Robert Foote was born 1553 in Shalford, Essex, England and died 27 January 1608.
He owned a small manor house along with some land in the town of Shalford in Essex.
He is called, "my sonne in lawe Robert ffoote, Citizen and ffishemonger of London" in the will of John Brooke, his father-in-law.
Will of Robert Foote:
(Robert Foote of Shalford, Essex, yeoman, 27 January 1608, proved 15 Feb 1608) "To the poor in the parish twenty shillings. to the poor in Wethersfield 20s. To my well beloved wife Joan, during her natural life, all such yearly rent as to me is reserved out of my lease of certain tenements which I hold for divers years yet enduring by the grant of Sir Robert Chester knight and lying and being in the town of Royston, the yearly rent whereof to me reserved is at this present eight pounds. I give her also one annuity of four pounds to be paid during her natural life by my son Robert. To my son James 5oF. To son Daniel 40L at four and twenty. The same each to sons, Nathaniel, Francis, and Josua at like ages. To daughter Elizabeth Foote 40L at day of marriage or at age of thirty. To son Joseph my lease and term of years in a certain hopground called Plomley which I hold by lease from Mr. Josyas Clarke and ---his wife. Other gifts to him. Certain household stuff to wife. Elizabeth Ormes my maid servant. To --Tibbet, wife of William Tibbett, 5s in recompence of her pains she hath taken with me. to Mr. Richard Rogers preacher of God his word 20s. The wife of George Elsing. Thomas Cott. To my son Robert my free tenement or mansion house wherein I now inhabit, with the land &c. and the stock of hop poles upon the hop ground, he to pay the legacies &c. The residue of my goods &c. to all my children. If it happen my daughter Mary Heewes to be departed then her part to be paid to her children. For the execution of this will I do ordain, nominate and appoint my well beloved son Robert Foote to be my sole executor and I do desire my well beloved brother John Foote of London grocer and my son in law John Hewes of Royston to be supervisors and assistants to my executors."
He married Joanna Brooke. She was born 18 June 1559 at Eastcheap, London, Middlesex, England and died 10 October 1634. She was the daughter of John Brooke and Elizabeth Whetman.
Their children were:
Mary Foote (born about 1584 in Shalford, Essex, England)
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