Edward Fraunceys

Fraunceys may be the Edward Francis who was at Shrewsbury School in 1577 and at St John's College, Cambridge in 1582.

He was appointed, through Northumberland's influence, a Justice of the Peace for Sussex, and paymaster to the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in 1603.

Fraunceys, who was generally respected by his colleagues, was not personally suspected of involvement in the Plot, but the Crown could scarcely overlook the fact that his wife Elizabeth Astlowe and her father were both open Roman Catholics, and that his wife had recently been charged with recusancy, while her father's loyalty to the Crown was deeply suspect.

For the rest of his life, he was forced to deny accusations that he practised the Catholic faith, or permitted his household to do so.

He and Elizabeth had one daughter Bridget, who married Sir William Goring, 1st Baronet, by whom she had six children.