According to Burke's Complete Armory purchased Yaverland in 1553. The Visitations say it was in the Isle of Wight. The Visitations also say his father came from Monmouth whereas Burke says he came from Kent. Extract from will PCC will 5 August 1567 1) To be buried on North side of Chancel of Brading church To Alice my wife, the desmesnes of the Manor of Yaverland as well that is purchases as what I hold during her widowhood. (as widow of Henry Squire), with 500 weather sheep and 200 ewes, 17 kine and bull, 16 oxen and 2 carts to have utter Rowborough to summer her young cattel and oxen. 3) To every one of my daughters, £60 over and above their grandfathers (Thomas Rice) his legacies. 4) To Richard and John my sons, 20 nobles 5) To my brother Morgan's wife, a ring 6) To my brother George shall have a lease made to him for 40 years for so much of the parsonage at Brading as he now occupieth, for my part paying the accustomed rent as he did before. 7) Edward my son, sole executrix. (Transcription of the will by Ann Barrett and sent by her to Jim Richards).

Year of birth is a guesstimate I am assuming that the Mrs Alys Rychards widowe who made a will Year of birth is a guesstimate I am assuming that the Mrs Alys Rychards widowe who made a will in 1572 is the widow of Germain Richards, the Admiral The Hampshire County Records Office copy of Genealogies of Hampshire (1833), which prints the Richards tree in the 1644 Heralds Visitation has a pencil not that Germain was married to Alys Rice and a reference to the Rice tree. This is confirmed by the will of Germain Richards (see under his entry)