They owning the fine estate of Holmes Park.
24 lines✦
ohn Wheatleigh, Esq. of Tingsboro, Somerset, b May 31, 1547, m Dorothy Willoughby of Derbyshire, youngest daughterof Arctic explorer, Hugh Willoughby. She probably died be-fore 1609, for no mention is made of her in his will) He was oneof the 164 gentlemen and sailors who accompanied Sir FrancisDrake on his free booting expedition to Spanish America andaround the world, home via Cape of Good Hope, arriving at Ply- mouth November 1580. Will of John Wheatleigh Esq. of Tingsboro, filed at Carew,P. C. C. and dated May 7, 1609, is as follows: The chain of gold disposed of by my father, John Wheat-leigh’s will, shall succeed to our heirs. To my four younger ne, THE WHEATLEY GENEALOGY. sons, Israel, Samuel, Philip and Andrew during their lives each£50 by the year, out of the rents of Lindenboro and Glenolden. To my daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Margery £800, to beraised out of the rents of my manors, Sidglen and Maiden New-ton. To my daughter Mary, her mother’s wedding ring. To my brother, Frank Wheatleigh, the remission of a tene-ment in Maiden Newton. To my brother, Samuel Wheatleigh,the continuation for life of the living at Tingsboro. To mycousin, Edmund Wingate, my books on law and mathematics.Nathaniel my son and heir executor. John Skinner, clerk. Tile Nathaniel, b 1571, Knighted 1610, Sheriff 1616.
✦