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GILES AND CHRISTOPHER ALLEYN
OF HOLYWELL.

THE name of Giles Alleyn has acquired
а fictitious interest because he let
13 April, 1576, to James Burbage, the
on
ground on which to build his "
Theatre,"
and because he resented so bitterly Cuth-
bert Burbage's action in carrying it away.
Seeing that he affected The Theatre'
so much, I worked out some points in his
biography, that I might better understand
the man with whom Burbage had to deal.
Other students of the period may also find
some interest in the details.

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The Visitations of Essex in 1612 and 1634 disagree somewhat concerning his family, and neither seems to be quite correct. Richard Alleyn of Thakstead, Essex, had a wife Agnes and three sons-John, a second unmarried-and Christopher. John became a knight and Lord Mayor of London in the reign of Henry VIII. and married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Giles Leigh of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey; Christopher Alleyn married her sister and coheir Agnes.

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The Visitation says that Christopher's sons
were Giles, Anthony, and Raffe; but it is
evident from a case given below that this
is an error. Agnes Leigh evidently brought
to her husband Leigh Court in Kent and
other lands. Christopher seems
been
to have
something in the City," for he was
fined for not holding the office of alderman.
His chief purchase was the manor of Holy-
well, its capital mansion, edifices, and
lands. (See Exchequer Bills and Answers,
Elizabeth, No. 369.) Henry VIII. had been
seised of the disused monastery of Holywell,
and granted it to Henry Webbe, Esq.,
gentleman, Porter of the King's Majesty's
Tower of London, for the sum of 1361., on
23 Sept., 36 Henry VIII.

This Henry Webbe, in consideration of a marriage to be solemnized between Sir George (then Mr.) Peckham, son of Sir Edmund Peckham, and Susan Webbe, promised that he would appoint trustees to hold the manor for the benefit of Henry Webbe himself while he lived, and on his death it should pass to the said George and Susan and their heirs, by a certain deed dated the last of February, 6 Edward VI. Thomas Mynd and Francis Darell, gentlemen, were the trustees appointed.

When the property came to George and Susan Peckham, they passed it, by a deed dated 6 Aug., 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, to Christopher Bumpstead, citizen and mercer of London, for 5331. 6s. 8d. ; but on the 1st of November of the same year he, by deed indented and enrolled in the Court of 600l., to Christopher Allen and Giles Allen, Chancery, sold it for the consideration of death of his father early in Elizabeth's and they were seised of it as by fee. On the reign, Giles, the surviving purchaser, entered into the full estate. 142/193 for Middlesex, 12 Jan., 5 Eliz. In the Subsidy Roll Giles Allen, gen., 677.; assessed 81. 16s. 8d.' (1563), I find entered : "Shorediche. Land. He was by far the largest landowner in the neighbourhood. The general opinion, therefore (based upon the way that the name of his wife was used in the Theatre litigation), that the property had come to Giles Alleyn through his wife, is proved to be incorrect. The use of her name in every document and lawsuit must only have become necessary under terms of some settlement when he married Sara, daughter of John Skory, Bishop of Hereford. This was some time after his succession, as his eldest son Samuel was born in 1566. Giles Alleyn was of a litigious disposition. His first suit began shortly after the death of his father.

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