rob., 238 Towthby (Totheby) Bridget, 138; Eran., 83,138; Dorcas, Eliz., Jane, Jo., 239; Edw., 304; Geo., Jo., 312; Ann, Edm., Jane, Ursula, Will., 138
Tovnton, Jo., 67
Trowsdale (Truesdale), Eaith,
317; Mary, 273 Tuckfield, Mrs., 145 Tupholme, Will., 171 Turtyll, Johan., Will., 149 Tuthyll, Jas., 22, 92,103; Walt., 3
Twistleton, Geo., Marg., 336 Tyrwhit, Sir Rob., 185; Edw., Marg., Phil., 208, 219; Marro., 298; Trist., 295 ; Sir Rob., 6 ; Will., 6 ; Maud,, Rob., Sir Rob., Will., 9 ; Sir Rob., 34. Tyssington, Jane, 12
U.
Upton, Ham., 141, 318, 329 Y.
Vavasor, Will., 26 Villers, Edw., Marg., 89; Geo., Tymon, 310
W.
Waire, Mary, 302 Waite, Jane, 238; Jo., 119INDEX OF NAMES.
165
Wakefield, 257; Josua, 359 Waldegrave, Jo., 203; Will.,
Tho., 333 Walker, Rob., 315 Walleron, Alex., Marg., 115 Walles, Alice, Eliz., Nich., Will., 277
Wallys, Jas., 52
Walpole, Alice, Erasm., Jo., 244
Warborton, Eliz., 146
Ward, Rich., Tho., 62, 112;
Rich., 38 Warren, Simon, 94 Waterton, Ann, Faith, Isabel, 176
Watkyns, Mr. 22 Watson, Rob., 15, 260, 297 Webster, Christ., 37 Welby, Mr., 183; Rich., 200;
Tho., 305 Welcome, Ann, Mary, Tho.,
Will., 241 Welles, Rob., 308 West, Dor., 203 Weston, Sir Rich., 23 Westmorland, Agatha, 280;
Agatha, Eliz., 279 Westwray, 272 Whalley, Will., 129 Whichcote, Rob., 34 Whietney, Jane, 255 White, Geo., 292; Jo., 313:
Rob., 299; Alex., 326 Whytwell, Jo., 28 Wilcockson, 252
Wilkinson, Isabel, 232 Williamson, Isabel, 247; Will., 31
Willoughby, Chas. (Lord), Will. (Lord), 218 ; Will. (Lord) 177; Amb., Kath., 204; Amb., Edw., Kath., Marg., Will., 218; Chas. (Lord), 329; Lady, 110; Lord, 21; Sir Christ., 34 Wilson, 257; Edw., Helen, 276 ; Humph., 241; Nich., 302 ; Rob., 318 Windell, Eliz., 80, 205 Wolby, Rich., 284 Wolley, Jo., 16 Wolmer, Mr., 318; Rich., 26 Wood, Ann, 315 Wray, Sir Christ., 238, 272;
Will., 354 Wright, Arth., 277; Steph.,
248; Will., Ill Wrowle, Hugh, 119 Wyghtman, Geo., 125 Wymbish, Geo., 78; Mary, Tho.,
119 ; ^ich., 163, 218 Wythernwyke, 250; Kath., 285
Y.
Yarborough, Chas., 164, 229, 305; Christ., 77; Bryan, 183; Edm., 92; Edm., Jane, 104; Tho., 291 Yorke, Geo., Gilb., Mary, Nich., Tho., 176; Geo., 178
James Williamson, Printer, High Street, Lincoln.