Hon. Frances Brooke

Frances Brooke was the daughter of Sir William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham (of Kent) and Lady Dorothy Neville. She married, firstly, Thomas Coppinger. She married, secondly, Edward Becher, son of Henry Becher and Alice Heron.

Articles of agreement made 6th, June 8 Elizabeth [1566] between Henry Nevylle, Lord Abergavenny, and Henry Copinger, of the parish of Allhallows, in the Hundred of Hooe, Co. Kent., Esq. That Tho. Copinger, son and heir apparent of said Henry, should marry Frans. Brook, eldest daughter of Right Hon. Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, and Lord Warden of the Sink Ports, said Lord Cobham to give 1,000 marks," &c.

Will of first husband Thomas Coppinger dated 16 March 1579/80. Executor was Lord Cobham

Inquisition Post Mortem So seised, the said Thomas made his will dated 16 March, 1579 [here given in English], as follows:— I Thomas Coppinger of Allhallows in co. Kent, esq., and "highe shirryf" of the same county give to my brother Robert Coppinger the lease of the tenement and lands now in the tenure of John Waller for the same yearly rent as he now pays. I give to my brother Raffe Coppinger a lease of my lands which he now occupies, for 21 years if he so long shall live, he paying no rent for the same. I give to Frances my wife the annuity of £100 assured to her upon her marriage out of my lands in Feversham, &c.; also all my houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the parishes of Allhallows Stoke and St. Mary, which I late purchased of my brother Ambrose Coppinger, for her life. I will that my son William shall have to him and the heirs male of his body all my lands whatsoever and wheresoever on condition that he pay to my son Francis an annuity of £40 yearly for life, and also to my child unborn, if a man child £30 yearly, for life, and if a woman child then the sum of £300 on her marriage day. Touching the entail of all my lands and tenements, if all my men children should die then my will is that the last will of my late father Mr. Henry Coppinger, deceased, shall be of full force and strength on condition that my said brother to whom I have made a devise of my lands and tenements in Feversham, Preston, Dore, Ludnam, Newenton, Stockeberrye, Babchild and Hartlippe shall be liable to pay to the marriage of my child unborn if a daughter £500. The premises in the City of London are held of the Queen in chief by the service of the 20th part of a knight's fee and by the yearly rent of 29s., and are worth per ann., clear, £13 0s. 4d. The manor of Buxall alias Bukesalles, Cockesalles, Old Nectons and Fasebornes with the advowson of Buxall, in Buxall, Ratisden, Hecham, Fynbarrowe and Bretham in co. Suffolk are held of the Queen as of her Duchy of Lancaster, by knight's service, and are worth per ann., clear, £36 7s. 5½d. The 60 acres of land and other the premises in Buxall, Ratisden, Fynbarrowe, Hecham and Bitchenham are held of the Queen as of her said Duchy and are worth per ann., clear, £10. The manor of Devington in co. Kent is held of the Queen as of her manor of Feversham by fealty, suit at court and the yearly rent of £4 8s. 0¾d., and is worth per ann., clear, £10. The manor of Worndall alias Borden in co. Kent, is held of the Queen as of her manor of Milton by fealty and the rent of 13s. 4d., and is worth per ann., clear, £16 13s. 4d. The manor of Ravens is held of the Dean and Chapter of the Church of Christ in Canterbury as of their manor of Copton, by fealty and the yearly rent of 31s. 6¾d., and is worth per ann., clear, 100s. The 2 mills in Ospringe, Feversham and Devington are held of Henry Lord Cheynee as of his manor of Quenecourt by fealty and the rent of 3s., and are worth per ann., clear, 60s. The mill called a Brasel mill in Ospringe, Feversham and Devington is held of the said Lord Cheynee as of his said manor by fealty and a rent of 12d., and is worth per ann., clear, 2s. 6d. The manor of Churchstrete is held of the Queen as of her manor of Wyndell by fealty and the rent of 10s., and is worth per ann., clear, £10. Thomas Coppinger died 21 March, 22 Eliz. [1580]; the said William Coppinger is his son and next heir and is now aged 6 years, 10 months and 7 days. Chan. Inq. p. m., 22 Eliz., part 2, No. 25.

Harl. MSS., 6587. In the chancel, on the north wall of the Church of Allhallows,Hoo, Kent a monument formerly existed with effigies, arms, and inscription respecting this Thomas Copinger. In an old manuscript it is stated then to have been almost defaced.' From another manuscript - we find that the arms and inscriptions then remaining were : —

"I. Four coats, quarterly: (i) Copinger; three bendlets surmounted by a fesse charged with three Rundlets ; (2) Bond, arg. two bendlets sa. in chief, a cross crosslet of the second ; (3) Alfhage or Alphew, arg. a fesse between three boars' heads couped -sa. ; (4) Petit, arg. a chevron engrailled gu. between three bugle horns, sa. stringed or.

Citations

• [S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 78. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• [S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), Becher, page 100. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records.