Snippets 7 & 8
yt shall remayn to my dowghter Brigett and
to hir heyres of hir bodye lawfullye begotton
And for lacke of such yssewe of hir bodye
lawfullye begotton Then I woll yt shall
remayn so from one Syster to an other accor-
dinge to ther age And acordinge to a fyne
that I levyd for the same afore the late Lorde
Bandwoyn by Thomas Mompesson, gent
George Presse gent and other Allso I woll
that Anne my wyff shall have all my
howsehoulde Stuff at Tatington ymmedi-
atlye after my decease saving onlye a bed and
a bedsted a boulster a payer of blankettes a
payre of shetes which I woll my dowghter
Thetfourth shall have ymmediatlye after
my decease And I woll that Anne my wyff
shall have .......
Thank you so much, Goldie!!!
This will continues to be pure gold! There we have Bridgit/Brigett!
And 'my dowghter Thetfourth'!!!
For an embarrassingly long while there, I thought, 'That's a strange Christian name'. *facepalm*
Of course, he must be talking about his daughter Frances again!
Frances Aylmer, daughter of Alexander Aylmer of Tanington in Suffolk, married to Christopher Thetford of Titleshall in Norfolk.
https://archive.org/stream/visitacionievisi32ryew#page/280/search/Aylmerhttps://archive.org/stream/visitationoflond17howa#page/n289/search/Thetford(Let me know if you think I am being hideously wrong about that.)
This would mean that Frances Aylmer the Younger would have to have been a little bit older than I had previously assumed, if she were already married in 1549.
But, of course, she could have been 10-12 in 1540 when Frances Aylmer the Elder wrote about her in her will and mentioned her bringing-up, and still have been a child.
A birth year of 1528 would have made her 21 in 1549, for example.
Of course, it is a bit odd that the testator first refers to her by her Christian name of Frances, and then as 'his daughter Thetford', and without pointing out the connection between the two, but hey, that could just be how these people rolled.
We are definitely on the right track here
This is very exciting!
'Tatyngton' - I believe this is another spelling of
Tannington - specific perhaps to this time and place, or even to this particular family, because it keeps cropping up in connection with them, and often interchangeably with people described as being of or from Tannington.
And acordinge to a fyne that I levyd for the same afore the late Lorde Bandwoyn by Thomas Mompesson, gent George Presse gent and other
This is very intriguing! I think you are right about that being Judge John Baldwin, Goldie, but what in the world could the fine(?) have been about?
Thank you so much again, Goldie
This is really fun! I do so love seeing our theories confirmed
