- Richard Gittins the 3rd, marryed
with Margery the daughter of Francis Peplow, a wealthy farmer in
Fenemeare - Tenant to Sir Richard Newport, father of the now Earle
of Bradford. This Richard the 3rd was of good account in his time
but hee was too sociable and kinde hearted: and by strikeing hands in
suretyship, hee much dampnifyed himselfe" and family. Hee did
not at all derogate from the charitable, meeke and comendable moralls
of his father.
Conveniens homini est, hominem servare voluptas,
Et melius milla quaeritur ante favor. Ovid de ponto, lib 2.93
Hee was somewhat faire ofcomplection and his wife was very blacke
(our English proverbe says that a blacke woman is a pearle in a faire
man's eye.) Hee had 7 children, 5 of them were of his complexion
and those are all dead.
'The History of Myddle, Richard Gouth, (London: Penguin Books '
'An English Rural Community Myddle, David G. Hey'
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