He mar. Anne, d. of Henry Fryer, gent., who remar. George Fenner, Esq., at Maidstone, 15th Sep., 1618. By his will, pr. at Canterbury, 1615, he gives to his br. Peter £3 per ann. above the rent of Ronsden, in Marden, occupied by him; mentions his brothers-in-law, Bishop, Ford, and Wood; his cousins Robert Lambe, gent., and Catharine Turner, widow. To Francis, his son, lands in Herts and the lease of Coningbroke; to Christopher, his son, Ronsden, in fee; to Edmund Ellis, his son, lands in Strood, Orleston, Rucking, and Warehorne. He had issue Edmund Ellis, bap. 26th July, 1590, at Otham; Elizabeth E., bap. 24th May, 1613, wife of Henry Fryer, gent.; Catharine E., mar. at Maidstone, Mar. 7, 1618-9, Thomas Grange, of Cheshire, gent.; Anne E., bap. 20th Jan. 1604; Grace E., bap. 30th Jan., 1609; Francis E., bap. 2nd Oct., 1597 [? of Frindsbury, gent., 17 Car. I.]; Thomas Ellis, according to Philipot, s. & h., mentioned as br. in the will of Henry Ellis,* who (H. E.) was bap. at O., 13th Apr. 1600; Edmund E.,* bap. Apr. 6, 1607; Christopher E., bap. 3rd Oct. 1602; and

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ELLIS ELLIS, of Stoneacre, Esq.,† who was bur. at Otham, 17th Dec., 1638. His will was made, Dec. 3, 1638, and proved at Doctors' Commons the same month. He therein gives to his son Francis Ellis, £600; and notices money owing him by his br. Christopher Ellis; gives to his two brs., Christopher and Edmund, three angels of gold a-piece; a guinea each to his sisters Fabian and Elizabeth, and to the two sisters of his beloved wife Cecily [d. & coh. of Henry Franklyn, of Throwley, gent.], who is to have his lease of Orgarswike, held of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, for life; after, to his son Henry Ellis; to his son Francis and his heirs, lands and tenements in Bersted, Thurnham, and Aldington, in the occupation of James Medlicot, gent.; to his son Edmund Ellis, and daughters Elizabeth and Anne, each £20 yearly till of age, and then £400 each, out of his manor of Stoneacre; the said manor to his son Henry Ellis, and all his lands in Otham, Langley, Bersted, Maidstone, Leeds, Rucking, Orleston, and Thurnham; also his interest in an annuity out of lands in Cranbrook, in the occupation of Brickenden, and lands and tenements in Sutton Valence, in the occupation of Lucas. His s. & h.

HENRY ELLIS, of Stoneacre, Esq., was privately bap. at O., 24th Dec., 1617, and in the church, 19th Jan. following. His will is d. July, 1643, and pr., 1648, at Doctors' Commons. He therein recites that he had estates in Otham, Langley, Leeds, Sutton-Valence, Cranbrook, Maidstone, Bersted, Rucking, and Orlestone, and that he was greatly indebted; and directs his

* Vide post.

+ Down to 1617, he is styled in the Otham Reg. "gent.," afterwards "Esq.," as also in his will; he was probably a Justice of the Peace, or a Barrister.

good friend, Sir Thomas Boswell, Knt., and his cousin, Dr. Edmund Pierce, LL.D., to sell such of the same (except the manor of Stoneacre), and take the rents and profits thereof, and cut down timber to pay the said debts; and till then, to pay thereout £100 per ann., in lieu of dower, to his dear and beloved wife Sarah; and then his estates equally to his wife and children (if he have any); if a son or daughter, the whole moiety; if two sons, £500 thereout to the younger, and the same if a daughter; in default of issue, after his wife's death, to his brother Francis and his heirs; but in case he have no issue, then after his death to his youngest br. Edmund and his heirs; his br. Francis to have the lease of Orgarswike, after his mother's death, but if Francis inherit testator's lands, then to go to Edmund; to each of his sisters £1 to buy a ring; his cousin, wife of said Dr. Pierce; £5 to each of his trustees to buy some article of plate. During the Civil War (says Hasted, fol. ed., ii. 492), he adhered to the royal cause, for which his estate here was sequestered, and he compounded for it for £114.

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EDMUND ELLIS, of Stoneacre, gent., cælebs 1663, became the heir of his brother. He was bap. at Otham, Sept. 16, 1629. His other brothers and his sisters were bap. there as follow:Thomas, 16th Feb., 1616, bur. 12th Mar., 1616; Elizabeth, 1st June, 1623; Anne, 6th Mar., 1624; Francis, 26th Mar., 1620, ob. s. p.; and Jane, 4th June, 1632. Edmund mar. Elizabeth Denby, at Marden, in 1666. By her he had issue Susannah, bap. 18th March, 1684, cælebs 5 Anne.; Mary, bap. 11th Nov., 1674 (? ux. Peter Nicholls); Henry, bap., 24th Mar., 1680, bur. 19th Jan., 1685; Thomas Ellis, bap. 18th Aug., 1682, with his wife Jane living 5 Anne.; Richard, bap. 7th Jan., 1669; William Ellis, gent., bap. 20th Dec., 1672, cælebs 5 Anne; had issue by his wife Anne, Henry, bap. 27th Oct., 1710, at O.; and William, bap. 19th Dec., 1711, at O.; and

EDMUND ELLIS, of Stoneacre, gent., the last owner, after its possession by the family four hundred years. He was bap. Oct. 21, 1668, at O., died at Langley, and was bur. at O., 12th July, 1712; his will being dated and proved the same year, at Canterbury. Stoneacre, according to Hasted, was alienated about 1710, to Mr. George Waterman, whose heirs, about 1735, conveyed it by sale to William Horsmunden Turner, Esq., of Harrietsham, since which it has passed to William Baldwin, Esq., of Harrietsham Place, the owner of it in 1798. Elizabeth, wife of Edmund Ellis, died at Langley, 1713, and her will was proved that year, at Canterbury. They left issue, Catharine, mar. Thomas Slaney ; Mary, Elizabeth, Susan, William, Anne, Thomas, and

EDMUND ELLIS, who, and his wife Elizabeth, with Anne Hales, widow, and James Grigsby, and Elizabeth his wife, were Deforciants in a Fine of 3 messuages, 1 barn, 2 gardens, 9a. land,

4a. meadow, and 7a. pasture, in Maidstone, Otham, and Marden; levied on the day of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, 1 George II. (1727); Nicholas Amhurst, William Weldish, and John Burr, being the Complainants.

HENRY ELLIS, of Lydd, gent. (s. of Edmund E. and Anne Fryer), by his will, pr. at Canterbury, 1633, leaves to his wife Catharine [d. of Henry Maplesden, of Maidstone, gent.], lands in Leeds and Sutton-Valence for life; remainder to his three daughters, Catharine, Anne, and Susannah, to whom he also gives £100 each at eighteen; to Thomas Ellis, his only son, lands in Linton and Hunton, at twenty-one; mentions his brothers, Ellis, Thomas, Edmund, and Christopher; amount of inventory, £666. Catharine was bap. at Marden, 14th May, 1626; Anne, bap. at M. 4th May, 1628; Henry Ellis, bap. 6th Jan., 1623, bur. 26th Feb., 1624, at M.; Thomas Ellis, bap. 31st Mar., 1622, at M. [About, long previous to, and after this period, there are entries of children of Henry Ellis in the Lydd Register, of which few, if any, can be those of Henry Ellis, of Marden.]

THOMAS ELLIS, s. of Henry E., it will be seen by the following Fines, married, and was probably the Thomas Ellis, of Hunton, who is rated to the Hearth Tax, 1675, or his father:

Easter T., 1643, between Catharine Ellis [widow], and Anne Ellis [sister of Henry Ellis], Quer., and Thomas Ellis, gent., Def., of 1 mess., 1 barn, 1 stable, 1 garden, 1 orchard. 40a. land, 5a. meadow, 15a. pasture, and 7a. wood, in Lynton and Hunton.

Hil. Term, 1647 (23 Car. I.), between Samuel Mercer, Quer., and Thomas Ellis, gent., and Mary his wife, Def., of 5a. land and 5a. meadow in Lynton.

Mich. Term, 1648 (24 Car. I.), between Henry Frere, gent., Quer.; and Thomas Ellis, gent., and Mary his wife, Def., of 1 messuage, 1 barn, 1 stable, 1 garden, 1 orchard, 50a. land, 10a. meadow, 20a. pasture, and 10a. wood, in Linton and Hun

ton.

THOMAS ELLIS, bur. June 1, 1682, at Marden, was probably son of the above Thomas E. Administration was granted at Canterbury, 3rd Aug. following, to his relict Mary, reserving right to William Peters and Susannah Austen; the inventory being £400. Susannah Peters, d. of William Peters, of M., and Anne his wife, mar. Nov. 30, 1680, John Austen, s. of John Austen of Horsmonden, who survived her husband, and remar. William or Thomas Mannering, at M., Feb. 13, 1682–3, by whom she had issue. The relationship of the two reserved administrators to the deceased would be accounted for on the supposition that Anne, d. of Henry Ellis, mar. William Peters.

JOHN ELLIS, S. of Thomas Ellis, who died 1682, and Mary his wife, was bap. Feb. 27, 1681-2, at M., and is the only child mentioned in the will of his mother, Mary Ellis, of Marden, widow, dated 25th June, 1709, and pr. at Canterbury, 9th June, 1710 [she being bur. at M., 20th October, 1709], wherein she gives to her said son a messuage and lands occupied by her in M.; also two fields occupied by him, which she purchased of William Simons, gent., and twenty shillings to James, s. of Samuel Wilkinson, of Linton, deceased; one of the witnesses being Catharine Maplesden [widow of George M., of Marden, gent.]. John Ellis, by his wife Rose, had issue

JOHN ELLIS, bap. at M., 16th Aug., 1713; Thomas Ellis, bap. 24th Dec., 1714, at M.; Mary, bap. at M., 1716; and Sarah, bap. at M., 9th Feb., 1722, and bur. 1723.

EDMUND ELLIS, of Strood, co. Kent, gent. (s. of Edmund E. and Anne Fryer), by his will, d. 1652, pr. 1653, at Doctors' Commons, after a long preamble of a religious character, gives to his beloved son, John Ellis, all his lands, etc., in Rucking, Warehorne, Orlestone, and Strood, and also his personal estate; to Joane Ellis, his wife, his ring, with his coat of arms; his son John, executor, and to allow his sister Anne, £20 yearly for her maintenance till twenty, and then £400; witnesses, Anne Ellis [? d. of Ellis Ellis], Henry Frere, and another. Administration granted to his widow during the minority of his son. He mar. Joan, d. & h. of William Cozens, of St. Warburgh, who afterwards became the third wife of Robert Watson, of Frindsbury, gent., by whom she had Rose. His son

JOHN ELLIS, of Strood, gent., in his will, d. & pr. 1662, at Rochester, mentions his father-in-law [step-father], Mr. Robert Watson; his sister Rose by his late mother Joane, to whom £200 at twenty-one; £10 per ann. out of his lands to his uncle, Christopher Ellis; his br.-in-law, James Chrippes, executor; his nephew, Thomas Cripps, s. of his late sister, Mrs. Ann Cripps; his cousin, Edmund Ellis, of Stoneacre; his cousin, Mrs Anne Godfrie [? d. of Ellis Ellis]; and desires to be bur. in Frindsbury, where his father was.

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, gent. (s. of Edmund E. and Anne Fryer), in 1678-9, had administration granted of his effects to his relict, Elizabeth, of Frindsbury. In addition to the Fine before given, another Fine mentions his name, levied Hil. T., 1644, between Thomas Catlett, gent., and Richard Somers, gent., Quer. ; and Christopher Ellis, gent., and Mary his wife, Def., of 5 messuages, 1 barn, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, and 12a. land, in Tongue, Bapchild, Morston, and Sittingbourne. Christopher Ellis, gent., is bur. at Sittingbourne, Oct. 2, 1665, probably his

son, unless the above administration was granted many years after his decease, in which case it is probably himself. But there are several subsequent entries of the name of Ellis in the Reg. of S., possibly his descendants. His only known

child is

THOMAS ELLIS, bap. at Lydd, Jan. 6, 1632-3, the year in which he witnessed the will of his br. Henry.

A Christopher Ellis, of Doddington, a neighbouring parish of S., died in 1631, leaving a large family, whose descendants lived there and at Linstead several generations afterwards. These might have sprung from Peter, s. of Thomas, and br. of Edmund Ellis, of Otham. And the Ellises mentioned in the following Fine were probably of the Otham family :—Mich. T., 24 Car. II., between Sir William Broadnax, Knt. [qui ob. 1673], Quer.; and Edmund Ellis, Anne Ellis, widow, and Thomas Ellis and Anne his wife, Def., of 1 messuage, 1 barn, 12a. land, 2a. meadow, 2a. pasture, 2a. wood, in Godmersham.

ELLIS OF CHISELHURST, CO. KENT.

ARMS.-Or, on a cross sable five crescents arg.

CREST.-On a goat's head couped or, a pale sable, charged, with three crescents arg.

This family was doubtless a very early offshoot from that of Stoneacre or Kennington; but, unlike the latter, seems to have lost the tradition of its ancient crest: though there is no record of it, it is probable the above crest, almost identical with that of Ellis, of Lepton, in Yorkshire, was granted at an early period. The above arms and crest are given as the bearings of the family in the Visitation of Kent, 1574, along with a pedigree of three descents; viz., Thomas E., of C.; Bernard his son; his son Thomas, who mar. Hawte, and their two sons, John and Henry, and two daughters, Alice and Joan. Bernard de Chiselhurst lived at an early period, and might have furnished the Christian name of Bernard, which appears so often in later, and was probably borne in the early generations. The following pedigree is from Harl. MSS. 1144, p. 7, and is subscribed "This is the atchievment and descent of John Ellys, of Chiselhurst, in the county of Kent: William Ryley, Norroy King of Arms." The arms and crest as above, are given. Some additions are made from a book in the College of Arms, marked "H 2 Kent," p. 10, and from wills.

JOHN ELLYS, of Chiselhurst, lived the 23 of Edward III., and