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1597 "Richard Myles & Ales Cherrye were maryed the xvijth Daye of October" at St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire. [1] [2]

1598 "Rychard myles sonne of Rychard Myles & Als his wyfe was baptyzed the xxviith daye of August" at St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire. [3]

1627/28 Richard Miles the elder of Much Munden, co. Herts., yeoman, dated his will on February 4. Coddington provided the following abstract: "As I do not consider that the third part of my freehold property will be sufficient to maintain Alice my beloved wife if she survives me, I devise to her all that my parlour, being part of the mansion house wherein I dwell, at the north end. Also I leave to her my little garner orchard on the north side of the said mansion, with liberty of ingress, egress & regress during her widowhood. If she marries again, this bequest shall be void. To the said Alice my wife, my close called Nastie Croft, a close of land and pasture called Marshes of about 3 acres, 2 acres of arable land lying in Nastie field, abutting on my orchard to the east & on Sowles field to the west, 1 acre of arable land in Nastie field between the land of Richard Baker & Richard Cannon, and pieces of arable land in Sowles field purchased by me of John Sell, of 6 acres. The said Alice my wife shall hold such properties for the term of her life on condition that she does not claim any other dower. To the said Alice my wife, £8 yearly during her widowhood, payable by my son Richard Miles & his heirs & representatives in quarterly payments, and my said son Richard shall enjoy the said close called Nastie Croft, the close called Marshes, lands in Nastie field & Sowes' field at the death of my said wife. To Alice my said wife, my best cow, all wethers, ewes, lambs and other sheep. To my son Richard, the household stuff in the hall of my mansion house except the chair in which I usually sit which I give to Alice my wife. To the said Alice my wife, all the rest of the household stuff, and I request her to give some to my kinswoman Ann Shipp who now dwells with me. My wife shall have the use of the chimney in the said hall & fire there as there is no chimney in the said parlour, she paying no allowance for the same. To Richard my son & his heirs for ever, all the rest of my lands, tenements hereditaments, immediately after my death, also the rest of my goods & chattels, and I make my said son Richard my sole executor." (Signed): Rychard Miles. (Witnesses) : William Benn:, John Johnson, Marie Johnson." [4] [5]

1628 "Alice Myles wife of Richard Myles the elder was buryed Septembr 9" at St. Nicholas, Great Munden, Hertfordshire. [6] [7]

1628 "Richard Myles the elder was buryed October 14" at St. Nicholas, Great Munden, Hertfordshire. [8] [9]

1629 The will of Richard Miles was proved on April 22 by Richard Miles, son & executor named in the will, in the Archedeaconry Court of Huntington. [10]

Research Notes:

"Richard Miles or Myles (?Thomas, ?William) of Great Munden, co. Hertford, yeoman, may well have been born about 1567-1575, and was buried at Great Munden 14 Oct. 1628, testate. He was married at Great Munden, 17 Oct. 1597, to Alice Cherry of that parish, who died five weeks before her husband and was buried at Great Munden 9 Sept. 1628. She may have been a daughter of John Cherry of Great Munden and Katherine Abbott of Little Munden, who received a licence to marry on 19 Feb. 1556/5 [Joseph Foster, London Marriage Licences, 152l-1869, column 272]. Perhaps she was a granddaughter of one or the other Thomas "Chery" who was taxed, together with William Myles (No. 1 above), in the Lay Subsidy of 1545, and perhaps she was descended from the John "Schery" who was co-grantee with William "Mylys" of Westmill in the charter of 1447. Here again, however, we are faced with a lack of confirmatory evidence, for there are no wills or administrations of 15th or 16th century members of the Cherry family of Westmill or Great Munden in the calendared records of the Archdeaconry Court of Huntingdon, Hitchin Registry." [11]

"Richard Miles the elder of Great Munden, husband of Alice Cherry, evidently lived in that part of the parish which includes the hamlet of Nasty (1 1/2 miles northwest of the present St. Edmund's College), for he named "my close called Nastie Croft" and "my lands called Nastie field" in his will. He was a prosperous man, as this will shows, and a careful provider for his wife Alice and son Richard. His household was precisely the kind in which we should expect a future pillar of the Puritan community in New Haven to be born; a family of well-to-do yeomen with Puritan leanings." [12]


Footnotes:

[1] Hertfordshire Record Office, DP 70 1/1, Great Munden Parish Register, 1558-1681, [FindMyPastImage].

[2] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 132, citing the parish register of St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire and noting that the registers "began in 1558, but that all entries for the years 1561-1587 and 1624-1626 are missing, those entries having been cut out of the first register" in 1952 when the registers were examined for the author, [AmericanAncestors].

[3] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 132, citing the parish register of St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, [AmericanAncestors].

[4] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 136, citing Archdeaconry Court of Huntingdon, Hitchen Registry, Original Will, [AmericanAncestors].

[5] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 137, [AmericanAncestors].

[6] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 133, citing the parish register of St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, [AmericanAncestors].

[7] Hertfordshire Record Office, DP 70 1/1, Great Munden Parish Register, 1558-1681, [FindMyPastImage], [FindMyPastRecord].

[8] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 133, citing the parish register of St. Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, [AmericanAncestors].

[9] Hertfordshire Record Office, DP 70 1/1, Great Munden Parish Register, 1558-1681, [FindMyPastImage], [FindMyPastRecord].

[10] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 137, citing Archdeaconry Court of Huntingdon, Hitchen Registry, Original Will, [AmericanAncestors].

[11] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 135, [AmericanAncestors].

[12] John Insley Coddington and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Richard Miles of Hertfordshire, England, and New Haven, Connecticut, and his Family," The American Genealogist 33 (1957), 129-137, at 136, [AmericanAncestors].