Memorials of four old families

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above. The four acres in Surfleet are let from year to year and at present
produce £j.
" By the book above mentioned it appears that the same Beviil
Wimberley gave 8 acres of pasture land lying and being in Spalding, the
rent to be likewise paid to the Poor."
" Under the Spalding and Pinchbeck Enclosure Act passed in l8oi, this
ac. r. p.
land was exchanged for 7. 1. 22. in Pinchbeck North Fen. It is let to one
tenant from year to year and produces i,"i8 9s."
" The rents are distributed to the poor having large families on St.
Thomas' day and Good Friday."
" Sutton, St. James \ "Beviil Wimberley by Will dated 22 Nov. 1639
Parish, Beviil Wimber- > after various bequests continues, ' Item I give
ley's Charity, p. 126. ' 20s to the poor of Sutton St. James to be
distributed yearly upon St. Thomas' day and Good Friday by the Church-
wardens and Overseers for the time being : which sum shall be paid and
received out of 500 acres of Sutton or Sutton Marsh Grounds granted to me
by letters patent from his Majesty that now is : for the payment whereof I
charge the said 500 acres and every part thereof.' "
" Sutton St. Mary's Parish ^ There is a charity of 20s to each of these
" Sutton St. Edmund's Parish J Parishes by the same Beviil Wimberley.
" Sutton St. Nicholas Parish. — Likewise of 40s yearly to this Parish.
" Weston Parish. — And to the Parish of Weston a charity of 2 acres of land."
Before passing on to Bevill'S successor, his brother John, an account
should be given of his youngest brother, Dr Gilbert Wimberley, a dis-
tinguished man, who suffered much in the King's cause during the
Rebellion.
He was born in 1594, and was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge,
where he graduated M.A. in 1619 ; he then removed to Oxford, and had
the degree of D.D. conferred upon him by that University.
He was first appointed curate of St Margaret's, Westminster, of which
at a later period he became Rector. He was also for some time Rector of
Englefield, in Berkshire, Chaplain to his Majesty, King Charles I., and a
Prebendary of Westminster. It is also stated in Neve's Fasti Eccl. Angl.,
continued by Hardy, that on 19th March, 1631, he was appointed Pre-
bendary of Widmore (4th) Wells.
He married, as above stated, in 1631, Martha, daughter of Sir William
Welby, K.B., by whom he had 2 sons, Gilbert and Beviil, and 5 other
children who died in infancy. A monument to her was erected in Engle-
field Church. On her death in 1645 he married again.
He was confined in the Tower of London as a prisoner by the rebels,
along with Archbishop Laud. Some account of his sufferings will be given