HUMPHREY NEED, of Arnold, yeoman, baptized Arnold 15 August 1590, named 25 March 1602 as grandson in the will of Thomas Melford, died [intestate] 8 November 1668, and was buried in Quakers’ Burial Ground, Arnold.
He married first DOROTHY —, who was buried at Arnold 29 August 1640. He married secondly by license at St. Peter’s, Nottingham, 10 July 1641, ANN (—) HAWTON, of Mansfield, a widow. She died 26 October 1671 and was buried in Quakers’ Burial Ground, Arnold.27 In 1660, Humphrey Need had been imprisoned in Nottingham Gaol for refusing, as a Quaker, to take the Oath of Allegiance.