William ALSTON [4588]

  General Notes:

This is a further conjectural link, Cresswell was unable to place William and Margery in his tree.

Was this William Allston bap Edwardstone 1577 [7177]

ALSTON v. LYNTON & Another.
Chancery Suit - Bundle. Aa. 7/61 1593.
Bill dated 15 May 1593, by William Alston and Margery, his wife, late wife of Robert Lynton, late of Much Cornard, co. Suffolk, gent., deceased, v. John and Robert Lynton, and William Emesden.
The said Robert Lynton, decd. in his extremity of sickness, on 25 October 33 Elizabeth (1591) made his will (in many ways imperfect, leaving an annuity of L5 to his wife out of his entailed lands in Turnsted, Lammarshe and Pedmarshe, co. Essex.
Robert Lynton, the nephew of deceased, one of the defendants, has proved the will in the P. C. C., and refuses to carry out the terms of the will as regards the said Margery, including, besides the above, the devise of tenements in Newton, co. Suffolk, for life, from which Robert Lynton, the nephew, ejected her last Michaelmas, in the person of William Emesden, formerly servant to Robert Lynton, deceased.
The defendants, in their answer, say that John Lynton, father of Robert Lynton deceased and of defendant John, surrendered the copyholds lands in Essex to his son Robert in tail, with contingent remainder to his son John, &c. &c.

CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS.
THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.
ALSTON v. CURD & others.
1608 Chancery B. and A. James I. A. 2. (83).
Bill, dated 16 February 1608 by William Allstone of Middleton,, co. Essex, yeoman, v. Grace Curd, Richard Skynner, John Bragge and Robert Warren, clerk.
The suit is brought for remedy against defendants, who prevent Orator's peaceful possession of a messuage &c. in Middleton, acquired under due and lawful demise, for term of the life of the said Grace. (Neither the bill nor answers contain Alstone information.)
Page 168 Alstoniana.

William married Margery LYNTON [5851] [MRIN: 1929] on 25 May 1592 in Newton SFK.