FAREHAM HUNDRED 



FAREHAM 



escheated to the crown. 48 Bernard's widow shortly 

 after his execution was granted dower in all the 

 forfeited lands," and her son William obtained 

 restitution of his father's estates 

 in November, 1 400." 



William was succeeded by 

 a second William Brocas in 

 1456, whose son John also 

 had a son William, on whose 

 death in 1506 without heirs 

 male North Fareham passed to 

 one of his two daughters, 

 Edith, afterwards wife of Ralph 

 Pexall, 61 from whom it de- 

 scended to their son Richard 

 about i 540. On his death in 

 1571 he demised the whole of 



the property to his second wife Eleanor Cotgrave for 

 thirteen years until his grandson Pexall Brocas, son of 

 his eldest daughter Anne, should be of age, and left a 

 legacy of 500 each to three of his daughters by his first 

 wife Eleanor Paulet, the eldest, Anne, who had mar- 



BROCAS. Sable 

 leopard rampant or. 



ried Bernard Brocas, being passed over. The will was 



declared void as regarded one-third of the property, 



and this was divided amongst four daughters : Anne, 



who married Bernard Brocas ; 



Margery, wife of ( I ) O. Beckett, 



(2) F. Cotton ; Elizabeth, wife 



of J. Jobson ; and Barbara, 



who married A. Brydges, as 



co-heiresses. In 1572 Lady 



Eleanor bought the one-twelfth 



belonging to Elizabeth Jobson 



for 1,800." Pexall Brocas 



came of age in 1584, when 



Lady Eleanor's legal claim was 



reduced to the one-twelfth she 



had purchased from the Job- 



sons. In the following year 



Pexall settled his two-thirds 



of the property in North 



Fareham on his wife Margaret, 



daughter of Sir Thomas Sherley." The descent will 



be more easily seen from the following pedigree : 



PEXALL. Argent a 

 fotaered crots engrailed 

 sable between four birds 

 azure having beaks and 

 legs gules and collars ar- 

 gent -with a scallop argent 

 on the cross. 



Sir Bernard Brocat = (i) 



= w 



Mary daughter of Sir John de Roches, 

 widow of Sir J. Uoarhunt, ab. circa 1331 

 (3) Katherine 



Bernard Brocas = Joan, ob. 1429 

 ob. 1400 



William Brocas = Sybil 

 ob. 1456 



William Brocas = Agnes 

 I 



John Brocas ^ 



Anne 



Anne 



William Brocai = Mar/ Griffin 



Edith == Ralph Pexall, 

 ob. circa 1540 



Richard Pexall = (i) Lady Eleanor Paulet 



(2) Eleanor Cotgrave, who = (2) Sir John Sarage 



Pexall = Margaret Shirley 



Thomas = 



I 



Robert = Jane Bodley 



Jane = Sir Wm. Gardiner 



In spite of Sir Pexall's extravagance much of his pro- 

 perty was saved by the efficiency of his trustees, and on 

 his death in 1630 he was possessed of ten-twelfths of 

 the Des Roches property, and his son Thomas secured 

 the remainder by purchasing the Jobson and Beckett 



twelfths." In order to escape his creditors, Thomas 

 handed over the estate to his mother's trustees, and it 

 thus remained in the family until 1661, when the 

 marriage of his granddaughter Jane Brocas with Sir 

 William Gardiner brought the manor of Roche Court 



48 Burrows, Family of Brocas, 137. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. IV, pt. i, 



No. 17. 



40 Cat, of Pat. 1399-1401, p. 386. 



" Feet of F. Hants, East. 4 Hen. 

 VIII. 



H Burrows, Family of Brocas, 208-10. 

 This was later settle I on Edward Savage, 



213 



son of her second husband, Sir John 

 Savage. 



48 Burrows, Family of Brocas, 214-15. 



" Ibid. 212, 223. 



