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1578. In it he mentions his wife, Dorothy, and his sons and 

 daughters respectively in order of seniority, viz., Henry, Nicholas, 

 Robert, and Richard, and Mary, Dorothy, Jone, and Bridget. To 

 them he gives his estate, including land at Bromley, with remainder 

 to his cousin, Mr. Nicholas Rutland, and Mary and Jone Rutland, 

 Nicholas 1 daughters. He mentions also Frauncis and William, 

 sons of Mr. Nicholas Rutland ; his cousin, Mr. John Hedworthe, 

 fellow of the Middle Temple, London ; his cousin, John Stokes, 

 and his wife; and others (C.P.C., " Langley," fo. 35). 



The maiden name, as we have said, of Mrs. Dorothy Vyolett, 

 does not appear ; but we know that in 1578, the year of the probate 

 of her husband's will, she re-married with Thomas Stephens, of 

 Burderop, and that one of the trustees of the settlement he made on 

 her, 30th October, 1579, was "Nicholas Rutland, of Mycham, co. 

 Surrey, gent." The accompanying pedigree by Glover, from a MS. 

 in a private collection, illustrates the connexion of the Rutlands 

 and Hedworths, alike called cousins in Mr. Richard Vyolett's will, 

 and shows the subsequent match between Mrs. Dorothy Stephens' 

 step-daughter and Francis Rutland (see " Monumental Brasses of 

 Wilts," pp. 73-4) . The match, mentioned in the pedigree, between 

 Ralph Hedworth and J oan Rutland, is confirmed by an extract 

 from the marriage licences (Bishop of London's) printed for the 

 Harleian Society, " 1586, June 2. Ralph Hedworthe, esq., of 

 Middle Temple, and Johanna Ruttlande, spinster, now of City of 

 London, dau. of Nicholas Rutlande, late of Mycham, co. Surrey, 

 esq., deceased. General Licence." 



So much for the London and Kentish origin and connexions of 

 the Yilett family. It remains to show them, if possible, in their 

 new surroundings, as denizens of North Wilts. On 20th November, 

 1581, "Nicholas Yiolett, of London, generom filius" matriculated 

 at St. J ohn's College, Oxford, aged 15. From the choice of college, 

 unless, indeed, the boy had his first education at Merchant Taj'lors 

 School, there can be little doubt that we have here the second son 

 of Richard and Dorothy Vyolett, and, incidentally, evidence that 

 the children Mrs. Stephens brought with her to her uew homo at 

 Burderop were still quite young. The Stephens family, as we 



