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

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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1. 14. Edward Mantell, of Merfham, bachelor, and Elizabeth Hodges, of Alhford, widow, were licenfed to marry 17th Odlober, 1740, at Alhford, Willef- boro, Sevington or Fairfield. P. 511, laft line. Jacob Broadmead and Elizabeth Strobridge, both of the parifii of St. John’s, Devizes, were married at Stert, Wilts, — March, 1728, by the Rev. Mr. Sainfbury. William Strawbridge, or Strobridge, was her firfl; hufband. P. 519, 1. 4. “ Mr Sam' Willey” was buried 28th July, 1777. (Yeovil Parilh Regifter.) 1. 7. “ Willey, a member for Devizes, finding himfelf in company of Pulte- ney, Earl of Bath, and Sir Robert Walpole, thought fit to declare that he intended to fteer clear of all party, and to be an independent man. Sir Robert, who was good- natured and convivial, claps him on the (houlder, obferving, ‘ My good friend, take my word for it, you muft wear either Will. Pulteney’s yoke or mine; and you will find mine the lighter.” (Kaye’s MS. Anecdotes, quoted in Hijlory of Devizes, Military and Municipal, p. 405.) This occurrence muft have happened before Willy [Willey] reprefented Devizes. P. 525, 1. 6 from bottom. The adrhon. of the eftate of the Rev. Thomas Prichard, late of Little Mifienden, Bucks, clerk, a bachelor, was granted to Rev. Henry Prichard, his nephew and only next of kin, 25th November, 1788, P.C.C. This ftiows that Thomas Prichard, mentioned on page 525, was the Vicar of Little MilTenden.' P* 535j 3- proved 22nd April, 1793 (228 Dodwell, P.C.C.), was that of a Jofeph Shepherd, of Beer Lane, Allhallows, Barking—another perfon. P. 545, footnote. In a lift of the Field Officers of Foot and Horfe in His Majefty’s Standing Army in Ireland, c, 1661, occurs: Foot. Lord OlTery’s Regt. Benjamin Woodward, Colonel and Captain (Cal. S. P. Ireland). P. 577, footnote 2. Mr. W. B. Gerifh, the writer of an article in the Antiquary for Nov., 1901, vol. xxxvii, p. 327, thinks that the artificial knoll or mound, on which the building ftands, dates from prehiftoric times, and is a Saxon burh or bury, and ftates “that it is fituated juft on the weftern fide of the famous bank which divided Hertfordftiire between the Kingdom of Mercia on the weft, and the Eaft Saxons on the eaft. This bank is believed to have followed the ancient highway from Biffiop’s Stortford, through Hadham and Braughing to Cheffiunt and from thence to Middlefex. “ I am Inclined to think that the original houfe did not ftand upon this fite at all, but on the eftate fome 300 yards fouth-weft of the prefent houfe. There ftill remains part of the foundations of a large houfe furrounded by a wide, deep moat in an almoft perfed: ftate, and, now almoft filled in, diftind traces of a fecond or outer moat. It feems very poffible that much of the material from the more ancient ftrudure was utilized in building the prefent houfe.”

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