BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “Observe the moderation of this family, that hathe continued thear patrimony for almost 400 yeares without encrease or diminution”

Regarding Richard Whitlock (died 1556), father of the John Whitlock (1509-1589) to whom the manor of Beches at Wokingham in Berkshire came from his brother William (died 1584), Richard’s grandson Sir James Whitlocke states in his book Liber Famelicus,[1]