| William Painter,[a]of Twedall, parish of Gillingham, the author. Ob. 1594. | = Dorothy, daughter of—— Bonham, of Cowling. Ob. Oct. 19, 1617, Æt. 80. | |||||
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| Joanna =(1) Nathaniel Partrich =(2) John Orwell | Dorothy = John Bagenhall | Helena = John Hornby | Anthony | = Catherine, coheiress of Robt. Harris,Master in Chancery. | Catherine = —— Champ, Co. Suff. | Anna.[b] |
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| William of Gillingham, died about the time of the Restoration of CharlesII. | = Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Hickman, of Kew, Co. Surrey, Esq.relict of George Allington, jun. | |||||
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| Allington | = | Elizabeth.[c] | Anna.[c] | |||
| Robert, who obtained an act of parliament to alienate the manors ofTwedall and East Court. | = Eleanora, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Seyliard, Bart. buriedat Westerham. | |||||
ARMS. Gules, a chevron between three griffins’ heads erased or, on a chief of the second an helmet sable between two pellets. CREST. A lizard (as supposed) vert, escaping from the trunk of an old tree, proper.
[a.] Also spelt Paynter and Payneter; but neither used by the above-named William Painter, if we may rely upon the repetition of ten printed authorities.
[b.] That Anna was the youngest child, is doubtful, from her father only naming her, besides Helena, as entitled to a portion. She resided with her mother, unmarried, 1617.
[c.] One of these married William Wiseman, a civilian.
[47.] Dorothy P. (the Executrix) by her will, dated 3d July, 1617, gave a specific legacy to her granddaughter Thomasine Hornby, which was to be void if she sued or impleaded her executor, relative to any gift, legacy or bequest, under the above will; from which it may be concluded the portion of John Hornby’s wife was never properly adjusted.
[48.] Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 3d Feb. 1595.
[49.] His patent, dated 21st June 1595, gives all emoluments from the day of the death of William Painter.
[50.] In the will of Dorothy P., already noticed, is the following direction. “In case I dye or departe this life in the Citie of London, to be buryed in the same parish in London where my late loving husband Mr. William Paynter, Clerke of the great Ordinance of the Tower of London, was buryed, and as neere to the place where he was buryed as conuenyentlie may be, with some memoriall there to be engraven sett vp or placed as shalbe devised and appoynted by my executor and overseers hereafter named; yf elsewhere then allso at their like discretions and with the like memoriall.” Had she set up such a memorial for her husband, the name would probably have been found in Stowe’s Survey of London. It does not occur in the Registers of the Tower Chapel; Allhallows Barking; St. Catherine’s; or Aldgate. At St. Dunstan’s, Tower Street, the register has been destroyed, and also at St. Alban’s, Wood Street, where there was probably a family vault, and not being the church frequented when he lived by the Tower, the name might have been forgotten by the widow.
[51.] Her Will was not proved until July 1620. It is unusually long, and the bequests are trifling. She particularizes all her grand-children, whom, in the language then used, she calls nephews and nieces. There had probably been some difference in the family to occasion the following passage, whereby she bequeaths the only memorial mentioned of our author. “Item, whereas my very welbeloued niephue William Paynter, and I, and all my children, nowe are and I trust in God so shall continue loving hartie and inward frends, whereof I receyue great ioye and contentment, vnto the which my saied neiphue, for a gentle remembraunce, I give and bequeethe my tablet of gould with a pearle to yt which sometymes was his graundfather’s, beyng nowe all readie in his owne keeping and possession.” The will is subscribed with a cross, which the feebleness of age might render necessary.