Dorothy Polden

1. Calendar of Patent Rolls Elizabeth I. Vol 9
1 Dec 1580 Licence for Thomas Henslowe to alienate the capital messuage or
site or the Manor of Iwerne Minster, Dorset and lands there, late of Ralph
Henslowe, deceased to Thomas Polden. For 7 pounds, 6s 8d.

2. Calendar of Patent Rolls 27 Elizabeth I (1584-1585)
C 66/1259
" 340 23 August 1585 Wealdhall. Pardon ( at the suit of Dorothy Polden) for Thomas Polden of Ewerne, Dors, her husband."

3. "The Four Visitations of Berkshire Made and taken by Thomas Benolte,
Clarenceux, Anno 1532, By William Harvey, Clarenceaux, Anno 1566; by Henry
Chitting, Chester Herald and John Philpott, Rouge Dragon, for William
Camden, Clarenceaux, Anno 1623, and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, for
Sir Edmund Bysshe, Clarenceaux, Anno 1665-66, volume 57"
Page 105. Thomas Cheney of Westwood Hay, living 1587 & wife Elizabeth
Ruffin; children Henry Cheney [possibly 15 years old at death of father] &
Dorathie Cheney, sister & heire, Uxor [wife] of Thomas Poldin.

4. From a petition filed in 1644 by Captain Morgan Polden to claim the inheritance from his mother's family. He names his parents as Thomas Polden of Iwerne Minster, Dorset & Dorothy Cheney of Woodhay, Berkshire [daughter of Thomas Cheney, of Woodhay, Berkshire