Inquisitiones Post Mortem. 2>7 



antI)on^ M^h^t, late of Lontion:, gentleman* 



Inquisition taken at Marleborough, co. Wilts, 4th January, 

 2 Charles I [1627], before William Guydatt, escheator, after 

 the death ol Anthony Risbye, late of London, gentleman, by the 

 oath o{ John Spencer, gentleman, John Sadler, gentleman, Thomas 

 Smith, gentleman, Thomas Freeman, gentleman, Silvester Cooke, 

 gentleman, William Cooper, gentleman, Thomas Taylor, gentleman, 

 John Mortymer, Williain Sadler, gentleman, Alexander Dismer, 

 gentleman, Hugh Chandler, gentleman, Henry Kemsjord, Edivard 

 Apleford, gentleman, Roger Whithead, gentleman, Bartholomew 

 Smith, gentleman, and Willia?n Parrett, who say that 



Anthony Risbye was seised of the manor of Burtonhill, in the 

 county aforesaid, and of one messuage, 6 cottages, and 30 acres of 

 pasture with appurtenances in Burtonhill thereto belonging, and 

 of 10 acres of meadow in Burtonhill called " Mill Meadowe." 



Being so seised, by indenture of 4th July, i Charles I [1625], 

 (enrolled in the Common Pleas), the said Anthony Risbye conveyed 

 the premises to George Needier, Edward Warren alias Waller, Richard 

 Waye, and Robert Erswell, gentleman, to have to them, their heirs 

 and assigns, for ever. On the 7th of the same July they re- 

 conveyed the premises to the said Anthony Risbye, his heirs and 

 assigns for the term of 90 {sic) years, at the annual rent of los. 



The said Anthony Risbye was also seised of a messuage, with 

 appurtenances commonly called " Le Windmill," in the parish of 

 St. Saviour's, in the borough of Southwark, co. Surrey, and within 

 the liberty of the said borough. 



The said Anthony Risbye on 17th October, 2 Charles I [1626], 

 made his will, by which he directed his executors to sell " for the 

 most and best price" his "manor house of Burtonhill," with the 

 lands, etc., thereto belonging, leasehold and freehold, and with 

 the money realised to buy lands in the co. of Northampton, or 

 elsewhere, to the use of his brother, John Risbye, and of his 

 daughters Alice Hoive, Margery Moore, and Mary Clarke, and their 

 heirs for ever, provided his said brother yb^« should give them 

 each/ 5 [a year ?] during his life ; afterwards they were to have the 

 whole as joint tenants. The testator bequeathed his messuage in 

 Southwark "to the mayntennaunce and bringinge upp" ol John 

 and Elizabeth Archer, his niece's children, till they should attain 

 the age of 21 years ; the said messuage then to be sold, and ^50 to 

 be paid to the last-mentioned y(?A« and /"so to the said Elizabeth. 



