Family:Whitney, Mary (s1570?-?)
Mary Whitney, (George, Robert, James, Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), daughter of George and Julian (-----) Whitney of Icombe,[1] born say 1570?[2]
She married Thomas Mills "of the Star Chamber".[3]
They may be the Thomas and Mary Mills whose son John Mills was christened 8 Jul 1587, St. Dunstan's Stepney, Middlesex.[4]
Could he be the Thomas Mylls who was christened -- Dec 1541, St. Margaret's Westminster, Middlesex?[5]
Thomas and Mary apparently sued her cousin Eustace Whitney, then head of the Whitneys of Whitney. "The Chancery proceedings in Elizabeth's reign include Thomas Mill and Mary his wife v. Eustace Whitney, Esq., and William Whitney, gent., for specific performance of a devise of lands under the will of Sir James Whitney and of the manors of Whitney, Pencomb and Icomb."[6]
Thomas Mills was listed as an attorney with The Court of Star Chamber ca. 1592.[7]
Children of Thomas and Mary (Whitney) Mills:
i. William Mills,[8] "a printice of London in Mark Layn".[9] ii. Richard Mills.[10] iii. Thomas Mills.[11]
References
1. ^ Harleian Manuscript 1442, fo. 68.
2. ^ Supposition
3. ^ "Maria uxor Tho: Mills de Camera Stellata", Harleian Manuscript 1442, fo. 68, also Melville, op. cit., pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
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6. ^ Morgan George Watkins, Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford. In continuation of Duncumb's history. Hundred of Huntington ... (Hereford: 1898)
7. ^ The Court of Star Chamber and its records to the reign of Elizabeth I, p. 16, under the text "Wolsey restricted the number of attorneys in Star Chamber to two. Under his authority it was no longer possible, as it had been in Henry VII's reign, to appoint any convenient person to be one's attorney."
8. ^ Sir John MacLean, and W. C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 ... Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 21 (London, 1885), p. 216.
9. ^ Sir John MacLean, and W. C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 ... Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 21 (London, 1885), p. 216.
10. ^ Sir John MacLean, and W. C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 ... Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 21 (London, 1885), p. 216.
11. ^ Sir John MacLean, and W. C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 ... Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 21 (London, 1885), p. 216.
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