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REYNOLDS  HISTORICAL 
GENEALOGY   COLLECTION 


ALLEN  COUNTY  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


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WHITMOIIE   TRACTS. 


A  COLLECTIOX   OF    ESSAYS   OX   MATTERS 

OF    INTEREST     i'O    PERSONS 

BEARING    THE    XAME. 


BY   WILLIAM    II.  WHITMORE,    F.H.II.S. 


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PKEFACE 


This  collection  cotituius  thre«  tracts  reprintod  from  the 
Herald  and  GoiieuioLiiat  puldi^Ucd  in  London.  file  fourth 
tract  i.s  new,  and  1  trust  will  i>e  of  value.  The  fifth  is  a 
reprint  from  the  X.  K.  lli>t.  mihi  (fen.  Rejrister. 

The  edition  con^ists  of  t'.>ity-{\\  *>  copies,  nnd  1  iiave  ;uldcii 
to  twenty-five  of  rhein  a  sixth  tracr.  <'onsistin!Lr  of  some  n(»tes  on 
Whitmore  wills,  whieli  are  not  of  equal  value,  because  some 
errors  in  copyinjj;  may  be  fouiKl.  Still,  as  thev  ujay  be  of 
service,  I  thought  it  w  i>e  to  [)res«TTe  a  certain  number. 

Some  of  these  tracts  have  been  tssued  eepanitely. 

W.    H.    WH1T3IOUE. 

Boston,,  May,   187.^. 


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DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WHITMORE. 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Herald  and  Genealogist. 

Sir, — Having  recently  obtained  some  extracts  from  the  early  i-ecords 
which  serve  to  fill  a  blank  in  Erdeswicke's  Histoiy  of  Staffordshire,  I 
desire  to  place  them  on  your  pages  for  preservation  and  comparison. 

These  extracts  were  made  for  a  correspondent  in  England,  who  most 
kindly  communicated  them  to  me,  with  permission  to  make  use  of  them 
in  any  way.  He  had  arranged  them  in  a  tabular  pedigree,  which  I 
have  here  reduced  to  paragraphs,  with  additions. 

Erdeswickc  writes  (Harwood's  edition,  London.  1814,  p.  77): — 

"  Ricardus  Forestarius  held  Vniiimore  of  the  Iving,  20  Conq.  and 
I  have  seen  records  that  Whitmore  continued  forest  lands  for  a  great 
time;  and  after  one  Raufe,  a  race  of  gentlemen,  which  took  their 
names  of  the  place,  were  lords  of  it,  of  whose  descent  you  may  see 
more  where  I  have  spoken  of  Biddulph." 

This  promise,  however,  he  fails  to  keep,  and  I  am  not  aware  of  any 
detailed  <iccouut  of  the  family  extant  in  print.  My  information  stands 
at  present  thus  : — 

Ricardus  Forestjirius  held  the  manor  of  Whitmore  from  the  King 
after  the  Concpiest,  and  Xiirel  of  him.  Llfac,i  however,  was  a  tenant 
there,  and  is  presumed  to  have  had  a  son,  iUfwin,^  whose  son  was 
Amulf,3  mentioned  in  the  earliest  Pipe  Roll  circa  32  Hen.  L  a.d. 
1132.  It  is  probable  that  AltVin^  died  before  his  father,  as  Ar.nnlf  ■' 
is  once  teniied  fil.  Ulfac. 

Amulf^  had  two  daughters,  Avisa  *  de  Witmore,  fil.  Anmlf,  fil. 
Alwin,  uxor  Will.  Boterel,  20  Hen.  IL  Ric.  I.  and  John  (Liber  Feodo- 
nim  and  Pipe  Rolls),  and  Julia. ^  v. 

This  Avisa  r>otercl  ■*  held  lands  by  gift  from  the  King  in  the  hun- 
dreds of  Pirehill,  Staff,  and  Bradford,  Salop.  Her  husband,  William 
fil.  Radulphi  or  William  Botrell,  was  constable  of  Xewcastle-under- 
Lyne,  4  Ric  L;  he  held  land  in  Witemore,  co.  Staff,  under  King 
Henry  II.  by  military  service;  and  iu  Warwickshire  (Lib.  Feod.  and 
Pipe  Rolls).     He  is  also  styled  in  Lib.  Fi-od.  ''  Will.  Botrealus,  baro." 

Leaving  for  the  present  the  ([uesiioii  of  the  ancestry  of  William 
Boterel;  we  will  trace  his  descendants. 

His  son  Reginald,^  fil.  Will.  Botrell,  Dus.  de  Whitmore  juxta  Xov. 

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2  DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY   OF  WIIITMORE. 

Castrum  sub  Lina,  5  John  (Eecles.  Covent.  et  Liclif. ),  had  a  wife  Mar- 
garet, 1  John  (Hot.  Cur.  Reg.)  and  a  st~)n 

Robert s  de  Whytmor  or  Whitmor,  Dns.  de  Whytmor,  1-1  Joli. 
26  Hen.  III.  who  also  held  land  with  his  wife  in  Dymesdalo  and 
Colraere,  2G  Hen.  III.  (Pipe  Rolls,  ^alop  and  Staft\)  His  wife  Joanna, 
daughter  of  William  Ballard,  is  mentioned  in  the  Pipe  Roll  (Staff.)  2G 
Hen.  III.     Their  sons  were  Robert'  and  Reqinald.7 

Robert.7  fil  Rob.  de  Whytmore,  Dns.  de  Whytmore,  held  the  lands 
of  his  father  in  Dymesdale  and  Colmere,  also  in  Cnoton,  Wytemore. 
and  Newcastle-under-Lyne,  41-44  Hon.  III.;  and,  with  his  wife  Ada 
de  Walleshull,  the  manor  and  vill  of  Brocton-super-Wyteniore,  44 
Hen.  III.  (Pipe  Rolls,  Staff,  and  Salop). 

His  brother,  Reginald  7  de  Botrell  de  Wytmorc,  or  do  Boterel  als. 
Whitmor,  lield  land  l)y  inheritance,  31  Hen.  HI.  i)ns.  Reginald  de 
Boterel  also  held  land  from  tlie  King  hi  capote  in  the  manor  of  Longe- 
don,  hundred  de  Ford,  co.  Salop,  and  from  John  Estnrne  in  Wetemore 
in  the  same  hundred,  45  Hen.  III.  He  was  fined  by  John  Barel  rhf 
sheriff  56  Hen.  III.  and  was  eventually  proclaimed  a  rebel,  temp.  Edw.  1. 
(Pipe  Rolls,  Staff,  and  Salop,  and  luquis.  Salop.) 


At  this  point  there  i<  a  divergence  in  the  line,  inasmuch  as  "William  '^' 
fil.  Robert  7  de  Wytimore  is  found  in  Shropshire,  whilst  a  John  de  Whit- 
more  succeeded  tu  the  lordship  of  Whitmore,  though  not  termed  son  of 
Robert.  However,  there  seems  to  be  no  sufficient  reason  to  doubt  that 
he  was  the  eldest  son  and  heir,  and  we  mention  as  the  children  of 
Robert  7  de  Whytmore  and  xVda  de  Walleshull — 

1.  John,^  of  whom  presently. 

2.  William.« 

3.  Radulphus,*^  "frater  Johannis,  Dni.  de  Wytemore,"  received  the 
gift  of  a  piece  of  land  called  Berchelesfield  from  his  brother  22  Edw.  I. 
(Harl.  MS.  50G.) 

4.  Anna,8  soror,  witness  to  a  deed  of  Job.  de  Wytemoi'e,  temp.  Edw. 
I.  (Harl.  IMS.  50G.) 

■  ^^        John^  de  Whitmoi-e  held  land  in  Whitmore  and  j\Iadeley,  co.  Staff. 

56  Hen.  III.     His  name  occurs  as  Dns.  de  Wytemore,  4,  22,  27,  and 
;..      29  Edw.  I.     xVnd  there  is  a  deed  of  his  extant  dated  in  the  year  last 

mentioned,  with    a   seal   appended''.     (Fines  Staff,  and  Erdeswicke's 

*  It  was  intended  that  a  cut  of  this  seal  (a  plain  field  and  cdiief)  should  appear  with 
{ji,    the  present  article.     But,  unfortunately,  the  reference  to  the  deed  has  been  lost.      We 
hope,  however,  to  be  able  to  supply  the  omission  at  no  distant  period. 


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DESCENT  OF  THE  FAIMTLY  OF  WHITMORE.  3 

Collections  from  deods  of  the  Hospital  of  8t.  Thomas  juxta  Staiford  in 
HarL  MS.  50G.)  The  wife  of  this  Jolin  de  Whitmore  is  supposed  to 
have  been  Ursida,  dan.  of  William  Laguold,  who  was  living  15  Edw. 
I.  (Pipe  Roll.)     His  son  was 

Radidphusy,  hi.  Joh.  de  Whitmore,  Dns.  de  Whitmore,  who  made 
au  agreement,  7  Edw.  II.  with  Roger  de  Swyimerton,  respecting  this 
manor,  tliat  the  said  Ralph  and  his  issue  should  hold  the  same,  but,  in 
default  of  issue  to  Ra![ih,  it  should  come  entire  (^intcgre)  to  Roger  de 
SWynnerton.  Ralph  was  to  pay  the  yearly  quit-rent  of  a  rose.  (Finos 
Staff.)  It  seems  a  fair  presumption  that  the  owners  of  the  manor  next 
in  the  succession  were  descendants  of  Ralph.  "We  assume,  therefore, 
as  his  son 

Nicholas  10  de  Whiteraore.  [larty  to  a  deed  with  Ralph  de  Veraon, 
conccniing  land,  15  VAw.  III.  ( ILui,  ^^18.  2077.)  His  isriie  vvas 
John  J 1,  and  perhaps  another  sou  William  ii  de  Whitmore  de  Radewode 
in  Madcley,  co.  Staff.  Dns.  in  capita  0  Rich.  II.  (Fines  Staff.) 

John  ^*  de  Wliitmor,  Whitemore,  Wvtemor,  or  Wytmore,  fil.  Nic. 
15  Edw.  III.  Dns.  de  Whitmore  or  Wytemore,  25—4:1  Edw.  III.  ob. 
ante  8  Ric.  II.  His  name  appears  in  a  list  of  knights  and  gcntiy  of 
Staffordshire,  temp.  Ric.  II.  (Che>ter  Rolls,  Welsli  Records,  and  Erdes- 
wicke's  and  Holme's  Cull,  in  Harl.  MSS.)  He  is  named  also  in  Erdes- 
wicke's  History  (p.  112)  .b.Ii'e  de  Wittmore,  23  Edw.  III.  as  a  witness 
to  a  deed  of  Sir  Robert  de  Swynnerton. 

This  John  ^^  married  J' tan,  sister  to  Sir  John  de  Yerdon%  chevalier, 
joint  lord  of  Darlaston,  and  owner  of  lands  in  Backenhall  and  Bid- 
dulph,  all  in  co.  Staff.,  47  Edw.  HI. 

The  main  line  terminated  in  two  co-heu'esses,  apparently  the  daugh- 
ters of  John  11  and  Joan,  viz. : 

Joan '2  and  Elizabeth  1-.  .   .v  t;  ,  , 

Joan,i2  daughter  of  John  de  Whitmore  8-12  Ric.  II.  (Fines  Staff.) 
was  married  to  Henry  Clerk,  Mayor  of  Coventry  11)58 — 72,  and  subse- 
quently described  of  Ruyton  (12  Eic.  II  )  She  and  her  husband  held 
a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Whitmore,  and  parted  with  it  to  James  and 
Elizabeth  12  de  Boghay,  8  Ric.  11.  (Fines  Staff.)  Their  son  Richard 
Clerk  was  Mayor  of  Coventry  138G.  (Dugd.  Warw.)  ,,  j.,j 

Elizabeth  12  appears  to  have  inherited  the  other  moiety  of  Whitmore, 
8  Ric.  II.  (Fines  Staff.)  Erdeswicke  (p.  8)  says  slie  was  the  only 
daughter  of  John 'i  de  Wliitmore  and  Eiiiine  de   Verdon ;   but,  as  he 

*  A  notice  of  Sir  Jotai  de  Verdon,  and  his  wife  Eva,  will  lie  found  in  Notes  and" 
Queries,  3rd  Scries,  v.  285. 


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4  DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WHITMORE. 

is  ini<^taken  in  the  uame  Emme,  so,  too,  lie  seems  to  err  in  calling 
Elizabetli '-  the  sole  heir.  She  was  wife  to  .Fames  ile  Boirliay,  living 
47  EJw,  III.-16  Eic.  II.;  and  slie  inherited  with  Ermcutrude,  wife 
to  Ealph  de  Hoiiton,  part  of  the  estates  of  Sir  John  de  Yerdon,  ante 
12  Rie.  11.  (Fines  StaH'.)  John  de  Bughay,  their  son  and  heir,  was 
Lord  of  Whitmore.  itc.  7  Hen.  IV.-ll  Hen.  VI.  He  is  said  to  have 
married  jlargaret  Coyney,  of  the  family  of  "Weston  Coyney,  co.  Statt".; 
and  from  him  Erdeswicke  traces  the  line  of  descent  throngli  James, 
Robert,  and  Humphrey  to  Rnl.ert  de  Roghay,  whose  daughter  arnd 
heire<s  Alicia  was  married  to  Edward  Manwaring  in  1510;  and  the 
descendants  of  these  last  still  own  the  manor. 


TVe  now  perceive  the  correctness  of  Erdeswicke's  statement  that 
there  was  "  a  race  of  gentlemen  taking  their  name  from  the  place," 
whose  main  line  terminated  about  l.'J.^O  in  en-heiresses.  Tlic  oldest 
line  of  cadets  woidd  seem  to  be  that  from  William^i  of  Radewode  in 
]Madeley,  if  there  are  any  existing.  There  is  good  reason  for  believing 
there  were  other  oflshoots,  which  we  will  naiuc  in  the  order  of  their 
propinquity  to  the  main  line. 

First  we  find  the  -  '  :      ,   . 

Cadxton  BuANcn. 

In  the  Harl.  Roll  Xo.  21  is  a  Whitmore  Roll  beginning  with  John 
"WTiitmore  of  co.  Stafford,  who  married  L'rsula  (huighter  of  William 
Bagnold.  (Temp.  Edw.  1.)  This  of  course  would  be  John^  de  Whit- 
more, whose  seal  we  have  spoken  of,  provided  there  is  proof  that  his 
wife  was  Ursula.  *  ■'■■'■■' 

Assuming  this,  '^^e  continue  the  pedigree  thus : 

John^  had  Elizabeth'-'  and  William,-'  styled  Arm.  who  married  Alice 
daughter  of  Robert  Ferrers  Lord  of  Tamworth,-'  and  had 

Richard ^0  Whitmore,  who  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  Sir  riiilip 
Draycot  of  Painesly,  knt.  and  had 

Jane"  wife  of  John  Blunt,  Mary>i  wife  of  John  Gifford,  Philip'i 
Whitmore    who    married   Thomasiue  daughter  of    Richard   Okeover, 

»  It  may  be  noted  that  two  or  three  instances  of  anachronism  occur  in  this  roll  of 
Whitmore.  There  was  a  Rob.  de  Ferrers,  a  preat  landowner  in  Pireliill  hundred, 
20' Edw.  III.  (Pipe  Rolls,  Staff.);  but  none  of  his  name  had  possession  of  Taniworth 
till  a  century  later.  Again,  Thomas  Aston,  father-in-law  of  Nicholas'^  AVhitmore,  is 
described  of  Tixall,  thou.'^h  it  is  stated  by  Erdeswicke  that  the  family  of  Aston  did  not 
remove  to  Tixall  from  their  ancient  seat  at  Hey  wood  till  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII,  In 
all  likelihood,  the  roll  is  a  compilation  of  a  comparatively  recent  date. 


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(i  DESCENT  OF  THE  FA3IILY  OF  WHITMORE.  5 

Beatnxii  wife  of  John   Chetwind,  and  Christiana  ii  wife  of  Richard 
Fleetwood. 

PhiUpi^  Wliituiore  had  Kichardis  Whitmore,  who  married,  1st,  a 
daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Bagot,  2nd,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Dcve- 
reux,  and  3rd,  a  daughter  of  Himon  Harcourt,  prohably  of  Ellenhall, 
CO,  Staff,  by  wliich  last  he  had 

jSlcholas'J  Whitmore,  who  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Tliomas 
Aston  of  Tixall,  co.  Ftaff.  and  had  (besides  a  daughter  iMary,!^  wife  of 
William  Lusone)  a  sou 

Anthonyi-t  Whitmore,  who  married  Christian,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Nicholas  Vaux,  by  whom  he  had  Joani^  and  William. ^^ 

John    Whitmore  ^^   of   Caunton,    temp.    Hen.    YL    second    son    of 

William,i5  married  .Uice,    daughter   and   heir  of   Robert    Blytou    of 

Caunton,  co.  Notts,  (by  Catherine,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  Comp- 

■  ton  of  Hawton,  Visitation  of  York,  15Go),  and  had  two  sons,  Wiiliani,i7 

and  his  heir 

Robert  '7  Whitmore  of  Caunton,  who  married  Catherine  Clayc  (one 
of  the  daughters  of  George  Clayc  of  Finningley,  co.  Notts.  Yisit. 
York),  and  had 

William'8  Whitmore  of  Caunton,  who  married  a  daughter  of  John 
Ridley  (Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Ryggsley,  Yisit.  York),  and 
had  issue  John  ^9  Whitmore,  whoso  son 

William«''>  Whitmore  of  Caunton,  married  Cecilie,  and  had  Eliza- 
beth,2i  daughter  and  heir,  who  married  Stephen  Erowne.  The  Roll 
adds  another  son  of  John, ^9  viz.  Richard  j-'^  and  other  sources  enable 
us  to  finish  the  account  as  follows: — 

William""  Whitmore  of  Caunton  and  Rotheriiam,  co.  York,  gent, 
will  dated  IG  Aug.  proved  3  Nov.  1568.  His  wife  Cecilie  was  relict 
of  John  Parker,  and  her  will,  dated  5  Oct.  IGIO,  was  proved  15  Jan. 
1610-11.  She  was  styled  of  Eastwood,  parish  of  Rotherham,  co.  York. 
Besides  Elizabeth,2i  wife  of  Stephen  Browne  (who  was  son  of  Henry 
Browne  of  Broomhall,  co.  York),  they  had  Richard^^  Whitmore,  son 
and  heir  apparent  in  1568,  who  inherited  lands  in  Caunton,  Kirksall, 
Newark,  and  Besthorp,  co  Notts,  and  died  ante  IC12.  His  wife  Helen 
was  huried  at  St.  Peter's,  Nottingham,  19  July,  1612,  no  doubt  with- 
out issue. 

William^*)  had  a  brother  Richard,"^  who  married  Eieanore,  daughter 
of  Richard  Fenton  of  Sheflield,  and  died  s.p.,  a  brother  Roland^o  living 
1568,  and  two  sisters,  Eiizabeth,2o  wif«  of  Alexander  Hotofte  of  Flint- 
ham,   CO.    Notts,    and   Jane,-"  wife  of Ricliardson,    living    156.S. 

These  additions  are  made  on  the  authority  of  Joseph  L.  Chester,  esq. 


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6  DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WHITMORE. 

Tliis  "William-o  of  Cauntou  had  arms  granted  to  him  4  Feb.  150  i-o, 
by  William  Flo\ver,  Xorroy.  viz. :  Quarterly  1.  Vert,  frctty  argent ; 
2.  Gules,  oil  a  fetse  or  between  six  billets  three  lions  passant ;  3.  A 
lion  passant  between  three  fishes,  (all  within  a  tressure  flory,  as  trieked 
in  the  Roll );   4.  Sable,  a  helmet  argent,  in  cliief  two  crosses.     ,    ,      ; 

This  ends  the  Cauuton  braneh. 


ThCRSTANTON  LllAXCH. 


"We  noted  that  Rnbert  7  de  Whitmorc  and  Ada  dc  Walleshull  ha<l  a 
son  William^  fil.  Rob.  D'n's  de  Wytimore,  who  held  lauds  in  Wyti- 
more  and  Burchton,  in  the  manor  of  Claverlcy,  co.  Salop,  45  Hen.  III. 
for  whieh  manor  William  de  Whitmoro  is  named  one  of  the  jury  in 
the  same  year,  and  a  deputy  of  .John  I^itz-Philip  de  Bobington,  forester, 
to  perform  militaiy  service  against  Llewellyn  in  1281,  which  John, 
afterwards  joining  the  Welsh  rebellion,  suffered  for  it.  William  de 
Wytmore  petitioned  the  King  for  the  lands  forfeited  by  his  uncle 
Reginald  (Tnquis  Salop,  Forest  and  Close  Rolls).  In  the  Close  Rolls 
he  is  termed  Will'ms  til'  Rub'ti,  Forestar.  Salop,  salt,  al's  Will'ms  de 
Wytmore. 

His  wife  was  Agnes  de  HaseUvall,  who  held  land  in  Wytimcre,  in 
the  manor  of  Claverley,  was  fined  45  Hen.  III.  and  again  3  Ei.Iw.  I. 
when  she  is  termed  "  uxor  Will,  de  Wliitmore"  (Inquis.  Salop.)  Their 
son 

John9  fil.  Will.  fil.  Rob.  received  the  gift  of  a  piece  of  land  called 
Coliers  from  John  Dns.  de  Wytcmore  27  Edw,  I.  (Harl.  MS.  50G.) 
He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Ral[)h  Vernon  of  Shipbrook,  co. 
Chester,  called  "  the  long  liver."  -John  de  Whytmore  was  living 
1299 — 1325,  and  in  this  last  year  claimed  with  his  wife  the  manor  of 
Thurstanton,  co.  Chester.  (Ormerod.)  Tliis  seems,  however,  to  have 
been  in  right  of  his  mother.* 

His  son  John'"  de  Whitmore,  mayor  of  Chester  13G9 — 1372,  oh. 
1374,  married  Cicely,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  de  Haselwall ;  reco- 
vered the  manor  of  Thurstanton;  and  had  John''  de  Wliitmore  de 
Thurstanton,  from  whom  descended  the  family  of  that  place,  now  sup- 
posed to  be  extinct  in  the  male  line. 

*  Robert  de  Rodelent  or  de  Rhuddlan  held  this  manor,  and  his  presumed  illegiti- 
mate son  Matthew  held  it.  Peter,  grandson  oi  Matthew,  had  an  heiress,  Agnos,  wife 
of  Patrick  de  Haselwall,  whose  son  WiOr-Uja  had  a  sole  heiress  Agnes  de  Haselwall, 
wife  of  William  de  AVhitniore;  her  cousin  John  de  Haselwall  had  an  only  daughter 
Cicely,  who  married  John  de  Whitniore,  aad  thus  all  the  claims  centred  in  their  son. 


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''  DESCEN'T  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WrilTMORE.  7 

Thus  wo  have  shown,  apparently,  a  new  fact,  that  tlie  Cheshire 
family  was  derived  from  the  main  stock  at  Whitniore,  co.  Stafford,  and 
that  intermediately  this  branch  was  settled  at  Wytemore  in  Clavorley, 
CO.  Salop.  This  Wytemore,  however,  had  its  name  before  the  "SMiit- 
mores  of  Stafford  acquired  it ;  and  they  seem  to  have  obtained  thoir 
rights  by  their  marriages  with  Ada  de  AValleshull  and  possibly  -u  ith 
Agnes  de  Haselwall.  (Xotes  and  Queries,  3rd  Series,  v.  159.)  Thus, 
in  Inquis.  Salop.  45  lien.  III.  we  have  as  owners  in  Claverley  John  til. 
Phi.  de  Bobiton  holding  one  hide  in  Wytimere,  Will.  fil.  liob,  Dns. 
de  Wytimore  holding  land  in  "Wytimore  and  Curchton,  and  Agnes  do 
Haselwall  in  Wytimere.  Will.  til.  Eob.  also  holds  the  Church  of  Cla- 
verley, with  its  members,  Burchton,  and  Bobiton,  by  gift  fi-om  the 
King. 

It  is  not  improbable  that  the  manor  had  already  given  a  name  to  a 
family,  as  we  find  in  the  list  aforesaid  of  45  Hen.  LII.  that  William  do 
Whitmore  hail  as  a  colleague  RegiuaLlas  Witimcre  de  Farucot ;  in 
1281  we  have  Bichard  de  "Wliifmer  us  a  witness  to  a  deed,  in  1309 
Ric.  de  ]Mont3  de  Wytemere.  and  in  1323  Bic.  de  Wittimer  fil.  Bic'i. 

From  all  this  we  may  fairly  infer  that  a  younger  branch  of  tho 
Whitmores  of  Stafford  settled  in  a  place  of  almost  the  same  name,  viz. 
Wittymere,  but  that  they  did  not  derive  their  name  from  this  last  manor, 
and  that  the  coincidence  is  accidental. 

•     -  Claverley  Branch. 

It  becomes  interesting  to  leani  whether  there  were  any  descendants 
of  the  Whitmores  of  Claverley  remaining  there.  Conceding  that 
William  8  de  Whitmore  and  his  wife  Agnes  de  Haselwall  acquired  it, 
that  their  son  John  ^  enjoyed  it,  and  their  grandson  John  i"  removed  to 
Chester,  what  became  of  the  Shropshire  property?  It  is  generally 
believed  that  a  family  still  extant  derived  its  name  from  Witty- 
mere  in  Claverley.  And,  although  the  e\-idence  now  given  leaves 
little  doubt  that  this  is  a  mistake,  I  think  that  it  supports  their  claim 
to  be  descended  from  the  owners.  i,,. 

We  have  ventured  to  identify  William  de  Whitmore,  who  was 
one  of  the  jury  of  Claverley  45  Hen.  HI.  with  William,8  son  of 
Robert  7  de  Whytmore,  co.  Stafford.  In  1857  the  late  Mr.  Joseph  Morris, 
of  Shrewsbury,  wrote  that  this  William,  "  one  of  the  jury,"  had 
Philip  9  de  Whytemere  of  Whytemere,  in  the  parish  of  Bobbington, 
who  died  about  28  Edw.  III.  leaving  a  son,  John  lo  de  Whytemere, 
living  34  Edw.  111.  (1361)  who  had  two  sons,  Richard  n  and  John.iJ 


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8  DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  ^HTTMOEE.  ^t 

^Johnn  de  ^%tomere,  yotinger  son,  28  Edw.  III.  had  lands  in 
Kingsmoor  in  Claverley,  which  his  grandfather  Pliilip  liekl.  In  oU-S4 
Edw.  III.  he  had  hmds  in  Whytomere  Heath,  and  died  18  IJIo.  JI. 
(1395).  He  was  tlie  ancestor  of  John  Whytmere,  cliaplain,  who,  in 
1472,  possessed  estates  in  Wliyttemero  and  Heathton  in  Claverlcy. 

Richard  "  de  Whytemere,  of  Chivcrley,  the  eldest  son,  10  Edw.  III. 
(1337),  died  prior  to  i)  liic.  11.  (138G).  He  married  first  Marqerv, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  atte  Wall,  of  Clarerley,  by  Agnes  his 
wife,  daughter  of  Wiiliam  .^[alveysin,  and  had  Eichard  12  his  heir. 
By  a  second  wife  Sybil,  who  died  6  Hen.  IV.  (U05)  when  certain 
lands  which  she  held  for  life  passed  to  her  stepson's  heirs,  he  had  a 
son  William  i-  Whytomere,  living  9  Rio.  II  (1396). 

Richard  12  Whytemere  of  Claverlcy  died  prior  to  13  Ric.  11.  (1389) 
leaving  a  son 

Richard  i^  Whytemere  of  Claverlcy,  who  2  Hen.  IV.  (1401)  settled 
a  certain  messuage  and  lands  called  Wallehuuseland  upon  himself  and 
Joan  his  wife,  wliich  10  Hen.  V.  (1422)  they  settled  upon  their  son 
Tbomas.i*  He  inherited  G  Hen.  IV.  (1405)  other  lands  on  the  death 
of  his  grandfather's  widow.  He  died  20  Hen.  VI.  (1442).  By  a 
second  wife,  Isabel,  living  21  Hen.  VI.  he  had  Joan,i^  wife  of  John 
Burne,  and  William,' ^  a  elork,  who  settled  his  copyhold  messuage  and 
lands  in  Claverlcy  upon  his  nephew  Richard  i5  Whytemore. 

Thomas!-*  Whytemore,  eldest  son  of  Richard,i3  27  Plen.  VI.  (144^) 
sold  certain  lands  at  Zeyche  House  in  the  parish  of  Claverlcy;  and  22 
Edw.  IV.  (1483)  he  died  seised  of  a  freehold  estate  in  Claverlcy.  His 
children  were — 

Richard  15  his  heir.  :  ■     ,- 

Thomasi5  of  Madclcy,  co.  Staff,  who  left  issue. 
Alice'^  w'ife  of  Robert  Jones.  ;.;.,;,.     ^t   ^ 

Richard  15  Whytemere  alias  Whitmore  of  Clavcrley,  died  10  Hen. 
VII.  (1495)  possessed  of  freeliold  lands  there,  also  of  two  messuages 
and  lands  of  copyhold  tenure.  His  wife  Agnes,  daughter  of  John 
Gravenor,  proved  his  will  17  January,  149G.  She  afterwards  married 
Thomas  Pytt,  and  died  14  Hen.  VIII  (1523).  Their  sou  and  heir 
was 

Richard  16  Whytnicre  alias  Whitmore  of  Aston  in  Claverlcy,  gentle- 
man, who  died  3  Edw.  VI.  (1540)  possessed  of  freehold  and'copyhold 
estates  at  Hopstone  and  Claverlcy,  co.  Salop,  and  was  interred  at  Cla- 
verlcy. His  wife  Frances,  living  in  1550,  afterwards  married  William 
Barker  of  Aston.     Their  children  were 


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DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  -VVniTjIOEE.  9 

William/7  Richard/'  Humphrey, '7  Edward, i'?  and  Thomas, '7  cf-nhom 
William  17  was   an  alderman  of  London,   and  his   descendants   are 
recorded,  in  the  main  accurately,  in  Burke's  Extinct  Baronetage  and 
Landed  Gentry,  and  elsewhere. 

Of  course  this  whole  affiliation  depends  upon  the  care  with  which 
Mr.  Morris  transcribed  the  early  part  of  the  record.  As. a  sllylit  con- 
firaiation,  I  may  add  that  in  the  Patents  of  Arms  granted  by  Dethick 
Garter,  IS'JS  (Harl.  MS.  1507,  fol.  5)  is  one  to  "  William  Wliitmoro, 
late  citizen  and  merchant  of  London,  descended  of  the  name  and 
ancient  family  of  Whitmore  of  Thurstanton,  in  tlie  coimty  of  Lan- 
caster {sir)  gentleman,  which  William  deceased  at  London,  Aug.  7, 
1503,  and  by  his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  William  Bond,  esq.  late 
sheriff  and  aldennan  of  London,  had  three  sons  and  six  daughters  " 
This  would  indicate  that  there  was  a  belief  in  tlie  family  tliat  the 
Cheshire  Whitmores  were  of  the  same  stock.  A  further  examination 
of  the  evidences  at  Claverley  will  probably  make  the  connection  plain 
beyond  a  doubt. 

If  the  foregoing  pedigree  be  free  from  error,  it  results  that  the  Whit- 
mores of  Staffordshire  were  originally  termed  de  Boterel.  We  have 
seen  that  Avisa^  de  Wtniore  was  married  to  William  Botrcl),  who  was 
son  of  Radulph  de  Botrell  hj  his  first  wife.  The  second  wife  of  this 
Radulph  was  motlier  of  a  bastard  son,  called  Rad.  fitzW'tmore,  and 
bastardus  de  W'tmore,  Castellan  in  Newcastle-mider-Lyne  to  lianulph, 
Eari  of  Chester,  4  Hen.  III.  and  to  Henry  de  Audk-y  24  Hen.  IIL 
He  brought  an  action  against  Reginald  fil.  Will.  Botrell,  5  John, 
touching  a  virgate  of  land  of  his  mother,  which  he  held  15 — 17  John. 
(Pipe  and  Close  Rolls.) 

His  son,  William  fil.  Rad.  bastardi,  alias  W'tmore,  called  also  Will. 
le  Burgvyllan,  Castellan  under  Henry  de  Audley,  oO  Hen  III.  held 
land  in  Newcastle  and  W'tmore  2(j,  21  Hen.  III.  and  land  with  his 
wife  Ursula  under  Hamo  le  Strange,  38  Hen.  III.  (Pipe  Rolls  Salop 
and  Staff.)  By  a  second  wife,  ilatilda  de  Caux,  he  had  John  Burg- 
vyllan,  who  held  land  in  Xewcastle-under-Lyne  32  Edw.  I.  (Pipe  Rolls)? 
and  who  had  a  wife  Alicia  at  that  time. 


Radulph  de  Botrell  held  land  in  W'tmore  21  Hen.  XL  He  was,  ap- 
parently, brother  to  Willium,  fil.  Radulphi,  and  is  described  as  Rad.  fil. 
Rad.  being  the  son  of  Radulph  de  Boterel,  who  was  witness  to  a  deed 
of  gift   from   his   father  Peter   de  Boterel  to  Abingdon  Abbey  circa 


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10  DESCENT  OF  THE  FA:MILY  OF  "WHITMORE. 

1154,  and  was  Constable  of  Xewcastle-under-Lyne  15  Hen.  II.  He 
held  land  in  Oxfordshire  11  Hen.  II,  and  in  Wodnesbra,  Htaft".  pro- 
bably Wednesbnry,  Wadnesberie  of  Domesday,  12—17  Hen.  II.  (Pipe 
Eolls  and  Chron  of  Abingdon  Abbey).     His  father 

Peter  de  Boterel  held  lands  in  Oxfordshire  and  Berks  circa  Steplien, 
12  Hen.  II.  (Pipe  Rolls,  and  Chronicle  as  before),  and  had  a  brother 
WilUam. 

This  elder  William  de  B-jterel  held  lands  in  Cornwall  temp.  Hen.  I. 
was  Constable  of  Wallinu-'ford  Castle,  exconmiunicated  by  Ingulphns 
abbot  of  Abingdon,  for  pillaging  the  town,  and  is  said  to  have  died  nf 
grief  ante  1  Hen.  II.,  wlirn  his  brother  Peter  appeased  the  abbot 
by  a  deed  of  gift  to  the  Abbey.  "William  do  F>oterel  left  a  son  of  the 
same  name,  who  inherited  from  him  4-9  lien.  II.,  and  wlio  was  pro- 
bably sheiiff  of  Devon.  (Pii)C  liulh  and  Chron.)  Eyton  (Anti<initi»'^ 
of  Shropshire,  vii.  159,)  seems  to  have  confonnded  this  last  William 
with  another  of  the  same  name,  sun  of  Hamon  de  Boterel,  who  had 
property  in  Devonshire.  Wilt-hire,  rdoucester,  Hereford,  and  Salop, 
and  married  Alice,  daughter  of  lu'bert  litzCorbet. 

More  information  about  these  Butereis  i«  desired,  and  especially  their 
connection  with  Geoffrey  Boterel,  who  was  grandson  of  Godfrey  lirst 
Duke  of  Britany,  and  brother  of  Alain  le  Roux  and  Alain  Niger, 
Counts  of  Britany,  and  commonly  called  Earls  of  Richmond.'' 


Lastly,  we  have  to  consider  the  question  of  the  arms  of  the  family. 
We  have  seen  that  about  A.D.  1300,  John  de  Whitraore  of  Stafford- 
shire nsed  a  coat  of  a  chief  only;  but  that  all  the  branches  of  the 
family  presumed  to  be  of  the  same  (u-igiu  have  used  a  fretty  coat. 

Thus  the  Cheshire  family  used  the  fret  and  also  impaled  and  ipiar- 
tered  the  chief.  ^My  authority  for  the  impaling  is  an  uiscription 
sculptured  in  Trinity  Church,  Chester,  said  to  have  been  taken  up 
from  the  same  place  and  at  the  same  time  as  the  eftigy  attributed  to 
John  Whitmore,  ]\Iayor  of  Chester  temp.   Edw,  3. 

This  inscription  with  a  description  of  the  monument  we  intend  to 
present  hereafter.  There  is  some  doubt  as  to  the  correctness  of  its 
identification. 

»  Palgrave  (Hist.  Normandy,  vol.  3,  p.  459,  following  IlolinsheJ,  I  believe)  states 
that  Alain  Fergant  or  le  Rou.x  possessed  lands  of  Edwin,  the  Saxon  Earl  of 
Mercia,  by  gift  from  the  Conqueror.  He  died  s.p.  in  1089,  and  was  succeeded  by 
hia  brother  Niger,  who  left  issue.  (See  Dugd.  Baronage  and  Courthope's  Hist. 
Peerage.) 


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DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WHITMORE.  1 1 

Omierod  enters  the  coat  of  the  Whitniores  of  Thurstanton,  however, 
as  quarterly  : 

1.  Vert,  fretty  or;  2.  xVi-geut,  a  chief  azure;  3.  Or,  a  lion  ram- 
pant gules  between  three  martlets  of  the  second;  4.  Per  fesse  vert 
and  gules,  an  eai^^e  displayed  or.  The  Promptuarhnn  Ai-viorum,  of 
Smith  Rougedragun,  a  ]\1S.  circa  1G05,  enters  the  same  arms  for  John 
Whitmore  of  Thurstanton,  co.  Chester,  except  that  he  omits  the  fretty 
coat,  and  makes  the  first  and  fourth  (piarters,  Ai-gent,  a  chief  azure 

The  Cauntou  In-anch  and  the  Claverlcy  branch  both  adopted  the 
fretty  coat,  which  Ity  the  way  is  peculiarly  a  (Staffordshire  bearing. 

It  seems  impossible  to  think  that  this  chief  was  the  Haselwall  cnat, 
as  Ormerod  intimates,  since  it  was  used  by  John  de  Whitmore.  whose, 
brother  made  the  match  with  that  family.  In  fact,  8mith's  tricking 
would  rather  show  tiiat  the  chief  was  the  original  Whitmore  coat,  as 
corroborated  by  the  seal. 

Still  Oraierod  and  other  writers  have  no  doubt  that  the  Cheshire 
branch  also  claimed  the  fretty  coat. 

We  can  offer  but  one  supposition  If  the  iVetty  coat  belonged  to 
Ada  de  Wallesludl,  and  the  Claverley  property  (Wittymere,  itc.)  eanie 
from  her,  the  younger  lines  n'li^ht  have  adopted  her  coat,  and  the 
Cheshire  line  have  used  it  in  ([uarterings.  The  fact,  however,  can  best 
be  ascertained  by  examining  such  examples  as  may  remain  at  Thur- 
stanton and  elsewhere. 

We  might  almost  imagine  that  the  Stafford  and  Cheshire  families 
using  the  chief  were  the  only  members  of  the  same  line,  and  those 
using  the  fret  were  merely  namesakes,  but  for  the  following  fact. 
There  is  at  Whitmore  Hall  a  window  wherein,  among  other  coats,  is 
the  following  (as  represented  in  the  next  page):  Quarterly,  1  and  4, 
a  fret  gold ;  2,  a  bend  sinister  azure  charged  with  three  trefoils  slipped, 
gold ;  3,  three  stag's  heads  cabossed  sable.  The  field-tinctures  are  not 
disceniible.     At  the  sides  are  the  letters  !M.A. 

These  arms  seem  to  be  1  and  4,  Whitmore;  quarterly  with  2,  Coyney  ; 
and  3,  Boghay:  for  my  correspondent  tells  me  he  is  satisfied  that  the 
stag''s  heads  belong  to  Boghay,*  and  not  the  coat  (Gules,  a  scythe 
argent),  which  is  also  attributed  to  the  name. 

*  The  Harl.  MS.  1983,  foliosSSb  and  41,  ascribes  Argent,  three  stag's  heads  caboshed 
sable,  to  Bogiiey  and  Burghay  of  Whitmore.  The  same  coat  appears  in  Gwillim's 
Display  in  the  name  of  Bowet,  and  in  Burke's  .A.rmory  in  that  of  Boughey,  of 
Colton,  CO.  Staff.  And,  so  far  as  is  known,  all  branches  of  the  family  have  borne 
arms  more  or  less  similar.     There   is,  too,  an  early  charter  of  Christina,  daughter  of 


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DESCENT  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  WHiTMORE. 


In  a  window  at  Whitmore  Hall. 
If  this  be  so,  wc   can  liarJly  donht  that  the   fret  appears   in  this 
shield  as  especially  the  arms  of  \Yhitmorc. 

Boston,  U.  S.  A.  W.  H.  Whitmoue. 

John  de  Boghay  de  London,  jointly  with  another  lady,  sealed  with  a  stag  trippant 
respecting  the  sinister ;  but  the  seal  has  no  legend,  and  may  not  represent  a 
coat  of  arms  (Harl.  Charter  76,  c.  46).  On  the  other  hand  the  coat  Gules,  a 
scythe  argent,  a.s  quartered  anonymously  in  the  Visitations  by  Mainwaring  of  Wint- 
more,  is  attributed  to  Boghay  by  the  College  of  Arms.  But  their  authority  cannot 
be  accepted  as  conclusive  on  the  subject,  for  these  reasons  :  1st,  that  the  latter  coat 
undoubtedly  pertains  to  Prayers,  and  it  is  so  appropriated  in  Glover's  Ordinary  ; 
2nd,  that  there  was  a  match,  temp.  Edw.  IIL  between  the  heiress  of  Praers  of  Bad- 
diley,  co.  Chester,  and  an  ancestor  of  Edward  Manwaring  of  Whitmore,  nearly  two 
centuries  before  this  Edward  married  the  heiress  of  Boghay ;  and  3rd,  that  the 
r^ord«  of  the  College  show,  that  the  descendants  of  the  last  marriage  are  not  the  only 
family  of  Mainwaring  which  has  quartered  the  scythe.  The  following  explanation 
is  hazarded.  The  issue  of  the  marriage  with  Praers  died  s.p.,  and  the  line  of  Main- 
waring was  continued  through  the  descendants  of  a  second  marriage.  In  such  cir- 
cumstances, it  is  presumed  that  the  College  of  Arms  would  not  recognise  the  coat  of 
Praers  as  legitimately  quartered  by  Mainwaring.  And,  finding  the  scythe  actually 
quartered  at  Whitmore,  subsequently  to  the  matcii  with  Boghay,  it  might  not  be  con- 
trary to  their  practice  to  assign  it  definitely  as  Boghay 's.  This  coat.  Gules,  a  scythe 
argent,  occurs  in  Burke's  Armory  under  the  names  of  Manwaringo  and  Praers. 


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WHITMORES  OF  GAUNTON,  CO.  NOTTS 


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[This  contains   additional  information   in    regard   to   the  Caiinton  branch, 
recorded  on  pp.  4,  5  and   ti  of  the  preceding  tract.] 


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WHITMORE  OF  CAUXTOX.  CO.  NOTTS. 


In  the  Herald  and  Geneahrjist,  vol,  ir.  p.  25,  will  be  found  a  moii 
tion   of  the  Whitmores   of   Caunton,   co.    Notts.     A  few   facts  have 
come  to  light  since  that  article  was  prepared. 

The  will  of  William  Whltmore,  dated  in  15G8,  is  recorded  at  York 
(Book  18,  p.  28),  in  which  are  mentioned  *'  Ixichard  Whitmore  my 
son  and  heir  ajjparent  ;"  "  Elizabeth  Browne,  my  daughter,  wife  of 
Steven  BroAvne  ;"  "  my  wife  Cecile  ;"  "  my  danghter-in-law  Frances 
Parker,"  to  whom  he  was  indebted  "  for  such  portion  as  was  appointed 
and  left  nnto  her  by  my  late  predecessor  John  Parker  her  father,  now 
deceased;"  '"my  brother  Holland  Whitmore;"  "my  sisters  Elizabeth 
Howtoft  and  Jayne  Pvicliardson." 

The  will  of  Eichard  Whitmore,  son  of  William,  is  in  the  Registry 
at  Nottingham.  It  is  dated  8th  November,  1591,  proved  2Gth 
September,  1592.  He  desires  to  be  bni-icd  "  in  my  Queare  in 
Caunton,  commonly  called  Chauntric  Queare."  Leaves  property  in 
Caunton  and  Beesthorpe  ("'  except  Lark  Farm  which  was  my  inherit- 
ance ")  to  his  wife  Elinor,  for  life,  with  remainder  to  "  my  brother 
Stephen  Brome  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  my  loving  sister,"  and  their 
heirs,  then  to  James  Greenwood  and  Mercy  his  wife  and  their  heirs, 
then  to  Mary  Wombwell  and  her  heirs.  He  provides  for  the  payment 
of  30/.  to  "  my  uncle  Rowland  Whitmore  and  his  sons  Nicholas  and 
Robert  Whitmore,"  and  also  "  10/.  to  Owen  Whitmore  when  he  comes 
out  of  his  apprenticeship."  He  mentions  "  IMargaret  Norton  my  kins- 
woman "  and  Elizabeth  Norton,  "  brother  Overall's  children  ;'' 
"Cecilie  Whitmore  my  mother-in-law"  [J.e.  step-mother]  ;  "Olive 
Whitmore  my  god-daughter,  cousin  James  Greenwood,  niece  Mary 
Wombwell,  brother  Robert  Overall,  cousin  Thomas  Bristow." 

In  the  Visitation  of  Notts,  published  by  the  Harleian  Society,  two 
of  these  matches  are  shown,  p.  13-4,  that  of  Stephen  Brome  (or  Brown) 
to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  sister  of  Richard  Whitmore  ; 
on  p.  103,  that  of  Walter  Holtofte  to  Elizabeth,  sister  of  William. 


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2  WHITMORE  OF  CAUXTON,  CO.  XOTTS. 

Tliere  is  also  a  reference  to  Henry  Brome,  nephew  of  Eicliard 
"Wliitmore,  in  the  printed  vohime  of  Proceedings  in  Chancery,  Qu. 
Elis.  vol.  i.  p.  40. 

We  also  see  that  though  the  Caunton  branch  thus  ends  in  an 
heiress,  the  daughter  of  Piichard,  yet  tliu  male  representation  con- 
tinues in  the  line  of  his  uncle  Pioland  "Whitmore,  who  had  sons  Nicholas 
and  Robert,  and  we  may  presume  he  was  also  father  of  Owen  and 
(31ive  Whitmore  mentioned  in  the  will. 

The  unusual  name  Owen  AThitmore  renders  it  probable  that  he 
was  the  person  who  is  mentioned  in  the  register  of  St.  Margaret's, 
Westminster,  London.  Col.  Chester  finds  there  that  Owen  Whit- 
more had  baptised  Stephen,  2'Jth  Sept.  1G05  ;  Tristram,  28th  Dec. 
1G06;  Richard,  10th  May,  KUl.  Also  among  the  burials.  Owen 
W.  22nd  June,  1G20,  and  Richard  (probably  the  child),  27th  Aug. 
1614. 

Possibly  another  obscure  branch  can  be  traced  by  similarity  of 
names;  whether  Owen  is  to  be  rightly  called  the  son  of  Rowland  or 
not,  it  is  certain  that  Nicholas  and  Rol^crt  w<'re  so  designated.  About 
ten  miles  north  of  Caunton  is  East  ^Slarkhum,  co.  Notts.  Among  the 
wills  at  York  is  one  dated  12  Sept  ,  IGIG,  proved  7  Oct.  following,  of 
Robert  Whitmore  of  Rewell  (a  local  name  not  now  recoverable  pro- 
bably). He  mentions  his  mother,  sister  Preasens,  and  her  three 
children,  sister  Winifred,  sister  Elizabeth,  brother  Francis,  brother 
Paul,  brother  Henry  Still. 

The  registry  of  East  Markham  has  the  following  baptisms  :  Dec.  4, 
1597,  Pleasance  Whytmore  ;  Feb.  11,  1598-t),  Frauncis  Whittmorc. 
In  the  neighbouring  parish  of  Ilcadcn,  Notts,  is  recorded  the  marriage, 
Aug.  2G,  1G32,  of  Henry  Still  and  Pleasance  Whitmore.  These 
seem  to  refer  to  the  same  persons,  but  are  clearly  of  a  generation  later 
than  the  Nicholas  and  Robert  mentioned  as  cousins  in  Richard's  will 
in  1591.  I  find  that  at  St.  Giles,  Cripplegate,  London,  Nicholas 
Whitmore  and  Pleasance  Whittingham  were  married  Feb.  14,  1592-0, 
and  again  July  20,  1G24,  Annes  wife  of  Paul  Whitmore  was  buried. 
Here,  a  mere  coincidence  of  names  would  lead  us  to  surmise  that 
Nicholas  and  Pleasance  were  the  parents  of  the  children  mentioned  in 
Robert's  will,  placing  considerable  reliance  on  the  unusual  name  of 
Pleasance.  Further,  I  can  urge  that  in  the  pari.^h  of  St.  IMargaret's, 
Westminster,  where  an  Owen  W.  lived,  the  record  also  shows  that 
Nicholas  and  ]\Iary  Whitinoro  had  Nicholas  bapt.  21  Sept.,  1G45  ; 
that  Francis  and    Anne  Whituiore  liad  a  dan.  Frances  bapt.  o  xMay, 


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1643.  jjrobiiMy  buried  15  Aug-.,  Iti-i3,  and  t'lie  nrnther  was  proltably 
buried  12  Fob.  lGl-'3-4;  aud  that  Francis  and  Mary  (a  socond  witV  ?) 
had  Mary  bapt.  11  May,  1G18,  Anne,  bapt.  25  Nov.  1G49,  Elizabeth, 
bapt.  20  Jan.,  1G51-2,  Francis,  bapt.  1  Dec,  1G53,  and  probably 
buried  19th  same  month;  and  Frances,  bapt.  15th  ^March,  1G54-5. 
A  Francis,  probably  the  father,  vras  buried  Xov.  19,  1GG4.  A  .Tuhu 
and  Alice  Whitmore  had  also  George  there  bapt.  1  ^March,  1G44-5  ; 
Nov.  25,  1G52,  Alice  W.  buried. 

lliese  dates  are  all  reconcilable  v.ith  Hubert's  will  and  the  silence 
about  Paul  and  Francis's  children  or  a  brother  Nicholas.  I'aul  and 
Francis,  .'■o  fa?'  as  tJiese  dotes  shcxc,  were  widowers  and  childless  in 
1G4G,  and  Nicholas  might  be  dead,  as  nothing  is  heard  of  him  after 
1645. 

This  is,  of  course,  all  surmdso,  and  unly  nH  interest  as  showing  how 
names  sometimes  will  favour  a  theory. 

On  the  other  hand,  as  if  to  confound  any  such  theory,  I  find  that 
in  West  Drayton,  co.  Notts,  almost  the  next  parish  to  East  Markham, 
in  1635,  J(jhn  Whitmoro  was  churciiwarden,  and  Oct.  9,  1046,  adminis- 
tration on  his  estate  was  granted  to  his  widow  Prcscnta.  Here  we 
find  another  Presenta  or  Pleasance  Whitmore  in  the  neighbourhood. 
and  the  evidence  must  favour  Juhn  and  Presenta  as  much  as  Nicholas 
and  Pleasance  as  the  parents  of  Robert  and  the  others.  One  escape 
only  is  possible :  if  Pleasance  (Whittingham)  were  the  mother  of 
Robert,  she  was  alive  in  1G4G.  Can  this  administration  of  John's 
estate  be  wrong  in  one  point,  and  should  it  read  granted  to  his  mother 
Presenta  instead  of  his  wife?  If  so,  it  would  be  very  possible  that 
John  was  a  brother  of  Robert,  and  had  died  before  him  (the  two 
probate  records  being  only  two  days  apart),  and  it  is  also  possible  that 
he  is  the  John  of  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster,  before  noted. 

This  one  change  of  wife  to  mother  would  permit  the  construction 
of  a  pedigree,  including  all  these  riames  and  dates,  without  a  single 
discrepancy,  but  as  I  must  admit  without  a  single  proof  beyond 
coincidences. 

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WHITMORE  OF  CAUNTON,  CO.  NOTT; 


Theoretical  Pedigree  fhom  preceding  Xote>. 


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THE  EOOS  FAMILY  OF  LAXTOX,  CO.  NOTTS. 


[This   contains    an    account    of   the    family    of    Roo.s.    to    which    bclon'jjed 

Joan,   wife  of  Thoni;i.-<  Whitaiore  of  Mudeley,  co.   Staff.,   whose 

descendants  are  recorded  in  Tract  No.  Four  of  tliis  series.] 


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THE  ROOS  FA^IILY  OF  XOTTIXGITA^ISIIIRE,  THEIR 
PEDIGREE  AND  WILLS  CO^LPARED. 

The  following  notes  on  a  family  fovmerlv  of  some  local  impor- 
tance, may  not  seem  out  of  place,  since,  though  founded  clucily 
on  Thoroton's  Ulsfurij  of  Kotthif/hanisldre,  they  arc  supported 
and  amplified  by  several  original  materials: — 

Robert'  Lord  Ro,i>  of  Hamlake  married  Isabel  danalitcr  of  ^yillianl 
tlic  Lion,  Kin^-  of  Scotland,  and  had 

William-  Lord  Roos  of  lT:imlake,  a  titlo  still  extant,  and 
Robort^  of  A\\'rk".  wbo  married  ?tlargarct  dan.  and  licir  of  Poter 
de  P"Ms  of  Ski>lt(ui.     The  son  of  Robert-  was 

William  ■»  de  Ros  or  Roos,  Baron  of  Kendal,  who  is  said  to  have 
had  two  sons — 

Robert^  Lord  Roos  of  Kendal,  whoso  eventual  heiress  mar- 
ried Sir  William  I'arr. 

William*  Roos  of  Int;manthorpc. 

Thus  far  wc  follow  the  Visitation  of  Xottinghamshire,  just 
printed  for  the  Harleian  Society.  But  Collins,  in  liis  reeran;e, 
differs  considerahly  from  tliis  account.  lie  states  tliat  the  first 
Lord  Itoos  of  Ilamlake,  Robert,'  had  three  sons,  of  whom  two 
were  named  William,  the  younger  being  AVilliam  of  iVgman- 
thorpe. 

Again,  Collins  says  that  Robert^  of  Werke  liad  a  son  William,'' 
wliose  son  Thomas^  had  a  granddaughter  Elizabeth,''  who  mar- 
ried Sir  William  Parr,  He  says  of  this  Williain  ■''  that  ''the 
daughters  claimed  to  be  coheirs,  a  difliculty  wdiich  has  not  been 
solved,'"  It  is  evidently  in  this  generation  that  an  obscurity 
exists,  two  facts  only  being  pretty  clear,  viz.  that  the  Parrs  of 
Kendal  represent  the  senior  line  of  Eobert  '^  Roos  of  Werke,  and 
that  the  Roos  family  of  Ingmanthorpe  was  recognised  as  an 
early  offshoot,  though  the  precise  point  of  connection  was  in  doubt. 

Turninir  to  tlic  Visitation  a^'ain — 

William'*  Lord  of  Inpmanthorpe  is  said  to  be  father  of  Sir  Robert"' 
Roos  Lord  of  Ingmautlioriio,  Steeton.  and  many  other  lands  in  York- 
shire, who  liad  two  sons  — 


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2  THE  ROOS  FAMILY  OF  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.  -- 

Robert,^  of  Steeton,  CO.  York.      .  .■    ;  .' •  ,.  <. 

"William,^  of  Ingmantliorpe,  co.  York.* 
Robert*^   Roo.s,   of  Stocton,  rnnrriod   Elizabeth,   dau.   of  Sir  John 
Middleton  of  Stookeld,  co.  York  (of  ^liddleton  Hall  says  the  Visita- 
tion of  Rutland),  and  had 

John'  Roos,  of  Laxton,  co.  Xotts,  who  mar.  the  eldest  dau.  and 
coheir  of  Sir  ]\Iilc.s  Etton  of  Gilling,  and  had  '      '    -  ■  ■  ■ 

William^  Roos  of  Laxton 

At  this  point  there  is  another  contradiction  of  o.utlioritics. 
Tlioroton  {Illstonj  of  Xottlnghamsldre,  p.  376)  says,  in  relation 
to  Laxton, 

Sir  John  Etton  left  the  manor  (11  Hen.  YI.)  to  his  grandL-hildrcn, 
Elizabeth  wife  of  John  Xorthwood,  Labell  of  John  Rous,  ^Margaret  of 
Robert  Moresby,  and  Anne  of  RoIm  rt  Koucliffe. 

The  posterity  of  this  John  Rous  got  all  or  most  of  this  manor  by 
purchase  or  othcr-.visc  ;  his  son's  name  was  Robert  Roos,  and  lie  had 
to  wife  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Sir  William  Middleton,  and  by  her 
William  Roos,  who  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  Christopher 
Wainsford,  iL'C. 

Here  the  father  and  grandfatlior  of  William  ^  are  made  to 
change  places;  but  which  account  is  right? 

William^  Roos  of   Laxton  married   Elinor  daughter  of  Christopher 
Wandisford  of  Kirklington,  and  had 
Humphrey^  of  Laxton. 

Richard^  of  Torkesey,  co.  Line,  of  whom  hereafter. 
Humphrey^  Roos  married  [Annef]   daughter  of  [Richard f]  Rest- 
wold  of  the  Vache,  and  [secondly  ^largaret  Linne  of  Southwyke  in 
Northamptonshire.     He    died  13  Hen.  VIIL  a.d.   1522].f     By  his 
first  wife  he  had  [besides  William i^^  of  whom  hereafter],f 

Francis  I''  Roos  of  Laxton,  who  married  [Elizabeth]  daughter  of 
Thomas  Scrimshire  of  Norbury,  co.  Staif.  and  had 
Peter.ii 
i-    Thomas,^'  of  whom  hereafter. 

I     Mary'i  married  Thomas  Croughton  of  Broughton,  co.  Stafford. 

i     ..    Alice  1' J  married  Brian   Stapelton  of  Burton   Joyce,  Anthony 

Stapleton  of  Romsen,  and  Thomas  Leeke  of  Hasland,  co.  Derby. 

•   For  Ross  of  Ingmantliorpe  [lemp.  Ilcn.  VIII.)  consult  lilore's  "  Rutland,"  p.  S. 

"t  Supplied  froni  Tlioroton. 

J  See  Herald  and  O'enniloijisl,  vi.  IGl.  ■•    ..      ,        .    ,         •       „ 


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*  THE  ROOS  FAMILY  OF  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.    •  3 

Joan^'*  ?  married  Thomas  "Whitmore  of  ]\Iadeley,  co.  St;i fiord. 

A  daughter'^  married Fairfax  of  Gillin,i;-.-|- 

A  daughter  married Marshall  or  Maxtield.-j' 

A  daughter  married Scrimshire  of  Xorbury.f 

The  will  of  tins  Francis  Roos  has  been  found  in  the  Court 
of  Probate,  in  London,  by  Col.  Chester.  It  is  dated  4  Nov.  1577, 
and  was  proved  26  Apr.  1580.  An  abstract  is  given  at  the  end 
of  this  article. 

Peter  *i  lioos  of  Laxton  married  first  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Harvey,  Lord  2dayor  of  Loudon  [1582],  and  had  a  daughter  Auue^- 
who  married  Sir  Griffin  ^larkhaui.t  I'eter  married  secondly  [Lridget],! 
daughter  and  heir  of  liobert  lujos  of  Ligmanthorpe,  and  had  — 

Gilbert,'-  wlio  m:irried  a  daughter  of  ...  .  (^irell,  of  Soutli  Cave 

[and  had   two   daughters,  one   married  to Thomas  of  the 

county  of  Essex,  who  had  part  of  North  Leverton,  the  other  never 
married.]! 
Peter.  ^'^ 

Of  Bridget  (Roos),  Peter's  widow,  Thoroton  says  slic,  "  after 
her  husband's  death,  married  one  Richard  Clark,  and,  as  the 
inhabitants  say,  by  her  own  misfortunes  and  the  wicked  un- 
thriftiness  of  her  son  the  said  Gilbert  Roos,  the  last  lord  of 
Laxton  of  this  noble  race,  was  reduced  to  so  great  poverty  that 
she  gleaned  corn  among  other  poor  people  in  Laxton  fields." 

Peter'-  Pioos,   according    to    Thoroton,   was   of    Knesale,    married 

Frances  daughter  of Marshall,  and  had  four  daughters  and  one 

son — 

Gilbert,i2  ^vho  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Augustine  Hinde  of 
Laxton-Morehouse,  and  died  IGGl.     He  had — 
Gilbert,'-^  aged  14  in  1G70. 

Peter,i3  aged  11  in  1G70.  '•    '  '       "     .-        •' 

Maria.'^  /"  ' '_'  '     '■'■'•'       '■"■":',.':,. 

Frances.  "  "'.,:..■..-•        .    .  ,    .  ,<■      ;.i  _  •  >,  ^  <,_ 

Troth. 
Here  ends  this  branch  ;  but  reverting  to  the  next — 
Thomas"  (sou  of  Francis'")  Roos,  married   [Anne]:{:  daughter  of 

*  See  Hemld  and  Genealoffist,  vi.  162,  and  iv.  399. 
t  See  p.  333  of  the  present  volume.  X  Supplied  from  Thoroton. 


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Pirton  [or  Pickston.  who  niarriud Muinwaring],*  and 


had—  , 

Francis. '2 

John ^2  [who  nrairicd  Elizabeth  Roos  of  Weston,  and  hud 
"William ^3  Qf  Laxton,  whose  wife  was  Anna.  Grisekla,  widow  of 
.  .  .  Cooper,  and  who  had 

Johni^  Ptoos,  aged  S  in  1GG6].* 
Francis^^   Roos   [married    Elizabeth  danghtcr  of   Peter   Orrell  of 
South  Cave,  co.  York.      Her   aunt  married  Gilbert^-  lloos,  cousin  of 
Francis.     They  had 
Jolm.i-5 

Francis.'^  . 

Peter.i^ 
Valentine.'-^*] 

[Of  whom  Jol'.n'-'  Rous  of  Lnxtoii  married  Jatic  daughter  of  .  .  . 
East  of  Carberton  and  lia<l 

Francis,'"^  aged  22  iu  1G70;  Jojin,'^  aged  15;  Thomas,"  aged 
13;  Peter,'-'  aged  8;  Elizabeth,''  aged  18;  Mary,'"'  aged  IG ; 
Sarah,'-'  aged  12  ;   and  Jane,"  aged  G.*] 

We  will  next  take  the  oldest  branch  of  the  Laxton  family  as 
recorded  in  Thorotou : — 

William'*^*  Roos,  ()lder  brother  of  Francis'"  Roos  of  Laxton,  married 
Maria  Eliot,  and  had 

[Barnard"  Roos  of  Egmnnton,  whose  son  William'-  Roos  of 
Egmanton  married  Sarah,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Samon  of 
Turford.  They  had  an  only  daughter,  Sarah '-^  Roos,  who  married 
Edmund  Lacock,  clerk,  whose  daughter  Deborah  Lacock,  says 
Thoroton  (p.  319),  is  ''  wife  of  my  cousin  John  Ouseley,  rector  of 
Panfield  in  Essex."] 

Here  we  complete  the  record  of  the  Laxton  line;  but  a  .other 
branch  is  recorded  in  the  Visitation  of  Rutland,  1618  (ILuieian 
Society),  as  well  as  in  that  of  Xottinghamsliire  in  1569  and  1614. 
The  two  accounts  agree  so  closely  that  they  must  have  had  a 
common  origin.  We  follow  that  of  the  Visitation  of  Notting- 
hamshire— 

Richard^  Roos  of  Torkesey,  co.  Lincoln,  had  a  son 

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TH1-:  ROOS  FAMILY  OF  NOTTIXGn.UISIUItE.  5 

William •"  Roos  of  East  Bavrc,  in  Laxton,  co.  Xotts,  who  mai- 
ricd  .  .  .  daughter  (if  .   .  .  Darwin,  and  had — 
Thomas''  died  s.p. 

Richard''  of  Snenton,  married  the  dangliter  and  heir  of  .  .   . 
"Warren  of  Snentun,  co.  Xotts,  and  had  two  sons,  viz. : 

Henry '^  of  Snonton,  whose  son  Henry'"  was  alive  in  IGIS. 
George  '-  died  s.  p. 
Edward"  of  Laxton,  of  whom  hereafter. 

Pioger"  of  Eynianton,  co.  Xotts,  married  Catherine   Leuesby 
or  Levesey  of  Laxton,  and  had  3Iichcll'-.     ■   :  •    ' 

Anthony  "  married  Elizabeth  Blague. 
Catherine  "  married  John  Lucas  of  London. 
Edward"   Roos  oi   Laxton,  third   son,  married  Agnes  daughter  of 
Anthony  Colly  of  Glast(Mi,  co.  Rutland,  and  had 
Edward.'- 

Joane'-  married  Thomas  Gurney  of  ^[aruliam,  co.  Xotts. 
Edward  ^2    ]^oos    of   Ashwell,   co.    Rutland,    IGls.    married    Mary 
daughter  and  heir  of  John  Castlin  of  Ashwell,  and  had 
Francis,'**  aged  25  in  1618. 
Edward,"  under-sheriff  of  Rutland,  IGLS. 
Theodosia,'  ^  married  Leonard  Cole  of  Stamford. 
Ellen,' ^  married  Anthony  Harston  of  Peterborough. 
Alice, '3  married  John  Heard  of  Ashwell. 
Mary.'s 


The  evidence  to  be  gained  from  wills  at  the  York  Registry  is 
scanty. 

March  2,  1G05-6.  Administration  of  Peter  Roos  of  Laxton  (our 
Peter")  was  granted  to  his  widow  Bridget  Clark  alius  Roos,  with 
tuition  of  his  son  Peter  Roos.  This  was  revoked  12th  March,  and 
another  granted  June  30th,  160G,  to  Peter  Roos  of  Laxton.  IGIO, 
June  9.  Administration  of  Peter  Roos  of  Laxton  to  Bridget  wife  of 
Hugh  Clarke. 

Again,  Dec.  IG,  IGOG,  will  of  Thomas  Roos  of  Laxton  (evidently 
the  Thomas"  son  of  Francis  and  brother  of  preceding)  mentions  wife 
Anne,  sons  Francis  and  John,  daughter  Jane  wife  of  William  Hore, 
illegitimate  children  Christopher  Roos  alias  Coupe  and  Dorothy 
Coupe.      Supervisor  Brian  Broughton  (probably  his  nephew).       1G30, 


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6  THE  ROO^  FAMILY  OF  NOTTIXGIIAMSllll^E. 

Oct.  31.  Anne  Roos,  wiJow.  Administration  to  son  Francis  to  liis 
own  use  and  that  of  Lis  bruthor  John  Roos. 

Oct.  9,  1G17.  Administration  of  Bakdaua  Roos  alias  Coupe  of 
Carlton  to  her  husband  Christopher  Roos  alias  Coupe. 

1634,  Oct.  9.  Administration  of  Francis  Roos  of  Laxtou  to  his 
widow  Elizabeth. 

In  proof  of  the  Rutlandshire  line  we  have  the  will  dated 

April  12,  15.r2.  Of  Williah  Ruse  of  Laxton  (eviilently  tlie 
son  of  Richard,''  grandson  of  "William"^  Rdos  autl  Elinor  Waudisford). 
He  mentions  sons  Anthony,  Barnard,  Thomas,  Edward,  and  liichard, 
and  daughter  Kath:'rine;  makes  supervisor  "  Master  Francis  lioose, 
my  cousin,"  who  is  of  course  our  Francis.'"  AH  these  children  except 
Barnard  appear  in  tliu  puiligree. 

1575,  May  9.  Edward  Roos  of  Laxton,  evidently  son  of  the  pre- 
ceding, makes  his  v>ill  and  mentions  brother  Barnard,  son  Edward  and 
his  wife  I\Iary,  dauL;liter  Jane  wife  of  Thomas  Gurnell,  son-in-law 
Peter  Lcvesay,  wife  Joan,  daughters  Barbara  and  Anne.  As  com- 
pared with  the  Visitation  it  would  indicate  that  Edward  had  married 
a  second  wife  not  there  recorded. 

There  are  also  at  York  administrations  as  follows: 

1603,  Aug.  8.     Of  Edward  Roos  of  Laxton  to  his  brother  Peter. 

1617-18,  Jan.  13.  Of  John  Roos  of  Egmantou  to  Edward  Roos  of 
same  place. 

1622,  Aug.  13.  Of  Peter  Roos  of  Moorhouses  (in  Laxton)  to 
Nicholas  Parkthorpe  of  Laxton. 

These  are  all,  I  believe,  that  are  recorded  at  York  prior  to  16C0. 

Abstract  of  the  Will  of  Francis  Hoos  of  Laxton. 

(C.  P.  C.  1-i  Arundel.)  Francis  Roosse  of  Swindled,  co.  Staf- 
ford, esq.  dated  4  Xov.  1577.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of 
Stawne,  near  my  wife.  To  each  of  my  tenants  that  are  cottagers  in 
CO.  Stafford  2  pence  and  a  year's  rent  of  their  cottages ;  to  each  of 
my  tenants  cottagers  in  Laxton  a  year's  rent.  To  Rafe  Hariam, 
dwelling  in  Mooreshouse,  a  year's  rent.  To  my  sons  Peter  Roosse 
and  Thomas  Roose  each  -10/.  a  month  after  my  decease.  To  my  son- 
in-law  Thomas  Broughton,  to  use  of  his  eldest  son  Francis  Brough- 
ton  and  his  other  sons  in  succession,  40/.  "  Item,  I  will  that  my 
Exors.  shall  within  one  month  after  my  decease  pay  unto  my  sou- 


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in-law  Thomas  "Whitmore  tlie  like  sum  of  40/.  upon  his  sufiicicnt 
bond  that  he  shall  employ  the  same  to  the  use  of  his  sons  in  this 
order,  to  wit,  that  his  eldest  son  William  "Whitmore  shall  have  the 
interest  thereof  for  the  2  first  years,  and  his  son  Francis  Whitmorc 
the  interest  thereof  for  tlie  2  next  years  after  that,  and  after  the  said 
4  years  his  youngest  son  Peter  Whitmore  to  have  the  interest  thereof 
for  other  two  years  ;  and  then  I  will  that  after  the  end  of  the  said 
6  years  Thomas  Whitmore  their  father  shall  have  the  occupation  and 
profit  thereof  for  other  2  years,  and  after  those  8  years  I  will  that 
the  said  40/.  shall  remain  to  his  eldest  son  William  Whitmore  to  his 
only  use  as  my  free  gift  to  him  for  ever."  To  my  sons  Peter  and 
Thomas  Roosse  and  my  sons-in-law  Thomas  Broughton,  John  Badeley 
and  Thomas  Whitmore  each  a  yoke  of  oxen.  To  m}-  daughter-in- 
law  my  son  Thomas  Roosses  wife,  and  to  my  daughters  Thomas 
Brougliton's  wife,  J(;liu  Badeley's  wife,  Thomas  Whitmore's  wife,  and 
William  MaxfieM's  wife,  each  two  cows.  ( ttlier  bequests  of  honsehold 
stuffs,  &c.  to  said  sons,  daughters,  daughters-in-law,  and  my  son-in- 
law  William  ^Maxlield.  To  Thomas  Keymcys  of  Bowrcs,  and  William 
Kent  of  the  Mayre,  each  an  ox.  ''  Item,  I  will  that  of  such  goods, 
cattells,  and  chattells  as  I  have  unliequeathed,  my  executors  shall  pay 
unto  my  daughter  Dorothcis  children  living,  to  each  of  them  twenty 
nobles.  To  the  churchwardens  of  the  chapel  of  Chorlton  205.  to  bo 
employed  in  the  reparation  of  the  said  chapel  and  maintenance  of  the 
service  there.  To  John  and  Francis,  the  two  eldest  sons  of  my  son-in- 
law  John  Badeley,  each  10/.  when  18  years  of  age.  Residue  to  my 
son  Peter  Roosse  and  my  friend  ]\Iathew  Cradocke  of  Stafford,  ]\[er- 
chant  of  the  Staple,  and  appoint  thoni  Executors.  (Proved  2G  April 
1580  by  said  son  Peter  Roosse,  power  reserved  to  said  ilathew 
Cradocke.) 

All  these  places,  except  Laxton,  arc  near  together,  in  Stafl'ord- 
shirc.  StaiL'7ie,  where  he  was  to  be  buried,  is  Stan  Jon.  (See  Erdcs- 
wicke,  Harwood's  edit.  p.  100,  last  line.)  Swinched  is  clearly 
Swincshead.  A  note  to  Erdeswicke,  p.  90,  says  "  Thomas  Roos 
of  Luxleij  in  Notts,  20  Eliz.  (a.d.  1578)  died  seized  of  the 
granges  of  EUerton,  Batisacre,  Fowk  Clanford,  and  Eld-Knighton 
and  other  lands,  and  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  ]\Icere,  Swine- 
shead,  and  Charlton,  and  left  them  to  Peter  Roos  his  son." 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  this  is  a  mistake  for  Francis  Roos  of 
Laxton,  all  the  facts  agreeing  with  what  is  known  of  him. 
Chorlton  or  Charlton  and  Swincshead  arc  but  a  mile  or  two  from 


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8  THE  RODS  FA:\IILY  of   XOTTI>'GnAMSHIRE. 

Brougliton.  ^lacT  ami  Bovrres  arc  in  the  same  ncig'libourlioo'l, 
and  appear  still  on  the  county  map.  At  ]\Iacr  it  seems  arc 
monuments  to  the  Macclc^helds,  to  which  family  belonged 
TVilliam  ^Macclesfield,  "  now  owner  of  the  greater  part  of  Macro 
and  Aston,"  says  Erdcswickc,  about  1595.  It  is  probable  that 
Francis  Eoos's  son-in-law  Muxfield  belonged  to  this  family. 

It  seems  evident  that  Francis  Roos,  who  was  of  Xottingham- 
shire,  was  brought  to  StalTordshirc  by  liis  marriage  with  Elizabeth 
daughter  of  Thomas  Scrimshire  of  Xorbury,  a  place  about  as  far 
south  of  Eccleshall  as  Chorlton  is  north. 


As  to  the  marriages  of  Francis  Roos's  daughters,  it  seems  quite 
certain  that    Mary   married    Thomas   Brougliton  of  Brou^hton  ; 

Joan  married  Thomas  Whitiuorc  of  Madeley;  (unnamed) 

married  William  ^laxfield  (or  Macclesfield).  A  fourth  daughter 
married  John  Badeley  ;  and  there  was  apparently  a  daughter, 
Dorothy,  who  had  died  leaving  children — she  mav  have  been 
the  wife  either  of  Fairfax  or  Scrimshire;  and  there  was  certainlv 
a  daughter  Alice  who  married  a  Staplctou,  who  was  not  nameil 
in  her  father's  will,  thougl;  tlien  living.  To  compare  the  wiU 
with  Thoroton's  account,  they  agree  on  three  names,  Brougliton, 
"Whitmore,  and  Maxfield.  Thoroton  adds  Fairlax  and  Scrim.diire, 
besides  Stapleton,  otherwise  proved  to  be  right.  The  will  omits 
Stapleton,  but  adds  Badeley,  which  is  not  in  Thoroton.  I  can 
see  no  reason  hov.-ever  to  discredit  Thoroton, '  either  in  regard  to 
Fairfax  or  Scrimshire. 

The  John  Badeley  was  doubtless  the  John  Badeley  of  Ellerton 
Grange,  in  co.  StatTord,  whose  will  is  dated  8  April  1G05;  proved 
2  July  1606.  lie  mentions  wife  Katherine,  oldest  son  John; 
gives  daughter  Susan  30/.;  daughter  Joyce  40/.  ;  son  Thomas 
30/.;  son  Francis  20  marks;  son  Walter  20/.;  son  James  40/.; 
daughter  Erne  40/  ;  to  daughter  Rose  a  ring,  and  same  to 
daughter  Elizabeth  and  her  husband  and  daughter  Ellen, 

Boston,  U.S.A.  William  H.  Wiiitmoue. 

*  It  is  of  course  possible  that.  Tlioroton  may  have  made  a  mi-take  in  sajinp  that 
Francis  Rooa's  duvrjl,Ur  married  a  Fairfa.K  of  Giliiiig,  it  being  a  fact  that  two  of  his 
grand-ilaii;]hUrs  did  marry  into  tiiat  family.  Still  it  is  the  kast  satisfactory  method 
of  disposing  of  a  knotty  question  to  style  it  an  entire  error. 


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WHITMOEES  OF  MADELET. 


In  Tract  Xo.  1  of  the  present  series,  p.  8,  it  is  shown  that 
Thomas"'  Whytemore  of  Claverly,  co.  Sah3p,  who  died  in  1483, 
had  two  sons,  Richard"  his  heir,  and  Thomas'*  of  Madelcy,  co. 
Staff.  There  is  no  question  that  there  were  Whitmores  at 
Madeley,  as  is  shown  by  the  wills  still  on  record,  from  Elizabeth 
Whitmorc  who  died  in  1523,  to  Thomas  who  died  about  1682. 
But  the  early  records  of  Madcloy  are  lost,  and  the  earliest  re- 
maining one  bei2;ins  in  1078,  though  the  system  of  parish  records 
began  in  1538.  I  examined  the  record  at  Madeley  in  1862, 
and  the  single  notice  there  was  as  follows:  "Sarah,  the  daughter 
of  John  Whittmore  and  Margaret  his  wife,  travelling  persons, 
was  baptized  April  y''  ninth,  161H." 

Possibly  duplicates  of  the  early  records  may  be  found  in  the 
Bishop's  registry,  but  the  prospect  is  not  promising. 

We  are  driven,  therefore,  to  other  sources  to  obtain  materials 
for  the  pedigree,  and  therein  xe  can  have  very  fair  success, 
mainly  through  the  wills  of  the  rarioHS  members  of  the  family. 

The  anuexL'd  pedigree  shows  iLe  probable  outline  of  the  family, 
in  which  but  two  suppositions  have  to  be  made. 

1st.  That  Elizabeth,  who  died  a  widow  in  1523,  was  wife  of 
Thomas'*  VVhitmore,  who  settled  at  Madeley.  She  is  clearly  of 
that  generation,  and  the  fact  is  most  probable. 

2d.  Tliat  Thomas,  who  died  in  IST-i,  and  from  whom  the 
Madeley  branch  is  clearly  traced  for  several  generations,  was 


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the  son  of  Elizabeth  (and  Thomas)  though  not  mentioned  in  hi3 
mother's  will.  If  the  pedigree  is  ever  traced  back  with  certainty 
to  this  point,  I  think  it  can  be  established,  and  therefore  I  will 
not  waste  time  upon  it.  It  is  sufficiently  probable  for  our 
purpose. 

We  now  proceed  to  the  evidences  taken  from  the  Registry  of 
"Wills  at  Lichfield  and  the  Prerogative  Court,  London.  Most  of 
the  abstracts  were  made  by  Col.  J.  L.  Chester.  A  few  were 
made  by  the  late  H.  G.  Somerby,  from  originals  which  had  been 
mislaid  when  Col.  Chester  visited  Lichfield,  but  which  will  be 
found  again  on  search,  as  they  are  on  the  index.  Either  gentle- 
man is  a  sufficient  authority. 

1. 

[Lichfield  Registry. — Will  of  Elizabeth,  supposed  wife  of  Thomas. 
Abstract  made  by  Col.  J.  L.  Chester.] 

Elizabeth  Whitmore  of  the  Lane  in  Madeley  Parish,  widow,  will 
dated  19  March,  1522-3.  To  be  buried  in  Madeley  church-yard.  To 
Ralph  my  son,  6  marks  bequeatheil  him  by  his  father,  also  4  sheep  and 
2  lambs;  resi<lue  to  William  and  John  my  sons.  Appoints  my  son 
Edmund  executor,  and  he  proved  l^  July,  1524. 


On  the  Act  Books  of  Lichfield  is  a  Minute  of  the  following  will,  the 
original  not  now  on  file. 

Edmund  Whitmore  of  Madeley,  co.  Stafford,  proved  Oct.  5,  1540, 
by  the  relict  Ellen  ;  power  reserved  to  Richard,  Whitmore. 

[Note. — This    Richard    may    be    his    supposed    nephew,   son   of 
Thomas.'] 

3, 

[Lichfield  Registry.  Copied  by  H.  G.  Somerbt.] 
John  Whitmore  of  Ashley,  co.  StaflTord,  dated  2  June,  1571,  proved 
May  7,  1572.  He  desires  to  be  buried  in  the  church-yard,  near  where 
the  cross  standeth.  Legacies  to  a  large  number  of  persons  named ; 
among  them  his  brother  William,  cousin  Margaret  wife  of  Rocjer 
York,  Kinswoman  Margaret  Shaw,  aisd  die  children  of  brother  William 
not  specified.  Appoints  Thomas  Ikicklaye,  gent.,  John  Pyrkyn  of 
Mayre  and  Thomas  Short  of  Ashley,  executors. 


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[Note. — Vfe  tliink  that  as  Ashley  is  but  six  miles  south  of  Marleley, 
this  John  may  well  be  the  son  of  Elizabeth  of  will  No.  1.  He  has  a 
brother  William,  and  she  had  sons  John  and  William.  So  again,  his 
executor  is  Thomas  Bulkley,  gent.,  and  in  1.S79  Thomas  Whitmore  of 
Madeley,  presumed  nephew  of  John  W.,  had  as  trustees  Eowland 
Bulkley,  of  Buntiiigdale,  co.  .Stafford,  and  Thomas  Ikilkley  the  younger, 
of  Woore  for  Ore)  CO.  Salop.  These  Bulkleys  were  undoubtedly  all 
of  one  family.  William  Bulkley  of  Woore  m.  Beatrix,  dau.  of  William 
Hill  of  Bunting>ta!l ;  his  son  Thomas  B.  of  Woore  and  Buntingstall 
was  undoubtedly  the  executor  of  John  AVhitmore,  while  Rowland  V>. 
of  Woore  and  Thomas,  .Jr.,  of  Buntingstall  were  sons  of  Thomas  I>. 
Their  brother,  tlie  Hev.  Edward  B.,  was  father  of  the  Rev.  Peter 
Buckley,  who  came  to  New-England.  Possibly  there  was  an  inter- 
marriage of  the  Whitmorcs  and  Bulkleys  :  at  all  events,  these  papers 
show  they  were  friends  as  well  as  neighbors.] 

4. 

[Lichfield  Registry.  Copied  by  H.  G.  Somekby.] 
Thomas  Whitmore  of  Thornall,  in  the  Parish  of  Madeley,  co. 
Stafford,  yeoman,  died  12  May,  1573.  His  will  is  dated  6  May,  lo73, 
and  proved  6  Oct.,  157-1:.  He  desires  to  be  buried  in  the  church. 
Gives  to  his  younger  sou  Humphrey  a.  tenement  in  Betley,  being  the  in- 
heritance of  his  mother,  for  the  term  of  twenty-one  years,  he  paying 
the  rent  to  his  mother  during  said  term.  To  son  Richard  a  tenement 
in  Asseley  for  twenty-one  years,  he  paying  to  his  eldest  brother  Thomas, 
6s.  a  year.  Mentions  his  three  daughters,  son  Thomas  to  give  them  £20 
upon  the  day  of  his  marriage.  Speaks  of  his  father,  and  mentions  his 
lands  in  Thornall.  A[)points  his  wife  Agnes  and  son  Thomas  execu- 
tors.    Witnessed  by  William  Whitmore  of  Thornall,  and  others. 

[Note. — This  witness  was  pi-esumably  his  brother.]  ;  ■    . 


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[Lichfield  Registry.     H.  G.  Somerbt.] 

Agnes  Whitmore  of  Madeley,  co.  Stafford,  widow,  died  25  Dec, 

1591.  Will  dated  23  May,  1591  ;  proved  20  Jan.  1591-2.     Mentions 

sons  Humphrey,  Richard  and  Thomas,  daughters  Margaret  Podmore, 

Anne  Sherrat  and  Margaret  Gorton.     Appoints  son  Thomas,  executor. 


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In  treating  of  these  tliree  sons  of  Thomas  and  Agnes,  viz., 
Thomas,  Eichavd  and  Humphrey,  we  will  first  dispose  of 
Richard,  as  he  undoubtedly  died  unmarried.  r     > 

[Lichfield  Register.     J.  L.  Chestek.] 
Richard  "WiiiT^rouE  of  Thornall.  parish   I\I:uleley,  joyner,  died  4 
Dec.  1C0;3.      Will  (hiU'd  oO  Nov.  1(J();5,  proved  4  Jan.  1  C0;'.-4.     To  be 
buried  iu  Madeloy  church-yard.     To  my  brother  Thomas  Wliitmore,  a 
silver  spoon,  half  my  timber  and  half  niy  tools,  a  bed  and  bedding,  &:c. 
To  Margaret  Whitmore  a  e\ve.     To  Ellen  Whitmore  a  ewe  lamb.     To 
WiUiain  "Whitmore  a  ewe  hog.     To   Robert   Whitmore  a  lamb.     To 
Anne  Wlntmore  a  lamb.     To  Dorothij  Whitmore  a  ewe.     To  Elizabeth 
Whitmore  a  cupboard.      To    E<jerton  Whitmore  a  great  chest,  and  to 
his  wife  a  desk.     To    my   brother  John    Sherret   a  hill  of  ;V2s.  to  pay 
himself  therewith,  and  the  residue  to  go  to  the  use  of  his  chihb-en.     To 
Elizabeth  Sherrat  a  ewe.     To  my  sister  Margaret  Podmorea  cow,  &c., 
and  to  her  son  Humphrey  a  heifer.     To  my  uncle  John  Browne  and  my 
aunt  Mary  all  the    dci)ts    that   are  between  us.     To  my  sister  Margery 
two  cows.  William  Browne  owes  me  13s.  4d.  which  I  will  have  bestowed 
in  bringing  of  my  iiome.     Jolin    Cliflte  owes   me   four   groats  for  four 
coffins,  lOd.  for  two  days'  work,  and  4d.  for  mending  a  spindle  wheel. 
William  Blest  owes  me  8il.  which  last  debts  I  give  unto  George  Gorton 
with  a  new  shirt.     JNIr.  John   Astow  the  elder  owes   me   7s.  which  I 
give  to  the  poor.     ^Vlr.   Egerton   owes   me   4s.   for  making  two  forms, 
and  4  groats  for  making  two  boxes,  which  I  give  to  my  sister  INIargerie. 
To  my  brother  Humphrey  half  my  timber  and  half  my  tools,  &c.     To 
Anne  Hilton  a  cow.     To   Thomas  Podmore  a   doublet,   and  same  to 
William   Podmore.     To   Humphrey  Podmore  a  pair  of  breeches,  &c. 
To    William  Whitmore  a  black  hat.  a  black   falling  band ;    the  three 
other  bands  to   go   to   Margerie's   children.     To   Ellen  Withinshew  a 
pair  of  thin  shoes.     To  ray  three  god-children,  each  Is.     To  the  school- 
master, a   chest.     Appoint   my  brother  Thomas   Whittmore,  executor. 
Inventory  of  personalty,  total,  £21:  16:  0. 


As  to  the  oldest  son  Thomas,  we  find  the  following  will,  here 
printed.     The  abbreviated  words  arc  all  given  at  length. 


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[Lichfield  Registry.     J.  L.  Chester.]  *  '   '' •' 

In  the  name  of  God,  Ameu.  Tlie  4tli  duie  of  xVugust.  Anno  Domini 
1601.  I,  Tiio:mas  Whitmore  of  Burr  Hill  in  the  parishe  of  3Iadeley 
and  county  of  Staltbrde,  Gentleman,  of  perfect  niinde  and  memoric,  I 
thancke  God  therefore,  make  my  last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner 
and  forme  followinge.  First,  I  bequeath  my  soule  to  Allmighty  God 
and  ray  Bodie  to  Cliristian  burial.  Allso  I  dooe  give  unto  Peter 
"Whitmore  my  sonne  and  Heire  all  that  my  Capitall  meswage  at  Barr 
Hill  aforesaid,  and  all  my  lands,  medowes,  leasowes,  pastures  and  com- 
mons with  all  and  singider  theire  appurtenances  to  the  same  Capitall 
meswage  beloiigfinge  or  a[)pertaineinge  :  And  one  Cotoage  in  OuL-ley  in 
the  county  of  Stallbrd  now  in  the  tenure  of  Richard  ljlackhui>.t.  and 
all  my  landes  and  tenements  and  hereditaments  whatsoever  in  Onely 
aforesaid  with  theire  appurtenances:  And  allso  one  ptisture  called 
"Wilkinsfielde,  one  meadowe  called  Wilkinstielde  medowe,  and  one 
crofte  called  the  Starrelield  at  Litkiii>en(!e  in  the  Lordesiiipe  of  Madeley, 
in  the  county  aforoaid.  And  all.-o  the  i-eversion  and  reversions  of  all 
other  my  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  whatsoever  called  the 
MosseKeld,  with  tlie  appurtenances  iyinge  in  the  Lordeship  of  Weston 
Curry  in  the  parishe  of  Careswall  in  the  county  aforesaid:  And  of  all 
my  lands  at  Litkensende  aforesaide,  now  in  jointure  oi  Juane  my  AVife. 
To  have  and  to  hold  my  said  capitall  meswage  and  all  other  the 
premises  with  all  and  singular  theire  appurtenances  after  my  decease, 
and  the  reversion  and  reversions  of  all  other  my  lands  and  tenements 
and  hereditaments  called  the  jNIossefields  with  appurtenances,  and  of  all 
other  my  lands  at  Litkiusende  aforesaid  with  theire  appurtenances 
now  in  jointure  as  before,  after  the  death  of  Joane  my  Wife,  to  him 
the  said  Peter  Whitmore  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfully 
begotte.  And  for  default  of  such  yssueto  my  cossen  Francis  Whitmore 
and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfully  begotten.  And  for  de- 
fault of  such  yssue,  to  the  right  heires  of  me  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore 
for  ever. 

Allso  I  give  to  Joane  my  Wife,  in  contentation  and  satisfaction  of 
her  parte  and  portion  of  my  goods,  the  chamber  wherein  wee  lye,  and 
allso  two  bedds  in  the  same  chamber  as  they  are  now  furnished,  dureinge 
her  natural!  life,  if  it  please  her  to  stay  at  it,  keepinge  her  sole  and 
unmarried.  Allso  I  give  to  my  cooscn  Thomas  Whitmore,  eldest 
Sonne  oi  Peter  W^hitmore  my  sonne,  six  siiver  spoons  with  a  [dublej  W" 


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in  the  ende  of  everie  one  of  them,  iipoa  this  condition,  that  my  sonne 
Peter  may  .have  the  use  of  them  duringe  the  life  of  the  said  Peter  my 
said  Sonne. 

AIlso  I  give  to  ray  very  friende  Robert  Morris,  clerke,  now  Yicar  of 
Madeley,  twentye  shillings. 

Allso  I  give  to  .John  Sydway.  Gent.,  twentve  shillings. 

Item.  I  give  to  everie  Godchilde  living  at  mv  decease  xii  d. 

Allso  I  give  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  ten  of  the  poorest  howse- 
holders  in  Madeley  parrishe  aforesaid,  at  the  discretion  of  my  Executor 
and  Ch-erseer,  twentie  shillings.  Item.  I  give  to  six  Ringers  to  ring 
faire  to  be  chosen  by  me  or  the  Vicar  then  beinge,  to  everie  one  of 
them  twelfe  pence.  Allso  my  Harriots,  mortuarie  debts,  legacies,  and 
funerall  expenses  discharged,  the  rest  of  my  moveable  goods  and  chattels 
whatsoever  I  have  or  of  right  ought  to  have,  I  give  and  bequeath  them 
to  my  coosen  Eninianupll  AVhitmore,  and  that  my  Executor  shall  have 
the  custody  of  the  goods  and  chattels  belongeing  to  the  said  Emmanuel, 
and  to  employ  them  to  the  best  use  and  prohte  he  can,  for  the  keepeinge 
of  him  to  the  schoole  until  he  come  to  the  age  of  one  and  twentie  years  ; 
and  for  the  performance  hereof,  my  Executor  to  put  in  a  sufficient  bonde 
to  be  acceptable  to  the  said  Ei)iiiiainieU,  for  the  same  goods  when  he  shall 
come  to  the  age  of  one  and  twentie  years  as  aforesaid.  And  yf  it 
fortune  that  the  said  EninuuivA  die  before  he  accomplishe  the  age  of 
21  yeares  that  then  the  said  goods  and  chattels  to  remaine  and  come  to 
the  next  younger  sonne  of  the  said  Peter  Whitmore,  if  it  please  God  he 
have  any.  And  for  want  of  such  yssue,  ye  foresaid  goods  to  be  equally 
geven  and  devided  betwene  my  two  coosens  Marrfrett  and  Jaiie  "Whit- 
more, and  to  the  survivour  of  them,  at  the  foresaid  aije  of  xxi.  yf  they 
marry  by  the  consent  and  good  likeinge  of  theire  Father,  or  else  to  re- 
main to  my  Executor  and  his  right  heires. 

Lastly,  I  dooe  constitute  and  make  y*  said  Peter  Whitmore  my  said 
sonne  and  heire,  my  sole  and  onely  Executor,  and  Juhn  Sydway,  Gent., 
overseer  of  this  my  last  AYill  and  Testament,  to  see  it  executed  and 
performed  accordinge  to  the  true  maineinge  in  every  respect,  as  my  full 
trust  in  them  is. 

"Witness  to  this  my  last  "Will  and  Testament,  sealed  and  delivered  by 
the  Testator  him  seltFe  to  his  sonne  and  sole  executor,  Peter  AVhitmore, 
upon  the  Testator's  owne  free  will  annd  consent,  being  sui  jiiris,et  sance 
mentis  bonceque  valet udinis,  and  haveflage  animum  testandi,  the  first  day 
of  March,  anno   Domini  1G03,  in  the  hov/se  of  Robert   Morris, 


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clerk,  Vicar  of  IMadflcy.  In  witiic~^e  of  Rdp.ekt  Sidavaye,  Thomas 
Lightefoote,  Kiciuirdo  Flint,  liobert  Morris,  clerke. 

This  is  a  true  Copie  of  my  Fatlier's  Will,  at  such  tj'me  as  he  made 
the  same,  I  do  protest  in  truth  and  veritie  upon  my  Faith,  to  my 
knowledge,  p.  me  Petrus  Whitmore." 

[Proved  Oct.  ol,  1G()G,  by  said  son  and  Executor,  Peter  "Whitmore.] 

I  have  not  yet  traced  Plumphrey,  the  youngest  brother  of 
Richard  and  Thomas,  though  I  am  sure  that  I  have  a  record  of 
some  of  his  descendants,  as  I  shall  show  later  in  these  pages. 
The  Thomas  AVhitmore  of  this  will  married  Joan  Itoos,  as  is 
shown  coile  in  Tract  Xo.  o.  lie  lived  to  be  an  old  man,  and 
seems,  from  the  will  of  his  son  Peter,  to  have  been  for  35  years 
"  a  trusty  servitor  and  faithful  wellwisher  to  the  house  of  Drad- 
wall."  Very  probably  he  was  steward  of  the  manor  in  the 
Sneyd  family  at  Brad  well.  The  then  head  of  the  family  was 
Ralph  Sneyd,  whose  daughter  Ann  m.  Sir  Thomas  Scrimshire, 
of  Aqualate.  Thomas  AVhitmore's  mother-in-law  was  a 
Scrimshire. 

In  the  next  generation,  we  ?hall  trace  the  descendants  of 
Thomas  Whitmore  and  Joan  Roos. 


Of  William  Wiiit.more,  oldest  son  of  Thomas,  I  find  only 
that  he  was  of  St.  Helen's  Auckland,  co.  York,  and  was  pre- 
sumably of  age  in  1502,  when  his  name  occurs  in  a  list  of  debts. 
(See  Durham  Wills,  Siu-tees  Society,  vol.  ii.  p.  213.)  He  is 
also  mentioned  in  an  old  roll  of  aj-ms  (Tonge's  Visitation,  Sur- 
tees  Society,  p.  xvii.)  as  bearing  Vert,  a  fret  or.* 

His  first  wife  was  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Thomas  Hitch,  gent., 
and  he  m.  2d  Dorothy  Welbury,  at  St.  Andrew's  Auckland,  28 
Sept.,  1587.  He  had  no  issue,  as  appears  by  his  nephew's 
(Francis  of  London)  declaration  in  160G  in  his  Bill  in  Chancery. 
In  an  indenture  of  Peter  Roos,  in  possession  of  Earl  Manvers, 

•  On  this  point  it  may  lie  noted  that  it  is  stated  in  Xotes  and  Queries  (3d  s.  v.  159) 
that  in  ld83  Tiiomas  Whitnuirc,  uf  Mndclcy,  failed  to  prove  liis  iicdigice  before  Glover. 
Reference  is  to  Harl.  MS.  IS'JG  and  1570 ;  Morani's  Essex,  i,  492. 
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dated  7  April,  1502,  one  of  the  parties  was  William  AVliitmorc, 
gent.,  of  AVolstanton,  co.  Statfurd.  a  place  two  miles  froia 
Newcastle.        ,    ,  '..    •;  •.     ;      v    ' 

At  York,  Col.  Clicstcr  found  tlie  administration  of  tlie  estate 
of  AVilliam  Wliitm<n-c,  gentleman,  of  St.  Helen's  Auckland,  co. 
Durham,  granted,  4  Dec,  1508,  to  his  widow  Dorothy. 


[Will  of  Rev.  Francis  Whitmorc,  March  10,  1597-8.] 
[From  the  original,  ro2:i.stere(l  in  Arelildsliop  Ilnttou's  books  at  York, 

foi.     13b^      J.  L.   ClIKSTEK.] 

"  Be  it  knowne  to  all  men  l)y  these  presents,  that  the  tenth  daie  of 
March,  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God,  :iccordiiig  to  the  accompte  of 
the  Church  of  Enghuid,  one  thousaud  five  hundredth  ninety  seavcu, 
Francis  Wiiit.mori:,  clurk,  parson  of  Bingham  in  the  couutie  of  ^Tot- 
tingham  and  dioces  of  Yorke.  beiuge  sicke  in  bodie  but  of  perfect  miiide 
and  memorie,  made  this  his  hist  will  and  testament  nuncupative,  or  by 
word  of  mouth  oulie,  s[)eaking  to  his  brother  in  law  Jlcnric  Spurr, 
clerke,  in  manner  and  form  folio winije,  viz.: — 

"  I  would  have  "Wilson's  part  paid  presentlie  out  of  my  goodes ;  the 
residue  of  my  goodes  I  would  have  them  equallie  divided  between  imj 
tioo  cJiildren  ;  and  my  bodie  to  be  laid  iu  the  chauneell  near  unto  my 
wief ;  and  I  make  my  uncle  Eosse  and  my  brother  Spur  re,  mine  ex- 
ecutors." 

These  being  witnesses,  Thomas  "Wright,  gentleman,  Alice  Whihnore 
and  Heley  Spurr." 

(Proved  by  Henry  Spurr,  11  May,  1598.) 

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'  Notes  TO  No.  7. 

Rev.  Francis  "Whitjiore,  second  son  of  Thomas,  was  a 
clergyman.  lie  was  of  Balliol  Coll.,  Oxford,  c  1571-5,  but 
not  described  on  the  rolls.  He  compounded  for  first  fruits  May 
C,  1581  (23  Eliz.),  for  Bingham,  co.  Notts;  May  16,  1582 
(24  Eliz.),  for  Kirkby  upon  Wiskc,  co.  York;  Nov.  G,  1584 
(2GEliz.),  for  Draieste  and  Chiseldon,  co.  Wilts;   20  April, 


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1589  (31  Eliz.),  for  "Seggiston  Ecc.  South.""*  He  evkleutly 
held  these  all  together,  since  his  will  terms  him  "of  Bingham," 
and  his  Kirkby-Wiske  living,  the  gift  of  his  l^rotlicr  ^Yilliam, 
was  filled  1  July,  1598,  by  Valentine  ^Vood,  "per  mortem 
Whitmore."  (Whitakcr"s  Richmondshirc,  i.  294.)  Col. 
Chester  writes  (17  April,  18G9),  "the  fact  that  Rev.  Francis 
Whitmore  appears  to  have  held  four  livings  in  coiunioidani, 
proves  that  he  was  a  popular,  feuccessful  and  well-to-do  man." 
He  evidently  was  of  Bingham,  chiefly,  but  the  register  begins 
March  29,  1598,  so  that  the  one  he  kept,  if  he  had  one,  is  lost. 
Orston,  where  his  brother  Peter  was,  is  in  the  union  of  Bingham. 
As  to  his  will,  Alice  AVhitmore  was  undoubtedly  tlie  wife  of  his 
brother,  Hev.  Peter.  His  "brother  Spurre"'  is  called  in  Peter's 
will  (p.  13)  "parson  Spur,  who  perjured  himself  as  did  his. 
wife  about  my  father's  land  in  liopc  of  some  share  thei'eof." 
Hence  we  may  infer  that  Spur  married  a  sister  of  Francis  and 
Peter  AVhitmore. 

Now  in  East  Bridgeford,  co.  Notts,  a  village  some  three 
miles  north  of  Bingham,  we  find  that  the  rector  was  Henry 
Spurre,  inducted  in  1584.  ^Ipril  27,  1589,  Francis,  son  of 
Henry  Spur,  is  baptized.  1G28,  Xov.  23,  Henry  Spur  rector 
hujus  ecclesicn  is  buricil.  It  is  possible  that  Henry  held  office 
for  forty-four  years,  but  more  likely  that  a  son  of  the  same 
name  held  part  of  the  time.  At  all  events  it  is  probable  that 
the  Henry  Spur  of  1584,  the  next  neighbor  of  liev.  Francis 
AVhitmore,  was  also  his  brother-in-law.  The  East  Bridgeford 
records  have  been  searched  by  Col.  Chester.  No  wills  of 
Spurrs  at  York  throw  any  light  on  the  matter. 

•  This  may  be  Kirkhy  Sigston,  or  Siggcton,  North  Riding  of  York,  a  place  9  miles 
north  from  Tliirsk,  as  Kirkbv  Wiske  is  5  miles  west  from  Thirsk.  The  latter  Kirkhy 
Wiske  is  in  the  union  of  Gilling,  partly,  and  Gilliug  was  the  ehief  place  of  the  Fair- 
fiixes.  It  is  very  certain  that  a  sister  of  Francis  Whitmore  was  the  wife  of  Cuthhert 
Fairfa?c,  of  Acaster  Malbis,  and  also  probable  that  Francis's  aunt  (or  his  mother's 
sister,  a  Roos)  had  also  married  a  Fairfax  of  Gillins.    (See  Tract  No.  3.) 


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12  WHITMOKES    OF   MADELEY. 

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[Will  of  Rev.  Peter  Whitmore.     Lichfield  Registry.    J.  L.  Chester.] 
"  Miserere  mei  Deus  secundum  magnum  misericordiam  tuam." 

Know  all  men  by  theise  presents  how  that  this  IGth  daie  of  Janu- 
ary anno  ab  incarnacione  Domini  1008.  I,  Peter  Whittmore  of  liarr 
hill  in  the  parish  of  Madeley  and  countye  of  Statlord,  sick  and 
diseased  in  Bodie,  But  of  good  and  perfect  myud  and  memorye  (praise 
be  given  to  God),  Doe  make  my  last  Will  and  Testamente  in  manner 
and  forme  followinge: 

First  I  bequeath  my  bodye  after  I  ame  departed  this  life  to  be  buried 
in  Madeley  Church  neere  unto  the  phice  where  the  Corps  of  my  late 
deseased  father  was  buried,  willinge  to  have  neyther  passinge  pealo, 
nor  ringinge,  nor  any  Bell  to  be  sterred  at  all  for  mee ;  but  to  be  bu- 
ried in  the  morniuge  before  daye.  within  44  bowers  after  I  ame  de- 
parted, and  that  quietly  and  with  as  small  Company  as  may:  Beseeche- 
inge  God  to  send  mee  a  Joyful!  Resurrection. 

And  my  Soule  I  give  and  commende  unto  Almightyc  God  my  Crea- 
tor, Sanctifyer  and  Redeemer,  trustinge  to  be  saved  by  the  onely  mis- 
terye  of  my  Saviour  Christes  lucarnacion,  whome  I  beseech  to  strengthen 
and  defende  me  in  the  bower  of  Death  against  the  enemy  and  all  such 
Spirites,  and  sende  his  holie  Angells  to  comford  mee,  and  to  brare  my 
Soule  into  the  Blessed  Kingdome  of  the  blessed  Sayntes  in  the  Tri- 
muphaut  Church  of  God's  Elect  children  in  Heaven, 

Protestinge  hcere  before  all  the  worlde  (yf  I  die  att  this  tyme)  how 
Peter  Brougldon  and  Fraunces  Wh  id  an  ore  or  one  of  them  twayne  weare 
my  Bane,  by  poysninge  me  by  some  ill  meunes  att  London,  whilse  they 
keepte  mee  theire  full  Wrongfully  in  sutie  about  my  Lands.  Item,  as 
concerninge  all  my  lands  both  in  possession  and  revercion,  I  give  and 
bequeath  to  my  eldest  sonne  Thotnas  Whittmore  alias  Whytmore,  in 
and  after  such  manner  and  forme  as  the  same  now  standeth,  all  are 
both  by  lawful!  conveyance  in  the  Law.  by  fyne  &c.,  and  by  the  last 
"Will  of  his  Grandfather,  my  said  Father  Thomas  Whitmore  or  Wliyt- 
more  departed,  trustinge  verily  in  Almighjie  God  that  not  any  of  the 
said  Lands  nor  any  parte  or  parcel!  of  the  same  shall  bee  att  any  tyme 
taken  forth  of  my  possession  or  my  chiltb-ens  in  any  of  tlie  daies  of  all 
our  lyves. 

Forasmuch  as  by  the  false  villayue  of  tlis  said  Peter  Broughton  who 
mentayned  (as  a  most  damnable  champeiter)  an  unjust  sutte  of  the 
said  Fraunces  Whittmore,  upon  collor  of  4  forged  Deede  of  feofluient 


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never  sealed  by  my  sayJe  fatlier,  for  a  joynture  for  my  eldest  Brother 
William  Whittmore's  wiffe,  I  v.-as  compelled  by  way  of  certayhe  Articles 
before  Sir  John  TynduU,  Knight,  to  graunt  to  the  said  Fraunces  after 
my  Mother's  decease,  soe  much  Laudes  as  shee  had  specified  in  her 
Joynture.  Which  maye  prove  a  most  wrongffull  and  sinnfull  acta 
ageynst  my  owne  sonues  and  theire  heyres,  by  deprivinge  or  p'r/i£//s/«7(5 
(sic)  them  of  theire  right  (uidess  ytt  please  God  to  helpe  them)  for 
the  which  I  pray  the  Lord  God  to  forgive  mee. 

Item,  as  touchinge  my  goods  beinge  butt  small  by  reason  of  my  mani- 
fold troubles  and  sicknes.  First,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  sonne 
Emmanuell  Whitmore,  tenn  pounds  to  be  putt  fourth  by  my  executors, 
assigaes  or  any  of  them,  to  his  best  use  when  he  shall  attayne  to  the 
age  of  xxi  years,  and  the  benetitt  or  profit  theirolT  to  be  delivered  by 
themthencefourth  yeirely  untill  hee  accomplish  the  age  of  thirtie  yecres  ; 
at  which  tyme  my  will  is  that  the  said  tenn  pounds,  beinge  tlie  stocke 
ytt  selfe,  shall  ducly  and  truely  be  given  and  delivered  unto  him  even 
to  his  owne  handes  to  use  as  hee  himselfe  shall  please  and  thinke  good. 

Item.  I  doe  give  and  bequeath  to  my  eldest  Daughter  Mnrrjrent 
Whittmore  Tenn  poundes ;  and  to  Jane  Whitmore  hir  sister  Twentie 
shillinges  for  theire  childes  porcions  to  be  delivered  unto  them  and 
given  them  att  such  tyme  and  t^'mes  as  they  shall  attayne  the  full  age 
of  27  yeii'es  a  peece,  to  use  as  they  shall  think  best. 

Alsoe  my  will  and  desier  is  that  my  Mother  shall  peaceably  hould  and 
enjoye  all  such  rooraes  in  my  mansion  howse  att  Barhill  as  shee  now 
doeth,  and  that  shee  aud  my  vvyetfe  and  children  continue  together  and 
dwell  together,  as  hitherto  they  have  donue  synce  my  Father's  decease, 
so  longe  as  my  said  mother  liveth,aud  my  children  be  unprovided  other- 
waise  of  some  better  preferment. 

Also  furthermore  my  Will  and  charge  is,  as  far  forth  as  a  father  may 
make  of  his  sonne  such  demandcs, — That  my  sonne  Tho)nas  Whitmoro 
be  alwaise  belovinge  and  carefuU  over  his  sisters  and  brother  Ummanuell 
Whitmore,  and  never  suffer  nor  see  him  to  stand  in  any  want  of  such 
helpe  as  shal  be  meett  and  convenient  for  him ;  as  to  keepe  him  a  horse 
and  lett  him  have  a  chamber,  and  especially  never  to  creditt  nor  regard 
any  evell  talles  of  his  wyetfe's  (when  it  shall  please  God  hee  shal  be 
married)  sugession  or  imaginacion  against  any  of  them  ;  for  as  much  as 
there  is  hardly  to  be  found  one  good  sister-in-law  amongste  many,  noe 
more  one  good   stepmother  or  stepfather,  which  now  a  dayes  are  all 


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14  WHITMORES    OF    MADELEY. 

nought  and  develish  :  from  which  the  Lord  deliver  (yf  ytt  be  his  will) 
my  poore  children  att  all  tj-mes.  '■  -'''••  -    ..%>.'••.>)>-■'; 

Finally  I  doe  coustitute  and  make  Alice  Whitmore,  my  wyeffe,  and 
Thomas  Wliitmore,  my  soniie  and  heire  apparent,  the  lawful  true  and 
onely  executors  of  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament,  joyntly  together ; 
uato  whome  I  do  give  all  the  residue  of  my  goods  (ray  debts  and  lega- 
cies beinge  paide)  etjually  to  be  divided  between  them,  savinge  that  I 
will  that  Thomas  "WJiitmore  have  delivered  him  severally  to  him  selfe 
all  such  thiuges  as  were  bequeathed  him  in  his  foresaid  grandfather's 
will  there  specifyed. 

Also  I  doe  will  that  theire  be  au  Inventory  tritely  taken  of  all  my 
said  goods,  boeth  reall  and  personall,  and  that  the  lease  of  the  lordes 
landes  be  truely  valued  and  seit  downe,  and  that  the  bond  lykwise  of 
200^  for  which  I  have  false  parson  Spur  in  siitte,  whoe  perjured  him 
selfe,  as  most  damnably  did  his  wyetle  (God  is  my  witness)  about  my 
said  father's  lands,  in  ho[)e  of  some  share  thereof. — be  alsoe  putt  downe 
aud  expressed  in  the  said  inventory  and  sued  for,  being  a  most  due  debto 
unto  mee. 

Never  the  lesse,  my  meaninge  is,  how  that  after  the  said  inventory 
be  made,  I  would  have  all  my  said  goodes  and  chattels,  or  the  true 
value  of  them,  to  rcmayne  and  abyde  still  in  my  said  wyeffe's  haniles, 
and  shee  to  have  tlie  custodie  and  use  of  them  together  with  the  tuicion 
of  my  said  sonue  Thomas  Whitmore  until  hee  come  to  the  age  of  "21 
yeares,  yf  she  keep  hir  selfe  widdow  after  my  decease  so  longe. 

But  if  she  shall  happen  to  be  marieu  in  the  meane  season  (as  shee 
may  doe,  many  women  beinge  of  such  maddinge  and  light  wittcd 
myndes)  then  I  would  desier  the  right  worshipfuU  Mr.  Ralph  Sueyd 
and  his  worshipfuU  son  ]N[r.  William  Sueyd,  or  the  one  of  thetn,  even 
for  Godes  sake  as  to  right  and  eade  my  said  sonne  Thomas  Whitmore 
with  soe  much  worshi{)full  pittie  as  to  revenge  and  cleare  him  forth  of 
his  mother's  hands  and  hir  husband's  whomesoever,  and  to  take  the 
tuicion  of  him  and  of  his  landes  and  goodes  till  he  come  forth  of  mi- 
noritie  and  nonage  ;  and  also  to  take  him  into  theire  worshipful!  service  ; 
trustinge  in  God  that  hee  will  be  no  lesse  willinge  and  redie  to  doe 
theire  worships  the  best  service  hee  shal  be  able  at  all  tymes  duringe 
his  lyfe,  than  his  grandfather,  oW  Thomas  JF7uV/«ore,  did  in  tyme  passed, 
whoe  was  a  true  and  trustie  servitor  and  faithful!  wel  wisher  unto  the 
right  worshipful!  bowse  of  Bradwall,  noe  fewer  yeires  than  35  together 
before  lie  dyed. 


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WinTIMORES    OF   MADELEY.  15 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  subscribed  my  nnme  to  this  present 
wryttinge  with  ray  owue  hand,  the  daie  and  yeire  tirst  above  wrytten." 

"Witnesses,  Robert  Brooke,  Thomas  Malpas,  Humphrey  Bechson. 

[Proved  9  Dec,  1G14,  by  widow  Alice,  power  reserved  to  son 
Thomas.  Inventory,  dated  7  Feb.  1613-14,  calls  him  "Peter  Whit- 
more  of  parish  of  jMadeley,  co.  Stafibrd,  gent."     Total,  £2G:  10:  8.] 

[Note. — Rev.  Peter  "Wliitmore  was  matriculated  at  Balliol  Coll., 
Oxford,  IG  Oct.,  1-381.  He  is  described  as  of  Statibrdshire,  a  gentle- 
man's son,  and  aged  18.  He  compounded  for  first  fruits  29  April, 
1589  (31  Eliz.),  for  Orston,  CO.  Notts.] 


We  now  proceed  to  tlie  next  generation,  the  grandchildren  of 
"old  "  Thomas  Whilmorc,  viz.,  Franci.'?,  son  of  Rev.  Francis,  and 
Thomas,  Emmanuel  <tc.,  children  of  Rev.  Peter. 

Of  Francis  Wiiitmore  we  can  say  with  certainty  that  he 
broQglit  suit  against  his  uncle  Peter  in  1606,  when  he  must  have 
been  of  age.  In  1614,  he  is  styled  gentleman  of  London,  in  a 
fine,  recorded  in  the  deeds  of  Earl  Manvers  at  Ollerton,  co. 
Notts.  The  parties  are  Sir  John  Byron,  the  younger,  Kn't  of 
Newstead,  co.  Notts  ;  Thos.  Cludde,  Esq.,  of  Arnolds,  co.  Notts  ; 
Peter  Bronghton,  gent.,  of  London;  Thomas  Danby,  of  South 
Cave,  CO.  York;  and  Francis  Whitmore,  geut.,  of  London,  pl'lfs., 
and  Gilbert  Roos,  son  and  heir  of  Peter  Roos,  Esq.,  of  Laxton, 
CO.  Notts,  deforcant.  So  also  in  another  indenture  of  20  April, 
1014,  in  the  same  depository.  Again  in  another  deed  3  Feb., 
1618-9,  and  another  dated  two  days  later. 

I  can  find  no  trace  of  him  in  Loudon,  unless  he  was  the  wit- 
uess,  in  1624,  to  the  will  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Egerton,  of  London,  a 
matter  hereinafter  discussed. 

He  undoubtedly  was  the  man  wliose  will  is  recorded  in  Act 

Book  of  Newark  Peculiar,  as  copied  by  Col.  Chester,  and  is  as 

follows : 

Will  No.  9. 

Francis  Wnix.MORE,  of  Laxton,  co.  Notts,  gent.  Will  dated  26 
Jan.  ICI-i-y,  proved  by  relict  Joanna,  8  May,  1619.     After  debts,  &c. 


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paid,  to  sister  Anne  F;irrei\  £10  ;  to  my  nepliew  Eobert  Fiirrer  if  he 
be  in  England  and  living  at  mj  decease,  403.;  to  ray  nephews.  John, 
William,  Francis,  Thomas  and  George  Farrar  each  40s.;  to  mv  late 
servant  Charles  Musson  of  Bilstrop,  co.  Notts,  40s.  Appoint  Johane 
my  now  wife,  sole  execntor,  and  said  Charles  Musson  overseer. 

Witnesses,  Edw'^  Kelsterne,  John  Roos,  Edw*^  Betney,  Charles 
Mussone. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  tin's  Francis  Whitmoro,  of  Laxton 
was  the  son  of  Rev.  Francis,  the  person  who  inherited  lands  there 
from  his  grandmother  Iloos.  Tlie  phrase  "  my  now  wile  "  may 
indicate  that  she  was  a  second  wife,  thouj^h  it  does  not  prove  it. 
He  mentions  no  children,  l.iiit  I  am  still  of  opinion  that  ho  was 
the  fatlier  of  Francis  Whitmore,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  who  was 
born  in  1G25. 

Of  the  children  of  the  Rev.  Peter  Whitmore  in  the  next  gene- 
ration, little  is  yet  known.  Emmanuel  and  Thomas  have  not 
been  traced,  though  one  of  them  evidently  married  and  left  issue ; 
and  it  is  undoubtedly  the  widow  of  one  of  them  whose  nuncu- 
pative will  is  here  given  from  the  Lichfield  Registry  by  ]\Ir. 
Chester.  It  is  clear  that  either  Thomas  or  Emmanuel  had 
issue,  from  their  sister  Margaret's  will  (Xo.  11). 

WUl  Xo.  10. 

Anne  Whitmore  of  Gravenhanger,  co.  Salop  (a  parish  close  by 
Madeley),  widow.  Nuncupative  will  made  in  July,  1 G59.  To  my 
son  Peter  and  daughter  Jane  each  12d.,  residue  to  my  son  Thomas, 
and  appoint  him  executor,     lie  proved  the  will  March  Gth,  lGG2-o. 

'/■;:  No  ), 
Margaret  Whitmore,  daugliter  of  Rev.  Peter,  undoubtedly 
never  married.     Her  will,  copied   by  Mr.  Chester,  is  preserved 
at  the  Prerogative  Court,  Loudon  (Laud,  15U).     I  give  the  fol- 
lowing abstract : — 

Will  No.  11. 

(Land,  150.)  Margaret  WniT.MORE,  of  Madeley,  co.  Stafford, 
spinster,  "aged  and  weak,"  dated  Aug.  10  and  proved  Nov.  u,  1GG2. 


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wiiiTMOKES  OF  :madeley.  17 

To  be  buried  in  tlie  parish  church  of  IMaleley  with  my  ancestors.  To 
my  uephew  Peter  Wliitmore  of  Barhill,  j^ar.  Mudeley,  co.  ScalK  Gent., 
what  he  owes  me  and  £GG:lo:l:  for  the  sole  use  of  Tliomas  Whitmore 
his  son,  to  be  put  to  liis  usG  and  paid  hiui  when  21  or  married.  To 
poor  of  Madeley  £20.  To  my  ncpliew  Thomas  Whitmore  of  Onnelej', 
Slid  parish  of  Madeley,  £200,  residue  to  said  Peter  and  Tliomas,  my 
nephews,  and  appoint  them  executors  (they  proved).  Overseers, 
"William  Sneade.  of  Kcele,  co.  Starf.,  Esq.,  and  Edward  Maiuwaring  of 
Whitmore,  co.  Statf.,  Esq. 

In  the  foUowini^  i^cneration,  we  have  the  will  of  Peter  Whitmore 
of  Barrhill  iu  Madeley,  evidently  grandson  of  Rqv.  Peter  W. 

Will  No.  12. 
[Copied  from  Lichiield  Rci^nstry  by  ^Mr.  Someuby.] 
Wdl  of  Peter  Whitmore  of  Carr-llill  in  Madeley,  dated  Feb.  28, 
16G2-3,  proved  28  April,  IGG'3.  Desires  to  be  buried  in  the  church- 
yard near  his  mother,  and  where  his  ancestors  were  buried.  Son 
Thomas,  not  18  ;  youngest  daughter  Anne  ;  eldest  daughter  Mary,  not 
21;  wife  Susanna;  brother  Thomas.  Mentions  his  goods  at  Ouueley 
in  the  custody  of  his  brother  Tliomas.  Appoints  his  wife,  Geor"-e 
Audley  of  Audley,  his  uncle,  and  William  ilinton,  of  Ridgwardine  in 
the  parish  of  Breuton,  his  brother-in-law,  executors,  and  his  brother 
Thomas,  overseer. 


FoUowin'^  down,  we  pi'esunie  that  this  Thomas,  great-grandson 
of  Rev.  Peter,  is  the  one  meant  in  the  following  instrument, 
copied  at  Lichiield  by  Col.  Chester.  ,.:  ,  ;    '  ..    ,- 

^^■M  i:r.--  .' ;'ii  *  .^' •-'       WiUNo.13.         "'*'''     ■'■■   ^''''"^'^ 

Anne  Whitmore  of  Madeley.  co.  StatF.  Administration  31  March, 
1G82,  to  her  husband  Thomas  Whitmore.  yeoman.  Bond  by  him  and 
Ralph  Ilenshaw,  of  same  place,  gent. 

At  this  point,  we  lose  of  the  Whitmores  of  Madeley,  co.  Staff. 

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WIIITMORES    OF   MADELET. 


To  tabulate  our  information,  it  stands — 


— Thomas 

11 

— William 
d.  s.p. 

— Francis, 

of  Liixtoa, 

d.  1049. 

^-.:         ^ 

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Joan  Roos 
d. . 

Thomas 
d.l574. 

— Richard 
d.s.p. 

— Rev.  Francis. — 

— Thomas. 

—  Peter 

—     Thomas, 
living  in  l'.S2 

11 
Susannah 
He  d.  16G3. 

. 

— Humphrey. 

—Rev.  Peter 

—Emmanuel. 

— Mary. 

Alice. 

— ^Thomas, 
of  Onnelev. 

— Anne. 

I  presume  that  offahoots  still  remain,  but  it  would  be  hard 
work  to  complete  the  evidence,  especially  as  tliere  were  other 
families  of  the  name  in  Stailordshire.  Hereafter,  I  may  try  to 
do  so,  but  at  present  my  intcresc  lies  ia  traciuj:^  the  issue,  if  any, 
of  Francis  Whitmore,  who  died  at  Laxton  in  1649.  I  refer  my 
readers  to  my  pamphlet  on  the  oriirin  of  the  name  of  the  town 
of  Lexington,  Mass.,  as  triving  the  reasons  for  my  belief  that  this 
Francis  was  the  father  of  my  ancestor,  Francis  Whitmore,  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.  ,  ^..^     \  , 


[Probable  issue  of  Humphrey,  brother  of  "  old  "  Thomas  Whitmore.] 
Before  giving  the  documents  relating  to  the  suit  of  Francis 
Whitmore  with  his  uncle  Peter,  I  wi^b  to  trace  one  line  of  this 
and  Madeley  family. 

Humphrey  Whitmore  was  the  youngest  son  of  Thomas,  who 
died  in  1574,  and  brother  of ''old"  Thomas  (who  m.  Joan  Roos) 
and  Richard ;  this  is  shown  by  wills  Nos.  4  and  5  anlc. 

Now  in  1G03,  Richard  Whitmore  divides  his  property  between 
his  brothers  Thomas  and  Humpiirey,  and  makes  bequests  to 
Margaret,  Ellen,  William,  Rol)crt,  Anne,  Dorothy,  Elizabeth,  and 
Egerton  Whitmore.     Who  were  these  ?     Clearly  not  all  of  them 


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were  Thomas's  chiklren  w4io  had  William,  Francis,  Peter ;  nor 
the  children  of  these,  as  Peter's  issue  were  Thomas,  Emmanuel, 
Margaret  and  Jaue.  Moreover,  Thomas's  son  William  was  dead, 
and  Francis  had  left  ouly  Francis  and  Anne.  Clearly,  then,  out 
of  the  eight  persons  named,  only  Margaret  and  Anne  could  be 
the  grandchildren  of  "  old  "  Thomas,  and  the  other  six,  Ellen, 
William,  Robert,  Dorothy,  Elizabeth  anl  Egcrtou  must  belong 
elsewhere.  '•  Old  "  Thomas  tnaij  have  had  daughters,  though  his 
will  mentions  none ;  but  clearly  the  men,  William,  Robert  and 
Egcrton,  were  not  his  sons. 

I  therefore  surmise  that  these  sons,  as  well  as  three  if  not  live 
of  the  dauglitcrs,  are  to  be  given  to  Humphrey. 

At  all  events  as  the  Christian  name  Egcrtou  is  so  unusual,  I 
will  give  the  notes  I  have  collected  about  an  Egerton  Whitmore. 

Col.  Chester  found,  from  the  Binding  books  of  tlie  Cloth- 
workers'  company  at  London,  that,  5  Aug.  1G31,  William,  son  of 
Egerton  Whitmore  of  Adtrupp,  co.  Northampton,  carpenter,  was 
apprenticed  to  William  Cole.  Also,  he  found  that,  Oct.  19, 
1631,  Egerton  Whitmore,  of  Hoxton  fields,  was  buried  at  St. 
Leonard's,  Shorcdit^h,  London.  Evidently  the  father  came  up 
to  London  to  apprentice  his  son  William,  and  died  there  two 
months  later.  This  Adtrupp,  as  I  learned  from  the  Life  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Shcpard  of  Cambridge,  ilass.,  was  then  so  called, 
and  was  near  Fossecut.  It  is  now  called  Abthorpe,  and  is  iu 
the  south-western  part  of  Northamptonshire.  The  registers 
there  reach  back  to  1583,  and  the  following  entries  occur  therein : 

1628,  Egerton  Whitmore  and  iMargaret  Corkbold  married  Jan.  24th. 

1658,  Widdow  Witmore  dyed  Sept.  19th. 

162-1,  John  Corkbold,  minister,  was  buried  June  18th. 

As  apprentices  were  usually  bound  at  the  age  of  14  years, 
Egerton's  son  William  was  doubtless  born  in  1617.  We  may 
therefore  assume  that  Margaret  Corkbold  was  a  second  wife, 
and  very  probably  she  was  the  widow  of  John  Corkbold. 

1639-40.  Feb.  18.  Egerton  Whitmore,  of  Stepney,  co. 
Middlesex,  carpenter,  a  bachelor  aged  about  29,  and  Catherine 


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Ridges  of  same  parish,  widow,  ageci  about  4.5,  had  license  to 
marry  at  St.  Faith's.     Evidently  a  son  of  the  first  Egerton. 

It  is  possible  that  to  this  flimily  also  belongs  the  Francis 
"Whitmoee  of  St.  Dunstan's  in  the  west,  London,  yeoman,  l»ache- 
lor,  aged  35,  who  had  license  Jan.  6th,  1G39-40  (some  six 
weeks  before  Egerton,  jr.),  to  marry  Grace  Kidd,  of  St.  Clem- 
ent's Danes,  London,  widow,  aged  about  33  years,  at  St.  Mary 
Magdalen,  Old  Fish  St.,  but  who  was  not  married  there. 

Also  we  may  add  that  at"  St.  Leonard's  Shoreditch,  where 
Egerton  Sen.  was  buried,  there  had  been  buried  six  years  betore, 
viz.,  Sept.  8,  1G25,  H//mp/n-e>j  W/iitmore,  of  Halliwell  St.  lie 
was  very  probably  the  Uuinphrcy  W.  made  free  20  Apr.  1599, 
by  John  Thomas,  haberdasher,  who  had  a  daughter  bapt.  15 
March,  1607,  at  St.  Lawrence  Jewry,  and  who  probably  m. 
Sarah  Barker  1  April,  1605,  at  St.  Olave's,  Silver  St. 

There  was  also  Robert  Wiiitmore,  of  Stepney,  planter  in  Vir- 
ginia, aged  30,  who  was  married  28  April,  1634,  at  St.  Dun- 
stan's, Stepney,  to  Elizabeth  Ayres.  dau.  of  Christian  Ayrcs  alias 
Greene  of  that  parish. 

From  all  these  facts,  we  can  make  up  a  conjectural  pedigree 
as  follows: —  ■■       ■  i  •■  <  -,  i'.>. 

1.  Humphrey,  brother  of  "  old"  Thomas,  had  : 

i.     Humphrey,  haberdasher,  of  London.  . 

ii.    Egerton,  of  Abthorpe. 

iii.  Robert.  ' 

iv.  William. 

2.  Egerton,  of  Abthorpe,  had  ,,    ,       , 

i.     Robert,  of  Stepney,  b.  1 G04.         ,c  ;  ,,    ,..  i,   ,,       ,j 

ii.  jFranc/s,  of  London,  b.  1G05, 
iii.  Egerton,  of  Stepney,  b.  16U». 
iv.  William,  certainly,  b.  1G17. 

Here  is  a  Francis  of  London,  but  evidently  not  the  Laxton 
man,  nor  the  emigrant,  nor  the  father  of  the  emigrant.  I  have 
already,  in  Tract  No.  2,  shown  that  there  was  also  a  Francis 
Whitmorc  of  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster,  1643-1664,  not  to  be 
confounded  with  the  others,  and  not  the  emigrant. 


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■;■/  WHITMORES    OF   ilADELET.  21 

Col.  Chester  has  searched  for  me  the  records  of  116  parish 
churches  in  London,  beinir  all  which  have  records  of  the  dates 
1620-1G30.  He  has  found  no  new  facts,  and  we  must  presume 
the  Laxton  Francis  mai-ried  and  resided  mainly  out  of  London, 
unless,  indeed,  he  lived  in  a  parish  whose  records  were  destroyed 
in  the  Great  Fire,  or  otherwise. 


I  will  now  proceed  to  irive  the  papers  in  the  suit  hetwcen 
Francis  Whituiore,  of  Laxton  and  London,  and  ins  uncle,  Rev. 
Peter  Whitmore,  of  Madeley. 

4"'  February,  IGOo.  CnANCEur  Bills  &,  Axswkrs. 

'•   '  James  L — W.  22 — No.  17. 

1605-G.  To  the  Right  Honorable  the  Lord  Ellesnicrre, 

Lord  Chauncello''  of  Englund. 

In  most  humble  wise  complayning,  Sheweth  unto  your  Ilono"^  your 
poor  and  dayly  Orato^  Frauncis  Wlikinore,  Gentlemau,  That  whereas 
TTiomas  Wldtinore,  Gentleman,  deceased,  Graundfather  to  your  Orator, 
was  in  his  lifetyme  lawfuUie  seized  in  his  demea.siie  as  of  fee,  of  and  iu 
dyvers  messuages  land?  and  tenements  in  the  County  of  Stafford  to  the 
value  of  fowrescore  pounds  by  yeare  or  thereabouts,  lie  the  said  Thomas 
Whitmore  having  issue  three  sonnes,  William  his  eldest  sonne,  Frai(/uis, 
father  to  your  Orator  his  second  sonne,  and  Petei-  his  third  and 
youngest  sonne.  And  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  being  of  the  premisses 
so  seissed  as  aforesaid,  and  being  iu  want  and  having  occasion  to  use 
money,  did  for  the  consideration  of  a  certayne  somme  of  lawful  English 
money,  mor'gage  diverse  [I'ceUs  of  his  said  Lauds  to  divers  persons  and 
their  heires,  with  Clause  of  redemption  to  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore 
his  heires  and  assignes,  by  the  payment  of  a  certain  somme  of  money 
at  a  day  certeyne.  Att  which  daie  noe  payment  thereof  was  made  or 
tendred,  soe  that  in  extremetie  of  Lawe  tlie  said  Lands  were  to  the 
Morgagees  and  their  heires.  But  the  said  Frauncis  Whitmore,  your 
Orato"  father,  being  a  learned  Minister  and  Preacher,  and  being  of 
good  estate,  and  havinge  a  desiie  to  relieve  his  fatliers  wants  and  to 
yeald  maintenaunce  to  his  brotliers  and  sisters.  Did  foorth  of  iiis  estate 
and  liveinge  and  partly  by  the  heipe  of  liis  brother,  WiUiam  Whitmore, 


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22  "WHITMOriES    OF   rviADELEY. 

at  the  request  of  tlie  said  Thomas  W'liitmore  liis  father,  agree  with  the 
Morgagees  of  his  said  Father's  Laiuls.  for  the  consideration  of  a  great 
somtne  of  money  paid  to  them,  that  they  tlie  said  Morgagees  should  for 
the  said  consideration  reassure  tlie  said  Lands  so  formerly  morgnged 
and  forfeyted  hy  the  said  Thomas  Wliitmore  to  the  said  William  Whit- 
more  and  to  the  hcires  males  of  his  bodie:  and  for  want  of  such  issue 
to  the  said  Fraunris  Wliitmore,  your  Orato"  said  father,  and  to  the 
beires  or  heires  males  of  his  hodie  :  or  for  some  other  estate  of  iidieri- 
tance.  And  the  said  Thomas  Whitnure  did  agree  to  make,  and  did  for 
the  consideration  of  a  groat  somme  of  money  payd  to  him  by  the  said 
William  Whitmore  make,  execute  and  convey,  by  good  and  lawful!  con- 
veyances in  the  lawe.  the  residew  of  his  messuages.  Lands  and  tene- 
ments to  the  said  W/lliam  Wliitmore.  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his 
bodie ;  with  the  remaynder  to  the  said  Frauncis,  your  Orator's  said 
father,  and  to  the  heires  or  heire  male  of  his  bodie,  or  for  some  other 
estate  of  iidieritance ;  res(>rving  an  estate  thereunto  himself  for  his 
owne  life.  And  for  that  the  said  WlUiam  "Whitmore  should  sutler  his 
said  father  to  occupy  and  enjoy  the  said  Landes  soe  redeemed  as  afore- 
said, Tenaunt  at  Will  during  life  :  the  said  Frauncis  your  Orator's 
said  Father  was  contented  that  where  the  Parsonage  of  Kerkhie  in  the 
Countye  of  Yorke,  whereof  he  was  then  Incumbent  and  was  worth 
One  hundred  and  twentie  pounds  by  year,  that  he  the  said  T^  illiatn 
Whitmore,  his  brother,  shoidd  be  Fermor  thereof,  paying  Twentie 
pounds  by  yeare,  of  w*^''  Tu  entie  pomides  the  said  William  Whitmove 
did  not  paie  any  part  thereof.  Uesyik'S  that  the  said  Frauncis  Whit- 
more did  give  unto  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore,  greate  sommes  of 
money,  to  stocke  his  grounde,  and  did  maintaine  his  younger  brother 
Peter  Whitmore  at  the  Uiuversitie,  and  when  he  came  from  the  Uni- 
versity, at  his  house,  and  the  said  Pefer  maryinge  a  wife  without  the 
consent  of  his  brother  and  parents,  who  ought  to  have  been  privie 
thereunto,  and  especiallie  his  brotiie-r  frauncis  haveinge  beene  at  so 
much  chardges  as  he  was,  for  his  maintenance.  Yet.  notwithstandinge, 
he  the  said  Frauncis  Whitmore  out  o>t  bis  brotherlie  love  to  the  said 
Peter,  still  continued  his  kindnes  to  luira,  the  said  Peter,  and  did  from 
tyme  to  tyme  relieve  and  maintane  the  siid  Peter  Whitmore,  his  wife 
and  childrenn,  and  procured  him  to  be  a  iEinister,  and  provided  him  of 
a  Benefice  worth  Fyftie  pounds  by  yeare:  the  said  Peter  being  a  pro- 
digall  follow,  and  spent  so  much  that  his  Benefice  would  not  maintane 
his  wife  and  children,  and  the  ?A\i\  Frannri's  Whitmore  notwithstanding 
his  former  chardges,  and  the  smalluea  of  his  Living,  considering  what 


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WHITMORES    OF    MADELEY.  23 

did  goe  foorth  to  lii.s  lirother  WilUcun  Wliitmorc,  the  dobtts  that  he  did 
growe  into  l»y  the  relieviiifre  of  his  father,  and  the  former  muiiitciiauce 
of  his  Brother  Petci\  yet  did  still  contiuue  the  maiuteiiance  of  his  said 
brother  Peter,  his  wife  and  children,  either  in  his  own  liowse,  or  with 
sendinge  provisions  to  the  howse  of  the  said  Peter  ;  all  w''  chardges 
grevve  so  great,  that  the  saitl  Frauncls  Whitiiiore,  father  to  your  Ilono" 
Oruto""  had  litie  to  his  children,  lieinixe  very  younLje,  and  not  lonij;  after 
the  said  Franncls  ^\'llitnlore  dyed  ;  by  means  whereof  all  the  said  Par- 
sonage of  Kerkbie,  w'ch  the  said  William  Whitmore  held  us  Fermor 
to  him,  the  said  Frauncis,  and  all  other  the  livinge  of  the  said  Frauiicis 
Whitmore,  became  voytl;  and  by  reason  of  his  former  charges,  litle  left 
to  preserve  his  childrenn.  The  said  Frauiicis  ^Vhitmore  being  the 
boulder  to  dispose  his  livinge  to  the  maintenance  of  his  t;ithcr  brothers 
and  sisters,  in  hope  that  his  fathers  lands  might  in  tyme  descend  to 
his  Sonne,  his  elder  brother  havinge  a  wife  of  such  yeares  that  there 
was  no  possibilitie  of  issue.  And  not  loiige  after,  the  sai<l  Williitm 
Whitmore,  elder  brother  to  the  said  Frainicis,i\yiii\  without  issue  of  his 
bodie;  by  and  after  whose  death,  the  said  messuages,  lands  and 
premisses,  did  remaine,  and  come  as  ot  I'ight  the  same  ought  to  come, 
to  your  Orato""  in  fee  simple  or  fee  tayle  generall,  or  speciall  as  sonno 
anil  next  heire  of  Fraancis  Whitmore,  l)y  force  of  the  limitation  and 
conveyance  aforesaid.  IJut  so  it  is.  If  it  may  please  your  irood  Lord- 
ship, that  the  said  Peter  Whitmore  after  the  decease  of  Ina  said  two 
brothers,  nothinge  regardinge  nor  respecting  the  kindred  nor  boimtie 
of  his  late  brother  Fi-uuacis  Whitmore,  bestowed  U[)[)on  him,  his  father 
and  brother,  William  Whitmore,  but  uppon  a  covetous  and  ungi-atefull 
miade  when  his  brothers  Frauncis  Whitmore  and  William  Whitmore 
were  dead,  did  under  the  colour  of  friendshi[)p  and  love  to  vour  Honu" 
Orator,  who  was  sonne  and  heire  of  Fraiuiris  Whitmore,  brother  and 
heire  to  William  Whitmore,  send  a  man  to  the  Bishopprick  of  Durham 
where  the  said  William  Whitmore  dyed,  and  where  the  conveyances 
writings,  and  evidences,  concerning  the  said  messuages,  lands  &  tene- 
ments in  the  said  County  of  Statibixl,  of  right  belonging  to  vo"'  Orato' 
and  which  prove  yo'  Orato"  title  in  &  to  the  premises  remavned,  re- 
quiring to  have  them  delivered  to  the  use  of  the  said  Frauncis  Whit- 
more, yo'  Ilono"  Orato'  which  were  delivered  accordinglie.  The  said 
Peter  Whitmore,  consultinge  and  conspiring  with  Alice  his  wife,  how 
they  might  attain  and  gett  the  said  Lands  of  the  said  T/iomas  Whitmoi  e 
to  them  and  their  heires,  and  knowinije  well  that  so  long  as  the  said 
writings,  evidences  and  conveyances,  which  were  iu  the  custod)'  of  the 


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J  said  William  Whitmore  ^ere  to  be  :<liewe<l,  it  woukl  appear  tl'-at  the 
\  said  Thomas  Whitinore  had  uoe  such  estate  \\lierebv  hee  would  make 
•  anie  estate  of  inheritance  unto  the  said  Pder  Vv'hitmore  and  his  heirs, 
j  or  anie  other  estate  but  (uu'ing  his  lite  oniy.  And  thereupon  the  said 
!  Peter  and  his  wife  did  a^ree  to  break  open  the  chest  of  the  said  ilau 
I  which  brought  the  said  wi-itin^^s,  evidences,  &  conveyances  from  Dur- 
I  hara  aforesaid;  and  did  break  open  the  same  chest  and  possessed  tliLiu- 
I  selves  of  all  the  said  u'ritiu'^^s,  conveyances,  and  evidences,  well  knowini^ 
{  the  same  of  ri;:^ht  belong  to  your  said  Orator,  and  did  prove  your  Ora- 
I  tors  title  to  the  premises.  Ai'ter  the  said  Peter  in  the  minoritie  of 
[  your  0^ato^  did  practise  liow  he  miijht  inveigle  the  oidd  man,  his  father 
■j  Thomas  Whitmore.  being  a  man  oi  ihmv^xi  oifoure  score  yeares  at  least, 
\  and  by  reason  of  ould  a^'^e  easily  seduceil,  and  the  said  Peter  did  by 
i  untrue  and  false  reports  of  the  said  Frmuicis  "WHiitmore  being  dead, 
I  from  whom  his  fither,  brothers  and  sisters,  had  received  so  many  bene- 
j  iitts  and  the  estate  of  your  said  Orato''  father  was  thereby  so  much 
I  impoverished,  that  it  was  not  able  neyther  in  his  lifetyme  nor  at  after 
■  his  death,  to  leave  wherewith  to  pserve  his  childrenn;  and  in  the  end 
1  the  said  Peter  prevailed  so  much  with  the  old  man,  his  father,  as  he 
f  the  said  Peter  got  a  conveyance  from  his  said  father,  of  all  his  mts- 
j  suages,  lands,  and  tenements,  witliin  the  llealm  of  England  to  him  and 
'  his  heires,  to  the  disinheritinge  of  yo''  Hono"  Orator,  and  contrarie  to 
I  that  bond  of  lov'e  and  dowtie  tliat  he  di<l  owe  to  his  kinde  and  liberall 
I  brother  Fraancis  Wliitmore,  your  Oraf''  deceased  father.  And  after 
j  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  about  six  moneths  lost  past,  dxed.  And  the 
I  said  Peter  Whitmore,  by  collo''  of  the  said  c<:>nveyance  made  by  the  said 
i  Thomas  AVhitmore.  the  father,  entered  into  all  the  said  messuages  and 
i  lands,  and  taketh  the  issues  and  proHtts  thereof  to  his  owne  proper  use 
j  and  hath  in  his  custodie  all  the  evidences,  writings,  escripts  and  myni- 
meuts  touching  and  concerning  the  premisses.  And  although  your 
Hono"  Orato''  Fruiincis  Whitmore  be  the  next  heire  to  the  said  lltomas 
"Whitmore.  that  is  to  say  Sonne  and  h*ire  of  Frauncis  Whitmore, 
brother  &  heir  of  WiW"  Whitmore,  sonne  :ind  heire  of  the  said  Thomas 
Whitmore,  and  be  also  next  in  remainder  according  to  the  forme  of  the 
guyft  in  tayle,  before  mentioned.  And  Ahhough  your  Orato'  hath 
divers  and  sundrie  tymes,  in  gentle  and  friecdtie  manner,  re(iuested  the 
said  Peter  Whitmore  to  suffer  him  your  hono"  Orato"  quietly  to  occupie 
and  enjoy  the  said  Messuages,  Lands  and  Teoements,  to  him  lawfullie 
descended,  remayned,  or  coinen  from  I'hoinm  Whitmore  his  graund- 
father,  and  William  Whitmore  his  uncle,  whose  heire  he  is,  and  to  per- 


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WHITMORES    or    3IADELEY.  25 

mitt  your  Orator  to  take  the  issues  and  profitts  thereof,  according  to 
his  right  and  title  therein,  and  to  deliver  unto  your  Orato'  all  the  said 
Evidences,  writtings,  escript=;.  and  myniments,  which  concern  the  same, 
which  to  do  the  said  Peter  Whicmore  refuseth  and  denyeth,  the  con- 
trarie  to  all  right,  equitie,  and  good  conscience.  iMay  it  therefore 
please  your  good  Lordshipp  that  forasmuch  as  your  Honors  Orator  is 
altogether  remedieless  in  the  premises,  by  the  strict  course  of  the  Com- 
mon Law  of  this  Realme,  and  yet  in  all  equitie  and  good  conscience 
ought  to  be  relieved  therein,  to  graunt  unto  yo'  Orato''  his  ^Majesties 
most  gracious  "Writt  of  Subpena,  to  be  directed  to  the  said  Peter  Whit- 
more  and  Alice  his  witTe,  commaunding  them  and  eyther  of  them 
thereby  att  a  certayne  day  and  under  a  certeyne  payne,  tlierein  to  bee 
lymitted,  personallie  to  appear  before  your  good  Lordshipp  in  the 
High  Courte  of  Chauncerie,  thou  and  there  to  answere  the  premises, 
and  to  abyde  such  further  order  therein  as  to  your  good  Lordshipp 
shall  seem  fitt. 

And  your  poore  Orator  as  his  bounden  dowtie  bindeth 
him,  will  daylie  pray  for  your  Lordshipp  in  health  and 
happiness  longe  to  continewe. 

Ph.  Gekaed. 


The    Jointe    and    Sev'all  Answercs  of  Peter 
,,  Whitmore,   Clarke,    and   Alice    his    wyffe, 

Defend''  to  the  Byll  of  Compl'  of  Frauncis 
~  Whit.aiore,  Complaynante. 

The  said  Defend*^'  (saveinge  to  them  now  and  att  all  tymes  hereafter 
the  benefitte  of  exception  to  the  uuc'taynetye  and  insutficiencie  of  the 
said  Bill  of  compl')  Sale,  and  either  of  iheym  sayth,  in  manner  and 
forme  foUowintre.  And  firstlie  the  said  Peter  Whitmore  for  himself 
sayth,  that  the  said  I7iO>iias  Whitmore  named  in  the  sayd  Byll  (father 
of  this  defend')  was  in  his  lyffe  tyme  lawfuUye  seized  in  his  demesne 
as  of  fee,  or  fee  tayle,  of  and  in  dy  vers  messuages,  Lands,  tenem"  and 
heredytam'",  in  the  county  of  Statlbrd,  at  the  yeerely  valewe  of  forty 
markes  or  thereabouts  (as  this  defend'  taketh  yt)  being  the  Lands 
tenem"  and  heradyam"  ment  by  the  s**  Byll  as  this  defend'  thinketh ; 
and  had  yssew  the  said  Will^  Whitmore  also  named  in  the  said  Byll 
his  eldest  sonne,  and  the  said  Frauncis  Whitmore  (named  also  in  che 
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26  AVHITilOrtES    OF    :\LV1>ELEY. 

said  Byll),  fotlier  of  the  compP  bis  second  sonne,  and  this  defend'  his 
theird  and  youngest  sonue.  And  he  houldeth  the  saide  comp'*  to  bee 
heire  to  the  said  Thomas  att  the  Comon  Lawe,  vid'l't,  sonne  and  beire 
to  the  said  Frauncis  his  fatlier,  who  was  brother  to  the  said  TIV//'" 
who  was  eldest  sonue  of  tlie  said  T/tomas,  as  aforesaid.  And  this 
defend'  also  sajth,  that  yt  is  true  that  the  said  JI7/^'"  dyed  w"'  out 
yssewe*,  and  that  the  said  Fraioicis.  the  father  afterwards  also  dyed. 
But  this  defend'  furtiier  sayth  ih'it  the  said  TJiomas  Whitmore,  soe 
beinge  seized  as  aforesaid,  he,  the  said  lliomas  AVhitmorc,  in  or  abonte 
the  one  and  furtyth  yeero  of  the  reigne  of  our  late  Sovereigne  Ladye 
Queene  Elizabeth,  for  the  natural  love  and  affection  wch  bee  dyd 
beare  to  this  defend'  and  to  lliomos  Yriiitmore  and  Emamiell  "Whit- 
more, Sonnes  of  this  defend',  being  then  and  att  this  p'sent  both 
Infants,  and  for  other  good  considerations  him  moveinge,  did.  as  well 
by  fyne  in  dewe  forme  of  Lawe  Levyed,  as  by  other  good  and  su!li- 
cient  assurance  and  conveyance  in  the  Lawe,  sufficientlie  assure  and 
convey  all  the  said  Lands,  Tenem",  and  hereydtam''  to  this  defend'  and 
his  heirs  for  ever,  to  the  uses  hereafter  expressed :  that  ys  to  sale,  To 
the  use  of  him  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore,  the  father,  for  the  termc  of 
bis  natural  lytFe  w'''out  impeachment  of  waste,  and  after  his  disceaze  to 
the  use  of  him,  this  defend',  for  the  terme  of  his  naturall  lyffe  without 
impeachm'  of  waste,  and  after  his  disceaze  To  the  use  of  the  said 
Thomas  Whitmore  the  soune,  and  of  the  heires  males  of  his  body 
begotten,  and  for  defixult  of  such  heires,  To  the  use  of  the  said 
Emanuell  Whitmore,  and  of  the  heires  males  of  his  bodye  begotten, 
and  for  default  of  such  heires  To  the  use  of  the  heires  males  of  the 
bodye  of  this  defend',  and  for  default  of  such  heires  to  the  use  of  the 
heires  males  of  the  bodye  of  the  said  Thomas  the  father,  and  for 
defaulte  of  suche  heires  to  the  use  of  the  right  heires  of  the  said 
Thomas,  the  father,  for  ever.  And  moreover  the  said  Thornas,  the 
father,  by  the  said  Fyne  or  other  conveyance,  did  for  him  and  his 
heires  warrante  the  said  premises  to  this  defend'  and  his  heires  against 
all  men,  as  by  the  said  fyne  and  conveyance  may  more  playnely  ap- 
pear ;  by  force  whereof  and  of  the  Statute  made  for  transferring  of 
uses  into  possession,  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  the  father  was  of  the 
said  p'misses  seized  in  his  demesne  as  of  freeholde,  for  the  terme  of  his 
naturall  lyffe,  w"'  remainder  over  as  aforesaid  accordingly.  And  the 
said  Thomas  Whitmore,  the  father,  being  soe  seized,  hee  the  sayd 
Thomas  Whitmore  afterw**',  that  ys  to  saye  aboute  the  tyme  mentyoned 
in  the  sayd  Bill,  dyed  soe  seized,  by  and  after  whose  death  this  defend' 


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V^  WniTilORES    OF    MADELEY.  27 

(claymeing  his  said  remainder)  eutered  into  the  said  p'mises,  and  was 
and  yett  js  thereof  seized  in  his  demeasne  as  of  freehold,  for  the  terme 
of  his  natural  1  ytFe  w'''  remainders  over  as  aforesaid  accordinglie ;  and 
taketh  the  p'titts  thereof  as  lawful!  3-s  for  him  to  doe.  And  thinkoth 
the  said  compP  hath  noe  reasoiie  to  impeach  this  defend'"  estate,  con- 
sidering that  the  said  Warranttye  (as  this  defend'  ys  informed)  wouldo 
,_  barre  the  said  compP  (yf  his  p'tended  tytle  weere  true),  hee,  the  said 
,.  corapP  being  heire  to  the  said  Thomas  att  the  comoii  Lawe.  And  all 
such  deeds  and  evidences,  w'ch  hee  this  defend'  jiath  couc'neinge  the 
said  pr'misses,  he  justifyeth  the  detayneing  thereof  in  p'servacon  of 
the  estates  of  him  and  his  said  sounes.  And  this  defend'  Alice  Whit- 
more  thinketh  the  tytle  of  her  said  husbands  and  her  said  sonnes  to 
bee  just  and  true  as  this  defen"  said  husband  hath  before  set  forth, 
without  that,  that  the  said  Messuage  Landes  and  tenements  are  of 
such  yeerely  valewe  mentyoned  in  the  said  byll,  or  that  the  said 
Thomas  AVhitmore  the  father  dyd  mortgage  auie  pte  of  the  praisses  as 
ys  supposed  by  the  said  byll,  to  the  knowledge  of  these  defend"  or  of 
either  of  them,  or  that  the  said  Frauncis  father  of  the  said  compP 
dyd  agree  or  compound  with  anie  such  ^lortgagee  as  by  the  said  Byll 
is  supposed,  or  that  the  said  Thomas  Whitraore,  the  father,  dyd  make 
or  dyd  agree  to  make,  anie  suche  conveyance  whereby  the  compl' 
claymeth,  as  by  the  said  Byll  is  supposed,  or  that  the  said  Frauncis 
the  said  compl"  father,  was  contented  or  dyd  agrye  that  the  said  Will"^ 
Whitmore  should  have  the  P'sonage  of  Kirkeby  as  by  the  said  Byll  ys 
supposed,  or  that  the  said  P'sonage  was  of  anie  such  yeerely  valewe 
as  the  said  compl'  setteth  forth,  or  that  the  said  Frauncis,  the  father, 
did  give  unto  the  said  Thomas,  the  father,  anye  such  sume  of  money  as 
the  pi'  supposeth,  or  dyd  mayntayne  or  releeve  him  this  defend'  or  his 
wyffe  or  children  or  anie  other  as  the  pit  supposeth,  or  that  this  defend' 
dyd  marry  with'  the  consent  of  the  said  William  and  his  said  father,  as 
by  the  Byll  is  supposed,  or  that  the  said  Frauncis,  the  father,  p'cured 
him,  this  defend'  Peier  Whitmore,  to  bee  a  Minister,  or  p'vyded  him  a 
benefice  of  such  worth  as  by  the  said  bill  ys  supposed,  or  that  hee  this 
defend'  was  auie  suche  p'dygall  fellow  as  the  said  compl'  untruelie 
surmyseth,  or  that  the  said  messuages  Landes  and  tenements  or  anie 
p'te  thereof  dyd  remayne,  or  come,  or  ought  to  remayne  or  come,  to 
the  sayd  compl'  as  hee  supposeth,  or  that  hee  this  defend'  sent  anie 
man  to  the  Bishoppricke  of  Durham  or  to  any  other  place,  to  anie 
such  end  or  purpose  untruely  supposed  by  the  sayd  byll,  or  that  hee 
this  defend'  required  to  have  auie  evidence  delyv'ered  to  the  use  of  the 


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28  WHITMORES  OF  IMADELEY.  ■^■ 

said  coini:)P  as  by  the  said  Byll  js   supposed,  or  that  any  were  see 
delyvered   as  by  the   said  byll  is  supposed.     But  this  defend'  Feefer 
"VYhitmore  sayth  that  his  said  fixther  beinge  by  the  advice  of  some  of 
his  good  freinds  advised  to  convey  the  said  p'misses   to  this  defend'  as 
hereby  is  sett  forthe.     And  this  defend'  bein<i  lett  to  understand  that 
some  Lease  had  byne  made  of  some  pte  thereof  to  the  said  Will"",  this 
defend"   brother,   beinir    then    disceazed,  and   being   desyrous   to  bee 
resolved  of   the  certaynete  thereof,  dyd  send  to  the  wytie  of  the  said 
William  dwelling  within   the   said   Bishoprick,  desyringe  her  to  send 
him  such  writinges  as  shoe  had  conceminge  the  p'misses ;  who  att  his 
requeste  sent  unto  liira  (amongste  other  writings  of  small  importance ) 
one   writiuge    purportinge   a   demise   of    the   p'misses    from    the    said 
Thomas  the  fother  to  the  said  117//'"  for  a  terme  already  ended  and  one 
Other  writinge,  wrytten  w'"  the  handwritinge  of  the  said  Wt/Iiiam,  pur- 
portinge  some   shovve  of  lyniittacon  of  some  estate  of  inheritance  of 
the   p'misses  or  some   p'te   thereof,   to   him   the   said  Will"'  w"*   some 
further  showe  of  lymittacon  of   some  estate  of  inherytance  of  the 
p'misses  or  some  p'te  thereof,  to  the  said  Francis,  the  fother,  w"^""  last 
mentyoned  wrytings  this  defend'  dyd  shew  to  his  said  father  of  purpose 
not  to  have  pceeded  w"'  his  father  in   anie   such  conveyance   to   liini 
made  as  aforesaid,  yf  the  same   might   have  byne  anie  impedjTnent 
thereunto :    but  this  defend''  said  farther,  upon  sight  and  considcracon 
thereof,  dyd  earnestlie  vow  and  p'teste  that  neither  the  same  deede  nor 
anie  other  deede   lymitting    anie    estate    of   inherytance   to   the   said 
Frauncis   the   father,   was   ])y   him   the   said  Thomas,  the  father,  ever 
sealed    delyvered,    or    otherwise    executed,   and    therefore    was    very 
forwarde  and  willing  to  execute  the  conveyance  as  aforesaid  to  him, 
this  defend'  and  his  said  sonnes,  and  thereupon  he  this  defend'  under- 
standing his  said  fathers  vows  and  protestacons,  and   hearing  also  his 
said  brother  Will"'  had  dcnyed  the  havinge  of  anie  such  assurance,  and 
not  p'ceyvinge  nor  understanding  that  anie  execution  was  ever  made  of 
the  said  writings  or  of  any  other  conveyance,  to  the  said  Frauncis,  the 
father,  hee  this  defend'  did  accept  of  the  said  conveyance  made  to  him 
and  his  said  sonnes  as  aforesaid,  (as  he  thinketh  was  lawfull  for  him  to 
doe).     And  hee  the  rather  thinketh  his  said  fothers  vowes  and  p'testa- 
tions  to  bee  true,  for  that  his  said  father  by  his  last  Wyll  and  testa- 
ment in  writinge  hath  (as  much  as  in  him  lay)  ratyfied  and  confirmed 
his  said  conveyance  to  him  this  defend'  and  his  said  sonnes,  w'-'out  that 
these  defend'"  or  either  of  them  dyd  consulte  or  conspire,  as  by  the  said 
byll  is  supposed,  or  that  these  defend'*  or  either  of  them  dyd  agree  to 


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WHITIVIOEES    OF    MADELEY.  29 

break  open,  or  dyd  break  open,  any  clieste  as  by  the  said  Byll  is 
untruely  supposed,  or  that  these  def "  or  either  of  theym,  dyd  possess 
themselves  w'''  any  writings  conveyances  or  evidences  otlier  than  as 
aforesaid,  and  other  then  sucli  as  hee  this  defend'  found  in  the  said 
messuage  or  tenement  wherein  his  said  father  dyed,  or  that  these 
defend''  or  either  of  theym  have  anie  evidence  att  all  p'vinge  anie 
tytle  to  or  for  the  said  compi'  other  then  as  aforesaid,  or  that  hee  this 
defend'  dyd  practize  to  inveigle  the  said  Thomas,  the  father,  as  is 
supposed  by  the  said  byll.  or  that  hee  this  defend'  dyd  make  anie 
untrue  or  false  reporte  of  the  said  Frauncis.  the  father,  as  ys  supposed 
by  the  byll,  or  that  hee  this  defend'  gott  anie  conveyance  from  his  saide 
Father  other  then  as  aforesaid,  or  that  tlie  said  compl'  ys  or  ought  to 
bee  next  in  remaynder  to  anie  of  the  pmisses  according  to  anie  guifte 
thereof  supposed  to  bee  made  as  ys  supposed  by  the  said  Bvll,  to  the 
knowledge  of  these  defend''  or  of  either  of  theym.  And  without  lliat, 
that  any  other  matter  or  thinge  in  thesaid  byll  of  compl'  concnein"- 
these  defend"  or  either  of  theym  materyall  or  effectuall  in  the  Lawe 
to  bee  answeared  unto,  and  not  herein  sutlicientlie  and  effectually 
confessed  and  avoyded,  denyed  or  trav'sed,  ys  true,  all  w''''  matters  and 
everye  of  theym  these  defend''  and  either  of  theym  are  ready  to 
averre  and  p've,  as  this  Honourable  Courte  shall  awarde,  and  pray  to 
be  dismissed  w"*  theire  and  either  of  theire  reasonable  costs,  charges, 
and  expences,  in  this  behalf  wrongfully  sustayned. 

ClIETTVIND. 

pfioiat  Petrus  AVhitmore  &  Alicia  ux.  ejus  jurat,  fuer.  primo  die  May 
Anno  Dfii  1606.     coram  nobis 

Thos.  Syd^vayk 
ft;  John  Westux 

W"  Iremoxger. 


'    The    Replicacon    of    FraunC  Wiiit.morr 

'  ''    '  Gent"    Repl'    to    the    joint    and    sev'all 

•'    ,  Answers  of  Peter  "^^'"iiit.more,  Clarke, 

and  Alice  his  witf.  Defendants. 
The  said  Repliant  sayeth  in  all  and  every  thing  and  things,  as  forraerlie 
in  and  by  his  said  Bill  of  Complaint  he  hath  sayed,  and  doth  and  will 
averre,  maintayne,  and  prove,  his  said   Bill  of  Complaint,  and  all  and 
everye  the  matters  and  things  therein  conteyned,  to  be  ^ood,  true, 


V 


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30  WHITMORES    OF   :SIADELEY. 

certen,  and  sufficient  in  tiie  Lawe  to  Ue  aunswered  unto,  by  the  said 
defen''  o""  eitl)er  of  them,  notw"'standing  any  excepcou,  surmise  or 
alleofacon  taken  by  the  said  defend'^  o''  either  of  them,  to  tlie  contrarye. 
And  contrariwise,  that,  the  snid  auuswercs  are  verye  uucerten,  untrue, 
and  insufficient  in  the  Lawe,  to  be  replied  unto  by  tliis  Repliant,  for  divers 
imp'fections  tlierein  appearing-.  Neverthelessc  all  advantage  of  exccpiou 
to  the  uncertentycs  and  insutiicyencyes  of  the  said  Aunsweres  to  him  this 
Replient  now  and  att  all  tymes  hereafter  saved,  This  Tiepliant,  for  Re- 
plicacon  to  the  saiil  joint  and  sevall  Aunsweres,  sayeth :  That  Thomas 
"Whitmore  in  the  said  Bill  of  Complaint  and  aunsweres  named,  this  Re- 
pliants Grandfather,  being  in  his  lytityme  lawfullie  seased  in  his  demeasne 
as  of  fee,  of,  and  in  divers  messuages,  lands,  ten",  and  hereditam'^  in  the 
Countye  of  Stafford,  to  the  -value  of  foure  score  pounds  by  y*  yeare  or 
therabouts,  and  haveing  then  three  sonnes  that  is  to  say,  JJilliam  his 
eldest  Sonne,  Frauncis  the  father  of  this  Repliant  his  second  son,  and 
Peter  the  now  def  his  third  and  youngest  sonne,  did  by  his  deed 
indented  under  his  seal,  bearing  date  on  or  about  the  hfteenth  day  of 
August  in  the  one  and  twenteth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  o^  late  gracious 
Sovereign  Ladye  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  consideracon  of  the  natural 
Love  and  affection  wch  he  did  l)eare  unto  the  said  William,  and  his 
said  other  sonnes,  and  for  the  preferm'  and  advancem'  of  the  said 
William  in  marria'^e,  '^ive  graunt  and  courirm  unto  Peter  Ruos  of 
Laxton  in  the  countye  of  Xott.  Esquire,  Poivland  Bidkele'/  of  Bunting- 
dale  in  the  County  of  Salop,  Thomas  Boos  of  Laxton  aforesaid  Gent, 
Thomas  Balkdey  the  younger  of  Ore,  iu  the  said  Countye  of  Salop 
Gent,  and  Jolin  Hutitha'ch  of  ]Veston  in  the  said  County  of  Stafford. 
Clarke :  All  those  his  ^Messuages,  Lands,  ten''  and  hereditam"  by  the 
name  and  names  of  All  that  Capitall  iSIessuage  or  tene'  w"'  the 
apptenences  called  Bar r hill  and  all  lands,  ten",  meadowes,  feedings, 
pastures,  woodes,  Underwoodes,  &  hereditam"  whatso^  to  the  said 
messuage  or  tenem'  belonging,  o''  therew"'all  usuallie  occupied,  scituate 
lyeing  &  being  w'^'in  the  p'sh  or  Territories  of  Madeley  d'  elles  where 
in  the  said  Countye  of  Stafford,  And  of  all  those  Landcs,  tenem", 
feedings  &  pastures  commonly  called  DiBcens  End  And  of  all  those 
Lands,  tenem",  woods,  underwoodes,  feedings  and  pastures  w'^'in 
the  Manor  or  P'sh  of  Oneley  —  in  the  said  Countic  of  Stafford, 
And  also  of  All  those  Landes,  ten",  commons,  commodities, 
Toftes,  Croftes,  and  hereditam"  whatso'  commonlie  called  Mossefellds 
near  Alder leir/h  Greene  in  the  Psh  of  Caresicall  in  the  said 
Countye  of  Stafford,  And  also  of  All  tliose  Lands,  ten'",  meadowes, 


.    fi    •II.-. 


■'•  ■  --y^'     ... 


v.r.^U; 


<,     1  :     H    ^Jt 


AVHITMORES    OF    MADELEY.  31 

feedings,  pastures,  woods,  underwoodes  and  hereditaments,  ^vhats^ 
which  were  themselves  formerlie  graunted  h'mitted  or  appointed 
for  &  in  consideracou  of  the  dower  or  jointure  of  Johane  then 
wifF  of  the  said  Thomas  Wliitmore,  To  have  and  to  hold  all  and 
singular  such  p'te  of  the  said  messuages,  lauds,  tenements  &  hcredit's 
w"^  th'appl'ences  &  ev'ry  p'te  and  p'cell  thereof,  whereof  estate  was  tio 
formerlie  lymitted  graunted  and  appointed,  to  or  for  the  dower  or 
jointure  of  the  said  Johane,  to  the  said  Peter  Jioos,  Eoivland  Bnlkeley, 
Thomas  Eoos,  Thomas  Balheley  the  younger  and  John  Hvnfhatch,  and 
their  heires  To  the  use  anil  behoof  of  the  said  Thomas  AVhitmore  and 
Johane  his  said  will",  and  to  the  longest  liver  of  them,  w'''out  impeach- 
ment of  any  manner  of  wast  during  the  lifFof  the  said  Thomas  AVhit- 
more  onelie.  And  after  the  decease  of  them  and  either  of  them,  then 
to  the  use  and  behoof  of  the  said  William  Whilmore  t^  of  t'heires 
males  of  the  bodye  of  one  Elizabeth  Hitch  the  onlie  doughter  of  Thomas 
Hitch,  Gent.,  deceased,  lawfuUie  begotten,  or  to  be  begotten,  and  for 
default  of  such  issue  tlien  to  the  use  and  behoof  of  tlie  said  William 
"Whitmore  and  th'hcircs  males  of  his  bodye  lawfullye  begotten  or  to  be 
begotten.  And  for  default  of  such  issue  then  to  the  use  and  behoof  of 
Fraiuicls  "Whitmore,  second  sonne  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore,  and 
of  th'heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfullye  begotten  or  to  be  begotten. 
And  for  default  of  such  issue  then  to  the  use  and  behoof  of  Peter 
Whitmore,  third  sonne  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore,  and  now  the 
def*,  &  of  the  heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfullie  begotten  o''  to  lie  be- 
gotten, and  for  default  of  such  yssue  then  to  the  use  of  the  said  Thomas 
Whitmore  and  of  t'heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfullie  begotten  or  to 
be  begotten.  And  for  default  of  such  issue,  then  to  the  use  and  behoof 
of  the  right  heires  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  for  ever.  And  to 
have  and  to  hould  all  and  singular  the  residewe  of  the  said  Lands, 
tenem"  &  heredita"  w'''  the  app'tenances  unto  the  said  Peter  Poos, 
Powland  Bulkelei/,  Thomas  Poos,  Thomas  Bulkeley  the  younger,  and 
John  Hunthatch,  and  their  heires  :  To  the  use  and  behoofe  of  the  said 
Thomas  Whitmore  for  and  during  the  term  of  his  naturall  liif,  w*''out 
impeachment  of  wast,  and  after  his  decease  then  to  the  use  and  behoof 
of  the  said  William  Whitmore  and  of  the  heires  males  of  his  bodye 
lawfullie  begotten  or  to  be  begotten.  And  for  default  of  such  issue 
then  To  the  use  and  behoof  of  the  said  Frauncis,  this  Repliants  father, 
and  of  t'heires  males  of  his  bodye  lawfully  begotten  m*  to  be  begotten, 
and  for  default  of  such  yssue  then  to  the  use  and  behoof  of  the  said 
Peter  Whitmore  and  of  the  heires  males  of  his  bodie  lawfullie  begotten 


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32  WHIT3IORES    OF   3IADELEY.  .! 

or  to  be  begotten,  w"'  such  other  remainders  thereof  over,  in  and  by  the 
said  Deed  indented  sutllcienilie  executed  by  liverye  and  seeseu,more  at 
large  it  doth  and  may  api)eare.     And  thid  lieplient  further  sayeth  tliat 
by  force  and  vertue  of  the  said  Deed  indented  before  recyted,  t)v;  of  the 
execution  thereof  by  liverye  and  seizin  made  unto  the  said  Feotfees  to 
the  sevall  uses  before  specitied,  and  also  by  force  of  the  Statute  made 
the  fourth  day  of  February  in  the  xxvij"'  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  o'  late 
Soveign  Lord  of  famous  memory  King  Henry  the  eight,  for  the  trans- 
ferringe  of  uses  into  possession,  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  and  Juhane 
his  wife  eutred  into  and  upon  all  such  parte  of  the  said  messuages 
Lands  teue'^  and  hereciitum'*  whereof  estate  was  soe  formerlie  made 
and  graunted,  to  or  for  the  dower  o'' jointure  of  the  said  Johane,  and 
werre  thereof  seased  in  theire  demeasne  as  of  freehouJd,  for  the  terme 
of  their  natural  lives  and  uf  the  natutail  lilfof  the  survivo'  of  them,  w"' 
such   remainders   tliereof  over  [as]  aforesaid.     And  the  said    Thomas 
Whitmore  by  force  and  vertue  tliereof  also  entered  into  and  uppon  ail 
the  residew  of  the  saiil  messuages,  landes,  ten'^  and  hereditam'',  and  was 
thereof  likewise  seized  in  his  demeasoe  as  of  freehold,  for  tiie  terme  of 
his  naturall  lilFw"*  other  remainders  thereof  over  after  his  decease,  as 
aforesaid.     And  afterwards   the  said    Thomas  "Whitmore  and  William 
his  Sonne,  did  by  their  Indenture  sutficient  in  the  Lawe,  bearing  date 
the  xvij"'   day  of  March,  in  tlie  xxij'"  yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  the  late 
Queene  Elizabeth,  made  between    them   on  th'one  p'te  and    'Thomas 
Hoos,  gent,  and   others  on  the  other   p'te,   convey  and  assure  the   s*^ 
premises  w""  the  appurtenances  to  the  said  Thomas  Roos  and  the  otiiers, 
and  their  heires,  p'te  thereof  for  the  jointure  of  Elizabeth  Hitch  wife  of 
the  said  William  Wliitmore ;  The  remainder  thereof  and  the  residew 
of  the  said  Landes  to  such  uses  as  before  in  the  last  menconed  deed 
are  expressed  and  declared.     And  this  Repliant  further  saieth  that  the 
said    Thomas   Whitmore   did  at  all  times  after,  soe  longe  as  the  said 
Frauncis  Whitmore,  this  Repliants   father,  lived,  and  likewise  after- 
wardes  soe  long  as  the  said   William  his   sonne  lived,  never  reckon  o"" 
accompt  himself  to  be  seised  of  any  other  estate  in  the  p'misses  then 
onlie  as  tenn'  for  terme  for  his  liti';  for  that  in  all  &  ev'ry  such  estate  or 
estates,  lease  or  leases  as  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  did  afterwards  make 
of  the  said  premisses  or  of  any  p'te  thereof,  the  said  Thomas  did  not 
graunt  any  farther  terme  or  termes  therein  then  such  as  were  deter- 
minable by  the  <death  of  him  the  said   Thomas  Whitmore.     And  this 
Repliant  sayeth  that  the  said  Frauncis  Whitmore,  this  Repliants  father, 
iiaveinii  issue  unto  his  bodie  lawfuUie  bciiottcn  Francis  Whitmore  this 


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1,  WIIITMORES    OF   MADELEY.  33 

Repliant,  the  said  Frrnmcis,  this  Repliants  father,  afterv\-ards  died  and 
dep'ted  this  lilY,  leveing  his  said  father  and  twoe  brethren,  and  after- 
wards the  said  William  Wliitmore  also  died,  not  haveing  any  issue  of 
his  bodye  liveing  at  the  time  of  his  decease  iior  borne  after  his  decease. 
By  reason  whereof  this  Repliant  was  then  next  iu  remainder  after  the 
death  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  ;  and  after  the  said  Tiiomas  likewise 
died,  by  and  after  whose  decease  the  said  messuages  lands  and  premises 
did  remaine  and  come  unto  this  Repliant,  according  to  the  forme  of  the 
gift  aforesaid;  without  that,  that  it  is  true  that  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore 
on  or  about  the  one  &,  fortcth  yeare  of  the  Reigne  of  o'^  late  gratious 
Soveigne  Lady  Queene  Elizabeth  did  or  could  by  fine  or  by  any  o''  as- 
surance or  conveyance  in  the  Lawe  assure  or  convey  the  s*^  Landes  tene- 
m''  and  hereditam"  to  the  said  def*  and  his  heires  for  ever  to  tli'use  of 
the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  for  lilT,  w'''  remainder  after  the  death  of  the 
said  Thomas  Whitmore  to  th'use  of  the  def ,  for  term  of  his  lilf,  w"*  such 
other  remainders  thereof  over  after  the  death  of  the  said  def,  As  by 
the  said  iVunswers  is  pretended,  or  that  it  is  true  that  the  said  'Thomas 
Whitmore  by  force  or  vertue  of  any  such  conveyance  as  in  the  said 
Auuswer  is  menconed  and  of  y"  Statute  made  for  ye  transferringe  of  uses 
into  possession,  was  seased  in  his  demeasne  as  of  freehould  for  y*  terme 
of  his  naturall  litf  w""  such  remainders  over  as  are  specified  in  the  same 
conveyance,  or  did  die  seized  of  the  premisses  or  of  any  p'te  thereof 
by  vertue  of  any  such  Conveyance,  and  of  the  said  Statute  for  transfer- 
ringe of  uses  into  possession,  as  in  &  by  the  said  answere  is  also  sett  forth. 
And  w"'  out  that  also,  that  it  is  true  that  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  did 
make  any  such  Conveyance  of  the  premisses  as  in  the  said  aucswere  is 
rehearsed,  by  the  advice  of  his  good  friends  as  in  and  by  the  said  aun- 
swere  is  also  suggested,  for  this  Repliant  sayeth  that  the  same  Convey- 
ance if  any  such  weere  made,  was  made  by  the  practise  and  p'curem'  of 
the  said  Peter  Whitmore  the  def  after  such  tyme  as  the  said  Franncis 
&  William  were  both  dead,  upon  hope  that  the  said  Peter  might  have 
suppressed  the  said  former  deeds  of  intayle,  in  case  that  this  Repliant, 
who  was  left  young  and  destitute  of  frends,  should  not  have  had  any 
knowledge  thereof.  And  w"*out  that,  that  the  said  Complanant  is  or 
ought  to  be  barred  by  reason  of  the  warrantye  in  the  said  aunswere 
menconed,  as  iu  the  said  aunswere  is  p'mised.  For  this  Repliant  sayeth 
that  he  was  w"^  in  age  at  the  decease  of  his  said  grandfather  and  hath 
si'thence  entered  into  the  said  premises  during  his  nonage,  and  at  the 
tyme  of  his  full  age.  And  w""  out  that  that  any  other  matter  o'  thing 
materiall  or  eft'ectuall  in  the  Lawe  to  be  replied  unto,  and  by  the  Repli- 
5 


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34  TV-HITMORES    OF   MADELEY.     .... 

ant  not  replied  unto,  hereby  confessed  and  avoided,  trav'sd  o'  denied  are 
true.  All  ^s"'-"  matters  or  things  this  ilepliant  is  reddy  to  averre  and 
prove  to  this  Honorable  Court  us  the  said  honorable  Court  shall  judge 
or  award.  ■      ,    . 

Ph.  Gerard. 


Chan^  Orders  &  Decrees. 
A.  1607.     Vol.  113. 
:  ,  p.  814  d. 


Frances  "WTiitmore  pit 

Peter  Whitmore  and 
Alice  his  wvtF  defts. 


Upon  raocon  this  present  deie  made  unto 
The  Eight  Honorable  the  M'  of  tlie  Kolls 
by  M""  Brooke  being  of  the  Pits  Counsel. 
It  is  Ordered  by  his  Lordship  that  the 
Eeporte  made  by  John  Tiudail  one  of  tlie  M""'  of  this  Court 
upon  the  Agreement  w"'  the  consent  and  well  liking  of  the 
said  parties  shall  be  ratified  and  confirmed  by  the  decree 
and  authoritie  of  this  Courte  to  be  performed  by  both  tho 
said  partyes  to  all  intents  and  purposes  according  to  the 
tennor  and  true  meaninc;  hereof. 


Chancery  Bills  &  Answers. 
James  L— W.  14— No.  50. 
1621.  Nov.  19^  Pennyman. 

To  the  Right  Ho'^'^  and  Reverend  father 
in  God  John  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  Lord 
Keep  of  the  Greate  Scale  of  England. 

In  most  humble  manner  compleaning  Sheweth  unto  your  Honor 
Francis  Whitmore  of  London,  Gent.  That  whereas  Thomas  Whitmore, 
late  of  Barrhill  in  the  Parish  of  Madeley,  within  the  County  of  Stafford, 
Gent,  deceased,  late  Grandfather  to  your  said  Orato'',  was  in  his  liefe 
tyme  seased  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee  (amongst  other  things)  of  and  in 
a  certain  pasture  or  pcell  of  Land  called  (he  Ilohfoild  and  of  and  iu 
one  messuage  and  divers  Lands  thereunto  belonging,  being  now  of  the 
yerely  value  of  ten  pounds,  lying  and  being  in  Madeley  aforesaid.  And 
80  being  thereof  seised,  did  by  good  and  sufficient  Conveyance  iu  the 
Law  convey  and  assure  the  same  llubfeilil  and  p'misses  amongst  other 


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"  wniTiMORES  OF  :madeley.  35 

things  to  the  use  of  himself  for  term  of  his  lief  without  impeachm' 
of  wast  and  after  his  decease  to  the  use  of  Johane  his  wife  for  and 
during  the  terme  of  her  natural  lief,  with  remainder  thereof  after  the 
death  of  the  said  Thomas  and  Johane  To  the  use  and  behoof  of  Will™ 
TVhitmore  Sonne  and  heire  apparent  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore 
and  of  the  heires  males  of  the  body  of  the  said  Will"'  Whitmore  lawfully 
begotten,  and  for  want  of  such  issue  to  the  heires  males  of  the  body  of 
the  said  Thomas  Whitmore  upon  the  bodye  of  the  said  Johane  Whit- 
more begotten,  and  for  default  of  such  issue  To  the  right  heires  of  the 
said  Thomas  Whitmore  for  ever.  By  force  whereof  the  said  Thomas 
Whitmore  was  of  the  said  p'misses  seised  in  his  demesne  as  of  free- 
holde  for  and  during  the  terme  of  his  natural  life,  the  remainder  of  the 
p'misses  being  as  aforesaid.  And  after  the  said  Will'"  Whitmore  dyed 
without  any  issue  of  his  body  and  after  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore 
likewise  dyed  and  the  said  Johane  him  survived  and  entered  into  the 
said  premisses  and  was  thereof  seised  in  her  demeasne  as  of  Freehold 
for  and  during  the  term  of  her  natural  life,  and  the  rents  issues  and 
profitts  thereof  did  p'ceive  and  receive  during  her  lief,  and  afterwardi 
that  is  to  saye  in  and  about  the  eleventh  yere  of  the  raigne  of  our 
Sov'aigne  Lord  the  Kings  Ma''*^  that  now  ys,  she  the  said  Johane  lyke- 
wise  dyed,  after  whose  decease  the  said  p'misses  remayned  and  came 
as  of  right  the  same  ought  to  remayne  and  come  unto  your  Orato'  as 
Sonne  and  heire  male  of  the  body  of  Francis  Whitmore  sonne  and 
heire  male  of  the  body  of  the  said  Thomas  Whitmore,  and  your  said 
Orato''  according  to  his  lawful  right  entered  into  the  said  p'misses  and 
was  thereof  seized  in  his  demeasne  as  of  fee  tayle  according  to  the 
force  of  the  guift  aforesaide  and  the  rents  issues  and  profitts  thereof 
did  receive  and  take  as  lawful  was  for  him  to  doe.  But  so  yt  ys,  may 
it  please  your  Honor,  that  one  Sir  John  Offehy  of  Mudeley  in  the 
said  Countie  of  StatFord,  Knight,  having  by  casuall  meanes  gotten  into 
his  hands  and  possession  the  Conveyances  aforementioned  and  dyvers 
other  evidences  of  your  said  Orato'  belonging  and  manifesting  your 
said  Orato"  right  and  title  in  and  to  the  said  p'emisses,  hath  by  colour 
thereof  entered  into  the  said  p'cell  of  Land  called  the  Hobfield  and 
taken  th'  issues  and  profitts  thereof  to  his  own  use.  And  by  p'tence 
of  the  said  deeds  charters  wi'itings  and  muniments  the  said  Sir  John 
Offehij  challengeth  the  said  Hobfield  and  all  other  the  premisses  as  his 
own  Inheritance.  And,  althougli  your  said  Orator  hath  dyvers  and 
sundry  tymes  in  gentle  manner  required  the  said  Sir  John  Ofl'eley  to 
deliver  the  said  possession  of  the  said  p'misses  unto  him  and  to  sutler 


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36  WniTMORES    OF   3IADELEY.  ' 

him  to  enjoy  the  same  and  also  to  del'ver  to  your  said  Orato""  the  said 
Deeds  chai-ters  writiuns  and  muniments  aforemenconed.  yett  tlie  same 
to  doe  the  said  Sir  John  OtJ'ele'j  hath  ever  hitherto  denyed  and  refused, 
and  still  doth  deny  and  refuse,  to  the  disinheritance  of  your  said  Orato'' 
and  contrarye  to  all  right  equitie  and  good  conscience.  In  tender  con- 
sideracon  whereof  and  for  so  much  as  your  said  Orato''  knoweth  not  the 
certaine  nomber  or  dates  of  the  said  deeds  charters  writings  and  muni- 
m'',  nor  whether  the  same  are  in  bagg  or  box,  sealed  or  in  a  chest, 
locked  or  otherwise,  And  therefore  is  remedilesse  at  and  by  the  strickt 
course  of  the  Coraon  Lawes  of  this  Realm  either  for  recovery  of  tlie 
said  evidences  and  writings  or  the  possession  of  the  premisses  so  un- 
justly deteyued  from  him.  May  it  therefore  please  your  Honour,  tlie 
premisses  considered,  to  graunt  unto  your  said  Orato'  the  kings  iMajcs- 
ties  most  gracious  Writt  of  .Subpcna  to  be  directed  unto  the  said  *SVr 
John  Offeley,  Commanding  him  by  vcrtue  of  the  same  at  a  certaine  day 
and  under  a  certaine  payne  therein  tu  be  lymitted,  to  be  and  p'.^onally 
to  appear  before  your  Honour  in  his  ^la'"'  high  Court  of  Chaunccry, 
then  and  their  to  answer  the  p'misse:-;,  and  to  abide  such  fur''  Order 
therein  as  to  your  Honour  shall  seem  to  stand  with  equitie  and  good 
conscience. 

And  your  said  Orato'' shall  davly  pray  for  your  good  Lordshipp  in 
health  and  prosperity  with  much  increase  of  Honour  long  to  contyuue. 

Pn.  Gehard. 

Note. — We  here  find  Francis  Whitmore  in  suit  with  Sir  John 
Offley.  Erdestvick,  writing  about  1590-1  GOO,  says  that  Madeley 
was  a  goodly  manor,  forfeited  by  the  attainder  of  Edward  Statlbrd, 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  and  given  ])y  the  king  to  the  Lord  Bray. 
"Madeley  was  afterwards  sold  to  Sir  Tliomas  Oftley,  a  merchant,  and 
some  time  Mayor  of  London,  father  of  Henry  Offley,  now  owner 
thereof"  The  peerages  say  that  the  Oflleys  had  been  of  Madeley  as 
early  as  A.D.  1237.  Sir  John  Oniey,  Kn't,  was  sherilF  of  the  county 
in  1617,  as  was  John  0.  in  1GG2.  John  Offley,  Esq.,  married  Anne, 
dau.  of  John  Crewe,  of  Crewe,  co.  Chester,  and  their  son  John  (OtHey) 
in  1708  assumed  the  name  of  Crewe.  His  grandson,  John  Crewe, 
was  made  Baron  Crewe  in  180G,  but  there  had  been  an  earlier  title  of 
Lord  Crewe  of  Stone,  extinct  iu  1722,  in  another  branch  of  the  Crewes. 

The  present  Lord  Crewe  is  the  tiiird  of  this  creation,  and  still 
possesses  a  large  estate  in  Madeley,  besides  his  property  in  Cheshire. 
His  sister  is  the  wife  of  Richard  Monckton  Milncs,  Lord  Houghton. 


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WHITMOPwES    OF   3IADELEY.  37 


FRAXCIS  WfflTMORE    OF  LAXTOX,    AXD    THE    FARRArxS. 


In  tlio  London  "Herald  and  Genealogist,"  vi.  385-407,  there 
was  an  extended  oenealogy  of  the  Fairfax  family,  and  it  was 
reprinted  with  corrections  in  vol.  vii.  145-1  GO.  I  printed  in 
vol.  vii.  lGl-3,  some  notes,  the  substance  of  which  is  as  follows: 
I  showed  that  one  of  the  granddaughters  of  Francis  IJoos  was 
Jane,*  dau.  of  Bryan  Staplcton,  of  Burton-Joyce,  and  tluit  she 
married  Sir  William  Fairfax  of  Gilling;  these  were  the  parents 
of  Sir  Thomas,  created  Viscount  Fairfax  of  Elniley  in  the 
peerage  of  Ireland.  This  title  became  extinct  in  1771;  it  is 
not  to  be  confounded  with  that  of  Baron  Fairfax  of  Cameron, 
in  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  which  is  now  held  by  a  Virginian. 

Sir  William  Fairfax,  as  above  stated,  married  Jane  Stapleton; 
his  brother,  Cuthbcrt  F.,  married  !Mary  Whitmore  of  Notting- 
hamshire. It  is  most  probable,  therefore,  that  she  was  also  a 
granddaughter  of  Francis  Roos,  cousin  to  Sir  William's  wife, 
and  daughter  of  "old"  Thomas  Whitmore  of  ^fadeley.  Wo 
say  this  because  the  Whitmores  of  Caunton.  co.  Notts,  had  all 
died  out;  and  as  Boos  was  distinctively  a  Nottinghamshire  man, 
his  son-in-law  Whitmore  might  well  be  considered  to  be  of  that 
county.  In  fact,  he  was  very  probably  living  there  when  his 
daughter  married,  as  two  of  his  sons  were   clergymen   in   that 

•  Jane  Roop,  after  Brian's  death,  m.  his  first  cousin,  Antliony  Staplcton  of 
Rempston,  and  thirdly,  Thomas  Lake  of  Hashind,  co.  Derby,  and  died  prohalily  in 
1595.  (Thoroton,  p.  2sG.)  Sir  William  Fairfax  and  his  brother  Cuthbcrt  were  sons 
of  Sir  Nicliolas  F.  of  Walton  and  Gilling,  co.  York.  Their  stepmother  was  Alice 
(Harrington),  widow  of  Sir  Henry  Sutton  of  Aram,  co.  Notts,  and  Sutton  was 
cousin  to  Brian  Staplcton.  A  third  of  the  cousins,  Katherine  Bas^ett,  m.  Guy  Fair- 
fax, who  was  not  imprijbalily  a  brother  of  Sir  Nicholas,  as  he  had  brothers  Miles, 
Guy  and  Robert,  not  accounted  for  by  genealogists.    Thoroton  says  inrleed  that  one 

of  Francis  Roos's  daughters  m. Fairfax  of  Gilling,  who  might  be  either  Miles 

or  Robert. 

Again,  it  is  curious  that  the  grandfather  of  Sir  Nicholas  Fairfax,  Sir  Thomas  F.  of 
Walton,  inherited  in  1492  Gilling  Castle,  as  heir  to  Sir  Ivo  dc  Etton.  The  Rooses 
acquired  Laxton  by  marriage  with  Isabel  de  Etton,  niece  of  Sir  Ivo. 


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38  WHI-raORES    OF   MADE  LET. 

county,  though  Peter  is  called  of  Staffordshire  at  bis  matricula- 
tion at  Oxford. — {P<Mt.  iv.  15.) 

Believing  that  there  is  no  reasonable  doubt  that  Mary,  dau. 
of  Thomas  Whitmorc,  married  Cuthbcrt  Fairfax,  a  great  interest 
attaches  to  a  relic  now  in  this  country.  Her  brother  was 
William  Wliitmore.  of  St.  Helen's,  Auckland,  co.  York,  who  died 
5.  p.  about  1508.  Now  David  Pulsifer,  Esq.,  of  the  Secretary 
of  State's  office  in  Boston,  Mass.,  has  an  old  bible  given  him  by 
Hon.  Otis  P.  Lord,  in  lS;-)2,  who  picked  it  up  in  a  store  in 
Ipswich,  Mass.  On  a  pacrc  at  the  end  is  written,  "S.  Newman, 
Ipswich":  on  another,  ''Hopkinton.''  On  the  margin  of  one  of 
the  leaves  is  the  following  writing: 


"William  Whitmore  went  to  Gillinge  anno  D'.  1574  mense  sept." 

It  is  almost  certain  that  this  refers  to  some  visit  of  William 
Whitmore  to  his  sister  or  her  husband's  family.  But  how  came 
that  bible  here?  The  iieir  of  William  W.  was  his  nephew, 
Francis  Whitmore,  of  Laxton  or  Lexington,  co.  Notts,  as  I  show 
in  subsequent  pages. 

Now  among  the  early  records  of  Essex  County,  Mass.,  are 
recorded  the  marriages  of  George  Farrough  (Farrar)  and  Ann 
Whitmore,  IG  Feb.,  16-43-4;  and  of  John  Brewer  and  Mary 
Whitmore,  23  Oct.,  1647.  These  two  girls  probably  came  hero 
with  relatives,  and  as  I  have  shown  {ante,  p.  IG)  that  Francis 
Whitmore  of  Laxton  had  a  nephew  George  Farrar,  I  think 
it  possible  that  this  George  Farrar  brought  the  bible  over  to 
this  country. 

Indeed  I  go  farther,  and  think  that  George  Farrar  married  a 
cousin,  and  that  his  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Francis  Whitmore ; 
but  this  is  not  yet  proved,  and  is  not  to  be  accepted  by  otlicrs. 


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The  record  is  as  follows.  Tho  oricrinal  is  in  the  handwriting 
of  Robert  Lord,  of  Ipswich,  and  is  one  of  the  returns  made  to 
the  County  Clerk.  It  is  in  the  court  tiles  at  Salem,  book  vii. 
leaf  48,  and  the  paper  is  now  illegible  in  some  parts,  as  the 
transcript  shows.     x\.  portion  is  as  follows :  * 

"Francis  Jordon  &  Jane  Willson  mnricd  6  (9)  1635.  '.  i       ,  ;•     ■. 

,^,  "Sarah  Jordon  born  8  (0)  IGoC.  ''      ^      ''::.:-, 

"  Hanah  Jordou  born  14  March  1G3-.  ■      '      -    '.■■ 

"  Mary  Jordou  boru  7  Apr.  1  iVd-. 
"Mary  Jordou  dyed  Auiiust  ID — . 
"Mary  Jordou  born  IG  May  IGil. 

"  Lydia  Jordou  boru  14  Feb:  1G43.  .    ;    ■;        •.-.;.. 

"Deborah  Jordou  born  4  December  1G4— . 

George  Farough.t  ■. 

"  Georg  Farough  &.  An  "Whitraore  maryed  IG  (11)  1643. 

"Mary  Farough  borne  January  G,  1G4-. 

"Martha  Farou2;li  borne  '25  Feb:   1G4-.  '  ■' 

»■  ■"  Febye  F'arougli  borue  2Iay  IGj-. 

"Thomas  Stace  &  Susanna  ^Vooster  m.  4  (8)  16j3. 
(Children  recorded,  <S:c.) 

"Thomas  Harris  &>  Martha  Lake  maried  the  15  of  November  1647. 

Thomas  8  August  48. 
.    ,  „  Martha  8  Jan'y  50. 

John  7  Jany  52.  •(,:.. 

"  '  Eliz'"  8  Feb.  54. 

s  .'•   •••   •        Margrett  G  Aug  57.  -  •  •         ...  -       .  , 

Mary  Last  Jauv  59.      '■    •'•  '  ,  , 

William  12  Dec.  G-. 

"John  Brewer  &  Mary  TMiitmore  maryed  23  (8)  1647. 
•^  ,.  ,  .  "Mary  Brewer  borne  the  23  of  September  1G48. 

'  "John  Brewer  born  the  G  of  October  1G53. 

'•'b.'.  •  "Sara  Brewer  borne  the  27  of  March  1655."        ''  '*  '^"  * 


Of   John   Brewer   I   know  little,  but   he   may   have   been 
related  to  Thomas  B.,  of  Ipswich,  1G42.     It  is  clear  that  he  was 

•  I  am  indebted  to  Henry  F.  "Waters,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  for  this  copy,  made  for  this 
publication.    I  have  marlccd  tiie  portions  copied  literally, 
t  The  original  uses  a  "If,"  but  that  is  simply  the  old  form  of  writing  a  capital  F. 


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40  WHIT5I0RES    OF   MADELEY. 

not  the  John  of  CainbriJiio,  1G42-5.  as  Savaa'C  asserts,  because 
that  man  had  by  wife  Ann,  John,  b.  16-42,  who  may  well  be  the 
Sudbury  settlor,  having  children  lGGO-1689.  Now  this  John  of 
Ipswich  (Essex  Deeds,  iv.  14,  38),  in  1G75-6  is  appraiser  on 
estates  of  Richard  Kituball,  Sen.,  and  Capt.  John  Ayres,  and  is 
called  John  Brewer,  Son.  In  January,  1G7T,  Jolin  Brewer,  Jr., 
took  oath  of  allegiance  in  Ipswich.  Evidently  the  Essex  family 
is  distinct  from  theMiddlesex  one. 


As  to  the  Farrars,  we  find  among  tlie  first  colonists,  John 
Farrow  of  Ilingham,  wlio  came  from  Hingham  in  Norfolk  in 
1635;  Jolm  of  Woburn,  1G';5;  John  and  Jacob  of  Lancaster, 
1653;  Thomas  of  Lynn,  1G40  (born  1G17);  and  George  of 
Ipswich,  above  noted.  Of  tlieso  names,  Jolm,  Thomas  and 
George  agree  with  tiiose  of  tliree  of  the  nephews  of  Francis 
Whitmore  of  Laxton.     (See  ante,  iv.  16,) 

I  have  large  collections  about  the  Farrars  of  Halifax,  co. 
York,  made  by  the  late  II.  G.  Somerby,  Esq.,  but  nothing  that 
seems  to  touch  any  of  our  colonists. 

Thoroton  indeed  says  tiiat  Robert  Farrowe,  or  Pharrow,  was 
of  Laneiiam,  co.  Notts,  in  1612,  and  also  owned  land  in  East 
Drayton.  Francis  Whitmore  of  Laxton,  in  1646,  mentions  his 
nephew  Robert  Farrar,  if  alive  and  in  England.  Now  in 
Hotten's  Lists,  I  find  that  Robert  Farrar,  aged  24,  embarked 
for  Virginia  in  the  Transport  in  1635.  In  the  same  list  is 
named  another  emigrant,  one  Robert  Whitmore,  living  in 
1623  in  Virginia,  who  seems  to  have  been  one  of  Mr.  Edward 
Blaney's  men  at  James  City,  and  who  came  over  in  the  Duty 
soon  before,  aged  22  in  1621-5.  This  is  very  probably  the 
Robert  mentioned,  ante,  iv.  p.  20.  There  was  also  in  the 
passengers  for  St.  Kitts  in  1634,  Alice  Whitmore  of  Huniton, 
CO.  Devon,  spinster,  aged  25  years. 


I  will  now  consider  the  record  of  George  Farrow. 


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WIIIT3IORES    OF    MADELEY.  41 

It  is  needless  to  say  tliut  Farrow  and  Fari'ar  are  liut  dilTerent 
forms  of  the  same  name,  and  that  tlie  latter  has  become  the 
usual  mode  of  spoUiiiLr.  Gi^orge  FAiuiisw.  as  already  shown, 
was  of  Ipswich,  where  he  married  Ann  Whitniore  in  l(J43— 4, 
and  had  three  dauihters  (iintc.  p.  39).  Savasre's  account  is  all 
wronir,  as  he  niistool^  a  word  and  pnt  a  son  (Tcorge.  Jr.,  in  place 
of  Phcbe,  and  so  misj)laced  his  facts. 

George  Faruow  is  credited  on  the  Treasurer's  l)Ook3  for 
killing  wolves  in  1G48  and  1650,  on  several  occasions.  We 
may,  perhaps,  fairly  conclude  that  he  was  not  an  old  man,  and 
that  he  was  horn  alx^nt  lG15-2(>,  his  wife  being  born  in  IG18. 
as  we  shall  sh')w.  The  volume  cited  is  in  the  library  of  the 
N.  E.  Hist.  Genealogical  Society  at  Boston.  In  Ipswich  Deeds, 
vol.  i.  p.  549,  he  is  mentioned  as  a  "weaver."  In  1G58,  his 
wife  Ann  is  mentioned  in  a  deposition  as  being  40  years  old.* 
In  Essex  Deeds  (iii.  107).  as  Mr.  Waters  informs  me,  there  is  a 
deed  dated  Dec.  1st,  IGiiS.  of  George  Farrow  of  Ipswich  and 
Ann  hid  wife,  exchaiiLi;ing  his  house  and  seventy  acres  of  land  in 
Ipswich,  with  "William  Symonds,  of  Wells,  gent.,  for  a  house 
and  lands  in  Wells:  witnessed  by  Wm.  Bennett  and  Thomas 
Estmau. 

Farrow  doubtless  moved  to  Wells' (Maine)  soon,,  where  he 
was  killed  by  Indians,  27  Sept.,  1G7G,  "as  he  was  too  carelessly 
venturing  to  his  House  without  any  Company,"  as  Hubbard 
narrates  in  his  History  (Drake's  ed.,  ii.  183). 

The  records  of  York  county,  at  Alfred,  give  only  the  following 
item.  "At  a  Court  of  Associates  houlden  at  Wells  12th  December, 

*  The  deposition  is  as  follows : —         . 

Clekk's  Office,  Essex  co.  Court  Papers,  iv.  90. 
The  deposition  of  Ann  farro  ye  wife  of  georg  Faro  aged  40  ycres  or  there  abouts 
This  deponent  sayth  she  bought  a  pcell  of  grene  cotton  of  mr.  Robert  Payne  and 
sayd  mr.  Payne  told  this  deponent  that  the  price  of  y'  was  three  shillings  eight  pence 
by  the  yard,  wch  price  this  deponent  thought  was  to  nuich  for  such  cotton  y'  being  as 
she  judgeth  a  thin  cotton  and  wanting  of  yard  wide,  this  deponent  further  sayth  she 
bought  another  pccll  of  red  cotton  at  fourc  shillings  eight  ponce  ye  yard  as  mr  Payne 
told  her  was  the  price  of  yt  and  further  this  deponent  saytli  not. 

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WHITMORES    OF    MADELEY. 


1676  —  This  Court  ordcrotli  John  Wells  witli  Plioeby  Furrow  to 
take  care  of  the  widJow  So  estate  of  Gcortre  Fuitow  decc'ised.'' 

Bourne  (Hist,  of  Wells,  p.  MG)  says  Farrow  left  a  widow 
and  three  sisters.  Savage  says  that  it  was  tiie  presumed  son, 
Geor<?e,  Jr.,  who  was  killed;  that  he  left  three  daiiu'liters,  and 
that  William  Syraonds  and  Joseph  Storcr  were  administrators. 
Both  are  doubtless  wrono^  in  part.  There  was  only  one  George 
Farrow,  and  he  had  no  son,  Ijut  did  have  three  dauu[hters. 

Now  it  appears  by  a  deed  on  record  at  Alfred,  ^tle.  (York  co. 
Deeds,  iv.  4,  5),  that  3  Nov.,  1082,  John  Smyth,  Sen.,  of  Cape 
Nuttaeke  (now  Neddock),  planter,  and  Mary  his  wife,  sold  to 
William  Sawyer  of  Wells,  part  "of  that  tract  or  parcell  of 
upland  and  sault  marsh  and  fresh,  wiueh  fell  to  ray  wife  Mary, 
by  the  death  of  her  natural  father,  George  Farrow,''  containiiifr 
eii^bty  acres  of  upland  and  eii^ht  acres  of  meadow,  ttc.  &c. 
Both  John  and  Mary  make  a  mark,  and  the  deed  is  acknowledged 
before  Sam^  Wheelwright,  same  day,  and  recorded  March  9, 
1683-4. 

From  documents  still  on  record  in  York  county.  Me.,  which  I 
propose  to  publish  elsewhere,  it  seems  that  John  Smith,  Sen.,  was 
of  Casco  under  Cleeve's  government,  and  that  in  1653  his  wife 
was  Joan,  sister  api)arcutly  of  Edward  Wanton  (  ?Wanerton, 
see  Hist.  Saco,  p,  43  ?) 

In  1657  he  was  of  Cape  NuJdock,  or  Neddock,  where  he  had 
lands  granted  in  16.58. 

Iq  1674,  John  Smith,  Sen.,  with  consent  of  his  wife  Joan, 
deeds  land  to  his  son  John,  Jr.,  mentioning,  also,  land  of  James 
Jackson.  In  the  same  year  James  Jackson  had  land  granted  to 
him  "lying  next  to  his  father  John  Smith." 

As  already  mentioned,  in  1682  John  Smith,  Sen.,  had  taken  a 
second  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  (Whitmore) 
Farrow.  In  16S4,  he  confirms  to  his  son  John,  land  given  bj 
him  "and  Joane  ray  former  wife,  his  mother." 

June  23,  1685,  John  Smith,  Sen.,  makes  a  deposition,  being 
aged  about  73  years.  ^March  1,  1685-6,  he  sells  land  to  Samuel 
Banks,  and  Mary  acknowledged  same  14  June,  1686. 


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Finally,  3  Feb.,  16ST-P,  John  Smith  of  York  made  a  settle- 
ment with  "Mary  Smith,  wife  of  my  late  deceased  father  John 
Smith,"  giving  her  a  piece  of  land  in  lieu  of  all  claims  for 
dower. 

I  am  informed  l»y  Xathaniel  G.  Marsliall,  Esq.,  town  clerk  of 
York,  that  aljout  1713,  John  Smith,  late  of  York  and  then  of 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  as  executor  of  his  father  John  S.,  had  the 
lands  re-granted  and  the  boundaries  defined. 

Now  it  seems  by  Essex  county  records,  the  administration 
was  granted  IS  May,  1713,  to  Susanna,  widow  of  John  Smitli, 
of  Gloucester,  mariner;*  that  they  had  children  John,  Abigail, 
Rebecca,  Susanna  and  Joseph. 

Here  I  leave  tliis  line,  having  no  "Whitmore  blood  in  it.  As 
yet  I  find  no  trace  of  any  children  of  Mary  (Farrow)  Smith, 
and  it  is  uidikely  that  she  had  any.  Still,  as  she  was  born  in 
1645,  slie  may  have  re-married  after  Smith's  death. 

Mr.  Marshall  says  that  12  Oct.,  1727,  John  Smith's  heirs  sold 
his  land  to  Samuel  Bankes  of  York,  but  the  deed  cannot  be 
found. 

Possibly  the  widow  Mary  (Farrow)  came  to  Gloucester  with 
her  stepson ;  and  it  is  to  be  noted  that  I  have  not  traced  Phebe, 
her  sister. 

•  The  Gloncester  records  have  the  children  of  John  Smith,  Jr.,  and  Susanna,  as 
follows : 

John,  b.  2  Nov.,  1702;  d.  25  June,  1714,  aged  16^  years. 
t'i  Abigail,  b.  25  Aug.,  1704.  .  >       ,  r 

Rebecca,  b.  25  Dec,  1706.  .  , 

'-•'''  Joseph,  b.  20  March,  1709. 

■  ■■     Susanna,  b.  6  Nov.,  1711.  .         .     ■      ,    .    ..        ,( 

Susanna,  widow,  aged  about  46  years,  died  2  March,  1725. 


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44  WIIITMOllES    OF    3IADELEY. 

THE    BREWER-WniTMORE    BRANCH. 
.    -  John  Brewer  of  Ipswich. 


Since  the  prcccdiiii^  ])a.ucs  u'cre  printed,  ilr.  Waters  has 
kindly  funiishcd  mo  with  more  facts  about  John  Erewer.  It 
seems  that  his  will,  dated  14  June,  1G84.  jircscnted  30  ^cpt. 
followiii;^:,  is  in  E.-.sex  WilU,  iv.  100-4.  Ho  is  termed  John 
Brewer,  ;Sen.,  of  Ip.swich,  and  mentions  wife  ^\:w\ ^ father  Bnii:er 
of  Hamton,  gi-andeliiid  Edward  Chapman,  other  gr.  ch.  John 
Chapman;  residuary  leiiatees,  son  John  Brner  and  dan.  iTary 
Chapman.  Overseers,  brother  Tiiomas  Lull  and  Simeon  Stuce; 
wife  Mary,  executrix. 

Oct.  2,  16S4,  widow  Mary,  who,  being  incapable,  renounced 
executorship,  made  an  au;recment  with  '-sou  Johh  Brewer,"  and 
Simon  Chapman,  -'said  Simon  beiuLC  the  husl)and  of  said  Brucr's 
daughter,  deceased.''  Mary  (Whilmore)  Brewer,  widow  of 
John,  l3t,  died  10  Dec,  1GS4. 

The  inventory  of  J.  B.,  ''who  decesed  the  22  June,  1GS4,"* 
mentions  as  one  item,  "Bermoody  basket.  Is." 

It  is  thus  not  only  shown  that  John  Brewer,  Sen.,  of  Ipswich, 
was  not  the  Sudbury  man,  but  it  is  made  evident  that  he  had  a 
father  living  in  Hampton,  ilr.  Joseph  Dow  of  that  town  has 
given  me  some  facts  which  enable  tne  to  make  a  probable  pedi- 
gree. Our  Boston  records  (see  Register,  xi.  202)  say  that 
"William  Lane  was  married  to  Mary  Brewer,  the  daughter  of 
Thomas  Brewer  of  Roxbury,  21  :  6:  50:"  i.  e.,  xVug.  21,  1G56. 
Now,  29  Nov.,  1G57,  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  were  married  Sarah 
Brewer  and  Thomas  Webster;  and  at  Hampton  the  record  says 
"  ould  goodman  Brewer  dyed  23  March  I  GOO"  (the  year  being 
16b9-'JO,  as  other  entries  show). 

The  son  of  Mary  (Brewer)  Lane  married  at  Boston,  21  June, 
1680,   Sarah  Webster  of   Hampton,  dau.    of    Sarah   (Brewer) 

•  The  town  record  says  he  died  23il  June. 


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Webster.  If  Mrs.  Lane  and  Mrs.  Webster  were  sisters,  these 
cliildren  would  be  first  cousins;  and  the  fact  that  Mrs.  Webster 
lived  at  Hampton  would  account  for  her  father's  removini^  to 
that  town.  This  view  was  urixed  in  the  Register,  ix.  I(i0,  and 
is  in  every  respect  most  probable.         ■         ,.      -      ■    >       .,,!  . 

We  have  then  (I)  Thom-as'  Bi!EWER  of  Roxl)ury,  said  to  have 
been  at  Ipswich  in  1642  (perhaps  a  brother  of  Daniel  B.  of 
same),  who  uIlmI  -'old"  in  1690,  at  Hampton,  with  children 
John,  Sen.,  of  Ipswich,  Sarah  ^Yeb^ter  and  ^lury  Lane. 

[2)  John'  Brewer,  Sen.,  of  Ipswich,  m.  Mary  (Whitmore) 
and  had : — 

i.     Mary,  b.  23  Sept.,  1C48;  m.  Shnou  Cbupman. 

(3)  ii.   John,  b.  G  Oct.,  1G;J3. 

iii.  Surah,  b.  27  March,  ICoo;   prob.  d.  unm. 

In  the  next  generation  : — 

(3)  JoEiN'  Brewer,  Jr.,  of  Ipswicli,  and  Susanna  Warner, 
■were  married  at  Ipswich,  January,  1G74,  as  the  court  records 
show.  He  was  chosen  clerk  of  the  writs  (or  town  clerk)  of 
Ipswich,  27  Nov.,  16S3.  Susanna,  wife  of  John  Brewer,  died 
Nov.  20,  1688.     (Town  records.) 

He  married,  secondly,  3  June,  IGS9,  Martha,  dau.  of  Abraham 
Perkins,  and  had  : — 

••        ?r''''!\''^4' I  b.  19  Feb.,  1C39  ;  d.  voung. 
u.      Martha,'  )  .        o 

(4)  iii.     Jonx,''  b.  1G92;  aged  5  years  in  1697. 

(5)  iv.     Mauy,"  b.  1G95;     ''     2      "       "       " 

V.      Martha,*  b  June,  1C97  ;  ag-sd  4  mouths  in  1697  ;  d.  young. 

Oct.  4,  1697,  his  widow  Martha  was  made  administratrix; 
her  bond,  as  guardian  of  the  three  children,  gives  their  names 
and  ages.  She  afterwards  made  return  as  administratrix,  8 
Oct.,  1701,  as  Martha  Brewer,  alias  Ingols  (Essex  Wills,  vii. 
]0l).  She  was  also  appointed  guardian  to  John  Brewer,  minor, 
son  of  John  B.  of  Ipswich,  and  mentions  that  his  sister  Martha 
was  deceased. 


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Jan.  18,  1702-3,  Abraham  Perkins  of  Ipswich  was  made 
guardian  of  the  children  of  John  Brewer,  viz.:  John,  aged  about 
10  years,  and  Mary,  aijout  8  years.  Pfe  was  unquestionably 
their  uncle,  and  their  mother  had  married  secondly Iiitiols. 

These  two  irrandchihiren  of  ^lary  (Whitmore)  Brewer  both 
married;  and  thei-e  were  also  iivins:  their  cousins,  the  children 
of  Mary  Chapman,  two  being  mentioned  in  the  will  of  John 
Brewer,  Sen.,  viz.:  Edwai'd  and  John  Chapman. 

(4)  John*  Brewer.  3d.  of  Ipswich,  was  a  mariner.  Nov.  9? 
1717  (Essex  Deeds,  vol.  xxxii.),  ho  with  wife  Abigail  sell  a  half 
right  in  common  land  to  Robert  Calfo,  clothier.  Mentions  his 
father  John  Brewer. 

Again  (Essex  Wills,  xi.  101),  14  Dec,  1714,  Ephraim  Smith 
and  Mary  his  wife,  dau.  of  John  Brewer  of  Ipswich,  having 
received  X20  fi-om  his  brother  John  Brewer,  mariner,  acquitted 
the  estate. 

John*  and  Abigail  Brewer  had  at  Ipswich — 
i.     Abigail,*  bapt.  19  Nov.,  1721. 

His  wife  d.  27  Sept.,  1723,  and  I  cannot  trace  this  line 
farther. 

(5)  Mary*  Brewer,  as  just  shown,  married  Ephraim  Smith. 
Administration   was   granted  9  Feb.,  1720,  on  the  estate  of 

Ephraim  Smith  to  his  widow  Mary.     I    have   not   been   able   to 
trace  this  line  farther. 


It  remains  only  to  add  that  I  have  shown  that  certainly  Mary 
Whitmore  (Brewer)  and  possibly  Ann  Whitmore  (Farrow)  left 
issue  settled  in  Essex  county,  Mass.,  as  late  as  1720.  By  any 
of  these  lines  of  descent  the  old  Bible  before  mentioned  {ante, 
p.  38)  might  have  been  handed  down.  All  that  I  felt  obliged  to 
do,  was  to  establish  such  a  possibility,  and  this  I  think  has  been 
done. 


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Autograph  of  Fra:^ljs  Whiimoee. 

On  p.  15,  I  stated  that  Francis  Whitaiorc  of  Laxton  might  be 
the  witness  to  the  will  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Egerton  in  1()24,  at 
London.  I  have  since  received  from  Col.  Chester  the  facsimile 
of  the  signature  of  Francis  W.  appended  to  his  will.  It  is  as 
follows : 


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The    signature    of  the  witness    to    the    Egerton   will    is    as 
follows : 


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From  the  striking  dissimilarity,  I  presume  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  these  are  different  persons.  But  the  witness 
may  be  either  the  Fi-uncis  mentioned  on  p.  20,  or  the  one 
mentioned  in  Tract  No.  2. 


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TT  seems  tliat  "William  AVilcox,  of  C;iml)ri(l«;e,  wlio  died  Xoy.  28, 
-*-  16.53,  in  his  will  dated  two  days  before  (Ueg.  xvi.  70),  mentions 
his  wife  then  siek.  (Sec  appendix  C.)  From  the  liev.  Lueius  1{. 
Paige  I  learn  that  William  ^Vilcox  m.  Mary  rowell,  Jan.  :?2,1G5(}. 

On  onr  Boston  records  (Reg.  xi.  200)  I  find  "Jacob  Elliot  Avas 
marryed  to  Mary  AVilcock,  widow,  9  :  11  :  54  :  by  Capt.  Humphrey 
Atherton." 

Savage  indeed  writes  :  "Wilcox,  John,  Dorchester,  whose  young 
widow  m.  9  Jan  y,  1054-5,  Jacob  Eliot."  But  in  this  he  was  clearly 
wrong.  On  the  Dorchester  records  (]MS.  vol.  i.  pp.  135,  141)  it 
seems  indeed,  that  a  John  AVilcox  was  in  the  s[)rlng  of  1001  and  of 
1602,  twice  appointed  a  fence  viewer.  He  m.  widow  ]Mary  Farns- 
worth,  and  deeds  land  in  1001  and  1005.  But  this  proves  too  much, 
for  this  John  did  not  have  a  widow  six  years  before.  I  find  no  other 
John  Wdcox  in  Dorchester,  and  this  John  was  certainly  the  ^Nliddle- 
town  man.      We  must  look  elsewhere  for  Eliot's  wife. 

It  seems  therefore  almost  certain  that  Jacob  Elliot,  Jr.'s  wife  was 
^lary,  widow  of  William  Wilcox,  of  Cambridge  ;  since  she  was  a 
widow  and  the  only  one  we  know  of. 


Leaving  out  of  sight  some  early  settlers  of  the  name  in  Rhode 
Island,  we  find  that  there  was  a  Jolm  Wilcox,  of  Hartford  (Hinman, 
first  ed.  98),  surveyor  of  highways  1042  and  1644,  juror  1645, 
called  senior  in  1648  (Trumbull's  Conn.  Rec.  i.  172),  selectman  in 
1649.  He  must  have  died  before  Oct.,  1666,  when  his  widow 
makes  her  will. 

His  widow  ^Mary's  will  was  dated  Oct.  4,  1666  :  she  mentions 
dau.  Ann  Hall,  cousin  (i.  e.  grand-child)  Sarah  Long,  son  John 
Bid  well.     An  abstract  of  this  and    other  papers  will  be  found  in 

Appendix  A.      ,.  „     ■,,,.n>.^^..^,, 

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2  The  Wilcox  Famihj. 

It  ia  evident  as  the  father  is  called  John,  vSen.,  in  1G48,  that  he 
then  had  a  son  John,  Jr.,  of  adult  age,  and  we  identity  this  latter  with 

John  Wilcox,  of  Hartford,  who  m.,  first,  Sarah,  dau.  of  William 
Wadsworth,  Sept.  17,  1G4G,  and  had: 

i.      Sarah,  b.  Oct.  3,  1048. 

His  wife  dying,  he  in.,  second,  January  1<S,  1<).3(>,  Catherine 
Stoughton,  moved  to  Allddletown,  and  had  several  children,  viz.  r 

ii.  Johu,  b.  Oct.  21),  10.">0;  d.  before  his  father. 

iii.  Thomas,  (1.  before  his  father.  '    •■  ■      ' 

iv.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  1.;.  IC.Vi;  (1.  before  her  father. 

V.  Israel,  b.  June  r.),  1  ('>.'>(■.. 

vi.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  0,  1(5.38. 

This  wife  dying,  lie  m. ,  third,  Mary.'  widow  of  Joseph  Famsworth, 
of  Dorchester  ;  before  that,  widow  of Long,  who  died  in  Kill. 

He  m.,  fourth,  Esther,  dau.  of  \\  iiliam  Cornwell,  and  had  : 

vii.   Ephruim,  b.  July  0,  1G72. 
viii.  Esther,  b.  Dec.  'J,  IGTo. 
ix.    Mary,  b.  I\Iarch  21,  1G7G. 

He  d.  May  24,  IG 7(3.  :\rart;li  1,  1G7G-7  (Co.  Court  Ixec.  iil. 
161),  the  court  ordered  distribution.  On  the  inventory  (409  L.,  ii. 
4)  it  is  noted  :  ""The  children  of  the  deceased  are,  Sarah  Long,  ne'ar 
28  years  old;  Israel,  20  year  old;  Samuel,  Xov,  9,  '76,  18  year 
old;  Ephraim,  4  year  old  9  July,  1G7G  ;  Hester,  2  years  old  Dec. 
the  last,  1675  ;   Mary  was  born  the  9,  167.5-6." 

These  dates  agree  generally  with  the  births  as  above  recorded. 

Ann  (Wilcox)  Hall.  It  is  stated  in  the  Wetmore  genealogy, 
apparently  from  the  ^Nliddletovvn  records,  that  "Ann,  Avife  of  elohn 
Hall  and  daughter  of  John  Wilcocke,  died  July  20,  1(373,  aged 
about  57."  She  was  of  course  the  daughter  of  John  Wilcox,  Sen. 
Her  husband  was  John  Hall,  Jr.,  son  of  John  of  Hartford  and  Middle- 
town,  who  had  lived  in  New-England  40  years  before  his  death  in  1673. 

Savage  indeed  doubts  if  she  might  not  be  a  second  wife  of  John 
Hall,  Sen.  ;  but  this  is  impossible.  First,  as  John  Hall,  Sen.,  died 
May  26,  1673,  Anne  would  have  bt^en  called  his  widow,  not  his 
wife,  two  months  later. 

Again,  John  Hall,  Sen.'s  will  dated  ^lay  14,  1673,  as  copied  by 
Mr.  Trumbull,  mentions  son  Ivichard  Hall  and  his  children,  son  John 

•  The  proofs  of  this  maniagc  arc  amply  set  forth  in  Appendix  B. 


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Hall,  cluldreu  of  dauLrliter  Sarah  "Wetmer,  deoeased,  sou  Tliomns 
Wetmer ;  gives  10  ssliil.  towards  a  school ;  and  gives  the  reiuaiudcr 
of  his  estate  to  son  Samuel  Hall  and  his  heirs. 

But  he  mentions  no  wife,  and  it  is  incredible  that  he  should  have 
had  one  living  but  unnoticed.  .  .,  . 


We  do  not  doubt  then  that  the  "An  Haul"  mentioned  by  the  widow 
of  Jolm  Wilcox,  Sen.,  as  her  dau^diter,  was  Anne,  wife  of  John 
Hall,  Jr.,  and  sister-in-law  of  Sarah  Hall,  wife  of  Thomas  Whit- 
more,  of  Hartford,  ancestor  of  the  Wetmores  of  this  country. 

It  is  a  coincidence  certainly  that  wliil<t  John  Wilcox,  Sen.,  of 
Middletown,  had  a  dau.  Ann  who  m.  Jt>hn  Hall,  Jr.,  of  tliat  place 
(sister-in-law  of  Sarah,  wite  of  Thomas  Whltniorc),  the  Cambridge 
William  A\'ilcox  mentions  in  his  will  a  sister,  the  widow  Hall,  wliosc 
children  were  William  and  Susan.  AVe  identify  her  with  the  willow 
Mary  Hall,  of  Cambridge,  who  had  children  John,  Susanna,  Stc[)hen, 
A\  illlam,  Mary,  Hannah  and  Lydia. 

It  is  curious  that  John  \Vilcox,  Sen.,  had  a  dau.  Ann  Hall,  and 
William  AVilcox  a  sister  ^lary  Hall ;  but  this  may  point  to  some  con- 
nection in  England  between  Jehu  and  William  Wilcox,  and  between 
the  Halls  of  Middletown  and  the  Halls  of  Cambridge. 

Francis  AVhitmore,  of  Cambridge,  is  mentioned  by  ^\'illiam  ^\'ilcox 
as  one  in  his  ''funily  meeting.''  Xow  bclie\ing  as  we  do  that  Jacob 
Eliot,  Jr.,  m.  the  widow  A^'ilcox,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  Dea.  John 
AVhitmore  (son  of  Francis)  m.  Rachel,  dau.  of  Francis  Eliot,  own 
cousin  to  Jacob  E.,  Jr.,  and  Abigail  ^^'hitmore,  sister  of  Dea.  John, 
m.  Samuel  AVilcox,  of  Middletown,  son  of  John  AV.,  Jr.  Again, 
Mary  Stough ton,  niece  of  John  AVilcox,  Jr.,  and  sister  of  the  wife  of 
Samuel  Farnsworth,  m.  John  Eliot,  grandson  of  the  Rev.  John  E., 
and  cousin  once-removed  to  Jacob,  Jr.,  and  to  Rachel  Eliot. 

Althottgh  there  was  no  known  relation  between  Thomas  Whitmore, 
of  ^Middletown,  and  Francis  AVhitmore,  of  Candjridge,  it  is  some- 
what strange  that  Francis's  oldest  son,  Francis,  Jr.,  went  to  Aliddle- 
tovvn,  as  did  two  of  his  daughters,  who  m.  respectively  Daniel 
Markham  and  Samuel  Wilcox.  But  if  the  Aliddletown  Wilcoxes, 
Halls  and  AVhitmores  were  relatives  of  the .  Csmibridge  AVilcoxcs, 
Halls  and  Whitmores,  then  such  a  removal  would  be  natural.  These 
coincidences,  added  to  the  cross-man-iagcs  and  the  Eliot  connections, 
seem  to  go  far  to  render  such  relationships  highly  probable. 


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4  The  Wilcox  Family. 

Leicestershire  is  bounded  hy  tlie  counties  east  hy  Lincoln  and 
Rutland,  south  hy  Northampton,  west  hy  Warwick  and  Derby  (Staf- 
ford ahnost  touching  it),  north  by  Xottinghani. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  the  visitation  of  Leicestershire  mentions 
the  following  families,  giving  pedigrees  thereof,  viz.  :  \\'ileo(-ks, 
Hastings,  Fox,  and  Hall,  rendering  it  desirable  to  cxauiiue  the  re- 
cords of  that  county  tirst,  in  order  to  tind  the  origin  of  these  colonists. 

"William  Wilcox,  of  Cambridge,  mentions  particularly  the  son  uf 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Sliepard,  "for  whose  fither's  sake  I  cannc^t  forget 
him."  This  clergyman  was  born  at  Towcester,  near  Northampton, 
in  the  county  of  tliat  name,  Nov.  a,  !(>()')  ;  went  to  Emmanuel  Col- 
lege, Cambridge,  in  1(120  ;  was  a  lecturer  of  Earles-colne,  co.  E^sex  ; 
then  lived  at  JJiitterelu-ome,  co.  York,  at  Sir  Richard  Darleys  house  ; 
then  went  to  Nortluuuberland  ;  sailed  from  Harwich  in  l<.;;t,  was 
driven  back  by  a  storm,  and  lived  at  liastwick,  co.  Norfolk  :  reem- 
barked  and  arrived  in  New-England,  Oct.  o,  1(^)0.  He  was  settled  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  till  he  died,  Aug.  2."),  1(H9.  Wilcox  may  mean 
by  his  words  (jnly  sucii  acquaintance  as  lie  had  had  with  Shej)ard  in  Cam- 
bridge here,  or  he  mav  refer  to  some  knowledge  of  him  in  Eniiland. 


Appexdix  a. 

The  following  copies  of  wills  and  papers  on  record  at  Hartford 
have  been  most  kindly  made  lor  nic  by  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  Esq. 

[Original  on  file.     Recorded  Prob.  Rec.  iii.  HI.] 

AViLL,  Oct.  4,  1GG(3,  of  Mrmj  WUcoch,  widow,  of  Hartford. 
To  cousin  jSaraJi  Long,  two  pewter  platters.  To  daughter  An  Ihinl, 
40  shil.  and  best  feather  i>illow.  All  other  estate,  after  debts  paid, 
and  " charges  about  my  comly  buriall  being  discharged,"  to  loving 
son  John  Bidiodl,  who  is  made  sole  executor.  Dea.  Butler  and 
James  Ensing  iutrcated  to  be  overseers. 

Signed     (bj  mark  of)     ^Lvuy  Wilcock. 
■witnesses,     ^' 

Richard  Butler,  >,.,'•  i  K 

James  Ensing. 

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"  Pr  :\r  Sam"  Willys     Capt.  Jn"  Talcot     Lt.  Jn"  Allyn 

Ootob'  29  :  G7.  U})on  y"  motion  of  Deacon  Butler  in  belinlf  of 
the  Widdow  Wilcox,  the  A5:?is"  doe  see  cause  to  order  that  John 
Wilcox  doe  pay  unto  his  mother  the  said  Widdow  Wilcox  or  iier  As- 
sifjnes  six  pcnuids  a  year  in  wheat  and  pease  at  price  currant  to  he 
paid  in  Hartford  where  she  or  tiiov  shall  appoint,  which  is  in  lieu  of 
what  he  is  enj^fagcd  to  pay  unto  her  by  his  father's  will.  And  v^  said 
John  Wilcox  is  to  possess  and  enioy  the  old  house,  the  closset.  and 
y"  fruit  of  y"  Orchyard  which  i)y  y'  will  of  her  husltand  she  should 
possess,  but  throw  weakness  is  disabled  for  continueina-  in  v'^^  house 
to  possesse  it  alone.  The  mauestratcs  doe  also  determine  tliat  what 
rent  is  to  be  paid  for  y"  liouse  and  orc:hyard  by  the  Jewes  who  have 
lived  in  it  this  year  past,  that  it  he  paid  to  y*"  said  \\  iddow." 

[Quarter  Court  liecords,  iii.  GD.] 

A  County  Court  at  Hartford,  :March  5,  IGlw-GS. 

"  Upon  the  motion  of  Deacon  Kichard  Butler  ^Sc;  James  Ensinir, 
that  some  course  miuht  he  taken  that  some  mi^ht  be  impowcre<l  to 
dissposc  of  the  A\'idow  AN'illcnx  cNc  her  e.-tate  to  the  hest  advantau(>, 
that  there  miL;ht  be  s.)me  cmnf  »rral;lc  satisfaction  math'  ti>  those  tiiat 
shall  entertein  her  as  lon^-  as  her  csrate  will  atbard  it,  this  Com-t  re- 
ferrs  the  whole  matter  to  the  prudent  manaLrement  of  tiic  .-avd  15utler 
&  Ensigne  &.  doe  hereby  impower  them  to  act  in  it." — [Ibid,  p.  7G.] 


Appexdix  B. 

John  Wilcox,  of  Ilartfjrd  and  ^liddletown,  had  for  his  first  wife 
Sarah  Wadsworth,  and  her  sister  m.  Thomas  Stoughton,  Jr.  AVileox 
m.,  second,  Catherine  Stoughton,  sister  of  Thomas  8.  and  liau.  of 
the  Thomas  Stoughton,  Sen.,  wjio  went  from  Dorchester  to  Windsor. 
Catherine  had  many  relatives  living  in  Dorchester,  and  her  last  child 
was  born  in  Nov.,  1G58.  Probably  she  died  soon  after,  and  John 
Wilcox  m.  a  third  wife  Mary,  who  died  in  KhI. 

We  find  at  Dorchester  a  John  Wilcox,  who  was  fence  viewer  in 
1661,  16G2  (Dorchester  liec.  .MS,  vol.  i.  pp.  131,  141)  ;  and  on  Sutf. 
Deeds  vii.  2'JG,  April  24,  IGGI,  a  deed  from  John  ^\'ilcox,  of  D., 
and  ]Mary  his  wife,  executrix  of  the  will  of  Joseph  Farnsworth,  to 
William  Pond.  Also  (Suti'.  Deeds  xi.  359),  March  17,  1.GG4-5, 
deed  of  same  John  and  Mary  Wilcox,  to  Samuel  Rigbee. 

In  the  Register,  ix.  140,  is  the  will  of  Joseph  Farnsworth  above 
cited,  made  Jan.  2,  1G59,  speaking  of  his  wife  Mary,  and  her  two 


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children  by  a  former  husband,  viz.,  Joseph  Lonq-  and  Thomas  Lonir. 
Joseph  Farnsworth  seems  to  liave  had  a  son  Samuel  Farusworth,  hv 
this  wife  ]\Iary,  though  he  had  other  children,  doubtless  by  a  former 
wife. 

On  file  at  Hartford  is  the  -will  dated  April  3,  IGTl,  of  J/«/v/,  ^vife 
of  John  Wilcox,  of  ]Middleto\vn,  ''declared  by  v.ord  of  mouth." 
Gives  to  her  son,  Sdmuel  l^'ernsirorth,  £10  stg.,  out  of  her  land  in 
the  great  lot  at  Dorchester,  liemainder  of  the  lot  to  her  husband, 
John  AVilcox.  T(j  her  son,  Juxi^ph  Long,  the  bill  she  had  of  him 
for  land  bought  of  her.  '' ^Vhitc  was  coat  and  red  tammy  coat"  to 
3lari/  WiUcox.  To  Sarah  L,()))ff,  her  featiier  bed  and  bolster 
which  is  at  Hartford  in  her  house  already,  her  "  cloath  waseoat  with 
the  great  silver  lace,  and  a  petty  coate."  Freely  resigns  to  her  hus- 
band, J.  ^V.,  his  estate  whieh  was  mortgaged  to  her.  Desires  that 
£10  given  her  son,  Samuel  Fernsworth,  should  be  paid  to  her  friend, 
Capt.  Ilopestill  Fo.-ter,  of  Dorchester,  to  be  kept  till  he  coine  of  a^^e. 
Witnessed  by  John  Ilall  and  Anne  Hall. 

John  Willcox  owned  in  court,  Sept.  7,  1G71.  that  he  gave  his  wife 
liberty  to  make  her  will. 


These  documents  of  course  prove  tliat  John  Wilcox,  of  Middle- 
town,  was  the  Din-chester  man,  and  that  his  third  wife  was  the  widow 
Long-Farnsworth.  I  think  it  als(^  certain  that  his  step-son,  Thomas 
Long,  married  Sarah  Wilcox,  dau.  (^  John  AV.  by  his  first  wife. 
Such  intermarriages  are  common  and  natural.  Sarah  Long,  born  in 
1048,  is  reckoned  among  John  A\'ilcox"s  children,  just  where  his 
oldest  dau.  Sarah  would  be  :  no  other  step-children  are  so  reckoned, 
and  we  may  l)e  sure  Sarah  A\'ilcox  had  married  a  Long.  Savage 
records  a  Thomas  Long,  of  Hartford.  1()(5.">,  and  we  know  not  who 
he  was,  unless  he  was  John  AVilcox's  step-son.      Wq  conclude  there- 

''     fore  that  Thomas  Long  married  his  step-sister  Sarah  A\'ilcox. 

i  Again,  Samuel  Farnsworth,  another  step-son  of  John  AA'ilcox.  m. 

1  in  1677,  ]Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas  Stougiiton,  Jr.,  a  girl  doubly  a 
cousin  to    the   children    of    AVilcox,    with    whom    Farnsworth    had 

i  been  brought  up.  This  may  serve  to  indicate  that  the  mixed 
households,  of  which  John  Wilcox  wa^s  the  head,  lived  in  harmony 
and  accord. 


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Appendix  C. 

The  will  is  ;is  follows  : 

I,  Willicun  Witcoches  of  Cambridge,  although  we.ikc  in  Body, 
yet  of  sound  mind,  make  this  my  last  -vvill.  Just  debts  be  Sattlsficd, 
and  the  remainder  of  my  estate,  my  wife  shall  have  the  use  thereof 
dureing  the  time  of  her  Avidowhood,  and  when  it  shall  please  the 
Lord  to  change  her  Condition,  by  marriage,  or  by  death,  whether 
shall  first  happen,  my  will  is,  that  my  estate  shalbe  thus  divided  ;  to 
my  dear  pastor,  J/''.  Jl/'cliell,  I  give  £d,  to  J^'/der  Frost,  £i.  to  my 
Couzen  Jo/t/t  M'oodes,  £10.  To  my  Loving  lirothrcn  that  were  of 
my  fauiily  meeting,  viz',  lloq''.  Ba acmft^  Jif .  Ilastlng.  TJio.  Fox, 
William  Patttn  and  Francis  ]\7uiinore,  I  give  20'  a  pecce  ;  to  my 
sister,  the  Widoio  Ileal,  '20\  and  to  her  sonnc  WilUani,  and 
daughter  Susan,  I  give  20^*  a  peece  ;  to  my  honest  Bro.  liichanl 
Frnncis,  T  give  20%  and  to  my  iiro.  Jn'\  T<i)jU)r,  I  give  40' ;  to 
Tho.  Shepard  (for  whose  fathers  sake  I  cannot  forget  him)  I  give 
£5,  and  the  remainder  of  my  estate  my  will  is,  that  it  shall  be  thus 
divided  ;  to  my  wife,  in  case  the  Lord  doth  lengthen  out  her  life  so 
that  shee  doth  againe  chang  her  condition  by  mariage,  my  will  is  that 
shee  shall  have  the  one  halfe  thereof;  and  in  case  the  Lord  shall  take 
her  away  cyther  before  shee  liecover  of  this  jtrcsent  sicknes  which  is 
now  upon  her,  or  before  her  mariage,  my  will  is,  that  shee  shall  then 
dispose  and  have  to  her  Use  only  one  fourth  part  of  the  remainder 
of  my  estate,  after  my  debts  Sc  legacies  are  first  payd,  and  the  re- 
mainder of  my  estate  I  give  to  my  sisters  Children  in  old  England, 
to  be  equally  divided  between  them,  who  Avere  tlie  Children  of  mv 
deare  sister  Christia.)i  JJoijden.  [^Uoidcn  in  orig.  will.]  I  ap})ovnt 
for  my  Executors,  my  Loving  wife  and  Tho:  Uanforth,  whom  I  do 
desire  to  see  this  my  will  fulHlled. 

2Q,  9  mo.  1G53.  per  me  William  Wilcocks 

Witness 
Tho.  Brigham  his  markc,  Anne  Hastings,  Tho.  Danforth. 

Entered  and  recorded  22.  3  mo.  1654.  Jany  3,  lG.33-4,  depo- 
sitions made.  Inventory  22.  10  mo.  1G53  —  deposition  3.  11  mo. 
1653. 

By  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Thomas  B.  Wyman,  I  lenrn  that  the  fol- 
lowing memoranda  is  on  the  original  will,  both  being  in  Danforth's 
hand-writing : 

Due  to  Bro  Wilcockes  in  Barbados 
Mr  Collins 
Sewall's   bills   left  in   the   hands  of  Anthony  Lane 
Mr  Collins  and  his  wife  to  write  to  Capt  .Middletun  &Q, 
Due  to  Br  Wilcocks  in  X.  E  from  Edw  Allen  in  Boston 


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Jno  Smitli 
Mr  Scott 

Sugar  at  Capt  Xortons 
Goodm  Jones 
Longhome  fur  The  Danforth 
Sent  to  Barbados  by  Jno  Tlirumble 
4  firkins  Butter  to  Anthony  Lane 
4  plowcs  Occ  to  Christophe  Line 
Bro  W  Dr  to  .Mr  Tanner 

Geo  Cliinery 
Edw  Hutchiii?on 
I  give  to  Jno  A^^1o<les,  Mr  Mitchell  J^r  Patten 
ffranc  :  M'hitmoio  Kugr  Bancroft,  widow  Hall 
Jno  Hastings  Tho  Fox  ^U'  a  ])eese  in  Sii::'" 
to  Ri  Frances,  Jno  Taylor  Ekr  Frost,  Tho 
Shcpard  W"  c^c  Susan  Hall  Kr  a  peece. 

Here  Thomas  Danfortli,  overseer  of  AVilcock's  will,  calls  him  Bro. 
W.  This  may  be  only  as  a  br.^rher  in  the  church.  He  was  son  of 
Nicholas  Danforth,  of  Framllngliam,  co.  Sulf.,  and  married  Mary 
AVithington,  of  Dorchester,  in  1(;44.  Her  brother,  Kichard  With- 
ingtOD,  m.  before  1G.30  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Philip  Eliot.  Another 
coincidence  of  Eliots. 

It  is  to  be  added  that  I  have  failed  to  trace  any  land  to  AVilcox. 
Perhaps  he  owned  none,  but  held  personal  property  onlv.  Otherwise 
it  is  difficult  to  see  what  became  of  the  land,  since  either  the  Bovdens 
or  Eliots  (if  the  widow  m.  Jacob  Eliot,  jun.)  would  have  disposed 
of  it  some  time. 


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ABSTRACTS   OF    WILLS   OF   WJIITMORES, 

FROM    EXGFJSH     RECORDS. 


From  the  Registry  of  Wills,  at  Lilchueld,  England. 

1. 

Henry  Whitmore  of  S'neriff-hales,  Co.  Statlbrd.  wiil  dated 
1549.  Wife,  Syliil ;  sons,  Humphrey,  Richard,  William, 
Thomas,  John,  and  George.  Daughters,  Cassandra,  Margaret, 
and  Anne.  ,    .  ^  -•  .  ;. 

2. 

Humphrey  Whitmore  of  Sheriff-hales,  yeoman,  died  Nov. 
23,  1500.  His  will  mentions  daughter  Cicily  Momford,  son- 
in-law  William  Brofield.  godson  Humjihrey  Whitmore ;  Ex- 
ecutors, Geolfrev  ^lillinston  and  William  Brofteld. 


3. 

Richard  Whytmore  of  Newport,  Co.  Salop.  Will  dated 
Jan.  12,  1570-1,  proved  Sept.  2,  1571.  Mentions  v.^ifc  Eliza- 
beth, brother  William,  sons  Tliomas  and  William,  daughter 
Elizabeth.  Mentions  John  AVhytmore,  '-the  boy  that  lives 
in  my  house."     Executor,  Wm.  Hakyn,  the  younger. 

His  widow's  will,  dated  May  5,  1573,  proved  Sept.  29, 
same  year,  adds  sister  Frances. 

4. 

William  Whitmore  of ,  died  Feb.  10,  1579-80.    Will 

mentions  wife  Isabel,  brothers  Richard  Whitmore  of  Newport, 
Humphrey  Whitmore,  and  Thomas  Whitmore,  who  had  a 
son  Henry.  Daughter-in-law  Jane,  late  wife  of  Richard 
Waynewright.  Mentions  William  and  Elizabeth  Whitmore, 
not  twenty-one.  [Probably  children  of  Richard,  his  brother.] 
Overseer,  Richard  Whitmore  of  Willbrighton. 


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Richard  Whitmore  of  Willbrighton.  in  the    parish  of  Gros- 

nali,  Co.   Stafford,  will   dated  Dec.  20,  1587,  proved  Jan.  27, 

1588.     Mentions  children  by  first  wife,   Frances,  Humphrey 

and  William ;  by  present  wife   Isabel,  son  Thomas,  daughters 


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Ellen,  Beatrice   and  Joan.     Witnessed   by  Thomas  Whitmore 
and  Mary  Whitmore.  ,        .  ,.•  j  ^  ,_   *,;  ;V-   T 


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John  Whytmore  of  Ashley,  Co.  Stafford,  will  dated  June 
12,  1571  ;  proved  May  7,  1572.  Mentions  brother  William 
and  his  children  ;  cousin  ?>hirgaret,  wife  of  Roger  Yorke  ; 
kinswoman.  Margaret  Shawe.  .;    ,  ; 


7. 

Thomas  Whitmore  o(  Thornall  in  the  parish  of  Madely, 
Co.  Stafford,  yeoman,  died  May  12,  1573.  His  will  mentions 
wife  Agnes,  sons  Thomas,  Richard  and  Humphrey,  and  three 
daughters.  IMentions  lands  in  Bctley  and  Ashley.  Witness, 
William  Whitmore  of  Thornall. 

His  widow  died  Dec.  25,  1591  ;  her  will  adds  daughters 
Margaret  Podmore,  Anne  Sherrat  (?),  and  Margaret  (?)  Gorton. 

8. 

Richard  Whitmore  of  Thornall  in  Madcly.  d.  Dec.  4,  1G03. 
His  will  mentions  brothers  Thomas  and  Hinnphrey,  brother 
John  Sheriff,  sister  IVIargaret  Podmore,  Thomas  and  William 
Podmore,  George  Gorton,  uncle  John  Brown  and  aunt  Mary, 
and  gives  legacies  to  Margaret,  Ellen,  William,  Robert,  Anne, 
Dorothy,  Elizabeth,  and  Egerton  Whitmore.  No  children 
mentioned. 

9. 

Thomas  Whitmore  of  Barr-hill  in  Madely,  gentleman,  will 
dated  Aug.  4,  1601,  proved  Oct.  1006;  mentions  wife  Joan, 
son  Peter,  and  his  children,  Thomas  and  Emmanuel,  daughter 
Ellen  and   her  child,  cousins  Margaret,  Jane,  Francis  and  his 

male  issue. 

10. 

Peter  Whitmore  of  Barr  Hill  in  Madely,  gentleman,  will 
dated  Feb.  2S,  1662-3,  proved  April  28,  1664:  mentions  wife 
iSusanna,  brother  Thomas,  who  has  the  care  of  his  goods  at 
Onneley,  son  Thomas,  daughters  Mary  and  Anne.  Executors, 
ttncle  George  Audley  of  Audley,  and  brother-in-law  William 
Hinton  of  Ridgwardine. 


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William  Whitrnore  of  Littleslialc  [probably  Hales  in  Dray- 
ton], Co.  Salop,  will  dated  June  4,  1G67,  proved  Oct.  4,  16G7  ; 
mentions  wife  Margaret,  brothers  John  and  Rowland  Whit- 
more,  daughter  Margaret  Hawkins,  grandchildren  William^ 
Humphrey,  Margaret,  and  Sarah  Whitniore. 

Seal,  a  double-tailed  lion,  rampant,  crest,  a  tiger  (?)  passant. 
[Note. — Francis  Whitrnore  of  Cambridge.  Mass.,  1649,  had 
then,  wife  Isabel,  daughter  of  William  Parke.  His  son  used  a 
seal,  (only  one  im.pression  of  which  I  have  seen),  appears  to 
be  a  lion's  head.  His  grandson's  widow,  her  two  sons  and 
their  wives  used,  in  1742,  the  seal  here  engraved.] 


12. 

Humphrey  Whitrnore  of  Chebsey,  Co.  Stafford,  clerk,  will 
dated  Sept.  10,  1G16,  proved  July  29,  1G17;  mentions  wife 
Cassandra,  daughters  Dorothy  Simson,  Margaret  Underwood, 
Anne,  Isabel  and  Barbara  ;  son  Thomas  and  his  children  Adie,. 
Margaret  and  Frances,  son-iti-law  Ellicc  Weston,  brother-in- 
law  Humphrey  Powler.         "'"  "  '    ■  ■  ' 


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William  Whytmore  of  Rotherham,  Co.  York,  gentleman, 
will  dated  Aug.  IG,  15GS  ;  son  Richard,  wife  Cecilie,  daughter 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Stephen  Browne  ;  wife's  father  John  Par- 
ker,  daughter-(?)-in-law  Frances  Parker;  sisters  Elizabeth 
Howtost  and  Jane  Richardson.  Leaves  his  son  his  lands  in 
Caunton,  Kirsault,  Newark  and  Bccsthorp,  Co.  Notts. 
^j  [Note. — These  places  are  all  within  a  circuit  of  five  miles, 

.      as  is  also  Laxton.] 
ipuj..    a.  14. 

Francis  Whitrnore  of  Laxton,   Co.  Nottingham,  gentleman, 


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will  dated  Jan.  26,  161-1-5;  mentions  sister  Anne  Farrar. 
nephew  Robert  Farrar,  '"if  he  be  alive  and  in  England;" 
nephews  John.  William.  Francis.  Thomas,  and  George  Far- 
rar;  wife  in  England. 

[Note. — See  Gen.  Keirister,  Oct.  1S.52.  A  Robert  Farrar 
came  to  Virginia  in  163;j.  Georse  Farrar  was  of  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  1G37  ;  m.  Ami  Whitmorc  Feb.  16.  1643-4,  had  three 
children,  of  whom  George,  b.  9  May.  1650,  was  killed  at  Wells, 
by  the  Indians,  Sej)t.  27.  1676.  Ilis  wife  Ann,  d.  1650-60, 
and  he  m.  Elizabeth ,  and  d.  in  1662.] 

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Harl  Mss.,  No.  2067. 
John  Whitraore  of  Thurslaston,  Co.  Chester,  Esq.,  will 
dated  Sept.  18,  15S3,  desires  to  be  buried  in  the  chancel  at 
West  Kirby,  near  the  tomb  of  his  ancestors;  mentions  cons- 
ins  (i.  e.  nephews)  John  and  \Viiliam  and  their  father  Thomas, 
cousins  Henry  Whitmorc,  William  Ilockenhull  of  Prcnton, 
William  Bennett,  Richard  Anian  and  ^lary  Whitmore, 

16. 

Regislrji  of  Wills  at  Chester. 

William  Whitmore,  the  elder,  of  Leighton,  Co.  Chester, 
Esq.,  will  dated  ^larch  1.  1619.  proved  Jan.  16,  1620.  desires 
to  be  buried  at  Weston,  near  his  late  wife  ;  wife  Catherine, 
son  William,  reputed  son  Thom.as,  daughters  Christian,  Elean- 
or, and  Jane  and  lier  husband  William  Rennet,  kinsmen  John 
Hough  and  William  Covcutree  of  London. 

His  daughter  Christian  in  her  v.'ill,  Dec.  14,  1625,  mentions 
sister  Jane,  wife  of  William  Whitmore,  brothers  William,  Rich- 
ard and  Thomas. 


Parish  Record,  Kimfsford,  Co.  Chester. 

July  30,  1553,  bapt.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert  W^h it- 
more. 

Oct.  29,  1590,  bapt.  Ellen  Whitmore,  alias  Antrobus, 
spurious. 

May  1,  1593,  married  Charles  Hale  and  Parnel  Whitmore. 


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Lichfidd  Registry. 
John  Whitmore  of  Colingwood,  in  the  parish  of  Tatenhill. 
Will  dated   1547,  mentions  wife  Isabel),  sons  John  and  Wil- 
liam, daughter  Agnes.     Witness,  Thomas  Whitmore. 


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Prerogative  Court,  London. 

George   Whitmore   of    Baimes,   Middlesex,    Knight.      Will 

dated  March  14,  1G51.     He  mentions  wife  Mary,  son  Charles, 

(to  whom  he  gives  the  manor  of  Ottingham,  Co.  York,)  son 

George,  cousin  William  Whitmore  the  Draper,  cousins  Thomas 

Whitmore  and  William  Bond,  nephew  William  Whitmore. 

[Concerning  Ottingham,  see   Poulson's  History  of  Holder- 

nesse,  ii..  426. j 

19. 

Registry  of  Wills  at  York. 

Cecilie  Whitmore,  widow,  of  Eastwood,  in  the  parish  of 
Rotherham,  Co.  York.  Will  dated  Oct.  5,  1610.  No  Whit- 
mores  mentioned. 

Stephen  Brown  of  Brampton,  Co.  York,  in  his  will  dated 
March  20,  1597,  speaks  of  Rowland  Whitmore,  and  of  his 
brother  Whitmore  and  wife  Ellen. 

[Note.— See  ante.     Will  Xo.  13.] 


Lichfield  Registry. 
William  Whitmore  of  Rolleston,  Co.  Stafford.  Will  dated 
April  24,  proved  May  17,  1623,  mentions  wife  Ellen,  brother 
Richard,  John  Whitmore's  three  children,  Vv'illiam  Whitmore's 
son  that  lives  with  his  grandfather,  Judith  Whitmore's  daugh- 
ter that  lives  with  brother  Richard.  Thomas  Alcock  of  Tut- 
,j'      bury  Woodhouses,  appointed  overseer.  ...,  ,.,.,.,.,;   . 


^1. 
Ibid. 
Thoinas  Whitmore  of  Trysail.     Will  dated  May  24,  proved 
2 


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6 

Sept.  14,  1630.     He  died  July  1,  1630.     Mentions  his  mother 
and  his  wife  Isabel.  -'■''' 

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■     '  \         '.-  •■  "  nid.        '     ■  ^"'":  '     '   '"  "' 

Edward  Whitmore  of  Nether  Penn.  Co.  Stafford,  yeoman. 
Will  dated  Nov.  10.  IGIG.  ^Mentions  wife,  sons  ThomaS;  .lohn 
and  Garbett,  daughters  Eleanor.  Alice  and  Sarah;  brother  Wil- 
liam ;  cousin  John  Hincks,  Sen.  of  l^irton  ;  son-in-law  Walter 
Green. 

....:;.,..:     .....'  ■    23.  '■  -■   ■'    '■•  ■  ^' 

■'■'-  ■  -  ■   ■  ■    •  -  -      Ibid.  ■     ■    :  '  - 

William  Whitmore  of  Mearewaylane,  Go.  Stafford.  He  died 
Oct.  14,  16  10.  His  will  mentions  wife  Elizabeth,  daughters 
Dorothy,  Ellen  and  Elizabeth. 


.-■..  -   v..  24  ,  .... 

Ibid. 
Thomas  Whitmore  of  Stone.     Will  proved  Aug.  23,  1667, 
mentions   his  mother,  his  wife   Isabel  (who  re-married  to  Ver- 
non  Turton),   brother   Richard,   brother   Thomas  Lake,  sister 
.Margaret  Lake.  .  .        ,     ' 


Ibid. 

James  Whitmore  of  Drayton-in-Halcs,  Co.  Salop.  Will 
dated  Feb.  12,  1675-6.  Mentions  wife  Isabel,  daughters  Mary 
and  AlicC;  son-in-law  Roger  Whitworth ;  appoints  Edmund 
Blest    of  Ridgwardine,  executor.     ,,  .  :;:^     ^'^  ::•::;:/ 

■    ,1  >  ■.; :.  26.  ■  '/•'•  '■■■'■ -'^^  ^•■'■'" 

Rolls  Chapel,  Lojidon. 
Inquisition  on  the  death  of  William  Whitmore   of    Shrop- 
shire (36  Eliz.).  mentions  the  manor  of  Martin,  in  the  parish 
of  Bedwin,  and  lands  in  Wiltshire.     He  had  wife  Susan. 

■^27. 
Litchfield  Registry. 
Thomas  Whitmore  gave  a  bond,  May  22,  1666,  as  admhiis- 


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trator  of  his  neice   Isabel  Whitmore,   late  of  Tatenhill,  Co. 
Salop. 

Stoke  by  Nay  land.,  Co.  Sujfrlk. 
John  Whitmore  married  Joan  Wheeler,  Oct.  8,  1618.     John, 
son  of  John,  bap.  Jan.  13,  1022.  


.  .,     ,   .    .  ...  .  28.  ... 

Prerogative  Court,  Londoyi. 
William  Whitmore   of  Wittlesea.  hi    the    Isle  of  Ely,  Co. 
Camb.     W^ill  proved  May  29,  1632,  mentions  wife  Isabel,  sons 
Thomas,  Ralph  and  William,  daughter  Joan. 

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William  Whitmore  of  Whittlesea.  Will  proved  May  1, 
-1663.  Mentions  wife  Hose,  son  John,  brother  Thomas,  not 
21.     Mentions,  also,  lands  in  Blackbush  left  to  his  son  John. 

■     '   ''■■  30.  ■     ■■•--^- '■•-- 

Pleasant  Whitmore  of  Whittlesea.  Will  proved  May  12, 
1677.  Mentions  sons  Thomas.  Richard  and  Robert;  daugh- 
ters Bridget  Hardiman,  Helen  Leverton  and  Alice. 

31. 

William  Whitmore  of  Whittlesea.     Will   proved   Dec.   10, 
1716.     Mentions  wife  Mary,  sons  William,  Thomas  and  John, 
"daughter   Rose,   wife   of  Robert  Wright.     Mentions  land   in 
Blackbush.  •-    •    •   -    ■  ■:       •  .vj  ,••     '- 

From  the  Whittlesea  Pariah   Register. 
,     May  6,  1670,  William  W^hitrnore  married  Mary  Samon. 
Oct.  10,  1662,  bap.  Alice,  daughter  of  John  W^hitmore. 
■    Feb.  6,  1696,  bap.  Adam,  son  of  William  and  Mary. 

32 

Surrey  Registry. 

John  Whitmore  of  Woking.     Will   proved  Jan.    10,    1662. 
Mentions  wife  Dorothy,  sons  John,  William  and  Richard,  and 
■daughter  Kathcrine  Martin,  brothers-in-law  John  Lee  and  Wil- 
.  liam  Collyer.       .  _  ^  ^   j;,  ,  r;       ;    ^    ,  •    ,  ; 


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33. 

Thomas   Whitmore    of    Aldbury.      Will    proved    April   10, 
i  1623.     Mentions  daughter  Susan  (deceased),  wife  of  William 

I  Stevens  of  East  Cianden,  and  Judith,  wife  of  Richard  Moody 

!  of  Aldbury,  brother  John  Whitmore  of  Reigate  and  his  son 

i  Nicholas.     Grandson  William  Moody,  executor. 

I 

I  George  Whitmore  ot    West  Horsley.     Will  proved  July  4, 

j  1635,     Mentions  wife  Susanna,  son  Robert,  daughters  Mary, 

I  Alice.  Anne  and  Sarah,  sisters  Katherine  Francis,  Anne  Sham- 

bell  and  Mary  Goddard. 

!  35. 

Robert  Whitmore  of  West  Horscly.     Will   proved  Dec.  4, 
i  1634.     Mentions  daughters  Katherine,  wife  of  John  Francis, 

Anne,  wife  of  Thomas  Shambley,  and  Mary,  wife  of  Chris- 
'         topher  Goddard  ,•  son  George,  and  his  children  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, Anne  and  Robert. 

36. 
Thomas   Whitmore   of  Womersh.      Will    proved    Sept.    5, 
1609.     Mentions  wife  Julian,  son  John  and  his  son  John,  son 
Nicholas  and  his  wife  Frances,  son  Thomas,  son  Paul  and  his 

son  John. 

37. 

Thomas  Whitmore   of   Womersh.     Will    proved   Sept.   16, 

1630.    Mentions  mother  Julian,  present  wife  Elizabeth,  brother 

John  Stevens,  brother  Nicholas,  son  Thomas,  daughters  Joan 

arid  Elizabeth,  god-daughter  Audrey  Whitmore. 

38. 
William  Whitmore  of  Godalming.    Nuncupative  will  proved 
March  25, 1624,  gives  everything  to  his  aunt,  Mabel  Anthony. 

39. 

John  Whitmore  of  Shaulforde.  Will  proved  Oct.  12,  1597. 
Mentions  brothers  John,  Thomas,  Paul  and  Nicholas,  father 
Thomas  Whitmore. 

Francis  Watmore  of  Kinlet,  Co.  Salop.  Inq:  post  mortem, 
Jan.  26,  7  Car.  1.     He  died  June  29,  1627.     His  heirs  were 


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his  sisters  and  their  husbands,  viz..  Joan,  married  William  West 
of  Stony  Stanton ;  Alice,  married  Edward  West  of  the  same 
place. ^^ 

41. 

Arch-deaconry  Court  of  Norfolk. 
William  Whitmore   of    Shouldam.      Will   proved    Nov.   7, 
1705.     Mentions  son  George,  daughter  Elizabeth. 

42. 

Mary  Whitmore  of  South  Lapham,  widow.  Will  dated 
Feb.  27,  1715.     Mentions  son  John  and  daughter  Elizabeth. 

43. 

Paul  Whitmer  of  Wymondham.  Will  proved  Oct.  19,  1599. 
Mentions  wife  Susan  and  a  child  unborn. 

44. 

Richard  Whitmar  of  Aylsham.  Will  proved  June  11, 1604. 
Mentions  wife  Alice,  son  Edward,  daughter  Agnes,  and  son's 
wife,  Robert  Coye. 

4fi. 
At    Longham,   Co.   Norfolk,   Henry  Whitmore    and    wife 
Marian  had — 

William.  ' 

'»     Mary,  bap.  May  15,  1600;  d.  April  25,  1610. 
Henry,  bap.  May  1,  1603. 
John,  bap.  Oct.  16,  1609. 
He  was  buried   Feb.  14,  1619,  and  his  widow  d.  Aug.  30, 
1620.     Of  these— 

William  m.  Mary  Smyth,  July  16,  1620,  and  bad- 
Sarah,  bap.  April  18,  1624. 
Anne,  bap.  Feb.  24,  1627. 
George,  bap.  Nov.  20,  1630. 
Cecily,  bap.  Sept.  27,  1635 ;  d.  July  13,  1653. 
His  widow  prob.  d.  Dec.  15,  1655.  .    , 

Henry  m.  Diana  Smith,  Jan.  1,  1622,  and  had — 

James,  bap.  ;  d.  April  12,  1629.  •         •> 

Israel,  bap.  Sept.  2,  1626. 
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^  '^''beorge,  bap.  Feb.  21,  1029. 

Susan,  bap.  May  12,  1G33.  .       • 

Robert,  bap.  Aug.  20,  1637. 

His  wife  d.  June  IS.  1059.  and  he  m.  Elizabetli  .     He 

d.  Dec.  29,  1663. 

Geeorge  Wliitmore  (prob.  son  of  William)  m.  Mary  , 

and  had —  .';•,!,  i;!  .^  j  .■•■;.•■■;''.' .      ... 

William,  bap.  March  15,  1652. 
His  wife  d.  Feb.  14,  1674. 

Robert  Whitmorc's   wife   d.   March    1,    1600.      Robert  and 
Elizalieth  W.  liad—         •  -  ■.• 

Susan,  bap.  Aug.  17,  1662. 
Robert  and  Mary  W.  had—  '  ' 

Henry,  bap.  March  27,  1664. 
Robert  and  Margaret  W.  had — 
.^.  io  Di-'uia,  bap.  March  18,  1666;  d.  Sept.  16,  1666. 

Martha,  bap.  Sept.  7,  1667.  ■    ,.  •. 

Margaret,  wife  of  Robert,  d.  Nov.  25,  1667.     . 
[Note. — Were    there    two    Roberts?    or  did    he   have   four 
wives?  or  did  the  clerk  mistake?     The  last  couple  seem  to  be 
the  son  of  Henry  and  his  wife.] 

Henry  Whitmer  had —  •■■  ■    ''• 

James,  bap.  Feb.  23,  1660.       '■-;':; 
John,  bap.  Aug.  15,  1663.  ■•'■'■.. 'i 

Widow  Whittmore,  d.  Feb.  9,  1668.  .  >"..i     ..l    V 

Widow  Alice  Whitmore,  d.  July  30,  1096. 
[NoTF. — The  name  is  spelt  on  the  records  Whitmore,  Whitt- 
more. Wliitmere  and  Whitmer.]       '••{■  ■        •    ■    ■      • 

46.  '      ■  i--  ■   ■'■■     •     '■ 

Prerogative  Court,  London.      •'•':••     v 
John  Whytmore,  parson  of  Stone,  in  the  Diocese  of  Roches- 
ter.    Will  proved  May  17,  1498.     Desn-es  to  be  buried  in  the 
Chapel  of  our  Lady,  in   the  Abbey   of  Manning.     Mentions 
cousin  Thomas  Whitmore. 

■       ,.,  ..     .'         ■'.     ■  ■>  >•    47.  ■     '\--\  :^^■•■■     ■■■:■  : 

Richard  Whitmore  of  Drayton,   Co.    Berks.     Will    proved 


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Oct.    19,   15G0.     Mentions    sons    Robert,  John,   Richard    and 
Henry,  and  daughter  Joan. 

Registry  of  Wills  at  Chelmsford. 
Richard  Whitmore  of  Curringham,  Co.   Essex.     Will  dated 
May  27,  1569.     Mentions  wife  Jane,  brother  Thomas,  daugh- 
ter Joan. 

49. 
Prerogative  Court,  London. 
John  Whitmore  of  Fassett,  Co.  Hunt.     Will  dated  Feb.  14, 
15G4.     Mentions  sons  William  and  Thomas,  daughter  Isabel. 

brother  Ralph. 

50. 

Thomas  Whitmore  of  Beely,  Co.  Worcester.  Will  dated 
April  21,  1653.  Mentions  wife  Margaret,  sons  Thomas,  Rob- 
ert, Edward,  John,  William  and  Benedict,  daughters  Anne 
Carter,  Mary,  Jane.  Frances  and  Isabel.  ,•■" 

„!..  J     ■>;'.  U--    ■■■  _'  •••■5J.  '  ■••   '     -v   ■■     ■'"•  '•  ■'. 

Bitterswcll,  Co.   Leicester. 
George  Whytmore   m.  Elizabeth  Robinson,  Aug.  15,  15(39. 
George  W.  buried  Feb.  7,  1597. 

■       ■    62.:    "^'■' 

Dedham,  Co.  Essex. 
Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  Whitmore,  bap.  Aug.  G,  1G20. 
Thomas,  son  of  Wm.  and  Phebe  W.,  bap.  Feb.  1,  1G39. 

53. 
•'•■■*•      .'  Great   Torrington,  Co.  Devon. 
William,  son  of  Robert  Whitmore,  bap.  1G28. 

54. 
John  Whitmore  of  Norleigh.  1G15,  and  Richard  W.  of  Ax- 
minstor,  1G40.     AVills  missing,  though  indexed  at   the  Arch- 
deacon's Court  in  Exeter,  Co.  Devon.  ■•  -  '     -• 

.      -  5o. 

Thomas  Whittemore  of  Hitchin,  Co.  Herts,  m.  Anne,  widow 
of  Willshire,  and  had — 

Alice,  bap.  May  30,  15G7,  m.  Freeman  ;   Mary,   bap. 

July  18,  1571,  m.  John  Hodgkyns,   Sept.  29,  1591;   Thomas, 


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bap.  Aug.  24,  1572,  d.  June  IS,  1573;  Anthony,  bap.  Aug.  24, 
1572,  d.  Oct.  ],  1572;  Abraham,  bap.  Nov.  25,  1576;  Esther, 
bap.  March  9,  157S  ;  Hannah,  bap.  Sept.  4,  15S0,  m.  Andrew 
Sewerties,  Oct.  13,  1601;  Nathaniel,  bap.  June  14,  15S4,  d. 
June  13,  1597. 

He  was  buried  Nov.  26,  1617;  his  wife  died  Aug.  8,  1584. 
He  had  brothers  Rowland  and  William,  who  had  sons  Thomas 
and  Roger. 


56. 

Thomas  Whittemore,  Jr.  of  Hitchin  m.  Mary  Meade,  Sept. 
16,  1591,  and  had  by  her,  who  d.  Dec.  8,  1604— 

Thomas,  bap.  Jan.  6,  1593;  Elizabeth,  bap.  Nov.  3,  1594, 
ra.  Richard  Sheffield,  April  28.  1617;  Daniel,  bap.  Sept.  26, 
1696;  Samuel,  bap.  Nov.  12,  159S,  d.  Dec.  26,  1598;  Samuel, 
bap.  Aug.  3,  1600  :  John,  bap.  May  13,  1602 ;  Mary,  bap.  Dec. 
8,  1604,  m.  Robert  Tristam,  April  27,  1631;  Nathaniel,  bap. 
June  5,  1608;  Anne,  bap.  Feb.  4,  1610. 

His  2d  wife  was  xVlice. 


57.  "■-       ■     ■■-    ■ 

Thomas  Whittemore,  Jr.  of  Hitchin  m.  1st,  Sarah,  who  d. 
Oct.  31,  1616,  and  by  whom  he  had — 

Sarah,  bap.  April  14,  1616. 

He  m.  2d,  Sarah,  and  had — 

Mary,  bap.  May  12,  1G24;  Thomas,  bap.  Oct.  6,  1626. 

His  wife  d.  Nov.  17.  1623,  ar.d  by  3d  wife  he  had— 

Daniel,  bap.  July  31,  1633;  John,  bap.  April  27,  1635,  d. 
April  27,  1635;  Nathaniel,  bap.  May  ],  1636;  John,  bap.  Feb, 
11,  1638. 

This  last  Thomas  came  over  to  Maiden,  Mass.,  and  is  the 
progenitor  of  the  Whittemores  of  this  country.  His  will  men- 
tions his  two  sons,  named  Thomas,  one  in  England  and  one 
born  here.  After  he  camo  here,  be  had  children  Elizabeth. 
Benjamin,  Thomas,  Samuel,  Pelatuh  and  Abraham.  Of  his 
grandfather  nothing  is  known,  excepting  that  he  "used  to  sell 
malt  in  Southwark,  London,'"  and  gives  a  legacy  to  John  Hay- 
Jbey,  brewer,  of  London.  This  is  the  only  family  of  the  name, 
.  thus  spelt,  yet  found  on  the  EnglislL  records. 


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added  the  follow  iiio-  paiupiiK-t?  }>rinted  some  tweiUv  \  ear* 
ago.  Although  tilt'  iiiaiu  idea  is  wrtiiig,  a.^  the  [treeedin'- 
pages  show  that  the  .vpley  hraiich  wat:  not  an  oft-.-hoot  of  the 
( "lR:«hire  I'aiiiily,  still  ;if«  this  .-ketch  contaiii>  iiiaiiv  tacts  and 
dates,  I  liave  concluded  to  preserve  a  tew  copies.] 


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The  learned  author  of  '•  Magna  Britannia  "  speaks  (vol.  v.  p.  93)  of  the  origin 
of  the  name  of  Whitmore  as  follows  :  — 

"  Co.  Stafford,  —  Whitmore,  a  \illai:e  or  manor  lying  on  the  banks  of  the 
river  Sow.  It  was  some  time  forest  lands,  and  was  anciently  the  scat  of  a 
family  who  took  its  name  from  it,  being  called  Be  Whitmore.  The  Bouuns 
had  afterv.-ards  their  seat  here ;  but,  in  these  last  centuries,  the  Manurings 
(Mainwarings)  were  owners  of  it  by  the  marriage  of  a  daughter  and  heir  of 
the  BoHuxs  alias  Bonghys." 

The  account  given  in  Burke's  "Landed  Gentry,"  under  the  head  of  Bm- 
DTJLPH,  is,  that  "  RiCARDua  FoRESTARius,  who  held  the  manor  of  Whitmore 
temp.  Conquest.,  had  a  son,  OuMUS  le  Guidon,  who  m.  a  daughter  of  Nicholas 
DB  Beauchamp,  Vicccomes  of  Statford,  by  his  ^vife  Emmeline,  dau.  of  Ukso 
DE  Abitot.  Ormus  had  four  sons,  of  whom  the  oldest  was  Kohert,  who  had 
a  son,  Ralph  de  Darleston  (who  d.  s.p.'),  and  a  daughter,  Alina,  "who  m. 
Inqenulfcs  de  Gresley.  This  Alina  is  said  to  have  given  part  of  her  pos- 
sessions to  her  uncles,  and  part  to  her  daughters,  Avisia  and  Petronella. 
AvisiA  received  Darleston,  Feuton,  Biddulph,  [and  Whitmore,]  and,  marrying 
Henry  de  Verdon,  after  three  descents  these  manors  came  to  Alicia  de 
Verdon,  who  m.  Edward  Mainwaring,  about  1540,  in  whose  family  Whit- 
MOBE  Hall  still  remains." 

The  following  evident  inaccuracies  may  be  seen  in  the  above  account : 
1st,  Emmehne,  dau.  of  Uiiso  de  Abitot,  m.  Walter  de  Beauchamp,  steward 
to  Henry  I.,  who,  after  the  death  of  his  wife's  brother,  inherited  her  father's 
dignities  ;  viz.,  the  constableship  of  the  Castle  of  Worcester,  and  shrievalty  (an 
office  the  same  as  that  of  vicecomes)  of  Worcester.  This  Walter  de  Beau- 
champ  left,  together  with  sons,  but  one  daughter,  Emma,  who  m.  Kalph, 
Baron  of  Sudley.  (See  Edmondson's  xVccount  of  the  Family  of  Gre\-ille, 
London,  1766,  pp.  27,  28.)  The  wife  of  Ormus  must  therefore  be  sought  else- 
where. 2d,  In  Burke's  ••  Commoners,"  under  the  name  of  Mainwarino,  of 
Whitmore,  is  undoubtedly  the  true  account  of  the  three  generations  preceding 
the  intermarriage  with  the  Mainwarings,  which  says  that  Alice,  grand- 
daughter and  heiress  of  Humphrey  de  Bogeey,  or  Bohun  (her  father,  Robert 
DB  BooHEY,  having  died  in  1519),  married  Edward  Mainwaring.  Lastly,  it 
will  be  seen  that  there  are  but  six,  or  at  the  most  seven,  generations  given, 
from  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  1066,  to  Alice  de  Bohun,  1516,  which  is  but 
half  the  number  which  must  have  lived.  I  am  therefore  compelled  to  regard 
the  account  as  extremely  defective,  and  as  of  questionable  authority. 


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PEDIGREE. 


223lIjitmoi-cs  of  CIjurstanstoiT. 

II.  WILLIAM  DE  WniTMOUE  Tsou  of  TMLLIAM  DE  WHITMORE 
[L],  son  of  R015ERT  DE  WIIITMOIIE,  of  Chester,  1301).  m.  Agxes 
DE  IIasel-wall,  about  1300,  .Slio  -was  sole  daui:htcT  and  liL-iress  of  Wil- 
liam DE  Haselwall,  of  TicuKSTAXSTO-s',  Co,  C/ies/iire.  As  this  manor 
became  the  possession  of  the  Whitmores,  a  brief  account  of  its  descent 
is  here  given. 

At  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  Rohert  ds  Bhuddlan,  a  noble  knicht, 
sonof  IIuMrHREY,  or  Umi-rid  (the  son  of  Amirid,  of  Danish  blood),  by 
his  wife  Adeliza  de  Gkandmesnil,  received  the  manor  of  Thui'.stan.s- 
TON,  with  many  others.  He  was  a  feudatory  of  his  cousin,  IIucu  Lupus, 
Earl  of  Chester,  and  became  Lord  Marcher  of  Wales.  (See  Udericus 
Vitalis's  "  History  of  England  and  Normandy,"  especially  b.  viii.  ch.  3.) 
He  was  slain  by  the  Welsh,  about  the  3d  of  July,  1088,  and  was 
buried  at  Chester,  in  the  Abbey  of  St,  Werhu*-rjh  the  Virain,  whence  his 
remains  were  removed  a  few  years  afterwards,  by  his  brother,  to  the 
Abbey  of  St,  Evroult,  in  Normayidij. 

He  left  two  sons  (illegitimate  ■) ;  viz.,  Matthew,  who  inherited  Thur- 
8TANST0N,  and  was  a  benefactor  to  the  abbey  in  the  time  of  Handle 
Meschines,  Earl  of  Chester ;  and  Simon",  a  monk  in  that  ahbev.  Mat- 
thew had  a  son,  William,  who  had  issue,  —  Kichaed,  who  d.  s.  p,, 
and  Peter  de  Thurstansto.v.  Peter  de  Thurstanstox  had  an  only 
daughter,  Agnes,  heiress  of  Thirstaxsto-v  and  Great  Calday,  who 
became  the  second  wife  of  Patrick  de  Haselwall,  Sheriff  of  Cheshire, 
1277,  and  had  issue,  two  sons,  and  one  daughter,  Agxes. 

Of  these  two  sons,  William  de  Haselwall  had  issue,  —  an  only 
daughter,  Agxes,  who  m.  William  de  Whitmorp,  as  mentioned  at 
the  commencement  of  this  section. 

The  second  son, de  Haselwall,  m.  Margaret  (dau.  of  Johx, 

son  of  EusTACHiA  de  Verxon,  dau.  and  heiress  of  Ralph  Verxox),  and 
had  John  de  Haselwall,  who  had  an  only  daughter,  Cecllla,  of 
whom  presently.  ., 

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IL  WILLIAM  DE  WHITMORE  and  Agxes  de  Haselwall  had 

1  John. 

2  Robert  Whitmore,  of  Newtox. 

3  Nicholas  Whitmore,  of  Wichnall.  ^  ^  ^'"^'^  ^^''^^-  ^^^-  ^°-  ^^  19. 

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III.  JOHN  WmTMOllE,  li\-ins,  ^^vith  his  Avife  Maegery,  19  Ed.  H.  (1325), 

and  who  had  a  son, 

IV.  JOHN  DE  WHITMOEE,  Muyor  of  Chester  1369-1372,  who  m.  Cect- 

LiA,  dau.  of  John  de  ILvzklwall,  as  before  noticed.  He  d.  October, 
1734,  and  was  buried  in  Trinity  Church.  Besides  John,  his  oldest  son, 
he  had  (?)  one  Avho  m.  a  dau.  of  Henry  Bulkley,  of  Worcester.  (?) 

V.  JOHN  WnriMORE,  of  TucusT.NJN-sTOX,  joining  in  himself  the  rights  of 
his  father  and  mother,  became  lord  of  the  manor.  He  m.,  tirst,  Alice 
-^ — ;  and,  second,  ELizAiiEXH,  dau.  of  Sir  Piers  JIalkauke.  Inqui- 
sition pos«  mortem,  16  Henry  VI.  (1438). 

VI.  WILLIAIM  V/HITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  eldest  son,  and  heir  appa- 
rent, died  before  his  father,  —  falling,  in  1436,  before  Paris.  He  m. 
JoAx,  daughter  and  heiress  of  ILvlpu  Davenport,  and  had  a  son, 

VII.  WILLIAM  WHITM0RT5,  of  Tjiurstanston,  heir  to  his  grandfather, 
and  Mayor  of  Chester  1473.  He  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William 
Atherton,  of  Lancashire,  in  pursuance  of  a  covenant  dated  Aug. 
1,  1423,  previous  to  the  birth  of  the  said  Elizabeth.  He  d.  [Inq.  /j.  /«., 
2  Ric.  IIL  (1485)],  leaving, 

Vin.  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  son  and  heir,  who  m.  Cecilia, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Poole,  of  Nether  Poole,  Esq.,  and,  dying  [Inq. 
p.m.,  12  Hen.  VIL  (1497)],  left  issue, 

1  John. 

2  Thomas.  - 

Of  these, 

IX.  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Thdrstanston,  m.,  first,  his  cousin,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Poole,  of  Woodhey  ;  second,  Alice,  dau. 
of  Adam  Birkenhead,  of  Huxley,  Esq.;  and  tliirdly,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Wilbrauam.  He  had  no  issue  by  either  wife. 
His  brother,  Thomas  Whitmore  [IX.*],  m.  Catharine,  daughter  of 
James  Hurlestone,  of  Picton  (wlio  m.,  second,  Ralph  Bostock, 
and  had  dau.,  Catharine,  who  m.  Richard  Whitmore  ;  see  the  Ap- 
ley  Branch).  Thomas  died  vitdfratris ;  and  tiie  property  eventually 
came  to  his  eldest  son,  John  [X.],  of  whom  presently.  Thomas 
Whitmore  and  Catharine  had  (with  other  children,  for  whom  see  the 
Apley  Branch)  a  second  son,  William  Whitmore,  of  Leiohton,  \\\\q 
married  Alice,  d;iu.  of  William  Hough  (by  Jane,  liis  wife,  dau.  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Cromwell),  and  who  was  the  ancestor  of  the  5,!!iJf)it' 
motes  o(  SXplrn,  for  whom,  from,  this  date,  see  Burke's  "Gentry." 
[N.  B.  —  In  that  work,  a  different  pedigree  is  given  of  the  Apley 
Branch  previous  to  William  of  Leighton.] 


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X.  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  as  above,  succeeded  his  imcle, 
and  married,  first,  Catuarike,  daughter  of  Sua  William  Stanley, 
of  HooTON,  by  whom  he  had 

1  Elizabeth,  li-ving  1568.  ''    '    '' 

2  Margeet.  ■' 

He  m.,  secondly,  Margaret,  dau.  of Moore,  Esq.,  and 

had 

3  John,  son  and  heir. 

4  Thomas. 

6  (a  dau.),  m.  Richard  Burches,  Parson  of  Thurstanston. 

6  Catharinb,     m.  George  Bostock,  of  Burton. 

His  third  wife  was  Jane,  daughter  of  Willlam  Primrose, 
Esq.,  of  Chester.  ,      : 


XI.  Of  these,  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  son   and  heir,  m. 
Eleanor,  dau.  of  Richard  Done,  Esq.,  ot  Flaxyards,  and  had 


Xn.  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  son  and  heir,  who  married 
Lucy,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Rogers,  of  Eltham,  Co.  Kent,  and  had 
issue: 

1  Valentine. 

2  Elizabeth,  bapt.  July  13,  1616;  m.  John  Jennison,  of  London. 

3  Margaret.  m. Elmore. 

4  Anne,  buried  Dec.  3,  1619. 

6  John,  [Harl.  MS.  2119,  fol.  110.] 

Xni.  VALENTINE  WHITMORE,  of  Thurstanston,  son  and  heir,  m. 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Glegg,  of  Gayton,  May,  1646,  and 
d.  March  4,  1676.     His  children  were 

1  John,  d.  young;  buried  Aug.  7,  1661. 

2  William,    b.  1654. 

3  Valentine. 

4  Elizabeth,  m.  George  Ffarington,  of  Werden,  Co.  Lancaster. 

XIV.  WILLIAM  WHITilORE,  of  Thurstanston,  m.  Dorothy,  dau.  of 
Henby  Hockenhull,  of  Tranmere,  Esq.,  (younger  son  of  John 
Hockenhull,  of  Prenton).  He  was  biuried  in  1727  ;  and  his  wife, 
March  9,  1732.     Children  : 

1  Joseph.  "  .  <.,  ,  . 

2  Dorothy,  bapt.  1676.  .       -  . 


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XV.  JOSEPH  WETTMORE,  cf  Thurst.\nstok,  son  and  heir,  m.  Dorothy, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Edwaud  Bythell,  of  LL-wxEGai>f,  Co.  Flint, 
and  had  ■     . 

1  William,     d.,  *.;>.,  Jan.     4,  1731,  aged  21. 

2  John,  ,,       „     Sept.  10,  1733,     „      „    '  ■  .    .  •' 

3  Elizabeth,  m.  Aquila  Wyke,  and  d.  5.p.  '■      , 

4  DoEOTHY,     „    Richard  Coytmore.d.  «.^. 

5  Benedicta,  „    Joseph  Hall,  d.  s.p. 

6  Catharine,  ,,    George  Lewis. 

7  Mary,  „   Ignatius  Wright,     d.  s.p. 

8  Lucy,  „   Baptist  Smart,  d.s.p. 

XVI.  Of  these,  but  one  left  issue ;  namely,  CATHARINE,  who  m.  George 
Lewis,  Esq.     She  had  an  only  daughter,  — 

XVIL  Lucy,  who  m.  Charles  Eeowne,  Esq.,  of  Marchueial  Hall,  Co, 
Denbigh,  living,  a  widow,  and  without  issue,  1816. 

Thus  ends,  so  far  as  I  know,  the  elder  branch  ot  the  Whitmores  ;  but  there 
is  a  younger  branch,  settled  at  Apley,  of  which  I  give  the  following  account 
in  order  to  correct  some  errors  in  Burke :  — 

IX.*  THOMAS  WHTTMORE,  by  his  vnie,  Catharine  Hurleston,  had, 
as  previously  shown,  a  son,  John,  who  succeeded  his  uncle,  and 
also 

X.*  2    WlLLIAil. 

3  Thomas,  of  Madeley,  Co.  Stafford. 

4  Elizabeth. 
6  Margaret. 

X.«  WILLIAM  WHITilORE,  of  Leighton,  m.  Alice,  dau.  and  heiress 
of  William  Hough,  of  Leighton  (by  Jane,  his  wife,  dau.  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Crojiwell),  and  d.  Aug.  27,  1G20.  His  children 
were 

1  WiLLLiM,  b.  1577.  ,,       ,  ,        , 

2  Richard. 

3  John. 

4  Thomas      (illegitimate),  who  had  issue. 

6  Jane,  m.  William  Bennett,  of  Carnsdale. 

6  Christian,  d.  unm. ;  wll  dated  Dec.  14,  1625. 

7  Elizabeth,  „      „ 

8  Catharine,  „      „ 

9  Eleanor,     „      „ 

10  Catharine,  „      „ 

11  Mary,  „      „ 

His  will  mentions  (second)  ■wife  Catharine,  kinsmen  John 
Hough  and  William  Coventry,  of  London  ;  and  he  desires 
to  be  buried  in  the  parish  chiuch  of  Neston,  near  his  late  wife. 


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XL*  WILLIAM  WniTMORE,  of  Leightox,  oldest  son,  m.  Margaret, 
daiu  of  Sir  Hugh  Eeestojt,  and  had 

1st,   Edward   Somerset,  youngest 
son  of  Edw;u:d,  Earl  of  "Worcester, 

1  Bridget,    .  b.  1600;  m.,  ^  who  d.  s.;;.;  2d,  Thomas  Savage, 

second  son  of  Thomas,  Viscount 
L  Savage,  by  whom  she  had  issue. 

2  Alice. 

3  Winifred,  b.  1607.  ,  ,        ;.,>;-  •.  , 

XL*  RICHARD  WniT^IORE,  of  Aston,  in  Chorley,  m.  Catharine, 
dau.  of  Ralph  Bostock,  his  cousin  {vide  ante,  John  No.  IX.),  and 
had 

1  William. 

2  Thomas,  ancestor  of  the  \Vhitmores  of  Ludson,  Co.  Salop. 

Xn.»  WILLIiUI  WHITMORE,  of  London,  merchant,  m,  Anne,  dau.  of 
William  Bond,  alderman  of  that  city,  and  d.  Aug.  8,  1593.  His 
wife  d.  Oct.  9,  1615.     Chikkcn  : 

1  William       (Sir),  b.  Nov.  4,  1572. 

2  Thomas         (Sir),  d.  1612.  ,      ,    , 

3  George         (Sir). 

4  Elizabeth,  m.  Sir  William  Craven. 

6  Anne,  „  F.  Baber,  Esq.,  of  Chute,  Co.  Somerset. 

^  1st,  Sir  Richard  Grubham;    and,  2d, 

6  Maboaret,  „    )  Sir  John  St.  John,  of  Lidyard  Tre- 

C  goze,  Co.  Wilts. 

r  Sir  Charles  Montagu,  brother  of  the 

7  Maht,  „    <  Earl  of  Manchester,  and  d.  3d  of  the 

'Nones  of  July,  1652,  aged  77. 

8  Francis,  „  Sur  John  Weld,  of  Arnolds. 

9  Jane  5  Nathaniel  Still,  Esq.,  son  of  the  Bishop 

"    t  of  Bath  and  Wells. 

Xin.»  SIR  WILLIAM  WHITMORE,  of  Aplet,  oldest  son,  m.,  first,  Mar- 
garet, dau.  of  Rowland  Mosely,  of  Hough,  Co.  Lancaster  (who 
was  the  son  of  Sir  Nicholas  Mosely,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  1599) 

/  *•  •  and  by  her,  who  d.  Jan.  31,  1608,  had 

1  George,  of  Norton,  Co.  Salop,  who  d.  s.p. 

r  Sir  Ed.  Sawyer,  of  Haywood,  Co.  Berks,  and  d. 

2  Anne,  m.  <  1651;  ancestor,  through  the  female  line,  of  the 

V  Marquess  of  Normanby. 
He  m.,  secondly,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John  Weld,  Esq., 
of  London,  and  had  by  her,  who  d.  in  1626, 

3  Thomas,    b.  Nov.  2S,  1612,  of  Apley. 

4  William,  d.  young. 

6  Richard,  b.  June  21,  161i,  of  Lower  Slaughter,  Co.  Salop. 
1      *  S'V       6  Dorothea, m.  Henry  Garten,  of  Wola Vinton,  Co.  Sussex. 
He  d.  December,  1648. 


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XIII.*  SIR  GEORGE  WHIT:M0RE,  of  B.u.mes,  Co.  Middlesex,  Lord 
Mayor  of  London  1631-2.  He  ra.  SL\ry,  dau.  and  heiress  of 
Reginald  Copcott,  and  d.  Dec.  12,  1654.     Children: 

1  Chaexes,     -who  inherited  the  manor  of  Ottingham,  Co.  York. 

2  Geoege,       mentioned  in  hi3  father's  will.         .^         ,, 

3  William,     of  Balmes. 

^  Sir  John  Weld,  of  Willey,  and  had  an  only 

4  Elizabetu,  m.  5  dau.,  ^vho  m.  her  cousin  Richard,  of  Lower 

'  Slaughter. 
6  Anne,  „   Sir  John  Robinson,  Lord  Mayor  of  London. 

6  Maegahet,    „    Sir  Charles  Kemeys. 

7  Makt,  bapt.  July  21,  1615.  ^ 

XrV.*  SIR  THOMAS  WIIITMORE,  Bart.,  of  Apley,  oldest  son,  m.  Eliza- 
betu,  dau.  and  heir  of  Sm  William  Acton  ;  and  by  her,  who  d. 
1666,  he  had 

1  William      (Sir),  b.  Apr.  8,  1637,  of  Apley. 

2  Thomas        (Sir),  of  Bridgnorth  and  Buddwas,  Co.  Salop. 

3  Anne,  m.  Sir  Francis  Lawlcy,  of  Canwell,  Co.  Staff. 

4  Elizabeth,  „   John  Bcnnct,  of  Abingdon,  Co.  Camb. 
6  DoEOTHY,               „   Sir  Eliab  Ilarvey,  of  Chigwcll. 

He  d.  in  1653. 

XIV.*  RICHARD  \VHITMORE,  of  Lower  Slaughter  (see  William 
Xin.*),  m.,  first,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  George,  of  Born- 
ton,  Co.  Glouc,  who  d.  s.p.;  and,  second,  Catharine,  dau.  and 
co-heiress  of  Robert  Deards  ;  and  by  her,  who  d.  Nov.  30,  1673, 
left  at  his  decease,  Aug.  20,  1677, 

1  RicHAED,      of  Lower  Slaughter.  . 

2  George,       b.  1668. 

3  Elizabeth,  m.  William  Pauldon,  of  London. 

4  Catharine,  „  1665  ;  „   Gecarge  Walcot. 

XrV.«  WTT.T.TAAT  WHITMORE,  of  Balmes  (see  George  Xin.*),  lived, 
first,  at  Ramsey,  and,  after  his  father's  death,  at  Balmes.    He  m. 

Penelope .     (  Vide  Dale's  "  History  of  Harwich.)    He  d.  Aug. 

9,  1678,  aged  64,  and  was  buried  at  Ramsey.     His  only  child 
was 

r  his  cousin,  Frances  Whitmore,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  W.,  of  Bridgnorth.  He  was  killed  by 
the  accidental  discharge  of  his  pistol,  dying 
under  age,  and  a. p. 


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XV.«  SIR  WILLIAM  WIIITMOnE,  of  ERiDGXOiiTH  and  Buddwas,  m. 
FaANCEd,  dau.  of  Sir  Wm.  Bhook,  by  whom,  v.-ho  d.  in  1690,  he  had 

1  Elizabeth,  d.,  unm.,  in  1677. 

C  Jonathan  Langlcy,  Esq.,  of  the  Abbey,  Co. 

2  DoKOTHY.    m.  [  g^^p^  ^^^  ^_  ^^33^ 

^  tirst,  her  cousin,  Wm.  W.,  of  Balmcs  ;  second, 

3  Feances,       „    ?  Sir  Eichard  Middlcton,  of  Chirk  Castle,  Apr. 

C  19,  1685  ;  and  d.  in  1G91. 

XV.*  RICHARD  WHITMORE,  of  Lower  Slaughter,  m.  Anxe,  dau.  of 
Sir  Joux  Weld,  of  Willey,  and,  dj'ing  before  1694,  left 
1  AVilliam,  who  succeeded  to  Apley, 

f  Walter  Jones,  of  Chastlcton,  and  d.  in  1738, 
I  leaving  a  son,  Henry  Jones,  who  m.  Elizabeth 
Hancock,  and  d.  1761.  The  son  of  this  last, 
Arthur  Jones,  d.  Nov.  21.  IS 23,  and  left  the  es- 
tate of  Chastlcton  to  John  Henry  Whitmore. 
.  (See  Dudmaston  Branch.) 


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3    CaTHAKINE.  ::-•-,••,.!;    '■,.,'■,• 

XVI.»  WILLIxiM  WHITMORE,  of  Lower  Slaughter  and  Apley,  m. 
Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Roger  Pope,  Esa.,  of  Wolsiaston,  Co.  Halop, 
and  had  .  _         ,  ^^. 

1  WiLLLAM,  d.,  s.;;.,  in  1710. 

2  Thomas     (Sir),  his  heir. 

3  George,    d.,  s.p.,  in  1775.    ^■■■•'•'''>-  ■ 

4  Charles,  of  Southampton.    ' 
0  John,         of  London. 

^ '  -  "His  wife  d.  about  1736.    He  d.  May  24,  1725.  " 

XVn.»  Sm  THOMAS  WHITMORE,  K.B.,  of  Apley,  m.  Axne,  dau.  of 
Sir  Jonathan  Cope,  Bart.,  of  Brewern,  and  had  by  her,  who  d.  in 
1775, 

1  Mary,  m.  Thomas  WTiitmoro,  of  Apley,  her  cousin. 

2  Anxa-Sophia,  ,,   Anthony  Dcaue,  Esq. 

8  Elizabeth,        „  Rev.  Charles  S.Holden,  and  d.,  5.;?.,  1795. 

XVn.*  CHARLES  WHITMORE,  of  Southamptox,  m.  JUey,  dau.  of 

Kelley,  Esq.,  and  by  her,  who  d.  in  1799,  left  at  his  death, 

in  1770, 

1  Thomas,      succeeded  his  uncle  at  Apley. 

2  WiLLLVM,     of  Dudmaston.  ;     r  .',.,(  ■. 

3  George,      Fellow  of  St.  John's,  Camb. ;  d.  Nov.  25,  1805. 

4  Mary,  d.  in  1828. 
6  Catharine. 

^Launcelot  ShadweD,  Esq.,  and  left,  with 

6  Elizabeth,  m.  }  other  issue.  Sir  Launcclot  Shadwell,  Vice- 

(•  Chancellor  of  England. 

7  Dorothea. 


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XVII.*  JOHN  WniTMORE,  of  Loxdox,  m.,  first,  Mis3  Sae.vh  Stevens, 
■who  d.  in  17-lS,  and  had,  by  her, 

1  Anne,  d.  in  1773.        •  •  ^    ,  .:.    , 

2  Catharine,   b.  1746  ;  „  in  1833. 

He  m.,  second,  Miss  Eliz.vbeth  Henkell,  who  d.  in  17SS, 
and  left  by  her,  at  his  decease  in  1791, 

3  John,  b.  1754. 

4  \VlLI,IAM.      -t-  IV.  ..  ,,  ,j   , 

XVni.*  THOMAS  WHITMORE,  of  Apley  (son  of  Cuakles,  of  Soutuamp- 
ton),  m.,  first,  his  cousin,  Mahy  AVuitmoee,  and  by  her,  ^vho  d. 
in  1776,  had 

1  M-^ry-Anne,      m.  Thomas  Wylde  BroAvne,  of  CaugUey. 

2  Anna-Sopuia,    d.  unm. 

3  Georgiana. 

He  m.,  secondly,  Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas  Eoley,  captain 
R.N.  (by  his  wife  Mary,  dau.  of  Admiral  St.  Loo),  and  had 

4  Thomas,  b.  Nov.  16,  17S2. 
6  Chaeles-Blaney-Cavendish,  ,,  Mar.  9,  1737. 
6  Elizabeth. 

He  d.  in  1795  ;  his  widow,  in  1817. 


XVni.»  WILLIAM  "WHITMORE,  of  Dudmanston,  m.,  first,  Frances, 
dau.  of  John  Lyster,  and  by  her,  who  d,  in  1792,  had 

1  WrLLiAM-WoLRYCHE,  b.  in  1787. 


2  Frances, 

3  Mary-Dorothea, 

4  Catharine, 
6  Sophia. 


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first,  Capt.  Williams,  R.N. ;  se- 
cond. Dr.  Freer. 

„  Rev.  F.  Laing. 

„  Major  Houston,  and  d.  in  IS  11. 


6  Habriet, 

7  LoinsA, 

8  Elizabeth, 

9  Anxa-Maria, 

10  Georqiana, 


C  E.  Isaac,  Esq.,  of  Boughton,  Co. 
t  Worcester. 
„  Sir  Edward  Ryan. 
„  Rev.  J.  WaU. 
„  Rev.  Edmund  Carr. 

C  Charles  Babbage,  Esq.,  and  d.  in 
"    (  1827. 

,  ,      He  m.,  secondly.  Miss  Mary  Louisa  Thomas  (who  d.  in 
1813),  and  had 

11  John-Henry  (Jones),        of  Chastlcton. 

12  Janetta,  d.,  unm.,  in  1826. 

13  Eleonora,  m.  John  Fawks,  Esq, 

14  Mary- Anne,  „   A.  Sparks,  Esq.,  Sept.  15, 1831. 

He  d.  August,  1816. 


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XVIIL*  JOHN  WIIITMORE,  of  Loxdox,  M.P.  for  Biudg.vohth,  married 
Mi33  Caroline  Williams,  and,  dying  in  1S26  (his  widow  sur- 
vived until  1833),  left 

1  John,        of  London,  m.  !Mi.s3  Mary  Stainforth. 

2  Eo-WAiiD,  „         „         ,,  Miss  Frances  Poolcy. 

3  RoBEUT,    „         ,,         ,,   Mias  Elizabeth  Kaye. 

4  Frederick, 

XVIII.*  WILLIA^I  WIIITMORE,  Esq.  (brother  of  the  above),  m.  Eliza- 
beth, dau.  of  Joiix  Booth,  Esq.,  of  Chesuu.nt,  and  had 

1  William,  m.  Miss  Norman. 

2  George,    of  London. 

3  James. 

4  Ch/\:rle3. 

5  Eliza. 

6  Charlotte,  m. Harrison,  Esq. 

7  ^Ls.RIA. 

8  Catu-vrine. 

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XIX.*  THOMAS  WHITMORE,   Esq.,   of  Apley,   m.,   July   19,    1801, 

Catharine,  only  dau.  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Thomasson,  Esq., 

of  York,  and  had 

Thomas-Charlton,  b.  Jan.  6,  1807. 

George,  b.  Aug.  13,  1812;  Rector  of  Kcmberton. 

r  1852,  Adelaide- Anna,  dau. 

TT  n  *     -IT    1010  of  F.  Derbv,  E>q.,  of  Colc- 

Henry,    „  Oct.    17,1813;  m.,«(  •         '' 

brook  Dale,  Broscley,  Sa- 

I  lop. 

f  Aug.    16,    1832,    Francis, 
I  Viscount    Bernard,   eldest 
"   [  son  of  James,  present  Earl 


Catharine-^Liry, 

Emily-Elizabeth. 

Lucy-Georqlvna. 

He  d.  in  1846. 


of  Bandon. 


XIX.*  REV.  CIL\RLES-BLANEY-CAVENDISn  WHITMORE,  Rec- 
tor of  StocK-Ton,  Co.  Salop,  m.,  in  1329,  Anne-Barbara,  dau.  of 
Thom.\.3  Giffard,  Esq.,  of  Cuillington,  Co.  Stajf.  (by  his  ^\^fe 
Lady  Charlotte  Courtenay,  sister  of  the  Earl  of  Devon),  and  has 
issue.    His  wife  d.  Nov.  23,  1834. 

XIX.*  WILLL^M-WOLRYCHE  WHITMORE,  Esq.,  of  Dudmaston, 
m.,  Jan.  29,  1810,  the  Lady  Lucy-Elizabeth-Georgiana  Pjkidg- 
MAN,  diiu.  of  Orlando,  Eaul  of  Bradford.    ISlie  d.  Mar.  17,  1810. 


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XIX.*  JOnX-nEXRY  WIIITMORE-JONES,  of  CuASTLETON,  m.  Doro- 
thy, dau.  of  Col.  TuoM.va  Glutton,  of  Pensax,  Co.  Worcester, 
and  has 

John-Arthur  Joxes,  b.  Oct.  10,  1S23. 
WiLLLi-M  Jones,  „  Mar.    1,  1826. 

Mart-Elizadeth  Jone3. 
Frances-Barbara  Jones. 

XX*  THOMAS-CILIP.LTON  WHITMORE,  the  present  o\vncr  of  Apley, 
m.,  April  11,  ISl^o,  the  Lady  Louisa- Anne  Douglass,  uldcst  dau. 
of  Charles,  late  iLvRUUEsa  of  Qukensbury,  and  has 
Tho>lis-Charles-Dougl.v3s,  b.  1839. 
Walter  Henry,  „   1842.     ' 

And  six  daughters. 


The  only  other  family  i3  the  JLuUson  33rnnci),  of  which  I  have  the  following 
account :  — 

XI.*  RICHLVRD  WHITMORE,  of  Aston,  in  Chorley,  had  issue : 

1  "William,  ancestor  of  the  Apley  Branch. 

2  Thomas. 

12  THOMAS  WHITMORE,  of  Ludson,  m.  Bowdlear,  and 

y  had 

13  JOHN  WHITMORE,  of  Ludson,  who.  m.  Frances,  dau.  of  Wil- 

liam BrLLiNGSLY,  of  AsTLEY,  and  had 

r  ■,  ny  r-T  \.    , -no  f  Anne,   dciu.   of   Thomas 

1  Thojias,  of  Ludson,  b.  lo98  ;  m.  > 

(  Curoct,  ot  Longmorc. 

2  William,  of  Shipley. 

3  John,  b.  1612  ;  Rector  of  Stockton. 

'                                                   4  Jane,  m.  AVm.  Wareham,  of  Wliittcmore,  Co.  Salop. 

;                 ^                                 6  Elizabeth,  „  William  Duckett,  of  Gray's  Inn. 

6  Mary,  „  John  Gop,  of  Varfield,  Co.  Wigorn. 

•'"^  -                  7  Anne,  „  T.  Atkinson,  of  Stantou-Lacy,  Co.  Salop. 

14  JOHN  WHITMORE,  Rector  of  Stock.ton,  m.  Anne,  dau.  of  Tho- 
''  MAS  Marten,  of  Wilcot,  ami  had 

1  John,  b.  1641. 

2  Thosus. 

3  William. 

4  George. 

6  Elizabeth. 

6  Frances. 

7  Anne. 

8  Mary. 


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