Robert Simpson, of Henknoll

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A sister of Humphrey, Richard, and Roland, named Margaret, became the wife of Thomas Bellasis of Hen- knoll, Durham, who, it appears, (Mis. 17.) died in 1499, leaving several children, the eldest son being about eleven years old. She afterwards married one Simpson, whom I suppose to have been the Robert Simpson named in a pedigree of Hutton of Hunswicke (Mis. 18.) as of Hen- knoll ; which, if it were he who married the widow, he very likely might be during the minority of the heir. I am much inclined to think after a careful study of the Will of Richard Bellasis, dated Sept. 25th, 1539, and proved July nth, 1540, and that of his brother Anthony dated Aug. 10, 1552, and proved Sept. 5, of the same year, that Margaret had children by both husbands. The sons, of course, were issue of the first marriage, but I am unable to fix the parentage of the daughters. I would have liked to give the two Wills I mention for they are, especially Anthony's, of great interest and have never been published, but I cannot ask for space for them in a Threlkeld paper. The children I embody in the Pedigree Sheet