William (The Younger) Jones of the Woodlands, Mildenhall, Wiltshire, England
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The following from: www.minal.org.uk  Mildenhall, Wiltshire - Community Site
Chapter 6
"During the restoration work in the church in 1981, a memorial stone was revealed behind panelling. This was an inscribed tablet referring to the Jones family of Woodlands dated 1642, a family who resided there for some 150 years. The stone is again covered by the panelling, so perhaps a record of its lettering is appropriate.

HEARE LYETH THE BODY OF WILLIAM JONS GENTELM WHOE DIED THE 8 OF NOVEMBER 1610 WHOSE LYFE WAS RELIGIOUS AND HONEST HIS DEATH GODLY AND CHARITABLE SOE WITNESSED BY THE BEHOLDERS DESERVEDLY COMENDED BY THE PREACHER AT HIS FUNERALL AND HEARE SLEEPETH WITH HIS FATHER THE BODY OF JOHN JONS GENTEL HIS SON WHOES DAYES ALSO ENDED SHORTLIE AFTER BEING THE 28 OF JANVARY THE SAME YEAR BOTH WHOES SOWLES BEING WITH THE UNDEVIDED TRINITIE GLORIFIED AND CHARITABLY DEPARTED ACCORDING TO THEAR FAYTH PVBLISHE

AT THEAR DEPARTVRES TO BE SAVED ONLY BY THE DEATH PASSION AND BLOD-SHEDDING OF CHRIST JESVS RECEAVED THEIR SALVATION WHIT.F.ST THE WORDLE DOTH PERSECVT THEM

The late E.G.H.Kempson the Marlborough historian has commented that 'the same year' was of course 1611 by our reckoning but still 1610 according to the Old Style then in use."
Also: Chapter 4
"There were thirty families and a population of about 103.

The families living here at that time were:-
Baron
Franklin
Kaye
Pearce
Smith
Coleman

Bowshear
Gent
Lovelock
Perkin
Webb
Baker

Bryne
Gibbs
Lurke
Plasted
Wight
Hall

Davie
Heale
Jones
Saverie
Wrenne
Harris  with six other families who had no cause to be included in the church records during that decade."


"and by 1598 William Jones the Younger of Woodlands owed three thousand pounds and was also missing...In 1609 the manor of Hungerford covered most of Mildenhall parish, with Littlecote the most likely manorial centre.
A list of the manorial tenants in the parish who paid to Hungerford was as follows :-

    Philip and John Goodwin, Martha, William and Harold Jones of Woodlands  John, John and Thomas Hitchtoke  Agnes Hale William and John Bower  William Heale Thomas, Thomas and John Newby  William and John Stamner  Edward Playfleur Robert and John Gibbs William, William and Edward Pearce.    

The total paid in 1613 was £23 17s 4 ¾d."