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Notes for Stephen Payne and Sibilla Twynyho

1489 Stephen Payne and Sibilla Twynyho were married before December 2, the date of the will of Joan, wife of Roger Twynyho, which states, [1]

Item, I will that my husband shall dispose of my utensils to William Twynyho and Stephen Payne, esquires, and to Cibille his wife, and to their sons and daughters, to pray for my soul, according to my last communication expressed to my said husband.

1491 Stephen Payne witnessed a deed in Shaftesbury on June 4. [2]

Shaftesbury Charter 73. Roger Carpenter, of Hornyngesham, Wilts, grants to John Blanford, John Matthewe, John Budell, and John Guyan of Shaftsbury, a tenement, situate next a spring called Perishers, betw. a tenement of the Prioress of the Conventual house of the Monastery of S., on E., and a close late of Wm. Morton, on W., in Shaftesbury James's parish, which he, Roger Carpenter, with his wife Edith, lately deceased, together had from John Hoore, by a charter of feoffment, S. Gregory's day, 6 Hen. VII. W. Galfrid Tolchard, Mayor, Steph. Payne, Esq., Wm. Matthew, Wm. Konyng, Edw. Vynyng, K.'s Bailiff. 4th June, 16 Hen. VII.

1508 Stephen Payne died on December 14 and was buried in Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1774 Hutchins described the tomb inscription of Stephen Payne then in the church of St. Peter, in Shaftesbury. [3]

On the steps to the altar is a blue stone, now lying N. and S. and serving for a step to the altar, but it formerly lay E. and W. in the body, at the foot of the steps. It seems to have been removed out of the abby, for there is no other ancient inscription in any of the rest of the churches. On it is a brass plate, at the upper end of which were two escotcheons of brass, now torn off, and only this inscriptionis left:

Sub isto Saxo tumulat' corpus Steph'i Payne, armiger', fil' et hered' Nichi' Payne, arm' quond' Seneschalli hujus monasterii, qui obiit xiiij die mens' Decembris. Anno D'ni m.ccccc.viij. cujus a'ie p'piciet' Altissimus Dc'. Amen.

1524/25 In his will written on March 2, George Twynyho bequeathed to his "Awnte Sybill payne a pece of siluer and gilt to the value of Cs." [4]


Footnotes:

[1] Frederic William Weaver, ed., Somerset Medieval Wills (1383-1500), Somerset Record Society, Vol. 16 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1901), 284, [HathiTrust].

[2] Charles Herbert Mayo, The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury (Sherborne: J. C. Sawtell, 1889), 80, [HathiTrust].

[3] John Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 2 vols. (London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774), 2:25.

[4] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11, Piece 21, Bodfelde (1523-1525), [AncestryImage].