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 {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Darnley_stage_3.jpg?250x400|}} //Image of Elizabeth I (reigned 1533–1603)//  {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Darnley_stage_3.jpg?250x400|}} //Image of Elizabeth I (reigned 1533–1603)// 
  
-**Robert Prior** (1576-1644).((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, p.81.)) His will showed that he lived in Ely and also owned land in Cambridge. This property was presumably based on the original holding obtained by Richard Priour (above) almost a century previously. Robert Prior had his will proved [our equivalent of probate] at Oxford on 11 April 1644.((Burkes //Landed Gentry//, entry for Prior of Netherfield)) In the entry TLM-P prepared for Burke's //Colonial Gentry//, Robert Prior was said to have left an widow, daughter and son Thomas.((Burke's //Colonial Gentry//, p.51. Neither women were identified by name.)) +**Robert Prior** (1576-1644).((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, p.81.)) His will showed that he lived in Ely and also owned land in Cambridge. This property was presumably based on the original holding obtained by Richard Priour (above) almost a century previously. Robert Prior had his will proved [our equivalent of probate] at Oxford on 11 April 1644.((Burkes //Landed Gentry//, entry for Prior of Netherfield)) In the entry TLM-P prepared for Burke's //Colonial Gentry//, Robert Prior was said to have left an widow, daughter and son Thomas.((Burke's //Colonial Gentry//, p.51. Neither women were identified by name.))\\  
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 +The Archivist of St John's College Cambridge provides more detail:
  
 // Map showing Ely. Cambridge is around 27km south.// {{https://ely.org.uk/pics/ukmapmg.gif?direct&300|  }}  // Map showing Ely. Cambridge is around 27km south.// {{https://ely.org.uk/pics/ukmapmg.gif?direct&300|  }} 
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