The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
and had a son — a young man, but yet old enough to require
father and son to be distinguished in the Will as "John the
elder" and "John the younger." John (36) and Barbara
were thus apparently about the same age. Reinold had six
children living in 1554, and could not have been born very
much later than the year assigned him (15 14), while the
birth of the writer of this Will must have been certainly
twenty years later, possibly more. I have therefore reached
the conclusion given, — that the writer was the nephew and
not the brother of Reinold, and that Barbara was his cousin
as we now use the term, and as it was also often used at the
period of this Will.
WILL OF JOHN MARVYNE OF RAMSEY.*
3Tn t\)t name of (Soft %imn The xxx 4i daye of January The yeare
of our lord god 1570 in the xiij th yeare of the Raigne of our Soue-
raigne Ladye Elizabeth by the grace of god of England ffraunce
and Ireland Quene Deffendor of the ffayth &c I John Marvyne of
Ramsey w th in the Countye of Essex yeoman and in the dyocese of
London beynge sycke in bodye but yet of perfect and good remem-
brance thankes be geven to almightie god Do make this my testa-
ment and laste Wyll in manner and forme followinge
ffyrste I bequeathe my Sowle to almightie god my maker and to
Jhesus Christ his sonne my only Savyo r and redemer with the holy
ghost my preserver and keper my bodye to the Earthe to be buryed
in the Churche yarde of Ramsey afforesayd
Item I geve to the pore folke of Ramseye Twenty Shillinges to be
delyvered to them within a yere and a half after my departure by
the dyscrecyon of my Executors Item I geve vnto the pore folke
* Recorded at Somerset House, London, — Commissary London, Essex and Herts,
1570-71.