Identifier: greenefamilyinen00bost (find matches)
Title: The Greene family in England and America, with pedigrees
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Green family Green family (John Greene, 1597-1658)
Publisher: Boston, Priv. print. (T. R. Marvin & Son, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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), paying unto the bailiff ofGillingham one payre of gloves, a calfes head raw and un-dreased, a gallon of ale or beere, and two penny loaves ofwhite bread (to the bailiffs private use). The document cited quaintly says, the observa-cion of which custome on the Lords day occationingsome neglect of divine service, the time was changedto the Munday next before the Feast of the Ascen-tion of our Lord, without prejudice to the mayor,burgesses, and other inhabitants, of their ancientprivileges. A copy of the agreement was pub-lished and inrolled as well among the rolles of thecourt of the manor of Gillingham as among the rollesof the court of the borrough of Shafton. This wassigned and sealed by Edward Nicholas, for Gilling-ham, and by Peter King, <kmaior of Shafton, withthe consent of the burgesses then present, and sixwitnesses, of whom Richard Greene was the second to sign. This regard for the Lords day, in the time of the merry monarch, by the parish officers, is at leastnoteworthy.
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Ill CO a.Oa < i -J uj(5 ^ < C3q < £ 3UJ UJ I LU in r>o i THE FAMILY OF GREENE. 35 (1.) Robert Greene,1 of GKllingham, from whoman unbroken line of descent is traced, was assessedto that Kings subsidy, as appears by the Rolls of theExchequer bearing date 1545. He was father ofthree sons and two daughters, viz: i. Peter,2 his heir, who succeeded to theestate of Bowridge Hill, in Gillingham, and dyingwithout issue, his brother Richard became his heir.He made his will May 20, 1583, which contains be-quests to his relatives and to his wife Joan. Thiswill was proved June 1, 1583, and, with others to bereferred to as we proceed, is printed in another placein this volume. The Parish Register shows that hewas interred May 31, 1583. Bowridge Hill, the scatof the principal family of the Greenes of Gilling-ham, is said to have derived its name from the shapeof the hill on which their residence was placed. Itlies about a mile from the church, and the remai

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