7. Lucy, baptized 24th of February, 1569. As she is not named in her father’s will, she most probably died young.
8. Edward, baptized 12th of August, 1570.
9. Martin, the youngest child, about nine years old when his father died.
Mrs. Jane Turner lived several years after she became the widow of Edward Turner. Her last will is dated the 11th of December, 1588. The bequests it contains, are very numerous, and I will mention only such of them as seem to be pertinent to our present inquiry.
“To my god-daughter, Jane Newton, the wife of Miles Newton,[17] gentleman, one angel.” Jane Newton was one of the daughters of Ambrose Beckwith of Stillingfleet, the brother of Sir Leonard Beckwith, whose widow, Lady Beckwith, was the neighbour and tenant of Edward Turner. You have shown us that Thomasine Newton, Edith Pope’s mother, was the grand-daughter of Miles Newton and Jane Beckwith.[18]
“To my son-in-law, Martin Turner,” 5s., and a tablet of gold which was his father’s. “To Phillip Turner and Edward Turner, my sons-in-law,” 20s. each. “To my daughters-in-law, Elizabeth Martin, wife of Lancelot Martin, and Katherine Blenkarne, wife of Thomas Blenkarne,” gold rings. “To John Stephenson, my son-in-law, and Margaret Stephenson, my daughter-in-law,” small legacies; and “to my sister, Alice Hall, an angel and my black gown furred with cunny.”
Among the other legatees are the following persons of distinction, then resident in York and the neighbourhood:—
Mr. Henry Slingsby, afterwards Sir Henry Slingsby, Knight, Vice-President of the Council of the North; and Mrs. Frances Slingsby his wife, daughter of William Vavasour of Weston, Esq., by Elizabeth, sister and coheir of Roger Beckwith, Esq., eldest son and heir of Sir Leonard Beckwith.
Mrs. Jane Wood, widow of Thomas Wood of Kilnwick Percy gentleman (of whom I have previously spoken), and Mr. Barney Wood, their son.
Mrs. Hilliard, wife of William Hilliard, Esq., Recorder of York, afterwards Sir Wm. Hilliard, Knt.