A genealogical account of the Mayo & Elton families of Wilts and Herefordshire and some other adjoining counties, together with numerous biographical sketches : to which are added many genealogies for the most part not hitherto published of families allied by marriage to the family of Mayo and a history of the manors of Andrewes and Le Mote, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / by Charles Herbert Mayo.

  • Mayo, Charles Herbert, 1845-1929.
Date:
1908
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Credit: A genealogical account of the Mayo & Elton families of Wilts and Herefordshire and some other adjoining counties, together with numerous biographical sketches : to which are added many genealogies for the most part not hitherto published of families allied by marriage to the family of Mayo and a history of the manors of Andrewes and Le Mote, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / by Charles Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the poor of Ledbury 20 bufhels. ^^20 in money to be dealt by my executors at my burial. “ Item, I give to my adoptive or reputed fonne, Ambrofe Willifon alias Elton, tenne poundes.” “ Item I give my cozen, Jane Elton, tenne poundes to be paid her at the daie of her marriage.” “And whereas my late fonne-in-lawe, Alexander Denton of Hillefdon in the Countie of Bucks, Efquire, now deceafed, and his heires ftand bounde to m.e, the faid Anne Willifon, in twoe hundred poundes for the pay- ment of one hundred poundes . . . now I give and bequeath the faid hundred poundes . . . to my welbeloved kinfman and fervaunte, Thomas Brugge.” To him all over- plus. Mr. Edward Cowper, clerke, and faid Thos. Brugge, executors. To my cozen, Edmund Skipp £,10. To Mr. Edward Cowper, clerk, my filver Salt. In a codicil, 5th June, 1591, are further legacies to the poor, and “I bequeath foure poundes towards the repareing of the Conduite in the faid burrough [Ledbury] and alfo fortie {hillings towardes the buildinge of a markett houfe there. Item I will that Ambrofe Willifon alias Elton fhall have tenne poundes more than is alreadie in my forefaid laft will and teftament bequeathed to him.” Mention is alfo made of my lifter, Mris Elizabeth Seaborne, my cozen, Miftris Marie Monington, and my fifter-in-law, Mrs. Alice Elton, widowe. Mr. Walter Winter of the Inner Temple, efquire, and my cozen, Richard Holkins, gent., overfeers. “ And for that I was troubled with in- firmities, I have cawfed the faid Ambrofe Willifon alias Elton to fubfcribe my name.” Richard Willifon ^ had iffue by this marriage an only daughter and heirefs, Anne, who was married to Alexander Denton of Hillefdon, Bucks, and died 29th Odlober, 1566, aged 18, having had a daughter who died in infancy, called Joanna in the Vifitations. In the Ledbury regifter Anne Denton, gentylwoman, appears as godmother to Rychard Farmore, 23rd July, to Rychard Webfter, 24th September, 1564, and to Rychard Ofborne, 13th Ocftober, 1565. Recumbent figures of Richard and Anne Willifon are preferved in Madley Church, and others of Alexander and Anne Denton, with an infant by the fide of the latter, bearing the word Joane or Anne^ painted on her cap, in the fouth tranfept of Hereford Cathedral. The latter monument has this infcription: “ideate Ipetlje aicranhcc 3Denton oflj^llcftion I'n f Countc of Bucbpnffljin and ^nne topffe, dotogljtec and Ijcgue of Ei'cliard Vopllpfon of &u0;g;ctoa0 I'n f Coiinte of Ijcrefocd: to’ ^nnc deccaffed f wiT** of ottobec aim 2Do [1566 the tlje peace of Ijec ^ge, ttje of] age.” Alexander Denton was not, however, buried here, but at Hillefdon, as directed in his will dated 2nd January, 1576, and proved 27th June, 1578, by Margaret ' A deed indented, by which Richard Wyllyfon, of Sugwas, efq., and John Seborne, of Sutton, gent., grant to Thomas Wilton, of Ledbury, gent., a parcel of land called Le Croft, and another called Typplynge pocke, together with a melTuage or tenement, all fituate in Ledbury, dated 8th December, 17 Elizabeth [1574], is in the polfeffion of the writer. The name, which is now very indiftindt, rcfembles Anne rather than Joane.