Mary Hitchcock

Will of Mary Hitchcock 1570

Extracts

In the year of our Lord God 1569 the eleventh day of September in the eleventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland queen defender of the faith, I Marye Chapman alias Hiscockes of Preshute in the county of Wilts and diocese of Sarum, widow, being sick in body and of good and perfect remembrance thanks be given to Almighty God for it, I do ordain and make this my Last will and testament in manner and form following

......Richard Hiscokes mine eldest son 20 pounds in current English money.

Also I leave unto his children Robart, John, Marie, Margaret, Elizabeth and Jelia ...

...... unto Thomas Hiscokes my second son 20 pounds of lawful English money.

Also I give unto his final five children John, Thomas, William, Samuell and Anne ......

Item I give unto Robert Hiscokes my youngest son 20 pounds of current English money.

..... his four children Robert, William, Marye and Elizabeth...

Item I give unto my sons four children John, Robert, Agnis and Marie

Notes from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kingsman/kingsman...

The 1623 Visitation has this Mary as the 4th daughter of John Savage of Cheston, Cheshire.

Monica Kannelis, who is of this line, disagrees with this:

"The Hitchcock pedigree in the Visitation of Wiltshire has Mary Savage as 4th daughter of Sir John Savage of Cheshire and Elizabeth Manners, but this appears to be incorrect as that Mary (the niece of this one) lived circa 1560-1622. As the more detailed part of the pedigree is in italics, it is likely a later interpretation and probable that the Mary originally intended is in the previous generation. Both Marys had fathers, Sir John Savage, and mothers who were Lady Elizabeth, and the daughters of Earls so they might be easily confused. The Mary who was christened in 1527 would be a suitable age to have a great great grandchild christened in 1622. Intervening christening records are lost, but the Hitchcock pedigree is shown in the visitation and made clearer by family wills."

However, even a birth in 1527 does not gel with the bequests made in her will to her numerous grandchildren, she must have been a generation older than this.