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By marriage with the heiress, Joan Welles, it then passed to William de Rushbrook, whose only daughter (Eleanor) married one John Pyke. Eleanor Pyke sur- vived until 1 47 1, and was succeeded by her great-grandson Henry l'Estrange, who sold the manor to a certain Richard Turvant. Turvant in turn sold it to Sir William Capell, the ancestor of the present Earls of Essex. The Capells were originally a Suffolk family of gentle blood, and had been for generations settled at Stoke-by-Nayland. About t...he middle of the fifteenth century the head of the family died, leaving three sons and a daughter ; the eldest son succeeded to the Suffolk estates, the second, William, went up to London to make his way in the world — and succeeded so well that Barclay, the poet, refers specially to his immense wealth. William Capell was knighted by Henry VII. Now the possession of wealth in that reign was apt to cause inconvenience to the possessor, and we are not surprised to find that Sir William fell into the clutches of that notorious pair of RAYNE AND LEIGHS.
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