Family:Thomas Brinley and Anne Wase (1)

Thomas Brinley, "one of the auditors of the Revenue of King Charles the First and of King Charles the Second".

b. 1591, Exeter, Devonshire, England

d. 15 OCT 1661, Datchett, Buckshire, England

Burial: Church Cemetery at Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: Brinley, Richard

Mother: Reeves, Joanne

Spouse: Wase, Ann

Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire, 1847, V4, p441

In an account of Datchett are found the following inscription of Thomas Brinley-

He married Anne, youngest daughter of William Ware of Petworth in Sussex gentleman, who had issue by her 5 sons and 7 daughters.

There is one source which provides a tiny glimpse into the lives of these people: in 1626 Eton College held an inquiry into the will of the vicar of Datchet, because his widow was refusing to hand over a bequest the vicar was said to have made to the College. Richard and Rose Budd, together with Thomas Brinley and several other gentlemen from the village, attested to how the will was found concealed in the vicar's clothes when he died suddenly at the vicarage house. Auditor Budd stated that the vicar had made a will by his advice, sitting in an arbour in the garden of Budd's house in Datchet. All the witnesses had come running to the vicarage when he was taken ill, having been carried there by two men in a chair. Rose said that the other gentlemen found the purported will in his 'bosom' as they unloosed the sick man's cassock while she ran to fetch clean sheets and a warming pan to make up his bed. When she came back the papers were shown to her, laid on the window sill, and she gave them to the vicar's maid to pass onto his wife as she was told they were important. The outcome of the inquiry is unclear, but the circumstances could be seen as suspicious.

The main interest of this case is to show that by 1626 we have not only Richard Budd living in the village but also his clerk Thomas Brinley at least visiting if not actually living here with him. In 1647 Brinley's youngest child was baptised in the village church, all the others having been baptised in the 1630s and 1640s in London.

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   Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire, 1847, V4, p441

2.   Thomas Brinley, of Datchett, Bucks, in his will, 1661, mentions his sons Francis, Thomas and William, and the children of his dau. Grissell, wife of Nathaniel Silvester, "dwelling in New England in the partes of America in an island called Shelter Island; proved in 1661. [NEHGR 31:413]