The Leveson Family

Alice (Leveson) Hewett

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Portrait of Sir William Hewett
Portrait of Sir William Hewett, in his habit of Lord Mayor, attributed to Anthonis Mor, on loan to the Museum of London
Thomas Pennant writes in Some Account of London p322 in 1791 "I have seen the picture of his master at Kiveton. the seat of the duke of Leeds, a half length on board; his dress is a black gown furred, a red vest and sleeve, a gold chain, and a bonnet."
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Married: William Hewett
The marriage likely took place between 7 November 1536, the date of Alice's father's will which does not mention William, and 8 April 1545, the date of the will of Alice's cousin, James Leveson, which does mention the Hewetts. Anne Hewett, their daughter, was born in 1543.

William was born at Wales, Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire, the son of Edmond. He was a member of the Clothworkers' Company, of which he became master in 1543. William was an Alderman of London, representing the ward of Vintry from 1550 until 1553 and then the ward of Candlewick from 1553 until 1666(7). He was selected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1553, in which capacity he was charged with carrying out the sentence of execution upon Lady Jane Grey, and then served as Lord Mayor from 1559-60. He was knighted at Greenwich by Queen Elizabeth on 21st Jan. 1559(60). William died on 25 January 1566(7) and was buried at St Martin Orgar next to his wife - his monument there was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. William's will, dated 3 January 1566(7) was proved on 11 March 1566(7).

Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley vol 1 pp226-8 (Robert Waters, 1878)
  WILLIAM HEWETT, son of Edmund, was born at Wales, a hamlet in the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in South Yorkshire, where he acquired in later life a considerable estate.
... He was bred to the trade of a cloth worker, and after serving his time as an apprentice was made free of the Clothworkers of London. He then engaged in business, and so rapid was his success, that several of his neighbours and relations were induced to join him in London, and to embark in the same trade.
... The Clothworkers were then already a wealthy company but had hitherto taken little part in the government of the City, and Hewett was the first of their members who filled the office of Lord Mayor. He was elected one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in 1553 and Lord Mayor in 1559, and was knighted at Greenwich by Queen Elizabeth on 21st Jan. 1559-60. He was connected by marriage with several of the leading families in the City, for his wife Dame Alice Hewett was the third daughter of Nicholas Leveson of Halling in Kent, a rich mercer of London, and sheriff in 1534. Her father died in 1539, when Alice was still unmarried, and was left to the guardianship of her mother Denyse, who was the daughter of Dame Joan Bradbury, the foundress of Walden School, by her first husband Thomas Bodley of London.
  Sir William Hewett had several children, but they all died in infancy except Anne, afterwards Lady Osborne, who was born in 1543. Lady Hewett is called in Machyn’s Diary ‘the good lady’ for her works of piety and charity; but she did not live to witness her daughter’s marriage, for she died on 8th April 1561, and was buried with great pomp on 17th April at St. Martin Orgar’s. Sir William survived his wife nearly six years, and died on 25th Jan 1566-7 when he was buried beside his wife. The precise day of his death is known to me from an obscure but genuine record of contemporary date. Sir William had a country house at Highgate, in the northern suburbs of London, and being one of the principal inhabitants of that hamlet, was selected by Sir Roger Cholmeley, sometime Chief Justice of England, to be one of the six governors of the Grammar School which he founded at Highgate in 1565. The charter of foundation is dated 6th April 1565, and Hewett’s name stands first in the original list of governors. He was also the first of them who died, for it is recorded in the minute book of Highgate School that John Langley Esq. Alderman of London was, on 21st Feb 1566-7, chosen a governor in the room of Sir William Hewett Kt., who had died on 25th Jan. preceding.
  SIR WILLIAM HUETT Kt. Alderman of London. Will dated 3d Jan. 9 Eliz. (1566-7).
  To be buried in the church of St Martin Orgar’s, where I am a parishioner, near my late wife Dame Alice Huett. To the Clothworkers’ Company, of which I am a member, £15 for a dinner on the day of my funeral. To the poor of Wales in Yorkshire, 40s.; of Harthill, £3; and of Woodhall, Yorkshire, £3; and to every poor maiden’s marriage, that shall be wedded in Wales or Harthill within a year after my decease, 6s. 8d. each.
  To my goddaughter Alice Osborne, the daughter of my son-in-law Edward Osborne, £100 at 21 or marriage. To Dyonise Calthorpe now dwelling with me, £10 at her marriage. To my godson John Leveson, son of Thomas Leveson mercer, a cup; and to his other children 40s. each. To Brigett Huett, daughter of my brother Thomas Huett, £50 at 21 or marriage. To Dyonise Huett now dwelling with me, £200 at her marriage. To Saunder Huett my servant £10. To my brother Thomas Leveson and his wife, my brother-in-law Edmond Calthorpe and his wife, my friend John Stonarde of Loughton in Essex and his wife, and to my kinsman William Huett of St Dyonis Backchurch and his wife, gold rings of the value of 40s. each and mourning. To the poor of Cuxton in Kent, 20s.; and to the poor of Halling, 20s. To Robert Wilson of Wales in Yorkshire my bailiff 10s.
  To my kinsman Randall Symes apprentice with my cousin William Huett, £10; and to his brother Richard Symes, 40s. To my godson William Strete and my goddaughter Dyonise Strete, £3 6s. 8d. each at 21. To Francis Huett son of my cousin Henry Huett £10 towards his education at the University of Cambridge. To the children of my cousins Nicholas and Thomas Symes, 40s. each.
  To Richard Bellamy draper, and to Mr. John Mynors deputy of my ward and to his wife, a ring each. To Mr. James Hawes Alderman of London and his wife, to William Heton and his wife, to Robert Sharpe goldsmith, and to Mr. Rosse mercer, mourning.
  To my especial good Lord the Erle of Shrewsbury a gold ring worth £4, with my initials W. H. and the posy ‘Forget not me;’ and to my Lady now his wife a ring worth 40s.; and to the Lord Talbott his son and heir apparent, and to the Lady Talbott his wife, rings worth 40s. each. To my friend, Sir Gervase Clifton Kt., a ring worth 40s. To my nephew Henry Huett son of my brother Thomas Huett, my messuage called the Three Cranes in Candlewick-street, with remainder to his father for life, remainder to my son Edward Osborne in fee. To my godson William Huett, my parsonage of Dunton Bassett in Leicestershire and my lands at Mansfield, Notts, with remainder to his brother the said Henry Huett.
  To Edward Osborne, my farm &c. at Wodsettes in Yorkshire; to the said Edward Osborne and his wife my daughter Anne, all the household goods and plate in my dwelling-house in Philpot-lane. To Katherine Wilson, daughter of Robert Wilson of Wales, £10. To my cousin Francis Rodes, a ring worth 50s. To my brother Thomas Huett, a house in St. Clement’s lane. To my cousin Henry Huett of Beilby, £5 which he oweth me, and to his brother Joseph Huett, £10. To Robert Harrison of Blythe, a ring worth 40s. To Mr. Justice Southcote a ring worth £3, and to his wife a ring worth 40s. To my brother Thomas Huett, £600; and to my nephew Henry Huett £400. The residue to Edward Osborne and my daughter Anne his wife. My brother Thomas Huett, my son-in-law Edward Osborne and his wife Anne, and my nephew Henry Huett to be my executors.
  Witnesses: John Mynors, John Broke, John Feylde chirurgeon, William Heton, and Richard Reason scrivener.
  Will proved in C.P.C. 11th March 1567 by Edward Osborne and his wife, the other executors renouncing probate. [9 Stonarde.]
  Sir William Hewett’s Will takes little notice of the landed estates, in which the bulk of his wealth consisted, for in conformity with the usual practice they were dealt with by deeds of settlement. It appears from the inquest held after his death, that (besides the lands and tenements devised by his Will to his brother Thomas and his nephews Henry and William Hewett) he died seised of the manor of Parsloes in the parish of Dagenham in Essex; of the manors and capital granges of Bilby and Ranby in the parish of Blyth, the pastures at Cotham and other lands in Notts; of a capital messuage and freehold and copyhold lands at Wales, and a farm called Woodsetts in the parish of Laughton-le-Morthen; of the manors of Keveton and Woodhall in the parish of Harthill in Yorkshire; of lands at Killamarch in Derbyshire; and of freehold houses in Philpot-lane and in the parish of St Margaret Patten’s in the City of London: And that his sole heir was his daughter Anne, then 23 years of age and the wife of Edward Osborne.

Dictionary of National Biography vol 26 pp304-5 (Leslie Stephen, 1891)
  HEWETT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1567), lord mayor of London, son of Edmund Hewett, was born in Wales, a hamlet of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in South Yorkshire. His family had been settled in the adjoining county of Derby from early times. He followed the trade of a clothworker, and after duly serving his apprenticeship was admitted to the freedom of the Clothworkers’ Company of London before 1529, in which year he himself took an apprentice as a freeman (Records of the Company). He succeeded well in commerce (Stow estimates his ‘estate’ at 6,000l. per annum), and was joined by many of his relatives and friends from Yorkshire. He employed his brother Thomas and the latter’s son Henry to assist him in his business, which he probably carried on at a house called the Three Cranes in Candlewick Street, which he bequeathed to his nephew Henry, with remainder to Thomas Hewett.
  Hewett became master of the Clothworkers’ Company in 1543. He was elected alderman of Vintry on 16 Sept. 1550, and on refusing to serve was committed to Newgate (City Records, Repertory 12, pt. ii. fol.261a). He represented Vintry ward until 9 July 1554, when he removed to Candlewick (ib. 13, pt. i. fol. 67). On 11 Feb. 1556-7, in view of the approaching mayoralty duties, he begged to be discharged ‘of his cloke and room’ (ib. 13, pt. ii. fol. 478b), but a small committee appointed by the court of aldermen (1 June) prevailed upon him to alter his decision (ib. fol. 512b). He served the office of sheriff in 1553, and was charged with carrying out the sentences of execution upon Lady Jane Grey and her husband, and on Sir Thomas Wyatt’s adherents. In the same year he countersigned, with other principal citizens, the letters patent of Edward VI leaving the crown to Lady Jane Grey (CLODE, Early History of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, ii. 119). In 1559 he became lord mayor, being the first member of the Clothworkers’ Company to attain that dignity. On 8 June 1560 he presided at the trial of one Chamberlain for treason (State Papers, Dom. 1547-1580, p. 160), and on 4 Oct. the queen wrote directing him to affix the marks of a greyhound and portcullis on the testoons in currency, to distinguish the base from the better sort (ib. Addit. 1547-65, p. 503). He was knighted at Greenwich by Elizabeth on 21 Jan. 1559-60. Hewett's name appears on the register of admissions to Gray’s Inn on 4 March 1565-6, but this date is clearly wrong, since he is described as ‘after lord mayor of London’ (FOSTER, Register of Admissions to Gray’s Inn, 1889, col. 35). His arms, inscribed with his name, are in Gray’s Inn Hall (DUGDALE, Origines Jurid. p. 306).
  Hewett lived in Philpot Lane. He had also a country house at Highgate, and Chief-justice Sir Roger Cholmeley chose him as one of the six governors of his newly established grammar school there in 1565 (LYSONS, Environs of London, iii. 64). He also possessed the manor of Parsloes in Dagenham, Essex (ib. iv. 75), and various other manors and estates in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire (HUNTER, South Yorkshire, i. 142; MORANT, Essex, Beacontree Hundred, pp. 3-4.
  Hewett died on 25 Jan. 1566-7, and buried beside his wife in St. Martin Orgar. His monument perished in the destruction of the church at the great fire of 1666. His will (printed by Mr. Chester Waters in his ‘Chesters of Chicheley,’ i. 228-9) is dated 3 Jan. 1566-7, and was proved in the P.C.C. 11 March [9 Stonarde]. Stow and Pennant state that a portrait of Hewett in his robes as lord mayor was preserved at Kiveton House, Yorkshire, the seat of the Duke Leeds; it has since been removed to Hornby Castle. It is a half-length on board; his dress is a black gown, furred with red vest and sleeves, a gold chain, and a bonnet.
  Hewett married Alice, third daughter of Nicholas Leveson, of Halling in Kent, a rich mercer of London and sheriff in 1534. Machyn speaks of her as ‘the good lady,’ for her pious and charitable works. She died on 8 April 1561, and was buried with great pomp on 17 April at St Martin Orgar. By this marriage Hewett is said to have had several children, all of whom died in infancy except Anne, who was born in l543, and was twenty-three years old at her father’s death. According to Stow, Anne as a child, while playing at one of the windows of her father’s house on London Bridge, was dropped by a careless maid into the river, and was rescued by Edward Osborne [q. v.], her father’s apprentice. Osborne certainly married her afterwards, being preferred by Sir William above many other suitors, among them George Talbot, sixth earl of Shrewsbury, who was a member of the Clothworkers’ Company (City Records, Repertory 15, fol. 66), and an intimate friend of Hewett. But the date of 1536 which Pennant assigns to the episode (Some Account of London, 1791, p. 322) is wrong since Hewett had not married his wife, Alice Leveson, on 7 Nov. 1536 (CHESTER WATERS, Genealogical Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley, i. 227; and statement corrected by the author); nor is there any proof that Hewett ever lived on London Bridge. Osborne, who became lord mayor, inherited through his wife the greater portion of her father’s estates (Inq. post mortem, W. Hewett, 9 Eliz.), and his great-grandson was the well-known Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds [see OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS].
  [Collections for the Life of Hewett, by Samuel Gregory, preserved at Clothworkers’ Hall; Machyn’s Diary; Thomson’s Chronicles of London Bridge; City Records; Orridge’s Citizens of London and their Rulers; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. vi. 332, 466-7.]   C. W-H.
  VOL. XXVI .  

The aldermen of the city of London temp. Henry III.-1908 vol 2 p33 (Alfred Beaven Beaven, 1913)
     CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ALDERMEN.  
1550, Sept.16,         (D)  WILLIAM HEWET,  . . Vintry, 1550-3,            S. 1553-4, . . vice Lok
(on or before 25)     Clothworker                      Candlewick, 1553-67  M. 1559-60
   Knighted January 21, 1560; Auditor 1549-50; President St. Thomas’ Hospital 1560-7. Master Clothworkers 1543. Died January 25, 1567; Will [P.C.C. 9 Stonarde] January 3; proved March 11, 1567

A Briefe Chronicle, of the Successe of Times, from the Creation of the World, to this Instant p602 (Anthony Munday, 1611)
1559  Sir William Huet, Cloth-worker, son to Edmond Huet of Wales in Yorkshire: Lord Maior one yeare.

William's will, dated 3 January 1566(7) and proved on 11 March 1566(7) is held at The National Archives PROB 11/49/81 and is transcribed at rotherham.co.uk:
Will of William Hewett (1496-1567)
3 January, the sixth yere of Elizabeth (1566-7) . Sir William Huett, knight, citizen and alderman of London.
To be buried in the parishe churche of St Martyn Orgar, in the warde of Candleweke streate in London, where I was late parishioner, nere unto the place where Dame Alyce Huett, my late wel beloved wief, lyeth.
To the repayringe of the churche beforesayde ...
To Mr Wythers,parson of the same, ... yardes of blacke clothe for a gowne.
To the pore people within the warde of Candleweke v li.
To the companye of Clothworkers of London, beinge of the lyverye, which shall attende uppon my bodye to the buriall, xv li. for a repaste or dynner.
To the relief of the poor in the hospital of St Thomas, in Sowthworke, whereof I am a presidente, xx li .
To the poore within the parishe of Wales, in the countie of Yorke, fourtye shillinges.
To the poore of Harthill and Wooddall iij li .
To Alyce Osborne, dawghter of my sonne in lawe Edwarde Osborne, and my goddaughter, one hundreth poundes at xxi yeres or marriage, and if it shall happen the same Alice Osborne to decease, then I will the same shall remayne to Edward Osborne her father and Anne Osborne her mother.
To Dyonise Calthroppe dwellinge with me x li.
To my godson John Lewson, sonne of Thomas Lewson, mercer, one cuppe with a cover of silver gilte, weyinge xx ounces .
To everie of the children of the same Thomas Lewson xl s. a peice.
To Brigett Huett, dawghter of my brother Thomas Huett, lli .
To Dyonis Huette, now dwellinge with me, cc li . on the day of her mariage.
To Richard Foster my servaunte fyve poundes.
To my servaunte John Rodes iij li. vj s . iiij d ., and all that farme in Harthill payinge yerely xxvj s . viij d .
To Robert Son of Edmund Hewet, of Wales, co . York . He was one of the most successful merchants of the times, and Lord Mayor of London in 1559 .
Barett my apprentice v li .
To Henry Spencer my apprentice v li.
To Saunder Huett my servaunte x li .
To Alice Sweton my mayden servaunte x li.
To Johane Broke my mayden vi li .
To Robert Barker my kytchen boye iij li . vj s . viij d.
To my brother Thomas Lewson and his wief vij yardes of blacke clothe, and to either of them a ringe of golde of the valewe of xl s .
To Edmonde Calthroppe my brother in lawe and to his wief vij yardes of blacke, and to either a ringe of golde of the value of xl s .
To my lovinge freinde John Stonarde of Loughton, in Essex, esquire, and to his wief, a ringe of goulde of the value of xl s .
To my kynesman William Huett, of the parishe of St Dyonis Backechurche, and to his wief, vij yardes of blacke clothe, and to either a ringe of gowlde of the value of xl s. and xxx s. a pece.
To the poore of Cuyston and Hallinge in Kent e twentye shillinges .
To Robert Wilson of Wales, my baylief, two yardes of clothe at x s . p. yarde, for a coate.
To Randall Symes my kynesman, apprentice with my cosen William Huett, x li.
To Richard Symes his brother xI s .
To Jarvis Thurlande my apprentice fyve pounde.
To my godsone William Strete iij Ii . vj s. viij d.
To my goddaughter Dionys Streete iij li . vj s . viij d.
To Fraunces Huett, sonne of my cosen Henry Huett, towardes his bringinge upp i n litterature and learninge in the universitie of Cambridge, x li.
To the children of my cosen Nicholas Symes xl s.
Amongst the children of my cosen Thomas Symes xl s.
To Richard Bellame, drap., a blacke gowne and a ringe of golde.
To Mr John Mynars, deputye of my warde, and to his wief, vij yardes of cloth at xvj s. the yarde.
To Mr James Hawes of London, alderman, and to his wief, vij yardes of blacke cloth at xvj s. the yarde, and to either a ringe of golde.
To William Caten and his wief vij yardes of clothe at xvj s. a yarde.
To Robert Sharpe, goldesmyth, and to his wief, vij yardes of black cloth.
To Mr Rosse, mercer, iiij yardes of blacke cloth.
To Lonne the servante fowre yardes of blacke cloth.
And whereas Jeffrey Snagge of Haveringe, at Bowre, cloth owe me c li. and above, puttinge in bonde for paymentes in ii j yeres, shal be discharged for the overplus, and do geve him ij yardes of blacke clothe for a coate .
T geve to the right honorable the Earl of Shrewsbury a ringe of golde of the value of iiij with lettres of my name, and to my ladye, nowe his wief, a ringe of the value of xl s.
To my Lorde Talbotte, sonne of the saide erle, a ringe of golde of the value of xI s., and to the Ladye Talbott his wief a ringe of xxx s.
To my dere freinde Sir Jarvis Clifton, knighte, a ringe of golde.
I release Thomas Aylewarde of Coggeshall, clothier, all such debte as he shall owe me.
To Arragon the beadell of my warde one goune of blacke clothe.
To the poore prysoners of Newegate xxvj s. viij d., to be bestowed in herringes, breade, and drincke, to the poore prisoners in Ludgate and in the twoe compters three poundes.
My will is that when there shall be made a newe provicon for conveyinge of water unto this citie, that then my executors shall geve twoe foder of Peke leade.
To everye poore maydens mariage at Harthill and Wailes vj s . viij d. a peice, within twoo of the firste and nexte yeres after my decease.
To xxiiij poore men of the clothworkers a gowne cloth.
To my nephewe Henry Huett, sonne of my brother Thomas Huett, all my messuage called the sig[n]e of the three Cranes in Candleweke streete, and for defaulte of yssue to his father Thomas Huett, my brother, and after the decease of the same Thomas to Edward Osborne my sonne.
To William Huett my godson all my parsonage of Ovyton Bassett, in the countie of Leicester, and my landes in Maunsfeylde in Shrewoode (Mansfield in Sherwood), in the countie of Nott., and to the heires of his bodye, and for defaulte of yssue to Henry Huett his brother.
To William Huett my godsonne, towardes his exhebycon in Grayes Inne, fiftie poundes.
To Edward Osborne landes called Wodsettes (Woodsetts).
To Edward Osborne and to Anne his wief all howshold stuff in my mansion or dwelling howse in Philpotte Lane in London, excepte all my redye money, jewelles, silver plate, wares, and marchandise.
To Henry Huett all my beddes, etc ., in messuage called iij Crane s in Candleweke Strete .
To Anne Osborne my dawghter one tonne of silver gilte, waying xxxiiij ounces and g te7 , and one Mawdlyne cuppe with a cover of silver gilte wayinge xxxvi j ounces g te1.
To Henry Lyllie xx li.
To Katheryn Wilson x li.
To Robert Grene my coke fyve marckes .
To Richard Whalye a ringe of gold, and also to his bedfellowe a ring e of golde, and to my cosen Fraunces Roades a ringe .
To my brother Thomas Huett all my tenemente in S r Clement lane for lyef, and after to Henry Huett .
My mynde is wheras there is a bargayne concluded betwene me and my cosen Henry Huett of Bylbie, for the purchase of his messuage called Cannowe, in the countye of Darbye, that th e same shall stande.
To Joseph Huett his brother tenne poundes.
To Roberte Harryson of Blithe (Blyth, Notts) a ringe of golde, and to his wief.
To my brother Thomas Huett vi li.
To my nephewe Henry Huett iiij li .
The residue of my goodes I geve unto Edwarde Osborne and to my dawghter Anne, his wief.
The residue of all my landes to descende to Ann Osborne my dawghter and to her heires.
I make Thomas Huett my brother, Edward Osborne, and Anne his wief, and Henry Huette my nephewe, my executors.
Proved 11 March, 1566-7

Abstract of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London part 2 pp98-9 (Sidney J. Madge, 1901)
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall 20 March, 10 Eliz. [1568] before Peter Osborne esq., Ralph Bossevile, esq., and William Necton, gent., feodary, commissioners, after the death of William Hewett, Knight, by the oath of Francis Bennyson, Edmund Annsell, William Eaton, Edmund Burton, Richard Reynoldes, William Yonge, John Blackman, Thomas Muffett, James Hewishe, John Tudball, Walter Stone, John Hudson, Edward Gwyn and John Trotte, who say that
  William Hewett, Knight was seised of 2 messuages and tenements with the shops, &c., thereto belonging, lying in the parish of St. Martin Orgar, late in the tenure of the said Sir William: which said messuages are now made into one and are called the Signe of the three Cranes in Candelwickstreet; and 1 messuage with all the buildings, shops, &c., thereto belonging, late in the tenure of James Appotles situate in the parish of St. Clement in Eastcheape.
  So seised, the said William Hewett made his will 3 January, 9 Eliz. [1567] and thereby bequeathed as follows:
  I give to my nephew Henry Hewett son of my brother Thomas Hewett my messuage called the Signe of the three Cranes in Candlewick Street, with all the shops, cellars, &c., &c., thereto belonging: to hold to him and the heirs of his body; for default, the same to remain to his father Thomas Hewett my brother for his natural life; immediately after his decease, the same to remain to Edward Osbourne my son and his heirs for ever.
  I give to my brother Thomas Hewett my tenement lying at the end of St. Clements Lane to hold for his natural life; after his decease, I give the same to the said Henry Hewett and his heirs.
  The said William Hewett, Knight, was likewise seised of all that tenement called the Crowne and 3 small tenement thereto adjoining, lying in the parish of St. Dionisius, in Fanchurch Street, London, parcel of the possessions of the late Monastery of St. Augustine beyond and near the walls of the City of Canterbury: which said tenement after the death of the said William descended to Anne now the wife of the said Edward Osborne above named, as daughter and next heir of the said William.
  The 2 messuages called the Signe of the three Cranes in Candelwick Street are held of the Queen in free burgage by fealty only, and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, £6. The messuage in the parish of St. Clements is held of the Queen in free burgage and not in chief, and is worth per ann., clear £3. The tenement called the Crowne and the 3 small tenements thereto adjoining in the said parish of St. Dionisius are held of the Queen in chief by the service of the 30th part of a knight’s fee, and are worth per ann., clear, £6.
  William Hewett, Knight, died 25 January, 9 Eliz. [1567]; the said Anne is his daughter and next heir, and was then aged 23 years and more.
      Chan. Inq. p. m., 10 Eliz., part 1, No. 88. 

Children:

Anne was the sole surviving child, and heiress of her father. Many accounts (e.g. A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster book 4 p78 (Robert Seymour, 1735)) state that William and Alice had three sons and a daughter, Anne, while Ayers-Dawson and Allied Families vol 2 pp118 (Henrietta Sheppard, 1961) lists four sons and two daughters (John, Solomon, Thomas, William, Mary and Elizabeth) dying in infancy in addition to Anne.

There is an often repeated story about Edward Osborne saving the life of his future wife when she was an infant. The tale was printed as early as 1735 in A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster book 4 p78 (Robert Seymour, 1735)
1559 Sir Will. Hewet, Clothworker
  This Mayor was a Merchant, possess’d of a great Estate, valued at 6000 l. per Annum, and was said to have had three Sons and one Daughter; to which Daughter this Mischance happened (the Father then living upon London-Bridge.) The Maid playing with her out of a Window over the River Thames, by chance dropt her in, almost beyond Expectation of being saved. A young Gentleman, named Osborne, then Apprentice to Sir William the Father (which Osborne was one of the Ancestors of the Duke of Leeds in a direct Line) at this calamitous Accident, immediately leapt in bravely, and saved the Child. In Memory of which Deliverance, and in Gratitude, her Father afterwards bestowed her in Marriage on the said Mr. Osborne, with a very great Dowry. Whereof the late Estate of Sir Thomas Fanshaw, in the Parish of Berkin in Essex, was a Part; as the late Duke of Leeds himself told the Rev. Mr. John Hewet, from whom Mr. Strype said he had this Relation.
  Also that several Persons of Quality courted the said young Lady; and particularly the Earl of Shrewsbury. But Sir William was pleased to say, Osborne saved her, and Osborne should enjoy her. The late Duke of Leeds, and the present Family, preserve the Picture of the said Sir William in his Habit of Lord Mayor, at Kiveton-house in Yorkshire, to this Day, valuing it at 200l.

Robert Waters cast doubt on the story in
Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley vol 1 pp225-6 (Robert Waters, 1878)
I should be sorry to cast doubt on so romantic a tale, but I must remark that Sir William Hewett did not reside on London Bridge, but in Philpot-lane, in the parish of St. Martin Orgar’s. However this may be, it is certain that Edward Osborne married Anne, the only daughter and heiress of Sir William Hewett, with her father’s full consent and approval, for Sir William was godfather to their eldest child Alice, and made his son-in-law one of the executors of his Will. 

Notes:
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
3.—ALICE, m. before 1534, Sir William HEWETT, Mayor, 1559-60, who d. 6 Feb. 1566-7.

The colloquies of Edward Osborne, citizen and clothworker, of London is an historical novel about Edward Osborne, who married Anne Hewett, was written by Anne Manning in 1852. The book is written as if it was memoir by Edward and describes his early life as an apprentice in the household of Sir William Hewitt until his marriage to Anne. Although obviously full of conjecture and imagination, the book provides an interesting point of view on the lives of William Hewitt and Alice Leveson.

Alice is mentioned in her father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. Her husband is not mentioned, although the husbands of her two elder sisters are mentioned, indicating Alice and William were likely married after this date.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
... ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.

Alice and William are mentioned in the will of Alice's cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655. A transcript of the will is at Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1547 James Leveson)
ITEM; I give to my cousin John LEVESON of London and my cousin WILKES either of them a ring of. Gold ten shillings apiece and to my sister Denys LEVESON, my cousin John SADLER and his wife, my cousin DAVENETT and his wife, my cousin HEWETT and his wife each of them a ring of gold of ten pounds.

The two are then mentioned in the will of Alice's cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

Alice, William and Anne are mentioned in the will of Alice's cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

Alice and William are also mentioned in the will of her mother, Denys, and William is made an executor of that will, dated 13 March 1559 (will of lands) and 1 August 1560 (will of goods).
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
...ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON. Also I bequeath so for every of my daughters a ring of gold of the value of thirty shillings for a like remembrance. 
... Also I bequeath to my goddaughter Anne HEWET one hundred marks to be paid to her by my executors at the day of her marriage.
... ITEM; I bequeath to my daughter Dame Alice HEWET my tine of silver and gilt that Dame Jane BRADBURY my mother gave to me and also a standing cup of silver and gilt with eight pearls and wrought with flowers upon it and my chain of gold with wreaths.
... and I make and ordain my well-beloved son-in-law Sir William HEWET Knight and Alderman of London, my cousin Edward LEVESON and John Southcote Sergeant at Law my executors of this my present testament and I bequeath to every of them for his labour in that behalf twenty pounds of current money of England
... Proved twentieth day of December 1560 by William Hewet, Edward Leveson and John Southcote

Death: 8 April 1561 in the parish of St Dionis Backchurch, London, England
The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society issue 42 p254 (1848)
  The viij day of Aprell
... The sam day of Aprell ded the good lade Huett, late mayres of London, in the parryche of sant Dennys.

Burial: 17 April 1561, in St Martin Orgar church, London, England
The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society issue 42 p256 (1848)
  [The . . day of April was the funeral of Lady Hewett, formerly] mayres of London, and xxiiij pore women in nuw gownes and xij pore men, and after a xl in blake . . . . viij althermen in blake gownes, and my lord mare and [the rest] of the althermen, and xx clarkes syngyng, and then cam a penon of armes, and cam Ruge-crosse, and after master Clarenshus kyng at armes, and after the corse and iiij pennon of armes, and the pall of blake velvett and with armes, and then the cheyffe morners, a xl women mornars, and after the Cloth[workers] in the leveray, and after ij C. folohyng, and master (blank) dyd pryche; and the cherche hangyd with blake and armes; and after to ys plase to dener in Phylpot lane, and the plase hangyd with blake and armes.

A Survey of London p238-9 (John Stow, 1633)
  The Parish Church of Saint Martin Orgar is a small thing William Crowmer Maior builded a proper Chappell on the South side thereof, and was buried there in an ancient Tombe, 1533.
  Iohn Matthew, Maior 1490.
  Sir William Huit Maior, 1559. with his Lady and daughter, wife to Sir Edward Osburne.

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Denys (Leveson) Strete

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: William Strete
This marriage occurred before 16 August 1558 when Denys is named as "Denys Strete" in the will of her cousin, Thomas Wilkes.

William is possibly the William Strete, haberdasher, who was one of the men attesting to the admission of Thomas Leveson to the Register of Freemen in the City of London. The referenced date, 29 November 1526, may be the date of Thomas's father's admission as this was admission by patrimony.
Register of Freemen of the City of London in the Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI p102 (Charles Welch, 1908)
  Thomas Leveson, son of Nicholas Leveson of London, citizen & mercer, sought admission. Attested by Thomas Cod . . . . , William Strete, Walter Leveson, Thomas Snapp, haberdashers, James Hawes & . . . tailors, citizens and neighbours. ..R Nov. 29, 18 Hen. viii.

On 26 May 1570, administration was granted to Thomas Leveson of the minor children of William Strete, of Black Notley, Essex. Black Notley was a manor previously in the possession of Denys's mother, Denys (Bodley) Leveson.
Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1559-1571 p107 (Reginald Glencross, 1912)
    May 1570
26 May WILLIAM STRETE, Black Notley, co. Essex (Lond.), to Thomas Leveson (?) “avunculo” of William S., John S., Dionisia S., Mary S., & Barbara S., children of dec, durg. min. of sd. children.   Renounced & a new grant to son of dec., 11 Jan. 1573.

Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1572-1580 p30 (Reginald Glencross, 1917)
    JANUARY 1573-4.
11 Jan. WILLIAM STRETE, Black Notley, co. Essex (Lond.), to son William S.

Children: Notes:
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Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
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5.—DIONYSIA, unm., 1536; m. before 1560, William STREETE, and was then living with issue.

Denys is mentioned in her father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. Her husband is not mentioned, although the husbands of her two elder sisters are mentioned, indicating Denys and William were likely married after this date.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
... ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.

Denys is not mentioned in the will of her cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655, nor in the will of her cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343, both of which wills leave bequests to three of her married sisters.

Denys is named as "Denys Strete" in the will of her cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

Denys and William and unnamed children are mentioned in the will of Mary's mother, Denys, dated 13 March 1559 (will of lands) and 1 August 1560 (will of goods). William is appointed an overseer of this will.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... if it happen the said William to decease before he shall come to and accomplish the age of twenty one years then as now and now as then I will that the said twenty pounds shall be divided among the children of my son William STRETE and of my daughter Dionice his wife
...ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON. Also I bequeath so for every of my daughters a ring of gold of the value of thirty shillings for a like remembrance. 
... ITEM; I give and bequeath all my rings and chains of gold and all other my jewels whatsoever they be except before given and all my wearing apparel to my daughters Dionys STRETE and Mary CALTHORPE to be divided among them equally portion and portion like immediately after my decease.
... I make and ordain my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON, and William LEVESON and my son-in-law William STRETE and Henry Planckney supervisors or overseers of the same with as much authority as can be devised for overseers to have and I give and bequeath to every of my said overseers or supervisors twenty pounds apiece for their pains to see this my present testament faithfully and truly performed executed and done.

Sir William Hewett, the husband of Denys's sister, Alice, in his will made on 3 January 1566(7), leaves a bequest to two children of Denys and William (also named Denys and William). The will is transcribed at rotherham.co.uk:
To my godsone William Strete iij Ii . vj s. viij d.
To my goddaughter Dionys Streete iij li . vj s . viij d.

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Grisell (Leveson) Sadler

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: John Sadler
John and Grisell were married before 7 November 1536, when they are mentioned in the will of Grisell's father, Nicholas.

John was the son of Roger Sadler, a draper who lived in the parish of St Mary Abchurch. John was the brother of Beatrice (Sadler) Bodley, who married William Bodley, the cousin of his mother, Denys, as well as of Katherine (Sadler) Roberts, the third wife of Thomas Roberts.
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books p34 (Margaret Connolly, 2019)
Good relations between the two families are indicated by Thomas Roberts's instruction in his will of 1542 that 'my brother John Sadler' should have 'the rule and guydyng' of his youngest son, John Roberts, until he came of age. Two years later, Michael Roberts appointed his uncle John Sadler as one of the overseers of his will and left him a gift of money. Michael refers to John as an alderman, indicating that this was John Sadler, draper, who served as aldeman in the city of London from October 1542 to April 1546.
... In his will Thomas left gold rings to his married daughters Dorothy and Anne, and to their husbands, and also to his brother-in-law John Sadler and his wife Gresill (Griselda), his brother-in-law William Browne and his wife Alice, and his wife's sister, Beatrice Bodley. The rings were 'tokens of remembrance', with Thomas explaining: 'if my powers of substance were better I woold beue them better'.

John lived in Edmonton, Middlesex. He was a draper, and an alderman of London, appointed alderman from the ward of Farringdon Within on 7 February 1538. He removed to the ward of Coleman Street on 24 October 1542, representing that ward until he was discharged on plea of sickness on 13 April 1546 with a fine of 100 marks.
The Aldermen of the City of London, Temp. Henry III.-1908 p147 (Alfred B. Beaven, 1908)
    FARRINGDON WARD WITHIN
February 7, 1538 [Sworn Feb. 21] John Sadler, Draper
    [Nominated: Aldermen Dauntsey and Laxton, Sheriff Lewen, T. Bowyer, R. Buckland]
    Removed to Coleman Street, October 24, 1542.
p110
    COLEMAN STREET WARD
October 24, 1542 . . John Sadler, Draper
    From Farringdon Within
    [Nominated: Alderman Wylford, G. Barne, R. Rede, ex-Sheriff Suckley, T. Whyte, Thomas Bowyer]
    Discharged on plea of sickness, April 13, 1546; fine of 100 marks (Rep. 11, fo. 254 b; Letter Book Q. ff. 161 b, 171 b).

The Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward from A.D. 1276 to A.D. 1900 p230 (J. J. Baddeley, 1900)
    DISCHARGE OF ALDERMEN.
  As will be seen by previous extracts, it was at all times very difficult and expensive for a man once elected as an alderman of a Ward to relinquish his office, and even after many years' faithful service, the Court of Aldermen seems to have taken great care that an alderman should not resign his position, except by payment of a fine.
...  The following cases seem to show that aged and unfortunate aldermen still had but little consideration shown them by their brethren of the Court of Aldermen.
    Discharge of John Sadler, Alderman of Coleman Street Ward.
  16 February, 37 Henry VIII [A.D. 1546].  Item at the hūble sute & petycon of Mr. John Sadler Alderman & for dyverse & meny Reasonable consideracons & causes movynge the Corte & namely for & in consideracon of contynuall syknes & dyseases wherwth he of a longe season hath beyn & yet is dayly trobled & afficted & also for & in respecte of hys losses of meny & sundry greate & notable sumes of money aswell by the seas as by evyll dettors yt ys assentyd & agreid that he truely contentynge & paying to the hands of the Chambleyn to the use of the Coialtye of this Cytie wthin one moneth nowe nexte insuinge C mr̂ks stêl shalbe clerely exonerate & dyscharged of his seid Rome & offyce of Aldermanship for ever.—Letter Book Q, fo. 161b.

John is mentioned in a meeting of the Privy Council at Greenwich on 21 February 1546.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol 21 part 1, January-August 1546 pp123-153 (1908)
... Letter general to admirals, vice-admirals, &c., that whereas the King granted safeconduct to John Sadler, alderman of London, Henry Emerson, Roger de Pratte, Arnalt de Sala Nova, John Reconger, Peter de Peche, John Boysson and John Boursier, to import or export merchandise, which safeconduct was afterwards revoked and eftsoons continued in force till 1 Feb. 1545;

John was buried on 3 July 1559.
The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society issue 42 p230 (1848)
  The iij day of July was cared to be bered unto (blank) on master Sadler, latt altherman and draper, and the chyrche hangyd with blake, and with ys armes, and a sarmon, and a iij dosen of skochyons.

The will of John Sadler, gentleman of Edmonton, Middlesex was proved on 21 October 1560 (The National Archives PROB 11/43/538).

Notes:
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
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1.—GRISELL, m. before 1534, John SADLER, of Edmonton, co. Middx., whose will was pr. 1534, in the C.P.C. (49 Mellershe).

Note: the 1534 date given here for John's will is incorrect and should be 1560. The reference, 49 Mellershe, confirms the 1560 date.

Grisell and John Sadler are mentioned in her father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. John is also a witness to the will. Nicholas's will has been transcribed at
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
... ITEM; to my son Sadler twenty pounds.
... ITEM; I give unto Grisell my daughter a gilt cup of the price of six pounds thirteen shillings and three pence with my arms to be set upon the same cup for a token of remembrance and the same cup to be bought by my executors.
... ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.
...  these being witnesses: Gye Crayford, John Sadler and John Buttyll parson of Cockstone per me  Nicholas Leveson

Grisell and John are mentioned in the will of Grisell's cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655. A transcript of the will is at Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1547 James Leveson)
ITEM; I give to my cousin John LEVESON of London and my cousin WILKES either of them a ring of. Gold ten shillings apiece and to my sister Denys LEVESON, my cousin John SADLER and his wife, my cousin DAVENETT and his wife, my cousin HEWETT and his wife each of them a ring of gold of ten pounds.

The two are then mentioned in the will of Grisell's cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

Grisell was named the godmother of her husband's niece, Katherine Roberts (the daughter of Kather (Sadler) Roberts, a sister of both John Sadler and Beatrice (Sadler) Bodley). Katherine was born on 30 June 1552.
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books p172 (Margaret Connolly, 2019)
'Lady Katheryne Chester & mestres Grysell Sadler & master John armynster master of the temple & lord of Nelson were godmotheres & godfather and Katheryne Robertes was was [sic] crystynd at Wylesdon anno 1552', and then secondly: 'Katheryne Robertes was borne the last daye of June between v and vj of the cloke in the morning beyng thursdaye in the vjth yere of the rayne of owre soverayne lord kyng Edward & anno domini 1552'.

Grisell is bequeathed a ring in the will of her cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558, indicating that Grisell was still living at this date
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

Death: between 16 August 1558 and 13 March 1559
Neither Grisell nor John Sadler, nor any Sadler children, is mentioned in the will of Grisell's mother, Denys, dated 13 March 1559, nor in the will of her brother Nicholas, dated 4 May 1568, both of which mention Grisell's siblings, the most likely explanation being that Grisell died between 16 August 1558, when she is left a bequest in the will of her cousin Thomas Wilkes, and 13 March 1559. John Sadler was buried on 3 July 1559 which, in the caledar in use at that time, preceded Denys's will on 13 March 1559(60).

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Joan (Leveson, Davenant) Sadler

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married (1st): Ralph Davenant
This marriage occurred before 7 November 1536, the date of Joan's father's will which mentions "my daughter Jone Daverrell".

Ralph was a merchant tailor. He married, firstly, Ellen with whom he had a daughter, Judith. Ralph died on 10 December 1552 was buried on 15 December 1552. The will of Ralph Davenaunte, Merchant Tailor of London, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/30, was proved on 29 January 1552(3).

Shakespeare's Sonnet Story pp608-11 (Arthur Acheson, 1922)
  Rafe Davenant was married twice—first to Ellyn, by whom he had one daughter, Judith, who married Gerard Gore, a well-to-do merchant taylor, on 25th May 1550. His second wife was Joan Leveson, by whom he had a large family; we can trace eleven of his children in the baptismal records of All Hallows and in his will. His eldest son was a John Davenant, who, in making his will in 1595—a year before his death—mentions himself as John Davenant the elder. As he had a cousin of about his own age named John Davenant who, it will appear, was brought up with him, who, like him, became a merchant tailor, and who lived in the same or a contiguous parish in later years, the term “the elder” and “the younger” may have been commonly used to differentiate them.
... When Rafe Davenant made his will in 1552, in which year he died, he left the largest portion of his property to his eldest son John Davenant (the elder), who was then thirteen years old.
... When Rafe Davenant made his will in 1552 he bequeathed “to my brother Davenants three children eight pounds that is to say John Davenant now dwelling with me fowre pounds and to the other two children fortie shillings apiece.” As he makes no other mention of  “brother Davenant” nor of any brother, but leaves “to my sister Davenant a black gownof eight shillings the yard,” it is apparent that the brother mentioned was dead at this time.  

The Diary of Henry Machyn in Works of the Camden Society issue 42 p27 (1848)
  The xv day of Desember was (buried) good master Deyffenett, marchand-tayller of London, and warden of the Marchand-tayllers, and he gayff . . . gowne for men and women of rat coller of . . . yerde and he gayffe as mony blake gownes . . . and he gayff iij prest gownes of blake, master (blank), master Samsum, and ys curett; and ther was the master and ys compeny in ther leverer, and the compeny of Clarkes a xxx, and Samsum dyd pryche at (the) berehyng . . . on the morowe affter dyd (unfinished.)

The Religious Allegiance of London's Ruling Elite 1520 - 1603 pp94-5 (David J. Hickman, 1995)
  Investment in the Edwardian Church service characterises the will of Ralph Davenant, Merchant Taylor, in November 1552, that is when the more rigorously Protestant liturgy of the second Edwardian Prayer Book was in force. Like Archer he required the Company of Clerks to 'bringe my boddy to the earthe, singinge suche godly psalmes in Englishe before me as nowe is vsed for the deade'. Requesting the preaching of ten sermons in his parish church, Allhallows Bread Street, he left a further £4 'towardes the makinge of a lofte for maydens to sytt in, the whiche lofte I will shall extende from the churche dore there to the place where the pulpett nowe standeth'. This contribution to remodelling the interior of the church in line with the altered requirements of the Edwardian liturgy suggests that Davenant was acting on a profound evangelical impulse to further the establishment of the Reformed service in his own parish. The writer of the will was William Carkke's apprentice, William Pierson.

Abstract of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London part 1 pp129-30 (George S. Fry, 1896)
      Ralph Davenant, citizen and merchant tailor.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 26 October, 1 and 2 Philip and Mary [1554], before Thomas White, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of Ralph Davenant, citizen and merchant tailor of London, by the oath of Thomas Pawley, Thomas Blunt, John Stocker, Richard Cooke, William Allyn, William Lyvers, Robert Spencer, George Forman, Henry Grover, Robert Dunkyns, John Draner, John Arthur, William Dawkes, Thomas Michell, Roger Woolhowse, and Thomas Hylton, who say that
  Ralph Davenant was seised of 1 tenement called the Pye in the Ryall (sic) situate in the parish of St. Michael, called Pater Noster Church near the Royall (sic), then or late in the tenure of Ralph Walton, sometime belonging to the late Priory of Elsingspitell, and all the houses, buildings, shops, etc. to the said tenement belonging; also 1 messuage called the signe of the Bell, and 1 garden thereto adjoining, now or late in the tenure of William Page, of London, clothworker, situate in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London; 2 messuages adjoining the Bell, in the tenure of the said William Page, abutting upon Morelane on the west, upon Morefield on the east, and upon the land of the late Fraternity of the Blessed Mary of Barkyng upon the south; 4 messuages lately demised to John Rychmonde, now in the tenure of John Pygott, situate in Morelane in the said parish of St. Giles, late parcel of the possessions of the late Chapel of All Saints Barking; 1 cottage and 1 “tenteryard” lately demised to Robert Smyth, now in the tenure of Nicholas Lacye and Walter Porter, situate in Morelane; and 1 large tenement called the Maydenhede in Morelane, sometime belonging to the late Chapel of All Saints Barking, and parcel of the possessions thereof.
  So seised, the said Ralph Davenant, on 1 November, 1552, by his will bequeathed to John Davenant, senior, his son and to his heirs for ever the said tenement called the Bell and all other the tenements, gardens, “teyntergroundes” and “teynters” thereto belonging; also the large tenement called the Maydenhede, with the gardens, “teyntors” and “Teyntergroundes” adjoining. To his second son James Davenant testator willed the messuage called the Pye situate in the Ryall, wherein Thomas Dowdall then dwelt; to hold to the sole use of the said James and his heirs for ever.
  The tenement called the Pye and the premises thereto belonging are held of the Queen in free and common burgage only and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, £6 6s. 8d. The messuage called the Bell, the garden and 2 messuages thereto adjoining, and the cottage and “Taynteryarde,” are held of the Queen by fealty only in free burgage and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, £9 4s. 8d.
  [Date of death not given.]
  John Davenant is the next heir of the said Ralph Davenant, and is aged 15 years.
      Inq. p.m. 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, p. 2, No. 25. 

A second post mortem inquisition was held on 6 March 1565, the abstract of which includes the date of Ralph's death.
Abstract of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London part 2 pp35-6 (Sidney J. Madge, 1901)
      Ralph Davenant.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 6 March, 1565, before Richard Champion, knight, mayor and escheator, after the death of Ralph Davenant, citizen and merchant-tailor, of London, by the oath of Thomas Litton, John Haddon, William Gybbons, Richard Henman, Henry Sutton, Stephen Waldon, Henry Callys, Henry Shaw, Thomas Dewxell, Robert Langwith, Richard Smith, John Wilton, John Noble, Michael Smyth, Robert Dickenson, Robert Cripps, Richard Cowper, John Wilson, Walter Browne, John Harryson and Anthony Garret, who say that
  Ralph Davenant was seised of 1 messuage called the Signe of the Bell, and 1 garden thereto belonging sometime in the tenure of William Page of London, clothworker, situate in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, and lately belonging to the parish Church of All Saints in Brodestreet, London; 2 messuages to the said messuage adjacent, sometime in the tenure of the said William Page, situate in said parish of St. Giles; 4 messuages lately demised to John Richemond and now in the tenure of John Pygott, situate in More Lane in the said parish of St. Giles, late parcel of the possessions of the late Chapel of All Saints, Barking; 1 cottage, and 1 Teynter yard lately demised to Robert Smyth, and now in the tenure of Nicholas Lacye and Walter Porter, situate in More Lane in the said parish of St. Giles, lately belonging to the said Chapel of All Saints, Barking: which said premises King Edward VI by Letters Patent dated at Wansteden, 25 August in the 2nd year of his reign [1548] granted inter alia to Thomas Wylkes of London haberdasher, merchant of the Staple of the town of Calais and Thomas Atkyns of London, gent., and their heirs; 1 messuage called the Pye in the Royall, London, situate in the parish of St. Michael called the Pater Noster Church near the Royall, now or late in the tenure of Ralph Walton, and sometime belonging to the late Priory of Elsing Spitle: which said premises last mentioned King Henry VIII by Letters Patent dated at Eltham 29 September in the 36th year of his reign [1544] granted inter alia to Henry Andle and John Cordall and their heirs for ever.
  The messuage called the Signe of the Bell, the 2 messuages thereto adjacent, the 4 messuages in More Lane, and the cottage and Teynter Yard in the said parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate are held of the Queen by fealty only in free burgage and not in chief, and are worth per annum, clear, £7 16s. 8d. The tenement called the Pye in Royall is held of the Queen in free and common socage, and is worth per annum clear, £4.
  Ralph Davenant died 10 December 1552; John Davenant is his son and next heir, and is now aged 26 years and more.
      Chan. Inq. p.m., 8 Eliz., part 1, No. 80.

Children: Married (2nd): Roger Sadler
Joan and Roger were married between 10 December 1552 and 1554, when a number of suits were filed against debtors by the executors of Roger's estate. The plaintiffs in these suits are named, for example, as "Davenant, Ralph, executors of; (Sadler, Roger; Joan, his wife, formerly wife of Ralph; Davenaunt, John, son)" or "Davenaunt, Ralph, executors of; (Sadler, Roger; Joan, his wife, formerly wife of the Tetstator; Davenaunt, John, son of the Testator)", indicating Joan's re-marriage to Roger Sadler.

Roger was possibly a brother or cousin of John Sadler, who married Joan's sister Grisell.

Notes:
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
2.—JOAN, m. before 1536, Ralph DAVENELL, DAVENETT, or DAWBENETT, and had issue

Joan and Ralph Davenant are mentioned in Joan's father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. Nicholas's will has been transcribed at Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson):
... ITEM; to Raffe Daverrell twenty pounds.
... ITEM; I give to my daughter Jone Daverrell a cup of silver and gilt of the value of six pounds thirteen shillings and three pence.
... ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.

Joan and Ralph are mentioned in the will of Joan's cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1547 James Leveson)
ITEM; I give to my cousin John LEVESON of London and my cousin WILKES either of them a ring of. Gold ten shillings apiece and to my sister Denys LEVESON, my cousin John SADLER and his wife, my cousin DAVENETT and his wife, my cousin HEWETT and his wife each of them a ring of gold of ten pounds.

The two are then mentioned in the will of Joan's cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

Neither Ralph Devenant, who died in 1552, nor Joan are mentioned in the will of Joan's mother, Denys, dated 13 March 1559, but their children are left a legacy, although substantially smaller than Denys's other grandchildren.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... And I bequeath to every of my children’s children living at the day of my decease ten pounds towards their marriages except Anne HEWET and Dionys VAUGHAN and also except the children of my son Thomas LEVESON and except my daughter DAWBENET’s children unto every of which Dawbenet’s children I give a gold ring of thirty shillings and also I bequeath unto every of the children of my said son Thomas LEVESON now being born twenty pounds apiece

Death: probably before 13 March 1559 when Joan is omitted in her mother's will, even though Joan's children are included.

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John Leveson

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: Anne (Smith) Wodhull. The marriage license was granted on 27 August 1545, in London.
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543 to 1869 vol 2 p5 (Harleian Society, 1886)
1545 Aug. 27 John Leveson, Esq., & Anne Woodhull, Widow, of dioc. London.

Anne was the daughter of Sir John Smith, of Cressing, Essex, Baron of the Exchequer and Agnes Harewell. She married, firstly, Anthony Wodhull and had a daughter, Agnes. Anthony died on 4 February 1541(2), when Agnes was just seventeen days old. After John's death, Anne married, thirdly, Sir Edward Griffin, of Dingley, Northamptonshire, Attorney-General under king Edward VI.

List of Early Chancery Proceedings vol 9 p244 (1963)
FILE 1241 (1547-1551)
39-40 Anne, late the wife of John LEVESON (Leeson) of Warkworth, co. Northumberland, v. Denise LEVESON, mother of the said John.
Furniture of the said John (described) whereof complainant is administrator, in defendant's house in Lime Street.          LONDON.

Notes:
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
I.—JOHN LEVESON, of Halling, co. Kent, son and heir. He m. (—) da. of (—) BACON.4 He is said also to have m. Anne, da. of Sir John SMITH. He d. s.p. being slain by the rebels in Norfolk (1549), 3 Ed. VI.
...
4 The following marr.-lic. (Fac-office) probably refers to him: 1545, Aug. 27. “John Leveson, Esq. and Anne Woodhull, Widow: diocese of London.”

Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury vol 1 p222 (1899)
    MARY [LADY] PARR [of Horton] to LORD ―.
  [c. 1550,] Nov. 8, Horton.—Anthony Wodhull, esquire, by his will gave to the writer s daughter, Anne Burneby, 50 marks, payable at the rate of 66s. 8d. yearly, and like legacies “to other his brothers and sisters.” These legacies have been withholden for six or seven years by John Leveson, esquire, who has married the wife [widow] and one of the executors of the said Anthony, although he, Lewson (sic), is in wealth. The parties are determined to attempt the law. Prays his Lordship for expedition of justice.
  Signed.

John was the primary heir in his father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. The will indicates that John had not yet reached the age of 21 years, at the time of the will. As Nicholas and Denys had eighteen children, John, who is the eldest son, is likely near the higher end of the twenty one years i.e. probably born between 1515 and 1520. John was definitely born before 2 March 1529(30), the date of the will of his grandmother, Joan Bradbury in which he is named. John is of course not mentioned in his mother's will, dated 13 March 1559 since he died in 1549.
Nicholas's will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection:
... The residense of all my said parte and porcion[ne] after my saide legacies paide and this my present testament fulfilled I wille shalbe diuided to and amongst my children egally to be divided amongst my sonnes Thomas John Nicolas and William and all my daughters that is to witte to euery of theim hir parte when he or she shall com[e] to his or hir lawfull age or mariage And if the saide John my sonne shalhappin to deceace before that he shall before that he shall come to his Lawfull age I will that then myne executours vndernamed shall distribute and dispoase the same his parte of the saide residense amongst all my children that then shalbe lyving when they shall come to their full age or marriage.
...
Item this is the laste will of me thabouenamed Nicholas Leveson made as to the disposicion[ne] of all my landes and tenementis aboue specified in manner & fourme as followith that is to witte I wille that John Leveson my sonne shalhaue aswell all suche my landes and tenementes rentes reuersionnes and services w[i]thappurten[a]unces in the Countie of Stafford as came to me by inheritaunce after and by the deceace of Richard Leueson my father as all suche my landes ten[emen]tes rents reuersionnes and seruices w[i] t[h] thappurten[a]unces whiche I have bought and p[ur]chased lying in the saide Countie of Stafford, and in the parrishes of Esth[a]m? and Westh[a]m? in the Counties of Essex anddilsex? huntingdon[e] and hertfordshire w[i]th one parcell lying in the parrishe of Cheth[a]m in the Countie of kent. To haue and to holde all the same landes tenementes rentes reuresionnes and seruices w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces to the saide John Leveson my sonne and to theires of his body lawfully begotten. And I wille that myn executours shalhaue the rule and guyding of all the same olondes? and tenements w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces to thuse of my saide sonne till  he shall come to his full age of xxj yers. And if it happin my said sonne John to deceace w[i]t[h]out heirs lawfully begotten I wille that then all the saide landes and tenementes w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces shall remayne vnto the next heires of me the said Nicolas Leveson.
...
Item I wille that my saide wife haue to hir during all her naturall life, all my Landes and tenement w[i]t[h] othir thappurten[a]unces lying and being in the parrishe of Gillilngham in the Countie of kent the which I late purchased and now is in the tenure and occupieng of one John Godfrey. And after the deceace of my saide wife Thenne I wille that the same landes and tenementis w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces shall remaine to my sonne John and to his heires foreuer. And wheras before I haue willed my meswage and tenementis w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces sett lying and being in Lymestrete in London vnto my saide wife terme of hir life I wille that the same meswage and tenementes w[i]t[h] their appurtenaunces after his deceace shall remaine holie to John my sonne and to his heires foreuer.

John is called out and specifically excepted from a legacy granted to each of his brothers and sisters in the will of his grandmother, Joan Bradbury, dated 2 March 1529(30). Since John was still a boy at this time (probably aged about ten or twelve), I guess that his exception is more to do with the fact that John, the eldest son, was the heir of his father and due to receive a lot more of the family wealth than his brothers or sisters, than any particular offense he had caused his grandmother.
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ITEM; I bequeath to every of the children of my daughter Leveson’s children being alive at the time of my decease except John LEVESON twenty pounds and if any of them die before they come to lawful age or marriage I will that then the survivor or survivors of them that shall have the part and [prepart] of him or her so decreasing.

John is mentioned in the will of his cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1547 James Leveson)
ITEM; I give to my cousin John LEVESON of London and my cousin WILKES either of them a ring of. Gold ten shillings apiece and to my sister Denys LEVESON, my cousin John SADLER and his wife, my cousin DAVENETT and his wife, my cousin HEWETT and his wife each of them a ring of gold of ten pounds.

John's wife, Anne, was the daughter of  Sir John Smith, Baron of the Exchequer. I believe John Smith's title is the origin of what I believe to be incorrect information that John Leverson married a daughter of a man named Baron, e.g. in Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society vol 4 pp288-91 (1875):
His son John, married the daughter and heir of ― Baron, but died without issue, and before his father.

Death: 1549, in Norfolk, slain by the rebels in Kett's Rebellion, a rebellion in Norwich against the practice of landowners to "enclose" common land for their own use.
The King's initial response to the rising was to send William Parr, the Marquess of Northampton, with 1500 men to quell the rebellion. This army entered Norwich on 31 July 1549 but was beaten in a street battle in Norwich, losing about 100 men, and retreated to Cambridge the next day. Accounts of this battle can be found in Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk pp87-99 (Frederic William Russell, 1859) and Robert Kett and the Norfolk rising pp138-56 (Joseph Clayton, 1912), although neither source mentions John Leveson by name. A much larger force of 14,000 men under the Earl of Warwick was then used to overcome the rebellion. John Leveson, at that time a wealthy landowner in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, connected with the Parrs, was likely part of the initial unsuccessful force and was "slain by the rebels", probably in Norwich on 1 August 1549.

Will: The will of John Leveson, esq, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, proved in September 1549, is held at The National Archives PROB 51/108.

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Mary (Leveson) Calthorpe

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: Edmund Calthorpe
This marriage occurred before 16 August 1558 when Mary is named as "Mary Calthrop" in the will of her cousin, Thomas Wilkes.

Edmund was the seventh son of Richard Calthorpe of Antingham, Norfolk, and Anne Hastings. He was a citizen and haberdasher of London in 1552, living in the parish of St Thomas the Apostle. Edmund was the brother of Sir Martyn Calthorpe, mayor of London in 1888. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Thomas Wood, a vintner, of London. Norfolk Archæology vol 12 (1895) states on p442 that administration of Edmund's estate was granted on 22 July 1581, but also records, on p458, that an Edmund Calthroppe was buried in St Thomas the Apostle on 2 July 1583.

Children: Notes:
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
4.—MARY, unm. in 1536; m. as his second wife, before 1560, Edmond CALTHORPE, of St. Thomas’ the Apostle, London, Haberdasher, brother of Sir Martin CALTHORPE, Mayor, 1588-89, and had one child, Dionysia, who m. 10 Sept. 1571, at St. Dionis Backchurch, Ralph WOODROFFE, wool merchant.

Mary is mentioned in her father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. Her husband is not mentioned, although the husbands of her two elder sisters are mentioned, indicating Mary and Edmond were likely married after this date.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
... ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.

Neither Mary nor Edmond are mentioned in the will of Mary's cousin, James Leveson, dated 8 April 1545, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/31/655, nor in the will of Mary's cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343.

Mary is named as "Mary Calthrop" in the will of her cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

Mary, Edmond and their daughter Dionys are mentioned in the will of Mary's mother, Denys, dated 13 March 1559 (will of lands) and 1 August 1560 (will of goods). The house in Lime Street is left to William LEveson under the condition that Mary be allowed to live there for free for life.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
...ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON. Also I bequeath so for every of my daughters a ring of gold of the value of thirty shillings for a like remembrance. 
... Also I give and bequeath to my goddaughter Dionys CALTHORPE daughter to my daughter Mary CALTHORPE over and besides the ten pounds to her bequeathed forty pounds to be delivered to her at the day of her marriage or at the age of eighteen years by the discretion of my executors, and John Fallowfield my servant to keep the same money until her said marriage or age finding good securities for the payment thereof if he live so long if not then my executors to keep the same until her said marriage or age of eighteen years as aforesaid.  ITEM; I bequeath yearly to the said Dionys Calthorpp five marks of lawful money of England to be paid to her yearly by my executors towards her finding and godly bringing up until the time her said marriages or age of eighteen years. 
... ITEM; I bequeath to Edmonde CALTHORPE twenty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to him by my executors immediately after my decease.
ITEM; I give and bequeath all my rings and chains of gold and all other my jewels whatsoever they be except before given and all my wearing apparel to my daughters Dionys STRETE and Mary CALTHORPE to be divided among them equally portion and portion like immediately after my decease.
... ITEM; I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary CALTHORPE the bedstead and all the bedding hanging chests and all other such implements of household goods and chattels whatsoever they be now being in the tower chamber within my house in Lime Street in London in which chamber the said Mary commonly used to lie.  ITEM; I bequeath more unto my said daughter Mary Calthorpe the bedstead and all the bedding whatsoever it be in the chamber where I the said Dionys Leveson do commonly use to lie except hangings of the same chamber which hangings I bequeath to my son Thomas LEVESON.
... I give will and bequeath to the said William Leveson my son all that my meases or tenements with the appurtenances set lying and being in Lime Street in London and now in the tenure and occupation of one Henry Edys with all shops cellars seller’s chambers and other the appurtenances and all other the premises with the appurtenances now in the tenure of the said Henry Edys to the said William Leveson and his heirs forever to the intent that the said William and his heirs shall suffer Mary Calthropp my daughter during her life to dwell and inhabit in the said mease or tenement and to take her own use all advantages and profits thereof and of all other the premises with the appurtenances thereto belonging freely and without paying my rent or other thing for the time during her life or else shall yearly pay or cause to be paid to the said Mary Calthropp during her life at her election all those yearly rents and the said mease or tenements and other the premises thereto belonging shall or may then be let at without fraud or [cowyn]

Sir William Hewett, the husband of Mary's sister, Alice, leaves Edmund and Mary a bequest, and also contains the curious information that Edmund and Mary's daughter, Dionys, is living with the Hewetts at the time the will was made William's will, on 3 January 1566(7). The will is transcribed at rotherham.co.uk:
... To Dyonise Calthroppe dwellinge with me x li.
... To Edmonde Calthroppe my brother in lawe and to his wief vij yardes of blacke, and to either a ringe of golde of the value of xl s .

The three are all mentioned again in the will of Mary's brother, Nicholas, dated 4 May 1568, and held at The National Archives PROB 11/50/162. Edmund was a witness to this will.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1568 Nicholas Leveson) COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
1568 Nicholas Leveson
... I will to my brother Thomas LEVESON and his wife, to my brother William LEVESON and his wife, to my brother CALTROPPE and his wife, to my cousin OSBORNE and his wife, to my cousin EYRTON and his wife, to my cousin VAUGHAN and his wife and to my friend Mrs Arlakaden, to every of them rings of gold of the value of thirty shillings apiece for a remembrance of me.
... ITEM; I bequeath unto Denys CALTROP my sister Caltrope’s daughter the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to her at her full age or marriage by my executors.
... In witness whereof I the said Nicholas Leveson have set my hand and seal the day and year above written. By me Nicholas Leveson, by me Edmond Calthorpe, haberdasher witness to this testament; by me William Vaughan, draper witness to this testament, p me William Pitt de Clements Inn testem ad hinc testamentum

Edmund was a witness to the will of Mary's brother Thomas, dated 15 April 1576. The will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection, which also has an image of the will.
... And in wytnes that this my whole last will and testament I have been unto subscribed and putto my Seale In the presence of Edmunde Calthorpe Thomas CaHell clerke Henry Plankoney William Leveson and Joseph ? the daye and yere aforsaid

Mary is also mentioned in the will of her brother Nicholas's wife, also Mary, dated 30 December 1578 held at The National Archives PROB 11/62/540. This is a modern spelling transcript ©2014 Nina Green
...  Item, I bequeath to my brother[=brother-in-law], Mr John Grace, to my good friends, Mr William Dixon, Mrs Harlakenden, Mrs Good, Mrs Bingham, Mrs Clerke, Mrs Dixon, my sister Calthorpe, my cousin, Henry Foster, and his wife, Robert Leveson, Helen [=Ellen] Leveson and my god-daughter, Mary Clerke, I say to every of them one ring of gold, price twenty shillings of lawful money of England for a remembrance of me;

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Nicholas Leveson

Monumental brass of Nicholas Leveson
Depiction of Nicholas Leveson from monumental brass of Nicholas and his wife Denys in St Andrew Undershaft, London
from Bob Speel
also spelled Nycolas Leveson and Nicholas Lewson

Father: Richard Leveson

Married: Denys Bodley

Children: Occupation: Mercer and merchant. Nicholas was a Merchant of the Staple in the town of Calais, a group of twenty-six traders that held a complete monopoly over all wool exports from England. He is described as "one of the wealthiest citizens of his period". Nicholas was also Sheriff of London in 1534-5.

Nicholas obtained the freedom of the Mercers' Company of London, by servitude to William Browne, in 1502 (Records of the London Livery Companies Online).

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society vol 4 pp288-91 (1875)
NOTES ON TWO MONUMENTAL BRASSES IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW-UNDER-SHAFT, LEADENHALL STREET.
  By W. H. Overall
...
  Nicholas, the subject of this notice, came to London in early life to seek his fortune. He was bound apprentice to one William Browne, a member of the Mercers’ Company, to which guild he was afterwards admitted by servitude. From his connection with this body it is probable that he traded abroad, for he became a merchant of the staple at Calais, and through his possessions a wealthy citizen. He married Dionysia Bodley, daughter of Thomas and Joan Bodley of Black Notley, Essex; her mother married a second time Thomas Bradbury, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1509. The estates of Black Notley came to Dionysia on the death of her brother James. The issue of her marriage with Nicholas Leveson were eight sons and ten daughters, many of whom died young.
  Their town residence was situate in Lime Street in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, then a fashionable part of the city. The mansion was, according to the description in Mr. Leveson’s will, large, and had a garden attached. Their principal country house was situated at Horne Place, Halling, in Kent. They also possessed property in Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, &c. He was chosen Sheriff of London on the 2nd September, 1534. His three sons Thomas, Nicholas, and William, became members of the Mercers’ Company by patrimony. His son John, married the daughter and heir of ― Baron, but died without issue, and before his father. His daughter Dorothy married William Streete; Elizabeth, Sir Willliam Hewet, knt., and Mary, Edmund Calthorpe, esq. He died on the 20th August 1539, and was buried according to the directions contained in his will made the 7th day of November, 1536, viz.: “In the tomb made before the upper pillar of the north side of the church between the high altar and the altar of the north aisle.”

Notes:
An historical and descriptive account of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton p61 (George Oliver, 1836)
In 1529, as we learn from an old manuscript, preserved by Huntbach and cited by Shaw, Nicholas Leveson presented the church with a new chalice of silver. It was determined also that the high altar should be restored in its former beauty; and it was completed in 1533, at the expense of £95; towards which the above Nicholas Leveson gave 40s. and £40 towards the gilding of it; and his brother, James Leveson contributed £3 6s. 8d.

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 pp180-2 (1905)
SOME ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE LORD MAYORS AND SHERIFFS OF LONDON DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, 1501-1600.
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
    NICHOLAS LEVESON (Mercer), SHERIFF, 1534-35.
  He was one of the three sons of Richard LEVESON, of Willinghall, co. Stafford, by (—) the heiress of Prestwood and Wolverhampton Underhill in that county. He became free of the Mercers’ Company by service; was Merchant of the Staple at Calais; Sheriff of London, 1534-35, but was never an Alderman of that City. He resided in Lime Street, and was of Horne Place, in Halling, co. Kent, being one of the wealthiest citizens of his period. He married Dionysia, sister and heir of James BODLEY, of Black Notley, co. Essex, da. of Sir James BODLEY, of the same, by Joan, his wife, which Joan afterwards married Sir Thomas BRADBURY, Mayor, 1509-10. He died 20 Aug. 1539, and was bur. at St. Andrew’s Undershaft, where a monumental brass represents himself with eight sons and his wife with ten daughters. His will, dat. 7 Nov. 1536, pr. 13 Oct. 1539, in C.P.C. (31 Dingely). His widow d. 2 Dec. 1560. Her will, dat. 1 Aug. pr. 20 Dec. 1560, in C.P.C. (60 Mellersh).
          ISSUE.
I.—JOHN LEVESON, of Halling, co. Kent, son and heir. He m. (—) da. of (—) BACON. He is said also to have m. Anne, da. of Sir John SMITH. He d. s.p. being slain by the rebels in Norfolk (1549), 3 Ed. VI.
II.—THOMAS LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; was of Halling afsd., being heir to his brother. He m. 29 May 1553, at St. Michael’s Bassishaw, Ursula, da. of Sir John GRESHAM, Mayor, 1547-48. She who was b. 21 Oct. 1534, predeceased him. He d. 21 April 1576. Will dat. 17 April, pr. 30 Oct. 1676, in C.P.C. (28 Carew). Their son and heir, SIR JOHN LEVESON, of Halling afsd., b. 1555, entered his ped. in the visit of Kent, 1619, being father of JOHN LEVESON, aged 5 in 1593, who left two daughters and co-heirs, viz., (1) Frances, who m. Sir Thomas GOWER and was ancestress of the well-known ennobled family of Leveson-Gower, and (2) Christian, who m. Sir Peter TEMPLE, Bart.
III.—WILLIAM LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; entered his ped. in the visit of London, 1568, being then the second surviving son of his parents. He m. Barbara, da. of Robert CHAPMAN, of Stone, co. Kent, and had issue, Eleanor, living 1568.
IV.—NICHOLAS LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; living 1560.
1.—GRISELL, m. before 1534, John SADLER, of Edmonton, co. Middx., whose will was pr. 1534, in the C.P.C. (49 Mellershe).
2.—JOAN, m. before 1536, Ralph DAVENELL, DAVENETT, or DAWBENETT, and had issue
3.—ALICE, m. before 1534, Sir William HEWETT, Mayor, 1559-60, who d. 6 Feb. 1566-7.
4.—MARY, unm. in 1536; m. as his second wife, before 1560, Edmond CALTHORPE, of St. Thomas’ the Apostle, London, Haberdasher, brother of Sir Martin CALTHORPE, Mayor, 1588-89, and had one child, Dionysia, who m. 10 Sept. 1571, at St. Dionis Backchurch, Ralph WOODROFFE, wool merchant.
5.—DIONYSIA, unm., 1536; m. before 1560, William STREETE, and was then living with issue.

Harrison, Waples and allied families pp147 (William Welsh Harrison, 1910)
  NICHOLAS LEVESON of Halling and Whornes Place, in Kent, second son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood, succeeded to the estate of his brother John, who died without issue. Nicholas was Sheriff of London in 1534.
  About the year 1558 he purchased his estate at Halling and “Whornes Place,” and made the latter his seat. Whornes Place, usually called Horne’s Place, is in Cookstone Parish, situated close to the bank of the River Medway. It was erected by William Whorne, Knight, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1487.
  Nicholas Leveson married Dionysia, daughter of Thomas Bodley, Esquire, of Black Notley, in Essex. The coat-of-arms of Nicholas Leveson of London, was: Azure, a fess nebulee argent, between three leaves or, quartering argent, a chevron gules between three cinquefoils pierced sable. Crest: A goat’s he
ad erased argent, attired or.

Nicholas was left a legacy in the will of Anne (Belwood) Browne (mother of Sir William Browne, mayor of London and the master to whom Nicholas was bound as an apprentice), dated 12 January 1503.
The National Archives PROB 11/14/71 - transcribed by Brian Hessick)
...  Item: I bequeath to Nicholas LEVESON, 20s.

Nicholas and Denys received numerous legacies in the will of Denys's mother, Joan Bradbury, dated 2 March 1529(30) and proved 26 April 1530. Their inheritance included the manors of  Black Notley, White Notley, Stampton and Willingale Spayne, all in Essex.
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ITEM; I bequeath to my son in law Nicholas LEVESON the lease and term of years which I have in my house at Stratford and my household stuff in that house being.  Also I bequeath to the same Nicolas Leveson the feather bed whereupon I currently use to lie and my best Coverley and pair of sustenance blankets and the chest that my plate is in and all the apparel of the chamber wherein I currently use to lodge.  ITEM; I bequeath to the said Nicholas Leveson and Denys his wife my daughter my two pottall pots of silver all gilt and my six bowls of silver with the [roms] all gilt which he has already.
... ALSO I will that all my pewter vessels shall be equally divided by weight and given that is to say the one half to my daughter Leveson and the other half to be distributed and given by the good discretions of my executors.  ALSO I bequeath to my daughter Leveson these [xxx] ensuing, that is to say my great kettle wherein I used to [soothe my brown] my new great brass pot and two of my brass pots being next in value to other two being the best pots my best gown furred with foxes and [purcelled] with [xxx] my beads gold my [xxx] of gold garnished with pearl and as well ruby in the middle thereof and also the pair of sheets lying in my chest standing next the window in my maid’s chamber and two my best carpets, and I bequeath all my [droper] towels [droper] table cloths sheets and all other my napery afore or hereafter bequeathed unto my said daughter Leveson saving I will that she shall distribute and deliver to every of my servants dwelling with me the time of my decease two pairs of sheets by her discretion, also to certain of the poor people of the said parish of Saint Stephen part of my old and coarse linen by her whole discretion.
...  ITEM; I bequeath to every of the children of my daughter Leveson’s children being alive at the time of my decease except John LEVESON twenty pounds and if any of them die before they come to lawful age or marriage I will that then the survivor or survivors of them that shall have the part and [prepart] of him or her so decreasing.
... and of this my present testament and last will above written and underwritten I make ordain and constitute my said son Nicholas Leveson and my said daughter Denys his wife to be executors and Master Robert Norwich one of the king’s sergeants at the law to be supervisor; and I give and bequeath to either of the said Nicholas Leveson and Denys his wife for their labours and pains to be sustained in the execution of my said testament and will ten pounds of money;

This is the last will of me the said Dame Johan Bradbury made in the said second day of March in the said year of our Lord God 1529; and in the said twenty-first year of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII containing all such manors lands and tenements which I or any other person or persons have or be seized of to my use.  First I will that my Manors of Black Notley, White Notley and Stampton with the appurtenances in the county of Essex and all other my lands and tenements rents reversion and services and other hereditaments whatsoever they be in Black Notley White Notley Stanton Great Leighs Little Leighs etc forested in the same county parcel of which premises I bought of John Fortescue Esquire and Phillips his wife, and other parcels thereof I bought of William Aylnoth of Chelmsford, immediately after my death shall remain to Nicholas Leveson my son in law and to Denys my daughter his wife to be had to them and to their heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten, and for lack of such issue I will the same manors and other the premises with the appurtenances shall remain to the said Denys and to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten in manner and form as I have made it sure both to them by the law as by a certain indenture dated the eighteenth day of January the twelfth year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord thereof made between me the said Dame Johanne Bradbury on the one party and the said Nicholas and Denys on the other party
... ITEM; I will that in convenient haste after my decease my manor of Tendring in West Thurrock in Essex and all my lands and tenements which I late bought of Sir Richard Fitzlowes, Knight, and all my stock of cattle there by my executors and supervisor shall be sold in the best manner wise and for as much money as reasonably may be had for the same, and the money thereof received I will shall go and be applied toward the performance of the bequests in my testament. And if my said son in law Nicholas Leveson be minded to buy the said manor of Tendring and other the premises thereunto belonging I will that then the same Nicholas have the preferment of the sale thereof before any other persons he paying for the same as much money as any other person without fraud or [xxx] will give and pay for the same.
...
where by indenture tripartite indented bearing date the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord God [1525] and in the seventeenth year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII made between me the said Dame Johanne Bradbury by the name of Dame Johane Bradbury of London widow sister and heir to John LECHE clerk late vicar of Cheping Walden in the County of Essex deceased on the one part and the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the fraternity or guild of the Holy Trinity in the parish church of Walden aforesaid on the second part and the Abbot and convent of the monastery of the same town of Walden on the third part I have given and granted to the said Treasurer and Chamberlains an annual rent of twelve pounds sterling to be issuant provided devised and going out of and in the manor of Willingale Spayne in the said county of Essex whereof the Reverend Father in God Richard Bishop of Norwich and Nicholas Leveson stand and have been seized in their demesne as of feeoffee to the only use of me the said Dame Johanne and to the performance of my last will to have hold and provide the said annual rent of twelve pounds to the said Treasurer and Chamberlains and to their successors for evermore to them to be paid at the said town of Walden yearly and perpetually at two times of the year in manner and form and to the intent and purpose expressed in the said indenture more plainly it is my [xxx]  I will that immediately after my decease the said manor of Willingale Spayne with the appurtenances shall remain to the said Nicholas Leveson and Denis his wife to hold to them and to their heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten and for lack of issue I will the said manor with the appurtenances shall remain to the said Denis and to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten

Death: 20 August 1539

Burial: St Andrew Undershaft, London, England, "in the tomb made before the upper pillar of the north side of the church, between the high altar and the altar of the north aisle", as requested in his will.

Monumental brass of Nicholas Leveson and Dionyse (Bodley) Leveson
Monumental brass of Nicholas Leveson and Denys (Bodley) Leveson in St Andrew Undershaft, London
from Bob Speel
Arms of Nicolas Leveson Impaled arms of Nicholas Leveson and Dionyse Bodley
Shield displaying the arms of Nicolas Levesonon the monumental brass of him and his wife in St Andrew Undershaft, London
from Bob Speel
Shield displaying the impaled arms of Nicholas Leveson and Denys Bodley on their monumental brass in St Andrew Undershaft, London
from Bob Spee
There is a monumental brass depicting Nicholas, his wife, Denys (Bodley) Leveson and their eighteen children, in St Andrew Undershaft, London.
The Antiquary vol 45 p141 (1909)
Monumental Brasses in the City of London.
    BY ANDREW OLIVER.
      II. ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT.
  (1) 1538.—Nycolas Leveson, wife, eight sons, ten daughters.
  Three shields, two scrolls. Mural, east wall, north aisle.
  He is dressed in a long fur cloak, open at the neck and the end thrown over the arm, showing an under-dress, and a bag or purse worn round the waist.
  The sons also wear cloaks and gowns.
  The wife and daughters are dressed in similar costumes—viz., a kennel head-dress and long flowing gown—and on the wife's figure there is a long rosary attached to a belt worn round the waist.
  From the mouth of the man proceeds a scroll, bearing “Deus miseratur mei,” and from the woman's, “et benedicat nubis.” On the left side of the slab there is a shield for Leveson, a canting coat, Gules, a fess nebule argent, between three leaves slipped or.
  Quartered with Prestwood: Argent, a chevron between three cinque-foils vert.
  On the opposite side there is a shield bearing Bodley, the family arms of the wife:
  Argent, five martlets in saltire sable, on a chief azure three ducal crowns or.
  In the centre of the slab, at the top, a shield bearing Leveson and Prestwood, impaling Bodley. The inscription is as follows:
  “Here under this tombe lyeth buryed the bodyes of Nycolas Leveson Mercer sometime sheryffe of London and Mchant of the Staple at Calys and Denys his wife which Nycolas decessyd ye XX day of August Ano dm Modcxxxix And ye said Denys ye secode day of Dceber Ao Mo vclx whous soull Jhu prdn.”
   Nycolas Leveson was buried, according to the instructions contained in his will, made the 7th day of November, 1536, in the tomb made before the upper pillar of the north side of the church, between the high altar and the altar of the north aisle.
  His wife died on the 2nd day of December, 1560, and, in accordance with her will, was buried in the Church of St. Andrew Undershaft, in the middle aisle, and at the end of the pew which she had been accustomed to use (see Freemen of London, p. 102).

Will: The will of Nicholas Leveson, mercer and merchant of London, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552
The will has been directly transcribed at The Sutherland Collection, which also has an image of the will.
In the name of allmyghty god Amen: The vijth Day of the monneth of November in the yere of our Lorde  god a thowsaunde fyve hundred and xxxv(-), and in the xxvij yeare of the Reigne of kinge henrye theigh, I Nicholas Leveson Citizeine and mercer of London and merchannte of the Staple at the Towne of Callice? beinge of hoole mynde and of good parfett memory thancked be allmightie god considering the frailetie of mannes life, how that deathe to every creature is certaine, and thower and tyme of commyng therof is uncertaine, nott willing therefore w[i]t[h] goddes grace to die intestate for the helthe of my soule do ordeine and make this my present testament and last will aswell of all my goodes and Cattalls moueable as of all my landes and tenementes w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces whiche I haue in the Cittie of London and in the Counties of Stafford Essex and Kent, or ells where w[i]t[h]in the Realme of Englannde in manner and fourme following that is to saie First and primerpallie? I bequeth and recommend my soule to the mercie of allmightie god my creatour and redemer, and to the mooste glorious virgyn our Ladie sainte mary his mother and to all the companny of heven, and my bodie to be buried w[i]t[h]in a tombe made before theupper piller on the northe side of the parrishe churche of sainte Andrew vnder shafte of London that is to witt betwene the hie aulter, and the aulter of the northe yle, Item I bequeth to the hie aulter of the same churche in recompence of my tithes forgotten if anny be vjs viijjd Item I bequethe to the brotheros? of our ladie and sainte Anne w[i]t[h]in the said churche vjs viijd, Also I wille that myne executoure of my goodes, shall ley out bestowe and expende in and aboute the charges of my burying and funeralls and for black cloth for gownes to be gevin againste my said burying and for the dynner then to be made, and for other charge and thinges neadefull and conuenient to be had and doon at and for my saide burying the somme of an hundred pounde or moore as shalbe thought conuenient by the discrecions? of myn executours wherof I wille that twenty poundes shalbe dealed and distributed and dispoased amonge poore housholders, dwelling in the said parrishe of sainte Andrew, and in other parrishes nere therabout and to other poore people commynge to my saide burying and masse of requyem on the morrow following. Item I wille that sone after my said burying and funeralls doon? suche dettis as I shall owe, atte tyme of my deceace being furste recouned? paide and deducted, that all my goodes and Cattalls wolles redy monney and sperat? dettis aswell beyonde the see as on thisside the see, shalbe diuided in three egall partes and porcionnes whereof I wille and reserve one parte to my selfe and to myne executours, therewith to beare the charges of my saide burying and funeralles and to perfourme this my present will and the legacies therin conteynd and all other charges and thinges concerning me. And thother parte therof, I bequeth to Dennys my wife for hir fulle parte and porcion[ne] to hir belonging by the lawe and custome of the Cittie of London of all my said goodes cattals and dettis. And the thirde parte of the same my goodes Cattalls & detts I bequeth to all my children having and not married atte tyme of my deceace betwene theim egallie to be diuided for their full partes and porcionnes to theim and every of them belonginge by the saide lawe and customme of London of all my said goodes cattalles and dettis. And I wolle that every of my saide children shalbe othire heire that is to witt if anny of them happyn to deceace before his or hir lawfull age or marriage That the parte and porcion[ne] of him or her so deceasing shall remaine to all thother of theim suruyvyng egally to be diuided betwene them and so of euery of theim. Of the whiche myne owne parte and porcion[ne] to me and myn Executours reserued as is aforesaid, I make the bequethe herafter specified that is to witte Firste I bequethe to my wife for a remembraunce to praie for my soule one hundred poundes sterling. Item I bequeth to my brother James Leveson for suche seruice? and pleasure as he hath doon for me heretofore and herafter w[i]t[h] goddes grace shall avforme? the somme of an hundred sterling and a ringe of goolde of the value of fortie shillings for a token of remembraunce and to my suster his wife I bequeth another like ringe of goolde of the value of forty shillings for a token also of remembraunce for my soule. And to my suster Margaret Cell? to praie for my soule six poundes thirtene shillings and foure pence. And I wille that myne executours shall prouide and finde a seculier preest of honnest connersacion[ne]? and of good and vertiouse disposic[c]ion to singe and say his daiely masse when he shalbe thereto dispoased in the parrishe churche of sainte Andrewes in London praying for my soule and for the soules of my father and mother by the space of tenne yeris next after my deceace. And also shall cause an obite or annyuersarie to be kept yerelie by noote? during the said tenne yeres, that is to witte, yerelie the daie of my deceace if it maie be conuenienthe kept the same day or els assone after conuenienthe maybe in the saide churche of sainte Andrewes by the preestis and clerkes of the same churche in good and conuenient manner after thuse there accustommed for my soule and the soules of my saide father and mother and for the salary and charges of the saide preest and yerelie obite so to be kept and founde I bequeth an hundred m[a]r[k]s and tenne that is to witte for euerie yere of the saide tenne yeres tenne marks for the preest and one mark yerelie for thobbit to the said preestis and clerkis and other (-) and the rest to be gevin to poore people. ITem I bequeth to the making and repayering of hie waies aboute the Cittie of London to be bestowed by the discr[ec]cion of myne executoures Item: I bequethe to thexhibition and funding of some well dispoased student or studentis at thuniversitie of Oxforde twenty poundes to be dispoased By the discr[ec]cion of my said executours and in likewise to the funding and exhibition of some well dispoased student or students in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge by like discr[ec]cion of myne executours other twentye poundes. The residense of all my said parte and porcion[ne] after my saide legacies paide and this my present testament fulfilled I wille shalbe diuided to and amongst my children egally to be divided amongst my sonnes Thomas John Nicolas and William and all my daughters that is to witte to euery of theim hir parte when he or she shall com[e] to his or hir lawfull age or mariage And if the saide John my sonne shalhappin to deceace before that he shall before that he shall come to his Lawfull age I will that then myne executours vndernamed shall distribute and dispoase the same his parte of the saide residense amongst all my children that then shalbe lyving when they shall come to their full age or marriage.  And I wolle in likewise that if anny of my sonnes Thomas Nicolas or Will[ia]m or anny of my said daughters happin to deceas[e] before their lawfull age or marriage that then thother of theim then lyving shalhaue the parte or porc[c]ion of the saide residense whiche shulde come to him or them that so deceaseth egallie to be diuided amongest them in fourme abouesaid and so of euery of theim. And if my said sonnes John Thomas Nicolas and William and all my saide daughters happin to deceace before their lawfull ages or mariage as god defende I wolle then all their said partes and porcionnes of the Residense of my parte and porcion[ne] shalbe distributed and dispoased by myne saide Executours in deades of almes and wourkes of charitie that is to witte in like manner and fourme as their other p[ar]tes and porcions of my saide goodes Cattalles and dettis been aforespecified to be distributed and dispoased after all their deceases. Item I geve to the reparacionnes of the parrishe churche off halling to praie for my soule forty shillings. Item I give to the parrishe churche of Cockston[e] to by an ornament that the saide churche shall neede fortie shillinges. Item to my sonne Sadler I geve twenty poundes. Item to Earle? Davenell? twenty poundes. Item I bequeth to my cosen[e] Guy Craiford twenty poundes. Item I bequeth to John Butill the parsonne of Cockstill[e] to pray for my soul a blacke gowne and in money twenty shillinges. Item I giue vnto Sir Thomas Snydoll vicar of halling to praie for my said soule tenne shillinges. Item I wille that euery seru[au]nte to the nomber of three that doothe pertaine and belonge to my brother James Leveson shalhaue a blacke gowne. Item I will that the foresaide Dennys my wife shalhaue twoo? standing pottes vj bolles w[i]t]h] a couer parcell gilt and vj bolles w[i]t[h] a couer cleane gilte which were sometyme hir mothers. Item I geve to the said Dennys thone halfe of my (-) owne? thirde p[ar]te and porcion[ne] of all the rest of my plate and Implements of housholde stuffe that is now in my dwelling house in London anny thinge ordenaunce or prouision[ne] in this my wille gevin or declared to the contrary notw[i]t[h]standing. Item I geve to Robert Wemme of Wolu[er]hampton Henry Vernam and vnto all other my housholde seru[au]ntes of aswell menne as women to euery one of them twentie shillings and also to euery other of my seruauntes aswell menne as women dwelling in my house at hornesplace xiijs iijd. Item I giue vnto Gresill[e] my daughter a gilte cuppe of the price of six poundes thirtene shillings and fourpence w[i]t[h] myn[e] armes to be sett vppon the same cuppe for a token of remembraunce and the same cupp[e] to be bought by myne executours. Item to my Daughter Joane Dauenell oone cupp of siluer and gilt of the value of vj li - xijs – mjd
Item this is the laste will of me thabouenamed Nicholas Leveson made as to the disposicion[ne] of all my landes and tenementis aboue specified in manner & fourme as followith that is to witte I wille that John Leveson my sonne shalhaue aswell all suche my landes and tenementes rentes reuersionnes and services w[i]thappurten[a]unces in the Countie of Stafford as came to me by inheritaunce after and by the deceace of Richard Leueson my father as all suche my landes ten[emen]tes rents reuersionnes and seruices w[i] t[h] thappurten[a]unces whiche I have bought and p[ur]chased lying in the saide Countie of Stafford, and in the parrishes of Esth[a]m? and Westh[a]m? in the Counties of Essex anddilsex? huntingdon[e] and hertfordshire w[i]th one parcell lying in the parrishe of Cheth[a]m in the Countie of kent. To haue and to holde all the same landes tenementes rentes reuresionnes and seruices w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces to the saide John Leveson my sonne and to theires of his body lawfully begotten. And I wille that myn executours shalhaue the rule and guyding of all the same olondes? and tenements w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces to thuse of my saide sonne till  he shall come to his full age of xxj yers. And if it happin my said sonne John to deceace w[i]t[h]out heirs lawfully begotten I wille that then all the saide landes and tenementes w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces shall remayne vnto the next heires of me the said Nicolas Leveson. To haue and to holde to theim my next and right heires and to theire heires and assignes foreuer. Item I will that Dennys my wife shalhaue my meswage or house w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces,wherin I now dwell w[i]t[h] the gardeine belonging vnto the same messwage sett lying and being in Lymestrete in the parrish of sainte Andrew vndershafte of London and also all othir my tenementis w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces sett lying and being in lymestreate aforesaide. To haue and to holde the same meswage gardeine and ten[emen]tis sett lying and being in lymestrete aforesaide w[i]t[h] all their appurten[a]unces to the saide Dennys and hir assignes during hir life she keeping the necessarie reparecionnes of the same meswage and ten[emen]tes w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces. Item I will that Dennys my wife haue all my ajanuo[u]rs? landes and ten[emen]tis w[i]t[h] their appurtenaunces sett lying and being in the Townes and parrishes of halling. Cockston. hirling. Snodlande and Luddesdowne in the County of kent vnto hir owne vse and vnto suche time as Thomas and Nicolas my sonnes come vnto their fulle and laufull age that is to witte thage of xxj yeres and at suche time as the said Thomas and Nicolas shall com[e] to that age Then I will the moitye of the said Manners Landes & fewdes? vnto the saide Thomas and to theues of his bodie lawfully begotten. And for defaulte of suche issue the same moitye to remayne to John Leveston my sonne and to his heirs foreuer. And thother moitie to Nicolas in like maner. Item I wille that Dennys my wife haue my ajanuour? or tenement called Westhorock in the Countie of Essex w[i]t[h]all the stocke of cattall and all suche landes and tenementis w[i]t[h] thappurtennces now being in the tenure and occupying of one Gose?. To haue and to holde to the said Dennys my wife during hir naturall life And after the deceace of my saide wife Thenne I will that all the foresaidf Manner and tenement w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces called Westhorock w[i]t[h] the stock aforesaide to remaine to William Leveson my fourthe sonne and to his heires of his bodie lawfullie begotten And for defaulte of sucheissue. Then I wille that the fore said (-) or tenament w[i]t[h] thappurten[a]unces to remaine to the right heires of me thafforesaide Nicolas Leveson. Item I wille that my saide wife haue to hir during all her naturall life, all my Landes and tenement w[i]t[h] othir thappurten[a]unces lying and being in the parrishe of Gillilngham in the Countie of kent the which I late purchased and now is in the tenure and occupieng of one John Godfrey. And after the deceace of my saide wife Thenne I wille that the same landes and tenementis w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces shall remaine to my sonne John and to his heires foreuer. And wheras before I haue willed my meswage and tenementis w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces sett lying and being in Lymestrete in London vnto my saide wife terme of hir life I wille that the same meswage and tenementes w[i]t[h] their appurtenaunces after his deceace shall remaine holie to John my sonne and to his heires foreuer. And of this my testament and last wille I make and ordeigne myne executours that is to saie the said Dennys my wife and the foresaid James Leveson my brother. In witnesse wherof to this my testament I haue putto my seale and subscribed my name the day and yere abouewritton (-) Nicolanni? Leveson. These being witnesse Guy Craiford John Sadler and John Buttill p[ar]sonne of Cockstone.

Modern spelling transcriptions of this will (with minor variations) can be found at www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-27-552.pdf and at
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1539 Nicholas Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
In the name of Almighty God Amen; the seventeenth day of the month of November in the year of our Lord God 1536 and in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Henry VIII; I Nicholas LEVESON Citizen and Mercer of London and Merchant of the Staple at the town of Calais being of whole mind and of good perfect memory thanks be Almighty God, considering the frailty of man’s life how that death to every creature is certain and the hour and time of coming thereof is uncertain, not willing therefore with God’s grace to die intestate for the health of my soul, do ordain and make this my present testament and last will as well of all my goods and chattels moveable, as of all my lands and tenements with the appurtenances which I have in the City of London and in the Counties of Stafford, Essex and Kent or elsewhere within the realm of England in manner and form following, that is to wit. First and principally I bequeath and recommend my soul to the mercy of Almighty God my creator and redeemer and to the most glorious Virgin our Blessed Lady Saint Mary his mother and to all the company of heaven and my body to be buried within the tomb made before the upper pillar on the north side of the parish church of Saint Andrew Undershaft of London; that is to [wit] between the high altar and the altar of the north aisle; and I bequeath to the high altar of the same church in recompense of my tithes forgotten if any be six shillings and eight pence.  ITEM; I bequeath to the brotherhood of our Lady and Saint Anne within the said church six shillings and eight pence; also I will that my executors of my goods shall lay out bestow and expend in and about the charges of my burying and funerals and for black cloths for gowns to be given against my said burying and for the dinner then to be made and for other charges and things needful and convenient to be had and done at and for my said burying the sum of one hundred pounds or Moore as shall be thought convenient by the discretion of my executors whereof I will that twenty pounds shall be delivered distributed and disposed amongst poor householders dwelling in the said parish of Saint Andrew and in other parishes near thereabouts and to other poor people coming to my said burying and mass of requiem on the morrow following. ITEM; I will that soon after my burying and funeral done, such debts as I shall owe at time of my decease being first [reckoned] paid and deducted that all my goods and chattels wools ready money and separate debts as well beyond the sea as on this side the sea shall be divided in three equal parts or portions, whereof I will and reserve one part to my self and to my executors thereof to bear the charges of my said burying and funerals and to perform me  this present will and the legacies therein contained and all other charges and things concerning me, and the other part thereof I bequeath to Denys my wife for her full part and portion to her belonging by the law and custom of the City of London of all my said goods chattels and debts, and the third part of the same my goods chattels and debts I bequeath to all my children living and not married at time of my decease between them equally to be divided for their full part and portions to them and every of them belonging by the said law and custom of London of all my said goods chattels and debts, and I will that every of my said children shall be other’s heirs that is to wit if any of them happen to decease before his or her lawful age or marriage that the part and portion of him or her so decreasing shall remain to all the other of them surviving equally to be divided between them and so of every of them, of the which my own part and portion to me and my executors reserved as is aforesaid I make the bequests hereafter specified that is to wit: first I bequeath to my wife for a remembrance to pray for my soul a hundred pounds sterling. I bequeath unto my brother James LEVESON for such service and pleasures as he has done for me heretofore and hereafter with God’s grace shall do for me the sum of one hundred pounds sterling and a ring of gold of the value of ten pounds for a token of remembrance and to my sister his wife I bequeath another like ring of gold of the value of ten pounds for a token also of remembrance for my soul, and to my sister Margaret [GELL] to pray also for my soul six pounds eight shillings and three pence and I will that my executors shall provide and find a secular priest of honest conversation and of good and virtuous disposition to sing and say his mass daily when he shall be thereto disposed in the parish church of Saint Andrew in London praying for my soul and for the souls of my father and mother by the span of ten years next after my decease and also shall cause an obit or anniversary to be kept yearly by rote during the said ten years that is to wit yearly the day of my decease if it may conveniently be kept the same day or else as soon after as conveniently may be in the said church of Saint Andrew by the priests and clerks of the same church in good and convenient manner after the use there accustomed for my soul  and the souls of my said father and mother and for the salary and charges of the said priest and yearly obit so to be kept aforesaid I bequeath a hundred marks and ten that is to wit for every year of the said ten years ten marks for the parish and one mark for the obit to the priest and clerk and other necessaries and the rest to be given to poor people.  ITEM; I bequeath to the making and repairing of highways about the City of London to be bestowed by the discretion of my executors a hundred marks.  ITEM; I bequeath to the exhibition and funding of some well disposed student or students at the University of Oxford twenty pounds to be disposed by the discretion of my said executors and in like wise to the funding and exhibition of some well disposed student or students in the university of Cambridge by like discretion of my executors other twenty pounds. The residue of all my said part and portion after my said legacies paid and this my present testament fulfilled I will shall be divided to and among my children equally to be divided amongst my sons John Thomas Nicholas and William and all my daughters that is to wit to every of them her part whenever he or she shall come to his or her lawful age or marriage, and if the said John my son happen to decease before that he shall come to his lawful age I will that the my executors under named shall distribute and dispose the same his part of the said residue amongst all my children that then shall be living when they shall come to their full age or marriage, and I will in like wise that if any of my sons Thomas Nicholas or William or any of my said daughters happen to decease before their lawful age or marriage that then the other of them then living shall have the part or portion of the said residue which should come to him or them that so deceased equally to be divided amongst them in form abovesaid and so of every of them, and if my said sons John Thomas Nicholas and William and all my said daughters happen to decease before their lawful ages or marriages as God decides I will that then all their said parts and portions of the residue of my part and portion shall be distributed and disposed by my said executors in deeds of alms and works of charity that is to wit in like manner and form as their other parts and portions of my said goods chattels and debts been afore specified to be distributed and disposed after all their decease.  ITEM; I give to the parish church of Cookstone to buy any ornament that the said church shall need ten pounds sterling.  ITEM; to my son Sadler twenty pounds.  ITEM; to Raffe Daverrell twenty pounds.  ITEM; I bequeath to my cousin Guy CRAFFORD twenty pounds.  ITEM; I bequeath unto [ ] John Buttell the parson of Cookstone to pray for my soul ten shillings.  ITEM; I give unto Sir Thomas Twydell vicar of Halling to pray for my said soul ten shillings.  ITEM; I will that any servant to the number of three that does pertain and belong to my brother James Leveson shall have a black gown.  ITEM; I will that the foresaid Denys my wife shall have two standing pots six bowls with [xxx] parcel gilt and six bowls with [xxx] chain gilt which were sometime her mother’s.  ITEM; I give unto the said Denys the [one] half of my own third part and portion of all the rest of my plate and implements of household stuff that is now in my dwelling house at London anything ordinance or promissory in this my will given or declared to the contrary notwithstanding.  ITEM; I give to Robert [Wem] of Wolverhampton Henry [blank] and unto all other my household servants of London as well men as women dwelling in my house at Hornes Place thirteen shillings and three pence.  ITEM; I give unto Grisell my daughter a gilt cup of the price of six pounds thirteen shillings and three pence with my arms to be set upon the same cup for a token of remembrance and the same cup to be bought by my executors.  ITEM; I give to my daughter Jone Daverrell a cup of silver and gilt of the value of six pounds thirteen shillings and three pence.
  ITEM; this is the last will of me the above named Nicholas Leveson made as to the disposing of all my lands and tenements above specified in manner and form as follows, that is to wit: I will that John LEVESON my son shall have as well all such my lands and tenements rents and reversion and premises with the appurtenances in the County of Stafford as came to me by inheritance after and by the decease of Richard LEVESON my father as all such my lands and tenements rents and reversions and premises  with the appurtenances which I have bought and purchased lying in the said County of Stafford and in the parishes of Estham and Westham in the Countie of Essex Middlesex Huntingdon and Hartford there with one parcel lying in the parish of Chatham in the County of Kent to have and to hold the same lands tenements rents reversions and premises with the appurtenances to the said John Leveson my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and I will that my executors shall have the rule and guiding of all the same lands and tenements with the appurtenances to the use of my said son till he shall come to his full age of twenty-one years, and if it happen that the said John my son to decease without heir lawfully begotten I will that then all the said lands and tenements with the appurtenances shall remain unto the next heir of me the said Nicholas Leveson to have and to holds them my next and right heirs and to their heirs and assigns forever.  ITEM; I will that Denys my wife shall have my messuage or house with the appurtenances wherein I now dwell with the garden belonging unto the same messuage set lying and being in Lime Street in the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft of [Lombardy] and also all other my tenements with the appurtenances set lying and being in Lime Street aforesaid to have and to hold the same messuage gardens and tenements set lying and being in Lime Street with all their appurtenances to the said Denys and her assigns during her life she keeping the necessary and mindful reparations of the same messuage and tenements with the appurtenances.  ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have all my Manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in the towns and parishes of Halling Cockstone Byrling Snodland and Luddesdowne in the County of Kent unto her own use and unto such time as Thomas and Nicholas my sons come to their full and lawful age that is to say the age of twenty one years and at such time as the said Thomas and Nicholas shall come to that age then I will the moiety of the said manors lands and tenements unto the said Thomas and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of issue the same moiety to remain to John Leveson my son and to his heirs for ever, and the other moiety  to Nicholas in like manner and for default of such issue the foresaid manors lands and tenements with their appurtenances to remain to my daughters Grysell Johanne Alice Mary and Denys and to their heirs and assigns forever.  ITEM; I will that Denys my wife have my manor or tenement  called West Thurrock in the County of Essex with all the stock of cattle and all such lands and tenements with their appurtenances now being in the tenure and occupying of one Cose to have and to hold to the said Denys my wife during her natural life and after the decease of my said wife then I will that the foresaid manor or tenement with their appurtenances called West Thurrock with the stock aforesaid to remain to William Leveson my fourth son and to his heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default such issue then I will that the foresaid manors or that is the appurtenances to remain to the right heirs of me the foresaid Nicholas Leveson.  ITEM; I would that my said wife have to her during her natural all my lands and tenements with their appurtenances lying and being in the parish of Gillingham in the County of Kent the which I late purchased and now is in the tenure and occupying of one John Godfrey, and after the decease of my said wife then I will that the same lands and tenement with their appurtenances shall remain to John my son and to his heirs forever and whereas before I have willed my messuage and tenements with their appurtenances set lying and being in Lime Street in London unto my said wife term of her life I will that the same messuage and tenements with all their appurtenances after her decease shall remain and go to John my son and to his heirs forever and of this my testament and last will make and ordain my executors that is to say Denys my wife and the foresaid  James Leveson my brother. In witness whereof to this my testament and last will I have put to my seal and subscribed my name the day and year above written these being witnesses: Gye Crayford, John Sadler and John Buttyll parson of Cockstone per me  Nicholas Leveson
  Proved 13 October 1539
  
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Nicholas Leveson

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Education: Queen's College, Cambridge, entering in 1544 and obtaining a B.A. in 1548/9
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 3 p119 (John Venn, 1924)
LUSON or LEVISON, NICHOLAS. Matric. pens. from QUEENS'. Easter, 1544. Probably s. of Nicholas, Sheriff of London, 1534 (ancestor of the Leveson-Gower family). Scholar, 1546-8; B.A. 1548-9 (1st in the ordo). Fellow, 1548-50. (Vis. of London, 1568; J. Ch. Smith.)

Nicholas was ranked 1st in the "Ordo", a rank of each individual in the class. Venn explains:
Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 1 page vii (John Venn, 1922)
The Ordo Senioritatis
... in its origin—the first extant list is in 1491—it is simply what its unvarying title implies. It was an ‘order of seniority.’ In a place where many men were in constant intercourse, and had to take part in processions, compete for appointments, and so forth, some recognized principle of seniority was desirable. What were the grounds on which the arrangement was originally made, it is now impossible to say. In many cases priority was certainly granted to social position: the fellow-commoner, or young man of family, often stands first. In other cases, as in that of Dr John Caius, in 1530, it looks as if intellectual pre-eminence was the determining cause.

Married: Mary (Mathew) Grace on 13 May 1560, in Cuxton, Kent, England

Mary married firstly Richard Grace, a goldsmith of London, who died in January 1559(60) (buried 25 January 1559(60); will proved 26 February 1559(60)) and had a daughter, Margaret Grace, who married John Robotham and died in 1585. Margaret may have been Richard's daughter from an earlier marriage - although Mary refers Margaret in her will as "my daughter" there is provision in Nicolas's will against her "orphan's portion". Mary's will, dated 30 December 1578 was proved on 3 December 1580. It is held at The National Archives PROB 11/62/540. This is a modern spelling transcript ©2014 Nina Green
T{estamentum} Marie Leveson
  In the name of Almighty God, Amen. The thirtieth day of the month of December in the year of Our Lord God one thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen and in the one and twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc., I, Mary Leveson, widow, late wife of Nicholas Leveson, whilst he lived citizen and mercer of London, being whole of mind and of good perfect memory, thanked be Almighty God, considering the frailty of man’s life, how that death to every creature is certain and the hour and time of coming thereof is uncertain, not minding therefore by God’s grace to die intestate, do ordain and make this my present testament and last will in manner and form following, to wit:
  First and principally I give and recommend my soul unto Almighty God, my Maker and Redeemer, and my body to be buried at the discretion of mine executor;
  Item, I bequeath to the poor of the parish of St Andrew Undershaft where I now dwell six pounds of lawful money of England to be distributed in coals in six years, the first yearly distribution of twenty shillings thereof to be made about the feast of Christmas next ensuing after my decease;
  Item, I bequeath to ten poor women of the same parish to every one a gown, price five shillings the yard;
  Item, I bequeath to the poor prisoners of Newgate, Ludgate, the King’s Bench and Marshalsea, to every of the said houses thirty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to the Spital at St Bartholomew’s and to St Thomas’ Hospital, to either of them five marks of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to twenty poor maids’ marriages six shillings and eight pence apiece;
  Item, I bequeath to ten poor of my kindred, to every of them twenty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to Elizabeth Newman, my servant, six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of lawful money of England, and I will that mine executor do give and deliver to some good honest person as will keep Agnes, the fool, the sum of forty shillings of lawful money aforesaid;
  Item, I bequeath unto my cousin, Elizabeth Leveson, six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of lawful money of England;
  And I bequeath to every of the rest of my household servants twenty shillings of lawful money aforesaid;
  More, I bequeath to every of my household servants a gown, price eight shillings of every yard;
  Item, I bequeath to poor Mistress Harrington a black gown cloth of the same price;
  Item, I give to Ralph Sydall and Oliver Bradford, to either of them twenty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to my daughter, Margaret Robotham, the value of one hundred pounds of lawful money of England to be delivered her by mine executor of my best bedding, linen and household stuff;
  More, I bequeath to my said daughter four of my best gowns or cassocks, my best kirtle, two of my best fore-parts for kirtles, and my best petticoat;
  More, my ring with a table diamond three-cornered, one hoop ring with a ruby, one ring with a snake figured upon it, and one ring with a diamond having the letter S in the midst of it;
  Item, I bequeath to my god-daughter, Grace Robotham, the residue of all my rings, jewels, bracelets and chains and all my neckerchiefs, ruffs and wearing linen, to be delivered her at her lawful age or marriage;
  Item,I give to my brother, Henry Mathew, so much of the lease and term of years of and in the house wherein I now dwell and of the two tenements thereunto appertaining as may be to come until the said Grace Robotham shall come to her full age or marriage, and I will that the said Grace Robotham shall then have the residue of the said lease and term of years then to come;
  Item, I forgive my said brother, Henry Mathew, one hundred pounds of lawful money of England that he oweth me by one bill obligatory, and also I forgive him forty pounds of like money that he oweth me otherwise;
  And I bequeath unto my said brother, Henry Mathew, one hundred pounds of lawful money of England, my best gilt salt, two gilt pots, two bowls and six silver spoons with wreathed knops, which bowls are commonly occupied about my house;
  And I bequeath unto my said god-daughter, Grace Robotham, the residue of my plate not bequeathed to my said brother Mathew;
  Item, I bequeath to my said brother Mathew and to his wife, to my sister Fanshawe, to my son-in-law, John Robotham, and to my daughter, his wife, and to my brother[=brother-in-law], William Leveson, I say to every of them one black gown, price sixteen shillings every yard;
  Item, my will is that the residue of my plate before bequeathed to Grace Robotham is to be delivered her at her lawful age or marriage;
  Item, I bequeath to my brother[=brother-in-law], Mr John Grace, to my good friends, Mr William Dixon, Mrs Harlakenden, Mrs Good, Mrs Bingham, Mrs Clerke, Mrs Dixon, my sister Calthorpe, my cousin, Henry Foster, and his wife, Robert Leveson, Helen [=Ellen] Leveson and my god-daughter, Mary Clerke, I say to every of them one ring of gold, price twenty shillings of lawful money of England for a remembrance of me;
  Item, I bequeath to my good friend, Thomas Stokes, one ring of gold of the value of forty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to Nicholas Grace, the son of John Grace, the sum of twenty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to and amongst the children of my cousin, Henry Foster, twenty nobles of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to my cousin Chaff [=Gough?] a ring of gold of the value of twenty shillings, and unto her poor sister I bequeath twenty shillings of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to Mr Johnson, parson of St Andrew Undershaft, twenty shillings of lawful money aforesaid;
  Item, I bequeath to Mrs Hanykyn twenty shillingsof like money;
  Item, I bequeath unto Christ’s Hospital five marks of lawful money of England;
  Item, I bequeath to the poor people lying in Bedlam [=Bethlehem] twenty shillings of lawful money of England;
  The residue of all and singular my goods, chattels, household stuff and movables whatsoever, my debts, funerals and legacies paid and performed and this my present testament and last will in all points fulfilled, I fully and wholly bequeath to the children of my daughter, Margaret Robotham, to wit, to Mary Robotham, one hundred pounds of lawful money of England, to Elizabeth Robotham another hundred pounds of lawful money aforesaid, and the rest to Grace Robotham, to be paid to her and every of them at their lawful age or marriage;
  And my will is that if the Company of the Goldsmiths will become bound for the sure payment thereof, that then they shall have the said residue to be put forth to such honest poor young men of their Company as they shall appoint the same, paying therefore yearly after twelve pence for the pound unto every of the said children for their parts of the said residue;
  Item, my will is that if any of the said children shall die before any of them shall come to their lawful age or marriage, that then her or their part or parts, legacy or legacies, herein bequeathed shall remain to the survivor or survivors equally to be divided, to be paid to them or any of them at the said lawful age or marriage;
  And I will and desire my loving friends, Mr William Dixon, and my cousin, Henry Foster, that they or one of them cause by their learned counsel to be devised one bill obligatory of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England to be paid unto them with condition thereupon endorsed to th’ effect, intent and purpose that John Robotham, my son-in-law, and Margaret, his wife, shall not by fine, recovery, deed or any other act or acts to be knowledged, suffered or done break, alter or make void the devise or any part of the devise of Richard Grace, late of London, goldsmith and father of the said Margaret, in his last will and testament made touching the disposition of all his manors, messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments with their appurtenances whatsoever set, lying and being in St Albans in the county of Hertford or elsewhere in the said county and in the parish of St Andrew in Holborn in the suburbs of the city of London, in the which bill obligatory my will and mind is that the said John Robotham shall be bound, and at my house wherein I now dwell shall seal and deliver it as his deed to my said friends within one month after my decease, from the doing whereof if he, the said John Robotham, shall absent himself or do not seal and deliver as his deed the same bill obligatory with condition endorsed to the same effect and purpose devised at the place and within the time aforesaid, my will and mind is fully and wholly that neither the said John Robotham or Margaret, his wife, my daughter, shall take legacy, benefit or profit by this my present testament and last will, anything herein before expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding;
  And I do make and ordain my said loving brother, Henry Mathew, executor of this my present testament;
  And I make and ordain my said loving friends, Master William Dixon, and my loving brother-in-law, William Leveson, supervisors or overseers of the same;
  And I utterly revoke and disannul all and everyother former wills, testaments, legacies, bequests, executors and overseers by me in any wise before this time made, named, given, willed or bequeathed, and will that this my present testament and all things herein mentioned and recited shall stand, remain and abide only for my very last will and testamentand none other or otherwise;
  In witness whereof I, the said Mary Leveson, have to this my present testament put my seal the day and year above-written in the presence of those who have hereunder written their names as witnesses thereunto called and required. Mary. Per me, Iohannem Johnson, rectorem. By me, Thomas Sarys, as witness hereunto. By me, James Wene.

Probatum fuit h{uius}mo{d}i test{amentu}m Apud London coram mag{ist}ro Will{el}mo Drury legum Doctore Curie Prerogatiue Cant{uariensis} Com{m}issario Tertio die mensis Decembris Anno D{omi}ni Mill{es}imo Quingen{tesim}o octogesimo Iuramento Rich{ard}i Windor no{ta}rij pu{bli}ci procur{atoris} Henrici Mathew executoris &c Cui com{m}issa fuit Admi{ni}strac{i}o &c De bene &c Iurat{i}
  [=The same testament was proved at London before Master William Drury, Doctor of the Laws, Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the third day of the month of December in the year of the Lord the thousand five hundred eightieth by the oath of Richard Windor, notary public, proctor of Henry Mathew, executor etc., to whom administration was granted etc., sworn to well etc.]

Occupation: Mercer, by patrimony, and a Merchant of the Staple

Notes:
Nicholas was under the age of 21 in his father's will dated 7 November 1536. This puts his date of birth between 7 November 1515 and 7 November 1536.

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
IV.—NICHOLAS LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; living 1560.

Nicholas is mentioned in his father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. Nicholas is bequeathed substantial lands by his father, inheritable when he reaches the age of 21.
Nicholas's will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection:
... The residense of all my said parte and porcion[ne] after my saide legacies paide and this my present testament fulfilled I wille shalbe diuided to and amongst my children egally to be divided amongst my sonnes Thomas John Nicolas and William and all my daughters that is to witte to euery of theim hir parte when he or she shall com[e] to his or hir lawfull age or mariage
... Item I will that Dennys my wife haue all my ajanuo[u]rs? landes and ten[emen]tis w[i]t[h] their appurtenaunces sett lying and being in the Townes and parrishes of halling. Cockston. hirling. Snodlande and Luddesdowne in the County of kent vnto hir owne vse and vnto suche time as Thomas and Nicolas my sonnes come vnto their fulle and laufull age that is to witte thage of xxj yeres and at suche time as the said Thomas and Nicolas shall com[e] to that age Then I will the moitye of the said Manners Landes & fewdes? vnto the saide Thomas and to theues of his bodie lawfully begotten. And for defaulte of suche issue the same moitye to remayne to John Leveston my sonne and to his heirs foreuer. And thother moitie to Nicolas in like maner.

Nicholas is mentioned in the will of his cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

Nicholas is bequeathed a ring in the will of his cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

Nicholas was mentioned in, and was an overseer of, the will of his mother, Denys, who died in 1560.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson) ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON.
...  I make and ordain my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON, and William LEVESON and my son-in-law William STRETE and Henry Planckney supervisors or overseers of the same with as much authority as can be devised for overseers to have and I give and bequeath to every of my said overseers or supervisors twenty pounds apiece for their pains to see this my present testament faithfully and truly performed executed and done.  The residue of all and singular my goods chattels household stuff plate and other moveables whatsoever they be, my debts, funerals and legacies being performed paid and this my present testament and last will in all points being performed I fully and wholly give to Thomas Leveson, Nicholas Leveson and William Leveson my sons and to my daughters Dyones Streete and Mary CALTHORPE equally and indifferently amongst them to be divided by the oversight of my executors or the survivors of them and also I will that if any of my sons do attempt to break any part of their father’s will or [of] this my present testament and last will by suite in the law entry [atton] or seizure that then the same child so offending shall take no legacy benefit or profit by this my present testament and last will anything herein above expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding

Death: May 1568

Buried: in his will, Nicolas requests to be buried in the church of St Andrews Undershaft, London.

Will: The will of Nicholas Leveson, Mercer and Merchant of the Staple of London dated 4 May 1568 and proved on 28 May 1568, is held at The National Archives PROB 11/50/162. Modern spelling transcriptions (with minor variations) can be found at www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-50-162.pdf and at Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1568 Nicholas Leveson).
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1568 Nicholas Leveson) COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
1568 Nicholas Leveson
In Dei nomine Amen. The fourth day of May in the year of our Lord God 1568 and in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, France and Ireland queen defender of the faith etc. I Nicholas LEVESON, Citizen and Mercer of London and Merchant of the Staple sick in body but whole of mind and memory, lauded be God therefore, make this my present last will and testament in manner and form following; first and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God by whose mercy and goodness and blessed passion my trust and confidence is for to be saved; and my body I will shall be buried in the parish church of Saint Andrews Undershaft where I now dwell in some convenient and meet place for the same at the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath unto the poor people of the parish of Saint Andrews Undershaft five pounds to be distributed where most need shall be at the discretion of my executors immediately after my decease.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto the poor prisoners of the Kings Bench, Ludgate, Marshallsea and Newgate which do lie in irons to every of the said four prisons five pounds apiece.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto Elizabeth Buckmaster one of my maid servants the sum of six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of lawful money of England to be paid to her by my executors at the day of her marriage.  ITEM; I bequeath unto Katheryn Fairchild another of my maid servants three pounds six shillings and eight pence to be paid to her by my executors at the day of her marriage.  ITEM; I bequeath to the residue of my maid servants being with me at the time of my decease forty shillings apiece to be paid to them by my executors at the day of their marriage.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto Richard Grace now dwelling with me three pounds six shillings and eight pence of lawful English money to be paid to him by my executors at his full age of 21 years.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto Richard Twyston my apprentice the sum of thirty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to him by my executors at the end and term of his apprenticehood towards his beginning and occupying in the trade of the Staple.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto Henry Pitt my apprentice fifteen pounds of lawful money of England to be paid by my executors to him at the end and term of his apprenticehood.  ITEM; I will that no black gowns be given for me unless it be two gowns to my twain executors hereunder specified, and the same to be considered in rings as hereafter follows, that is to say, I will to my brother Thomas LEVESON and his wife, to my brother William LEVESON and his wife, to my brother CALTROPPE and his wife, to my cousin OSBORNE and his wife, to my cousin EYRTON and his wife, to my cousin VAUGHAN and his wife and to my friend Mrs Arlakaden, to every of them rings of gold of the value of thirty shillings apiece for a remembrance of me.  ITEM; I bequeath unto Margaret GRACE my wife’s daughter, to my brother John GRACE of Saint Albans, to my brother Mathew and his wife and to John Fallowfield, to every of them likewise rings of gold of the value of thirty shillings apiece for a remembrance of me. Also I bequeath unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive rings of gold of the value of 30 shillings apiece for a remembrance of me. I do give unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive ten pounds apiece of lawful money of England to be paid to them by my executors at their full age or marriage.  ITEM; I bequeath unto Denys CALTROP my sister Caltrope’s daughter the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to her at her full age or marriage by my executors.  ITEM; I do forgive my brother Thomas Leveson the twelve pounds which he does owe me by account.  ITEM; I do forgive unto John Aldey ten shillings which he does owe me by his bill.  ITEM; I do bequeath to the poor scholars of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to either university five pounds apiece of lawful money of England to be distributed among the poor by my executors where most need shall be thought by them at their discretions.  ITEM; I do bequeath unto the church of Saint Andrews Undershaft five pounds towards the reparations and maintenance of the said church.  ITEM; I bequeath unto Richard Twyston my apprentice the next advowson or advoidance of the parsonage of Killingbury in the County of Northampton the which of late I had of one George Sheffield in the County of Rutland, gentleman, being granted and made from the Lord Latimer to one Francis Watson in the County of York and Richard Adamson of Cotton in the County of (Duresone) yeoman bearing date the third day of January in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth to have and to hold the said next advowson or advoidance to the said Richard Twiston and his assigns together with all deeds Evidence conveyance and writings the said advowson or next advoidance belonging or appertaining.  ITEM; I will to the preacher that shall make a sermon for me at my funeral six shillings and eight pence.  ITEM; I do forgive unto my brother Mathew eleven pounds six shillings and five pence which he does owe me by a rest upon a bill of his hand.  ITEM; I bequeath six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for and towards a dinner to be made for me after my decease and funerals to my kinsfolk and friends. And touching the disposition of all my lands and tenements, I will that all my lands and tenements set lying and being in Hanslope in the County of Buckingham the which I late purchased of one Henry Somer shall be sold by my executors to the most advantage towards the payment of such debt as I do owe Margaret Grace my wife’s daughter.  Also I will that my executors so soon after my decease as the sum of three hundred pounds may be collected and gathered towards the payment of Margaret Grace do repay unto the chamber of London the said three hundred pounds of lawful money of England in part of payment of her orphan’s portion owing to her the which said payment I will to be done for the clearing and discharging of my securities for one recognisance.  ITEM; I bequeath more to William LEVESON one of the sons of my brother Thomas Leveson over and besides the ten pounds to him before bequested the sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to him by my executors at his full age of 21 years, and I do make and ordain my well-beloved wife Mary LEVESON and my truly well-beloved brother William Leveson my executors of this my present testament, and I bequeath unto my brother William Leveson for his labour in that behalf one hundred pounds of current money of England, and I make and order my well-beloved and trusty friend Henry Planckney and my servant Richard Twiston supervisors or overseers of the same, and I give and bequeath to either of my overseers or supervisors twenty marks apiece of lawful money of England for their pains to see this my present testament faithfully and truly performed executed and done.  The residue of all and singular my goods chattels silver plate jewels ready money and debts whatsoever after my debts paid my funerals and legacies performed and this my present testament and last will in all things being performed, I fully and wholly give to Mary Leveson my wife to do and dispose the same at her will and pleasure.  And I utterly revoke and disannul all and every other former wills,  testaments, legacies, bequests, executors and overseers by me in any wise before this time made named given willed or bequeathed and I will that this my present testament and all things herein mentioned and recited shall stand remain and abide only for my very last will and testament and none other or otherwise.  In witness whereof I the said Nicholas Leveson have set my hand and seal the day and year above written. By me Nicholas Leveson, by me Edmond Calthorpe, haberdasher witness to this testament; by me William Vaughan, draper witness to this testament, p me William Pitt de Clements Inn testem ad hinc testamentum

Proved 28th May 1568

Sources:

Thomas Leveson

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: Ursula Gresham on 29 May 1553 in St Michael Bassishaw, London, England

Ursula was born on 21 October 1534, the daughter of Sir John Gresham, of Titsey, Surrey, mercer and Lord Mayor of London in 1547, and Mary Ipswell. She is mentioned in the will of Thomas's brother, Nicholas, dated May 1568, but was buried at Cuxton, Kent, prior to her husband making his will on 15 April 1576.
The Topographer and Genealogist vol 2 p514 (John Gough Nichols, 1853)
BIRTHS OF THE CHILDREN OF SIR JOHN GRESHAM, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN 1547, BY HIS FIRST WIFE MARY, DAUGHTER AND CO-HEIR OF THOMAS IPSWELL.
    (MS. Addit. Brit. Mus. 6239.)
Transcript. “Ex cod. MS. penes Edv. Rowe Mores, A.M. Soc. Antiq. Lond. Soc. 1754.”
...
  Vrsule Gresham was borne a-pon saynt Vrsulys daye the xxj daye off Octobr, Ao. 1534, mr Wyllm̃ Gresham his godfather, and mr Ric. Gresham[’s] wyfn and old mistris Hille and Christian Gresham were godmothers, and God make her a good old woman, and blyssyd saynt Vrsula.
  The wedynsday.

Thomas and Ursula are mentioned in the will of Ursula's father, Sir John Gresham, dated 12 February 1552
Genealogy of the Family of Gresham p34 (Granville Leveson Gower, 1883)
to Thomas Leveson my sonne in law and Ursula his wiffe, to every of them a blak gowne and a ringe of gold price xls, to the said Thomas and Ursula xxli and to their sonne nowe living xxli, and to olde Mrs. Leveson a ringe of golde price xls

Children: Occupation: Mercer, by patrimony

Thomas sought admission to the Register of Freemen of the City of London. The referenced date, 29 November 1526, may be the date of his father's admission as this was admission by patrimony.
Register of Freemen of the City of London in the Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI p102 (Charles Welch, 1908)
  Thomas Leveson, son of Nicholas Leveson of London, citizen & mercer, sought admission. Attested by Thomas Cod . . . . , William Strete, Walter Leveson, Thomas Snapp, haberdashers, James Hawes & . . . tailors, citizens and neighbours. ..R Nov. 29, 18 Hen. viii.

Notes:
Thomas was born before 2 March 1529(30) when he is named in the will of his grandmother, Joan Bradbury. He was under the age of 21 in his father's will dated 7 November 1536. This puts his date of birth between 7 November 1515 and 2 March 1529(30).

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
II.—THOMAS LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; was of Halling afsd., being heir to his brother. He m. 29 May 1553, at St. Michael’s Bassishaw, Ursula, da. of Sir John GRESHAM, Mayor, 1547-48. She who was b. 21 Oct. 1534, predeceased him. He d. 21 April 1576. Will dat. 17 April, pr. 30 Oct. 1676, in C.P.C. (28 Carew). Their son and heir, SIR JOHN LEVESON, of Halling afsd., b. 1555, entered his ped. in the visit of Kent, 1619, being father of JOHN LEVESON, aged 5 in 1593, who left two daughters and co-heirs, viz., (1) Frances, who m. Sir Thomas GOWER and was ancestress of the well-known ennobled family of Leveson-Gower, and (2) Christian, who m. Sir Peter TEMPLE, Bart.

Thomas received two legacies in the will of his grandmother, Joan Bradbury, dated 2 March 1529(30), including land in the parish of St Margaret in Southwark.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history
ITEM; I bequeath to every of the children of my daughter Leveson’s children being alive at the time of my decease except John LEVESON twenty pounds and if any of them die before they come to lawful age or marriage I will that then the survivor or survivors of them that shall have the part and [prepart] of him or her so decreasing.
... ITEM; I will that immediately after my decease my messuages with the appurtenances lying in the parish of Saint Margaret in Southwark shall remain to Thomas LEVESON son of my said daughter Denys to hold to him and to his heirs upon condition that he and his heirs shall pay out of the same yearly twenty shillings to Elizabeth TYRELL daughter of William TYRELL during her life to be paid quarterly at the four terms in the City of London as well by even portions

Thomas is also mentioned in his father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. The will indicates that Thomas had not yet reached the age of 21 years, at the time of the will. Thomas is bequeathed substantial lands by his father, inheritable when he reaches the age of 21.
Nicholas's will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection:
... The residense of all my said parte and porcion[ne] after my saide legacies paide and this my present testament fulfilled I wille shalbe diuided to and amongst my children egally to be divided amongst my sonnes Thomas John Nicolas and William and all my daughters that is to witte to euery of theim hir parte when he or she shall com[e] to his or hir lawfull age or mariage
...
Item I will that Dennys my wife haue all my ajanuo[u]rs? landes and ten[emen]tis w[i]t[h] their appurtenaunces sett lying and being in the Townes and parrishes of halling. Cockston. hirling. Snodlande and Luddesdowne in the County of kent vnto hir owne vse and vnto suche time as Thomas and Nicolas my sonnes come vnto their fulle and laufull age that is to witte thage of xxj yeres and at suche time as the said Thomas and Nicolas shall com[e] to that age Then I will the moitye of the said Manners Landes & fewdes? vnto the saide Thomas and to theues of his bodie lawfully begotten.

Thomas is mentioned in the will of his cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

Thomas inherited substantial properties in the will of his mother, Denys, who died in 1560, including the family home at Halling, Kent.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
... ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON.
... I bequeath unto every of the children of my said son Thomas LEVESON now being born twenty pounds apiece;
... Also I give and bequeath to my son Thomas LEVESON all my household stuff and brewing vessels whatsoever at my house at Halling in Kent, and I will that all my corn grain hay and cattle and all other my goods and chattels whatsoever they be remaining at Halling and Cockstone he said County of Kent except my said household stuff shall be appraised and sold by my executors for and towards the performance of this my present last will and testament except my three best kine there which three kine I bequeath the one cow to one [blank] Cose and another cow to John Dawesbury [servant] and the third to Thomas Shepard. 
...  Also I bequeath to my daughter Thomas Leveson’s wife ten pounds to buy her such a jewel as she thinks convenient to pray for my soul. 
... ITEM; I bequeath more unto my said daughter Mary Calthorpe the bedstead and all the bedding whatsoever it be in the chamber where I the said Dionys Leveson do commonly use to lie except hangings of the same chamber which hangings I bequeath to my son Thomas LEVESON.  ITEM; I bequeath to my said son Thomas Leveson all the hangings curtains ceiling and portals in my parlour and hall in Lime Street aforesaid and four tables there that is to wit the two best tables in the parlour and the two best tables in the hall and all the bedsteads hanging cupboards and [testorns] of bedding in the great chamber where the chapel is and in the chamber called Mr Roper’s Chamber being the next chamber to the said great chamber and all the hangings in every of my other chambers in Lime Street aforesaid except all those hangings in the tower chamber which I have before given to my said daughter Mary CALTHORPE. 
...  I make and ordain my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON, and William LEVESON and my son-in-law William STRETE and Henry Planckney supervisors or overseers of the same with as much authority as can be devised for overseers to have and I give and bequeath to every of my said overseers or supervisors twenty pounds apiece for their pains to see this my present testament faithfully and truly performed executed and done.  The residue of all and singular my goods chattels household stuff plate and other moveables whatsoever they be, my debts, funerals and legacies being performed paid and this my present testament and last will in all points being performed I fully and wholly give to Thomas Leveson, Nicholas Leveson and William Leveson my sons and to my daughters Dyones Streete and Mary CALTHORPE equally and indifferently amongst them to be divided by the oversight of my executors or the survivors of them and also I will that if any of my sons do attempt to break any part of their father’s will or [of] this my present testament and last will by suite in the law entry [atton] or seizure that then the same child so offending shall take no legacy benefit or profit by this my present testament and last will anything herein above expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding
... I will and bequeath to William Leveson my son all that my manor of West Court with the appurtenances and all those my four four meases four gifts ijd acres of land one hundred acres of meadow ijd acres of pasture forty acres of wood and eight shillings and ten pence of nt to have and to hold all and singular the said manor lands tenements and other the premises with the appurtenances last before expressed to the said William Leveson and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of such issue of the body of the said William Leveson lawfully begotten I will that the same manor and other the premises with their appurtenances last before expressed shall remain to Thomas Leveson and John LEVESON son of Thomas Leveson my son and heir and to their heirs forever,
... and I further will to the said Thomas Leveson the son of Thomas Leveson my son for and towards his finding all that my capital mease barn stable garden and orchard with their appurtenances set lying and being at Limehouse in the County of Middlesex and all my land meadow and pasture with the appurtenances in Limehouse aforesaid to have and to hold the said capital mease and all other the premises with the appurtenances in Limehouse aforesaid to the said Thomas Leveson the son of the said Thomas Leveson my son and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for default of such issue I will the same to remain to my son Thomas Leveson his father and to his heirs forever; and I give will and bequeath to the said Thomas Leveson my son all the cite of the late chapel of Saint Laurence in Halling in the County of Kent and all my meases lands tenements and hereditaments in Up Halling Nether Halling and Snodland to the said chapel belonging and all my interest state and title which I have of and in the same parcel of land called The Welde set lying and being in the parish of Nether Halling in the said County of Kent which contains by estimation eight acres more or less and all that parcel of land called the Combe set lying and being upon and adjoining unto Wyngate Hill in the said parish of Halling which two parcels of land I have and hold by lease for ten of certain years yet enduring under the yearly rent of twenty shillings by year; also I give devise will and bequeath to the said Thomas Leveson my son all my interest state title possession and term of years of and in the meases tenements and land hereafter expressed that is to say which I have to come of and in all that mease tenement and garden with the appurtenances set lying and being in the said parish of Halling in the said County of Kent which mease tenement and garden I have and hold by lease for term of certain years enduring under the yearly rent of four shillings by year; and all my interest state title possession and term of years which I have yet to come of and in one piece of [m’she (marsh?)] land in Halling aforesaid containing by estimation one acre and a half which piece of [marsh] land I likewise have and hold by lease for term of certain years yet enduring under the yearly rent of two shillings by year and all my interest state title possession and term of years which I have to come of and in all that ground land and wood called Priests Down which I have and hold for term of certain years enduring under the yearly rent of twelve shillings by year to have and to hold all the said mease tenements garden [marsh] land ground wood and other the premises with the appurtenances which I have in lease and all my interest state title possession and term of years of and in the same unto the said Thomas Leveson my said son unto the end and [xx] of all the residue of the years yet to come of and in the same.

Thomas and Ursula are mentioned in the will of Sir William Huett, husband of Thomas's sister, Alice, dated 3 January 1566(7).
Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley vol 1 pp228 (Robert Waters, 1878)
... To my brother Thomas Leveson and his wife, ... gold rings of the value of 40s. each and mourning.

Thomas is also left a bequest, and forgiven a debt of twelve pounds, in the will of his brother, Nicholas in May 1568.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1568 Nicholas Leveson)
...  ITEM; I will that no black gowns be given for me unless it be two gowns to my twain executors hereunder specified, and the same to be considered in rings as hereafter follows, that is to say, I will to my brother Thomas LEVESON and his wife, ...  to every of them rings of gold of the value of thirty shillings apiece for a remembrance of me.  ... Also I bequeath unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive rings of gold of the value of 30 shillings apiece for a remembrance of me. I do give unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive ten pounds apiece of lawful money of England to be paid to them by my executors at their full age or marriage.  ...  ITEM; I do forgive my brother Thomas Leveson the twelve pounds which he does owe me by account. ... ITEM; I bequeath more to William LEVESON one of the sons of my brother Thomas Leveson over and besides the ten pounds to him before bequested the sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to him by my executors at his full age of 21 years

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent vol 1 p478 (Edward Hasted, 1778)
  Thomas Leveson succeeded his father in these estates in Kent, and dying April 21, 1576, left issue by Ursula his wife, daughter of Sir John Gresham, knt. nine daughters and three sons; John, who was his heir, born in 1555, Thomas, who died without issue, and William;

Death: 21 April 1576

Buried: Cuxton, Kent, England

Will: The will of Thomas Leveson of Hawlynge, Kent, dated 15 April 1576 and proved on 30 October 1576, is held at The National Archives PROB 11/58/397. The will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection, which also has an image of the will.
In the name of god amen the Fiftenthe daye of Apryll in the yere of oure Lorde god a thousande, fyve hundred and thre score and sixtene and in the eightenth yere of the raigne of our Sovereigne Ladye Quene Elizabeth – I Thomas Leveson of hawlynge in the Countye of Rent Esquire beinge at this present sicke in bodye and yet of perfect remembrance god be thanked therefore do ordayne and make my testament and Last will in manner and forme followinge Fyrste I yelde my Soule into the handes of Allmyghtie god trustinge assuredly by the merittes and deathe of his deare sonne my only Savyoure and redeamer Jesus Christe after this Lyfe to inheritt the Lufe everlastinge, my body I yelde to the earthe from whence it came the churche of Buckeston in Kent to be buryed, as nere unto my Late wyfe as convenyentlye may be yf it shall please god, then to call me to his mercye or if else where, then in suche convenient place and in suche order, as to my executor and overseers shalbe thoughte moste meete and convenient Item I will there shalbe bestowed emongst the poore people which shalbe at my buryall Tenne poundes or more, at the discrecon of my executor, and overseers And emongst the poor people inhabitinge within the severall parishes of Buckeston. and hawlynge at convenient tyme when my executor and overseers shall thinke meete and convenient within one yere after my deceasse in everye of the saide parishes iiili vis viid And I will there be bestowed in blackes againste my buryall or funeralles the some of Fyfty poundes to be bestowed in coates and gownes emongest my children, coates emongest my servantes and in coates or gownes emongest such other of my frendes as my executor and supervisions shall thinke meete and convenient And I will and bequethe unto my youner sonne William Leweson and unto my nine daughters to everye of them two hundred poundes a pece over and besides the Legacyes of twentye poundes severallye devysed to somme f my children by the last will and testament of dionyse Leveson my mother deceased And yf my goodes and Chattells will not extende thereunto my debtes and other other Lagacyes paide then I will That my Lovinge Frendes Arthur Dawbreye f London marchaunte taylor Henrye Plankeney marchaunte of the scaple and John Glastbeke of coxwel (?) within the Countye of Essex shall have and take thissues revenues and profittes of all my mannors Landes tenements and hereditaments with theire appurtenances within the Counties of Essex ken to Staffordshire and London or els where within the realm f Englande whereof I or any other to my use doe stande seased in fee simple at this present, untill such tyme as theye shall or maye have receyved of the clere yssues and profittes thereof, all my charges reparses deducted and allowed so much as shall suffice to make upp the fulsome of two thousand poundes and of the saide four score poundes of Lawfull inglishe moneye, which saide two thousand poundes I will shalbe bestowed amongest my younger children in manner and fourms followinge that is to saye to William my youngest Sonne two hundred poundes and to everye of my daughters nowe Lyvinge, beinge nyne in number two hundred poundes a pece to be delyveredd to them and everye of them as followeth that is to saye to my saide sonne William when he shall have accomplished the age of twentye foure yeres, and to my sayde daughters to everye of them at theire severall full ages of twenty one yeares or at theire severall marriages at such one of them as shall fyrste happent yf so muche moneye shall then be receyved of thissues and profittes of the Landes and tenements aforesaide or otherwyse or els so sone after as the sume maye be receyved.  In payment of which saide severall Legacyes my meaninge is that theldest of my saide children shall fyrste be paide Provided allwayes and my meaninge is that yf it fortune my saide sonne William or my saide daughters or anye of them to departe this lyffe before marriage or before they shall severally have accomplished the age of twentye one yeres Then that his hir and theire parte and pcorcon and Legacye so dyenge, before theire severall tymes appoynted for the receipt of the same shallbe equallye devyded emongest the rest of my younger children then ever lyvinge in suche manner and forme to them severallye to be delyvered as is aforsaid And the said foure score pounds I will shalbe paide and delyveredd to suche of my saide children as sholde have the same in suche order as by the last will and testament of the saide dionyse is appointed Provided allwayes and my will and meaning is that yf my heyre at any tyme after he shall have accomplished the age of two and twentye yeres shall and will take uppon him the charge and payment of the before menconed two thousande and foure score poundes to my saide younger children, or so muche thereof as then shalbe unpaid in suche manner and forme as is before menconed and shall and will yelde make and delyver unto my saide Lovinge Frendes, or to the Survivor or Survivors of them or to the executors or administrators of the Survivors of them suche good land convenient assurance by bond, or otherwise in due forme of lawe to be executed, and made as to my saide Lovinge Frendes the the Survivor or Survivors of them, the executors or administrators of the Survivor of them shalbe thoughte meete and convenient as well for the true aunswearinge payenge and discharginge of the said severall Legacies given to my saide younger children and of every of them or as muche of them and every of them as then shall remayne unsatisfied or paide accordinge to the entent and meaninge of this my present testament and last will as also for the discharging of the saide foure score poundes given by my saide mother to some of my saide children And for the better acquitinge and discharginge of my said Lovinge Frendes and every of them and of thexecutors and administrators of everye of them againste my saide children and everye of them for the same Then my will and meaninge is that from thenceforthe my said heyre shall have and enioye to him and to his heires for ever all and singular my manners Lanes tenements and hereditaments before lymited and appointed to my saide Lovinge Frendes the great house in Lyme streete and the four tenements thereunto adioyninge with theire apportenaunces only excepted which saide great house with theire appurtenaunces together with the saide four tenements thereunto adioyninge except suche parcells of the saide great house as now bene in the occupacon of me the said Thomas Leveson after suche tyme as my saide children shalbe satisfied of theire saide Legacys I will unto william Leveson my younger Sonne, and to his heires for ever And yf my heire doe not take uppon him the charge and payment of the saide severall Lagaceyes before mentioned devysed to my saide younger children in manner and forme aforsaide together with the payment of the saide foure score poundes, Then my will is that afterso muche money Levyed of thissues and profittes of the promisses as before is ment and devysed to be bestowed amongest my younger children all yssues charged and reparses deducted, That my sonne William shall have my saide greate tenement with the appurtenances in Lyme Streete together with my saide foure tenements thereunto adioyninge, sceppt suche parcells of the saide greate tenement as are before excepted to him and he heires are forever Item I will That all suche of my tenantes as nowe bene my servaunts or heretofore have bene my servaunts shall have suche Landes and tenements as they holde of myne for suche yerely rent as they now paye for the same and under the covenauntes and agreements which theye are charged unto untill such tyme as my heire shall have accomplished thage of twentye two yeres keapinge the same in good repaire and payenge and performinge the rentes customes services and covenaunts due for the same and usinge them selfe towarde my heire as becometh tenaunts todoe Item I give to everye of my Servaunts dwellinge with me in my house or wearinge my Lyverye of my gifte at the tyme of my deathe that is to saye everye man Servaunte fortye shillings a pece and to everye woman Servaunte twentie shillinges a pece And In consideracon that my sonne John Leveson shall perform and suffer all poyntes accordinge to the entente and true meaninge of these presents And also paye my debts and discharge my funeralles I give unto my saide sonne all other my goods Chattells and debts whatsoever which saide John Leveson my Sonne I ordayne and make thonlye executor of this my testament and last will. And I ordainbe and make my Lovinge brother in lawe John Gresham and william Leveson my brother my overseers .f the same. And doe give to everye of them for theire paines over and besides all theire ordinarye charges that they shalbe at aboute this my will to them to be allowed Tenne poundes a pece, whose advyse and direction my will is my saide heire shall use trustinge theye will as faithefullye advise him as theye wolde receyve advyse in any case of theires And I Evoke all former willes by me made And if it happen me to departe this lyffe my sonne and heire John Leveson beinge within age Then I will that my overseers above menconed shall take the charge of thexecucon of this my will and testament for my saide sonne untill he shall come to the age of twentye one yeres, And they then to delyver all things into his handes and to make accompte of all that they shall have delt withall And uppon theire accompte and delyverie of all thinges to my saide sonne to be from thenceforth discharged, not doubtinge but theye will deale as faithfullye for me and him therein as theye wolde be delte withall them selves in the Like case And in wytnes that this my whole last will and testament I have been unto subscribed and putto my Seale In the presence of Edmunde Calthorpe Thomas CaHell clerke Henry Plankoney William Leveson and Joseph ? the daye and yere aforsaid

Sources:

William Leveson

Father: Nicholas Leveson

Mother: Denys (Bodley) Leveson

Married: Barbara Chapman
William and Barbara were married before 4 May 1568, the date of the will of William's brother, Nicholas, who names "my brother William Leveson and his wife".

Barbara was the daughter of Robert Chapman, of Stone Castell, Kent, and Wynefrid Heton of Lancashire. She died before 20 February 1570 when the will of her father states her to be deceased.

Children: All of William's children appear to have pre-deceased him. In his will dated 1 June 1591, he declares he is "not having any child" and leaves his estate to his nephews and nieces. The will of Barbara's father, Robert Chapman, dated 20 February 1570, mentions Robert and Ellen as children of William and Barbara. The will of William's brother, Nicholas, in May 1568, leaves bequests to "every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive", but the pedigree entered in The Visitation of London in the Year 1568 p18 (Harleian Society, 1869) shows only a daughter, Eleanor.

Occupation: Mercer, by patrimony
In 1555, William was a founding member of the Right Worshipful Company of English Merchants for the Discovery of New Trades, known as the Muscovy Company (Studies in the history of English commerce in the Tudor period p120 (Armand J. Gerson, 1912)).

Notes:
William was under the age of 21 in his father's will dated 7 November 1536. This puts his date of birth between 7 November 1515 and 7 November 1536.

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society New Series vol 1 p181 (1905)
Compiled by G. E. COKAYNE
...
III.—WILLIAM LEVESON, under age in 1536; Mercer by patrimony; entered his ped. in the visit of London, 1568, being then the second surviving son of his parents. He m. Barbara, da. of Robert CHAPMAN, of Stone, co. Kent, and had issue, Eleanor, living 1568.

William is mentioned in his father's will, dated 7 November 1536 and proved 18 October 1539, which is held at The National Archives PROB 11/27/552. In the will William is named as Nicholas's fourth son, and is bequeathed the manor of Westhorrock, to be had after the decease of his mother, Denys.
Nicholas's will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection:
... The residense of all my said parte and porcion[ne] after my saide legacies paide and this my present testament fulfilled I wille shalbe diuided to and amongst my children egally to be divided amongst my sonnes Thomas John Nicolas and William and all my daughters that is to witte to euery of theim hir parte when he or she shall com[e] to his or hir lawfull age or mariage
... Item I wille that Dennys my wife haue my ajanuour? or tenement called Westhorock in the Countie of Essex w[i]t[h]all the stocke of cattall and all suche landes and tenementis w[i]t[h] thappurtennces now being in the tenure and occupying of one Gose?. To haue and to holde to the said Dennys my wife during hir naturall life And after the deceace of my saide wife Thenne I will that all the foresaidf Manner and tenement w[i]t[h] their appurten[a]unces called Westhorock w[i]t[h] the stock aforesaide to remaine to William Leveson my fourthe sonne and to his heires of his bodie lawfullie begotten

William is mentioned in the will of his cousin, Walter Leveson, dated 30 October 1551, with a codicil on 11 January 1553, held at The National Archives PROB 11/36/343. A transcript of the will is at: Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1553 Walter Leveson)
ITEM; I give also to my cousin HEWETT and his wife, my cousin SADLER and his wife, my cousin Thomas WILKES, my cousin DAVANETT and his wife, Thomas Nicholas and William LEVESON, my cousin William WILKES, my brother Nicholas WOODROFFE and my cousin Matthew WROTTESLEY to every of them or to so many of them as be living at the time of my decease a ring of gold of ten pounds price apiece.

William is bequeathed a ring in the will of his cousin, Thomas Wilkes, dated 16 August 1558.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office vol 5 p561
...  to ‘my Aunte Dennys Leveson, my cosen Sir Richard Leveson, knight, William Hewet, and to my cosen Edwarde Leveson, esquyres,’ a ring of 4l. apiece; to cousins Thomas Suchelas, Nicholas Leveson, and William Leveson, Alice Hewet, Gresell Sadler, Mary Calthrop, Denys Strete, Elizabeth Leveson, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, knight, and Anne Hewet, John Skevington, ‘my soonne Hardinge and Margaret his wyfe,’ Robert Wygge, and Thomas Digman, of London, a ring of 40s. apiece;

William was also mentioned in, and was an overseer of, the will of his mother, Denys, who died in 1560. Nicholas is entrusted with the care of William Barrett, the minor son of his deceased cousin Anne Tyrrell - "find the said William meat drink learning and all other necessaries" - and requested to take him on as an apprentice when he turns fourteen. Nicholas also inherited the manor of West Court and a house in Lime Street, London - the latter under the condition that he allow his sister Mary to live there.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1560 Dionyse Leveson)
ITEM; I give and bequeath to William Barret son of my cousin Anne TYRRELL sometime [xxx] wife deceased twenty pounds the same to be delivered immediately after my decease by my executors to my son William LEVESON to be kept for the said William until he come to his full age of twenty one years and I will that from and immediately after my decease my said son William Leveson shall find the said William meat drink learning and all other necessaries during his minority and also I will that my executors shall pay to my said son William Leveson towards the finding of the said William yearly after my decease until he the said William shall accomplish the age of fourteen years five pounds and I will that when he the said William shall accomplish the age of fourteen years that then my said son William Leveson shall take him to his apprentice and bring him up in such trade of [xxx] as my said son William Leveson now uses and when the said William shall come forth of his apprenticeship or accomplish the age of twenty one years then my said son William Leveson his executors administrators or assigns shall bestow in wool or fell to and for the only use of the said William the said sum of twenty pounds
... ITEM; I bequeath to every of those persons to every of those persons next hereafter written a plain ring of gold of the value of forty shillings to wear for a remembrance of me, that is to wit, to my son William HEWET to my son Edward CALTHORPE, my son William STREATE and my said friend John Southcote, to my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON and  William LEVESON.
...  I make and ordain my sons Thomas LEVESON, Nicholas LEVESON, and William LEVESON and my son-in-law William STRETE and Henry Planckney supervisors or overseers of the same with as much authority as can be devised for overseers to have and I give and bequeath to every of my said overseers or supervisors twenty pounds apiece for their pains to see this my present testament faithfully and truly performed executed and done.  The residue of all and singular my goods chattels household stuff plate and other moveables whatsoever they be, my debts, funerals and legacies being performed paid and this my present testament and last will in all points being performed I fully and wholly give to Thomas Leveson, Nicholas Leveson and William Leveson my sons and to my daughters Dyones Streete and Mary CALTHORPE equally and indifferently amongst them to be divided by the oversight of my executors or the survivors of them and also I will that if any of my sons do attempt to break any part of their father’s will or [of] this my present testament and last will by suite in the law entry [atton] or seizure that then the same child so offending shall take no legacy benefit or profit by this my present testament and last will anything herein above expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding
... also I will and bequeath to William Leveson my son all that my manor of West Court with the appurtenances and all those my four four meases four gifts ijd acres of land one hundred acres of meadow ijd acres of pasture forty acres of wood and eight shillings and ten pence of nt to have and to hold all and singular the said manor lands tenements and other the premises with the appurtenances last before expressed to the said William Leveson and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten
... and I give will and bequeath to the said William Leveson my son all that my meases or tenements with the appurtenances set lying and being in Lime Street in London and now in the tenure and occupation of one Henry Edys with all shops cellars seller’s chambers and other the appurtenances and all other the premises with the appurtenances now in the tenure of the said Henry Edys to the said William Leveson and his heirs forever to the intent that the said William and his heirs shall suffer Mary Calthropp my daughter during her life to dwell and inhabit in the said mease or tenement and to take her own use all advantages and profits thereof and of all other the premises with the appurtenances thereto belonging freely and without paying my rent or other thing for the time during her life or else shall yearly pay or cause to be paid to the said Mary Calthropp during her life at her election all those yearly rents and the said mease or tenements and other the premises thereto belonging shall or may then be let at without fraud or [cowyn] and I will that the said Henry Edis shall not be put out of the said tenement under one year’s warning

William is also left a bequest in, and appointed an executor of, the will of his brother, Nicholas in May 1568.
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1568 Nicholas Leveson)
...  ITEM; I will that no black gowns be given for me unless it be two gowns to my twain executors hereunder specified, and the same to be considered in rings as hereafter follows, that is to say, I will to my brother Thomas LEVESON and his wife, to my brother William LEVESON and his wife ...  to every of them rings of gold of the value of thirty shillings apiece for a remembrance of me.  ... Also I bequeath unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive rings of gold of the value of 30 shillings apiece for a remembrance of me. I do give unto every one of the children of my brother Thomas Leveson and of my brother William Leveson now being alive ten pounds apiece of lawful money of England to be paid to them by my executors at their full age or marriage.  ...  I do make and ordain my well-beloved wife Mary LEVESON and my truly well-beloved brother William Leveson my executors of this my present testament, and I bequeath unto my brother William Leveson for his labour in that behalf one hundred pounds of current money of England

William is named an overseer in the will of his brother, Thomas Leveson, dated 15 April 1576. The will has been transcribed at The Sutherland Collection, which also has an image of the will.
And I ordainbe and make my Lovinge brother in lawe John Gresham and william Leveson my brother my overseers .f the same. And doe give to everye of them for theire paines over and besides all theire ordinarye charges that they shalbe at aboute this my will to them to be allowed Tenne poundes a pece, whose advyse and direction my will is my saide heire shall use trustinge theye will as faithefullye advise him as theye wolde receyve advyse in any case of theires
... And in wytnes that this my whole last will and testament I have been unto subscribed and putto my Seale In the presence of Edmunde Calthorpe Thomas CaHell clerke Henry Plankoney William Leveson and Joseph ? the daye and yere aforsaid

William is also left a bequest in, and ordained an overseer of, the will of the widow of his brother Nicholas, Mary (Mathew) Leveson, dated 30 December 1578 was proved on 3 December 1580. It is held at The National Archives PROB 11/62/540. This excerpt is from a modern spelling transcript ©2014 Nina Green.
  Item, I bequeath to my said brother Mathew and to his wife, to my sister Fanshawe, to my son-in-law, John Robotham, and to my daughter, his wife, and to my brother[=brother-in-law], William Leveson, I say to every of them one black gown, price sixteen shillings every yard;
And I make and ordain my said loving friends, Master William Dixon, and my loving brother-in-law, William Leveson, supervisors or overseers of the same;

Death: May-June 1593
Occured between the date of a verbal codicil to William's will was taken on 29 May 1593 and the date the will was proved on 27 June 1593.

Will: The will of William Leveson, Mercer of Saint Dunstan in the East, City of London, dated 1 June 1591 with a codicil on 29 May 1593, and proved on 27 June 1593, is held at The National Archives PROB 11/82/143. Modern spelling transcriptions (with minor variations) can be found at www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-82-143.pdf and at
Wynch, Lyon, Coghill and others - A random walk through family history (1593 William Leveson)
COLLECTED TRANSCRIBED WILLS
1593 William Leveson
  In the name of Almighty God Amen, the first day of June [1591] in the year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred four score and eleven and in the three and thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and a Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. I William LEVESON the elder, Citizen and Mercer of London being of good and perfect memory, thanked be Almighty God therefore, considering the changing of this mortal life is to me certain and the hour and time when it shall be changed is at the pleasure of Almighty God wherefore trusting his good leisure in his fear no minding to die intestate do make and ordain this my present last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say, first and principally I commend my soul unto Almighty God faithfully trusting only by the merits of his son Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer to have remission of my sins committed in this mortal life and after the same life to be partaker of the heavenly and everlasting life to come, and I will my body to be buried at the discretion of my executors herein ordained.  ITEM; I bequeath to the poor of St Dunstans in the east where I am now a parishioner forty shillings to be distributed by the churchwardens for the time being to such as have most need.  ITEM; I will that no cloth for gowns or cloaks be given at my burial saving to such as shall be my household servants at the time of my decease and unto every of my said servants I give twenty shillings of lawful money of England or more at the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to Mrs Chapman my mother in law my ring of gold set with the greater ruby for a remembrance of me.  ITEM; I bequeath to Henry Plankney, Draper, my ring of gold with a death head having within the same the letters WL for a remembrance of me.  ITEM; I will that a chest with a hanging lock in the innermost chamber of my dwelling house with all the books and writing shall be delivered locked up as it is and shall be at the time of my decease unto Sir John LEVESON my nephew, Knight or his heirs for his or their indemnity in consideration that his lands and mine stand chargeable unto the executors of my mother Dionyse LEVESON for payment and performance of her debts and legacies by a recognition for performance of covenants contained in a pair of indentures whereof the one of them remains in the same chest.  ITEM; I bequeath unto my said nephew Sir John Leveson, Knight my stocks of cattle let to farm to Humphrey Hayes deceased now in the hands and occupation of Thomas Reding of Tendring in West Thurrock in Essex.  ITEM; whereas I being a Freeman of the Right Worshipful Company of English Merchants for the Discovery of New Trades not having any child and never having made child or apprentice free it is ordered by the same company that all such in that case may dispose and by their last will and testament bequeath their freedoms to any man as heretofore some have done wherefore I will give and bequeath my freedom of the same Right Worshipful Company unto my loving nephew William LEVESON of this City of London, Mercer. The residue of all and singular my goods chattels ready money and debts whatsoever not herein given or bequeathed, my debts paid my funerals discharged and this my last will and testament performed, I do fully and wholly give and bequeath unto William Leveson, Deonyse Leveson, Mary Leveson the elder, Elizabeth Leveson, Frances Leveson, Ursula Leveson, Anne Leveson, Grisell Leveson, Mary Leveson the younger and Margaret Leveson, children of my brother Thomas LEVESON deceased equally and indifferently amongst them to be divided every of them giving security unto my executors for saving them harmless so far as any of their parts shall extend fo and in such debts as my executors shall be lawfully bound to pay and the charges in defence of the same.  ITEM; I will that if any of the before named my brother’s children shall depart this life (being married) that their husbands living shall notwithstanding have and enjoy in manner before said that part in division bequeathed unto any of their wives deceased, and I make and ordain my loving nephews Sir John Leveson, Knight and William Leveson his brother executors of this my last will and testament, and I make and ordain the before named Henry Plankney overseer of the same. And as concerning the order and disposition of my manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments I give and bequeath unto my said nephew Sir John Leveson, Knight all that my Manor of [Westcourt] and all my lands tenements and hereditaments set and lying in the parishes of Gillingham and Chatham in the County of Kent and also that my tenement in Lime Street in London and also all those my two acres of land or marsh called Hurtes or Garlandes in the parish of West Thurrock in the County of Essex to have and to hold the same manors, lands, tenements, marsh and hereditaments to the said Sir John Leveson and his heirs for ever.  In witness whereof I the said William Leveson the elder have with my own hand written this my last will and testament subscribed my name and put to my seal the day and year first above written – per me. William Leveson the Elder, Mercer
   Memorandum that on the eight and twentieth day of September 1592 [in the year of the reign of Elizabeth etched thirty fourth] the said William Leveson the Elder did acknowledge and confess before us the witnesses hereunder named that he did write the said will with his own hand and did seal and subscribe unto the same and likewise before us did publish the same to be his last will and testament. Richard Gall, notary public, Thomas Gall and Henry Burnley
   Memorandum that the nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred and ninety three William Leveson the younger going to his uncle Mr William Leveson the elder to take his leave of him because he was for some occasions to go into the country, he the said William Leveson the Elder then declared unto him that he had made his will whereof he had constituted Sir John Leveson, Knight and him the said William Leveson his executors praying them to perform the same and that to them and their sisters he had given all he had and willed likewise that some not named in his will who had taken pains about him as his servants might be considered with mourning apparel and twenty shillings apiece and that his maidservant who had been very careful and diligent about him in his sickness should have that legacy which he had given unto her in his will made up twenty nobles or more. The other of his hired servants and not in wages twenty shillings and mourning clothes, the boy the like, and to be delivered to the executors as to other ways [Eatcher]. Also that where he had in his custody the lease of West Thurrock his meaning was that it should be delivered or held by his executors according to the meaning of the woman which committed it to his custody how so ever it was; further he declared that where he had in his hands a will of Mistress Chapman’s mother all written by one Sharpe a chandler wherein was disposed divers things according to the desire of the said Sharpe his mind and will was that that same will should not be delivered back again at the desire and request of either of them both but that the same should be retained by his executors in his force. Finally whereas there was a bond made unto him in trust by one Mr Bullock hi mind and meaning was that the same bond should be held according to the writing or condition.
   Proved 27th June 1593 by William Leveson (Sir John Leveson reserving his right to apply for administration)

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