Jane Offley

From The Genealogist, Volume 20  edited by Walford Dakin Selby. Page 49. "The Offley Pedigree."

RICHARD OFFLEY, Merchant Taylor (Master of the Company 1572 and 1582) and Merchant of the Staple, Factor for Sir Thomas Offley at Callice and overseer of his will, born at Chester, died within one half year after Sir Thomas; admons. P.C.C. 28 Dec. 1582 and 28 Nov. 1583; mar. Jane, dau. of Sir William Chester, Knt., Lord Mayor of London when Paul's Steeple was on fire (1561). She was bur. 29 Feb. 1611-12 at St. Mary's Woolnoth.

In her will Will dat. 23 Feb. 1611-12, pr. 26 March following in Commissary Court of London (Reg. 22, fol. 25), she mentions her sister, Susan Trott; her daughters-in-law, Thomas Offley's wife; Alice Offley, widow; Jane Offley, “my son William's wife”; her sons-in-law, Richard Cheny, Edward Delves, and Francis Greenhaugh; various grandchildren, including Robert and Thomas Offley, sons of “Robert Offley, my son deceased,” and makes John Vernon, Merchant Taylor, and her sonin-law, Richard Cheney, exors, begging of them to accept for their pains “a poore widdowes myte,” i.e., a gold ring each.

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