• General Notes

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  Timothy D'Oyly, Esq. elder son and heir, was baptized at Hambleden, August 1582; and about 1603 (1st Jac. I.) married Mary, daughter and sole heir of John Saunders, lord of the manor of Palmoor (or Parmoor) in Hambleden parish, co. Bucks; of which lordship one Richard Saunders levied a fine to Timothy D'Oyly in 1603 (1st Jac. I.), and Palmoor thus passing into the D'Oyly family, became the chief seat of this branch, and continued so down to its extinction. Saunders of Bucks bore, "Per chevron argent and sable, three elephant's heads erased counterchanged;" and that branch of the family which was settled in Hambleden parish was closely allied to the Lanes, since of Badgemore House, co. Oxon.[650]—Succeeding his father in 1617, Timothy D'Oyly had livery of his lands, held in capite, Nov., 16th James I.[651] He himself lived usually at Stadhampton., both during his father's life-time and after his father's death, and thus resident there at the Oxfordshire Visitation in 1634, recorded his pedigree therein; when the Heralds allowed him to use the arms of the Barons D'Oyly of Hocknorton undifferenced.[652]—By indenture dated June 1637, Timothy D'Oyly demised all his estate at Hambleden to his son Robert D'Oyly, his heir apparent, for the term of forty years, at the yearly rent of 30l.; the said Robert D'Oyly and his brother-in-law Robert: Loggin of Idbury, co. Oxon., binding themselves to pay the said rent under a penalty of 800l.[653] This deed, however, produced great contention and litigation in the family.—Timothy D'Oyly made his will, May 1659, at Stadhampton, leaving all the property he was able to dispose of to his youngest son John D'Oyly and his (John's) wife and their children; and directed that the same was to be charged on the rent owing him by his son Robert for the Hambleden lands. He leaves to his sons-in-law Wilson and Morse, appoints Mary his wife executrix, and John Wise of Drayton, and Edward Wise of Stadham, overseers, and died soon after; but Mary his wife, the executrix, surviving him only a short time, administration, with will annexed, was granted, Dec. 1666, by the Prerogative Court of

Details of Timothy's family with Mary Saunders