Nicholas Hill

Nicholas Hill was born in Guildford, Surrey, 1544. He was buried in London at St. Michael Paternoster Royal, 11 April 1610, as Nicholas Hill, Draper of London. He married first at St. Antholin, London, 22 February 1573/4, Rose Bull, daughter of John and Joan (Rawlins) Bull. She was buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury on 19 October 1591. He married second, Anne (Timberman) Kinge, place and date unknown. She was buried at St. Michael Paternoster Royal, London, 27 November 1601. He married third, Margaret (—), place, date, and surname unknown.

The first mention of Nicholas Hill appears in the records of the Drapers' Company where he was admitted to the Freedom of the Company on 22 April 1573 after serving as apprentice to Thomas Pullison.

Nic: Narbon, Ulster King of Arms, granted arms (argent, a fess between six martlets, gules) to "Nicholas Hill of London marchant son of James Hill mayor of Guilford in Com: Surry" in 1584.

Nicholas Hill was involved as a merchant and accountant for factors (mercantile agents or commission merchants) who dealt in apparel for troops in Ireland, and perhaps the grant of arms by Nicholas Narbon was no more than a seal used by Nicholas Hill in his profession.

In his will dated 8 April 1610, he asks to be buried in the "parish church of St. Michaell Paternoster in the Royall" in London. He gives bequests to:
my welbeloved wife Margarett £150 for her third part
my brother William Hill 30 shillings to make him a gould ring
the poore of St. Michaell Paternoster where I now dwell 30 shillings
the residue to my children Nicholas, Christopher, Elizabeth, Joane, Agnes [?Ann], and Rose when they shall come to and accomplish their lawfull ages of 21 years or be married
my said son Christopher Hill my sole executor
all that howse wherein I doe now dwell .. . in the parishe of St. Michaell Paternoster . . . vnto and for Margaret my nowe wife and all or any of my children at theire owne free wills & pleasures to inhabit dwell and abide in the same

Sources

1. Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900 (www.londonroll.org) Nicholas Hill, New freeman, Co Drapers, April 22, 1573, http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=drp&event_id=DREW7583 [accessed 15 March 2018]
2. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Transcriptions & Images (ancestry.com) Marriage record for Rose Biell & Nicholas Hill, 22 Feb 1573, parish of St Antholin, Budge Row. Image attached to profile.
3. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Transcriptions & Images (ancestry.com) Burial record for Nicholas Hill, 11 Apr 1610, parish of St Michael Paternoster Royal. Image attached to profile.
4. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, (ancestry.com), Will of Nicholas Hill, Draper of London, dated 8 April 1610, proved 26 April 1610, citing Reference PROB 11/115/371, The National Archives, Kew.