son of Alexander Elliott, by Constance, d. of Goddard Hepden, mar. at Burwash, 1624. It is not improbable that Thomas Ellis, of B., was brother or nephew of Stephen Ellis, of Burton, in Kennington, gent., who died 1549 (see p. 83); Alexander, s. of Steven Ellis, gent., was bap. Oct. 4, 1602; and Thomas, another son, Aug. 27, 1603, at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London, "out of the house of William Foster, upholsterer," in the same parish, who was of a Sussex family (Coll. Top. and Gen., v. 369). It is probable that this Stephen was s. & h. of Thomas Ellis, and that his d. & h. was the 2nd wife of Alexander Elliott of Bibleham.

THOMAS ELLIS and RICHARD ELLIS were rated to the Subsidy, in 1593, for the hundred of Hawkesborough, comprehending Mayfield, and might have been sons of Thomas E., of Bibleham; and one of them was probably father of

THOMAS ELLIS, who is rated to the Subsidy in the same hundred, 21 Jac. I., and who was doubtless the Thomas Ellis, of Mayfield, yeo., whose will, d. 1644, and pr. at Lewes, 1647, wherein he mentions his iron works; his eldest son Thomas, his 2nd son John, his 3rd son Richard, and his youngest son Stephen; his daughters, Joan, ux. Nathaniel Woodgate, of Tenterden; and Frances, ux. John Jarvis, of Goudhurst; Thomas, his godson, s. of his son Thomas; and Thomas, another godson, s. of his son Richard. Alice, his widow, made her will 26th Oct., 1646, then of Heathfield, and pr. 21st Jan., 1616-7, at London. The aforesaid

STEPHEN ELLIS, of West Firle, in his will, pr. 1664, at Lewes, mentions his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and his two sons Thomas and William, all under age; his brother, John Ellis, of Heathfield, and his brother-in-law, Richard Whiting, of West Firle.

JOHN ELLIS," the younger," was mar. at Heathfield, Feb. 17, 1669-70, to Sarah Roberts; he was doubtless son of the said John E., of H. He had issue born there

JOHN ELLIS, Thomas, Henry, bap. 1679, Sarah, and Samuel, some of whom and their descendants are probably the Ellises mentioned in the Registers of Chiddingly and Hamsey.

ELLIS OF SALEHURST AND WESTFIELD,
CO. SUSSEX.

Anne, the widow of JOHN ELLIS, was bur. at Salehurst, 13th Sep., 1622; Mary, d. of John E., was bap. there April 22, 1621; and Eliza, d. of John E., bur. there 8th Aug. 1622. JOSEPH ELLIS, of Salehurst, was probably his son. Administration was granted, in 1686, of his effects to Susannah, his relict, to John Ellis, of S., his son, and to John Lulham.

JOHN ELLIS, of Westfield, gent., was s. of the said Joseph, by Mary, his wife, and was bur. at S. He died 22nd Feb., 1725-6, æt. 71, and mar. May 16, 1689, at Wadhurst, Mrs. Mary Culpepper, probably d. of Mary C., widow, of Goudhurst. By his will, d. 6th August, 1723, pr. 21st June, 1726, he desires to be bur. in S. churchyard, near to his deceased father and mother; mentions his wife Catherine, his son Joseph, his daughter Anne, and his eldest son, John. To Joseph, he gives lands in Dallington, Brightling, and Battle. Colepepper Cruttall [an attorney] is one of the witnesses.

JOSEPH ELLIS, his son, died April 14th, 1731, æt. 35, and was bur. at Westfield. He was bap. at Echingham, Dec. 11, 1696. By his will, d. 6th April, 1731, and pr. the same year, he left £50 each, at 21, to John, Elizabeth, Anne, and Samuel, children of his sister, Anne Baker, who was bap. at S., March 11, 1693, in case his wife Mary be not with child. He had issue

JOHN ELLIS, ob. July 30, 1730, æt. 14 days, bur. at Westfield. John Ellis, the br. of Joseph, and "s. of John and Mary Ellis," ob. March 27, 1726, æt. 34, and was bur. at Westfield. He was bap. at S., Sept. 15, 1691. Mary Ellis, bur. at S., Nov. 18, 1693, was probably his sister.

ELLIS OF EAST GRINSTEAD AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Anthony Ellis and John Ellis, in the Subsidy Roll for the hundred of Buttinghill, 15 Hen. VIII., are amongst the highest of the tax-payers. From the prevalence of the name of Anthony amongst the Ellises of East Grinstead and neighbourhood, it would seem that the former was an influential personage in his family, and probably a wealthy man. John Ellis is deforciant

in a fine of lands in Worth, Trin. Term, 1563; and in 1580 eighty acres of freehold land in Worth late belonged to Thos. Ellis. Thos. Ellis, of East Grinstead, made his will in 1569, and therein mentions his brother William; and John, the son of James Ellis; and gives to his wife, Isabel, an annuity of £6. 8s. 4d., a good jointure for a yeoman's wife in those days. 1595, Anthony Ellis, of Fletching, made his will, leaving Anthony and Robert, his sons. Edmund Ellis mar. at E. G., July 22, 1588, Anne Tree, grand-daughter of Mrs. Anne Tree, who suffered martyrdom at E. G., July 16, 1556. The parish is a large one, and the entries in the register are extremely numerous. Thomas Ellis, bap. at Horsted Keynes, Jan. 18, 1684, supposed grandson of John Ellis, of E. G., who mar. Jane Woodgate, Sep. 24, 1627, by Elizabeth, his wife, had George Ellis, bap. at H. K., March 12, 1718; who, by Mary

Beach, had Thomas Ellis, born at E. G., Oct. 12, 1753; who, by Eliz. Parker-Hodson, d. of Edw. Jordan, of E. G., had, inter alios, George Ellis, of E. G., gent., bo. April 21, 1790, ob. Oct. 1, 1854, cælebs; and Thomas Ellis, who had issue by both his wives; by the 1st, Thomas Ellis, of Keston, co. Kent, bo. 1810, who has issue Arthur Thomas Ellis and William Comber Ellis; the former devisee in fee of his great-uncle's landed estates in E. G. and Lingfield.

It was apparently a branch of the Ellises of E. G. who rose to the rank of minor gentry at Uckfield, and retained it for three or more generations (unusual with the Ellises of Sussex). In 1630 there was born at E. G. an Ellis Drew. Drew was the name of a respectable and an armigerous family there, whose co-heiresses mar. into the families of Rowe, of Tunbridge, and Delves, of Newick. Thomas Ellis, of Uckfield, gent. (who mar. Mary, d. of Thomas Michelbourne, gent., of Fletching), in his will, pr. at London, 1659, and dated 1658, mentions his br. Drew. This interchange of name in both families would indicate a connexion by marriage. Drew Ellis, s. of Thomas, died in 1706, and had a son Thomas (who had issue), and a son Drew. A Drew Ellis, probably son of the first-mentioned Drew, married Elizabeth Hide, at Eastbourne, June 8, 1669, and had a son William, bap. there Jan. 1684-5. On the monument in Uckfield Chapel of Dorothy and Martha Ellis, spinsters, daughters of the aforesaid Thomas and Mary, are emblazoned the arms of Ellis of Wyham, co. of Lincoln-a scarcely doubtful assumption.

ELLIS OF HORSHAM AND WEST SUSSEX.*

In the sixteenth century the name seems to have been very prevalent at Horsham. In 1585, John Ellis, of H., died, leaving three sons; in 1599, John Ellis, of H., leaving a son Thomas; and in the same year Richard Ellis, leaving sons Thomas and Edward. In 1637 Richard Ellis, of H., yeo., is the obligor of a bond for £600. Henry Ellis, of Slinfold, yeo., by will, d. 1654, and pr. 1656, mentions his kinsmen, Thomas Ellis, of Cowfold, and Henry, s. of Henry Ellis, of Horsham, and Mary, his testator's late wife. The latter Henry was probably the Henry Ellis, of Horsham, whose will, d. and pr. 1673, whereby he gives to his son Henry and his heirs his barn and lands at H., mentioning his sons Edward and John, and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth. This John was doubtless the

*The prolific families found at Horsham and West Sussex in the 17th century are probably descended from some of the persons mentioned in the Subsidy Rolls for West Sussex in the 14th century (see p. 230). The use of the coat of Ellis of Kiddall displayed in Horsham Church, is a modern assumption.

JOHN ELLIS styled in his will, dated 1711, "of Horsham, yeo." and in a codicil, d. 1716, " of Stamerham [in H.], gent.,' wherein he mentions Mary, widow of his late brother, Henry Ellis; his br.-in-law, Philip Ansell, husband of his sister, Elizabeth; Henry, son of his late br. Henry, to be executor, to whom lands in Shipley and Nuthurst; to John, another son, whilst a minor, £20 a year, and then certain lands; Diana, a daughter, and Mary, another daughter, wife of John Stanford, of Warnham.

JOHN ELLIS (the last-mentioned) of Stamerham, gent., ob. March 3, was bur. at H., March 10, 1757-8, æt. 49. He married Mrs. Nanny Steel, at Billingshurst, Oct. 26, 1736; she was bur. at H., June 24, 1747, æt. 31. His brother, Henry E., was bur. at H., Aug. 7 (ob. Aug. 3), 1762, æt. 56. He had issue Henry Ellis, gent., ob. 13th Nov., 1785, æt. 49; bap. at H., Jan. 5, 1737; and Ann E., ob. June 4, 1784, æt. 49. arms of Ellis of Kiddall are on their monument in H. Church, which the family have since used.) John Ellis, by Ann, his wife had issue,-Anne, ux. Charles Pilkington, D.D., Vicar of Findon, born 1740, ob. June 2, 1798, æt. 59 (Dallaway) ;

(The

THOMAS ELLIS, of New Hall, in Henfield; Mary Ellis, wife of William Gratwicke, of Ham, mar. March 13, 1788; John Ellis, of Gough Square, London, Attorney-at-law, bap. at H., Feb. 16, 1737; Rev. Edward Ellis, bap. Nov. 29, 1745, at H., of Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., Vicar of Westbourne and Birdham, and Rector of Marston, co. Sussex, d. at Chichester, 6 March, 1805, æt. 59, who had an only child, John Lutman Ellis, Esq., J.P., some time Attorney-at-law and Coroner for West Sussex, who died 186-; Henry Ellis, of Tanbridge, in H., gent., bap. at H., March 9, 1740, who mar. and had issue; William Ellis, Clerk of the Peace, bap. at H., Sep. 4, 1747, who married and had 3 sons, viz., Wm. Cleaver Smith Ellis, Att.at-law, who by Catharine his wife (living 1867), left 3 s. and 3 d., living 1867; Capt. John Ellis, R.N., ob. 18 Jan., 1840, æt. 64; and Horace E., of H., Attorney-at-law, who mar. — Paine (remar. Hampton Weekes, Esq., M.D.), and had issue sons and daughters. Thomas Ellis aforesaid, mar. Mary —, Jan. 30, 1766, was bap. March 26, 1744, and ob. Sept. 1794. He had issue

JOHN ELLIS, of Exceat, near Newhaven, born Aug. 21, 1768, ob. May 24, 1843; Catharine, bap. Sep. 4, 1777, at Henfield; a daughter mar. - Beters; Edward Ellis, ob. cælebs; Henry Ellis, who had thirteen children; Thomas Ellis, who had issue; and Richard Ellis, of Bookham, co. Surrey. John Ellis aforesaid, had issue John Ellis and

* Mar. 7 Nov., 1844, at Brighton Geo. M. Livesay esq., to Henrietta Phylia, and John Ross Diamond Esq., to Amelia, two of his d.

CHARLES MARCHANT ELLIS, of Mays, in Selmeston, who has issue.

Edward Ellis, of Cowfold, in his will, d. 1653, mentions his sons Thomas and John, and his daughters Mary and Joan. Thomas E., of Cowfold (probably the said Thomas), in his will, d. 1678, mentions his son Edward. The following persons have memorials in West Grinstead churchyard:-William Elles, ob. Jan. 15, 1768, æt. 83; John Elles, ob. Dec. 1, 1736, æt. 58; Mary, his wife, ob. Sep. 6, 1731, æt. 43; Thomas Elles, ob. 23 Nov., 1787, æt. 65; Mary, his wife, ob. 31st Dec., 1796, æt. 70; Thomas Elles, ob. June 10, 1829, æt. 67. And in Cowfold churchyard, Sarah, wife of Henry Ellis, of C., yeo., ob. 3rd March, 1773, æt. 27; leaving four children, who died young.

Edward Ellis, of Slindon, was bur. there, Mar. 12, 1747; by Frances, his wife, he had, inter alios, John Ellis, bap. Oct. 22, 1708, ob. 1753, æt. 44; who had issue Edward Ellis, bap. at Walberton, April 28, 1753, and mar. Sep. 11, 1788, Frances Hawkins, by whom he had William Ellis, late of Brighton, bap. 1800; Caroline; Sarah; Edwin Ellis; born Nov. 6, 1811; died Oct. 16, 1844, æt. 34, at Tulse Hill, co. Surrey, leaving issue,-Edwin Ellis, of Illinois State, U.S.; Charles Walton Ellis, of Portland House, Huddersfield, and 2 d.; and Edward Ellis, of Walberton, bap. 1808, who has issue.

ELLIS OF BURWASH, CO. SUSSEX, AND BARMING, CO. KENT.

ARMS.-Gules, on a cross engrailed ermine a branch of hop fructed proper; in the first and fourth quarters a crescent or, in the second and third a bezant.

CREST.-An antelope's head erased proper, charged on the neck with a bezant, in the mouth a branch of hop fructed proper.

Granted to James Ellis, of Burwash, 15th Nov., 1819.

The pedigree of this family, in detail, is printed in Berry's Sussex and Kent Genealogies.

It begins with ROBERT ELLIS, of Burwash, gent., who was bur. there 1734, and by Mary or Mercy Gillam, his wife, had issue JOHN ELLIS, and other children. JOHN BEXHILL ELLIS, his son, had issue JAMES ELLIS, of Barming, Esq., High Sheriff of Kent, whose only child, JAMES JOHNSON ELLIS, born 1807, and his issue, are the sole remaining male descendants of the first-named Robert. Robert Ellis, bur. at Burwash, 1597, was probably ancestor of this family; and Robert Ellis, of Heathfield, who died about twenty years before, was probably his father. The Ellises in the 16th and following centuries, in this part of East Sussex, were extremely numerous.