General Notes

Note: He owned a small manor house along with some land in the town. Robert was the father of Robert Foote of Shalford, and the Grand Father of Nathaniel Foote the Settler. He had at least four sons. John Foote died before 18 Jul 1558 when the undated will of John Foote of Royston, Cambridgeshire, England, tallow chandler was probated (PCC 34 noodles; George McCracken, "Nathaniel Foote's English Relatives" in The American Genealogist 1977 53: 193, hereafter McCracken; Janice Greene Valore, "More on Nathaniel Foote's Ancestors" in The American Genealogist (April 1978, 99, hereafter Valore) His will revealed that he had a wife named Helen, sons Robert and John, and daughters Aves or Avis (Alice) and Elizabeth. The will also alluded to the testator's brother Foote, first name not stated and his two older children. He left to the church of Royston, 20s; to wife Helen, all lands and tenements in Royston for life; and L80 to be divided among all the children; to servant Maud Smythe L6/13/4 to her marriage; L3 that my brother Foot oweth to his two eldest children; to wife's brother Richard Warren the younger and to her uncle John Jenawaye of Stoone, 40s each; to wife the rest; to son Robert a goblet, feather bed and bedding; to son John Foot a silver salt, feather bed and bedding; to Aves Foote and Elizabeth Foote, daughters, each three of the best spoons, bed and bedding; all the remainder to wife named executrix; witness William Meede, citizen and grocer of London; John Jenaway, Nicholas Warreyn of Bassingbourn and Richard Warreyn of Bassingbourn.