1583/88 - Peter Snelling had three children, Francis, Barbara and Jone, christened in Nutfield 1583-1595, and Erasmus christened in Bletchingley April 1588

1586 - a brief mention in will of William Killick of Nutfield - "to Peter Snelling for two bushels of rye 4s 8d"

1597 - Nicholas Cholmley & Peter Snellinge were Churchwardens of Blechingley. Also "Peter Snellinge, the innkeeper, was churchwarden in 1597"

1604 - Peter Snelling of Blechingly Surrey, witnessed will of Henry Martyn of Bletchingley, yeoman

1607 March 2 -..."John Daye was an innkeeper; PETER SNELLINGE and Richard Waters seem to have applied jointly for a licence; Robert Martin alias Torbie kept another inn. James Quiddington's widow had his alehouse licence continued to her, and Thomas
Younge and John Kempsall seem also to have had separate licences."

1609 - Peter Snelling, of Blechingley, co. Surrey (d. Feb 1609 OS, Proved 10 March 1609, by the exor. {Dorset, 26.)
Nuncupative Will made when he was lying in the White Lyon* as a prisoner there, some three months before his death, which was in Feb. 1609 . He gave all that he had to his son, Erasmus Snelling, for that he was a dutiful child did lake pains and care for
him, and was more loving unto him than the rest of his children; and he made him his sole exor.
In the presence of Thomas Underhill, John Brownewend and others.
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James Quiddington mentioned above had a daughter Joan who married a John Snelling in 1585 in Bletchingley. Their first three children are recorded as christened in Bletchingley between 1586 and 1592: William, Richard and Phillip Snelling. Traces of the
other three children are found in Southwark.

What link, if any, is there between Peter and John Snelling?
Why might Peter have been imprisoned in Southwark?

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