William Ayliff - Patron of St. Mary's 1679
William Aylif was Patron of St. Mary Belchamp Walter, 1679.
He is listed on the Church Guide as a co-patron with
William R.
The King at this time was James II.
The next patron listed in the Church Guide
was "The King" in 1723, this was George I
who was on the throne from 1714 until 1727. In the time between these cited partons we have
William and Mary (1689) and Queen Anne (1702).
William Ayliff was a Royalist
According to Wikipedia:
William was the eldest son of Sir Benjamin Ayloffe and his second wife, Margaret, the fifth daughter of
Thomas Fanshawe.
He was born on 3 December 1618.[1]
Like his father he supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was a colonel of a regiment at
the siege of Colchester. On the death of his father in 1662 he inherited the family estates and baronetcy.
He died in 1675, and was buried at Braxted. As he died without any surviving children, Benjamin,
his younger brother, inherited the baronetcy
1679 was the year that Oliver Raymond, the Protectrate Parliamentarian, died.
William, the second son of St.Clere Raymond , brother of John Raymond (II) inherited the estate in 1720
on the death of John Raymond (III) and died in 1732.
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The Seige of Colchester
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The siege of Colchester occurred in the summer of 1648 when the English Civil War reignited in several areas
of Britain.
Colchester found itself in the thick of the unrest when a Royalist army on its way through East Anglia to
raise support for the King, was attacked by Lord-General Thomas Fairfax at the head of a Parliamentary force.
The Parliamentarians'
initial attack forced the Royalist army to retreat behind the town's walls, but they were unable to bring
about victory, so they settled down to a siege. Despite the horrors of the siege, the Royalists resisted
for eleven weeks and only surrendered following the defeat of the Royalist army in the North of England at
the Battle of Preston (1648).
King George I
Wikipedia says:
George I 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain
and Ireland from
1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698
until his death
in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover as the most senior
Protestant descendant of his great-grandfather James VI and I.
