"Edward Blande, Rector of Burghfield, being the first [of the Bland family] who settled in this Parish. He purchased lands at Burghfield, in the 10th [year of the reign] of Edward the Fourth, 1471, and dying in 1475, was buried in the Church, in the habit of a clerk, with the Arms as above described. [Argent on a bend sable, three pheons, or.] By his will dated the 18th of October, 1475, and proved at "Lamehith" on the 28th of May, 1476, he directs his body to be buried in the Church of Burghfield...."
"This branch of the family of Bland deduce their origin from the ancient stock at Easingwold, in the North Riding of the County of York." Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Bland. Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1826.
Descendants of his brother, Robert Bland, of Henley-upon-Thames in the County of Oxford, inherited his messuages and properties in the area of Burghfield and later descendants were early settlers in the Virginia Colony, including Gregory Bland (in the 1607 Jamestowne census), Edwarde Blande (author of "The Discovery of New Brittaine" 1651), and Theodorick Bland (Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1660).
"This branch of the family of Bland deduce their origin from the ancient stock at Easingwold, in the North Riding of the County of York." Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Bland. Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1826.
Descendants of his brother, Robert Bland, of Henley-upon-Thames in the County of Oxford, inherited his messuages and properties in the area of Burghfield and later descendants were early settlers in the Virginia Colony, including Gregory Bland (in the 1607 Jamestowne census), Edwarde Blande (author of "The Discovery of New Brittaine" 1651), and Theodorick Bland (Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1660).
"Edward Blande, Rector of Burghfield, being the first [of the Bland family] who settled in this Parish. He purchased lands at Burghfield, in the 10th [year of the reign] of Edward the Fourth, 1471, and dying in 1475, was buried in the Church, in the habit of a clerk, with the Arms as above described. [Argent on a bend sable, three pheons, or.] By his will dated the 18th of October, 1475, and proved at "Lamehith" on the 28th of May, 1476, he directs his body to be buried in the Church of Burghfield...."
"This branch of the family of Bland deduce their origin from the ancient stock at Easingwold, in the North Riding of the County of York." Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Bland. Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1826.
Descendants of his brother, Robert Bland, of Henley-upon-Thames in the County of Oxford, inherited his messuages and properties in the area of Burghfield and later descendants were early settlers in the Virginia Colony, including Gregory Bland (in the 1607 Jamestowne census), Edwarde Blande (author of "The Discovery of New Brittaine" 1651), and Theodorick Bland (Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1660).
"This branch of the family of Bland deduce their origin from the ancient stock at Easingwold, in the North Riding of the County of York." Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Bland. Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1826.
Descendants of his brother, Robert Bland, of Henley-upon-Thames in the County of Oxford, inherited his messuages and properties in the area of Burghfield and later descendants were early settlers in the Virginia Colony, including Gregory Bland (in the 1607 Jamestowne census), Edwarde Blande (author of "The Discovery of New Brittaine" 1651), and Theodorick Bland (Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1660).
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