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Excerpt from Index of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 9: And Now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London; 1671-1675
The first of these registers is named after Sir Edward Duke of Benhall, Suffolk, Who was knighted in 1641 and created a Baronet in 1661 he was father ofggjlifldren sbyflhis only wife. The second takes its name from George Eifre, 6th Baron Eure he was a member of the Council of State in 1653, and had the rare distinction of sitting in the House of Commons, as mp. For the North Riding of Yorkshire, several years after his succession to the title in 1657 he was persuaded to move up to Cromwell's Other House Of Sir Edmund Pye there is little worth noticing except that Parliament found it convenient to fine him as a delinquent; in spite of this, he seems to have retained the estate of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire till his death. On the other hand Sir James Bunce, a leather seller by trade and President (the seventeenth century equivalent of Hon. Colonel) of the h.a.c. In 1645, was sufficiently attached to the King's cause to suffer imprisonment and confiscation of his estate. Sir Robert Dycer, of Braughing in Hertfordshire, died at the early age of 28, leaving a young son who survived him only three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
