STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 53 IBBE1zTON John Galpin of Ibberton, gent., son of John Galpin and his wife, the daughter of John Chapman, born 1650, owning extensive property at Woolland, Ibberton, and Hazelbury Bryan married the daughter and heiress of Elizabeth Sydling of Ibberton and had three children John, Robert, and Hannah. The eldest son John married 20th Oct. 1657 at Milton Abbey Mary the only child and heiress of John Gale or Gael, who left her his property at Lytchett Minster, Lytchett Matravers, and Sturminster Marshall, near Poole. However, the year after the marriage John Galpin began legal proceedings in the Court of Chancery against the estate of the deceased Gale. John Galpin died and was buried at Lytchett 29th March 1677, leaving a grown-up daughter Sarah, married to Thomas Boyd of Hazelbury Bryan, and a posthumous son born six weeks after his father’s death, also christened John (10th May 1677). Thomas Boyd the brother-in-law, in 1700, brought an action in the Court of Chancery against John Galpin in which he claimed {500, which he said Galpin had promised to Sarah his wife who was John Galpin’s sister. The law-suit went on for some years at great expense so that he became impoverished and he was obliged to borrow money at exorbitant interest, the estates were mortgaged and his affairs became so involved that he finally had to part with ` them. Later he went to live at Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire, the home of his wife Mary, the daughter of John Stillman. During his minority his guardian, Robert Horley, had managed his estates at Ibberton and at Lytchett until he came of age. FRAGMENT or CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS Reynardson’s Division Galpine sv. Boyde, A.D. 1700. The Orator, John Galpyne of Steeple Ashton in the co. of Wilts, Gent., states that on or about the month of March last Thomas Boyd of Hazelbury Bryan in the co. of Dorset or his wife (sister of John Galpine}, etc. Thomas Boyd, Gent., and Sarah his wife to the bill of complaint of John Galpin—Sarah the complainant’s sister · (stated) John Galpin promised her {500 as a marriage portion,