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beth; to the children of Mr. Gurrey; to my late sister Righte's son and his .sister, Marie Laighton, of Fleet, County Lincoln. To my half sister married to Bates, of Woodford, (a sorry fellow) and her children; to cousin Lewes Latham and his wife; to cousin Symon Latham and his wife; to cousin Henry Freeman, a ring that was his father's; to my servants Henry Blewett, Bridgett Lylliman, and Katharine Potter; my sometime servants Jeffery, widow Gibbons, Alice Smith, Ann Worshipp, Elizabeth Collington, Edward Good and his wife; to my neighbor Mr. Bridges; to the schoolmasters of my schools in Oundle, Barnwell, Hemington and Warton, to wit: John Parker, Thomas Taylor, Jr., William Wells and William Hull; to Sir Edward Mountague's wife and his three children, his father Sir Edward Mountague, of Bowton, who gave me my parish; to the poor of Benefield in Oundle, in Brigstocke, in Barnwell St. Andrews, in Barnwell, All Saints, in Polbrooke, in Ringsted, in Pi ton in Higham ferrys, and in Rushden where I was brought up; he makes mention of "my late wife deceased"; and left a legacy to the poor children of Brigstocke "where I was born," and mentions a house called "town house in Brigstocke, which I inherited from my  father, he giving his lands to my younger brother" (not named).

                                                                                                                     Signed N. LATHAM.

Executor: Mr. William Worthington M. A.

Witnesses: William Worthington, Thomas Taylor, Jr., William Hull (mark) and William Warner.

The following is a description of the monument of Rev. Nicholas Latham as published in (144, Vol. III) "A monument of Raunds stone painted; at the top are these arms: Or, on a chief indented azure three roundlets gules. Crest: An eagle standing on a cradle or, therein a child proper. On the black marble tablet is engraved:

" Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Latham, borne in Brigstock grete parke, being the sonne of John Latham, gentleman keeper of the said parke which Nicholas was parson of this church onlie, by the space of fiftie and one yeares having no other dignity or lands or goods left him by his ancestors, during which time he diligentlie fedd his flock with spiritual and bodily food. Hee builded two hospitals,.one in Barnewell for 14 poore people, and one in Oundle, for 18 poore widows. Hee founded five free schools for yonge children, one in Barnwell, one in Oundle, one in Heming­ton, one in Weeklie, and one in Brigstock and gave mani other charitable gifts, as charitable exhibition to two schollers in Cambridge; repayr of bridges and highways relief to such as have losses & yearlie clothing to 45 poor children. All which doe amount to the Valew of three hundred pounds by the year forever. When he was 45 years old, he married Marie Foster, the daughter of Henrie Foster of Burwast (Burwash) in Sussex, Yeoman, by whome he had one sonne which died an infant. This worthi pastor departed this life the 4 daye of August in the year of his age 72 Anno Domini 1620."

This monument is in the Church of Barnwell All Saints.

II. Daughter, of John Latham, married Francis Margitts, by whom she left issue: Francis Richard, Joane and Elizabeth.

Daughter, of John Latham, married a Righte (or Wright) and had issue a son, and a daughter Marie, who married a Laighton, of Fleet, Lincolnshire.

John Latham, Jr., of Brigstock, son of John and Joan, of whom hereafter.

Maurice Latham, of Brigstock, son of John and Joan.

Thomas Latham, the younger son of John and Joan, mentioned in the will of Rev. Nicholas Latham to whom his father left all his lands. He was the defendant in the suit by Thomas Montagu his stepfather.

Daughter Latham, d. of John and Joan. She married a, Rates, of Woodford, and is named in Nicholas Latham's will as his half sister.