Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameRichard Lybbe JP 
[40, 5th Series, Vol III, (1918-19), pp.2 & 3 (Oxon vis'n).], [17, 1500-1714, vol 3, p. 951], [94, Teddington Manor, ACC/1246/021], [56, Oxford 1669-75, Harleian pub 1993, Lybbe p. 9]
[40, 5th Series, Vol III, (1918-19), pp.2 & 3 (Oxon vis'n).], [17, 1500-1714, vol 3, p. 951], [94, Teddington Manor, ACC/1246/021], [56, Oxford 1669-75, Harleian pub 1993, Lybbe p. 9]Birthca May 1641
Baptism19 May 1641 [19]
Death12 Apr 1715
Burial19 Apr 1715, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxon [19, Whitchurch on Thames]
General1st s. Founded Goring Almhouses.
EducationQueen's Coll Oxford
FatherAntony Lybbe (1607-1674)
MotherMary Keate (-1692)
Spouses
FatherSir Thomas Tipping (1615-1693)
MotherLady Elizabeth Beckonshaw (-1698)
Marriage1672, prob. Whitfield, Northants [26, “1672: Ric Libb and Sophia Tippin: Whitfield, Northants”]
Notes for Richard Lybbe JP
Martin P-L writes:
RICHARD J.P., son of ANTONY 1641-1715
1641 Whitchurch Register of baptisms:
"1641 May 19 LYBB Richard s. Antony & Mary"
1658 matriculated at Queen's College (Oxon. lists)
1661 B.A., then student of Inner Temple (Foster's Inns of Court Register)
1672 married Sophia, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thos. and Eliz. Tipping of Wheatfield/Whitfield, Oxon.
Sophia's aunt, aged over 70, was beheaded by order of Judge Jeffreys, as recounted in the Diaries, pp.377-8. AP-L has Sophia's portrait. She lived only till 1682, after bearing him six children.
1675 J.P.
1685 defendant in various boundary disputes.
1690 bought Goring Priory/Manor from his Hulton brother in law, in exchange for £1787 plus paying off his creditors (PL III, 12).
1707 According to PL deeds, sold (together with his eldest son) just about everything: the manors of Hardwick, Purley, Elvington, plus eleven houses and over 1000 acres, to Richard Hawley and Henry Stevens.
1710 married Mary, daughter of Sir William Hill. They had no children.
Together with his son, Richard, he mortgaged Hardwick and all its appurtenances except Collins End, to his son in law, John Merrick.
1715 died. His will survives and is held by Oxon. C.C. In it he founded the Goring almshouses.
There is a monument to him on a pillar near the entrance at Whitchurch:-
Under the same stone with Antony Lybbe his father lies the body of Richard Lybbe of Hardwick Esq., a person of great piety and humility, who erected and endowed the almshouses at Goring. d. Apr. 12, 1715, aged 74.
Whitchurch Burial Register:
"1715 Apr 19 LYBB Richard, Esqre 'with affidavit' "
In her edition of the Diaries, Mrs Climenson recounts: Goring Spring, now little used, was reckoned good for ulcers, sore eyes, scorbutic affections. Mr Richard Lybbe, hearing complaints of water being sold, not from the spring, ordered every vessel to be filled and sealed with his arms, certain people to supply it, and limited the charge to 1d. a quart for attendance and sealing. Reading Mercury of 1724 gives a long list of persons cured.
Lawsuits:-
1664 v. Richard Blackall, re Streatley & Moulsford, Chan. Deps. pre 1714, Bridges C5 423/165
v. Purdue, Chan. Deps. 696/26
1712 Clarke v. Lybbe, Chan. Pro., Reynardson
1715 + Mary Lybbe v. Glynn (who had been pinching furze off his land and was ordered not to by Chancery) C33/334, pp.15,31
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From “Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting … Berks” by William Nelson Clarke, pub 1824, he was Sheriff of Berks in 1686.
The same book on p. 35 includes Lybbe in a list of arms of “families connected with the county but which lived previous to, or unnoticed in, the herald’s Visitations above mentioned”.
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He was one of the Berks Commisioners for seizing Recusant lnads, etc in 1675, from “Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 4, 1672-1675, pp. 787-805”:
22 July 1675: “Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Treasurer's Remembrancer to issue commissions to the following with instructions thereto attached for seizing two-thirds the lands, &c., of Recusants for the counties detailed, all ut supra, pp. 694-8, and as by the Act of 3 James I., there being several late convictions of Recusants estreated into the Exchequer from the said counties as follow : the commissions to be returnable as soon as possible and at latest by the morrow of St. Martin.
Co. Berks :Ut supra, p. 695, with the addition of Sir Richard Harrison, Kt. ; Edward Manfeild. Edward Fettiplace, John Harrison, John Deane, Thomas Holt, William Nelson, John Powney, Samuel Brightwell, William Kendrick, Edward Keate, Thomas Medlicott, and Richard Lybb. Esq.”
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RICHARD J.P., son of ANTONY 1641-1715
1641 Whitchurch Register of baptisms:
"1641 May 19 LYBB Richard s. Antony & Mary"
1658 matriculated at Queen's College (Oxon. lists)
1661 B.A., then student of Inner Temple (Foster's Inns of Court Register)
1672 married Sophia, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thos. and Eliz. Tipping of Wheatfield/Whitfield, Oxon.
Sophia's aunt, aged over 70, was beheaded by order of Judge Jeffreys, as recounted in the Diaries, pp.377-8. AP-L has Sophia's portrait. She lived only till 1682, after bearing him six children.
1675 J.P.
1685 defendant in various boundary disputes.
1690 bought Goring Priory/Manor from his Hulton brother in law, in exchange for £1787 plus paying off his creditors (PL III, 12).
1707 According to PL deeds, sold (together with his eldest son) just about everything: the manors of Hardwick, Purley, Elvington, plus eleven houses and over 1000 acres, to Richard Hawley and Henry Stevens.
1710 married Mary, daughter of Sir William Hill. They had no children.
Together with his son, Richard, he mortgaged Hardwick and all its appurtenances except Collins End, to his son in law, John Merrick.
1715 died. His will survives and is held by Oxon. C.C. In it he founded the Goring almshouses.
There is a monument to him on a pillar near the entrance at Whitchurch:-
Under the same stone with Antony Lybbe his father lies the body of Richard Lybbe of Hardwick Esq., a person of great piety and humility, who erected and endowed the almshouses at Goring. d. Apr. 12, 1715, aged 74.
Whitchurch Burial Register:
"1715 Apr 19 LYBB Richard, Esqre 'with affidavit' "
In her edition of the Diaries, Mrs Climenson recounts: Goring Spring, now little used, was reckoned good for ulcers, sore eyes, scorbutic affections. Mr Richard Lybbe, hearing complaints of water being sold, not from the spring, ordered every vessel to be filled and sealed with his arms, certain people to supply it, and limited the charge to 1d. a quart for attendance and sealing. Reading Mercury of 1724 gives a long list of persons cured.
Lawsuits:-
1664 v. Richard Blackall, re Streatley & Moulsford, Chan. Deps. pre 1714, Bridges C5 423/165
v. Purdue, Chan. Deps. 696/26
1712 Clarke v. Lybbe, Chan. Pro., Reynardson
1715 + Mary Lybbe v. Glynn (who had been pinching furze off his land and was ordered not to by Chancery) C33/334, pp.15,31
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From “Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting … Berks” by William Nelson Clarke, pub 1824, he was Sheriff of Berks in 1686.
The same book on p. 35 includes Lybbe in a list of arms of “families connected with the county but which lived previous to, or unnoticed in, the herald’s Visitations above mentioned”.
________________
He was one of the Berks Commisioners for seizing Recusant lnads, etc in 1675, from “Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 4, 1672-1675, pp. 787-805”:
22 July 1675: “Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Treasurer's Remembrancer to issue commissions to the following with instructions thereto attached for seizing two-thirds the lands, &c., of Recusants for the counties detailed, all ut supra, pp. 694-8, and as by the Act of 3 James I., there being several late convictions of Recusants estreated into the Exchequer from the said counties as follow : the commissions to be returnable as soon as possible and at latest by the morrow of St. Martin.
Co. Berks :Ut supra, p. 695, with the addition of Sir Richard Harrison, Kt. ; Edward Manfeild. Edward Fettiplace, John Harrison, John Deane, Thomas Holt, William Nelson, John Powney, Samuel Brightwell, William Kendrick, Edward Keate, Thomas Medlicott, and Richard Lybb. Esq.”
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Will notes for Richard Lybbe JP
Will of Richard Lybbe of Hardwick, Oxfordshire 18 May 1715 PROB 11/546