Wrentham Hall

(c. 1527-1593), the elder son of Robert Brewster (of a well-established Suffolk family) and his wife, daughter of Sir Christopher Edmonds of Cressing Temple, Essex.

The lordship of Wrentham Southall, or Perpounds, belonged to Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (executed in 1541) and passed from his widow Lady Mary (Neville) to her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, who had licence to alienate the manor to trustees in 1571.

[4] So it became vested in his cousin Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, who in 1576 had licence to alienate it to Humphrey Brewster.

[5] Brewster appears as lord of the manor of Wrentham Southall in a Chancery action brought by Thomas Butts in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Death In Dean Street Soho Humphrey Brewster esq of Wrentham Hall Suffolk, by a pistol Previous to this act he called for a glass of wine and water and had a second pistol grasped in his hand in case the first had failed He survived the fatal shot a few minutes.