" Letters were sent (Dec 9, 1558) to John Aylworth, receiver of the
counties of Somerset," etc. [Strype's Annals I., Part I., page 18.] This was but a few weeks after the accession of Queen Elizabeth, who
was prompt to look after the interests of her treasury.
Walter Ayleworth,* 2d son of St. Stephens Canterbury, mar. Jane (or Mary.
at some future time, various
extracts which have come to notice relating to persons of the name in England
are inserted here as of
interest and of possible value in the prosecution of an
inquiry . Following the plan adhered to throughout this work in all quotations
from permanent records, the surname is reproduced with the orthography of the
record.
..Sir John Champneys, Kt. married Elizabeth dau. of Sir Hugh Byt-
" ton of Bytton, Co. of Gloucester, Kt. Till this period the chief seat,
" was
Champneys in the parish of Stanton-drew, Co Somerset. To
" their son, John
Champneys Esq. the Moor was granted as a cres
" temp. Henry IV (A. D. 14221461.) He married Joanna, dau. of Sir
" Humphrey Aylworth, of Aylworth, or
Aylesworth, Co. Glocester, Kt."
[Berry's County Geneaologies, .Kent, page
40.]
As elsewhere stated, it should be remembered that there were two distinct localities in Gloucestershire, Aylworth and Aldesworth,
apparently causing some confusion.
In the second year of his reign (1548) Edward VI. sold chantries, colleges, etc. His book of sales of the same contains a memorandum
of the sale
of ."a mansion and tenement called 'The Mansion-House' of " the College of New-hal in the Mountrey within the city of Wells, etc.
" Yearly value 38£14s.; purchase 728£Os2d.; purchaser John " Ayleworth and Will Lacye." [Strype's
Eccl. Mem. II. Part II. page
405.]
The city of Wells is in Somerset.
" In 1293 the temporalities of the Abbot of Cerne in Remescomb,
" were valued at 13£15s. 32 Henry VIII (1541) this manor, inter
" alia. was
granted to Thomas Arundel and his heirs, to be held of the
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" king in chief, by Knights service. On his attainder, 6 E. VI (1553)
" it was granted to John lord Fitzwarren, who, the same year, had
" license to alienate this manor and 40 messuges, and 40 gardens, 6400
" acres of land, and 100s rent here, and the advowson of the chapel
" value 12£9s4d to John Ailworth and heirs." [Hutchins' History
of Dorset.]
John Ayleworth, of Co. of Gloucester, Esq. mar. Elizabeth, dau. and
heir of Ashton. Issue :
ARMS -Argent a fess engrailed between six
billets gules
QUARTERINGS. 1 Argent, a mullet sable for
ASHTON. ,
2 Vert. a fesse, dauncettee,
erm. for SOMERS.
3 Ar, a chev. sa betw. three
periwigs ppr. for HARE-
MAN.
Ashton Ayleworth, eldest son, of London, Esq. mar. Ann Fleetwood.
Walter Ayleworth 2d son. of St. Stephens, Canterbury, mar. Jane Stokitt.
Anthony Ayleworth, M. D. 3d son, mar. Bayley.
Edward Ayleworth, tJth Bon, of St. Stephens, Canterbury, Esq. seneschal or the archbishop'8 liberty, ob. S. P. 1625 ret 73. buried
in the chancel or St. Stephen's Church.
William Ayleworth }
John Ayleworth } all S. P .
Robert Ayleworth . }
Frances, mar. Sir Thomas Reynall of Co. Devon, Knt.
Elizabeth ob. unmar. [Kentish Genealogies.]
Ashton Ayleworth, * mar. Ann, dau. of Thomas Fleetwood of Co. of
Bedtord. Issue:
Thomas Ayleworth of London 1st son, mar. dau. of Edward
Prideaux. Issue: Ashton Aylworth.
John Ayleworth.
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* Morant in his Hist. of Essex,
describing Utlestford Hundred, Heydon Parish, refers
to this person perhaps,
when he says: "Ashton Ayleworth Esq. who died 13 June
1598 held the manor
of Haydon of the Queen in capite by the service of the 20th part
of a
Knights fee worth 4£3s4d per ann. Thomas was his son and heir,"
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Walter Ayleworth,
Roger Ayleworth,
Joyce Ayleworth,
Grace Ayleworth, mar. Robert Farneby of Co. Lincoln, Esq.
Bridget Ayleworth,
mar. Sir Thomas Gotts, Knt.
Jane Ayleworth, mar. Maypowder of Co. Somerset.
Eliza Ayleworth, mar. Sir
Thomas Esfield, Knt.
Joan), dau.
of Lewis Stokett of London of the household of queen Eliz-
abeth. His will was made 1614: ob. 162-, and was buried in the chan-
cel of St. Stephen's church
Canterbury. Issue :
Elizabeth, mar. John White. He ob. 1635, bu. in the chancel St.
Stephens Church in Canterbury. They had Henry White
and Joane.
Peter Ayleworth, eldest son, of St. Stephens Canterbury. Will 1630.
Frances,
mar. Thomas Stockett of St. Stephens, afterwards of Berke-
borne: Will 1638. He
was her cousin her mother's
brother Thomas' son. They had John, Lewis, Joan,
and
Aylworth Stockett. Berry's Gen. gives her name Frances
Aylworth and her father's name Walter Aylworth.
Lucy, m. John Denne, Esq., Barrister at Law, son and heir of Vincent
Denne,
L. L. D., and grandson of William Denne, of Kings-
ton. Berry's Gen. says, Lucy dau. of Walter Ayleworth or
Ailsworth of St. Stephens.
Anthony Ayleworth, M. D., 3d son, mar. dau. of Walter Bay-
ley. They had two
sons :
Dr. Martin Aylworth.
eldest son
Anthony Aylworth, 3d son.
[From Gutch's Antiquities
of (New College) Oxford.]
On another stone under the proportion or a ml\n in a doctoral habit
are these
verses:
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* Gutch's Antiq. of Oxford speaks of another Walter: "William
Compton's mother
Joan who was daughter and sole heir of Walter Aylworth."
"Martin Aylworth born in the diocese of Oxford, D. C. L., and
Fellow, died in the
(All-Soles) College about 12 o'clock at night Jan. 11, 1657-8, and was buried
in the
Chapel. He was then about seventy years of age but was never
married. He was
the son of Anthony Aylworth Doctor of Physic and sometime the Kings Professor
of
Physic in this University, who married as I conceive, the daughter of Dr.
Walter
Bayley, sometime the King's Professor of Physic also in this University.
See the
Epitaphs of the said Anthony Aylworth and Walter Bayley before in New College
Chapel'" [Gutche's Antiq. of Oxford.]
Berry's Hampshire, page 331, says, that Mary, dau. of Anthony
Aylsworth mar.
Thomas Watson of Stratton in Co. of Gloucester. The item is without date
of fur-
ther reference.
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HOSPES SISTE GRADUM NUMEROSUM PERLEGE FUNUS,
HIC JACET HIPPOCRATES, HIC AVICENNA
JACET.
OSSA. DIOSCORODIS SUNT HIC, SUNT OSSA. GALENI,
ET SIMUL ALWORTHUM CONTEGIT ISTE LA.PIS.
AN TOT CONGESTOS TUMULUM MIRARIS IN UNUM?
AT UIRARE MAGIS. NEMPE TOT UNUS ERAT.
QUI TAMEN IN VITA. SIMPLEX. UT DICERE POSSIS,
QUOD NEQUE PLUS ULLI NEC MINUS ARTIS ERAT.
POSUIT PIΖ MEMORIΖ ERGO,
MARTINUS AYLWORTH, FILIUS
NATU MAXIMUS.
On the verge of the stone is this:
HIC JACET ANTONIUS AYLWORTlI GENEROSA ET
ANTIQUA FAMILIA IN COMIT. GLOCSTR.
ORIUNDUS, LONDINI NATUS IN SCHOLA
WINTONIENSI LIBERALITER EDUCATUS,
HUJUS
COLLEGII QUONDAM SOCIUS
MEDlCINl Ζ DOCTOR ET PROFESSOR REGIUS
SUB ELIZAB. REG.
PER ANNOS CIRCITER
XV. VIR EXIMIA PIETATE, VIRTUTE,
ERUDITIONE, SANIS, DUM
VIXIT, JUXTA
ET ΖGROTIS CHARUS: EXACTO DEMUM
LXXV ANNORUM
CURRICULO, DUOBUS
FILIIS, MARTINO ET ANTONIO SUPERSTITIB
FELICITER IN DOMINO
OBDORMIVIT XVIII DIE
APRIL, AN. DOM. MDCXIX.
Translation of the Aylworth stone:
- Stranger, pause and read [the story of] this manifold
death ;
Here lies Hippocrates: here Avicenna lies.
Here rest the bones of Dioscorides and those of Galen.
And in their company this stone covers Aylworth.
Do you wonder that to one tomb so many have been brought?
Yet more amazed be ye for one [there lived who] was all these,
Who nevertheless in [mode of] life was simple, as you could [will] say
Since in no one WM there [ever] either more or less of art. *
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* More of the "art" of healing, or less of "art" fulness.
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ARMS QUARTERLY 1. Argent,
Here lies Antony Aylworth descended from an eminent
and ancient
family in the County of Gloucester, born in London, liberally educated
in the school of Winton, sometime a fellow of this college * a Doctor of
Medicine and Regius Professor under Queen Elizabeth for about
fifteen
years, a man of piety virtue and learning. equally dear while living to
those in health and those in sickness: when at length the period of
seventy-two years had been completed on the eighteenth day of April
in the year of our Lord 1619, he peacefully fell asleep in the Lord,
leaving [to mourn his loss] two sons Martin and Antony.
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* New College, Oxford.
By royal appointment.
"Aylworth of Tackley, Co. of
Oxford.
[AYLWORTH].
Peter Aylworth of Takley in Com. of Oxen. gen. second sonne to2. Azure, a fess argent between three garbs or.
[NOWERS].
3. Argent, three rams lying down sable horned or
[ONLEY].
4. On an inescutcheon within an orle of Cinque-
foils a crescent [DARCY] impaling azure
a chevron between three griffins heads erased
or [GOWER] " Visitations 1566 and 1574.
Anthony, marryed Anne, daughter to Willm. Gower, of Woodhall in
Com. Wigorn, gent.. and by her hath yssue Thomas Aylworth, his eld-
est son ane heir apparent; Willm. second sonne; Elizabeth now 4 years
of age." [Harleian Sec. V216, page 8.]
Note to the above: " On the north wall of the chancell of Tackley
Church this cut in stone: 'Here lyeth the body of Peter Aylworth Esqr.,
once Ld. of this mannour, and Anne his wife, the daughter of Will.
Gower of Woodhall. He deceased in the year MDCXI, (1611). This
done by his son Marke.' Over it is a fess engrailed quarterly (1) a fess
between three garbes, (NOWERS). 2 Three stags lodging. (3) Semιe
of five foyles and an escocheon, impaling, GOWER, viz. a chevron be-
tween three wolves' heads erased (all without colours). Und. the said
Mon. is a raised monument of stone. Wood. E. I. p.110. "
On page 53 will be found a much full description of the arms found
"in Mr. Aylworthe's house at Tackley." In the remarks which follow
and in quotation from Wood's MS. E. I., p.103, it is stated that "George
Nowers Knight ob. A° MCCCXXV."
* * * And then chose (Sept. 5, 1683,) Mr. deputy Ailworth
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Chamberlain of London, in the room of Sir Thomas Player, who laid
down." [Luttrell, State Affairs, Vol. I. p. 278.] " Sir Peter Aylworth
chamberlain of London (Dec. 3, 1685) being lately dead, his majestie
hath constituted Peter Rich Esqr., alderman, in his stead." [Ib. p. 323.]
Thomas More died in 16 5. He was a writer as early as 1641. In
his life given in Athenζ Oxonienses, Vol. 4, occurs the following :
"But the puritanical rebellion breaking out 'soon after, he took up
arms for the parliament, became a gent, of the guard to Robert Earl of
Essex the general of the forces belonging to the said parliament, took
the covenant, and was made lieutenant of a troop of horse belonging to
Capt. Richard Aylworth under the command of Col. Edward Massie."
In the life of Anthony A'Wood, author of Athenζ Oxonienses, occurs
the following :
" Sunday (June 28, 1585.) after dinner, the University troop headed
by Dr. Ailworth, chanc. of the diocese, went seven miles from Oxen. to
meet and conduct thereto 4 loads of muskets, pikes, &c. for the scholars
to train with. There appeared 60 horse divided into two bodies. They
came in at 7 o'clock at night. Of the said troop the E. of Abendon was
captain. Dr. Aylworth before mentioned was lieutenant, Dr. Clutter-
buck of All-Souls cornet. But I saw no colours they had."
This refers to Henry Aylworth, D. C. L.
"Humpbry Aylworth S. T. B. Vicar Church of St. Marys, towne or
port of Sandwich Rent, April 12, 1597."
"Humphry Aylworth, (S. T. B.. refig. 1601), rector Church of St.
Michael. Harbledowne, Westgate Hundred, County Kent, in 1601."
[Hastid's Hist. of Kent.]
Frances Aylworth. Kyneton in Co. Warwick, 20 Elizabeth.1577-78.
Morant's Essex. describing Melescham, alias Mulsham-hall, says:
" * * * Of this Lord (William Blount, Lord Montjoy) they were
purchased by Thomas Denny Esq: at the request of William Aylworth
of Chelmsford. And a common recovery passed in Michaelmass-term,
1522, by Thomas Dennye. and William Aylworth against Sir William
Blount Lord Montjoy, of the maners of Mulshams. Brayhams, and War-
rokys. with appertenances, and 10 messuages. 1000 acres of arable, 40 of
meadow. 800 of pasture, 400 of wood, and 300 acres of more in Great
and Little Leighes. Black Notele, Fayrestede, and Felsted. Oct. 2,
1531, these estates were purchased of Aylworth by William Walsing-
ham, Esq.. etc."
John Gunter of Raclon, Co. Sussex. and of Gilleston. in Wales, ob.
1557 Ing. p. m. mar. Jane, dau. and heir of Henry Aylworth of Co. of
Wilts. 1st wife. [Berry's Sussex ]
Extract from Widdowe Ayleworth's will1636 Co Buckingham: " I
give to my brother John Ive my two houses at Burnham Townes Ende:
and out of those 2 houses I give to tile poore of Burnham 20s a year
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and 6s. Sd. for a sermon, at the day of my buriall (which was St. Johnsday at Christmas) [27 Dec.] or the Sunday following after, during
(sic) the Worldes Ende. And for want of payment of the 20s. and the
6s 8d thus it shall be lawfull for the churchwardens and overseers to
enter upon the said houses &c. Concordat cum originali Ita testor
JOHANNEL WRYGHT, vicar de Burnham." [Collectanea Topographica
and Genealogica, Vol. 4, p. 284 ]
Extract from parish register of Croydon, Surry :
" Thomas Aylworth, gent. wounded the xvii day of May, lay long
languishinge under the. hands of surgeons into the xx day of June and
then dyed and was buried the xxi day 1515 in the middle chancell in
Croydon churche. "
Note to the above: " The arms of Edward Ay1worth Esq., probably
his father, were formerly in one of the windows in the hall of Arch-
bishop Whitgift's Hospital. See Steinman's Hist. of Croydon, p. 68."
[Coll. Top. and Gen., Vol. 2, p. 295.]
Abstract of the will of William Ailworth, Gent.:
William Ailworth, of Gomonly, als. Gumly, in the County of Leicr.
Gent. to be buried in the Church of Gumly. To Willm. Underwood of
Artlingborough in the County of Northton Yeoman, my nephew and
godson, & to his heirs forever, all that my mannour of Gomonly als.
Gumly, with the appertenaces &c whatsoever in the countyes of Leices-
ter & Northampton.
To Susanna my wife ten pounds yearly. My executor shall find, pro-
vide, & allowe to & for my said wife during her life in my dwelling
house at Gumly aforsd competent and sufficient meat. drink, lodging,
washing, fire, candle. and other necessaries as well in sickness as in
health. & convenient for a person of her age. degree, and calling; all
of which I devise unto her in lieu and recompense or such dower &c.
To every of the brothers & sisters & William Underwood five pounds
apiece."
He then gives " yearly forever " £20 to the support or each or four
free schools at Little Harrowden, Pitchley, Atlingborough, and Hal-
loughton, " the masters of every of the schools to be at the time of elec-
tion a Graduate of one or the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge,
of a sober, peaceable, and discrete behavior," etc. Also says: " My
executor and his heirs shall forever have the nomination and election or
all the said schoolmasters." The will was made 10 Aug. 1661. [See
Collec .Topog. and Geneal., Vol. III. p. 330.]
Thus far there has been found but one description or arms, (already
given incidentally). so Guillim says in a general form: " Ho beareth
Argent, a Fesse engrailed between six Billets Gules: by the name of
Aylworth." Nichols' Hist. Leicestershire, West Goscote Hundred, gives
same, as also Gilbert, in his Historical Surveyor Co. or Cornwall, and
other authors.
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