• General Notes

  married his cousin, dau of John Michel of Kingston Russel
  
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  Thomas D'Oyly, of London, Gent., who married his cousin Dorothy, dau. of John Michell, Esq. of Kingston Russell, co. Dorset, by Joanna his wife, youngest daughter of Sir Cope D'Oyly. He had been scarcely married a year when he was attacked with the small-pox (then a new and much dreaded disease), March 1674-5, which soon carried him off. He died quite a young man, and left Dorothy his wife with child. He delivered a nuncupative will, dated 23d March 1674-5, leaving his unborn child £2,000; reversion to his wife, whom he appointed sole executrix and residuary legatee,— That the unborn child did not survive seems certain; but Dorothy his widow proved his will, May 1675, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and married, secondly, very soon after, the Rev. John Owen, D.D., a man many years her senior, who had attended her husband in his last illness, and attested his will. This John Owen was the son of Henry Owen, Vicar of Stadhampton, and, being a person of high abilities and strong passions, attained a certain degree of distinction after entering the University of Oxford. He became bosom-friend of Oliver Cromwell, and preached up sectarianism till the Protector made him Dean of Christ Church, in 1650. But Owen was not satisfied with labouring as a churchman. He must also enter Parliament, and thus sat M.P. for Oxford in 1654, though he had been created Vice Chancellor of the University in 1652, and D.D. in 1653. His friendship with Cromwell, however, terminated before the Commonwealth, and he thus lost all his preferment at Oxford. He then retired to Stadhampton, but afterwards set up a church in London, where be preached, &c. till his death, at the age of 67, August 1683; when he was interred in Tyndall's Burial Place, near the New Artillery Ground, London.
  I. Dorothy D'Oyly, baptized at Hambleden 1631; died before 1634.

Details of John's family with Dorothy Michel