Thomasine Hopton

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Thomasine Barrington, who was a considerable heiress and of an ancient house, was thrice married, 1. to William Lunsford (Lunsforthe or Louseworthe), Esq., 2. to William Kidney, of Stoke Daubernon in Surrey, 3. to John Hopton, Esq. Her first husband made a brief will in Latin, dated the 10th and proved the 24th of April, 1445, wherein he describes himself as William Lonesforde de Bello (Battle), Co. Sussex, and desires to be buried in the Church of Battle in the Chapel of S. Catherine, and gives. "To Thomasine my wife all my goods and chattels in the parish of Rayleigh, Co. Essex." His wife as an only child and heir retained the inheritance from both her parents. It was as the widow of her third husband that she made her own will, dated the 3rd of Nov. 1497, and proved 10th Feb. 1497-8, in which she describes herself as Thomasine Hopton, widow, of Yokkingfeld, Co Suffolk.#