wife of N.N. Rice

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William Rice was a sick man when on 22 July 1588 he made a will providing for his wife and three of his sisters and naming his wife and two friends executors. He died at Chipping Wycombe a week later. At the inquisition, not taken until 1596, it was found that the manor of Medmenham had been settled in July 1588 on his nephew William Rice, but by 1596 there were no heirs on his father’s side, and his nearest kinsman was his maternal cousin, William Saunders.

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• Parishes: Medmenham', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 84-89. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp84-89 [accessed 21 October 2019] ... By settlement in the hands of trustees the reversionary interests passed to a nephew of William Rice bearing the same name in tail-male, with remainder to Elizabeth, Anne and Margaret Rice, his uncle's half-sisters, and their heirs, and further remainder to Barbara Rice's nieces Anne and Mary Fuller. (fn. 62) The latter married the younger William Rice, (fn. 63) and in 1593 after her husband's death she joined her sister Anne and her husband William Eden in conveying their remainders to Antony Ashley. (fn. 64) He also made settlements in the same year with Elizabeth, who had previously married William Fitz Geoffrey, (fn. 65) and Anne Rice, wife of George Mortimer, (fn. 66) in respect of their remainders. In 1595 Margaret Rice and her husband Edward Eyton sold their interest in the manor to William Borlase, (fn. 67) who also obtained a quitclaim in full from the three sisters and their husbands, from Antony Ashley and John Hyde. (fn. 68) In 1597 he sued the trustees of William Rice (fn. 69) for the deed of settlement.