Given then to 2 men yt had came from Brundlestone, Sept. the 25th. November ye 3rd. Given to 2 men yt had a (To be continued.) 6d. 6d. 6d. THE HOWARDS AND THE MYLDES. The catalogue of books relating to the genealogy of the Howard family (given at page 341), includes the "Topographer and Genealogist." In vol. II, p. 402 of that excellent book, is the following paragraph: "The tomb and effigy of William de Clopton are in Melford church. His mother was Katherine Mylde, the heiress of the family of Mylde, of Clare, and she, by her second husband, Sir William Tendring, Knight, had an only daughter, Alice, who married Sir John Howard, and was grandmother to the first Duke of Norfolk of that name.' Of the Mylde family, as connected with this town, no memorials exist; but a MS. in the British Museum [Lansdowne 260, fo. 266-7] describing the interior of Clare church, mentions "two statues of Thos Myeld and his wife." These were, no doubt, figures on glass, and might have been among the "1000 images" in this church, condemned and destroyed by order of Dowsing. My object, however, in mentioning this is, to ask for any information about the Mylde family; of whom so little is known. May I also ask which Sir John Howard married Alice Tendryng? Clare. J. B. A. RING FOUND AT TIVETSHALL ST. MARGARET (VOL. 1, PP. 252, 426). John Jntewod made his Will at Harleston 20 Febry, 1456,* directing his body to be buried in the church of the parish in which he should depart this life. He bequeaths 10s. to the buying of a table for the high altar of St. Margaret, of Tivetshall, & five marks to the building of the new bell tower of the same church. He also bequeaths 368. 8d. towards the making of a new porch to the church of St. Mary Magdalen, of Pulham, 68. 8d. to the church of St. Mary, of Tivetshall, & 20s. to be divided among the most needy of the towns of Tivetshall, Pulham, & Moulton. From his bequest of 68. 8d. to the Rector of Tivetshall St. Margaret, for tithes not fully paid, he would appear to have been an inhabitant of that parish, and probably, the ring described at the pages above referred to belonged to him. *Reg. Brosyard Cur. Cons. Episc. Norw. EXTRANEUS. THE EAST ANGLIAN. JULY, 1866. NOTES. BIRTHPLACE OF DOWSING, THE ICONOCLAST.—THE DOWSINGS OF LAXFIELD. In the nave of Laxfield church, Suffolk, is, or was, a brass, marking the resting place of the remains of William Dowsing, and recording that he had by Elizabeth his wife, four sons and one daughter. He died on the 2nd November, 1614, being about 88 years of age. (Vide East Anglian, vol. 1, p. 259.) The family must have been seated at Laxfield in the middle of the 16th century, and for a long period they ranked with the yeomen or gentlemen of the county. In what part of the parish they resided, or where their patrimonial estate was, I have not been able to discover; but a search amongst the old parish accounts and documents might reveal this part of their history. Elizabeth, the wife of William Dowsing, was buried at Laxfield 14th April, 1587. Their five children were: 1. Wolfran Dowsinge, bur. 12th Aug., 1607. 2. John Dowsinge, bur. 15th Jany, 1638. 3. William Dowsinge. 4. (?) Richard Dowsinge, bur. 29th Sept., 1588; and 5. Margaret Dowsinge, who married Jerome Pype, yeoman, of Laxfield, on the 22d June, 1585. It would appear likely that William Dowsing, notwithstanding his advanced age, married again after the death of his wife Elizabeth, there being an entry in the parish register of the marriage of "Will'm Dowsinge, senior, and Anne Lovell, gent," on the 26th Sept., 1595. 1. Wolfran Dowsing, the son of William, was married at Laxfield church, 27th August, 1582, to Joan Cook (bur. 30th May, 1632), from whom descended Elizabeth Dowsinge, bapt. 23rd June, 1583. Simon Dowsinge, bapt. 25th April, 1585. Margaret Dowsinge, bapt. 24th Augt, 1587. WILLIAM DOWSINGE (visitor of the Suffolk churches), bapt. 2nd May, 1596, and Robert Dowsinge, bapt. 10th July, 1597. Simon Dowsinge, Gent. (bur. at Laxfield, 11th Dec., 1667), the eldest son of Wolfran and Joan, had by his wife Prudence (bur. 2nd April, 1630), the following issue:~ William Dowsing, bapt. 24th Octr, 1611. Anne Dowsing, bapt. 1st Augt, 1613. Lettice Dowsing, bapt. 23rd July, 1615, bur. 9th May, 1630. Wolfran Dowsing, bapt. 17th Feby, 1617. Thomas Dowsing, bapt. 4th April, 1619, bur. 24th Feby, 1638. John Dowsing, bapt. 20th April, 1625. It is probable that William Dowsing (the eldest son of Simon) married Sibilla Green; and that their only daughter and heiress, Margaret, the wife of Peter Watts, lies buried in the churchyard of Pulham St. Mary the Virgin, Norfolk (see vol. I, p. 246), under an altar tomb, which is frequently pointed out as that of the daughter of William Dowsing, the iconoclast, which it certainly is not. Elizabeth, the seventh child of Simon Dowsing, was married 12th May, 1654, to Mr. Giles Borrett, of Studhaw (vol. II, p. 256), and they had issue at least one daughter named Mary, born at Laxfield 24th Feb., 1654. John, the youngest child of Simon Dowsing, seems to have married Mary...... by whom he had six children, viz: - Jemima Dowsing, bapt. 10th Feby, 1650, bur. 11th Feby., 1650. Elizabeth Dowsing, bapt. 29th Decr, 1654. John Dowsing, born 3rd Sept., 1656, bur. 20th May, 1675. Wolfran Dowsing, born 5th Novr, 1659. William Dowsing, born 17th March, 1661, bur. 28th June, 1679. About 40 years later, another John Dowsing appears to have been living at Laxfield (probably a descendant of the above) who, by Deborah his wife, had issue Deborah Dowsing, bapt. 29th Octr, 1702. John Dowsing, bapt. 8th May, 1704, bur, 6th Augt, 1704. William Dowsing, bapt. 1st Augt, 1705, bur. 13th March, 1705. John Dowsing, bapt. 28th Jany, 1706. Catherine Dowsing, bapt. 8th Sept., 1709, bur. 20th Jany, 1710. Thomas Dowsing, bur. 26th May, 1720. Thomas Dowsing, bur. 18th Jany, 1721. Margaret, the second daughter of Wolfran and Joan Dowsing, was Elizabeth Dowsinge, bapt. 4th June, 1611. Of these children, John is supposed to have married Laxfield church, 10th Nov., 1619, but whether they ha is unknown. Elizabeth, the youngest daughter, was 1 Grinling, at Laxfield church, 18th July, 1639, from wh Robert Grinling, bapt. 24th Sept., 1640. John Grinling, bapt. 20th Oct., 1642. Elizabeth Grinling, bapt. 24th Oct., 1644. Mary Grinling, bapt. 11th March, 1646. Judith Grinling, bapt. 11th Oct., 1649. Thomas Grinling, bapt. 9th June, 1653. 3 and 4. Of William and Richard Dowsing, the William Dowsinge, senr., nothing is known. 5. Margaret Dowsinge, the only daughter of Willia married Jerome Pype, yeoman, of Laxfield (buried ther and had issue four sons and three daughters, namelyWilliam Pype, bapt. 15th Jany, 1586. Jeremye Pype, bapt. 2nd March, 1588, bur. 28th Ma Thomas Pype, bapt. 18th April, 1591. Margaret Pype, bapt. 16th Oct., 1593, bur. 21st Oct Elizabeth Pype, bapt. 30th Augt., 1601. The prominent figure in this group of Dowsings is, of ous Puritan fanatic, William Dowsing, who made s Suffolk churches during the time of the Commonwe register of Laxfield shows him to be the second son an Wolfran Dowsing and Joan Cook; and as children baptized as soon as possible after birth, he was probab 1596. The entry of his baptism is thus recorded. 1596. * Will'm Dowsinge, sonne of Wollfran & Johane, was baptyzed the seconde daye of maye. When Dowsing wrote his Journal, he appears to have been living at Stratford St. Mary, in Suffolk; but it does not appear that he was buried there, as I am informed by the Rev. H. Golding, of Stratford (who has kindly examined the parish register for me), that the following are the only entries of burials of the Dowsing family in that parish, viz. :1678. Mary Dowsing was buried Nov. 2, 1678. 1684. Elizabeth, ye wife of Mr. Will. Dowsing, was buried Feb. 28. 1703. Garrett Dowsing, Gent., buried Nov. 13. It is possible that Dowsing may have returned to Laxfield in his old age to end his days in his native village, or that his remains may have been taken there for interment; but in the absence of any clue as to the date of his death, the Laxfield burial register will not conclusively settle the point. Three members of the family, who bore the christian name of William (with the wife of one of them) were buried at Laxfield in the latter part of the 17th century, and one of these may possibly be the sturdy old roundhead. I subjoin copies of the register of their burials : : "Anne Dowsing, the wife of William Dowsing, sen., was buried the twenty-eight day of February, 1675." "William Dowsing, sen., was buried after his wife aforesaid, the 18 of March, 1675." "Mr. William Dowsing was buried the 14th day of March, 1679. And no Affidauit was given me in of his buriall, according to the late Act in that case provided. And I certified the Churchwardens and Ouerseers of the same, vnder my Hand March 22th, 1679. W. Adamson, Vicar."† 1697. "William Dowsing was buried March ye 8th." Besides the Dowsings of Laxfield, there were many families of the name settled in various parts of the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, and also in the city of Norwich. They were very numerous at Pulham St. Mary Magdalen, in Norfolk, for about one hundred and fifty years, and I have found traces of them in several other parishes. A Bartholomew Dowsing, of Badingham, Suffolk, was married to Mary Hayward of the same parish, 23rd Sept., 1684, at Laxfield church. The monumental stones of the family both at Laxfield and Pulham, bear the arms of Dowsing, -a fess between two lions passant. G. R. P. *To this entry the following marginal note is appended in the Register:-" This man was, by the Earl of Manchester, in the great Rebellion, A. D. 1644, appointed visitor of the Churches in Suffolk to destroy and abolish all the remains of popish superstition in them. There are few which do not yet bear marks of his indiscreet zeal.-1804." + It will be observed that this William Dowsing was a person of some importance, as he could afford to be buried in linen, by which a penalty of five pounds was incurred, to be paid to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the parish for the use of the poor. In this case the vicar certified to them the fact that they might recover the money. If the Churchwardens' accounts are in existence, they would probably shew the payment. |