Thomas Baker & Griselda Barnes - The history and antiquities of the county of Essex, Volume 2

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(presumed to be Thomas Barnes)...dyed without issue, 2 February 1561, holding this maner and advowson ; and 20 messuages, 3 granges, 4 mills, 5 woods, 20 cottages, 200 acres of arable, 300 acres of meadow, 400 of pasture, 400 of Wood and underwood, and 40 s. rent with the appertenances at Yngatstone, Gyng Fryerne, Ging Hospital: Grisild was his sister and heir, then two years old.

She became the wife of Thomas Baker Esq; second sqn of Sir Richard Baker of Kent : and dyed 1 November 1589, leaving by him — Richard, her son and heir (x). She is said, in the Inquisition, to have held 20 mess. 4 mills, 5 tofts, 20 cottages, 150 acres of arable, 300 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture; and the rest as Thomas Berners. (y)

Elsewhere it is mentioned that at the time of her death Richard was eleven years old.

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