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Rachell Hall thother defendante whom Arthur was then to marrie". Sir Arthur and Rachel, in their deposition, agreed that Sir Ralph intended that the estates "for the mayntenaunce of the name of the Hoptons should remayne and come unto the use and behoofe of the said defendante Rachel
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Reaching their sentence the justices in
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In a suit of 1601 Sir Ralph's half-sister's daughter, Elizabeth
Gregorie, stated that the remainder of the estate, after the death of Lady Dorothie, was left "to Arthur Hopton Esquire the defendant, being of his name and not of any alliaunce or
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in March 1553, October 1553 and 1555. He continued as Knight
Marshal of the Household to 1556, when he temporarily resigned the position, but resumed it alone from 1558 to 1560. He sat again in parliament, for
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Elizabeth Gregorie and her husband. Had Sir Ralph been the half-brother of Sir Arthur Hopton's father, Sir Arthur would not have expressed his title in this fashion.
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in 1550-1554, and built up a sizeable estate of former monastic property in that county. He continued his offices for the
Exchequer from 1554 until his death. He was a
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and nephew of his fellow-marshal Robert Hopton), and the settlement was confirmed in 1566. His will left the residue to his wife. At Ralph's death and
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and the heires males of her bodye to be begotten by the said defendant Arthur (his surname in blodd being Hopton)".
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of most of his lands on Rachel in 1557, and on her heirs male if she married a Hopton. Her marriage was arranged to
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Will of Sir Raphe Hopton of Witham, Somerset (P.C.C. 1572, Daper quire).
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558
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The National Archives (UK), Chancery: Final decrees,
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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
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134:Supposed kinship to Sir Arthur Hopton
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