William Noyes

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Husband William Noyes

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           Born: Abt 1538
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           Died: After 1618
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         Father: Robert Noyes (1519-1590)
         Mother: Elizabeth (      -1574)

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Wife

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Children

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1 F Mary Noyes

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           Born: 
     Christened: 11 Nov 1582 - Weyhill, Hampshire, England
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2 M William Noyes

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           Born: 
     Christened: 24 Jul 1582 - Weyhill, Hampshire, England
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General Notes (Husband)

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Lawsuit mentions he had two daughters.

William was living in 1618, aged 80, married unknown, and had two daughters. The notes name a daughter and a son baptized at Weyhill over ten years. William Noyes was the sole executor to his father, but did not fare well. On 28 Nov .42 Eliz I [1599], Richard Godwin stated that William Noyes' wife was a misliving woman, and had hired a man to have killed her husband. She left him for "the minister of the same town, and so lived from her husband about two years". [The minsiter of Weyhill form atleast 1568 through his death in 1617 was Richard Combes.] John Noyes, William's brother, in a deposition dated 31 May 42 Eliz. I [1600] swore that he had both personal knowledge an dhad heard "by the common speech of the country" that Christopher Read [only one found at Weyhill, buried there 20 Dec 1637], carpenter, "hath of long time been vehemently suspected to live lewdly" with William's wife. But it was she who on the advice of Peter Noyes, attorney, persuaded her estranged husband, William, to sue to regain Blissmore Hall. He was to lose his main possessions, havaing settled Blissmore Hall on his nephew Peter, who was in turn supposed to pay either 53 pounds or about 24 marks (according to differing accounts) to Wiliam's two daughters. But William then sued Peter on the advice of their cousin Peter Noyes, Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas. [This Peter, as attorney, had agreed to either regain Blissmore Hall and free William from all frauds, or leave William's nephew Peter so devastated he would not be 'worth one graot'. Peter the attorney was for his pains to receive half of Blissmore Hall - no small fee for his services. John Noyes, Wiliam's brother stated that the attorney, Peter Noyes, had enjoyed a moiety of William's lands "for this year and a half past". (sowrn 31 May 42 #liz I [1599] PRO C24/275/71]). William Noyes was prisoner in the King's Bench in July 1618, when he stated he "Is sorry he has given offense, having always found the proportion of men and arms for which he was assessed; being eighty years old, ill, and in debt, prays to be discharged furtehr attendance...".

His nephew, William Noyes, stated that William could neither read nor write, "nor never could".

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