Individual Notes
Note for:   Thomas Malet,   1417 - 9 Jul 1501         Index

Individual Note:
     -married 1st to Joan Wadham, 2nd to Elizabeth ______, and 3rd to
Isabella Courtenay
Inherited Charlinch and Corypool, Enmore, advowson of Charlinch, manor os Sutton Mallet, manor of Lidiard Malet or Punchardon, one half manor and advowson of West Quantockshead of Hugh Luttrell, burgage in borough of Stowell.

43 2 docts. 1491 Conveyance and identical copy of the same. John Sydenham of Brympton, son and heir of William Sydenham, esqr., to Richard Blewett. One cottage and 5½ acres in Cothey and named lands in Kydesford. Witnessed: Hugh Luttrell, kt., Thomas Malet, esqr, George Stukely. Dated: 4 September 1491. Seals: Missing in each case.

PAPERS OF THE NEWTON FAMILY Series Deeds relating to manor of West Harptree Tilly. Repository Somerset Record Office Level Item RefNo DD\SPY/16/9 Title Letter of attorney to deliver seisin for grant [See DD/SPY 16/8 above], from Thomas Bayes to William Cokkys and John Lacy. Description Witnesses: by [?John] Fitziames, Nicholas Seyntlo, Thomas Malet, esquires, John Taverner and John Drawe.
Seal missing. Date 18 Mar 1468

Individual Notes
Note for:   Thomas Malet,    -          Index

Individual Note:
     -died young

Individual Notes
Note for:   William Malet,   1023 - ABT 1071         Index

Connected by marriage with William lst. Uncle to King Harold's wife
Elfrida. Buried King Harold after Battle of Hastings.

Individual Notes
Note for:   William Mallet,   1712 - 2 Apr 1776         Index

Christening:   
     Date:   1712
     Place:   Meavy, Devon, England

Burial:   
     Date:   2 Jun 1776
     Place:   Iddesleigh, Devon, England

Individual Note:
     -of Ash and Gratton Meavy.
Inscription in tower of Church of St. James, Iddesleigh "In Memory of William Mallet Esq. of Ash who was buried near this place the 2nd of June 1776, aged 70. Also of his eldest son William Mallett, buried the 5th of May 1781, aged 35."

Individual Notes
Note for:   William Mallet,   Chr. 28 Apr 1746 - 4 May 1781         Index

Christening:   
     Date:   28 Apr 1746
     Place:   Iddesleigh, Devon, England

Birth Note: Source:     170407

Individual Note:
     -inherited Ash 1775 but died young
ABBOTS BICKINGTON Colsworthy and Youldon, including FILE [no title] - ref. 178 B/M/T16 - date: 1777 [from Scope and Content] Abstract of Title of William Mallet, Esq. to moiety of fee simple of Youldon. FILE [no title] - ref. 178 B/M/T17-18 - date: 1777 [from Scope and Content] Lease and release William Mallet of Ash in Iddesleigh, esq., to Thomas Reed of Abbots Bickington, yeoman.

MALLETT, William of Ash.
Date of Will 29 March 1781
Proved 26 July 1781.

March 29 1781. This is the 1ast will of William Mallet
of Ash Co. Devon, Esqr.

My body to be interred in the most private manner at the
disposition of my executor.

To my mother, and my sisters Jane, Mary Anne Amy Julia
Gertrude and Charlotte, and my brothers Richard and James
£10 each chargable out of my estate called The Pitts and the
Pound House and Orchard adjoining and my tenement called
Stableford moor in the parish of Hatherleigh.

To my sister Anne Mallet an annuity of £22 payable out of my
lands called Ash in Iddesleigh.

The same annuities of £22 to my sisters Any & Gertrude for
100 years, the payment to begin after the death of my mother.

To John Marth Woolcombe, of Ashbury Devon, and John Bebbew
of Barnstaple surgeon all my lands in Devon except the above
named Pitts, Poundhouse, Orchard and Stableford moor in trust,
to the use of my brother Hugh Mallett his heirs and assigns,
and in default of such heirs for the use of my brother Richard
Mallet and his heirs. And in default of such issue to my
brother James Mallet and his heirs; and in default of such heirs
to my sisters Jane, Mary, Anne Julia Gertrude & Charlotte, to be
tenants in common, the child, or children of any them dying
to be their mothers heir.

And in default of such heirs to the trustees for the use
of my cousin Hugh Mallet who was the eldest son of my uncle
Hugh deceased, and after the death of my cousin Hugh Mallet
and his heirs to the use of William Mallet second son of my
cousin Hugh during his life, and after his decease to the use
of the first and every other son of the said William Mallet.
And after their decease to the children of my sister Jane
Mallet or in default to the issues of sisters Mary, Anne
Amy, Julia, Gertrude and Charlotte,

But it is my express will that the children of my brother
James and the issues of my sisters shall not take any benefit
under this will unless they take the surname and arms of Mallet.
And it shall be lawful for my brothers Hugh, Richard and
James to grant and settle my Barton of Grapton in the parish
of Meavy, now in the occupation of Joseph Northmore, and my
lands in Meavy Town now in the possession of Richard Bowdon
unto the use for life of any women they may marry as their
jointure with the restriction that there shall be only one
jointure at a time.

To my brother Hugh Mallet all my lands called the Pitts,
Pound House , Orchard and Stableford moor subject to the
payments of the several legacies here mentioned.

I give to my mother the use of the furniture in the house
where she is now living in Great Torrington.

All the remainder of my brother Hugh he to be my sole
executor

William Mallet

(With seal of Mallet arms)

Mary Read
Rich. Rowe
Thos. Hutchenson

Witnesses

Proved by Hugh Mallet at Great Torrington
July 26 1781

(Cresswell 1940)
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple

for more information see www.igs.net/~rhmallett/

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