View in Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough
We are told in the will of his father that Edmund Goltye was born May 10, 1565. He was not yet 19 years old when his father died and Edmund became his executor. Even though he was the executor he did not come into his full inheritance until he was 23 years old. Continue reading
Calais Pier, Sloop returning to Port
Robert Green in his book, The History, Topography and Antiquities of Framlingham and Saxted, gives a brief synopsis of the life of Richard Golty, Rector of Framlingham. Within that synopsis is a sentence about his grandfather, the subject of this article, who I am calling “Richard Goltye of Ipswich”. Mr. Green quotes: Continue reading
In the Name of God, Amen the eighth day of April one thousand six hundred six and in the fourth year of the Reigne of our sovereign Lord James by the grace of God of England France and Ireland kinge defender of the faith &c and of Scotland the nyne and thirtieth. Continue reading