276 The Descent of the Manor of Stockton. 
is to have his Parkinson’s Herball. He gives £10 to his kinsman, Mr. 
Archdeacon Ryves. The residue generally is to go to John Toppe, 
his nephew, son of his brother, Edward. The executors and trustees 
for payment of his debts were John Norden, of Badbury, Co. Wilts ; 
Francis Swanton, of the City of New Sarum; Matthew Davis, of 
Shaston, Co. Dorset; Henry Whittaker, of Motcombe, Co. Dorset ; 
and Edward Hooper, of Bovington, Co. Dorset, Esquires. The will 
was proved by Davis and Whittaker, February 15th, 1660-1. 
C.P.C., “ May,” fo. 33. 
The will of William Kent, the elder, of Boscombe, Co. Wilts, 
Esq., bears date September 24th, and was proved November 6th, 
1666. He mentions Elizabeth, his loving wife, makes provision for 
John Kent, his younger son, and gives the residue to William Kent, 
his eldest son, sole executor. 
John Norden, mentioned above, was second son but eventually 
heir of William Norden (will proved at Devizes, 1638, Inventory, 
£779 12s.) of Rowde, by Mary, eldest daughter of Richard Lybbe, 
of Hardwick, Co. Oxford. He was an active Member of Parliament, 
&e. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Skinner, of Crad- 
ley, Co. Hereford, and died in 1670 (will C.P.C., “ Duke,” fo. 24), 
leaving his estate apparently hopelessly involved. 
Two families of the name of Toppe were entered in the Visitation 
of Wilts, 1623. [See the original MS., edited by Dr. Marshall 
(G. Bell & Son, 1882), and the editor’s remarks on the value of this 
MS., “ Harley,’ 1165.] They were doubtless closely connected, 
both being interested, for instance, in property at Bridmore. The 
Court Rolls of Stockton, from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1540, or there- 
abouts, which are among the ‘ Additional” Charters in the British 
Museum, would perhaps show the exact relationship: see also 
** Additional ” Charters for the Court Rolls of Wishford Magna, 
with mention of Toppe Heath, described, in a deed, as of Greenwich, 
Kent, &c. 
Thomas Toppe, of Bridmore, the first of that line mentioned in 
the “ Visitation ” Pedigree, made his will in 1598, as “ of Bredmer, 
