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 12 s. vni. MAY 14, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 385 their existence has supported this happy country Stoke, to which the deforciants were for many ages, and she might perish if they were Katherine Legay, widow, Thomas Hollis lost. Gentlemen, I will detain you n 1 d Harmah fas wife, John Solly and Martha ^^i 7 ^%*&?$*i his wife, and Elizabeth Leg^y, spinster liberties of my country.' " (Sussex Record Society). The widow died H. E. RUDKIN, Major. in 1718, aged 85 (Dallaway), having made Wallingford. a will on October 5, 1716, proved June 5, (To be continued.) 1718 (P.G.C., 120 Tenison), to the following effect : To Mr. John Frencham of Sandwich 50. LEGAY OF SOUTHAMPTON AND To Mr. John Eaton of West Stoke 50. To T rkXTT^rnvr two students in divinity to be nominated by Mr. .LUJN-LNJJN. Clarke of Crutched Friars 50 each. To Mrs. (See ante p. 341, 362). Mai T Greene, now of Childwall, and ?!r. Isaac Greene her son, 100 between them or to the sur- IV. ISAAC, the second son of Peter, was vivor. To servant Richard Sims 20. All born about 1625, his age being given as 65 manors in Lancashire and Sussex to daughter at his death in 1690 (Dallaway). As already Hannah Hollis and grandson Richard Solly, who shown, he was a LoUonme^hant trading ^ tn ^ es b f l^A^^lfe to Barbados and New England also, and Thomas Barren. A codicil dated February 22, lord of the manors of Childwall, &c., in | 1717/8, states that having sold her manors in Lancashire, succeeding to West Stoke on ! Lancashire to Mr. Isaac Greene, the above-named c *Q+^T.' rl^n+Vi WA mavnVrl K"af>iAT-ir,^ executors are to complete the transaction in case his father death. Me married l^atnerine, . testatrix should die before completing it. The one of the daughters of Edward Williams, of manor O f West Stoke is confirmed to them, a Dorset family. Her sister Honor married Witnesses : Mary Datchon, Lans. Sims, Thomas Richard Lardner of Kingston, in Portsea, , Barren. irerchant (will P.C.C., 64 Duke), and so i Frencham and Eaton were probably Non- became grandmother of the celebrated conformist ministers, but very little has been Nonconformist scholar Nathaniel Lardner done f or the history of the Nonconformist (1684-1768). Isaac and Katherine had congregations outside London and Lan- issue Samuel, Hannah, Elizabeth and cas hire ; a John Eaton was sometime Martha. Of these Hannah married Thomas minister at Stoke Newington. " Mr. Clarke Hollis ; Elizabeth seems to have died un- O f Crutched Friars " was Samuel Clarke, married, and received in 1690 a legacy of mm ister of the Independent Chapel in 100 under the will of Robert Thorner of Miles Lane, a chapel which is still com- Baddesley, Hants (Waters, ' Geneal. Glean- memO rated by the name of Meeting House ings,' i. 477), who may be the Thorner Y ard in that lane ; he died in 1726, and named in the deed cited above ; and Martha according to his will was of the parish of St. married John Solly (not Nicholas Solly, Qlave's, Hart Street, in which parish is as in V.C.H., Lancashire) of Sandwich Crutched Friars (P.C.C., 94 Plymouth), and Ash Elizabeth and Martha died S oon' after Mrs. Legay's death, by lease between 1700 and 1716 By his will dated and release of Jul 17/lg 1?lg be tween December 10, 1689, and proved June 8 1691 (1) Thomag Hollig and Martha ^ wife <P.C.C. 99 Vere), Isaac Legay of West Stoke 2 Rich ard Solly, son and heir of Martha bequeathed SoHy deceased, late wife of John Solly of to his wife Katherine and only son Samuel all Sandwich, mercer; and (3) John Hollis of manors, lands, &c., in Childwall, Much Woulton, , T v ,, and Little Woulton, in Lancashire, and West Stoke, London, draper, and Jeremy Hunt the near Chichester ; to be disposed of, if necessary, estate at West Stoke (including seven.- to pay debts, &c. To his daughters Elizabeth eighths of the manor) was transferred to o n L Ma v tha -i b ^. unmarri, ( : d a d under , a ff) John Hollis and Hunt as trustees for the 500 each, with 500 more after the wife's death. v, ,'r. A^rl +V,on T-,ir^ 9 17Q1 K^ To servant Elizabeth Brand 5. The executors i *J j?' ,_. f^ ? n, T? n- ' } ' ^ were the wife and son, to have 20 each, i deeds between (1) John Hollis, citizen and Witnesses : Samuel Marner, John Forder, William ; draper of London, and Isaac Solly of Sand- Harwood. wich, mercer, the devisees in trust under the V. Samuel Legay, the son, died in Lan- will of Richard Solly, late of the pariah of cashire in 1700, apparently unmarried and Holy Trinity in the Minories, cutler ; (2) without issxie. Soon after his death, viz., Anne Solly, widow and executrix of Richard at Michaelmas, 1700, a fine was levied on ' and guardian of Richard Solly, an infant, the seven-eighths of the manor of West grandson of John Solly and eldest son and