From “A History of Royston, Hertfordshire,” By Alfred Kingston. Page 210. <GoogleBooks > WILLIAM WILLYMOT, SCHOLAR. A noted man in the scholastic world at the end of the 17th century was William Willymot, who was the second son of Thomas Willymot, of Royston, by his wife Rachael, daughter of Dr. Pindar, of Springfield, Essex. He was born at Royston, probably about 1670, and was admitted as a scholar at King's College, Cambridge, in 1691. …