• General Notes

  Francis D'Oyly, who was baptized at Stadhampton, 25 July, l613; apprenticed to a merchant of the city of London about 1627, and not out of his apprenticeship in 1633. In 1634 the Oxon. Visitation describes him as "of London, merchant."—He resided in St. Martin's, Cornhill, and about Whitsuntide (April) 1643, married Jane Wright, of London, spinster, niece of John Wright, Esq. Clerk to the Parliament, and granddau. (probably through his son Lawrence) of John Wright, Esq. of Wright's Bridge, Essex, by Bennett, his second wife, dau. of Lawrence Green, of London, merchant. This Wright family recorded its pedigree and arms, "Azure, two bars argent, in chief three leopards' faces or," at the London Visitation 1634, and was raised to the rank of baronet in 1660. —Francis D'Oyly obtained a good portion by his wife, but falling sick six months after his marriage, died s.p. æt. 30, in Nov. 1643, having (according to his widow's statement) delivered a nuncupative will leaving the whole of his property to his wife; who thereupon possessed herself of it, and took out administration in the Bishop of London's Court, 21 Nov. 1643. It was disputed, however, by his brothers Robert and Charles; and in the following year, May 1644, they had a Chancery suit with her on the subject.[33

Details of Francis' family with Jane Wright