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

44 The English Ancestry of
Wills. Further, as no reference whatever is made to Mrs.
Hewit, but half the estate is to go at once to her sons, and
most of the remainder on the death of the widow, it can
hardly be doubted that the mother had deceased.
23 ii. Daughter (?), b. ; mar. Beteryche, and had (1)
Matthew, 5 and (2) John. These sons, as stated above, were
not of age when Robert died, but as Matthew was to have
£4, which was to go to John, in case the elder brother died
before he became of age, which is a larger sum than is indi-
vidually given to those certainly known to be Robert's grand-
children, we are disposed to regard Matthew and John as
the children of a daughter who also died before her father.
An Alice Beteryche is given a small legacy by Reynold,
but whether of this family is not known.
24 iii. Sissely [Cicely], b. about 1525 or earlier; mar. John
Blosse, and had (1) John 5 the eldest, (2) Robert, (3) Thomas,
(4) Anne, (5) Bridget, and (6) a child, born in 1560 as the Will
of Isabell shows. The dates of birth of all but the last are
unknown ;
clearly however the eldest must have been only a
child, when their grandfather died in 1556/7. John Blosse
is made executor of Robert's Will with Hewit, and sole ex-
ecutor of Isabell's. The family of Bloss, — the name some-
times spelled Blois,— is found in Ipswich in the Parish of
St. Nicholas as early as 1448, and in that town or its vicinity
from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth and later.
WILL OF ROBERT MARVEN.*
3Tn tl)t name of {Jlrti &men the x daye of December and in the
thurd and fouerthe yere of Philip and Marye bie the grace of god
of ynglande spayne ffraunce both Cecilles Jerusalem and yrlande
* The original is at Somerset House, London, — Commissary London, Essex and
Herts. January, 1556-7. That has no divisions into paragraphs, which are made
here for convenience of reference.