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V. Extract from the Will of Thomas Earl of Ormond, dated July 31, 1515. From the Register called Holder in the Prerogative Office, Communicated by Thomas Astle, Esquire

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I, Thomas Butler knt. erle of Ormond, do make this my last will and testam't, &c. Item I give and devise to my dar dame Anne St. Leger—to my dar dame Marg't. Bolin, late the wife of Sir Wm. Bolin knt. my manor of Newhall in Essex—Item when my lorde my father, whole soul God assoile, left and delivered unto me a lytle whyte horne of ivory, garnished at both thendes with gold, and corse thereunto of whyte sylke, barred with barres of gold, and a tyret of golde thereupon, which was myn auncetours at fyrst time they were called to honour, and hath sythen contynually remained in the same blode, for wych cause my seid lord and father commanded me upon his blessing, that I shuld doo my devoir to cause it to contynue still in my blode as far furth as that myght lye in me soo to be doone to the honor of the same blode. Therefore for the accomplishment of my seid father's will, as farr as it is in me to execute the same, I woll that my executors delyver unto Sir Tho. Boleyn knt. son and heir apparent of my said dar Margaret, the said lytle white horn and corse, he to keep the same to the use of thissue male of his body lawfully begotten.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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page 20 note [a] He was the 7th Earl of Ormond, and 3d son of James the 4th Earl. He was attainted by E. IV, but restored by H. VII. sworn of the privy-council, and summoned as a baron to the English parliament by the title of Thomas Ormond de Rochford. He died 1515, and was buried in the church of Sir Thomas D'Acres, now Mercers Chapel, London. His two daughters married as above, Sir James St Leger, ancestor to the family of Eggesford, in Devonshire, and Sir William Bullen, Knight of the Bath, and father of Tho. Viscouut Rochford, Queen Anne, and Mary wife of Wm. Carey, ancestor to the Lord Hunsdon.

page 20 note [b] Q. Whether, on Henry II's appointing Theobald, the first of this family, butler of Ireland, 1177, or on the creation of the first Earl of Ormond, by. E. I, when the county of Tipperary was made palatine.