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Fettiplace de Charney

Fettiplace de Charney

The four visitations of Berkshire made and taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc, anno 1532; by William Harvey, Clarnceux, anno 1566; by Henry Chiting, Chester herald, and John Philipott, Rouge dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, anno 1623; and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor herald, for Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, anno 1665-66

by Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922; Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534; Harvey, William, 1578-1657; Chitting, Henry, d. 1638; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Camden, William, 1551-1623; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692; Bysshe, Edward, Sir, 1615?-1679; College of Arms (Great Britain)

Publication date
1907

Publisher
London : [Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke]

The Muster of 1522

The Muster of 1522

William Fettiplace the resident gentleman held Rampayns Manor and was the youngest brother of Thomas of Bessels Leigh, of the main branch of the family. Fettiplace had inherited this manor through his wife Elizabeth Warying, he being her second husband.’ This had provided William Fettiplace with the perfect opportunity to establish his own estate in an area not too distant from Bessels Leigh and illustrates clearly the strategy of marrying to obtain land though marriage dowries. At the time of the Muster William was staying with his cousin Philip Fettiplace at his estate in Charney Bassett. Rampayns Manor was valued at £20, in addition William held smaller parcels of land in Sparsholt, West Lockinge and Grove, their combined value totalling £6 6s. 8d.

Reference:

Aubertin-Potter, N. A. R. (1994). Social mobility, marriage and kinship among some gentry and yeoman families of
Wantage Hundred, c. 1522 – c. 1670. PhD Thesis. Oxford Brookes University.

Both Philip Fettiplace and John Latton were to be sons-in-law of John Yate; marrying respectively his two daughters Jane and Anne by his first wife. Philip Fettiplace died 1546; and was the son of John Fettiplace (d. 1510). He was resident in Charney in 1522 with £80 in goods; and in Pusey with £60 goods wealth. He also served as commissioner of the 1524 Lay subsidy for the Hundreds of Hormer, Morton and Ock.
John Latton (1484/5-1548) held land in Upton. He entered The Inner Temple in 1510; and in 1529 and 1536 he represented Oxford in Parliament. At his death in 1548 his house and half the lands in Kingston Bagpuize went to his widow; the remaining half and land in East Lockinge went to his eldest son William; two younger sons received land in Charleton, East Hanney and West Lockinge. The four daughters had cash bequests.

Bindoff, History of Parliament. pp. 496-497.