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
Licence: In copyright
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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![Watts, clerk, his father-in-law; to the Upper Hall portion of the Redory of Led- bury,* 24th September, 1678, in the gift of the King; to the Vicarage of Much Marcle, 29th December, 1679, patrons then being Richard and Francis Hall; to the Vicarage of Ledbury, 5th April, 1682, on the prefentation of John Tryft; and was collated to the Prebend of Cublington in Hereford Cathedral 26th Decem- ber, 1685. He was buried at Ledbury, 23rd January, 1701-2, aged 51. His monument in the fouth aifle (St, Anne’s Chapel), formerly on the floor, but at a recent refloration of the Church placed againftthe north wall, bears the follow- ing infcription: H. S. E. I Benjaminus Prichard, | Hujus Ecclellae Vicarius, de Sutton, | Ecclefiae Herefordenfis | Predendarius, | Qui | eximil, | Omnigenam ornavit | Literaturam, | Amicis maximum Omnibus Exemplum. | et Alter Portionifta, | Redor Singulari Pietate, Humilitate reliquit Sui defiderium, | fDomini 1701.1 Ubiit anno-f liEtatis 51./ Gertruda, uxor | ejus Amantiffima, | ex qua novem habuit | filios & quinque filias, | Hoc Marmor | M.P. | Sub hoc Marmore Sepulta jacet Gertruda, | Uxor Reverendi Benjaminis Prichard fupra | fcripti, Cler. Obijt Martij Nono, Anno A^tatis | feptuagefimo, Annoque Domini Millefimo | Septingentefimo Vicefimo Septimo, [ in fpem Beatae Refurredionis. Hunc lapidem, memoriae venerandi viri et diledae conjugis olim pie facratum, nuper autem contra leges et caritatem loco fuo dimotum, domefticis etiam ufibus pollutum, prope antiquam fedem reponi curaverunt vicarius et guardiani. Anno Domini 1815. His will is to the following effed:—Benjamin Prichard, Vicar of Ledbury, clerk, 18th January, 1701-2. To be buried in the parilh church of Ledbury, or in the church of fuch parifh where it fliall pleafe God I fliall die. To William Watts, Redor of Dower [Abbey Dore] co. Hereford, clerk, Jofeph Harvey, Redor of Wefton,*co. Hereford,clerk, and Jofeph Watts, Redor of Kentchurch, clerk (myexe- cutors and truftees) my mefluages, lands and tenements, now or late in the occupation of Thomas Warburton, Humphrey Mills, Jacob Jennings and William Lilley, and the hopyard in my own occupation, in the parifhes of Cainam [Caynham], Burford, Wafer’s Hopton, Bofbury and Ledbury, in counties of Salop and Hereford, in truft * “The church of Ledbury has two finecure Reftors, called ‘Portionaries,’ becaufe they change their portions of tythes and other returns every third year. They are in the Bilhop’s gift, and receive inftitution and indudlion, and thefe two alternately nominate the Vicar, and to them belong the Upper Hall Houfe and the Lower, adjoining the churchyard.” (Camden’s Britannia, ed. Gough, 1789, vol. ii, p. 456.) Thefe finecure Reftories were abolilhed, and the patronage veiled in the Bilhop in 1855 by an Aft of Parliament intituled “An Aft for appropriating the Corps of the Prebend or Portion of Netherhall, Ledbury, in the Diocefe and County of Hereford, and for conllituting the Living of Ledbury a Reftory with cure of fouls, and for augmenting the endowments thereof.” ^ Reftor of Wefton-under-Penyard, 1684, Canon of Hereford, 1678, Chancellor of the Cathedral, 1682, Vicar of Upton Bilhop, 1679, fucceflion to Canon Watts, died April, 1720.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24883815_0643.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
