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 - Abt 1571
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| Name |
Pexall, Richard |
| Born |
Of Beaurepaire, Hampshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Abt 1571 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England |
| Person ID |
I10106 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
12 Jun 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Will of Sir Richard Pexsall of Beaurepaire, Hampshire 08 November 1571 PROB 11/53
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34 Henry VIII. Exemplification under the Royal seal of a plea of trespass committed by Richard Waller, Peter Sone, yeoman, and Richard Drelker, all late ef Oldstoke, on Richard Pexsall's land at Oldstoke, called Brocas mede.
35 Henry VIII. Award of Sir William Paulet Lord St. John, and Edward Griffin, concerning the right to Brocas mede in Oldstoke, disputed between Richard Pexsall and Richard Waller.
Ten years laterCourtenay alienated the manor to Ralph Pexall andhis wife Anne. (fn. 88) On Pexall's death in 1537 (fn. 89) themanor passed to his son Sir Richard Pexall (fn. 90) whodied in 1571 leaving four daughters among whomthe property was apparently divided. Most of theestate eventually came into the possession of PexallBrocas, son of Sir Richard's daughter Anne. Pexallmarried Margery, daughter of Sir Thomas Shirleyof Westmeston (Suss.), (fn. 91) and some time before hisdeath in 1583 (fn. 92) he and his wife made over ten of thetwelve parts of the manor to Sir Thomas Shirley.
From: 'Ickenham: Manors', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4: Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood with Southall, Hillingdon with Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow with Pinner (1971), pp. 102-104. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22419 Date accessed: 03 April 2012.
Broxhead Manor
on the death of William Brocas, his property was divided between his daughters Anne and Edith. Anne married George Warham in 1514, but died without issue, leaving her sister Edith, wife of Ralph Pexall, her sole heir. Edith's son and heir Sir Richard Pexall died in 1571, leaving four daughters and heirs, Ellen, Margery, Anne, and Barbara. Ellen married John Jobson; Margery married firstly Oliver Beckett and secondly Francis Cotton; Anne married Bernard Brocas, who was descended from the Sir Bernard Brocas who was executed in the reign of Henry IV, and Barbara married Anthony Brydges.
One-third of the manor of Broxhead was divided equally among the four sisters. The remaining two-thirds remained in the possession of Sir Richlrd's widow, Dame Elinor, to hold for the term of her life if she remained single, with remainder to Pexall Brocas the son and heir of Anne and Bernard Brocas. Shortly after their father's death, Ellen Jobson and Barbara Brydges parted with their twelfths of the manor, the former to Dame Elinor and her second husband Sir John Savage, and the latter to Anne and Bernard Brocas. Margery Cotton died in 1581, seised of one-twelfth of the manor, her heir being her son John Beckett, under age, and her husband Francis died thirty years afterwards, also seised of a portion of the manor. Anne Brocas, who only survived her husband Bernard by two years, died seised of a portion of the manor in 1591, her heir being her son, Sir Pexall Brocas. (Victoria County History of Hampshire - c.1911)
Lord High Treasurer and a man of considerable power and reputation.24 Pexhall also appears to have been a very effective and popular Sheriff as he was re-appointed in 1558 and again in 1561. In 1553 Pexhall was knighted, and before the end of the following year he was granted the hereditary office of the Master of the Buckhounds under Mary I; he would continue in that office under Elizabeth I. In her letter of appointment, Mary wrote that Pexall was granted the office for “the good, true, and faithful service which her beloved servant had before that time rendered her in many ways...” This comment suggests that Pexhall had been of help to Mary in 1553, during the very tumultuous year after Edward VI died, and this may also be why Pexall was knighted that year. It was during this same time that Pexhall decided to pull down the old family seat of Brocas and, in its place, build a beautiful Tudor mansion, calling it Beaurepaire. Although his son-in-law would ultimately complete the mansion, it was for Pexhall surely a symbol of his growing fortune and status.25
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Not long after Eleanor Paulet died, in September 1558, Richard and Eleanor Cotgreave were married.26 They were to have a childless marriage, as indeed all of Eleanor’s were, although from the remaining accounts their union was a happy one. By example, when Pexhall died in 1571, in a fairly unusual step for the period, he left the vast majority of his fortune to Eleanor, including Beaurepaire and many other estates, to the exclusion of his own children by his first wife.27 What remained of his estate, after his many gifts to Eleanor, was left to his grandson, Pexall Brocas, who was the son of his eldest daughter, Anne, by her marriage to Bernard Brocas of Horton.28 Yet, even here Pexhall specified that Eleanor was to act as trustee to Brocas’ legacy until he reached the age of majority. Pexhall’s will also left the Mastership of the Buckhounds-a hereditary title-to Eleanor rather than his children. And, as a clear indication of his wishes, Pexhall’s will also states that, should anyone challenge his legacies to Eleanor, they would be disinherited.29
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