South-acre, on Sunday after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 1453, and proved 8th of April, 1454; he needs to be buried within the chancel of South-acre; bequeaths to the fraternity of St. Mary at Dunham 6s. 8d. to the churches of Wickmere and Calthorp, 13s. 4d. to Edmund his brother 5 marks, and to the Lady Margaret Harsyk his sister a legacy. John, son of Sir John Harsyke, and to Margery his spouse, all his right in the manor of Driby in Lincolnshire, and license was granted to this John, to discovered in the church of St. George in his manor of South-acre, a chantery, with lands and tenements thereto, to the value of 10 marks per annum; in the thirteenth of Edward III. Norfolk; and within the thirtieth of the stated King, being then a knight, Sir John de Camoys, by deed, granted to him and his heirs, license to bear his crest, a plume of turky feathers, so that the stated Sir John Harsyk, &c.
In 1387, Richard de Stone, then perpetual chaplain, changed it with James de Norton, priest, for Burnham Sutton St. Albert. Joan, the youngest daughter and coheir, married to Richard Dorward, Esq. 20 lances, gentlemen of historical coat-armour, who had been returned to serve the King within the wars of France; the stated Roger married Alice, daughter of Nicholas Wichingham of Fishley in Norfolk, Esq. Margaret, the eldest, married Nicholas Beaupre, Esq. 1609, Mathias Martyn, Esq. DorwardHall, in Bocking in Essex, second son of John Dorward, Esq. Margaret, married to William Dorward, Esq. Elizabeth, their sole heir, married to Thomas Fotheringay of Brockley in Suffolk, Esq. Gerard, by Sibill his wife, which Gerard was son and heir of Thomas Fotheringay, and Agnes, his wife, daughter and heir of Mr. Stewling of Suffolk. 1616, Henricus filius Cordelli Bradburye et Eliz’ Uxoris, bapt’ 28 Jan. Compatres Henricus Bedingfield miles, Thomas Cotton Armig’ et Uxor Wentworthi Bradburye. 1619, Maria filia Anthonij Ringwood Clerici et Marie Uxoris, bapt’ 20 Junij, Compatres, Ric.
Sir Alexander, their son and heir, married Cecily, daughter of Jernegan, and was a benefactor additionally to the monks of Castleacre, and gave them lands referred to as the Sand-Pitts. John de Harsike, the eldest son, and fourth of that identify, was found to carry a moiety of a payment of the Earl of Arundel, and the 4th a part of a price here of the stated Earl, as a part of the honour of Mileham, and paid scutage on the marriage of Blanch, the King’s daughter: he married Agnes, daughter and coheir of Sir William Caley of Oby, in Norfolk. Catherine’s successor. Wolsey desired a French marriage to consummate the breach upon which he was now bent with the emperor; and conflict, in fact, was precipitated with Spain in 1528. This is alleged to have been carried out with out Henry’s consent; he certainly wished to keep away from conflict with Charles V., and peace was made after six months of passive hostility. The steering of the struggle should have fallen into the arms of his eldest son, the victor of Poitiers and Najera, however the younger Edward had by no means recovered from the fatigues of his Spanish marketing campaign; his disease having developed right into a type of dropsy, he had become a confirmed invalid and will now not take the sector.