The pedigree of Alliston or Elliston of Essex and Kent, and of Philipps of Chesham, Bucks, with that of Jones, in continuation thereof : as recorded at the College of Arms : with the addition of notes and remarks / by T. Wharton Jones.

Thomas Wharton Jones

Date:: 1867]

Credit: The pedigree of Alliston or Elliston of Essex and Kent, and of Philipps of Chesham, Bucks, with that of Jones, in continuation thereof : as recorded at the College of Arms : with the addition of notes and remarks / by T. Wharton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$clerk. Appointed Sept. 3rd 1646, by an ordinance of the Lords, to be parson of Stanford Kivers.* In the report of the Commission appointed in 1650 to take a suiA^ey of the livings in Essex,2 it is stated under the head of Stanford Kivers:—“ Math. Elliston. By sequestration. An able preacher, of a godly con- versation.” Mentioned in his father’s will as intended to be brought up at the University, for which provision is made. Married ]\Iary Champion. ^Mentioned in his brother John’s will, in his brother Peter’s, and in his brother Edward’s. At the Heralds’ Visitation of Essex in 1664 there is an entry (D. 21, College of Arms®), signed by his brother Isaac, in which jNIathew is described as the eldest son, and Isaac himself as second son of John and Alice Elliston. They were then tlie only surviving sons of the whole seven. The Kev. Matthew Elliston was in 1662 ejected from the rec- tory of Stanford Rivers for non-conformity. In 1672, May 13, the “ indulgence of a licence” was granted to him to be “ a Pres- byterian teacher in his house at the Home Grange,” Little Cogges- hall, the said house being at the same time licensed “to be a Presbyterian meeting place.” Having in 1679 bought from his nephew, John Elliston, eldest son of the Rev. Peter Elliston of Sandhurst, deceased, his share of the Grange property, he sold it in 1682 to l\Ir. Nehemiah Lyde, the ancestor from whom J\Ir. C. Ducane, the present proprietor, inherits it (Mr. Ducane’s title deeds) The Rev. Matthew Elliston died in 1693, and was buried at Markshall, near Coggeshall, co. Essex (P. R.). He left a son jMatthew, a merchant, whose grandson Wilsby died in 1742 s.p. * Whitelock’s Memorials, p. 226. Calamy’s Continuation of Richard Baxter's Life and Times. The Rev. T. AV. David’s Annals of Evangelical Mon-Conformity in Essex. The Rev. Bryan Dale's Annccls of Coggeshall. * Lansdowne MS. 459. ’ On the breast of the white eagle in the drawing of the arms which accompanies the entry there is a crescent for difference. ■* I cannot refrain from here expressing my thanks to Air. Ducane and Mr. .7. Howell Blood of AVitham for their courtesy in not only supplying me with information from the deeds, but also allowing me to inspect the documents for myself.$