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⁶ Surrey Record Office, QS 2/1/3, PP. 17. 121. Once again, a great debt is owed to Mr Walker, who has long been in possession of this information and who kindly allowed me access to his unpublished research. Mr Walker first drew attention to the possibility that Winstanley the Digger was living prosperously and respectably in Cobham until after 1670: ‘Cobham: manorial history’, Surrey Archaeological Collections, LVIII (1961), 70–1Google Scholar. I am grateful to Mrs Doughty of the Surrey Record Office for verifying the references to the quarter sessions order book. In 1661 James King, presumably the uncle of Winstanley's first wife, was a chief constable for Kingston hundred: Surrey Quarter Sessions Records, 1661–1663, ed. Jenkinson, H. and Powell, D. L. (Surrey Record Society, XIV; London, 1935), p. 82Google Scholar; Kingston Upon Thames Register of Apprentices, 1563–1713, ed. Daly, A. (Surrey Record Society, XXVIII; Guildford, 1974), no. 224Google Scholar; Surrey Wills, Part I (Surrey Record Society; III, London, 1915), p. 145Google Scholar.

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¹⁰ St George's Chapel, MS XI. M. 3, fo. 116.

¹¹ Ibid. fos. 111, 112, 113V; Surrey Wills, pp. 119, 146.

¹² Surrey Record Office, QS 2/1/3, p. 121. In 1664 Sutton was chief collector of the hearth tax for Blackheath and Wotton hundreds: Surrey Quarter Sessions Records, 1663–1666, ed. Jenkinson, and Powell, (Surrey Record Society, XVI; London, 1938)Google Scholar. For the local connexions of the Suttons see the wills of Thomas Sutton of Cobham, gentleman (2 Sept. 1650), Richard, Philips of Cobham, yeoman (17 12 1652)Google Scholar, and Anne Gibson of Cobham, widow (21 Apr. 1669): P.R.O., Prob. 11/227, fos. 134V–5, 230, fos. 146V-–7, 338, fos. 369V–70V. For the Fosters note the will of Martha Foster of Cobham, widow (17 Sept. 1661): P.R.O., Prob. 11/305, fo. 396V.

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