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About John Bray
- Collections for a history of Staffordshire (1880)
- http://www.archive.org/details/collectionsforhi191719183staf
- http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
- (6) (Sir) Reynold Bray (K.B., K.G.), M.P. Newcastle 1477-8, Southampton 1491-2, in 1495-6, and probably at other times, for these or other places.
- Born c. 1440 ; son of Richard Bray of Worcester, Surgeon, by Jane (Troughton). He was receiver general and steward to Sir Henry Stafford, younger son of the first Duke of Buckingham, from about 1465. Sir Henry married (1457/60) Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, mother . . . .
- http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
- Will of Sir Reynold Bray, Kt., dated 4 August 1502, proved 1503. To be buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He leaves much money for masses, for completing St. George's Chapel, for the Friary at Guildford where his mother Joan lies buried ; masses for his father Richard Bray ; his wife Katherine was still alive. His manors, Southmorton and Staunden, Berks, Southherting and Rogate, Sussex, and Chelheath, Middlesex, he leaves to his wife for life, reversion to his younger nephews (Edward and Reynold Bray). His brother John Bray (the younger) appears to have been dead, leaving three sons, the eldest being Edmund (afterwards Baron of Eaton-Bray), all under 21. The two younger of these three are to marry Elizabeth and Agnes,
- http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
- daughters of Henry Lovett, wards of Sir Reynold's, if they are to inherit the manors. His manor of Fryfolk, Hants, to his nephew Richard Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of John Rogers. Other relatives whom he remembers are, niece Margery wife of Sir William Sandys, Kt. (afterwards Lord Sandes of the Vine), and nephew Robert the son of his sister Jane Isaak, and Jane Robert's wife, daughter of John Ottvy, who has L21 a year. He also leaves 40 m. a year for the Dean and Canons of St. George's to endow a perpetual charity for old men and old women.
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John Bray's Timeline
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