are several notices of the Curteis family. The name is variously spelt. 

 Richard Curteis, of Tutbury, County Staffordshire, had a son William, 

 who settled at Hanbury in the same county, temp. Ed. II. He had 

 two sons and one daughter — (i) John, of Hanbury, living in the 

 time of Ed. III., (2) Thomas, of the same place, and Matilda, who 

 married (i.) John Hutton, of Tutbury, (ii.) William de Burton." 



A large family of this name resided for many years at Appledore,"" 

 County Kent. Stephen Curteis had three sons, Richard, John, and 

 Reginald. Richard settled in Newenden, County Kent, and had four 

 daughters : Matilda married a Hamon, of Hurst, Jane married 

 John LeSargent, Isabel married Robert Vincent, and Alice married 

 Robert Scarlet. John (Stephen), the second son, was ofAppledore, 

 County Kent, married Petronill, and had issue : John, Stephen, and 

 Joane. John (John, Stephen) had sons : William, John, and Thomas. 

 William (John, John, Stephen), of Fairfield, temp. Henry VIII., mar- 

 ried Ellen and had issue : Richard. Reginald (Stephen) married 

 Margaret, daughter of Reginald, Lord Cobham, of Starborough Castle, 

 and had issue : Reginald, of Westcliff. Thomas (John, John, Stephen), 

 of Appledore, married Joane, daughter and co-heir of . . . 

 Twaight, and had son William and a daughter. William (Thomas, 

 John, John, Stephen), of Tenterden, County Kent, married first Joane 

 Buntinge. Married second, about 1560, Joane Pattenden, and died 

 158a. They had issue: William, Thomas, Dorothea, Peter, who 

 married Susan Johnson of Canterbury, Robert, who married first an 

 Everden, and second, Joane Mills, and had issue : George, John, and 

 Mary, who married Michael Symons, and second, Richard Duke, 

 brother of Sir Edward Duke, Stephen, George, and John.^ In 

 Cole's MSS.'» Is an able letter from Dr. Stukeley to Noah Curtis, lord 

 of the manor of Woolstrop, respecting the escape of Charles I. from 

 the Scotch army before Newark, 1646. In the same collection of 

 MSS.,' dated Jan. 31, 1645, '^ ^^ account of a fine of 100 marks for 

 the discharge of the delinquency of Wm. Curtis, of Orwell, County 

 Cambs. Cole states the said William Curtis " went to Oxford, and 

 upon his return thence, being summoned, refused to come to his place 

 of habitation. His estate Is ^40 per annum In lands, whereof part is 

 copyhold, 6 cottages," etc. In another part of the MSS. he is called 

 Wm. Curtis, of Baslngbourn, County Cambs. Walter le Curteis de 

 Wells confirmed a charter to the Abbey of West Dereham, County 

 Norfolk, temp. Henry III.'' 



' Additional Manuscripts, British Museum, 6046, f. 133. 

 ^See coat of arms of Curteis, of Apledore, page vii. 

 ^ Berry's Pedigree of the Families of the County of Kent, 

 ■■Add. MSS. Brit. Museum 5886, f. I ; 58+6, f. 372. 

 *Add. MSS. Brit. Museum 5819, f. 14. 

 "Add. MSS. Brit. Museum 5842, f. 217. 



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