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

Reinold and Matthew Marvin n
In the olden time there were seven Manors there, and
several of them are still important. Of these Roydon Hall,
two miles west of the Parish Church, is the chief. At the
time that Matthew, one of our New England ancestors, left
the mother country (1635), this belonged to Sir Harbottle
Grimston,* Knight and Baronet ; later it passed to James
Smyth, and in 1638 Nathaniel Garland was its owner. At an
earlier period it was held by the Roydons and Lucases. As
it was because of the discovery of the fact that John Lucas,
who died 27 May, 1599, mentioned a Reinold Marvin in his
Will, dated 6 December, 1596, proved 18 June, 1599, and
recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (Kidd, 50),
that we were led to make the investigations near his home
which have given such satisfactory results, a brief reference
to that family may not be without interest. The clause in
the Will of Lucas is : "I
do confess that I owe unto William
Bedingfield, of Bedfield, gent my sonne One hundred and
sixteene poundes. To Reynold Marvine of Ramsey in the
Countie of Essex, yoman, Tenne poundes." This Reynold
was possibly a son of Roger. The Beddingfields were a
prominent family in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the sixteenth cent-
ury, and many Ipswich names appear in the neighboring
Essex towns.
John 3 Lucas, of Ramsey, was the second son of John 2
Lucas, Esq., by his second wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George
Christmas. John 2 was the third son of Thomas 1 and Eliza-
beth (Keymes) Lucas, a prominent gentleman of Colchester,
* See " Essex in the Days of Old," by John T. Page, London, 1898.