I recommend expanding to full screen width before reading this LONG message. Sir Richard Page's 1547, not 1558, PCC will abstract is as follows with modernization of the spelling of the place names: PROB 11/34 [10 Bucke] Date: 22 Sep 1 Edw VI [1547] Testator: Sir Richard Page, knight, of the parish of Flampsted, Herts. Burial request: If he dies within the city of London, his body is to be buried within the parish church of St Mary on the Hyll besides Billingisgate in London (where he is patron). If he dies at his house of Bechewoode otherwise called Saynt Gylis in the Woode, Herts, it is to be buried in the parish church of Flampstede. Bequests: 1. To the parish church of Flampsted, 20s. 2. Whereas Sir William Fitzwilliam (late earl of Southampton), Sir William Parr, knight (late Lord Parr), Sir Thomas Arundell, knight, John Awdley, esq, and others, with their heirs, do stand enfeoffed in all his lands, rents and tenements within the realm of England, to and for the use of certain covenants and articles comprised in a pair of indentures made at the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth Page to William Skypwith (son to William Skipwith of Ormesbye, Lincs, esq), between the testator on the one part and the said William Skipwith of Ormesbye (then esquire, and of late knight); these lands, etc, are to be used to pay off the testator's debts and legacies. 3. To Dame Elizabeth Page (his wife), £100 in old 'Angells' after the rate of 8s the 'Angell' [and list of items, detailed, including a cup given to her by the king when he was prince]; items in the house at the late White Fryers in Fletstrete within the suburbs of London, and also in the said house called Bechewoode (with remainders to his daughter and son in law Elizabeth and William Skipwith and their heirs male; then to Mabell Skipwith their eldest daughter; and then to be equally divided between Mabell's sisters). 4. His wife is to have occupation of his 'chales' and chapel (with remainder to daughter Elizabeth and her heirs). 5. To Elizabeth Skipwith (his daughter), £100 in 'Angells' [and list of items, detailed]. 6. To William Skipwith (his son in law), 2 great grey horses, his great large grey gelding [and list of items, detailed]. 7. To Margaret Smert (his sister), [list of items, detailed]. 8. To Mabell Skipwith (his granddaughter), £40 in 'Angells' at the time of her marriage. 9. To Frances Skipwith (sister of the said Mabell), the same. 10. To Jarrad Harvye of Thyrleghe, Beds, [list of items, detailed]. 11. To Lady Cristian Sapcotts of Huntingdonshire, [list of items, detailed]. 12. To John Potter (his old servant), [list of items, detailed]. 13. To Marmaduke [….]rop (his old servant and now one of the yeomen of the Wardrobe of the Beds with the Queen's Majesty), 4 marks a year during his life out of his lands in London. 14. To Edward Hampden (his servant), £6 13s 4d [and list of items, detailed]. 15. To his loving friend Mr Fitzwilliam (attending upon the King's Majesty in his Privy Chamber), [list of items, detailed]. 16. To Katheryn Verney (his wife's daughter), £20 to her marriage. 17. To Edward Wolf (sometime his servant and now gentleman of the 'celer' unto the King's Majesty), [list of items, detailed]. 18. To 40 of the poorest households in the parishes of Flampsted, Studham and Karington, £20. 19. The rest of his goods are to be sold and the sum of £100 to be made and distributed amongst his daily and household servants. Bequests of Lands: 1. His wife is to enjoy the manor of Bechewood otherwise called Saynt Gilys in the Wood, according to a patent, granted to him by Henry VIII and dated at Tyrlyng 10 Aug 31 Hen VIII [details of conditions] (with remainder to his daughter Elizabeth Skipwith and her heirs; then to his sister Margaret Page otherwise called by her husband Margaret Smart; then to Jarrad Harvy otherwise called Jarrad Smart her son, dwelling at Thirleghe, Beds, and his heirs; then to his cousin John Carleton dwelling in the parish of Walton upon the Temms, Surrey, and his heirs male; then to Anthony ?Sonds in the parish of Throwley, Kent, and his heirs male; then to the heirs of the testator). 2. Lands in London: these are to remain to Elizabeth Skipwithe (his daughter) and to her heirs. 3. The manor of Northall, Bucks (given to him by Henry VIII). He wills that within 3 months after his death Elizabeth (his daughter) and her husband make a sufficient deed with a clause of distress upon the same ground unto Mary Swynnerton (now attendant upon the old Lady Johan Carowe of Ashewater, Devon), and the rent of the same manor to remain to his daughter Elizabeth. [Further minor details concerning the above lands follow]. Executors: Dame Elizabeth Page (his wife), William Skipwithe (his son in law), and John Carleton (his cousin): to each of them £6 13s 4d. Overseer: Sir Thomas Arundell, knight: £5. Additional bequest: To the Right Honourable duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of all the King's Majesties Dominions and Realms, his cup of 'burall' [detailed]. Proved at London, 14 Apr 1551, by his Elizabeth (his relict) and William Skipwith, knight, the executors. A Edmund Page, Gent., born c. 1534, who in 1564 was mentioned in a deposition in the "Patent Rolls" as a gentleman, age 30, servant to Edward Earl of Hertford, in connection with a deed concerning a Robert Austin, citizen and grocer of London. The deposition was made by Sir John White, Lord Mayor of London upon the request of Thomas Bill, citizen and haberdasher, before Thomas Marten of Southwark, public notary on 6 April 1564. He deposed that in June 1562 he knew: Wm. Skipwith of St. Albans, Herts.; Robert Austin, citizen and grocer of London; and, Alice Robert's wife, widow of Henry Duncombe, late of Tiscote, Herts. That in the said month, Austin caused one of deponent's servants to draw a deed, whereby Skipwith should release to Robert Austin all his right in the mansion house and manor of Somertons, and in Myfeld pasture, and lodge in Northeast, county Oxford, then occupied by Henry More. Also in consideration that Austin had lately married Skipwith's natural sister, Alice, to whom he, Skipwith, owed certain sums of money, he gave Robert and Alice the lease dated 8 May 1553, granted by Wm. Anne to Henry Duncombe, for 61 years from the death of Anne, widow. ["Calendar of Patent Rolls, Domestic - Addenda, Elizabeth," Vol. XII, April 1564, pp. 547-8] Edmund Page deposed the same; also that Austin, in consideration of the lease, released the said Skipwith of a debt of 30£, and one of 3£ odd, standing in the shop book of Thomas Bill, citizen and haberdasher; gave him a black gelding worth 20 marks, and repaid 93£, and a noble, paid for redemption of said lease, it having been mortgaged by Alice, in widowhood, to one Hawtry. ["Calendar of Patent Rolls, Domestic Addenda, Elizabeth," Vol. XII, April 1564, pp. 5478.] This Robert Austin is no doubt the same Robert Austin who was referred to as a cousin in the 1558 will of Thomas Page, Gent. Obviously CN Page confused the Richard Page who m. Alice and had the children mentioned above with "Ye Noble Richard." Subsequent messages will illuminate further errors in the work of CN Page about the Pages of Harrow parish in county Middlesex during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries --- stay tuned. George W. Page

Very interesting reading! Thanks for your research! Please continue. Donna "George W. Page" wrote: > > Sir Richard Page's 1547, not 1558, PCC will abstract is as follows with > modernization of the spelling of the place names: