may be to Mrs. Margaret Staineley. All my goodes to my wife,' and I make hir my sole executrix. Unto everye daughter a gould ringe, dethes head engrauen vpon every one. To the poore of Wath parrishe fortye shillinges. Vnto Mr. William Bell a crowne of gould in my ould loue towardes him. And for Julian Denton, my daughter, who was married in my house, secretlye, without my councell and knowledge, and brought in a prest against my will, therefore my last will and testament is, that out of my love and opinion to him I have disbursed for him six score poundes since Candlemas last, and she noe assurance of any estate; therefore my will and pleasure is, that noe more money be paid out of my goodes vntill hir said husband, Henrye Denton, shall assure hir of an estate forth of his landes, for that which is past, at the contentment of Mr. Thomas Musgraue, my eldest sonne, Mr. Stephen Hutchinson, my sonne in lawe, Mr. Roger Beckwet (sic), and Mr. John Chapman, parson of Wath. And if the said Henrye Denton shall make such an estate as is thought convenient by those which I haue appoynted, then my wife and executrix is to giue hir vp, to make that which is giuen allreadye, two hundreth and fortye poundes, without hast and at conveniente leasure. And for my sonne, Thomas Musgraue, though I could find falte with him for some miscarriage, yet my loue was as great vnto him as to any child I had, now I would intreate him of my loue to be loueinge, respectiue, and dutyefull vnto his mother, and God will blesse him. Moreouer I would intreate him, as ever he myndes to doe for me, to be goode to Thomas Beverley and Robert Outworth, my ould servantes. Item, I leaue my sonne, Richard Musgraue, to my wife, whome I assure myselfe will be carefull for him, as father and mother. Witnesses, Richard Lambe, John Dinmore, and William Fouldes.-[Proved February 24, 1617-18, before Edmund Mainwaringe, LL.B., commissary for the archdeacon of Richmond.] In his old age Stephen Hutchinson was much troubled by his son Edward joining the King's army, in which he became a colonel of horse, and in consequence of his malignancy was fined 140li.3 The following is an abstract of the father's will:— September 9, 1646. Stephen Hutchinson, of Wyckham Abbey, esquire. My body to be decently buried in the church of Wyckham. As regards my sonne, Edward Hutchinson, as I conceive [he] hath beene disaffected to ye state, and thereby hath incurred my displeasure, therefore I give and bequeath my mansion house, and the scite of the pryory of Wyckham, and all the rectory of Wyckham 1 Joan, daughter of Sir John Dalston, knight, of Dalston, near Carlisle. 2 The son-in-law, Henry Denton, mentioned later on. Royalist Composition Papers (Yorkshire Record Series), iii, 6. From the original at York. and Ruston, etc., and all my other landes, which discended to me from my father, to Edward,' my grandchild, and to his heires for ever. And I do constitute my cozen, Stephen Thompson, of Humbleton, esquire, and Robert Thompson, of London, confectioner, trustees for receivinge the rents thereof for my grandchild, till he come at the age of twenty and one yeares. Concerninge my landes, and tenementes, and watermills, which I purchased of my brothers, Edward Hutchinson and Charles Hutchinson, in Snaynton, Brompton, and elsewhere, with the moyety of the manor of Brompton, I give and bequeath them to the said Stephen Thompson and Robert Thompson, as feoffees in trust for ye vses followinge. First, to receive the rents thereof for the vse vse of my grandchild, Ellen Hutchinson, first for ye first three yeares next after my decease; and, after ye said three yeares expired, then to receive the rents thereof for the ioynt vse of my grandchildren, Ellen Hutchinson, Katherine Hutchinson, and Dorothy Hutchinson, vntill my said grandchild, Edward Hutchinson, shall attaine vnto the age of twenty and one yeares, and then my feoffees shall stand seized thereof from thenceforth to the vse of my said grandchild, Edward Hutchinson, and his heirs for ever. My wife, Katherine Hutchinson, executrix. My will is that 5oli., due to Mr. Legard Banbury, with the vse which is arreare; 1oli., due to Mr. Noell, with the vse which is arreare; and Iooli., with the vse arreare, due to Mrs. Boyes, of Whitby, widdowe, be first satisfyed out of my personell estate. Whereas I stand bound with my sonne, Edward, for 200li. to ye Masters of ye Trinity House att Hulle, my will is yt the said money, with the vse arreare, be payed out of the rentes or profittes of my said landes in Wyckham and Ruston, which shall arise out of ye said landes the next yeare after my death. I give 5li. to be distributed by my wife amonge my servants, as she pleaseth. To ye poore of ye parish of Wyckham and Ruston, 2li., to be distributed by my sonne, Edward, according to his discrecion. Edward Hutchinson.2 Witnesses, John Smith, Hugh Ridley, Wm Readhead (sworn), Richard Carlill, Robert Crake (mark, sworn). [Proved November 30, 1648, before Mr. Smith, M.A.] "To all and singular, as well nobles and gentles as others, to whome these presentes shall come, be seene, heard, read, or vnderstoode, Will'm Flower, esquire, alias Norroy Kinge of Armes of the East, West, and North partes of this realme of England, sendeth greetinge in our Lord God euerlastinge. Wheras Edward Hochinson, of Wyckham, in the countie of Yorke, esquire, sonne and heire of 1 He did not attain his majority till 1665 (Dugdale's Visitation of York hire, p. 83), so he was only four at this time. 2 Sealed with the Hutchinson arms and crest. 3 From the original in the possession of Lord Downe. Richard Hochinson, of Wyckham aforesaid, is well borne and descended of worthie auncestres, that haue of longe tyme vsed and boren armes as tokens and demonstrations of their race and gentry, which lykewise to him by iust descent and prerogative of birth ar duely deryued; He, yet not knowenge of any creast or cognoysance properly belonginge vnto his auncient armes (as in very deede to meny auncient cotes of armes ther be none), hath required me, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, to assigne vnto his said auncient armes a creast or cognoysance, meete and lawful to be boren without preiudice or offence to any other person. In consideration wherof, for a further declaration of the [wort]hinesse of the said Edward Hochinson, and at his instant request, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, by power [and au1]thoritie to me committed by Letters Patentes vnder the Greate Seale of England, have assigned, giuen, and graunted [vnto'] the said Edward Hochinson to his auncient armes, being Partie per pale gueules and asure a lyon rampant argent, the feild replenished with crosse crosselets gold, for his creast or cognoysance, vpon the heaulme, a cockatrice asure, membred gueules, seiant in a coronett gold, and hauinge the winges eleuated, with mantelles gueules, doubled argent; as more plainly togither with the said auncient armes appereth depicted in the margine hereof. Which armes and creast, or cognoysance, and euery part and parcell therof, I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, do by these presentes ratifie, confirme, giue, and graunt vnto the said Edward Hochinson, and to all the offspringe and posteritie of the beforenamed Richard Hochinson, the father, for euer. He and they the same to haue, hold, vse, beare, enioy, and shew foorth, to their estimation and worshippe, at all tymes, and for euer hereafter, at his and their libertie and pleasure, accordinge to the lawe of armes, without the impediment, lett, or interruption of any person or persons. In witnesse wherof I, the said Norroy Kinge of Armes, haue hereunto subscribed my name, and sette the seale of myne office, the fourth day of June, in the yere of our Lord God a thousand fiue hundred foure score and one, and in the xxiijth yere of the reigne of our moste gracious souuereigne lady, Queene Elizabeth. p' moy Wyllam Flower, alias Circular seal, yellow wax, 1 inches in diameter, a cross, and on a chief a lion passant between a fleur-de-lys and a key. SIGILL . . . REGIS ARMORVM PA..... BORIALIS. Dorso:-Norroy King of Arms to Hutchinson, esquire. Grant of a crest to his antient family arms. (Seventeenth century hand.) 1 Hole in the MS. |