« The earliest account we have of the BUSBY family extends only to JOHN BUSBY of East Claydon in Buckinghamshire. In deeds and old pedigrees he is styled Yeoman, and Goodman John Busby, and a rich shepherd.x How he acquired the very considerable property which he possessed is not known. He purchased the estate at Marsh Gibbon of Richard Abraham, Sir Edward and Sir Henry Cary, in 1610; and that at Addington, in 1625, of Sir John Curzon of Waterperry.y He died the 11th of June, 1635, and was buried in the church at Addington.
These estates descended to his son, ROBERT BUSBY, ESQUIRE, who was a Barrister, and a Bencher of Gray's Inn ; who had two wives, Elizabeth Kendricke, whom he married in 1629, and, secondly, Abigail, the daughter of Sir John Gore, of Gilston in Hertfordshire: and, dying on the 15th of September, 1652, in the fifty-second year of his age, was likewise there buried.z He left three sons by his second wife, John, Robert, and William, and as many daughters, Hester, Elizabeth, and Abigail. .... »
Footnotes:
x Browne Willis's MSS. vol-21. folio 52.
y Browne Willis's Collections for Bucks, p. 1 13.
z Monument at Addington. »
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