1. Thomas Chaynie of Wp-Lambourne, made his will April 29, 1605. Bequests to the church, to the poor &c.; to his brothers Edward, John and William Chaynie, his godson Thomas Chaynie, the children of Lawrence Chaynie, viz. John, Dorothy, and Elizabeth. To Alice Cooper. Brother Lawrence Chaynie residuary legatee and executer.
Thomas Cheney^ Knight, bought the manor of Thornton, or Thornton Bridge, with lands there and in Norton Milby and Humberton and a third part of the manor of Letby; at Michalmas in the 27th year of Henry VIII [1535.] He settled upon his daughter "Frances Cheyney alias Jesper whom William Cheyney is about to marry," " the manors of Thornegum-bolde and Pauleholme, and 12 messuages with lands," &c. in 1547. William and Frances Cheyney sold land in Great Cowdon in Holderness [not dated].
