Mary, wyfFe of Edw. Curtiss, May 25, 1612. 

 Curtise, daughter to Edward Curtise, Aug. 16, 1612. 

 Sara Courteouse, daughter of Edward, Jan. 9, 1615-16. 

 The wyfe of Ed. Courteouse, June 26, 1 616. 

 Edward Courteouse, carpenter, Aug. 13, 16 1 6. 



A nurse child of Goodman Curtess, of Copthall green, March 16, 

 1616-17. 



The widow Curtis, an old woman, Sept. 11, 1625. 



Thomas Curtis, son of George, Sept. 22, 1638. 



Mary Curttiss, a widow, Jan. 21, 1638-9. 



Mary Handford, a nurse child of George Curttises, Jan. 2, 1639—40, 



A child of George Curtis, March 20, 1642-3. 



George Curtisse, Sen., was buried Jan. 28, 1645—6. 



Nathaniel, son of Christopher Curtis, Oct. 10, 166 1. 



Mary, wife of John Curtis, Jan. 29, 1661— 2. 



Joseph, son of John and Margaret Curtis, Feb. 21, 1663-4. 



Cheshunt. 

 Baptized. 

 Thomas and Anthony, twins of Henry Curtis, Feb. 14, 1562—3. 



In the "Acts of the Court of High Commission,"' under date 

 June 26, 1634, appears the name of George Curtis, Esq., of Little 

 Chart, Kent. He took oath to answer certain charges made against 

 him. Two days previous Isaac Heath, of Ware, collar maker, ap- 

 peared on his oath before the same court. Lyson mentions William 

 Curtis, Commander in the East India Company, who died 1669, and 

 was buried in Stepney churchyard. On his tomb is inscribed the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



«' Who in this life fifty years did stand. 

 And to East India did bear command ; 

 Who in his lifetime kept not fast his door. 

 And afterwards provided for the poor — 

 Sixty pounds per annum for ever." 



This same person in 1669 bequeathed to the parish of Lime- 

 house J^6 per annum to apprentice two poor children, and ^^6 once in 

 two years to be divided between twelve paupers of Limehouse, on the 

 alternate years to be appropriated to the redemption of poor captives.^ 



Thomas Curtis, of London, was " fined xiij li. vis. viii. at the 

 coming in of Queene Mary to the crowne, for not receiving the 

 order of Knighthood," etc. Thomas Curtis was Sheriff of London 

 30 Henry VIII. In the Additional Manuscripts, British Museum, 



'State Papers, Domestic, Charles I., 1634. ' Environs of London. 



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