80768. Alan Epes
Jurat and bailiff of Lydd, Kent, England. For interesting details of his life and provisions of his will, see "Ancestors and Descendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia" Vol I.
"The will of Alen Epse of Lyd, Kent, jurat, dated 30 July 1551 and proved 22 September 1551, provided:
"To be buried in the churchyard at Lyd. To my maidservant Agnes Aton a heiffer. To my servant Nicholas Aton a heiffer. To my servant Simon Wynday heiffer and sheep. To my servant Thomas Smythe 2 sheep. To my servant John Rolffe 2 sheep. To my servants Richard Aukyn and Robert Adams sheep. To my maidservants Alice Hollye and Julian Raynolde sheep. To John Wynday sheers and debts he owes me. To Robert Dyne all debts he owes me. To my daughters Johane Epse, Alyce Epse and Margery Epse £20 a piece at 18 or marriage. To my wife’s daughter Elizabeth Harle £10. To my wife Agnes Epse oxen, £15, household stuff in tenement I now dwell in etc. Rest of my moveable goods to my sons William Epse, Thomas Epse & John Epse equally. Said son William Epse to be executor. Thomas Strogle, John Strogle & my brother Thomas Epse to be overseers. Witness Thomas Strogle, jurate, Robert Dyne, John Wynday.
"Will (of lands) To my wife Agnes my principal tenement I now dwell in for life remainder to my three sons William, Thomas & John equally in fee. To said three sons rest of my lands in Lyd aforesaid, Old Romney, St. Martins Pounteney & Brenset or elsewhere in Kent in fee. To my wife my term of years in the Brokes called the Grate Brokes & my term of years in the 14 acres called Mr. Feteplace brokes, behind the watercourse on the backside of my house which I hold to farm of Mr. Feteplace. To my son William Epse half of my term of years in my manor called newe Land which I hold of Mr. Feteplace. To my sons Thomas Epse & John Epse the other half thereof. Said son William Epse to have occupying of all my lands above to said Thomas & John his brethren bequeathed till they are 17. Same Witnesses and Thomas Carpenter.
80769. Agnes Harle
Agnes Harle was a widow. Her maiden name is unknown.
80776. Lord Chidiock Paulet
Chidiock Paulet owed any success he achieved to his father. He attended the Inner Temple, where in 1535, at his father's request, he was pardoned all offices and vacations and received a licence to dine with the clerks. Soon after his father became steward of the Household he received a minor appointment there and a lease of the manor of Odiham, Hampshire, together with the bailiwick of its lordship. It was from Odiham that in the summer of 1545 Paulet led 200 men to Portsmouth during the threat of invasion by the French. In the following year the townsmen of Southampton provided him with a gallon of wine ‘when he lay at Netley to see how far our guns would shoot’. His official duties concerned the defence of the Hampshire coast, and this responsibility became more particularly his in 1554 on his appointment as captain of Portsmouth.
Paulet replaced Sir William Sharington in the Parliament of 1547 as one of the Members for Bramber, a Sussex borough with which he had no ties. The date of his by-election is not known, but his name ‘Chidiocus Powlet miles Dominus Powlet’ appears on the list of Members for the last session (1552). Paulet was presumably nominated by the Council, of which his father was president, as a man who could be relied upon to comply with official intentions. He was not re-elected at Bramber for the following Parliament and is not known to have sat elsewhere, but after the accession of Mary he was returned to the first Parliament of her reign for Gatton, a borough owned by the Copley family. Either he or his father may have approached Thomas Copley, a junior colleague at the Inner Temple, for his place on this occasion.Paulet left a large estate in Hampshire and some property in Buckinghamshire when he died on 17 Aug 1574. He had acquired most of this property during Edward VI's reign. The will he made three days before his death omits his lands entirely. He bequeathed to his wife all the plate, hangings, bedding, brass and pewter he had received at their marriage in Borley, Essex, and all his household silver. His daughters Elizabeth and Susan received £900 between them, his son Thomas a £20 annuity, and his stepson Charles Waldegrave a horse. William Paulet, his son and heir, was appointed executor.