Memorials of four old families

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below. He died in 1653, and was buried in St Margaret's, Westminster.
It has been stated that he died in great poverty, but it may be hoped that
this was not the case, and that it was possible to give effect to his will,
proved in London, 31st December, 1653, and leaving both personal and
real estate.
At anyrate, his descendants continued his branch of the family for
three generations, when they became extinct in the male line, in the person
of Bevill of Weston, who married Rachel , and died in 1720. There is
a monument to him in St. Mary's, Pinchbeck, with his coat of arms at the
top, and one in St. Nicholas', Sutton, to his wife, who died in 1704, leaving
three daughters, to whom their father devised all his property, except 200
acres of land, which he bequeathed to his sister, Elizabeth, the wife of the
Rev. George Gay, Rector of Mulberton cum Kensingham, Norfolk.
Some interesting extracts relative to Dr Gilbert Wimberley are now
given.
Extract from Walker's " Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand
Rebellion," part 2nd, p. 91 : —
" Gilbert Wimberley, D.D.
" Prebend 5 '- of the 9th stall and St. Margaret's Westminster."
" This worthy person was at that time also Chaplain to his Majesty,
and had this Prebend conferred upon him, as far as I can guess, by the
account I have received of him, by his Majesty after the Parliament had
turned out the Prebendaries of this Church, and this, if time confirms the
conjecture, which I have made before, concerning the sufferings of Mr
Newell in this preferment, at least before his death.
"At the same time that he was sequestered, his house, which stood in
St Margaret's Church-yard, was plundered of his plate and all his other
goods, and a Library valued at i,iooo. The confusions never permitted
him to enjoy this prebend, which is all I know of him."
Extract from Bishop Rennet's Collections, 1641 to 1660, of Biogra-
phical Memoranda, vol. 51, Lansdown Manuscripts : —
" Account of Gilbert Wimberley, Preb. of Westminster, who died in
Nov. 1653.
" On the death of Mr Robert Newell, prebendary of the ninth stall in
the church of St Peter at Westminster, in 1643, he was succeeded by Dr
Gilbert Wimberley, Doctor of Divinity, who was soon after Minister of
St Margaret's, but sequestered, plundered, and imprisoned, and, dying
under persecution, was buried in the middle chancel of St Margaret's
Church, Nov. 29 1653."
Extract from Nalam's Impartial Collections, vol. II., p. 202 : —
" The Archbishop (Laud) conversing with Dr Gilbert Wimberley, con-
cerning that passage at their parting, said that perhaps it was softness