St. Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk
We seldom find very much to tell us about the daily lives of ancestors who lived so long ago. We count ourselves fortunate if we find their baptismal record, marriage record, maybe the baptisms of their children and a burial record. Then we have a basic outline of who, what, when, where, etc. Continue reading
There is much of interest and not a little of human nature in these letters to a herald from old world gentlemen, anxious for the recognition of their pedigrees and arms. Similar missives, one fancies, are received by Clarencieux and Garter now-a-days, but they do not fall into the hands of the public. Those which we are printing are taken from a Manuscript in the British Museum, Continue reading
This thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and three; I Matthias Gillet otherwise called Matthias Candler of Coddenham in the County of Suffolk, clerke, do make and ordaine this my last will and testament for the disposal of my worldly goods as followeth. Continue reading