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 364 NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s.vm. MAY 7,1921. 1655, administration of her estate was granted (P.C.C.) to her husband, described as of the parish of All Hallows Bprking. He afterwards began a suit in Chancery to recover parts of the estate which he asserted should have come to her and so to him under the wills of her father (1648), her sister Ursula, and her grandmother Ursula Atwell of Thornbury (1640). The defend- ants were Mary Edwards, (widow of William), John Hagatt, John Clement, and Walter Clement. They alleged among other points that as there was no issue of the marriage the next heir was a kinsman named William Edwards (Bridges, 426/80). Secondly, about 1658, to Grizilla, daughter of Col. John Hotham (son of Sir John), executed in 1645. A male child of theirs was buried in a vault at St. Olave's, Hart Street, September 30, 1659. There was a posthumous daughter, Juda, who in 1668 was licensed to marry Thomas Wheeler. Peter died in 1660 ; his will, dated October 5, and proved December 12 (P.C.C., 269 Nabbs), makes bequests as follows : To the poor of the congregation of Christians walking in fellowship with Mr. John Simpson, but not to the poor of any parish where he usually preaches, 20. To father and mother, brothers and sisters, 40s. each and a ring. To father, Peter Legay, Esq., and brother, Isaac Legay, all lands purchased of Charles Earl of Derby in Pilkington and Bury ; the lands to be sold and the money given as to 1,500 to wife Grisilla for her own use, and all residue to the child of which she is enceinte. The wife to be guardian of the child. Reversion to Isaac Legay. To man-servant, James Jerome, 10. To maid- servant, Dowse, 40s. To friend George Perier, scrivener, 5 to buy a sword hilt. Household stuff, plate, &c., to wife Grisilla, who is to be sole executrix. Witnesses : John Chilwell, Dowsa- bell Coleman, George Perier. The widow continued the suit against the executor, &c., of William Edwards (Bridges, 426/75), but a settlement seems to have been arrived at, and on June 19, 1664, an entirely new grant for the admini- stration of the goods of Elizabeth Legay, alias Edwards, was made to John Clements, " her natural and lawful brother." Grizilla soon afterwards married James Heyes, a London Alderman, and had issue by him (Visit, of Yorkshire, 1664 ; Lyson's 'Environs of London,' iv. 460.) The minister John Simpson is frequently mentioned in the Cal. S.P., Dom., for 1661-2 (also in Pepys) ; he had a " conventicle " in Anchor Lane and preached in All Hallows the Great. On February 11, 1664/5, Peter Legay of West Stoke and his son Isaac of London, mer- chants, reciting the will of Peter Legay jthe younger, son of the former Peter, sold j the Manor of Pilkington and the various Earl of Derby, who thus regained possession. Some of the tenements had, however, been disposed of by the younger Peter during his lifetime. The price paid was 6,800 ; war- i ranty was given against Grizilla, widow of Peter the son, and the daughter born after Peter's death (Close Roll 4162, No. 2). Jacob, the third son of Peter and Martha, had suits with his brother Isaac and his father. The brothers Peter and Isaac traded with Barbados, and Isaac had lived there till 1657, when he returned to London. The brothers then sent Jacob out, together with another kinsman named Jacob Butler, to carry on trade there. They considered him a raw and inexperienced youth, but supplied him with 500 capital (really advanced by their father) and treated him as a partner. In 1673, many years after the brother Peter's death, the suits were going on, Jacob claiming various sums and alleging that the 500 was his filial portion, or in lieu of it. He said that before he went out to Barbados he had had ! and one Francis Samson. The father, however, regarded him as an undutif ul I son, and that no doubt accounts for the slight bequest to him in the will recited ! above. A settlement favourable to him seems to have been arrived at, for in Novem- i ber, 1673, Jacob Legay of London, merchant, and Peter Legay of West Stoke, gent., mortgaged seven-eighths of the manor of j Davis, both of London ; and by this Jacob I was to receive 690 (Close Roll 4383, I Hanna Legay at Marylebone. From Hotten's two Jacobs were living in Barbados in 1680. J. BBOWNBILL. (To be continued.) GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (See ante pp. 127, 323.) III. THE SHIRLEY FAMILY. 1. THOMAS SHIBLAY, glasyer (' Freemen of York,' Surtees Soc.). Free of the city 1439. After the death, in 1437, of John Chamber the elder, who, it is presumed, was the John Chaumbre mentioned in the
 * lands in Pilkington, Bury, &c., to Charles
 * some mercantile training under his father
 * West Stoke to Robert Thorner and Richard
 * No. 17). A Jacob Legay in 1674 married
 * ' Emigrants to America ' it appears that