IN the pedigree of this family, printed in Arch. Cant., Vol.
XXVI., there are some errors, which recent research has enabled me to
correct. On page 85 I stated: "No children named in will of Edward
Sibell, but Philipot mentions ‘a daughter and heir married to. .. .
Hide;" and on page 89:
"In the undermentioned Chancery suit, in which Ann Hope was
plaintiff, she distinctly states that her uncle Edward died without issue,
and no children are mentioned in his will. Philipot, however, remarks that
‘Edward Sibill, the last of this name, resolved into a daughter and
heir, married to
Hide.’" This vague remark of Philipot is only partly true, in as
much as a Sybill lady did marry a Hyde, but she was not the daughter of
Edward Sybill. Her own name and those of her father and husband are
supplied by the
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inscription on the latter’s brass, formerly in Tisbury Church, Wilts. Illustrations occur in
bare’s History of Wilts, 1822, vol. iv., p. 147, and in Edward Kite’s
Monumental Brasses of Wilts, 1860, plate xxvi. The brass exhibited
figures of the husband and wife with their children, standing on a tiled
floor shewn in perspective, and under canopies of classical detail. The
marginal inscription, partly missing, ran as follows: "This Lawrence
Hyde was ye thirde sone of Robert Hyde of . . . . sones by Anne his wife
being ye daughter of Nicholas Sibell of Chimbhams in ye cou’ty of
Kent esquier... Hamonet and Edward died in their infancy the rest survived
their father."
Anne Sibell was therefore probably the daughter of Edward Sibell’s
grand-uncle Nicholas of Chimhams (see
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