• Born: 1641, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, England
• Christened: 19 May 1641, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, England ¹
• Married: 1672, Whitfield, Northamptonshire, England ²
• Died: 12 Apr 1715, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, England ³
• Buried: 19 Apr 1715, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, England ⁴

  Research Notes:

Mortgage by demise for 1,000 years, 8 Sep 1688. ⁵

Parties:

1a) Griffith Creswell of Whitchurch, yeoman 1b) Henry Creswell of Whitchurch, yeoman, father of 1a.
2) Richard Lybbe of Hardwick, esq. Property: Messuage in Whitchurch called Beaches and lands appertaining. Consideration: £800.

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Receipt, 3 Dec 1691. ⁶

Parties:

1) Griffin Creswell of Whitchurch, yeoman
2) Richard Lybbe of Hardwicke, esq. Consideration money of £1,100 for purchase of Beaches farm, Whitchurch.

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Counterpart mortgage by demise for 99 years, 24 Jun 1695. ⁷

Parties:

1) Richard Lybbe of Hardwicke, esq
2) John Grace of Elmington, Goring, yeoman. Property: Messuage in Whitchurch called Beaches and lands appertaining. Consideration: £500.

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Mortgage, 1713. ⁸

Parties:

1. Edward Hill of Todington, esq., son and heir of Sir William Hill of Todington, kt. deceased.
2. Thomas Evelyn of Amersden, Oxfordshire, gent., administrator of father Arthur Evelyn of London, merchant deceased, one of trustees of marriage settlement of Sir William Hill.
3. Richard Lybbe senior of Hardwicke, Oxfordshire, esq., and his son and heir Richard Lybbe junior (husband of Mary Hill, daughter of Sir William Hill).
4. Thomas Walker of Tilehurst, Berks., clerk.

Premises: moiety of manor of Todington with mansion house, 118½a. of land in Southfield, Water Breach Close (15a). 52a. land dispersed in North and South Fields belonging to Combs Farm, Newington Meads (30a) by River Thames, 35a. in North Field behind mansion house, 38a. land lying dispersedly in Todington common fields, 2 messuages in Tedington occupied by John Slaughter and William Job, orchard (5a) in South Field in occupation of Alexander Cooke; also rectory of church of Todington; all previously subject to marriage settlement recited below.

Recitals: marriage settlement 17 June 1682 between Sir William Hill, Ann Evelyn and others, whereby trustees were appointed, to whom premises were assigned for term of 500 years, to raise £2,000. on behalf of (1) after death of Sir William Hill and wife, as a marriage portion for any daughter; marriage between Richard Lybbe junior and Mary Hill.

Consideration: £1,000. from (4) to Richard Lybbe junior as part of said marriage portion.

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Under the same Stone with
Anthony Lybbe His Father
lies the Body of Rich^d. Lybbe of Hardwick, Esq^r.
a Person of great Piety, and
Humility, who erected, and
endowed the almshouses
at Goring.
He died April 12, 1715,
Aged 74. ³

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Abstract of the Will of Richard Lybbe the Elder of Hardwick in the County of Oxon, Esquire, written 15 Dec 1714, proved 18 May 1715. ⁹

Gives to his son Richard Lybbe and to his son-in-law Doctor John Merrick during the lifetime of his son Charles Lybbe, his tenement farm and lands in the parish of Benson alias Bensington in co. Oxon called Goulds, in trust, to receive the yearly rents and profits and pay the same to his son Charles Lybbe. Following the death of his son Charles, he gives the same to his grandson John Merrick, son of the said Doctor John Merrick.

Gives an annuity of £40 over eleven years to his grandson John Merrick. If his grandson should die within that time, he gives the same to his son-in-law the said Dr. John Merrick for the benefit of his other children.

Gives an annuity of £32 to his sister Dorothy Lybbe for the term of her natural life, to be paid to her out of his tenement farms and lands called Quarlys and Lady Grove in the parish of Goring in co. Oxon. After the death of his sister he gives the profits of said tenement farms to his son Charles Lybbe at the rate of £20 per annum for the term of his natural life.

He has lately built tenements in Goring to be turned into almshouses for four poor old men, two from Goring and two from the parishes of Whitchurch and Checkenden in co. Oxon. As such he gives these tenements to the ministers and churchwardens of Goring along with an annuity of £26, to be paid out of his tenement farm called Beaches in Whitchurch.

All the rest of his goods, chattels, real and personal estate he gives to his son Richard Lybbe, appointing him sole executor of his last will and testament.

(Signed)

Witnesses: Virgin Gunter, Charles Sharp, Moses Burley