The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . and last wife, to sowdissension amongst them and to alienate the fathers affectionsand property from Edward, his eldest son and heir. The estrangement had its inception, to all appearances, inthe fathers fourth marriage; it spread itself over a consid-erable period of time, reaching its culmination in his tes-tamentary dispositions, its logical sequence in the litigationwhich followed his decease. The beginning of the year 1616,new style, saw it at its height. By this time Richard Lincoln— born, in all likelihood, prior to the outbreak of Ketts re-bellion in 1
The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . and last wife, to sowdissension amongst them and to alienate the fathers affectionsand property from Edward, his eldest son and heir. The estrangement had its inception, to all appearances, inthe fathers fourth marriage; it spread itself over a consid-erable period of time, reaching its culmination in his tes-tamentary dispositions, its logical sequence in the litigationwhich followed his decease. The beginning of the year 1616,new style, saw it at its height. By this time Richard Lincoln— born, in all likelihood, prior to the outbreak of Ketts re-bellion in 1549—began to feel the weight of years. Whetherconscious of it or not, he fell far more under the influence ofhis last wife. For a matter of nearly two decades he had beenmore or less under her thumb, and her machinations were Bird of Witchingham bore: Argent, a cross patonce between four martletsgules, a canton azure; and for crest: Out of a coronet a demi-greyhound salientproper. * Registers of Swanton Morley. See A FAMILY QUARREL 19 now to produce the fruit she desired to pluck for herself andher children at the expense of Edward Lincoln, her stepsonthrice removed. On the 3d of January, 1616, Richard Lin-coln sat himself down in his house at Swanton Morley and made and declared his last will and testament, being then, praysed be Almightie God, of goode mynde and ! the pious asseveration. Neither in that will, nor in thecodicil which he appended to it on the 2d of February, somethree years later, did he once remember his eldest son to theextent of a shilling piece. This lapse of memory is the more remarkable, not to saysignificant, in view of what he does call to remembrance inthe writing of this most human document. While the heirof his body is ignored, that body itself is reverently consignedto the earth, to be buried in the church of Hingham, inthe midle Alley there. ^ A legacy of ten shillings is left tothe church for his interment in that honou
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