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  THOMAS BRAY - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS BRAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BRAY, a village in the Wokingham parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, beautifully situated on the west (right) bank of the Thames,, m.
Tradition ascribes the song to a soldier in Colonel Fullers troop of dragoons in the reign of George I. BRAY, a seaport and watering-place of Co. Wicklow, Ireland, 12 m.
The coast, especially towards the promontory of Bray Head, offers beautiful sea-views, and some of the best inland scenery in the county is readily accessible, such as the Glens of the Dargle and the Downs, the demesne of Powerscourt, the Bray river, with its loughs, and the pass of the Scalp.
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 Bray Family Biographies
"Sir Richard Bray was one of the privy council of Henry VI, and his son, Sir Reginald, helped Henry VII to the throne, and received honors and wealth from that monarch.
Sir Reginald had great taste and skill in architecture, of which Henry VII's chapel at Westminster, the building of which he principally directed, is sufficient proof.
Richard Bray, at Dover in 1657, Casco in 1658, was probably at the fort in Boston, 1687 a gunner's mate.
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 SIR REGINALD BRAY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR REGINALD BRAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Reginald was born in the parish of St John Bedwardine, near Worcester, but the date of his birth is uncertain.
He was receiver-general and steward of the household to Sir Henry Stafford, second husband of Margaret, countess of Richmond, whose son afterwards became King Henry VII.
In the first year of Henry Viis reign he was given a grant of the constableship of Oakham Castle in Rutland, and was appointed joint chief justice with Lord Fitz Walter of all the forest south of Trent and chosen of the privy council.
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 Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Sir Edward, who appears to have been bred a soldier, was one of the knights appointed to accompany King Henry to Calais to meet the French monarch.
Sir Reginald Bray had left the reversion of his lands in Sussex to those of his nephews who married his wards Elizabeth and Agnes Lovell.
Bray nevertheless avoided implication as a partisan of Northumberland in the succession crisis, and after Mary's accession he was returned as senior knight of the shire for Surrey in Oct 1553.
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 Reginald Bray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Reginald was born in Worcester in around 1440, the second son of Sir Richard Bray and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester.
He was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henry VII, and, later, a Knight of the Garter.
At St George's Chapel, the vault is carved in various places with the insignia of hemp bray as a pun on Sir Reginald's name and to signify his support and design of the chapel.
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 Kensington - London
It was bought by Sir Reginald Bray, who sold it to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of King Henry VII.
She married Sir W. Cornwallis, and left one daughter, Anne, who married Archibald, Earl of Argyll, who joined with her in selling the manor to Sir Walter Cope in 1609.
Sir George Warren and Lord Stair subsequently occupied the house, and later the Marquis Wellesley, elder brother of the famous Duke of Wellington.
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 Landownership: Chelsea manor | British History Online
Sir Reginald by will proved 1503 instructed his feoffees to allow his wife Katharine to receive the profits from Chelsea for life, and after her death to make an estate in the manor to the sons of his younger brother John, provided they married his wards, Agnes and Elizabeth Lovell, his wife's nieces.
There was also a prolonged dispute over Sir Reginald's estates between Edmund Bray, claiming as his eldest surviving male relative, and Margery, wife of Sir William Sandys, who was the daughter of Sir Reginald's older half-brother, also called John: (Footnote 6) her claim was based on an earlier will of 1497.
Sir Hans Sloane and his successors also made gifts of parts of the estate for parish and church purposes, (Footnote 15) and from the 19th century some of the building development on the estate involved selling parcels of freehold, such as 5½ a.
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 Cell - 066,021   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Brays' monument, which is the oldest in the church, remembers Sir Reginald Bray, who was a supporter of Henry Tudor and benefited from his accession.
Sir Reginald benefited the country in being responsible, as Master of Works to Henry VII, for the two magnificent buildings of St Georges Chapel, Windsor; and Henry VII's chapel, Westminster.
A monument to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) is in the churchyard's south-east corner.
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 To Prove a Villain -- The Real Richard III
Descended from one of the companions of the Conqueror, Sir Robert was the second son of Thomas Brackenbury of Denton, County Durham, in the neighborhood of Barnard Castle.
Accompanied by Earl Rivers and Sir Richard Grey (respectively brother and son of the Queen) the new King Edward V was intercepted by the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham at Stony Stratford and the two Woodvilles were arrested.
Sir Richard Grey was the younger son of Elizabeth Woodville by her first marriage to Sir John Grey.
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 Old Chelsea Church
On the North side of the Chancel in a recess is the tomb of Sir Edmund, first Lord Bray (1539) and heir to the Sir Reginald Bray who was Master of Works to Henry VII and in charge of the building of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster and St. George's Chapel at Windsor.
Memorial in the Lawrence Chapel to Sir John Lawrence, Knight and Baronet, son of Sir Thomas Lawrence and father of Robert Lawrence, the immigrant to Virginia.
Sacred to the memory of Sir John Laurence, late of Iver, in ye county of Bucks, Knight and Baronet, who married Grissill, daughter and co-heire of Gervase Gibbon, of Benenden, in the county of Kent, esq., by whom he had issue seven sons and foure daughters.
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 Richard III - Bosworth
Sir Robert Brackenbury, the Constable of the Tower, was defending the capital.
Sir Thomas Broughton of Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, attainted*
Sir Robert Willoughby of Beer Ferrers, Devon, granted Receivership of the Duchy of Cornwall and appointed Steward of all mines in Devonshire and Cornwall
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 Stanlake Park Wine Estate - the Home of Valley Vineyards
Sir Reginald was appointed under-treasurer of England in 1485.
In 1523 Henry VIII made Sir William treasurer of Calais and in 1526 he appointed him to the office of Lord Chamberlain to the Kings household, which he held until his death in 1542.
Sir William Sandy was not only a courtier to Henry VIII but also a good and trusted friend.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sir Reginald was born in Worcester in around 1440 and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester.
Reginald FessendenElectrician and inventor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 - July 22, 1932), was a Canadian inventor sometimes dubbed "The Father of Radio Broadcasting", was born in East Bolton, Quebec, Canada the son of a Protestant minister.
Reginald Wolfe, publisher to Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) in London, died in 1573 before he was able to finish his project of a "universal Cosmography of the whole world, and therewith also certain particular histories of every known nation." The only part of the work that was ever published were R..
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 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, Esq. 1760-1800 - Chapter II
Edward Bray, and was a connexion by marriage.
His ancestor, Sir Edward Bray, was the heir male of Edmund, Lord Bray, and succeeded to the family estates; but the title descended to Lord Bray's daughters, and was in abeyance until obtained by the late Baroness Bray.
Bray was one of the few descendants then living of Sir Thomas More, whose granddaughter, the daughter of Margaret Roper, married Sir Edward Bray.
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 Search Malta - Maltese Surname Connection
BRAY, due to tourism development, with elegant houses and hotels for the prosperous Victorian visitors and new residents to BRAY were known as the Brighton of Ireland.
SIR EDWARD BRAY 1, was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1539, and represented Surrey in the Two Parliaments of Queen Mary.
SIR REGINALD BRAY lies buried in the BRAY Chapel in Windsor Castle.
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 Reginald Edward T. Bray 1860
Reginald was born about 1860, the son of Charlotte Bray, in Ireland.
BRAY - On June 7, 1950, after a short illness, Margaret Ethel Bray, of 33 Lingfield Road, Wimbledon, and Littlestone, Kent, widow of Lt.-Col. R.
Bray and eldest daughter of the late Sir John Barwick.
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 Matthew Glozier's Heraldry Site
Bacon, Sir Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount Saint Albans, (1561-1626), English Jurist and Philosopher: (raised to the Baronage 11 July 1618: Viscount 27 January 1621).
Bray, Sir Reginald, Privy Councillor to King Henry VII of England, English Knight (temp.
Arms: (Of the father of Sir Thomas?) Impaled: Dexter, Gules, in chief three Holly leaves Vert and in base a hunting horn Sable (Burnet of Leys): Sinister, Azure, on a fess Argent, between three Boar's heads couped Or, a fess chequey of the first and third (Gordon).
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 Chelsea Landownership 1
In 1540--1, for example, Sir Thomas’s widow Alice was assessed in Chelsea at £50 for lands and fees held for life, his son John at £60 for lands held in his wife’s right for life, presumably her jointure, and William Roper at £10 for lands, office, and fees for life.
In 1679 Sir William was presented at the court leet for encroaching on Church Lane opposite the church by erecting 3 stacks of chimneys each jetting 10 inches.
Sir Henry Waver, alderman of London, died in 1470 leaving all his lands and tenements in the towns and parishes of Chelsea, Fulham, Kingsbury, Hendon, and Willesden to his wife Christine and her heirs, and made her one of his executors.
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 hillplac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anne was the widow of Owen Bray who had died in 1568, the second son of Sir Edward Bray of Shere and Cobham.
One of Owen Bray's ancestors was Sir Reginald Bray Controller of the Household to Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
Sir William was also one of the many admirers of Queen Elizabeth and, when an old man, carried on an absurd flirtation with her.
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Bray was born at Shere, on the 15th of November, 1736.
Bray succeeded to the possession of the Manors of Shere and Gumshall, which had belonged to his ancestors from the reign of Henry the Eighth.
Bray cared very little for politics, but he was not a Tory, and would not have voted for Mr.
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 The Arcane Schools - Part 5 of 7
Of 1325 is the tomb of Sir John Croke and Lady Alyne his wife at Westley Wanterleys in Cambridgeshire; upon it is the letter N, with a hammer above it, and a half-moon and six-pointed star on each side; the N is an old Mason's mark, and also a pre-Christian Persian Symbol.
Reginald Bray, raised the middle chapel of Windsor, and rebuilt the palace of Richmond.
In 1570 Sir Thomas Gresham built the Royal Exchange in London, and the movement to revive "the Augustan style" and depreciate the Gothic was general.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
Note-The Windsor Tables are in error in inserting Sir William Stanley and Henry, 5th Earl of Northumberland, between Lord Dudley and Lord Shrewsbury, This error is not found in B.M. Add.
Married Sir Thomas Beaufort, K.G., afterwards Earl of Dorset and Duke of Exeter.
Married Sir Robert Harcourt, K.G. On her tomb in Stanton Harcourt church she is represented with a garter on her left arm.
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 Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Navy
One of the first constructions ordered by de Gisors was the Chapel of St. Thomas, which he had dedicated to Sir Thomas Beckett who had spent much of his life in their families home town of Gisors in Normandy.
In 1509 the Mary Rose was built, but it wasn’t until the reign of King Henry VIII that he made the dockyard his fleet construction centre, and had Southsea Castle built to his design in 1544 to defend against the continued threat of Spanish or French invasion.
Sir Walter Raleigh was never one to return alone, and with his latest return he also brought with him the very first shipments of tobacco, oranges and potatoes to be seen in England.
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 Friaries: Dominican Friars of Guildford | British History Online
Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, by will dated 4 March 1393, ordered that the houses of friars should be looked after by his executors, especially those of Arundel and Guildford, as they were bound to pray for the souls of his father, mother, wife and himself.
Sir Reginald Bray, knight, was also a benefactor.
Sir William, the treasurer of the household, writing to Cromwell on 1 August 1537 from Guildford, which Henry VIII.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Heraldry (B)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In heraldry, a breys is charge representing an instrument used in breaking horses.
The charge is to be found on the arms of Sir Reginald Bray.
In heraldry, a brick is a charge resembling a billet, but showing its thickness in perspective.
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 BRAY
Notes: In 1542 John Sackville sold to John Selwyn of Friston, Sussex, for 6.13.4, the wardship and marriage of the heir of John Bray of Westdean, Sussex, and the custody of the manor of Westdean which was held of the elder Sackville by knight's service.
It would appear that the John Bray referred to would be this John Bray, as his son Edward, "of Henfield and Selmeston, Suss.
The fifth and youngest, Reginald Bray, had the estate at Steyne and Hinton settled on him.
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 A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER
It will be seen that it occurs in the ancient rolls under the term martel, and one or two French families of the name of MARTEL still bear this charge.
The latter appears as the crest of the London Company of TALLOWCHANDLERS, adopted, no doubt, in consequence of S.John the Baptist being chosen as their patron Saint; it is also borne by the town of Ayr in Scotland(see the arms given under Lamb).
Again, a peculiar head appears as the crest of Sir Sandich de TRANE, knight-founder of the Garter(that is to say one of the first knights of the order); it is blazoned sometimes as a Satyr's head, and the device appears also in a coat of arms.
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Herapath and Sir James South on the Comet; On the Rending of Timber by Lightning; Curious account of Hay converted into Glass by Lightning; The Occupation of Aldebaran by the Moon; Aurora Borealis observed during the year; and a Journal of the Weather of the year, by Mr.
Tatem, the ingenious meteorologist, which paper we regret is not acknowledged from the _Magazine of Natural History_; appended to this is a tabular Meteorological Summary of 1830, communicated to the _Arcana of Science_ by Dr. Armstrong.
I use you just as I would be used myself; it I desired a character of you of a servant, that I had design'd to hire of yours, as to let you know the truth of every thing about him.
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 Reginald Bray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sir Reginald was born in (A cathedral city in west central England on the River Severn) Worcester in around 1440 and educated at the (additional info and facts about Royal Grammar School Worcester) Royal Grammar School Worcester.
He also took a major role in the construction of (additional info and facts about Jesus college) Jesus college in (A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University) Cambridge and was friends with its founder, (additional info and facts about John Alcock) John Alcock.
He died in 1503 and is buried in St George's Chapel Windsor.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reginald_bray.htm   (297 words)

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