Roger Hill, MP

Family and Education bap. 12 Dec. 1545, 1st s. of William Hill of Poundisford by Ann or Agnes, da. of John Trowbridge of Colyton, Devon, ?wid. of one Hassard. educ. I. Temple 1564. m. Mary, da. of John Hassard of Lyme Regis, Dorset, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. 1594.

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Bencher, I. Temple 1578.

Biography Hill’s grandfather was a Taunton merchant who gave money for teachers in the town school, and his father was a ‘gospel favourer’ there in 1564. Hill was related by marriage to the Courtenay family, who presumably arranged his return to Parliament for Plympton. In 1572 Hill represented his native Taunton. Little more is known about him. He made his will in 1606 and died two years later, being buried at Pitminster 22 Dec. 1608. His son William, the executor, proved the will in the following year.

Vis. Som. ed. Weaver, 32; Vis. Som. xi), 50; H. W. L. Way, Hist. Way Fam. 35; VCH Som. ii. 444; Cam. Misc. ix(3), p. 64; Som. Wills, i. 35, 67; ii. 56.

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: P. W. Hasler Notes

Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc: copied from the manuscript ..., Volume 1 By Frederick Arthur Crisp, Frederick Brown

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• ROGER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Merchant. Will dated Jan. 6, 1544, proved Apr. 8 1546, by Margery the relict. [7 Alen.] To the High Awter in Mawdelyn Church, 20/. Bequest for divers
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• religious services. To an honest priest to sing for my soul for 20 years, for every year L5. In alms, L100. To Alice my daughter, L100 at 21 or marriage. My sons William & Robert. My daughter Margaret. My daughter Jone, that was at Buckland, 40/. My eldest son, John Hill. Alexander Togwell, my son in law, a pack of wre cloths. Residue to Margery my wife. William Portman, Exq'r, & Alexander Togwell, Overseers, L4 each. My wife to be Extrix, & if she refuse, then William, Robert, Marg't, & Alexander, my four children, to be Exors, & my wife then to have L500.
• MARGARET HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, widow. Will dated June 1, 1548, proved Feb. 14, 1550, by the Exors. [5 Bucke.] To be buried in S't Mary Magdalen, Taunton, near my husband. My son William Hill's three children. The three children of Alex. Togwell. My god-daughter Mary Portman, & to Henry Portman, L3. 6. 8 each. To my son in law, John Whyt, L3. 6. 8. To Sir John Hill & his sister Joan Hill, 10/ each. My apparell between my four daughters. My late husband, Roger Hill, "whose soul Jesu pardon," by his last will constituted me his Extrix. Residue to my son Robert Hill, Exor. Sir William Portman, kn't, my son William Hill, & Alexander Togwell, my son in law, Overseers. To John Cuffe & Will. Halley, 20/ each.
• A. 33. B. 50. WILLIAM HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, Esq'r. Will dated June 6, 1592, proved Apr. 20, 1594, by Roger Hill. [31 Dixy.] My daughter Ellinor Hill, 200 marks. My daughter Luce Lawrence, L100. My son Gabriel Hill, 100 marks. My son John Hill, L100. Tho's Hill, L20. Benjamin Hill, L40. My son Alexander2. Residue to my son Roger Hill, Exor. M'r John Colles, & my son Alexander, Overseers.
• ROGER HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, gent. Will dated Dec. 22, 1606, proved May 24, 1609, by W'm Hill. [42 Dorset.] To be buried at Pitminster. My father, William Hill, dec'd. My wife Mary3, an annuity of L30, & to have rooms in my dwelling house at Poundsford. My son Roger Hill. My son John Hill, under 21. My daughters, Ann Shute, Frances Shaplin [Chaplin], & Elizabeth Sampson, three angells each, for three rings. My son William Hill, Exor. My friend John Pyne, esq'r, & my brother Alexander Hill, gent., Overseers.
• ALEXANDER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Gent. Will dated Dec. 12, 1613, proved Jan. 28, 1613-14, by Robert Hill. [3 Lawe.] My wife Alice4. My daughter Elizabeth Hill. My daughter Godsall. My son Robert, Exor. Overseers, John Symes, esq., & Thomas Strowde, gent, both of Pitminster.
  • 2. Alexander and Roger were sons by 1st wife.
  • 3. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme.
  • 4. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme.
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• John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and five generations of his ... edited by J. Gardner Bartlett
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• WILLIAM3 HILL (Roger,2 William1), born about 1515, established himself at Poundsford in Pitminster, where he died in 1594, having been granted in 1570 the coat of arms mentioned above. Three children of his large
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• family were born before 1548 . . . . He married first about 1540, Anne, daughter of John Trowbridge of Colyton, Devonshire; she died about 1560; he married second, about 1563, Lucy, daughter of John Ryves of Dorset.
• Children by first wife:
  • i. Roger,4 b. about 1542, eldest son.
  • ii. ALEXANDER, second son, lived in Taunton; m. Alice, dau. of John Hansard of Lyme Regis, and had issue.
  • iii. ELIZABETH, m. first, a Hobbs; m. second, a Murifey; m. third, a Martin; d. s. p.
  • iv. WILLIAM, d. s. p.
  • v. ROBERT, d. s. p.
  • vi. HENRY, d. s. p.
  • vii. AMBROSE, d. s. p.
  • viii. GABRIEL, living 1592; d. s. p.
  • ix. SUSAN, d. s. p.
  • x. ELEANOR, m. after 1592, a Gravitt.
• Children by second wife:
  • xi. BENJAMIN, b about 1564; m. and had at least a dau. Anne, living unmarried in 1657, mentioned in the will of her cousin Roger5 Hill of Taunton.
  • xii. LUCY, m. before 1592, William Lawrence of Dorsetshire.
  • xiii. THOMAS, b. about 1568; lived in Chard, where he d. in 1629 probably unmarried. His will, dated Nov. 20, 1628, gives to cousins (i. e. nephews) John Hill and Jonathan Hill, yeomen of Chaffcombe, sons of brother John, 10L each, and 5L more to each on marriage; cousin (i. e. niece) Anne Hill, dau. of brother Benjamin, 5L; to the poor of Pitminster 10s.; residue to friend Thomas Legg of Chard who was executor. [Wells Reg.] [This Thomas Legg of Chard was also intimate with John and Walter Deane of Chard who came to New England, being a witness and overseer of the will of their father William Deane in 1634.]
  • xiv. John, youngest child, but of age in 1592; b. probably about 1570.
• ROGER4 HILL (William,3 Roger,2 William1), born about 1542, inherited Poundsford, where he lived until his death in 1609. His will, dated Dec. 22, 1606, mentions father William deceased; wife Mary; son Roger, son John under age; daughters Anne Shute, Frances Chaplain, and Elizabeth Sampson; eldest son William; brother Alexander Hill. [42 Dorset.] He married about 1570, Mary, daughter of John Hansard of Lyme Regis.
• Children:
  • i. WILLIAM,5 eldest, b. about 1573; inherited Poundsford, and entered the pedigree in the Visitation of 1623; m. 1603, Jane, dau. of John Young of Collupton, and had issue.
  • ii. ELIZABETH, m. first, George Sampson; m. second, Jan. 28, 1611-12, Joseph Long of Dorchester, Dorset.
  • iii. ANNE, m. Robert Shute.
  • iv. FRANCES, m. first, Thomas Chaplain; second, Simon Gibbins.
  • v. TEMPERANCE, d. s. p.
  • vi. MALLETT, d. s. p.
  • vii. PHILLIPPA, d. s. p.
  • viii. ROGER, of Taunton, second son; m. Elizabeth ___, and d. in 1660, probably s. p. His will, dated Feb. 27, 1657, names wife Elizabeth; several nieces and nephews; and his cousin Anne Hill, dau. of uncle Benjamin deceased. [23 May.]
  • ix. JOHN, third son, b. about 1590. He settled first in Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England, and while living there became interested
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  • in the "Dorchester Company," of which Rev. John White was the most prominent promoter, and which sent parties of colonists to Cape Ann in 1624; to Salem in 1628, and to Dorchester, Mass., from 1630 to 1634. [See Pope Genealogy, page 13.] This connection may have influence his younger cousin, John Hill5 of Chaffcombe (John,4 William,3 Roger,2 William1) to emigrate to N. E. He later became a merchant in London, where he d. in 1657. He m. about 1617, Sarah, dau. of John Greene, and widow of Thomas Davidge, and had issue. (For his will, see 41, P. C. C.)
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• The visitation of the county of Somerset in the year 1623 (1876)
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• Hill. pedigree chart Pg.50-51
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• The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
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• Pg. 222 Short Notes and Correspondence.
  • HILL OF SPAXTON.
• Since the notes on this family were published in the Antiquary of June last, they have been found to need correction in various ways, and the annexted tabular pedigree may be of interest as being more exact, it is believed, than previous attempts. It is founded mainly an that printed in Nichols' Collectanea (i. 409) from one compiled about 1530, and on those in Sir J. Maclean's Trigg Minor (i. 42), and Lieutenant Colonel Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall (p. 227).* The chief blemish of the two latter is the identification of Robert Hill, of Spaxton (not Spraxton) with his contemporary namesake Sir Robert Hill, of Shilston, as Judge of the Common Pleas, and last husband of Joan, the daughter and heir of Sir Otto de Bodrugan. This mistake was made by Foss in his Lives of the Judges, and has thus crept into the Dictionary of National Biography; so that it is well to point out (1) that Robert Hill, of Spaxton, died "on Sunday, on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist," in the first year of Henry VI., i.e., on April 25, 1423, while his namesake, the judge, was acting in 1425; and (2) that Isabell Hill (Fychet) was married to Robert Hill in 1396, and was still living in 1416, being mentioned in Dame Latymer's will, while Joan de Bodrugan had married the other Robert Hill before 1408, and died about 1428.
• The property of John Hill, of Spaxton, was, according to Sir J. Maclean, divided among the four heirs in 1529. The Waldegraves seem to have received the bulk of the Somerset property, and the Cloptons that in Devonshire and Cornwall. William Clopton, however, sold his share, and thus (about 1562) the Rouses, of Devonshire, had possession of Halton and Dittesham; the last of the Clopton family at Liston seems to have been Dr. Poley Clopton, who died in 1730. Robert Hussey, of Sleaford, was the second (or third) son of Sir William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench; Thomas Hussey left a daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married Thomas Stidolph, of Mickleham in Surrey, and their son, Sir Francis, was a man of some note in the first half of the seventeenth century (Manning's Surrey, ii., 651). George Babington, who married Helen Ellis, seems to have been the second son of Sir Anthony Babington, of Dethick, by his second wife (Katharine Ferrers); if this be so, he must afterwards have married Anne Constable, who on his death, became the second wife of Sir Anthony Thorold. George Babington left no children. . . . . .
• Hill, of Poundisford. This family having been mentioned, an outline of their pedigree is annexed, based on the Somerset Visitation of 1623, and Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights (Harleian Society), the confused account in Toulmin's History of Taunton (1822), and the monumental inscriptions in Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire (iv., 445).
• (1) William Hill 'c. 1450-1510), probably a grand-son of Robert Hill, of Spaxton, settled at Taunton. He married Eleanor __ , and was succeeded by his son,
• (2) Roger Hill, of Taunton, who married Margery , by whom he had three sons and two daughters. One son, Robert, resided at Yard, or Yard House, near Taunton ; a name suggestive of the manor of Yarde, in Combe Flory, held by Robert Hill, of Spaxton, one of the few properties in the long list of his possessions {Cal. Inq. Post Alortem, iv., 70), which may have been patrimonial. This Robert Hill, of Taunton, was twice married ; one son, Hugh, is described as " of Splot," and had a son James. Another of Roger's sons, apparently the younger, was
• (3) William Hill, of Poundisford, in Pitminster, a village to the south of Taunton. He also was twice married, and had fourteen children. One of these, Alexander, lived at Taunton, and his monument stated that he died December 14, 1613. The heir, however, was
• (4) Roger Hill, of Poundisford. In the Somerset Visitation his mother is said to have been Anne, daughter of John Trowbridge, of Colyton, in Devon,
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• but in the Dorset Visitation, Lucy, daughter of John Ryves, of Dorset. Roger Hill married Mary, daughter of John Hassard, of Lyme, and had three sons -- William, Roger (of Taunton), and John (of Dorchester), and six daughters. He was followed at Poundisford by
• (5) William Hill (living in 1623), who married Jane, daughter of John Yonge, of Cullompton, Devon, and had three sons -- Roger, William, and John -- and five daughters. His heir was
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• William Hill m. Eleanor
  • 1. Roger Hill of Taunton Visitation (Weaver, Somerset, 1551+1575+1595, Hill) identifies Roger's wife and mother of her children as Alice Towse, Visitation (1623) shows the mother of Roger's children as a Margery so we prsume that Alice Towse was Roger's 2nd wife. m1. Margery
    • A. William Hill of Poundsford, Somerset m1. Ann Trowbridge (dau of John Trowbridge of Clyton)
      • i. Roger Hill of Poundsford m. Mary Hasard (dau of John Hassard or Hansard Lyme)
        • a. William Hill of Poundsford (a 1623) m. Jane Young (dau of John Young of Collumpton) The following comes from Visitation (Somerset & Bristol, 1672, Hill of Pitminster). .... etc.
        • b. Elizabeth Hill m1. George Sampson m2. Jos. Long
        • c. Amy Hill m. Robert Chute of Bridgwater
        • d. Frances Hill m1. Thomas Chaplin m2. Simon Gibbins
        • e.+ other issue - Roger of Taunton, John of Dorchester, Temperance, Mallet, Philippa (dsp)
      • ii. Alexander Hill of Taunton m. Alice Hassard (dau of John Hassard of Lime)
      • iii. Elizabeth Hill m1. __ Hobbs m2. __ Murifey m3. __ Martin
      • iv. Eleanor Hill m. __ Gravit of Berkshire
      • v.+ other issue (dsp) - William, Robert, Henry, Ambrose, Gabriel, Susan
    • m2. Lucy Ryves (dau of John Ryves of Dorset)
      • xi. Lucy Hill m. William Lawrence of Dorset
      • xii.+ other issue - Benjamin, Thomas, John
• From: stirnet.com
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• Roger Hill (1545-1608), was an English politician.
• He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Plympton Erle in 1571 and for Taunton in 1572.[1]
• References
• ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hi...
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hill_(died_1608)
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