Willimus Hill

Personal and Family Information

Willimus was born about 1492, the son of Thomas Hill and Margaret Wilbraham. The place is not known.

He died in 1585 in Stoke On Tern, Shropshire, England.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Stylename: Hill, Parson Willimus, of Stokes [~1492-1585]

!Source: The Visitation of Shropshire, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, BY ROBERT TRESSWELL, SOMERSET HERALD, AND AUGUSTINE VINCENT, ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT OF ARMS;

Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. WITH ADDITIONA FROM THE PEDIGREES OF SHROPSHIRE GENTRY TAKEN BY THE HERALDS IN THE YEARS 1569 AND 1584, AND OTHER SOURCES. EDITED BY GEORGE GRAZEBROOK, F.S.A. AND JOHN PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A.,OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARR1STER-AT-LAW. PART I. LONDON: 1889. page 242.

Arms:* Harl. 1241.

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Quarterly : 1, Ermine, on a fesse salle a castle triple-towered

argent; 2, Salle, a lion rampant argent, crowned or, letween three crosses formee

fitchee of the second [Longslow] ; 3, Per pale or and argent, an eagle displayed

salle [Bird] ; 4, Gules, a chevron letween three pheons argent [Hill of

Buntingsdale].

Hugo de Wlonkeslow Hawheslowe [now Longslow].=j=. . . .

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Hugo Hull+ de Hull in com. Salop.=

Arms: Ermine, on a fesse sable

a castle triple-towered argent.

A

* Not given in Shrewsbury MS.

:Elianora filia

et cohaer.

Isabella fil. et cohseres

uxor Thomas Stuich

[Stuche or Styche].

t " Hill " throughout in Harl. 1241.

A

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Will’us Hull [1862].=p[. . . . Bunting of Buntingsdale.]

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Gruffithus Hull de Hull in co. Salop:

[and of Wlonksslowe]

=Margaretta soror Gruffithi Warren

de Ightfeld in co. Salop.

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Humfridus Hull vulgo Hill=Agnes fil. et cohser. Job's Bird consanguinia

de Buntingesdale.

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Thomas Hill filius tertius.=Margaretta fil. Thomse Wilbraham de Woodhey.

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Willimus Hill <<<< Willimus Hill, Cleric parson of Stokes

Clericus persona

de Stokes.

!Source: Stoke on Tern https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Stoke_on_Tern

Village in Shropshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History

Stoke on Turn was a substantial Domesday manor well-established by at least

the later 1000s. Roger de Lacy is recorded as holding it, and the presence of priest here in the 11th century suggest a church was already present and this was a principle manor for the de Lacys . There are records of a moat that is square, of significant scald, in the area of the church. This could be a lordly house of the 1200s/1300s.[1]

Church

The Anglican Church of St Peter, Stoke on Tern, has a Sunday service every other week and a Wednesday prayer meeting four times a month.[2] The church building and some concurrent and earlier features to be found in and around it are Grade II listed.[3][4] There is a war memorial listing the First World War victims of Stoke and Hodnet held in St Luke's Church, Hodnet.[5]

The Corbet Monument

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The Corbet Monument: this tomb manifests links of the parishioners of the church, the Genev Bible, Shakespeare's family and the play 'As You Like It'

One of the most important artifacts in the church is the Corbet family monument, which dates from the third quarter of the 16th century, and furnishes Stoke on Tern with connections to the family of William Shakespeare as well as the project to deliver the Geneva Bible.

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The heiresses of the publisher of the Geneva Bible, Alice Corbet, is in the church

The monument was raised to Reginald Corbet , a notable lawyer in the Tudor period, and his wife Alice Gratewood.

Alice was an heiress of her uncle Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, who published the Geneva Bible[6] and is considered the inspiration for the character Old Sir Rowland in As You Like It,[7] which is also understood to be inspired by this part of Shropshire, which is in on the edge of the Forest of Arden, the play's setting. These links to Shakespeare continue in the marriage of one of the daughters of the marriage represented in the tomb, when their daughter Elizabeth Corbett marries a son of the Arden family, of which Shakespeare's mother Mary is part.[8]

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It has been speculated that Rowland Hill is the inspiration for Rowland de Bois in As You Like It.

More specifically, Edward Arden of Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, was Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1575 and was the son of William Arden was a second cousin of Mary Shakespeare. In 1583, he came under suspicion for being head of a family that had remained loyal to the Catholic Church, and was sentenced for allegedly plotting against Elizabeth I. His son, Robert Arden also of Park Hall married Elizabeth Corbett , the great niece and heiress of Sir Rowland Hill and this alliance with important Protestant families was important in repairing the standing if the ancient Arden family.

Reginald held several Staffordshire and Shropshire manors, including Stoke.

Notable persons

William Hill, the priest of the parish in the middle 1500s, brother of Sir Rowland Hill, Geneva Bible publisher; possibly a royal chaplin.

Benjamin Whichcote , Puritan divine and 19th Provost of King's College, Cambridge, was born at Whichcote Hall, Stoke on Tern.[19]