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genealogists, and definitely establishes the parentage of Barbara, wife of William St. John. Moreover, it seems probable that she was related to the family of Cham- berlain, and was the sister of that " Thomas Gore of Wallop" (12 S. ii. 251) whom Alderman Richard Chamberlain of St. Olave's, Old Jewry, in his will dated 1558 (*), described as " my loving and friendly cousin," to whom he deputed the bringing up of his younger son John Chamberlain, b. 1553, d. 1627 (" the Elizabethan letter- writer").

The nuncupative will of " Thomas Gore of Wallop " was dated July 8, 1569 (proved P.C.C. 39 Lyons, Dec. 2, 1570) : " I Thomas Gore, gent., late of Wallop, being in perfect memory and about to go from Wallop into Dorsetshire.. ." If it be his fortune to die before his return to Wallop, then his brother Richard Gore should have all the money due to him from John Purdue, and all such legacies as were bequeathed to him by his father Nicholas Gore in land. Said Richard to pay his debts, and none of his other brothers and sisters should have any of his goods or legacies.

It may, therefore, be deduced thatNicholas Gore, dead before July, 1569, left sons Richard (alive 1569), William (died 1587), and Thomas (died 1569-70). Their sister Barbara was first married to Thomas Twyne of Xorton St. Valery, in the parish of Wonston near Winchester, who died there in 1566, leaving two daughters his coheirs. Her second marriage to William St. John took place before 1574, when the latter's father mentioned " Barbara, wife of my son William," in his will, April 20, 1574 (P.C.C.). William wa? born at the mansion house of Farley Chamberlayne on Aug. 1, 1538, as a 3 7 ounger son of Sir John St. John, Kt. (b. 1505, d. 1576), of Lydiard Tregoz in the co. of Wilts, an estate inherited from his great -grandmother Margaret, daughter and eventual heir of John, 3rd Baron Beau- champ. She was first married to Sir John St. JoJ n, and secondly to John Beaufort (b. 1*04, d. 1444), Duke of Somerset, by whom she was mother of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond (mother of King Henry VII.).

The St. Johns quartered Beauchamp, Iwardby, and Carew. The second quartering was for Joan, daughter of Sir John Iwardby, K.B., the heiress of Farley Chamberlayne, whose mother was Sanchia, daughter of Sir

be 1558, will P.C.C.
 * The date 1588, given at 12 S. ii. 251, should

Nicholas Carew of Beddington (a coheiress of her brother Nicholas). Sir John (Wil- liam's father) was left as a tiny child in the care of his mother (Joan Iwardby) when his father, also Sir John St. John, went " beyond seas " to die in the wars of 1512.

The little John, after the custom of those days, was sent to be brought up at Bedding- ton, in the household of his mother's cousin Sir Richard Carew, whose daughter Margaret he married at an early age. She was the mother of his son and heir Nicholas, who inherited Lydiard Tregoz, while William, the- son of his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Whit hill, was given Farley Chamberlayne, a place William evidently loved. In his will, made on March 31, 1608,* William desired " to be buried in the church of Farley St .[John,alias Farley Chamberlayne, where I was born, on the 1st of August, 1538," and desired that a monument should be erected over his remains. He lies under an altar tomb within the chancel, where his effigy, in full armour, represents him as a tall man. The long inscription is now il- legible, but the arms are clearly to be dis- cerned : St. John, quartering Beauchamp, Iwardby, and Carew, impaling Gore of Aldrington, co. Wilts. On the margin of his (original) will is a note, dated Feb. 9, 1613 :

" A commission issued to Henry St. John, the son, to administer the goods of Barbara St. John, now deceased."

In the will of the aforesaid Henry, dated November, 1614 (and proved 1621, P.C.C.), he directed that

" a monument be erected in Wonstoii Church r at the upper end of the seat, on the right hand side as you go up, where lyeth bulled my good mother, buried in one . grave and at one time with her sister, Mr. Leonard Ely's wife." The burial register has the entry :

" Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 1613, Margaret, wife of Leonard Ely, Esq., was buryed on the same day and in the same gi*ve with Barbara, ye wido\t~ of William Sainte John, Esquire." A Leonard Ely was buried in that church in 1615, and another Leonard was there married in 1616 to Barbara Spencer. Also r Dorothy daughter of Leonard Ely married EdM-ard Tutt of Chilbolton, who was living in 1623, and was cousin_pf that Sir Alexander Tutt, Kt., of Idmiston, Wilts, who witnessed the will of William St. John in 1608, and figures in the pedigree of the Halswells. Of the Elys very little is definitely known beyond the fact that the " distinguished preacher and upholder of the Reformed


 * Proved June 27, 1609, P.C.C. Dorset 64.