Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1616-12-02
I, Sir John Tyndall1 of Much Maplestead in the Countie of Essex, Knight, consideringe that my tyme of departure out of this transitorie life is, by the ordinarie age of man, nowe neere at hande, yet in my reasonable 181health and vnderstandinge, doe make my will. I bequeathe both my bodie and sowle into the mercifull handes of Jesus Christ, my onely Saviour and Redeemer. I have by severall deedes heretofore disposed of certaine of my hereditaments and chattells. The rest of my goods I give vnto my deerely beloved wife,2 whome I also appoint sole executor, duringe her life, and after her death I give saide residue vnto my verie kinde and lovinge brother Fraunces Tindall3 Esquire and make him my onely executor. And after his death I make my sonne Deane Tyndall executor: and yf he refuse, then my sonne Arthur Tyndall and my daughter Margaret Tyndall. Item I give to my saide wife the guilt bason and ewer, and the guilt cupps, and white silver bowle which sometymes were her first husbandes. Item I give vnto her my great and little white silver salt with their covers; and my guilt tankarde and all the chaines of gold and borders of gold and other Jewells which she hath heretofore vsed to weare. I desire Sir John Deane Knight and the lady his wife,4 my brother Francis Tindall and my sister Fisher,5 my nephew Mr. Thomas Fisher and loving brothers in lawe Mr. Thomas Egerton and Mr. Stephen Egerton may haue ringes. House in Much Maple-stead wherein I dwell to my sonne Arthur Tindall after decease of wife. Probatum 2 Dec. 1616 Juramento Deane Tindall: Relicta renunciante.
Son of Sir Thomas Tyndall of Hockwold and Great Maplestead, and his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Fermor of East Bersham, co. Norfolk. Muskett, 153; Visitations of Essex, I. 511;
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, I. 123–126. The Tyndals traced their ancestry to the Emperor Henry VII, through John, the blind King of Bohemia, slain at Crécy in 1346. Thomas Fuller, in his History of the University of Cambridge (1655), p. 81, reports a tradition concerning Humphrey Tyndal, D.D., Dean of Ely and Master of Queens’ College, Sir John’s brother, who died in 1614, that “in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he was proffered by a Protestant Party inBohemia to be made King thereof Bohemia (viz.) Mars, a Lyon with a forked Tayle, Luna, crowned Sol, with a Plume of Estrich-feathers for a Crest.”
Anne, daughter of Thomas Egerton of Wallegrange, co. Suffolk, and widow of William Deane. In the Visitation of Essex, 1558, she is described as the daughter of Thomas Egerton of London, armiger, and widow of—Blithe, clerk of the council of York. In the Visitations of 1612 and 1634 the father is given as of Wallegrange and again of Wrinhill, co. Chester, and no mention is made of Blithe. Visitations of Essex, 1. 47, 188, 388, 511.
He died in 1633, aged eighty, without issue. Muskett, 153.
Son of William Deane of Dynes in Much Maplestead, co. Essex, and Anne Egerton, who later married Sir John Tyndall. Sir John Deane was married to Anne, daughter of Sir Drew Drury of Riddlesworth, co. Norfolk. Muskett, 154; Visitations of Essex, 1. 47, 188, 388.
Susan, married (1) James Whittall and (2) Thomas Fisher of London. Muskett, 153.