Complete Peerage Addition: Marriage of Florence Hastings, Lady Grey, and Richard Brett
Douglas Richardson
Complete Peerage, 6 (1926): 181-182 (sub Grey) has a brief account of
Sir Edmund Grey, Knt., 9th Lord Grey of Wilton, who died testate in
1511. His surviving wife (and mother of his children) was Florence
Hastings, daughter and co-heiress of Ralph Hastings, Knt., of
Harrowden, Northamptonshire, and Kirby, Leicestershire, by Amy,
daughter and co-heiress of John Tattershall, of Woolwich, Kent, and
Wanstead, Essex.
Complete Peerage gives no particulars regarding the remaining life of
Lord Grey's widow, Florence, but the two records cited below indicate
that she married (2nd) Richard Brett, Gentleman, of Bletchley,
Buckinghamshire. My file notes indicate that Florence died in 1536.
The second item below indicates that Florence Hastings' 2nd husband,
Richard Brett, died testate. I checked the online PCC will index and
the will of Richard Brett did not turn up, so I assume his will was
probated in one of the lower courts.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Source: National Archives Catalogue (http://
www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp)
PRO Document, C 1/1507/33 (Date: 1386-1558 Thomas Lichfield v.
Florence, wife of Richard Brett, and late the wife of Edmund Grey,
lord Grey of Wilton re. agistment of the park of Bletchley,
Buckinghamshire).
PRO Document, C 1/821/8 (Chancery proceeding dated 1533-1538 William
Harper, citizen and merchant tailor of London, and Alice, his wife,
late the wife of Thomas Jakman, citizen and merchant tailor of London.
v. Lady Florence Grey, executrix and late the wife of Richard Brett of
Bletchley, gentleman re. a debt to the said Jakman of whose goods the
said Alice is administratrix).