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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Will of John Wincoll, 15761
Wincoll, John

1576-10-14

John Wyncoll2 of Little Waldingfeld3 co. Suffolk, gent. 14 Oct. 1576. To be buried in the church. To Isacke Wyncoll4 my sonne and heire. To Thomasyn my daughter when twenty yeares of age, Jane my daughter when 24twenty, Anne my daughter, Brygett my daughter, Amye my daughter. To my daughter in law, Elizabeth Wyntroppe,5 the taffita gowne which was some tyme her mothers, in consideration of her good will to Amy my daughter nowe in her tuition and custodie. To my sister Coo,6 my sister Rice. To Margaret Wyncoll wife of my cosin John Wincoll. To Robert Wyncoll th’elder; William Risbye, Gent. my sonne in lawe; Margaret Betts my daughter in law. My lands in Much and Littell Cornard7 to be sold. My Manors of Netherhall in little Waldingfeld and in Alphampton8 co. Essex. My Manors of Twinsted and Harberds and my lands in Essex. To my sonne John Wyncoll. Probate 25 Feb. 1576.

1.

Sudbury Archdeaconry, Lib. Wroo., fo. 222; Muskett, 70.

2.

John Wincold was son of John and Thomasin (Page) Wincold. Visitations of Suffolk, ed. W. C. Metcalfe, 106. The name is variously spelled. He married Margery, daughter of Edward Rosse of Nayland, co. Suffolk.

3.

Little Waldingfield, a parish in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk.

4.

Isaac Wincole of Twinsted married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Waldegrave of Buers, co. Suffolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Gurdon of Assington. Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 122, 310, 515.

5.

Elizabeth (Risby) Winthrop, stepdaughter of the testator. Muskett, 73.

6.

Catherine, daughter of Roger Wincolle of Waldingfield, married Thomas Coo or Coe of Gestingthorpe, co. Essex. Visitations of Essex, I. 183. The use of the word “sister” is confusing.

7.

Great and Little Cornard are parishes in the hundred of Babergh, co. Suffolk, lying about a mile and three miles southeast from Sudbury.

8.

Alphamstone, a parish in the hundred of Hinckford, co. Essex.