William Brown (1406 - 1489)

Born 1406 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England

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From History of Stamford: ^[1]

And in St. Mary's chapel, or south chancel, near where the altar formerly stood, is a blue marble slab, said to be placed there for William Browne (eldest son of the above John and Margery) and his wife, on which, under richly ornamented canopies, are the effigies of a man and woman, with their hands joined as in the act of supplication and prayer. He is dressed in a long gown, girt round the waist, and stands upon two cushions, or woolpacks; she in elegantly flowing robes, with a dog at her feet. Above the canopies are four blank shields; over his head, which is bare ‘┼ me spede’; over her’s ‘Der Lady help at nede’; and at their feet [a long inscription].

Dame Margaret Browne, late wife of Wm. Browne, of Stamford, by her will dated in 1489, (the year in which her husband died) directs her body to be buried in the chapel of St. Mary, in the church of All Hallows, in Stamford, by the side of her husband; mentions her son, John Elmys, Elizabeth, his wife, William Elmys, Kateryn Elmys, John Elmys the younger, Isabella Elmys, Master Thomas Stok, her (testatrix's) brother, and (generally) every son and daughter of John Elmys the elder; and appoints for her executors her brother, Thomas Stock, John Elmys, and William Elmys, son of John. And in a codocil, dated 24th of Oct., 1489, she mentions Sir Henry Wyks, her sister, Elizabeth Fitzacrelay, Margaret Fitzacrelay, her cosen [sic], Nicholas, Thomas Fitzacrelay, Jane Fitzacrelay, Robert Fitzacrelay, little William Stok, Janet Bone, Agnes Slater, our Lady of Weyslingham, Robert Beaumont, Mawde Huntley, Alice Clapton, and Janet Walker. The will and codicil of my Lady Dame Margaret Browne were proved in the praerog. court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in January, 1489, (1489-90,) by Robert Beaumont and William Elmes, Thomas Stok and John Elmes renouncing their executorship.' [Blore's Rutland.] In the south chapel of this church is an inscription in brass, to her memory.

From Burke’s Landed Gentry ^[2]

Pages 2585-2586

BROWNE formerly OF TOLETHORPE MANOR and STAMFORD

Lineage – The Brownes were established in the County of Lincoln from early medieval times, and attained great prosperity in the wool trade.

The first of whom definite record has been traced is John Browne, of Stamford, Co. Lincoln, b. ca. 1330, Alderman of Stamford (i.e. Chief Magistrate of the town, which had no Mayor until the time of Charles II), who purchased from Sir Thomas de Burton, Kt., the Manor of Tolethorpe, in the Parish of Little Casterton, Co. Rutland, which subsequently became the chief seat of the family; he had issue, a son,

John Browne, of Stamford, the father of

John Browne, of Stamford, Alderman 1414, 1422 and 1427, erected the Church of All Saints, Stamford, which still stands, one of the principal ornaments of the town, and in which he was buried. He d. 26 July, 1442, having had issue by his wife, Margery,

1. William, of Stamford, Alderman, 1435, 1444, 1449, 1460, 1466, 1470, Sheriff of Co. Rutland 1467, 1475, 1483, 1486, and probably of Co. Lincoln in 1478, built the steeple of All Saints Church an founded Browne’s Hospital in Stamford, and institution which is still flourishing, m. Margaret, dau. of John Stoke, of Warmington, and d. 1489, leaving issue, an only dau.

2. John

William Brown of Stamford was the husband of Margaret, daughter and heir of John Stoke of Warmyngton ^[3].

Sources

1. ↑ Drakard, John, History of Stamford, In the County of Lincoln, 1822. Browne ancestry pages 275-285. Found at Google Books. [1]
2. ↑ Burke, Bernard, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry: including American families with British ancestry, London: Burke's Peerage, 1939. xviii, 3058 p.: ill., coats of arms. Available at: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2609793
3. ↑ Bridges: Vol. 2, Page 479

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Footnotes: Publications:

• Bridges, John. The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire (T. Payne, Oxford, 1791)