Ralph Cheyne

[5] It was in 1401 that her penultimate husband's half-nephew Sir William Cheney (died 1420) married the heiress of Stretch of Pinho.

Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland (1819–1901) in her 1889 work The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages made some attempt at identifying the ancient origin of this family, called Chaunduit in the lists of Leland.

[11] By his wife, Joan de Pavely, he had one son and heir, Sir William Cheyne (c. 1374 – 1420), MP for Dorset in 1402, who married Cecily Stretch (c. 1371 – 1430), younger daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Stretch, of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel in Devon,[12] three times MP for Devon.

He died on 11 November 1400[15] and was buried in the Church of Edington Priory in Wiltshire, where survives his chest tomb within its own small chantry chapel.

The ledger stone on top is missing its original monumental brasses, but the stonework of the chantry chapel retains several relief sculptures of heraldic escutcheons, some held by angels.

Aubrey stated concerning his visit to Brook Hall: "Mr Wadman would persuade me that this rudder belonged to the Paveleys who had this place here".

Camden stated of Cheney's descendant: "Lord Willoughby, by report Admiral, used the helme of a ship for the seal to his ring".