The Minor Family of Somerset

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Curate Of Coley
sometime "Curate" of Coley
from Vicar Favour and his Times page 91
1616 Octob: 12 Mr. Jeremy Gibson minster de Coley virbonus et c
ocionator dilietissimus Art Mag.
A good man and most diligent minister. Oliver Heywood in his ac
count of the crates of Coley says of him:-
"The next that succeeded was one Mr. gibson, a godly man and a
n able minister,who was tabled at the Upper Briar, and afterwar
ds did marry his landlady, old Robert Hemingway's wife, but live
d not long after that. He left some plateto the chapel that ha
th his name upon it, yet forthcoming, with a great silver cup, g
ilt with gold, int he hands of Mr. Joseph Furnesse, living in Ov
enden.
Samuel Whitley of Shelf, bequeathed him 10 pounds in 1611; Jan
e Crowther, the benefactress, his wife's siter, left him other 1
0 pouns in 1613, and in 1614, he was a legatee for 5 pouns in th
e will of Richard Royd of Northowram chapman. In 1613, Abm. Til
letson of the Fold in Shipden, Yom., appointyedhis wife Sara
, his executirx. and his brother in law, Mr. Jeremie Gibson ofN
orthowram, the guardian of his children, Willia, Abrahm, and Hen
ry Tilletson. Jeremy Gibson of Overbrea in Northowrman, clark
e and Mr. of Artes, madehis will 9th October 1616, proved 20t
h may 1617, and appointed his wife Edith, his executrix. He lef
t ot his mother 5pouns, to his brother Richard 15 pounds, and t
o the children of his brother Samuel (living) 15 pounds to the c
hildren of his brother in law Humfrey Holden 15 pounds and the l
ike sum to hissister Sara Tilletson, widow. Her ordered Windyb
anke in Southowram, which he had given on the 11th September t
o Thomas Rawlyn of Overbrea, son of John Rawlin of Kighley to b
e sold and all proceeds above 100 to go to the said Thomas Rawli
n.