FIREBRACE, Sir Basil (1652-1724), of London and Enfield, Mdx.

b. 1652, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Firebrace of Whitehall, Westminster and the Old Hall, Stoke Golding, Leics., page of the bedchamber, yeoman of the robes and clerk of the kitchen to Charles I 1647–9, clerk of the kitchen, clerk comptroller and second clerk of the Bd. of Green Cloth to Charles II and James II 1660–89, by his 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Daniel Dowell of Stoke Golding. m. 7 Sept. 1671, Mary, da. of Thomas Hough, milliner, of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). Kntd. 2 Aug. 1687; cr. Bt. 28 July 1698. J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London (London and Mdx. Arch. Soc.), 69; Folger Shakespeare Lib. Newdigate newsletter 25 June 1695; BL, Lothian mss, ‘Abstract of the Case of Sir Basil Firebrace . . .’; C. W. Firebrace, Honest Harry, 29, 141–2, 201, 204, 217–18, 220, 224, 226, 229–31, 240, 245; DNB (Firebrace, Sir Henry).