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Foyle Family Deeds. A group of 3 vellum deeds relating to the Foyle family, 1619, 1677 & 1710, the first a settlement (lease for 90 years in trust), 20 December 1619, Morgan Yetman (signs Gatman) of Margaret Marsh in Dorset, yeoman, to Peter Tucker of Margaret Marsh, butcher, John Stoett of East Orchett in Dorset, yeoman and John Durnford of Crockers in Dorset, yeoman, messuage and land in Hinton Mary, Dorset, and a close of pasture called Bottom Lake near Marnhull Gate in Marnhull, Dorset, occupied by Nicholas Brancker, recites: lease by Alban Knapton of Brockenhurst in Hampshire, gentleman, to Morgan Yetman, reserving all trees on the premises, for 99 years from 29 September 1619 or the lives of Morgan Yatman, his wife Elizabeth and son Thomas 1 October 1619, to hold in trust for Morgan for life, remainder to Elizabeth, witnesses: John Foyle, Henry Foyle, Richard Pern, Ralph Knapton, 32 x 47 cm, together with: Settlement (release for £500) on the marriage of Robert Foyle and Dulsabella Pitman, 3 October 1677, Robert Foyle of Shipton in Hampshire, gentleman, with Dulsabella Pitman, daughter of John Pitman of Quarley in Hampshire, esquire to William Norborne of Chute in Wiltshire, esquire, and Samuel Pitman of Quarley, son of John Pitman of Quarley (trustees), manor or capital messuage and farm of Norton otherwise Norton Walrey in Wonston otherwise Wonsington in Hampshire, with lands in Walrey, Sutton, Wonston otherwise Wonsington, Bullington, Newton and Barton Stacy, formerly the inheritance of Sir Thomas Stewkly, knight and John St John, esquire, in consideration of a marriage-portion of £500 the manor is settled on Robert and Dulsabella and their heirs in tail male; in her widowhood Dulsabella to receive an annuity of £120 and the right to inhabit the kitchen, brewhouse and the chambers and lofts over them on the north side of the house; provision of marriage-portions for any daughters of the marriage in sums decreasing from £1000 according to the number of daughters; provision for Robert to settle an annuity not exceeding £80 on any future wife, signed by Robert Foyle only; witnesses: Humphrey Norborne, Edmund Pitman, Benjamin Wyche, 53 x 71 cm, four red wax seals appended, plus Copy of court roll, manor of Appleshaw, 13 November 1710, admission of Thomas Sturges to a customary tenement and garden in Appleshaw, quitrent 2d, which came into the lord’s hands by the death of his kinsman John Sturges, fine £3, signed by the lord George Rumbold and his steward John Foyle, gentleman, 10.5 x 30.5 cm (Quantity: 3) 2) In 1626 the manor of Norton in Wonston was sold by John St John and his maternal uncle Sir Thomas Stewkley to Dr Nicholas Love, headmaster of Winchester College, a chaplain to James I. On his death in 1630 it passed to his son Nicholas, one of the judges of Charles I, and in 1660 the estate was forfeited to the Crown. This chequered history might explain the deed’s somewhat reticent description of the manor’s descent. A ledger-stone in Wonston church records the burial of Robert Foyle of Norton and his wife Dulcibella, the eldest daughter of John Pitman of Quarley; Robert died 26 September 1683 aged 33, and Dulcibella 17 May 1718 aged 68. Their daughters Elizabeth and Dulcibella both died at the age of 19, in 1700 and 1702 respectively and their son John Foyle died aged 57 on 15 January 1736. The Topographer 1 (1821) 1. Robert Foyle’s will and inventory are held at Hampshire Record Office, 1683P/15. 3) With a letter from Arthur J Perrett, 197 Comberton Road, Kidderminster, presenting the document to W A Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, Maldon, Essex, 12 September 1950. No records of the manor survive between 1611 and 1803. John Foyle, son and heir of Edward Foyle, master, was admitted to the Middle Temple on 22 May 1699 and called to the bar ex gracia on 26 October 1705; his father Edward Foyle, third son of John Foyle of Chute in Wiltshire, esquire, was admitted on 16 May 1672, called to the bar on 30 May 1679, appointed a Be