WIGHTWICK'S WILL. 171 aforesaid loveinge Cosen Samuell Wightwicke Executor of this my last Will and Testament revokeing all other and former wills hopeinge that he will carefullie see this my last Will performed and observed according to my appointment In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the eleventh day of January Anno Dni one thousand six hundred twenty nine-Richard Wightwicke-sealed subscribed and published in the presence of John Price1 Samuell Whichcote Thomas Wightwicke.' From Price of Framborough the present Master is directly descended. The Smiths were a West Ilsley family. Shortly after Wightwick's decease the College bought the lease of the Clapcot tithes in the parish of Allhallows, Wallingford. For the reversion of these it paid in 1873 £663 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. PYM'S SIGNATURE (see page 147). 22 Aprilis 27. 1623° Руто 1 Sister, I think, of Richard Cheekyn, Mayor 1613, 1623, and 1631. By her will (Dec. 17, 1644) she devised her house in West St. Helen's Street for a dole of bread to twelve poor men and twelve poor women on the Sabbath of each week. PEDIGREE OF THE TESDALE FAMILY. 173 1 Christopher left her 100. His son Joshua was residuary legatee. To the four sons and two married daughters and their husbands was bequeathed' a ringe of gold' apiece, and to each of their children' a cuppe of silver worth ffiftie shillings.' 1 One Mr. Thomas Tisdale intervened on behalf of the Oxford townsmen's rights in a dispute with the proctors, Aug. 1677 (Wood's Life and Times, ii. 383). PEDIGREE OF THE BENNET-TESDALE FAMILIES. 175 Rebecca Bulstrode dent of the Council of State,' 1659. Sir James Whitelock, Mary Rich. Prince. Through her Sir John Peshall claimed founder's kin. 1 In Wallingford Allhallows Church, now pulled down, was an inscription: This is the monument of Thomas Bennet, of Clapcot, Esqre., who had issue Thomas Bennet, Citizen and Alderman of London, his third sonne, who gave twenty pounds yearly for ever to fifteen poor people of the town of Wallingford.' John Bennet was one of the gentlemen of the county in 1433. 2 Tesdale's widow, however, was named Agnes. See p. 155. He can hardly have had a fourth wife. Adam Molins, dean of Sarum, founded the school and chantry at Okyngham, Berks. |