The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward.

  • John Ward
Date:
1740
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Credit: The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV. James Gresham of Walfingham Parva efquire [fon of Willi- am] married Agnes, daughter of Nicholas Mynne of Franiham in Nor¬ folk efquire; by whom he had two fons and one daughter, Paul^ Giles^ and Anne, the two latter of whom died without iffue. ^ ^ Pavl Gresham * of Wallingham Parva [fon of Iames] mar¬ ried firfl Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah Markham of Houghton in Nottinghamlhire efquire j by whom he had live fons and two daugh¬ ters, Richard, William, ‘John, Anne, and Katherine. He afterwards married Margaret, daughter of Randall Lynne and Eli¬ zabeth daughter and heir of William Dale of Tedlemarlh in Berklhire efquire; by whom he had two fons and two daughters, Elizabeth marri¬ ed to John Wynglield of the Exchequer, Nicholas, Paul, and Ifabell, who all died without ilTue. Tdhomas Grejloam [eldell fon of Pavl, by his firh; wife] had Richard, who married Elizabeth * * ^ 5 by whom he had two fons and two daughters, Abel, Paul, Grizell, and Mary. VI. William Gresham [third fon of Pavl, by his firft wife] had two fons, Richard, and Paul a dodor at Cambridge, alfo a dau^^hter married to MalTey, who lived at Wimbledon in Surrey. ^ VII. Richard Gresham [elder fon of William] married Doro¬ thy Sherrard; by whom he had two fons and three daughters, John who lived at the Greyhound Tavern in Blackfriers London, Thomas an Inn¬ keeper in Peterborough, Mary married to Samuel Wildman at Alving- ham near Louth in Lincolnlhire, Rachel, and Anne. ^ NUMBER VI. Anno XXIII Elizabeth. R. An Act for the ftablifhynge of an agrement be- twene Sir Henry Nevill knight, and Dame Anne Grefham wydowe, for the better performyng of the lafte will of Sir Thomas Grefham knight, deceffed, and for the payment of his debtes ^ TjUHEREAS Sir Thomas Grefham knight, nowe deceffed, was in his lyef tyriie feifed of dyvers mannours, landes, tenements, and heredytaments, in fondrye cowntyes of this realme of Englande and Wales 3 and being fo feifed, did in or abowte the eight yere of her ma- jefties reigne convey and affure to certen ufes fondrye of his faide man¬ nours, landes, tenements, and hereditaments, with a provifo or lyber- tye to the faide Sir Thomas to alter, revoke, or determyn the fame * He was one of the executors of Sir Richard Orefliam’s will in the third of Edward vi, and was living in the third of Elizabeth. In Sir Symonds I)’ Ewe’s Journals this is called, A bUlfor relief of the creditors of Sir Tho¬ mas Grejham; and faid to have been read the third time in the houfe of commons, and palTed upon the queltion, March the 13 that feflions. Journals of all the parliaments during the reign of queen Elizabeth, p. 304. ufes.