THOMAS GERARD OF TRENT. 63 



desired to be buried in the He belonging to his house in the 

 Church of Trent. The inquisition shows that he held 

 undiminished the family property in both counties, and his 

 will directed that portions should be paid to his younger sons, 

 James, John, and Thomas, and to his daughter Elizabeth.* 

 William his eldest son succeeded, being about thirty years of 

 age. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Christopher Allen 

 of the Mote, Kent ; and died 1st May, 1604, aged 52 years. 



Collinson (II., 386) gives the inscription on his monument . 



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Gulielmo Gerard, armigero, ex antiqua Gerardorum 

 familia in agro Lancastriensi oriundo, monumentum hoc 

 imposuit uxor ejus maestissima, filia Christopheri Allen, 

 equitis aurati militis : obiit May 1, Anno. Dom. 1604, 

 cetat. vero SUCK, 52. 



As he died intestate administration was granted to his 

 widow ; which was afterwards renounced, and a fresh 

 administration granted to the Honourable Lord Paget, a 

 cousin of the widow, during the minority of the children, 

 Thomas, Mary, and Ethelreda. Another daughter, Anne, 

 died 25th January, 1596, and was buried in Trent Church. 

 The widow outlived her son Thomas by a few weeks, and 

 died 30th December, 1634. Her will was made on 22nd Oct., 

 1634, and proved 5th January, 1634-5. She mentions her 

 daughter Lady Hansby, the daughter of her son Edward 

 Gerard, and certain grandchildren, including a Roper. Her 

 life interests in the Manors of Broadway and Nottington were 

 granted in 1607 to Thomas Eliot for forty years on account -^, 

 of her recusancy ; | and this declining towards Roman 

 Catholicism may have been the reason why she did 

 not administer the estate of her late husband. In 1600 

 Broadway was returned as belonging to Thomas Gerard, a 

 recusant ; but either the date or the Christian name is in error. 

 In the Recusant Rolls for the latter part of the sixteenth 



* Som. Wills, I., 46. Inq., Ser. II., Vol. 208, 158. 

 t Brown Collections, XXIII., 136. 



