BRAYE 287 BARONY BY i. Edmund Bray, s. and h. of John B., of Eaton Bray, WRIT Beds, and nephew and h. of Sir Reynold Bray, K.G.(*) (Lord High Treasurer to Henry VII), was knighted 13 Oct. 1513; Sheriffof Beds 1514-15, and of Surrey and Sussex ^- ^5^9* 1522; was sum. to Pari, from 9 Aug. (1529) 21 Hen. VIII (*>) (takinghisseat4Dec. 1529)010 i Mar. (1538/9) 30 Henry VIII ('^) by writ directed Ed'o D'no Bray dir, whereby he became LORD BRAY.(°) He m. Jane, da. and h. of Sir Richard Halighwell or Halywell, of Holwell, by Jane, da. of Sir John Norbury. W&d. 18 Oct. 1 539, and was bur. (with his father and uncle abovenamed) at Chelsea, Midx. Willdat. 1 8 Oct. 1539, pr. 12 Mar. 1540. His widow w. Sir UrianBRERExoN. She d. 24 Oct. 1558, and was bur. at Eaton Bray. Inci. p. m. 5 Oct. 1559. II. 1539 2. John (Bray), Lord Bray, only s. and h., sum. to to Pari, from 3 Nov. (1545) 37 Hen. VIII to 21 Oct. 557- (1555) ^ '^^^ 3 Ph. and Mary. He was in the French expedition 1546; was in command against the Norfolk rebels 1548; was attached to the Garter Mission to France I55i;(') and assisted at the siege of St. Quintin I556.(^) He was one of the 26 peers who signed the letters patent, 16 June 1553, settling the Crown on Lady Jane GreyjC") and was implicated in the plot against Queen Mary, 1556, for which he was imprisoned for 12 months in the Tower. He m. Anne, da. of Francis (Talbot), 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, by his ist wife, Mary, da. of Thomas (Dacre), Lord Dacre of Gillesland. He d. at Blackfriars, J./)., from wounds received at the battle of St. Quintin, 19, and was bur. 28 Nov. 1557, in his father's tomb at Chelsea. (') Fun. certif. at Coll. of Arms.(^) Nunc, will pr. next day by his mother. Admon. 14 Jan. 1 57 1/2, renounced 22 Nov. 1572. At his death the Barony fell into abeyance between his six sisters or their representatives. C*) His widow ;»., 18 Nov. (^) There is a portrait of him from a stained glass window in Malvern Priory Church in Dasent's Speakers of the House of Commons, and a brilliant sketch of his life in a paper on "The Brays of Shere," in The Ancestor, no. vi. V.G. C") The reasoning in support of such summons was deemed conclusive, in 1839, by the House of Lords, though neither the original writ nor the enrolment thereof could be found. (■=) Not 24 Dec. as in Dugdale's Summonses. V.G. (d) 47th Report D.K. of Public Records, p. 88. V.G. (') This creation is dealt with by J. H. Round in his Studies in Peerage and Family History. He contends that it rests solely on MS. H. 13, in the College of Arms, which records Edmund's admission. V.G. For a list of these see Appendix B to this volume. (8) There are two portraits of him in The Ancestor. See note "a" above. V.G. C") For a list of these see suh Edward, Earl of Derby [15 21]. (') He is described as "a youth of great promise, a paragon in Court, and of sweet entertainment." He had a splendid funeral. V.G. (') Printed in Lysons' Environs of London, vol. ii, p. 93 (edit. 1 795), sub "Chelsea." C*) See tabular pedigree.
