my Uncle Thomas Aylemers wyll. Also I give to will(ia)m my sonne and heyre my mansion howse at Catington with all the Landes woodes medowes pasturs with thappurtun(an)ces that was my fathers Robt Aylemers
I am wondering if we here have the answer to something that has puzzled me exceedingly, namely the cases below:
Reference: C 1/460/19Short title: Aylmere v Elys.
Description: Plaintiffs: Thomas and Robert Aylmere, gentlemen, sons of Elizabeth Aylmere, sister of John at Wood, gentleman. Defendants: William Elys of Attlebridge, surviving feoffee to uses.
Subject: Manors and lands in East and West Barsham and Houghton devised by the will of the said John. (Annexed is an interpleader by Henry Fermour). Norfolk.
Date: 1518-1529
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7471516Reference: C 1/378/20Short title: Aylmere v Elys.
Description: Plaintiffs: Thomas and Robert, sons of Elizabeth Aylmere, gentlemen, and nephews of John at Wood, of East Barsham, gentleman. Defendants: William Elys, feoffee to uses. Subject: Refusal to sell manors and lands in East and West Barsham and Houghton, as directed by the said John's will, on the death of Margaret, his wife. Norfolk
Date: 1515-1518
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7468913I am wondering if these are the same Thomas and Robert Aylmer. Then we have some information about their mother and her kin.
We have previously discussed the possibility that Edmund Aylmer, Roger Aylmer and Thomas Aylmer, mentioned together in about 1486, could be brothers.
'Plaintiffs: Edmund Aylmer, esquire. Defendants: William Paston. Subject: Detention of bonds between Roger and Thomas Aylmer and complainant of the one party, and Harry Straunge, Thomas Drury, and John Sharnburgh, of the other.'
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7452975In a document over Essex fines that we have looked at before, but without me checking all spellings, we find:
Laurence Ailmer, John Ailmer and Thomas Ailmer mentioned together in 1488.
'1488 [...] 4 Henry VII County of Essex [...] 33. Mich. Laurence Ailmer, John Ailmer, Thomas Ailmer, John Barley, Robert Godewyn and William Hampton, pl. Richard Pake and Elizabeth his wife, def. 1 messuage, 24 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow and 18d. rent in Eisonham. Def. quitclaimed to pl. and the heirs of Laurence. Warranty as in 10. Cons. 201.'
http://esah1852.org.uk/images/pdf/ffines/F1400000.pdfI am wondering if they could be brothers also.
We know that Sir Laurence Aylmer was the son of Thomas Aylmer of Ellesnam in Essex, and that he also had a brother named Thomas Aylmer.
Could the John Ailmer mentioned above be brother of Sir Laurence and Thomas Aylmer?
Could we here have the father (or grandfather?) of Bishop John Aylmer, whose father is said to have been called John?
Could Sir Laurence's brother Thomas Aylmer have married Elizabeth de Wood and the brothers Robert and Thomas have been their children?