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These deeds carry us on through Mary's reign, mentioning many names of mayors and other prominent people. I wonder if Will Burton (DR0429/77) was an ancestor of Humphrey and Simon Burton, whose names are very familiar in the seventeenth century; or if Will. Randull (DR0429/78) was the father-in-law and patron of Fox, the martyrologist, who married a Coventry woman of that name. Whateley we know; Hen. Over (DR0429/77), whose family came from Cester Over, was mayor in 1544: he purchased the Charterhouse after the Dissolution. Tallans was mayor in 1545: Harford in 1546: Niclyn in 1550: Damport in 1551: Hurte in 1552: and Will Hyndman alias Joynour, whose will (DR0429/82) I do not print again, in 1553. Sewelle is a well-known name: this must be the father or relation of the Will. Sewell, vintner, whose wife is commemorated by a very quaint epitaph on a brass in St. Michael's. Joh. Nethermyll (DR0429/79) must be the son of Julines, who also lies in St. Michael's Church; the family had lands in Exhall. There seems nothing else remarkable about the remaining folk mentioned in the deeds.
Dated: 20 Dec 1 and 2 Ph. and M. (1554) |