Webb, Benedict Richmond

Abt 1584 - Abt 1628  (~ 44 years)

• Name	Webb, Benedict Richmond
  Born	Abt 1584	Of Wiltshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1628	Wiltshire, England
  Person ID	I04010	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2015

  
  

  Father	Webb, William Richmond,   b. Abt 1523, England ,   d. 14 Feb 1610, Lydiard Millicent, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 87 years)
  Mother	Gomond, Anna,   b. of Biford, Hereford, England ,   bur. 25 Jan 1609/10, Lydiard Millicent, Wiltshire, England
  Married	Abt 1570	England
  Family ID	F00968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  This Benedict Webbe? THURSTON, John - of Morton, Thornbury. Sisters Ellen, Nis, Joan, Eliz, & Susan; son Thos, Margt wife of Rob PERCE; Thos HEARINGE; bro Jn BAKER; wifes dtrs Mathew, Eliz, & Jane; wife Susan exec. Overseers: Uncle Nicholas WEBBE of Kingeswood, Thos ADY of Oldbury, & Rob PERCE of Morton. Probate 1576. Researched from LDS Film #0091316. [Wills abstracted by Leslie Mahler in 1998: Thornbury 1568-1576] National Archives 15/284 Indenture of agreeement between (1) Thomas Hanbury, of Mapledurham [in Buriton], Hampshire, esq, and (2) Henry Thynne, of Greenwaye [Greenway in Churston Ferrers], Devon, esq: concerning a bond. By bond acknowledged before Sir John Popham, kt, lord chief justice of England, (2) is bound to (1) in £700. If Henry Thynne will perform the covenants in the indentures 9 Feb 41 Eliz [1599], between (3) Henry Thynne and John Bridges, the younger, and (1), confirming the estate of Benedict Webbe in lands in the indenture for 28 years, then bond void. [? not executed] See also LR 15/10/285 and LR 15/10/287 Covering dates 1599 Feb Availability Open Document, Open Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years LR 14 National Archives Draft indenture of sale between (1) Henry Thynne, of Greenwaye [Greenway in Churston Ferrers], Devon, and John Bridges, the younger, of London, merchant, son of John Bridges, the elder, of Kingswood, Wiltshire [recte Gloucestershire], and (2) Thomas Hanbury, of Mapledurham [in Buriton], Hampshire, esq: of property in Gloucestershire. Sale, for £1,360, of a messuage called the Wakemyll Barnes, near Kingeswood [Kingswood], wherein Benedict Webbe now dwells, a fulling mill, a gig mill and a grist mill belonging thereto, called the Wakemylls, 2 closes of pasture called the Further and Nearer Deneweek, 30 acres of arable land and pasture, a tenement, etc, called the house at Deneweek Elme, 2 parcels of ground adjoining the barn called Walkes Hill, otherwise Rackclose, and 6 acres of overland called the Old Orchard, etc. Also 2 meadows called the Little and Great Bartymeades, and 2 meadows called the Wynards, in Kingswood and Wotton Underedge [Wotton under Edge], Gloucestershire. Paper, 25ff. Covering dates 1599 Feb JAMES by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, Defendor of the Faith, &. To all to whome those present shall come, greeting : Whereas Our wel beloued subiect, Benedict Webbe, of Kingswood, in Our countie of Wiltes, clothier, having in his travaile beyond the seas, about twentie yeares last past, observed a kinde of oyle to be made of rapeseed and other smale round seedes for the vse of clothing, and vppon manie chargeable triallf and endeavors continued almost euer since hath now at last attained to the pfect art and skill of making the said oyle of rape seede and other smale seedes aforesaid, which oyle, vppon triallf thereof made by manie clothiers of Our coilties of Wiltes, Gloucester, and Somersett, is found far better for the vse of clothing then that which hath been yeerely bought out of the Low Countries, and as vsefull as the Spanlshe oyle yeerely imported into this Our kingdome of England, and bought att deere rates and prices, for the vse of the finest sort of clothes. By which manufacture and invencion of making the said vsefull oyle of seedes at home within our owne dominions the whole drapie of this Our kingdome may be in shorte time supplied with fitting oyle for clothing without the helpe of anie oyle from forreine partes, and cheaper rates then are now paid for the same; besides the setting of manie of our poore subject on worke, and the great enriching of much barren land in this Our kingdome, for that the said oyle seedes doe best psper vppon drie and ?andie grounds, which, being otherwise of small vse and pffitt, will, after some few yeeres imploym^ in tillage for the said oyle seede, become fruitfull for corne, and giue good retome to the husbandman. Will of Thomas Trowbridge: In the name of God. Amen. The sixth day of Julye, in the year of our Lord God, 1619, ...I Thomas Trowbridge, of Taunton, in the County of Somerset, Merchant Taylor, being sick in body, ... this my will, Imprimis .....sonne John Trowbridge, ..Item--I give and bequeath unto Thomas Trowbridge, my nephew, ....kinswoman Jeane Parrye, the wife of Stephen Parrye, Gent...Item--I give and bequeath unto Martha Webbe, Agnes Webbe and Alice Webbe, daughters of Benedict Webbe, and Alice, his late wife, my daughter, to each of them the some of tenne pounds. ...Item--I give and bequeath unto Francis and Mary Goodsall, the daughters of Robert Goodsal, and Dorothie, his late wife, my daughter, to each of them the sum of tenne (pounds.)... unto my cozen, Joane Pratten, the wife of Thomas Pratten, of Taunton, the some of forty shillings, and to each of her children wch shall be living at the tyme of my death twenty shillings apeece... National Archives Letter from Robert Webb to his brother, Benedick Webb of Ryngeswoode Kingswood, co. Glouc. concerning the wardship of the manor of Beckington co. Somerset. MS 3549/146 6 March 1610/11 National Archives: Bond from Benedict Webb of Kingswood, Wilts. Co. Glouc., gent., to John Smith, gent., to secure payment of £52 to Richard Blason, gent. MS 3549/193 1 May 1627 Bond from Benedict Webb of Kingswood, Wilts. Co. Glouc., gent., and John Smith of Nibley, co. Glouc., esq., to Thomas Gell of the Inner Temple, London, esq., to secure the sum of £53. MS 3549/194 9 May 1628 Counterpart of defeasance from John Smith of North Nibley, co. Glouc., esq., to Benedict Webb of Kingswood, Wilts. co. Glouc., clothier, of a Recognizance of Statute Staple from the said Benedict Webb. MS 3549/195 26 May 1628 Bond from Benedict Webb the elder, of Kingswood, Wilts. co. Glouc., clothier, Benedict Webb the younger, of Wotton-under-Edge, co. Glou., clothier, and John Smyth of North Nibley, co. Glouc., esq., to Richard Tovy of London, gent., to secure the sum of £52. MS 3549/196 27 May 1628 Bond from Benedict Webb the elder, of Kingeswood, Wilts. ? Kingswood, co. Glouc., clothier, Benedict Webb the younger, of Wooton under Edge Wotton-under-Edge, co. Glouc., clothier, and John Smith of Northe North Nibley, co. Glouc., esq., to Henry Pratt of London, esq., to secure the sum of £208. MS 3549/203 14 September 1629 John Smith of Nibley: ..Smyth was already involved in the affairs of Mary's Uncle Benedict Webb, an innovative clothier who he was repeatedly to save from the courts or bankruptcy. ...(Mary Browning of Gloucestershire, clothier family)