Edmund Wylde

[5] Wylde was a particular friend of William Petty and is described as a "great fautor (favourer] of ingenious men for merit's sake".

His 8-page will asked for burial in the chancel at Glazeley (where he was buried on 7 January 1695/1696), [8] leaving property in London, manors in Essex, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire and 5 bullaries [9] in Droitwich to his kinsman Robert Wylde (the elder) of The Commandery and his lawful heirs male — in the event Thomas Wylde later MP for Worcester.

A number of pages of this will are concerned with provision for Mrs Jane Smith als Pike "now living with me for some years".

She was to receive in addition to £2000 cash all his most personal possessions, gold, silver, prints, pictures, library etc.

and "the house in which I now live in the Great Square Buildings in Bloomsbury in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields Middlesex formerly leased to my late uncle George Wylde of Gressenhall Norfolk".

Monument to Edmund Wylde's father, Sir Edmund Wylde, who died aged 32 when High Sheriff of the county with his sons Edmund and Walter kneeling before it, church of St Mary the Virgin, Kempsey
Sir Edmund's effigy's nose was flattened by Cromwell 2 July 1646