John Fettiplace (politician died 1580)

[8] In January 1527, Edward Fetyplace, Treasurer to the Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, wrote to Thomas Cromwell, upbraiding him with breaking his word as to granting him the site of the dissolved Poughley Priory, on the faith of which he had given Cromwell 40 shillings at the time of its dissolution, but the lease had been granted to another man.

From this letter it is evident that Cromwell had been recently visiting the dismantled priory, as Fetyplace records a visit to Poughley, on 'the Thursday after our departing,' of one John Edden who came with a cart to carry off such stuff as was appointed to go to Wolsey's College at Oxford; the bedding was in Fetyplace's chamber, which was locked, but Edden 'with great oaths and with levers brak up the doors.'

[7] The Bessiles family had been settled at Besils-Leigh in Berkshire since the reign of King Edward I,[8] but originated in Provence in France and were "men of activitye in feates of arms as it appearith in monuments at Legh; how he faught in listes with a straunge knyghte that challengyd hym, at the whitche deade the kynge and quene at that time of England were present".

He married twice: He died in 1580 and was buried in Appleton Church in Oxfordshire, where survives his fine mural monument with recumbent effigy.

Dunlop, J. Rentyon, The Fettiplace Family, published on website: David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History[4]