Bpt as “s. of Ellis Bartlett, gent. & Mary Bartlett”124 He gets a legacy in his grandmother Anne (Duke) Barlett’s 1653 will: To my grandchild John B, the Profitts of Woodhouse liveing till there be moneys enough raised to buy the ffee of seaside living, and then Woodhouse to return to my son Ellis B..237
He must have died young for his younger brother’s daughter Mary (STUCKEY) to become the sole heir of the Bartletts of Hole.
There is no corresponding entry in the burial register, but could the following partly indecipherable floor-slab inscription refer to him?
“. . . Bartlett of Hole / [Brans]Combe . . . 6 day of May / Anno Dom.
1663. / One short sleepe past / He wakes eternally / Then death shall
be no more / But death shall die. /” 144