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- Sir Andrew, second son of Sir Robert--Sir Andrew de Bures, thesecondson, succeeded to all the landed estates which his father and step-motherhadto leave. He married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Reydon(or Roydon), of Overbury Hall, Leyham, Suffolk. This lady brought to himindower the Manor of Bowthorp, in Norfolk, Leyham, Whersted and Reydon(Roydon), in Suffolk. It is recorded by Cotman ("Suffolk Brasses") that SirAndrew,when a boy between the years 1301-1312, was granted a pension of 40shillingsby Thomas, Abbot of St. Edmundsbury, in consideration of services doneandto be done by his father, Sir Robert. Sir Andrew de Bures died 12 Apr.1360and was buried in the chancel of Acton church, as was also his son,SirRobert. Weever saw the inscriptions over their graves and recorded them. Atthe present time both have disappeared, but their former situs is probablya nameless tomb in the chancel over which is a double floriatedearlyEnglish arch. Covering the tomb is a slab containing the matrix of a lostbrass. According to Weever, the inscription read ("Antient FuneralMonuments," p. 492): Hic iacet ANDREAS DE BURES & ROBERTUS DE BURES filius ejusdemANDREEmilitis, qui ANDREAS obijt 12 die Aprilis anno dom. 1360 etdictusROBERTUS obijt 7 die mens. Octob. ann. dom. 1361, quorumanimabus(*)propitietur Deus.
In 1643 William Dowsing was appointed by Parliament a visitor todemolishsuperstitious pictures and ornaments in the churches ofSuffolk. Williamevidently did not approve of the words "quorumanimabus propitieturDeus," for in his journal he records what happened to the church at Bures inthe following words ("Suffolk Institute of Archeology," etc., vol. 6,p.256):
"We brake down above 600 superstitious Pictures, 8 Holy Ghosts, 3 ofGodthe Father and 3 of the Son. We took up 5 Inscriptions of quorumanimabis(sic) propitietur Deus; one pray for the soul . . . and Superstitions inthewindows and some divers of the Apostles."
What happened at Bures may well have happened at Acton also and would account for the loss of the Bures brass there.
Sir Andrew de Bures' inq. p.m. is dated 1363 (34 Edward III). By ititappears that he held Bowthorp manor in Norfolk, as of the honor ofHatfieldPeverel. In Suffolk he held Leyham manor, certain lands in Hintlesham,Wherstedmanor, Roydon manor, Merks manor in Roydon, Bures manor, Aketon manor, as of the honor of Peverel, Great Waldingfeld manor, Wichambroke manor, asofthe honor of Moungomery. In Essex he held Foxherd manor, as of the (*)Thisis the common form in the vulgate for the classical animis. [Ed.] honorofClare and divers lands in Foxherd, Lyston, Pentelowe and Beauchamp William.His widow married Sir John de Sutton of Batayles and Wivenhoo, Essex,Knight, Lord Sutton, and died 23 Aug. 1392. In her inq. p.m. it is statedthatAlice Brian the daughter of Robert de Bures son of Andrew de Bures and herself isthenext heir and is past 30 years of age. It is further stated that AliceBrianinherited from her grandmother, Lady Sutton, one acre in Middleton, Essex, andthe advowson of the church there, also some rents in Bulmere. Thenextstatement is clearly at variance with the facts already set forth, for it saysthat"Alice who was the wife of Sir John de Sutton, Knight, held the manor of Aketonforher life jointly with Sir Andrew de Bures late her husband, now deceased, bygiftand grant of Edmund le Butler by fine levied in the court of King Edward,thepresent King's grandfather, to hold to said Andrew and Alice and the heirsofAndrew," and that Alice Brian was the next heir of Andrew and inherited themanor.On the contrary the manor of Acton came to Sir Robert de Bures, father ofSirAndrew, from the Hodebovills. The inq. p.m. (1309) of John de HodebovillofActon, Suffolk, showed that he and his wife Hillary possessed two parts ofthemanor and that his mother Agnes de Sandcroft held the third part in dower.Onthe death of Agnes this third part fell to Hillary for life with remaindertothe heirs of John de Hodebovill. Sometime between 1309 and 1311 Hillary married,asher third husband and his second wife, Sir Robert de Bures, for in thelatteryear Roger de Hodebovill, evidently the heir of John de Hodebovill,grantedthe manor of Aketon to Robert de Bures and his wife Hillary for life forthe"rent of a rose" with reversion to Roger and his heirs after the death of Robertand Hillary.
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1300 - 1360 (60 years)
