William Glanville

Alternate Names

     He was also known as George in the "Records of the Anglo Norman House of Glanville from AD 1050 to 1880."

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     William Glanville was born before 13 September 1618 at Heavitree, DEV, ENG.
     He was baptized on 13 September 1618 at Heavitree, DEV, ENG, William son of William Glanvill.
     He married Jane Evelyn after 1638 at ENG.
     He died on 12 April 1702 at ENG; described in the diaries of John Evelyn ""1702, April 12th, my brother-in-law Glanville departed this life this morning, after a long languishing illnesse, leaving a son by my sister, and two granddaughters. Our relation and friendship had been long and greate. He was a man of excellent parts. He died in the 84th year of his age, and will'd his body to be wrapped in lead and carried down to Greenwich, put on board a ship, and buried in the sea about Dover and Calais, about the Goodwin Sands, which was done on the Tuesday or Wednesday after. He was a gentleman of an ancient family in Devonshire, and married my sister Jane. By his prudent parsimony he much improved his fortune. He had a place in the Alienation Office, and might have made an extraordinary man had he cultivated his parts.""
     He was buried in April 1702 at sea between Dover and Calais.
     His estate was probated on 6 December 1705 Probatum... (latin text, admon granted to William Glanvill the son December 1705.)

Other information

     In 1647 he was named in the will of his father.
     William Glanville left a will on 17 March 1699 This is the last will and
testament of Wm Glanvill the elder of the Middle Temple London Esqr
made this seventeeth day of March 1699: I devise and give to my neece
Anne ffowler of Greenwich widow to Mary ffowler her only
daughter and to my nephew William Cowse (?) of London Greerthank (?)
one hundred pounds apeice of lawfull money to be paid to each of
them within six months after my death by my executor hereinafter
named I also devise and give to my two granddaughters
Elizabeth Glanvill and ffrances Glanville one hundred pounds apeice
of lawfull money to be improved for and paid to each of them at their
respective days of marriage And if one of them dye before she is
married then her hundred pounds I will to be paid by my executor
to her surviving sister I give to my servant Jonathan ffowler
ten pounds of lawfull money if he be in my service when I dye
but if he be not in my service at the day of my death then I give him
but five pounds to be paid him by my executor one month after my
decease I devise and give all whatsoever my lands tenements
hereditaments money goods and chattells in the County of Devon
or elsewhere in England to my beloved Sonn William Glanvill
and his heires and I do also hereby make him sole executor of
this my last will As to my dead body I will and require my sonn and
executor to cause it to be inclosed in a coffin of lead and take care
to have it very privately without any solemnity thrown into any
part of the Sea near Goodwin Sands between England and Scotland
In Witnefs whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal. Wm
Glanvill. Signed sealed and published by the testator in the presence
of us and attested by us in the presence of the testator Wm Longueville
Edward Portere Thos Watson.