William Penn

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁵⁸⁰
William Penn of Minety was a yeoman living at Penn's Lodge, a "genteel, ancient house," in Glouestershire adjoing Witlshire. In his will of 1 May 1590, he mentions that he had one son, also named William, who had already be deceased and survived by his widow named Margaret. William and Margaret's children are also named in this will. George is named as the eldest son, along with the other children, Giles, William, Marie, Sara and Susanna.

William directs that his his "body be buried in the parish church, chancel or churchyear of Minetie. There was a monumental stone in the chancel near the south door of the chuch with the inscription, "William Penn dyed the 12 of March in the year of our Lord 1591." According to the rector of the church in 1890, the stone had, "quite disappeared." For a yeoman of moderate estate, this is sign of his social distinction to have memorial tablet within the parish church.

~The family of William Penn, pp. 5-7

• Background Information: ⁵⁷²
William Penn's name shows up on the Subsidy Rolls in around 1550. The last time it is omitted from the aound 1591/92. The great, great grandfather of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, lived in a "genteel ancient house, on an estate in Minety. His property in the 17th century was estimated at 100 pounds per annum. The original "Pen's Lodge" was made of wood and thatch and burned down in 1866.

~Further light on the ancestry of William Penn, pp. 12-13

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁹⁵
William Penne of Minety was the son of John Penne. William showed up on the Gloucester Lay Subsidy Rolls of 36 and 37 Henry VIII. He was assessed thirty thirteen shillings in 1544/6 [J. Henry Lea, "Genealogical Gleanings, NEHGR, v.54, 1900, p. 326] On 5 Feb 1547/8, one richard Andrewes of Hales, in Gloucestershire, graned to "William Penne, yoman" of Minety, a messuage (close to 40 acres) of land in Minety, and the moity of croft, as well as one acre, three roods of land in the tenure of one John Rydeler. In additon to this holding, he was taxes six shillings on personalty worth six pounds on the Subsidy Roll of 2-3 Edvard VI (1548-1550). Ten years later, the roll of 2 Elizabeth *, he was listed as being taxes in 1660 on good now worth eight pouds. By 1594, 67 Elizabeth I, the name Penn is missing, bearing out that his death took place on 12 Mar 1591/2. William was buried before the altar in the Minety Church recorded his death.

William Penne's will, dated 1 May 1592, and proved 21 April 1592, he names he names the children of his deceased son, William Penn, as Giles, William, Maria, Sara and Susanna Penn. He bequeathed twenty pounds apiece when they came of age, or at the time of their marriage. To the widow of his son William, Margaret, he left an annuity of ten pounds so long as she "keep herslf sole and chaste and unmarried." If she married again or led an unchaste life, she was to receive twenty pounds. As his heir and sole executor of his will he named his grandson George Penn, eldest son of his deceased son William. George was to receive, after debts and legacies were paid, the residue of his estate, "moveable and unmoveable." This William Penne mentions his daughter, Anne Greene amd jer daigjter Elizabeth Green in his will as being given each a heifer.

"The Family of William Penn," The Pennsylvania, Genealogical Magazine, pp. 71-72