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WILLYS, (WILLIS), Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (1612-1701), of Fen Ditton, Cambs.
of Fen Ditton, Cambs.
WILLIS
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WILLYS (WILLIS), Sir Thomas (1612-1701), of Fen Ditton, Cambs.

Will
admon. 26 July 1705.PROB6/81, f. 111v.
Estates
in 1625 inherited the manor of Fen Ditton, Cambs. which had been bought for £3,904 in 1606;W.K. Clay, A Hist. of the Par. of Horningsey (Camb. Antiq. Soc. vii), 19. sold manor of Ball’s Park, Herts. 1637;RCHM Cambs. ii. 53. bought lands in the Great Level, Cambs. 1657;Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns ed. F. Willmoth and E. Stazicker (Cambs. Recs. Soc. xxiii), 117. bought manor of Histon, Cambs. 1658;VCH Cambs. ix. 96-7. bought advowson of Histon St Andrew, Cambs. for £1,500, 1658;Cambs. RO, L.11.128. estates worth £1,000 p.a. 1660;Burke Commoners, i. 688. assigned estates to Ralph Hare to use of himself, his wife and his son John Willys, 4 Sept. 1683.Cambs. RO, L.11.79.
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