q.4. John of Langley in Durham, geb. 01/11/1564 x psh of Branspelt met Bridget LYNSEY, d.v. Edward Lynsey of Selby co Norfolk, wed van ..... Frere of Clare co Suffolk.
John was die seun van Francis Wortley en Mary Swift.
John was die seun van Francis Wortley en Mary Swift.
The
Freres of Clare are the only family which seems likely to have been in any way
connected with the other Suffolk Freres. If there was any connection, it must
have been at an early date, for the wills of the Clare Freres go back as far as
1516, and these appear to be the same Freres who had lived at Mildenhall in the
14th and 15th centuries. No arms are recorded in connection with the Clare
family; but the Fryers of Harlton, in Cambridgeshire, who were the descendants
of a John Frere, of Balsham in Cambridgeshire (very near Clare), who died in
1510, seem to have recognised a relationship; for a John Fryer, M.D., of
Harlton, whose will was proved 21st Nov. 1672 (Prin. Prob. Reg.), left a legacy
to John Frere of Worth, brother of Edward Frere of Finningham and Wickham
Skeith.
(https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sfreer/scotfrer.html)
(Foster, Joseph ed.:. Pedigrees recorded at
the visitations of the county palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy
king of arms in 1557 by Richard St. George, Norroy king of arms in 1615 and by
William Dugdale, Norroy king of arms in 1666. 1887, London)
