ر seers, and do give to the said Morris Shawe twenty shillings to make him a ring. Clarke, 34. PERCIVAL BRETT of St. Martin's in the Fields, London, 7 May 1638, proved 24 May 1638. To the poor of the town and parish of Tenterden. To the poor soldiers of the town and garrison of Portsmouth. To my two god children born and christened in the parish of Tenterden, named and known by the names of Annis Winchester and Mary Nevill, as I remember. To John Younge, the son of Dorothy Hodges, born at Coventry and brought up at one M' Younge's at the Red Cross in Queen's Street. To my cousin Robert Brett of Fayerfield in Kent. To Richard Brett of Portsmouth. To Percival Wivill of Portsmouth and to Thomas Wivill. To my cousin Beane's wife of Bidenden. To my eldest brother John Brett, my brother Thomas Brett and my youngest brother Richard Brett. To my cousin Anne Wivill, lately married. My wife shall have all my lands &c. in the County of Kent during her natural life. There is given by bond to me by my uncle Capt Thomas Brett fifteen hundred pounds to be paid to me after his decease. If he be living at the time of my decease I do quit, relinquish and forgive the debt. My said uncle to be executor. Lee, 61. THOMAS BRETT of St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex, 30 November 1638, proved 14 January 1638. For the disposing of my worldly goods, as I was never covetous in seeking them so I will leave them without much curiosity amongst my poor kindred and some few friends. To my loving sister only now living one hundred pounds. To John Brett the son of my eldest brother John five pounds to buy a piece of plate, and to my loving cousin his wife the like proportion, and to all their children twenty shillings apiece at ten years of age, and the two other former sons to the parents to be paid within one year after my decease. Having given by deed unto my cousin Robert Wivill two hundred pounds, as well for his own advancement in marriage as for the better enabling him to relieve his poor brethren and sisters, I give to the other children of my sister Wivell, viz. Elizabeth, Alice, Amye, Mary and Percival Wyvill, fifty pounds to be equally divided amongst them. To Thomas Wyvill, who hath served me faithfully some years, two hundred pounds. To the children of my sister Nower, viz. John, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth and Daniel Nower, three score pounds, to be equally divided &c. To my cousin John Brett, dwelling at the Golden Ball in the Strand, five pounds and to my cousin his wife forty shillings, and to every one of their children twenty shillings apiece at fifteen years of age. To the sister of John Brett now married to Symon Porter three pounds, and ten shillings apiece to every one of her children. To ten of the poorest and most impotent persons of the parish of Great Charte in Kent, where I was born and baptized. To my godson John Brett, the son of Henry Brett of Great Charte, five pounds. To my cousin Robert Brett of Fairefield and his brother Richard Brett of Portsmouth twenty pounds between them. To my cousin Robert Brett who lodgeth in my house forty shillings to buy him a ring. The perverseness of Thomas Goddyn hath been the true cause of the deferring the execution of my brother Steven his will. Refers to a portion due to Mr Thornhill, being the legacy of Sir Richard Smith. Remainder to cousins Thomas and Richard Brett, sons of my eldest brother John Brett and they two to be executors. Codicil 21 December 1638. Cousin Steven Nower, left out in Will. RICHARD BRETT of London, haberdasher, 18 September 1643, proved 12 May 1645. I have ventured the sum of five hundred pounds upon the propositions made by both houses of Parliament for the quelling and suppressing of the rebels in Ireland. To my cousins Mildred, Sarah and Mary the three daughters of my brother Thomas. To the eldest son of my brother Thomas. To my Aunt Nowell the wife of Daniel Nowell. To my cousin Pannell, sister of my brother John's wife. To my cousin Whitledge, brother to my brother John's wife living now in London. To my brother Thomas his wife's sister Mrs Wills. To my cousins Robert and Thomas Wivill and their wives. To the wives of my brothers John and Thomas Brett. To my uncle Celhurst [or Colhurst?] and his daughter, my cousin, Mrs Austen. Sundry people living in Tenterden mentioned. Brother John's three daughters. Brother Thomas his three children. Refers to will of uncle Capt. Thomas Brett. To my nephew John Brett, son of my eldest brother John. Rivers, 69. THOMAS BRETT of Tenterden, Kent, gentleman, 13 November 1646, proved 4 January 1648. To wife Sarah the lease and term of years yet to come and unexpired which I now have of and in the messuage I now dwell in, with the lauds thereunto belonging. My seal ring of gold and the great cypress chest now standing in the Hall to my son John Brett. To my servant and kinsman Thomas Brett and Mary his sister five pounds apiece. Item I give and bequeath to my very loving brother Mr. John Brett, citizen and merchant taylor of London, the sum of ten pounds. And I do hereby make, constitute and ordain the said John Brett, my brother, executor of this my last will and testament. My friends Shemaial Selherst and Mr. Thomas Taylor and my loving brother, Thomas Wills, to be overseers. To all my children. My sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch. Fairfax, 15. JOHN BRETT, citizen & merchant taylor of London, 3 July 1684, with memorandum made 9 November 1685, proved 13 January 1685. To my son Matthew Meriton and his wife, each twenty-five pounds within six months after my decease. To my son John Archer and his wife, each (a similar legacy). To my son John Dauling Esq. and his wife twenty-five pounds each, to be allowed out of the hundred pounds that he is indebted to me by a bond. To my son Matthew Meriton and his wife each ten pounds, to buy them mourning. The same to John Archer & his wife, and John Dauling & his wife. To my son John Brett's wife, as a legacy, twenty five pounds. To my servant Susannah Watts, to buy her mourning, four pounds, besides a legacy of ten pounds. To my sister Route and my sister Tayler, that was and my sister Marsh, and my sister Sherbrooke, each of them forty shillings. To the three daughters of my brother Thomas Brett Deceased forty shillings each. Unto William Stevens, John Powell, Francis Brand, Matthew Gibbons, each of them forty shillings. To M' Loves and M. Claxton each five pounds. To the poor of the church ten pounds, to be distributed by the two teachers and the deacons to those that have most need. To my cousin Sick's wife and to my cousin Noble, each, forty shillings. To my cousin Bix, widow, forty shillings and also the five pounds that her husband was indebted to me. To my grandson Backwell and his wife and to his children that shall be living at the time of my decease, each of them ten pounds apiece, to be paid to my grandson Backwell for himself and all the rest six months after my decease. To my son John Archer's children ten pounds apiece, to be improved for them until their age of twenty one years. To my grandson Meriton ten pounds when he hath served his apprenticeship. To my grandson Sherbrooke the elder & his wife, and also to his children that shall be living at the time of my decease, ten pounds apiece, all to be paid to their father six months after my decease; and more to my grandson Sherbrooke and his wife ten pounds apiece, in six months &c.; and also the like in case he have any children by his wife: and more to my grandson Dalling when he attains the age of twenty one years, ten pounds, and to his two sisters, each of them ten pounds, to be paid six months after my decease. Unto the widow Browne twenty shillings. I do give unto my son John Brett the moiety or half part of the lands & tenements and hereditaments lying & being in the Parish of Tenterden, Smalhood, Brencett and Warhorne, being known by the same names or the like, being in the County of Kent; which said lands are in the hands of Richard Marsh, during his wife's life, Kathern, who was the wife of my brother Percival Brett; but, in case my son John Brett have no son, then after his decease I do give the moiety of the aforesaid lands unto my said two daughters Sarah Archer and Elizabeth Dauling, and after their decease to their children. Item, I do give unto my son John Brett my land that is settled upon me in New England, as appears by a Deed is expressed. As to the land at Eythorne Court, in Kent, the house in Grace Church Parish in which my son lives, known by the name of the Star &c., my will is that the same settlement that was made to my son, upon the marriage of his first wife, shall stand. To my brother Berman three pounds. Other legacies. My son Brett to be executor. Son John Archer and friend -Blackborne to be overseers. To my sister Archer, in remembrance of my love, forty shillings. (Signed) JOHN BRET. Wit: Thomas Browne, Gabriel Glover and Edward Southby. Lloyd, 1. 1612. " Aug. 9, William Hutchinson, of Alford, co. Lincoln, mercer, and Anne, daughter of Francis Marbury, Minister, by licence." (St. Mary Woolnoth Marriages, page 138.) 1565. Sep. 29, Susanna, wief of William Shorte, grocer, and daughter to Mr. Rogers, late burned in Smithfield. (Ibid. Burials, page 188.) [The above entries were copied by Mr. Waters from the Registers of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, edited by J. M. S. Brooke, M.A. and A. W. C. Hallen, M.A., published in 1886. The first entry supplies the date and place of the marriage of William Hutchinson and Anne, daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury, which Col. Chester when he wrote his valuable account of the Hutchinson and Marbury families, printed in the REGISTER, Vol. 20, pp. 355-67, did not find. If Col. Chester had seen the second entry he might have been spared much labor in proving the family of the proto-martyr. This entry, taken with the pedigree found in the British Museum, constitutes proof positive.-EDITOR.] WASHINGTON. The will of Alban Wakeline of Henley-upon-Thames, Oxfordshire, Esq., 21 August 1602, proved 10 February 1602, mentions wife Amye, daughters Phillis, Elizabeth, Mary and Priscilla, unmarried, Hugh Wakeline and his brother George, and his sisters, children of uncle John Wakeline. He appoints his wife executrix, and his friends Robert Washington of Stuttesbury, Esq., Alban Butler of Ashton in the Wales, gent., in the co. of Northampton, and Guy Foster of Hanslowe, in co. Buck., gent., overseers. Among the witnesses was Lawrence Washington. Admon. de bonis non was granted 30 April 1624 to Mary Bentley alias Washington, a daughter, &c. Boleyn, 9 (P. C. C.). John (Bancroft) Bishop of Oxford in his will, 31 August 1639, proved 5 June 1641, enjoins that his body shall be buried in Cuddesdon chancel and desires his chaplains Mr. Fulham or Mr. Washington to preach in Cuddesdon church, and "to make such mention of me as may tend to God's glory." To nephew Kinsman and my niece his wife, cousin-german Elizabeth Isard, widow, and my two brothers, Christopher and Silvester Bancroft. Evelyn, 80 (P. C. C.). The following is extracted from a letter received from Mr. J. C. C. Smith:Mr. Cave Browne gives me this from Maidstone Register (about to be printed). Married January 15, 1609-10, Mr. Arthur Beeszicke, gent., and Mistris Martha Washington, gentlewoman. Laurentius Washington Mense Januarii 1616. Decimo nono die emanavit Comissio Margarete Washington relce Laurentii Washington nuper de Wickamon in Com. Northampton def heñtis, etc. The will of Abel Makepeace of Chipping Warden, Northampton, yeoman, was made 16 June 1601 and proved 14 October 1602. He mentions wife Mary, daughters Dorothy and Bridgett, unmarried, three daughters already married, viz. Lucy, Jane and Amye, son Lawrence, and good friends and "cosen" Symon Haynes, gent., Basil Trymnell, gent., Thomas Hollowaye, clerk, George Makepeace and Richard Blason;-also daughter Butler's two daughters. Northamptonshire Wills. In my notes on the Ancestry of Washington, an abstract of the will of Symon Heynes of Turweston, Bucks., was given (REGISTER, vol. 43, p. 414, ante, p. 389), because in it he mentioned his kinsman Lawrence Washington, meaning, probably, the Register of Chancery. No explanation of that kinship was given. The following pedigree, taken from Harleian MS. 1533 (140 in pencil), shows the connection: The will of Thomas Yale, Dr. of Laws (1577-1578), calls Jane wife of Joseph Haynes "niece," and mentions wife Joane. That of Joane Yale, his widow (1585-1587), mentions sons Simon and Joseph Heynes, or Haynes, and William Maye. So we are enabled to fill the blank in the above pedigree, so far as the baptismal name of the wife of the first Simon Heynes is concerned. HENRY F. WATERS. B I might supplement Mr. Conway Robinson's remarks (ante, page 411) as to Lawrence Washington, Registrar of the High Court of Chancery, by stating that in 1583 he is styled of "Gray's Inn, co. Middlesex, gent.," during which year he purchased the Manor of Whitacre inferior, co. Warwick, selling it six years later to George Villiers, Esq., of Brokesby, co. Leic. Villiers's dau. Ann afterwards married Washington's grand-nephew. Towards the close of Elizabeth's reign he purchased the Jordan's Hall of Maidstone, Kent, and alienated it later to the Godwins. From the Privy Council Register, 16 Jan. 1599, it appears that among the lawyers of Chancery, assessed for suppression of the Irish rebellion, was Lawrence Washington, 107. ster.; and in a Certificate about Privy Seals, co. Middlesex, 1610, among those not having paid are Lawrence Washington of Finchley, near London, and John Washington of Westdreate (Drayton-West). In a list of monies raised 1626 on Privy Seals in co. Bucks, occurs name of Lawrence Washington ar. of Westbury, 10 l. On a small black marble tomb-stone, on the north side of the east window of the chancel of All Saints, Maidstone, is the following inscription: Mortalis Morte Here resteth the body of Lawrence Though after my Skinne |