BROWNE, Sir Richard (c.1539-1604), of Sayes Court, Deptford, Kent

Family and Education

b. c. 1539, 3rd s. of John Browne of St. Peter’s, Colchester with his 1st w. Florence, da. and h. of John Chertsey. educ. ?I. or M. Temple. m. (?1) unknown, at least 1s.; (?2) by 1591, Joan (d. Nov. 1618), da. of John Vigerus of Langham, Essex, yeoman, s.p. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 360; P. Morant, Essex, i. pt. 1, p. 111; N. Dews, Hist. Deptford (2nd edn.), 81; Feet of Fines for Essex VI: 1581-1603 ed. F.G. Emmison, 86; PROB 11/144, f. 52. For discussion of a possible 1st mar. see HP Commons, 1558-1603, i. 503-4. Kntd. 24 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 127. d. 13 May 1604. P. Croft, ‘Parl., Purveyance and the City of London’, PH, iv. 33, quoting LS13/168, f. 78v.

Offices Held

Kpr./steward of Leicester House, Westminster and/or Wanstead House, Essex, for the earl of Leicester (Sir Robert Dudley†) by 1566 – d., steward, Leicester’s household, Neths. 1587. S. Adams, ‘Pprs. of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, I. The Browne-Evelyn Collection’, Archives, xx. 65, 67; APC, 1588–9, p. 81; Household Accts. and Disbursement Bks. of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ed. S. Adams (Cam. Soc. ser. 5. vi), 28, 430, 452.

?Escheator, Essex 1569–70, List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 46. clerk of the peace 1577 – 1600, 1603; Clerks of Counties, 1360–1960 comp. E. Stephens, 84. commr. oyer and terminer, Marshalsea 1596; C231/1, f. 13. j.p. Surr. 1597 – 1601, Mdx. 1600–d. Ibid. ff. 37, 81, 117; C66/1620.

Victualler, earl of Leicester’s Neths.’ expedition 1585-at least 1587; Leycester Corresp. ed. J. Bruce (Cam. Soc. xxvii), 40; CSP For. 1585–6, p. 358; 1586–7, pp. 154, 357. Adams incorrectly suggests that Browne was engaged in victualling Leicester’s forces for just six months: Adams, ‘Dudley Pprs.’ 67, 82.

? servant, queen’s Household by 1588, APC, 1588, pp. 354–5. clerk comptroller of the Green Cloth by 1594-at least 1597, Essex RO, D/Y 2/6, p. 25; Lansd. 80, f. 89 (we are grateful to J.C. Sainty for this ref.); A. Woodworth, ‘Purveyance for the Royal Household in the Reign of Eliz.’ Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n.s. xxv. pt. i, p. 60. clerk of the Green Cloth by 1600–d. APC, 1599–1600, pp. 120–1, 156; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 72.

Parlimentarian

BROWNE, Sir Richard (c.1539-1604), of Sayes Court, Deptford, Kent

Main residence: Sayes Court, Deptford, Kent.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BROWNE, Sir Richard (c.1539-1604)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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