238 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



With Sir John Horsey, who died s.p. 1589, that branch of the 

 Horseys ended. His relative, Ralph Horsey, of Diggleswell, 

 Herts, then succeeded to the properties, and by his indis- 

 cretions* and those of his son, Sir George Horsey, who married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Freke, of Shroton, the property 

 of the Horseys was alienated, a fragment only remaining to his 

 son (in Thornford), 1637-1638. 



* "It is not improbable that much of his money went in the speculation of 

 making iron with pit coal by Dudley Dudley and other partners under a Patent, 

 14 Car. I., of which see an account in Dudley's ' Metallum Martio, 1665.' " 



Shaw's History of Staffordshire, Vol. II., p. 1. 



