Memorials of four old families

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acres in the Holland division of Lincolnshire. The deed bears date 18th
January, 1639, and is granted "in consideratione boni, veri, fidelis,
acceptabilis servitii per dilectum nobis Bevill Wimberley Armigerum." It
is to be found among the "originalia" of the 14th year of King Charles I.
in Somerset House.
In 1613, he, along with Sir Matthew Gamlyn and Matthew Oldfield,
was a governor of Spalding Grammar School.
In 1634 he- was appointed a Commissioner for settling disputes
regarding the marsh lands in Lincolnshire, and in 1640 one of the Parlia-
mentary Commissioners for the relief of His Majesty's army by sessing and
levying subsidies in that part of the country, as were also his brothers-in-
law, Dymoke Walpole and Philip Welby, among many others.
In his will, which was proved on 16th October, 1641, he settled the
whole of his estate, which appears to have been considerable, on his brother
John and his heirs male for ever.
There is a monument to his memory and that of his wife, Elizabeth,
in the chancel of Pinchbeck Church.
The following extracts from documents, records, &c, in which Bevill is
referred to are of interest.
Letter from King Charles I. in the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic),
1634-35 :—
" July 23, 1634. The King to Robert Earl of Lindsey, Montague, Lord
Willoughby, Dr Beningfield, Bevill Wimberley, Richard Colvile, William
Landen, Philip Welby, Thomas Edwards, and Edward Shipwith.
" The King having granted to James Earl of Carlisle in fee farm all salt
or fresh marsh grounds to be inned and banked from the sea, which belong
to the King by his prerogative royal, and understanding that the Earl of
Carlisle has agreed with Sir Peregrine Bertie and Sir Philip Landen for all
the said marshes within the Co. of Lincoln and Cambridge, except those of
Long Sulton, Somercoates and Croft, the King requires the persons
addressed to compose any difference which may happen between the said
Sir Peregrine Bertie, and Sir Philip Landen and the adjacent Lords, free
holders, or others, who pretend right of Common in the said marshes."
[Signet attached.]
From Statutes of the Realm vol. V. In 16 Charles I. (1640), an Act
for the relief of his Majesty's Army and the northern parts of the kingdom,
among the Commissioners named for the Holland division of Lincolnshire
are Bevill Wimberley, Dymoke Walpole, and Philip Welby, Esquires.
Extract from an old Spalding Terrier (lent in 1836 to Mr William
Clark Wimberley by J. Eden, Esq., one of the Charity Commissioners, at
Gosherton, Lincolnshire), a folio volume, which was the property of a gentle-