Edward Skynner

From Burke's Landed Gentry 1849:

Edward, of Ledbury, who d at the age of 87, in 1631, leaving behind him a numerous progeny. In the south side of the chancel of Ledbury Church stands the monument of this still revered man. It is of the style of the Elizabethan times, large and massy, of varied marble, and supporting pillars. Edward Skinner and his wife, Elizabeth Hill, habited in the usual dresses of their century, kneel opposite to each other on the tomb, and below are represented, in high relief, the kneeling figures of their surviving children, five sons and five daus. These children were,
i. Richard, of Cofton, in Worcestershire, in the commission of the peace for that county, eminent for his loyalty and beneficence. He m Margaret, dau of Sir Edward Lyttleton, Knt of Pillaton, and had an only dau and heir - Margaret, who m Thomas Joliffe Esq of co Stafford.
ii. Edward, of Hill House near Ledbury, bapt 4 Sept 1590
iii. William, of Hereford, LLD in the commission of the peace, bapt in 1591, m Mary, dau of Edmund Style, Esq and had issue.
iv. Thomas, of London, merchant
v. John, of Ledbury, who m in 1627 Constance, dau of Ambrose Elton Esq of the Hazell, and had, with other issue, a son and heir - William, of Ledbury, whose great-grandson, Willam Skinner Esq of Underdown, dsp in 1764, leaving his nieces, Anne Hallings, and Milly Hallings, the wife of John Miles Esq, his co-heirs
vi. Anne, m 14 Jan 1593, to John Cocks Esq of the Berrow.
vii. also Mary, Susan, Joane, Elizabeth
6. Alice
7. Joane

Time is a flood that sweeps away not only landmarks, but the families who set them up. And thus it has been found in many branches of the Skinners. Much of their possessions in Herefordshire were alienated in the female posterity of the munificent Edward Skinner, of Ledbury. His eldest daughter, Anne, who married in 1595 John Cocks Esq of the Berrow, became a link which in after generations induced his descendants, the Lords Somers, to purchase a considerable portion of her parental property, including Pounceford Court and the Knaps. Mr Miles, of Bristol, from a similar connexion by marriage, became possessor of Underdown, and afterwards, by purchase, of Le Burtons and other adjacent lands. But John Biddulph, Esq, whose progenitor united himself by marriage with the heriress of the original family, is owner of the great house and park at Ledbury, the chief residence of the Skinners in that neighbourhood.