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children who survived him, and an ample provision to 

 his widow. 1 His eldest son and heir. William, who suc- 

 ceeded to the baronetcy, inherited the estate at Rnthin, 

 and afterwards married the daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Harris, Baronet, of Shrewsbury. Elizabeth, the daughter 

 of Sir William, married John Grene, of Enfield, clerk 

 to the New River Company, and from her is lineally 

 descended the Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe, M.A.. 

 rector of Clyst St. George, Devon, who still holds two 

 shares in the New River Company, as trustee for the 

 surviving descendants of Myddelton in his family. Sir 

 Hugh left to his two other sons, Henry and Simon,- 

 besides what he had already given them, one share each 

 in the New River Company (after the death of his wife) 

 and 400/. a-piece. His five daughters seem to have been 

 equally well provided for. Hester was left DOG/., the 

 remainder of her portion of 1900/. ; Jane having already 

 had the same portion on her marriage to Dr. Chamber- 

 lain, of London. Elizabeth and Ann, like Henry and 

 Simon, were left a share each in the New River Com- 

 pany and 500/. a-piece. He bequeathed to his wife, 

 Lady Myddelton, the house at Bush Hill, Edmonton, and 

 the furniture in it, for use during her life, with remainder 

 to his youngest son Simon and his heirs. He also left 

 her all the " chains, rings, jewels, pearls, bracelets, and 



necessary to point out that it can have 

 no reference whatever to the subject 

 of this memoir. 



1 On the 24th June, 1632, Lady 

 Myddelton memorialised the Common 

 Council of London with reference to the 

 loan of 3000Z. advanced to Sir Hugh, 

 which does not seem to have been repaid; 

 and more than two years later, on the 

 10th Oct., 1634, we find the Corpora- 

 tion allowed 1000Z. of the amount, in 

 consideration of the public benefit con- 

 ferred on the city by Sir Hugh through 

 the formation of the New Hiver, and 

 for the losses alleged to have hem 

 sustained by liim through breaches in 

 the water-pipes on the occasion of 



divers great fires, as well as for the 

 " present comfort " of Lady Myddel- 

 ton. It is to be inferred that the ba- 

 lance of the loan of ,,non/. \\as then 

 repaid. Lady Myddelton died at 

 Bush Hill on the 19th July, 1C 1:5, 

 aged sixty-three, and w r as interred in 

 the chancel of Edmonton Church, 

 Middlesex. On her monumental tablet 

 it is stated that she was " the mother 

 of lilt een children." 



2 Simon's son Hugh was created a, 

 Haronct, of Hackney, Middlesex, in 

 1681. He married Dorothy, the 

 daughter of Sir William Oglander, of 

 Nunwell, 



