be his whole Executrix, or to that effect, to whose demand
the said Testator Mr. William Painter then manifesting his will and
true meaning therein willingly answered, yea, in the presence of
William Raynolds, John Hornbie and Edward Songer."[48]

[Footnote 47: Dorothy P. (the Executrix) by her will, dated 3d
July, 1617, gave a specific legacy to her granddaughter Thomasine
Hornby, which was to be void if she sued or impleaded her
executor, relative to any gift, legacy or bequest, under the above
will; from which it may be concluded the portion of John Hornby's
wife was never properly adjusted.]

[Footnote 48: Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
3d Feb. 1595.]

He probably died immediately after the date of the will. Among the
quarterly payments at the ordinance office at Christmas 1594 is entered
to "Mr. Painter Clerke of thodince xvij{lb}, xv{s}." and upon Lady Day
or New Year's Day 1595. "To Will[~m] Painter and to S{r}. Stephen
Ridleston[49] Clarke of Thordnce for the like quarter also warranted
xvij{lb}. xv{s}." He was buried in London.[50] After his death the widow
retired to Gillingham, where she died Oct. 19th 1617. AEt. 80, and where
she was buried.[51]

[Footnote 49: His patent, dated 21st June 1595, gives all
emoluments from the day of the death of William Painter.]

[Footnote 50: In the will of Dorothy P., already noticed, is the
following direction. "In case I dye or departe this life in the
Citie of London, to be buryed in the same parish in London where
my late loving husband Mr. William Paynter, Clerke of the great
Ordinance of the Tower of London, was buryed, and as neere to the
place where he was buryed as conuenyentlie may be, with some
memoriall there to be engraven sett vp or placed as shalbe devised
and appoynted by my executor and overseers hereafter named; yf
elsewhere then allso at their like discretions and with the like
memoriall." Had she set up such a memorial for her husband, the
name would probably have been found in Stowe's _Survey of London_.
It does not occur in the Registers of the Tower Chapel; Allhallows
Barking; St. Catherine's; or Aldgate. At St. Dunstan's, Tower
Street, the register has been destroyed, and also at St. Alban's,
Wood Street, where there was probably a family vault, and not
being the church frequented when he lived by the Tower, the name