Edward was appointed a churchwarden in Ipsden in 1611.

Edward left a will dated 24 January 1639:





In the named of God Amen the fower and twentieth daie of January 1639 and in the fifteenth yeare of the raigne of oure sovearaine Lorde Charles by the grace of God king of England Scotland ffrannce and Ireland defender off the faith &c I Edward Alnott of Ipsden in ye countie of Oxon yeomanbeinge weake of boddie but of good and pfect memory thanks bee to Dod doe make this my last will and testament in manner and forme following that is to saye ffirst I commend my soule into the hands of Almightie God my maker and redeemer and my boddie to bee buried in the churche yarde of Ipsden aforesaid. Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Richard Alnott ten poundes to bee paid unto him within halfe of yeare next after my decease. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth the some of tenn poundes to bee paidunto her within halfe a yere next after my decease. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anne twelve poundes. Item I give and bequeath unto my greandchild Edward Alnott sonne of my said sonne Richard Alnott twentie shillings to bee paid unto him within one weeke next after my decease. All the rest of my goodes and chattles unbequeathed my debts paid and my funeral expences pformed I give and bequeath unto my weife Elizabeth and my sonne Mathew whom I make executors of this my last will and testament. And I desier my very loveinge ffriendes Thomas Adams thelder of Ipsden aforesaid gent and Robert Lydall of Uxmore within the said parish of Ipsden to bee overseers of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale these whose names are here under written beinge witnesses.
The marke of the said Edward Alnott

Witnesses hereunto
William Loader
Martha Loader


An inventory was taken for Edward:



An inventory or value of all the goods and chattels off Edward Alnut late of Ipsden in the Countie of Oxon yeoman lately deceased both moveable and unmoveable the which was taken the xxixth day of June Anno Dom 1641 by us John Browne thelder of Ipsden in the Countie of Oxon husbandman and Richard Carter of Drayton in the Countie of aforesaid husbandman: prisers
Imprimis the wareing apparel of the sayd Edward Alnutt – 02-00-00
Item 3 old horse and one young horse -  12-00-00
Item 3 milch coas and too bullocks – 12-06-08
Item 3 scoare dry sheepe and one scoare of ewes with their lambes -  26-06-08
Item one weaneing calfe – 00-10-00
Item eight smale hogges and one pigge -  03-00-00
Item one cubbert one table one forme -  01-00-00
Item one ffurnace together with all the brasse in the house -  04-01-00
Item seven fliches of bacon and a halfe – 03-15-00
Item one salting trough and tubbe 4 buttotts three bills one axe one hoe too mathookes apair of scales and weights one cleaner – 01-00-00
Item 3 andirons 2 paire of hangers one paire of pothooks one spitte one dripping pan one pare of tongs one fire should 3 iron wedges- 00-12-00
Item one paire of bellows one dussen and a halfe trenchers and ten wooden dishes one steele one besting iron to candlesticks-  00-02-02
Item one gridiron – 00-02-00
Item ten acres of wheate: xxij acres of barly iiij of maslin iij acres pease and vatches and one acre of dills- 40-00-00
Item a quantitie of smale goods belonging to household in one roome-  00-20-00
Item ffower barrels ffower bottles to kine[torn] to tubs one trivatt one pitch par[torn] musterd mill and two standard one bowle one one tum{torn} boule one adds one wimble five ager and and handsaw– 12-22-00
Item one [torn] – 00-02-06
Item one old bedsteed one kiverlid one blanket one chaire – 02-03-0iiij
Item xix paire of sheetes and one hollon sheete to towels – 07-00-00
Item five table clothes one doozen of napkins – 02-00-00
Item to joynd bedsteeds one cubbert and one chaire – 03-02-00
Item to chest and ffower coffers – 01-05-00
Item one featherbed ij pillows one boulster apayre of blankets one kiverled – 03-06-08
Item one fflockbed one boulster one pillow one blanket one old kiverled – 00-16-00
Item xv platters with all the rest of the pewter in the house -  02-16-00
Item 3 brasen candlesticks – 00-03-04
Item one flocke bed one old kiverlid apaire of old blankets – 00-13-04
Item an old trucklebed and an old kiverlid – 00-04-00
Item xiiij bushell of maslin with a smale parcel of wheat in the house – 02-19-00
Item a paire of paniers with baskets and seeves with other lumber in alittle rome -  00-05-00
Item one cheese rack one sheets with a parcel of cheese -  00-08-00
Item a percell of woole and a screen -  05-00-00
Item one cofer with aparcell of woollen cloth and aparcell of linen yarn -  00-10-00
Item a parcel of sackes with a vanne -  00-13-04
Item one old malt mill one cheese press and some old bedinge with other lumber in another roome -  00-10-00
Item too bushels one peck and one gallon and one tenant saw -  00-34-00
Item xiij flockes of bees and swarme – 02-03-04
Item a parcel of hay – 002-05-00
Item ij old long carte and one old dung cart with their wheeles -  04-00-00
Item one rope to the well with all things thereunto belonging to one grin tons – 06-08
Item all the cars harness and plow harness the teeme -  02-00-00
Item 3 harrows and xviij rodden hurdles iij prongs ij one dung picke -  00-16-06
Item one roule to old laddars and three old cow rackes -  00-08-06
Item ix hens one cock and to chickens -  00-06-00
Item one seedcott and one leepe – 00-02-00
The whole goodes  28-253-02-00

Earlier Allnuts in Ipsden:

"The name ALLNUTT (in its early forms) is one of the oldest English surnames. It appears first as a Saxon personal name in the forms AElnod, Alnot, Ailnot, Ailnoth, etc. of men who were landholders in the south of England. By the 13th century the name had become established as a surname to which a Christian name was prefixed. It is a fair assumption that these were the ancestors of the families of whom there are definite and consecutive records from the 16th century.

Two main families can be recognised from the end of the 16th century. One held land at Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, and the other at Ipsden and Northstoke, Oxfordshire. These families are traced back to prosperous yeomen, bom in the latter decades of the 16th century. But these were not the only Allnutt families (Allnutt is here used in a collective sense to include the name in its various spellings). They are found in other parts of Buckinghamshire - Chesham, Amersham, Hughenden and around High Wycombe. Another group of families was at Thame, Towersey and in villages between Thame and Aylesbury. A few had settled in London by 1600 and were engaged in trade: in the latter part of the 18th century the number had increased and in the 19th century a large number of

The earliest record of the Ipsden family is a will of Robert Allnett of Ypesdeane who died in 1559. The surname is also spelt Allnott and Allnot in the will. He mentions only one son - Richard - to whom he left the residue of his property. To his daughters, not named, he left an angel noble (value 6/8d. to ten shillings) each and to each of their children four pence; to every godchild who came to his burial four pence. He bequeathed a bushel of wheat to the churches of Ypsdeane, Ncttlebed, Northstoke and Nuffield and to the mother church of Oxon twopence. To his gostly father, Hugh Gough, he willed twenty pence.

The son, Richard, could have been the father of Edward Alnott of Ipsden. From here there is a gap until 1641 when Edward Alnott died, making a will preserved in the Oxford Archdeaconery Records." (The Families of Allnutt & Allnatt, by Arthur H. Noble)