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Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glanville.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     She married Richard Glanville before 1361 at ENG.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Richard Glanville was born.
     He married Ellen (Surname Unknown) before 1361 at ENG.
     He died before 1361.

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     Her married name was Glanville.

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     Mary Skerret was born before 1569.
     She married John Glanville, son of Thomas Glanville and Joan Cornish, between 1588 and 1589 at CON, ENG.

Alternate Names

     She was also known as Marie recorded at baptism. Her married name was Jope.

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     Mary Glanville was born before 4 April 1596 at St Columb, CON, ENG.
     She was baptized on 4 April 1596 at St Columb, CON, ENG.
     She was baptized on 20 April 1596 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She married John Colyn Jope on 16 May 1614 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, also reported St Columb same date.

Alternate Names

     He was also known as John Jope recorded at marriage.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     John Colyn Jope was born circa 1580 at Merefield, CON, ENG.
     He married Mary Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Mary Skerret, on 16 May 1614 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, also reported St Columb same date.
     He died in 1632.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Carey.

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     Alice Glanville was born before 14 July 1604 at St Columb, CON, ENG.
     She was baptized on 14 July 1604 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, also reported St Columb same date.
     She married Robert Carey on 16 December 1628 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, also reported St Columb same date.

Alternate Names

     He was also known as Robert Carie recorded at marriage.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Robert Carey was born before 1608.
     He married Alice Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Mary Skerret, on 16 December 1628 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, also reported St Columb same date.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Deebell.

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     Agnes Glanville was born on 23 July 1604 at Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She was baptized on 1 September 1605 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She married William Deebell on 9 August 1628 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, (when age calculated as 24 years and 17 days.)

Alternate Names

     He was also known as Debell.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     William Deebell was born before 1608.
     He married Agnes Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Mary Skerret, on 9 August 1628 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Brokyng. Her married name was Broken.

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     Susan Glanville was born on 4 August 1598 at Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She was baptized on 4 August 1598 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She married Christopher Broken on 6 October 1616 at Totnes, DEV, ENG, (when age calculated as 18 years, 2 months and 2 days) Christopher being the brother of Elizabeth Broken who married Susan's brother Oliver.

Alternate Names

     He was also known as Christopher Brokyng.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Christopher Broken was born before 1596.
     He married Susan Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Mary Skerret, on 6 October 1616 at Totnes, DEV, ENG, Christopher being the brother of Elizabeth Broken who married Susan's brother Oliver.

Alternate Names

     She was also known as Christian Estes as recorded at St Columb marriage. Her married name was Glanville.

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     Christiana Estcotte was born in 1556 at Pennishill, Abbotsham, DEV, ENG; daughter of John Estcotte Esq (1530 - 1560) and Anne Manning (c1562 - ?)
     She married John Glanville, son of Thomas Glanville and Joan Cornish, on 12 February 1587 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, (when age calculated as 31 years) same date recorded St Columb; possibly a Banns Reading ?
     She died in May 1588 at Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She was buried on 7 May 1588 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG, named as wife of John.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glanville.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Joan Cornish was born before 1547.
     She married Thomas Glanville, son of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, before 1562 at ENG.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Thomas Glanville was born before 1541 at ENG.
     He married Joan Cornish before 1562 at ENG.

Other information

     In 1580 he was named in the will of his father, and obtained probate on his father's will.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glanville.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Thomazine Browne was born circa 1540.
     She married John Glanville, son of Nicholas Glanville and Katherine Preston, before 1541 at ENG dated so as to be prior to birth of son Nicholas, who in turn had a birth predating that of John's third son Sir John Glanville.
     She died in 1594 at Tavistock, DEV, ENG.
     She was buried in 1594 at Tavistock, DEV, ENG, Named Thomasine Glanvile, widow in the Calendar of the Tavistock Parish Records RN Worth 1887 [Noting some sources attribute her burial to 1579, which predates her being named in her husbands will of 1580].

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     Notes on the Glanville & Browne Pedigrees.
The following article was written by W U S Glanville-Richards and published in an 1884 edition of the Western Antiquary under the above title - At the head of the Pedigree of Glanville of Tavistock, in the Visitation of Devon in the year 1620, stands John Glanville, father of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1598, but the Heralds have not mentioned the name or parentage of his wife. In the will of John Glanville of Tavistock, "the elder" - to distinguish him from his son Judge Glanville - which was proved in London, the 1st February,1580, the first clue to the identification of this lady is found; for, amongst other names mentioned is that of "Thomazine" his wife, to whom he bequeaths certain property. Her surname is not alluded to, and it is highly probable that her name and family would still have remained buried in oblivion had not a bundle of old deeds, in the possessionof a collateral descendant, been fortunately unearthed. Amongst these deeds was a conveyance of a parcel of land in the Parish of Tavistock from John, the son of William Browne, to his son-in-law, John Glanville of Tavistock, the husband of his daughter Thomazine. This is dated in the year 1548. The said parcel of land appears by another deed to have passed to Nicholas, the eldest son of John and Thomazine Glanville, and brother to Judge Glanville. The Brownes were a family of consideration and repute. Sir Thomas Browne - son of Sir Stephen Browne, Lord Mayor of London in 1439 - was treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and also Sheriff of Kent in 1440 and 1460. He married Eleanor Fitz-Alan, daughter and heiress of Thomas Fitz-Alan and Joan his wife (PM 21 Henry 6th) which said Thomas Fitz-Alan was brother to John 14th Earl of Arundel. Sir Thomas and Lady Eleanor Browne had several children born to them, amongst whom were Sir Anthony Browne, Constable of Calais, ancestor to the Lords Montague; Sir George Browne of Bleechwood Castle, Surrey, beheaded in 1483; and William Browne whose son finally settled at Tavistock (Sir B Burke?s LG). The name of his son as it appeared by Har. MSS. and Rawlinson's MSS.6164.287, and also by another MS. in Queen's Coll. Oxon, was John Browne of Tavistock, who had William and Thomazine, and probably another daughter who married William (?) Grylls of Tavistock. Thomazine was, as before stated, the wife of John Glanville of Tavistock, and mother of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, whose fine monument is still to be seen in Tavistock Church.
     On 12 August 1580 she was named in the will of her husband.
     In 1588 the parish records of Tavistock record Thomaysn Glanvill, widow, tenement, garden, close and two meadows at Bannawell (Calendar of the Tavistock Parish records RN Worth 1887.)

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     John Glanville was born before 1521 at ENG; a calculated date, his third son was born in 1541 yet John was younger than his brother Thomas.
     He married Thomazine Browne before 1541 at ENG dated so as to be prior to birth of son Nicholas, who in turn had a birth predating that of John's third son Sir John Glanville.
     He died in 1580 at Tavistock, DEV, ENG.
     His estate was probated on 1 February 1580 in London at the prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Other information

     The following article was written by W U S Glanville-Richards and published in an 1884 edition of the Western Antiquary under the above title -

At the head of the Pedigree of Glanville of Tavistock, in the Visitation of Devon in the year 1620, stands John Glanville, father of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1598, but the Heralds have not mentioned the name or parentage of his wife. In the will of John Glanville of Tavistock, “the elder” - to distinguish him from his son Judge Glanville - which was proved in London, the 1st February, 1580, the first clue to the identification of this lady is found; for, amongst other names mentioned is that of “Thomazine” his wife, to whom he bequeaths certain property. Her surname is not alluded to, and it is highly probable that her name and family would still have remained buried in oblivion had not a bundle of old deeds, in the possession of a collateral descendant, been fortunately unearthed. Amongst these deeds was a conveyance of a parcel of land in the Parish of Tavistock from John, the son of William Browne, to his son-in-law, John Glanville of Tavistock, the husband of his daughter Thomazine. This is dated in the year 1548. The said parcel of land appears by another deed to have passed to Nicholas, the eldest son of John and Thomazine Glanville, and brother to Judge Glanville.

The Brownes were a family of consideration and repute. Sir Thomas Browne - son of Sir Stephen Browne, Lord Mayor of London in 1439 - was treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and also Sheriff of Kent in 1440 and 1460. he married Eleanor Fitz-Alan, daughter and heriress of Thomas
Fitz-Alan and Joan his wife (PM 21 Henry 6th) which said Thomas Fitz-Alan was brother to John 14th Earl of Arundel. Sir Thomas and Lady Eleanor Browne had several children born to them, amongst whom were Sir Anthony Browne, Constable of Calais, ancestor to the Lords Montague; Sir George Browne of Bleechwood Castle, Surrey, beheaded in 1483; and William Browne whose son finally settled at Tavistock (Sir B Burke’s LG). The name of his son as it appeared by Har. MSS. and Rawlinson’s MSS. 6164.287, and also by another MS. in Queen’s Coll. Oxon, was John Browne of Tavistock, who had William and Thomazine, and probably another daughter who married William (?) Grylls of Tavistock. Thomazine was, as before stated, the wife of John Glanville of Tavistock, and mother of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, whose fine monument is still to be seen in Tavistock Church.
     John was married 2 times.
     In 1548 a parcel of land was conveyanced to John, named son-in-law of John Brown.
     The Calendar of the Tavistock Parish records RN Worth 1887 lists:
[1552] Grant by Richard Williams, of Tavystock, to
John Touker, John Badge, William Kedley, William
Grylles, John Glandfyld att wyll, John Glubbe, Henry
Wylles, and Walter Mayster, of piece of land estimated
at twelve feet square, adjacent to the land of the Earl
of Bedford, pavement about the High Cross north, land
of John ffytz south and east, land of Richard ffortescue
west, 'ad solum opus vsum & pfitum omn pauperis de
Tavystock ' for ever. William names Hugh Bulle and
Richard Skyrrett his attornies. July 2. 6 Edward VI.

[Endorsed in 17th century writing 'The lower pte of the market-howse.']

[1553] Lease by John Badge, Henry Willy, John Glubbe,
William Grills, John Glandfild att Wyll, John Cornysche,
Walter Master, William Poynter, otherwise William Kedly,
the ' eight men ' of Tavystoke, and Edward Denys, church-
warden — to John Couch, of Tavystock, of tenement and
garden in West Street, which he before held — lands of
parish west, of John ffytz east, Thomas Tremayne north,
highway towards maudlyn south, — on the lives of John
Couch, Agnes his wife, and Walter Smale her son. John
Crocker and Richard Penluce attorneys. Nov. 6. 1 Mary.

[1560] Lease by William Kedlye, John Badge, William
Grylles, Henry Wyllye, John Cornyshe, John Glandfylde,
John Glubbe, and William Nycll, ' the eight men,' Richard
Roundell and John Skyrret, churchwardens, of tenement
and garden in West Street, before held by Robert Skynner,
— to John Gawde, eldest son of Blaunche Gawdd, deceased,
Blaunche Burges and Elynor Burges, daughters of William
Burges, for life. William Elyner and Walter Burges
attornies. April 21. 2 Elisabeth.

[1565] John Glanfyld, of Tavistocke, merchant, bond in
£60 to John ffytz, Richard Servington, armigeris, William
Houghton, John Gylle, John Coche, William Kedlye, and
William Grylles. Dated March 3. 7th Elizabeth. Con-
dition that if the above-named, with John Cornishe, John
Glanfelde at wyll, John Glubbe, John Badge, William Nycoll,
Thomas W , Edward Denys, John Skyrret, Richarde
Drake, John Maton, Walter Glubbe, Ewstys Drake, and
Thomas Lybbe, do peacefully and quietly have and hold,
&c., a tenement with curtilage adjoining and a garden in
Tavistocke — tenement having tenement of Queen east, of
John Malett, esquire, west, garden of Earl north, and
' mylbrooke ' south ; garden having garden of Earl east
and west, 'millbrooke' south, highway from the 'village'
of Tavistocke towards Inscombe north — according to the
' trewe meaninge of a ctyn gyft & graunt beringe the date
of these presents,' then made by the said John Glanfyld,
merchant, without any manner of disturbance or expulsion,
&c., of one Elizabeth Webbe, wyddowe, late the wyffe of
William Webbe, or of other persons on her behalf, or of
Glanfyld, Alice his wife, or any of them, and heirs, &c.
Signed by John Glanfyld, m'chantt.

[1568] Lease by Willyam Houghton, Willyam Grylls,
Willyam Poynter als Kedley, John Badge, John Glandfyld
at wyll, John Glubb thelder, Willyam Nycoll, Thomas
Lybbe, ' the eight men,' William Burne, and John glubb the
younger, churchwardens — to John ffytz,esquyer, of garden in
the possession of John Northcott, at Tavistock, ' together wHi
power lybertie and Authorytie to digge and make a trench
any waie thorowe the same gardeyn aswell to laie therin
pipes of tymbre ledd or othewyse to Gary water in the
same from one fowntene or sprynge lyinge & beinge in
one close of the saide John fifytz called the bought hayes
vnto the mansyon howse of the saide John fifytz as also
from tyme to tyme as often as nede shall requyre to
Repaire and Amende the saide pypes at the wyll and
pleasure of the saide John ffytz duringe the saide terme.'
Sept. 8. 10 Elizabeth.

[1572] Lease by William Houghton, William Kedley
als poynter, William Grylls, John Glanfyld, Edward Denys,
John Burgys, Richard Drake, and Thomas Lybbe, the
' eight men,' with Richard Brewen and Richard Glubbe,
churchwardens, of tenement and garden in Bannawyll
Strete, land late Roger Wynsore south, Richard Egge-
comb, merchant, Agnes his wife, and John Browne and
Margery his wife, north ; also a close in Waddon between
the lands lately given 'towardes the maynteynaunce of the
poore people in the Two Almshouses of Tavystook' and
lands of William Grylls — which land, &c., John Soper the
younger, of Tavystocke, cordwainer, held — to the said
John Soper, Joan his wife, and ' mawld ' their daughter, for
their Hves. Attornies — Peter Eggecomb and John Redstone.
Sept. 3. 14 Elisabeth.

[1576] Lease by John ffytz, esq., William Houghton
William Grylls, William Kedley thelder, John Glanfyld,
Edward Dennys, Thomas Libbe, Richard Drake, and
Charles Grills, of tenement with orchard, garden, and
'grayshaye,' and meadow called 'St. Savyers mede als
Blackedichemede,' in the possession of Walter Kedley the
elder, to the said Walter Kedlye, Alice his wife, and
Walter their son, on their lives in succession. Attornies —
John Skerrit and Richard Sawle. March i. 18 Elizabeth.

[1578] Surrender by Richard Twygge, of Tavystock,
yeoman, to John ffytz, esquyer, William Houghton,
William Poynter, John Glanfyld thelder, Edward Denys,
Richard Drake, Thomas Lybbe, and Charles Grylls, of ' all
myne estate Right title Interest & terme ' in the tenement
and garden in which he dwelt, also in a close called pety-
pase, otherwise the ' Churche pke.' Witnesses— Robert
Knighte, vicar, Thomas Grilles, Thomas Watts. May i.
20 Elizabeth.

[1578] Lease by John ffytz, esq., William Houghton
thelder, William poynter thelder, John Glanfyld thelder,
Edward Denys, Richard Drake, Thomas Lybbe, and
Charles Grylls, to Anthonye Nycole, of Steylesweke — of a
tenement and garden on the west side of Bannawyll
streate, * within the bourroughe & vyllage of Tavystock,' in
which Richard Twygge dwelt — also a close called pety-
pase ; on the lives of Anthonye Nycole, Richawrde the wife
of Richard Twygge, and John Twygge, son of Richard.
8s. 4d. reserved to the Queen as a rent charge geven to
Edward VL by Act of Parliament ' vppon the dysselucon
of Chaunteryes.' Witnesses — Robert Knighte, vicar, W.
Grills, Walter Master, Thomas Watts. May 3. 20 Elizabeth.

     John Glanville left a will on 12 January 1580 In the Name of God Amen The twelfth day of January in the
year of our Lord god 1580 And in the two and twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lady Elizabeth by the grace of god of England France and Ireland Queen Defenced of the faith
&c I John Glanvile thelder of Tavistock in the County of Devon being whole of mind and force
of remembrance praised be god adnulling and revoking all former wills & testaments gifts legacies
bequeaths devises executors and asserts by me in any wise heretofore made do now make my last
will and testament in manner and form following Imprimss I commend my soul into the hands of
Almighty god my creator and *** And my body to be buried Item I give and bequeath to
my wife Thomasine three of my best *** fur my best cloak my black monrmuge gown All such
are already delonded (?) unto her and also one fifth of wood in Grenada north a house in it and a door such
a lock and a key to the same and forty pounds of lawful money of England such is already delonded (?)
unto her And all such merchandize of mine being in affects as appraistht by an inventory thereof made
and valued at twenty nine pounds fourteen shillings and a feather bed a pair of blankets and a paire of
sheets all such are delonded (?) to her already Also I give unto her ten pounds of lawful money of
England to to paid unto her within three years after my death Item I give to the children of
my daughter Mary Sonnde (?) ten pounds of lawful money of England to bestowed by the
discretion of my executor such in ten years after my death Item I give devise will and bequeath
to Johan Glubb my daughter the wife of Richard Glubb All that my tenement *** Margery
Hamlyn now dwellith such the gardens to the same adjoining and all other their apptenances ***
and being in Founrde Freefe (?) such in the burrough of Tavistock in the county of Devon And also the
two parties in these parts to be divided of all that one tenement and a garden such thapptenance being
at Founrde Freefe (?) aforesaid now in the tenure of one Richard Ghere And all my right title
possession and Hendron of and in the same tenement and garden with thapptenance and of and in every note
and worth of the same: To have and to hold the land tenement and garden and the land two parcel
assigned for ever: To thonlit (?) rest and behoof of the same Johan my daughter and of her heirs and assigns
for ever to be holden of the chcis loarded of the fee thereof by the rent and remorts thereof before due and of
right *** Item I give and bequeath will and devise to Thomas Glanvile my son all my
messuages lands tenement and gardins rents rendrons and hereditments such these appurtenance in
the Burough of Tavistock aforesaid such I bought and purchased of Anthony Honychurch deceased
And also all my lands tenements meadows pastures leases rents rendons and hereditaments such these
appurtenance whatsoever situated lying and being coming growing or renting such in the parish of
Whitchurch in the said county of Devon To have and to hold all the said messuages lands tenements
and gardens rents rendrons and hereditaments such their appurtenances in the said Borough of Tavistock
such I bought and purchased of the said Anthony Honychurch And also all my said lands tenements
meadows pastures leases rent rendrons and hereditaments such thapptenance whatsoever such in the
said parish of whitchurch to the said Thomas Glandvile my sone his heirs and assigns for ever
to thonlit rest behoof and poftt of the said Thomas my son his heirs and assigns for ever to be holden
of the chrif lorded of the fee and frees thereof by the rent and remorts thereof before due and of right
*** Item I give unto William Jonson my linen cloth the value of thirteen shillings four pence Item
I give to my reninte (?) Nicholas Daxter forty shillings to be paid unto him by the by the discretion of my executor
Item I give to William Grills the son of my daughter Alice deceased forty shillings Item I give to
Agnes Hamlyn daughter of the same Alis forty shillings to be paid to willm grills their
father in law such in four years after my death : And if one of them happen to die before they be of
thage of twenty one years then the other living to have the whole four pounds Item I give unto
Johan Skyrritt and to Alice Skyrryt the daughters of my daughter Margaret deceased to each of them
forty shillings to be paid them when they shallbe of the age of twenty one years; and if one of them
happen to die before they bo of that age then thoth living to have the whole forty pounds Item I give
unto John Glanvil my son diverse implements of household such are delivered unto him already Item I give
unto John Glanvile my son the lease of the house such I had of Mr Dillington where I now dwell
All the residue of my goods chattels and debt (not before given now bequeathed) I give unto Thomas
Glanvile my son and him I make and ordain my *** *** and whole executor to see this my last
will and testament performed and all my legacies and bequeaths accomplished according to the same
purpose and meaning hereof In witness hereof I the said John Glanvile thelder have set my hand
and seal yeaven (?) the day and year aforewritten in the pure of those whose names are under written
the date and years abovesaid Test Robert Knight vicar of Tavistock Edward Erind Willm
Grills Richard Gloubb John Bligh Signum Johannis Glandville femorid.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glubb.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Johanna Glanville was born before 1560 at ENG.
     She married George Glubb before 1580 at ENG as named Johan Glubb in the will of her father.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     He married Johanna Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, before 1580 at ENG as named Johan Glubb in the will of her father.
     He died before 9 June 1591.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Langesford. Her married name was Langford. Her married name was Browne.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Agnes Glanville was born circa 1560 at ENG.
     She married male Browne after 1580 at ENG.
     She married Moses Langesford after 1585 at ENG.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     He married Agnes Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, after 1580 at ENG.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Moses Langesford was born in 1576.
     He married Agnes Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, after 1585 at ENG.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Knight. Her married name was Burgis. Her married name was Bownd. Her married name was Littleton.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Mary Glanville was born before 1580 at ENG.
     She married John Burgis before 1612 at ENG.
     She married John Knight on 30 October 1666 at Lawhitton, CON, ENG, Mary being of Launceston. 19 June 1666 also reported, but no location.
     She married male Littleton after 1666 at Lawhitton, CON, ENG.

Alternate Names

     He was also known as Bownd surnamed Bownd is some sources.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     John Burgis was born before 1592.
     He married Mary Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, before 1612 at ENG.

Other information

     John Burgis was living in 1612; named John Burgis that did marry my Aunte Marye, in the will of John Glanvyle of Launceston.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     He married Mary Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, after 1666 at Lawhitton, CON, ENG.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     John Knight was born before 1646.
     He married Mary Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, on 30 October 1666 at Lawhitton, CON, ENG, Mary being of Launceston. 19 June 1666 also reported, but no location.

Alternate Names

     She was also known as Dyonysia Glanville. She was also known as Dennis. Her married name was Grylls. Her married name was Glubb.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Dyonis Glanville was born circa 1562 at ENG.
     She married William Grylls on 21 October 1578 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.
     She married Charles Glubb after 1602 this marriage must have taken place after the 1601 death of her first husband William Grylls/Grills.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     William Grylls was born circa 1518.
     He married Dyonis Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, on 21 October 1578 at St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, CON, ENG.
     He died in 1602.

Other information

     A survey made by the Launceston Corporation in the 1580s listed Sampson Grills as one of the largest property owners. His brother, William, in his will of 1602 left further lands - 'to my cousin [nephew] John Grylles of Lyncolnes Inn my customary lands in Dunheved alias Launceston, and other lands in Cornwall and Devon, excluding the ones in Calstock already mentioned. He also left over £200 in monetary bequests, so he was also a very wealthy man.
William, Sampson's brother, seems to have been a colourful character. By 1543 he was already established in Launceston with goods valued at £2. He was a wool draper by trade. In 1578, when he was nearly 60 years old, he married Dionys, daughter of John Glanville of Tavistock. She was aged about 16. She was described as being 'skilful in buying and selling of wares and merchandise,' so William after a while 'remitted the custody, order and government of his house and shop wares, merchandise and money to the value of 1000 marks or thereabouts, and divers servants and apprentices unto Dionys his wife, who divers years kept, ruled and governed the same with care and diligence'. He presumably then had time to pursue other ways of making
money, not always honourably.
In 1580 he was accused by John Bewes of attacking and assaulting him as he came out of church. William Grills allegedly had a gang of supporters with him. Apparently John Bewes was about to complete a successful action in the stannary court to establish his title to certain Launceston properties, and William Grills and his supporters had taken this 'amiss'. John Bewes could not find any friendly witnesses in the assault case and complained that his property action was now also failing since the witnesses had been intimidated by 'those well disposed towards Grills'. The outcome of the case is unknown.
In 1588, certain dubious actions by Dionys, William's young wife, resulted in eight years of litigation. On his return, from a trip William discovered several bales of cloth missing. His wife told him that she had given them to
Degory Hicks to sell, that he had sold them but had not given her the money. Hicks denied this when the matter was taken to court. However William suspected a fraud conspiracy and John Chaundler, in whose house Hicks had rooms, was interrogated in court. He was askedin court. He was asked whether Hicks and others 'did practise persuasion on the mind and affections of Dionys and set her love and affection on Degory Hicks', whether the group had conspired to murder William, whether he (Chaundler) had had a secret room built in his house and whether any of William's goods and money were ever in that room, whether Dionys had any knowledge of or gave her support to the alleged fraud or had given Degory Hicks any money or goods. Chaundler gave some evasive but revealing answers. Yes, Hicks had received goods from Dionys, had sold them and failed to give her the money. On his return William had failed to get a satisfactory explanation from Dionys, and had gone to Hicks to try to get the money, unsuccessfully. Because William himself was in debt, Dionys had tried to intervene but when she went to see Hicks he prevented her from returning to her husband for seven days. 'As a result Dionys' marital fidelity is now suspect though Hicks denies carnality'. Chaundler claimed that he had intervened to release Dionys.
The next part of the story is uncertain, but presumably William attempted to implicate Chaundler as the architect of the fraud and failed again. William continued to try to get the money back from Hicks ,in the courts of Launceston and Westminster, possibly in the end successfully. Meanwhile, because Chaundler had implicated Hicks but denied any complicity, he found himself the object of abuse from Hicks, Hicks's friends and the relatives of Dionys. He tried to get redress in the town court, but since the mayor was Hicks's brother and the recorder was John Glanville, Dionys's kinsman, the case somewhat naturally went against him. The abuse continued and Chaundler's trade declined, so he took his case to Westminster. Nicholas Glanville and Richard Wheaton denied any abuse or obstruction. Dionys was also in court, denying any complicity in the assaults and once again any complicity in the original fraud case. Her answers to the interrogation were recorded as follows: '[For] a long time after she married the said William Grills [she] did verye dutifullye and lovinglye behave herselfe towardes her said husband to the good lyking of her sayd husband and the good report of all her neighbours. And that she continued . . . . untill the complainant Oohn Chaundler] together with the said Degory Hicks . . . . . did most leudly seduce and allure her . . . . to consent unto many unlawful actions and practyses being so vyle that she . . . . thinketh in regard of modesty that it is verye unseemlye for her . . . . to disclose [them] unto this honourable court'. She begged not to be asked to make any further disclosures and asked for the case to be dismissed.
William Grills was also interrogated. He said that long ago he had forbidden Dionys to have any dealings with Chaundler, and Dionys would not be disobedient. Chaundler lost his case and was sent to Marshalsea prison himself. What happened to Hicks is not related.
An enormous amount of money must have been spent on all these lawsuits and an even more generous amount of lies must have been uttered by the many participants. William and Dionys separated and she returned to her family in Tavistock where she married again after William's death.
In 1599 William had a further brush with the law when he was accused by the Corporation of 'using false weights'. Once again the outcome is not known. The Corporation also rapped the knuckles of the mayor for allowing such
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...body of Alice sometime his wife begotten . . . . ' (a house and some fields) '. . . . if there is no issue from the said Alice to revert to my rightful heirs' There is a high probability that the wife of William Grylls Jnr . at that time was Alice Glanville, one of the six daughters of John Glanville of Tavistock, and the wording above suggests that the marriage may have taken place only shortly before William Grylls Snr's death in 1577.
However, here is where mystery sets in . In the Devon Visitation of 1620, Alice Glanville is shown as the sixth daughter of John Glanville and as having married as her second husband' Grills'. Alice's elder sister, Dionys, the fourth daughter of John Glanville, was the young lady of 16 who married in 1578 the elderly merchant of Launceston also called William Grills. If Dionys was 16 in 1578 and if Alice was indeed a younger sister, it would appear, somewhat unbelievably, that Alice was married for the second time in about 1577, when she may have been about 12 years old. It seems unlikely that the mediaeval practice of dynastic marriages of pre-pubescent children was carried on among the merchants of Elizabethan Tavistock, but not however impossible. Perhaps the printed version of the 1620 Visitation got the order of the daughters wrong. What however is certain is that astute Gryllses from both Tavistock and Launceston were making successful bids for the young daughters of the most wealthy merchant in Tavistock. Dionys and Alice's brother, Nicholas Glanville, mentioned 'my verye good frendeWilliam Grilles of Tavistock gentleman' in his will of 1598. There was, as has been suggested before, a strong link between the two families.
Extract from "Grylls and Grills: The story of a Cornish Clan...written by Richard G. Grylls...published 1999."

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Charles Glubb was born before 1580.
     He married Dyonis Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, after 1602 this marriage must have taken place after the 1601 death of her first husband William Grylls/Grills.

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Skirrett.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Margaret Glanville was born before 1558 at ENG; as named mother of two daughters in her father's will of 1580.
     She married John Skirrett before 1578 at ENG.
     She died before 1580; named deceased in the will of her father in 1580.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     He married Margaret Glanville, daughter of John Glanville and Thomazine Browne, before 1578 at ENG.