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Of England
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From a pedigree of the ancient family of Stuteville, in Davy's Suffolk Pedigrees, we learn that Thomas Stuteville, of Dalham, married "Anne, daughter of Nicholas Whitney, of Walden, Essex." This, taken in connection with the following will, shows the Christian name of Nicholas Whitney's wife, though it unfortunately does not reveal her maiden surname.a
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The will of Mary Whitney, "of Brooke Walden, in the parish of Walden, in the Countie of Essex, widow "--signed 28 Nov. 1590; proved at Chelmsford in the same year-makes various bequests to "Thos. Stuteville, Esquire," to "my daughter Ann, his wife," to her sons Henry, George, Thomas the elder and Thomas the younger (the last two are appointed executors), to her daughters-in-law Elizabeth and Jane Whitney, and to Anne, Thomas and Elizabeth Whitney (her god-daughter), children of "my sonne Thomas the elder"; bequeaths to her son Thomas the younger all her furniture, silver pots and tankards, silver spoons, and "a great chestt bound with Iron and the lynnen therein," to her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Whitney, "a Kertlett of wrought velvet and my best hoode, to Elizabeth Gardiner, her daughter's daughter, "my best gowne of silke Taffatie"; leaves tokens of remembrance to her neighbour Mary Frith, wife of Robert Frith, and to her maids Elizabeth Blurton and Margaret Porter; gives a sum of money to "the poore of Audley Ende"; and devises the residue of her estate to her son, Thomas Whitney the elder.b
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A. D. 1590.
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The will of William Pardoe, "of Walden, in the County of Essex, gentleman"--signed 28 July 1586--as recited at length in an inquisitio post mortem of 29 Elizabeth (I 586-7), desires that his body shall be "buryed in holye molde"; appoints "my goode and trustye friends, Nicholas Whitney, of Walden, and . . . . . . Preston, gentilmen, and my dere and welbelovyed Penelope, my wyff," executors; expresses a wish that Walter Fieldyng, whom he entrusts to the guardianship of "Mr. Humfrey Taylor, esquier," "shall mary and take to wyff Anne, Elynne or Judyth, my daughters, at the discretion of my sayde executors"; directs his executors to divide the income of "all my landes, messuages, tenements, rentes and other my hereditaments, set, lyinge and beinge in the sayde countye of Essex," in certain proportions, between his younger sons, William, Henry and Robert Pardoe (his "oldest sonne and heire, Thomas Pardoe, being already provided for by an Indenture given by myne owne hande two yeres past") and "such of my two daughters as the sayde Walter Fieldynge shall not marye"; devises to "my daughter Penelope, wife of George Whitneye, one messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances thereto belonginge, which now they are dwelling upon, or ells the messuage or tenement which the said George Whitneye hath taken of me without fyne, paying no more than he hath done save only the rent and service accustomed"; and bequeaths to his executors a sum of money to be distributed "to every one of my poore neighbours."c
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A. D. 1586.
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