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The Whitneys
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| A. D. 1605.
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In an inquisition upon the death of Thomas Pardoe, gentleman, taken at Chelmsford, in Essex, and dated 9 Jan. 1605, mention is made of his capital messuage called (Spolestic?) and of divers lands, tenements, etc., in Essex. His will, of 28 July 1604, is quoted at length: in it he mentions his brothers Henry and Robert Pardoe, his sisters Penelope Whitney, widow, Judith Fylding, and Ellen Carneys, and his nephews Thomas Whitney, the elder, Thomas Whitney, the younger, and George Whitney. His death took place on the 28th of December last, his heir being his brother, Henry Pardoe, "aged 36, and more."a
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| A. D. 1619.
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The will of Henry Pardoe, of St. Botolph, London, scrivener--signed in 1619, and proved in the Prerogative Court, London, 15 June 1619--bequeaths nearly all of his estate to his "deare friende, Dorothy Tozer"; appoints his brothers, Richard Carneys and Robert Pardoe, executors; names his niece Judith and nephew William, children of his sister Ellen Carneys, his nephew George Pardoe and wife Elizabeth, his nephew Thomas Pardoe, his nephew John Pardoe and wife Elizabeth, his nephew Thomas Fyldinge, his niece Frances widow of his nephew Thomas Whitney the elder, his nephew George Whitney, and his nieces Sarah Mills and Catharine Mors, daughter of his sister Fyldinge.b
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We learn from Chancery Proceedings, temp. Eliz., in a suit brought against . . . . Pardoe by William Whitney, that the plaintiff is son and heir apparent to Thomas Whitney, of Saffron-Walden, Essex, and Frances, his wife; that the said Thomas Whitney is the eldest son of George Whitney, deceased, and Penelope Pardoe, his surviving widow; and that William Whitney, the plaintiff; has sisters Anne, Catharine, Frances, and Martha (also called Mary)-the last of whom married successively William Buckley and Henry Rodfern. Before the suit was finished, in 1640, William Whitney died, and Martha Rodfern, the only surviving sister, came into possession of the property.c
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| A. D. 1611.
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Among the Bills and Answers in Chancery, we find, under date of 31 Oct. 1611, the Bill of Complaint of Humphry Cob, of Wimbish, near Saffron-Walden, Essex, and Elizabeth his wife. It shows that Thomas Warne, deceased, gentleman, grandfather of the said Elizabeth, was seized of a manor house and divers lands in Walden and elsewhere in Essex, and in the adjoining County of Hertford; that the said Thomas Warne had issue Robert, the eldest son, Henry, second son, Richard, third son, Mary, wife of George Whitney, Jane, wife of Thomas Whitney, and Alice, wife of Lawrence Dixon; that Robert Warne, eldest son of Thomas Warne aforesaid, had issue "Thomas Warne, his only son, and your oratrix Elizabeth and Bridgett, his daughters"; that Robert Warne died in the life-time of his father Thomas, who being then "a sicklye and weake oulde man and, as it seemeth, somewhat suspecting his second son, did commit the custody of his grandchild Thomas, together with all deeds, writings," etc., to the Lord Montacute, who intrusted him to William Fryar of "Rikmanoth" (i.e., Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire) to bring up; that Thomas died about
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