Dorothy Wylde

Biography

Dorothy Moreley was born in 1502. Her parents were Thomas Morley, of Glynde and Jane Barret.

Dorothy married William Wylde. Together they had the following children: Wyat Wylde.

She died in 1543.

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In 1543 (34 Henry VIII.) certain lands of Thomas Warham were held by William Wilde, gentleman, in right of his wife Dorothy, the offspring of an incestuous marriage between Jane, daughter and heir of the before-men tioned John Barret, and Thomas Morley, son of his widow by her second husband Robert Morley. In a complaint made to Archbishop Warham, then Archbishop of Canterbury, by certain tenants holding lands under the said Wilde, that they had been then lately threatened with an ejectment, and praying his interference, as lord of the manor of Croydon, this marriage—as contrary to the laws both of God and the King—is urged against the right of his wife to the lands of her maternal grandfather John Barret, and his wife's uncle Thomas Warham. It is also here noticed, that, as the latter made no surrender of any part of his copyhold lands to the use of his brother Richard or his children before mentioned, or to the use of any other person, according to the custom of the manor, the said copyholds had reverted to the lord,a and were consequently unjustly held by the said Wilde and his predecessors from the time of Warham's death.

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