Under the influence of his instruction, members of his family succeeded him in Puritan ministry both in England and in Massachusetts Bay Colony, at first in Newbury, Essex County, where two of his sons, James and Nicholas, and his nephew Thomas Parker, were prominent figures.
Patronage was in John Thornborough (a bishop sympathetic to Puritan teaching) in 1567, and advowson being granted to Robert Noyes (yeoman), Giles Hutchens of Salisbury (sometime Mayor and M.P.
In July of the following year the appointment was renewed under the patronage of George Kingsmill,[20] Justiciar in the King's Bench, Westminster.
[21] In 1604 Parker presented Richard Stevens, his brother-in-law,[22] as Perpetual Vicar of Stanton St. Bernard[23] (which he held until 1659[24]), and in 1607 was obliged to flee religious persecution to the Netherlands, where he remained until his death in 1614.
Under this hard master, though he was well nigh discouraged by the Dulness which he apprehended in his own capacity, yet the consideration of his father's desire made him, with an early piety, to join his prayers unto his pains, that he might have his education prospered; and God so prospered him, that he arrived unto a desirable degree of knowledge, both in the Tongues and in the Arts.
[28] James's elder brother Nathan, who was to succeed their father as Rector at Cholderton, matriculated from Lincoln College, Oxford in May 1615, aged 17, and obtained his B.A.
[29] The Parish Register for William Noyes's time as Rector was presumably lost or destroyed by 1651, when, after the death of Nathan, his successor Samuel Heskins began a new book and supplied the confused record: "Mr. William Noyes Rector of Choldington about 30 years departed this life anno 1616.
"[30] Diocesan records show that a Faculty Office dispensation was granted to Nathan to hold the Rectory in his father's place on 4 February 1622:[31] William Noyes resigned the Rectory the next day, and Nathan was appointed Rector immediately with the Privy Counsellor Edward, Lord Zouche, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and a Commissioner of the Virginia Company, as his patron.
Anne, his widow, entered into a bond of administration dated 28 May jointly with Cuthbert Parker, yeoman, of Whitchbury, Hampshire, both signing in well-trained hands and both using heraldic seals.
Her will, made on 18 March 1655/56,[34] refers to her two sons James and Nicholas in New England and left to them and 'to such children as they have living' 12 pence apiece,[35] by which disinheritance she prevented them from challenging her other legacies.
[37] The children of Rev William Noyes and his wife Anne Parker are known as follows: The correction was published in 1906 as follows: The primary source for this statement, if there was one, awaits identification.