CP Addtion: Anne Whalesborough, widow of Sir William Moleyns
Chris Phillips
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Complete Peerage 9 (1936): 42 (sub Moleyns) indicates that William
Moleyns, Knt. (died 1429) was survived by his 2nd wife, Anne
Whalesborough, who married (2nd) Edmund Hampden. Anne reportedly left
a will dated 28 Feb. 1486/7 (P.C.C., 1 Milles) and "was buried in the
Grey Friars' church, London."
Curiously, the date of the probate of Lady Moleyns' will is not given
by the editor of Complete Peerage. The reason for this is explained
by the following record found in the Register of John Morton,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486-1500, Vol. 1, pg. 107:
"No. 333. Commission to Lady Eleanor Manyngham alias Hungerford,
daughter of the decease, to adminster the goods of Anne Molence,
widow, intestate, because her pretended testament was nt exhibited by
John Hampden and John Chambre, chaplain, the executors named in the
testament, and was not proved. Inv. by 7 June. Lambeth, 2 May 1489."
[Reference: Christopher Harper-Bill, Register of John Morton,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486-1500, Vol. 1 (Canterbury and York
Society, vol.75) (1987), pg. 107].
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This commission, dated 1489 - like the will itself, dated 1486/7 and
abstracted in Complete Peerage, vol. 9, p. 42, note i - implies a correction
to what's said about Eleanor in the article on Hungerford (vol. 6, p. 620,
621), namely, that she "is said to have d. in 1476". The authority for this
is Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. 4, p. 547, and the footnote goes on to mention a
monumental inscription at Stoke Poges. Instead, it appears she was living in
May 1489, but dead by the date of her 2nd husband's will (16 May 1499),
which provides for her soul.
Chris Phillips